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The International School for Holocaust Studies
"Do you remember that you taught a boy to sing?"
An Interview with Yitzhak Livnat and Chaim Raphael
Interviewed by: Liraz Lachmanovich and Limor Bar-Ilan
Translation and editing: Sheryl Ochayon
The deportation to camps was the beginning of the tragic fracturing of the individual. Family members were torn from each other during the selektions, and for the most part, surviving members were left all alone. Prisoners in the camps were forced to deal with hunger and with disease, with forced labor and with torture – both of the body and of the soul. In this interview we wish to present an alternative story of the camps – a story that shows the human element and reveals the brotherhood that was able to persevere despite the evil that lurked in every corner. It was not a trivial matter for one prisoner to lend a helping hand to another, or to provide another prisoner with a warm and sheltering space. In the reality of life in concentration and extermination camps, it was almost impossible for prisoners to think of anyone but themselves. However, when concern for others and mutual responsibility was expressed, these became anchors of compassion, a way to maintain one's sanity and even, sometimes, a chance at rescue.
The story of the rescue of Yitzhak Livnat, who was a boy of 14, and his extraordinary connection with Chaim Raphael in the death camp of Birkenau, brings to light the significance of human solidarity and the spiritual elevation that was still possible even in the face of the surrounding atrocities. We are pleased to present an interview with Yitzhak Livnat ("Itzik"), who was born in 1930 in Seylesh, Czechoslovakia (and whose original name was Sandor Weisz, before he moved to Israel and changed it), and with Chaim Raphael, who was born in Salonika (now called Thessaloniki), Greece six years earlier. Interspersed throughout the interview are segments from two memoirs that explain details of each of their stories.
Chaim, please tell us about your life before the war: your family, your childhood, your memories of the community.
Chaim: I was born in Greece, in Salonika, to my parents Sultana and Zadik Raphael, in 1924. My house was a traditionally religious house. I had two brothers and two sisters. There was a lot of poverty in my city, but my parents inculcated in us the feeling that we should be proud to be Jewish. My father would say in Spanish, "Not everyone in this world has the privilege of being a Jew…." I was very, very connected to religion; at my Bar Mitzvah I read the Torah Portion of "Vayikra" (Leviticus 1:1, -Ed.). I loved Judaism, the Torah, the traditions and the holidays. On Sabbath you could go wherever you wanted, completely freely; you could go to synagogue, you could also go to a restaurant to eat something….
And yet my mother worried about educating her children to do good deeds and "mitzvoth". She invested all her resources in her children and almost didn't worry about herself.[1] My house in Salonika was a house of melodies. My mother sang as she worked in the house. My sister, Rivka, loved to hum the melodies of the Greek operettas and Ladino songs. Music was part of our lives. I always dreamed of obtaining a formal education in music… At the beginning I took lessons on a grand piano, that was located in the house of one of our non-Jewish friends, and later I learned to play the accordion.[2]
What did your parents do for a living?
Chaim: We had a huge coal store… In Greece it was very cold and this way we had everything we needed.
In that period I had to work in my father's store and to replace my brother Shmuel who, at the time, had enlisted in the standing Greek army. My father had a store that sold coal at 68 Waslisi Olgas St., in the Analipsi neighborhood. Most of the rich Jews of Thessaloniki lived in this neighborhood… We also lived there… We were not considered a rich family, but we were a family of some means.[3]
Did you go to a Jewish school? Can you describe your treatment by your neighbors?
Chaim: I learned in a Jewish school. In Greece there was always more hate than in other places. They were angry at me that I killed Jesus, but I had never met Jesus! I didn't know who he was… After the Germans occupied [Greece], in April 1941, automatically the Greeks became brutal. Every day there was an article written against the Jews. Some of the writers were forced to write against the Jews. And because of this, when you speak about someone without knowing him, and every day something else is happening, you hate this person without knowing him. The friends that I had grown up with suddenly hated us.
Can you describe your life under the Nazi occupation in the city?
Chaim: There was a feeling that something awful was going on in Europe – exactly what, we didn't know. As I said, on April 6, 1941 the Germans invaded Greece; the feeling was horrible. On the day that the Germans invaded, I felt that it was a black day, as though I knew that something terrible was about to happen. One Shabbat, in July 1942, they concentrated all the men, from the age of 18 to 45[4]. I doubt I was even 18 then. We didn't know what awaited us… The people were weak and hungry. One young boy fell down near us. I took him, along with someone else who was there then, and we brought him into the shade. I didn't do anything bad, but this act really cost me. We returned to our places, but I lost my position in the line in which I was standing. From among the lines, a German officer emerged […] and put me in the middle. At the beginning I had to do sort of athletic exercises. Afterwards I began to get hit; they spilled water on me, I was kicked with the Germans' boots. I got to the point where I didn't feel anything. I was tossed aside; I didn't have the strength to get up, to walk. They tore my clothing, they made a rag out of me. For at least a month afterwards I stayed at home - I couldn't move.
Itzik, can you tell us about the house you came from and about your community?
Itzik: I was born in a small town that was home to many cultures, many different languages. It was a microcosm, a strange mixture – Hungarians, Ruthenians, Germans, Sinti and Roma (known colloquially as gypsies, -Ed.) and Jews, and each of these used a different alphabet: the Latin alphabet that the Hungarians used; the Cyrillic alphabet that the Ruthenians used; the Germans used Germanic and Gothic letters; and the Jews were Yiddish- and Hebrew-speakers and used the Hebrew alphabet. It was a tiny, effervescent microcosm. I had a wonderful childhood.
My town had different names and all of them mean the same thing: the name most commonly used even today is Nagyszolos, despite the fact that today it is in the Ukraine. In Ruthenian the town was called Vinogradov, and in Ukrainian, Vynohradiv. The Jews called the town Seylesh in Yiddish. It was a town with 15,000 inhabitants in 1944, the year of its occupation and collapse, and one-third of them were Jewish. And the Jews were divided into two factions – one was Zionist, modern and spoke Hungarian, with a Hebrew elementary school. For instance, in first grade I learned mathematics in Hebrew. That was one side of the Judaism in my town. On the other side, the Orthodox, among them the Hasidim, hated Zionism and fought against it. But this war, in my town, was reigned in. In the broader area there was a real struggle between these two factions.
How many siblings did you have?
Itzik: We were five children; I was the fourth. After me was my younger sister, Icuka. My two older sisters, my father, my younger sister and I were all deported to Auschwitz. My older brother was in a work battalion in the Hungarian army. We lost my mother in 1944 to an illness. She passed away at home and was buried in the cemetery of our town when I was 14.
What are your memories from the first days of the Nazi occupation of your town – what changed?
Itzik: I was born on a huge farm belonging to a Hungarian nobleman, whose size was measured in square kilometers. Hungary was the last feudal state in Europe and I was born at the end of the age of feudalism. My father was very loyal; loyalty for him was of the utmost importance. He was Hungarian with every fiber of his being: he always took pride in the fact that he had served (Emperor) Franz Joseph[5], but he called him "Franz Yoshke", as though he was calling him by a nickname, like a friend. And he was convinced that "nothing would happen to us. There couldn't be anything like that." His belief was that nothing like that [what was happening in Europe] could happen in Hungary. All the rumors that reached us, and all kinds of strange rumors did reach us… They talked about this at home, but they said, "Don't pay attention to this, it goes against all logic…." And we were proud Jews! Proud Jews – meaning that we didn't hide and we didn't call ourselves "of the Mosaic persuasion" – that was a device that was born not long ago. We were Jews, without a doubt.
Can you tell us about your arrival at the camp?
