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by Larry Austin
The music department at Grand Island High School has turned its ship around 180 degrees in presenting "Anything Goes" as its spring musical this year.
GIHS turns from last year's French drama "Les Miserables," to the classic American romantic comedy "Anything Goes."
Carolyn Lokken, who directs the musical with Michael DeDario, said "Anything Goes" was chosen in September as this year's spring musical, but it was long talked about as a musical to revive at GIHS after the school staged it in 1995.
When DeDario began teaching dance steps on the first day of auditions for "Anything Goes," one of the students asked as they danced, "Should we be smiling?"
"Yeah, nobody dies in this one," he said.
"The jokes are just set 'em up and knock 'em down," DeDario said. "We needed that after last year, we needed something a little lighter, and I think this is doing the job for us."
Lokken called it "a musical I would love to repeat. It's just a great show. It's one of the funniest shows ever written, I think. Great parts, great characters, terrific songs, Cole Porter songs, great dance routines, a wonderful tap show. It's a real cartoon of characters."
Every production of "Anything Goes," from Broadway revivals to movie versions, is different, Lokken reminded. The 1995 production at GIHS was based on the 1964 version from Broadway, while this year's show is based on the 1984 edition. Hardcore fans of the show will still hear classic songs such as "I Get a Kick Out of You," "You're the Top," "Anything Goes," and "Blow Gabriel, Blow." Some other songs have been substituted in spots, but the high school show is not a watered down version of the Broadway show.
"We could do it every year and it would be different," Lokken said.
The cast and crew has about 80 students.
When the Grand Island's production sets sail, junior Maggi Chauby will play Reno Sweeney, a role made famous by stars such as Ethel Merman, Patti Lupone and most recently on Broadway by Sutton Foster. Chauby is a soprano, playing a traditionally belter role.
"People do like more serious stuff, but a lot of people like to go to performances to just be entertained and get away from the nagging, annoying things of life, and just enjoy something that's funny and relaxing," Chauby said. "It's very up-tempo, and I think it kind of gives that kind of energy to the audience when they leave, so they leave with a new song and that energy from the show."
Chauby has performed at Carnegie Hall, and had a showstopping number in "The Sound of Music" with the St. Stephen's Parish Players.
"Maggi has a beautiful voice that can really project those songs. They're big numbers, a big personality that goes with that character, and Maggi's able to pull it off," DeDario said.
Reno is very "no-holds-barred. She really speaks her mind," Chauby said. "It's interesting because throughout the entire show you think, 'Oh, she's got it all. She's got the beautiful dresses, she's got everybody chasing after her, she's got the fame and fortune, but the one thing that she kind of lacks in her life is love."
Chauby is hardly no-holds-barred herself, she said.
"Oh, not at all," she said. "But I do have a lot of great friends and it's interesting because when I get to play Reno, I get to kind of step out of my comfort zone and be kind of that really loud person who doesn't apologize for anything. She just kind of goes for it."
Dalton Pitts plays who he describes as a smooth, casual ladies man, Billy Crocker, a schmoozer to his boss, who is trying to win over Hope Harcourt, played by Kamra Phillips. The plot centers on Crocker as he stows away onboard the boat chasing Hope as she and her fiancé Evelyn and her mother sale for England.
Pitts made his acting debut last year in "Les Miz."
"We were impressed with how he did last year, and he had a great audition this year to play Billy, and he's been doing a great job," DeDario said.
"He's able to fill the shoes" in a bigger role," DeDario said.
The audience will have an easy time pulling for Pitts and Phillips, who have a natural chemistry on stage.
"It's fun," Pitts said of performing with Phillips. "We have this weird thing where we can't really look at each other because our whole friendship is based off of making random faces, and now we have to, like, stare with a completely straight face. Like in the song "Easy to Love," we have to look at each other straight-faced."
Like last year's "Les Miz," the cast of the musical has depth. Moonface Martin (Dan Konopski), Eli Whitney (Nick Winger) and Evelyn (Keelan Erhard) are especially over-the-top funny, Pitts said.
Konopski said last year's musical was "big," "But this is big in the sense you're going to walk out of here with a big smile on your face."
Moonface Martin, Public Enemy No. 13, is "an actual gangster, he's just not very good at what he does." Moonface disguises himself as a priest and hides inside a trunk, hiding with Billy on board as they and Moon's sidekick Erma (Amanda Weselak) remain one step ahead of the pursuing crew.
Konopski said he enjoys performing in the annual musical for the chance to be around likeminded people who inspire and help each other to reach their potential.
"It's the most fun I have all year," Konopski said. "And from the day it ends until the next time, I'm already looking forward to and waiting to find out what the next musical will be."
Phillips lived and went to school in Oklahoma, performing in a musical there. She notes a difference in the musicals here since she moved to the Island.
"The cast is so much more bonded here. There's something about the cast of the musical at Grand Island that is just like a family," Phillips said. "Even though there is obviously going to be some drama when you have 100 teenagers in a room at one time, it's just different. There's something magical about musicals that can just bring people who normally wouldn't have ever talked to each other and make them really good friends."
Erhard, a senior, plays Evelyn Oakleigh as a wacky, quirky Brit with a tin ear for American expressions. He enters his fourth musical at GIHS after playing the lead of Valjean last year in "Les Miz."
"I feel like it's just a great feeling to be in a show, and it's so much fun to put on one, especially when it all comes together in the end," he said. "It's really something to look forward to, and it's especially great to be able to perform and share what you've accomplished over the past two months with everybody that's there to see the show. And it's great to see them hopefully walk out with a smile on their faces."
This year's show is "more fun, dancey, makes you kind of snap your fingers and tap your feet while you're in the audience watching it," Erhard said.
Anyone who liked the GIHS production of "Thoroughly Modern Millie" three years ago in 2010 will enjoy the tap dancing in this year's production. Chauby and Pitts are inexperienced dancers, but don't look out of their element in the show's big dance numbers. GIHS senior Mads Goc is the choreographer.
"She's been a huge help. We wouldn't have been able to do the show without her," DeDario said of Goc, adding that although students in the past have helped with the dance numbers in the spring musical, "Probably Mads has done more than any student ever has. A lot of times when we have a dance show, we won't pick a dance show unless we have a feature dancer or dancers that can help put together the big numbers," DeDario said.
Goc said she was grateful for the opportunity to choreograph the show. She called the dance numbers all "very bold and loud."
"Our goal when (DeDario) and I worked together was to try and get the audience to want to come up and join the boat and come on this cruise and almost make it like a little escape from real life," Goc said.
A production of the Grand Island High School Music Department, directed by Carolyn Lokken and Michael DeDario, with musical direction by Martin Allen, and choreography by Mads Goc.
Friday, Feb. 1, and Saturday, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m. each night.


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F. Murray Abraham, Tammy Grimes Set for Theater for the New City's LES Festival of the Arts
This year's lineup includes the popular aerial act, Suspended Cirque, folk singer Judy Gorman, Tony Award-winning actress Tammy Grimes, talk-show host Joe Franklin, actor F. Murray Abraham, excerpts of works from La MaMa E.T.C. and Horse Trade Theater Company, and much more. There will also be brand-new works, created for the festival, by writers Barbara Kahn, Lissa Moira, Larry Myers, Gene Ruffini, and others.
The LES Festival of the Arts was founded in 1996 to demonstrate the creative explosion of Manhattan's Lower East Side and the area's importance to the culture and tourism of New York City. The theme of this year's LES Festival is "Legalize Freedom: Art is Activism."For more information about the 17th Annual Lower East Side Festival, click here.

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Slew of signings
Columbia City High School had four female athletes sign to play college at Division I schools Friday. Pictured, from left: Andrea Richter, swimming, Ball State; Kalisha Goree, volleyball, Ohio State; Gabrielle Hazen, volleyball, Northwestern and Samantha Roush, cross country and track, Indiana University. See The Post & Mail next week for feature stories on each athlete.


