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Natural and Alternative Treatment Study Report: Folate for Enhancing Mental Function in Seniors
by Steven Bratman, MD
Homocysteine is a substance found in the blood. Some evidence suggests that high levels of homocysteine might be an important risk factor for heart disease. Since homocysteine levels can be reduced without drugs—adequate intake of folate, vitamin B12, and vitamin B6 will suffice—in the late 1990s some public health researchers seized on the homocysteine hypothesis as a possible way to prevent major killers through simple nutritional supplementation.
Numerous large studies were designed and conducted to determine whether homocysteine reduction can reduce heart disease, strokes, and other cardiovascular diseases. Unfortunately, the results thus far have been disappointing. The results of completed trials suggest that homocysteine reduction does not have a marked effect on heart disease and related conditions.
However, some these large studies have, in passing, noted unexpected benefits among those given homocysteine-reducing supplements.
One of these possible "positive side-effects" is discussed in an article published in 2007 by the prestigious journal Lancet. Researchers in this article analyzed results of a study that enrolled 818 people with high homocysteine. Participants in this study were given either folate (800 mcg daily) or placebo for a total of three years. All were given a great number of medical tests as the study progressed, some of which involved evaluation of mental function. The results of the mental function tests indicated that those who were given folate showed improvement in areas of cognitive function that typically decline with age; in comparison, those given placebo did not improve.
This finding suggests that use of folate may help enhance mental function in seniors. Note, however, that these apparently promising results must be taken with a grain of salt. The study referenced above was not designed to look at effects on mental function. The laws of probability ensure that if enough variables are measured, some will come out better in the treatment group of a double-blind study, just by chance. Only if repeat studies designed in advance to evaluate folate's effect on mental function show benefit, will we have reliable evidence that it actually works.
For more information, see the full articles on folate, high homocysteine, and enhancing mental function.
Durga J, van Boxtel MP, Schouten EG, et al. Effect of 3-year folic acid supplementation on cognitive function in older adults in the FACIT trial: a randomised, double blind, controlled trial. Lancet . 2007;369:208-16.
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James Gandolfini's genius came in making us feel a complicated tangle of emotions toward a character it would have been far easier to simply hate. Within the course of mere moments, Gandolfini could elicit everything from fear to disgust to pity for Tony Soprano, the tormented mobster he brought to wicked life in "The Sopranos."
But the news of Gandolfini's sudden death Wednesday at age 51 provokes just one feeling: overwhelming sadness for the loss of an extraordinary actor who somehow found a recognizable, if dark vestige of humanity in a vile criminal.
Nothing, not even brilliant, nuanced mob films ranging from "The Godfather" to "Goodfellas," prepared TV audiences for the arrival of "The Sopranos" on HBO in 1999. Tony Soprano quickly emerged as the post-modern mobster – trapped by the mafia life as much as by his suburban New Jersey lifestyle. Tony, whose very survival depends on raw, primal reactions to constantly changing circumstances, is driven by panic attacks to introspection – and ultimately to a shrink.
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For all the often-shocking brutality that played out during 86 episodes over eight years, the most violent moments of "The Sopranos," at least emotionally, exploded in Dr. Melfi's office. Gandolfini could go from tears to rage, from out of control and to coldly manipulative, from being crippled by fear to frightening Melfi and those of us watching safely from home. Tony was a mobster built for Freud, between his domineering mother, conniving sister and a crazy as a fox uncle constantly plotting against him.
Thanks to Gandolfini's intense acting and superb writing led by series creator David Chase, we saw many sides of Tony Soprano. The doting dad on a college visit with his daughter could take time out to kill a mob turncoat with his bare hands. He loved his wife and kids at home, and his gangster family at the Bada Bing. Yet he killed his best friend, Big Pussy, and his nephew/surrogate son Christopher when rules of mob honor forced those meaty hands.
Much of Gandolfini's greatness rested in making moments pop to pulsing life with subtle changes of his facial expression or the tone of his voice. Even in that controversial, seemingly anti-climatic last scene of the series a half-dozen years ago, Gandolfini stirred unbearable tension in the pedestrian setting of a family dinner at a diner. Would Tony finally be whacked? Did we want him to be whacked? The tension without hope of relief amid ordinary circumstances marked an appropriate goodbye for a character forever ensnared by the banality of his evil, never able to rest for a carefree moment.
While there's now no doubt he'll be best remembered as Tony Soprano, Gandolfini possessed a quality of talent that defied being defined by one role. In parts that spanned the voice of Carol in "Where the Wild Things Are" to his recent turn as Leon Panetta in "Zero Dark Thirty," he showed the range and potential to become the Robert DeNiro of his generation. But his time, sadly, ended far too soon.
The Writers Guild of America recently named "The Sopranos" the best-written TV show of all time. You also could argue that it was the best-acted television drama of them all, thanks largely to James Gandolfini, the man who exposed for us all the tortured soul of a cold-blooded mobster.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.

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The critically acclaimed thriller "Argo" will be honored with the ensemble performance award from the 24th Palm Springs International Film Festival, to be held Jan. 3-14.Several of the movie's stars, including helmer and star Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin and Bryan Cranston, are slated to accept the award at the fest's gala on Jan.5. " 'Argo' features a plethora of colorful characters brought to life by an outstanding acting ensemble," said fest chairman Harold Matzner. "Directing what is, unquestionably, his most accomplished film to date, Ben Affleck leads an extraordinary cast, also including Alan Arkin, John Goodman and Bryan Cranston, each of whom delivers powerhouse performances." "Argo" examines the formerly classified covert operation to rescue six Americans amid the Iran hostage crisis, a task that required strategizing and cooperation between the CIA and Hollywood.
'Argo' ensemble honored at Palm Springs fest
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Having overseen an IT restructuring, the city's first 311 app and the birth of an IT innovation fund, Gary Cook reflects on his time in Sacramento and his plans for the future.
On July 15, Sacramento, Calif., appointed an interim CIO following the resignation of Gary Cook, who looks back at his past three years in the position as he considers his future.
Having accomplished most of his own goals at the city -- and goals assigned to him by the city manager who hired him -- Cook said he felt ready to move on to new opportunities. Between seeing the launch of the city's 311 app, a major ERP upgrade, and restructuring of the city's IT department, his stay with the city was successful, he said. Though he's officially of retirement age, Cook said he's not yet ready for that.
Before Cook began as Sacramento's CIO, a Gartner study identified that one of the Sacramento IT office's main challenges would be to overcome the siloed structure and redundant positions that were contributing to wasteful spending. There were engineers who worked for different departments, but whose duties were basically the same, Cook said, so they began looking for a more unified approach.
Initially, there was some "angst" among department heads who didn't want to see their own positions trivialized as IT was restructured. But Cook said with everyone compromising and looking at the bigger picture, they were able to come to an agreement that made everyone happy.
"The staff still fiscally belonged to the departments, but operationally reported to a central IT structure," he said, "so we got the best of both worlds in that we got the efficiencies of everybody working together, but the departments still had their finger in the pie and an ownership stake that they still funded the position."
With budget cuts, everyone was looking for a way to save money, so another thing Cook did, he said, was create a memo signed by all the department heads regarding a certain stipulation around cutting positions: If a position was cut by a department head, the department would also need to cut a corresponding amount of work, because Cook didn't want people getting fired and seeing their workloads simply passed on to those who remained.
With the IT restructuring, Cook said, there were 102 IT staff, about half of whom were part of the central IT structure financially and about half belonging to the departments financially -- but all reported to a common IT chain of command so as to eliminate inefficiencies. Another nice side effect this had, Cook said, was that his own department, also subject to budget cuts, could maintain more IT positions without being burdened with all of the financial responsibility.
The city's 311 app was also a major accomplishment for the city, Cook said. "The key on that one wasn't just the application; it was that we fully integrated the backend so it also helped the 311 operators on their normal day-to-day operations so they weren't having to cut and paste and do duplicate entries into the other systems," he said. "The app actually fixed the integration on the backend so all the different work order management systems talk to each other."
In addition to restructuring IT and the city's 311 app, Cook said he was also proud of Sacramento's Peoplesoft and Oracle ERP standardization and upgrade, which was completed on-time and on-budget. Cook accepted a Digital Cities award on behalf of the city in 2012, granted by the Center for Digital Government, which is owned by eRepublic, Government Technology's parent company. The city's continued success and innovation in IT even led to the creation of an IT innovation fund, Cook said.
