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The hits keep coming from libtalker Ed Schultz, who's kicking off the new year on a roll.
First week into 2013, Schultz insisted that Bill Clinton was never tried in the Senate after he was impeached by the House. Schultz followed with the laughable claim that gun laws in Chicago, a city with some of the nation's toughest restrictions on firearms, "don't even exist." (audio clip after page break)
Schultz is tripling down on his ignorance, making an egregiously false claim on his radio show yesterday while talking about whether schools should allow teachers to arm themselves (h/t for embedded audio clip, Brian Maloney at mrctv.org) --
Would it be a deterrent if, you know, say perpetrators know that there's guns in the schools? How do we know they wouldn't view that as a challenge? I mean, we got a goofy world out there. I'm just not convinced that packing a small firearm is the best defense or certainly not the best defense. You know, you want to make the best defense? Make the school a damn fortress. I mean, you could do that, I mean but, is that reasonable? Is that the right thing to do? Is it necessary? And so I'm just, is it nec-, haven't we had enough school shootings where this is necessary? We've never had a civilian stop a shooting.
Is it too much to expect that people who work in news will pay attention to it? (Correction: Schultz works at MSNBC and also has his own radio show.)
The scenario Schultz claims has "never" happened occurred at least twice in the last month, the most recent of many examples that can be cited.
Back on Dec. 11, a gunman shot two people to death at a mall in Clackamas, Ore., then took his own life when he saw a 22-year-old patron with a concealed carry permit draw his weapon.
"He was working his own gun," Nick Meli told KGW Channel 8, describing how he positioned himself behind a pillar when he heard gunfire. "He kept pulling the charging handle and hitting the side."
The Channel 8 report continues --
The break in gunfire allowed Meli to pull out his own gun, but he never took his eyes off the shooter.
"As I was going down to pull, I saw someone in the back of the Charlotte move, and I knew if I fired and missed, I could hit them," he said.
Meli took cover inside a nearby store. He never pulled the trigger. He stands by that decision.
"I'm not beating myself up 'cause I didn't shoot him," said Meli. "I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself."
Typical of Schultz, he cited no attribution for his dubious claim but it most likely originated with a report issued by Mother Jones magazine last month after the Sandy Hook massacre. Here is the bold claim made by Mother Jones --
In the wake of the slaughters this summer at a Colorado movie theater and a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, we set out to track mass shootings in the United States over the last 30 years. We identified and analyzed 62 of them, and one striking pattern is this: In not a single case was the killing stopped by a civilian using a gun.
The assertion was quickly dismantled by Mark Hemingway at The Weekly Standard, who pointed out that "when armed civilians are present, they often stop mass shootings before they can become mass shootings." Hemingway also noted that Mother Jones' reseach was limited to incidents in which a shooter killed at least four people, a baseline which allowed the magazine to overlook numerous incidents in which armed civilians prevented shooting rampages from becoming far worse. Hemingway cited these six examples --
-- Mayan Palace Theater, San Antonio, Texas, this week (in December): Jesus Manuel Garcia shoots at a movie theater, a police car and bystanders from the nearby China Garden restaurant; as he enters the movie theater, guns blazing, an armed off-duty cop shoots Garcia four times, stopping the attack: Total dead: Zero.
-- Winnemuccas, Nev., 2008: Ernesto Villagomez opens fire in a crowded restaurant; concealed carry permit-holder shoots him dead. Total dead: Two. (I'm excluding the shooters' deaths in these examples.)
-- Appalachian School of Law, 2002: Crazed immigrant shoots the dean and a professor, then begins shooting students; as he goes for more ammunition, two armed students point their guns at him, allowing a third to tackle him. Total dead: Three.
-- Santee, Calif. 2001: Student begins shooting his classmates -- as well as the "trained campus supervisor"; an off-duty cop who happened to be bringing his daughter to school that day points his gun at the shooter, holding him until more police arrive. Total dead: Two.
-- Pearl High School, Mississippi, 1997: After shooting several people at his high school, student heads for the junior high school; assistant principal Joel Myrick retrieves a .45 pistol from his car and points it at the gunman's head, ending the murder spree. Total dead: Two.
-- Edinboro, Pa., 1998: A student shoots up a junior high school dance being held at a restaurant; restaurant owner pulls out his shotgun and stops the gunman. Total dead: One.
"These are just a few examples of mass shootings being prevented," Hemingway writes. "I'm sure there are many more that meet this criteria. But, as you can see, in every incident, the would-be shooters were stopped short of killing four people because an armed civilian -- or in some cases, an off-duty cop -- was present."
In John R. Lott Jr.'s meticulously researched "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws," he cites an incident from 1984 described by Israeli criminologist Abraham Tennenbaum --
Three terrorists who attempted to machine-gun the throng (at a crowded venue in Jerusalem) managed to kill only one victim before being shot by handgun-carrying Israelis. Presented to the press the next day, the surviving terrorist complained that his group had not realized that Israeli civilians were armed. The terrorists had planned to machine-gun a succession of crowd spots, thinking that they would be able to escape before the police or army could arrive to deal with them.
It would be more accurate of Schultz to say we haven't had a "civilian" stop a shooting -- in a "gun-free zone." That's because law-abiding citizens, seeing a sign outside a movie theater or shopping mall or elementary school informing them that the site is a "gun-free zone," won't enter the property if they are armed. Criminals, especially those intent on murder, do the opposite.
The result? Disarmed law-abiding citizens in an allegedly safe "gun-free zone" unable to stop a shooting and left entirely to the mercy of the most deranged among us. Here's how it works -- goo-goo liberals create "gun-free zones" in an attempt to do something, anything to protect the public, then sneer after disarmed, law-abiding citizens aren't able to defend themselves when a predator goes on a rampage.
The very term "gun-free zone," which I refuse to cite without quotation marks, is destined for eternal derision, so complete is its folly. I'm still waiting for it to appear on lawn signs -- gun-free home! -- though not holding my breath. Liberals are clueless, but usually not willing to extend invitations to those who would do them harm.


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A survey by the Pew Internet Project, interviewed 2,253 respondent via landline or cellular phone who told the survey that, for the most part, they avoid confrontations about politics.
Among the [social networking site] users whose friends post political content, 25% always agree or mostly agree with their friends' political postings; 73% of these SNS users "only sometimes" agree or never agree with their friends' political postings. When they disagree with others' posts, 66% of these SNS users say they usually ignore the posts; 28% said they usually respond with comments or posts of their own; and 5% said it depends on the circumstances.
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Being rather appalled that one racing organization would try to hurt
another racing organization, we decided to piece together a chronology
of the misdirections and misconceptions NASCAR and ISC is using to try and hurt
open wheel racing in Phoenix, and more specifically Champ Car.
It's clear from their actions that they are out to destroy any form of
racing that isn't what they think it should be, i.e. NASCAR style oval
Not only are the actions listed below an attack on Champ Car, it is
an attack on the IRL as well since many believe the current talks of a
merger will eventually lead to one unified Indy Car Series again.
If Tony George thinks that the France family and NASCAR are an ally, he
needs to think again. NASCAR is out to monopolize all racing in the
USA. Their actions speak for themselves.
They may pray to God before every race on Sunday but the other six days
of the week they use their influence and deep pockets to run roughshod over
all other USA racing series to get what they ultimately want - a NASCAR
The City of Phoenix wants to start an urban development project that
will include an Entertainment Center and new arena and they want to hold
a big festival race weekend to highlight the downtown redevelopment.
NASCAR and ISC are trying to stop Champ Car and are in turn are
defeating what the city is trying to accomplish. The monopoly
called NASCAR/ISC has now gone so far as to have
an attachment to a bill going through the state legislature to institute an
urban noise ordinance that would effectively ban racing from city
streets. They have hired another four lobbyists to rush it
If successful in Phoenix what's to stop NASCAR/ISC from introducing
similar bills against all Champ Car and IRL street races to have street
racing banned and ensure that they control all racing in the future?
