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Referees are uniformly faithful and sporting when refereeing sports trial. At smallest possible in theory, they should be. Several sports films such as "Friday Night Lights" and "Hoosiers," however, performance how "home-team referees" crook by devising calls that should not be made, or by not fashioning calls that should be made. In addition, time body and paid sportsmanlike dealings are usually filmed and televised, those in slighter venues, such as as alliance or full seminary sporting events, typically are not. In these latter cases, the use of wireless buried cameras can be conspicuously expedient in reviewing the shady calls that referees craft.
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Disruptions among the Provincetown gay crowd.
Wealthy, philanthropic Arthur's beautiful "treasure," the mysterious Edward, scampers away the morning the slashed body of Ian Drummond is found on a remote breakwater. He reappears helping out the Christian Soldiers, a homophobic cadre bent on cleansing Provincetown. The mercurial Edward then takes off to join a cult that follows the dictates of "the Golden One." While tracking down Edward might better be left to the police, aspiring stand-up comic Mark, like Arthur and Ian an alumnus of the now defunct St. Harold's, tackles the case, mainly because he had a rowdy brawl with Ian recently and their reconciliation involved a sexual quickie just before he died. Then begins a rash of violent adventures, including a run-in with castrati, an attempted murder by steam bath, the kidnapping of young Chloe, the daughter of a local trinket merchant, a bleary confession of his parentage from Mark's mother, and much, much more.
A first-rate insider's tour of Provincetown with tender gay love scenes and B&B vignettes. But the overstuffed plot could have used major paring, and the first-time novelist needs to learn to ration his similes.


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10. You are guaranteed to get at least a little something in the sack.
9. If you get tired, wait ten minutes and go back at it again.
8. The stranger you look, the easier it is to get some.
7. You don't have to compliment the person who gave it to you.
6. The person you're with doesn't have to fantasize about you being someone else because you already are.
5. If you get a stomach ache, it won't last nine months.
4. If you wear leather and chains no one give you dirty looks because they think you're kinky.
3. It doesn't matter if who hears you moan or groan.
2. There is less guilt the next morning from over-indulging.
1. If you don't get what you want at one place, you can always go next door to get more!
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A recent Survey by Roy Morgan Research shows 91% of Australians are supportive of medical Cannabis.
However, what most people do not know is that the Cannabis Australia is allowing to be imported for the first time includes GMO Cannabis. GMO or Genetically Modified Organism Cannabis has been around since 2011 due to breakthroughs in research and Biotechnology by Ethan Russo and GW UK helping in the process. In 2014 even newer GMO Cannabis strains has been introduced.


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If you're an Al Pacino fan, you'll soon be able to see him in a movie that's tentatively titled Happy Valley. It's a dramatic story based on a bestselling biography, and the movie reunites the famed Scarface team of director Brian De Palma and Pacino. Happy Valley tells the story of an iconic, beloved sports figure whose reputation unraveled in the face of molestation revelations, when it was discovered he and many others did virtually nothing to stop the abuse for fear of bad publicity. Is this all sounding familiar yet? Yep: Al Pacino's playing Penn State football coach Joe Paterno.
Boy, Hollywood sure didn't waste any time on this one, did they? I guess you have to strike while the iron's hot, but does the timing of this movie seem a little … I don't know, uncomfortably soon after the scandal became public?
It's obviously a hugely dramatic story with all sorts of interesting angles for a film -- Deadline describes Paterno's fall from grace as "Shakespearean," and adds that "when he died shortly after his firing, many felt it was from a broken heart as much as cancer."
Maybe I shouldn't feel sympathy for the memory of a man who was reportedly aware that former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was molesting children, and did little to stop it, but there are just so many innocent people involved: the young people Sandusky abused, Paterno's family who are surely still grieving the man who died just a year ago. It seems a little exploitive to barge ahead with a big Hollywood biopic, but I guess it'll be a while before it actually hits theaters. So maybe by then it won't feel quite so squicky?
I can't really imagine Sandusky's victims or longtime Penn State fans or Paterno's loved ones lining up to see this movie, but it does sound like an industry dream team. Not only is De Palma directing and Pacino starring, but Dave McKenna (American History X and Blow) is reportedly making a deal to write the script.
The project was recently confirmed by producer Edward Pressman, who said in a statement:
Happy Valley reunites the Scarface and Carlito's Way team of De Palma and Pacino for the third time, and I can't think of a better duo to tell this story of a complex, intensely righteous man who was brought down by his own tragic flaw.
It's a hell of a tough topic, but Pacino definitely seems like a great choice for capturing the nuanced character and storylines involved. As for whether this is truly intended to be a powerful film about the classic tragic arc of a man's rise and downfall, or a seedy example of Hollywood trying to milk cash from a horrific child sex abuse scandal … well, who can say, really? I supposed audiences will decide at the box office, when the time comes.
What do you think -- is Happy Valley being made too soon after the Sandusky scandal?
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First of all, the way HIT POINTS VALUE (HPV) - are calculated in Powers & Perils is beautiful and highly reasonable, unlike the way they are calculated in AD&D:
HPV= Strenght value + Stamina value (which is the same as Constitution in AD&D) + Constitution value (which represents the physical health of a character) / 4
so, to sum it up:
HPV= (S+St+C) /4
Then you have to take into account DAMAGE TOLERANCE VALUE:
((C/20) +Stamina bonus) x (-1), round up.
You usually end up having a DTV of -3, -4 or something like that.
Last, you calculate your Lethality index.
Each character has a Lethality Index. The value = DTV * 4. If your DTV
is -4, your LI is -16.
Effects are as follows:
Between 0 and DTV - The character is limited and semiconscious. He may take
one action per tactical turn OR move MR/10 (RU) in a tactical turn.
When less than DTV and not less than LI - The person is unconscious.
Less than LI - Dead.
When a wound is suffered that leaves the character with an HPV value
less than ONE, a roll is taken on the Death Table, (a sort of "critical hit table") so that if you are unlucky and roll a 20, you can instantly die (head severed, for example). But this dpends on the potency of the blow received.
If, for instance, you received a severe or DEADLY blow, it is likely you will die if you roll on the DEATH table.
So, to sum up: you calculate your HPV, then DTV and your LI value.


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One of the more important U.S. Senate races in the nation is headed to a recount. In this race, the choice for gun owners could not be clearer, as U.S. Senator Norm Coleman is a true friend of the Second Amendment and needs to be returned to Washington.
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Tobacco Taxes Fastest Growing Tax from 2000 to 2005
May 16, 2007
The growing trend in recent years has been to raise revenue in ways that are politically feasible, which is why new Census data shows that the fastest growing tax at the state and local level has been tobacco taxes, despite rapidly growing property taxes. Raising taxes on tobacco products is an easy political sell because tobacco tax revenue benefits all taxpayers but only a minority of people must pay any significant amount of the tax.
The following table shows the percent change in tax revenue combined at the state/local level by type of tax from fiscal year 2000 through fiscal year 2005. The figures are not adjusted for inflation, and are therefore nominal. Of the big tax sources (property, income and sales), property taxes have risen the most, followed by general sales.
Knowing what we know generally about the incidence of these taxes, it appears as if those tax sources that are growing more rapidly are the more regressive taxes like general sales, public utilities, and tobacco (and property somewhat, depending on the incidence assumption one makes). Individual income taxes, on the other hand, are the slowest growing source of tax revenue for state and local governments in percent terms.
| Type of Tax
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| State & Local Tax Revenue
Increase from 2000 – 2005
|Total Tax Collections
|Property Taxes
|General Sales
|Motor Fuel
|Alcoholic Beverages
|Tobacco Products
|Public Utilities
Other Selective
|Individual Income
|Corporate Income
|Motor Vehicle Licenses
|Other Taxes
Note: This table does not look at the growth in what Census defines as "non-tax revenue sources" such as tolls, lotteries, etc.
