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Before Becoming a Believer (by Penkhae Noble) ชีวิตก่อนที่จะมาเชื่อในพระเยซู
- I am from a Buddhist family and my Mom used to be a spirit medium.
- Some of our relatives on my Dad's side were jealous of my Mom. They used witchcraft against my Mom. They wanted my family to separate. At that time my family did not have any peace.
- Many times my Mom complained that she had to pay a lot of money for witchdoctors who could protect her from the witchcraft against her, and curse those who sent it. The help she got from witchdoctors did not last long. One day I looked at the sky and wondered if there was anyone who could help my Mom to be free from this battle and permanently free. That's how I thought as a child.
- When I became a teenager my Mom sent me to study in Bangkok (from Suphanburi), so that I would be far from my Dad's relatives. That was a time that I had many friends and activities, and studying was fun. At that time I did not think about going to the temple to make merit unless I went home to see my Mom. But, I thought I was a good person in society who did not make problems for anyone. Sometimes I lied though. Sometimes I was selfish. I did not think about Christianity at all at that time and did not believe in God, but I believed there were spirits.
- When I was a freshman in university I joined a Christian club, because I had a friend who was a Christian. That friend talked a lot about God until I felt bored of his many words. He gave me a Thai New Testament and also invited me to go to church many times until I felt like I could not refuse. But, I went because just out of politeness, not out of any real interest. When I went to the church I didn't like it, because they tried to pressure me to believe. They let me partake of communion also, even I did not yet believe and didn't know the meaning of communion. When I went to church my Buddhist friend made fun of me. Those friends were both straight people as well as ladyboys. I felt embarrassed, but kept going to church out of politeness.
I prayed before meals following the advice of my Christian friend, but when I did so with my Buddhist friends, they took my food while I prayed. After that I thought I won't pray before meals anymore. I thought if this is what it means to be a Christian, then I don't want it.
- After that experience I felt angry and threw the Bible that my friend gave me into the garbage. When I threw the Bible as hard as I could, I yelled, "I don't want to see this again in this life!" 10 years passed by...
- My Buddhist belief was basic. I was not a strong or active Buddhist. I went to the temple to make merit because I wanted blessings. Or, sometimes I made merit because I thought it would help me in my next life. If I paid respect to monks or to idols it did not give me any answer or hope that could guarantee success. I lost money to the temple because of the belief that it would accumulate merit for me. Sometimes I went with my Mom to see spirit mediums. I thought if that's a good way, then I would join with them, too, but it didn't help me.
At that time I had some problems and it made me disappointed in my life. I felt alone with problems that seemed as large as mountains and no one could help me lift these mountains. I spent my life without hope and I felt bored and I did could not see which way to go for my future.
One day I went to study for my master's degree, and on the bus there was a free seat near a window, so I sat there. I looked out the window and was bored. There was a lot of traffic that day and some people left the bus before their stop, because they didn't want to wait. A foreigner came to sit next to me, but I didn't pay much attention. Then that person asked me how to pronounce a Thai word. I looked and saw that it was a Bible. I thought to myself, "Another Christian?!" But, I answered his question and he gave me a Jesus VCD. I put the VCD in my bag.
About one month later, I had some free time and found the VCD in my bag and watched it. From the video I understood a little bit about Jesus' life, but didn't understand His significance for my spiritual life.
I kept in communication with that foreigner by e-mail and when he came to visit Bangkok he would give me a Christian book and invite me to church, but he did not speak too much or pressure me. I felt good that I was not pressured. Then I became more open to seek God.
I searched for a church near my apartment so I could go by myself. At that time I didn't understand why Christians always like to talk about God and Jesus. I went to church every week and they invited me to join a Bible study.
Before I decided to become a Christian I challenged God without thinking about it much, "If God is real then make me go to a prayer meeting on a Wednesday evening." I was not willing to go, and I didn't think God could overcome my resistance.
I received a book called, "I Dared to Call Him Father" from that foreigner. When I read the book it really touched my heart. When I read the book it reminded me of all of God's dealings with me in the past and how I resisted God. It made me understand my sin, and why I needed Jesus. I realized that I live in a country where we have freedom to choose any religion. But, the person in the book I read about had to be willing to die for the truth that Jesus is the only one who could save her. This story made me feel very sad that I had refused God. So, when I finished reading the book, the first thing I thought about was that I wanted to get a Bible so I could get to know God better. I remembered the time that I threw the Bible away and I cried. I wanted to get a Bible on that day. Where could I get one? I tried to find a Christian bookstore, but couldn't find one. Finally, it was getting late, and I decided to go to church to ask the pastor for one. When I got to the church, I heard a worship song, and I remembered that this was the Wednesday prayer meeting! I remembered how I challenged God.
I surrendered to God and confessed that I believe in Him! That day I asked the pastor to lead me in prayer to become a Christian. She was surprised and happy at the same time. I joined the prayer meeting and was given a Bible. I went home very happy.
When I became a believer my Dad wondered why I went to church every Sunday. It made my Dad upset. He told me if I am a Christian I should not call him my Dad anymore. I listened to him, but kept going to church. I prayed for God's help. Then I got married to the foreigner from the bus! My Dad no longer complained, but let me be a Christian as my husband was a Christian. About five years after that my Dad became a Christian, too.
- ฉันเติบโตมาจากครอบครัวที่เป็นชาวพุทธ และมีแม่เป็นคนทรงเจ้า
- แม่ถูกอิจฉาจากพี่น้องของฝ่ายพ่อ พวกเขาจึงใช้วิธีไสยศาสน์ทำร้ายแม่ และพวกเขาต้องการให้ครอบครัวของฉันแตกแยกด้วย ในตอนนั้นทุกคนในครอบครัวไม่มีความสุขกันเลย
- ในหลายๆครั้งฉันได้ยินแม่บ่นว่าต้องสิ้นเปลืองเงินเพื่อจะไปหาคนที่แก้ไสยศาสน์ได้ แต่ก็ช่วยได้ไม่นาน ไสยศาสน์ก็กลับมาอีกครั้งวนเวียนไม่รู้จักจบสิ้น จนวันหนึ่งฉันนั่งมองท้องฟ้าแล้วก็นึกในใจว่า "จะมีใครไหมที่สามารถช่วยแม่ให้พ้นจากไสยศาสน์นี้ได้อย่างแท้จริง โดยที่ไม่ต้องวนเวียนอยู่แบบนี้อีก" นั่นเป็นเพียงความคิดในวัยเด็กของฉัน
- เมื่อฉันโตเป็นวัยรุ่นแม่ส่งฉันให้มาเรียนที่กรุงเทพฯพร้อมกับพี่ชายที่มาก่อนหน้านั้น เพื่อให้ไกลจากญาติทางฝั่งพ่อ ตอนนั้นเป็นช่วงที่มีเพื่อนๆเยอะ มีกิจกรรมให้ทำมากมาย เรียนสนุก การไปวัดทำบุญของฉันถือว่าน้อยมาก หรืออาจเรียกได้ว่าไม่ไปเลยถ้าไม่ได้กลับบ้านหาแม่ที่สุพรรณ แต่ฉันก็ยังคิดว่าฉันเป็นคนดีของสังคมคนหนึ่ง ที่ไม่ได้สร้างความเดือดร้อนให้ใคร มีบ้างที่โกหก ศาสนาคริสต์ในเวลานั้นถือว่าไม่ได้อยู่ในความคิดเลย ไม่เคยสนใจเลย ไม่เชื่อว่ามีพระเจ้าด้วย
- จนวันที่ฉันได้เรียนต่อที่มหาวิทยาลัยปี1 ฉันเข้าชมรมที่เป็นคริสเตียนเพราะพี่ปี2ชวนฉันมาเข้าฉันจึงมีเพื่อนที่เป็นคริสเตียนที่เพิ่งรู้จักกัน ทุกครั้งที่เขาเจอฉันเขาจะพยายามชวนฉันไปโบสถ์ พยายามชวนพูดเรื่องพระเจ้า จนฉันรู้สึกเบื่อหน่าย รู้สึกถูกผลักให้เชื่อ เขาให้พระคัมภีร์เล่มหนึ่งกับฉันด้วย จนวันหนึ่งเขาเอ่ยชวนฉันไปโบสถ์ ฉันไม่สามารถปฏิเสธการเชิญของเขาได้แล้วเพราะปฏิเสธมาหลายรอบแล้ว ครั้งนี้จึงไปด้วยความเกรงใจ เมื่อฉันไปโบสถ์ฉันรูสึกไม่ชอบเลยพวกเขาพยายามยัดเยียดความเชื่อว่ามีพระเจ้า พระเยซูตายบนไม้กางเขนเพราะบาปของฉัน พวกเขาให้ฉันร่วมพิธีศีลมหาสนิทซึ่งในเวลานั้นฉันไม่รู้ว่ามันคืออะไร แต่ฉันก็ทนร่วมพิธีด้วยความอึดอัด แต่ก็ยังคงเคารพต่อสถานที่และกิจกรรมที่เขาเสนอมาให้อยู่อย่างเงียบ
