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My Tante Esther played an important role in my life. My grandmother's younger sister, Tante Esther came to the USA in 1936 along with my great grandfather. My grandmother was able to bring them here and away from Poland.
Tante Esther and her husband, Uncle Leo, lived close to us in North Bergen, New Jersey. Uncle Leo also came from Europe, from Germany, and worked for my grandparents at their bakery in West New York, New Jersey. He was not family then, just someone who needed a job. When my Tante came over, she married my Uncle. Grandma had already told Uncle Leo not to get serious about any one, as she had a sister for him.
Uncle Leo worked with my grandfather as long as the bakery was in existence. It was Uncle Leo who dropped off a box of bakery goods every Sunday morning on his way home from baking all night. It was Uncle Leo who once brought my brother home from the bakery after my brother had mixed the sugar with the salt. I still remember, my brother being handed off to my Dad with Uncle Leo's terse words, "Here Take Him," before he left to return to the bakery. My Mom had to call my grandmother to find out what had happened.
We often saw Uncle Leo at our synagogue, Temple Beth El. He always had candy in his pocket, so we always made sure to give him a hug and say hello. We loved him for other reasons, but the candy was always special.
My grandmother came to the USA when she was 16 years old. I have written about Grandma and her family many times. As I have written about her photo album filled with unidentified photos.
Here are two more photos. Luckily my cousin is still alive and can help identify her mother. She is positive that her mother is the woman on the left in the photo of the two women and two boys.
But the other photo, my cousin says is not her mother. I thought it was. But after having the back translated by several different people on the groups Tracing the Tribe and Jewish Ancestry in Poland, I think my cousin is right. This is not her mother!
Inscribed on the back is a note to Talci, or Talei, or Palci, as a remembrance from Estera. My grandmother used the name Tala in Europe. I assume, Talei could be a nickname. But I would think that if the photo was her sister, the message would have mentioned that!!! Thus, I am thinking this is a cousin about the same age and named for the same person as my Tante Esther! Definitely not my Tante. I put the picture here so you can see how difficult this becomes in identifying people.
As for the photo with the two women and the boys, I am stymied as to who the other woman and the boys could be. I know my grandmother had many first cousins. I am assuming they are members of the family. Someone important to my grandmother for a photo to be sent from Poland.
My obsession with these photos makes me know who I hope it is. I hope and wish it is her cousin Tova Malcha and perhaps these are her sons. Tova and her family were murdered in the Shoah. I have no idea how many children she had or her married name. There are 135 people with her maiden name murdered from the town she lived in Viroshov/Wieruszow Poland. I know she died and her family died. What I do know, I heard as a young woman when my grandmother met with Tova Malcha's brother in 1976 in Israel. (Read blog below.)
I have no identified photo of her. But I am hoping that when this photo was sent to my grandmother, sometime after she moved to the USA, that the two women she loved the most, her sister and her first cousin, her best friend, were in this photo. (See blog below.)
But I know it could be someone else. Another cousin perhaps? I have written about others. All I know is that when I search through this album, many times I am caught up in the Shoah. I end up at the Yad VeShem database searching for names that match these photos. Then I cannot look at the album again for months.
https://zicharonot.com/2014/04/28/speaking-yiddish-always-brings-me-holocaust-memories/
https://zicharonot.com/2018/07/20/viroshov-wieruszow-a-jewish-community-destroyed/
https://zicharonot.com/2018/07/11/the-yad-vashem-shoah-database-each-name-becomes-a-memory/
https://zicharonot.com/2018/06/26/amazing-what-information-two-photos-can-provide/
https://zicharonot.com/2015/11/03/who-are-you-these-photos-call-out-to-me/
Tags: photos, Shoah, Yad Veshem, Yad Veshem database
Categories Anti-semitism, Family, Genealogy, Grandma's Photo Album, Holocaust, Israel, Memories, New Jersey, Uncategorized
My 'Feh' Mood Seems Overwhelming
There are certain Yiddish words that just fit. When you say them, you know that everyone understands exactly what you feel and why you feel that way. And lately one words keeps coming to my mind all the time: Feh!
Feh: I am so disgusted. I have reached the age where I look at life in a different way. I get so disgusted with unreasonable behavior. With those more concerned about their own glory than the people they are supposed to serve. People so caught up in their political side that they are forgetting that people are now suffering without pay. That our economy is hurting, our people are hurting. Feh on them all. Actually, our political world is beyond feh! I would say it was all "verkakte," screwed up! I have been calling my two senators several times a week. Does it help? Who knows! But I feel better for trying.
I am disgusted with baseless hatred. And with people who spew hatred. I am disgusted with the increased acts of 'anti' behavior: anti-Semitic, anti-LGBTQ, anti- immigrant, anti-anyone who is different than you. Feh on all the haters out there. I honestly never thought I would see an America so filled with hatred. But here we are! FEH! I could just 'schrai,' scream, in aggravation. And I do.
But my feh mood is more than just on the atmosphere of the political structure, it is also on the atmosphere of the world! Reading or watching or listening to the news has brought about many feh moments the last few months. I am at the point where I do not want to hear any more. But then I realize I have to listen. Despite my disgust and my temptation to yell, "Feh," at my television, I keep on watching. But to be honest, this mishegoss is making me meshugah!
Then there is the atmosphere of the weather. Feh on the weather! Climate change is killing me. The summers are too darn hot! And this winter has been a polar bear of ice, snow, sleet, graupel, freezing rain and more. I am done. FEH! I do not want to kvetch, but who needs this weather? Not me.
Feh on the dirty snow piled on the roads and my driveway. Feh on the mud and muck coming into my home. Feh on the downed trees and limbs felled by 10 inches of wet nasty snow. Just FEH.
I am so tired of schlepping! I am tired of putting on layers of clothing and my boots. I am tired of schlepping a scarf and gloves and hat with me wherever I go, and then running back when I forget something or if fell as I was walking into a building. I am tired of schlepping my coat around when I go shopping at the grocery store. If I take it off it takes up too much of my cart; if I leave it on, I get too hot. Feh on my schlepping and my winter clothes!
I remember my grandmother saying feh on little things, like a mud-covered child, a dirty diaper, a messy face. My fehs have reached epic proportions this year. I am in super feh mode. There has to be a word to express my extreme disgust.
I honestly do not want to become verbissen, totally bitter, by all that is happening in the world at this time. But my feh mood seems to be over whelming some days!
Tags: feh, weather, yiddish words
Categories Anti-semitism, Uncategorized, Yiddish
December in Israel
I seem to spend a bit of December in Israel. Facebook reminds me. Ten years ago, four years ago, two years ago, and now, another December in Israel. I actually like coming in early December. There are not many tourists. The 70-degree weather is wonderful compared to the below freezing weather at my home. And I get to spend time with my daughter and her husband.
Today, my first day here on this visit, was the perfect December day. We walked the two tiny dogs the half mile to a small grocery store to stock up for Shabbat.
We purchased Challah and Challah rolls. The bread here is so delicious. Freshly made from the bakery, it reminds me of my grandfather's baking. I do have a habit of over eating bread when I visit! My first roll here surpassed my tastebud memories.
As we walked we met others out and enjoying the day, walking with their dogs and small children. It was just delightful.
There are so many little parks along the way that we walked through. It made it fun for all to be outside. We passed children playing in three playgrounds on our way home. So peaceful. It almost makes you forget what is happening in other areas of the country. Almost.
