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יהדות גליציה ובוקובינה
העמותה לקידום מחקר וזיכרון של מורשת יהודית
בשיתוף עם:
אנציקלופדיה לחכמי גליציה
סיפורה של עיירה גליצאית
לפני ובתקופת השואה
לחקר יהדות גליציה ובוקובינה
הפרויקט לחקר יהדות גליציה ובוקובינה
המרכז לחקר המורשת התורנית בגליציה ובוקובינה
מפעל מחקר מקרקוב ללמברג
התוכנית ללימודי יהדות גליציה ובוקובינה
הרשם לקבלת ניוזלטר על פעילות העמותה
Jewish Galicia and Bukovina Organization (JGB) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation, preservation and educational dissemination of the history and rich cultural heritage of the Jewish communities of Galicia and Bukovina.Galicia and Bukovina were important Jewish centers as far back as the 13th Century and were home to over one million Jews, with unique cultural characteristics and a vibrant intellectual and spiritual life. These regions produced prominent Jewish thinkers, rabbis, writers, artists and public activists, who created influential texts and institutions that have had a long-lasting impact on the Jewish world. The Torah scholars and Jewish intellectuals of Galicia and Bukovina were known for their tolerance and openness towards modernity, while being firmly rooted in Jewish tradition and learning.This thriving Jewish world was wiped out in the Holocaust. Its outstanding cultural accomplishments are not widely known today: they have been insufficiently documented and inadequately researched by academic scholars.
JGB Organization aims in its work to promote documentation, academic research and dissemination of the Jewish heritage of Galicia and Bukovina. To this end, we are engaged in four major areas of activity:
• Supporting academic centers for research and studies of Jewish history and legacy of Galicia and Bukovina
• Developing online free of charge databases which present the historical, cultural and rabbinic heritage of Galician and Bukovinian Jewish communities
• Annual fieldwork teams documenting the physical remnants of Jewish life in Galicia and Bukovina.
• Extending fellowships to students who are researching relevant topics for advanced degrees.
The forerunner of Jewish Galicia and Bukovina, known as The Institute for Commemoration of Galician Jewry, was founded in 1987 by Rabbi Meir Wunder, who dedicated several decades to compiling the seven-volume Encyclopedia of Galician Sages. In 2008, the Ludmer Fund was launched, which began to work with Hebrew University of Jerusalem and several other universities in Israel and abroad with the goal of reviving the unique heritage of Jewish Galicia and Bukovina as vital to the broader understanding of Jewish history in modern times, and bringing to life the memory of those Jewish communities that have perished. In 2011, the Ludmer Fund and the Institute for Commemoration of Galician Jewry joined forces, and became the "Jewish Galicia and Bukovina" Organization.
At first we focused our research on archival documents and personal testimonies describing the life of the Jews in Galicia. We also began to document the physical remains of the communities – communal buildings, Jewish cemeteries, synagogues, and other structures. So far we have sent eleven teams of researchers and students from Israel and abroad to examine and document physical sites in numerous cities in Galicia and Bukovina which once had big Jewish communities (See more here…).In order to promote academic research of Galician and Bukovinian Jewry JGB has established three educational and academic centers in the University of Haifa, Tel-Aviv University and Herzog College.For a number of reasons Galicia and Bukovina Jewry have been researched less in comparison to other areas in Eastern-Europe. Due to this, our association offers fellowships to doctoral and post-doctoral students from Israel and abroad for research projects connected to Jewish history in this region (See more here…). We see great importance on awarding these fellowships and seek to establish a leading role for Israeli academia in studying these communities.
This website was established as part of our aim to set up a comprehensive database of primary materials pertaining to the Jewish communities of Galicia and Bukovina. While the database meets exacting academic standards, it also provides the general public with online access to a wide array of cultural and historical materials in a comprehensible format.We are committed to seeing that the rich Jewish culture that once flourished in the region will be remembered and passed on to future generations in Israel and throughout the world.Finally, Jewish Galicia and Bukovina, through its research and dissemination efforts, is preserving the spiritual heritage of Galician and Bukovinian Jewry for posterity and in doing so is engaging hundreds of the descendents of former residents of Galicia and Bukovina in a search for their cultural and historical roots.
If you have historical materials of any kind about the Jews of Galicia and Bukovina and would be willing to share them with us please contact us.
We invite you to register to get our newsletter and become a friend of Galicia and Bukovina.Your contribution will be highly appreciated and will help us expand our fields of activity and advance the research on the Jews of Galicia and Bukovina.
The results of our research are openly available to the public.
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Galicia and Bukovina were major Jewish centers as far back as the 13th Century and were home to over one million Jews, with unique cultural characteristics and a vibrant intellectual and spiritual life. These regions produced prominent Jewish thinkers, rabbis and Hassidic courts, who created influential texts and institutions that have had a long-lasting impact on the Jewish world. The Torah scholars and Jewish intellectuals of Galicia and Bukovina were known for their tolerance and openness towards modernity, while being firmly rooted in Jewish tradition and learning. This thriving Jewish world was wiped out in the Holocaust.
This section offers a look in to the glories Jewish world and its remnants in today Ukraine and Poland.
The sub-sections in this branch are:
Historical background:
You can read a general overview and a number of articles on the historical background of the Jews in Galicia and Bukovina.
You can view our collection of historical maps. We offer general maps of the entire area and maps of specific cities.
Here you can find information on different Jewish organizations in Galicia and Bukovina
We offer close to 500 community pages detailing the history of the Jewish people in each community and links to other websites for further research.
We have a large collection of tombstones assembled by our field schools in a number of cemeteries in Galicia. You can see a photograph and the epitaph of each tombstone.
Selected Bibliography:
The bibliography section contains descriptions of scholar books and articles regarding to the Jewish history and culture in Galicia and Bukovina. This section is constantly expanding with the most recent publications in the field.
Galicia and Bukovina were the origin of a Jewish heritage that stands out for several unique features. Located at the intersection of areas of Polish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian and Russian cultural influence, these regions saw the emergence of a particularly creative and dynamic Jewish culture. They provided the backdrop for major advances in rabbinic literature and modern Jewish thought, and were the site of some of the most vibrant and influential Hassidic courts. They were also the site of origin of several notable modern Jewish writers, the most famous of them being Shmuel Yosef Agnon (in Hebrew), Itzik Manger (in Yidish), Joseph Roth and Paul Celan (in German) and Bruno Schulz (in Polish). Additional individuals of note are Jews of Galician and Bukovinian origin who made notable contributions to several of the arts, scholars, statesmen and scientists.
Newer articles are displayed first; you may sort by the title, as well.
This section includes archival material from different archives in Poland and Ukraine and from the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem, as well as private documents and letters. These special historical materials give us a unique look into the Jewish world of Galicia and Bukovina, in all aspects of everyday life.
We invite anyone with documents, letters, postcards or photographs relating to the Jews of Galicia and Bukovina to contribute them to the database. To send contributions to the document database click here
Jewish Galicia and Bukovina aims in its work to document and disseminate the main aspects of Jewish life in these regions, both physically and academically. To this end, we are engaged in four major areas of activity:
* Developing an online free of charge database on the Jewish history of Galicia and Bukovina.
* Annual fieldwork teams documenting the physical remnants of Jewish life.
* Preserving the cultural and rabbinic heritage of these Jewish communities.
* Extending fellowships to Israeli and Ukrainian students who are researching relevant topics for advanced degrees.
* Delivering academic courses on Jewish culture in Galicia and Bukovina in Ukrainian Universities
For the past three years the Jewish Galicia and Bukovina project has been sending field schools to document and preserve Jewish remnants in Eastern Europe. This year's field school destination was Pidhaytsi, a quiet and pastoral town in Eastern-Galicia 62 miles South-West of Lviv. Its pastoral setting notwithstanding, Pidhaytsi was one of the more important and developed towns in the entire region. The name Pidhaytsi, which means "in the woods" is drawn from its location in the heart of the most forested area in today's Ternopil region in western Ukraine.
Pidhaytsi is one of the oldest towns in Galicia with records as far back as 1463 when the Catholic Church was built by the regional Governor Potocki. During the Polish royal dominion Pidhaytsi was a major checkpoint on a main merchants' road from Snyatyn through Pidhaytsi to Lviv. Due to the many people passing through the town it was known for its fairs.
The Jewish community of Pidhaytsi was one of the oldest communities in Galicia dating back to the 16th century. Towards the end of the 17th century many Jews of Pidhaytsi were killed by Turks and Tatars. According to the census of 1764 there were 1,765 Jews registered in the Kahal (the Jewish community board) of the Pidhaytsi district, of which 1079 lived in Pidhaytsi itself. In the 19th century the Jewish community grew rapidly and by 1910 there were 6000 Jews in Pidhaytsi constituting 60% of the population. In the interwar period the community decreased and by 1939, 3200 Jews remained in the town.
Due to its location on the cross road between different cultures, Pidhaytsi became a fertile ground for mystical movements. In the case of the Jewish community the first such movement was the "messianic" Sabbatean movement and it caught the hearts of many Jews. The first Sabbatean to preach in Pidhaytsi was a known mystic figure by the name of, Chaim Malakh who stood in the head of a Jewish mystical group which came to Erez-Israel in 1700. The Hasidic movement was also very influential in the Pidhaytsi area. 5 well known Galician Hasidic Zaddiks lived in the Pidhaytsi area. The same can be said about Christian ascetics and hermits who found Pidhaytsi's surrounding appropriate for establishing monasteries, one of which is still active.
