LIB'S LABYRINTH

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

New Dancing With The Stars

MIRROR BALL WINNERS

First Place Rumer & Val

2nd Place Riker & Allison

3rd Place Noah & Sharna

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DWTS APRIL 7, 2014 FOREVER TANGO WITH MERYL, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST. FABULOUS! She has my vote.

http://youtu.be/5wPTQnxDpus

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Cute, don't you think?

Obama & Palin

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Published 9/8/10 altgroup multiply
Web Page: New Dancing With The Stars

Blessed Mother Teresa Canonization

VATICAN NEWS ON SEPTEMBER 4, 2016, POPE FRANCIS WILL CANONIZE BLESSED MOTHER TERESA AS A SAINT.

There's no more worthy of being a saint than Mother Teresa. Can you work day and night and forever until her death at the poorest of the poor slums of India? All you ignorant critics, can you do that? I repeat the question: Can you do that? No way.

However, in the Catholic Church all is forgiven. Every Sunday, I watch the NBC TV series "A.D. The Bible Continues..." and this coming Sunday May 24, Saul will see the Light on his way to Damascus. He was forgiven and even became St. Paul. What a see-change.

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Published 8/26/12 lib's labyrinth
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Monday, May 18, 2015

Veterans War Memorial of Texas

DEEP IN THE HEART OF McALLEN TEXAS IS A BEAUTIFUL WAR MEMORIAL FOR ALL THE FALLEN SOLDIERS, BEGINNING FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR TO THE LATEST WARS AND IN BETWEEN.

The war memorial was started in 1988 by Army Colonel Frank S. Plummer, 89, a veteran of World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War. I sincerely said serving in three wars did him good because he looked so young. He put his heart and soul through the years in constructing, adding and building it to completion. However, dedications are a continuing work of progress as long as there are wars and war heroes, song and unsung, are made everyday. There are 1.4 million Americans names etched at the war memorial.

I was deeply honored to have visited Col. Plummer and his lovely wife Kathy recently at his home office in McAllen with retired US Air Force Sergeants Nap and Marilou, two of the many Guardians of the war memorial. I thanked him for his sole efforts and hard works in creating such marvelous war memorial. Of course, he could not have done it alone without the help of many donors, big and small and the City of McAllen in granting the land. I said to myself, self, this man should be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom! He's most worthy of the award.

Col. Plummer told us he was originally from Oklahoma and of Indian blood. He was in the Philippines after the Liberation and was at the University of Santo Tomas, an American prison camp during Japanese occupation.

TEXAS'S DAUGHTERS OF REVOLUTION, PLAZA OF LIBERTY DEDICATED APRIL 19, 2015

3D Plaque

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http://libslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2012/01/veterans-war-memorial-of-texas.html Sgt. Nap's visit

http://libslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2012/01/veterans-war-memorial-of-texas-mcallen.html Overview photos

http://libslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2012/01/war-memorial-of-texas-mcallen-video.html More photos

http://libslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2010/07/maze-mcallen-texas.html Cong. Henry Cuellar

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Thanks to all soldiers of the past, today and tomorrow. God bless America.

To:
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 10:17:58 -0700
Subject: Wishing you a Happy Memorial Day
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John,


-Gov. Kasich lays a wreath in a ceremony to honor veterans & Ohio’s fallen soldiers-

Throughout history, generations of American veterans have fought to protect and to preserve the liberties we now hold dear.

To those who served and paid the ultimate price, we give our deepest thanks.

From my family to yours, we hope you have a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day.

Sincerely,

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John Kasich

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Remove yourself from this mailing.

Remove yourself from all mailings from Kasich for Ohio.

Published 5/29/11 altgroup multiply

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Sunday, May 17, 2015

ASM Upcoming Course

NEW POST

ASM ANNOUNCEMENT

Register http://bit.ly/1PKVCfr

Contact http://clinmicro@asmusa.org

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Illinois Society for Microbiology - News & Meetings

Published 5/29/10 altgroup multiply
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An Open Door

IN THE PHILIPPINES, THE DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN TO ALL PEOPLE SEEKING REFUGE - The Jews during World War II and the boat people of Vietnam.

Film Showing: May 21, 2015 Thursday 6:30 PM

Illinois Holocaust Museum

9603 Woods Drive

Skokie, Illinois

LINK https://www.standwithus.com/ppsc/chicagoopendoor2015.asp

VIDEO

http://youtu.be/Wq--fABVaYo

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HONORING PHILIPPINES FOR ACCEPTING WWII JEWISH REFUGEES: A US-based Jewish organization to present the Philippines the L'Olam or Light Unto the World Award Thursday, December 12, 2013. Shalom!

