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Day 16
Love Intercedes
Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. – 3 John 2
You cannot change your spouse. As much as you may want to, you cannot play God and reach into their heart and mold them into what you want them to be. But that's what most couples spend a large part of their time trying to do – change their spouse.
Insanity has been described as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. But isn't that what happens when you try to change your mate? It's frustration at the highest level. At some point you have to accept that it's not something you can do. But here's what you can do. You can become a "wise farmer."
A farmer cannot make a seed grow into a fruitful crop. He cannot argue, manipulate, or demand it to bear fruit. But he can plant the seed into fertile soil, give it water and nutrients, protect it from weeds, and then turn it over to God. Millions of farmers have made a livelihood from this process over the centuries. They know that not every seed sprouts. But most will grow when planted in proper soil and given what they need.
There is no guarantee that anything in this book will change your spouse. But that's not what this book is about. It's about daring to love. If you take the Love Dare seriously, there is a high likelihood that you will be personally changed from the inside out.
And if you carry out each dare, your spouse will likely be affected and your marriage will begin to bloom in front of your eyes. It may take weeks. It may even take years. But regardless of the soil you're working with, you are to plan for success. You are to get weeds out of your marriage. You are to nurture the soil of your mate's heart and then depend on God for the results.
But you won't be able to do this alone. You will need something that is more powerful than anything else you have. And that is effective prayer.
Prayer really does work. It's a spiritual phenomenon created by an unlimited, powerful God. And it yields amazing results.
Do you feel like giving up on your marriage? Jesus said to pray instead of quitting (Luke 18:1). Are you stressed out and worried? Prayer can bring peace to your storms (Philippians 4:6-7) Do you need a major breakthrough? Prayer can make the difference (Acts 12:1-7).
God is sovereign. He does things His way. He's not a genie in a lamp that submits to your every wish. But He does love you and desires an intimate relationship with you. This doesn't happen apart from prayer.
There are some key elements that must be in place for prayer to be effective. But suffice to say that prayer works best when coming from a humble heart that is in a right relationship with God and others. The Bible says, "Confess sins to one another, and pray for one another … The effective prayer of righteous man can accomplish much" (James 5:16).
Have you ever wondered why God gives you overwhelming insight into your spouse's hidden faults? Do you really think it's for endless nagging? No, it is for effective kneeling. No one knows better how to pray for your mate than you.
Has your scolding or nagging been working? The answer is no, because that's not what changes a heart. It is time to try talking to God in your prayer closet instead.
A husband will find that God can "fix" his wife a lot better than he can. Wife will accomplish more through strategic prayer than from all her persuasive efforts. It is also a much more pleasant way to live.
So turn your complaints into prayers and watch the Master work while you keep your hands clean. If your spouse doesn't have any type of relationship with God, then it's clear what you need to start praying for.
Beyond this, begin to pray for exactly what your mate needs. Pray for his heart. Pray for her attitude. Pray for your spouse's responsibilities before God. Pray for truth to replace lies. Pray for forgiveness would replace bitterness. Pray for your heart's desires – for love and honor to become the norm. Pray for romance and intimacy to go to a deeper level.
One of the most loving things you can ever do for your spouse is to pray for them. "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to" (Matthew 7:7)
Today's Dare
Begin Praying for your spouse's heart. Pray for three specific areas where you desire for God to work in your spouse's life and in your marriage.
If anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him (John 9:31)
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Material taken from The Love Dare by Stephen and Alex Kendrick, copyright © 2009 by B&H Publishing Group. Used by permission. Unauthorized reproduction in any format is strictly prohibited by law.
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What if we told you there was a way to have the svelteness and power of Dell's $1,500 Adamo for less than half the price? You'd be interested, right? That's exactly why we've been trying to get a Dell Vostro V13 in-hand since its launch a few months ago. Besides starting at $449 – our unit's configuration rings up at a higher $844 -- the less-than-an-inch-thick, aluminum clad Vostro V13 promises five hours of battery life and good-enough everyday performance. Sure, it was created for small business types, but its blend of style, performance and price had us convinced that it could be the best ULV laptop out there. Ah, but is it? We'll tell you everything you want to know after the jump in our full review. %Gallery-88388%
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- Sturdy aluminum build Only .65-inches thickMatte screen
- Gets pricey when configured with faster CPUOnly three hours of battery life No removable battery
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No matter how you look at the Vostro V13, it's clear that it inherited its handsomeness from the flashier Dell Adamo – its screen lays on top of the bottom deck and its bottom is enclosed with a solid piece of aluminum. Though you won't find the Adamo's glossy lid or silver trim, the V13's brushed aluminum, champagne colored lid has a more understated business look that we actually prefer. Like the Adamo, most of the ports – a USB, a combo eSATA/USB, Ethernet and VGA – lie on the back edge. The right side makes room for an SD and an ExpressCard/34 slot, but that's all you'll find along the slim, flared edges. The front edge is home to its mic and headphone jacks.
We're most impressed with the .65-inch V13's thin bod, and after doing some comparison, we've determined it's the thinnest budget CULV lappie out there – the ASUS UL50Vf is an inch thick and the Acer Timeline 1.1-inches. The 3.5-pound chassis is also lighter than the 4-pound Adamo, and it's easy to tote from the desk to the couch with just a hand. Still the V13 feels incredibly solid, and its build quality is remarkable for the price -- the entire casing along with its reinforced zinc hinges are as rigid as it gets.
Keyboard, touchpad and screen
In what is obviously a cost saving move, Dell hasn't extended the aluminum casing under the lid, and instead the deck is covered in black, matte plastic. The full size keyboard, while comfortable to our digits, has a bit too much bounce and flex to it. We should also mention that we happen to like the clickyness of the keys, but those that prefer a quieter typing experience may not dig the V13's typing experience. Honestly though, it would be hard for a ULV laptop's keyboard to best that on the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13 -- we're still madly in love with it.
For the first time in a long time, we don't have absolutely horrible things to say to a touchpad. The pad itself is quite spacious, and though the dedicated right and left mouse buttons are a bit mushy, they are absolutely tolerable. Even more surprising is that multitouch gestures were decently responsive – two finger scrolling was smooth as was pinching to zoom. Can we get a Hallelujah!?
The V13 has one of the nicest screens we've seen on a budget laptop. The 1,366 x 768-resolution, 13.3-inch matte display doesn't kick back any glare, and the horizontal viewing angles were quite good when watching Desperate Housewives on Hulu. Vertical angles are a bit worse – when we titled the screen backwards we lost some of the brighter coloring. Regardless, we much prefer it to the glossy screen on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13 and the ASUS UL50Vf.
Performance and battery life
Like most ULV laptops, the V13 isn't a powerhouse, but it definitely holds its own for the basic productivity chores and Web browsing. Our unit was configured on the higher end with a 1.3GHz Intel Core 2 Duo S7300 processor, 7,200rpm 320GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM, all of which provided acceptable performance for simultaneously writing this review in Microsoft Word 2007, toggling between tabs in Firefox and listening to Lady Antebellum's new album in iTunes -- hold the judgment, please. We expect going down to 2GB of RAM or using the lower end Celeron / Intel Core 2 Solo processors will diminish performance a bit, but it will knock you into a $600 price bracket and we suspect that performance would still be good enough for basic activities. On the graphics front, it still uses Intel's GMA 4500MHD -- so while it could handle 720p and 1080p videos, it's going to have nothing on the NVIDIA GT335M-equipped Alienware M11x when it comes to 3D gaming.
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Battery life is where the Vostro V13 comes to a screeching halt. On our video rundown test the V13's six-cell, 30Wh battery lasted only 2 hours and 39 minutes with brightness set to 65 percent. That's more than half the runtime of the ASUS UL50Vf. Even worse is that because of its solid aluminum build the battery cannot be swapped out. There's really no good news when it comes to battery life here -- the reality is that you'll spend more of your time looking for an outlet with this ULV than others out there. Because it's a small business laptop, Dell bundles the V13 with its own BackUp and Recovery software, but other than that the desktop arrived quite clean.
