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Three E. coli illnesses have been linked to swimming in the Big Island area of Lake Minnetonka, the Minnesota Department of Health reported Friday, July 19.
Routine reportable disease monitoring by state health officials identified three cases of the infection with the same DNA fingerprint. The illnesses occurred in young adults who are residents in the seven-county metro. The adults were swimming and boating July 4 in the Big Island area of Lake Minnetonka, where numerous boaters are known to gather.
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I have a very healthy JF Brunnera that looks just fine in the heat of mid summer. But I also have 4 KR are now in their 3rd year and they have looked similarly by late July each year. They are an eyesore. All of these Brunnera are in good shade but the JF is in much richer soil. Do you experience similarly with your "King's Ransom"? (I had planted just this May two "Silver Heart" Brunnera and they are looking really good even now...take a look) |
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- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Wed, Jul 31, 13 at 16:27
rouge21, I love that 'Silver Heart'! Really pretty! |
Thanks 'prairie'. Can I trade you my 4 "King's Ransom" for something beautiful that I know you have! ;) |
This post was edited by rouge21 on Wed, Jul 31, 13 at 16:49
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Wed, Jul 31, 13 at 21:00
Well...ummmm....*gulp*...lol. Well, I can't imagine that I have anything even as nice as what is already in your garden. :-) My pulmonarias and cranesbill are looking similar to your King's Ransoms. I'm going to cut back the foliage and see if I get a nice new bunch before the summer's over. I don't suppose you bought them at Bluestone and that sending them a photo of them compared to the Silver Heart might cause them to take pity on you and refund your money? (g) |
These KR are now in their 3rd season. They have looked just fine each season until mid July or so and then they look terrible. I think I will cut one of them back lots and see how it rebounds...an experiment.. |
This post was edited by rouge21 on Thu, Aug 1, 13 at 9:07
- Posted by trovesoftrilliums 5 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 1, 13 at 10:52
I have one KR and based on how it looks most of the year, I was reluctant to buy any other brunnera varieties. Your photo comparisons give me some hope that JF might just be a more resilient variety. And that silver heart, wow! What a beauty. Meet my KR, photo taken today: |
- Posted by SunnyBorders 5A (My Page) on Thu, Aug 1, 13 at 12:58
Have a number of Brunnera: 'Langtrees', 'Jackfrost, 'Dawson's White', 'King's Ransom' and 'Emerald Green'. They're all looking pretty good, except the single 'King's Ransom' (see picture, today, below). Damage to the new leaves was me, renovating this area in spring. What is very notable, however, is the necrotic segments in old leaves. They're brown and very noticeable. They could be mistaken for earth on the leaves. |
Wow! Silver Heart is something I'll have to look for next year. Where did you get it? |
- Posted by christinmk z5b eastern WA (My Page) on Thu, Aug 1, 13 at 13:21
I really wonder if this problem has much to do with cultivar as it does placement. Do all of you have your affected Brunneras in the same location as your "good" ones? Do your healthy ones receive more sun/air circulation? Do they look like this from the get-go or does it develop as the season progresses? I've been wondering for YEARS what this problem is. It seems it pesters my Jack Frosts and ferns (mostly Athyrium) on a yearly basis. They seem fine early in the season but get it toward later spring. My best guess would be that it is some sort of fungal or bacterial issue. I'm kind of wondering if it is exacerbated overly moist conditions/areas with lack of air circulation. My Jacks are planted in an area that stays fairly moist but also has somewhat poor air circulation, as it is in a corner by the house. My HC and DW Brunneras don't seem as troubled by this blackening. Not sure if they are more resistant or because I've planted them in shady areas that are either dryer or in an open spot. This question might be interesting to post on the disease forum... |
- Posted by trovesoftrilliums 5 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 1, 13 at 19:58
I originally thought to damage on KR was fungal. While I only have the one variegated brunnera, I have several of the solid green ones, in different locations throughout the yard. I don't recall any of them ever getting the same necrosis. I cut them back after they flower and they generally look good the summer. I did not cut back KR; msybe that is the problem. I don't remember it flowering even but now I have one variegated seedling. Here is non-variegated brunnera a couple of feet away from KR. |
- Posted by echinaceamaniac 7 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 1, 13 at 20:08
These plants are so annoying. Just when you think they are going to make it, they disappear. I love the look of them, but they are so weak. I think I'll stick with my Heuchera! |
- Posted by aseedisapromise z4.5 SD (My Page) on Fri, Aug 2, 13 at 14:03
Could any of this be foliar nematodes? Or, around here where the water and soil Ph is rather high, lots of plants are unable to take up iron and it manifests as yellowing that goes to brown spots and necrosis in the worst cases. Some of the damage in photos looks a little like this. |
- Posted by SunnyBorders 5A (My Page) on Fri, Aug 2, 13 at 14:39
Thank you for the suggestion, aseed. All of my Brunnera are in similar lighting and soil conditions and some of them are quite close together. I stopped using the species some time ago because it seeds around to readily here. |
this is interesting that this came up because when I went to plant delights open house, they had king's ransom there and Jack Frost.I chose neither because I had heard that Jack Frost didn't tolerate the South's sun very well and their Kings ransom looked exactly like yours, Rouge. even though their tag said that it did better in the heat, I thought "I don't want to buy anything that looks like THAT in the summer and in greenhouse conditions no less". I did buy a silver heart this year but it didn't make it through the mail order process and I haven't had a chance to order another one yet. Looks to me like Kings ransom just does that in the heat. Definitely not a plus its favor. Your silver heart is absolutely gorgeous, I so want that one for myself! |
UPDATED Pictures: Here are pictures as of September 30 of "Jack Frost", "King's Ransom" and "SIlver Heart". As you can see all 3 look very similar to the pictures taken 2 months earlier. KR has looked like this since mid July and similarly the other two have looked so nice *all* season. All are within 20 feet of each other. I have 4 of the KR :( and I hope, budget permitting, to replace all 4 next spring. (Part of the appeal to me of KR is its advertised more modest size). |
This post was edited by rouge21 on Tue, Oct 1, 13 at 6:52
Hmmm. I have Jack Frost and it's taking over the bed it's in, and it looks like that awful damage every year from August on. I was just looking at them today thinking I need to yank them because I can't stand having that ugliness for three months in my garden. It never affects the plant health for the next year and the look nice from April until August. If I cut all of the ugly leaves off, the ones below look good, but it's just so much work. Cutting each leaf with felcos takes forever and hurts my hand, pulling them off doesn't work well. So what do you think is the cause? Mine are not too wet. |
Interesting 'jackie'. Does anyone have KR in their garden with it being disease free all season? |
I do not have KR but I purchased Dawson's White and it is horrible. I do not have any problem with JF it is still beautiful I my shade garden. |
You all have me wanting Silver Heart. I will be looking for it at the close out counters and if I don't find it there may even pay full price for it next spring. My Jack Frost foliage has stayed nice all year. Divided it this fall to move one to another area. |
marquest, thanks for that info re DW. I might just replace all 4 brunnera with something other than brunnera...it is a little dry in the location they are currently planted...that can't help with respect to their overall health. |
