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By B. I. Bialostotzky
Translated by Dr. Sonia Kovitz These events took place when the Jews of Lithuania were one of the brightest links in the Jewish golden chain: in the days when yeshivas were thriving in Lithuania; when the remarkable faces of the Vilna gaon and R' Yitzhak Elkhonen shone down from the walls of almost every Jewish home; then in the days when word of modern ideas began to spread throughout Lithuania, and with the ideas came new faces on the wall: Mendele Moykher Sforim, Kh. I. Byalik, Dr. Herzl, Sholem Aleikhem, Y. L. Peretz; in the days when our precious Jewish young people began to flourish in Lithuaniawith hope, political movements, and ideals!
In those days, at the beginning of this century, I was still a young boy. I saw the world for the first time as Lithuania! In each shtetl I saw something new, and the image of each shtetl still stands fresh before my eyes. Let us now, in these tragic times, when our Jewish Lithuania has been obliteratedlet us try to bring back beloved images and memories from the depths of years past.
A very little shtetele, Pumpian, my native townwhat is characteristic of it? What distinguished Pumpian from the other little shtetlakh in Lithuania?
We used to speak of Pumpian mud. Of course the mud was deep in Pumpian! There were days, especially around the time of Sukkos [Festival of Tabernacles in the autumn after the High Holy Days], when you simply risked your life to walk from Pushelat Street past the cemetery, or past the poorhouse to the synagogue. But then I also saw mud like that in other shtetlakh.
I also used to hear people speak of Pumpian sacks [for begging]. But as we recalled it, Pumpian wasn't poorer or more destitute and didn't have any more begging sacks than the other Lithuanian shtetlakh. In the synagogue there weren't all that many beggars spending the night, and Pumpian, it seemed to me, didn't have so many wandering tramps that it was giving them awayso begging sacks are not really characteristic of my beloved shtetl.
Yet we do remember some other characteristics. First of allthe appearance of Pumpian. A large marketplace was laid out like an open hand with the fingers pointing in different directions. These fingers were the roads leading from the marketplace to other nearby shtetelakh. One fingerone roadled to Pushelat, a small village-like shtetele with only a few score Jewish families. A second road led to Posvol, which to us Pumpianers had something lofty about it, aristocratic A third road led to Vabalnik. I heard all the children say that on that road robbers were lying in wait, murderers. Everybody was afraid to walk there, or drive there. A fourth road, the broadest, led to Ponevezh. And Ponevezh, the district capital, for a Pumpianerwhat a dream, what a faraway, marvelous metropolis!
Four roadsfour fingers. Nu, if it's like a hand, then where is the fifth finger? Yes, the fifth finger was a straight road, just like the thumb on a human hand, that led from the market right to the synagogue. I used to travel on all of those roads but my favorite, most beloved road was the one leading to the synagogue. Beside the synagogue was a small square surrounded by an iron fence. Inside, within the fenced area, was a stone overgrown with moss. What kind of a square is this? Why is a fence there? What kind of a stone is that?
I heard all kinds of tales about it, but we children came up with our own idea about the stone. For us it was mysteriousit was Mount Sinai. Lucky was the child who, unnoticed by the cranky shames [synagogue caretaker], managed to crawl over the fence and with a khumesh [Bible] in his hand climb to the very top of the Mount Sinai of Pumpian. I want to mention here that the writer Yakov Krepliak tells a tale from his childhood, in a shtetl near Bialystok, about a similar kind of stone that all the children also called Mount Sinai. This shows how close every Jewish child felt to the mountain where we received the Torah!
Thus in my childhood, that stone was Sinai. But when I grew up, I found out that the stone with the fence around it was one of our special gravestones. Generations ago, at the beginning of the 19th century, a blood-accusation took place in Pumpian. The Jews were put into jail and told: Either give up the guilty Jew who killed a Christian child for Passover, or all the Jews will die. At that time there was a Pumpian householder, Yisrael Pumpiansky, who chose kiddush-hashem [martyrdom in sanctification of G-d's name] when he took upon himself alone the despicable calumny. He told the priest and landowner: I alone killed this child. The other Jews are not guilty. And so the martyr was burned alive beside the synagogue. Afterward a stone was set at this holy place with a fence around it. But over time everything was forgotten. This was told to me later, in 1901, by my rabbi, Rabbi Hertzl, in the musar yeshiva of Ponevezh.
With this stone Pumpian, my Pumpian, was distinguished from the surrounding shtetelakh. Of course other holy and tragic events happened in those places too, but I never saw anything like our stone.
What else can I tell you about Pumpian? Not far from the besmedresh [synagogue] there was a Hasidic shul. Next to the shul stood a small Hasidic shtibl [prayer house] where the hasidim would daven [pray] every daythey davenned in the larger shul only on yom tov [yontif, Jewish holiday]. There it stood, big, gigantic, and as I just said, usually empty. Field mice lived in the courtyard and the ceilings. From time to time I would steal into the Hasidic shul and try to frighten the field mice. This was a game to me!
The Pumpian hasidim were Lubavitch, but I don't recall that in daily life there was much of a strict mekhitse [division] between the mitnagdim [opponents of Hasidism] and the hasidim. My zeyde [grandfather] made friends with a hasid who had a blond beard. Between them there was peace, even though my zeyde was a mitnaged. Both of them used to try to calculate, using verses in the Book of Daniel, when the Messiah would come. They didn't actually figure it out but they did have it all calculated.
My zeyde Hirsh Elie, the melamed [elementary Hebrew school teacher], was a type very characteristic of Lithuanian Jews. A melamed who was well versed in gemore [part of the Talmud], he was held in high esteem in Pumpian. His standing in the besmedresh was much lower, close to the doorhe didn't want honors or a special place on the eastern wall. His place in the besmedresh was where a very old clock hung high up on the wall. It had large hands and a heavy weight on a long, brass pendulum. The disturbance went on without cease, back and forth, making the same monotonous noise: tick tock so the time passed, hour after hour, day after day, over the gray head of my zeyde, but my zeyde did not stir from his place. He davenned, lay tefillin [phylacteries], and lernt [studied Torah while reciting it aloud].