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Binum Binyamin Tuvia ben Chana Freidel you can understand why people need Tehillim and prayers in the Shemona Esray Prayer at Rofa'aynu section. Please those who can keep up the prayers for the list.
Re: Harry's Letter
From: Laiib
Apparently you haven't noticed how the (fill in blank: reform, conservative, orthodox) respond to such an invitation. To put it mildly, it's been tried, and it fails miserably. OK, if you don't care about the failures, but only the attempts -- hey, go for it. Over the long run, who knows? But over the short run, it's been tried and it fails. (Also Joseph wrote me in a similar vein on this subject.) I have come to the conclusion that if a person reaches the age of 30 or older they are pretty set in their ways. One has to have an opened mind to listen. I even listen to the Wall Street Protesters – yes some big shots at corporations are receiving ridiculously high fees – not one million or two million dollars but tens of millions but that does not give the right of the Protesters to blame the Jews for the wealth of J.P.Morgan, Buffett, Gates, Carlos, Walton, MacDonalds and others who have the wealth. However, the world owes the protesters nothing contribute nothing receive nothing unless you are such a Nebuch Individual who is 100% Disabled from childhood. I have seen dozens of these individuals actually contribute via menial jobs or repetitive jobs to help society at the lowest end of the pay scale.
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They could have shut their eyes and minded their own business, as so many people did in 1940s Poland. But when a three-year-old Jewish boy landed on their doorstep, so to speak, the Bulik family — bakers by profession — opened their hearts and gave the child a home. Michael Bulik, proprietor of Canada's Bulik Bakery, tells the tale.
At 4 a.m. on a Monday morning on the outskirts of Toronto, Canada, Michael Bulik opens the doors of his family business — the Bulik Bakery — and walks straight to the refrigerator where a nondescript plastic container hides his establishment's most prized possession. It has traveled across continents, and it has lived through wars. It has witnessed both acts of human depravity and triumph. It has also sustained his family for a hundred years. Michael reaches for the container — his family's unique sourdough starter — and begins the painstaking process of creating sourdough.
Unlike most other breads, sourdough breads don't use yeast to rise; instead, a bacterial culture called "starter" grows the dough and leavens the bread. This starter can only be produced by a master baker, and in the Bulik family's case, their starter has been passed down from generation to generation.
But the starter isn't the only thing that has been passed down in this family. Just as the Buliks' sourdough contains within it the remnant of previous "generations," so too do Michael Bulik and his family retain and cultivate a very different kind of prized possession — a possession that explains why this non-Jewish bakery has a hechsher from Canada's largest kosher certifier, COR (Kashruth Council of Canada) — their still ongoing relationship with a Jewish child that their family hid during World War II.
Who was this child, and why did the Buliks risk their lives to save him? To answer these questions we must leave the present bakery behind and travel back to 1940s Poland, where 18-year-old Wanda Bulik is about to encounter a three-year-old boy who is traveling alone on a train and crying.
"Can You Care for this Child?"
When World War II broke out in 1939, the Buliks' bakery, which was founded by Ignacy Bulik in 1912, was already a well-known Warsaw institution. Despite the war, the Buliks, along with Warsaw's other non-Jewish residents, could go about their daily routines and even enjoy themselves — as long as they didn't openly rebel against their German occupiers. The situation was very different for Warsaw's more than 400,000 Jews, who were crammed into an area just over one square mile in size, which became the Warsaw Ghetto.
Ignacy Bulik's 18-year-old daughter Wanda therefore was able to continue with her private dance lessons at a music and language school on 25 Common Street in downtown Warsaw. One morning, during her regular commute from the suburban area where her family lived to her school, Wanda was stopped by the train conductor, who thought she worked for the Red Cross. The conductor pointed to a three-year-old boy who was sitting by himself on the train, crying, and said, "This is the third time I've seen this boy taking the train on this route from Minsk to Warsaw. We need to help him. Why don't you take care of this child?"
In a 2008 interview with Polish magazine Wysokie Obcasy, Wanda Bulik recalled that she had a feeling that the little boy was Jewish, but, "I didn't care. He was nicely dressed with a full head of blond hair. I liked him."
But when she took the boy home, her father saw things differently.
The Bulik family opened a package that the boy was carrying with him. It contained some clothes and a note. Wanda had been right. The boy, whose name, according to the note, was Tolek Weinstein, was Jewish. And it was no accident that the boy had been traveling alone on the train. The note ended with an anguished plea from the boy's family: would whoever found the boy please take care of him.
Ignacy, the patriarch of the Bulik family, was terrified. He had personally witnessed the Nazis drag his neighbor into the street and, in broad daylight, execute the man and his entire family. The man's crime: hiding a Jewish child. Ignacy Bulik desperately wanted to avoid a similar fate for his family. But his daughter persisted. As the Talmud explains, one can "acquire one's share of the World to Come in just one moment." This was the Bulik family's moment — and Wanda won the argument. Ignacy gave his permission to hide Tolek Weinstein.
Life for the Buliks and their new "son" was at times surprisingly normal. He went to a Polish school and played with the other children in the neighborhood. He went on family trips with the Buliks in the winter, tobogganing in the special winter clothes that Wanda had sewn for him. He was part of the family. He even called Wanda "Mommy."
Other times, things weren't as normal. The Buliks had a friend named Henrik who was a police officer. Henrik knew their secret, and he would warn the Buliks about any movements of German soldiers in the area. When the danger of discovery seemed imminent, Henrik would take Tolek to stay with another police officer and his wife, who had no children of their own. Such was the effort required to protect one Jewish child, but it was effort well spent. Tolek and his rescuers were never discovered, nor were they ever betrayed.
After the war's end, there was a massive humanitarian relief undertaking that helped young and old alike. Those responsible for assisting Jewish children came to learn that Tolek's story was not unique. There were a number of Jewish children hidden by non-Jewish Polish families. The question was how to find the children and either return them to their parents or find them an adopted Jewish home.
Yeshayahu Drucker, who later became a colonel in the Israeli army, was then a captain in the Polish army's Chief Rabbinate. He made it his personal mission to uncover these Jewish hidden children. He had heard about Tolek and in 1946 he approached the Buliks and asked if they would release him. At first they didn't want to. "We loved Tolek," Wanda recalled. "He was part of our family." Even Ignacy Bulik, who hadn't been sure if he wanted to take in Tolek four years earlier, now didn't want to let the boy go.
But Drucker persisted. Then he was contacted by a Jewish couple who had lost their son during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Their family name was Greenberg, but they had received forged papers with the last name Rajscy and therefore were able to live out the war outside of the Ghetto by posing as non-Jews. The Rajscys, as they still called themselves, wanted to adopt Tolek. They had been friendly with his biological parents before the war and as a result felt an attachment to the child.
The Buliks agonized over what to do. They knew that if Tolek remained with them, he would likely become a baker. If he went with the Rajscys, he could go to university and have a better life. Their desire for Tolek to have a better life won the day.
"We all cried hysterically as they took him away," Wanda recalled, adding that Tolek also cried. "He screamed out, 'Don't let them take me! I don't want to go!'"
The Rajscys, who told Tolek that they were his parents, moved to France. They sent the Buliks a postcard with a picture of Tolek and an inscription written in the boy's hand, which said, "For Mommy." The Rajscys added their own note, writing that they would be moving to another country. They didn't specify where. With that, the Bulik family lost touch with Tolek Weinstein. Wanda tried many times to locate him, but the trail went cold. For 49 years.
"You're Not Going to Believe the News"
When their ship neared the shore of Eretz Yisrael in 1947, the Greenbergs/Rajscys were full of hope. After the horrors of the war, they wanted just one thing: a safe harbor where young Mati (aka Tolek) could thrive and grow. He didn't disappoint them. The European-born survivor forged a new identity in a country of determined fighters, rising through the ranks of the Israeli army and eventually becoming a colonel. He married a woman born in Krakow who also had been hidden by a non-Jewish family. In time Mati and his wife had children of their own — two daughters.