List of misdirections and misconceptions by NASCAR/ISC in effort to stop Phoenix street race
1. May 22, 2006 – Phoenix International Raceway (PIR)/Manzanita Letter to Phoenix Mayor Gordon
a. Stated that the race will surely fail, as do nearly all
other street races. Fact: Champ Car has staged over 100
successful street races in the past 30 years.
b. Calls Champ Car minor league. Fact: No, Champ
Car is a professional race series. Its Atlantic series is minor
c. States that Champ Car cancelled a race with only two days
notice. Fact: That has never happened to a Champ Car street race
and it was ISC's Fontana that cancelled a Champ Car race within two days
of a race.
d. States that PIR representatives were kicked out of a
public meeting with city officials. Fact: We can't
substantiate this.
e. Says that businesses and residents within the track will be
"stranded" for at least 5 days. Fact: The race is
proposed around arenas and their parking lots. Very few businesses
will be affected.
f. Insinuates that promoter is seeking tax dollars as
a subsidy. Fact: The promoter has gone on record that they are
not asking the city for any subsidies.
g. Says that Champ Car "often" runs races at
facilities such as PIR. Fact: Often is not accurate. Also, Champ
Car was forced out of PIR in the '90s, in order for ISC to make way for
h. Questions the safety of Champ Car street races and
insinuates that they are unsafe as compared to permanent facilities.
Fact: Champ Car has had very few injuries on street circuits and in fact
it has been NASCAR and the IRL that has many serious and fatal accidents
on their oval tracks.
2. May 23, 2006 – Phoenix Business Journal – Downtown Car Race
Proposal Draws Criticism.
a. PIR President Bryan Sperber states that "Whatever resources they put
into that are resources that are going to be directed away from
legitimate road improvements somewhere else in the community." Fact:
Sperber has no proof of this and in fact it is his opinion, and nothing
b. Sperber states that Champ Car raced at PIR until
the mid-90's when the "industry underwent changes." Not a lie,
but this makes it sound like there was some sort of market force at
work. However, the reality is that PIR chose the IRL over Champ Car and
hasn't drawn a decent crowd since.
3. May 24, 2006 – Arizona Republic – Green Flag Sought for Downtown
a. PIR president Bryan Sperber states, "This thing has been
developed under a cloak of darkness….Let's get out of this other hokey
street race and develop a strong relationship between NASCAR and
downtown." Fact: Nothing "hokey" about 150,000 fans watching race
cars at 180mph on city streets, with Phoenix as a backdrop. As for "cloak
of darkness," that is nothing but an insult to the businessmen putting
this project together, the community leaders who have been involved and
the City of Phoenix that has played this strictly by the rules. The City
of Phoenix was initially contacted by the promoters and City staff
informed the promoters that the initial work must be performed by the
promoters as City statute allows no more than eight hours of work on an
event without City Council approval. The promoters met with all impacted
downtown parties and received their support and subsequently, took that
information to the City which then determined it was appropriate to move
forward with the public process. The public process began with the
Council subcommittee meeting on May 24th where the City staff was
authorized to continue working on this project. There has been no
attempt to hide the plan.
4. May 25, 2006 – Arizona Republic - City to Examine Impact of a Car
Race Downtown
a. Sperber states that the City shouldn't be working with
this "rinky-dink race (but) with NASCAR, the premier brand in
motorsports." Fact: There is no way that NASCAR will award
Phoenix a third Cup race and PIR is not about to give up one of its two.
So to say the City should be working with NASCAR to bring a race
downtown, is simply a lie to try to discredit Champ Car.
5. May 25, 2006 – Pat McMahon Show (KTAR-AM Phoenix) – Interview w/
Bryan Sperber
a. Said that the project is being fast-tracked without
proper government scrutiny. Fact: See 3a above.
b. Said it will have a negative impact on taxpayers, through
the havoc caused by construction and disruption. Fact:
Downtown street races bring millions of dollars more in revenue that
expenses to a local community.
c. Says he's the expert, as he's been in the business for 16
years. Fact: Sperber has never managed a street race and knows
absolutely nothing about the business.
d. Says the event surely will fail. Fact: Champ Car
has staged over 100 successful street races in the past 30 years.
e. Says the "Legacy of street racing around this country is
failure. They fail all over the United States and leave taxpayers
holding the bill" Fact: Champ Car has staged over 100
successful street races in the past 30 years.
f. Says street racing causes too much traffic congestion.
Fact: Races are run on weekends when downtown street traffic is
g. Says Long Beach model has never been replicated. Fact:
Can you say San Jose, Toronto, Vancouver, Monaco, Macau?
h. Says Long Beach is heavily subsidized by the City.
Fact: In fact the Grand Prix Association in Long Beach pays the
city each year.
i. Says street racing can't make money. Fact:
All Sperber's Open Wheel and Grand-Am races have lost money on his oval
tracks that he has managed at Nazareth and Phoenix.
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I was intrigued, and a few weeks ago, I sat down with choreographer Idan Cohen to hear about his contemporary take on one of the most famous ballets in history. While the three minutes I saw of his work caught my eye, I'm now even more curious about the entire piece. This is an unmistakably 21st-century Swan Lake, but the connections to the popular 18th-century version run deep.
This article was first published in the Jerusalem Post as "When the Cygnet Grows Up."
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When the Cygnet Grows Up
"I think the only reason to create something has to be out of love and out of a connection," states choreographer Idan Cohen.
Like many in the dance world, Cohen feels a strong love for and a deep connection to Swan Lake, the iconic ballet which Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov presented at the famed Mariinsky Theatre in 1895. Celebrated choreographers from George Balanchine to Mats Ek to Matthew Bourne have put their own spins on the work. Now with the generous support of several organizations, including Israel's Culture Ministry, the Pais Foundation and the Suzanne Dellal Center, Cohen is unveiling his own contemporary version in Tel Aviv.
Cohen cites the choreographic history of Swan Lake as one motivating factor in undertaking this production, and he adds, "I feel I have a very deep connection both to the music [by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky] and also to the cultural place that the music and the ballet takes inside our culture, the western culture. Swan Lake presents such a beautiful, romantic image of strong forces: good opposite evil, beauty opposite alternative beauty, animal versus human . . . all those ideas that are portrayed in Swan Lake in such a defined way – I kind of wanted to open them up and to research how we relate to those forces today."


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|System: Xbox 360
|Dev: Hello Games
|Pub: Microsoft Studios
|Release: September 14, 2012
|Players: 1-4
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Mild Fantasy Violence
by Shelby Reiches
Joe Danger 2: The Movie is a game about reflexes and awareness. It's a comical, farcical trip into the minds of a bunch of action-movie aficionados with an obvious passion for only the most cliché of genre elements, from avalanches and explosions to bank heists and high-speed chases. That isn't to imply, for even an instant, that the game has any semblance of plot—the levels consisting entirely of action sequence after action sequence strung together into an endless cascade of beautiful carnage—but it does provide that little bit of tongue-in-cheek context that makes the goings on all the more absurd.
You are a stuntman, one of the bravest, the sort who would put Jackie Chan to shame with his sanity-defying antics. If it's mobile, you'll drive, ride, or pilot it. Mine carts, jetpacks, motorcycles, and even unicycles all bear the fearless bum of Joe. The movie's genre? A pastiche of action classics, drawing on 1950s science fiction, James Bond, Indiana Jones, and a touch of The Italian Job. It's a bit disappointing, actually, that the acts are named after one genre or another, but the levels themselves don't really follow that theme, mixing and matching at will.
Gameplay itself is fairly straightforward. The vast majority of the levels are chase sequences, in which one trigger accelerates and the other reverses. The exception to this is the jetpack, with which one button controls vertical thrust and another quickly drops Joe to the ground, the stick serving for lateral movement. You are in constant control of Joe, regardless of vehicle, such that his trajectory can be adjusted even in mid-air without pause. This allows, with enough practice, for extremely precise antics, which become increasingly necessary as the game progresses and the objectives expand beyond simple traversal. Joe can also duck, by holding down a button, and he hops when it's released. There's also a boost mechanic tied to a quickly drained meter, which can be refilled by performing stunts (done by moving the stick and tapping out sequences of bumper presses).
