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Angel of the Underworld
By jewrotica on May 9, 2016
Written by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub. Taub is the author of four books of poetry, "Prayers of a Heretic/Tfiles fun an apikoyres," "Uncle Feygele," "What Stillness Illuminated/Vos shtilkayt hot baloykhtn," and "The Insatiable Psalm." "Tsugreytndik zikh tsu tantsn: naye Yidishe lider/Preparing to Dance: New Yiddish songs," a CD of nine of his Yiddish poems set to music, was released in 2014. Taub was honored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage as one of New York's best emerging Jewish artists and has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for a Best of the Net award. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Jewish Literary Journal and Jewish Fiction .net. His website is www.yataub.net. For more Jewrotica writing by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, see Early Talkie, From Night to Night, Portrait of a Predecessor, and In Blue Moonlight.
A tepid afternoon light filled the beys-medresh. It was the sort of day when it wasn't clear whether it was sunny or cloudy, mild or chilly. The gilt bindings of the sacred books that lined the walls and covered the shtenders seemed to glow more steadily, more brightly in such ambiguity of light and climate. The scholars, all of them married, were in various poses of study. Some were seated; some were standing. Some were bent over the shtenders in concentration, while others gestured passionately. Some even jumped up and down to emphasize a point or an insight only just gleaned from a particularly thorny passage of the Talmud.
Although Meyer had seen and been a participant in this scene and others like it for many years, everything seemed strangely sharper and clearer to him today. Maybe it was because of the weather. Or the absence of Yerukhem, his khavruse, might have been the cause. Yerukhem's wife Brokhe was in the hospital about to give birth to their first child. Although he occasionally spotted other scholars "bumming" around in the hallways or the coatroom or sometimes even in the beys-medresh itself, Meyer rarely joined them. Nor was he prone to bouts of looking around the room. As a rule, Meyer tried to stay focused on the text under scrutiny. His time here was precious, and he didn't want anything to distract him from learning.
His wife Feygi wouldn't have wanted that, either. Meyer considered himself fortunate that Feygi supported his Torah study both financially and emotionally. Feygi was a manager in a supermarket a few blocks off the main shopping avenue. Her father also provided additional financial support during the holidays or when the occasion warranted it. Feygi never complained about the meager stipend that the kolel paid Meyer.
Of course, Yerukhem wouldn't have allowed Meyer's attention to stray far from their study. Yerukhem was renowned through the kolel for his ability to comprehend a difficult text and to extricate layers of meaning with great speed. His originality of thought coupled with his profound humility (a rare combination) had endeared him to his teachers from an early age. Recently, just several years into kolel study, Yerukhem had published a volume of original commentaries on the tractate Sukkah fronted by five letters of rabbinical approbation. Yerukhem intended to remove his name from the volume but Meyer convinced him otherwise. Why shouldn't people know these were his insights? Besides, Meyer was proud of Yerukhem's accomplishments and wanted others to know of them, too. Meyer donated a small amount and helped gather the funds to finance publication. When he first received a copy of the volume, Meyer turned to the preface and was pleased to see that Yerukhem had thanked him profusely for his contributions in the acknowledgments. He made sure to convey his own thanks to Yerukhem for the mention.
Meyer was surprised when Yerukhem agreed to be his khavruse. He could easily have selected any of the most outstanding young men in the kolel. Meyer had heard that Yerukhem's previous khavruse was leaving the kolel to go into business with his father-in-law and wasted no time in asking him. An electronics store was the previous khavruse's new line of business, if Meyer wasn't mistaken. Maybe it was just a matter of timing, of being the first to ask Yerukhem. Maybe Yerukhem took pity on him, Meyer sometimes thought. Meyer's father had died of an unexpected heart attack at age fifty-three, a month and a half before Meyer became a bar mitzvah. Meyer had been in a period of intense preparation with his father for his pshetil, regularly fine-tuning it with his father's guidance. One day his mother had found his father bent over his shtender and broke the news to Meyer when he came from yeshiva.
Still, if timing or pity had landed him Yerukhem's khavruse-ship, they alone could not have guaranteed its continuity and success. Meyer found himself rising to the occasion. He prepared at home every evening, readying himself for Yerukhem's probing questioning the next day. He reviewed not only the page of the Talmud but also Rashi and Tosefot as well as some of the more advanced commentaries if time permitted.
Meyer had prepared with similar focus and intensity after his father's death. Arguably, this was when he really developed the discipline to become a Torah scholar. His mother did not permit him to buckle under the grief. After the funeral and the mourning period, which Meyer now remembered as a wash of grief and gray, his mother came into his room and told him that he had to go on. He had to go back to yeshiva and continue his preparations for his bar mitzvah. This is what his father would have wanted for him. Even as she plunged into the preparation of the vast amount of food for the celebration, his mother kept Meyer on track. Meyer could hardly recall his father's voice now and sometimes wondered if he would recall his face if his mother hadn't placed photographs discreetly yet strategically around their apartment, such as on bookcases, end tables, and in the dining room breakfront.
During the period after his father's death, Meyer studied every night until exhaustion in the dining room beneath the portraits of rabbinical sages who had influenced his father. The portrait of Reb Hirsh, the head of his father's yeshiva, who was still living and had delivered the eulogy at his funeral, had been enlarged and hung above his father's now empty seat at the table. When Meyer was seven years old, his father had brought him on the eve of Yom Kippur to Reb Hirsh for a blessing. He remembered Reb Hirsh's kindly face and the touch of his hands on his head, if not the words of the blessing itself. Perhaps it was the long-ago blessing given by Reb Hirsh that had helped him become who he was today. Reb Hirsh sat at the table next to him during his bar mitzvah festivities. While delivering his pshetil, Meyer looked out at the room and saw his mother standing with the women in the back (in the next room actually), beaming with pride. Reb Hirsh was the first to offer him yasher-koyekh after he completed the pshetil without error.
As Meyer looked around the beys-medresh, his mind wandered to Yerukhem and Brokhe. He hoped that all was well but he didn't want to reach out to them at this point. Not just yet. Let Yerukhem and Brokhe spend this time together. It was a special time for them, when they would fulfill the biblical commandment to be fruitful and multiply, when they would be blessed with a source of nakhes for themselves, when they could bring a new member into the House of Israel.
Meyer and Feygi had tried without success for more than three years to conceive. It hadn't been easy for Meyer to fulfill his duties as a husband. He'd known for years that he was burdened with unwanted same sex attraction. It had started at puberty and never relented. He was always careful never to let anyone know or suspect, keeping his eyes averted in the locker room or elsewhere. It had been especially hard in the yeshiva dormitory, but he managed by taking a shower very early in the morning. Fortunately, the yeshiva showers had not been communal.
When he was in bed with Feygi, Meyer found the images of handsome men coming into his mind—men he'd seen on the street or the rare occasions when he rode the subway or even in the beys-medresh itself. He didn't exactly welcome them, but neither did he turn them away. As much as he tried not to, he sometimes even thought of Yerukhem himself. In addition to his intellect, Yerukhem was gifted with a fine physique—broad shoulders, muscular chest, slim waist—and a handsome face illuminated by penetrating hazel eyes. Despite the many hours they spent together each week, Meyer trained his eyes to look away from Yerukhem's physical self and to focus instead on the texts in front of them. But sometimes just hearing Yerukhem's voice excited Meyer. Somehow Meyer was able to consummate his marriage, even as he knew that Feygi must surely have suspected that the desire wasn't there on his part. He hoped that Feygi didn't attribute his performance to her own shortcomings, and he tried to be especially attentive with her during their time together outside the marital bed.
Still, Meyer could tell by the sidelong glances that Feygi gave him when she thought he wouldn't notice or by the sighs that seemed to inadvertently escape from her that she knew quite well who he was and what he wasn't giving her. In fact, Meyer had detected just such a glance and sigh this morning when she was sipping her coffee standing at the kitchen sink, her slim figure piercing the indeterminate light, while he was seated at the table eating his granola with bananas. His thoughts flicked lazily from the water in the dishpan to the gray of Feygi's housecoat to the light outside. Could light be dishwashy, he asked himself.
