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terms I don’t understand: | Bits of my journey.
terms I don’t understand:
Starter wife/Starter marriage.
Holy war: Isn’t a war by it’s very nature, ahem, unholy. I just told Michael this and he reference a particular church and the concept of Jihad. Yes, I know, but I do not understand. It’s like saying: I only smoke crack at night in the closet-the rest of the day, I’m a good parent-my kids don’t see me smoking the crack-what’s the big deal? Really? You could have fooled me I can’t wrap my head around this one either: God told me to kill all those people, who was I to question that? Right. That doesn’t fit into my system of logic or spirtuality. Then again, my grandfather, father & uncle were in the military. What’s the difference between a government telling people to kill other people and God? Philosophically speaking, I suppose it sounds better to say something divine told us to do it versus-yeah, I’m just along for the ride.
I went to yoga again this morning and was reading some things about harmony, justice, etc. And, well, I live in a state where there are obvious dynamics of power but sometimes, sometimes I just wonder.
We’re listening to Pandora & New Soul just came on, Michael is singing along. I think I better stop this blog here and bob my head along to the tune. Life is short, enjoy the present. (Even if things confuse you..) Also, there’s more spanish rice waiting for the fetus and I.

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Enchanting Port Sunlight - Port Sunlight Museum, Port Sunlight Traveller Reviews - TripAdvisor
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24 helpful votes “Enchanting Port Sunlight”
Port Sunlight - quite wonderful and worthy of a full day visit, an easy 15 mins train journey from Liverpool to Bebington, a leisurely walk along Greendale Road as far as the factory building and then a meander back towards Bebington Station through the beautiful village via the church, the museum, the Lady Lever Art Gallery, stopping for lunch and later tea and scones of course!A quick look on Rightmove to view properties for sale in Port Sunlight was also very interesting - a good place to see the many different house designs including some of the original features.
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Visited the Port Sunlight museum and village where the Sunlight Soap factory was built with numerous residential homes for their employees and families. We really had mixed feelings as we enjoyed walking around the village seeing the difference in the housing by the architects employed to design and build them. In addition to a School, local hospital, dining hall, other facilities and gardens. William Hesketh Lever was certainly a pioneer who looked after his employees but tinged with sadness when the 1st world war started and many went to fight, never to return. The monument to those is a fitting tribute in addition to the Church where the Lever's are interred. Definitely worth a visit.
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Level Contributor 14 reviews 12 helpful votes “What a delightful village!”
Port Sunlight is a quaint haven of tranquility nestled cosily on the East of the wonderful Wirral peninsula which in itself offers plenty to see...the lovely coastline of Caldy, West Kirby and Red Rocks at Hoylake, strolling along the promenade enjoying the views of the Welsh hills which are only half an hours drive away whilst savouring a home made ice cream from the famous Nicholls, climbing the ancient sandstone Thor's Rock at Thurstaston, day trips to Chester with its Roman heritage and a ferry across the Mersey to Liverpool with its wonderful museum....the village itself has lovely archtecture and is beautifully landscaped. Take a stroll from the Hillsborough memorial through the rose gardens, past the war memorial and through more rose gardens to arrive at the stunning fountain in front of the Lady Lever Art gallery.The gallery is free and well worth a visit. It also has a reasonable cafe.If you are looking for good food and excellent value for money try the Port Sunlight Garden Centre, they do delicious scones and great sandwiches.Make sure you don't miss the sunken gardens of the Dell, near to the bowling greens just before you reach the factory frontage of Lever House.The Bridge Inn is in the heart of the village near to its pretty church if you need refreshments and there is also a small cafe opposite Port Sunlight railway station and one in the Port Sunlight Museum near the art gallery so you are spoiled for choice!
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This is my favourate museum ever. I mean I get so carried away and interested at all museums...but this one has a touch of uniqueness about it., and I cannot explain it because you have to go there to understand.Where it is situated is so beautifull and to think that those amazing houses were built for the workers is unbelievable in todays era.From the moment you enter this museum, time seems to stop and although you want to stop and look at what the wonderfull art in front of you is ...you simply have to get to the next one.The artwork is so profoundly amazing, and my favourate being ' Dante., well to actually see it there is like a dream come true to me.It has so much going for it, I am so surprised that some people have never been there.I took my husband along there (and he is most definatley no museum type) but he was so impressed he wants to go back also.I wish I could live in that place and wander around forever...
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Longtime Lover Of Literature : #57- The Gemma Doyle Trilogy (A Great and Terrible Beauty) By Libba Bray
Posted by Stacy Bernstein (Longtime Lover Of Literature) at Saturday, January 19, 2013
Jenny January 20, 2013 at 4:02 PM
Yeah, not caring about the rest of the books in a series after read one is never a good sign. If it helps I really liked the second book in the series the best. It was much more exciting.
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Reflections Columns: Trees
Last week I was in Minnesota. As winter draws near, the
maple and oak set the distant hills ablaze with yellow, orange, red and
rust. I walked beneath a gold and
crimson canopy of color and was struck with the majesty and the beauty of the
trees that surround us. Trees are majestic, mysterious and essential to our existence
on earth. They sprout from tiny seeds
that can be held in the hand. They send
their roots deep beneath the earth and extend their limbs to the sky as if in
prayer, transforming soil and light into substance.
They bear the snow of winter and explode with
blossoms in the spring. They whisper in a gentle breeze and howl when the wind
whips their branches. Their life-giving
leaves filter the air to produce the oxygen that we breathe. They give shelter to the birds that build their nests, perch
among their leaves and sing their songs. Their forests form the homes and habitat for wildlife. For thousands of
years the trees have provided the wood with which we build our homes, fashion
our furniture and produce the paper to preserve our written records. They feed both man and beast with their nuts
Trees remind us of those who have gone before, those who
planted them and those who lived among them. We sit in their shade in summer as
our mothers and fathers sat in an earlier day. And we walk among them as I did
today, struck by their beauty. The oldest trees date back more than two millennia. The “Arbol
del Tul,” a Montezuma Cypress in Mexico has the widest trunk on earth and may
be 3,000 years old. The “Cotton Tree” in
Sierre Leone marks the place where freed slaves gathered beneath its branches
to give thanks for their freedom in 1792. “General Sherman,” the Giant Sequoia, one of the largest trees on earth
is believed to be between 2,300 and 2,700 years old. The 500 year old “Treaty
Oak” in Austin, Texas was once the sacred meeting place for Comanche and Tonkawa
Indians. Stephen F. Austin met with them beneath its branches to form the first
peace treaty for his colony. The redemptive story of the Bible begins and ends with
trees. It starts with the “Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil” in Genesis and ends with the “Tree of Life” in
Revelation. Psalm 96 proclaims, “Let the field exult, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of
the forest will sing for joy before the Lord, for He is
coming!” In the fullness of time God chose a tree in the form of the
Cross to accomplish our redemption. The Bible says, “Christ
redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is
written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”— in order that in Christ Jesus the
blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles.” (Galatians 3:13-14). Trees remind us of God’s goodness and grace
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Heaven is Pho Real: April 2017
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Tuesday was my 11th month mark.