Though each level of Joe Danger 2 has one primary objective, most have a slew of optional ones as well. Any objective completed will garner stars, which are necessary for unlocking further levels. Note that stars from the main campaign are separate from stars gained in the "Deleted Scenes" mode, which consists of nail-bitingly difficult skill challenges that the game demands you play if you want to experience the full campaign.
It seems so simple at first. Just dash through each level, throw a few tricks out to build up some meter during jumps, and boost along. Its cartoony visuals will entrance you and a lot of what happens on screen looks dynamic, but doesn't really affect anything. It makes the start of the game very forgiving, which is great for getting a feel for the basics. With each subsequent level, more is expected of the player. Tighter timing, quick decision-making, switching paths on the fly, catching up to villains and punching them off their motorcycles—it all starts to require intense finger gymnastics just to make it through a level with the main objective complete. By the end of the game, you'll be rapidly tapping buttons and whipping the stick left and right, toggling between triggers to carefully land Joe atop a missile before it exits its silo.
As mentioned before, the game uses a lot of tricks to keep its action looking dynamic. This ranges from background visuals and elements of the scenery breaking apart behind you to dramatic camera angles and billowing special effects. Often, though, these can get to be too much. Foreground objects might obscure an oncoming obstacle depending on when you reach that point in the level, though the obstacles also have a tendency to simply get lost, visually, in the onscreen chaos. There were occasional bouts of cursing and at least one handily suppressed urge to throw the controller, which quickly passed.
While Joe Danger 2 can be frustrating at times, especially when it feels as though a mistake was out of one's control or otherwise undeserved, it largely possesses that "one more try" quality associated with Super Meat Boy and its ilk. Objectives are varied enough to make each level its own experience and the optional stars will have more obsessive players, such as yours truly, going back through to collect those one missed on the first run-through (though it's best to collect them all at once, unclaimed stars can be collected piecemeal on subsequent run-throughs). There's no doubt that this is a finely honed, reflex-testing romp that draws on so many of the most enjoyable elements of classic Tony Hawk titles alongside more informal fare, such as Canabalt.


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by Michael Caruso
My week of concerts included three events of different character on the surface but with equally similar pleasures. Russian émigré pianist Vladimir Feltsman gave a solo recital Wednesday night at the Kimmel Center that included two Sonatas by Haydn and four Ballades by Chopin. The Philadelphia Orchestra welcomed a young Englishman to its podium and played music by Beethoven and Sibelius on Saturday night. Then on Sunday afternoon, the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill expanded its reach as the region's leading venue for period instruments by presenting a Delaware-based baroque ensemble that was giving the world premiere of a score written by a Philadelphia composer.
Melomanie, which makes its home in Wilmington, has carved out a special niche for itself among period instruments ensembles by regularly pairing music written centuries ago with contemporary scores. Philadelphia's Kile Smith has similarly made a reputation for himself by composing new music for older instruments. His "Epiphany Vespers," composed in 2008 for Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, and The Crossing, received a reprise rendition the previous Sunday afternoon, Jan. 8, in the very same Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church that was the site for the world premiere of his dance suite, "The Nobility of Women."
"The Nobility of Women" — the name is taken from a baroque dance manual — is scored for all six players on baroque instruments and is divided into eight movements. It all comes together to offer concisely pointed character sketches of baroque dances. Melomanie gave "The Nobility of Women" a sterling reading.
The remainder of the program included Telemann's "Quartet in G major," Couperin's "Quatorzieme Concert in D minor" and Boismortier's "Suite in D minor." All were played with consummate technical polish and stylish interpretive conviction.
When Vladimir Feltsman finally made it out of the former Soviet Union in the 1970s, the pianist's arrival in the West was greeted with great hoopla. Musicians of an earlier generation or two, such as Gilels and Richter, chose not to flee Soviet oppression. For Feltsman, the indignities were too much to bear. But Russia's loss turned out to be America's gain when Feltsman settled in this country.
His Wednesday evening recital in the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, featured Haydn's "Piano Sonatas in E minor and E-flat major" in its first half and Chopin's "Ballades No. 1 in G minor, No. 2 in F major, No. 3 in A-flat major and No. 4 in F minor" after intermission. Together the six works beautifully balanced Haydn's expert classicism with Chopin's dramatic romanticism as well as assured the audience that Feltsman is an interpreter at home in both styles.
The marvel of Feltsman's renditions of the two Haydn Sonatas was his ability to employ the full spectrum of color and volume of the Perelman's stunning Steinway concert grand to deliver the composer's total mastery of the classical form he invented. Feltsman is not one of those contemporary automatons whose playing is note-perfect but spiritually bankrupt. He is an artist who works in sound, highly colored yet bracingly clear, to project the heart and soul of the music. His recital was not so much a musical event as a religious experience.
London-born Robin Ticciati made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut this past weekend with a series of three concerts heard in Verizon Hall. He was joined by Arabella Steinbacher in Beethoven's "Violin Concerto in D major" and then led the Philadelphians in one of the late Eugene Ormandy's great staples, Sibelius' "Symphony No. 2 in D major." Saturday night's concert drew a full house that heard and hopefully appreciated the unquestioned improvements on Verizon's acoustics. They may not yet rival those of Boston's Symphony Hall or New York's Carnegie Hall, but they've far surpassed merely adequate and are fast approaching excellent.


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Spring is on its way to this part of the world and that means more time outside.
The dogs and I went to the park this weekend. The main activity of the day was running.
There was running in the woods.
And running in the fields.
Both dogs enjoyed exploring.
I love the look on Sadie's face in this picture.
And in this one.
Luka continued his love affair with water.
At one point he became a bit obsessed with a tennis ball.
Where was Sadie while Luka was frolicking in the stream? She was catching a quick nap in the sunshine.
All of the park activity led to Sadie's second favorite pastime….holding down the couch.
Sometimes Luka helps Sadie hold down the couch.
Luka is clearly not as committed as Sadie is, though. He's been busy making friends with his new brother. (Notice how Milo's paw is ready to bat Luka if he gets too close.)
Speaking of Milo, I don't believe I've adequately demonstrated just how adorable he can be.
Here's something random I noticed the other night.
Sadie is not a dainty girl, but her paw is dwarfed by Luka's paw.
Finally, some knitting…the current pair of socks.


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For Old Times' Sake
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency
In 1975, when his ambitions for the presidency were taken seriously mainly by his family and his staff, Jimmy Carter wrote a book called Why Not the Best? It was a campaign biography, but it was quite different from the norm. To begin with, it was the candidate's own work, the result of drafts scratched out on lined pads in Carter's small, neat script. It also went far toward revealing the candidate's personality.
During the period of his public life in which he was politically most successful—the first six months of 1976, when he came from nowhere to win the Democratic nomination—Carter's appeal depended on his personality, rather than on any specific policy he endorsed. In his ten-a-day appearances during those primary campaigns, Carter would establish the fact of his formidable abilities by handling an audience's questions or sitting down for discussions in small groups.
In his speeches, he ticked off the inventory of his experiences, implying that their cumulative effect would define his performance in office. He was a farmer, a manager, a veteran, a father, a reborn Christian, and a lover of the outdoors. He had run a state government, he had "met a payroll"; he had spent much of his adult life in a tiny, remote town; he was a Southerner who understood his region's defeat, agony, and redemption. As time went on, Carter was forced, like other candidates, to explain his positions on nuclear-power generation and the constitutionality of school prayer. But from his point of view, and no doubt that of many voters, these were details; the hope that his election expressed was that he would prove to be a decent, competent man.
