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Liberty makes its first appearance in the NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship on Wednesday with a road contest against the No. 14 Delaware Blue Hens in the Play-In round. The game is scheduled to start at 2 p.m. at Rullo Stadium, with the winner advancing to face tournament No. 3 overall seed North Carolina on Saturday in Chapel Hill, N.C.
How to Follow the Game Live stats and a live video stream of the game will be made available courtesy of the Delaware Athletics Department. Both the live stats link and the live video link can be found by visiting the field hockey schedule/results page on LibertyFlames.com. Fans can also follow the game through Twitter updates from @LibertyFlames and @libertyFH. Liberty at a Glance The Lady Flames defeated No. 10 Stanford on Saturday, 2-1, claimining their first NorPac Championship title and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The Lady Flames reached the title game with wins over Cal, 3-1, and UC Davis, 6-0. With the victory over the Cardinal, Liberty became the first East Division team to win the tournament title and advance to the NCAA Tournament.
Liberty enters Wednesday's game with a 17-4 (8-0 NorPac) overall record and the longest current winning streak in the nation at 12 games. The Lady Flames' last setback came on Sept. 29 against No. 4 Virginia, 2-0. During its current winning streak, Liberty has outscored its opponents by a combined 57-9 tally and has posted five shutouts.
The sister trio of Natalie (49 points), Serena (27 points) and Bethany Barr (22 points) led a Liberty offense which is averaging 3.90 goals per game, 17.6 shots per game and 7.3 penalty corners per contest. Natalie Barr paces the team with 19 goals, while also adding 11 assists. Twins Serena and Bethany Barr have nine goals, nine assists and five goals, 12 assists, respectively. Sophomores Ashlee Krulock (10 goals, 3 assists) and Hannah Jones (8 goals, 5 assists) also have eclipsed the 20-point mark this season.
The Lady Flames' defense has been equally as strong this season, surrendering just 0.95 goals per game, 7.1 shots per contest and 3.6 penalty corners per game. Liberty has posted a total of eight shutouts this year, setting a new single-season program record. Goalkeeper Ann Jefferis has played the majority of the minutes in cage for Liberty. The redshirt senior holds a 0.95 goals-against average and a .763 save percentage. Thanks to strong play from a backline that includes Helen Doolittle, Hannah Jones, Serena Barr, Olivia Carroll and Megan Johnson, Jefferis has only been forced to make 58 saves this year. Jefferis has posted six shutouts on the year.
Going for a Baker's Dozen Liberty is currently riding the nation's longest winning streak at 12 games. The Lady Flames' last setback came on Sept. 29 at home to No. 4 Virginia, 2-0. Liberty has been dominant during its 12-game winning streak, averaging 4.75 goals per game, while surrendering just 0.75 markers per contest. The Lady Flames' defense has posted five shutouts during that span.
Liberty vs. Top-20 Opponents Wednesday's matchup with the Blue Hens with be the fifth time in program history the Lady Flames have faced an opponent ranked inside the top 20 nationally. Liberty is 1-3 all-time against ranked teams, with its lone win coming on Saturday against then No. 10 Stanford in the NorPac title game. In addition to the Stanford contest, the Lady Flames have faced two other ranked opponents this year, No. 18 Wake Forest and No. 4 Virginia. Liberty dropped both games, losing on the road to the Demon Deacons, 3-2, and falling at home to the Cavaliers, 2-0.
Lady Flames Away From Lynchburg This season, Liberty is 8-3 in contests played away from Liberty Field Hockey Field. All-time, the Lady Flames are 21-14 in road or neutral site matches. Liberty has notched a win in each of its last five road games, with its last defeat coming on Sept. 22 at La Salle, 2-1. On the road, the Lady Flames are averaging 3.00 goals per game and 15.36 shots per contest. Raising the Barr Liberty's sister trio of Natalie, Bethany and Serena Barr have combined to score 33 goals and 32 assists this season. Natalie Barr has been named the NorPac East Division Offensive Player of the Week four times this season and was tabbed the East Offensive Player of the Year and an all-conference honoree for the second consecutive year. The sophomore was also named to the NorPac All-Tournament team this past weekend.
Serena Barr earned two Rookie of the Week plaudits as well as a Defensive Player of the Week award. She earned the conference's Maria Whitehead Rookie of the Year honor, marking the second-consecutive year Liberty has claimed the award.
Bethany Barr claimed a NorPac East Rookie of the Week honor once and the Offensive Player of the Week award once as well. The freshman tallied two goals and an assist during the conference tournament, earning a spot on the All-Tournament team with sister Natalie.
Winning With Youth In Saturday's NorPac title game against No. 10 Stanford, Liberty started eight players who were either freshman or sophomores. Sixty-nine of the Lady Flames' 82 goals this year have been scored by underclassmen. Liberty has just three seniors on the squad, and 18 of the 28 players on the roster are either freshman or sophomores.
Delaware at a Glance The Blue Hens punched their ticket to the NCAA Field Hockey Championship with a 5-1 victory over Northeastern on Sunday in the Colonial Athletic Association Championship. Delaware will be making its fifth overall appearance in the NCAA Tournament, and first since 2009. The Blue Hens enter Wednesday's matchup with a 16-4 overall record and a No. 14 national ranking, according the latest 2013 Penn Monto/NFHCA Division I National Coaches Poll.
Delaware ranks first in the CAA in both scoring margin (2.00) and scoring average (3.39). Esmee Peet, the CAA Player and Rookie of the Year, has a double-digit goal total this season, finding the back of the cage finding the back of the cage 12 times, while also adding six helpers. First-team All-Conference honoree Michaela Patzner leads the Blue Hens' high-powered offensive attack with a league-best 40 points (16 goals, 8 assists). Meghan Winesett paces the squad and the CAA with nine assists.
Goalkeeper Sarah Scher guides a defense which leads the league in goals-allowed per game (1.40). Scher has a CAA-best six shutouts this season, while ranking second in the league in goals-against average (1.40). The second-team All-Conference member ranks third in the league in save percentage (.765).
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Day 151: Control Freak
I commit myself to expose myself to who I am within my fears where I try and control others to avoid the fear of facing the consequences of what I have accepted and allowed as I attempt to control the consequences of my past behaviors by controlling others.
I commit myself to erase the lies of who I've been as a control freak where in fear I try and control others as a defense mechanism to not look within to stop what I've accepted and allowed myself to become and to through writing and self-forgiveness see my way to/as self-honesty.
When and as I am having a conversation and sharing myself with another and I see that I am beginning to want to say something to them within the desire to try and control them, I stop, I breathe. I see, realize and understand that directing myself and others as myself in self-honesty, does not involve energetic movement or the want, need and/or desire to convince someone of something therefore, I commit myself to breathe and remain the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
I commit myself to stop reacting towards others within a 'shut the fuck up' attitude where within myself I become spiteful and thus project that onto others, thus, I commit myself to stop and breathe.
I commit myself to remain aware of my voice tonality because I see, realize and understand that when I'm seeking to control another, the tone in which I speak becomes higher or lower depending on whether I'm using a positive or negative approach to control.
I commit myself to stop judging myself for how I am walking my process because I see, realize and understand that I have been a control freak toward myself and thus have suppressed myself in my writings and self-forgiveness, thus I commit myself to forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself as my mind to attempt to control and suppress who I am and I commit myself to push through the resistance of/as control and to allow myself to let go and accept myself to be and express myself through to/as self-honesty.
I commit myself to breathe and stand within an understanding of the nature of who I am as a control freak and to no longer accept and allow myself to express myself in such a manner to/towards others because I see, realize and understand that seeking to control others is an outflow of fear and that when I act like a control freak I am giving permission for fear to manifest itself as who I become as it, thus, I commit myself to no longer accept and allow myself to be and become fear.
I commit myself to stop being a control freak wherein I try and control how other people act and think because I see, realize and understand that I must first walk the necessary changes of self in self-honesty in changing me from the inside out before I am able to be of any real assistance to/for anyone else.
I commit myself to stop living my life attempting to control others through trying to please/manipulate them in one way or another, and to instead realize that life is not about pleasing/manipulating others, it's about supporting all life according to what's best for all through and with the support of an Equal Money System.

