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Learning About Islam: 15 Books to Get You Started
August 1 began the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims, a time of reflection on patience, spirituality and humility. This year, Ramadan falls during a time of intense upheaval, uncertainty and ignorance on the Islamic world. Yet if the three have spurred anything in the literary world, it would be the ever-growing wealth of Muslim writers and scholars publishing on their experiences, their analysis, and their projections for both Islam as a religion, and the Islamic world as a geographical region. If you're looking for a new book for your summer reading list, check out this list of 15 books on Islam as religion, as politics, as culture and as the uniting tie between millions of people worldwide:
1. Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak, edited by Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur
An anthology of essays and poems on growing up female and Muslim, edited by Muslim activist Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur, also the former chief executive of the Muslim women's magazine Azizah. Though the stories are diverse in how they look at topics such as faith, love, religion, marriage, homosexuality, abuse and expectations from American culture, what strings them together is the acknowledgement and exploration of the American Muslim woman as an identity that is never fixed, but always fluid, evolving, adaptable to changes that not only occur in faith, but in self-identification as well.
2. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate, by Leila Ahmed
Written from an unapologetic feminist perspective, Leila Ahmed, director of the Women's Studies program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, provides a historical survey of the historical roots that have led to contemporary Islamic conversations on women and gender, with particular attention to women's roles in shaping Middle Eastern history. With theological and literary resources, she effectively debunks many of the dominating Western misconceptions of female subjugation in the Islamic world, attributing the stereotypes to colonialism and its use of pseudo-feminism to eschew and dominate non-Western cultures.
3. The Muslim Next-Door: The Qur'an, the Media, and That Veil Thing, by Sumbul Ali-Karamali
As the 2009 Bronze Medal Winner of the Independent Publisher's Award, this book, written by Muslim-American author Sumbil Ali Karamali, offers clear explanations of the religion and population that has dominated mainstream news and daily conversations since 9/11. Starting with the basics of Islam and its practice, Ali-Karamali doesn't shy away from the complicated issues of jihad, fundamentalism and female status in Islam. "I live inside my religion because it is sensible, simple, and it teaches good things like forgiveness, generosity, tolerance and compassion," Ali-Karamali wrote in the book's final paragraph. "I live in America because I believe it can be a nation of many faiths. As people of all religions have urged, it is time for genuine understanding and dialogue, not media hysteria and anti-Islamic racism. If we can separate the daily distortions from the reality, perhaps we can break out of that medieval framework of domination and hostility. Instead of working towards a 'clash of civilizations,' perhaps we can avoid a 'clash of ignorances.'"
4. No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, by Reza Aslan
A history of Islam, by comparative religions scholar Reza Aslan, from the Middle East's pre-Islamic climate, to the life and death of Prophet Mohammad, through its reformation of the four caliphates and then European colonization, and to today, where he argues Islam's compatibility with democracy and the religion's brink of another reformation.
5. Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East, edited by Reza Aslan
With the goal of shifting American views of the Middle East away "from the ubiquitous images of terrorists and fanatics," this anthology, edited by Aslan, covers literature from the past 100 years of the Islamic world, much of which is translated here for the first time in English, representing writers as far west as Turkey and Morocco, and as far east as Pakistan. Among other things, this book provides both a moderate voice and living documentation of the cultural pluralism that has dominated and continues to push the Middle East towards the reformation that Aslan convincingly argues is on its way.
6. Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West, by Benazir Bhutto
This manuscript, completed just days before the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, stretched beyond her own political narrative to look at historic and contemporary Islam's interactions with the West. Her thesis looks at "two critical tensions… [which] must be reconciled to prevent the clash of civilizations:" Islam's own internal tensions, and its relations with the non-Islamic world. By looking at jihad, women's equality, and the differences between Islam's Shia and Sunni sects, Bhutto argues that "democracy and Islam are not only compatible but mutually sustaining."
7. I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim, edited by Maria M. Ebrahimji and Zahra T. Suratwala
Rarely in the rhetoric of Muslims in America do we hear the voices of Muslim women in America, yet so much of the debate centers around them, looking to them and their role in Islamic society as misinterpreted symbols of female oppression and subjugation. Of the over one billion Muslim women in the world, an estimated six million live in the United States. In this new anthology, edited by Maria M. Ebrahimji from CNN and Zahra T. Suratwala from Zahra Ink, stories of being Muslim, American and female are interwoven around the themes of limitlessness and individuality. "While their commonality is faith and citizenship," each woman's story shows variance in experiences, messages, voices, even identities. "Muslim women are often portrayed and depicted as silent slaves, unable to speak for themselves, and at the mercy of a male custodianship," Kurdish-Muslim feminist Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar noted in a recent review. "This book debunks that myth… It truly represents the Muslim community as it is– diverse and full of intelligent women, not afraid to speak their mind."
8. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
This sophomore fiction by writer Mohsin Hamid looks at the life of Changez, a Pakistani national fresh out of Princeton when 9/11 happens. Despite the title's connotation, never once in the book is religion mentioned, which leaves the reader to wonder what type of fundamentalist Changez is. Throughout the narrative, he fights both a moral battle and an internal political battle, in how both he and America react to the news of 9/11. In both his depiction of America's backwards-thinking of the events and his lack of compassion for trying to understand it all, we see in both him and America the dangers that come from the inability to accept change.
9. War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslim, by Melody Moezzi
In this collection of 12 interviews with other Muslim Americans, Melody Moezzi, a Muslim lawyer of Iranian descent, presents a series of short biographical vignettes, from non-religious "cultural" Muslims to converts in hijabs, looking at the varying experiences and identity questions that characterize many Muslim Americans' experiences today. Though the details of the stories vary, like Living Islam Out Loud, the unifying theme is that Muslim Americans are no different in their quest for place and identity than any other population of Americans, and through that shared journey, these stories show how more alike Americans of all faiths are, as opposed to different.
10. The Soul of Iran: A Nation's Journey to Freedom, by Afshin Molavi
A far cry from the simplistic depictions of Iran that plague mainstream American media, here Afshin Molavi weaves history, politics, culture and personal narratives to show another, much less represented side of Iran, one that has fallen astray from the 1979 revolution that put Islamist rule on the international radar. Throughout the book, stereotypes are debunked, generalizations are examined, and through it all, a new picture of Iran forms, one that shows its people more frustrated with their own government than they are with America and the West.
11. The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran, by Roy Mottahedeh
First published in 1985 by Harvard professor Roy Mottahedeh, this intellectual history in the form of a biography of a cleric in Iran has become an often sought-after resource on the internal tensions between religion and politics in post-revolutionary Iran. By looking at the socio-economic conditions and Shia coalition that led to the revolution of 1979, Mottahedeh provides a comprehensive picture of Shia philosophy and its impact on both the ancient and contemporary histories that have shaped the discourse for Iran today.
