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Love isn't all you need, but it is all that matters
I did something this past month I've been wanting to do for years: I had all our old home videos put onto DVD. And even though I was ecstatically happy to finally have them in a ready-to-watch format, I found myself bawling — bawling — as I sat down to watch the infant years of our family.
I had no idea what it would do to me to relive the births of all four of my children in less than 48 hours. It was overwhelming to watch footage of my 8-year-old daughter as a toddler again, with her soft curly hair and sweet little voice, and my now 15-year-old daughter pat and kiss her newborn baby brother's face when she was still practically a baby herself, and the four of them together after my last was born when they were all still young and innocent at the same time.
It was only five years ago for crying out loud, but our oldest is now a full-blown teenager, and our second-born is on the brink of morphing as well. And even though "the little girls" (as I like to call them) are still legitimately young at 5 and 8 years old, they certainly aren't toddlers or babies anymore. But what really kills me is the realization that in the same five years moving into the future, my oldest will be 20 and my youngest will be 10!
And it happens just that fast. (Start doing your own math … )
But this isn't really meant to be a post about the bittersweet agony of watching your children grow up before your very eyes on a wide-screen TV (good heavens, I'm tearing up again), it's about what hit me the most as I watched those snippets of birthdays, Christmases, family reunions and just silly times playing around the house: There was so. much. love.
It struck me, hard, because what I remember feeling far too much during those years of babies and toddlers was exhaustion, annoyance and discontent. Of course, the love was there, too, but I think I took it in more like a side dish rather than the main course.
And it makes me a little sad for my old self. I wish I could go back and shake her while yelling, "Look! Who cares if your furniture doesn't match, and you have to buy second hand clothes for your kids, and your belly is a little flabby, and you haven't been on a real vacation in years, and the kids are dribbling goldfish all over the freshly vacuumed living room floor. Who cares! You have a home full of love! Love is what matters!"
Unfortunately, I don't really believe I can convince any of us in the thick of baby and toddlerhood to cherish every second of those fleeting moments that are, let's be honest, hard. It's just not realistic. It's not. (I so loved Glennon Melton's must-read "Don't Carpe Diem.") And knowing that, I was just thrilled to see that in spite of the bad sleep, the bad hair, the bad behavior and even the bad videography, the most important ingredient of a happy family was there in copious amounts.
No, love is not all you need (as the Beatles suggested). The vast majority of us are much more happy when we like how we look, have a clean and organized home, are running on a full night of sleep, and can go to Target without having to count every penny. But it wouldn't hurt any of us to remember that the glue of our families is not in those external things. It really is the love that matters. And most of us have that part down.
The day I picked up the DVDs I wasn't really in a good frame of mind to watch them. After spending the better part of the afternoon with my daughter at the DMV helping her get her learner's permit, we had an "exchange" that didn't go over too well and left us both feeling hurt. It wasn't like the frustration of dealing with a screaming toddler, but it was ugly in its own way and led me to temporarily convince myself that the bliss of those early years was a thing of the past. (That's probably half the reason I was bawling, actually.)
It was completely irrational, and I "came to" later that evening when we were in the midst of an ordinary evening replete with the usual annoyances and frustrations. I was in my wrath, I tell you, until my 8-year-old daughter came to me with one of those love letters that stops you dead in your tracks: "Dear Mom, I don't think I've ever told you this, but I love and respect you more than anyone in the world. You do my laundry, make me dinner, and help me with my homework … "
And I almost laughed (after I stopped bawling) as I realized I was doing now what I was doing back then: Magnifying the deficits rather than seeing and experiencing the overflowing love that invariably covers and makes up for all the perceived losses of family life — no matter what stage you're in. Yes, it really is the love that matters.
Which is why in another five years I will be bawling again as I watch the home videos from this year.
QUESTION: Don't you think there is enough love in your family to make up for the perceived deficits and losses? I bet there is!
CHALLENGE: Don't expect the usual challenges and frustrations to go away any time soon. Just try to remember that it's the love that matters and take it in as a main dish every day.
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Thank you so much for sharing this post. I absolutely love it…I need to print it and keep it somewhere I can look at it on those days when I feel exactly how you mentioned. I have 3 young girls (7, 4, and 2). We have a lot of love in our family but I find myself having those frustrating, annoying days often. I know in my heart I should be savoring this time but like you said parenting is just plain hard some days. Thanks again. I really enjoyed reading this post. Oh and kuddos to you for putting the movies on DVDs…I need to do that as well =)


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Ananya Bhattacharya
Ever wondered what it would be like if you were asked to stay away from your mobile phone or your computer for an entire day? It seems like I'm putting forward the idea of some scary reality show, only that it sounds exceedingly absurd, if not entirely impossible. Both you and I are aware of that. Even as I type this piece, there are children for whom thoughts of owning a computer or something as basic as reading a newspaper might appear as nothing more than fleeting visions of Utopia. On one hand, when we strive hard to stay in a Never Never Land of sorts where we don't want to grow old, there are children who are brutally thrust into the world of responsibility and struggle for survival at the tender ages of six, seven, or even five. It is difficult to accept the reality of the fact that two completely different worlds can coexist within a radius of just a few miles probably – both joined by the impossibility of surviving in each other's world.
According to Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), India ranks first when it comes to number of children out of school. Out of the 1.21 billion people in India, over 50% are under the age of 25 (Census Report: 2011). Children below the age of six account to about 13.6% of the demography of our country. Out of these, only a handful is as privileged as us. The rest, if we are courageous enough to accept the truth, fight day and night to make both ends meet – not just for themselves, but for their entire families. When we begin a day worrying about hairstyles and computer games, a vast percentage of children are compelled to jump into the cruel world, embracing the struggle to live. In this survival melee, more often than not, their voices are rendered silent. Come to think about it, how many of us pay more attention to the child who picks up rags in our locality than the guy who broke our hearts! We spend days and nights weeping over the guy or the girl who's jilted us, analysing the causes and effects, and in the end come up with nothing substantial. It seems unreal that there are others, who spend those same days and nights wondering how many rags they need to pick up in order to earn a meal.
There are children who have desires burning in their hearts – to become doctors, engineers, or in some cases, just to be able to study. Take, for example, the children of the people who used to earn a living by picking up tea leaves somewhere in some tea estate in North Bengal, perhaps one which still lies locked up.
Manu Lama Yulmo, a girl who lives in the Ambari Tea Estate of Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, is barely a teenager. Her parents lost their jobs when the tea garden was declared shut in December 2010. Since then, Manu's life has been an incessant struggle. Her dream to study and prosper in life is juxtaposed against the cruel reality of her poverty and her bitter struggle for survival. There is Sumit Oraon, fifteen years old, who aspires to become an engineer. However, when Fate engineered his life, he hardly had the means to combat it. Kathalguri Tea Estate, the one where his parents worked, lies abandoned for several years now. Emaciated and poverty-stricken, Sumit still hopes on. After school and during holidays, he breaks stones at the nearby river, with the hope that the money that he earns by doing so would alleviate the wounds that his family has to deal with every day. There is hardly any place for scepticism in his bright dreams. His face is aglow with the hope of a better future, perhaps of the time when he is an engineer with a decent monthly salary.
I too, have had my share of heartbreaks and depressions, and a terrible life, or so it seemed, till a few days back. On facing the actual meaning of the phrase 'difficult life' in all its starkness, the cosy comfort of my depression vanished into thin air. All of us have our struggles. Just that when for some of us it is getting over a boyfriend or being able to complete an assignment on time, for many others it is to obtain their basic right – the right to survive. Our sorrows are the same, only separated by a vertiginous level.
I hope someday there will actually be a bridge between the two worlds. I hope that someday the hypothesis of equality of all will transform into the truth. I hope someday every child all over the country will have the privilege to dream and the opportunity to see their dreams metamorphose into reality. I hope, someday, the reality show that I was talking about in the beginning, will be turned inside out.