I started with one plant of Brunnera macrophylla (species) years ago, and it has gradually reseeded around my mostly shady front borders to the point where there are at least a dozen plants which flower fabulously for a lengthy period in spring and then recede into the background the rest of the season. If you look closely, some leaves show edge browning in the heat of summer, but this is virtually unnoticeable in the overall dense greenery of the borders. I can see where any Brunnera leaf damage or disease would be far more obvious in silver/variegated cultivars, which is another reason for me not to bother with them. Those blue flowers are what I'm really after, and the show is arguably best in the species. |
UPDATE: Here is this same King's Ransom having now emerged from the cold ground. So bright, clean and crisp is the vegetation but soon to 'rust out' come July. (I plan to replace these 3 KR with something else but did decide to wait while they still look their best) |
- Posted by shadeyplace 7 (My Page) on Thu, May 15, 14 at 12:12
That is so gorgeous. I have sympathy because even though I do not have that one, all of my variegated ones look good in the early spring and then do that same horrible thing. I think slugs, not heat tolerant, and need to be in the PNW. |
And yet my "Jack Frost" and "Silver Heart" looked good all summer. The only difference I can come up with, between them and the yucky KR, is the soil. Specifically KR are in much leaner soil. |
Brunnera like moist soil. Even in shade, if the soil isn't moist enough they start to toast. I would pot up the King's Ransom in rich, moist medium and see if they stay nice all summer If so, the soil is the problem, not the plant. Solution: Find a different spot which will be to their liking. :0) |
brunnera foliar nematodes. If you google it, lots of others have the same problem, including me. |
Thanks for that. But then I wonder why aren't all my brunnera affected similarly? |
UPDATE: Both "Silver Heart" Brunnera easily came through this past winter and have grown vigorously. In fact I wish their leaves were not so large. The one pictured below is 12" long by about 10" wide. |
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My stay here in Austin, TX has been lovely thus far. Today, we battled the heat and went down to Austin's infamous South Congress Avenue. It's full of lovely little specialty & vintage shops. Amongst them was one of my favorites, Uncommon Objects. I am sure if you have ever been to Austin, you know what I am taking about! I was completely blown away! They had all sorts of, well, uncommon objects for sale– from vintage scarves, to old telephones, clothing, & so on. You name it, they probably had at least one! I wasn't sure if I was supposed to take pictures, but I snuck a few anyways. But, you should check out this little slide show tour they have on their website for a better idea of how amazing it is. All of the gorgeous vignettes had my mouth practically watering. I think that my boyfriend's sister, Amber, may have gotten some better pictures than I did! So, I might have a few more to share later. These are rather poor, to be honest.
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Cincinnati in Austin, eh? Cool! I myself am a Cincinnati native – moved to Austin almost 5 years ago. I discovered the same thing you did when you got here: vintage cool, fun people and HOT weather :)
Hope you had a chance to sneak across the street go snack on a Red Velvet cupcake from Hey Cupcake. They're amazing.
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Soul music lovers have been inundated over the past few years with "covers" albums, with both classic and modern soul artists remaking - with varying quality -- some of the biggest R&B hits of the 60s and 70s. Despite the wide range of artists who've created these albums, the discs have largely focused on a limited cross-section of music of that era, with an overemphasis on the pop/soul hits of Motown and Philadelphia. Surprisingly, the material of perhaps the most influential R&B group of the 70s, Earth, Wind & Fire, has been largely overlooked on these albums. The omission may have been because the compositions of Smokey Robinson and Gamble & Huff are much more traditional in their structure and easier to cover in various fashions. But perhaps it is because Earth, Wind & Fire's material, while undoubtedly strong, was as memorable for the impeccable performances of the group as for the songs themselves. So an artist has a much easier time distinguishing a version of "How Sweet It Is" from the original than he or she would have covering, say, "That's the Way of the World," the sound of which is inextricably tied to the aura that EW&F created around it.
Fortunately, Concord Records has boldly decided to relaunch the Stax label with Interpretations, a loving celebration of the work of Maurice White and Earth, Wind & Fire, and has brought together an amazing collection of modern R&B talent to pay tribute. The album faces the daunting task of trying to honor EW&F without facing obvious comparisons to the near-perfect original recordings, and it generally succeeds. There isn't a single approach that defines the most enjoyable songs on the album - e.g., whether the artist completely reinterprets the song or stays close to the form of the original -- but the results tend to, for the most part, rise or fall on the artist's vocal performance. So the hip-hop, Gospel-tinged modernization of "September" by Kirk Franklin works wonderfully, but so does the more reverential readings of "Be Ever Wonderful" by Angie Stone and "After the Love Is Gone" by Mint Condition. Even more enjoyable are the jazzier take on "Devotion" by Ledisi and Musiq Soulchild's passionate reading of "Reasons," each creating a cover that successfully pays tribute to the original but remains memorable in its own right.
It's inevitable but almost unfair to line up the songs on Interpretations with the EW&F original versions. The fact is, the new covers don't dilute or "replace" the seminal versions of thirty years ago, but generally accomplish their purpose: to showcase some very talented modern artists paying tribute to a band that deserves accolades for its rule-breaking, genre-defining work that still reverberates today.
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by Chaim Shapiro
The Zohar says that even a Sefer Torah must have mazal - in some we read often, in others only on Simchas Torah. It should be no surprise, then, that European communities also fared according to their individual mazal. Some will never be remembered, while others will find their way into the awareness of posterity as Jewish centers of Europe, if they are memorialized in a Yizkor Book. Over 500 such books have already been published. Most are in Yiddish, others in Hebrew or a combination of both; some even include English in their text.
They usually begin with a historical background: when, where and how the city was founded; when and why Jews settled there; followed by chapters about the rabbis who served there through the years: their biographies, their greatness in Torah (that chapter, it seems, is the pride of every town, and the book lingers over every detail). Then follow institutions of learning, the spiritual centers of the town - the batei midrashim, associations, charity societies. On to the economic pictures - types of work, political parties, vignettes about personalities, groups, or a profile of the entire city. The final chapter is always the same: the destruction of the Jewish community, and stories of survivors.
The purpose of all these books is certainly not for the survivors; rather it is for posterity, for future historians that they are written. So we ask: do these books really give us a true picture of their cities? Or do the editors sometimes bend the truth in order to grind their own ideological axes? Churchill once said, "History will be good to me, because I will write it." - Are these histories only good to their historians? I cannot evaluate a book dedicated to a city I have never even visited. But there are three books that I can discuss with some knowledge; they immortalize my two hometowns, Tiktin and Lomza. Sefer Tiktin published in Hebrew (Tel Aviv, 1959), Sefer Zikaron Lekehillas Lomza in Hebrew (Tel Aviv, 1952), and Lomza in Yiddish (N.Y. 1957).
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Sefer Tiktin (606 pages) is the pride of my library. To my great sorrow, I cannot say the same about the two books on Lomza. Neither the 371 double pages of the one nor the 377 pages of the other give a true picture of my town.
