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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — She was a 13-year-old girl who said she was beaten daily by strangers who forced her to work unpaid in their home, and she wanted to escape.
Marilaine was one of 200,000 or more Haitian children called restaveks, typically serving as unpaid maids in strangers' homes, working for room and board. It is a vast system of child trafficking that is often characterized as a modern form of slavery. I followed Marilaine for a week in Haiti as she tried to flee, find her parents and start life over — and this is her story.
Marilaine grew up in a remote village where no family planning or public schooling is available, one of 12 children to impoverished parents who later separated. As Marilaine tells the story, one day when she was 10 years old, she walked to her father's house to ask him to help pay her school fees. Instead, he dispatched her here to the capital to work as a restavek, a Creole term used to describe child laborers, without even telling her mother.
"My father didn't want to spend money on my school fees," Marilaine explained.
As is common for restaveks, Marilaine slept on the floor and woke up at 5 each morning to clean the house, fetch water and wash dishes. She says she was beaten daily with electrical cords.
Marilaine was allowed no contact with her family. Once, she says, she tried to run away but was caught and beaten. At school, she often cried, and she had scars on her arms and legs from beatings.
Yet the restavek system isn't always slavery. Sometimes the child gets more food and education than would have been the case in her own family (two-thirds of restaveks are girls). Marilaine says that she was fed properly and that she was also allowed to attend a free afternoon school.
Many Haitian restaveks are treated much worse. One 12-year-old restavek I interviewed said that she rises at 4 each morning to get everything ready for "the princesses," as she calls the teenage girls in the house. Everyone in the house beats her, she says, and they refuse to let her see her mother for fear that she might run away.
An aid group called the Restavek Freedom Foundation helped Marilaine escape her home and find refuge in a safe house for restaveks. The mood was festive in the beautiful home as the dozen girls living there cheered Marilaine's arrival and hugged her.
Marilaine picked up a book, telling me that she wasn't allowed to touch books at her old house. She tried on new clothes. She slept in a bed.
But the family that Marilaine had been working for was furious. I visited the woman of the house, and she insisted that she had never beaten the girl and that Marilaine had in effect been kidnapped from her.
The leader of the neighborhood association, Junior Pataud, offered a conflicting defense. "In Haitian culture, it's normal to beat a child," he said. "But that's not the same as mistreatment."
The next day, the neighbors gathered angrily outside the school Marilaine had attended, blaming it for the girl's escape and threatening to set fire to it unless Marilaine was returned. After hours of tense negotiations, the police averted a riot.
A few days later, I drove for several hours with the police and the Restavek Freedom Foundation to Marilaine's village. When Marilaine stepped out of the car, family members and neighbors were stunned. They had assumed that she had died years ago.
Yet the reunion was a letdown. Marilaine's mom didn't seem at all thrilled to see her daughter again, and Marilaine quickly made it clear that she wanted to return to the safe house in the capital so that she could attend a good school. The police told Marilaine that she would have to stay in the village with her family, and she burst into tears.
The authorities will probably eventually let Marilaine return to the Restavek Freedom Foundation safe house, but the episode was a reminder that helping people is a complex, uphill task — and that the underlying problem behind human trafficking is poverty.
One way to fight such human trafficking would be to provide free and accessible birth control, so that women like Marilaine's mother don't end up with 12 children that they struggle to feed.
Another would be to provide free public education, so that parents don't feel that the only way to get schooling for their children is to send them off as restaveks.
That's why what's at stake in fighting global poverty isn't just poor people's incomes. It's also dignity and freedom — and the right of a girl to grow up in something better than quasi slavery.
My New Year's wish: May Marilaine in 2014 finally find freedom and an education.


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Adam opens the show talking with UCLA coach Jim Mora about the team's breakout season. They also talk about being raised by a coach, and how the college athletic system has changed over the years. Kevin Nealon then drops by and talks with Adam about why Adam is uninterested in golf and why Caddyshack is an overrated movie.
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An official close to the investigation says the fire at the Santa Monica house where a gunman began his killing rampage last week was intentionally set.
