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(Family Features) When temperatures plummet, a seasonal wardrobe change helps protect most of your body from the elements. However, your face and hands are likely still exposed and even areas protected by clothing can be affected by a harsh climate. A fall skin-care regimen can help ensure your delicate features fare well even as blustery winds blow.
Sunscreen smarts. Most people know that slathering on the sunscreen is a must when heading to the pool or beach, but your skin can actually take a hit from the sun's damaging rays year-around. Apply a sunscreen lotion or moisturizer containing SPF daily to reduce the risk and minimize your chances of sun spots and wrinkles.
Healthy hydration. When it's hot, you're more likely to feel thirsty and drink more, but staying well hydrated is important in colder weather, too. Proper hydration affects numerous body functions, such as ensuring your muscles and joints are well lubricated and helping your body to regulate its temperature. Water is the solution most experts recommend, but non-sugary options like tea can also help.
Food factors. Although limiting the amount of fat you consume is generally recommended for a nutritious eating plan, in the fall and winter it's especially important to be sure you're consuming enough healthy fats and omega-3s to promote moisture from the inside out. Good sources include eggs, nuts, avocados and lean proteins like fish, turkey, chicken and beef.
Clothing concerns. Even if you don't feel the chill, cold wind can do a number on your skin. Be sure to cover up adequately when outdoors to prevent the chapping and irritation that can come from sustained exposure. Also be wary of precipitation; be sure your outer layers repel water and that you're able to change into dry clothing promptly if you do get wet.
Ample exercise. Getting your heart rate up helps get your blood circulating, which is not only good for burning calories and beefing up your muscles, it also promotes healthy skin. Sweating helps push impurities out of your pores, and the increased circulation helps distribute nutrients throughout your body, including the skin.
Avoid irritants. Especially if you have sensitive skin, cool wind can be brutal. Take care to avoid potential problems by sticking to softly textured fabrics that won't get itchy, take it easy on the exfoliating and be mindful of skin care products, soaps and detergents that may be particularly drying to already parched skin. Also skip the temptation to warm up in a hot shower, which can dry your skin even further.
Manage moisture. Even oilier skin types may need extra moisture when dry, cold conditions prevail. Oil-free options let you add moisture without over-stimulating oil glands, while natural oils such as coconut or jojoba are ideal for dryer skin. Apply lotion after every shower to trap in moisture and as needed throughout the day to prevent chapping and cracking, and give special attention to areas that are prone to damage, such as your lips and hands.
Find more ways to weather through this winter at eLivingToday.com.
4 Ways to Perfect a Carefree Style
A carefree style may appear effortless, but creating a look that stands up to a busy day still requires some simple work.
Keep your skin in top condition and your hair and makeup on point with these tips from the beauty experts at Macy's to help you look and feel your best.
Protect your skin. If there's only one skin care product you use, it has to be sunscreen. Not only is daily SPF important for avoiding sunburns, it also helps prevent wrinkles and spots caused by sun damage. Apply early and often, and don't be fooled by a cloudy day. Even when skies are overcast, those UV rays can inflict plenty of harm. If you'll be out for an extended period, consider a stylish hat to lend extra protection to your scalp, ears and face. Also remember to cover or apply sunscreen to often-overlooked places, such as the tops of your feet.
Go for all-day eyes. When you're embracing a laid-back look, a fully done eye can be overkill. A basic tint and some mascara is a simple way to achieve a put-together but fuss-free style. Using a waterproof formula can give you the confidence that your lashes are in perfect condition and ready for whatever the day may bring. If you have a favorite formula, check to see whether a waterproof version is available.
Make it matte. For lip color that lasts from sunrise to moonlight, matte lipstick is the real deal. In addition to being long-lasting, matte lipsticks pack an intense punch of color perfect for a bright and cheerful lip. If a little sparkle or shine is more your thing, go ahead and add a light layer of clear gloss and give yourself bonus points if one layer or both include SPF.
Explore new ideas. Switch up your look and unlock new favorites with Macy's Beauty Box, a $15 monthly subscription to beauty's most wow-worthy products specially chosen by beauty experts. With a variety of products from the best brands ranging from eye shadows to mascaras to lipsticks, each month you'll receive five deluxe beauty samples, one bonus item, a collectible cosmetics bag and a $5 beauty coupon available for use in-store and on macys.com.
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Unlike other mass production wallets, this is a handcrafted leather product, with carefully selected materials by an ex aviation engineer designer.
Made from Italian 5 oz.(2mm thick) vegetable tanned cowhide leather !
Color : Vintage Brown
*This leather is a real pleasure to work with and very comfortable to use.
The vegetable tanned leather is one of the best leather known to man for centuries. The secrets of vegetable tanning varies from tannery to tannery and the procedure method comes as a heritage from father to son.
The amazing qualities of this leather makes it so unique. When is un-dyed it darkens under the sun in a short period of time.
This is the ultimate leather, it ages so beautifully creating a unique patina. Just let this leather tell your story...
Model : "Faos"
Dimensions : 3 1/2'' X 5 1/8'' X 5/8'' (9 X 13 X 1,5 cm)
- 4 pockets. The one is zipped.
-Slim and practical. The zipped pocket can keep coins, the back pocket credit card, and the 2 inside pockets credit cards and folded bank notes.
-Astonishing look and feel of fine handcrafted leather product.
-Made from massive 2,2mm (6 oz) full grain veg tanned cowhide leather from Italy. This leather is of amazing quality.
-All edges are hand beveled and polished.
-Made to last for a lifetime.
-Case comes with linen cloth pouch.
-Soft feel yet robust construction.
-Color : Will age beautifully and darken naturally over time
-Stitching : it comes standard with natural beige thread as shown on photos. Contact me for personal variation.
*****Bronze eyelet for chain, specify when ordering*****
A really beautiful handcrafted wallet that stands out. You will love it once hold it in your hands ! Bid with confidence.
Please understand, this is a made to order product. I need processing time to dispatch it, as stated in item's shipping details.
Shipping via FedEx Express
USA : 2-3 working Days
UK & Europe major cities :2-3 working Days
Shipping via Hellenic post office
Europe : 4- 6 working days.
USA : 6-12 working days
Rest of the world: 6-17 working days
Thanks for watching! For any quote contact me. I'll be happy to answer.
Proudly made in Greece
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Buyers are responsible for any customs and import taxes that may apply. I'm not responsible for delays due to customs.
Just contact me within: 14 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 21 days of delivery
Information I Collect
To fulfil your order, you must provide me with certain information (which you authorized Etsy to provide to me), such as your name, email address, postal address, payment information, and the details of the product that you're ordering. You may also choose to provide me with additional personal information (for a custom order of jewelry, for example), if you contact me directly.
2. The legal bases he relies on to collect, use, and share personal information
The GDPR requires that you explain the legal bases you rely on to collect, use, and share personal information. The legal bases may include a buyer's affirmative consent to receive marketing messages, compliance with legal obligations, and a seller's use of the personal information in their legitimate interests (improving their services, for example). Throughout his privacy policy, Nathan should be as clear as possible about where and why he's relying on these different legal bases. For example:
Why I Need Your Information and How I Use It
I rely on a number of legal bases to collect, use, and share your information, including:
as needed to provide my services, such as when I use your information to fulfil your order, to settle disputes, or to provide customer support;
when you have provided your affirmative consent, which you may revoke at any time, such as by signing up for my mailing list;
if necessary to comply with a legal obligation or court order or in connection with a legal claim, such as retaining information about your purchases if required by tax law; and
as necessary for the purpose of my legitimate interests, if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests, such as 1) providing and improving my services. I use your information to provide the services you requested and in my legitimate interest toimprove my services; and 2) Compliance with the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use. I use your information as necessary to comply with my obligations under the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use.
3. The third parties with whom he shares personal information
The GDPR requires that you disclose the details of any personal information you share with third parties. Nathan should explain to his buyers why, when, and with whom he may share buyers' personal information. For example:
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Information about my customers is important to my business. I share your personal information for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows:
Etsy. I share information with Etsy as necessary to provide you my services and comply with my obligations under both the Etsy Seller Policy and Etsy Terms of Use.
Service providers. I engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to my shop, such as delivery companies. I will share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services.
Business transfers. If I sell or merge my business, I may disclose your information as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.
Compliance with laws. I may collect, use, retain, and share your information if I have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce my agreements, terms and policies; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of my customers, or others.