12. What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West, by Feisal Abdul Rauf
Feisal Abdul Rauf, an American Sufi Imam who has conducted missions for the State Department and is more recently known for heading up the Cordoba Center in lower Manhattan, not only uses this book to answer some of the hardest questions today about Islam, but to also offer a treatise between Islam and the West. "If people want to blow people like him up," Fareed Zakaria stated in defense of Rauf and the Cordoba Center, "this should give us some idea of his standing in the world of Islam." Instead of focusing on the faults behind the practices of militant Muslims and placing blame on either side of the Islam-West disconnect, Rauf is more concerned with finding solutions that lead towards improved relations, open dialogue and "a vision for a Muslim world that can eventually embrace its own distinctive forms of democracy and capitalism, aspiring to a new Cordoba- a time when Jews, Muslims, Christians, and all other faith traditions will live together in peace and prosperity."
13. Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism, edited by Omid Safi
In this series of essays edited by Colgate University professor Omid Safi, misunderstandings of Islam by both Westerners and militant Islamists are challenged by re-aligning Islam with progressive Muslims, social justice, human rights, democracy and gender equality, drawing inspiration by Western heroes such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi.
14. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World, by Edward W. Said
Best known for his seminal work Orientalism and his critiques of Western colonialism's effect on contemporary views of the Islamic world, late Columbia University comparative literature professor Edward W. Said turns his lens onto American media and how it impacts mainstream views of Islam and Muslims. Academic studies of the Islamic world are influenced by the culture that produces them, Said believed, and by tracing the roots of many of the misunderstandings that dominate post-9/11 discourse of the Islamic world, Said demonstrated where journalists, who often have minimal knowledge of the languages and cultures of the countries they report on, rely on these skewed studies of the Muslim world, thus allowing them to color what should otherwise be objective coverage. What we see in portrayals of the Middle East is very often shallow, even incorrect, which lead Said to argue for the need of unbiased historical knowledge, as well as a "prescription for cultural self-awareness (New York Times Book Review)" of the objectives one has when acquiring expertise on Islam and Muslims.
15. Power, Politics, and Culture, by Edward W. Said
In 2000, Said provocatively called himself "the last Jewish intellectual… the only true follower of Adorno. Let me put it this way: I am a Jewish-Palestinian." In this collection of interviews conducted before his death, Said, who advocated for the Palestinian cause but called Yasir Arafat "unreformable," holds very little back in his critique and analysis of both literature and culture. Spanning 25 years, the interviews are divided into two themes: 1. literary criticism and cultural theory; and 2. practical applications of his political ideals, particularly in the Middle East. Sprinkled throughout are Said's discussions of Saddam Hussein, nationalism, Salman Rushdie's underground existence, Glenn Gould and classical music, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and peace process, the Gulf War, censorship, American intellectuals and Middle East studies, and imperialism.
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Astros notes: Rookie Norris likely to skip next start
Relievers Brocail, Wright to come off DL, join bullpen
Published 5:00 am, Monday, August 31, 2009
Norris gets a rest
Considering Bud Norris has surpassed his previous career high for innings in a season, the righthanded rookie likely will be skipped for a turn in the rotation.
Norris (3-3) gave up five hits and six runs with four walks, three strikeouts and one wild pitch over five innings Saturday in a 9-0 loss to the Diamondbacks. Loser of three in a row, Norris has given up 17 runs over 112⁄3 innings through his past three starts and 22 runs (21 earned) over 161⁄3 innings through his last four starts.
Manager Cecil Cooper and pitching coach Dewey Robinson are aware Norris threw only 80 innings last season at Class AA Corpus Christi and a career-high 1022⁄3 in 2007.
"Thinking about it and talking to Dewey a little bit, and we're going to talk about it some more, he could get skipped this time too," Cooper said.
Monitoring the pitchers
Dewey Robinson was the organization's pitching coordinator before becoming Astros pitching coach, so he has long kept track of the pitchers' workload. He has paid particular attention to rookie Bud Norris and Felipe Paulino, who essentially missed all of 2008.
"Me being the coordinator for years, I always looked at the workload of pitchers from year to year," Robinson said. "You try to be very conscious of that and make sure they're healthy and you're not putting them at any risk. (Norris) and Paulino, those are two of our top young arms. You want to make sure you keep them healthy.
"I believe (Norris) approximately had 80 (pitches). I think the year before was (103). At least last year he pitched in the Arizona Fall League. That was good because that extended his season until October. That being said, at least his season last year was an extension like it is in the major leagues."
Paulino recovers
A day after he was hit in the back of the right knee by Stephen Drew's shot up the middle, Felipe Paulino said the bruise won't keep him from his Wednesday start.
"It's fine," he said. "What's important is that I don't have any discomfort. I'll just prepare the same as usual. I'll try to do my job and throw strikes."
Reinforcements arrive
Righthander Doug Brocail (shoulder) and lefthander Wesley Wright (shoulder) will join the Astros in Chicago today and be activated from the disabled list Tuesday when rosters can expand.
"It will be good to have some arms," manager Cecil Cooper said. "These are guys that have been there. It's not like we're bringing guys we have to check out."
Sadler's situation
Other than the players coming off rehab assignments like Doug Brocail, Wesley Wright and Aaron Boone, righthanded reliever Billy Sadler is the only player the Astros have acknowledged will get a call up after rosters expand. But Sadler likely won't join the team until Class AAA Round Rock's season is over.
"A pre-condition of (Sadler) signing with us was that if he was healthy that we would bring him up in September," general manager Ed Wade said. "He's healthy. Unless something changes between now and what probably will be the end of the minor league season we'll bring him up."
Bourn's streak
With a leadoff walk in the first inning Sunday, Michael Bourn extended his streak to 23 games reaching safely via hit or walk. That streak ties his career high.
Coming up
RHP Roy Oswalt (7-5, 3.86 ERA) will start against RHP Rich Harden (8-7, 3.99 ERA) tonight in Chicago.

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U.S. Official Deplores Crisis in Zimbabwe
Tony Hall, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN World Food Program, told VOA that Zimbabwean people are suffering because of the food crisis there, but that "a lot of the suffering is caused by the government themselves."
He said a number of factors, including Zimbabwe's 380 percent inflation rate, HIV/AIDS epidemic, 80 percent inflation rate, failed harvest, and harsh political crackdown by the government, all make it "very, very difficult for the people, their own people, to eat."
He said Zimbabwean government officials "weren't very cooperative" during his visits to camps that had been affected by "Operation Restore Order," the government's initiative to rid the capital of urban slums and illegal vendors, and even blocked his attempt to visit one camp where homes had been destroyed. The United Nations has estimated that 700,000 people have been left homeless and jobless due to "Operation Restore Order." The U.S. recently donated nearly 74,000 metric tons of food to Zimbabwe and five other countries in southern Africa facing drought.
Excerpts of Hall's interview were aired worldwide during VOA's News Now broadcasts and repeated during today's Daybreak Africa show, VOA's half-hour weekday breakfast show for listeners in Africa.
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The Department of Archaeology is based at Moesgaard, an eighteenth-century manor house located just south of Aarhus. There is a library, computers, a common room, lounges, a cafeteria, and of course the Moesgaard Museum of archaeology and ethnography, MOMU, and its beautiful surroundings.
The main association for students within the department is Hikuin. Hikuin is there to ensure your well-being as a graduate student in the programme. It organises academic discussions about your studies and contacts with the business community, not to mention the legendary Friday bars and a range of social initiatives. There are also many other events for students within the Faculty of Arts and Aarhus University in general, including lectures, intro days, career days, seminars, celebrations, and sports days.