Also my bobeh [grandmother] Khana had traits very characteristic of many Jewish Lithuanian women. My zeyde earned very little from teaching, his main task was waiting for the Messiah, but my bobeh was an eyshet khayil [woman of valor from Proverbs 31:10-31, recited by a husband to his wife on Shabbos]. She had a garden at home and with her own hands worked and weeded all the plots. From the garden she raised food that was sufficient for months. My bobeh supported zaydeh's household, and that was characteristic of many such Jewish women. If not for them, the community's economic situation would have been in shambles. The women made it possible with their labor for their devout husbands to study and to have conversations with the Messiah. These Jewish women kept the stores, went to market, stood at fairs, bought and sold, planted gardens, washed and sewed and spun and wove, and simply sacrificed their lives for the Torah of their husbands! My bobeh, may her memory be for a blessing, died in 1917 at the age of 83, far, far away in Simbirsk. What was she doing there? My bobeh Chana was forced to go there, along with thousands of other Lithuanian Jews, by the Tzar's uncle, Nikolai Nikolaevitch, during the First World War.
Thinking about my bobeh Chana, I remember something else that was very characteristic of her and other such Jewish Lithuanian women. She brought together the Jews and the village, the gentile world. She spoke Lithuanian fluently and would go to the village a verst [2/3 mile] or two from Pumpian to purchase wheat from the peasants and would also sell them goods from the shtetl. She established a strong connection with many gentile women. When the gentile women came to the shtetl on market days or holidays, before doing anything else they would always come to greet my grandmother. Such Jewish women were the salt of the earth, and there were many of them in my shtetl, just as in the other shtetlakh. My bobeh wove friendships with the gentile Lithuanians who lived in the area. Who would have believed that in 1941, under Nazi rule in Lithuania, so many Lithuanian murderers would rise up to murder our people!
My zaydeh and bobeh! He with his quietness, his sadness, and his nigun [melody] My father saidand she with her [hay yod], her rushing pace, her own way of doing things, and her little song: Tap tap little hammer Later, new winds began to blow in Pumpian and new melodies were heard. My aunt, a stocking-maker, sang: Though the window panes I see two doves flying (a song by Eliakum Tzunzer). She also sang: There where the cedar (a Zionist song) and the Bundist song by Anski: In the salty sea of people's tears. She mixed all these songs together, and as she sang, her tears would flow. While I was growing up, for a long time I didn't understandthe ideas behind her songs were fragmented, in pieces, while the melodies were all mixed together. So strange!
By B. I. Bialostotzky
Translated by Judie Ostroff Goldstein The life of my father, of blessed memory, who died in Grodno in April, 1940, was tied to the name Posvol. Reb Khaim Yitzhak Bialostotzky was known as the Posvoler Magid [preacher]. He started his career as a magid in Posvol and was one of the last famous preachers who had a deep impact on the Jewish people, especially the poor common folk. There is very little written about the role of the preachers in our literature and research. Posvol gave its share of other famous personalities. It is enough to mention Reb Abele Posvoler.
In Posvol there was a lot more commerce than in Pumpian, and more rich men. There was, I remember, a famous cantor. During my childhood, Posvol was a trifle. People traveled through Posvol and went farther and farther until they reached the great city of Riga. About Riga one would hear all kinds of stories and wonders!
I lived in Pumpian with my grandparents, and rarely stayed with my parents. But I remember two images from Posvol that I would like to tell about.
Opposite the marketplace in Posvol, across the Posvolke River, was a mountain. There were some houses there. In one of the houses my mother lived with the children. My father was still on the way home when I arrived from Pumpian for Passover. My father had not yet arrivedit seems he had to come from Birz. My mother had prepared everything: matzah [unleavened bread], wine and fish. The house shone for the Jewish holy day. But the ice on the river had melted and the river was a torrent. It was impossible to cross from one side to the other. Erev pesakh [Passover eve] my father stood on one bank and looked at my mother, and my mother stood on the other side and looked at my father. Jews screamed, gentiles put down planks, but the current was too strong. The ice floes were like a multitude of sea animals, pushing and breaking up God knows what such a small river could do. My mother was alone for the seder and I had to be the king [lead the seder], but how could I be king when my and my mother's eyes ran with tears? Later when I was grown up, I read about something like this in a story by Sholem Asch and also in one by Y.J. Singer. This event was characteristic of Jewish life with its rivers and towns, so I wrote it down exactly as I had lived it.
Lithuanian gypsies! At that time they held an important place in the lives of Jewish children. People were afraid of them but ran to see their stunts. Lithuanian gypsies with their bonfires under the stars, their melodies, their fiery dances. The poet Leyb Neydus from Grodno once sang about them in a song.
When I read in 1945 that the Nazis had gathered together eight thousand gypsies in Lithuania and forced them all into the crematoria of Treblinka, a distinct tremor passed through my heart. My Jews, my family, my brothersmy heart bleeds for you and for our misfortune! But the death of eight thousand gypsies also brings pain. You with the whips and your black hair! In 1901 you did not know that in 1942 you would also be burned in the ovens.