And the creation of this fund demonstrated the city manager's commitment to IT and showed that he understood the value of such projects, Cook said. Initially receiving $250,000, the idea behind the fund, he said, was to provide new monies each year that would allow funding of projects -- like the 311 app -- that would help create efficiencies so the city could save money.
One project the innovation fund was used for was a "total revamp" of the city's website, which will likely be launched in the coming weeks, Cook said.
Content with his work in Sacramento, he said, he's ready to look to the future and keep his options open, possibly pursuing contract work.
"That's what gets my blood going in the morning is being able to have a challenge and attack it, solve it and resolve it," Cook said. "Like the consolidation project -- that was a lot of work, and working with people, and working with folks to compromise and see the betterment of the whole versus the parts. And those are the kind of challenges I really like solving and being successful at."


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I often come across comments that my blog is mostly filled with food pictures. This is undoubtedly true as I usually don't get to shoot anything much except pictures of my lunch or dinner. A few days back, I tried taking some landscape shots for a change. My journey to Morib started before dawn as it was quite a distance away from where I am staying. Along the rural road leading to the beach, the morning daylight cast a golden hue across the misty backdrop.
I got lost along the way and actually drove past the beach. We stopped by at Kampung Batu Laut which is located along the shoreline of Klang and around 3km from Morib Beach.
There were some fishing boats and villagers chatting as we walked around the place. Here is another picture of the area before I drove back to Morib Beach again.


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Rio's Christ the Redeemer, One of the Modern World's 7 Wonders, Is 80
On October 12, the same day Brazilian Catholics honored their patron saint, Nossa Senhora Aparecida (Our Lady of Aparecida), Brazil also celebrated the 80th anniversary of Rio's famous Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) statue.
"The monument is an icon of Rio de Janeiro," said Rio's Archbishop Orani João Tempesta. He said the statue "represents the Brazilian citizen: as a person who follows Jesus Christ, and welcomes others, as the monument does with its open arms."
Rio de Janeiro's inhabitants are not the only ones celebrating the statue's 80th year. Believers throughout Brazil feel blessed by the presence of the Redeemer atop Mount Corcovado.
The monument is 130 feet tall and spans 98 feet from one of Christ's outstretched hands to the other. It weighs 635 tons and stands at the highest point in the Tijuca Forest National Park, overlooking the city.
Brazil's Catholic population - the largest of any country in the world - funded its construction with donations from parishes across the country. Numbered among the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, the monument officially became a sanctuary for Catholic worship on Oct. 12, 2006.
Now, thousands of pilgrims attend Mass, Eucharistic adoration, Marian devotions, and other Catholic ceremonies at a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Aparecida at the foot of the monument.
As Rio residents celebrate the statue's anniversary, they are also looking forward to 2013, when the city will host World Youth Day.
"Celebrating the 80th anniversary of Christ the Redeemer, as we start the preparations for World Youth Day, is a great gift and a major grace," said Archbishop Tempesta.
"The young people announce Christ in the World Youth Days, and here, in Rio de Janeiro, they will be able to encounter the one whom they announce - for his image is the landmark of our city"
Source: www.pravoslaie.ru, Brazzilmag


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Michael Dell's computer giant, Intel and WestSummit have joined forces to inject a new open-source cloud vendor with $10m so that the startup can develop and sell its delayed OpenStack public cloud.
The investment arms of the three tech giants - Dell Ventures, Intel Capital and China-based WestSummit Capital - awarded the cash to Mirantis, an engineering outfit with 30 OpenStack deployments under its belt. Mirantis customers include Hewlett-Packard, NASA, Gap, PayPal and AT&T.
Mirantis had been working with Dell "on a number" of OpenStack customer engagements with Dell for 18 months so there is an element of self-interest at play for the computer giant and aspiring OpenStack service supplier.
"This was a logical extension of this relationship," Mirantis co-founder and executive vice-president Boris Renski told The Reg of the funding. "We will have a more formal relationship going ahead – Dell will use us in their channels to sell OpenStack. Dell has [also] announced they are building Dell public cloud on OpenStack – we are the company building the cloud for them."
Nnamdi Orakwue, vice-president of Dell Cloud, said in a statement: "The partnership with Mirantis demonstrates our commitment to the community and our goal of becoming a leading contributor to OpenStack."
The $10m joint investment will be spent on expanding R&D, including the development of a library of pre-packaged APIs to deploy and manage OpenStack that Mirantis might release commercially. It'll also pay for 15 of the company's 90 engineers to contribute to the OpenStack project – up from four.
Dell had promised an "open source cloud" in 2012 and another one based on Microsoft Azure before the end of the year. Dell's OpenStack cloud is now expected by the end of 2013, but there's no word on the coming of Dell's Azure cloud.
Dell is now behind HP, who launched its Cloud Compute OpenStack service in December.
Mirantis is working with Dell on requirements and specifications for its OpenStack cloud and on architecture and coding. Renski reckoned Dell's deployment is relatively simple because Dell is swallowing what he called the OpenStack "trunk" – compute, storage, block storage and quantum networking.
He said there's no reason from a technology perspective for the rollout to slow down, given that Dell has gone with the "trunk", but he did talk about a few hurdles that the firm was anticipating and dealing with along with some other unexpected challenges.
On the "anticipated hurdles" side, he cited the complexity that often results when the software meets the hardware, as drivers must be written to work with the different metal.
What's going on under the bonnet?
"You get peculiarities that relate to the underlying hardware architecture, such as what hardware are you using for storage? If it's for Dell, then you need to build logic drivers and a deployment topology – single or multiple controllers, controllers with self-healing etc. Those map on to the hardware architecture and have to work," Renski said. "This is where complexities come."
This is a big challenge, particularly given that Dell's strategy on the cloud mirrors its trademark policy on the PC and server: giving customer choice and customisation options.
Dell's plan is to make OpenStack available on its hardware with support for a variety of components that can be configured according to preference. Users will then host OpenStack on Dell hardware in their data centre and head over to the Dell cloud when there's a need for additional compute or storage.
The great unexpected, however, will descend once Dell's cloud rolls out and updates to Folsom are needed. Folsom is the latest version of OpenStack; Dell's computer, server and cloud rival HP released Cloud Compute on the older Essex release of OpenStack. HP plans to update to Folsom.
Updates are a big one, because while many issues can be foreseen in the planning phase and during testing in the labs, other unexpected issues can crop up in a live environment. This, Renski reckons, is what gives him the fear.
"Once you launch to the public you want to keep the cloud and sync with the upstream code base and not disrupt the loads running. Few people have had experience with that, including us, and we anticipate some challenges down the road," Renski said.
"We've done this kind of stuff at the lab level, but when you work at scale you never know what's going to pop out. Unless the methodology to do the upgrade has been done at scale across the industry, you can get things that you aren't expecting."
Dell's cloud will sit on 1,000 nodes at three data centres; it's being developed on Ubuntu and is expected to support Ubuntu, with CentOS, SuSE, Red Hat and Windows as guests. A thousand nodes might not sound big in terms of Google of Facebook, but Renski reckons the nodes aren't the immediate goal.
"We've done 1,000 node implementations before: it's a manageable scale. The goal is not get that up to 2,000 nodes, it's to get it to work at 100 nodes with the proper mix of features and have all the features," Renski said. ®
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Marissa Mayer has made her first acquisition at Yahoo, a recommendations app called Stamped that was developed by ex-Googlers and has even received backing from Google Ventures.
"Got to visit our new acquisition, Stamped, this morning -- happy to be reunited with Robby and his team," Mayer said in a post on Instagram.
Robby Stein was a product manager for Google's Ad Exchange before he co-founded Stamped a year-and-a-half ago. Stamped has at least four other ex-Googlers on its team as well.
The company built an iPhone app that lets people keep track of things they like, such as restaurants, books and movies, and recommend them to their friends.
The app has no future at Yahoo, however.
"We will be discontinuing the Stamped product by the end of the year. It's sad to let something we love go," Stamped wrote on its website.
It will build a new app for Yahoo -- something "big, mobile and new" -- but Yahoo isn't saying yet what it is. Stamped said it will provide a tool to let users export the data they've uploaded to its app.
Mayer was made CEO of Yahoo in July after being a top executive at Google almost since its founding. Just this week she talked about her plans to improve Yahoo's presence on mobile devices.
Stamped's advisers include celebrity chef Mario Batali, and its financial backers reportedly include Justin Bieber and TV stars Ellen DeGeneres and Ryan Seacrest.
