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Great week this week. It was the first one in awhile that either my companion or I wasn't sick, so that was really nice. Highlight of the week was probably the lesson we had to pick up another new investigator. We brought a priest with us to the lesson since it was a single female there, and wow it was a really interesting lesson. Good experience for McKay(the priest) I guess. we taught the restoration and we were going through it and somehow our investigator brought up using birth control and if that is a sin and if it is a sin to send inappropriate pictures to others. So we got to adjust and go a bit differently with the lesson and explain those answers as simply as we could. A bit awkward for McKay, but that's ok, builds character. It's always great getting to teach people that are willing and ready to learn at least a little bit of the truth.
Something I have thought a lot about this week was the value of hard work, and id have to say at this point, it is one of the things I have learned the most. Hard work always pays off, and you always have a sense of accomplishment after. We got on the topic of what we would be doing in heaven, and the answer is work. in one form or another, we will be working. This brings up the scripture of the week and quote of the week. Alma 36:25 " 25 Yea, and now behold, O my son, the Lord doth give me exceedingly great joy in the fruit of my labors;" That statement can be extended to all of us as well. There is joy in hard work. President Ezra Taft Benson said "Work, work, work—there is no satisfactory substitute" I know this is true and hard work in a righteous cause will always pay off!
Another incident from this week, we had the opportunity to talk to an "ex-mormon" who had gone on a mission and all that good stuff who went off the deep end because he didn't agree with some of the changes the church has made in its existence, including how the Book of Mormon had its intro changed a bit. I don't care what anybody does in this church, if the Book of Mormon is true, Joseph Smith was a prophet, and President Thomas S. Monson is a prophet in these latter days, and this church is true. I'd challenge all of you to reevaluate your testimony of the Book of Mormon and seek to strengthen it by reading from it every day accompanied with prayer. I know that as you do, you will feel the fruits of the spirit, which will bear witness to you of the divinity and truthfulness of it.
Have a great week!
Keep it real,Elder W.Chad Thompson


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Tea tasting and descriptions of the types of tea we tasted for our 2019 Lunar New Year celebration.
|Type of Tea
|Description There are 4 basic types of tea made from Camellia Senensis leaves.
|green tea
|After they are picked, green tea leaves are spread out in the air to let it dry and wither. The process makes the tea leaves flexible and soft for pan frying, this helps prevent oxidation through fermentation. After that, the tea leaves are then twists, rolled, curls and make into a ball-like shape for packaging. Lastly, the tea leaves are dried through firing which retains all the nutrients while baking in the natural flavor and fragrance of the tea. The whole process helps preserve the active and beneficial substances in the fresh tea leaves so they all be release during infusion. Green Tea is packed with a lot of nutrients and antioxidants that has a great effects on our body.
Some of the proven health benefits of Green Tea includes; improves our brain function, loss weight, prevent the risk of cancer and a lot more.
|black tea
|Complete fermentation process that ensures full oxidation is what makes Black Tea different from Oolong and Green Tea. The process involves withering the tea leaves for a much longer period of time so most of the moisture in the leaves will be dried out. After which, the tea leaves are then rolled and broken so their aroma will be release. Next step involves spreading out the tea leaves in layers to be properly oxidized. In the oxidation process, characteristic flavors begin to release and also the leaf color darkens.
After the leaves had been fully developed, they are then fired in big ovens which helps stabilize their flavor, thus enabling the tea to retain its freshness and last long until the time they are put into a boiling water. The last part of the process involves sorting and separating the tea leaves according to its size; Fannings (smallest size that are suitable for tea bags), broken leaves and whole leaf, after which they are rated for quality.
According to the scientist at the US department of Agriculture, Black tea helps reduce cholesterol in our body between 7-11%.
|oolong tea
|These semi-fermented Chinese tea creates a unique flavor and color that is somewhere between Black and Green Tea. Making an Oolong Tea involves plucking the tea leaves and spreading it out under direct sunlight to make the leaves softer, reduce its moisture and wither.
The next step will be to put the leaves in a bamboo basket and shake it in order for the edges of the leaves to be bruised. After that, tea leaves are then laid out in shade for them to dry. This process is repeated a couple of times in order for the leaves turn red and ferment. The oxidation process doesn't affect the center of the leaves thus they all still remain green. The semi-fermentation process involve in Oolong tea differs from region to region and what type of Oolong tea.
Additionally, this process creates tea that has much longer shelf life than that of White and Green tea and it is a highly-guarded secret by some tea producers. The difference in fermentation can be around 60 percent for a classic Formosa and 20 percent for a "Green" Oolong tea.The fermentation process is then put into a halt via pan-frying the leaves at high temperature which helps lock the unique characteristic of Oolong tea.
|white tea
|This type of tea is the least processed and a great amount of care is needed to pluck only the finest young leaves for the creation of white tea. Steaming and Drying are needed to make a white tea, without the other process in tea making, it basically is unchanged from the moment it was picked.
Majority of the cell damage in our body is due to oxidation that is why we need anti-oxidants to help repair damage cells. And this tea is full of anti-oxidants which is 50 times greater than those found in Green Tea
|Other Teas
|*Organic Teas
|From the name itself, these type of tea are being grown without the use of herbicides, pesticides and other chemicals that can harm the environment.
Organic teas are often Fair Trade and Organic certified which means that from cultivation, handling and packaging, the tea was carefully inspected to ensure the authenticity of the claim of being organic. This kind of certification is given and performed by independent third-party certifying agency.
|*Blended Teas
|These types of teas are usually twice the strength if sugar and milk is to be added (ex.: Chai). Depending on taste, you may also enjoy the tea at regular strength, straight or with a bit of honey.
These tea type uses Nilgiri Teas, which does not cloud when iced and tastes smooth, thus making them the right type of tea if you want to make an iced tea.
|*Herbal Teas
|This type of tea is not made from Camellia Senensis, the teas are based on different plants such as rooibos, honey bush, mint and chamomile with natural flavorings extracted from freshly ground spices and fruits.
Some popular herbal tea includes Rooibos, Lemongrass, Mint and Chamomile. Rooibos is a caffeine-free red tea from South Africa. These tea is widely use in creating other flavorings and flavored herbal blends.

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Sling TV to Launch HBO by Saturday
Sling TV, Dish Network's new OTT service for cord-cutters, said it will launch HBO service before Saturday (April 11) in tandem with a batch of app updates that will enhance the service while also reducing the load on its servers to ensure that Sling TV will be able to handle streaming spikes.
The expected timing of Sling TV's HBO launch will also ensure that the premium network is spooled up ahead of this Sunday's season five premiere of Game of Thrones. Sling TV announced last week that it will offer HBO for $15 per month, but still requires that customers also bundle Sling TV's core $20 per-month service. HBO on Sling TV will feature one live stream of HBO and access to the premium programmer's VOD vault.
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Canada's less-educated youth need job opportunities, too
TheGlobeandMail.com – ROB/Commentary
Jan. 05, 2016. Gordon Betcherman
Gordon Betcherman is professor in the University of Ottawa's School of International Development and Global Studies.
Youth unemployment is never far from the headlines in Canada. And understandably so. Getting a good start in the labour market is critical for a young person's future prospects. And from a collective point of view, especially in an aging society, creating good job opportunities for young people is necessary for our future economic outlook – to say nothing of social inclusion, as events elsewhere have shown.
Most Canadians recognize all of this, but the discussion and the policy debate are dominated by what is happening to our postsecondary graduates. Without minimizing the difficulties those young people face in getting good jobs, the really bleak situation concerns those who don't go on to postsecondary education or don't even finish high school. They are often overlooked, but they are being effectively shut out of the 21st-century labour market. This group needs to be a priority for the new federal government and for the provincial governments that hold many of the relevant policy levers.
It is true that going on to college or university is now the norm in Canada. But we are still talking about sizable numbers who don't: Roughly 20 per cent of today's young people do not go beyond secondary school after graduating and another 10 per cent drop out before finishing. These figures are much higher among certain segments of the population, notably aboriginal youth, a rapidly growing group.
