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Betsalel Goren
The three tailors, Barukh, Lemel, and Lelke, were good friends in everything. What does everything mean? A daily drink, or in their language, a glass of schnapps. They prayed in the small synagogue called the Tailor's Small Synagogue. The three of them showed up, invited or not, at every joyful occasion in town. The difference was that when they were invited, they sat together at a table, drank together, joked together, got drunk together, found a victim together, and beat him up also together. And if they were not invited, they showed up at the door and demanded their share of vodka, and alas and alack to the host and his guests when their demand was not met. In this case, it was not the band or the merrymaker who provided the entertainment. It was the threesome who took matters into their own hands. The result was bloody noses, swollen eyes, and torn holiday clothes, all in the name of letting them be happy. But what host wanted such happiness? So, they gave them drinks, and the threesome left quietly and partied by themselves in the synagogue.
Of the threee, only Barukh was called Barukh because it was his real name. The other two were called by their nicknames. Why was Lemel called Lemel? Because he always wore his hat with the visor on the side. And what is the connection between a visor and Lemel? Because Lemel became a concept in our town, and the person who wore his hat with the visor on the side was called Lemel. And if even now the connection between Lemel's visor and Lemel is not clear, you need to accept it as fact.
The meaning of the name Lalke is a lot clearer, because Lalke means doll in Yiddish and Ukrainian. But don't think that a person called Lalke was really as beautiful as a doll; nothing of the kind. A Jew was like any other Jew. Here is the story. When Shalom (his real name) was a baby, his mother used to say that he was as beautiful as a doll, so the name stuck for the rest of his life.
And the third friend, Barukh, was just Barukh, without a nickname. He was an innocent and honest man. He liked his alcohol, was influenced by his friends, and did not deserve a nickname; therefore, his name remained Barukh. The three were family men and homeowners whose children did not mimic their fathers' behavior or manners.
Lalke had a son named Berele. In town, usually a thief or a hooligan was called by that nickname to differentiate him from a scholar. Not Beril or Yankil, but Berele, Yankele, and so on. A mentally challenged person was also called by that nickname, and so it was with Berele. Berele was a good young man, but he was also mentally challenged. He couldn't study to be a tailor, so he had no profession. As luck had it, World War I broke out when Berele was 20, the age when you could be drafted into the army. And who was going to defend the czar's Russian Empire if not Berele? He was drafted and sent to the front, and Berele fell captive into the hands of the Germans.
When he returned at the end of the war, his friends were curious to know how he had fought against the Germans and Austrians, and they asked him, Were you at the front? Of course, was his answer. Did you shoot? Yes, I did. And did you shoot at night? Also at night. It can't be, Berele. When you shoot at night, you can hit someone in the eye. Berele stated that it can't be avoided. You can hit someone in the eye during a war and be exempt from punishment.
Berele became a water carrier in town. And where do you carry water from?
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The town residents preferred water from the river, claiming that the water from the well was tasteless. When winter came and the river froze, they broke an opening with an ax and drew water through the hole.
Once, when Berele approached the river with his buckets and pole, he slipped and fell with them into the water. Berele held onto the ice and yelled, Help, help. When people came to save him, they were extremely surprised. Berele held onto the ice and wouldn't let them pull him out unless they pulled out his pole and buckets first. The rescuers had no choice but to promised him new working tools, because it was impossible to jump into the water, under the ice, and pull the pole and buckets out. So Berele received new working tools to replace the old ones. And who could argue that Berele was stupid when he was able to fool his rescuers like that?
When Berele got his new buckets and pole, it was also necessary to find him a bride. Two matchmakers were engaged to take care of the matter. They traveled as far as Kremenets and found a charming, proper bride for him, but she was 20 years older than he was. So what? She was aristocratic and intelligent. Proof of that was the fact that she spoke Yiddish seasoned with Russian words.
From the moment Berele brought his bride from the town of Kremenets to the little town of Shumsk, Nachichke that was her name immediately began to demonstrate her knowledge of the Russian language. She said that she was lovopitna (curious) for herring, and ovzhiyo borsht (respected beet soup), and who could dare to say that Berele didn't have an intelligent bride? And with good luck, he married his Nachichke, and they settled in the town of Kremenets, but not for long. Berele missed his town and was afraid of losing his customers, the homeowners he supplied water to. When the town residents saw him and said that other water carriers had taken over his regular customers, he decided he would get them back or die trying. And Berele came back to town and got back his customers.
Berele and Nachichke had a daughter, whom they named Tsinele. They didn't have a place to live, and the father, Lalke, wouldn't let them live in his home even though he owned two apartments. The younger brother came to their rescue and bought them an apartment. A good deed, according to all opinions, but nobody knew that the brother made Berele sign a document stating that he would give away his right to his father's inheritance unless the father lived more than 120 years. The father did not reach 120, and the brother inherited everything.
But God didn't neglect him, and Berele's home became a hostel for beggars. Each beggar who came to town found accommodation in Berele's home. Among them were the lame, the mute, the deaf, old, stooped-over men with beards and without beards, men and women, singles and couples, all kinds and types. And anyone who was interested and wanted to know about the nation's poverty, the layers of the poorest of the poor, came to Berele's home in the evening to listen to the stories told by the beggars and the hostel owner.
But Berele didn't have an income from this business, and he continued in his duty as a water carrier. His home was near the path leading to the river, so each time he went to draw water, he walked by his home.
In my childhood, I loved to stand close to his home and watch Berele when he walked to the river. When his buckets were empty, he walked by quietly, but when he came from the river with full heavy buckets, he shouted out Nekhe. What do you want, she answered. A strange death to you, Nekhe, may all the troubles of the world drop on your head, may all the diseases of the world find you, Nekhe, may stray dogs attack you and pull you apart. That's how Berele blessed his wife each time he walked by his house with full buckets. Nachichke always answered him with the same blessings. Once when I saw that sight, there was no reaction on Nekhe's side; maybe she didnt feel like exchanging blessings with her husband.
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Then Berele reached the height of his anger, went home, took his shovel, put it on his shoulder, and started marching around the house as if he were a soldier marching with his gun. When Nekhe asked him where he was going, Berele continued to march in the mud, in his boots with the crooked heels and his dirty pants, not answering. As he marched, he answered, I'm going to dig a grave for you in the ground. With that, the show ended for that day.
Their daughter Tsine grew up. Tsinele was a beautiful girl. Her father gave her a puppy, and alas to the child who called the puppy. Berele would yell and curse. The children liked this, and every day they repeated the show. They called the puppy, started to run, and the puppy ran after them. Then Berele grabbed his pole and ran after them as if he wanted to kill them.
Nor could he find peace in the small synagogue; everyone bothered him. But he didn't give up. He didn't want to move to another house of prayer, because that was his father's small synagogue.
And wonder or wonders, Tsinele grew up in a filthy house, in the company of beggars and an atmosphere of filth and foul smells, but she was always clean and organized, her hair was combed, and she was beautiful and an excellent student. She was like a real doll. People wondered and asked, how could it be, is this for real, or is it a dream? Fate compensated Berele. For his father, Lalke, who ignored him, for his brother who cheated him, and for the people who bothered him. There's the law, and there's the judge.
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Betsalel Goren
In our town, it was customary on the eve of Simchat Torah for all the small synagogues to finish their prayers and circuits early and come to the Great Synagogue to celebrate the circuits with most of our townspeople. On that evening, almost the entire town was there, men and women, young men and young women, boys and girls. Everyone came to rejoice with the Torah on the holiday of the Torah.
Missing from the synagogue's great crowd were the elite of our town. Due to something that had happened in the past, the Torah scholars, the important and the rich, had left the Great Synagogue and established their own house of prayer. According to stories told by the community's elders, there was a special reason for the rift in the Shumsk community. The story was as follows. In those days, a very rich man named Mendel Rozen lived in Shumsk. He was a proud, decisive, and domineering man, and he ruled with a mighty and high hand in the square by the Polish Catholic Church. There he built his home, and there his relatives, the rich Akerman family, built their homes. There were three Akerman brothers, Ikhel, Yankel, and Moshe; all had families and were fathers to sons. The Akerman family was considered the town's aristocrats, and they also carried the first buds of Enlightenment idealism to the area. They educated their children in the Enlightenment slogan Be a Jew at home and a man on the street and preached to them to introduce Yafet's beauty into Shem's tent[14]. Few dared to oppose or revolt against Mendel Rozen and his relatives. Russian was spoken in their neighborhood, and the sound of the piano arose from their homes.
The square next to the Polish Church was called Odessa by the town's Jewish residents. In those days, during the times of the czar, the city of Odessa expressed the height of culture and progress, and the square symbolized what the Kremlin symbolized in the eyes of the citizens of the czar's empire.
There were a few exceptional people that the Akermans, led Mendel Rozen, could not control, especially the town's rabbi, the righteous R' Mordekhay'le. He didn't appreciate them or their wealth and didn't submit to their control. Mendel Rozen decided to remove Mordekhay'le from his office, and he did not hesitate to solicit the help of the czar's servants. To accomplish his mission, he approached the town's Torah scholars and the respected residents who sided with the rabbi. What did Mendel Rozen do? He brought a second rabbi to town, who conducted services at the Great Synagogue and served as his own rabbi.
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The synagogue worshipers, who sided with the rabbi, moved to his synagogue and the study hall. Only the simple folk remained in the Great Synagogue the ordinary people, small business owners, grocers, tradesmen, peddlers, and just beggars.
The conflict worsened throughout the years. The rift in the community lasted a long time and lasted through my childhood years, which are carved deep into my memory.