It is difficult sometimes to connect reality to what is reported in world news. It is now my third day here and there have been three terror attacks near Jerusalem. Two soldiers dead; one infant dead, and by my count 11 injured. You have to wonder why? Killing by terrorists does not bring about peace, just more hate. And the cycle continues on and on.
In the meantime the international media usually does not report the Hamas attacks against innocent Israelis. When they do it is usually in the context that Israeli military strikes back. And then they barely mention that which lead up to Israel's response. Frustrating on so many levels.
But here in the Holon, Rishon LeZion area, all is relatively peaceful.
The only indication that anything is happening is when we look at my cousin's grandchildren and speak of their future. Someone says out loud, "well maybe there will be peace before they have to go into the army." And my cousins says, "Oy They keep saying that. 20 years ago, 40 years and before. And still no peace."
Israel in December is lovely. But you cannot disconnect from reality.
Categories Anti-semitism, Family, Israel, Terror, Travel, Uncategorized
How The KinderTransport Touched My Family
I have always been intrigued by the KinderTransport that saved 10,000 Jewish children during the Shoah as they were transported out of Nazi territory and on to England by train and then across the English Channel. In my mind I imagined the heaviness of heart of the parents as they put their children's safety first and sent them to live in a foreign country with people they did not know. What brave parents they were to know they might not survive, but to give their children a chance no matter the peril!
My interest sparked me to read books about these trains. And even brought my attention to the orphan trains that brought children from the east coast out to the middle of the country on Orphan Trains. In my mind the two were linked together. The KinderTransport children were not yet orphans, but many would be by the end of the war. The Orphan Train children were often in orphanages or living on the streets when they were sent away.
But I did not know of anyone who actually rode the trains to a new life brining the children to safety away from the horrors of Europe, except for a man I met on a cruise several years ago. (See blog below.)
The sisters, Martha and Rosa, who I now know survived thanks to the KinderTransport.
However, recently that all changed. I now know that two of my relatives survived the Shoah when their parents put them on a train to England from Breslau, Germany. Their mother was my grandmother's first cousin. These two girls were around the age of my mother, their second cousin. Except for a photo I found and wrote about, we would not have known about the sisters.
Their mother, Celia, perished in the Shoah. I thought they had as well. All I had was a photo of two girls and a brief inscription on the back. But from that inscription, I was able to find out that at least one of the girls survived. I did not know how she survived, but I knew she lived and wrote a Yad V'Shem testimony for her mother. From little information I had, I wrote a blog (see below) about a year ago, wanting to know more.
Recently that blog was read by someone in England, who gave me the news that both girls had survived and had come to England on the KinderTransport. That one girl, Martha, had lived with this person's in-laws during the war. The families had been in touch until Martha's death.
Now I have new wonders. Did my grandmother know that her cousin's children had survived? Did anyone know? The testimony was not written until 1999 from Australia. So perhaps not. Perhaps the sisters had been lost to the family forever because of the Shoah. I think this is a question that will never have an answer as anyone who might have known is long gone.
I wish I knew more. I have reached out to the person who contacted me to see if she has more information. I have not heard back. But I thank her for contacting me at all and helping to solve another Shoah mystery for my family.
My searches continue. I must admit, that this one at least gave me some hope and some joy. The KinderTransport touched my family; saved two lives. That is the best knowledge of all.
https://zicharonot.com/2017/04/06/cruise-conversations-that-linger-in-my-heart/
Tags: KinderTransport, Orphan Trains, Shoah, Yad VShem
Categories Anti-semitism, Family, Genealogy, Holocaust, Memories, Parenting, Uncategorized
A Community Vigil Heals My Heart
I feel better now than I did a day ago.
On Saturday a madman attacked the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh killing 11 innocent souls. I was so sad. My sadness increased when a good friend called and say, "How are you?" And added, "You will feel worse and then you will feel better." She then informed me that her nephew was one of the Rabbis there. Her nephew who I have meet and had Thanksgiving dinner with years ago when he was young. But he was physically fine. He was not one of the many wounded or killed. It did not matter, my eyes filled and my heart pounded.
"You are right," I said. "I feel so much worse and so much better simultaneously."
Today I feel much better. Today my congregation, Kehilath Israel, was the host for The Kansas City Community Vigil organized by the Jewish Federation and JCRB. Another board member and I served as official greeters as thousands people came together to fight hatred and stand for goodness.
The media worked to present what happened to our community.
We arrived early. We were there when the police checked everything. We saw the work they put into keeping us safe. Security was important. But honestly the love and warmth of the people coming into our sanctuary removed the stress of needing police and security. We saw the members of the media come with their cameras and note books. We saw our synagogue's staff preparing for the crowds.
Over and over we said: "Welcome. Thank you so much for coming. Thank you for being here." And again and again, people responded with a hug, or a handshake, or a smile, or saying "thank you," or "of course" or "We had to be here." "We are here for you."
People from every Jewish congregation came. From many churches, who wore their church name tags. People came with crosses and Jewish stars, turbans and the collars of minister and priests. There were Hindus, Budhists, every religion, every color, every community was there! I saw members of the Sisterhood of Salaam/Shalom, of which I am a member. Members of Grandparents against Gun Violence came out in their orange sweatshirts. The Muslim community was there. An Indian couple I have not seen in a decade came, and both embraced me in a warm hug. Thank you!
People reached out with love and kindness. So many times, my eyes filled with tears as I felt their love to me and the community. And I knew that the world was really a better place than I imagined a few days ago. We welcomed thousands of people. The estimate is that 3000 people attended. Thank you Kansas City!
Hundreds of notes were written.
Many wrote notes to go to the congregations in Pittsburgh where the horror occurred. We in Kansas know of this as our world was shattered almost four years ago when the JCC and the Village Shalom were the sites of hate killings. We returned the love that we felt when communities across the world reached out to us. We know how important those notes can be.
When the speakers began their presentations, my heart soared. I will not mention what the Rabbis said, although what they said was important, I will focus on the others. Because what the others said meant so much to our grieving hearts.
First was my old neighbor, Art, who spoke for the Muslim community. His words touched because I knew him and I knew it was so. " I speak from my heart," he said. "We are with you," he said. "Hate is destined to fail." He spoke of how the Jewish and Muslim communities work together.
We had a representative of the Catholic Church speaking for Archbishop Joseph Naumann, who told us "God is Love. And there is NO room for hate. We, the Catholic community, stand with you."
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver gave a rousing and heart_pounding speech, quoting Martin Luther King, Jr. : "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." And "Silence sounds like complicity." "In Ecclesiastics it says, 'There is a time to be quiet,' he announced, "But this is NOT it." "We are all Americans. This is America!" He added pointing to all of us in the room."Besides Congressman Cleaver, Congressman Kevin Yoder attended as did candidate Sharice Davids. Kansas Governor Colyer was also in attendance. I am sure many others were there.
Rev. Adam Hamilton from the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection was there with hundreds of his congregants. THANK YOU! I felt the love from them as I welcomed them to our congregation. He told us that there was silence during the Shoah, but that "We refuse to let that happen here." "We need to have the courage to speak up when you know something is not right." "We need to stand up!"