Wednesday was my 20th birthday.
A Birthday cake from the Elders
A loaf of bread with a KitKat as the candle; from the sisters
Basically, in terms of real age and missionary age, I am old.
In good news, we (sort of) have an investigator now! The elders met with this girl named Anh 2 times, but then she ended up moving back to her hometown in the middle part of Vietnam. She'll be there for a few months but will return to Saigon. They felt like it would be better for Chi Phuong and I to teach her, so we inherited an investigator!
With the rest of our time, we have just been contacting, contacting, contacting, and then visiting with less-actives and members. We have built up our pool of potential investigators, so HOPEFULLY it's just a matter of time before they feel comfortable enough to learn about the gospel.
This Sunday was.. EASTER SUNDAY. My first Easter in Vietnam, and man, was it different. Turns out instead of doing and easter egg hunt with plastic eggs filled with candy, Vietnamese people prefer to hunt for hard-boiled quail eggs. Healthier and smells better, too (jokes). In relief society, we had a birthday celebration for everyone with a birthday in April, but unfortunately the cake they bought was coffee flavored so no one could eat it. Instead everyone ate what looked like hard-boiled eggs but was actually vietnamese jelly with pumpkin inside. Probably not my favorite thing that I've eaten here, but it was worth the experience. But the most important thing about Easter, is that we were able to celebrate the Savior. Jesus Christ atoned and died for our sins, and then overcame physical death, making it possible for all of us to do the same. This life isn't the end - I know we will be able to be reunited with our loved ones that have already passed away. And if those two simple sentences aren't comforting enough, the church came out with a video for Easter that is absolutely wonderful. I'm attaching the version from Youtube that a member translated, so that those of you that speak Vietnamese (or want to see Vietnamese) can enjoy it as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeIKS_HLoCY
Thì con sẽ nói bằng tiếng Việt. Ngày thứ ba là mười một tháng cho con với tư cách là người truyền giáo. Qua thời gian này, con đã học rất nhiều về phúc âm của Chúa Giê Su Ky Tô và về bản thân con. Thật ra, cuộc sống của một người truyền giáo không dễ. Mọi ngày con gặp một thử thách nào đó, và đôi khi con cảm thấy như con không thể nào tiếp tục nữa. Nhưng, mọi ngày là một ngày mới. Mọi ngày là một cơ hội nữa để tiếp tục cố gắng, bất luận hoàn cảnh của con đi nữa. Hiện tại, những thử thách của con là khó nhất. Nhưng mọi ngày, con nhận được sức mạnh từ Thượng Đế để thức dạy và kiên trì. Con biết rằng Thượng Đế và Chúa Giê Su Ky Tô hằng sống. Con biết rằng họ biết chúng ta là ai, họ biết những yếu kém của mình. Con biết rằng công việc truyền giáo sẽ không bao giờ dễ bởi vì cuộc sống của Chúa Giê Su Ky Tô không bao giờ dễ. Con yêu thương mọi người ở Việt Nam. Con yêu thương phúc âm của Chúa Giê Su Ky Tô và niềm vui phúc âm mang đến cuộc sống của mọi người chúng ta. Con yêu thương Chúa Giê Su Ky Tô, Đấng Cứu Rỗi của con.
The quote from this week would be, once again, from my dear companion Chi Phuong: "I just can't tone." Sometimes the tones in Vietnamese just get to one's brain. I feel you, Chi Phuong.
Hailey's favorite smoothie lady
This is Chi Phuong!!
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Posted on May 13, 2009 by Thoth	Shaman – he never admitted to a proper name – was another escaped AD&D character – in this case with a selection of powers based on the Staff of Wizardry and the Ninth-Level Spells from AD&D which Jan had always wanted to try, but had never gotten a wizard to a high enough level to use.
Shaman was a truly mighty wizard in his home dimension, but – unfortunately – even at “level eighteen” had merely average defenses as far as superheroes went. Hence he usually relied on standing back, using his Staff of Wizardry to erect a Sphere of Protection, and summoning creatures – four at a time, and each about as powerful as a minor hero – to help him out. His favorites were Ice Giants, small Dragons, Windsteeds (basically pegasi, but capable of interstellar flight and of extending their life support powers to their riders), and Spirit Wolves (for tracking and for fighting spirits and intangible creatures), but he could call a wide variety of other creatures to his aid.
Unfortunately, Shaman was burdened with the protection of a variety of nigh-indestructible and vastly powerful, evil magical artifacts that would – if captured by the forces of darkness of his homeworld – give those dark powers a near-unstoppable advantage. Practically enough, he’d chosen to simply carry them into a less magical dimension and – with the assistance one of his fellow-adventurers (a ranger named Nimrod) – guard them there.
The dark powers of his homeworld – while unable to follow him in person thanks to the lower magic level – had an apparently endless supply of wraiths, minor demons, and similar monsters that COULD function under such conditions to dispatch in pursuit.
Shaman was a later middle-aged man dark-haired man (with a touch of gray), wore a neatly-trimmed beard and moustache, and what most people thought were vaguely-oriental-styled black robes – although he tended to change them with minor spells at whim. His powers included a near-limitless selection of minor charms he employed at whim (a small power pool), the various useful functions of his Staff of Wizardry (often low on various functions thanks to the endless demands placed on it by the unrelenting streams of monsters), and a modest selection of powerful – and, unfortunately, rather limited-use – major spells.
He could usually be found backed into a corner or pinned down in some reasonably defensible position by a swarm of monsters – or being rescued from such a position by Nimrod, who possessed a variety of movement modes. This got a little less troublesome after he joined up with the Heroic Extra-Dimensional Law Protectors, but never quite went away.
Elemental Control: “Level Eighteen” (10-pt reserve); Always on (-.5), Side Effects (attracts random monsters, somehow there is never anyone else available to help out, pays for everything with archaic coinage, gets stuck guarding strange artifacts, odd NPC’s drop by with strange quests, etc, -.5), Side Effects Cannot be Avoided (-.5).
Armor (Lots of Hit Points) (8 PD/8 ED)
Regeneration (1 BODY/5 hours); Regenerate: Lost Limbs and Organs, +10
2d6 Aid: To All Physical Attributes (Fade/5 min., Max. 12); Range: 0; Reduced END: Zero, +½; Champions Limitation (Affects Self Only): -1; Affects: All Powers of Special Effect, +2; Champions Limitation (Adds to maximums only, does not restore lost attributes.): -½; Champions Limitation (Only has six points worth of effect, the remaining six points only exist to be drained.): -½
Power Defense (20 pts)
Mental Defense (22 pts); Add to Total
Sorcery Power Pool (20-pt Pool); Control Cost: 10; Change Powers as 0 Phase Action: +1; Requires Skill Roll (Sorcery Skill roll to Cast): -½; Concentrate: ½ DCV, -¼; Extra Time: full phase, -½; Gestures: Instant Power, -¼; Incantation: Instant Power, -¼; Variable Limitations: -½, -¼; With a total of -2 in limitations, the pool can support a total of three powers at once automatically.
