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"And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;"
Other Translations of Revelation 8:8
And the second Angel sounded, and as it were a great mountaine burning with fire was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea became blood.
- King James Version (1611) - Compare to scan of original Revelation chapter 8
The second angel sounded, and {something} like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea; and a third of the sea became blood,
And at the sounding of the second angel, it was as if a great mountain burning with fire was sent into the sea: and a third part of the sea became blood,
And the second angel sounded [his] trumpet: and as a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea became blood;
And the second angel sounded the trumpet: and as it were a great mountain, burning with fire, was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea became blood:
The second angel blew his trumpet; and what seemed to be a great mountain, all ablaze with fire, was hurled into the sea; and a third part of the sea was turned into blood.
- Weymouth Bible
The second angel sounded, and something like a great burning mountain was thrown into the sea. One third of the sea became blood,
And the secunde aungel trumpide; and as a greet hil brennynge with fier was cast in to the see;
- Wycliffe Bible
And the second messenger did sound, and as it were a great mountain with fire burning was cast into the sea, and the third of the sea became blood,
Nick Mac.'s comment on 2014-10-19 15:25:40:
It says it is hurled at earth, and is like a mountain.. sounds to me like it says an Asteroid, as if on fire ie entering earths atmosphere, and lands in the sea..not Europe or on land.. in the Sea. no doubt the blood will be from the many lost in ensuing tsunami 's.. there IS reason we 're told we will all COWER and hide our faces, climb under rocks..
Sploshwatcher's comment on 2014-08-31 05:16:57:
I think it 's a volcano they do that spew fire of lava on things don 't they.
Jack's comment on 2014-04-17 12:24:14:
I believe this is an Asteroid that John was shown, some say it was a nuclear blast but a N.B would rise up as would a volcano. But an Asteroid would come in like burning ball being tossed. This will definitely set the beginning of the Great Tribulation and could very well take out the U.S it would have to hit somewhere in the Pacific Ocean in other words where it wouldn 't take out Israel, for obvious prophetic reasons.
Anonymous's comment on 2010-10-07 07:37:03:
Hungary toxic sludege???? thursday, Oct 7, 2010
ray's comment on 2010-06-16 15:38:54:
Could it be the oil spill?


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I'm A Celebrity 2020 full line-up revealed as BBC Radio 1 DJ Jordan North becomes final contestant to rough it in Wales
Andy Halls
Jessica Gibb
THE line-up for this year's very chilly I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! is now complete with only 10 days to go until the stars are forced to camp out in a castle in north Wales.
The Sun can exclusively reveal Radio 1 DJ Jordan North is the final name in the eclectic line-up - with EastEnders favourite Shane Richie, Olympics legend Mo Farah and Corrie's Beverley Callard also in the mix.
The line-up for this year's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! is now complete
I'm A Celeb will be filmed in Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales, rather than AustraliaCredit: Getty Images - Getty
All 12 stars can now be unveiled for this year's I'm A Celebrity in Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales, rather than tropical Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia.
Ant and Dec will return as hosts for the show's start on November 15.
The new set at the previously derelict 200-year-old castle will include familiar features such as the central camp fire, congregation and task areas, and an outside toilet.
Here are the 12 brave campmates currently taking part in a two-week quarantine before braving the first ever I'm A Celeb filmed in the UK after the coronavirus pandemic destroyed the annual jaunt to the jungle.
Radio 1 DJ Jordan North completes this year's I'm A Celeb line-upCredit: Instagram
Jordan North
Radio 1 DJ Jordan North, 30, is the last contestant who completes this year's line-up, The Sun can exclusively reveal.
Jordan is affectionately known at the station as "the supply teacher".
The floppy-haired lad is bound to be a hit with the ladies.
Shane Richie is one of the big name signings for this year's I'm A CelebrityCredit: Getty Images - Getty
Shane with Jessie Wallace as Alfie Moon and Kat Slater on EastEndersCredit: BBC
EastEnders favourite Shane Richie, 56, has agreed to take part in the ITV show, The Sun exclusively revealed.
Dad-of-five Shane is best known for his time on Albert Square as loveable rogue Alfie Moon alongside on-screen wife Kat Slater — played by Jessie Wallace, 49.
As well as being a staple of British TV for nearly three decades, he is also an in-demand panto favourite around Christmas time.
An insider told The Sun: "ITV have always wanted Shane for the jungle but with panto not happening this year and other work opportunities less likely, he decided this was the time to take the plunge.
"Going to North Wales is less of a huge commitment than flying halfway across the world, too, so he jumped at the chance.
"He's already being talked about by production as an early favourite as he's such a likeable bloke and known to millions of soap fans.
"ITV are delighted they've managed to convince him to take part."
Shane — sure to be a front-runner to be crowned "king" — follows a long line of former Walford stars who have taken part, including past winners Charlie Brooks, Joe Swash and Jacqueline Jossa.
Corrie's Beverley Callard will be entering the castleCredit: Rex Features
Beverley Callard
Beverley Callard, 63, will be the oldest celebrity on the show this year.
The Corrie actress, who has played feisty barmaid Liz McDonald on the soap for 31 years, is said to be raking in an estimated £125,000 pay cheque for I'm A Celeb.
The Liz McDonald star has a lot to live up to as soap stars often do well on the show.
Last year, fellow Corrie star Andy Whyment lost out to EastEnders' Jacqueline Jossa in the final.
EastEnders star Jessica Plummer has also signed up for the showCredit: Rex Features
Jessica Plummer
EastEnders actress Jessica Plummer, 28, who was also in a pop band, hopes to repeat the success last year of fellow Walford star Jacqueline Jossa, The Sun exclusively revealed.
Producers believe Jessica, whose character Chantelle was murdered last month, will add some glamour to the show.
A source said: "Soap stars always do well in the show. Just look at Jessica's Enders' predecessor Jacqueline Jossa last year.
"Bosses are delighted to be able to convince her to take part.
"It's a great move for both parties as she's just left the soap and this is a great opportunity for her personality to be shown to millions.
"She hopes it will be a real stepping stone for her career."
Olympic legend Mo Farah has signed up to I'm A CelebCredit: Pacemaker Press
Mo Farah
Olympic hero Sir Mo Farah, 37, will be there too, as The Sun exclusively revealed.
The four-times Olympic gold medallist is sure to be among the favourites to be crowned King of the Castle as he takes his first strides into reality TV.
Mo first started watching the ITV series a decade ago when one of his sporting heroes former sprinter Linford Christie took part.