But in the corridor leading from his dark European past to a bright Israeli future, one door remained locked tightly. Mati's adopted mother passed away when he was a young man. During her last remaining days she revealed to him that the story she and her husband had told him after the war wasn't true. They were not his real parents. Mati was adopted. The pain and confusion caused by this revelation forced Mati to suppress the story of his childhood, never to be spoken about again.
Or so he thought.
One day, his 12-year-old daughter Noa received a school assignment: write an essay on any topic. Anything. For some reason, Mati's daughter chose to write about children of the Holocaust. "Of all of the topics, she had to choose this one?" Mati recalled feeling. "I tried to convince her to choose another subject but she was stubborn. So I had no choice. For the very first time, I told my daughter my story."
Mati assumed that it would end there. Instead, his daughter's essay won top prize and she was invited to read it to an assembly of school principals. "While watching my daughter present her paper, I felt something in my soul stirring. This was the first crack in my wall of silence."
Later, Mati heard that the Israel Broadcasting Authority was producing a documentary about children of the Holocaust who were looking for information. Mati volunteered to take part in the documentary, something that would have been unthinkable only a few years before.
During the making of the documentary, called Wanda's List, Mati was reunited with Yeshayahu Drucker.
"I remember your story well," Drucker told Mati. "The Buliks were the first family who didn't want any money. In fact, they refused to take money. The only condition they made was that you couldn't be sent to an orphanage. They only agreed to a family." Drucker added, "They really loved you."
The documentary was broadcast in both Israel and Poland. After it aired Mati received a few phone calls from people in Israel who thought they had useful information, but nothing panned out. Then a letter arrived from Poland, from a woman named Antonina Liro. As he read the letter, something inside of him said, "This is it." He got on a plane and departed immediately for Warsaw.
The story that Mrs. Liro had to tell could have been the basis for a best-selling suspense novel, but every word of it was true. She had been friends with Mati/Tolek's biological parents, Cyla and Mieczyslaw Weinstein, Mrs. Liro explained. When the war broke out, Tolek's parents were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto. Every few days at a designated time Mrs. Liro would come to the wall dividing the Ghetto from the rest of the city and throw food over the wall.
At some point, the Weinsteins were able to smuggle their son out of the Ghetto and place him with their former neighbors. But this was only a temporary solution. Therefore, one night in 1943, the Weinsteins managed to arrange a clandestine face-to-face visit with Mrs. Liro. Mrs. Weinstein explained that her husband had been badly injured and was dying. Mrs. Weinstein was also unwell. They feared for Tolek's safety and begged Mrs. Liro to please locate their son and take care of him. She agreed.
Mrs. Liro found Tolek — and not a moment too soon. While the woman of the house had agreed to hide Tolek, her husband was adamantly against the idea. He yelled at his wife for "hiding Jews." He even threatened to turn her over to the police — his own wife. Mrs. Liro quickly volunteered to turn young Tolek into the police for him. Instead, of course, she intended to take the boy to a safer hiding place.
Her first plan was to take Tolek to her parents' house. But when they arrived, she was horrified to see that German soldiers were removing her parents from their home. Panicking, she ran into a nearby forest where she and Tolek were forced to spend the night. The next morning Mrs. Liro took Tolek to the train station.
When she came to this point in her story, she told the grown-up Mati, "I am sorry. I couldn't keep you. With me, you had no chance to survive. Neither of us did. But I thought if I left you on the train, then maybe someone would have pity on you and take you in."
Fortunately, the young Antonina Liro was right. Wanda Bulik was able to provide the blond little boy with the refuge that she could not. But even though Mrs. Liro wasn't able to give little Tolek shelter, she was about to give the adult Mati something else. In that short conversation, Mrs. Liro gave Mati closure, putting to rest the many years of questions about what had happened to his biological parents.
Mrs. Liro was not the only Pole to view the documentary. One of the Bulik sisters had also seen it, and when a photograph of the young Tolek was flashed on the screen she knew at once that this was the same picture as the one on the postcard that Wanda had received from France — the postcard upon which Tolek had inscribed "For Mommy." She called Wanda immediately.
"She told me, 'Sit down because you're not going to believe the news. Tolek is alive. He is living in Israel and he's looking for you,'" Wanda remembered. "I went straight to the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland and they got in touch with some Israeli officials. That's how I learned that Tolek was in Warsaw at that very moment!"
Mati rushed over to see Wanda. He presented her with a big bouquet of flowers. "He was so happy to see me," Wanda recalled. Mati added, "I couldn't believe it. I was finally able to close the circle."
The Circle Widens Back in Israel
Mati's eldest daughter Yael was volunteering at a conference that was hosting a number of foreign dignitaries, including Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski. Yael asked for a photograph with Mr. Kwasniewski. When he asked her why she wanted the picture, she responded cryptically, "It's a long story, but I think some friends in Poland would enjoy seeing the photograph."
Something about Yael's response didn't sit right with President Kwasniewski. At the farewell banquet he instructed his aides to approach Yael and find out the rest of the story. When President Kwasniewski heard all the details, he wrote the Bulik family immediately, telling them how proud he was of their heroic action.
The Bulik family was later honored by Yad Vashem with the special designation "Righteous Among the Nations." In addition, a New York–based group called Foundation for the Righteous honored Wanda Bulik and 60 other Poles at a luncheon in Warsaw; the organization voluntarily supplements their meager monthly pensions. The Israeli government has also honored the Bulik family, bestowing upon them honorary Israeli citizenship should they ever wish to move to the Jewish state.
With his story now in the public purview, Mati Greenberg no longer feels a need to suppress it. Rather, he reflects on it, seeing the hand of God watching over him and protecting him. "There's no other possibility except that my survival was Divinely predestined. For me to be smuggled out of the Ghetto, for Antonina to rescue me just before I was going to be turned in, for her to evade the police, for me to sit on the train with the conductor allowing me to ride back and forth, for Wanda to board exactly that train at exactly that moment, for her to agree to take me, for her family to allow me to stay, for the police officer to help hide me … it has to be more than just chance. There must have been a guardian angel looking out for me who said, 'No matter what happens, this child will live.'"
Mati Greenberg has continued to keep in close contact with the Bulik family. He has visited Poland a number of times, and they have even visited him in Israel. On one of Mati's visits to Poland, Antonina Lira hosted a get-together in his honor, inviting friends and neighbors. One of them asked him, "So when are you going to come back to the homeland?" Mati replied, "With all of my appreciation for the people of Poland, my only homeland is Israel, the homeland of the Jewish People."
During another one of these "family reunions," a chance exchange put the wheels in motion for Canada's Bulik Bakery to go kosher. One of Ignacy Bulik's grandsons, Urek, was living in Canada, where Urek and his son Michael were continuing the family profession.
"Tolek said to my father, 'How about becoming kosher?' Immediately, it all made sense," Michael recalled. "In 2000 we became kosher-certified by the COR. It's been 11 years and we have a great relationship with the COR. But it's more than just a business relationship, because of the connection that we have with the Jewish People."
The COR agrees. On a recent inspection visit one of COR's rabbis was exchanging pictures of his children with Michael Bulik. He confided to Michael that his daughter was sick. She had begun limping inexplicably, and an MRI had revealed a lesion on her leg. They were still waiting for the results of a biopsy. The rabbi admitted to Michael that he and his wife were afraid. Michael Bulik put his hands on the rabbi's shoulders and said, "Whatever happens, you will be able to deal with it. If Tolek made it, I am sure your daughter will too."
A few days later the rabbi received the fantastic news that the lesion was benign. His first phone call was to his family. The second one was to Michael Bulik, who is, indeed, now part of the COR family.
"If my great-grandfather Ignacy knew that our breads are kosher-certified, I'm sure it would put a big smile on his face," Michael Bulik mused. "Just as our family and the bakery have been interconnected for almost a century, the fact that we are today kosher-certified also brings our family's story full circle."