Staff of Wizardry Multipower (60-pt reserve); OAF (Staff, -1), -.5 Variable Limitations (-.25), Requires bothersome recharging rituals; the game master may opt to limit the charges of particular functions occasionally, (-.25)
Force Field: (Sphere of Protection) (12 PD/12 ED); Charges: 64, +1¼; Active Points: 60; Continuing Charges: 1 Minute, -3 lev; Hardened: ×1, ¼
Hand-to-Hand Attack (Arcane Smite) (10d6, Total 13d6); Range: 0; Reduced END: Zero, +½; Armor Piercing: 1, +½
1d6 Killing Attack (RKA) (Disintegrate); Range: 300; No Normal Defense: +1; Champions Advantage (NND Does Body vrs Force Fields): +1; Autofire (Vrs Inanimate Objects Only): 5 shots, ½; Charges: 64, +½
6d6 Entangle (Web) (DEF 6); Range: 300; Charges: 16, +0
Images (Phantasmal Force) (Hearing, Sight, 16″ radius); Range: 300; Observer PER Penalty: 0, +0; Charges: 32, +1; Continuing Charges: 1 Minute, -3 lev; Active Points: 60
Force Wall (12 PD/12 ED); Range: 300; Width: 12″, +0; Charges: +8, +0; Continuing Charges: 1 Turn, -2 lev
Missile Deflection (Warding Aura) (All Ranged Attacks, None, OCV 13); Uncontrolled: +½; Charges: 12, +½; Continuing Charges: 1 Minute, -3 lev; Deflect Attacks: Normal, +0; Deflection Bonus: 5, 10; OCV: 13
8d6 Energy Blast (Fireball); Range: 300; Versus: ED; Explosion (Extended Area +0″/DC): +½; Charges: 16, +0
Grand Spells Multipower (112-pt reserve); Generic Limitation (See Notes): -1¾; Concentrate 1/2 DCV to cast (-.25), Requires a Full Phase (-.5), Gestures (-.25), Incantation (-.25), -1/2 Variable Limitation (-.25), Full Power Only (-.25), Recognized by all knowledgable Mages (-.25), sends up massive magical power-flares when used (-.25).
1d6 Transform (Polymorph Any Object) (Major, Anything); Range: 560; Cumulative: +½; Autofire: 15 shots, 1; Continuous: +1; Charges: 250, +1; Penetrating: +1; Affects Desolidified: +½; No Range Penalty: +½; Generic Limitation (See Notes): -1¾; Thanks to the “Continious” modifier, if the first attack hits, the rest do so automatically.
8d6 Energy Blast (Meteor Swarm); Range: 550; Versus: ED; Explosion (Extended Area +0″/DC): +½; Autofire: 5 shots, ½; Charges: +125, +¾; Generic Limitation (See Notes): -1¾
Summon (Monster Summoning IX (4 120-point creatures); Range: 0; Champions Advantage (Automatically reasonably friendly): +½; Active Points: 112; Charges: 16, +0; Summon: Limited Group, +¼; Generic Limitation (See Notes): -1¾
15d6 Mental Illusions (Weird); Charges: 16, +½; Continuing Charges: 1 Turn, -2 lev; Generic Limitation (See Notes): -1¾
Lightning Bolt; Generic Limitation (See Notes): -1¾
20d6 Energy Blast; Range: 500; Versus: ED; Charges: 16, +0; Generic Limitation (See Notes): -1¾
+6 level w/Lightning Bolt; Generic Limitation (See Notes): -1¾
Extra-Dimensional Movement (Gate); Dimensions (Realms of Magic): Group, +10; Area Effect (Radius): 8″ radius, +1; Charges: 32, +¼; Usable Against Others: ×1 mass, 1; Ranged: +½; Time Travel: None, +0; Mass Multiplier: ×1, +0; Carrying Mass: None; Generic Limitation (See Notes): -1¾
+60 PRE; Generic Limitation (Only for making presence attacks): -½; Charges: 8, -½; Generic Limitation (See Notes): -1¾
+8 STR; OIF (Ring): -½
Modified Characteristic: STR; Reduced END: Half, +¼; OIF (Ring): -½
Radio Hearing; IIF (Ring): -¼
+2 level w/Overall Level
Dimensional Lore
Elvish (Fluent Conv.); Literacy: Standard, 0
Dwarvish (Fluent Conv.); Literacy: Standard, 0
Distinctive Features: Fantasy Wizard; Concealability: Easily, 5; Reaction: Noticed and Recognizable, +0
Hunted: Seekers of Evil Artifacts in his care. (8-); Capabilities: More Powerful, 15; Non-combat Influence: None, +0; Geographical Area: Unlimited, -0; Actions: Hunting, ×1; Punishment: Harsh, 0
Hunted: Nightfall (8-); Capabilities: More Powerful, 15; Non-combat Influence: None, +0; Geographical Area: Unlimited, -0; Actions: Hunting, ×1; Punishment: Harsh, 0
Hunted: Viper (8-); Capabilities: More Powerful, 15; Non-combat Influence: Extensive, +5; Geographical Area: Unlimited, -0; Actions: Hunting, ×1; Punishment: Harsh, 0
Overconfidence (Very Common, Moderate)
Hatred of Black Magic (Common, Strong)
Contempt for Modern Weapons (Very Common, Strong)
Reputation: Impulsive Wizard (11-, Extreme)
Rivalry: Other Magicians; Situation: Professional, 5; Position: Equal, +0; Rival: NPC, +0
2d6 Unluck
Susceptibility to Dispel Magic (2d6 STUN/Turn); Condition: Common, +10
Vulnerability to Ego Attacks (2× STUN); Attack: Common, +10
Has custody of several powerful evil relics (Uncommon, Strong); Situation: Uncommon, +5; Intensity: Strong, +5
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Underbelly: Obama's Foreign Doctrine
Politico, 7/17/12
Romney singled out a line from Obama’s stump speech on Friday in Virginia, attacking the president for saying no one is successful on their own, calling it “insulting” to all entrepreneurs.
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help,” Obama said in Roanoke, Va. “There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own.”
The crowd of about 1,000 booed when Romney quoted a line, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.” (Update: But there's this).
Book of Job, 6c-4c BCE
And all the sons of God shouted for joy? ...
And the wicked be shaken out of it? ...
[Odd to hear someone from perhaps the most communal of all American religions--and one with an exemplary record of concern for the poor-embrace a posture of nihilistic individualism.]
Posted by Buce at 9:17 PM
You may be over-thinking this. All you need is "The crowd of about 1,000 booed when Romney quoted a line, ..."