The Rev. Doctor Rodney Williams, told us that although America was currently living in a season of evil and hate, we will work together. We will together fight against White supremacy. We will come together, as we fight back together in our unity.
And the crowd of thousands people were united in the message that hate will not win in Kansas City. Hate and anti-Semitism, and anti any group was not going to win. We would win because we will not remain silent. And we remembered others who died because of hatred: The two who were killed October 24 in the Kroger's supermarket, just for bing Black.
Community Rabbis lit candles in memory of those who perished.
There was silence though as the community's Rabbis lit a candle for each of the 11 murdered and then lead us in Kaddish. The voices of the congregation came together to chant the pray for those who perish.
"May the One who makes peace on high, make peace for us, for all Israel, and for all who dwell on earth. And Let us Say, Amen."
May their names be a blessing: Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Bernice Simon, Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax, Irving Younger. And Maurice Stallard and Vickie Lee Jones who died at Krogers.
(As an aside, many more people attempted to come to the vigil. Traffic was backed up, parking lots were filled all around, it was a true city wide response of love against hate.)
Tags: Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, Grandparents Against Gun Violence, Kansas City Community Vigil, Kehilath Israel Synagogue, Rev. Adam Hamilton, Rev. Dr. Rodney Williams, Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, Tree of Life terror
Categories Anti-semitism, Kansas, Kansas City, Terror, Uncategorized
Finding My Heritage In Spain
Our trip to Spain and Portugal had a special purpose for besides wanting to see places I had not seen. I also wanted to see the bits and pieces left of the Sephardic Jewish imprint on Spain. I have written about my maternal grandfather and his family's Spanish roots in an earlier blog (see below). Now I wanted to see what I could see.
I was on a mission that started in Barcelona. I had been to this lovely city before and heard the story about the Jewish cemetery destroyed and replaced with a Christian cemetery. Now the only Jewish aspect was the name of the hill: Montjuic. However, in Barcelona you can visit the site of the Major Synagogue. A small space that you must walk down to see, this tiny space reflects the rule that no religious site would be bigger than the smallest church. So it is small. But I was glad to see that it has been found and reclaimed. There is a guide on site who gives a 10 minute presentation about it. So I am glad we went. Most places do not even have that!
Our next stop with a bit of Jewish history was surprising to me. We went to the small city of Sagunt or Sagunto near Valencia. I was not expecting what I found. First they were having a festival to celebrate their Middle Ages history, and as we entered I saw a menorah symbol on banners. The town had its Jewish quarter still designated including one of the original arches, called the Blood Arch. The tour guide did not know why. I have my own ideas. You actually walked through the Jewish Quarter in order to get up to the Roman teacher.
The narrow, hilly streets are picturesque, and walking through the quarter you come to the top where a private house stands on the site of the original synagogue, with an iron Menorah window. We were also able to see the archeology site of where they think the mikveh was located.
I have since researched and learned that in ancient days this town was called Morviedro. Here the Jews were protected from massacres in 1391 and Jews from other areas took refuge there. When the 1492 decree was made, the Jewish residents arranged safe passage out about 500 people.
In fact almost every city we went to had some remains of its Jewish inhabitants. In Malaga, the birthplace of Picasso, we found it was also the birthplace of Yehudah Ben Gabriel, who revitalized Jewish literature. And we found the Jewish Quarter nit far from the Picasso Museum.
Gibraltar had a thriving Jewish community and still does. We saw people walking the streets wearing kippot. We walked to the old Flemish Synagogue and took a photo of the door to the walled area. Unfortunately we could not go in.
Only in Cadiz was all remnants of the Jewish community destroyed. Probably because of the 1755 earthquake and tsunami. But at one time there was a thriving community that had to escape due to the forced expulsion of the Jewish people. In fact 8000 Jews left Cadiz and traveled to North Africa.
A sign in Sintra
In Portugal we went to Sintra to see the Pena Palace. But while walking through the narrow streets of the city, I found a cork store where I purchased a purse. Then I noticed its address: Beco Judaea. The street of the Jews.
Church of Sao Domingos where Jewish citizens murdered in 1500s
The Jewish Quarter.
But it was in Lisbon that we had the most in-depth experience. Besides visiting some of the important sites like the palace of the inquisition and Rossi's Plaza where the Crypto Jews were tortured, we visited the church, Sao Domingos, where the massacre of Jews began in the 1506, walked the Jewish Quarter, and learned how King Manuel I tricked the Jewish population and baptized them all without their permission. He wanted to marry the daughter of the king of Spain, but he also wanted to keep his Jewish citizens. This was his solution.
Finally we visited the Lisbon synagogue built in the early 1900s that still has services today. Portugal was a neutral country during the war, a Lisbon was a place of refuge. Today 2000 Jews live in Portugal.
Https://dis.bh.org.il murviedro-sagunto
Tags: Lisbon Synagogue
Categories Anti-semitism, architecture, Expulsion from Spain, Family, Uncategorized
One More Family Destroyed
It has been over a month since I last wrote about the testimonies of Shalom Hollander, my grandfather's cousin who wrote the Yad VaShem testimonies for about 40 members of my family including my great grandparents and a great uncle. I needed time away from the visions of horrors that his testimonies put into my mind as I thought of all these relatives who were lost. (See links to blogs below.)
But there was one last family that I was determined to write about because they all perished.
A family of five died in 1941-42. They were Hirsh Tzvi Feuer, the son of Eliezer and Leah Feuer, and his wife, Dvora Amsterdam, the daughter of Tzvi and Chava Amsterdam. As I have written in earlier blogs, the names Amsterdam and Feuer are common in my grandfather's family. My great grandmother was an Amsterdam, also named Chava, and my great grandfather was a Feuer. They, my great grandparents were first cousins. There was so much intermarriage between these two families!
I have the names of all my great great grandparents and their siblings. And, although I have the names of my three times great grandparents, I do not know the names of their siblings. I am sure, however, that Hirsh Tzvi Feuer and Dvora Amsterdam's parents are among those names. Shalom identifies himself as a relative in these testimonies. Also he indicates that Hirsh was a farmer, and my great grandparents and their families were farmers in Trzciana.
Tzvi was born in 1895 and his wife, Dvora, in 1908, which make them contemporaries of my grandparents who were born in 1900 and 1906. I would assume that my grandfather knew them when he was a child. They lived before the war in Wola Mielecka, Poland, but they lived during the war in Trzciana, Poland, my grandfather's home town. Wola Mielecka was close by, all the surrounding areas to the town of Mielec, Poland.
Tzvi and Hava had three children who perished. Lea Feuer who was 4. Obviously named for her grandmother. Chava Feuer, age 6, named for the other grandmother. Then the third child, Eliezer, an infant, named for his grandfather.
I hope there are other children who survived. Who were older. Hirsh Tzvi was 47 when he was murdered. Dvora was 34. I hope there could have been several children in their early teens? Perhaps I am doing wishful thinking. But in my heart, I want them to have been survived by someone besides Shalom Hollander. I do not want this entire family to have perished.
But like the family of Shalom Hollander, there is a possibility that they were all murdered along with thousands of others when the Nazi's made the Mielec area Judenfrie. Of the almost 4000 Jewish residents of the Mielec area, only a few hundred survived.
Baruch Dayan HaEmet.
https://zicharonot.com/2018/06/07/the-sorrow-of-shalom-hollander/
https://zicharonot.com/2018/06/05/murdered-in-belzec/
Tags: Mielec, Poland, Shoah, Trzciana, Wola Mielecka
Categories Anti-semitism, Family, Genealogy, Holocaust, Uncategorized


