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STAMFORD, CT, MAY 2011 -- Splash Car Wash, which operates 17 locations throughout New Haven, Fairfield and Upper Westchester, NY counties, is marking 30 years of business this May. Founders Mark Curtis and Chris Fisher opened their first location in 1981 in Greenwich, where they later developed Splash's innovative concept for washing cars by hand while they moved through the tunnel on conveyor. The overwhelming response to this new hand wash concept became the catalyst for the company's growth.
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what do you guys think about this website?
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Absolute, unmitigated, complete, unadulterated crap.
nothing new.
I had a read of this site, for the laugh.
It is really quite amusing that somebody goes to all that trouble to maintain a website full of such nonsense. Just shows you the power of this supernatural stuff in peoples' lives.
The section about how to answer athiests' criticisms is particularly fun. Especially since they make up a bunch of criticisms that make no sense, just to undermine the idea that athiests might have some valid points.
But what's the point of all of this? I'm off ot enjoy a nice glass of chardonnay and sit in the sun - that's what life's all about.
You should not laugh at these sites.
As a unifier, I have to warn you Thinking types that in fact, sites like this are GOOD.
While the majority reading it will probably just read and accept, as they have been taught to by our school systems, the very fact the questions are being asked might just make another minority have to actually think.
I think these sites actually do more harm to the cause than good.
You have to have faith reason will win out.
Nietschze get off your ass and do some damn work = )
Make a site for Answers to the Religious.
If you attempt to argue scripture you will be outgunned, these guys have 'translated' the word of god for 2000 years. And the Roman Catholics got psychology down about 500 AD or thereabouts.
If you attempt to argue scripture you will be outgunned, these guys have 'translated' the word of god for 2000 years. And the Roman Catholics got psychology down about 500 AD or thereabouts.
I couldn't agree more, and that's precisly why we have to re-direct the argument and attack the validity of the scripture itself.
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I couldn't agree more, and that's precisly why we have to re-direct the argument and attack the validity of the scripture itself.
I agree with you Pete. I think to prove scripture incorrect requires common sense. Where scripture breaches common sense in the only place to show the deception. Scripture, from a metaphoric stand, many times has an element of truth. I see the biggest problem as a child/adult one. Children need a secure emotional structure to grow to become adults.(And many never do). Joseph Campbell spoke about the way that Hindu religious texts had two meanings: one for the children and one for the adults.
To be an adult requires acceptance of reality as it is, not as you want it to be.(general statement)
Lawrence, grow up.
(and while you're at it, could you give us a succint summary of what you believe in, in 100 of your own words and without plagarising your Philosophy 101 text book. Spewing out large chunks of pop philosophy is not helping).
Lawrence, have you read Henri Bergson's "Creative Evolution" - I think his philosophy is closely aligned with yours??
Man, I hope you can get some drugs for that condition of yours. I have never seen anyone so hopelessly tangled in pseudo-logic.
You don't have to have an original philosophical thought. But it would be helpful if you could just synthesise from all the pop-philosophy that you read a few thoughts that you can call your own, and then express them in your own words. Otherwise you are just a parrot-philosopher, an infomercial for pre-packaged insight. Think for yourself, man.
Reading some of the posts here lately has been truly inspiring. Good thing Sam didn't include the "Feces Hurling HTML" function or we'd have a lot to clean up.
Birth. Growth. Decline. Death. Rapid are the stages these days…
And it's not even February.
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Puppy From Scratch, Beyond Puppy From Scratch
I have made the "easy" decision that I want to build a Puppy From Scratch, but there are a couple of things that I would like to try out and the harder decision is which to do....
This is mainly to test some of the new features of gcc-4.5 & gold - specifically -flto and -fwhopr in comparison with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections + --gc-sections (both size and speed)
Static uclibc Puppy
- where all binaries are static
Mostly static Puppy
(glibc) - only the main toolkits (gtk, qt...) and their dependencies are shared - all other libs are static.
Arm Puppy
- standard puppy using my pepperpad2 as a test platform.
Commercial Puppy
- Static libraries where the license permits, to ease dependency and functionality problems across distros.
Static uclibc Puppy
downsides - lots of patching, proprietary software like flashplugin wouldn't work
upsides - binaries would work in any distro for a long time
(many other well documented +/- of static binaries exist besides these)
Mostly static Puppy
downsides - possibly size depending on package selection
(other static +/- to some extent)
upsides - speed boost of static linking combined with LDPRELOAD (via .xinitrc) for all programs & proprietary software will still work
Arm Puppy
downsides - untested waters for me and probably a significant amount of patching
upsides - $99 Puppy laptops and tablets
Commercial Puppy
downsides - invasion of the leaches, support, legal...
upsides - more available software in the future?
I am leaning toward Mostly Static Puppy, because I have done some experimenting in that direction already... with really good results. If someone has a persuasive argument for one of the other options though I would consider (otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned them)
On a separate note, the developer of Magic Ermine granted me a license so that I can package any open source software to be run in a single executable even if it requires additional libraries or files from /etc or /usr/share .... basically a portableapps for linux - the static or mixed static method would help keep the sizes smaller (since the alternative is to include each entire shared library or tell it that it will be external and thus a "dependency")
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<mostly static process>
toolkit library is dynamically linked with other dynamic libraries using -fpic (NOT -fPIC) = better speed and smaller size
libraries that are known to not be linked against directly (or at least not often) are directly linked into the respective toolkit (compiled with --enable-static --disable-shared --with-pic and various CFLAGS/LDFLAGS)
additional "static libraries" (object archives) that won't be linked into shared libraries will be compiled for inclusion in binaries only (with --enable-static --disable-shared --without-pic and various CFLAGS/LDFLAGS)
use LDPRELOAD for gtk2 in .xinitrc prior to starting ROX (it loads anyways when you run rox, but this should make rox and others start faster)
The secondary purpose is to examine the differences between new features in gcc-4.5 (-flto and -fwhopr link time optimizations) and the older *sections flags as well as combinations of them.
libX11 has a dependency on libXau and libxdmcp, but almost nothing ever links directly with them, so compile Xau and xdmcp with --enable-static --disable-shared --with-pic and libX11 will no longer have them as dependencies. The size of libX11 only goes up slightly (not near the size of Xau and xdmcp), but will load faster because there are less libs to look for and less relocations. (Next recompile Xau and/or xdmcp without pic in case a later program calls for them directly)
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I think it's a good idea, but there's something you need to consider: GCC's Graphite loop optimizations. They made my distro about much bigger, but things are supposed to be more optimized. That requires GCC to be built against ppl-cloog and ppl. I did two builds of my whole distro, with and without, the difference is about 25-30%.
