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[Pages 625- 626]
By Malka Milchtajch- Lorber ZL
Translated by Blima Rajzla Lorber
The Last Action
|In the Ghetto of Chelm nobody remained.
The inhabitants were taken during dawn,
under an intense rain, like animals, to an unknown place.
They were nude and barefooted.
The lines were huge,
they crawled slowly and also slowly they prayed while walking.
The day went away and also did the night.
A new day was breaking.
Their feet and their bones seemed to be broken.
They could not walk anymore.
Even so, they did not surrender.
They went on, they did not surrender.
What will happen, nobody knows.
There were old men, children,
parents carrying packages of sadness and bitterness,
together with the yellow strips around their arms.
Everything very painful.
They walked without rest, without bread nor water.
The streets were dark and it was cold and humid.
The sky cried rivers of tears.
In a low voice, crying, the Jews asked themselves: What will happen to us?
It does not help crying, they said.
They were pushed with weapons, but their strength was at the end.
Nevertheless, they were forced to walk.
Our enemies are riding at our side.
Where will they take us? They asked with their eyes, crying.
Mothers held their children, hugging them strongly.
They remained silent, but their hearts protested:
How did we let them take us like animals to die?
We cannot suffer anymore! Whatever will happen needs to happen.
When somebody was late, he was shot.
The second, the third the hundredth and in their lips words of fear and anger burned.
Nobody saw anything in the darkness.
They only heard shots.
Old men and young men just like trees fell down.
If someone was left behind, a tremor went through his body.
From the ones that were behind, few remained.
A mother shouted: Please, what was our sin? Pity! You stepped on my little child.
They were no more silent and they heard a cry:
Do not kill my child! Only kill me. It is better to kill me.
The weapons went on shooting.
The soldiers beat people with their weapons.
There was no more salvation.
The S.S. soldiers ran and with rage they screamed:
Here, your unfortunate ones, you are blamed for your own misfortune.
Again, a child cried and was still being dragged.
Father, I am not able to go on anymore! I stay here in the forest.
The father begs: Be strong, a little more. Do not stop, walk my son!
And he was already looking his only son, a child, being eaten by dogs.
One more day went away with a lot of suffering.
What will tomorrow bring?
Will the Germans will still be alive?
If parents and children do not die tomorrow,
still these unfortunate Jews will be free, the soldiers screamed.
The hearts beat afraid.
Oh God, soon life will end.
With range and dark the night fell again.
It rained, rained and rained.
A sharp wind blew: the end will be very sad.
And it turned dawn.
In the forest, a plain.
No, it was not imagination, the last hour beat.
We cannot waste time and we should say the last prayer.
The hole was big and fresh.
It will shelter people's sadness.
A soldier's voice was heard: Get to the edge of the hole.
Suddenly, an aged hand raised and turning the face to the bandits,
with the his fist closed the old man spoke:
Innocent blood spilled will never remain silent.
Put an end to this fight, you will not win.
My curse will get to you like a strident blitz.
With all his strength the old rabbi screamed:
Look at me, I will jump first in the hole.
Do not be afraid, because when one cannot live, death is also beloved.
Shots began to be heard and a voice recited Schmá Israel .
Everything was quiet.
No screams were heard anymore.
The earth covered all of them, hiding deep inside the last pain.
|If I still will be able to return.
Destiny I will take me back to my country.
Who will listen to my first cry ?
The one who comes in front of me will give me a warm hand ?
Who will wait for my return from so far ?
Whom will I hug, crying, embraced at his neck, whom ?
The streets were destroyed by the enemies' hands.
Shots were like hail.
The streets I knew so well.
They will be ashamed!
The houses destroyed , in ruins. Broken homes.
The tough stone roads painted with blood and human insides.
In front of me there are graves and shrouds
that will call me for a saint revenge They will pay!
Sometimes, I will not find not even shrouds.
Other times there will not be signs of human bones.
My return is horrible.
The feeling is what will I find.
I will find the tombstones in ruins,
written with the martyrs' blood,
who in Eternity will remind what the murderers did.
All decapitated. No one remained!.
I will neither find my mother nor my father,
nor sisters or brothers, nor friends or relatives.
My town is a desert.
It seems a cemetery, after a gale has destroyed everything.
I will be depressed and pain and suffering will wake up my sadness.
It can be that in Majdaneck crematorium
I will need to seek for a rest of ashes,
in plantations as fertilizer, in Treblinka.
Or to seek in a third death camp or can it be in the tenth.
No powder remained from these of my people who had fallen.
I will not see any writing, tombstone or sign.
To whom will I ask when sadness comes?
So weak and nobody to console me.
I swallow my rage.
They who took everything of good from the martyrs
With a hateful look and with all my anger I can now spit.
As a flame which illuminates the way of the wanderer,
Strong it will bind. Poor wanderer!
For my youth's sad and bitter years,
I will again have to leave my destroyed old home.
From the one who dreamed to return soon.
|He was together with thousands of people,
waiting to be taken to the gas chambers.
He felt his mother's hand pressed his warmly.
See, soon they will take you for the sad action.
He did not see nor listened to anything.
He was feeling his mother's tremor.
Oh God, we didn't deserve such a death!
The look was pale and embittered.
Show us a miracle, we do not deserve such a punishment..
Mindless, her lips murmured:
Worse than death is the mother's suffering.
The voice was suffocated.
He opened his shirt.
Only destiny wanted to play a game on him.
Oh, bad luck! Do not separate us both now!
Oh, foolish boy! You still have a lot to suffer.
Mother, may we not be separated before death.
Glances of envy accompanied him.
Why was he luckier than the others?
But his fate did not bring him happiness.
Inside of him, tears burned as fire.
He was nineteen years old,
with the impulse of youth.
The head, a brown forest.
And the eyes aimed at dreams in the sky.
He knew how strong he was,
he hoped to be a great man.
The only child, he was his mother's pride
and she believed the world would hear from him.
A vigorous body,
firm hands as tree branches.
The chest inspired with energy.
He could not see anybody to be harmed,
he could not silence.
Now, he was feeling as thousands of them.
Fear was on his face.
It is more difficult than death, more difficult!
He felt so depressed with the executioners.
They ordered him and two other boys to go to the place of the slaughter
in order to select and to organize clothes
so that they could be transported in the wagons.
The three friends made a pact.
When the wagons were full,
they, at night, would enter quietly and there, amid the clothes, they would hide.
The train left fast as a ray and in a wagon, hidden, three hearts beat together.
The eyes shone in the darkness, burning.
The way for the station was getting shorter.
A deep sound, cutting as a handsaw, could be heard.
The wind blew the night breeze,
The faster they fled from death's claws.
With thousands screams, the quiet night calls.
He was the first one to jump.
Just as the roar of a shot at night.
The two other ones also fell,
for the prison guards were taking care wagons' roofs.
The train swallowed the night's noise.
It was already dawn.
He walked silently.
He was cleaning up his mouth when he came to and he felt like reborn.
He was alive and the earth his feet stepped on was free.
He approached the two boys and saw them wounded.
You, friends, can not stay here, because the day is breaking.
Look, I am well and healthy and I will take you both with me.
It is as soon as he said that he felt he would not be embarrassed,
and the swollen eyes started opening up, a pain groan kept silent.
Oh!, both of them said at once.
They looked at him but they did not recognize the old man
They jumped all of a sudden and looked at him.
You are well and healthy, you said! Oh, Schmá Israel!
In one hour you got old.
Without believing in that, he pulls some hair off his head.
Oh, Great God, my brown hair is white as snow.
At the age of 19, in blooming of youth, the youngster became an old man.
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By B. Alkwit
Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
With all that the yizkor books, chronicles and scrolls tell of their cities and shtetlekh [towns], they describe Jewish Poland in depth, describe, so to say, the hinterland of the great Jewish uprising: how was it possible, from where did it get its strength that those suffering and bowed rose up, that they became fighters, became heroes - they, the heroes of eternal tolerance, the carriers of Job's patience - heroes and martyrs in the struggle against the enemy in a time when the entire world hit them in the face.
One of the cities was Chelm - the first ghetto uprising was in Chelm.
Chelm, yes, Chelm of the Chelm stories. Who had not heard of Chelm? It was a small city, a poor one and, it was said, a foolish city, as in the stories - of fools, and they also say, sages. But there is no sage whose wisdom is as famous in the world as the nonsense of Chelm - unless, indeed, the wisdom of King Solomon.
The glory of Chelm is like the glory of a wonderful story. There are people who even think that Chelm is itself a story, a fable. But it is here, there was such a city - and for the Chelemer it was a city not just of jests. But the uncertain truth, which gave the city its name, can sometimes be the cause of a mistake that Chelm is also Chelmno, or the opposite - that it probably is motivated by the publisher of a Yiddish book - it is quite a distance from here to Posen [Poznan] on the other side of Warsaw. Chelm is also east of Lublin, not far from the Bug River; Zamosc, where Y. L. Peretz was born, is to the south.
Chelm was a very old Jewish city, on a mountain - just as in the stories, but Jews lived in the valley in great Jewish poverty. There was one street there with stairs. It was the oldest Jewish street, but it was called Neye [new] Tsal and the stairs led down to the market, to commerce, and to Minkhah-Maariv [afternoon and evening prayer] in the large synagogue, in the ancient House of Study. In the 1930s, the population of the city numbered 30,000 souls, approximately half Jewish.
