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Mr. Adnan Oktar's live conversation with Freemason leaders from around the world
SADUN ENGIN:Our dear viewers we are again with you. At the moment we are here together with our guests. Our Mason friends have come from abroad. Let me go on by introducing them to you one by one. Mr. Todd William Kissam, Mr. Peter Reardon, Mr. Karl Gunnar Hultland and Mr. Mike Moore are here with us. They all come from different countries. From Sweeden and America. Our guests here are among the highest rank masons especially in Sweden and in America as well of course. Master, how would you like me to go on?
ADNAN OKTAR:Well, let us give the floor to our guests. Let them give some additional brief information about themselves. Then we can go on.
TOD WILLIAM KISSAM:Thank you for having me. In my heart I am recognizing on this table already the Atlas of Creation. That in the United States came to my very church, and it is still there in the old church building.
ADNAN OKTAR:Masha'Allah.
TOD WILLIAM KISSAM:Yes, I recognized it. My name is Tod Kissam, I am a Freemason. In the United States I am also a Christian priest which goes without saying that I believe in God.
ADNAN OKTAR:Masha'Allah, Masha'Allah. You go on.
PETER REARDON:Peter Reardon. I am a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Freemason and in Austin Texas where I live, I am the director of the [Great] Work. I am a Christian Freemason.
KARL GUNNAR HULTLAND:My name is Karl Hultland and I'm from Sweden. And I am a member of the Swedish Order of Freemasons, and I am a Christian Freemason.
MIKE MOORE:I'm Mike Moore. I'm a historian and a writer and a staff writer also. In my church I am a Presbyterian elder, and a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Freemason.
ADNAN OKTAR:So he is a member of his church, he is a Christian and a mason at the same time. Yes.
We are living in the End Times. We are in the times that are imminent to the Last Day. According to our belief the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) has come and we believe that Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) who is the leader of the Muslims has come as well and we believe that these two holy people will unite and make Islam prevail in the world.
The wars in the world will come to an end. The weapons will be removed. The whole world will unite in Islam and become brothers. This will happen without any oppression, without any compulsion, but with love, beauty, art and science insha'Allah.
Fanaticism, terrorism, the system of the dajjal, meaning the anti-christ way of thinking will be wiped off the face of this world in this century, within the coming 70 years.
ADNAN OKTAR:Insha'Allah. What are your opinions about Islam, about the Qur'an and about our Prophet, the Prophet Mohammed (saas)? Let us hear about these.
TOD WILLIAM KISSAM:My personal experience just here in Istanbul these past few days, not only the gracious hospitality of yourself sir, but the hospitality of God coming through the people of Istanbul. I've heard before of the call to prayer from the mosques but I've never experienced it and how it warms the heart to know that people are coming together to pray. And we were altogether in the Blue Mosque the other day in prayer, in the sacred hospitality, so important. And I think the hallmark, the very peace of Islam, that is so important to the world today.
ADNAN OKTAR:Masha'Allah.
PETER REARDON:Our experience here in Istanbul in meeting the fabulously faithful people, the true religious people here, in Istanbul, Turkey. The experience of their religiosity and that we were invited to the Blue Mosque, and that we were, entered with open arms and we were allowed to pray. We had that experience, that transformative experience, outstanding, fantastic. And I will always remember and I will always be thankful .
ADNAN OKTAR:Masha'Allah, Masha'Allah. That is great.
KARL GUNNAR HULTLAND:It was a very deep religious experience to enter the Blue Mosque and to pray [as] Christians and Muslims side by side. And I really feel as a Christian that the Prophet (pbuh) will be able to find us guidelines for how we are to act even though we are of different faiths, we have the same God.
ADNAN OKTAR:Masha'Allah, Masha'Allah. Please you go on.
MIKE MOORE:I'd like to answer in two parts on this. First that it's been real nice to get to know these brothers because I had not known them before. But I find that good moral quality men have a bond and that bond is we've known each other maybe three days but we're friends. I find that my Muslim host here and I feel that same bond and it's nice to see good quality, religious men transcend place and religion.
And also that the picture I've seen here is a lot different than what is portrayed for Islam sometimes throughout the world. They are just two opposites. It's been very open, compassionate, generous and very good to see.
ADNAN OKTAR:You will all insha'Allah become the students of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). In a very near future, the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will insha'Allah establish a great brotherhood in the whole world and we will insha'Allah altogether see that the whole world will become Islam. But the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will do this with love, compassion and with his beautiful morality as always.
