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By Don Jolly
I read Sulamith Ish-Kishor's Children's History of Israel: From Joshua to the Second Temple like it any other textbook. I kept my television on and my laptop open, compensating divided attentions by answering the comprehension quiz at the end of each chapter. "Whom did David meet in the wilderness of Ziph?" asked the book, early on. Easy, I said. Johnathan, son of paranoiac Saul. "How did Nehemiah help in restoring the purity of Judaism?" Well, he spearheaded the return to Jerusalem after the city had been abandoned, working to rebuild its walls and reinstate the Law. It was material I'd learned before; an economical retelling of the Hebrew Bible's annals of judges, kings, prophets and conquests.
"Do we have any 'prophets' nowadays?" the History asked, in the questionnaire on its closing page. "What great men of this generation might be called the prophets of various nations?" That I had to think on.
All the while, the screens surrounding Ish-Kishor's slim volume were alive, babbling out the incidents of "Operation Protective Edge," modern Israel's latest military adventure in Gaza, in tones of escalating tension. The book's large print competed, word by word, with images of human outrage: broken bodies, anguished parents, homes ablaze. Through its onionskin pages, I could the trace the geometry of rocket fire, glowing blue. The History became a text that did not end in itself; it branched and bled, reaching into the circumstances of a summer more than eighty years removed from its publication.
Sulamith Ish-Kishor, a Jewish-American journalist and literati, could hardly have imagined the violent circumstances of my reading. I suspect, however, that she could have sympathized. Her Children's History, written to serve a small but diverse body of interwar primary schools, bears unmistakable marks from surrounding politics. This kind of ephemera, produced in limited quantities for limited markets, has always had a light behind the page. It may differ in brightness or hue, but it is, invariably, present. Ish-Kishor handled it better than most.
In 1933, when the Children's History was written, Jewish education in the America was rapidly expanding. Sunday schools, usually associated with the Reform movement, were well-established by this time, having been a common feature in many communities for nearly a hundred years. Their highly generalized, once-a-week instruction proved inadequate for many twentieth parents, however. As a result, Jewish afternoon schools began to propagate. Their two principal varieties were heders, small schools run by the direct payment of their students' families, and Talmud Torahs, larger institutions funded by the public resources of a single synagogue or immigrant enclave. By 1910, the Talmud Torahs had become the more respectable of the two, employing better trained instructors and using a more complex, and standardized, institutional structure. Members of the educated class, both Jew and gentile, dismissed the heders as regressive; products of the "old world," not the new.
After the First World War, "secular" afternoon schools taught in Yiddish became popular. According to historian Beth S. Wenger, writing in her 2010 volume History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage, these Yiddish academies were responsible for teaching "as many as 10 percent of the nation's children who pursued any kind of Jewish education" at the time of the Children's History's release. In New York, the figure was double. It was a landscape with which Ish-Kishor would have been at least familiar; at the time, she had been living in New York for more than two decades.
The first Yiddish secular school was established in 1910 by the Labor Zionists, the socialist Jewish movement through which the young David Ben-Gurion would rise to prominence. Its curriculum was, understandably, influenced by Marxist political thought and the language of Jewish nationalism. Although subsequent Yiddish schools would make modifications to these points according to their originating organizations, their essential outline remained unchanged until the 1940s. Often, instruction in Yiddish secular schools was designed to "counter" the content of American public education, offering a robust defense of both Communism in general and the U.S.S.R. specifically. They were more rigorous than other forms of Jewish education and were accorded slightly more prestige, but the political radicalism of the Yiddish secular schools served to separate them from the American mainstream as surely as the perceived regression of the heders.
It was this separation that the "Benderly boys," a group of Jewish professionals operating out of a few New York City teachers' colleges, set out to solve. The boys unofficially leader, Samson Benderly, was the director of the newly-established Bureau of Jewish Education, an outgrowth of the increasing sophistication and coordination between the region's Talmud Torahs. Benderly's goal, as articulated in his 1908 essay "Jewish Education in America," was to create "a Jewish life in harmony with modern civilization… Such a life," he continued, "cannot in the least interfere with our rights, nor clash with our duties in [America.]" For Benderly, the ideals of American democracy were, in a very real sense, Jewish ideals. The curricula and publications he inspired were heavy on civic and religious pride: biographies of Jewish-American war heroes, records of Jewish immigration since the days of the Mayflower — even history texts written from a modern, American frame. By the interwar years, numerous presses had sprouted to handle the demand – including the concern responsible for the Children's History, the Hebrew Publishing Company.
Given the politically charged market into which it was released, the Children's History of Israel: From Joshua to the Second Temple was careful to satisfy all potentially interested parties at a minimum of controversy. For instance, it featured some vestigial Marxism — a concession to the Yiddish secular crowd. After a chapter drawn from the Second Book of Kings Ish-Kishor asks her readers: "Did the rich people of Israel treat the poor ones fairly?" Soft soap next to the 1929 Yiddish reader Dos naye bukh, or The New Book, which asked: "What does exploitation mean? Which classes are exploited? […] Is the worker secure of his job under a capitalistic government?"
Benderly-style Jewish-Americanism also appears, briefly, in the Children's History. Ish-Kishor's discourse about the responsibility of rulers, brought up in the context the ignoble latter years Solomon, is heavy on democracy. "Rich and mighty kings often forget the reason why they are rulers of the people," she wrote. "A king is really the servant of his people." A little more than a decade later, when Bendery's method was all but unquestioned in the Jewish educational circles, Ish-Kishor would write one of its chief texts, 1947's American Promise: A History of Jews in the New World. In 1933, however, she preferred to dodge the crossfire.
Personally, Sulamith Ish-Kishor was as subject to the cross-pressures of twentieth century Judaism as anyone. Zionism, the various political threads advocating for a Jewish homeland, was a significant feature of her upbringing. Ish-Kishor was born in 1896, the same year as Theodor Herzl's foundational Zionist text The Jewish State was issued. Her father, Ephraim Ish-Kishor was one of Herzl's earliest converts, and an important organizer of working class Jews in London's East End for the cause. It is surprising, then, that the History declines a position on Zionism more completely than any other ideology. Its only openly Zionist passage is Ish-Kishor's dedication: "To My Father."