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North Korea's Surprising Christian Heritage and Destiny
Many Christians would be surprised to learn that North Korea – the world's undisputed top persecutor of its own Christian population – was once the centre of sweeping revivals. Even more surprising to many would be the fact that the ruling Kim dynasty came from a devout Christian family.
What went wrong and how can we pray for North Korea at this time of increasing tensions? Is there hope for the long oppressed people of North Korea?
Watch the Youtube version of this article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGbYSIej_zA
Pyongyang – the Jerusalem of the East
The city of Pyongyang is today synonymous with the tyrannical nuclear-tipped regime of Kim Jong-Un. However if we were to wind back the clock 100 years, we would see a very different city. After the first Presbyterian mission opened in Pyongyang in 1895, revival movements rapidly brought in many converts. These waves of revival culminated in the 'Great Pyongyang Revival' of 1907 which spread out from the city and touched the whole nation of Korea. The fruit of the revival was that by 1910, Pyongyang was the most Christianised area of Korea - boasting over 60'000 Christians in the Presbyterian Church alone! Christian activity was such a prominent feature that postcards from those days featured pictures of Christian street evangelists in action rather than the more traditional postcard pictures of scenic sites.
By the time of the Communist take-over in 1948, there were 2000 churches throughout Korea and they were predominantly located in the North. Pyongyang itself was known as a bustling head-quarter of missionary activity and was affectionately called the 'Jerusalem of the East'.
The Christian Heritage of the Kim Dynasty
According to the outstanding book 'Back to the Jerusalem of the East' by Eugene Bach and Luther Martin, many of the original ruling elite of communist North Korea were in fact from Christian families or received a Christian education.
Even more startling is the fact that Kim Il-Sung – the founder and supreme leader of North Korea who ruled for 46 years – came from a devout Christian family. According to Kim's official biography, his grandfather was a minister and his parents served as elders in a Presbyterian church. The young Kim grew up in church, and it is even reported that he was an accomplished organist!
How did Kim Il-Sung turn so radically against the Christian faith of his parents? According to Bach and Martin, the young Kim observed with resentment the high living standards of the western missionaries while the average Korean struggled to put food on the table. The apparent apathy of western missionaries to the Japanese invasion, and their possible ties with the wealthy and oppressive landlords were also issues triggering resentment.
Another pivotal event in Kim's life was his family's forced exile in China due to his father being blacklisted by the Japanese authorities. Sadly they were not safe in China either, and one day Japanese soldiers snatched Kim's father. Local Christians prayed fervently and passionately for his release, but he never returned. No doubt this event would have marked the young Kim and sown seeds in him leading to his complete rejection of Christianity.
Kim later became a rebel leader fighting against the Japanese, and was installed by the Russians as the leader of Korea after the defeat of the Japanese armies.
Pyongyang's status as the Jerusalem of the East came to a close with the establishment of the 'Democratic People's Republic of Korea' under Kim Il-Sung in 1948 and the subsequent rapid closure and confiscation of church properties.
Kim Il-Sung's repudiation of his Christian heritage and ruthless persecution of Christianity forms a horrific part of Korea's history. As his son and now grandson continue in his footsteps, millions of Koreans are suffering from Kim's fateful decision to turn away from the God of his fathers.
Did Kim Il-Sung entirely forget his Christian heritage?
In Christian circles, bible study groups, worship songs and confession of sins are important in the development of strong committed disciples. Even though Kim turned his back on Christianity, it appears that his regime chose to use surprisingly similar methods to unite the people around their 'dear leader'. These practices include regular breaks at work to study the writings of Kim Il-Sung in small groups, the singing of songs to the 'dear leader' and even the confession of 'sins' in weekly confessionals. Perhaps some of these corrupted practices are the secret to the enduring strength of the North Korean dictatorship?
Furthermore, Kim Il-Sung is revered as a god, and his son as 'the son of god' – obscenely mirroring Christian theology. Founding father Kim Il Sung is even believed by many to be god in the flesh and the creator of the earth! The words of North Korean blogger 'Juche girl' give insight into a Christ-like perception of their leader. She writes 'Dear Leader can make the handicap walk and the blind to see'. Sounds like a twisted version of a Sunday School song!
While one report suggested that Kim Il-Sung later in life once agreed to pray with a doctor before a major operation, there is sadly no evidence to suggest that he had any real change of heart or returned to the God of his fathers.
Hope for the Future of North Korea
It would seem that there has been a systematic satanic attempt to destroy the Christian heritage of North Korea. Perhaps God has a special destiny for this nation that the enemy has tried to thwart?
According to Open Doors there are today an estimated 300'000 believers in North Korea. This is an extraordinarily high number considering the high price these believers may end up paying for their faith. The calibre of these Christians who are willing to stand in the fire of persecution is to me a great sign of hope for the future of Korea.
I believe there is great hope for a future revival in North Korea – and I base these hopes on the very similar history of the Chinese Church in the lead up to the great revivals in the late 70's and 80's. Prior to that time Chairman Mao was practically worshipped as the great saviour of China – and Christians went through vicious persecution to the point of the church being thought to have become extinct. However, as a result of the widespread tumult and havoc wreaked by Mao and also as a result of his death in 1976, millions of Chinese lost faith in their once great leader. This experience and the fall of their great leader produced fertile soil in millions of Chinese hearts for what would become possibly the greatest revival of the 20th Century. This revival was led by ordinary Chinese believers – many of whom had stood firm during the darkest night of persecution.
Could the same happen to North Korea? Could a tumultuous removal of the Kim dynasty lead millions of North Koreans to turn away from worshipping this false god? Like in China, could this revival be headed up by North Korean believers who have been through the purifying fire of persecution? Can Pyongyang once again be the epicentre of a tremendous revival to have an impact even the borders of North Korea? Perhaps this is the reason why the enemy has tried to hold North Korea in the iron-grip of the Kim dynasty for so long.
A Call to Prayer
In these days of escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula, let us remember to pray for the North Korean people. Let us pray for a change in the North Korean leadership and an opening of the borders to the Gospel. May the Christian heritage of the nation be restored and may Pyongyang once again be known as the 'Jerusalem of the East'!
"Back to the Jerusalem of the East", by Eugene Bach and Luther Martin
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Two Compounds Discovered that Pave the Way for New Class of AIDS Drug
IBM World Community Grid's Computing Strength Powers Breakthrough Research that will Guide their Development
La Jolla, Calif.	- 02 Mar 2010: A team of researchers at the renowned Scripps Research Institute has discovered two new compounds that prove the existence of new binding sites on HIV protease. Associate Professor C. David Stout, senior author of the study, explained "These results open the door to a whole new approach to drug design against HIV protease," which is an enzyme used by HIV to create new, infectious viral particles.
According to the World Health Organization, about 33 million people currently live with HIV infections. Several drugs used to treat AIDS inhibit this HIV protease target, but drug-resistant mutants that impede the effectiveness of these drugs keep appearing and getting worse.
Two members of the FightAIDS@Home team, Research Associate Alex L. Perryman, Ph.D., and Professor Arthur J. Olson, were part of this innovative research and are now working to extend it. This experimental breakthrough will serve as the basis for new drug development to combat the increasing number of drug-resistant HIV strains and to improve the potency of current drug therapies. The results form the groundwork for a new class of more powerful treatments to fight HIV/AIDS. The findings appear as the March cover story in the journal Chemical Biology and Drug Design.