By B. I. Bialostotzky
Translated by Dr. Sonia Kovitz I spent three years in Ponevezh, from the time I was eight years old until I was eleven. I saw or knew very few of the Ponevezh householders, the Ponevezh maskilim [enlightened adherents of the haskalah movement], the Ponevezh community leaders. I saw only the yeshivas of Ponevezh, for I was a yeshiva bokher [boy], or more accurately, a yeshiva yingl [little boy]. My father brought me there and turned me over to Rabbi Hertzl, a Jew with a keen glance, though often dejected. Rabbi Hertzl was one of Rabbi Israel Salanter's students and a musarnik [exponent of Salanter's teachings on musar, ethics] and my father probably felt that I could use a little musar. Rabbi Herzl's yeshiva for young students was in a poor kloyz [study house].
We studied gemore [part of the Talmud], but twice a week we would study musar. R' Herzl, I remember, had chosen 20 young students who he deemed worthy, that is, worthy to study musar. He would take us to his home, where we sat around a long bench with the rabbi at the head of the bench. It was afternooncloser to night than day, and in the room it was dark. R' Herzl would, like a musarnik, recite musar in the dark. We could hear him shokling [rocking back and forth in prayer] and from time to time we cried out Hear O Israel or another holy exclamation. We shokled and looked at R' Herzl, who was immersed in a fearsome encirclement, a kind of cloud and such purification would go through our young hearts. But R' Herzl did not make us good, rather in his ecstasy he set about making himself good, not his students. For him musar was aimed first of all at oneself, not a congregation. You should become a better person! And truth be toldjust as long as the rabbi didn't direct any musar at me, during the hour of musar I wasn't afraid of anything.
A large number of us yeshiva boys slept in the kloyz, where our yeshiva was located, because they couldn't find any other beds for us in town. We slept on the benches. Each of us had a straw mattress that our mothers had given us. And at one time also a pillow. No! Few of us had pillows. Sleeping on just a straw mattress was in itself already a sort of musar. A little later the beggars and homeless would begin to gather in the kloyz. There was a sort of competition between us, the young boys, and the tramps. It no longer felt like home to us when we had to spend the night with the beggars.
Then we made sleeping places in the attic of the kloyz. Each one of us dusted off a small spot in the attic, put down our straw mattress, set over to the side our little box or basket, and this we called our bed, our mekom [special place]. I remember how we would crawl up the ladder to the attic to get to our sleeping places! All because of gemore and musar.
And then a new trouble descended on us young boys. A gang of troublemakers, hoodlums, wild kids started to pester us, hitting and stealing. Once they took away our ladder. R' Herzl became furious. In great anger and in great wrath and with his fiery red beard flying, he threw himself at the hoodlums and they threw themselves at him, but he went after them and they were driven away. We felt like great conquerors. But R' Herzl, poor man, paid dearly for his heroism. The hoodlums got even with him.
R' Herzl had a long, beautiful beard. Several boys waited for him at night in a narrow street near the large synagogue (the street that led to his home) and they caught him and they did not beat him, no! They did something much worse. They shaved off his beard! For seven days he was too ashamed to come to the yeshiva, and the oldest yeshiva student took over our lessons. On the eighth day R' Herzl arrived with a thick towel wound around and around his face. There was no end to his embarassment. Eventually his beard grew back, of course, but he never regained the impressive appearance that he once had.
I would like to mention a few things about the way of life of the young musar students. A couple dozen of us did not have all the days [arranged with families who provided meals for yeshiva students]. One lacked Monday, a second lacked Tuesday, a third Thursdaythey had nowhere to eat on those days. So what did we do? A sort of commune was created among us. We put into the fund a kopeck that we had saved and then another kopeck. We also saved a piece of bread, a potato, a piece of herring. Every day we would prepare a poor table (on a bench) for the hungry. I was the secretary of this commune! Poor mealsonly the tramps with their begging sacks would look at us with envy.
There was another yeshiva in Ponovezhin the large synagogue. The older boys studied there, those between approximately thirteen and sixteen. The shames [synagogue caretaker] there was Reb Aryeh, a Jew of virtuous ways. Here is one of the things Aryeh did: every Friday a wagon drove around through the streets of Ponevezh and Reb Aryeh himself, or a helper, would call out, Khallah for the yeshiva students! And the Jewish housewives would appear on the doorsteps of their houses and toss khallah into the wagon. On Shabbos evening Reb Aryeh would distribute the khallah among the yeshiva students. Everyone received his own khallah. This was for the days when the yeshiva students didn't have a place to eat.
I remember that there were poor loaves of khallah made of dough and water, and rich loaves of khallah made with cinnamon and raisins, from the wealthy households. I don't know why, but Reb Aryeh would not give the musar boys any of the raisin khallah. Perhaps he believed that those studying musar should not be eating raisins, but this caused me grief! I longed for the golden, rich egg khallah! One cold night I ripped a hole in the pocket of my winter coat and got away with an entire rich khallah! This was probably the first sin that I committed in my life. Evidently musar didn't help!
There was a third yeshiva in Ponevezhthe yeshiva of great merit, the yeshiva of the famous sage Rabbi Itzele Ponevezher. One had to be older and among the very bestan ilui [prodigy]to be able to study there. R' Itzele's name was known over all of Ponevezh! We, the young boys, would wait for him in the big street that led to the Karaites and holding our breath, we would watch him walk by with his close associates, his good students, debating Torah with them! In that street, that led to Shadeve, there were a lot of Karaites, and I felt something like fear of the Karaites. But Rabbi Itzele would walk along in the wide road without a bit of fear. This gave my young heart strength. One time I saw the khokhem [wise man] of the Karaites walk up to Rabbi Itzele and greet him with a very deep bow. R' Itzele looked at him, shook his head, and murmured something then he turned around and quickly, quickly went to his yeshiva.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- In an effort to get Chris Owings and Didi Gregorius in the lineup at the same time this spring, D-backs manager Kirk Gibson will use Owings at second at times.
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REPORT: Cammell Laird 0 1874 2
2:59pm Wednesday 15th January 2014
By Andrew Simpson
2:59pm Wednesday 15th January 2014
By Andrew Simpson
1874 NORTHWICH, picked by competition organisers as the best performers in the previous round, will again attract attention after beating opponents from a league above.