Itzik: We got to Birkenau and they performed the selektion. I wanted to go with my little sister. And then someone said to me: "Hey! Don't go there – go there." What's this? Could I leave my sister?? No! And then a neighbor of ours, Mrs. Rosenberg, who had arrived in the same cattlecar as we had, said, "Icuka come with me." And so I went together with my father, wherever they sent me. If I had insisted on going with my sister, of course they would have let me.[6]
After two or three days, when all of those dreadful rumors, that… (the Jews had been gassed to death –Ed.) Although nothing like that was possible, I understood that I had lost Icuka. I really loved her. She was the youngest, she looked up to me. They sent my father to a different camp the next day, from Birkenau to Auschwitz, to work, and they put me into what was called the Kinderblock (the children's barrack). When I understood what was happening around me and I thought about it and internalized it, I went out at night, I looked up at the heavens, I cried and I shouted, "Where are You? How can You let something like this happen? And if it's true that the smoke is really…then – I curse You!" I came out against Him as strongly as possible. "Here, send a lightning bolt and kill me!" It was the beginning of my loss of faith. Since then and until today I haven't experienced anything to strengthen my faith again. Nothing. I was strengthened by people all along the way, here and there, and because of that strengthening (hugging Haim)… we lived to see this day.
Chaim, Do you remember the journey to the camp?
Chaim: It was a tragedy. I don't know if there is a person who can describe the suffering of eight days spent in a cattlecar. I don't know if there is a movie director who could recreate the atmosphere in those sealed cars during seven days and eight nights. They put eighty people into a cattlecar, and sometimes more. It was absolutely horrific. The suffering, the embarrassment, the humiliation. My sister had to relieve herself among seventy-five other people… It's impossible to describe.
But me, I sometimes turned this tragedy into a joke. In the cattlecar with us there was a doctor who was very afraid of catching lice – we were there for days without washing, without even seeing water, without anything. And the doctor would sit by himself and I asked him every time, "Doctor, how many days is it possible to live without food, how long can a man hold on?" He would answer, "It's possible to hold on for 40 days." Every morning I would remind him: "Doctor… how many days?" And he would answer: "Forty days." On the seventh day I asked him: "Doctor?" And the doctor was dead. "Doctor", I said to him, "You've gone? Why so soon? You said we could hold on for 40 days…" Days and days without food. I don't know how it was possible…
What happened when you got to the camp?
Chaim: We got to Auschwitz at night. They greeted us with beatings, with shouting, with dogs. Immediately they separated women from men, by hitting us very brutally, and my whole family disappeared.
I loved playing music more than anything; that's why I took my accordion with me. I got hit because of it and they took it away from me. I cried, just like I had cried when they took my sisters, because I thought a person who can't play music can't possibly be happy in this world.
Can you describe the meeting between you at the camp?
Itzik: I was in Birkenau in the Kinderblock, the children's barracks. And I was lucky because there was one Kapo (A kapo was the overseer of a work brigade, called a "kommando" –Ed.), a Polish Jew, who was actually illiterate, named Tadek Dzeidjic, who liked me. He was responsible for the disinfection group (the work group that was responsible for disinfecting the cattlecars was called the Desinfektion-Kommando) and I shined his shoes so well; I also read him notes in Polish, and he laughed out loud that I didn't know how to pronounce Polish words. He made such a joke out of me. And really, I didn't know how to read Polish.
The job of the kommando was to receive the cattlecars that arrived in the camp after a journey of seven days or of two days, and to take out of the cars all the property and things that people had brought with them. They didn't allow anyone to just take anything out of the cattlecars; they were filled with all kinds of secretions[7], and also with corpses of people who had died on the way. And this kommando had to immediately evacuate everything that was in the cattlecars, to transfer the belongings to another kommando called "Kanada"[8], and to immediately begin disinfection: to clean, wash and disinfect the cattlecars so that the train could leave the ramp and another train could pull in.
This job gave the kommando a great advantage, because it was possible to open up the 200-300 liter barrel of disinfectant liquid they used in order to spray the cattlecars, and to throw inside tins of canned food that were found inside the cars, mostly sardines and whole bottles of vodka, or things like that. Too bad we couldn't have thrown inside smoked meats. And they would come back to the camp with this merchandise, and this merchandise was, in the nature of things in the camp, worth a few times its weight in gold.
The evening before Yom Kippur (the holiest Jewish holiday of the year – Ed.), "Mister" Mengele performed a selektion - two barracks of children were there. And I didn't pass this selektion because I wasn't tall enough. There was a wooden board fixed in place with a nail and everyone had to pass under it, and whoever was shorter didn't pass. And I didn't pass.
They crowded us into a barrack; there were about 700 children there, in awful crowding - everyone was touching everyone else. And I was shoved in. I made my way between the other kids in order to get to the front of the barracks, there I saw who was entering and who was leaving. And when evening came and the sun went down, the children decided to pray "Kol Nidrei" (the prayer traditionally recited on the evening of Yom Kippur – Ed.). Two boys my age, from my town, and I emphasize their names – so that some memory of them may remain – Leibovich Shani (Sandor) and Chaim Teitelbaum, said to me, "Come join the prayer." And I didn't join the prayer. And they tell me that story of the Baal Shem (the founder of Hasidism – Ed.) that the heavens won't open because of me… And I didn't pray… Suddenly the door of the barracks opens and one of the men of my kommando, who knew me, entered. I said to him, "Janek, I'm here." Janek was a Polish Jew. The whole kommando was Jewish. He had the ability to walk around the camp unrestricted. We, those who were slotted for… [extermination], we were locked in. He came to visit a friend of his, the Blockälteste (a veteran prisoner of the barracks, who usually had an administrative function – Ed.) and said to me: "I saw you." And then he went in, and spent an hour eating and drinking in the closed room. But this actually doesn't express how much time I felt had passed - I felt as though sixty years had passed. When he came out I said to him again, "Janek", and he made this gesture like "I saw you", and left.
An hour later, just as Suti (Yitzhak Livnat) convinced himself that all hope was gone, Janek returned with another man. Dzeidjic's assistant never even glanced at Suti as he went directly to the Blockältester's room once again and closed the door. After a short time, the visitors opened the door and came back out. Janek walked directly toward Suti, pointed to him, and yelled in an angry tone, "You are coming with us, now!"
The room fell silent and everyone seemed to hold their breath in shock as Suti was grabbed and taken out of the barracks.
The men took Suti directly to an empty barracks where Dzeidjic was standing in the middle of his small working group. Everyone around him was sitting. Suti looked at Dzeidjic, hardly able to speak. Dzeidjic gave him a steely look, put his finger to his lips as a signal to be quiet and pointed to the upper bunk at the farthest end of the barracks.[10]
Do you remember what you were thinking as you walked from the kinderblock to the block of those who were sentenced to death? What did you think, how did you feel? Did you speak on the way?
Itzik: I was in shock. I was trembling like a leaf. I wasn't capable of thinking about anything.
Suti could barely find the strength to pull himself up the stairs – his legs had been drained of all energy – but he somehow scrambled to safety. There, to his surprise, was a Greek Jew who comforted him by putting his arms around him until he stopped shaking. He began talking to Suti, first by telling the boy his name – Chaim Raphael – then telling him stories in a soothing, comforting tone.
He sensed by the trembling of the young boy that he had just survived a devastating experience, the seriousness of which the Greek man could only guess at by the length of time it took to calm him. To take Suti's mind off the trauma, Chaim Raphael quietly sang Italian folk songs and encouraged him to sing along. After more than an hour of quiet singing, the boy finally stopped trembling. Suti later learned the price Dzeidjic had to pay to extricate him from the death barracks: five cans of sardines and twenty U.S. dollars. Such was the appraisal of a single human life at Auschwitz-Birkenau in the autumn of 1944.
Before dawn, the other children and teenagers were exterminated. All except one.[11]
And the communication with Chaim… I think the fact that he is a Jew and I am a Jew, we introduced ourselves that way because we said "Shma Yisrael" (a central Jewish prayer. The core of the prayer is the affirmation of Judaism and declaration of faith in one God. It is traditionally said before death – Ed.) or something similar. He saw that I was in shock, trembling like a leaf. And he, what he does now he did to me then: he responded to me by singing, almost immediately, he began to sing and he taught me to sing.