As you already know the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was very beautiful mannered person and he was full of love and his face was very beautiful. Allah had taken him to His Sight, He had taken him to a different dimension and now he is again in the dimension of this world. When people see the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) they will all be amazed, they will be very very surprised, they will be astonished and they will experience the happiness and joy of this. During the time the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is among us, the Ark of the Covenant will be found as well, insha'Allah. The originals of the Torah and the Gospel will be found, many holy relics will be found and the whole world will experience the excitement and the shock of these incidents.
And the Mahdi will probably... Well, there is a great wisdom in your visit to the Blue Mosque as well. Hagia Sophia Mosque and the Blue Mosque are very key locations. We understand that it is the point and the area in which the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will meet. Our Prophet (saas) says that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will push Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) forward from his back and have him lead the prayer. Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will first invite the Prophet Jesus (pbuh), he will say; "You lead the prayer, Master," and insist for that twice to the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) but despite of this, the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will push him forward from his back and say; "You are the imam [leader]," and have him lead the prayer as the imam.
All the Templars and the Masons will become the students of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh), you will see that as well, insha'Allah.
TOD WILLIAM KISSAM:Beautiful.
ADNAN OKTAR:Masha'Allah. That is amazing, very astounding. I am amazed by that as well but this is the course of the events. All the mentioned portents are being proved to be true. All the portents mentioned in the Torah and in the Gospels have been realized. All the portents our Prophet (saas) has said have been realized. We are living in a breathtaking, historical course of time.
Let us end our discourse of today with this, you will be here again tomorrow. There are some friends of yours who have not appeared here yet as you know. There are some guests we did not have here yet. Tomorrow we will again have such a discourse with them.
I am honored to have you as our guests here. Thank you.

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It's Just Not Enough!
Although most people don't realize it, the ancient Egyptians actually had an alphabet, but never woke up to the fact that all they needed were the hieroglyphs that represented individual sounds, just as letters do today. One thing they did was add lots of hieroglyphs that worked together with their alphabetical symbols. Here's a typical example. The Egyptian word for "beautiful" was nefer. They had a symbol for n (water), a symbol for f (a horned viper), and a symbol for r (an open mouth). They even had symbols for the vowels, but rarely used them, much as we see in Hebrew and Arabic today. So if they'd wanted to, the Egyptians could simply have written nefer, but they didn't. What they did to make sure nobody would get confused was to add one symbol which, by itself, represented the whole word nefer (a heart and windpipe of a animal) and then repeat the f and the r. They didn't pronounce it nefer-fer, though; they still just pronounced it nefer! They just didn't feel right about using only the phonetic glyphs. They had to build in a redundancy to feel sure when writing down words.
I get a real kick out of finding all sorts of redundancies in English that basically satisfy the same need that the ancient Egyptians had. Take, for example, that final –s or –es on the 3rd person singular of verbs in the simple present tense. Why on earth do we need that inflected form? We don't have any endings on the other persons, singular or plural, so why do we persist in keeping that one inflected ending? It's a mystery to me, especially because it's totally redundant. As soon as I say he, she, or it, you know who or what the following verb refers to (he like, she need, it go), so that's why it's redundant ― and silly.
I've got an idea! Can you recognize some typical redundancies you hear all the time? The thing is, most people don't realize they're being redundant when they say these things. Even though most writing teachers would consider their inclusion poor writing style, they're firmly entrenched in how a great many people speak. So look over each of the following sentences, pick out the redundancy or redundancies, and send in your findings:
- "Krueger National Park in South Africa is a very unique wild animal reserve."
- "The reason why he did it was unclear."
- "Make sure you remember your PIN number when you go to use the ATM machine."
- "Students from other countries who want to study at American universities will need to achieve a certain score on the TOEFL test."
- "Scuba diving in the Bahamas was the most unique experience I've ever had."
- "Let's have tuna fish sandwiches for lunch."
- "The police were able to prove that the car had been stolen by its VIN number."
- "Watch an all new episode of Grey's Anatomy next Thursday night here on ABC."
- "The police were able to return most of the stolen clothes back to the store."
So how did you do? Did you find them all? Please let me know!
Whatever the reasons, it's apparent that redundancy plays a role in language to satisfy some deep-seated need to make things clearer or to add an extra "oomph" to them. Whether they actually do or not I'll leave up to you to decide. I'm looking forward to seeing if you find those silly little extras in the sentences I've cited. Happy hunting!


