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Instant Classic: The Loafer
It doesn't suck to be a fashion scion. Since Gaia Repossi's great-grandfather founded his eponymous jewelry line in Turin, Italy, in the '20s, the Repossi name has been interchangeable with luxury. Under her father Alberto's direction, the house became the official jeweler of Monaco's royal family. (Charlene Wittstock's engagement ring is a Repossi original, and it was rumored that Dodi Fayed was to propose to Princess Diana with a Repossi ring.) But Gaia, just 25, takes a fresh approach to designing bijoux — burning precious metals and fully covering fingers and ears in modern works of art. The pieces, often spotted on Repossi's front-row-fixture friends, marry the Old World with the New — their glamorous history written in the filigree.
Earrings, price upon request, Repossi at Opening Ceremony; (212) 219-2688.
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The new cinematic trailer for Brink, our upcoming first-person shooter for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Games for Windows, is now available.
Watch it above, or head on over to the Bethesda Softworks YouTube channel for HD options.
ESRB RATING PENDING: May contain content inappropriate for children. Visit www.esrb.org for rating information.

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Hi, I'm beginning to learn meditation and I've been going the Zen route. The reason why I've started is to help rebuild my attention span, however, I'm trying to put those expectations aside so that I continue with the right mindset. After studying the various types of meditation methods I came across Metta meditation, and it caught my interest.
There was a time early in life when my family was very neurotic and this made me extremely sensitive. I would feel extreme empathy towards other people's pain, but it was almost too much. For a time I thought it was a gift, but knowing that pain exists in others is useless unless you can do something with that knowledge, and I was not the type of person to draw out the happiness in other people or even myself. It's still hard for me to not judge and just be happy.
So in time I shut that part of myself out and I've become a very selfish person. I try to be good towards other and do good deeds, but my mind is typically focused on just myself. Because of this I find ordinary conversations very difficult since I care little about what the other person's subjective view and experiences are. Unless their teaching me something new I find it very difficult to care and I rarely remember details about them. The next time I have a conversation with them I have nothing to say and I'm sure we both leave the conversation feeling a sense of disconnection due to my carelessness.
I was thinking about pursuing Metta meditation to help me in connecting to other individuals in a more positive way, rather than just focusing on myself, but it sounds like it's a very proactive and difficult practice.
Sorry about all the writing. I guess what my question is, as a beginning meditator should I continue to do Zen or is Metta meditation something that can be done by beginners as well? If so, can it possibly still help me with my concentration problems as well? Is there a recommended path to learning Metta meditation, and is there any overlap with Zen?


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There is not much more frustrating than dousing glyphosate on a weedy field and having some of the weeds laugh at you and continue growing. Weeds certainly have been proven to reduce yields, and the inability to control them with your main herbicide is nerve-wracking. However, many Corn Belt fields are populated with marestail which has become resistant to glyphosate. And if your cultivation practice is based on no-till, your soybean yields may take a significant yield hit. What do you do?
Marestail is one of those weeds that does not fit the typical schedule of other weeds. It can emerge either in late March through June or in late summer to fall. Those in the spring will form a low growing rosette before growing as tall as 6 feet. And their emerging fall cousins will be growing tall in the spring, and quite tough to control in their advanced stages. Weed specialists Mark Loux of Ohio State and Bill Johnson of Purdue have been working on a strategy for controlling marestail that is resistant to glyphosate. Part of the strategy is built on the use of LibertyLink soybeans and the use of Liberty herbicide. However, there are many alternatives that they suggest which will integrate with your weed control program. One of the benefits is avoiding an average 14 bu. per acre yield loss between a successful program and one which failed to control the marestail.
The specialists say the easiest time to control marestail is when it is in the rosette state, and less than 4 inches tall. Many of the populations have resistance to both glyphosate as well as herbicides that are ALS inhibitors such as Classic, Synchrony, or FirstRate. Their research reports that marestail is not resistant to Liberty, therefore, the use of LibertyLink soybeans are the most effective control strategy. They suggest the use of burndowns and residual herbicides, such as a post emergent application of Liberty at a 29 oz/A rate if the marestail exceeds 6 in.
Fall Application
If you have glyphosate resistant marestail growing this fall, your goal is to control the emerged plants with a burndown, followed by another application in the spring. Fall herbicides should not be expected to carry over to the spring, however if your marestail is not ALS resistant, you could use a product with chlorimuron. Loux and Johnson say Authority, Valor and products with metribuzin should not be used in the fall, but used in the spring. For an economical fall burndown, they suggest:
- glyphosate + 2,4-D; or
- dicamba + 2,4-D; or
- 2,4-D + a low rate of Canopy/Cloak EX or DF
Spring Application
If you have a healthy stand of weeds in the spring, do not plant into an existing stand of marestail, but start with a weed-free seedbed say the agronomists. Such a burndown could include:
- 2,4-D ester plus glyphosate (1.5 lb ae/A)
- 2,4-D ester plus Gramoxone (3 to 4 pts/A) plus a metribuzin-containing herbicide
- Liberty (29 to 36 oz/A) or Liberty plus a metribuzin-containing herbicide
- Saflufenacil product (Sharpen, Optill, or Verdict) plus MSO (1% v/v) plus either glyphosate or Ignite
When applying the burndown treatment, include a residual herbicide to control the marestail until the soybean canopy can shade it out. Such residual products might include:
- Valor, Valor XLT, Envive, Enlite, or Gangster
- Authority First, Sonic, Authority XL, Authority Broadleaf, or Spartan
- Canopy/Cloak DF + metribuzin (total metribuzin rate must be at least 0.38 lb ai/A)
- metribuzin (Metri DF, Tricor, etc) or Boundary (metribuzin rate must be at least 0.38 lb ai/A)
For post emergent control of marestail, Loux and Johnson say Liberty is the only effective herbicide to do that if the beans are LibertyLink beans. They say if the beans are Roundup Ready and marestail escapes the burndown, the suggested remedy is a combination of glyphosate plus Classic or FirstRate at the highest allowable rates. And they are quick to add that such a combination may provide a variable response but may work on some populations.
Marestail is becoming resistant to glyphosate, and may also be resistant to ALS inhibitors, which means control alternatives are becoming more limited, particularly in no-till soybeans, where cultivation is not an option. Because marestail emerges in both the spring and fall, treatment should occur in both times. A fall application can include 2,4-D and other herbicides. Spring applications can also use 2,4-D as a burndown with other herbicides. The only single effective control for marestail is Liberty, which must be used with LibertyLink soybeans.
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Anyway, I was wondering if you could find me any Mahayana text on (1) familial love (parents to children, children to parents, etc) (2) kindness to animals and (3) strangers, i.e. hospitality. I know that there is at least one 'Love of Parents Sutra' in Chinese but I can't remember if it's a Chinese production rather than an Indian work.
Anyone have any good ideas about Mahayana sutras which deal with these themes?


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The Indianapolis Colts today signed nine undrafted free agents including: tackle Emmett Cleary, kicker Brandon McManus, running back Dan Moore, running back Denodus O'Bryant, cornerback Sheldon Price, linebacker C.O. Prime, wide receiver Rodrick Rumble, wide receiver Lanear Sampson and cornerback Daxton Swanson. The team also waived running back Alvester Alexander, fullback Robert Hughes and linebacker Shawn Loiseau.
Cleary, 6-7, 313 pounds, played in all 48 games on the offensive line during his career at Boston College. Over his final two seasons, he started every game, playing right tackle his junior year and left tackle his senior year. In 2012, he blocked for an offense that averaged 259.3 passing yards per game, the most for the team since 2007. In 2011, he helped pave the way for six 100-yard rushing performances throughout the season.
McManus, 6-3, 201 pounds, holds Temple career records for points scored (338), field goals made (60) and attempted (83) and punting average (45.4). As a senior in 2012, he earned All-Big East first-team honors after leading the team in scoring (74) on 14-of-17 field goals and 32-of-33 extra points. He also averaged 45.1 yards per punt, pinned 17 punts inside the 20-yard line and had a long kick of 68 yards. McManus handled kickoff duties as well and recorded 40 touchbacks on 56 total kickoffs.
Moore, 5-11, 235 pounds, was a four-year letterman at Montana and compiled 924 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns in 38 career games. He also caught 26 passes for 338 yards and two touchdowns. As a junior in 2011, he posted career-high numbers, rushing 120 times for 430 yards and seven touchdowns, which ranked second on the team.
O'Bryant, 5-9, 194 pounds, was a two-time NAIA All-America selection, three-time all-conference choice and two-time conference MVP at Lindenwood University. He is the school's all-time career leader in total touchdowns (62), rushing touchdowns (38), rushing yards (3,237) and kick return yards (1,377). O'Bryant also finished with 1,512 receiving yards, 6,126 all-purpose yards, 12 100-yard rushing games and three 100-yard receiving games.
