refining

City fox

[Contenti un bip]

 

Cristina mi scrive.

 

e-mail #29.

 

Ancora un taxi driver a risolvere le situazioni della nostra vita.

Succede ieri, a strapparci dalla melassa dell'addio. Che poi melassa

non è, che poi addio non è. Vero? Ti ripeto quello che ho già avuto

modo di scriverti. Dell'addio io vedo lo strappo, e al diavolo tutte

le finte teorie psicosomatiche del dover essere contenti a tutti i

costi, perchè sono scelte volute, desiderate e ambite, tutto fatto

per ottenere the best of everything. Contenti un cazzo! ecco ho

scritto la mia parolaccia e sono venuta meno alla regola che per

scrivere (bene o male) non è necessario cadere nella volgarita

(anche questa senza accento). Lasciami questo momento, queste battute

per essere insanamente teatrale. Facciamo le fighe, è per forza una

cosa WOW, in fondo un pezzo del tuo cuore va solo dall'altra parte

del mondo, ma c'è skype, ci sono le email, ci sono i bastimenti che

portano le lettere e i mailboxes, le ordinazioni dei jeans e delle

altre cose cool che non si trovano in Italia, proprio come gli

emigranti di 50 anni fa e ci sono nove ore di fuso orario a rallentare e dilatare la vita.

Contente a tutti i costi, abbiamo già un viaggio da organizzare.

Ti dicevo l'altro giorno che forse la differenza tra essere single e

essere sposati sta nel rapporto con le tue amiche. Da single ci parli,

da sposata gli comunichi delle cose e le tue amiche non possono far

altro che ascoltare decisioni tutte già prese. Ale, ti chiedo

solo di non lasciarti sopraffare da tutto, perchè il confine tra il

coraggio della scelta e il subire gli eventi è labile.

Non lasciarti sopraffare dal mio melodramma, dalla distanza,

dall'Ammmmericccca, dalla microsoft, da Starbucks, dalla solitudine,

dalla paura, dal fuso orario, dalle serie dei telefilm senza

sottotitoli, dal thank'sgiving day e dal barbecue perchè resterai

sempre quella di Ostuni che si faceva svegliare alle otto per

continuare a dormire fino alle 12.00 e perché ...stai facendo la cosa

più giusta che potevi fare. Stai addentando la tua vita fino in fondo

e solo questo vale il rischio del pigiamone di acrilico che

indosserai per adeguarti ai costumi degli indigeni del luogo. Ti amo

amica mia

 

Ps se lo fai... il pigiamone di acrilico...dico... vengo là e............

  

Hoover Dam, Nevada, USA

January 17, 2016, 9:58 a.m.

 

10k Race Participants

 

per website: www.runottawa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Richmond-10K-...

 

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listed information below:

 

bib number (in order)

placing

time

pace per km

bib

name

residence

M/F

category

place in category

 

10k FEMALE RACERS

 

2…..52 1:00:23 6:02 2 Jetje Antonietti Ottawa F 60-69 3 of 12

 

11….10 0:47:32 4:45 11 Daphne Ballard Ottawa F 40-49 3 of 19

 

12….21 0:52:46 5:17 12 Vicki Bencze Ottawa F 40-49 5 of 19

 

20….43 0:57:07 5:43 20 Terri Bolster Ottawa F 60-69 1 of 12

 

23….18 0:52:10 5:13 23 Lucie Boudreau Gatineau F 50-59 6 of 34

 

25….60 1:02:26 6:15 25 Amelie Brouillard Duhamel-Ouest F 20-29

8 of 9

 

27….14 0:50:00 5:00 27 Karen Burns Orleans F 50-59 4 of 34

 

28….51 1:00:22 6:02 28 Laura Butler North Gower F 50-59 16 of 34

 

30….48 0:59:44 5:58 30 Anne-Marie Carter-Mcauslan Carleton Place F 60-69 2 of 12

 

37….3 0:43:09 4:19 37 Melanie Clement Kanata F 30-39 2 of 19

 

39….69 1:04:23 6:26 39 Peggy Cooke Carp F 50-59 23 of 34

 

45….65 1:03:25 6:20 45 Deena Desson Richmond F 50-59 20 of 34

 

47….47 0:59:26 5:57 47 Sheryl Dore Ottawa F 50-59 13 of 34

 

49….53 1:00:41 6:04 49 Stephanie Dunne Ottawa F 60-69 4 of 12

 

50….61 1:02:47 6:17 50 Robbie Duval Williamstown F 50-59 18 of 34

 

51….20 0:52:26 5:15 51 Sue Duval Alexandria F 50-59 7 of 34

 

53….13 0:49:58 5:00 53 Marigold Edwards Ottawa F 50-59 3 of 34

 

59….92 1:13:49 7:23 59 Cynthia Field-Rose Ottawa F 60-69 10 of 12

 

60….50 1:00:17 6:02 60 Ellyn Floyd Carp F 50-59 15 of 34

 

62….70 1:04:43 6:28 62 Sandy Fredette Ashton F 50-59 24 of 34

 

65….73 1:05:05 6:30 65 Zoe Frouin Ottawa F 50-59 27 of 34

 

66….37 0:56:25 5:39 66 Tammy Frye Kanata F 30-39 12 of 19

 

67….74 1:05:51 6:35 67 Tanya Frye Ottawa F 30-39 17 of 19

 

68….59 1:02:24 6:14 68 Lyson Gélinas Drummondville F 20-29 7 of 9

 

69….35 0:55:05 5:31 69 Christine Geraghty Ottawa F 30-39 11 of 19

 

73….88 1:09:39 6:58 73 Cheryl Gillies Richmond F 50-59 31 of 34

 

76….4 0:43:34 4:21 76 Stephanie Gordon Ottawa F 30-39 3 of 19

 

79….38 0:56:38 5:40 79 Tessa Grant Mallorytown F 20-29 3 of 9

 

81….67 1:03:39 6:22 81 Norma Green Richmond F 50-59 22 of 34

 

86….79 1:07:13 6:43 86 Heather Hamann Ottawa F 50-59 29 of 34

 

88….95 1:15:18 7:32 88 Emma Hamilton Ottawa F 14+Unr 1 of 1

 

89….87 1:09:09 6:55 89 Reta Hamilton Munster F 60-69 9 of 12

 

92….91 1:11:26 7:09 92 Sara Howse Kemptville F 30-39 19 of 19

 

93….39 0:56:43 5:40 93 Marysa Irvine Richmond F 40-49 13 of 19

 

98….89 1:09:44 6:58 98 Elizabeth Keighley Nepean F 50-59 32 of 34

 

99….2 0:41:48 4:11 99 Hunter Kelly Ottawa F 20-29 1 of 9

 

102…41 0:56:53 5:41 102 Taylor Kelly Ottawa F 20-29 4 of 9

 

103…68 1:04:10 6:25 103 Michelle Keough Ottawa F 40-49 16 of 19

 

104…45 0:58:27 5:51 104 Dawn Kiddell Lancaster F 50-59 12 of 34

 

107…8 0:46:16 4:38 107 Ingrid Koenig Ottawa F 40-49 2 of 19

 

108…77 1:06:20 6:38 108 Colleen Kohlsmith Kanata F 60-69 6 of 12

 

111…40 0:56:45 5:40 111 Sandra Lang Ottawa F 50-59 11 of 34

 

115…11 0:48:30 4:51 115 Heather Lewis Ottawa F 50-59 1 of 34

 

118…24 0:53:02 5:18 118 Keitha Lynch Richmond F 40-49 6 of 19

 

120…6 0:45:12 4:31 120 Katie Macaskill Kanata F 15-19 1 of 2

 

122…5 0:44:35 4:27 122 Kim Macaskill Kanata F 40-49 1 of 19

 

124…94 1:14:24 7:26 124 Sally Macinnis Merrickville F 60-69 11 of

12

 

125…25 0:53:06 5:19 125 Sandy Macleod Ottawa F 40-49 7 of 19

 

128…97 1:17:34 7:45 128 Donna Magher Williamstown F 60-69 12

of 12

 

129…1 0:39:48 3:59 129 Maureen Mahoney Ottawa F 30-39 1 of 19

 

134…63 1:02:57 6:18 134 Martina McGinn Ottawa F 70+Ov 1 of 1

 

137…54 1:00:42 6:04 137 Fanie Michaud Saint-Hyacinthe F 20-29 5 of 9

 

139…90 1:11:15 7:07 139 Sharon Moore Kanata F 50-59 33 of 34

 

141…86 1:08:16 6:50 141 Eileen Mortimer Ottawa F 60-69 8 of 12

 

143…84 1:07:50 6:47 143 Gabrielle Nadeau Ottawa F 50-59 30 of 34

 

146…9 0:46:35 4:40 146 Eryn O'Neil Ottawa F 30-39 5 of 19

 

149…42 0:57:01 5:42 149 Jennifer Parker Orleans F 40-49 14 of 19

 

152…72 1:05:03 6:30 152 Elaine Petrie Nepean F 50-59 26 of 34

 

153…7 0:45:46 4:35 153 Deidre Pollard Bussey Ottawa F 30-39 4 of 19

 

154…76 1:06:12 6:37 154 Jackie Poole Ottawa F 60-69 5 of 12

 

155…26 0:53:17 5:20 155 Eniko Popescu Ottawa F 40-49 8 of 19

 

158…44 0:57:19 5:44 158 Jennifer Rice Ottawa F 30-39 13 of 19

 

161…55 1:00:44 6:04 161 Sandra Roberts Gatineau F 50-59 17 of 34

 

162…58 1:01:38 6:10 162 Genevieve Robidoux Howick F 20-29 6 of 9

 