Why Not the Best? was more effective than any other document in nourishing that hope. Carter described listening on the radio to the second Louis-Schmeling fight, at a time when Schmeling's victory in the first fight was being taken as confirmation of Aryan superiority. Through the window, Carter saw a group of black people listening outside, on a radio attached to a car battery. After Louis's devastating win they said, "Thank you, Mr. Earl," to Carter's father, who had let them use the radio—and then, once they had moved a respectful distance from the white man's house, erupted into cheers. Could a man who remembered that scene fail to understand the hopes and hidden injuries that created racial tensions?
Carter told of his bitter early days at Annapolis, in which he would submit to every other form of hazing but not be made to sing the hated "Marching Through Georgia." Would a man with that determination fail to stick to his guns in office? In the effort to describe his personality, Carter took steps that political dignity usually rules out, such as recounting his fears that he would fail to qualify for Annapolis because of his "last clinging drop" of urine. If this was artifice, it was artifice so sweeping as to give the impression of utter guilelessness.
Keeping Faith is…
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|Futurity International Kicks Off in New Jersey
|By Michael Khodarkovsky
|July 7, 2009
Branchburg, NJ-The third edition of the Futurity International will take place in New Jersey from July 7-11. The tournament is sponsored by Michael Khodarkovsky's International Chess School. This year's tournament is structured as a double round robin, which is also in-line with FIDE regulations. The event will be held at Dean Ippolito's Chess Academy (Dean of Chess Academy, 1161 US Highway 202 Branchburg, NJ 08889), July 7-11. Rounds start at 11am and 4pm. Spectators are welcome.
This year participants: GMs Joel Benjamin, Jesse Kraai (both USA), Leonid Yudasin (Israel), IMs Dean Ippolito (USA), Milos Scekic (Serbia), FM Evan Ju (USA).
Benjamin, Ippolito and Ju are also teammates on the NJ Knockouts at the US Chess League.
Chief TD - International Arbiter, Glenn Petersen.
Organizer and press contact- Michael Khodarkovsky, [email protected]


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Notes from a day in baseball:
• 1. Grand Theft Crawford. Ah, stealing home. It brings to mind Jackie Robinson, and that unwatchable movie starring Mark Harmon and Jodie Foster. Oh, and Carl Crawford. How great is it that the Devil Rays' Crawford began plotting his theft of home on Wednesday the night before the game? He noticed that Curt Schilling pitched from the stretch when Crawford was on third, and in the fourth on Wednesday, Jason Johnson also tried it, and Crawford struck. He made it home easily. Tampa Bay has won three straight over Boston, including Wednesday's 5-2 win, as Crawford stole three bases overall. He leads the A.L. with 32 and is the eighth player in major league history with 200 steals before age 25. Crawford also had two singles.
• 2. Big Stein Smells A Pennant! (Or Could It Be A Calzone?). After using up all of their offense in Tuesday's 19-1 win, the Indians watched the Yankees get revenge, 11-3, on Wednesday. Call it Melky Cabrera day in Cleveland, as the Yankees' rookie got his first career grand slam in New York's eight-run fourth.
• 3. Mmmmm, Walk-Off Single ... On the day following the big Coney Island Nathan's International Hot Dog Eating Contest, how could we not report on the Milwaukee Brewers? We mean, what other team gives you this? Plus, the Brewers' ninth walk-off victory of the season, and 16th win in their last at-bat, 6-5 in 13 innings over the Reds. It was Rickie Weeks' single that did it.
• 4. Why Your AP Baseball Writer Sucks. OK, you be the judge. Good newspaper writing, or horrific reach? Josh Fogg walked out of the clubhouse wearing a camouflage T-shirt. It was appropriate attire given the way he disguised his pitches during the Colorado Rockies' 5-3 win over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday. Please cast your ballots now. But do not include any write-in comments on how, after nearly half the season is over, absolutely nothing has been decided in the NL West, where four teams are within a game of each other, all hovering near .500. We are aware that this division leaves something to be desired.
• 5. He Hates Meeces To Pieces. Bobby Jenks, who sounds like he sould be chasing Pixie and Dixie rather than pitching in the American League, nonetheless struck out the final three batters in the ninth — after giving up three straight singles — to earn the save as the White Sox beat the Orioles 4-2. If our math is correct, that leaves Chicago one-half game behind first-place Detroit in the Central.


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e-cbd brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 100 Designs von 25 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
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Australian online shoppers who are looking to get a little something back when shopping online.
We are about to re-vamp the existing website (http://www.moneybackco.com) giving it a .com.au domain and making the site look and feel more Web2.0 like. To that end before we do this work we want a new logo:
1. Simple, clean, modern, professional and Web2.0 like
2. We prefer lowercase "moneybackco" with the lowercase tag line "earn when you shop".
3. We'd like the logo to have some indication that you get money/cash back, maybe some sort of circular arrow incorporated, but without the use of $ signs.
4. We like the colours RGB #539A50 and/or #9B0000 although not necessarily solid (following the Web2.0 feel) (these colours are slightly brighter than the existing logo colours on the website).
5. We like this logo - http://www.e-cbd.com/images/logos/12.jpg. We like the http://www.newsgator.com and http://www.pando.com logo fonts, although this isn't a hard and fast requirement.
The logo will be included on the new website and also any print media and advertising creatives in the future, we need the logo to be high quality so it can be enlarged as required.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.


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The helmet that changed the game for trail, enduro and all-mountain riding has evolved with a revised shape inside and out, making the fit and feel even better than before. This model includes MIPS rotational impact protection along with a new off-road specific Float Fit system that's lighter and more comfortable with a rubber overmolded dial. And the Super 3 MIPS retains its iconic off-road style with full, extended rear protection along with Bell's GoggleGuide adjustable visor. It also includes Overbrow Ventilation to keep you cool on hot climbs, plus a breakaway camera mount. And for added protection in aggressive terrain, you have the option to add a removable, lock-on Super 3R chin bar (sold separately).
- Breakaway Screws
- Float Fit
- Fusion In-Mold Polycarbonate Shell
- Goggleguide Adjustable Visor System
- Integrated Breakaway Camera Mount
- MIPS-Equipped
- Overbrow Ventilation
- X-Static Padding


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For over 80 years, the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute has been a pioneer and innovator in exploring the world's earliest civilizations in the ancient Near East. In 1933, the Institute discovered thousands of clay tablets and fragments during their archeological excavations of historic sites in
. These ancient artifacts are on long-term loan from the government of Iran and were left in the Institute's care for purposes of translation, study and publication. They make up the Persepolis Fortification Archive (PFA) and constitute a rich source for the research of the history, languages, art and society of the 2,500 year-old Achaemenid Persian Empire. The artificats are in danger of being seized and put up for public auction to compensate plaintiffs in a private lawsuit against the government of Iran . The institute is operating under emergency conditions to prevent interruption of the preservation of these tablets and PARSA CF's continuing support will fund conservators in prompt delivery of digital photography, translation and editing. The University of Chicago is a second-time PARSA CF grantee and a model conservation effort. Iran
This is the second time the Parsa Community Foundation has made a grant to the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project.


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This fun craft is not only adorable when done, but it's tasty too! Sit the kids down to make this fun spring project. Be sure to make extras for friends and family.
What You Need:
- Chow mein noodles (or, coconut)
- chocolate chips or brick chocolate
- Jelly beans
- candy coated chocolate eggs
- marshmallow chicks
- peanut butter (or sunflower seed butter)
- wax paper
- paper plates (colored plates optional)
What You Do:
Place squares of wax paper onto to individual plates. Put chow mein noodles (or coconut) in a large bowl.
If using brick chocolate, break into pieces.
Melt chocolate chips or pieces in the microwave, or over low heat on stove, just until melted.
Pour melted chocolate over chow mein noodles (or coconut), mix together to coat.
Place mounds of chocolate mixture onto several plates (on top of waxed paper).
Have children form the mixtures into nests. Be sure the chocolate has cooled, but don't wait too long or it will harden!
Using peanut butter (or sunflower seed butter) as an adhesive, "glue" down the jelly beans and candy coated chocolate eggs inside the nest cavity.