But more pointedly Meyer couldn't help but notice that even in a frayed housecoat Feygi somehow maintained a certain elegance. Meyer wondered if the housecoat itself was a sign. Growing up, his mother had never worn such a garment in the kitchen, even at the beginning of the day. It seemed to Meyer that Feygi's unhappiness didn't stem merely from their childlessness as a couple or even from her dissatisfaction with his present absence in the night chamber, but rather from a deeper, essential lack in Meyer himself. Meyer thought back to their few "dates" in a restaurant after their match had been made by a neighborhood rebetzin. Their conversation often faltered, despite their shared objective of raising a large, Torah-observant family. Even then Feygi had been quiet (perhaps furtive?), loath to make full eye contact yet somehow not missing anything. Had Feygi known even then about him? If so, why had she agreed to marry him? Of course, he could never bring himself to ask her.
Meyer had wondered for years whether his attraction to men would prevent him from getting married. When his mother spoke with him about a matchmaker who was investigating possible matches for him, Meyer made an appointment to visit Reb Hirsh. Although he'd seldom seen him since his bar mitzvah, Meyer felt that Reb Hirsh could guide him. Reb Hirsh's talmed muvhek who functioned as his assistant, ushered Meyer into Reb Hirsh's book-lined study. Reb Hirsh welcomed him and immediately launched into an analysis of the Talmudic tractate he was then studying (Bava kama). As their discussion deepened, Meyer wondered how exactly he would bring up the cause of his visit. Only he didn't have to. Reb Hirsh asked Meyer about his marriage plans. Meyer had thought carefully about how he was going to speak about this matter with Reb Hirsh.
—Rebe, I actually came to speak with you about that inyen. This is hard to talk about, and I haven't told anyone else about it. I've been attracted to men all of my adult life. I've tried to stop these thoughts but I can't. They never go away. I don't know if I can be mekayem my khiyev with a woman. Does the Rebe think I should get married?
Reb Hirsh didn't seem shocked or even surprised by Meyer's revelation. He looked down briefly and then replied:
—I'm glad you told me about this, Meyer. Her zikh ayn/listen, we all have the yeytser-hore/the evil inclination inside of us. Everyone faces challenges to remaining on the derekh ha-yosher/the path of righteousness of the Torah and Khazal/our sages of blessed memory. This tayve/lust is your challenge. You have to work hard, harder than you've been working, to overcome what the yeytser-hore has set in front of you. ou must get married and be mekayem the mitzvah of peru u-revu. Don't separate yourself from Klal Yisroel. And don't forget that you are a ben yohed. It's your responsibility to carry on the name of your father. Think of your mother. Think of how much nakhes she will get from you as a father and from grandchildren!
Both of them looked down and fell into silence following Reb Hirsh's response. There didn't seem to be anything else to add. Nothing Reb Hirsh said was new to him. After what seemed like an appropriate interval, Meyer thanked Reb Hirsh for his guidance, shook his hand, and left, this time without the accompaniment of the talmed muvhek. Even if his burden hadn't exactly been lifted, Meyer was relieved to have shared it with someone.
As he left Reb Hirsh's office, Meyer found himself wondering (not for the first time) if would he have "developed" differently if his father hadn't died at that crucial point in his life. This conjecture had arisen from a magazine article he came across in the dentist's office shortly after his father's death. He remembered shuddering back then while reading it, hoping his mother wouldn't notice. And buried in her Psalms, she hadn't. Even if she had noticed, his mother probably would have attributed it to his dentist-waiting-room-nerves. Of course Meyer now knew that that the once reigning theory that a close mother and the distant/absent father led to sons like him had long been categorically discredited by all reputable scientists. And yet he was also quite aware that there were entire programs dedicated to "changing" the desires of those like him. He had seen their advertisements discreetly placed in various communal publications. Meyer was grateful that Reb Hirsh had not suggested such a program.
After several dates with Feygi (one at a Chinese restaurant, the other a walk in the park the next neighborhood over), Meyer considered telling her about his "condition." But he really was enjoying her company, and he felt drawn to her slim figure and grace, her way of listening to his words as if they were of great importance. He felt that he had the potential to build a God-fearing home with Feygi. He didn't want to scare her away and ruin his chances. He'd already been rejected by two other young women. It really was time to settle down. When he was walking down the wedding aisle, his arm linked in his mother's, he wondered again whether he should have revealed his secret to Feygi. As she completed her seven circles around him under the khupe and stood by his side, Meyer understood that it was too late, that he would now never reveal this part of himself to Feygi.
As his mind continued to drift in Yerukhem's absence, Meyer decided to step away from the beys-medresh. It was nearly lunchtime in any case. Grabbing his jacket but leaving his fedora in the coatroom, Meyer left without informing anyone. He walked briskly towards the subway station and descended the station. Sometimes Meyer thought of the descent into the subway station as his descent into the underworld, into Gehenem/hell itself. Here commenced the voyage that would take him into the heart of what he simultaneously desired and what he desired to avoid.
The theater auditorium was dark, with little illumination from the scene onscreen. Meyer waited briefly against the wall to allow his eyes to adjust to the darkness before making his way to a seat in the back. He had little experience with theaters since movies, with their incitement of lust and their overall frivolity, were forbidden in the community.
But Meyer had been coming regularly to this theater and several others like it for several years, nearly immediately after his marriage. He came at times of the day when he imagined himself to be least conspicuous—late afternoon or after dinner, when he was supposed to be at his seyder. It only took about a half-hour each way to reach the area in the city where the theaters were located. If he were careful, the entire excursion could last no more than two and a half hours, sometimes considerably less. Meyer found such visits considerably less risky than purchasing magazines from the kiosk. He really had nowhere safe to hide them. A locked desk drawer in his study might have aroused Feygi's suspicion when she came in to clean.
Meyer had been in the neighborhood to visit the central library when he first happened upon on this theater. Yerukhem had asked him to examine an early edition of a commentary, printed in Vienna in the middle of the nineteenth century, of which only eight copies were known to be extant. Yerukhem's insistence had been well-placed. Meyer found the edition to be rich with insightful glossa handwritten by another commentator who was clearly not the author. He wondered if Yerukhem had informed the librarian of the treasure but decided not to approach him. He'd ask Yerukhem later. Buoyed by this encounter with a rare text and glossa, Meyer decided to walk around the neighborhood before returning home. After several blocks, he noticed the proliferation of theaters with flashing white and red lights. Most had the outlines of the female form above their door. However, on a side street just off the main avenue, Meyer spotted one with a male silhouette and a sign that read "Adonis" above its door. Meyer felt his heart begin to race and quickly paid the entrance fee.
The smell in the theater was both stale and sharp. There was a sour human odor that could not be eradicated by a regularly applied overlay of industrial-strength cleaning fluid. Meyer entered the auditorium and looked at the film on screen. He realized that, with his fedora, beard, and long black coat, he was conspicuous even in the dark theater. Meyer's eyes drifted from the images onscreen to the movement in the theater itself. Individual men stood in the theater aisles before finding companions who were already seated. Sometimes they sat with them for a long time, embracing, groping, stroking, even sucking. Meyer could hear the slurping and gagging sounds. He could see that the seated theatergoers who had their crotches completely exposed and their pants on the floor were the most likely to invite company. Meyer kept his pants on, not wishing to attract any company in the seats next to him. He obtained up some paper towel and, when a fellatio scene onscreen struck him as particularly pleasing, reached efficient release and exited the theater.