Pidhaytsi was one of the most important Jewish communities in Galicia because of the notable rabbis that came from this town. The first rabbis of the town were Rabbi Moshe and his son Rabbi Yehuda Leib in the 16th century. The most famous rabbi to lead the community of Pidhaytsi was Rabbi Benjamin Aharon Solnik (1530-1620), known for his book "Masa't Benaymin"(Benjamin's Mess). Culturally the Jewish community was very diverse, much like the rest of Galician Jewry.
In World War I the town was severely damaged and most of the town's homes were burnt. Many of the Jews of Pidhaytsi left the town that became the battle ground between the Austrian and Russian armies.
When the town was occupied by the Nazi Germany in 1941 there were more than 3000 Jews in Pidhaytsi, some of which were refugees who came to the town in the first years of WWII. On Yom-Kippur 1942, 1000 Jews were sent to Belzec death camp. The rest were closed in a small ghetto where many died from hunger and disease. On June 6th, 1943 the remaining Jews in the ghetto were killed in mass graves in the outskirts of the town.
The remaining of this once vibrant Jewish community are an old cemetery and an abandoned synagogue. In the summer of 2011 a group of 15 students made up of torah scholars from the "Siach Yitzhak" Yeshiva, students from the Ben-Gurion University and the Universities in St. Petersburg went out to document and research the remains of Jewish Pidhaytsi. The team was lead by Dr. Boris Khaimovich from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Ms. Marina Bruk from the State University in St. Petersburg. This combination of the torah and academic worlds created a unique atmosphere in the research group which suites the universal character of Jewish Galician culture.
The main focus of the field school was the large and ancient Jewish cemetery. The team documented the entire cemetery which contains over 1500 tombstones (the oldest from the 16th century). The tombstones were numbered, photographed, measured and their epitaphs transcribed. Some of the tombstones were dug out of the ground and raised on their place. A detailed map of the cemetery was prepared by local land-surveyors.
The field school to Pidhaytsi continues the remarkable, pioneering work of the 2009 and 2010 field schools in the pursuit after Jewish history in Galicia and Bukovina.
The team was accompanied by an Israeli press team. The article can be seen here(in Hebrew).
In the following weeks the materials gathered by the field school will be processed and presented to the public on the website.
Read more about the Jewish community in Pidhaytsi here
View more Photos of Pidhaytsi here
Prepared by Dr. Maria Kaspina, Dr. Boris Khaimovich & Dr. Vladimir Levin
Not a single taxi driver in Ivano-Frankivsk knows where the synagogue is located, although its massive building stands only 50 meters away from the central square bustling with people at its shops and restaurants. The once vibrant Jewish community of Eastern Galicia, numbering half a million people, was not only eradicated by the Nazis and their supporters during the Holocaust, but it has also faded from the memory of local inhabitants. The aim of our field school and the entire Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina project is to document, collect and revive remnants - physical as well as intangible - that can still be recorded, preserved and revived after 65 years of Jewish absence from the region. Towards this aim, the Second Field School arrived at Ivano-Frankivsk (formerly Stanisławów) during the summer of 2010.
The Second Field School in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region took place from July 21 to August 10, 2010. It was organized by the Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina project and the Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization Sefer. Fifteen students under the guidance of five scholars engaged in the documentation of Jewish history. The school was composed of three teams: one documenting Jewish cemeteries, another recording oral history and ethnographical materials from the local residents and the third team surveying towns and villages in the region.
The complex approach applied towards the remnants of Jewish history allows for exploration in the fullest possible way. We are working in the region where Jews have been absent for 65 years and the vast majority of Jewish cultural heritage has disappeared without a trace. The majority of Jews, the keepers of local tradition, were cruelly exterminated during the Holocaust; most of those who survived emigrated to Israel and the United States. The number of people, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who remember the period before WWII, is very small and continues to diminish. Hundreds of synagogues and prayer houses were destroyed; those that survived were changed completely, sometimes preserving only basic architectural features such as the arrangement of windows. Dozens of Jewish cemeteries were wiped out and the tombstones used as building material. Books and manuscripts, photographs and artifacts didn't survive WWII and beyond.
We are trying to collect what can be still found in situ. The tombstones in Jewish cemeteries are a perfect example of local Jewish artistry, the other expressions of which largely being lost. Their epitaphs are clear evidence of the literary culture of the local Jews - for a long time the only literate population in the region. The documentation of the tombstones "revives" generations of Jews buried in the surviving cemeteries.
Oral recollections of living Ukrainians help to shed light on the everyday life of the Jewish population before the Holocaust and attest to the widespread coexistence in this once ethnically mixed region. Interviews with elderly local inhabitants also revitalize the memories of Jews and draw the attention of younger generations who never saw Jews in their towns and villages.
Archival research flushes out documentary evidence of Jewish life. Due to the nature of local archives, which mainly contain the paperwork of state institutions, archival documents reflect the interaction of Jewish communities with governmental agencies (the archival work in our project is conducted through the Central Archives for the History of Jewish People in Jerusalem). Several years of intensive work to collect remnants of Jewish life in the region will provide the scholarly community and those interested in Jewish and family history with the fullest possible range of information.
I. Jewish Cemeteries
A team headed by Dr. Boris Khaimovich from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ms. Marina Bruk from the European University in St. Petersburg documented four Jewish cemeteries: Nadvirna (Nadwórna), Lysets (Łysiec), Burshtyn (Bursztyn) and Rozhniativ (Rożniatów). All four cemeteries are interesting examples of the diverse local burial tradition.
The cemetery in Nadvirna (Nadwórna) is only partially preserved and is used by the local population as a place for drinking alcohol and other such activities. It is covered with very dense vegetation and piles of litter which severely impede efforts for documentation at this cemetery. Many tombstones have been uprooted and thrown into piles, which also complicated access for the researchers. Only after preparatory work of clearing the vegetation and disassembling the piles of tombstones, the team was able to document 530 tombstones, which were numbered, photographed, measured and their epitaphs transcribed.
The oldest tombstone in this cemetery is dated ת"ט) 1649) - dating it to the time of the Chmelnitsky massacre of 1648-49. This tombstone of Issachar Ber, son of Haim, is the oldest evidence of a Jewish presence in Nadvirna and it may testify to the first Jewish settlers in the region being refugees from areas affected by the Cossack rebellion. This tombstone is very similar to the oldest tombstone in the cemetery of Solotvyn (dated 1665), documented by the first field school in 2009. The epitaph on the tombstone in Solotvyn states that the deceased is a son of holy Yehezkel Segal, i.e. that Yehezkel was killed by non-Jews, most likely during the Chmelnitsky massacre. Both tombstones, in Nadvirna and Solotvyn, are the earliest evidence of a Jewish presence in the region and demonstrate a connection to the greatest catastrophe in Eastern European Jewish history before the 20th century. Unfortunately, other tombstones of the 17th century are not preserved. From the 18th century, only two gravestones were preserved by chance: one from 1774 and another from 1777.
The most important area in the Nadvirna cemetery is around two ohalim (small buildings above the graves) of the Nadworna Hasidic leaders. The older one, made in an unusual barrel form, covers the graves of Rabbi Tsvi Hirsh and his family; the second one covers the graves of Rabbi Issachar Ber and his descendants.
During the entire 19th century, Nadworna was one of the most important Hasidic centers in Galicia and attracted thousands of Hasidim throughout the region. The importance of the Nadworna Hasidic court can be clearly seen in the area adjacent to the ohalim. Several dozen people from the renowned Hasidic families are buried there, among them a great-grandson of Rabbi Levi Itshak from Berdichev, a grandson of Rabbi Haim from Czernowitz, a daughter of Rabbi of Halych R. Shmuel, a great-granddaughter of Maggid of Zlochev and others. The tombstones of the prominent Hasidim who played distinguished roles at the Nadworna court can be also found around the ohalim.
Approximately one hundred tombstones were discovered in large piles of stones near the ohalim. They also belonged to members of notable families and were crafted in a high level of artistry.
Other areas of the cemetery date to the second half of the 19th century and to the period between the World Wars. They are simple in design, with typical depictions marking difference between graves of women and men. Some tombstones, uncovered from the earth, preserved the original colors from the interwar period. The most recent gravestone dates to 1940, after the region was occupied by the Soviet Union.
The cemetery in Lysiets (Łysiec) is home to 220 tombstones and our team documented it completely. It is a good example of a well-preserved cemetery of a small rural community in the Carpathian region. The graves of local rabbis are situated in the middle of the graveyard. The majority of the tombstones are dated to the 19th and 20th centuries. Some depictions from the turn-of-the-century combine traditional folk images with a provincial modernist style. Six Jews were murdered by the Nazis at the cemetery's fence; no memorial sign exists there.