"Glue" marshmallow chick on the edge of or inside of the nest.
These make fun gifts from kids to their friends, teacher and family members. You can also make these nests at birthday parties as a fun and edible take home party favor.


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When Bene Károly, the President of the Organization of the Beautification of Dunaújváros, requested to compile about this subject, I didn't know what I was getting into perhaps I had bitten off more then I could chew.
How did we survive the Second WW? Those of Pentele that where in prison, a picture album of Pentele: to compile the first 3 volumes was just a question of time and patience: there were a lot of sources. But on this (the Jewish Community) I had almost nothing. There were no residents that survived, in the place of the synagogue (opposite Szórád school) stands the house of Perjési.
But the village's past cannot be pictured accurately without them. They lived amoung us, mostly merchantsorartisans.
First I took some volumes from the library, then I got the key to the cemetery from members of the town beautification organization, and lots of pictures of the monuments. (Those were taken by Hajdu György).
P. Fekete István helped with his advise and pictures of the Synagogue on Dohány St. in Budapest. Czékliné (Manci) my older cousin gave me family pictures that were taken at the end of the 30's.
Dr. Kucserka Vilma, my former classmate Tóth Józsefné, and Markovics Ili, who visited the Holyland, all lent me their own books and pictures.
I thank them.The most difficult part is getting from 0 to 1. The rest
is easier.
This undertaking is a subjective history and a documentation of the era, their past lives with us together. Can we ignore them?
Those who resided or grew up here have better knowledge of the history of the place and on what the town was built. My intention had been that when we go and read(in the big Cemetery) the names of those that were deported we should not see only the letters, but the human lives behind them: feeling, working, loving families, the names of honest Hungarian Jews. We, the residents of Pentele, have known and honored them well, but for those who have just recently come these are only names
To this day I miss not knowing anyone from the list of names on the monument that commerates WWI (done by Bory Jenõ in 1926) that stands before Szórád School. I was born after the war, but if there had been someone who could have written biographies about them, at least we would have had some memory of them.
My aim was not to be totally complete, that couldn't be possible. I have no scientific pretense, that is the job of the historians. In my modest way I tried to remember those that had lived among us for generations.
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To go back to the parents: there was a cook, a butler that also served. We honored them very much. As was the custom of thetime we kissed the hand of the honorable lady ( Sarolta ) every morning.
We loved them truthfully because they treated their servants fairly
( with humanity, for example when the holidays were
approaching , we always received gifts).
There were very few places that one could encounter what we had there: if we finished our work before noon we were allowed to dress up and spend the rest of day as we wished. ( Hardly ever did we get any other chores).
The mansion was built near the Hundred Foot Bridge on the hill opposite the house of Molnár János from Pentele. A one storybuilding fenced together with a yard and park. The building was a long yellow rectangle. ( Today there is no hill and no building).
The rooms:bedroom , salon, dining room , office ( this was a study ),
library,guest rooms; pantry, kitchen, bathroom and a
staircase that led to the cellar. Here I used to clean the mud off László' shoes , he would wear clean slippers to enter his
parents rooms.
The cellar was huge, built with brick arches, were the wine was kept in barrels.
From here one could go to the large laundry room where a hired laundress would do her heavy work. From time to time we also helped: putting the dish towels on the side of the wooden tub and scubbing them with a hard brush in luke-warm water. Going out from there we arrived at the house of the carriege-driver.
The floors were small wooden parquet. We polished them with wax brushes that we put on our feet.
The salon, where the guests were received , was my favorite: red velvet upholstery on the furniture. The walls had a patterned wallpaper, on the walls were paintings, on the floor a huge Persian rug.
In the dining room there was a grand buffet filled with valuable porcelain: sets of dishes. In the middle was a enormous table. The wood parquet was allways shining.
From the dining room you could reach the bedroom. The rooms connected from one another. Along the rooms there was a corridor.
In the spring of 1944 the Germans took occupation of most of the house and the dining room. The owners would peep from the bedroom to watch the soldiers recreation. When the soldiers became aware of this they put the buffet up against the door.It was so heavy that it cut through the beautiful parquet floor.
My parents began to worry and approximately after 1 ½ yrs of service
told me to return home.
When I told this to the family of Frankl Zsigmond I could see how it distressed them.
One day the honorable sir called me to his room.
- Kati, I extremely beg of you. Don't leave us here , your fathers works
for us, we love you all.
-I am sorry, I can't do it.- I answered with a hurting heart - I would like to stay longer very much, but fate has intervened.
I saw their distress and this made me very sad.
Soon after this they gathered the Jews: packed them, 56 persons, into Brucks' mill ,on the present Baracsi St..
Their son Laszló survived. He was rescued by Horváth László from Pentele.
We met , unexpectedly , after a long time at the bus station in 1950. I recognized him. He was surprised and very glad. We talked a bit. I was very glad that at least he was still alive. I was very sorry for his parents. When I think about them my heart aches for them.
Recalling their religious beliefs: the whole family converted to Catholicism long ago, they had a permanent place in the church where they went regularly.
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Horváth László, a pure true born of "Pöntöle"* . Before the war he used to harvest and drive a tractor at the Dóra estate in Pálhalma. It was from there that he was conscripted in the army in 1941.
He was at the front , and was shot in one of the attacks. How or what
he does not remember, only that he woke up in a
hospital. He was wounded in the head and his jaw was broken on both sides.
"Thanks" to this he was sent back to Hungary to recuperate. He thought that his army days were over, but things did not turn out this way. He was put in a special unit that was made up of all the left overs. It was thanks to this that he met many Jews, those that as yet had not been sent to the death camps.
Among them was also Frankl Lázsló a landsman from Pentele.
As a soldier he was allowed to move about freely, and had the opportunity
to get a - - - Wallenberg protection paper
Slusszpassz - for him (László) and his friends.
Frankl thanks to Uncle Laci survived the war.
- I didn't think about it then, that I am doing a heroic deed. I felt it was unjust how they treated the Jews. On the contrary. Even after the war I did not talk about it to anybody. But the people of Pöntöle knew very well for what should Frankl Laci thank me.
Both were home, but the war was not over. In Pentele the Russians and the Germans exchanged- hands. At the end, when the Germans entered, Frankl turned to "Uncle Laci" in desperation: There is a need for a paper.
And "Uncle Laci" succeeded. A paper stamped with the official mark, probably in the shape of a horse, from the headquarters in Budapest. Naturally there were people who did not look at this deed favorably.
-This was not the reason why I did this, but Frankl was not ungrateful. He gave me a wagonfull of wheat, and a wagonfull of corn as a gift. When my father asked the government for a parcel of land and received 5 hold, he said : Here is a tractor. Plow with it. He had a gold signet ring. He said that when he dies this would be mine. He lived for more than 40 yrs thank God. When he died his son called me: come for the ring you have deserve it.
Nagy Lászlo , Horváth László and Harmat Frigyes received
, for their part as National Freedom fighters, memorial
certificates, at the 50 yr anniversary of the end of WWII and the victory over Fascism. (A HÍRLAP: 1995. V. 9.)
*This is a dialect that was brought over from other parts of Hungary
to Pentele.
1. Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomate that rescued thousands of Jews from Budapest.
(Dunaújvárosi Hírlap 1996. X. 1.)
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Eva eight yrs Goldenberg Lajos
My father, Louis Gati (Goldenberg) was a holocaust survivor. And like so many of those who endured one of history's darkest chapters, his life story is filled with amazing tales. But because of the deep scars caused by his tragic losses and suffering, my father was never able to share much of his past with me, his only son. Weeding through my dad's personal papers after his death in May 1997, I came upon a virtual treasure trove of documents, photographs and other artifacts chronicling his life and times before, during and after the war. I've become fascinated with these links to the past and have come to see them as the pages of a personal history that needs to be compiled, composed and shared. This is not only a story worthy of being told... but also a testament to my father's enduring spirit and a record of my family's personal history for future generations.