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I hate my body.
I went to yoga tonight.
Twisting and turning my flabby and floppy and wobbly bits.
I hate my body.
I love my body.
And just like that... In the middle of camel pose... Everything changed. I love my body. And I'm gonna start treating it with the respect it deserves.
I love my body.
For the very first time in my life ... I love my body. I've hated my body for so long now. I've been treating it like it's a useless failure that lets me down and embarrasses me constantly.
My body ... I'm so sorry.
Tomorrow I'll stand tall. I'll make no excuses. I'll be grateful.
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There's no question that dishwashers can save time and make life easier – except when they stop working. To help you troubleshoot your ailing dishwasher, here is some basic info on how a dishwasher works along with common issues and repairs.
How a Dishwasher Works
A dishwasher draws about three gallons of water to flood the bottom of the tub and mix with the dishwasher detergent. The water is then pumped to the rotating spray arms and through them onto the dirty dishes. The dirty water drains out of the appliance, into the drainpipe, while fresh water is pumped into the dishwasher to rinse the dishes. Typically, the process repeats one or more times to ensure clean dishes.
If your dishwasher isn't doing its job, the fix may be something fairly simple. For more complex repairs, consult a professional.
Of course, this is a simplified version of how a dishwasher works. Various parts work together "behind the scenes" to enable proper operation. A timer, for instance, controls the amount of water. A heating element both heats the water to a temperature of 140 to 160 degrees Fahrenheit (a little hotter than the water supplied by most home water heaters) and allows you to dry the dishes when the cycle is complete.
Troubleshooting by Symptom
Be aware that some problems may cause more than one symptom. Carefully read through the symptoms of some of the most common dishwasher issues and find one that fits your situation. If you decide to perform in-depth repairs, always unplug the unit first to prevent shock. As always, consult a repair professional for troubleshooting and repair work beyond your comfort zone.
Dishwasher Fails to Start but Receives Power
When you attempt to start your dishwasher and nothing happens, look to see if the controls light up or you can find other evidence that the appliance is receiving power. If it's plugged into an electrical outlet, try plugging in an alarm clock, lamp or other small appliance to verify that the outlet works.
- Check the door. If the door isn't properly shut and locked, the dishwasher will not start. Make sure nothing's blocking the door and the lock isn't sticking.
- Adjust the door latch. To fix a door safety switch or latch problem, sometimes all it takes is a screwdriver. Unplug or turn off the power at the breaker/fuse box. Lightly pry the door latch strike to adjust slightly. Once the latch makes good contact, it should depress the safety switch and allow the dishwasher to resume operation.
- Replace the timer. Situated inside the dishwasher door, the timer controls the washing and drying cycles by controlling the flow of power to each component inside your dishwasher. A malfunctioning timer may cause the dishwasher to stick in a given cycle, make the cycle run too long or fail to start completely. In most cases, this is a repair best left to a professional.
- Service the selector switch. Located inside the dishwasher door, the selector switch determines the cycle selected. Without it, the cycle will not work. Consult a service technician for further assistance.
- Test the thermal fuse. Newer dishwashers use a thermal fuse mounted to the control board. If the fuse blows, the dishwasher will not function. Contact a service professional for more information.
- Replace a faulty control board. When the control board dies, so does your dishwasher. A fairly expensive part, you may wish to weigh the cost against the age of the unit.
Dishwasher Fails to Start and is Not Getting Power
The problem lies somewhere between your dishwasher and the incoming electrical current. The fix is usually simple.
- Look at the power cord or wiring connection. Pinched or otherwise damaged cords and wiring, such as those chewed on by animals or melted due to a wiring issue, require replacement. Never operate a dishwasher with damaged wiring or cords.
- Check the outlet. If it's a GFCI outlet, it also has a reset button. Sometimes resetting the outlet – or any other outlets on the same circuit – will solve the problem. (To identify which outlets are on the circuit, turn off the breaker or fuse that controls the dishwasher and see which other outlets are no longer live.)
- Visit your home's breaker or fuse box. Locate the breaker or fuse that sends power to your dishwasher. If the breaker is tripped (it will show as halfway between on and off) turn it off then on again. If you have an older fuse box, replace the fuse instead. If you find evidence of a wiring problem – scorched, melted wires or other signs of obvious damage – consult an electrician.
Dishwasher Won't Fill or Drains During Fill
- Check the dishwasher door. If it isn't closed and sealed, it will prevent the water from entering. Adjust the latch with a screwdriver, as mentioned earlier, to overcome misalignment.
- Look at the water supply. The shut-off valve is likely located underneath the kitchen sink.
- Clean around the float in case it's clogged. Look for a dome- or cylinder-shaped plastic item mounted to the base, close to the front of the unit. Lift it out and clean around the exposed tube. In some cases, you must remove the access panel below the dishwasher door to disconnect the float from the bottom. Rinse and replace when finished. Make sure the float moves up and down freely – you should hear a click as it moves, indicating it triggered a lever that controls the float switch, which in turn tells the dishwasher when to shut off the water.
- Check the inlet valve and plumbing pipes. Disconnect the power first – either pulling the plug or turning it off at the breaker box – and remove the access panel under the door. The inlet valve will have hoses running into the valve and out to the dishwasher. Look first for leaks. Next, disassemble the valve to find the screen inside. When dirty it will prevent water from entering the dishwasher. Take a look at the wires running from the valve as well. If they are damaged or the terminals are corroded, the valve may need either cleaning or replacement.
- Test other parts. If the previous steps didn't resolve the problem, the pressure switch, timer, selector, drain valve lever arm or fill tube may be to blame. Consult an appliance repair technician for more involved repairs.
Dishwasher Won't Stop Filling
When the water won't stop flowing, immediately disconnect power to prevent a messy overflow. Have a qualified professional perform repairs beyond your ability.
- Test the float switch. Push the float up and down, listening for a click. Connect a volt-ohm meter and test for continuity. A bad float switch is easily replaced.
- Check the water inlet valve. It may be stuck open. It can be replaced fairly simply and inexpensively if needed.
- Look at the timer. If the timer is stuck in the fill cycle, sometimes you can manually advance the cycle by turning the knob. Alternatively, replace the timer.
Dishwasher Won't Drain
It's completely normal for a little water to remain in the bottom of your dishwasher. If there's an excessive amount of water – more than usual – or if you see the water is dirty, then there's probably a clog somewhere.
- Clean filters and strainers. After removing them, scrub filters and strainers to remove debris buildup.
- Check the drain. Use a flashlight to peer into it and spot obvious obstructions. Employ a long brush or any tool that won't pierce the drain to clear the drain.
- Look for any blockages. Check along the length of the drain hose for kinks or pinched areas.
- Check the disposal. If you recently installed the dishwasher or a garbage disposal, check the garbage disposal's knockout plug as well.
Sometimes the clog will be deeper in the dishwasher system. The drive belt may need to be replaced, or the timer motor, drain valve or pump may be malfunctioning. These repairs require a little more knowledge to perform. If your previous efforts fail to fix the problem and you don't feel comfortable attempting to dig deeper, contact a qualified service technician for assistance.
Dishwasher Leaks
A leaking dishwasher isn't a good thing. Leaks quickly lead to mold, mildew and rot damage if not corrected quickly. Fortunately, many of the causes are easily corrected. For more in-depth troubleshooting and repair, contact a service technician.
- Are you using a detergent designed for a dishwasher? Are you using the recommended amount? Less isn't always more. If the detergent suds too much, it could cause a leak.
- Do you load the dishes properly? Improperly arranged dishes may cause water to spill through the door vent.
- Is the door gasket in good condition? Leaking around the door edges may signal a door gasket that needs to be replaced or a door that needs to be adjusted for tightness.
- Check the dishwasher for level. Use a carpenter's level and run it from front to back as well as side to side. Adjust the front legs, moving them up or down, to level. Some dishwashers may also have leveling feet at the rear.
- Look at the hoses and hose connections. Remove the service panel, underneath the door, and check each hose for leaks.
- Examine the pump seal and the pump itself. Replacing these parts is complicated and best left to a professional.
Dishes Aren't Clean
If your dishwasher isn't doing its job, the fix may be something fairly simple. For more complex repairs, consult a professional.
- Are you loading the dishes properly? The dishwasher's spray arm is responsible for spreading water across the dishes to clean and rinse. If your dishwasher has one spray arm, it's important to not overload the bottom tray. Keep the spray arms in mind while loading your dishwasher and consult your owner's manual for your specific appliance.
- Do you use the proper amount and type of detergent? Check that the detergent isn't clumped inside the dispenser and that it opens properly during the wash cycle. Replace a broken dispenser as necessary.
- Unclog the spray arms or filter. After unplugging the appliance (or turning off the power at the breaker box) remove the spray arm according to the directions in your owner's manual. Look for calcium buildup and other debris in the holes that cover the spray arms. Use a toothpick or other small tool to clean each hole individually. Alternatively, soak in vinegar to dissolve hard water deposits that clog the holes. Rinse and replace.
- Clean the filter. If it's also clogged, it could prevent clean dishes. Some filters are easier to access than others.
- Check the spray arms for easy movement. If the spray arms don't move freely, water will not get to all the dishes. Consult a repair technician for further assistance.
Other potential causes for your dishes not coming clean include using the wrong setting, stacking dishes in a manner that blocks the detergent cup and prevents it from releasing and a broken water heater. After eliminating all the causes that you can, consider contacting a qualified service technician. More complex repairs involving the water inlet valve, drain valve, timer motor or selector switch may be necessary.
Dishwasher Makes Strange Sounds or Emits Odors
To combat smells inside your dishwasher, periodically flush it with vinegar or sprinkle a stale dishwasher with baking soda. If the smell is like burning or melting rubber – it probably is. Anything that comes in contact with the heating element in the bottom of the dishwasher is subject to damage. Sounds, on the other hand, can be a little more difficult to pinpoint.
- Are the dishes loaded properly? Consult your owner's manual for correct loading suggestions. Improperly loaded dishwashers are often noisy dishwashers.
- Can you see silverware or other items at the bottom, near the pump or spray arm base?
- Is the dishwasher level? Adjust the leveling feet as needed.
Humming sounds usually indicate a dishwasher that wants to run, but can't. The problem may be a jammed pump, a bad motor or motor start relay, or possibly a broken drive belt. Contact a service technician for further assistance.
- Thumping or chattering sounds occurring during the fill cycle usually denote a faulty inlet valve.
If a repair is likely to take a lot of time or expensive parts, make sure the dishwasher is worth it. Nothing lasts forever, after all. Make sure you do your homework before selecting a new dishwasher. Check reviews and shop around for the best price for you.