(Reprinted from "Mishpacha Magazine")
Chapter 2
Halacha 1
The king must be treated with great honor. We must implant awe and fear of him in the hearts of all men. The command Deuteronomy 17:15: 'Appoint a king' implies the obligation to be in awe of him.
We may not ride on his horse, nor sit on his throne, use his scepter, wear his crown, or use any of his utensils. When he dies, they should all be burned before his bier.
Similarly, only another king is allowed to make use of his servants, maids, and attendants. Accordingly, Avishag was permitted to Solomon, but prohibited to Adoniyahu.
Halacha 2
However, a king's wife is forbidden to share intimacy with another person forever. Even another king may not marry a king's widow or divorced exwife.
Halacha 3
It is forbidden to observe him while he is naked, while he is having his hair cut, while he is in the baths, or while he is drying himself afterwards.
He may not perform chalitzah, for concerning that ritual, it is said Deuteronomy 25:9: 'And she shall spit before him.' This would be disrespectful to the king.
Even if he desires to perform this mitzvah, he is not given the opportunity because a king's honor must be preserved even though he is willing to forgo it.
Since he is not allowed to perform chalitzah, he is not eligible to participate in yibbum. Similarly, in the event of his death, since it is forbidden to initiate yibbum with his wife, chalitzah is also not performed for her. Rather, she must remain in her state of attachment forever.
Halacha 4
Even if one of his close relatives dies, he may not leave his palace. When he is served the meal of comfort, the entire nation should sit on the ground and he should sit on a low couch.
If he enters the Temple courtyard, and he is of David's descendents, he may sit. For the only ones who may sit in the Temple Courtyard are kings of the Davidic dynasty, as II Samuel 7:18 states: 'And David sat before God.'
Halacha 5
A king should have his hair cut every day. He should dress and adorn himself in attractive and impressive garments, as Isaiah 33:17 states: 'Your eyes shall behold the king in his beauty.'
He sits on his throne in his palace and has a crown placed on his head.
When he desires, the nation must present themselves before him. They should stand before him and prostrate themselves to the ground. Even a prophet must stand before the king and prostrate himself on the ground, as I Kings 1:23 states: 'Behold, Nathan, the prophet came before the king and prostrated himself before the king.'
However, a High Priest need not come before the king unless he the High Priest desires to do so. The High Priest need not stand before the king. Rather, the king stands before the High Priest, as Numbers 27:21 states: 'And he shall stand before Elazar, the priest.'
Nevertheless, it is a mitzvah for the High Priest to honor the king by having him seated and standing in his presence when he visits him. The king should only stand before him when he consults the Urim and Tumim.
Similarly, it is a mitzvah for the king to honor students of Torah when they enter his presence. He should stand before the Sanhedrin and the Sages of Israel and seat them at his side.
Jehosephat, King of Judah would follow this practice. Whenever even a student of a Torah scholar would come to him, he would rise from his throne and kiss him and address him as 'My teacher and master.'
When does the above apply? When the king is alone in his palace. Then, in private, before his servants, he should behave in this fashion. However, in public, before the people at large, he should not conduct himself in this manner. He should not stand before anyone. He should not speak gently and should address a person using his name alone in order that the awe of him will be implanted in everyone's hearts.
Halacha 6
Just as the Torah has granted him great honor and obligated everyone to revere him; so, too, has it commanded him to be lowly and empty at heart, as Psalms 109:22 states: 'My heart is a void within me.' Nor should he treat Israel with overbearing haughtiness. For Deuteronomy 17:20 describes how 'he should not lift up his heart above his brothers.'
He should be gracious and merciful to the small and the great, involving himself in their good and welfare. He should protect the honor of even the humblest of men.
When he speaks to the people as a community, he should speak gently, as I Chronicles 28:2 states 'Listen my brothers and my people....' Similarly, I Kings 12:7 states 'If today, you will be a servant to these people....'
He should always conduct himself with great humility. There is none greater than Moses, our teacher. Yet, he said Exodus 16:8: 'What are we? Your complaints are not against us.' He should bear the nation's difficulties, burdens, complaints, and anger as a nurse carries an infant.
Psalms 78:71 refers to a king as a shepherd: 'to pasture, Jacob, His nation.' The prophets have described the behavior of a shepherd (Isaiah 40:11): 'He shall pasture His flock like a shepherd, He shall gather the lambs with His arm and carry them in His bosom."
Loosing one's Jewish Identity. http://www.aish.com/jw/s/Menorah_on_Top_of_the_Tree.html
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Yehoshua commented after I wrote him what I thought of these primitive fanatics spitting on a 7 or 8 year old girl on the street: Yehoshua Ya'acov - Their extremism knows no bounds, and is almost as bad as what the Gulag's atheists are pushing, with their weighted secular police state coercions. Yes indeed, we've BIG PROBLEMS all rooted in DENIAL of exile's end, and Zionism COLLAPSE since; which most Jews have NOT yet caught up wtih, as most are in DENIAL.
Spitting on people to make your point is not Torah (Derachecha Darkei Shalom) your paths are pathways of peace. If you want to be a Taliban and have your wife walk like a subservient person or animal that is one thing but don't tell my wife or I how to dress, walk and where to walk on a public street which is neither under your ownership or under your control. Can you imagine the scandal of a nurse or wife pushing an elderly man in a wheel chair such a sex scandal! These people are self-dilusional and not in a real world. I have stopped donating to most of their causes but they disguise them to get money off of other Jews and make war with us. I have become wary of who I give charity to as a lot of scams are out there. They need finance from the normal UltraOrthodox people and regular religious Jews as most do not work and then they go out and attack us. Do not give money to Toldos Aaron or Satmar Charities because unfortunately they are used against us.
window. One may not write nor draw using water that spilled on a table. One may not use one's nail to make a mark on page, to enable one to find the place again, or for any other reason. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 80:62 Shabbat Shalom - Danny
Air Force kills Gazan terrorist in missile attack Israel Air Force and Shin Bet fire missile at Gazan terrorist involved in recent attacks on Israel, killing Islamic Jihad militant and injuring two others in the northern Gaza Strip.
Not all people from German background or Germans are Neo-Nazis but this man is Nicht alle Menschen aus der deutschen Hintergrund oder Deutsche sind Neo-Nazis, aber dieser Mann ist http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/27/paul-hamas-was-encouraged-and-really-started-by-israel/
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1. Hallelujah! My soul, praise the Lord. 2. I shall praise the Lord in my life; I shall sing to the Lord as long as I exist. 3. Do not trust in princes, in the son of men, who has no salvation. 4. His spirit leaves, he returns to his soil; on that day, his thoughts are lost. 5. Praiseworthy is he in whose help is the God of Jacob; his hope is in the Lord his God. 6. Who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, Who keeps truth forever. 7. Who performs justice for the oppressed, Who gives bread to the hungry; the Lord sets loose the bound. 8. The Lord gives sight to the blind; the Lord straightens the bent; the Lord loves the righteous. 9. The Lord guards the strangers; He strengthens the orphan and the widow, and He perverts the way of the wicked. 10. The Lord will reign forever! Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Hallelujah!
Good Shabbos and Happy Chanukah Everyone. In this week's parsha Miketz, the Torah continues its narrative of Yosef's prowess in interpreting dreams. The Sages tell us that dreams have 1/60th of the power of prophecy. The following amazing true story, which occurred less than two weeks ago, illustrates the power of dreams to uncover the hidden spiritual world.
This past Shabbos Chanukah was especially inspirational in New Square, New York, where Chassidim gathered in droves to watch their Rebbe light his massive silver Chanukah Menorah shortly before the onset of Shabbos. As the Rebbe finished lighting the Holy Chanukah lights, the Chassidim and onlookers filed out of the giant Beis Medrash (shul), rushing home to light the own menorahs in the few minutes which remained before Shabbos.