The Vostro V13 -- or what we have taken to calling the poor man's Adamo -- has us all torn. Its thin and sturdy design (the very thing we love so much about it) is what causes its unacceptable battery life and the inability to swap out the cell yourself. When it comes to budget ULV laptops, the Vostro V13 is the best choice out there when it comes to thinness and design, but for those that put more value on battery life (and graphics for that matter) we have to recommend the ASUS UL50Vf. Good luck convincing yourself to forget about this form factor, though.


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Progress is an essential tenet of America's civic religion. As someone born and raised in England, where "not bad" is a compliment and "could be worse" is positively upbeat, this strikes me as an endearing national characteristic. But as with any religion, when faith is pitted against experience, faith generally wins. And at that point, optimism begins to look suspiciously like delusion.
Since 1977, when Gallup started asking people if they thought they'd be better off the following year, a huge majority have said yes. A 2005 poll revealed that even though only 2 percent of Americans describe themselves as rich, 31 percent thought it very likely or somewhat likely that they would "ever be rich." And as in most religions, those who have the least are the most devout. Despite entrenched and growing inequality, the poorer people are, the more optimistic they are likely to be about their future financial health.
The sixtieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down school segregation, offers yet another chance to gauge the progress toward racial equality in America. During this bumper period of civil rights commemorations—the current decade presents a litany of markers, from the uprisings in Birmingham to Martin Luther King's assassination—the official mantra rarely changes: we have come a long way, but we have further to go. "To dismiss the magnitude of this progress…dishonors the courage and the sacrifice of those who paid the price to march in those years," said Barack Obama, celebrating the March on Washington last year at the Lincoln Memorial. "But we would dishonor those heroes as well to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete."
Who could argue with that? Half a century ago, America was officially an apartheid state, with black people denied the basic rights of citizenship in large swaths of the country. Then the signs came down; the laws were overturned; the doors to the polling stations were prized open. The notion that the work is proceeding perpetuates the myth: America has no reverse gear—we just keep going forward.
But the awkward truth is that when it comes to the goals laid down by the civil rights movement in general and Brown in particular, America is actually going backward. Schools are resegregating, legislation is being gutted, it's getting harder to vote, large numbers are being deprived of their basic rights through incarceration, and the economic disparities between black and white are growing. In many areas, America is becoming more separate and less equal.
According to research recently conducted by ProPublica, "black children across the South now attend majority-black schools at levels not seen in four decades." A recent Nation article illustrated how this trend is largely by design. In suburbs across the region, wealthier whites have been seceding from their inner- city school districts and setting up academic laagers of their own. The result is a concentration of race and class disadvantage in a system with far fewer resources. In a 2012 report, UCLA's Civil Rights Project noted: "Nationwide, the typical black student is now in a school where almost two out of every three classmates (64%) are low-income."
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The discrepancy between black and white unemployment is the same as it was in 1963. According to the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University, between 1984 and 2007 the black-white wealth gap quadrupled. The Supreme Court is dismantling affirmative action and gutting voting rights. Meanwhile, incarceration disparities are higher than they were in the 1960s. And as Michelle Alexander points out in The New Jim Crow: "Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it."
This is not to say that we have literally reverted to a bygone era. "No man ever steps in the same river twice," goes the proverb. "For it's not the same river and he's not the same man." We have a black president, a black attorney general and a black editor of The New York Times; there's a growing trend to interracial relationships; suburbs are becoming more diverse. If the civil rights movement had been about getting black faces in new and high places, its work would now be done. But it wasn't. It was about equality. And the problem is not that we still have a great deal of progress to be made or that progress is too slow—it's that we are regressing.
This is not the first time this has happened. After the abolition of slavery, there was a brief period during Reconstruction when African-Americans made great strides, followed by a full-scale retrenchment in the South with the advent of Jim Crow. "The slave went free," wrote W.E.B. Du Bois. "Stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." In his speech, Obama acknowledged that "we'll suffer the occasional setback." But there's nothing "occasional" about this: the current reversals in the achievements of the civil rights era are akin to those after Reconstruction. That period lasted almost ninety years, and it took a mass movement to end it.
King saw this coming. After he was booed by young black men at a meeting in Chicago in 1966, he reflected, "For twelve years, I and others like me had held out radiant promises of progress, I had preached to them about my dream…. They were now hostile because they were watching the dream they had so readily accepted turn into a frustrating nightmare." In some quarters today, this would be considered blasphemy.


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Whoops: Looks like we failed to come through on that 2013 resolution to stop spending most of our time in bars and shoveling our paychecks into booze. Sorry for partying!
Thankfully, there's a silver lining to this year of overindulgence—namely, that we've been to a lot of new places in the past 12 months, and now we're ready to tell you which ones were worth the salt on their margarita glasses.
This year saw the opening of two bars that made waves well beyond New York City—the Dead Rabbit for cocktails, and the game-changing beer bar Tørst—but there was plenty more to get excited about as well. All in all, 2013 was less about booze trends and more about the evolution of the way we drink in New York: more great bars in underserved neighborhoods, more bars with serious cocktail cred, and more exciting beer taps nudging out the old standards.
So in 2014, instead of resolving to stop drinking, why not just resolve to just drink better? Keep these bars in your rotation and you'll be well on your way.
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German company recently worked on Korean drama R2B: Return to Base.
Korean air combat drama, R2B: Return to Base is the third feature film to be mixed in German company IOSONO's 3D sound format. IOSONO 3D sound was also used in Tarsem Singh's Immortals and another Korean war drama, My Way.
Return to Base, originally titled Soar into the Sun, tells a Top Gun-style story of a South Korean air force pilot and features aerial action scenes of combat fighter aircraft. Re-recording mixer Suk Won Kim said of the immersive audio mix: "I really enjoyed the mixing process, which was full of creativity and variability. The audience will really feel the air combat sounds, my favorite part is the battle in the sky of Seoul city."
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Director Dong-won Kim commented: "I experienced a world of sound that I never experienced before. It feels like the movie characters and the scenes are coming alive with the sound. I would love to have IOSONO 3D sound on my next movie again."
CEO of IOSONO, Olaf Stepputat, added: "With cinema installations on three continents, and now the third movie mixed in IOSONO 3D sound in less than a year, we are continuously expanding our spearheading position in 3D cinema sound."
Last week, IOSONO opened their SWD-IOSONO Studio, a 3D sound showroom and laboratory at the Shanghai offices of SWD Group, the design division of microphone manufacturer sE Electronics. IOSONO will use the new location for music and film sound production, demonstration and training. The studio will be fitted with IOSONO's Spatial Audio Processor IPC 100 and 94 sE Munro Egg speakers placed in three layers.
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Genocide in Rwanda
In 1994, Rwanda's population of seven million was composed of three ethnic groups: Hutu (approximately 85%), Tutsi (14%) and Twa (1%). In the early 1990s, Hutu extremists within Rwanda's political elite blamed the entire Tutsi minority population for the country's increasing social, economic, and political pressures. Tutsi civilians were also accused of supporting a Tutsi-dominated rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). Through the use of propaganda and constant political maneuvering, Habyarimana, who was the president at the time, and his group increased divisions between Hutu and Tutsi by the end of 1992. The Hutu remembered past years of oppressive Tutsi rule, and many of them not only resented but also feared the minority.
On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying President Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down. Violence began almost immediately after that. Under the cover of war, Hutu extremists launched their plans to destroy the entire Tutsi civilian population. Political leaders who might have been able to take charge of the situation and other high profile opponents of the Hutu extremist plans were killed immediately. Tutsi and people suspected of being Tutsi were killed in their homes and as they tried to flee at roadblocks set up across the country during the genocide. Entire families were killed at a time. Women were systematically and brutally raped. It is estimated that some 200,000 people participated in the perpetration of the Rwandan genocide.
In the weeks after April 6, 1994, 800,000 men, women, and children perished in the Rwandan genocide, perhaps as many as three quarters of the Tutsi population. At the same time, thousands of Hutu were murdered because they opposed the killing campaign and the forces directing it.