On January 18, 1945, Yitzhak Livnat was forced to march on the death march from Birkenau to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
Itzik: My father and I got to Mauthausen in two separate transports. Neither of us knew what had happened to the other. And on the first day that I got there he was already there. The prisoners of the block had to arrange themselves in rows of fives so that the SS could count them quickly and they yelled, "Send five more" (so that the full quota for the count would be met) and then five more came in and among them I recognized my father. And he recognized me and I… He saw me, stopped, and froze. And then the SS came in. My father stretched out his hand to me - this is something that was absolutely forbidden – and said, "Mein Sohn, mein Sohn, ich habe meinen Sohn gefunden" ("My son, my son, I found my son.") And the SS said to me, "So go hug him…"! We became the miracle of the camp.
Afterwards we went through the second death march together to our last camp, Gunskirchen in Austria, a camp that opened its gates on March 12, 1945 (my fifteenth birthday). We got there two weeks later, completely plagued by lice and sick with typhus, both my father and me. We were liberated by the men of an American division. We left there, the two of us, on the verge of death and met an uncle of mine, my cousin's father. We told him, "Let's go together", and he said, "You go first and I'll catch up." Two weeks later, I was the only one of this threesome still alive. [Both my father and my uncle] died a short time after the liberation.
In the fall of 1944 Chaim Raphael was transferred from Birkenau to a work camp near Breslau, and in January, 1945 he was sent on a death march to the camps of Flossenburg and Ohrdruf. Chaim tried to escape but was caught and transferred to Buchenwald and from there to Theresienstadt, where he was ultimately liberated. In Theresienstadt Chaim was introduced to Esther, a woman from Corfu. She became his wife. Together they went back to Salonika, where they were married, and in June, 1946 they made aliya (immigrated) to the Land of Israel on an illegal immigrant ship called the "Haviva Reik".
The war ended. How did you keep on going?
Chaim: I returned to Greece. The situation was really awful. In Greece you went to the army at age 21. I was then 20-21, I didn't know exactly. And then I heard someone say that it was possible to get to Palestine. I was one of the first to sign up and I said, "After seeing what happened with these people here, I don't want to be here." I got to Palestine after a lot of trials and tribulations – back then there were no airplanes and I spent entire days in a cattlecar until we arrived. I came to Israel without a family, without a profession, without knowing the language, without anything - with nothing. I worked in a textile factory where we were paid one lira and fifty groshen per day; it wasn't enough to buy anything with.
I sat and looked at the doors. And the owner said, "What are you looking at?" And I answered, "I don't know how I'm going to escape from you, because from you I get nothing." And he said to me, "You'll see, you'll be big, you'll learn." And I said, "I want to do that now. If not now… " And I just got up and left. I did all kinds of work, and then slowly, slowly, slowly…
The store opened in 1958… I was then in my thirties… We had a lot of energy, and lots of ambition. We worked long hours, from morning until night… slowly the store took off. I expanded the number of products and mostly started working with restaurants.[12]
Itzik: The only thing that was in my head was to go home! They put me into some room where the American army gathered all the sick. I was there for a number of days, unconscious. In the meantime, my father died. I woke up to find the doctor saying to someone who was standing there, "We need to send this kid to a sanitorium in Switzerland." And I, remembering my geography lessons and knowing where I was and where Switzerland was, I knew where my house was. I escaped from the hospital and went back to ask about my father. And then they told me, "Do you see that pit? That's where they threw him, they covered him with lime." And I went home. And I reached home! It took me a while, a number of days, to understand where's north and where I am. My uncle, who had returned before me, heard my story and then said to me, "From today on you'll be my son!" On the spot, by order, he adopted me. He sat me down on his wagon and said to the horse, "Home!" and the horse knew the way back very well. My uncle fell asleep in his seat. While he was sleeping I got out of the wagon and left the city… That was my farewell. And I went to Palestine.
I went on my way, I got to Budapest; from there I escaped with a group that crossed the border, the occupation zones: from the Russian zone to the British zone. I was put into an orphanage in an Italian city, Selvino. In Selvino they tried to teach us and to create the atmosphere of the land of Israel. I really loved it, but I wasn't making any progress in getting to Palestine from there. So I escaped and enlisted with the forces that helped with aliyah. I worked loading ships. They promised us that we'd make aliyah on a certain ship, but the ship sailed [without us]. We went on strike. Afterwards a second ship came, and again we worked loading the ship, and again the ship sailed [without us]. This time it was really too much. An hour later a tiny little boat appeared and they told us, "Get on." We set sail in a terrible storm, and it turned out that the two ships were in touch with us all the time: the big ship ("Shabtai Luzinsky") and the little ship ("Shoshanna"). We actually traveled together.[13]
The British caught us[14] when we were already on the bus that took us with those who came to receive us. All the people who worked in the dairies in the area, and all the members of the kibbutz came – they got an order to burn all their ID cards so that we could all say we were named Abraham son of Abraham and that we were all from the Land of Israel. The British didn't like this. They collected all of us and put us all on a deportation boat to Cyprus. We got to Cyprus and that's where they started teaching us how to play the game and pretend we were from Israel. When the Palestine Police got to Cyprus, they tested us one by one and asked us all kinds of questions. The last question was when the policeman took 50 mil out of his pocket. No one called it 50 mil, they called it a "shilling." He threw it up into the air and caught it and asked, "What do I have in my hand?" "A shilling," I said. I passed.
After he made aliyah, Yitzhak Livnat lived at Kibbutz Merchavia for about six months. In 1954 he married Ilana Barka'i, who had been born in Israel.
Itzik: I built myself a new identity. I took the name "Itzik" even though my name wasn't Itzik. My name was supposed to be Yishayahu. I didn't like Yishayahu. But the Hungarians had insulted the Jews by calling us "Dirty Itzik" and "Itzik the Little Jewboy", so I took the name Itzik. And for forty years I didn't open my mouth. I never spoke my native language. My identity was a question mark even in my own eyes. And Ilana decided to marry me.
Can you describe the moment you met Chaim again in Israel?
Itzik: It was 1967, after the incredible victory in the [Six Day] war. The company of which I was one of the managers and owners [the company still exists and is called "Ta'avura"], was sent to collect things from the battlefields: we collected damaged enemy tanks - Egyptian and Syrian - from the Sinai and the Golan Heights, and we were to bring them to the center of the country. We were almost the only company that was capable of doing this work because we were involved in special, heavy hauling projects. We had an extraordinary staff of workers. We sent them to all kinds of places, battlefields, where they loaded the tanks and brought them back. The drivers would leave every Sunday and return with tanks they had managed to extract after a week. We needed to supply the drivers with food for a week. That particular day was a Friday afternoon; we had to find food because the drivers were leaving on Saturday night for the north and the south. Ilana and I found a delicatessen and inside we met this man who was not very pleasant. Stubborn and uncompromising, not a believer… Ilana said to me, "Let's get out of here," and we left.
Did you recognize him?
Itzik: No, I didn't recognize him. In the end I said to Ilana, "Let's go back to him". Something had already started…
We went back, we filled up some cartons. He didn't like to sell. "…What's this, you want to empty my whole store?" The carton was ready on the counter and I took out a checkbook. He takes the carton back and says, "I don't accept checks." It was Friday afternoon (In Israel, banks close on Friday afternoon for the Sabbath until Sunday morning –Ed.), and they still hadn't invented ATMs. I say to Ilana, "Ilana, go to Acropolis" – that was the restaurant next to our office, a restaurant we ate in all the time. "Ask Moshiko to give you some cash."
And Chaim asks, "You know Moshiko?"
I say, "Yes."
"Does he know you?"
I answer, "I guess so."
He phones Moshiko and says, "There's a guy here who says he knows you," and gives me the telephone.
I tell him, "Moshiko, hello, I'm in South Tel Aviv and I need some cash."
Moshiko says, "What, you're at Chaim's?"
And I asked, "Your name is Chaim?"
Then Moshiko says, "Give him to me."
I give the receiver to Chaim, he says something, and at the end Chaim says to me, "Take the carton, take what you want, the whole store is yours!"
I tried to give him a check again, and again he says, "We don't take checks."
I told him that I would come back on Sunday to pay him and he said, "You do whatever you want."