Arguably, the highlight of a Shabbos in Skvere (New Square) is the Friday night Tish the Rebbe's Friday night meal, which is carried out in grandeur. Soon after the Tish began this last week, an unfamiliar face made his way to a seat near the front of the giant table. Who was this tall man with a white beard and deep blue eyes? Whispered the Chassidim among themselves. The man swayed with the beautiful zmiros (Shabbos Songs) and he appeared to be uplifted along with the other assembled Chassidim.
After the Tish, the word got out that the man's name was Avrohom Greenfeld (not his real name) and he had come from Eretz Yisroel. Avrohom has many interesting stories to tell. The following is one story, which Avrohom told at the Friday night meal to the assembled guests in the home of Reb Yidel Lichter on Monroe Lane in New Square, NY. Among the assembled Shabbos guests was the author himself.
Avrohom Greenfeld was born in Germany, after the Second World War. His parents were survivors of the atrocities which beset the Jewish nation during the war years. Soon after his birth, Avrohom's parents moved with him to Eretz Yisroel.
Unfortunately, although the Greenfelds physically survived the war, their faith in Hashem did not survive, and they lived their lives like assimilated Israelis. Thus, Avrohom was raised completely secularly. All of this changed about 28 years ago when Avrohom became one of the first talmidim (students) of the then fledging Israeli section of the world renown Baal Teshuva Yeshivas Aish HaTorah.
Eventually, Avrohom met and married an American Gioris (righteous female convert). Avrohom's wife hailed from a small town in Western Illinois. Throughout the time that they were married, Avrohom and his wife would make periodic trips from Eretz Yisroel to visit the wife's family in Illinois. In the course of these visits to Illinois, Avrohom befriended a local resident by the name of Lawrence Robertson (not his real name). Although Lawrence appeared to be a mid-western non-Jew, Lawrence was in fact a Jew, albeit an almost totally assimilated Jew.
Avrohom maintained contact with Lawrence over the course of many years. Through phone calls and letters, and an occasional visit by Avrohom, the two became close friends. Avrohom and Lawrence often spoke about religion. Avrohom was surprised to find out from Lawrence that Lawrence had in fact had roots in the Satmar brand of Chassidus. Lawrence was however far removed from his Chassidic roots, for he lived for the most part a totally secular existence.
Avrohom often gently encouraged the elder Lawrence to increase his Torah observance. Avrohom even sent mezuzas to Lawrence, so that Lawrence should have kosher mezuzas. Despite of all this, Lawrence was never inspired to dedicate his life to Torah and Mitzvahs. Nevertheless, Avrohom and Lawrence maintained a close friendship.
About two years ago, Avrohom lost contact with Lawrence. At first, the 74 or so year old Lawrence did not return phone messages. Soon after, his phone was disconnected. Avrohom sent letters to which he received no response. Being that Avrohom was extremely busy in his personal and professional life, he did make the time to try to find out about what had become of his friend Lawrence.
On December 10th of this year, Lawrence came to his friend Avrohom in a dream. In the dream, Lawrence told his friend Avrohom, that he had passed away exactly two years earlier on the same secular date December 10th. Lawrence begged Avrohom in the dream to take me out of here. Avrohom woke up sad, fearing that his friend had in fact passed on to the next world. Although, Avrohom was at a loss to explain the words of Lawrence: take me out of here. When the same dream repeated itself several times, Avrohom began to wonder
About a week ago, Avrohom's company in Eretz Yisroel sent Avrohom to the Midwest, where the company has business dealings with a large tractor manufacturer. Being that Avrohom was in the area where Lawrence lived, Avrohom searched out Lawrence. Unfortunately, Avrohom found out that his dream came true. Lawrence had in fact passed away two years previous.
Avrohom is a man of action. He took little time in finding out what had happened to his friend's remains. He was told the worst: Lawrence had been cremated, a direct violation of Jewish law. Even worse than that was the fact that the authorities had placed Lawrence's remains in a non-Jewish cemetery. Apparently, Lawrence had no close relatives and the authorities only discovered Lawrence's last will and testament after it was too late.
Avrohom visited the non-Jewish cemetery where he in fact found a grave marker with a Star of David at the head of Lawrence's grave. Avrohom now understood Lawrence's words in the dream take me out of here. Lawrence wanted to be removed from the non-Jewish cemetery. Lawrence had a plan. It was crazy, but it just might work. However, he needed to enlist the help of someone else in order for the plan to work. He approached a local non-orthodox Rabbi. The Rabbi was shocked at the boldness of Avrohoms plan. Avrohom told the Rabbi look, if you are a Yid, (Jew), you will do it. It took several hours of convincing, but the Rabbi agreed to help.
That night, late at night, the two slipped quietly into the non-Jewish cemetery, carrying shovels. The ground was frozen and covered with snow. It took a long time, but they managed to dig out the urn containing the remains of Lawrence. The next stop was the local Jewish cemetery. There, in the cold of the early morning hours, they buried Lawrence's remains. Despite the fact that there was no minyan, Avrohom determined that it was an Ace Laasos LHashem (a time when the Torah may be abridged, in rare circumstances) and he said Kadish for his old friend Lawrence.
Avrohom concluded his story at the Lichter's Shabbos table. All were astounded by Avrohom's dedication to Hashem, to Torah, and most of all, to his friend Lawrence, may he rest in peace. Good Shabbos Everyone and Happy Chanukah Everyone. M. Wolfberg is sponsored by Refuah Shleima to Reb Mordechai Menachem Mendel ben Tziporah Yitta Refuah Shleima to Tsviah bas Bracha Leah


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'Fringe' Review: "Through the Looking Glass, And What Walter Found There"
The battle against the Observers jumps dimensions, as 'Fringe' season 5 debuts its sixth episode of the final season "Through the Looking Glass, And What Walter Found There," where the team ventures into a pocket universe to retrieve a crucial piece of Walter's plan, and Peter's new Observer tech begins to affect him in mysterious wasy.
Last time's 'Fringe' episode "An Origin Story" saw the team struggling to cope with Etta's heartbreaking death, while Peter interrogated a captive Observer to assemble a deadly plan that would cripple their operation, so how does "Through the Looking Glass, And What Walter Found There" keep the final season in motion? How will season 5 of 'Fringe' close out the epic saga?
Read on for your in-depth recap of everything you need to know about 'Fringe' season 5 episode 6, "Through the Looking Glass, And What Walter Found There!"
Cutting through the amber alone, Walter retrieves yet another tape and pops it in the VCR, in turn revealing that he left a key piece of his plan to defeat the observers in an apartment building at 167 Cedar street. Elsewhere, Peter sits in Etta's apartment endlessly replaying a recording of his young daughter, when Olivia joins him there and asks only that they keep one another in the loop with regards to what they're feeling.
Walter walks through a bombed out neighborhood alone (getting IDed by an overhead scanner), and makes his way to the apartment building, carefully traversing his way up to the fourth floor. Once there Walter finds the apartment and stands in its center, undergoing a series of organized steps along the floor before stepping through a fissure and disappearing altogether. He reappears, seemingly in some kind of alternate dimension.
Back at the Harvard lab, Astrid, Olivia and Peter wonder where Walter's gone, before watching the tape to see that years ago Walter created a "pocket universe," with the help of the mysterious Donald heard about in "The Recordist." Meanwhile, inside the pocket universe, Walter traverse the tricky and physics-defying nature of the apartment building, before coming face to face with a man named Cecil who'd been trapped there some time ago.
While Walter and Cecil make their way around, learning that time distortions have kept Cecil in there 20 years longer than he'd perceived, Peter, Olivia and Astrid show up to the apartment building, and follow Walter's steps into the pocket universe. Once inside, the tape on the video recorder resumes playing form the point it cut out, thanks to the pocket universe's unique conditions. Elsewhere, back in Manhattan, Captain Windmark learns from one of his subordinates that Walter Bishop has been sighted in Worcester.