12/11/13

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MONUMENT IN ISRAEL HONORS FILIPINOS FOR SAVING 1,200 JEWS FROM HOLOCAUST
By Volt Contreras
Philippine Daily Inquirer
"Open Doors monument celebrates the most powerful force on earth, second only to God's will, and that is the human will." - Philippine Tourism Secretary Joseph Durano

MANILA, Philippines

Before Schindler's List, there was another document "the Philippine visa" that saved hundreds of Jews from the gas chambers and mass graves of the Holocaust.
In 1939, two years before World War II reached the Pacific, the Commonwealth government under President Manuel L. Quezon allotted 10,000 visas and safe haven to Jews fleeing Nazi Europe. Some 1,200 Jews made it to Manila before the city itself fell to Japanese invaders.
Before sunset on June 21, 70 years later, the first ever monument honoring Quezon and the Filipino nation for this open door policy was inaugurated on Israeli soil.
The monument "a geometric, seven-meter-high sculpture titled Open Door was designed by Filipino artist Junyee (Luis Lee Jr.). At the program held at the 65-hectare Holocaust Memorial Park in Rishon Lezion, Israel's fourth largest city south of Tel Aviv, the mere mention of Taft Avenue by one of the speakers brought Ralph Preiss to the verge of tears. Preiss, a father of four now in his 70s, later explained that Taft Avenue was where a synagogue-run soup kitchen provided the first hot meals he had as a refugee. He was eight when he arrived from Rosenberg, Germany, with his parents at the port of Manila on March 23, 1939. If I stayed in Germany I would have been killed. Preiss, a retired engineer living in Connecticut in the United States, told the Inquirer in an interview. My cousin who lived in Berlin and whose father was a lawyer went to Paris [instead]. The Paris police handed them to the Nazis, and they were sent to Auschwitz and got killed, he recalled, adding: I'm very grateful to the Philippines for opening the doors and letting us in. "Salamat sa inyo!" At the program with an audience of 300, Max Weissler, glib as a jeepney driver plying the streets of Quiapo, barked onstage: Thank you! Salamat sa inyo lahat, lahat nandito! Nakapunta kayo lahat! Salamat sa inyo!
Unfortunately, Weissler noted, very little is known about this great deed of President Quezon and the Filipino people during the Holocaust. Very little is known about this among us Israelis, the Jews around the world, and even in the Philippines. Weissler was 11 when he and his German family settled in Pasay City. To eke out a living, his mother bakes cakes that his father sold. They all survived the war, and Weissler went on to fight another by joining the US Army in the Korean War. We came to Manila with practically nothing and always found help one way or another from the Filipinos, Weissler said. They have an open heart, and this is why we have this monument.
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Junyee won a competition held by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts in February 2007 for the monument project. Hebagged a P300,000 cash prize for his design, which bested seven other entries, including one submitted by a National Artist, according to the Philippine Embassy in Tel Aviv. Rendered mainly in steel and set on a base of marble tiles shipped from Romblon, the monument depicts three doors of ascending heights (three, five and seven meters). Viewed from above, Junyee's work joins together three triangles "one representing the triangle of the Philippine flag, and the others signifying the two triangles that form the Star of Daivd in the Israeli flag. Etched on the marble floor are three sets of footprints approaching the doors. The prints are said to be those of Weissler, fellow refugee George Loewenstein, and Doryliz Goffer, a young Filipino-Israeli born in the Philippines and a granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor.
Modena's mission
In November 2005, speaking before the Rotary Club of Jerusalem, then Philippine Ambassador to Israel Antonio Modena launched a campaign for the remembrance of the Philippines humanitarian support for the Jews, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs. That campaign merely proposed that a marker for the Philippines be places on the Holocaust Memorial Park's "Boulevard of the Righteous Among the Nations," which features a row of red granite blocks with the names of countries and number of persons in each country who saved Jews. But the response from then Rishon Lezion Mayor Meir Nitzan surprised the Philippine mission: Not just a slab of granite but a monument with its own prominent spot in the park was to be built to thank the Philippines and its people. Technical and financial difficulties delayed the completion of the monument for two years; Modena and Nitzan originally set the inauguration in 2007 to mark the golden anniversary of Philippine-Israeli relations. Modena died of lung cancer in February 2007. His name is first on the dedication plaque unveiled at the Open Doors monument on June 21. Modena's campaign was said to have been inspired by the 2003 book Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror by Frank Ephraim. The 246-page eyewitness account gathers the voices of 36 refugees, who described in detail their arduous journeys to Manila, the lives they tried to build, and their fresh ordeal under Japanese rule. Born in Berlin, Ephraim was eight when he fled to Manila with his parents in 1939. After the war he immigrated to the United States, began a career in naval architecture and later worked with the US Department of Transportation. Ephraim died in August 2006, was very attached to the Philippines and was very anxious to go back there. We were supposed to go, and then he got lung cancer and that was the end of it. It was just too bad, said his American widow Ruth, another special guest at the inaugural. Filipino pride tourism Secretary Joseph Durano, who attended the inaugural on the invitation of Israeli government, shared passages from the book which, he said, made me proud to be a Filipino. Quoting Ephraim, Durano read: Filipinos were a tolerant people who never interfered or took any actions against the Jews. [Their temple] on Taft Avenue was very visible and Jews attended services and congregated in front of the temple without the slightest disturbance. There was never a ghetto in Manila, and Jews lived with close proximity with Filipinos, and all sides introduced neighbors to each other's cuisine, music, culture and history. According to Durano, the Open Doors monument celebrates the most powerful force on earth, second only to God's will, and that is the human will. It was just amazing, the will of these Jewish families who escaped to Manila. Some had to go through Siberia, some had to take boats for weeks and months, he said. But also, Durano said, the monument celebrates the Filipino heart... a heart that touches others with compassion, a heart that makes one a blessing to the world.

Published 9/3/10 altgroup multiply
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