A telly insider told The Sun: "Mo's been a big fan of the show for years and was just waiting for the right time in his career to do it.
"He obviously has an excellent level of fitness and mental focus so will be great at the Bushtucker Trials and will be a positive addition for keeping up team morale for campmates - especially as a lot of the celebs are worried how cold it will be."
Ex-Strictly pro AJ Pritchard has agreed to take part in I'm A CelebCredit: Rex Features
AJ Pritchard
After sensationally quitting the BBC contest in March, pro dancer AJ Prirtchard, 25, is preparing to spend three weeks sleeping in the dirt in a dingy castle for the new series of I'm A Celebrity.
In his four years in Strictly he became one of the most popular pros, reaching the semi-finals in three consecutive series, with gymnast Claudia Fragapane, Radio 1 DJ Mollie King and Paralympian Lauren Steadman.
AJ announced he was quitting just three days after the UK went into the lockdown that has devastated the entertainment industry.
After The Sun exclusively announced his place on I'm A Celeb, he told us he was looking forward to doing something different, being "a normal person" and not just a dancer.
"I did four years of Strictly, which I absolutely loved, but it was definitely the right time for me to venture into new things," he said.
"Strictly wouldn't allow a lot of things to happen that I wanted to happen, so it meant you do have to do that leap, and for me it's not a risk, it's something I'm passionate about."
Vernon Kay is self-isolating in a hotel for two weeks before entering the I'm A Celeb castleCredit: Rex Features
Vernon Kay
Vernon Kay is said to have signed a staggering £250k deal to appear on I'm A Celebrity 2020.
The 46-year-old star has been approached several times in the past, but ITV bosses have only just managed to sign him up.
Producers are thrilled to have snapped him up for a quarter of a million pounds, with the TV presenter due to appear on the reality show while his wife Tess Daly presents Strictly Come Dancing in the UK.
Giovanna Fletcher will bring a mum's perspective to camp
The author is married to McFly star Tom FletcherCredit: Getty - Contributor
Mums' podcast host Giovanna Fletcher is also getting ready to join the star-studded line-up, as The Sun exclusively revealed.
The 35-year-old, married to McFly singer Tom, has a big online following.
A source said: "Giovanna is a brilliant signing. She's incredibly popular on Instagram with mums and has over 1.3million followers.
"She's moved in famous circles for years. Not only is she best pals with Emma Willis but she's close to royalty, married to a boyband star and her brother is Mario Falcone from Towie. She's decided the time is right to embrace the limelight."
The mum-of-three is also a best-selling author with 11 books to her name.
She is currently isolating in a holiday cottage with her family in Anglesey.
Ruthie Henshall is among the stars who have signed up for this year's I'm A CelebrityCredit: Rex Features
Ruthie Henshall
West End actress, singer and dancer Ruthie Henshall, 53, will be a contestant in 2020, as The Sun exclusively revealed.
The West End veteran is a former lover of Prince Edward.
She was often smuggled into Buckingham Palace during their relationship.
Ruthie has admitted she dated the Prince — now 56 and married to Sophie, Countess of Wessex — in the early 1990s "solidly for a couple of years, but on and off for five".
BBC news host Victoria Derbyshire was the fifth official signing for the showCredit: PA:Press Association
Victoria Derbyshire
Victoria Derbyshire was exclusively confirmed as a 2020 contestant by The Sun just months after the BBC axed her daily talk show.
The popular 52-year-old BBC journalist and news-reader is a well-respected figure in TV.
Victoria had a single mastectomy after a breast cancer diagnosis in 2015.
An insider said: "Victoria is always game for a challenge so when she was approached for I'm A Celebrity she jumped at the chance.
"It's always something she's wanted to do but because of her family she's never wanted to fly to Australia and be away from them for so long.
"When the show moved to Wales and the opportunity came up, she didn't want to look a gift horse in the mouth so said yes straight away."
Paralympian Hollie Arnold has also signed upCredit: Getty Images - Getty
Hollie Arnold
Paralympian Hollie Arnold, 26, will be swapping athletics for the castle as revealed by The Sun.
She is a record-breaking British parasport javelin athlete so will be an asset during the more physical Bushtucker Trials.
She competed at the Rio Paralympics in 2016, 2017 World Championships and the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Operatic tenor Russell Watson has agreed to take partCredit: Rex Features
Operatic tenor Russell Watson, 53, will swap the stage for camp this winter as The Sun exclusively reported.
He is famous for being a judge on BBC One's 2008 talent show Last Choir Standing.
Russell's appearance on the show came after he fought off a near-fatal brain tumour in 2007, which required emergency surgery and an extensive rehabilitation programme.
And he has admitted he needs the fee after a "year of no work".
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Asylum-seekers increase by 45pc worldwide
The Newspaper's CorrespondentPublished March 27, 2015
The number of people applying for refugee status in industrialised countries is just one element in the global picture of forced displacement from conflict and persecution. — AFP/file
UNITED NATIONS: The wars in Syria and Iraq, as well as armed conflicts, human rights violations and deteriorating security and humanitarian conditions elsewhere, have pushed the number of people seeking asylum in industrialised countries to the highest level since 1992, a new UN report said on Thursday.
The report "Asylum Trends 2014," released at the UN refugee agency's headquarters in Geneva, puts the estimated number of new asylum applications lodged in industrialised countries throughout the year at 866,000 – a 45 per cent increase from 2013, when 596,600 claims were registered.
"Our response has to be just as generous now as it was then – providing access to asylum, resettlement opportunities and other forms of protection for the people fleeing these terrible conflicts," said UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, putting the figures in historical context.
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How The Barstool Fund Helped Rescue This Family-Owned Bowling Center That Started In 1972
By: Gabe Kaminsky
WILKES-BARRE, PA — Chacko's Family Bowling Center, an early recipient of The Barstool Fund, was built during hard times. So when the coronavirus hit and lockdowns swept the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the family-owned business was ready to do whatever it took to survive.
What they have, a 38,000-square-foot bowling alley in Wyoming Valley, was built in 1998 after Hurricane Agnes demolished the other facility near the Susquehanna River that started in 1972. Elizabeth and John Chacko Sr., who were 45 and 44 at the time, had just signed the paperwork to start converting the business into their own.
To save his business, John Sr. took a boat and went out to the river. He piled sandbags on the building, but the levee broke, and it was still destroyed. The rest of the family was home, and a son with muscular dystrophy and a daughter with lupus were not about to enter a storm. So the Chacko sons, Daniel and John Jr., who were 15 and 17 at the time, were soon digging out mud and clearing floodwater along with neighbors.