In Burshtyn (Bursztyn) only one-eighth of the original cemetery is preserved, numbering 333 tombstones; the other tombstones were used for paving the road to Lviv. The remaining, mainly women's tombstones are concentrated in one block, in 25 dense rows. Only several of the men's tombstones are preserved. Despite the relatively widespread custom of assigning different plots to male and female burials, a strict division between genders is rare. The presence of the important and conservative Hasidic court of Rabbi Nahum Brandwine in the town likely caused this phenomenon. This cemetery presents an amazing collection of the most widespread Jewish symbol for women's gravestones in the 19th-20th centuries - the Shabbat candelabra. Among 333 preserved tombstones, there are no two similar candelabra; each one is different.
The most interesting cemetery among those documented this year is in Rozhniativ (Rożniatów). The oldest part of the cemetery, dating to the 17th century, is surrounded by an earth wall. This arrangement was very common in East-Central Europe and led to the Polish and Ukrainian term for Jewish cemeteries: okopyśko/okopyshche, meaning a territory surrounded by an earth wall. However, the earth walls surrounding such cemeteries are preserved in only very rare instances and that the Rozhniativ wall in such a good condition is quite unique.
The area surrounded by the wall served for burials from the late 17th century (1687) until the early 19th century (1817). The shape of the earliest tombstones and their script are very similar to the tombstones of the same period in Central Europe and differ significantly from the tombstones in Nadvirna and Solotvyn. The tombstones from the 18th century bear the same images of animals as the stones in the most important Jewish cultural centers of Eastern Europe. In other places in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, only rarely are 18th-century tombstones preserved.
In the oldest part of the cemetery, a stone marking the genizah from the early 20th century was found. It mentions five Torah Scrolls which perished in a fire. Gravestones of gnizot are a rare phenomenon in Jewish cemeteries of Eastern Europe. This one bears a depiction of an open Torah ark.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the community began to bury its dead outside the old walled cemetery. Around a dozen tombstones are dated to Tamuz 5591 (April 1831) - the time when cholera spread in Rozhniativ. The memory of the cholera period is kept among the local people up until today. After the end of the epidemic, the community continued with burials outside the earth wall. Our team succeeded to document almost all tombstones of the 19th century, comprising 360 items. Many of these are decorated with local style images. The gravestones from the 20th century are situated in a forest which grew there following WWII. Local youth uses these tombstones as places of "romantic" meetings.
II. Collecting Oral History
The team headed by Prof. Olga Belova, of the Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Maria Kaspina, of the Russian State University of the Humanities in Moscow, collected oral history and ethnographic testimonies from local residents, both Jewish and non-Jewish.
As determined during the previous field school last year, operating in the same town as the cemetery team is very productive. Activity at the Jewish cemetery draws the attention of local residents; they come to the cemetery and begin to share their recollections about Jews. The simple act of "Jews" (despite the fact that the majority of students in our team are not Jewish) coming to their cemeteries, cleaning and researching them, stimulates the memory of the local population and encourages them to speak about Jews. At this point, the oral history team has a wonderful opportunity to collect and record this information. Therefore, a unique picture of Jewish history in a given town takes shape - earlier periods are reflected in the tombstones, while the pre-war years and the Holocaust are expressed by the memory of living people.
We are collecting oral testimony at the last moment. Elderly people who indeed remember Jews in a given town are now very rare and their number is diminishing daily. In addition, post-war migrations led to an influx of the Ukrainian population from other villages and regions, making them a majority in these former Jewish-Polish towns; therefore, this population is alien to local tradition, has never seen local Jews and has no memories about them.
While in-depth research was conducted last year in Solotvyn and Nadvirna, efforts of the ethnography team this year were concentrated in Burshtyn. A dozen people living in the area adjacent to the Jewish cemetery were interviewed, especially concentrated on the street which before WWII was named after Theodor Herzl and now is named after Russian revolutionary and writer Alexander Herzen. The team also worked in Lysiets, where interesting information was recorded from the people living next to the Jewish cemetery and in Rozhniativ, where a descendant of local Jews was interviewed. The team also visited Kalush, Kolomea, Otynia, Chernelytsia, Verkhovina and Ternopol. During the 2010 field school, we used as a basis the questionnaire developed by the previous field school. This questionnaire, which in and of itself is an import result of the mission, will be improved using the experience of the current field school.
During the collection of oral history, the recollections of shabes-goim (Christian children who were invited by Jews to light fire on Saturdays) were recorded in many places. Also, stories about Jewish holidays were recalled, including memories of Christians receiving matza from Jews and giving their neighbours Easter cakes in return. Several common stereotypes about Jews recorded last year were reconfirmed during this field school. The most widespread misconception is that Jews are buried in a sitting position. One explanation given by interviewees is the lack of space in the Jewish cemetery. Another one, no less "rational," relates that burial in a sitting position allows Jews to stand up quickly at the time of resurrection before the Last Judgment.
Another widespread belief held by the local non-Jewish population involves a prikazanne - "commandment." Usually this relates to a mezuzah parchment, but it could also be a part of a Torah scroll, parchment from phylacteries or any text in Hebrew letters. Many magic rituals, especially in Ukrainian folk medicine, are connected to prikazanne. For example, the burning of prikazanne is said to help with epilepsy.
During this field school we also often worked with local Jews, despite the fact that majority of these Jews came to the region after WWII from other areas. We were able to speak with communal leaders and document the current situation of the community. This information adds a significant layer to the findings gathered in the neighboring regions of Bukovina, Bessarabia and Podolia. In all these regions, it is customary that the Ukrainians come to Jewish people - to synagogues, cemeteries and even individual Jews - for help, considering that the Jewish religion is "closer to God." Evidence of such appeals is recorded by non-Jews as well as by Jews themselves. For example, Ukrainians come to a Jewish woman living in Rozhniativ - a rare case of a Jew in the village of today - and ask for Jewish texts for "commandments;" she even provides them with such texts from Israel. In the places where functioning synagogues exist, we documented an institutionalized practice whereby Ukrainians make donations to the synagogue in exchange for a prayer for their health and wellbeing.
Due to the treatment of Jewish texts as a powerful magical aid, and the consideration of everything Jewish as a mighty power since "the Jews are first by God," the tradition of asking Jews for help has been preserved even after 65 years of Jews being generally absent from the region.
III. Survey of Jewish Monuments
A small team led by Dr. Vladimir Levin, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, continued its efforts from last year of surveying towns and villages where Jewish monuments remain. This year, the team visited those areas which were omitted last year due to lack of time.
In the village of Bukachevtsy, a ruin of a synagogue and the area of a Jewish cemetery were found. The tombstones from the cemetery were used in the 1950s to pave the sidewalks. Since the inhabitants of the village do not need sidewalks along unpaved streets, they gradually removed these tombstones and threw them away.
Chernelytsia village was once a thriving town with an important castle. Today, only a ruin of a synagogue and remnants of several tombstones serve as reminders of its Jewish population. All Chernelytsia Jews were murdered near the village Mikhalche, where the Jews from Horodenka perished as well. The mass murder was performed on the banks of the Dniester River and today a youth resort stands in this picturesque setting. In Horodenka, the team visited the old Jewish cemetery with tombstones from the 17th and 18th century and found it surrounded by piles of garbage.
In the quaint town of Sniatyn, the former synagogue was converted during Soviet times into a clothing factory. In one of the houses on the market square, the team was shown a hatch in a ceiling which served the Jewish inhabitants during the Sukkot holiday. The hatch was opened and the area under it served as a sukka. In Zabolotiv, the team found the Jewish cemetery situated between private homes and the building of the former beit midrash.
In the town of Bibrka, which lies in the road from Ivano-Frankivsk to Lviv, the team photographed the ruins of the synagogue. The structure stood abandoned since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the closure of a food factory situated in this building.
The team also visited the village of Verkhovina, formerly known as Zhabye. It is situated high in the Carpathian Mountains. A building which served as a prayer house is preserved there, as well as several Jewish houses in the vicinity. A small Jewish cemetery and a memorial sign at the site where the Verkhovina Jews were murdered are located in the village of Il'tsi.
In the famous mountain spa of Vorokhta, the team discovered the Sanatorium of Jewish Academics - a health resort for Jewish students from Lviv, where treatment against tuberculosis was provided. It was built in the early 1930s by the Jewish architect from Lviv, Jósef Awin (1883-1942), in the International style. This elegant building is still used as a sanatorium and its architecture remains almost unchanged.
The team was not able to visit the villages of Tatariv, Mikulychyn, Yaremche and the town of Deliatyn because the road was blocked by a heavy muddy flooding, which caused significant destruction.
IV. Educational Program
The field school offered an impressive educational program. Beyond instruction given during the documentation work, the students were offered educational trips and lectures. The first such educational trip journeyed east. The group visited Buchach (Buczacz) - the birthplace of Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Hrimailiv (Grzymalów) with its ruined synagogue from the 18th century; and Sataniv (Satanov), where an amazing Jewish cemetery and a synagogue from the early 17th century are preserved. In Buchach, the group visited the 18th-century Jewish cemetery, now heavily used by local drug addicts and was shown Jewish tombstones found during the repair of a road in the town.
The second educational trip ventured south to the Carpathian Mountains. The group visited the village of Kolochava with its 17thcentury wooden church and an ethnographic museum where a Jewish prayer room and a Jewish inn are reconstructed. Lectures by Dr. Khaimovich on Jewish history in Galicia in the Early Modern period and by Prof. Nosonovsky on Jewish tombstones were given at the ruins of the Buchach castle. Lectures by Dr. Levin on Moorish synagogues and by Dr. Khaimovich on synagogues' interior decorations were given in Ivano-Frankivsk. In addition, the ethnography group held evening seminars where the information gathered during the day was discussed under the guidance of Prof. Belova and Dr. Kaspina.