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The opening panel shows Sparky The Wonder Penguin on the left and a stolid heavyweight white guy in a red ball cap on the right. The white guy offers the latest mantra of the winning side in 2016 by complaining about protesters who refused to accept defeat. Sparky responds with the equivalent of "Not so fast, my overweight friend." Then, in ensuing panels leading to the final panel, the loyal supporter stares blankly at Sparky throughout the Wonder Penguin's enumeration of the horrors of the winning side: racism, misogyny, blatant lying, perversion of patriotism, yada yada yada. In the final panel, the white guy threatens Sparky with deportation to Antactica and closes the discussion with the pressing need to go and harass the staff of the nearest Starbuck's because it's a thing the red-hatted loons do because it's the thing they do. If this is a (fair & balanced) exhibition of asshattery, so be it.
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The Great Divide
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002. When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political blog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. More recently, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Even more recently, Dan Perkins was a runner-up for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.]
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The church is rooted in the concept of the Missio Dei, which recognizes that there is one mission, and it is God's mission. The Missio Dei is a Latin theological term that can be translated as "Mission of God." The word missio literally means sent. The church is not an end in itself; the church is sent into the world to fulfill the mission of God.
God is a Missionary
Understanding what it means to be a part of the mission of God begins with understanding that God is a missionary God. The very being of God is the basis for the missionary enterprise. God is a sending God, with a desire to see humankind and creation reconciled, redeemed, and healed. God's mission can be seen throughout the pages of the Bible and history. Nowhere is the mission of God better understood than in the person and work of Jesus Christ. John 3:16 tells us that "God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
Many Christians and churches teach and preach that missions are something we support or do, such as sending or supporting missionaries in other countries. This was the case 20 to 30 years ago. However, in the 21st century the mission field has come to us.
We live in a post-Christian world where people simply don't know the gospel anymore. Therefore we are all called to be missional disciples and share in the mission of God. Ed Stetzer says, "Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining biblically sound."
Jesus: The First Missionary
Being a missional disciple is simply following the way of Jesus. Jesus Christ was the first and greatest missionary. The Bible tells us that He came from heaven to earth to die for a lost and dying world. The following scriptures reveal how the mission of God was fulfilled through Jesus Christ and how we are called to continue and complete the Missio Dei in our culture.
- Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to accomplish His work." – John 4:34
- "I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me." – John 5:30
- "For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me." – John 6:38
- "I know Him; because I am from Him, and He sent Me." – John 7:29
- "And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do thethings that are pleasing to Him." – John 8:29
- "We must work the works of Him who sent Me, as long as it is day; night is coming, when no man can work." – John 9:4
- And Jesus cried out and said, "He who believes in Me does not believe in Me, but in Him who sent Me. And he who beholds Me beholds the One who sent Me." – John 12:44-45
- "For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me commandment, what to say, and what to speak." – John 12:49
- "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me." John 13:20
- "And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent." – John 17:3
- "For the words which Thou gave Me I have given to them; and they received them, and truly understood that I came forth from Thee, and they believed that Thou didst send Me." – John 17:8
- "As Thou didst send Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world." John 17:18
- Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you." – John 20:21
Sent on a Mission
As the church we are called to care for a lost and dying world that is in desperate need of a savior. Too many times we compartmentalize the different ministries of the church. We have viewed social ministry as something we do on one hand and evangelism on the other. God is calling the church to rediscover the biblical model of holistic ministry.
Jesus met both the physical and spiritual needs of the people He ministered to. As the Body of Christ on earth, we are His representatives to a lost world. Therefore what we do and say are of eternal importance. Being missional disciples is not an either or situation. It means that we care about people's souls and their bodies. It means that because we care about the gospel we should care about social and environmental issues. Being missional disciples brings all of life together under the banner of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Dr. Winfield Bevins serves as lead pastor of Church of the Outer Banks, which he founded in 2005. His life's passion in ministry is discipleship and helping start new churches. He lives in the beautiful beach community of the Outer Banks with his wife Kay and two daughters where he loves to surf and spend time at the beach with his family and friends. Twitter: @winfieldbevins
For more on living the mission of Christ, check-out Winfield's book Grow: Reproducing Through Organic Discipleship.
For more free mission resources, see: Relationships First: Reasons it's Difficult to Share Our Faith by Jonathan Dodson and Messy Discipleship Jake Chambers.