Price, 6-2, 180 pounds, competed in 47 games (45 starts) at UCLA and totaled 157 tackles (123 solo), 21 passes defensed, five interceptions and two forced fumbles. He participated in the 2013 East-West Shrine Game following a senior season in which he started all 13 games and tied for the team lead with a career-high four interceptions.
Prime, 6-1, 255 pounds, started 38-of-45 games at Wagner College and registered 297 tackles (111 solo), 11.5 tackles for loss, 2.0 sacks, five forced fumbles, four fumble recoveries, seven passes defensed and two interceptions. As a senior, he started all 13 games and led the team in tackles (98), while posting two forced fumbles and an interception. As a junior, Prime finished second on the team and 10th in the Northeast Conference with 80 tackles.
Rumble, 6-2, 201 pounds, graduated as Idaho State's all-time leading receiver with 223 receptions for 2,863 yards and 17 touchdowns. His 223 career catches were the fifth most by any active player in the FCS and his 2,863 yards ranked sixth. Rumble finished his collegiate career with a pair of 1,000-yard receiving seasons, including a record-setting campaign as a junior. In 2011, he set a school single-season record for receptions (112), while ranking second in receiving yards (1,348) and tied for sixth in receiving touchdowns (nine).
Sampson, 5-11, 205 pounds, played in all 51 games for Baylor and recorded 165 receptions for 1,905 receiving yards and 11 touchdowns. His 165 receptions rank fifth in school history and he finished his collegiate career with a 43-game reception streak, which ranked second nationally at the end of 2012. Sampson capped his collegiate career with a senior season which included career highs of 52 catches for 646 yards and six touchdowns.
Swanson, 5-11, 185 pounds, graduated Sam Houston State as the school's all-time leader in interceptions (14), while finishing second in all-time interception return yards (228). In addition, he recorded 129 tackles (96 solo), 43 passes defensed, four forced fumbles and one fumble recovery in 41 career games. Over his final two seasons, he paced the Bearkats in interceptions and passes defensed. As a junior in 2011, Swanson set a school record, led the Southland Conference and ranked No. 3 nationally with eight interceptions. Following the season, he was named an Associated Press and CollegeSports.com All-America third-team selection.
Alexander was originally signed by the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent on April 29, 2012 before being waived on July 17. He was then signed by the Colts on August 15 and spent time on the practice squad during the season. On December 26, he was signed to the Tennessee Titans practice squad before later signing with the Colts to a reserve/future contract on January 9, 2013.
Hughes played in five games (one start) with the Colts in 2012 and recorded one rush for five yards and one reception for three yards. He was originally signed to the Colts practice squad on October 9, 2012 and was elevated to the active roster on October 29.
Loiseau was originally signed by the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent on May 14, 2012 before being signed to the Colts practice squad on November 13, 2012. He was then signed to a reserve/future contract on January 7, 2013.
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Dow Makes it Nine in a Row
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed higher for the ninth straight day Wednesday, closing up 5.22 points, or 0.04%, to 14,455.28, a record for the index. The Dow has now set a closing record for seven consecutive days. The Dow is up 2.9% during its current winning streak, and has gained 10.3% this year.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.13% to close at 1,554.52, just 0.68% off its closing high of 1,565.15, hit on Oct. 9, 2007. It's the sixth-highest closing value in the S&P 500's history; the index is now up 9% in 2013.
The Russell 2000 index rose 0.39% to close at 943.9, a record. The index is has risen 3.6% in March and is up 11.1% this year.


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Krista Shaw
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Hi there!
My name is Krista Shaw and I am an Academic Advisor for the Adult Degree program at UW-Green Bay. It is my job to process transfer credit evaluations as well as advise students from the time they enter the program through graduation.
I began my own educational journey here at UW-Green Bay, where I received a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Human Development. So passionate about learning, I continued my education and earned a Master's degree in Counseling through Lakeland College.
While pursuing my Master's degree, I worked as an Intern with UW-Green Bay's Registrar's office processing transcripts and performing transfer credit evaluations. I spent over a year and a half in the Student Support Services office at NWTC, where one of my responsibilities was coordinating programs and workshops to help adult learners achieve success.
I am thrilled to be a part of team so compassionate about guiding adult learners through their educational journey. I am passionate about helping students accomplish their goals and discover their ability to achieve balance and success! I look forward to meeting you!
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*****Preamble to the Comet thread*****
I started this thread because Comets are good discs and I think they are underrated. Not many people threw them when I started this thread... at least not that they'd admit to.
Golfers, regardless of skill level, are consistently looking for the same things:
a disc that goes straight
a disc that has no fade (or veeerrry little)
a great gliding disc
a disc that does anhyzers really well
a disc that will hold sweet lines without having to beat it in
I feel that Comets can excel at all of these demands and many more. This thread is dedicated to exploring the many things the Comet does well.
I can't say the Comet is the best midrange or the only midrange... there are other fanboys that will claim that for their favorite disc. But I do think the Comet is the best fit for:
1. my current skillset
2. my current priorities I look for in a midrange
3. the way I like to play my home course
If other people read this thread then I think they might realize there are alternatives to the other popular midranges and the Comet just might fill a slot they have been looking for.
Enjoy the thread, learn some stuff, ask questions, whatever.
Try a Comet... you just might like it.
*****now back to our regularly scheduled show*****
because I know some people won't sift through 100 pages of Comet love to find the answer to their question, here is a brief explanation of the Comet and some FAQ answers wrote:Yeah, I guess you could call me a Comet Lover!
I don't like playing tournaments. Not my "cup of tea". So I play rec rounds and I play with lots of different people; lots of time these are random people I happen to meet at hole #1.
There are a few things that *coincidentally* tons of DGers are looking for in their ideal disc: dead straight, little to no fade, a disc that will go to the right, buckets of glide, sweet flightpaths without having to first beat the disc, and highly accurate.
The Comet is a truly unique disc; I believe it fills all these voids in peoples' bags. The downside to the Comet is that unless you come from a lid/Ultimate background, there will most likely be a steep learning curve involved.
I have recommended ths disc to zillions of people. Some of those people buy one, others try mine. I have seen sooooo many people's first throws with the Comet. Most of the time they throw it very badly. The disc dives to the right, goes roller and I hear, "oh no, this disc is waaay too flippy for me." Then I take the disc from them and throw a 300'+ laserbeam to illustrate that the disc is more than capable if you take the time to learn it's nuances. That will usually impress them.
I am not trying to brag that I have a huge arm- I don't; the Comets use their tons of glide to get out that far.
I am not trying to say that I have flawless technique. Again, I don't; but I do have countless hours throwing Comets in field practice and on the course so my form is necessarily cleaner than some other DGers.
What I am trying to say is that there are huge rewards waiting for you if you take the time to fully learn the Comet. Your newly improved form will carry over to your other discs and they will also fly cleaner and further.
So even if the Comet doesn't stay in your bag, KEEP IT. It is at least useful as a diagnostic tool. As you realize OAT creeping back into your game, blow the dust off of your Comets and do some spring cleaning to your technique. Then go back to throwing your regular bag with improved results.
As a side note, most Comet Lovers I know didn't like the Comet when they first tried it. But they kept the disc, played for a year or two without it and then came back to it. I guess their form improved in between the first audition and the second so the disc plays more nicely the second time around. This is exactly how I rediscovered the Comet. Haven't looked back since.
Comet buyers guide
most overstable to least overstable:
Sparkle Z RRs- most overstable by a fair bit but they are still not even close to a new DX Roc
Old run Elite Z (stamped with the current Elite X stamp)- barely *but noticeably* more overstable than the new Z runs
New run Elite Z(stamped with the current circle stamp)
Tourney Pro- about the same stability as ESP but break in faster; I don't have much experience with these, ask Three Putt about them if you are interested.
ESP LE- about the same stability as TP but break in slower
Elite X- initially fairly overstable but break in to buttery goodness quickly. A little too quickly for some peoples' taste.
BTW, because of their overstability and relative torque resistance the Zs are not recommended as a diagnostic tool. Elite X works really well for this... and they are cheap! If you can get an X to fly straight for 300' then you are doing very well and you can pat yourself on the back.
Its not all roses- I don't want to lie to you. There are drawbacks to the Comet; here are a few. Because they are so straight, they don't teach you to play the fade of the disc. Because of their glide it can be more difficult to range them. Because of their straightness they won't stall around a corner nearly as well as other discs. Because they turn sooooo slowly they won't do multidirection shots nearly as well as other discs. Headwinds are tricky. Shots like these can be done with the Comet but it takes much more careful manipulation. Even though I don't have money riding on my rounds (like I said, I don't do many tourneys) I won't take a chance on a low percentage shot that my Comet doesn't naturally like when I have a disc in my bag that will do it much more readily.
