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Sunday, August 31, 2014
Using Seat Sacks Efficiently and a HUGE Seat Sack Giveaway!
Posted by Lori Rosenberg at 12:43 PM
270 comments:
Looks like these would be a tremendous help in the classroom!ReplyDelete
I love these seatsacks! Thanks so much for sharing how you use them in your classroom - you room looks fantastic!!ReplyDelete
Would love to win a set!ReplyDelete
Love these! I was on such a tight budget, both school and personal, that I couldn't afford to buy them on my own. Let's hope for the win! LOLReplyDelete
I have been wanting something like this for years!! This year I am teaching a 1/2 combo class. I cannot tell you how much they would help us out!ReplyDelete
Sunshine, Sand and Scissors
I've always wanted a set of there. Having tables makes it hard to store the kids' things.ReplyDelete
Hi Lori,ReplyDelete
I was going to make them because I want them so much but maybe I can save myself a lot of time and energy and will win them! Your blog is so beautiful and filled with great content.
I have just started using interactive notebooks this year as well - and I am struggling w storage so thanks for the idea. : )ReplyDelete
This would be awesome! Thanks for the chance to win!!ReplyDelete
These would be so useful in the classroom!ReplyDelete
My teaching partner has these and I've always been jealous. Hers are all blue but your different colors make me even more envious!!ReplyDelete
I love these!ReplyDelete
I made seat sacks last year and LOVED them!!! Unfortunately, I washed and dryed them over the summer and apparently left crayons in them and it ruined them (to me...everyone said the kids wouldn't notice, but I did!!). Our home was flooded in April and the sewing machine was among the ruins, so I haven't had a chance to make new ones. These would be awesome for ANY classroom!! love the way you made your own signs and color coded them for smooth classroom management. Thank you!!!ReplyDelete
These Seat Sacks looks amazing! Love how colorful and useful they are.ReplyDelete
Christina :)
Christina Marie :)
Apples, Books, and Crayons
I'd love to get these! Your classroom looks so great!ReplyDelete
I love these! I am going to attemp interactive notebooks this year. Was not sure where I would store them. This is great!ReplyDelete
I'm always trying to get my third graders organized! This would be great!ReplyDelete
I'd love these! They would help my kindergartners so much! Your room looks amazing!ReplyDelete
So fun! I would love them!ReplyDelete
These would be useful in the classroom, especially with tables.ReplyDelete
I have beem trying to find affordable seat sacks for my classroom, but I have not had much luck. My students need seat sacks to organize their supplies and books at their tables. These would be very beneficial for our classroom.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2014 at 1:12 PM
What an awesome time saver!ReplyDelete
I just had to get rid of all of my old book bags that I used. They were so old. I would love to win a new set! Thanks for the opportunity. :)ReplyDelete
These would be great for my classroom. Thank you for writing this helpful post!ReplyDelete
Thank you for the opportunity! These would be great!ReplyDelete
love it! thank you for the opportunity!ReplyDelete
Love it! Thank you for the chance!ReplyDelete
I have seatsacks at my reading table and love them. I would love to have a class set. Yours is one of the first blogs I started following and you never disappoint.ReplyDelete
These woyld be awesome in my classroom! Love your blog!ReplyDelete
These look so cool!! I'd love to use these in my classroom... I can already think of tons of things to put in them :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the opportunity to win these. I have always wanted to get some but haven't been able to afford to buy them yet.ReplyDelete
This is just what would work in my little roomReplyDelete
These would great in my first grade classroom. I absolutely love how you color coordinated everything. It makes the classroom look clean and very organized.ReplyDelete
I have been wanting seat sacks ever since I started teaching but could never bring myself to shell out all that money. I would love to win these!ReplyDelete
With 5 math classes each day, we spend a lot of extra (wasted) time passing out our interactive journals. Thank you for the opportunity!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2014 at 1:28 PM
I would love to have seat sacks in my small class. What a great space saver!ReplyDelete
I've always was curious about seat sacks. After reading how much time they save, I would love to win these! :)ReplyDelete
These look so cool!! I'd love to use these in my classroom... I can already think of tons of things to put in them :)ReplyDelete
I bought a similar set many years ago and they have been wonderful. At the time our class size limit was 18. It is now 27 so a new set would be much appreciated! Thank you for offering this opportunity!ReplyDelete
Hi! I will be switching to some type of tables this year and these would work great! Love your blog!!ReplyDelete
I love seat sacks and mine are beyond repair. I would love to win this.ReplyDelete
I would love to win these! I have just changed districts and grade levels. I have decided to start over fresh new theme in my room. I had forgotten how expensive that is to do, but it was definitely worth it! My kindergarteners love our room :). These seat sacks would be a great addition to finish the look.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much,
Would be so wonderful in making transitions more efficient!ReplyDelete
I have a huge class and could really use these to help alleviate traffic (students getting up and down to get materials). I can't afford them right now, so I have my fingers crossed!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing this on your blog! I love how you color coordinated for each table.ReplyDelete
I would love to win these! I have just changed districts and grade levels. I have decided to start over fresh new theme in my room. I had forgotten how expensive that is to do, but it was definitely worth it! My kindergarteners love our room :). These seat sacks would be a great addition to finish the look.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much,
These would be fantastic to win! Fingers crossed!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the opportunity to enter the giveaway! I love you blog!ReplyDelete
These would be great for their journalsReplyDelete
I shared this with my friend. She just joined our team and was given a classroom that is has no cubbies or lockers or anywhere for the kids to keep their things. These would be great for her!ReplyDelete
I would love to win a set of seat sacks! Seat sacks are so useful and effective.ReplyDelete
Love these!ReplyDelete
What an awesome, organized, time saving idea! Love the bright colors also.ReplyDelete
How exciting!! I love them!!!ReplyDelete
Kickin It Whole Brain In Texas
Oh my these would just be wonderful!!! I can just envision a clean classroom.ReplyDelete
These are great! I would use them the same way as you do! Thanks!ReplyDelete
Awesome giveaway!ReplyDelete
These would be amazing in our Headstart classroom! Thanks for your contest!ReplyDelete
I have wanted seat sacks for such a long time!ReplyDelete
Would love these in fun colors for my classroom!ReplyDelete
Great idea! Fingers crossed:)ReplyDelete
Love seat sacks and need new ones desperately!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2014 at 2:01 PM
I had someone make mine and it cost me $100. I like the variety if colors. I just have blue.ReplyDelete
Love, love, love these and really want to win!! Thank you,for the chance.ReplyDelete
These would be so wonderful in my first grade classroom! As you said, it saves so much wasted transition time!ReplyDelete
Winning seat sacks!! That's a contest I love.ReplyDelete
I love how everyone has their materials right there and that you can pick colors to coordinate with your classroom!!ReplyDelete
Would love love love theseReplyDelete
I love these! I tried to sew my own, but they didn't turn out so great. :/ReplyDelete
These look like a great way to organize the littles and colorful too!! Thank you!!!ReplyDelete
I have no storage since I switched schools. This would be a great win!!!ReplyDelete
These would be wonderful to have! I have been wanting them for a long time!ReplyDelete
Rambling About Reading
These seat sacks are gorgeous!! Mine are from Really Good Stuff and are about 8 years old...glad they've last this long, but they're looking pretty beat up...this would be a great win!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2014 at 2:34 PM
These would be the answer to so many problems in my first kindergarten classroom!ReplyDelete
I am teaching my first year in kindergarten, and these would be absolutely perfect! To quote you, "an answer to my prayers!" They look so durable and I love, love, LOVE the way you can do table colors! What a tremendous deal!ReplyDelete
These would be life-changing in my classroom! I am having the same problem you were -SO much wasted time going back & forth from mailboxes to their seats!ReplyDelete
What a great way to help teach students to stay organized!ReplyDelete
These would be awesome for my new classroom!ReplyDelete
These are awesome! I would love a set for my classroom!ReplyDelete
I've been wanting some of these for awhile now! Really hope I win.. Thank you for the opportunity and the ideas :)ReplyDelete
These seat sacks are great!!!ReplyDelete
I've been looking for a storage solution since I went from desks to tables this year.ReplyDelete
I would love these!ReplyDelete
Seat sacks and interactive notebooks!!! Happy Sunday to me.ReplyDelete
All of my table groups have matching supplies...I would get matching ones too :) What a fun giveaway!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2014 at 2:58 PM
These are awesome and I love the colors! So pretty!ReplyDelete