ในขณะที่ฉันไปโบสถ์กับเพื่อนที่เป็นคริสเตียนทางฝั่งเพื่อนที่เป็นชาวพุทธ มีทั้งกระเทย เกย์ และคนปกติก็หัวเราะเยาะ พูดจาตลกทำให้ฉันรูสึกอาย แต่ฉันก็ยังคงพยายามลองไปโบสถ์อยู่
ฉันลองทำตามวิธีที่เพื่อนพูดว่าเราต้องอธิษฐานขอบคุณพระเจ้าเสมอก่อนกินข้าว มีครั้งหนึ่งที่ฉันหลับตาอธิษฐานและเมื่อลืมตาขึ้นปรากฏว่าจานข้าวของฉันหายไป ฉันรู้สึกโกรธและเสียหน้ามากที่เพื่อนแกล้ง และโกรธที่ว่าถ้ามาเชื่อพระเจ้าแล้วเป็นแบบนี้ฉันไม่เอาดีกว่า
- หลังจากเหตุการณ์นั้นฉันเก็บอารมณ์โกรธและกลับบ้านด้วยความเดือดดาล ฉันเห็นกองขยะข้างทาง ฉันจึงตัดสินใจขว้างพระคัมภีร์ทิ้งด้วยสุดแรงของอารมณ์โกรธและขว้างไปให้ไกลเท่าที่จะทำได้อย่างเต็มแรง ฉันสบายใจได้ทิ้งพระคัมภีร์แล้ว ชีวิตกลับมามีสีสันอีกครั้ง ฉันรู้สึกอย่างนั้น และบอกกับตัวเองว่า "อย่าได้เจออีกเลยนะชาตินี้คริสเตียน" 10 ปีผ่านไป
- ชีวิตความเชื่อชาวพุทธของฉันเป็นอะไรที่ผิวเผิน ฉันทำบุญเพราะอยากได้การอวยพรกลับมาแต่ฉันก็ไม่เคยสมหวังกับการไปกราบไหว้พระ หรือรูปเคารพเลย พวกนั้นไม่มีคำตอบและความหวังที่การรันตีให้ฉันได้เลย มีแต่จะเสียเงินเพียงเพราะความเชื่อที่ว่า ถ้าทำบุญมากหรือบริจาคเงินมากๆ ก็จะได้รับบุญมาก หรือการอวยพรกลับมามาก บางครั้งฉันตามแม่ไปหาคนทรงเจ้าเพื่อสังเกตดูว่าเป็นอย่างไรถ้าดีฉันจะขอให้ช่วยอวยพรฉัน สุดท้ายช่วยไม่ได้
ฉันเริ่มมีปัญหาในหลายๆเรื่องจนทำให้ฉันรู้สึกแย่และผิดหวังกับชีวิต รู้สึกเหมือนฉันอยู่คนเดียวเดียวกับปัญหาที่ใหญ่เท่าภูเขาที่ไม่มีใครช่วยฉันยกออกได้เลย ฉันใช้ชีวิตแบบไม่มีความหวัง มันน่าเบื่อ มันมองไม่เห็นทางเดินสำหรับอนาคต
ฉันมีโอกาสได้ติดต่อกับชาวต่างชาติคนนี้อีกทางอีเมลล์ และทุกครั้งที่เขาลงมายังกรุงเทพฯ เขาจะนำหนังสือมาให้อ่าน และชวนฉันไปโบสถ์ แต่เขาไม่ได้พูดมากอะไรเกี่ยวกับพระเจ้าในเวลานั้นฉันรู้สึกดีที่ไม่ถูกผลักดันให้รับรู้เรื่องราวของพระเจ้าจึงเปิดใจมากที่จะรู้จักพระเจ้าด้วยตัวของฉันเอง
ฉันเริ่มมองหาโบสถ์ใกล้บ้านเพื่อฉันจะได้ไปและศึกษาเรื่องราวของพระเจ้ามากยิ่งขึ้น เพราะในเวลานั้นฉันยังไม่เข้าใจว่าทำไมคริสเตียนถึงชอบพูดแต่พระเจ้า พระเยซู พวกเขาไม่เบื่อหรือยังไง เมื่อฉันไปโบสถ์คนที่โบสถ์ตอนรับด้วยดี และชวนฉันเรียนพระคัมภีร์ ฉันตอบตกลง และก็ยังไม่เต็มที่
ก่อนที่ฉันจะตัดสินใจรับเชื่อพระเจ้า ฉันได้พูดท้าทายพระเจ้าแบบไม่ได้ตั้งใจว่าถ้าพระเจ้ามีจริงก็ทำให้ฉันไปร่วมประชุมอธิษฐานให้ได้สิ แต่ฉันคิดว่าพระเจ้าทำลายความตั้งใจของฉันไม่ได้แน่นอน
จากนั้นฉันได้รับหนังสือเรื่อง กล้าเรียกว่าพระบิดา เมื่ออ่านหนังสือเล่มนี้จบแล้วรู้สึกสัมผัสใจฉันมาก เหตุการณ์ทั้งหลายที่เกิดขึ้นกับฉันเหมือนมันแสดงภาพในหัวฉันให้ฉันเห็นครั้งเมื่ออดีตฉันกระทำตัวอย่างไร ฉันต่อต้านพระเจ้าอย่างไร ฉันปฏิเสธพระเจ้าอย่างไร ทุกอย่างเหมือนเปิดโปงความบาปให้ฉันเข้าใจถึงความสำคัญที่ฉันต้องมีพระเยซู ฉันรู้สึกว่าฉันอาศัยอยู่ในประเทศที่มีอิสรภาพในการเลือกนับถือศาสนาอะไรก็ได้ แต่กับบุคคลในหนังสือที่ฉันอ่านเธอต้องยอมตายเพื่อที่จะเชื่อความจริงที่ว่าพระเยซูคือพระเจ้าแท้แต่องค์เดียวที่ช่วยเธอให้รอดได้ เรื่องนี้ทำให้ฉันเสียใจมากกับการที่ฉันเคยปฏิเสธพระเจ้า ดังนั้นเมื่ออ่านหนังสือเล่มนี้จบ สิ่งแรกที่นึกในเวลานั้นคือฉันอยากได้พระคัมภีร์สักเล่มเพื่ออ่านเพื่ออยากจะรู้จักพระเจ้าให้มากขึ้น ภาพในอดีตมันฟ้องฉันตอนที่เอาพระคัมภีร์โยนทิ้งงกองขยะ ฉันร้องไห้ ฉันต้องได้พระคัมภีร์ในวันนี้ จะไปหาที่ไหนล่ะ ฉันไม่รู้ว่าเขาขายพระคัมภีร์กันที่ไหน พยายามไปหลายที่หาร้านหนังสือคริสเตียนแต่ก็ไม่เจอ จนในที่สุดเย็นมากแล้วก็เลยตัดสินใจไปโบสถ์ถามหาพระคัมภีร์กับศิษยาภิบาล เมื่อไปถึงโบสถ์สิ่งได้ยินคือเสียงร้องเพลงนมัสการพระเจ้า จึงนึกขึ้นได้ว่าวันนี้เป็นวันพุธที่เขามีประชุมอธิษฐานวันเป็นประจำ ฉันนึกถึงสิ่งที่เคยได้พูดท้าทายพระเจ้าเมื่อในอดีตได้ ฉันจึงยอมจำนนต่อพระเจ้าโดยไม่มีข้อแม้ใดเลย วันนั้นฉันบอกศิษยาภิบาลว่าฉันอยากให้เขาอธิษฐานรับเชื่อให้ฉันที เขาดูแปลกใจพร้อมกับดีใจในเวลาเดียวกัน คืนนั้นฉันได้ร่วมประชุมอธิษฐานและได้พระคัมภีร์กลับบ้านด้วยความยินดีมาก
เมื่อเริ่มเชื่อพระเจ้าพ่อของฉันเริ่มสงสัยว่าทำไมฉันถึงไปโบสถ์ทุกวันอาทิตย์ เรื่องนี้ทำให้พ่อโกรธ พ่อสั่งห้ามฉันไม่ให้เป็นคริสเตียนถ้าเป็น ก็ไม่ต้องมาเรียกเขาว่าพ่ออีกต่อไป ฉันก็รับฟังแต่ยังคงไปโบสถ์นมัสการพระเจ้าและอธิษฐานขอพระเจ้าช่วยให้มีทางออก จากนั้นฉันได้แต่งงานกับชาวต่างชาติที่เจอกันบนรถเมล์ พ่อของฉันจึงหยุดบ่นและอนุญาตให้ฉันเชื่อพระเจ้าตามสามีได้ จากนั้น5ปีต่อมาพ่อของฉันก็ได้กลายมาเป็นคริสเตียนอีกคน
Thailand Update August 2016
Jacob's Trip
It was a blessing to see Jacob here last month. He preached a message on Sunday, which I thought was an excellent message. It's uploaded to YouTube here…
Women's Prison
The following day we went to the Women's Prison to hold a church service there. About 150 ladies were there. The praise and worship was really uninhibited, and there were lots of "Amens" during the messages also. It's different from going to a typical Thai worship service outside, where they might have a lot of noise, but the atmosphere is different. Jacob preached there about the Last Days, and I translated. With time constraints it was a fairly short message, but really got them interested in the topic (which we hope to teach about more month by month), talking about "birth pangs," which many of them could relate to, as this is a biblical metaphor used regarding the End Times.
One of the ladies in our weekly English class there showed a strong interest in the gospel. Please pray for her and others who may not outwardly show an interest, but who are thinking nonetheless.
Shan Camp
We went to a Shan work camp not far from our house and gave them a lamb to eat. Jallay preached in Shan about the Passover and how Jesus is the Lamb of God. After that we gave an invitation and about ten of the adults raised their hands to pray with us. In Thai/Burmese culture this may or may not mean they really were touched and want to get right with God. Sometimes people may raise their hands just to be friendly or because the message sounded good, but not necessarily that they will commit their lives fully to Jesus. We need to follow up with them.
Khae's Testimony
Khae had a chance to share her testimony in English last month and she spent about 6 hours writing it out again. The way she wrote it this time I thought was really good. I'm attaching that here.
Also, here are some pictures of Micah with Jacob and also of our time at the prison. We went to a friend's birthday party last month and I prayed for him. During the prayer Micah said "Amen" all throughout the prayer. I think Micah's a pentecostal ?
Peace in Christ,
Scott, Khae, and Micahberekiah
Thailand Update
Moriel Mission Philippines and Jacob's Recent Visit - Aug 2016
Moriel Children's Dental Mission in Olongapo is now underway. 49 kids and 11 more are coming. We took the severe tooth ache cases and gum disease cases first. None of these kids ever saw a dentist and the smaller ones didn't know what a dentist is. Some of the little ones didn't have a clue what was going on.
We interviewed a few dentists to get the right people and facilities we needed. It is fantastic. Just as good with God's help as the Pediatric Medical Mission we did, this time it is teeth, and lots of them!
We did tons of x rays. It will have been quite a project for us when it is completed. This will be followed by classes in oral hygiene by a pedantic hygienist.
This year, as soon as the monsoon rains stop, we are going to war against Dengue fever. We are going to smoke the mosquitoes out of existence before they infect any more of our kids.
The Tegelo translation work of scripture teaching and the pastor training by Brother Hope continues. Filipinos are good at evangelism (although Moriel does evangelize in The Philippines). The spiritual need is discipleship teaching and scripturally qualified pastors.
As you can see from the photos, we are needing a bigger mini bus to transport more kids which we are working on obtaining (we have about 100 children now, all rescued from the garbage dump where they scavenged to survive with predictably rotten teeth and ultra high Dengue fever risk).
To hear these kids sing hymns and say their prayers is absolutely magnificent. The Lord is indeed gracious both to them and to us!
Please pray for Paul Seville and his mission team in Olongapo/ Subic Bay, and the ministry of Brother Hope.
Please also pray that The Lord provides a new larger vehicle for transporting the children. We are only asking the Lord for the money and not soliciting our readers. We have the Dental Mission nearly funded already by God's goodness. We are however in desperate need of a larger and more reliable transport vehicle for the kids.