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|Typical House in Kremenets
|Mount Bona and Mount Chercha
|A Section of Sheroka Street
|Aharonov (driver)
|Aharonov* (wife of driver)
|Argaman, Avraham
|Avidar, Noa
|Avidar, Yosef (see also Rokhel, Yosef)
|15, 17
|Avidar*, Yemima
|Bakimer, Bunim
|Bakimer, Sara
|Barats* (wife of Fayvel)
|11, 14
|Barats, Fayvel
|11, 14
|Barats, Yisrael, R'
|Barats, Yitschak (Itsik)
|Barshap, Avraham
|Barshap, Binyamin
|Barshap*, Heni
|Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer
|Ben-Yitschak, Eldar
|Bernshteyn, Riva
|Biberman, Avraham
|1, 2, 3
|Biberman, Malka
|Biberman, Yitschak
|1, 2
|Braytman, Chayim
|Brik, Avraham
|Brik, Berish-Beyle-Berkes
|Brik, Eliezer (Luzer, Luski)
|Brik, Rachel
|Brik*, Sara Shurtsa
|Burshteyn, Shaul
|Burshteyn, Yosef
|Charodi, Chayim
|Chasid* (wife of Zev)
|Chasid, Zev
|Chernotska, Chalina
|Cherpashnik, Shmuel (see also Romanovits)
|Dan (grandson of Eliezer Brik)
|Desser, Max
|Eydelman, Yitschak
|Feler, Dana
|Feler, Mike
|Feler*, Noa (née Avidar)
|Fisher, Susan
|Fishman, Yeshayahu
|2, 3
|Geva*, Rachel (née Brik)
|Golberg, Yehoshue
|i, 11, 16
|Goldenberg, Manus
|i, 13, 14
|Gorenshteyn, Azriel
|14, 16
|Hamburski, Henya
|Hamburski*, Mara
|Hamburski, Meir
|Hermashevski (not given)
|Karshun, Vitya
|Katsel, Meir (see also Katz)
|Katz, Marcos
|Katz, Meir (see also Katsel)
|Kerler, Heni (née Barshap)
|Kerler, Yosef
|Kogan, William
|i, 15
|Kohen*, Bela (née Zinger)
|Kohen, David
|Kopelvits, Yehuda
|Kornits*, Sara (née Bakimer)
|Kotitshiner, Itsi
|Kraulnik-Radzivilover (cantor)
|Krits*, Baba (née Rokhel)
|Krits, Binyamin
|Krits, Ohad
|Krits*, Penina
|Krits, Yosef
|Krivin, Dina
|Landsberg, Bozye
|Lavah (husband of Henya Hamburski)
|Litvak, Katya
|Litvak, Meir
|1, 14
|Litvak, Pesach
|1, 2
|Manger, Itsik
|Nadir, Rachel
|Netsits, Boaz
|Netsits*, Lili (née Vaynshteyn)
|Ot-Yakar, Mordekhay
|Pesis, Borya
|Pesis, Leyb
|Poltorek, Chana
|Poltorek, Shlome
|1, 2, 13, 14
|Poniatavski (Lyceum curator)
|Rapoport, David
|i, 13, 15
|Raykhman, Sima
|Raykhman, Yakov
|1, 3
|Reznik, Rachel
|Rokhel, Baba
|Rokhel, Chanokh
|1, 2, 6-9
|Rokhel, Moshe
|Rokhel, Sara
|Rokhel*, Shprintse
|Rokhel, Yitschak
|i, 1, 3, 6, 14, 15
|Rokhel, Yosef
|15, 17
|Romanovits, Shmuel (see also Cherpashnik)
|Royt, Hilda
|Rozen (architect)
|Shafir*, Chana (née Poltorek)
|14, 15
|Shafir, Yakov
|Shazar, (president of Israel)
|Shifris, Eliyahu (Eli)
|Shifris*, Guta
|Shifris, Yosef
|Shimon (teacher)
|Shkurnik* (wife of Gershon)
|Shkurnik, Gershon
|Shnayder*, Klara
|Shnayder, Moshe
|Shochet, Yisrael
|Shor, David
|Shor*, Malka (née Biberman)
|Shvartsapel, Avraham
|Shvartsapel*, Hilda (née Royt)
|Taytelman, Shmuel
|i, 12
|Trumpeldor, Yosef
|Tsizin, Yakov
|1, 2
|Tsukerman, David
|Tsur, Yakov
|Tsviya (grandmother of Yakov Shafir)
|Vakman*, Genya
|Vakman, Yitschak
|Valdenberg, Sonya
|Vaynberg, Aharon
|Vaynberg*, Helen
|Vaynberg*, Susan (née Fisher)
|Vaynberg, Yakov
|Vayner, Moshe
|Vaynshteyn, Lili
|Vaynshteyn*, Vitya (née Karshun)
|Vaynshteyn, Yitschak
|Zilberg, Anshil
|Zinger, Bela
|Zinger, Chayim
|Zinger*, Sonya (née Valdenberg)
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Mordekhay Katz (Buenos Aires)
We open our survey in 1926. At that time, there were already 60-70 people from Kremenets here (as mentioned in the Kremenets memorial book[1] published in Buenos Aires in 1965 by the Organization of Kremenets Emigrants). In the 1930s, when Jewish immigration from Poland increased due to anti-Semitism and serious economic crises, the number of Kremenetsers in Argentina reached around 300. That was also their number in 1937, when I arrived in Argentina. Most Kremenetsers were then in favor of Leftism, and only a few were active in the Zionist movement. From Kremenets, they had brought with them the belief for the Torah will go forth out of Moscow.[2] The current political and economic situation helped in that regard. Argentina's gates were shut then, and other than the 10 refugee families we were able to save in 1946 by bringing them in indirectly via Paraguay, additional Jews from Kremenets couldn't get here. At that time, the Organization of Kremenets Emigrants was strong and also included emigrants from Potshayev and Vyshgorodok. The organization developed a productive cultural program and was considered one of the best in Argentina. Since no new flow of immigrants has arrived since then, we can now move on and describe the current state of Kremenets emigrants.
The Kremenets landsmanschaft, which has already celebrated its 25th anniversary, includes 110 people from Kremenets. Apart from them are 15-20 additional families who don't belong to our organization. As mentioned, most emigrants from Kremenets arrived in Argentina in the 1930s, except for 60-70 who arrived earlier, and only a few are still here. Forty years have passed since then. From this, we know the average age of our townspeople in Argentina. It is obvious that those immigrants have branched out as families. About 90 percent have two, three, or four children, and some are also have grandchildren, may there be more of them.
Can we count the second or third generation as Kremenetsers? The question is a serious one, and it is difficult to answer. As long as they were young, they were attached to us. When they matured, they were swept up by the general wave and left us, the elders, by the riverbank. With this, we need to mention a common fact: the children received their education in Spanish, but when they started their own families, most sent their children to Jewish schools that used the Hebrew or Yiddish language. Furthermore, they are active in managing the schools and influencing their elderly parents to take part. People from our town are active in a number of important organizations: the Jewish National Fund, the Women's Zionist Organization, YIVO, the Bialik School, the Perets School, and others.
The first generation of Kremenetsers who immigrated here were mostly merchants and manufacturers. They didn't lack for money, and several also managed to become rich (may they enjoy it!). A certain percentage were craftsmen, and their economic situation was also quite good. But as in any group, a number of people were not successful in reaching an appropriate income level, and their economic situation was hard. Of course, our organization supported them.
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As for educational level, it is easy to understand why emigrants from our town couldn't go to school. Nor could those who had a certificate from the Jewish Primary School or a diploma from the High School of Commerce in Kremenets continue their education, since they had to work hard to earn a living. By the time they had established themselves, they were beyond school age. But they made sure that their children received a good education. Most received higher education, becoming doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants, and the like.
And here we return, willingly and unwillingly, to the question posed earlier: Do we see our children as children of Kremenets? Will they continue to remember Kremenets? To be truthful, we must mention the negative aspects of the younger generation's lifestyle: the reality of mixed marriages also struck our children, although a small percentage of them. The others are proud Jews; a number have immigrated to Israel, and others are planning to immigrate. Thanks to the establishment of the state of Israel, their national consciousness was raised, and young people who are not Zionists are also proud to be members of a glorious nation. But they are inclined to see only the victories and not the tragic side. The fact is that our youth don't take part in landsmanschaft life, where we continue to remember and mention the holocaust of Kremenets Jews. It's natural for them not to have the same strong feelings that we do, and they relate to it only out of awe. Therefore, we don't know if they'll continue with the memory of Kremenets.
To our sorrow, the cooperative bank founded by Kremenets emigrants to serve the needs of the townspeople did not fulfill its duty. This institution took the same slippery road that similar institutions have taken. The cooperative was named La Esperanza, meaning hope, but to our deep sorrow, we were disappointed in the hope we invested in it. It was a failed attempt, like the rest of the cooperatives owned by Argentina's Jews.