The official, who requested anonymity because the information had not yet been publicly released, said Wednesday that fires were started in a front living room and atop one of two twin beds in a room of the house.
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Several boxes of matches were also found in the bedroom.
Firefighters found the bodies of the gunman's father and brother in a bedroom that was uninvolved in the blaze. The coroner's office says the father of John Zawahri died of multiple gunshots and his brother died from a shot to the chest.
Zawahri killed three more people before police killed him in the Santa Monica College library.


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I'm sure by now many of you have heard the song "World Peace" by Billboard stalwart and general musical goddess, Rihanna. However if you've been looking for it on the U.S. iTunes Store you're out of luck. It's currently only available in the Barbados iTunes Store.
I'm convinced she just happened to place the song(s) there for safekeeping since chances are, no one realizes that they're there to begin with!
Ironically, my iTunes account is set to the U.S. and I can't access the store of my native country… You win Rihanna, I'll wait until you release it on the continent.
Okay so this is all a lie. Sigh, but wouldn't it have been cool?


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As if the 3D trend spreading back in time and infecting older films like Titanic wasn't bad enough, it now appears to be spreading outside of movies and TV. In Japan, Sharp has introduced what they claim to be the world's first 3D fan.
We had no idea the fans we'd been using all these years were limited to just two dimensions, but Sharp's newest model can pivot up and down, in addition to the more traditional left and right motions. So not only is it better equipped to send a cooling breeze towards all corners of a room, but it also means the actual fan head and blades can be more compact. And, most importantly, you won't walk out of a comfortably-cooled room with a splitting headache. [DigInfo]


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In the early I990s the Arab world has witnessed an extraordinary publishing phenomenon. An 800 page book on Islam, Al-kitab wa'lqur'an: qira'a mu'asira (The Book and the Qur'an: a contemporary reading), was first published by the Ahali Publishing House Damascus in 1990. The book challenges a millennium of Islamic tradition. It is highly critical of the social, political and intellectual state of contemporary Arab countries. The author has been denounced as 'an enemy of Islam' and as 'a Western and Zionist agent'. To date eleven other books have been written attacking his theses.
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Instead of the usual guest segment, Downtown are 'missing' so the rest of the cast talk amongst themselves through the window holes about moments they remember from past guest interviews. Housei is eventually encouraged by the others to take Downtown's seat alone, for better or worse.
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Terrific Kid-Pleasing Picnic Ideas
Say "picnic" to children and watch their faces light up. Magic happens when meals are eaten in the open air. Maybe it's eating in a different place—outdoors, on the ground—with no table or chairs! Maybe it's the special picnic food, the easy-to-transport-and-nibble treats. Even spontaneous rainy-day picnics inside on the family room rug guarantee delight. Kids also adore the opportunity to cook, so double the fun by letting them prepare their own picnic goodies.
Make these kid-friendly picnic favorites
Picnic foods kids make themselves needn't be complicated. Think no-cook snacks and bite-size finger food, simple sandwiches, cheese sticks, fruit and veggie chunks, drinkable yogurt cups, and you're there. A little adult supervision is the trick to get things ready.
- Combine handfuls of small crackers, dried cranberries or raisins, almonds, and a favorite dry cereal for a jazzy trail mix.
- Make rainbow fruit wands alternating apple, pear, melon, or pineapple chunks, strawberries, and grapes on wooden skewers; for safety's sake, break off the pointed end after the fruit is on.
- Use rolls of sliced ham or turkey, cooked hot-dog or tofu-dog chunks, green pepper slices, stuffed olives, and cheese cubes to vary skewer combinations.
- Make funny face sandwiches using a 3- or 4-inch (8- to 10-cm) round cookie cutter to cut out bread slice circles. Place a circle of cheese on the bread and use cucumber rounds, pepper slices, cherry tomato halves, and sliced olives to make eyes, nose, eyebrows, and mouth.