Further detail is superfluous.
Interesting, do you think they were booing Romney, then, not Obama? That possibility had not occurred to me.
No. My 'point' was, they would have booed any reference to Mr. O. Aside from being inanely obvious, it was irrelevant to the thrust of your post. For which, regrets.


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October | 2010 | Smartpaper
065 | Space Invader
At a recent AR party at Loop I caught a number of shots of the stunning (as always) visual work of Jem the Misfit. This one has been played with a bit and from it emerged a shape I found disturbingly familiar.
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063 | Red Lotus Eater
I have recently experienced something of a revival of interest in highly symmetrical designs. This piece is a re-experiment into this style.
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This piece is from a time when I didn’t have a camera worth even half a dam and used to get people to give me photos to play with in Photoshop. This is from Andreux (thanks); I think it’s of a back entrance to a server room somewhere in Melbourne.
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POETIC JUSTICE: (One year ago today) THE SENSE OF THE WHITE BIRDS
This is the new blog...CONFESSION ZERO (One year ago today) THE SENSE OF THE WHITE BIRDS
O! White birds fly down the raging river lineAnd white hot are the sun’s rays bathing the shore,And I think of this war and of my own borrowed complicityThat will be my shrieking, loathsome marrow felt forevermore!You cast it masterfully, dangling your lureOf every feeble people’s swindler in your damn book.You’d rather not have “pull out” swim the raging water,But it’s out there! The nibblers bleed from your despotic hook!I think of all the Iraqi people, and I weep.And of their homes and shame at having believed in us;Freedom, democracy, clean water, safe streets, living;I think of your lies and at once am asphyxiated by our oily lust!O! The white birds flying the river can see it,They can see the shoreline and they can see the nectar,They glimpse a fabrication in America’s half-truths,For they see the ancient beauty of Iraq swilling in fumes of war!The bird senses our pandering, illicit ambition,The looming and buckling hell of shorelines stony crustAs the warring winds change course for eastern shoresAnd would hold you from humanity if given reign over the quaking dust!Copyright © 2006 mrp


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Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz: August 2005
Summertime is nearly over and with it, the leisurely pace of life that brings us so many gifts. One of these is the ability to really listen to someone and not get by with simply being courteous.
During the year, people tend to go through the motions of listening without really absorbing the other person’s message. We nod perfunctorily to our children, our spouses, our parents, friends and neighbors as they talk. We follow the amenities and say the right things to convey the impression we are paying attention… but are we really?
Even when we are paying attention, often it is with impatience. We can’t wait for an opening to seize the floor and put in our own two cents. We are far more interested in what we have to say to others than in hearing what they want to say to us. We hear the lines but not what’s between the lines, the text but not the subtext.
Perhaps one of summer’s blessings is that in slowing down our hectic lifestyle, we suddenly find the time to look into the eyes of the person we are talking to and really tune in to what they are telling us. It’s startling how much one can learn, and accomplish as well as how much we can help someone if we have a genuine interest in connecting.
Many years ago, I took a trip with Rav Yehoshua Fishman of Torah Umesorah to raise money for the organization. Fundraising is one of the most difficult professions and in those days—our trip to Detroit took place before the days of cell phones—it was even more grueling. The weather was freezing. We sat in the car by the 7-11 pay phone making calls, trying to get people to let us in so that we could solicit them to help support Torah Umesorah.
Neither of us remembers how much money we made, if any, but there is one visit we made that stands out. We ate supper at the home of my grandfather, Rav Leizer Levin zt”l. The scene is still fresh in my memory. We were sitting at his small kitchen table and Rabbi Fishman asked my zaydeh how it was that he succeeded in the rabbonus for so many years.
My zaydeh was a far greater person than I can ever aspire to be. He was greater in Torah, in mussar and in bein adom lechaveiro than I and many others will ever be. He set a shining example for me and for so many who knew him of an adom gadol who was as humble as he was great.
He was zoche to learn for seven years in the yeshiva of the Chofetz Chaim zt”l, and to live in the Chofetz Chaim’s home for over a year. He recounted to us on that frigid Detroit night that when he left Radin to go learn in Kelm, the Chofetz Chaim said to him, “Leizer, gei redt mit Yidden, go speak to Jews.”
Though I had heard that story several times before, the way he said it that night lit a fire in our hearts. We took little account of what happened during the rest of that trip, but kept repeating to each other, “mir redden mit Yiden.” It no longer mattered to us whether the people we visited and spoke to wrote us a handsome check; we were on a mission to speak to Jews.
My grandfather would often tell me, “Pinchos’l, der rebbe didn’t say to speak at Jews, tzoo Yidden. He said with Jews, mit Yidden. Gedainkt men darf redden mit menchen, you have to talk with people, not at them.”
My holy grandfather carried out his rebbi’s mandate for over seventy years; it virtually became his life’s mission. He was mekadaish sheim Shomayim every day of his life listening to other people and talking with them. Hearing them out, absorbing their pain and their problems, and then, responding and trying to help them.
I miss him more and more each passing day. I try to follow his path. I usually fail. But the message he passed on to us from his holy rebbe merits repeating until we have made it a part of our daily lives: Redt mit Yidden, nit tzoo Yidden.
That year at the Torah Umesorah convention Rabbi Fishman repeated the story and in his masterful drasha, exhorted the mechanchim to “redt mit di talmidim.”
Rav Fishman’s words resonated deeply with the audience of devoted educators. The words of the Chofetz Chaim evoked the highest aspirations of every Rebbi and teacher – to connect with their students, to understand what makes them tick and to tap into their latent enthusiasm for learning. The tale has been often repeated since.
If we want to reach other people and touch their souls we have to be able to speak to them, not at them. We have to look at the entire picture, not just at a part of it. Before pouncing on anyone for an infraction, we have to remember what the person did yesterday and the previous day that might mitigate his offense.
How we speak to people is very important. If we put ourselves in the other person’s place we can be more sensitive to his or her situation and can then be so much more effective in reaching the person.
Children begin the school year with an amazing desire to learn. They come to school the first day with a new briefcase and all new supplies. They are enthusiastic to meet their new rebbi and teacher. They are bubbling with excitement. Everything is so new and so fresh. They get new books, new desks and new classmates. They meet up with their friends who they haven’t seen for a while. Coming home, they have so much to say about the first day of school.
The trick of a good parent and educator is to maintain that enthusiasm as the year continues and the work piles on.
Did you ever hear about a pre 1A child who didn’t want to learn the Aleph Bais? When they begin school, their learning is exciting and interesting, the teachers are vibrant, every day they look forward to learning something new. They know morah loves them, and they love her. Every day they color something; they learn and review a new letter every week. How exciting it all is.
In their daily foray into the classroom, our teachers work hard to make the subject come alive, and to not allow the learning to turn into simple rote repetition. Learning can be a fun and exciting experience. Look around and see the successful rebbis, moros and teachers, who are excited about what they are teaching and who can convey excitement to their charges.