"We had to take the bowling lanes and cut them in sections and then we put them apart with crowbars," Daniel says. "We carried the pieces out to the curb and people picked them up with loaders and took stuff away. We had to take flooring off and ceiling tiles and pretty much just empty the whole building. As far as mud, because we're only like a block from the river, there was probably a good foot of mud in the basement. We had to shovel that into buckets and carry it out to dump outside."
The family eventually reclaimed the business by the river. Then they moved locations 26 years later.
Hurricane Agnes, June 1972. Wilkes-Barre, PA.
Another unexpected tragedy would threaten the Chacko family business nearly 50 years later. On March 15, 2020, the bowling center closed under the impression it would be open 15 days later due to initial "stop the spread" protocol. They talked it over and envisioned two weeks was a reasonable amount of time to cease operations. Little did Chacko's, or anyone else, know their doors would be shuttered until June 20 due to the eventual statewide closure of "non-life sustaining businesses operations and services."
The second-and-third generation family business was being put through the wringer by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's administration. Chacko's sold takeout here and there from its restaurant and bar, but the bills were piling up: Mortgage, insurance, utilities, taxes, and more. They were dipping into their savings, but they refused to take employees off payroll. When work is family, leaving your family members in the dust is not an option.
So they applied for the federal Paycheck Protection Program and burned through it. June came around, but COVID restrictions capped revenue. A fog machine the state made them purchase was more than $10,000. In a standard month, the business costs close to $55,000 to run, between payroll and bills.
"When we reopened in June, we had to set up all this Plexiglas, we had to get more hand sanitizer — which at the time was impossible to find — and we had to make sure we bought a fog machine like in hospitals to clean big areas faster," Kara Hodorowski, the current marketing and and event manager Chacko's, and Daniel's daughter, says. "It was 25 percent capacity and you could never make ends meet on that kind of revenue because we don't charge that much a game. It's not like $100 a game, it's four bucks."
Karla Harman, Kara's sister who manages human resources for Chacko's, notes that "reopening was still tough because we had to follow all the restrictions."
"It was hard to bring people in, but you actually have to turn people away because you couldn't have them in at the same time," Harman notes.
Government handouts could not solve their problems. But giving up was never an option for the family.
Owners of Chacko's Family Bowling Center: John Chacko, Jr. (left), Daniel Chacko (right), Anne Chacko-Libby (middle)
Chacko's Family Bowling Center: 195 North Wilkes-Barre Boulevard, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702
Fast-forward to December. Kara's sister, Kenley Keiper, sent a social media link to her family members that would change their lives. It was to the Barstool Fund, launched by Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy to allocate money to small businesses struggling to operate during the lockdowns. Kara estimates the fund had raised somewhere between $12 and $15 million total when the family applied. Now it's at more than $32 million.
Barstool instructed Chacko's to send an email outlining their story. So they did. The fund followed up asking for a more detailed explanation. They asked the three sisters, Kenley, Karla, and Kara, to record an informative video.
There were no limitations content-wise, but Portnoy's fund needed it within 24 hours. So the sisters stayed up until 3 a.m. shooting and editing clips on a cell phone.
"We couldn't tell anybody, so we ran over ourselves [to Chacko's]. The place just closed so it was quiet," Kenley said, who works in management and does graphics. "We did a quick storyboard for ourselves. We did the voiceovers, and then when I came home, I didn't have my computer. So I'm up until three a.m trying to clip it together. And then when I went to send the file it was too big. My sister ending up having a ZIP compressor."
After a day, Barstool wrote back asking to verify paperwork, bills, and such, and wanted to see the company logo. Then the airwaves went silent. "Don't get our hopes up about hearing back from them," Kara told her sisters.
Then it was Christmas.
"On Christmas Eve, I was unwrapping presents, and I was getting a FaceTime call. That's when the call happened," Kara said. "And you see Portnoy's face and you knew what it was about. He told us they selected us as I think the 10th business and the first non-restaurant — definitely the first bowling alley. That was a moment when you are like, 'Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, we might make it through this.'"
Portnoy assured Kara Barstool would be there until restrictions ease. $15,000 a month was the agreed-upon number.
"You guys are deserving," Portnoy said. "It's hard to pick, but we're glad we found you guys and very excited to help …Very happy to be there for you guys."
The Chacko's facetime. #BarstoolFund pic.twitter.com/roos6PSglo
— The Barstool Fund (@BarstoolFund) December 24, 2020
Kara called her sisters and then their father, Daniel. Christmas Eve was the anniversary of the late Chacko Sr's. birthday. He had passed away in 1997, a year before they opened up the current building on North Wilkes Barre Boulevard. This special connection made it more emotional for everyone.
"It was a total surprise, I had no idea they even did anything like that," Daniel says. "To hear what we were gonna get was emotional. To have it happen on that day was incredible. It was just incredible that somebody would step up and do something like that. You can't imagine how appreciative it is to keep a business that's been going since '72 alive like that."
"When Kara called me to tell me I scream-cried," Kenley said. "I said, 'Dad's gonna be so happy.'"
Kara appeared on Fox Business a week later to talk about their story.
The money has been instrumental. The mortgage is being paid and so are health insurance premiums. Even with the money they are receiving, though, Chacko's is still falling short every month. But if it were not for Barstool, Kara says it would have been impossible to dig their way out of this mess. "We have a lot of rules in place, so it is hard to make ends meet," she notes.
Chacko's is operating at 50 percent capacity today. On Memorial Day, May 31, the Wolf administration tentatively plans to lift gathering restrictions. According to the state's health department, the mask mandate will supposedly end once 70 percent of Pennsylvanians who are 18 or older receive the vaccine.
Other businesses have not been as fortunate. In December 2020, it was reported that lockdowns in Pennsylvania closed 30 percent of business — the second most in the nation behind Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's Michigan. A second report in April found Pennsylvania tied with Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's New York for the most small business closures in the nation, at 31 percent. About one in six businesses have closed nationwide since the start of the pandemic.
"It's obviously been insanely difficult," says Karla. "As a small business, we don't have the same luxuries that corporate companies have had, like Lowes or Target, that were able to stay open during all the restrictions. It's hard. We're not grazing through with things but in the meantime we'll try to help our added income however we can."
Jennifer Yuhas, a longtime bowler whose 19-year-old son works at Chacko's, says, "It is really a family environment" and that Barstool's helping hand did more than just help the business. It lifted up a community.