The Rwandan genocide resulted from the conscious choice of the elite to promote hatred and fear to keep itself in power. This small, privileged group first set the majority against the minority to counter a growing political opposition within Rwanda. Then, faced with RPF success on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, these few power holders transformed the strategy of ethnic division into genocide. They believed that the extermination campaign would reinstate the solidarity of the Hutu under their leadership and help them win the war, or at least improve their chances of negotiating a favorable peace. They seized control of the state and used its authority to carry out the massacre.
The civil war and genocide only ended when the Tutsi-dominated rebel group, the RPF, defeated the Hutu perpetrator regime and President Paul Kagame took control.
Although the Rwandans are fully responsible for the organization and execution of the genocide, governments and peoples elsewhere all share in the shame of the crime because they failed to prevent and stop this killing campaign.
Policymakers in France, Belgium, and the United States and at the United Nations were aware of the preparations for massive slaughter and failed to take the steps needed to prevent it. Aware from the start that Tutsi were being targeted for elimination, the leading foreign actors refused to acknowledge the genocide. Not only did international leaders reject what was going on, but they also declined for weeks to use their political and moral authority to challenge the legitimacy of the genocidal government. They refused to declare that a government guilty of exterminating its citizens would never receive international assistance. They did nothing to silence the radio that televised calls for slaughter. Even after it had become indisputable that what was going on in Rwanda was a genocide, American officials had shunned the g-word, fearing that it would cause demands for intervention.
When international leaders finally voiced disapproval, the genocidal authorities listened well enough to change their tactics although not their ultimate goal. Far from cause for satisfaction, this small success only highlights the tragedy: if weak protests produced this result in late April, imagine what might have been the result if in mid-April the entire world had spoken out.


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Dale Earnhardt won his 6th Winston Cup Championship in 1993, and to acknowledge that feat his Newton, NC-based Chevy dealership produced 25 custom Lumina Z34s. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender is one of the 12 of those to go the full Dale, but will you be intimidated by its price?
It's been the case for decades now that NASCAR rides be festooned with sponsorship graphics making them into rolling billboards for certain beers, laundry soaps and erectile dysfunction drugs -eeewww. On the track that's expected and par for the course, while one the road, calling attention to one's bad self is more likely to cost you a ticket, or worse. That's why yesterday's 2006 supercharged GTO took home a Crack Pipe loss, as its respectable performance mods were matched in the loud and proud looks department, and the whole thing came with a price three-quarters of you deemed to be bat guano crazypants.
Dale Earnhardt was also crazy. . . crazy about winning, that is! The proof of that is in the seven total Winston Cup trophies he wore like virtual Flava Flav bling, tying Richard Petty's record. Had it not been for that freak accident at the 2001 Daytona 500 which spirited the Intimidator to the big winner's circle in the sky, he may have added even more wins to that number.
Earhardt started his Winston Cup career in 1975 driving a Dodge Charger, but may be best remembered for - from '88-on - putting GM's Goodwrench sponsorship past the checkered flag with regularity. He was so closely identified with Chevrolet that he even owned a Dealership in Newton, North Carolina, and that dealer feted him with a limited run of 25 homage Luminas (Lumini? Luminari?) in 1993, to celebrate his sixth Winston Cup title.
This Z34-equipped Lumina Coupe is one of those, and further one of 12 to have the full sponsor decal and revered forward-leaning #3 treatment - for better or worse. Other unique features include Dale Earnhardt signatures stitched into the headrests, and a commemorative decal applied to the top of the windscreen and a dashboard plaque. Depending on your affection for either Dale or stock car racing, this level of detail is potentially fap-worthy or vomit-inducing.
The car upon which this is based is GM's W-body, here in Chevy Lumina Z34 form. The Lumina replaced both the Celebrity and the Monte Carlo and the Z34 package was intended to extend the Monte's most NASCAR wins record, plus add some street performance cred. To that end the Z34 appended to the base Lumina an upgraded suspension featuring stiffer springs and re-tuned shocks, ground effects, spoilers and hood louvers, and most importantly, the Twin Dual-Cam V6.
The LQ1 is a 3.4-litre, double overhead cam six and is based on GM's workhorse pushrod L-block. The four cams are belt-driven (and are supposedly a bitch to change) and the original cam position in the vee well is now taken up by a balance shaft. Fuel delivery is via GM's tuned port injection and the engine puts out an impressive for its time, 210 horsepower. Transmission choices for the Z34 were a Getrag 284 five-speed stick, or, as in this Lumina's case, a THM 4T60-E four-speed auto. The autobox means not only the loss of a pedal down below, but also 10 horses, giving this car a total of 200, and making it a little less intimidating. As you might expect, that means acceleration is respectable but not neck-snapping (going to hell for that one) with a factory time of about eight seconds.
Inside, the red velour seats and matching acres of plastic are both lurid in appearance and generally well preserved, while the styling is septuagenarian pleasing. This being post mandated supplemental restraints but pre-airbags for all, the seatbelts are mounted to the doors and can be left buckled while still allowing ingress and egress. Fun. The exterior, including all the advertising that you'd be offering for free, looks to be equally as fresh as the interior, and that overall most excellent condition may be due to the car's relatively low - 12,085 - miles of mostly
gay parade duty.
As I noted, Dale Earnhardt racked up NASCAR titles like they were Cracker Jack prizes, but that's not to say that every homage to his memory or achievements is equally full of win. This Lumina is very rare, and its connection to the Earnhardt name is genuine and verifiable, making it more than just some rabid fan's backyard-created shrine. But strip off all the Earnhardt and what you're left with is the prospect of buying what's basically just a really nice 18-year old Lumina. Meh!
That means that this car's $18,500 asking price is mostly for the purchase of the decals and embroidered headrests. Be that as it may, there are likely enough folks out there who would gravitate to this car's rarity and provenance to make that an equatable trade. What do you think, is $18,500 for this Lumina as super as a speedway? Or, is that price just too many chips for this Dale
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400 ft. of protective berm sinks around giant Louisiana sinkhole
BAYOU CORNE, LA (WAFB) - There are more problems at the site of the giant sinkhole in southeast Louisiana.
Officials said between 400 and 500 feet of the berm on the south side of the sinkhole, which was set up to help keep possible contaminants from leaking into other parts of the swamp, has now sunk underwater.
They also say trees on the southwest side sinking. Some have sunk up to 10 feet.
Texas Brine, the company who owns the salt dome that caused the sinkhole, was required by the Louisiana Office of Conservation to build the berm to prevent the brine in the sinkhole from leaking into the surrounding waterways.
The berm area is about 82 acres surrounding the now 15-acre sinkhole. Seismic monitors were placed in and around the sinkhole area to monitor tremors. Tremors usually result in a "burp" that brings debris from the bottom of the sinkhole to the top. These burps have been known to swallow trees surrounding the sinkhole.
It's been almost a year since a massive sinkhole near Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou began causing problems. Bubbling in the bayou led to the sinkhole. About 350 people have been forced out of their homes since August.
It has been 10 months since hundreds living near the giant sinkhole were forced from their homes.
Bubbles were spotted in Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou in June 2012. Two months later, the ground opened up.
Most affected residents began receiving weekly checks from Texas-Brine in the amount of $875 per week.
Nine months after the sinkhole first appeared in Bayou Corne, Texas Brine began making offers to buy out the residents living there.
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Patterns and Predictors of School Readiness and Early Childhood Success among Young Children in Black Immigrant Families
Using national data for a birth cohort of American children (the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort), this study aims to describe the early childhood experiences of second-generation African and Caribbean immigrants and to examine the link between these experiences and children's early academic skills during the transition to school. The authors identify the contextual factors — such as family circumstances, parenting practices, and enrollment in center-based child care — that encourage early school success, helping fill a significant gap in knowledge about the early childhood experiences of young children in Black immigrant families.