By the way, Mozilla spotted big regressions with GCC 4.5.0 ... you should wait for 4.5.1 or drop to the 4.4.x series. Most major distros these days are still on 4.4.x.
EDIT: don't even try uClibc. Things just don't work with it.
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I think it's a good idea, but there's something you need to consider: GCC's Graphite loop optimizations. They made my distro about much bigger, but things are supposed to be more optimized. That requires GCC to be built against ppl-cloog and ppl. I did two builds of my whole distro, with and without, the difference is about 25-30%.
By the way, Mozilla spotted big regressions with GCC 4.5.0 ... you should wait for 4.5.1 or drop to the 4.4.x series. Most major distros these days are still on 4.4.x.
Such is the case with all X.0 releases of gcc, but someone has to report the bugs so that they can be worked out. If you are including the static libraries in your size, that is why... gcc ADDs code for link time optimization AND gold is required to take advantage of it (at least for now) I still find the gcc-3.X series superior in many areas and would minimally want a X.x.3 release for a stable, production distro, but I may try llvm when llvm-2.8 is released. Also as to the sizes being larger - it sounds like a gcc lib could be getting linked in statically (I have seen some kind of patch for this, and it has been a while, but I think it was by linuxfromscratch or one of the build systems)
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EDIT: don't even try uClibc. Things just don't work with it.
That's what they say about dietlibc too, but I had a whole diet distro going before I started trying to verify license compatibilities - getting it "working" is only the second hardest part. eglibc should suffice though for most purposes
p.s. T2-8.0 was just released.
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I would like to see you go along the ARM route, BigBass has now released his latest slack model which looks like a good starting point for the puppy arm system.
By the way i am being totally selfish as i have one of those sub £100 netbooks
and i am in the progress of trying to port puppy linux myself.
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Hmm, Ttuuxxx and I have been discussing a puppy from scratch project too. Perhaps a combination of forces would make a powerful triumvirate.
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I completed a build of the base for a "Puppy from Scratch" yesterday, with all base packages and most libraries, but without X. It's about 570 MB with tons of console applications plus everything for the devx, including the full Perl and Python.
It's GCC 4.4.4, though, because 4.5.0 produces large binaries and some say it's buggy ... plus, it has one extra dependency that can be left out.
I just don't have any idea how to make a Puppy from this thing ... that's the main problem.
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may fix issues?
... the new gimple data may require different strip utilities and/or parameters to obtain smaller sizes ... how do nm and objdump runs on binaries compare for each section
Also dependencies are not as important for devx utils
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Where do you guys find the time.............
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Well, I'd be super happy to see an ARM 4 puppy, not only for an antidote to the Ipad by applying it to touchscreen tablets like the Eken M001, but because sub $100 laptops and netbooks are what many people need to compute at all. These inexpensive laptops and tablets all have limited processing and memory ability, and would be greatly benefited by Puppy, therefore. Personally, I think something like that helps the world.
Many run Android or Win CE, both of which have many blocks to personal freedom, privacy, and the ability to develop or understand the machine's inner workings. They are designed to remove capability, and enforce consumerism and dependency. Puppy is not only the most effective OS, I believe, for these, but also the most transparent and educational.
Frankly I can think of no more appropriate currently manufactured platform for a version of Puppy than these low cost computers. ARM 4 would include most of them and many other devices, including phones, PNAs/GPS, etc for compatibility. This in turn opens the door for development of more sophisticated Linux/open source mapping apps, etc.
I have currently set up a small contributors bounty for development of Debian compatible touchscreen drivers for the Eken M001 through the Slatedroid forum, but I'd love to see Puppy even more than Debian running on one.
The main reason for the Deb bounty is that Debian has already been successfully ported to ARM 4 and is now running on the Eken M001 (with an external USB keyboard and mouse). Touchscreen drivers are the only block at this point to an out of the box Debian M001 tablet. Puppy would be even more desirable, and almost certainly, better performing.
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What he said!
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just narrowing down the infrastructure plan a bit:
try to compile most gtk2 dependencies as static libs with position independent code and the link them all into one shared library with symlinks for all of the dependencies ... thus allowing garbage collection across all sections (compiled with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and --gc-sections). This will result in a larger gtk-x11-2.0.so.* library but decrease the overall size by up to 50% and will require changes to .pc files, symlinks and the --as-needed flag for binaries but greatly benefit from LDPRELOAD of the gtk2 library during the init process (This will also counter the excess baggage for programs that only need one of gtk2's dependencies)
Possibility exists to do this for qt and others, possibly even tiered atop gtk2, for example: webkitgtk with libsoup, gnutls and gnupg combined with only gtk2 dependency.
Why do it this way when the standard/traditional way works??? I don't like waiting until after I have clicked on an application for it to start. I want it to already be 90% loaded and completely startup before I have even released the mouse button. Maybe one of these days AI will improve enough that I won't even have to click it.
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"Porta patet, cor magis – the door is open, but the heart even more so": even though the monks of the former Cistercian monastery in Loccum converted to Lutheranism in around 1600, they still resided there, preserving the Cistercian traditions for centuries.
Loccum Abbey is considered one of the best preserved Cistercian abbeys to the north of the Alps. It was founded in 1163 as a "daughter house" to Volkenroda Abbey, and to this date symbolises the attitudes of Cistercian monks in the 13th century, which were heavily influenced by asceticism and modesty. This is particularly clear to see in the abbey church, which set itself apart from the magnificent cathedrals erected at the time through its simplicity, and has maintained its original design to this day.
It features a prayer room which was once separated by nothing but a transparent screen – an area for praying monks, often priests, performing the Liturgy of the Hours eight times a day. And another area for working monks, the lay brothers who came only to pray in the morning, at midday and in the evening. Today, you can also find pilgrims here who have set out on the 320 km route from Volkenroda to Loccum. You will also meet theologians from the theological seminary who are preparing for their practical work, as well as conference delegates and visitors who have come for a retreat. You will also find people seeking inner peace in the abbey church, cloister or between the ponds and the abbey's forest in the surrounding nature reserve.