Following Walter's video instructions, Peter and Olivia note that he seems to be talking to someone just off camera apart from Donald, as they run into the real Walter and Cecil. While Walter seems to question himself for getting them all so lost, we see on the camera that Walter led a small Observer child into one of the many Fringe Symbol-marked doors. The team finds their way into the room marked with an apple, only to find that the boy isn't where he was left. Walter grows increasingly frustrated with his failure, but Olivia notices a radio on the nightstand that wasn't present in the video.
Back in the real world, Astrid notices the Observers arriving outside, while inside Walter and Peter muse that Donald might have moved the Observer boy for some reason. Observers knock Astrid unconscious and enter the fissure, forcing the team to make a hasty escape. In the chaos, Observes gun down Cecil, and nearly take out Olivia before everyone else manages to exit the pocket universe.
Downstairs, Peter remains behind to draw off their Observer pursuers, engaging one in a fistfight and displaying incredible speed and strength. His Observer opponent taunts Peter that he doesn't yet understand what his new-found Oberver tech is doing to him, when Peter teleports behind him and snaps his neck. Peter teleports away from the scene as Windmark observes, another Etta poster in the background behind him.
After some initial worry, Peter manages to join the others on the monorail to escape. Olivia notes that the mysterious radio appears to be jammed to a specific signal, but isn't active yet, while Walter expresses his worry to Peter that he has once again become the cold, ruthless and driven man he removed parts of his brain to get away from. Having used Cecil and felt no remorse at his death, Walter begs Peter not to let him become that man again, to which Peter assures his father that he won't. Peter's gaze shifts to Olivia at the other end of the car, as we observe Peter's sight has become the same blue-tinged , grid-like vision of the Observers.
Six episodes, and halfway into the final season, it remains somewhat frustrating that our favorite 'Fringe' team continues finding clues rather than actual answers. The strongest aspects of "Through the Looking Glass, And What Walter Found There" lie in the personal drama between teh characters, most notably Walter's moving worries of becoming his former self, and Olivia's sense of distance between herself and Peter. Moving into the back half of the final season, we're hoping the pace picks up somewhat, without necessarily losing the rich drama we observed tonight.
Did you get your fill of freaky 'Fringe' drama? What did you think about the season's sixth effort? Do you still miss Etta? Join us next week for another all-new 'Fringe' episode recap of "Five-Twenty-Ten" on FOX!


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Ecology Coatings Enters into a License Agreement with BASF Coatings
|(Nanowerk News) Ecology Coatings, Inc., a leader in the discovery and development of nanotechnology-enabled, ultraviolet-curable advanced coatings, announced it has entered into a license agreement with German-based BASF Coatings GmbH, one of the world's largest chemical companies.
|Under the terms of the license agreement, Ecology Coatings is providing BASF a non-exclusive license for use of its patents, EP 1 723 180, US 7,323,248, US 7,153,892 and US 7,498,362. BASF will pay Ecology Coatings a royalty of 0.5 percent of the net sales value of products using EP 1 723 180 sold in Europe, and a royalty of 2.5 percent of the net sales value of products sold outside of Europe.
|BASF will pay Ecology Coatings a royalty of 2.5 percent of the net sales value of products sold outside of Europe using U.S. patents 7,323,248, 7,153,892 and 7,498,362. The agreement will terminate upon the expiration of the last patent licensed by BASF.
|"The license agreement validates our novel UV-curable coatings and the strength of our IP portfolio," commented Ecology Coatings CEO Bob Crockett. "BASF is well known for providing quality products and we are pleased that they have chosen to license four of our innovative coating patents."
|Ecology Coatings CEO Bob Crockett is hosting a shareholder update conference call Wednesday, January 25, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. PST, 2:00 p.m. EST. The conference call dial-in number for both U.S. and international callers is 1-480-629-9712. Please dial in to the conference five minutes before the call is scheduled to begin. Ask the operator for the Ecology Coatings call.
|An audio replay of the conference call will be available from January 25, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern, through February 8, 2012, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern. The replay can be accessed by dialing 1-858-384-5517 and entering conference number 4498732.
|There are many applications that will benefit from Ecology Coatings' UV-curable products. To discover if these environmentally friendly, UV-curable coatings can advance your manufacturing application or enhance your products, visit the company's website at www.ecologycoatings.com or send an email to [email protected]
|About Ecology Coatings, Inc.
|Ecology Coatings, Inc. is a leader in the development and licensing of cleantech ultraviolet (UV) curable coatings coatings that improve the products we use daily. Ecology's technology platform allows manufacturers to enhance the durability and performance of their products, while significantly reducing energy costs and increasing manufacturing throughput. The company produces solvent-free coatings, which eliminate the escape of harmful solvents into the atmosphere during application. Headquartered in Warren, Michigan, Ecology Coatings has a development and prototype lab in Akron, Ohio. For additional information, visit the company's website at http://www.ecologycoatings.com.
|Source: Ecology Coatings (press release)
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So we have finally got to the stage where Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) can declare the country an "international leader" in transgender rights.
Pinknews.co.uk quotes TENI as saying the state has shown "great vision and conviction in ensuring the rights of trans people".
The organisation was responding to new legislation that will allow those wishing to change their gender on their birth certificate to do so without medical evidence.
The announcement was made by Joan Burton, the tánaiste and social protection minister, and means that the application process under the Gender Recognition Bill will change for those aged 18 or older.
In future, adults will be able to make a self-declaration under the Gender Recognition Bill that will be fully recognised for all purposes including the right to marry or enter a civil partnership.
New birth certs, passports and other relevant documentation will be issued to those in the transgender community, ending the requirement of supporting statements from psychiatrists.
Labour TD Kevin Humphreys said the bill places "Ireland firmly in the most progressive group of countries for the recognition of transgender people."
He is right, but it took an age to get to this point and the delays involved are worth noting. For years transgender people have been fighting to win the right to have their true genders recognised, through the courts and through the media. The most prominent was Lydia Foy, (pictured below) but there have been many others.
Trace the history of transgender rights in Ireland and what you find is a group of people fighting to be listened to over an extended period of time in a bid to force necessary and arguably simple change.
Ireland has a record of being slow to move to address pressing social issues even when the need to do so is glaringly obvious and despite the fact that several other countries have already shown the way. This has always been the case, but particularly so when the issue in question is outside what some would refer to as the "norm".
As a young reporter, I first started writing about transgender rights in 2002. I wrote a series of articles for The Sunday Tribune on the subject and, over time, suggested so many similar stories at editorial meetings that my colleagues began to ask what my obsession was.
For me, it was straightforward: Transgender people in Ireland lived in a country that simply wasn't listening to them, trying to understand their concerns or bothering to help them. If you were coming from a position of otherness and didn't fit into the boxes, the computer-like Irish establishment and state system simply said 'no'.
It was a pressing social issue, especially for those involved, yet many who could help chose to ignore rather than address it, partly because the numbers of those affected was so small. Transgender people didn't want a whole lot, but what they wanted would have made a huge change to their lives.
I believed the stories they had to tell were glaring examples of how the Irish state can often fail to face up to its responsibilities to all citizens and I thought they deserved to be heard.
Here are some of the stories I wrote.
Couple must remarry in Denmark to be let work Husband who was once a woman gets lifeline from Copenhagen, writes Richard Oakley
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31 March 2002
Sunday Tribune
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NICHOLAS Krivenko has been living in limbo since he got married in Limerick four years ago.
A Russian citizen, currently resident in Broadford, Co Clare, he wants to live and work in Ireland but is not allowed to because he used to be a woman.
Ireland doesn't recognise his marriage to the German woman he loves because Krivenko is a transsexual who was born female. As a result, he has been refused a work permit - a right available to anyone else who is married to an EU citizen. The state doesn't accept that he is a man, despite this being stated on the new Russian birth certificate he was given after his sex change. And as same-sex marriages are not allowed in this country, the state is questioning the validity of Krivenko's.
In High Court proceedings initiated two years ago, Krivenko is suing the Department of Justice, the gardai, the AG and the state in a bid to have his marriage declared valid. He is claiming that, at the very least, the state should recognise his new birth certificate, which was issued by Russian authorities after he underwent a sex change operation and confirms his gender to be male and his name to be Nicholas.