As children age, their teachers strive to maintain their delight in mastering a new skill, in gaining knowledge, reaching a new milestone. Mechanchim work hard to ensure that the thirst for knowledge and accomplishment and the zest for learning that they infuse children with at the start of the school year should not be allowed to dissipate.
School and learning has to be more than words. Children [as well as adults] need to constantly have their attention charged. It is said that our generation has a shrinking attention span and that is probably true. But no one tires of hearing good stories; no one gets bored when held enraptured by a master speaker. If we want kids to learn we have to make the subject matter come alive and we have to keep it interesting. All the pontifications and all the speeches about chinuch cannot replace that simple fact.
Take a closer look at those teachers who breathe life into their lessons, whose own love of learning is contagious, who build incentives and motivation into the fabric of their teaching. Watch how they inspire and stimulate their students by, above all, caring about them and believing in their ability to succeed. Observe how their students revere them and exert themselves to the utmost to win their praise and approval.
These outstanding mechanchim make an art out of winning minds and souls. They invest huge amounts of energy in creating special projects, assignments, trips, contests—they are masters of motivation. They practice that dictum of the Chofetz Chaim; they speak to children, not at them. They understand their charges and are thus able to reach their neshamos.
This is no less true of gifted and dedicated teachers in the general studies department who utilize the rich opportunities that come their way to impress young minds with the niflaos haborai, who teach our children how to think and articulate and how to use the written and spoken word effectively.
As any educator will tell you their true reward is in seeing the enthusiasm in their students’ eyes when the lesson comes alive, when the message gets through and actually touches the hearts and souls of the their charges. We can never properly compensate these mechanchim for the gifts they pass on to our children—the lifelong love and excitement of learning.
To stir up appreciation for their efforts, we need to take a look at the students who were fortunate enough to be taught by such dedicated people.
As school starts and throughout the year, we need to do more than feel appreciation; we need to show the special rabbeim and moros that we do not take them for granted, that we realize that they are carrying out a sacred task—and in so doing, they are aiding us in our foremost obligation—to be mechanech the next generation in Torah and Yiras Shomayim.
Let those immortal words of the Chofetz Chaim ring in our ears whenever we speak to people of all ages, summer, winter and all around the year; redt mit yidden.
May we, together with the rabbeim, moros and teachers have much nachas from our children.
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The period of Jewish, Zionist, settlement of Gaza has ended. There are no longer any Jews living in the Gaza strip. A basic tenet of religious and revisionist Zionism has been demolished. Eretz Yisroel Hashleimah is no longer seen as a viable national dream.
The man on which so many pinned their hopes spurned them, threw them out of their homes and snuffed out their dreams.
The media dispatches from Gaza are full of tears. Rarely are articles so replete with descriptions of emotional outpouring. Women cried, men cried, children cried, soldiers cried. Reading those articles, one senses something unusual. When was the last time articles about current events sought to capture and convey so much sorrowful, gut-wrenching emotion?
What were those tears all about? When did you last observe people crying so openly and unabashedly? After all, no one had died. It was not a funeral.
Let us probe the history of this sad debacle in an effort to understand what has happened. Decades ago, at great risk to their lives, the settlers moved to a forsaken desert. They made it bloom, building beautiful houses and farms. They believed that building Jewish settlements would help hasten the arrival of Moshiach. They felt they were keeping the enemies of Israel at bay by living in the midst of so many bloodthirsty Arabs.
Their savior turned on them, their celebrated hero decided to expel them from the paradise they carved out for themselves. In spite of herculean efforts, they were unable to stave him off. The gates of Heaven seemed to remain closed to their prayers. No miracle intervened to reverse the dreaded evacuation and to halt the people who carried out the prime ministers’ orders. The Tisha B’Av deadline came and went and then the soldiers were at the door, ready to carry them out of their homes.
The tears gushed as cameras snapped their shutters, their lenses recording the grief for posterity.
To be thrown out of your home is devastating; to be homeless is a nightmare. To have fought dearly for something and lost is very sad, but I think there is an even deeper dimension to the tragedy.
I think they were crying because their dreams were utterly destroyed. They were crying because their life’s mission, the very raison d’etre, was uprooted.
They cried because they believed they were doing G-d’s work and they think G-d turned them down. They were fighting for Zionism and they lost. In the words of one settler quoted in The New York Times as he was being dragged from his home, blue and white flag held high, “This is not about our house. We are fighting the battle for Zionism.”
The Mizrachi religious Zionist movement was founded in 1902 in a bid to work together with the secular Zionists to settle the Holy Land.
Talmidim of the Vilna Gaon and the Baal Shem Tov had preceded them by a hundred years, putting their lives at risk to settle the Land of Israel. Their followers who continued their dream of yishuv ha’aretz would have nothing to do with the secular Zionists.
The Mizrachi believed that it was possible to cooperate with the secularists and build a state to hasten the arrival of the Messiah. The Chareidi community, led by Rav Chaim Soloveitchik and the Lishcha HaTehorah, on the other hand, believed the secularists were driven by a desire to separate Jews from their religion and to substitute the state for the Torah. They fought them tooth and nail.
The old yishuv of Yerushalayim split with Rav Avrohom Yitzchok Kook over this issue, the vast majority siding with Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.
The old yishuv did not see the need for a state headed by secularists who sought to strip the holy land of its special character. They refused to work with them and fought them every step of the way.
Following the wars of 1967 and 1973, followers of Rav Kook’s son, Rav Zvi Yehuda, saw an opportunity once again to help speed the arrival of Moshiach. They teamed up with the secular Ariel Sharon and planted settlements of Jews all across parts of Eretz Yisroel and Gaza which had been captured in the Six Day War of ’67.
The settlements exerted a powerful emotional pull and religious Jews in Israel and around the world supported the movement. In the wake of the demoralizing losses of the Yom Kippur War, the growing settlement movement infused new hope and optimism. The settlements morphed into complete towns, with yeshivos, factories and beautiful houses—like a gan eden in olam hatachton.
During the heady days of their founding, Rav Shach would speak against the settlement activity at almost every opportunity. He would say that we have no need for them. He would say that since the nations of the world were opposed to them, it was forbidden to establish them. When Menachem Begin annexed the Golan to Israel, Rav Shach said that we existed as a people for thousands of years without the Golan and our nationhood would not be diminished without the Golan.
Needless to say, his position was far from popular. He was vilified and ridiculed for it. Refusing to back down, he continued to speak publicly against the settlements.
A talmid of his couldn’t take the flak anymore and approached him, “Rebbe, why are you doing this? Why do you keep on repeating this mantra against the settlements; you’re not accomplishing anything,” he pleaded.
Rav Shach answered that he had no faith in the country’s leaders and knew that the day would come when they would relinquish the land they had liberated, and return it to the Arabs. The settlers invested so much religious zeal into those settlements that he said he feared their loss would be so devastating it would shatter their emunah.