The evidence shows that education matters a lot. In 2013, the unemployment rate for 15-to-29-year-old males no longer in school with less than a high school education was nearly 20 per cent – and 13 per cent for those who had completed high school but had not gotten a higher diploma or degree. For young men with university degrees, the unemployment rate was much lower: between 6 per cent and 9 per cent, depending on the degree. The story for young women was essentially the same. Only one in two women and two in three men between 15 and 29 without a high school education are working.
Despite a certain skepticism that prevails about the economic value of schooling, a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce analysis shows that there are still substantial earnings advantages for those young people who go on to postsecondary education, and that these advantages only widen with time out of school. According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, among 25-to-34-year-old Canadians, relative earnings of postsecondary graduates are 37 per cent higher than they are for high school graduates and 60 per cent higher than for those without high school completion.
To put all of these numbers in perspective, a minimum of high school completion and, increasingly, some college or university education is required for admission into our increasingly knowledge-based economy. Although we are already among the leading countries in terms of postsecondary education attainment, we could always do better. Colleges, and especially universities, need to be more responsive to what all young people really want and need from higher education. But there will always be some who are not interested in formal schooling after high school.
Prioritizing less-educated youth also puts the onus on second-chance education opportunities for those who have not completed high school. The good news is that Canada does fairly well in keeping learning options open for these young adults.
Where Canada performs less well is in offering active labour market programs, such as training and job search assistance, to young people who are no longer in school and need help in making the transition to work, often because of a lack of skills. These employment programs cannot fully overcome deficits owing to a lack of education, especially in a sluggish labour market. But there is plenty of evidence from Germany and other northern European countries that, if they are well designed and implemented, they can benefit young workers who need help.
Relative to these countries, Canada does not place much emphasis on training and other active labour market programs outside the formal education system. Spending is low and activation strategies are not well developed. While the federal government and most of the provinces have youth employment strategies, they have mostly not demonstrated that these offer adequate support to vulnerable young people. It does not help that rigorous evaluations are relatively scarce. This kind of evidence is critical so that policy-makers can allocate resources on the basis of what works.
Youth employment deserves a lot of attention. Certainly, we should not dismiss the concerns about our postsecondary graduates and their uncertain prospects. But policy-makers must not forget the other young people who, without postsecondary education, face prospects that unfortunately may be more certain. Countries that are successful in creating opportunities for all young people, including the less advantaged, reap the benefits of more dynamic economies and more inclusive societies.
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Bowler stuns everyone with bizarre bowling action
When it comes to batsman, we have seen many innovative shots invented by them but how often do we see bowlers coming up with different and bizarre bowling actions.
There's absolutely no denying that if we compare between bowlers and batsmen, there is much more flexibility for the batsmen than bowlers. Batsmen can have bigger bats, field restrictions favours them most of the time and they have produced many innovative shots in the recent past such as switch hit, reverse sweep and scoop to score runs easily.
While for bowlers, they have to maintain strict rules with proper bowling action. If somehow the bowling action goes a little bit wrong, their career comes down at stake and often gets banned. For example, Pakistan's Mohammad Hafeez who has been already banned thrice for his bowling action.
Meanwhile, in a Ranji match (India's league), the cricket world witnessed a bizarre scene on Thursday when a bowler came up with a weirdest of bowling action and it stunned everyone including the umpire who called it a 'dead ball.'Also Read - He's a great player, it's time to try be a great human being: BCCI official slams Kohli
Just before releasing the ball, the bowler turned completely before rolling over the arms. And while the batsman comfortably defended the ball, the umpire called it a dead ball. However, the bowler didn't appreciate the decision of the umpire and so as his team-mates as they went straight to the umpire to demand for an answer.
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Anita Hill, who became nationally known during Justice Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearings, is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University. In her new book, Reimagining Equality, she examines how "home" has figured in the imagination of individuals committed to gender and racial equality in the United States. She feels that, in the present economic situation, the inclusive democracy promised in the US Constitution is at stake, and she aims to broaden our thinking about home and to reimagine equality for the future.
After receiving her JD from Yale Law School in 1980, Hill worked as the attorney-advisor to Clarence Thomas at the US Department of Education. In 1991, she testified at the Senate confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas. She gained national exposure when her allegations of sexual harassment were made public. She is the author of Speaking Truth to Power, in which she wrote about her experience as a witness in the Thomas hearings. Hill has written widely on issues of race and gender in publications such as the Boston Globe, Critical Race Feminism, Newsweek, the New York Times, and others. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, Face the Nation, Meet the Press, and Today.
Alumna and former Radcliffe College trustee Maurine Pupkin Rothschild '40, who died in 2004, and her husband Robert Rothschild '39 established the annual Rothschild Lecture at the Schlesinger Library in 1989. Distinguished speakers in the series have included Angela Davis, Eve Ensler, Julio Frenk, Linda Greenhouse, Samantha Power, Adrienne Rich, Amartya Sen, Reva Siegel, and Maxine Singer.
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A man who was convicted of murder at just 11 years old is back behind bars and trying to give the judge some legal advice. Nathaniel Abraham is still the youngest person to be convicted of murder in the state of Michigan. He was released from jail over a decade ago but is back in trouble, this time for allegedly exposing himself in public. The now-32-year-old had promised to turn himself in for indecent exposure but never did and when police went looking for him, Abraham reportedly tried to run, leading to a struggle and him eventually getting tasered. Appearing in court through a jailhouse video link, Abraham seemed confused about why he was there, questioning the charges of assaulting an officer and resisting arrest. He started to go into detail about the indecent exposure case, as the judge tried to get him to stay silent - explaining the new assault charges, stemming from the officer incident. Source: Fox, Detroit, MI


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"You might," wrote my dissertation supervisor, "read Gershom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism and Martin Buber's Tales of the Hasidim. This might help you to understand Celan."
A year previously, Professor Heinz Politzer z"l, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, who was one of the leading teachers in the German department at Berkeley, had introduced me to the poems of Paul Celan and suggested I write my dissertation about him. Celan was a Jewish Holocaust survivor who wrote very beautiful but cryptic poems in German; I knew almost nothing about Judaism and was both fascinated and baffled by the poems. A few poems of my own came in response to them, but when it came to writing about them in academic prose my mind went blank. Now I had gone to Germany for a year in the vague hope that a change of place might inspire me. It didn't; but back in Berkeley Professor Politzer finally thought of suggesting those books to me, and that suggestion changed my life.
Those two books did eventually suggest an approach to Celan's work. They also started me on the path toward Judaism. And the Hasidic stories, especially, spoke to me as an apprentice poet, one uncertain of her poetic vocation and what it meant. The encounter gave rise, in fact, to a view of poetic practice which I've been trying to talk about ever since.
I had been writing poetry off and on since childhood and had always felt somehow that it was important for me to do so.
During my college years I had almost talked myself out of it, intimidated by the atmosphere of the literary world. But in Berkeley, where I did my graduate work in German literature (how I'd drifted into that is another story), I minored in counterculture. Among other things, this meant starting to write poetry again.
At that time (1964-68) I was one of many people who were writing poetry in Berkeley, for the most part not with a view to publication, but simply as a way of sorting things out in a chaotic social and spiritual environment. There were open mikes, but much of the poetry was just shared with friends. A short poem by one of my friends, Clark Bromberg, expressed the spirit of the poetry of that time and place:
You may like my poems or
you may not. But in any case they are
I'd stopped writing partly because I was worried about whether my poems were "good enough."
Everybody in the literary world worried about whether this or that poem was "good" (in some sense that was never quite defined). The editor of the Berkeley college poetry magazine almost took a few of my poems and then didn't, and explained to me when we met by chance some time later, "Your poems weren't borderline; we just couldn't decide whether they were good or not." Perhaps because Clark's little poem was somewhere in the back of my mind, I didn't feel altogether crushed.
At the same time, I began to sense that one's poems are not only "mine" but also "ours." A friend got me to audit a poetry class which met in the living room of a visiting professor (Peter Dale Scott). It was a group of eight or nine young men and women. Each of us had his or her own distinctive style; but in the course of the semester each of us, without imitating any of the others, seemed to expand and enrich his or her writing. I felt that I was building into my own poems various features that had struck me in the others' work.