J. Jacob Prasch
Moriel Missions Policy
Moriel can make needs known (the main one being prayer), and as The Lord leads receive contributions by those so led of the Lord to contribute. Except in very occasional cases of a major disaster however (eg. Earthquakes), Moriel does not, per se, 'fundraise' for its projects. We do however actively and aggressively seek prayer.
Dental Mission Aug2016
James Parker, former 'gay activst', on 'AFL Pride' & health risks
Last Saturday, 13 August, the AFL held their first 'Pride Game' to promote acceptance of LGBTIQ issues and to oppose 'homophobia'.
There were rainbow coloured numbers, rainbow socks and rainbow flags.
The following article, by James Parker, is insightful…
James describes how he visited Australia twenty years ago and watched football. He says, "I had not long left behind my own involvement at the heart of London's gay community where I had witnessed a significantly higher than average percentage of men struggle with depression and addiction, with some both attempting and succeeding in committing suicide."
James then goes on to discuss the AFL 'Pride Game' - as well as the health risks of homosexuality and other issues.
The article was printed in Sydney's Catholic Weekly prior to the Pride Game.
FIRST - Who is James Parker?
James spoke in Sydney earlier this year, where he was subjected to protests.
That's because James speaks against the endorsement of homosexuality. Twenty years ago, he was an active 'gay activist' and was living with a male partner. Then James became a Chistian. His partner went to church with James, and he was "deeply touched by the word of God". Initially, they tried to live as a 'gay Christian couple' - but James found that didn't work... James said, "I had to leave that relationship because the call from Jesus was a greater love." Read articles here and here.
After counselling, which he says is 'NOT conversion therapy' but rather 'standard psychological therapy' (see here), James was able to form friendships with men and women, and eventually married a woman and became a father. James now lives in WA with his family.
Read James' story...
The long and winding road: A one-time activist reflects on his journey out of the gay lifestyle (22/3/2016)
Now for James' article on 'AFL Pride . . .
by James Parker
I first visited Australia twenty years ago. I had not long left behind my own involvement at the heart of London's gay community where I had witnessed a significantly higher than average percentage of men struggle with depression and addiction, with some both attempting and succeeding in committing suicide.
A third of my three-month Aussie visa was spent glued to a television screen in Jannali in NSW watching Australian Football. I became mesmerised by each player's speed, talent and swift decisive reactions, and by every team member's phenomenal level of fitness. For me, Aussie Rules took gold on the podium of the sporting elite.
This coming weekend will see Round 21 of the AFL host the inaugural Pride Game between the Sydney Swans and St Kilda. It is being hailed as the first Pride Game for a professional sporting competition anywhere in the world.
St Kilda CEO Matt Finnis is quoted as saying that "the Saints were committed to this game because 'pride' is the opposite of 'shame'". He states that, "St Kilda firmly believes that communities can only thrive when all people belong".
We can all agree that people need to belong, but history shows that pride is not the opposite of shame. The pathway through shame into belonging demands humility and raw honesty and not its nemesis, pride. Ask any addict or trauma victim who has truly moved through recovery.
Swans CEO, Andrew Ireland, has said that "the match will help raise awareness and champion change". But what type of awareness is being raised? And what change exactly is being championed?
Nearly thirty years ago when in the gay lobby, I was in discussions with others how we might desensitize the public to view homosexuality with indifference, or better still to see such a lifestyle as something to be celebrated. Much of the discursive outcome is brandished in the book After The Ball by authors Kirk and Madsen, a marketing and a psychology graduate from Harvard.
Simply put, the strategy involved encouraging openly proud members of the LGBTQI community to obtain leadership roles in key sectors of society: the entertainment industry, the Media, education, politics, the military, and healthcare, especially psychology and psychiatry. We knew then that the most challenging bastion needing to fall would be the sports sector as this literally embodied male and female. Sport would be the final hurdle before the rainbow winning line.
The only major stumbling block that future leaders would need to quash would be public concerns that might rise about the health risks linked to homosexual practice – and the risks are frightening. It is for this reason we are taught that it is impolite to discuss what happens in, ahem, gay sex. So, let's look at the risks.
Aside from numerous STIs and physical injuries, some of which are virtually unknown in the heterosexual population, there are high rates of psychiatric illnesses and of cancers. There exists a considerably higher rate of 'chemsex' and general drug abuse. Ongoing suicide attempts are not uncommon and epidemiological studies show that gay and bisexual men can lose up to 20 years of life expectancy. I can honestly say that not even copious amounts of LGBTQI promotion, legislation and social acceptance over three decades have significantly changed the outcomes for many who practice homosexually. So is the problem society's issue, or do the roots lie in the activity itself?
The risks of gay sex, which our young people are being encouraged to consider and practice, are the crack in the dam to be hidden from public examination at all costs. And this has meant keeping many sexually active youngsters in the dark as well.
If ever the entire risks were to be wholly revealed, then any carefully constructed casuistic glitz and pride would rapidly fall away. Society would again be outraged, and rightly so, by the devastating long-term effects of homosexual practice, only this time out of genuine and deep concern for those who practice it.
The way to keep whistleblowers silent has been to employ homophobia-phobia which involves creating an atmosphere where anybody, including the strongest CEOs of AFL clubs, would be fearful of questioning any matter relating to homosexuality for fear of upsetting the LGBTQI community and their allies. Or even more frightening still, of being seen to be politically incorrect.
But what about the truth? What about humbly and honestly "raising awareness and championing change" first and foremost among the gay community? Why not first consider donating any monies willingly being spent on AFL's temporary one-day rainbows to raise awareness across the gay community and the sporting world at large of the serious health risks linked to certain sexual practices?
I have also witnessed many times that those who end up infected with any number of ailments as a result of homosexual practice often find themselves further isolated rather than belonging, and clothed more deeply in shame than ever. In the long run, this is the opposite of what Finnis and the Saints seem to wish to achieve.
Australia's first religion is sport, and young children often see footy players as demi-gods. To entwine LGBTQI ideology with sport, without notifying young and old alike of the entire risks contained within the dogma being promoted, is tantamount to knowingly advertising the destruction of health. Surely this isn't the remit of the AFL's CEOs or its top executive Gillon McLachlan. There would be outrage if footy players were to be linked to the promotion of tobacco, and yet the detrimental effects of homosexual practice are often way more serious than smoking.
I believe the AFL is unwittingly barracking for a greater injustice of the very people it is seeking to try and support, and all in the name of justice. It's not as if the AFL's history doesn't already have enough sexual and narcotic scandals on its leaderboard without needing to give birth to others that will mature in the future.
Where Round 21 appears to be entirely shrouded in benevolence by the Media and AFL officials, there lies just beneath the surface a wolf in sheep's clothing. Trying to break down the barriers of what is seen as a patriarchal culture within the AFL is one thing. Rebuilding it with resources from a gaytriarchal culture is another.
I am left wondering what another groups of saints – the Ugandan martyrs, St Charles Lwanga and companions, who were burnt alive for opposing homosexual practice and ideology a decade after the Sydney Swans and St Kilda teams were founded – might just think of Round 21 of the AFL. An eternal own goal for each team I reckon.
The first author to identify himself as "Pre Wrath" was CS Lovett in his book "The Latest Word on the Last Days" (1980). It was probably Lovett who actually invented the term 'Pre Wrath'. His view of Pre Wrath combined the Post Tribulational views of Dr. Samuel Tregallis with a Pre Wrath position because he placed the wrath of God only at the very closing phase of the final 7 years preceded by the rapture.
Dr, Tregallis, an able Greek scholar, had a much more basic view of dispensationalism than John Nelson Darby and he did not subscribe to Darby's Pre Tribulationism. His works were republished by the Sign Ministries of Bob Van Kampen who saw Tregallis as important in developing Pre Wrath in that the church would suffer tribulation, but it was Lovett who first set the precedent in modern terms of the Rapture being Post Tribulational, yet Pre Wrath in his book in 1980.
Others began to hold to a Rapture following the 6th seal claiming early Patristic history supported it. This included Stuart Traille who fell into apostasy and became a cult leader but who, like Lonnie Frisbee, Moe Berg and other figures who turned sour in the Jesus Movement, had a pervasive influence on saved hippies (it was at this time in the Jesus Movement that I was first exposed to and believed the rapture followed the 6th Seal in the early 1970s). The Jesus Movement of Chuck Smith that became Calvary Chapel however was staunchly Pre Tribulational.
Another very influential figure in the Jesus Movement at this time who was not Pre Tribulational was Dr. Walter Martin.
This trend in mainstream circles was spawned in considerable measure in the 1970s by Robert Gundry's book 'First the Anti Christ', (although Gundry himself favored a Post Tribulational view seeing the Great Tribulation as the full seven years). Gundry explored the implications of the eschatological writings of Hippolitus in particular.
Along this line in the nineteen eighties and nineties, Bob Van Kampen and Mar Rosenthal both claimed that they were not setting any new precedents and denied they were entering new territory. Marvin Rosenthal stated: "Pre Wrath is consistent with what is known of the beliefs of the early church" and Bob Van Kampen stated that "Pre Wrath simply expands on the position of the church fathers". Both claimed not be setting a new precedent, but influenced by Tregallis, Gundry and others, claimed they were only returning to what the early church believed. Others such as researcher Ed Tarkowski disputed this and saw Pre Wrath as breaking new turf suggesting that there is as much evidence from the early church that could just as well support a full seven year Post Tribulational position.
Much of the initial controversy surrounding Pre Wrath was not about the position itself but the effect of theocratic politics as Marv Rosenthal was a known figure within the world of Jewish missions and evangelism when nearly all Jewish mission agencies were solidly Pre Tribulational and Marvin Rosenthal dared to break ranks. It cost him his leadership position with an established evangelistic mission to the Jews.
Intra Seal is closely akin to Pre Wrath. Intra Seal is Post Tribulational but it does not view the entire seven years as the Great Tribulation. It varies from Pre Wrath however on the identity of the restrainer which Intra Seal sees as The Holy Spirit (akin to Pre Tribulationalism). In a sense, just as the original Pre Wrath of CS Lovett combined Pre Wrath with Post Tribulationalism, Intra Seal combines Pre Wrath with Pre Tribulationism concerning the identity of the Restrainer.
Patristic history cannot absolutely confirm Pre Wrath, Intra Seal, or Post Tribulastionism. It does however confirm that Pre Tribulationism was never the view of the early church.
Although Dr. Tregallis was Post Tribulational, as Bob Van Kampen asserted in his republishing the works of Samuel Tregallis, he nonetheless had a profound impact on the development of Pre Wrath. Van Kampen actually purchased the publishing rights for Tregallis' book.