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With six states being encompassed by New England, the New England Library Association has a lot of ground to cover. As with events in any region, sometimes it's best to be centrally located in order to get attendance from everywhere, but it's also always best not to ignore anyone. Massachusetts is the state that always garners the most attendance, so the 2014 show should see a spike in the number of people on the show floor. Nonetheless, NELA always presents a great and varied opportunity for publishers and self published authors.
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Keep your promise. Keep her interest.
Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.
~ Anthony Hitt
In other words, if you can't make a promise then just don't make it at all. Often guys think that in order to keep a woman happy they have to promise her "the world". But in actual fact, you are more likely to make a woman happy by the promises that you deliver on.
For any of the women reading this post (I know you are out there) what would you prefer? A man who sets the expectation that he will not call you for two weeks and then doesn't. Or a man that promises to call you for two weeks but doesn't. Which one would bother you the most?
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Jul 27, Night Prayer for Friday of the 16th week of Ordinary Time
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Liturgy of the Hours:
Vol I, Page 1185
Vol II, Page 1642
Vol III, Page 1285
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Christian Prayer:
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General instruction:
Please pray with us actively, especially by joining with us in saying antiphons and responses, most of which are indicated in this highlight.
Consider an examination of your own conscience before beginning to best make use of our time together in prayer.
Night Prayer for Friday
God, come to my assistance.
Lord, make haste to help me.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.
Examination of conscience:
We are called to have a clear conscience toward God and toward men, in our hearts and in our minds, in our actions and inactions. To do so, it is vital that we examine our conscience daily and to ask for Gods mercy as we fall short and to ask for His strength to do better.
I confess to almighty God,
and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have greatly sinned,
in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done and in what I have failed to do,
And, striking your breast, say:
through my own fault, through my fault,
through my most grievous fault;
Then continue:
therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-virgin,
all the Angels and Saints,
and you, my brothers and sisters,
to pray for me to the Lord our God.
With a priest present, this absolution will be given:
May almighty God have mercy on us,
forgive us our sins,
and bring us to everlasting life.
The people reply: Amen
Peace be to you and grace from Him
Who freed us from our sin
Who loved us all, and shed his blood
That we might saved be.
Sing holy, holy to our Lord
The Lord almighty God
Who was and is, and is to come
Sing holy, holy Lord.
Rejoice in heaven,
all ye that dwell therein
Rejoice on earth, ye saints below
For Christ is coming,
Is coming soon
For Christ is coming soon.
Een so Lord Jesus quickly come
And night shall be no more
They need no light, no lamp, nor sun
For Christ will be their All!
Een So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come by Choir of The Cathedral of the Madeleine & The Madeleine Choir School
Ant. 1 Day and night I cry to you, my God.
Psalm 88
Prayer of a sick person
This is your hour when darkness reigns (Luke 22:53).
Lord my God, I call for help by day;
I cry at night before you.
Let my prayer come into your presence.
O turn your ear to my cry.
For my soul is filled with evils;
my life is on the brink of the grave.
I am reckoned as one in the tomb;
I have reached the end of my strength,
Like one alone among the dead,
like the slain lying in their graves,
like those you remember no more,
cut off, as they are, from your hand.
You have laid me in the depths of the tomb,
in places that are dark, in the depths.
Your anger weighs down upon me;
I am drowned beneath your waves.
You have taken away my friends
and made me hateful in their sight.
Imprisoned, I cannot escape;
my eyes are sunken with grief.
I call to you, Lord, all the day long;
to you I stretch out my hands.
Will you work your wonders for the dead?
Will the shades stand and praise you?
Will your love be told in the grave
or your faithfulness among the dead?
Will your wonders be known in the dark
or your justice in the land of oblivion?
As for me, Lord, I call to you for help;
in the morning my prayer comes before you.
Lord, why do you reject me?
Why do you hide your face?
Wretched, close to death from my youth,
I have borne your trials; I am numb.
Your fury has swept down upon me;
your terrors have utterly destroyed me.
They surround me all the day like a flood,
they assail me all together.
Friend and neighbor you have taken away:
my one companion is darkness.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and will be for ever. Amen.
Ant. Day and night I cry to you, my God.
READING Jeremiah 14:9a
You are in our midst, O Lord,
your name we bear:
do not forsake us, O Lord, our God!
Into your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit.
Into your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit.
You have redeemed us, Lord God of truth.
I commend my spirit.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
Into your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit.
Gospel Canticle
Ant. Protect us, Lord, as we stay awake; watch over us as we sleep, that awake, we may keep watch with Christ, and asleep, rest in his peace.
Luke 2:29-32
Christ is the light of the nations and the glory of Israel
Lord, now you let your servant go in peace;
your word has been fulfilled:
my own eyes have seen the salvation
which you have prepared in the sight of every people:
a light to reveal you to the nations
and the glory of your people Israel.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and will be for ever. Amen.
Ant. Protect us, Lord, as we stay awake; watch over us as we sleep, that awake, we may keep watch with Christ, and asleep, rest in his peace.
Concluding Prayer
All-powerful God
keep us united with your Son
in his death and burial
so that we may rise to new life with him,
who lives and reigns for ever and ever.
May the all-powerful Lord grant us a restful night and a peaceful death.
Antiphon or song in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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A hotel room is designed to host only broad strokes of humanity. Its functionality, from its purpose down to the objects it contains, rejects an occupant from leaving a lasting definition of the space. As we try to suppress images of previous guests in "our" room, we focus on settling in. This is usually an activity that allows us to forget where we are. Reading, television, a party. It can be effective and even enjoyable, a regrouping of the self lasting until checkout time.
But it's by no means a natural state. On their new single "Hotel," The Antlers find themselves in some comparable limbo. Though less experimental than the band's previous work within indie rock, it still moves with their trademark grace. Peter Silberman's soaring falsetto jumps from emptiness to emptiness, exposing wanderlust's lonesome underbelly. From sustained organ and piano chords grow an unlikely orchestra of horns, underwater guitars and twinkling synths, building up like stories without a book to contain them.


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Furniture and home décor retailer One Kings Lane is on track to double its sales this year, as it competes with web-only competitors in the home category like Gilt Home and brings in an increasing amount of its revenue from mobile devices, says CEO Doug Mack. "We're on target for $200 million in sales this year," he tells Internet Retailer. "We've already booked more revenue year to date than we did in 2011 entirely."
One Kings Lane, No. 173 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, brought in $100 million in online sales in 2011, up 300% from $25 million in 2010, Mack says. Mobile revenue represents approximately 22% of sales for One Kings Lane, and within the next few years, sales from mobile devices will overtake traditional e-commerce sales, he says. Tablet sales account for 60% of all mobile revenue, while smartphones represent 40%. Around 26% of traffic comes from mobile devices.
In gearing up for a major focus on mobile in the coming years, and flush with $40 million in new capital One Kings Lane secured in September, the retailer has hired a veteran in mobile technology, Jean Sini, to be its new chief product and technology officer. Sini most recently ran engineering at personal finance management service Mint.com, which Intuit acquired in November 2009. "Mint.com was one of the first major companies that embraced mobile," Mack says. "We think One Kings Lane will eventually be more mobile than web in terms of our sales. It's inevitable. We have the opportunity to truly be one of the major leaders in mobile commerce and we're going to take on the opportunity with Jean."