And then I say to him, "You were in Auschwitz?"
He answers, "Ah! You see the number!"
I tell him, "Do you remember that you taught a boy to sing?"
He says, "I sing all the time, I still sing. All the time I sing." (It's a fact that he had a whole choir of singers from Greece).
And I say, "I am the boy… " It's clear that all the defense mechanisms and walls and fences he had around him collapsed completely. We hugged and we kissed and the whole store was involved with our story. And since then, every family occasion, either mine or his, we are always there for each other.
What would you like to say in conclusion?
Chaim: We were a big family… everyone went in the crematoria… and I was left all alone. And I always used to say: I want to live in order to tell. Even at my age, I still drop everything and go to bear witness – that's like a holy thing. I think that people have to know, and the story has to be told as much as possible, so that God forbid the same thing won't happen again, because Judaism is something you can't escape from, like I said before: with pain, without pain, with curses, with beatings, but because of the fact that you were born Jewish, you can't escape. There's no way. I was born Jewish and I will die Jewish with pride. I was stubborn and stubbornly I persevered and I raised a family and today I have two boys and a girl and they are named after all those who disappeared…
Itzik: I know that I can't deny three basic elements: my native tongue - nothing helps; my mother - nothing helps; and the place I was born. I tried with all my strength, for forty years, to disconnect from the place I was born. Really, I tried with all my strength…and I failed. Today I acknowledge this. And I have no problem with this, to the contrary. I am a Jew 100 percent, and I'm as good as any other Jew in the world [even if I never regained my faith].
With the help of his wife Esther (of blessed memory), Chaim Raphael established a grocery store in the Levinsky Market in Tel Aviv - a store that became a well-respected delicatessen. Chaim Raphael documented his story in a memoir called The Song of Life (In Hebrew, "Shirat Chaim". The word "Chaim" in Hebrew means life, as well as being Chaim's name –Ed.), thousands of copies of which have been distributed in Israel and abroad. Chaim and Esther have three children and ten grandchildren. His elder son, Zadik Raphael, manages the family business; his daughter Simcha, is a retired teacher; and their son Shmuel, born when his parents were both already older, is a research professor of Ladino at Bar Ilan University.
With his aliyah to Israel, after six months living on a kibbutz, Yitzhak Livnat enlisted in the "Haganah" (the Jewish paramilitary organization during the British mandate period that became the core of the Israel Defense Forces –Ed.) and participated in the War of Independence as a combat signal operator. After the establishment of the Israel Defense Forces, Yitzhak served as a communications officer, and in the framework of his duties trained many other officers. In 1957 he retired from the army with a rank of major, and together with his brother established and managed the haulage company "Ta'avura". Yitzhak also became a member of the managing board of the Museum for the Heritage of Hungarian-Speaking Jews, and remains a supporter of the museum and its development today. Yitzhak and Ilana have four children, twelve grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Four of their children have served in the IDF as officers, and all of them are academics. Parts of Yitzhak's story are described in the book Outcasts – A Love Story, and he continues to give testimony before schoolchildren, at the request of his own grandchildren.
[2] Ibid., p. 17.
[3] Ibid., p. 40-41.
[4] Haim is describing a day that would come to be indelibly etched into the memories of the Greek Jews as "Black Sabbath." On July 11, 1942, all Jewish men were assembled in Eleftheria Square (ironically, the name of the Square means "Freedom" or "Liberty") to be registered for forced labor. They were forced to stand in the sun for hours and were abused and humiliated by the German soldiers, who made them perform various physical "exercises" just to weaken and break them. For more about Greece and the Holocaust in Greece, see http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/learning_environments/salonika/salonika.asp.
[5] Franz Joseph was Emperor of Austria as well as King of Bohemia, Croatia, Hungary and Galicia at the end of the nineteenth, and the beginning of the twentieth, centuries. He had other titles as well.
[6] Itzik is referring to the fact that when Jews arrived on the ramp at Birkenau, they were sent either to slave labor or immediately to death by a German who stood on the ramp and pointed "left" or "right". There were Jews who were sent in one direction because they had been picked for slave labor, but refused to be parted from a member of their family who had been sent to the other direction – because they had been sentenced to death. Those who refused to be separated from a family member were often allowed to go with him to their own deaths as well (though at the time they didn't know that this was the significance of the designation "left" or "right"). It was usually of no consequence to the Germans performing the selektion on the ramp whether the Jews standing before them lived or died.
[7] Because there were no bathrooms in the cattlecars, they turned into huge toilets during the journeys to the camps. Eyewitness testimony given during the Holocaust by Abraham Krzepicki describes the situation: "It's impossible to imagine the horrors in that closed, airless boxcar. It was one big cesspool. Everybody was pushing toward the window, where there was a little air, but it was impossible to get close to the window. Everybody was lying on the ground. I also lay down. I could feel a crack in the floor. I lay with my nose right up against that crack to grab some air. What a stench all over the car! You couldn't stand it. A real cesspool all over. Filth everywhere, human excrement piled up in every corner of the car. People kept shouting, 'A pot! A pot! Give us a pot so we can pour it out the window.' But nobody had a pot." Alexander Donat, Ed., The Death Camp Treblinka. A Documentary, (New York: Schocken Books, 1979), from http://holocaustcontroversies.yuku.com/topic/1916/Re-Treblinka-Eyewitness-Accounts, accessed July 12, 2012.
[8] "Kanada" was the name, in the language of the prisoners, for an area within the camp of Birkenau in which all the stolen property of the murdered and of the prisoners of the camp was stored. Hundreds of prisoners, men and women, mostly Jews, worked in cleaning, sorting, identifying valuable property and assembling shipments of these items to Germany. The real name of the warehouses was the Effektenlager. The name "Kanada" comes from the association of the warehouses with the great wealth of Canada in the imaginations of the prisoners. Work in "Kanada" was considered to be one of the best in the camp, because while working in Kanada it was possible to "organize" food and property and to trade with them on the black market in the camp. In addition, work took place in a closed area (not exposed to the elements) so that the work was not physically difficult. For these reasons, the number of survivors from Kommando Kanada is relatively high.
[9] Itzik is referring to an infamous selektion held by Dr. Mengele in Birkenau, about which there are many testimonies. In this selektion, Mengele set up a wooden measuring stick at a certain height. Children who were below this height and were not tall enough to reach the stick with their heads were sent to the gas chambers. Children who were taller were saved.
[10] Susan M. Papp, Outcasts, A Love Story (Ontario: Dunndurn Press, 2009), p. 173.
[11] Ibid., p. 173.
[12] Raphael, p. 58.
[13] The travelers aboard the Shoshanna were transferred while at sea to the Shabtai Luzinsky, and the smaller boat returned to Italy. The Shabtai Luzinsky continued to Palestine, where it ran aground off the beach at Nitzanim on March 12, 1947, Itzik's 17th birthday. Itzik jumped into the water and swam to the coast, where local residents came down to the beach to mingle with the passengers in order to help them evade arrest by the British. Itzik was herded onto a bus brought to take the illegal immigrants away from the area in order to fool the British.
[14] Yitzhak is speaking about the illegal immigration to Palestine that took place during and after World War II. After the Holocaust, most Jewish survivors did not want to remain in Europe because they saw it as the graveyard of the Jewish people. They wanted to build a new life in "Eretz Israel" ( the pre-State land of Israel) – the Jewish homeland, but the British made this all but impossible. They imposed tight restrictions on Jewish immigration and settlement, and put a navy blockade in place to intercept ships that tried to bring refugees into the country. Even when ships managed to reach the shores of Palestine, the British still intercepted the refugees, throwing them into detention camps on Cyprus and in Palestine. The illegal immigration movement was known as "Aliyah Bet."


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The future of Calontir must be well assured. Therefore, Their Royal Majesties Oswald II and Kaye will hold Their Crown Tournament on January 14, 2012 in Their Barony of Three Rivers.