Meyer had come a long way since that first time. He stopped wearing his fedora and suit jacket here. He put his yarmulke in his pocket and kept his tsitses underneath his pants, instead of outside them or in his pockets as he typically wore them. He rarely sought the company of any of the theatergoers, although sometimes he allowed one of them to stroke him to orgasm. Meyer never tried to excuse this activity to himself. He understood that what he was doing was proscribed and prayed he would one day, somehow through divine intervention, be freed from his demon.
Thinking of Yerukhem and Brokhe in the hospital, Meyer found a seat in the middle of the auditorium. His eyes drifted lazily to the scene onscreen. There wasn't much happening—a square-jawed man was driving a pickup truck through the desert. Meyer felt a presence beside him and a hand rest on his thigh. He allowed half a minute to elapse before turning his head slightly. A young man, in his early twenties, perhaps just a few years younger than himself, smiled at him, radiant in the dark. Meyer smiled in return and felt the young man's hands travel ever so slightly up and then down his thigh. Meyer was surprised when the young man's hand didn't reach for his groin. Instead, when he turned to him, the young man moved his face closer and began to kiss Meyer. Meyer turned his head more fully to him, ran his hands over his shirt covering a lean upper body, and moved his tongue deep inside the young man's mouth. When they stopped to take a break, the credits for the film rolled up the screen. Meyer realized that he had to get home. He smiled and introduced himself to the young man, who introduced himself as Silas. As he stood up to go, the young man gestured for him to wait. He found a scrap of paper in his wallet, wrote down his name and number and handed it to Meyer, who thanked him, pocketed the piece of paper, and hurried out of the theater.
Several days later, the good news arrived. Brokhe had given birth to a baby girl; both mother and child were in good health. Yerukhem, Brokhe, and their families were relieved that the birth had not needed to be a Caesarian as feared. Yerukhem had remained with Brokhe in the delivery room throughout the birthing process. Back in the beys-medresh, Yerukhem was surrounded by well-wishers and greeted everywhere with "Mazl tov!" and handshakes. Throughout their sedorim, they were exuberantly interrupted by congratulations for Yerukhem. When the fifth group of well-wishers left, Meyer found it difficult to refocus his attention on their study and asked Yerukhem about their plans for the upcoming kidesh for the baby. He knew that Feygi was baking a lokshn kugl and a chocolate cake, but did they need anything else? As Meyer listened to Yerukhem's plans, he wondered if his own carefully crafted home life was going to unravel just as Yerukhem's was becoming fully anchored.
The scrap of yellow paper, with the name and phone number blazed in his wallet. Meyer found himself thinking repeatedly about the young man from the cinema. Meyer had never heard of the name "Silas" before. What kind of name was it? One afternoon, he slipped into a telephone booth on the avenue and called him. He was about to leave a message (without his number) on the answering machine when Silas answered the phone.
—Hello. Is this Silas? Oh good, this is Meyer. M-e-y-e-r. We met several weeks ago at the theater in the city. Yes…yeah, that was me. Um…I was wondering if you'd like to meet some time for coffee some time. Maybe late afternoon?
Silas agreed immediately, telling Meyer that he was free any evening that week. He suggested a Thursday, two days from now, a café downtown that had comfortable sofas and chairs in separate groupings that would allow privacy. Meyer said he'd find it and looked forward to meeting him. When he hung up the telephone, he was pleased that he wouldn't have to think up an excuse. The meeting would be between his afternoon seyder and supper. He'd be able to meet Silas and be back at home in time for supper.
Silas looked even more appealing in the lamplight of the café. His light brown hair was neatly combed, not long exactly, but not a crew cut, either. He stood up and smiled at Meyer, hugging him and asking him if he wanted to order anything. Meyer declined but accepted a glass of water when the waitress came by to take their order. Silas ordered a slice of white chocolate mousse cake. As the waitress left their seating area, Meyer glanced around the café and noticed men sitting with other men, and women sitting with women. He'd heard of gay bars, of course, but were there also gay cafes?
Silas now worked at a gay bar in the evenings, having just quit his job at a health foods cafe. He'd moved from the country to the city only a year ago. When he first moved to the city, he lived at the YMCA and had just moved to a studio apartment about a half hour from this café, in fact. The name "Silas" was probably a shortened form of the name "Silvanus," a companion of Saint Paul in the New Testament. Another interpretation was that it was a Greek form of the Hebrew name "Sha'ul." Did Meyer have any opinion on this debate, Silas asked with a smile. Meyer replied that he did not and confessed that he wasn't very knowledgeable about the New Testament and had only a smattering of Ancient Greek.
He wasn't sure what to share exactly about himself. He'd never met anyone in a social, let alone erotic/romantic situation that didn't know anything about him. Meyer decided therefore to be totally upfront. He said:
—I'm a scholar of the Talmud and rabbinical literature. I'm married without children.
—I'm surprised to hear that you're married. I didn't see a ring on your fingers in the theater and don't see one now. Did you take it off?
—The men in my community don't wear wedding rings; they're for women only. The husband utters the words to his betrothed: "With this ring you are consecrated to me."
Meyer tried to speak in a lively tone, hoping that he didn't sound teacherly or pedantic to Silas. But Silas appeared attentive throughout, asking pointed questions about his community and keeping the conversation going. After about an hour, when Meyer glanced at his watch, he realized (again) that he had to return home. The two made plans to meet the following week.
The baby's name was Miryem-Zisl after Brokhe's maternal grandmother and Yerukhem's paternal grandmother. The kidesh in her honor was very well-attended, overflowing even. The men sat on long tables in the living room, and the women stood packed in the dining room near the kitchen. Meyer made sure to sample Feygi's lokshn kugl and chocolate cake. He would compliment her on both when they got home. Yerukhem gave a brief speech, thanking all of those in attendance for their support and good wishes and sang the praises of Brokhe, his one-and-only and a true woman of valor. As the celebration unfolded, Meyer thought about how he could bring it to life for Silas at their next get-together. What details would be the most telling? The sentiments of Yerukhem's speech? The food? The singing? His own happiness for Yerukhem and Brokhe laced with longing (envy?). No, not that. Of course, not that. The two had already seen each other several times, and Meyer was looking forward to seeing him again, even if he couldn't quite bring himself to use the word "date" yet.
That "get-together" (more neutral) arrived sooner than Meyer expected. Silas lived on a noisy street, with music blaring from windows and children playing in the street. Meyer opened a squeaky metal door and climbed some metal stairs, hearing the sounds of babies crying, and presented Silas with a bouquet of white roses that he had purchased in a kiosk near the subway station. Silas's apartment was narrow, with each room leading into the other "railroad" style.
The table was set; Silas said that he'd wanted to surprise Meyer. He knew Meyer had to get back home, but he wanted to cook him a meal, his favorite one that his grandmother used to make. He'd made chicken and green beans. Silas told him that his grandmother—Gran he called her—had raised him from a young age and that he called her twice a week. Gran's picture stood on a table beneath a mirror near the front door to Silas's apartment. The statue of Jesus that stood next to the picture had been sent to him recently by Gran, with whom he had once attended church every Sunday.
Meyer tried to conceal his panic. He'd planned their get-togethers so carefully until today. And now this. A non-kosher meal in an apartment with a getshke with a man nisht fun di eygene. What was he doing here? Just one of these variables wouldn't have been so egregious, but each seemed to build on the other, creating a tower of transgression.
He wanted to tell Silas that he couldn't eat this food even if it looked delicious, that he kept kosher. Maybe it was the smooth skin peering out from Silas's shirt or his slightly flushed face or all the trouble he had gone to in preparing the dinner but Meyer couldn't refuse him. In any case, he could see that there was no pork or anything obviously treyf on the table. It would have to be ok tonight. Meyer would ask God to forgive him yet another trespass. He sat down and devoured Silas's meal and complimented him on his cooking skills, ones that he lacked entirely. Meyer's mother, the cook in the yeshiva, and then Feygi cooked all his meals. Meyer had done little more than prepare scrambled eggs or a tuna fish salad sandwich.
Silas led Meyer to the couch, and the two began to kiss. Silas unbuttoned Meyer's shirt and began to lick his chest and nipples. He led Meyer to his bedroom, the windowless middle one in the railroad apartment and stripped, glowing in the light of dusk. He stood before Meyer fully erect. Except for his pubes and underarms, Silas's body was mostly hairless, so unlike Meyer's own. Meyer quickly followed his example and placed his clothes on the chair next to his bed. Silas placed a lubricated condom on Meyer (just in case!), lay on his stomach on the bed, and opened his legs.