Good health practices on the part of Black immigrant mothers may explain the generally positive health outcomes observed among their children. In addition to investing in health, Black immigrant parents are also strongly oriented toward education for their children. One general implication of this work is that strategies to promote positive outcomes among children of Black immigrants should build on existing strengths.
I. Introduction
II. Background
A. School Readiness and Early School Success among Children of Immigrants
B. The Early Developmental Experiences and Outcomes of Black Children of Immigrants
III. Using National Longitudinal Data to Examine the Early Development of Children in Black Immigrant Families
IV. Data, Sample, and Measures
A. The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort
B. Analysis Sample
V. Results
A. Demographic Snapshot of Black Immigrant Families with Young U.S.-Born Children
B. The Health and Developmental Status of Young Children in Black Immigrant Families
C. Children's Early Learning Experiences at Home and in Child Care
D. What Factors Help Explain Early Academic Skill Differences between Children of Black Immigrants and Their Peers?
VI. Final Thoughts
A. Understanding Differences in School Readiness Skills between Children of Black Immigrants and Their Peers
B. Understanding Variation in School Readiness Skills among Children of Black Immigrants
C. Study Strengths and Limitations


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The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, also referred to as the Pine Creek Gorge, stretches for over 45 miles with depths of nearly 1500 feet. The dynamic topography of the PA Grand Canyon creates many scenic wonders, including steep canyon walls and waterfalls.
The PA Grand Canyon is part of the Tioga State Forest, beginning just south of Ansonia, PA, near Wellsboro. One of the most popular attractions to the canyon is the Pine Creek Rail Trail, a converted railroad bed that travels along the Pine Creek Gorge at the floor of the canyon.
USA Today cites the Pine Creek Rail Trail as one of the 10 great places to take a bike tour in the world. Because of the gentle grade, the trail offers easy pedaling, hence it can be experienced with minimal physical impact and basic biking gear. And of course it also makes for good hiking and running.
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With numerous developed trails, the Grand Canyon of PA is a hikers paradise. maps Floating, boating, fishing, hiking and biking are all part of the area's available outdoor adventures.
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When it's time for some food and shopping, the gaslight lined streets of Wellsboro Pa. and the quaint small town Victorian charm makes it a great place to visit... And your visit to the PA Grand Canyon is not complete without a journey to nearby Corning, NY and the Finger Lakes Wine region ... truly an enjoyable outing.
As a native to the PA Grand Canyon area it has been my privilege to enjoy the wonders of our crowned jewel. Some of my favorite activities include hiking, biking and boating in the Pine Creek Gorge.
Like many visitors to the canyon, I enjoy hiking the Turkey Path at Leonard Harrison State Park. I often joke with visitors that this hiking trail is one mile down and eight miles back up. But in all seriousness, this is a steep hike on a well developed trail, approximately one mile in each direction. There are steps built in along the hiking trail with several places to stop and rest. Some nice views of the canyon and the Little Four Mile Waterfall can be seen on this hike. The trail leads to the bottom of the canyon to the Pine Creek Rail Trail. Be sure to check trail conditions and weather before starting this or any hike, and be certain to wear proper clothing and footwear.
There are picnicking facilities at Leonard Harrison State Park including several covered pavilions. You'll also find a gift shop, vending machines, water and bathrooms.
This is a great place for family gatherings, a spot at which our family reunites each year. One tip: If you want to avoid crowds, visit Leonard Harrison State Park during the week as opposed to the weekends.
More Hiking: The Overlook Trail at Leonard Harrison State Park is a short walk, a loop just slightly more than a half mile, with a wonderful southern view of the PA Grand Canyon from otter view. And of course, The Pine Creek Rail Trail, one of the most popular Pennsylvania attractions, offers miles of easy hiking and biking along Pine Creek and through the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon.
On the opposite side of the canyon, almost directly across from Leonard Harrison State Park is Colton Point State Park, the more rustic of the two parks. Though not as developed, it is a great part of the canyon area to explore. I enjoy the drive from rt.6 out Forest Road to Colton Point State Park. This is a scenic winding road that climbs to the vista views from the park and continues past the park. Visitors can view Four Mile vista on this tour and can explore many back roads in the canyon area.


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[Immens] Yo man.. I'm hungry man
[Common] Ay whatchu want man? You want some breakfast or somethin?
[Immens] I want a lil lil somethin.. yeah yea milk and cereal or somethin
Somethin man! Just a little breakfast food, y'know?
[Common] Mmm I don't know man (ay) let's see what I got in my cabinet
[Immens] Hold on, let me see what I got in my cabinet
Somebody hit me with a little, baseline or groove, knahmsayin?
Yeah, breakfast food, UHH!
[C] When you wish
[I] When you wish
[C] Upon a star
[I] Upon a star
[C] To follow what?
[I] To follow what?
[C] And where you are!
[I] And where you are!
[C] Party over here, party over there
[I] Where?
Look! I made ya look, ya dirty crook
Then picked your pocket, watch me book..
.. like Guiness I'm a Menace, so call me hip-hop's Dennis
So open wide, and say (AHHHHH)
And I'ma slide my yolk, in your throat, and watch ya choke
on the Uh the Ah the Uh the Daddy Long-Stroke
Stroke Long Daddy Money, if my name was Sunny
I'd share a scoop, Runnin shit like Rebels
You can call me Barney, cause I took your Fruity - Pebbles
Dibble like an office on Top Cat, top that, I'm fat troop
Drop the loop, then a scooper hoop ya like a hula
To school a fool I present, a church to repent
I get you Guess'n like jeans, you're just a hill of beans
I'm all that jazz, and I kick, kick, kick, kick..
The razzamatazz oh please oh please just give me just one more blast
I +Gett Off+ like Prince, but I don't have to show my ass
Pass the rest, like a test, if you slip then you'll get ripped
with your handicapped pass route, and Tales From the Crypt
I whip on that ass like base ba-bay
The Sense is good-GOOBELY-goo, ask Gravy
Or LaMont, or Rollo, down at the, Apollo
Come follow me now (BO! Where's Sue?) I don't know
Even En Vogue, be tellin me ya don't go
When it's time for show (yea) everyone says
ho (ho) ho (ho) couldn't be a slider
cause I never slip, kick it like a Damme Van flip
So don't come with your judo, cause you're just a Menudo
emcee gettin chewed like vegetables
Ahhhhh cabbage is a cabbage, a lettuce is a lettuce
I'ma tear this whole joint into scraps
I bust raps, perhaps caps, and trap the wack tracks
Givin the max, for the minimum, not the minimum for the max
Get more sex than Wilt the Stilt so you can call me the Stiltest
You're takin shorts like Arnold, so what chu talkin bout, Willis?
[I] Bout Willis?
[C] Yeah Willis
[I] Willis ain't talkin about nuthin!
[C] It's Different Strokes
[I] Let's get back to umm, breakfast foods
[I] because it's, early in the mornin..
[Common] Well you can have your Wheaties
[Immens] You can have your Flakes
[Common] You can have your Kix
[Immens] And you can have your Trix
[Common] You can have your POUNDcakes
[Immens] You can have your Loops
[both] But you still gotta get your Two Scoops!
To keep the hot raw, I'm rollin, rollin
Bowlin - spare me! Fuss ya hushed mouth mush
Lush alcohol's excessive like a Jefferson
Movin on up -- progressive
One time for your brain, cell
And when I get through, you say -- aww hell man!
