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|Eidil and Yeshaya Geynichovitz
|Miryam Shamban
|Moshe Goldenberg
|Meir Goldenberg
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|Nachman Krasner
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|Bluma (wife) and Yisacher Rapoport
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Dyukman, Hertz
Vurgaft, Pinchas
Zubritsky, Nachman
Yonovitz, Moshe
Mundrian, Yosef
Naychin, Bendik (Ben-Zion)
Frank, Dacha
Ziserov, Pini
Rabinovitz, Simone Moseyovitz
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Avraham Borsutsky
He was a native of Orheyev, born in the year 5630 (1870) to his parents who owned a large estate. He received a traditional education as was customary in those days. However, instead of at cheder, he received his education from private teachers (melamdim). During his childhood he studied secular courses in addition to regular studies. These were also taught to him by private teachers. When he grew up, he earned his livelihood by running the affairs of the estate. The farm primarily grew crops, and was partially a dairy farm. He managed the farm until his last days in Orheyev.
None of us knew A. B. as the owner of the estate. We knew that there were days when he was not at home for those who came to seek him those who came to seek him were solely involved in affairs of our community, primarily of the Zionist movement from its first steps and through the various incarnations that it went through during his days. The exchange of correspondence between him and M. Usishkin began from the year 5654 (1894). In one of the letters, he told of the special celebration that took place in the Zionist organization at its first decade of existence. It is clear that this movement took its first steps at the dawn of the Chibat Zion movement. Throughout all those days he was the living spirit in the movement. He was the initiator, the founder and the energy behind it. He was the one who ensured that the movement would not be swallowed up by the various winds that blew at that time through the Jewish street. He was known by everyone outside the borders of our city as the power and delegate of the Zionist of Orheyev at gatherings and conventions.
We, the people of Orheyev, knew him as a talented and wonderful orator. He was calm, deep and pleasant to the ear. He was a modern orator in his day. During his time, the Zionist orators were of the type of Yitzchak Nisenboim or Yavzorov, to whom the biblical verse served as the source of their words, which were spiced with statements of the sages or wonderful Midrashim. A. B. was not like this. He always talked about and around the topic. The background and topic of his lectures was always real life with all of its changes and experiences.
He delivered his lectures with deep faith in the justice of his words, with clear enunciation and popular simplicity that always spellbound the audience. The members of his audience were his fans. During my day, almost all the youth and all the people of the city would go once a week to listen to his words. It was also pleasant to listen to him in casual conversation pleasant and informative simultaneously. There was no need for a public announcement about the appearance of A. B. It was sufficient to paste a note on the western wall of the kloiz, and the news would spread through the community through various channels. People would stream to the kloiz from all corners of the city. I never saw a case where the entire audience was sitting in their seats. Rather, everyone stood crowded and cramped, listening with great attention, afraid lest they miss even one word of the lecture. It once happened that one of his opponents started to heckle him in the middle of his speech. However, he was smarter than his opponent, and was able to brush it off and continue on unfazed. For the most part, unexpected success came to him after such an incident. Heckling such as that did not take his mind off the topic for even one moment. On the contrary, he gained additional enthusiasm, which was transmitted to his audience as well. It was as if all partitions were removed between him and the community. After he concluded his speech, everyone would breathe comfortably, as if everything became clear and there was no room for doubt and dispute. I recall that on one occasion, a public gathering was convened in the Synagogue of the Tailors (Di Schneiderershe Shul). One of the Bund activists opened the meeting. A. B was supposed to be second to him. He began his speech with the following point: The words of the previous speaker can be divided into two parts. In the first part, he cursed and riled against the Zionist camp, rendering it dirt and ashes. In the second part, he repeated what he had said in the first part. Great laughter broke out in the audience. This reaction encouraged him further, and he continued on calmly and pleasantly. It is interesting that he rarely talked about the dark things and incorrect spirit of the opposing camp. He was not eager to disprove and contradict the deductions and conclusions of the preceding speaker, but rather he arranged all of his words around the obligation and light that emanates from our renaissance movement. This also draws from the realities of the daily life of the masses of the people, but its roots stem from the splendid past of the nation, and it is our obligation to continue in this direction to greet the future, which is a continuation of our unbroken golden chain As he concluded his words, the audience applauded him endlessly.
I recall another meeting, also in the aforementioned synagogue. There, A. B. was the opening and main speaker. Hertz Gilishensky also came to the meeting. (He was a school chum of mine from the yeshiva and the kloiz, and later he abandoned his piety. We knew about him and realized that he came to dispute and disrupt the order of the meeting. This came to the attention of A. B., but he did not pay attention to this, and continued his words with the same tone and style with which he started. Gilishensky was apparently waiting for an utterance of the speaker that he could grab hold of. When the chance arose, he jumped onto the bench, cut off the speaker, waved the thick stick that he held in his hand and began to scream and pour out invective against Zionism, etc. The crowd became quite perplexed, and a tumult arose. In the confusion, many began to push for the door and escape through the windows.
In the letter of A. B. to Usishkin from May 2, 1905, he wrote among everything else: The relationship between the Bundists and the members of Ch. D. to Zionism of late has taken on the form of hooliganism. They use all despicable means to disrupt our assemblies. When we arranged a gathering on the first intermediate day of Passover in one of the synagogues, they also entered and instigated a great tumult. The crowd left through the windows. The synagogue was filled to the brim, and among those gathered were women, including pregnant woman. They perpetrated a scandal in the name of freedom. Miraculously, no human tragedies occurred aside from two pregnant women who miscarried. Others were lightly cut and their clothes were torn The appearance of the synagogue was like those I saw in Kishinev after the pogrom. Finally, he asked M. Usishkin to send a speaker who would also know how to use the words of Marx and Engels It would be good if you could find a member of Poale Zion who is also a Zionist of Zion.
In the exchange of correspondence that we have brought down between A. B. and M. Usishkin, the reader will find material of great interest about the state of the movement a half century ago, along with several themes about the communal persona of Avraham Borsutsky as a Zionist activist. These testify to his faithful dedication, the extent of his understanding, and his various reactions to several tasks and assignments that required his attention. Avraham Borsutsky's heart was alert, and his ear was attentive to everything that took place and every flutter that went through the movement
The family left Orheyev and moved to Odessa, where he received a job in the office of H. Zaltopolsky. In this position, he traveled to Samarkand and other places. He was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks in 1920 and was murdered by them as a Zionist and a businessman
Avraham Borsutsky was the founder of the Chovevei Zion organization in Orheyev, and its director throughout its existence. Avrahamel stood at the helm of all communal matters. He was the head of the Haganah (defense) in the years 1902-1905. During the elections of 1905 to the Gasodarstvenya Duma, he was elected in our region along with Moshe Ravich to the assembly of electors who had the duty of electing delegates to the first parliament in Russia. During those days of the Black Reaction, there was a great struggle with respect to establishing the character of the democratic parliament by the representatives of the people. Borsutsky and Ravich had the honorable task of voting for the most progressive Christian delegate (in accordance with the allocation of electoral rights, Jews did not have the right to be represented in parliament). This was a responsible role within the network of relations that existed between the Jews and the Christians.
Avrahamel dedicated his generous talents to the Zionist movement. He dedicated himself to it with his heart and soul, and invested the best of his energy and most of his time and efforts to it. He was an active member of the Odessa Committee from the day of its founding. His entire aim was to draw the masses close to the movement by conducting activities for the people and speaking their language of spoken Yiddish. In one letter to Usishkin from 6 Tammuz 5654 (1894), he strongly presented the case for publicity to the simple folk. It is extremely necessary now to write a book in Yiddish which will explain the matter of settlement in all of its details. From all that has been published until now, there is not one that can properly explain the rationale of this idea. Avrahamel took up the case of our simple brethren. Show us the light of this idea; show us what our brethren have done throughout the 12 years of colonization in the Land of Israel. He added, It is a great and holy thing that you have taken upon yourselves to love the idea of the settlement for our youth and our maskilim have mercy also upon those who 'walk in darkness,' give them spiritual sustenance, brighten their path, breathe the breath of life in them, and perhaps Perhaps they will join our ranks for the settlement of the Land
He was involved in the upper echelons of the Zionist movement even though he was hundreds of kilometers away from its epicenter. He was a delegate to the Chovevei Zion conventions in Odessa (1896, 1901, 1902), and also the second convention of Russian Zionists in Minsk in 1902. He was also elected to the third convention of Russian Zionists in Helsinki in 1906. Avrahamel watched and observed the ways of the movements with a deep investigative sense. He exposed omissions and follies, and did not hesitate to describe his fears for the fate of the movement before its leaders.