Cammell Laird are ranked 32 places, and two divisions, higher than Ian Street's men.
That their guests bridged such a significant gap will worry them as much as it delights followers of the tournament newcomers.
The hosts will make a case that the outcome might have been different had it not been for goalkeeper Matthew Conkie's interventions – more than one of them – in the opening stages.
During that period Northwich debutant Connor Tagoe was forced off with injury, replaced by Paul Bowyer.
While still adjusting, the away team took the lead.
Dean McGregor chased a long ball and, despite a defender being favourite to intercept, his was a decisive touch to send the ball past former Winsford custodian Michael Langley.
Laird, play-offs finalists in the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League's Division One North last season, continued to dominate possession without any reward as Conkie thwarted them twice more with stunning stops.
His high standards did not drop during a second period that followed much the same pattern.
Northwich struck again though with 10 minutes left, this time when substitute Michael McGinlay – on his first appearance since signing for the club – swept in Stuart Wellstead's assist.
Wellstead might have added to his team's lead in the game's closing stages, but could not control his shot after substitute Matthew Ward had led a counter attack from the halfway line.
It mattered not, for 1874 Northwich had already made safe a quarter finals place.
Laird Langley (GK), Foley, Lundon, Hollett, Dysart, Gibiliru, Couch, Mooney, Atkinson, Foulkes, Carney (Foy 63) Subs not used Speare (GK), Parle, Evans
1874 Conkie (GK), Mitchell, Farnworth, Duckworth, Tagoe (Bowyer 15), Wellstead, Crane, Woolley, Stewart (Ward 84), McGregor (McGinlay 77), Brandon Sub not used Murphy Goals McGregor 19, McGinley 80
Referee Peter Gibbon
Attendance 97
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Evonik Industries, an industrial corporation in Germany and one of the world's leading specialty chemicals firms, unveiled its lightweight electric Elise-E at CAR-Symposium 2012 in Bochum, Germany. The battery-powered Elise-E tips the scales at a scant 2,094 pounds, allowing its 150-kW electric motor to propel it from 0 to 60 miles per hour in just […]+ Read More
After about six years of big announcements about hybrid and electric cars from Chrysler, the company has delivered nearly zero gas-electric vehicles. Way back in 2004, Dodge was promising a Ram hybrid pickup. That never materialized. In 2008, hybrid versions of the Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen full-size SUVs were killed just two months after […]+ Read More
The sale of Chrysler to FIAT is turning into a battle royale—with diverse and overlapping conflicts between the two auto companies, the Obama Administration, the US Supreme Court and Justice Department, secured and unsecured creditors, consumer groups and three Indiana pensions funds. The Indiana pension funds last week asked the Supreme Court to stop the […]+ Read More
When President Barack Obama walked into Southern California Edison's electric-vehicle test facility in Pomona today, he visited what may be the highest concentration of electric vehicles in North America. It was a photo op, of course. The president's goal, said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, was to highlight the role of plug-in cars in creating […]+ Read More
There wasn't a V8 to be heard. Full-size SUVs were banished from sight. And the words "electric car" and "hybrid vehicle" were on every carmaker's video screen. Detroit—This year's Detroit auto show was tossed into a brave new world where every manufacturer has to show a plan for hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or battery electric cars […]+ Read More
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For an ordinary car, 100,000 sales worldwide is not a big deal, but considering what the Chevy Volt has been through to get this far, in this case it is. The plug-in electrified vehicle that's plowed the ground for others to follow crossed the milestone some time last month, two months shy of its five-year […]+ Read More
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Pamela, yes exactly. It's hard to know what to ask people as the mental focus isn't really there these days so it's so much nicer when people just do things instead of making vague promises or saying 'call me'!! We're getting by, bit by bit. It feels like we're stuck in limbo a little bit but some days are okay.
Darla, thanks. Yes, it means so much to be around people who really understand and truly 'get' this limbo that we're in. Some people mean well by trying to gently push us to move onwards or to get out more etc. but really, we need to do things when we're ready, not when they decide we should be ready!
Gerry, thank you very much. I agree that professional counselling is most likely necessary. Today my sons and I met with the counsellor in Marymount Hospice where Diarmuid passed away. She was terrific - she listened and was wonderfully supportive and validated our feelings of anger and frustration. I'm not sure how often we can attend the hospice for counselling but I'll take whatever's available as I do gel well with her and she was there with us when Diarmuid was nearing the end and when he passed away. Down the line, I'll look into more structured counselling too.
Pam thank you. I loved hearing about the nurse and the cheesecake. Those are the little acts of kindness that make all the difference.
My kids had a good day today. They're off school now for the Easter break and life is so much easier without the school schedule. We're still taking things day to day in general but making the most of the good days.


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It's a Wonderful Life: Live Radio Show
From their South Water Street "studios," Next Act Theatre will re-mount last year's runaway holiday hit, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: Live Radio Show. The production will run December 12 – January 5, 2014 at their home in Walker's Point at 255 S. Water St.
Adapted by Mary MacDonald Kerr, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: Live Radio Show combines George Bailey's adventure with a clever bit of 1953 radio storytelling to complement your theatre experience. The action behind the microphones will be fun to follow, with changing characters and voices, live music and mechanical sound effects helping to shape the on-air depiction of this holiday classic. And there's also a studio story between the radio players that unfolds, adding another layer of emotional resonance. You will be simultaneously in the audience and also behind-the-scenes, without leaving your seat.
Opening night is Friday, December 13. Tickets range from $30-$38 and may be purchased by calling 414-278-0765 or online at www.nextact.org.