"It wasn't just a blessing to the bowling alley," Jennifer describes. "I think it was a blessing to the whole community to have some normalcy during the pandemic."
Rick Santasania, who has been bowling at Chacko's for more than 30 years, echoes Jennifer's sentiment on the value of community. "It's like a home," Rick says, who is unhappy with how Pennsylvania forced small businesses to close.
"The governor shouldn't have the power to shut down private business," Rick tells me. "I think the governor shouldn't have the power to determine what businesses are essential or non-essential."
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Sani Elia Lagigietama Lakatani (ur. 1936) - polityk Niue. Premier tego terytorium od 26 marca 1999 do 1 maja 2002. Był członkiem Partii Ludowej Niue (Niue People's Party).

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William Mortensen miscellaneous acquisitions collection
Collection consists of materials collected from separate sources at different times. The collection is divided into eight series: Research on Mortensen negatives; The Command to Look; Publications by Mortensen; Publications about Mortensen; Auction records for Mortensen photographs and books; Larry Lytle research materials; R. H. Cochrane, Jr. materials; Richard Bennett+ notebook.
Subgroup One, Research on Mortensen Negatives, contains correspondence and research materials collected by CCP archivist Amy Rule. Includes an inventory of the 55 gelatin silver nitrate film negatives at the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House. These negatives evidently were acquired from the Louis Walton Sipley American Museum of Photography.
Subgroup Two, The Command to Look, consists of two editions of Mortensen's book, one a damaged copy of the 1937 edition: San Francisco: Camera Craft, third printing November 1943; the second is a photocopy of a republished edition: Los Angeles: Jacques de Langre, 1967.
Subgroup Three, Publications by Mortensen, consists of The Female Figure by William Mortensen (Newport Beach, CA: Jay Curtis Publications, 1954) [photocopy]; How to Pose the Model by Mortensen and George Dunham (3rd edition) [copy of dust jacket]; The Texture Screen by William Mortensen (Newport Beach, CA: Jay Curtis Publications, 1954) [photocopy]. Miscellaneous articles including photocopies of articles in the Los Angeles Times Home Magazine (May – July 1941); "The Hermits of Baltimore," Camera magazine 78:2 (February 1953), 24-31, 88.
Subgroup Four, Publications About Mortensen, contains photocopies of photographs in International Photographer (December 1940-December 1943); Miscellaneous articles about Mortensen; Miscellaneous articles on related subjects; Publications by Deborah Irmas; Dissertation on Mortensen: The Manner of Mortensen: Aesthetic Communication and the Construction of Metaphysical Realities by Edward Montgomery Clift. University of Pennsylvania, 1992. (129 pp.)
Subgroup Five, Auction Records for Mortensen Photographs and Books, contains photocopies of records in auction catalogs, 1989.
Subgroup Six, Research Materials Collected by Larry Lytle, Mortensen Biographer, 1990s, contains copies of public records related to Mortensen's life such as the record of his birth in 1897, Los Angeles County census records, passport application, World War I draft registration card, Orange County voters registration file, Salt Lake City directory pages, and other official public records; Bibliography complied by Lytle in 1997; Lytle photographs of Mortensen addresses in Laguna Beach; Mortensen School brochures (copies); Lytle comments on the contents of the Gray Silva Collection at CCP; Chronology of Mortensen's addresses, 1932-1966; Transcription of telephone interview between Lytle and Robert Balcomb, 1998; 16th Annual Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters, Laguna Beach (copy; Cecil B. DeMille's Production The King of Kings by Jeanie Macpherson, [undated] (copy; The Mode in Costume by R. Turner Wilcox, 1948; with inscription, "4-15-50 Bill Mortensen with sincere regards – Kelly L. Taulbee" [pages possibly marked by Mortensen; Four copy negatives of Mortensen images, [undated]; Photocopies of magazine articles, 1940s-1950s; photocopies of Mortensen photographs; Hood Medal, 1949 (copy).
Miscellaneous research notes from Larry Lytle.
Biographical materials related to Mortensen and Dunham, including photographs of grave stones, marriage certificate of Myrdith and William Mortensen, death certificates of Myrdith and Dunham, notes and copies of pages from city directories.
Art sources for Mortensen subjects. Copies of illustrations in books and magazines showing possible sources for Mortensen's subjects and compositions.
"The Command to Look: The Story of William Mortensen, Parts 1, 2, 3," by Larry Lytle. Printouts from the online journal The Scream (8 May 2002), extensively illustrated with scans of Mortensen's photographs.
"The Illustrative Photographs of William Mortensen Used in Camera Craft Publications," by Larry Lytle, 1997.
George Dunham: Miscellaneous copies of official records, notes, and emails related to the education of Dunham including proof that he attended Harvard University, 1921-22.
Dunham: Documents from Dunham's career at Pomona College including his writings in student publications, 1917-1921.
Dunham: Copies of newspaper clippings, emails and other documentation of Dunham's life in Laguna Beach, 1927-65.
Laguna Beach research materials, research materials related to Mortensen's career in Laguna Beach. Copies of original materials in the Laguna Beach Historical Society. Supplied with the assistance of LBHS staff member Jane Janz. Also includes copies of articles by Mortensen, George Dunham, Paul Outerbridge, and others writing in the South Coast News and other publications about Mortensen's studio and the Mortensen School of Photography in Laguna Beach, the Laguna artists' scene, the Festival of the Arts and Pageant of the Masters, the Festival Photographic Contest, and publication of Mortensen's photographs and books. Of special note are clippings related to the 1956 claim by the U.S. Postal Service authorities that Mortensen's book The Female Figure was obscene.
Miscellaneous Larry Lytle research materials, including copies of The Camera magazine (1944-1946), newspaper article about Lytle lecture in Laguna Beach (2006), and various research notes.
Miscellaneous materials documenting the photographic career of Larry Lytle. These include they annual calendars (Destination 2008, Sandwich Exotica 2006, Fun & Games 2005, Tintypes 2004, Inventions of the Twentieth Century 2000, Magic & Illusion 1999, and The Best Parts 1998.
Subgroup Seven, R. H. Cochrane, Jr. Materials, contains negatives by Robert H. Cochrane, Jr., a Mortensen Metal Chrome Student, 1939.
Subgroup Eight, Richard Bennett Notebook, undated, contains a note book created by Richard Bennett, student of William Mortensen, undated (ca. 147 pages); includes extensive notes on Mortensen's photographic techniques and materials involved in the pigment, bromoil, and texturescreen processes. The notebook was deaccessioned from the Salt Lake City Art Center Library, 2005 and donated to the Center.