Styles that I free won't, stop til the end
Paper I go on and go on with the pen
Get a max of funk, attack or sunk *huff, huff*
One blow, and emcees are gone with the wind
Kickin the dumber rhyme, I'm not a print
but I'm fresh, heatin up like the summertime, summer rhyme
I'm a dime a dozen, but I keep you buzzin
like a bee, a dozen attempts is in the toilet
Cause I flush the dime and I'm not a Leader
cause I Busta Rhyme, a rhyme
If I kick with Rakim, you +Run For Cover+ brother
But I kick it with Petey cause I'm just another mother (sucker)
Blo Pop time (it's Blo Pop time)
It's Blo Pop time (it's Blo Pop time)
In the mix, the dimension, J.B., and Chico
It's seven, not six, my shirt extra-large
but I wear, I wear I wear it well like DeBarge
to the finish, makin ya eye pop, like you ain't spinach
Then it's, time to let you know
We count it up, one two three and fo'
[I] UHH! Count it up
[C] Nah we gon' count it down
[I] Nah man, we're gonna count it up
[C] Mmmm, let's get back to that umm, food tip though, the breakfast tip
[I] Food tip? Well you just check
[C] Cause you know what we need
[I] What can I have?
[Common] You can have your Life
[Immens] You can have your Bran
[Common] You can have your Puffs
[Immens] You can have your Pebbles
[Common] You can have your Krunch
[Immens] And you can have your Loops
[both] But you still gotta get your Two Scoops!
Around and round and upside down and upside down we go
WHOAHHHHH! I'ma sneak in the front row
Not Jethro, I'm not a Jethro, on skid row
I don't wear Monie's hat, but I was a Monkey +in the Middle+
Hey diddle diddle, you can Kibble a Bit
I take a squat, and booty MC's be sayin OOOOHHH SHIT!
Yo, I turn Bucktown into Fucktown
You're just a field goal kid, and I'm a touchdown
With the next point to the next joint, so tell Spike about it
I'm all that, that your bitch be writin home about it
Shout it out, praise the Lord, hallelujah!
This could be love, but umm, don't let em fool ya
Cause when I do ya, come down come down after me come
Yeah sorry Sugar Plums but umm, I gotta run
Run Jesse Run, keep hope alive
I'm down with the b-boys, FUCK the Jackson 5
You jive-ass turkey, a-pit-apitta-a-aperk be
You can get ill, but don't, HURT ME, HURT ME
Or urk me, cause see I'll outsmart you like the Urkel
B-boys at the school of hard knocks, in a circle
Pass the sess blunt, yeah stud, you ain't know?
I wanna go bang, I said, bang-o, bang-oh bang-oh
or bojangle jingle jangle on the jaw
Hip-hip, hooray, oh now you wanna be all lovable?
Don't push or pull, or you'll see, I'ma wreck it out
MC's be checkin in but they don't be checkin out
I leave em out on the canvas
So click your heels twice and take your ass back to KANSAS..


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Following are featured recipes and cooking advice from Fania Lewando's The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook. All recipes are excerpted from THE VILNA VEGETARIAN by Fania Lewando. Copyright © 2015 by Random House. Excerpted by permission of Schocken, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
See our Village Vegetarian Cookbook feature article HERE.
Cauliflower Cutlets
Cook a cut-up large head of cauliflower in salted water, and push through a food mill or puree in a food processor. Add 2 tablespoons melted butter, 4 tablespoons bread crumbs and 3 eggs. Mix well and shape into cutlets. Mix 2 eggs with bread crumbs, dip the cutlets, and fry in butter until brown. Serve with stewed carrots
Chickpea Cutlets
This recipe makes KosherEye think veggie burger. After soaking them overnight, cook 3 cups dried chickpeas until soft. Push them through a food mill or puree in a food processor. Add 3 raw eggs, some salt, 4 tablespoons bread crumbs and 3 tablespoons melted butter. Shape into cutlets, dip in bread crumbs and fry in butter until brown. You may also serve some boiled, thinly sliced potatoes along with these.
Spinach Pâté
A vegetarian dip or shmear
Wash and cook 1 pound spinach. Place in a colander, and squeeze out the water. Then add 3 onions fried in [olive] oil, 4 hard-boiled eggs, 2 apples, 4 tablespoons bread crumbs, some salt, and 5 tomatoes. Purée everything in a food mill or food processor. Stir in 2 raw eggs and ½ cup olive oil. Grease a pan with oil, put in the batter, cover tightly, and bake in a hot oven ½ hour. Then spread it onto a flat plate to cool. Serve spread on rolls or buns with butter.
Leek Appetizer
(This recipe calls for butter, but we suggest substituting olive oil for a parve version.)
Cut 3 large leeks and 2 Spanish onions into small pieces, and sauté in butter (2 tablespoons). Add 3 diced hard-boiled eggs, 6 tablespoons butter, 4 tablespoons bread crumbs, 3 diced scallion, and (chopped fresh) dill. Add 2 raw eggs and some salt (1/2 teaspoon) and mix well. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a pot, and add the leek mixture. Cover well, and bake 1/2 hour. Serve sprinkled with dill.
From the translator (For best results, sauté the leeks and onions slowly over a low flame. It will take about 20 minutes. None of the recipes in this collection specifies an oven temperature, for the simple reason that temperature in the wood or coal ovens of that era could not be easily adjusted. A moderate oven of about 350 degrees works for most of the recipes unless otherwise specified
To the Housewife: A Few Words and Practical Advice
Fania Lewando launched her cookbook with an introduction whose title translates as: "To the Housewife: A Few Words and Practical Advice."
One must strictly observe the following directions:
1. "The produce must be of the best quality. There is only a small difference in price between the best and worst produce, but in cooking there is a great difference, in taste as well as nutrition."
2. "One must use clean utensils." Lewando cautioned that enamel utensils should have no scratches, "because this is harmful to health."
3. "Use only centrifuge butter (clarified butter) for frying, baking and other cooking." Lewando preferred it over handmade. "It is not true that hand-churned butter is richer. The machine is more efficient than the hands."
4. "Throw nothing out; everything can be made into food." Save vegetable cooking water for soups, she advises in one example.
5. "Prepare everything precisely as instructed in the recipes, and do not rely on others. All these foods can be easily made, because I have tested each recipe several times."
Lewando's promise to readers: "I have the fullest satisfaction in the knowledge that my cookbook is practical and that it will be very useful to every housewife in her daily life."


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Granting yourself and your users the ability to step away from the desk to meet and collaborate can increase productivity, and when everybody can be on the network with their laptops or tablets, you can get even more done. However, store-bought commercial wireless routers aren't really designed to handle the traffic your business needs, nor do they have the security in place to keep your activity safe.
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How much of your office needs wireless access?
Depending on the size of your business, your office could be a series of small rooms, an entire building, or a city block. Naturally, you want access to WiFi across the entire perimeter of your workplace. However, as one router may not be enough to handle all areas of your office, implementing a solution to this problem can be complicated. Another consideration is that routers often conflict with each other if they're within range of one another, making it ideal for the setup process to be performed by a professional.
QuestingHound Technology Partners knows the ins and outs of how to set up wireless access across your organization's entire office, including how to avoid discrepancies with both wiring and router specifications. Our trusted technicians know can quickly ascertain what kind of wireless routing solution that would be best for you, and they'll work around your requirements to ensure you get a wireless network that meets your business' unique demands.
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A router only replicates a certain amount of bandwidth. This naturally controls the speed of your service. When more users are connected to a particular router, they consume more of the available bandwidth. The increased traffic can affect your business' productivity, and potentially even disrupt your connection completely.
This is why it's imperative that you understand the limitations that your routers have, and that you need to consider how many users will be accessing each one at any given time. QuestingHound Technology Partners can help your business optimize router deployment so that your users have consistent access to your WiFi at all times, increasing both productivity and efficiency.
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Last but not least, your organization needs to ensure optimal security on your wireless networks. Many threats, like viruses and malware, are capable of infiltrating unsecured WiFi networks and spread their infections like wildfire. This can put any and all devices that connect to your WiFi in danger; not to mention your organization's data infrastructure.
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Pregnancy Policy
The following policy concerns students who experience a pregnancy while living in campus housing. All students should be aware that confidential counseling is available both on and off-campus to support students who become pregnant.
Students who become pregnant should contact Health Services and Residence Life offices as soon as possible. The Health Services staff will refer the student (and the father if necessary) to the appropriate on/off-campus support to assure that the mother has a comprehensive prenatal care plan in place and the department has the most up-to-date contact and physician information in case of an emergency. It is Earlham's goal is to help the pregnant student have a healthy, comfortable and supportive living environment throughout the pregnancy, if she wishes to continue at Earlham.
