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-- -- This is a rich panorama of ideas and directions, viewed as if in a dream, as if seen reflected in a thickly-fogged mirror of our nurturing, which has been gone for years, cut down by the cruel Holocaust. How rich, strong and meaningful was the political-social life in the Lithuanian towns. During the worst times of harsh decrees, loneliness and subjugation, the Jews of Sventsyen found and exhibited their pride and astonishing courage, and their minds encompassed the broadest world horizons. They may not have had a foundation under their feet, but they always had their ideals. Both those who felt connected to the rise of the Zionist Movement and saw their own restoration in the national salvation of the Jewish people, and those who struggled for Yiddish, Yiddish schools and Jewish culture
all of these who tried to forge a Jewish life, awoke, broke and built, disturbed and createdall of them in their unceasing struggles with these great problems inherent in social life, solidified their belief in man, his striving for great truths, and [exhibited] the desire to solve the Jewish problem according to their own temperament, according to their own view of the world and life. All of them distinguished themselves with that vital power that Jews have exhibited during the course of millennia both as individuals and as a nation throughout their various diasporas.
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Photo: Dr. Avigdor (Vigdor) Levin
(Providence, R. I.)
Place the square marketplace in the center, and in the middle of the market square place the pump and dig out the deep gutter in which the dirty water ran through the synagogue courtyard in the Kuna River. First face the old synagogue and then the synagogue courtyard, the Tailor's Synagogue, the poorhouse, the bathhouse and the town's poverty. To the rightthe long Vidzer Street [which stretches] to the idol. To the leftVilner Street, which led to Yuretski's Woods, to the small Christian shrine and to Khaletski's palace. On the other side was Pashminer Street, which led to the prison and to the famous Sablinski Meadow, a streetthe central location of the teachers in Sventsyan (Reb Moyshe Binyomin, Yankl Dovid, Aba Leyzer). Behind you stretches Yatkover[1] Street on which the butcher shops are located as well as the religious school and the cemetery. Parallel [to that street is] Lintuper Street on which [another] cemetery and the slaughterhouse are located.Today, it is very difficult to say when the Zionist Movement started in Sventsyan. No archives have remained, no written records, no exact dates that can be relied on. Nor are there enough survivors, old Sventsyan residents, activists, Zionists,
who could have given us historical facts, testimonies, stories, anecdotes, details and so on. These are all absolutely necessary elements without which a historical account cannot be written. Therefore, I will only relate a few reminiscences and recollections, which have etched themselves in my memorywithout being chronologically accurate and without the one-hundred percent confidence of a historian. If I am mistaken in a fact, a name, a date please forgive me, Sventsyaners. Let us resurrect and relive those practically forgotten details of a life, that was so tragically cut down. As much as our memories will permit, let us transport ourselves to the Sventsyan of 45-50 years ago.
Songs of Zion
On Simkhas Toyre, Jews are inebriated in honor of the holiday, some more some less. Leybitshke, the skinner, has just finished horsing around with the Sventsyaner young boys, playing the martyred sheep with a resounding baa, as they marched around with the Torah, arguing about the circuits, laughing and guffawing. Children standing on the benches have just finished singing the Zionist songs HaTikva[2] and Siu Tsiona[3] under the direction of Leyzer, the lame cantor, or Cantor Khorlaf. Yisroel Moyshe, the lefty (Tana the wagon driver's son) just finished a wonderful rendition of part of kedushe[4] in his golden alto voice
On the corner of Vilner and Yatkover Streets, Hirshele Moyshe Antses is 'arguing' with a bunch of Jews wearing prayer shawls, who are half-drunk just like he is. Take me wherever you want, but don't take me home! he pleads with them, and the boys shout 'Hurray. He stands near the tea shop and begins
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to sing one of his new compositions on the [passage] May our eyes behold your return to Zion.[5] Yurshun the policeman, also drunk, starts to whistle and with his sword drives away those gathered, and Hirshele Moyshe-Antses [sic] shouts: Oh, to Zion, to Zion, to Zion
This is how, it seems, he started the Zionist propaganda.
When Khatskl, the beadle, used to cock his head to one side like Sirote[6], roll the white cataract of his eye upwards and, standing in front of the congregation, trill And our eyes will see your kingdom[7] ; that was the very beginning of Zionism in Sventsyan.
I remember a Zionist evening with a choir under the direction of Leyzer the cantor, with the wind instrument orchestra of the fire-brigade (all Jews!). Volinski, the pharmacist, with the flat nose and the brass helmet on his head. [It was] a fiery, Zionist evening with Zionist potato pancakes.
Or around Purim time, when Templeman, the seltzer man, would stand on Yatkover Street near the religious school, dressed up in a summery white camlet[8] jacket and tell boys about the land of Israel[9] , about its oranges, and how warm it was there, and as proof, you see that he was already wearing a summer jacket. He was certainly celebrating Zionism! He did not just speak about it, he did something as well; he later immigrated to Israel.
Or when Motl Kharmots, the African as we used to call him, used to sell us wormy St. John's bread on the 18th[10], he was actually reminding us of Israel. It was no small matterhe had, after all, been to Israel!
We also had another Motl: Motele Kharmots, the watchmaker. A small, lively Jew, a true copy of Sholem Aleykhem's Menakhem-Mendl! This Motele was an ardent Zionist. He used to sell 'shekels,' stamps for keren-kayemet[11] , or distribute charity boxes which were labeled Zion shall be redeemed through justice.[12] He would do this with so much faith, just as if he were selling a customer a golden wristwatch!
The First Immigration
It doesn't really matter when the first event occurred, that is when a Jewish artisan became the first immigrant to Israel. I don't know from when I remember that sallow, pale shoemaker.
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Perhaps from the synagogue courtyard, or from before his departure to the holy land to live or to die there, or even as a yored,[13] when he returned immediately after the first Germans came to Sventsyan. In any case, this childless shoemaker, who was dirt poor, picked himself up along with his wife and his bedding and left for the land of Israel. During the First World War, the Turks arrested him as one of the enemy (a subject of Nikolai!), and deported him to Egypt. From there he returned to us. This was, after all, one of the earliest Zionist manifestations in Sventsyan.
When Dovid Kuritski, Avram Kahan, Yisroel Levin, my father, or Dovid Gaviser used to canvass [the town] selling stocks for the Colonial Bankthis was definitely Zionist work par excellence.
I remember the three Mulyes: Mulye Margolis, Mulye Khesl Gurvitshe's, and Mulye Kupelovitsh (the soap maker's son)this cavalry used to go around and sell kheyder boys the Zionist stamps for keren kayemet in Israel and portraits of Herzl in Basil, [pictures of] Rachel's tomb, the Cave of Makhpele[14]--so this could be called Zionist activities among the youth.
Zionist Events
All of this took place before the First World War, under the Czarist government, when Zionist activities were strictly forbidden. One, therefore, had to be clever and have Zionist meetings in synagogues; that is, secretly have Khanuka parties during the evening services, or a Purim party with cantorial musicbut always with Zionist songs, with HaTikva and There Where the Cedars [Grow] and The Hook Plow. Those were, without a doubt, genuine Zionist events.
I am reminded of one such evening in the former Hebrew school on Yatkever Street. It was some time agoseveral years before the First World War. I no longer recall if it was on the third or fourth night of Khanuka. All of the friends of the Zionist cause had gathered in the religious school. I remember how busy everyone was: Pintsov, the dear, small teacher, the principal of the religious school, the teacher Abramovitsh, a perfect person--he played the concertina masterfully, Kasar the teacher of Russian, Kadzhin another teacher and community members in general: Asher Kovarski; the lawyers, Tavroginski, Hirshe Levin, Yisroel Svirski, Nakhum Taraseyski, Dovid
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Gaviser, Hirshe-Itse Feygl, Avram Kahan, Khaim Yavitsh and others. The golden youths: the Mulyes, Khane Kohen, Liza Margolis, Itse Ogulnik, Mulye Vidutsinski and others. Small boys were also to be found wandering around and I was also among them. Behind the wooden partition with the square windows, in the women's section, the Zionist women were working grating the potatoes and baking [sic][15] the pancakes.
In the meantime, things were really jumping on the men's side. [There were] sermons, bravos, hurrahs, good words, greetings in Yiddish and, of course, in Russian, next year [in Jerusalem]s and l'khaims. There were Zionistic songs and a concertina concert by Abramovitsh the teacher. The children were arrayed in rows and sang Hatikva under the leadership of the group.
This was how Zionism was celebrated.
The rabbis in Sventsyan were, before the First World War, very much pro Zionism. They were: Rabbi Yitskhak Reynes, the co-founder and principal of the Mizrakhi [School] and later the Rabbi of Lideh: Rabbi Rozofski, the brilliant writer and preacher: the great teacher and Torah scholar, Rabbi Avigdor Amiel, who was also the fine orator and author of the Sermons About My People, and
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the director of the Mizrakhi [School] and later the Chief Rabbi of Tel-Aviv. There is no doubt at all that they greatly influenced the people in Sventsyan to be Zionistic and to work [to support] the land of Israel.