Accommodation: the pilgrim hostel on the abbey grounds, registration requested
Opening hours: church and cloister open daily (10am to 6pm); Monday to Saturday at 6pm: hora (evening meditation) in the chancel of the church
Nearest train station: Hanover
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The main occupation of the inhabitants was agriculture and cattle breading. The vineyards, wheat fields, and fruit orchards of large estate holders surrounded the town. The expansive meadows and fields reached to the foot of the Carpathian Mountains. Weekly market days and fairs held every two months attracted merchants from far away. During the last thirty years, in the communist era, some larger industrial enterprises were also established in Marghita. Aside from Jews, Hungarians inhabited the town as well. This situation changed after 1945, when Transylvania was re annexed to Romania. Since then, the Romanian population has steadily increased.
The Jewish Settlement and Establishment of the Jewish Community
There are no authentic historical data and thus we don't know exactly when and under what circumstances have the Jews established themselves in the town. Based on a document dated November 1, 1721 found in the Hungarian Archives, Jewish settlement in Marghita dates back 250 years. A senior clerk named Forester, who sent it to his superiors in Bratislava, had provided the above data. He reported in this document that the local Jewish population having been frightened by the Romanian uprising took refuge in Oradea and Carei.
This report justifies the Hungarian saying that the whole world is but a town. Just as in the Ukraine, when the Cossacks who rose up against their Polish oppressors first butchered the unprotected Jews from the cities, so the uprising Transylvanian serfs against the Hungarian lords first turned against the Jews.
It seems that the Jews returned to Marghita after the defeat of the uprising, but there is no exact date as to when this happened. The next closest document is dated 140 years later. We quote the following from the book of Imre Szabo, commentator for the Transylvanian Jewish Community: in the middle of the last century (1861), when they demolished the old wooden praying house to build in its place a new synagogue, they found the official foundation stone documentation dating to the year 1742. This proves that the Jews who took refuge from the Romanian threat, returned and twenty years later built their own praying house. We have no data about their numbers, but it is certain that that number was not significant. However, by 1840, there was an organized Jewish Community in Marghita, because the Chevra Kadisha had been established that year. Not much later, the community hired Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein, know as R. Hillel Kolomajer.
Today Ferenc Wollner, the oldest and perhaps the only Jewish inhabitant of Marghita, copied and sent at our request the writings of the 1848 Captain Karoly Palfi, in which we find social statistics for the year 1872.
There were 621 houses and 3900 people in this little town in June of 1872. Of these, 2400 were Calvinists, 800 Catholics, and 700 Hebrews (Jews). The Hebrews have a beautiful temple and their own school. Three Jews live in their own house. These are merchants Matyas Altmann, Abraham Weiss, and Moric Kallos. (The last mentioned name is that of Natania retired Doctor in Chief Laszlo Kallos's grandfather.) The treasurer of the Reader's Circle is physician Dr. Lipot Gelbstein. There are two Jewish doctors in town. They are: internist Dr. Gelbstein, and surgeon Dr. Wallenstein
Blessed is the era of which no written documentation exists so, according to a French historian. We can say the same about our little community. We refer specifically to the old golden era of Franz-Joseph. It seems that there were no events of any significance (anti-Semitic occurrences) worth mentioning in the lives of the Jewish community and even the arguments within, which happened also elsewhere and upset some contemporaries, had no effect on the peaceful, benevolent lives of the Marghita Jewish citizens.
In 1900, the town's Jewish population reached 18% that is 940 Jews out of a population of 5200. In 1930, of the total number of 6000 inhabitants, 1600 were Jewish (27%), while the 1944 deportations afflicted 2660 Jews (31%) of the total population of 8600 people.
Historical Changes And The Jews Of Marghita
Tempora murantur et nos mutamur in illis holds the Latin saying; times change and we change with them. While this is generally true, it does not refer to the observant, traditionalist Jewry. World history and local events affected their fate, political status and economic well being, but did not touch the mental or spiritual world of faith of the believers, or their adherence to tradition. Naturally, the remark was valid for the religious Jewish population of Marghita. Their manner of thinking, life philosophy remained the same, and furthermore, the administrative organization within their community, the rituals, also stayed as they were in the days of their fathers. Praying houses, schools, social organizations, their manifestation of happiness or mourning practices remained unchanged. They respected their rabbis as always. No one worked on Saturday or holidays. And no one would be caught smoking a cigarette while walking on the street on Saturday.
The Jewry of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and of the Hungarian Kingdom within it was a tolerated entity, but for long centuries, it regarded itself foreign among people. But the great world-shaking changes of 1848, followed by the Compromise of 1867, brought emancipation for the Jews of the monarchy. The Jewish population, given its nature, felt much gratitude for the equality. The Hungarian language, the well-spoken Hungarian language, replaced Yiddish and Hungarian newspapers and literature became the mental nourishment of the Hungarians of Israelite religion. Educated people assimilated fast and the rabbis, dressed in soutane, preached in Hungarian in their Neolog Synagogues. Law regarded Jews not as an ethnic minority, but a religious denomination. The reason behind this consisted in the fact that believers in the Laws of Moses, opposite the more prolific nationals (Slovaks, Romanians, Serbs), would augment numerically the statistics in favor of the Hungarians.
The Hungarian Jews liked and respected the Emperor, representative of the liberal world, but their hearts beat for the freedom fighter Lajos Kossuth, hero of the 1848 Revolution. Identification with Hungarians and Hungarianism was so strong that even during the Romanian reign between the two world wars, the Transylvanian Jewry was reading Hungarian books and newspapers, while the older generation, out of spite, would not learn Romanian. The Jewish National movements succeeded in winning over their co religious brothers only in the 1930s, who until then voted for the Hungarian candidates. This is how the Transylvanian Jewish voters elected two outstanding politicians, Dr. Jozsef Fisher and Dr. Tivadar Fisher to the Romanian Parliament.
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During World War One
The World War that started in 1914 found a well-rooted Jewish community in Marghita, one that did not feel out of place within the country. Although it was not permeated by hurray patriotism - the stylish fad of the times, it considered its civic obligation to honorably fulfill the draft orders for military duty. Those who stayed home were awaiting news from the frontline with great worry, and the Jewish Community helped the families of the men who were in the army, as needed.