Subgroup Nine, Photographs by William Mortensen, features an undated photograph of a man in monk robes, signed "Wescosco Studio William Mortensen"; inscription: "to my friend Mr. Dellarowe from Eugene H. Tracy."
University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography (Organization)
Albert W. Mortensen—this is what is recorded as his name on the Utah 1900 census record—was born in 1897 in Park City, Utah. His family moved to Salt Lake City when he was 11 years old. He was interested in painting and was trained by his high school teacher, and possibly took lessons before that. He was inducted into the army in 1916 and discharged in 1918. Upon his release from the army, Mortensen spent 1919 and at least part of 1920 in New York City, possibly attending the Arts Students League while there. He traveled to Greece in 1920 and returned the same year. Traveling back to Utah, he took a job teaching art at his alma mater in Salt Lake City. By the end of the school year he left his job at East Side High School, and in 1921 traveled by train escorting a friend's sister to Hollywood. (The sister was Fay Wray.)
Mortensen evidently knew someone in Los Angeles who put him in contact with film director King Vidor. He worked in the burgeoning film industry alternately painting scenery, making masks, and engaging in various film art-related services. Simultaneously he began work at Western Costume Company photographing silent film stars in costume.
In 1924 he married Courtney Crawford, a librarian, and moved into her home on Hollywood Boulevard, where he maintained a studio from 1925-1931. Also, during this time, he began to enter and show in photographic salons both here and abroad. His work was published in various journals and newspapers, including Photograms of the Year, American Annual of Photography, Vanity Fair, and the Los Angeles Times.
Mortensen moved to Laguna Beach in 1931 and opened a studio on the Pacific Coast Highway (then called South Coast Highway)—the first of four spaces that he rented over the next thirty years. His school, the Mortensen School of Photography, officially opened in 1931 and always occupied the same address as his studio.
In 1933 Mortensen married Myrdith Monaghan and met George Dunham who became a friend and model. More importantly, 1933 is also the year when he began his long writing collaboration with Dunham, which didn't end until 1960 with an incomplete manuscript titled Composition. The 32-year collaboration yielded 9 books in multiple editions and printings, 4 pamphlets, and over 100 articles in magazines and newspapers. Both Myrdith and Dunham proved to be his most significant models, helping him to produce his most important body of work. The school remained open until a short time after his death from leukemia in 1965.
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Materials related to the life and career of William Mortensen (1897-1965), photographer, author, and teacher.
Subgroup 1: Correspondence and research materials on Mortensen negatives
Subgroup 2: The Command to Look
Subgroup 3: Publications by Mortensen
Subseries 1: Monographs
Subseries 2: Periodicals
Subgroup 4: Publications about Mortensen
Subgroup 5: Auction records for Mortensen photographs and books
Subgroup 6: Research materials collected by Larry Lytle, Mortensen biographer, 1990s
Subgroup 7: R. H. Cochrane, Jr. Materials
Subgroup 8: Richard Bennett notebook, n.d.
Subgroup 9: Photography by William Mortensen
Subgroup 10: Other materials: Rubaiyat by William Mortensen
Subgroup 6, Gift of Larry Lytle, 2010
Subgroup 7, Gift of Elivio and Janet Serrano, 2007
Subgroup 8, Gift of James Swenson, 2005
Subgroup 9, Gift of Theresa Bitondo, 2016
Paul Anderson (AG40)
Aubrey Bodine (AG139)
Amy Rule did the preliminary organization in May 2003 and prepared a draft finding aid in August 2009.
Finding aid updated by Paige Hilman in February 2018
William Mortensen Miscellaneous Acquisitions Collection, 1937-2004
Finding aid created by Paige Hilman, 2018
William Mortensen Miscellaneous Acquisitions Collection, 1937-2004. AG191. Center for Creative Photography. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
William Mortensen Miscellaneous Acquisitions Collection, 1937-2004. AG191. Center for Creative Photography. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. https://aspace.ccp.arizona.edu/repositories/2/resources/334 Accessed January 30, 2023.


A North-East dealership is giving drivers a sneak preview of the new Audi A6 two months before it is released.
Teesside Audi, on Mandale Road, Thornaby, is offering to drive customers to view the eagerly-awaited model when it is exhibited in Leeds this month.
Although the Audi A6 is officially launched on June 12, Audi UK has organised for a number of models to be displayed in selected locations throughout the UK, with Leeds the closest to the North-east.
Group marketing manager Kathleen Robson, said: "Throughout April we will be driving customers to Leeds and back to enable them to take a closer look at this new addition to the prestigious C-segment class.
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The car will be on display in a purpose built environment, in an industrial style building close to Leeds city centre from now until Wednesday April 28.
Customer visits are by appointment only and can be booked through the marketing department.
To book an appointment contact Kathleen Robson or Chris Milburn on 0191 270 4307 or e-mail newA6@teesside.audi.co.uk with contact details and preferred dates.


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Changing the Face of the Earth: The Morrison-Knudsen Corporation as Partner to the U.S. Federal Government
Christopher S. Blanchard, Portland State UniversityFollow
Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning
Carl Abbott
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Urban Studies
Harry W. Morrison (Harry Winford) 1885-1971, Morrison Knudsen Corporation, Public contracts -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Construction contracts -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Beginning with reclamation projects in the western U.S., the heavy construction industry helped the federal government grow in size and sophistication in the twentieth century. The Morrison-Knudsen Corporation throughout the twentieth century represented one of the federal government's favored contractors. Following western reclamation projects, the U.S. federal government then used contractors to help move the U.S. economy out of the Depression, prepare for World War II, wage the Cold War at home and abroad, and win the space race. Thus, at key stages in United States history we observe the necessity of the U.S. federal government partnering with the heavy construction industry to achieve its policy objectives at home and abroad. Morrison-Knudsen was once the largest heavy contractor in the United States, participating in the construction of Hoover Dam, Pacific Naval Air Bases, Hanford Engineering Works, the U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System, and the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.
Blanchard, Christopher S., "Changing the Face of the Earth: The Morrison-Knudsen Corporation as Partner to the U.S. Federal Government" (2014). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 2066.
Government Contracts Commons, Urban Studies Commons


ICAA challenges marketers: Do you have what it takes to reach 50+?
Vancouver, BC (July 29, 2011) - As part of the recently launched ICAA's Changing the Way® We Age Campaign (www.changingthewayweage.com), the International Council on Active Aging has introduced the first annual ICAA Rebranding Aging Awards. The awards will recognize excellence in marketing wellness-oriented products, programs or services to consumers ages 50 and above.