The First World War for a few years (1915-1916) brutally interrupted all Zionist activities.
The great wave of refugees from Kovno, Vidz, Heydutsiskok and other towns forced the community activists of Sventsyan to organize a relief committee, a soup kitchen, an emergency food fund, and other charitable organization. The first Germans arrived. [They were] no less brutal and murderous than the second. May their names be erased!
Who had Zionism on his mind then? Many of the Zionists escaped into Russia, and those who remained had to fight for a piece of bread.
The era of starvation began: bread cards, bread made with chaff, with straw. People walked around in tatters, swollen from hunger, typhus, mumps, influenza, dysentery and other ailments. [In addition, there were] delousings in the bathhouse, women having their heads shaved, forced labor to build roads, confiscations, [forced] contributions.
[Photo at the bottom of cols. 299-300]
[Caption under photo]
Kneeling: Broyman, Eliahu Margolis.
Sitting: Yudl Rutshteyn, Zenye Dembo, Leybov, Fride Gurvitsh, Dovid Yavitsh, Leah Shutan.
Standing: Yitskhak Shibavski, Moyshe Dembo, the teacher Shapiro, Leah Gurvitsh, Zundl Levin, Lulinski, Yankev Abramovitsh.
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[Photo that spans both columns: the sign being held reads-The Pioneers 1924]
[Caption under photo]
Sitting, from right to left, row 1: Rivka Volfson, Lande, Levin, Grinfeld, Reyzl Azinski, Tsile Feyglman, Lina Yavitsh, Leya Gorsheyn, Grunya Matskin, _____ [sic] Matskin, Yankev Levin.
Row 2: Tsipe Kruk, Rokhl Kovner, Beyla Mikhelson, Yekhezkl Kizlandtsik, a culture teacher, Teacher Shapiro, Sholem Bushkanyets, Yisroel Sheynyuk, Khane Garber, Rokhl Garviser.
Standing: Khaye Shpiz, Leya Klavir, Leya Gurvitsh, Rivka Kruk, Slaveh Bushkanyets, Sheyn Sragovitsh, Slaveh Zorokhovitsh, Sima Kil, Khaya Levin, Sonye Kharmats, Sheyne Volyak.
Standing near wall: Zev Shapiro, Dvoyre Feygl, Rokhl Kurlandtsik, Dovid Soroke, Sholem Shapiro, Zev Garber, Aron Rutshteyn, Yoykhanan Sheynyuk, Feyge Stolper, Lande, Kats.
Jews smuggled, putting their lives in danger. They set up stills, worked skins, made soap, stuffed sausages made out of intestines, and sold meatballs in the booths in the marketplace.
Children were forced to go to the German school in the Rambam Houses on Vidzer Street. Some had to tear out nettles and watch the straight thorny sticks. They picked white berele flowers by the kilo to make pillows for the soldiers in the clinics. Because they were hungry children used to steal the yellow sugar together with the straw right out from under the maws of horses. A square findGerman brick-bread with marmalade was a marvelous thing. A pair of pants used to be sewn from hard, creaking tarpaulin, and a coat from a German blanket.
But when the first difficult times passed, the Jews of Sventsyan slowly recovered. [Every once in a while] the young people managed to get a permission certificate, from the crazy mayor who wore a monocle in one eye, to hold a party for charitable causefood for the poor, an indigent widow and so on. Or they used to send a female intermediary to [intercede with] the red-haired policeman, the murderous quarter-master, Matyelat, and wangle permission to hold a concert in the tea shop or upstairs at the priest's. [sic][16] In praise of the people of Sventsyan (who always kept Sventsyan's customs), one must say that our evenings were always on a high level. We performed (if one can call it that): Sholem Aleykhem, Sholem Ash, Kobrin and everyone else. The talented and tireless Rosenthal moved heaven and earth. Klara (the German woman who came later), Muleh Vidutsinsky, Itske Agulnik, Mereh Kovner and, most importantly, Freydele Gurvitsh-Kopl, the seamstress's [daughter]were the main participants in these evenings. Such evenings used to close with dancing and selling food at a buffet, playing Air Mail, having an American auction, a lotteryand a good time [was had by all].
Very often at these events, there would also be a dessert of a few recitations in Yiddish or Hebrew and some solo singing. The writer of these lines, a small boy, more than once recited the whole Diligent Student by Bialik or by Y. L. G.
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[Photo spanning both columns]
[Caption under photo]
The Hill 18 group of the Young Pioneers
Kneeling: Zalman Kuritski, Feyge Lulinski, Mordekhai Ginzburg, menashe and Devoyre Gaviser, Yitskhak Gilinski.
Sitting: Heshl Kantorovitsh, Yekhiel Okun, Khanokh Ginzburg, Zev Zeydl, Menakhem Kotler, Moyshe Kuritski, Leyb Gurvitsh, Aba Ginsburg.
Standing: Sholem Kuritski, Feye Kizberg, Binyumin Zeydl, Yoykhenan Mikhelson, Libe Katz, Perets Grazul, Shakhne Levin, Dovid Katz, Zalmen Shayevitsh.
Miriam Volyak used to sing My G-d, My G-d, and the Germans used to be delighted, applaud [and shout] Bravo. At the end Hatikava was sung.
Bney Tsion, Pirkhey Tsion, and Kheyrut V'tikhye[17] .
The government tolerated these Zionist events. This was at the time that the German general staff wanted to cultivate the Jewish population and get them on their side against the British. They promised the Jews all of Palestine, if only they would help them conquer England and choke the damned Russians.
As I have already mentionedmany Zionists had gone to Russia at the beginning of the war. Their place, however, was taken by Zionist intelligentsia from among the immigrants: the Dembo family from Ponyevezh, Yisroel Abramson, Ruben Abramovitsh, Solomyak from Heydutsishok, Shayevitsh from Vidz, the teacher Goldshteyn and Khane Musin from Postov, Tsefelevitsh and many others.
Those who knew Hebrew began to give Hebrew lessons, because the institution of the kheyder and its teachers had begun to fall apart. Moyshe-Binyumin and Aba-Leyzer were left without teaching positions. The Hebrew teachers taught a section of the TaNaKh[18] and a song by Y. L. G. There began to be a Zionist atmosphere among the growing youth. Young people used to gather in Abramson's house on Yatkever St. to sing Zionist songs, to study the geography of Palestine and to make Zionist flags for Bney Tsion and Pirkhey Tsion [groups]. They had Zionist outings in Yuritski's Woods and sometimes even as far as Berezovke.
The young people were not content to celebrate Zionism only in the area of Sventsyan. They also got involved in exported Zionism.
I remember that two boysKhaim Vigder Kutler and the writer of these lineswent by foot, of course, to found [a branch of] The Fruits of Zion in Sventsyanke [New Sventsyan]. We arrived exhausted, with swollen feet, at the Yiddish school lead by teacher Helershteyn. We got there after the lessons were over and met a bunch of boys
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and girls, who had been waiting for us: among them were Milner the teacher, who came later, Avrom Katz, Levenshteyn, Katz, a teacher who came later [sic]. We were greeted with excitement by the teacher, Hellershteyn, and I think, Gurdus also. We got into a heated debate. The Zionist agents, however, were not frightened away and, therefore, won. From that time on, there was a Zionist movement in New SventsyanPirkhey Tsion.
Boys and girls used to gather on Vilner Street at the house of the Kazianer Rabbi of that time. There, in dire condition, the Jewish library was to be found. The Russian books were packed up in crates and the Jewish ones, which were on the shelves, were torn and tattered, with no one to care for them.
If I am not mistaken, that was the first, official Zionist center. That was where the Kheyrut L'tikhya was founded: Fayvl Taytlboym, Dovid Vilkomirski's children, Khaya-Gitl Matskin's daughters, Lipe the mason's daughters, the Teytslers, Sholem Bushanyets, Shimen and Rokhl Flekser, Dvoyreke Meyerovitsh, Yankl Abramovitsh, Khane and Shmerke Zaydl's, Mordkhe and Rokhl Gaviser,
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Khaye Volyak, Hindele Leyfer, Yoske Libman, Pesl Landes' daughter, the writer of these lines and one Tsipke Fire from Lintuper Street.
In this place, Rosenthal founded the Worker's for Zion and Young Zion, which the older Zionist intelligentsia joined. Until
This happened one winter night in the teashop, when Sholem Ashe's With the Stream was being performed. It was after the spectacle of Air Mail, and people were cooling off in the cloakroom. All of a sudden, two regular German soldiers, without the doodads on their helmets, go over to an officer and tear off his epaulets and give him two burning smacks. One of the Germans, who was half drunk, climbed up on a chair and turned to the frightened audience using these very words:
You should know that there is a revolution going on in Germany. The German Kaiser is finished. The war is over, and we are going home.