James Niccolai covers data centers and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow James on Twitter at @jniccolai. James's e-mail address is email@example.com


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I know it's a stretch, but all I have here in town that even resembles a shoreline is our local park. It is a very beautiful setting, however. I often go there and take photos. I see that the city has now installed pellet dispensers for duck food (25 cents a pop) and we are ONLY allowed to feed them the city's pellets...HA~And, no, the fisherman isn't real-he is a statue! In fact, there are quite a few statutes in the park. I went a couple of weeks ago because this weekend I'm exhausted. Between fighting a sore throat and hyper kids, I haven't even gone outdoors for two days! Maybe today I'll venture outside? Sunday Stills Challenge, "shorelines" for October 20, 2013.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Palm Desert park pond~Sunday Stills Challenge~102013
Posted by desertsandbeyond at 6:40 AM
4 comments:
- Spare Parts and Pics said...
That's a really pretty desert pond, and great photos!
- October 20, 2013 at 7:19 PM
Brilliant and spicy shot :)
- October 21, 2013 at 4:35 AM
- Eva said...
This pond certainly fits the challenge well. Fun statue too.
I'm sure the pellets are healthier for the ducks than other things they've been fed. Bread certainly isn't good for them. :-)
- October 21, 2013 at 6:06 AM
- Unknown said...
oh I miss the duck pond! Didn't go to see it last time I went home.
- November 22, 2013 at 3:37 PM
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cheetahSTC is a high quality all hexahedral meshing program.
Completely integrated into Rhino3D this program allows the generation of hex meshes for applications such as CFD and FEA.
Based on a Cell3, this program introduces a new revolution in simulation driven design. The Cell3 is a true 3D iso-parametric volumetric definition of space where smooth continuous solids can be created directly using both the functions in Rhino and cheetahSTC.
Instead of the normal procedure of fitting individual mesh elements to a fixed boundary geometry this new method uses the power of Rhino's Nurbs surface editing control to dynamically shape of the Cell3 model via a morphing and association method.
When cheetahSTC is used in combination with the OpenSource CFD program OpenFoam, high grade professional level simulations are possible at a mere fraction of the cost of any other system thereby enabling consultants and freelancers to turn a healthy profit whilst producing accurate world class results.
Powerful and easy to use. Hex meshing has always been considered as being too difficult and complex. Not any more, new methodologies ensure that even a detailed F1 car can be meshed in a few weeks, and on a PC. A task that is impossible by any other software.
cheetahSTC is sold as a monthly subscription.


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Forest Whitaker
"Apparently, I'm not a very good driver"
Forest Whitaker
The 54-year-old Hollywood star chats about his passion for martial arts, explains how he deals with pain and stress, admits to being a bit of perfectionist and confesses to occasional shortcomings as a driver
Mr. Whitaker, you are an avid sportsman: Kenpo karate, football, yoga … Is this how you let off steam after a strenuous day of filming?
Yes, absolutely. I started martial arts when I was 12 years old, and until a few years ago I trained three or four times a week. I didn't start playing football until I was 16 and in high school, and was forced to stop after only three years due to an injury. I did a lot of yoga for quite a while, too.
Do you really hold a black belt in kenpo?
Yes, that is the martial art I am best at. But I have also done a lot of kali, a combat style from the Philippines.
What triggered your interest in martial arts?
As I child I was interested in Asian philosophy. Then I discovered that Dan Inosanto had a dojo close to my home, called the Kali Academy. Inosanto is a Filipino-American who was a student of Bruce Lee's and who learned jeet kune do, his combat style. I trained at Inosanto's academy for a long time, but also had other teachers over the years, including Joe Jackson, a highly regarded instructor.
Are you also interested in the spiritual aspect of martial arts?
Definitely. Kali is a very spiritual martial art. You have to feel your opponent's energy, sense his motions and adjust your attack and defense strategy accordingly. You learn a lot about yourself, about your body, about pain. You learn how to retain your inner balance, despite the stress triggered by pain.
What is the most important insight you have gained thanks to martial arts?
Martial arts have played an enormous role in helping me to understand the world in general. Things don't always move in a straight line; sometimes they move in a circle or a triangle. There are an infinite number of ways of getting from A to B. The most direct path is not always the best. There are many ways to arrive at the truth.
Have martial arts helped you in your acting career?
Absolutely! Martial arts have taught me discipline, which is immensely important for actors. And I have learned to center myself, to treat others with respect. You don't just learn how to fight, you learn for life – that's what it's about.
What would you say is your most defining characteristic?
My constant willingness to learn. I always try to learn new things, exchange thoughts with others, and understand the world more fully. I want to keep developing, learning and growing. I want to discover new technologies and languages, want to try out new paths in life.
Have there been roles that have taught you a lot about yourself?
Of course. I learned so much playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland because I penetrated deep into his story and the history of an entire country. It was my first time in Africa, and I learned a new language. I learned a lot about style and working in service for my role in The Butler, while Ghost Dog taught me about energy and inner calm. Bird showed me how to deal with my innermost fears and realize that they aren't that bad. Each role has something it can teach you.
Have you ever received a script where you love the role you've been offered but have no idea how to play it?
Every character, even the worst one, contains a miniscule molecule of yourself. You have to find that molecule, amplify it and blow it up like a balloon until it fills your whole body and you become the character. Sometimes it's difficult to access, so you have to dissect the character completely to get to its core and find out where the connection is. Once you have done that, you can reassemble the character and get started.
Have there been roles that changed you as a person?
Yes, different roles feel like different lives, like being permanently reborn. Sometimes, you don't notice the changes immediately, but years later you realize you are doing things in a way that was influenced by a previous role.
Sometimes you have to dissect the character completely
You have been known to learn a language or an instrument for a role. How much do you actually retain?
A lot goes into short-term memory so it disappears again fast, unfortunately. A language, for instance, is something you have to speak regularly. But whenever I have the opportunity, I like to refresh certain skills.
Would you describe yourself as a perfectionist?
Yes, I have always been very driven, it's something I got from my parents. If I do something, I do it properly.
Is there anything that you can't do or are bad at?
Apparently, I'm not a very good driver. At least I often hear complaints from my passengers: friends, family, kids. I appear to be slightly distracted, and then I get comments like "Dad, watch out!" or "Dad, not so close!" I hear that a lot, so I do seem to have a problem there (laughs)!
Have you considered giving up driving altogether?
I live in L.A., so that's not an option. I have been driving since I was 16. And yes, since then there has been the odd accident that I was responsible for. Perhaps I ought to take a few more lessons.
Or take on a role for which you have to do a lot of driving …
That's a brilliant idea! I'll start looking for scripts straight away!


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Estes Park Women's Golf Association will soon start it's new season of Golf. The first day of play will be May 6. Opening luncheon is on May 29 at the Hanger Restaurant beginning at 11:30 a.m.
If you enjoy golfing but have never joined a league, you are missing a good time with a group of ladies who love to have fun and enjoy Estes Park's beautiful golf course.
If you have never played on a league before, do not be concerned about the fact you may not know all the golfing rules and regulations. Members will help you. You will be provided a mentor which the association calls the Hen's and Clicks program. You will be assigned an experience league player who will be your guide and helper.
If you want to join our league, or have questions, call Debbie Holmes at 577-0159.


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home of Wallace and Gromit's Stinking Bishop cheese
This is the place to be if you want to know what is happening in Dymock.
Many of you, particularly newcomers or visitors may think Dymock is a quiet little Gloucestershire village with nothing much happening. Prepare to be surprised. Dymock is a vibrant, active community with a wide range of activities and groups. All of which meet regularly throughout the year, many in the Dymock Parish Hall but also elsewhere in the parish such as the Western Way Chapel, Brooms Green Memorial Hall and Ann Cam School.
Many walks in the area can be enjoyed alone or in groups and vary from the seasonal, such as the Dymock Daffodil Walks in March, to the Dymock Poets Walks, which can be enjoyed on any day of the year. Follow the links on the left to explore Dymock.
Recently added sections of this site include pages for the Cricket Club and the Dymock Half Marathon.


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WikiLeaks is not just about embarrassing foreign leaders, it's also about revealing Apple secrets.
Cables released by the site last week gave a look into how the Cupertino technology company works to counter counterfeit products across the globe and mainly in China.
Most of Apple's efforts are centered in China, where the company manufacturers most of its products in China's Guangdong province and Shenzhen.