As Meyer entered Silas, it occurred to him how different this was from his entering Feygi. On this night, the goal was to prevent the semen from swimming out; on all other nights, its dissemination (!!) was eagerly sought. After a brief clenching, Silas rose to meet Meyer's thrusts. The two found a rhythm; Meyer felt himself expanding into Silas. As Meyer wrapped his arms around him, finding his points of pleasure, Silas moaned in abandon. Meyer felt that this was where he belonged, where he was meant to be. When he came shortly after Silas, he stayed on top on him, his cock resting between Silas's ass cheeks. The two lay like that, until their breath was restored to evenness.
Meyer was awakened by the quiet. The boom boxes had gone silent; children were no longer playing on the pavement. Meyer didn't want to awaken Silas who was snoring lightly in his arms. He extricated himself gently from Silas's arms and quickly dressed. He left a note on Silas front table next to the portrait of Gran and the statue of Jesus, stating simply, "Thank you!" and left.
On the subway ride back home, Meyer considered the many sins he'd committed in just one evening, the pleasures of forbidden food and flesh that he'd savored. He wondered how he would get right by God; surely the accounts against him were stacking up in the ledger. What would he pray for next Yom Kippur? How could he have so blithely betrayed the memory of his father and the dreams of his mother who had lifted him from his grief after his father's death to become a Torah scholar?
And yet as the train went underground, Meyer observed his smiling reflection in the window. To be sure, he was not smiling as widely as Silas when he saw Meyer standing in his doorway with a bouquet of white roses, but smiling nonetheless. He thought of Silas leaving his grandmother to live in the city. He thought of the miracle that was Silas finding him in the theater auditorium, with its groping and sticky floors and industrial-strength cleanser. Meyer wished he could share the news of Silas with Yerukhem or Reb Hirsh or his mother, if not Feygi. He wondered if he would have the strength to leave the world he'd always known as Silas had done, if their life trajectories would ever parallel each other or even converge. He wondered if his mother would continue to speak to him, as Silas's grandmother still spoke to him, if he ever did leave the community. He thought about the sins he'd committed, which somehow didn't feel like sins. Meyer thought of Silas's smile, of his light brown curls, of his hand on his thigh, of his slim body opening to him. And the word "sin" didn't feel right, or even relevant here.
As he walked up to the door of his apartment building, Meyer did not feel that he was returning from the underworld as he usually did when returning from the theater. He had been in light, and would now continue to be in light. The duality in which he had lived all of his adult life had somehow taken a turn. The dialectic between dream and reality had been bridged. With the touch of Silas still tingling on his skin, he was a different man somehow. For all the transgressions committed, he was tonight the man he needed to be. Soon he would see Feygi in their marital bed, her breath rising in slumber (or feigned slumber). Tomorrow he would be with Yerukhem, the excitement of the birth of Miryem-Zisl having leveled off. They would continue in their study of the tractate Sukkah, and Meyer's eyes would not be averted from his khavruse. His joy would meet Yerukhem's. As Meyer unlocked the door, he thought of the three people of his generation who were closest to him and the web of knowing and not-knowing that connected them all, and he was filled with an almost overwhelming sense of affection for and well-being in the world. And he thought too of his mother, whose image had somewhat receded since he'd first met Silas. He thought of how overjoyed his mother was at his choice of Feygi as a bride, how she approved of Feygi's modesty and steadfastness, and of the deep affection that remained between the two of them since the wedding. As Meyer closed the door stealthily behind himself, he took pleasure in the quiet only broken by the refrigerator's song and the occasional rattling of pipes. His elation still undiminished, Meyer sat on the sofa in the dark and wondered how those connections, threads really, would be reconfigured in these rooms and beyond. Humming soundlessly, Meyer entered their bedroom where Feygi (really) was fast asleep in her bed, the two twisted strands of her white night tikhl spread against the linen like arms extended in welcome.
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Andy Rash'S Pixelated Star Wars Characters: a Long Time Ago in a Galaxy 8-Bits Away
November 9th, 2010 by Range
What is it about pixel art that's so cool? I don't know, but I definitely enjoy looking at these Star Wars characters that Andy Rash made. They are very pixelated and look great, no matter what the magnification.
While I enjoyed the Star Wars characters the most, he's also made classic Star Trek and other pixel characters. For Star Wars, he's made three sets of characters for the original three movies. Like many Star Wars fans, I wouldn't be that interested in seeing a pixel-version of Jar Jar, may he die in peace.
All in all, it's a fun way to remember your favorite characters from Star Wars. My faves are from Empire Strikes Back, but aren't everyone's?
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Oracle on Wednesday announced two cloud-based office productivity suites for the desktop and mobile devices -- Oracle Cloud Office and Oracle Open Office 3.3. Both products will compete directly with Google Docs and Microsoft Office.
The products are designed to be enterprise-level suites with applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, database and drawings. Oracle Cloud Office 1.0 is a Web and mobile suite designed to enable Web 2.0-style collaboration and mobile document access. The product is compatible with Microsoft Office and integrates with Oracle Open Office.
Oracle Open Office 3.3 is an update of the product Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems. It includes enterprise connectors to Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle E-Business Suite and other Oracle applications, as well as Microsoft Sharepoint.
The office products debuted just before Oracle's Thursday announcement of the company's strong Q2 results, in which CEO Larry Ellison noted that Oracle is quickly gaining on rivals HP and IBM in the high-end server market.
Oracle beat Wall Street estimates for the quarter with sales of new software licenses and database and middleware products. Hardware products, however, were the focus of attention of the conference call as Ellison jabbed at HP and IBM, noting that HP is vulnerable to marketshare losses.
Oracle did not respond to the E-Commerce Times' request for comments by press time.
Can Oracle Cloud Office Win New Customers?
The revamped Open Office 3.3 is aimed more as an update for existing customers rather than a product to entice new customers.
"Oracle has rebranded the Sun office suite that was based on open office technology years ago," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's an open source collection of office productivity applications that Sun was never really able to press into the market beyond a few dedicated Sun customers. That's likely to be about all that Oracle is able to do with it."
In the past, Oracle has downplayed cloud computing. With the new Cloud Office products, Oracle sounds like a convert.
"Larry Ellison made comments about the cloud being no new thing. He's actually correct. It's been around forever," noted King. "It's basically a highly virtualized data center, and that's been around since data centers have been around. The folks at Oracle recognized that they were the only ones who were not taking about the cloud, and they didn't want be the odd man out."
Has Oracle Lost the Open Source Community?
The update of the open source Sun product follows soon after a major rift between Oracle and the open source community over Java.
"Open source was an issue of tension going up to the Sun acquisition," noted King. As soon as the acquisition was finished, Oracle tried to pull an atomic wedgie on the open source community.
"Apache refused to play the game that way," he continued. "Since Oracle owns Java and owns other name-brand open source technologies, they can play the game they want to, but I don't think anyone should be surprised if they have to go it alone."
Oracle bites off a big chunk of competition with office products -- possibly more than it can chew so late in the game.
"They're at a definite disadvantage considering competitors have been carving out niches and building their reputations and technologies very well," technology project manager and Geek 2.0 blogger Steven Savage told the E-Commerce Times. "For Oracle to succeed, they'll need to leverage all the technologies they've been buying over the years into one coherent vision they can sell."
When it comes to office products, there are niche players to contend with as well as the major office software producers.
"Google and Microsoft are not Oracle's only rivals," noted Savage. "Salesforce.com -- which has had a spectacular rise and growth -- is clearly targeting Oracle with Database.com, and they are already strong in the cloud and SaaS space."