163…85 1:07:52 6:47 163 Marie-Claude Robillard Ottawa F 15-19 2 of 2

 

166…29 0:54:40 5:28 166 Jenn Ross Merrickville F 40-49 9 of 19

 

171…64 1:03:08 6:19 171 Michelle Ryan Ottawa F 30-39 16 of 19

 

172…28 0:54:36 5:28 172 Catherine Sainte-Marie Ottawa F 30-39 9 of 19

 

173…17 0:51:48 5:11 173 Claire Samson Ottawa F 50-59 5 of 34

 

177…56 1:01:15 6:08 177 Julia Scouten Richmond F 30-39 14 of 19

 

179…34 0:54:52 5:29 179 Janet Shepherd Mallorytown F 50-59 10 of 34

 

182…71 1:05:00 6:30 182 Laurie Shusterman Ottawa F 50-59 25 of 34

 

186…96 1:17:33 7:45 186 Brenda Smith Williamstown F 50-59 34 of 34

 

188…62 1:02:49 6:17 188 Cindy Southgate Kanata F 50-59 19 of 34

 

190…82 1:07:32 6:45 190 Arlene Steadman Kanata F 60-69 7 of 12

 

192…83 1:07:48 6:47 192 Amanda Strass Nepean F 20-29 9 of 9

 

193…15 0:50:54 5:05 193 Karen Svab Osgoode F 30-39 6 of 19

 

194…27 0:54:06 5:25 194 Stephanie Tait Kingston F 30-39 8 of 19

 

197…78 1:07:10 6:43 197 Brenda Tirrell Stittsville F 50-59 28 of 34

 

198…49 0:59:49 5:59 198 Darene Toal-Sullivan Kanata F 50-59 14 of 34

 

200…66 1:03:32 6:21 200 Suzann Townend Carleton Place F 50-59 21 of 34

 

203…93 1:14:21 7:26 203 Lori Urquhart Merrickville F 40-49 19 of 19

 

205…16 0:51:41 5:10 205 Elysia Van Zeyl Ottawa F 30-39 7 of 19

 

206…33 0:54:50 5:29 206 Jennifer Vincent Ottawa F 30-39 10 of 19

 

207…57 1:01:17 6:08 207 Susan Wallace Richmond F 30-39 15 of

19

 

209…19 0:52:20 5:14 209 Elodie Watson Merrickville F 40-49 4 of 19

 

211…23 0:52:51 5:17 211 Gillian Williamson Ottawa F 50-59 8 of 34

 

217…81 1:07:23 6:44 217 Jing Zhang Ottawa F 40-49 18 of 19

 

219…80 1:07:16 6:44 219 Kelly Wojnarksi Ottawa F 30-39 18 of 19

 

222…22 0:52:48 5:17 222 Stephanie Sothcott Ottawa F 20-29 2 of 9

 

224…30 0:54:43 5:28 224 Emilie Braisin Ottawa F 40-49 10 of 19

 

226…12 0:49:46 4:59 226 Louise Hamelin Ottawa F 50-59 2 of 34

 

228…32 0:54:48 5:29 228 Judy Curry Ottawa F 50-59 9 of 34

 

229…31 0:54:46 5:29 229 Kimberlie Schonewille Ottawa F 40-49 11 of 19

 

232…75 1:06:06 6:37 232 Karen Beutel Nepean F 40-49 17 of 19

 

233…46 0:59:16 5:56 233 Anelise Alarcon Ottawa F 40-49 15 of 19

 

457…36 0:55:20 5:32 457 Lara Winnemore Stittsville F 40-49 12 of 19

 

10k MALE RACERS

 

1…..72 0:52:39 5:16 1 Jim Allard Ottawa M 60-69 6 of 10

 

3…..69 0:52:21 5:14 3 Wally Archibald Metcalfe M 50-59 30 of 52

 

6…..86 0:54:38 5:28 6 Yves Arseneault Gatineau M 50-59 40 of 52

 

7…..66 0:51:46 5:11 7 Adam Ashton Nepean M 15-19 2 of 2

 

8…..44 0:47:47 4:47 8 Peter Ashton Nepean M 50-59 18 of 52

 

9…..101 0:59:17 5:56 9 Thomas Atkins Ottawa M 50-59 46 of 52

 

10….50 0:48:51 4:53 10 Rick Balderson Nepean M 50-59 21 of 52

 

13….56 0:49:48 4:59 13 Derek Bergmann Richmond M 30-39 10 of

19

 

14….15 0:41:36 4:10 14 Pascal Bessette Ottawa M 30-39 6 of 19

 

15….34 0:45:59 4:36 15 Michael Best Kanata M 50-59 11 of 52

 

16….113 1:03:42 6:22 16 Tony Bettino Ottawa M 50-59 51 of 52

 

18….3 0:37:11 3:43 18 Michael Blois Ottawa M 40-49 1 of 24

 

19….19 0:42:34 4:15 19 George Bodoni Ottawa M 50-59 6 of 52

 

21….22 0:43:52 4:23 21 Richard Borsos Ottawa M 60-69 2 of 10

 

22….47 0:48:03 4:48 22 Andrew Bouchier Ottawa M 50-59 19 of 52

 

24….33 0:45:43 4:34 24 Chris Bright Orleans M 40-49 6 of 24

 

26….7 0:39:19 3:56 26 Phil Brunet Ottawa M 30-39 3 of 19

 

29….106 0:59:46 5:59 29 Roch C0urcy Gatineau M 30-39 17 of 19

 

31….40 0:46:50 4:41 31 Clark Carvish Nepean M 50-59 15 of 52

 

32….54 0:49:39 4:58 32 Ben-Zion Caspi Ottawa M 60-69 4 of 10

 

33….91 0:55:47 5:35 33 Mike Champagne Ottawa M 50-59 43 of 52

 

34….111 1:02:44 6:16 34 Doug Arnold Richmond M 70-79 5 of 7

 

35….67 0:52:06 5:13 35 Mike Christie Nepean M 50-59 28 of 52

 

36….36 0:46:11 4:37 36 Sean Clancy Orleans M 50-59 13 of 52

 

38….18 0:42:27 4:15 38 Randy Cocek Nepean M 40-49 4 of 24

 

40….21 0:43:51 4:23 40 Gary Cooper Ottawa M 20-29 3 of 4

 

41….58 0:50:05 5:01 41 Robert Criger Ottawa M 50-59 24 of 52

 

43….4 0:37:26 3:45 43 David Dawson Ottawa M 30-39 2 of 19

 

44….35 0:46:09 4:37 44 Francois Deleseleuc Ottawa M 50-59 12 of

52

 

46….80 0:53:04 5:18 46 Kel Doig Ottawa M 50-59 38 of 52

 

48….37 0:46:18 4:38 48 Paul Doucette Kanata M 40-49 7 of 24

 

52….52 0:49:00 4:54 52 Bob Ebsary Rockland M 50-59 22 of 52

 

54….99 0:58:45 5:52 54 Joe Elliott Ottawa M 30-39 14 of 19

 

55….29 0:45:01 4:30 55 Costas Farassoglou Ottawa M 30-39 8 of

19

 

56….31 0:45:15 4:32 56 Savvas Farassoglou Ottawa M 30-39 9 of

19

 

57….92 0:55:58 5:36 57 Daniel Farrell Stittsville M 50-59 44 of 52

 

58….88 0:54:55 5:29 58 John Farrell Ottawa M 50-59 41 of 52

 

61….114 1:04:20 6:26 61 Chris Foran Kemptville M 40-49 23 of 24

 

63….103 0:59:27 5:57 63 Christopher Froggatt Perth M 40-49 21 of

24

 

64….104 0:59:28 5:57 64 Tom Froggatt Toronto M 50-59 47 of 52

 

71….64 0:51:13 5:07 71 Christian Giguère Ottawa M 50-59 26 of 52

 

72….43 0:47:15 4:44 72 Mike Giles Ottawa M 50-59 17 of 52

 

74….13 0:41:10 4:07 74 Patrick Girard Ottawa M 30-39 5 of 19

 

78….57 0:50:03 5:00 78 Ian Govan Kanata M 60-69 5 of 10

 

80….95 0:57:15 5:43 80 Dana Green Richmond M 60-69 9 of 10

 

82….63 0:50:58 5:06 82 Owen Gregory Ottawa M 40-49 14 of 24

 

83….117 1:07:14 6:43 83 Phil Gregory Ottawa M 70-79 7 of 7

 

84….83 0:53:22 5:20 84 Mike Halliwushka Stittsville M 60-69 8 of 10

 

85….116 1:07:12 6:43 85 Fern Hamann Carleton Place M 50-59 52

of 52

 

87….119 1:15:17 7:32 87 David Hamilton Ottawa M 40-49 24 of 24

 

90….89 0:55:08 5:31 90 Ron Hoffe Ottawa M 50-59 42 of 52

 

91….115 1:04:28 6:27 91 Bill Horne Ottawa M 70-79 6 of 7

 

94….96 0:57:25 5:44 94 Ian James Ottawa M 40-49 19 of 24

 

95….118 1:07:17 6:44 95 Jesse Jarjour Ottawa M 30-39 19 of 19

 

96….45 0:47:51 4:47 96 Chris Jermyn Ottawa M 70-79 1 of 7

 

100…112 1:02:53 6:17 100 Mark Kelly Stittsville M 50-59 50 of 52

 

101…5 0:38:16 3:50 101 Patrick Kelly Ottawa M 50-59 2 of 52

 

105…82 0:53:14 5:19 105 Barry Kinny Stittsville M 40-49 16 of 24

 