He said that though his message was having no immediate effect, he felt compelled to repeat it so that when that future time arrives, the settlers would remember that there was once an alter Yid in Bnei Brak who stood and darshened that the Jewish people don’t need settlements— and that the settlements were not destined to last. Let them remember that, and when the day of betrayal comes, they will not be entirely disheartened and won’t forsake their faith in the religion of our forefathers who clung to their belief through all the travails of the Diaspora.
Alas, that day has come. The day the alter Yid foresaw and worried about arrived. And now it is our duty to stand up and call out to our sorrowful brothers who were turned out of their homes.
With brotherly love, with sympathy and compassion, we cry out to you to come home. Come over to our settlements. Come see what we have built and join us. The settlements of Ponovezh, Mir, Brisk, Chevron and Slabodka are ready to absorb you. The settlements of Bnei Torah reach out to you with hearts full of love, urging you to rejoin us. You’ve seen how the secularists treat you; you’ve seen where their path leads. Part ways with them, once and for all, and come over to our place.
Let us join forces. Join the army of the yeshivos; we can work together building Torah communities. Help us reach out to the tinokos shenishbu and bring them to lives of Torah.
Our hands are outstretched. We are not triumphal.
You who have seen and experienced the bitter truth of the Brisker Rov’s words, that the Tzionim zenen chashud oif retzichah, should join with us to help bring Moshiach through other means.
We empathized with you as you battled for your homes. We felt your pain, we sympathize deeply with you. But now that you have been unceremoniously dumped across the country with nothing but the clothes on your backs, while your homes are bulldozed into oblivion, perhaps it is time to take stock on where this partnership has led you. Perhaps the state and its army do not deserve the religious awe and respect you have honored them with.
The Zionist dream has failed the Jewish people; it has neither ended anti-Semitism nor engendered respect for our nation.
Your blood, sweat and tears mean little to Sharon and the secularists; your years of army servitude and sheirut leumi are spat upon. You are vilified and mocked. You are coddled as long as you are useful to their cause. Oorah, wake up and realize that following the path of Torah-only without cooperation with the secularists-will lead us to the redemption.
The words of Rav Saadya Gaon echo: “Ein umaseinu umah elah b’Torah,” Torah is what binds us and defines us, not land, not a flag, and not the settlements.
We live in historic times; Moshiach is knocking on our doors. Can’t we join together and do what needs to be done to let him in?
Throughout our history, the first week of Av has marked some of the most wrenching, catastrophic events for the Jewish people. That legacy of sorrow and disaster continues to hound us to the present day.
As we prepare for Tisha B’av and shed tears over the latest tragedies in our immediate environment and in Eretz Yisroel, we wonder what can we do to reverse this terrible cycle and when it will all end.
Our search for a ray of hope begins with the awareness that the root of all our sadness and misery is the churban bais hamikdosh, which we mourn during the Nine Days and Three Weeks. We reflect on the well-known Gemorah in Yomah [9b] that tells us that the first bais hamikdosh was destroyed because we did not observe the halachos of avodah zorah, gilui arayos and shefichas domim.
The Gemorah says that at the time of the destruction of the second bais hamikdosh, the Jews were proficient in Torah and gemilus chasodim. What brought about the churban was the sin of sinas chinom.
The true nature of sinas chinom goes beyond the concept of senseless, baseless hatred. Its deeper dimensions are hinted at in the Gemorah in Maseches Shabbos that discusses kabolas haTorah.
The Gemorah states that har sinai was given its name because of the “sinah” that matan Torah triggered in the nations of the world toward klal Yisroel. Rashi explains that once the Torah became exclusively ours, we became universally hated. We had sole access to something of immeasurable value and the world could not forgive us for that.
Jealousy seems to be the underside of hatred. Sinas chinom is thus the animosity a person harbors toward one who possesses that which the hater lacks—something he is not willing to go the extra distance to attain for himself. That feeling of emptiness spawns an implacable hatred.
The Gemorah in Yomah quoted above states that the sin of sinas chinom is equal to the collective sins of avodah zorah, gilui arayos and shefichas domim. The reason for this is that sinas chinom is the polar opposite of ahavas yisroel, one of the Torah’s key mandates, derived from the posuk of V’ahavta lereyacha kamocha.
We are all familiar with the statement of Rabi Akiva in Pirkei Avos, V’ahavta lereyacha kamocha, zeh klal Gadol ba’Torah… The commandment to love your fellow Jew is the major rule of the Torah,” the rest is commentary.
We also recall the tale of the ger tzedek who asked Hillel to teach him the whole Torah on one leg. Hillel told him D’alach sani lechavercha lo sa’avid, zuhi kol haTorah, v’idach zil gemor, what is hateful to you do not do unto others.
Sinas chinom is derived from a feeling of inferiority and inadequacy. People suffering from these feelings can fill the vacuum by emulating others who lead exemplary lives. Or they can try to destroy those who do good by minimizing their accomplishments and destroying their reputations. This helps the inferiority-ridden person feel redeemed and guilt-free over his own lack of accomplishment.
Poking fun at someone for having his name engraved on a building in tribute to his donation, will cause that person to reconsider the next time he is solicited for a contribution.
How many people shy away from getting involved because they are aware of the negative feedback trailing them?
And why should it be that people who send in letters to the editor feel compelled to withhold their names so as not to face the scorn of their friends and neighbors?
It may be that that is why sinas chinom has to be thoroughly uprooted in order for the redemption to arrive.
Good people need encouragement to succeed; good people need other people to work with; good people need to be surrounded by positive pro-active people in order to facilitate their accomplishments.
How many at-risk kids would be drawn closer if people would not hesitate to get involved? At- risk children need people to care for them, as do children who have been abused and harmed in different ways. Yeshivos need people to come to their aid. Mechanchim desperately seek saviors to help them make ends meet. How do we expect “umalah haaretz dei’ah es Hashem” if we don’t pay our teachers a living wage and don’t provide children the education and care they are entitled to?
I had the occasion to be in Detroit a while ago for a family simcha and met my dear friend, the noted askan, Gary Torgow. We caught up on old news and the conversation drifted to the many accomplishments of the late Detroit tzadik, Rav Avrohom Abba Freedman, and his wonderful family.
I made the comment that it is truly amazing to consider all that Rabbi Freedman accomplished—how many causes and people he helped, and how many individuals he was able to draw to Torah.
Gary told me that he had had a similar conversation with Rav Mattisyohu Solomon when he visited Detroit and that he asked the Lakewood mashgiach to what he attributed Rabbi Freedman’s success.
Rav Solomon’s response was penetrating. He said that the secret of Rabbi Freedman’s success was that no one was jealous of him.