Pregnant students may continue taking classes and engage in all other community activities. If a student prefers to take a medical leave-of-absence with the intention of returning to campus after delivery of the baby, such leaves may be requested through the Office of Student Life.
For students who would prefer to remain enrolled in classes for the duration of the pregnancy, the student is eligible for an automatic exemption from on-campus housing. For those students who decide to keep the infant after the birth, it is important that the student make necessary arrangements for housing for the infant prior to delivery. Earlham's facilities are limited to single-student housing and are unable to accommodate infants or children in residence.


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Some U.S. officials are voicing increasing concern about the burgeoning cost of American military involvement in simultaneous wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya.
By various government and private accounts, the U.S. has spent more than $1 trillion over the last decade on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and already more than $700 million in the three-month-old NATO air war against troops loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
President Barack Obama is preparing to announce U.S. troop withdrawals from the war front in Afghanistan in a televised address Wednesday night, and the U.S. involvement in Iraq is winding down this year. Some Americans, though, weary of a decade of warfare spawned by the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., are saying that with the sluggish national economy, the money spent on the wars instead should be spent on domestic needs.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors this week approved a resolution calling for an early end to the U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and requesting the savings be spent at home. In Afghanistan, where 100,000 U.S. troops are stationed, the war tab is expected to reach nearly $120 billion this year.
One freshman U.S. senator, Joe Manchin of the eastern state of West Virginia, is a Democrat, as is the president. But on Tuesday, he called for a substantial troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, more than the president appears ready to endorse. Manchin said it is time "to rebuild America, not Afghanistan." In an unusual coupling of political thought in the U.S., some of the most conservative Republican lawmakers have called for a diminished U.S. military force overseas, as have some of the country's most liberal Democrats who normally would be aligned with Obama on other issues.
Yet Senator John McCain, the Republican Obama defeated in the 2008 presidential election, criticized Manchin's call for a quick reduction in U.S. troops in Afghanistan. McCain, a U.S. Navy veteran once held as a prisoner of war in the Vietnam War, said Manchin's comments were indicative of the "isolationist-withdrawal, lack-of-knowledge-of-history attitude that seems to be on the rise in America."


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"Affluenza" slammed as defense for wealthy Texas teen's fatal DWI wreck
HOUSTON -- "Affluenza," the term used by a psychologist to argue that a North Texas teenager from a wealthy family should not be sent to prison for killing four pedestrians while driving drunk, is not a recognized diagnosis and should not be used to justify bad behavior, psychologists said Thursday.
The term was popularized in the late 1990s by Jessie O'Neill, the granddaughter of a past president of General Motors, when she wrote the book "The Golden Ghetto: The Psychology of Affluence."
It has since been used to describe a condition in which children - generally from richer families - have a sense of entitlement, are irresponsible, make excuses for poor behavior, and sometimes dabble in drugs and alcohol, explained Dr. Gary Buffone, a Jacksonville, Fla., psychologist who does family wealth advising.
It was also used by an expert defense witness in the trial of the 16-year-old teenage driver, who after confessing to intoxication manslaughter in the fatal accident avoided what could have been a sentence of up to 20 years in prison when District Judge Jean Boyd gave him 10 years of probation.
"Essentially what he has done is slapped this child on the wrist for what is obviously a very serious offense which he would be responsible for in any other situation," Buffone said. "The defense is laughable, the disposition is horrifying ... not only haven't the parents set any consequences, but it's being reinforced by the judge's actions."
While prosecutors argued for the maximum prison sentence for the June 15 accident, his attorneys said the boy needs rehabilitation, not prison, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. Psychologist Gary Miller testified that the boy grew up in a house where the parents were preoccupied with arguments that led to a divorce and that he suffered from "affluenza."
But Buffone said in a telephone interview Thursday that the term wasn't meant to be used as a defense in a criminal trial or to justify such behavior.
"The simple term would be spoiled brat," he said.
Miller told the judge that the boy's father "does not have relationships, he takes hostages." He said the boy's mother was indulgent: "Her mantra was that if it feels good, do it."
Prosecutor Richard Alpert argued in court that if the boy continues to be cushioned by his family's wealth, another tragedy is inevitable.
Although the boy's case was handled in juvenile court, he has been identified publicly by the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office.
Dr Suniya Luthar, a psychologist who specializes in the costs of affluence in suburban communities, told The Associated Press that her research at Columbia University in New York has shown that 20 percent of upper middle-class adolescents believe their parents would help them get out of a sticky situation at school, such as being caught for the third time on campus with a bottle of vodka. The judge's sentence reinforces that belief.
"What is the likelihood if this was an African-American, inner-city kid that grew up in a violent neighborhood to a single mother who is addicted to crack and he was caught two or three times ... what is the likelihood that the judge would excuse his behavior and let him off because of how he was raised?" Luthar asked.
"We are setting a double standard for the rich and poor," she added, noting the message is "families that have money, you can drink and drive. This is a very, very dangerous thing we're telling our children."
Authorities said the teen and friends were seen on surveillance video stealing two cases of beer from a store. He had seven passengers in his Ford F-350, was speeding and had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit, according to trial testimony. His truck slammed into the four pedestrians, killing Brian Jennings, 43, Breanna Mitchell, 24, Shelby Boyles, 21, and her mother, Hollie Boyles, 52.
The judge decided the programs available in the Texas juvenile justice system may not provide the intensive therapy the teen could receive at a $450,000-a-year rehabilitation center near Newport Beach, Calif., that the parents would pay for.
Scott Brown, the boy's lead defense attorney, said he could have been freed after two years if he had drawn the 20-year sentence. Instead, the judge "fashioned a sentence that could have him under the thumb of the justice system for the next 10 years," he told the Star-Telegram.
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By: Isidore Singer, Edgar Mels
Austrian theatrical director; born at Vienna Aug. 18, 1838. Neumann went upon the stage in 1859, as a barytone, appearing at Cologne, Cracow, Oedenburg, Presburg, and Danzig. From 1862 to 1876 he was a member of the Vienna court opera. In the latter year he went to Leipsic as operatic director, and in 1882 organized a traveling Wagnerian opera company. Three years later he settled at Prague as the director of the Deutsche Landestheater. Neumann's principal service to the Austro-German stage was the production for the first time in its entirety of Wagner's "Der Ring der Nibelungen," which took place, in spite of seemingly insurmountable difficulties, at the Stadttheater, Leipsic, April 28, 1878. Another theatrical feat to the credit of Neumann was the initial production in Berlin of "Cavalleria Rusticana."
- H. Riemann, Musik-Lexikon, p. 783.


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Each child had a book, and each child had his or her own story. It had begun, of course, with Tom, whose story was the longest. Each story was written in its own book, hand-decorated with stuck-on scraps and coloured patterns. Tom's was inky-blue-black, covered with ferns and brackens, some real, dried and pressed, some cut out of gold and silver paper. Dorothy's was forest-green, covered with nursery scraps of small creatures, hedgehogs, rabbits, mice, blue-tits and frogs. Phyllis's was rose-pink and lacy, with scraps of gauzy-winged fairies in florid dresses, sweet-peas and bluebells, daisies and pansies. Hedda's was striped in purple, green and white, with silhouettes of witches and dragons. Florian's book was only little, a nice warm red, with Father Christmas and a yule log. (page 88)
Sunday, December 27, 2009
final TSS of 2009
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Enjoy your last few days of leisurely reading and browsing for new reads. Sounds idyllic to me! Glad you had a wonderful Christmas.ReplyDelete
Here's wishing you a happy New year.