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Unlike the "Republican establishment" (as reported by the NYT) faithful readers of these posts were not surprised by McCain's decision to think outside the box and choose a woman as his vice presidential candidate. As I suggested in my previous post, the decision was practically guaranteed when Obama failed to select Hillary Clinton. But Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, was not on my short list – indeed, she was not on my list at all. I confess that my speculation focused more on Olympia Snowe, the moderate Senator from Maine. (The optimal choice, had she not been so closely linked to the Bush administration, was Condi Rice – despite my "tease" at the end of my previous post discussing the Biden choice, Rice was never going to happen.) Not surprisingly McCain was smarter than me. On paper, at least, Palin is a brilliant choice for several reasons.
Before I parse the reasons why I think this was an excellent selection, keep several things in mind. First, the ultimate impact of this choice depends on Palin herself. If she shows indications that she is in over her head, then all the calculations that went into this selection are for naught. Second, the media will overstate the impact of this choice on voters' decisions – historically, the VP choice has a very limited impact on the electoral outcomes. Of course, this race is in many respects unprecedented and thus potentially raises doubt regarding just how relevant previous elections are to this one. There's been so many firsts in this campaign that it is hard to estimate just how much stock we should put in historical precedent.
Keeping these caveats in mind, here's why I think this was a great choice.
Undoubtedly, the Democratic attack line will be that this woman is simply too inexperienced to be one heart beat away from the presidency. Just a few years ago she was the small-town mayor in Alaska – now she's next in line to be President! Compared to Biden, with his years of national experience in the Senate, particularly on foreign policy, this choice smacks of political desperation (the name Geraldine Ferraro comes to mind). When Biden was interrogating Petraeus about the surge, Palin was lecturing members of the local zoning board. This line of attack is so obvious that McCain must have anticipated it. So what was he thinking?
This is what I think he was thinking. First, the Democrats tread in dangerous waters whenever they raise the specter of inexperienced candidates; the obvious Republican response will be a variation of: "our inexperienced candidate will learn on the job one heart beat away from the presidency – your inexperienced candidate will BE president." The more Democrats push the inexperience angle, the easier it is for Republicans to remind voters who is REALLY the risky candidate.
Second, Palin's life story is precisely what McCain wanted in his vice president. The impact of her decision among the Christian right not to terminate her pregnancy when she learned her child had Downs syndrome can't be overstated – it will go a long long long way to convincing evangelicals who to date have shown only tepid support for McCain to come out and actively support his campaign. It thus inoculates him on the right without his having to change any positions – she becomes his surrogate to the evangelical community.
Similarly, she scores points among women whose sons are fighting in Iraq – her oldest son will be fighting in Iraq. So she understands what is at stake there as well – it's more than an abstract foreign policy issue to her.
In short, she has confronted the difficult choices that will be key issues in this campaign. Her ability to juggle family and job (five kids and she gets elected Governor!) will send just the right signal to working mothers everywhere that she can break the glass ceiling while understanding how difficult that task really is. This doesn't mean she wins all of Clinton's women supporters – her prolife stance will undoubtedly put many of them off – but certainly some of them will give her a second look after Obama's apparent snub of their first choice. Her firing of the Republican party officials for ethics violations and her defeat of the establishment Republican governor will put her squarely in the McCain maverick mold. And her husband's jobs as a blue collar oil worker and owner of a small fishing business provide a symbolic link to the "common man" (and not incidentally her middle-class roots may take the spotlight off of Cindy McCain's wealth just a bit.)
Now – there are dangers lurking in this choice beyond the obvious inexperience – there's a whiff of potential scandal involving a brother in law that the media will undoubtedly pounce on, so one needs to be cautious until this vetting is done. More importantly, she needs to do more than survive her public unveiling – she needs to show confidence on the public stage. The first big test will be her speech at the Convention. First impressions matter, as Dan Quayle found out – he never really recovered from the poor opening performance he gave when presented as Bush's vice presidential choice in 1988. Palin's resume won't be enough – she has to deliver the goods by showing poise, toughness and the ability to take a punch.
And then there will be the debate with Biden – she needs to show she belongs on the same stage with a veteran Senator. But this is an opportunity as well, particularly if Biden – notorious for putting foot in mouth when off script – blunders and says something that women view as demeaning toward Palin and her candidacy. It wouldn't be the first time this happened with Biden.
I said in an earlier post that by failing to select Clinton as VP, Obama opened a door for McCain to use his choice to differentiate his candidacy from Obama's, but I wondered if McCain had the imagination to seize the opportunity and select a woman. He showed that he does – that he realizes what is necessary to win this campaign. Given the fundamentals, which favor the "generic" Democratic candidate over the generic Republican, he can't afford to miss any opportunities. On the other hand, Obama made a mistake (in my view), but it was far from a fatal mistake. Unless he makes a string of small gaffes like this, the choices of Biden and Palin likely will have little long-term impact, based on the history of past vice presidential selections; the more important policy issues – the war in Iraq, the economy, gas prices, health care – will trump the vice presidential choices when voters enter the booth. It's easy to forget this in the media frenzy over McCain's choice.
A final thought. Less than 24 hours after Obama made the most important speech of his life, almost no one is talking about it. That is the brilliance of McCain's choice. For now, in the first crucial decisions of their campaigns, McCain showed daring and a desire for change, while Obama played it safe – too safe, in my view. But there is a long way to go, and the McCain/Palin ticket faces an uphill climb. We'll see if the Republican convention can push them toward the pinnacle.
If I get a chance, I'll try to get back to Obama's speech and the Democratic convention, which now seems like a lifetime ago.