Certainly credit is due to the editor, Dr. Yom Tov Levinski, for a superior technical job. The detail and organization of historical material in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Polish shows painstaking research, with limited materials available.
Everything, indeed, did seem faithful to my Lomza until I came to page 120, where suddenly the truth took an unexpected twist. After an excellent description of the last and most beloved rabbi of Lomza, the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Shatzkes (later Rosh Yeshiva in Yeshivas Rabbi Yitzchak Elchonon in New York), the editor adds the following comments: "With the outbreak of the Second World War, the Rabbi forsook his flock and escaped to Vilna, his birthplace ... His escape in such hard times was a great blow to the Jewish community. Often they complained 'We have no rabbi; no leader; we are lost!'"
A few paragraphs later: "When Rabbi Shatzkes left Lomza, the community was left like sheep without a shepherd. With a heartbreaking sigh, they would tell of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Gordon who risked his life many times under the Czars. They remembered their Rabbi, Elya Chaim Meisels, who was constantly concerned that no Jew be drafted into the Czar's army. Now there is no one to help."
Now let us look at the facts: In 1939, the Germans (far more deadly than any of the Czars!) bombarded Lomza mercilessly because it was the first major city near the East Prussian border. The inhabitants left town and spread out through the surrounding villages and fields. When the German army came, they found all the Jews in the fields. They placed machine guns around a field full of people and shouted orders to keep their faces to the ground. Then they started shooting over their heads. Several people raised their heads only inches, and were killed. Then the Germans tied the rabbi to a tree, and aimed a machine gun straight at him. A Jewish refugee who had been an officer in the Kaiser's army pleaded with the German officer to spare the rabbi's life. The German officer pulled out half of the rabbi's beard, relishing his painful screams, and then he released him.
With the Stalin-Hitler pact on the division of Poland, no one expected Lomza to be transferred into Russian hands, since it was so close to the East Prussian border. Yet on Hoshana Rabbah, the Soviet tanks rolled into town. The first worry on everyone's mind was the welfare of the Rav. A spellbinding orator, he had often condemned the Communists from the pulpit. The older generation knew the Bolshevik's policy of keeping records on every personality - with their men in every town and village, it was no difficult feat for them.1 So the community leaders pleaded with Rabbi Shatzkes to hide, or if possible to escape, before he would be arrested . . . And these "historians" have the audacity to criticize him!
Saved from Bombardment
In the heavy bombardment, three quarters of the city was destroyed, including our home and business, but the impressive buildings housing the Yeshiva and the Talmud Torah were unharmed. The Rosh Yeshiva's house, located next to the Yeshiva and across from the Talmud Torah, was also undamaged. So my family and those of my two uncles moved in. (The Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Yechiel Michel Gordon, was in New York at that time.) The Talmud Torah housed ten grades, 500 children learning Aleph-Bais on up to those studying Gemara independently. The entire third floor was assigned by the kehillah to the Rabbi for his personal use: a bais din shtub (rabbinical court and receiving room), library, and a spacious apartment for his family.
The Bolsheviks immediately confiscated the building for use as a public school. And we watched helplessly as the children were indoctrinated in Soviet ideology.
Once, a delegation of local dignitaries accompanied by the Commissar for Education of the White Russian Republic (from Minsk) visited the school. (Lomza was incorporated into White Russia; a Commissar is the counterpart of the Secretary of Education in the U.S.) In the class of my little brother Shimonke, then age ten, the Commissar took out a kaiser-roll2 from a bag and presented it to my brother. The child hesitated for a moment but the Commissar insisted child, eat"). The boy took the roll, put on his cap, and said the brachah in front of the Bolshevik delegation, and half the class answered Omein. "Vozme sinnok, pokushay" ("Take it child, eat"). The principal and the teacher turned white; the Commissar turned red. He grabbed the roll out of the child's mouth and screamed: "What did you say? What language was it? Not Yiddish?" The boy replied. "It's a blessing in Hebrew: Jews give thanks to G-d before they eat anything."
The Commissar shouted further: "Stalin sent you that roll, not G-d! Did you ever see G-d? Chapukha! (nonsense) There is no G-d! Stalin, the father of all labor people, the sunshine of the world - he gave you that roll!"
He then turned to the faculty: "Is that how you raise Soviet children? Religion instead of Marxism, Leninism and Stalinism? Whose hand is involved in this? Tell me and I'll cut it right off!"
The principal replied, "We know whose hand is involved in it - that cleric who used to live upstairs. If we could only get hold of him, we would take care of him ourselves, but he escaped to Vilna. "
That same day, my father - fearing arrest - took off for Bialystok until things would blow over. As the news hit town, every Jew raised his eyes to Heaven: "Thank G-d our beloved rabbi is in Vilna!" And now these learned men, safe and secure in Tel Aviv and New York, criticize our beloved rabbi for forsaking his flock!
The Party Paragraphs
I turn more pages ... So many familiar faces, photos and names - apt descriptions of places and events I knew - it breaks my heart. So many institutions of learning and charity. Only 12,000 Jews out of a general population of 30,000, and look at what they had accomplished in spite of being surrounded by anti-Semites! In spite of meager means, they accomplished more than the Poles did in every field of community life - an achievement unrivaled by any other people.
I read the chapter on chinuch and education, and not a word on the Bais Yaakov school for girls (organized by my aunt Chana Shapiro).
I reached the chapter titled "Miflagot" (p. 215: political parties; in the Yiddish edition - "Partayen" p. 145). Living - rather, existing - in a hostile environment is difficult. The government made it official policy to shut out Jews from every source of livelihood, telling them to emigrate. But where to? Palestine was closed by the British; America had a quota system and a waiting list of years; and the rest of the world, totally closed. Government jobs were closed to Jews. There was not one single Jewish mailman, policeman, or janitor in all of Poland. There was indeed one way to obtain a government job - by converting to Roman Catholicism. In spite of poverty, there were no applicants.
In response, a variety of political parties was born within the Jewish community, each with its own program of how to help the people. The party-spectrum ranged as follows: (1) Agudath Israel, (2) Mizrachi (Religious Zionists), (3) General Zionists (Chaim Weizmann's group - in Israel today, they form part of the Likud); (4) Zionist-Revisionists (Jabotinsky's party, which gave birth to the Irgun - Jabotinsky's best known disciple is Menachem Begin); (5) Poalei Zion (Labor Zionists who combine Zionism with Socialism - their Israeli counterpart is the Mapam); (6) The Bund (anti-religious, anti-Zionist - they wanted to build a better society with pure socialism, uniting with proletarians of all nations. As for the Jews, they naively sought to build a Jewish autonomous society, based on Yiddish language and Yiddish culture - such as the tales of Sholom Aleichem and the h;story of Shimon Dubnow); (7) Communists (dialectical-Marxists, split into two factions: Trotskyites and Stalinists. As for the Jews, they envisioned a Jewish socialist culture where they would assimilate into the local population and live happily ever after. They hated religion as "the opiate of the masses," and Zionism as a fascist-nationalism for Jews). The Communist party made strides among the naive youth. They represented the USSR, as a heaven for Jews: no discrimination, neither rich nor poor classes, free education; heaven, indeed, in comparison to the bitter reality of anti-Semitic Poland.