The influence of Robert Gundry in academic and scholarly circles in the development of Pre Wrath and Intra Seal cannot be over stated, pointing back to the early church.
It was CS Lovett however who is the best demonstrable candidate to be called the father of modern Pre Wrath, and it was he who at least in published form, first coined the term.
Pre Wrath and Inter Seal became refined versions of what technically commenced, at least in modern terms, with CS Lovett.
Prayer Request For Brother David Pawson
Moriel & Jacob Prasch seriously request prayer for Christian author and scripture expositor David Pawson in the UK who is battling an aggressive cancer that is diagnosed as inoperable.
Moriel gets questioned... and we respond...
We received these questions:
The first time I ever heard of you was watching THE DANIEL PROJECT on Netflix (probably 4 years ago). The second time I saw you was this week, on YouTube. It was a response to Dr James White. That was … "wow." I'm deliberately keeping this short because I want to get to the reason I'm reaching out to you, but I have to say, I also agree that Calvin was a brutal and bloody man who caused his beliefs to spread by the sword. I cannot see how any modern Christian can be a Calvinist not only because of how Calvin was, but because of the whole 'once saved, always saved, do as you like' pitch.
I also looked at your video on John McArthur, suggesting that he said we can take the mark of the beast and still go to heaven. Well, you handled that just as well. I actually shared both of those videos with a few communities I'm a member of.
Right now, I'm listening to a YouTube video on "what is apostasy," and you are sharing your beliefs, which isn't Pre, or Mid (kinda) and certainly isn't Post. You seem to have your own beliefs, but they You have a good amount of knowledge on stuff, and I'd like to ask you a few questions to get your feedback. Some are more essential to me, others not as much.
If you think making a video will be easier to answer, that would be fine ... just please don't mention my real name. My online alias is 'MessengerOfTruth" and has been for 15 years.
Little bit about me. I am a Christian. I was born into Christendom (raised by devout parents, disciple by God-fearing men who loved the Lord, read since I was a child, etc). Pentecostal: because retaining that which has been taught from the beginning is vital. Protestant: because I'm against that whore, Ba'al, who is the enemy of the Jews and Christians.
Now, for my questions. Some essential. Some not essential.
We agree on the Holy Spirit being the Restrainer, but slightly differently. I believe the Spirit is what the world calls our "conscious" – always telling us to avoid or not do evil. I believe this is why the world is plunged into utter lawlessness because the Restrainer is removed, worst even than the lawless days of Noah. He has also been the One who points to the Son, as I see in Psalm 2 (Father speaking, Son speaking, then Spirit saying to "Kiss [worship] the son," and since it's the Comforter who glorifies Jesus, He has always glorified the Son.
- You stated that it's not plausible for the Holy Spirit to be taken out. But here is my questions on that:
- the world is plunged into utter chaos. Lawlessness. The rider on the red horse isn't just war, but its global civil unrest. Men do not have a "conscious." Wouldn't this be a removal of the Holy Spirit who retrains men from doing evil?
- in Revelation, we read in the letters, "he that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches." But later in Revelation, when Tribulation is going on in the earth, all we see is "he that hath and ear, let him hear." There is no more mention of the Holy Spirit or the Church. Isn't this significant?
- in Revelation, we are also told several times that mankind will not repent. But we know it's the Churches job not preach the Gospel, and the Spirits job to call men to repentance. But there is neither Gospel nor Repentance during the Tribulation period. In fact, it is an ANGEL who say to not take the mark nor worship the beast. An angel is doing the work of the Church and the Spirit. I ask myself "why?" … if the Church or the Spirit are on the earth. And why doesn't the angel say "repent" or "turn to Jesus"? The Gospel doesn't appear to be preached either.
- A question that no one has ever answer satisfactory when I ask, is, how did the souls of men get IN HEAVEN {before} the FIRST SEAL is even broken? My question is, if there is no Pre-Tribulation Rapture, how did the souls of men, and the 24 Elders (whom I believe to be the 12 Tribal patriarchs and the 12 Disciples, because the Messiah is the Cornerstone that bind BOTH Covenants), get in Heaven if they weren't Raptured.
- Do you see the first few seals as being wrath? I do. I see the first as religiosity. Godless religiosity. It just doesn't make sense to me why the first rider would be a man, but all other riders be things. That's just not consistent. Plus, I can see the religiosity of this world everywhere in the last 300 years until today. The red rider of war, civil unrest, lawlessness. If a man wants to rape a women, what will stop him? If a man hates another man and wants to kill him, what will stop him … IF the Restrainer who restrains men from evil is gone … and no one even repents … each being the activity of the Holy Spirit. Isn't this wrath? Then the high inflation. Desperate people do desperate things. And a loaf of bread for a days wage will make millions pretty desperate. Neighbors killing neighbors for a can of food. Fathers abandoning their families just to feed themselves. Women selling their bodies. Do you see wrath in this? Then of course, all the death. Do you see wrath in this? I see wrath in ALL the seals.
- Why does no one deal with what follows the last rider. Hell. Why does no one ask "why isn't Paradise or Heaven following death?" Perhaps its because all who die are going to … Hell? Else, why is Hell following and swallowing up all the dead? Why not Heaven? Why not heaven AND hell?
- Jesus said He will keep His people FROM the hour. My examination of the Greek word ek seems to suggest that its sort of an avoidance, to never experience, to be saved FROM in, not go through it, or be in it. But, it's the same Greek word when dealing with the Uncountable Number from all nations and tribes and tongues. Ek. The English translation seems to give an impression that they literally come out of the Tribulation, which makes no sense because an 'uncountable number" cannot come out of 6 billion. But the Greek seems to suggest that the number never even experiences the Tribulation. Saved FROM, not OUT OF.
I totally disagree with Post Tribbers. That is an insult to God, a misrepresentation of His Character, even spits on the testimony of Abraham, Job, and the deliverance of Noah and Lot.
I never had an issue with Mid-Tribbers.
I do not agree with Pre-Tribbers because they are younger than me, and they default to the "last trumpet" because they don't take the time to look at Jewish or Roman culture and the military cries (last trump), and they separate wrath from the Tribulation period.
But you sir, are neither Mid nor Pre-Wrather. You certainly are not that demonic Post-Tribbulation. I get that you are expressing your thoughts, not "absolute doctrinal facts". But I'm wondering how you view this basic questions.
- Do you know when the Pre-Wrath belief started? What I have read, several years back, was that it is less than 20 years old. I had heard of Pre, Mid and Post Tribulation believers since my early childhood, but never did I hear about Pre-Wrath until more recently. I am now in my mid-40s. New doesn't always mean wrong, but, this raises a measure of concern.
- What about the writings of men like Ieranues, Cyprian, and Ephriam, all of whom taught a Pre-Tribulation Rapture? Do you think their writings in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Centuries are valid, and that the belief resurfaced in the 1600s through people like William Cunninghame, Joseph Mede and others (when the Bible was written in English and men could read for themselves)? I know this did not start with John Darby because Darbys grandparents weren't even born.
- Do you believe that our belief on the Rapture is essential to Salvation? For instance, do you see Hebrews 3 & 4 as a warning to the Post-Tribulation people, and unbelievers, who refuse to believe in the deliverance of God, just as Israel refused to believe Joshua and Caleb and were not allowed into the Promised Land (below)? The author of Hebrews 3&4 seem to be warning us not to be of that same unbelief, denying the delivering messages of Joshua and Caleb, or else we also will be left out of the Promised Land (above)? The warning seems very clear. Do not fall into the unbelief of rejecting Gods deliverance, or that unbelief will turn out to be our liter rejection, just as it literally caused Israel to be left out.
Israel is your example.
Israel is your example.
Israel is your example.
That's in my head over and over again. And so I consider the goodness AND the severity of God, not His goodness only.
What do you think this all means?
and we respond...
Blessings and thank you for your e mail
Our view pre dates Pre Wrath in that Jacob Prasch, like various others, believed the rapture is between 6th & 7th seals etc. prior to the Pre Wrath position being crystallized by the books of Marvin Rosenthal and Robert Van Kampen. Our position is documented and explained at length in the Book "Harpazo" (available on Amazon, Kendal, from Moriel etc.). It is nothing more than what was later called Pre Wrath that in common with Pre Trib holds that The Holy Spirit is the Restrainer of 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, and certain other more minor differences to do with the timing of the ministry on the Two Witnesses in Revelation chapter 11. Intra Seal is a version of Pre Wrath and Pre Wrath has the same primary elements as Intra Seal. The two positions are in essence not only very similar or more accurately two variations of the same fundamental position although the Pneumatological differences are marked.
Moriel and Jacob Prasch reject the concept new or further doctrinal revelation (Revelation 22:18). The scripture simply teaches an ever clearer understanding however off what is already revealed in God's Word concerning The Last days (Daniel 12: 4), which is the very meaning off the Greek term 'Apocalypsis'.
We cannot dialogue by e mail about issues already elaborated on which are again published and explored in depth in 'Harpazo'.
The Holy Spirit is a Divine Person. He convicts of sin through the mechanism of conscience but He is not our conscience. One is a person, the other is not. With respect, as you have stated it, your position is very seriously wrong.
When conscience becomes dysfunctional, the Greek text of the New Testament describes this with a term that we normally translate as the conscience becoming "seared"; a phenomena that increases in the last days (1 Timothy 4:2). This is not the same thing as The Holy Spirit ceasing to restrain.
Moriel/ JJP


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Dead Hearts Bio
Jeremy Smith - guitar Derek Dole - vocals Tom Mayer - bass Pauly Issue - guitar Josh Heatley - drums
post hardcore
Ferret Music's newest signing Dead Hearts may be the closest in sound to the beginning roots of punk/hardcore on the label. More with Dead Hearts than any other project we've been in, we have got to live out our high school hardcore fantasy says Jeremy Smith (guitar). We've played shows with 7 Seconds, Agnostic Front and Slapshot which are some of my favorite hardcore groups when I started playing in bands. Before you label Dead Hearts an old school revival project you should know that the group is a modern hardcore band. A band that is raw, discordant and punk at heart but not afraid to reference metal and rock in their sound. Our vocalist is screaming his head off but you can understand every word he says and sing along Jeremy explains kids can pick up a lyric sheet and identify immediately with what he is talking about. That's something that is not to plentiful in the scene today. The band composed of Jeremy, Derek Dole (vocals), Tom Mayer (bass), Pauly Issue (guitar) and Josh Heatley (drums) hail from the frozen climes of Buffalo, NY. The members were gathered from such acts in the local punk and hardcore scene as The Control, Can I Say and The Pavers. Discussing the formation of the group Jeremy explains I had a hard time writing in my old band because everyone wanted to get their own mark on the music. I gathered all the open minded and flexible players in these bands so we could have fun in a project rather than it seeming like work.