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Leo I. (auch Leon oder Lewon, , ; † 14. Februar 1140 in Konstantinopel) war der fünfte Fürst von Kleinarmenien. Er herrschte von 1129/1130 bis 1137 in Kilikien.

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Leo war der jüngere Sohn des Fürsten Konstantin I. und ein Enkel Rubens, des Gründers der Dynastie der Rubeniden. Beim Tod seines Vaters (spätestens 1103) trat zunächst sein älterer Bruder Thoros I. die Nachfolge als "Herr vom Berge" an. Etwa um dieselbe Zeit nahm Leo eine namentlich nicht bekannte Schwester (oder Schwägerin) Balduins von Edessa zur Frau; seine eigene Schwester Beatrice heiratete später dessen Nachfolger Joscelin I.

Von seinem Bruder erhielt Leo den Oberbefehl über die Streitkräfte des Fürstentums. Im Jahr 1111 wehrte er einen Angriff des Seldschukensultans Malik Schah I. unter erheblichen Verlusten ab. 1118 kommandierte er ein armenisches Hilfstruppenkontingent, das dem Fürsten von Antiochia, Roger von Salerno, für die Belagerung von Azaz geschickt wurde.

Als Thoros I. starb, trat zunächst dessen Sohn Konstantin sein Erbe an, fiel jedoch schon nach wenigen Monaten einer Palastintrige zum Opfer. Die Quellen schweigen darüber, ob Leo in die Ermordung seines Neffen involviert war, um selbst an die Macht zu kommen.

Hatten sein Vater und sein Bruder noch beste Beziehungen zu den Kreuzfahrerstaaten gepflegt, so nahmen in Leos siebenjähriger Regierungszeit die Spannungen stark zu. Schon im Februar 1130 griff Bohemund II. von Antiochia die 1107 von Thoros I. eroberte Festung Anazarbos an. Leo rief die türkischen Danischmenden zu Hilfe, die den Franken eine vernichtende Niederlage beibrachten. Nach Bohemunds Tod annektierte Leo 1131 die kilikischen Städte Mamistra, Tarsos und Adana. 1133 gelang ihm auch die Eroberung der im Nurgebirge gelegenen Burg Sarventikar, der für die Verteidigung Kleinarmeniens gegen Angriffe aus dem Osten eine Schlüsselposition zukam.

1136 versuchte der neue Fürst von Antiochia, Raimund von Poitiers, Kilikien zurückzuerobern. Mit Zustimmung König Fulkos zog er gemeinsam mit Balduin von Marasch gegen Leo, der den Angriff mit Unterstützung seines Neffen Joscelin II. von Edessa abwehren konnte. Als Leo den unterlegenen Balduin zu einer Unterredung empfing, nahm dieser ihn durch eine List gefangen und überstellte ihn nach Antiochia. In seiner Abwesenheit kam es zwischen drei Söhnen Leos zum Bruderstreit, in dessen Verlauf schließlich der älteste, Konstantin, gefangengesetzt und geblendet wurde. Von Norden fielen die Danischmenden in Kilikien ein und zerstörten die Ernte.

Angesichts dieser Hiobsbotschaften willigte Leo ein, im Gegenzug für seine Freilassung auf seine kilikischen Eroberungen zu verzichten; zusätzlich zahlte er an Raimund 60.000 Goldstücke und stellte einen seiner Söhne als Geisel. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach Sis fühlte sich Leo jedoch nicht mehr an seine Zusagen gebunden. Die folgenden Feindseligkeiten zwischen den Fürstentümern Kleinarmenien und Antiochia endeten erst, als Kaiser Johannes II. einen Feldzug zur Rückeroberung der ehemals byzantinischen Territorien vorbereitete.

Die kaiserliche Armee formierte sich im Frühjahr 1137 in Attaleia und drang rasch ostwärts nach Kilikien vor, wobei die Städte Mersin, Tarsos, Adana und Mamistra den Byzantinern kampflos in die Hände fielen. Die Garnison im stark befestigten Anazarbos leistete 37 Tage lang Widerstand, musste sich dann aber den Belagerern ergeben. Leo zog sich in das Taurusgebirge zurück, während Johannes II. sein Heer südwärts gegen Antiochia führte. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach Kilikien nahm Johannes II. nach mehrwöchiger Belagerung auch Vahka, den Familiensitz der Rubeniden, ein.

Leo und seine Söhne Ruben und Thoros gerieten in Gefangenschaft und wurden nach Konstantinopel gebracht, wo sie in ehrenvoller Haft am kaiserlichen Hof verbleiben durften. Dort starb Leo am 14. Februar 1140. Ruben wurde 1141 umgebracht, Thoros gelang 1145 die Flucht und Rückkehr nach Kilikien. Die übrigen Söhne Stephan, Mleh und der geblendete Konstantin waren vor den Byzantinern zu ihrem Cousin Joscelin II. nach Edessa geflohen.

Quellen
 Hethum II. 551 A.E.; 586 A.E.
 Michael Italikos 255–256
 Matthias von Edessa 2, 12
 Michael der Syrer 170
 Samuel von Ani, S. 451 (in RHC, Documents arméniens 1)
 Smbat Sparapet 66; 72–74
 Usama ibn Munqidh, Kitab al-I'tibar 202
 Vahram von Edessa, S. 30–33 (Edition Murray 1831)

Literatur
 Jacob G. Ghazarian: The Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia during the Crusades. The Integration of Cilician Armenians with the Latins (1080–1393). Routledge/Curzon, Abingdon 2000, ISBN 0-7007-1418-9.
 William Henry Count Rüdt-Collenberg: The Rupenides, Hetumides, and Lusignans. On the structure of the Armeno-Cilician dynasties. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lissabon 1963.
 Steven Runciman: Geschichte der Kreuzzüge, Band 2: Das Königreich Jerusalem und der fränkische Osten 1100–1187. Beck, München 1968 (Nachdruck), ISBN 3-40-639960-6, S. 187, 200–202.

Weblinks
 Herrscher von Kleinarmenien auf Medieval Lands
 The Barony of Cilician Armenia bei Vahan M. Kurkjian
 Leon/Lewon I. in der Prosopography of the Byzantine World