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Scripture References—Genesis 22:23; 24; 25:20-28; 26:6-35; 27; 28:5; 29:12; 35:8; 49:31; Romans 9:6-16
Name Meaning—Rebekah is another name with an animal connection. Although not belonging to any animal in particular, it has reference to animals of a limited class and in a peculiar condition. The name means a "tie rope for animals" or "a noose" in such a rope. Its root is found in a noun meaning a "hitching place" or "stall" and is connected with a "tied-up calf or lamb," a young animal peculiarly choice and fat. Applied to a female, the figure suggests her beauty by means of which men are snared or bound. Thus another meaning of Rebekah is that of "captivating." If, then, Rebekah means "a noosed cord," the loop was firmly around Isaac's neck. When Isaac took her as his bride he forgot his grief for his dead mother, and lived happily with his wife for twenty years during which time they had no children.
Family Connections—Rebekah is first mentioned in the genealogy of the descendants of Nahor, Abraham's brother (Genesis 22:20-24). When the pilgrims set out from the Ur of the Chaldees, Nahor was one of the party, and settled down at Charran where Terah, his father, died. Among Nahor's sons was Bethuel who, by an unknown wife, became the father of Rebekah, the sister of Laban. Rebekah married Isaac the son of Abraham, by whom she had two sons, Esau and Jacob.
The story of Isaac and Rebekah as a love lyric full of romance and tender beauty has been retold times without number, and is a charming record that never loses its appeal. Such an idyllic narrative is almost too familiar to need rehearsal, and too simple to require comment, yet because it constitutes one of the most romantic scenes in the Bible, its "moving scenes, so fresh and artless in their old world simplicity" have a pertinent appeal for present-day society. Ancient Bible histories with their arrestive characters and remarkable sequence of events and fortunes never fail to leave an indelible imprint on our hearts. The chapter recording how a wife was found for Isaac (Genesis 24) presents a link in the chain of events leading up to—
That far-off Divine event
To which the whole creation moves.
Through the marriage of Isaac and Rebekah, Abraham saw that day of Christ in which the church should become the Bride of Christ.
Almost two millenniums after the days of the patriarch whom God spoke of as His "friend," there were those who considered it a privilege to belong to the race having Abraham as its fountainhead. To be "a son of Abraham" or a lineal descendant of such a grand, great old divine was an honor, but Isaac enjoyed a still greater advantage for Abraham was his own natural father. What a rich dowry of blessing must have been Isaac's because of such a close relationship. He had the inspiration of his father's godliness, and the benefit of his prayers and wise counsels—even in the matter of securing the right kind of wife.
Abraham's opposition to idolatry is seen in his request that the partner for his son, Isaac, must not be "of the daughters of the Canaanites" (24:3). As he had refused a grave for his wife, Sarah, amongst the sepulchers of the Hittites (Genesis 23), so a wife for their son must not be sought among their daughters. Thus it came about that Abraham's trusted, godly servant, Eliezer, was divinely guided to Haran where Nahor, Abraham's brother settled. Too feeble to make the journey himself, Abraham gave his servant the most careful instructions, and impressed upon him the solemn significance of his mission. Confident as to the result of the search for a suitable wife for Isaac, Abraham assured the earthly seeker that he would be guided by God's angel. Eliezer, the intelligent, prudent, obedient and praying servant went forth. Seeking a sign of divine guidance, not to prove God's faithfulness, but for his own direction in the choice of a woman of character as a wife for his master's son, the servant came to Nahor's well at Nahor, and saw in Rebekah who had come to draw water the answer to his prayer and quest.
Eliezer lost no time in telling Rebekah who he was, and from whom he had come, and the purpose of his search. He revealed his tact in the way he wooed and won the heart of Rebekah. The gifts he bestowed upon her and the good things he said of his master, secured the favor of Rebekah's family who gave its consent to the proposed marriage. Faced with instant departure from her dear ones, Rebekah is given her choice—"Wilt thou go with this man?" Without hesitation, feeling that she, too, was following the leading of God, as Eliezer had, Rebekah replied in a firm voice, "I will go."
The caravan set out for Abraham's home, and now we come to a superb touch in the romantic story. Isaac was out in the fields at eventide for his usual period of meditation. He saw the approaching camels and sensed the success of Eliezer in the choice of a wife. Reaching Isaac, Rebekah, according to custom, veiled her face, and the end of this exquisite poem of the meeting of bride and bridegroom is stated in most expressive terms—"Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her."
Marrying "sight unseen" is a most dangerous venture, but in this case it was successful because "the angel of the Lord" had directed the events leading up to the union. When Rebekah saw the handsome, mild-mannered and meditative Isaac, her heart went out to him. As for Isaac, a man of forty, and some twenty years older than Rebekah, he instantly loved the most beautiful woman he beheld, and she remained his only love. Some matrimonial matches have been described as "Lucifer Matches," because of clash of temperament and temper, but the marriage of Isaac and Rebekah was certainly one "made in heaven." There would be fewer broken homes if only young people looking for partners would seek the guidance of God as the servant of Abraham did. We agree with Alexander Whyte when he says of the ancient record of the circumstances leading to the securing of a wife for Isaac—
A sweeter chapter was never written than the twenty-fourth of Genesis.... The picture of aged Abraham swearing his most trusty servant about a bride for his son Isaac; that servant's journey to Padan-aram in the far east; Rebekah, first at the well, and then in her mother's house; and then her first sight of her future husband—that long chapter is a perfect gem of ancient authorship.
As with other pairs in the Bible, it is hardly possible to separate Isaac from Rebekah whose lives were so closely knit together. Yet let us see if we can sketch a portrait of Rebekah herself.
As a damsel, that is, a maiden around twenty years of age, Rebekah was "fair to look upon," meaning that she had an unaffected Oriental beauty. She was a virgin, and had a childlike simplicity. There was no trace of wantonness in her. As with her mother-in-law, Sarah, beauty carried its dangers. During his sojourn in Gerar, Isaac feared lest the physical charms of his wife might excite the desire of the king of Gerar and so he lied. Thus Isaac passed Rebekah off as his sister—a course of action which might have had dire consequences (Genesis 26:6-16). He fell into the same error as his father before him (see href="/id/36333831-4538-3044-2D42-3136362D3332">Sarah). Andrew Fuller says, "The falls of those that have gone before us are like so many rocks on which others have been split; and the recording of them is like placing buoys over them for the security of future mariners." But in the story of Isaac the buoy served no beneficial purpose.
Beautiful Rebekah had been taken by Abimelech, but one day as he looked out of the window he saw Isaac caressing Rebekah, and he knew that he had been deceived. Isaac's untruthfulness was discovered, and the heir of God's promises was rebuked by a heathen king for his lying and deception. In the providence of God, Abimelech, an idolater, was made the protector of the child of promise (see Psalm 17:13). As "an amiable and lovely girl," as her name suggests, she was industrious, for although she was a member of a family of standing she was not afraid to soil her hands. The hard work of drawing and carrying water, the provision she made for Eliezer's camels, and the meal she prepared, speak of Rebekah as one who did not shun domestic duties. That she was a woman of faith is evident from what Paul says of her as being the recipient of a direct revelation from the Lord regarding universal blessing through her favorite Jacob (Romans 9:12).
Rebekah's best qualities come out in the simple yet heartwarming narrative describing her response to Eliezer's approach, in her service to him, and in her willingness to believe and act upon all he had told her. In his remarkable cameo of Rebekah, George Matheson uses the following terms or expressions—"a fine manner" &--;"remarkable tact"—"a sunbeam to her household"—"a very beautiful young woman, with the gift of physical charm which was apt to produce self-consciousness"—"the gift of intellectual sympathy"—"Rebekah's morning ray is a ray of sympathetic insight."
Modest and meek, frank and open, ready kindness, great energy and faith, graciousness matching her physical charm, describe Rebekah. When she became a mother she revealed how masterful and clever she could be—a direct contrast to Isaac who was probably more simple, slow of wit, and mild of manner than his wife. The lines of Wordsworth can express Isaac's feelings when for the first time he gazed upon the lovely Rebekah and came to experience her comforting love as she filled the empty place in his heart because of his mother's death.
She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament;
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair,
Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair.
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful dawn.
A dancing shape, an image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
I saw her upon nearer view,
A spirit, yet a woman too!
Motherhood came to Rebekah somewhat late in life when Isaac was an aging man. For twenty years she had been childless, and conscious of God's promise that the Abrahamic Covenant could not be broken, Isaac entreated God that his long barren wife might conceive. He graciously answered his earnest intercession (Genesis 25:19-34). As his prayer was in the line of God's purpose, it was sure of an answer (1 John 5:14). The years of waiting on the part of Isaac and Rebekah show that God has His own time for the fulfillment of His purpose.
Like coral strands beneath the sea,
So strongly built and chaste,
The plans of God, unfolding, show
No signs of human haste.
In an age of almost universal polygamy, Isaac took no handmaid, concubine, or second wife. Rebekah and he were bound together by the bonds of a mutual affection, and although childless, yet became the parents of two sons who were destined to be the progenitors of different nations. But when Rebekah became the mother of twins—the first of two Bible women mentioned as giving birth to twins—the other was Tamar (Genesis 38:27)—somehow she changed and was a different character from the young bride who rode south so gaily to meet her lover in Canaan, as our next glimpse of her will show.
The opposite characters of Rebekah's twins, Esau and Jacob, brought into sharp focus the dark side of their mother. As Esau was the first to emerge from her womb he had the precedence and was thus the heir of two things, namely "the sovereignty and the priesthood, of the clan—the birthright and the blessing. The birthright was the right of succession.... The blessing was something to be given during the lifetime of the father." We learn that as the boys grew, "Esau was a cunning (skillful) hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents." At the time of their birth, Jacob seized his brother's heel—an incident prophetic of the day when he would supplant Esau. Often in children there are characteristics predictive of the manner of adults they will be.
The divergence of Rebekah's twins in temperament, inclination, occupation, and religious aspirations is most apparent. Esau was wrapped in a raiment of hair, a rough man of the wilderness, a clever hunter with something of the wild daring spirit of the modern Bedouin. Jacob was the opposite of his brother. He preferred a fixed abode, to dwell in his tent rather than roam the desert. Esau was probably more brilliant, attractive, forceful, daring than his twin brother. Jacob, in spite of his weaknesses and mistakes was the finer character, and on the whole truer to the Lord and more fitted to possess the blessing of the birthright. Further, there was the difference of regard on the part of Isaac and Rebekah toward their two sons that resulted in sorrow and separation.
Isaac loved Esau, but the love was somewhat sensual. He loved his son "because he did eat of his venison." Such love is of a carnal nature, for love in its highest sense has regard not so much to what the loved one gives as to what he or she is.
Rebekah loved Jacob, not because he was more of a "homebody" than his brother, or possessed a more loving nature than he, but because Jacob was the Lord's preference (Romans 9:13). Esau thought so lightly of the birthright that he was willing to sell it for a mess of pottage, and be guilty, thereby, of the sin of profanity (Hebrews 12:16). Jacob, however, recognized the solemnity of the birthright and wished to possess it. Esau thought of it as of no more value than a mouthful of food, but Jacob knew something of the sacred significance of the birthright and was therefore a more fit channel through which the blessing of God could flow to the seed of Abraham.
As Rebekah is often blamed for the partiality or favoritism she manifested for Jacob, it may be profitable to consider the matter of preference in family life. When parents single out one of their children as a favorite and shower more love and attention upon that one than the rest, such an unwise and unnatural course inevitably results in jealousy and strife. Although Isaac found "in Esau that strong practical nature, and energetic character which distinguished the woman he so dearly loved; and Rebekah saw in the gentle Jacob a replica of the father who had so strangely attracted her that first day when she met him meditating in the fields at evening," the partiality was absolutely indefensible and led to lying and deception on Rebekah's part.
What else can be expected but confusion and trouble when there is a crossing of purposes between parents concerning their children? Was the root-cause of Rebekah's unnatural and unmotherly preference of Jacob over Esau and her treatment of Esau as though he was not, the lack of deep love for her husband, and that union of moral and spiritual ideas and ideals characteristic of every true marriage? We are certainly told that Isaac loved Rebekah, but not that she loved Isaac. Somehow we feel that if husband and wife had been one in all things in that ancient home, Rebekah would have been more concerned about Jacob's character than his prosperity. But Isaac was partial to Esau and Rebekah partial to Jacob—which favoritism resulted in Esau leaving home, and Jacob fleeing from it. Rebekah's record therefore shows that while Isaac was faithful to her, she was unfaithful to Isaac in a twofold way. First, she cheated Esau, her oldest son, and Isaac's pet out of his birthright. Then she cheated Esau out of his father's blessing, which prerogative had the effect of a testamentary bequest.
Comparing the chapter of the romantic meeting of Isaac and Rebekah (Genesis 24) with its perfection of writing, and the dark chapter of Rebekah's deception (Genesis 28), Alexander Whyte says, "That the ship was launched on such a golden morning only the more darkens the surrounding gloom when she goes to the bottom." Then dealing with the secret alienation that developed between Isaac and Rebekah, the same renowned expositor adds—
When the two twin-brothers were brought up day after day and hour after hour in an atmosphere of favouritism, and partiality, and indulgence, and injustice, no father, no mother, can surely need to have it pointed out to them what present misery, and what future wages of such sin, is all to be seen and to be expected in that evil house.
One result of Rebekah's preference for Jacob was the spite and the sight of Esau going out and grieving his parents by marrying two ungodly women. Esau was forty years old when he did this &--;the same age at which Isaac married Rebekah. His parents must have seen in the foreign wives he brought home the firstfruits of the devil's garden they had sowed for themselves. "Their great grief would seem to have been almost the only thing the two old people were at one about by that time." Esau had seen little in his mother to admire and respect; therefore he was never in any mood to please her. What a different story would have been written if Esau's home had been "without partiality"!
Chicanery is described as the act of one who deliberately deceives, and this was Rebekah's sin. The destiny of her favorite son, Jacob, was strongly influenced by his mother's strong-mindedness, and thus she became the authoress of the treacherous plan to deprive Esau of his father's blessing. Isaac is old, feeble and blind, and informs the members of his household that the time has come to give Esau, officially, what was left to him after selling his birthright, namely, the blessing which carried with it the recognition of his headship, the ratification of the birthright. So Isaac told his favorite son to take his bow and arrow and go into the fields, hunt for his much-liked venison, and make a savory meal. At that time, and for centuries in the Orient, a meal taken together was a common symbol of a saved pledge when father and son partook together. In such an hour of sacred fellowship the father bestowed upon the elder son his rank and place.
Rebekah overheard, and her deceitful heart was stirred to action. She set about to thwart her husband's purpose. Her favorite son must not be displaced, and her hopes for him dashed to the ground, by the impetuous hunter whom Isaac loved. Cunningly she devised the plan of impersonation. While Esau was out in the fields hunting, Rebekah told Jacob to go to a flock nearby and bring two kids for her to dress and cook and pass off as venison. While cautious about his mother's duplicity, he had no conscience against it. What made Jacob hesitant was the fact that his brother was a hairy man, while his own skin was smooth, and that if his father felt him and sensed the deception, he would not bless him, but curse him.
Rebekah, however, was equal to this fear of Jacob, and he followed the counsels of his treacherous mother. He put the skin of the kids upon his hands and upon his neck, thus making himself feel and smell like Esau, and so deceived his aged, blind father. Doubtless Rebekah stood nearby in convenient concealment to see how her ill-conceived ruse would succeed. Smelling Esau's clothes, and feeling the false hairy hands, Isaac was a little doubtful and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." But reassured by the repeated lies of Jacob, the deceived father bestowed the unalterable blessing upon his son, and Jacob, by fraud, became the father of Israel's race. To his discredit, he played the role successfully which his mother had drilled into him with masterly skill. Covetous of the sacred, patriarchal blessing for her favorite son, Rebekah felt she had to resort to duplicity to gain her ends, and in doing so she prostituted parental authority. "My son obey my voice" (Genesis 27:8), and Jacob the misguided son obeyed, and in his subsequent career bore the bitter fruit of his conduct when Laban deceived him regarding Rachel.
A deceiver Jacob was
Full of craft and guile;
Thro' long years he bore his guilt,
Unrepentant all the while.
Samuel Morely once said, "I am much what my mother has made me." It was so in a wrong sense in the life of Jacob, for as in the case of Athaliah, "his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly" (2 Chronicles 22:3). The thoroughness with which Jacob carried out his mother's plan of deception is surely one of the worse features of the narrative. Fearful of the failure of his mother's plot, Jacob said, "I will bring a curse upon me and not a blessing." But Rebekah replied, "Upon me be thy curse, my son, only obey my voice." The future scheming life of Jacob, however, was but the extension of the deceitful qualities of his mother, and both suffered as the result of adopting false methods to accomplish right ends.
When Esau found that he had been robbed of his blessing through the cunning scheme of his mother, he became a remorseless avenger and swore the death of his brother who was forced to flee for his life to Haran, some 500 miles away. Rebekah never saw the face of her much-loved son again. To add to her reproach she had to endure the grief of seeing her other son marry heathen women. Esau's heathen wives caused Rebekah to be weary of her life (Genesis 27:46). Esau received a promise from his father that he would be the progenitor of a great nation—the Edomites—and much misery accrued to Israel because of Edom. The wrath of Esau's enraged blood boiled in the blood of Herod the Idumean on the day he reviled the Man of Sorrows.
There are some writers who try to justify the actions of Rebekah by saying that she was prompted to take the course she did concerning Jacob because of the prediction that, "the elder shall serve the younger," but God had no need of trickery and deceit to fulfill His promise. Ambitious for her son, Rebekah sacrificed the love of her husband, the loss of the esteem of her elder son, and the peace of her soul, for the idolized son whose face she never saw again. Without doubt, Jacob was the divinely-appointed heir of Abraham (Genesis 25:23), and Rebekah seeking to overrule the purpose of Isaac in his blessing of Esau, resorted to deceit to accomplish the will of God. Her guiding principle was, "Let us do evil that good may come" (Romans 3:8), but wrong is never right (James 1:20). Esau had sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, and Rebekah catered to Isaac's carnal appetite in order to accomplish a divine purpose. Had she laid aside "all guile, and hypocrisies" (1 Peter 2:1), and reasoned with her husband about the solemn issue at stake she would have been saved from the disgrace which her worldly policy brought upon her own head and from the sorrow others had to endure.
Almost the last picture we have of Rebekah is when she tearfully witnessed the hasty departure of her favorite son. "A strong-minded, decisive girl had grown into an autocratic matriarch," and ends her days a brokenhearted woman. When she died we are not told. Isaac, although much older than Rebekah, was still living when Jacob returned to Canaan over 20 years later. It is assumed that she died during Jacob's long absence, and was buried in the cave of Machpelah near Hebron (Genesis 49:31). A fitting epitaph for her grave would have been, "Died of a broken heart." The only monument Rebekah has is to be found in the Anglican marriage service of The Book of Common Prayer where we read—
That as Isaac and Rebekah lived faithfully together, so these persons may surely perform and keep the vow and covenant betwixt them.
While she may have been faithful during the first 20 years of marriage while she was childless, Rebekah, by her unjustifiable treacherous and wholly inexplicable intervention for her favorite son, stained her solemn marriage.
Reviewing Rebekah's life and character what are some of the warnings to heed? Are we not forcibly reminded that love which seeks success at the cost of truth and righteousness is of the earth, earthy? The devil's maxim is, "Nothing succeeds like success." But from God's standpoint nothing succeeds which does not follow the way of truth and honesty. Then, while she had physical beauty, her domination of Jacob and her scheme to deceive her husband revealed the lack of the beauty of a godly character. Further, Rebekah is a warning to all parents that there should be no favorites in the family; that all alike should be dear to them. If there is partiality for any in a family, it should only be for those who are weak and helpless.
Another warning bell is that when a wife conspires against her husband, or vice versa, they are guilty of a baseness which language cannot describe. When one partner finds that he has been betrayed by the other, the world becomes a blank.
The mind has a thousand eyes
The heart but one,
But the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
There is one beneficial application we can make of Rebekah's prompt decision to follow Eliezer to meet her future bridegroom, Isaac &--;I will go! In connection with the higher betrothal of the soul to the heavenly Bridegroom, He comes to the sinner saying as Eliezer did to Rebekah, "Will you go with Me? Will you follow Me into that country where saints immortal reign?" When hearts respond to such an appeal, "Yea, Lord I will go. I will follow Thee, whithersoever Thou goest!" they are twice blessed.
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Mumbai: The rupee strengthened for the third day in a row, adding 29 paise to 61.44 against the dollar today on continued expectations the US government shutdown would delay tapering of the Fed's stimulus programme.
Dollar sales by exporters amid positive local stocks also supported the rupee, which is up 107 paise, or 1.71 per cent, this past week.
At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee resumed lower at 61.85 and dropped to a low of 61.95 on initial hesitancy in local equities.
It bounced back to a high of 61.25 before closing at 61.44, a gain of 29 paise or 0.47 per cent. It was the highest close for the rupee since reaching 61.43 on August 14.
"Continuous weakness in the US dollar supported the rupee," said Abhishek Goenka, CEO of India Forex Advisors. "Rupee was seen gaining amid bets that the prolonged shutdown of the US government would further delay any tapering of the Federal Reserve's massive stimulus."
The US government shutdown entered its fourth day today as efforts to break the political standoff between Republicans and Democrats over the budget failed to make any headway.
Foreign investors may pull out from emerging markets, including India, if the Fed eases its monthly USD 85 billion bond-buying programme as the US economy revives.
The 30-share S&P BSE Sensex closed up 13.88 points after a choppy session as talks on the US budget and debt limit continued without any indication of a resolution.
Foreign institutional investors bought a net USD 188.26 million of shares yesterday, as per Sebi data.
"The trading range for the USD-INR pair is expected to be within 61.00 to 62.50," said Pramit Brahmbhatt, CEO of Alpari Financial Services (India).
Forward dollar premiums remained weak on sustained receipts by exporters.
The benchmark six-month forward dollar premium payable in March declined to 247-252 paise from 254-257 paise previously and far-forward contracts maturing in September dropped to 459-464 paise from 468-472 paise.
The RBI fixed the reference rate for the dollar at 61.4050 and for the euro at 83.6790.
The rupee shot up to 98.53 against the pound from 100.03 previously and strengthened to 83.10 per euro from 83.97. It fell back against the Japanese yen to 63.22 per 100 yen from the earlier close of 63.16.