After playing two shows a month after their start in 2004, Dead Hearts were approached by labels wanting to put the record out and people wanting to book them. As soon as we put up a myspace page, this label from Long Island State Of Mind Music wanted to put out our demo. It was unbelievable! After no less than three labels asked to put out the band's first release, the band seceded to whoever could get the album done by Dec so they could tour off of it. That first tour was with Marathon and Another Breath through the east coast. The response for the band's music was shocking as they quickly sold through 40 copies of their EP at one Florida show. For a group that started for fun, Dead Hearts was attracting more work than any of the members previous projects. As of this writing, Dead Hearts have completed four national tours including a six and a half week run by themselves that was self-booked. August 2005 saw the release of a one sided 12 entitled No Love, No Hope on the Netherlands based Reflections label. This release attracted the attention of hometown hero and old friend, Andy of Every Time I Die. After witnessing the band perform he told them to send music to Ferret to check out. Ferret responded by saying that they loved the music but that they couldn't sign anyone at that time as they just signed a bunch of bands. Jeremy recollects, However Rick (Barnhart) of the label kept writing us every few weeks to see what we were doing and if we were still a band.
A few months later when Dead Hearts played CBGB's with Bane and Comeback Kid to 750 kids, the label was on hand to witness the band blow the place away. Dead Hearts was signed to the label shortly after. The band recently locked themselves in a recording studio with John Naclerio (Senses Fail, My Chemical Romance) to record their upcoming Ferret debut Bitter Verses. The fourteen song calling card is a concept piece based around the theme of insomnia and what sleepless nights can bring. Lyrics handled by Jeremy he says of the theme I've worked overnights most of my life since it's a flexible job that allows you to take off for tours. However staying up all night can suck the life out of you and the album deals with how sleepless nights can lead to fucking up your life and fucking up your life can lead to sleepless nights. It's a vicious cycle that it's hard to break from.
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Yeshivat Aish HaTorah
Aish World Center at the Western Wall
Audio/Media Center
Discovery Seminar
ELC – Executive learning Center
Essentials – Men's Intro Program
EYAHT – Women's College
Hasbara Fellowships
Jerusalem Fellowships
Jewel - Women's Intro Program
Russian Program
Spanish Division
Richard M. Horowitz received his MBA from Pepperdine University in California. Richard is the President of Management Brokers Insurance Agency ("MBI"). In addition to MBI, Richard chairs the Board of Directors of Dial 800, Inc., a national telecommunications firm, and maintains responsibilities as a board member of Trio Tech International.
Richard is well known philanthropist and is very active with a number of Jewish nonprofit organizations including holding the position of President of Aish Hatorah International as well as Vice President of the Association for Jewish Outreach Professionals.
Dr. Stuart Hytman, Board member • bio • email: shytman_at_aish.com
Rabbi Ephraim Shore, Executive Director, Aish Jerusalem • bio • email: eshore_at_aish.com
Rabbi Ephraim Shore is one of the directors of Aish HaTorah Jerusalem, and the Israel Director of HonestReporting.com and the Hasbara Fellowships network of pro-Israel campus activism. A native of Canada, Ephraim studied at Aish Jerusalem for eight years where he received rabbinic ordination. He founded Aish Miami and served as Executive Director of Aish Toronto from 1990-1998. Ephraim's brother, David, is the Creator and Producer of the hit TV show, "House," and his twin brother, Raphael, is producer of the documentary films including Obsession and Iranium. Ephraim and his British/Swiss/Israeli wife, Esther, live with their children in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Steven Burg, Director General - Mankal • bio • email: sburg_at_aish.com
Rabbi Steven Burg is the Director General (Mankal) of Aish HaTorah Jerusalem and Aish HaTorah globally.
In addition to Rabbinic Ordination and a Masters in Medieval Jewish History, both from Yeshiva University, Rabbi Burg has has completed management courses at the Harvard Business School and at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University.
Following his ordination, he embarked on a 22-year career at the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (OU). In 2005, Rabbi Burg became the youngest International Director of NCSY, the youth movement of the OU, and spent the next years restructuring the organization. Under his leadership, NCSY grew to serve tens of thousands of Jewish teens around the world and sent over 2,000 adolescents to Israel every summer. Rabbi Burg was the founder of the Jewish Student Union (JSU), a network of hundreds of public high School clubs that teaches unaffiliated Jewish teens about their heritage. Rabbi Burg also started the Anne Samson Jerusalem Journey (TJJ), an Israel experience for unaffiliated Jewish Teens, the success of which was recently highlighted in a study. Through NCSY, Rabbi Burg became one of the foremost leaders in Jewish teen engagement and is considered an authority on teen spirituality and development. Rabbi Burg later served as the Managing Director of the OU. Under Rabbi Burg's leadership, the OU increased internal efficiency, developed greater programming synergy among the OU's many branches, and redefined the OU's focus.
Most recently, Rabbi Burg served as the Eastern Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a global Jewish human rights organization that confronts anti-Semitism, hate and terrorism, promotes human rights and dignity, stands with Israel, and defends the safety of Jews worldwide.
Rabbi Yehuda Weinberg, Director • bio • email: yweinberg_at_aish.com
Rabbi Daniel Schloss, Director of Administration & HR • bio • email: dschloss_at_aish.com
Rabbi Daniel Schloss was born and raised in Amsterdam, Holland. In 1983 he came to Israel and studied at Yeshivat Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem. Many years later, under the guidance of Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits, he received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Avraham Kopshitz and from Yeshivat Aish HaTorah. Over the past decades, he has been teaching practical Jewish Law in Aish Jerusalem and has published several booklets on Jewish law that are being used around the world. Concurrently he is Aish HaTorah's Director of Finance. He lives with his wife and five children in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Rabbi Gavriel Kleinerman, Executive Vice President • bio • email: gkleinerman_at_aish.com
Gavriel Kleinerman is originally from Long Island, NY. After earning a degree in Metallurical and Materials Engineering from the Univ. of Pittsburgh, he worked at MIT as a project engineer in bio-engineering. In 1974, Gavriel took off what he thought would be one year to study in Jerusalem with Rabbi Noah Weinberg zt"l. Today he is the Executive Vice-President of Aish Jerusalem. He and his wife have three married children and more than a minyan of grandchildren.
Email: jerusalem_at_aish.com
Tel: (972-2) 628-5666 Fax: (972-2) 627-3172
One Western Wall Plaza, POB 14149, Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem 91141 Israel
Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker, originally from New Jersey, joined Aish in 2002 and has been Director of the Beis Medrash program since 2007. He studied in Jerusalem under Rabbi Tzvi Kushelefsky and Rabbi Yaakov Friedman, and has rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg. Rabbi Schoonmaker taught for many years in the NCSY Summer Kollel.
Rabbi Gil Eisenbach, Mashgiach • bio • cell: 050-412-1972 • email: geisenbach_at_aish.com
Rabbi Dovid Rosman, Intermediate Program • bio • email: ibmp_at_aish.com
Rabbi Dovid Rosman is the Director of the Intermediate Beis Medrash Program of Aish HaTorah and a rebbe in the Advanced Beis Medrash Program. he previously studied in Jerusalem's Mir Yeshiva and also studied under the tutelage of Rabbi Tzvi Kushelefsky. He received his B.A. and rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University. He is also a freelance writer with articles in Hamodia, Mishpacha and other publications. Some of his lectures can be found on OU Radio.
Rabbi Aaron Neckameyer, Registrar • bio • email: registrar_at_aish.com
Aaron Neckameyer was born and raised in Los Angeles. He Graduated with a B.S. in Marketing from Cal-State Northridge and received rabbinic ordination at Aish Jerusalem, where he currently lectures for the Discovery and Beis Medrash Programs.
Max Kalles, Director of Alumni Services • bio • email: mkalles_at_aish.com
Max Kalles lives with his wife in Toronto, Canada where he was born and raised. He received a bachelor of commerce from Carleton University in 2004. Since 2005 he has been involved with AISH Campus Toronto and is a regular speaker for the Maimonides program, Jewish Business Network, and NCSY's impact. In 2008 he helped found an organization called GROW (www.growmyworld.com) to help inspire and connect Jewish students to become leaders through social action in their community. He and his brother Lionel run an online directory www.autoshopit.com to help customers find local trustworthy auto mechanics.
To send a message to any other staff member or student,
email jerusalem_at_aish.com and type their name in the subject field.
Tel: (972-2) 628-5666 Fax: (972-2) 627-3172
Beis Medrash Pay Phones: 02-626-0300, 02-626-4200
One Western Wall Plaza, POB 14149, Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem 91141 Israel
Rabbi Shimmy Kaufman, Director, Aish Israel • bio • email: skaufman_at_aish.com
Shimmy Kaufman is Director of Educational Programs for Israelis in Jerusalem. Originally from Monsey, New York, Shimmy was exposed to the beauty of Jewish outreach at a young age through his father, Chanan Kaufman, director of the Jerusalem Fellowships. Shimmy began studying at Aish HaTorah in 2001, at age 15, and built a close relationship as the personal assistant to Rabbi Noah Weinberg zt"l. Aish's World Center across from the Western Wall is a great opportunity to provide dynamic programs that inspire Israelis to appreciate the importance and relevance of being Jewish. To this end, Shimmy acts as Aish's liaison to the army, high schools and tour guides.
Rabbi Meir Rosenberg, Director of Outreach • bio • email: mrosenberg_at_aish.com
Rabbi Meir Rosenberg was born in Costa Rica and grew up in Chile. While studying a B.A. in Industrial Engineering, he volunteered to coordinate the building of houses for underprivileged families, and spent his summers in Israel, bringing groups of Jewish college students for educational programs. After moving to Israel, Meir studied in Aish Jerusalem and at the Mir Yeshiva. He is the chief editor of AishLatino.com and also serves as COO of Latin America for Aish HaTorah. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children.
Bradley Martin, Booking Manager • bio • email: bmartin_at_aish.com
Shira Plotkin, Private Events Coordinator • bio • email: splotkin_at_aish.com
Avigdor Elk, Maintenance • bio • email: aelk_at_aish.com
Email: visit_at_aish.com
Rabbi Nechemia Coopersmith, originally from Toronto, lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children. He is the chief editor of Aish.com, and also oversees the many educational outreach programs at Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem. He is the author of Shmooze: A Guide to Thought-Provoking Discussion on Essential Jewish Issues – a must-have little book for anyone who loves a good question.