106…41 0:47:00 4:42 106 Peter Klein Metcalfe M 40-49 9 of 24

 

109…62 0:50:46 5:05 109 Sriram Krishnamurthy Kanata M 30-39

12 of 19

 

110…42 0:47:05 4:43 110 Greg Lamb Ottawa M 50-59 16 of 52

 

113…48 0:48:46 4:53 113 Brian Letourneau Ottawa M 50-59 20 of

52

 

114…110 1:01:31 6:09 114 Kam Leung Kanata M 50-59 49 of 52

 

116…59 0:50:12 5:01 116 Wade Long Kanata M 40-49 13 of 24

 

117…32 0:45:32 4:33 117 Trevor Lowe Ottawa M 40-49 5 of 24

 

119…25 0:44:43 4:28 119 Jonathan Macaskill Kanata M 15-19 1 of

2

 

119…81 0:53:05 5:19 199 Dan Todd Richmond M 50-59 39 of 52

 

121…17 0:42:17 4:14 121 Ken Macaskill Kanata M 40-49 3 of 24

 

123…105 0:59:29 5:57 123 Alex Macdonald Ottawa M 30-39 16 of

19

 

126…20 0:43:35 4:22 126 Allan Macphee Ottawa M 50-59 7 of 52

 

130…107 0:59:58 6:00 130 Kevin Matthews Ottawa M 40-49 22 of

24

 

131…53 0:49:32 4:57 131 Mike McCluskie Ottawa M 50-59 23 of 52

 

133…84 0:53:35 5:22 133 Doug McGinn Ottawa M 70-79 3 of 7

 

135…60 0:50:21 5:02 135 Derek McKellar Richmond M 50-59 25 of

52

 

136…102 0:59:24 5:56 136 Paul McNamee Brockville M 60-69 10

of 10

 

138…77 0:52:56 5:18 138 Peter Minnelli Ottawa M 60-69 7 of 10

 

140…68 0:52:08 5:13 140 Steve Moritsugu Ottawa M 50-59 29 of

52

 

142…73 0:52:43 5:16 142 David Morton Ottawa M 50-59 33 of 52

 

144…109 1:01:09 6:07 144 Curtis Nickel Kingston M 30-39 18 of 19

 

145…14 0:41:26 4:09 145 Brian O'Higgins Ottawa M 60-69 1 of 10

 

147…70 0:52:30 5:15 147 Peter Oulton Ottawa M 50-59 31 of 52

 

148…90 0:55:40 5:34 148 Christopher Parise Rockland M 20-29 4

of 4

 

150…94 0:56:35 5:39 150 Mark Pawlikowski Stittsville M 40-49 18

of 24

 

156…61 0:50:37 5:04 156 Jacques Racine Richmond M 30-39 11

of 19

 

157…49 0:48:47 4:53 157 Christophe Rene Gatineau M 40-49 10

of 24

 

159…108 1:00:09 6:01 159 Ralph Richardson Stittsville M 50-59 48

of 52

 

160…93 0:56:13 5:37 160 Brian Roberts Gatineau M 50-59 45 of 52

 

164…26 0:44:49 4:29 164 Kerry Rollins Nepean M 30-39 7 of 19

 

165…10 0:39:52 3:59 165 Graham Ross Merrickville M 50-59 3 of

52

 

168…55 0:49:43 4:58 168 Marc Roy Ottawa M 40-49 12 of 24

 

170…85 0:54:21 5:26 170 John Ruttle Ottawa M 40-49 17 of 24

 

174…76 0:52:54 5:17 174 Terry Sancartier Gatineau M 40-49 15 of

24

 

175…97 0:57:26 5:45 175 Alex Sauriol Ottawa M 40-49 20 of 24

 

176…9 0:39:41 3:58 176 Omar Sayarh Gatineau M 30-39 4 of 19

 

178…16 0:41:59 4:12 178 Danny Sheehan Carleton Place M 50-59

5 of 52

 

180…6 0:39:04 3:54 180 Jeff Shepherd Mallorytown M 20-29 1 of 4

 

181…78 0:52:58 5:18 181 Tracy Shouldice Carp M 50-59 36 of 52

 

183…30 0:45:05 4:31 183 Judd Sjolund Nepean M 14+Un 1 of 1

 

184…23 0:44:09 4:25 184 Jeff Slavin Ottawa M 50-59 8 of 52

 

185…51 0:48:52 4:53 185 David Sloan Kanata M 40-49 11 of 24

 

189…38 0:46:28 4:39 189 Mike Southgate Kanata M 50-59 14 of 52

 

191…39 0:46:37 4:40 191 Joel Stelpstra Ottawa M 40-49 8 of 24

 

195…74 0:52:50 5:17 195 Dale Taylor Ottawa M 50-59 34 of 52

 

196…100 0:59:05 5:54 196 Rob Thomas Ottawa M 30-39 15 of 19

 

202…11 0:39:54 3:59 202 Paul Turner Ottawa M 50-59 4 of 52

 

204…65 0:51:28 5:09 204 Marco Valenti Carp M 50-59 27 of 52

 

208…75 0:52:53 5:17 208 Mike Watford Kanata M 50-59 35 of 52

 

210…1 0:36:05 3:36 210 Ralph Werner Ottawa M 50-59 1 of 52

 

212…2 0:37:05 3:42 212 Corey Wilson Nepean M 30-39 1 of 19

 

213…79 0:53:01 5:18 213 Hugh Wright Kanata M 50-59 37 of 52

 

216…24 0:44:36 4:28 216 Ian Young Ottawa M 60-69 3 of 10

 

218…98 0:57:32 5:45 218 Mike Pedley Stittsville M 30-39 13 of 19

 

223…71 0:52:38 5:16 223 Vincent Andy Fong Ottawa M 50-59 32

of 52

 

225…46 0:47:54 4:47 225 Tony Dunbar Ottawa M 70-79 2 of 7

 

227…87 0:54:41 5:28 227 Tosh Hayashi Ottawa M 70-79 4 of 7

 

230…12 0:41:06 4:07 230 Pat McNeely Ottawa M 40-49 2 of 24

 

231…8 0:39:31 3:57 231 Jeff English Ottawa M 20-29 2 of 4

 

234…27 0:44:50 4:29 234 Dan Vandervoort Ottawa M 50-59 9 of 52

 

466…28 0:44:55 4:30 466 Todd Keuleman Ottawa M 50-59 10 of 52

  

.

8464

A good and righteous man.

One of the Righteous Among the Nations (Hebrew: חסידי אומות העולם‎)

Here is a search for photos on Flickr of Chiune Sugihara:

www.flickr.com/search/?text=chiune%20Sugihara

Here is the site for Yad Vashem:

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/righteous-among...

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Here is his bio on Wikipedia:

 

Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝, Sugihara Chiune, 1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986)[1] was a Japanese diplomat who served as vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Kaunas, Lithuania. During the Second World War, Sugihara helped thousands of Jews flee Europe by issuing transit visas to them so that they could travel through Japanese territory, risking his job and the lives of his family.[2][3] The fleeing Jews were refugees from German-occupied Western Poland and Soviet-occupied Eastern Poland, as well as residents of Lithuania. In 1985, the State of Israel honored Sugihara as one of the Righteous Among the Nations (Hebrew: חסידי אומות העולם‎) for his actions. He is the only Japanese national to have been so honored. The year 2020 was "The Year of Chiune Sugihara" in Lithuania. It has been estimated as many as 100,000 people alive today are the descendants of the recipients of Sugihara visas.[4]

 

Contents

  

1 Early life and education

2 Manchurian Foreign Office

3 Lithuania

3.1 Jewish refugees

3.1.1 Sugihara's visas

3.1.2 Numbers saved

4 Resignation

5 Later life

6 Honor Restored

7 Family

8 Legacy and honors

9 Biographies

10 Notable people helped by Sugihara

11 See also

12 References

13 Further reading

14 External links

Early life and education

 

Chiune Sugihara was born on 1 January 1900 (Meiji 33), in Mino, Gifu prefecture, to a middle-class father, Yoshimi Sugihara (杉原好水 Sugihara Yoshimi), and an upper-middle class mother, Yatsu Sugihara (杉原やつ Sugihara Yatsu).[5] When he was born, his father worked at a tax office in Kozuchi-town and his family lived in a borrowed temple, with the Buddhist temple Kyōsen-ji (教泉寺) where he was born nearby. He was the second son among five boys and one girl.[1] His father and family moved into the tax office within the branch of the Nagoya Tax Administration Office one after another. In 1903 (Meiji 36) his family moved to Asahi Village in Niu-gun, Fukui Prefecture. In 1904 (Meiji 37) they moved to Yokkaichi city Mie Prefecture. On 25 October 1905 (Meiji 38), they moved to Nakatsu Town, Ena-gun, Gifu Prefecture. In 1906 (Meiji 39) on 2 April, Chiune entered Nakatsu Town Municipal Elementary School (now Nakatsugawa City Minami Elementary School in Gifu Prefecture). On 31 March 1907 (Meiji 40), he transferred to Kuwana Municipal Kuwana Elementary School in Mie Prefecture (currently Kuwana Municipal Nissin Elementary School). In December of that same year, he transferred to Nagoya Municipal Furuwatari Elementary School (now Nagoya Municipal Heiwa Elementary School). In 1912, he graduated with top honors from Furuwatari Elementary School and entered Aichi prefectural 5th secondary school (now Zuiryo high school), a combined junior and senior high school. His father wanted him to become a physician, but Chiune deliberately failed the entrance exam by writing only his name on the exam papers. Instead, he entered Waseda University in 1918 (Taishō 7) and majored in English language. At that time, he entered Yuai Gakusha, the Christian fraternity that had been founded by Baptist pastor Harry Baxter Benninhof, to improve his English.