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Johan de Lange is an illustrator living and working in South Africa. His work runs the gamut from personal projects, to commercial work for the likes of Adidas, Red Wings and Samsung.
How has living so close to the ocean had an impact upon your artwork? Do you find inspiration from the ocean? Absolutely. The ocean is incredibly powerful. It's also extremely calming. It's crawling with weird almost extra terrestrial life, which I find absolutely inspiring. I'm often out with my plastic bag combing the beach for treasures in the form of smelly dead things to take home. Or finding little universes in the rock pools. After a period of intense work, I need to go to the beach, or walk up Lions Head and look out over the ocean, it brings balance to the city life.
You have recently begun surfing. How would you describe your experience thus far? Yes! It's something that I have dreamt about doing all my life, spending most my youth in land locked Johannesburg. I always saw surfing as this almost impossible and mysterious thing. When I arrived in Cape Town, some friends invited me to go surfing at Muizenberg. Within less than an hour I caught a little wave and stood up. It's was the biggest thrill, I was smiling for the rest of the day. I surf on a longboard so its super chilled. You need a good wetsuit though, the water is pretty cold. And watch out for sharks, they love those waters!
What's the arts community like in South Africa? The illustration art scene is awesome. It's super small compared to the States and England, so it's easy to know what everyone's doing. There's a lot of cool stuff being produced. Most of the guys that I have admired for years are now close friends. We inspire each other, and sometimes collaborate on creative projects. Cape Town in particular is a very creative art/design oriented place. With many shops and galleries dedicated to illustration, art and design. There are also the serious fine arts guys, it's a different vibe though, but absolutely brilliant work coming out of SA.
Your work tends to deal with the fantastical. Where do these bizarre ideas come from? I try to create worlds that you can look at over and over again, and see something different every time. Almost like it's alive and preserved inside a vivarium. I'm intrigued by things that you can't quite figure out instantly. The ideas are mostly just from my imagination but also rooted in things that inspired me while I was growing up. Day dreams, trying to escape the boredom of suburban life and school.
You have a very distinct personal fashion style – how would you describe it? "Ha ha!" I would say its a very nautical style. It varies a bit from time to time. Sometimes captain, sometimes fisherman and sometimes eccentric preppy guy who lives on his yacht.
What can we expect next from you? I'm having my first solo exhibition in Cape Town in July. Then I'm publishing some books later this year. And I've been brewing beer with a buddy, so that could maybe turn into something interesting too.
What are your favourite tools for the job (indian ink, pencils, mouse)? Rotring (13) technical pen for the black, and Wacom in Photoshop for the colour.