Entries will be accepted online on the campaign website (www.changingthewayweage.com) through September 10, 2011. Companies may submit entries on behalf of their business or organization in all four categories, but no more than one entry per category.
Marketing materials will be judged on overall creativity and effectiveness in connecting with the 50+ market, and adherence to the goals of ICAA's Changing the Way® We Age Campaign.
Gold, Silver and Bronze winners will be announced at a special "Rebranding Aging" marketing session at the ICAA 10th anniversary conference in Orlando, Florida, on December 1, 2011. Winning entries will be highlighted on conference presentation boards and receive recognition in a feature article in ICAA's flagship publication, Journal on Active Aging.


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A Tennessee Cop Accused of Searching a Black Man's Anus on the Side of the Road Is Now Facing 44 Criminal Charges
He also allegedly forced a woman he arrested to be baptised.
Emma Ockerman
What We Know About the College Kid Charged with Murdering a Campus Cop
Hollis Daniels was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia, and then he reportedly shot an officer in the head.
Allie Conti
Inside the Secret World of Britain's Top Drugs Cop
Now retired, Tony Saggers spent two decades chasing Britain's top drug gangs.
Max Daly
Was an Innocent Man Sent to Prison for Killing a Cop 46 Years Ago?
Cleve Heidelberg says his only mistake on a fateful night in 1970 was lending his car to a cop killer. Forty-six years later, he's still in prison.
Charlotte Silver
Pink Patrol
I've been a police officer for over ten years now. I'm a big, tall guy with an authoritative voice and a large "command presence." Oh, and I also happen to be as gay as a sunset.
Officer Rock Travolta
Cop Shop Chic
Justine Electra is a tomboyish 25-year-old Australian who lives in Berlin where she gets up to all the usual stuff: singing on other people's records, DJing, bar work, remixing, journalism, sleeping late, boozing and partying.
Teasel Yarnworthy
I'm Dessie. I joined the Police Service of Northern Ireland three years ago and I'm based in Belfast. You may have heard of it. There are sometimes some mild disagreements between Protestants and Catholics here.
PC Dessie & Jason Johnson


Quality of Business Environment in the SME Segment prof. Ing. Jaroslav Belás, PhD.
Information and Knowledge Technologies in the Industry 4.0 prof. Ing. Ladislav Buřita, CSc.
Performance and Efficiency Improvement in Administration and Production Processes with the Use of Selected Methods and Techniques of Industrial Engineering prof. Ing. Felicita Chromjaková, PhD.
Building of a Modern Company Based on Integrated Management System (Qms+Ems+Hsms+Csr+Isms+…) doc. Ing. Petr Briš, CSc.
New Human Resource Management and the Growth of Company Competitiveness doc. PhDr. Ing. Aleš Gregar, CSc.
Cross Cultural Consumer Behaviour and Branding for Strategic Marketing doc. Ing. Miloslava Chovancová, CSc.
Performance Measurement and Management of Companies and Cluseters doc. Ing. Adriana Knápková, Ph.D.
Factors Influencing Customers' Online Buying Behaviour on B2C / B2B Markets doc. Ing. Michal Pilík, Ph.D.
Use of Modern Costing Methods for Company Cost Management doc. Ing. Boris Popesko, Ph.D.
Key Factors Influencing Entrepreneurship on the Health Care Market doc. Ing. Pavla Staňková, Ph.D.
Transformation of Traditionally Managed Organizations into Knowledge-Driven Organization with the Use of Business Process Management Tools in the Context of Industry 4.0 doc. Ing. David Tuček, Ph.D.
Balanced Scorecard in the Non-Manufacturing Sector doc. Ing. Roman Zámečník, PhD.
Innovation and Strategy: Self-Sustainability of Systems prof. Ing. Milan Zelený, M.S., Ph.D.
It is possible to choose a topic offered by an external supervisor listed in the table below. In this case please contact Research and Professional Procedure Office (studium-phd@fame.utb.cz) prior contacting a supervisor.
Tax Optimalization of International Business Units in the Context of the European Union doc. Ing. Aleksandr Ključnikov, Ph.D.
Impact of Innovative Technologies on the Management of Supplier-Customer Relations doc. Ing. Richard Pospíšil, Ph.D.
Changes in the Management of Ict Companies Due to Global Digitalisation, the Need for Changes in Their Functional and Personnel Facilities doc. Ing. Milena Tvrdíková, CSc.
Business Intelligence Tools, the Impact of Business Intelligence on Improving the Quality of Management, the Business Intelligence Infrastructure, the Transformation of Data in Knowledge.
Trends in the Area of Financial Risk in the SME Segment prof. Ing. Jaroslav Belás, PhD.
Process Models Oriented Towards Increasing Production Value Added for Customers prof. Ing. Felicita Chromjaková, PhD.
Financial Performance Measurement and Management of Companies and Clusters doc. Ing. Adriana Knápková, Ph.D.
Possibilities and Limitation of the IFRS doc. Ing. Marie Paseková, Ph.D.
Management Accounting in Emerging Economies doc. Ing. Boris Popesko, Ph.D.
Balanced Scorecard in Non-Manufacturing Sectors doc. Ing. Roman Zámečník, PhD.
Post-Keynesianism, Neo-Keynesianism, Monetarism, New Classical Economics, Neo-Austrian School and Their Impact on the Theory and Practice of Monetary Policy Ing. Mojmír Hampl, MSc., Ph.D.
Added and Shared Value – General Performance Measure prof. Ing. Milan Zelený, M.S., Ph.D.
Earnings management incentives in mutual (cooperative) versus stock corporations. Area: Performance Management – Quality of Accounting Information Dr. Bruce Dehning, Ph.D.
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Innerbrand attended the Marketing & Design 2010 convention in Amersfoort at April 1st 2010. We gave a presentation during the last part of the convention, during the PechaKucha. The central theme was: 'I made it sell'.
Pim Jonkman discussed some of the problems that producers and designers face during the process of translating brand identity into visual product design. We explained how our Visual Brand Language (VBL) Tool and can give you insight in the match between your brand identity and the required visual brand language. We gave insight in how our tools will help you design better products by ensuring a match between your brand identity and your visual brand language, which is especially useful during the first part of the design process.
Furthermore, we showed a preview of our upcoming Brand Identity Analysis Dashboard. This tool will help you analyse your own visual brand language and also compare it to how other players in your industry translate their brand values visually.
You can view Pim's presentation (in Dutch) below. Enjoy!