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For eternal memory
Of the holy communities
Of Halmeu-Turcz
And the District
That were destroyed in the Holocaust
Collected and edited by:
The perpetuation of the holy communities of Halmeu-Turcz and the District
Published by the Circle of Natives of Halmeu Turcz and the District
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By Menachem Carmi
With the publication of this Memorial Book of the martyrs of Halmeu, I feel a pleasant obligation to hereby express our esteem and recognition to our friend, the editor of the book, Reb Yehuda Schwartz, the principal of the Mamlachti Dati[1] Yavneh School in Givat Olga, Hadera.
Yehuda Schwartz is the only son of a poor, honorable family of Halmeu. The father earned his livelihood from the toil of his hands. He was a tailor, and made efforts to give his son a Torah oriented religious education, which at that time was fraught with great expenditures. Yehuda studied in cheder with the finest teachers. Later, he studied in the primary school, and then in Yeshiva, where he excelled as an expert student under the rabbi and Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Shalom of holy blessed memory. His parents loved him and took pride in him and his talents, including in the area of art.
In order to advance further in his studies in a manner appropriate to his talents, he left Halmeu and moved to Nagybánya where he continued in the high level Yeshiva of Rabbi Dr. Kraus, and also gained high level education. With his great thirst to continue his education in Torah and general knowledge, he moved to the Transylvanian capital of Klausenberg[2], a city of scholars and maskilim, with high level schools and universities. There, he continued to study in Yeshiva under his own initiative. He later earned his livelihood from teaching the Hebrew Language and prepared himself with the clear goal of aliya to the Land.
After taking an active role in the Torah Vaavoda movement in the city, he became the chairman of the movement that numbered hundreds of members, and a member of the national secretariat in Arad. He helped to establish the frameworks for preparing the pioneering youth for aliya to the Land of Israel, and directed widespread cultural activities in the city.
As a teacher of the Hebrew language and religion in the Jewish high school and the primary school of the community of Klausenberg, he won over people to religious Zionism.
Between 1940 and 1942, when the Jewish persecutions reached their peak, Yehuda was drafted to a labor camp in Ukraine. His wife, daughter, and parents were transferred to the Selish[3] Ghetto and from there to Auschwitz, where they gave their lives in the sanctification of the Divine Name along with the rest of the martyrs of Halmeu.
After four years of suffering and torture, he returned to Klausenberg from Ukraine and became involved in the reorganizing of religious and social life in the city. He assisted in setting up the Tarbut Hebrew School and the primary school of the Jewish community, in while he served as a teacher, educator, and preacher for aliya. He married
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a Halmeu native, and succeeded in making aliya to the Land in 1951.
In Israel, he dedicated himself with greater strength to the education of children as a teacher in the Mizrachi school, at first in Beit Shean and later in Hadera. He was appointed as the principal of the Mamlachti Dati Yavneh School in Givat Olga. Through his successful efforts, his school is one of the largest in the district. Approximately 600 students study in 18 classes.
Reb Yehuda Schwartz is one of the important activists and promoters of action in our organization. On the memorial days every year, he succeeded in arousing the participants with his stories so that they would not forget the rock from which we were hewn and what we endured making it appropriate to memorialize our martyrs. He always emphasized the importance of memorializing and in transmitting the knowledge of the Holocaust to the young generation.
With the establishment by the Ministry of Education of the National Council for the Perpetuation by Schools of Jewish Communities that Were Destroyed in the Holocaust, Reb Yehuda took hold of this important idea and decided, along with his teaching staff and students, to perpetuate our communities of Halmeu and Klausenberg by the school at which he was principal. From that time, the matter found no rest with him, and he dedicated all of his free time to this holy goal.
Immediately after the publication of the memorial book of the community of Klausenberg, which met with great success and national acclaim by positive reviews in the newspapers and communal and government institutions, he enthusiastically entered into the task of publishing the memorial book for the community of Halmeu. He got in touch with the main institutions of perpetuation at Yad Vashem. He gathered material for the writing of the book. He researched, looked into the sources, and entered into contact with the natives of our town who would be able to give of the fruit of their pens to the perpetuation of this holy community.
There is no doubt that were it not for our friend Schwartz, we would not have imagined that we would have been able to conceive of and actually publish this memorial book, and we would not have been able to instill the memory of our martyrs in the hearts of our sons and daughters, and to transmit the eternal values that were left to us by that holy community to the young generation.
With the publication of this memorial book, in the form of a documentary anthology, it is our desire to set up a memorial monument for the benefit of the survivors of our town and their heirs, and to deepen the connection between our children and the martyrs of the Holocaust.
For this sublime and blessed deed that was conducted with no intention of receiving a reward, I hereby bless the editor of the book, Reb Yehuda Schwartz, in my name and in the name of all the natives of our town, that just as he has bestowed us with a valuable book, an eternal memorial to the holy community of Halmeu and has wished us success through the works of his hands - so may G-d grant him the ability to benefit the public by publishing other books, and by continuing to educate a blessed, righteous generation;, and may the merit of the martyrs of Halmeu stand in good stead for him and his family.
Translator's Footnotes
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By Yehuda Schwartz
Jewish Halmeu was an important city for Jewry, well-known for its rabbis, Gaonim, Torah giants pure and upright Jews who were pious and people of good deeds, for its Torah and benevolent institutions, and especially for its large Yeshiva with its myriads of students. This holy city once was and is no more, for destruction overtook it.
The memory of this community is precious to many, to whom the city is like one of the many towns of pre-war Transylvania with its special characteristics of vibrant and pleasant Jewish life in the world of yesteryear that has passed and will not return. It is especially precious to those connected to the community of Halmeu, whether they were raised in its midst and breathed its air until its last days, or whether they left it in their youth and wandered afar. A common feeling unites them all with the desire to perpetuate the memory of the community.
Our purpose in this memorial book is to present the memory of this holy community with its precious personalities of its holy and righteous rabbis, its believers and followers of Torah, its common folk and laborers; to kindle an eternal light for the coming generations, and to draw the hearts of our children toward this splendid community. We wish to give a mark of honor to the valiant Jews whose survival and aliya to the Israel were fraught with miracles and wonders that took place with them as they went to meet the fire of the enemy.
We wish to give the perpetuating school and students a summary survey of the community, its personalities and institutions, to transmit them its eternal values, to give over the will of the destroyed community, the community to which we were tied by heart, soul, body and spirit, in which those nearest and dearest to us lived, suffered, and were murdered in sanctification of the Divine Name - so that we, our children, and grandchildren will know and bear the memory of the martyrs forever. In this way, we will continue to walk in their paths.
These articles are a memorial in words for the martyrs who fell, and a testimony of the bravery of those who remained alive.
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We, the student representatives of grades 7 and 8 of the Mamlachti Dati Yavneh School
Of Givat Olga Gimel, Hadera
Certify here that we are prepared to take upon ourselves the holy task of perpetuating the holy communities of Koloszvar-Klausenberg and Halmeu that were destroyed during the time of the Holocaust during the Nazi occupation of Transylvania
|Representatives of the Communities
|Representatives of the Classes
|David Mozes, Chairman of the Organization of Kolosvar Natives
Dr. Esther Weisberg
|Students of Grade 7
Shoshana Biton
Bat-Sheva Meir
|Menahem Carmi, Chairman of the Organization of Halmeu Natives
Malka Schwartz
Engineer Aharon Elbaum
Shlomo Zimrony
Leah Stern
Aliza Friedman
|Students of Grade 8
Shoshana Azulai
Herzl Tzionit
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|From the Memorial Ceremony
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On the 28th of Adar II, 5727 (1967), a memorial ceremony for the communities of Koloszvar-Klausenberg and Halmeu took place in our school. The students of the upper grades, wearing white shirts, gathered in the dining hall and made their way to the event by greeting the guests and representatives of the institutions.
The yard was decorated with national flags and inscriptions of Yizkor[1]. Next to the flag that was lowered to half mast, the students affixed blue and white bands on the clothing of the guests, as well as the insignia of the two communities.
The school flag and a map of Europe hung on the wall next to the decorated stage. The number of victims of each country was noted on the map, with the heading on top, Remember and do not forget. The Holocaust-style Yellow Star, the sign of the ghetto, was affixed to the shirts of the participants.