It ended with insults toward Sventsyan and its reputation.
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[Caption under photo]
From the right, kneeling: Leya Kovarski, Tsipe Leyfer, Basha Luria, Elke Gurvitsh, Soreh Kats.
Sitting: Khane Gordon, Ester Gurvitsh, Soreh Gurvitsh, Tsivye Svintelski, Peshe Tayts, Sore-Mere Gilinski, Soreh Broydo.
Standing: Sheyne Lipkhin, Ester Shapiro, Rokhl Gilinskim Golde Feygl, Gershon Kuritski, Zev Zeydl, Khane Broyman, Reykhl Kats, Libe Zar
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No small matter! Such a reversal! Tumult, panic [ensued]. Jews began to run to the cloakroom to get their coats and run home. It is appropriate to say: World history was being made right before our eyes!
We heard rumors of a big overthrow [of government] in Russia, about Bolsheviks and so forth, but we had no idea how this had come about.
The Germans left the first Poles arrived.
The whole of the occupied area was out of political isolation. The western world opened freely for Polish-Lithuanian Jewry. We found out about the end of the war, about the peace, about Trotsky in Japan. Jews boasted about their Jewish diplomats and activists. We learned about how the end of the war affected Israel, about the Balfpur Declaration and later about the British Mandate over Israel, about Herbert Samuel, about [the founding of] The Zionist Committee, and about the new prospects for the Jewish people, about the increased popularity of Zionism.
In Sventsyan: Polish anti-Semitism, border police, marauding gangs, cutting off of beards, beating of Jews, terrorPolish terror, arrests, informers
The scene quickly changed: the first Bolsheviks arrived, Christian Lithuanians, Mitskevitsh-Kapsukas[19], and once again Bolsheviks, with all the paraphernalia of meetings, demonstrations, slogans; clubs at Shrayber, the pharmacist, and at Khaya-Etl Levinson's on the second floor. Reznikov ruled in Dovid Kuritski's house. The revolutionary tribunal took over the treasury. Arrests, prison, confiscation, bribes and so on.
The BrumbergsSemyon, Yozef and Doraarrive from Russia. Dr. Kovarski, Osip Kovarski, the Taraseyskis and others. The Folkists are organized, the Bund, Jewish youths are drawn into the Komsomol[20]. Zionism lost all of its appeal; it got shoved into back rooms.
Once again the whole landscape changed. The Bolsheviks left; the second Poles arrived. FirstZheligavski's Lithuania Gang [?] and later the regular Poles, who kept at it until the terrible Second World War in September 1939.
The younger ones used to gather at Svintelske the mason's on Poshmerna Street.
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[Caption under photo]
The Drama Club of the Art Society
Kneeling: Lina Yavitsh, Shimon Flekser, Khaye Volyak.
Sitting: Teacher Shapiro, Avigdor Levin, Shibavski-Stalper, Yitskhak-Leyb Shibavski
Standing: Tsile Feyglman, Shaul Vilkomirski, Rokhl Gorshayn
The Trumpledor[21] Organization was established. It did not have anything to do with the Covenant of Trumpledor Movement that was organized much later. We were the very first to immortalize his name. Boys and girls studied Hebrew, sang Hebrew and Yiddish Zionist songs, read the latest newspapers from Israel, collected money for the National Fund of Israel and other causes.
The older, well-behaved Zionist adherents met in the front part of the building that housed the religious school. These generalists[22] attracted a very active young man, Leyb Margel, who got stuck in Sventsyan after his demobilization from the Polish Army.
The Pioneers[23], ruled the courtyard of the religious school building, and they were later joined by the Young Pioneers.[24]
May events took place at the Rosenthal location: lectures, pot-luck dinners, concerts and so on. The first string orchestra was founded there under the direction of the teacher, Shapiro, from Podbradz. The auditions used to take place in the religious school building. It appeared that there was quite a lot of talent around: mandolinists, guitarist.
The orchestra rehearsed and planned evening concerts. People would stay and enjoy themselves half the night and when they got hungry would stop into the cellar on Vilner Street to grab a bagel or a string of sushkes, dried bagels for when one was really hungry.
The Hebrew teachers of the religious school (which was later transformed into a cultural school): Shifman, Shapiro (a very talented violinist!), and I as a young boyused to
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[Caption under photo]
Sitting: Milkha Vayshteyn, Rivka Volfson, Bashe Vayskunski, a female teacher, Felye Tayts, Tsipore Leyfer, Khaye Feygel.
First row, standing: Sheyne Lipkhin, Khane Broyman, Gitl Feygel, Leye Kovarski, Khave Ulman, Soreh Rozovski, Rokhl Volyak, Miriam Smorgonski.
Second row, standing: Elke Gurvitsh, Golde Feygel, Leye Vayskunski, Mordkhe Lekhovitski, Soreh Katselnik, Shifra Leyfer, Bashe Lurye, Mie Bushknayets, Mordkhe Garviser, Ester Shapiro.
often organize literary trials, with prosecutors, lawyers, and folk judges. I remember the trials of Peretz's The Rejected, Bontshe the Silent and others. The teacher, Shapiro, often used to play the violin. Murmis's son-in-law [played] the cello, and Miriam Volyak sang songs.
Those involved in The Pioneers were: Motl Gaviser, Itse-Leyb Shibovski, Leybke Kovner, Leybke Desatnik (before the last two went to another camp). Later came: Milkhe Vaynshteyn, Pinye Shulheyfer, Mendl Kutler (Menakhem HaLevi), Gershon Kuritski, Zev Zeydl and others.
The active [members were]: Lipe the mason's daughter, Rutshteyn, Pesele, who was Urtsik the tailor's daughter, Sheynuk, Shimon Bushkanyets, Dovid Vilkomirski's children and others.
A young generation of pioneers was growing up in [the organization] The Young Pioneers, many of whom immigrated to Israel before the war. They live and work in Israel. Menashe Gavisher, Khayke Kutler, and dozens upon dozens of other pioneers grew up there. Their leaders were Mordkhe Gaviser and the Hebrew teacher, Yitskhok Perlis.
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The Pioneers and The Young Pioneers used to organize day trips to travel to see other towns and organize groups for the Training Kibbutz.
They studied intensively: Hebrew, pioneering, the history of Zionism, the geography of Israel and so on. They also organized sports competitions in soccer [and held] bicycle races. They took an active part in the Culture School.
The crown of the pioneering experience was the Training Kibbutz. In the old prison building (at the end of Vidzer Street. [It] belonged to the health clinic) there boys and girls gathered, pioneers from various cities in Poland, and they organized themselves into work groups in order to pass the training [exam] so that they could obtain a certificate entitling them to immigrate to Israel. They did all kinds of physical labor: chopping wood, carrying water, makings felt boots and the most important thingthey learned how to be self-sufficient. The exams were held there [at the Training Kibbutz] given by a proctor from the center. Mock weddings were held there and fictional trips to Israel were played out. Sometimes a young man had to play the part of a tourist, to wear a leather jacket and
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a camera slung over his back in order to fool the man from England
In the Labor-Zionists, the tireless Rosenthal was active the whole time. Later it was the young lawyer, Leyb Gutvitsh (Reuben Abramovitsh's son-in-law).
The Labor-Zionists together with The Pioneer organized Zionist artisans in [the guild] The Worker.
Members of the middle-class: shopkeepers, merchants, artisansthose ruined by Grobski's Wagon, by high taxes or some business crisis, made an effort to get together the 1,000 pounds required, to become capitalist immigrants and travel to Israel. Others made an effort to get relative certificates. In this way, [the following] traveled to Israel: Dembo, Dovid Kuritski, Yoysef Lulinski and others who left with their whole families.
The general Zionists' were, for the most part, active on the local scene. Of course, they also took part in such Zionist activities as: shkolim, congresses, raising money to buy land in Israel and so on. The main thing they did, however, was to hold positions of leadership in the social and cultural life of Sventsyan.
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[Caption under photo]
Pioneers in Sventyan tie up saplings for the orchards in Israel.
Standing: Gershon Kuritski, Shifra Leyfer, Khaye Yokh, Moyshe Kuritski, Sholem Kuritski, Paye Feykovski, Aba Ginsburg, Yehuda Khomont, Yafa Gershonovitsh, Yankev Epl.
