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Visits to the Holy Land
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The Holy Land Institute offers the opportunity to visit
Biblical and archeological sites in the Holy Land. Our
pilgrimages also include the
opportunity to meet the "living stones" to gain an
understanding of the dreams and challenges of the people
residing there. We go to
Jordan, Israel, and Palestine while remembering Abraham
and Sarah, Moses and Elijah, Mary and Elizabeth and John
the Baptist. Following the steps of Jesus, we visit
Bethlehem, Nazareth, Cana, the Sea of Galilee, the Mount
of the Beatitudes, and Jerusalem. And we
spend a day in the "Land of Edom" at Petra, one of the
"new" Seven Wonders of the World. Pictured above are
teachers and students at a school for children with
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Talks on
Biblical Personnages
Can't make
it to the Holy Land? We are
available to give talks to groups in certain
areas of California on the pilgrimage itself
and on specific Biblical topics. Since the
Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron is on our
pilgrimage itinerary, we have chosen Sarah,
the first of the Matriarchs, as the topic
for the first in a series of presentations.
Sarah, in
partnership with her husband Abraham, went to
Canaan. Infertile and twice abducted, she
gave birth to laughter in the form of her
son Isaac, and her descendants are as
numerous as the stars in the sky. It is a
story rich in metaphor and culture that has
a message for us today just as it did for
the ancients in the Middle East.
A DVD
player is required to present the artwork
that accompanies the talk. For more
information about the pilgrimages or the
talks, visit the website of the Holy Land
Institute.
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Above is Abel Pann's painting of
Sarai who was to become Sarah. Pann [1883-1963],
born
Abel
Pfeffermann in Latvia,
studied in Paris and had at
least one of the same art
teachers as Marc Chagall. In
1923, he wrote in the supplement
to the Palestine Weekly:
"I wish to picture the heroes of
the Bible as human beings made
of flesh and bone, beings in
whose veins blood flows. I
wished the characters of the
Bible to be shown as possessing
the passions of human beings
just as they are pictured in the
Book, with their virtues and
vices, loves and hatreds,
stories of tragedy and humor,
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Cosmetology and Esthetics, a Creative Career
Choice |
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The Institute of Beauty Culture in Pismo
Beach provides future cosmetologists and estheticians with the most
up-to-the-minute, valuable education possible. They learn hair design,
hair color, makeup, skin care, and nail care. They master the most
advanced techniques and the most significant trends.
According to owner Omar Avilés, himself
with four decades of experience in the field, "The key to a
prosperous
career is a solid educational foundation and continuing programs that
together take you to the top of the industry."
The Institute has built
in a training system that lasts a lifetime. |
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Students confer with each
other at the Institute |
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Holiday Gifts |
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Chinese Folk Art T-shirts
20%
of the price goes to the
Ricci Institute for
Chinese Western Cultural History at the University
of San Francisco.
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Shell
Beach Surf Pants
15%
of the price goes toward ending extreme world poverty
and AIDS.
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shop
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Dogs
and Cats Acting Naturally
T-shirts from Urge
Clothing Company
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Signed, First Edition Books
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Mostly
science fiction, fantasy, and mystery
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Some
children's books
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Many
ordinary books
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Many
leather bound with gilt edges, some with moiré
end papers
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Worldwide shipping
Browse to find a
favorite author.
Click to shop
in Ron's eBay store |
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Gift
Certificates for Et Voilà
Restaurant
Stop
at the restaurant or phone 805-544-3663 to purchase gift
certificates available for $25 and up.
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for website |
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Donation to Good Shepherd Gracenter
Your
contribution will help a woman enter a recovery program
and start a new life.
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to donate |
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JoJo
Shaiken Fine Art Photography
Talented
JoJo Shaiken of Los Osos, California, specializes in low
light and color night light photography. His photographs
capture the seascapes, landscapes, and cityscapes of
California and make elegant gifts for friends, family,
or yourself.
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Guli Associate Emily Zhang Goes to Law
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Upon graduating in the top
five percent of her class at Sichuan International Studies
University in Chongqing, Emily Zhang taught English.
Observation and personal experience made Emily aware
of social justice issues and motivated her to apply to law
school. This meant traveling to Shanghai to prepare for the LSAT and spending long hours pouring over books and
applications. Accepted at
several law schools and offered scholarships as well, Emily
chose the University of Cincinnati College of Law where she
has recently begun her first semester.
Emily's goal is to return
to Chongqing, a city of 36 million people, with her juris
doctorate in hand to serve as an
advocate for the disenfranchised.
The
future lawyer played a key role in launching the Guli
Institute. She dealt with suppliers, manufacturers,
merchants, and models and has been involved in the design,
development, and delivery of our t-shirts. In fact, you will
see
Emily modeling a Guli folkart t-shirt on our website.