Anmerkungen

Fürst (Armenien)
Rubenide
Geboren im 11. Jahrhundert
Gestorben 1140
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Apple Watch could cost £8,000 for 'luxury' edition
Tim Cook will announce prices and availability of his company's new Apple Watch in San Francisco on Monday 9 March
By Dan Hyde 09 March 2015 • 08:58 am
• Apple Watch: latest news and rumours
Priced at around £8,000 and made with especially light, strong and scratch-resistant 18ct gold, this is the luxury Apple watch tipped as the next must-have gadget for wealthy buyers.
As well as keeping "incredibly accurate" time, the digital watch will allow wearers with iPhones to send and receive telephone calls, text messages and emails.
It will also act like a credit card, enabling customers to wave their arms over a "contactless" shop card machines to pay for a coffee or newspaper, and monitor heart rates and activity to provide personal training tips.
The exact price of the Apple Watch Edition will be disclosed on Monday 9 March at a conference in San Francisco.
Apple will make the announcement as it lays out the final details of where and when its first smartwatch will go on sale, after years of speculation.
Initially the number luxury "Edition" models available worldwide will be limited, it is understood.
Most of the six million watches Apple hopes to sell in the gadget's few months on the shelves will be the "Sport" version, which is expected cost nearer £300 in Britain. By the summer, however, the company is reportedly expecting to sell a million of the gold Edition models each month.
Apple believes its watches will mean that people typically keep their mobile phones in their pockets for most of the day. All versions, including the mid-range Apple Watch, will have the same touch-screen-operated technological.
The Apple Watch Edition in rose gold
As well as fashion and gadget aficionados, the heath conscious will be targeted in advertisements, which will stress benefits such as a map application that can direct runners through their chosen route by a series of gentle vibrations.
• Everything you need to know about the Apple Watch
The internet was awash with rumour over the weekend, including a suggestion that watch apps will shut down automatically after a short time to conserve battery life.
The more expensive Edition model generated the most speculation.
Price predictions ranged from $3,000 to $20,000, with many bloggers settling at $10,000. Based on analysis of previous Apple product prices by technology experts, the price in Britain would translate to around £8,000.
From left to right: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch and Apple Edition
Anthony Wing Kosner, a designer and developer who writes for American business magazine Forbes, said: "When Tim Cook [the Apple chief executive] hits the stage to reveal availability and pricing information about Apple Watch, the biggest question he will answer will be about the price of the high-end Edition line.
"Rumours have pegged that price to range between $5,000 and $20,000. Not a lot, perhaps, compared to a gold Rolex.
"But a 20-year-old Rolex will still tell the time. Who knows how functional the first Watch will be in five years?"
Apple is understood already to be working on its next iteration of the watch, although the development work is secretive. In an interview with The Telegraph last week Tim Cook, the Apple chief executive, said the watch would eventually replace car keys and hotel room entry cards.
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Green Arrow in Batman Vs Superman?
In November, the executive producer of Arrow, Greg Berlanti , said that there was no plans to cross over the hit CW T.V. Series and the DC Cinematic Universe. Speculation was that Warner Brothers and DC wanted to keep the two universe separate, for simplicity reasons. However, Stephen Amell who plays Green Arrow, says that he […]


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Addiction Counselors will be Deployed in Quebec High Schools
On Monday, September 16th 2019, Lionel Carmant, Deputy Minister of Health and Social Services, announced that an investment fund would be implemented to deploy addiction counselors in all high schools in the province of Quebec.
A welcomed movement
This was a much-anticipated movement, and which undoubtedly translates into the urgency of the situation for young people dealing with addiction. Indeed, on Monday, September 16, Minister Carmant announced that $7.5 million would be invested in providing addiction counselors to Quebec high schools at least 18 hours a week. These counselors, who may be social workers or specialized educators, will have to play a role preventing drug use and identify any signs for potential substance use among young students.
Now an elected member under the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) banner, Lionel Carmant is a former neurologist and neuroscience researcher accustomed to the health issues of fellow citizens. He stated that these counselors would be responsible for "identifying all adolescents who are at risk of developing an addiction in order to offer them personalized support, refer them to the health system or send them to a therapy centre if needed."
Mr. Carmant explained that this measure is not part of the fierce battle led by his government to pass Bill 2 aimed at making the legal age to purchase cannabis 21 years of age instead of 18. A flagship measure that, despite often being disparaged by those who advocate legalization, is welcomed by health professionals and organizations who work every day to help young people suffering from drug and alcohol addiction. In fact, increasing the legal age to purchase and use cannabis will certainly not prevent young Quebecers from trying drugs, but it does send a strong message to the population that cannabis is a drug that has extremely harmful effects on the brain development.
A chance to reach troubled youth?
The propensity of young people using cannabis is particularly emphasized by community organizations that must deal daily with the devastation caused by this substance on their lives and future. The legalization of cannabis a year ago has made it possible, among other things, to shed light on the issue of taking care of such dependant individuals across the country.
In May, Guylaine Ouimette, President of the OTSTCFQ – Ordre des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec (Association for Social Workers and Family and Marriage Therapists of Quebec), sounded the alarm about the precariousness of social workers in the French-speaking province. At a press conference, Mrs. Ouimette pointed at the Legault government for the excessive workload of social workers, especially for youth protection: "In a context of work overload, labour shortage and budget cuts, we sometimes feel like cases are being handled to avoid providing services."
In this respect, it seems that the CAQ government heard these words and reacted promptly. A measure that deserves to be commended, especially when we know that in 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) made it clear that access to social services and the early detection of problems among young people (violence, substance abuse, mental health) was a potent factor in the population's overall health.


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We are a premier multi-specialty tertiary care hospital of India and have been acknowledged globally as the centre of medical excellence. Over the years, Lilavati Hospital & Research Centre has developed unmatched trust with its patients on the basis of a strong foundation which includes the state-of-the-art facilities, best medical expertise, research, education and charitable endeavours. We are extremely proud that today, we serve patients from all walks of life and not only national but also international. We believe in 'Sarvetra Sukhinah:Santu, Sarve Santu Niramaya:' which means 'Let all be blissful, Let all stay healthy'. Our approach and attitude have always been with a human touch; which truly reflects the essence of our motto "More than Healthcare, Human Care".
Our journey began with a humble opening in 1997 with 10 beds and initially 22 doctors. Today, we have increased our capacity several folds and have a total of 323 beds with one of the largest Intensive Care Units (ICUs), 12 Operation Theatres with advanced facilities, more than 300 consultants and manpower of nearly 1,800 employees. Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre attends to nearly 300 In-patients and 1,500 Out-patients daily. Lilavati Hospital& Research Centre is strategically located, as it is easily accessible from all parts of Mumbai and is very close to the Airport of Mumbai.
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Matte lipcolor is big right now as seen at leading brands like Natura.
Natura is also seeing success with its facial cosmetic products.
Brazil is in the Big 5 color cosmetic market, only trailing the US, Japan, China and UK. According to Euromonitor International, global color cosmetics sales grew 32.6% from 2011 to 2016 to nearly $61 billion. The gains were even more pronounced in Latin America, where sales surged 48.5% during the period to reach $ 5.85 billion. Sales in Brazil, the No. 1 country in the region, posted gains of 39.1%, reaching $2.44 billion last year. Brazil represents 41.5% of the color cosmetics sales in Latin America, well ahead of Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Chile. According to Euromonitor, during the next five years, color sales will grow 26.8% in Brazil, 20.9% in Latin America and 18.7% for the world.
Brazil's gains are impressive, considering the country has been in recession for the past couple of years. Yet, even in this challenging scenario, a recent survey conducted by Nielsen pointed that the makeup category gained more than two million consumers in the past year. Millennials represent more than half (61%) of this increase. These highly-connected women are more likely than the general population to make impulsive, online purchases. These women, often perceived as vain, are shaping market trends and future generations, which bodes well for the industry's future.
According to Nielsen, another factor impacting growth is more women entering the labor market, which helps fuel consumption. Furthermore, promotions boost product appeal as these new consumers look to balance wants with limited budgets.
YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms have propelled color cosmetics sales, as consumers seek guidance on what to purchase and how to apply it. These visual elements help brands build consumer loyalty, drive purchasing decision and create an emotional bond—but there is room for improvement.
According to Mintel, 37% of Brazilian women said "photoshopping" and/or airbrushing n advertising campaigns make it difficult to know what a product would really look like when applied. In addition, 25% of women don't believe looks in advertising campaigns are created using the cosmetics they promote. Still, videos and images play an important role in convincing women to make an initial purchase; as 28% of Brazilian women hesitate to buy products that they have not tried.
Avon Products is the leading player in the Latin American color cosmetics market, followed by L´Oréal Group, Natura, Risqué and Mary Kay Cosmetics. Avon is the leader in Brazil, too, followed by Natura, Risqué, L´Oréal Groupe and Boticário, according to Euromonitor International.
What are the best-selling categories? Lipcolor leads the way in Latin America followed by eye makeup, facial makeup and nail products. The order changes in Brazil where lipcolor is still No. 1, but is closely followed by nail, which is considered a fashion item. Facial makeup is third and eye makeup, fourth.
The economic slowdown in Brazil didn't deter Italian makeup brand Kiko Milano to enter the country earlier this year. Kiko, which is owned by Percassi Group, relies on the same strategy in every market: offer a variety of products at low prices. According to company executives, Brazil has always been a target market for Kiko, given its strong demand for makeup. However, tough economic times required more investment prior to the first Kiko store opening. With its initial foray complete, Percassi expects to open four more stores by the end of 2017. An even bigger investment is planned for 2018; company executives say Kiko will expand in a "controlled, but aggressive, manner." The initial five million euro investment will continue until the brand meets its objectives.
Natura, the top Brazilian company in the Latin American makeup category, has a strong presence in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Colombia. In recent months, Natura launched several new products via its Una, Aquarela and Faces makeup brands.
Natura Una, a premium brand, added more colors to its Matific liquid lipsticks line. Matific combines a matte effect (the favorite finish of the moment) with the comfort of liquid lipstick without drying lips. The long-lasting, high-coverage, hydrating colors last for up to 24 hours. The brand also added eight shades to its Effect Powder Base Mousse SPF 15. The new colors are said to suit all skin tones.
This month, Natura Faces, a favorite with young consumers, will add several new matte and cream lipstick colors.
Natura Aquarela is following up the launch of its eye mascara with a three limited edition colors, brown, green and blue; all promise intense volume and definition with the first application.
L'Oréal launched Maybelline Lash Sensational in Brazil last year, where it quickly become favorite with women. Cílios Sensacionais' brush has 10 lengths which promise to reach even the smallest eyelashes, defining them end to end, and coating them with an intense black color which ensures a sophisticated look.
The challenging economic scenario creates consumers who seek low prices in an inflationary atmosphere. Yet, color cosmetics marketers have good opportunities in the Brazil, as women seek the same cosmetics and colors that they find abroad. At the same time, online tools convince women to experiment with a wide array of products and looks that are sure to drive sales no matter what the economy is doing.
Daniela Ferreira is a marketing and communication professional in both consumer and B2B cosmetic markets. With a degree in social communication and postgraduate work in business administration, her expertise includes managing and launching products, communication planning, market studies and analysis, and identifying new business opportunities. She also has beauty blog (www.circulodabeleza.com.br), and is a makeup artist and image consultant.