Sini has pre-approval to hire as many people as he wants, Mack adds. The retailer has around 300 employees and expects that to increase to 350 by the end of the year and to the mid-400s next year. In addition to plans to beef up mobile shopping, One Kings Lane is also working on using data to personalize the site to each shopper's taste; Mack offered no details about that effort.
In addition to Sini, One Kings Lane has hired three other key executives recently. Sascha Jamall is the new vice president of brand development. Previously Jamall was vice president of private brand and global sourcing at Michaels Arts and Crafts and has held sourcing positions at Eddie Bauer LLC (No. 98)and Pottery Barn, a unit of Williams-Sonoma Inc. (No. 24). Susan Stick, previously associate general counsel for video messaging service Skype, is the new vice president of legal. And John Anderson, formerly of Quidsi.com, the parent company of Soap.com and a unit of Amazon.com Inc. (No. 1), is the new chief human resources officer.
Founded in 2008, One Kings Lane has seen its particular part of the e-retail neighborhood become more crowded. In 2010 came the debut of Gilt Home, a home furnishings subsidiary of Gilt Groupe Inc., No. 49 in the Top 500 Guide. Last year came the launch of Fab.com, No. 449, another flash retailer of design-inspired home goods, apparel and accessories.
The new entrants don't intimidate Mack, who says the narrow focus of One Kings Lane on home furnishings and décor is an advantage when pitted against Gilt. Mack says Gilt's attention and resources are spread more thinly throughout a number of categories. Originally launched in 2007 as a fashion flash sale site, Gilt has since rolled out separate e-commerce sites for travel deals with Jetsetter.com, food and cookware with GiltTaste.com, local discounts with GiltCity.com and a full-priced men's apparel site, Park & Bond. Gilt did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Though Fab.com launched in mid-2011 and is already on track to bring in $100 million in sales this year according to its CEO Jason Goldberg, Mack does not see it as a direct competitor. He says Fab's target market is interested in a more urban, hipster style than One Kings Lane's demographic, which tends to favor more traditional merchandise, such as that sold by Crate and Barrel, No. 59 in the Top 500, or Restoration Hardware Inc., No. 105.


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Almond-Cranberry Rugelach
Nutty and crumbly, this tempting rugelach features an almond paste- and cream cheese-filled dough that's spread with a mix of toasted almonds, cranberries, brown sugar and cinnamon.
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Level: Easy
Serves: 36
- ½ of a 7-oz tube almond paste
- 1½ c. all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp. packed light-brown sugar
- ¼ tsp. salt
- ¾ stick unsalted butter
- 1 package cream cheese
- 1 c. toasted almonds
- 1 c. frozen or fresh cranberries
- .67 c. packed light-brown sugar
- ½ tsp. ground cinnamon
- Topping
- 1 large egg
- 2 tbsp. granulated sugar
- ¼ tsp. ground cinnamon
- Grate almond paste on large holes of a box grater into food processor bowl. Add flour, sugar and salt; process until almond paste is incorporated into flour. Add butter and cream cheese; pulse until moist crumbs form. Transfer mixture to work surface and press together and knead until a dough forms. Divide dough in thirds. On a lightly floured surface, shape each portion into a 1⁄2-in.-thick disk. Wrap separately in plastic wrap; refrigerate 1 hour.
- Heat oven to 350°F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper, nonstick foil or reusable nonstick liner.
- Combine ingredients in a medium bowl. On floured surface, roll 1 disk dough (keep rest refrigerated) into a 9-in. circle; trim to an even 8 1⁄2-in. circle. Spread 1⁄3 the filling (a scant 1⁄2 cup) over round; lightly press onto dough to adhere. With pizza wheel or knife, cut in 12 wedges. With spatula, slide 1 wedge out from round. Roll up from wide edge to point. Repeat with remaining wedges. Place point side down about 2 in. apart on prepared baking sheet.
- Brush rugelach with egg. Mix sugar and cinnamon in a cup; sprinkle over cookies.
- Bake 21 to 23 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool on rack on baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough.Planning
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A local teacher's new book takes a scientific look at such tabloid topics as Bigfoot and UFOs.
Thanks to Deerfield School teacher Tom Christie, elementary students are learning more about Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and UFOs.
It might sound like he's replaced Weekly Readers with the National Enquirer. But he's actually helping students investigate scientific enigmas through his latest book, "Mysteries of Science."
Good Apple, a division of Simon and Schuster, just published the activity book. Christie explained why he decided to focus on such bizarre topics as mermaids, the Bermuda Triangle and the mythical utopia of Atlantis.
"I wanted to get students to see that science is more than this little class that they take," Christie said. "I wanted to try to spark some interest in students to do some investigating."
Christie's book offers some possible explanations for mysteries like the legendary mermaid.
"A seal, for example, is inquisitive," Christie wrote. "When it hears strange sounds, such as a human voice, it may thrust its head above the surface (of the water) and look around. It could easily be mistaken for a human creature in dim light or a mist."
Christie then suggests some activities for students, such as designing an informational poster on sea animals that have been mistaken for mermaids.
His book also looks at the strange behavior of lemmings, alchemy, astrology and horoscopes, black holes, the Great Pyramids of Egypt and the Piltdown Man, the supposed "missing link" in the evolutionary chain.
Some mysteries surrounded "Mysteries of Science" itself, such as why the publishers decided to print the book now and not earlier.
Christie said five of the subjects he explores originally were five separate articles that he hoped could be printed in children's magazines. However, when he submitted them to the publisher in 1976, "they sent it back and said, 'We don't want this. It's not what we're looking for,'" Christie said.
When he dug the articles up again earlier this year, they asked Christie to develop the "Mysteries of Science" concept into a book.
The other mystery occurred when the publisher complained that preliminary copies of the book kept disappearing.
"As it turns out, people were picking up the book to read it and then taking it," Christie explained.
Good Apple already is prepared to publish Christie's "More Mysteries of Science," which will look at such things as dreams, holograms and memory. That book is due out in April.
Good Apple published another activity book by Christie, "Global Alert," in 1992. That book focuses on environmental issues.
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1. Colour the snowIt doesn't have to stay white, you know. If you've got one of those spray bottles or a medicine dropper, fill it up with a mixture of water and food colouring and then go out and paint the snow.
You can write letters, paint pretty patterns and even colour your snowman
2. Catch snowflakesGet a piece of black (or other very dark) card. Pop it in the freezer so that it's very cold and then take it outside to catch some snow.
Once you've caught some flakes, have a look at them through a magnifying glass - can you see how different they all are?
3. Ice cube scavenger huntMake some coloured ice cubes using food colouring and then go and hide them in the garden.
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You then just need to let the children loose and see how many they can find. Make sure you have some prizes if they hunt down all the cubes - we think ice cream is perfect!


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Morning everyone. England are nine good balls away from a Test win. But then how long will it take this England attack to produce nine good balls? West Indies need 433 more runs, which is about 25 more than any Test team has ever made in the fourth innings at Old Trafford. It's not going to happen. I've stretched my naivety an awful long way when it comes to supporting the Windies in recent months, but, even I won't comtemplate them coming out of today with anything other than a defeat.