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With the expressive, infectious The Rhumb Line in hand, the New York-based Ra Ra Riot make two stops in Boise. On Thursday, Sept. 18, they play a 6 p.m. show at Record Exchange; at 9 p.m. they take to the Neurolux stage.
The Record Exchange in-store is, of course, FREE and tickets for the Neurolux showwith openers Walter Meegoare only $8 in advance, $10 at the door.
We really like these guys, so for more on Ra Ra Riot, check out the Boise Weekly feature, CD review and blog entry (click on BW Blogs on the right, then click on Amy Atkins).
Record Exchange, 1105 W. Idaho St., 208-344-8010, therecordexchange.com; Neurolux, 111 N. 11th, 208-343-0886, neurolux.com.


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After not winning it at the drawing at The Easton Farmers Market (waaah!) I bought the Ball Home Canning Discovery kit because I wanted something to keep the full jars of jam from flopping around in my stockpot while they cooked/processed/did the thing that makes sure you don't kill people with botulism. It's 10 bucks, comes with three jars (I need those too), and the silicone basket thingy squishes into a drawer when you aren't using it. How perfect for me and my small kitchen!
After I bought it, I mentioned my purchase and recent canning escapades to my mom. She asked me if I could return the Ball Home Canning Discovery Kit. I told I could but didn't want to because I didn't know where she was going with the conversation.
Where she went was to her garage. My mom gave me her old canning equipment!
I have a canning pot, rack, jar lifter, canning funnel, and a few jars too.
I have to do something with all of these cucumbers!
Good thing Husband likes pickles.
Help a canning newbie out. What are your favorite canning cookbooks?
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Ruminations of the Soul reflects insights and conversations prompted by the authors diverse interests and innate curiosity about the world as a Unitarian Universalist minister, growing theologian, teacher, writer, activist/researcher and seeker.The blogger is a mystical humanist/child of the Universe on a path seeking to encounter the Sacred and Divine and to be of service to heal self and the world.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Busy as a Bee!
Indoor Nature Scene - photo by Qiyamah A. Rahman
Look out Chi Town! I have been making my rounds. This weekend I did the following:
Saturday - Attended Alderman Willie Cochran's 1st Annual State of the Ward Address and then went over to Bessie Coleman Library for a seminar on Domestic Violence sponsoredby the Woodlawn Community Service Corporation and then attended the rand Boulevard Safety Net Works Coalition.
Sunday - Attended the "Real Men Cook" and the weekly potluck at Covenantal Community Housing Coop.
Needless to say I had a great weekend. How often does one get to combine work and play!
Blessings! Rev. Qiyamah A. Rahman
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Ideas for a low-sodium breakfast include banana nut oatmeal, which has no sodium, and easy granola, which has 22 milligrams of sodium, according to Health.com. For lunch, tomato stacks with panko breadcrumbs only have 65 milligrams of sodium.
A citrus salad with oranges, grapefruit, spring greens, pine nuts and balsamic vinegar is a starter for dinner with only 7 milligrams of sodium, states Mayo Clinic. Grilled salmon with an Asian sauce that consists of reduced-sodium soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger and rice wine vinegar contains 113 milligrams of sodium. Another dish with low sodium is white sea bass with dill relish, which has only 129 milligrams of sodium.


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Hi folks!
For my Bookish Thoughts and Feels, I would like to share with you the things I want to do in the future as a book lover.
Bookstore/Library and a Coffee Shop
First dream I want to be able to do in the very near future is to have my own bookstore/library and coffee shop. I want to be able to share my love for books by providing fellow bibliophiles a place where they can buy or borrow books while sipping their favorite cup of coffee or tea and while munching on a delicious pastry. I want it to be a haven for book lovers, where everyone will feel at home.
I am yet to plan the layout of my bookish place but I want to have different rooms for when people want a quiet place to read or study, and a big room where friends can talk and enjoy each others company. I want a very relaxing ambiance where even non-readers will be tempted to dive in the crazy yet beautiful world of books.
I really, really want for this to happen. I just need to have a very good business plan and a business partner! Haha!
Visit Bookstores and Libraries
We don't have a lot of bookstores here in the Philippines. We have the big ones but in essence every branch of a particular bookstore is the same. We don't have a lot of independent bookstores either. And our library system is far different from other countries.
Thus, I want to visit as much, if not all, bookstores and libraries as I can not only here in the Philippines but also in other countries. Selexyz Bookstore, The Last Bookstore, Shakespeare & Company and Atlantis Books to name a few.
|Shakespeare & Company, Paris, France (photo credit: Flavorwire)
I want to explore these places and learn their story. I want to be able to touch the books and shelves, to smell the environment, and of course, to buy books from them. :)
Library Project
We do not have a very good education system here in the Philippines. And it's a very sad truth. Most public schools do not even have a proper library. I want to change that.
I want to build a library, especially for the kids. To instill to them the importance of reading and how great it feels to read.
When I was in college, I was able to head a library project sponsored by The Coca-Cola Foundation, Inc. I did a blog post here. :)
|Photo from Aklat Mo, Sagot Ko Library Project of PROPharm
Of course, I'd need manpower and funds. A lot of funds actually. So for now, I will just stick to voluntary works if I can find one that deals with building a library. I have to smart somewhere, right?
Book Expo America/ BEA
BEA is one of the largest bookish events I know. An event with books, authors, book lovers, book bloggers and did I mention, books?
|BEA (photo credit: Author One Stop)
Living in the Philippines, I obviously cannot just go there and participate. Unless, someone will buy me a two-way ticket plus a place to stay, then that would be more than nice. For now though, this will stay as a dream. Soon though. Soon.
Book Blogger
I want to be a successful blogger. Not necessarily famous, but successful. My objective in starting up my blog is to share my thoughts about books and reading to others. I want to be able to talk to people about the books I'm reading and those that I will read, the events I will go to and just about any other bookish things. I want to be able to interact with other book lovers and know their thoughts and recommendations.
I'm not entirely sure how I'm doing in that department, but I'm just doing my best here. :)
I guess that's it folks! I'm really praying for these things to happen. What are your dreams as a bibliophile? I would love to hear them! :)