Now let us examine how the party spectrum is recorded for posterity and history in Lomza: Agudath Israel fared with exactly twenty and one half lines; 162 words (in the Hebrew text, 29 lines). The Mizrachi did a little better with three-quarters of a page, plus six photos of its youth organization, Hashomer Hadati, forerunner of Bnei Akiva. General Zionists got eight pages plus fourteen photos. Zionist-Revisionists - twenty-three lines plus one picture. Poalei Zion (Labor Zionists) - fifteen pages plus twenty pictures. Bund - twelve pages plus fifteen photos (in the Yiddish book, twenty pages plus the pictures). The Communists got four pages and three pictures.
Is this my hometown? I don't recognize it! Was this deliberate falsification or simply lack of material? And look who writes an article on the Socialist Zionists: a familiar face - how can I forget him? He was a part-time geography teacher in Talmud Torah. Then one day he didn't show up for class. Somehow he made it to Eretz Yisrael - and now his photo is decorating this book!
The Lomza Party Structure - As It Was
The Jewish community was organized in a kehillah, which supervised every phase of communal life and represented the Jews before their neighbors and the government. The board was elected in democratic, secret-ballot elections. The thirteen members of the board (each one was called a Dozor or Parnes) elected a president called the Rosh Hakahal. The Agudah and Mizrachi always formed a united religious block for the election, winning a majority with ten members.3 By agreement, the two would alternate the presidency. At no time ever was there a Rosh Hakahal from any other party. In fact, the very last Rosh Hakahal was Reb Mendl Kalinski (Agudah) - a soap manufacturer, a Gerrer Chassid who dressed in Chassidic cap, beard, and kapota.
And Agudath Israel was recorded in the book with twenty lines!
Before the Germans organized a Judenrat, the kehillah still represented the Jews. The Nazi commandant once requested fifty Jews from the kehillah for one week, to do various jobs for the German authorities. The kehillah obliged. Next week he came for another fifty Jews, even though the previous group had never returned. Only two members of the board, Mizrachi leaders, were in the kehillah office. They demanded to know the whereabouts of the previous fifty Jews.
"It's none of your business," the Nazi replied, and went on to warn them, "If you don't supply me with another fifty you will be shot immediately."
The two refused and with proud heads held high, Reb Yaakov Tablicki and Reb Yankl Gelcinski HY"D marched off to their death. And no Jews were given.
Mizrachi did not even rate one full page in the book!
The Bund and the "Tregers"
The Bund and the other parties claimed to represent the working class - the proletarians. The symbol of the proletarians in Lomza were the tregers - the stevedores who unloaded and carried anything and everything on their strong backs. (They used to say "the heavier the load, the easier it is to carry.") Without a trade, they were the lowest on the pay scale - "Amcho." Let us examine how close they were to the Bund, the Communists, or other Socialist parties ... And who knows more about the tregers than I? I was practically raised on their knees.4
Their base was located in front of our store, which was in the center of town (across the street from the Magistrat-City Hall). While waiting for a job, they would sit on the front steps of our store. We made two benches for them, to keep the entrance to the store free. . . . Looking at the photo, I see the first one from the left on the bench - the Meshugene Dveire, as he was known. He hated children, but he had to tolerate us four Shapiro boys. One summer day (I must have been nine or ten), I stepped inside the Chevrah Tehillim to daven Minchah.5 There he was, sitting and saying Tehillim (Psalms). He motioned to me, and hesitantly I approached him. He placed his huge arm around me and asked me to say Tehillim together with him. He must have just unloaded a wagon of flour because he was white all over, and the dust got onto my clothes. When I got home, my mother was ready for me: "What have you done to your clothes?" I had the best excuse; "You won't believe it! The Meshugene Dveire put his arm around me and made me say Tehillim."
"You mean Reb Shloime said Tehillim with you!" (That's how they were called - always "Reb" in front of their names.)
The fourth from the left is Reb Yehuda. His wife and daughter visited us almost every Shabbos, for tea and cake. His son, Meir, became the business agent of the tregers. Each morning, he would walk up to his father in front of everybody and roll up his sleeve to prove that he had put on tefillin.
The third from the left was called "Moshiach." He was their king - the tallest (close to seven feet), the strongest, and the biggest mouth of them all. Moshiach had six sons and three daughters, all tall and strong. Some followed him in the trade. When the muzinik'l6 was born, Moshiach decided that he should be a rabbi. He sent him to Talmud Torah through all ten grades. He was my brother Lazar's classmate, and both graduated with honors. Together they were admitted to the Lomzer Yeshiva and they became shutfim.7 The pride would glow from Moshiach when he talked about his Yude'le. With esteem, he would address my father ever so often: "Reb Alter, your Lazer'ke and my Yude'le are shutfim. Please test him to see how he's doing in the Gemara." He would constantly boast, "My muzinik'l is a chaver (colleague) of the Kolaker's einik'l8 , can you believe it?"
Then one summer day, the two boys (age fifteen), both excellent swimmers, went swimming in the Narew River. They had rented a rowboat, and out on the river it ran into a high current and turned over. My brother made it to the shore but "little Moshiach" (as we called him) did not. What a tragedy! What a funeral! My brother knew that Yude'le had been copying the Rebbe's shiurim. He also wrote Torah of his own. My brother found Yude'le's notebook in his shtender. He didn't have the heart to deliver it personally, so he sent it to the parents with me. With love, Moshiach pressed the notebook to his heart, telling his wife, "This is our Yude'le's Torah."
Then the Rosh Yeshiva, Reb Y. Zelig Ruch, came with some of the directors of the yeshiva to offer their condolences. The moment the Rosh Yeshiva opened the door, the giant man fell to the floor, grabbed the Rosh Yeshiva's both feet, and between sobs said, "Rabbi, ich bin an erlicher Yid. Farvos hob ich nisht zoche geven tzu zen a zun a Rav?" (Rabbi, I'm a sincere Jew. Why did I not merit seeing my son become a rabbi?)
The tregers had their own shul called Poalei Tzeddek. A Rabbi taught them Chayei Odom (halachah) and Ein Yaakov (agaddah). Moshiach made sure that their Rav was paid every week from the treger's meager income: "We carry on our backs and we want to get paid. The Rabbi carries the Torah in his head and tries to teach us grobbe kep (lunkheads). Why shouldn't he get paid?" No one dared contradict him.
Are these the revolutionaries, the socialists, the anti-religionists, the Bundists, the Communists, the Zionist-Socialists, that these historians talk about?
In 1935, the first Jewish port opened in Tel Aviv (Jaffa was an Arab port). The Jewish stevedores of Salonika9 came to help in the operation of the new port. The tregers of Lomza immediately sent off a telegram: "We are just as strong and willing as the stevedores of Salonika."
Are these anti-Israel Bundists?