Heads of the Field School:
Prof. Olga Belova, Moscow
Marina Bruk, St. Petersburg
Dr. Maria Kaspina, Moscow
Dr. Boris Khaimovich, Jerusalem
Dr. Vladimir Levin, Jerusalem
Anna Shayevich, Moscow
Participants of the Field School:
Svetlana Amosova, St. Petersburg
Michael Beketov, Moscow
Michael Bessmertnyi, Kiev
Kirill Danilchenko, Kiev
Natalia Evseenko, St. Petersburg
Olga Gushcheva, Minsk
Elena Kolomyets, Kiev
Ekaterina Lazareva, Moscow
Alesya Nekrasova, St. Petersburg
Prof. Michael Nosonovsky, Milwaukee, WI
Alexandra Pavlova, St. Petersburg
Anna Tokhtasyeva, St. Petersburg
Michael Vasilyev, Moscow
Natalia Vasilyeva, St. Petersburg
Ilya Yuzefovich, Moscow
View Rozhniatov cemetery here.
View Nadworna cemetery here.
View Burshtyn cemetery here.
View Lysiec cemetery here.
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Before photoshop, there was painting. If you were commissioned to do art, you weren't about to paint an ugly portrait of the guy. So chins were lifted, skin was cleared, etc. and it gets sorta hard to tell what people really looked like. Until now.
Eric Altschuler, a history buff, studied the early 19th century painter Gilbert Stuart, who painted portraits of the founding fathers, the first six American president and other early famous individuals. He compared those portraits with early photographs and determined that Stuart's artistic style differed from reality (the pictures). Supposedly he added fuller cheeks and higher eyebrows.
[Atschuler] then created a computer algorithm that took an average of the portrait and the painting. They applied the method to portraits of the presidents who lived before photography, effectively subtracting Stuart's signature changes.
The differences are pretty minute and need a bit more data to back, but it's a very creative method to "un-photoshop" pre-photoshop paintings. [Science Mag via BoingBoing]

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ANKARA, Turkey, July 5 (UPI) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized Western nations for not calling the Egyptian army's ousting of President Mohamed Morsi a "military coup."
Erdogan said Western nations, particularly those in the European Union, have turned a blind eye to the army intervention and overthrow of Morsi in Egypt, Today's Zaman reported.
"What happened to their democratic ideals? It is a sincerity test," Erdogan said.
Erdogan said there cannot be a "democratic coup," saying all coups are "bad, inhumane and enemy of democracy."
Those "who look at streets and ignore the ballot box cannot display a principled and ethical position," Erdogan said.
U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday he was "deeply concerned" about the ouster of Egypt's first democratically elected president, but avoided using the word "coup." Designating the development as a coup would lead to automatic cuts in U.S. aid to Egypt, a key U.S. ally in the region, the Los Angeles Times said.


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A formal or legal written document; a document in writing, such as a deed, lease, bond, contract, or will. A writing that serves as evidence of an individual's right to collect money, such as a check.
n. 1) a written legal document such as a contract, lease, deed, will or bond. 2) an object used to perform some task or action, ranging from a surgeon's scalpel to any hard thing used in an assault (a blunt instrument).
instrument(Document), noun bill, certificate, deed, draft, evidential writing, executed and delivered writing, formal writing, official record, official writing, paper, record, solemn writing, syngrapha, tabula, writing delivered as the evidence of an agreement, writing which gives formal expression to a legal act, written formal expression
Associated concepts: allonge, instrument evidencing a debt, instrument of writing, negotiable instrument
Foreign phrases: Mala grammatica non vitiat chartam, sed in expositione instrumentorum mala grammatica quoad fieri possit evitanda est.Bad grammar does not vitiate a deed, but in the drafting of instruments, bad grammar should, as far as possible, be avoided. Ubi nulla est connectura quae ducat alio, verba intelligenda sunt ex proorietate, non grammatica, sed populari ex usu. Where there is nothing which calls for another construction, words are to be understood according to their proper sense, not according to their strict grammatical meaning, but accorddng to their popular sense. Qui haeret in litera haeret in cortice. He who adheres to the letter of an instrument goes but skin deep into its meaning.
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This weekend has been one with family visits on both Saturday and Sunday, which involved entertaining. Something which I really enjoy as it involves cooking, baking and an opportunity to try new recipes. I wanted to try out 2 cheesecake recipes and this was the perfect excuse. The Double Chocolate Orange Cheesecake is a dream come true for all those who love the choc/orange combination! This is a rich cheesecake with a mascarpone filling made with a simple no-bake method. I did tweak the recipe and instead of making individual portions, I made a single regular 8inch size. I then added melted orange chocolate to the surface and swirled, giving it the marble effect. My other choice of cheesecake (my favourite of the 2) was a Caramel Toffee Cheesecake, a recipe I found on a wonderful blog and it was love at first sight. This is a truly decadent dessert and one that was enjoyed by my mother in law who now wants the recipe. The freshly made hot caramel sauce poured over before serving was the perfect topping. Words can not describe how good this cheesecake was, infact both of them were a big hit with my guests!
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364 Valentine Days
by Lena
I thought this simple piece of paper in my office, my crazy handwriting & a phone camera to capture it all, was much more creative than a Hallmark card with glitter and sappy words all over it… besides, I don't think Hallmark sells cards with the above statement..
I'm glad I don't have tv since all I would be hearing these days is the commercial we all know well in US, that goes something like this; " Every-kiss-begins-with-K .. " yeah, whatever, so does Kinky-Kitty-Kat-Kamasutra! ( i just made that up )
On a more serious note,
I believe every kind of love, be it between two lovers, friends or family, should be celebrated daily! Instead we wait for them to ~
a) be more like so and so
and / or
b) stop doing or start doing so and so …
and then maybe, after that change, we can start loving them .. huh?
I would like to thank my Mr. Bond for continuing to celebrate our love 364 days, even though we have been together for a long time .. And I mean a long time! (longer than anyone could have ever imagined)
It's been one hell of a ride and he's still hanging on .. which is absolutely remarkable because with me, a year is like 10..
Mr. Bond, you are the luckiest man in the world and the unluckiest, at the same time..
I honestly don't know how you manage to put up with me ( those peeps at CIA should give you a medal ) ,
but today I really want to thank you for …
oo7) Never letting my vases stand empty … ( and no, he doesn't own a flower shop )
But he's not the only one, who knows how to surprise …
6) Whisking me away for romantic getaways that turn into amazing, once-in-a-lifetime adventures ~ Costa Rica,
5) Surprising me with delicious breakfasts, dinners and coffee in bed
4) Inviting me out to Nature instead of a shopping mall, sports bar or a ball game
always surprising me with notes, emails, texts, cards, great restaurants and tickets to see some of my favorite artists ~ Placido Domingo, B.B King, Carlos Santana, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Lisa Gerrard, Dead Can Dance, Sade, U2, Prince, Ballet performance from St. Petersburg, Bolshoi Ballet, Opera and countless Theater plays! You always surprise me with the most amazing gifts!
2) Making me laugh to the point of tears
being silly with me
always encouraging my passions ( no matter how ridiculous they might seem to others ) and not standing in the way of my personal journey… even at those times when I choose to walk it solo.
1) Thank you for holding my hand through the good and the bad, for helping me see a different shade of life, not just black or white,
for teaching me to be more patient with people and myself.
Thank you for being patient with me, not trying to change me and not trying to put me in a cage.
Thank you for giving us time apart while we enjoy doing what we love.
Thank you for being comfortable with silence..
We couldn't be more different and I've never been good with plans or "future" ( am I spelling the word correctly? )
I want to thank you for Now and for being YOU.
Happy Anti-V day everyone!
I wish all of you 364 Valentine Days in your life!
…it's ok to take a day off..
..but only 1
EL xo
The woman behind the words …


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There are two sets of statistics on our front page, this week — those detailing the August unemployment numbers and those revealing the real estate activity in Strafford County for the year up to date and the six preceding years.
Let us look at the jobless rates first, while reminding everyone at the outset that these are U-3 numbers that omit whole groups of potential workers, who, when they appear in the U-6 numbers, more than double the "labor underutilization" rate.
A practiced eye, looking at the summer numbers, will notice Durham's U-3 unemployment rate is uncharacteristically high at 6.2 percent, which suggests that there were many fewer summer jobs for students in and around UNH this year. It is also a time of year when construction crews would, in normal times, be going gangbusters with building projects, but with the housing market (which we are coming to) in a state of very slow recovery, there are few new homes being started, and this may very well account for one or two percentage points on the jobless rate for places like Milton, Farmington and New Durham. Even in towns like Alton and Wolfeboro, where, in the height of the tourist season, unemployment can be expected to fall to two or three percent, there was just the hint of an economic chill on the summer breeze. The worrying thing, too, is that while New Hampshire has actually lost jobs over the past year, neighboring states like Vermont and Massachusetts have added them. We doubt if the arrival of the Safran plant in Rochester can work a miracle all by itself, but it will help in these parts.