As I think about it now, the class was a kind of "real-time" analog of a process that I was going through more deeply with the work of Paul Celan.
Most of the poems I wrote at that time were in some way responses to his, in a dialogue that has still not ended. But the class, I think, helped me to see this dialogue not in isolation but in the context of a conversation with many participants.
The class ended with the close of the spring semester of 1968, and the following fall I left for Europe. Of the people I knew who were writing poetry in the '60's, only two, as far as I know, became published poets. And their published poetry didn't speak to me like the things they had shared with friends. I myself have by and large resisted the call to keep "submitting" to editors whom I don't know and whose standards, judging by what they publish, are not mine. I don't believe in "persisting despite rejections." If you do that your poetry eventually gets shaped by what the editors will accept, which may have nothing to do with the reasons why you wanted to write poetry in the first place. My refusal has had a price; that I don't regret it, is partly due to my having read Tales of the Hasidim in Munich in 1968.
In Tales of the Hasidim I found the following anecdote:
A man had taken upon himself the discipline of silence and for three years had spoken no words save those of the Torah and of prayer. Finally the Yehudi sent for him. "Young man," he said, how is it that I do not see a single word of yours in the world of truth?"
"Rabbi, said the other to justify himself, "why should I indulge in the vanity of speech? Is it not better just to learn and to pray?"
"If you do that," said the Yehudi, "not a word of your own reaches the world of truth. He who only learns and prays is murdering the word of his own soul. What do you mean by 'vanity of speech'? Whatever you have to say can be vanity or it can be truth. And now I am going to have a pipe and some tobacco brought for you to smoke tonight. Come to me after the Evening Prayer and I shall teach you how to talk."
They sat together the whole night. When morning came, the young mans apprenticeship was over. (II, 228)[i]
I guess that passage must have reminded me of various sessions I had experienced in Berkeley, generally not with the aid of tobacco. But besides that, it gave me the idea that there is a "world of truth" to which every true word spoken by the individual contributes. ("But in any case they are/ mine.")
One of Celan's (and my) favorite poets, Osip Mandelstam, also seems to have had this sense of a poetic community.
His widow, Nadezhda Mandelstam, wrote:
The people M. referred to as "we" were those he continued to converse with all his life, even when they were no longer here. There were three of them–but apart from these three, there was also the whole world of poetry, which knew no bounds of time and space. It does not matter what place a poet has in it, however small it may be. The very smallest place — just a couple of successful lines, one good poem, one well-said word — entitles him to enter the fellowship of poets, to be one of "us," to partake of the feast. (…) The pass to poetry is granted only by faith in its sacred character and a sense of responsibility for everything that happens in the world.
Another Hasidic anecdote that struck me on that first reading was this one:
The Bird Nest
Once the Baal Shem stood in the House of Prayer and prayed for a very long time. All his disciples had finished praying, but he continued without paying attention to them. They waited for him a good while, and then they went home. After several hours when they had attended to their various duties, they returned to the House of Prayer and found him still deep in prayer. Later he said to them: "By going away and leaving me alone, you dealt me a painful separation. I shall tell you a parable.
You know that there are birds of passage who fly to warm countries in the autumn. Well, the people in one of those lands once saw a glorious many-colored bird in the midst of a flock which was journeying through the sky. The eyes of man had never seen a bird so beautiful. He alighted in the top of the tallest tree and nested in the leaves. When the king of the country heard of it, he bade them fetch down the bird with its nest. He ordered a number of men to make a ladder up the tree. One was to stand on the other's shoulders until it was possible to reach high enough to take the nest. It took a long time to build this living ladder. Those who stood nearest the ground lost patience, shook themselves free, and the whole thing collapsed." (I, 54)
This confirmed the sense I had acquired in Berkeley that poetry, for all the apparent solitude that envelops the act of composition, is also a communal effort.
In Berkeley, there had been a sense that in our conversations and our poems we were moving toward some kind of general clarification and repair of the world. On one level this sense was wildly mistaken, since we were actually engaged in wrecking the world by breaking down the fences of morality and cultivating expressiveness at the expense of consequential thought. But it has been said that sometimes a great spark comes to the world enveloped in an especially thick husk. There is a reason why the world still looks back with nostalgia to the '60's (see Ben Ackerman's recent novel Open When You Are), and I still hope that the husk will be cracked and the spark finally extracted.
Another perception that the Tales of the Hasidim confirmed for me had to do with the relation to one's predecessors and teachers. In the Western literary world there is a feeling that one must be "original," "go one's own way," that it is bad to be obviously influenced. Harold Bloom speaks of an "anxiety of influence" that prompts poets to conceal their debts to others; one has to do this, in his opinion, to be a "strong" poet. Now it was clear to me that in relation to Paul Celan I was never going to be a "strong" poet. Thus I found refreshing a saying attributed to Rabbi Mordecai of Lekhovitz:
The zaddik cannot say any words of the teachings unless he first links his soul to the soul of his dead teacher or to that of his teacher's teacher. Only then is link joined to link, and the teachings flow from Moses to Joshua, from Joshua to the elders, and so on to the zaddik's own teacher, and from his teacher to him. (I, 91)
Or this from Rabbi Barukh:
"He who wants to understand Abayyi's words must link his soul to the soul of Abayyi; then he will learn the true meaning of the words as Abayyi himself utters them. And after that, if he wants to understand Raba's words, he must link his soul to the soul of Raba. That is what is meant in the Talmud when we read: "When a word is spoken in the name of its speaker, his lips move in the grave." And the lips of him who utters the word, move like those of the master who is dead.
This reminded me the way Celan has of letting other writers come through him. In his "Meridian" speech especially, and in the poems associated with it, you feel their presences.
But Hasidism also addresses the question of the relationship to a living master, which was acute for me in 1968-1968.
Paul Celan at that time was still alive though not very well, residing in Paris, and I was expected to go and see him. This thought gave me a severe case of fear and trembling, which was not made easier by a general sense, in the academic world, that one was not supposed to feel awe. The teacher to whom I had been referred at the German university said to me something like "I don't like this attitude of discipleship toward Celan" – "disciple" being a word that could only be used with irony. So it was uncomfortable to read, while trying to gather courage for the interview with Celan, a saying like this one from Rabbi Mordecai Leib: "I did not go to the Maggid in order to hear Torah from him, but to see how he unlaces his felt shoes and laces them up again."
I've since gathered that Celan made many people feel a little as though they were in the presence of a tzaddik. But they had no experience of how to act toward a tzaddik; moreover, Celan himself, from what I have gathered, would have strongly disclaimed such a role — even as the poems pleaded to be taken seriously (puts the reader in a double-bind). One reason, I'm sure, was that he was deathly afraid of the phoniness which seems to attach in our time to anything that becomes public. And of course, from any Torah point of view, Paul Celan was no tzaddik at all; but like nearly all who encountered him in the literary world, I was approaching him from a place very far from Torah, and was sensing the Torah somewhere behind him!
From the point of view of Hasidism, Celan represents a link in a twice-broken chain.
He grew up in Czernowitz, and his mother came from the nearby town of Sadagora which was a Hasidic center. But his parents were no longer strictly observant, his mother was a devotee of the German classics, and so aside from what may have lingered in the atmosphere of his childhood, his knowledge of Hasidism stemmed mainly from Buber's anthology. And Buber likewise does not seem to have learned about Hasidism from a tzaddik and was not prepared to play that role. A friend of Celan's whom I met in Israel, David Seidmann z"l, told me that Celan had sent his first two books to Buber but received only a perfunctory response.
And yet Buber's collection includes one long anecdote, "The Impure Fire," which emphasizes the importance of learning Torah from a tzaddik one knows personally. In this story, a disciple of the Seer of Lublin stops in a small town and encounters a rav who says the prayers with unusual fervor. The disciple asks the rav if he has studied with a Hasidic master and the rav says no, he read about Hasidism from books. The disciple invites him to come with him to the Seer. The Seer receives them harshly and later explains to the disciple that in the rav he had seen that the image of G-d was "tainted." The fervor that comes from learning outside the context of a personal relationship is an "impure fire."
Why is it an "impure fire"?