The beginning of the history of the Jews in Chelm is in the wall of the synagogue. Here in the wall is hidden the grave of the groom and bride who perished under the khupah [wedding canopy]
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in the synagogue courtyard during the slaughter by Chmielicki's Cossacks. The Cossacks slaughtered 400 Jews. With the strength of a new Jewish generation, Chelm restored itself. The famous Chelemer Yeshiva [religious secondary school] grew. Reb Elihu bel-Shem [miracle worker] arose. And in our time, a Shmuel Zigelboim (Arthur). Zigelboim was the manager of the worker home, which the Bund founded in Chelm.
How the treasure of folklore was created here is hard to say. Researchers have found that by the 16th century stories were told in poor Chelm about other foolish cities - Gotham in England, Schildberg in the former Germany - settled by Jews. But the Chelm stories are different, different in their morals, their general fantasy - there communal assemblages.
A meeting is called about all of this. The rabbi is here; the parnes-khoydesh [monthly city official] is here; but Chelm, Jewish Chelm is the oldest democracy in Europe. Even if someone would come in with an idea, as for example, let us capture the moon in a barrel of water, he is heard and the parnes-khoydesh calls a meeting.
The bloody scroll of the events after the meeting is now assembled. The first news, the yellowed clippings that lie before me like sacred old documents, was written by Yitzhak Fajgenbaum, a well known worker for Poalei-Zion in Poland, at his return to America at the beginning of January 1941.
He described:
This that happened in Chelm has no equal in the entire martyrdom of the Jews of Poland under the Nazi regime because in Chelm there was something that could not be expected, namely, an armed resistance of Jews against the Nazis; there the Jews fought like lions
This was in November, when the Nazis hung out announcements across the entire city that all Jews in Chelm must leave the city during the course of three days and go in the direction of Lublin. Chelm is not far from Lublin, but a spirit of rage and opposition enveloped the Jews and voices were heard that they would not go. The Chelemer Rabbi turned to the Nazi commander asking to be permitted to call several businessmen to organize the departure from the city.
There were three opinions among the Jews who assembled with the rabbi. One - obey and surrender
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to their bitter fate. A second opinion was that it is better to die here before dragging themselves on the roads and being tortured by the Nazis in an unfamiliar place. And the third opinion was - fight against the Nazis. Yes, there were those who said that they would not let themselves be chased like dogs. Before they would leave the world, they would give the smell of gunpowder to the Nazis. They would fight and take as many Nazi bandits with them to the other world as they could.
Yitzhak Fajgenbaum says that the representatives at the third meeting were two prominent Chelemer Jews, one a doctor and the other a lawyer. No one tried to argue with them, against them. There were no arguments. The situation was just discussed a little; the bestiality committed by the Nazis in the city, the looting, the violence and rapes, were described.
Now, however, the Nazis began to go through the houses, to violently drag the Jews to Lublin; they had to respond with a blow and the murderers were answered with fire.
The uprising was carried out with guns. The guns and a few bullets were brought home from the army when the Polish army crumbled, by young people, former soldiers and reserves.
The power that the Germans then had in Chelm was not enough when the Chelemer opened fire. The Nazis called out reinforcements to defeat the uprising. And here is a report from the Silesian Zeitung [Newspaper], dated the 12th of January 1940.
In Chelm, the Nazi newspaper relates with sadistic pleasure, our fighters had both a difficult and an easy assignment. The easy assignment was when they entered the Jewish houses in order to send the Jews to Lublin, It was discovered they had committed suicide. The Jews did not wait for us to be done with them, but eliminated themselves. Others presented a fight against the government and shot at our soldiers with Polish guns. These were reservists who were dropped from the Polish army and did not surrender their weapons. The local regime immediately set the houses on fire, smashed and annihilated the attackers.
Thus the great regime of the Third Reich, in its conquering march across Europe, also led to the uprising of the Chelemer Ghetto and the Chelemer Jews. The Silesian Zeitung writes, The Jews 'received a lecture about how to conduct themselves against the German army.'
Those who remained alive were forced on the road to Lublin.
But the plan for a reservation for Jews in Lublin collapsed and some of the Chelemer returned to Chelm. In time, Jews from the surrounding shtetlekh began to arrive - and later - also from other countries.
At first it was not known what this meant. Some
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time passed and nothing was heard - there was enough to be heard, so they did not ask about Chelm. But frightening rumors began to arrive and then confirmed reports that the world, as well as the non-Jewish bloodied world, actually became struck with fear about them.
The Germans transformed Chelm into a death-center for Jews not only from Poland. Jews were brought here from the Russian Ukraine, from White Russia, from Holland, Belgium and Czechoslovakia and Greece. It was a slaughterhouse and here they experimented on the Jews with scientific death. They tested gases; Jewish old men, women and children were gassed in order to see how they worked, if they could be used in gas attacks and before finally - annihilating, exterminating the Jews from Poland, from Europe.
This was seen while seeking and researching chemical methods of war, which Hitler's chemists worked on for gas attacks on the Allied armies or also on the population.
Anthony Eden, England's Foreign Minister, read to Parliament the reports about what was happening in Chelm in the form of a declaration and the American Secretary of State included the declaration among the State Department documents, which he presented to the public.
This was at the beginning of 1943. Later when Hitler's collaborators were tried in Nuremberg as war criminals and criminals against humanity it was learned what they had done in Chelm.
Then an issue of the German journal Di Handlung [The Action] arrived in America with a memoir by the German, Paul Herzog, who served in the German army in Chelm. His memoir is called: Chelm - a Mountain of Skulls. And this mountain was received in America as the first confession of regret by a German.
In his confession he describes the systematic routine savagery of the Germans on crushed and trampled people, when they fell at work. He describes the camp of prisoners, how beaten and wild non-Jews were incited to take revenge on the Jews for the debasement they endured, for the blows they received from the Nazis; how the imprisoned were held in earthen stalls in the camps and literally were transformed into cannibals.
Part of this memoir by Paul Herzog needs to be included in the scroll of Chelm, the nearly legendary city, on a mountain that once swarmed with stories about fools, stories of jests. But the German devils made a mountain of skulls out of the mountain of stories and a valley of death out of the valley.
This was in 1943. At the end of May, in that year of destruction, a famous Chelmer Jew - Shmuel Zigelboim, the Jewish representative to the Polish government in exile in London - united the hearts of the world with his suicide in protest against the indifference to the annihilation of the Jews in Poland.
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By Moishe Gantz
Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
It was in the month of July 1944. I was then in the ranks of the Red Army in a forest in the Kowaler area. One night the strong movement of people was heard. This was a Polish military division that occupied a place in the same forest area. Only the dirt road divided them from our members of the Red Army.
The leader of the Polish soldiers reported then that Chelm was freed of the Hitler hangmen.
After several shots of salute, the Polish and Russian soldiers came together, sang, danced, played harmonicas together.
When I heard that there were no more German murderers located in Chelm, I began to think of various ideas. I had a great desire to go to Chelm to see who remained alive. But the idea was disrupted - I was in the military, at a position and the military duties were colossal.
On the same night, a member of the Red Army came to us with seven German captives. I observed the Germans by a weak kerosene lamp. I asked them from where they came. One, a yeke [derogatory term for a German, often a German Jew] from Leipzig, told me that he had been taken prisoner in Chelm. I immediately asked him how long he had been in Chelm and through which streets he had gone. From him I learned that Jewish Chelm was juden-rein [free of Jews].
At daybreak we loaded the vehicles with ammunition and food and started on our way. We drove past Ljubomil; I remembered the shtetl. In 1939, when I left Chelm I had been there for several weeks. I looked and wondered: where are the Jews? The shtetl was enveloped in deathly quiet. The windows of the houses were sealed with boards. The shtetl was emptied with no bit of life.
At the crossroad stands a member of the Red Army, directing heavy military traffic. We travel farther, in the direction of Chelm. We stop in Jagodzin. I go to a peasant, take from him - for we soldiers - a few potatoes and sour milk. Our group eats, smokes an inferior kind of tobacco. I want to know if we were going to Chelm, but we are not supposed to ask because only headquarters knows the routes. This is a great military secret.
My every limb trembled. My thoughts were taken by my home city. I then went to our chief, a first lieutenant, and in fear asked him if we are going to Chelm. I asked him cautiously in order that he not have any suspicion. I told him that I was a Jew from the city of Chelm, born there and had lived there until 1939.
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The chief pleasantly answered me that we were going to Chelm, adding that he would help me look for my family.
We crossed the temporary bridge over the Bug River. Our vehicle went fast. I looked around; at first everything looked unfamiliar. But I immediately recognized several roads and woods, Chelm's neighboring villages.
The former Sobor [cathedral], the tips of the Catholic Church were visible in the distance. My heart began to beat quickly. We entered Chelm through the train street. Our vehicle stopped on the corner of Sienkiewicza and Szkolna. I exited the automobile, looked around me; my first look fell on Szkolna Street. I looked into the large courtyard of Mr. Borukh Wajnrib (Tsales) - a deathly silence. Where were the many Jewish families of the courtyard? Where were the shoykhetim [ritual slaughterers], the butchers, the fur pelt traders and artisans? I sought, searched, perhaps I would notice someone, but there was no sign of life.
I looked at the other side, in the direction of the Talmud-Torah [primary religious school for poor boys]; I was looking with a
(Photo, caption: Empty square and the ruin where the Kuzmir shtibl [one-room prayer house] of the Kuzmirer Rebbe, may the memory of a righteous man be blessed, was located.)