It was said that Mendel Rozen became ill shortly after the dispute started and died after a short, serious illness in Vienna, where he was buried. The town's elders saw it as an act of God, a punishment for his abuse of the rabbi, R' Mordekhay'le. Also, the Akermans lost their assets and died, but the split remained.
The only memorial for Mendel Rozen remaining in Shumsk was a two-sided bench upholstered with velvet and located on the eastern side of the Great Synagogue. The Akermans' descendants sat on it on the Sabbath and holidays. On Yom Kippur, when Dr. Yakobson came to pray at the Great Synagogue, he was given the honor of sitting on this distinguished bench.
I heard the stories about the split with the community's rabbi when I was a child. I was 11 or 12 years old then. As I remember, a guest cantor arrived in town with his son, Hershele, to pray on the Sabbath in the Great Synagogue. Hershele's singing captured the worshipers' hearts. They weren't satisfied with one performance and invited the cantor for an additional Sabbath prayer. This time, not only the regular worshipers but also most of the town's residents came to hear the prayers and singing. It was decided then to invite the cantor to pray regularly at the synagogue. The required amount was collected through a joint effort, and the matter was carried out. The cantor brought his family members and added his second son, Motele, to the choir.
It's difficult to describe how the townspeople enjoyed the singing of the father and his children. The cantor and his choir's melodies were heard for a long time in Shumsk homes. The cantor wasn't satisfied with just two singers and added other children to his choir. Luck was with me, and after an audition, he added me to the choir.
The month of Elul arrived, and we practiced the High Holiday prayers. Again, it was a great success. Encouraged by the praise for his arrangements and melodies, the cantor decided to hold a special singing session in the evening after the end of Simchat Torah. In our town, as in many other towns, Simchat Torah was a merry holiday, and almost all the townspeople came to the Great Synagogue for the circuits. More than once, quarrels broke out in the synagogue on the Sabbath about the right to be called to the Torah, and even more so about how important it was to take part in the circuits. This year, their value increased because of the new cantor and the large crowd that came to listen to him. This year, more than other years, the haggling increased, and the tension worsened. In Shumsk, it was customary for members of burial society to be honored with the second circuit, and every year the argument about this honor was renewed. As usual, the opinions were split, but this year, the arguments worsened, and the open dispute developed into a show of hands. A quarrel broke out between those who agreed to give the Burial Society the second circuit and those who opposed it, such as the horse traders, the peddlers, and the carters, who were led by Yetske Mezhe. And what is a mezhe? It was the name of the border between two plots of land, an unplowed path that marked the border. The local farmers used it as a walkway. And what was the connection between the mezhe and Yetske? Yetske's grandfather lived with his family in a village without a minyan of Jews for the Sabbath and holiday prayers.
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For the High Holidays, they came to town or joined Jews from other villages for a minyan in Yetske's grandfather's village. Yetske's grandfather preached to the young people in the area to come to minyan. He counted their punishments if they didn't fulfill the mitzvah of crossing the mezhe to join the minyan and pray with all their hearts in order to be rewarded with another year of life. Since then, Moti, his children, and his great-grandchildren, whose numbers were not small, were called Mezhe and not Gurvits, which was their real name. Yetske claimed that only those with grey hair and a beard have the right to the second circuit, and not Moti Bochkes, who does not have grey hair, is not bald, and does not have a beard. The name Bochke isn't a real name either, only a nickname, because bochke in Yiddish means ramming. And why was the family called by that name? This is a problem for historical research, because the name came to him from his ancestors. Moti was a member of the Burial Society and insisted on his right to the second circuit. Here's what Yetske said: Moti, you're not walking in the second circuit. Only Jews with grey hair, bald heads, and beards have the right to the second circuit, not you. In the past, Moti had been a soldier in the czar's army; he fought in the war and was taken prisoner. He was quick to anger, and when he got angry, his face turned red and the veins on his neck swelled. And he suspected that the pleasure of dancing with the Torah on Simchat Torah would be taken away from him.
When Moti danced, it was not just a dance, but high jumps. His entire body swayed, his face turned red, and he sang in a hoarse voice, heyda Maccabim, not hurrah but heyda, the way you urge horses to move faster. Then he shouted loudly to his listeners, When a man dies and it's raining and snowing outside, who walks in the slush and in the mud to bury him? I, Moti, do it! Yetske, who owed him an answer, yelled at him, And the meal in the small synagogue, the sausage, and the vodka you eat and drink, and the burial fees you extort from the bereaved families also go into your pockets! And then Moti: This is from the rich people. What about the poor? Do you think that they walk to the cemetery after they die? Each poor person and pauper needs to be carried like the rich man. Do you do that, Yetske?
Many joined the argument, including Tselke Kopiko, a solid man with a red beard, a successful horse trader despite his slow speech and stammer. He lived out of town in a non-Jewish suburb. Nobody wanted to receive a gift from him. Once he was attacked by a gentile. Tselke hit him with his fist, and the gentile dropped dead. Later on, he was involved in a complicated trial that cost him a lot of money. On the matter of the circuits, he said, I have a beard, but I don't claim the second circuit. Hertsel Bentsines, also a horse trader, became involved in the argument. When he was a bachelor, he was the town hooligan and was involved in many adventures. Now he was married, a father of children, and a member of the Burial Society, and he also claimed the right to the second circuit. He faced Tselke and said, You need to know that when you stretch out your legs and die, you will lie dead for weeks, and no one will bury you. Do you think it's our duty to drag your body from the suburb of Tserinke where you live, across town to the cemetery? Your son can drag you to the cemetery in his horse cart, as the gentiles do.
Tselke jumped in and yelled, You curse me? I am a father of children, and if today weren't a holiday and we weren't in a synagogue, I guarantee you'd have to collect your bones in a sack. Avraham Boichkes joined in. His nickname came to him from a family of brave warriors. Avraham was a fruit merchant. His younger brother immigrated to America and became a rich man there. Once he came to town for a visit, established the Benevolent Fund, and donated to other organizations. Because of that, he became Avraham Ofer, which was his real name, since a respected homeowner in our town cannot be called Boichkes anymore. Avraham had a great influence on the peddlers and the carters, since most of them were his relatives, his brothers' and sisters' sons.
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Avraham said, Friends, you're not the decision makers in the synagogue. The rabbi, the beadles, and the elders (and he was one of them) will make the decisions.
And they indeed decided, and Moti Bochkes danced in the second circuit and sang heyda Maccabim la, la, la. The rivals decided to avenge the insult. The next evening, at the end of Simchat Torah, the beadles and the homeowners led the rabbi, with song and dance, from his home to the concert at the synagogue. The gang waiting for them at the entrance showered them with brooms and rags they'd been holding. Alas to the eyes that saw that. When Avraham saw his nephew, Binyamin the Long, who was also his son-in-law, wielding a broom and hitting his opponents, he remembered the days of his youth. Like a young man, he jumped on top of his son-in-law and Yetske, who stood next to him, and honored them with the gift of his hands. They didn't dare touch him and directed their anger at Zidli Yisrael Meirs, also a member of the Bochkes family, who was his uncle Avraham's favorite nephew and guard.
In the chaos that broke out, it was impossible to see who was against whom and who was hitting whom; confusion ruled everywhere. It was difficult to wage war in the crowded room, and it was even more difficult to raise an arm or a leg. You could see only people squashed against each other, and you could hear only shouts and curses.
Luckily, the cantor and his choir were standing next to the pillar, ready to welcome the rabbi and his distinguished escort. When the noise, panic, and clashes went on, even though cantors are not known for their wisdom, exactly at the time when the noise, panic, and fighting did not stop, the cantor saved the day. He signaled to his singers to start singing Welcome, and an astonishing thing happened. When the melody sounded in the synagogue, people stopped shouting, and everyone sat in his place. After the first song, it looked like a magic wand had been waved. You couldn't tell by the synagogue and the look on people's faces that something had been going on there just a few minutes before. Everyone calmed down, and an atmosphere of holiness and purity prevailed. The lights and singing added festivity to the celebration. The holiday atmosphere came roaring back, with no sign of hatred or anger.
Master of the universe, what kind of a nation did You choose? Aren't all the Mezhes, Bochkes, and Boichkes Your children? They fight for their right to carry Your Torah, and they're ready to beat each other for Your Holy Name, but everything they do is done to fulfill Your words. They are fearful about carrying out Your commandments, and your melodies are important to them. Why, why did You decide to extinguish them from your world?
My beloved townspeople, my brothers, residents of Shumsk: be glad and rejoice on Simchat Torah!
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The ORT[16] School in Kremenets
Chayim Livne (Yokelson)
This year, Jewish people all over the world are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Jewish organization that was established to promote education and training among the Jews.
The organization was established in 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia, by a group of philanthropists and Jewish intellectuals led by Baron Gintsburg and Sh. Poliakov. Its mission was to increase Jewish productivity throughout the Russian Empire. This act also helped Jews throughout Russia, since Jewish craftsmen were allowed to live outside the boundaries of the Jewish Pale.
In 1921, ORT became a world Jewish organization. Today, its headquarters is in Geneva Switzerland. The organization helps to establish workshops and agricultural farms, makes low-interest loans, and provides trade school education.
The ORT School in Kremenets resided in a two-story building on the road leading to Shumsk, facing a government subdivision that housed Polish officials.