One thing that comes to mind is an episode in Marcel Proust's The Search for Lost Time where a character weeps while reading about the symptoms of a certain disease but then turns around and treats a person actually suffering from those symptoms with cruelty. If one relates to the "virtual realities" of literature without engagement with the real other, one does not get out of one's own selfishness.
I did not fail to mention Tales of the Hasidim in my interview with Paul Celan in August, 1969; his response, however, was that he had attended Hebrew school, but only at his father's insistence: "I was a Communist!" And yet there were during the interview two or three moments when I felt that he was "operating" on my soul, as the tzaddik is often shown operating on the soul of the hasid. His friend Gerhard Baumann has left us a portrait of Celan that recalls the tzaddik's uncanny insight into others' destinies; and the late David Rokeach, a Hebrew poet who had known Celan, spoke to me of his "X-ray vision."
My guess is that on that day he was reading my mind with some accuracy. And yet I had a sense of a failure of communication. In the background there was the dialogue with the reader which the poems seek and establish; in the foreground there was a meeting between a prominent writer and a rather clueless dissertation student. I did not know what to say to him, could not even formulate a letter afterward although he had invited me to keep him informed of my progress. I felt paralyzed and had a terrible sense that I was failing him, which of course only deepened after his life ended tragically the following spring.
Leaving aside thoughts about what I could have said or should have said, I think that without that face-to-face meeting, it might not have been as clear to me that poetry is, in the end, a matter of life and death. Without the memory of a person with whom I had actually spoken, the words on the page might not have confronted me so starkly with the question: do we mean something to you or not? If not, what other words do mean something to you? We were written by someone who had sense of responsibility for everything that happens in the world; where is your sense of responsibility?
At bottom is the question of the relation to the word.
In the Western literary world there is a sense that the successful poet is the "master" of the words. He uses them to fashion works of art, but the words themselves are not binding on him nor on the reader. I had always felt vaguely uncomfortable with this, and so it was refreshing to read this saying, from the maggid of Mesritch:
"I shall teach you how to say Torah. You must cease to be aware of yourselves. You must be nothing but an ear which hears what the universe of the word is constantly saying within you. The moment you start hearing what you yourself are saying, you must stop." (I, 107)
That, it seems to me, is also the way one writes a poem. And this one:
Rabbi Moshe of Kobryn said:
"When you utter a word before God, then enter into that word with every one of your limbs."
One of his listeners asked: "How can a big human being possibly enter into a little word?"
"Anyone who thinks himself bigger than the word," said the zaddik, "is not the kind of person we are talking about." (II, 169)
And again:
In a sermon which Rabbi Mikhal once gave before a large gathering, he said: "My words shall be heeded." And he added immediately, "I do not say: 'You shall heed my words,' I say: 'My words shall be heeded.' I address myself too! I too must heed my words!" (I, 143)
When Celan speaks of his poetic practice, in "The Meridian," his words reveal a similar willingness to "go into" the word, to be carried by it, to be its listener as well as its speaker:
The poem is solitary. It is solitary and on its way. Whoever writes it remains given to it for the journey.
Along with the devotional attention to the "universe of the word," Celan shared that mistrust of aestheticism which distinguishes the writings of the Torah world from what we know as "literature."
One sabbath, a learned man who was a guest at Rabbi Barukh's table, said to him: "Now let us hear the teachings from you, rabbi. You speak so well (schön)!" "Rather than speak so well," said the grandson of the Baal Shem, "I should be stricken dumb." (I, 94)
Similarly, Celan wrote in a letter: "Es geht mir nicht um Wohllaut, es geht mir um Wahrheit (I am not interested in euphony, I am interested in truth)."
Only, of course, Celan as a poet could not resist giving even this utterance an aesthetic form, setting the liquid l and rounded vowels of Wohllaut against the harsher r and unrounded vowels of Wahrheit! And I heard from at least two of his fellow-Czernowitzers, whom I looked up afterward in Israel, that he was regarded as a leyts – that is, someone who does not take the word seriously. I think it was something like the situation with the counterculture: a mighty spark clothed in a very thick klippah.
As said, I had been writing poetry since childhood, but had largely stopped in my college years, due to self-doubt.
I had started again in Berkeley, as a way of sorting out my perceptions about what was going on there, and what had gone on in my own life to date. A sort of landscape of meanings began to take shape, composed of the people and things that had in some way spoken to me. It was a half-conscious process; but just before being introduced to Celan's poetry, I began to sense that it was leading me somewhere.
At the same time, I became conscious of a desire for community; I was very sick of living in a Darwinistic world. A friend of mine, a till-recently-Orthodox Jew, was trying to start a Utopian community, and for a time I was tentatively associated with this enterprise, which proved short-lived. He envisioned an association of small groups, each of which would be engaged in some small business enterprise. But there was no spiritual basis for the association, and no standard for resolution of the personal conflicts that inevitably arose.
In the encounter with Celan's work, the inner landscape which I had begun to explore – and which was, of course, composed of reflections of the outer world, seen in the light of the soul – opened onto the landscape of another human being. And this landscape, in turn, incorporated many other landscapes, those of the authors with whom Celan had in some way identified. It was a form of surveyorship.
Surveying, as you may know, is the process of map-making.
In its oldest and simplest form, two people stretch out and measure a line between them, and then each measures the angle between that line, and his or her line of sight to a common point in the distance. By simple geometry the length of the sides of the triangle, and hence the exact location of the distant point, can be determined, and from a number of such measurements the map is constructed. Surveying is used, among others, by geologists to map the outcroppings of different rock formations. My father a"h was a geologist, and my mother had been a student of geology, and in the first summer of their marriage they surveyed a certain area of New England together. For several years my father worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, which combined the maps made by many surveyors. The metaphor of surveyorship was built into my inner world.
Thus when I realized the significance of my encounter with Celan, I saw it as the start, so to speak, of a "poetical survey": people would put together their poetical observations, and they would add up to a picture of the world and of its possibilities for improvement. This, in my mind, was the practical application of Celan's second-to-last poem, which speaks of a "common truth" that needs "each grassblade."
I was soon reminded, however, that the idea of a common truth to which every individual insight contributes was very foreign to the literary world. Literary life in the Western world seems to go on under the shadow of an attitude expressed once and for all by the Roman poet Horace:
I have crafted a monument more lasting than bronze,
and loftier than the royal pile of the pyramids,
a thing which neither biting rain nor the obstreperous
North Wind can destroy, nor the countless run of years,
The flight of time.
I will not totally perish…
The poem, in short, as monument to the ego.
A Midrashic comment on monuments and statues (a propos of Cain as builder of cities) is, "That is the way the wicked immortalize themselves".
The problem with this attitude is not only that it is an expression of gaavah (pride), but that it prevents poets from being open to one another's words, to one another's worlds. The jealousy among poets is proverbial. One of the Russian poets once said he could tell a good poem by the stab of jealousy it caused him. Petrarch, the greatest poet of the generation after Dante, is said to have refused to read the Divine Comedy, because he didn't want to be influenced by it. The Hasidic tales, however, encouraged me to think that it doesn't have to be this way – that individuality does not need to mean dissociation from other individuals.
Rabbi Rafael asked his teacher: "Why is no face like any other?"
Rabbi Pinhas replied: "Because Man is created in the image of God. Every human being sucks the living strength of God from another place, and all together they make up Man. That is why their faces all differ from one another." (I, 127)
There is an archetypal pattern of which the individuals are different manifestations.
To the extent that each individual has the archetypal pattern imprinted in the depth of his soul and strive to represent it, community among individuals is surely possible. Another saying attributed to Rabbi Pinhas: "Let us be like the lines leading to the central point of the circle: all come to one point and unite there. But let us not be like the parallel lines which are always separate." (This one is from Louis I. Newman's Hasidic Anthology.) And in still another of Rabbi Pinhas' sayings:
Rabbi Pinhas explained: "Before the building of the tower (of Babel), all people had in common the holy tongue, but each people had its own language besides. That is why it is written: 'And the earth was of one language,' that is, the holy tongue, and 'of one speech' means that besides the holy language they had in common, each people had its own special tongue. This they used to communicate with one another, while the holy tongue was used between different peoples. When God punished them, he took away the holy tongue." (I, 134-135)
Coming to Buber's collection as a Western reader, I did not immediately understand that the phrase "the holy tongue" (lashon ha-Kodesh) ordinarily refers to Hebrew, and so I imagined a kind of trans-lingual language, a language of Understanding that would be to the individual languages as the Divine image is to each human face. And perhaps something like that was also intended.