Today, Sulamith Ish-Kishor is best remembered for her children's novels of the 1960s. Her most famous was the semi-autobiographical Our Eddie, a runner-up for the 1970 Newberry Medal. In it, the author chronicles a Jewish family's immigration from London to New York in the early twentieth-century, centering the narrative on the clashes between a rebellious son and his stridently "old world" father. Although Ish-Kishor encouraged her readers to see Eddie as fiction, not fact, the similarities between it and the immigration of the Ish-Kishor family from London to New York in 1909 are too glaring to ignore. Whatever her feelings toward her father and his politics, it is clear that Ish-Kishor preferred her writing to deal in the interpersonal, rather than the doctrinaire. From the 1920s until her death in 1977, she advanced this theme prolifically, working in a diversity of forms and genres. She wrote poetry, short fiction, journalism, biographies and, of course, specialty textbooks. For the most part, her efforts were released by small presses catering to the Jewish market.
In the 1930s, contemporary with the publication of her Children's History, Ish-Kishor seemed on the verge of breaking into the mainstream of American letters. In 1929 she had interviewed Theodore Dreiser, the well-respected author of the novel An American Tragedy, for a piece on Russian Jewry commissioned by The Jewish Daily Forward. Afterwards the two maintained a healthy, if one-sided, correspondence. Ish-Kishor hounded Dreiser for opportunities and advice; Dreiser, for his part, gave it – when he was in the mood. In 1932, when Dreiser launched his new literary magazine, The American Spectator, Ish-Kishor was one of the first people he solicited for work. A few years later, in 1935, Ish-Kishor even supplied an introduction to a volume of his poetry called Moods: Philosophic and Emotional, Cadenced and Declaimed. There she wrote of her mentor's potency; his ability to capture "the adventures of the ego in its painful search for a center of gravity in the universe, for a poised and conscious fact at the center of the chaos."
The Children's History, in its way, attempts a similar feat – darting between its political obligations in search of either a more profound, or simply more saleable, solidity. Her text does not modify the Bible overmuch. In fact, the author sanitizes nothing – an unusual choice for a primary school reader. Characters such as Saul and David are allowed to keep their sins and the Hebrews retain their slaughters, in the History. Although Ish-Kishor makes occasional efforts to explain such failings, in context they are as malnourished as the book's political passages. In the end, before asking about who might represent a prophet of the modern day, she asks her readers to select the volume's "noblest deed" and "worst action." A final word, reserved for the audience. An invitation to use the text as a mirror.
I read the History with the T.V. on, stealing glances at a nation which seems to have arrived at the end of the world a little quicker than the rest of us. My choice for "worst action" is still up in the air, but I'm already certain it lies nowhere in the text itself.
In the same year as the History was issued, 1933, Ish-Kishor wrote a successful essay for Dreiser's American Spectator called "The Novelist":
"Its main character was man and its theme was ultimate happiness," she began. "It was rejected by all the causal dynamos of Natural Law. 'Humanity? A preposterous notion! […] Nature can make no use of your idea. Again — what's your name? God? Your creation is a mere mad jumble.'" Like most rejected authors, the God of Sulamith Ish-Kishor initially fumes. After a few thousand years of consideration, though, he starts to see the wisdom of natural law's critique: "God apologized to his split-atoms and told them he was aware the Book needed revision … He wanted to tear [it up], but it was too late; it was alive. Every word was a family, every letter a human being." There was no stopping it. For all its violence and contradiction, the world was the world – and beneath its battered exterior, its core was bright, and sacred. "No, it is not as I intended it to be," her God concludes. "But, after all, I do still think there was something in the idea."
"What great men of this generation might be called the prophets?" asked the quiz at the end of the Children's History. I'm still mulling that one over, too. I'm tempted to suggest Ish-Kishor, if only for "The Novelist."
Can a "great man" of "this generation" be three-decades dead, and female?
"The Last Twentieth Century Book Club" is a monthly column about religious ephemera. Prior columns can be read here:
Guide to Survival (Salem Kirban, Part 1)
Don Jolly is a Texan visual artist, writer, and academic. He is currently pursuing his master's degree in religion at NYU, with a focus on esotericism, fringe movements, and the occult. His comic strip, The Weird Observer, runs weekly in the Ampersand Review. He is also a staff writer for Obscure Sound, where he reviews pop records. Don lives alone with the Great Fear, in New York City.


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Continue reading Remembering Flanagan's Glory Days, written by UMass alum Tom FitzGerald from the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Pre-Market Primer: Job Growth Weak; Apple Gets Slammed With Import Ban
Vincent Trivett
Despite the eurozone's troubles, Latvia wants in.
Stocks are set to extend yesterday's declines after a disappointing report on the job market and continued economic misery in Europe.
In a preview for Friday's key government non-farm payrolls report, the payroll processor
(NASDAQ:ADP) tallied just 135,000 new private-sector jobs in May, versus 171,000 expected. Small businesses did the most hiring, adding 58,000 workers. Medium and large businesses both hired just 39,000.
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The Federal Reserve's Beige Book, a compilation of anecdotal signs of the economy's health, comes out in the afternoon. This one carries considerable weight because it hints at the tone of the next Federal Open Markets Committee meeting two weeks from now, where the Fed might vote to taper off stimulus.
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(INDEXSP:.INX) futures fell 0.46% to 1,623.70 and future contracts on the
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled the "third arrow" of his ambitious plan to end the deflationary spiral and revive the country's economy. The plan involves special economic zones, privatization of public assets, returning to nuclear power, cutting corporate taxes, and reforms of the labor and power markets. As reported earlier, public pensions will get back into stocks. Abe's target is for 2% annual GDP growth over 10 years. Investors found the plan underwhelming, however, and the
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Despite this, Latvia was approved as the 18th member of the eurozone after the European Central Bank signed off on its application. The ECB was concerned, however, about the alarmingly high levels of foreign deposits in the country, especially from Russia. Non-resident deposits are near 50% of the total. Olli Rehn, the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, allayed fears that Latvia could be a repeat of the Cyprus debacle. In a press conference, he pointed out that the banking sector in Latvia is only about 150% of GDP, whereas it is 800% of the Cypriot economy. Latvia could adopt the common currency as early as January.