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Occupy & Gov. Scott Walker's Proposed Pay to Play Protesting Policy
Republican Governor Scott Walker has proposed a new policy "to require future protesters to pay in advance to stage an event, at a cost of $50 per hour, per Capitol Police officer." Not only would protesters be on the hook for that, but they would also possibly have to pay for liability insurance or bond and even the cost of cleanup following the protest, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
TBogg of Firedoglake already did a post on this for Firedoglake, but the idea that Gov. Scott Walker wants to charge Wisconsinites for protesting is one that deserves quite a bit of attention, especially given the presence of the Occupy movement right now.
The policy would require that any group of four or more people get a permit. Any group of more than 100 Wisconsinites would need to apply for a permit 72 hours in advance.
The proposal would be surprising if it weren't for the fact that earlier this year Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced he would be charging $15/attendee to attend his town hall meetings. This announcement came months after Ryan had been booed for supporting tax breaks for the wealthy at a town hall in April.
Ryan was not the only congress person to choose to charge people that wanted to attend meetings to ask their representative questions. Rep. Ben Quayle (R-AZ) chose to charge $35/attendee at a lunch gathering. Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-MN) held a private meeting in his district's population and media center and charged $10/attendee.
Town hall meetings were where the country was seeing citizens confront their elected officials. It was where populist energy was appearing before the Occupy movement started. As Joe Macare of In These Times reacted, at least Walker is willing to issue permits. In Chicago, a NATO/G8 working group has been unable to get Mayor Rahm Emanuel to agree to issue permits for peaceful protests during NATO/G8 meetings that the city will be hosting in May 2012.
With the Occupy movement in full swing, the development fits in with the fixation on the cost cities and states are incurring from the protests. The latest example is Los Angeles, where Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's administration is arguing Occupy LA's two-month long encampment could increase the $72 million budget shortfall of the city. As one Los Angeles city councilman put it, "I don't know what kind of message we're sending when we're spending millions of dollars to support protesters…yet we charge these other organizations tens of thousands of dollars throughout the city for use of the same types of facilities." And, Philadelphia, which raided Occupy Philly at the same time Occupy LA was being raided, is saying the occupation cost the city $1 million.
In November, AP reported the cost to taxpayers across the country totaled at least $13 million. They found the "heaviest financial burden has fallen upon law enforcement agencies tasked with monitoring marches and evicting protesters from outdoor camps. And the steepest costs by far piled up in New York City and Oakland, Calif., where police clashed with protesters on several occasions."
I wrote about this AP report and how what was being reported could be used by political leaders across America to defame and undermine the Occupy movement. Suggesting to citizens of cities that an occupation is costing the city they live in so much that it is going to come out of their pocket is a very powerful way to cut off any movement at the kneecaps. Talk of deficits is what dominated conversation about the economy before Occupy Wall Street came along. And in a country that focuses on the individual, citizens will quickly turn against Occupy if they think they are having to foot the bill for a movement that they may already think doesn't know what it wants and doesn't have any leaders so it is likely to go nowhere (because that is what the media has told them).
This can be countered. Resources may be coming under strain because of the peaceful assembling of citizens but let's consider what these resources are being used for. Sure, city officials are saying they are being spent for "public safety" and to "protect free speech rights," but does that really make sense when police in riot gear are blitzkrieg-ing encampments setup to call attention to economic injustice and inequality in America?
Why should the New York Police Department (NYPD) be used to fortify Wall Street so casino capitalists who collapsed the economy in 2008 do not have to face protesting Americans? Why should the NYPD be used to mass a squadron of officers and police vehicles around any demonstration, which inevitably creates a crowd control issue that turns into a situation where NYPD officers beat or shove protesters and arrest those who do not budge when mistreated?
Why should taxpayers subsidize a massive police operation to evict peaceful protesters from a park when they have been there for nearly two months and have earned much support from New York City residents? Why should taxpayers have to foot the tab for police officers who improperly and coldly use pepper spray on protesters? Why should they have to pay for officers who fire off flash bang grenades in the midst of peaceful assemblies? Why should they have to pay for officers who slink back to avoid being spotted when they fire off a tear gas canister right at the head of an Iraq War veteran, who then goes to the hospital with a brain injury?
Why should they foot the bill for the pepper-spraying of an 84-year old woman, who becomes so disoriented from the spray that she has to be saved by an Iraq War veteran nearby who keeps her from falling over and being trampled? Why should taxpayers support the use of funds to violate freedom of the press by arresting journalists at demonstrations? Why should taxpayers pay for police officers that are going to brutalize pregnant women and give them a miscarriage? Why should taxpayers pay for police who stand around and seize and destroy property from citizens who are demonstrating, like books, tents, insulating materials, a food cart or even a truck?
I highlighted the Albany city police, which have refused to raid Occupy Albany and deploy the kind of resources to police a peaceful protest that other cities have spent on Occupy encampments. The Albany police chief decided more than a month ago that he was not going to expend an abundant about of resources when there is real crime in the city to fight.
The Albany police chief is an anomaly. Most chiefs in America would not hesitate to remove peaceful protesters from anywhere. If they don't want to forcefully remove protesters, the chiefs would order officers to issue citations and fine protesters, like the police in Tucson, Arizona, have been doing to Occupy Tucson.
This is not happening necessarily because the powerful wish to crush dissent (though policies like Walker's can have that impact). Pay-to-play protesting policies are the result of how politicians and even a number of citizens view protest in general. An overwhelming majority agrees citizens have a right to make a point. Sustained protest over a long term period, however, has much less support. That is why I don't think Walker will be the last leader to propose such a policy. I expect cities, including cities with Democratic mayors that have ordered military-style police raids on encampments, to use the Occupy movement to sell regulations to citizens that are similar to Walker's proposed policy.
The Occupy movement is challenging a more than four hundred year-old American culture that promotes the pursuit of affluence, that promotes hustling and Reaganism, which wholly detests community and living a life of restraint. What they are challenging and how committed they remain to challenging this culture increases the likelihood the political class will react with policies that constrain them.
True, Walker is reacting to protests that happened months ago but one can assume if Occupy wanted to protest they would suffer just like any unions will under this proposed policy. To the extent that elites are able to cast the Occupy movement as radical, or worse, ridiculous and childish, they will be able to justify implementing policies that constrain freedom of speech and assembly and make it so you have to be able to afford to pay for speech and assembly if you want to raise your voice and protest government.


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It was a great night at the Council on SAGE - Formerly 55+ Housing Council Awards yesterday! We received awards for four wonderful projects: Thanks and Congrats to Del Webb's Solana at La Floresta; Pristine Homes' Mission Seniors; and MidPen Housing's Kottinger Gardens + Arroyo Green Apartments! http://councilonsage.com/ | #BIASC #CouncilOnSage #SAGEAwards #DelWebb #PristineHomes #MidPenHousing #PassionForPlace #DAHLINRead more
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SEATTLE (AP) — State Senate majority leader Rodney Tom says a measure that would have opened need-base college aid to immigrants living without permission in the country is dead. Tom told the Yakima-Herald Republic on Sunday the measure dubbed the Washington Dream Act will not receive a vote on the floor this session, essentially killing its chances until next year. Tom's comments are the latest nail in the measure's coffin. In late March, the Senate Higher Education Committee chairwoman, Republican Sen. Barbara Bailey of Oak Harbor, said the bill would not receive a committee vote.


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Andrew Grande died after being tasered and choking on a bag of marijuana he attempted to swallow. Video from WJHG, broadcast Dec. 12, 2009.
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I saw the vidio clip on the NEWS last night and was sick to my stomach!! They said the police were called on a domestic call…. and it showed that poor young man trying to run from a group of cops, being held down, stunned with a stun gun, in obivious distress choking…..they said that a paramedic pulled a bag of marijuana from his throat but he was pronounced dead…
This death shouldn't have happened… to die over having marijuana, Florida has possession laws that are four times harsher than the Federal laws, and they love to bust people for simple possesion and put them in prison.
While I don't know all the information about the police call, I can imagine that poor young man's fear and then horror as he choked to death while the cops stood around him!
We need to remember another young person Rachel Hoffman, Look up Rachels law, may she rest in peace to see how Florida's laws are working or NOT working!


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How to Be An Awesome Beta Reader
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I'm working on a post about this! Helpful, these are. :PReplyDeleteReplies
I'm excited to read it, Rachael! :)Delete
These are great tips for beta-readers! I probably should've read these earlier. xDReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you, Emily! :)Delete
Ooh, yep! Beta-reading is very, very fun; these are great tips! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Beta reading is very fun. :)Delete
Okay, this is just right on!!!!! I might have to share this on my blog. When I have beta readers, this list is exactly what I am expecting of them. Sometime we can be "too loving" or not loving enough, and either hurt the author's feelings or not really help them at all. I try to be a mixture of these when I read new author's pieces...be loving and critical at the same time. Mix in critiques with complements! This makes the author SO happy! =) Thank YOU Alea!!!ReplyDelete
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Your comment is right on as well. ;) Thank you!Delete
This was an awesome post, Alea! Definitely something people should read before they beta for someone. Thanks for writing it!ReplyDeleteReplies
No problem, Savannah. :) Thanks for reading!Delete
Spot on! People want honest, kind, fangirling beta readers, people! The author should be open to improvement if their sharing their work at all, so spare nothing. The one thing I find I have to be careful of, though, is to make sure I am not changing everything into how I would write it. When it's your opinion, say that. Don't state all of your ideas as truth. Ultimately, it's up to the writer :)ReplyDeleteReplies
That is a great point about readers' opinions. Thanks for bringing it up!Delete
I would love to hear your thoughts! Please keep everything clean and always be respectful of others. :) If your comment has inappropriate content, it will be deleted.