- Spread whole-wheat tortillas with softened cream cheese, then layer your child's favorite salad leaves, turkey or ham slices, and grated carrots; roll them up and they're ready to go. "Hold them together with a party toothpick and they'll look pretty, too," advises Gillen Freebing, age 13, of Memphis, Tennessee.
- Toss precooked bow tie or elbow pasta with mayo, peas, and halved cherry tomatoes; season with salt and pepper for a tasty picnic salad.
- Stash water bottles or juice boxes in the freezer an hour before leaving so they're super cold; add fizzy water to juice for a soda substitute.
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Ensure kids have a super-fine picnic by packing these basics in their basket:
- Large blanket or tablecloth to sit on
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Bildad's Third Speech. 1* Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2Dominion and dread are his
who brings about harmony in his heavens.
3Is there any numbering of his troops?*
Yet on which of them does his light not rise?
4How can anyone be in the right against God,a
or how can any born of woman be innocent?
5Even the moon is not bright
and the stars are not clean in his eyes.
6How much less a human being, who is but a worm,
a mortal, who is only a maggot?b
* [25:1] At this point any structure in the dialogues disappears. Bildad's speech is very short, and there follow two speeches attributed to Job, with significantly different introductions in 27:1 and 29:1, and with no intervening third speech of Zophar.
* [25:3] His troops: the heavenly host, or army, the stars (cf. Jgs 5:20), later understood as angels.
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Reuters – European aerospace and defence group EADS and partner Northrop Grumman say they will continue to work with the German government on a drone project that Berlin cancelled earlier this month.
Germany scrapped the plans to purchase and modify Euro Hawk reconnaissance drones because of the cost of meeting standards required to win aviation approval.
A resulting row over whether taxpayers' money has been squandered has dominated German media and also threatens to tarnish the reputation of Thomas de Maiziere, defence minister and one of Chancellor Angela Merkel's most trusted cabinet members, just four months before an election.
The makers said in a joint statement on Monday that they would continue to work with the customer to address any concerns.
"The team will provide an affordable and achievable plan to complete flight testing of the initial asset and the eventual production and fielding of the full system of four additional aircraft," they said.
They described reports of problems with the aircraft's flight control system and excessive costs of completing the airworthiness certification as "inaccurate".
Internal government documents put the additional costs of getting the airworthiness approval at around 500 million-600 million euros ($647-$776 million), without any guarantee that approval would be achieved.
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German armed forces already have one prototype Euro Hawk and were considering whether to buy an additional four drones. Germany had earmarked 1.2 billion euros for the purchase and development of the aircraft.


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Neoteny is the retention, by adults in a species, of traits previously seen only in juveniles, and is a field studied - you at the back, stop talking - is a field studied in developmental biology. In neoteny, the development of an animal, organism or squiggly thing is - I said stop talking - is slowed or delayed. Ultimately this process results in the retention of juvenile characteristics well into - switch that off and face the front - well into maturity.
In vertebrate biology, neoteny is most easily identified when sexually mature - stop giggling - sexually mature - I won't tell you again - sexually mature juveniles or larva are found. Specific individual traits that appear childlike, such as increased capacity to learn, sparse body hair and collecting action figures may be - I hope you've brought enough for everybody - may be considered neotenous.
Neoteny in evolution[edit]
Neoteny is very important in evolotion. It allows animals to act like n00bs but actually be pros. Neoteny happens when the genes responsible for mutation become inactive, thereby keeping the animal in its n00b form. Normally, like, being more n00bish would be a disadvantage, but sometimes environmental changes happen which make being a n00b evolutionarily good. Like if there's a totally underpowered class like a Pally which only a n00b would take, and there's a patch released that makes that class good, and then being a n00b for a bit would help.
Examples of neoteny include dogs, dodos, goblins, and humans. These are recognisable by their lack of flying ability, lack of hair and weak strength levels. For example, dwarves are stronger, have lots of body hair and stop growing earlier, compared to humans, proving that humans are a kind of dwarf.