Kremenets had a special connection to the ORT organization. Yitschak Ber Levinzon was born in Kremenets in 1788 and died in 1860. He was a Jewish author and father of the Enlightenment in Russia. In his important book, Testimony in Israel,[17] published in 1828, Levinzon explained and pointed out that a Jewish person's duty is to study a trade or a craft for his livelihood. He also pointed out the importance of the Hebrew language and saw it as the foundation of our nation. His ideas served as a basis for the foundation of ORT and later on were integrated into the blueprint for Lovers of Zion.
The principal of the ORT School in Kremenets during 1928-1931, when I was a student, was Mr. Senya Raykh. It is important to emphasize that Mr. Raykh didn't need this job to earn a living. The Raykh family was very rich and owned a large number of flourmills in Kremenets and the surrounding area. Senya Raykh took the job for idealistic reasons, and he was a motivated principal who performed his job with loyalty. The administrator was Mr. Gindis. I remember the teacher Gitil (Duvidovna) Fishman, an enthusiastic member of the Bund movement who terrorized her Zionist students.
In the basement was a large hall where we studied metalwork, engraving, and welding. In the morning, we studied in the workshops, and the teachers were Ukrainian; the engraving teacher was German. Our principal taught us Polish, theoretical subjects, drawing, and metalwork. We also had a Polish teacher who was always dressed in a military uniform, a quiet man who loved music and conducted a string orchestra. Theoretical studies took place in the evenings. There were three levels, and students who completed seven years of primary school were accepted to the first level.
In 1930, classes in sewing and design for girls were added, so the school accommodated both boys and girls. The school also served as a hostel for poor boys from villages around Kremenets. They slept on the desks and received their food in packages sent from home. There was a special atmosphere at the school, a atmosphere typical with boys of different ages, who at that time were members of many different political groups. At that time, we studied for five hours in the workshop and three hours in the classroom. In addition to Polish, we studied Yiddish. Those who saw Hebrew as the language of their future saw Yiddish as the language of the Diaspora and preferred to speak Polish. For that reason, the life of our teacher, Gitil (Duvidovna) Fishman, was difficult. With great stubbornness, she tried to teach us Yiddish from the book The Town by Sholem Asch, the town that we desperately wanted to run away from
Our principal, Senya Raykh, was an interesting character. We liked him for his good heart, direct approach, and honesty. I remember that one morning, our class came to school late. We had stopped by the hotel where a Polish actress was staying and waited for the moment when she would appear.
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The next day, all the students were invited to the principal's office. I remember that he approached me with this spech: You stupid boy. Why do you let yourself waste your school hours on a stupid thing like that when your father takes food out of his mouth so you, his jewel, can learn a trade and become a man? Go, get out of here. I don't want to see your face. Next time, I won't give you a piece of my mind: I'll kick you out of school without fail. I don't have room for parasites. When he was done lecturing me in his broken Yiddish, a big smile spread over his wide face. I loved that smile, and I swore to myself that I would never hurt this man again.
I remember well the janitor, Vulf, a diligent, quiet, and modest Jew who worked loyally and heated the ovens in the classroom where the students slept on the desks at night. All the students liked him and considered him their friend. I remember Motel, the Jew who owned a kiosk next the school. He wore a Jewish hat, which was foreign in our area. He was an exotic, dignified Jew with sidelocks who spoke Polish fluently. R' Motel supplied kvas,[18] candy, and buns. Many students who cound't afford them owed him money that they would have loved to repay to this kind Jew. Sometimes, this burden appears in my nightmares The ORT School in Kremenets educated many students, boys and girls. Only a few arrived in the Land. They live in town and on the kibbutz, they use the knowledge that they acquired, and they remember the ORT School in Kremenets with kindness.
Y. Golberg
In Book of the Ghetto Wars, edited by Yitschak Tsukerman and Moshe Basuk, page 486, I came across a number of lines written about Kremenets. It says that on August 9, 1942, at sunrise, the ghetto was suddenly surrounded by policemen and soldiers, and an unplanned and disorganized battle started. On the first day, 6 German soldiers and policemen were killed, and 10 were killed on the next day. On the third day, the young people set the ghetto on fire, and they continued with their battle and their work of destruction from the fire. The ghetto burned for a week. The flames subsided when the last fighter died. The name Frida Bornshteyn is written at the end. I wanted to verify the authenticity of the information. I called Dr. Frida Bornshetyn-Otsnik, a native of Shumsk and a Holocaust survivor, who studied with my wife at the Lyceum in Kremenets. Actually, she was not in Kremenets' ghetto, and 38 years have passed since that time, but she remembers that after the liberation Poles and Ukrainians told her that there was a revolt in Kremenets' ghetto and that policemen and soldiers were killed there. She could not remember the testimony she gave to newspaper reporters who interviewed her after the war.
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Aharon Lukacher
Born December 15, 1903; died December 11, 1979
I see him, tall and erect, walking slowly and talking in a pleasant voice. The words of our sages, of blessed memory, were his guiding light, and he loved books.
He tried hard to fulfill the expression Let your friend's honor be as dear to you as your own.
He did not embarrass others and was careful to respect their feelings.
He was a good companion and a loyal close friend.
May it be Your will that the ancestors' deedse are a good sign for the children.
He was 76 years old at the time of his death. He left a wife, a son, and a grandson.
May his memory be blessed.
Shimon Pelets
The Organization of Shumsk Emigrants grieves with parents Vita and Mendel Pelets on the tragic death of their son, Shimon, who died on May 12, 1980, at the age of just 34.
He was a graduate of the Federation of Working and Studying Youth[19] and lived for many years in Kibbutz Gevim. From there, he settled in Pitchat Rafich and was one of the founders of the cooperative village Sdot.
May it Your will that his good deeds serve as a model for his sons.
May his memory be blessed.
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Betsalel Goren
I met Mordekhay (Motele, as he was called then) at the school established with the help of American Jews at the end of the war between the Bolsheviks and the Poles. Since regular classes were not held during the war, students were placed in classes not according to their age but according to their knowledge. So I found myself in the same class as Mordekhay even though he was five years younger than I was. We became friends at school, and we played together during breaks. I loved Motele. His face was open and serious, and each passer-by wanted to pet him and pinch his full cheeks. His qualities stood out even during his childhood, qualities that in the days to come made him a good and loyal friend. He treated others not according to their looks or their social status, but according to their personalities.
I remember when a group of boys gathered around a pit that had been dug for the removal of mortar and challenged each other to jump over it. Mordekhay, who happened to be in the area, joined them. Even though he was a lot younger than they were, he said, For life or death! and jumped over it. It seems that this call turned into his motto, as an instructor in Young Pioneer[20] and in quarrels with the Betar members. Once, when they beat him up, he comforted his father, who just arrived, by saying, Father, don't worry. After the beating, I will have a better appetite.
He was a good worker. I remember how he split logs with his ax when he worked as a volunteer for the training kibbutz members. I especially remember when he and his friends worked for an anti-Semitic Polish gentile, who ridiculed Jews and claimed that they not only didn't want to work but also couldn't.
What did he do? He put Mordekhay to work all by himself pulling straw out of the threshing machine a job that was usually done by two healthy gentiles. Mordekhay worked hard, and when he took his afternoon break, this Mozinski (that's what we called him) approached him, patted him on the shoulder, and said, Young man, you deserve a double portion of food because you worked for two. And he was only 16 years old then.
Mordekhay was always obsessive in his beliefs. From the day he made up his mind not to accept life in the Diaspora, when the Jews were humiliated by the Ukrainian population and the Polish authorities, he became a Zionist with all his might and soul. As a friend and a Young Pioneer instructor, he did his job to the best of his ability and with a great sense of responsibility.
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The same was true of all the work he did for the rest of his life: his illegal immigration to the Land on the eve of the war; his work in Sdom; the establishment of a dairy barn in his kibbutz, Kibbutz Ginosar; his service as the kibbutz secretary; and especially his return to Poland after World War II as a delegate for the refugees. When he returned from that mission, he dedicated himself to the building of the kibbutz and greatly contributed to the various branches: bananas, construction, carpentry, and dairy farm research as far as his education enabled him.
Mordekhay was a good father and grandfather. He loved his family and was wholeheartedly devoted to them. But he also loved Lake Kinneret. To his great joy, the kibbutz sent him to work for Mekorot[21] on the National Water Carrier of Israel. He was given the opportunity to be near Lake Kineret, in the Kineret, and in the Kineret valley. His great desire was to study what he could about the Kineret: its flow, the springs inside it, the waves, and the winds that touched it. He also investigated the weeds that polluted and caused damage to the lake and the life inside it.
I remember Mordekhay's anxiety when he investigated the rapid spread of seaweed on the lake floor. According to the scientists, the seaweed endangered the lake and everything that lived in it. In spite of his limited knowledge of the subject, he conducted research near his home on the kibbutz and tried to find ways to eliminate this dangerous vegetation. And indeed, he received an excellence award from Mekorot.
In all of Mordekhay's wars for life or death, he always won. He lost his only war for life or death against his terminal illness.
Dear Mordekhay, we miss you. Bitter death plucked you when you were still young, fresh in body and spirit, and you had so many other plans.
We are comforted by the fact that death did not separate you from your beloved Kinneret. Your body lies in its bosom for eternity.