These are amazing!! I would LOVE to win these, it sounds like they make classroom routines SO much easier!ReplyDelete
I just bought your kinder interactive phonics journal and love those! The seat sacks make a lot of sense. My kinders also spend time getting and putting away their journals/workbooks, etc. in their work box cubbies. A seat sack would save precious time. Thank you for sharing this resource!ReplyDelete
Great giveaway! Thanks for sharing how you used them too! :)ReplyDelete
First Grade Garden
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2014 at 3:10 PM
I would love to win these seat sacks! I tried to make my own...epic fail! Thank you for sharing!ReplyDelete
Those would be great in my room!! :)ReplyDelete
Thank you for the opportunity! I would love to win these!!!!ReplyDelete
Great giveaway!! I hope I am the big winner!! These would certainly help my firsties be more organized!!ReplyDelete
These are awesome! I would love these!!!!ReplyDelete
I would love to win these for my kiddos. We have such limited space for storage in the classroom. I am starting interactive notebooks in Math and Reading this year and right now I am wracking my brain as to where to store them so that they are easily accessible.ReplyDelete
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE the seat sacks. Also following you for the interactive notebooks. This will be my first year using them.ReplyDelete
Seat sacks would be a great addition to my class to help with storage! My kiddos would love them! THanks!ReplyDelete
I love that you loop with your students. I'm teaching primary special education again this year, so I will start out with some of my students from last year. It's MUCH less stressful!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2014 at 3:43 PM
These are great and would be so helpful in the classroom.ReplyDelete
I have recently been thinking of getting something like this! These would be WONDERFUL!ReplyDelete
These would be GREAT for my Kinders!! :)ReplyDelete
These would be so awesome for my special education kiddos. We can always use new ways to keep ourselves organized :)ReplyDelete
Love how you color code the tables!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2014 at 4:23 PM
I have seen these used in other classrooms and have always wanted them to use in my classroom. These would be great for my kindergartenersReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2014 at 4:25 PM
So cool! Thanks for the opportunity!ReplyDelete
Would Love Love LOVE this!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the chance to win! I'm in a 65 year old school and have limited storage. These would be so awesome in our room and would encourage organizationReplyDelete
I would love to have these for the exact same reasons you explained. I took out my student cubbies, and I'm having trouble passing out folders at the end of the day. I will also be starting Interactive Notebooks, and I was trying to figure out a good place to keep them. Thanks for the great tips!ReplyDelete
I've always wanted some seat sacks. Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
These would be great for my second graders to keep everything organized.ReplyDelete
I work at a Christian Academy and storage space is a real issue. Winning a set of these seat sacks would be a blessing!ReplyDelete
I love how your tables and seat sacks are organized by color!ReplyDelete
I used to have a set of seat sacks and LOVED them! They lasted for 13 years and this year I didn't have enough left for a class set...would be great to win a set!ReplyDelete
These look great, and I would love to win! I'm always looking for ways to maximize space in my small classroom!ReplyDelete
I never really thought about all of the ways that you can use seat sacks in the classroom. Now I really want some! :)ReplyDelete
These would be great for my room.ReplyDelete
Your room is so neat and colorful!ReplyDelete
I love seat sacks I would love to have them in my classroom!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the seat sack giveaway! Keeping my fingers crossedReplyDelete
These are awesome! They would be such a great addition to my classroom!ReplyDelete
I love how you use them. I need them too!ReplyDelete
I have 23 kiddos in a very small room. I think these would be wonderful!ReplyDelete
with 24 kiddos and inherited, hand me down, hand made chair pockets, these are awesome!!ReplyDelete
I've been trying to get these for years but I work at a high poverty school so there is never any money in the budget for such "luxury items" . I have the same exact tables but teach kindergarten and in the beginning of the year its very difficult for them to follow instructions. I have to always direct them to go inside their book bags at their cubbies to get their needed school supplies throughout the day. This takes away from instructional time and causes too much unneeded transition time. I had a friend donate 5 of her chair sacks last year and I used them for my guided reading table AND I LOVE THEM. We can easily grab our books, white boards, markers, etc... from them. I know it would make life in the classroom easy for my students if we could have a whole classroom set. I don't have a desk myself and I'm thinking one of these behind my teachers chair would work wonders too. Fingers crossed for the win.ReplyDelete
I NEED these! I don't have room for book bins anymore and need a neat place to place books. Thanks for a great giveaway.ReplyDelete
I have seat sacks that I have made. I would love to have the real thing!ReplyDelete
I would love these chair pockets!! Thanks!!!ReplyDelete
These would be a great resource for my room!!!ReplyDelete
What an awesome resource!ReplyDelete
These would be great as my kinders sit at tables. Thanks for the opportunity!ReplyDelete
I attempted to make some chair pockets for my students this year, but realized it would take way too much time and cloth. So, I asked all of my students to bring in pillow cases to make no-sew chair pockets. Unfortunately, this isn't working as well as I'd like. I would really love to have a set of REAL seat sacks!ReplyDelete
Love your classroom! These would be great to keep everything at students' seats!ReplyDelete
I need these.ReplyDelete
I would love to have these for my desks. Thanks for sharing about them!ReplyDelete
I would love to have these!ReplyDelete
I would love to have these!ReplyDelete
I've always wanted seat sacks in my classroom!! These look perfect!!ReplyDelete
I know teachers that use these and they are wonderful! I would love a set, too!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2014 at 9:22 PM
I would love to win these seat sacks!!! Love the bright colors:)ReplyDelete
I've always wanted these! I tried to make my own using stretchy book covers but they didn't hold much. I would love love love these and they would be perfect for my super organized classroom!ReplyDelete
I will be a new teacher August of 2015, so this would be awesome to win! Thank you! :)ReplyDelete
I would love to winReplyDelete
I would love to win a set of these! I have a cheap version that doesn't always work the way I want them to.ReplyDelete
Thank you for the chance to win!ReplyDelete
I would love to win a set of these! I struggle with keeping my kids organized every year. I keep thinking "I'll make some", but then I remember my sewing skills suck, lol.ReplyDelete
These would be awesome! We have no cubbies or lockers and my firsties would love having a seat sack!ReplyDelete
Love these!!! I totally need a new set b/c mine are about 8 years old...and gross....and ugh! :)ReplyDelete
Mrs. Thigpen's Kindergarten
These are a great space saver! Love your ideas!ReplyDelete
This is the best giveaway ever!! My desks are SO small this year & winning these would be a godsend! Fingers crossed!! :)ReplyDelete
This would be amazing to win!!!ReplyDelete
I would love to try out some seat sacks. Do you think they would work with older students too?ReplyDelete
This is beyond outstanding!!!ReplyDelete
This is one of the best giveaways ever!!! I would LOVE to win!!ReplyDelete
I need these so much! I would love to win!!ReplyDelete
These would save so much time & space! I would love to have a set in my kindergarten room!ReplyDelete
I have wanted a set of these for a long time! Fingers crossed :-)ReplyDelete
I would love a set of the seat sacks to help me and my students be more organized. This is a great way to save on space and time. YEAH! Winner, winner! Chicken Dinner!ReplyDelete
Love the seat sacks! They would be so helpful!ReplyDelete
I'm crossing my fingers!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2014 at 11:47 PM
I have some home made seat sacks or "chair pockets" as I call them and I couldn't live without them but I would love some new ones and these look awesome!!ReplyDelete
I'd love to use these for my kids' independent reading. Awesome giveaway!ReplyDelete
I have NEVER wanted to win a giveaway soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo badly!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want these for my kids to do Daily 5. So cool!ReplyDelete
These would be great for my firsties' independent readers. Thanks Lori!ReplyDelete
What a wonderful and useful giveaway! I love Seat Sacks but never have enough in my budget to purchase them. I can only dream. I think they would turn my room into an organized and clutter free space for us all. keeping my fingers crossed:)ReplyDelete
Wow! These look awesome and would love to have them in my classroom.ReplyDelete
These look wonderful! We have the desks that lift up to open...leading to LOTS of items spilled off onto the floor. I'm into anything that makes my students have to open their desks LESS! I would love there for their interactive notebooks, journals, and folders.ReplyDelete
OMG! I am in total need of new pocket chairs! What an awesome giveaway!!!ReplyDelete
Link to refer to your giveaway on my blog: http://aloveliclass.blogspot.com/2014/09/seat-sacks-giveaway.html
Crossing my fingers and toes!