Neoteny in humans[edit]
It has been debatted wether neteony affects people. Some people say it does, some people say it doesn't, we just don't know at the moment. Humans have a lot of similaritys to the chimps, a kind of monkey. Some people say that the baldness of humans is like baby chimps, but my dad's balder than me and he's more like a gorilla than a baby chimp. And my grannys way older than my dad but she's like a baby cos she's small and always peeing herself, so that could be neteony too.
There are many things that people have said that might be caused by neteony in people. These are a higher level of inteligense and cuirrosity comppared to our nearest relatives, (specialy uncle Stan) and bigger boobies and bum on women. Teacher's only got a big bum, so she's half-neteonuos. Mister Keller the Janitors got a big bum and boobies, but he's a man so I don't know what to think about that. Mister McCock the PE teacher hasn't got a big bum or boobies but he's always talking about them when hes watching us get changed, so you could say that he's cuirrous.
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|Caesar Robbins House, Concord, Massachusetts
This lovely house is situated in a most unusual location. Practically in a parking lot, not any parking lot, but one that belongs to the National Park Service at the site of the Old North Bridge in Concord. For the better part of 2012-2013, I wondered what this was going to be, perhaps a visitor's center at the entrance to the Bridge. Last year, I finally noticed a sign, so my husband and I walked to it and around the house. When it opens this year, in late spring, I will take a tour, and post new photos here.
The Caesar Robbins House
Concord's African American and Abolitionist History CenterThe below information about Caesar Robbins and the house came from the DrinkingGourdProject.
"The Robbins House is a home built by the son of slavery survivor and Revolutionary War veteran Caesar Robbins in the early 1800s. This house was originally located on a small farm at the edge of Concord's Great Meadows, in an area where a handful of self-emancipated Africans and their families established their homes. The last African American occupants left the house in the 1860s, and in the winter of 1870-71 the building was moved to Bedford St. In 2011 the Drinking Gourd Project moved the house to land adjacent to the North Bridge parking lot, where it is prominently displayed for Concord visitors. It will serve as an interpretive center for Concord's early African history."
What I saw, peeking into a window (above and below).
The house, taken from the parking lot, a few days ago.Article with photos of the house being moved.
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|Becky (Boo Boo) and Chery, 1961.
Richmond, California.
While growing up in the Bay Area, my mother's Norwegian-American relatives lived mostly in Oregon and Minnesota--too far off to see during the holidays. Dad's family was close by, so we exchanged many visits for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Dad never minded cooking the turkey. Each year, one was provided to him for the holiday season as an employee of the Bell Packing Company in Berkeley. He loved the attention that cooking the turkey brought, being an extrovert who craved attention and interaction and didn't get enough of either. So, Thanksgivings were often held at our house. There was little to look forward to aside from the company and the meal, because in the Bay Area, you don't get brisk weather and beautiful fall colors; instead, you get rain.
The only other time I remember Dad being interested in cooking was when he taught my little sister to make a sandwich, all the while singing: "...a pickle in the middle with the mustard on top!"
|Dad (Bill Wheeler) and his turkey.
Thanksgiving Day, 1965, El Cerrito, California.
Uncle Bob
Bob was the proverbial "bachelor uncle" who came to each family gathering equipped with a pocket protector, and all the latest gadgets and accompanying knowledge. Tallish and slender with dark hair and black rimmed glasses, he looked like the stereotype of the engineer that he was. Bob worked for the 3-M Company, and in his spare time he tinkered with his old Volkswagen and all the technical toys his workplace could provide. Due to the nature of his job, his holiday gifts were amazing. For me, they included my first portable tape player (no, I mean the early kind, with REELS), and a telescope just at the moment when astronomy had become my passion. Oh, every kid from an income-challenged family deserves an uncle like Bob.
Buzz was one of those rare creatures who actually made a decent living as a musician. His real name was Elmer, but, come on... if you were part of the San Francisco Beat scene, wouldn't you be tempted to change your name?