Because no one was jealous of Rabbi Freedman, he was able to operate under the radar and not be destroyed by envious people out to undermine him. Because no one was jealous of him he was able to be wildly successful as he brought more and more people to the tent of Torah. He was able to lead “missions” to Torah centers and minister to dozens because no one tried to impugn his character.
Because no one was jealous of him he was able to convince hundreds of children to go to yeshiva. He was able to help so many and be the best friend of every good cause in town.
It may be that there are other people like Rabbi Freedman out there who have the ability to prepare the world for the coming of Moshiach, but we get in their way, we doubt their intentions, we play down what they have done and impede them from doing more.
If we’d banish sinas chinom, we’d permit more Rabbi Freedmans to flourish and prosper and we’d be closer to the place we need to get to in order to merit the geulah shlaimah. May Hashem wipe away all the sadness and tears and grant us the zechus of hearing Tisha B’Av proclaimed a holiday with the arrival of Moshiach, speedily in our day.
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Everyone wants to know what the Gedolei Yisroel say about the disengagement. I had the occasion this week to discuss the matter once again with my Rebbi, Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, and what he had to say was most enlightening.
Gedolim have a way of looking at things differently than most people. That is why we turn to them when there is a tough decision to make and we are confused by competing arguments and opinions. Even when we think we have everything figured out, they are always able to dig deeper, analyze sharper and offer an entirely fresh and enlightening perspective on the issue at hand.
When I brought up the topic, Rav Shmuel remarked with a pained expression how awful it is for the people living in Gush Katif to be evicted from their homes and that we must all feel their pain. “Bochoh sivkeh balaylah,” he quoted from Megillas Eicha, noting how applicable to the present situation is that poignant passage.
The settlers believed that their moving to Gaza would hasten the arrival of Moshiach. They think that the State of Israel is “reishis tzemichas geuloseinu - the beginning of the dawn of the messianic period.” This awful situation ought to awaken them.
Rav Shmuel went on to say that during the Gezairos Tach v’Tat, the devastating pogroms against the Jews in Poland and Russia that wiped out 100,000 of our people, the Tosfos Yom Tov said that the reason for the terrible persecutions was revealed to him from Shomayim. He said that the Jews of that period did not show proper respect for shuls and botei medrash. He aroused the community to awaken to the Divine message, and wrote a special prayer on behalf of those who would pay heed to the call and restrain themselves from talking during davening.
If shuls and botei medrash are about to be blown up and the Jews who frequent them are being chased from their homes, this wrenching prospect carries a message for us akin to the one the Tosfos Yom Tov divined during the Gezeiros Tach v’Tat.
Nearly thirty years ago, when Anwar Sadat made his dramatic visit to Yerushalayim, the debate over returning the majority of the Sinai desert to the Egyptians was fierce indeed. The memories of the wars with Egypt - of the endless infiltrations by the fedayeen terrorists and of the toll in human lives paid for every inch of that blood-soaked expanse of burning sand - were simply too fresh to allow us to appreciate the historic opportunity before us.
Most people viewed the return of the Sinai with dismay, but Maran Rav Elozar Menachem Shach zt”l led our community in embracing the concept of peace with Egypt. Prominent voices railed against the “withdrawal,” against the so-called capitulation to our fiercest enemy. In our world, voices were raised challenging the da’as Torah of Rav Shach and the gedolei Eretz Yisroel. Arguments raged in many botei medrash. It was not a period of great harmony amongst Jews. But we held fast to the vision of our Torah leaders and put our trust in their judgment.
Today, almost three decades later, we know that the Egyptians no longer attack us. Their murderous fedayeen, who had regularly invaded moshavim and kibbutzim, killing and destroying, have not been heard from. Countless Jewish lives have been saved. Indescribable suffering has been spared.
Are we facing a similar opportunity today? Will the pullout from Gaza ring in a period of tranquility? Can we support the relinquishing of fertile acres of Eretz Yisroel in the same way we took leave of the sand dunes of the Egyptian Sinai desert? It is not likely that the Palestinians will maintain anything close to the “cold peace” Israel has with Egypt. On the Israeli side, there are few who look to Sharon as they did to Begin.
Pundits abound, politicians pontificate, street corners resound with the debate of the masses. What are we to think? What are we to do? It is not really up to us to decide and Ariel Sharon has adopted dictator-esque tactics to ensure that his plan goes through, whether it makes sense or not.
Only a short while ago, in a small corner of the country, in an area abutting the largest concentration of Arabs in Israel, and in Arab-populated portions of the West Bank, Sharon and his followers created what would become known as “facts on the ground.”
His plan was simple. No one ever really believed that the State of Israel would be allowed to keep all the Arab areas conquered in the war of 1967. Some pundits point to the demographic nightmare looming on the horizon. With millions of Arabs living in Israel it is only a matter of time before they start voting in elections. Before long they could be dictating policy and opening the front door to the same enemies who have been trying to get in the back door for more than half a century.
Sharon’s plan was to complicate the eventual givebacks by creating large settler blocs. By urging people to settle in places like Gush Katif, the day of reckoning would be delayed or even avoided entirely. I remember him showing me maps over ten years ago and proudly pointing to places all along Yehuda, Shomron and Azza to ensure that no leftist government would ever be able to return that land to the Arabs.
The pawns in this chess game, the people who settled formerly barren areas and built up homes and communities, have known terrible suffering. The one and a half million Arabs of Gaza have never stopped trying to attack Gush Katif. Katyushas and other flying bombs have been falling in a steady rain for close to three decades. Good people, people who put their lives at risk in the name of an ideal, have made the ultimate sacrifice. Hashem yinkom damam.
And now, after all they have been through, after their mesiras nefesh has resulted in beautiful communities with shuls and mosdos - with bustling businesses and breathtaking landscapes - the roof has fallen in. They have been betrayed. The very Sharon who stood behind them all these years, and pointed with pride at their towns and cities, now stands poised to oversee their hapless evacuation.
While we love Eretz Yisroel with much passion, we realize that Moshiach has not yet come. Even in Israel we are in golus.
We put Jewish lives ahead of nationalist agendas.
But there is the pain.
It is very hard for us to stand by and witness the despair of our brethren in Gush Katif.
Yes, they bought into a lie and are now paying the price, but they are our brothers and they are heartbroken. And when our brother is down, we are down.
On Yom Kippur, when the Kohain Gadol emerged from the Kodesh HaKodoshim, he said a special prayer. He prayed for Klal Yisroel. He asked Hashem to grant us a year of plenty for all. He asked for good health and happiness.
And at the climax of his prayer, he davened for Anshei HaSharon - the people who inhabited the Sharon plain. “Shelo t’hay botayhem kivrayhem.”
The Kohain Gadol begged Hashem to watch over the people of the Sharon lest their homes become their burial places.
The commentators in Yerushalmi Yomah 5:2 discuss the unique situation in Sharon. It seems that the ground underneath the homes became unstable due to the force of the rains that ran off the mountains and converged on the plains. This required the people to rebuild the foundations of their homes twice within every seven years.