Fingers crossed!ReplyDelete
I'd absolutely love a set of these for my classroom!ReplyDelete
Oh the Little Wonders
Wow! With 25 students, these would make life extremely efficient! What a fabulous idea, as always! Thanks for sharing. :)ReplyDelete
I have used seat sacks for years and couldn't do without them!!!!! They teach the kids to be organized and take care of their own things. Never thought of using them with color coding of the tables (so easy and effective). Would love a new set as mine are worn and loved.ReplyDelete
These look like a brilliant idea! I would love to win these for my classroom. Thanks for sharing this idea.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 1, 2014 at 7:49 AM
I would love to use seat sacks. I think they would be helpful for students who end up putting things on the floor.ReplyDelete
The seat sacks look like a good way for students to learn organization. I like all the colors.ReplyDelete
I have always wanted seat sacks but couldn't afford them. I really hope I win!!!ReplyDelete
pick me, pick me! :) I want things OUT of their desks! lolReplyDelete
♥ Jen
Teacher by the Beach
A Splash of Life Blog
I currently have my Kinder's mailing their papers to their cubbies 2-3 times a day. Oh, but now, now after reading your blog post I'm kicking myself because I thrive on organization and quicker transitions and feel like you've hit the nail on the head. If only seat sacks for a class of 25 weren't so darn expensive. Hoping this is the one contest I win! FINGERS CROSSED!ReplyDelete
Oh boy could I use a set of seat sacks to keep my students organized!! Keeping my fingers crossed :)ReplyDelete
I could really use these to keep Read to Self bags at student desks!ReplyDelete
These seat sacks are fantastic! As a teacher just going back into the field, after being at home with my kids for 7 years, I would love to use these in my classroom! Thanks for this awesome opportunity!!!ReplyDelete
These would be great to have!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 1, 2014 at 10:07 AM
This is my first year in a room with no desks. I have things stored ALL over the room. These seat sacks looks GREAT and would solve all my problems! I LOVE how you color coordinate everything. :)ReplyDelete
I love the seat sacks! There's no room for any storage at our tables and even with the items stored right at the tables and one table captain to get them it takes FOREVER!ReplyDelete
I love these sacks...just too expensive for a whole class set ;-( Thanks for the opportunity to win them!ReplyDelete
I would LOVE to color code my tables with these!ReplyDelete
Wow, thank you!!! I hope I am the lucky one:)ReplyDelete
I love seat sacks. I have used them in the past and loved them. I had my last ones for 5 years, but needed some new ones this year. What a perfect way to receive them.ReplyDelete
I'd love these seat sacks! I have always wanted them, but couldn't afford them. Fingers crossed!ReplyDelete
Seat sacks impress me for there ease of use and durability. I see great promise in how they support executive functioning skills for students with the different colors available. Thanks for sharing pictures of your use of seat sacks. Thanks to you and the company for offering us a chance to win a set!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the opportunity to enter your give-away. The Seat Sacks look great and they would be a wonderful help in my classroom. I can see how they would save time-I have the same problem of calling groups to get supplies. Thanks again.ReplyDelete
I have been wanting seat sacks! This would be awesome to win!!ReplyDelete
I would love to have these!!!ReplyDelete
What great ideas! Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
My fifth graders would love these.ReplyDelete
Winning a set of seat sacks would be awesome!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh....my firsties need these! Thanks so much for an amazing blog!!!ReplyDelete
I need some seat sacks soooo badReplyDelete
I would love these seat sacks to keep "go to" materials in!ReplyDelete
I love these for interactive notebooks. I also loved your tips for interactive notebooks. Thanks!ReplyDelete


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Wikileaks' Founder Julian Assange Surfaces In Oxford
Several weeks ago, Wikileaks.org's founder Julian Assange went into hiding after reports suggested the Pentagon had launched a "manhunt" for him. Looks like he escaped their predator drones: He was a surprise guest at TEDGlobal in Oxford, England.
Looking as much the benevolent alien invader as always, Assange didn't say much about the supposed manhunt during a Q&A with TED founder Chris Anderson. According to CNN, Assange said he canceled three US appearances because of "unreasonable statements by U.S. officials in private that they may not follow the rule of law" in dealing with the super-secretive founder of the whistleblower website.
"I received advice from figures like [investigative reporter] Sy Hersh to exercise caution," Assange said, adding that U.S. officials have now adopted a "reasonable" attitude in private.
He did touch on the recent arrest of Wikileaks' most famous source: army intelligence specialist Bradley Manning. Assange again denied that Manning sent Wikileaks over 150,000 sensitive diplomatic cables in addition to that Iraq attack helicopter video, as he claims.
Assange's reappearance comes among speculation that Wikileaks' website is falling into disrepair. Perhaps this was meant to assuage critics. But the rumors won't die off until Wikileaks and Assange release their next high-profile leak. Let's see that Afghanistan air strike video.
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Fathers of the Church
Letter CXIX. to Anatolius the Patrician
by Theodoret in 449-450 | translated by Blomfield Jackson
Your excellency has been fully informed as to the acts of the most righteous judges at Ephesus, for their sound has gone out into all lands and their most just judgment to the ends of the world. What church has not felt the storm that has been raised by it? The one side wronged, the other were wronged, but they who neither suffered nor did the wrong share the distress of the wronged, and lament over them that so savagely and against all laws human and divine massacred their own members. Even house breakers caught in the very act are first tried and then punished by their judges; even murderers, violators of sepulchres, and adulterers, are first haled before the bench, and their accusers ordered to make their indictment, and the motive of the witnesses is tested to see that they are not giving evidence to curry favour with the prosecutors or are prejudiced against the defendants and after this they are bidden to make their defence to the charges brought against them. This is done twice, thrice; sometimes even four times; and then, and not till then, after the truth has been sought in the words of both accuser and accused, the sentence is given. As to how these men judged in the case of the rest I will say nothing, lest I may seem a meddler in what does not concern me. I am forced to speak on behalf of myself alone, for the unrighteous deed of violence compels me. The imperial order kept me at home, and prevented me from travelling beyond the bounds of the city placed under my pastoral care. The decision of the synod went against me, and a man was condemned who was five and thirty days' journey away.
Now the God of all said to the patriarch Abraham about Sodom and Gomorrah: "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is very great and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it which is come unto me; and if not, I will know." He knew quite well the wickedness of those men, and nevertheless He said, "I will go down and see," so teaching us to wait for the proof of facts. But these men never summoned me to trial, they never heard the sound of my voice, they refused to hear from me a statement of my opinions, and handed me over, as a victim to be slaughtered, to the rage of the enemies of the truth.
I, however, welcome my rest, and especially so at the present time, when the apostolic decrees have been by many destroyed, and the new heresy strengthened. But lest any one who does not know me should believe that the slanders uttered against me are true, and should be scandalized at the idea of my holding opinions other than those of the gospel, I implore your excellency to ask as a favour from the victorious sovereign that I may go to the West, and there plead my cause before the very godly and holy bishops; and if I be found transgressing in the least degree the rule of the faith, that I may be plunged into the midst of the deep sea. If he will not grant you this request, let him at least command me to inhabit my monastery, which is a hundred and twenty miles away from Cyrus, seventy- five from Antioch, and lies three miles away from Apamea.
Of these petitions, if possible, I ask the former; if not at least I implore that, through your excellency's interposition, the second may be granted me. I shall ever carry the memory of your kindness in my heart and on my lips, supplicating the Lord of hosts to requite your excellency as well with present as with future blessings. I am compelled to write to you in these terms because I have heard that certain persons are endeavouring to compass my removal from this place.
Taken from "The Early Church Fathers and Other Works" originally published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. in English in Edinburgh, Scotland, beginning in 1867. (NPNF II/III, Schaff and Wace). The digital version is by The Electronic Bible Society, P.O. Box 701356, Dallas, TX 75370, 214-407-WORD.


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#1 You will need to think about big data
Big data analysis got its start from the large Web service providers such as Google, Yahoo and Twitter, which all needed to make the most of their user generated data. But enterprises will big data analysis to stay competitive, and relevant, as well.
You could be a really small company and have a lot of data. A small hedge fund may have terabytes of data, said Jo Maitland, GigaOm research director for big data. In the next couple of years, a wide number of industries–including health care, public sector, retail, and manufacturing–will all financially benefit by analyzing more of their data, consulting firm McKinsey and Company anticipated in a recent report.