The Mark of Falsification
I keep on turning the pages: four pages for the Communists. - What a travesty of justice! - What a lie! Wait, here is a familiar face; what do you know, Berl Mark!
Reb Zvi Mark lived in the third house from us. He was my father's friend. They once served together on the kehilla board. He used to daven and learn in Chevrah Magen Avraham. He was a gabbai in the Hashgochas Yesoimim10 and a member of Mizrachi. Reb Zvi somehow became a maskil. This eventually rubbed off on his two intellectual sons and both secretly became Communists (the Communist Party was illegal in Poland).
After the war, I found out that his son Berl was still alive. He had spent the war years in Moscow, a leader of the Polish Communist Party. He was a prominent member of the committee that organized the new Polish Army in the USSR. And when the Communist regime was finally established in Warsaw, he returned, together with the other leaders. He could have gotten any position with the government, but chose to be the head of the "Jewish Historical Institute" of Warsaw, because he was a Yiddish writer before the war (perhaps he was too "Jewish" for the Poles).
In those days, no one was able to emigrate from the USSR except Polish citizens, who could return to Communist Poland. I needed some help on behalf of a relative who was not permitted to leave Russia for Poland. I then wrote to Berl at the Historical Institute. My name alone evoked his memories, and he promised to do his best, as he had excellent connections in the Polish Embassy in Moscow. A deadline was established for the returnees by an agreement of the governments of USSR and Poland. Yet there was no action on my case even though the final day was approaching.
In the meantime, the Polish foreign minister arrived in Washington. According to the newspapers, he invited a Baltimore industrialist - the late Jacob Blaustein (vice president of Amoco, and Standard Oil of Indiana) - for a meeting about oil business in Poland.
With great difficulty I got an appointment with the multimillionaire and he promised me to take up the case with the Foreign Minister. The Pole tried to butter up the oil man: "Mr. Blaustein, you are a member of the US delegation to the United Nations. You are a national and international personality. Why do you get involved in private cases of this kind?"
But Mr. Blaustein did not fall for the flattery. "Your excellency," he replied, "this is a democracy. Every individual counts and free movement of people, free emigration is basic to democracy." While the result was nil, it did have some repercussions in Warsaw, for I soon received a letter from Berl Mark: "Please do me a favor. Stop writing to me." Such a request from behind the Iron Curtain means the person's career or life is at stake, so I stopped writing.
Then my landsman became Professor Berl Mark, and he began publishing books like Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, Uprising in the Bialystok Ghetto; all kinds of pamphlets and "scientific papers" - all following the party line: The Communists and their fellow travelers organized all the uprisings, helped by the Communist "People's Army" and Soviet partisans ... while all other parties within the Jewish community were cooperating with the Nazis.
I knew that the Poles11 falsified history to fit their line of propaganda; that's their business. But falsifying Jewish history as head of a Historical Institute hurts. So I sent off a letter to him, against his wishes. And if it would hurt him, so be it: "I don't know where your father is buried - Is he together with my father12 and uncle Reb Yechiel Kamchi, and our old dayan Reb Avrohom Yoseph Cynowicz in the Felciner forest? If so, Reb Zvi Mark is ashamed before his life-long friends because of the lies his son is writing about the religious parties of which your father was a member. - Did he die in Auschwitz? Then his ashes must be twisting and turning in the wind, in shame of the falsifications his son is trying to establish as historical facts."
And Professor Berl Mark - photograph, writings and all - graces the pages of the Lomza Yizkor book!
From Prison to the Book
I keep on reading: there is a photo of Hershel Smoliar. Who is he? It turns out that, actually, he is not from Lomza, but from Zembrove (15.5 miles from Lomza - 25 klm), but he spent a number of years in the famous Lomza prison for Communist activities. I guess that makes him a Lomzer.
But that's not all. There is more to his "Yichus." The party and the government of the Polish People's Republic appointed him as head of all the Jews in Poland. And in that capacity, like a faithful dog, he followed the party line to the letter, above and beyond the letter. The Arabs were "progressive elements" to him, Israel and its Jews a gang of Fascists. His campaign against Yiddishkeit and against Israel was the most vicious in all of Poland. He did all he could to stop Jews from leaving Poland. He threatened the few remaining Jews into staying to build the new Socialist fatherland. But no decent Jew would want to build a new life on a cemetery. (And what was Poland, if not a huge Jewish cemetery?) So they found a way out, in spite of Smoliar.
Most interesting: when things got too hot for the Jewish Communists in Poland, Hershel Smoliar forsook his "Socialist fatherland" and escaped to - of all places - his "Fascist" motherland - namely, Israel. And Mother Zion opened her arms to welcome her renegade sons, who had spit in her face for so long. All those Communists who were rejected by the party only because they were born Jewish, found refuge in Israel - including the widow of Berl Mark.
The Alef Encounters
The book carries more names of "Communist leaders" who are still building the "Socialist fatherland" to this very day. Names I never head of. But wait! there is one I do know: Colonel Gershon Alef . How could I forget him!
It was right after the war. My tank battalion was stationed in Osoviec, near the town Novi Dvor, close to Warsaw. At every opportunity, I would go to Warsaw to look for fellow Jews. I could not tell this to my Russian colonel, so I used to go without a pass and spoke and saluted only Russian style even though in Polish uniform (with full hand, as opposed to the Polish two-fingered salute). The Soviet MPs thought I was a Russian officer attached to the Polish army, while the Polish MPs did not dare question me, thinking I was a Russian officer.
One day, while still in working uniform and tank helmet, I hitched a ride with a Russian military truck and got off on a Warsaw street, full of the debris of the war's destruction. I noticed a ship-shape Polish colonel at the other end of the street - a pencil pusher, in shiny boots. Normally, I would have totally ignored him, for men of battle resent desk officers; but I was without my medals and battle insignia, and I did not want to start an argument. I gave him the Soviet salute, and to my surprise he returned it, identically! Our eyes met for a split second, and after we passed one another, we both turned around. He was a Jew from back home - Alef, whose parents lived at the other end of our street! Military protocol demanded that I wait for him to speak first, for I was outranked - but how could I? It was my very first "regards" from home. Just to be sure, I said in Polish, "Panie Pulkowniku, zdaje mi sie, ze Pan pochodzi z Lomzy" ("Sir colonel, it seems to me that you are from Lomza). He smiled and replied, 'Pewnie Panie Poruczniku" (Certainly, Sir Lieutenant). Overwhelmed, I was sure now that it was indeed Alef. I dropped all formalities, stretched out my hand and showered him with questions in Yiddish:
Shalom Aleichem, Alef, Recognize me? Have you been in a ghetto or in Russia? Thank G-d, you are alive! The first Jew from home I have ever met!
He shook my hand and said in Polish, "Bardzo przepraszarn ja sie spiesze" (I'm very sorry, I'm in a hurry). He saluted and marched off.
I was mortified. The first Jew I met from home and he won't even speak to me! I sat down on the heaps of rubble. If not for my shame of people passing by, I would have cried. Why didn't he speak to me? Was it my speaking Yiddish in public? Does the name of G-d irritate him? Why didn't I chase after him?