 

In 1919 (Taishō 8), he passed the Foreign Ministry Scholarship exam. From 1920 to 1922 (Taishō 9 to 11), Sugihara served in the Imperial Army as a second lieutenant with the 79th Infantry, stationed in Korea, then part of the Empire of Japan. He resigned his commission in November 1922 and took the Foreign Ministry's language qualifying exams the following year, passing the Russian exam with distinction. The Japanese Foreign Ministry recruited him and assigned him to Harbin, China, where he also studied the Russian and German languages and later became an expert on Russian affairs.

  

Chiune Sugihara's birth Registry, indicating his birthplace as Kozuchi Town, Mugi District, nowadays known as Mino City in Gifu Prefecture.

Observation Kozuchi-town from Mt. Ogura. Kyosenji Temple where Chiuna Sugihara was born and village section Named "Chiune" which can be seen from the temple.

 

Kyōsen-ji Temple (教泉寺). This temple was located at the address reported as the birthplace of Sugihara Chiune, and there was a Kōzuchi tax office that Chiune father served in the immediate area.

 

Chiune Bridge. A bridge over Chiune-cho which was the origin of the name of Chiune.

 

Bus stop of Chiune-cho where the name of Sugihara Chiune was derived

 

Manchurian Foreign Office

 

When Sugihara served in the Manchurian Foreign Office, he took part in the negotiations with the Soviet Union concerning the Northern Manchurian Railroad.

 

During his time in Harbin, Sugihara married Klaudia Semionovna Apollonova and converted to Christianity (Russian Orthodox Church),[6] using the baptismal name Sergei Pavlovich.[2]

 

In 1935, Sugihara quit his post as Deputy Foreign Minister in Manchuria in protest over Japanese mistreatment of the local Chinese.[citation needed]

 

Sugihara and his wife divorced in 1935, before he returned to Japan, where he married Yukiko (1913–2008, née Kikuchi[7]) after the marriage; they had four sons Hiroki, Chiaki, Haruki, Nobuki. As of 2010, Nobuki is the only surviving son and represents the Sugihara family.[8]

 

Chiune Sugihara also served in the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as a translator for the Japanese delegation in Helsinki, Finland.[9]

 

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In 1939, Sugihara became a vice-consul of the Japanese Consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania. His duties included reporting on Soviet and German troop movements,[1] and to find out if Germany planned an attack on the Soviets and, if so, to report the details of this attack to his superiors in Berlin and Tokyo.[10]

 

Sugihara had cooperated with Polish intelligence as part of a bigger Japanese–Polish cooperative plan.[11]

 

Jewish refugees

 

As the Soviet Union occupied sovereign Lithuania in 1940, many Jewish refugees from Poland (Polish Jews) as well as Lithuanian Jews tried to acquire exit visas. Without the visas, it was dangerous to travel, yet it was impossible to find countries willing to issue them. Hundreds of refugees came to the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, trying to get a visa to Japan. At the time, on the brink of the war, Lithuanian Jews made up one third of Lithuania's urban population and half of the residents of every town.[12] In the period between 16 July and 3 August 1940, the Dutch Honorary Consul Jan Zwartendijk provided over 2,200 Jews with official third destination passes to Curaçao, a Caribbean island and Dutch colony that required no entry visa or to Surinam.

 

European Jewish refugees began to arrive in Japan in July 1940 and departed by September 1941. An overview during this period is described in the Annual Reports of 1940[13] & 1941[14] by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).

 

In June 1940, Italy entered into the war and the Mediterranean route was closed. The Committee in Great Germany, forced to seek new outlets for emigration, arranged for the transportation of Jews from Germany across Europe and Asia (via the trans-Siberian railway) to Vladivostok, thence to Japan. From Japan the refugees were to embark for destinations in the Western Hemisphere.

 

On December 31, 1940, the Soviet Union declared all persons residing in Lithuania as on September 1, 1940, the right to apply for Soviet citizenship. While the great bulk of Polish refugees in Lithuania opted for Soviet citizenship, there was a group of 4,000–5,000 persons for whom the New Order offered little opportunity. These were principally rabbis, yeshiva students, members of the intellectual classes and leaders of various Jewish communal and labor organizations. Most of them immediately applied for exit permits from Lithuania. Although during the early weeks of 1941 exit permits and Japanese transit visas were readily granted, the problem was how to find transportation costs for those people whose very existences were jeopardized if they remained in Lithuania. The JDC in collaboration with a number of other American Jewish groups, contributed toward the funds required for the Trans-Siberian trip to Japan of 1,700 persons.

 

In July 1940, Jewish refugees in Germany and other countries began arriving in Japan at Tsuruga, Shimonoseki and Kobe.[15] Japanese embassies and consulates except Kaunas issued 3,448 Japanese transit visas from January 1940 to March 1941.[16] Most of them held valid end-visas and immediately departed Japan. From October 1940, Polish refugees from Lithuania began to land on Tsuruga. Their number increased sharply from January 1941 onwards. "By the end of March there were close to 2,000 in the country, mostly in Kobe. More than half of these refugees did not hold valid end-visas and were unable to proceed further than Japan". They were forced to stay for a long time to find the immigration countries.

 

The number of Jewish refugees who came to Japan, as seen in Table 1, has documents with 4,500,[17] 5,000[18] or 6,000.[19] 552 persons of the second row of the table do not match the number of departing persons edited by Jewcom.[20] Siberian railway had been closed and no evidence supporting this figure is found in JDC annual reports or MOFA documents. For 200 persons described in Note 1 of Table 1, there is a document in Archives of MOFA that the Japanese consulate of Vladivostok transferred about 50 Jewish refugees who had stranded in Vladivostok to Shanghai with Soviet Union cargo on April 26, 1941.[21]

 

Sugihara's visas

 

At the time, the Japanese government required that visas be issued only to those who had gone through appropriate immigration procedures and had enough funds. Most of the refugees did not fulfill these criteria. Sugihara dutifully contacted the Japanese Foreign Ministry three times for instructions. Each time, the Ministry responded that anybody granted a visa should have a visa to a third destination to exit Japan, with no exceptions.[1]

 

From 18 July to 28 August 1940, aware that applicants were in danger if they stayed behind, Sugihara decided to ignore his orders and issued ten-day visas to Jews for transit through Japan. Given his inferior post and the culture of the Japanese Foreign Service bureaucracy, this was an unusual act of disobedience. He spoke to Soviet officials who agreed to let the Jews travel through the country via the Trans-Siberian Railway at five times the standard ticket price.

 

Sugihara continued to hand-write visas, reportedly spending 18 to 20 hours a day on them, producing a normal month's worth of visas each day, until 4 September, when he had to leave his post before the consulate was closed. By that time, he had granted thousands of visas to Jews, many of whom were heads of households and thus permitted to take their families with them. It is claimed that before he left, he handed the official consulate stamp to a refugee so that more visas could be forged.[22] His son, Nobuki Sugihara, adamantly insisted in an interview with Ann Curry that his father never gave the stamp to anyone.[23] According to witnesses, he was still writing visas while in transit from his hotel and after boarding the train at the Kaunas Railway Station, throwing visas into the crowd of desperate refugees out of the train's window even as the train pulled out.

 

In final desperation, blank sheets of paper with only the consulate seal and his signature (that could be later written over into a visa) were hurriedly prepared and flung out from the train. As he prepared to depart, he said, "Please forgive me. I cannot write anymore. I wish you the best." When he bowed deeply to the people before him, someone exclaimed, "Sugihara. We'll never forget you. I'll surely see you again!"[9]

 

Sugihara himself wondered about official reaction to the thousands of visas he issued. Many years later, he recalled, "No one ever said anything about it. I remember thinking that they probably didn't realize how many I actually issued."[24]

 

Numbers saved

 

On the number of refugees passing through Japan who held Japanese transit visas for Curaçao issued by Sugihara, the so-called "Sugihara visa", there are two documents stating numbers 2,200[25] and 6,000.[9] 6,000 persons as stated in "Visas for Life" is likely hearsay.

 

K. Watanabe argued that there could be 6,000 for the reason that use by three family members per visa is reasonable, that there were newspaper articles with 6,000, and that most of the refugees landing on Tsuruga were now admitted to have a Sugihara visa. On September 29, 1983, Fuji Television aired a documentary "One visa that divided the fate - the Japanese who saved 4,500 Jews".

 

In 1985, when Chiune Sugihara received Righteous among the Nations award, some Japanese newspapers reported that he saved 6,000 persons and others 4,500.[26] The Japan Times, dated January 19, 1985, headlined "Japanese Man honored for saving 6,000 Jews", and reported "Sugihara defied orders from Tokyo and issued transit visas to nearly 6,000 Jews". US newspapers referred to Sugihara as 'a diplomat who defied his government's orders and issued a transit visas for 6,000 Jews.

 

Table 2 shows the number of refugees who had stayed at Kobe in 1941 based on Archives of MOFA. Refugees classified as "No visa" in table are presumed to have held fakes of Japanese transit visas issued by Sugihara.[27] The Soviets wanted to purge Polish refugees who had been stranded in Soviet territory with Japanese transit visas as soon as possible,[28] and so permitted them to get on the train to Vladivostok with or without a destination visa. The Japanese government was forced to admit the entry of them. On April 8, 1941, of the 1,400 Polish Jews staying at Kobe, "for Curaçao" and "No visa" were about 1,300.