The obvious question is: Why did they continue to live in such a dangerous place?
Chazal did not answer that question for us. And I think I now understand why.
There is a lesson to be learned from the tefilla of the Kohain Gadol. It does not matter if the people of Sharon have chosen to live in a dangerous place. In fact, it may even be that had they asked da’as Torah, they would have been advised to live elsewhere. The only enduring point is that they are our brothers. We care for them. We care about them. And we pray for them.
Avrohom Avinu underwent ten tests of loyalty to Hashem. One of those trials was the command “Lech Lecha, Go forth and relocate.” The Brisker Rov posed the following question: What test was inherent in such a welcome command? After all, at home, Avrohom was busy arguing about the idols in his father’s store. Didn’t he welcome the opportunity to finally get away from that environment?
“The answer,” the Rov declared, “is that to leave one’s home is never simple.”
We are not sure that living in Gush Katif was ever a smart thing to do. We don’t know how wise it was for the people who moved and lived there to endanger themselves, their families and so many soldiers. But now as they stand on the threshold of expulsion, as they hold their heads in agony contemplating the wasted lives sacrificed on the altar of Sharon’s lie, our hearts go out to them.
We pray that Hashem should watch over the people who believed in Sharon.
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This week on the manliest LIVE comic radio show we begin our month long look at the women who make the comics you love. We begin by welcoming to the program Shawna Gore, a freelance editor, creative consultant, and an officer on the Board of Directors for Stumptown Comics — an educational non-profit and comics festival based in Portland. Shawna has also worked for Dark Horse Comics as a publicist and an editor. She even won an Eisner Award for her efforts on the 25th anniversary edition of Bernie Wrightson’s illustrated version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. If you have a question for Shawna, please post it on our Facebook wall or give us a call in the studio at 506-453-4949.
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ARTNATURE INC (7823:Tokyo Stock Exchange): Stock Quote & Company Profile - Businessweek
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Artnature Inc. provides various hair solutions in Japan. The company manufactures and sells custom-made wigs and hairpieces; hair addition products; hair growth care and services; and barber and beauty services for hair-related needs. As of December 31, 2013, it operated 251 outlets. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Artnature, Inc. Reports Earnings Results for the First Quarter Ended June 30, 2014; Provides Earnings Guidance for the Six Months of 2015 and Full Year Ending March 31, 2015
Artnature, Inc. reported earnings results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2014. For the quarter, the company reported net sales of JPY 9,547 million against JPY 9,678 million a year ago. Operating income was JPY 1,050 million against JPY 2,055 million a year ago. Ordinary income was JPY 1,021 million against JPY 2,072 million a year ago. Net income was JPY 625 million or JPY 37.94 per share against JPY 1,213 million or JPY 76.09 per share a year ago. Income before income taxes and minority interest was JPY 1,022.799 million against JPY 2,064.773 million a year ago. Net cash used in operating activities was JPY 828.977 million against JPY 832.684 million a year ago. Purchase of property, plant and equipment was JPY 280.527 million against JPY 291.231 million a year ago. Purchase of intangible assets was JPY 30.354 million against JPY 236.570 million a year ago.
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Patent US6819225 - Pricing information pager - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign in<nobr>Advanced Patent Search</nobr>PatentsA novel paging technology allows a group of subscribers to share and take advantage of bargain, promotion, and special pricing information that may otherwise be difficult to obtain or only useful for a very limited time. A service provider collects and stores such information. The information is then...http://www.google.com/patents/US6819225?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6819225 - Pricing information pagerAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS6819225 B1Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 08/802,575Publication dateNov 16, 2004Filing dateFeb 19, 1997Priority dateFeb 19, 1997Fee statusLapsedPublication number08802575, 802575, US 6819225 B1, US 6819225B1, US-B1-6819225, US6819225 B1, US6819225B1InventorsJames E. Wicks, David FineOriginal AssigneeSony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (20), Classifications (11), Legal Events (6) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetPricing information pagerUS 6819225 B1Abstract A novel paging technology allows a group of subscribers to share and take advantage of bargain, promotion, and special pricing information that may otherwise be difficult to obtain or only useful for a very limited time. A service provider collects and stores such information. The information is then compared to a profile for each subscriber detailing what type of information that subscriber is interested in receiving. Information matching the interest profile of each subscriber this then transmitted to that subscriber's pager. Each subscriber's pager may include an input device, such as a virtual keyboard, so that each subscriber can submit information to the system to be shared with other subscribers.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates generally to the field of wireless pagers. More particularly, the present invention relates to an application of wireless pager technology as a means of collecting and disseminating pricing and bargain information.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to meet the above identified needs and others. More particularly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a novel paging system and a method of using a the same to provide a means for collecting and disseminating bargain and pricing information while it is still of value to those who are interested in receiving it.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Using the drawings, the preferred embodiment of the present invention will now be explained. Under the principles of the present invention, pager technology can be adapted to provide a means for collecting and disseminating bargain pricing information while it is accurate and valuable to those interested in receiving it.
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OverviewBoard MembersCommittees	BOARD MEMBERS AFFILIATED WITH Jacqueline P. Kane *Jacqueline P. Kane Return to Pinnacle Technical Resources, IncSenior Vice President of Human Resources & Corporate Affairs1717AgeTotal Annual Compensation61-- Roger A. CreggAV Homes, Inc.Board AffiliationsComerica IncorporatedComerica BankT. Kevin DenicolaComerica IncorporatedBoard AffiliationsComerica IncorporatedComerica Bank Robert S. TaubmanTaubman Centers, Inc.Board AffiliationsComerica IncorporatedComerica BankRalph W. BabbComerica IncorporatedBoard AffiliationsComerica IncorporatedComerica Bank Richard G. LindnerAT&T Mobility LLCBoard AffiliationsComerica IncorporatedComerica BankAlfred A. PiergalliniNovartis AGBoard AffiliationsComerica IncorporatedComerica Bank Nina G. VacaPinnacle Technical Resources, Inc.Board AffiliationsComerica IncorporatedComerica BankReginald M. TurnerComerica IncorporatedBoard AffiliationsComerica IncorporatedComerica Bank Anthony F. EarleyPG&E CorporationBoard AffiliationsComerica BankKenneth L. WayCooper-Standard Holdings Inc.Board AffiliationsComerica Bank Charles L. GummerComerica IncorporatedBoard AffiliationsComerica BankJoseph J. ButtigiegComerica IncorporatedBoard AffiliationsComerica Bank James F. CordesAmerican Electric Power Co., Inc.Board AffiliationsComerica BankWilliam P. VititoeWashington Energy Co.Board AffiliationsComerica Bank Peter D. CummingsComerica IncorporatedBoard AffiliationsComerica BankLillian BauderDTE Energy CompanyBoard AffiliationsComerica Bank Karen L. ParkhillComerica IncorporatedBoard AffiliationsComerica Bank
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