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great thirst for a Jewish face, straining my eyes, I searched for the Jewish children who made noise here day and night, strained my ears, perhaps I would hear a childish voice, a Jewish voice from the open windows of the Jewish homes. But it is dead silent. Everything is dead, no trace of a soul.
I went farther along Szkolna Street, closer to the center of the city. I went by the spot where the large old synagogue had been located for centuries. It was a ravaged square with clods of earth and stones. I stood with a grieving heart.
I went to the corner of Szkolna-Lubelska Streets; it was quiet here, too, no living soul. From the Rynek [market place] I noticed that our house was no longer here and the entire Przechodnia Street, the opposite from Berish Kuper's building, stood in ruins.
I move closer to the location of our house. I see a little pile of stones and scraps. I go to my chief and lead him to the house where my family and I had lived until 1939.
I go across the skating ground steps. I look for the Jewish women, the women merchants, the young kheder [primary religious school] boys, the Jewish water carriers, the artisans, the tailors, the shoemakers, the cabinetmakers, the bakers - where are they all?
I went to Josef Goldhaber's apartment. I entered; a Polish family lived there. I
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asked them, what happened to the Chelmer Jews? The Polish woman answered that she had been living here only a year and she did not know anything
I entered the house of the Shvartser Bekerin [the dark woman baker]; Christians lived there, too. I stood as if my feet had been knocked out from under me and saddened. [It felt as if] there was drilling in my brain: Where can one learn anything? Where can one find a Jew?
A Pole suddenly arrived from somewhere; I asked him if any of the many thousands of Jews who had lived here were still alive. The Pole indicated that a few Jews lived at Pszczowa Street, number 39. I went there immediately. In the courtyard I met Izer Blachermacher, who stood in fear. I told him that I was a Chelemer Jew; I mentioned my family. A few more Jews immediately appeared, skeletons, among them: Monis Cytrin, Yehiel Szczupak. At first they did not recognize me, but they immediately fell on me, hugged, kissed and cried heavily with hot, boiling tears.
I asked if they knew about my family. Crying deeply, they told me that no one survived; their close family members also perished; the Hitler murderers brutally annihilated all of the Jews, young and old.
Then I understood and clearly saw the dark end of more than 18,000 Jews.
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Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
Name and family name: Ruth Englender
Residence until the war: Chelm
Education: Student in the 6th class of the Hebrew Public School in Berlin, Schlachtersee.
I was born in Chelm, Lublin Voivodie [province] in 1933. The city was not large, but it was interesting to me.
We lived in Chelm until the outbreak of the war. The war with the savage Germans began in 1939. Chelm was the first city in Poland that was bombed by the Germans. I was then six years old. Although I cannot remember everything or impart it all in writing, I will try to communicate several memories and facts that I can never forget.
When the first bombs fell on the city, everyone in the confusion ran to wherever they could. We ran to an orchard and crawled on the ground in order to save ourselves from the bombs. I was running then and became separated from my mother, not knowing where she was. I lay completely still, with a neighbor. I only whispered this question to him: I beg you, tell me if we will stay alive?... I repeated these words several times in deadly fear.
The terrible bombardments lasted for several hours. When things became quiet, I saw the destruction of Chelm and the blood of shattered people.
We escaped to a village to a Polish acquaintance on the second day in order to calm our nerves a little and to free ourselves of the fear of death that floated over us. It was calmer in the village than in the city. We hid in the village for a month. Then we returned to the city where great anxiety and fear reigned. It was continuously said that the Germans would enter in a week.
However, the Red army entered and urged everyone to go to Russia where it was calm, quiet and there was no war.
My mother decided without wavering to go away to Russia. She folded a pack of things and we left Chelm with other people in overflowing trucks and arrived in the western Ukraine.
In about a month an uproar about passports began. Every refugee had to apply for a passport that only provided the right to live in a village. Therefore the large majority of escapees from Poland did not want to obtain passports because it was said that they would be sent to Siberia with these passports.
Finally, one day the Soviet regime brought together all of the Jews without passports and they
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were sent to Siberia by transports with up to 50 people in a train wagon. It was very suffocating and difficult to breathe. There was no water to drink in the wagon.
We traveled under guard in such conditions for more than a month until we arrived in Siberia. It was winter. We lived in barracks that were crowded and dirty. Several built barracks and others worked in the forest to earn a piece of bread.
It was very bad for us there in Siberia. People walked around swollen from hunger. Through a miracle, we were only in Siberia for a few months.
We left Siberia for the Urals. Life there was a little easier. My mother was employed in construction work and I went to study in a school.
The German-Russian War broke out in 1941 and all of the Jews were freed from the barracks and the camps. After living in the Urals for a year, we were permitted to live anywhere in all of the Russian cities where anyone wanted to live. We then traveled to Asia.
In Asia we settled in a kolkhoz [collective farm]. My mother spun cotton and I helped. However, it was difficult to live from this work and my mother was forced to sell several of the things she had brought with her from Poland in order to buy a little barley flour.
We lived in Asia for four years. In one regard it was good for us there because I had the opportunity to study in a Polish school. However, we waited impatiently for the end of the war in order to return to Poland.
When the war ended in 1945, the happy news arrived that we had waited for during our long wandering that we could be repatriated to Poland. We left for Poland immediately, but we also found that our home had been destroyed and saw the destruction with our own eyes. We learned the facts of the terrible slaughter of the Jews. Therefore, we immediately decided to leave Poland as soon as possible.
Now we are in Berlin and I am studying in the Hebrew school with which I am very satisfied. We now wait for the day when we will leave here, from the land of the assassins and murderers.
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Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
Sitting in the center from right to left: Sh. Szafran, Retich, M. Sztajn, Y. Zilbersztajn,
Chaim Feldhendler, M. Lang, Berl Liberman, (unknown woman), B. Feldhendler.)
|The heart has become empty and hollow.
The joyful nights a sad morning.
A deep tear brings pain somewhere
A dark cloud sways over the head.
Memories run, run back through the years,
Deep in tears, the wound infected,
Where are our comrades, young, dear friends,
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|Studied with Reb Avraham Yitzhak the melamed in the kheder.[1]
Learned to be pious, to not commit any sins.
And pale Jews, driven in multitudes,
It was the devil who shot and murdered them:
H. Sziszler
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Let us celebrate the life and work of Czech New Wave director Věra Chytilová.
Věra Chytilová, a central figure in the radically experimental Czech New Wave who passed away on March 12, 2014 at the age of 85, is best known for her stunning film Daisies (1966). Chytilová called the film "a philosophical documentary in the form of a farce," which is a good way to phrase it. Daisies is best described as a Brechtian comedy about two young women who loll around naked as they talk directly to the audience about philosophical questions.
A prototypical New Wave feminist film, complete with direct political statements ("everything is spoiled for us in this world"), jarring editing (the narrative sequences of the two women are intercut with stock images of buildings falling apart), and existential ponderings (the women state that "if you are not registered, [there is] no proof that you exist"), Daisies remains a classic of the era, which shocked and surprised audiences around the world when it was first released.
The suppressed violence of Bourgeois culture is suggested through a bizarre orgy sequence, and the wildly experimental visuals are underscored by gunshots on the soundtrack, as the camera pans over the ruins of a city. It is nearly impossible to describe the frantic pace, dazzling beauty, and the revolutionary qualities of Daisies; Chytilová's avant-garde use of brilliant colors, her rapid fire editing, and her approach to film itself was in many ways more revolutionary than that of Jean-Luc Godard and the other, better known directors of the French New Wave.
Not surprisingly, Daisies was almost immediately banned by the Czech authorities, but not before Chytilová's film won the Grand Prix at the Bergamo Film Festival in Italy in 1967. Indeed, Daisies was perceived as being so subversive film and controversial that Chytilová was not allowed to make films for several years after the film's release. But with the recent release of a magnificently restored version of the film from Criterion in DVD and Blu-Ray format, Daisies is now being rightly being hailed as "an aesthetically and politically adventurous film that's widely considered one of the great works of feminist cinema."
After a number of years, Chytilová was able to return to film making, which she continued throughout her life, a life that we should mark with celebration. So break out the bubbly and enjoy a screening of Daisies, a film that continues to dazzle audiences and inspire young filmmakers: here are just a few of the sites that are celebrating both the film, and Chytilová's lifetime of work — see these links to Dazed, The AV Club, ABC News for more on this deeply important and influential artist, as well as this list of online sources on Chytilová's work from Kinoeye.
If you have not seen Daisies, you are in for a real Dadaist treat; this is bold, adventurous filmmaking that breaks all the rules, an authentic feminist vision which has gathered additional power and resonance with the passing of time, and is now considered one of the key works of the Czech New Wave, and of experimental cinema as a worldwide artistic movement. Chytilová was, simply, a master filmmaker.
Věra Chytilová, an authentic original, and a deeply visionary filmmaker.
About the Author: Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is a Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and co-editor of the book series New Perspectives on World Cinema from Anthem Press, London. Her many books include 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation (2011) and the second, revised edition of A Short History of Film (2013), as well as Class-Passing: Social Mobility in Film and Popular Culture (2005), Identity and Memory: The Films of Chantal Akerman (2003), and Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity (1997). Her book Women Filmmakers: A Bio-Critical Dictionary, which covers the work of hundreds of women filmmakers, is considered a classic in the field of feminist film studies.