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First one of the year. Take that, Jets.
Seatbelts on. Here we go.
Boy, talking to some Devils people, they are really, really in a bind with their cap issue. Wonder if they'll "invent" a long-term injury to somebody and take a chance on circumventing the cap again and getting slapped by the league. Doubt it.


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This article was published 31/1/2013 (1663 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
In most circles, Thomas Edwards would be a tainted outcast.
He's a convicted sex offender who preyed on young teenagers under the guise of performing traditional healing ceremonies. He won their trust, plied them with alcohol and violated them. At the time of the assaults, Edwards was a nationally acclaimed aboriginal role model; they were friends of his much-younger brother.
In 2004, Edwards won recognition for being the first aboriginal naval cadet to fight for the right to keep his long, braided hair. He went on to win two National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation scholarships and three Business Council of Manitoba Aboriginal Education Awards. His vanity Wikipedia citation calls him "a teacher, humanitarian, anti-poverty advocate, advocate for the homeless and National Aboriginal Role Model."
The criminal was a man whose trajectory seemed headed for the stars before his arrest. He was a First Nations success story: educated, committed to change, a leader in the making. At the time of his arrest, he had an education degree and was teaching at a St. Vital elementary school.
He was fired, of course, just as he was fired again when he headed to his home reserve for a new teaching position. His victims were not his students.
Edwards remains unrepentant. He denies his guilt. Because his crimes seem so out of character (and we've seen this before when the pederast is a priest, doctor or other professional), his community stands behind him. His lawyer hopes that blind support will be enough to keep his client out of jail.
It shouldn't be, nor should any other factor let him remain free in the community.
Edwards was convicted in September 2012. This week, sentencing was delayed so he could be sent to a psychiatrist and his risk of reoffending assessed. Court of Queen's Bench Justice Colleen Suche said she was concerned because Edwards hasn't admitted his guilt.
"How do I deal with rehabilitation if somebody doesn't even acknowledge they've even done the act?" she asked. "How can they be rehabilitated?"
The assaults took place between 2003 and 2007. The victims, who were friends of his younger brother, were between 14 and 16. Edwards was seven years older.
He took drunken boys into his bedroom, removed most of their clothes and touched them as part of some whack-a-doodle "healing ceremony" to rid them of evil spirits. One boy stopped him when Edwards touched his penis. Another time, the same boy woke up from an epic drinking session with his pants undone and a hand on his penis. In court, Edwards denied the boy's allegations.
The other victim got much the same treatment, although Edwards blocked the door when he tried to leave the bedroom. He cried out when Edwards anally raped him. Again, the perpetrator denied his actions.
He could not be convicted on a charge of sexual exploitation because he was not in a position of trust over the boys.
At the trial's end, Justice Suche ruled she "found the accused to be totally lacking in credibility."
Wednesday morning, his lawyer dredged shallow waters when he posited reasons Edwards deserves a conditional sentence of two years less a day. His parents divorced and he was bullied as a child, he said. That puts him in the same league as half the population. It's not a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Edwards has had these charges hanging over for him for five years, the advocate argued, as though that should reduce his penalty. His victims have been waiting for justice the same length of time.
Edwards became a role model quickly and perhaps wasn't prepared for the attention, the lawyer said. That may be so, and it must have been heady to be called a national role model in one's early 20s. You might feel overwhelmed, but you shouldn't feel the need to sexually assault a young teenager.
Thomas Edwards made a mockery of his culture by inventing a reason to sexually abuse boys. He betrayed them, and he betrayed his people. He is no role model, no hero. He's a convicted sex offender who deserves to go to jail.


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One of the best view in Washington DC: the W hotel rooftop!Located next door to The White House, the historic Hotel Washington , one of the city's oldest hotels, has been reinvented into W Hotel Washington. The luxury hotel was remodeled in 2009 and infuses bright colors and contemporary design while preserving the building's Beaux Arts architecture.
The famed rooftop terrace, once the most popular destination for presidents and politicos, has for decades provided what are known as the best views of the White House lawn and the nation's capital.
The Roof top on 15 street is located within walking distance to the National Mall and many of the city's most popular attractions, including the national memorials, museums, restaurants, shopping, and theaters.
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- Beam Profile at power below 3.5W, is same horizontally and vertically and the intensity over the spot looks homogeneous. It looks like the TEM00 mode only.