This brings me to my last section, disc selection. Keep in mind that I play a super heavily wooded course that doesn't have much wind if at all. When I carry carry my normal weight bag (right now I only throw 150 class) I always have at least my beat 174 Elite X and my beat 176 ESP. They are a handsomely matched pair because the X is truly understable and the ESP is still very neutral despite 18 months of hard use and tree whacks. The ESP, despite being beat, still has fabulous distance potential and will hold a smooth hyzer when I need it to. I will add a new Z once in a while but I will usually reach for a new DX Roc if I need something more overstable than my ESP. Like I just mentioned, I will usually carry a DX Roc to go with the Comets. This disc opens up a few shots that are difficult with Comets. Stalls around corners, wind play, pulling out of turns, skips, hard turning hyzers, and stuff like that.
Thanks for reading, I know it got pretty long. I feel like this disc is highly underrated and it doesn't usually get a fair shakedown. I hope this review helps answer some questions for those who might be interested in trying it. If you have any more questions feel free to ask.
Sun King just got another private stock batch of Z sparkle blues from Ron. $40 each.
I have never thrown Z Comets but I have a BUNCH of X's and ESP's. I hear the blue sparkles are the cream of the crop. Can anyone convince me this is worth it?
http://www.sunkingdiscs.com/index.asp?P ... ProdID=619
warning: real men throw their rocs away


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A dead mouse in a bottle was a graphic reminder how discarded rubbish harms wildlife.
An individual can take sustainable action by not taking energy out of the environment such as by using solar power; they can put energy back into the environment by planting trees; or they can repair damage to energy systems by eliminating disruptions like removing discarded rubbish.
I walked to an ancient nature park called Hilly Fields in Colchester armed with two bags to pick up rubbish. The discarding of rubbish does harm to the animals, plants and the environment they depend upon. In Britain we have a Queen, who resides mostly at Buckingham Palace in London; on Hilly Fields is the former royal palace of the first recorded King of Britain, called Cunobelin, recognised and recorded as such by the Roman Emperors from the time of Emperor Augustus. The Queen has no trouble with litter at Buckingham Palace, but at Hilly Fields it is a different story. Whilst Hilly Fields was reasonably clean, I still came away with two full bags of rubbish.
As a graphic reminder of the harm rubbish does to wildlife I came across a discarded glass bottle. Poking out of the end of this bottle was the head of a dead mouse. The mouse had got into the bottle, became trapped, and died. Less than five metres away from the bottle with the dead mouse was a litter bin. I was angry. A lazy, ignorant, careless human being had rather than using the litter bin steps away had thrown the bottle on the ground, a living creature paid for that carelessness with its life. All actions have consequences; small may be our actions, thoughts and words, large can be the impact.
A few hundred yards from the dead mouse Druids from two thousand years ago had buried a cauldron, known as the Sheepen Cauldron in honour to their earth goddess. These Druids would be horrified if they knew how their Colchester descendants treat the earth, the very location where they walked with respect, by dumping rubbish across it, leading to pollution of the ground and the death of animals. Those who live in the modern age tend to view our ancestors as backward savages, but I wondered who really is the backward savage.
I find my sustainable actions open doors to other activities. After returning home I wrote an e-mail to my local Colchester councillors asking for signs to be put up in all Colchester nature parks telling people to take their rubbish home with them. A letter is planned for the local newspaper.


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Without an academic introduction, without an investigative introduction, unsystematically and without a plan, whatever the moment dictates, as things are in raw life, I want to bring out from the depths of memory and write down whatever comes to mind, memoirs about people, facts and episodes, happenings, etc., without any particular order, whatever comes to my pen, so forgive my global paint brush.
About Jews as ethnic groups, I will not speak. All Jews were Jews, except, perhaps, one convert Yohan Kaufman who spoke Russian like a good goy, and Yiddish with an echo of a goyish accent. He was fond of stopping Heder boys and ask them if they know all the Chumash stories
There were also a few resident strangers, and I remember Soreh, the resident stranger, to whom I would get sent to buy yeast, boiled water and roasted pumpkin seeds.
I deeply regret that I don't remember in what connection my father used to tell me about two or three Jews, who lived at the border of the shtetl and later moved out of the shtetl to a village. I believe that they belong to the Shepsn that's how in his time, in the Yiddish speaking Eastern Europe the followers of the false Messiah, Shabbai Tzvi and later his disciple Yakov Frank, were called. In our part north Bessarabia and Podolia from around Kaminetz Podolsk and in Southern Galicia in the 17th there was a concentration of the Shepsn. The Monsignor Yakov Frank rode through before he came to Kaminetz Podolsk and there he was given a reception by the persecuted ones, the shepsn amongst the Jews; the city Chatin, with its Turkish fortress, was at that time, under Turkish rule, though it belonged to Moldova. Here Yakov Frank crossed the Dniester to Poland.
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The Jews whom my father called Shepsn apparently believe in some ancient and hardly identifiable sign, about a wandering disappeared generation. It's a pity that I don't remember any particulars or names.
When the Russians annexed Bessarabia, they divided the country into classes: noblemen, for the cities and for provinces, merchants, Moldavian villagers. The Yedinitz Jews were merchants. Our family had a special category Brichansky Merchants and therefore had privileges at the border. Those who spoke little Russian were also officials, tradesmen, the gypsies. The merchants and goyish (Ukrainian) speaking were Tzarones and lived in that part that was called Yedinitz Village.
There was almost no social contact amongst the Jews and non-Jews. We barely knew the living conditions of the non Jews and the gypsies. The first ones were suppliers of potatoes and other vegetables, and also platnikes and the others musicians at Jewish weddings. Regarding the Moldovniks and goyim we knew very little.
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Amongst the more refined Christians noblemen, and certain Jewish girls, there was a certain communication that became a theme for gossip and for youthful jealousy At the edge of town there were shikses and goyes who occupied themselves with the oldest profession in the world. The local doctors had much to tell about patients with venereal diseases as a result of work accidents (I quote the words of my fellow schoolmate and youthful chaver, Dr. Syoma Tolfoder, whom the Romanians and Germans murdered).
Syoma, himself a great joker, told me the following related anecdote: a young boy came to him for medical attention and left his watch in deposit for payment until such time as he will pay. When he didn't come to redeem it, Syoma, the Jewish progressive doctor thought: why shouldn't I visit my patient at home, request from the father to redeem the watch and at the same time try to teach him something. Young people, in sexual acts, somehow it led to trouble. One must be careful so why shouldn't the father pay and get the watch back. The father was busy, though, with earning a living and didn't grasp what it was all about; he called his son over and said, Tell me, my son, what sort of business have you made between me and the doctor? Why did you deposit the watch and got a triperl? Quickly, return the triperl to the doctor and take the watch back..
The greatest anti-Semites and Jew-haters came from those goyim who had any contact with the Jews. They played a tragic role during the destruction / Holocaust.
There were also Bulgarians in the shtetl. These were Jews who grew vegetables near the Seminary River they drew water from the river with a rod and did their watering; later they sold their vegetables in the market.
The Turks, on the other hand, were all bakers. Even Jewish bakers were called Turks. I think that the non-Jewish bakers were Armenians or Greeks, ethnic consciousness and tried to distinguish between Turks, Greeks and Armenians a Jew pointed out to me, What is the difference between a Greek or an Armenian after all, they're all Turks!
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They spoke a weak Russian, and one such Turk used to advertise his baked goods as follows:
(in Russian) Adin Khleb _ adin dvocktzat _ capaijek _ Dva khlieba Dva dvadtzat-capaiyek vaiye khlieba (One small bread twenty kopikes; two small breads two twenty kopikes; all the small loaves all the twenty kopikes.)
This kind of talk indicates that the Turk was Armenian.
Already at the start of the 1920's they disappeared from the shtetl and even the Jewish bakers were no longer called Turks.
Originally the streets had no names. The Rumanians gave them their names: Redjeleh Ferdinand (Patch taveh), Regina Maria, etc. Who can remember them? On the other hand it's easy to remember the Yiddish street names of long ago: the Tailors' Street, the Bathhouse Street, the Study House Street, the Hekdesh Street, the Market Street, the Shul Street. I believe there was also a Seat Street
At any rate, there were in Yedinitz all kinds of merchants and many craftsmen. I won't be wrong if I will point out that there were more than two hundred tailors in the shtetl. Yiddishe tailors, (that is, better one for Jews) were separate. The others, the Goyishe, sewed for the villagers. But there were also cobblers, bakers, blacksmiths, coppersmiths, goldsmiths, house painters, artists, confectioners.
At the end of the 1920's the craftsmen organized themselves into a Handworkers' Association (and not a Farein).
The Farein held meetings and argued, but the name Craftsmens' Farein was a mouthful, so they called it simply Farein It didn't take long before the name became Efrein and from there to the simple, general word Ephraim. From this it's not far to the name Chevrat Ephraim and that's what the name became.