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After a couple of good seasons driving for Richard Childress Racing in the Camping World Truck Series, Joey Coulter is moving to Kyle Busch Motorsports next season.
Some might wonder how Coulter could drive for Busch after their run-in at Kansas last year led to Busch getting punched in the garage by team owner Richard Childress. But it was in that race that Coulter proved to many that he could be a competitive driver.
Coulter was battling Busch for his first career top-five finish at Kansas in June 2011 when the two made contact, resulting in Busch running into Coulter's truck after the race. Though it was unclear whether Busch was congratulating Coulter or whether they move was retaliatory, Childress didn't see the contact as a sign of respect. Having already had issues with Busch earlier in the year, the team owner allegedly punched him after the race.
While the incident made headlines and stirred up further controversy between Busch and RCR, Coulter was oblivious to the whole episode.
"I've got so much respect for Mr. Childress and for Kyle," Coulter said in a phone interview Wednesday. "That whole deal, I was just kind of the guy that was there. I didn't know anything about it. I was so excited about the race I had with Kyle and just so excited that it was my first top five and the guy that I had to beat was Kyle Busch.
"That was a huge boost of confidence for me. I was so excited that I totally forgot that he even ran into my truck when I got back to pit road."
Coulter, who has one truck series win this season and is trying to finish in the top five in points, laughs at the irony after Monday's announcement that he will drive for KBM next year. He stresses, however, that he has never had a problem with Busch.
"I wasn't upset at Kyle; I really didn't have a whole lot of emotion about it," Coulter said. "There was history between them that I wasn't a part of."
Coulter earned a bit of respect from Busch that day, and certainly showed what he could do in a truck. So while people might think of what happened afterward, it was a career-defining moment for the 22-year-old driver.
"My goal every time I move into a series is to show people that you can trust racing around me," said Coulter, whose family owns Late Model and ARCA teams. "I'm not going to drive in over my head or overstep my boundaries and I'm going to race the way I want to be raced.
"I hope after that I did gain a little respect from them. I had conversations with guys like (truck series champions) Ron Hornaday and Todd Bodine who told me I was doing things right."
In the 37 races since that race, Coulter has had 10 top-five finishes. He is battling for fifth in the 2012 standings and is four points ahead of Matt Crafton for sixth with two races left in the season.
His win at Pocono in August was huge.
So why leave RCR? Coulter has followed Busch's career and that of team general manager Rick Ren for several years.
"It wasn't an easy decision by any means," Coulter said. "It's not like we're unhappy with anything or anybody got mad at anybody … We had to look at what was the best for me in the future."
KBM has never had a driver compete for the driver championship and the opportunity to be that driver was appealing, Coulter said.
"KBM approaching us saying, 'We want you to go win our first driver's championship,' it's kind of hard to pass those opportunities up," Coulter said.
"Knowing how much they want it, it makes me feel good. I know they are going to put every resource they have behind it and give us the best shot we can get."
And now he'll be an employee of a driver he has looked up to for a long time—before and since their run-in at Kansas.
"Up until now, I haven't really spoken to Kyle all that much," Coulter said. "The times we have raced around each other on the racetrack, it has always been a huge learning experience for me. … I want to beat those (Cup) guys in the future.
"If I can figure out why they're so good at what they do, I'm going to take advantage of it. Kyle has been the one I've learned the most from the past couple of years."