San Francisco has always had a nonconformist reputation. In the 1950s, it served as a catalyst for social change and the avant-guard, which included the Beat generation. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen coined the term "Beatniks" to describe the young writers, philosophers, and poets who gravitated to the North Beach area in search of artistic freedom and intellectual expression. "Beatniks" was originally meant to be an unflattering term, but was later embraced to become sort of a badge of honor.[1]
From about 1948 on, the Purple Onion, a celebrated cellar club in the North Beach area, personified the Beat era with its jazz and folk music, and smoky ambiance. Buzz was the resident bass player at the Purple Onion for many years. The intimate, 80-person setting hosted many up and coming entertainers: Woody Allen, Phyllis Diller, the Smothers Brothers, and the Kingston Trio, to name a few.[2]
Excerpt from the Oakland Tribune, 16 July, 1958, p.35, col.6
...Tonight is the night to revel it up a little with the East Bay chapter of the Hungry i, Purple Onion and Opus I. If you are considered avant garde in your circle--this is aimed as a direct suggestion. Buzz Wheeler at the piano, Gene Duncan's "Jericho" and Carol Frances are all people to go home talking about. Nightly except Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.
Buzz's main instrument was the piano, but as a highly respected bass player on the Beat scene, he was sought after by many other musicians. He performed with Charles Mingus, and was included on the 1949 recording of "Lyon's Roar" and "Pennies from Heaven" from the LP: "Baron Mingus and his Rhythm."[3]
He also played upright bass on all of the tracks on the Kingston Trio's first album (Scotch and Soda, recorded on February 5, 1958. Album: THE KINGSTON TRIO, Capitol T-996. Released June 2, 1958). Buzz was enlisted in order to give "some polish to the group's somewhat rough, 'homegrown' accompaniment." The track provided Buzz with a "showcase that decades of future bass practitioners have envied and sought to emulate."[4]Scotch and Soda
(partial lyrics)
Scotch and soda, mud in your eye.
Baby, do I feel high,
oh, me, oh, my. Do I feel high.
Dry martini, jigger of gin.
Oh, what a spell you've got me in,
oh, my. Do I feel high.
And, if you ever watch old Woody Woodpecker cartoons, listen carefully to those jazz tracks that include a bass... that's Buzz, too!
Buzz's wife, Marge, was also in the music business. She sang, while Buzz played accompaniment on the piano, and writers, lurkers, and music lovers sat in half-lit shadows, clinking their whiskey-flavored ice cubes and stirring martinis with stemmed cherries.
When I knew Marge, her long, straight and frizzy red hair, which she always wore in a high ponytail, had faded mostly to grey. But, in earlier days, with that pretty, welcoming face and red ponytail, she must have looked striking on stage in a black turtleneck and leggings.
Her sweet, breathy voice turned raspy after years of hard smoking, but her everyday speech was lyrical in itself. Marge was relaxed and she knew how to laugh. She was also a huggy-kissy person, much to my mother's dismay, but not in an ungenuine way. It's just that Mom's rather stoic farm upbringing dictated that while it was okay to kiss one's children on the lips, the line should be drawn at in-laws.
When I was a child, I had no knowledge of Marge's artistic inclinations. It was amazing enough that her favorite color was orange and that she shopped regularly at import stores. I didn't even know where to find one.
Grandpa McKinley and Grandma Margaret
McKinley had the congenial and deliberate air of a southern gent, but he hailed from the Midwest. He was fond of wearing western ties with white shirts. Unfortunately, that gentlemanly air hid something much darker that many family members knew nothing about until years after his death.
His wife, Margaret, was a woman who would give you the blouse off her back, but if she talked you into her big white Pontiac to let her help you run an errand, she would soon have you hiding in the back seat, under a blanket, repeating a prayer. Everything about Margaret was fast. She drove fast, talked fast, and she walked fast. As a matter of fact, she ran: in the house, and outside. Margaret always ran instead of walked, and she wore her slippers everywhere.
Margaret had three sisters who were close in age: Lillian, Florence, and Vivian. The sisters must have had a lot of fun growing up together in the urban Bay Area, when rapid growth following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake changed everyone's life for the better. One can image them sitting for a photograph on the steps of a glorious old Victorian house, posing in proper, lacy, white dresses with huge satin bows at the backs of their long tresses. Straining to hold both breath and facial expression for a minute, when given the signal they rose in a competitive, congenial whirlwind, as only sisters can do.