We think there are twin keys to economic improvement in the greater Rochester area, with one being more manufacturing jobs, and the other being a healthy and stable real estate market, and in this latter regard, the light at the end of the tunnel has drawn a little closer with this quarter's numbers.
The number of deeds and mortgages recorded at the Strafford County Registry continues to rise, and while, in the case of mortgages, activity is less than half of what it was in 2006, that is no big concern. In 2006, and its immediately preceding years, anyone with a pulse was being given a mortgage to buy a home at an inflated price and that process certainly contained the seeds of its own destruction — destruction not just for the mortgagee but damage to taxpayers and the community in general. Only the banks deemed too big to fail seemed to make out OK.
Now, two things are going on in the housing market. Home prices have dropped far enough to bring property investors into the market more strongly, as evidenced with the deeds activity, and this helps prices stabilize and then climb. When prices head back up, this is a boon for some homeowners. Someone who had a $200,000 mortgage at 6 percent interest could not refinance when their home was worth only $190,000, but when the value climbs to $210,000, the sun comes out. They suddenly have equity, and can refinance at 4 percent, saving around $4,000 every year in interest payments.
As the ability to refinance becomes more common, greater numbers of residents experience a sense of financial relief, and are able to relax their purse strings a little. This helps other sectors of the economy, like retail outlets, restaurants and entertainment amenities, which, in turn, add a few workers.
The other thing that is going on, though — property foreclosures — is still having a negative impact, and nowhere in the seacoast area is suffering more than Rochester. In the first nine months of this year, there were 97 foreclosures, which is the highest Q3 number for the city in this real estate crisis so far. From 2007, when the early signs of trouble began to show, there have been over 700 foreclosures in Rochester alone. That is an astonishing and devastating number, and it is only part of the measure of worry and stress afflicting portions of the community, for there are many more families still hanging on by a fingernail. Let's hope that slowly rising home prices will come to their rescue in time, and that New Hampshire will soon start adding jobs again.
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Final thoughts at the Belgium IT Security and Storage Expo
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Wrapping up my coverage of the 2013 IT Security and Storage Expo in Belgium, I noticed some interesting things in the other booths.
The EMC booth had a whiteboard so that clients could do some one-on-one collaboration. All of their cocktail waitresses were wearing sharp pin-stripe coats with matching mini-skirts.
Another booth had a "virtual graffiti wall". Using a "digital spraycan", you could write on the wall. I am not sure what connection this had with anything the company had to offer, but perhaps they also wanted to collaborate with attendees on solutions. In either case, it was very cool, and brought a lot of traffic.
(FTC Disclosure: I work for IBM. I was not paid to mention any of the other companies, their products or people on this blog post. Mentioning other companies is not to be considered an endorsement of any kind.)
There were some interesting costumes. Leila from [Aerohive] wearing a "bee costume" complete with black wings. Hans from STS in a bright orange business suit. (Orange is the national color of Belgium). Sophie from Fortinet handed out champagne. The plastic glassware were cones that snapped onto her tray, but they had no flat bottom to rest your glass down, so you had to hold it the entire time until you finished drinking it. The Homer Simpson sticker eating the Apple logo shows the Belgians have a sense of humor!
The NetApp booth had a huge banner claiming that "Data OnTap" was the #1 storage OS. Obviously Windows, AIX, Solaris and Linux aren't consider "storage Operating Systems" per se. Is NetApp claiming they outsell FreeNAS, the only other storage OS that I can think of?
While IBM and I.R.I.S-ICT easily won the "Best Looking Big Booth" award, I have to give the "Best Looking Small Booth" award to my friends at Hitachi Data Systems. Like EMC, the Hitachi team did not have any equipment on the floor, but they made use of their tiny space by having a Japanese theme, with cocktail waitresses in kimonos.
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Meet the Experts Reception at the Belgium IT Security and Storage Expo
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Continuing my coverage of the IT Security and Storage Expo in Brussels, Belgium, we had a nice reception Wednesday evening.
Clara handed out Ceasar Chicken salads. Joelle handed out small rolled up pieces of duck.
Ilsa is an IBM expert in System x, VMware and the PureSystems family on hand to help with the demos and any client questions. I.R.I.S.-ICT employee Ans is only in her 20's, but is recognized as one of Belgium's leading experts in System z mainframe. I used to be the lead architect for DFSMS on z/OS, so we had plenty to talk about.
Of course, the best time for the press to ask for interviews is during the reception, where everyone is relaxed and ready to speak. I am "media-trained" which allows me to speak to the press about IBM matters. I do a lot of these interviews either over the phone, or on camera.
I took a picture to capture the typical setup. Mandy on the left is asking me questions, while camera operator Lisa focuses on my body language. The trick is to spend 80 percent of the time focused on your interviewer, and then 20 percent looking into the camera for strategic pauses. If Mandy decides to use any of the footage, she will be sending me the YouTube video link!
(If you are interested in Media Training, I recommend fellow blogger Brad Phillips' post [21 Most Essential Media Training Links])
Hans and Sophie from Veeam stopped by the IBM booth to say hello. (See 2010 Aug 27 blog post comparing Veeam to Tivoli Storage Manager). These two DJ's kept the IBM and I.R.I.S-ICT booth hopping.
Belgium is a small country, and many of the IT storage people know each other. This made for quite the party! Our group closed up the booth around 8:30pm and we went over to join their friends at Arrow and Huawei. Here is Maiva from Huawei.
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My Presentations at the Belgium IT Security and Storage Expo
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Continuing my coverage of the IT Security and Storage Expo in Brussels, Belgium, here is my post on the presentations I gave during the week.
There were four presentations each day. Of the five rooms, I was assigned one room in which to give all of my presentations, room 3. My room was quite large, with sixty seats.
It is a good idea for public speakers to understand Dutch, French, German and English in Belgium. In recognition of the fact that Belgians are multi-lingual, I started each session with "Goede Middag, Bon Jour and Good Afternoon!" and ended each with "Dank U, Merci and Thank you for attending!"
The sessions were all half-hour slots. The only presentation that I had a challenge getting down to 30 minutes was my session on "New Generation of Storage Tiering" in which I was asked to cover Easy Tier sub-LUN automated tiering, Server-to-Storage cooperative caching, Texas Memory Systems, hierarchical storage Management (HSM), Active Cloud Engine, and SmartCloud Storage!
Helping me out were three local IBM interns. From left to right: Joelle, Clara and Bryan. I hadn't noticed that there were only short breaks between sessions, all of this time consumed with one-on-one discussions with clients, so the interns were kind enough to fetch me snacks and drinks.
Joelle and Bryan speak Dutch, which is similar to the local Flemish language. Clara speaks French, which came in handy for translations.
I would like to thank my room monitors: Jolijn, Ella and Chloe. All three are local college students hired by the conference for the two days to scan name badges and count bodies in seats.
(I had to ask Jolijn to write her name on a piece of paper because it is Dutch and I had no clue how to spell it for this blog post.)
While it might appear that room 3 was "The Tony Pearson Show -- all Tony, all the time!" there were actually worthwhile sessions in the other rooms. Fellow blogger Jon Toigo [known for his DrunkenData blog] presented "Storage Infrastruggle 2013 -- Containing Storage Costs without Sacrificing Access, Protection or Management". My IBM colleague Ron Riffe presented a vendor-neutral look at Storage Hypervisors.
If the attendees wanted copies of my presentations, they were directed to get their name badge scanned at the IBM and I.R.I.S-ICT booth, all the way at the other end of the hall, and my presentations would be emailed to them.
(For those who have missed it, you can find all five of my presentations uploaded to the [IBM Expert Network] on Slideshare.)
Finally, I would like to thank my IBM colleagues who helped me develop and review my presentations: Brigitte Van Den Eynde, Joe Hayward, Jeff Jonas, Tom Deutsch, Chris Saul, Marisol Diaz, Iliana Garcia, Harley Puckett, Jack Arnold, and Steve McKinney.
technorati tags: IBM, Belgium, Storage, Expo, big data, Storwize V3700, Tiering, Replication, HA, BC, DR, Easy Tier, HSM, Active Cloud Engine, SmartCloud, Jon Toigo, Ron Riffe, I.R.I.S.-ICT, Brigitte Van Den Eynde, Joe Hayward, Jeff Jonas, Tom Deutsch, Chris Saul, Marisol Diaz, Iliana Garcia, Harley Puckett, Jack Arnold, Steve McKinney
Getting to the Belgium IT Security and Storage Expo
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The Belgium IT Security and Storage Expo was a great success!
(I am back to the USA in Portland, Oregon this week, so these posts relate to last week.)
However, that wasn't to say I didn't encounter a few challenges during my week in Belgium. The first was getting to the venue. The Belgium Expo is a large complex of buildings to the north of the city. The local IBM team suggested I go to the facility a day in advance so that I would be able to see where it was and how to get there.
I was staying in the center of town, in Place Rogier section. I had many transportation options:
Upon arrival to the building complex, I was unsure of which building I needed to be in. Standing in front of the beautiful Building 5, I found this legend that provided the answer: Building 8. In front of Building 12 was a map that showed where Building 8 was located on the campus.