4. The length of time he keeps personal information
The GDPR requires you to disclose the period of time during which you will store personal information. Nathan should consider how long he needs to retain information for business purposes and to comply with any legal or tax obligations, and keep in mind that data shouldn't be kept for any longer than necessary. For example:
Data Retention
I retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with my services and as described in my Privacy Policy. However, I may also be required to retain this information to comply with my legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce my agreements. I generally keep your data for the following time period: 4 years.
5. If transferring personal information outside of Europe, how the transfer will be handled
GDPR requires you to disclose if you transfer personal information outside of the EU and the legal bases you rely on to do so, such as consent and contractual necessity. Nathan uses Google Cloud, which is Privacy Shield certified, so he should explain to his buyers that he relies on Privacy Shield as the legal basis for the transfer of his buyers' personal information outside of the EU. For example:
Transfers of Personal Information Outside the EU
I may store and process your information through third-party hosting services in the US and other jurisdictions. As a result, I may transfer your personal information to a jurisdiction with different data protection and government surveillance laws than your jurisdiction. If I am deemed to transfer information about you outside of the EU, I rely on Privacy Shield as the legal basis for the transfer, as Google Cloud is Privacy Shield certified.
6. His buyers' rights regarding his use of their personal information and his contact details
Based on GDPR requirements, Nathan should finish by explaining to his buyers their rights regarding the information they provide to him on Etsy. Nathan should also provide his contact details and explain to his buyers that he is the data controller of their personal information. For example:
Your Rights
If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited cases. I describe these rights below:
Access. You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information I hold about you by contacting me using the contact information below.
Change, restrict, delete. You may also have rights to change, restrict my use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (like where I am required to store data for legal reasons) I will generally delete your personal information upon request.
Object. You can object to (i) my processing of some of your information based on my legitimate interests and (ii) receiving marketing messages from me after providing your express consent to receive them. In such cases, I will delete your personal information unless I have compelling and legitimate grounds to continue using that information or if it is needed for legal reasons.
Complain. If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about my use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.
How to Contact Me
For purposes of EU data protection law, I Andrew Vasilas, am the data controller of your personal information. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact me at email@example.com
Alternately, you may mail me at: CELYFOS SCE, Troados 33, 14233 N. Ionia, Greece , VAT : EL996751607
We accept wholesale orders. Make an inquiry and we'll be back with an offer asap.
Items ship from Greece. All orders ship within processing time as described in each item's details. Shipping time is an estimate, not a guarantee. It depends on each country's postal services handling. Due to latest developments on COVID-19 restrictions postal services are having major delays and in some cases tracking does not properly work. 5-9 business days for EU, 7-20 business days for Northern America.
We also offer expedited shipping via FedEx 2nd day delivery at low cost partially funded by us. At the moment FedEx is the only reliable one, especially if you live in the States. You can ask us to invoice you the difference even if you have already ordered an item.
Keep it dry. Don't leave it under the sun and rain.
In case of getting wet, let it dry naturally away from heat sources. Scratches may occur with normal usage. Wipe them off by rubbing gently with a soft cotton dry cloth. Occasionally treat it with beeswax based special formula commonly found in most leather shops. Alternatively we'll be happy to provide you. Apply by hand massaging carefully, leave it dry and wipe it with soft cotton cloth.
We personally use mink – beeswax cream lotion
Your Celyfos ® product has a life time guarantee.
In case of product's failure we'll be happy to repair it or replace it with current materials free of charge. Just send us the item back on your expense.
All custom and personalized orders are specially made for you. We emboss your initials by hand. We also make unique designs and sizes upon request.
If a desired color is not listed in an featured item search shop's catalog products and ask if we can make it for you from that leather.
A custom made or a personalized product cannot be returned, unless it is faulty.
We always deliver. If you have not received or having doubts about delivery please contact us and we'll sort things out.
Nov 19, 2022
Great quality! Absolutely amazing wallet.
Apr 25, 2022
I own one. I have collected Men's wallets for a long time, his quality is top notch and affordable. I thought Filson was the elite, nope. Buy one today you will not be let down. I would like a custom option where there is no pocket on the back side when closed, I worry mine will get snagged. Keep everything under the flap and click it would be a great idea. The vegetable tanned leather is amazing!
Apr 19, 2022
Awesome hand crafted Leather-Wallet!!! Smooth leather , fine Stiches and a noble finish. Thank you Andrew! 🤘🏼
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YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)
YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
But yesterday I should have thought me blest
To stand high-pinnacled upon the peak
Of middle life and look adown the bleak
And unfamiliar foreslope to the West,
Where solemn shadows all the land invest
And stilly voices, half-remembered, speak
Unfinished prophecy, and witch-fires freak
The haunted twilight of the Dark of Rest.
Yea, yesterday my soul was all aflame
To stay the shadow on the dial's face
At manhood's noonmark! Now, in God His name
I chide aloud the little interspace
Disparting me from Certitude, and fain
Would know the dream and vision ne'er again.
Baruch Arnegriff
It is said that in his last illness the poet Arnegriff was attended at different times by seven doctors.
YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, jugum, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language—a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy. A thousand apologies for withholding it.
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth
again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with
whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and
cows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice never
is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and,
howling, is cast into Baltimost!
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Part of the Cool Sites series!
"It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story."
~ Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
We learn through the process of storytelling. Stories give learners a context for knowledge gained and a way to visualize concepts and ideas. Educators can use storytelling to teach any subject and engage students. In addition, teaching our learners to be great storytellers helps give them confidence because they are allowed to be creative and share a part of themselves. In their stories, they can always be the hero. Below are a few online tools and mobile apps to help your learners create digital books. There are 100s of digital storytelling tools and apps I have written about here, but in this post I am focusing on tools in which you create digital books. Storybook apps and tools make it possible for learners to share a complete narrative. Storybook creation tools tend to be very easy to use and are a safe way to publish work online, since students usually contribute only text and images. Check out my recent webinar recording filled with lesson ideas. Below, I have included the slide presentation. In future posts, I will share tools for creating stories with video tools and multimedia apps.
Storybook Creation Webtools
- Zooburst– My favorite storybook creation tool. The web tool is absolutely amazing and fantastic for students to create online 3D pop-up books they can embed, add their own photos to, and create written dialogues for. They can interact with their story using the Augmented Reality option. The free iPad app allows students to read the stories made and students scan Zooburst Story Codes to read the digital story made online.
- Little Bird Tales– Students can draw their own art or upload images to create a book where they add their voice and text to narrate their story. Then they can embed, create PDFs and MP4s of their stories. Available for i-devices for $2.99 but the web tool allows for the creation of free stories.
- Storybird-Perhaps the easiest storybook creation tool! Students create beautiful stories by choosing beautiful art and adding the words. Embed in a blog or wiki.
- MixBook– Students can upload their pictures, choose from a variety of themes, backgrounds, text, and stickers. It's a digital scrapbook that's embeddable
- Kerpoof– Create a story with a template. Students choose what kind of plot line then choose from a variety of characters. Also has options for creating a movie, drawing a picture, or making an ecard.
- Bookr– Students choose from Flickr pics. They can upload their Flickr pics. They create the text, embeddable
- UTellStory– Create a digital story with photos, video, voice, music and words, embeddable
- Storyjumper– Similar to Storybird. Students choose from art collections by artists, create the text, not embeddable like Storybird
- Panraven– Students upload their pictures , create the text, embeddable
- BoomWriter– Easiest way to get your students to create a collaborative book for the whole class, with another class, or in small groups. Students collaboratively create a book then vote on which chapters should be included in the finished product
- Picture Book Maker– Create a beautiful children's book by choosing characters and props and creating the text. The end product looks like a real book that children can order.
- Simple Booklet– Create flip books with beautiful images and text. This is more ideal for teens to adults. No registration required.
- The Art of Storytelling– Create books by choosing works of art. Record yourself telling the story
- Dr. Seuss Story Creator– Choose music, text, backgrounds and feature some of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters.
- Where Did the River Go– Students read interactive story adventure then can change the story
- Pinky Dinky Doo– For kids. Children pick what kind of story to create then they fill in gaps in a story that has characters and a plot line.
- Storymaker by British Council– This is more of a story generator. Students get to choose the type of story then choose various elements of a story that has already been created.
Storybook Creation Apps
- Storypanda– Features books with tap, swipe, and drag. Choose backgrounds and characters, etc. Kids can place themselves into the story or create their own stories.