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text: Despite the regrettably trendy-sounding title, Whybrow's latest release is a sweetly wholesome tale. Given the moniker "Little Baby Not-Sure" by her father, the young rabbit Bella struggles with her propensity to worry. Overshadowed by her exuberant siblings, Bella takes a cautious approach to new experiences. When her father suggests an ice-skating outing, Bella is consumed by anxiety. Whybrow exhibits a keen understanding of a little one's misgivings, as Bella nervously wonders what could go wrong. Bella's father wisely suggests a series of confidence-building, play-centered activities to allay Bella's concerns. Reeve's illustrations, rendered in a medley of muted hues and softly blurred lines, further convey the winsome tenderness of the tale. Whybrow's adept and compassionate approach to resolving Bella's situation is bound to encourage fellow kindred spirits. Reluctant readers will take heart in Bella's ultimate triumph. (Picture book. 3-8)


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To all Club Members
Your committee wishes to invite you to a Social Barbecue to be held at the Club Flying field.
This is to be held on Sunday 28th May 2017, at approximately 12:00pm.
Please bring your models and have a flying session prior to the barbecue.
After the flying session we encourage all members to spend some time at the barbecue to socialise with your fellow club members and with your Committee representatives.
Barbecue goodies will be provided for members.
Drinks will be available at the normal price of $2.00.


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Matt Crooks says he understands the supporters' frustrations at the Cobblers' slow start to the season - but insists he and his team-mates will get things right.
Town have lost four out of four in what has been a terrible start to the season in terms of results, and that has left many fans fearing the worst ahead of Saturday's big derby date with old rivals Peterborough United, who have made a 100 per cent winning start in Sky Bet League One.
Despite plenty of summer investment and 14 new signings, Town have failed to hit the ground running and the club's run without a competitive win is now 12 matches, and stretches back to March 14.
Last weekend's 4-1 defeat at Charlton was the low point of the opening four games of the campaign, and although Crooks accepts some supporters will not be happy, he has urged them to stick with the team.
Asked if he understood the fans' frustration, Crooks said: "Of course I understand it, I have been a fan myself and you want to win games, everybody wants to win games.
"We are getting frustrated ourselves as well, but we have to keep progressing as a team, and as individuals, and try and get that win.
Sometimes it doesn't happen straight away, and it hasn't for us, but there is plenty of time and there are a lot of games left, so we have to just keep going. We know we have a good squad, and we know we have good players, we just have to put it all together nowCobblers midfielder Matt Crooks
"Sometimes it doesn't happen straight away, and it hasn't for us, but there is plenty of time and there are a lot of games left, so we have to just keep going.
"We know we have a good squad, and we know we have good players, we just have to put it all together now. We did have a few chances at the weekend (at Charlton), and we had chances at QPR, but we have just not taken them."
Despite the league one season being only 270 minutes old, there does seem to be a lot of anxiety among the Cobblers support, but Crooks doesn't feel he or the players are under pressure.
Asked if there is a feeling of pressure at Sixfields, the former Rangers man said: "I don't think so.
"We just have to go into games and try and pick up three points, that is all you can do. I don't know if anybody else is feeling pressure, but I'm not, it's fine."
Along with the majority of his team-mates, Crooks will be playing in his first Cobblers-Posh derby at the weekend, and he is looking forward to the experience of playing in front of a near sell-out crowd at Sixfields.
"Derbies are big games," said Crooks. "Obviously there was the big one in Scotland, and I have played in a couple in league two against Morecambe (when he was at Accrington), and derbies are obviously big for the fans.
"They are big for the players as well as you can feel the atmosphere in the ground, and it is a perfect opportunity for us to get the three points at home in a derby.
"That would be a good way to kick off our season properly."
And does that big-match atmosphere raise a player's game?
"It does, it has to," said the 23-year-old, who has started all four of Town's fixtures to date. "You want to play on the biggest stage you can, and a derby is the biggest stage at that point in the season, and I am looking forward to it."


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could be doomed to failure after Franco Baldini flew home from Valencia without a deal being agreed.
The player's agent confirmed to Spanish radio station Cadena Ser that Valencia rejected an offer of £22million plus extras for the Spanish international and Spurs' envoy has opted to return to England.
Andre Villas-Boas is desperate for a striker to strengthen his squad after securing some high-quality midfield reinforcements and
Emmanuel Adebayor and Jermain Defoe remain at the club but Spurs' hunt for a centre forward has been no secret, with the club linked to Leandro Damiao, Alvaro Negredo and Oscar Cardozo this summer.
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Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics
Volume 29
5.5. Antman J.E. Marsden L. Sirovich
Geophysics and Planetary Sciences
Imaging, Vision, and Graphics
Mathematical Biology L. Glass, J.D. Murray
Mechanics and Materials R.V. Kohn
Systems and Control
5.5. Sastry, P.S. Krishnaprasad
Problems in engineering, computational science, and the physical and biological sciences are using increasingly sophisticated mathematical techniques. Thus, the bridge between the mathematical sciences and other disciplines is heavily traveled. The correspondingly increased dialog between the disciplines has led to the establishment of the series: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics.
The purpose of this series is to meet the current and future needs for the interaction between various science and technology areas on the one hand and mathematics on the other. This is done, firstly, by encouraging the ways that mathematics may be applied in traditional areas, as well as point towards new and innovative areas of applications; and, secondly, by encouraging other scientific disciplines to engage in a dialog with mathematicians outlining their problems to both access new methods and suggest innovative developments within mathematics itself.
The series will consist of monographs and high-level texts from researchers working on the interplay between mathematics and other fields of science and technology.
Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics
Volumes published are listed at the end of the book.
George Karniadakis Ali Beskok Narayan Aluru
Microflows and Nanoflows
Fundamentals and Simulation
Foreword by Chih-Ming Ho
With 395 Figures
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George Karniadakis Center for Fluid Mechanics Brown University Providence, RI 02912 USA