 

The Polish ambassador in Tokyo, Tadeusz Romer, remembered, "They (Polish refugees) only had fictitious Dutch visas for the island of Curaçao and Japanese transit visas". According to the refugee name list surveyed by Fukui Prefecture,[29] of the 306 persons who landed at Tsuruga Port in October 1940, there were 203 Poles. Their destinations were US 89, Palestine 46, Curaçao 24, and others. It is estimated that about 80% of them were on the Sugihara visa list.[30] The documents of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[31] and "Refugee and Survivor" do not mention the number of people saved by "Sugihara visa".

 

More than half of the refugees who entered with invalid visas including "Sugihara visa" obtained valid visas with the help of JDC, HIAS, the Embassy of Poland and Japanese government, and embarked host countries. In August–September 1941, Japanese authorities transferred about 850 refugees[32] stranded in Japan to Shanghai before Japan and the United States began war. According to Emigration Table by Jewcom, the number of Polish refugees leaving Japan was Shanghai 860, US 532, Canada 186, Palestine 186, Australia 81, South Africa 59, and others 207 in total 2,111.

 

The total number of Jews saved by Sugihara is in dispute, estimating about 6,000; family visas—which allowed several people to travel on one visa—were also issued, which would account for the much higher figure. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has estimated that Chiune Sugihara issued transit visas for about 6,000 Jews and that around 40,000 descendants of the Jewish refugees are alive today because of his actions.[1] Polish intelligence produced some false visas.[33] Sugihara's widow and eldest son estimate that he saved 10,000 Jews from certain death, whereas Boston University professor and author, Hillel Levine, also estimates that he helped "as many as 10,000 people", but that far fewer people ultimately survived.[34] Indeed, some Jews who received Sugihara's visas failed to leave Lithuania in time, were later captured by the Germans who invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, and perished in the Holocaust.

 

The Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has opened to the public two documents concerning Sugihara's file: the first aforementioned document is a 5 February 1941 diplomatic note from Chiune Sugihara to Japan's then Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka in which Sugihara stated he issued 1,500 out of 2,139 transit visas to Jews and Poles; however, since most of the 2,139 people were not Jewish, this would imply that most of the visas were given to Polish Jews instead. Levine then notes that another document from the same foreign office file "indicates an additional 3,448 visas were issued in Kaunas for a total of 5,580 visas" which were likely given to Jews desperate to flee Lithuania for safety in Japan or Japanese occupied-China.

 

Many refugees used their visas to travel across the Soviet Union to Vladivostok and then by boat to Kobe, Japan, where there was a Jewish community. Romer, the Polish ambassador in Tokyo, organized help for them. From August 1940 to November 1941, he had managed to get transit visas in Japan, asylum visas to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Burma, immigration certificates to the British Mandate of Palestine, and immigrant visas to the United States and some Latin American countries for more than two thousand Polish-Lithuanian Jewish refugees, who arrived in Kobe, Japan, and the Shanghai Ghetto, China.

 

The remaining number of Sugihara survivors stayed in Japan until they were deported to Japanese-held Shanghai, where there was already a large Jewish community that had existed as early as the mid-1930s. Some took the route through Korea directly to Shanghai without passing through Japan. A group of thirty people, all possessing a visa of "Jakub Goldberg", were shuttled back and forth on the open sea for several weeks before finally being allowed to pass through Tsuruga.[35] Most of the around 20,000 Jews survived the Holocaust in the Shanghai ghetto until the Japanese surrender in 1945, three to four months following the collapse of the Third Reich itself.

 

Resignation

 

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image icon Sugihara and his wife in front of a gate in Prague. It reads "No Jews allowed" in German but "Jews allowed" in Czech, because someone scratched out the "no"

Sugihara was reassigned to Königsberg, East Prussia[34][page needed] before serving as a Consul General in Prague, Czechoslovakia, from March 1941 to late 1942 and in the legation in Bucharest, Romania from 1942 to 1944. He was promoted to the rank of third secretary in 1943, and was decorated with the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 5th Class, in 1944. When Soviet troops entered Romania, they imprisoned Sugihara and his family in a POW camp for eighteen months. They were released in 1946 and returned to Japan through the Soviet Union via the Trans-Siberian railroad and Nakhodka port. In 1947, the Japanese foreign office asked him to resign, nominally due to downsizing. Some sources, including his wife Yukiko Sugihara, have said that the Foreign Ministry told Sugihara he was dismissed because of "that incident" in Lithuania.[34][36]

 

Later life

 

Sugihara settled in Fujisawa in Kanagawa prefecture with his wife and three sons. To support his family he took a series of menial jobs, at one point selling light bulbs door to door. He suffered a personal tragedy in 1947 when his youngest son, Haruki, died at the age of seven, shortly after their return to Japan.[10] In 1949 they had one more son, Nobuki, who is the last son alive representing the Chiune Sugihara Family, residing in Belgium. Chiune Sugihara later began to work for an export company as general manager of a U.S. Military Post Exchange. Utilizing his command of the Russian language, Sugihara went on to work and live a low-key existence in the Soviet Union for sixteen years, while his family stayed in Japan.

 

In 1968, Yehoshua (alternatively spelled Jehoshua or Joshua) Nishri, an economic attaché to the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo and one of the Sugihara beneficiaries, finally located and contacted him. Nishri had been a Polish teen in the 1940s. The next year Sugihara visited Israel and was greeted by the Israeli government. Sugihara beneficiaries began to lobby for his recognition by Yad Vashem. In 1984, Yad Vashem recognised him as Righteous Among the Nations (Hebrew: חסידי אומות העולם‎, translit. Khasidei Umot ha-Olam).[37] Sugihara was too ill to travel to Israel, so his wife and youngest son Nobuki accepted the honor on his behalf.

 

In 1985, 45 years after the Soviet invasion of Lithuania, he was asked his reasons for issuing visas to the Jews. Sugihara explained that the refugees were human beings, and that they simply needed help.

 

You want to know about my motivation, don't you? Well. It is the kind of sentiments anyone would have when he actually sees refugees face to face, begging with tears in their eyes. He just cannot help but sympathize with them. Among the refugees were the elderly and women. They were so desperate that they went so far as to kiss my shoes. Yes, I actually witnessed such scenes with my own eyes. Also, I felt at that time, that the Japanese government did not have any uniform opinion in Tokyo. Some Japanese military leaders were just scared because of the pressure from the Nazis; while other officials in the Home Ministry were simply ambivalent. People in Tokyo were not united. I felt it silly to deal with them. So, I made up my mind not to wait for their reply. I knew that somebody would surely complain about me in the future. But, I myself thought this would be the right thing to do. There is nothing wrong in saving many people's lives... The spirit of humanity, philanthropy... neighborly friendship... with this spirit, I ventured to do what I did, confronting this most difficult situation – and because of this reason, I went ahead with redoubled courage.[38]

 

When asked by Moshe Zupnik why he risked his career to save other people, he said simply: "I do it just because I have pity on the people. They want to get out so I let them have the visas."

 

Chiune Sugihara died at a hospital in Kamakura, on 31 July 1986. Despite the publicity given him in Israel and other nations, he had remained virtually unknown in his home country. Only when a large Jewish delegation from around the world, including the Israeli ambassador to Japan, attended his funeral, did his neighbors find out what he had done.[36] His subsequent considerable posthumous acclaim contrasts with the obscurity in which he lived following the loss of his diplomatic career.[39]

 

Honor Restored

 

His death spotlighed his humanitarian acts during WW2 and created the opportunity to revise his reputation as a diplomat in his own country. In 1991 Muneo Suzuki, Parliamentaly Vice-President of Foreign Affairs, apologized to Chiune's family for the long-time unfair treatments of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Official honor restoration by Japanese Government was made on October 10, 2000, when Foreign Minister Yohei Kono set the award plaque and gave a commendation speech at the ceremony for Sugihara at Diplomatic Archives.

 

Family

 

Yukiko Sugihara (1914–2008) – wife. Poet and author of "Visas for 6,000 Lives". Eldest daughter of high school principal in Kagawa Prefecture, granddaughter of Buddhist priest in Iwate Prefecture. Well versed in German. Member of Kanagawa Prefecture Poetry Committee and Selection Committee for Asahi Shimbun's Kadan poetry section. Author of Poetry Anthology: White Nights and other. Died on October 8, 2008

Hiroki Sugihara (1936–2001) – eldest son. Studied in California upon graduating from Shonan High School in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Translated his mother's book Visas for Life into English.

Chiaki Sugihara (1938–2010) – second son. Born in Helsinki. Studied in California.

Haruki Sugihara (1940–1947) – third son. He was born in Kaunas. Died at the age of 7 of leukemia.

 

Monument of Chiune Sugihara in Waseda University

Nobuki Sugihara (1949–) – fourth son. Attended Hebrew University in Israel in 1968 at the invitation of the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Jewish Fund. Represents the Sugihara family as the only surviving son of Chiune. Since his attendance at the award ceremony of the Sugihara Righteous Forest in the outskirt of Jerusalem on behalf of Chiune in 1985, Nobuki has been actively attending Chiune-related events around the world as the family's spokesperson. Nobuki also heads NPO Sugihara, registered in Belgium, in order to promote peace in the Middle East.

Grandchildren: Chiune Sugihara had 9 grandchildren (8 still alive) and 9 great-grandchildren.

Legacy and honors

  

Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum in Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan contains a Sugihara Chiune Corner.

Sugihara Street in Vilnius, Lithuania, Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara Street in Jaffa, Israel, and the asteroid 25893 Sugihara are named after him.

 

In 1992, the town of Yaotsu opened the Park of Humanity, on a hill over looking the town. In 2000, the Sugihara Chiune Memorial Hall was opened to the public. Since its establishment, more than 600,000 visitors, Japanese and foreign, visited and studied about Sugihara and his virtue.