To end our short survey, I must mention that the Kremenets organization in Buenos Aires, in which around 90 percent of our fellow townspeople take part, today stands outside politics and fanaticism (except for a worthless few). In the organization's leadership, we don't favor the right or the left. It faces the Land of Israel and the people of Israel to unite our townspeople with those who live in other countries, mainly our brothers and sisters in the state of Israel, whom fate has left alive so they can keep the chain of the memory of Kremenets strong.
We pray for a true peace. May the cannons stop speaking and artistic inspiration speak again.
For the Torah will go forth from Zion, and the word of God from Jerusalem.
An article on this subject was published in booklet 6, but because of unfortunate errors that distorted the author's meaning, we reprint it here as it was originally written. Editorial Board
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From the Literary Legacy of Chanokh Rokhel (of Blessed Memory)
(This article was written by the deceased in 1950 for Pinkas Kremenets but was not published.)
A collection by immigrants from the town of Kremenets, written by the Jewish citizens of the state of Israel. Thirty years ago, there were 10,000 Jews in Kremenets. Non-Jews numbered 20,000. The town also exists now, but there are no Jews there. Ten years ago, they were all destroyed by the gentiles. The Jews wanted to live, and it is said that they showed resistance against the rioters, but they were annihilated. These pages are in their memory.
Who is going to read them? A small number who search the records and a few hundred elderly town natives. Young people won't read them; all their interest lies in the present. Therefore, the book is designated for the archives. Only those who honor the memory of their friends, comrades, and family members who are buried there will keep this book in their homes. Only a few are fit to initiate the collection.
Am I gripped with longing for my past there? No. Not even a speck of longing! From a mature conscience, with aspiration, with a light heart, and without even a glance back, I left and cut my connection with there. From the day I left, I didn't regret it for a moment. Does this qualify as ingratitude, like spitting in the well that I drank from? No. This was not my well. It was an inn or a prison. A man can't be grateful to an inn or a prison. From the time I came here, I did not utter my home or at home with regard to the town where I was born. I knew and felt that my home was here.
And so is everything that happened to you over there completely erased, as if the 20 years from the day you were born until you left didn't exist? No! Nothing was erased, and the prison wasn't forgotten. A man walks out of prison with life experience, and at times, he acquires knowledge and accumulates inspiration there, but not longing.
What did I take from there, and how did I receive what I took?
From there, I took a strong desire never to return, a firm resolve to build myself a different life from the one that I most likely would have had if I had stayed there, a loathing for the way of life that was forced on us, jealousy of the gentiles, a willingness to pay any price for the right to stand straight, and an unwillingness to face discrimination. Unjust justice. Distrust of gentiles, an independent Jewish state. Scorn to those who have lost their national identity.
I acquired all of these over there, and that determined my future.
I can't explain how I acquired all that. I only know that it wasn't from theory or by reading political essays, propaganda, or a combination of events that in the nature of things were not original.
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At around the age of seven, I was sent to cheder. I went there every day for two years. I can't remember the names of my friends from the cheder or the face of even one. Nor can I remember the rabbi's personality or looks. And what I do remember? The humiliation of our Torah, the Torah of Moses, burning humiliation, an insult that I'll never forget. Our cheder was on the other side of the Potik (the stream), and a brothel was located in the building next to the cheder. I remember the brothel owner, I remember the prostitutes, and I remember the dilapidated cheder. Next to our home, magnificent buildings stood surrounded by a grove and a blooming garden, and a Christian school and a seminary for priests occupied one of those buildings. Young people also studied the Torah there, the Torah of Jesus. Why did we have a cheder in such a place while they had such a seminary?! I was offended. I hated the seminary boys who boasted and teased us. This insult, this discrimination, this hatred became part of my being and accompanied me for many years. Already then, at the dawn of my life, I knew that we were in the Diaspora and that it wasn't good to live in the Diaspora, and zyd parszywy, zydowska morda and just zyd.[3]
They said it during an argument, out of drunkenness, and for no reason. I heard it, ground my teeth, and didn't answer most of the time. But I knew that I wouldn't be able to live like that or accept it. I was powerless and waited for the opportunity for revenge, and, meanwhile, a deep slice was carved out of a child's soul.
It was time for m to enter school, the School of Commerce. I passed the exams with better scores than all the Christians did. They were accepted immediately, but I wasn't. Why? I was a Jew. After my parents paid a few hundred rubles, I was accepted. I was a child, but I knew that. I understood that I was a foreigner, a visitor, an unwanted visitor. I started to think, and my pride was injured.
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I saw Jews traveling to America. I saw negotiations with smugglers, and I knew about the incidents of death during the escape, the thievery, and the young women who fell into the hands of pimps. Jews continued to endanger themselves and travel to America, I understood, far away from here.
The Beilis trial the blood libel I swallowed the newspaper, angry and scared. Even today, I remember the details of the trial, the prosecutor, the defense attorneys, the witness, the provocations, and the fear of pogroms. I was a child, but the matter was carved deep into my heart.
I read Bialik; the book is before my eyes. I read In the City of Slaughter once, twice, three times. The next day and the day after that. Terror overcame me each time I read it. I couldn't take my eyes off those cruel lines, as if I were chained to them. My anger was unrestrained. I despised us; I was angry at the whole world. Is it really Rise, to the desert flee Take thou thy soul, tear it to shreds! Deform your heart with impotent rage? Are we the way he describes, are we all like that, can we be reformed? The young blood in me did not accept it. I searched for consolation. [4]
After Bialik, I found a solution in Yakov Kohen's songbook.
Sharpen, sharpen, shape me
sharpen my sword
Leave my sword, rescue us!
and if I die, I will die for freedom
And next to this song is the Song of the Biryonim:
War! War for our land, war for freedom
And if freedom is dead long live revenge![5]
And my soul revived.
And Tshernichovski followed suit:
I will not extend my neck I will die in battle, not in persecution!
I am not a lamb to be led to the slaughter
The Jordan for you, Lebanon for you, the plain and the mountains
You will conquer the country aggressively, and you will hold onto it
You will build a strong foundation for the next generation, the generation that will follow you!
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And in Kremenets, I learned to hold a gun in my hand; the gun and bullets never left my bed. We left armed for night guard duty during the days of unrest. I said slicha, not pardon, to my Christian school friends when I stepped on their feet. They began calling me Slicha[6]. There was a Zionist organization in Kremenets that did routine work and served as a base for the first Pioneer group to immigrate to the Land.
The revolution erupted.
(The continuation of this article was not found in the estate of Chanokh, of blessed memory.)
(A topic of study at the school named after Ch. Weitzmann in Akko)
The students of the Weitzmann School in Akko whose principal, Mr. Zelts, came from Kremenets decided to memorialize Jewish communities that were destroyed by the Nazi oppressors. For that purpose, as one of the students wrote us, they chose our town, Kremenets, as the main topic of their conversations.
Below we offer a number of segments from poems written by the school's eighth-grade class.
The boy Amos Doron wrote:
On your ruins, Kremenets is crying out,
for the dying Jewish community.
On your walls, Kremenets, the walls of the narrow ghetto
in a bolted prison, the Jews were destroyed by an enemy and stranger.
In your homes, Kremenets, cracked homes leaning to fall,
a Jewish family lives there, without making a noise.
About your brave, Kremenets, Jews who stand tall
not like sheep led to the slaughter but like lions ready for battle.
About your bitter enemies, Kremenets, armed soldiers are spreading fear,
killers of women and children, known for their cruelty.
About your dead, Kremenets, the victims of cruelty and holocaust
who with their death sanctify the hearts of the nation.
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And the girl Aviva Yosipovits, wrote, among others:
Night, darkness, and gloom prevail all over,
a fearful night, and the screaming from the realm of the dead.
There is not even one star in the dark sky,
not even a shred of hope in the sighs of the screaming.
The desperate screams of beaten babies and old people
who are taken with rudeness and cruelty to long pits.
To the death trains which take them to their known destination,
to the extermination camps, to the forests, and to a certain death.
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Y. Rokhel
In Voice of Kremenets Emigrants, booklet 7, published in December 1970, we told our members the following:
The RYBL Library of Enlightenment literature is developing and expanding. Books from the Enlightenment era are accumulating, and their number has reached above the 1,000 mark. A special librarian tends the library once a week, and with her help, a catalog classifying the books was prepared and printed. Still, we are not satisfied with this project. The potential reader who needs such a research library the teacher, the student of Hebrew literature or Jewish history, etc. has not found the way to the RYBL Library. In the upcoming 1970/71 season, we plan on talking with schools of higher learning and, with the help of the catalog, explaining the material we have to offer them. The library room, as you know, is also used as a club for Kremenetsers in the Land: for board meetings, for receptions for out-of-town visitors, and as a gathering place for all sorts of events.