Each person represents a potential unique realization of the common pattern.
Asked how the ordinary Jew was supposed to hope that his works would approach the works of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the maggid of Zlotchov replied:
Just as our fathers invented new ways of serving, each a new service according to his own character: one the service of love, the other that of stern justice, the third that of beauty, so each one of us in his own way shall devise something new in the light of the teachings and of service, and do what has not yet been done. (I, 147)
This belief in the poet's inalienable individuality can be distinguished from the quest for "originality" that often involves shutting oneself off from others' vision. The individuality of any poet is present from the first, like a fingerprint, a signature, even the "fist" of the Morse coder whom other Morse coders could learn to identify.
Rabbi Pinhas said: "When a man embarks on something great, in the spirit of truth, he need not be afraid that another may imitate him. But if he does not do it in the spirit of truth, but plans to do it in a way no one could imitate, then he drags the great down to the lowest level―and everyone can do the same." (I, 135)
As I conclude these reflections, some lines by Ezra Pound (not, on the whole, a friend) come to mind:
"Go, my songs […] Seek ever to stand in the hard Sophoclean light/ And take your wounds from it gladly." Sophocles, the great tragic poet of the Greeks. My question is: could there be a poetry that could stand in the light of the Hasidic tradition, and the Jewish tradition generally?
HaRav Kook believed that poetry would play an important role in the revived Jewish commonwealth, and in the redemption generally, but he stressed repeatedly that for his to happen poets and poetry would have to "sanctify themselves." Obviously this means avoiding certain types of content. But if I have seen aright, it also would mean a transformation of relationships among writers.
I feel an urgency about this, have felt it ever since Celan's death in 1970.
He seemed to me more than an individual; in its cryptic way his work sums up the Western tradition, you can hear it as a kind of parliament of those voices in the Western world that have carried that sense of responsibility Nadezhda Mandelstam speaks of. A lot of things contributed to his shipwreck: the trauma of the Holocaust, his distance from Torah and false position as a Jewish poet in the German literary world — but also the shrinking audience for poetry in technocratic society, which means that, as he put it, "no one bears witness/ for the witness." Over the next year, as I struggled to find a response, a poem in several parts called "Earthwake" took shape. It began:
All winter the scholars
kept their houses,
went out rarely, discussed
"the death of literature."
"The Death of Literature" was the title of a lecture given in the German department of the university where I'd started teaching in the fall in 1969.
To this day, it seems to me, most poets have not yet grasped the full implications for them of the media revolution. Still less, to my knowledge, does the Torah world perceive this as an area of major concern.
The traditional practice of poetry assumes an audience of friends and neighbors whose feelings and perceptions the poet crystallizes in verse. The poem is entertainment, but it is also a way of strengthening memory, concentration, imagination and empathy. Poetry is recited in school, in family gatherings, sung in the tavern and the marketplace, printed in the newspapers and the magazines. Regardless of the content, it helps people to stay in tune with one another, and so promotes the social dialogue. In this situation it is not fatal if poets compete and ignore one another. The community of readers absorbs their work and makes use of it for its own purposes, and on the whole tends to favor poems that strengthen social values.
The media, however, tend to transmit messages that are formulated not by members of the community for their neighbors, but by strangers who want to sell them things.
The media take over the function of entertainment, short-circuiting the imagination with strong stimuli. The person who listened to Homer's recitation of the Iliad, or who read Milton's Paradise Lost, had to imagine the scenes of battle or the drama of temptation. The person who watches an action film doesn't have to imagine anything. He or she has no ownership of what happens, and so it takes more and more violence to get any kind of response. Lately I went to a museum that showed a film about Jewish history. (These days more and more museums seem to be showing films.) The film was shown in a room with special benches that shook violently at portions of the film that were supposed to be especially moving. Apparently the story of the Jewish people in itself was no longer considered to be sufficiently moving.
It is common knowledge that while the computers and the media get more and more sophisticated, our language abilities have been declining. Our sages (following Aristotle) define man as medaber – the creature that speaks. Language, therefore, is the central human function. And poetry, the art that focuses on words and their inner meaning, is arguably its quintessence. The fact that so many people don't even see the use of poetry any more should be seen as a danger sign, no less than global warming.
In this situation it makes no sense for poets to see themselves as isolate creators competing for the attention of an audience that has vaporized.
They can't count on people choosing poetry over other forms of entertainment. Poetry needs to be chosen not as entertainment but as a way of preserving the tselem elokim. And poets need to see themselves those to whom something very important has been entrusted, and to see one another as partners in this guardianship.
In this task the inheritance of Hasidism, of mussar, of Pirkei Avot should be able to help us. Pirkei Avot, especially, can be read as a textbook on how speakers who have something important on their mind should treat one another. Mussar invites us to confront the particular forms in which the yetzer hara presents itself to poets specifically, and in doing so bring our craft to a new level. (For instance, the Russian poet mentioned above had learned to use the sting of jealously to identify and presumably to acknowledge good poems by others.)
I dream of the formation of chavurot of poets, committed to keep meeting, sharing, learning from one another and deepening their common vision, and reaching out to everyone concerned about the human future, to rebuild an audience on the basis of common concern. I dream of a reshaping of the poetic canon in the light of Torah values, whereby the best is gathered from the past to become the background for new utterances in its spirit. I pray that something like a guild of poets will yet take shape, dedicated both to producing poetry of ever higher quality, and of regaining poetry's place in the conversation that is society.
- [Related posts: "'An Invitation' and "Desperate Love for Pirkei Avot," "So Why Are We On the Internet, Anyway?"]
[i] Excerpts from TALES OF THE HASIDIM by Martin Buber, copyright © 1947, 1948, copyright renewed by Penguin Random House LLC. Used by permission of Schocken Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.


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Came across these charmers on the internet whilst doing some research on Brazilian football. I'm not sure of the date but I'm guessing by the style and the teams represented that it would be the 1920s? It seems that the set is not complete as of the famous Rio clubs Vasco and Fluminense are notably absent.
AméricaFormed in 1904, América were founder members of Liga de Football do Rio de Janeiro (1905)
Champions in 1913,1916,1922, 1928, and 1931.
AmericanoAmericano FC was founded on June 1st, 1914 , and was not connected with an earlier participant in the Carioca league, Sport Club Americano.
AndarahyAndarahy (based in the Andaraí area ) participated in the Liga de Football do Rio de Janeiro from 1916 until 1937.
Bangu Athletic ClubBangu were founder members of Liga de Football do Rio de Janeiro (1905).
BotafogoBotafogo were founder members of Liga de Football do Rio de Janeiro (1905).
They were champions in 1907 (joint), 1910, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935.
CR Flamengo
The football branch of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo was founded in 1911 by dissatisfied Fluminense members. One of the biggest club teams in World football, they were Carioca Champions in 1914,1915,1920,1921,1925, and 1927.
Not an error- this is not the great Paulista club Palmeiras, who at this time were known as Palestra Italia. This Palmeiras was a modest Rio club who competed in the lower divisions of the Campeonata Carioca.
São Cristóvão Atlético ClubeSão Cristóvão Atlético Clube was founded in 1909, The modern incarnation, São Cristóvão de Futebol e Regatas, did not come into being until 1943 via a merger. The original São Cristóvão AC were Champions of Rio in 1926.
Mackenzie was founded in 1914 and competed in the Campeonato Carioca in the early 1920s. They won the title in 1923 and abandoned top football with the rise of professionalism.
Vila IsabelFounded in 1912 the proletarian club Vila Isabel competed in the second tier of the Campeonato Cariocas from 1917 to 1923 and again from 1926 to1928.


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One Bad Deal
Season 1 • Episode 2
A bar brawl threatens not only Shawn's health but the Christine Rose's future. The Wild Ranger's luck is getting worse as they're down a man and have sprung a leak. The Sluicey's Ian calls in a friend who offers both experience and criticism.