There is an air of inevitability with Hadoop and big data implementations, said Eric Baldeschwieler, chief technology officer of Hortonworks, a Yahoo spinoff company that offers a Hadoop distribution. It's applicable to a huge variety of customers. Collecting and analyzing transactional data will give organizations more insight into their customers' preferences. It can be used to better inform the creation of new products and services, and allow organizations to remedy emerging problems more quickly.
#2 Useful data can come from anywhere (and everywhere)
You may not think you have petabytes of data worth analyzing, but you will, if you don't already. Big data is collected data that used to be "dropped on the floor," Baldeschwieler said.
Big data could be your server's log files, for instance. A server keeps track of everyone who checks into a site, and what pages they visit when they are there. Tracking this data can offer insights into what your customers are looking for. While log data analysis is nothing new, it can be done don to dizzying new levels of granularity.
Another source of data will be sensor data. For years now, analysts have been speaking of the Internet of Things, in which cheap sensors are connected to Internet, offering continual streams of data about their usage. They could come from cars, or bridges, or soda machines."The real value around the devices is their ability to capture the data, analyze that information and drive business efficiencies," said Microsoft Windows Embedded General Manager Kevin Dallas.
#3 You will need new expertise for big data
When setting up a big data analysis system, your biggest hurdle will be finding the right talent who knows how to work the tools to analyze the data, according to Forrester Research analyst James Kobielus.
Big data relies on solid data modeling. Organizations will have to focus on data science, Kobielus said. They have to hire statistical modelers, text mining professionals, people who specialize in sentiment analysis. This may not be the same skill set that todays analysts versed in business intelligence tools may readily know.
Such people may be in short supply. By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts with the know-how to use the analysis of big data to make effective decisions, McKinsey and Company estimated.
Another skill you will need to have on hand is the ability to wrangle the large amounts of hardware needed to store and parse the data. Managing 100 servers is a fundamentally different problem than handle 10 servers, Maitland pointed out. You may need to hire a few supercomputer administrators from the local university or research lab.
#4 Big Data doesn't require organization beforehand
CIOs who are used to rigorously planning out every sort of data that would go into an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) can breathe a little easier with big data setups. Here, the rule is, collect the data first, and then worry about how you will use it later.
With a data warehouse, you have to lay out the data schema before you can start laying in the data itself. "This basically means you have to know what you are looking for beforehand," said Jack Norris, vice president of marketing for MapR. As a result, "you are flattening the data and losing some of the granularity," he said. "Later on, if you change your mind, or want to do a historical analysis, you've limited yourself."
"You can use a [Big Data repository] as a dumping ground, and run the analysis on top of it, and discover the relationships later," Norris said. Many organizations may not know what they are looking for until after they've culled the data, so this kind of freedom "is kind of big deal," he said.
#5 Big Data is not only about Hadoop.
When people talk about big data, most times they are referring to the Hadoop data analysis platform. "Hadoop is a hot button initiative, with budgets and people being assigned to it," in many organizations, Kobielus pointed out. Ultimately, however, you may go with other software.
Recently legal research giant LexusNexus, no slouch at big data analysis itself, open sourced its own platform for analysis, HPCC Systems. MarkLogic has also outfitted its own database for unstructured data, the MarkLogic Server, for Big Data style jobs as well. Another tool gaining favor is the Splunk search engine, which can be used to search and analysis data generated by machines, such as the log files from a server. "Whatever data you can extract from your logs, there is a good chance that Splunk can help," noted Curt Monash of Monash Research.


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Dad of stabbed Dodgers fan seeks help
The father of a Los Angeles Dodgers fan stabbed to death after a San Francisco Giants game last week asked on Sunday for witnesses who may have captured the chaotic melee on mobile devices to come forward.
Robert Preece, his voice quavering at times, spoke in front of AT&T Park's iconic Willie Mays statue before the Giants played the San Diego Padres. He was flanked by family members who handed out fliers to fans streaming into the stadium.
"We need your help," one flier stated, "that can help bring forth the truth."
The fight Wednesday night ended with the death of his 24-year-old son, Jonathan Denver and the arrest of Michael Montgomery, 21.
"Losing a child is a heartache no parent should have to endure," Preece said in his plea for witnesses to the fight. Montgomery was released from jail on Friday after the district attorney said police have not yet collected enough evidence to warrant criminal charges. Montgomery's father has told other media outlets that his son says Denver hit him over the head with a chair and he stabbed him in self-defense.
Preece, who is a Los Angeles Dodgers security guard, was with his son when the fight broke out. Preece said Sunday that he saw bystanders with mobile devices and believes they were recording the incident.
"The Montgomery family is likely suffering as well," Preece said. "I am making a plea to the public asking that anyone who may have witnessed the incident to come forth so that both families can have some measure of closure. I believe that someone may have videotaped the incident so we can discover the truth."
Preece declined to discuss anything other than his call for witnesses. He politely but firmly turned down requests to comment on the incident during the emotional 30-minutes he and his family stood in front of AT&T Park, often embracing one another.
Denver's mother, Diana Denver, said in a prepared statement that she was angered by Montgomery's release and what she called "the negligence of our justice system."
The victim's aunt, Jill Haro Preece read the mother's statement after Diana Denver said she was too emotional to address the dozen of cameras and reporters assembled in front of Mays' statue.
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon said police had not spoken with any independent witnesses who may have witnessed the fight, which is what prompted Preece and his family to make their public plea.
The San Francisco Police Department did not return phone calls Sunday.
"The San Francisco Police Department has provided us an initial investigation," Gascon said in a written statement Friday night. "However, not all witnesses have been interviewed, nor have any independent witnesses of the incident been interviewed. We have requested this and other evidence be collected before we can make an assessment on whether charges should be filed."
Denver was stabbed to death Wednesday after attending the game with his brother, father and two others to celebrate his father's 49th birthday. Denver lived in Fort Bragg, a Northern California city about 170 miles north of San Francisco.
Police have said Denver's group, many wearing Dodgers garb, left AT&T Park after the eighth inning to head to a nearby bar. At some point, they got into a shouting match over the Dodgers with Montgomery and a few friends who were bar-hopping in the trendy South of Market area. At least one was wearing a Giants cap.
"The back and forth, `Go Dodgers!' `Go Giants!'" Police Chief Greg Suhr said. "And it deteriorated from there."
Suhr said Montgomery made "incriminating statements" that led to his booking the night after the stabbing.
Montgomery's father told the Lodi News-Sentinel that his son was jumped during the fight, and he stabbed Denver in self-defense after Denver and others yelled "Giants suck." The father told the News-Sentinel that his son said Denver hit him over the head with a chair during the fight a few blocks from the stadium.
A second suspect was questioned and released by police Friday. Two others were being sought.
The stabbing was the latest incident over the years stemming from one of the most passionate rivalries in sports. Two years ago, Giants fan Bryan Stow suffered permanent brain damage when he was attacked in Los Angeles.


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Ocean Spray held a competition among foodservice professionals for the best cranberry recipe. The winner, this Cranberry Mojito, was developed by Jeff Leidy of Centerplate restaurant in San Diego. Although you can drink it year-round, it's especially appropriate for the holiday season: Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas dinner—even New Year's Eve parties.
The Mojito (mo-HEE-toe) hails from Cuba; the name comes from the African word mojo, which means to place a small spell. One story has it that slaves working in Cuban sugar cane fields in the late 19th century invented the drink.
However, historians at Bacardi Rum trace the cocktail's roots to 1586, the year that Francis Drake and his pirate band made an unsuccessful attempt to sack Havana. Perhaps for solace, Drake's associate, Richard Drake (no relation), was said to have invented a Mojito-like drink known as El Draque (The Drake). The recipe included aguardiente (a spirit similar to Cachaça), sugar, lime and mint. As with most drinks of the time, it was initially consumed for medicinal purposes.
Sometime in the mid-1800s, with the refinement of rum, the recipe was altered and El Draque became known as El Mojito.
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4 cubes (approximately ¾ ounce) La
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10 mint leaves (approximately ¼ ounce)
Juice of 1 lime
6 ounces cranberry juice cocktail
2 cups cubed ice
For garnish: 1 sugar cane swizzle stick,† 1 lime wedge, 1 mint sprig
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What is the net feedback from clouds?
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Evidence is building that net cloud feedback is likely positive and unlikely to be strongly negative.