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Harvey Matheny, associate with the Memphis office of Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. and current president of the Memphis chapter of the American Council of Engineering Companies of Tennessee, has seen plenty of changes in the local engineering market over the past several years.
"When I came here seven years ago, private development, particularly commercial office and industrial, was still very strong. But when the recession hit, those areas dried up," Matheny said. "Now it's starting to come back, and we are certainly seeing more opportunities there."
As private commercial development projects dwindled, the firm turned to more municipal engineering projects including utility design and storm water analysis and design.
"Fortunately we've enjoyed a rejuvenation in public-sector opportunities after the downturn in the private sector. There will always be a need for infrastructure expansion and infrastructure rehab," he said.
Matheny has spent the majority of his time during the past few years working on the development of an environmental impact statement for the Tennessee Department of Transportation that looks at a potential new crossing of the Mississippi River. The comprehensive, multi-state project got underway in 2010.
Early projections for the cost of a new bridge and the approaching roadways on either side of the river are between $1 billion and $2 billion.
"It's a work in progress. We've been funded to do the first phases of the EIS," Matheny said. "Currently the project is in a holding pattern as TDOT does some re-evaluation of some of its major projects across the state."
Over the past few years, he sees regulations from the EPA and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation beginning to drive storm water regulations in a different direction.
"The newer regulations are forcing governments to look at how they manage storm water, with more emphasis on green infrastructure and low-impact development," Matheny said. "There's more emphasis on capturing rainfall and letting it infiltrate back into the soil for more a natural drainage design than we've had for many, many years. The sole purpose is really to try to reduce pollutants runoff into our streams and rivers."
After graduating with his master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Memphis in 1986, Matheny worked with a couple of consulting firms and then spent three years working for the city of Germantown.
Most recently he notched a seven-plus year stint with the town of Collierville, where he served as town engineer for five years and development director in charge of engineering, planning and code enforcement for two and a half years.
–Harvey Matheny Kimley-Horn and Associates; ACEC Memphis chapter president
He became familiar with Kimley-Horn when the firm was selected to develop a transportation plan for the town of Collierville, and he met James Collins, who had started the Memphis office for Kimley-Horn.
"Ultimately I decided it was a good time for me to leave public practice and return to private practice, and I felt like Kimley-Horn was a fantastic opportunity," said Matheny, who has worked at Kimley-Horn since April 2005.
Last year, the company ranked 41st out of the top 500 U.S. design firms in Engineering News-Record's annual list of the top design firms in the nation.
Kimley-Horn established its roots in transportation planning and roadway design during the 1960s, and it has grown into a multi-disciplined civil engineering firm that is also involved in aviation design and planning; land development; water resources including utilities, water sewage drainage and stream analysis; and traffic engineering. The company has more than 60 offices across the country.
"We operate pretty seamlessly amongst all of our offices and make use of all of our resources," he said.
Matheny believes the demand for engineers will intensify in the years to come.
"When you look at the number of retiring engineers in the next 10 to 20 years compared to the number of engineering graduates in the pipeline coming into the profession, there certainly is going to continue to be a need for engineers," he said.
As the current president of the Memphis chapter of the ACEC of Tennessee, Matheny works as advocate for more than 100 ACEC member engineering firms across the state of Tennessee.
"We feel like there needs to be meaningful interaction with local, state and federal legislators and elected officials," he said. "As they put policies or legislation in place that might affect the health, safety and welfare of the public and the engineering profession, the ACEC wants to have a say in that process."
The ACEC also promotes engineering across the local community, and Matheny is one of several Kimley-Horn team members on the Civil Engineering Advisory Committee at the University of Memphis.
Matheny's two-year term as ACEC president ends on June 30, when incoming president David Bradford of SSR Consulting will take the helm.
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After I posted those amazing old Zelda images from Nintendo Power the other day, I got an email from reader Yannick, who just so happens to run a blog that collects all kinds of awesome old Nintendo Power artwork by Katsuya Terada.
Double Dragon, Contra, there's all kinds of old NES games Terada has brought to life over the years, and which look just as good today as they did in the 1980s.
You'll find a selection of some of the best stuff here, but really, if you like old magazines, old games and/or great artwork, Yannick's site below has a ton more.
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I ended up with the Edge by surprise, the missus bought me a 10 and 15 for racing.davesails7 wrote:Dan at North has mentioned in previous posts that the Fuse is as close to a Rebel as you can get without needing a 5th line, but the Fuse jumps higher than the Rebel.
I'm liking my rebel, but I've never tried the Fuse, so can't compare.
Need to get my hands on an Edge, but they're so damned expensive! Worried about investing that much in a kite before being able to try it.


text: OL Na'Ty Rodgers of Pomfret, MD made an unofficial visit to USC this past Saturday with his father and older brother. It was his third unofficial visit to USC this season, and now his mother, stepdad and father have had a close up look. "It was good for him to be able to take a look around," Rodgers said. "It was the first time for him and my brother, and they really liked it." Rodgers said he talked with Steve Spurrier, Shawn Elliott and GA Mangus while on the visit. Rodgers has taken an official visit to Oklahoma and is set to visit Nebraska this weekend. He will visit Maryland December 8th, and his USC visit will be his last one in late December or January. USC is still the leader. "It's about the same," he said. "Nothing's really changed that much."


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Oilers prospect Kristians Pelss confirmed dead
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — The Edmonton Oilers have confirmed that prospect Kristians Pelss has died. He was 20.
The Oilers released a statement Saturday saying the team was deeply saddened by the loss of Pelss, who went missing Tuesday and was feared drowned in a river near his home in Riga, Latvia.
Oilers general manager Craig MacTavish said in a statement: "This is the news we feared. Kristians was an outstanding man and we feel terrible he has left us at such a young age. I can't imagine how painful this situation is for the Pelss family."
Pelss arrived home in Riga on Monday after playing last season with Edmonton's top minor-league team, the Oklahoma City Barons of the American Hockey League.
He was drafted by the Oilers in the seventh round in 2010.


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Diagnostic and neurosurgical observations on intraneural perineuriomas and review of the literature
Intraneurale Perineuriome: diagnostische und neurochirurgische Erfahrungen
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|April 11, 2007
Objective: Perineuriomas are rare benign peripheral nerve sheath tumors, which are integrated within the WHO classification system since the year 2000. They are separated into intraneural perineuriomas and soft tissue tumors. Intraneural perineuriomas were previously known as localized hypertrophic neuropathy. Because of their scarcity there are only case reports in the literature. Between 1992 and 2006 four patients suffering from intraneural perineuriomas were treated in our hospital. The patients were males and five, ten, twenty and twenty-nine years old. One of the tumors occurred in the ulnar and in the peroneal nerve and two of them in the radial nerve.
Methods: Examinations were performed clinically, electrophysiologically and by pre- and postoperative MRI. They were analysed retrospectively. Two of the four patients were previously treated with decompression and neurolysis of the nerve under the suspicion of a nerve compression syndrome. In one patient a nerve biopsy was previously performed in another hospital. Revisions were necessary following postoperative progressive neurological deterioration. Explorations of the nerves showed nerve tumors. The tumors were resected and nervegrafting was performed.
Results: The predominant symptom was a slowly progressive paralysis. Long-term follow-ups were available in three patients. No relapse could be observed. Two of the four patients showed a partial improvement of the motorial and sensorial nerve deficits in long-term follow-ups following complete tumor resection and interpositional autologous nerve grafts. In one case a postoperative neuroma was removed and a new nervegrafting was performed.
Conclusions: Intraneural perineurioma is a rare rare clinical entity. The results of this study confirm the published datas. These tumors tend to affect nerves of the upper extremities and children or young adults. Maybe there are more males than females afflicted. In cases of slowly progressive motorial neurological deficits of a peripheral nerve in young patients the differential diagnosis should include the intraneural perineuriomas. Long-term results are collected in three patients. In these cases no relapses and a partial improvement of the neurological deficits were observed.


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Falcons run to victory in ECC Large meet
New London - Tyler Latham was in an inside lane for the 300-meter sprint Saturday afternoon.
Orrin Parke, his counterpart from New London High School, was on the outside, which meant that because of the staggered start, it looked like Parke was ahead for much of the race.
"I knew it was going to come down to me and him," said Latham, a junior at Fitch. "I kicked the last 50 meters and passed him. But it came down to the very end."
Latham won in 36.96 seconds, edging Parke, who tried to lean his body over the finish line ahead of Latham. Parke's time was 37.12.
As he was most of the day at the Eastern Connecticut Conference Large Division championship meet at the Coast Guard Academy, Latham was in the right place at the right time, adding a second individual win in the 55 hurdles (8.07).
Fitch won the meet with 153 points, followed by East Lyme with 116 and Norwich Free Academy with 105.
Latham capped the meet by running the anchor leg on Fitch's 4x360 relay team which set the meet record in 3 minutes, 9.89 seconds. He joined Chris Bond, Luis Crisostomo and Lake Wyld, eclipsing the record of 3:10.44 set by Ledyard in 2008.
The entire Fitch team sprinted across the infield to mob Latham at the finish line.
"It's priceless," Bond said of the relay victory to cap the meet. "It came to a point where we knew we were going to win the meet, but our relay team wanted this gold medal."
Other highlights included a meet record in the 600 for East Lyme senior Ben Ostrowski (1:23.97), a double win for NFA's Kyle Liang in the 1,000 (2:49.03) and 1,600 (4:40.33) and a breakthrough for East Lyme's Tim Myers in the 3,200 (10:20.11), with Myers also swarmed by teammates at the finish line.
Parke, meanwhile, won the 55 dash for New London (6.67) and ran a leg of the Whalers' winning 4x180 relay team along with Nico Ramos, Jose Garcia and Gabriel Diaz. Ramos won an entertaining high jump competition with a leap of 6-0, jumping by himself at 6-0 and 6-1 after everyone else missed at 5-10.
"It gives us a little more boost," Ramos said of competing at the ECC meet in New London. "It feels like this is our home."
As for Ostrowski, well, The Day's All-Area Indoor Track Athlete of the Year last season after finishing fifth in New England in the 600, he had never won an individual event at this meet before. He was ill last year and finished second in the 1,000, a medal he hung in his room at home to motivate him.
He then finished second to Liang in the 1,000 early Saturday. That meant by the time Ostrowski got to the starting line for the 600, there wasn't any strategy besides winning. Ostrowski broke the record of 1:24.66 set by Ledyard's Andrew Esposito in 2008.
"I wanted to start out and get it right off the bat," Ostrowski said. "I didn't even look at the record. I just wanted to get that first individual title."
Ostrowski later anchored the Vikings' winning sprint medley relay team, joining Chris Apicelli, Andrew Bernard and Brandon Dinsmore.
It was Fitch, though, which continued its success from outdoor track season, when the Falcons topped NFA in the final event during a dual meet, then captured the ECC championship, as well.
In addition to the first-place finishes Saturday, Fitch got second-place finishes from Mustapha Noibi (55 dash, long jump), Crisostomo (hurdles), Marquis Guess (high jump, shot put), Johnny Diep (pole vault) and the 4x180 relay team.
"It's a great feeling that you went out and did your best," said Wyld, a senior captain. "It's a good day for all the Fitch athletes."
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Uma Thurman wows the crowds at Cannes in Versace
A ravishing Uma Thurman wowed the crowd at Cannes' "Clouds of Sils Maria" premiere in a canary yellow custom-made Atelier Versace couture gown in silk cady and chiffon.
The gathered waist and separate trains, which blew in the breeze, gave the gown a classical, timeless vibe — but the psychedelic color gave it an edgy lift.
Thurman is in Cannes for the 20th anniversary celebration of "Pulp Fiction," which won Palme D'Or in 1994. She walked the red carpet with Quentin Tarantino and John Travolta.
The "Pulp Fiction" red carpet reunion, in which Tarantino danced in front of paparazzi, almost upstaged the entrance of the actresses in the Olivier Assayas film, starring Kristen Stewart and Juliette Binoche. Stewart showed up in a glittery sleeveless jumpsuit.