(From his letters to Usishkin) At times we read and hear that there are more than 1,000 Chovevei Zion groups in Russia. Is this not a painful joke to refer to that group of people who never did one thing for the benefit of our idea, and who only incidentally joined the ranks of our organization, as a 'movement'? I doubt if we can count even half of them as active members.
I do not exaggerate if I state that our movement is standing on nothing, and we must begin everything anew.
The truth is very bitter, but we must state things as they are.
However, Avraham Borsutsky, the vibrant activist and eternal optimist, did not give up. There is a cure to the decline in the movement, and he continued on in that letter. In my opinion, it is possible to set our movement on firmer foundations. Only then, if we change our values, and place our stress on the essence rather than the quantity
Avrahamel was known as having a good disposition. He honored and believed in his fellowman, and he was especially exacting and demanding in imposing personal responsibility upon all those who took it upon themselves to serve the movement. He set conditions:
A member of the movement can only be such a person who is prepared to donate his time and money to the degree that the matter demands of him.
A member of the movement is duty bound to fulfill all demands and obligations that the leaders of the movement place upon him. He must be a person with strong discipline. Heaven forbid that he should turn away even one hairbreadth from all that the leaders of the movement command him.
Avrahamel immediately returned to his fundamental idea, the idea of spreading the movement among the broad strata of the people. He continued:
We must establish another form of the movement which will be called 'the masses.' The purpose is to attract hundreds of members who will be exempt from the responsibility that is imposed on the members of the type of the first movement. The members of the second type will be required to come to general meetings no less than once every two months, where the leaders of the organization will be given an accounting of what is happening in the Zionist world, so that the members will become associated with the Zionist idea and its appropriate timely development, and they will not be misled by rumors and exaggerations about the footsteps of the Messiah in the immediate future
Out of deep fear for the future of the movement, he turned to Usishkin at the end of the aforementioned letter:
Here I finish my letter with the request to pay attention to my recommendations. All of my advice came after a great deal of thought and the experience of many years. I feel in my soul that I still have a great deal to state about the methods and techniques of reorganization, but I believe that you will understand more than I have written here
I request from you that you remember only one thing, that our organization is very weak and unsteady, and if we do not search for means of repairing and improving it, it will regress from year to year (Signed Borsutsky.)
In a later letter, from August 1902, he informed of the development and flourishing of the new organization and Orheyev that had taken place over more than a year.
It is true that if we make such demands, the number of people who will be prepared to join the organization will be very small. But we must recall that this small number will be those people who will be able to bear the entire burden of the deed. It would be sufficient if three or four members would be found in the entire city who would take these obligations upon themselves. If we indeed lose thousands of inactive organizations in numbers and in locations, and only 100 remain, these would be strong and solid organizations composed of responsible members who truly love Zion and are prepared to make sacrifices to develop the movement. For what good to us are those who pay their dues and purchase shares when they stand far from the ideals of the movement, and their Zionism is restricted to the donation of money to some cause or another, without delving into the depths of the revival of the nation and the redemption of the Land for the nation
And once again Zionism for the broad masses
As a man of the people and a democrat in the full sense of the term, he did not make peace with the fact that even after the important organizational development that took place after the Zionist Congress, the Zionist movement had not yet turned into a broad national movement based upon and relying upon the masses of the people. In one of his letters to M. Usishkin he wrote: (26 Cheshvan 5662, 1901) In the regional assemblies and periodical literature we hear one voice and one statement: The work is lax and the organizations are run heavily. We always find reason to place the blame upon a different scapegoat: Some attribute the decline in our movement to famine, the general recession, etc. I see the reason in the organizations themselves:
Every large edifice, the Congress, the active committee, the authorizing institution and others stands on a rotting and weak base, and we should not be surprised if they weaken or fall completely. The organization is the kernel from which the Zionism is expressed, and what hope can we have in all of our efforts if the kernel has no life force to propagate and flourish. Why should we deceive ourselves? Why should we delude ourselves with images that we have a large army of Zionists and of organizations, when in reality our power is extremely small and poor? 158 organizations are registered in the region of Bessarabia and Podolia of which 59 have not written one word to the authorizing committee throughout the entire year. Only 39 of these organizations sent their dues (shkalim) to Kiev. We do not have numbers from the other regions, but I am sure that approximately the same situation applies to them as well
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Avraham Avinu (Avraham our Forefather) was the nickname of the grandfather of Nissan Duchovny. Avraham earned his livelihood from baking various pastries and cakes that were sold on the days of the fair. He also was involved in the sale of liquor and tobacco on the black market. After a time he was captured, fined a large sum of money, and was set to be sent to jail. He escaped to Romania, and returned to Orheyev after wandering for five or six years.
He made atonement for his non-kosher livelihood. He would give tithes to the poor from his meager earnings. He maintained this custom throughout his life. In his old age when he no longer had the means of earning a livelihood, he sold his remaining moveable goods and set aside the full tithes from the proceeds. He observed the commandments, and was meticulous in matters between man and G-d and between man and man. He was a man of the book, and would immerse himself daily in the mikvah of the Great Synagogue, in which according to tradition the Besht (ed. note: Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hassidism) had immersed himself. Even during the winter, when there was a layer of ice upon the mikvah waters, he would break the ice and fulfill the mitzvah of immersion.
Indeed, the man was a student of Avraham our Forefather, modest and supportive of the poor.
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Getzel Honik
Reb Getzel was one of the veteran residents. He was from a family of wheat merchants. He himself was not successful in business, and he sustained his family somehow by being a trusted person for one of the gentile forest owners near the cities. This work became difficult in his old age, and the economic pressure in the household increased.
Despite all this, Reb Getzel was always content with his lot. He even put aside tithes for the poor, and fulfilled the commandment of entertaining guests each Sabbath eve, even though he did not have everything that was needed for the honor of the Sabbath. With his pure faith, he trusted that the Creator of the World would not leave Getzel to his fate. With the help of G-d, his wife would take care of him, his children, and even the guest that the Holy One Blessed Be He would prepare for him in the synagogue on the Eve of the Sabbath.
During the 1880s, the edict of expulsion was issued to the Jews of Bessarabia, and Reb Getzel had to abandon his place of residence in the village. Even then he did not complain, but rather bore everything with quiet and calm. He took up the wanderer's staff, gathered his entire family and set out for Orheyev. As he was approaching the city, he heard the voice of weeping. He saw a woman standing next to the carcass of her animal. Reb Getzel approached her and asked her why she was weeping. The woman intimated to the tragedy that took place to her with the loss of the cow, her only source of livelihood. Reb Getzel comforted her and said to her: Here is my cow and wagon, take them, and you will soon be able to give of its milk to your children.
He died in the bosom of his family at a ripe old age.
May his soul be bound in the bonds of eternal life.
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He was involved in the unique activity of obtaining books for the kloiz. What did he do? He would go to the homes of mourners or those observing yahrzeit for a member of the family, and collect both secular and holy books in memory of the departed. He would bring the books to the bookbinder, who would engrave upon the cover or the front page the name of the donor, the name of the deceased, the date of the memorial and the day that the book was received. The letters were in engraved gold, and he added to this: To strengthen and add might to Torah.
Even though Reb Alter held fast to the Orthodox faith that G-d would send his Messiah to redeem the nation and the Land, he opposed the opinion of the Orthodox that a Jew is forbidden to bring near the end. He engaged in a fierce debate with the Orthodox people who excommunicated the Chibat Zion movement and its activists. Reb Alter especially angered them by obtaining secular books for the large kloiz, dealing primarily with the Zionist movement and other national problems. He as well was careful about books of apostasy. However, the Orthodox did not tolerate this, and they placed all sorts of obstacles before him. It came to the point where they would destroy books that were not in accordance with their spirit.