Climate Myth...
Clouds provide negative feedback
"Climate models used by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assume that clouds provide a large positive feedback, greatly amplifying the small warming effect of increasing CO2 content in air. Clouds have made fools of climate modelers. A detailed analysis of cloud behavior from satellite data by Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville shows that clouds actually provide a strong negative feedback, the opposite of that assumed by the climate modelers. The modelers confused cause and effect, thereby getting the feedback in the wrong direction." (Ken Gregory)
The effect of clouds in a warming world is complicated. One challenge is that clouds cause both warming and cooling. Low-level clouds tend to cool by reflecting sunlight. High-level clouds tend to warm by trapping heat.
As the planet warms, clouds have a cooling effect if there are more low-level clouds or less high-level clouds. Clouds would cause more warming if the opposite is true. To work out the overall effect, scientists need to know which types of clouds are increasing or decreasing.
Some climate scientists, such as Richard Lindzen and Roy Spencer, are skeptical that greenhouse gas emissions will cause dangerous warming. Their skepticism is based mainly on uncertainty related to clouds. They believe that when it warms, low-level cloud cover increases. This would mean the Earth's overall reflectiveness would increase. This causes cooling, which would cancel out some of the warming from an increased greenhouse effect.
However, recent evidence indicates this is not the case. Two separate studies have looked at cloud changes in the tropics and subtropics using a combination of ship-based cloud observations, satellite observations and climate models. Both found that cloud feedback in this region appears to be positive, meaning more warming.
Dessler (2010) used satellite measurements of cloud cover over the entire planet to measure cloud feedback. Although a very small negative feedback (cooling) could not be ruled out, the overall short-term global cloud feedback was probably positive (warming). It is very unlikely that the cloud feedback will cause enough cooling to offset much of human-caused global warming.
Other studies have found that the climate models that best simulate cloud changes are the ones that find it to be a positive feedback, and thus have higher climate sensitivities. Steven Sherwood explains one such study:
While clouds remain an uncertainty, the evidence is building that clouds will probably cause the planet to warm even further, and are very unlikely to cancel out much of human-caused global warming. It's also important to remember that there many other feedbacks besides clouds. There is a large amount of evidence that the net feedback is positive and will amplify global warming.
Basic rebuttal written by dana1981
Update July 2015:
Here is the relevant lecture-video from Denial101x - Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
This rebuttal was updated by Kyle Pressler in September 2021 to replace broken links. The updates are a result of our call for help published in May 2021.
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 11, 2002
Radio Address by the President to the Nation
Listen to the President's Remarks
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Next week, the United States House of Representatives is scheduled to debate a welfare reform plan that will touch the lives of millions of Americans. The last time Congress reformed welfare, in 1996, it put millions of Americans on the path to better lives.
Because of work requirements and time limited benefits, welfare caseloads have dropped by more than half. Today, 5.4 million fewer people live in poverty, including 2.8 million fewer children than in 1996. Yet, the real success of welfare reform is not found in the number of caseloads that have been cut, but in the number of lives that have been changed.
I've traveled all across our nations and I've met people whose lives have been improved because of welfare reform. I have heard inspiring stories of hope and dignity and hard work and personal achievement. Yet, there are still millions of Americans trapped in dependence, without jobs and the dignity they bring. And now Congress must take the next necessary steps in welfare reform.
Compassionate welfare reform should encourage strong families. Strong marriages and stable families are good for children. So stable families should be a central aim of welfare policy. Under my plan, up to $300 million per year will be available to states to support good private and public programs that counsel willing couples on building a healthy respect for marriage.
Compassionate welfare reform must allow states greater flexibility in spending welfare money. Today, confusing and conflicting regulations are keeping people from getting help. My proposal would give states the freedom to redesign how federal programs operate in their states. This will allow states to be more innovative in providing better job training, housing and nutrition programs, and better child care services to low income families.
Most of all, compassionate welfare reform must encourage more and more Americans to find the independence of a job. Today, states on average must require work of only 5 percent of adults getting welfare. I am proposing that every state be required within five years to have 70 percent of welfare recipients working or being trained to work at at least 40 hours a week. These work requirements must be applied carefully and compassionately.
Because many on welfare need new skills, my plan allows states to combine work with up to two days each week of education and job training. Our proposal allows for three months in full-time drug rehabilitation or job training. And adolescent mothers can meet their work requirements by attending high school. A work requirement is not a penalty. It is the pathway to independence and self-respect. For former welfare recipients, this path has led to a new and better life.
When I was in North Carolina earlier this year, I met Ella Currence, a mother of four, who was on welfare for seven years. She knew change would be difficult. But she also knew change was best. Ella began participating in the state's Work First program. She has been working for the last five years, and she put her life in order. Ella says, "you can do anything you want to do if you put your mind to it." This is the spirit and confidence encouraged by work.
Everyone in America benefits from compassionate welfare reform. Former welfare recipients gain new hope and know the independence and dignity of an honest day's work. As our recovery continues, business will need more motivated and trained workers. Good welfare reform laws can break dependency and help the American economy.
My administration has worked closely with Congress in writing the new welfare legislation. It's an excellent bill that will provide hope and promise, dignity and opportunity to millions of Americans. I urge the House to pass it, and the Senate to then act on it.
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A federal appeals court in Atlanta has turned away the latest attempt by actor Wesley Snipes to get his conviction and prison sentence on tax charges overturned.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Tuesday rejected the appeal by Snipes, who was convicted in 2008 on three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file income tax returns.
Defense lawyers contended they received two emails from former jurors who reported misconduct among other members of the panel. But the court held that it wasn't "strong, substantial and incontrovertible evidence" that would warrant a new trial.
Snipes started a three-year term in a Pennsylvania prison in December. He's appeared in dozens of films, from "White Men Can't Jump" and "Demolition Man" in the early 1990s to the blockbuster Blade trilogy.


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Future of Oceans Lecture Series presents:
Using Unmanned Hexacopters to Measure Orcas in the Wild
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Using Unmanned Hexacopters to Measure Orcas in the Wild
presented by Dr. John Durban of NOAA
Sunday, October 11 at 3 pm
Fort Worden Commons
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The focus of Dr. Durban's lecture will be the use of small unmanned aircraft as a photogrammetry tool. To-date, Dr. Durban has flown 60 flight missions with a small hexacopter above killer whales collecting images to conduct research on killer whale abundance and demographics, studies of individual size, growth and body condition, and analysis of movement patterns using photo-identification and satellite telemetry.
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By Khaye Solnik, Haifa
Translated by Miriam Leberstein
The Jewish population of Staszów was not large in number, but it was impressive in its quality. True, this population lived in poverty and want, but that did not result in dullness or indifference to fate. On the contrary, the difficult economic conditions in the town, and the special socio-political situation of the Jewish masses in general, served as a powerful force to impel people to understand their environment in order to find the best possible solution to their daily socio-political and material problems. Trade union activities, political parties, youth organizations and the like, were a direct result of this drive to understand and to take fate into one's own hands.
One of the most important factors in awakening social consciousness among the town's working class youth was the Poalei Zion (Labor Zionist) organization, which could take credit for many gains in the realm of organizing the workers to fight for an eight-hour workday, and for better social and occupational health and safety conditions in general. The party's widespread enlightenment efforts penetrated into wider and wider spheres, and exerted its influence through word and deed.
The party's central focus was on union activity, and it sent its best personnel to serve as delegates to the union leadership. Quite prominent in this area was Comrade[1] Yankev Bloch.
Whenever he had a free evening, Bloch would spend it at the labor union, putting his energy and knowledge at the service of the workers' cause. He related to all the workers with patience and love, seeking to solve the various, often painful, problems of each one. Appearing at public town meetings, organizing strikes, dealing with other [political] parties or with employers Yankev Bloch had his hand in everything. He carried out every mission successfully, to the degree permitted by the existing objective conditions.
In accordance with the principle: Solidarity is the best guarantee of success, the party did not limit itself to working with the Jewish population, but conducted its organizing and enlightenment activities also among the town's Polish working class. The comrades J. Buchman, Y. Bloch, A. Goldflus, M. Kanias, and this writer, dealt with the Polish organization PPS [Polska Partia Socjalistyczna, the Polish Socialist Party], in order to organize the cobblers, a trade almost exclusively in non-Jewish hands.