The case, due to be heard laterthis year, means that the Irish courts will, for the first time, have to decide on the validity of a marriage involving a person who has undergone a sex change. In the meantime, however, the couple's case has taken a twist that highlights just how far Ireland is behind other countries when it comes to recognising the rights of transsexuals, according to campaigners.
Earlier this month, Nicholas and his wife Sybille received a letter from the central marriage registration office in Denmark saying "that Nicholas Krivenko and Sybille Ruth Karin Hintze can enter into marriage in Copenhagen, Denmark, if the High Court in Ireland declares their marriage to be void". The offer means that, even if the High Court rules that their marriage is not valid, the Krivenkos could circumvent the ruling by going to Denmark and getting married there.
After the marriage, Nicholas could then re-apply for a residence permit in Ireland because he would be married to an EU citizen. If he did this, the state could refuse to recognise a Danish marriage certificate, but doing so would be legally questionable. If the Krivenkos remarry, the state would be obliged to issue a residence permit to Nicholas, thereby rendering its battle with him an apparent waste of time.
The Danish letter, and its implications for a costly High Court case, have been seized upon by campaigners for transsexuals and Nicholas Krivenko.
In an interview with The Sunday Tribune at their home in Broadford, the Krivenkos confirmed they were prepared to travel to Denmark and get remarried there if needs be.
Nicholas claimed the situation showed "how ridiculous Ireland is being".
"This has been eating me up for years. I can't work and provide a living for my family.
Because of it and I feel like a second-class citizen. I can't get a passport, I can't start a business, it's just crazy. I don't want to be fighting all the time, but I am being forced to. It seems to me that the state hasn't got a leg to stand on. I don't understand why they are doing this. I don't think they understand, " he said.
Diane Hughes of the organisation Press for Change, which campaigns for transsexuals' rights, said the case showed Ireland was "light-years behind" nearly every other country in Europe. "There are only two countries in the EU where marriages between transsexuals are not recognised. In all the others, people can change their birth certificates and can marry as a result. But in the UK and Ireland, they can't, " she said.
Nicholas Krivenko arrived in Ireland in 1996 with Sybille, who he met in Hamburg in Germany in 1993. At that time Nicholas was female and called, Nadia but, as Sybille put it, "there was always something undeniably masculine about her".
Nicholas underwent a sex change in 1998 while living in Broadford and was issued with a new birth certificate by Russian authorities following the operation. One year later, he married Sybille in the registry office in Limerick.
A former exporter of Irish butter to Russia, he applied to the Department of Justice for an extension to his work permit in February 1999, on the basis that he was married to an EU citizen, and was granted one in June. However, when he subsequently visited his local Garda station to obtain a registration certificate, he wasn't issued with one and the gardai also did not make the necessary endorsement on his passport.
In October 2000, Nicholas and Sybille were granted leave to take a legal challenge against the failure of the Irish authorities to extend his residence permit. They want a declaration that Nicholas is entitled to be issued with a registration certificate.
Where Europe stands on transsexualism
TRANSSEXUALS are allowed to marry, adopt children and enjoy pension rights in nearly ever y countr y in the EU except Ireland and the UK. If Nicholas Krivenko was living in Denmark, Greece, Norway or Italy, for example, his altered birth certificate and subsequent marriage would be recognised by those countries.
The fact that Ireland has yet to change its legislation to match the rest of the EU is "unacceptable", according to transsexual Diane Hughes of the organisation Press for Change. "The law is ridiculous.
Transsexualism is a recognised condition. The main treatment for it is for the person involved to have a gender realignment operation.
When this is done, the person changes sex, a man becomes a woman, a woman becomes a man.
In Ireland now, however, you are not allowed to change your bir th cer tificate. So even though you have changed sex, your bir th cer tificate says you haven't. It's embarrassing in situations where you need your bir th cer tificate, but that is only par t of it. The fact that you can't change this document af fects your rights as a person and that is not fair, " she said.
"In other countries, they recognise changes in bir th cer tificates so transsexuals are then able to marr y, the marriage is not a samesex one, " she explained.
The Krivenkos' case and other similar cases involving transsexuals have led to calls for changes in the legislation governing marriages.
Alan Shatter of Fine Gael has said the state must legislate for new family situations, while Senator David Norris has written to the Minister for Justice asking him to examine the Krivenkos' case.
Transsexual vows to go on hunger strike A female-to-male transsexual has decided to go on hunger strike after the adjournment of his case
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7 July 2002
Sunday Tribune
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A FEMALE-to-male transsexual is to go on hunger strike this week because of the state's refusal to recognise his marriage.
Nicholas Krivenko, a Russian national who lives in Broadford, Co Clare, is currently suing the Department of Justice, the gardai, the Attorney General and the state in an effort to have his marriage to a German woman declared valid. The case centres around the authorities' refusal to recognise a Russian birth certificate issued to him after he underwent a sex change to become a man.
His decision to go on hunger strike was made after the adjournment of his case, which was due for a full hearing in the High Court last Tuesday. State solicitors argued that the court should await the outcome of a separate case involving another transsexual, Kildare dentist Dr Lydia Foy, and a decision was reached that this would be appropriate.
Foy is attempting to obtain an order to compel the registrar of births, deaths and marriages to change the gender on her birth certificate from male to female. Her case has already been heard by the High Court, but judgment has been reserved.
Krivenko, however, has argued that this case has nothing to do with his and is angry at the decision to adjourn his hearing. He was granted leave to take his case in October 2000 and in the meantime has been denied the normal rights afforded to a person married to an EU citizen. He has been refused a work permit and has not been issued with a passport.
"Dr Foy wants her Irish birth certificate changed. I have a Russian one that I want the Irish government to recognise. The two cases are similar but they are not the same.
"I was hoping that my case could be resolved as quickly as possible. I have waited patiently for this to happen, but when it finally comes up it gets adjourned. I feel there is no option now but to go on hunger strike and I plan to start next week, " he said.
Krivenko, formerly named Nadia, travelled to the US to undergo gender realignment surgery while living in Clare in 1998. After the operation, he was issued with a new Russian birth certificate and one year later he married Sybille, a German woman, in the registry office in Limerick.
A former exporter of Irish butter to Russia, he then applied to the Department of Justice for an extension to his work permit on the basis that he was married to an EU citizen.
He was granted one in June but when he subsequently visited his local garda station to obtain a registration certificate, he wasn't issued with one and the gardai also did not make the necessary endorsement on his passport.
In Ireland, same-sex marriages are illegal. The state also refuses to allow birth certificates to be altered. In the case of transsexuals, this has caused a number of difficulties and has been widely criticised by transsexual lobby groups.
Ireland is one of the few countries in the EU which refuses to allow transsexuals to marry, adopt children and enjoy pension rights. The Krivenkos, for example, have been offered the chance to legally re-marry in Denmark.
Irish transsexual tried to mutilate himself
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10 November 2002
Sunday Tribune
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AN Irish transsexual attempted self-castration because of the lack of services available to him, a high-level conference will be told this week.
Dr James Kelly, one of a small number of doctors in the country currently treating transsexuals, is to highlight the case in a paper to be delivered at next week's annual conference of the Psychological Society of Ireland. He will claim that the lack of services provided to people with gender-identity disorder or transsexualism has caused huge distress to a number of his patients and has led some to develop depression and try to attempt suicide or injure themselves.
According to Kelly, the incident involving the self-castration occurred a number of years ago, but there have since been only small improvements in the level of services provided for transsexuals.
"The patient in question was frustrated because he could not get any help for his condition.
He tried to remove one of his own testicles in an act of desperation, " Kelly said. He added that shortly after the incident, the person was put in contact with him and was successfully treated.