Reb Alter had two daughters and one son. The daughters studied in an external manner for there was not yet a high school in the city. He spent most of his time in educating his only son Menashe. He would accompany him to the cheder and pour over the studies with him. When his son got older, he went to study in university and abandoned religious observance. Of course, this was not pleasing to Reb Alter, but he bore this calmly and wisely. His relationship to his daughter, the wife of Shmuel Gershon Baru was quite different. After her marriage, she refused to wear a wig as befits a proper, modest woman. Reb Alter could not make peace with this, and excommunicated his daughter. He did not visit her home for a long time.
When B. Z. Furer decided in 1912 to travel to the land of Israel along with his 8 year old son Herzl in order to tour the Land, and Reb Alter found out, he hastened to prepare two tallis kattans (ritual fringed undergarments). He gave them to Furer and said: Take these from me, and I hope that you and your son will use them according to the law and tradition, and if not for G-d, then at least for me, and you should not remove them until you arrive home in peace
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Yitzchak Shvartz
During the 1920s, he was invited to the Tzeirei Zion center in Kishinev, and played an honorable role among the central people of the movement.
At the end of the 1930s, he was invited to the Hebrew Gymnasium in Beltsy as a teacher of Hebrew literature for the upper grades. He set up a Tzeirei Zion chapter which he successfully headed until his last day. The students of the gymnasium and members of the chapter revered and honored him greatly.
Yitzchak became ill in 1934, and was transferred to a hospital in Iasi. He underwent an operation, and died after great suffering.
There are teachers who impart knowledge to their students, and those who forge the complete character of their charges. Yitzchak Shvartz was graced with a blended talent: of being a teacher and scholar as well as an educator and counselor. He was a teacher of Hebrew language and literature, and educator and counselor for Zionism with his entire essence, and a Socialist who was into the renewal of man and society. All of these were intertwined in a single unity that could not be separated or detracted from. He imparted these characteristics to his students in an enchanting manner. The hours of study were not classes where one studies a chapter in order to be able to repeat it during the following class. The studies were intertwined with broad knowledge, depth of understanding of the nation and the world, and the spirit of man that struggles for justice and righteousness.
Who does not recall his sudden appearances in the Gordonia hall in Beltsy in 1929? Bad tidings were arriving from the Land. These were days of disturbances and crisis. The youth who knew Communism from afar were enchanted by it and went along the path of assimilation. Yitzchak would arrive and explain: the revolt of the workers of Vienna the fall of the Mivtzar workers movement during those days the youth in confusion. He would smooth over hills and restore faith through his great power of persuasion.
What was his power in the Tzeirei Zion movement? Did he dedicate his energy solely to organizational activities as the chairman of the movement in Beltsy? He spent his prime energy in educating the generation with the proper values, and in nurturing the faith in the future of the nation in the Land and the working man.
When he was on his sickbed, a short time before his passing, I brought him new books that were printed in the Land as a gift from his charges. How happy was he to know that his students shared common interests with him.
Throughout the Land, in its kibbutzim, moshavim, villages and towns, there live many workers who were sheltered under his protection and the tent of his doctrine. All of them remember him with awe and holiness.
Zvi Pinkenzon.
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Much was spoken among the natives our city, who came together for various meetings and joyous occasions, about the gatherings of Orheyev natives in Israel gatherings that took place to unite ourselves with the past for a brief period. The idea crystallized with time, and at a meeting of friends who were natives of Orheyev at a joyous occasion of one of our townsfolk, the idea of a gathering came up again. Efforts were made, and the gathering took place.
Those who began should be blessed, and those who continue should be strengthened.
The gathering left a great impression. The joy was great when the natives of Orheyev arrived in the Chof Movie Theater in Hadera. Those from far and near met with those who were veterans in the Land along with recent arrivals. The gathering was a gathering of brothers.
From the words of the opening:
Brothers and sisters!
Orheyev, one of the many towns in the region of Bessarabia, surrounded by forests and rivers, fields and gardens, existed for hundreds of years, wove its fabric of life faithfully and with constancy in the traditional Jewish way of life from generation to generation. In the latter generation, we saw the people as faithful to the Zionist ideal, which slowly captured the hearts.
The city was somewhat remote. Railway lines or roads did not reach it. However, it was alert to anything that went on in the life of the Jewish community.
Zionist activity began in the town already from the time of Chovevei Zion. After the year 1905, the first immigrants from the town arrived in the land of Israel. There was a break in Zionist activity for some time with the outbreak of the First World War. Then the Russian Revolution came, and its echoes arrived to our corner as well. At first there was valiant activity by the veteran Zionist forces. With the annexation of Bessarabia to Romania, the town became the first stop for the refugees from Petliura's sword, who crossed the Dniester by the thousands. How great and wonderful was the alertness and dedication of the residents of our town toward these refugees. We were children when we set out for the fields at night along a path that was no path, to greet them and house them among our compatriots.
Groups of the best of the Russian Zionist youth reached our town along with these refugees. With their influence and participation, the Zionist and pioneering activity in the town grew. The town became full of life and energy and the youth began to organize and embark upon Zionist activity, organization for labor, and efforts for the national funds. The mass meetings in the Kloizes are remembered well, as is the generosity of the town.
In 1925, the gymnasium students formed the pioneering youth movement. Hechalutz and a Hebrew youth group called Bnei Yisrael were formed. The activities of Hechalutz were far reaching. It grew and took in hundreds of youth organized for the purpose of aliya to the Land.
Aliya continued from then until the final days before the Holocaust, at times in large groups and at times by individuals. Both types spread through the land.
Then a small group of Orheyev natives hatched the idea of organizing this gathering. Our strong desire is to establish and strengthen it, not only to remember the departed even though that is indeed a great commandment but also so that brothers from far and near can gather together and unite in mutual assistance:
We are aware of the faithfulness and friendship of the natives of Orheyev, who know how to fulfill what they took upon themselves.
- To establish a fund for mutual assistance
- To publish a book that will perpetuate the martyrs of Orheyev and recall the sons and daughters who were murdered by the enemy.
Dear natives of Orheyev, in this gathering we will strengthen our bond and brotherhood among us, and fulfill that which our friends, brothers and sisters commanded us in their deaths to live in the Land a life of labor, a life of building and creativity.
The natives of Orheyev worked and established a great deal in this Land, and we are fortunate that we merited being among the first of the actualizers and builders among those who laid the cornerstone for numerous enterprises that were instrumental in assisting in the establishment of the state. Dear brothers! Notice that on the lapel of your clothing is a photo of the bridge over the Reat River that linked the town to the outside world. We wish ourselves that the bridge will be renewed in the near future, and our brothers and sisters who remained there will cross it, and we will all merit to gather together under the skies of our Land.
May you all be blessed, those who came and those who were unable to come
After these words of introduction, the festive program began with the participation of the native of our town, Chava Yoelit-Varda, Yaakov Zeevi and his daughter Galila, Bava and Moshe Bik and the choir he directed, the comrade David Vardi and others.
The following day, friendly discussions took place about the past, that which is distant, and about future activities. The foundations for the publication of a book on Orheyev were laid
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Translated by Jerrold Landau It is an ancient custom, a tradition from time immemorial, to recall at set times the names of those who are no longer with us, to unite ourselves with their memory in order to bring merit to their souls. This custom took root in our traditional faith, a faith of the immortality of the soul. We believe that when the end comes to the body, the spirit does not end. It has continuity and the chain is not severed Continuity exists in our history, a continuity that unites all of the links across the face of the earth and through the depths of the generations into one unity. A continuity that has responsibility for the past and a destiny for the future. For the spirit is in man, and the spirit is not confined in space, and not restricted to a period of time If this is true for an individual life, how much more so for the life of a community.
Dear friends! Orheyev, our native city, is no more. It was destroyed, annihilated, and almost wiped off from beneath the G-d's heavens. Its people were murdered by sword and fire, hunger and thirst, and it is not know if they all found their graves Thus was the fate of all those holy communities over which the German Amalek waved its impure hand with the destructive campaign of the swastika. This was also the fate of Orheyev, our native city.
We are under the obligation to establish a memorial monument so that its name will not be forgotten from our midst, as long as we, the final generation who were born, educated, and raised there, are still alive its name will be remembered with a blessing. However, we are not the last ones. After us will come the generation of our dear Sabras, who did not know what came before them, and will not feel any connection to the generation from which we were hewn as if the chain has been severed. Therefore, we are obligated to establish a token of memorial to the crucible that forged us.