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Dr. Marasco brings growth-stage business development and operational experience to the company
through his 28 year career of commercializing chemical and biochemical technologies. Prior to joining
Diffinity, he served since 2007 as CEO and board member of Chiral Quest Corp., a US headquartered fine
chemical and active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing firm. Dr. Marasco has served in several
other leadership roles in both early stage and publicly traded firms including Dow Chemical, Beckman,
and Kaneka, where he built a $70 M business in custom product collaborations with major
pharmaceutical firms. He earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from University of Virginia, and was
awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in Biochemistry at the Walter Reed Medical Center. Dr. Marasco's
international and technical business experience will also aid Diffinity in exploring additional markets and
applications for its proprietary molecular separations technologies.
The Company also announces that Jeffrey L. Helfer will be stepping down from his role as CEO and
member of the Board of Directors. He will continue employment with the Company in a new product
and business development role and as an Executive Advisor through the transition of leadership. The
Diffinity Genomics Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Marasco to the board to replace the vacancy.
These changes are all part of the Diffinity's succession plan to help ensure that the Company has access
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It's that time of year, where we start seeing the familiar faces of summer. With less than 40 days until Opening Day (37 to be exact) it's time to get the fire burning. Seasonal Managers and Supervisors have arrived once again to get ready for the opening deadline of April 3rd. DUN DUN DUN! Training begins in less than 3 short weeks, so the winters work of updating thousands of pages of training and procedural documents is being finalized and printing has begun. And of course CLEANING! CLEANING! CLEANING!
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DURHAM, N.C.—Apparently, the end of Ryan Kelly's absence from the Duke lineup is near.
Steve Wiseman, the Duke beat reporter for The Herald-Sun, reports that the versatile 6-11 senior who has been sidelined a month with a foot injury will play Saturday night against Miami. Game time is set for 6 p.m. ET (ESPN).
Kelly hasn't played since Jan. 8, and Duke is 9-4 in his absence. He was on crutches for most of his absence but was in uniform and went through pregame warm-ups Thursday at Virginia.
Kelly's importance to the Blue Devils can't be understated.
He has the size and strength—and, maybe most important, the know-how—to battle with opposing big men in the paint, and he has the versatility to step out on the perimeter and knock down 3-pointers. Without Kelly, the Duke offense has sputtered at times, as the paint clogged up, eliminating room for star center Mason Plumlee to operate and closing lanes for Quinn Cook at the other guards to penetrate, a staple of the Duke attack.
With Kelly, the Blue Devils were 15-0 with big nonconference victories against Louisville, VCU, Ohio State, Minnesota, Kentucky and Temple. They had all but wrapped up a No. 1 seed by early January and looked like a favorite to win the national championship.
Without him, they lost two of their first three games. And even though the Blue Devils won eight of 10 games after that, they didn't exactly look like national championship contenders. They learned to survive Kelly's absence—Amile Jefferson and Josh Hairston adequately filled in Kelly's minutes at power forward, and other players picked up the scoring load—but they weren't thriving.
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Plug this into your retirement planning budget for 2014: The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the cost of living adjustment, or COLA, for 2014 will be 1.5 percent, slightly less than 2013's 1.7 percent. The official announcement will be made in the middle of October.
The COLA not only affects Social Security, it also sets the annual increases for federal retirees; Supplemental Security Income, known as SSI; military retirement, and veterans' pension benefits. Plus, eligibility for Medicare extra help, Medicaid and eligibility for federal and many state food and housing assistance programs also are tied to the annual COLA.
If you were receiving the average worker's Social Security retirement benefit of $1,224 in July, your increase, effective Jan. 1, would likely be $18.36 per month or about $220 a year. Don't spend it all in one place.
In his 2014 budget request, President Barack Obama proposed using a different COLA calculation, the chained CPI, as a way to help control the cost of Social Security. The House Republican Study Committee also has urged adoption of the chained CPI. With bipartisan support, there is a good possibility the chained CPI could become reality as early as 2015 -- it's too late for 2014.
If the chained CPI were to be implemented -- this is just a hypothetical -- the 2014 COLA increase would be about 0.25 percent lower, or 1.25 percent, in 2014. That would make next year's increase for the average Social Security recipient about $15 a month -- $3 lower than it will be with the current calculation. Over 10 years, the National Association of Retired Federal Employees estimates that the average Social Security recipient would lose a total of $240.
The good news is that the chained CPI would make a significant difference in the amount of money the federal government spends on Social Security. The Congressional Budget Office estimated in March that if the chained CPI were implemented in 2014, that it would save Social Security $127.2 billion from 2014 to 2023.
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A DRUG dealer avoided jail for peddling heroin on the streets of Basildon.
Ade Bakinson, of Glenmere, in Vange, received a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, when he appeared at Basildon Crown Court.
The court heard on January 20 last year police spotted Bakinson acting suspiciously in London Road, Basildon.
Bakinson ran off, but was caught by police.
During a struggle, he tried to swallow three packets of heroin diamorphine weighing a total of 0.4g.
Police recovered the drug, along with a mobile phone that was being used to make pick-ups and collections of the drug, as well as £503 in cash.
The court heard the 22- year-old, who has a twoyear- old son, had been addicted to smoking heroin mixed with cannabis for about three years.
He had been selling drugs to feed his own habit, but was now trying to address it.
The court was told his family, who live in Vange, had not wanted anything to do with him while he was addicted.
However, his mum was now willing to have him back in the house.
Bakinson admitted at an earlier hearing one count of possession of a class A drug with intent to supply.
In addition to the suspended sentence, Bakinson was placed under the supervision of the probation service.
He was also ordered to attend the Thinking Skills Programme and a 16-month drug rehabilitation course.
Sentencing him, Judge Ian Graham said: "Drug dealing is a very serious social problem and those who deal in class A drugs can expect to go to prison.
"However, I am told that you havemade efforts while in custody to engage with your drug problems and you are at a stage where you are ready to rebuild your life.
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In its first study to redistribute equipment in 25 years, the city of Dallas has decided that one of the fire trucks from Station 11 on Cedar Springs Road should be sent to south Oak Cliff near Duncanville.
Oak Lawn residents responded with a Facebook page and urged calls to Councilwoman Angela Hunt, whose district includes that side of Cedar Spring Road. The Facebook page Save DFD Truck 11 had about 500 "likes" by Friday morning. A Blogspot website has also been created.
A video report from WFAA is below.
From the "Save Truck 11" website:
Why is this important?
For over 100 years, Truck 11 has faithfully served the Cedar Springs community: A densely populated neighborhood filled with high rise buildings, multi-unit apartment complexes, shopping centers, complex streets, hotels, restaurants, schools, hospitals, and homes. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year Truck 11 stands ready to rapidly respond whenever called upon to assist you. Truck 11 is staffed by a diverse mix of highly skilled personnel who have chosen to work in and serve this community by providing the high level of protection and assistance you deserve and have come to expect. The crews of Truck 11, through years of experience and dedication, know this area: the streets, the buildings, and you, the people.
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Think tankers think they run the world, but I think they waste money with opinions generated by highfaluting know-it-alls not really accomplishing anything much in the overall scheme of things.
There were 6,826 think tanks from 182 countries identified by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania and invited to participate in a listing and ranking of the most prestigious think tanks involved in public policy research and initiatives during 2012-2013.
Of course, the U.S. leads the world in think tanks with 1,828 of them identified by TTCSP. A far second is China with 426 think tanks. The United Kingdom and India are next in a close race of 287 and 268 respectively.
So, what are these thinkers thinking about or trying to tinker with? The TTCSP goes into this by classifying each think tank in areas of emphasis in a recently released 117-page report.
Here are the four high-level classifications of think tanking: Top Think Tanks in the World (with three subcategories), Top Think Tanks by Region (subcategories of 10 regions of the world), Top Think Tanks by Area of Research (there are 12 categories of research) and Top Think Tanks by Special Achievement (there are 22 achievements).
You might guess that think tanks focusing on agriculture would earn a subcategory somewhere in this listing process, but that isn't the case. After reading about several of the think tanks, it is obvious that many of these think tanks take on projects related to agriculture and try to significantly impact public policy on ag in countries all over the world.
The closest I could find to focusing on agriculture was the subcategory of Top Environment Think Tanks. There were 70 of them in this subcategory. The top 10 think tanks in this subcategory are as follows: 1. World Resources Institute (U.S.), 2. Stockholm Environment Institute (Sweden), 3. Worldwatch Institute (U.S.), 4. Brookings Institution (U.S), 5. Resource for the Future (U.S.), 6. Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (U.S.), 7. Earthwatch Institute (U.S.), 8. Chatham House (UK), 9. Ecologic Institute (Germany), 10. Earth Institute (U.S.).
Some of these think tanks are familiar to some of us, but what do they accomplish or have they accomplished that supports U.S. agriculture and the environmental efforts of American farmers and the agricultural industry to feed much of the world?
I recognize some of the top 10 environmental think tanks as activist organizations that issue news releases opposing big farming and conventional farming. A bigger share of the environmental thinker organizations quietly do their thing, whatever that is. It makes me think of documents being handed off to politicians in back rooms out of the public's sight—passing along reports similar to a CIA analysis of threats to the world's security.