The Research Institute for Hebrew Literature at Tel Aviv University has existed for two years. After negotiations with the university's directors, we agreed to transfer our library to that institution as an individual unit. We insisted, and the university's representatives agreed, that our books will not be part of the larger library and will not be swallowed by it. A special room named after RYBL will be provided, and the plaque will read, Library for Enlightenment Literature A Memorial to the Martyrs of Kremenets Vohlin, Established by the Town's Residents in Israel and the Diaspora for short, RYBL Library. Photos of our town's landscape, a picture of RYBL, and a picture of his home will hang on the walls.
It was explained to us that the library can't be used as a meeting place for Kremenetsers. Also, Vohlin Hall will not be appropriate for that purpose because of its geographical distance and because of the financial constraints that its directors wanted to impose on us.
Therefore, the Kibbutzim College administration agreed that we could use the room provided to us as our cultural hall, but only after proper renovations and if the atmosphere of Jewish Kremenets is preserved. Therefore, the memorial project for the martyrs of Kremenets will take place in two locations: the RYBL Library at Tel Aviv University (the books have already been transferred to the university). The annual memorial service for the martyrs of Kremenets will take place at the Kibbutzim College, as we have done until now.
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In the next few days, we will sign an official agreement with the university under these conditions: the library will be managed by a committee that will develop and expand it. Also, scholarships or prizes will be given to researchers of Enlightenment literature.
All the board members, including our members in Haifa, approved the decision to transfer the library. In addition to the board members, our member Pesach Litev took an active part in the wording of the contract and the negotiations with the university and the college.
We should mention that different opinions were expressed during these long negotiations. A few members were excited about the connection to Vohlin Hall, but once they found out the great difficulties involved, they retreated from their position. As for polling our members on the fate of the library, there was no unified opinion among them; it was mostly our members in Haifa who demanded that we do so before transferring the library to the university.
In summary, we can say that we believe that the cooperation with the university is a step up and that it is an honor to our organization to have created such a cultural project to memorialize our community and to have delivered it into reliable hands.
Yehoshue Golberg
I correspond often with Aleksandra Teresova, who now lives in the city of Dzherzhonyuv[7], working as a secretary in the municipal building. In her letter of October 1, 1971, she also wrote,
I will gladly come for a visit, and there aren't any obstacles on my side. I only need to receive a tourist invitation from you and the cost of a round-trip ticket because I don't have the means to pay for my trip. I am very sorry that I can't help pay a portion of the expenses#133; I assume that there are a few people from Kremenets in Israel like you, who can still speak Polish, and that I won't have any difficulty talking to them#133; Thank you for your letters, and I send my regards through you to all the people from Kremenets.
Kremenetsers in Israel remember Teresova's humanitarian efforts, in which she endangered herself in order to save Jews from the Nazis' claws. They are very excited about the prospect of her visit, especially those who owe their lives to her.
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The board decided to pay for her round-trip ticket, partly with the organization's funds and partly with member donations. A few members approached us and expressed their willingness to take part, and the list is still open. During her visit to the Land, Teresova will stay at the homes of members who expressed a wish to host her: the Katsman-Teper family in Ramat Gan, the Kagan-Kagarlitski family in Tel Aviv, Yehoshue Golberg, and a number of members from Haifa.
The committee has contacted Yad Vashem's Department of the Righteous among the Nations about awarding the honor to Teresova. The abovementioned department will contact the survivors directly to receive complete testimony from them on the matter of their rescue. In addition, the committee is negotiating with a travel agency that is willing to handle her trip. We are now waiting to hear the exact date of departure from Teresova.
Rachel Nadir
On August 14, 1971, as we have done every year since the destruction of our community, we met in the Kibbutzim College plaza to pay tribute to our loved ones.
In the past few years, some doubt that these memorial services would continue in the future has crept into our hearts. It looks like interest is dying. The number of people who come to the memorial service is decreasing, so who knows, maybe the day will come and
It is true that our daily existence requires all of our attention, but that does not excuse us from attending these memorials as a group. It's good that there are people among us who do not give up, and this year the memorial service proved that there is something that unites us all.
Around 300 people came to the service, including guests from abroad. This was the first time they had attended a memorial service for our loved ones and their first meeting with people whom they had not seen in many years.
Memories from our parents' homes emerged from the depth of our souls and brought painful and burning memories of what the oppressors did to us. It seemed as if they had disappeared from a distance of time and place, and we only need to continue to be together and welcome those who came from afar.
Also, remarks from the stage by Mordekhay Ot-Yakar, Manus, and Rapoport and by guests Yosef Kerler and Zev Shnayder added to the special atmosphere.
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Manus Goldenberg introduced the guests, and they were warmly welcomed: journalist and author David Rapoport, secretary of our society in New York, who now lives in the Land and is an active member of the Voice of Kremenets Emigrants Editorial Board, and Zev Shnayder, an active member of our organization in Detroit and the initiator of the creation of the library named after RYBL. He is an enthusiastic follower of RYBL and researcher of the Enlightenment movement. Also attending were family members of Yosef Kerler (winner of the Itsik Menger prize), who was among the authors sentenced to death in Soviet Russia. Miraculously, he survived, and a few months ago, he arrived here with his wife and son. His wife, Anya, is from the Barshap family, who lived in the Dubna[8] suburb. Pesach Gorenshteyn visited from France with his wife and their two sons; Avraham Barshap, a Kremenetser and uncle of the late Avraham Barshap, came from Los Angeles; Vladimir Landsberg and his wife came to settle here from Italy. His wife and Mrs. Teresova hid him in their home along with a group of other Jews during the Nazi period.
Manus Goldenberg mourned our townspeople who had died during the year. His words were full of emotion and personal respect for each one of them. The event left an impression on each one of us, and the evening will not be quickly forgotten.
During a short conversation with the people from abroad, I grasped that it would be difficult for them to leave us and the Land. Maybe, who knows? That will be a reason for them to settle here.
The memorial was directed with great success by Mordekhay Ot-Yakar and served as an expression of the intercountry unity of emigrants from our town.
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Avraham Rokhel,
A Brother
He was a resident of Haifa for many years and came to Jerusalem with his family for the Sukkot holiday. While there, he had a heart attack and two weeks later, during the intermediate days of the Sukkot 5732, he died in Shaare Tsedek Hospital. According to his wishes, he was buried in his family's plot on the Mount of Olives. He was 74 years old and left a wife in Haifa as well as a married daughter and her family in the United States.
Avraham Rokhel was born in Kremenets on 18 Cheshvan 5658 to Yehoshue and Shprintse Rokhel. He studied in the cheder and later at the Jewish Primary School under Principal Goldfarb. His studies were supplemented by tutors at home, as was customary in this family. He was a mischievous, joyful child known for his pranks, and he excelled in handicrafts. In the winter, he provided his brothers, cousins, and friends with handmade sleighs. He was educated in a Zionist atmosphere, and Hebrew was his mother tongue. It was clear that one day, after he completed his high school education, he would immigrate to the Land of Israel with his brothers and sisters. He was the first member of his family to immigrate while he was still in his youth. His brothers and sisters immigrated after him, and his parents followed last.
His parents could not accept the reality that he would have to desecrate the Sabbath by studying at the High School of Commerce. At the same time, teens from Kremenets had already attended the Hertseliya High School in Jaffa (Yitschak Eydelman, Chayim Katz) and the agricultural school in Petach Tikva (Velvel Chasid). After some deliberation, it was decided that he would be sent to study in Petach Tikva to pave the way for an agricultural settlement for the whole family. In 1913, at the age of 15, Avraham immigrated to Israel and was accepted at the agricultural school in Petach Tikva. His family wasn't able to keep in touch with him during the war, but the residents of Petach Tikva took care of the students. He became integrated into the community and in time married a girl from there. His two older brothers, who immigrated in 1921, naturally settled in Petach Tikva and joined the workforce. After he graduated from the agricultural school, he volunteered for the British army's Jewish Brigade and participated in capturing the Land from the Turks. He was promoted to the rank of corporal and also instructed others in operating a machine gun.
After his release from the army, he worked as an agricultural laborer in various settlements and went to the Galilee. In Yesud HaMa'ala, he contracted a severe case of malaria (yellow fever) that lingered for many years.