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Family-Friendly Hotel Close to Napa Valley Wineries
Just a block from Best Western Plus Sonoma Valley Inn you'll find the 8-acre Sonoma Plaza, a National Historic Landmark. It was the site of the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt and houses the Mission San Francisco Solano, which was built in 1823. Many consider the vineyards in the area the birthplace of California winemaking, a tradition that continues today in Sonoma Plaza's many wine-tasting rooms. While staying at the Best Western Plus, you'll be just 20 minutes from the world-famous vineyards of Napa Valley.
The hotel is family-friendly and spacious. You can spend time relaxing in the heated, saltwater pool or gazebo-covered hot tub, or enjoy views of the central courtyard from your guest room's private balcony. The room featured in this deal has a seating area facing a wood-burning fireplace—a nice perk for Sonoma's chilly winter evenings. This getaway also includes two passes for wine tastings at Sonoma vineyards such as Paradise Ridge Winery, Landmark Vineyards, and VJB Vineyards & Cellars. Wineries are subject to change.
Sonoma Valley, California: Relaxed Wine Country and Majestic Redwoods
Located about an hour north of San Francisco, Sonoma Valley earned the title of TripAdvisor's top wine destination in 2012. The mild climate allows vintners to grow cool-weather varietals such as pinot noir and chardonnay, but some areas of the valley are ideal for growing hot-weather vines, too.
Follow 17 miles of country roads connecting the sleepy hamlet of Kenwood to the Carneros appellation, and you'll find more than 40 boutique wineries, most of them small and family owned. Many are tucked into oak forests and wildflower meadows. Compared to the neighboring Napa Valley (about 17 miles from the hotel), Sonoma feels a little more relaxed and remote. The wineries here are generally secluded, and tasting rooms tend to be uncrowded—even on weekends.
Even if you aren't visiting for the vineyards, Sonoma Valley's gentle climate and diverse natural landscape make it worth the trip. Hiking trails wind past redwood trees as high as skyscrapers, and the Russian River provides prime canoeing opportunities.


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Vote! Small Cool Kitchens Week 1
Small Cool Kitchens 2013 is in full swing! We've already seen some great entries from the first week. Read on to see them all and vote for your favorite!
Have you entered your kitchen yet? There's less than a week left to enter, and we've got some great prizes for our four finalists and one grand prize winner. Our friends at Cuisinart, Le Creuset, Edgeware, SodaStream, and Staub have helped us put together packages of terrific kitchen tools. The finalists will receive over $500 in kitchen goodies, and the grand prize winner will get over $1500 of our favorite kitchen tools. What are you waiting for — we'd love to see your space!
- Kristin's Wonderful White Kitchen
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By Moni Basu
(CNN) -- A black man is returning to the White House.
Four years ago, it was a first, the breaking of a racial barrier. Tuesday night, it was history redux.
And more.
*Read more on President Obama's re-election...
In the midst of national splintering and a time of deep ideological animosity, Americans elected President Barack Obama to a second term. And thousands rejoiced in his victory, one that seemed sweeter and, perhaps, more significant.
This is affirmation that his color doesn't matter and that his message resonated with people," said Yale University sociologist Jeffrey Alexander, author of "Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power."
"It is very important in that it will indicate that an African-American can be viewed for what he says and not what he is."
Had Obama lost the election, he would likely have been remembered in history as the first black president, and maybe little else, Alexander said.
Now, he has a chance to create a legacy rooted not in his identity, but in his ideas.
University of Houston sociologist Shayne Lee agreed.
"If this country wants President Obama to have another term, I'm ready to say that it's a significant moment," he said.
As an African-American, Lee understood the power of 2008. But his excitement was measured.
He knew the nation was tired then of two costly wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a sinking economy and an administration that he felt excluded ordinary people. He thought Arizona Sen. John McCain was a weak candidate and that the cards were stacked in Obama's favor. Four years later, Obama traversed a much tougher road, Lee said.
Americans had a strong alternative in the Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. The nation, he felt, was no longer in a desperate state and voters had more of a choice. Despite that, they elected a black man. Again.
"They sent a message to the world that whatever racist proclivities might exist are not enough to preclude Obama from winning," Lee said.
"We cannot deny that this is new social space we occupy in this country."
A changing America, Lee believes, will be very much a part of Obama's national conversation in a second term. That includes a stronger stance on race relations, an issue some believe Obama had to distance himself from in his first term for political expediency. For that, he drew criticism from African-Americans with high expectations of a black president.
"Can you imagine knowing you're the first black president and you have to win the Midwest to win a second term?" he said. "It's such a thin thread that holds together his ability to win as a black candidate.
"The constraints are not going to be there in his second term. He's going to have much more swagger."
In playwright and New York radio show host Esther Armah's estimation, Obama's re-election feels more historical than his first because of what she views as a tide of callousness toward people of color.
She criticized measures like the new voter ID laws in several states, which she said obstruct participation and "desecrated" American democracy. She said re-electing Obama represented a denunciation of those measures and the Republican presidential candidate who supported them.
"It's really important to recognize that this was not just a choice to put someone back into the White House," Armah said, "but a choice to reject a man who demonstrated callousness."
"I have exhaled. I am breathing," she said.
Obama's victory, said CNN contributor Van Jones, was possible because of the support of a coalition of people who reflect America's demographics.
"Nobody believed four years ago that you could have black folks and lesbians and gays and Latinos and young folk, standing together to move the country forward," said Jones, a former special adviser to Obama.
But Obama was demonized, he said, and turned into a cartoon character. African-Americans asked if someone like Obama is not acceptable, then who is?
"There is vindication here," Jones said. "This is a backlash against the backlash. You saw African-Americans stepping up, Latinos stepping up, young people stepping up ... saying we're better than we've been seeing on the attacks on this president."
The challenge for Obama in the next four years, however, will no longer be racial in nature, Alexander said. It is certain to be ideological.
Obama won't ever have to run for office again, but he will have to make his case for policies, Alexander said.
"His goal has been to be a post-polarization candidate, and he naively believed he could do that as a president," he said. "He didn't want to be a highly partisan figure. As a result, he couldn't control the political debate. He's going to have to keep campaigning and not become a policy wonk."
Obama seemed to recognize that in his victory speech early Wednesday in his native Chicago, the city where he first fostered hopes and launched dreams.
He told the roaring crowd, made up of that previously improbable coalition, that he planned to sit down with Mitt Romney in the weeks ahead to chart a new course for the country.
"We believe in a tolerant America, open to the dreams of an immigrant's daughter who pledges to our flag, to the young boy on the south side of Chicago who sees a life beyond the street corner, to the furniture worker's child in North Carolina who wants to become a doctor or a diplomat or even a president," Obama said.
"We will rise and fall as one nation, and as one people. It doesn't matter if you are black or white, young or old, rich or poor. You can make it in America, if you're willing to try."
It was a reflection of his own journey, of a man who'd made it as a two-term black president.


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Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce strives to:
- Champion Bloomfield businesses by providing them with resources, advocacy, connections and communications they need to succeed.
- Foster engagement with Town of Bloomfield government officials on economic development and business climate issues.
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Long-Term Review
2013 Dodge Dart: Voice Control
We recently tested the voice control system in our 2013 Dodge Dart test car. In years past -- and even today, in many cars -- voice control systems have been difficult to use, at best. They can misunderstand words, fail to address commands and inaccurately respond to instructions. In fact, such systems aren't even worth using in many modern cars.
So we wanted to see if the system in our 2013 Dodge Dart has made any improvements over systems in rival models. And the short answer is: It certainly has.
Like the UConnect system we've all come to enjoy, the Dart's voice control is extremely easy to use. In fact, it's as simple as pushing a button on the steering wheel. That alerts the car that you're about to use voice commands, which control several main areas of the UConnect system.
We found voice control best for adjusting the stereo and the navigation system. Yes, it's true that voice controls can bring you to the climate control settings, but you can't adjust the climate using your voice. That isn't the case with the stereo, where you can use voice controls for a variety of functions, including raising the volume and changing the track or radio channel.
We've also been impressed with the system's ability to recognize what we're saying. No machine will ever be perfect, but, then again, neither are human ears. In our testing, we found that the system correctly hears what we're saying around 80 percent of the time. That's a big improvement over many rivals, which often find themselves closer to 50 percent or less.