 

A corner for Sugihara Chiune is set up in the Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum near Tsuruga Port, the place where many Jewish refugees arrived in Japan, in the city of Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan.[40]

 

The Sugihara House Museum is in Kaunas, Lithuania.[41] The Conservative synagogue Temple Emeth, in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, US, built a "Sugihara Memorial Garden"[42] and holds an Annual Sugihara Memorial Concert.

 

When Sugihara's widow Yukiko traveled to Jerusalem in 1998, she was met by tearful survivors who showed her the yellowing visas that her husband had signed. A park in Jerusalem is named after him. Sugihara appeared on a 1998 Israeli postage stamp. The Japanese government honored him on the centennial of his birth in 2000.[1]

 

In 2001, a sakura park with 200 trees was planted in Vilnius, Lithuania, to mark the 100th anniversary of Sugihara.[43]

 

In 2002, a memorial statue of Chiune Sugihara by Ramon G. Velazco titled "Chiune Sugihara Memorial, Hero of the Holocaust" was installed in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, US. The life-size bronze statue depicts Sugihara seated on a bench and holding a hand-written visa. Adjacent to the statue is a granite boulder with dedication plaques and a quotation from the Talmud: "He who saves one life, saves the entire world."[44] Its dedication was attended by consuls from Japan, Israel and Lithuania, Los Angeles city officials and Sugihara's son, Chiaki Sugihara.[45] In 2015 the statue sustained vandalism damage to its surface.[44]

 

In 2007 he was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross with the Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta,[46] and the Commander's Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland by the President of Poland in 1996.[47] Also, in 1993, he was awarded the Life Saving Cross of Lithuania. He was posthumously awarded the Sakura Award by the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC) in Toronto in November 2014.

 

In June 2016, a street in Netanya, Israel, was named for Sugihara in the presence of his son Nobuki, as a number of Netanya's current residents are descendants of the Lithuanian Jews who had been given a means of escaping the Third Reich.[48] There is also a street named Rua Cônsul Chiune Sugihara in Londrina, Brazil.

 

The Lithuanian government declared 2020 "The Year of Chiune Sugihara", promising to erect a monument to him and issue postage stamps in his honor.[49]

 

Biographies

 

Levine, Hillel (4 November 1996). In Search of Sugihara: The Elusive Japanese Diplomat Who Risked his Life to Rescue 10,000 Jews From the Holocaust. Free Press. ISBN 978-0684832517.

Yukiko Sugihara, Visas for Life, translated by Hiroki Sugihara, San Francisco, Edu-Comm, 1995.

Yukiko Sugihara, Visas pour 6000 vies, traduit par Karine Chesneau, Ed. Philippe Picquier, 1995.

A Japanese TV station in Japan made a documentary film about Chiune Sugihara. This film was shot in Kaunas, at the place of the former embassy of Japan.

Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness (2000) from PBS shares details of Sugihara and his family and the fascinating relationship between the Jews and the Japanese in the 1930s and 1940s.[50]

On 11 October 2005, Yomiuri TV (Osaka) aired a two-hour-long drama entitled Visas for Life about Sugihara, based on his wife's book.[51]

Chris Tashima and Chris Donahue made a film about Sugihara in 1997, Visas and Virtue, which won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film.[52]

A 2002 children's picture book, Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story, by Ken Mochizuki and illustrated by Dom Lee, is written from the perspective of Sugihara's young sons and in the voice of Hiroki Sugihara (age 5, at the time). The book also includes an afterword written by Hiroki Sugihara.

In 2015, Japanese fictional drama film Persona Non Grata (杉原千畝 スギハラチウネ) was produced, Toshiaki Karasawa played Sugihara.

Notable people helped by Sugihara

 

Leaders and students of the Mir Yeshiva, Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim (formally of Lubavitch/Lyubavichi, Russia) relocated to Otwock, Poland and elsewhere.

Yaakov Banai, commander of the Lehi movement's combat unit and later an Israeli military commander.

Joseph R. Fiszman, a noted scholar and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Oregon.[53]

Robert Lewin, a Polish art dealer and philanthropist.

Leo Melamed, financier, head of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), and pioneer of financial futures.

John G. Stoessinger, professor of diplomacy at the University of San Diego.

Zerach Warhaftig, an Israeli lawyer and politician, and a signatory of Israel's Declaration of Independence.

George Zames, control theorist

Bernard and Rochelle Zell, parents of business magnate Sam Zell

See also

 

Individuals and groups assisting Jews during the Holocaust

Aristides de Sousa Mendes

Varian Fry

Tatsuo Osako

Setsuzo Kotsuji

Giorgio Perlasca

John Rabe

Abdol Hossein Sardari

Oskar Schindler

Raoul Wallenberg

Nicholas Winton

Jan Zwartendijk

Persona Non Grata (2015 film)

Handful of Rain

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Jewcom. "Emigration from Japan, July 1940 – November 1941"

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Wolpe, David. "The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting."" New York Times. 15 October 2018. 15 October 2018.

Interview with Ann Curry on May 22, 2019 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC

Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner (1998). Japanese diplomats and Jewish refugees: a World War II dilemma. New York: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-96199-2.

Guryn, Andrzej. "Tadeusz Romer. Help for polish Jews in Far East

Japan Times and Asahi on 19 January 1985, as 6,000, Nikkei and Mainichi on 17 January 1985, as 4,500

Altman, Ilya. "The issuance of visas to war refugees by Chiune Sugihara as reflected in documents of Russian Archives" (2017)

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Kanno, Kenji. "The Arrival of Jewish Refugees to Wartime Japan as reported in the local newspaper Fukui Shinbun(Part I: 1940)" (PDF). ナマール(in Japanese). Kobe・Yudaya Kenkyukai. No 22 (2018).

ushmm "Polish Jews in Lithuania:Escape to Japan"

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Aleksandra Hądzelek (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) (2016). "The memory of Sugihara and the "visas for life" in Poland" (PDF). rcin.org.pl.

^ a b c Levine, Hillel (1996). In search of Sugihara: the elusive Japanese diplomat who risked his life to rescue 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust. New York: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-83251-7.

"The Asiatic Society of Japan". Archived from the original on 6 January 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2014.

^ a b Lee, Dom; Mochizuki, Ken (2003). Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story. New York: Lee & Low Books. ISBN 978-1-58430-157-8.

Hauser, Zvi (28 October 2020). "Persona non grata no more: Chiune Sugihara - analysis".

Levine, Hillel (1996). In search of Sugihara: the elusive Japanese diplomat who risked his life to rescue 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust. New York: Free Press.

Fogel, Joshua A. "The Recent Boom in Shanghai Studies." Journal of the History of Ideas 71, no. 2 (2010): 313–333.

"Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum". Tmo-tsuruga.com. Retrieved 29 October 2016.

"Sugihara House Museum". Archived from the original on 5 February 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2011.

"Inside Our Walls". Retrieved 3 April 2011.

"Chiune Sugihara sakura park - Vilnius". wikimapia.org. Retrieved 29 July 2019.

^ a b "Statue of Chiune Sugihara (Chiune Sugihara Memorial)". Public Art in Public Places. 3 March 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.

Kyodo News International, Inc. "Sugihara statue dedicated in L.A.'s Little Tokyo". The Free Library. Retrieved 5 March 2020.

"2007 Order of Polonia Restituta" (PDF). Retrieved 3 April 2011.

"1996 Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland" (PDF). Retrieved 3 April 2011.

"Israel names street after diplomat Sugihara, who issued 'visas for life' to Jews during WWII". japantimes.co.jp. The Japan Times. 8 June 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016. A ceremony on a planned street named after the late Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara was held in Netanya, Israel, on Tuesday. Sugihara issued transit visas to thousands of Jews people during World War II, which later came to be known as "visas for life," as they saved many from Nazi persecution. Netanya is known as a place where many Jews arrived after fleeing from the oppression thanks to visas issued by Sugihara. The plan to build the street marks 30 years since Sugihara's death. "It's such an honor. I wish my father was here," said Sugihara's fourth son, Nobuki, 67.

Rankin, Jennifer (4 January 2020). "My father, the quiet hero: how Japan's Schindler saved 6,000 Jews". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2020.

"Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness | PBS". Retrieved 3 April 2011.

"Visas that Saved Lives, The Story of Chiune Sugihara (Holocaust Film Drama)". Archived from the original on 18 December 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2011.

"Visas and Virtue (2001) – IMDb". Retrieved 3 April 2011.

Fiszman, Rachele. "In Memoriam." PS: Political Science and Politics 33, no. 3 (2000): 659–60.

Further reading

 

Esin Ayirtman - Sugihara (2020) Chiune Sugihara ISBN 978-9464007862

Yukiko Sugihara (1995), Visas for Life, translation by Hiroki Sugihara and Anne Hoshiko Akabori, Edu-Comm Plus Editors, ISBN 978-0964967403

Yutaka Taniuchi (2001), The miraculous visas – Chiune Sugihara and the story of the 6000 Jews, New York: Gefen Books. ISBN 978-4-89798-565-7

Seishiro Sugihara & Norman Hu (2001), Chiune Sugihara and Japan's Foreign Ministry : Between Incompetence and Culpability, University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-1971-4

Ganor, Solly (2003). Light One Candle: A Survivor's Tale from Lithuania to Jerusalem. Kodansha America. ISBN 978-1-56836-352-3.

Gold, Alison Leslie (2000). A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara: Hero Of The Holocaust. New York: Scholastic. ISBN 978-0-439-25968-2.