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After that, he settled in Petach Tikva and joined the construction group that built the Yemenite settlement of Machane Yehuda. He excelled there as a wagon driver and took care of the settlement's mules. When the Biberman brothers established the Bazelet construction group in Tiberias, he joined the group, along with a number of Kremenetsers. Meanwhile, he came down with a severe case of malaria and, obeying his doctors' orders, he left the Land for a short time. At the end of 1924, he traveled back to Kremenets, and he returned to Israel in 1935. During his 10 years abroad, he worked as a teacher at the Tarbut School in Rovne[9]. Many of his students found their way to Israel. In our days, we call it a mission, but at that time, he saw himself as a simple teacher who was forced to spend some time overseas. He did his best to prepare his students for their immigration to Israel.
On his way to the Land, he spent a long period of time in Italy purchasing weapons for the Haganah while keeping in touch with Eliyahu Golomb[10]. This profession was not foreign to him, since he had engaged in purchasing during his service in the British army. During World War II, he served as a liaison between the military command of the Haganah in the north and the Jewish units in the British army who camped in the area. Thanks to his familiarity with weapons, mostly the Lewis gun, he tested weapons and weapon parts for Israel Military Industries in the testing area near Masada.
When he arrived in the Land for the second time, he worked as a branch manager for the Workers' Health Fund in Petach Tikva, and after that, he was the administrator of Beilinson Hospital. Sometime later, he moved to Haifa and worked first at the Workers' Health Fund and later as deputy district manager of the tax office. There he had the opportunity to use his knowledge of construction, and using his management skills as well, he began the construction of the Workers' Health Fund housing complex. He also successfully constructed a building for the local tax office that served its function well.
Avraham was loved by his co-workers and was very popular by the clients of the institutions he served. Thanks to his knowledge of the Arabic language and mentality, he found a common language with the Federation's[11] Arab members in the Haifa region. For many years, he was an active member of the Haganah and, as a member of the Consumer Protection Agency in Haifa, invested a lot of energy in developing the consumer cooperative. He was a dedicated family member and took care of the upbringing of his two grandsons, who received their education in one of the Youth Guard kibbutzim near Haifa. He was sociable, and his wisdom and good nature attracted many friends to his home, who enjoyed his company. A large delegation from Haifa came to his funeral in Jerusalem, and hundreds of people came to the memorial service 30 days after his death at the Pevzner House. He was eulogized by a representative of the Workers' Health Fund, a representative of the tax office, a representative of the Consumer Protection Agency, and also by his brother, Yosef Avidar, who talked mainly about his contribution to the Haganah in the Land and abroad.
With his death, the human landscape of the Federation in Haifa lost one of his best members. His extended family lost a good husband, a loyal father, and a loving and admired brother.
May his memory be blessed.
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Y. Rokhel
In a festive ceremony a few days ago, our member Avraham Abir (Biberman) was awarded the Pepperman Prize for the Builders of a New Jerusalem by the Builders' Union in Jerusalem and the Pepperman Foundation. The prize was awarded to him for his many years of work in building monumental buildings (the Jewish Agency building, the King David Hotel, and more) and hundreds of residential buildings, and for establishing the Builders' Union with the late Pepperman. Participating in the ceremony and speaking in his honor were Teddy Kollek, mayor of Jerusalem, and his deputy, Gedish; David Ayalon, secretary of the Workers' Council of Jerusalem; Knesset member Moshe Barem; and others.
As we know, Avraham Biberman belonged to the first group of pioneers who immigrated from Kremenets at the beginning of 1921 (see the article on this subject in booklet 8). Most of them joined the Labor Battalion's Railroad-Track-Building Platoon in Petach Tikva. He was one of the founders of the Bazelet builders' group in Tiberias, and later, he built barracks for the British army. After he moved to Jerusalem, he was accepted as foreman of the Jewish Agency buildings, and he worked for many years as a building contractor. With the establishment of the state, he was appointed administrator of the building department in the Ministry of Trade and Industry. He enlisted in the army during the War of Independence and worked in his profession in the rank of a major. A. B. is a member of the Freemasons and takes an active role in a variety of aid societies. He donated the monetary prize awarded to him to the Institute for the Blind, after rounding up the amount with his own contribution.
We wish our veteran member Avraham Biberman good health and many years of happiness.
The wedding of Arye Tsizin, son of our member Yehoshue Tsizin, of Moshav Meliah in the Atenakh region, was celebrated at Laurence Hall in the Soldiers' Support Organization building in Tel Aviv. Arye is serving in the Israel Border Police. His commanding officers and friends from the Border Police, including a large number of Druze, family friends, Kremenets emigrants, and others, came to honor him at the party. Also present were all the members of the board, who brought the parents and the young couple the Kremenets organization's blessing.
The Editorial Board joins in those greetings, wishing the young couple a happy life and wishing the parents, Yehoshue and Miryam Tsizin, joy in their offspring.
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A year after the passing of Chanokh Rokhel, of blessed memory, family members and a large number of kibbutz members visited his grave in Kibbutz Tel Yosef. In the evening, they gathered at his widow Rachel's apartment, read segments of his writings (see his article in this booklet), and listened to a recorded interview from a 1967 Hebrew University research project. Those assembled heard the voice of the deceased telling memories from his days in the Labor Battalion and about his misgivings (Chanokh was among the founders and leaders of the battalion). At the end, they watched a short film from a 1965 reception given for Chanokh in Moscow at the apartment of his cousin, the Hebrew writer Tsvi Preigerzon (known by the pen name A. Tsefroni; he wrote the book Eternal Flame, published in 1966 by Am Oved). Besides Chanokh, participating in the reception were his sister, Malka; the Preigerzon family; the author Yosef Kerler (now in the Land), and other personalities.
(The short film was brought by Preigerzon's son, who came to the Land a few months ago with his mother and was accepted for a job as a mining engineer in Oron.)
It was an evening full of experiences, and the multicolored image of the deceased appeared in the presence of those who remembered him.
Follow-up to the Transfer of the RYBL Library two short news items: (a) At this time, our member Avraham Argaman, along with someone from the Kibbutzim College, is planning to change the appearance of our room at the college. The location of the pictures on the wall will be changed, some will be taken down, and others will replace them. The same will be done with the furniture. The purpose of the change is to preserve and augment the atmosphere of Jewish Kremenets. (b) The following members will represent the organization on the RYBL Library Parity Committee at Tel Aviv University: (1) Yitschak Rokhel, (2) Avraham Argaman, and (3) Pesach Litev (see a separate article about this subject elsewhere in this booklet).
A Kremenetser crossword puzzle writer. We are not bragging when we say that Kremenets emigrants in the Land represent a wide variety of occupations and talents. Among them, you'll find military commanders, managers, artists, journalists, farmers, public figures, trained craftsmen, factory owners, clerks, government workers, merchants, doctors, engineers, teachers, school principals, building contractors, and many more, as well as energetic retirees.
Now we have discovered that in this distinguished community there is also a crossword puzzle writer, our friend Zev Kligman, of Jerusalem. He has engaged in this work as a hobby for almost 20 years and publishes his crossword puzzles in Davar Hashevua, in the M. P. Jerusalem journals, and many other places. He does this modestly, and we did not know about it. The secret was discovered when he offered to write a Kremenets crossword puzzle for our booklet. We are considering his offer, and we will give you the results in the next booklet. We send him our best wishes for success in this distinctive hobby.
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Appeal from Nachman Desser, United States, to Kremenets emigrants in Israel: Where is Tova (Teyvke) Bat? She worked in Yorel Desser's (Nachman's brother's) factory in Kremenets, immigrated to Israel in the late 1920s or early 1930s, and since then, there has been no news from her. Nachman Desser is asking our townspeople in the Land who know where she is to let him know through the board of the Organization of Kremenets Emigrants in Israel, and he expresses his thanks in advance.
To Yosef and Yemima Avidar, Jerusalem, on the birth of their sixth grandchild, Natan, son of Dana and David (Dodo) Zota, Jerusalem.
To Bronya Shteynberg-Biberman and her husband, Yosef, Tel Aviv, on the birth of their fourth granddaughter, Dana, daughter of Ilana and Yitschak Levnet, Kiron, and the birth of their fifth granddaughter Galya, daughter of Bilhah and Tsvi Karmon, Tel Aviv.
To Yitschak and Riva Biberman, Tel Aviv, on the birth of their fifth grandson, Oded, son of Shimon and Sara Reviv (Biberman), Haifa.