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For a great selection of action figures and collectibles, check out BigBadToyStore.com, BriansToys.com, ToyWiz.com, SmallJoes.com, PastGenerationToys.com, ZoloWorld.com, MonkeyDepot.com, HobbyLinkJapan.com, and Sekaido.com.
For a great selection of pop culture t-shirts and apparel, check out TShirtGurus.com and 80sTees.com.
Toy2R drops an advanced look at the lineup of designs from the cast of international artists participating in the Skelanimals Qee Project. Each designer was asked to submit designs of their own interpretation of Skelanimals using the Qee platform. To bring both worlds closer together, Toy2R has worked closely with the Skelanimals team to create the core characters in Qee form.
Series 1 will feature the Skelanimals characters Chungkee and Marcy as the platforms for design. Series 2, planned for the winter, will feature Dax, Kit and Jack, all in Qee form. And just like regular Qees, each figure will include a keychain attachment.
Series 1 will include designs by Jon-Paul Kaiser, Reactor 88, Julie West, Lunabee, Frank Mysterio, Jim Koch, Chauskoski and Voltaire. There will also be variant chase versions inserted randomly in the 25pc counter displays, as well as original classic styles of each Skelanimal character.
Toy2R expects to release Series 1 of the Skelanimals Artist Qee Collection in late July to early August. Early word has it that there will be some exclusive pre-launch figures available during this year's San Diego Comic-Con event. Expect the blind boxed assortment to retail for about $9.99 each.
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My mum has recently been diagnosed with Cholangiocarcinoma and here in the UK the NHS has given us very little hope? Infact we have been told she will have anywhere between 6-9 months to live with chemo. The cancer is said to have started in the bile ducts and is now effecting all 3 hepatic valves in the liver. Her liver function is normal at this stage and she feels perfectly healthy.
Here in the UK there is alot speculations about the national health system so we decided to seek other opinions. After alot of research we came across Dr Canady's work and quickly found out that he had saved alot of people. We are currently in talks with him at the moment and he has been very helpful.
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Elizabeth Taylor Diamonds and Jewels Auction at Christie's
The Love Stories Behind Elizabeth Taylor's Jewels
The Love Stories Behind Elizabeth Taylor's Jewels
"I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife," Elizabeth Taylor once confessed, and her seven husbands certainly didn't treat her like one. Over the years they showered her with jewels, which became some of her most prized possessions. After presenting a public exhibition, Christie's has just auctioned off Elizabeth Taylor's jewels for a record-breaking $115 million. Many of the pieces sold were given to her by her twice-husband Richard Burton — including the infamous "Elizabeth Taylor Diamond."
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Castellanos delivers big hit in return to action
DETROIT -- Nick Castellanos didn't look injured Wednesday night, when he knocked in a career-high four runs in the Tigers' 7-2 win over the White Sox. But he sure felt it.
His finger contusion forced him to change his swing, which he said might have helped him more than it hurt him -- just one of those "little blessings," according to the rookie third baseman.
"Earlier, I've been using a lot of top hand," Castellanos explained. "Kind of rolling over pitches I should stay through. Now, with my finger hurt on my top hand, I have to use a lot more bottom hand. It really helped me out tonight.
"I didn't try to do too much."
Castellanos went 2-for-4 with a three-run homer that capped a six-run first inning.
He readily admitted he wasn't feeling as strong as he normally was, but that was hardly evident. In fact, his night was so successful that a reporter asked him whether he might be taking a few more batting-practice grounders off his finger -- the cause of the contusion.
"You know, if I'm struggling, I might have to do that," Castellanos joked.
Matt Slovin is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A thread for expressing your love and dedication to Nicki, general Nicki banter, and Nicki topics that don't belong anywhere else
If You Stand For Nothing, You Will Fall For Anything
Whats this i hear about nicki having her own reality tv show heard bout it months back but as i live in the uk i wont be able to watch it but ill catch if its on youtube :D whos exited ?
Every get behind Nicki and vote for her on http://au.mtvema.com/biggest-fans to win biggest fans award at the mtv ema. She is number 14 at the moment so she will be eliminated in two days if we dont all vote for her! Get on that :)
hey guys ! it's nice to be here with you all ! it's me ! can u please check out my performance of "super Bass" ? i'd be thankfull !
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There's ToOoOOoo much 2 tweet 2nite!!! Imma start w/ congrats to my girl @NICKIMINAJ & my boy @drakkardnoir!! @MonicaMyLife you murdererrr!!http://twitter.com/MissKeriBaby/status/17213185340
@NICKIMINAJ thanks girl- U2! Been a fan since my bro playd me "can't stop won't stop" remx 4ever ago! u fought 4 this ish! bout 2 TAKE OVER!http://twitter.com/MissKeriBaby/status/5343196458
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I must give major props to Ms. Minaj for all the industry and us followers put artists such as herself through....such criticism, questioning/advising, just an overall need to share one's own opinion...smh. Well, my opinion is that Nicki is one of the best looking female artists in the industry today, and for a while...putting aside her curves, she has the most beautiful face, eyes and smile, of which I love to see without makeup...like I said, in my opinion.