- StoryKit– Create an electronic storybook by drawing on the screen, uploading images, recording sound effects and voice, laying out the elements of the story (text boxes, images, paint, and sound clips) freely by dragging them or pinching to resize, reordering pages, and uploading to the StoryKit web server. Email a link to the story. The application includes four public domain children's books to rewrite and rearrange into a new story. Available on the iPad and iPod.
- StoryBots– create books on the iPad starring the student! The app is free for the iPad. Includes animations and art. Various options to purchase the book.
- Flying Books App-(free, i-devices)Multimedia books offered in English, French, Spanish and German. Kids listen to an expert narrator or read on their own. Record a story or create personalized books with artwork and photos.
- Picture Book– Create a picture book with your photos and text or choose from a variety of stickers, templates, and pictures. For idevices
- Bunsella Bedtimes Story– students narrate a children's story, can upload personal photos that become part of the story, then email the video of the narrated story. Others can respond to these read stories. Available on i-devices.
- Mooklet for iPhone– create photo stories with text.
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Remember all that hype about "underground" supper clubs a few years back? They lure adventurous diners into homes and makeshift spaces where fledgling chefs cook up feasts for pay. The hosts trade in secrecy and exclusivity, and play up food specificity with themes like "Pig Every Which Way," "Jewish Soul Food" and "A Taste Of Tripoli" (because there is no Libyan restaurant in town). And, on top of the food, attendees can revel in the novel experience of eating face-to-face, side-by-side with total strangers.
While these dinners may seem like old hat to some foodies, a handful of startups are betting that the concept is just taking off, and see it expanding to a growing number of cities. Here's the skinny on four companies dedicated to helping people find, organize, monetize and manage supper clubs:
Feastly says it's aiming to be the Airbnb of the food world, creating alternatives to impersonal dining the way that the travel rental company has created an alternative market to generic hotels.
"We want to be in every city in the world so wherever you're traveling, you can find a home-cooked meal," Danny Harris, co-founder of Feastly, tells The Salt.
Here's how it works: The site connects chefs (many of them professional) who want to host paid meals or tastings of a new product in their homes with "feasters" looking for a unique dining experience. The chefs set the price of the meal, and Feastly takes a 20 percent cut. Harris says chefs can make up to a few hundred dollars in profit at the end of the night if they play their cards right.
Of course, depending on local regulations, these supper clubs may be illegal. To assuage diners worried about food safety, the Feastly site says hosts "opt in" to its guidelines. But that doesn't mean supper clubs are above health authorities — one in New Jersey was shut down last year because it didn't have a license.
Harris and his partner, Noah Karesh, launched Feastly in early 2012 in Washington, D.C., and recently opened up to chefs in New York. Next month, it launches in San Francisco.
Gusta, another site, operates under a similar premise and has built a network of 287 chefs in dozens of cities from Berlin to Portland, Ore., to Charleston, S.C. Co-founder Carly Chamberlain, a former employee of Airbnb, told Food+Tech Connect in 2011 that it has a more international focus than other sites and can handle multiple currencies.
A newcomer to the supper club business is Kitchen.ly, which, like Feastly and Gusta, provides a space online for chefs to list events and diners to sign up for them. But don't expect to find much on there yet: It held its inaugural dinner in founder Mitch Monsen's kitchen in Ogden, Utah, on Friday. Kitchen.ly could turn out to be slightly more affordable than the others — the site claims that the only charges to organize an event are processing fees of 2.9 percent plus 30 cents.
For chefs and diners who prefer to organize free dinner events on their phones, there's an app for that, and it's called Supper King. A recent search turned up only two events — one in Oakland, Calif., and another in Hamburg. As with all of the services, the trick will be to find enough users to keep people coming back.
Feastly's Harris believes they will.
"There are all of these people out there who want to open a restaurant or food truck but don't have the money to do it, or they have a day job and make incredible vegan food and want to share it," he says. "They just need a platform to monetize their passion, and we believe we'll succeed with that."
Still, a comparison to Airbnb might be a stretch. Feastly says their events, on average, cost about the same as the average restaurant meal ($35), while Airbnb has managed to undercut the hotel industry by offering far cheaper rates per night.
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DeRoman Landscaping LLC's Residential Landscaping
You don't need a large outdoor space to create a functional and aesthetically appealing oasis in your home backyard. What you do need, however, is a clean and smart home.
For smaller spaces, where every inch needs to be maximized, it is especially important to have a good design on your property to enhance every little detail. The best things come in small packages – that's why DeRoman Landscaping LLC's local landscapers can offer beautiful and practical, crafted to fit any property size, personal taste and budget.
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GHelps keep you focused on the overall concept for your property and gives you the freedom to install your ideas at your own pace. Want to change something about your yard's layout? You can propose changes that suit your needs on the landscape concept we offer you – it's the best place to adjust before moving onto the installation of your home landscaping.
We know that outdoor installation and landscape maintenance can be a daunting task. Check out DeRoman Landscaping LLC's quick tips to make the most out of your home landscaping project.
Include a Drainage System in Your Home Landscaping
Before you plan to build decks or plant a beautiful garden in your front yard, think about drainage! Without an adequate drainage system, water may collect around your property and may undermine your landscape structures or drown plants.
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We collaborate with local horticulturalists to offer plans that can offer you beautiful blooms of your choice, crisp greenery and immaculate designs. Have questions about landscaping setup? Ask what would work best for your home and your needs.
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About the course
This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows servers. This course provides students the skills to identify and build the command they require to perform a specific task. In addition, students learn how to build scripts to accomplish advanced tasks such as automating repetitive tasks and generating reports. This course provides prerequisite skills supporting a broad range of Microsoft products, including Windows Server, Windows Client, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365. In keeping with that goal, this course will not focus on any one of those products, although Windows Server, which is the common platform for all of those products, will serve as the example for the techniques this course teaches.
Audience Profile
This course is intended for IT Professionals who are already experienced in general Windows Server, Windows client, Azure, and Microsoft 365 administration, and who want to learn more about using Windows PowerShell for administration. No prior experience with any version of PowerShell or any scripting language is assumed. This course is also suitable for IT Professionals already experienced in server administration, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, and Microsoft SQL Server.
Before attending this course, students must have:
- Experience with Windows networking technologies and implementation.
- Experience with Windows Server administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
Skills gained:
- Describe the functionality of Windows PowerShell and use it to run and find basic commands.
- Identify and run cmdlets for local system administration.
- Work with the Windows PowerShell pipeline.
- Use PSProviders and PSDrives to work with other forms of storage.
- Query system information by using WMI and CIM.
- Work with variables, arrays, and hash tables.
- Create basic scripts in Windows PowerShell.
- Administer remote computers with Windows PowerShell.
- Manage Azure resources with PowerShell.
- Manage Microsoft 365 services with PowerShell.
- Use background jobs and scheduled jobs.


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I plan to use my bicycle 5 days a week to get to work and back, approximately 30 minutes(~6 miles /10 km) one way, mostly good/ok roads but with some bumps here and there.
Should I care about cx bicycles because of not perfect road conditions or typical road bicycle would be able to endure?
I don't care about comfort that much and only carry my laptop with me in a backpack, so my priority is to get from one point to another and do it fast. Any recommendations?
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Open "Orthodoxy"?
A rejoinder to my recent essay on Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and "Open Orthodoxy" was published here . Below is my response to that posting, written in my capacity as Agudath Israel of America's spokesperson.
I am grateful to Dr. Ben Elton, a student at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, for his rejoinder to my recent posting about that institution and "Open Orthodoxy," in which I asserted that neither can lay claim to the adjective "Orthodox," at least not if words are to have meanings.
My gratitude derives from the fact that Dr. Elton's words help clarify the issue. Although he writes that he is "bemused" by my critique of his invocation of the Wurzburger Rav as an example of Chovevei Torah's approach, his explanation of his bemusement can allow us to better understand whether that revered Torah personality would indeed approve of the inclusion of non-Orthodox Jewish clergy in training rabbis, which YTC proudly embraced at its recent presidential installation.
Dr. Elton is correct that there was indeed a difference of opinion between the Wurzburger Rav (Rav Yitzchok Dov Halevi Bamberger) and Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch regarding whether the rabbis of the Orthodox community of Frankfurt could remain part of that city's official "Jewish community" council along with non-Orthodox clergy.
And he is correct, too, to note that Rav Hirsch's objection to such membership was based on his conviction that it would "thereby give[s] formal recognition to the legitimacy of Reform."