God bless Michael Henderson, who has just been on TV describing Ian Bell's 'writings' in the Big Paper as "possibly the worst column that I've ever read". Thankfully, the same Big Paper (or at least it's Sunday companion) sees fit to print Mike Brearley. To see what he has to say about England's new ball bowlers, click here. Or you can weigh in with some other blow-hards over on Kevin Mitchell's defence of the way the Guardian handled the Michael Vaughan farrago this week.
There was a fascinating interview with Kevin Pietersen during the post-match yesterday. It was with Michael Atherton, who has the gift, unlike some his colleagues, of getting his interviewees to relax but also speak intelligently and honestly. Unlike, say, Nasser, who is currently listening to Peter Moores say that "actually I think Straussy is in really good form at the moment" (uh huh). Anyway, two things surprised me: KP knew his average at Old Trafford to two decimal points (14.94) and also came across as a confident, calm senior pro, full of genuine admiration for Cook and real concern for Harmison. It is kind of inevitable, especially with Flintoff missing, that this team is going to become increasingly built around KP. After two years in the team, he has nothing left to prove, and can settle down into a groove of great form. I think we'll see a very different man to the spiky, irritating, bolshy public figure we've known so far begin to emerge by the end of this summer.
Darren Sammy struck a very different note in his post-match chat. "I'd like to thank the boys for the support they gave me in the field" Ummm, really? Wasn't that one of the worst fielding displays you've ever seen in your life? (Vic Marks certainly thinks so). Don't be stupid, Michael Holding told him ("forget about the team Darren, today was all about you"). Anyway, another thing he said, repeating what's become something of a mantra for his side, was that "Chris Gayle is due a big score". I'm not so sure. Gayle is a touch player, and right now, he's lost it. I'd love to see him carve England apart today, because when he's going he's as entertaining as anybody since Michael Slater. But I don't think he'll be batting at lunch.
"There is an open can of sunshine and it's been sprinkled on Old Trafford" says Nasser. Pardon? Tinned sunshine?
9th over: West Indies 25-1 (Gayle 12 Smith 11) You know, I really hope that Chris Gayle goes beserk today, just to make all the English fans and commentators a little less smug and self-assurred. No doubt their team is bad, but it's not nearly so bad as they've been in this series. Gayle, on form, is as good a batsman as anyone in the England team bar KP. Anyway, Sideshow opens, and he's clearly been spending too much time in the England team beause his first ball floats down the leg side, and his second is in a similar place. Smith knocks it down to fine leg for a single. Gayle repeats the shot, off a no ball, and the score rolls on a couple more. It allows him to finish his over with a jaffa that leaves Smith groping outside off stump.
10th over: West Indies 25-1 (Gayle 12 Smith 11) Harmison opens with a bouncer. Richard Jones, who, because of the tone of his emails, I'm becoming more and more tempted to call Dickie, isn't happy with the state of this England team: "There are clearly two forms of spiritual malaise (I do not mean Relentless or whatever) abounding in the team. One is finding a driving keynote (ruthlessness or whatever monika one wishes to use) and the other is ego (Pietersen, Vaughan, Flintoff, Harmless) abusing the team. Cricket is now a personality sport and at the same time a sport requiring much more physical risk, dash and stamina then when I was a lad. England needs to start working out a strategy ( what is the academy for?) that assumes injury and has replacement for it and also fathers replacement for undue misplaced egotism. England at the moment is playing too many yesterday's men, has no plan to deal with injury or dropout (ä la Trescothick) and has an unbelievable ability to preserve players' places on little else than nostalgia. Finally England needs a manner, a watchword, a creed, a mien, an image that beams out sporting professionalism with a cutting edge to the rest of the cricketing world." While you chew on that - and I think Dickie may have over-stressed his case, are they really that bad? - I'll tell you that Harmison has just bowled his best over of the summer so far. Every ball lands on leg or middle and spears up, forcing the batsmen to roll onto the backfoot and try and ride the bounce. It's a maiden.
11th over: West Indies 25-1 (Gayle 12 Smith 11) West Indies need 430 to win. That was the case at the start of this over, and it's still the case at the end, as Sideshow completes another maiden over, and has Smith hopping, blocking, and leaving.
12th over: West Indies 29-1 (Gayle 16 Smith 11) "Rather than finding a 'mien' or a 'creed', isn't the solution to England's problems rather more prosaic? Like finding someone who can bowl straight?" suggests Richard Coopey. Well, this lad Harmison seems to have made a good start today - looks like they might have found someone here. And that is a gem of a ball: spitting up and smashing Gayle on the thumb of his lower hand. Gayle is agony, but tries not to show it. He wafts his hand around, and then strolls around the crease holding it behind his back and gritting his teeth. The physio is out, is his thumb broken? "Does this hurt?" the medic asks as he squeezes the digit that has just been thwacked by hard leather ball travelling at 90mph. A little spray, and Gayle slips his glove back on. This could go one of two ways - stoke up the fire in his belly, or put it out altogether. Harmison tries the yorker, Gayle blocks it. And there is the response, as Harmison drops short and Gayle leans back and blats a cut shot out extra-cover way for four.
13th over: West Indies 33-1 (Gayle 16 Smith 15) Smith plays a similar shot with a little less grace to speed Sidebottom's first ball away past point for his first four of the day. He has wild swing at the next though, finding nothing but air as the ball whizzes past his outside edge.
WICKET! Gayle 16 c Collingwood b Harmison (14th over: West Indies 35-2) West Indies need 422 runs to win. By the by, if you're at a loose end and somewhere in the vicinity, there are lots of tickets available at the ground today. A little bit of public service there. Harmison drifts a little, and watches the ball trickle away for a couple of leg byes. Billy Bowden turns down a caught behind appeal that resulted from a swing and a miss by Chris Gayle and he has gone next ball, roughed up and undone. Harmison switched his line to off stump, Gayle'e eyes widened a little and he went for the drive. The ball snicked off his edge and flew low and quick to Paul Collingwood in the slips, who dived down to his left to take a good catch. Morton is in, and all my hopes of Crystal Gayle laying England to waste have vanished. That'll have to wait till the dead rubber next week...
15th over: West Indies 39-2 (Smith 19 Morton 0) That was Harmison's 50th wicket against the West Indies, and his 500th in first class cricket. Devon Smith meanwhile has flicked a drive out to mid-wicket for another four.
16th over: West Indies 43-2 (Smith 19 Morton 4) Harmison (7-3-11-2 in this innings) is really bowling well here. He's bombarding Morton with bouncers, all remorselessly on line. Morton is under pressure, put upon, and he lashes out at the next ball, poking at it and spewing an edge over the slips and away for four to fine leg.
17th over: West Indies 45-2 (Smith 19 Morton 5) West Indies need 412 to win. "I am declaring here and now that I'll be failing the "Tebbit Test" when India thrash this lot." states Sunil - though I'm not quite sure of his reasons why, something to do with England's "gamesmanship". Smith steals a leg bye, and Morton nudges a single out to square leg.
18th over: West Indies 47-2 (Smith 19 Morton 5) Morton takes two off his pads to fine leg, and, as Vaughan sticks a fly slip in he decides to leave everything Harmison offers him outside off stump well alone.