We are not the only ones who are occupied with this type of activity. The feeling of the need to establish a memorial to that which preceded us is a national feeling, and it afflicts all of us and demands actualization, for we have not fulfilled our obligation regarding the martyrs who perished during the time of the Holocaust.
Friends! About two months ago, the Law of the Holocaust and Might Yad Vashem was brought before the Knesset. This is a law that has no precedent in any nation or language for the matter with which it deals is unique. It never occurred before in the history of man on earth.
The name Shoa designates the destruction of European Jewry, the annihilation of six and a half million of our Jewish brethren, the destruction of thousands of Jewish communities, myriads of cultural enterprises and institutions, synagogues, study halls, hospitals, old age homes, orphanages, children's homes. The destruction encompassed 21 countries in Europe. These were countries in which there were 8.5 million Jews prior to the war, and in which approximately 1 million survivors remained after the war as refugees from the sword. Our Jewish brethren were not killed in the battlefield, but rather by pre-planned and organized murder and annihilation by governments, by police that were established by force of law so to speak, and that existed with the participation of the German nation. These people perpetrated despicable murderous deeds in the open, before the eyes of the nations in which our brethren dwelled for hundreds of years. These beasts of prey had but one aim to wipe out the name of Israel from the face of the earth, to destroy its culture, and to annihilate its progeny and memory.
The law came to ensure the establishment of a memorial for every Jewish person in such a manner that we will be able to collect the names of all those who perished though the designs of the evil hands. A ledger will be organized in which the names of each of the martyrs will be registered. This ledger will bring before us the names of our brothers and sisters, fathers and children, grandparents and grandchildren all of them testifying to the horrific deeds that were perpetrated by the people of the nations of Europe during in the middle of the 20th century We will certainly guard the memory of the early generations in our hearts, for the Jewish nation keeps faith with its past.
We have been advised that we should establish a central repository in which will be preserved every remnant and picture testifying to the ways of life, the struggles, the youthful energy and talents, the fear of Heaven and piety, the joy of life of the toiling masses. All of this should be gathered into a central storehouse. This storehouse will be here, in the holy city of Jerusalem This and more. They also discussed there about granting citizenship to all of those of our nation who were murdered during the time of the Holocaust. There is no precedent in the world in granting citizenship to those who are no longer alive, but there is also no precedent to this situation in the world a precedent to the murder of 1,200,000 children from among the 6,500,000 souls, children and babies What is the meaning of this concept? I would say that it is an Israelite concept, from way back, the concept of being gathered unto one's people (ed. note: the term that the Torah uses for the death of the patriarchs of the Jewish people).
The profane intention of the murderers was to annihilate us and to wipe out the name of Israel from the face of the earth. We, the entire nation, will gather them in as citizens in the roster of citizens of the state. Thus we will gather them to the bosom of the homeland, and from there, they will not be cut off from their people. This memorial citizenship will symbolize the monument, their place after their deaths.
This book that we intend to publish will free us from the agonies of guilt feelings, for it is more than ten years from when the terrible Holocaust overtook the community of Orheyev, our native town, and we have not rectified the injustice. Each one of us turned to our own worries and concerns. There was a lack of activity from our side, and we completely passed over one of the most tragic and stormy events. This lacuna is felt and stands out now even more so after the Knesset has already decided to deal with the matter of perpetuating the names of the cities and towns.
Our duty is a holy duty as well as a great merit. We who are gathered here are living in the Land, and we are able to think and prepare plans for the establishment of a memorial to the martyrs of the community of Orheyev, as well as to the community itself.
We must surely remember that we are the only ones upon whom this obligation rests. Aside from us, nobody will take upon themselves this task. If we are here everyone is here. We are the first to this task, we, who are tied to Orheyev with flesh and blood. There, we spent the best of our days, the days of childhood and youth. There, our spiritual and communal spirit was forged. There, we nurtured the longing of our souls. Now, there is no memory to all of this. Who will come to fill the lacuna and correct the injustice, if not us
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To mark the occasion, D. Sinai arranged a party in his house in Kiryat Chaim. The undersigned were unable to participate due to their state of health, and they sent the following greetings.
To the chairman of our organization, members of the committee, and to you, our dear friends, Yitzchak and Yehudit, we send our heartfelt greetings.
The day of July 22, 1956 will be etched upon the hearts of each of us as the date of an important event, for us, Orheyev natives, have merited to mark the celebration of a faithful and revered friend, our friend Yitzchak Spivak.
A significant number of erudite people stemmed from Orheyev, but few are found among us in the Land, and of those, many are not involved in our community. Now, our member Spivak, you stood ready and prepared for the call, and for the activity in our midst.
Indeed, this festive gathering knows to appreciate your efforts and your dedication for the joint enterprise, the perpetuation of the name of our city, our native town of the past, and its murdered sons. Indeed, you are fortunate that you merited thus, and we are fortunate that we participate in this.
It is a special merit for us that we have merited noting the harvest of the fruit of your labor on this date. You toiled for decades, you dedicated your energies and thoughts to creativity in the fields of education and culture. From the oral doctrine that you imparted during your young age to the school students, you have successfully moved to the written doctrine. With your articles in periodical newspapers, you have expressed heartfelt thoughts to the hearts of the community. However, you have specially searched out a way to the heart of the child and the youth, and you never tired of publishing articles that would light the way for the younger generation.
I recall those long gone days when I was a youth, and I was together with you in the Hebrew Speakers club in our city. Your name already preceded you, and you were only 17 years old albeit rich in thought and expression. You displayed your diligence, your great ability to learn and teach, to think and create. Now, we have merited to celebrate the celebration of your harvest, and we must recite the Shehecheyanu blessing.
Our blessing to you is that you merit to have many more years of activity for the public with your wife Yehudit as your faithful partner.
Standing from right to left: 1. Shneur Geynichovitz 2. Aizik Rozenfeld 3. Chayim Lipshin 4. Aharon Filarsky 5. Yaakov Zeevi 6. Yitzchak Rapoport 7. Frayda Zokolov
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Many of us thought about the idea of perpetuation that which is dear to us, and we imposed the actualization of this task upon Yitzchak Spivak, Mordechai Rotkov, and Mordechai Frank. They answered us willingly, and succeeded at this
These friends embarked upon their task without anything prepared before them. They had to search for material that was connected to Orheyev from any source. This material required sifting and reworking until it was in a fitting form.
An extremely great effort was undertaken by these friends, and there is no power in these words to appropriately express our appreciation for their efforts.
Yitzchak Spivak, the teacher and scribe, dedicated himself with great diligence to this enterprise, despite the fact that he left our city when he was still young. His activities are his praise. Mordechai Rotkov, whose task was to collect the greater portion of the material, made his nights like days, as he refined the manuscripts and prepared them for editing.
Finally, our friend Mordechai Frank, who was the life force in the publication of the book, worked in various roles, from the gathering of material, the working of the material, preparing the book in general, and bringing it to print.
We know that the editorial committee was at the threshold of despair on more than one occasion. The doubts and disappointments gnawed at the heart, and in moments of doubt and struggle, the desired objective floated and stood before their eyes to establish a memorial for our city. That is what encouraged their spirit to continue with the burden until the publication of the book.
It is clear to us that without the dedication and diligence of the members of the editorial board to this holy task, we would not have succeeded in seeing the book being published.
Therefore, we extend to you, our dear friends, thanks and blessings. May your strength continue!
We are certain that this memorial enterprise that you have established for our city will stand as a monument for future generations
We must apologize for the extreme lateness of its publication, a matter that caused deep disappointment to all those who followed our work closely. Many obstacles obstructed our path and caused many delays.
As we come now to give our blessings to the completed task, we would not fulfil our obligation unless we note the role of our friend Dov Sinai in establishing this memorial enterprise to the community of Orheyev.
Dov stood at the head of the enterprise from its beginning, by establishing the organization of Orheyev natives. In the two gatherings, he encouraged and urged the establishment of a memorial to our city. Today, we, along with him, are able to bless the conclusion of the enterprise.
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1.) There are two types of lobsters commonly found in the U.S.
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3.) Lobsters scream when you cook them.
4.) The green tomalley, or liver, is a delicacy.
5.) Lobsters have a lot of cholesterol and fat.