But before long Chevrat Ephraim became a League of Nations by the haughty ones. How did this happen? Just listen:
Others have already written about the Shreyers (shouters / announcers). Elek Shreyer had already died long ago. His stretched-out formula with which he would begin his announcements (partly in Hebrew, partly Yiddish) Kakhriz U'Modia dem oilem ( I declare and let everyone know) without speaking clearly. Avreme took his place. His main job was Eirike Bagle.
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He didn't understand words very well, even when he spoke privately. When he spoke about more complicated matters, from the formula Makhris U'modia came out: Achris U'modia. Later he used a different formula: Midiat hatafer.
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The Crier Illustration by Peretz Weinreich
Once Avreml had to announce the general meeting of the Craftsmans' Farein and say that members of all professions are invited: tailors, cobblers, etc.
Algemeiner Farzamlung (General Meeting) Craftsmans' Farein. Professions these were works too difficult to understand, let alone pronounce so Arremele called out:
Makhriz umodia dem oilem, az morgn vet zayn di obshe sabronye fun chevras Ephraim m'betaz s'zoln zich tzuzamen-kumen alle natzies, shneiders, shusters un alle andreh. (I hereby declare and inform that tomorrow there will take place the meeting of all nations; tailors, cobblers and all others.)
That's how the Chevrat Ephraim got the nickname The League of Nations.
In Yedinitz there was also a merchants' Farband, and later, a professional farein as well, of all kinds of workers, under the influence of the communists. We, Poale Zionists, also tried to form a professional farein and organized those who worked form the merchants.
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And while w're talking about shreyers (others have more widely written about this colorful profession), I recall that we once heard a voice of a new, unfamiliar announcer. But here also the content of the announcement was unique and I will convey it exactly because of its particular interest. He shouted, I hereby announce to everyone that a new director has come, a Brichaner, and that's me in person Whoever needs me will find me on the 'potchaveh' in kolz near the 'abuvneh' shop 'Kolker'.
For those who don't know, or have forgotten, it's worth explaining that the concept director is clean language for, you should excuse me, a (closet) toilet cleaner. The word was used because of its similarity to another word that is closely related to this trade.
And the Jewish director came from Brichan, after the Jews had, after quite a few months, suffered with the goyishe directors ever since the long-time director had died Areleh Enikus of Yedinitz.
Areleh was an institution. Everyone used his services. He had assistants but he was the real boss of the trade the administrative director of the administrative directors
There was no water installation in the shtetl. No flush toilets either. The saying, Who is a rich man meant, for us, the one who has a 'closet' toilet near his table. No one in Yedinitz could claim this kind of wealth. Somewhere in the yard four boards were erected, with a door and a hole in the ground with a board for the feet and that's the whole institution. Also, when the ground was snow-covered, it was often difficult to reach there so we relied on the falling snow to cover everything. When the snow let up the colorful deposit was exposed.
Areleh used to organize the sanitation cleaning of the institutions. This trade used to be done at night. Outside there stood a wagon with a couple of open pails. With pitchers everything used to be transferred from the holes to the wagon, leaving behind signs on the ground, stench in the air.
Areleh himself always went around dirty. You could smell him from the distance. Besides, he was always drunk. He had a wife and, I think, children too. But they distanced themselves from him.
Areleh Enikus perished in such a horrible way under circumstances that only Satan himself could conjure up.
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The Seminary of the Priests has been mentioned. The sanitation institutions of the seminary used to be cleaned only once a year, when the long vacation began. Areleh himself couldn't undertake such a job, so professionals used to arrive annually from Beltz, but Areleh was their guide in the large pit like catacombs. It happened that the Beltz directors came exactly when Jews were celebrating Shavuos. Areleh didn't observe the holiday and went to work in the sanitation. He was let down with a rope to the catacombs in order to open the doors in order to be able to scoop out the goods. When Areleh went down into the pit to open the doors the accumulated gasses escaped. Areleh lost his balance, fell into the pit and drowned in the messy excrement. The Belzer directors worked very hard to pull out the dead body.
No complaints helped, and the Burial Society had to give him a Jewish burial. Because of the horrible death his body didn't have to be religiously purified / cleansed, and he was buried near the fence.
Jews laughed and joked about the death of Areleh. And it was because of the circumstances. People spit out three times in disgust. I, though, couldn't free myself from the tragic aspect of this tragic symbolic, terrible finality of life of a Jew. No more satanic death occurred to any Jew anywhere in the world; to drown in such material in the sanitation system of the priests on the very day of the holiday of the giving of our Torah.
I know that many will turn their noses up and say that stories about dukhi (perfume) smell better, but life, unfortunately does not consist solely of Garden of Eden aromas.
And while we are talking about the shtetl's underworld, we must not omit a person with a name and a profession. Namely, he operated a whorehouse that was on the outskirts of the shtetl, in the vicinity of the grain silos, the zvadnia it was called in the shtetl. He was not a young man and his head used to shake. The pensioners he would charge from time to time in a very demonstrative way. He would seat them on a coach-wagon and together with them he would lead the horses through the main part of the shtetl. Or else he would go around and declare There's new goods.
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It was no great privilege to speak with him. Fine gentlemen and silk-clad young men would avoid him lest he might, God forbid, reveal that he knows one of them others would stop him and enjoy his stories that he told.
The truth is that his main clientele was from the Christians of the shtetl and the goyim from the villages, on market days, from the soldiers who were stationed in the area and from the seminarians, that is, those who studied what is permissible and what is not, in order to be frum, and moral priests
Suddenly the Rumanian gendarmes started to pick on Avraham Shweitzer and his establishment. They demanded permissions. Around the institution fights used to break out, arguments, and the gendarmes used to be called to reestablish order. Once the gendarmes grabbed Avraham and led him through the whole town, to the gendarme post. Avraham kept shouting and protesting in a language that was a mix of Russian and Yiddish: Is it permissible to hit an old man?
The result was that the rulers closed Avraham Shweitzer's business.
Gypsies and other shikses in the goyishe streets understood how to fill the void and took advantage of the circumstances.
There isn't a settlement without its mishugayim. The most famous mishugener in Yedinitz was Yuizeh. He was quiet and retarded and used to go around in torn and battered clothes and beg. During an epidemic he was married off in the cemetery to Frumeh, also a retarded one. They were settled into a house, furniture was supplied, but naturally, it didn't become a family home. Frumeh, in contrast to Yuizeh, could manage to string a few words together. Chevreh used to provoke her to tell something about her family life. From the description about how Yuizeh tried to be a man, people would roll with laughter.
Another nut turned up in the shtetl. He earned his livelihood as a water-carrier. His name was Mendl and quickly the children discovered that he becomes agitated, shouts and curses when they would call him Mendl mit di gatkes (Mendl with the underpants). Then they would anger him by calling Mendl with the tallis, etc. Later Mendl brought a son to the shtetl. I've forgotten what he was called. He couldn't speak and his behavior was abnormal.
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There was another abnormal one, or more precisely, a depressed one, or a simpleton, who distinguished himself in certain ways, however. He was called Avrahm Tzurlick. His work was to carry out on a board that hung on his shoulders soap from the manufacturers to the stores. This was dirty and not very honorable work, for a pittance. He walked around barefoot, in torn clothes, stammered when he spoke. He also used to raise pigeons. He had quite a dovecote and used to deal and exchange pigeons. But this stammering, depressed, poorly clothed simpleton could quote whole passages from the Tanach (Hebrew Bible), especially from the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, translating the portions both literally and figuratively, quoting commentators and adding some astonishing scholarly-like explanations that amazed people. How does he know all this? Tanach wasn't of particular interest to scholars, the learned. Kibbitzers like us, schoolboys used to stop him in order to listen to his Torah talk. At first he pretended that he didn't want to talk. I don't have time, he would say, being embarrassed when he was put in the spot. It was necessary to encourage him and these depths of wisdom, knowledge and incisive talk about Tanach flowed from him so that it was impossible to stop him.
From whence does all this come to him? Who is he? Where does he come from? Where did he live? Where and when does he look into these religious texts?
We weren't interested in all that. People would, in a vulgar fashion, refer to him as the meshugener.
And there was another characteristic of this soap-carrier. He could answer questions about which day of the week the yom tovim fell on this year. Any year, ten years from now, twenty, or, for instance, thirty-seven years from now or even more into the future
He would stammer a bit and reflect: Wait, wait, he would say, and come up with the answer. Pesach in such and such a year will be Tuesday. High Holidays Monday Shavuos Wednesday, etc.
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People with perpetual calendars for fifty years checked and confirmed - He's right. If, however, the calendar dates were beyond the extent of the perpetual calendar, he had to be taken at his word.
Such a meshugener one of a kind, but for sure there is something to him.
A lamed-vovnik we young ones said. Our parents rebuked us because in their opinion we had dishonored the holy concept.