But he is mistaken to interpret Rav Bamberger's dissent as permitting membership despite that contention. The Wurzberger Rav simply felt that membership in a communal body did not, in fact, confer legitimacy of any sort to Reform. As I noted in my response to Dr. Elton's original posting, Rav Bamberger expressly forbade membership in other cities' communal councils, where he apparently felt the terms of membership did in fact confer such legitimacy to Reform.
That a communal Orthodox rabbi, Marcus Horowitz, sat on the body overseeing the construction of a Reform Temple "and used his influence to prevent building taking place on Shabbat" – Dr. Elton's evidence for his thesis – does not negate Rav Bamberger's forbiddance to confer Jewish legitimacy on non-Orthodox systems of thought.
Nor does Rav Bamberger's letter to Rav Hirsch in which he wrote that their common "reject[ion" and "detest[ation] of Reform with all our hearts" should nevertheless "not break the ties of personal friendship which bind us."
Personal friendships, of course, are not the issue here. Orthodox rabbis, even among those who affiliate with Agudath Israel, maintain friendships with non-Orthodox representatives. The issue, though, is not personal friendship but something entirely different: whether non-Orthodox rabbis should be given a public platform to share their views on the quintessentially religious question of how to train rabbis.
As Dr. Elton himself concedes, Rabbi Bamberger would not likely "have advocated theological dialogue" with Reform representatives. Does he imagine that the Wurzberger Rav would have invited them, as YCT did, to a public forum to train rabbis? How, then, can Dr. Elton claim that "YCT is simply enduring the same critique today" as Rav Bamberger did in his day, and that YCT "can take pride in [Rav Bamberger's] company?
Most glaring is Dr. Elton's response (or lack of one) to the main point of my earlier posting: that neither YCT nor "Open Orthodoxy" can legitimately lay claim to the title "Orthodox."
He blithely dismisses my summoning of quotations from YCT leaders and honored graduates that negate the very essence of what history has come to call Orthodoxy, with the observation that the quotes "do not contain much new material" and that they have been well explained "in the past." He does not, however, offer even a synopsis of any such explanations. He cannot, for none can exist. One either accepts that Abraham and Isaac and Jacob existed or one does not; one either subscribes to the belief that the Torah, Written and Oral, was given to our ancestors at Sinai, or one does not. Esteemed leaders in the "Open Orthodoxy" movement do not. Orthodoxy does.
History is the best guide here. The Conservative movement began precisely as "Open Orthodoxy" has begun – the former was so named because it wished to "conserve" what it judged it could of halacha in a new environment that it felt deserved a more liberal approach to traditional Jewish thought and social norms. It shunned the word "Orthodox" only because it saw that adjective, at the time, as an albatross around its neck, since Orthodoxy was expected to expire quickly in America. YCT, by contrast, embraces the word as a badge of honor. Not because it fits but because embracing the word "Orthodox" – the institution hopes – might distinguish it from the Conservative movement despite its essential duplication of its essence.
The problem is that, to imagine an example in another realm, a person who is anti-immigration, anti-abortion, against higher corporate taxes and pro-gun and cannot legitimately claim the label "liberal." As much as he may call himself that, he is like a leopard claiming to be an eagle.
And leopards cannot even change their spots, much less fly.
Whatever it may call itself, a neo- Conservative movement is simply not part of what history has come to call Orthodoxy.


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It's a familiar sight at the fairground: rows of people gaping at curvy mirrors as they watch their faces and bodies distort. But while mirrored surfaces may be fun to look at, new findings by researchers from the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge and Giessen, suggest they pose a particular challenge for the human brain in processing images for 3D vision.
The researchers have taken advantage of the unusual visual behaviour of curved mirrors to study stereopsis: the process by which the brain combines images from the two eyes to see in 3D.
The work, published online today (January 21 2013) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), used mathematical analysis and perceptual measurements to show that people often see the 'wrong' shape for glossy objects (like chrome bumpers or brass door knobs) because of the way the brain employs 'quality control' mechanisms when it views the world with two eyes. This reveals how the brain checks the 'usefulness' of the signals it receives from the senses, explaining why we sometimes misperceive shapes and distances. It also has some connections with the design of robotic systems.
'We often think that the 3D information we get from having two eyes provides the gold standard for seeing in depth; but glossy objects pose a difficult challenge to the brain because the stereoscopic information often indicates depths that don't match the physical shape of the object' explains Dr Andrew Welchman, a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. 'We found that the brain is sometimes 'fooled' into seeing the wrong 3D shape, but this depends on statistical properties of the stereo images that indicate how 'useful' the information is,' he adds.
To carry out the project, the team developed mathematical models that calculate the pattern of reflections seen when viewing glossy objects, and measured the perceived 3D appearance of these shapes.
'When a curved mirrored object reflects its surroundings, the reflections appear at a different depth than the glossy surface itself. This makes it difficult for the brain to work out the true 3D distance to the surface' explains Dr Alex Muryy, a research fellow at Birmingham who conducted the analyses. 'We found that even simple objects can produce very complex depth profiles, and reflections can behave very differently from normal stereoscopic information.' Understanding these differences provided the key to reveal the generalised way in which the brain analyses incoming information to judge the circumstances in which information should be trusted.
'Stereoscopic information is often highly informative, but in certain circumstances it can tell us the wrong thing or be unreliable. The challenge is therefore to understand how the brain knows when it should or should not trust this 3D information,' says Professor Roland Fleming, ,Giessen University in Germany. 'We have uncovered signals that are likely to be important in guiding the brain's use of the information by studying glossy objects. In particular, we can understand people's misperceptions because in these circumstances 3D reflections fall within the normal range of values, meaning that the brain takes the depth signals at face value.'
Professor Andrew Blake, team member from Microsoft Research Cambridge, adds:'Understanding human stereo vision is fascinating in its own right and also because of the connections with stereo vision systems used in Robotics today.'


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The highly sought-after plasma protein, human serum albumin (HSA), can now be produced at high yield and purity in rice, according to a report published today (October 31) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Using the rice-derived protein in place of its blood-derived counterpart will not only ease demand but also eliminate the risk of spreading diseases.
"The authors have demonstrated large-scale purification and functional equivalence to human HSA," said Richard Twyman of Pharma-Planta, an EU consortium aimed at producing pharmaceutical proteins in plants, and the University of Warwick, UK, who was not involved in the study. "They have potentially developed a very good alternative to provide HSA in the clinic."
HSA is used for a variety of clinical applications such as the treatment of blood loss, serious burns, and abdominal fluid retention caused by cirrhosis (scarring) of the...
"There is a high demand for plasma HSA, but it is in really short supply," explained lead researcher Daichang Yang of Wuhan University, China. Currently, the only supply of HSA is that extracted from human blood. Besides the limited availability of blood donors, "using plasma HSA also has a high risk for spreading diseases, such as AIDS and hepatitis," Yang said. "We considered using a plant-based production to satisfy the market demand and reduce the risk."
Yang and his colleagues are not the first to attempt genetically engineering human HSA production in other species. Yeast, bacteria, potatoes, and tobacco plants have all been tried, but each has met with feasibility issues. "The problem with microbial HSA has been that tiny traces of microbial contaminants… are either toxic or induce immune reactions in humans, which means they require extensive purification and this adds tremendously to the costs," explained Twyman. HSA produced in potatoes or tobacco does not carry such contamination risks, but neither of these sources has provided sufficient yield to be cost-effective.
To bump up yield, Yang and his colleagues turned to rice. Specifically, they targeted the part of rice we eat, the endosperm inside the seed—a natural nutrient storage organ, and thus an excellent site for the accumulation and long-term stable storage of recombinant proteins. By driving expression of the HSA gene in the endosperm, the team managed to obtain 2.74 grams of pure HSA protein per kilogram of rice seed, more than 25 times the 0.1 grams of HSA collected from one kilogram of tobacco leaves.
In addition to obtaining a high yield, the rice-derived HSA shared the same molecular weight, crystal structure, molecular binding sites, and other biochemical characteristics as that of blood-derived HSA. These similarities translated to functional equivalence in tests for ligand binding, promotion of cell growth in culture, and the treatment of fluid retention in a rat model of liver cirrhosis.
The rice-derived HSA also displayed an equivalent immunogenicity to that of plasma HSA. That is, animals injected with either rice HSA or plasma HSA developed similar immune reactions.