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M. Goldenberg
It happened 20 years ago, or maybe more. I was walking on Hillel Street in Jerusalem, and suddenly I heard rapid steps behind me. I turned my head, and before I could recognize the man, he hugged me and with a beaming face shouted, Manus! It was Simchele. I hadn't seen him since he enlisted in the British army. We were very happy to see each other. He pleaded with me, I live on this street. You must come to my apartment and meet my family. It didn't matter when I told him I was rushing to a meeting. I will never forget my experience in his apartment. With his typical passion, which grew as he spoke, he described to his wife and daughter our families' connection in Kremenets from the time when he was a small boy. We brought various memories from our childhood before them, from a period and place that we'll never see again. We also talked about the terrible tragedy in his family, when his older brother, Pinchas, drowned in Shumsk a few days before he was to graduate high school.
I was a partner in that tragedy. I lost two of my best friends, him and Niosha Ovadis.
I spent a more than an hour in the warmth of his family, and today I'm sorry I didn't have a chance to see him again. I saw him only once more, around 10 years ago, during our annual memorial service. Simcha arrived late from Jerusalem, and I had only a few minutes to talk to him about his meeting with his friends from the Youth Guard[22] and the friends he played soccer with in Kremenets.
Simcha played a significant role in the establishment and development of the Youth Guard in Kremenets, mainly after the older active members had immigrated to the Land or joined the Communist underground. At a very young age, when he was only a teenager, he gave brilliant speeches in front of a large crowds for the benefit of the national funds. You stood with your mouth open at the sight of this brave young man.
Simcha arrived in the Land in 1935 to study at Hebrew University. Avraham Golan wrote the following in the Jewish National Fund's newspaper about the time when Simcha was at the university. Simcha belonged to the same 'group' that arrived in the Land in the middle of the 1930s. At that time they were not 'immigrants' or receive 'benefits' In time, his group became the yeast in the dough of Israeli society: in science, literature, political leadership, pioneering all that was needed in a country-to-be
After finishing his studies with a degree in humanities, Simcha was appointed, with others, to work for the Jewish Agency and was the best of them.
When the call came from the nation's organizations to volunteer to the British army, Simcha was among the first thousand sent to fight against the Germans. He was awarded the honor of raising the flag of the first Jewish Brigade with his own hands.
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In 1952, the Jewish Agency sent Simcha and his family first to Cuba and later to Mexico and the countries of South America. He finished his mission in North America and Canada. His wife, Zahara, said that in all the countries they visited, he always searched with candles for Kremenetsers.
After returning to the Land and retiring from the Jewish Agency, Simcha dedicated his time to the matters of the retiree community and was the chair of the agency's retiree organization. As always, he managed to continue with his lectures at different social clubs, mostly clubs for the elderly. Among them was a club for Russian immigrants and immigrants from central Europe. His listeners expressed their thanks in heartfelt letters sent to him and his family during his difficult illness and after his death.
Simcha died in December 1979 at the age of just 67. When I read the letters of condolence the family received from various organizations in Jerusalem, I can see how extensive and wide his public work was and how great his talent was. It is pity that our organization, the Organization of Kremenets Emigrants, did not benefit from his help, whicht we needed for many years.
I sit and wonder: maybe it was our fault, or maybe the fault lies on both sides.
Simcha left behind his wife, Zahara; a daughter; and two sons.
May his memory be blessed.
On 3 Heshvan 5740, October 24, 1979, 10 years after the death of Mordekhay (Motke) Barmor, a large crowd of his admirers, friends, relatives, officers, and soldiers gathered around his grave in the military section of Kiryat Shaul Cemetery. Every year on this date, a number of them come to visit Mordekhay's resting place to be with this man, whom everyone loved and admired. The words you hear here uncover new lines in the character of a man who was uprooted from us at the prime of his life. And you always see sorrow in people's eyes at the wrong that bitter fate visited on his family and on them. Mordekhay was only 45 at the time of his death, and what he succeeded in doing is enough to fill a sizable book.
In booklet 6, we dedicated a large section to Motke's memory. Articles by Y. Rokhel, Mordekhay Ot-Yakar, and the writer of these lines covered different periods of his life.
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In those articles, we described his parents' warm home, his escape from the Germans, and his volunteering for the Red Army, where he risked his life fighting the Germans. We described his blessed activities for the Haganah in refugee camps in Germany. He enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces right after his arrival in Israel and immediately left for the battlefront. From the rank of sergeant in the Red Army, he reached the rank of lieutenant colonel in the IDF and commanded an anti-aircraft battalion in the Artillery Corps. In the same article, we wrote about his dedication to our organization and his activities. After a long, tiring day in his battalion, he used to take me in his jeep (with the permission of his officers) to collect donations from our members for the RYBL Library. Like his father, Manus Bishbeyn, of blessed memory, he was an exemplary father and husband. He divided his fatherhood between his children and his soldiers.
In a book I've just received, A Sword in a Foreign Land: Clandestine Activities of the Haganah in Europe, 1945-1948, by Yehuda Ben David, published by the Defense Ministry, we read about Mordekhay's part in those activities. On page 53 we read, When Motke Barmor, a sergeant in the Red Army, returned to his home in Kremenets dressed in his uniform, because all Red Army soldiers were welcomed as liberators by the local population, a Christian family that he did not know invited him to their home for tea. He told them that this had been his parents' home before the war, that it was where he had lived during his childhood, and that he had come to search for his family members. They answered him firmly, 'We didn't see a single Jew who returned, and anyone who walked by immediately continued on his way. This home is our home, and it is going to remain ours. We advise you not to argue. There are terrorist gangs around here, and any Jew who shows himself will be murdered by the gangs wandering in the area. This event convinced Motke that he had to leave the army and reach Israel as soon as possible.
In the booklet published in April 1979 by the Antiaircraft School, Words from the Commander, we read, I choose to write about an officer who was the base commander at the beginning on the 1960s and reached higher duties in the Air Force and Artillery Corps. I am talking about Lieutenant Colonel Mordekhay Barmor, who even today inspires those who were fortunate enough to be under his command.
Motke (as everyone called him) had a rare sensitive personality and showed an interest in everyone
Motke's wife, Sara, may she live long, is a graduate of Bar Ilan University. With Mordekhay, she established a traditional Jewish home. After Motke's death, she raised their three children on her own. A son and a daughter are both married, and another daughter is in the regular army. When Motke lay on his sickbed, from which he did not get up, he wrote us a letter in which he apologized for not being able to attend the annual memorial service. A few months earlier, he told me that when he retired from military service, he would devote a great deal of his time to our organization.
Sara, who is not a native of our town, keeps in touch with us and fulfills all the duties assigned to our members. It is sad that with Motke's death we lost the chance to use his help, which we need so much and for many more years.
We will keep his memory in our hearts for eternity.
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Shayka Golberg
It is difficult today to write words in your memory. The matter seems strange, puzzling, and odd. I probably need the space of time to digest the fact that you are no longer with us. Your sudden departure hit us like a thunderclap on a clear day. It is difficult for me to write, but it is my duty to write about you, your personality, and your qualities. You were always modest and humble about your activities, and you spoke little. Each time I tried to write a little about your activities in our booklet, you rejected me, saying, It is not important, another time, or just it's not right.
You were a soldier, and you fought against the Nazi oppressors. When the Germans attacked Poland in 1939, you were drafted into the Polish army, and you were drafted again in 1941 when the war between Russia and Nazi Germany erupted. You also fought in the ranks of the Red Army until the end of May 1945. In the Yiddish newspaper, Einkeit , published in Russia by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, there were many articles about the dedication and heroism of Jewish soldiers and officers. One was about your division, and a few sentences were written about you. They wrote that you were the image of a Jewish warrior dedicated, brave, and tall. During August-September 1945, you came to visit me in my small town in lower Silesia near the Czechoslovakian border with the wave of repatriation from Russia. The first delegates from the Land arrived in Poland.
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It was the order of the time to transfer wave after wave of Jews who arrived from Russia across the border to Czechoslovakia, where they were met by Haganah people, who smuggled them and transferred them to the Land. Of your own free will and without pay, you harnessed yourself to this dangerous work. You dedicated days and nights to this work. One of your greatest qualities was your ability to listen to people and answer them correctly and respectfully. Your comments always sounded like friendly advice.
You were the symbol of honesty and decency, and above all, your talent for creating a friendly, warm connection with those around you made it a pleasure to be in your company.
You never tried to impress others, and in your behavior you symbolized the famous verse He who walks upright, works with righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart (Psalms 15:2).
We and your family were left dazed and shocked. It is difficult to digest the magnitude of the loss we have suffered. We were left without your magnificent image, which bathed us in pleasantness and innocence.
Your memory will remain in our hearts forever.
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To our distinguished townsman, violinist Isaac Stern, on his 60th birthday, may he be rewarded with many more.
To Zahava (Klara) Zats (Eydelman) on her 80th birthday, may she live to be 120.
To David Rapoport, New York, on his 75th birthday, may he live to be 120, and on the marriage of his granddaughter, Dina, to her fiancé, Bruce.
To Liza and Tsvi Bernshteyn on their golden wedding anniversary, congratulations!
To Brigadier (Army Reserve) Yosef Avidar (Rokhel) on receiving a doctor of philosophy degree.
To our friend, Leyb Ayzen, chairman of the Organization of Radzivilov Emigrants, on his 70th birthday, may he live to be 120.
To Bat-Sheva Kantor (Levitin) on the birth of her grandson, Daniel Max, to her son, Ehud, and his wife, Rachel.
To Sara Bar-Mor on the marriage of her son, Amos, to his fiancée, Galit, and on the birth of her grandson, Mordekhay Rom, to her daughter, Shoshana, and her husband, Menashe Manor.
To Chaya and Meir Zeyger on the birth of their grandson to their daughter, Rut.
To Zahava and Yonatan Rozenberg on the marriage of their son, Moshe, to his fiancée, Rachel.