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Car Review
2013 Infiniti G Coupe & Convertible: New Car Review
Pros: Brilliant handling; smooth, powerful V6; great balance of performance and luxury.
Cons: Tiny rear seat; somewhat firm ride; needs more horsepower on the IPL version if it's to compete with BMW M cars.
What's New: The 2013 Infiniti G coupe/convertible base model has been dropped, leaving only the Journey, x AWD, Sport 6MT and two IPL (Infiniti Performance Line) models. The convertible is offered in Journey and Sport 6MT--and, for the first time, IPL.
The performance coupe is becoming a rare bird these days. Two doors and room for little more than two adults doesn't seem to hold the same allure it once did. But, for those lucky enough to still appreciate such a car, there is the Infiniti G coupe and convertible. Unlike the so-called 4-door coupes being rolled out by such automakers as Mercedes-Benz, VW, Audi and BMW, Infiniti remains true to the formula that makes personal transportation, well, personal.
Traditionally, a coupe has always had two doors and, to the truly faithful, only two seats. But the 2013 Infiniti G37 coupe makes sense to us because its small backseat isn't really a setting for two adults. It's a nice just-in-case emergency spot you won't find on a Porsche Boxster or BMW Z4. In fairness, the G37 coupe and convertible do have some drawbacks. The demure trunk isn't going to swallow much more than a few pieces of luggage and, in convertible form, is practically nonexistent with the retractable hard top folded down. The G37 also sits low, making it somewhat difficult to climb into and out of, and it carries a pretty high price for offering so little convenience.
But those looking at a coupe usually aren't looking for convenience; they're looking for excitement and passion and something that turns everyone's head in their direction. Those are skills that the 2013 Infiniti G37 coupe and convertible have perfected.
Comfort & Utility
Front seat passengers will find the G37 coupe fairly comfortable, but headroom is not as abundant as legroom. The convertible gets a pass from this criticism, but only in nice weather. As for the G37's back seat, let's just say it's little more than a pretty parcel shelf in the coupe, and in the convertible it's more like an afterthought.
It's a bit of a drop into the G37's seats, but not nearly as difficult as in a Mazda Miata or a Chevrolet Corvette. In any case, agility and youth are probably going to be helpful. Once you're seated, the G37's seats wrap their leather-bound bolsters around you like a warm embrace. On the Sport model, the driver's seat features power adjustable side and thigh bolsters and a manual thigh support extension. The same seats are also included on the high-performance IPL. Only they can be had in red leather. Slick!
The convertible mirrors the coupe in most aspects, save for the retractable hard top that stows away beneath a body-color panel in seconds. The convertible also has an adaptive audio system that compensates for wind and road noise generated with the top lowered.
The G37's performance credentials don't overshadow its luxury side; Infiniti calls on its best equipment. Standard on the Journey are Infiniti's keyless entry and start system; leather seating; heated front seats; 7-inch color LCD monitor and 6-speaker stereo; Bluetooth hands-free phone connectivity; USB/iPod port; dual-zone automatic temperature control; and a rear-view monitor. The Sport adds a 6-speed manual transmission; 19-in wheels with performance tires; sport suspension, brakes and steering; a power glass moonroof; voice-activated navigation; an 11-speaker Bose Studio on Wheels sound system; and a rear sonar backup warning system.
Available options include the Premium package, which adds, among other items, a power moonroof; Bose audio; a power tilting and telescoping steering wheel; and 2-way power lumbar support for the driver's seat. The Navigation package includes a voice-activated navigation system with available XM traffic and weather updates, while the Sport package adds 19-in wheels with W-rated summer performance tires; a limited-slip rear differential; upgraded brakes; and a 12-way power driver's seat.
The bulk of the G37's technology can be found in the aptly named Technology package. Topping the list of offerings is Intelligent Cruise Control, which helps maintain a safe distance between you and the traffic ahead; Brake Assist with preview braking; rain-sensing wipers; and an Advanced Climate Control system that purifies air entering the cabin.
Infiniti's hard-drive-based navigation system can be equipped with XM NavTraffic and NavWeather, and offers voice recognition for navigation, audio and vehicle information.
Performance & Fuel Economy
The G37 uses a potent yet efficient 3.7-liter V6 engine. In Journey, Sport 6MT and x AWD models, this engine makes 330 horsepower and 270 lb-ft of torque. The same engine in the G37 IPL is tuned to produce 348 hp and 276 lb-ft of torque. Fuel economy with the standard 3.7-liter is 19 mpg city/27 mpg highway (18/25 mpg with AWD and 17/25 mpg with the manual transmission). Fuel economy for the Convertible is rated at 17 mpg city/25 mpg highway (16/24 mpg for the AWD), while the IPL is rated at 19/27 mpg with manual transmission and 17/25 mpg with the automatic.
Journey and x AWD models all have a 7-speed automatic transmission with manual shift mode and Downshift Rev Matching. The Sport trim has a close-ratio 6-speed manual transmission. The IPL can be equipped with either transmission.
The AWD models use Infiniti's Intelligent AWD system. It has a rear bias until the system senses the rear wheels slip; then power is routed to the front and rear equally until traction is regained.
The 2013 Infiniti G37 coupe features front, front side impact and side curtain airbags, as well as electronic traction and stability control; 4-wheel ABS; and a tire pressure monitoring system. The convertible has the same features except that its side curtain airbags are mounted in the doors, and it includes a set of pop-up rollover bars behind the rear seats that activate in the event of a rollover situation.
Driving Impressions
You won't have to twist any of our test drivers' arms to get them to admit the G37 coupe is one of our favorite performance cars. Even in luxury Journey trim, the G37 is a marvelous machine. The suspension is firmer than in the G37 sedan, but as long as the road stays smooth, the ride does, too.
Move up to the G37 Sport, and you'll get exhilarating acceleration with razor-sharp handling. The G37 lives for the curve, exhibiting excellent stability and tenacious grip. AWD makes a great car greater, but the 6-speed manual transmission and sport suspension on the Sport model win us over every time.
Those seeking Infiniti's version of the ultimate driving machine owe themselves a test drive in the G37 IPL. Although it's not significantly more powerful than the Sport, its suspension, brakes, steering and throttle response have been tweaked to peak performance.
Other Cars to Consider
BMW 3 Series Coupe and Convertible - The 3 Series coupe and convertible have another year before they get the all-new look and engines of the 3 Series sedan, but they are still enviable and every bit as focused as the G37.
Cadillac CTS Coupe - The CTS delivers excellent performance but with a smoother ride, a much bigger back seat and trunk and a look that is proudly American.
Lexus IS Convertible - The IS 350C offers a bit more legroom up front than the G37, but its engine is not as powerful, its handling not as sharp.
AutoTrader Recommends
Our convertible choice is the G37 Journey with Premium, Technology and Navigation packages. For the coupe, we'd go with the G37x AWD. It delivers great year-round performance, which is especially important to those who live in snowy climes.


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Located in the financial district, 200 Water Street was an NYU dorm until 2009. Afterwards, it was renovated into a luxury apartment building for privileged students and young urban professionals. Everyone hates these type of people, including the very people who live here. The 3rd floor has an annoying dog everyone hates. There are more food, drugs, and alcohol delivery men than actual tenants. The elevator commonly smells of cannabis-like odors, and also sweaty drunkards. The rooftop consists of mainly non-tentants as well. Dope place. ja
Let's hit up 200 Water Street and roll an l, listen to big l, and nader that shit. We can also go to the pool lounge naked, even though we are not tenants. ja
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Justin Timberlake Responds to 'Take Back The Night' Controversy
Justin Timberlake and BFF Trace Ayala pose together while promoting their brand William Rast at The Bay on Tuesday (July 16) in Toronto, Canada.
Over the weekend, the 32-year-old entertainer was spotted performing with Jay-Z at the Yahoo! Wireless Festival in London, England.
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Justin recently talked about the controversy regarding his new single "Take Back The Night."
"Upon the release of my new single, 'Take Back The Night,' I was made aware of an organization of the same name called The Take Back the Night Foundation. I wanted to take this opportunity to let all know that neither my song nor its lyrics have any association with the organization," Justin said in a statement.
He added, "As I've learned more about The Take Back the Night Foundation, I'm moved by its efforts to stop violence against women, create safe communities and encourage respectful relationships for women — something we all should rally around. It is my hope that this coincidence will bring more awareness to this cause."