Born and raised in the west of Ireland Shane has been playing in the outdoors since he was born. Having also lived in New Zealand and Argentina he has fostered a love of wild places. This is only sated by various trips across the world in search of out of the way places such as Georgia and the Connemara mountains!
Having played professional rugby in Argentina along with skippering 'The Killary Flyer' across the North Atlantic to Greenland, Shane knows what it takes to be a part of an elite team.
Spent 6 months living and working in New Zealand and 1.5 years in Argentina.


Here are articles which question God and the Bible. Let me know what you find helpful or provocative.
"I believe that every sermon we preach should contain The Three R's - Ruin by the fall, Redemption by the blood of Christ and Regeneration by the Holy Spirit. If our hearers learn these in their hearts they will not go far wrong on other matters, but if they have not learned these, it will matter very little what else they learn. They will be like those who are "ever learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth." — Henry Mahan, Pastor 13th Baptist Church, Ashland, Ky in his Soverign Grace articles .
The first book of the Bible is Guinness's in which God got tired of creating the world, so he took the Sabbath off.
Unleavened bread is bread with no ingredients.
Moses went to the top of Mount Cyanide to get the 10 Commandments.
The Fifth Commandment is humor thy father and mother.
David fought the Finkelsteins, a race of people who lived in Biblical times.
It was a miracle when Jesus rose from the dead and managed to get the tomb stone off the entrance.
The Door, the world's pretty much ONLY religious satire magazine.
The Winking Jesus Have you seen it?
Get a random quote from the Bible when you state the subject of your concerns at Biblemancy, part of a site offering Tarot and Runes (which are not Biblical).
David and Bathshua, A Biblical Comedy based on the seeming "contradiction" between 2 Samuel 11:3 and 1 Chronicles 3:5.
Where's Christ? - search for God like Where's Waldo.
The pastor was talking to a group of young children about being good and going to heaven. At the end of his talk, he asked, "Where do you want to go?"
"Heaven!" they all piped up.
"And what do you have to do to get there?"
Q Which Bible character had no parents?
"I believe the promises of God enough to venture an eternity on them." —Isaac Watts God's Story -- basics of the Bible using colorful illustrations and Real Audio in 10 different languages.
Did Jesus really return from the dead?
How Do I Get the Desires of My Heart? —become more powerful? -- deal with fear?
How to Really Know the Will of God by Ray Steadman.
Tough Questions to ask Christians.
How permanent is a decision to accept Christ?
Can Anyone Really Know For Sure? Study in 1 John on assurance of salvation.
How Can wayward Christians be Restored?
What's the difference between Mercy and Grace?
The Creeds which summarize the teachings of church fathers.
Mishnah means 'to repeat' or 'to memorise' because it was originally the memorised summaries of the important debates on the meaning of the Law.
Biblical symbols, parables, and metaphors such as the Parable of the leven.
Hezekiah's revival, part 1 and part 2.
Commentaries: the Minor Prophets, Michael F. Blume on Lessons on Spiritual Maturity.
Why Do Jews Hate Jesus?
Why Men Don't Talk -- the silence of Adam in the garden with Eve.
Am I to accept everything the Bible has to say?
How can a book written thousands of years ago be useful today?.
How do you start studying the Bible?
What the NIV and NASB left out from the KJV.
Julius Scott, Jr. notes that in Acts Stephen emphasises that G-d works not just in Canaan: God spoke to Abraham in Mesopotamia (7:2 ff.) and to Moses in the wilderness of Arabia (7:30 ff.); GOd blessed Joseph in Egypt (7:9 ff.), and it is in Egypt that Isreal grew (7:17) and experienced God's deliverance (7:36 ff.). Even the law, the focal point of Jewish life, was not given to Israel in her own land but at Mount Sinai (7:38).
Tour of Isreal -- scriptures read while you view images.
The 10/40 Window for World Evangelism: Comments.
Holyland Journey virtual tour through Isreal: The Temple Mount, the Chagall windows.
The New Jerusalem Mosaic -- Travel the city through the different periods, meet the people, taste the food, enjoy the special costumes and visit the sites.
The tomb of John the Baptist is in the Great Mosque of Damascus at Umayyed, Syria.
Can God create a stone so heavy that cannot be moved?
Chronology for the development of Christianity (within a Jewish framework) from the PBS Series From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians has "scholars" describing Jesus from a historical perspective, based on "archealogical evidence" One commentator says "there is no question that the gospels are not historical documents". The program does not recognize the power of a Savior. It presupposes that the resurrection was doubtful. [1 Cor.15:12-34].
History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week by John Nevins Andrews.
What Happened Today in Christian History?
There were two young brothers, 8 and 10 years old, who were exceedingly mischievous. Whatever went wrong in the neighborhood, they had a hand in it. Their parents were at their wits' end trying to control them.
Hearing about a priest nearby who worked with delinquent boys, the mother suggested to her husband that she ask the priest to talk with the boys, and he agreed.
And so, the mother went to the priest and made her request. He agreed, but said he wanted to see the younger boy first, and alone. So the mother sent the younger one to the priest.
The priest sat the boy down across from his HUGE, impressive desk. For about five minutes they just sat and stared at each other. Finally, the priest pointed his forefinger at the boy and asked, "Young man, where is God?"
Again, the boy looked all around but said nothing. A third time, in a louder, firmer voice, the priest leaned far across the desk and put his forefinger almost to the boy's nose, and asked, "Young man, I ask you, where is God?"
His brother replied, "We're in BIG trouble. God is missing and they think WE did it!"
Among the "Spiritual" Programs in Real Audio and Video are CITV Daily programs.
Does anyone know where the NIV is available?
Christian content Search Engines: Goshen, Cross-search, OurChurch, and Saavy Search for Apologetics.
AWANA (Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed) for children.
Virtual Facts on File Religious Resources.
Biblestudytools.net provides access to commentaries, concordances, dictionaries.
Bible Overview "the most detailed, comprehensive expos� of the Bible you will see on the entire internet."
The Simple Truth on Why Religion? The Bible, and Jesus the Christ..
Religious Education Resources from a Catholic in Perth, Australia.
Maranatha Journal Webwatch Top Picks based on Aesthetics, Content, Freshness, Innovation, Navigation.
Beware that these lists include publications which deny that Jesus is God or that the Bible is inspired by God.
This page listed in the Shining Star Warriors index.