Nicki, keep doing what you are doing...being the amazing artist/performer that you are...never lose that smile though. I think you will always look your best out of the spotlight when your smile and eyes really get to shine. Love you, God bless
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text: Politics 14 December 2012 Don't tax Amazon. Tax Amazon's shareholders Corporations dodge tax. So go for their owners instead. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML Tax avoidance is a problem which stubbornly refuses to be fixed. Even just defining our terms is problematic, with nearly every definition wide-ranging enough to cover all avoidance also including things which nobody finds objectionable. And even if you could define it well, there's the fact that tax avoidance is, by its nature, legal. While some avoidance is truly, obviously, taking advantage of sloppy phrasing in statutes and judicial rulings, most of it exists in the grey area where it would be impossible to "tighten up" the law without also removing those deductions or exemptions which were supposed to be there in the first place. (For an example of this in action, look no further than the pasty tax debacle.) The worst tax avoidance is undoubtedly in the corporate sector. While there are terrible examples of avoidance amongst individuals, like the New Yorker's examination of hedge-fund manager Julian Robertson's tax affairs, they are always hampered by the fact that actually offshoring personal income – the most effective form of avoidance, and the hardest to fight with the law – is tricky. People, after all, have a physical location. Some may become the infamous "non-doms", but to do that you have to spend half the year outside the country. That isn't something which can be achieved by just hiring a canny accountant. While moralising can convince the worst corporate offenders to pay their fair share – as Starbucks finally agreed to do – it can't work every time. Some companies don't care about their image, others manage to hide their avoidance. And so we come back to patching up the holes in the system. But with offshoring, some holes seem nearly unpatchable. For all the stirling work of campaigners like UK Uncut and Tax Research UK, the world is still no closer to agreeing on the best way to deal with multinationals which engage in creative "tax planning". But there's one possibility: forget about them. The reason why involves looking at the concept of tax incidence. If you accept that the only question of tax that matters is which people pay it, then corporation tax becomes a complicated issue. As a tax alters the bottom line of a company, one of two things will happen: either it will pass the costs on, or it won't. If it doesn't, then the actual people hit by the tax are the shareholders of the company, who see its profitability decline. (This is largely the intended outcome of campaigns against tax dodging.) But if it does past the costs on, then either its customers and employees must bear the brunt, in the form of increased costs or decreased wages, or other businesses (such as suppliers or contractors) do, and the whole equation starts again. (It is important to point out that the argument that all costs must be levied on a person at some point is not without its critics. After all, businesses have savings, assets, property and rights; who is to say that they can't be counted as people for the purpose of taxation? And the assumption at the heart of the argument is one which must be taken as faith. It's just as easy to argue, using the same logic, that the costs of all personal taxation must be borne at some point by businesses.) Tax incidence varies business-to-business and over time. In the early 70s, when it was starting up in Washington state, Starbucks' tax incidence was almost certainly mostly upon its shareholders. Labour was expensive, coffee was a niche product, and investors in a small start-up were probably in for the long haul. Now that Starbucks has access to vast pools of low-wage labour and customers willing to pay up to $7 for a cup, it is far more likely that they will bear the brunt of much excess tax. (Although, of course, as John Elledge rightly points out, even then, it's not certain; and if there's anything we've learned from Lisa Pollack's investigation into the matter at the FT, it's that Starbucks' publicity machine holds a lot of sway within the company) But here's the thing: if we want to tax just the shareholders of a company, we already have a way to do it. We tax dividends, and we tax capital gains. Increasing those taxes hits the people we hope would take the brunt of corporation taxes anyway. So here's my proposal: scrap corporation tax, and whack up those two to make up the revenue gap. There would be two big transfers inherent in this change: the first would be from shareholders in companies which pay little tax to shareholders in companies which pay a lot of tax. Since that's just another way to say "cracking down on tax avoidance", it need not upset us too much. The other is more uncertain. By and large, international companies have international ownership. Those based in Britain with the majority of their shareholders overseas would be better off; those based overseas with the majority of their shareholders in Britain would be worse off. If the logic of the Conservatives, who have already cut corporation tax significantly, holds, we can expect that latter group to move headquarters here to take advantage of the rates; and if it doesn't, then we can expect the shareholders to sell up and buy into British companies. There's a reason CGT and dividend taxes are so low, of course, which is to encourage investment. But since we would expect pre-tax shareholder income to go up, investment ought to still be compelling. It would just be targeted more effectively at companies which could actually make a profit, rather than those which could only make a profit if they were avoiding tax which their competitors were not. If we can stop the biggest corporations avoiding tax, we ought to. But if trying to tax aggregations of people which can twist across country borders with ease is permanently difficult, perhaps we ought to stop trying it, and do something better instead. › Friday Arts Diary Photograph: Getty Images Alex Hern is a technology reporter for the Guardian. He was formerly staff writer at the New Statesman. You should follow Alex on Twitter. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles How US states are fighting inequality with a "millionaire tax" Laying the foundations for conflict-free construction Lowland: small and mid-caps for…income? 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Category: Paloma Picasso
Sure, we know that rockers and rappers are infamous for being the most inventive—which is to say extreme—band of baby namers. But what about artists at the other end of the spectrum—the Fine Art painters and sculptors. Are they equally creative when naming their kids?
Getting the answer to this question proved to be a little more difficult than I'd thought, since these art world denizens and their offspring don't appear much in the tabs, and most of their biographies downplay their domestic lives. But my digging did produce some evidence that their creativity did extend to a number of artists' children's name choices.
Here are some truly creative baby names chosen by both superstars of the art world and others who might be less well known. Most are modern/contemporary painters and sculptors, but with a few irresistible older masters' names thrown in.
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NEW YORK Target is teaming up with Baby Buggy, a non-profit organization founded in 2001 by Jessica Seinfeld, for a year-long partnership to help underprivileged families in need. Through the partnership, Target will offer an exclusive Baby Buggy line of baby essentials. The agreement also includes a $25,000 quarterly donation (totaling $300,000 for the year) from Target vendors Avent, The Boppy Company and Huggies.
"Partners like Target enable Baby Buggy to keep improving the lives of families and children who are truly in need," said Seinfeld. "Target shares our mission and our commitment to the communities we serve. We are proud to work with them and grateful for their support."
Over the course of the year-long partnership, Baby Buggy said it will team up with renowned designers to create new, signature baby items. Ten percent of the purchase price from the Target Baby Buggy collection will go to support Baby Buggy's efforts.