When the Nazis occupied Hungary in 1944, my father was taken from his home in the middle of the night and placed in a forced labor camp. Returning home to his village of Dunapentele after the war, Lajos Goldenberg (his Hungarian name) learned that his wife Manci and their eight year old daughter Eva were removed, presumably to a concentration camp.
For more than two years, Lajos waited for his wife and daughter in Dunapentele, hoping against the odds that they survived the Nazi death machine and would return home and resume their lives together. They did not survive, and in 1950 Lajos finally moved on and resettled in New York City where he met my mother Irene Fried and started a new family and a new life.
When my dear mom passed away in September 1996, my father left his New York home and came to live with my wife and two young daughters in Massachusetts for what turned out to be the final months of his life. But by the time Louis took up residence in our spare bedroom, the loss of my mother had left him shell-shocked. He had survived the death of a second wife and once again believed his home had been taken from him. The past had become a jumble of events, people and places.
But during this dark period came a ray of light: A woman I had never met nor even knew existed wrote to me to explain that a memorial book had been compiled by a local school teacher as a memorial to the Jews of Dunapentele. Ilonkay Józsefné (who I would later come to know as Edit) wrote to me that within the pages of this memorial, my father and his family were remembered and spoken of fondly by many of the current residents of Dunapentele (now known as Dunaújváros).
My family and I traveled to Dunaújváros in the summer of 1998.We met Edit and her family and she introduced me to some of the participants as well as the teacher who compiled the memorial book. It was truly an incredible experience which I am currently in the process of documenting in the form of a film.
Gati family - Dunapentele, 1998
These oral histories and recollections are translated within this web site and stand as a testament to a distant time in another world that only exists in memories, photographs and now in memorials such as this one.
Please feel free to comment or contact me regarding this memorial book.
Robert S. Gati
Melrose, Massachusetts USA
Lajos Goldenberg: lived on Tót Street (now it is called Petõfi Street) across from the Post Office). He was an electrician; he had apprentices (for instance, Feri Potornai, Pista Garbacz). He was humane. At the time of corn snapping he always permitted his apprentices to go and work on his father-in-law's rented land in Alájáró (toward Baracs). He once persuaded my father to buy a woman's bicycle for me, so that I would not have to walk so much to the vineyards in the Danube fields (the southern part of Kozider).
His wife was Manci. She was a beautiful and industrious young woman. For instance, by herself, she lime-washed their kitchen. Their only daughter was Eva, a curly-haired, blond and blue-eyed child. She was a good student; at home her mother had her compete with her schoolmate friends: to see who could write nicer, read and recite poetry better. We loved them and appreciated them. From them, we got the same feelings back.
The father of Lajos became a cantor and a Shakter (a sort of a butcher). He was a highly- respected person in their congregation. As a little girl, I took milk to them daily. When a High Holiday was celebrated by them, the cantor's wife milked the cow herself for their dishes (kosher food). I liked this holiday, because I got a lot of unleavened bread from them (this was Matzos a big, round wafer-like, crunchy food item).
Once when I was 8 year old I went to get the geese. (At that time, in the 1930's in the Fall it was the custom in Pentele to drive the geese - 1 gander and 4-5 hens - to the place where the school was located through the Main (Fõ) Street and then they walked on their own through the "Régi posta (Old post office) Street (now Tisza Street) to graze and bathe in the banks of the Danube. This went on until the river water did not freeze. In the evenings, we would await them at the school house.) One Saturday, the old cantor invited me to the synagogue (across from the school house). He led me in, holding my hands and asked me to blow out the candles because their religion forbade them to do that. I remember leaving the synagogue in total darkness, but with complete confidence in him. Since I saw this kind-hearted man every day, I regarded his action as very matter-of-fact. He cautioned me not to be afraid and I was not.
I still think of them with love and respect. There were few days in my life so sad when they were made to walk to the station. We fought our tears all day.
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I regarded my master as a very nice person and I appreciated his technical know-how, as well as valued his devotion and pride in the precise details of his work. At that time in Dunapentele, it was only he who was on his own as an independent electrician.
They also raised pigs; on the sizeable lands owned by his father-in-law corn was grown. They, themselves, did not eat pork; the animals were raised to be sold.
Since they were religious people, they regularly attended the synagogue (across from the school). Poultry could only be eaten by them if it was first killed and prepared by a shakter. There were always smoked goose thighs hanging in the pantry (just like smoked ham with the Catholics).
In 1944, by which time I was already working with them as a journeyman, my boss was taken away for forced labor.
The family remained alone. At that time my father was a town policeman and he warned them of the dangers awaiting them. We packed a lot of valuable belongings together for them (service parts, bicycles, electrical motors, etc.) and we hid those at our family residence on Venyimi Street. When later the Russian soldiers discovered these under a tent cover, they immediately seized two bicycles for themselves. My father resisted them and he almost got shot in the head for his trouble. Unfortunately, they took the bicycles with them. (In fact, they looted them.)
With Ferenc Potornai, (who used to be an apprentice there before me), we decided to pay a visit to our one-time boss in the forced labor camp of Csepel in October '44. We were soldiers. After discussing the matter with Feri, we agreed to help him escape with us. It was our intention to take him to Nagyvenyim, where he was not known and since we had many good acquaintances living there, we could have hidden him in that place. At the 103 Air Defense Battery where I served, the battery clerk was Pista Ihos, a resident of Dunapentele. He gave me a paper which authorized us to accompany this man and allowed him to move about freely under our supervision. At that time Jews had to wear a yellow star. We made him take it off as soon as we were on our way with him.
At the agreed time, we took him to Kelenföld railway station, so that we could continue our journey by train to (Nagy)venyim.
To our surprise, at the gate of the railroad station we ran into the policeman Géza Ragacs, who was also born in Dunapentele and knew all three of us very well.Fortunately, he spared us any trouble by motioning with his head to proceed. He moved away from the gate area; he saw no "suspicious" characters. (At that time, one risked one's life by trying to save or hide somebody.)
Suddenly, we heard the sound of sirens, signaling an air raid. Everybody had to leave the railroad station. We went to a nearby air raid shelter. The bombing started and we knew that no trains will leave that day. Our boss asked that we take him back to Csepel. To our deep regret, our plan fell through.
We accompanied him back with an aching heart and we said good bye to each other.
I returned on October 10, 1945 from a prisoner of war camp. It was then that we met again, he came to visit us and said that he returned to a great pain: he could not find his family anywhere and would never see them again.
It was then that we returned the hidden items to him. However, he no longer worked in his profession, I rented his shop and he got in the business of hauling goods. He was also learning English. He sold everything in 1948 (whatever little remained for him) and emigrated to America. I never saw him again.
I can only think of him and his family with a good heart, with appreciation and with genuine sorrow. They deserved a better fate; they never caused harm to anybody. Our relatives and acquaintances felt the same way as I did. The town became poorer without them.
The trade-union used to have its meetings in the Jantsky restaurant. They also contributed to the cultural life, for example Szekulesz Doli organized an amateur performance I remember: Mágnás Miska.
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Next to him was the home of Lajos Goldenberg, electrician, his wife and their daughter, Évike. Her mother always called me to come over to play. When I got older, this Aunt Manci asked me to help with the housework because I was told that I am industrious and honest. During school vacations, I used to spend the entire summer with them and I had an opportunity to observe many of their customs.
The Jewish religion regards Saturday as the holy day. On Fridays there was baking and cooking all day and in the evenings, when the sun went down, the candles were lit, which was followed by the holiday dinner. They did not work the next day; they went to pray in the synagogue. On such days they did not light any fires, turn on any electricity, did not eat fruit which was initially torn off and they did not mix dishes which were for meat or milk.
They ate poultry and even that had to be killed by the shakter, the cantor. The poultry could only be cleaned of its feathers drily and after a special opening, certain parts of the poultry had to be salted, rinsed in a particular way and had to be kept in water for a while. They could cook wonderful dishes.