Relax and enjoy the season!ReplyDelete
What a lovely post Molly. It is nice to reflect and realize how much we have to be thankful for despite the not so great times that we all experience in any given year.ReplyDelete
Can't wait to read your review on The Children's Book. enjoy
Sounds like a wonderful holiday, Molly! I spent yesterday curled up on the couch with a book, too. Hope the rest of your vacation will be just as relaxing.ReplyDelete
Isn't it nice to snuggle with a book when it is snowing outside? We had sleet up until Christmas night, and ever since there have been big beautiful flakes coming down. I predict sledding in our near future!ReplyDelete
I hope you enjoy the book and the rest of the weekend and Christmas break. :-)ReplyDelete
I'm glad to hear you had a wonderful relaxing Christmas and you could brush the stresses of everyday life aside. Wishing you a great 2010! I've noticed that ever since I had The Girl, time is flying by...and I'm not ready for it. :(ReplyDelete
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Oh, enjoy The Children's Book! I loved it and look forward to your review. Have a wonderful week, Molly.ReplyDelete
So nice to hear such contentment, such positive resolution to what could have been a trying year. Your holiday sounds wonderful, your new book equally so. Happy reading!ReplyDelete
It always amazes me when I come another fantastic book blogger and then find that all my other book blogging friends already knew about you and didn't let on. Thanks for stopping by my blog. I hope to put a post up of all the books I got for Christmas in the next couple of days. One of the books I got was The Children's Book, so I hope to be reading that soon. Your Christmas sounds wonderful, I know what you mean about dominoes being a hit, in our house it was a 50P squashy ball with Santa in and my girls are 10!ReplyDelete
I shall definitely be back and will check out your scrapbooking too.
I am glad you had such a nice Christmas, Molly. It definitely is a time to acknowledge that which we are lucky to have.ReplyDelete
Your Saturday sounds much like mine--except for the Christmas tree part (since we didn't put one up this year). I spent a good part of the day reading and it was such a joy.
Have a great week, Molly!
I'm with you - when did time start passing so quickly? I'm glad to see you had such a pleasant holiday - ours was quiet and relaxing too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 27, 2009 at 6:05 PM
It's been zooming past me for the last decade. This time, I'm ready for 2010...lol. ;)ReplyDelete
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I'm glad to hear that you have had such a nice holiday this year! You know it hadn't occurred to me that we are starting a new decade.ReplyDelete
I still need to put together my best of 2009 list too. It's so much fun to see everyone's "best of" lists. :)
I didn't realize that this would be the final TSS for 2009! Time has passed quickly in many ways. It sounds like you have reflected upon the blessings in your life with a positive spirit! I like the idea of creating a scrapbook for each child. My goal for 2010 is to start scrapbooking and keep it simple but creative if I can. Enjoy the rest of your holiday break.ReplyDelete
I love the quote from The Children's Book and how you related it to scrapbooking. It made me wonder what my books might look like.ReplyDelete
And isn't it always the simplest (and cheapest) things that are the hits of Christmas? : )
I'm working on my "best of" post for the year too ... and finalizing my last challenge post. It is fun to think of another year of reading stretching before us ... especially since I've been holding off on some books until 2010 ... I can hardly wait to get started!
And I meant to tell you I'm happy that you are so thankful for the blessings in your life ... it is always good to remember that good things in life.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 28, 2009 at 9:28 AM
I can picture, with envy :), you reading before the lit Christmas tree. We did not put a big one up this year, due to two newly acquired kitties who love to play, but I have vicarious enjoyment from those who did. I think relaxing after all the preparation is one of the best parts of Christmas.ReplyDelete
I had a copy of The Children's Book, but I gave it away to a friend of mine who had surgery on her knee December 7. She first introduced me to Byatt, with Possession, and now I'm hoping she'll lend it to me when she's done. Happy Reading!
I am glad that we connected via our blogs and look forward to reading more about your reading in the new year. I am glad to hear that you had a wonderful holiday with your family and even adopted our Boxing Day tradition!!
I would love to know more about The Children's Book. Who is the author?
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I know, it seems weird, right?
Email is supposed to be dead. These days it's all about social networking, mobile marketing, and the latest and greatest hot new platform.
But here's the thing. If you want to get your readers to take action (whether that's buying a product or service, thinking in a new way, or changing a behavior), email is still the proven best way to make that happen.
In test after test, email comes out on top for influencing reader behavior. Ahead of social media, ahead of blogs.


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The hostage standoff in Midland City, Ala., ended with a shootout between kidnapper Jimmy Lee Dykes and law enforcement and the rescue of the 5-year-old boy he abducted from a school bus after shooting its driver to death. Dykes, a 65-year-old Vietnam veteran, was killed in the confrontation. Below is a timeline of the events leading up to the conclusion of the standoff.
Jan. 29
- A school bus making its rounds through rural Midland City, Ala., at the end of the school day is boarded by Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old retired truck driver who was considered a menace by many in his community and was due in court on charges of threatening his neighbors.
- Dykes demands to be given two boys, ages 6 and 8, from the crowded bus of 21 children. As he makes his way up the aisle, driver Charles Poland, 66, tries to block Dykes, who shoots him to death.
- Dykes grabs a 5-year-old boy, identified by law enforcement officials only as Ethan, from the bus and takes him to an 6×8-foot underground bunker, stocked with supplies, that he has apparently been preparing for weeks.
Jan. 30
- Helicopters and police cars swarm the area around the bunker, which is buried several feet underground on Dykes' 100-acre property. He had been living for two years in a trailer purchased from FEMA that had been previously used for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
- Dykes remains holed up with the boy underground, communicating only through a pipe leading to the surface. Negotiators do not believe that he will harm the boy, but acknowledge that Dykes has presented no list of demands and that there appears to be no motive behind what has transpired.
- Dykes agrees with authorities to have them lower down medicine for the boy, who has Asperger's Syndrome, along with toys and coloring books. Meanwhile Dykes passes the time by watching television in the bunker.
Feb. 2
- A round-the-clock vigil is started for Ethan in hopes that he is returned to his parents unharmed. A nearby church is converted into a staging center for authorities.
- Meanwhile, visitations begin for bus driver Charles Poland, who is being hailed as a hero for giving his life to protect the children on the school bus. "He considered them his children," Poland's son Aaron told NBC, choking back tears. "And I know that's the reason why my dad took those shots, for his children, just like he would do for me and my sister."
Feb. 3
- New details begin to emerge about Dykes. Neighbors describe him as an abrasive person who threatened to shoot anyone who came on his land. He is said to have once beaten a dog to death with a lead pipe for coming onto his property. He was thought to have anti-government views. Midland City councilmember Mel Adams said he has known Dykes since they were children. He says he has a family, but is estranged from them.
- Records show Dykes served in the U.S. Navy from 1964 to 1969 and was in Vietnam. He worked in Florida as a truck driver for a length of time after his military stint, but how long is unclear. In 1995, he was charged with improper exhibition of a weapon, although that charge was dismissed. In 2000, he was arrested for marijuana possession. He returned to Alabama in 2011.
- Charles Poland is laid to rest. At the service, letters from the children on his bus route are read aloud as well as a state resolution honoring him from State Sen. Harri Anne Smith of Slocomb, Ala.
Feb. 4
- Negotiations begin to break down between authorities and Dykes. Police begin to worry that he may become violent toward the boy, leading them to plan a tactical assault on the bunker.
- About 3 p.m., a series of gunshots are heard coming from the bunker, followed by a loud explosion, neighbors say, as FBI agents storm the bunker. Dykes is killed. Ethan is rescued unharmed and taken to a nearby hospital.
- Bomb technicians enter the bunker and find a series of explosive devices, which they detonate. There are no other injuries or deaths.
Feb. 5
- Ethan is released from the hospital, said to be laughing and playing with his toys, and returned to his family. After examining the child, doctors determined that he was not physically hurt during his ordeal.
Feb. 6
- Ethan celebrates his sixth birthday, unharmed.


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Bowie, Samir, and other Faith House participants
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Read About the Interfaith Events In the News!
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2011 Interfaith Guests
|Our interfaith panel at the festival!
Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim Chaplain at Duke University and Adjunct Faculty of Islamic Studies; Rabbi Or N. Rose, Associate Dean and Director of Interfaith and Social Justice programs at Hebrew College; and Paul Knitter, Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions and Culture at Union Theological Seminary
2011 Interfaith Events
- "What Does God Whisper to Christians: Models of Living Passionately in a Pluralist World" With Paul Knitter and Samir Selmanovic
- "Kabbalah Beyond the Headlines" Rabbi Or N. Rose
- "A Conversation with Islam" With Abudullah Antepli
- "Walking More Than One Path: Is Religious Multiple Belonging Possible?" With Paul Knitter
- "Going Deeper Through Inclusion: Perspectives on Religious Pluralism" With Imam Abdullah Antepli, Rabbi Or Rose, and Paul Knitter. Moderated by Bowie Snodgrass.


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[The original in Malay appeared in suaris.wordpress.com on January 25, 2013).
Suaris: In a recent interview with Astro Awani, Dr. Mahathir said that Malays would be left behind unless given continued help. He referred to such help as crutches. Do you agree that we continue to need crutches? If so, for how long?
Dr. M. Bakri Musa: If we Malays still remain backward and marginalized after over 55 years of "help" from the UMNO government, then we ought to examine critically the nature of that help.
As parents we readily acknowledge the importance of how we guide and help our children. Be too indulgent and protective, we lose hope of their ever able to shine on their own. Be too strict and controlling, they will never acquire self-confidence; likewise if we constantly criticize and highlight their weaknesses.
In modern medicine, we rarely give crutches to patients following hip surgery. Instead we give them to physiotherapy so they could be self-ambulatory as quickly as possible. I encourage, in fact insist that my surgical patients be up and about the very next day. It is dangerous to keep them in bed; the most serious complication being potentially lethal blood clots.
An insight of modern science is that if we do not exercise our body, it would atrophy. This applies to bone, muscle, or even brain. If I were to tie down a healthy young man in bed and "help" him with his feeding and bathing such that he does not have to move a muscle, after a week he would be need a crutch as he would be unable to stand up on his own. That is the price for excessive and inappropriate "help."
As a former physician, Mahathir should know that if a patient does not respond with your prescription, there is no point continuing it. Stop or change it; perhaps your patient requires penicillin, not Panadol.
Even the right medicine if not given at the proper dose would be ineffective. Yes, Panadol reduces fever, but give only a quarter of the dose and there will be no effect, leading you to blame the medicine. Giving too much also carries its own hazards. Every year many children in America are fatally poisoned because of excessive dose of Tylenol, one more appropriate for adults.
If with the right medicine at the right dose and administered correctly but your patient still does not respond, then reexamine your diagnosis. Patients with appendicitis require surgery, not penicillin.
If readers are uncomfortable with my clinical metaphor, let me use a more familiar one. If you are not diligent in weeding out lalang in your garden, pretty soon you would be inundated by it, choking off useful plants. What more if you were to generously add fertilizer to the weed!
The Malay garden is now full of lalang. We need Roundup pesticide to kill off those tenacious weeds so useful plants would then have a chance. However, what is UMNO's current strategy? Yes, add fertilizer to the lalang! Its rationale? They are lalang, but Malay lalang, so we must be help!
The "help" that UMNO types like Mahathir are championing is precisely this. Then we wonder why the Malay kebun is full of lalang. Isa Samad is one thriving lalang in the FELDA plantation; he was earlier found guilty of "money politics." Khir Toyo,now luxuriating in his fantasy palace courtesy of taxpayers while waiting jail time for corruption, is another. The private sector too is infested. Lalang Tajuddin Ramli nearly destroyed MAS estate. Utusan and The New Straits Times are crippled with literary lalang; no wonder their readership continues to decline. The Malay lalang has already snuffed out Bank Bumiputra.
We are finally no longer impressed with the greenness and lushness of lalang, even if it were Malay lalang. Our leaders however, still try to impress upon us that those lalang are alfalfa. The tragic part is that they now believe their own deceit.
Leaders like Mahathir should be diligently searching for effective ways to help us and not be content with criticizing and dredging up old stereotypes or our alleged weaknesses. Give someone a fish, and we feed him only for a day; teach him how to fish and he feeds himself forever, goes an ancient wisdom. Extend that help a bit as with giving him a loan to buy a sampan, and he will fish the open ocean. Then he can feed the whole village and more, plus repay the loan!
Doling out generous quotas for university admissions, lucrative contracts, and import licenses, or forcing others to take on Malays (usually UMNO politicians) as directors for their companies is not help. Those are but acts of fertilizing weeds, membajakan lalang. We end up with only usahan menenggek (carpetbagger capitalists)!
The most consequential and enduring help would be to liberate the Malay mind, to teach them how to think freely. If our slogan in the 1950s was Merdeka Tanah Melayu (Freedom for the Malay Land), now it should be Merdeka Minda Melayu! (Freedom for the Malay Mind!)
That is the theme of my latest book, Liberating The Malay Mind. The concept of a free mind is best illustrated by this story of Mullah Nasaruddin, known for his use of self-deprecating humor and simple everyday examples in his teaching.
He had a neighbor who was in the habit of borrowing items and never returning them. One day he came over to borrow the Mullah's donkey. Anticipating this, the Mullah had earlier wisely locked his animal in the barn and out of sight. When the neighbor came over, the Mullah confidently asserted, "My donkey had been borrowed yesterday!"
Disappointed, the neighbor was about to return home when the animal brayed. "I thought you said your donkey had been borrowed!" he said.
Whereupon the Mullah resolutely replied, "Do you believe the braying of the donkey over the words of the mullah?"
Someone with a free mind would believe the braying donkey. Those whose minds are trapped by customs and traditions would of course continue believing the wise and pious Mullah even when the donkey is braying straight on their faces. We must teach Malays that when they hear the donkey braying, they should believe their own ears and not be lulled by the Mullah's soothing words.
I put forth four strategies to liberate the Malay mind: freer access to information and differing viewpoints, meaning, freer mass media; liberal education with a strong foundation in science and mathematics; and encourage trade and commerce among our people. When we engage in trade, we would consider others not as pendatang (immigrants) but as potential customers, meaning, a source of profit.
Fourth, we have to examine how we teach religion to our young and how we practice our faith as individuals as well as a society. Islam emancipated the Bedouins from their Age of Ignorance and brought light to them. Islam should do likewise for us – liberate our minds.
If our minds are trapped, then the billions worth of help would be meaningless. Those are but narcotics for our self gratification and to indulge our fantasies. Those are but membajakan lalang.
As a nation we have achieved much through independence. If we were to liberate Malay minds, there would be no limit to our achievements. Even more beautiful, a liberated mind can never ever be imprisoned again. Liberated minds need not worry about globalization and neo-colonization, or be threatened when our young learn English. Liberated minds would not feel imperiled when God's other children use "Allah" to refer to their deity. It is after all the same God. Once Malay minds are liberated, we would no longer be, to borrow the terminology of the Algerian philosopher Malek Bennabi, "colonizable."
Help liberate the Malay mind! That would be the most consequential help!
Back to Mahathir's beloved crutches, how can he ever hope the simple villagers to give up on theirs when the biggest golden crutches are reserved for the sultans and ministers? Mahathir gets angry when Pak Mat diverted his few hundred dollars of MARA loan meant to improve his stall towards buying his children's books but are conspicuously silent when spouses of ministers divert precious public funds to buy their private luxurious condos.
Malays do not need crutches. The one help we desperately need is to liberate our minds. Reverting to my farm metaphor, if you want to help Malays, then uproot and rid the lalang in our midst so our beans, brinjals and cucumbers would have a chance. If you do not feel like doing that, then please do not fertilize the weeds!
To be continued, Suaris Interview: The Future of Malays Part 3: In many of your writings, you advocate changes and ideas that are evolutionary and incremental in nature to effect changing mindsets. Don't you think that a more aggressive "shock therapy" and revolutionary approach would have greater impact and lead to a quantum leap in improvement, as with Japan and South Korea today?


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