To Shraga and Fanya Ish-Tov on the birth of their second grandson, Alon, to their daughter, Eitana, and Shlomi Shvartsberg.
To the Ben-Yehuda family on the death of Ester (Fira), of the Leviten family, of blessed memory
To Menucha Goldman, of the Pundik family, on the death of her husband, Yosef, of blessed memory
To the Egozi family on the death of wife, mother, and grandmother Bilka, of blessed memory (daughter of Rabbi Senderovits, of blessed memory). Bilka was 73 at the time of her death. She left a husband, a brother, a sister, a children, and grandchildren.
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Members' Donations for Voice of Kremenets and Shumsk Emigrants
Yehoshue Golberg
|Tsukerman David
|Kesler Yitschak
|Shifris Bela
|Veldberg Dov
|Bodeker Avraham
|B. Rozenblit
|Shnayder Eliyahu
|Shrentsel Avraham
|Moshe Kagan
|Fiks Chaya
|Andzya Rotenberg-Gorenfeld
|Tsimels-Kaganovits Malka
|Manusovits Shmuel
|Rozenberg Yonatan
|Gokun Avraham
|Yashpe Arye
|Moshe Golcher
|B. Kantor
|Bern Eliakum
|Rachel Marshak
|Miryam Shnayder
|Hadasa Goldenberg
|Moshe Stis
|Ayzinfreser Miryam
|Chayim Livne
|Kohen Rachel
|Menachem Pelets
|Amitay Chana
|Leya Ditun
|Amitay Chana
|Shtern Chayim
|Bernshteyn Aleksander
|Valkun Pola/Kucher
|Rachel Seden-Senderovits
|Rachel Nadir/Otiker
|Sofer Avraham
|Tsireli Shnitser
|Abir Avraham
|Nachman Shnitser
|Mochan Shmuel
|Zemberg Yehuda
|Avidar Yosef
|Gdalyahu Kundzior
|Spektor Naomi
|Ester Katz
|Miryam Diament
|Shmuel Rafelovits
|Gertman Sonya
|Shifra Zinger
|Sara Rokhel
|Yosef Stoler
|Moshe Rokhel
|Shlome Poltorek
|Eliyahu Prilutski
|Zev Kligman
|Kohen Tsvi Kagan
|Gluzman Eliezer
|Dvora Barak
|Moshe Tsur Krementsutski
|Cherlov Batya
|Sara Magali-Kloyzman
|Atara Sitsuk
|Moshe Prilutski
|Sara Harari
|Nusman Aleksander
|Osovski/Galperin Tsipora
|Etel Isakov
|Rivka Zeyger
|Rut Halperin
|Moshe Pundik
|Karkoviak Shalom
|Shnayder Batya
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|Collected by eight board members while packing the booklet
|August 5, 1979
|Tsirel Gintsburg, Haifa
|David Bakimer, Kiryat Tivon
|Betsalel Shvarts
|Har-Tsion, Ein Harod
|Mrs. Vanda Ronya, Afula
|Mordish Shmuel, Kibbutz Afek
|Chelben Moshe, Afula
|Avrekh-Berger Sosya
|Sima Krementsutski
|Fanya Ish-Tov
|Klara Zats
|Grin-Tova Gitil
|Rachel Fisherman
|Aharon Gintsburg
|Sara Fiks/for three booklets
|Sara Barmor
|Adalya Poltorek and Chana Shafir
|Berman Yakov
|Safir Yosef
|A. Arly
|Kornits Shraga
|Liova Zeger
|Natan Teper
|Mrs. Heyman Malka
|Mrs. Bernshteyn
|Chulio Kaufman
|Rubenshteyn Ester
|Bronya Barshap-Karpel
|Brufman Sara
|Sara Korin
|Shalom Golan
|Chava Shnayder-Terom
|Dr. Shalom Hofman
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|Segal Shmuel
|Zev Berg
|Hadari Pinchas
|Luba Kravits
|Moshe Golcher
|Katsman Chana
|Roykhman Avraham
|Vinder David
|Fanya Valakh
|Shperber Akiva
|Berger Reyzel
|Shavit Melekh
|Sela Aharon
|Simon Gorshteyn
|Yitschak Parnas
|Bina Vered
|Vishniv Pesach
|Leviten Arye
|Pesis Dvora
|Kloyzman Dov
|Velberg Aharon
|Sara Shteynberg
|Kagan Netanel
|Eben Yehuda Leviten
|Yitschak Gluzman
|Vinston Yitschak
|Avraham Fingerut
|Zitser Shimon
|Sara Milshteyn
|Leybish Kucher
|Ayelet Yakov
|Barshap Yitschak
Income and Expense Report for the Memorial Service on August 14, 1979
Membership and Entry Fees
|Table number 1 by Mr. Tsuref Shumsk
|Table number 2 by Argaman Kremenets
|Table number 3 by Goltsberg Kremenets
|200 small canteens by Teper
|To Yosef for taking care of chairs, lighting, and speakers
|Left in the kitty
All pages and receipts were checked by the persons who prepared the balance and by members Vaysman and Mordish from Shumsk.
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|Koren Tsvi
|Shvarts Shlome Carmel
|Heler Yitschak
|Hadasa Rubin
|Tsvi Horovits
|Mordekhay Sokoler
|Shuber Frida
|Mrs. Pifman Tsivya Jerusalem
|Amburski Mendel
|Pikhovits Yurek Haifa
|Dugi Avraham Haifa by Yitschak Portnoy
|Dr. Shlome Hofman
|Mrs. Poltorek Adina
|Mrs. Mazur Ama
Report on Foreign Currency Account for 1979
Balance sheet created by S. Vaysman and Y. A. Mordish
|U.S. dollars
|Balance on January 1, 1979
|Received as donations
|Interest from the above
|Less for exchange
|Balance, December 31, 1979
|Canadian Dollars
|Balance on January 1, 1979
|Balance on January 1, 1979
|Scholarship Fund for the school in Or Akiva In Bank Hapoalim, Shavit trust fund
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Yehoshue Golberg
|Collected by William Kogan: William Kogan 8, Sam Fuks 5, Jacques Barshap 3, Jacques Tshatski 3, Helen Vaynberg 3
|$ 25
|Kaplan family, New York
|Chayim Taytsher, by Tsonye Brotski
|Zina Yegelom
|Doris B. Gold
|12/15/79 Morris Medler
|Vulf Shnayder
|Organization of Kremenets Emigrants, Argentina, by Mordekhay Katz
|Yisrael Laybel, Argentina
|3/6/80 Morris Medler
|Total for Voice of Kremenets and Shumsk Emigrants
|$ 674
|Targeted Donations
|8/14/79 Pak Moshe, Argentina, to inscribe his parents' names in the Memorial Book
|Katia Tsudnovski, Argentina, to inscribe her husband's and daughter's names in the Memorial Book
|Mrs. Reyzel Sher, Argentina, to inscribe her husband's name in the Memorial Book
|For the RYBL Library
|Vulf and Ester Shnayder, Detroit
|Andre Gorenshteyn, Paris
|100 French francs
|Before the issue was delivered to the printer, from Mr. Fred Byk of the United States
|Morris Desser, United States
|Yitschak Vakman, United States
|David Rapoport
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|Yosef Margalit Winnipeg
|Mark Desser, Winnipeg
|Max Desser, Winnipeg
|Radziviler Matus
|Organization of Kremenets Emigrants in Argentina
|Mrs. Reyzel Sher, Argentina
|Mrs. Meri Telerman, Argentina
|Chana and Chayim Fayer
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Yehoshue Golberg
|From Mrs. Fanya Ish-Tov, Jerusalem, on the marriage of her daughter and the birth of her grandson
|From Tsvi Bernshteyn and his wife, Holon, on their golden wedding anniversary
|From Mrs. Chasid Etya, Moshav Herut, in memory of her husband, on the first anniversary of his death
|From Mrs. Chana Shafir, Rishon Letsion, in memory of her husband, on the second anniversary of his death
|From Mrs. Bela Mandelblat, in memory of her husband, of blessed memory
|From Mr. Moshe Pak and his wife, Buenos Aires
Yehoshue Golberg
|From Avraham Landsberg, in memory of his pleasant wife, Chana, of blessed memory
|From Mrs. Tsizin Chana, in memory of her late husband, Shmuel, of blessed memory
|From Yehoshue Golberg, in memory of his late brother Betsalel/Tsalik, the pleasant one, of blessed memory
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Income and Expenses for 1979
Balance Sheet
|Balance, 12/31/78
|Books for the library
|Bank Hapoalim
|Assistance to the needy for the holidays and donation to Poland
|Post Office Bank
|Memorial scrolls
|Collected during the memorial service and miscellaneous listed donations
|A. Bank Hapoalim
|Travel expenses
|B. to Post Office Bank
|Exchange of $500
|Total income
|Expenses for the memorial
|Less the above expenses
|Organization of memorial service and others
|Treasury status
|Interest and commission fee foreign currency account
|Balance in Bank Hapoalim
|Balance in Post Office Bank
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Hardly a day goes by that we Americans aren't reminded of the debt we owe the men and women who serve in our Armed Forces. For some, that debt can never be repaid, which makes it all the more important that we honor those who are still living. The executive order signed Monday evening does that in a very meaningful way, with something as powerful, as practical, and as rewarding as a good job in the public service.