The ceremony opened with the lighting of six memorial candles, one candle for a million souls, as each student recited their verse accompanied by a violin played by the teacher David Brody. The principal Mr. Yehuda Schwartz described the roles of the students as they accepted upon themselves the eternal values that were imparted to us by the residents of the communities of Koloszvar-Klausenberg and Halmeu that the school took it upon itself to memorialize.
The period of the Holocaust was acted out by the Grade 4 girls, under the direction of the educator Malka Avital, with a great deal of artistic power that moved the hearts to the point that tears flowed from the eyes of both the invited guests and the students.
The choir sang verses of Psalms, songs of the ghetto, and songs of the partisans accompanied by a flute, under the direction of the teacher advisor Tova Nik, and under the successful conductorship of the educator Eliahu Edrei. The songs and music penetrated the depths of the soul.
The head of the rabbinical office of Hadera, Rabbi David Werner may he live long; the vice mayor of the city Mordechai Kostlitz; and Shlomo Zimroni and Menachem Carmi, representatives of the communities of Koloszvar-Klausenberg and Halmeu, spoke with sorrow and agony about the atrocities of that era, and presented the lives of those communities that were suffused with love of one's fellowman, love of Torah, and love of Israel.
Mr. Tzvi Halevi of the teachers union, Mr. Turen of Yad Vashem, and the engineer Simcha Vida - the head of the organization of natives of Hungary spoke about the goals of the gathering and the great benefit of memorializing the communities by the schools.
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After a student from grade 8 read the scroll of memory, the representatives of the classes and the communities were invited to sign it. A telegram that arrived from the legal advisor of the government and the prosecutor of the Eichmann trial, Member of Knesset Gideon Hausner, was read, and the very impressive ceremony concluded with the singing of Ani Maamin and Hatikva.
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|Remember and do not forget!
Children of the Yavneh School at the memorial ceremony
Translator's Footnotes
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|Mr. Menachem Carmi to the school.
The organization of natives of Halmeu-Turcz and the District
Blessed be G-d, Wednesday, 7 Iyar 5627. May 17, 1967.
To the Mamlachti Dati Yavneh School
Regarding: Memorializing the communities of Klausenberg and Halmeu
First, I would like to thank you for the booklet that you sent me and for the wonderful work that you did. May the work of your hand be blessed. Such deeds belong to the category of spiritual pursuits that are performed with no expectation of reward, and many of us do not know how to appreciate them. If some of us are capable of doing so, we may be unable to free ourselves from the mundane day-to-day lives and turn to such honorable spiritual tasks. Therefore, the value of your work is of double and manifold value.
It is a great honor for me to thank you, the school, the teachers, the students, and all who participated in the memorializing of the communities of Halmeu and Klausenberg, in memory of our martyrs who were murdered by the Nazis.
I thank you in my name and in the name of the Holocaust survivors of Halmeu. I especially hold in esteem the teachers and participants who did not know our community, and perhaps never even heard of its existence prior to now. Nevertheless, they took upon themselves all the effort that many of the natives of our community did not.
May G-d reward you for your thoughts and deeds that are completely pure, and may you succeed in the paths that you choose.
|Wishing you success with the help of G-d,
With great respect,
The Organization of Natives of Halmeu and the District in Israel
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By Y. L. Bialer
My G-d, My G-d[2]
My G-d, my G-d, my soul weeps
For the destroyed communities,
For the babes, weaned from breast,
Woe about the train cars, cramped with people,
Woe about those frozen on the snowy fields,
Woe for the righteous tortured in this world
Woe about the martyrdom to G-d and the nation
(Repeat the first stanza.)
Translator's Footnotes
[Unnumbered page following 8]
From the words of eulogy
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With trepidation and trembling, we present today the memory of the holy communities, including Koloszvar-Klausenberg and Halmeu, which the school took upon itself to memorialize through the initiative of the teachers organization and Yad Vashem, and with the help of the city hall and the organization of Hungarian natives. Through this, you, dear students, will learn to appreciate the Torah institutions, the special people and people of spirit who directed its way of life. This was a community that once was and is no longer.
When we returned there immediately after the Holocaust, we found complete destruction. We passed over bodies, burnt parchment with letters floating[1]. Streets, every corner of which had been immersed with Torah and fundamental Judaism, were now destroyed. The sanctuaries were abandoned and are empty of people. We thereby reached the conclusion that the city was no longer our city, for how could we set up and build a new life on a strange land? We decided to make aliya to Israel to build it up and be built up by it.
Our martyrs were murdered. However, only their bodies were destroyed. Their spirit exists. They live among us, and we will succeed in transmitting to the young generation the eternal values that the people of Koloszvar-Klausenberg and Halmeu imparted to us. You as well, the students, will continue in their splendid tradition. That way, Koloszvar-Klausenberg and Halmeu will not be forgotten. We hope that we will be faithful transmitters for the sake of the Torah, the nation, and the Land, just as the people of Koloszvar-Klausenberg and Halmeu began and continued. Let this be a small comfort for the few survivors who remained alive. Amen, and may it be His will.
Translator's Footnote
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The Holy One Blessed Be He dulled our senses and sealed the source of our tears. Given that our sages have decreed that one must not drink wine or eat meat on account of the destruction of the Temple, and they even considered banning bread, for bread was used to offer meal offerings in the Holy Temple; it would make sense that they should decree regarding the tragedy of our nation in our day something over and above that which was decreed for the destruction of the Temple. Perhaps, we should not drink or eat anything at all.
There has never before been such a disaster. G-d acted mercifully in dulling our senses. All the dirges that have been recited to this day do not begin to express the magnitude of the tragedy and the disaster of our era. Darkness fell upon the world - darkness that could be felt[1]; but that darkness contains light, light that touched us. If we were still inclined to think that we could live in peace with the people of culture, people of science and intelligence, that light illuminated the evil of the haters of Israel and what they planned to perpetrate. This Holocaust came and poured out light, a great light, and taught us to recognize the cruelty and unremitting hatred of all haters of Israel.
The sole recommendation and conclusion is to fortify ourselves in our independent state; to fortify ourselves, strengthen ourselves, and continue the traditions with which those Jewish communities educated us. Dear children, you were certainly told and you certainly know that there were a million children like you, school children who attended Talmud Torahs and perhaps studied even better than you, learning day and night in that selfsame Klausenberg, in that selfsame Halmeu, where there were study halls full of adults and children who occupied themselves day and night with Torah, prophets, and Talmud with wondrous diligence and devotion - they saw their entire fortune in the study of Torah and wisdom, and in following the path of Torah and the commandments.
Today, one of our hands is obligated to take hold of the dagger and defend the borders of Israel. However, our hand must not let go of the rich, pleasant tradition that the communities of Israel in the Diaspora imparted to us. This is the deepest memorial that is within our power to carry out.
We will continue to live, to build, and to develop our Land in the light of those values with which they lived.
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|The rabbi of the city, the Rabbi and Gaon Rabbi David Werner may
he live, bring a greeting from the office of the rabbinate of Hadera
|Yehuda Schwartz, the principal of the school,
opens the memorial ceremony
|Mordechai Kostlitz, the vice mayor,
brings greetings from the Hadera city council
|Menachem Carmi brings greetings from the
organization of the natives of Halmeu Turcz and the Region
Translator's Footnote
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We are gathered here in your school in order to memorialize and perpetuate the memory of the communities and martyrs of Koloszvar and Halmeu. This is an educational effort, and the principals of the school of Givat Olga did well in accepting upon themselves the mission to instill knowledge of the Holocaust in the students. They did well in that here, specifically in Givat Olga where most of the students are immigrants from North America or natives of Israel, they found it appropriate to perpetuate the memories of these holy communities.
To these children, who know very little about that Diaspora, a holy duty falls upon the nation of Israel and we among them to remember and not to forget[1] this Holocaust. There is a unique meaning to these words - before you dear students - so that there will never again be such a terrible and frightful period as there was during the murder of more than a million children whose blood was spilled like water throughout all the pathways of Europe, as they were forcefully separated from their mothers and torn to pieces before their eyes.
These are the chapters of the worst atrocities in all of human history. Many of them went to their deaths with the words of Shema Yisrael Hashem Elokeinu Hashem Echad [Hear oh Israel, the L-rd our G-d, the L-rd is one] on their lips.
It has now been 23 years since the Nazi troops trampled over the soil of Hungary from Mary 19th until the end of June -- a period not more than three months - and succeeded in murdering 80% of Hungarian Jewry, including all the children.