43 min|TV-14|Premiered 02/04/2012


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Here's a fun fact - a lot of firefighters apparently cannot stand pork meat because the smell of burning human meat is apparently very similar to that of pork. Hmm, who would have thought. Maybe if PETA used that fact first, they'd get a better reaction. I'm sure Americans would still not give a shit about animal rights, but at least that'll make them stop for a second before they put some bacon in their mouth. To be honest, I'm there with them. Check out Peta's latest adventure in trying to scare us into not eating meat.
I missed yesterday's PETA's anti-meat demonstration on the Country Club Plaza, but the animal rights organization sent over a few photos of nearly naked women wrapped in cellophane on a tray ... just like a KC strip.
Something is wrong with those girls. I mean, they look hot as hell. And I don't mean as a form of objectification. I mean, seriously. Look at them. That must be hard to do in such harsh sunlight. But now that I mention it, for being dead, their hair looks terrific!
I hear erotic asphyxiation is making a come back these days and is the bees knees. I wonder if there's room for two in there? Oh, what am I talking about. That meat should be gutted, dehaired and irradiated before I'll allow myself to heat it in the microwave and slowly thrust my cock into it so I can watch the lukewarm juices drip down my leg... I mean.. whaaaaaaa?
Oh! You better cover that titty, girl. Don't want to be too controversial now. I mean, really. If you're going to get naked and put into a comically over sized meat package covered in blood and sit out in the sun for all to see, don't cover your boobs with your arm and think you have preserved anything resembling dignity. You haven't. You might as well let those girls fly out free... just like nature intended. Let 'em hang out. Be proud. You are woman, show me your titties.
I mean, naked chicks under saran wrap.. that's like the basis of a joke created some time prior to 1959. Way to be part of the patriarchy. The asshole in me thinks that if I saw this in person, I would be buying a sack full of fast food burgers for me and my friends to eat standing over and ogling at them. I mean come on, let's not go waaaah waaaah waaah and baaaw baaaaw baaaaw over some dumb animals.
I'm not sure I get the point of this. Someone should tell Peta we aren't cannibals. Though now that they bring it up, maybe I would like to try some cannibalism. Maybe it's just to guilt you into thinking about how you're killing animal families.
I hope you sit down and think real hard, mister. Just think about how that chicken you had for dinner last night was some other chicken's daughter! Then again.. the green beans I ate it with had parents too... I'm a monster! Maybe that's why I eat chicken and eggs together. So that I'm not leaving orphans.
I mean, what do they really want? Should we give animals rights? Maybe we should just so I can vote a dog into office. I can't wait to see the presses now; President Rex defecated in Putin's office today during a meeting for nuclear disarmament, further straining US-Russia relations. Possibly the worse is when people force their vegetarianism on their pets. Now that's gotta be the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. Then again, we know PETA's motto.
"animals aren't objects, but women are" - PETA
I mean, why does Peta need to get so crazy for anyway, what the average American consume thinking is meat is mostly corn filler and entrails anyway. It's equal to eating a tofurkey. So why bother doing it? Does this make anyone not want to eat meat? Doubtful. If anything it just makes folks not want to have period sex.


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It is that time of year again Texans! Time for the Texas State Fair! Starting today and running through October 23 at Fair Park in Dallas, patrons will get to experience the best state fair in the country. If you and your crew are headed down to the fair soon, our blog will show you all the events and activities that will be there! Read on for a run down of what to do this year at the Texas State Fair!
What to Do?
The best thing about the fair is that it runs for three weeks. So that means if you don't get to do all you want at the fair one day, you can always come back for more! Here is a list of things that are avilable to do at the state fair
- College Football Games - Each weekend at the Cotton Bowl, which resides in the middle of the fairgrounds, there will be a college football game! The biggest game of course is the Univeristy of Texas against the University of Oklhaoma in the Red River Rivalry.
- Live Music- Live music will be going on all the time out at the fair, check the schedule for details on who is playing and when!
- Exhibits- Tons of exhibits will be on display that will appeal to both adults and children alike.
- Food- The food is one of the best things at the Texas State Fair. Fried oreos, fried coke and more are just some of the weird but amazing combinations people come up with. Check out some of the new menu items this year here!
- Fun- Attractions and carnival rides will be plentiful as this is one of top family activities to do this fall!
How Much is it?
The Texas State Fair is very afforable for what it is. If you buy your tickets online, you can save a ton of money as well. Here are some prices and packages that are offered at the Fair this year:
- General Admission - $16
- Kids 48" and under - $12
- Kids 2 and Under- FREE
- Senior Ticket for 60+ - $12
- Family 4 pack- Includes 4 General Admission tickets & $50 food/ride coupon pack- $99
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It's time to check your refrigerators. Sargento Foods Inc. has actually just released a huge recall of 7 cheeses due to a prospective contamination from listeria monocytogenes. The company confirms no illnesses have been reported yet.
Listeriosis is a severe infection contracted by eating food contaminated with bacteria. An estimated 1,600 individuals get contaminated each year– and about 260 die. The germs is most damaging to pregnant females, babies, grownups aged 65 or older, and individuals with weakened body immune systems.
Sargento is continuing to closely keep an eye on and collect details from their provider, based in Middlebury, Ind. The provider apparently informed Sargento Food Inc. that a specialty Longhorn Colby cheese it supplied had actually possibly been polluted and had to be remembered.
The business continues to respond to their customers and provide reimbursements. If you acquired cheese, you can call 1-800-CHEESES or email the company via the Contact page on their website.
- Sargento Ultra Thin Slice Longhorn Colby
- Sargento Chef Blends Shredded Nacho & Taco Cheese
- Sargento Slice Colby-Jack Cheese
- Sargento Slice Pepper Jack Cheese
- Sargento Chef Blends Shredded Taco Cheese
- Sargento Off The Block Shredded Fine Cut Colby-Jack Cheese
- Sargento Off the Block Shredded Fine Cut Cheddar Jack Cheese
No other Sargento branded products were affected by this recall.
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Zimbabwe Army Takes Over Power, Denies It's a Coup
Zimbabwe's military has seized state TV, saying it is targeting people close to President Robert Mugabe for causing "social and economic suffering".
A statement read out by a general on air denied it was a coup and said Mr Mugabe was safe, but did not say where.
The Zimbabwe Defense Forces will guarantee the safety of Mugabe, 93, and his family and is only "targeting criminals around him who are committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice," Major-General Sibusiso Moyo said in a televised address in Harare, the capital. All military leave has been canceled, he said. Mugabe is preparing to step down, Johannesburg-based News24 reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the situation.
Denying that the action was a military coup, Moyo said "as soon as we have accomplished our mission we expect the situation to return to normalcy." He urged the other security services to cooperate and warned that "any provocation will be met with an appropriate response."
Heavy gun and artillery fire could be heard in northern parts of the capital Harare early on Wednesday.
The army action comes after Mr Mugabe sacked Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, amid a row over succession.
There was no immediate word from Mr Mugabe but Zimbabwe's envoy to South Africa, Isaac Moyo, said the government was "intact".
Mr Mugabe, 93, has dominated the impoverished country's political scene since independence from the UK in 1980.
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Do you feel embarrassed every time you laugh? Are you afraid to let yourself smile? When you aren't happy with your teeth, it can be difficult to relax and be yourself. That's why doing what you can, to have whiter teeth is so important. Here are some suggestions on how to get your teeth sparkling.
For immediate results, visit a professional teeth whitening service. These only entail a few visits to the dentist, and you will have white, bright teeth. The methods that a dentist uses are different than what you can buy in stores. These methods are quicker and more effective.
When you are going through a teeth whitening process, you may experience sensitivity. Sensitivity during the whitening is very common. The sensitivity should disappear within a day or two after the process is over. If you have continued sensitivity, you should consult with your dentist about the problem that you are having.
Some fruits will make your teeth whiter. Oranges and strawberries are great for whiter smiles. Make a strawberry paste and apply it to your teeth for five minutes to make your teeth whiter. You can simply rub a orange peel on your teeth to whiten them.