Rabbi Shraga Simmons, Senior Editor • bio • email: ssimmons_at_aish.com
Rabbi Shraga Simmons is the co-founder of Aish.com, and co-author of "48 Ways to Wisdom" (ArtScroll). He is Founder and Director of Aish.com's advanced learning site. He is co-founder of HonestReporting.com, and author of "David & Goliath", the definitive account of anti-Israel media bias. Originally from Buffalo, New York, he holds a degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, and rabbinic ordination from the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. He lives with his wife and children in the Modi'in region of Israel.
Rabbi Jack Kalla, Director of Development • bio • email: jkalla_at_aish.com
Rabbi Jack Kalla is originally from Pittsburgh, PA. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, where he played varsity tennis. He has worked variously for the U.S. Air Force and in casino management in Nevada. He received rabbinic ordination in Jerusalem, and now lives in Ramat Beit Shemesh with his wife and children. Jack's responsibilities with Aish.com include fundraising, marketing and member services.
Shraga Botwinick, Director of Production • bio • email: sbotwinick_at_aish.com
Shraga Botwinick was born in Massachusetts and raised in Long Island, New York. He earned a degree in computer science from Yeshiva University and rabbinic ordination from RIETS. He has many years of experience in Jewish education and in the world of high-tech, from Los Angeles to Israel. He currently oversees the technical side of production at Aish.com. He lives with his wife and children in Ramat Beit Shemesh.
Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld, Programmer, Ask the Rabbi Responder • bio • email: drosenfeld_at_aish.com
Dovid Rosenfeld, a native of the Washington, D.C. area, works both as a programmer for aish.com and as a responder for its Ask the Rabbi service. He also serves as a volunteer writer for Torah.org. He lives with his wife and family in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel.
Rabbi Rosenfeld's son Zvi recently published his first book, The Ring of Fate, a riveting, fast-paced fantasy novel which is also completely kosher in both language and subject matter. It is available as both book and ebook. It is sold by Booklocker.com, as well as by Amazon.com and all the major on-line sellers.
Rabbi Meir Rosenberg, AishLatino.com • bio • email: mrosenberg_at_aish.com
Rabbi Meir Rosenberg was born in Costa Rica and grew up in Chile. While studying a B.A. in Industrial Engineering, he volunteered to coordinate the building of houses for underprivileged families, and spent his summers in Israel, bringing groups of Jewish college students for educational programs. After moving to Israel, Meir studied in Aish Jerusalem and at the Mir Yeshiva. He is the chief editor of AishLatino.com and also serves as COO of Latin America for Aish HaTorah. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children.
Ora Marhely, Aish.fr • bio • email: omarhely_at_aish.com
Email: webmaster_at_aish.com
Tel: (972-2) 628-5666 Fax: (972-2) 627-3172
One Western Wall Plaza, POB 14149, Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem 91141 Israel
Rabbi Moshe Zeldman performed undergraduate work in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and has rabbinic ordination from Aish HaTorah.
Elazar Grunberger was raised in El Paso, Texas, and by age 17 was the youngest Top 40 radio DJ in the United States. After attending the University of Texas at El Paso, he studied in Jerusalem and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Noach Weinberg and Rabbi Nissim Karelitz. Elazar spent over 25 years as the Director of Aish St. Louis, and for 15 years as spiritual leader of a large synagogue congregation. In 2011, Rabbi Grunberger and his family moved to Modiin in central Israel, where he serves as director of the Lev Modiin community. Elazar also serves as program coordinator of Aish's Exectuive learning Center, and a Managing Director of the Aish Center in Jerusalem. He and his wife Brocha have 10 wonderful children, with adorable grandchildren residing on both sides of Atlantic.
Rabbi Zelig Pliskin, Senior Lecturer • bio • email: zpliskin_at_aish.com
Rabbi Zelig Pliskin is a noted psychologist and prolific author of 24 books, including Guard Your Tongue, Gateway to Happiness, Gateway to Self Knowledge, Love Your Neighbor, Growth Through Torah, The Power of Words, Consulting the Wise, and the recent Life is Now. Rabbi Pliskin lives in Jerusalem, and is the director of Aish HaTorah's Counseling Center and a senior lecturer at Aish's Essentials program and the Executive Learning Center. He was ordained at the Telshe Yeshiva in Ohio and holds a degree in Counseling Psychology.
Rabbi Asher Resnick, Senior Lecturer • bio • email: aresnick_at_aish.com
Rabbi Asher Resnick is now available for private learning by phone or Skype! Formerly a lecturer at the Institute of Jewish Legal and Medical Ethics in San Francisco, and Aish NY, Rabbi Resnick is now a senior training lecturer for Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem. As a close student of Rav Noach Weinberg zt"l, he has a special expertise in presenting Jewish wisdom for living, addressing fundamental issues in Jewish Thought, and bringing classical texts to life. For more information, contact Rabbi Resnick at email@example.com.
Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser, Senior Lecturer • bio • email: yglaser_at_aish.com
Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser received a Bachelors Degree in Humanities from the University of California at Santa Barbara. For 12 years he surfed internationally on a professional level. He is also an accomplished mountain biker and professional musician. He received rabbinic ordination from Aish HaTorah and the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. His areas of expertise are Kabbala, Spirituality and Psychotherapy.
Rabbi Ken Spiro, Tour Guide • bio • email: kspiro_at_aish.com
Rabbi Ken Spiro, originally from New Rochelle, NY is a senior lecturer and researcher on Aish HaTorah outreach programs. He graduated from Vassar College with a BA in Russian Language and Literature and did graduate studies at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. He has rabbinic ordination from Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem and a Masters Degree in History from the Vermont College of Norwich University. Rabbi Spiro is also a licensed tour guide by the Israel Ministry of Tourism. He has appeared on numerous broadcast programs including BBC, the National Geographic Channel and The History Channel. He is the author of two acclaimed books, A Crash Course in Jewish History, and WorldPerfect. He lives in suburban Jerusalem with his wife and five children.
Rabbi Yisroel Cohen, Textual Skill-building • bio • cell: 057-312-0613 • email: ycohen_at_aish.com
Rabbi Yisroel Cohen studied for years at the famous Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and at Yeshiva Netzach Yisroel in Jerusalem. Rabbi Cohen is known for his 25 years of expertise in helping executives and professionals develop their textual learning skills; he is available for long distance "partner study." Rabbi Cohen also has a degree in accounting from Queens College, New York, and is a popular musician at weddings in Jerusalem.
Patrick Amar, Missions • bio • cell: 052-423-1428 • email: pamar_at_aish.com
Patrick served as a Pro-Israel student activist with Hillel while studying Political Science at Concordia University, one of the more notorious campuses for its amount of Anti-Israel activism. Because of his experiences on campus and educational trips to Israel (he was on the first Birthright trip) he decided to move to New York City in 2003 to help establish the national office of Hasbara Fellowships, a program of Aish which trains and supports Jewish college students in their fight to support Israel across North America. He has staffed dozens of missions to Israel, including Birthright, Hasbara Fellowships, the Jerusalem Fellowships, the Jewish Women's Renaissance Project and HonestReporting missions. Since making Aliyah in 2006, he studied at Yeshiva Aish Hatorah and completed the 2-year tour guide course. Patrick lives in Jerusalem with his wife Julie and their children. Patrick operates his own tour company in Israel which focuses mainly on family trips to Israel.
Rabbi Eliyahu Ellis • bio • email: e_at_aish.com
Rabbi Eliyahu Ellis studied biology and geology at Northern Illinois University. In addition, he spent time as a deep-sea diver in the oil fields in the North Sea between Scotland and Norway and has circumnavigated the seas of the world in a sailboat. Rabbi Ellis received rabbinic ordination from Aish HaTorah where he is a senior lecturer at the Discovery and Essentials programs.
Rabbi Motty Berger, Senior Lecturer • bio • email: mberger_at_aish.com
Rabbi Motty Berger is a graduate of Loyola University and received his rabbinical ordination from Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore. Prior to moving to Israel he worked in anti-missionary activity and was the founder of Jews For Judaism. A world-renowned speaker, he is currently Senior Lecturer at Aish's Discovery, Essentials, Fellowships Programs and the Executive Learning Center.
Rabbi Avi Geller, Senior Lecturer • bio • email: ageller_at_aish.com
Rabbi Avi Geller has been a senior lecturer at Aish Hatorah since 1980. He is an alumnus of Lakewood, Be'er Yaakov and Mir yeshivas, and gives a popular weekly parsha class in Jerusalem's Old City. His audio lectures are available at Aish audio center, including tapes on the entire Chumash, Mitzvah series, and Holiday series. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and 8 children.
Rabbi Zelig Pliskin, Senior Lecturer • bio • email: zpliskin_at_aish.com
Rabbi Zelig Pliskin is a noted psychologist and prolific author of 24 books, including Guard Your Tongue, Gateway to Happiness, Gateway to Self Knowledge, Love Your Neighbor, Growth Through Torah, The Power of Words, Consulting the Wise, and the recent Life is Now. Rabbi Pliskin lives in Jerusalem, and is the director of Aish HaTorah's Counseling Center and a senior lecturer at Aish's Essentials program and the Executive Learning Center. He was ordained at the Telshe Yeshiva in Ohio and holds a degree in Counseling Psychology.
Dr. Gerald Schroeder, Senior Lecturer • bio • email: gschroeder_at_aish.com
Dr. Gerald Schroeder earned his BSc, MSc and Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics and Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he taught physics for seven years. While a consultant at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission he participated in the formulation of nuclear non-proliferation treaties with the former Soviet Union and witnessed the testing of a long series of nuclear weapons. He has served as a consultant to various governments worldwide and has been published in Time, Newsweek and Scientific American. He is the author of Genesis and the Big Bang, The Discovery of Harmony Between Modern Science and the Bible. He is also the author of The Science of God, The Hidden Face of God and God According to God. His works appear in eleven languages. Dr. Schroeder is a lecturer at Aish Jerusalem for the Discovery Seminar, Essentials program, Jerusalem Fellowships and Executive Learning Center – focusing on the topics of evolution, cosmology and age of the universe.
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Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser, Senior Lecturer • bio • email: yglaser_at_aish.com
Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser received a Bachelors Degree in Humanities from the University of California at Santa Barbara. For 12 years he surfed internationally on a professional level. He is also an accomplished mountain biker and professional musician. He received rabbinic ordination from Aish HaTorah and the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. His areas of expertise are Kabbala, Spirituality and Psychotherapy.