We recite in a prayer: Strangers have said that there is no chance or hope, that we went like sheep to slaughter, to be murdered and killed[2]. Nevertheless, all those who went commanded us to continue with life so that we would be able to tell the future generations that which must not be forgotten.
Therefore, dear children, it is your duty as Jews and Israelis to remember, for the State of Israel arose over their graves.
It is your duty to recall it on appropriate days as a memorial monument - a living memorial, for no such monuments were erected in the vale of murder. May it be His will that we will be the generation that continues the Jewish traditions, and let us be a monument of witness to coming generations for those who commanded life to us.
Translator's Footnotes
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With your permission, and with the permission of the Rabbi of Hadera, the vice mayor of the city Mr. Kostlitz, representatives of the Ministry of Education, honored invited guest, and last but not least, the children of Israel, the dear children of Hadera. I have been given the task of saying a few words in the name of the Organization of Klausenberg Natives who are located here in Israel. The chairman of the organization Mr. David Mozes, Mrs. Esther Weisberg the wife of the late Dr. Chaim Weisberg, Engineer Aharon Elbaum, the daughter of Rabbi Eliahu Klein, and others are present with us today.
You did a great deed by perpetuating the memory of this splendid community, the community of Klausenberg, of which we are the survivors. The community of Klausenberg - one of the oldest and most splendid communities of Hungarian Jewry in general, and in Transylvanian Jewry in particular - in which some of the rabbinical giants of the generation lived. Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein, who was known in the Jewish world of Hillel of Kolomyja, was the first rabbi of Klausenberg; Rabbi Feivish Fishman who later became the Maggid of Pressburg during the time of the Chatam Sofer; and later Rabbi Avraham Glazner the son of the daughter of the Chatam Sofer; Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glazner; and the final rabbi of Klausenberg Rabbi Akiva Glazner of blessed memory.
It was a city of Torah and secular learning. From one side, there were Yeshivas and Torah institutions, and from the other side, institutions of knowledge, the first Hebrew Gymnasium in Transylvania, the religious high school of the community, institutions of Torah and benevolence, which once were and are no longer.
During the time that I witnessed the era that is being presented here, I recalled the wonderful legend, one of the legends of destruction by the prophet Jeremiah. After the destruction, the prophet wandered around the ruins of Jerusalem, saw the children of Israel who had been killed - and as the legend states -- … he lifted his hands heavenward and shouted, Master of the World, are you destroying the remnant of Israel? When I witnessed that era of the Mosheles and Mireles, Jewish children, children of Klausenberg, it was as if they too, during the time of destruction in the Holocaust, lifted their arms heavenward and shouted: Master of the World, are you destroying the remnant of Israel? However in his Great Mercy, the Master of the Universe told the destroyer - Stop! And here we are continuing our life in the Land of Israel. You, the dear children of Hadera, congratulations to you, and congratulations to your principal, a resident of our city, in that you are perpetuating the name of this splendid community and perpetuating the names of the dear Jewish children who once were and are no more -for they were slaughtered. May you have increased strength! May the Source of Blessings bless you.
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As one of the survivors of Halmeu, I have come to greet you in my name and in the name of the rest of the Halmeu natives who, for all sorts of reasons, were unable to come here tonight.
I express appreciation and reverence. Many thanks to you for taking this great task upon yourselves. It will be a special merit to you that you have taken it upon yourselves to memorialize specifically the community of Halmeu, which was a holy community in the full sense of the word. It had approximately 350 Jewish families, the vast majority being Sabbath observers. From among all those families, there were perhaps two or three who did not observe the Sabbath. Education took place in the cheders and Yeshivas, just as it was in the times when everything was pure and holy.
I thank you in my name, and in the name of the Halmeu natives.
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By Rachel Schwartz, Grade 8 [1]
|It was a town with a well-known holy community
In which the sounds of Torah were never silent.
Righteous Jews, giant in spirit and Torah,
It has a very successful Yeshiva and Beis Midrash [study hall]
Personalities, sages, local righteous people,
Each night, Tikkun Chatzot[3] was recited in your gates
The staff and the shofar by one's bed,
Reb Baruch Hendler who loves reproof
Reb Yankel Mitelman runs to the mikva [ritual bath] in the middle of the night
And Reb David Levi enwrapped in his Tallis and Tefillin
Even the simple Jew who works for his livelihood
Who will be first to recite Psalms in the morning?
Working with the sweat of his brow and satisfied with the small amount he has
His wife a woman of valor never ceases toiling
The modest mothers read Tzena Urena[4] on Sabbaths,
My dear grandmothers Reizel and Feiga did not have the benefit of a Jewish burial
On the day of the giving of the Torah, Shma Yisrael was on their lips[5]
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|The sages, the righteous ones, the simple folk:
To where did they disappear, where are they all?
And why was thus the fate
Why is a question that irks and accuses;
Why, oh L-rd, G-d, oh why
The son shines, rises, and brightens.
Among the ruins and destruction in the place
Indeed, much has already been written, and will be written about the horrible tragedy.
We must not forget, but rather remember and remind.
Translator's Footnotes
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By Rachel Schwartz, Grade 8
|He led his flock with righteousness,
The rabbi, Rabbi Eliahu Klein, the Tzadik.
Strong in his knowledge, showing no favoritism to any person
On Rosh Hashanah, as he called out the shofar blasts,
His son and heir, Rabbi Yaakov Shalom Klein,
Led the large, honorable Yeshiva
His sermons spellbound the audience of listeners.
A poor man, lacking in everything, who had pride and was embarrassed to solicit from door to door
There was an abundance of charitable institutions.
To give and donate, either to the Ozer Dalim [helpers of the poor] organization
Or to help an orphaned bride who had come of age
Of course the Hachnasat Kalla [Assistance for Brides] organization was active,
And if news spread in town that somebody had passed away
For the person had no relative or kin
He would not be cast off and left without burial
Thus was life in the city, founded upon
Life there was indeed calm and lovely.
Are now hidden away and have disappeared. Why did such a decree fall upon them?
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And do not forget
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|We have kindled memorial candles to recall the Jews who were murdered in sanctification of the Divine name. Sad songs that move the heart are sung in choirs, to the point that tears flow from my eyes. The community of participants, we students, have accepted upon ourselves to follow the good and straight path of the martyrs.
|Yafa Chamish
|The performance was so sad that I began to weep, and the entire audience wept with me.
|Ruth Lavie
|The program of commemoration brought us to great emotion. Tears flowed from our eyes over the loss of innocent Jews who were taken like sheep to the slaughter with no savior.
|Rafael Derosh
|We came to the synagogue on the day of the ceremony dressed in festive garb, and we welcomed the guests in a pleasant manner. When the guests heard the program, they burst out crying, for they felt everything that they had been through.
|Tova Levi
|It was moving to hear how Mirele was crying and screaming I am hungry, and her brother comforted her. The performances brought out the emotions in the entire audience. Boys, girls, male and female teachers all wept.
|Rivka Rubin
|When we left the place of the commemoration, our heart was full of pain and agony for the annihilated communities. May G-d avenge their blood.
|Yosef Tnemi
|When they saw the ceremony, some members of the audience remembered what they had endured, and wept bitterly and with broken hearts.
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|May G-d remember the martyrs of Halmeu, Turcz, and the district,
Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, youths and children,
Who were murdered, burned, drowned, tortured to death,
Shot, and buried alive in sanctification of the divine Name.
Our holy rabbi, Rabbi Yaakov Shalom of holy blessed memory, the head of the rabbinical court of the holy community of Halmeu
May G-d remember the synagogues and holy books,
May G-d remember all of the dear victims May G-d avenge their blood!
May their souls be bound in the bonds of life.
Merciful father who dwells on high
(From the prayer book)
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|In Memory of the Martyrs of Halmeu, Turcz, and the District
Translator's Footnotes
[Page 18a]
The former principal of the MD School, and today serving
as a rabbi and principal in a school in Boston, United States.
|Blessed is G-d, 7 Adar, 5729 (1969)
To the honor of
How broad is my heart, and my horn is raised to G-d, when I see the memorial book of the martyrs of Klausenberg, and the copy of the Memorial Book of Martyrs of Halmeu, which is currently at the publishers. My eyes lit up as I perused them, with the feeling of Praise G-d for He is good. It was the appropriate thing to publish this memorial book in memory of those people and their deeds. Their memory is in honor of those who follow and continue the tradition in glory, as they realize the values of Israel in a practical fashion.