According to a press release, the donations will help Baby Buggy serve partner sites in seven cities including New York, Washington, Chicago, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Dallas.


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Arundel Bicycle Co was formed in 2000 with a simple goal: "come up with some cool bike equipment that people want to buy". More than a decade on, Arundel now provides accessories to everyone from global sponsored teams such as Garmin-Cervelo whilst still providing the best quality products to everyday cyclists whom just love to ride their bikes. Each bottle cage or saddle bag is carefully designed to exceed expectations and fulfil actual needs NOT copy someone else's. If you appreciate quality and affordability then Arundel is for you!
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text: Buffalo bumps off No. 1 Greenbrier West By Dave Morrison September 14, 2012 Story Share CHARMCO - Buffalo certainly has a lot in its offensive arsenal.But Friday night it was the defense that was the difference, as the Bison stunned Class A No. 1 Greenbrier West 29-20.Buffalo (2-1) tallied two defensive touchdowns late in the first half and then held off a second-half charge by previously undefeated West (3-1).Laythen Good recovered a fumble on an option pitch that he batted down and sprinted 44 yards for a score, and Levi Jordan returned an interception 82 yards for another - all in a 59-second span - to give Buffalo a 22-6 halftime lead."Our defense was the difference in this game,'' Buffalo coach Mike Sawyer said. "We had some kids who were out with injuries and some kids stepped in their place and played well. We bent, probably gave up a lot of yards, but didn't break.''Up 7-6, Good lived up to his name by reading an option pitch by quarterback Malik Boatwright and batting it down, then had the ball bounce back to him and scored untouched."I was in the right place at the right time and I was lucky the ball bounced right back to me,'' Good said. "I mean, it came right back in my arms. I couldn't believe it.''Less than a minute later, Jordan, better known for his exploits as the Buffalo quarterback, intercepted a Mikey Goddard pass that was batted at the line of scrimmage and returned it 82 yards for a score. Just like that, the Bison had a 16-point halftime advantage."To win games like this, you have to take advantage of opportunities and our kids did that,'' Sawyer said.The two turnovers were among the five surrendered by West."The difference in this game was turnovers,'' West coach Lewis McClung said. "You give up five, and they score on two of them, it's probably not going to turn out well. I give them credit. They played well and took advantage of the opportunities we gave them.'' The Bison made matters worse for West by scoring on their first possession of the second half, using a three-play drive, which ended with Good scoring his third touchdown of the game on a 24-yard run.West came back and got a 15-yard touchdown run from Boatwright, who finished with 231 yards rushing, and 15-run from Corey Cox to make it 29-20.But once again, Buffalo's defense rose to the occasion. Fittingly, Good had an interception late in the game to seal the victory.Although it is early in the season, Sawyer said beating the No. 1 team has meaning."Any time you beat a team that's number one it's a big win, but we really needed this after last week [a loss to Poca],'' Sawyer said. "Sure it's early, but they are a good team and we needed this. We probably needed it more than [West] did, and that may have had something to do with it.''West, which was held on downs five times in the game and three times in the first half, including the game's opening drive at the 4, went up first on a 2-yard run by Tyler Parker on the second play of the second quarter.But Good, who had 95 yards on the ground, gave Buffalo a lead it wouldn't relinquish with a 1-yard run.West finished the night with 336 yards on 60 carries. "We got ourselves in a lot of third-and-8, third-and-9 situations and that isn't us,'' McClung said. "Also, getting in a hole like we were isn't us. We like to score and control the clock.''"They're a good team, but we really needed this win,'' Good said. "The thing we really needed to make a point. We were ready for this game all week. Any time you get a big win on the road, it's a statement.''"I know this,'' Sawyer said. "It will make that bus ride back home a lot sweeter.'' Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 2 Volunteers aid flood victims in Elkview, Clendenin 3 Teen pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 4 WVU hopes to get injured defenders back for TCU 5 Safety shutoff disabled prior to June coal-mining death, report says Prep football roundup: No. 1 Cabell Midland runs past SC Previous Story GW operating at full throttle Next Story


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New Tag Teams I'd Like to See
by, 06-05-2013 at 01:38 PM (8596 Views)
The tag team division, which received a nice push awhile back, has again floundered. The Shield aren't really a tag team, they're three guys who mostly wrestle in six-man action. Don't get me wrong, the Shield are great, and they should hold onto their respective titles for a long time. But I'd like to see some real teams, with real team gimics. These are not just two random guys thrown together, but actual team gimics with guys currently going nowhere. Anyway, here are some ideas.
1. The Pain and the Power. This is a heel team of JTG and Ezekiel Jackson. JTG is an excellent talker, and Jackson is underused. There can be vignettes on RAW/Smackdown/Main Event showing the words "The Pain and the Power" for a couple of weeks. Then, continue this with a voice over, with JTG saying "I bring the pain!" and Jackson saying "And I've got the power!" Don't show them yet, but do that for another couple of weeks as a build up. I've always liked teams with one big strong guy and one smaller quicker guy, and this team fits that bill. As a finishing move, Jackson can be in the ring squating (or on his knees) and holding the near-defeated opponent around the waist. He had just previously made the tag to JTG, who climbs to the top rope, yells "Downtown" (the name of the finisher), while giving the near-defeated opponent two thumbs down, then jumps off the top rope with a big knee onto the opponent's chest. JTG then covers the opponent for the pin while Jackson remains in the ring to block any interference.
2. 450. This is a face team of Justin Gabriel and Mason Ryan. Again, one big guy and one smaller guy, both underused. They meet in the gym with Ryan benchpressing a large amount of weights, and Gabriel asks him how much weight is on the bar. Ryan answers "450", which causes Gabriel to laugh because that's the name of his finishing move. They team up as a face team. As a finisher, Ryan picks up the near-beaten opponent, tags Gabriel while still holding him in the air, plants him with a British Bulldog type powerslam near their corner, and Gabriel hits the 450 splash for the win. I think this team and my "The Pain and the Power" team could have a great feud with some really good matches. A face manager might be good for this team because neither guy is much of a talker, but if they can develop any kind of team chemistry they could go a long way.