The four-year war took its toll from among the Jews of Marghita as well. Nandor Uran, Jeno Weisz, Mihaly Berger, Miklos Farkas, Vilmos Farkas, Ede Wollner, Jozsef Ezri, and Jeno Bruder were among the fallen heroes of the community. Jozsef Weisz, David Friedmann, and Jeno Bruder of Balyok succumbed to wounds they sustained on the frontline and also died. Dezso Feldheim, Jeno Feldheim, L. Mandelbaum, Bernat Weisz, Mayer Grunfeld, Aron Weisz, Gyula Berger, Samu Berger and pharmacist Ferenc Weisz became permanently disabled. Several men received medals for their heroic deeds, among them Bernat Weisz and Mayer Grunfeld, and due to their 75% disability were exempt from deportation in 1944.
In 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire fell militarily and politically. A revolution ensued, the republic was proclaimed, and a few months later, the dictatorship of the proletariat took over the democratic regime. As everywhere else, in Marghita too, they created the local dictatorial councils from among the ranks of the workers' movement veterans. Some Jews also participated in this event, including Samu Kertesz, David Mandelbaum, Lipot Rubinstein, Sandor Schwartz and Margit Klein. However, the reign of the tanacskoztarsasag (a communist type republic based on that of the Soviet Union) came swiftly to an end. The Romanians occupied Transylvania and marched even into Budapest. Most of the communist leaders escaped and in Hungary, the Horthy reactionary regime was installed.
After the Change of Regime
At the beginning of the regime change, while the turbulence crystallized, Jews had been suffering. Such was the case in the Transylvanian region annexed to Romania and of course, our little city was no exception. Let's be honest about it, one of the reasons for the tense situation with the authority was because Jews, often defiantly, stood by the Hungarians. Once the short lived military government changed to civil government, spirits also quieted. Jewish Communities retained their autonomy guaranteed earlier by Hungary and the pursuit of personal welfare was only minimally limited by the semi official discrimination. The corps of Romanian officials soon made friends with the Jewish population.
The Jewry of Romania, numbering one million, won national minority status. This change was a consequence of Romania's demographic situation. Following World War One, 40% of the country's three-fold increase in population was made up of minorities (Russians, Germans, Hungarians, Bulgarians, etc.,). The three million Transylvanian Hungarians created especially a thorn in the flesh for Romanians. Thus, by promoting Jews, and within them the Transylvanian Jews who numbered one quarter of a million, to national minority status, they automatically reduced the number of Hungarians. And the Jewish population, given that they could no longer be Hungarians, yet were not willing to become Romanians, were forced to declare themselves just that - Jews. As such, they enjoyed more privileges in the eyes of the Romanian officials than the untrustworthy Hungarians who were always winking toward the Motherland.
Peaceful coexistence had been disturbed from time to time, particularly in bigger cities, by outbreaks of Romanian anti-Semitism. In 1927, the national conference held in Oradea by university students ended in demonstrations and anti-Jewish rioting. People did not lose their lives, but Jewish institutions and synagogues suffered the consequences of the riots. Students intruded the synagogues. They burned Torah scrolls, broke windows and robbed stores. From Oradea, the demonstrating students traveled to Cluj, but meanwhile they stopped in Huedin and organized pogroms in those two cities too, as they did in Oradea. The Oradea Rabbinate ordered a day of fasting to commemorate the ravaging of the synagogues on the 13-th of Kislev, which was yearly observed by our Community as well.
The Goga-Cuza fascist government presented a much more serious threat, because it wanted to solve the Jewish question in the Nazi spirit. Luckily, this government did not last long (from the end of December 1937 to February 10, 1938) and thus was not able to carry out its devilish plans. Although Jews did not suffer material damage, the fascist succeeded in one area. For weeks, the country's one million Jewish inhabitants were searching their genealogy and running around to obtain written certification about their identity. All this happened because the government, to justify the planned deportation of the Jews, required that they prove Romanian citizenship going back three generations.
This government fell due to pressure from the Western democratic powers, as well as because of the looming anarchy, which threatened the entire country. Following the Royal take over, Jews were able to once again breathe easier. The revision of citizenship rights remained the only enforced provision. And because Romania was the classical example of corruption, those who were unable to produce the required documents bribed politicians and officials, thus after a year from the issue date of this provision, there was not one Jew left without citizenship.
Two years before the Vienna Dictate, under the influence of Nazi Germany, anti-Semitism gained strength throughout Europe, and Transylvania was no exception. The media became more and more hostile and the number of anti-Jewish insults increased, but compared to what was to follow later, the situation was still ideal.
We spoke so far about the development of Marghita's Jewish community and about the political changes that affected significantly the fate of Transylvanian Jews, among them, of course those of the Marghita Jewry.
Jewish Life in Marghita
Until the beginning of this century (XX-th*), the Jews of Marghita constituted a group that was solid, monochromatic, and thinking alike. They were honest, God fearing people, whose lives evolved around the great synagogue. They gathered on weekdays, holidays and Sabbaths, in the evening and morning to pray together as a community and listen to the teachings of their rabbis. They obeyed rigorously the commandments of the faith, sent their children to study in cheders and yeshivas, worked industriously and conducted business with integrity. They based their view of the world on two facts: was it morally acceptable in the eyes of God what was happening, and was it good or not for the Jewry. On elections, they cast their votes for the government's party for the simple reason that it was better for a Jew not to set himself up against the majority. Their ideology rested on two principles: belief in God and attachment to their own kind.
They knew little about Chassidism and their rabbis; Socialism and Zionism did not arouse great reverberations within their circle. The Grosz brothers, David and Meyer, Yisrael and Akiva Bernat, and Slomo and Hillel Heller were among the first young men from well to do middle class families to study in famous yeshivas in far away cities. The majority of the youth studied in the yeshivas of local rabbis. Highly admired Ezriel Friedmann committed a revolutionary act by sending his four sons to university. After obtaining their degrees, they settled back in the city. Moshe and Aharon Cvi were attorneys, Benjamin a doctor, while David became a banker.