Context: Co-registration of ex-vivo histologic images with pre-operative imaging (e.g., magnetic resonance imaging [MRI]) can be used to align and map disease extent, and to identify quantitative imaging signatures. However, ex-vivo histology images are frequently sectioned into quarters prior to imaging. Aims: This work presents Histostitcher™, a software system designed to create a pseudo whole mount histology section (WMHS) from a stitching of four individual histology quadrant images. Materials and Methods: Histostitcher™ uses user-identified fiducials on the boundary of two quadrants to stitch such quadrants. An original prototype of Histostitcher™ was designed using the Matlab programming languages. However, clinical use was limited due to slow performance, computer memory constraints and an inefficient workflow. The latest version was created using the extensible imaging platform (XIP™) architecture in the C++ programming language. A fast, graphics processor unit renderer was designed to intelligently cache the visible parts of the histology quadrants and the workflow was significantly improved to allow modifying existing fiducials, fast transformations of the quadrants and saving/loading sessions. Results: The new stitching platform yielded significantly more efficient workflow and reconstruction than the previous prototype. It was tested on a traditional desktop computer, a Windows 8 Surface Pro table device and a 27 inch multi-touch display, with little performance difference between the different devices. Conclusions: Histostitcher™ is a fast, efficient framework for reconstructing pseudo WMHS from individually imaged quadrants. The highly modular XIP™ framework was used to develop an intuitive interface and future work will entail mapping the disease extent from the pseudo WMHS onto pre-operative MRI.


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Fitzpatrick nacque a Paisley in Scozia, tuttavia egli crebbe in Canada a Toronto. Iniziò a giocare ad hockey militando nella Ontario Hockey Association vestendo per due anni la maglia dei Guelph Royals, mentre fino al 1965 militò nei Kitchener Rangers, formazione di cui fu anche capitano.

Nella primavera di quell'anno fece il proprio esordio fra i professionisti debuttando in National Hockey League con i New York Rangers disputando quattro partite, mentre pochi giorni più tardi fu mandato in prestito ai St. Paul Rangers della Central Hockey League, formazione con cui vinse nel l'Adams Cup. Nelle due stagioni successive restò sempre nell'organizzazione dei Rangers giocando nei farm team della CHL.

Nell'estate del 1967 in occasione dell'NHL Expansion Draft Fitzpatrick venne selezionato dai Minnesota North Stars, una delle sei nuove franchigie iscritte alla NHL al termine dell'era delle Original Six. Giocò in NHL soli trenta incontri nella stagione 1967-68, mentre per la maggior parte dei due anni con cui rimase legato alla franchigia del Minnesota fu prestato in CHL ai Memphis South Stars.

Nel 1969 lasciò definitivamente la NHL per trasferirsi ai San Diego Gulls, formazione della Western Hockey League. Vi rimase per tre stagioni fino al ritiro giunto nel 1972.

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Adams Cup: 1
 St. Paul: 1964-1965

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Hardik Pandya hasn't seen his son Agastya since the baby was 15 days old and he is longing to be reunited with his child. Pandya said becoming a father has changed him as a person and the change has "come for the better." The 27-year-old all-rounder spoke with the media after India's first One-day International against Australia on the 2020-21 tour. Despite Pandya's valiant 90, India fell 66 runs short of Australia's 374 to concede a 1-0 lead to the hosts in the three-match series.
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Pandya has been away from his son since he left for the UAE in August this year to play in the Indian Premier League 2020.
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Parashat Tazria – The Circumcision of Desire
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Parashat Tazria
The Circumcision of Desire
By Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks
https://www.rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation/tazria/the-circumcision-of-desire/
DISCLAIMER – the authors and promoters of the articles and videos that we place here are mostly not connected in any way to KOL HATOR and may well not share our views and interpretations. We do however thank them for their insight and pointers that confirm our understanding and often broaden our insight.
It is hard to trace with any precision the moment when a new idea makes its first appearance on the human scene, especially one as amorphous as that of love. But love has a history.[1] There is the contrast we find in Greek, and then Christian, thought between eros and agape: sexual desire and a highly abstract love for humanity in general.
There is the concept of chivalry that makes its appearance in the age of the Crusades, the code of conduct that prized gallantry and feats of bravery to "win the heart of a lady". There is the romantic love presented in the novels of Jane Austen, hedged with the proviso that the young or not-so-young man destined for the heroine must have the right income and country estate, so as to exemplify the "truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."[2] And there is the moment in Fiddler on the Roof where, exposed by their children to the new ideas in pre-revolutionary Russia, Tevye turns to his wife Golde, and the following conversation ensues:
Tevye: Do you love me?
Golde: I'm your wife!
Tevye: I know! But do you love me?
Golde: Do I love him? For twenty-five years I've lived with him, fought with him, starved with him. Twenty-five years, my bed is his…
Tevye: Shh!
Golde: If that's not love, what is?
Tevye: Then you love me!
Golde: I suppose I do!
The inner history of humanity is in part the history of the idea of love. And at some stage a new idea makes its appearance in biblical Israel. We can trace it best in a highly suggestive passage in the book of one of the great Prophets of the Bible, Hosea.
Hosea lived in the eighth century BCE. The kingdom had been divided since the death of Solomon. The northern kingdom in particular, where Hosea lived, had lapsed after a period of peace and prosperity into lawlessness, idolatry, and chaos. Between 747 and 732 BCE there were no less than five Kings, the result of a series of intrigues and bloody struggles for power. The people, too, had become lax:
Hos. 4:1-2
"There is no faithfulness or kindness, and no knowledge of God in the land; there is swearing, lying, killing, stealing and committing adultery; they break all bounds and murder follows murder."
Like other Prophets, Hosea knew that Israel's destiny depended on its sense of mission. Faithful to God, it was able to do extraordinary things: survive in the face of empires, and generate a society unique in the ancient world, of the equal dignity of all as fellow citizens under the sovereignty of the Creator of Heaven and Earth. Faithless, however, it was just one more minor power in the ancient Near East, whose chances of survival against larger political predators were minimal.
What makes the book of Hosea remarkable is the episode with which it begins. God tells the Prophet to marry a prostitute, and see what it feels like to have a love betrayed. Only then will Hosea have a glimpse into God's sense of betrayal by the people of Israel. Having liberated them from slavery and brought them into their land, God saw them forget the past, forsake the covenant, and worship strange gods. Yet He cannot abandon them, despite the fact that they have abandoned Him. It is a powerful passage, conveying the astonishing assertion that more than the Jewish people love God, God loves the Jewish people. The history of Israel is a love story between the faithful God and His often faithless people. Though God is sometimes angry, He cannot but forgive. He will take them on a kind of second honeymoon, and they will renew their marriage vows:
Hos 2:16-22
"Therefore I am now going to allure her;
I will lead her into the desert
and speak tenderly to her . . .