In his paper, Kelly will outline how 34 patients have presented at his clinic in Dublin since it opened last January with behaviours associated with gender identity disorder and another recognised condition known as transvestic fetishism. Of these 16, or nearly 50%, met the international diagnostic criteria for gender identity disorder and went on to be put on a course of hormone therapy with a view to undergoing sex changes. Kelly will outline how one quarter had experienced "clinically remarkable depression", had engaged in self-injurious behaviours or attempted suicide.
"Over the last two years, services have improved, but there are still problems in some health board areas. Some transsexuals are still not given access to treatments that have been shown to help with their condition, " he said. He added that legislation, particularly at EU level, had made it easier for transsexuals to obtain treatment, but that this was not always the case in Ireland. The annual conference of the Psychological Society of Ireland takes place in the Tower Hotel in Waterford from next Thursday until Sunday.
Transsexuals call for right to marry
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15 December 2002
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IRISH transsexual rights campaigners have called on the government to introduce legislation which would allow transsexuals to marry. The call has come in the wake of new proposals announced by the UK government which will allow transsexuals to marry in their assumed sex and obtain new birth certificates.
When the measures are fully introduced in the UK, Ireland will become one of just three countries in Europe which still refuses to allow transsexuals to alter their birth certi cates. The other two countries are Albania and Andorra.
"Ireland is left looking stupid now. Nearly every other country in Europe has measures which allow transsexuals to enjoy the same rights as any other person.
Ireland used to hide behind the UK and argue that if it hadn't seen the need to introduce legislation, then why should we? This can't be done anymore. Legislation must be introduced and introduced quickly, " said Diane Hughes of the Transsexual Equality Network.
Hughes said the fact that transsexuals cannot change their birth certificates in Ireland had serious implications for them: transsexuals are barred from marrying in their new sex once they have undergone surgery and their right to privacy is affected because their birth certi cates record their former gender. She added that transsexuals in Ireland have had to ght for recognition of transsexualism as a medical disorder and to gain access to treatment.
A number of high-profile cases in Ireland have recently brought the issue of transsexual rights to the fore. One female-to-male transsexual is suing the state because it won't recognise his marriage to a German woman and issue him a work permit.
Nicholas Krivenko, a Russian transsexual living in Clare, underwent a sex-change operation and was granted a new Russian birth certificate in which his sex was confirmed as male. He then married his girlfriend in a registry office in Limerick using the new birth certificate, but when he applied for a work permit on the basis that he was married to an EU citizen, the state refused to recognise his marriage.
In another case, dentist Dr Lydia Foy lost a two-year legal battle to have her birth certificate amended to re ect the fact that, though registered at birth as male, she had undergone surgery to allow her to appear and live as a woman. The High Court ruled that it could not justify overruling the system of birth registration that had served the state well for over a century. But in rejecting Dr Foy's case, the judge appealed to the legislature to keep the situation of transsexuals under constant review, and to give consideration to meeting their needs through legislation.
Transsexual settles case with state over marriage
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9 March 2003
Sunday Tribune
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A LEGAL case taken against the Irish government by a Russian female-to-male transsexual who wanted to have his marriage recognised has been settled out of court.
Nicholas Krivenko, who lives in Co Clare, was offered three years' residency in Ireland and a business permit to drop his case against the state, the Department of Justice, the gardai and the Attorney General.
The settlement means Krivenko will be able to stay living in Ireland and will eventually become an Irish citizen.
However, Krivenko this weekend said that it does not mark the end of his attempts to have his marriage to a German woman declared valid.
Krivenko, whose marriage is not recognised by the state because he is a transsexual, plans to remarry his wife shortly in Denmark, one of the EU countries which allows transsexuals to marry.
He will re-apply for full Irish citizenship on his return here on the basis that he is married to an EU citizen, and believes the state will be unable to refuse to recognise the Danish marriage.
He said he was "disappointed" that his settlement only allows him a business permit instead of a work permit as this means he can only work as a self-employed person for the next three years.
He was hoping for a better deal, but said the terms of the settlement were changed at the last minute, leaving him no option but to accept them.
Krivenko's long-running case centres around the authorities' refusal to recognise a Russian birth certifcate issued to him after he underwent a sex change to become a man.
After moving to Broadford, Co Clare, a number of years ago, he underwent a sex change operation in the US and was granted a new Russian birth certificate in which his sex was con rmed as male.
He then married his girlfriend in a registry office in Limerick using the new birth certi cate, but when he applied for a work permit on the basis that he was married to an EU citizen, the state refused to recognise his marriage.
Same sex marriages are illegal in Ireland and the state also refuses to allow birth certificates to be altered. In the case of transsexuals, this has caused a number of difficulties and has been widely criticised by transsexual lobby groups.
Ireland is one of three countries in Europe yet to act on the issue of allowing transsexuals to alter their birth certi cates after they have undergone gender realignment surgery and to marry in their new gender. The other two countries are Albania and Andorra.
The UK had the same rules as Ireland until a recent decision to introduce legislation which will allow transsexuals to marry.
The UK move followed a landmark case in the European Court of Human Rights which found that British law, which insisted that gender was irrevocably established at birth, violated transsexuals' rights to respect for private and family life.
It came just before a male-tofemale transsexual was due to ask the House of Lords for a ruling that her 20-year marriage to a man was valid.
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Foy ruling aids transsexual's marriage claim
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21 October 2007
The Sunday Times
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A RUSSIAN female-to-male transsexual based in Clare said Lydia Foy's victory in the High Court last Friday should force the Irish state to recognise his marriage to a German woman, enabling him to get residency in the country.
Nicholas Krivenko married Sybille in a civil ceremony in Limerick in 1999, but the government refused to recognise the union because he was born a woman. Same sex marriages are illegal in Ireland. Because the state would not recognise Krivenko's new sex or an altered birth certificate issued to him by Russian authorities, his marriage was not deemed valid.
Krivenko said Foy's "massive win" in the High Court had ended an eight-year struggle for fair treatment. "I will be ringing Lydia to congratulate her on winning and to thank her for what she has done for me," he said.
"My understanding of the ruling is that there is no way now the government can continue to refuse to recognise my marriage to Sybille. I will be applying for residency again on the basis of marriage and I believe they have no reason to refuse it."
The court ruled on Friday that the state had breached the European convention on human rights in the case of Foy, 59, a dentist from Athy, who underwent gender reassignment surgery 15 years ago. Foy wanted the right to change the name and sex on her birth certificate.
Justice Liam McKechnie ruled that the taoiseach must go before the Dail within 21 days to outline how the government will bring Ireland in line with the convention.
He said the state was remiss in not recognising the rights of transgendered people five years ago when most other European Union countries were doing so.
The judge said that Foy, who is still legally married, could remarry if she becomes divorced. There are compelling reasons under human rights legislation to facilitate the remarriage of post-operative transgendered persons.
In 2002 the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of Christine Goodwin, a British transsexual, who had claimed that her right to privacy, to marry and start a family were infringed by the UK authorities.
Krivenko, whose original name was Nadia, underwent gender realignment surgery in 1998. He was granted a business permit by the government in 2002, but this allowed him only to be self-employed. He wanted to be able to apply for a job.
Noeline Blackwell, director of the Free Legal Advice Centre which represented Foy, said that the decision was a landmark: "The ball is back with the Oireachtas now so hopefully they will run with it and not force further litigation on people."
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Definitely a lot to look at in this bathroom! The bathroom artwork is all from the Henrik Delehag collection.
Have you ever been to the Supermarket Sarah site? The premise is you can purchase items like clothing, art and objects right from Sarah's walls, literally. Pretty cool, right? You have to go explore it, it's quite amazing! This is the actually home of Sarah though...just a peek from Design Sponge!
Any fun plans today? I'm off to work, and it looks like rain here today which could possible mean a long tired day. I was watching the Bachelorette last night for like the second time and couldn't stop (which is the reason for my tiredness), what a sappy show. Do you like reality tv? My favorite is kitchen Nightmares with Gordan Ramsey, although I wish they would start the new season!
Do you have a favorite??