The US International Trade Commission gave
(KRX:05930) a small win over
(NASDAQ:AAPL). The
bars the 3G models of the first two iPads as well as the iPhone 3GS and 4 for violating a standards-essential patent owned by Samsung. Apple shares fell 0.5% in the pre-market despite some of those barred models being discontinued.
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DALLAS, July 17, 2012 – Flowserve Corporation (NYSE: FLS), a leading provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, today announced it plans to hold a conference call to discuss its 2012 second quarter financial results on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, at 11 a.m. Eastern time. Mark Blinn, president and chief executive officer, and other members of management will present.
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This pair of jaws are from a field trip back in January during which I also found a deer skeleton. Each jaw is about 9 cm long. Both are missing the incisors and the canines.
I found them in a hedgerow on one side of which was a farm field and on the other side a hill leading up to a residential building. I am suspecting that they belonged to either a small fox or a small dog. Raccoons seem to have a more curved lower jaw. I don't have enough expertise to tell the lower jaw of a fox from that of a dog. In fact, it may not be possible to reliably distinguish the 2 species from each other only from lower jaws unless large samples are available to do a statistical comparison.


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Stock Upgrades: 'LUV' Is in the Air for Southwest Airlines
Justin Sharon
Wall Street ratings agencies set the tone for today's stock market.
Peoria proved to be no match for Ankara, alas, as trouble in Turkey and other emerging markets outweighed a 5.94% increase in
(NYSE:CAT). The pride of Illinois easily bested both
Dow Industrials
(INDEXDJX:.DJI) and the
S&P 500 Index
(INDEXSP:.INX) with its performance, but was still powerless to prevent US stock markets from slumping to a six-week low. It was a
Manchester United
fanatic who got everyone excited
about these suddenly submerging markets, so it seems somehow appropriate that Jim O'Neill should see his beloved soccer side hit a BRIC wall, sliding some 1.60% after getting a stiff
kick in the grass
(NYSE:PFE) fell 1.43% as its Dacomitinib drug failed in two Phase III trials to treat lung cancer. A third Phase III trial, expected in 2015, may yet yield a more favorable outcome, but it will be far too late for the
Marlboro man, who just became the fourth such spokesman to die of a smoking-related disease
(NASDAQ:FB), which fell 1.65%, once famously confused the German
(OTCMKTS:MKGAY) with the American
(NYSE:MRK). You definitely didn't want to do that yesterday, with the former nose-diving 9.76% in its worst session since September 2010 even as the latter finished at a fresh best after riding a
broker boost
to gain 1.06%. Speak of the devil:
(NYSE:HLF) surged 6.66% after reports that Tim Ramey left to join
Post Holdings
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American Airlines
AT&T Inc.
Electronic Arts
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American International Group
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(NYSE:MT): The steel stock is raised to Outperform from Sector Perform at RBC Capital, which says a recent share-price pullback has created a compelling buying opportunity. Its price objective, previously $11, increases to $16.
Carnival Corporation
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Discover Financial Services
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Martin Marietta Materials
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Maxim Integrated Products
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Mead Johnson Nutrition
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(NYSE:NUE): The commodity name is a new addition to the US 1 list at Bank of America-Merrill.
Sally Beauty
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(NASDAQ:SANM): Raymond James raises Sanmina, whose stock is surging some 11.49% as we speak, to Market Perform from Underperform.
Southwest Airlines
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(NASDAQ:TCBI): Shares are now Buy from Neutral at SunTrust.
Vulcan Materials
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Re: Media flow managed by 2 terminations
Thanks Javi for sharing that detailed background! Indeed, option 3 would be not possible, I quite agree. Option 3 did suppose a single "media flow" component, but not two as in your considered use case. I could imagine that single-stream-per-termination structures, i.e., dedicated H.248 IP terminations for PH and FH traffic, might be beneficial, e.g. from perspective of "unsuccessful call handling" like for instance - H.248.40 for monitoring activity of the media flows on IP side, - H.248.36 for detection of hanging IP terminations, - etc. -Albrecht > -----Original Message----- > From: megaco-bounces <at> ietf.org > [mailto:megaco-bounces <at> ietf.org] On Behalf Of Javi > Sent: Freitag, 29. Juli 2011 13:46 > To: megaco <at> ietf.org > Subject: Re: [Megaco] Media flow managed by 2 terminations > > Albrecht, > > The entire network picture is similar to "ETSI_ARGW[TS 183 > 002 v3.3.1]/Clause 7.3.2" or "draft-bouwen-megaco-isdn-data-00": > > ISDN TE <-> AGW (MG) <-> PH or FH <-> PSPDN > > where PH "Packet Handler" and FH "Frame Handler" are > different equipments (I propose a descomposal architecture(Continue reading)


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Meiringen is Hasli's main town and became a major tourist junction when cars first took to the roads. It is the starting point for excursions to the Aare Gorge and Reichenbach Falls, but also an ideal stage on the Grimsel and Susten roads. The British author of Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle, was an honorary citizen of the town.
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Trift Glacier Lake
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A ten-minute cable car ride up to the Bergstation summit, then a 90-min trek to the lake. The highpoint of the walk is a spectacular suspension footbridge of Himalayan inspiration that sways 70m above the impressive gorge offering a stunning view of ..
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The gorge carved by the River Aare through the Kirchet constriction between Meitringen and Innertkirchen is one of the great geological curiosities of the Bernese Oberland. It is possible to access the narrowest section of the gorge, where its almost..
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Inaugurated in 1926 but only open to the public since 2001, the funicular makes the vertiginous ascent up to Gelmer Lake (Gelmersee), wedged in the mountains, in just ten minutes. Once at the summit, you can either walk round the lake (1hr45min) or h..
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Situated very close to the Meiringen / Hasliberg cable cars and only 500 metres from the Meiringen rail station, the Sherlock Holmes hotel offers you a quiet place to stay near the wood. A rich Swiss breakfast buffet with eggs prepared in any style ..