1.) TRUE. The American, or "true" lobster is the one Maine made famous. Spiny lobsters, also known as rock lobsters, live in warmer Southeastern, Southern Californian, and Caribbean climates and don't have claws like American lobsters. Most spiny lobsters are sold in the United States as frozen lobster tails because they lack claws.
2.) FALSE. To protect stocks, Maine law forbids harvesting lobsters that are more that 5 inches long. The largest recorded lobster was caught off the coast of Nova Scotia, measuring 3 1/2 feet from claw to tail and weighing more than 44 pounds.
3.) FALSE. The high-pitched noise you might rarely hear is steam escaping the shell.
4.) TRUE AND FALSE. Yes, the tomalley is considered a delicacy to some, but because it's a filter organ—and water pollution is an increasing problem—we recommend skipping it.
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Panera Bread and Make-A-Wish are helping Chicago beat the heat with a cool drink while giving back to charity.
Panera and Make-A-Wish will stop by NBC studios Friday with the first-ever bicycle powered "mobile lemonade" stand.
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ever heard this or something Similar to it ? you are going to hell for not believing in god your are a sinner. you need to be saved. the list goes on and on and...on. so how do you cope with this…Continue
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So I believe in the power to thought what you hold in your mind is what you will gravatate twords I'm not talking about creative visueal thought or magic but I think there is something to how you…Continue
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I find it hard to explain my self to people who do not know what an atheist is. I have bin called a devil worshiper a pagan the list goes on and on. what gets me is the onslaught of combative Beauvoir I'm meant with before I can even start to explain what an atheist is. is this a problem that most atheists have? or is this just a small issue?
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So how goes it everyone? good bad? lots of new topics I see.
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we recently had a bit of a storm where i live, wind and a shit load of rain. it made the roads hellish and im sure that plenty of people had plenty of curses aimed towards the weather. but there is a amazing beauty to storms. how they form how they act and the over all awe as to what they can do. when i look at the sky in the night and see all the beautiful stars that light up the skyline i think of how we are so small in the big picture of nature we climbed to the top of…Continue
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Long time no chat.
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You look smexy with a neon pistol, dear. :P
Azel, will you please google HR3027 , a house of representative bill on corporal punishment in public schools, and let me know what you think?
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Hoping someone can help me layer highlights in a document.
I have implemented a find in the document that highlights all the instances of whatever the search word is and selects the one nearest the caret. This works very well. However, if you click somewhere else in the document the select is lost (correctly so) but I need that word (which was previously selected) to still be highlighted as it is still a correct instance of the found word.
I have tried adding a highlight (uncommenting the line below) and then the selection and setting the selection visible, but this only displays the highlight color and not the select. I need to layer the selection above the highlight so when the selection is moved, the highlight remains.
Any advice will greatly be appreciated.
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Sarah Palin tells CNN's Jake Tapper she goes to a "Bible believin' church," how she discovered God at summer camp and how Pope Francis is "kinda liberal," but she's not really sure.
Palin's new book, "Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas," in which, according to Amazon.com, "she asserts the importance of preserving Jesus Christ in Christmas," went on sale today.
It is here where I would like to note that Palin dialed back the for the the cover of the book, omitting Christ for a more symbolically subtle wreath, but that's neither here nor there since everybody knows what the baby Jesus looks like anyway.
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The rapid development of virtual worlds has created new possibilities for supporting formal and informal knowledge acquisition and learning processes online. Consequently, greater immersion of "knowledge workers" in cooperation and communication tasks in social virtual worlds should be a more prominent topic in sociological and cognitive‑psychological research designs. The relatively new social potential of virtual worlds can be examined using theoretical models that describe the use and assessment of virtual world technologies in contexts of knowledge acquisition and exchange. In this paper, three co‑created scenarios will be described to help demonstrate how virtual worlds can be used to explore new forms of interaction in (virtual) social contexts. These scenarios and the results of the avatar‑based ethnographic investigation during the process of co‑creation and collaboration will be introduced and used to reflect on the 3D projects. Afterwards, two sets of criteria to evaluate 3D environments for learning and teaching will be presented. The paper ends with suggestions for further research concerning the effects of immersion during collaboration and education in virtual worlds and an outlook on other upcoming 3D projects.
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At the risk of trivializing the task before the federal government, allow me to quote Tracy Marrow, the bard of rap and the gritty street cop of "Law and Order: SVU," better known as Ice-T:
At the risk of trivializing the task before the federal government, allow me to quote Tracy Marrow, the bard of rap and the gritty street cop of "Law and Order: SVU," better known as Ice-T:
"The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic."
So now I ask you: When it comes to Congress and the Obama administration, does the word "workaholic" immediately leap to mind?
Hell, no. That's not to say Congress and Team Obama are lazy, but they don't work hard enough in preparation, or in finding common ground, to consistently find success. That's why everyone ought to worry how our federal government will cope with matters that require attention this fall.
Here's what's on our plate as a nation:
— Obamacare exchanges begin selling insurance Oct. 1, and they are nowhere near ready for prime time. It's a crap shoot whether the government can get millions of uninsured people to sign up and pay for their own health care. If that fails, the law doesn't pencil out.
— Before Oct. 1, hammer out a stop-gap funding plan to keep the federal government open and running.
— Increase the debt ceiling by November to allow the U.S. Treasury to continue financing the government's budget deficits.
— And finally, before January, Congress must again (as it has for the past 10 years) eliminate the 30 percent cut in Medicare payments required under current law as part of spending cuts.
Anyone feel good about President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner getting all that done? Even if they were willing to put in the work (golf, anyone?), the politics of the moment spell doom.
We have a dithering White House trying to salvage the Syria debacle. Democrats in the Senate hold only a slim majority and are showing no appetite for compromise.
Republicans in the House find themselves divided between a conservative approach to fiscal get-along and the Tea Party's growing preference to blow everything up and start over again.
This has "massive pileup" written all over it.
Even Obamacare supporters, like Warren Buffett, see the dangers ahead.
We need "something else," Buffett says.
"Attack the costs first, and then worry about expanding coverage," he said last week. "I would much rather see another plan that really attacks costs. And I think that's what the American public wants to see. I mean, the American public is not behind this bill."
Brothers and sisters, he's not kidding about the unpopularity of ObamaCare.
A recent poll reported that, by a 2-to-1 ratio, Americans favor delaying the individual mandate — the part of the law that taxes citizens who do not purchase government-approved health insurance. That's the foundation of Obamacare.
We knew Obamacare had the potential for unintended consequences. The erosion of the 40-hour work week is the worst of them all. Obamacare actually encourages employers to convert full-time jobs into part-time jobs as much as possible.
Finally, big unions jumped into the fray. Once huge supporters of Obamacare, they began to recognize the perverted incentive for part-time work and the provision that deems union health care plans "rich" under Obamacare and therefore subject to a steep "Cadillac" tax. But instead of calling for scrapping Obamacare, or at least calling for a significant delay in implementation to rework it, Big Labor audaciously demanded government grant them an exemption. The Obama administration reportedly responded by offering union workers a subsidy. That's no answer.
If we try to move forward now, Obamacare will damage the private insurance market, incentivize the end of employer-based health coverage, make part-time work the new normal and generally lessen the quality of health care in America.
The sane bet is to delay Obamacare implementation, or as Warren Buffett advocates, scrap it and come up with "something else."


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Solar eclipses
This article is a travel topic
This is an article on how to travel to and observe the solar eclipse.
A solar eclipse is an astronomical phenomenon, in which the sun is obscured by the moon. There are several types of solar eclipse:
Total eclipses are the most dramatic solar eclipse, a very strange and beautiful spectacle. A total solar eclipse occurs somewhere on Earth once or twice most years but is only visible from a narrow ribbon of the surface — the eclipse's path — with a partial eclipse experienced in a wider area. Partial eclipses are the least dramatic: unless one is viewing the eclipse deliberately it often just appears to be a somewhat dim day, as if overcast.
Annular and total eclipses begin with a partial eclipse in which progressively more of the sun is eclipsed until the maximum eclipse, called totality for total eclipses. The partial eclipse may last one hour or more either side of totality, totality is usually only a few minutes in length or less.
Total eclipses can be easily seen and appreciated with the naked eye, but amateur astronomors frequently travel to them with telescopes. Some travellers make travelling to eclipses a priority and may see many, they are called umbraphiles.