This fine gift that you worked upon for the memory and elevation of the pure, clean souls of our Jewish brethren from our native town of the holy community of Halmeu, may G-d protect it; men, women and children who perished en masse and with cruel wrath at the impure hands of the Nazi monster in Europe; with the smoke of the ovens ascending from the altar will serve as a source of support and strength for those downtrodden and despairing of the times. Therefore, may your hands be strengthened in all that you do, and may you succeed in raising the horn of Israel and its Torah.
In the merit of this holy memory, may G-d recall their sacrifice and repair the breach of His nation, returning the hearts of fathers to children and the hearts of children to their fathers[1], with the full redemption and the rebuilding of our source of splendor, the Holy Temple, speedily in our day, Amen.
With friendship and great honor
Yeshayahu Barkai
Translator's Footnote
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Commemorating the Community How?
The holy mission of remember and do not forget is imposed upon our generation. This is one of the commandments that the Torah commands us at the dawn of our nationhood, and this is one of the commandments that applies to us anew today. Our generation, the generation of the Holocaust, is aging, and the fear exists that we did not succeed in instilling the memory of our martyrs to our sons and daughters in such a way that it will continue to live with them, so that they, in time, will continue to perpetuate their memory to the succeeding generation.
In the wake of the motto of the committee to commemorate the communities by the Ministry of Education meaning: that in the name of the thousands of Jewish communities that were wiped out, thousands of schools in Israel will arise and set up a name and memorial for these communities the school under my leadership, the 44th Yavneh School of Hadera, has decided to perpetuate the communities of Koloszvar and Halmeu. We conducted the commemoration ceremony in our school with the participation of members of the organization two weeks before Passover.
You might ask, how is it possible to commemorate the communities of Koloszvar and Halmeu? Are we able to commemorate a community that was annihilated?!
We do not have the power to place flesh and sinews upon the dry bones, which are also non-existent, but we can preserve their memory by publishing a Yizkor Book. We can present the personalities of those that are gone, we can bring to life the religious and cultural realities of the Halmeu community, learn about the educational institutions, Yeshivas and cheders in the town. We are able to describe the characters of the worshippers in the synagogues and study halls, and describe the charitable institutions of the town.
It is not our intention to present a comprehensive picture of the community of Halmeu during its various eras, with its many variegated activities. This task must be done by experts.
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In this Yizkor Book, we intend to illustrate, in brief, various prominent events and deeds from the distant and near past, in order to erect a memorial to the community and draw close the hearts of our children to this splendid community. This task can be performed through your hands and your children's hands. Tell them about the eternal values that were forged in Halmeu. Describe the splendid life that was lost. Your children will then write their compositions. Please also bring your children to the annual memorial days of the community. We will thereby include them to the large living, emotional family of Halmeu natives, and we will speedily be able to draw near the hearts of fathers to children, and the hearts of children to their fathers.
With the publication of the Yizkor Book, we wish to declare a week of memorializing the community at the school. We will study about the community in an intensive fashion. We will conclude the week with a quiz and competition between the classes in the presence of members of the organization, who will distribute the prizes to those who excel from the fund that was set up for such.
Aside from erecting a monument in memory of the community, our plans include opening a synagogue for youth, with a memorial room, a holy ark, and a Torah scroll in memory of the martyrs.
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|The Holy Ark [Aron Hakodesh] in the Yavne synagogue in Hadera,
in memory of the Holy Communities Klausenburg [Cluj] and Halmin [Halmeu]
|Yehuda Schwartz
Editor of the book
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|About the community
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To perpetuate the memory of our martyrs, and to elevate the souls of the community members who were murdered in sanctification of the Divine Name in the death camps, in the ovens of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and in the labor camps.
Oh, would it be that my head was full of waters, and my eyes were a source of tears, I would weep day and night over the victims of the daughter of my nation.[1]
May G-d avenge their blood.
Translator's Footnotes
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|This book was printed thanks to the graceful donation of 500 Israeli Pounds by the chairman of the Association of Former Residents of Halmin, Mr. Menachem Traub-Karmi and his family Zvi, Ilana, Menashe, Chaia and Dror, to the memory of their parents, may God avenge their blood.
|Their father R'Gavriel Traub zl
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Oil prices rebounded on Thursday as top officials huddled on Capitol Hill to carve out a deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" tax rises and spending cuts that could tip the US economy into recession.
A strong upward revision of third-quarter US economic growth, to 2.7 percent from 2.0 percent, also helped sentiment though the details of the data hid some worrisome data on consumer spending.
New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for delivery in January, climbed $1.58 to $88.07 a barrel.
Brent North Sea crude for January advanced $1.25 to $110.76 a barrel in London trade.
Michael Hewson, senior analyst at CMC Markets trading group, said the better-than-expected US economic data helped send prices back towards their recent highs.
Even so, the price remained at the low side of its three-month range, weighed down by slower global growth.
Worries remained about the pace of talks to ward off the fiscal cliff and set a long-term budget-deficit reduction plan, with the Democrats and Republicans at odds over raising taxes or cutting spending.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner headed to the Capitol for talks with congressional leaders of the two parties, as markets were increasingly skittish over the lack of positive signs.
IG analyst Justin Harper said financial markets would remain volatile until the Republicans and Democrats came up with a deal before the January 1 cut-off date, when the harsh measures of the cliff would begin crunching the economy.
"Comments are likely to continue from US lawmakers, both optimistic and pessimistic, on progress. Each time sentiment is likely to turn sharply, leading to a volatile period for US equities, and possibly global markets, until politicians sign off on a new budget plan for 2013."
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Monday, July 2, 2007
Olawuyi on the role of Soft Law in the Emergence of International Law on Chemicals
Damilola Sunday Olawuyi, University of Calgary, has posted a new paper, The Emergence of International Environmental Law on Chemicals - An Appraisal of the Role of Soft Law. Here's the abstract: Since 1988 when the world first witnessed the menacing effects of the large scale dumping of toxic wastes in developing countries, several treaties, protocols and declarations have been released at regional and international levels to combat the effects of chemicals and their disposal across borders. This has led to a phenomenal growth in the body of laws governing the transboundary movement and disposal of hazardous chemicals. The important role of soft law in this evolution cannot be sidelined. This paper shows that soft law, though largely made up non binding declarations and pronouncements served as a useful tool, in establishing standards of behavior, in promoting sustainable policies and laying the proper foundation that ultimately led to the adoption different environmental treaties like the Basel Convention, Bamako Conventions, The Rotterdam (PIC) Convention and Stockholm (POPs) Convention amongst others. This paper offers an historical analysis of the international events that led to the development of International Environmental Law as it pertains to chemicals and the important roles of soft law in the evolution of these treaties and protocols.
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I don't think the supporters of the "Six Californias" initiative are getting enough credit.
What looks at first glance like a dumb plan to break up California into six individual states might really be a clever scheme to bring Californians together.
Once its backers start to collect petition signatures, people are likely to be pretty united in refusing to put the measure on the November ballot.
The real benefit of the effort by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper will come when Californians look at the proposed new map and realize how much they like the five other mini-states, as well as their own.
Seriously, would a resident of Los Angeles (who would live in "West California") or San Bernardino (who'd land in "South California") really want to disassociate herself from San Francisco (in the state of "Silicon Valley") and California's breadbasket ("Central California")?
And would Californians really want to give up our claim to being the most diverse state in the nation — demographically, culturally and economically — as well as the 12th largest economy in the world?
Draper argues that California's diversity and size makes it ungovernable. But that's letting the people who govern it, and the people who vote for those public officials, off the hook for their failures. Your city is a lot smaller and probably less diverse than the state, but is your city governed as well as it should be?
Size isn't the issue.
If a public official can't do the job unless he's in a tiny, homogeneous state, he's in the wrong line of work.
This initiative is getting an amazing amount of coverage considering its negligible chance of passage. Even if the state said yes, Congress would have to approve it, and the rest of the country is not about to give Californians 10 more U.S. senators.
By the way, if you think the idea of breaking California into six pieces is bad, look at what Draper envisions next.
He told Time magazine: "Once California has created six new states, my guess is that New York will create three and Texas will create five."
Five Texases! Let's agree that this movement must be killed here in California before it does real damage.


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Serena Williams took a medical timeout to have her right ankle re-taped and later double-faulted on the last two points as she and sister Venus lost in the doubles quarterfinals at the U.S. Open.
The Williams sisters, owners of 13 Grand Slam doubles titles, were beaten 7-6 (5), 6-4 Tuesday by the fourth-seeded Russian duo of Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina.