3. The Hot Jocks. This is a heel team with Alex Riley and Ted Dibiase doing a college jock gimic, two obnoxious guys wearing letter jackets and ruling the school. Maybe bring the new diva JoJo Offerman (or whatever her name is) to be their personal cheerleader (because she's not much of a wrestler), bouncing around outside the ring and shaking her pom-poms. They can call themselves "A-Ri" and "Ted Di", doing a lot of double team cheating moves, never winning clean, etc. Riley is a good talker, both come from athletic families, and both are due for a nice push. This type of gimic is easy for fans to hate, because most blue collar types (a/k/a/ wrestling fans) never liked the obnoxious jocks in high school and college and might have been a little jealous of them always getting everything handed to them. Their finishing move can be a double-team hot shot where they throw the near-defeated opponent off the ropes and both of them catch him with a double hot shot against the top rope. The double team ensures that this move can be used against some larger opponents.
4. Long Island Longshots. Face team of Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins. While not a new team, these former WWE tag teams champions desperately need to be repackaged. They worked well together in the past, Ryder still has a large fan base, and this could be a popular team. Their finisher can be a slingshot move called the "Longshot" where Hawkins slingshots the opponent into a Ryder dropkick for the win.
Along with some other teams, the tag team division can be great. The Wyatt family, who I assume with be a heel team, will be a great addition. The Prime Time Players desperately need a manager, maybe Alicia Fox, and they can be a top heel team. The Usos are getting a nice push as a face team, and Primo-Epico work equally well as either a heel or a face team (especially with the uber-hot Rosa Mendes as their manager!). So there can easily be 8-10 teams if you include the Shield and 3MB. Having actual teams that wrestle using specific team gimics, almost exclusively as tag teams, with tag team finishing moves, can really improve the division, and there are unused talents out there just waiting for their chance.
What do you guys think? Are these team ideas good? Do you have other team ideas of your own? Please share below. Thanx. Rob


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For two people who love pizza, Kelly Bone and I (Lance Roberts) have a surprising lack of overlap. You can blame it on her frustrating vegetarianism— or my cruel, planet destroying meat-eating—but I think it goes deeper. We just have different taste buds. And though you aren't going to hear a peep from either of us about what the top two shops in Los Angeles are, the rest of our picks for best in the city are strictly "he said, she said." Perhaps this slideshow can stand as beacon, showing us all that there is no best pizzas...only favorite ones.
[Kelly's note: And yet my favorites are somehow the best. How odd.]
[Lance's note: You just lost your mind, my picks are so obviously the best. They're freaking bulletproof.]
[Kelly's second note: You just contradicted everything you wrote in the introduction.]
[Lance's second note: Yeah, but...just click the button for the slideshow.]
About the author: After nearly a decade in Brooklyn, Kelly Bone landed back in Los Angeles where she writes The Vegetarian Foodie. She spends the rest of her time designing office cubicles... you might be sitting in one right now! Follow her on Twitter at @TheVegFoodie
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Kentucky Derby Party – Mint Juleps, Hats and Southern Gates
Imagine 165,000 people, some traveling thousands of miles, year in and year out, for a single 2 1/2 minute event. This happens the first Saturday in May for the Kentucky Derby, lauded as the greatest two minutes in sports and one of the most exciting fashion events of the year. Colorful attire and a parade of bold, extravagant hats mark the return of spring.
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Accessorize your outfit with a Southern Gates pendant, bracelet and a pair of earrings. Then pick your horse, grab a frosty mint julep and get the party started! For an extra bit of fun, have a contest for the biggest hat, men's hat or the best derby inspired hat.
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The Perfect Mint Julep
Prep Time 24 hours and 25 minutes Ingredients 4 cups bourbon 2 bunches fresh spearmint 1 cup distilled water 1 cup granulated sugar Powdered sugar
Prepare mint extract – Remove about 40 small mint leaves. Wash and place in a small bowl. Cover with 3 ounces bourbon. Allow the leaves to soak for 15 minutes. Then gather the leaves in paper toweling. Thoroughly wring the mint over the bowl of whisky. Dip the bundle again and repeat the process several times.
Prepare simple syrup – Mix 1 cup of granulated sugar and 1 cup of distilled water in a small saucepan. Heat to dissolve sugar. Stir constantly so the sugar does not burn. Set aside to cool.
Prepare mint julep mixture – Pour 3 1/2 cups of bourbon into a large glass bowl or glass pitcher. Add 1 cup of the simple syrup to the bourbon. Now begin adding the mint extract 1 tablespoon at a time to the julep mixture. Each batch of mint extract is different, so you must taste and smell after each tablespoon is added. You are looking for a soft mint aroma and taste-generally about 3 tablespoons. When you think it's right, pour the whole mixture back into the empty liter bottle and refrigerate it for at least 24 hours to "marry" the flavors.
To serve the julep – Fill each glass (preferably a silver mint julep cup) 1/2 full with shaved ice. Insert a spring of mint and then pack in more ice to about 1-inch over the top of the cup. Then, insert a straw that has been cut to 1-inch above the top of the cup so the nose is forced close to the mint when sipping the julep. When frost forms on the cup, pour the refrigerated julep mixture over the ice and add a sprinkle of powdered sugar to the top of the ice. Serve immediately.


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Valley Oak SPCA is committed to placing healthy pets with good temperaments into loving homes where they will receive life-long care. We expect responsible pet guardianship from adopters so that sharing life with a companion animal will be an enjoyable, rewarding experience for both person and pet.
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