The uniformity and harmony within the Jewish Community changed following World War One, when a larger Chassidic group established itself in the city. Not that there were any objections against them, since among them were talmidei chachamim such as R.Eizik Lefkovits, R. Avrohom Chajjim Glick, and R. Chajjim Spitzer. Rather, their Chassidic customs, caftans, head covers, separate praying houses, Sephardi prayer books, caused misgivings among conservative members. They were worried that this small but enthusiastic Chassidic group would break up the unity of the community. During the war and immediately afterwards, several Chassidic families arrived to Marghita, among them the Rabbis of Razla. A few longtime Ashkenazi congregants joined them as well and by the time they built their praying house, membership rose to fifty. Later, the Ashkenazi worry proved to be without merit. The members of the two praying houses coexisted peacefully within the Jewish Community. The Chassidim adapted themselves to community life and participated in exemplary fashion in the social work of the Jewish Community.
Communist philosophy spread wide in Romania due to the misery and suffering caused by war and also by example of the Russian Revolution. Marghita's local group was relatively strong compared to the rest of the country. From among Jews, some veterans, artisans and non-religious youths joined them. The Party functioned legally until 1924. Following the banning of the organization, its members continued their activities within the so-called Workers' Block, while trying to hide from officials their real purpose and political image. This was not very successful, because the Romanian security services were on the lookout and kept an eye on the Block's activities. Often they held searches at the homes of the suspects. Several members were taken to Court in Oradea and then incarcerated. The police gave an especially harsh treatment to Jewish communists. Samu Kertesz, Jozsef Grosz, David Mandelbaum, the Weisz brothers - Bela and Jailis, suffered a great deal for their ideology. Jewish solidarity did not break down under these circumstances either. Jeno Vadasz, director of the United Bank, used his great connections with the authorities to ease the situation of his Jewish brothers and many Jewish communists could thank him for having survived their harsh prison sentences. It was well known about Jeno Vadasz that he always helped everywhere an injustice occurred, or if a Jew was in trouble. In the 1930s, the authorities increased their persecution against communists. The Schoen brothers, Lajos and Erno, spent long years in prison. Erno died in the Doftana prison, in 1940, when the prison building collapsed following the earthquake that hit Romania in that year.
In the 1920s, the Young Zionist movements started to organize in Marghita, while in the 1930s, the Agudat Israel local group was established by initiative of its young religious members. We will talk separately about these activities, as well as about the first Olej of Marghita, its Chalucim, and the first passengers of the Maapil ships and their adventures.
From our writings so far, the reader can see the great changes our little community underwent during the first half of our century. While the elderly watched the changing times with total disinterest - the appearance and disappearance of spiritual currents - the new generation was passionately interested in everything that happened in the world at large. Groups were created within this once quiet community, where people were divided by their views of religion, social, political or world concept. It speaks to the glory of the Marghita Jewry that these differences did not and were not intended to weaken the respect for one another, or their love and feelings of fellowship for each other. Despite differences of social class or opinion, every Jew participated in the happiness and sorrow of his fellow Jews, and in promoting the welfare of the Jewish community. The Jewish Community and the leaders of its institutions were elected not according to the parties to which they belonged or their social status, but according to their talents and merits. Those who were in need received help according to their needs, not according to their political affiliation or degree of observance.
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Petri Street and the Jewish Circle
The Jewish population in Marghita did not live separately, nor did it separate itself from the Christian population. One could find Jewish residents on every street of the city. Still, most of them lived on Petri Street. The Jewish Circle (a row of houses linking Petri and Kortvelyes Streets) and the Jewish Street (Wollner St.), as their names show, were part of the Jewish neighborhood. The main street's name had often been changed, but because it led to the neighboring community of Petri, people referred to it always as Petri Street. This had been the city's commercial center. Most stores and offices, as well as the Jewish Community's institutions were located here. Parallel and to the east of Petri Street, one would find Kortvelyes Street, a quiet Gentile upper class neighborhood, undisturbed by traffic. To the left of the main street stretched large backyards and vegetable gardens, all the way to the other side of the city, towards the grain markets and the stockyards. It was here rather than in the center of the city that they held weekly market days. Merchants and vendors built their permanent booths in this large suburban market.
Houses on the main street were built next to each other, without space between them. An exception was the Jewish school, which was surrounded by a garden. Several families, sometimes six to eight, lived in multi dwelling buildings on the main street. In each of their spacious backyards, there were structures typical to rural life, like a baker's oven, poultry yard, stockpiles of wood, or a water well. The outer image of the homes hardly changed at all between the two World Wars. The main street was not paved and was dusty in the summer, slushy in the winter. Some of our friends who visited Marghita a short while ago said that the city has developed a great deal in the past years. Several streets have been paved and multistory dwellings have replaced the one-story peasant houses.
On Saturdays and holidays, the working weekdays' noise ceased, and a holiday atmosphere settled above the main street. Stores were closed, there was no vehicle traffic and only devoted congregants dressed in Saturday outfits were seen strolling on sidewalks, or hurrying to either a place of worship or of learning. The image, in mood and reverence was similar to the one found in Bne Brak or Mea Searim.
There were twelve buildings within the Jewish Circle and Christians lived in only two of them. Four houses served as Jewish social institutions. A sidewalk existed only on the right side. When it rained, people could not walk on the opposite side of the street and even farm-wagons got stuck in the muddy unpaved road.
This little street had no official name. Gentiles called it by the name of Reb Chajjim Jozsef Wollner, a rich shoe manufacturer whose lands and building structures extended over half of the street. Later, after the ritual bath building was constructed here, they referred to it as Mikve Street. The imposing building of the Mikve was built on the northern side of the street, on the corner of Kortvelyes St.; next, there was the house of the bath personnel. The Matzo bakery, and the house of Reb Jiszrael Bernat, the Jewish Community's secretary, recorded as the property of the Chevra Kadisha, followed. For the most part of the year, the Matzo bakery served as Linat Cedek. It was a shelter for panhandlers and merchants passing through the town. Right next to this building stood that of the Talmud Torah with its six large rooms. Two of the rooms were used by congregants for praying on Saturdays and holidays. Across from these three large buildings stood the Chassidim's Bet Midrash, which constituted a center not only for the Chassidim from of Sighet and Satu Mare, but was also the spiritual and religious center of the Jewry from the neighboring towns. R. Jozsef Jakov Berger, the Torah scribe (Sefer stam), lived next to the Talmud Torah.