Exhausted by working a 16 hour day, under unhealthy conditions, for very low pay, the Polish worker was understandably very embittered. Despite that, it was not easy to organize this population, because of their very low cultural level. It was much easier to incite them to their own detriment against the Jews, as their supposed national enemy, than to convince them, for their own benefit, to work together in the social arena with Jewish workers for their common interests. But the Poalei Zion did not cease its strenuous efforts to bring together the backward Polish element, to make clear to him his difficult situation, convincing him of the real possibility of improving his condition and encouraging him, through the trade union, to join in a united struggle for better conditions.
Often these gatherings were disrupted by the Polish police, armed with guns and billy clubs, who, at every sentence that displeased them, threatened the speakers with breaking up the meeting and arresting them. Despite the persecution by the police, and the above mentioned difficulties, which, justifiably or not, drew their nourishment from the long, deep- rooted antagonism between Jews and Poles, we managed to carry on with our important work, trying at these meetings to clarify the questions of the daily struggle for bread and freedom.
The working class youth of Staszów, who were unable for lack of financial resources, to continue their studies beyond elementary school, never stopped following all the current events, and closely studying scholarly texts, in seeking an answer to tormenting problems. The life of Jewish young people, who not only had to support themselves, but often also their poor parents and overburdened families, provided fertile ground for social and political consciousness. To transform this consciousness into an organized and socially transformative power this is what the young worker sought and found in the ranks of Poalei Zion.
When the party was declared illegal[2], it reappeared under the name Society for Evening Classes, and continued its organizing activity. But, in order not to be surprised by the police, it was absolutely necessary to set up a system of lookouts, complete with a pre-determined signal, all along the entire length of Tume Street [Jewish name for Kościelna, or Church Street[3]], where our premises were located.
At that time, our party meetings took place in private homes, each time in a different place. Also, the party's circulars and appeals, which urged the population to fight against economic and socio-political oppression, were produced and distributed in secret. Despite these security measures, the police tirelessly continued their wild dance and, hovered like birds of prey, trying to catch people.
Every meeting they uncovered led to arrests and confinement in the koza [town jail[4]]. The party's executive committee-- consisting of J. Buchman, Y. Bloch, A. Goldflus, M. Czapnik, and Kh. Solnik paid no attention to the difficulties. They not only continued with their work, but expanded it, establishing contact with neighboring towns like Stopnica, Chmielnik, Pacanów, Iwaniska, and others, in order, with the help of our members, to strengthen the local branches.
Yung Bor,[5] a youth organization established by the party, recruited children from age 10 and up. Mainly, these children came from the poorest segments of the Jewish population, from homes often consisting of only one room, in which there lived a large family, and which at the same time served as a workshop. These children of poverty, who were deprived of the most basic necessities, and grew up in hunger and cold, were, through the hard work of the organization, transformed into future party activists and cultural representatives of the town. Those participating in the educational program of Yung Bor were: Sh. Erlichman, Y. Bloch, T. Wassercier, Kh. Solnik and others.
The party was in close contact with the Central Committee, whose representatives would visit from time to time and encourage us in our political-cultural work. At our invitation, cultural figures from the town, who weren't members of the party, would participate in our cultural work. One of these was Majer Wajl, a teacher, pedagogue, and literary expert.
In the box evenings which took place every Saturday night, anyone could throw into the box [for discussion by the group] a question on any topic that weighed on his soul. It often happened, that after a lecture or other intellectual gathering, the audience went off into the fields, bursting with joy and song, marching in step. The members enjoyed these opportunities to the fullest extent, inhaling the fresh-smelling air so necessary after a difficult workday at a machine in crowded, stifling homes.
Often, our joy was maliciously spoiled by the so-called defenders of morality, the Polish police, who couldn't stand to see us enjoying ourselves in the midst of nature. When they approached us in their heavy hob-nailed shoes, threatening us with beatings and arrest, we had no choice but to disperse. But after leaving the fields, we went to the market square; chased from the market square, we appeared in the town park. So went the game we played until late at night. But we never got tired, never gave in, continuing our collective excursions in the expanses beyond the town.
When we heard the footsteps of the police, we thought: There go the destroyers of our freedom. But our convictions were unshakeable, and soon would come the day of liberation, the day when this arm of power would be removed and in its place would be established a regime of rights and justice for all of the oppressed.
In this unbalanced struggle we saw not only the expression of oppression by a different social class, but also, and more importantly, the revelation of an eternally enrooted hatred toward our people. Conscious that we were being persecuted mostly because of our nationality, we were strengthened in our determination to fight for the ideal of national liberation, just as we did for social liberation the ideal that after so many generations of oppression would be realized in the land of Israel.
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p.206 The Youth Committee of the Left Paolei Zion
Seated: Khaye Solnik, I. Czapnik, Yankev Yosef Bloch
Standing: K. Wassercier, T. Wassercier, M.L. Czapnik
[Page 207]
By Ya'akov Buchman, Paris
Translated by Miriam Leberstein
Geographically, Staszów was located 22 kilometers from the Wisła [Vistula River], which divided Russian Poland from Galician Poland. It was part of Kielce Wojewódstwo [Voivodship], Sandomierz Powiat [District]. The town numbered 10,000, of which one half were Jews.
With the exception of a few rich men, great poverty reigned among us. As a result, our town here, I mean our Jewslived a rich spiritual and intellectual life. Staszów had two besmedroshim [sing. besmedresh study house, also used as house of worship] and the voice of the Torah resounded throughout the town. The besmedroshim produced not only rabbis, but also activists of the political, social and cultural movements. Staszów boasted a rich library, which was renowned even in the farther reaches of the region. Not only did we partake of the intellectual influences that came to us from Warsaw or Vilna (Wilno), we passed them on to the smaller towns nearby.
On our own initiative, we established drama circles, educational institutions, sports clubs and reading rooms. Most of our events were attended not only by our own Staszower audiences, but also by people from the surrounding areas. Interestingly, larger groups would chip in to rent a wagon, travelling 3 or 4 miles by oxcart, to arrive, singing, in town. Those who couldn't afford to hire a wagon, but who were impelled by a fervent interest in Yiddish, would come by foot from the surrounding towns. And it should be noted that often these events would start at 11 o'clock at night, because they waited for people who were trudging along the roads and didn't want them to worry that they might be late.
The pioneer of the Socialist movement in Staszów was the Bund[1]. It sowed the first seeds. But, slowly, in response to the Russian Revolution, new winds began to blow. The impoverished population, especially the youth, earnestly believed that the revolution would solve all of its painful problems. This belief tore the youth away from the besmedroshim, and from their fathers' influence. Various organizations were created and developed, which completely changed the intellectual character of the town.
The bourgeois parties in Staszów operated legally, but we, the Left Poalei Zionists, were considered by the Polish police to be a destructive element and we had to endure much trouble from them. The police often came to our premises, which bore the name, Society for Evening Classes, where we conducted our cultural-educational activities. Finally, we were forced to conduct our programs outdoors, or in private residences, in a purely conspiratorial fashion, because in the eyes of the extremely reactionary and anti-Semitic police[2], every one of our activities was considered treyf [non-kosher, unclean].
It would happen that the police would drop in at our premises and as soon as they encountered some kind of gathering, they would curse us in the vilest language, threatening to close our hangout. At one such occurrence, the Staszów police chief demanded that I, as the person in charge, should resign as chairman of the Society for Evening Classes. Insisting on my resignation, he threatened me, and even my parents, with economic ruin. Not only was I not frightened off, but I served my ideals with even greater dedication and proudly spread it among the young, in the belief that by realizing the socialist ideal, we would be rid of such scoundrels.
We were especially concerned with drawing into the movement the children of poor homes, who suffered from an inferiority complex. Because of their social background, the children of tailors, cobblers, wagon drivers and the like, were considered by our upper crust to be inferior human beings. The socialist movement in general, and the Jewish socialist circles everywhere, as well as in our town such as the Bund, Hashomer Hatzair, and Poalei Zion fought against this prejudice. We had an impact on these social groups, and in fact, from these young people there emerged adults with a healthy worker's psychology, and Jews with a proud social and national consciousness.
We suffered greatly from a shortage of teachers and educators, as a result of two factors. First, we had a rather small intelligentsia of our own because our party consisted of workers, who because of their poverty, were not in a position to continue their studies. The second factor was emigration, through which we very often lost well-trained party leaders, cultural leaders, educators and trade union activists. All of them were children of poor parents, and they themselves were unable to make a living and were forced to emigrate.