Kranzler, David (1988). Japanese, Nazis and Jews: The Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai, 1938–1945. Ktav Pub Inc. ISBN 978-0-88125-086-2.

Saul, Eric (1995). Visas for Life : The Remarkable Story of Chiune & Yukiko Sugihara and the Rescue of Thousands of Jews. San Francisco: Holocaust Oral History Project. ISBN 978-0-9648999-0-2.

Iwry, Samuel (2004). To Wear the Dust of War: From Bialystok to Shanghai to the Promised Land, an Oral History (Palgrave Studies in Oral History). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6576-9.

Paldiel, Mordecai (2007). Diplomat heroes of the Holocaust. Jersey City, NJ: distrib. by Ktav Publishing House. ISBN 978-0-88125-909-4.

Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner (1998). Japanese diplomats and Jewish refugees: a World War II dilemma. New York: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-96199-2.

Staliunas, Darius; Stefan Schreiner; Leonidas Donskis; Alvydas Nikzentaitis (2004). The vanished world of Lithuanian Jews. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-0850-2.

Steinhouse, Carl L (2004). Righteous and Courageous: How a Japanese Diplomat Saved Thousands of Jews in Lithuania from the Holocaust. Authorhouse. ISBN 978-1-4184-2079-6.

Ten Green Bottles: The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai by Vivian Jeanette Kaplan (St. Martin's Press, 2004) ISBN 0-312-33054-5

J.W.M. Chapman, "Japan in Poland's Secret Neighbourhood War" in Japan Forum No. 2, 1995.

Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska & Andrzej T. Romer, "Polish-Japanese co-operation during World War II" in Japan Forum No. 7, 1995.

Takesato Watanabe (1999), "The Revisionist Fallacy in The Japanese Media 1 – Case Studies of Denial of Nazi Gas Chambers and NHK's Report on Japanese & Jews Relations" in Social Sciences Review, Doshisha University, No. 59.

Gerhard Krebs, Die Juden und der Ferne Osten at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 November 2005), NOAG 175–176, 2004.

Gerhard Krebs, "The Jewish Problem in Japanese-German Relations 1933–1945" in Bruce Reynolds (ed.), Japan in Fascist Era, New York, 2004.

Jonathan Goldstein, "The Case of Jan Zwartendijk in Lithuania, 1940" in Deffry M. Diefendorf (ed.), New Currents in Holocaust Research, Lessons and Legacies, vol. VI, Northwestern University Press, 2004.

Hideko Mitsui, "Longing for the Other : traitors' cosmopolitanism" in Social Anthropology, Vol 18, Issue 4, November 2010, European Association of Social Anthropologists.

"Lithuania at the beginning of WWII"

George Johnstone, "Japan's Sugihara came to Jews' rescue during WWII" in Investor's Business Daily, 8 December 2011.

William Kaplan, One More Border: The True Story of One Family's Escape from War-Torn Europe, ISBN 0-88899-332-3

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Répétition et spectacle musical "La Grande Guerre des Musiciens" une production de " La Follia Orchestre de Chambre d’Alsace ", Salle Poirel à Nancy le 17 mars 2014.

 

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Esta señora miraba contenta a la concurrencia bailar, tomar y reir, mientras esperaba ansiosa la llegada del entierro del carnaval. No sé que habrá sido de ella cuando el cielo de Humahuaca se puso negro y la tierra seca empezó a oler a lluvia, creo haberla visto correr junto conmigo, algún tramo del camino serpenteante que nos sacaba de la fiesta en esa quintita alejada, y nos llevaba de nuevo al pueblo. Quizás se haya refugiado bajo algún árbol y estoica haya esperado hasta la noche profunda para cerrar como se debe con un carnaval más de varios muchos que habrá vivido. No pudimos presenciar esa ceremonia de entierro del diablo, la cacharpaya, donde se esconde en la base de algún cerro, o en su cima, un muñeco de trapo que representa al diablo y al carnaval; el frío y la carpa endeble nos lo impidieron.

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Traveler's Press - Is "What's in My Bag" Really That Interesting?

 

Yes I switch gears quite often so in any given day you pick, chances are my bag's content can be entirely different. And that is interesting to me and perhaps to many people too. I decided to do "What's in my bag" posts once in a while but the last one was already August 2009, the Seminar Edition. So here you go, what's in my bag in Feb/Mar 2010.

 

Well click on the photo to go to the Flickr page and see more precise descriptions on the photo, previous gears are shown in this flickr set in case you want to explore more. I was traveling to Tokyo and Korea for business and these were all I needed:

 

Orobianco pen case, Pentel Tradio pen, Staedtler mechanical pencil, Faber Castell perfect pencil wrapped with black MT tape, Canon F1 50mm/f1.2 camera, Pilot capless fountain pen, mind.Depositor 3 with Maruman Mnemosyne, Shiny handy stamp, Kokuyo kadokeshi eraser, Monogram leather film holder, lip balm wrapped in masking tape, paper clips, book dart etc, USB memory customized with leather cover and closure, Midori brass numbered clips, Name card case with dart flight closure, Midori brass ruler, Midori Traveler's notebook, Passport cover, Midori brass pencil.

 

Midori/Designphil asked me to show what's in my bag back in Feb when they were planning a "TRAVELER's notebook & company" event in Aoyama. Eventually the photo and my tips to age brass items were included in the Traveler's Press which was being sold at 320 yen at the event. It looks like a very interesting event with limited edition brass pen with Traveler's Notebook logo, charms, wooden stand, calendar, postcards along side with vintage goods such as tin can, match boxes, etc. They even have a coffee bean partner creating a special Traveler's Notebook blend so customers can enjoy a cup of coffee with their notebook after the event. As usual, I wish I were there to experience everything.

 

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Dutch postcard by Uitg. Takken, Utrecht, no. AX 3657. Photo: Columbia. Brigitte Bardot in Les bijoutiers du clair de lune / The Night Heaven Fell (Roger Vadim, 1958).

 

French actress Brigitte Bardot (1934) died on 28 December 2025, at the age of 91. In the 1950s, she was the sex kitten of the European film industry. BB starred in 48 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded 80 songs. After her retirement in 1973, she became an animal rights activist. In the coming weeks, we will continue to post a BB postcard every day to remember her as she once was.

 

Brigitte Bardot was born in Paris in 1934. Her father, Louis Bardot, had an engineering degree and worked with his father in the family business. Her mother, Ann-Marie Mucel, was 14 years younger than Brigitte's father, and they married in 1933. Brigitte's mother encouraged her daughter to take up music and dance. At the age of 13, she entered the Conservatoire Nationale de Danse to study ballet. By the time she was 15, Brigitte was trying to launch a modelling career and found herself on the cover of the French magazine Elle in May 1949. Her incredible beauty was readily apparent, and Brigitte was noticed by Roger Vadim, then an assistant to the film director Marc Allegrét. Vadim was infatuated with Bardot and encouraged her to start working as a film actress. BB was 18 when she debuted in the comedy Le Trou Normand / Crazy for Love (Jean Boyer, 1952). In the same year, she married Vadim. Brigitte wanted to marry him when she was 17, but her parents quashed any marriage plans until she turned 18. In April 1953, she attended the Cannes Film Festival, where she received massive media attention. She soon was every man's idea of the girl he'd like to meet in Paris. From 1952 to 1956, she appeared in seventeen films. Her films were generally lightweight romantic dramas in which she was cast as an ingénue or siren, often with an element of undress. In 1953, she made her first US production, Un acte d'amour / Act of Love (Anatole Litvak, 1953) with Kirk Douglas, but she continued to make films in France.

 

Roger Vadim was not content with the light fare his wife was offered. He felt Brigitte Bardot was being undersold. Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in Et Dieu créa la femme / ...And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956). This film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a smash success on both sides of the Atlantic. Craig Butler at AllMovie: "It's easy enough to say that ...And God Created Woman is much more important for its historical significance than for its actual quality as a film, and that's true to an extent. The immense popularity, due to its willingness to directly embrace an exploration of sex as well as its willingness to show a degree of nudity that was remarkably daring for its day, demonstrated that audiences were willing to view subject matter that was considered too racy for the average moviegoer. This had both positive (freedom to explore, especially for the French filmmakers of the time) and negative (freedom to exploit) consequences, but its impact is undeniable. It's also true that Woman is not a great work of art, not with a story that is ultimately rather thin, some painful dialogue, and an attitude toward its characters and their sexuality that is unclear and inconsistent. Yet Woman is still fascinating, due in no small part to the presence of Brigitte Bardot in the role that made her an international star and sex symbol. She's not demonstrating great acting here, although her performance is actually good and much better than necessary, and her legendary mambo scene at the climax is nothing short of sensational." During the filming of Et Dieu créa la femme / And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956), directed by her husband, Brigitte Bardot had an affair with her co-star, Jean-Louis Trintignant, who at the time was married to French actress Stéphane Audran. Her divorce from Vadim followed, but they remained friends and collaborated in later work.