There were butchers who employed helpers. Some of them came to our Poale-Tzion organization. One of them taught me nice folk songs that originated in the butcher shop songs related to events in the shtetl that I wrote down but that have unfortunately gotten lost. One of these butcher boys once wanted to hit me because at one of the Reading Evenings I read Sholem Asch's Koiler Gessl (Slaughterhouse St.) and in his opinion I insulted the butchers. He was a skinner by trade.
There was another class of merchants who were called Katzavim (butchers). These were livestock dealers which they sold for meat. Their work consisted of traveling throughout Rumania, attending the fairs where cattle were sold and buy oxen for the Jewish lord, Asipovich, who had sugar factories in Ripichen a village near the Prut River in Moldavia, not far for Yedinitz and in other locations as well. Sugar was produced from sugar beets and with the remains the Jewish lord fattened up his cattle. The butchers used to shop for him and his cattle food.
When they talked about the lord precious oil used to drip from their lips. After all, he was their bread provider! And they had more than enough income.
The butchers themselves used to like feasting and enjoying meals with varenikes, meat-filled knishes, and dairy bagels that used to swim in oil or butter. They themselves were broad-shouldered, with stuffed bellies and their wives were also rolly-polly, heavy-set.
They weren't very learned and their language was a mundane one, with German words that they brought from the secular world, but with all the signs of vulgarity.
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When their spirits were high from wine in this comfy meal enjoyment, they used to hug their fat wives and make ambiguous remarks; their wives used to laugh loudly at this, but acted as though embarrassed To this day, I remember the answer that one of these butchers gave his supposedly embarrassed wife:
Good brothers Yenke. It's a Jewish act, even the religious judge (Dayan) enjoys it
Here you have grammatical play of words, folk philosophy, cynicism, Germanization, and how would we say it today? --- Sex nearly all the humor elements of Yiddish hanky-panky theatre.
The butchers as previously noted, brought from the world expressions of German politeness. They even used to address the Jews in this way: Herr Chayim-Leib The concept Herr Herrn didn't exist in the shtetl. One would simply say Reb Zalman or simply Zalman, using the first name. This intelligent fellow disappeared with the Russians.
But particulary charming was the story of one of the butchers about his conversation with the female Doctor Shoot in Yedinitz, who was also called the Red Doctor because of the color of her hair.
So I told her, the butcher said, Herr Doctor, you must understand
The Jew several times emphasized this expression Herr Doktershe in case he hadn't been heard. He picked up this expression in Chernowitz where the Austrian expression Herr Doctor, which is their way of addressing a doctor, a male, so for a woman they thought it should certainly be Herr Doktorshe.
His wife stood beside him and beamed with naches from his worldly knowledge about how one should nicely speak.
And there were also Jews who dealt with pigs. They didn't usually slaughter pigs or sell pig meats as the gentile pig dealers. They were pig wholesalers. They used to go to the fairs all over the land, purchase full-grown pigs, slaughter them in special slaughterhouses. Sometimes they bought pigs for marketing to be raised. These slaughterhouses existed in various towns. They would export the meat abroad, especially to England.
The most representative pig dealer was Avraham Yekl Bronstein. He was an old bachelor, slovenly dressed, with a wrinkled face. He himself used to tell that during the famous strike in England in 1926, a ship with his pork wasn't unloaded. The meat got foul and he and his partners suffered a great loss.
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He lived with his parents well-off people, who had a nice house on Patchtova St. The father, the old Reb Yekl was a Jew from Shpilchev with his own one of a kind principles, not particularly mild ones. It used to be told that his wife had a hard time getting him to change his underwear at least once a week. But Yekl didn't want to obey her.
It's not necessary to change underwear weekly. What am I, a child? Have I filled my pants?
Jews used to repeat the story and add: Correct!
Avraham Yekl's son was a genteel young man, never bothered anyone and contributed I believe for communal needs or gave an alm if asked.
We heard his name mentioned a few years ago in connection with very tragic circumstances. The Kishanov Soviet radio announced (afterwards so did the telegraph agencies and newspapers) that a terrible speculator had been caught on whom there was found foreign currency and gold. His name: Abrosha Bronstein. He was an old bachelor, lived alone and didn't socialize, was miserly. He admitted that he used to deal in illegal (black) exchange in the synagogue. He was sentenced to death and executed.
The execution wasn't simply that of a speculator. In the announcement there was instilled a few drops of antisemetic poison. Reading and hearing about this tragedy my heart pained me. The episode and that person are also a part of the Jewish diaspora-destiny.
These were two trades in which tens of Jews were occupied, not of the upper class. Amongst the wagoners there were several classes; owners of horses and wagons, who had hired shmeisers (wagon drivers) because they themselves never went driving. Those who rode with their own horse and carriage and those who handled the horse and wagon for others. There were also carters. There was one wagoner who thought he was high and mighty not an ordinary wagoner The various gentiles and the Christians used to call the wagoner balahorrchik. This wagoner used to have publicity sheets printed in Russian, as follows: Intelligent Igvanchik.
Zalmen, the wagoner, was also called Zalmen Parech because of his large bald head that reached down to over his ears. His hat he used to wear pulled down over his ears, both summer and winter. Zalmen used to brag that he doesn't have to buy a hat. He gets them free. How?
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|Here, take off your hat and don't make any funny faces
Illustration by Peretz Weinreich
When, in Zalman's wagon there sat someone who had just arrived in town, a man with a nice hat, Zalman would act smart and take off the man's hat and put it on his own head When the stranger would start to get mad at the mean gesture and for the chutzpah, Zalman would answer. Take your old hat and don't make such a racket.
But when Zalman uncovered his bare head on which there were wrinkles and signs of healed sores, the passenger, of course, didn't want to take the hat back, because a hat that had been on Zalman parech's head, nobody wanted to don on his own head.
Zalman got drowned in a flood into which he fell, together with his horse and wagon somewhere between Yedinitz and the train station.
With the arrival of autos and autobuses the fate of the wagoners went downhill.
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Our childish fantasy, however, teased the water-carriers. Why? Because their water-carrying was dramatic. During the winter frosts long icicles would hang down from their barrels and cans, just as they did from the roofs. The water-carrier who generally wore a short pelt/jacket and high leather boots, would put the cans down and start to slap his hand and try to warm himself. When it was muddy he would shout loudly in order to hurry the horses, so that they would pull the heavy load further. Vyo, n'veilah, Vvyo pgirah, you've stuffed yourself with oats, so do something.
From hiding some pranksters would play a trick on the water-carrier and pull out the cork from the barrel He cursed and went to the house of the mshumad to collect for the damage, that the prankster had caused.
An unwritten law was: during a fire the water carriers were obliged to arrive with full barrels of water for putting out the fire. Later they would go to the neighbors of the burnt premises and request payment because they were the ones who benefited.
And we especially envied the little Feisl who helped his Zaide, the water-carrier, to hold the whip and even to pull the reins and drive the horses. His Zaide had provided two small dippers for Feisl, in order to slowly introduce him pedagogicall to the trade. Feisl's mother had given birth to him without chupah and kidushin (out of wedlock) from a wealthy son of parents whom she worked for as a servant. He grew up hefker (randomly). He didn't learn any Yiddeshkeit in cheder The cheder boys used to call him mamzeruk so his grandfather took him in hand .
Feisl wasn't drawn to his grandfather's trade, however. Summertime he wanted to play with nuts, and winter—to skate on the ice. The Zaide could always be heard shouting, Feisl, Feisl, where are you? The horses have gone wild.
And when Feisl appeared the Zaide would scold and curse him and end with the desperate finale:
Oy Feisl, Feisl If you ever become a mensch you'll sit with me on the wagon. If not, I'll give you away, to hell, to tailor.
Feisl, already a grown youth, became, so I was told, quite a bigshot in the lagers/camps of Balta, Transnistria. The end was that he disappeared. It is told that he perished at the hands of the Germans.
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|Those heretics, a demon went into their father,
and they pulled the plug out of the barrel.
Illustration by Peretz Weinreich
He used to daven in our Husyatin prayerhouse, and after a minor dispute his true character emerged. The young members thought very highly of him. He was handsome, tall, clean, his silk capote always shone because of his good care, he was very trendy. He elicited respect not only from the Jews but from the goyimas as well. Even the chief Postmaster and other authorities showed him respect.
He's not your ordinary run-of-the-mill Rov", his young followers boasted.
The elders, on the contrary, didn't think very highly of him. He's too grand, over dresses, is snobby not at all the way a Rov should be
Michael used to like to chum around with the young men. He also liked to read secular books, even took an interest in astronomy and even liked to study Newton's law of gravity and other such wonders and that shy one blurted out:
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Don't think that the non believers don't have facts on which to base their beliefs.
But immediately he caught himself that he had said something unwise to express
and attempted to correct himself.