Use a tooth-whitening toothpaste, but don't expect miracles on badly discolored teeth. Tooth whitening toothpaste does not bleach teeth, so it can't remove existing stains. But it does help remove much of the plaque on your teeth, and can remove staining chemicals before they have a chance to discolor those pearly whites.
When using a teeth whitening kit be sure to follow the directions exactly as they are written. Do not think that if you leave it on longer that you are going to see better results. It can irritate your gums and could lead to some really serious problems down the road. The directions are there to be followed.
Watch for tooth sensitivity when using tooth whitening products. Many of these products can irritate the gums or cause your teeth to become unusually sensitive to cold. If you notice these effects becoming troublesome, stop using the product. You may not tolerate it well, and it could even be damaging your teeth.
Pay close attention to the state of your mouth when using at-home teeth whitening products. For some people these treatments can cause temporary, mild tooth sensitivity. If you are using a product with a tray that does not fit your mouth well this can irritate your gums. Discontinue the treatments if you experience discomfort or pain.
To keep your teeth white, be sure to use a straw when you are drinking beverages with high levels of acidity. The acidity in beverages, like sodas or sports drinks, can affect the color of your teeth, but the straw acts as a barrier. This will not change the color of your teeth overnight and if your teeth are already stained it will not take off the stain. It will help to prevent more discoloration.
If you are looking for an easy way to get a whiter, brighter smile, then you should try using teeth whitening strips. These strips are a convenient way to get your smile looking great because they are so easy to use. These strips contain peroxide, which help to clean the outside of your teeth.
Brush your teeth at least twice a day. It might seem like an obvious thing to do, but most people neglect to brush their teeth as well or as often as they should. If you don't bother to brush your teeth properly, they are unlikely to remain as white as you would like.
Drink less tea and coffee. Tea and coffee are both horrible for your teeth. They stain them, leaving them slightly brown or dull. Try to cut down on your tea and coffee consumption. If you do not want to cut back, rinse your mouth out thoroughly after you are done drinking.
If you're considering having your teeth whitened, talk to your dentist first. While some stains and discoloration are easily treated by bleaching, others won't respond as well. Bleaching also won't work if you have caps, crowns, or similar types of dental work. Discussing teeth whitening with your dentist will prepare you for potential problems and help you figure out the best way to treat your teeth.
Avoid teeth whitening if you are pregnant or nursing. The chemicals used for the whitening process may be safe to put in your mouth, but they could be potentially harmful to your little one. Consult with your physician and your dentist before you attempt any process during your pregnancy and nursing periods.
If you have crowns, you need to know that they will not whiten the same way your teeth do. If you have visible crowns, your teeth can present themselves as unevenly colored. Try talking to your dentist to discover how you can keep your smile looking consistent, while still achieving white teeth.
An effective way to get rid of teeth discoloration and make your teeth whiter, consider getting veneers. With veneers, a white-colored tooth covering is placed on top of the discolored teeth, giving them a sparkly appearance. Not only is this method, safe but it is even covered by certain insurance.
For whiter teeth at home, try doing a baking soda brushing once a week. This helps remove stains and it helps whiten your teeth. Brush like you would with toothpaste, but you replace the toothpaste with the baking soda. You can use it as an alternative to toothpaste too. If it irritates gums, try using salt.
It is unsafe to whiten your teeth with hydrogen peroxide. Not only is it unsafe to use, but it can actually cause more discoloration on your teeth or make them two different colors. It is prudent to avoid products that contain this chemical.
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The Midwife's Sister: The Story of Call The Midwife's Jennifer Worth by her sister Christine
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This is an interesting read for anybody who loved the television series Call the Midwife. Christine and Jennifer had a traumatic childhood that left emotional scars which would last all their lives. Although trained as midwives, the sisters gravitated to the arts, but the long shadows cast by their childhood neglect lingered and they found out too late how great was their love for each other.


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~ Shadows ~
Lifeless shadows were wondering around the town. They had got tired of being nothing but just a shadow. So, they decided to bring a new dimension to their existence. One was named P & the other was T.
Together P.T ventured out of the city to have their own identity.
9:00 pm
P: Let's Go to the Brightest part of the city. We will be unique and we will have the biggest cast.
T: But what if the lights are too bright ? We will have a transparent death!
P: Ohhh …. don't you worry about that. I got plans in mind.
P.T went inside a happening lounge & decided they will cast themselves on the biggest wall possible.
People were having their usual part of entertainment but right then something grabbed everyone's attention.
P.T grew with hope as all heads turned around. P.T got excited & realized perhaps time was changing. And just as P.T were about to voice their presence, someone from the crowd yelled,
"Holy Lord! Its Jason!!"
and the entire troop of people dashed towards the hallway. The Town's Most Popular Singer had arrived.
And as usual P.T became invisible to everyone & no one bothered about them.
11:00 pm :
P: Are you tired T?
T: No P but why ..
P: I got another plan .
T: Go on…
With each other's back, this time they headed towards the most Darkest alley of the town.
A young sweet Girl was heading towards them.
Both of them decided to take cover. The girl was nearing them being unknown of what was in store for her.
P.T were getting ready and decided that that was it. They had realized that the best way for them to gain people's attention was by
scaring them.
With each step of the girl, P.T's anxiety were topping up.
P geared his wits, closed his eyes and took a deep breathe.
After 5 mins.
There was a long awkward silence…. P quickly opened one eye and saw T was doing the same too. Both of them glanced out and the girl was nowhere to be seen.
In the long dark alley there was no sign of her going either of the ways.
With a silent agreement, both of them looked at each other's panicked shadows & without a thought sprinted away from there.
12:00 pm:
With dismay, both of them were lying hopelessly on the sea.
T: You think she was a ghost ?
P: Obviously not.
T: then why did you run away?
P: aaaahhh… I changed my plan..
T: annnddd that is ??
P: See T, leave that. Listen I guess we are doing it all wrong. Why do you need attention from anyone?
T: I don't know perhaps because we are lonely.
P: hhmm… I'm not lonely..
T: huh ??
P: I have you T.
T: yeah that's me.
P: Exactly ! So, we don't need anyone.
T: Damn, that's perfect…. So, I guess I can sleep now. I'm glad,
I don't have a reason to sulk anymore. Thanks P.
P: You're always welcome T.
T: By the way P, I was just thinking… you interested for any weekend movie? I promise I will buy the tickets.
P: haha… SURE. but you don't need to, Bro… We will watch this for free …
T: huh?? how??
P: I got a plan, so don't fray.
T: aaaa… I get you, the Shadow way…
P: hahaha ….Goodnight bro…
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Stone and Parker - Targets of Corporate Scientology
The following internal Corporate Scientology memorandum is being published as part of a series that exposes the standard operating pattern and methodologies of the Office of Special Affairs (OSA the harassment and terror network of Corporate Scientology). Hubbard once noted the truism that that which one knows the technology of he cannot be the adverse effect of. So it behooves those who have decided to expose and reform the beast to know a little about the tactics it employs to combat such efforts.
To this day OSA operates mainly on Cold War era intelligence and propaganda techniques much like those of the CIA, the FBI, the KGB, and STASI of the fifties and sixties. Their main activity entails stifling criticism by an escalating gradient of techniques beginning with quiet investigation and moving up to infiltration, identification of and use of influential friends and contacts of the target, loud investigation, threats, attempts to harm the target financially, intense propaganda to discredit and ultimately, if all else fails, utter destruction of the target through overt harassment. While in this age of information many OSA operations result in epic failures, the well-heeled if desperate cult continues to muzzle many a would-be reformer and news agency.
In 06 the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, became targets of Corporate Scientologys OSA. Operations were run in an attempt to silence Parker and Stone. While Corporate Scientology was ultimately unsuccessful, left behind an instructive data trail during their efforts.
16 April 2006 Report by Commanding Officer Office of Special Affairs (Corporate Scientology harassment agency, also known as OSA)(Parenthetical notations added)
Re: South Park
Eric Sherman (then-corporate Scientologist writer), who is good friends with Lloyd Kaufman (independent film maker), contacted him about South Park. Kaufman knows Trey Parker and Matt Stone and has been friends with them for years. As regards their attack on Scientology, Kaufman felt that this is the same thing they do to everyone. He said that they consider that what they do is satire and that they attack anyone or any group without any regard for who they are or what they are. They love it when they get some reaction. This week they created a new flap when they were going to show a picture of the prophet Mohammed but were censored from doing so by Comedy Central. (This was covered in the press Comedy Central was criticized for being hypocritical, i.e., they allowed South Park to show Jesus defecating on an American flag and George Bush, but not to show an image of Mohammed. This upset Christians in particular the Catholic League.)