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Because solar eclipses, especially those viewable easily from land, are fairly rare, there are two problems with getting to them: the first is finding transport to the location at all and the second is booking it before your competition does. Solar eclipses can attract from thousands to hundreds of thousands of viewers, which can overwhelm the capacity of local transport and accommodation. If the eclipse is crossing a well-resourced tourist area (like the 2012 eclipe visible from Cairns, a tourist city in Australia), you should ideally book several months in advance but there may be some availability close to the eclipse. If the eclipse is off the beaten track, you may need to make arrangements a year or more in advance. Expect at least peak season pricing for transport.
Cruise liners often have special itineraries into paths of totality, and this may be a preferable if your willingness to travel off the beaten track is limited. They may also be able to search for a cloud-free viewing area within reasonable limits, an opportunity you are less likely to have on land.
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Here is the list of several total, annular and hybrid solar eclipses in near future.
There are also NASA maps of all annular and total eclipes between 2001 and 2020 and 2021 and 2040.
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Never look at the Sun with the unaided eye or with a camera or telescope, not even for second and not even if only 1% of the Sun is visible. This may seriously damage your eye and even make you blind. Always use an approved solar filter either directly over your eyes for unaided viewing, or over the lens of a camera or telescope. Do not rely on any kind of standard filter (like UV filters) designed for ordinary photographic purposes, or on homemade solar filters like exposed film: you must use approved and certified solar filters. Solar glasses for eyes are available cheaply in many places including astronomy shops (look for "CE certified") and filters for cameras and telescopes are available in astronomy shops.
As the moon fully obscures the sun during total eclipses it becomes safe to look without a filter and see the beautiful corona (the sun's atmosphere).


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Jungle fever: Greenery creates an Eden
ADDRESS: 2519 Fall Fields Drive
SIZE: 3,691 fin. sq. ft., 840 unfin.
NEIGHBORHOOD: Proffit Road
CURB APPEAL: 9 out of a possible 10
LISTED BY: Megan Sacco, Stevens & Company 466-2463
A foolish consistency, it's said, is the hobgoblin of little minds. Not to impugn the cerebral capacity of the designer of this appealing contemporary, but... there is the white faux marble ceramic tile on every floor that isn't carpeted, and there is the mauve and gray color scheme played out on every surface, including counters, bathroom tiles, miniblinds, and curtains.
However, these elements (which are not so bad per se, it's just the unrelieved consistency that oppresses) are more than offset by the rest of the interesting house. The first striking element is the setting. Just a minute or two off Proffit Road, its five acres are situated amid the 400-plus-acre Glen Echo Farm, much of which has been placed in conservation easements, according to the agent.
Immediately around the house is understated yet elegant landscaping that carries through to two tiny Japanese gardens tucked neatly into glass-enclosed cul-de-sacs off the dining room and master suite. And while the approach to the house is all manicured beds and mature specimen trees, the sweep of greenery beyond the huge deck is almost jungle-like. The effect is luxuriant rather than sultry and oozy, however– although, obviously, mid-August visitors might sing a different tune.
Speaking of jungle, there's one element of the house that trumps every other place we've visited: The entire basement ("terrace level") is a bird cage.
Now it's true that we once rode in an elevator in the "Miller's house" in the Inglecress neighborhood that was painted to look like a birdcage, and it's true that we've seen other houses with traditional wire contraptions for docile little parakeets and canaries. And of course all the trapezes and swings in this huge room are removable and will leave when the owner takes the scarlet macaw away. But the fact remains that the décor in this room accentuates the effect of primal lushness.
As in other houses of this vintage, the entire back of the house is a wall of windows leading to the deck and forest beyond. The living room, a step down from the entry space (it's not exactly a hall and not exactly a room) has a marble fireplace and probably some other charms, but the dazzling effect of all those windows and several skylights eclipses all other impressions.
The wing to the right contains a large dining room as well as a breakfast room off the (mauve and gray) kitchen, a laundry room, and a three-car garage with lots of storage. Beyond the breakfast room is space now being used as a sunroom, but which– once the (gray) carpet is removed– could easily become a solarium or greenhouse.
Left from the entrance hall leads to the bedroom wing with master suite, unusual because the attached dressing/closet area is as big as the bedrooms in many houses, and because the master bath opens directly to the bedroom– no doors, no dividers, just the tub, sink, etc., at one end of the room.
While it's a bit unconventional, somehow it fits with the open vibe of the whole place. There's also a second bedroom and full bath in this wing.
A loft over the living room is now being used as a sleeping area but, with its built-in book shelves and ample space, it could easily become an office or library. The light maple of the stairway leading up to the loft and down to the terrace level is unpainted. Realizing we may be accused of a foolish inconsistency, we found ourselves wishing for a coat of mauve or gray to diminish the jarring effect of the awkward structure dominating the entryway.
The gray cedar shingles and shake roof help the house blend into its glorious green surroundings. A wood-fired furnace that augments the dual heat pump system means that even in the winter when Eden is looking more like Siberia residents can stay snug and comfy.
This quirky house is not for everyone, but when the right Tarzan and Jane find it– whether accompanied by avian companions or not– we predict they will be consistently happy with their choice.


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Maybe we should be used to this by now. The equation on Capitol Hill goes like this: looming deadlines + now-customary brinksmanship = wild days like today, when President Trump and Democratic leaders sparred over talks to prevent a government shutdown next month while Senate Republicans worked to negotiate changes that would convince key holdouts to support their tax bill.
In the meantime, the Senate Budget Committee voted 12-11 along party lines to send the tax bill to the Senate floor, with two Republicans who had voiced concerns about the bill, Sens. Bob Corker and Ron Johnson, both voting yes.
- Johnson said he voted to send the tax bill to the Senate floor based on progress being made toward increasing the tax break for pass-through businesses. "I'm getting commitments we are going to get this fixed," he said.
- Corker said he voted to advance the bill after reaching a deal with tax writers "on a broad outline for a revenue trigger provision that he and other GOP senators are seeking," Bloomberg reported.
- And after Trump joined Senate Republicans for a policy lunch, Sen. Susan Collins said she was increasingly positive about the tax bill and the prospects of adding a deduction for up to $10,000 in property taxes. "I believe that a lot of my concerns, it appears, are going to be addressed and that I'm going to be getting the opportunity to offer amendments on the senate floor," she said, according to The New York Times.
If this is The Art of the Deal in D.C., it doesn't often look very artful. But Senate Republicans appear to be making progress in getting to their magic number of 50.


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The owners of Salem Harbor Station say they're here to stay and have a plan to live up to state regulations – although environmental activists have their doubts.
The owners of Salem Harbor Station say they're here to stay and have a plan to live up to state regulations – although environmental activists have their doubts.
"We are confident Salem Harbor can and will continue to serve you with reliable electricity for years to come," reads a notice the Virginia-based owners, Dominion, placed in the July 25 Salem Gazette.
Jim Norvelle, a spokesman for Dominion, said given larger economic factors, it's difficult for the company to predict the future, but he pointed to regulatory-compliance plans being made as evidence of the company's intention to remain in Salem.
"We're certainly looking at 2012," he said. "That's four-plus years."
When Dominion took over the plant in 2005, it made an agreement with the state that it would present a plan for meeting Massachusetts environmental standards by this month. Dominion is currently in compliance with the regulations, but needed to present a plan showing how it will meet the more stringent standards that take effect in 2011, including the carbon-dioxide-limiting Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
On Thursday afternoon, Dominion leaders and employee union officials had a closed-door meeting at the Wilmington offices of the state Department of Environmental Protection, with Mayor Kim Driscoll and members of several environmental groups also present.
The news that Dominion will rely heavily on existing practices and a cap-and-trade program to achieve compliance came as no surprise to Pat Gozemba, a Salem resident who attended the meeting as a member of the environmental-group contingent.
"Dominion is meeting the regulations sort of on the cheap. They put a Band-Aid on the problem, metaphorically," said Gozemba.Mercury emissions
Norvelle said Dominion successfully tested mercury-reduction equipment at Unit 1 Salem Harbor Station this spring, using a fairly common process called activated-carbon injection, which traps some of the mercury before it can leave the stack.
"It's a tool we're looking at using," said Norvelle. "We're not sure whether we'll be using it, but it's an idea."
