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Hong Kong-based Pegasus Motion Pictures is unveiling four new features as it ramps up production under company founder Raymond Wong and CEO John Chong.
The company's biggest project is $20m action adventure The Wesley, based on the popular Wai Si Li series of fantasy novels written by Ni Kuang. Edmond Wong, who wrote Ip Man and Saving General Yang, is scripting the feature adaptation.
Pegasus is also producing $6m action title Bounty Hunter, written by Wong and to be directed by Leong Po-chih, whose credits include English-language thriller The Wisdom Of Crocodiles. Production is scheduled to start in August. Leong also recently directed horror thriller 3D Baby Blues, starring Raymond Lam and Karena Ng, for Pegasus.
Founded by Hong Kong veteran producer Raymond Wong in 2009, the rapidly-expanding Pegasus brought on board former Media Asia CEO John Chong last October. The company also listed on Hong Kong's GEM board around the same time.
Also on the company's new slate are David Lam's crime thriller Z Storm, about a corruption case in Hong Kong; Chan Hing-Kai's $6m comedy Loving You, starring Louis Koo and Chapman To; and Wilson Chin's $3m action comedy Kung Fu Angels, set to star Karena Ng. All three projects are in pre-production.
Pegasus has also picked up international rights to Fu Xi's $6m suspense thriller Murder, executive produced by China's Huang Yue Tai.


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If there was an undisputed winner in last night's Joe Biden vs. Paul Ryan debate, it was moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News.
Beyond that, the blunt, aggressive Joe Biden will be at the vortex of the debate-over-the-debate tonight and Friday, and on talk shows during the weekend, and when the next batch of polls roll in next week.
"Obama just called Biden and asked what coffee he uses," tweeted comedian Albert Brooks.
Jon Ralston, Nevada's premier political reporter, summed it up with this tweet: "People who like Biden will think this is the greatest debate ever: Folks who don't will find him at his most obnoxious."
The widest audience since 2008 saw last night what other Democratic candidates found out during endless debates among Democratic presidential candidates in late 2007 and early 2008. Biden takes the argument to his opponent.
And, last night, commentators on the right — and the Republicans' presidential nominee — were doing the grousing, very much as ldeft pundits were moaning after President Obama's performance last week.
Dick Morris, the Romney victory soothsayer on FOX News, tweeted: "Ryan sounds vague and double talking about withdrawal date (from Afghanistan) even though he is right."
SuperPAC mastermind and "Bush's Brain" Karl Rove groused at Biden's aggressiveness talking about Social Security and the voucher plan that Ryan proposed in Congress to take the place of Medicare.
"Biden is out of control and Raddatz appears to have given up trying to rein him in."
Mitt Romney was heard with old-school haughtiness in the new medium of Twitter. "It is a shame that Joe Biden, our vice president, is conducting himself in such an unprofessional and rude manner," the Republican nominee opined.
And this was from the guy who interrupted Jim Lehrer 30 TIMES in last week's debate between the presidential candidates.
The question already debated, during the Biden-Ryan face off, was whether Biden was making points with his voice — e.g. forcing Ryan to admit he asked for stimulus dollars s — or losing support with his constant doubting facial expressions.
"Is Veep better talking than smiling: Not sure the look he flashes is making this point as aptly as his words," tweeted Scott Simon, the National Public Radio weekend host.
Albert Brooks delivered a qualified — and very funny — upbeat assessment of the Veep: "I actually like Joe Biden even though when he smiles he reminds me of the guy that sold me my worst car."
Republican nabobs were trying — hard — to reassure themselves that Joe was blowing it. "Ryan: Serious, sober, steady, Biden: Smirking, mocking, immature," tweeted senior Romney adviser Eric ("Etch-a-Sketch") Fehrnstrom.
"Biden is too hot — not effective," claimed former Bush press spokesman Ari Fleischer.
Nicholas Kristoff, the New York Times scribe, saw a subtle skill in the Biden performance: "Biden is pretty good at being sarcastic and lacerating without coming across as nasty."
Biden clearly accomplished one goal. He re-energized the Democratic base and the pro-Democratic pundits of cable TV. He was a fighter who used words like "malarky" and "bluster" and the inelegant phrase: "This is a bunch of stuff."
Biden even managed, during foreign policy talk, to ratchet down a notch and say: "Lets calm down a little here." He registered strong positive marks among undecided voters watching CNN and recording their reactions to the candidates.
The tweeters at The Stranger, Seattle's very left alternative newspaper, reacted to the Vice President's debating skills with ecstasy, the emotion and not the drug.
"What a moment: Biden makes Ryan admit he asked for stimulus dollars," tweeted Markos Moulitsas, proprietor of the daily kos website, a secular political Bible for the nation's liberals.
Why the moments? The same aggressiveness that a blunt Biden was showing in Democratic candidate debates five years ago while Obama was coming across like the law professor he once was.
Again, however, Biden took it down a notch with a Catholic's I-won't-impose-my-view-on-others position on abortion. "Most Catholics in America will side with Biden, I suspect," wrote blogger, social conservative and fiscal liberal Andrew Sullivan.
Chris Kissel, a Seattle University grad and journalist, now working radio in New York, tweeted of Ryan's response: "Is it a moral obligation to make moral choices for others?"
The objective? "Pretty clear that Biden's strategy tonight is to do everything Democrats wish Obama did last week," tweeted Ezra Klein, the New York Times pundit tracking day-by-day developments in the 2012 presidential race.
An opposing view: "Weird, inappropriate and condescending," said Monica Crowley, an aide to former President Richard Nixon during his last years of self-rehabilitation.
Nixon knew a thing or two about losing a debate.

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Sanchez keys sixth-inning rally for dynamic McDonald
PITTSBURGH -- As the Atlanta Braves arrived Thursday evening for the start of a four-game series, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle was invited to laud the pitching staff of the team with the Majors' best record.
"There's not one guy there we can't beat," Hurdle said instead, then added an advisory for that staff's early-season shine. "Their team ERA won't be 1.77 at the end of the year."
It won't even be close to that at the end of the weekend.
After having already taken liberties on Julio Teheran (in a losing effort) and Tim Hudson, the Bucs on Saturday bagged the biggest game, rallying for a 3-1 victory over the Braves and Paul Maholm.
Maholm's ERA went from 0.00 to 1.03, and the Braves' stands at 2.26 entering Sunday's series finale.
The surge came just in time to reward James McDonald's tenacity with a victory -- and that was the part that seemed to please the Pirates the most, far more than just being the first team this season to actually score against Maholm.
The Bucs know how important McDonald is to their season prospects, and they also know how good he can be. They saw it on a regular basis through the first three and a half months of last season. They saw it again on Saturday -- with very significant twists.
"The second was a big test for him, one he hasn't passed often," Hurdle said. "He did tonight … that's the guy we're looking for, the guy our team likes playing behind."
McDonald's proclivity for lapses of inconsistency was put on display in that second inning. Through four, each team had only one hit, with both teams only having posted a double. But while Andrew McCutchen's fourth-inning rocket off the center-field wall was isolated, Chris Johnson's perfectly-placed shot into the North Side Notch came amid a hit batter and two walks, the latter to .196-hitting Andrelton Simmons with the bases loaded.
What most everyone squirming through that inning did not know -- and they included the PNC Park crowd of 29,313 -- was that McDonald felt in control the whole time, thanks to a pre-game ego massage by Russell Martin.
Even on a night he would not be catching him -- instead getting a start at third base -- Martin exerted a huge influence on McDonald by treating him to his so-called "strikeout reel," a video montage of him blowing people away.
"The confidence from seeing all that … I carried it into the game," McDonald said. "It was very motivational. It worked. I felt confident out there, no negative thoughts at all, not even with the bases loaded. Every pitch I threw, everything I did, I felt confident."
He overcame the second-inning hurdle to pitch two-hit ball through six, with nine strikeouts. The trusted bullpen shuttle -- Tony Watson-to-Mark Melancon-to-Jason Grilli -- took care of the rest.
Maholm, the former Pirates lefty, had not allowed a run this season in more than 25 innings until the Pirates ambushed him for three in the sixth, when McCutchen's game-tying double led to Gaby Sanchez's two-run homer. The Bucs thus broke through after having had Maholm in nominal trouble the previous two innings.
"That's the way it happens. You're able to do that if you put pressure on the pitcher," Sanchez said. "A couple of times we just missed some pitches here and there, and in that sixth we were able to put it all together."
Sanchez was part of Hurdle's shuffled starting lineup to load up right-handed hitters against Maholm. Sanchez took Garrett Jones' place at first while Jose Tabata stepped in for Travis Snider in right and Martin filled in at Pedro Alvarez's hot-corner digs.
Even in the troublesome second, McDonald wound up striking out the side -- as he had in the first inning.
"From that first inning on," McCutchen said, "we knew it'd be a great game for us. He did an amazing job, and it was good to see. I'm happy for him."
The Bucs' first two-on crack at Maholm came in the fifth, which Martin began with a walk. Neil Walker followed with an intended sacrifice, but his bunt down the first-base line was so perfect he beat it out for a single. Rising to the challenge of his shutout season being spoiled, Maholm struck out the next three men.
The next time he was in jeopardy, Maholm had no response. Starling Marte led off the sixth with a walk and moved to second on Tabata's sacrifice bunt. Then the quick one-two punch to hand the Braves their fourth loss -- double the total with which they had hit town.
Both huge hits by the two right-handed hitters -- Nos. 3 and 4 in the Pittsburgh order -- came with first base open. A bit of machismo by the southpaw Maholm?
Rather, he said he knew what he had to do, just fell short in executing it.
"If I make the pitch down and away or miss in like I was trying to do with Gaby, it's probably a different outcome," Maholm said. "But it's part of the game. You're going to miss a pitch. Sometimes the hitters miss it and pop it up. Today, they did some damage with it. With Gaby, I throw a fastball in, and it's one of the only pitches he can do damage with and he did it. I got [McCutchen] out earlier on a fastball away. But [the one in the sixth] wasn't executed very well. It's more execution than anything."