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ONE in five patients at the Accident & Emergency department at Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital should not go there, it has been claimed.
But, despite widespread abuse of the system, Somerset doctors oppose introducing charges for A&E visitors.
A Doctors.net.uk poll of 800 GPs suggested one in three supported charging £5 or £10 for some visits to deter unnecessary attendances.
A Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group spokesman, who claimed 20% of A&E visits were unnecessary, said the organisation was opposed to charging.
He said: "It's a fundamental principle of the NHS that services are 'free at the point of access'.
"The survey of GPs indicated 'one-third' (of a sample of 800 out of a possible 40,000 GPs in England) believed a £10 charge would deter people from attending A&E departments with only minor ailments or injury.
"Such a charge is very likely to be a deterrent but this might risk the poorest and most disadvantaged delaying seeking treatment when they have a serious illness or injury."
The spokesman said patients unable to wait for a GP appointment should call 111 for advice as A&E is for people with "the most serious injury or illness".
Dr Harry Yoxall, secretary of the Somerset Local Medical Committee, said: "It's frustrating when people go to A&E inappropriately but the majority of GPs don't think it's a good move to charge patients going to A&E because you don't want to stop people who are seriously ill or have had an accident getting the care they need.
"The principle of the NHS is that it's publically-funded and free at the point of delivery."
Taunton Deane MP Jeremy Browne said health care costs are rising sharply and ideas for raising money for the NHS are always welcome.
He said: "There are always concerns that some people are using A&E when they don't have a genuine emergency in order to get fast-track treatment.
"Even so, I'd be nervous about introducing this idea – the real danger would be putting off people who need urgent attention and that would clearly be unacceptable."
A Department of Health spokesman said: "Charging patients who use A&E goes against the founding principles of the NHS and there are no plans to introduce fees."
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Li Ka-shing Repeats Vague Stance on Hong Kong Democracy
This post originally appeared on MoneyBeat.
What's Li Ka-shing's response to a Chinese government ruling on Sunday which curtailed reforms for Hong Kong's chief executive elections, setting the stage for weeks of protests?
Hong Kong's—and Asia's—richest man is out of town.
Mr. Li is currently away from Hong Kong, his companies Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa said in a joint statement Monday.
Instead, the octogenarian billionaire's press team repeated previous elliptical remarks which Mr. Li first made to a community group on August 19, including these comments: "Should we fail to nail the perfect synthesis between ideals and practicalities, we must still move forward together as 'a bundle of antinomies'."
The word "antinomy" was particularly puzzling. The statement in Chinese might translate more to a "bundle of contradictions." Merriam-Webster defines antinomy as "a contradiction between two apparently equally valid principles."
"Every effort for democracy will not be a vain struggle, as progress will arc towards broadening participation, and with each and every conscientious vote, Hong Kong Citizens will be participants in building it so," Mr. Li went on.
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A spokeswoman for Cheung Kong Holdings did not respond to requests for comment as to the meaning of these remarks and whether Mr. Li supports Beijing's ruling or not. One could however understand the mention of "each and every conscientious vote" as a tacit approval of the ruling, which would give all Hong Kong citizens the opportunity to vote in chief executive elections for the first time, even if the candidates are limited by Beijing.
Whatever Mr. Li does think, Beijing believes it is working on behalf of him and his fellow Hong Kong tycoons, according to Chinese legal scholar Wang Zhenmin, who said last week that the interests of Hong Kong's business community must be taken into account in electoral reforms.
Business elites "control the destiny of Hong Kong," Mr. Wang said.
Mr. Li meanwhile did say at a university commencement in June that that he was losing sleep over wealth inequality, among other concerns.
"I fear that widening inequality in wealth and opportunities, if left unaddressed could fast become 'the new normal'," Mr. Li said.
–Ned Levin
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As called for by its mission, the organization identifies its constituencies and serves them in ways both value.
5a. The organization learns from the constituencies it serves and analyzes its capacity to serve their needs and expectations.
5b. The organization has the capacity and the commitment to engage with its identified constituencies and communities.
5c. The organization demonstrates its responsiveness to those constituencies that depend on it for service.
5d. Internal and external constituencies value the services the organization provides.
Subcommittee Chair: Bruce DeVantier
Committee Members: Marcia Anderson; Matt Baughman; John Davis; Susan Edgren; Kyle Harfst; Gary Kistner; Sara Long; David NewMyer; Cynthia Sims.