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The Man who Tried to Put it All Together:
A Hesped for Rav Kook on His Eightieth Yahrzeit
By Yehudah Mirsky
Yehudah Mirsky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, and the author of Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution (Yale University Press), available here (link).
This is his first contribution to the Seforim Blog.
Jerusalem of the 1930s was boiled in fury. The inevitability of bitter conflict with the Arabs of Palestine had become too clear to deny, while the fighting among Jews, if not quite as violent, was bitter and unmistakable. How to deal with the Arabs, how to deal with the British, how to bring new immigrants and, once they were there, sustain them, how to deal with Hitler's shadow looming large over Europe – and how to deal with Zionism's revolution not only against centuries of Jewish politics, but centuries more of Jewish religion and history. The arguments were as heated as the stakes were high.
All the more striking it was that on Monday, September 2, 1935, the fourth day of Elul 5695, some fifteen thousand people, amounting to one third of Jewish Jerusalem and nearly five percent of Jewish Palestine, religious and secular alike, joined by foreign diplomats, scholars, day laborers and rabbis, came out to follow the coffin of Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen Kook, dead at age seventy. The procession wound from his yeshiva near Zion Square, in three columns through the Old City, to his freshly dug grave on the Mount of Olives, as thousands more watched from the rooftops.
The night before, just a few hours after his passing, the Nineteenth Zionist Congress, meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland, had held a memorial service of its own. Menachem Ussishkin, president of the Jewish National Fund responsible for land-purchases in Palestine and incoming President of the Zionist Executive, had long been Rav Kook's chief interlocutor in the Zionist leadership, navigating between the movement's relentlessly secularizing thrust, and the rabbi's dogged insistence that the movement was bound to be the very vehicle of spiritual rebirth, for Jews and the world. Ussishkin said the rabbi had told him the building modern-day Palestine, its roads, factories and farms was nothing less than rebuilding the Temple – and that now, as then, all the ranks were meant to work together, the secular, itself charged with divine energy, being the indispensable foundation of the sacred.
Ussishkin was followed by Meir Berlin, leader of the perpetually-embattled Religious Zionist movement, the Mizrachi (whose Hebraized name would later garnish Israel's religious university, Bar-Ilan). Rav Kook, Berlin said, "loved the Jewish people the way only a father can love his children. Nobody is left after him who will love his nation that fiercely…He understood his people, the situation of the generation, and its life conditions, and that is why he forgave them everything." There was a lot to forgive.
Berlin and Rav Kook went back a very long way, longer than the former's own lifetime. In the fall of 1884, then aged nineteen, Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen Kook had become a student and disciple of Berlin's father, Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin, known as "The Netziv," dean of the great yeshiva of Volozhin. The yeshiva teemed with prodigies, future rabbis and future revolutionaries, among whom young Kook stood out, for an unfamiliar mix, appealing to some, off-putting to others, of intellectual prowess, intense piety, and lyric sensibility.
In the early years of his career, begun in a tiny Lithuanian shtetl, Kook was drawn to Maimonidean rationalism. With time, and intense grief at the death of his first wife, he turned inward, undertook deep introspection and extensive study of Kabbalah, on his own and with Rav Shalom Elyashiv (grandfather of the recently departed Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv). Alongside his command of Talmud and halakha, he mastered an extraordinary range of Jewish mystical, philosophical and other texts, read widely in the rich Hebrew and Yiddish periodical literature of the day, and became an autodidact of contemporary philosophy. In a departure from rabbinic conventions, he made serious study of the non-halakhic portions of the Talmud, the Aggadah and all its divergent voices.
"There are those who erroneously think that world peace will only come from a common character of opinions and qualities. But no – true peace will come to the world precisely by multiplication of all the opinions and perspectives… all facets of the larger truth… peace (is) the unification of all opposites. But there must be opposites, so that there be those who labor and that which will be unified… Hence peace is the name of God, who is the master of all the forces, omnipotent and gathering them all." (Eyn Ayah to Massekhet Berakhot, vol. 2, pp. 397-398, 9:361, on BT Berakhot 64a.)
In another, marking his burgeoning conviction that God is to be found in the stormy recesses of one's own inner life, he began to keep a spiritual diary.
In the summer of 1904 Kook moved to Palestine after accepting an offer to become the rabbi of Jaffa and the surrounding colonies, effectively becoming rabbi of the New Yishuv (Jewish collective). The year of his arrival marked the beginning of the Second Aliyah, the migration wave that brought a small but influential cadre of young intellectuals and revolutionaries who left an outsized mark on the political and cultural development of the New Yishuv. The combined effect of his encounters with their willingness to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the Jewish people and for the ethical universalism of Socialism, with the vibrancy of the New Yishuv and sheer embodied-ness of the land was electrifying. In public, he became the leading rabbinic champion of the New Yishuv, and thus the target of traditionalist attacks. In private, as time went by he wrote more and more furiously and extensively in his diaries, lost in a torrent of thought as he began to train the dialectical worldview which he had developed to understand the complex mix of his own soul and the ideological debates of Eastern Europe onto larger historical patterns. His thinking also became explicitly Messianic.
Thus in his reading, and in a move which astonished and enraged many of his Rabbinic peers, the rebelliousness of the pioneers was neither accidental, nor evil, but in fact nothing less than part of God's plan to restore to Judaism a vitality and universal spirit worn thin in centuries of exile. The young rebels against tradition in the name of Jewish nationalism and social justice were nothing less than the bearers of a new revelation.
In a major essay of 1912, Li-Mahalakh Ha-Ideiot be-Yisrael, ("The Progression of Ideals in Israel,") he presented a philosophy of Jewish history structured along series of mirroring, theses and antitheses, whose collective synthesis is redemption: The vital, collective, bodily Judaism of the Bible followed by its antithesis, the subdued, individualized, spiritualized,Judaism of Exile, all to be synthesized in the fullness of redemption.
The Land of Israel was central to his reflections.
"The holiness within nature is the holiness of the Land of Israel, and the Shekhinah that went down into exile with Israel (BT Megillah 29a) is the ability to preserve holiness in opposition to nature. But the holiness that combats nature is not complete holiness, it must be absorbed in its higher essence to the higher holiness, which is the holiness in nature itself, which is the foundation of the restoration and tikun olam… And the holiness in exile will be joined to the holiness of the land, and the synagogues and batei midrash of Bavel will be reestablished in the Land of Israel." (Ibid; and Shemonah Kevatzim 2: 326-327, Orot pp. 77-78).
Here and throughout he was reinterpreting a rich skein of Kabbalistic thought, in which the divine presence, the Shekhinah, as the Oral Torah, is Knesset Yisrael, the sacred community of Israel, and thus the Land, are all ultimately as one, constituting, as Sefirat Malkhut the very meeting point of God and the world. The "Ideals" under discussion in his 1912 essay were not only the Ideals of Western philosophy and the moral, spiritual and aesthetic ideas driving all human yearning, but also, and more deeply, the Sefirot, the nodal points of divine energy that in Kabbalistic teaching are the deep structure of all of Being, and, animated as it is with divine energy, its endless Becoming.
The outbreak of World War One caught Rav Kook in Germany, where he'd hoped to attend a rabbinic conference and mollify some of his peers' fierce opposition to the Jewish national revival. He spent the war years in Switzerland and then England, in horrified witness to the great civilizational suicide.
The world crisis and slaughter were redeemed for him by the Balfour Declaration, which he took as electrifying confirmation of his messianic reading of world events. As always, the national was for him complemented by the universal, and in the midst of the war, in the pages of his diaries, he reached some of the farthest heights of his universalism:
"There is one who sings the song of his self, …And there is one who sings the song of the nation, who cleaves with gentle love to Knesset Yisrael as a whole, and sings her song with her, grieves for her sorrows and delights in her hopes…And there is one whose soul expands further beyond the bound of Israel, to sing the song of man…And there is one whose spirit expands and ascends even higher, to the point of unity with all creation, with all creatures and all worlds, and sings with them all…And there is one who ascends above all these songs in a single union, and all sound their voices…The song of the self, of the nation, of man, of the world – all come together within him at every time, in every hour. And this perfection in all its fullness ascends and becomes a sacred song, God's song, Israel's song…a simple song, doubled, tripled, fourfold, the Song of Songs of Shlomo (Cant. 1:1), (as the Midrash says) The King to Whom Peace, belongs." (Midrash Shir Ha-Shirim Rabbah, 3:1(6), Vilna ed.) (Shemonah Kevatzim, 7:112, Orot Ha-Kodesh, vol. 2, pp. 444-445).
On his return to Palestine be became, first, chief rabbi of Jerusalem, and in 1921, the co-founder, with his Sephardi colleague Yaacov Meir, of the Chief Rabbinate. What was for the British an extension of established colonial policy of delegating religious services and some legal jurisdiction to local religious authorities was for him an opening to institutions that would gradually reshape the law into a new Torah for a redeemed Eretz Yisrael. He hoped to create institutions that would move the historical progression forward, creating the halakha and institutions to guide the great changes to come.
The reality was more complicated. That which made him the obvious choice to head the Rabbinate and indispensable to the burgeoning project of building the Jewish national home – his mix of erudition and piety, his engagements with modern thought and culture, a deeply conciliatory personality and a theology and historical perspective to make that conciliation the basis of a new philosophy – his ability to square seemingly incommensurate circles, left him out of the political mix and unable to make headway on his most prized projects, the new Rabbinate and bringing the Zionist movement into deep dialogue with Judaism.
It all came to a head in 1933 with the murder of the general secretary of Ben-Gurion's Mapai party, Chaim Arlosoroff. Suspicion fell on Jabotinsky's Revisionists, who had been doing rhetorical and sometimes physical battle with Mapai over its willingness to negotiate Jewish immigration with Hitler, and several were arrested. Rav Kook himself had never affiliated with a party, or even formally joined the Zionist movement as such. But once convinced of the Revisionists' innocence, Rav Kook threw himself and all his stature into their defense. The accused were exonerated, but his ties to the Left were irrevocably broken.
The ultra-Orthodox, for their part, throughout his Jerusalem years, saw him as their gravest foe and attacked him relentlessly, even while on his deathbed, and after.
The ensuing decades saw growing interest in Rav Kook's teachings and their significance. The thousands of pages of his diaries were edited and published, in different series, by his disciple "ha-Rav ha-Nazir," David Cohen (see here) and by Rav Kook's son, Zvi Yehudah.
The latter eventually assumed the deanship of his father's yeshiva, renamed Mercaz Ha-Rav, and in the late 1960s and early '70s became spiritual leader of the new vanguard of Religious Zionists.
When in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War of October 1973 religious Zionists decided to capture the flag and lay hold, not only of the hilltops of Judea and Samaria but of the Zionist movement as a whole, they were taking the religious language that Labor Zionism had made into a functional tool for a political program and re-infuse it with its classical religious meaning. And they did so, with the conceptual tools provided them by Zvi Yehudah, in his interpretation of his father.
The central question for Zvi Yehudah, his own successors, and for his and their critics within Religious Zionism, (most notably Rav Yehudah Amital) was what his father would have said, and how his ideas ought to be interpreted. It's hard to think of another Jewish theologian whose legacy has been as consequential as AvrahamYitzhak ha-Kohen Kook.
Those arguments continue in present-day Israel, where new volumes by and about Rav Kook, academic, sectarian and popular, continue to be published at a dizzying pace year after year. The publication in recent years of his diaries in their original form has heightened interest in him, while showing the depth of his immersion in Kabbalah, and the depths he was plumbing in his own complicated soul. He simultaneously embraced both universalism and particularism with rare vehemence. He saw genuine revelation in the spiritual life of all peoples, and in the very body of Israel, whose unique collective vocation was the salvation of mankind. He affirmed both pragmatism and utopia, or in his terms, sagacity and prophecy. The common thread to this entire way of thinking is the dialectic, a principled appreciation of complexity, and the ways in which precisely that complexity, that coincidence of opposites, is that which gives birth, slowly, to whatever it is that we can know of truth.
The last day of his life was the third day of Elul, sixteen years to the day since his arrival, after the Great War, in Jerusalem. He had been ailing with cancer for months and gone to the then-suburb of Kiryat Moshe. In his last days he'd received a number of visitors, including a disciple of the Rebbe of Munkacs, come to query Rav Kook's support for the Zionists, and the young rabbi and theologian, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, who was visiting from America on what would be his only visit to the Land of Israel (see here). And, after asking his physician how long he had left to live, did his best to read through the Mishna, Bible and Bahya ibn Paquda's eleventh-century classic, Duties of the Heart, one last time.
On the first day of Elul, the penitential month, Ha-Nazir had brought him the elegantly designed title page of the theological compendium he'd wrought out of the spiritual diaries, to be entitled, "Light of the Holy," Orot Ha-Kodesh. Rav Kook wept and asked that on the title page he be referred to simply as "Rav" and nothing more. He was surrounded by treasured rabbinic colleagues – Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer, Rav Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky, Rav Aryeh Levine – and Ha-Nazir stood in the courtyard downstairs, his face buried in a tree. At the very end, Rav Kook's lips were moving. His disciple and soul-mate, Rav Yaakov Moshe Charlap leaned over him, and heard him say, "Even now, my hope in God doesn't falter."
Rav Kook turned his face to the wall as the attending physician rinsed the blood from his body, and once his visitors re-entered the room, he faced them all once again. They began to say the Shema together, and he joined them on the final word, "Echad / one."