"The chemical, biophysical and immunological characterization of the highly purified protein from rice… shows it to be identical in every respect to human serum albumin isolated from blood plasma," said Diter von Wettstein of Washington State University, who was not involved in the study.
Despite these similarities, before rice HSA can be used in humans it will need to go through extensive clinical trials. Furthermore, to generate sufficient quantities of HSA to meet global demand—an estimated 500 tons a year—production will need to be scaled up to open-field farming, which will bring its own share of red tape. So, while the prospects for rice HSA are exciting, Twyman says, "we are not going to see blood-derived HSA replaced tomorrow."
Y. He et al., "Large-scale production of functional human serum albumin from transgenic rice seeds," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi/10.1073/pnas.1109736108, 2011.


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From fairytale towns complete with turrets and towers and the lush fertile vineyards of the Duoro to the cool and crumbling streets of Lisbon and the coastal paradise of the Algarve, Portugal offers up a plentiful mix of sights, tastes and culture whatever your travel palate.
What to see…
Jerónimos Monastery is a masterpiece by anyone's standards having taken 100 years to complete, and is a perfect example of Manueline architecture (unique to Portugal). Our advice is to get there early as lines can be long and you don't want to be hanging around in the Lisbon heat. And don't forget, it's closed on Mondays.
A trip along the magnificent and watery Duoro Valley is great for wine and heritage lovers alike. Stop by quaint vineyards and taste port wine or experience the wonderful city of Porto, where the river escapes into the Atlantic Ocean.
The Portuguese village of Monsanto is built on, under, in and around giant boulders and is a dedicated living museum – perfect for your Instagram feed
This picturesque Portuguese village of Monsanto is stuck between a rock and a hard place, quite literally. The village is built on, under, in and around giant boulders and is a dedicated living museum – and is made for your Instagram feed.


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With over 25 participants from 16 different countries, the 2009 IIRE Global Justice School, entitled Global Justice and the Capitalist Crisis took place from 28 November to 19 December.
Topics covered at this session included analyses of the current crisis from economic, gender, ethnic and ecological perspectives, in addition to regional experiences in Europe and Latin America.
The participants, with different experiences, from trade-unionists to activists for the cancellation of debt and the defence of human rights, came from Algeria, Colombia, Belgium, Benin, Euskadi, France, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Peru, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Togo, and the United States.
This year the School was divided into modules, allowing for those only able to attend one or two weeks instead of the full three, while participating in a full coherent theme such as Economy, Climate Change and/or Political Strategies. This allowed European activists, to participate in one or two modules depending on available time.
The first module put in place the global framework of the general economic crisis and its consequences on women, workers, migrants and minorities (ethnic, national and gender minorities). This crisis expresses also itself through wars and a growing world disorder, dominated by US military power. The food crisis that irrupted in 2008 is far from over and is aggravated, especially in Africa, by global warming but also by financial speculations on food resources.
The second module looked at the ecological crisis and our proposals for a more just and "ecosocialist" society. Here, the participants discussed the importance of global justice movements, the women's movement and other grass root organisations.
In the third and final module, experiences in building the resistance at the level of two regions, Latin America and Europe, was discussed in detail and the concrete experiences of the participants gave an important input. Finally, what lessons can we learn from the former bureaucratic countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union? How can societies in the industrialised countries of the global North be changed into societies that answer to human needs and not pure individualistic consumerism?
The two final introductions about strengthening our organisations and our international networks brought this Global Justice School to its end. The good atmosphere and the final festive evening expressed our enthusiasm and good human relationship we experienced amongst all participants.


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Yoga for Disabilities - In-Person Class
Piedmont Yoga Community will be offering our Hybrid Yoga Class for People with Disabilities and Chronic Conditions, live at Nest Yoga Studio AND via Zoom, on the 2nd and last Saturdays of the month, from 3:00 to 4:30 P.M.
- Class size is limited to 8 students, plus two teachers and one assistant online.
- You must sign up ahead of time if you plan to attend class at the studio; please do not just show up; if we already have 8 students, you will be turned away.
- Proof of vaccination is required to attend. Please email this to JoAnn before class, if possible.
- We hope you'll come join us whether it's in person or online. Know that there will be a few props available at the studio, but not the special props we're all used to. If you have questions, please contact me.
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The youngins in the crowd may not remember Taxi Driver, but [Matt]'s fully functional hidden blade from Assassin's Creed finally does justice to the hidden weapon on a drawer slide idea. It's got everything you would want – immaculate craftsmanship and a video game reference for that every so necessary blog cred.
[Matt] started his hidden blade build with a drawer slide, mounting an old WWII replica blade to the slider. The blade retraction is spring-loaded, and with a small ring and a bit of wire, the blade gets its automatic draw and retraction.
The arm brace is where this project really shines. [Matt] crafted this out of two pieces of leather, tooled with the Assassin's insignia and dyed to a deep, jet black
This isn't the first time we've seen an automatic hidden blade from Assassin's Creed, but [Matt]'s effort is really top-notch. He's got beautiful leather crafting down pat, and we can only hope his Halloween was filled with parkour and stabbing.


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Devolver Digital Films and MidBoss are proud to announce the digital VOD release of the entertaining and informative feature documentary, Gaming In Color, which explores the queer side of gaming. Directed by Philip Jones, the award-winning Gaming In Color takes a look at the queer gaming community, 'gaymer' culture, and the increasing acceptance of LGBTQ themes in video games. The film, which won Best Documentary at the Gen Con 2014 Film Festival, explores how the community culture is shifting and the industry is diversifying, helping with queer visibility and acceptance of an LGBTQ presence. Read the rest of this entry »
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This page is only available in French and English. However, the International Students section of this site displays both Spanish (ES) and Chinese (ZH) versions. You can get to these sections in their respective language by clicking either one of the following links: ES or ZH.
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The belief that artists are too independent or focused on their career to self-organize needs to die. Artists have the capacity to be both generous and great.
Take, for example, the affordable housing movement, and the artists dispelling the traditional artist-as-gentrifier-enabler role. Theaster Gates transformed vacant and abandoned buildings in his neighborhood on Chicago's South Side by establishing a foundation, and then partnering with the city and developers to rehab a public housing complex into mixed-income housing. In Houston, Rick Lowe's Project Row Houses covers six blocks in the Third Ward, providing affordable housing for low-income tenants. Mark Bradford's Art + Practice not only brings contemporary art programming to Los Angeles's Leimert Park, but also provides social services for youth in the city's foster care system. Artists have the potential to readdress urban displacement and ensure affordable space still exists for art by pulling up their sleeves and playing a bigger entrepreneurial role in real estate development.


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Time capsule: photos of the 1989 Oscars
Alan Light got himself invited to the Academy Awards in 1989 with full access privileges…he took along a camera and shot dozens of candid photos of celebrities on the red carpet, at rehersals, and at after-parties. Here are Drew Barrymore and Corey Feldman arriving:
Barrymore, 14, and Feldman, 17, were dating at the time. At this point, Barrymore had been in rehab twice for drugs/alcohol and is two months away from a failed suicide attempt. Light also got photos of Lucille Ball a month before she died, Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers, Mayim Bialik, Jodie Foster (who won the Best Actress Oscar that year for The Accused) and, my favorite for some reason, River Phoenix.


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Haridwar (Uttarakhand) [India], October 5: NLP Practitioner, Life Coach, and Content Creator Vanitaa Rawat has been appointed as National Advisor of the women's wing of the Sports Promotion Organization of India
Vanitaa's appointment was announced during the Organization's 4th annual general meeting at Haridwar on October 3.
Accepting the responsibility, Vanitaa spoke about the pivotal contribution of women in sports and noted the success achieved by Indian sportswomen in the Olympics and other global sports events in recent years.
"It is time women increase their representation in sports and become the torchbearers of change. Sports can be a great career option. The way forward is to promote sports culture in the country and encourage sportspersons, especially women," said Vanitaa, adding she is looking forward to working alongside eminent personalities to promote sports.
The 4th AGM was attended by representatives of more than a dozen state units of the Organization and office bearers of the women's wing. The board members and new appointees were felicitated by Om Prakash Jamdagni, senior BJP leader and representative of Haridwar MP.
The Sports Promotion Organization of India is a non-governmental organization that has devoted itself to promoting sports. Founded by Naman Bhardwaj, the Organization has a presence across several states and is rapidly expanding to more places.