 

Et Dieu créa la femme / ...And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956) helped elevate Brigitte Bardot's international status. The film took the USA by storm, her explosive sexuality being unlike anything seen in the States since the days of the 'flapper' in the 1920s. It gave rise to the phrase 'sex kitten', and fascination with her in America consisted of magazine photographs and dubbed over French films - good, bad or indifferent, her films drew audiences - mainly men - into theatres like lemmings. BB appeared in light comedies like Doctor at Large (Ralph Thomas, 1957) - the third of the British 'Doctor' series starring Dirk Bogarde - and Une Parisienne / La Parisienne (Michel Boisrond, 1957), which suited her acting skills best. However, she was a sensation in the crime drama En cas de malheur / Love is My Profession (Claude Autant-Lara, 1958). Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "This Brigitte Bardot vehicle ran into stiff opposition from the Catholic Legion of Decency, severely limiting its U.S. distribution. Bardot plays a nubile small-time thief named Yvette, who becomes the mistress of influential defence attorney Andre (Jean Gabin). Though Andre can shower Yvette with jewels and furs, he cannot "buy" her heart, and thus it is that it belongs to handsome young student Mazzetti (Franco Interlenghi). Alas, Yvette is no judge of human nature: attractive though Mazzetti can be, he has a dangerous and deadly side. En Cas de Malheur contains a nude scene that has since been reprinted in freeze-frame form innumerable times by both film-history books and girlie magazines." Photographer Sam Lévin's photos contributed considerably to her image of sensuality and slight immorality. One of Lévin's pictures shows Brigitte, dressed in a white corset. It is said that around 1960, postcards with this photograph outsold in Paris those of the Eiffel Tower.

 

Brigitte Bardot divorced Vadim in 1957, and in 1959 she married actor Jacques Charrier, with whom she starred in Babette s'en va-t-en guerre / Babette Goes to War (Christian-Jaque, 1959). The paparazzi preyed upon her marriage, while she and her husband clashed over the direction of her career

Her films became more substantial, but this brought a heavy pressure of dual celebrity as she sought critical acclaim while remaining a glamour model for most of the world. Vie privée / Private Life (1962), directed by Louis Malle, has more than an element of autobiography in it. James Travers at French Films: "Brigitte Bardot hadn’t quite reached the high point of her career when she agreed to make this film with high-profile New Wave film director Louis Malle. Even so, the pressure of being a living icon was obviously beginning to get to France’s sex goddess, and Vie privée is as much an attempt by Bardot to come to terms with her celebrity as anything else. Malle is clearly fascinated by Bardot, and the documentary approach he adopts for this film reinforces the impression that it is more a biography of the actress than a work of fiction. Of course, it’s not entirely biographical, but the story is remarkably close to Bardot’s own life and comes pretty close to predicting how her career would end." The scene in which, returning to her apartment, Bardot's character is harangued in the elevator by a middle-aged cleaning lady calling her offensive names was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid-20th century. Soon afterwards, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France.

 

Brigitte Bardot's other husbands were German millionaire Playboy Gunter Sachs and right-wing politician Bernard d'Ormale. She is reputed to have had relationships with many other men, including Samy Frey, her co-star in La Vérité / The Truth (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960), and musicians Serge Gainsbourg and Sacha Distel. In 1963, Brigitte Bardot starred in Jean-Luc Godard's critically acclaimed film Le Mépris / Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) opposite Michel Piccoli. She was also featured along with such notable actors as Alain Delon in Amours célèbres / Famous Love Affairs (Michel Boisrond, 1961) and Histoires extraordinaires /Tales of Mystery (Louis Malle, 1968), Jeanne Moreau in Viva Maria! (Louis Malle, 1965), Sean Connery in Shalako (Edward Dmytryk, 1968), and Claudia Cardinale in Les Pétroleuses / Petroleum Girls (Christian-Jaque, 1971). She participated in various musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including 'Harley Davidson', 'Le Soleil De Ma Vie' (the cover of Stevie Wonder's 'You Are the Sunshine of My Life') and the notorious 'Je t'aime... moi non plus'.

 

Brigitte Bardot’s film career showed a steady decline in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1973, just before her fortieth birthday, she announced her retirement. She chose to use her fame to promote animal rights. In 1976, she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals. She became a vegetarian and raised three million French francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and many personal belongings. For this work, she was awarded the Légion d’honneur in 1984. During the 1990s, she was also outspoken in her criticism of immigration, interracial relationships, Islam in France and homosexuality. Her husband Bernard d'Ormal was a former adviser of the far-right Front National party. Bardot has been convicted five times for 'inciting racial hatred'. More fun is that Bardot is recognised for popularising bikini swimwear, in such early films as Manina / Woman without a Veil (Willy Rozier, 1952), in her appearances at Cannes and in many photo shoots. Bardot also brought into fashion the 'choucroute' ('Sauerkraut') hairstyle (a sort of beehive hairstyle) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier. The fashions of the 1960s looked effortlessly right and spontaneous on her. Time Magazine: "She is the princess of pout, the countess of come hither. Brigitte Bardot exuded a carefree, naïve sexuality that brought a whole new audience to French films."

 

Sources: Denny Jackson (IMDb), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Craig Butler (AllMovie), James Travers (French Films), French Films, Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

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An artist's delight. Art Nouveau decorations on almost every page. Delightful poem illustrations in black and white. One color image is the frontispiece.

 

"Red Apple and Silver Bells, A book of Verse for Children" Author Hamish Hendry, illustrator Alice B. Woodward. Copyrighted by Blackie & Son, Limited of London, Glasgow, and Bombay. 1912 edition.

This guy just one an auction for a live pig which was a present to the deceased's family but surplus to meat requirements for the funeral ceremony. It cost him about 30% less than market price and he was very pleased.

My mom treated us to Elevation Burger today and he's happier than a Creeper in an intricately built structure (Minecraft reference)...

www.clownjeca.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Cullohill-Na... The best clown in Ireland, the children entertainer Jeca the clown was called to a missing he really like it, be the main entertainer for a school event, and this time the school was the Cullohill National School in Rathdowney.

It is already my second time in Cullohill town and I must say that so far I had a lot pleasure and great memories as Jeca the clown in this town, both gigs was just amazing for me.

The event was a great one organized by the school about the Positive Positive mental health day and the rise up of a flag. day and the rise up of a flag.

 

As I think the mental health is a very important subject to talk in schools and homes, I decided add some information about this for those interested on it:

What is positive mental health?

Mental health is about more than being free of mental illness such as depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia. It is also about having a positive sense of wellbeing. Positive mental health allows us to enjoy life’s pleasures, believe in our own abilities, cope with the normal stresses of life, work/study productively and enjoy socialising.

Positive mental health is about reaching our potential and feeling like we always have the chance to give everything our best shot. Not just feeling positive, but also getting out there in the big bad world. Positive mental health not only prevents mental ill health, it also leads to greater enjoyment and satisfaction with one’s life.

What can I do to help maintain positive mental health?

 

Eat well, be well. A lot of what you put into your body can affect how you feel inside and out. The right food and drinks can help keep your mind hydrated, active, energetic and at optimum levels for concentration. Visit out Health Hacks page for more info on how to improve your food.

Get a good night’s sleep. Most people need at least 7 hours of quality sleep to function properly; if this is causing you problems then it can affect your mood. Don’t worry though, there are a plenty of things you can work on to get better sleep.

Exercise for at least 30 minutes a day. You don’t have to run 5k every day or anything, just get your heart rate going for 30 mins of activity at least 5 days a week. Walking, dancing, swimming, team sports are only a few ways you can do this. Get more inspiration on our Health Hacks page.

Talk it out. Chatting about things that bother you can help reduce the problem, as they say ‘a problem halved is a problem solved’. If you’re not comfortable talking to a friend or family member, then it could be good to try a non-judgemental listening service like the Samaritans.

Cut down on alcohol. Drinking booze when you’re not feeling great can make you feel worse. Alcohol is a depressant so taking a break from it or cutting down on your intake might help improve your mood.

Stay in touch with friends. Maintaining relationships is a great way to keep a positive mental health. It can be easy to lose touch with people after school or college and this is a natural occurrence a lot of the time but make the effort to meet up and socialise, it’ll be worth it.

Take time out. Some people find it hard to balance life between school/college/work/socialising but it’s important to remember to take time out for yourself sometimes and do things that you enjoy. Me time can be just as vital as maintaining contact with friends and family!

 

More information you can find at the: spunout.ie/health/article/positive-mental-health

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so with all the fuss over photoshop's new "content aware fill" feature I'd really been thinking about picking up a copy. But after doing a little reasearch online I learned that the program I currently use, GIMP, already has that same feature!

 

I shot this yesterday and liked the photo but hated the ugly splotch of sun hitting Rachel's lip. Cloning and healing wasn't giving me the results I wanted so I tried out GIMP's version of content aware fill. Selected the area with the lasso tool and bam, the ugly bit was completely gone! No extra layers or constant reselecting of areas to clone. I probably need to go back and get rid of all the light spots on her chest as well but this will do for now.

 

The best part is GIMP is free! I started using it a while back since my old desktop ran on Linux and this program was included during the install. But it runs just fine on my MAC and windowz platforms as well.

Content description: Jim Sims (CEO of Cambridge Technology Partners) in a harness releasing the final concrete mix into a pressure-injected footing from atop a pile rigging at 8 Cambridge Center foundation completion ceremony.

Local identifier: 020_01_03_022

Type of resource: still image

Genre/form: black-and-white prints (photographs)

Date: 1998-04

Physical description: 1 photograph : print, black and white ; 25.4 x 20.3 cm

Digital origin: reformatted digital

General notes: Title and content description from related item.

Date notes: Date from related item.

Acquisition notes: Donated by the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority in July 2014.

Description standard: dcrmg

 

Subject headings:

Cambridge Redevelopment Authority

Boston Properties, Inc.

Kendall Square (Cambridge, Mass.)

Construction industry

Urban renewal--Massachusetts--Cambridge

 

Host collection: Cambridge Redevelopment Authority Records, 1952-2000

Physical location: Cambridge Public Library

 

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Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection: [Identification of item], Cambridge Redevelopment Authority Records, 1952-2000, 020, [Box#, Folder title], Cambridge Room, Cambridge Public Library Archives and Special Collections.

 

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