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It's the news that 'Orange is the New Black' fans have been waiting for, a premiere date for the second season. According to E! Online, Netflix decided to announce the June 6th premiere date after the premiere of its other wildly popular original series, 'House of Cards'.
There has been no shortage of speculation on when the Netflix original series would debut after the cast released photos last month of their wrap party at a roller rink. The most recent rumor had the date as April 25th after a supposed Google glitch.
Fans have another reason to be excited for the second season as creator Jenji Kohan has confirmed that Laura Prepon will be in "most of" the season. Rumors swirled last year that Prepon's character Alex Vause would not return for the second season as her character had broken up with Taylor Schilling's character Piper Chapman. In addition to Prepon, there was also some concern that Taryn Manning may be MIA for the second season when she was mysteriously absent for the cast wrap party. However, she is confirmed to still be apart of the series as well.
Kohan has stated in recent interviews that this season will focus more on the backstories of the other inmates as opposed to Chapman. She acknowledged that Chapman's character is a huge part of the story and the fans have gotten to see a lot of how she ended up in prison. However, Kohan believes there is a lot of story to be told with the supporting characters including fan favorite Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren played by Uzo Aduba.
Fans will be able to stream all 13 episodes of the series when it debuts on June 6th.
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SaaS in the Enterprise invites you to an online chat with Thomas Trappler, director of software licensing at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
Trappler will be our chat guest at 2:00 p.m. EST on Friday, April 27. You can access the event here.
There is little doubt that cloud computing has ratcheted up the need for IT managers to be skilled contract negotiators. But little in an IT manager's background prepares him for the legal transition from legacy IT to SaaS.
Trappler found that out in 2009 when UCLA made the decision to adopt SaaS. The university did not have an official SaaS contract negotiator. Few companies did, then or now. So UCLA turned to its director of software licensing, Trappler.
Trappler has learned a lot about SaaS contract negotiation since that day in 2009. He has successfully negotiated over 30 enterprise-wide IT procurement agreements. He is now recognized across the US for his expertise in cloud computing risk mitigation via contract negotiation, and vendor management.
Trappler's list of achievements is long. He has been a guest lecturer at New York University, and developed and teaches his own course on Contracting in the Cloud.
He is the co-author of a book on the subject, Contracting for Cloud Services, and he hosts a seminar on cloud computing contracts in Los Angeles.
His style is direct.
"Get it in writing" is his first commandment of SaaS negotiation, Trappler said in a recent interview with SaaS in the Enterprise. "If a vendor claims he has a security policy, get it into contract. Make sure it is on the page."
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The day marks the 3rd anniversary for Fashion's Night Out (FNO), a worldwide shopping event celebrating retailers, designers and, of course, shoppers. While originating in New York City, the event has spread to all the fashion capitals, as well as cities in South Carolina like Greenville, Myrtle Beach and Charleston, a fashion capital in its own right. If you can't make the big Cynthia Rowley end of season sale this weekend in Charleston, make plans to join them for FNO!
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Lauren Conrad had nothing but smiles from her Instagram Friday, February 7 as Lauren finally hunkered down and celebrated her and fiancé, William Tell's birthday.
The latest photo shows Lauren dressed up in a country hoedown outfit donned with red, white, and dark blue plaid going well with black jean shorts & cowboy hat.
Lauren appeared to have celebrated her twenty-eighth birthday at popular club, Rivera 31 as evidence shows on Lauren's birthday cake straight from the picture.
Lauren was surrounded by tiny red velvet cupcakes draped with what looks like cream cheese frosting on top while Lauren held an inflated horse's head.
Lauren too on Friday gave fiancé, William a celebration of his own by surprising with so many blue balloons in the nice gesture of a wake up call for his birthday.
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College Hockey:Badgers Dominate Team Italy
Wisconsin Gets Needed Boost Prior To Break
MADISON, Wis. — Most players on the current Wisconsin roster had not strapped on their first pair of skates when the Badgers last won an exhibition game. The 2002-03 Badgers, however, became the first UW team to defeat an international squad in a dominating 7-0 win over Team Italy on Thursday night.
Italy is now 0-2 in their current tour of the WCHA, which started with a 4-2 loss at Minnesota on Monday. Wisconsin is 3-21-2 in exhibition games, with its only wins before tonight coming against the U.S. Olympic Team in 1984 and the U.S. Nationals in 1982.
Wisconsin was in sole possession of any momentum by the beginning of the third period. Entering the final 20 minutes with a 3-0 lead, the Badgers weaved their way through the Italian defense en route to four goals in the third.
Defenseman Mark Jackson led all players with two goals on the night. Six other Badgers finished the game with two points.
"We needed this win, we needed something to rally around," Jackson said. "This is the perfect time for it."
Unfortunately for Wisconsin (5-11-0, 1-7-0 WCHA), which is coming off of a six game losing streak, its best game this year on both the ice and the scorecard came in a contest that will not count statistically.
Though the Badgers have struggled all season to generate offensive consistency, scoring was not a problem in any of the three periods. Wisconsin put Italian goalie Gunther Hell under a barrage of 35 shots and rarely allowed him down time.
UW goalie Bernd Bruckler had one of the easier games of his career, facing only seven shots. He was pulled midway through the third period to allow freshman Luke Kohtala his first action of the season. In 10:50 of play, Kohtala only faced one shot and seldom saw any semblance of an Italian threat.
"It might not have been their 'A' game. I don't know them well enough to tell you what their 'A' game is, but I know that we did a lot of good things," UW Head Coach Mike Eaves said.
The first goal of the game came at 6:05 of the first period. While Erik Jensen was fighting for his rebound, the puck escaped and wound up on the stick of freshman John Funk. With the goalie partially screened, Funk was able to drill a shot low to the glove side for Wisconsin's first score. This game marked Funk's first significant playing time in his college career.
Less than five minutes later the Badgers extended their lead. Jackson was allowed a clear lane to the Italian goal after receiving a pass from freshman teammate Ryan MacMurchy. Jackson gained control of the puck in time to fire off a shot that beat Hell to the top shelf.
The only notable accomplishment from Team Italy's offense came over seven minutes into the third, when a shot appeared to hit the top shelf of the net and bounce out. The referees did not signal for a goal however, and play continued.