Cardinal Rigali Center
20 Archbishop May Drive
St. Louis, MO 63119
Site opens at 8 am and closes at 10 pm
Site Fees:
Adults: $10
Non-Member Surcharge: $5
Children 6-17: $5
Children under 6: Free
Family Cap: $30 (does not include NMS)
Feast : $10
A&S Activities will include:
- Competition for the best largess in any medium (to be donated to TRM after judging)
- Competition for the best household item in any medium
- Afternoon ball to be held between morning and evening court
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text: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Moray Allan wrote: > On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 13:10 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> So anyway, enough explanation, on to my proposed solution. Seeing as >> team spirit has been a quite effective antidote to stagnation, lets go >> ahead and use that again. > > I agree with the general intention, but not with the details of the > proposed process. Indeed, I'm unconvinced we need to formulate a > process of any kind, especially not one that makes a specific group (in > this case, the Alioth admins) responsible for policing it. I would > rather simply see a stronger consensus on what is reasonable behaviour. So I failed to state this, but implicit in the goals is that the new volunteer's work should be readily available in a user-friendly form to the existing maintainer for when/if they return from their low activity state. I'm reluctant to do a 500 commit NMU because its just so unwieldy (and seems wrong), but if I can become a team member and commit those changes to the vcs, then its in a nice form for the maintainer when they return. Plus I don't have to find hosting for my work elsewhere, which is kind of a pain and unwanted. So, currently the only way to add a new alioth project in cases where the maintainer does not do it him or herself is via the alioth admins, so that is why they have to be involved. In most cases it will be a quick check on their part to see that the package needs help. All-in-all these cases should be rather rare, and should not require much work on their part. But if it does, more admins can be added to distribute the workload. Note that the collab-maint case requires no oversight (alioth or otherwise). > If we need a process at all, I would initially suggest something like > the following, which I think would be enough to solve many cases: > > - Where there are problems with a package that are not being dealt with > by the maintainer, it is acceptable for others to NMU. This includes > when a package is significantly out of date compared to upstream, though > in this case it is recommended that the DELAYED queue be used. This is already appropriately handled by the existing NMU process, which helps fix on-off bugs. The new process is for those willing to make a long term commitment of fixing continuing issues in the package. > - Where several NMUs for a package enter the archive over an extended > period without the maintainer acknowledging them in a new maintainer > upload, it is acceptable for others to add themselves as maintainers for > the package, even without the permission of the current maintainer. This could certainly be another condition where a volunteer-initiated team join would be allowed/encouraged. Best wishes, Mike


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Skogsrojet is one of these newer hard rock / metal festivals organized in the promised land of festivals, Sweden. The two day event is held in the outlying village of Rejmyre and the nearest town is Norrkoping about 40 kilometers away. The festival was held for the first time in 2006 and it has been increasing steadily year by year. Last years line-up included Alice Cooper, Doro, Testament and L.A. Guns and now the fans were treated to Twisted Sister, Helloween, Pretty Maids and Lita Ford. As you can see from the list of names, the event organizers rely heavily on traditional hard rock spiced with a few heavier acts. I don't know if this kind of concept would work anywhere else, but in Sweden, but it works. This year, the festival again gathered thousands of participants who were eager to rock hard!!!
SKOGSROJET Festival 2013: FRIDAY
Swedish hard rock veterans Treat were the first band to catch on Friday. The band, which is going to retire after the current tour, was in good shape and their "larger than life" choruses still worked out great. The set list was a well built combination of the most recent COUP DE GRACE tracks and 80's classics like "We Are One" and "World of Promises". It's a pity if the band really is quitting, because they still sound great and in fact there aren't too many bands playing this kind of super melodic hard rock anymore.
Shotgun is a new band featuring original Shotgun Messiah members Zinny J. Zan and Stixx, bassist Chris Laney (Laney's Legion) and guitarist Rob Marcello who is known of his stint with Danger. This was Shotgun's first show together so it was interesting to see how the band works together. As expected, the band based their set list around the first Shotgun Messiah album. Songs like "Shout it Loud", "Bob City" and especially "Don't Care About Nothin" sounded great but somehow it did feel that there wasn't enough good material to carry the band through entire show. To be honest, the show became a bit boring at the end. Things will hopefully change once the band finds some time to write more original material to fill "the holes" in the future. Anyway, the band sounded good and their performance was really energetic and they definitely had a good time on stage – and that's the most important thing after all, right?
It's been more than 5 years since I've seen Finnish horror rockers Lordi live. So now it was time to fix that issue. The band has gone through several transformations during the past years including several line-up changes but it seems that the band has managed to turn all setbacks into positive result. The latest album TO BEAST OR NOT TO BEAST is easily one of their strongest releases to date and it was now great to witness the bands positive "monster energy" on stage. Audience was thrilled when Mr.Lordi was doing his famous theatrical tricks and the show truly was a great visual experience. The set was a cleverly built ensemble including four heavier songs from the latest release mixed with bands biggest hits like "Would You Love a Monsterman" and the Eurovision winning track "Hard Rock Hallelujah". Maybe Lordi does not headline as much as they did in the past, but the current line-up is easily the strongest in their history and it shall be granted that musically the band is now in the prime of their career.
The next interesting artist on Friday was one time Guns 'n Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke. The man now performs as a solo artist with his Swedish rhythm section which featured bassist Chris LeMon and drummer Robert Young. Well, Clarke might not be as interesting front man as his former bands singer, but Clarke certainly does have a bunch of decent material in his catalog. It wasn't surprising that "It's So Easy" got the noisiest feedback from the audience but the man's own "Wasn't Yesterday Great", "Tijuana Jail" and "Cure Me or Kill Me" are just brilliant rock songs and they lost not a cent for Guns n Roses classics. All in all, the band played good and tight set and there's nothing to complain.
Lita Ford is one of the very few female hard rockers who have managed to create her own successful and long lasting career. Ford began her career, at the age of 16, in the all-girl band Runaways in the late 70's. She started a solo career in the early 80's and enjoyed great commercial success with her 1988 album LITA which included such hit singles as "Kiss Me Deadly" and "Close My Eyes Forever" which was a duet with legendary Ozzy Osbourne. But a lot of things have changed since the 80's heydays. Ford was out of music business for 15 years and her comeback album WICKED WONDERLAND (2009) was not her strongest album to date.
Lita Ford's live show was about to begin at 10:25 PM but because of some technical problems the show was delayed a bit. About 45 minutes later she was finally on stage and opened up with new LIVING LIKE A RUNAWAY album track "The Bitch Is Back". The song is originally written/recorded by Sir Elton John and it was to a good fit for Lita's set. STILETTO track "Hungry" followed and the crowd started to be very involved in the gig. There was a little quiet phase when the band performed a string of new tracks in a row but always when she announced some early classic the crowd was instantly into it. It was "Gotta Let Go", old Runaways classic "Cherry Bomb" and LITA album hits "Close My Eyes Forever" and "Kiss Me Deadly" which clearly got the best reception from the audience.
Lita Ford played an almost disastrous show in Sweden Rock few years ago, but this performance was like from different planet. Lita was full of energy. She was singing and playing great, she performed with a passion and really loved being on stage. The rest of the band was really tight as well. Former Vinnie Vincent Invasion/Nelson etc. drummer Bobby Rock was amazing behind his kit and his powerful playing indeed brings extra kick for the whole band. Guitarist Mitch Perry (MSG, Asia) was a great addition too and the man played some great guitar harmonies with Lita. Bassist Marty O'Brien (Tommy Lee) looked like quite a stranger on stage with his short hair and peaked cap but his playing was very accurate and efficient. There was not any songs on the set from her best album DANGEROUS CURVES but other than that the show was very entertaining, and Lita Ford proved that now she truly is back!
German power metallers Helloween were the headliners on Friday. The band still enjoys extensive popularity and they attracted easily the largest audience of the day. Unfortunately there were (again) some delays with the schedule and for that reason I managed to miss the first two songs of the Helloween show. The title track of latest album STRAIGHT OUT OF HELL was the third song on the set followed by another new track "Waiting for the Thunder" although Andi Deris first introduced incorrectly (maybe because the songs are similar?) it as "If I Could Fly".