For this event, IBM joined forces with IBM Business Partner I.R.I.S-ICT to have a fabulous booth, with plenty of experts and equipment demos. As is often the case, the team had to work late into the night to get all the equipment set up, all the podiums and counters constructed, and the demos fully operational.
Apparently, I was not the only one to have troubles finding the place, so I did not feel alone. Some with cars drove around the complex several times before figuring out which parking lot to park in. Others parked at the first spot they found, and still ended up walking as much as I did.
For future reference, If you plan to attend any event at the Belgium Expo, either (a) ask for more explicit directions, and (b) plan to do lots of walking!
technorati tags: IBM, Belgium, Storage, Expo, I.R.I.S.-ICT
Upcoming Storage Events - Spring 2013
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Here are some upcoming events related to IBM Storage!
If you sell IBM and/or Oracle solutions, please join me for IBM Oracle Virtual University 2013!
A few weeks ago, I recorded a session on IBM Storage: Overview, Positioning and How to Sell that will be available on demand starting tomorrow, February 26th, at the IBM Oracle Virtual University 2013.
It's one of 65 new sessions that will help IBM to surround Oracle applications with IBM infrastructure, services and industry solutions. Oracle software, after all, runs best on IBM hardware. Other highlights of Oracle Virtual University include a live executive State of the Alliance session with Q&A, Oracle keynote, updates by Oracle product managers, sessions on PureSystems, Selling IBM into an Oracle environment, Cloud, and much more.
Visit the [Orace Virtual University 2013 Registration page] to register.
(Update: For employees of IBM, Oracle and their respective business partners, the replays for this event is available until Feb 26, 2014. Visit the [Orace Virtual University 2013 Replay page])
There will be live technical teams on hand throughout launch day to answer your questions in real time, so I hope you can carve out 30 minutes or more on February 26th to take advantage of these available resources.
After helping launch the first Pulse back in 2008, I have sadly not been back since. Last year, I was invited to attend as a last-minute replacement for another speaker, but I was busy [having emergency surgery].
This year's [Pulse 2013] conference looks amazing. It will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Guest Speaker Payton Manning, NFL 4-time MVP football player, and Carrie Underwood, 6-time Grammy award winner, join IBM's Software Group executives and experts on how IBM Tivoli can help optimize your IT infrastructure.
Sadly, once again, I will not be there at Pulse. This time, I will be on the East Coast visiting clients instead, but my on-premise correspondent, Tom Rauchut, has informed me that he will be there. Hopefully, he will provide me something to write about.
Later in March, I will be in Brussels, Belgium for the Storage Expo. This is held March 20-21, at the Brussels-Expo venue. I will be presenting several topics each day, as well as visit clients in the area. This event comes on behalf of IBM Belgium in association with IBM Business Partner IRIS-ICT.
If you plan to participate in any of these events, let me know!
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Beginning January 1, 2009 the Dallas Police Department will begin enforcing the Uninsured Motorist Ordinance, approved by the Dallas City Council on May 28, 2008. Under this ordinance drivers stopped for a traffic violation who cannot show proof of auto insurance meeting state requirements will be issued a citation and will have his or her vehicle towed at the owner's expense. The City already tows the vehicles of uninsured motorists involved in traffic accidents.
The new ordinance is in response to the large number of people driving in the City of Dallas without the proper state required auto insurance. These uninsured drivers place an unfair burden on those who comply with state law and maintain auto insurance. The Dallas Police Department currently issues about 75,000 citations a year to motorists with no auto insurance. With the new ordinance, the city anticipates fewer of these citations as more drivers comply with the law to avoid having their vehicles towed.
To find out more about the Uninsured Motorist Ordinance that amended Section 28-4 of the Dallas City Code, please review the ordinance.
If you have any questions about this policy please call 311 (the City of Dallas' Customer Service Helpline) or 214-670-5111 when calling outside the City of Dallas.
Comply with state law: contact an automobile insurance provider and obtain auto insurance. It's the law.


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Winners of our 2010 Haiku Contest
Writing haiku sounds really, really simple, doesn't it? The form is elementary: Just five, seven and five syllables, and wham-o, you've got a poem. It's not as easy as it sounds, though. Since the early August announcement of this here contest, I've been trying to think up a congratulatory haiku for all the entrants and have come up with exactly nothing.
Thankfully, you're all better at this than I, and more than 400 of you submitted tiny poems over e-mail, snail mail and Twitter. Nice job, y'all. Obviously, we can't publish all of them, so Alibi editors Laura Marrich and Marisa Demarco worked tirelessly with me, counting syllables on our fingers to pick the cream of the crop. The ones we've chosen as our faves in each category get a neat little package of prizes from Noah's Ark Café, Pepper's Ole' Fashion BBQ, Chillz Frozen Custard and Guild Cinema. Haiku masters can swing by the Alibi (413 Central Nw) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday to gather up their goodies.


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JHA Newsletter necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 36 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
J Hirasawa Associates
I write a newsletter for a small group of financial advisors. I recently took over my father's business and am trying to modernize it. It's still a very small business, so I am hoping that the new design will help to promote the product to new customers.
This newsletter is given on a complementary basis to the customers of financial advisors. It contains basic finance information, such as retirement planning or tax tips. Therefore, the product should have a clean, modern and professional (business/finance) feel to it.
The design I require is a masthead for "INVESTMENT FOCUS".
It should be "evolutionary" - it should resemble the current outdated version (attached).
Requirements -
1. 2-colour, using current colour palette (purple).
2. Masthead needs to include space for a small logo. Currently, this logo ("Raymond James" in the attached) is placed on the top left hand side of the newsletter.
2. Newsletter needs to have space for photo/contact details. This information is currently in the left hand margin.
3. The words "Personal Newsletter from John Smith" need to be included. They must be printed in black and white (on white). They are currently in Arial Font, but suggestions to make it look better would be appreciated.
4. The newsletter title is in "BerkoldStyle Bk BT" font. This can be changed, but it must be a truetype font available in Pagemaker.
5. The newsletter font is in "Garamond". This can be changed, but again a truetype font available in PM.
There are two attachments. The first is the ORIGINAL (outdated!!).
The second is an upgraded version that was done by another artist. I like the feel of this, just to give an example.
Thanks in advance for your creativeness!


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Visit Brian Jessel BMW Pre-Owned and you'll benefit from choosing from among quite simply the best inventory of used BMW cars and SUVs for sale in Vancouver, without question. It starts with the largest selection in the region of Certified Pre-Owned BMW vehicles, your ultimate assurance of premium quality and of buying or leasing a like-new vehicle at a highly competitive price. We also offer you an exclusive inventory of quality used vehicles for sale from other premium brands.
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Every pre-owned vehicle for sale at our dealership has undergone a thorough inspection and reconditioning process at the hands of certified technicians, and comes with a CarProof vehicle history report. Get pre-approved for credit online from the comfort of home, and you'll also benefit from an advantageous financing plan that fits your specific needs and preferences for your next second-hand car or SUV purchase or lease.
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Because Brian Jessel BMW Pre-Owned is the largest BMW retailer in Canada, you know you'll benefit from the finest quality, selection and pricing for the purchase of a pre-owned car or SUV in Vancouver when you come to us. Whether you're looking for an economical second car or a premium-quality luxury pre-owned vehicle, we have what you're looking for.
- Virtually all of our stock is lease returns and trade-ins
- Wide-ranging inventory for all budgets
- Thorough inspections
- CarProof vehicle history reports available
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text: This charming collectible line from Enesco depicts your favorite fruits and veggies as delightful animals. Meticulously crafted of stone resin and artfully detailed with realistic colors, these figurines literally spring to life with Home Grown™ appeal! Each figurine even comes with a nutrition label on the back of its box that shows ratings for laughs, companionship, friendship, smiles and humor! When placed in your kitchen or on a unique table spread, guests will enjoy being able to finally play with their food!


text: Explore Thousands of Vacation Options at the Travel & Adventure Show, the #1 Series of Travel Shows in the U.S. Discover hundreds of destinations from around the world and meet one-on-one with travel experts who will help you find, personalize, and book your next trip at a price that you won't find anywhere else. Learn how to travel like an insider from dozens of interactive seminars on 4 dedicated travel stages right on the show floor. Plus, meet your favorite travel celebrities like Rick Steves and Samantha Brown! Don't miss your chance to travel the globe in one weekend, all under one roof, in a city near you! The First Stop On Your Next Trip is the Travel & Adventure Show Discover World Class Destinations, Learn from the Best Local Travel Experts, Meet Your Favorite Celebrity Travel Personalities, Explore Cultural Entertainment from Around the World and Plan Your Next Vacation in One Day, Under One Roof Meet some of your favorite celebrity travelers like Rick Steves, Samantha Brown, Peter Greenberg and Phil Keoghan. Hear unfamiliar accents as you speak to destination experts from around the planet. Get a taste from cultures from around the world and experience the rhythm and vibes of distant lands. Find a world of vacation options and deals that you just can't find anywhere else – only at America's Favorite TRAVEL EXPOS! Discover America's Travel Shows TRAVEL SHOW HIGHLIGHTS Videos TRAVEL SHOW SPEAKERS Speaker Stages TRAVEL SHOW EXHIBITORS Become An Exhibitor About the Travel & Adventure Show After 15 years and after 93 events, the Travel & Adventure Show Series has connected over 1.93 million travel enthusiasts with over 4,250 unique travel marketers in a professional setting that facilitates face-to-face conversations and has impacted over $4.1 billion in travel bookings. Each year, America's most avid travelers flock to their favorite travel show to find, plan and book their dream vacation. Email Signup Sign Up for Travel Show Updates + Travel Deals


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Katty Xiomara
Midi Dress + Vest
Katty Xiomara pieces are timeless, sophisticated with tailored silhouettes, meticulous structures and shapes, bold use of color and prints. Midi Dress with side pockets, bow tie wrap style closure. Can be used as well as a Vest.