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[Caption under photo]
From right [to left]: Moyshe Beygel, Hirsh Fridman, Yisroel Tsinman, Tsherne Beygel, Katsherginski, Shmuel Vidutshinski, Khaye Beygel, Ben-Tsion Lishanski. The general [Zionist] took and controlled such positions as Manager of the Jewish Community (Yoysef Svirski and Yisroel Levinwho held the positions of Community Leaders for many years), magistrate (Boris Brumberg assistant Mayor and Yisroel Levin, the eternal councilman); in the Culture School ( first Dovid Gaviser and later Dovid Kuritski); in the health clinic (first Yoysef Svirski and later Yisroel Levin); in the Folks Bank (Boris Brumberg and Yisroel Levin); in the Fund
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for Purchasing Land in Israel ( Leyb Margel the deputy), and so on.
Besides those [already] mentioned, there were others who were active in various municipal institutions: Yisroel Abramson, Kraytser the bookkeeper, Dovid Ginzberg, Ruven, Abramovitsh, Solomyak, Shayevitsh, Refoyl Kutler, Perets Feygl, etc.
The Zionists from everywhere used to distribute their periodicals (in Yiddish and in Hebrew), as well as the Zionist Daily Today, Moment, the Vilna [paper] Time and the Hebrew HaYom [Today].
In Sventsyan there was an on-going battle between the Zionist and their opponents. They fought by using cartoons, in the Jewish elementary school, and by spiting one another. [For example] If one were to hold a [cultural] evening, the other would, for spite, hold one the same evening at the same time. They competed
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with parades[25], and plays, making [every] effort to out do one another in their school systems, children's programming, education and attract the intellectuals.. Sventsyan created its own signature; its own characteristic way of doing things.
Where are you Sventsyan? Where are you, the martyrs of Sventsyan? You made peace among yourselves in the next world!
The graves of Ponar, the ovens of Shtuthof, the ditches of Poligon, the auto-de-fe in Klagen in Estonia have united you all!
The Zionist Yatkever Street became combined with the Yiddishist Pilsudski Street. The _______ and Zionist Labor and The Pioneer have all made peace.
The memory of your names, the holy and pure martyrs of Sventsyan , will stay in our hearts forever.
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It was a great, unforgettable, historical day in Sventsyan, when we celebrated [the signing of] the Balfour Declaration. In the old synagogue at that time there was held an impressive Zionist gathering. The synagogue was decorated with dozens of white and blue flags and was full of people. There was not one child left in its cradle. Old and young came, women and children. The whole Jewish population took part in the great national holiday.
At that gathering, well-known folk-orators spoke. They explained to the people the great historical import of the Balfour Declaration. Now we will have the opportunity to found a Jewish national homeland in the land of Israel, and the dream of Dr. Theodore
[Col. 314 bottom]
Hertzl concerning a Jewish state will become a reality.
It was interesting to watch how Rabbi Meyerovitsh stood by the eastern [wall?] and listened in amazement and joy to the Zionist talks.
The old synagogue sexton, Reb Yisroel-Eli, stood on the stage and saw to it that it was quiet and that the children did not disturb [the activities]. Khatskl, the sexton's son, ran around quieting the children. The festivities of the great day were felt in every corner.
When the speakers finished talking, the thousand people in the audience began to sing Zionist songs.
No one will ever forget that gathering. Everyone felt that it heralded a new era in Jewish life.
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The Founders and the First Leaders of the Leftist Zionist Workers
The war was over. England had received the mandate over the land of Israel. The pioneers began to emigrate to Israel. Various Zionist organizations were being founded all over Poland. Sventsyan was no different. In our city, there were many proletarian elements, workers and folks people. It was therefore decided to found a branch of the leftist Zionist Workers and Youth in Sventsyin.
The founder and the first leader was Yitskhok Leyb Kharmats.
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One September evening in 1927, in Rutshteyn's house on Gleyzer Street, there was a founders' meeting. As founding members of the new party, the following signed up: Gershon Hokhman, Nakhman Rutshteyn, Moyshe Feygl, Noyekh Kotler, Avraham Germanski, Noyekh Shaladukhe and the writer of these lines.
The First Step in Organizing the Cultural Activities
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The first important task of the leftist Zionist Workers was to found a Needle Party in Sventsyan. This had a great effect on all the professional circles, and the Zionist Workers party became a force to be reckoned with in Jewish society.
The party was quite active in the area of culture and used to bring the best speakers to Sventsyan.
To this day, for example, I remember the speech given by Yankev Zruvl, which took place in the great hall
[Col. 316 middle]
of the community center. The hall was so packed that many, who could not get in, stood on the courtyard and listened to his talk.
Of the later speakers, I remember Yankev Feterzayl and Yoysef Rozen.
Everyone in town already knew that if the Zionist Workers were having a lecture, it was worthwhile to attend.
In summer, most of the work was done in the Berezover Woods and in winter in Nakhum Rotshteyn's house or in the Needle Union's Hall.
The Figure of the Organizer and Leader Yitskhok-Leyb Kharmats
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As already mentioned, the organizer and leader of the leftist Zionist Workers was Yitskhok-Leyb Kharmats. He was born in Sventsyan in 1904. His father, Reb Mordkhe Meyer Kharmats, was a religious Jew and a true folk person. His mother, Sorl, was known in town as a woman with a good heart. Everyone could tell a story about her kindness and her desire to help someone else.
At first Yitskhok-Leyb studied in kheyder with Reb Khaim Itsin and later with the teacher, Yankev-Dovid. While still a child, he distinguished himself by his devotion to learning and his understanding [of what he had learned]. At the age of 15, he joined the Zionist Youth and became active there. His main task was, at that time, to spread the word of the central publication of the Zionist Youth: Freedom.
As soon as the Pioneer was founded in town, he joined a kibbutz in Shidlovits in the county of Lublin and went for agricultural training preparatory to immigrating to Israel.
[Col. 316 bottom]
[Caption under photo]
Yitskhok-Leyb Kharmats
Upon returning from the kibbutz, he changed his political allegiance and became an ardent leftist
[Col. 317]
in the Zionist Workers. He began to give speeches and lead discussion and to stir up the workers, urging them to join the leftist Zionist Workers.
His campaigning was effective, and the new party was quickly established.
From then on he began to write frequent articles for the Workers' Newspaper, articles which showed great sensitivity and social consciousness.
At the end of the 20's he was sent as a delegate to the Pro-Palestine Workers' Congress, which was held in Warsaw.
Upon returning from the Congress, he presented his interesting talks on Socialist themes. Under his influence, many workers accepted the theory of Borokhovism and became Zionist Workers.
He got married in 1931 and settled in Vilna, where he worked and earned his living as a dental technician. He also became known in all the workers' groups in Vilna and became active in the
[Col. 318]
local parties there. He fought for a Zionist-Socialist Israel.
The Second World War found him in Vilna. He did not manage to escape and had to suffer, like all the Jews, the horrible torments of the Vilna Ghetto under the cruel Nazis.
As his friends tell it, even in the Vilna Ghetto he did not cease to fight for his ideals. He did much to save Jews from the bestial Nazis. His main endeavor was finding places, where Jews could hide.
When the Vilna Ghetto was liquidated, he was sent to work [as slave labor] in Panyevezh, in Lithuania. After being in a work camp for a short time, he escaped to the woods and hid there, until the Lithuanians and Hitler's bandits caught him.
He died in the woods in November 1943, not far from Panyevezh.
Honor to his memory!
1. Yatke in Yiddish means a butcher shop, so Yatkover Street means street of the butcher shops. Trans. Back
2. Literally The Hope, now the national anthem of Israel. Trans. Back
3. Go to Zion. Trans. Back
4. Part of the repetition of the Eighteen Benedictions. Trans. Back
5. This is from the shmone esra prayer, the Eighteen Benedictions that are the heart of the three daily services. Trans. Back
6. Probably an allusion to the well-known Cantor Gershon Sirote, who is believed to have died in the Warsaw Ghetto. Trans. Back
7. From the cantor's repetition of the shmone esra prayer on Shabbos Trans. Back
8. A rich fabric made of camel's hair or angora. Trans. Back
9. In Yiddish, it is Erets Yisroel, which translates as the land of Israel, but in English it was called Palestine until 1948. Trans. Back
10. The 18th of the month of Shvat, also known as Tu B'shvat and the birthday of the trees, on which day it is customary to eat the fruit of Israel. St. John's bread, also known as carob, is one of them. Trans. Back
11. Keren-kayemet was a fund to raise money to buy land in Israel. Stamps were given to those who contributed. Trans. Back
12. Isaiah: 127 Trans. Back
13. Someone who has left the land of Israel, a pejorative term. Trans. Back
14. Where Abraham and Sarah are buried. Trans. Back
15. Potato pancakes for Khanuka are usually fried. Trans. Back
16. This is obviously local parlance for some generally known meeting place. Trans. Back
17. Literally Children of Zion Flowers of Zion and Freedom and Rebirth. Trans. Back
18. Torah writings, being an acronym for Toyre, Niviim and Ksuvim (Torah, Prophets and other Writings). Trans. Back
19. Names of particularly evil people [?] Trans. Back
20. A Communist organization in the Soviet Union for youths 16 years of age and older. Trans. Back
21. Joseph Trumpeldor (b. 1880 d. 3.1.1920) was an early Zionist activist, notable for helping to organize the Zion Mule Corps, the first regular Jewish fighting force (1915) and bringing Jewish immigrants to Palestine. Trans. Back
22. Perhaps this means that they did not belong to any specific Zionist organization. Trans. Back
23. HeKhaluts. Trans. Back
24. HeKhaluts HaTsayir. Trans. Back
25. The Yiddish word revye could also mean (theatrical) revue. Trans. Back
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Lady Lion Community Carnival offers free activities Oct. 6
Lady Lion Community Carnival offers free activities Oct. 6
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The two-time defending Big Ten Champion Penn State Lady Lion basketball team will be hosting a free Lady Lion Community Carnival from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, in the Bryce Jordan Center.