For some reason Helloween didn't have proper lightning during their set and it was really hard to have decent shots from the show. With the exception of a few moments the whole band was basically performing the entire show in the dark. There were few other bands having the same problem before, but I would have thought that this would be in order when we are talking about the headliner here.
However, the band did not let it interfere and they played a decent gig. Deris was still wearing his Gene Simmons t-shirt, Weikath was his own strange character and Grosskopf/Gerstner ran and jumped all over the stage. The set list was pretty much the same what they've been playing earlier this tour and there were no surprises. All in all, this was a good, but a bit of a routine gig from the Germans.


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Stakes rise in Giants-Dodgers rivalry
Updated 11:05 pm, Sunday, February 24, 2013
Mesa, Ariz. -- Don Mattingly's praise for the Giants seemed genuine. Then again, he knew he was talking to a San Francisco writer, and thus a San Francisco audience, so maybe he wanted to play nice.
The Dodgers have given their manager $230 million worth of talent expressly to unseat the Giants as National League West champs and win multiple World Series. In some eyes, that huge investment makes Los Angeles the team to beat in 2013.
Mattingly begged to differ.
"Obviously, we're going to have high expectations on us, especially in the L.A. area," Mattingly said. "I think the people who watch know we're going to have a good club, but I think it's hard to bypass the Giants in any way, shape or form. They've won two out of three, have their whole club back, all their pitching back.
"You always kind of stack them at the top. You start with the world champions as the team you've got to measure yourself with."
The measuring begins Tuesday when the Giants and Dodgers meet for the first of two Cactus League games, with Tim Lincecum facing Josh Beckett.
Any meeting between these teams now will attract more interest because of the Giants' championships and the Dodgers' lavish spending. The rivalry always has been a big deal in California. Now some commentators - from the East Coast, even - suggest that Dodgers-Giants might begin to rival Yankees-Red Sox in national interest.
As anyone on the Eastern seaboard will attest, even New York-Boston exhibitions are a big deal.
The schedule makers did their part to inflate the hype by scheduling a Giants-Dodgers series to start the season, in Los Angeles.
Mattingly knows all about that hype after playing his entire 14-year career in Yankees pinstripes. He said the players do get into it. Then they want to get out of it.
"At some point, when you start playing each other 19 times, you can only build that thing up so many times," he said. "So the players get to the point that when you're done with the series, it's like, 'Ahh, thank God I'm done with those guys for a while,' because you have to deal with all these questions."
Mattingly will deal with worse questions if the Dodgers stumble out of the gate. Supposedly his job is on the line after a player-acquisition spree that was both enviable (who wouldn't want that talent?) and unenviable (who needs those expectations?).
Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said nothing really has changed at Chavez Ravine aside from the payroll total.
"There are always expectations," Colletti said. "I don't know the last time any of us went into the season without expectations, especially in a market like L.A. That's part of sports. That's what we do.
"Unless you're going to be rebuilding - and we're never going to be rebuilding - I think it's incumbent upon everybody to get to October. When you get to October, anything can happen. You'd always rather have talent, and as much of it as you can get."
Cubs 4, Giants 3
Notable: The four first-inning runs against Matt Cain were unearned after Brandon Belt fielded his first groundball of the spring and heaved a high throw to second on a force attempt. ... Gary Brown showed off his speed and defensive skills as he dealt with a ferocious wind and caught several long drives that flew over his head. ... Guillermo Quiroz, a 31-year-old catcher signed to a minor-league contract, drove in two runs for the Giants on a single and sacrifice fly. ... Seven relievers - including Santiago Casilla, Jose Mijares, Dan Runzler and Heath Hembree - pitched one shutout inning each.
Quotable: "Maybe I need to start using my glove." - Cain, after he took a comebacker to the leg for the second consecutive spring
Monday's game: White Sox (Hector Santiago) vs. Giants (Madison Bumgarner), Scottsdale, 12:05 p.m.
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Phoenix Suns president and CEO Rick Welts revealed to the public that he is gay in a story posted on the New York Times' website yesterday, saying he wants to break down one of the last significant social barriers in sports.
Welts talked to NBA commissioner David Stern, WNBA president Val Ackerman, Hall of Famer Bill Russell and Suns guard Steve Nash before discussing his sexual orientation with a reporter from the Times, the newspaper said. All of them offered Welts their support.
"This is one of the last industries where the subject is off limits," the longtime executive told the paper. "Nobody's comfortable in engaging in a conversation."
The Suns did not offer a statement yesterday when contacted by the Associated Press. Messages left with Welts' public relations team were not returned.
Welts is one of the most prominent figures active in sports to openly declare that he is gay, although there has yet to be an active player in the NBA, Major League Baseball or the NFL to make such a statement. Some athletes have done so after their playing careers.
The 58-year-old Welts, who began his career as a ball boy for the Seattle SuperSonics, spent several years with Stern in the league office. He was the architect of the All-Star Weekend and helped raise the NBA's profile before leaving for the Suns' front office.
Welts told Stern about his sexual orientation during a meeting in New York last month.


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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 2 – Intermediate)
Topic: Write in the ADVENTURE genre (05/24/07)
TITLE: Mistaken Identity
By carol woien
I hadn't seen my cousin Candace in years, but as children we had been close, so when she called me six months ago, I agreed to be her maid-of-honor.
My exit loomed in front of me, so with a sigh of relief I pulled off, and found St. Thomas's church. The lot beside the church was crowded, but I squeezed my small rental car into a space between two black Hummers.
I took a deep breath and stepped inside. There were several people already seated, and I was looking around for a familiar face when suddenly I was grabbed from behind. Before I could squeak out a protest, a man whispered in my ear, "You scream, you die. I'm takin' you to Vinnie."
He quickly walked me to one of the aforementioned black Hummers, smiling and nodding at the newly arriving guests as he pushed me to the car. He held me so close, I could barely breathe.
I felt a metal object dig into my side. A gun? What was going on? Who were these people and where was Candace? Tears came to my eyes as I wondered where I would end up. Under the new Yankees stadium maybe?
We reached the Hummer and he threw me in the bag seat where a man yanked my hair back and taped my mouth. I yelped in pain. I looked down and saw the gun in his lap. I closed my eyes and leaned back in the seat trying to rationalize what was happening to me.
We drove for what seemed an hour, and finally pulled into a long driveway. My kidnapper killed the engine of the Hummer. The man in the back ripped the tape off my mouth. "You should be glad we found you," he said. "You didn't really want to end up married to Nicky the Stick, did you?"
"What are you talking about" I asked. "Who's Nicky the Stick?"
He laughed. "Vinnie said you were a feisty one. Come on. He's waiting for you."
We entered the front door of a large stone house. "Hey, Vinnie," my kidnapper called, "we got her."
"In here," a deep voice called.
The men walked, or rather pushed, me into the living room. There was a man sitting in a chair. He looked disturbingly familiar. His black hair was slicked back and his eyes were so dark, they were almost as dark as his hair. He looked around forty and was wearing a ferocious scowl.
He looked me up and down without interest. "Who's she?"
"Whadda ya mean, Vinnie?" my kidnapper asked. "It's Jenna."
"You knucklehead. This ain't Jenna. Who's this broad?"
"I…I thought you said go to St. Thomas. She'd be wearing white. She's wearing white," he stammered.
I was wearing ecru, but it didn't seem prudent to argue the point.
"St. Thomas on Vaux Hall. Is that where you went? And I said she'd be wearing white, as in she'd be the bride." Vinnie looked like he was going to blow an aorta. "That's what I get for doing my brother a favor and letting his son
do me a favor."
"Uh, we went to St. Thomas on Mason Street," stammered my kidnapper.
"That's the Episcopal St. Thomas, Jenna's at the Catholic St. Thomas, you idiot. Get outta here. Go get her. The marriage is in an hour. You two don't bring her back..." He made a cutting motion across his throat.
They bumped into each other trying to leave. Great. Now I was stuck with this nut and no ride home.