Utilizing computing power from 1.5 million devices networked through IBM's World Community Grid, the new sites on the HIV protease are being used as docking targets for virtual screening experiments, in order to guide the development of these chemical compounds into a new class of potent HIV inhibitors. Using the massive computational resources of the World Community Grid, the FightAIDS@Home team has already docked over 500,000 compounds against these newly characterized binding sites.
By aggregating the unused cycle time of 1.5 million personal computers donated by volunteers in over 80 countries, World Community Grid is now the world's largest public humanitarian grid, equivalent in power to a Top 15 supercomputer, and crunched more than 107,000 years of computational time in just 5 years for the Scripps Research Institute project, providing more than 104 million calculations.
"IBM's World Community Grid and its volunteers help us run millions of computations to evaluate the potential interactions between compounds and mutant viral proteins," said Dr. Arthur J. Olson, Anderson Research Chair Professor, Department of Molecular Biology at The Scripps Research Institute. "Through this effort we were able to significantly speed up our investigation. Without the computational power of World Community Grid, it would have taken us many more years to get to this important step in our research."
Once the HIV virus enters a human cell, it uses a small set of proteins called enzymes to force the cell to produce many new copies of itself, which then go on to infect other cells. Most HIV drugs work by blocking the operation of one or more of these enzymes. In the current work, the Scripps researchers are looking for new compounds that will stabilize the inhibited conformation, or shape, of the HIV protease enzyme, and thus help stop the virus from replicating. Because HIV mutates so frequently, some drugs that inhibit the enzyme from replicating are no longer working, or are not working as effectively. By running calculations on the World Community Grid FightAIDS@Home project, the team at Scripps is trying to develop new drugs that bind to more parts of the mutant enzyme, thereby shutting it down more effectively.
World Community Grid speeds up humanitarian research by providing scientists with millions of dollars of supercomputer power, for free, that would otherwise not be available to them.
In a second paper recently published in the Journal of Molecular Biology, the Scripps team has used computational modeling to improve understanding of another HIV enzyme and key drug target - integrase. Integrase, along with protease and a third enzyme, reverse-transcriptase, is one of three key proteins that allow the HIV virus to take over the cellular machinery of the host cell and replicate itself. By producing a more accurate model of integrase, the research allows further searches for new drug molecules that will inhibit the mutant drug resistant forms of this enzyme, as well. The Scripps team was recently awarded government stimulus funding as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to advance their new project against HIV integrase.
"The volunteers around the world who donate their computer time have helped usher in a potentially new class of drugs that may save lives and increase the quality of life for people living with HIV," said Dr. Joseph Jasinski, Distinguished Engineer and Program Director of IBM's Healthcare and Lifesciences Institute. "World Community Grid enables a smarter way to conduct promising research by providing unprecedented computing power to projects that might not be positioned to make a difference in the world without access to a free supercomputer."
The FightAIDS@home project will continue to run calculations to further this research against drug-resistant mutant "superbugs" of HIV.
"In the fight against HIV/AIDS it is important to remind people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done," said Joe Solmonese, President of the Human Rights Campaign. "World Community Grid is one way to get involved and makes it easy to contribute to this important research in a meaningful and effective way."
To donate your computer cycle time to humanitarian research covering areas from cancer to more nutritious rice to more efficient energy sources, please visit: www.worldcommunitygrid.org. From this site you can install a small, safe, and secure program that will connect you to the grid. When your computer is idle, data is requested from World Community Grid's server to perform a computation. Once finished, the result is sent back to the server, prompting it for a new piece of work. It is not necessary to leave a computer on more than usual and we encourage members to continue their normal routines. We can harvest substantial computational power during a normal work day just by taking advantage of the time when someone is on the phone, talking with colleagues, taking a coffee break or doing simple tasks that don't require the full power of the computer.
Other projects running on World Community Grid have produced results including:
The Help Defeat Cancer project proved their more accurate technique for identifying cancer and received a $2.5 million grant from NIH to further deploy its system.
Discovering Dengue Drugs Together project has identified potential antiviral compounds and is continuing with laboratory work on those.
Nutritious Rice for the World project has already returned 12 million transactions and 11,000 years of compute time.
Note to registered journalists and bloggers: View and download a video news release and b-roll. All materials are in broadcast and in streaming quality. You can register online. Please go to: http://www.thenewsmarket.com/ibmworldcommunitygrid
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Russia´s Ukraine attack worries 45% Finns about Finland´s security
A total of 45 per cent of the Finns were concerned about the effects of the crisis in Ukraine on Finland's security while about 58 per cent were concerned about its impact on the economy, according to a survey report.
The Citizens' Pulse survey commissioned by the government showed stress and concerns about Finland's security and economy brought on by the crisis in Ukraine, said a government press release on Friday.
The 33rd round of the survey was moved up by two weeks and the questions were modified to take into account the current situation.
Almost half of respondents – 48 per cent – were very concerned or fairly concerned that the war could escalate further.
The survey showed an increase in stress, especially among 15–29-year-olds and 60–74-year-olds. Citizens' sense of crisis is now at a similar level to where it was at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and when the Omicron variant became the dominant strain of the virus.
Trust in the government, political parties and the media has increased significantly, by about 10 percentage points since the previous survey.
The majority of citizens are strongly in favour of supporting Ukraine. Nearly 90 per cent of the respondents approve of the economic sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia, even if they may have significant detrimental effects on Finland.
Similarly, almost 85 per cent of Finns would be prepared to receive a considerable number of Ukrainian refugees, if necessary.
Just over half of the respondents expressed the need for more information on how to prepare for a crisis or incident and how to help those affected by it.
Around half of the respondents felt that they were at least somewhat inadequately prepared for a crisis. Almost nine out of ten respondents would be prepared to do volunteer work in the event of a crisis if asked to do so by the authorities.
At the same time, concern about COVID-19 has dropped to its lowest level since the start of the pandemic, and compliance with health security measures has clearly declined.
Satisfaction with the authorities' COVID-19 communications has increased considerably, from 48 to 58 per cent.
Around half of the respondents would get a fourth vaccine if the health authorities recommended it.
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Ballot traceability provides an audit trail: a set of ballots can be proven to be exactly identical to a set cast and collected in a public setting open to all who wish to watch over the election. If a ballot box goes on a truck and comes off with more, fewer, or altered ballots, the proof used to identify the ballot set will not match up.
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FMS DocumentationAudience Display ConfigurationSettings
Details the options available through the configuration and setting panels within the Audience Display software.
Accessing Settings
To access the settings panel, with the Audience Display open and running (see About) use the hotkey combination of CTRL-SHIFT-F12 (or, alternatively, CTRL-SHIFT-C). This will trigger the upper portion of the Audience Display (or Lower, depending on the Vertical Position setting) to flip to the settings pane as shown in the graphic.