A favorite dish of theirs was the Sólet and they were very fond of bórhesz which was a large twisted poppy roll. It was kneaded in water so that it could be served with fatty, meaty dishes, as well. As far as the sólet was concerned it was a remarkably fine dish. I took it to the baker every Friday because it was baked in an oven and I used to bring it home on Saturdays. It was an indispensable dish of the Saturday meal.
Their Easter holidays also required extensive preparations. At such times they used the Easter dishes which were kept in the attic. No bread was eaten; only unleavened bread, in other words, matzoh.
They were religious people; they observed the rules.
In the Fall, there were other High Holidays. They celebrated the New Year and afterwards came the Great Fast when they did not eat anything. At such times they were in the synagogue all day and they could only resume eating at sunset and light a candle. Between classes in school, I used to run over to light their fires and turn on their electricity, which they could not do on holidays.
One day in 1944, I was not allowed to go to them. As a child, I was very upset; I could not conceive what possible reason would keep me from them. Then they were taken to the steam mill area. I went to see them, they came to the fence but, of course, they would not let me in. Évike cried and begged me (she was 8 years old at the time) that I should go in, but it was in vain; it was not possible. I asked Aunt Manci how she was. She answered: we had been sentenced to death. After that, I never saw them again.
Perhaps I could write more, but after 52 years, it is not easy to recall old matters.
I loved them and I learned a lot from them: respect, humaneness, humility. These characterized all of them.
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Oroszné (Tót st. today Petõfi st.)
In the spring and summer of 1944: every Jew was herded by the - ironcross - to the ghetto in spite of their being normal, working, religious and honest people, that did no harm to anyone. They confiscated all their personal resources and real estate. They older ones were herded into carts, the small children and the rest went by foot on our street to the station, on route to their deaths.
From the whole village there were people who were sorry for them .-My younger sister's classmate was Goldenberg Éva: blond, blue eyed, an only child, talented and exquisite, protected by her parents.- Uncle and Aunt Sziklai, at whose general store we shopped: was a modest couple. They also gave credit with a good heart. They educated their 2 sons. To our regret Sándor and Gyuri were taken to a labor camp from where they never returned. Their father hanged himself in the attic, but he was cut off from the rope. On our st. there lived two older sisters: Regina and Rebeka . They were religious. When we went to school on Saturday they called us in to light the wood in the fireplace, because they were not allowed to do it their holiday. The cantor's family, his beautiful wife and the four children. When they put up their succah in their yard, we were enchanted by it. Deutsch Panni from the Lengyel Lane: During the Russian occupation of their kicthen , they used the feather bed from her fine dowry for placing their bleedy wounded. The Lax family : Dentist, young wife, a small boy.
In the cultural life of the community they had an active part.
Written by:Bakonyi Károly Composed by: Szirmai Albert
Director: Szekulesz Adolf
Piano Accompaniment: Dr.Lax Jenõné
Violin Accompaniment : Dr. Lax Jenõ , Arató Ede, Dr. Nagy Zoltán
Their names are preseverd on the plack in the big cemetery . We remember them with devotion.
I always have my coffee in a small, almost transparent Zsolnay porcelain cup decorated with flowers together with a saucer There are many kinds of cups but this one I like the best. It is part of a set, a tea cup, one flour jar that is decorated with butterflies and an ashtray. Relics.
When the more well to Jews learned what was awaiting them, during the night they threw some of their valuables in the Danube. Who ever sensed it later took out these dishes or what ever he found. I received these from an acquaitance and for half a century " they remember" and remind.
Recently a peddler wanted to buy these for 5,000 Forints. They are not
for sale! I said . Then he doubled the offer. Even if you offer 100,000
Forints for them they are not for sale!- I answered. Then he gave up. My
memories are not for sale.
(Part of Vol I)
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My grandmother owned fields and after the harvest they took the grain to the mill for grinding. Probably it was this connection that brought them together, they used to chat frequently between themselves. From her stories we knew that the Brucks were tidy, deligent and educated people.
One summer, before noon, my grandmother came with a huge loaded basket from Faragó's store, when in front of the mill she met Bruck Ernõné. She put down her heavy basket on the ground, and they started a friendly chat. While talking Bruckné invited my grandmother to her house. The apartment was furnished like a royal residence with nice shiny parquets,furniture, hand-worked lace covers, porcelian, those she liked them very much. At that time rooms like these showed prosperity. In most of the country houses floors were made of earth. In one of the rooms, a black piano was seen.
My grandmother went to the piano, and with one finger touched one of the keys. Bruckné noticed that her guest liked music. She sat down at the piano and started to play a Hungarian melody. Many beautiful songs were heard that made my grandmother happy. After that they used to chat about money, politics, house keeping and economics.
But then came 1944. They were deported together with other Jewish families. They enclosed them for a time in the silo beside the steam mill, armed guards watched them night and day. Afterward they were put in wagons and were sent, poor souls, to the death camps. I only understood from whispers and half words ( the children were not supposed to know ) that there were also some very good people, that smuggled to them all types of foods. I knew that grandmother was one of them. She brought them fresh milk. But this could only be done secretly, because for this deed one could go to jail or a get much heavier penelty.
In 1980 I was at the death camp Birkenau where I saw a huge black plack, with white letters, on it were the names of those Jews that were dragged and murdered from Hungary. Their names : Bruck Ernö and Bruck Ernõné, were also seen .
My heart shrunk because they were residents of Pentele like myself, and will never return to our small community.
After the war the house stood abandoned, with no owner. In the garden the weeds grew high. The shiny parquets were gone, someone had torn them out. The doors, the windows disappeared. On nights, when the moon shines, when the shadows of the trees and bushes are long on the walls of the abandoned house, the silence is disturbed only by the shriek of little owls. Such is the house were the master and master's wife will never return.
This happened only becauses they were "others": Jews. Because of this man to man is wolf .
In the big Cemetery, their names are also written on the marble plaque where it stands. We hold their memory in grace.
(Taken from Vol I )
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The Jews represented a special layer in the community they had a different kind of view point on life and of the world, - (because of their being separate) . On the basic issues they did not intergrate. They married between themselves.
I loved Uncle Deutch Lajos, the tailor, who gave me a beautiful "boy-coat".
Actually we bought it from him.
(in Hungarian Uncle is an endearment for older people that were like a real Uncle).
I saw in him a friendly person. Sometimes there was an apprentice working for him, Hingyi Miska.
I had a special compassion have it today also toward a Jewish peddler named Feith, who had about 8 children and used to walk through the waste lands with his thin wooden casket. He sold to the farm laborers's wives lace, draw-strings for their husbands' pants, hair pins, "cream of milk" lotion and other needy trifles. I can imagine what bitter hardships he lived by, in the muddy, snowy waste roads, all alone dragging and pulling his bad bicycle.
The leather tanner, Uncle Deutsch , offered a leather covering for canoes made from the acid tree.
I remember, before the main film at the movies shown in Jantsky retaurant, hearing the advertising:
Every civilian and officer knows,
That the best brand of flour is Brucks.
Who ever has anything to do with pigs,
Should use the Brucks' Bran Brand.
Bruck's mill Dunapentele
(beginning of the 40's)
On our street Magyar 55 today number 29 lived Dr. Lax Jenõ, a dentist and his wife Kánitz Lili.
They had a charming black haired little boy, Jancsika. He resembled his parents very much. The dentist's family, were kind people. They often called me to play with Jancsika because he was an only child and was lonesome.
There was a long wide mezzanine, running the lenth of the house, it still exists, but the new owner glassed it in. In good times they used to have their meals in the mezzanine. They allways offered me delicacies. Mrs Lili had a piano, she used to play beautifully. I used to hear the couple singing along with the sound of the panio, but what they were singing I don't recall anymore. Mrs Lili taught me to play a children's song on the piano, Boci,boci tarka ( like Freres Jacque).
Dr.Uncle was also very kind and loved children. Because he was a dentist I was also treated by him, he made fillings in my teeth, and extracted the bad one( milk-tooth).