To Fayvel and Alina Rayzman, Kiryat Chayim, on the marriage of their daughter, Bela, to her fiancé, Tovya Gros, Haifa.
To Yehoshue and Miryam Tsizin of Moshav Meliah in Atenakh, on the marriage of their son, Arye, to his fiancée, Fanya.
To Gita and Yosef Shifris, Tel Aviv, on the marriage of their daughter, Bela, to her fiancée, Emanuel.
To our fellow townspeople Genya and Yitschak Vakman on the marriage of their grandson.
After the booklet was finished and sent to the printer, we learned that Rabbi Kresik of New York, son-in-law of Genya and Yitschak Vakman, and his wife celebrated the marriage of their son. Rabbi Soloveitchik performed the marriage ceremony. Rabbi Kresik is the president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. He was a student of Rabbi Soloveitchik, and his son is also a young yeshiva student.
We wish the two generations of in-laws and the young couple, Linda and Matityahu Eliezer, great joy and hearty congratulations.
May they all be blessed, and may happy occasions increase in our community!
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By Barnetta McGhee White, PhD
Genealogical research on slave ancestors is made difficult by the prevailing pre-1865 practice of using only the given names of slaves when speaking or writing about them. These names, occasionally accompanied by their ages, were written in the wills and estate inventories of the slaveholder. Considered personal property, they were enumerated in all census records, and in 1850 and 1860 special slave schedules were constructed for their nameless enumeration. From the middle of the 18th century until the early 1800s, the given names of slaves were written on some of the tax lists of the slaveholders, but this was not done for all tax lists, nor by all enumerators. By the early 19th century this random, hit-or-miss practice was generally discontinued. For the slave holding record keepers, slaves became numbers, and combined with counting the acres of land owned, determined the amount of taxes to be paid.
This does not mean that by the beginning of the nineteenth century most slaves had not adopted or acquired surnames for themselves. Stripped of their own names when they were brought unwillingly to this continent, forced to respond to the names their masters gave them, any surnames they adopted for themselves, for the most part, went unacknowledged.
The reconstruction of many African American family groups can be done by abstracting and analyzing the names of slaves that appear in pre-1865 county deed books. In many cases their movements within the county can be traced and, in some instances, their transport to another county or outside the state can be ascertained. In some instances, migration from Virginia of slaves and slaveholders, whether separately or together, can be tracked. There is a wealth of African American genealogical information to be found in deed books if one knows the names of the slaveholders. Bills of sale, deeds of conveyances, deeds of gifts, and deeds in (of) trust - - all include transactions that often refer to slaves by their given names and are among the few primary resources available for research.
The early deed books reveal when and how Granville County was settled, keeping in mind that parts of it became Orange in 1752, Warren and Franklin in 1764, then Vance in 1881. The date of 1746 was the earliest recorded deed with many of the early ones identified as land grants, most of them from the Right Honorable John Earl Granville Viscount Cateret and Baron Cateret in the county of Bedford in the Kingdom of Great Britain. It appears that many of the early deed books have been copied over and over again. There are missing and torn pages in some books, and all of the early ones contain overlapping years. Most significantly for the purpose of these abstractions, the names of slaves are missing from the very early documents and books. There are many bills of sale and deeds of gifts among the papers of these early settlers, but even their deeds in trust are written for land, livestock and household property but seldom do the names of slaves appear. Certainly many of these early settlers held slaves. The absence of slave names within these early books would lead one to conclude that their names might have been intentionally omitted during one or more copying of the material and/or many transactions were never recorded.
The abstractions I have done from the deed books of Granville County, North Carolina are now complete. Volume II covers the years 1746-1828 contained in books A through Z (there is no "U" book), along with books 1, 2, and 3. Previously published Enslaved Ancestors Abstracted From Deed Books, Granville County North Carolina, Volume I, contained those deeds written or recorded in 1828 through 1864 taken from deed books #4 through #21.
All of the extant deed books for Granville County from its formation as a county in 1746 up through 1864, have been examined in their original form, in the Granville County courthouse, for these publications. In 1961, the NC State Archives filmed all of the books and it was from this microfilm that the first reading of the deed books was done. Because of the poor condition of some of the books, the fading of some of the film with the pages only faintly revealing ancient script with the addition of sometimes nonexistent page numbering, it was necessary to consult the original books.
There are indexes of grantors in roughly one half of the books either at the beginning of the book or at the end of the recorded deeds. Some have no index at all. Even when an index is provided in a particular book, seldom are the names of the grantor/grantees written in the index when only the transfer of slaves is involved. Occasionally, slave traders or those engaged in that business as an occupation can be identified.
The format I chose to use alphabetizes and places the slaveholders' surnames first, because African American genealogy starts with the name of the slaveholder without which an isolated list of slave names is useless. The names, ages and relationships of the slaves to each other (usually a mother and her children, sometimes husband and/or wife) are always noted if the deed contained that information. If others, such as the grantee, were related to the slaveholder, I made that fact known also.
I made no attempt to abstract any deed or other transaction unless it named at least one slave. I also made no attempt to correct the spelling of either slave or slaveholders' names. Much of the early spelling was done phonetically with different scribes spelling the same name differently, sometimes in the same document. As usual with this type of research, it is advisable to look for variations in the spelling of names when looking for a particular person.
In each case, the year at the end of the abstract itself refers to the date of the transaction, the page is that which is numbered in the deed book, and other abbreviations are as follows.BOS bill of sale
DIT deed in trust or deed of trust
DOG deed of gift
The deed in (of) trust is an often misunderstood document. A first reading makes one think that the property named therein is transferred immediately from the grantor to the grantee. This was seldom the case. The named property was used as collateral to secure a loan, a debt, or a financial obligation of some sort. The collateral was lost (sold) only if the loan was not repaid. The collateral and the debt were both precisely spelled out such as "this land (description) is to be used to repay John Doe the $1,000 I owe him, if I don't repay him by December next; [or] these slaves (names and description) are to be used to pay Joe Doe the $2,500 I owe him if not repaid by March next". The named trustee (grantee) was restricted in that the identified collateral could be used only for the stated purposes and for no other debts the grantor may have had at the time. In all cases, the property remained in possession of the grantor unless (until) a sale became necessary.
I do hope this work is useful to you and that those of you out there doing research in other North Carolina counties, and in other states as well, will be willing to methodically abstract mention of slaves from other deed books and will share your information with the general public. The slaves and slaveholders named here are recorded in the deeds of only one North Carolina county. Can you imagine how many more are named in other NC counties? In other southern states? These records show what can be done, what should be done, in an effort to pull aside the curtain on pre-1865 America. This goes a long way toward helping African Americans identify the last slaveholder of their ancestors.
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Everyone in the PHP community (as is probably true all around the web) is buzzing about the new offering from Google - the Google Code Search. In the PHP community, the ones talking about it so far include:
- Chris Shiflett's look at the security aspect of the search
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- Pierre-Alain Joye's searches for macros and the term "virtual_file_ex"
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- Martin Brotzeller's comments on the new tool
Check out this handy tool and see what you think. Does it provide too much access to code that needs to stay out of hacker's hands? Or does it promote the "open" in open source better than most of the tools out there?


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The Barry Levinson-directed new HBO biopic, You Don't Know Jack, about Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the infamous pathologist who administered lethal injections to 130 willing and terminally ill patients, was shot on site at Queens' most famous Hollywood diner.
Al Pacino, who plays Dr. Kevorkian, was at the diner and gave a couple of lucky onlookers autographs and handshakes.
Although having Pacino at the diner was exciting, the diner's co-owner, Nick Diamantis, said it is nothing new for the diner, which was built in 1935 and renovated in 1965.
The Clinton Diner has been featured in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, starring Robert De Niro in 1990. Philip Seymour Hoffman was there on set in February, and just last week a film called the Gonzo Files with Zoë Kravitz was shot there.
Diamantis, who is an aspiring actor himself, claims to have been in Law and Order, Salt (with Angelina Jolie), and a couple of episodes of Gossip Girl.
He said having films shoot on location at his diner has become almost routine.
"We're proud, especially to have Pacino here," Diamantis said, "but it's part of business."
Although it's all business for this diner frozen in time, for locals being in films come with other perks besides just getting paid and 15-seconds of fame.
"I'm happy because it's used in films. One day this diner may not be here," Diamantis said. "But it will always be here in film."
"The Clinton Diner is the real deal and has not been significantly changed since the 60's," said Julian Ruhe, the Location Scout/Assistant for the biopic. "It is like stepping back in time. It's a place that most scouts know about and keep in the back of their mind for a shoot like this."