It is obvious from this short description why the Wollner Circle was the spiritual and religious center of the city's Jewry. A picture of the main street would not be complete without mentioning a few words about the Marghita promenade. On Saturdays and holidays, the street portion from the Synagogue to the end of Petri Street was the favorite promenade for the city's young people of all manners. This is where they strolled between Mincha and Maariv separately the young men and separately the young ladies. It was a wonderful sight for the eyes and the heart to see this pageantry of young people. The observant, the nonobservant, as well as those vacillating in between, peacefully coexisted next to each other. As if by mutual understanding, Christians strolled on the other side of the street.
Our little city's Jewry lived a peaceful, content and quiet life until Satan spread its reign over Europe and in its frantic rage condemned our loved ones among our six million brothers to death the old, the children, the women, the innocent good hearted Jewish people.
Earth! Earth! Don't cover their unlamented spilled blood!
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On This Date in History: 235 years ago, a group of 56 men faced the gallows for what they contemplated doing or rather what they had already done. You see, the Declaration of Independence was actually voted on by members of the Continental Congress and approved on July 2, 1776. You see, it was the formal adoption of the document with a good clean copy that took place on July 4, 1776 and it wasn't signed by most of the delegates for another month. It was thought that the document would long be celebrated but at least on of the Founding Fathers contemplated that the actual date of approval would be the one noted in history, not the one associated with formality. John Adams wrote to his wife that "The Second Day of July 1776 will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the Day of Deliverance." That letter wasn't published until the 19th century and by that time the Fourth had become the traditional Independence Day. What happened on July 4 was an approval by the delegates of the final version of the document. The final version was not printed on parchment until July 19 and it wasn't signed until August 2, 1776 by but 50 delegates. The other six got around to it later.
Someone may have been the catalyst to their moving forward and signing a document that would change world history. No one knows who that someone was but, he gave a speech that roused the emotions of the delegates in Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Here is the text of what has become known as The Speech of the Unknown. It is said that this "unknown patriot" said in part, "Sign! if the next moment the gibbet's rope is round your neck! Sign! if the next moment this hall rings with the echo of the falling axe! Sign! By all your hopes in life or death, as husbands–-as fathers–-as men–-sign your names to the Parchment or be accursed forever!" Sounds pretty good. But is it too good? The text of the speech is quite detailed, even accounting for applause. And the description of the "unknown patriot" is quite compelling, detailed and believeable. However, The Jefferson Encyclopedia says there is no evidence exists to support the story of the Speech of the Unknown. They claim the story of the "unknown patriot" was simply part of a work of historical fiction in 1847 by George Lippard: Washington and His Generals; Or, Legends of the Revolution. As evidence, it cites the American National Biography when it claimed that Lippard "wrote many semifanciful 'legends' of American history, mythologizing the founding fathers and retelling key moments of the American Revolution so vividly that several of the legends (most famously the one describing the ringing of the Liberty Bell on 4 July 1776) [2] became part of American folklore."
However, Ronald Reagan and 20th century philosopher Manly P. Hall both made references to the unknown speech with both men claiming that the evidence lies in Thomas Jefferson's records. Yet, the Jefferson Encyclopedia claims no such evidence exists in Jefferson's writings. I certainly don't know the truth, but I can say that I once had a published work (Ohio Valley History, 8 (Fall 2008), 40–61.) that uncovered much new material relating to Louisville. No scholars previously had ever come across the material. The reason was that most studies of Louisville used The 1896 Memorial History of Louisville and the editor of that book included only material that they wanted future Louisvillians to know. They skillfully made no mention of the decade long and successful Industrial Exposition but had an entire chapter devoted to the successful 5-year Southern Exposition. They also made no mention of the 63rd Birthday of Ulysses S. Grant even though it was nationally significant enough to find its way on a plaque at Grant's Tomb. What I am saying is the the folks at the Jefferson Encyclopedia have no evidence that the speech took place, yet they have no evidence that it did not take place either. When one read's the text of the speech put forth by Lippard, it is possible that Lippard made it up since he was considered a genius and an eloquent speaker. But, the detail makes it hard to believe that he was that creative and it certainly would indicate that Lippard would have a vivid imagination to match his "genius" talent.
In any event, the delegates really voted in favor of the declaration on this date in 1776. (see Second of July?) Contrary to popular belief, Thomas Jefferson was not the sole contributor to the Declaration of Independence. He was part of a committee consisting of Jefferson, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin (the committee of five) whose task it was to come up with a document for the Continental Congress to approve. They knew that the Declaration of Independence could be a historically significant document and so Adams and Franklin agreed that Jefferson was a much more gifted writer; Jefferson was thus given the job of putting their ideas to paper. The writer of the declaration, Thomas Jefferson was reluctant. John Adams had to convince him giving him three reasons:
"You are a Virginian and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of business"
" I(Adams) am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise."
"You can write ten times better than I can."
Jefferson responded, "if you are decided, then I will do as well as I can."
The beauty of the document resides in Jefferson's style and structure more so than the substance because the ideas in the document were not new. The first part was a reformation of the contract theory of John Locke, a 17th Century British philosopher, which generally was that governments are created to protect the rights of life, liberty and property. Jefferson jazzed it up by exchanging "property" with "the pursuit of happiness." The second part then laid out the crimes of King George in violating the "contract" with the colonies and he had therefore forfeited his claim on their loyalty. Initially, there was a middle section that condemned King George for his introduction of slavery in the colonies, but that section was removed as it was surmised the southern colonies would never sign such a document. Hence, they kicked the can when it came to the slavery issue and the Congress would follow suit into the mid 19th century when it finally came to a head in the form of a bloody Civil War.
In 1817, John Trumbull painted the famous portrait of the signers of the Declaration. He hadn't been there on July 4, 1776 but he did make sketches of many of the individuals and checked out the room so there is still some accuracy. One funny thing he did was to have John Adams stepping on Thomas Jefferson's foot. Jefferson and Adams became fast friends but were political rivals. Both died on July 4, 1826 exactly 50 years to the day of the official presentation of the Declaration of Independence. They were the only two signers of the declaration to become president. It is said that, on his deathbed, Adams said "Jefferson survives" or "Jefferson lives" not knowing that Tom had died a few hours earlier. I suppose it's possible that Trumbull's placement of Adams' foot on the top of Jefferson's was a statement of support for Adams who had been at odds over many issues with Jefferson. It just so happens that Trumbull had painted Adams' portrait.