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Alone and on Foot: Jan's Setbacks and
Successes |
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The
spring-summer
newsletter told of Jan Ermers who on June 15 set out on foot from his native
Holland for Jerusalem. Remembering the massacres of various peoples
during the Crusades, he intended to pick up a stone at Dachau to take to
the Wailing Wall and a stone at Srebrenica to take to the Al Asqa mosque and a stone in Eastern Turkey to take to
the Church of the Holy Saviour.
Along the way, Jan has experienced the
gracious hospitality of many, but his plans were interrupted when he
collapsed in the heat in Serbia as he neared the Romanian border. Fortunately
he able to reach his hosts
of the previous night on his cell phone. Taken by ambulance to a hospital in Zrenjanin where he stayed for four days, he was diagnosed with acute enterocolitis.
After a period of rest and recuperation, Jan set out again and most
recently sent word from Isnik which in Constantine's time was called
Nicea.
Sometimes the path is lonely, and then
a new encounter, a smile, or a kind gesture offers encouragement, and
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http://jerusalem.waarbenjij.nu/
"Wachtwoord" or
password = janermers
Click on "Berichten" for email posts. |
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The Balloon Connection |
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Thousands of hours were spent by many
devoted volunteers in
preparation for the
International Food Festival
of St. Thomas More
Church in San Francisco, held September 27-28, and it was a huge
success. Falafels and fertilized chicken eggs, henna and houkahs, bongos, and bounce attractions,
folk dancing and felicity--all these contributed to a
lively event intended to generate both fun and funds. But the story
here is about parishioner Pamela Lim and the balloons.
Early the first day of the festival,
Pam set out to sell balloons. Noticing their elongated shape as she
opened the box of balloons, she asked if anyone knew how to make
balloon animals. Nobody answered. And so Pam got on the internet,
searched for "how to make balloon animals," and was soon in business.
Boys and girls sought out the "balloon lady." The children were
thrilled, and Pamela's resourcefulness helped raise funds. |
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Good Shepherd Gracenter |
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Operated by the Good
Shepherd Sisters, Gracenter is a sober living facility in
San Francisco for chemically dependent women recovering from
drug and/or alcohol addiction including addiction
to prescription drugs. Gracenter provides a comfortable,
encouraging, safe, and supportive environment where women
are able to renew the whole person physically, mentally,
socially, and spiritually.
Charee Lord, who recently
assumed the role of executive director, asserts, "When one
woman talks to another, lives are changed forever."
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Comments from Claudia: Email
Rumors and Petitions |
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Whether you are a seasoned
email correspondent or a newcomer to cyberdispatch, you have certainly found
in your in-box entertaining, inspirational, and informative
stories, articles, video clips, and slide shows forwarded to
you by your friends wherever they might be. And most likely
you have also received alarmist warnings and outrageous
tales tagged "incredible but true." One story circulating
through cyberspace tells how a tooth put in a glass of cola
will dissolve overnight. Actually that claim was raised when
I was a fourth grader at Miraloma School in San Francisco.
It presented an opportunity for a class experiment; the next
pupil to lose a tooth donated it to science, and the teacher
brought the Coke because in those days having soda at
school was unthinkable. For more on teeth and Coke, see
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tooth.asp.
While there is useful, often
life-saving information in email missives [e.g., how to tell
if someone is having a stroke,
http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/stroke.asp ], some
of the email is not only false, it is malicious or even downright vicious.
Before passing on urban legends such as the $250 cookie
recipe from Neiman Marcus or venomous snakes lurking in the
playgrounds of fast food restaurants, check them out at
www.snopes.com.
Perhaps you receive a message that is alerts you to a
supposed eminent danger that it claims was "verified
at snopes." Don't trust it. Check it out at snopes yourself.
Regarding petitions, the ones
where you put your name at the bottom of the list and then
forward the petition on to "everyone you know," I will
suggest that you not do it no matter how strongly you feel about saving
Amazon rain forests or getting funding for cancer research.
Even if the petition were real and could reach the intended
destination, it probably would be discarded because there is
not a good way to authenticate the names on the list. It is
doubtful that these petitions actually have a destination. People add
names and forward them to nowhere with, in some cases, the
idea being that #500 on the list will forward the petition
to the appropriate person or agency. If indeed it reached
the intended recipient, and that is not likely, it would be
deleted but first perhaps the email addresses might be
gleaned for use in future SoPoAoM.
Unlike petitions, surveys
conducted by marketing firms or research organizations and
polls taken by newspapers and political parties may be valid
and offer protection to the participant. And messages that
urge you to contact a government official may be authentic.
They are not in the form of chain letters or petitions. Email
petitions do no good and may do harm in that they clog the
internet and expose the names of signers to potential
predators or SoPoAoMoMoEoRs. |
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