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Google is well known for its collegiate roots, hatched as it was by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University back in the late 1990s.
So it's only fitting that PageRank, the defining algorithm that set Google apart from Overture, Yahoo, Microsoft and many others to date, is being applied at another university.
However, rather than using the technology to create a labyrinthine network of links to Websites, a Washington State University associate professor has adapted PageRank for a software program that determines molecular shapes and chemical reactions.
As Washington State Magazine first reported, Aurora Clark, the associate professor used PageRank to build moleculaRnetworks, which looks at hydrogen bonds in water.
Further reading
The magazine noted Clark and her colleagues believed interactions between molecules are a lot like links between Web pages.
Clark explains it herself some more here:
This isn't skunkworks; it's got funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Basic Energy Sciences.
And with good reason. The end game is that researchers can use the molecule software to design drugs, investigate the roles of misfolded proteins in disease and analyze radioactive pollutants, Clark told the magazine.
Now that's research anyone can get behind. Interestingly, Google is also doing a lot of research in its Google X Labs. Certainly, the Solve for X program is looking at some altruistic endeavors.
While they include plays to address water shortages and drug delivery, I'm quite sure they don't include leveraging PageRank.


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I only had five double-spaced pages. He wanted us to address the main argument, how it was supported, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses, and then if we had room, relate it to our projects. I wrote the paper more or less in that order, but had to skip out on relating it to my project. I will let you know if he likes it!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 Oct 2017, 9:34amMy quick and dirty guide for writing a critical book review:
• Intro, which summarize the book's argument and its significance plus your evaluation of the same in no more than a half page
• Summary paragraph that expands the description of the argument
• What's good about the book?
• What's bad?
• Anything else?
• Conclusion, which should not contain any new thoughts, but reinforce your evaluation
What's good, bad, and else will have fluctuating emphases, and what else might be skipped (it's for noting any photos, the quality of the prose, and other significant aspects not related to the argument). I'd say a person should shoot for the intro and conclusion taking up no more than 25% of the word count and the three analysis sections should make up at least 50%.
That's good advice for the future, I suppose, if I have to do another one.