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HOUSTON — If the Houston Rockets really are going to meet the Lakers in the playoffs, then they're going to have to start figuring out how to defend against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Maybe, the Rockets will get a brainstorm today in their nationally televised game with the Lakers at the Summit (Channel 2, 12:30 p.m. PST). So far, nothing has worked.
The Lakers have won 14 in a row, including one playoff game, at the Summit, but as dominating as the Lakers have been, no one has made a greater impact than Abdul-Jabbar.
In three Laker-Rocket games this season, all won by the Lakers, Abdul-Jabbar is averaging 41.3 points.
Against the Rockets, since Akeem Olajuwon's rookie season of 1984-85, Abdul-Jabbar has averaged 34.9 points and 8.1 rebounds a game, shooting 64.7%, and the Lakers are 7-1.


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The NonProfit Times analyzed the numbers in this year's report in an exclusive piece online. According to the piece, giving in the U.S. reached an estimated $298.42 billion in 2011, an increase of around 4 percent from 2010 (when giving was estimated at around $290 billion). Individual giving represented the biggest contributions, at 73 percent or $217.79 billion?
The smallest contributors? Corporations. Corporate giving represented just 5 percent of total giving in the country, or $14.55 billion. This shouldn't come as too big of a surprise, as a report by the Council on Foundations last month showed that corporate philanthropy had fallen among large companies like Starbucks, Dove, and Cisco.
Of the different sub-sectors of giving, human services and religious giving came out on top. In fact, religiong retained its spot from last year as the largest recipient of giving, at 32 percent or $95.88 billion. Yet, interestingly enough, that number was actually a decline of 1.7 percent when measured in current dollars.
"Viewed another way, giving to religion, along with membership in certain mainline Protestant denominations, is declining, while the American population grows, on average, 1.0 percent every year," said Thomas W. Mesaros, CFRE, Chair, The Giving Institute and president and CEO, The Alford Group.
Here is the complete breakdown of giving to each sector:
- Religion, $95.88 billion or 32 percent;
- Education, $38.87 billion or 13 percent;
- Human Services, $35.39 billion or 12 percent;
- Foundations, $25.83 billion or 9 percent;
- Health, $24.75 billion or 8 percent;
- International Affairs, $22.68 billion or 8 percent;
- Public-Benefit Society, $21.37 billion or 7 percent;
- Arts, Culture and Humanities, $13.12 billion or 4 percent;
- Environment/animals, $7.81 billion or 3 percent;
- Individuals, $3.75 billion or 1 percent;
- Unallocated giving was $8.97 billion or 3 percent.
Want to read more about the Giving USA numbers for 2012? Head on over to our website for more analysis, and be sure to keep an eye out for our July 1 issue for even more details on this important report.