97% Cotton
3% Elastane
This item ships from Portugal
With stocks being one of the major sources of product and economic waste in the fashion industry, FreedomeE strongly encourages a made-to-order approach among all of our partner brands. To minimize waste and build the foundations for a more sustainable fashion industry, we must all work together: manufacturers and brands on the production end and you, on the consumer end.
Pre-ordering your items not only allows its availability, it also allows manufacturers to effectively manage their production runs and create only items which are in fact needed or desired by consumers. To ensure your production slot and the purchase of all raw materials and trimmings needed to create your garment or accessory, pre-orders at the FreedomeE marketplace must be paid in advance.
Estimated delivery date for current items on pre-order is April 2020.
Shipping costs will not be added to your pre-order at this time. However, we will display the maximum value we will charge for shipping an item at the checkout.
If you are ordering multiple items, there may be a chance they will be shipped from different countries. In that event, we will display the maximum value charged for each item per shipping origin. We guarantee shipping costs of pre-ordered items will never be greater than the ones displayed at checkout, even if trade conditions change until the date of shipment.
Despite made-to-order being the main production process adopted by the vast majority of our brand partners, some labels may have small stocks of specific product references from time to time. When this is the case, your order will be dispatched within 2 to 5 working days.
We are currently setting up a network of logistics partners, consisting of transportation, storage and management hubs, which will soon allow us to provide you with the most secure, fastest and cheapest shipping alternatives available in the market. Additionally, the choice of courier and hub for dispatch will allow us to not only speed up the process, but also reduce our environmental impact and carbon footprint, by choosing the closest facility.
For the pre-order phase, we currently deliver in the following countries: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Bangladesh, Panama, El Salvador and, South Africa.
You're eligible for refunds on full priced items for a period of 30 days after the purchase.
- Item(s) must be returned in their original condition and packaging: unworn, unwashed and with all tags attached.
- Earrings cannot be returned due to health and safety reasons.
- Return shipping methods and associated costs are the responsibility of the customer.


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IH Digital (IH Digital Sdn. Bhd. 1002275-M) is a digital marketing agency aims to provide simplicity and flexibility for clients' social media marketing needs across the Asia. With more than 10 years of digital marketing experience and 80+ specialists for South East Asia, IndoChina, Greater China, Korea and Japan.
We understand how complex the Asia market and its digital landscape can be. Which is why we are here to provide KOL, SEO, video, media buy, tech services for your digital marketing needs in the region. We provide a strategic and synchronised 360 degree approach, focused on creating, distributing and amplifying meaningful and consistent content to a clearly-defined audience.
We design digital experiences with social strategies to revolutionise brands online, develop businesses and engage in conversations with people. Our 360 digital solutions bring your products and services to a wider public. We are passionate about business insights and innovative technology, creative ideas and beautiful design – but most of all about improved results we can measure.
IH Digital has a diverse team that embraces integrity, passion, teamwork and customer focus. A culture that celebrates our diversity and brings together thinkers from all over Asia.
At IH Digital, four words make sense of what we do:
We are honest, ethical and fair in all our business dealings. We honour our commitments and take personal responsibility for our actions. We will treat everyone fairly.
Passion and Heart are cornerstones of our organization and the key to driving our success. We can accomplish extraordinary results with enthusiasm and passion.
We recognize that our strength and our competitive advantage is and always will be people. We will continually learn, and share ideas and knowledge. We encourage cooperative efforts at every level and across all activities in the company.
We want our customers to become "raving fans". Customers drive our next actions. Fan engagement propels us to see innovative ways of doing things and to greater excellence.
"IH has provided good value add, great insights and initiated some great recommendations for both our tactical and long term media buys. This has been integral to Income as we constantly look for new ways to challenge the dynamic digital landscape. IH also provides prompt reports and is ever helpful with our questions and queries. They are responsible, diligent and respectful to the clients and are a delight to work with. As such, our portfolio with IH has grown over the years."
"In the past year since we began working with IH Digital, they have provided us with timely and useful insights and advice on our social media strategies. They are flexible, fast-paced and reliable, and have gone above and beyond in fulfilling our requests even at the very last minute to keep up with our needs. All-in-all IH Digital has played a key role in the growth of our social media channels and have been excellent to work with."
"Jin Air is a representative of Korean budget carrier and we are happy to work with IH Digital as a managing partner for our overseas SNS channels. IH Digital gives us the best support by managing our Facebook pages and China Weibo account. They provide creative content and feedback monitoring using their in-house analytic tools. Through our collaboration, we are expecting IH Digital to play a big role in expanding our market share overseas."
"I would like to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation towards IH Digital for helping Honda Malaysia in hitting our Facebook fans mark. Renewing Honda Malaysia's Facebook is one of the most successful communication projects in Honda Malaysia and it is helping a lot to enhance our brand. Thank you again for your great support and we hope that our Facebook site keeps growing to greater heights with the support of IH Digital's team."


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About us
In 1730 Anton Ketterer built the first cuckoo clock. In the 1780´s Adolf Herr´s ancestor, Johann Hiller, already built clocks in the Black Forest. His son in law, Johann Baptist Rainer, born in 1763 continued the clock making tradition. His son in law, Christian Herr, born 1814 was clock maker, too. From then on, the clock making art was handed down from father to son. Bernhard Herr, born 1842, Robert Herr, born 1876, and Rudolf Herr, born 1901, established a family tradition in making fine clocks. Adolf Herr, Rudolf´s son, married to Gerlinde Eble, whose great-grandfather, grandfather, and father had also been clockmakers, opened his own business in 1977 – the House of Black Forest Clocks. He has been creating cuckoo clocks in ever since, inventing new designs and, above all, new movements that have found a new place in many households in Germany and overseas. Adolf Herr does not have a huge factory. He loves working on the carving bench and in his workshop on the third floor of the store. Assisted by his wife, his son, and his daughter Adolf Herr runs a family business in an old family tradition.
- All our mechanical cuckoo clocks are hand-signed by "Adolf Herr".
- All our mechanical cuckoo clocks include the certificate of Authenticity Original Adolf Herr Cuckoo Clock


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Amlin Challenge Cup
IRB chief demands action over spitting incident
ESPN Staff
April 8, 2013
Bath's Peter Stringer tussles with Stade Francais' Jerome Fillol during their quarter-final clash at The Rec © Getty Images
The International Rugby Board has called for Stade Francais scrum-half Jerome Fillol to feel the full force of the law if found guilty of spitting at Bath's Peter Stringer during their Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-final clash on Saturday.
Stringer complained to referee Nigel Owens following the incident that occurred in the first half of the Premiership side's 36-20 defeat but he did not see it and therefore did not act with the tournament not one of those trialling the extended Television Match Official powers that allow input for incidents of suspected foul play.
However, TV replays appeared to confirm the worst with independent citing officer Eugene Ryan set to act as a result. "That's as low as you can probably go," Stringer said following the game. "When you are on the end of something like that you are rattled by it, but try not to dwell on it. It's out of my hands now."
Stringer has since received the support of IRB chief executive Brett Gosper who took to Twitter to call for firm action. He wrote: "Spitting on Stringer should be punished to the full extent of the law."
Under the IRB disciplinary code, the sanction for spitting ranges between four and at least 11 weeks, depending on the severity of the offence with the maximum ban being 52 weeks.
The incident soured the game that saw the French side book a final four clash against Top 14 rivals Perpignan later this month. Leinster will tackle defending champions Biarritz in the other semi-final having seen off the challenges of Wasps and Gloucester respectively.
Amlin Challenge Cup semi-final fixtures:
April 26: Perpignan v Stade Francais, Stade Aimé Giral
April 27: Leinster v Biarritz, RDS
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Detroit native Kid Rock celebrated in the Lions' locker room after their 24-13 win on Monday Night Football last night. "I'm Detroit 'til I die," he told gathering reporters.
He's also, it turns out, Hank Williams Jr. 'til he dies. For some background, this T-shirt is referencing a Kris Kristofferson song, "If You Don't Like Hank Williams," which has been performed, over the years, by both the Hank Jr. and the Hank III. Like everything sacred in America, it is now on a T-shirt.
Barry Sanders replaced Williams's Monday Night Football segment with a Detroit salute last night. Williams, meanwhile, went on The View today to declare that "Mickey is a mean mouse."