"Look, miss. I'm sorry. This has all been a misunderstanding. How 'bout I call you a cab? We forget about this. I mean, you talk about meeting me or my men and…" He made the same motion across his throat. Suddenly I knew where I'd seen him. He was Vinnie Ragonese. Top mob boss of the Ragonese family. He even made the papers in California. I had no doubt he'd carry out his threat.
"Don't worry," I stammered. "I won't say a word, and a cab would be great."
I made it back to the wedding just as they were throwing rice at Candace and her groom.
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This baby's legs were crippled before he had learned to walk
This photograph, taken in Denmark in 1954, shows a young victim of poliomyelitis. WHO was acting as a centre for the exchange of information between researchers who were studying the virus which causes polio. They were working to develop a vaccine to conquer this merciless disease.
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Before you read on, I should clear something up. I'm not the kind of person you'd expect to find at a Hatsune Miku concert. I don't own any kind of games console, and I spent most of the journey to Zepp Tokyo reading the recent Keith Richards autobiography. I stepped onto the platform at Tokyo Teleport wearing rolled up blue jeans, desert boots, a parka and a Fred Perry bag. I'm the kind of person you'd expect to find on a London street corner circa 1964; the kind of person who would dismiss the idea of a hologram concert as futuristic witchcraft.
That said, my idea of a typical Hatsune Miku fan was a long way from reality. This being Cool Japan, I was fully expecting to be the only person without blue, synthetic hair. In fact, I only saw one person wearing full-on Hatsune Miku cosplay gear, knee-length hair and thigh-length boots included, and he was a middle-aged man of about 50 who really ought to have known better. Everyone else was thoroughly normal in appearance. Their behaviour, on the other hand, was more perplexing than the performance itself.
The truth is, I found the entertainment a bit dull. The spectacle of a live band backing an animated character has been done before, and better, notably by Gorillaz. Hatsune Miku 'performs' from inside a large black box – effectively a small, portable cinema screen – and, while the animation is undoubtedly impressive, she just doesn't do very much. You might level the same accusation at the likes of Liam Gallagher, but at least there's emotional interplay between a living singer and his audience, regardless of how little he moves. It seems odd that I should have to point this out, but a good gig is a constant flow of communication: the audience feeding the performer, and vice versa. A Hatsune Miku concert is, in many ways, like watching a concert movie at the cinema – if the person sitting next to you started yelling support at The Last Waltz, you'd probably think them a bit tapped. You might even call the authorities.
And yet, there I was, watching a computer character sing her songs from the big screen while a packed Zepp Tokyo yelled 'kawaii!' and 'ganbare!' The trouble is, when you're the only person behaving 'normally' in such extreme circumstances, you start questioning whether you might be the one with the faulty head. One fan standing next to me kept one eye on the screen and the other on the Hatsune Miku game he was playing on a handheld device. I began to wonder if he was operating the figure on the big screen in some way. I began to experience an existential dilemma.
Out in the foyer, I bumped into an American journalist. 'She's amazing!' he enthused. 'This really is the future'. That made me a little sad. As a diehard music fan, I hope my kids don't have to find their musical feet in a world where gigs are so sterile and harmless, where the roadies roll on the hologram box and then put the kettle on; not a wolf whistle to be heard; nary a bum crack to be laughed at.
I'm aware that I sound like my dad did when I tricked him into playing Music for the Jilted Generation on the car stereo, and I guess Hatsune Miku actually left me feeling prematurely middle-aged in more ways than one (should a girl of that age really be wearing those kind of clothes in public?). I'm aware, too, that the future has plenty of room for both live music and hologram characters, but it seems a shame that a youngster might forego the spit and sawdust of a live gig in favour of waving neon glow sticks at an oversized TV screen. But, as I said to begin with, I'm not the kind of person you'd expect to find at a Hatsune Miku concert. Call me odd, but I find an MIDI pulse is simply not enough.
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In my SharePoint Farm, I wanted to disable certain site templates in site creation page.
Here is the technique for hiding a Site template in SharePoint 2007:
There are XML manifest files found on the file system of the web front end.
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tained in only one of the cases.
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case," he said. "That should
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grand jury. Wayman has prom
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October grand jury."
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to present these cases to the
grand jury at the earliest possible
moment. Why has Wayman not
done so?
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(Kitco News) - Centerra Gold Inc.'s (TSX: CG) revised mine plan for its Kumtor operations located in Kyrgyzstan heavily affected the company's third quarter earnings but according to a company executive, the revised mine plan that caused production issues due to low grade surface stockpile materials is in the rearview mirror.
"The issue that's created that problem is behind us, we won't run into it again and we won't see that challenge going forward," Ian Atkinson, president and chief executive officer of Centerra told Kitco News. "So now, next year as we step into this expansion, we'll be moving more waste next year and we've still got a good production outlook, 600,000 ounces for the year."
The company was forced to revise lower fourth quarter production to 225,000 to 235,000 ounces of gold, putting consolidated production guidance for the year to 415,000 to 425,000 ounces of gold.
While Kumtor did experience difficulties in the third quarter, Centerra put a new mine in place that boosted reserves by 58% to 9.7 million ounces of contained gold in the expanded open pit and extended Kumtor's mine life another five years into 2026.
"That profile (600,000 ounces of gold in 2013) is a little back end loaded but that will be the last year where we have the bulk of our production in the last quarter," Atkinson said. "As soon as we get through 2013 and into 2014, we'll start to release ore on a more even basis and actually start to build some stockpiles very quickly.
"So that means going forward over that 10-year period we'll actually have a thoroughly even production profile on a quarterly and an annual basis and that makes it easier to manage the operation. (It) keeps our costs under control and it's also very good for the Kyrgyz government who receives the taxes from us and they can plan on what revenue we will generate for them. The only variable then becomes the gold price for them," Atkinson said.
Kumtor has had some recent issues with the Kyrgyz government which is looking into operational, environmental, health and safety and community standards which might be affected by the mine.
Centerra said it has been transparent with the Kyrgyz government and the company is waiting on a report from the state commission regarding their investigation.
"We've had numerous requests for information over the three and a half months that we've met, as we've always had," Atkinson said. "We've had visits from the various state commission members, we've given them access to the data and other areas they've needed and wanted to see.
"We've been doing that and will continue to do that until they bring their studies to a conclusion," Atkinson added.
The state commission has experienced delays in submitting their finding to government and parliament.
"They are behind schedule; they were supposed to report back to the government Oct. 1 and then to parliament the first of November," Atkinson said. "One thing they were asked to do as well was bring in some independent experts to help them with the review and that took them a lot longer to actually secure. They didn't manage to get people on board until late August-early September so that's to a certain extent one of the reasons they're probably behind schedule.
"We really don't have any sense of what will be in this commission report, we just work with them to make sure they've got the information that they need," Atkinson said. "We've also put the time in to try and explain everything we give to them so they understand it thoroughly."
This is not the first time Centerra has had to work with the Kyrgyz government as Kumtor has been operating in the country for over a decade.
"We've been operating in Kyrgyzstan now, producing from Kumtor since 1997 and we've gone through two revolutions, five presidents I think and a number of prime ministers and through the changes we've never lost a day's production for any sort of political reason," Atkinson said. "We're such a large part economy, we're 10-12% of the GDP, we're the largest single employer in the country, 96% of our workforce are Kyrgyz nationals. We buy a lot of our materials locally and we're the single largest tax payer in the country.
"We do become a bit of a political football, and that's what's been going on currently, and we'll just work our way through as we've done in the past with constructive dialogue with the government," Atkinson said. "We've always been able to bring these things to a resolution."
Aside from its flagship Kumtor operation, Centerra has been exploring other properties and have seen some positive exploration results.
"We've had a fairly aggressive exploration program for the last few years. One project, the Aoksut in Turkey, is one we're quite excited about," Atkinson said. "We announced the first results on that that we published in February of this year that has shown that we've encountered a fairly interesting oxide-gold zone on the property.