And then when I read about the money that these think tanks use to come up with their opinions, I became even more amazed. Those who want to think about the best way for all of us in the world to live should be doing it like the best non-profit organizations—spending only a few cents per dollar on overhead—in my opinion. All totaled, it appears the savings of operating on a shoestring would free up billions of dollars to actually be used for transforming the world as a better place—rather than paying blowhards with high opinions of themselves penning opinions.
I was tipped off to the stupidity of having all these think tanks by a news release from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs that ranked number 11 in the subcategory of Think Tanks to Watch. I guess being watched is a positive thing. This was reportedly the first time this think tank appeared in the TTCSP. The council was also number 36 in the subcategory of Best Managed Think Tanks and number 60 in the subcategory of Top Defense and National Security Think Tank in the World. Wow, the council came out of nowhere to be leaders. The "Foreign Policy in the New Millennium" was ranked number five on the Best Policy Study/Report by a Think Tank.
Now what's concerning to me is that the Chicago Council on Global Affairs also brags that it "has expanded its contributions to policy discussions on topics such as global agriculture and food security, immigration and energy."
I wonder if these thinkers actually know the difference between a plow and a planter, but they can write winning reports. Maybe this Chicago think tank got involved in opinions about the farm bill in Congress and made it an easy situation to quickly pass a farm bill, or maybe they are claiming they didn't get involved but could have saved us all the problems if their opinions had been followed. I don't know the situation.
All I know is that thinking and writing reports doesn't solve problems, taking action solves problems. Operating groups to think extremely hard and overly long can also reduce the money available to take action.


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Yeah, people like to bet on a winner, so I definitely foresee a spike once it gets closer to the top.
I wasn't holding out for any particular reason, just knew I had til the 12th to do it.
I'm sure there are tons of procrastinators like me out there.
My seller/trader/buyer feedback:
MOTUC Most Wanted: 1) Stridor 2) Road Ripper 3) Dragon Walker 4) Land Shark
New speech about Castle Grayskull by ToyGuru
#21: Castle Grayskull
It isnt just a toy. Its a pop culture icon. The original Castle Grayskull playset from 1982 has lived on well beyond its playtime and truly set the standard for what a toy playset should deliver. From the mysterious skull face to the action packaged throne room dungeon trap, how many of us just spent hours and hours of our childhood lugging that bad boy around playing out countless adventures for He-Man and his pals.
Until recently I never thought a playset could ever come out that would rival the original Castle. While playsets were a hallmark of the 80s, in recent years (and decades) we have seen decline in action figure real estate for a variety of reasons. But those monster sets of the early 80s will always remain lasting icons of an era when muscle-bound warriors ruled the living room, defending freedom and playtime everywhere.
Its no secret that weve wanted the current Masters of the Universe Classics line (available each month on Mattycollector.com!) to become the greatest MOTU line of all time (if not one of the greatest toy lines of all time). Putting out any MOTU line that could even challenge the original is an endeavor unto itself.
But over the last 4 or 5 years, the MOTUC team has really stepped up to the plate and created some of the coolest, most amazing adult collector figures ever made. Weve covered people, beasts, gorillas, giant dragons and even flying boats. But we havent yet gotten to the center piece of them all. The playset.
Well, now the time has come. Fan demand helped it happen, the Hoverboard pre-order sale made it plausible. And now if we hit our minimum order by November 12th, the MOTU fans will do what no other fan base for any toy line has been able to prove- that they ARE big enough to support large playsets and want to see these happen!
Weve had our presale up for about two weeks now and are getting close. But we cant close the gap without your help. If you are on the fence about whether or not to buy a Castle Grayskull, let me see if I can talk you over to our side of the yard.
A lot of folks have looked at not just the price, but the actual footprint of the Castle and wondered where am I even going to put that? Well, youve got a lot of options. We did design the Castle to display as many figures as possible, even adding a third level across the top to attack or defend from below. Some fans have noted they really only want a Castle façade to use as a backdrop. If you only want a one-sided façade as a backdrop, simply only assemble the front half of the Castle. Just like the vintage set, our new MOTUC Castle Grayskull swings open and closed. If you have limited shelf space or only want the front side behind your collection, you can simply detach the back half (just like the vintage set) and display only the front half!
But there is another factor to consider.
As a collector myself, I know how valuable shelf space is. And finding room for a full Castle Grayskull in your current toy room or man cave (or woman cave!) is often challenging. One thing I would throw out there from my good friends on the Back to the Future brand is to think about this playset fourth dimensionally.
This Castle Grayskull isnt just for now. It isnt just for tomorrow or even next week. This Castle Grayskull is for the next 30 years.
It really isnt every day or even every decade that Mattel can offer a MOTU playset. This is a rare thing. (Heck, quite literally, this is only the third Castle in 30 years, so I guess that means weve done one a decade at this rate, right?)
But this one is different. This is CLASSICS Castle Grayskull.
This is the one we have all waited for. It is in scale with our 6 figures and chock full of every detail, crammed with accessories, and ideally will be sculpted to perfection soon (once we hit that minimum number of pre-orders on Nov 12th!). And for those a little unsure, it does include ALL of the items shown in the blueprints. We hope to add more, but there wont be less.
This is the playset designed to last for the adult collector. The chance of doing this again or offering anything like this in another way is pretty slim, especially if this one doesnt go through. Ever since Classics debuted 5 years ago, fans have been asking for this centerpiece. Now is the time.
If you are on the fence, as both the brand manager for MOTU and a fan, I suggest it is time to get off and support this playset. It truly is in the fans hands. We cant make this playset without you. We all want this. Weve been asking for it for years. Mattel finally found a way to make it happen, but it can only go forward with your support.
You may not have the room to display the Castle today. Personally, I own thousands of toys and for the most part they are in large rubber bins in storage. I simply dont have room to display everything I own or even want to (especially with a 2 ½ year old at home small parts and all ). But even before I was lucky enough to land a gig at Mattel as a professional collector (if you will), Ive always viewed my collection as one day. One day I know I will be successful enough and have a big enough place to display all my toys, including the proper space for this castle.
But the Castle Grayskull pre-order is now.
Even if you think you lack the proper display space for the Castle right now, keep in mind this playset not only is a bit of a one-time offer, but more importantly, it is going to last. Twenty years from now, even thirty years from now, hopefully well all be looking over our MOTUC collections with joy. Whether or not were still offering new monthly figures or not isnt the key. They key is that even after figures stop coming out, your collection is permanent. Youll have it as long as you collect. And seriously, who doesnt want Castle Grayskull to be the centerpiece of that collection?! Years from now, do you not want to have this castle there with all your figures? How incomplete will your collection look if this Castle is missing? Preordering the Castle isnt just about 2012 or 2013 but for the life of your collection for as long as you want to keep MOTU on display. Years from now, with a complete figure set, this playset will be the centerpiece of any collection. Whether you display everything now, or one day intend to have an amazing shelf (shelves?) full of MOTUC toys, this is the time to lock in your Castle Grayskull. This castle isnt just to display now but to reign proudly over all your toys for decades to come. This playset is going to look amazing. It is going to be everything we all want a Classics Castle to be.
Please help us make this happen. Help your fellow He-Fans make this happen. Offering a 6 scale Castle Grayskull really is a turning point in all of toy collecting. This playset truly could go on to become one of (if not THE) greatest toy made. Think of how iconic the vintage playset still is 30 years later.
Now think of that powered by the detail, paint, sculpting and passion of the Classics line. This is going to be one heck of a toy. Its the one that will make all your friends jealous, not just for years, but for decades to come. Opportunities like this dont come around that often and now is the time. Lets make this happen.
We have the power!
PS: We are still working on the packaging but hope to have Rudy do another amazing new illustration on what will be a closed box. If we do move forward, one thing we want to do is let fans vote on which 5 good guys and which 5 bad guys will be attacking/defending the Castle on the box front illustration! We hope to involve fans as much as possible along the way on things liike this, but we need to hit that minimum order quota first. So if you are on the fence, now is the time to come on board!
PLEASE let this happen!!! Come on guys!!!
Preorder Now!!!
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Great update, and all valid points. I just found out Uncle Sam is moving us again next DEC when CG releases. I ordered one, but was considering another until I found out I may be between homes next Christmas. I really hope this happens, we get new forumites joining everyday. Ordering CG is like voting, do it early and often!
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cue the "Which 5 heros and villians do you want to see on the MOTUC CG box?" thread in 3...2...1
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I'm ordering 3 this Friday. I want to make sure I have not been running up my credit card again. If I order 3, are they going to reduce my credit card limit?
TOP 5 MOST WANTED: Ice Armor He-Man, Filmation Mer-Man,
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Really good pitch from Toyguru - I wish I could order a second one but simply can't i hope we can make it!!!
MOTUC WISHLIST - Karg | Lady Slther | Kothos | Staghorn | Sorceress of Serpos Teela | Hunga the Harpy | Kittrina | Dylamug | Hawke | Angast | Zilora | Artilla | Quakke | Robo-Woman | Great Black Wizard | Enchantress | Red Beast | Delora | DC He-Man | DC Skeletor | Lodar | Fang-Or | Mini Comics Tri-Klops | Filmation Jitsu, Frosta & Kobra Khan | Hans Hammer Holder | Granita |
Oh man, voting on who gets to be on the box would be awesome! I hope people get creative with that should it happen. I'd love to see Draego-Man on there, for starters.