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text: A country trio that brings myriad influences, from rock to R&B, into its sound, the FARM grew out of a songwriting session in Tennessee in 2010. Nick Hoffman (Kenny Chesney's longtime fiddle player), Damien Horne (a John Rich discovery and protégé), and Krista Marie (a solo artist who had charted a couple of singles with Broken Bow Records) gathered for a songwriting session with songwriter and producer Danny Myrick (co-writer of Jason Aldean's "She's Country"). Working off a fiddle riff that Hoffman came up with, Hoffman, Horne, and Marie quickly discovered they gelled as a vocal trio, and the FARM was born. The group made its first public appearance in October of that same year, with several Warner Music executives in attendance, including label head John Esposito, who quickly signed the trio to Warner's Elektra Records. A single, "Home Sweet Home," based on that same fiddle riff that first brought the Farm together, appeared from Elektra at the end of the summer in 2011. A debut album, The Farm Inc., Nashville, TN, followed in the summer of 2012. ~ Steve Leggett


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tonystubblebine brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 303 Designs von 68 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
CrowdVine builds social networks for events to help people meet and follow the conference buzz. I'd like a simple and friendly logo.
CrowdVine builds social software for conferences and meetings. Attendees love us for helping them meet face-to-face and for being simple and easy to use. Conference organizers love us for building buzz around their events.
Our current logo looks like every other social networking logo (a group of people). I do like that it's simple though.
I'm not too sure of what I want but I'll be active in the comments!
The logo should be more on the consumer-friendly side than the enterprise/corporate side.
- Modern, consumer-friendly logo.
- Optionally, I'd like to see someone integrate some elements from the world of meetings, events, and conferences, like maybe a name tag or conference badge.
- The words crowd and vine need to be separated either with color or capitalization. Otherwise a lot of people read it as "Crow-Devine."
- If you want to use a tagline, use "Meet Smarter"
- We use green now, but I'm open to changing color schemes.
- I'd like to see a logo that plays off of a Vine theme. As an example, I like the SeedCamp logo.
- Need logo in vector format.
- Corporate or enterprisey designs.
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23 August 2009
Orla Kiely Fall Collection
There are a handful of collections that I look forward to seeing every season because I know that I will unfailingly love them; Lyell, Lover, Dear Creatures and Orla Kiely among them. I just discovered that the Fall Lookbook is online for the Orla Kiely collection and it did not disappoint. I had a hard time narrowing it down to just a few outfits (well, I ended up with more than a few, didn't I?) to post here. You can hop over to their site and check out the entire line. It has a 60s Mia Farrow thing going on that I'm really loving.
30 comments:
- Anonymous said...
omg the colors & silouhettes are amazing!
- August 23, 2009
- The Art Cupboard said...
this collection is a dream i love how they made the playsuit part of the fall wardrobe genius.
p.s. the shoes and tights are to die for
- August 23, 2009
- Diane said...
My gosh, I'm loving every bit of this collection!! The wool coats, tights, oxford heels, pleated skirts...all are heavenly and just what I want for Fall.
- August 23, 2009
- Unknown said...
Everything it is amazing!
- August 23, 2009
- M said...
those socks/tights patterns are adorable!
- August 23, 2009
- Sophie said...
oh they are amazing, I need more money lol. thank you so much for posting those pictures.
- August 23, 2009
- Amy // The Girl In The Bowler Hat said...
Ah! This is beyond amazing! I love the cuts and the colours and everything. I'm so gonna have to blog on it! :)
- August 23, 2009
- Corinna said...
i like most of the clothes and i LOVE the shoes...but i'm not too fond of the models
- August 23, 2009
- Grace Hsu said...
This collection is what I have seen the REAL vintage so far. it's lovely!
- August 23, 2009
- Antonio Barros said...
2nd outfit is my favorite!!! But all the collection is amazing!
the singular
- August 23, 2009
- Starr Crow said...
I need a navy playsuit now!
- August 23, 2009
- Meaghan Kelly said...
Oh my goodness miss!!!! Of all the Fall collections posted, of ALL of them this is by far my favourite! time to save my money!!!!!!
- August 23, 2009
- chelsea said...
Oh my gosh, this is such a dream collection! Those coats and jackets? So chic! And the colors are the epitome of autumn. I cannot wait!
- August 23, 2009
- Karen/Small Earth Vintage said...
Ah, fantastic! I love Orla Kiely and love this collection. I re-watched Rosemary's Baby seveal months ago and was mooning over Mia Farrow's look/wardrobe. Thanks for posting this. :)
- August 23, 2009
- Jenny said...
I love these outfits!
- August 23, 2009
- friend or doe said...
Lyell, Lover, Dear Creatures and Orla Kiely are hands down my favourite designers too add a little Built by Wendy & Juliette Hogan & that's all I need.
You obviously have great taste!
- August 23, 2009
- Laura McLaws Helms said...
All the colours and shapes are so wonderful- I've missed autumn so much!
- August 23, 2009
- devaneante said...
I love it!!! Thank you for sharing ;)
- August 23, 2009
- Anonymous said...
All these Fall posts are making me giddy with season change! I always get so antsy just a month or so into each season. Thanks for sharing the Orla Keily Fall collection! Dreamy.
- August 23, 2009
- Amy P. said...
I love all the silhouettes. It looks lovely, and the model with the long messy hair fits perfectly. There is something verrrry alluring about that blue coat with a long sleeve sweater underneath!
- August 23, 2009
- monkey toes said...
oh i just love the second style, the combination between the tights and the cute dress....so cute
- August 23, 2009
- Susan said...
So pretty!!!
Not so sure about those socks. At least there are no dreaded cropped pants. :o)
- August 23, 2009
- Jules said...
Such a great collection! Thanks for sharing, have a good day. =D
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- August 24, 2009
- Minnietheminks said...
Do you know NZ designer Karen Walker... well of course you do :) I think you may like some of her styles.
- August 24, 2009
- Imelda said...
Beautiful collection!
- August 24, 2009
- BB said...
Oh my ... I am in total love with not only the tights, but that grey coat (Really? I'm having a "Chandler" moment from Friends ... could it be any cuter?) As well as the blue and white dress. I'll take one of those and one of those and that one there ... Adorably darling.
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- August 24, 2009
- Isabel said...
I've always had a soft sport for peter pan collars. This is adorable!
- August 24, 2009
- Ms. B @ Millie Deel said...
Just lovely! The black jacket and the blue coat are so cute!
- August 24, 2009
- hannah, heart city said...
oooh i love these! brown is always a tough color for me but orla kiley makes me want to get brown things.
- August 24, 2009
- {Tara} said...
All. So. Cute. I could never decide!
- August 25, 2009


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Lausanne Hosts Ninth FIVB Satellite Stop
Lausanne has been the host to a FIVB Satellite stop the past eight seasons, including the last two years where both men's and women's competition has been featured. Switzerland's Stefan Kobel, who teamed with Patrick Heuscher to capture the bronze medal at the Athens 2004 Games, has claimed four Lausanne gold medals with two different partners. Kobel won the 1999 event with Martin Walser followed by gold medal finishes in 2000, 2003 and 2005 with Heuscher. The Swiss Olympians have also claimed silver (2001) and bronze (2002) medals in Lausanne. Brazilians have won three of the Lausanne stops (1998, 2001 and 2004) with Mariano Baracetti and Martin Conde, the 2001 SWATCH-FIVB World Champions, capturing the 2002 title. Women's competition was introduced in 2004 with teams from the Netherlands and Switzerland winning the titles. Lausanne is a city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva and facing Évian-les-Bains (France). Lausanne is located 60 km northeast of Geneva. It is the capital of the canton of Vaud and of the district of Lausanne. In addition to being the headquarters for the FIVB, Lausanne also is the home of the International Olympic Committee. It lies in the middle of a wine-growing region.
Year - Lausanne women's gold medal, Lausanne silver medal, Lausanne bronze medal
2004 - Merel Mooren/Sanne Keizer, Netherlands / Cecilie Josefsen/Kristine Wiig, Norway / Sara Montagnolli/Sabine Swoboda, Austria
2005 - Simone Kuhn/Lea Schwer, Switzerland / Mireya Kaup/Geeske Banck, Germany / Sara Goller/Laura Ludwig, Germany
Year - Lausanne men's gold medal, Lausanne silver medal, Lausanne bronze medal
1998 - Jan Ferreira/Fred Souza, Brazil / Dennys Paredes/Luizao Correa, Brazil / Greg Ryan/Morgan Chapman, United States
1999 - Stefan Kobel/Martin Walser, Switzerland / Bernhard Vesti/Markus Egger, United States / Albert Hannemann/Nick Hannemann, American Samoa
2000 - Kobel/Patrick Heuscher, Switzerland / Egger/Sascha Heyer, Switzerland / Martin Tschudi/Marcel Gscheidle, Switzerland
2001 - Murilo Toscano/Klepper Feitosa, Brazil / Kobel/Heuscher, Switzerland / Egger/Heyer, Switzerland
2002 - Mariano Baracetti/ Martin Conde, Argentina / Marcel Gscheidle/Vesti, Switzerland / Kobel/Heuscher, Switzerland
2003 - Kobel/Heuscher, Switzerland / Fabio Galli/Riccardo Fenili, Italy / Egger/Heyer, Switzerland
2004 - Fred Souza/Pedro Cunha, Brazil / David Wenger/Philip Gabathuler, Switzerland / Pedro Brazao/Marcello Duarte, Brazil
2005 - Kobel/Heuscher, Switzerland / Gscheidle/Jan Schnider, Switzerland / Paulo Emilio Silva/Moises Santos, Brazil