The 2013-14 Lady Lions will be on hand to run several carnival games, booths and food stations, while interacting with members of the community.
Fans will have their chance to dunk their favorite Lady Lions in a dunk tank as part of the activities. Among the games and booths at the Lady Lion Community Carnival will be a bounce house, ring toss, bean-bag toss, basketball hoops and duck pond. There will also be food available at the carnival, including popcorn, cotton candy, ice cream, hot dogs, candied apples, pretzels, lemonade and apple cider.
Attendees should park in the parking lot adjacent to the Bryce Jordan Center (commuter Lot 44) and enter through Gate B of the BJC.
The limited bag policy will be in place for this event. Fans will be allowed to bring a diaper bag to the carnival in addition to the one clear, plastic, 1-gallon bag per person that will be permitted for medical needs, child care needs and general items as listed below.
Items that can fit in a pocket should remain in patrons' pockets (i.e. keys, cell phone, wallet, glasses, camera, sunscreen, lip balm, make-up). General items of this nature, including those that don't fit in patrons' pocket, can also be placed in the clear 1-gallon bag. All clear bags will be inspected through the bag and article check stations as in prior years.


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text: "Hold on," you say to yourself—"If it's a gratuity, doesn't that by definition mean it goes to the wait staff?" Not if you're a server for World Yacht, a "luxury dining fleet" in Manhattan that will now be sued by its employees for slapping automatic gratuities on diners' bills, then keeping the extra money for itself. New York labor laws require "employers to pass on to workers any payments that customers understand to be tips," but World Yacht argued that the banquet industry was exempt, and its servers should get nothing. Thanks to last week's ruling, the employees can move forward with their suit.


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We're excited to announce that we'll be sponsoring a play by the Kansas City affiliate of a nationwide nonprofit, Christian Youth Theater!
A few months ago we began a conversation with this after-school theater arts training program to see how our organizations could work together to support each other in our different missions.
CFCA has always focused on helping people in developing countries build a path out of poverty. However, many of us in the Kansas City headquarters are active in supporting local community organizations right here in the U.S.
Christian Youth Theater's mission is to develop character in children and adults through training in the arts and by producing wholesome family entertainment.
We're supporting that initiative by sponsoring its school production of "Aida," described on CYT's website as "a modern crowd pleaser that embraces multicultural casting and exuberant dancing, staging and singing." Music includes songs by Elton John and Tim Rice.
During the event we'll highlight our Hope for a Family sponsorship program, making this a great opportunity to bring someone who may be interested in learning more about child sponsorship.
The show dates and times are:
- Thursday, Oct. 27, at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.
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- Saturday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
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Brazil allowed the real to strengthen past below 2 reais to the U.S. dollar, in an attempt to boost investment in industry. The Bovespa stock index rose 0.6% today.
American companyies are heading south of the border: American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) plans to open its first store in Mexico in February, while Quizno's is partnering with Quizmex to open 150 of its restaurants during the next 10 years. Mexico's IPC stock index fell 0.01%.
Chile's Empresa Nacional de Electricidad (EOC) and Enersis (ENI) will report earnings this week. Chile's IPSA stock index fell 0.04%.
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MegaDeth - Killing is my Business, and Business is Good!
As in, killing the Jets is my business....
Remember the secret track at the end of Green Day's Dookie album? The drummer singing "I'm all by myself"? That one.


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Try your caption writing skills in the twentieth installment of our Geocaching.com Caption Contest. You could become the proud winner of a barely coveted prize! What caption would you write? "The Jolly Green Giant begins his geocaching career." You can do better!


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Three University of Montana Western Bulldog basketball players — Brandon Brown, Kyle Erickson and Hayley Pettit — received NAIA Division I All-America honors Tuesday.
The University of Montana Western senior guards Brandon Brown and Kyle Erickson received NAIA Division I men's basketball All-America honors. Brown was named to the first team for the second consecutive year and Erickson was an honorable mention selection.
For the past two years, Brown has been the Frontier Conference Player of the Year and led the league in both scoring and assists. In the 2010-11 season Brown scored 20.2 points per game and dished out 4.8 assists per game. This past season Brown averaged 22.4 points and 4.6 assists per game. He was also named the Frontier Conference player of the week for Nov. 28, 2011 and named to the All-Tournament team at the national tournament this year.
Erickson capped off an excellent senior season by being named to the Frontier Conference first team and honorable mention All-American. Erickson averaged 11.5 points, 6.0 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game this season, and his all-out hustle and energy on both ends of the court was invaluable for the Bulldogs. He was twice named the Frontier Conference player of the week and was one of seven players in NAIA Division I men's basketball to be named the national player of the week.
University of Montana Western junior center Hayley Pettit earned third team All-America NAIA Division I women's basketball honors. Pettit established herself as one of the top post players in the conference this season, averaging 16.6 points and 12.4 rebounds (fourth in the NAIA) per game. She was ranked in the top 50 in eight categories on the national level. Pettit recorded double-doubles (points and rebounds) in 17 games this season and was also named the Frontier Conference player of the week twice.
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Sharing and False Sharing (Ping-Pong)
Consider the following code where two threads update two distinct global integers
x and
y, and assume we've disabled optimizations to prevent the optimizer from eliminating the loops entirely in this toy example:
// Thread 1 for( i = 0; i < MAX; ++i ) { ++x; } // Thread 2 for( i = 0; i < MAX; ++i ) { ++y; }
Question: What relative performance would you expect if running Thread 1 in isolation versus running both threads:
- On a machine with one core?
- On a machine with two or more cores?
On a machine with one core, the program would probably take twice as long to run, as we'd probably get the same throughput (additions/sec), maybe with a little overhead for context switches as the operating system schedules the two threads interleaved on the single core.
On a machine with two or more cores, we'd probably expect to get a 2x throughput improvement as the two threads each run at full speed on their own cores. And that is what in fact will happen...but only if
x and
y are on different cache lines.
x and
y are on the same cache line, however, only one core can be updating the cache line at a time, because only one core can have exclusive access at a timeit's as if the cache line is a token being passed between the threads/cores to say who is currently allowed to run. So the situation is exactly as if we had explicitly written:
// Thread 1 for( i = 0; i < MAX; ++i ) { lightweightMutexForXandY.lock(); ++x; lightweightMutexForXandY.unlock(); } // Thread 2 for( i = 0; i < MAX; ++i ) { lightweightMutexForXandY.lock(); ++y; lightweightMutexForXandY.unlock(); }
Which of course is exactly what we said we would never willingly do: Only one thread can make progress at a time. This effect is called "false sharing" because, even though the cores are trying to update different parts of the cache line, that doesn't matter; the unit of sharing is the whole line, and so the performance effect is the same as if the two threads were trying to share the same variable. It's also called ping-ponging because that's an apt description of how the cache line ownership keeps hopping back and forth madly between the two cores.
Even in this simple example, what could we do to ensure
x and
y are on different cache lines? First, we can rearrange the data: For example, if
x and
y are data values inside the same object, perhaps we can rearrange the object's members so that
x and
y are sufficiently further apart. Second, we can add padding: If we have no other data that's easy to put adjacent to
x, we can ensure
x is alone on its cache line by allocating extra space, such as by allocating a larger object with
x as a member (preceded/followed by appropriate padding to fill the cache line) instead of allocating
x by itself as a naked integer. This is a great example of how to deliberately waste space to improve performance.
False sharing arises in lots of hard-to-see places. For example:
- Two independent variables or objects are too close together, as in the above examples.
- Two node-based containers (lists or trees, for example) interleave in memory, so that the same cache line contains nodes from two containers.
Cache-Conscious Design
Locality is a first-order issue that trumps much of our existing understanding of performance optimization. Most traditional optimization techniques come after "locality" on parallel hardware (although a few are still equally or more important than locality, such as big-Oh algorithmic complexity for example).