19th over: West Indies 50-2 (Smith 20 Morton 6) I'll need to take a minute for some Woodward and Bernstein shenanigans (aka re-filling the coffee vending machine with water) breaking in the office right now - I'm the only journalist currently in GU Towers - apologies. A pair of singles from this over.
20th over: West Indies 50-2 (Smith 20 Morton 6) West Indies need 405 to win. Jonny Martin has a "serious question" which is: "do we think that Harmison is bowling better today as a result of Allan Donald's influence, or is that just too trite?" Well, you'd have to remember how well he bowled against Pakistan on this pitch last year, so he clearly likes it here, and he doesn't need to bowl too well on it to thrive because it does suit him, but yes, the rest I'd put down to AD and his 'commonsense-been-there-and-done-it' approach to coaching.
21st over: West Indies 55-2 (Smith 20 Morton 10) Monty comes on to a rapture of applause and cheers from the crowd. His first ball is promptly smashed back past his head and away for four through long-on by Morton. Morton is the first batsman I've ever seen who hits his big shots as though he were actually trying to kill any fielders who might try and cut it off before it crosses the ropes.
22nd over: West Indies 55-2 (Smith 20 Morton 10) West Indies need 400 to win. Harmison has Morton ducking again with a vicious bouncer. This spell may just turn around his summer you know, much like he attributes his best run of form to the two for 33 he took in the fifth Test against South Africa in 2003. As Harmison completes a maiden, Alexander Robertson suggests: "Allan Donald has always been class - and always seemed fairly intellegent when interviewed. Lets hope we can keep him, or will he get himself and England in a good position, learn his coaching trade and bugger off to SA? (like that ever so talented git Troy Cooley)."
23rd over: West Indies 58-2 (Smith 23 Morton 10) "Booooiiiii m'teyyyyyy" shouts Prior, sounding for all the world like Flavour Flav making a guest appearence on 'One man and his dog'. When Monty's next ball turns a yard out of the rough he opts for a more neanderthal "Aaaaaaaarrrghhhhhh???". Aleem Dar decides that ball was turning far too much to hit leg stump and shakes his head.
24th over: West Indies 62-2 (Smith 28 Morton 11) Harmison nails Smith on the ankle with a yorker that pitched a fraction outside leg stump, retaliation for a punched drive past mid-on that brought him two runs. The other pleasing thing about Harmison's bowling today is that he seems to happy to give up 5 mph of pace in return for a lot more control over his bowling. And as a learned pal of mine named George was pontificating last night, all great bowlers eventaully come to the conclusion that greater accuracy is more than worth that extra few yards of pace you get by bowling full-out. One of the only people I can think of who bucked that trend, curiously, was Donald himself. Smith steals a quick two runs.
25th over: West Indies 64-2 (Smith 29 Morton 12) A horrible ball for Smith to face, that turned a foot from the rough while barely getting more than six inches off the ground. It seems to be a day for old pals: having played plenty of crap cricket with this man Tom Moran, I know he can be relied upon to provide a high quality of chat, if not form with the bat: "Stat of the day? My girlfriend was playing charity dodgeball yesterday (If you can dodge a wrench..) and the organiser 'proved' that girls were worse than boys at throwing by citing an army statistic, namely that 75% of girls can't throw a grenade far enough to avoid being killed in the subsequent blast. On this basis, how many of the West Indies fielders are 'girls'?"
26th over: West Indies 65-2 (Smith 29 Morton 12) Plunkett comes on for his first bowl of the innings. Harmison trundles off the field for a rub down / comfort break, and is replaced with a sub, who, awww ain't it cute, just happens to be his younger brother Ben. He happens to be a very good batsman for Durham, one of the few players to score centuries in his first two first class innings. "It's a family affair" says Gower, and suddenly my head is filled with the disturbing image of seeing him on the dance floor of a cruise ship disco in a pink shirt wiggling his hips and singing along to Sly and the Family Stone.
27th over: West Indies 77-2 (Smith 37 Morton 12) Devon collars Monty with a pair of excellent drives out to the off. Monty has pushed the ball up towards the stumps, Smith strides out and pushes the first through extra cover, and leans back to drive the next past point. Brilliant batting. Monty finishes with a ball that turns and bounces to such a ludicrous degree that it beats bat, 'keeper and fielders and runs away for four byes like a windball caught in a strong on-shore breeze.
28th over: West Indies 85-2 (Smith 41 Morton 13) Plunkett succumbs to his first wide of the day. That, and a brace of leg byes, leave the West Indies needing 375 runs to win. Two balls later and that has ticked down a little more, as Morton takes a single and then Smith plays another sugar sweet cover drive from the sixth ball for another four.
29th over: West Indies 86-2 (Smith 41 Morton 13) Fragmented recollections of an aging Indian cricket fan include: "Maybe it's something to do with when I was at School and got ribbed about India's abject efforts in the 60's. I recall the bus to Old Trafford , only to see Chandra bowled out as we arrived.....however, Boycs was bowled 4th ball and I was the only one cheering....Showing up at Lord's on Monday, hoping to see India save the match, only to be told by the gate-keeper, it's over....Bowled out while I was on the train from Oxford.. !974, I think." Quality rambling there. Far more important to read about than he extremely optomistic bat-pad catch that England are busy appealing for.
30th over: West Indies 87-2 (Smith 41 Morton 15) Another limply hopeful appeal from Prior. Morton is happy to block the ball out in his fashion, and steals a quick single off the sixth.
31st over: West Indies 87-2 (Smith 41 Morton 15) Monty is around the wicket to the right hander, fizzing the ball back towards the slips from out of the rough. He finishes with an arm ball that comes within a whisker of bowling Morton as he shoulders his bat.
32nd over: West Indies 88-2 (Smith 42 Morton 15) Tom v d Gucht writes "The TMS commentry team are treating every Panesar ball with astonished "ooohh" sounds as it spits out of the rough. On a scale of quality, from Dalrymple to Murali, how good is Panesars bowling today?" I'd say he was rating Edmonds on a good day, which is a touch lower than Vettori at his best and a long way above Such. Plunkett bowls a dreary over, all the balls pitching well outside off stump apart from the last, which catches the edge and lands short of gully.
WICKET! Smith 42 c Cook b Panesar (33rd over: West Indies 88-3) Ahh, poor old Devon. He tries to kick Monty away out of the rough, but the ball flicks upwards and brushes his glove on its way through the air and over to short leg where Cook completes a simple catch. Monty moves up the scale from Edmonds on to Valentine and Shiv Chanderpaul is in. Another lovely innings from Smith comes to little more than time spent at the crease and a collection of beautiful cover drives then, rather than something that made a real impression on the match result.
34th over: West Indies 92-3 (Morton 19 Chanderpaul 0) Morton spanks four runs over Plunkett's head and past Monty at long-off. Tom v d Gucht tosses up a half volley: "Who do you think will win the LV championship this season?" Yorkshire. And adds another: "Do you think Yorkshire would be good enough to beat The Windies?" Truly, I think the harder question is whether any of the Counties wouldn't be capable of beating the West Indies - Gloucester, Leicester, and Glamorgan might struggle.