I never saw him again, but I heard and read a lot about him. He served with the Partisans, under the name "Bolek" or Bolkoviak, where apparently he earned his rank of Colonel. He was later appointed Polish Military Attache in Washington. No military expert, he served as the eyes and ears of Stalin. That was later obvious, for as soon as Tito began his revolt against Stalin, Col. Bodek was transferred to Belgrade. As soon as Marshal Tito made his final break with Moscow, the first one to be expelled from Yugoslavia was the Polish Military Attache, my landsman Colonel Bolkoviak.
He married a non-Jewish woman, and while most Jewish Communists left Poland, he remained there to build the Socialist Peoples Republic, to this very day. And that infidel is in the pages of Lomza!
Every nation is entitled to its share of renegades and traitors. We Jews, because of our circumstances, are perhaps entitled to a larger share. But do we have to enshrine them for posterity?
A Yom Tov for Our Enemies
When I read the Lomza book for the first time, I was so enraged that I sent off a letter of protest to the editor, Dr. Yom Tov Levinski. He replied that he understood my anger, but let's face it; because of the economic conditions in Poland,the Communists did make strides among the youth. Besides, he said, "In a way I was forced." His last words puzzled me. Who forced him? Berl Mark may have been forced to follow the party line. Or perhaps he felt he was preserving documents in the only way he could hope to save them - by publishing them before the Poles destroyed them. But who could force an editor in Tel Aviv?
I had a second look at the publishers and editors of Tiktin and compared them to the publishers of Lomza. In Tiktin, I found Reb Yosef Pines (my uncle's brother), who left his fortune for the establishment of a kollel; Rabbi Shulman (now a chaplain in the IDF), an alumnus of Baranovitz and Kamenitz; Rabbi Ravitz (member of the Bais Din of Tel Aviv); Rabbi Pinie Levinsohn, Brooklyn.
On the other hand, most of the members of the Lomza publication committee are unknown to me. They probably arrived in America before I was born. However, I do know the editor, H. Sobotko. He was a leader in the Bund back home, and in America, he was an executive member of the Forward Association, which is the local fortress of the Bund.13
Could that be the answer to my puzzle? The final analysis seems to indicate: On reading a Yizkor Book, first check the ideology of the editors and writers. You can be sure that they will twist the facts to their fancy, to suit their ideology. How can you check further? If the editors or writers personally write in detail about the leftist parties, you know for sure that the book is not a true mirror of the town. Those who never were in Europe will never understand. So don't try to become an "expert" by reading one or two Yizkor Books ... After all is said and done, it may be best to stay away from the subject completely.
1. When the Rosh Yeshiva of Kamenitz, Rabbi Reuvain Grozovsky applied for an exit visa in Vilna, the Bolsheviks showed him their dossier on him, listing all his activities since he left Minsk from the time of the Bolshevik revolution. The same with Rabbi Aharon Kotler. [return to text]
2 . In poverty-stricken USSR, white bread or rolls was eaten only on holidays. In Poland, we would eat white bread and rolls every day, and challah every Shabbos. But to a Commissar in those days, a kaiser-roll was a big prize. [return to text]
3. In one term the board included: my father; my uncle, Reb Yechiel Kamchi; Reb Y . Boruch Mishkovsky (the son of the Stavisker Tzaddik and brother of the Krinker Rav); and Reb Nechemia Rabinovitz (secretary of the Lomza Yeshiva and son of Rabbi Akiva Rabinowitz, Rav of Poltave and publisher of Hapelles); also Reb Zvi Mark (see later). [return to text]
4. The local ruffians knew that to lay a hand on the Shapiro boys meant the tregers would twist their arms off. [return to text]
5. In Chevrah Tehillim (a Polush from the big shul, located one block from the City Hall), minyanim would dawn from sunrise until midnight. The beggars there were called "millionaires," for in one day, they would acquire Omein's, Borchu's and Kedushah's worth a million. In between minyanim, people would say Tehillim. [return to text]
6. A muzinik'l means the youngest of the children, or a ben z'kunim. [return to text]
7. In Lomza, a chavrusa (study companion) was called a shutef (literally "partner"). [return to text]
8. A "poretz" (pl. pritzim) was a big landowner. Under the Czars, there were many Jewish pritzim. My grandfather, Rabbi Chaim Velvl Szeniak, was one of them. He was a talmid chacham who had a daily shiur in Rambam. He was the owner of an entire village called Kolaki (located between Lomza and Zembrove). When the peasants began their uprising against the landowners, the first to be attacked, naturally, were the Jewish ones. Zeide realized this, and moved his family to Lomza just in time. He bought property and established a big business. There he became known as "the Kolaker", and we the "Kolaker's einiklach" (grandchildren of the Kolaker). Interesting to note, in 1965 a report came through London that the city government of Zembrove unveiled a monument for 5000 Jews killed by the Nazis, in the village of Kolaki. Little do they know that legally this is my land, for I'm the only survivor. I'm even named after my Zeide. [return to text]
9. The port in Salonika, Greece, was closed on Shabbos, for all the stevedores were Shomrei Shabbos. [return to text]
10. An orphanage for boys. There was a Kinderheim and a separate orphanage for girls. [return to text]
11. The Soviet encyclopedia and the history of the USSR and the Bolshevik party is rewritten every so often. What was true in one encyclopedia becomes false in the next. The current official Polish history is totally false, doctored to fit the Party line. [return to text]
12. Before there was even a ghetto, the Germans arrested 150 prominent people. Among them were my father, my uncle and the old dayan. Later they claimed that someone had committed sabotage by cutting the telephone wires. All 150 were taken out to the Felcine forest near the city and shot. [return to text]
13. Until recently, the Forward was still decorating its masthead with the slogan "Proletarians of all nations unite!" Nowadays, in tune with the sentiments of its religious readership, it has changed its slogan to: "Freedom for all people," "Freedom for Jews to lead a Jewish life," "A secure Medinas Yisrael," and "A free labor movement." Gone is the hatred of Zion, gone is the hatred of religion. It even quotes from the Parshah of the week and the Daf Yomi! [return to text]


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Justin Bieber is sick of everyone judging him! The 18-year-old posted a message on Twitter for all of his loyal Beliebers to clear up the recent rumors about him, including his break up with Selena Gomez.
What Justin Said On Twitter To His Fans
Justin said: "Some of the rumors about me are just so ridiculous u gotta laugh. People are creative. Kinda over it. I'm a good guy. That's all."
It's clear that Justin is feeling stressed out over the recent allegations of infidelity and more. But his tweet sounds a bit defeated don't you think?
Justin Is Releasing New Music About Selena?
Justin has been counting down the days for his new acoustic album to come out on Jan. 29. His latest single "Yellow Raincoat" dropped and many believe that it's about Selena because she wore a yellow raincoat with him when they went to Universal Studios.
Justin tweeted: "Now #6DAYS until I answer all the questions – #BELIEVEacoustic – #COUNTDOWN – #6DAYS." He also posted this message which might have Selena a bit nervous because he might expose intimate details from their relationship.