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Grussenheim is a village belonging to the Département du Haut-Rhin and only 1 km distant from the Département du Bas-Rhin. It is located on the road connecting Colmar to Marckolsheim, where there used to be a passage across the Rhine river. The name Grussenheim is known since 726, but as a village it appears much later[1]. From 1361 to the French Revolution, Grussenheim was the fiefdom of the lords of Rathsamhausen-Ehnweyer[2]. It is not easy to research when the first Jewish families settled in Grussenheim, because the village archives were lost in the violent fighting of January 1945. Nevertheless Ginsburger has found in the toll registers of Bergheim the names of two Jews from Grussenheim, Jacob and Nathan, who paid the toll in 1628 and 1631 to gain access to the city of Bergheim[3]. In Jebsheim, a village near Grussenheim, the name of a Jewish physician, Lazar, was spotted; he requested permission in 1581 to enter the city of Colmar - which at the time was forbidden to Jews - to buy medicine at the city's apothecaries[4]. It can be assumed that as early as the 17th century, Jews lived in Grussenheim, poor Jews in a poor village that had only 48 homes in 1699, according to Joseph Lévy in his Notes about Grussenheim (Geschichtliche Notizen über Grussenheim im Ober-Elsass, published in 1911).
The same Joseph Lévy, who at the time was the Catholic priest in Grussenheim, lists the number of Jewish families residing in Grussenheim before the French Revolution: 1689: 4 J. families; 1693: 5 J. families out of a total of 30 families; 1716: 14 J. families; 1778: 17 J. families out of a total of 85 families; 1780: 26 J. families; 1784: 29 J. families out of a total of 87 families; 1804: 173 souls; 1825: 200; 1849: 257; 1865: 329; 1871: 347; 1890: 324; 1895: 314; 1905: 193; 1910: 145.
Further mentions of Jews in our village are rare: in Premier Annuaire de la Société des Etudes Juives, Paris 1881, Isidore Loeb writes that in 1754, in the Houssen affair, a certain Feiss, son of Simson, from Grussenheim had been indicted though he was innocent and kept in jail for 2 months[5].
Also Jacob bar Mordechai from Grusse is mentioned in Procès-Verbal de l'Assemblée des Notables juifs à Niedernai du 28.5.1777[6]. He is probably identical with Jacob Wurmser who, as Judenschultheiss (President of the Jewish community) of Grussenheim, had signed the purchase agreement of a ground for the enlargement of the Jewish graveyard of Mackenheim, where the Community of Grussenheim buried its dead until 1810[7].
We find, in « the General Status of the Jewish families residing in Alsace, composed of private reports provided to the provincial leaders of the said Jews by the local community heads » that there were 18 Jewish families in Grussenheim in 1766; the Status carries the date of 04 Mar 1766 and is signed by Cerf Berr; but in 1751 they had already counted the same number of families[8]. At the same time there were 8 Jewish families in Riedwihr, and 37 in Biesheim.
In the files of Notariat Meyer (Departmental Archives of Haut-Rhin), we were able to consult the transaction that occurred between the Lords of Rathsamhausen, owners of the village, and some Jews, in a trial between these two parties. It dates from 22 Nov 1781 and gives some information on the fees which Jews had to pay to their Lords. In view of the importance of this document, we reproduce essential passages in extenso:[9]
22 Nov. 1781 Transaction on the pending trial before the Sovereign Council of Alsace made between Leopold Eberhard, Charles Leopold and Louis Samson, all Barons of Rathsamhausen of Ehnweyer, the first in Grussenheim, the two others in Strasbourg Lords of Grussenheim on one hand, and the Jewish community as well as four other Jews, the four acting for themselves personally, and all of Grussenheim on the other hand.
« Before the King's Councilors, Notaries of the Province of Alsace and the residence of Colmar undersigned have appeared Master François Thiébault Schwendt, tax collector of the Seignory of Grussenheim and other places, residing in the city of Marckolsheim...
and Meyer Kahn, community head , Seeligmann Weyll and Nathan Wormser, both officials of the Jewish community of the aforementioned Grussenheim, representing themselves as well as the entire Jewish community in the aforementioned Grussenheim, Joeckel Wormser, Paul Soultzer, Aron Heimedinger and Jacob Wormser, all four Jews of aforesaid Grussenheim...
The said Jews named above both for themselves personally and for the entire Jewish community of the aforementioned Grussenheim currently living there, and for all their successors, heirs and descendants, obligate themselves and submit themselves to pay and to fulfill the obligation to the Lords of Grussenheim
And as for the fee of protection, it will be continued on the previous basis in the same way as it has up to now, without change, in regard to the same fee, payable yearly on the St Martin of November of each year to count and to begin three months after the establishment of each.
(Aron Heimedinger and Paul Soultzer signed in Hebrew, the others in German.)
It results from this transaction that the fee for admission (after marriage) is hereafter fixed to 36 livres tournois, while previously it appears to have been higher, because two among the present six Jews which had already fulfilled this right, could repeat (that is ask again) that which they had paid beyond the 36 livres. The fee of protection « will be continued on the previous basis » (24 livres a year), payable on St Martin of November, and this three months after the establishment of each person
Besides, the representative of the Lords gives a receipt for sums received on this occasion. Aron Heimedinger and Jacob Wormser promise to pay out « in three months from this day » what they still owed.
This transaction, made forever (in 1781), was made null and void by the Revolution which marked the end of the Seignory of Rathsamhausen.
The Census of 1784. As in all Alsace, in Grussenheim, the number of Jews had grown their number had doubled from 1716 till 1784. Poor people from abroad settled there. The government, searching a means to restrict this immigration, then ordered a « Census of Jews tolerated in the Province of Alsace in compliance with the Letters Patent of his Majesty. » The report of the village of Grussenheim carries the date of 27 Sep 1784. It indicates 29 families with 138 individuals (see pp. 26 and 27).
« The Letters Patent of 10 Jul 1784 order those who do not have fixed or known domicile, or who have not paid the fees owed to the King, to the Lords or to Cities, to leave the province within three months, at the risk of being prosecuted as vagrants. The admission of the foreign Jews is forbidden until a new order; the stays which they will be able to make are restricted to four and a half months, no one can lodge them or give them accommodation note. Neither Jew nor Jewess of Alsace will [not - delete] be able from now on to get married, even abroad, without the permission of the King under the penalty of expulsion[10]
This Census constitutes the first nominal inventory of the Jews of our villages. The communities were organized and had to have a head of the community. That of Grussenheim was in 1775, as we have already seen it, Jacob Wurmser Judenschultheiss , in 1784 it was Meyer Kahn.
But this important document does not inform us about the trades of the Jews except for the rabbis, assistant[s-delete]-rabbis, teachers, the poor, servants and maidservants. It indicates the names of the family heads and gives the level of family relation of the declared persons.
If the Jews sometimes registered several servants and maidservants, it was not because they were rich, but to justify the presence of parents, foreigners in the village.
In Grussenheim, almost all already had surnames which, by the way, they kept. Elsewhere where it was not the case, the people appeared in the Census with their forenames followed by the forenames of their fathers. That is how in 1784 are recorded in Grussenheim 1 Bickert family, 2 Bloch families, 7 Geismar families, 4 Hemmendinger families, 1 Kahn family, 3 Sultzer families, 1 Weyl family, 1 Woog family and 8 Wormser families. The teacher was Loew Ulmann and the cantor, Isaac Meyer. As surnames for the wives we find in addition: Dreyfus, Franck, Hildenfinger, and Kromback.
The Census gives no indication about places of residence in the village, but with the help of Civil Records - which exist[s-delete] in France since 20 Sep 1792 - we could note that most families lived in the Judenhof (courtyard of the Jews) which was part of the Vordergasse (front alley). In the Obere Hintergasse (upper back alley) resided in 1784: David Woog (in the house of his father-in-law Abraham Wormser, later the Picard house) and Jekell Wormser; in the Hintergasse (back alley), Isaac Wormser, Wolf Wormser and Paulus Sultzer (in the butcher's shop which existed until 1939 and was always run by the same family). Signatures in Hebrew included the name of the father with his forename, what allowed us to identify families and to follow their filiation. The women signed in general with Hebrew letters.
The names Bickert, Bloch, Kahn, Weil were quite common in Alsace, but not those of Geismar, Hemmendinger, Sultzer and Woog. According to Hemerdinger, Le Dénombrement des Israélites d'Alsace en 1784 (R.E.J. 42, p. 253-264), there were in Alsace in 1784: 187 Weil (or Weill) families, 109 Bloch families, 103 Cahn or Kahn families, 68 Bickert, Picard, Piquer families, 50 Wormser families, 17 Hemendinger families (among whom 4 in Grussenheim), 16 Woog families (among whom 1 in G.), 13 Geismar families (among whom 4 by us). Here are the villages where families in 1784 carried the same names as those of G.: Bickert, in 20 villages; Bloch, in 50; Weill, in 57 villages there were Geismar in Grussenheim, Herrlisheim (Haute Alsace), Muttersholtz, Romanswiller and Turckheim; Hemmendinger, in Blotzheim, Fegersheim, Grussenheim, Guebwiller, Hattstatt, Niedernai, Scherwiller and Stotzheim; Sultzer, only in Grussenheim; Hildenfinger, only in Voegtlinshoffen; Woog in Bouschwiller (Haute Alsace), Château de Hartmannswiller, Grussenheim and Hagenbach.
Our community of 29 families with 138 souls was rather important, but, as it is relevant to know, in 1784 Ribeauvillé counted 58 families, Bergheim, 67; Durmenach, 73; Hegenheim, 83; Wintzenheim, 88 families.
The Revolution liberated them from the « fees of reception and protection » owed to the lords of Rathsamhausen as well as the restriction of marriages and their settlement. Since the creation of Civil Records, they appear there without distinctive mention. They used the freedom which they could now enjoy to contract marriage in large numbers and this sometimes at a very young age. Aware of their citizens' rights, they claimed justice and that is how the municipality of Grussenheim having refused communal wood to some of the requesting Jews, the Directoire du Departement du Haut-Rhin decided on Frimaire 29th of the year VII (1799) « that the agent of the village of Grussenheim will deliver to each of the petitioners (Salomon Geismar and consorts) an equal share of firewood to that of the other citizens of the said village »[11].
Compulsory adoption of forenames and surnames: In 1808, the Jews were forced to take fixed surnames and forenames; so there are 203 persons registered in the register of 1808 with their now official names among which only 8 took a new surname. They also changed forenames, especially those of the women; so we had some Gertrud, Hélène, Richardis, Rosine, Madelon, Christine, Luivisia, Feronica, Catherine etc. but this fashion did not last long. (See statements p. 30 and ff.).
In 1836, during the first general census, the Jews appeared at the end of the list of Grussenheim, but since the following census (1841), the record is made home by home, without distinction of religion.
The spelling of names changed from one five-year census to another: Wormser became Wurmser; Hemmendinger became Hemendinger, Hemerdinger, Hemedinger, Heimendinger; Bickert became Bickart, Piquard, Picard and vice versa etc. Later we find new families: the Dreyfuss, Schwed, Schwob, Weil who came from Riedwihr, the Lévy from Westhouse and Thillot; the Gerst from Baden; the Picard from Horbourg; new Hemmendinger families from Stotzheim and Gerstheim.
From 1784 on, the number of the Israelites of the village increased until 1851, then it remained almost constant until 1866, year when the maximum was reached; then the numerical importance of the community diminished. In the village of Grussenheim, the total population and the Jewish population follow the same trends, as shown in the table below:
|Jewish Population
|Total Population
|Father J. Levy
|List of names
|J. Levy
|J. Levy
|J. Levy
|J. Bloch
|J. Levy
|J. Levy
|J. Levy
|J. Levy
The annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany in 1871 was at the origin of emigration flows towards France, Switzerland and even America of a large number of families eager to shield their sons from service in the German army. Finally towards the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, in our village, as in so many others, the exodus towards cities becomes noticeable. The young people relinquish the trades of their fathers who were mostly merchants, and settle in more important centers of population, and their families often follow them.
The war of 1914-1918 already had calamitous consequences for the community: seven young men called up in the German army fell to the battlefield: the brothers Bloch Maurice and Julien, sons of Joseph; Heimendinger Léon, son of Salomon; Heimendinger Sylvain, son of Elie; the brothers Lévy Jules and Fernand, sons of Isaac; Wormser Marcel, son of Seligmann; therefore two families had each lost two sons, a very heavy loss for a small community.
During that war, in 1917, the Jewish elementary school ceased to exist.
But the worst part was still to come! What the first war had spared was destroyed, or almost, by the atrocity of the second one: From the beginning (in September, 1939), many Jewish families left the village, due to the proximity to the border. In 1940 the complete evacuation of the civil population was ordered; the last of our fellow believers, Arthur Heimendinger, member of the commission of maintenance, left the village, on 16 Jun 1940, under the fire of the German artillery.
At the end of the war (in 1945), the survivors from Nazi persecutions found, upon their return, ruins everywhere: the synagogue destroyed, the graveyard devastated by battles, its fence taken away, their houses unfit for habitation if not destroyed as it was for the rest of the village. Of the 18 houses that were still inhabited by Jews in 1939, only 4 still stood and when in 1955 the last family left the village, its house threatening to collapse, it was the final end of a community that had an existence of at least 3 centuries.
Five members of the 1939 Community,who had taken refuge in other areas of France, were deported by the Germans, only one of them (Mrs. Emile Heimendinger) came back.
Having left G. in 1939, the following people were killed in extermination camps: Bloch Léon, son of Abraham; Mrs. Berthe Samuel widow of Gerst Justin, Heimendinger Emile; Mrs. Nathalie Weil widow of Schwed Henri.
But some others, born in G., were subject to the same fate; the names of all were engraved in the 1914-18 War Memorial, erected in the graveyard. We are copying down here the long list in alphabetical order, adding in brackets () the names of other members of their families also deported, but born elsewhere and not listed on the monument:
This listing becomes all the more impressive, knowing that very often several members of the same family became victims of deportation, without having been arrested together (we indicated the family relationship in our list). The list does not contain the name of Marcel Dreyfuss (born in Grussenheim) shot by the Germans in Lyon in 1944.
The first Jews established in the village were rather poor, but other inhabitants of the village were no less so. Most of them were peddlers. The Bloch and the Sulzer were the first cattle-dealers and butchers (the priest J. Levy, in his work on Grussenheim, calls them: Fleischhaendler, the non-Jewish population called them: Fleischjud) (they also sold their goods in the near-by villages, where there were no butchers). The Heimendingers and the Wormsers traded horses, others were traders of cattle, (calves, lambs, goats), brokers, innkeepers, linen-traders, grocers, traders of flour and traders in leather and skins. One also knows of a fish-trader (Fesch-lippmann with his wife Feschbuna), of another who bought and sold gold (Gold-Doved), of drivers of stock who led the cattle on foot to the markets of Colmar and Sélestat or to the customers, rag-gatherers and scrap dealers. Manual jobs were exercised by butchers, bakers, a shoemaker, a tailor, a tinsmith. Also let us mention the women peddlers, the dressmakers, ironers, the cooks and the day workers.
Since the end of the 19th century however some more important business existed in the trade of agricultural products, barley, wheat, etc, but especially of hops which were also cultivated by many Jews of the village. Thus Grussenheim had become a trading center of the Ried. Others were real estate agents; some people exercised an even more curious occupation: that of Conscrithaendler, intermediaries who bought for those who had money, a substitute for military service, a system that was allowed at that time. Our village also had - perhaps unique in Alsace two small factories (in a very primitive sense) for making wax. These industrialists themselves picked up the honey-combs, without the honey, from the bee-hives of the beekeepers of the region and the neighboring country of Baden and melted them to sell the wax to the pharmacists, the druggist and of course also to the housewives of the village. Some people also cultivated a piece of land.
In Grussenheim were born a Rabbi (Joseph Bloch), several cantors (Mathias Levy, Abraham Hildenfinger, Jules Wormser, Moïse Levy), a teacher (Henri Stüffel), an engineer (Charles Schoengrun]), a senior officer (Gabriel Wormser), a medical doctor (Arthur Heimendinger), a secondary school teacher (Maurice Dreyfuss). Felix (Vasi] Geismar (General Gedeon Geismar's grandfather) who died in Dambach-la-Ville, was also born in Grussenheim[11a].
The first synagogue to be known as well as a Mikve (ritual bath) stood in the courtyard of the Mathias Geismar building (Vordergasse] at the entrance of the village (named then Krendel). This courtyard which had been called Schülhof for a long time was in those days a garden belonging to Jacob Wormser.
On 1 Aug 1768, an agreement was closed, with the purpose of building a synagogue, between Andre Ludwig, bricklayer of Jebsheim and Heymann Wormser and Max Geismar acting on behalf of the Community. Andre Ludwig committed himself to build a house and a synagogue for 3100 livres tournois. The synagogue was to be built like the one in Biesheim[12]. The contract document is quite explicit but also very difficult to decipher.
To get an idea of what seats were worth in this synagogue, records show that Keïle Brunschwig sold two for 120 livres.
This synagogue was used until 1850. In 1852, one wanted to turn it into a school but since the building threatened to collapse and because the community refused to participate in the expenses of repairing one of its walls, it was sold to be demolished for 500 francs to Salomon Bloch, a butcher, on 24 Oct 1866
The new synagogue, a nice spacious building was built in 1850 in the Riedgasse. The Community had asked the town administration for a subsidy. The town council's answer to the Prefecture (main administration office) in its session of 24 May 1850 was that there was no opposition; the will is to participate in the building expenses of the said synagogue but only after the complete payment of our church and added: taking into consideration that the Jewish population represents one third of the whole village, it naturally has the right to draw on the communal funds but the timing does not allow it[12].
After the intervention of the Prefecture, the town council in its session of 22 Jun 1850, granted a subsidy of 3000 francs in several installments. To get payment of the last installment of 400 francs from the municipality, Hirsch Geimar had once again to ask the Prefecture to intervene on 13 Oct 1855.
Restored twice, in 1888 and in 1924, it was completely destroyed in 1940 upon the German civil authority's arrival, on an order « coming from Colmar », and not due to gunfire, as they wanted people to believe.
A new Mikvé had been installed in the garden of the new synagogue around 1895.
The first 'Hazen which we know of, was Meyer, son of Isaac, recorded as such in the 1784 Census. He was called Meyer Ulmann in 1794, living in the Hintergasse, and still occupied this position in 1801. In Civil Records we find, in 1805, declaring himself «Vorsinger », Isaac Dantzig who is called in 1814 Isaac Cerf « jandeur des Juifs » and appears in 1819 as « chandaire des Juifs ». According to his first statement, he or his ancestors were originally from Dantzig, therefore beyond the Rhine, from where came the majority of cantors and teachers of the Alsatian communities until about 1830.
Isaac Cerf died on 14 Oct. 1832 and left a large family of which we have still known the 2 daughters Zelté and Daylé.[13] His successor was Cerf Lévison «s'Hassenlé». Born on 18 Feb 1797 in Hamburg, he was appointed to Grussenheim on 26 Jun 1833. His wage was 300 francs a year. He died in Grussenheim, 17 May 1881. After an interim service by Mathias Lévy, son of Lippmann, of Grussenheim, who was the student of his predecessor, the position was occupied from 1881 to 1887 by Isidore Isaac, who came from Holland; then, after a new interim service of Achille Fuerst from Kolbsheim, the position was occupied by Alexander Bloch (born in 1867 in Krautergersheim, previously cantor in Hatten) from 1887 to 1929. Alexander Bloch died during the exercise of his functions of Chô'het (jewish ritual slaughterer). He was also a very good sôfér (scribe). After his death, the position was successively in the hands of Arthur Heimendinger (of Grussenheim), Isaïe Deutsch (now in Saverne), Ellenbogen (died in Lyon) from 1936 till 1939. Ellenbogen was the last 'Hazen of the community.
The house of the 'Hazen and the «Kàhlstubb ». The house was located in the Riedgasse, next to the synagogue. It had been purchased by the cantor Levison from the shoemaker Joseph Schmitt, on 4 Jan 1854.
His heirs (Isaac Wurmser, cantor in Pont-à-Mousson, and his wife Charlotte, the daughter of Levison), sold it to the Community for amount of 2,560 marks. They had purchased it themselves from their father by bill of sale dated 20 Jul 1875. The administrative board decision concerning this purchase, dated 1 Oct 1881, is signed by Abraham Wormser, president, Salomon Bloch son of Joseph, Isaac Geismar, Jacques Geismar son of Simon.
A room was converted in this house by 1890, to serve as prayer hall (Kahlstubb) where, during inclement season, weekday services where held, and even sometimes on Sabbath.