35th over: West Indies 95-3 (Morton 21 Chanderpaul 1) Monty continues, Shiv takes one past gully, Morton takes two with a sweep to long leg. I phoned this over in. Does it show?
36th over: West Indies 99-3 (Morton 21 Chanderpaul 5) West Indies need 360 to win. Chanderpaul speeds four runs through extra cover with a clipped drive as Plunkett drosses up a full toss. The next, in proper Plunkett fashion, is a peach. It swings back and hits Shiv in front, but earns nothing more than a shake of the head from Billy Bowden.
37th over: West Indies 99-3 (Morton 21 Chanderpaul 5) Althea Cribb puts the world to rights, and why not: "In response to Tom Moran in the 25th over and the stat that 'proved' girls can't throw (erm, if they're throwing grenades, doesn't that make them women? Can't imagine any under-18s are allowed in the army these days...) - unless he can state the equivalent stat for the men, then all this 'proves' is that some men will stoop to any level to justify their bigoted views." Put that in your pipe and eat in Moran. Anyway, that's taken us up to lunch, which means that I'll be back in half an hour or so. Cheerio.


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Makes about 8 to 9 wraps
Collard Wraps
- 1 bunch collard greens (about 8 leaves)
- 1 15-ounce can of chickpeas
- 1/2 cup walnuts
- 3-4 stalks of green onions, chopped (green parts only)
- 1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1/2 tablespoon furikake (seaweed rice seasoning)
- 1 cup shredded carrots
- 1 medium red bell pepper, sliced
- 1/2 English cucumber, sliced
- 1 medium avocado, sliced
Peanut Sauce
- 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1/2 tablespoon maple syrup (or honey), add more if necessary
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon lime juice
- 1/2 teaspoon rice vinegar
- Rinse the collard green leaves and pat dry. Chop off the stems of the collard greens. If you are working with leaves that have thick stems, turn the leave over and shave off part of the the thick stalks.
- Drain and rinse the chickpeas. Place the chickpeas in a food processor and blend with walnuts until everything is roughly chopped.
- Place the chickpea mixture in a medium sized bowl, and add in the green onions, soy sauce, sesame oil, and furikake. Stir the mixture until everything is well incorporated.
- Place equal amounts of the chickpea mixture on top of all the collard leaves. I like to spread it vertically on the leave to make the folding easier later. Add shredded carrots, red pepper, cucumber, and avocado along the chickpea mixture.
- Fold the left and right sides of a collard leaf toward the center line, and then fold the top of the leaf down toward the center to finish a wrap. Repeat this step for folding all the other wraps.
- In a small bowl, mix the peanut sauce ingredients together until well incorporated. I like to dip the wraps in the sauce, but you can also pour equal amounts of the dipping sauce in each wrap before folding them.
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Make your marriage the best it can be by learning the secrets of proactive passion.
Using the latest in brain research, This Is Your Brain in Love helps couples become Master Level Lovers by encouraging each mate to bring their healthiest, most balanced and joyful self to their marriage.
Dr. Henslin speaks to the vital connection between spirituality and sexuality. He identifies the five types of lovers, with ground-breaking insights and effective solutions for the challenges presented by each:
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Filled with relatable stories and humor, this is not your boring brain book! Engaging and practical, Dr. Henslin provides an amazingly accurate, scientifically-based brain test to help spot typical brain imbalances. (And yes, most everyone has at least one!)
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juliea3 Stars Out Of 5Some great advice, but take caution...January 23, 2011julieaQuality: 4Value: 3Meets Expectations: 3This review was written for This Is Your Brain in Love: New Breakthroughs for a More Passionate and Emotionally Healthy Marriage.Dr. Earl Henslin's This Is Your Brain in Love is billed to improve a troubled marriage, fuel the fires of passion, and keep a life-long love alive by teaching readers how to bring their best, most balanced and happy brain to their marriages. Based on the latest brain-imagine research and backed up by decades of experience as a therapist, Dr. Henslin shares solutions to the most common brain imbalances. (Apparently we all have at least one to some degree.)
Having a science background myself (working in a research lab in grad school), the premise of this book fascinated me; I couldn't wait to read it! Although I was anxious to dive right into the scientific realm, I was surprised to find Dr. Henslin's opening anecdotes on client experiences equally intriguing,and his style of writing very engaging.
Between my interest in science and Dr. Henslin's ability to draw readers into his personal stories, this book was poised to move to the top of my "favorites" list... Sadly, it won't.
Yes, I got picked up by the engaging opening stories, and swept along by some fascinating quizzes, but then I got dropped into a disappointing and bizarre mix of dietary tips, recommendations for mineral and herbal supplements, and somewhat uninspiring marriage advice.
I must admit, I did appreciate the dietary advice; I learned how to tweak my protein-carb ratio at different times of the day based on my brain-functioning (sluggish in the late morning, over-stimulated in the evening). I also really appreciated the Christian undertone of Dr. Henslin's writing.
It was the recommendations for supplements that were the major drawback to this book. Seemed more appropriate for a New Age-y pamphlet you might find in your neighborhood natural food store... you know, the kind where you wouldn't expect the author to understand all the varied health issues a given person might have, not to mention the interactions between supplements and medications. Yikes! In some instances, Dr. Henslin did note the hazard of a med/supp combo, but not consistently. In that way, I fear this book might be a danger to any reader who is desperate enough, or uneducated enough, to follow all advice without hesitation.
I was provided this book for free by Thomas Nelson Publisher for the purpose of my honest review.
melissaAge: 18-24Gender: female4 Stars Out Of 5January 16, 2011melissaAge: 18-24Gender: femaleQuality: 4Value: 5Meets Expectations: 3This review was written for This Is Your Brain in Love: New Breakthroughs for a More Passionate and Emotionally Healthy Marriage.Dr. Henslin is a licensed marriage and family therapist. After reading Dr. Earl Henslin's first novel, This is your Brain on Joy, I had high expectations for this book. I expected this read to be somewhat about the biochemistry of love, but I was wrong. Instead, This Is Your Brain In Love focuses on various topics such as the concept of romantic love, the five "love styles" and then a chapter on sexuality and spirituality, which I thought should have been better integrated throughout the book. I found that the "love styles" were described in his first novel as well, talking about the five different kinds of brain pathology. Dr. Henslin's "secret to lasting love" I feel could be written by any deep person in a serious relationship. He explains how being honest, forgiving, kind, and patient will have its rewards.
This book does however carry some helpful information (some which I was fascinated by), and it is an easy and fun read. I was interested to know how the Jewish culture views marriage and sex. If you are married, want to get married, have been married, or especially have problems in your marriage, I would suggest this book for you. This book would also be a great gift for friends or family who fall into any of these categories. I picked up this book for a mindless read (also, I am hoping to get married one day, but not anytime soon) and while some of it I found disappointing, I rather did enjoy this novel as a whole. However, I hope if Dr. Earl Henslin writes another book, it would be more like his first one, and a little less like this one.