This is downright ridiculous. I have never really lashed out on this forum over the practices of Mattel. I have sat back and been fairly neutral over some of the issues that have really divided the fan base (quality control, shipping practices, channel of distribution, pricing, delays, shuffling of schedules, basically holding a gun to fans heads to subscribe, etc). HOWEVER, the notion that they couldn't sculpt this thing until so many orders are placed are downright laughable.
Can you imagine if every business in the world, no matter what industry, used the same model? Chevrolet wouldn't make your car until you paid for it. A restaurant wouldn't serve you dinner until you gave them money. Movie theaters wouldn't advertise what movies were playing until they sold you a ticket. I know, I know, apples to oranges, but still. Have they ever heard of the notion you have to use resources to be profitable? How much would it honestly take to sculpt a castle? Even if they allowed the pre-orders to continue until January, and they didn't hit the minimum by then, are they suggesting the loss they would take from simply sculpting a model would be that great?
If so, Mattel needs to get out of the business. Clearly, if losing the resources it would take to sculpt a castle they decided not to make is that big a financial risk, they must not have enough operating income to stay in business.
I'm starting to worry that we won't hit the minimum.
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My Custom MOTUC's http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/album.php?u=36694
Matty should be building and manufacturing all these toys, and then selling them. Not trying to sell them and then make them. It's completely a s s backwards. If ANY other business told you that you had to pay them up front for an item, sight unseen, you'd laugh! A years worth of a sub is about $500. If you went to Best Buy to buy a computer for $500 and the store told you, "Well, you'll get this nice laptop--I PROMISE it will be nice--but we can't order it or show it to you until you give us your credit card" you would walk right out of the store.
Matty preys on us fans in a truly unfair manner. There is ZERO reason they cannot reveal the full years sub to us up front. There is ZERO reason they can't fully commit to FULL SPECS for the castle up front. And their argument that they cannot for "legal reasons" is completely laughable and absurd. Please, tell me what exact legal reason prevents Matty from sharing with us the figures in the subscription?.
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You obviously missed the point to my post. I never suggested they go into full-scale production on the item. I said the potential loss on manufacturing a sculpt is a joke of a reason not to allow a pre-order phase to be extended, elevating the possibility the minimum number needed to go into production could be met.
For ToyGuru to say they have to have 'X' number of commitments to buy at a certain date just so the sculptors can be provided the resources needed to make a model just points to how poorly managed this line is.
Argh I had quit the line but after some hard toy deliberation I preordered. God help me if my wife finds out .
It's a risk for business, yes. And businesses usually do foot the risk up front.
You know what happens when they decide it's not worth the risk? They don't make something. Period.
Now, at this point you could argue the figures are less of a risk because they are a proven commodity for the most part. But the Castle is an unknown. The point of all of this is that Mattel doesn't consider the Castle worth doing if they have to put the money up front. From a business standpoint, it doesn't make sense. This is how it works with all businesses. The difference here is Mattel is at least trying to make the Castle by getting some assurances up front about who will actually pay for this thing.
Right now? It looks like Mattel might have been right. Maybe there weren't enough fans to support a Grayskull play set. I hope it's not the final result, but right now they it's looking like they were smart to not sink money into the castle.
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My Custom MOTUC's http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/album.php?u=36694
Sure, companies bare the risks when they need a success to sustain their business. This is not one of those situations.
Hey Super 7, Snake Mountain rocks! Let's Kickstart it!
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Hey Everybody!
Okay so the deal is that I'm doing my first presentation on for Communications class on epilesy. This is my second semester in college and I've kinda been hiding the fact that I have it, not that I'm ashamed; I was just scared how people will react. After the first seizure that I had here, everyone freaked; so since then, I've kept it very low key. Anyway, I have simple partial and abscence seizures and I was diagnosed when I was in 8th grade and since then it has been a battle. When this project came up, I got the courage to put my topic in as epilepsy and I plan to tell my class that I have it and explain what it means. I really want to do my presentation on the misconceptions about epilepsy, like how one of my friends thought that I had brain damage just because I have E. So I was wondering what other people have said to you guys about it? Or initial reactions maybe? Or questions that people usually ask? I want to get most of my information from other people with epilepsy and not just web info or books. I would really appreciate the help and this is the perfect opportunity to spread correct information about epilepsy to at least 50 students, so please help me out, perhaps it would make someone else's life a little easier.
Thanks for all the support
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Columbia University
Marcus Levine is a recent graduate from Coral Springs High School in Coral Springs, Florida. He graduated as the valedictorian of his class and plans to pursue a double major in Physics and Philosophy at Columbia University in the Fall. During high school, his primary interest outside of academics was theater, in which he became involved in nearly every respect: acting, teaching, and directing his high school's productions. Marcus is particularly interested in high energy physics and cosmology.


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Cricket: Klinger wants Gloucestershire to hold on to Jones
11:12am Wednesday 11th June 2014
By Rob Iles
11:12am Wednesday 11th June 2014
By Rob Iles
CAPTAIN Michael Klinger is urging Gloucestershire chiefs to extend the loan of Geraint Jones from Kent.
The former England wicketkeeper has made an instant impact since joining on a month-long deal as cover for the injured Gareth Roderick and smashed an entertaining 34 off just 14 balls in Gloucestershire's NatWest T20 Blast game against Glamorgan on Sunday, which was abandoned at the halfway stage due to rain after the home side scored 207-3 at Bristol.
Jones also hit 93 from 75 deliveries in the nine-wicket win against Leicestershire in the County Championship last week but Klinger says his most significant contribution has been the experience he has brought to a young squad.
While Roderick is not expected to have recovered from a broken finger by the time Jones' spell comes to an end in two weeks, Gloucestershire are also light in the bowling department following the retirement of Ian Saxelby and a spate of injuries, and director of cricket John Bracewell will have to weigh up his options on a tight budget.
Klinger said: "I know what I would say if it was totally up to me but it's up to the club what they want to do with that.
"A guy who's playing such good cricket and so good around the group, whether he's a keeper or any player, you'd want to keep him obviously.
"His on-field impact for us speaks for itself but it's also his off-field stuff – having another experienced guy in the room and in the middle to help me out is great as well.
"That's where I believe his major impact has been and to back that up on the field has been great for us so I'm very pleased to have him in our squad at the moment."
Klinger top-scored with 70 against Glamorgan, sharing a 63-run opening stand with Alex Gidman (26) and 77 with Ian Cockbain, who continued his fine form from the four-run win over Sussex two days earlier by finishing unbeaten on 59 from 40 balls.
It was Gloucestershire's highest T20 score at Bristol in eight years but they were denied a second straight win in the competition by the weather.
Klinger said: "In Twenty20 you can get in a rhythm like that and score runs. I think the fact that we had two Twenty20 games in a row makes a big difference.
"Every time you get a score like that you'd back yourself to win the game but I think it would've been a great game for the crowd.
"They've got a great batting line-up with some great players so I think it would've been a great game and they would've pushed it right to the end I'm sure so it's unfortunate for us and unfortunate for the crowd but it's out of our control."
With Gloucestershire having to settle for one point, they will head into Friday's T20 game against Essex seventh in the South Group and in need of a win to stay in touch with the top four.
David Payne has recovered from a heel injury and could return to the side, but fellow seam bowlers Craig Miles (back) and James Fuller (foot) remain sidelined.
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London, Aug 5 (ANI): Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez's camp is considering legal action, Premier League arbitration and even putting in a transfer request after they feel let down over what they see as broken promises they claim were made if Liverpool missed out on the Champions League.
According to the Mirror, Suarez got a fantastic reception from Liverpool's fans in Steven Gerrard's testimonial on Saturday and the Uruguayan has respect for the supporters and his team mates but it is understood that the anger is at the hierarchy who he says promised by a gentleman's agreement to let him go to any club in the Champions League if an offer of more than 35 million pounds was made.
Suarez has also refused to give up on the 40 million pound clause which he believes entitled him to a transfer, although Liverpool are adamant that it only obliges them to inform him of an offer, the report said.
It remains to be seen whether Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers can keep a player who is so intent on leaving but they are unhappy with Suarez's advisers and Arsenal over the saga, the report added. (ANI)


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Topic: Treatment options post whipple???
My Dad, Alan C, from Rhode Island went for his initial meeting with oncologist post whipple today. He is very discouraged. Thought this might be a little easier than it sounds, but.....
The Dr., Dr. Howard Safran, from Miriam Hospital has a protocol with 12 weeks of gemcitibine 3 weeks on 1 week off with 28 radiation treatments following the chemo.
His tumor was 1 inch at the distal end of the common bile duct, was focal, with 1/18 lymph nodes positive. No mets, the surgeon staged it 2B.
My question to all of you is does this sound appropriate??? Any and all advice is welcomed and appreciated! Thank you in advance!


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Shocking, I know.
Damn shame. Bruce just isn't cut out for a job like Illinois.CHAMPAIGN - The Bruce Weber era at Illinois is over.
Weber has been informed he will not return as the basketball coach, multiple sources told The News-Gazette. The coach was fired this morning after nine seasons at Illinois, according to sources.
There is expected to be a formal press conference at 11 a.m. today (WDWS 1400-AM). The decision comes less than 24 hours after Iowa knocked Illinois (17-15) out of the Big Ten tournament in Indianapolis. Players were to be informed of the decision later this morning, according to sources.
The Weber era opened in a big way. In his first season 2003-04 he guided the Illini to their first outright Big Ten title in over 50 years and a Sweet 16 berth. In his second season he coached Illinois to another outright Big Ten title, school-record 37 wins and the NCAA title game.