The Community was first part of the rabbinate of Bergheim, then of Ribeauvillé and finally of Wintzenheim. The rabbis were: Isaac Bigard (from Muttersholtz)[13a], Michel Cerf[14], born 1835, from Altkirch; Kauffmann Weill, from Ensisheim, Anselme Debré, from Westhoffen, Joseph Zivi, from Biesheim, and Simon Fuks, currently Chief Rabbi of Colmar.
At all times Jews considered the education of their children to be one of their most important duties so that the illiteracy was extremely rare among them. As state schools did not exist yet, they hired teachers with their own means, or, in lack of them, wandering students coming mostly from Germany. The first known teacher in Grussenheim is Loew Ulmann, school teacher according to the 1784 Census. On the list of names adopted in 1808, none can be assigned to a teacher, unless it is the name that appears last: Israel Goldenblum.
For a long time education was done in private homes, but in 1834 the Community, represented by Salomon Geismar le jeune (Parnes), Baruch Wormser and Hirsch Geismar, submitted a request to the Town Council to acquire a venue that could serve as school and as residence for the teacher. But the Town council decided (8 Jul 1834) that: « the building of a place for the residence of the teacher and a children's school is deferred until the village ends communal building for the Catholic children ». They had also asked for a subvention for the repairing of a wall of the old synagogue in 1852. The Town council expressed then the opinion that « the repairing of a wall of the synagogue should remain at their charge, since that for this purpose, they (the Jews) could create sufficient funds if they had goodwill ».[15]
The number of the students was rather high: there were already 48 students - in 1835; their teacher was Marx Risser, of Herrlisheim, who received from the Prefecture a wage supplement of 100 frs. a year and 100 frs. for the furniture.
Let us note by the way that in the same year (1835), the school of Colmar whose teacher was called Samuel Rosenfeld, numbered 46 students; in Biesheim, it was Hirz Loeb with 47 students; in Horbourg the enrollment was 64 students with the teacher Samuel Baer, and in Wintzenheim the teacher Samuel Weyl had 100 students in his class.
The request for subsidy was renewable every year, and this gave to Hirsch Geismar, then Parnes, the possibility of obtaining a supplement of 100 frs. and an allowance of 50 frs. for the heating. He mentioned in his application that there were in Grussenheim, 36 students, of whom a part was of poor parents, and that 20 children did not attend school regularly. In 1837, the teacher is called Samuel Klotz (holder of the advanced diploma), with 37 students[15], his fixed salary was at 500 frs. a year « independent[ly-delete] of his food which he receives in turns from his fellow Jews ». We see therefore that the situation of the teachers was rather precarious - their salary was meager, their food and their lodging supported only by the parents of the children. There existed neither classroom or school nor lodging for a married teacher; so the teachers were, as a rule, single men.
Such a private school was under the supervision of the High Committee for Elementary Education of Colmar, which was also the case for those of Biesheim, Colmar, Horbourg and Wintzenheim.
The Academy of Colmar even granted prizes to the students of these private schools. In 1838 the following books are mentioned as such: 1 copy of Tableau de l'Histoire Juive, 4 copies of Moïse Mendelssohn, 4 copies of Rachel Opty, 4 copies of Instruction morale et religieuse, 3 copies of Du culte mosaïque au 19e siècle.
In 1839 the application for a subsidy to be renewed yearly was refused by the Prefect under the following excuse: « I know by experience that there are precautions to be taken in order to avoid abuses, to which the Israelites are strongly inclined in the use of the assistance which is allotted to them »[15].
After Klotz, they allow themselves the luxury of having two teachers who compete: Simon Spiegel and Aron Lévy (1840). The one, Spiegel, had no diploma and held school at the home of the innkeeper Marx Geismar (later Schlommès). He kept pieces of furniture provided by the government, while the other one had a diploma and had the support of the Parnes. The latter intervened in favor of Aron Lévy, and Spiegel was forced to close his school, but Marx Geismar returned the pieces of furniture only when compelled by the Prefect. The mayor gave an account to the Prefecture of his request to Marx Geismar; this latter had answered him « with a Jewish effrontery ».
In 1841, the teachers were Blum David and Grossmuth; in 1846,it was Bloch Gustave who was forced to live on no more than an annual salary of 400 frs .; he had 44 students of whom 20 were paupers and found that the community « cannot pay more besides the location and the heating », also he remained only one year.
In 1847, Dreyfuss; in 1851: Goldschmitt Philippe who gave his resignation on 17. Mar 1852; through him we know the reason of the so frequent change of teachers: The Hazen wanted to keep religious education for himself, which of course, deprived teachers of a supplementary income.
In 1852: Lewis Salomon who gave his resignation « because he, could not live decently in the conditions granted to him. » His successor was Weil Isaac. The situation had improved. The school was recognized as an elementary school on 13 Jun 1852; there were 39 students (27 boys, 12 girls). In 1853 the teacher was Dreyfuss Isaac, of Westhoffen. But, as always, they were still in search of a location. It had been considered to use the former synagogue as a school, but it was in too poor a condition. In 1853, Emile Schoengrun offered a room for a rent of 180 francs per year, a sum which the Prefecture estimated be too high[19]. Finally, on 20 Mar 1854 the community rented a place from the widow of Jacques Schoengrun « having served in the past as a room of weaving » (later Netter warehouses), known as die Fabrik and die École and; on the other side of the courtyard, a place to live for the teacher (later, the Haumesser house)
It is only in 1869 that the elementary Israelite school was built in the Hintergasse with a nice flat for the teacher. It had cost, according to the bill of the contractor Michel Deufel of ' Rouffach, 19 250 francs It is this school which existed until 1917.
The maximum enrollment had been between 80 and 90 students. The archives of the Academy of the Haut-Rhin, as well as those from the Consistory having disappeared for this period, it is necessary to take the following from the notes of the priest J. Lévy, which give us information about the names of the teachers:
|Isaac Blum, of Durmenach, died in Bischheim;
|Israel Wurmser, son of the rabbi David-Raphael W. of Soultz (Haut-Rhin), later in Bionville (Moselle)[15a];
|Lazarus Lévy, of Dettwiller (Bas-Rhin);
|Samuel Cahn, of Turckheim, died as head teacher in Colmar;
|Joseph Stuffel, of Haguenau, first teacher in Hattstatt, died in 1911 as retired teacher in Horbourg;
|Simon Haguenauer (of Bergheim), came from Sarre-Union, later teacher in Reguisheim, died in Colmar;
|Abraham Eppstein (of Saarwellingen), came from Kuttolsheim, later in Durmenach, died in the private hospital of Fribourg (Baden);
|Calmann Lévy (of Schalbach, Moselle), came from Durmenach, later to Mulhouse where he died;
|Gabriel Schwartz (of Dambach-la-Ville), came from Hattstatt, later also in Mulhouse where he died;
|Henri Stuffel, born in Grussenheim, son of the teacher Joseph St; later teacher in Horbourg, died in Colmar;
|Joseph Samuel (of Weiterswiller), died in Strasbourg.
After his departure from G., the school ceased existing. The religious education of the few children was then given by the cantor.
In the course of our account we have already mentioned one person or another who was at the head of the community. Here is a list of those whom we know attended to its fortunes:
Jacques Wurmser (Judenschultheiss, 1775); Meyer Kahn, Provost or Head (1784); Salomon Geismar le Jeune (1834); Cerf (Hirsch) Geismar (1836); Salomon Geismar (1849); Hirsch Geismar (1855); Salomon Geismar, « commissaire israélite» (1866 ); Abraham Wormser son of Raphael (1874-1890); Salomon Heimendinger (1890-1912); Emile Picard (1912-1915); Jacques Heimendinger (1915-1926); Seligmann Wormser (1926-1929); Emile Heimendinger (1929-1939) Arthur Heimendinger (1945).
These charitable and mutual aid societies were named according to the time of the day their Shabbat gatherings were held: one was called « of the morning », one was called « of the afternoon » and one was called «of the evening ». Besides these Shabbat meetings, they cared for the sick and for the dead, the Taharàh (Purification) and funerals. The «Lernen» (religious classes) held at Châbhauôth and Hôchanâ Rabbâ were also within their jurisdiction. A traditional statute regulated rights and duties of their members. Women also had their 'Hévrah but with reduced activities.
The cemetery located at the exit of Neudorf at the place called «Jedewaid» (meadow of the Jews)[16], was inaugurated on 24 Iyar (28thMay) 1810. Previously, the Jews of Grussenheim buried their dead in the Jewish cemetery of Mackenheim as did those of Biesheim, Breisach, Marckolsheim, Riedwihr, Diebolsheim, Boesenbiesen, Gerstheim[17]; some of them had bought a plot in the cemetery of Sélestat.
The cemetery of Mackenheim already existed in 1608. Due to the expansion of affiliated communities, it became necessary to extend it again and again - in 1629, when the Rhine River carried away part of it, in 1685 and on 7 Jun 1775. On this day, Jacob Wurmser, «Judenschultheiss» in Grussenheim, and Alexander Weil, «Schurmverwandter Jude» in Grossenbiesen (Biesheim) purchased a piece of land from the village of Mackenheim of « 60 Schuh» (feet) by «120 Schuh » for the sum of 400 Gulden. It is stipulated in the act: The gracious lordship of
Flaxlanden from here shall receive, as before, from the Jewry 4 Gulden for the burial of an adult and 2 Gulden for a child. The community gets as wage for the graves 1 Gulden for each adult and 5 Schilling for a child.[18] (Translated in English from the original in German)
The number of Jewish inhabitants of Grussenheim was then about 100; it was about 200 in 1810, when they opened their own cemetery.
The first burial register was lost during the war of 1939-45. Fortunately Emile Picard had copied some notes in a new register (which was kept). Thus, we know the administrators (Gabboïm) who succeeded one another since the founding of the cemetery: Wolf b. Nathan Wormser and Nathan b. Mordechaï Geismar (1810); Schlome b. Meschulem Geismar and Baruch b. Mordechaï Wormser (1814); Mordechaï b. Schlome Geismar and same Baruch b. Mordechaï Wormser (1823); the same and Joseph b. Meschulom Bloch (1825); Eisik b. Zwi Heimendinger and Hirsch b. Schimeon Geismar (1837); Libmann b. Jehuda Picard and Mordechaï b. Baruch Wormser (1857); Leïb b. Jizhok Sulzer (1862); Libmann b. Matisjahu halévi (1874); Matisjahu b. Libmann halévi (1875); Eisik b. Schimeon Geismar and Sussmann-Meschulom Bloch (1882).
In October 1907 Eisik Geismar returned the register of the cemetery and funds, to the Community, and Emile Picard managed the cemetery until the nomination of new two Gabboïm which took place on 19 Apr 1908. At the proposal of the President of the community, Salomon Heimendinger, were nominated the following Gabboïm: Jacques Heimendinger (Jacob b. Meïr), secretary and treasurer, Joseph Bloch (Joseph b. Meschulom) assessor. The treasurer took care then of the finances of the administration of the cemetery, that is 225,62 Mark and 4 Municipal Bonds of Paris. The minutes of this meeting carry the signatures of: Salomon Heimendinger, Emile Picard, Joseph Netter, Jacques Heimendinger, Salomon Geismar, Samuel Gerst, Jacques Geismar, Joseph Bloch.
The last adminstrator before 1939 was Arthur Heimendinger, son of the former Gabbaï, Jacques Heimendinger. It was he, who after the war continued attending to the business of the cemetery as President of the Committee for Maintenance.
As in many other localities, the friends of those who fell on the battlefields of the war of 1914-18 (we have cited their names above), had erected a monument to their memory. This monument, which came from the workshops of the Maison Brutschi of Ribeauvillé, remained undamaged in spite of the battle which devastated the village in 1945; on the other hand the wall of the graveyard had been taken away to serve as antitank defense; numerous headstones had been harmed by shells. A new wall was constructed thanks to war damages granted by the M. R. U.; a plaque carrying the names of the 20 Jews from Grussenheim, who died in deportation, was added to the first Monument to the Dead (see their names above, pp. 13 and 14.)
The consecration of this plaque took place on 5 Sep 1948 under the presidency of Chief Rabbi Fuks of Colmar and in the presence of Rabbi Bloch of Haguenau. In front of a large audience both rabbis paid emotional honors to the victims of Nazi atrocity.
Since 1955 the Maintenance Committee organizes every year, in the month of Eloul, a memorial ceremony which brings together the former inhabitants of the community in great numbers in the cemetery of their native village. Rabbi Bloch, a native of Grussenheim, has made his contribution, to this date, with a sermon at the event. The one from the first of these meetings (on Aug 28 1955) was introduced by words which can find their place here:
« While we had been expelled from our native country during the war, our cemeteries were closed, often also devastated, and awaited in vain the visit of the pious crowd of habitual pilgrims. But we did continue this old tradition in the places of our exile. As for us, we met in the small graveyard of Clermont-Ferrand to create the ambience of meditation for prayers, dedicated to the memory of those who slept their last sleep in the distant earth of our dear Alsace. For five years we lived thus in a terrible nightmare, five years which saw the tragic disappearing of so many of ours who had been dearest to us. Since the hour of liberation another ten years passed by, which allowed us to sadly assess our painful losses and to register on monuments on our cemeteries, the countless names of those of whom we only have the memory
Dispersed in all corners of our country and even outside of its borders, we came back today in the cemetery of our native village where we lived a happy youth happy, without having always appreciated it. We came back, driven by a feeling of melancholic nostalgia, to do an act of devotion and live again one hour with the living and the dead.
What changes have occurred since our youth: the beautiful synagogue where we prayed so often, is not any more, the huge school where we sat on the benches, is not any more, the modest houses which had sheltered us, are not any more, the good people who saw us growing up, and a lot of those who grew up with us, are not any more. Of a big and beautiful Jewish community there only remains this field of rest for those we loved and who loved us.
You can imagine how heavy hearted I am to recall such memories. And if I must thank God who gave me the grace to speak to you as your elder, the more difficult it is for me to control my emotions when seeing so many known faces, reminding me their parents and grandparents.
Allow me to dedicate my first thought to those, who the whole of Jewish France memorializes during the last days of Eloul. Indeed, the first day of Seli' hôth which is near and always was dedicated to the memory of our deceased, also was intended to be a day of mourning, of Jahrzeit, in memory of those - and their number is huge - who became the victims of both wars : the heroes of the battlefield, these who were cruelly and without conscience shot by the enemy and finally - what touches us most profoundly, because it is the most bloody page of our long and painful history - the men, the women, the elders and the children, obscure martyrs of death camps, and whose day nor place of decease is known. Because we offer a stout resistance to those who would wipe out of our memories the unheard sufferings that cruel men did force us to undergo. We can't forget, we shouldn't forget. Our martyrs have a steady eye on us, they would not know the peace of heaven, and below here, our conscience would not have any rest. No, we will not forget them and French Jewry, by honoring them, will honor itself.
After the commemorative ceremony of 20 September 1959 an assembly took place to create a new association, Les Amis du Cimitière Israélite de Grussenheim (Friends of the Jewish Cemetery of Grussenheim). Rabbi Jospeh Bloch was named Honorary President.
Replacing the Comité d'Entretien (Maintenance Committee), the Association will be in charge of the care and conservation of the cemetery.
|Baquol (Dictionnaire, Strasbourg, 1865) cites Grosinhain in 726, Grucinhein in 768, Grutzinhaim in 777. Return
|Two hamlets located between Sélestat and Muttersholtz. Return
|M. Ginsburger in Souvenir et Science, V, 6, p. 6. He adds: Grussenheim was a fiefdom of the regency of Ensisheim and was given as such to the Rathsamhausen family before 1361. A member of this family allowed the Jews to settle in Grussenheim, but M. Ginsburger cites no source for this. According to Joseph Lévy (Geschichtliche Notizen) most non-Jewish families came to Grussenheim after the Thirty Years War (which devastated the country). Before 1700 he knows only of the families Dietsch , Haumesser, Jehl, Schmitt, Schueber, Selig and Strauel. As the presence of Jews in the village is already documented in 1628, one can say that their settlement in the village is older than the settlement of many Christian families. Return
|Mossmann, Etude sur l'histoire des Juifs de Colmar (Colmar, 1866); M. Ginsburger, Die Medizin und Hygiene der Juden in Elsass-Lothringen (Gebweiler, 1911) tells us: The physician Lazarus who lived in Jebsheim obtained a recommendation from Count Reinhold Wetzel von Marsilian and from Egenolf von Berckheim. Accordingly the City Council of Colmar granted him permission in 1581 to purchase from the town's apothecaries those drugs that were needed to practice his trade. At the time, Jews were not allowed to enter the city. His father is said to have already been a physician; Lazarus himself would grant his help to anybody regardless of religion.
This very Lazarus is perhaps a descendant of the Jewish physician mentioned in the Missivenbuch of Sélestat (B.B. 18, p. 117). Several citizens in Sélestat had lost their sight. The city council therefore wrote to the city council of Colmar on the Saturday after Epiphany 1519 about having been informed that there was a Jew in Colmar skilled in all sorts of drugs. They requested that this Jew be sent to Sélestat in order to examine the sick people. He would be well rewarded for his work and art. (Citation translated from the German-language original) Return
|On 31 Dec 1754, Hirtzel Lévy, a Jew from Wettolsheim perished in Colmar on the scaffold, as the innocent victim of a judicial error. He was rehabilitated through a judgment of the Parliament in Metz of 24 Sep 1755. He had been accused by a widow, Madeleine Koppe (Kaufin) of Houssen near Colmar, of breaking into her home during the night of 9-10 Dec 1754 and stealing money, metal and other goods such as smoked pork (!) hanging in the kitchen's fireplace. Also involved in this case were: Feiss, son of Simson (Geismar) of Grussenheim, Menke Lévy of Wettolsheim and Moïse Lang of Ribeauvillé. The latter were acquitted after spending a few months in jail. (See Isidore Loeb. Hirtzel Lévy, mort martyr à Colmar en 1754 in Annuaire de la Société des Etudes Juives, Paris, 1881). The manuscript in Jewish-German which Isidore Loeb used for the writing of his article is on our possession. It is a contemporary account written in Jewish-German dialect; the 28-page manuscript is written on school copy-book paper. (J. Bl.) Return
|Isidore Loeb, in Deuxième Annuaire de la Société des Etudes Juives, Paris, 1883, p. 180. A literal German translation of this document written in Jewish-German (interspersed with several Hebrew expressions) that exists only in two original copies, has been published by us in Tribune Juive de Strasbourg, 1937. (J. Bl.) Return
|Joseph Lüdaescher, Geschichte des Dorfes Mackenheim, Strasbourg (1922) and Jos. Bloch, Le Cimetière juif de Haguenau, Paris, 1953, p. 8, excerpt from R. E. J. 1951/52, p. 143. Return
|Archives départementales du Bas-Rhin, C. 366. Return
|Many deeds between Jews and non-Jews can be found in the files of the former Colmar notary offices (Archives départementales du Bas-Rhin, Série IV) because at that time the Jews had to have all their commercial contracts drawn up by a Notary. At Notary Drouineau, in 1724, one finds mainly the names of Jews from Colmar, Eguisheim, Hattstatt, Herrlisheim, Horbourg, Wettolsheim and Vieux-Brisach; At Notary Brueder, in 1737/39, the marriage contract of Lazar bar Mauché, Herrlisheim with Edel bas Morké (probably Mortsche); IOUs of Jews from Bergheim and Wintzenheim; At Braconnot, in 1768, the marriage contract of Sallomon Geismar from Biesheim with Berrlen Netter, daughter of Getschel (witness: Marx Geismar, Jew from Grussenheim), the deed of inheritance of Leïb Hildenfinger from Voegtlinshoffen (head of the Hildenfinger family), the will of Sallomon Geismar from Biesheim, sales agreements of Jews from Grussenheim, Voegtlinshoffen (Leïb Hildenfinger) and Wintzenheim. At that time, the main businessmen in Grussenheim were, according to these documents, Jacob Wormser, Fassy Geismar and Meyer Kahn. Wormser worked alone and thus must have been rather well off, the two others worked together. The villages where they traded were, among others, Artzenheim, Durrenenzen, Muntzenheim and Sundhoffen. Return
|See Robert Anchel, Les Juifs de France, Dijon, 1946, p. 213. Return
|Revue des Etudes Juives, July-September, 1922: Arrêtés du Directoire du Haut-Rhin relatifs aux Juifs du 1. 7. 1790 au 19 Brumaire VIII. Return
|See Souvenir et sciences III, 3 p. 13 et III, 4, p. 16 and further p. 42 under Vasi (Geismar). Return
|Archives dépt. Haut-Rhin I. O. 110, 5. and M. Ginsburger, Souvenir et Science, June 1934 ; Arch. dépt. Haut-Rhin, IV, Notariat Braconnot. Return
|See Souvenirs p. 51. Return
|See Univers Israélite, May, 1856, p. 421. Return
|Michel Cerf was born in Saverne in 1792 and died a victim of cholera that raged in Bergheim in 1855 (Univers Israélite, Dec. 1855). Return
|Archives dépt. du Haut-Rhin I T. (56, 68, 69, 257). Return
|See Univers Israélite., June, 1864, p. 465. Return
|A meadow where Jews could graze their stock; this prevented protests against their right to use communal pasture. Return
|Jos. Bloch, Le Cimetière juif de Haguenau, Paris, 1953. Return
|Joseph Lüdaescher, Geschichte des Dorfes Mackenheim, Strasbourg, 1922. Return
|In 1810 Nathan Levi (Schoengrun) owned the Salomon Heimendinger building (Hintergasse). On the large courtyard portal one can still read: Nate Segal (in Hebrew letters) 1810. (Segal = Levi). A pitcher (Levi-Krug) is depicted as the emblem of the Levites. Return
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A full rebuild of MT on Friday took hours and hours and hours. Unreasonable. I've thought again about converting to WordPress but just can't bring myself to go through the conversion.