But, on the other hand we can respond to them that (and at this point he quoted all kinds of familiar religious quotations).
He was a good speaker and used to mix in many interesting words, cultural, psychological, logistic, philosophical etc.
Yedinitz was proud of him. His son became Rov in Botchan, Old Rumania and in the shtetl his religious learnedness was often mentioned as was his general knowledge and his business sense. He died in Israel (read about this in another portion of the book). On Simchas-Torah the Rov used to cover his head with his tallis, take a Torah and dance with it. He danced excitedly, bowing here and there just like a ballet dance.
It would happen that Jews sometimes needed documents so that a Ukrainian could for example become a citizen, etc. The local judge used to issue such documents. He was incidentally, quite a bribe taker. Usually there were Jews in the judiciary who would, for a small fee, give advice on any matter demanded a sacramental oath: that the witness should swear, in front of the Rov, that he's telling the truth.
Once, such a witness had to bear witness for a Jew who had to legalize himself the Rov knew this as did the judge, but for a bribe he kept quiet. That's why he called upon the rov to put the responsibility on him.
So Michael, the Rov, opened the Tanach, donned his tallis and accepted the swearing of the witness with these words:
Don't answer your neighbor falsely, but if you must
Actually the Rov took this swearing oath upon himself, forgiving the man, in order to save a Jewish soul.
The Rebbetzin was someone special. She was a tzadkanit: (saint), active in the community, a kind soul. Of interest is the committee that she established: Malbish Arumim (Clothing the Poor). She gathered around herself some twenty or so girls who used to go around to the houses on Friday to collect donations for the Rebbetzins Committee Erev Pesach and erev the High Holidays she used to go to the yard-goods storekeepers in order to buy from them yellow linen. The girls used to sew shirts and underwear and the rebbetzin used to distribute it amongst the poor. This was holy work for her as it was for all inhabitants of the shtetl.
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We, young people, tried from time to publish journals, hectographic ones, around 20-30 copies at once. Contents consisted of literary works, songs, poems, meditations. One such journal was called Funkn (Sparks). Somewhere I still have a few pages of the first issue. No well-known writers emerged from these debut attempts.
Mainly Kishinev newspapers were read. Russian and Yiddish ones. First Der Yid (The Jew) and later Undzer Tzeit (Our Times). From a journalistic point of view the Russian newspapers were better with more news and more sensationalism. Later we began to read Rumanian newspapers from Bucharest. Though it sometimes took five days for the Bucharest papers to reach us, the news in them was still fresher than in the Yiddish papers of Kishinev.
For the Yiddish papers the subscription would usually be shared by two and sometimes even three. It would go from neighbor to neighbor. There was one neighbor who didn't take the papers all week, only on the Sabbath. Shimon, the gazetchik used to be the treasurer for the subscribers. Later a collector would arrive. Shimon would also let people read the papers. He also dealt with the Russian and Rumanian press that one could also get to read for a third of the price of a newspaper.
Shimon understood to whom to give the most recent papers and to whom he could give a paper from the past week. Gentiles would, sometimes during one of their holidays, buy a Russian or Rumanian paper so if Shimon had such, he would even sell them a paper that was a year old. The goy was happy because he got the newspaper dirt cheap.
Amongst all the other interesting parnoses (livelihoods) there was also the parnose of limenik. He used to bring from the large city a few cases of lemons to sell, going from house to house. Lemons were used with tea as well as to revive someone who had fainted. Pieces of lemon peel used to be stirred into preserves. This fellow would also deal with oranges which were sent at Purim for Shalach-Mones. Also various fruits that were brought from Eretz Israel for Chamisha-Osar B'Shvat. Also peanuts to crack on Shabbes one could get from him. This fellow had extra income from selling the boards of the cases of lemons and oranges. They were made from solid wood that were used as chopping boards. Quite a few housewives owned chopping boards that they purchased from Limenik.
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I won't name the girl. For the sake of my telling, I'm describing a certain type, a naïve girl .let's call her Chavaleh after the first woman on earth (Eve). She was naïve and therefore an old maid. Her father would send her to a neighbor to ask for a loan or for an interest free loan. Her mother would send her to borrow some parsnip, some sour-salt or a stick of cinnamon. When she would come into the house of the tailor, Maier Kapendis, a smart Jew, a kibitzer, he tempted her to drink a glass of whiskey that was ready on the table to serve to some goyim who were coming to pick up some tailoring he had done for therm. Maier Kapendis told her to taste it.
No, why not? he asked her when she refused.
Foolish girl Maier persuaded her. Have some. Why leave the whiskey for the Kaporanik.
Chavaleh took a glass. The second glass also. Then the third one When she went out of the tailor's shop she staggered and couldn't walk.
Her mother wanted to kill herself when she saw her daughter in such a shape
Woe is me.. What happened to you? her mother asked, wringing her hands.
Mama, Chavaleh declared, it's nothing. It was simply a waste to leave the whiskey for the Kapornik
It's not desirable to hear repeated the curses that Chavaleh's mother poured out on the head of the mean tailor.
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When Chavaleh was already not so young she suddenly got a groom, an out-of-towner, a handsome fellow with a head of black hair, fashionably dressed, leather belt, patent leather shoes the whole bit. Chavaleh's father promised a good dowry He sold everything to put together the dowry money.
So the groom would go with Chavaleh into a room with no windows and close the door. Mother and father stood outside and wrung their hands.
What can they be doing there so long?
In a little while the groom and the bride came out of the room flushed and sweating.
When the mother remained along with Chavaleh she tremblingly asked: Chavaleh, what was going on so long?
Mama, Chavaleh told enthusiastically, he loves me so much that he actually kissed me.
In a few days the groom convinced his future father-in-law to give him part of the dowry money in order to do some business. The father let himself be convinced. The groom, with part of the dowry in his pocket, got on a carriage-wagon in order to return in a few days with goods.
He disappeared to the present day Chavaleh believed that something happened to him because how could he run off? After all, he loved her so much that he even kissed her.
Reb Moteleh Klugman was short. He also distinguished himself with his uniqueness of speaking when he spoke to the goyim—the customers in his yard-goods store when they bargained about the price. He wanted to show them with wisdom and in a gemara cadence, that he can't lower his price. He would use this language, a mixture of Yiddish and Goyish:
Dake nu tie unkapike zarbotais to sidks ie treigesh na sciete un vidke am se am na Shabbis?
Dr. Paul Baratov came to the shtetl with his theater group. He performed serious plays. One of the performances was The Father by Strindberg. In the play there is the famous scene where he father throws on his wife, who wants to drive him crazy, a burning lamp. Baratov—as the father—threw the lamp very ingeniously and that electrified the audience in the hall. I remember that I also was aghast. But suddenly a woman arose from amidst the audience and shouted out her reflex.
Such a scandal in front of so many people..Fie. A decent person doesn't do such a thing.
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|What a scandal! This is no good for so many people.
Illustration by Peretz Weinreich
Here in Israel someone from Yadenitz met me; she arrived after the war. She complained to me that she and her family had been given poor housing and indication of which is that in their bathroom the wall is only tiled half way up etc. This was accompanied by a deep sigh:
Yosl, Yosl, I don't have to tell you how nicely we lived back home
Certainly I remember!
Her father was a rimmer, in good-spirit he was called Khayim Zodik.]
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Their dwelling was opposite the church. It consisted of two rooms. In the front room there stood a sewing machine. Light entered from outside only when the shutter was opened. A few steps down one went into a shop from the shop one went up three or four stairs into the one room in which they lived. There there were a pair of beds for the parents and a few couches for the children.
In this room there were no windows. The houses in this row had no yard or indoor toilets. If one needed one took the special pot and went down to the basement with it If one saw that the shanty door to the basement was open it was a sign that somebody was there with their pot. Then the pot was brought up from the cellar, covered with paper, or not one looked around right and left to make sure that nobody was passing by, and then cast the contents out onto the street .
In front of the shop there was a container of water. Beside it, on a footstool, a tin
clean water, one was already not so careful
Whether I remember how nice her dwelling was in Yedinitz?! And how And here she is complaining about a bathroom in an apartment that she was housed in.
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|What a great life
Illustration by Peretz Weinreich
The leader in the carpenter shop of Hekhalutz" in Yedinitz was a short and stubby man who was called Benny Beich (Pot-bellied Benny). He used to teach the halutzim carpentry and also look after the operation that produced furniture. Once it was decided that we also should learn carpentry and thus be drawn into Hechalutz.
Benny was a joker and was constantly wisecracking. One he said to someone:
Do you know carpentry? How to zegen (saw) you know ever since you used to zaig nurse at your mother's breast and you also know how to put one foot into bed, even two so you're a true carpenter.
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http://www.indystar.com/article/2009...TS03/902220373 Does this suprise or scare anyone? Does this make anyone think that we're more likely to land one of the big name WR or Defensive free agents?The Indianapolis Colts won't attempt to re-sign Jeff Saturday, their starting center the past nine seasons, before the start of the league's free agent signing period, according to his agent.