"Excited for #20Days from now when my acoustic album will let u know how I feel about what is going on in my life instead of rumors guessing. Put it in the music. Guess all u want I speak for myself. #20Days."
Meanwhile Selena has been working on recording new music and she's been partying! She was even seen leaving the UNICEF event with former Nickelodeon star Nat Wolff!
Do you think it's a good idea for Justin to be so open and clear up all of these rumors?
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Justin I know your a good guy. Please don't smoke or do anything where your bieber fans and Canadians have to put their head down in shame. I know your 18 and your a full grown man but whatever your doing is really hurting your fans and putting our heads down in shame. Please stop all this it doesn't make you a better person and it doesn't help you get over the stress you have right now. Everyone has stress but if everyone starts smoking there won't be any humans in this world. Please stop all of this.
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Posted at 3:01 PM on January 26, 2013
WAY 2 GO!!! defending urself was the best u could do. DON'T LET THE INTERNET DESTROY UR CAREER!!!!!!!!!!!! you are an amazing person and i will NEVER STOP believing…….. i am so proud of u!!! don't ever forget who u are. no matter what the paps say or what the internet says. i love you justin and so does every body else. ♥♥♥♥♥- urs forever
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I agree with Justin – he's not a bad guy – just a normal human guy for his age. It was his ex that wanted him to fit into the perfect boyfriend fairy tale mold she had for him. Justin, go find a real woman who will accept you and your friends, and not try to make you into a goody-goody puke – something you're not, nor should you be!
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Yes he must be smoking and that is a shame for all bieber fans. But I know Justin will never cheat if he ever is in a relationship he gives his 100%. He did everything to make Selena happy. He left half of his friends only for that little princess. What else do you want him to do? Selena was totally changing him.
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Well he didn't make the right choices, and we all make mistakes. Sometimes we have to learn them the hard way. Justin Bieber is a good guy, he is just under a lot of pressure. But he needs to stop hanging out with the "yes" man – like his Mom said she doesn't want him to hangout with those kind of people. We always can't believe what we here online. Even though some of it might be true. All Justin needs is to focus on his music, and not on his love life or partying life.
Posted at 1:12 PM on January 25, 2013
Ur right
Whether lil twist is bad influence or not justin and selena are better off going their separate ways
When selenas with justin these couple of months I have been noticing
She ain't as happy as she was in 2011
It's probably because they both grown together so its hard to say good bye and if ur a real true fan u should support them in parting ways instead of encouraging them to stay together because its truly unhealthy especially for young people like them
But I know they think hey won't find anyone better but trust me if u part ways ur true love will come at a time u never expected them to come
That's the truth u can NEVER EVER predict teh future because u hunk it's changing but its always going to stay the same………..
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Continuing weather-related problems will likely limit U.S. watermelon supplies and send prices higher in June.
Problems that began with hail March 29 in Texas' Rio Grande Valley continued in the second half of May with hail in Georgia May 22 and heavy rains in Florida and Georgia from Tropical Storm Beryl, later downgraded to a tropical depression, the week of May 28.
"The next 10 days in Northern Florida and Southern Georgia will be real iffy," Matt Solana, vice president of operations and supply chain for Jackson Farming Co., Autryville, N.C., said May 29.
Some growing areas may have received as much as 14 inches of rain starting May 28, Solana said. By the weekend of June 2-3, growers would have a much better idea of damages, he said.
The amount of rainfall varied widely by location, however. Adel, Ga.-based Borders Melons East, a division of Edinburg, Texas-based Borders Melon Co. Inc., received just 3/4 of an inch in its Georgia watermelon fields, Mark Paul, salesman and general manager, said May 29.
"It actually should be perfect," Paul said, citing fields in need of rain.
Northern Florida was hit considerably harder, Paul said, but it also was dry, and the sandy soil in fields there should act as a sponge for much of the rain.
"I don't think there will be major issues."
Jackson Farming's Georgia acreage was lucky to dodge the May 22 hailstorm, Solana said, but others weren't as lucky. All that's left where vines were shredded, he said, was whatever was sitting in the fields when the storm hit, he said.
About 40 to 50 of Borders' Georgia watermelon acres were damaged by the hailstorm, but even those fields didn't suffer total losses, Paul said.
"We dodged a bullet," he said.
Because of the nasty weather, prices will likely rise and stay high through June, Solana said.
Georgia should see one of the better starts to its spring watermelon market in years, Paul said, though he hoped prices stayed low enough to maintain brisk movement and promotions.
"I hope we don't see any spikes," he said.
On May 29, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported prices of $20-21 per cwt. for 24-inch bins of red seedless 36s from Florida, up from $13 last year at the same time.
Prices of Texas watermelons started in the mid- to high $20s earlier this spring, fell, then headed back up again in May, said Charlie LaGrange, salesman for Edinburg, Texas-based J&D Produce Inc.


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I got a nice birthday present this morning, I found my first butterfly egg in MY butterfly garden on my property, a BST, on my Bronze Fennel!
I was perusing this forum at around 7 and breifly saw something dark flutter past the window. I figured it was one of the many small birds, so I didn't check till I was heading out to work. Found the egg and put down my stuff, went to my potting bench and grabbed some scissors and snipped it. Took it upstairs and got it situated. So I was a half hour late to work...big deal! |
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- Posted by butterflymomok (My Page) on Thu, Jun 30, 11 at 10:31
Congrats!! Butterfly gardens DO work. Now, keep a look out for more eggs. She has your number. Sandy And, Happy Birthday! |
- Posted by fighting8r 10 Fort Myers Florid (My Page) on Thu, Jun 30, 11 at 17:51
Yes! Usually if you find one there are many more coming. |
- Posted by bettyd_z7_va 7 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 30, 11 at 18:40
Happy Birthday! And what a great present! If you can't be 30 minutes late on your birthday, when can you? Be sure to show us a picture of your present when it turns into a beautiful Butterfly. Betty |
Happy Birthday spaceman! What a great present! I recall the day when I found my very first BST egg on my fennel. Very exciting stuff. Plant those host plants, and they will come. Best of luck!! |
- Posted by misssherry Z8/9MS (My Page) on Fri, Jul 1, 11 at 10:50
Happy birthday! Ditto to what's been said about there will be more - there WILL be! Sherry |
- Posted by christie_sw_mo Z6 (My Page) on Fri, Jul 1, 11 at 11:45
Happy Birthday Spaceman! Great present. Bronze fennel is a wonderful plant for Black Swallowtails. I bet you find more. Did you tell them why you were late? |
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A Toast to the Duchin Lounge
If you are over 21 and have visited Sun Valley once or spent your whole life here, chances are, you have memories of time spent at the Sun Valley Lodge's elegant watering hole, the Duchin Lounge, commonly known as the Duchin Room.