At 11:53 Brad Winchester scored on the power play when he beat Hell to a blocked shot and dumped the puck into the net. This added much needed confidence to the power-play unit, which, entering this game, had converted on only 11 percent of its chances on the man advantage.
One minute later, Rene Bourque, after a failed wraparound, proved his accuracy in taking a shot from the side of the net that squeezed into the top corner. Freshman A.J. Degenhardt added insult to injury in tallying Wisconsin's seventh goal with only 55.6 seconds left.
"We ended up doing more good things out there than we've done in awhile, consistently. I think we ended up being on the plus side of the sheet because it allowed us to do some things to give some confidence to play consistent over a period of time," Eaves said. "We'll take those lessons with us as we head into break."
The Badgers will have off for over two weeks until the Bank One Badger Showdown in Milwaukee. The tournament will feature Colgate, No. 11 Harvard and No. 14 Northern Michigan.
"[Tonight is] a big stepping point for our team, especially going into our own tournament," defenseman Dan Boeser said. "Coming out and winning a game 7-0 in that fashion sets a big step for our club."
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Taste of T&T 2007 – Final Recap! (video)
Ok, the TriniGourmet is now probably the last Trini on the planet to share her experience of this year's Taste T&T festival, but you know what they say 'save the best for last' 😛 It's taken me longer than I had expected to get to this because of 1) the server issue I had last month 2) putting the PaperBag Gourmet Club series into effect 3) working on another 'mystery...
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Taste of T&T 2007 – Gourmet Ticket in Hand!
My ticket for this weekend's Taste of T&T is in my hands and boy am I getting excited! 😀 Isn't it lovely? I picked it up at Joseph's, one of the participating restaurants. It was my first time to their premises and I was very impressed by the layout. I will have to check them out soon hey Chennette and Lilandra wanna swap my Chicken Tandooris for your wine? 😆 Read More →
Taste of T&T 2007 – Chef & Gourmet Menu details
Well the menu and restaurant details for this weekend's Taste of T&T are out, and I am impressed. These offerings sound delish! I am seriously reconsidering not shelling out for a gourmet ticket. Check 'em out! ETA: Looks like I'll be stuffing myself in Group C with Chennette and Lilandra 😀 Group C – Saturday: . Food Etcetera (Chef Dean Johnson): Spiced Rubbed Grilled...


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We are delighted to announce the return of Offline, powered by Giant Step. Grammy award-winning, music icon Q-Tip will be spinning a weekly mix of supreme funk, jazz, hip hop, salsa, and Latin for your dancing pleasure.
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Fewer People Were Murdered in New York This Year Than Any Year on Record
There were even some days when nobody was killed at all!
Fewer people were murdered in the city this year than any year since 1962, the first time the statistic was recorded, reports the Times. The numbers have been roughly declining since a record high of 2,245 in 1990. So far this year, there have only been 461. It's great news, and the NYPD deserves kudos for it, but only in New York could this lede from a newspaper story seem remarkably good:
There were days upon days in New York City when not a single person was murdered in 2009. Two such stretches, in February and March, lasted nearly a week each.
Did you hear that? Some days in New York this year, nobody got killed at all. Greatest city in the world, people ...
New York on Track for Fewest Murders on Record [NYT]


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Co-ops are owned and controlled by their members. The people who use the co-op's services-not outside investors-democratically decide how the business is run.
Membership in a co-op is voluntary and open.
Members of a co-op elect their own leaders from within their ranks.
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The antique luggage incorporated into the room's decor is reminiscent of the baggage so often carried by rail travelers. The carved decoys are gifts from several personal friends of Bruce's.
The bathroom was the original to the 2nd floor and has been made a private to the Scott room by moving a 6 foot radiator and opening the wall. The 6 1/2 foot ball and claw tub is circa 1912 and original to the house.
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As we move into the month of May, there will be an increasing number of opportunities to attend end-of-term recitals at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM). Recently, the work of composers emerging from SFCM will be particularly interesting, not only for their work but also for the performers involved in performance. I wanted to make brief note of two particular composers who will be giving recitals next month.
Nick Benavides' recital will be given at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 15. Benavides has been very active, not only at SFCM but also through his activity as a founder of the Guerrilla Composer Guild. At the Hot Air Music Festival in March of 2013, he gave the premiere of Pain Has an Element of Blank, a song cycle of poems by Emily Dickinson that he scored for mezzo and piano. Since that time he has been working on orchestrating those songs, samples of which were given by the SFCM New Music Ensemble this past December 10 and, more recently, on April 15. The cycle will be performed in its entirety at next month's recital, sung by Danielle Reutter-Harrah with Tyler Catlin conducting the chamber orchestra. Reutter-Harrah will also join her Jarring Sounds colleague, guitarist Adam Cockerham, in settings of two poems by Federico García Lorca. The program will also include a reprise of Benavides' prelude and fugue based on the song "Old Friends" from Bookends, the 1968 album by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, which was composed for and performed by the International Low Brass Trio (ILBTrio) of Jeff Dittmer on horn, Gabe Cruz on trombone, and Jess Roda on tuba. Next month's "repeat performance" will again be given by ILBTrio. Benavides will conduct a chamber choir in his setting of e. e. cumming's poem "I thank you God for most this amazing day;" and soprano Chelsea Hollow will be accompanied by pianist Sophie Zhang in a performance of "Who speaks words with my mouth?" The other instrumental selection will be a suite of miniatures for flute (Christy Kim), cello (Helen Newby), guitar (John Angel), and marimba (Elizabeth Hall).
The following evening, Friday, May 16, ILBTrio will return for Red Bennett's composition recital. They will give the premiere performance of "Earth Poem," an "elemental tone poem" (in the composer's words) that has just been completed. Bennett attracted the attention of the San Francisco Chronicle when his first opera What They Seem was performed at the Mission Cultural Center in August of 2008. Bennett was eighteen years old at the time. This season one of his compositions, "Repose and Exuberance," has also been performed by the New Music Ensemble; and he has composed "[Fe] Man" for the Sqwonk bass clarinet duo. Friday's recital will also include two string trios, one entitled "I am Outside Myself" and the other simply identified as his fourth such trio, as well as a viola sonata. The untitled trio was used in the score for The San Agustín, a documentary about a local shipwreck that was recently aired on KQED.