On Magyar st. was a big shop. It was torn down. In its place was built a many storied building. On the ground floor there were many shops (Iron goods, meat, etc) and above apartments. The building belonged to Kánitz Mór and his son, they managed the shops. Kánitz Lili became the dentist's wife.
On the big Jewish Holidays, when I went to the store I saw that Mrs. Kánitz (Náni) sitting at the edge of the counter, on her head was a lace kercheif, which even covered her face. In front of her a candle was burning. My mother said, that today is a Jewish holiday and that she is praying.
Twice a week the village market was held in front of this building. At this time there was allways a lot of traffic in the shop.
I don't recall the sad deportation, only what I heard from the grown-ups. As a small girl I didn't pay any attention to what was happening. Since then I think of them often with a sad heart.
In the 30's, my father bought an cast iron bathtub (which is still in
use today) and a small painted iron bed (play pen) at an auction that was
held in the long Jewish House(today Simai house) which was opposite today's
club house. My grandchildren still enjoy it. Both are impossible
to deteriorate. Beside the house a playground can be seen, in the
past a Jewish family used to live there in Erdõs house . It was torn down.
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We used to live opposite them on Magyar St and a good friendly relationship developed between the families, hence I was invited to the eldest's wedding. I wasn't invited to the ceremony but out of curiosity I did look at it.
It occured at the beginning of the 30's: the bride wore a long white silk dress, down to the ground, and the groom a dark suit. In the the afternoon at the synagogues , a rabbi from an other town held the ceremony. The men wore hats on their heads and were downstairs while the women were upstairs in the gallery ( that encircled the synagogue).
I don't recall the ceremony in detail because I was a young girl, only that the groom broke the glass from which they had previously drunk.
The joyfull wedding party was held at the bride's home.
In the 60's we made an excursion to Szeged. In one of the synagogues we saw Torah Scrolls. My husband wanted to touch one of them, but he was not not allowed to, and they explained to him that the meaning of the scrolls is similar to the holy sacrements for catholics. On a marble plack, on the wall outside, the names of those that were dragged and murdered could be read.
Hundreds of martyrs.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's most powerful woman was formally charged with a massive embezzlement scheme on Wednesday, standing grim-faced behind bars live on national television in what many called a clear message that the new government is asserting its authority.
The country watched rapt as national teacher's union head Elba Esther Gordillo heard the charges against her read by a judge in a grim prison in eastern Mexico City. It was a dizzying fall from power for a woman who traveled on private jets and maintained properties worth millions of dollars in Southern California.
Gordillo was charged with embezzling 2 billion pesos (about $160 million) from union funds and was arrested Tuesday afternoon as she returned from San Diego for a meeting of leaders of the 1.5 million-member National Union of Education Workers she has led for nearly a quarter-century. She was heading the union's fight with President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration over the country's most sweeping educational reform in more than 70 years.
Her arrest came a day after the president signed the reform into law.
"This is a case that has absolutely no political motivation," Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam told the Televisa television network.
But most Mexicans scoffed at the idea that prosecutors had just found out that Gordillo -- known for her designer clothes, luxury cars and plastic surgery -- might be corrupt. Many saw it as a shot across the bow of potential foes by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ran the country for seven decades, was thrown out of power in 2006 and won back the presidency last year.
The message: Don't commit Gordillo's mistake of publicly opposing the president's reform efforts.
"The message is that, if this can happen to Elba Esther, it can happen to anyone," former Mexico City Mayor Manuel Camacho Solis told MVS Radio. Prosecutors said they had detected nearly $3 million in purchases at Neiman Marcus stores using union funds, as well as $17,000 in U.S. plastic surgery bills and the purchase of a million-dollar home in San Diego.
The arrest immediately sparked calls for prosecutors to bring similar cases against other union leaders known for lavish spending. The main opposition parties specifically named the leader of the country's oil workers' union, accused by local news media of giving his son a $2 million Ferrari, a report that has never been confirmed or denied.
The arrest of Gordillo sidelines a powerful opponent of the PRI while showing the party as unafraid to take on a figure many blame for the dire state of the Mexican education system. Gordillo was a PRI leader for decades before splitting from the party, which was accused of corruption and authoritarian practices during its decades in power.
"This can be something very good for the country, but also for the government and for the PRI," said Jose Antonio Crespo, a political analyst at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching in Mexico City. "It cleans up the image of the PRI, as if to say, "Yes, we will be a different PRI, we're moving forward, not backward."
Pena Nieto is also proposing reforms that would open the state-owned oil company to more private investment, a move that could awaken similar opposition from that union.
But teacher's union members had been the only ones marching in the streets against reform in recent weeks, and the fiery Gordillo, who rose from teenage school teacher to a maker of presidents, vowed to keep fighting.
"I want to die with the epitaph: Here lies a warrior. She died like a warrior," Gordillo said in a speech on her 68th birthday this month.
Her union's secretary-general said Gordillo still had the group's loyalty, solidarity and affection, but there was no immediate sign of plans for protests.
Asked if he would go after other corrupt union bosses, as opposition parties have demanded, Murillo Karam said "I don't have evidence as clear as in this case."
In a news conference minutes after Gordillo's detention, he said the investigation started in December, just after Pena Nieto took office, when Banco Santander alerted authorities to transfers of billions of pesos, according to the attorney general.
Some funds eventually ended up in bank accounts in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, according to Assistant Attorney General Alfredo Castillo, who said that in one case, $1 million went to a Swiss account for a company owned by Gordillo's mother. Those funds were then used to buy a million-dollar house on the Coronado peninsula near San Diego.
For years, Gordillo has beaten back attacks from union dissidents, political foes and journalists who have seen her as a symbol of Mexico's corrupt, old-style politics. Rivals have accused her of corruption, misuse of union funds and even a murder, but prosecutors who investigated never brought a charge against her.
She was expelled from Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party in 2006 for supporting other parties' candidates and the formation of her own New Alliance party. Her support was considered key in giving a razor-thin victory that year to former President Felipe Calderon.
After Pena Nieto's victory, his first legislative achievement was a reform that creates a system of uniform standards for teacher hiring and promotion based on merit instead of union connections. It also allows for the first census of Mexico's education system, which Gordillo's union has largely controlled for decades, allegedly padding the payroll with thousands of phantom teachers.
So great is the union's control that no one knows exactly how many schools, teachers or students exist in Mexico.
The Mexican education system has been persistently one of the worst performers among the world's developed economies, with few signs of improvement.
Mexico spent a higher percentage of its budget on public education than any other country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development except New Zealand but had the lowest expenditure per child in 2009.
Nearly every Mexican 4-year-old is in pre-school, but only 47 percent are expected to graduate high school. In the U.S., the number is closer to 80 percent.
In a television interview last week about education reform, the interviewer told Gordillo that she was the most hated woman in Mexico.
"There is no one more loved by their people than I," Gordillo answered. "I care about the teachers. This is a deep and serious dispute about public education."
Columnist and political analyst Raymundo Riva Palacio said Gordillo is an experienced political fighter who may have lost the keen sense of political calculation that kept her in power for so many years.
"She lost clarity," Riva Palacio said. "Having so much to lose on the issue on which they finally got her, the money, she calculated badly."
Gordillo's arrest recalled the 1989 arrest of another once-feared union boss, Joaquin Hernandez Galicia, known as "La Quina." The longtime head of Mexico's powerful oil workers union, Hernandez Galicia was arrested during the first months of the new administration of then-President Carlos Salinas.
In 1988, he criticized Salinas' presidential candidacy and threatened an oil workers' strike if Salinas privatized any part of the government oil monopoly, Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex. On Jan. 10, 198, -- about a month after Salinas took office -- soldiers used a bazooka to blow down the door of Hernandez' home in the Gulf Coast city of Ciudad Madero.
He was freed from prison after Salinas left office.
Associated Press writers Mark Stevenson, Adriana Gomez Licon and Michael Weissenstein contributed to this report.