Arrange your data carefully by following these three guidelines, starting with the most important:
First: Keep data that are not used together apart in memory. If variables
A and
B are not protected by the same mutex and are liable to be used by two different threads, keep them on separate cache lines. (Add padding, if necessary; it's a great way to "waste" memory to make your code run faster.) This avoids the invisible convoying of false sharing (ping-pong) where in the worst case only one contending thread can make progress at all, and so typically trumps other important cache considerations.
Second: Keep data that is frequently used together close together in memory. If a thread that uses variable
A frequently also needs variable
B, try to put
A and
B in the same cache line if possible. For example,
A and
B might be two fields in the same object that are frequently used together. This is a traditional technique to improve memory performance in both sequential and concurrent code, which now comes second to keeping separate data apart.
Third: Keep "hot" (frequently accessed) and "cold" (infrequently accessed) data apart. This is true even if the data is conceptually in the same logical object. This helps both to fit "hot" data into the fewest possible cache lines and memory pages and to avoid needlessly loading the "colder" parts. Together these effects reduce (a) the cache footprint and cache misses, and (b) the memory footprint and virtual memory paging.
Next Steps
Achieving parallel scalability involves two things:
- Express it: Find the work that can be parallelized effectively.
- Then don't lose it: Avoid visible and invisible scalability busters like the ones noted in this article.
We've seen some ways to avoid losing scalability unwittingly by invisibly adding contention. Next time, we'll consider one other important way we need to avoid invisibly adding contention and losing scalability: Choosing concurrency-friendly data structures, and avoiding concurrency-hostile ones. Stay tuned.
[1] H. Sutter. "Break Amdahl's Law!" (www.ddj.com/cpp/205900309)
[2] H. Sutter. "Super Linearity and the Bigger Machine" (www.ddj.com/architect/206903306).
Herb is a software development consultant, a software architect at Microsoft, and chair of the ISO C++ Standards committee. He can be contacted at www.gotw.ca.


text: i'm very curios to know if anybody else has experienced their dog heaving (like a cat with furball in their throat) for a few minutes and then producing a phloem which tends to land smack dab ontop of judy's head?! Should she be this phloemy? it does look uncomfortable the first time i saw this happening i thought she was choking and was reADy to attempt a doggy heimlich manouevre! Any suggestions/ experience of this heaving etc. ?


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DURHAM, N.C. - Following a series of heavy rains and a 45-minute lightning delay , game two of the Duke-Wake Forest series was suspended with the Blue Devils trailing 6-5 heading into the bottom of the 10th inning. Game two will resume on Sunday at 12 p.m. with the final game of the series set to begin 30 minutes after the conclusion of game two.
Wake Forest designated hitter Carlos Lopez homered over the left-field wall in the top of the 10th inning to put the Demon Deacons up 6-5. Following the completion of the top of the 10th, officials called for a weather delay at 2:35 because of lightning. Following a 45-minute delay in which several standing water spots formed on the field the game was postponed until tomorrow.
The Blue Devils scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth to force the extra frame.
Duke's rally in the ninth began with a one-out single to right field by second baseman Matt Berezo. With two outs in the inning, designated hitter Jeff Kremer singled to left field to put runners on first and second. Mark Tatera drew a walk, pinch-hitting for Anthony D'Alessandro to load the bases for the Blue Devils. First baseman Chris Marconcini plated Berezo and pinch-runner Joe Pedevillano with a single to center field. Center fielder Will Piwnica-Worms followed with a double high off the wall in left-center field to score Brian Litwin, who was pinch running for Tatera, and Marconcini.
All four of Duke's runs in the ninth came with two outs.
Wake Forest starting pitcher Tim Cooney went eight 2/3 innings before being replaced in the ninth by Michael Dimock. Dimock inherited two of Cooney's runners. Cooney allowed nine hits, three earned runs while striking out six. Dimock got out of the ninth by retiring left fielder David Perkins. Dimock allowed three hits, two earned runs and one walk.
Duke starter Dennis O'Grady went seven innings allowing five runs on four hits and five walks, while striking out eight. Ben Grisz, who entered in relief in the eighth inning, pitched three innings allowing one run on four hits and two walks, while striking out four.
The Blue Devils struck first, with Piwnica-Worms driving in his first of three RBIs in the game. Piwnica-Worm's double down the left field line plated Kremer, who singled to lead off the inning.
Wake Forest rallied in the third, plating four in the top half of the inning. Second baseman Conor Keniry doubled to score catcher Brett Armour and shortstop Pat Blair. Center fielder Steve Brooks then drew a walk, followed by a single off the glove of shortstop Angelo LaBruna from Matt Conway. Left fielder Mac Williamson's sacrifice fly to right plated Keniry and Lopez's sacrifice fly to left field scored Brooks.
The Demon Deacons added another in the top of the fourth thanks to a solo home run by Blair.


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Put patients first with real health care reform, not cuts
Dear Editor: In announcing his plans to reform New York's health care system, Governor Spitzer said he wants to put patients first. Unfortunately, the cuts he would impose on health care providers would diminish their ability to care for patients.
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1.) Our current deficit and budget issues are the result of two things. a.) Massive defense spending that began under Reagan (Reagan tripled the size of the federal government) and continued unchecked under both Bush presidencies and Clinton. b.) Finance companies buying smaller companies and merging with banks to create barely legal monopolies that then used customer money to gamble on high-risk investments and CDOs while giving subprime loans AAA ratings in order to increase short term profits, thus causing the financial meltdown of 2008. These have nothing to do with Obama, however, I would agree that Obama has failed to increase the kinds of federal regulations needed to fix the second problem. But his failure there is at odds with your seeming belief that liberals are evil and horrible because his policies mirror conservative policies, not liberal.
2.) The businesses downsizing are hurting themselves worse than Obama's tax policies would. Progressive taxes only take hold for a certain percentage of income and only income above the cutoff point. Meaning, if the cutoff point is 10,000, you pay the old tax rate for the first 10,000 and only pay more on any additional. Either way you're still making more money, not less, and any business owner dumb enough to not get such a simple thing deserves to fail.
3.) I don't understand how you can claim Bush was forced into bad policies while also trotting out "Obama had a democratic majority!!!!" Bush had a Republican majority until 2006, and had the post-9/11 glow where the country refused to second guess anything he did, way longer than Obama ever did. You do not get to have it both ways.
Bush was not forced into bad policies for the Iraq war. Bush made a conscious decision to go into Iraq on shaky evidence, evidence that the entire military senior staff were telling him was incorrect. But he let Cheney and Rumsfeld design a war based on false pre-tenses, without planning an occupation strategy, and dismantling the Iraqi army that was supposed to help rebuild and secure Iraq so the US army could withdraw in under a year. He then fired multiple members of the top military leadership for openly disagreeing while keeping Rumsfeld on. Afghanistan could maybe be argued as something he was forced into. But Iraq? Bullshit.


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Diet and fitness apps seem to be more popular than ever, and a new survey of more than 1,300 women ranks the most popular ones, according to The Washington Post.
The February issue of Shape magazine, which conducted the online survey of its readers in connection with SheKnows.com to learn how social media is affecting women's health habits, found that nearly 60 percent of the women reported using apps to stay on track with their health goals.
Calorie trackers are the most popular apps, with 31 percent reporting use of them. A quarter of respondents said they use a mobile GPS or route tracker; 24 percent said they use a food diary or meal planner app; 16 percent reported using a workout app; and 13 percent said they use workout-tracking tools.
Are you in the market for a new download? Several free smartphone applications were recently showcased at the mHealth Summit outside of Washington, D.C. GetHealth awards points for the healthy actions you log and lets you compete with friends. Juice allows you to track nutrition, exercise and sleep. PillJogger Lite reminds users to take their meds.
DIY diets
How's that resolution to drop the extra pounds shaking out? For those who may need a little assistance, the February issue of Consumer Reports has rated 13 weight-loss programs, including commercial plans and do-it-yourself diets, says The Washington Post.
Among more than 9,000 of the magazine's readers, DIY diets received the highest satisfaction ratings, beating out even the most popular of the commercial plans in the survey, Weight Watchers.
The top-ranked "diet" is actually not a diet at all: MyFitnessPal, a smartphone application and website that allows users to track calories and exercise, received the top satisfaction score of 83.
The Paleo Diet, which urges dieters to "eat like a caveman," received a score of 80. The Mediterranean Diet scored 77 and SparkPeople, another app and website, scored 76.
Meanwhile, Weight Watchers came in with a score of 74, Medifast received a 70, Jenny Craig scored 66 and Nutrisystem scored 56.
The magazine noted that these scores don't necessarily mean one diet is better than another; satisfaction scores didn't correlate with weight loss.


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In an attempt to find money to balance the budget, Essex County officials are exploring all areas of generating revenue and saving expenses, as they should. But with regard to renewed conversations about increasing the occupancy tax, the Board of Supervisors should move on to something else.