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Author: Peter Swanson
Narrator: Eva Kaminsky
Unabridged: 14 hr 47 min
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Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 01/10/2017
Category: Fiction - Suspense
The author of the wildly popular The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thriller—as tantalizing as the cinema classics Rear Window and Wait Until Dark—involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and murder.The danger isn't all in your head . . . Growing up, Kate Priddy was always a bit neurotic, experiencing momentary bouts of anxiety that exploded into full blown panic attacks after an ex-boyfriend kidnapped her and nearly ended her life. When Corbin Dell, a distant cousin in Boston, suggests the two temporarily swap apartments, Kate, an art student in London, agrees, hoping that time away in a new place will help her overcome the recent wreckage of her life. But soon after her arrival at Corbin's grand apartment on Beacon Hill, Kate makes a shocking discovery: his next-door neighbor, a young woman named Audrey Marshall, has been murdered. When the police question her about Corbin, a shaken Kate has few answers, and many questions of her own—curiosity that intensifies when she meets Alan Cherney, a handsome, quiet tenant who lives across the courtyard, in the apartment facing Audrey's. Alan saw Corbin surreptitiously come and go from Audrey's place, yet he's denied knowing her. Then, Kate runs into a tearful man claiming to be the dead woman's old boyfriend, who insists Corbin did the deed the night that he left for London. When she reaches out to her cousin, he proclaims his innocence and calms her nerves . . . until she comes across disturbing objects hidden in the apartment—and accidently learns that Corbin is not where he says he is. Could Corbin be a killer? And what about Alan? Kate finds herself drawn to this appealing man who seems so sincere, yet she isn't sure. Jetlagged and emotionally unstable, her imagination full of dark images caused by the terror of her past, Kate can barely trust herself . . . So how could she take the chance on a stranger she's just met? Yet the danger Kate imagines isn't nearly as twisted and deadly as what's about to happen. When her every fear becomes very real. And much, much closer than she thinks. Told from multiple points of view, Her Every Fear is a scintillating, edgy novel rich with Peter Swanson's chilling insight into the darkest corners of the human psyche and virtuosic skill for plotting that has propelled him to the highest ranks of suspense, in the tradition of such greats as Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins, Patricia Highsmith, and James M. Cain.


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EDSL OVER 30 Final
*Germania versus Washingtonville, Played on June 23 at East Fishkill sports complex.
Both teams came ready to play. Germania were wearing their sky blue kits, as Washingtonville wore their Yellow alternate tops. The match was cleanly played with neither team making many errors to keep the opponents scoring opportunities at a minimum. The majority of the match was played in the middle third of the pitch with both teams just trying to keep possession.
Germania was first to score at about 15 minutes in. A workman type goal that the Washingtonville keeper was unable to keep out of the back of the net. Washingtonville scored the equalizer 10 minutes later on a rebound that was smashed to left of the Germania keeper from 12 yards out. Washingtonville then took the lead a few moments later off a tough break for Germania when the keeper made an aggressive play to block the ball after a heavy touch from a Washingtonville striker only to have the ball ricochet off him and into the goal. Washingtonville 2-1 at half.
The heat and injuries played a factor. Both teams losing a player, with Germania losing a striker who was pressuring everyone and creating havoc, and Washingtonville, losing a marking back who was a big part of their build up from the back. Germania ties the match after 10 minutes, the winger who scored their first goal wisely headed the ball down into the ground off a long cross bounced over the keeper into the top of the net.
Germania then takes a 3-2 lead a few minutes later on a counter where the striker calmly chips the Washingtonville goalie as he tried to come out and make a play.
Washingtonville having a golden opportunity to tie the match with 15 minutes left was thwarted by the Germania keeper coming out cutting the angle and getting his glove on the ball to stop it from going in near post. As Washingtonville was pushing to try to tie the match Germania had some opportunities to score on counters that were coolly handled by Washingtonville's center back as they were out numbered.
In the 90th minute after a quick throw down the left side near the end line a Washingtonville player was able to flick the ball across the field over the Germania keeper as a Washingtonville striker slid in volleying the ball from 6 yards out hitting the right post crossing the goal line, tying the game at 3-3
Seconds later the referee blows the whistle. Straight to Penalties. In the best of 5 Washingtonville wins 3-1 as the Washingtonville keeper made 3 fantastic saves in a row.
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24 Cheshvan 5763 – October 30, 2002 | Mordecai Plaut, director | Published Weekly |
IN-DEPTH FEATURES Burial in Jerusalem: The Har Menuchos Cemetery
by M. Samsonowitz
Part III
For two thousand years, it has been the dream and hope of many individuals to be buried in Jerusalem. This is a report of the situation today.
If Bituach Leumi pays only the burial costs, who is funding the cemetery development?
As you may have guessed, it's the good Jews abroad who want to be buried in Israel whose payments cover this expense. The Chevra Kadishas market grave plots to Jews abroad, and they charge a not inconsiderable price for them. The standard cost for one's "makom bechayim" is $5,000 for the karka, and another $2,000-2,500 for burial costs. Add to this another $3,500-5,000 for transportation, and being buried in Jerusalem is $11,000. The total cost is not unreasonable in comparison to burial in many places abroad, and the gemora says that anyone buried in Israel has a special kaporoh. $10,000 is also not that much in comparison to the savings and pensions that many people have today. Not surprisingly, thousands every year choose the option of burial in Israel.
"Some people are afraid to buy plots while they're still alive," Rav Gelbstein says, "while others say it is a special segulah for arichas yomim."
Kehillas Yerushalayim charges $7,500 for a package deal. Perushim takes a $5,000 payment for the plot and advises the purchaser not to pay the burial costs in case he happens to be visiting in Israel or has moved to Israel when he passes away, in which case Bituach Leumi will pay the cost of burial. There is strong competition in New York between various funeral chapels to handle and transport niftorim.
The actual cost for a burial from abroad depends on a whole range of criteria. Grave plots closer to rabbonim are more expensive. The cost rises depending on the grave's location — how close it is to the cemetery's entrance, the road and the stairs.
Many Americans buy plots and are buried in Beit Shemesh, in the Artzos Hachaim cemetery which is private.
Rabbi Gafni says that the subject of burial from chutz la'aretz is entirely a free-for-all. He says he would like to pass a law to cover this too, but he doesn't see it in the foreseeable future.
It is clear that the burials from abroad constitute a sizable portion of the Chevra Kadishas' profits, particularly since such burials constitute between a fifth to a third of all the burials they handle.
Three hundred of Perushim's 750-800 yearly burials come from abroad. Jews come to be buried from all over the world, but primarily from the U.S. and Europe. Considering the sensitivity of religious Jews to the importance of a burial site in Israel, it is not surprising that Perushim leads in the number of burials from abroad.
"We get requests from all over — Mexico, Tashkent, Riga, Ukraine, Holland," says Rav Gelbstein. "We even sent a team to South Africa to bring 25 deceased over, because the government was going to desecrate the graves to develop the area."
The Israeli public's attention was riveted on a secret operation to transfer to Israel the bones of Rav Yosef Ochayoun, a Sephardic rav buried decades ago in the Casablanca Jewish cemetery. The operation, which took place about 3 months ago, was concluded successfully with his reburial in Tzfas near the grave of Rav Pinchos ben Yo'ir.
Many people buy their own plots while yet alive. For instance, HaRav Eliashiv's family bought 16 plots next to where his wife was buried. HaRav Kreiswirth's family insisted that talmidim couldn't buy plots near Rav Kreiswirth until the family had taken their choice. In the end, there was no room for talmidim to buy near his grave.
"It can get chaotic when both family and talmidim want to be buried near a rav or rosh yeshiva," Rav Gelbstein avers.
The General Sephardic Chevra Kadisha handles 400 burials a year, with 100-120 coming from abroad. Most of those from abroad come from France, the U.S., Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, London and Canada. Many come to be buried near family or famous rabbonim. The Sephardic communities most inclined to this are the Syrian Sephardim from South America and the U.S., and Moroccans who are currently living in France and the U.S.
Yitzchok Armosa, the head of the General Sephardic Chevra Kadisha, mentions that many Sephardim seek a burial place near the rabbis of their communities, the most popular being HaRav Yaakov Ades and HaRav Levi Nachmani.
Another interesting phenomenon which has occurred with increasing frequency is reburials from France. Since French law stipulates that after 30 years a cemetery may be dug up and all the bones removed to another place if the land is needed for development, Jews often transport the bones of relatives to Israel for reburial.