But this executive order does more than honor Veterans—it's also good for government. Veterans have seen the alternatives to our way of life and appreciate our blessings in ways some may take for granted. They are mature beyond their years and eager to live productive, meaningful lives. They are accustomed to working hard and making a difference. They know how to work as a team with others from diverse backgrounds. And they know how to plan, manage, and prioritize tasks to accomplish a mission. We have invested extensively in their training and professional development. Their hard-won experience makes them better citizens and valuable employees.
At VA, we want to compete for our fair share of this great Veteran talent pool. They provide valuable insight into Veterans issues because they have lived it—as well as much needed leadership in the ongoing transformation of VA.
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On behalf of Secretary Shinseki, I'd like to thank our colleagues throughout the Federal Government for their efforts on behalf of Veterans. In particular, I'd like to thank the Department of Labor and the Office of Personnel Management for helping to put together this new initiative. We will all have to work a little harder to hire Veterans and we will be better for it.
And now it is my pleasure to introduce John Berry, Director of OPM, to talk more about this initiative.
John is the Federal Government's Chief People Person, setting policy for 1.9 million Federal workers. He's the man the President has tasked to make sure the government keeps hiring the best and the brightest.
John is a dedicated public servant with broad executive agency and Congressional experience. I know him from our days together at Treasury. Take it from me, America's civil servants could have no more positive, respectful, or innovative a leader than John Berry. He sticks to his mission until it is done. And when he's done with this mission, we'll have more of the best and brightest Veterans in government jobs.


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Worried your kid forgets everything they've learnt when not at school? Here's how to keep their brain sharp. more
Eczema, or atopic dermatitis, is an itchy skin inflammation. It is not contagious. Kids with eczema may have tiny weeping blisters that may become infected. Eczema occurs most frequently in babies and children, but adults may have it too.
Kids with eczema have only one copy of a gene that is responsible for repairing skin (they should have two copies). Skin becomes dry, scaly, itchy, open to outside infection, and susceptible to environmental irritants.
There is some evidence that untreated eczema can lead to asthma, food allergies, and hayfever due to allergens that enter the body through the skin.
You can't prevent your child's tendency toward eczema, but there are simple things that you can do to avoid outbreaks of dermatitis such as:
Kids with eczema may have:
There are several things that you can do to minimize the chance of future eczema outbreaks. Allow your child fewer baths, avoid hot baths and showers, try putting oils in bath water, avoid soaps that are drying, and moisturise frequently. You may also want to try prescription or over-the-counter ointments, ultraviolet radiation therapy (phototherapy), and dietary changes to manage symptoms.
Your doctor or dermatologist can help you diagnose and treat dermatitis so that it becomes a manageable condition with few outbreaks.
Written by Rebecca Stigall for Kidspot, Australia's parenting resource for family health. Sources include Better Health Channel, NSW Health and Health Insite.
Last revised: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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SALEM, Ore. -- A bill that would ban children younger than 18 from using tanning beds passed the Senate on Monday.
The bill, which has already passed the Oregon House last month, passed by a vote of 17-11.
House Bill 2896 would prevent teenagers from patronizing tanning salons. As the bill currently stands, there would be an exception for 17-year-olds who have a physician's permission to use a tanning bed for medical purposes. They must provide documentation that a doctor has prescribed it.
The bill would require tanning salons to post notices alerting customers to the ban.
It's unclear what consequences tanning salons could face should they violate the proposal. The bill does not list any penalties.
Proponents have argued a ban is necessary to keep kids safe, especially in the state with the highest cancer rates in the country.
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* Increased likelihood of additional details being added posthumously by those who never met the Buddha
* Suttas started out shorter, and over time expanded in length (compare the length of the average Samyutta Nikaya sutta to that of a Mahayana Sutra for example)
gavesako wrote:Another way to check for authenticity would be to compare the Sutta in question with a counterpart in the Chinese Agamas for example. Often interesting things can come out of such comparisons, and one can speculate what the original pre-sectarian version of the Sutta was like.
Do you think this is an accurate rule-of-thumb (if so, how accurate?) or are there other rules-of-thumb which provide a better pointer as to the accuracy of suttas and their legitimacy as artefacts that genuinely reflect the word of Buddha?
Dmytro wrote:there are words which occur almost exclusively in later texts:
gavesako wrote:Beware: bhāva is not the same as bhava, although for English speakers the pronunciation often gets muddled.
His name means "Sharp-tooth," and RD is almost certainly right in considering this an invented story. Apart from anything else, no Brahmin would have consulted the Buddha, of all people, about how to perform a sacrifice which was supposed to be their speciality. But at SN 3.1.9 we have the presumably historical story of how King Pasenadi of Kosala planned a great sacrifice [though of only 500, not 700 bulls, etc], with the Buddha's versified comments. From the commentary, though not the text, we hear that the King finally desisted from his intention. Perhaps the Buddha told the King this story on that occasion and the incident was later tactfully transferred from the King of Kosala to an imaginary Brahmin "with royal powers" living in the neighbouring kingdom of Magadha.
retrofuturist wrote:I've heard it said that as a general rule, the longer the sutta, the less likely it is, that the sutta is an historically accurate sutta.
Mawkish1983 wrote:I touched on this earlier but I'm not sure if it's off-topic... if texts in the canon are deemed unauthentic, how does that affect us? What does it mean for modern theravada?
Dmytro wrote:
Inducing a Chronology of the Pali Canon, Paul Kingsbury
Metta, Dmytro
David N. Snyder wrote:In my opinion, there are enough parallels with the other texts and enough repetition in the other Nikayas not to suspect it.
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Wiser's Special Blend
Review: Wiser's Special Blend Canadian Whisky 82.5/100
a review By Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf)
Posted on May 22, 2010
I noticed a change on the new bottles of Wiser's Special Blend about two years ago. The older bottles proudly proclaimed, 'Wiser's Special Blend Canadian Rye Whisky', whereas the newer labels say 'Wiser's Special Blend Canadian Whisky'. The difference of course is the word "rye" which has been taken off the label. It is small changes like that which give me cause for apprehension. I like rye whisky, and as the number of Canadian rye blends is diminishing, I am growing concerned that my favourite whisky will one day be only a memory. Fortunately for me, I was recently given a bottle with the new label by the folks at Wiser's. They also gave me a sharp-looking Wiser's glass in the hopes that I would provide an honest review of the Special Blend. It so happens that I already owned a bottle carrying the previous label so I intend to compare the two bottles to see if the blend as well as the label has changed.
In the Bottle: 4.5/5
Pictured to the right is the new bottle of Wiser's Special Blend. It is a tall flagon style bottle with a square shape. (One thing I love about the square-shaped bottles is how easily they stack on my whisky shelf. ) The label design is assertive and bold and I have no real quibbles with the presentation.
In the Glass 8.5/10
In the glass, the Wiser's Special Blend shows itself as a rich copper coloured whisky with lighter shades of amber. The vapour from the glass is mildly spicy, and seems to be sweetened with an aroma of ripe fruit. Light hints of caramel lie in the breezes as well.
As I mentioned, I still had a bottle of the older label whisky so I thought I would pour a glass and compare the two side by side. I saw no difference in colour between the two but my nostrils did seem to detect a difference in aroma. The older blend was slightly spicier and had a more pronounced rye scent carrying from the glass.
In the Mouth 48.5/60
Bringing the Special Blend to my mouth, I taste caramel, light oak spices, and a mild rye flavour carried by sweet fruit (pears and apples). It tastes good, but lacks the typical thrust of flavour I expect from a Canadian whisky. It is also not how I remember the older blend of Wiser's Special Blend Canadian Rye Whisky to taste. To be sure I conducted four blind trials and was able each time to identify the older blend easily. The older blend has a pronounced rye flavour and delightful dryness. The newer blend is sweeter, and depends upon the light caramel and flavours of ripened fruit to carry its flavour profile rather than rye.
It is a difference in style; the newer blend is softer in the mouth, and perhaps has a touch of maple and cinnamon riding in the very background. This new style is very easy going with a flavour profile that is light and inoffensive with a very mild Canadian character.
In the Throat 12.5/15
Wiser's Special blend is very smooth. The finish is light caramel with a touch of sweetness. A dash of rye-like burn brightens the finish at the end. The smoothness bodes very well for mixing cocktails and party drinks.
The Afterburn 8.5/10
What we have with the new Wiser's Special blend is a prototypical cocktail whisky. It can be served with coke, or ginger ale and I doubt anyone will complain. It has such an easygoing style that it will go down smooth without any rough spots. Finally, the whisky has light flavours and an entirely inoffensive nature. I think this would be the perfect whisky to serve at large gatherings where you are unsure of the range of palates.
You may read some of my other Whisky Reviews (click the link) if you wish to have some comparative reviews.
Suggested Recipes
As I said before, Wiser's Special Blend is a perfect whisky for cocktails. Its light whisky flavour and superb smoothness just about beg to be allowed to mix with other flavours. Here are a couple of original cocktails I constructed to take advantage of the smooth whisky taste.
The Explorer
1 1/2 oz Wiser's Special Blend
1/2 Oz Cherry Whisky
1/4 to 1/2 Oz Lemon Juice
1 – 2 Tsp Simple syrup
3 Large Ice Cubes
Place all ingredients including the ice into a blender.
Blend until smooth(ish).
Serve in a suitable cocktail glass. (I could not resist using my Wiser's Rocks Glass)
Garnish with three frozen Raspberries
This is so good! It might just be the tastiest cocktail I have come up with yet (and don't knock the garnish, the raspberries soak up the goodness of the cocktail as they thaw and are a delicious treat at the end.)!