Both recitals will begin at 8 p.m. at SFCM, located at 50 Oak Street, a short walk from the Van Ness Muni station, and will be free and open to the general public.


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Cat Daddy with his stunningly brilliant business sense, and Tres with his seemingly endless supply of connections, set forth to conquer Old Town, Portland, and the world!! After a meeting with some Armenians and drumming masters, they were ready to set up shop in the "crotch" of Portland Oregon's Old Town.
There was only one problem, neither Cat Daddy nor Tres had ever made doughnuts before! They set out for the sunny Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, California, where they met up with some doughnut masters, and learned about doughnuts from the ground up. These old, grizzled doughnut veterans knew what they were doing and were barely willing to give up their trade secrets at first.
But the charm and good looks of our Portland Oregon heroes eventually won over the doughnut masters, and the secrets were revealed to them. Learning when to throw the flour, proper handling of a rolling pin, the intricacies of an old fashion, the "flip", and countless other tricks of the trade were now in the hands, minds, and notebooks of Cat Daddy and Tres.
They returned to Portland regaling the locals with tales of Brad Pitt eating one of their early maple bars, a Chick Hearn memorial documented on Japanese Television, featuring Voodoo Doughnut, and the wild, wild, times of California -- artists, actors, washed up sports stars, old people, disillusioned tourists, and musicians. Ah California... Portland soon learned of these tricks and Voodoo Doughnut became the best tasting doughnuts in the world, chico!!
After flying in some "Voodoo Oil" from down south, acquiring the nuts and bolts of their shop, the boys started tinkering around with their methods that soon became known locally, nationally, and worldwide. People have talked about Voodoo Doughnut in Tibet, on Easter Island, Japan has some stylish folks sporting the latest Voodoo underpants, and friends have shared a buttermilk bar in Tanzania. I'm sure some corners of the globe have yet to be penetrated. Stay tuned!
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I've previously mentioned that the last time the US federal debt went down instead of up was 1957. This came up in a conversation again recently and I started thinking about the percentage change in the federal debt for each year. I looked at the period from 1958 to 2012, what I would call the modern era of federal debt.
I went back to the federal debt records, they go from 1790 to today. Dumped that data into a spreadsheet, then calculated the percentage change for each year from 1958 – 2012. I used the all actual numbers, I didn't attempt to normalize them to 2012 dollars since each year is just a comparison of the year before.
Copying that into Google Charts Javascript code generates this graph:
Percentage Change in Federal Debt, 1958-2012
You can mouse over each point to see the exact value for any given year.
A few observations on this graph. First, these are all increases, no negative numbers. Next, you'll easily notice that the year with the largest percentage increase was 1983, at 20.5%. The next highest increase was 2009, at 18.8%.
The highs weren't what most surprised me in this data, it was the lows. In 2000 the percentage increase in federal debt from 1999 was only 0.32%. That is the smallest percentage increase since 1957. I knew that we'd reduced the yearly budget deficits during that period, but I had no idea how close we were to actually reducing the total federal debt.
For 2000 the dollar increase of the federal debt was $17,907,308,271.43, or roughly $18 billion ( yes, billion with a b ). That sounds like a significant amount, but compared to other years is very small. To give you some idea of how small, in 2001 the percentage increase was 2.35%, the dollar amount was $133,285,202,313.20, more than 7 times the amount in 2000.
I wanted to know more about what it would have taken to actually reduce the total debt in 2000. The 2000 budget request expenditures were listed as $1,765 billion. To keep things simple I'm looking at this from the point of view of how much in spending cuts we would have needed in the 2000 budget to clear $18 billion that could have been used to reduce the total federal debt.
A little bit of math shows that $18 billion was 1.02% of the $1,765 billion in spending listed in the proposed 2000 federal budget.
Lets say we could find 1.1% in reductions in the budget to go towards paying down the debt. That would get us $19.4 billion. The first $18 billion would go to cover the increase that happened in the debt, leaving a $1.4 billion reduction in the total federal debt. That is only a tiny fraction of the $5,674 billion total debt in 2000, but it would have been the first time in more than 40 years that it went down instead of up.
All totally hypothetical and vastly over simplified, but this gave me a much clearer picture of the history of the federal debt.


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We all know about the whole time controversy that ensued when GameInformer published their preview of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, and that was not the accurate focus that should be given to this game when it comes down to the prologue.
Examiner.com had the chance to go hands-on with Ground Zeroes for well over seven hours recently, and we found that this game is about competition, perfecting the Metal Gear Solid version of stealth and finding the best ways to complete each mission.
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is not just comprised of the main story objectives players will enjoy, but it also sports a handful of varied, entertaining side ops. These bring different dynamics to the game's setting, missions and play styles for people.
While one mission will compliment a player who takes the absolute most caution when exploring the enemy's camp, another will reward a player for being a bit more aggressive in trying to complete a mission's objective.
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is about forcing players to challenge themselves, rethinking how they choose to approach each mission and trying to explore the world, which will help them find more efficient ways to complete an objective with the highest score possible.
Our experience with the game's control scheme yields a very conducive setup for expert players of the series, and it should be welcoming to newcomers of the franchise as well. For both veterans and rookies of the series, Ground Zeroes will serve as a very valuable tool to help you hone your stealth skills and prepare you for what is coming in The Phantom Pain.
Ground Zeroes' controls are very intuitive and are simple to pick up as players begin playing. It's important to make sure you completely understand the controls and how each of them work because if you don't know how to aim in the first-person, then you may find it harder to take out enemies from a distance.
From controls to the mental aspects of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, this game will force you to think and will not reward mindless, thoughtless play throughs.
While you may get lucky sprinting through a mission and actually completing it, that style of play will almost always get you killed. Besides, that is not the way this game is designed.
Ground Zeroes is all about exploring the best ways to complete missions, and to do this you will need to think about the design of each mission. While you may think a truck just sitting in the open isn't a tool for you to use to infiltrate the base, think again because it could very well be the best avenue of traversal.