Chaim Barda, a Sephardic Chevra Kadisha worker, did this 30 years after his mother's death. His brother and he received her bones in a 90 cm. aron. The Chevra Kadisha arranged the bones in their proper contour and reburied them on Har Hamenuchos.
Kehillas Yerushalayim handles about 140 burials from abroad, mostly of religious Jews — Ashkenazim from the U.S. and Sephardim from France. Shachor says that in his experience, couples usually buy their plots together. On occasion, people purchase a family plot.
"Sometimes we are asked to bury a niftar in a certain area or plot," says Shachor. "If the plot is empty, we'll try to arrange it without charging extra."
He recalls the case of a woman whose father served as a British army guard and was killed by Bedouins in 1936. His orphan daughter grew up, married an American and found her future abroad. When she became ill with a terminal illness, she asked her family to bury her near her parents. When she died, the family phoned the Chevra Kadisha, and they discovered that the grave next to her parents was empty. The woman was buried there.
Esthetic Considerations
To increase the marketability of their cemetery plots, Kehillas Yerushalayim's cemetery is symmetrical and carefully designed. Roads are strategically placed so it is easy to reach most gravesites. Bushes and trees line the different sections, to afford shade from the sun beating down in the long Jerusalem summer. Color- coded signs help visitors locate the graves they want to visit. This "modern" layout is part of what the original organizers of Kehillas Yerushalayim set out to achieve when they founded their chevra kadisha almost seventy years ago.
In contrast, Perushim strictly maintains all the customs instituted in Jewish cemeteries for centuries, regardless of how it will affect the cemetery's appearance. They strictly forbid any vegetative growth even along the edges of the cemetery — Rav Gelbstein says he chemically eliminates any growth that does appear — in keeping with Jewish tradition. He explains that trees and plants can penetrate graves, destroy bones, and even lift up graves. It also causes problems for kohanim if a tree covers both a grave and the walkway.
"I was in many Jewish cemeteries all over the world," says Rav Gelbstein, "and in the older cemeteries there are no trees or plants. That's how it should be."
The Perushim cemetery, especially the older sections, have barely a few inches between graves and are crowded. However, people go to them because they are the oldest and most identified with traditional Yerushalayim and its customs, and in death, many people are more worried about spiritual concerns and the identity of their neighbors than esthetics.
Shachor explains the high expenses of burial in Har Hamenuchos as being a result of the quality services provided by the Chevra Kadishas there. "We give much better service than do the Chevra Kadishas in other parts of the country," he explains. "We provide a minyan of Chevra Kadisha workers for each levaya. In other places, they only give a chazan and the family pushes the hearse. We insure that the cemetery is beautiful, symmetrical and well- kept. Since it's attractive, it's easy to sell."
Kehillas Yerushalayim has several distinct advantages because of the sheer volume of burials which it handles. It possesses two funeral parlors, one in Sanhedria and the other on the grounds of Har Hamenuchos, which allows it flexibility in when to schedule a funeral.
The other Chevra Kadishas have to share the Shamgar street funeral parlor, which entails a fee to the municipality and requires adjusting funeral times when there are a few funerals occurring together. However, the Sephardic Chevra Kadisha is completing its own funeral parlor on Har Tamir, the newest section of Har Hamenuchos. The new Beit Hespedim shel Hasfardim contains loudspeakers, air conditioning and all the conveniences.
Kehillas Yerushalayim distributes a CD called "Burial in Jerusalem" which shows pictures of its cemetery, the various kinds of plots, maps, halachos, how to get in touch with the Chevra Kadisha, and more. It's done in color and even has a soundtrack.
Kehillas Yerushalayim also has published a book relating its history: the founding of the Chevra Kadisha, how it developed the cemeteries, minhagei Yerushalayim concerning burial, who were its founders and members, its different services, even the squabbles it had with Bituach Leumi and other Chevra Kadishas that tried to usurp its land.
Kehillas Yerushalayim has undertaken to help organize Jewish burial for kehillos in Eastern Europe. Every so often they send shlichim to meetings organized by the Joint Distribution Committee and Lev Levayov. One of the latest communities to benefit from this assistance is Riga.
In Jerusalem, Shachor does most of the sorrowful work of burying terror victims. Although he has unfortunately had quite a bit of experience in this in the past 2 years, there have always been terror victims over the years.
He explains that in terrorist attacks, most bodies are not intact. The Chevra Kadisha gets the body from the Forensic Institute at Abu Kabir, and arranges the contour of the body so the family doesn't feel anything is unusual under the tachrichin. "We're unfortunately prepared for terrorist attacks. The family doesn't necessarily realize that anything is strange.
"The only difference in such a burial is that we don't perform the tahara or dress the body in regular tachrichin," says Shachor, "to make an 'outrage in heaven' that Jews are being so brutalized."
Kivrei Tzadikim on Har Hamenuchos
One remarkable thing is people who go to visit kivrei tzadikim in the Ukraine and Russia, while they do not visit the kivrei tzadikim which are right here in Yerushalayim. While Har Hazeisim unquestionably has the largest number of kivrei tzadikim, going back to the time of the Bayis Rishon, there are plenty of tzadikim and gedolim to visit on Har Hamenuchos.
Visiting kivrei tzadikim of the past two generations has special meaning since it involves gedolim whom many people alive today knew and revere. While the graves are not of Tanaim and Rishonim, the sense of closeness which one feels with a teacher one revered is also of importance.
For those who want to know how to reach Har Hamenuchos, it's very easy. One leaves Jerusalem on the Jerusalem- Tel Aviv highway, and makes a left at the first traffic light after passing the gas stations at the entrance of the city. (This is the exit to Har Nof.) Some 100 meters down the road, one makes a right. After passing a small industrial zone, one reaches Har Hamenuchos's large parking lot. To the left are sinks where one can wash his hands when he leaves. The mountain to the direct right is Har Tamir, the adjoining mountain which was opened after Har Hamenuchos began to fill up. The turnoff to it is before the main parking lot of Har Hamenuchos.
Be forewarned that Har Hamenuchos is very large and since it's a mountain, there will be some uphill climbing. However, there are roads that crisscross the mountain, allowing cars to come within easy reach of most graves.
Straight ahead, a little high up on the mountain but right after the parking lot, is the Perushim "Chelkas HaRabbonim" section , which can be discerned by the iron parapet constructed nearby, which allows kohanim to pray at the kivrei tzadikim without coming too near.
The Perushim Chelkas Rabbonim cemetery section has the greatest number of gedolim and rabbonim buried in it. Each grave contains a great tzaddik, rov or rosh yeshiva and one can spend literally hours stopping and praying at the graves within the section.
Before I continue, I must seek forgiveness for the many names of important rabbonim not listed out of oversight or ignorance or lack of room. In general, most of the rabbonim are buried in the old Chelkas Rabbonim in Gush Alef, or the newer Chelkas Rabbonim in Gush Yud Alef or Lamed-Lamed Alef.
The largest grave in the old Chelkas Rabbonim is the shrine of HaRav Aaron Rokach, the Belzer Rebbe. It has a special receptacle to light candles and it stands apart from the other graves. In proximity to it, also standing out, is the grave of HaRav Moshe Feinstein. Then, in clustered rows, here are the graves of the last generation's great roshei yeshivos and rabbonim, in Chelkas Rabbonim Gush Alef (See the enclosed map which indicates where each Gush is located.):
HaRav Isser Zalman Meltzer (rosh yeshivas Slutsk and Eitz Chaim of Jerusalem)
HaRav Reuven Bengis (rosh av beis din of Jerusalem)
HaRav Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik (the Brisker Rov)
HaRav Akiva Sofer (av beis din of Pressburg, described in this week's "Sparks of Glory" section; many of his family members are buried there too).
HaRav Aaron Kotler (rosh yeshivas Lakewood)
HaRav Aaron Aryeh Leifer (Nadvorna rebbe; plus many other Nadvorna family members)
HaRav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (rosh yeshivas Mir — Europe-Jerusalem)
HaRav Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz (rosh yeshivas Mir- Jerusalem)
HaRav Avrohom Yaffen, (rosh yeshivas Beis Yosef Novardok. His father-in-law, HaRav Yosef Yoizel Horwitz, the Alter of Novardok, was also reburied here).