If Dominion decides activated-carbon injection is the best way to meet the cap on mercury emissions, it would be willing to spend up to $10 to $15 million on the necessary equipment. If not, Norvelle said, the company would find another way to meet the mercury restriction on coal-burning units.
"We believe we have the equipment in place to comply with the high standards of Massachusetts," said Norvelle.
Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions
Salem Harbor Station began using low-emissions coal after Dominion bought the plant in 2005, Norvelle said, and it has allowed the company to meet the state's current emissions standards for sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide.
The two compounds are considered common air pollutants, which pose a risk to public health and the environment, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
Norvelle said the same "low-e" coal would allow the Salem plant to continue meeting regulations through 2011, since the caps on the two compounds will not change during that time, meaning the company will not have to take steps to reduce them further.
"The quality of the low-emissions coal -- which is low in sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and other restricted components -- allows us to comply with Massachusetts regulations," Norvelle said.
In a way, Norvelle said, the company lucked out, as the low-emissions coal Dominion gets from South America was harder to come by before 2005. It "allows us meet very tough standards without having to spend the dollars necessary on the equipment," he said of the coal, which is more expensive than some alternatives.
Carbon dioxide emissions
Carbon dioxide is a compound blamed for global warming, and it is restricted by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, adopted by Massachusetts last year.
Dominion has no plans in place to add equipment to limit CO2 emissions, and is planning to participate in a new program that would require companies like Dominion to purchase allowances for emissions— every ton they emit will cost them.
"The first auction begins in September, and we will be a full participant in that to comply with regulations," said Norvelle.
The Sept. 25 auction will offer up to 12.5 million CO2 allowances, according to a statement from the DEP on Thursday, divvied up among the parties to the RGGI: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Rhode Island and Vermont. Proceeds will be used to fund energy-conservation efforts and alternative-energy projects in participating states.
In Massachusetts, some of the money will be put aside for the city of Salem, to mitigate any loss of tax receipts from Dominion that might occur this year and the next two years as a result of the cost to the company of the new energy policies.
Since the cap-and-trade program is the first of its kind in Massachusetts and in the U.S. -- the governor signed it into law on July 2 -- officials say they cannot predict many details. The worth of each share is still unknown, as is the total revenues the state can expect to generate, although some predictions figure in the $50 to $100 million range.
Groups criticize 'smoke screen'
The solutions presented by Dominion failed to satisfy representatives of several groups at the meeting on Thursday, including Clean Water Action, the Conservation Law Foundation and the North Shore-based HealthLink and Wenham Lake Watershed Association.
Gozemba, who lives near the plant and belongs to HealthLink and Salem Alliance for the Environment (SAFE), said Dominion presented only vague plans that fail to actually reduce air pollution. The cap-and-trade program, she said, allows the company to buy its way into compliance instead of installing equipment to reduce emissions.
"They're not concerned about what's coming out of stacks when they're relying on credits. That means you and I are breathing more pollution," Gozemba said.
She points to Salem Harbor Station's sister plant, Brayton Point, a larger facility in Somerset, where Dominion pledged to spend $1 billion since 2005 on pollution control and where equipment has already been installed to achieve that goal.
Novelle said the size of the Brayton Point facility is exactly the reason the company has been able to spend more.
"At Brayton Point it made sense to do it [meet regulations] via equipment … it generates more megawatts, so we're able to spread the cost of the equipment necessary," Novelle said, adding that the company will nonetheless "be in compliance in both locations."
Gozemba says that's not enough. She said Dominion is still failing to address human-rights issues in Columbia, where it gets the coal for the plants, the broader safety implications of the November 2007 accident that killed three workers and the need for more charitable donations.
Novelle said disagreed strongly, saying, "I would argue there are a lot more folks in Salem who are pleased today that we're going to be remaining, because of our contributions to the community in the way of payroll and taxes; in the way of the ancillary businesses we do business with."
Convinced that Dominion isn't investing in emissions-reducing equipment because they expect to leave Salem in the not-too-distant future, Gozemba said Salem residents need to start thinking now about redevelopment of the property.
According to a public statement and comments from its spokesman, Dominion actions should not be taken as a lack of commitment to the environment and health of its neighbors but rather an attempt to follow the protocol established by Massachusetts and the RGGI states.
"This is way the 10 states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative chose to write their regulations," said Norvelle.
He continued, "People also need to remember, Massachusetts has the toughest air-emissions standards in the country, maybe with the exception of California. Those standards are set to protect human health, and we are in compliance with them and will be in compliance with them going forward."


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Hundreds of mobile developers and enthusiasts converged this weekend at the McCormick Tribune building on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus in Chicago to hear from other developers and industry thought-leaders about the current state of construction, deployment, and management of mobile applications.
Robert Fuentes kicked off the day by introducing his school, Flashpoint Academy, and talking about hi his previous team leadership at Motorola with the J2ME Lightweight Windowing Toolkit (LWT). He then briefly described HDMA, CDMA, TDMA, UTMS transports and Mobile OS's such as Cocoa, BREW, Android, Windows Mobile, JME (formerly J2ME) and Symbian.
Fuentes also touched on Augmented Reality apps and VR glasses connecting to the iPhone and Nokia N series of smartphones. He then shared some of his history at Motorola, and touched on the current Apple/HTC patent challenge and intellectual property issues in general. These discussions generated some passionate responses from the audience both for and against the protection and sharing of such intellectual investments.
I also attended a talk by Chris Grove of Keylime Tie titled "Strategies for Developing Multi-platform Mobile Applications". Grove advocates that mobile developers first ask themselves "Is it worth it?" He also reminded the audience that cross-platform development is hard, and to avoid the tendency to optimize code -- for the time being, anyway. Instead port apps with a proven market. The cons to cross-platform development include it will take much more time, skills, multiple markets/app stores, diminishing returns and low ROI. Which platforms to develop for is driven by where your profit will be coming from -- in other words, follow the money. Check distimo.com for current mobile app numbers by platform (according to the statistics that Grove showed, Apple is still by far the largest mobile app provider and will be for some time to come).
Other reasons to develop multi-platform apps include client-specific needs, specific platform feature requirements, developer growth and various toolsets. Developers also have to decide whether mobile apps should be native or web-based. If web-based, strongly consider using WebKit since 65% of existing smartphones use this browser technology (Windows Mobile nor Blackberry provide webkit support, although both can run Opera that does support richer HTML experiences). The "Ugly" for web apps is that it is difficult to achieve native look-and-feel UI emulation, sluggish performance compared to native analogs. Coding guidelines suggestions -- factor out common code, avoid native data formats, platform-agnostics formats, consider SQLite and standard media formats. PhoneGap has quite an extensive number of devices supported.


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The Ocean Beach Street Fair & Chili Cook-Off Festival returns for its 34th installment on Saturday, June 22. An estimated 70,000 visitors are expected to revel in the streets and take in the sights and sounds of this sun-splashed seaside hamlet that prides itself on community spirit and its unrivaled location adjacent to the glistening Pacific. The theme of this year's street fair is "Wonderland," a 100th-year celebration of San Diego's first amusement park right here in Ocean Beach in 1913. Photo by Jim Grant I The Beacon
It's true that pretty much every neighborhood has some sort of community gathering on its annual calendar. But in San Diego, nothing compares to the Ocean Beach Street Fair and Chili Cook-Off Festival. Now in its 34th year, the event's seaside location and friendly atmosphere makes it easy to see why more than 70,000 visitors annually take part in the festivities. Visitors strolling down Newport Avenue and the cross streets will find a multitude of fun activities to stimulate the senses. With more than 250 vendors and artisans on hand, fairgoers will be able to find foods from around the world, as well arts and crafts ranging from jewelry to paintings. Denny Knox, executive director of the Ocean Beach MainStreet Association, has been associated with the street fair since its inception. She said she's amazed at how the event has expanded over the decades. "We grew it from a couple of picnic tables and barbecuing on a Weber grill — with a little music — into what it is today, with tens of thousands of people exploring the streets of Ocean Beach," she said. Among the street fair's highlights are the wildly popular chili-cook off competition and six stages of music, but also increasingly popular is the Artists' Alley section. Now taking up two blocks of Cable Street, this part of the street fair has grown into one of the top events locally for original arts and crafts. However, what truly separates this street fair from the others is the neighborhood feel and community unity. Family friendly, the event includes a fun zone for children, but beyond the rides, food and music, there is a real sense of civic pride to the proceedings. It's inherent from the street fair's main-stage opening with youngster Jaylin Brown singing the National Anthem and the opportunity for fairgoers to participate in the painting of a community mural. There will also be a raffle with prizes from area vendors, as well as donation boxes, with proceeds going to help fund the community's annual Fourth of July fireworks display.