To close the settings panel, either click the 'Save Changes' button (saves changes and closes) or the 'Cancel' button (does not save changes and closes). Note that hitting 'Cancel' will not undo any adjustments you may have made to the position of the window on the screen.
Video Background Style
The 'Video Background Style' option has two choices:
Chroma Background
Ranking Display
This selection will control the behavior of the upper "two thirds" of the screen in the "Video Only" and "Video and Score" modes.
Chroma Background:
Show the selected color in the area, to be keyed (or cut) out and replaced with live event video from a camera or production feed. (The actually "keying" process and mixing of video would need to be done through external software, not through FMS/Audience Display)
Ranking Display:
Removes the background screen color (Chroma) and shows a ranking screen show 8 team rankings at a time. The list automatically scrolls through all the possible teams at the event, in rank order. Teams must have played one or more qualification matches to be included in the listings. Updates to the qualification rankings via out-of-band processes (such as Match Review) will not update the rankings if the rankings are shown during the update process; to update rankings, the Video Switch must be used to select another view (such as "Background") and then reload the desired view ("Video Only" or "Video and Score").During Playoff matches, the rankings are replaced with the playoff bracket to show progression through the tournament phase.
Background Screen Color
The Background Screen Color dropdown allows selection of the color which will be used for 'Chroma' process described previously. In the "Video Only" and "Video and Score" modes, the Chroma color is overlayed in the top "two thirds" of the screen to allow for video overlay. The Background Screen Color is not used if the "Video Background Style" is set to "Ranking Display" (the Background Screen Color would be hidden in this case).
In addition to the available colors in the dropdown, a specific RGB value can be specified via the "Advanced" button on the bottom. Occasionally, a production company or video software will specify a color to be used for the keying process most accurately. If no specific requests are made, the default value of "Fuchsia" or alternate of "LawnGreen" should be sufficient.
Real-Time Score Type
Careful consideration should be used before changing these options as they can cause confusion for audience members who are "use to" a traditional layout from year to year. For official FRC Events, if in doubt, please contact your Engineering support contact.
The default option of "Full Width" is the more traditional score bar that takes up the full bottom third or so of the audience display. The alternate view, Center Third, is for use on webcast versions as arranged with FIRST HQ and provides an alternate view of the data in a more compact, centered display.
Real-Time Orientation
Careful consideration should be used before changing these options, and they may cause confusion for audience members who are "use to" a traditional layout from year to year. For official FRC Events, if in doubt, please contact your Engineering support contact.
[Above Red Line] The horizontal orientation of the real-time scoring screen can be modified through settings to select whether the red alliance is on the left, or the right, side of the screen. At a traditional FRC Event and setup, the red alliance is setup to the right side when sitting at the scoring table. As such, a projection screen mounted above the scoring table (viewed by the audience sitting across from it) would see the red alliance on the left side when viewing the field. However, some situations (such as webcasting) display the view of the field from the same side as the scoring table. In these situations, the horizontal orientation could be flipped so that the display will properly align overlayed elements with those seen on the live video feed.
[Below Red Line] The vertical orientation allows for flipping of the "Video and Score" panel from the bottom of the Audience Display to the top. This is useful in situations where the venue has obstructed views, there is conflicting light, or it's more convenient for spectators. The only display affected by this setting is "Video and Score"- all others continue to behave the same way as they normally would.
FIRST Championship Specific
Some configuration options are specific to the FIRST Championship. Please do not adjust these settings at any events except under the direction of FRC Support.
Using the third "bar" of the settings panel sounds can be force played to test the connection with the audio/video group. Depending on the season, one or more buttons may not trigger a sound to be played (2015 did not use "Warning #2" for example). Each sound plays once upon click. Additional game-specific sounds may also be present for testing as well.
Resolution and Positioning
[Resolutions] Audience Display is compatible with three (3) resolutions- 1024x768 (3:4 aspect ratio) and 1920x1080 / 1280x720 (16:9 aspect ratio). The resolution can be adjusted using the radio buttons, and takes effect upon clicking the "Save Changes" button. There are slight differences between the display of data in the various resolutions- but the critical game data remains the same.
[Positioning] To quickly position the Audience Display on the monitor, either click the "Center on Screen" button or "Hold and drag" on the designated area to manually adjust the placement on the screen. You can also alternatively hold CTRL-SHIFT and CLICK-DRAG the mouse on the window to drag the window around.
To precisely position the Audience Display on the monitor (version 3.25 or higher), you can also use CTRL-ARROW, SHIFT-ARROW, or CTRL-SHIFT-ARROW to move the display in the direction of the arrow. Each subsequent modifier (CTRL, SHIFT, CTRL-SHIFT) adjusts the display in the direction of the arrow key pressed a different incremental amount.
To precisely throw the audience display to another screen (centered) in one keystroke, use the CTRL-SHIFT-1, CTRL-SHIFT-2, and CTRL-SHIFT-3 keyboard shortcuts. These shortcuts will throw the Audience Display to Display 1, Display 2, and Display 3 as defined by Windows, respectively, and centered within the display.
Control Bar
On the bottom of the settings pane is the control bar. On the left is the version of the Audience Display software (which must match FMS, see Installation). On the right are options to Restore Defaults (return the Audience Display to it's "out of the box" settings, colors, etc), Save Changes (save any changes made and close settings) and Cancel (don't save any changes, and close the settings panel). Note that "Cancel" does not undo any positioning changes made, either through centering or manual adjustments. Also to the right of the Version information is the "Check for Updates" button, which checks the LOCAL FMS installation for updates to the Audience Display application. This DOES NOT look for updates on the Web. You must update FMS before using this "Check for Updates" button.
Animation Rendering Optimization
One of the features added to Version 7.x of the Audience Displays is the ability to change the Rendering Optimization. There are two options, one is a "Minimize CPU Utilization" option and the other allows Window Capturing. Unless using vMix, OBS, or other tools to capture the Audience Display window using software on the local computer running the Audience Display software, you should be using the "Minimize CPU Utilization" option as the "Allow Window Capture" option uses a lot of CPU resources and will result in choppy video if those resources are not present. If using the Minimal CPU option and using vMix or OBS to capture the Audience Display window, the animations will not capture in vMix or OBS. Don't say I didn't warn you.
The Audience Display has a Jump Menu, accessible by right-clicking the Audience Display icon in the Taskbar. The Jump menu provides additional functionality not accessible anywhere else in the Audience Display. The Jump Menu may not be enabled if you're using Windows 10 Home Edition (a quick Google search on "Enable Jump Lists on Windows 10 Home" can help locate instructions), Ask HQ Support for help if you need additional help using the Jump Menu.
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Q: How to get the Twitter follower count of a user on a given date, or at the time of a tweet? I have access to Twitter API for Academic Research, and I'd like to get the follower count on a given date of a user, or at the time of a tweet.
The doc mentions that "This fields parameter enables you to select which specific user fields will deliver in each returned Tweet.", so I assumed that by adding public_metrics to the users.field, the number of followers can be seen in each returned Tweet, however, in each returned Tweet, I can only see user_id. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/tweets/search/api-reference.
Is it even possible to achieve what I want with Twitter API for Academic Research? Is there any other approach to make it?
Thank you so much.