I will betroth you to Me forever;
I will betroth you in righteousness and justice,
in love and compassion.
I will betroth you in faithfulness,
and you will know the Lord."
It is this last sentence – with its explicit comparison between the covenant and a marriage – that Jewish men say when they put on the hand-tefillin, winding its strap around the finger like a wedding-ring.
One verse in the midst of this prophecy deserves the closest scrutiny. It contains two complex metaphors that must be unravelled strand by strand:
Hos. 2:18
"On that day," declares the Lord,
"You will call Me 'my Husband' [ishi];
You will no longer call Me 'my Master' [baali]."
This is a double pun. Baal, in biblical Hebrew, meant 'a husband', but in a highly specific sense – namely, 'master, owner, possessor, controller.' It signalled physical, legal, and economic dominance. It was also the name of the Canaanite god – whose prophets Elijah challenged in the famous confrontation at Mount Carmel. Baal (often portrayed as a bull) was the god of the storm, who defeated Mot, the god of sterility and death. Baal was the rain that impregnated the earth and made it fertile. The religion of Baal is the worship of god as power.
Hosea contrasts this kind of relationship with the other Hebrew word for husband, ish. Here he is recalling the words of the first man to the first woman:
Gen. 2:23
"This is now bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called "woman" [ishah],
Because she was taken from man [ish]."
Here the male-female relationship is predicated on something quite other than power and dominance, ownership and control. Man and woman confront one another in sameness and difference. Each is an image of the other, yet each is separate and distinct. The only relationship able to bind them together without the use of force is marriage-as-covenant – a bond of mutual loyalty and love in which each makes a pledge to the other to serve one another.
Not only is this a radical way of reconceptualising the relationship between man and woman. It is also, implies Hosea, the way we should think of the relationship between human beings and God. God reaches out to humanity not as power – the storm, the thunder, the rain – but as love, and not an abstract, philosophical love but a deep and abiding passion that survives all the disappointments and betrayals. Israel may not always behave lovingly toward God, says Hosea, but God loves Israel and will never cease to do so.
How we relate to God affects how we relate to other people. That is Hosea's message – and vice versa: how we relate to other people affects the way we think of God. Israel's political chaos in the eighth century BCE was intimately connected to its religious waywardness. A society built on corruption and exploitation is one where might prevails over right. That is not Judaism but idolatry, Baal-worship.
Now we understand why the sign of the covenant is circumcision, the commandment given in this week's parsha of Tazria. For faith to be more than the worship of power, it must affect the most intimate relationship between men and women. In a society founded on covenant, male-female relationships are built on something other and gentler than male dominance, masculine power, sexual desire and the drive to own, control and possess. Baal must become ish. The alpha male must become the caring husband. Sex must be sanctified and tempered by mutual respect. The sexual drive must be circumcised and circumscribed so that it no longer seeks to possess and is instead content to love.
There is thus more than an accidental connection between monotheism and monogamy. Although biblical law does not command monogamy, it nonetheless depicts it as the normative state from the start of the human story: Adam and Eve, one man, one woman. Whenever in Genesis a patriarch marries more than one woman there is tension and anguish. The commitment to one God is mirrored in the commitment to one person.
The Hebrew word emunah, often translated as "faith," in fact means faithfulness, fidelity, precisely the commitment one undertakes in making a marriage. Conversely, for the prophets there is a connection between idolatry and adultery. That is how God describes Israel to Hosea. God married the Israelites but they, in serving idols, acted the part of a promiscuous woman (Hos. 1-2).
The love of husband and wife – a love at once personal and moral, passionate and responsible – is as close as we come to understanding God's love for us and our ideal love for Him. When Hosea says, "You will know the Lord," he does not mean knowledge in an abstract sense. He means the knowledge of intimacy and relationship, the touch of two selves across the metaphysical abyss that separates one consciousness from another. That is the theme of The Song of Songs, that deeply human yet deeply mystical expression of eros, the love between humanity and God. It is also the meaning of one of the definitive sentences in Judaism:
Deut. 6:5
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Judaism from the beginning made a connection between sexuality and violence on the one hand, marital faithfulness and social order on the other. Not by chance is marriage called kiddushin, "sanctification." Like covenant itself, marriage is a pledge of loyalty between two parties, each recognising the other's integrity, honouring their differences even as they come together to bring new life into being. Marriage is to society what covenant is to religious faith: a decision to make love – not power, wealth or force majeure – the generative principle of life.
Just as spirituality is the most intimate relationship between us and God, so sex is the most intimate relationship between us and another person. Circumcision is the eternal sign of Jewish faith because it unites the life of the soul with the passions of the body, reminding us that both must be governed by humility, self-restraint, and love.
Brit milah helps transform the male from baal to ish, from dominant partner to loving husband, just as God tells Hosea that this is what He seeks in His relationship with the people of the covenant. Circumcision turns biology into spirituality. The instinctive male urge to reproduce becomes instead a covenantal act of partnership and mutual affirmation. It was thus as decisive a turn in human civilisation as Abrahamic monotheism itself. Both are about abandoning power as the basis of relationship, and instead aligning ourselves with what Dante called "the love that moves the sun and other stars."[3] Circumcision is the physical expression of the faith that lives in love.
[1] See, e.g., C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1960. Also Simon May's, Love: A History, New Haven: Yale UP, 2011.
[2] The famous first line of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
[3] The Divine Comedy, 33:143-45.
KHT COMMENTARY
In short: "Cut your Pride!"
How easy it is for man to become proud and arrogant with their achievement of great success. Not only do brutal dictators thrive on such achieved powers of success, but holy and righteous humans, almost without exception, fail abysmally in the aftermath of their great success. Do we ever consider the greatness of the Creator, God of Israel, Who has all the reason to be proud and overruling for having created all in this magnificent Universe? Yet, He hides Himself from lauding parades and, as this commentary by Rabbi Sacks points out, He loves His failing Bride (His People) nevertheless. Notwithstanding His labeling her (Israel) as a Harlot, He oaths to take her BACK after her desertion.
Indeed we are blind and deaf to His Greatness, as He repeatedly states about His People, 'His Servant,' Isaiah chapters 40 – 49.
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