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British royal Prince William came to the rescue when British actor Will Mellor got caught up in a nightclub scuffle.
The future king halted a fight between the 37-year-old actor and another man during an evening out at an exclusive London bar.
Mellor tells Britain's Daily Star newspaper, "I'm not a violent man but I was in a nightclub and I got into a scuffle with another man. The other person got hold of me from behind and said, "He's not worth it, Will." And it was Prince William.
"And then before I knew it there was a secret service (agent) closing in. They thought I was having a scuffle with him, but I wasn't. I got thrown out of the club. On the way out I said, 'Cheers Will'. It still haunts me."


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Gross Powers Tigers to Sweep Over Southeast Missouri
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Rebekka Gross delivered a pair of two-run home runs to help Tennessee State to a sweep of Southeast Missouri on Sunday afternoon in Cape Girardeau. The freshman drove in all four runs of a 4-3 victory in the night cap. Fellow freshman Hannah St. Clair tossed a complete game to earn a win in the opener, 3-1.
The Tigers entered the weekend two and a half games out of the final spot for the Ohio Valley Conference Championships and climbed to within one game with the sweep over SEMO. TSU improved to 4-9 and 16-25 overall. The 16 wins is the first time a Jeff Dabney coached team has reached as many wins in a season and is the most wins in a year since the Tigers won 18 in 2009.
Gross finished the late game 2-for-2 with a walk and led the Tigers in an eight hit attack. Kiarra Freeman added two hits in four at bats, while Courtney Gearlds, Ashley Haynes, Lindsey Burgess and Shea Morris each notched one.
Haynes led off the top of the second with a single to right and moved to second on a Kate Morris sacrifice bunt. After a ground out by Burgess to advance Haynes to third, Gross stepped to the plate a launched a 2-1 pitch over the fence in left center. The first dinger in the catchers career gave TSU a 2-0 lead.
Southeast Missouri (7-22, 2-9) took the lead in the bottom of the fifth inning with a two-run bomb. But the lead was short-lived as TSU came to bat in the top of the sixth. Burgess opened the inning with a single to center. Gross fouled off a bunt attempt making the count 1-1. On the next pitch the Angels Camp, Calif., product sent a ball over the left field fence giving the Tigers a 4-3 advantage.
Shea Morris, who recorded her first extra-base hit over her career with a double in the second, earned the win as she retired the final seven batters. Morris struck out four batters and is now one fanning away from 500 in her career. The junior improved to 9-10 as she scattered seven hits and two walks. With the win, Morris became the winningest pitcher in TSU history.
In the opener, St. Clair and SEMO starter Hannah Durham stifled the opposing hitters. Freeman earned the first hit of the game for either team with a shot through the left side of the infield to lead off the fourth. Freeman was sacrificed into scoring position, but Durham would sit down the next two Tigers.
Southeast Missouri picked up their first hit of the game in the bottom of the inning, but St. Clair was able to strand the base runner as she fanned a batter to end the inning.
The Tigers broke through in the sixth with three runs off three walks, a hit and a Redhawks error. Back-to-back walks by Gearlds and Freeman, along with a fielding error off the bat of Burgess loaded the bases to open the inning. Jayna Hanawahine would push across the first run on a ground out to third. Three pitches later the Tigers took a 2-0 lead as Freeman charged home on a wild pitch. After a walk to Haynes, Kate Morris shot a ball into left field and registered her team leading 22nd RBI, as Burgess crossed home plate.
The Redhawks would scratch an unearned run off St. Clair in the sixth. The freshman pitcher would close out the game by sitting down the Southeast Missouri batters in order in the seventh. St. Clair finished just shy of her first collegiate shutout allowing just two hits and three walks. The Taylorsville, N.C., native improved to 3-7, while striking out five.
The Tigers will face Samford on Wednesday at Tiger Field for a double header. The Tigers and Bulldogs are scheduled for a 4:00pm first pitch.