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NSW is facing its most dangerous bushfire threat in 12 years as the state swelters through a record-breaking heatwave and fire officials express concern about the public's preparedness.
Across the country, fire crews were battling more than 100 bushfires on Saturday.
The NSW Rural Fire Service is on high alert with extreme temperatures forecast for Sunday, particularly in the state's south and west.
The bushfire threat will be at its greatest on Tuesday, when the soaring temperatures combine with strong winds to create the perfect conditions for dangerous blazes.
The most serious fires were in Tasmania, where the bushfire that tore through the town of Dunalley and nearby villages on Friday engulfed more than 100 homes, including Dunalley's school and police station.
Late on Saturday afternoon the Tasmanian Fire Service issued an emergency warning for a large bushfire in the state's south-east.
''It is too late to leave. Residents should take shelter now and go to their nearby safer place only if the path is clear. Leaving now is considered extremely dangerous,'' TFS said on its website.
The east coast holiday town of Coles Bay was also isolated on Saturday afternoon due to a fire burning at Bicheno, 180 kilometres north-east of Hobart.
In NSW, 30 fires burned across the state on Saturday, including on the state's mid-north coast at Green Point, just south of Forster. The blaze, which started on Friday afternoon, was contained on Saturday but police expressed concern after their investigations revealed it appeared to have been deliberately lit.
Three teenagers were charged with arson after allegedly deliberately lighting bushfires near a major hospital in Newcastle on Thursday and Friday, eliciting a rebuke from the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.
The RFS Deputy Commissioner, Rob Rogers, said a decade-long drought, followed by two years of rain, meant there was a risk that NSW had become complacent to just how serious a threat bushfires can pose.
''In some cases you have a generation who haven't seen a big fire. Complacency is a big problem for us,'' Mr Rogers said.


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Throughout most of the world, pizza delivery is conducted the old fashioned way. A disheveled individual puts fifty cents of gas in their 1992 Dodge Dart, kisses a Mighty Mighty Bosstones sticker for good luck and drives to your house. However, across the pond in England they are putting a futuristic spin on the world's
oldest cheesiest profession.
Domino's UK has just unveiled what they are calling the DomiCopter. This remote controlled helicopter flies to your door, hot pizzas in tow. It's sort of like the stork, except with more carbohydrates (Storks are mostly protein.) The theory is that without having to deal with traffic, pizza would arrive even quicker. Technology!
It's just a working prototype for now. Also, given the always unpredictable nature of sky law, who knows if the company will be able to start using the copter commercially. We'll let you know when they do. In the meantime, tip your delivery drivers — their jobs may soon be stolen from them.


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There's an item on the menu at Izzy's Deli in Santa Monica called "Chic Wolk's Hot Oatmeal."
"Can you imagine anybody coming to a deli to eat oatmeal?" its namesake, a friend of the restaurant's owner for 60 years, asked, laughing.
"When I come to Izzy's Deli, I want food, not oatmeal."
That's typical of the Brentwood philanthropist's easy humor and disinclination to appear in any kind of spotlight. But people from the San Fernando Valley to rural Lithuania, just starting their adult lives and at the end of very long ones, would sing his praises given a chance.
An L.A. resident since 1951, the Chicago-born Wolk, who likes to give his age as 86.2, contributes to a variety of charitable causes, including acting as an honorary consul for the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan.
The retired parking lot mogul seems especially pleased to donate to two operations, though, whose only similarities are their connections to his family heritage.
The Jewish Vocational Services' Scholarship Program provides financially strapped L.A. area college students with grants of up to $5,000 per year to further their higher education.
The Survivor Mitzvah Project, which Wolk describes himself as "nominally a founder" of, sends money and aid to elderly, mostly rural Jews in countries such as Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine who, by luck of having escaped deportation by the Nazis during World War II, receive no compensation from the German government.
Wolk learned about the JVS Scholarship Program about five years ago.
"That appealed to me, especially now," Wolk explained. "I visualize somebody who's completed three years of college, bright young person, and their mother or father lost their job and there's no money for tuition anymore. Their potential is going to be lost to themselves, and if they could continue their education they could probably contribute more to society."
Wolk does not want the amount of his contribution revealed, but Pat Sills, who manages the scholarship program, noted that his contribution more than doubled in the past year. Part of her job is to earmark individual donors' contributions to specific recipients.