At that time, the Palestine authorities did not allow any Left Paolei Zionists into Israel, and those members for whom emigration was a necessity and whose greatest desire was to go to Israel, had to emigrate, against their will, to somewhere else. So, time and again, another member of the leadership was snatched from us as by a bird of prey. So it was with our comrades Penczyna[3], Sh. Tenenbaum, M. Czapnik, A. Krakauer, F. Ajzenberg, who live today in the Americas. A few, like Y. Bloch and Khaye Solnik were able to break through the gates of the Palestine authorities and live today in Israel.
Each time we lost an active leading member, another took his place and had to work hard to replace him, by educating and developing himself. In this way, we continued to create new cadres of members, who were previously backward and limited in their knowledge and party experience, but who, as a result of their efforts, rose on the party ladder.
Of course, the comrades from Hashomer Hatzair also helped us in our educational work, because they were recruited from the prosperous class, and a lot of them already had cultural experience: they were students in the town gimnazjum [academic high school], a thing the children of the poor could only dream of. Comrade Majer Wajl (lives today in Israel) deserves special mention in this area.
The Hashomer Hatzair, which did not conduct any political activities in the lands of the diaspora, nevertheless understood that we, the Poalei Zion, were the party closest to their ideology, and they often supported us in the trade union, in cultural work, in political work, and in election campaigns.
We also had to put up with and to fight against the anti-Semitic movement, which penetrated into Staszów from the big city. We especially had to defend ourselves against the students of the Polish gimnazjum, who organized boycotts and attacks upon the Jewish youth, who liked to read and study in the midst of beautiful, free nature, in the town's public garden, and on the Golejów Road, which led to the fields and woods, and which was our favorite place to walk. The Polish gimnazjum students tried to drive us away from all of these places, and we were forced to set up a self-defense organization, in which all the Jewish parties participated. Reacting with physical force against those who sought to drive us into a cramped ghetto, we reclaimed our right to enjoy fresh air.
In writing and describing the anti-Semitic actions of the Polish students against the Jews, I recall bitter memories of the behavior of the adult Polish population, the endeks [member of the ND, the Polish National Democratic Party[4]], and especially of the so-called [class] conscious Polish working class, I mean the Polish socialists, during the Nazi occupation. But I will write more about this below.
Until the outbreak of the war I was one of the two members of the Staszów town council from the Left Poalei Zion; the other was Comrade Mordka Goldfeder[5]. [2] Despite the fact that the Polish Socialist Party also had two councilmen, it was I, who, at the council meetings, very often spoke out against the clergy, against reactionism, and in defense of the working class, Polish as well as Jewish.
The meetings of the town council would attract many Polish socialist and communist leaning workers, who would listen to my speeches, applaud me, and finally, after the meeting, they would come up to me and shake my hand for my devoted defense of the workers' interests.
All of this was well and good, until the war broke out and the Germans invaded. Then I immediately saw, actually from the very first day, the tragic degradation of the supposedly class conscious Polish workers. Only one thing remained of their socialism: Anti-Semitism. All of them, just like the rest of the Polish people, were crazed with hatred of the Jews and the desire to annihilate them.[6]
Here I will relate the following facts:
Immediately after the Germans arrived and began persecuting the Jews, they promulgated a law, forbidding Christian doctors from seeing or providing any kind of medical treatment to Jews. It just happened that my wife fell gravely ill, and I took her to the Polish Doctor Niewirowicz, also a former councilman, with whom I had been quite friendly. How great was my surprise when Niewirowicz not only refused to help my sick wife, he didn't even want to shake my hand.
The debasement of the Poles and especially of the Polish working masses, who had so quickly united with the enemies of the Jews, was one more tragic experience for my Jewish socialist consciousness.
Just like all of Poland, which was in such a tragic way emptied of all of its Jews, so is Staszów today free of Jews. There is no longer any Jewish life there, and certainly no Jewish youth, who used to walk while singing along the Golejów Road to the fields and woods and enjoy their best hours there. The trees of the forest would listen to the voices and to the laughter of the Jewish young people, who in the lap of nature, dreamed of liberating the world, loved, and felt happy. This Jewish youth was cut down, killed and the forest there has been orphaned; it remembers and thinks about those golden dreams and days, which were so tragically cut off.
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[p 209] A group of members of Poalei Zion
[p210] Left Poalei Zion with Yankev Buchman at its head
[Page 211]
By Yeshayohu Lowczyk, Montevideo
Translated by Miriam Leberstein
In the heroic battle fought by the united workers' movement in Poland in the period after the First World War, the workers and masses of Staszów inspired by the October Revolution [Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, 1917], and other factors contributed an interesting chapter on the stubborn, fearless struggle for a better tomorrow.
In the time period we are talking about, the Jewish community in Staszów was among the most developed both socio-politically and culturallyin the Kielce area. Who does not remember how our communal life bubbled over with [political] parties, institutions, choruses, clubs, schools, libraries, reading rooms, etc.? Who can forget, how after work, our books under our arms, we would fill the streets, gardens and fields with song and conversation, that resounded for kilometers around? And the meetings, lectures, and masuvkes [outdoor gatherings] of the various political orientations, from extreme right to extreme left.
When a lecturer appeared in town and we used to bring in the best speakers the biggest locations, mostly the big besmedresh[1], would be packed with listeners, who lusted after knowledge and information, following everything that was going on in the wide world. Often we invited speakers to secret meetings, of course in private homes, given the danger of discovery by the police, which poked its nose into every corner.
And the ardor and fanaticism of the election battles for the Sejm (Parliament), or for the town council, during which each party tried to outdo the others with its agitation and sensational sloganeering! I remember how, during one such election, one party posted on banners this slogan, among others: Do you want bread, a home, work? Then vote for our slate!
Against the background of this politically impassioned Jewish community, the Jewish workers of Staszów almost 100% of them organized in strong trade unions and other organizations and institutions carried out successful strikes, taking over an array of socio-economic and political posts. But it must be emphasized that among this aware, dynamic, working class of Staszów, a significant place was occupied by the radical left wing.
Despite the illegal status under which the radical left was forced to carry out the work of enlightenment, when mere membership posed the threat of years of imprisonment, we fearlessly continued our activities in all areas. Years before the outbreak of the Second World War, this revolutionary part of the Staszów working class instinctively perceived the danger of the coming war, and even then, in the proclamations it distributed under the noses of the hostile police, emphasized the need to fight against the danger of war.
Also at this time, there were risky attempts to organize May Day demonstrations, which even important industrial cities with much larger proletariats didn't dare to carry out, because of the prevailing political conditions in Poland. In fact, their boldness ended very badly.
Because of a provocateur, a wave of arrests and long prison sentences fell upon our betrayed comrades. But, despite this heavy blow, we did not give up our ideological and organizational enlightenment work. Moreover, the very same comrades, returning to the town after serving their prison sentences, voluntarily signed up again to work for the party, despite the personal danger this presented.
This unceasing, stubborn workers' struggle against the enslaving socio-economic and cultural-political conditions, despite its futility and constant victimization, continued until the outbreak of the Holocaust of the Second World War that very Holocaust in which Hitlerism, unfortunately supported by other powers, destroyed all the Jewish communities that fell under its odious regime, including our dear Staszów.
Honor to their eternal memory.
[Page 213]
By Yonatan Tochterman, Tel Aviv
Translated by Miriam Leberstein
As soon as life began to normalize after the end of the First World War, and a handful of young fellows, amateurs, began to play futbol on the wide meadows outside the town, or on the pipale, a group of dedicated fanatics, under the leadership of this writer, seized the initiative to begin to organize a soccer club worthy of the name.
The group began its work with extremely modest resources. In addition, the number of players who were ready to devote a large portion of their free time to physical development was very, very small. This was entirely unsurprising, considering the general cultural climate in which the youth of Staszów lived. Thus, they barely managed to assemble a single section of soccer players, a bit more than a team, whose entire possessions consisted of a 4 by 4 [meters] room somewhere in a corner on Stodolni [Barn] Street, a playing ball, and a pair of short underwear.
It didnt take long, before this modest sport club, which at that time called itself Blitz, began to grow rapidly. New members streamed in, and the soccer team grew significantly stronger. They also added a number of sections of light athletics, such as bicycling, gymnastics, etc.