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Shirley Darlene Deel - Home School Coordinator
Office is open Monday - Friday
6:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Office is closed for lunch; lunch time varies
Please call to schedule appointments.
New Location for Home Education Office
113 Putnam County Boulevard
Building 2, Room 1
(Office is located behind the PAL Community Center Building)
East Palatka, FL 32131
Office: (386) 329-0683 Fax: (386) 329-0681
Call 329-0538 to leave a message.
Deciding the Best Educational Route for your Student
Per Florida Statutes: Florida Law (Section 1003.21, Florida Statutes) states that all children who are either six years of age, who will be six years old by February 1 of any school year, or who are older than six years of age but who have not attained the age of 16 years, must attend school regularly during the entire school term. A student who attains the age of 16 years during the school year is not subject to compulsory attendance beyond the date of which the student attains that age if he/she files a formal declaration of intent to terminate school enrollment with the school district.
Parents' Responsibility
School attendance is the responsibility of the parent. Since there is a strong relationship between attendance and academic performance, it is important that parents take an active role in working with the school to ensure their child's attendance on a daily basis. Schools provide information regarding attendance policies and procedures at the beginning of the school year. Parents must contact the school each time a student is absent. However, methods of notification vary among schools. Absences are classified as excused and unexcused, local school board policy lists the reasons for which an absence may be excused. Florida Statute 1003.24
Attendance Policy
Each district school board establishes an attendance policy that includes, but is not limited to, the required number of days each school year that a student must be in attendance and the number of absences and tardiness after which a statement explaining such absences and tardiness must be on file at the school. Each school in the district must determine if an absence or tardiness is excused or unexcused according to criteria established by the district school board. Florida Statute 1003.24 http://www.fldoe.org/schools/family-community/military-families/general-provisions-attendance.stml#attendance
Home Education Program
Before you register for the home education program, it is always a good idea to:


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Only in its first week of sales up to this point, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD has already sold a total of 120,000 downloads. Apparently, its day-to-day sales have also managed to stay consistent since last Wednesday. It's worth noting that these sales are only for the Xbox Live Arcade version, as the PSN and PC releases have not launched yet. Pretty good for an HD remake of a fourteen year old game that we found to not particularly live up to the original games.
Personally, I found the remake to be insanely frustrating at times, and full of small, annoying bugs that did hinder the experience a bit. Despite that, I would say I enjoyed my time with Tony Hawk HD, especially since it's not a full retail release. It's absolutely worth it for the nostalgia alone, and it appears 120,000 other people would agree with that.
Tony Hawk's HD sells 120K in first week on XBLA [Gamasutra via Gameinformer]
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jimboss1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 415 diseños de 91 diseñadores freelance.
We have an online website building tool for small businesses that is in need of some brand awesomeness.
This service is being built to help small-medium sized business get online, or move to an easier, more affordable website solution.
We need a creative genius to develop our logo and business cards, and we're looking for some original ideas.
We are a web 2.0 business, so we want our brand to reflect this without confusing the older generation of customers we are going after.
Our demographics are small business owners, most of which are non-techies and are skeptical about tech services. They need something simple, which they can relate to and doesn't scare them off with busy concepts or anything to flashy. (i.e. no animated gifs)
At the same time, we cant have something too old fashioned as we will also be marketing our services to younger business owners. There needs to be a balance between the two.
We are looking for the following for our new brand:
1. Something clean and simple, but isn't clinical
2. Icon with unique logo
3. Conveys trust, easy to use and understand
4. Cannot be confronting, loud or busy
5. Icon that would be able to work very well as an avatar
6. Want to have a look at how this logo might be used/displayed on biz cards, different colour schemes etc.
Our entire company, website, marketing materials corp identity will be based on and utilize what you create. Please think about this with your submissions as we will not be looking at just a logo on its own.
We do not have any preference of colours at this stage, so perhaps your submissions could run across a scheme you think may work. Think colour varients and how your logo would work if we ran a different theme.
The overall winner will be a submission that utilizes the logo, type, icon and other creative elements as a whole.
What we don't want:
Script fonts
Any stock images or clip art
Un-original designs
Recycled concepts
Design specs:
Vector: Illustrator CS4 (.ai)
Print: Layered (.psd)
Thanks in advance for all your talent and creativity. May the best design win!!!
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Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
Bold as it is to say, Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn is my favorite movie of all time. For me, it teeters in competition with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. And to be clear, just because it happens to be my favorite movie doesn't mean that I think it's the best acted, best scripted, best directed movie ever. (Although the directing is top-notch. More on that in a bit.) Movies are entertainment; their sole purpose is to entertain us. So for me personally, in terms of sheer entertainment value, I find nothing more entertaining than Sam Raimi's sequel to his own break out independent hit, The Evil Dead.
The first Evil Dead was the culmination of years and years of Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Rob Tappert honing their filmmaking skills by cranking out numerous short films together in school. Pooling together a budget from investors primarily consisting of dentists, they managed to make a little indie movie touted as "the most grueling experience ever!" An endorsement from Stephen King early on solidified The Evil Dead's cult status. So several years later, after Raimi and the Coen Brothers had a creatively unsuccessful studio experience making the feature Crimewave, Raimi went back to the ol' cabin and decided to sequelize his big break out movie with Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn.Continue Reading


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and pay tribute to former "Spartacus" star Andy Whitfield. LET'S GO!
GAGA BY GAULTIER – 8:00PM (CW) I thought there'd be some new shows popping up on the networks tonight, but NO! No, apparently that's too much to ask. Instead, you get a few network filler specials instead, like this one. Jean Paul Gaultier, the designer best known for making Madonna's cone bra back in the 1990's (oh, the 90's), sits down with Lady Gaga for an extended chat about fashion, fame, art, meat dresses, egg chariots, and more. Nothing they say will convince me that "Born This Way" wasn't a horrible ripoff of "Express Yourself". ANTICIPATION: GAGA!
2011 MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT – 9:00PM (NBC) Coming to you from sexy Sao Paolo Brazil and hosted by Natalie Morales and Bravo's Andy Cohen. See some of the world's most beautiful women as they flit about in swimsuits and evening gowns. Winner will be bestowed a title that I think we all know is a tad presumptuous. There are three-breasted women living on Mars who weren't allowed to compete here. Are you telling me they don't deserve the title of Miss Universe any less? ANTICIPATION: SASHES!
MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL – 7:00PM (ESPN) Every year, ESPN kicks off their MNF schedule with a doubleheader, which sounds like a cool idea until you find out that the two games they've scheduled are dreck. Your first game at 7PM is Pats/Dolphins, followed at 10ish by the Raiders and the Broncos. Add Jon Gruden's commentary to the mix and I'd be lying if I said I was enthused. ANTICIPATION: HANK WILLIAMS AND STUFF!
KISSINGER – 8:00PM (NatGeo - an NBC/Universal network) An extended profile of one of the most infamous Cabinet members in US Presidential history. Don't you think Kissinger would be half as famous if he didn't have that weird accent? I think so. Take away his accent. and he gets busted down to James Baker's Q rating. ANTICIPATION: HE BOMBS LAOS TWICE DURING THE INTERVIEW!
BACHELOR PAD – 9:00PM (ABC) Finale. Winners get... a quarter of a million dollars?! For what?! That's lunacy! They should get three dollars and a shot of AZT! ANTICIPATION: OVERPAID!
Monday Watch List: Yet Another Lady Gaga Thing
Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and pay tribute to former "Spartacus" star Andy Whitfield. LET'S GO!


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The Strength Circuit
Do this twice a week on nonconsecutive days. Do each strength move for 1 minute, then follow with 60 seconds of moderate-intensity cardio: squat, jump rope, do push-ups, jog in place, do lunges, and so on.
Choose a Level
You'll want to move to harder levels as the eight-week program progresses. Find a starting point; for example, Level 1. The key here is to do moves 1 through 5 — plus all three core exercises — once through, then repeat, making sure you're using heavy enough weights to challenge your muscles where appropriate. Whichever weight you pick up (5, 8, or 10 pounds; switch up anytime), it should be enough to exhaust your muscles after 12 to 15 reps.
Time It Takes
Do the series through twice (total time: 30 to 35 minutes).
Blast More Fat
Two or three days a week, do one of the cardio workouts (see "Pick Your Favorite Cardio"). Try varying your intensity level with each session.
What You'll Need
A set of 5-, 8-, and 10-pound dumbbells.
Get video demonstrations of exercises in The Bikini Body Workout
1. Squat Progression
Targets glutes, quads, calves
Level 1: Squat with Dumbbells
- Hold a dumbbell in each hand, arms by your sides, feet hip-width apart.
- Slowly bend knees and squat down as if sitting in a chair, keeping weight over heels and knees behind toes. Pause, then return to starting position, squeezing glutes. Repeat.
Level 2: Add a Jump
- As you return to the start position, jump 2 to 3 inches off the floor, landing in a squat with knees bent.
Level 3: Add a Pause
- As you lower into a squat, hold at the bottom for 2 seconds before jumping up; repeat pause with each rep.
2. Push-Up Progression
Targets shoulders, triceps, chest, core
Level 1: Incline Push-Up to Push-Up Plank (not shown)
- Place hands on a low surface such as a windowsill or bench, with toes on the floor and body in a straight line (place knees on ground if this is too hard).
- Bend elbows 90 degrees, keeping abs tight and head in line with spine; straighten arms and push back to start. Repeat for 30 seconds.
- Then hold the full-push-up start position (plank) for 30 seconds.
Level 2: Ground Push-Up
- Repeat the exercise in Level 1, but on the ground, positioning palms on ground below shoulders, legs extended and body in a straight line.
- Do full push-ups for 30 seconds; hold plank for 30 seconds.
Level 3: Ground Push-Up to Alternating Leg Plank
- Do full push-ups on the ground for 30 seconds as in Level 2.
- Then hold plank position for 15 seconds, lifting left leg a few inches; keep abs engaged and hips level.
- Switch legs and hold for another 15 seconds.
3. Lunge Progression
Targets glutes, hamstrings, quads (shoulders, biceps, Levels 2 and 3)
Level 1: Stationary Lunge
- Stand holding dumbbells with arms at sides.
- Lunge forward with right foot, bending both knees 90 degrees; keep right knee aligned over ankle and left heel lifted.
- Straighten legs, keeping feet in place. Repeat lunges for 30 seconds.
- Switch sides and repeat.
Level 2: Alternating Lunge (not shown)
- Repeat Level 1, but begin with elbows bent at shoulder height and weights facing forward; alternate legs with each rep. Continue for 60 seconds.
Level 3: Lunge with Biceps Curl (not shown)
- Begin as in Level 1 with weights at your sides.
- Lunge forward with right leg, bending both knees 90 degrees.
- Push up through the heel of your right foot as you raise your left knee toward your chest.
- From here, curl weights toward bustline, keeping left knee lifted.
- Lower dumbbells to your side and lower left leg; repeat lunge-and-curl combo for 30 seconds.
- Switch legs and repeat for another 30 seconds.
4. Shoulder-Press Progression
Targets shoulders, upper back
Level 1: Overhead Dumbbell Press
- Stand with feet hip-width apart, holding dumbbells with elbows bent 90 degrees at chest or shoulder height.
- Slowly press weights together overhead. Pause, then slowly lower to start. Repeat.
Level 2: Overhead Dumbbell Press/Upright Row
- Do the overhead press in Level 1 for 30 seconds. Then lower arms to sides, turning palms to face your body.
- Leading with elbows, pull shoulder blades together and slowly bend elbows, raising hands to chest level. Pause for 1 count and lower. Repeat for 30 seconds.
Level 3: Overhead Press/Lateral Raise (not shown)
- Do the overhead press in Level 1 for 30 seconds. Then lower arms to sides, palms facing each other.
- Slowly lift arms out to shoulder height, keeping elbows slightly bent. Pause for 1 count and lower; repeat for 30 seconds. (Note: You might need to use less weight here.)
5. Hip-Lift Progression
Targets glutes, hamstrings
Level 1: Hip Lift
- Lie faceup on ground, knees bent, arms at sides.
- Lift hips toward sky, squeezing glutes and hamstrings at the top. Lower and repeat.
Level 2: Alternating Hip Lift
- Do the hip lift in Level 1, but at the top of the movement lift right foot from the ground, extending right leg so thighs are parallel. Hold for 5 seconds; keep hips even by pushing strongly through left leg.
- Bring right foot back to ground and lower hips. Repeat for 30 seconds; switch legs.
Level 3: Single-Leg Hip Lift
- Do the alternating leg lift in Level 2 without lowering leg on each rep; repeat for 30 seconds on each side.
6. Core Series (do all three!)
Targets abs, lower back
Note: Do each move below for 60 seconds, or as long as you can maintain proper form.
Toe-Reach Crunch
- Lie faceup on ground, legs extended toward sky.
- Reach fingers toward toes as you crunch up, lifting head, neck and shoulders off floor.
Bicycle Abs
- Lie faceup, knees bent over hips. Place fingertips behind ears with elbows bent.
- Gazing up, extend left leg 45 degrees while bringing left side of the chest toward bent right knee.
- Switch legs and repeat, straightening right leg, bringing right side of the chest toward bent left knee. Continue, alternating sides, for 1 minute.
- Lie facedown, elbows aligned under shoulders.
- Lift hips, balancing on forearms and toes. Hold for 60 seconds, keeping abs engaged, hips lifted and head in line with spine.
Pick Your Favorite Cardio
Adding at least a couple of calorie-burning workouts a week will get you leaner, faster. Since you'll likely stick with something you love, pick whatever you want — running, swimming, skating, dancing — as long as it gets your heart rate up. Be sure to vary your intensity levels by choosing from the different workout programs each week.
Workout 1
Slow and steady (60 minutes)
Warm up for 10 minutes, then go for another 50 at a moderate pace — you should be able to chat with a friend, but you may need to stop once or twice to get a drink of water.
Too hard? Cut the workout to 40 minutes. Go at an easy to moderate level for the first 3 weeks, then gradually work up to 60 minutes.
Workout 2
Hard and fast (30 minutes)
Warm up for 10 minutes, then increase your pace until you're working at a high intensity level — you couldn't carry on a full conversation if you tried. Try to maintain this pace for 15 minutes, then cool down for the final 5.
Too hard? Cut the fast part to 10 minutes, or do 30 minutes of moderately high-intensity exercise, working up to high.
Workout 3
Intervals (45 minutes)
Warm up for 10 minutes, then alternate 1 minute of high-intensity speed bursts (you're breathless) with 2 minutes of moderate-intensity recovery periods (you can speak with a little huff and puff). Do 10 of these speed intervals, then cool down for the final 5 minutes.
Too hard? Do fewer intervals and give yourself a longer recovery time.
Follow along with the video version of our Bikini Body Workout routine


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Visit the Wish Voting area and rate the ideas. The more the better :).
Next week there will be a little cleanup and wishes with low ratings might be deleted (unless I really like them). It is always good to leave a comment as well, so I can see why you liked/did not like a wish. But you can also vote without writing.
Please remember:
- Do not vote down wishes just because you want your own wishes to be mure successful!
- Do not vote down wishes because you do not like the tv-show/movie/celebrity they are inspired by!
For example: I am no Harry Potter fan, but if a nice Harry Potter castle or hair cut would be useful for everybody, it is a good idea to include it.