The Cousins
I had a cousin who was exactly the same age as me, and one who was younger. But, it was their two older sisters who provided the most entertainment.
To a 1960s pre-teen girl, the world of makeup, hair, clothes, and dating was like a different planet. Just sitting and listening to these girls talk provided plenty of input to digest until the next Thanksgiving rolled around. It was even more exciting when a Scottish cousin moved in with the family to get an American education, and joined the holiday mix. Fresh from the land of the Beatles (Edinburgh was close enough), with bright red hair and copious freckles, Jane was like heather wine, an exotic representative of the world at large.
The others complained that Jane liked to tell stories in order to get attention. I wouldn't have known the difference, because I had a hard enough time understanding her thick accent, anyway. But, I did enjoy my alone time with Jane once when she spent the night, and we giggled under the blankets with our "Black Cow" candy after being frightened by the movie, "Creature from the Black Lagoon."
Afterwards, she told me a story about her school, and how the boys and girls had physical ed class together. One day, the girls somehow all lost their uniforms and the teacher made them go to class in their underwear. I asked, "Didn't the boys mind?" She replied in all seriousness: "No, of course not!" She was 13 or 14, and I was 10, and maybe she hadn't realized I was just a tad too young to get the joke.
Uncle Ralph and Aunt Evelyn did their best to keep their charges in line, but the notion of a family having by-laws and using allowances and fines was strange to me. It was even stranger to think that a girl could get punished for something like wearing green eyeshadow. Worse than that was the idea that you could actually break a rule and live to tell about it. (Okay, so I was pretty naive.)
The people who filled the holidays of my early years are remembered and respected for the uniqueness they each brought to the family. There may never be another gathering for me quite like those of my childhood, but family interaction is important to the human spirit, especially to an impressionable young person. It is in the early years that indelible bonds and impressions are forged, and though the effects may not be realized immediately, they are long lasting.
So, go forth and make happy memories. The stress of modern life should not deter us from making human connections. Best yet, be sure to record those memories for generations to come.
A very happy and memorable Thanksgiving to you all.
1 San Francisco: In Depth: History: The 1950's: The Beats, http://www.frommers.com/destinations/sanfrancisco/0029033658.html
2 Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purple_Onion
3 The Charles Mingus Catalog, http://www.jazzdisco.org/mingus/cat/a/
4 The Kingston Trio: The Guard Years: http://www.lazyka.com/linernotes/trio_01(Guard,Rynolds,Shane)/GuardYrsPages/.


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Set in the 2050's,the development of enhanced DNA sequencing and nano-technology has seen rapid advancements in cybernetic engineering. Governments of the world act as the puppets of global mega corporations. These corporations use legal and illegal means to gain more power. From 2020 onwards it was commonplace for corporations to steal, exterminate and blackmail other corporations especially where legal means are denied or are too expensive. They develop their own infiltration forces to get these jobs done above and also spend vast amounts of money on security systems and resources to protect their own interests. Hostile Takeover 2050 is a fast paced action game, which combines elements of teamwork, unique character traits for infiltrators and respawnable security guards.
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SE Texas writers on either side of the law tell their stories
Life in Southeast Texas is many things, but it is seldom uneventful.
The stuff of lives packed with drama and upheaval inspires some who never fancied themselves as writers to tell their stories.
For others, writing is an escape - a happy respite from dealing with daily grim realities.
Then there are the novelists and the historians.
Writers like Frances Collins and Jeffery Hopper hope their stories will inspire others.
Although they took very different paths for very different reasons, both their paths led for a time through federal prison - and both eventually made their way to a deep Christian faith.
'Seashell Prisoners' by Frances Collins
In 1994, Collins, known as Frances Harris at the time, became a wanted fugitive when she left the country with her 3-year-old granddaughter, Nocona Lynn Smith. An otherwise law-abiding citizen, Collins made this drastic move to protect the toddler from alleged abuse.