To find a direct line into Stone and Parker some of their friends have been identified. One is Matthew Prager, who has been a friend since 1991. He worked with them as a writer on a show called, Thats My Bush which Parker and Stone created. Prager said he worked in executive positions at Disney, MTV and finally, at HBO, before shedding his tie for blue jeans at Thats My Bush.
Another is John Stamos who is best friends with Matt Stone. Apparently his ex-wife, Rebecca Romijn, is also good friends with Stone. Rebecca is a former supermodel and currently has her own TV show. In 2000s X-Men, she had her first major movie role as Mystique and returned to the role in the 2003 sequel.
David Goodman is another friend of Parker and Stone. He was in college with them and has co-written some of the South Park episodes with them.
These connections are being PRCd. (PRC = Public Records Check an intense collection of every public record available on the target)
There are some strings that will be pulled on the PRC on Stone. Otherwise the special collections (covert information gathering such as trash collection, purchased phone records, hacked airline reservations, purchased bank records) will be debugged in order to get some viable strings that can be pulled.
It is clear that this investigation is not going anywhere and DCOE (D/Commanding Officer External OSA) is getting it debugged.
Village Voice coverage:
Scientology Targeted South Park's Parker and Stone in Investigation (UPDATED) - New York News - Runnin' Scared
TV Guide coverage:
South Park Creators Investigated By the Church of Scientology? - Today's News: Our Take | TVGuide.com
Huffington Post coverage:
Church Of Scientology Investigated 'South Park' Creators Matt Stone, Trey Parker: Report
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Yahoo News:
The Church Of Scientology Dug Through Trey Parker And Matt Stone's Trash Looking For "Vulnerabilities" - Yahoo! Finance
Advocate.com coverage:
Scientologists Investigate South Park Creators Over Tom Cruise Episode | News | The Advocate
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Your love for coffee and beans is not hidden from anyone. Likely, you would take a bag of coffee bean and make fresh coffee drink from it is that you like to drink it fresh. But, can you really distinguish between quality beans and those that may not qualify as the best? After all, it is quite possible that you might end up committing a mistake when identifying the beans. It is possible, but is there a way to avoid committing the mistake? After all, a slight mistake can cause you a loss and waste of time. There are ways to avoid wasting time and money on purchasing substandard coffee beans.
There are several ways that you can tell if the coffee beans you have bought are fresh or not, but some buyers don't pay attention. The fact is that you need to keep an eye on minor details to know if the beans are worth buying or not. Here, by looking at the packing offered by the coffee beans supplier in Dubai, you can judge the quality of beans. Though it is highly recommended that you open the bag and check the beans before buying, you must realize that the quality of the bags used for packing the beans is a sign that the beans are top quality.
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Coffee beans are packed very carefully and the bags in which they are packed are specially prepared. These bags are designed to keep the beans away from moisture. Scientifically, you can keep coffee beans fresher for a long time by keeping the moisture. Coffee beans that end up absorbing moisture are likely become dark, soft and lose taste.
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|February 1989
March 1989
|April 1989
League Members' Discussion Meeting
President's Message (Arlene Ellis)
500-foot Height Limit for Downtown Honolulu? -- Some Pros and Cons (Astrid Monson)
Sources and Uses of City Funds
Proposed Budget 1989-90
Nominating Committee Report
Annual Meeting
Urgent! Help Needed for Vote Count
Senate Resolution
Women's Equality -- Women's Lives
President's Message
The LWVUS is launching a major "ADVOCATE FOR THE VOTER" campaign in an effort to put the voters back in control of the electoral system and reestablish a strong base for American democracy.
Voting is the most basic and most important act that a citizen performs in a democracy. Yet barely half of all eligible citizens exercised their right to vote in the last election, making this the lowest participation rate in 64 years. The US has the worst participation record among the world's major democratic systems--a national embarrassment.
With all the work and money expended by our election officials, we in Hawaii saw little change in our voting numbers. Why was this? One of the key reasons is the restrictions placed on voter registration. In States such as ours, access to voter registration is difficult--where a citizen must go to certain locations during specific hours to register in person. The Lieutenant Governor's efforts to pass legislation to enable voter registration by mail is a necessary first step to increase voter participation. When people are registered, they do vote. In presidential elections, 80-90% of registered voters exercise their right.
The LWVUS is pushing to enact HR 15, Representative Al Swift's NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION ACT. The key element of HR 15 is the "motor voter" provision. Whenever an eligible voter applies for, renews or changes address on a driver's license or non-driver ID card, the person will automatically be registered to vote. To include those who are less likely to have a driver's license, such as people with low incomes or disabilities, HR 15 also provides for mail registration and for registration at governmental and nongovernmental agencies. Public assistance and unemployment compensation offices must be included in these registration programs.
The other elements in HR 15 include a voter registration deadline of 25 days before the election and anti-purging, where citizens may not be removed from voter lists unless they fail to vote in two consecutive Presidential elections and all intervening state and federal elections.
League feels that HR 15 can be improved in several ways. First, voters should not be purged from registration lists for not voting. Voting is a basic right of citizenship--a right that should not be abridged because it is not exercised. Second, the League supports election day registration. The 25 day deadline is too long, and certainly a 10-day deadline is not too short.
Let's make a concerted effort to push this first step in the "ADVOCATE FOR THE VOTER" campaign by calling or writing our Representatives Dan Akaka (2301 Rayburn House Office Bldg, Wn D. C. 20515, Ph. 202-225-4906, or 808541-1986) and Pat Saiki (1407 Longworth House Office Bldg, Wn D. C. 20515, 202-225-2725 or 808-541-2570.)
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Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon. /Susan Sarandon/
Daily stress accumulates in our muscles and you keep carrying it on your shoulders. You feel a physical and emotional pressure on your body. I suggest you to get rid of this load in two steps:
- Do a Body scan or progressive muscle relaxation meditation
- Do a Love energy meditation to free your mind and to feel happy
Let's start with the Body scan. Just close your eyes and imagine…
First make a tour in your mind and think of the major things that cause you stress. It is necessary to be aware of what you are getting rid of.
Second – feel whole of your body and determine the places where your muscles are tight. Imagine how your energy flows all over your body and visualize the tight muscle areas. These parts have a different color. You will scan all the body but you'll make a special attention to these places. Here you will repeat the release several times.
Third – start the Body scan with a Releasing wave. You will guide the wave all over your body. Imagine it as a wave of energy that passes under your muscles from toes up to your body. It passes each muscle by releasing it. The wave goes smooth where the muscles are not tight. And it gives more force and goes slower to release the tight muscles.
Start with the right toe, make more attention to the feet, move slowly up on your right leg. Give more attention where needed, repeat the wave as many times as you need to feel relax. Continue with the left toe up to leg. Probably you will need more energy to your back, go through the lowest back muscles from the right side first, repeat the wave even three or four times, than do it on the left side and move up. Do the same in the middle of your back, in the upper side, on your neck. Go through your right arm, than left arm. End the body scan with your head, do well the neck side muscles and your face.
Enhance Your Happiness by Love meditation
Now your stress is released from the muscles. If you feel that you need to continue with the second step – Love energy meditation – you can follow it in my previous article Take the Pure Love Energy of the Universe. /Imagine yourself in the universe, floating above our planet, you are in the dark sky filled with colorful, shiny Love energy flows. These Love flows are filling You, as a part of the universe. You feel the warm, slow loving energy coming into your body…/
If the Body scan was enough for now, you can make the Love meditation the next time. Once you have done, you must feel satisfied, You have left more space in your body for the positive energy and happiness.
If you have tried out this meditation and if you would like to discuss it, Share your experience with us in comments or by sending me a private e-mail.
Please share the post and write in a comment or e-mail me – what is your favorite meditation? Thank You so much!