Rabbi Gavriel Friedman, Senior Lecturer • bio • email: gfriedman_at_aish.com
Originally from New York, Rabbi Gavriel Friedman has spent the last decade studying and teaching in various Yeshivot throughout Jerusalem. He is currently teaching at Aish HaTorah Jerusalem, where his lectures highlight the entire gamut of Aish programs, including the Discovery Seminar, Jerusalem Fellowships, Executive Learning Center, and more. An up-and–coming star of the Jewish speaking circuit, Rabbi Friedman has lectured in dozens of cities around the globe, including Johannesburg, London, Montreal, and across the East Coast of the United States. Rabbi Friedman's charisma captivates audiences of all ages and inspires men and women across the Jewish spectrum. His unique ability to present Torah concepts in an intriguing yet entertaining fashion leaves his audiences thirsting for more. Rabbi Friedman currently resides in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem, with his wife and children.
Email: eyaht_at_aish.com
Tel: 02-538-2522
22 Imrei Binah, Kiryat Sanz, Jerusalem, Israel
Miriam Goldberg, Controller • bio • tel: (972-73) 229-3560 • email: mgoldberg_at_aish.com
Tel: (972-2) 628-5666 Fax: (972-2) 627-3172
One Western Wall Plaza, POB 14149, Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem 91141 Israel
Chanan Kaufman has served as Executive Director of the Jerusalem Fellowships since 1991. He holds a degree from the University of Maryland and received rabbinic ordination from Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem. He has been involved in Jewish and Israel outreach and leadership development for nearly three decades, having founded Aish New York in 1986. He founded the GoInspire Israel Travel company in 2009, and started the Israel Hitech Missions in 2010. He lives with his family in Monsey, New York.
Shmuel Kuhnreich, Israel Director • bio • email: skuhnreich_at_aish.com
Shifra Gitman, Accounting • bio • email: sgitman_at_aish.com
Rebbetzin Devorah Eisenbach, Dean of Students • bio • email: deisenbach_at_aish.com
Cheryl Soltz, Director of Admissions • bio • email: csoltz_at_aish.com
Gitty Weinbaum, Director of Facilities • bio • email: gweinbaum_at_aish.com
Stacey Kalla, Special Projects Coordinator • bio • email: skalla_at_aish.com
Chana Liza Myers, Program Coordinator/Administrative Assistant • bio • email: cmyers_at_aish.com
Efim Svirsky has been the educational director of Aish HaTorah's Russian program for the past 12 years and is he founder and director of the Psycho/Spiritual Institute. He teaches professional courses for Torah-based counselors, gives lectures, seminars and private sessions worldwide.
Rabbi Eliyahu Essas, Director of Planning & Development • bio • email: eessas_at_aish.com
Rabbi Eliyahu Essas is a founder of the Baal Teshuva movement in the Soviet Union. While living in Moscow, he spent created an underground network of Torah studies, children's education, and summer camps. In 1986, after political dealings, Rabbi Essas and his family were given permission to move to Israel. Rabbi Essas currently works for Aish in Jerusalem, and is a founder of the popular Judaism website in Russian, evrey.com.
Rabbi Noson Weisz, Director of Aish Spanish Beis Medresh • bio • email: nweisz_at_aish.com
While studying at the famed yeshivas of Chaim Berlin, Lakewood and the Mir in Jerusalem, Rabbi Noson Weisz also received a degree in Microbiology from the University of Toronto, MA in Political Science at the New School for Social Research and his LLB from the University of Toronto. Rabbi Weisz is currently a senior lecturer at Yeshiva Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem.
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Rabbi Tzvi Klor, Director of Aish Spanish Beis Medresh • bio • email: tklor_at_aish.com
Rabbi Shimon Kohan, Jerusalem Fellowships • bio • cell: 052-714-0441 • email: skohan_at_aish.com
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The Enjoyment Guide Herzogenaurach is meant as an orientation aid and also provides special tips. In an attractive and also surprising way, this bilingual magazine presents Herzogenaurach enterprises offering culinary enjoyment. In addition to the print edition available at the Tourist Information of the Town of Herzogenaurach or at the different enterprises, there also is the bilingual website "Enjoyment in Herzogenaurach": Enjoyment Guide Herzogenaurach Gastronomic enterprises.
In Herzogenaurach, internationality meets tradition. This is also reflected by the menus of the restaurants in and around Herzogenaurach.
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Feb. 15, 2003
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - The Santa Clara University baseball team evened up its three-game series with San Diego State at one game apiece following its 9-6 win Saturday afternoon in front of 1,208 fans at Tony Gwynn Stadium.
Santa Clara got on the board in the top of the first inning as A.J. LaBarbera reached on a walk and advanced to third on two-straight wild pitches. He scored two batters later as Scott Shapiro picked up the RBI on a fielder's choice, giving SCU the 1-0 lead.
The Broncos extended their lead to 3-0 after the top of the second inning as Eric Newton and Michael Lange each scored on a LaBarbera single to left field. Newton reached on a walk and was followed by Lange who was hit by a Ronnie Lindsey pitch. Each player moved up a base when Joe Diefenderfer was hit by another Lindsey pitch. With the bases loaded LaBarbera's sharp single through the left side easily plated the runners on second and third.
LaBarbera continued his big game in the fourth inning as he connected on his first home run of the season, driving in Diefenderfer ahead of him, giving the Broncos a 5-0 lead. Diefenderfer reach ahead of LaBarbera on a soft line drive single to left field. Through the first four innings LaBarbera had racked up two hits, four RBI and two runs scored.
San Diego State got on the board for the first time in the bottom of the fourth inning as a Rielly Embry triple to right center field scored Jake McLintock and James Guerrero. McLintock singled to right field after Guerrero had walked two batters before him with each easily scoring on the line drive off Embry's bat that reached the wall in right center. Embry scored on the very next at bat as Garrett Cook doubled to the right field wall. Cook advanced to third on an Andrew Slorp wild pitch and scored a few pitches later as Steve Boggs singled to right field, trimming the Bronco lead down to 5-4.
SCU got two runs back in the very next half inning as Jack Headley singled up the middle scoring David Mandley and Thompson. Mandley reached on a walk and was moved to second base when Thompson singled to right field. Both runners moved up one base when Eric Newton laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt. Headley's two-run singled increased the Bronco lead to 7-4.
The Aztecs added two runs of their own in the bottom half of the fifth inning as Peter Stonard scored Anthony Gwynn with a single to center field. Embry picked up his third RBI of the game two batters later, as his groundout to shortstop scored Guerrero and cut the Bronco lead down to 7-6.
After two full innings of scoreless baseball the Broncos added another run in the top of the eighth inning as Jack Headley reached base on a fielding error by Stonard. He then stole second base and advanced to third on a throwing error by the catcher, Josh Allen. Headley improved the SCU lead to 8-6 just two pitches later when Diefenderfer singled through the right side for his second hit of the day.
Santa Clara added to its lead in the ninth inning as Mandley led off with a double to left field, advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on a balk. Thompson followed the balk with a single to left field but was stranded at first as Ben Leuthard came on in relief and retired all three batters he faced.
Bronco closer Patrick Overholt came on in relief and pitched a perfect ninth inning to pick up his second save of the season. Diefenderfer came on in relief in the fourth inning to pick up the win, pitching four full innings in which he allowed two runs on three hits to go with one strikeout. Starter Andrew Slorp threw 3 2/3 innings of work, allowing four runs on six hits in his first collegiate start.
Ronnie Lindsey took the loss for the Aztecs and fell to 1-2 on the season after allowing three earned runs on only one hit in 1 2/3 innings of work. The Broncos took advantage of six walks allowed by the SDSU pitching staff and four errors by the Aztec defense.
The win improved the Broncos' record to 6-5 on the season while San Diego State drops to 4-5 on the year. The same two teams will meet in the rubber match of the three-game set on Sunday, with the first pitch from Tony Gwynn Stadium scheduled for 1 p.m.


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If you're a novice knitter this is a great starter, a very easy basic cardigan. Easy and quick to knit will make an ideal gift for a newborn baby. Knit in a plain colour or a multi is suitable for boy or girl. A very easy raglan sleeved cardigan. A raglan sleeve is one where the sleeve reaches all the way to the neckline, covering the shoulder it gives a looser fit, making movements easier, without being baggy. It's also easier sew up than an in-set sleeve because the curves on both sides of the sleeve/torso seam match.
I chose a multicolourd fleck it makes a simlpe cardigan a little more interesting.
Size: Newborns Finished chest measurements - 20''
Gauge: 25 sts=4" in St st with larger needles
Materials: Baby soft double knit type yarn
Size 4 US (3.5 mm) needles or size needed to obtain gauge
Size 5 US (3.75 mm) needles or size needed to obtain gauge
Stitch holders
4 buttons
With smaller needles, Cast on 61 sts.
K1, P1 rib for 12 rows.
Inc 1 st at end of last row.
Change to larger needles and work 36 rows in St st.
Shape Armholes
Cast off 4 sts at beginning of next 2 rows.
Row 1: K1, slip 1, K1, pass slipped stitch over, work to last 3 sts, K2tog, K1.
Row 2: Purl.
Repeat these 2 rows until 24 sts remain, ending with a purl row.
Cast off.
Left Front
With smaller needles, Cast on 35 sts.
K1, p1 rib for 11 rows.
Next row: K1, p1 rib 7 sts, then slip these sts to a stitch holder, work rib to end.
Change to larger needles and work 36 rows in St st.
Shape Armholes And Neck
Row 1 (RS): Cast off 4 sts, work to last 2 sts, K2tog.
Rows 2 and 4: Work even in St st.
Row 3: K1, sl1, psso, work to end.
Row 5: K1, sl1, psso, work to last 2 sts, K2tog.
Rep last 4 rows until 2 sts rem.
Fasten off.
Right FrontWith smaller needles, Cast on 35 sts.
K1, p1 rib for 2 rows.
Row 3 is button hole row. K1, p1 rib 3 sts, yo, K2tog, work rib to end.
K1, p1 rib 8 more rows.
Next row: K1, p1 rib. Slip last 7 sts worked to stitch holder.
Change to larger needles and work 37 rows in St st.
Continue working to correspond with left front, reversing shaping.
SleevesMake two.
With smaller needles, Cast on 33 sts.
K1, p1 rib for 16 rows (this makes a nice cuff you can turn back to adjust sleeve length as needed).
Change to larger needles.
Work 36 rows St st and AT THE SAME TIME inc 1 st each end of Rows 3, 11, and 19 - 39 sts.
Shape Armhole And Cap
Cast off 4 sts beg next 2 rows.