Serena's serve was broken early in each of the first two sets, and then again in the final game.
She and Venus are 4-3 in doubles in 2014, with two of the losses against Makarova and Vesnina. They also played each other at Dubai in February.
In singles, the top-seeded Serena and 17th-seeded Makarova could face each other again in the semifinals. They play their quarterfinal matches in that event Wednesday, with Serena who has dropped only 17 games through four rounds meeting 11th-seeded Flavia Pennetta, and Makarova taking on 16th-seeded Victoria Azarenka.
Serena is trying to become the first woman with three consecutive U.S. Open singles titles since Chris Evert won four in a row from 1975-78.
During the changeover at 2-1 in the second set of doubles, Williams removed her right shoe and sock while being visited by a trainer during a medical timeout.
The Williams sisters declined to speak to the media after the doubles match, but Serena told a WTA spokesman that she simply needed to have the tape on her right ankle redone and there was no injury issue.
The Williams sisters have not been to a major semifinal in doubles since losing in that round at last year's U.S. Open. Their last Grand Slam doubles trophy came at Wimbledon in 2012.
When they played together at Wimbledon this year, they stopped after three games in the second round on July 1, after Serena served four consecutive double-faults. She had looked disoriented during warmups, having trouble grabbing tennis balls tossed to her by ballkids. The reason given that day was that she was ill.
Williams did not speak about that episode at the time, but at a tournament at Stanford, California, nearly a month later, she acknowledged it scared her in retrospect.
"I didn't realize how I felt until later. In the moment I didn't realize how sick I was," she said in late July. "It's weird but that's the fight in me. I never know when to say when."


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The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted. Then Jesus approached and said to them, "All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizinRead More
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Ball screws
Low-friction solution for hand tools
Owners of vineyards and orchards are very particular about the pruning tools used in their plantations. Pruning tools must be light, ergonomic and easy to handle, but also powerful with low power consumption. Original equipment manufacturers have their own requirements to consider, including reliability and low maintenance.
With the low-friction ball screw, SKF offers a solution that meets the needs of equipment operators, as well as manufacturers. The ball screw has an internal preload set for optimum rigidity and efficiency. Low friction and a lubricated nut are features that provide the manufacturers advantages such as low energy consumption, minimum maintenance, and increased reliability. End-users get a powerful, but yet lightweight tool that is easy to handle.


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I've always been slightly more paranoid than the average person. As an adult, I'm usually paranoid about rational things, like whether or not my house is going to get broken into if I leave the window cracked or if that cough sounds like cancer. As a child though, I got paranoid about somewhat more ridiculous things.
When I was around seven or eight my teacher gave an astronomy lesson. She talked about the life and death of stars, and then she dropped the bomb and told us that the sun, our sun, is a star and one day it would die. Of course this meant that I was constantly suspicious of the sun and its plans to explode.
Every so often I'd glance at the sun, wondering if the next minute would be the minute I would be plunged into darkness.
Eventually, I started to forget about my fear of the sun, but every so often, I look up, and I wonder.
I don't think I'll ever be able to fully trust the sun.


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Got this cd called "Stubbs the Zombie", a video game soundtrack. Most of the songs are covers of 50s songs by today's indie artists. Two songs have wedged their way without permission into my head. Oranger's version of "Mr.Sandman" (acutally quite good but get outta my head!) and most especially the Flaming Lips cover of "If I Only Had A Brain" which is too good to be true but still, enuff is enuff, get outta my head!
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lately, The Vines cover of the Beatles' I'm Only Sleeping been earworming.
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Spoon's "I Turn My Camera On"
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Black Eyed Peas....My Humps...at least for the last two weeks....it won't go away....help!
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"The Sky is Falling" by Queens of the Stone Age.
Thanks, zoom!
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*sigh* i have "Molly's Chambers" comin' in one ear and Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" (the long version) in the other ear. Since "Tubular Bells" was the theme song for The Exorcist movie, i wonder if this means that song is gonna try to exorcise the Kings of Leon tune outta my head???
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Ack! Has anyone else come in contact with the Go!Team? Earworm alert! "Huddle Formation" is habit inducing. This is like, cheerleader rock or something, not much lyrics but Polyphonic Spree-like vocals with some ultra-cheery dancey music. Go!Team go-go-go! Ack!
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Massive earworm attack! Chinese version of "Sukiyaki", sung by one Teresa Carpio. Hear, i must share earworm:
Actually i love this version. It's weird in an Asian Mariah Carey kinda way.
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Thanks to a good friend with a cd burner I now have several of the tracks from the musical Wicked stuck in my head. It's been a week and they just won't go away. (Not that it's a bad thing, mind you.)
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I sick my earbirds on 'em!!!
Ummm...I get alot of them because I work at the mall, and they play the same drek over and over at my store. I got this one in my head, but I can't think of the farkin' name. Some wannabe alternative crap about changing your mind.
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Having watched "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" recently, i now have "Twist & Shout" and "Danke Schoen" as earworms. Movie songs will do it to ya every time.
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freeze frame
and oldie but one that sticks when you here it
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Two Out of Three Ain't Bad by Meat Loaf
It's the earworm from hell. I heard it last night on the radio at work and woke up with it in my head this morning. Somebody...please help me.
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ISRALITES -Desmond Dekker & the Aces .....
I have a small chock-full hard drive soI hafta keep takin off whatI download...
I have say 60 song on my Comp but I keep this one & maybe 5-10 others on alla the time....
Im listening to it rite now....maybe 30th time this week
I FOUND the lyrics online..
I never had ANY IDEA what he was singing....
I said Duh!
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Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
so that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
So that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
My wife and my kids, they are packed up and leave me.
Darling, she said, I was yours to be seen.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
Shirt them a-tear up, trousers are gone.
I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
After a storm there must be a calm.
They catch me in the farm. You sound the alarm.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
Poor me, the Israelite.
I wonder who I'm working for.
Poor me, Israelite,
I look a-down and out, sir.
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Hay you werent supposed to TELL everyone....
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yeah i am. It makes the earworm stick around longer!
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Momma keeps whites bright like the sunshine...
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are you sitting on the soap?
sometimes, you just have to say 'what the f...'
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"The Girl from Impanema". Heard it on some comp the other day. And now. It. Won't. Go. Away.
"Young and tan and oh so lovely
the girl from Impanema
goes walkin but she don't seeeeeeeee
what she does to xccccccccccc
na na na na na na na na na na na na na na
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There i was. Sunday night. Turned on the boob tube which i rarely do, unless for a dvd. There's Zooey Deschannel. And she's singing "Hello Dolly".
Well her voice is good, nowhere near as bad as that American Idol crap but much better than most actresses who sing.
But "Hello Dolly"....
On the bright side, i've made Zooey a new mrs.xc!
pics to follow
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"i'm a wife of xc now! Wheeeeeee! It's what every girl dreams of!"
"ok, i gotta string through my head. i'm a love puppet for xc"
"Forget the Mercedes Benz, xc, you can drive me home"
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I adore Zooey, but Emily is my fav!
As for earworms...
that damned Fergie song Big Girls Don't Cry for weeks now!!!!!!!!! Damn it!!!!!!
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i hadn't heard of Emily til i hunted down pics of Zooey. Since i'm on vacation, i'm gonna hunt down some Zooey dvds. Gotta satisfy the wife!
Zooey's cover of "Hello Dolly" is still an earworm but so is the Decemberists' "O Valencia" which i've heard quite a bit lately.
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I absolutely love what the team behind Project X is doing to build buzz for their upcoming movie. They have released a series of videos where celebrities share their craziest party stories over an animated cartoon. The series sells without selling in a fresh, interesting, and hilarious way.
In my midterm I wrote about setting yourself apart from the flooded ecosystem of a brand's respective market. In an industry inundated with terrible trailers, this animated series builds viral buzz for Project X in an extremely creative way that gets people talking.


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Do you know what social media needs? More puppets! Loren Feldman gave us some brilliant puppeteering awhile back, and now you can check out "Facebuuk the Puppet Musical."
"Facebuuk" follows the online lives of four puppets, singing their way through a social network.
You've got Jenny Meow (the FB Junkie), Conrad Covic (the FB Causes Guy), Melody Manson (The FB Stalker), and Freddy Smith (the 56k Kid).
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The show is kid friendly, from ages 10 and up, and is playing at Artists' Television Access, on Valencia St this weekend.