A longer and taller cocktail I constructed uses Grand Marnier and Ginger ale in conjunction with Wiser's Special Blend to make a thirst quenching drink for a long hot day.
2 Oz Wiser's Special blend
1 Oz Grand Marnier
1/2 oz lemon Juice
1/2 Oz Lime Juice
Ginger Ale
Mix all ingredients over ice
Dress with a slice of Lemon
The slice of lemon adds tartness to the cocktail which I really enjoy on a hot day!
As always you may interpret the scores I provide as follows.
0-25 A spirit with a rating this low would actually kill you.
26-49 Depending upon your fortitude you might actually survive this.
50 -59 You are safe to drink this…but you shouldn't.
60-69 Substandard swill which you may offer to people you do not want to see again.
70-74 Now we have a fair mixing rum or whisky. Accept this but make sure it is mixed into a cocktail.
75-79 You may begin to serve this to friends, again probably still cocktail territory.
80-84 We begin to enjoy this spirit neat or on the rocks. (I will still primarily mix cocktails)
85-89 Excellent for sipping or for mixing!
90-94 Definitely a primary sipping spirit, in fact you may want to hoard this for yourself.
95-97.5 The Cream of the Crop
98+ I haven't met this bottle yet…but I want to.
Very loosely we may put my scores into terms that you may be more familiar with on a Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal scale as follows:
70 – 79.5 Bronze Medal (Recommended only as a mixer)
80 – 89.5 Silver Medal (Recommended for sipping and or a high quality mixer)
90 – 95 Gold Medal (Highly recommended for sipping and for sublime cocktails.)
95.5+ Platinum Award (Highest Recommendation)
4 Responses to "Wiser's Special Blend"
February 17, 2013 at 4:15 pm
Great reveiw , yeah I really enjoy this whisky too , it is great for mixing with pop espically with coke I do agree that it has a nice sweetness and little maple flavor , but overall a well rounded great whisky no doubt it's around $23.90 a 26er (750 ml) a bottle in Canada which is a bit cheaper to the other canadian whiskys for example crown royal probally one of the best known canadian whisky to Americans is around $27-28 a 26er. If you drink vocka here's a great mix recipe . For a lime and coke all you need is a lime , coca cola , your choice of vocka I would recommend Smirnoff because to that is of the best mixing vocka for cocktails ,,,, and a small whisky glass , Take 3 ounces of vocka and cut the limes up into slices squeeze half ounce or full ounce of lime juice or lemon juice , when your done squeezing put the left over slices in the cup and top of the glass with coke add four ice cubes stir it up , put a lime on the edge of the glass for garnish and appearance and serve . Great for partying very easy to make very simple aha thanks
May 22, 2010 at 10:41 am
Hey Chip, love the reviews. There is something I would like to mention for consideration. I am by no means an expert but it strikes me that one should be cynical regarding the colour of most whiskies. As I'm sure you're aware it is a common practice among blenders and distillers to add caramel colouring to their whiskies (straight bourbons excepted). Thus I think it is meaningless to try to ascertain anything at all from a whisky's colour, with two exceptions: when the colour is light and you can infer that no colouring was added, or when the distiller/blender specifically states a lack of added colour. For an example I look to Alberta Premium, whose 5-year-old and 25-year-old whiskies seem to be nearly or exactly the same colour. Meanwhile Century Reserve 21 is considerably lighter than them both.
I don't mean to sound critical or to diminish your reviews at all; I just thought you might give that some consideration when discussing "in the glass", that colour is often altered to suit the desired presentation and in that way is only about as telling as the shape of the bottle and design of the label. What are your thoughts on this?


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The French are always ahead of us, it seems, when it comes to the cinema, not only in their own films, but also in preserving and presenting classic films of all kinds.
A few posts back, I video blogged on the birth of the auteur theory, the invention of André Bazin in Cahiers du cinéma, the then-revolutionary idea that the director — who'd have thought? — was the primary creative force behind the creation of a film. Now it's a commonplace concept; once, it was absolutely groundbreaking.
The French have also been in the forefront of preserving the films of the past, as witness the tireless and pioneering work of Henri Langlois of the Cinémathèque Française, who was among the first to save Hollywood films from destruction when the studios short-sightedly no longer thought they had any commercial value — before television, DVD, steaming video and the like — and they were the first to suggest that perhaps, just perhaps, certain key directors were worth extensive study, as one discovered the themes and obsessions that circulated throughout all their work.
This extends to cartoons, as well, and once again, it's the French who are in the forefront with an extensive set of DVDs covering the work of one the greatest animators who ever lived — a contemporary of Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, and the rest of the Termite Terrace gang — the one, the only Tex Avery. Avery was one of the originators of the animated cartoon in the United States, and as Gary Morris notes, "[Avery] steered the Warner Bros. house style away from Disney-esque sentimentality and made cartoons that appealed equally to adults, who appreciated Avery's speed, sarcasm, and irony, and to kids, who liked the nonstop action. Disney's 'cute and cuddly' creatures, under Avery's guidance, were transformed into unflappable wits like Bugs Bunny, endearing buffoons like Porky Pig, or dazzling crazies like Daffy Duck.
Even the classic fairy tale, a market that Disney had cornered, was appropriated by Avery, who made innocent heroines like Red Riding Hood into sexy jazz babies, more than a match for any Wolf. Avery also endeared himself to intellectuals by constantly breaking through the artifice of the cartoon, having characters leap out of the end credits, loudly object to the plot of the cartoon they were starring in, or speak directly to the audience."
Avery did all that and more at Warner Brothers, but he arguably did his best work when he moved to MGM, where his anarchic vision found full flower in such brilliantly warped shorts as Blitz Wolf (1942), The Early Bird Dood It! (1942), Dumb-Hounded (1943), Red Hot Riding Hood (1943), Who Killed Who? (1943), the utterly twisted What's Buzzin' Buzzard? (1943), Screwball Squirrel (1944), The Shooting of Dan McGoo (1945), Jerky Turkey (1945), Swing Shift Cinderella (1945), Wild and Woolfy (1945), Lonesome Lenny (1946) and many, many others.
But amazingly, there isn't a collection of Avery's work available on DVD in the United States. Some of his cartoons featuring his signature character Droopy are available in a domestic DVD, but if you want a larger selection of Avery's best work, well, you'll have to go to Amazon in France, where you'll find a superb collection of Avery's best work available in four separate volumes, as well as two collections of DVDs.
Though some have criticized the transfers here, I am not one of them. They are sharp, clean, and almost perfect. The DVDs are, after all, official Warner Brothers releases, and they feature many of Avery's best MGM shorts, and also — as extras — some of his earlier work for Warners. The cartoons come with optional French subtitles, but these can easily be clicked off so as not to interfere with one's viewing pleasure; in addition, they're also viewable in a dubbed French version, in which both the dialogue and the voice characterizations are lovingly detailed and surprisingly accurate.
Avery's brilliant cartoons obviously aren't going to be released on DVD in the US anytime soon, though I have no idea why. If anyone cries out for a DVD box set of their best work, it's Avery, so don't hesitate — before the DVDs are gone, get them now, and enjoy the work of one of the most obstinately individualistic auteurs the medium has ever known.
Yes, these are Region 2 DVDs, but if you don't have a Region 2 player by this point, why not?
Tags: André Bazin, Animated Cartoons, Bob Clampett, Cahiers du Cinéma, Chuck Jones, Cinémathèque Française, DVDs, Gary Morris, Henri Langlois, MGM, Tex Avery


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Anyway, I think we are all aware that Danny is shooting a horrible FG% so far this season. It's bad. I've lamented about it in other threads myself. Personally, I don't throw Danny completely under the bus because I suspect that heel injury has a lot to do with his poor shooting (and lack of drives to the basket) and his so-so defense.
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HOUSTON - Hunter, the Harris County Fire Marshal's beloved K-9 investigator, died on Monday, officials said.
A 90-pound chocolate Labrador Retriever, Hunter joined HCFMO in April 2000 thanks to a grant from State Farm Insurance. He was one of only 140 government service accelerant detection canines nationwide.
During his more than 12 years on the force, he investigated 464 fires with HCFMO and 33 other fire and police departments in the 13-county region.
Using his keen sense of smell, Hunter was able to locate valuable evidence that assisted investigators in arresting and convicting 147 arsonists, HCFMO said. His accuracy was confirmed by two forensic laboratories with an 84 percent confirmation rate. His exploits have been featured on several local television stations. In Feb. 2007, he was profiled on ABC News' "Good Morning America".
In August of 2008, Hunter was retired from fire scene investigation but continued his service with active involvement in numerous community outreach programs with his longtime partner, senior investigator Thomas Petty. For an additional 4 years, Hunter and Tom presented a series of seven different fire and life safety programs to dozens of government agencies and hundreds of community groups, schools and daycare facilities. The team racked up a career total of 689 presentations attended by more than 98,000 people.
"He was simply the best partner a man could have," said Petty. "Working with Hunter was a unique privilege and I treasure all of our moments together."
"Hunter was a part of our family," said Harris County Fire Marshal Mike Montgomery. "His loyalty and long service to our agency is immeasurable. His ability to 'stop drop and roll' and 'get low and go' taught many children in our community in a way that engaged interest outside of a normal classroom setting. Hunter touched a lot of lives and truly made a difference."
Upon his retirement in December 2012, Hunter lived with the Petty family. HCFMO said he will be greatly missed.
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NEW YORK -- Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez was prepared to alter his rotation had he been informed that Julio Teheran's All-Star selection was dependent on whether he would be available to pitch in the Midsummer Classic. But he was glad that he was never forced to make this decision that might have bothered some of his other starting pitchers.