Wonderland Amusement Park takes center stage again after 100 years
This year's street fair theme celebrates the 100th anniversary of the short-lived but historically rich Wonderland Amusement Park. Operating between 1913 and 1916, the park's opening kicked off the era of Ocean Beach as a resort town. When Wonderland opened on July 4, 1913, it drew a crowd of 35,000 people to Ocean Beach, which was then a community of only 300 residents. Although the early amusement park — the first to be built in the city of San Diego — only lasted for three years, its brief existence was pivotal to the development of Ocean Beach, according to members of the Ocean Beach Historical Society. The park even included the largest roller coaster on the West Coast at the time. Originally located at Abbott Street between Volatire Street and the ocean, the park is long gone, washed away by the sea in a brutal storm. But it's legacy lives on, in a way, in the San Diego Zoo. When Wonderland closed, it's menagerie was rented to the Panama-California Exposition taking place in 1915-16 at Balboa Park. The menagerie was later sold to the zoo.
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The Ocean Beach Street Fair and Chili Cook-Off continues to be the showcase of the community, with its wealth of activities, food offerings, arts displays and people watching. But another key ingredient to the event's success is its huge lineup of musical entertainers, which this year will feature 38 performers on six different stages, ranging from from Americana to hip-hop. This year's performers were once again booked by Winston's Beach Club owner Ted Wigler and Head Trap Music Studio chief Michael Head. "We had hundreds of artists apply," said Head. "The chance to play in front of a large, all-ages audience like this is coveted by bands from throughout the country." Jeffrey Dewine of the soul-jazz hybrid band The Krass Brothers, which performs on the Wonderland Stage at 5 p.m., agreed. "We were recently discussing the concept of performing for people who don't have the means to go out for a night at the club. This event allows everyone in the community to have an opportunity to enjoy live music and arts for free," said Dewine. The Main Stage sits at the foot of Newport Avenue, next to the beer garden. Here, in addition to music throughout the day, you'll also hear the singing of the National Anthem by Jaylin Brown when the event officially kicks off at 10:50 a.m. The naming of this year's winners in the chili cook-off competition takes place at 2 p.m. New this year is a game and small-ride area at Saratoga Park, located at Ebers Street and Saratoga Avenue, with interactive activities for all ages like bungee runs and wall climbing. For anyone who would rather avoid the traffic and parking situations inherent in such large gatherings, there will be four free trolleys running continuously every half-hour from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fairgoers can park their cars at two outer parking lots (Robb Field and The Sunrunner Lot at Pacific Highway and Sea World Drive) and shuttle directly to the street fair, with the dropoff directly at Artists' Alley. Meanwhile, those opting for a greener form of transportation will find a bicycle valet service in front of Winston's Beach Club on Bacon Street, courtesy of the Bicycle Coalition. With 34 years of working on the street fair to her credit, Knox said she is thrilled to witness what the event has grown into since its inception as a truly grassroots neighborhood party. "I love the wonder of it all when people come to the event," she said. "Just standing there, you can see all the people and how much fun they're having. That's my favorite part."
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First, a few inspiring examples:A cheap wire hanger into a magazine rack:
Magazine magazine rack (click the image to go to the original post):
Fancy mags (or anything similar) into the tube magazine rack:
Bizarre Magazine Racks?What the heck? Why would anyone be interested in magazine racks, much less bizarre ones? Of course, people read magazines, and they probably need a place to put them when they are not reading, but still...magazine racks?
Well, after searching around for some really offbeat magazine racks, you may come to the conclusion that these rather unnoticed and un-thought of household items can actually be really cool! In fact, there are some magazine racks that are incredible artistic achievements in beauty and sculpture, with a value to match the artwork.
A World of Unique Magazine RacksMagazine racks aren't only for professional offices. There are decorative magazine racks that look like suns, moons, or stars. Some designs look like an assortment of cute puppies or kittens. Some handmade racks are actually cup holders or plastic water bottles that hold rolled up magazines. There are even magazine racks made out of magazines!
Professional magazine racks range from the plain to the decorative to the sublime. Some racks are virtually invisible; the only way one can tell it is a magazine rack is because of the magazines that seem to be holding each other in place. Some of the racks are huge and are actually a real and beautiful piece of furniture. Some are antique in look, made with beautiful woods or metal; others are fancy baskets woven into special shapes as magazine holders.
Magazine Racks are Part of a Winning AtmosphereThe most professional businesses in the country decorate with beautifully designed, and admittedly bizarre, magazine racks. Places, from bank lobbies to doctor's offices and from television stations to classy modeling agencies, all sport the best in magazine racks. Not only do people use the racks to hold magazines, but they also use them as display shelves. The racks are extremely eye-catching for promotions materials and upcoming events.
A Special Magazine Rack for Your Home
Until you begin searching for bizarre and out-there magazine racks, you may have no idea how fun and useful they are. Not only that, but they truly can be a work of art. Just think of one of your primary interest in life and then picture a rack that expresses that.
You could have magazine racks that look like the following items:
- Music Stands
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Find the Design of Your DreamsWhether you decide to find one of those bizarre magazine racks, or you prefer an elegant style, there are enumerable choices literally at your fingertips. Your computer search engine will take you to some of the most artistic and fun sites, all for magazine racks.
And, if you are really inventive, you might just come up with a design all your own. Who would have thought that a magazine rack could be so exciting?


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Dr. Philip D. Gingerich of the University of Michigan will present addresses on evolution and the fossil record of whales on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 18-19, while at Hope College as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar.
He will present "Fossils and Evolution: What We Know and How We Know It" on Thursday, Sept. 18, at 8 p.m. in room 102 of VanderWerf Hall. He will discuss "Origin and Early Evolution of Whales: A Profound Transition from Land to Sea" on Friday, Sept. 19, 3 p.m. in room 1019 of the A. Paul Schaap Science Center.
The public is invited to both events. Admission is free.
Gingerich's research interests include the origin of modern orders of mammals and quantitative approaches to paleobiology and evolution. He has carried out field work in the deserts of Pakistan and Egypt, where he and his research team discovered skeletons linking whales to land mammals. In 2001 he was a scientific adviser to the "Walking with Prehistoric Beasts" television series.
He has taught at the University of Michigan since 1974, and is currently the Case Collegiate Professor of Paleontology, professor of geological sciences, and director of the Museum of Paleontology. He received the university's Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 1997.
Among other honors, he has received the Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society, the Dumont Medal of the Belgian Geological Society, and the Alexander von Humboldt research award for senior scientists. He has been named a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Paleontological Society. He is currently a member of the National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration, associate editor of "American Journal of Science," and co-editor of "Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene."
Gingerich earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1966. He completed graduate studies at Yale University, obtaining his master's degree in 1972 and PhD in 1974.
Each year, the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program makes available 12 or more distinguished scholars who visit 100 colleges and universities with chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. They spend two days on each campus, meeting informally with students and faculty members, taking part in classroom discussions, and giving a public lecture open to the entire academic community. The purpose of the program is to contribute to the intellectual life of the institution by making possible an exchange of ideas between the visiting scholars and the resident faculty and students. Now entering its 53rd year, the Visiting Scholar Program has sent 555 scholars on 4,651 two-day visits since it was established in 1956.
Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's oldest academic honor society. It has chapters at 276 colleges and universities, and over 600,000 members. HopeCollege's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was chartered in 1971.
Gingerich's Thursday, Sept. 18, address is sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa, and the college's departments of biology and geological and environmental sciences. His Friday, Sept. 19, presentation has been scheduled as part of the department of biology's weekly seminar series. In addition to his public lectures, Gingerich will also be meeting with students in classroom visits and informal discussions.
The A. Paul Schaap Science Center is located at 35 E. 12th St., at 12th Street and College Avenue. VanderWerf Hall is located at 27 Graves Place, between 10th Street and Graves Place (11th Street) and Central and College avenues.