A: You cannot get the follower count on a specific date; it will always be the count at the time you make the API call.
You may need to add expansions to your API call in order to receive the values you are trying to pull out.

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Q: Show ACF field based on time range on WooCommerce single product page I'm trying to show a text ACF on WooCommerce single product page. Based on time range.
This is the code, which I am currently using:
function time_promo() {
    // Set the correct time zone  (http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php)
    date_default_timezone_set( 'Europe/Brussels' );

    // Set the start time and the end time
    $start_time = mktime( 06, 00, 00, date( 'm' ), date( 'd' ), date( 'y' ) );
    $end_time   = mktime( 15, 00, 00, date( 'm' ), date( 'd' ), date( 'y' ) );
    $time_now   = strtotime( 'now' );

    // Check time
    if ($time_now >= $start_time && $time_now <= $end_time){

        // Show Field
        echo '
'.get_field('promo').'
';
    }
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', 'time_promo' );

However, this does not show anything on the single product page. Someone who can tell me where the mistake is?

A: This will work, and if it doesn't, you will see the reason why.
Adjust to your needs:
function action_woocommerce_single_product_summary() {
    // Set the correct time zone  (http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php)
    date_default_timezone_set( 'Europe/Brussels' );

    // Set the start time and the end time
    $start_time = mktime( 06, 00, 00, date( 'm' ), date( 'd' ), date( 'y' ) );
    $end_time   = mktime( 21, 00, 00, date( 'm' ), date( 'd' ), date( 'y' ) );
    $time_now   = strtotime( 'now' );

    // Check time
    if ( $time_now >= $start_time && $time_now <= $end_time ) {

        // ACF plugin is active
        if ( class_exists('ACF') ) {
            // Get field
            $promo = get_field('promo');

            // Check if value exists
            if ( $promo ) {
                // Show Field
                echo '
' . $promo . '
';
            } else {
                echo '
ACF field not found!
';
            }
        } else {
            echo '
ACF does not exist!
';
        }
    } else {
        echo '
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';
    }
}
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Q: Term aggregation on filtered array items I want to aggregate on term that are inside an array but I am only interested in some of the array item. I made up a simplified example. Basically I want to aggregate on Type.string if Type.field is valid.
POST so/question
{
  "Type": [
    [
      {
        "field": "invalid",
        "string": "A"
      }
    ],
    [
      {
        "field": "valid",
        "string": "B"
      }
    ]
  ]
}

GET /so/_search
{
  "size": 0,
  "aggs": {
    "xxx": {
      "filter": {
        "term": {
          "Type.field": "valid"
        }
      },
      "aggs": {
        "yyy": {
          "terms": {
            "field": "Type.string.keyword",
            "min_doc_count": 0
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

The agregation result has 2 keys whereas I only need the "B" key.
"aggregations": {
  "xxx": {
    "doc_count": 1,
    "yyy": {
      "doc_count_error_upper_bound": 0,
      "sum_other_doc_count": 0,
      "buckets": [
        {
          "key": "A",
          "doc_count": 1
        },
        {
          "key": "B",
          "doc_count": 1
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Is there a way to aggregate on array items which match the filter?
Unfortunately I can't change the data format which would be the obvious solution.

A: Unless, the documents are of Nested Type, I don't think its possible with simple array types because of the way Elasticsearch Flattens the objects and stores them.
Querying anything on these flattened objects will give you completely unexpected results.
Now I've come up with the below query, making use of Terms Aggregation using Script works perfectly fine for the document you've mentioned in the question
POST so/_search
{

  "size": 0,
  "aggs": {
    "xxx": {
      "filter": {
        "term": {
          "Type.field": "valid"
        }
      },
      "aggs": {
        "yyy": {
          "terms": {
            "script": {
              "source": """
                  int size = doc['Type.string.keyword'].values.length;
                  for(int i=0; i<size; i++){
                    String myString = doc['Type.string.keyword'][i];
                    if(myString.equals("B") && doc['Type.field.keyword'][i].equals("valid")){
                      return myString;
                    }
                  }""",
              "lang": "painless"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

However if you ingest the below document, you see that the aggregation response would be completely different. That is because, array types doesn't store each Type.field value and Type.string value in an ith location in their respective arrays.
POST so/question/2
{
  "Type": [
    [
      {
        "field": "valid",
        "string": "A"
      }
    ],
    [
      {
        "field": "invalid",
        "string": "B"
      }
    ]
  ]
}

Notice even the below simple Bool query wouldn't work as expected and ends up displaying both the documents.
POST so/_search
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [
        { "match": { "Type.field.keyword": "valid" }},
        { "match": { "Type.string.keyword": "B" }}
      ]
    }
  }
}

Hope it helps!


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How Jeff Bezos influenced African e-commerce
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Amazon doesn't have any e-commerce facilities in Africa, but Bezos' influence can still be felt.
From our Field Guide
Jeff Bezos's legacy
As Jeff Bezos steps down as Amazon CEO later this year, we reckon with his complicated legacy.
By Jackie Bischof, Tolu Olasoji & Carlos Mureithi
Published February 26, 2021 Last updated on May 3, 2021
Compared to other regions, Amazon's physical presence in Africa is limited. And yet at the same time, Amazon is everywhere.
The company has not rolled out its e-commerce platform in Africa, although consumers in 17 African countries can order Amazon items to be shipped internationally. Still, Amazon.com is one of the most visited e-commerce sites in South Africa, according to the International Trade Administration. Amazon's web services arm had its genesis in Cape Town. Prime Video is one of the continent's most popular streaming services. And Jeff Bezos, who announced on Feb. 2 that he was stepping down as CEO of the company after its first $100 billion quarter, has had a significant influence on African entrepreneurs and startups.
Quartz Africa reached out to a number of leaders in the e-commerce space to understand the legacy Jeff Bezos, and Amazon under his stewardship, have left in Africa.