As you get on the inside of a base, you may not want to go straight toward completing the objective, you may want to pause and think about how you are going to make your escape. This is a very necessary thing for you to contemplate.
Will the enemies you just passed be in the way of your upcoming escape? If so, take them out and make sure their bodies are not in place for other enemies to find.
Turning off cameras in a building isn't a bad idea either, but beware, going the extra mile to plan an escape may come with its own challenges.
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is a very cerebral experience and will force players to think about what they are doing. We found this to be a very intriguing, unexpected aspect of the game.
We found the AI behavior to be ruthless and authentic. This isn't like in Assassin's Creed, where if an enemy spots you, you can run around the corner and hide in the bushes and get away.
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes' enemy AI will know where you are and will not give up until they've either killed you or you've taken out all of the reinforcements sent your way. To reiterate though, it's not that simple to take out the surrounding enemies because they are effective in their aim and will take you down if you're not a lethal shot.
Cutscenes on both the PS4 and Xbox One are gorgeous, awe-inspiring cinematics for people to behold. They are a really appetizing teaser for what we will see in The Phantom Pain. Kiefer Sutherland may be a bit of an adjustment for the most hardcore Metal Gear Solid fans, but he fits in just fine.
Ground Zeroes' cinematics have been seamlessly integrated into the gameplay, which really makes us hope this is something that will carry over to The Phantom Pain. No loading times really helped us stay immersed in the experience and this is something we really hope to see in all next-gen games moving forward.
We did find the PS4 version of the game to be a bit better experience than what we experienced on the Xbox One. That said, the Xbox One is still a gorgeous experience and you'd expect the PS4 version to be slightly better since the PlayStation is the home console, if you will, for Metal Gear Solid.
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is an extremely intriguing introduction to the next-generation of the series, and it will challenge you to really question your own play styles and the way you approach any given mission.
It's a cerebral, mentally-challenging prologue and it will no doubt reward the most dedicated players for the duration of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and most likely, The Phantom Pain.
A two-hour experience Ground Zeroes is not, and we easily played the game for seven hours and still had plenty more to do.
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How to Get Rid of Bloating
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Bloating can cause severe discomfort and, unfortunately for many, bloating often becomes a recurring problem. The best way to get rid of bloating from your life is by making changes to your diet and increasing the amount of physical exercise in your life. For immediate relief, the best treatments are mild to moderate walking and over-the-counter medication. Here's what you need to know about both long-term and short-term bloating treatments.
Method 1
Physical Solutions
1Take a walk the next time you feel bloated. Roughly 5 to 20 minutes of rapid walking can aid in the digestive process.
- Rapid walking is preferable over leisurely walking.
- Walking is gentle enough to prevent further stomach upset, but it also provides enough physical activity to keep food and trapped air moving through the digestive tract. The increased heart rate and breathing causes the digestive muscles to push air and food through the intestines.
- Walking long enough to break a sweat offers an additional benefit. The production of sweat releases trapped fluids, eliminating excess water that may contribute to bloating.
2Try a sauna. Sitting in a sauna and sweating out the excess water retained during menstruation can reduce the bloating.
3Apply pressure to your stomach. Putting gentle pressure on your abdomen can ease physical stress on the stomach, reducing any present tension and bloating.[1]
- For five minutes, gently apply pressure in a small circular motion to a spot roughly four finger-widths above your belly button. This technique is known as acupressure.
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Medical Treatment
1Take an over-the-counter remedy. The right over-the-counter medicine for your bloating mostly depends on other symptoms and potential causes.
- Since most bloating is caused by a build-up of air or gas in the digestive tract, oral medication containing simethicone is usually called for. [2] This anti-foaming agent reduces bloating by cutting down on the amount of gas.
- If you suspect that your bloating could be induced by an intolerance to lactose, use an over-the-counter medication formulated to balance lactose levels.
- If your bloating is caused by menstruation, there are one or two over-the-counter medications that claim to combat menstrual cramping and bloating.
2See your doctor if the problem worsens. If you have persistent bloating that does not respond to home treatment, or if your bloating is accompanied by more severe symptoms, you should see a doctor to rule out potentially dangerous causes.
- See a doctor if your bloating is accompanied by diarrhea, constipation, severe abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, bloody stools, dramatic weight loss, fever, or chest pain.
- Potential causes of bloating include irritable bowel syndrome, Celiac disease, and ovarian cancer.[3]
Method 3
1Take steps to prevent bloating in the future. See How to Prevent Bloating
Community Q&A
Do you have any more tips?
What would cause one side of your body to be swollen in addition to bloated?
Can nicotine along with Crohn's disease cause constant stomach pains?
- Do not stop drinking water just because you feel bloated; dehydration will only make things worse!
- It is important to know that taking laxatives or forcibly throwing up will not make bloating go away, but rather make it worse with all the stomach acid and excess gas in your intestines.
Things You'll Need
- Fiber-rich foods
- Peppermint
- Parsley
- Water
- Probiotics
- Potassium-rich foods
- Over-the-counter medication
Sources and Citations
- ↑ http://www.cbsnews.com/8334-504763_162-57502017-10391704/from-bloating-to-hiccups-how-to-get-rid-of-annoying-health-problems/?pageNum=15
- ↑ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a682683.html
- ↑ http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/weight-loss/expert-advice/quick-answers/beat-belly-bloat/?page=3
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I was told there used to be rapids caused by a dam which no longer exists on the Blue River. And yes, the town square is round. Kind of like a huge traffic round-about, except this one has businesses and parking around it. And a police station in the middle.
According to an article in the February 2010 Kansas Explorer newsletter, this round town square was the focal point of a contest for teens looking for excitement back in the 1940s and 50s. The object: allow your automobile to coast (ignition off) from the top of the hill south of town into town and around the "square." Most times around the circle made you the winner.