With the fabulous, imminent renovation of the iconic Lodge, the Duchin Room will close its doors until next June this Sunday night, August 31. But the doors are not closing quietly! From 8:30 p.m. until midnight the Duchin Lounge will host a big party featuring some of the best live music anywhere. The legendary Joe Fos Trio will delight the audience with stylings that draw fans from all over the world. Favorites Paul Tillotson and Brooks Hartell will also keep the jazz going as drinks are poured and the new era of the Sun Valley Lodge is toasted.
Revel in the tradition that started when the Lodge was first built more than 75 years ago. When Sun Valley was just taking shape as the preeminent year-round resort in America, Marjorie Oelrichs Duchin was hard at work envisioning interiors to welcome the notable guests she knew would flock to rural Idaho once the resort was built. Wife of famed bandleader Eddy Duchin, Majorie created a colorful, simple and comfortable environment. Sun Valley visionary Averell Harriman was so pleased with her efforts, he honored her by naming the bar just off the main lobby in her honor. Bet you thought it was named for her husband. I know I did!
From that time on, the Duchin Room became a favorite gathering place for all the beautiful people – whether they were from Hollywood or just down the road. In the ensuing years, the lounge gone through numerous incarnations, sometimes incorporating a restaurant, other times acting primarily as a bar, but it was always a central part of the Sun Valley experience.
I have many fond memories of the Duchin Room. In the winter, it is the perfect place to gather with friends après ski to compare runs, enjoy a toe-warming coffee drink (Frangelico is my favorite) and listen to live music. In the summer, I have spent many a night sipping drinks like the signature "Stumbling Islander," (described as "a Mai Tai on steroids) on the Duchin deck admiring the figure skaters and just taking in the beautiful environs. Many special birthday parties have started or ended in the Duchin Lounge as have celebrations of every stripe. If you want to go somewhere where you are just as welcome in ski boots as stilettos, this is the place. My particular favorite spot to survey the scene was the high booths in the back of the room. This perch offered a great view of the entire room and a lot of privacy
I am not certain what the "new" Duchin Room will look like when it reopens June 2015, but it is sure to be elegant, comfortable and true to its long history
Let's raise a glass to the Duchin Room and all the memories that have been created there. But even grande dames occasionally benefit from a little facelit and I look forward to seeing how the Duchin Room emerges after the spring.
And don't worry. The Ram Bar at the Sun Valley Inn will remain open and pouring the best libations all fall, winter and spring. This warm, comfortable room offers a different feel than the Duchin but it a wonderful place to sip and savor the Sun Valley experience.


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Your placenta is made perfectly for you and contains your very own natural hormones. It can really help to balance your system and help you have a happier postpartum period. The benefits of Placenta Encapsulation are invaluable, and some of these benefits include:
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As a huge fan of Victoria Schwab and her books, I am pleased to celebrate the release of VICIOUS with a giveaway! But first, here is a bit about her new book to get you interested!
A masterful, twisted tale of ambition, jealousy, betrayal, and superpowers, set in a near-future world.
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong.
Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end?
In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn't automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question.
Now, you can enter to win a collection of Victoria Schwab's novels to date as well as Vicious character cards and other book swag. Feel free to tweet for extra entries every day as well as follow Victoria on Facebook and Twitter. Enter below to win!
UPDATE (10/2): This giveaway IS INTERNATIONAL. I am willing to pay the extra funds if an international reader wins. I love this author enough to share her with the world.
UPDATE (10/3): The author, Victoria Schwab, offered to personalize and sign the books to the contest winner! If that entices you more, tweet every day so you can get even more entries and a better chance to win!
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Comedian Phyllis Diller died today in her Los Angeles home. EW's Jessica Shaw profiled "the most celebrated female stand-up in history" in 2005 when the actress was still breaking ground at 87: She had penned a new memoir, Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse, and landed a role on a fall TV pilot, The Book of Daniel. Diller's wit was as sharp as ever, despite her failing health.
Phyllis Diller isn't feeling so hot right now. She's flung herself back in a black stretch limo, forcing deep breaths in and out of her mouth, weakened from a recent bout with pneumonia. Just two hours ago, things were not looking so dire for the comedy pioneer, who just published her autobiography, Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse. Diller had joined her friends General Hospital's Anne Jeffreys and socialite Louise Danelian at the Colleagues Spring Luncheon, an annual charity fashion show in Beverly Hills, where the median age hovered around a very tight-skinned 80. The well-preserved posse gossiped about the diamond-dripping donors between sips of Perrier and discussed AARP-friendly topics like menopause, the perils of driving, and the difficulties of falling asleep in old age. Clad in a self-designed, Pepto-Bismol-colored, machine-washable, zigzag-hemmed dress, Diller, 87, eagerly flashed a toothy smile (all real!) to photographers who'd tired of snapping Betsy Bloomingdale and Mr. Blackwell.


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Kellie's career goal is to influence others through inspiration. "Whether I'm giving a lecture to undergraduate health promotions students or writing an article for the Smart Fit Chick's blog, I am always trying to disseminate the latest fitness and wellness information to the public." She does this through her work, volunteering at city health fairs, department meetings and giving lectures at local hospitals.
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Daily Paper Prompt #27: Slow Journaling
Slow journaling in gellyroll on black gesso in an altered book, more pix at Altered Book: black.magenta.
An excerpt from this page about the bookstore, "I like to take notes at the bookstore... things I think of, quotes, books to investigate further, facts, sketches, notes, creative ponderings etc." I used a Rapidograph nib in my 8x8" Clairefontaine watercolor journal. The upper half is with a .6mm nib and J. Herbin Eclat de Saphir. The lower half is with a thin .35mm nib and J. Herbin Rose Cyclamin ink.
A page from 2009 written by the pool while the kids were swimming.
Play with each sentence in your mind until your thoughts concise. Slow journaling allows you to document thoughts in a unique & creative way. This is one of my favorite ways to get thoughts to a page in an effective, imaginative & pretty way.
To set up the page, draw wavy lines horizontally or vertically. The waves should not be symmetrical or consistent in any way other than going all the way across. You can paint each stretch with watercolor or gouache and let it dry thoroughly before writing. Use a pen that will not bleed into the paint {test first on a corner}.
Decide on your journaling topic and start at the top with title, date, perhaps the type of pen or ink. Write your words by stretching the letters to meet the top and bottom of the waves. Go slowly to ensure your words are legible. If the wavy lines are far apart, the letters are tall; if the wavy lines go downhill, the letters might go at an angle. Write SLOWLY, choosing each and every word DELIBERATELY with forethought.
This is THINKING JOURNALING.
You can use slow journaling to...
- Become more mindful of the world around you.
- Document thoughts & ideas.
- Describe an object or experience with vivid details.
- Think deeply about a topic.
- Letter quotes and lyrics.
- Use adjectives galore.
- Create art from words.
- Practice line drawing skills.
- Savor the moment.
- Focus your mind & relax.
You'll find a video tutorial about slow journaling with a dip pen and ink here: http://daisyyellowart.com/vividlife/tangent-11-slow-journaling-mostly-words.html
Read about One Sentence Journaling {Liz Massey of Creative Liberty interviewed Quinn McDonald about one sentence journaling a few years ago, good stuff}. Quinn blogs at Quinn Creative.