However, I found one source that claims that the feet are merely close together and the claim of Adams stepping on his foot are unfounded. The University of Baltimore suggests that it was merely the artist's problem with positioning of the founding fathers and points out that later engravings had the feet repositioned. To the right is a montage of all of the signers that you can click on. Trumbull for some reason left 14 of the signers out of the portrait but did manage to put 5 other men in the picture that were not signers. I have yet to find out why he did that…perhaps he was making another statement or he did not know what they looked like.
And the rest they say, is history. King George though had no idea of what was happening. Back in England, he wrote in his diary on July 4, 1776 that "nothing of importance happened today." Oh…the folly of Kings. Or was it? Some say this too is a bit of American mythology. But, in this case, I say we go along with the idea brought forth by Maxwell Scott to Ransom Stoddard in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. "


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Due to current health and safety measures, all wineries are accepting visitors by appointment only
Since our wines are an expression of place, we usually meet our visitors at the vineyard which is between 800 and 1200 feet elevation, between Ink Grade & Howell Mountain road, on the north east side of Howell Mountain. Of the 115 acres only 17 are planted leaving the remainder to the beautiful trees, meadows and wildlife who call it home.
While there, you will visit with Tom Clark or Laurie Claudon, on the vineyard cottage deck. This is followed by a relaxing and informative walk in the vineyard. The views from the top are beautiful. The private visit usually lasts about 1.5 hours. Most visitors find it hard to leave!
We are pet, family and group friendly.
Our intent remains, to produce a very small amount of exceptional, artisan wines that celebrate warm and playful moments, as we share that age old passion for life, great wine, family & friends.
Plan a trip to Clark-Claudon Vineyards on our interactive winery map:
Family Friendly Winery
With a picnic area, creek, forest, ponds, open meadows and hiking trails our vineyard property is a happy place for families & dogs.
We have three tasting options. The first 2 are by appointment only. We enjoy meeting our visitors at the vineyard. It is a very rural 117 acre estate with 17 planted acres. We sit on the vineyard cottage deck with our visitors to chat, taste Clark-Claudon wine and enjoy paired artisan cheese, fruit & bread. From there we walk or drive in the vineyard to learn more about where the wine is "made." The views from the top are beautiful!
We can meet in a private tasting room where we make our wine. This tasting, if pre-arranged, can include a barrel tasting.
We also have a tasting room in Napa; Vintners Collective on Main St. No appointment is necessary and our wines can be purchased there.
Clark-Claudon Vineyards Wine Club
Wine clubs are a great way to stay connected to your favorite wineries.
To join the wine club, visit www.clarkclaudon.com or call 707-965-9393.
OUr CC Wine Club Members receive Priority on all releases, a 12% discount, Free Tastings, our Newsletter, Pre-release Offerings, Harvest & Release Celebration Invitation, Priority on Limited Production Wines and Large Format Bottles, Exclusive Invitations to Winery Events & Limited Special Offerings.
The offer listed below is valid for all Napa Valley residents age 21 and over.
Having lived in the Napa Valley for 40 years we appreciate the "locals". Please contact us for a list of current benefits for those living in our big Napa County Neighborhood.
The Napa Green program is supported by a wide variety of groups including the Sierra Club, the Audubon Society, and the University of California. The Napa Valley Vintners, along with Fish Friendly Farming, the Napa Valley Grapegrowers, the Napa County Farm Bureau and others developed the Napa Green program. Learn more about the program at napagreen.org.
Clark-Claudon Vineyards is certified under the Napa Green Winery Program by the Napa County Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and the Association of Bay Area Government's (ABAG) Green Business Program and completed all the regulatory components needed for environmental sustainability. These components included developing water and energy conservation methods, preventing pollution, and reducing solid waste. In addition to developing sustainable winery practices, this program is set to become the standard for the state of California.
Clark-Claudon Vineyards is certified under the Napa Green Certified Land Program. Clark-Claudon Vineyards has created and implemented a customized farm plan with measured results that addressed all aspects of its property, vineyard land as well as non-farmed land, including practicing soil conservation, water conservation, stable drainage, riparian corridor enhancement, fisheries and wildlife habitat enhancement and long-term improvement and sustainability.
Certification - certification is granted by the Napa County Agricultural Commissioners Office of Pesticide Regulation, the Regional Water Quality Control board, the California Department of Fish and Game, and the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Once a year the rarest new Napa Valley wines become available under one roof at Premiere Napa Valley. Wineries throughout the Napa Valley are given one task to participate: create a one-of-a-kind wine for this event to be purchased by one lucky bidder. This event is only open to select members of the wine trade and the successful bidder is the sole owner of this unique wine.
Clark-Claudon Vineyards
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Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage: 2012
Release Date: October - 2015
Appellation: Napa Valley
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Art Starters
10.00AM Wed 24 Jan 2018
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In this pilot program, babies 0 – 12 months, together with their parents and carers, can explore Yayoi Kusama's exhibition 'Life is the Heart of a Rainbow' through an engaging walking tour focusing on three key works and a multi-sensory interactive play session. The 45 minute program is designed to be stimulating for adults and babies alike and is a great way to start introducing your baby to art.
Art Starters is a free program, scheduled for selected Wednesdays during the exhibition. Capacity is limited and bookings are essential. To allow as many families as possible to participate only one session per family may be booked for the duration of the exhibition.


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Dear Arcade Lovers, Do you remember the space shooters from the 80s? Asteroids? Galaga, Galaxian? Well here's the LATEST Astro-Blast for the iPhone! Explode your way through level after level of Aliens, UFOs and Asteroids to achieve the highest score!Object of the Game: Pick up all the BLUE CRYSTALS to advance to the next stage. Pick up barrels of oil to keep your spaceship flying, pick up atomic energy to power your shields to prevent asteroids from crushing your ship! Fly around the indestructible alien bugs! Watch out for the Daleks, they'll follow you everywhere you go!! Careful when you shoot those Oil barrels, they're lethal when they explode!Already a super-smash hit featured by Apple under "New and NoteWorthy" and "What's Hot" apps for the iPad!! Game Corner Review is calling this the "The Most Action-Packed Arcade Game for the Most Exciting Platform Of The Year!" Arcade Review says: "A Spectacularly Dazzling 80's Retro-style Shooter". Powered by the superb Physics engine Box2d and the graphics routines of Cocos2d, this game packs one hell of a wallop! This app has been called a "super-addictive, adrenaline rushing, cannon-ball, astro-blasting, alien-squashing super-charged thriller..." Hours and hours of addictive Fun! Wave after wave of Aliens, UFOs, asteroids, Daleks and indestructible alien bugs!Download AstroPhobia! now!!Thanks for looking!Jeff.