His office at Ubben Basketball Complex is filled with national Coach of the Year awards from the 2004-05 season.
Momentum shifted after the 2005-06 season, however. In the era A.D. after program legend Dee Brown the Illini show a 50-56 Big Ten record. Since 2006, the Illini have won one game in the NCAA tournament and havent finished in the AP Top 25 poll.
Fanbase unrest reached a fever pitch as the Illini fell apart down the stretch this season. After opening with a 15-3 record, Illinois lost 11 of 13 to close the regular season. This is the third time in five seasons Illinois is not included in the NCAA tournament.
In May 2009, Weber received a contract extension that goes through the 2014-15 season. He will be owed $3.9 million as a buyout.
Weber is the third coach to be fired in the past four months. First-year athletic director Mike Thomas fired football coach Ron Zook in November and Jolette Law on March 2.
Weber said days before the Big Ten tournament he was aware these could be his final days as the coach at Illinois. Regardless, he held out hope for a late run in Indianapolis and positive end to the season. He continued to recruit for Illinois, taking in a game featuring Chicago Simeon star junior Jabari Parker as recently as Tuesday.
But the coaching change doesn't come as a surprise.
Story developing - more to come.


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Police officers are placed in tough positions when they are confronted by someone who appears to have a weapon which turns out to be an Airsoft gun or a replica of a gun.
They must decide in a split second how they should respond, not knowing if the gun is real or fake.
At the urging of their police chief, the Hopkins City Council unanimously passed an ordinance that bans use of Airsoft guns, and other replica firearms in public places. BB guns that shoot steel pellets are also banned.
A public place, according to the ordinance, are areas around homes and businesses that can be viewed from nearby buildings and from the street or sidewalk.
Hopkins Police Chief Michael Reynolds told the council the replica firearms are more realistic and could present a danger to his officers and the public.
He cited a case where there young girls in a house in Hopkins saw a man wearing a ski mask get out of his car with a gun in his hand The girls refused to give a description of the man, and police were dispatched to the scene.
They wrestled the man to the ground and handcuffed him, before they discovered the gun was a fake.
Reynolds cited a case in Texas where a middle school student was shot and killed by police who did not know if the student had a real or fake weapon.
Hopkins police have dealt with a half dozen such cases a year and at no time have officers shot someone when confronted, not knowing if a gun is real.
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Brooklyn Center have similar ordinances.
Some critics may argue that banning these replica guns is an over reaction, and deprives people of use of these guns on their own property.
Besides, they say these fake weapons are marked with an orange tip. Police counter that some rub the paint off and it's difficult to see at night.
Chief Reynolds trusts his officers to use discretion in deciding whom to charge.
There are logical exceptions to the ordinance, as to what are public places. The penalty is a misdemeanor which could draw up to 90 days in jail and a $1000 fine.
Since the ordinance was passed, calls to the Hopkins council and the police department have been mostly supportive.
Chief Reynolds said he doesn't want his officers' lives destroyed because they shot and killed someone who had a toy gun that looked real. "I don't want any of our officers shot and killed because they thought the gun that killed them was a fake gun when it actually was real, " Reynolds said.
The ordinance makes sense, because it keeps officers and the public from being harmed by someone brandishing a fake gun. Other cities should consider following Hopkins City Council's example. — Don Heinzman


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Re: My Husband and Cholangiocarcinoma - Part 2
I promised I would write and let you all know the words that my son Gilbert spoke at Tom's funeral service. He did not save it on the computer, but I remembered that he'd given me a copy and I found it in the car today.
"I was about 25 when I first found out that Tom was dating my Mother. I was wondering if this man was the right person for my Mom. Was this man going to treat my Mom right? At first, I did not know Tom, I really didn't understand him a whole bunch, but Mom asked me to give him a chance, well, I did.
During the time that I have known Tom, he has accepted me, my wife and my children as if we were his own blood, no questions asked.
Tom has shown me a gentleness and caring in a way that I always thought a real father should show to his family and friends.
Tom was a very kind, gentle, thoughtful, caring and respectful person. Tom was the genuine "Hey, how ya doing and what you up too, can I give you a hand kind of guy. He would talk to anyone, it didn't matter the color of skin, height or social group. He just wanted to meet as many people, and do as many new things in his life as he could. He was very intoxicating to be around.
Tom has touched the lives of many, many people. I'm sorry to say that many will not be granted his wisdom due to his early departure from this world.
Tom, I want to thank you for teaching me to be a better father, husband and friend. We all will miss you, on this earth, but forever you will be in our thoughts and hearts. But for now, Hey, catch that fish, kick back and have that beer, take a walk in the woods, relax my friend, my father...you have earned it. We will meet again in the future and will play a game of cribbage!"
Gil's son, Michael, 12 years old is having a hard time dealing with Papa's passing. Papa was the FUN Papa (and I am the FUN Grandma) and Michael loved spending time with us. Papa was the only Papa that Michael knew since he was a tiny infant when Tom and I re-united and married.
Our 4 year old grandson, Alex is going to build a rocket to fly to Heaven and bring Papa back for me. He decided that a rocket would be faster than building a ladder!
Little 28 month old Thomas does not yet understand why Papa is not at Ama's house. I gave his Mom a picture frame with 4 pictures in it. Pictures of Papa and I along with some other photo's so that Lil Tommy will have pictures of Papa in his own house. Each night that Picture frame goes with Tommy to bed, and placed on a chair next to his toddler bed. He and his mom say his night time prayers that end with "Good night Papa, watch over me as I sleep" and Lil Tommy has to give Papa good night kisses and if Mom forgets, he say "Kizz Papa?"
I cried this morning when I looked out the window and did not see Tom's truck in the driveway. His truck went to his son Tom Jr. I knew it was gone as he'd picked it up the night before, but it hit me hard when I didn't see it in the drive. Oh, such odd things that we get all teary eyed about. I'm in no hurry to go through his clothes or to change anything in our bedroom. I know that in time it's a chore that I will do, but for now, having his clothes in his dresser and in our closet keeps him close to me. I wore his fleece that he was wearing when he passed, hung his cruifix on the wall beside his recliner and it brings me comfort.
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With the icy conditions continuing from the weekend, Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service is reminding people not to venture onto frozen water.
In recent winters, the service has been called out numerous times to help after dogs have fallen into ponds, lakes and rivers.
While there have been no such incidents as yet in Wiltshire, firefighters in other parts of the country have already been called upon to carry out such rescues.
Area Manager Jim Mahoney said: "Wintry conditions are great for sledding, but newly frozen water will not be thick enough to act as an ice rink.
"You can never be certain that the ice will be strong enough to carry the weight of an animal, let alone a person, so it is essential that you keep dogs on leads and make sure children are supervised."
If you see someone go through ice into the freezing water below, do not try to carry out a rescue yourself – call 999 and ask for the fire & rescue service.
Wiltshire Police has issued the following advice to anyone who has to travel in snow or icy conditions:
• Keep up-to-date with the weather forecast and road conditions before you set off on your journey.
• Check that your vehicle is roadworthy.
• Make sure you have full visibility before driving, taking time to de-mist and de-ice all windows.
• Use your lights.
• When the roads are wet and icy, it can take twice as long to stop your vehicle so slow down.
• Keep a safe distance from the vehicle in front.
• In poor visibility be extra alert for hazards.
• Carry warm waterproof clothing, a sleeping bag, food, water and a torch in your vehicle, in case weather conditions mean you have to stop.
• Make sure you have plenty of fuel for your journey before you set off.
• Use the highest gear possible to avoid wheel spin. Manoeuvre gently and avoid harsh braking and acceleration. If you start to skid, gently ease off the accelerator and avoid braking. If braking is necessary, pump the brakes, don't slam them on.
• Make sure your mobile phone is fully charged.
• Poor weather conditions mean it can be harder for drivers to see pedestrians and cyclists, so be vigilant and make sure you can be seen however you are traveling and wear high visibility clothing.
For information about road conditions on motorways and trunk roads, check the Highway Agency website www.highways.gov.uk.
For information on weather conditions, visit the Met Office website www.metoffice.com


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CROSS Keys give youth a chance for their tough trip to Llanelli tomorrow as suspensions and injuries take their toll on their excellent opening to the new campaign.
Promising Dragons Academy forwards, the two Scotts, flanker Matthews and lock Andrews, are both set to make their first starts for the club this season.
The visitors will be forced to make a number of changes for their Parc y Scarlets mission after playing a fairly settled match-day squad that's seen them win four in a row and climb to second in the Premiership.
Keys' indiscipline has caught up with them and they've been hit with three suspensions in just over a week.
Captain Rob Nash will banned for another month after his disciplinary was heard last week, the No 7 sent off for a stamp in the opening day 28-3 hammering by Pontypridd.
Lock Dan Hodge has picked up a one-match suspension for being yellow carded for the third time this season in last week's 41-10 hammering of Neath.
And finally, loosehead prop Richard Cornock is slapped with a five-week ban for stamping on Bridgend's Luke Morgan during Keys' 35-15 home win over the Ravens on September 8.
Added to that, a number of important players remain on the injury list and prop Craig Gould is unavailable this weekend because of personal commitments.
But Keys are boosted by the availability of Newport Gwent Dragons tighthead prop Tim Ryan, the Irishman joining them on permit, and by scrum half Rhys Dyer, who is due to make his return to the starting XV after a knee injury.