Kristy at Heartscribblings4 Stars Out Of 5September 19, 2010Kristy at HeartscribblingsThis review was written for This Is Your Brain in Love: New Breakthroughs for a More Passionate and Emotionally Healthy Marriage.This was a fascinating book! I have long wondered why people are so easily diagnosed with brain imbalances (depression or anxiety or mental illness, etc) and prescribed medicine, yet there was no way to actually measure any of these things scientifically or physically. Well, this book introduced me to the ground-breaking research of brain scans and included pictures that show what healthy brains look like in comparison to brains that actually do have problem (and correctable!) issues.I would particularly be interested in seeing what the results were if Dr Henslin teamed up with somebody like Dr Neil Anderson! Although this book definitely points back to God and His Word, I did feel that it was a little light-on in addressing the spiritual part of our beings (emotional, physical, spiritual).What I really liked about the solutions in this book is that its not about guess-work. The brain scans let the practitioners know what medication best targets the particular brain area and problem the client is experiencing. Medication is also not their main solution nor is it a long-term one. The treatment plans demonstrated quite a holistic approach, including everything from medication to natural supplements to sufficient sleep to dietary requirementsusually a combination of multiple things from each of those groups. Personal responsibility is also stressed which is definitely a positive thing in this day and age.All in all, this was a very fascinating read and, in spite of the seeming very-scientific nature of the book, was quite easy to read.
steffanie4 Stars Out Of 5February 4, 2010steffanieThis review was written for This Is Your Brain in Love: New Breakthroughs for a More Passionate and Emotionally Healthy Marriage.This is Your Brain in Love is a scientifically researched guide to help reunite married couples in passion in marriage. Dr. Henslin uses SPECT brain-scan research pioneered by Dr. Daniel G. Amen as a tool to understand why a person is the type of lover they are to their spouse and how they function in life. There are self-assessments for each of the five types of lovers and then natural and medicinal ways to treat brain imbalances to provide a better marital relationship. I found this book to be very interesting, even covering very scientific information. Dr. Henselin uses humor and examples to express his points. I am very interested in the SPECT brain-scan that was used in Dr. Henselin's research. I have a loved one who I think would benefit greatly from such a medical test. I do have an uneasiness about some of the personal accounts in the book, that there were many of those Christian couples who were divorced and I understand that might be a reason to use them as a "how to avoid" example, but I just kind of cringe when I hear so many times about how someone was really unhappy in a marriage and now they are just so much happier without that person they made a covenant with before God. I also was left wondering about the view Dr. Henslin has on the openness within marriage with a section in the appendix that referred to not telling your spouse about an affair. Overall, I think the scientific information was very insightful and the book maybe very helpful pointing someone into getting additional help for brain imbalances. I do not think reading the book will help you treat yourself to much of an extent if your imbalance results are very high on the scales, it tends to point to the brain-scan and meeting with a doctor even with the supplements suggested.
FerrollRoanoke, VAAge: 35-44Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5January 12, 2010FerrollRoanoke, VAAge: 35-44Gender: femaleThis review was written for This Is Your Brain in Love: New Breakthroughs for a More Passionate and Emotionally Healthy Marriage.I really enjoyed reading this book. The author has many humorous and engaging stories to back up his points and he used them freely. Dr. Henslin gives a scientific explanation for why we feel the way we do when we're in love and how to improve the 5 imbalances common in marriages. But his explanations are not as scientific sounding as I assumed they'd be. I was impressed with how he brought the complex subject of the brain down to layman's terms.This book so engrossed me that I could hardly put it down. There was so much truth in what Dr. Henslin said and I believe every marriage will benefit from the reading of this book. He provides quizzes to help you determine what kind of lover you are: scattered, over-focused, blue, agitated, or anxious. Then he goes into detail what characterizes each one and how to overcome it. I found myself in a couple of them! Dr. Henslin does a great job of incorporating Biblical truth into this book. I highly recommend this to any married couple.
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The sun is setting earlier, and the leaves are beginning to turn color – signs of another change of season. Fall is in the air, and hunters are heading out for the first major hunting seasons of the year.
Archery hunts for deer get under way around the state Sept. 1, when hunting seasons also open for forest grouse, mourning dove, cottontail rabbit, and snowshoe hare. Other seasons set to open this month include archery hunts for elk, high-buck hunts and muzzleloader hunts for deer, and a turkey hunt in some areas of eastern Washington.
A youth-only hunt for ducks, geese, pheasant and other game birds runs Sept. 21-22 statewide. To participate, hunters must be 15 years old or younger and be accompanied by an adult at least 18 years old who is not hunting.
"We should have plenty of local ducks available in September, followed by a near-record number of birds expected from the north later this year," said Dave Ware, statewide game manager for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). "Hunting for deer and elk should also be good in most areas, just as it was last year."
Area-by-area summaries of the hunting prospects throughout the state are available on WDFW's website at http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/prospects/. Hunters can see what private lands are open to hunting through several WDFW agreement programs – Feel Free to Hunt, Register to Hunt, Hunting by Written Permission, and this year's new "Hunt by Reservation" – all detailed at http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/hunting_access/private_lands/.
With several wildfires burning in eastern Washington, Ware cautions hunters to be especially careful to avoid any action that might spark a blaze. Updates on fire conditions are available on the Washington Department of Natural Resources' website at http://www.dnr.wa.gov/Pages/default.aspx.
"Hunters planning to hunt in the central Cascade Mountains should be aware that recent wildfires have altered conditions in some areas, and have resulted in new fire restrictions," Ware said.
Meanwhile, an estimated run of 678,000 chinook salmon – and 434,000 coho – is moving up the Columbia River, drawing anglers by the thousands. Further north, chinook, coho and pink salmon are also pushing into Puget Sound from the ocean, while eastside anglers await a surge of chinook and steelhead on the Snake River.
"September is a great time to go fishing, regardless of which side of the Cascades you live on," said John Long, WDFW statewide salmon manager.
As new fishing seasons open, others are coming to an end. Crab fishing in most areas of Puget Sound is set to end Labor Day at sunset, and WDFW is reminding crabbers that summer catch record cards are due to WDFW by Oct. 1 – whether or not they actually caught crab this year. Completed cards can be submitted by mail or online at http://bit.ly/WkXeA from Sept. 3 through Oct. 1.
Other changes are also apparent as summer's end draws near. Warblers, vireos and other neotropical birds are now moving through the region as they make their annual migration south. Bull elk can be heard bugling at dawn and dusk to build harems.
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Wall-sized displays on the wall seem to work fine. Here's a suggestion if you'll like to consider that route. Draw up the family tree or family diagram in a software on your computer. There may be genealogy programs to assist with this, or if you're good in Microsoft Word or even Microsoft Publisher or Microsoft Excel, nice charts/diagrams or trees can be generated. Set the paper size to something larger than 8.5 x 11. If you have access to a printer that prints on 11 x 17 paper, generate your tree/chart on that size. The larger the size, the more branches or information you can include. After designing your tree/diagram/chart on your computer, print it out on the 11 x 17 paper, and take the printout to OfficeMax, Kinko's, or any printing place for them to blow it up to wall-size. I did this several years ago and was quite pleased at the wall-sized prints. Also, it was inexpensive, so you can perhaps have several trees printed out and displayed on the walls. By the way, if you do not have a printer that prints on 11 x 17, save the file to a disk, and OfficeMax, Kinko's, etc. can likely print it out on that paper for you or provide a computer.
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