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Gina K. Honey Mustard and colored with Copics E43, Y28, E71, C-5 and E49 (this last color really making the bird spring to life on the tip of the beak and around the eye, which gave him a little spark). These pads are great for line art and Copic coloring and I am loving this shade for the bird, the "no line coloring" showing just enough detail to show you were the color should go, but enough to recede so you see the form but not the outline. Cardstock is Pure Luxury White, Ocean Mist and Dark Chocolate.
Skater Diva, how about a Roller Diva?? Just cut off the blades after stamping and add brads. You can even put a little dot on each for the axle. I also used Tami's Simple Hearts for the greeting and punched X O embellishments to mimic the wheels. That's how I roll...!
Finally, here is another match up I did earlier in the month, but hadn't blogged yet:
With Carolyn and Becky's sets, the big SMILE is just perfect with the little Polaroids! Be sure to pop up a few to add dimension! You can stamp directly onto your photos and then cut them out like you are paper piecing, or here I just reduced them down to the same size opening as the photo window and printed them out to then cut and add. These little moment/memories form the past of my boys' real photos (I made this card for their proud uncle) just melt my heart!
You can also scroll down and see some other pairings I did with other new sets this past week if you haven't visited lately! :)
I hope you enjoy the rest of the hop and are inspired by how wonderfully our Gina K stamp sets work together!
- Becky Oehlers- Illustrator Spoon Me
- Beth Silaika - Illustrator Lovely Ladybug
- Carolyn King - Illustrator Stamp It Big
- Debbie Corbari- Illustrator Darling Divas
- Melanie Muenchinger-illustrator Stately Flowers 6-you are here!
- Theresa Momber- Illustrator Birds and Blossoms
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Are you considering buying an iPad 2? Or do you already own one and would appreciate a review of the basic features?
Then join John Bramble, Technology Coordinator for the NN/LM MCR on Monday, February 27, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. MT, 12:00 p.m. CT for a demo of some of the basic features of the iPad 2. An iPad 2 is not required, and this online presentation is free and open to the public.
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Gemstones and
the Edgar Cayce Readings
Adapted from the Circulating File "Gemstones" Part 2
In addition to wearing particular gems and gemstones, the Edgar Cayce readings often suggested that individuals wear different metals for their vibratory influence. Choosing which gemstone or metal to use is an important decision that can involve the body as well as the mind and spirit.
According to the readings, gemstones and metals work because our bodies are vibrational in nature. "Each element, each stone, each variation of stone, has its own atomic movement, held together by the units of energy that in the universe are concentrated in that particular activity." (Edgar Cayce reading 531-3)
For, the very elements of body— through which spirit and mind manifest— are atomic in their nature. Hence so are the elements of this stone indicated, that partakes of most of the elements that are to man of great influence or power, because of their representations in the body.
(Edgar Cayce reading 1931-1)
Metals such as gold and silver could be worn on the body as well as absorbed by the body by using a device such as a radial appliance for "the strengthening influences of gold, the stabilizing influence of silver." (Edgar Cayce reading 1931-1)
Another reading recommended "…lots of bangles at times become confusing and at others almost necessary. Hence those things that are stable — as plain gold, or plain silver, or platinum, with the finishings — are those influences that are strongest about the entity for helpful forces." (Edgar Cayce reading 2390-1) Platinum was suggested since its "vibrations are in accord with that to keep your animation in accord with the best you may accomplish." (Edgar Cayce reading 1620-2)
A piece of carbon steel was recommended for one individual to prevent colds, congestion, and irritation to the mucous membranes of the throat and nasal passages:
Do not take this as…superstition or…a good luck charm — but if the entity will wear about its person, or in its pocket, a metal that is carbon steel — preferably in the groin pocket — it will prevent, it will ionize the body— from its very vibrations — to resist cold, congestion, and those inclinations for disturbance with the mucous membranes of the throat and nasal passages. This is a needed element, then, about the body. (Edgar Cayce reading 1842-1).
One reading suggested that the ideal stone, mineral, and metal were the same for most individuals because of the "association in its mental forces." (282-7)Mr. Cayce stressed that while these items were helpful and useful tools, the ultimate responsibility was for the individual to do all the work:
Q. How can I use the astronomical, the numerical, the environs of the creations in the vibrations from metal, from stones, which influence me, to advantage in my present life?
A. As these are but lights, but signs in your experience, they are as but a candle that one stumbles not in the dark. But worship not the light of the candle; rather that to which it may guide you in your service. So, whether from the vibrations of numbers, of metals, of stones, these are…influences to make you in attune, one with the Creative Forces; just as the pitch of a song of praise is not the song … So, use them to attune self. How, you ask? As you apply, you are given the next step. ( Edgar Cayce reading 707-2)
Choosing jewelry with gemstones is a very personal experience, as each individual has a unique vibration that may change over time. A piece may be selected for aesthetic qualities as well as vibratory. It is not necessary to choose a gemstone based on the gemstone associated with birth month, rather the readings indicated it was more important to keep "the correct attitude." (4006-1)
The body's physical reaction to an individual piece of jewelry must also be considered. One woman had a rash develop every time she wore a silver and turquoise ring which had belonged to a friend. She was told in a reading that it was due to "the supersensitiveness of the body to vibrations of this particular ring ? from those vibrations that are a part of the ring." (4009-1)
One woman asked about the influence of a pearl necklace she was wearing. Mr. Cayce suggested that "When its vibrations have taken the body-forces, it will be well." In order to accomplish that, he recommended that the necklace be "demagnetized" by exposure to an ultra-violet ray for a flash. (951-6)
The following reading expresses some fundamental ideas for using gemstones and minerals:
For, each soul, each entity, has within its inner being the sum of what it has done, is doing, about its relationships to the whole. And this is the stone [bloodstone] to which the entity [2163] vibrates. Thus it is a helpful force physically, an encouragement to the mental, and vibrates upon the real or inner self. (2163-1)
You can learn more about gemstones from the Circulating File "Gemstones" available in the online Member-Only section of our website. A popular book published by A.R.E. Press is Edgar Cayce's Guide to Gemstones, Minerals, Metals, and More by author Shelley Kaehr, PhD, available at ARECatalog.com.