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J. ZUPO singled to left field.
P. MCGEE flied out to rf.
R. LEONE reached on an error by 1b.
N. CHILSON grounded into double play ss to 2b to 1b; R. LEONE out on the play.
M. FELTON struck out swinging.
M. GRAVES grounded out to c unassisted, bunt.
S. MCGLYNN singled through the right side.
S. MCGLYNN out at second p to 1b to ss, caught stealing, picked off.
M. MULLINS grounded out to 3b.
J. TROELSTRA grounded out to 2b.
P. TAMMARO singled through the left side.
R. ENOS popped up to 2b.
DEBERARDINIS popped up to ss.
J. ZINKO flied out to cf.
J. LEZETTE struck out swinging.
L. OLSSON reached on an error by 2b.
B. NICHOLSON grounded out to p; L. OLSSON advanced to second.
R. LEONE out at first p to 2b to 1b; L. OLSSON advanced to third.
M. FELTON lined out to lf.
J. ZUPO flied out to rf.
M. GRAVES advanced to second on a balk.
M. MULLINS lined out to p.
P. TAMMARO fouled out to 1b.
DELLICARRI grounded out to 2b.
D. LAMONICA struck out looking.
J. ZINKO struck out swinging.
L. OLSSON lined out to lf.
B. NICHOLSON grounded out to ss.
R. LEONE doubled to right field.
N. CHILSON grounded out to 3b.
B. LAVENTURE pinch hit for J. LEZETTE.
B. LAVENTURE struck out swinging, out at first c to 1b.
J. ZUPO struck out swinging, out at first c to 1b.
M. GRAVES singled to center field; P. MCGEE advanced to second.
S. MCGLYNN grounded out to p.
C. SAITCH to rf for B. LAVENTURE.
J. TROELSTRA out at first p to 2b, bunt, SAC; M. FELTON advanced to third.
M. FELTON scored on a wild pitch.


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ORLANDO. DAS SCHLOSS (2012/2013)
Opera in one act for six voices, mixed choir, electronics and orchestra
Libretto by Alexander Stockinger
orchestra: 3*.2*.3*.2*/4.3.2.1/ 2perc/arp*/pno/cel/cemb*/7.6.5.4.3
vocal soloists: 2S/A/T/Br/B
choir: SSATB
première: June 15, 2013, Theater Bielefeld, Germany
Conducted by Aurelien Bello
Project in cooperation with Akademie Musiktheater heute der Deutsche Bank Stiftung
Commissioned by Deutsche Bank Stiftung and Theater Bielefeld
ORLANDO. DAS SCHLOSS
score preview
(excerpt)
June 13, 2013 (dress rehearsal)
Theater Bielefeld, conducted by Aurelien Bello
https://vitozuraj.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Zuraj-Orlando-excerpt.mp3
June 19 & 22, July 5 & 7 & 14, 2013, Theater Bielefeld, Germany
ORLANDO. DAS SCHLOSS: Highlights
Theater Bielefeld
ORLANDO. DAS SCHLOSS: Full recording
Composed as part of a triptych of operas by different composers to celebrate the 2010 – 2012 edition of Deutsche Bank's Akademie Musiktheater heute (Academy of Contemporary Music Theatre), ORLANDO. DAS SCHLOSS ("Orlando: the Castle") is a criticism of consumerism and celebrity culture. Orlando, a shallow and materialistic lady from renaissance-period aristocracy, reflects on her place as a literary figure in today's world and comes up against Karl, the modern emperor, personification of consumerism, media spectacle and self-gratification.
The music to ORLANDO. DAS SCHLOSS is highly colourful. The vocal elements, consisting of the two main figures (Orlando, a soprano; Karl, a bass), as well a four-part solo chorus (each member doubling in minor solo roles) and a more conventional 10-voice chorus, are complemented by an orchestra with triple winds, a string section of chamber-orchestral dimensions, two percussionists and a veritable smorgasbord of keyboards. All of this is rounded off with the judicious application of electronic elements.
The relationships between the staged and vocal drama and the more abstract musical elements is colourful and complex, reflecting the relationships within the music itself. On one level, Žuraj sets great store on clarity of delivery in the text, and does not indulge in textual and phonetic deconstruction to turn the libretto into pure music. On the other hand, the libretto already contains abstract and fantastical phonetic elements (presented by the choruses) that have a musical life independent of dialogue and drama.
In addition to the dramatic and purely musical aspects within the vocal parts, the two protagonists play percussion instruments. Karl plays a spring drum, Orlando a microtonal kalimba, thus creating a bridge between the staged elements of the work in the workings of the orchestra. All of the techniques employed by Žuraj in the years leading up to Orlando are on full display. Shimmering, microtonal harmonies are distributed across the orchestra in rhythmic constellations that see the orchestra function as a single instrument which can diverge into multiple ensembles or groups of soloists and back again seamlessly. Just as the vocal and instrumental elements are linked by placing instruments in the hands of the singers, the keyboard and percussion are integrated into the ranks of the melody instruments (especially the strings) by Žuraj's distinctive use of microtonal kalimba, cimbalo cromatico and clavichord (both tuned in quarter-tones), and a harp tuned a quarter-tone flatter than the piano. Naturally, all of this is assembled according to Žuraj's mix of algorithmic and spontaneous compositional methods.
Alwyn Tomas Westbrooke
Composed as part of a triptych of operas by different composers to celebrate the 2010 – 2012 edition of Deutsche Bank's Akademie Musiktheater heute (Academy of Contemporary Music Theatre), ORLANDO. DAS SCHLOSS (ORLANDO. THE CASTLE) is a criticism of consumerism and celebrity culture. Orlando, a shallow and materialistic lady from renaissance-period aristocracy, reflects on her place as a literary figure in today's world and comes up against Karl, the modern emperor, personification of consumerism, media spectacle and self-gratification.


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Q: Equivalent command in bash fails? So, this code works:
unzip $1 'CSE-5500_Computer_Science_Seminar_-_Menezes_(CSE-5500_FA11_Menezes-001)_2011_Fall_files/presentation.xml'

But this code does not:
main="CSE-5500_Computer_Science_Seminar_-_Menezes_(CSE-5500_FA11_Menezes-001)_2011_Fall_files/presentation.xml"
unzip $1 \'$main\'

Many variations on this fail as well... why?
It is remarkably confusing, and I'd like a solution to it

A: Try unzip $1 "$main"
The way you're doing it has too many quotes.
In the top version:
The single quotes prevent bash from trying to interpret the argument itself, but are stripped so that unzip is passed the string without any quotes.
In the second case:

*

*If you don't quote the argument, bash will try to interpret the parentheses in $main causing errors.

*If you escape the quotes, bash will again try and interpret the parentheses.

*If you single quote the argument, bash won't do variable expansion and unzip will be passed the literal string "$main" as its second argument.

*If you double quote the argument, everything will be just right.


How can I use GestureRecognizer in a Xaml based app?
I'm trying to retrieve info from input on a rectangle using GestureRecognizer responding to the PointerPressed event. When the user taps on it, the textblock shows information. However, I failed to get any info after following the code samples. There was no response and through debugging, I found the tapped event was not responded to.
in the header of the class.
Why there was no info when I tapped the rectangle? Do I lack of something in the code?
You need to pass the PointerMoved and PointerReleased events to the GestureRecognizer so it has full information to recognize the gestures.
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