For this particular shoot, which is set in the 1980's, the diner and Maspeth's industrial area is exactly what the producers needed to make the scene work.
Although the scene was set in Detroit and they changed the name of the diner to Motor Drive, and Maspeth and Rust Streets were changed to Lockhardt Street and Pontiac Terrace, respectively, the diner with its red-vinyl booths was the exact look the film's producers were looking for.
"We were trying to find a classic diner that could be anywhere in the country," Ruhe said. "Clinton Diner is the classic American diner and it is very spacious, which is an important part of any filming location."
The location of a scene can only do so much, however. Talent and writing also play a large role.
Tina Vanessa Smith, a 48-year-old who has been acting since she was five and was a waitress in the diner scene, said the scene filmed at the diner actually carries cinematic weight.
"It's a powerful scene because he's [Pacino] Dr. Kevorkian. It's controversial dialogue. He's saying people should die any way they choose, especially painlessly," Smith said.
Adam Mazer, the movie's writer, said that everything went as he envisioned. After the shoot Mazer said, "Pacino is really owning his role."
It also turned out to be a particularly good day for the fans.
Frank Tantillo, from Middle Village, who has a hobby, or obsession, of waiting for celebrities at the morning shows in Manhattan five days a week, got two autographs on pictures of Pacino from The Godfather and Scarface movies.
He said he has collected 4,000 pictures with celebrities and just as many autographs. After he got Pacino's autographs, Tantillo had a magic glow about his face only celebrities give people. He was smiling and dripping with sweat from the hot day.
"He's a terrific actor," Tantillo said, "but I've been here waiting for two hours in the hot sun."
Another fan who was able to stop Pacino on his way to his car, was 60-year-old José Camacho, who works at the car repair center across the street from the diner.
"Pacino, I'm from the Bronx too!" Camacho yelled to the star. Pacino, who was born in the Bronx, stopped and shook José's hand and gave him an autograph on a piece of paper that read: "To Joe from the Bronx."
Huffing from running across the street to talk to the actor and smiling with satisfaction, Camacho said, "he looked like he was pleased to see someone from the Bronx, someone from his own neighborhood, it made my day."


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Investors are confident U.S. equity markets will maintain their upward momentum this year, but a majority plan to diversify their portfolios and improve financial performance by investing in metals, currencies, foreign equities and other alternative global investments, EverBank reported Monday.
EverBank's new survey of 300 individual investors found than 52% were looking outside traditional U.S. equities for performance in 2013.
Of these, 21% were eying investment opportunities in precious metals and another 21% international equities. Seven percent expected currencies to offer the best upside this year, and 3% liked international fixed income.
Fully two-thirds of the survey respondents, interviewed between Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at The World MoneyShow Orlando, said they believed international investment positions had become more important in their portfolios than they had been five years ago.
"We're seeing increased demand in products that give investors exposure to those diverse asset classes, but we believe that many investors can do more to diversify," Frank Trotter, president of EverBank Direct, said in a statement.
"The reality is diversification is not as difficult or complex as many people believe, and we're seeing a growing awareness of the importance of building investment portfolios that include traditional U.S. equities, traditional fixed-income assets and a wide range of more nontraditional investment vehicles."
EverBank said that with record-low interest rates holding steady, investors must decide how to manage their portfolios. Asked to identify the strategy they would most likely pursue during this low rate environment, respondents gave these answers:
- 31% said they would pursue new ways to add value to the cash positions in their portfolio
- 27% said they would seek out international investment opportunities
- 26% would look into real estate opportunities
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The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia has condemned as un-Islamic trading in camera-equipped mobile phones which can take "illicit" pictures, Al-Madinah newspaper reported Wednesday. Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh said such phones "could be exploited to photograph and spread vice in the community."
The denunciation came amid reports that there is no judicial law in Saudi Arabia that bars the use of or trading in such phones. Local newspapers quoted an Interior Ministry official as saying that police are more concerned about how camera-equipped mobile phones are being used than whether someone owns it or not.
He said restrictions on such phones at private functions such as those held in exhibition halls are the responsibility of the organizers of such events.
Camera-equipped mobile phones are apparently widely used in the Kingdom and are often the center of controversy. Two Saudi women were badly beaten by other female guests at a wedding party earlier this month when they were seen using a mobile phone to photograph the segregated celebration. (menareport.com)
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Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Krekorian apologized Tuesday for an incident involving a fake letter on his "Ask Paul" Patch column.
"Unfortunately, a member of my staff chose to write the question part of the column himself, based on what he believed was of interest to the public," Krekorian wrote in a letter to the editor sent to the Daily News.
"This clearly was an error in judgment and should not have happened. I regret and take responsibility for my office's error, and we have taken steps to ensure that nothing like this will occur again."
Krekorian also said Tuesday he was unaware that the question over digital billboards -- which came from "Tracy from Studio City" -- was fake.
The controversy started when Krekorian's communications chief Jeremy Oberstein acknowledged he crafted the Tracy letter based what he described as an aggregate of local opinions.
The column allowed Krekorian to address digital billboards, a hot button issue at City Hall, and defend himself against a negative Los Angeles Times editorial that criticized the councilman over his work with the billboard companies.
On Tuesday, Krekorian said the "error was not made maliciously or with any intent to mislead anyone. To the contrary, my staff and I work hard every day to inform the public with accurate and useful information about city government."
Following the incident, past "Ask Paul" columns were investigated by Patch editors.
The entire column is now being moved to the blog section of the Patch site, said Joe Wiggins, New York-based spokesman for the company.
The move essentially means Patch editors' are no longer responsible for the content.
"Patch found no other violations in the councilman's column since it started nine months ago," Wiggins wrote. "Still, we have decided that 'Ask Paul' will no longer be a column on Studio City Patch. It will be posted as a blog, with the councilman and his staff solely responsible for the veracity of its content."
Normally, a fake letter to a politician's column might not cause an uproar, but the query concerned digital billboards, an issue that frequently inflames some communities.
One anti-billboard group pounced on news of the fabrication over the weekend. Concerned Angelenos Promoting Progress, which has criticized Krekorian's stance on billboards, gleefully announced news of the fake letter, and included a link to instructions on how to recall a city official in their email blast.
But the group added a recall is not recommended, given that it is a "costly and time-consuming" process.
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- David Bradley is ready to use the National Journal to take on Politico, which he thinks is just sensationalist crap. That's what he says, essentially, when you strip out all the politesse: the Politico is just sensationalist crap.
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User's Guide to Sunday, July 29.
Sunday, July 29, is the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, Cycle II).
2 Kings 4:42-44, Psalm 145:10-11, 15-18, Ephesians 4:1-6, John 6:1-15
Our Take
On Friday, July 27, the world will watch as rows of nations march into a London stadium under the rings of unity holding the flags of their nations.
On Sunday, July 29, Catholics worldwide will watch the opening procession at Mass.
Which of these is a deeper spectacle of worldwide dedication to friendship, peace and harmony?
A very real case could be made for the Olympics. After all, at the Olympics, the whole world sets aside its differences to compete in a friendly way.
Sports ennoble us. As Pope John Paul II put it: The best sports competitions "protect the weak and exclude no one"; they "free young people from the snares of apathy and indifference and arouse a healthy sense of competition in them." Sport "trains body and spirit for perseverance, effort, courage, balance, sacrifice, honesty, friendship and collaboration."
The Olympics are the best of sporting competitions, a chance for the world to show that we all acknowledge our common humanity.
Mass is very different: We go to Mass whether we feel close to each other or not. We come to Mass because we feel close to the Church. But while the Church is international and dedicated to peace and harmony, it can look like a failed project to us.
Pope Benedict XVI addressed the deep disappointment many people have in the Church when he spoke in Germany last September — ironically, in the Olympic stadium in Berlin.
He spoke of the "sad experience" many people have with the Church and its "good and bad fish, wheat and weeds."
"Dissatisfaction and discontent begin to spread when people's superficial and mistaken notions of 'Church,' their 'dream Church,' fail to materialize," he said. "Then we no longer hear the glad song, 'Thanks be to God, who in his grace has called me into his Church' that generations of Catholics have sung with conviction."
The answer to that dissatisfaction can be found in today's Gospel.
The crowds who gathered around Jesus on the mountaintop didn't do so because they liked each other or because they were impressed with the apostles. They gathered because Christ was there.
And when they were hungry, they didn't find themselves fed by the apostles or by each other. They were fed by Christ, who multiplied the loaves.