Purl one row.
Cont in St st and dec 1 st each end next and every 4th row until 7 sts rem as follows:
K1, sl1, psso, work to last 3 sts, K2tog, k1.
Cast off.
FinishingSew raglan seams together.
Left Front Band
Slip 7 sts from holder to smaller needles.
Rejoin yarn and work k1, p1 rib to center of back of neck.
Cast off.
Right Front BandWeave in ends on WS.
Sew on buttons.
Work as left but make 3 more button holes evenly spaced as before.
Sew on bands.
Join all seams.


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'Old Baldy' named Austin's Tree of the Year
AUSTIN – After a wonderful birthday celebration 'Old Baldy' the beloved McKinney Falls State Park bald cypress is again in the news, this time as the City of Austin's official 2012 Tree of the Year.
Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell will present a plaque to the park commemorating the tree's distinction at noon Oct. 15.
"It is my pleasure to honor Old Baldy the bald cypress with the City of Austin's 2012 Tree of the Year distinction," said Mayor Leffingwell. "I hope folks will head out to McKinney Falls State Park to visit Old Baldy – after all, having an entire state park in the city's limits offers Austinites a great opportunity to easily get out and explore nature."
After a short dedication ceremony at the Upper Falls scenic lookout point at the Smith Visitor's Center small groups will be escorted down to the tree for off-trail media opportunities. Bald cypress saplings will be available at the event with a full guided tour at 1 p.m.
July Texas Forestry Service measurements recorded Old Baldy at 103 feet tall with a circumference of 16 feet 3 inches. The tree's root system extends roughly two school bus lengths in all directions while its trunk plays host to a colony of honey bees. The tree is alive and well on the Rock Shelter Trail at the state park.
For more information on this event contact McKinney Falls State Park Ranger Amber Conrad at firstname.lastname@example.com or 512-415-8793.To learn more about McKinney Falls visit http://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/mckinney-falls.
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Selena Gomez has crush on George Clooney
Los Angeles: Young pop star Selena Gomez, who was earlier dating younger singer Justin Bieber, is now keen to be romantically involved with an older man, especially ever since she developed a crush on actor George Clooney.
The 21-year-old singer was earlier attracted to "Percy Jackson" star Logan Lerman, reports contactmusic.com.
But when recently asked about her crush, Gomez told eonline.com: "Well I once said Logan Lerman but now it's George Clooney."
The "Come and get it" hitmaker's mother Mandy and stepfather Brian Teefey have urged her to stay away from Bieber as they believe he is putting her relationship with them and her new baby sister, Gracie Elliot, in jeopardy.


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Rocky, overweight planet shakes up theories
Distant exoplanet is as massive as Neptune but has a composition closer to Earth's
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BOSTON — Common wisdom in astronomy says that once a planet has collected about 10 Earths' worth of rock, it becomes a gas giant like Neptune or Saturn. The exoplanet Kepler-10c didn't get that memo. With 17 times the mass of Earth, the distant planet is the heaviest rocky planet known. And astronomers have no idea how it formed.
With the mass of Neptune squeezed into a ball only about 2.5 times as wide as our planet, gravity on Kepler-10c is three times stronger than Earth's, astronomer David Latham reported June 2 at the American Astronomical Society meeting. "I wouldn't want to be a giraffe on this planet," said Latham, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
The planet is one of two orbiting Kepler-10, a sunlike star 564 light-years away in the constellation Draco. Both planets are toasty-warm and close to their star: Kepler-10c whips around the star once every 45 days, while 10b's


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Sharing the books I loved (and others not so much) for the month of February! Funny thing with the webcam here, when I'm filming the books don't show up right but on playing it back, they do. Go figure! :D
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Playing shooters, I've often wondered if the persistent knowledge of exactly how many rounds you have left delivers a tactical advantage you can't have in real life. This invention delivers a video-game advantage to the battlefield.
This device - fixed to an automatic weapon, no less - counts the rounds remaining in the magazine. It's hard to tell if it's getting it right all the time, but there's a burst at about the 1:00 mark that the humans incorrectly identify as four rounds, but the gizmo correctly ticks off five.
The maker, MichaelCiuffo on YouTube, says he's taking orders.
Now if they can only invent something that instantaneously fills your partially spent clip with exactly the amount necessary for a full clip when you reload. Preferably by hitting X.
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Phil Robertson is the star of a �reality� TV show, but he apparently got too real for the network that broadcasts it.
A&E Network this week suspended Robertson indefinitely from the hit series �Duck Dynasty� after the patriarch of the show�s family made remarks about his religious faith and homosexuality in a GQ magazine interview.
In the pantheon of anti-gay rhetoric, it was relatively tame stuff. Robertson wasn�t advocating violence or discrimination against homosexuals. He expressed a common biblical view of homosexual acts as part of a broader discussion of sin, which included bestiality and heterosexual adultery as well as greed and drunkenness. His, er, colorful comparison of copulations was even couched in self-awareness: �That�s just me.�
In short, this wasn�t a Rev. Fred Phelps screed � or even an Alec Baldwin rant.
To be clear, this is not a First Amendment issue. The government is not censoring Robertson for his speech. As a private employer, A&E is free to discipline an employee that the company believes has done harm to its image.
Whether that proves to be a smart business move remains to be seen.
�Duck Dynasty� appeals to many because of the Robertson clan�s professed Christian beliefs and traditional values. Phil Robertson wasn�t telling GQ anything that people didn�t already know, suspect or agree with � hence the immediate and outraged response on social media from those who disagreed with A&E�s suspension.
Perhaps A&E doesn�t understand its audience (it soon will, if hasn�t already � a Facebook page titled �Boycott A&E Until Phil Robertson is Put Back on Duck Dynasty� already has more than 600,000 �likes�). Or maybe it�s making a decision based on principle and is willing to take a hit to its bottom line.
Regardless, you don�t have to agree with Robertson�s views to be troubled by A&E�s reaction to them. The proper responses to speech you find objectionable are to ignore it, or to engage and challenge it with more speech � not to silence or punish it. That goes for Southern backwoods duck hunters as well as Hollywood actors pontificating on politics.
A&E should have stopped with the release of a statement that Robertson�s opinions were his own and not reflective of the channel or its advertisers. Instead, the network followed the path that much of American society has chosen these days � to abandon debate and tolerance of opposing views, and to provide more grist for the grievance industry in our ongoing culture wars.
The pledge to �disagree with what you say, but defend to the death your right to say it� has given way to, �Shut up or else!� If we associate only with those with whom we agree, we will live in a small and insular world hearing only echoes.
A version of this editorial first appeared in the Panama City News Herald, a Halifax Media Group newspaper in Florida.


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Cheese from Mahón
Mahón cheese
Also known as 'Minorcan' cheese, this fresh cheese is made on the Balearic Islands with raw or pasteurised cow's milk from the Frisian, 'Mahonesa' or 'Minorcan', and/or the Alpine Brown breeds.
Small amounts (no more than 5%) of sheep's milk from the 'Minorcan' breed are also allowed. It is rectangular, with rounded edges and a cleft on the top left by the knot of the cloth (the 'fogasser') used as a mould. The cheese is medium to large, very tall, and weighs up to 5 kilos or more. The rind is smooth and closed, and its colour varies between ivory white and intense yellow. It has a characteristic flavour, slightly acid, salty and a bit buttery. Depending on its ageing, it can be milky and moist when it is fresh, or dry, sharp and somewhat spicy as the ageing time is lengthened.
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- Type of product: Others
- Season: Year-round.
- Origin: Both the production region of the milk from the Frisian, 'Minorcan' and Alpine Brown breeds, and the area of the production and ageing processes of the cheese comprise the island of Minorca, which is the second largest, westernmost and northernmost island in the Balearic Archipelago.
- To drink with it: It is accompanied perfectly by a woody white wine, especially of it comes from one of the Balearic Islands denominations of origin.
- Where to buy: Cheese from Mahón is currently available in any speciality shop, department store or supermarket in Spain.
- Recipes: 'Flaó'
- Varieties: Depending on the production method, there are two types of cheese: Mahón Artesano, made with raw milk, and Mahón, made in industrial cheese shops. Also, depending on the ageing, there are:
- Mild Mahón: Soft, easy to cut, white in colour, high percentage of moisture. Gentle, lightly salted and acidic flavour
- Medium cured Mahón: Oily and yellowish ivory in colour. It is easy to cut, with the surface remaining smooth, intact and shiny. The flavour is more intense, although it maintains a hint of butteriness. Its maturing period is less than 150 days.
- Cured Mahón: With a firm texture, it is a very hard cheese that crumbles when cut. Its colour is dark yellow and its flavour salty, with something of a spicy touch. The maturing period is above 150 days.
- Mature Mahón: With a dark coloured rind and dry appearance. The colour of the cheese is yellowish and its flavour very intense and spicy
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- Energy: Average
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Associate Professor of Chemistry Scott Feller is applauded by faculty colleagues after learning he has won the 2009 McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching Award.
"As much a celebrator of student scholarship as his own, this scientist leads by collaborating with his Wabash students," said Dean of the College Gary Phillips. He then quoted Feller: "I believe very strongly that undergraduates can do real, scientific research. They can discover new things. The best way to hook a student on science is to work with him one-on-one on a problem that neither professor nor student knows the solution to."
Associate Professor of Economics Joyce Burnette was named this year's McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Research Scholar.


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NCAA Game Night: 12-28-12
No. 19 Ferris State Bulldogs 3 @ No. 11 Cornell Big Red 5
D/W Kirill Gotovets, COR: 0-0-0, -1, 0 PIM, 0 SOG
Season totals: 10 GP, 0-0-0, +2, 4 PIM
Cornell opened the Florida College Classic in Estero with a 5-3 win over the Bulldogs. Lightning prospect Kirill Gotovets was scoreless in the match for the Big Red.
Ohio State Buckeyes 0 @ No. 5 Miami RedHawks 1
F Jimmy Mullin, MIA: 0-1-1, +1, 0 PIM, 7 SOG
Season totals: 16 GP, 2-5-7, -1, 8 PIM
Jimmy Mullin (pictured) was moved to the top line with former Lightning camper Austin Czarnik and Curtis McKenzie and responded by leading the RedHawks with seven shots on goal against the Buckeyes on Friday night. The top line spot was opened by the departure of Riley Barber, who is representing the United States at the World Junior Championships in Russia. Miami's top line combined for 15 of the team's 26 shots on goal. Miami will face Robert Morris on Saturday for the championship in the Three Rivers Classic in Pittsburgh.
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