The work of the greatly expanded club went beyond sports activities. Even externally, it could be seen that the club was becoming more established. At its new, much nicer and larger premises, which were behind the movie theater, it already was offering a whole array of sports activities, such as gymnastics, ping-pong and the like. In addition, every team in each section was provided with uniforms. From time to time, they held evening events at the new premises, the significant proceeds of which were used to sustain the already existing sports programs and to add new ones.
The club, which had in the meantime changed its name to HaKoach, in recognition of the then-renowned Viennese sport club by that name, would often engage various theater troupes, such as that of Sigmund Turkow, or sports appearances by the well-known Jewish athlete Gerszon Brajtbard and his ensemble. These events, which took place in the movie theater or the firemens hall, brought in significant income, which enabled the club to improve and expand the sports program, with all kinds of new equipment, etc. At the same time, the sportsmen and their supporters satisfied their cultural needs, a factor which, by Staszower standards, was very important.
As noted, the activity of HaKoach was greatly expanded, encompassing a whole array of sports, providing necessary, suitable equipment, etc. But it must be stressed that the main emphasis was on the development and technical training of the soccer section. In this regard, it should be noted that from time to time, we were visited by one of the best players from the łódź HaKoach, Romek Segal, a fellow townsman of ours, who devoted a lot of time and effort to training our soccer players, especially when they were getting ready for a match with other clubs.
This intensive program brought honor to our athletes, as well as to the whole Jewish population of the town, when, as often occurred, they emerged the victors in their matches with military sports units, or with Jewish or Christian teams from the surrounding area.
When the club later moved, for the third time, to a new location, at Yechezkiel Herszkowiczs building on Kościelna Street, and was also legalized by the starostwo [town administration], it organized a wind orchestra. This was accomplished through the efforts of members of the leadership, who worked devotedly with me, including: Mordka Tenenbaum (called Patekl); Noyekh Frydman; Herszel Nisencwajg; White Meyer (Wajnryb); Yisroeletsh Tenenbaum; Leybush Wajsbrod, and others.
In the beginning, the orchestra had very few participants, and a limited number of instruments. But, with time, the orchestra, like the club before it, expanded its activities, after it got more, new instruments. Then it became possible to hire a special teacher, and to acquire an impressive collection of sheet music. At that time, the club orchestra was already being invited to Polish parades, at which it would play various musical pieces, mostly marches.
Although the membership of the club was politically diverse, as a whole it was nationalist-leaning, so that the orchestra took special satisfaction in participating in the annual Lag Baomer celebrations of the towns Zionist youth.
These important sports activities of the HaKoach club, and its positive influence on the physical development of the youth of Staszów, continued until the last day of the existence of Staszóws Jewish community. During the Nazi catastrophe, a significant portion of them fought for their lives, and many of them managed to survive and live today in other countries.
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p.214 Members of the sports club Blitz
p.215 Members of the sports club HaKoach
[Page 216]
By Moshe Rotenberg
Translated by Miriam Leberstein
The interest that art held for the youth of Staszów was expressed not only in the field of music, but also in their intense involvement in theater and dramatic arts. This attraction to theater had its roots in the traditional Purim players who, many years ago, devoted much energy and effort to present their comical sketches for the holiday of Purim.
Although their Purim productions, such as The Sale of Joseph to the Egyptians and Ahaseurus, were rather primitive when viewed from our later perspective, it must be emphasized that the actors were inspired by a need for artistic expression and were not deterred by the pitiful inadequacy of their material resources.
Later, with the expansion of organizational life in the town, their artistic sensibility became more refined. Under the leadership of the gifted Pinchus Frydman (Pinchusl Volvele's), and with the help of the brothers Yankele and Shimen Frydman (the sons of Mates Frydman), a Chanukah Evening program was organized in 1914, during the First World War. In the same year, they also put on a Purim program, with the participation of a group of mandolin players and a small chorus, and also two young people, Tuvie and Yankele Marshalek.
With the coming of age of a fresh crop of young talent, girls and boys fresh out of the heder and besmedresh, Pinchus Frydman directed more polished theater productions. The participants in these amateur productions consisting of recitations, short sketches, and Yiddish and Hebrew folk songs include Leahke Nudelman, Esterl and Blimele Lilienblum, Leahke Tochterman, Naftali Frydman, and this writer.
Just how much the town youth thirsted for artistic enjoyment can be seen by the fact that they flocked to these productions despite their remote location, in the hall of Mates Frydman's tannery on the Volvark, at the far edge of the town, where they had to stumble through deep snows or mud, in the dark of night.
A new era of intensive theater activity began with the arrival of the intelligent and versatile Moshe Leyb Dajtelbaum. The great intellectual changes that were occurring in Jewish life as a result of the First World War, together with the tremendous progress of Jewish drama and theater arts in general, exerted a decisive influence on the young people. Under Dajtelbaum's skillful leadership, they presented by now, in the Fireman's Hall such plays as God, Man and the Devil, The Yeshiva Boy, The Jewish King Lear, The Wild Man, Tkies Kaf [The Vow], and many others. The following acted in these productions: Miss Edelsberg , Wolf Ajzenberg, Meyer Ajzenberg (Meyer the Lame), Mordkhe Sosiezwicz, Pinchusl Frydman. Moshe Dajtelbaum also directed and produced difficult, serious dramas, such as The Dybbuk, by Sh. Anski. The Dybbuk and God, Man and the Devil were produced each year in a new version, played by the new crop of rising starts.
The blossoming of the Zionist youth organizations contributed a lot to the establishment of joint drama circles, that put on theater productions to raise money for philanthropic, cultural and Zionist purposes, such as the Jewish National Fund, the I. L. Peretz Library, etc. Among those who distinguished themselves in these productions, we must note: Leahke Nudelman, Esterl Lileinblum, Yosef Winer, Naftali Frydman, Gershon Krieger, Meyer Wajnsztok, Isaac Baum, Pinchus Graubart, Shloyme Hajman, Aron Rotensztajn, Sorele Hauer, Rokhl Segal, Esther Rotenberg, et al.
In addition to Moyshe Dajtelbaum, the town had another gifted, professional director Yudl Mirtenbaum, who for purely materialistic motives would strive to produce, using the modest, local resources, very serious plays, like Mirele Efros, The Strongman in Chains,and The Kreutzer Sonata. Although Mirtenbaum and Dajtelbaum differed greatly in their artistic and cultural conceptions about theater directing, both of them made major contributions to the development of the amateur actors. Young people from nearby towns would flock to their productions, to enjoy an evening in a cultural atmosphere, which in most cases was lacking in their towns. The players would also go out on tour to nearby towns like Stopnica, Busko, Chmielnik, Szydlów, etc.
These amateurs would become so confident that many of them, including Yosef Winer and Shloyme Hajman, would work on sketches, comedies, etc. on their own. Hajman even dared to take his troupe of actors to the nearby town of Stopnica.
Our own experts would, on their own, organize larger Chanukah evenings, memorial events in honor of Dr. Herzl, mostly with members of Hashomer Hatsair, or in partnership with other Zionist organizations with a large wellrehearsed chorus, violinists, recitations, and pictures. And everything was done not only with dedication but also with talent. There were also vocal music concerts put together from a series of current songs and small chorus pieces and sketches, or a bit of violin music. By this time, the performances were being held in the hall of the former Russian Orthodox Church.
These theatrical efforts evoked opposition and scandals on the part of the very religiously observant segments of the town. These people did everything they could to prevent the boys and girls from carrying out the tasks they had set for themselves, in their deeply held belief that they were carrying out a highly useful work, for themselves, for the youth, and for the entire secular Jewish social sector.
[Illustration, Page 217]
Theater Program for The Slaughter
Drama in Four Acts by Yakov Gordin
performed January 18 for the benefit of the Society for Shelter for the Poor
|Reb Zisl Kroynes, a religious judge
|Mr. Ingber
|Krayne, his wife
|Miss A. Goldflus
|Esterke, their only daughter
|Miss S.H. Kanies
|Shmuel Yosel, their nephew
|Mr. B. Wajnsztok
|Reb Tselal Rapaport, a rich merchant
|N. Lipszyc
|Sheyne Khenie, his daughter from his first wife
|Miss R. Lilienbaum
|Bentshik, his son from his second wife
|Mr. Sh. Hajman
|Fraulein Luisa, their governess
|Miss R. Wolman
|Reb Elkanan, their employee
|Mr. K. Lewowicz
Directed by Mr. I. Mirtenbaum
[Illustration, Page 218]
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