Some want their money to go to veterans or students at their alma maters.
Others are like Wolk.
"Chic is such an easygoing guy, when I asked him if he had any parameters, he said `No, just break it up any way you want."' Sills recalled. "Which makes it pretty gosh darn easy, because this whole matching thing can be very difficult."
One of the seven students Sills channeled Wolk's funds to this year is Taylor Younani, a North Hollywood 20-year-old who is studying political science and religion at UC Santa Barbara. Younani's mother has cancer and is hospitalized once a month, and his father suffered a stroke a year ago.
"The generosity of this man I have never met but has been a strong influence on my life ... It's kind of hard to put that to words," Younani said of Wolk. "To know that there is somebody out there who is willing, from the kindness of their heart, to give you an opportunity that you would not necessarily have otherwise ... And the fact that he's willing to do that for me makes me want to work that much harder."
Wolk discovered the plight of the Holocaust survivors about nine years ago when his interest in Yiddish - a language his parents, who hailed from Moldava and Ukraine, trained him in as a child rather than the more common Hebrew - led him to an Oxford scholar who was researching the remnants of that shattered culture.
"When we heard of this, we realized that the major Jewish organizations were putting all of their resources into Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kiev, and nothing out in the boonies because they said there's no way of reaching those people," Wolk said of the Mitzvah Project, which is run by former actress and television director Zane Buzby. "Zane developed very successful methods of getting the money to them."
A smart man not prone to self-examination, Wolk has thought about why these two charities mean so much to him.
"I don't see it as trying to please my parents in some way," said Wolk, who emphasized several times that he's a secular Jew who still hasn't had a bar mitzvah. "But it is the heritage that they gave me, so that I feel very much Jewish. Secular, again I say, but the values and traditions and the culture of being Jewish are important to me."
His philanthropy reaches both the young people starting their lives and the older people in their twilight.
"They're the most vulnerable people, the most in need. Usually, though not always, people in their middle years have better access to resources."
As for the deli oatmeal that bears his name, "I haven't tried it," Wolk admitted.


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VOLUNTEERS are wanted in South Gloucestershire to help cancer patients.
Macmillan Cancer Support is looking for 'health champions' to help spread the cancer awareness message in the district.
All volunteers will be part of Macmillan's Information and Support team, will receive training and will be asked to be available for two to four hours a week.
Suzanne Rigby-Jones, Macmillan volunteering project manager, said the drive comes as the charity has discovered few people access information about cancer.
"We need to help more people across South Gloucestershire access cancer information and support," she said.
"We've found that few members of this community are accessing cancer information, which is key in encouraging early diagnosis and prevention. "We hope that these volunteers will be able to reach more people by running information stands in local libraries in order to signpost to support and raise awareness of issues surrounding cancer."
Anyone who wishes to help should be confident in speaking to members of the public and ideally have a knowledge of or willingness to learn about issues surrounding cancer.
To apply or for more information contact Sebastian Johansson on 020 7840 4973 or email email@example.com. Before Monday, June 2.


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FLINT, Mich. - A 35-year-old mall security guard was convicted Thursday of stealing money from a customer's wallet.
Eddie Lee Woods, 35, of Flint, worked in loss prevention for Burlington Coat Factory at the Genesee Valley Mall in Flint Township.
A customer left her wallet at the cash register after purchasing merchandise on July 23.
Video footage from the store cameras showed the cashier taking the wallet over to the loss prevention office. The cashier can be seen giving it to Woods.
Footage next showed Woods grabbing a hat from a mall display and holding it over his chest.
Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton says the video captured Woods hiding the wallet as he walked through the store.
Leyton said Woods took $300 in cash from the customer's wallet before dropping it into a trash can.
Part of the surveillance video had been erased, prosecutors argued Woods purposely erased portions of the video to cover up his actions.
Woods denied taking the customer's money after police questioned him. He told police, he would never do that because it was his job to put people in jail for such things.
"This man was supposed to be protecting store property and employees as well as the safety and property of customers," said Leyton. "Instead, he took advantage of a customer's mistake and exploited it for his own benefit."
Woods was convicted of larceny in a building, which carries a possible sentence of up to four years in prison.
"This case demonstrates that no case is too small to be fully prosecuted all the way to a trial, if necessary, to achieve justice for victims," said Leyton.
Woods is scheduled to be sentenced on April 11.
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