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NOIR Bourbon Stool, Hand Rubbed in Black
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WOOD TYPE: Mahogany
FINISH: Hand Rubbed Black
FABRIC: FRF017 (White Cotton)
Expected to ship in 2-3 weeks. INCLUDES ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGES
NOIR selects lumber from well-known suppliers, who guarantee their drying process specifically for export. On larger panels and backs, they use ply wood to minimize the risk of shrinking or even cracking.
For more than ten years, NOIR has been designing, building and importing their very unique, but ever growing collection of home furnishings. NOIR emphasizes natural, simple and classic designs and do their best to manufacture in as green a way as they can. They still build their furniture the old fashioned way using high quality and properly dried solid wood. NOIR takes great pride in what they do and they hope that you will enjoy their products for many years and perhaps even generations to come.
Returns Policy
You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).
You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).
If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the 'Complete Orders' link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.
We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.
When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.
Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.


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WAIANAE, Hawaii —The city's Ocean Safety Division says shark warning signs were taken down Monday after there were no more sightings off Nanakuli Beach Park and Yokohama Bay.
Ocean safety officials say an 8-foot-long shark was swimming just offshore of Yokohama Bay around 3 p.m. Sunday.
The beach was not closed but signs were posted and the public was advised to stay out of the water.
Ocean safety officials also confirmed a 6-foot-long shark was spotted offshore from Nanakuli Beach on Saturday and Sunday.
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Yu throws 86 pitches in 'pen session, next step TBD
ARLINGTON -- Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish, who is on the disabled list with stiffness in his neck, threw 86 pitches in the bullpen on Tuesday without any problems.
The Rangers will wait and see how Darvish recovers before they decide what's next. He is eligible to come off the disabled list on Saturday, but that won't happen, because it would mean pitching on three days' rest.
"We did the assimilation of probably four innings of work, getting up and down," pitching coach Mike Maddux said. "All pitches were good. He looked very good, feels healthy. But we'll know more [Wednesday], and see how he recovers from that. So the next step would be to wait until [Wednesday]. He's on the right track."
The earliest Darvish would pitch is Sunday against the Rays. But the Rangers haven't decided if they want him to throw another bullpen session or possibly a simulated game. Darvish hasn't pitched in a game since March 16.


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Yekadesign necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 19 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
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We are opening a large online grocery store for people to shop from the comforts of their home. We offer delivery to people in the area and shipping to anywhere else...We are looking to make a site like kosher.com (similar look and functionality).
Everyone...especially people who keep kosher. We deliver to most of the NY area...
You can base the general design on kosher.com. Looking for a clean, fresh site...You can take the categories currently from kosher.com
Home page:
1.Banners: Ability to add/remove the banners (design without and one with)
3.Phone number, skype, live chat on top
4.Login, Sign Up,Instant Reorder, View Cart, Checkout, Newsletter sign up
5.Blank to put in zip to see if qualifies for free delivery (check to see if we deliver in your area)
6.Search tool bar
7.Categoreis listed on top, include shop by brand tab Scroll on those tabs and a drop down list of the sub-categories/sub-sub catefories comes
8.Categories pictured with titles
9.Instant Reorder Button
10.Specials on side…shows one at a time with arrow on side to see the next special…
11.Don't Have What You're Looking For. Let Us Know and the a blank – on the side 12.Sign up for newsletter and promos on side
13.Recipe banner on side (redirects to a page with recipes)
14. New/ Featured products - bottom (a few in a line with a scroll to the right and left) – LIKE AMAZON
16.Links on bottom…(about, contact, cc symbols…)
17. Follow us on facebook and twitter…
18. Email us your order
19. When scrolling on shopping cart, drops down and shows you whats inside.


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How totally adorable is designer Mara Hoffman's lime-green-headphones-wearing bouncy baby boy Joaquin? So adorable. Oh, and her fall collection is pretty awesome too—check out some of our favorite looks, plus deets on Mara's celeb-studded front row, after the jump.
When you go to a Mara Hoffman show, you know you're definitely going to see two things: (1) Gorgeous, flowy, feminine dresses and (2) Prints—lots and lots of colorful, color-popping prints.
This season, celebs including Whitney Port, Glamour's very own Louise Roe, Shanna Moakler (love her!), Torrey DeVitto (Pretty Little Liars), June Ambrose, Nigel Barker, and Miss J Alexander turned up front-row at Mara's show to check out her wares. Here are three of my favorites looks:
Mara's fall collection inspiration was—wait for it—"South American Shaman Cowboys." Talk about specific!
A lot of the models wore these gorgeous printed scarves underneath floppy-brimmed hats. Definitely a unique look.
This season, Mara's prints included tassles, magic carpet motifs, stars, meteorites, Mayan calendar references, Kilim, and astrology. Those scarves have the Magic Carpet print on them.
There were also some stunning black dresses—no boring LBDs here! Check out this diaphanous black dress with an astrology-theme neckplate built in. Custom jewelry by All For the Mountain was incorporated into looks throughout the show—including as details in actual pieces.
What do you think? Will you rocking the South American Shaman Cowboy look this fall? I love some elements of it—the gorgeous prints, the big scarves, the mystic jewelry...
· Rebecca Taylor fall 2012: 4 Lessons in Textural Chemistry
· Front Roe: Fashion Editor-at-Large Louise dishes on Zoe Kravitz's front-row rock chick style


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Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has acquired key territories on the Justin Timberlake starrer Spinning Gold, which Foresight Unlimited has introduced to buyers in Cannes.
Foresight president Tamara Birkemoe and Jenna Sanz-Agero closed the deal with SPWA's Michael Helfand, Joe Matukewicz and Jon Freedberg for Latin America, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Greece and the parties are in talks for a number of other major markets.
SPWA and Foresight previously collaborated on 2 Guns.
Foresight CEO Mark Damon will produce Spinning Gold alongside Timberlake, Laurence Mark and Boardwalk Entertainment's Timothy Scott Bogart and Gary A Randall. Joyce Bogart-Trabulus serves as executive producer along with Birkemoe and Envision Entertainment's Remington Chase, Stepan Martirosyan and Vitaly Grigoriants.
Timberlake, in Cannes to talk to buyers, will star as record industry icon Neil Bogart. CAA represents US rights.


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collect for
collect for (someone or something)
To solicit money, especially that which is owed, for a particular reason. People keep calling to collect for my credit card bills. There's a boy at the door collecting for charity.
collect (money) for someone or something
to solicit money for the benefit of someone or something. I would like to collect some money for Fred, who is in the hospital. I am collecting for the church building fund.
collect (money) for something
to solicit money that is owed. I'm collecting money for payment on your loan. Someone is calling to collect for the newspaper delivery.


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rawkstarr necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 18 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
Think Wired.com crossed with Nylon, Blackbook, Vogue, ELLE and Bazaar Magazines. Fresh, exciting opportunity to create an Innovation Timeline Ad for our Company. This 2-Page Ad should reflect our innovation and growth. *All images are included.* Your work will first appear in December's issue of Apparel Magazine. The focus of the timeline should be on 2008 the launch of FastFit360 coined the "Facebook of Fashion". THIS IS A FAST CONTEST!! I will be available for questions & direction. Look forward to seeing your exciting work!!! BEST OF LUCK Artists!!~
shapelyshadow.com -&- fastfit360.com
Fashion Forward. Technology versus tradition. Speed of design and creation. The timeline begins in 1990 - the beginning of the World Wide Web. The inspiration of this 2-Page Spread is how fast as a company and globally we have grown in only 18 years!! Internet is our reality. I have pointed out the key years and the innovations that happened... Blackberry's, Facebook, etc. The events that should be bold are our Company Events. 1999, 2004, 2006, 2007 and SUPER BOLD 2008!! Take a look at http://www.ge.com/innovation/timeline/ this was my inspiration. Create our timeline in TechniColor!! WIRED, INSPIRED, CLEAN, BOLD. I have organized & packaged all images by year. It's a big file, but this is a big opportunity to give Fashion a prospective on the world we live in. I hope you will be as inspired as I am!
- Please download from: https://www.yousendit.com/download/…b0pFQlE9PQ - * All rights to these images are owned exclusively by Shapely Shadow. You may not reproduce other than for this ad.- * The 2-Page Ad must adhere to the Magazine's specifications: Please see apparelmag.com DELIVER: Photoshop EPS, CMYK Color Mode, 300 DPI- * Must use Shapely Shadow Logo and FastFit360.com logo. - * Must include contact information for Shapely Shadow: Shapely Shadow, Inc. - email@example.com - Telephone: 1-888-FIT-FORMS - Facsimile: 1-310-577-1817, California, United States of America- * Must include contact information for FastFit360: email@example.com - Telephone: 1-310-578-8579- * Must include all copy with the correlating images in the timeline_2pagead.zip- * Use Small Caps- * We are looking for clean, consistent, professional work.
- Nothing too Neon- Black/White- Sloppy, messy work