"We're getting some really good drill intercepts, good lengths up to 200 meters of good grade, we've had a couple of holes in there of 2 grams per ton material and all of that is oxides so it's leachable. What that leads to is a low capital cost operation since you're just looking into the heap leach plant so the construction period is much shorter," Atkinson said. "Turkey is a region that's open to foreign investment, especially mining so we're very encouraged about that one."


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Life was art to Schenectady's 'dancing lady'
Street performances, drawings, made Barbara Katz a unique city figure
Updated 7:52 am, Wednesday, November 28, 2012
SCHENECTADY — Barbara Katz was the lady many people knew on sight but knew very little about.
She distinguished herself with her colorfully layered clothes, her dancing at cultural events around the city and the comments she made at televised City Council meetings.
But behind the drawings she regularly handed out to city officials was a life rich with experience, a developmentally disabled woman known as the "dancing lady" who earned the right to be on her own — and live life on her own terms. Katz, who was a fixture of city's streetscape for more than 35 years, died Sunday. She was 76.
"I never had my art displayed at Proctors," said Katz's nephew, Todd O'Brien of Niskayuna, about his aunt's fanciful drawings that had been shown at various downtown sites. "To accomplish all these things is just a gift."
Katz was born in the Bronx and moved to Rotterdam as a girl after her father, Michael, transferred to work at the Army depot in town. She graduated from the Draper School, as did her older sister, Florence.
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But the 1950s brought hard times to the family as Katz's mother, Grace, battled cancer and her father was blacklisted from his Army job. O'Brien said someone had found Katz's mother's name on a list of communist sympathizers from the 1920s. When McCarthyism died down, her father eventually got his job back. Grace Katz, a seamstress, died when her daughter Barbara was 19 years old, and the young woman was subsequently sent to live in an institution in New York City.
O'Brien said he doesn't know the details, but something bad happened to Katz in the institution, and she was transferred to an institution in Utica. After another incident in Utica in the early 1970s, the family was able to move Katz to a halfway house near Schenectady County Community College. Those were the days before the Willowbrook scandal revealed rampant abuse and neglect in state institutions for the disabled and mentally ill.
When Katz began to live on her own, she blossomed. She took culinary classes at SCCC and got a job in the kitchen of the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center, taking the bus every day from her apartment. She worked at the VA for more than 15 years but didn't start to become a beloved local character until after she retired.
Her freewheeling dancing at festivals and the Schenectady Greenmarket is legendary. She continued on with her public persona, even after she battled breast cancer and had a double mastectomy.
Katz lived in a Schenectady Municipal Housing Authority apartment on Broadway, and was going to start getting home care from The Eddy this week. She died of natural causes in her apartment, and will be buried next to her mother in the Temple Beth Israel cemetery in Rotterdam at 11 a.m. Wednesday.
The City Council noted Katz's death at its Monday night meeting, at which members said they'll miss her moves during Jazz on Jay summer concerts. U.S. Rep. Paul D. Tonko's office has reached out to the family, and comments have poured into Proctors' Facebook page. Her artwork was displayed at Anthology Studio in 2010 as part of Art at Proctors.
O'Brien, who owns a video production company, said despite Katz's disability, she was a shrewd lady. She made people believe she had no relatives in order to elicit help. He said she protested whenever he tried to intervene in her life — like trying to get her to clean up her apartment.
Kara Brunk, a designer at Anthology, took Katz under her wing, bringing her friend home one year on Thanksgiving. She would let Katz keep her bags at the store while she did her errands, and Brunk would drive her home when she would see her walking on the street.
"She was just a little old lady who needed a friend," Brunk said. "And I was more than happy to be that for her."
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A raucous memoir of odd jobs and unhappiness by an author who is more drifter than working stiff.
Willing to up-end his life for a shot at earning a few bucks, Levison finds himself by turns a trucker trainee, a fish cutter, an oil deliveryman, and a film-set gopher. He encounters each job at once dutifully and passively, accepting the need for work and working willingly enough, yet never staying with anything beyond three months. This, Levison claims, is a result of having majored in English, which has no practical application. Thus every job is either one he "can't get" or "doesn't want"; rather than stay with one thing he doesn't like, Levison varies the experience. When a job at a high-end food market grows old, he pirates cable professionally. Later, he works for weeks packing crabmeat on a rusty Alaskan tanker. Like David Sedaris in Naked, Levison is able to show each job as both funny and pathetic. Perhaps the best moment comes when he bungles a delivery of home-heating oil. Holding instructions that read "Fill at the donkey's nose," he assumes that a statue of a donkey in the front yard is, in fact, the receptacle and stuffs the oil gun up one of its nostrils. The donkey explodes from pressure. He later finds the intended oil tank beside the donkey and realizes, as he explains to his boss, that "fill" is a noun as well as a verb. Unlike Sedaris, however, Levison offers the reader no narrative arc. In addition, "manifesto" is a misnomer for something that asserts no beliefs and recommends no course of action. Levison is a nihilist who can only complain. Though he has yet to find a job he likes, he is accepting of careerists, seems to support capitalism, and other than wishing he hadn't wasted his money on college, harbors few regrets.
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Happy Friday:)
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. I thought sharing a visual treat might start the weekend on the right foot. I just discovered Love Loans + Linens, a beautiful Australian boutique. Wish I could hop on over to experience this well curated shop. Everything on their online store, is calling my name!


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Inter Coach Andrea Stramaccioni reveals how he felt when his playing career was cut short, the road to the Nerazzurri bench and why Javier Zanetti is "not human."
The 36-year-old tactician is, like Jose Mourinho and Arrigo Sacchi, a man who never got to play in the top flight and became a Coach very young.
"Ending my playing career due to injury was the saddest moment of my young life," he told Sette.
"It was as if in a single moment everything had been destroyed – my dreams of playing in Serie A, but above all of playing professional football. To this day when I kick the ball a few times my knee swells up.
"I put on 15kg as I was so depressed. I was only helped out of that dark time by my family and my studies.
"My small message that I can send is that even in Italy a Coach who was not a famous player, nor related to a star, can reach a big club. 'You made it coming from nothing' is the greatest compliment I can receive.
"I have always tended to spot which players can change roles. I worked at the very bottom of the rung and was also a talent scout for professional clubs, all of which helped me."
Stramaccioni also spoke about his current Inter squad, such as 39-year-old captain Zanetti and striker Antonio Cassano.
"Zanetti is not human – he is beyond human. He's the first to arrive at training and the last to finish, then he stops to perform preventative exercises. This is the secret of his ability to play, after 20 years, every game as if it were his first or his last for Inter.
"As for Cassano, we speak the same language, that of the streets, the way you earn respect in front of your house."
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Alaska images available in new library
A new online service allows interested parties to access more than 800 images of Alaska over the Internet.
The Alaska Photo Library was unveiled by Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer and Department of Community and Economic Development Commissioner Debby Sedwick on June 18. Photos are split into 15 major categories, including natural and man-made scenic attractions, plants and wildlife, Native culture and specific locations such as communities and national parks.
The library was developed by DCED from the former Alaska Film Office and Division of Tourism's slide library for use by the general public. It is not a stock photography service and does not deliver royalty-free images. Visit www.alaskaphotolibrary.org for more information.
Arts council seeks nominees for awards
The Alaska State Council on the Arts is seeking nominees for the Governor's Awards for the Arts.
"What we do with the awards is really showcase and honor individuals and organizations that have done a depth of work that has contributed to the development of the arts in Alaska," said Helen Howarth, executive director of the council.
Last year's winners included Ron Manook, an Alaska Native arts educator who worked in the Fairbanks school district and received his award posthumously, and the Homer Council on the Arts, which received an award for outstanding contributions of an organization.
The 2001 award banquet will take place at the first joint Governor's Awards for the Arts and Humanities on Oct. 25 in Anchorage. Winners receive an artwork crafted to acknowledge their accomplishment.
"We encourage people to just think around their community and identify those individuals or organizations that they think have really done something remarkable over the course of time," Howarth said.
Nomination forms are available on the council's Web site, www.aksca.org, or call (907) 269-6610. The toll free number is 1-888-ARTS-424. Businesses are also eligible for the awards.
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