HaRav Shmuel Gerstenfeld (ram in Yeshivas HaRav Yitzchok Elchonon)
HaRav Chaim Mordechai Katz (rosh yeshivas Telz- Cleveland)
HaRav Naftali Shakovitzky (rov of Gateshead)
HaRav Zalman Sorotzkin (av beis din of Lutsk, and head of Vaad Hayeshivos in Eretz Yisroel)
HaRav Dov Berish Weidenfeld (av beis din of Tchebin)
HaRav Yechezkel Abramsky (av beis din of London)
HaRav Shmuel Ehrenfeld (av beis din of Mattersdorf)
HaRav Noach Garfinkel (rosh yeshivas Rabbi Chaim Ozer in New York)
HaRav Boruch Sorotzkin (rosh yeshivas Telz Cleveland)
HaRav Yosef Dov Ber Soloveitchik (rosh yeshivas Brisk)
HaRav Aryeh Leib Mallin (rosh yeshivas Beis Hatalmud- Brooklyn)
Graves in the newer Chelkas Rabbonim and other sections:
HaRav Yehuda Leib Ashlag (author of Peirush Hasulam on Zohar: Ohel in Gush Vov)
HaRav Tzvi Pesach Frank (rov of Jerusalem) (Gush Alef)
HaRav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Jerusalem posek) (located in Gush Alef)
HaRav Moshe Soloveitchik (rov and posek in Zurich) (Gush Yud Alef)
HaRav Binyomin Paler, (rosh yeshiva of Toras Chaim in New York) (Gush Yud Alef)
HaRav Levi Krupenia (rosh yeshivas Kamenitz-U.S.) (Gush Yud Alef)
HaRav Nosson Wachtfogel (mashgiach of Yeshivas Lakewood) (Gush Yud Alef)
HaRav Boruch Shimon Schneerson (rosh yeshivas Kochav MiYaakov-Tchebin) (Gush Yud Alef)
HaRav Shlomo Avrohom Eliyahu Green, the "tailor," mekubal of Tel Aviv (Gush Yud Alef))
HaRav Chaim Moshe Mandel, (the poel yeshuos of Bnei Brak) (Gush Yud Alef)
(many visit the above two graves seeking yeshuos)
HaRav Chanoch Henich Padwa (av beis din of London) (Gush Zayin)
HaRav Meir Shapira of Lublin (Ohel in Gush Zayin). HaRav Shapira was brought to Eretz Yisroel by relatives on 26 Elul 1958, 24 years after his petiroh.
HaRav Nachman Bulman (rov in U.S. and Israel) (Gush Yud Chet)
HaRav Eliyahu Boruch Goldshmidt (mashgiach of Lakewood and South Fallsburg yeshivos) (Gush Yud Chet)
HaRav Eliezer Kahanoff (rosh yeshiva of Torah Vodaas) (Gush Yud Chet)
HaRav Chaim Kreiswirth (av beis din of Antwerp) (New Chelkas Rabbonim — located in Gush Yud Tet)
In Har Tamir:
HaRav Shimshon Pincus (rov of Ofakim) (Gush Lamed Beit)
Chedva Zilberfarb (who lectured worldwide about shemiras haloshon and died young) (Gush Lamed Alef)
HaRav Yisroel Eliezer Kanerek (rosh yeshiva in the U.S.) (Gush Lamed)
HaRav Aaron Yehoshua Stein (av beis din in Boro Park) (Gush Lamed)
The Chassidim cemetery adjoins the Perushim cemetery. It also contains a number of illustrious rabbonim and Admorim.
The remains of HaRav Menachem Ziemba, the rov of Warsaw, were brought here for burial (Gush Beit).
Other famous personalities:
The Ra'ananer Rov and mekubal HaRav Yitzchok Huberman (Gush Yud)
Amshenover Rebbe (Gush Alef)
HaRav Zerachya Segal, the Tel Aviv mekubal (Gush Alef)
Pinsk-Karlin Rebbe (who passed away a year ago) (Gush Alef)
HaRav Shlomo Zevin, rov in Jerusalem (Gush Alef)
HaRav Yichye Shneur, a Yemenite rav.
The Sephardic Chevra Kadisha contains a number of distinguished Sephardic rabbonim:
In their Chelkas Rabbanim:
HaRav Yaakov Ades, member of Jerusalem beis din godol
HaRav Menachem Menashe, Iraqi tzaddik, author of sefer Ahavas Chaim
HaRav Yaakov Katzin, rav of Syrian kehilla in New York
HaRav Ezra Attiah, rav of Yeshivas Porat Yosef, from Aleppo
In Section Alef in Har Tamir:
HaRav Yosef Toledano, rabbi of a large kehilla in France
HaRav Benzion Maslaton, rav of Achiezer in Flatbush
HaRav Nissim Yagen, leading machzir bitshuva in Jerusalem, and rosh yeshivas Kehillas Yaakov (with chuppah built over it)
HaRav Sholom Lopez, Acco chief rabbi
HaRav Chaim Abuchatzera
HaRav Levi Nachmani, Moroccan mekubal
There are five graves of HaRav Ilu Shetreet and his family from Morocco, which the Sephardic Chevra Kadisha transferred to Israel and reburied with hundreds of people present.
Miriam, the Laundress of the Rebbe of Zevihl. Although she was childless, it is reputed that the Zevihler Rebbe promised her that her blessing would help other woman. Many women who want to be blessed with children go to pray at her gravesite, and dozens have related that they were blessed with children afterwards.
Kehillas Yerushalayim's famous personalities are mostly buried in its Sanhedria cemetery. Nevertheless, there are a few lights in its Har Hamenuchos cemetery too.
First and foremost is the Chida, which is the large shrine to the left when walking from the parking lot towards the Chelkas Rabbonim of the Perushim. In an operation that took place in 1964, his grave was transferred to Har Hamenuchos and an impressive shrine built over it. The Chida, who was born in Jerusalem in 1727 and died in Livorno in 1806 is the most ancient person buried in Har Hamenuchos today.
To the left of the Chida's grave are the graves of HaRav Simcha Wasserman and his wife, HaRav Mordechai Miller of Gateshead, and HaRav Avraham Aba Freedman of Detroit.
* Even the best of maps can be confusing and one may often go in circles trying to find a certain grave. The best advice when seeking out a famous grave is to look for a pile of stones on top. This is the best sign that this is a grave of a tzaddik, rosh yeshiva or rov. * In the summer, come prepared with a head covering (to protect from the heat — there is no shade from trees). The easiest hours to come visit are early in the morning or the late afternoon. * Bring candles and matches along if you wish to light them at the gravesite. * Call the Chevra Kadisha ahead of time to find out the exact location of particular graves you are seeking. From Jerusalem call: 538-4144 for the Perushim Chevra Kadisha, 5380101 for the Chassidim Chevra Kadisha, 6254371 for the Sephardic Chevra Kadisha, and 6252281 for Kehillas Yerushalayim. |
Sending an Aron From France to Israel
A cemetery worker who is from France spoke about the difficulties he experienced in transporting the body of his father from France — and the many authorities who wanted to profit along the way. It used to take five days to arrange for the burial of a body from France in Israel. First, the authorities insisted on a wait of at least 12 hours after death before the body could be sent. Only certain flights were permitted to carry aronos. Hospital directors were in no rush to move a body out of their morgue because they charge for storage once three days have passed after death. Chevra Kadisha owners were also in no rush since they charge 2,5000 Francs ($300) per day to watch the body. Despite everyone else cashing in, the long wait was traumatic for family members. The delays also raised their fears that if the aron wouldn't be sent out soon, it would be impossible to send it out at all, since French law stipulates that once 10 days have passed since death, one cannot transport a body out until a year has passed. The family was finally relieved when after five days, they were able to arrange for the aron to be sent to Israel. Since then, the Chevra Kadishas have streamlined their operation and it now takes only two days to arrange for an aron to be sent from France to Israel. |
How Laws of Aninus Vary When a Niftar is Shipped to Israel for Burial
The laws of aninus are different for each family member, when an aron is sent to Israel. In one particular case we were told about, the niftar left three sons behind. The son who was going to sit shiva in France became an onen as soon as his father died, and commenced shiva when the plane bearing the aron took off since he had finished his responsibility for burial. The son who accompanied the aron to Israel remained an onen from the moment his father died until he was buried. The son who was living in Jerusalem was only an onen after his father died until he had taken care of all the burial arrangements for him. Then he lost his onen status until the aron arrived in Israel, after which he became an onen again until after the father was buried here. |
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