In an e-mail to The Indianapolis Star late Saturday, Ralph Cindrich said "discussions and events this past week'' confirmed the team will allow Saturday to "test the free agent market,'' which opens Friday.
Saturday, 33 and a three-time Pro Bowl selection, is one of eight Colts who will become unrestricted free agents at the end of the week.
Depending upon interest shown by other teams, "there is a possibility he could return to the Colts,'' Cindrich added.
Saturday has been the cornerstone of the Colts' offensive line and quarterback Peyton Manning's center since 2000.
With Saturday starting 138 regular-season games the past nine seasons -- he missed six games with injuries, including four last season -- Manning has worked behind one of the league's most efficient offensive lines. The unit allowed a league-low 178 sacks during that stretch, tying a club record by yielding only 14 last season.
The decision not to attempt to re-sign Saturday isn't a surprise, especially on the heels of the Colts locking up cornerback Kelvin Hayden with a five-year, $43 million contract last week.


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Oskaloosa: "The President stands for the working class"
At the Nelson Farm and Pioneer Museum in Oskaloosa, Iowa, President Obama laid out a few key differences between his plan for the economy and Mitt Romney's. After the speech, audience members offered their take.
"I think the stark difference is that the President ultimately stands for the working class and the middle class. And I know it almost gets to sound cliché—but they've got the data to support the claim that the Republicans are, in fact, in support of the richest and the wealthiest in America. That's who they want to aim the tax cuts toward, and they want to then pay for that on the backs of some of the middle-class, working Americans."
—Scott, volunteer
"[President Obama] is trying to help the middle class. And having Mitt Romney trying to raise taxes on the middle class just really irritates me. I don't know how people can support that."
—Danielle, student
"I'm voting for Obama. I wasn't old enough to vote in 2007, but I would have voted for Obama. I value everything that he supports, pretty much. So does my family."
—Taylor, student
"I'm a big Obama supporter. I believe his compassion, his empathy, his sense of where America needs to go is the right one that we need. And I think his family values and what we see from the Obama family is representative of the United States. These are real people that have come from where we are. I don't think Mitt Romney has a clue what Americans are going through."
—Wanda, retired
"[Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan] live in a different world that most of us don't. And they're just totally out of touch with reality and the working class people. Mitt Romney said in Des Moines at the State Fairgrounds that corporations are people, too, and that's how they feel. President Obama is trying to move this country forward. He's created more than 4 million new jobs. I think things are on the right track."
—Rick, firefighter
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Maria Spiropulu believes in a fifth dimension. The physicist, a researcher at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is harnessing the world's most powerful particle accelerator to smash protons and antiprotons together. If these collisions kick out less energy than predicted, then a few particles must have been blasted into another dimension. Or so the theory goes. "Think of it like a game of billiards," says Spiropulu, 32. "When you hit the balls, one of them goes vertical and never comes down." Her quest may resolve quantum physics' inconsistencies with Newtonian laws – and inch science closer to a unified theory that explains the formation of the universe and black holes. "Right now," she says, "we haven't a clue."Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Aside from the obvious, well-repeated jabs ("Do you even go to this school?"), this scene is particularly brilliant, showcasing Tina's immense diversity as both a comedian and an actress. When she asked if any of us have ever felt personally victimized by Regina George, we, if only for a moment, considered raising our hands.
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The Flagstaff City Council has responded to public protests by scrapping part of a proposal to sell four pieces of city-owned property to raise money to pay for building a new courthouse.
The council voted 4-3 Tuesday night to not sell a 20-acre parcel at the corner of Schultz Pass and Elden Lookout roads.
According to the Arizona Daily Sun, the council backed off from selling the property after hearing complaints that hikers and other use the site as a staging area and that the proposal hadn't been adequately discussed.
The council delayed the sale of a 26-parcel to hear public comment but approved the sale of two empty firehouses.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Game law violators in Texas could face additional consequences for their actions under an interstate agreement recognizing suspension of hunting, fishing and trapping licenses in other states.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved a regulation for Texas to join 31 other states currently participating in the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact.
The Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact is an agreement that unresolved hunting and fishing violations in one state can affect a person's hunting or fishing privileges in other participating states. Any person whose license privileges or rights are suspended in a member state could also be denied future purchase of a license in Texas until they have satisfied suspension in the other state. If a person's hunting, fishing, or trapping rights are suspended in Texas, they may also be suspended in member states as well.
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Councillor Gavin James' open letter to Basingstoke Town chairman Rafi Razzak in full
10:50am Wednesday 4th June 2014
By John Boyman
10:50am Wednesday 4th June 2014
By John Boyman
Dear Mr Razzak,
As eyes turn to the world cup we should not forget you will soon make a decision they will decide the future of our local football team.
Proposals to re-locate Basingstoke Town Football Club to the Old Common represent a huge financial gamble for both the club and the Council and the tax payers that fund it. A gamble that is likely to be lost if the scheme goes ahead.
If you are successful in persuading the Council that the last bit of Basingstoke original green open space should be used for a new football ground it is difficult to see a positive outcome.
If the club is successful it will need to re-locate to a bigger site and the tax payer will be left picking up the cost of demolishing the stadium.
If the club fails, the tax payer is left with either maintaining a stadium it no longer needs or demolishing it.
If the club continues as it is, then 30 years from now the club and the tax payer will be left with crumbling stadium and dependant on the tax payer to replace it.
In the interim period, the borough will suffer the loss of green open space enjoyed by many and put up with traffic and parking problems that no one wants to impose on those that Cllr Stuart Parker and I represent.
The club's future will depend on getting additional revenue streams from using the stadium for other events, however with the ground close to residential properties the uses will be restricted. And with parking on the field needed to support the Mayors fireworks, the Transport festival, Basingstoke live and other popular events, the opportunities to hire the venue to others will be limited.
The idea of reducing the impact of the stadium visually means there can be no revenue stream from the external stadium advertising.
If this were the only choice, perhaps it could be understood why the tax payer and club were prepared to take on such a big risk.
But there is an alternative and even an opportunity at the leisure park. An opportunity to put the club at the heart of the borough's leisure offering. Bringing the football club to new fans whilst simultaneously bringing new business to the Ice rink, cinema. Airkix and bowling complex.
Together, we can create a great day out with something for everyone all in one location.
With better transport access - two road entry points already there and a third could be added. Plentiful parking that could be increased. A shuttle bus service already linking the leisure park with the rail station.
No restriction on hours, giving greater opportunity to secure more revenue from using the stadium for other events and placing the ground just a 5 minute walk from the Hampshire FA facilities at the Winklebury Football complex, which creates an opportunity for sharing facilities for mutual benefit and reducing costs.
Such a high profile location, visible from major ring roads will enable the club to increase revenue from advertising.
I will try to persuade the Council cabinet members to make the right decision for both the club and the borough, though I fear they'll be motivated by the short term political opportunity to put your football stadium on their CVs.
You have been generous enough to support the club for many years and will be driven by a desire for a lasting legacy of a club that can support itself.
I believe that such a legacy can only be secured and even enhanced by bringing the nations game and the towns club to the borough's leisure park.
Cllr Gavin James
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UPDATE: We just got preliminary HLF earnings and they look in line to slightly better. The company also announced a continuation of its buyback. That cuts to the notion that HLF isn't going away, which is all that matters when you consider Ackman and potential government vs. Loeb and Icahn.
This war over the soul and stock price of Herbalife (HLF) may come down to a simple equation: who has the best allies? When the war started, remember, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman drew first blood.
Ackman shorted 20 million shares of the multi-level-marketing company and then told everyone and his brother that the company is a pyramid scheme that should be shut down by the government.
Of course, given the coverage of the event Ackman was speaking at coupled with his love of the microphone there -- no sin as Ackman is nothing but good copy -- Herbalife's stock swooned. How could it not when Ackman used every media outlet to spread the gospel about how Herbalife is wrecking peoples' lives with its pyramid-scheme ways.
Think about the odds against Herbalife. A smart guy, a rich guy, unlimited firepower shouting form the rooftops that Herbalife is going to zero and that he's going to take it there with, alas, the help of the U.S. government, which his going to suddenly see the light behind Herbalife's myriad abuses.
Just to drive the story home in what is rapidly developing into a parody of the buy side, Ackman slapped a $0 price target on Herbalife. You want to be a hero and take the other side of that trade? You want to work at a big pension fund or a mutual fund and be seen buying a stock that's a Ponzi scheme, especially when your investors all watch CNBC and have seen the charges?
So, the battle lines were drawn. On one side you have Ackman, buttressed by his batter of fancy lawyers that have somehow blessed this crusade, and on the other is the little old hapless Ponzi scheme of Herbalife, which is making destitute whole families with its nefarious tactics.