As Pope Benedict put it, Jesus does not say: "You are the vine" to us. He says, "I am the vine; you are the branches." Christ says, "Inasmuch as you belong to me, you also belong to one another."
What happens on the mountainside in today's reading — where so many people gather that 200 days' wages won't feed them — happens every Sunday.
Christ sits, and we come to be with him. We don't gather to make a statement about peace and harmony. We don't even gather because we like each other, necessarily. We gather because we know Christ is here.
"Christ himself came into this world through his incarnation to be our root," said Pope Benedict. "He takes upon himself all our sins, anxieties and sufferings, and he purifies and transforms us in a way that is ultimately mysterious. … God can transform into love even the burdensome and oppressive aspects of our lives."
He continues: "In our era of restlessness and lack of commitment, when so many people lose their way and their grounding, when loving fidelity in marriage and friendship has become so fragile and short-lived, when in our need we cry out like the disciples on the road to Emmaus: 'Lord, stay with us, for it is almost evening and darkness is all around us!'" we find comfort in Christ.
The Olympics are a great testament to the peace and harmony people can sometimes create, even on a global scale.
But the Catholic Church is a great testament to the peace and harmony that God provides on an eternal scale. Christ sits in our tabernacles worldwide, and people flock to him. And none need go away hungry.
Tom and April Hoopes write from Atchison, Kansas,
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Two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two highly publicized gay-marriage cases, a majority of Americans continue to say they support same-sex marriage, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Fifty-three percent of respondents favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry, which is up 2 points since the NBC/WSJ survey last asked this question in December, though that increase is within the poll's margin of error.
Forty-two percent oppose gay marriage – also up 2 points since late last year.
By party, 73 percent of Democrats and 54 percent of independents back gay marriage, while 66 percent of Republicans oppose it.
Strikingly, nearly 8-in-10 respondents (79 percent) say they know or work with someone who is gay or lesbian, which is an increase of 14 points since December and 17 points since 2004.
However, only 15 percent say that knowing or working with someone gay makes them more likely to back same-sex marriage; 4 percent say it makes them less likely to support it, and more than half say it doesn't make a difference.
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Equal rights supporters demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on March 26, 2013 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments March 26, in California's proposition 8, the controversial ballot initiative that defines marriage only between a man and a woman.
These numbers come after numerous Democratic politicians, plus a handful of Republicans, have recently announced their support for gay marriage. They also come as the Supreme Court is expected to decide two different cases this summer – one on the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law which prohibits the government from recognizing gay marriages performed in states where they are legal, and the other on California's Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage in that state.
The poll also finds that 63 percent of respondents believe the federal government should recognize same-sex marriages in states where they are legal, and 56 percent think that the question of allowing gay marriage should be left to a federal standard rather than to the states.
In reversal, majority thinks abortion should be illegal
At the same time that general support for gay marriage has increased – albeit within the margin of error – so has opposition to abortion.
According to the survey, a combined 52 percent say that abortion should be illegal either with exceptions or without them, versus a combined 45 percent who say it should be legal either "always" or "most of the time."
This is a reversal from the NBC/WSJ poll in January, when a majority – for the first time – said abortion should be legal in some form or fashion.
Measuring the values debate
The poll also gauges public sentiment on other questions involving social and moral issues.
Asked to choose what should be a more important goal for society – either promoting greater respect for traditional values or encouraging greater tolerance – 50 percent picked traditional values, and 44 selected greater tolerance.
That's a significant change from when this question was last asked in 1999, when 60 percent chose traditional values and 29 percent sided with tolerance.
As the Republican Party tries to find their message on gun control in the wake of Newtown and on gay marriage before the Supreme Court rulings this summer, Stuart Stevens, Romney's 2012 campaign manager, offers them some advice.
Notably, this movement toward tolerance comes from Democrats and self-described independents – but not from Republicans. (In 1999, 76 percent of Republicans said promoting traditional values was a more important goal vs. 77 percent say that now.)
In another change, half of respondents (50 percent) say that society's most serious problems stem primarily from economic and financial pressures.
But in past NBC/WSJ polls – in 1994 and 1996 – majorities said those problems came mainly from a decline in moral values.
And Americans give the Democratic and Republican parties either mixed or poor marks when it comes to social and cultural issues.
By 47 percent to 22 percent, respondents say they disagree with the GOP's approach to social and cultural issues, and they disagree with Democrats by a 38-percent-to-37 percent margin.
On the parties' approach to looking out for the middle class, the numbers are even worse – they disagree with Republicans by 51 percent to 24 percent, and with Democrats by 42 percent to 33 percent.
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted of 1,000 adults (including 300 cell phone-only respondents) from April 5-8, and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.


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Around 700 village pubs are reported to have closed down in connection with the introduction of a law on electronic cash registers at the start of December, the ctk news agency reports citing the results of a survey among the country's 6,200 towns and cities. The pubs closing down generally offer beer, but not food, and serve as social hubs in small villages. The mayors of many small villages say they fear for the fate of small mixed shops which are often the only source of groceries for the locals. The introduction of electronic cash registers was the finance minister's flagship project to curb tax evasion.
Employees of the Dutch retailer Ahold, which owns the Albert supermarket chain in the Czech Republic, have won a battle for higher wages. Ahold representatives agreed to a trade unions demand for a one-off 1,000 crown bonus in 2016 and an 8.5 percent wage increase in 2017. According to trade unions the average monthly wage of Albert employees is 12,500 crowns, Ahold claims it is 3,000 crowns higher. The wage dispute had dragged for some time and Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka recently intervened on the behalf of Czech employees. Ahold employs some 17,000 people in the Czech Republic.
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The Czech Republic and Iran are seeking ways to further increase their growing trade turnover. Following a meeting with the visiting Iranian Economy Minister Ali Tayebnia, Czech Industry and Trade Minister Jan Mladek said he would like to see bilateral trade increase tenfold in the near future. Czech exports to Iran increased by 46 percent in the first nine months of this year and bilateral trade is expected to get a new impetus with the signing of an agreement on protection of investments between the two countries scheduled to take place early next year. The Czech Republic has said it is ready to support Iran's membership in the World Trade Organization.
The lower house of Parliament has approved a bill that should introduce a broad ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants. The government-proposed legislation was defended by the newly appointed Health Minister Miloslav Ludvik who said it was a vital step in protecting public health and particularly that of the young generation which frequently topped the European ladder in tobacco and alcohol abuse. The draft law caused heated controversy in the lower house and there were numerous efforts to modify the ban, such as a rejection of the proposed amendment that would ban smoking in street cafes or cars with child passengers. The draft legislation now goes to the Senate. If it wins approval there and is signed by the president it should come into force in May of next year.
Consumer prices in November increased by 0.3 percent compared to the previous month, the Czech Statistics Office reported on Friday. This development was primarily due to a rise in the prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages. The year-on-year growth in consumer prices amounted to 1.5 percent, i.e. 0.7 percentage points up on October and the most since June 2013. Analysts ascribe the higher than expected growth to the introduction of the law on electronic cash registers ahead of which many entrepreneurs increased prices to make up for the extra expenditures. Analysts predict that inflation may thus reach the Czech National Bank's target of 2 percent in the first months of 2017.
British singer-songwriter Sting will be the main star of Prague's Metronome festival, which will take place in the Czech capital in June, the festival's organiser Roman Helcl told the Czech News Agency on Friday. The former frontman of the rock band Police will perform with his three-member band, including guitarist Dominic Miller. Tickets go on sale on December 12.
The last round of matches in the Europa League group stage brought mixed results for the three Czech clubs in the competition. Sparta Prague will progress out of the group stage despite losing against Inter Milan 1:2 on Thursday night. Sparta are on 12 points in their group, followed by Hapoel Beer-Sheva and Southampton. Liberec failed to secure a spot in the next stage after it went down 0:2 against PAOK Thessaloniki, while Viktoria Plzeň ends the Europa League competition with a symbolic 3:2 win against Austria Vienna.
Miroslav Sklenář is set to replace Jiří Forejt in the post of the head of protocol at Prague Castle, the president's spokesman Jiří Ovčáček told the Czech News Agency on Thursday. Mr Forejt stepped down on Monday after the release of incriminating material which allegedly showed him snorting an illicit substance, half naked and in dubious company. Miroslav Sklenář has already worked as head of protocol, first under Václav Havel and subsequently under Václav Klaus between the years 2014 and 2015. Up till now, Mr. Sklenář has been employed by the China Energy Company Limited, a major foreign investor in the Czech Republic.


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