The occupancy tax - also known as the "bed tax" - is charged to visitors staying in rooms in Essex County inns, B&Bs, motels and hotels. It is currently 3 percent and should stay there.
Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman and town of Jay Supervisor Randy Douglas says an increase in the occupancy tax could help offset property taxes by using the revenue for "infrastructure and repairs," possibly to improve the county fish hatchery at Crown Point.
We encourage supervisors to tread lightly when it comes to wish lists. Using the occupancy tax for anything other than tourism defeats the purpose of charging tourists a fee to stay in Essex County. As North Elba Supervisor Roby Politi has said, that money should only be used for tourism-related items. It's not that the fish hatchery isn't related to tourism; it's just that wish lists for "infrastructure and repairs" could easily get out of hand and lead to non-tourism-related improvements.
We've been here before. In 2012, the county supervisors planned to raise the occupancy tax to 5 percent, but that effort failed. The 2012 plan would have split the funds four ways: 25 percent for the fish hatchery, 25 percent to a tourism product development fund, 4 percent for visitor transportation and 46 percent for offseason marketing programs. An increase to 5 percent was estimated to generate an additional $1.2 million in annual revenue.
At a time when Gov. Andrew Cuomo is trying to lower taxes statewide - or at least change the impression that New York overtaxes its residents and businesses - this is not the time to overtax our guests. Furthermore, we're not certain any time is good to overtax our guests, residents or businesses.
The latest conversation about increasing the occupancy tax came after the 2013 numbers came in. Revenue is up, so county officials have dollar signs in their eyes.
In 2013, the town of North Elba, which includes Lake Placid, Ray Brook and part of Saranac Lake, set a record for the highest amount of occupancy tax collected in one year in Essex County with a total of $1,696,201, an increase of $115,128 from the year before.
The occupancy tax was originally set up in 2000 to give 95 percent of the funds raised to the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism for destination marketing efforts and the remaining 5 percent to the county for administration. The total occupancy tax collected from 2001 to 2013 for all of Essex County was $20,463,726.
The amount collected from North Elba during that 13-year period is $18,169,118, or 88 percent of the total from all 18 Essex County towns. The other top-earning towns include Ticonderoga with $55,593 in 2013 and a total of $557,959 since 2001; Wilmington with $54,755 in 2013 and $596,277 since 2001; and Keene with $47,812 in 2013 and $424,212 since 2001.
Looking at this kind of money, it's no wonder county officials are exploring the occupancy tax as a revenue generator again.
But supervisors should put themselves in the shoes of the hard-working people spending vacations in Essex County before deciding whether they want to pursue an occupancy tax increase. An extra 2 percent tax may not be much for some people, but it is for others. And at what point do we stop draining the bank accounts of our guests before they begin to vacation elsewhere?
At some point we, the people of Essex County, have to pay for the services we require rather than having our guests chip in more for them. Essex County has steadily, over the years, kept its property taxes lower than those in neighboring Franklin and Clinton counties. No politician likes to be the one to raise taxes, but often the alternative they seek is to pass the costs on to someone else who isn't around to vote: the next generation, perhaps, or the visitor.
Here in the Adirondack Park, we're in the hospitality industry, and we do it quite well. Let's not screw it up. There's nothing less hospitable than overcharging your guests, just because you can.


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Immediate Hormonal Therapy Improves Survival In Patients With Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer
Michel Bolla, M.D., professor of radiation oncology, University Joseph Fourier Grenoble (Grenoble, France) presented a study which aimed to increase the survival of patients suffering from locally advanced prostate cancers by combining radiation with adjuvant hormone therapy administered from the start of treatment.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men. An estimated 244,000 new cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year; 44,000 men will die from the disease. Traditional therapy for advanced prostate cancer has involved hormonal treatment through surgical removal of the testicles (the source of male hormones) or, more recently, through the use of anti-androgen drugs. Chemotherapy has been used in patients whose tumors no longer respond to hormonal treatments, but with only limited benefit to date. Unfortunately, the long-term survival rate and clinical control of locally advanced prostate cancer are poor.
In the study, 415 patients with locally advanced prostate cancer (spread outside the prostate but confined within the pelvis) were randomized during the period of 1987-1995. At the closure of the study, 385 patients were evaluable for preliminary analysis. The median age was 71 year. One hundred ninety patients received radiotherapy alone (once a day, five days a week, for seven weeks) and 195 patients received radiotherapy plus immediate hormone therapy with the luteinizing-hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) analogue goserelin.
After a median follow-up of 33 months, five-year local control (no spread of the disease) and overall survival were significantly improved in the combined treatment group. There was a 56% survival rate among the radiotherapy group and a 78% survival rate among the combined treatment group. Seventy-five percent of the radiotherapy group achieved local control, and 95% of the combined group achieved local control.
"Although the study needs to be confirmed by a longer follow-up, these results show that external irradiation and adjuvant hormone therapy initiated at the start of treatment may provide improved disease control and survival for locally advanced prostate cancer patients," Derek Raghavan, M.D., professor and chief, Solid Tumor Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo, NY), said at a press briefing today. "Very similar data have also been provided by the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) in the United States."


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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
All About Hair
When Maya joined our family, our hair budget had to be revamped. About 6 months ago, I took Maya to a Loctician to have her hair locked. (These used to be called "dreadlocks", but "dread" gave people a bad impression. Now they're just called locs.) I absolutely love the look and the flexibility this style provides, but I don't want to screw it up by attempting to do it myself.
Bottom line: I cut my own hair and the rest of the kids' hair, so that I can spend the big bucks on Maya. :)
I'm Curious: What do you do yourself so that you have more money for other things?
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- heartchild said...
I cut my husbands and kids hair. Sadly, I have not been able to do it to myself yet.
I pay an Ethiopian girl to cornrow Lillie's hair and I taught myself how to put in the extensions to save money.
- July 16, 2008
- Faith said...
I cut all the kids and DH hair too but my hair is so long and straight I would NEVER be able to get it right. It does help that I only get it cut twice a year. It stays healthy that long and so I only spend about $20/year on my cut. BTW, twisting Maya's loc's now that they are done is REALLY easy. I know you could do them yourself and save even MORE money! maybe you'll just have to take a trip out to So Cal for me to show you:) Great incentive, right?
- July 16, 2008
- Ginger said...
Oh I know that I *could* twist Maya's hair easily enough. I've seen how easy it is to do. Now, it just boils down to time, really. It would take me half a day to do it, where it take the Loctician 2 hours. Well worth it IMO. And it always looks so beautiful!
- July 16, 2008
- Naomi O'Donovan said...
Great cut, Ginger. It looks fab! :D
- July 16, 2008
- Jeanne said...
Ginger...you did an outstanding job, your hair really looks terrific! You could qualify for a following! I'm wandering all over the place trying to get a good haircut that's economical too. Hard to do~~~ especially with all the hair which hairdressers don't seem to like.
- July 16, 2008
- The Herd said...
I am super impressed you do your own hair!!!! John and I do everyone's here at the house, except for mine...but I hope to have some of the Russian kids do mine since they are older than my 8year old. John would not want the responsibility to do mine and neither do I! Yours looks awesome though...do you use mirrors for the back?
To save money: I have made my own dishwashing detergent, laundry detergent. I have learned to dilute the whole gallon of juice(I do that for sugar reasons though). Eat beans and rice--cheap! Use up all the food we have in the pantry before buying anything major---I think we as people(at least this is true for me!) buy things and then don't always use them...so that's a way to use it all. We buy consignment stuff--mainly for clothes. If we aren't picky, it's easier to save.
There's my savings list...not everything, but it's a start.
- July 16, 2008
- Janelle said...
I do my own also, as well as all the rest in the family. We also have an assortment of hair and the do is subject to my mood. :) It works for me :)
- July 16, 2008
- Carolyn said...
Great job on your hair. I cut the rest of the family but no one is brave enough to cut my hair. It is short all around so I can't cut my own. If anyone knows how to cut their own short hair, please share!
- July 17, 2008
- Jamie Wooddell said...
Your hair looks great. I love it that length.
I wouldn't touch my hair with a ten foot pole. Unfortunatly, I'm in the same boat with Aunt Jeanne. Hard to find a stylist that knows what to do with all this hair.
- July 18, 2008
- musicmommy3 said...
We also mostly cut our own hair. I cut my own and Michael buzzes the boys' hair and shaves his.
Judah gets a professional haircut because his doesn't grow out well. :)
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Toss 18 innings in 15 appearances with three starts as a freshman. Posted a 1-2 record on the year with six strikeouts. Made his Pacific debut with a 15-pitch flawless innning against Kansas State on Feb. 19. Also turned in scoreless innings in two outings against Gonzaga, pitching two-thirds of an inning on March 4, and 1.2 on March 5, all without allowing a hit. Retired his first 10 batters in a row, including one via strikeout. In a mid-week start at Sacramento State, retired all six he faced on 18 pitches in two innings of work. Back in the bullpen, added another 3.1 inning stretch over four games with no runs allowed: one frame at CS Northridge (April 23), two-thirds of an inning against Santa Clara (April 26), a third of an inning against No. 10 Fullerton (April 29) and 1.1 innings of hitless ball against San Jose State (May 10).