Teheran earned his first career All-Star selection Sunday, despite the fact that it looks like he will not be available to pitch. The right-hander is scheduled to start Tuesday night and again this Sunday, two days before the Midsummer Classic in Minneapolis.
According to Major League Baseball rules, pitchers who start regular-season games on the Sunday preceding the All-Star Game are ineligible to pitch in the game and will be replaced on the roster. However, they are still recognized as All-Stars and are invited to be introduced in uniform and participate in other festivities.
"I'm OK with it," Teheran said. "I'm just happy to be selected. I'd prefer to pitch Sunday, win that game and then go to [Minneapolis] and just watch that game."
Had Teheran's selection hinged on his availability, Gonzalez could have started Teheran on normal rest Monday night. This would have forced Monday's starting pitcher, Mike Minor, to take the mound Tuesday with two extra days of rest.
"I think it worked out perfectly," Gonzalez said. "Julio gets to be in the All-Star Game and he gets to pitch Sunday and he gets to be fresh when we bring him back the next time around."
Teheran's mother will be at Citi Field for Tuesday night's start. She will then travel to Minneapolis, where she will meet her husband, who is flying from their native Colombia to enjoy the All-Star experience with their son.
Former Braves shortstop Edgar Renteria was the only previous Colombian to be named to an All-Star team.
"I know Colombia is going to be happy like me because we don't have that many players that get to the All-Star Game," Teheran said.
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Oct 25, 2012
More Previews Of This Coming Weekend's MotoGP Event At Phillip Island
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Randy De Puniet (14).
POWER ELECTRONICS pair ready for penultimate round with 10 points between them in CRT battle
The breathtaking Phillip Island circuit in Australia is ready to welcome the weary travelling circus of the MotoGP World Championship this weekend as they tackle the third race in as many weekends across Asia and Oceana. The fresh sea air of the Bass Strait could be just what the riders need to keep their focus in check as they take on 4.448km of fast and flowing tarmac, located on the stunning cliff edge of the island. Phillip Island has provided a fitting backdrop to the crowning of many a MotoGP World Champion in the past and it could well do so again this Sunday as Jorge Lorenzo defends a 23-point advantage going into the penultimate round of the season. Dani Pedrosa will most likely require a sixth win from seven races if he is to keep a remarkable challenge alive until Valencia but he will have to contend with the 'King of the Island', his team-mate Casey Stoner, who has won his home race for the past five years.
With two races remaining the quest to finish as the best CRT rider in the championship is a closed book between the POWER ELECTRONICS Aspar pair of Aleix Espargaró and Randy De Puniet. The odds are now heavily stacked in favour of the Spaniard, however, after two 'victories' in the last two races combined with two 'zeros' for his French team-mate. The goal for Aleix is to manage his advantage going into his home race in Valencia in two weeks' time whilst Randy needs to take some risks and recover as many points as possible.
Aleix Espargaró: "Australia is a country I love and Phillip Island in particular is beautiful. The atmosphere there makes for a completely different Grand Prix to anywhere else in the world. We stay in houses for the weekend with the team and spend a lot of time together, which just brings us closer together and makes for a special race. The flyaways have been great to us so far - we have qualified and finished as the top CRT in both races. Now we have a ten-point gap over Randy but we have to keep working hard and try to enjoy the weekend to make sure that the situation remains in our favour. Phillip Island is a tricky circuit and it tends to be quite cold so we have to stay focused because it's easy to crash and injure yourself."
Randy De Puniet: "We haven't had any luck in the last two races so we need to work hard to turn the situation around. It was a tough weekend at Sepang, the track conditions were not good and we struggled to get the set-up right. Then the race was wet and we ended up crashing out. We have lost a lot of points in the last two races and Aleix has taken advantage of it in the CRT standings so we have to do whatever we can in Australia to cut the gap. Phillip Island is a very interesting circuit but it is tricky too so we have to work hard from Friday. There are two races left and we need to perform to our full potential if we want to finish as the top CRT in Valencia. We are not ready to give up yet."
More, from a press release issued by Bridgestone:
Bridgestone MotoGP™ Race Preview - Round 17: Phillip Island, Australia
Bridgestone slick compounds available: Front: Soft, Medium. Rear: Medium, Hard (Asymmetric)
Bridgestone wet tyre compounds available: Soft (Main), Hard (Alternative)
Round seventeen and the penultimate round of the 2012 MotoGP™ season takes place at Australia's Phillip Island circuit, where the picturesque setting of the track belies its status as one of the cruellest on Bridgestone MotoGP tyres.
At roughly 4.44 kilometres in length, the majority of the Phillip Island circuit does not impose significant load on tyres, but the final section through the left-handed turns 11 and 12 are taken at high lean angles under continuous throttle opening, resulting in wheelspin and the generation of extreme temperatures. In fact, Phillip Island's last corner creates the highest tyre temperature recorded during the entire MotoGP™ season.
This large variation in operating conditions over the course of a lap make asymmetric rear tyres a necessity at this windswept circuit. The left side of the rear slicks feature rubber that is much harder than the right shoulder, and the rear slicks also employ a special heat-resistant construction like that used at Sachsenring and Indianapolis - to keep tyre temperatures in check.
The front tyre compounds for Phillip Island are the soft and medium compounds which offer the best combination of cornering stability and warm-up performance at a circuit that is renowned for highly variable weather. Phillip Island's vulnerability to very cool temperatures also means that the main wet tyre for the Australian Grand Prix will be the soft compound option.
Hiroshi Yamada - Manager, Bridgestone Motorsport Department
"Phillip Island is one of the most impressive circuits on the calendar with its fast speeds and spectacular seaside location. This year's Australian Grand Prix will be a particularly special occasion as it marks Casey's last home race and although he already boasts an impressive record at the Island, undoubtedly he will give everything he can to score his sixth straight victory at the circuit in front of what will be a large home crowd. The championship battle is continuing right to the end and the three way battle between Casey, Dani and Jorge this weekend should make for exciting racing. Also, it is a shame that Ben's injuries means he can't ride this weekend, I wish him a speedy recovery and hope to see him back on his bike at Valencia."
Shinji Aoki - Manager, Bridgestone Motorsport Tyre Development Department
"Phillip Island is a circuit with a very high average speed, however for the most part it is not demanding on the front and rear tyres because of the generally low temperatures encountered and flowing nature of the track. The last section of the circuit, culminating in the high speed last corner creates the highest rear tyre temperature of the season in the left shoulder and it is this characteristic that is the main consideration when developing tyres for this circuit. It is long and fast with the riders accelerating at high lean angles, and the stresses demand a special heat-resistant construction so that the asymmetric rear tyres can cope with the excessive forces.
"We have seen in the past that the cold and rain can be important factors so softer compounds are generally required to generate good grip. Warm-up performance in the right shoulders is also important as the stresses on this side of the tyre are fairly low."
More, from a press release issued by Pramac Racing:
The Pramac Racing Team gets to Australia this week, preparing for the third and final flyaway race of the 2012 MotoGP World Championship at the fast and undulating Philip Island circuit.
The Green Energy Team rider, Héctor Barberà , arrives at the spectacular Australian track with a strong confidence, after he raced to a brilliant seventh place in the Malaysian Grand Prix last Sunday.
The Phillip Island weekend is, due to its proximity to the coast, frequently dominated by rapidly changing weather conditions. The forecast shows rain and cold for the next days and this poor conditions could shuffle the cards for all the MotoGP riders.
Despite that the Spaniard still has the mathematical chance of clinching the top ten finish in the World standing (with only 9 points separating him from Ben Spies) and he will try to attain also this goal.
Héctor Barberà Pramac Racing Team Rider - "I'm really excited to riding at the Phillip Island circuit, one of my favourite and probably the most beautiful track on the MotoGP calendar. I have good memories on this track, as in 2009 when I achieved a great second place with my Aprilia 250cc and I always enjoy riding there. After the last round in Malaysia, where we caught a positive result despite it was a difficult race due to the tricky weather conditions, I'm really determined to finish on the top ten again. I know it's not going to be easy, but I will try my best!"
More, from a press release issued by Avintia Blusens MotoGP Team:
Avintia Blusens MotoGP will rely on Australian rider Kris McLaren in Phillip Island. Iván Silva will get familiar with the track down under
Avintia Blusens will rely on the presence of Superbikes rider Kris McLaren for the MotoGP race this Sunday. McLaren who participated in CEV this year finishing second in the Jerez race and last year as a guest at the G.P. of Australia will replace injured Yonny Hernández who hopes that he will have recovered to take part in the last round of the year in Valencia.
For his part Iván Silva is going to Australia with the intention to make the good sensations that he has had in the second part of the season come true but that for some reason he has been unable to convert into good results. As it has often been the case this year Silva will have to get familiar with the nice but difficult track of Phillip Island.
Iván Silva: "I have to get familiar with a track once again but Phillip Island is a mythical and exciting one and I can't wait to ride there. I know it won't be easy but I have been feeling more and more at ease with the motorbike and the time must come when I get a good result. If I can get a better setting-up to enhance my pace we can do a good race. I need to complete a full lap to improve my time. We are fast now but I can't complete the assessments. I hope I'll make it in Australia."
Kris McLaren: "I am really enthusiastic I can participate in MotoGP and what's more in my country. It's a great opportunity that Avintia Blusens has offered me and I'd like to make the best of it even if I am aware it will be very difficult to ride with such experienced riders. The first objective is to adapt to the bike and gradually make progress."
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