How can Ackman not win? All he has to do is convince the government, the U.S. government and any of its myriad arms, to look at TheFactsAboutHerbalife.com and shut the darned company down.
Not a fair match.
Suddenly, along comes one of the most shrewd and tough-minded investors of our time, Dan Loeb of Third Point Capital, and he's taken a more than 8% stake in a company that has 113 million shares, of which 20 million are sold short by Ackman.
And then yesterday we learned that Carl Icahn, who has had a very public spat with Ackman over a relatively small amount of money, now owns a position in Herbalife. Ackman not that long ago notoriously and very publicly said he had no respect for Icahn, while Icahn fired back that he considered any criticism from Bill Ackman a compliment. Say what you want about Icahn, not respecting him given the rigor with which he actually approaches his investments seems pretty insulting and I have known Icahn and his work for 30 years, so I have a little perspective.
But with the addition of Icahn to Loeb's side of the equation, we are beginning to see different battle lines. Now it is Loeb, Icahn and Herbalife vs. Ackman and the U.S. government. That's a different battle entirely.
Plus the war's turf has changed. It is no longer about Ackman wiping out Herbalife with the help of a probing and consumer-friendly government, it is about Herbalife and some equally rich hedge fund managers destroying Ackman and his potential government lackeys.
Now it has gone from an unfair fight against Herbalife to an unfair fight against Ackman.
Here's why.
First, relying on the government to do the right thing is about as silly as silly can be. At this juncture Ackman needs an injunction by the government against Herbalife selling product in the United States. Who is going to seek that injunction? Ackman doesn't have standing. The Federal Trade Commission? Are you kidding me? How is that going to happen? They haven't cared before about Herbalife, so who is to say they will now? The SEC? Why? Herbalife under Michael Johnson's been incredibly scrupulous about its public filings. The Justice Department? I think it has its hands full with other issues. I don't envision Attorney General Eric Holder or the Southern District of Manhattan's Preet Bahara indicting Herbalife or Johnson any time soon.
In the meantime, the unlimited firepower has switched. Loeb and Icahn could easily scoop up hundreds of millions of dollars of Herbalife stock and virtually take the float out of the vault, making it so Ackman can't borrow the shares.
As long as Herbalife was headed down, and it was virtually cut in half during the Ackman assault, then Ackman looked like he could win. You get the stock low enough the institutions will flee for certain and some arm of the government is more likely to examine Ackman's charges.
But now the stock's about where Ackman initiated his short and that means the clock is now ticking.
And that's where Herbalife comes in. I don't know any of the men who are involved in the tussle very well. But I have interviewed CEO Michael Johnson more than anyone and have studied the earnings and cash flow of the company.
Johnson's basically created this online selling juggernaut. In the last five years he has taken cash flow to $3.4 billion from $2.3 billion and actually doubled sales in Asia Pacific while moving up North America sales by more than a third. The company's got a booming Mexican business and a terrific European business, aided by the worldwide downturn, which has brought people into the Herbalife sales force to make additional income.
Now one could argue that none of these new salespeople has a clue about what they are doing. You could argue that they will be hurt by Herbalife. You could argue that all they do is really try to get other people to sell the product.
But you can't argue with those numbers and unless some arm of some government issues an injunction is hard to imagine the good distributors in Korea or Mexico no longer selling selling the stuff because a New York hedge fund manager has told them they will lose everything, Clearly somebody's making something or the thing would have fallen apart years ago instead of being taken to heights that have made Johnson and his team very successful.
Again, you have to put aside the so-called nefarious way that Herbalife makes money and accept the fact that it makes a ton of money. You have to put aside that it might be a pyramid scheme and accept the fact that willing individuals join the salesforce and prosper, particularly in other countries, and they don't give a darn about any of the warnings that they are hearing.
After all, the people who join Herbalife do so because they want to run a small business and most small businesses fail anyway. Judging by the success of sales, I bet that HLF distributors, or franchises, do better than most. That's what matters.
When it was Ackman and the government against Herbalife it was an unfair fight. But when it is Ackman isolated -- with no government help to speak of, meaning no injunction save a possible slow-moving non-criminal SEC investigation -- vs. Johnson, a passionate and very successful leader of Herbalife and two of the toughest investors in the business in Icahn and Loeb, the battle goes to the latter for certain, especially when you consider that long buyers have a real edge in that they don't need to borrow stock to sell short. Ackman must constantly have stock to borrow to stay short.
A squeeze could wipe out anyone because stocks can theoretically go to infinity if they can't be borrowed. But they can only go to zero otherwise. So Loeb and Icahn only have to keep the balls in the air and count on Johnson to do his part by maintaining sales and cash flow.
Now here's the real rub. Herbalife has a beautiful balance sheet. It went private in 1996, led by a team from JH Whitney and Golden Gate Capital. And then it came public again a few years later in 2004, run by a man who had a very successful career at Disney (DIS), concluding with the running of Disney International. I have never heard a bad word about his tenure.
Why can't Johnson just take it private again? He's taken the share count from 145 million six years ago to 113 million now. He has told me over and over again that the stock is inexpensive and that was from much higher levels. It traded at $70 at its peak last year when, arguably, the company wasn't even doing as well as it is today.
What's to keep him from announcing a huge buyback or a going-private transaction as the stock might be artificially low because of Ackman's bashing.
I think either one is a distinct possibility.
So, to me, it is no longer a war against Herbalife. It is a war that is predicated by a hedge fund manager who believes the government should act vs. a government that has never acted along those lines, two hedge fund managers with virtually unlimited capital because of their reputations and their records and a company that's hitting the ball out of the park.
I think this is a battleground and I hate battlegrounds, but when it comes to allies I would take Loeb's any day of the week.
That's how the matter stands for the moment with much more of the war to come.


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Whenever I see those huge numbers that retirement planning experts wave around when they are talking about savings goals, it is all I can do not to say, "Come on, man."
Earlier this week, the Employee Benefit Research Institute, or EBRI, offered a particularly disturbing report. It revealed that a married couple with significant drug costs throughout retirement who wants a 90 percent chance of having enough money to pay health care bills for the rest of their lives, will have to save $360,000 by age 65 and earmark that amount strictly for health care. That's down from $387,000 in 2012, EBRI calculates.
Fidelity Investments, a major provider of 401(k) plans, figured out that in the first quarter of 2013, the average saver age 55 and older who had worked for the same employer for 10 years had saved an average of $255,000 in his 401(k) account. That's it -- $105,000 less than what EBRI says we ought to have put away just to pay for health care. Come on, man.
I asked Paul Fronstin, director of EBRI's Health Research and Education Program and co-author of the report, how this study was conducted and what it meant for most of us who just don't have that much money to devote to health care alone.
Fronstin says EBRI economists use a Monte Carlo simulation, an algorithm that isn't too different from the way the house calculates the odds of your winning big when you repeatedly pull the handle on the slot machine. This Monte Carlo calculation factors in more than 100,000 combinations of life expectancy, health care costs, possible inflation and investment returns. Then it spits out a number that can't really be divided into monthly spending or savings goals, but can be used as a target for a couple figuring out a total budget, Fronstin explains.
The couple doesn't have to have all $360,000 available the day they opt for retirement, Fronstin says. "You don't need to pre-fund it," he says. "You could have a part-time job. You could be expecting to get Social Security."
But the bottom line, he believes, is that accumulating this big number ought to be what you're aiming for.
In the meantime, beating the house is a good goal. Eat well, exercise, stay healthy and hope that you don't need too many prescription drugs. Maybe you'll get lucky and you won't need all that money.


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Gallery: Vigil for Riverside Police Officer
RIVERSIDE - More than 100 people gathered in front of City Hall on Thursday evening in a candlelight prayer vigil for the one slain and one seriously wounded Riverside police officer.
Riverside Mayor Rusty Bailey said at the start of the vigil: "We are a united city and I want the world to know that."
Among those attending the service was city employee Kurt Stephens, a surveyor, who said he went to La Sierra High School with many who became area police officers.
"I came here out of respect," he said.
"A lot of people in our county have gone into the storm," said Brian Park, a chaplain with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
Park, who lives in Riverside, was surrounded by about seven people. Much of the praying was done in small groups with one of the many law enforcement chaplains, from several agencies, directing the prayer.
In Park's group, time was allowed for individual silent prayer or reflection.
Park said he hooked up with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department because several deputies from that agency attend his Riverside church. "I pray for for our leaders and I pray for our officers," Park said at one point.
Also at the downtown Riverside service was Heather Aduddell, whose Riverside home was burglarized last week.
Aduddell said the officers who came to her house treated her with respect and courtesy "above and beyond the call of duty."
"People give our police and firemen the attention they deserve," Aduddell said.
Three suspects in the burglary were arrested after a high-speed chase which started in Riverside and ended in Compton, Aduddell said.
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