Her story, which was heavily covered by Southeast Texas media as it unfolded, took her from Orange, Texas, through Central America to Roatan, an island off the Honduras coast.
Her book chronicles her battle with the courts, her eight-year odyssey with her granddaughter, their return to the United States and her prison term.
"My one desire is in some small way this book might help someone better understand an area of their life they are struggling with ... whether it be a legal problem, human nature, child abuse or a question about God," she said in an introduction.
More information about "Seashell Prisoners" can be found on Facebook.
'Stealing Vegas' by Jeffery Hopper
Hopper was 26 in 1992, when his father persuaded him to participate in a daring daylight robbery of a Las Vegas casino. It didn't take much - just an envelope stuffed with $5,000 that convinced him to tell off his boss and leave to embark on the criminal enterprise with his father, brother and an accomplice.
The robbers were subsequently arrested, charged and sentenced to federal prison time. But Hopper's is not a story of jailhouse conversion. He did his time, got out and set about rebuilding his life, but it wasn't until he nearly died in a workplace accident that he really began to think of the way he'd been living - and that he needed to change.
After he recovered, Hopper became interested in ministry, finally going through seminary, graduating from Concordia Theological Seminary in Indiana. Since then, he has worked with the dying in hospice, and has begun doing prison ministry in Louisiana, working with both youth and adult inmates.
Although not a professional writer, Hopper said the story came easily - "it wrote itself."
His story is the stuff of action movies on the big screen, but he did not write it to glamorize crime, he said. The point is the moral to the story - everything he has learned since April 6, 1992, the day of the heist.
"It saved my life when I got arrested," he said. "A lot of guys are like that."
Now he works on being the father to his two young sons he was not able to be to his grown daughter.
He wants them to know his past and how it has made him the law-abiding, sober man they know today.
But it wasn't until he embarked on his hospice work that he began to get a sense of what is important in life.
"When you have the chance to love someone, don't pass it up," he said. "They may be gone. They may be gone in 30 minutes."
Publication is still pending on Hopper's book by Bush Publishing. Tentative date is Feb. 28.
'Annabelle's Vacation with Grandma Hayley' by LinMarie Garsee
A licensed private detective by day, Garsee writes children's books and makes quilts as a diversion from dealing with life's seamier side in her work.
"Children's books are a great diversion from the crime world," she said.
The story, which contains autobiographical elements, is about how Annabelle learns to quilt while visiting her grandma. The point of the story is the way that words sometimes have two meanings. In quilting, the words charm, cake, jelly roll and cinnamon bun mean very different things than their common meaning.
"Educating a child is one of the greatest things," she said. "I want my love for quilting to pass on to other generations."
Garsee, who previously published a true crime book, "Justice for Lorinda," began writing children's books about two years ago. Her first effort is "The Four Little Kittens," a book enjoyed by children and adults alike, Garsee said.
The Annabelle book is suited to elementary school aged children.
Her books are illustrated by a Conroe artist, Joe Cob.
She tells him what she visualizes for her stories and he makes it happen.
"It's like he reads my brain, so it's a good 'marriage,'" she said.
Her books are available at Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, Books a Million and Garsee's office. For more information, visit her Facebook page.
'The Road from Perdition' by J.R. Stone
Stone's novel takes some true elements and weaves a fictional journey.
Stone, 50, grew up in Groves and lived there for many years before moving out of state.
The plot follows a young boy who witnesses a horrible crime - based on a real life murder-suicide in Jefferson County that haunted Stone for many years.
The story's protagonist escapes from foster care and runs away to New Orleans, where he is befriended by a drag queen who gives him a job in his French Quarter bar.
"A host of colorful characters" becomes a family of sorts for him - but the demons from his past still haunt him, eventually forcing him to leave the only happy home he has ever known in search of peace.
Although dark in tone in places, hope is the main point of the exercise.