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The Tenth Parallel
Griswold may be the first to explain how global warming intensifies religious conflict. For as she travels the climactically vulnerable region near 10 degrees latitude, she sees climate change exacerbating tensions dividing 700 million Muslims and 1.2 billion Christians. These tensions emerge in probing interviews with religious leaders—Christian and Muslim—aflame with spiritual passions now rare in the secular West. Yet Griswold also discovers how the West has helped incubate the region's interfaith hostility. It was, after all, Western colonizers whose arbitrary boundaries helped harden religious differences: in Sudan , for instance, the British established the tenth parallel as a partition between the Islamic north and the Christian south. More recently, it was the U.S.-led invasion of distant Afghanistan that triggered bloody clashes between Muslim and Christian mobs in the Middle Belt of Nigeria. And in Indonesia , Griswold listens to angry jihadists certain that the spread of fast-food restaurants signals a threatening Christian onslaught. Here and elsewhere Griswold teases out the threads of a complex fabric of religious doctrine, capitalist economics, ethnic pride, and power politics. Despite the complexities, Griswold retains her hope that authentic faith can yet transcend theological differences and foster peace. A compelling portrait of embattled human communities yearning for more-than-human succor.
– Bryce Christensen, Booklist (starred)
Griswold keenly investigates how the global clash of religions especially takes its toll on women and children. She visits religious leaders on both sides and debates finer points of their arguments. An important ongoing venture in the West's attempts to understand the conflicts of this region.
– Kirkus Reviews
Award-winning journalist Griswold chronicles her travels along the 10th parallel, the line of latitude 700 miles north of the equator and home to many Christian-Muslim standoffs. Griswold does her best to counter the received wisdom of interfaith fighting by astutely pointing out where religion is simply used as a tactic in a nonreligious conflict over land, resources, or the like. As examples of war-rejectors, multifaith, and environmental advocates, the author introduces many organizations and individuals with hopes for peace, such as the Nigerian pastor, who in addition to working with a Muslim imam to stop fighting between their communities, also distributes green stoves that burn less wood, thereby preventing further deforestation and possibly inter-religious fighting over land and rights. The reader also meets Nigerian Christian warriors, quasi-military Filipino Catholic gangs, and Indonesian jihadis who sell herbal cures door-to-door to raise funds. Though not a scholar of Islam, Griswold has a profound grasp of the misinterpretation and manipulation of Islam. Her insight that no single, unified sharia (Islamic law) exists is a conclusion that has eluded eluded more celebrated authors; among other perceptions, she notes that Islam was spread more by intermarriage than the sword. Always maintaining a journalist's objective view, Griswold, a published poet, nevertheless enchants the reader with her lush, flowing prose.
– Publishers Weekly (starred)
Eliza Griswold is a courageous reporter, a gifted writer, and an acute observer of life. In The Tenth Parallel she takes us on a crucially illuminating tour of some of the most volatile terrain in the world, acquainting us with people who are far away both spatially and culturally but whose fates are intertwined with our own.
– Robert Wright, author of The Evolution of God
Eliza Griswold's The Tenth Parallel deals with a geographical slice of the Muslim world spanning Africa and Asia. With a sharp eye and equally sharp wit, Griswold dissects the events and issues that have gripped the region, uncovering their nature through memorable encounters and personalities. The story brims with insightful details and instructive lessons. Seldom does a book of this nature ranging over such vast terrain succeed in maintaining a steady focus and an engaging lightness of touch. In her hands, Islam resounds through the voice of Muslims, and religion lives through its followers and devotees. The book is a triumph of the human imagination and capacity for intercultural exploration.
– Lamin Sanneh, author of Whose Religion is Christianity?
Eliza Griswold's talent runs through this book like a blinding light. Through her daring travel, quiet observation, empathy and gift for language, she humanizes and clarifies conflicts in Africa and Asia that are often neglected or misunderstood. The Tenth Parallel is both vitally important and beautifully written.
– Steve Coll, author of The Bin Ladens
Ingeniously conceived and beautifully wrought, The Tenth Parallel traces the uneasy fault line of two great faiths, which have so much bloody history between them. In exploring the potent tensions that underlie so many of the conflicts of the present age, Eliza Griswold gives us a rare look at how complex and interwoven these two cultures actually are.
– Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower
Eliza Griswold, poet and war correspondent, takes her readers on a journey through the birthplace of terror. She marches into unspeakably frightening places, alone, with only her pen as protection. And then she speaks. The poetry of Griswold's prose draws the reader in, even as she foretells great terrors to come. The Tenth Parallel is an important book by a courageous American.
– Jessica Stern, author of Terror In The Name Of God
In this revolutionary work, Griswold has dedicated the last seven years of her life to traveling in the world's least known places to explore the encounter between Christianity and Islam in Africa and Asia. She has brought back the unforgettable stories of Christians and Muslims along the tenth parallel whose faith is shaping the world's future. Griswold's courageous pilgrimage changes the way we think about Christianity and Islam by exploding any simplistic "clash" narrative. She returns us to the most basic truth of human existence: that the world and its people are interconnected.
– Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Based on years of first hand experience and observation, The Tenth Parallel is a deeply impressive achievement, which so often challenges our common assumptions. The book will be immensely rewarding for anyone who wants to make sense of the relationship between those long-estranged sister faiths, Christianity and Islam. It should be required reading for policy makers, and for anyone interested in the spiritual dimensions of the 'clash of civilizations.'
– Philip Jenkins, author of Jesus Wars
The Tenth Parallel is one of the most important books you will ever read. Eliza Griswold combines the fearlessness of an investigative journalist and the bold vision of a poet to take readers on a perilous journey along the fault line between Islam and Christianity. No one else could have written this book.
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Lisa and the Devil is the 1974 director's version of The House of Exorcism. Lisa is a tourist who bumps into a man named Leandro, who looks like the devil in a fresco she saw. Lisa hitches a ride with a couple back to her hotel, but the car breaks down at the mansion of a countess and her son, Maximillian. He is convinced that Lisa is the reincarnation of his dead girlfriend, Elena and kills the other guests because he feels they will stop him. Lisa tries to escape, but it turns out it is Leandro who has the last laugh.
This is a much better version than The House of Exorcism. Mostly because the sub-plot is cut from the main story. The viewer does end up feeling sorry for Lisa because she is unwittingly drawn back into the curse and can't escape it. Leandro is a surprisingly charming demon and Telly Savalas does a good job playing him. The film has an almost dreamlike atmosphere as if the story is taking place in a separate realm. Honolulu horror fans should watch this movie.
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