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Q: Middleman template loop I am creating a semi static site in middleman. I have created json local data. With my current setup i get File Not Found when using link_to
 = link_to f.name, "speakers/#{f._id}.html"

My url looks like
http://0.0.0.0:4567/speakers/53d544ea13dccbaf24521d98.html

speaker.yml
   {
    "people": [
        {
            "_id": "53d544ea13dccbaf24521d98",
            "index": 0,
            "status": false,
            "profile_pic": "https://res.cloudinary.com/upload/v140671888/duncan_jnow.jpg",
            "name": "Duncan Nieves",
            "company": "QOT",
            "position": "CFO",
            "email": "duncannieves@qot.com",
            "phone": "+33 (933) 598-3714",
            "address": "813 Franklin Avenue",
            "city": "Grantville",
            "country": "Cyprus",
            "biography": "Et reprehenderit aute adipisicing nostrud aliquip anim velit est ullamco non aliquip. Amet pariatur quis non dolor cupidatat nostrud enim sint ullamco occaecat. Reprehenderit est sint id est incididunt.\r\n",
            "registered": "2014-02-27T15:40:41 -01:00",
        }
    ]
 }

Then looping through the data
.section
  .event-speakers
    - data.speaker.people.take(12).each do |f|
      .speaker.mobile-6.tablet-3.medium-2.large-2{itemscope: '', itemtype: 'http://data-vocabulary.org/Person'}
        = link_to  "speakers/#{f._id}.html" do
          = image_tag f.profile_pic, width: '165', class: 'grayscale grayscale-fade'
        %span.speaker-name{itemprop: 'name'}
          = link_to f.name, "speakers/#{f._id}.html"
        %span.job-title{itemprop: 'title'}
          = f.position
        %span.job-company{itempro: 'affiliation'}
          = link_to f.company, "#", target: '_blank'

When i try to add the following i get the same results.
data.speaker.people.each do |f|
  proxy "/speakers/#{f[:_id]}.html", "speakers/layout.html",
        :locals => { :f => f }
end

I get the data but i can't figure out how to link to a single person. How do i define the template?

A: You'll need to create a dynamic page template file, in this case, speakers/layout.html.haml in your source directory.
In that file, you can use the same syntax as your index page, e.g.:
.speaker
  %p.speaker-name
    = f.name
  %p.job-title
    = f.position
  %p.bio
    = f.biography

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IslamicFinance.de installed on 18 April a new service to keep you updated with Islamic finance news by sending its content to a Twitter account allowing to follow news even by mobile phone, Wikipedia the online encyclopedia explains Twitter as follows:
"Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). [...] Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. The service is free to use over the Internet, but using SMS may incur phone service provider fees." Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
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Steam Android Apk – It has now finally arrived on android devices! Now it is even easier than ever before to participate in the Steam community from wherever you are. With this new Steam Android Apk you can read the latest gaming news, check out your favourite community groups, read user profiles, chat with your Steam friends and check out those amazing deals, all whilst on the move on your Android device.
Steam is a gaming platform developed by Valve Corporation. It acts as a social network for many gamers with its built in friends/chat system. To date there are 1504 games available for purchase through Steam with some amazing deals on most of them. It is estimates that Steam controls over 70% of digital games distribution, and I believe this figure could even be higher.
Steam has been around for quite some time. The Steam client was first announced in 2002 as purely a digital games distribution platform and as part of the beta testing for the world famous, Counter Strike 1.6.
In 2004 it was officially released but the system and website chocked after thousands of people tried to simultaneously download and play the later version of Counter Strike 1.6. Half Life 2 and Counter Strike: Source was release onto the Steam network in 2005 and they both became a huge hit, raising the Steam clients online profile even more.
Over the next few years many publishers started offering their games over the Steam platform, some of these publishers included Capcom, Eidos Interactive and id Software. By 2007 something like 13 million accounts had been created on the Steam platform and 150 games were available to purchase. 2007 also saw the release of another one of Valves games, The Orange Box alongside distribution of many other high profiles games like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Bioshock and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, this again raised the profile of the Steam platform.
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New Eagle Summit Wilderness Alliance chairman hopes to bring more visibility to the organization
Taylor Sienkiewicz
tsienkiewicz@summitdaily.com
Vail local Michael Browning has taken over as the Eagle Summit Wilderness Alliance chairman.
Courtesy photo Eagle Summit Wilderness Alliance
FRISCO — A new chair of the Eagle Summit Wilderness Alliance has been selected for 2020. Michael Browning, a Vail local, will be filling the shoes of former chair Bill Betz, who served for 2019. While a past alliance chairperson, Currie Craven, served for 22 years, the group has decided more recently that chairs should only serve one term.
Betz explained that this term limit is meant to build up a cadre of people who are on the board or who are members of the alliance who have experience serving in the lead position.
Browning has served on the board of the alliance for the last two years volunteering mainly with the volunteer wilderness ranger program. Betz said Browning's background as a lawyer was also very helpful during the organization's name change.
As an active outdoorsman and a retired lawyer, when Browning learned about the organization, he was inspired to help out.
"I've been enjoying the Eagles Nest Wilderness for 40 years. After I retired, I thought, 'what good things can I do to fill my time?'" Browning said.
After volunteering with the organization, he decided to volunteer to be chairman of the board and was then nominated into the position.
"I hope to increase the number of volunteers in the VWR (volunteer wilderness ranger) and weed programs and get our name out to the public through additional news articles, flyers and other means. I also have formed a committee to explore re-establishing ESWA as a member-based organization, and increasing the tangible benefits to our members, including new swag and member social functions, in addition to our outstanding publications," Browning said in the association's January newsletter.
Browning is stepping into a good place within the alliance as Betz reported that the unrestricted cash balance for 2019 increased by 50%. Browning explained that in the upcoming year, the alliance plans to fund a new boardwalk on the Mesa Cortina Trail in honor of the recently passed Beau Schuette.
Betz said that while the alliance is mainly based in Summit County, the group wants to make their presence known in Eagle County. With Browning living in Eagle County, alliance leadership is spread more evenly across the counties.
"We haven't been real active on the Vail side so I want to increase our visibility on the Vail side of things and increase our visibility in the public," Browning said.
Browning added that instead of adding many new programs, he wants to expand on the programs the alliance currently has with the volunteer ranger program, weed pulling program and the educational component of the alliance.
"There's a lot of education we have to do about what wilderness is," Browning said, referencing his shock at the lack of awareness he has seen.
Browning hopes to educate people on how they can respectfully use and protect the wilderness. In addition, Browning hopes to diversify the membership base of the alliance.
"I also want to get more young members and more women involved into the organization," Browning said.
Those interested can learn more about volunteer opportunities with the organization at eaglesummitwilderness.org.
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