"I felt that I needed to write a novel with a similar tragedy and tell the story with a totally different set of circumstances. It was almost a release in a way, playing the 'what if' game," Stone wrote in an email.
"Life deals you the cards you are given and you have to play them the best way you know how. Writing the novel helped me to give that memory a bit of hope at the end."
Stone's book is available through Amazon and Kindel. Stone is on Twitter and Facebook.
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Yours truly, effortlessly floating in the Dead Sea, at -400m elevation. Undoubtedly, the lowest point of my entire life, but loving every minute of it!
The concentration of salt in the Dead Sea allows even the most overweight American (present company included) to not only float but buoy so carelessly that I was able to carry in my point and shoot camera without fear of wetting it. In the 10 minutes I leisurely bobbed around the water, I don't recall ever having a bigger smile in my life. Such is the joy the Dead Sea brings to all those that step in its waters. Unfortunately, I didn't partake in the "rubbing of mud on exposed skin" portion of Dead Sea customs. Why? Let's say, I was in a rush to shower.
No guide book ever writes this, perhaps due to its delicate nature, but the Dead Sea is so briny, contact with its water on the lips, eyes or similarly sensitive dermal areas causes intense burning pain. The water, however, did not contact my lips or eyes. Instead, it made contact down there; the other part of your body that can pucker like the lips. The pain was absolutely intense and it had me running to the resort's provided showers to dilute the salt water around my holiest of holies. Afterwards, my hotel owner informed me many people apply a generous helping of Vaseline to the area before taking a dip. That piece of advice would've been nice to know before I went swimming!
On a side note: Please pardon the air bubbles being released near my waist. I wish I can make a reasonable excuse however years have passed since I took this photo. I vaguely recall having eaten spicy lamb kebabs the night before. I'm just sayin'.
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The Eddleston Water is a small, upland tributary of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders, which has been selected as a demonstration research catchment by the Scottish Government for promoting Natural Flood Management.
Over time, as in many rural valleys, the course of the Eddleston Water has been channelised and straightened, and the land has been drained to improve agricultural production.
Such changes have caused a loss of habitat diversity, and have increased the amount of rainwater run-off and the speed at which it flows through the catchment, which have led to an increased risk of flooding in Eddleston village and the town of Peebles downstream.
The Eddleston Water Floodplain Project is a joint effort by a number of organisations to investigate and reduce the impact of flooding in the Eddleston catchment, a large part of which has been supported and funded by the Scottish Government.
The BGS, in partnership with the University of Dundee, is carrying out new research at a site near Eddleston village into the role groundwater plays in flooding in this kind of environment. Other work to investigate and reduce the impact of flooding in the Eddleston catchment is being done by the Tweed Forum and SEPA.
Already we're seeing that groundwater throughout the Eddleston floodplain is closely linked to surface water (rivers, soil water and wetlands).
Depending on the local environment and the weather, groundwater can mitigate, exacerbate or cause flooding. It is therefore important that natural flood management measures assess and take into account groundwater if they are to be fully effective.
The BGS and the University of Dundee are working on an experimental site approximately 0.3 km2 in area, which includes most of the width of the Eddleston Water floodplain on both sides of the river.
It is a rural site, with a diverse range of land uses including mixed livestock farming on improved grassland, arable farming, established forest shelter belts, deciduous woodlands, and a riverbank strip of unimproved grassland.
Since 2010 we have been characterising the geology, soils, hydrology and hydrogeology of the site and have set up ongoing monitoring of groundwater, soil moisture, river flow, and climate.
Between summer 2010 and the end of 2011, the BGS and the University of Dundee carried out extensive work to characterise the shallow, Quaternary subsurface environment — the glacial and post-glacial geology, hydrogeology and soil hydrology — of the experimental site at Eddleston.
This work included:
A monitoring phase was started shortly after the initial characterisation of the Eddleston experimental site. We installed equipment to monitor soil moisture, groundwater levels and temperature, and groundwater chemistry over time; the data from which will improve our understanding of the dynamic workings of the floodplain environment.
Contact Brighid Ó Dochartaigh for further information