Keys are hoping hooker Gerwyn Price (shoulder), wing Elliott Jones (hamstring) and centre Aled James (calf and hamstring) will pull through and be involved in some way.
Wales Under 20s' Jamie Sollis, who has played much of the season on the blind and openside, is due to start at No 2.
The club's director of rugby, Jonathan Westwood, believes this weekend gives his young players a great chance to earn their stripes against a Llanelli side who are likely to be gunning for them.
Keys did the treble over them last season – twice in the league and in the quarter-final of the British & Irish Cup.
Westwood said: "We'll have a changed side out which will give some of our young players a great opportunity – I hope they go out there and embrace it.
"Llanelli are a strong outfit and always fancy themselves at home.
"And I know they were smarting after we did the treble over them last season, so we're expecting a very stern challenge this weekend."


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Topic: Brand new Diagnosis
Hi. My dear, dear cousin was just last night diagnosed with this disease that I am not even sure we understand what it is. She started with a very annoying itch all over her body. She has no rash or skin emulsions but is disturbingly itchy. Her doctor recommended she go to the emergency room for faster lab results and of course they admitted her once they realized how jaundiced she is. She had a CT scan and that determined a blockage. Next they did a scope of some kind but were unable to get the "wire" through to relieve some of the backed up bile, nor could they get any scrapings for any pathology. They determined that the characteristics of the blockage and all her symptoms lead them straight to the conclusion that she has Cholangiocarsinoma. Today they tried and were unable to get a tube to the site of the tumor to drain some of this bile which, of course, is only to eliminate the symptoms. She is now waiting transfer to Emory University Hospital from Emory Eastside, which is a small satelite location. Once they get her to Emory, they are planning to do a Whipple, scary stuff from what we can gather by Googling. Does anyone have anything positive to offer about this apparently very rare and scary disease and the procedures? Is it classified as liver, pancreas, or bile duct cancer? It seems they will remove parts of all of these organs including a portion of her stomach. What does all this mean for her? We are all trying to stay positive,but are obviously scared and ignorant to these facts.


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New York -- Richard Schulze, founder of Best Buy Co., may abandon a buyout bid and instead line up investors to take a minority position in the electronics retailer, Reuters reported.
Schulze informed the Best Buy board in August that he was interested in partnering with private equity partners to buy the struggling consumer electronics company. But he has been unable to get enough support from banks to finance a deal that would allow him to take it private, the report said.
"We believe the equity raise required for this deal would be a major challenge for Mr. Schulze given the potential size of the deal and the structural challenges facing the company," RBC Capital Markets analyst Scot Ciccarelli said in the Reuters report. "With that in mind, it doesn't come as a surprise to us that Mr. Schulze is considering alternatives to his original plan."


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(UPDATED COVERAGE April 16) VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Canadian Produce Marketing Association backed its Live Healthy, Eat Fresh theme for this year's convention and trade show with a new push to increase produce consumption and sales.
For consumers, CPMA sought to begin simplifying its health message by introducing the Half Your Plate program April 3. The trade group wants continuity, not competition, with the half-a-plate initiatives of Health Canada and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Half Your Plate will rely more heavily on health organizations outside the industry — for example, the Canadian Public Health Association and the Canadian Cancer Society — than past consumption initiatives did.
For this year's event April 2-4 at the Vancouver Convention Center, CPMA offered more opportunities for attendees to hear from buyers.
"We've added a couple new attributes with our retail panel, where we had five of the top retailers in Canada representing about 80% of the buying power speaking to the delegates," CPMA president Ron Lemaire said. "(They were) giving a clear message that, you know what, the world's changing. Working in partnership is key in driving increased sales through the supply chain and to the consumer."
Total attendance was 3,550. Last year's Toronto show drew 3,933.
In the new products showcase competition, Westmoreland Sales, Leamington, Ontario, won for its TopLine Creations. Packages in the line include olive oil and a spice packet with greenhouse-grown grape, cocktail or cherry tomatoes; mini seedless cucumbers; or mini sweet peppers.
Peak of the Market won the best booth competition for its pair of bookend, travel-themed locations on aisle 300. The Mexico pavilion finished second. Vancouver-based Fresh Direct Produce Ltd. was third.
Bernadette Hamel, vice president of national procurement for produce for Montreal-based Metro Inc., became the second woman in 89 years to lead the CPMA, greeting delegates at the closing dinner. The new chairman succeeds Walt Breeden, director of Canada sales for the Oppenheimer Group. The Packer honored Breeden as its Canadian Produce Man of the Year.
The trade show drew largely favorable comments from exhibitors.
"I don't come here with high expectations, especially out in western Canada because of the fact that we're not that heavy here as opposed to eastern Canada," said Jim Grabowski, merchandising manager at Watsonville, Calif.-based Well-Pict Berries. "But a lot of the Eastern people were here. Usually they don't do the crossover ... We saw quite a few of our people from eastern Canada."
"Last year the Canadian show in Toronto was really successful," said Kurt Cappelluti, sales manager for Stellar Distributing Inc., Madera, Calif. "It's early to tell, but this is a much smaller show. Sometimes you wonder if keeping it in one area would make it attractive to the same amount of volume each year."
"There's been good foot traffic," said Glen Arrowsmith, global marketing manager for organic at Zespri Kiwifruit. "It's a fantastic way to catch up with the retailers, buyers and distributors who matter across North America. Particularly when we have new product like the SunGold (kiwifruit) and the organic green coming into the market."
The 2015 CPMA show is set for April 12-14 in Montreal at the Palais des congres de Montreal.


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Need your views on the topic "Use of paper modelling techniques in the study of architecture" as part of a research that I am undertaking. I plan to use the results of the survey to publish a book on the use of paper modelling in architecture.
Please do let me know your views on this topic. Would really help to understand from an architects perspective if the use of paper modelling as a method for teaching concepts of architecture is a GO or NO GO.
we had study project that began we creating a form out of a piece of paper with only one cut, then two, then three and so on. after the cut was made each side had to be reattached.
like I said this was just the genesis of the project, but it seemed very useful for getting us to think a little differently. unfortunately I don't know much else about how it was taught, seeing as I was a student.
I may be going out on a limb here but any kind of modeling is effective!
yeah what do you mean by paper? do you mean just small scale modeling in general?
Paper modeling is a critical function that teaches plan reading, scale, visualization, problem solving, experimentation , etc. among other things. Also stimulates the imagination in ways that computer models can't and never will. Making things is a basic and essential skill for all creative professions.
As long as it isn't done like the Gehry model, of course. Any fucking idiot can do that.
I agree with Miles. I just finished up my second graduate semester studio at Illinois-Chicago and the entire studio was predicated on building paper models, establishing one concept through development of an idea that is a direct resultant of iterative process of paper modelling. Check out some photos and write up here:
Thanks to all.
By paper modelling, I mean the use of paper as a medium to understand the concepts of architecture design. The objective is to present to students techniques of using paper to build concept models and experiment with designs.
The premise for this is that paper provides a realistic idea on the feasibility of the full scale model (although computer designs will also be able to validate this) by providing a feel of the real thing.
Do let me know your thoughts on the objective and premise.
When you say paper modeling techniques in architecture, it makes me think of topological studies, like Mobius strips (which I just noticed got a mention on Thread Central this morning too). Studying topology through physical objects is very different than studying on the computer. Although computers have very powerful abilities to make and express surface and form, studying topology through a physical medium is multi-sensory, and therefore has more learning opportunities. We had a good studio project where we had to choose a simple yet complex 3-D object (like a spoon) out of a flat piece of paper. I thought it was very beneficial. But that is my opinion, I am not much of a computer modeler, so maybe I'm biased, but no matter what is on the screen, when you lick it, it ALWAYS feels like a cool plane of glass...
The answer to the forum question is, yes. Using paper as a medium for architecture 3D model study, from spatial to conceptual, can be quite limitless...
Below is a link to show an example of this, a site model I did for my thesis project and a link to a full movie of "between the folds" which you may find helpful.
and yes do lick the screen, hmmm glass =)
I think physical models are definitely essential in the learning process. They don't have to be made of paper though. I don't think paper in itself has any inherent benefit, versus, say, wood, or cardboard, or mesh, or metal.
Paper is an ideal material for modeling. Cheap, plentiful, recyclable, easy to work, adopts various structural properties based on configuration, etc. Cardboard is simply stiffer paper. Wood, metal etc. all require some degree of technology and training to manipulate. Paper can be worked with rudimentary tools or without tools at all. This allows students to focus on what is being modeled rather than the process of construction.
it doesn't matter what you use, whether its paper, wood, rocks, ice, branches or anything else, if you suck at teaching, nothing will matter xD
just because someone is using paper to build models doesn't necessarily mean they'll learn more if all they're doing is making boxes compared to that crazy guy modelling on computer with a million ideas in his head
I think that part of the confusion going on here is that there is a substantial difference between literally constructing a model out of paper, which is done occasionally but not frequently in architecture, and the idea of architectural model making in general which would be done out of a certain set of materials which are considered standard for model-making such as chipboard and basswood. Paper isn't typically used for serious model making since it has less structural rigidity than other materials, but it has some advantages where it is easy to cut and can be folded into a wider range of unusual/curved forms compared to a thicker material. Typically paper would be used for quick study models, whereas chipboard and sometimes cardboard can be used for both studies (including more in-depth/sophisticated study models) and final presentation models.
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