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An outfielder and left-hand pitcher for Beyer High School in Modesto, Crawford was a two-time All-League selection in the Modesto Metro Conference, earning Most Valuable Player honors his senior season… A three-time letterwinner for the Patriots under head coach Steve Clark, Crawford posted a .322 batting average with three doubles and ten runs batted in as a senior. Crawford also earned two letters in football.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 14th Sep 2009 06:04 UTC
After eight years of hard work, the day has finally arrived. Today, September 14, the Haiku project has released its very first alpha release. With the goal of recreating one of the most beloved operating systems in history, the BeOS, they took on no small task, but it seems as if everything is finally starting to come together. Let's talk about the history of the BeOS, where Haiku comes from, and what the Alpha is like.
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by gogothebee on Tue 15th Sep 2009 13:12 UTC
Thanks Thom. This review is awesome! I tried Haiku some weeks ago and quickly recalled how computer magazines used to praise BeOS in mid-late 90's. Haiku's (BeOS's) philosophy is incredibly coherent with my own understanding of what one OS should be, so I'll stay tuned for more.
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The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.
instead of a 0 and 9, i wish ponting had scored at least a 15 and 0 to mark his 150th test.
Well at least he'll always remember his 150th test, one way or the other
Surely he'll score some runs in his 151st. Would be un-Ponting like not to with his team up against it.
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Friday has been dominated by the Washington debt drama and drubbing in the markets after a trio of negative economic data were released.
Behind the scenes were a couple of lesser-known, but otherwise important items to note in the investment banking world with data courtesy of ThomsonReuters and Dealogic:
- Junk bond demand appears to be slowing after HCA Holdings HCA $5 billion offering this week. High yield corporate debt volume for the month of July totals $20.6 billion so far, a 21% uptick from June 2011 when activity reached $16.9 billion and ranked as the lowest month for new high yield issuance in over a year. The big winner: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM. The bank is the top underwriter for high yield corporate debt this year with 11.3% market share.
- ING Groep NV\'s ING $3.8 billion sale of its insurance and pension division pushed financial sector M&A volume to $242 billion, a 38% increase from last year.
- And finally, the private equity guys continue to exit private equity investments they made before and during the financial crisis. Initial public offerings of PE-backed companies surged to a record $22.7 billion in proceeds for the year-to-date. PE-backed companies account for 69% of all U.S. IPOs this year. Among the names: Dunkin' Donuts DNKN, Freescale Semiconductor FSL, and Wesco Aircraft Holdings WAIR.
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When signed from Anderlecht in August 2011, Romelu Lukaku was signed to be the next great Chelsea striker, the true heir to the throne of Didier Drogba - the man he has been likened too since his early days playing in Belgium and the player he idolised when growing up.
Lukaku had already shown promise by being the top scorer in Belgium in 2009/10.
Since then Lukaku was forgotten for a while, making little impact. He even refused to hold the Champions league trophy as he did not feel like a winner. Then came the moment that launched his career: on 10 August 2012 he joined West Bromwich Albion.
At West Brom Lukaku was able to "become a man". In his words: "it changed my life".
After scoring his first goal against Liverpool, Lukaku went on to become the sixth highest scoring player of the 2012/13 season - ending with the second-half hat-trick against Manchester United. Quite a way to make a name for yourself, considering that it was Sir Alex Ferguson's last match in charge of Manchester United.
Now Lukaku is back from his loan spell, and would seem to have a point to prove. He has returned to a squad which is lacking a goalscorer, with Fernando Torres still just coming back to form, and Demba Ba looking out of place.
Lukaku, on paper, should start considering that he scored more goals than both Torres and Ba. If Chelsea do fail to sign Wayne Rooney, then he will surely play most weeks. Even in these pre-season matches Lukaku has scored four goals in three games.
These early performances set the scene for the man who could lead Chelsea for years to come. Just as Drogba did before him.
What Drogba had was physical power, positioning and the ability to succeed under pressure. This meant that he could change games in a way that only true greats can. When it was going bad for Chelsea, and traditional tactics weren't working, they could just lob it up to Drogba, and he would take care of the rest.
Lukaku can match Drogba at this. He has already proven that he has a game-winning mentality and composure, such as scoring the only goal against the Thai All-Stars from the penalty spot, in what was his debut under Jose Mourinho. Lukaku could perhaps even better Drogba, as he would seem to have his physical prowess, but also perhaps more skill on the ball.
With the armada of midfield players that Chelsea offer, Lukaku will surely thrive. The talent of the likes of Mata, Hazard, Oscar, De Bruyne, Essien, Van Ginkel, Ramires, and Lampard will give him ample ball to work with. He has already shown a budding partnership with his fellow Belgian countryman, Kevin De Bruyne.
Time will only tell whether this Belgian monster with lots of hair will turn into the legend he could become, but all the signs are there, the ball is very much in his court, to borrow a phrase from another sport.
And if his composure under pressure is anything to go by, he'll make it 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 Lukaku.
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CONSTRUCTION, TOWN AND state officials cut the ribbon on the $3.3 million Pulp Mill Bridge project last Friday. The span that connects Middlebury and Weybridge over Otter Creek then opened to foot traffic and later vehicle traffic. Pictured are, left to right, Bill Patenaude, Jim Ligon, Mark Sargent, Dean George, Peter James and John Weaver.
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Flanked by two men dressed as Abraham Lincoln riding Segways, state and local officials today unveiled The LINCOLN Movie Trail, a tourism campaign designed to capitalize on Virginia's connections to the Steven Spielberg's film.
"Lincoln," which opens in movie theaters nationwide on Friday, was filmed late last year entirely in Central Virginia, primarily in Richmond and Petersburg. Set during the last months of the Civil War in 1865, the movie stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln.
Virginia Tourism Corp. has launched an interactive website, http://www.Virginia.org/LINCOLN listi,ng 40 Virginia sites that either served as locations in the film or were places frequented by actors in the movie.
Rita McCLenny, president and CEO of Virginia Tourism Corp., said the movie trail would allow film fans to "follow in the footsteps of Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones and James Spader," the director and major actors in "Lincoln."
In addition to listing movie-related sites, the website will offer travel packages, special offers and guided tours, including some on Segways.
Trail sites will display signs in their windows or near their entrances announcing "LINCOLN was here."
The list includes Richmond historic sites such as the Virginia State Capitol and the White House of the Confederacy plus well-known local restaurants such as Millie's and Can Can Brasserie.
The website initially will be Virginia Tourism's primary vehicle for promoting the movie trail, but next year the agency will begin an advertising campaign targeting markets such as Boston, New York and Washington, D.C.
In addition, Spielberg's studio, DreamWorks, is expected to promote Virginia sites as an added feature when it releases the film on DVD.
McClenny said that, during production, "Lincoln" resulted in $32 million in direct spending, resulting in an economic impact of $64 million.
Last year, movie and television productions had a total economic impact of $394 million in Virginia, an increase of 14.5 percent from 2010.


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IT had the potential to be the ultimate show-and-tell piece.
Problem was, the World War II hand grenade brought in by an oblivious Hunter Christian School student – who thought it was a harmless money box – also had the potential to cause carnage.
Bomb experts confirmed that, although the detonators and pin had been taken from the grenade, explosives remained inside and could have easily become active if it was dropped – with devastating consequences.
The Mayfield campus's 450 students and staff were immediately evacuated, with nearly 400 going home, after the 11-year-old girl had shown off her possession to a teacher before the start of school.
The grenade was taken to principal Boyd Allen's office, and it remained on his desk for nearly three hours before RAAF experts removed it in a bomb-proof box.
It is understood the girl's family was given the grenade by a neighbour, who told them it had belonged to an elderly relative, who had made it inert and used it as a money box.
For more than a week it stayed with the year 5 student's family – until she decided to bring it to school for show and tell.
''They are very embarrassed by the fact that this has been the response.'' Newcastle duty officer Inspector Gerard Lawson said.
''It was brought for show and tell – quite innocently as I understand it – but they appreciate now the great potential risks that they placed other people under.''
Mr Allen said the student was not in trouble.
''She's bewildered, embarrassed,'' he said.
Inspector Lawson said the school had acted appropriately in evacuating everyone immediately to a nearby club.
The school and a surrounding street remained in lockdown until the bomb experts arrived and took the grenade away for testing.
''There is no doubt that it did pose a potential threat and the actions that we have had today are appropriate in the circumstances,'' Inspector Lawson said.
''It is timely to remind people that if you do come across anything suspicious, particularly munitions, that you alert police straight away ... ''.