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The Chicago Fire's announcement of Nery Castillo as the club's new Designated Player at Toyota Park Saturday night was a small pick-me-up for fans that had just witnessed the side suffer its fourth consecutive defeat in the month of July. The 1-0 loss to the New England Revolution eliminated the Fire from SuperLiga 2010, just one year after finishing as runners-up in the tournament.
The defeat was symbolic of the Fire's season so far – outplaying a team for the course of the match only to be undone by a mental mistake in the back.
Rookie Kwame Watson-Siriboe found himself under pressure and coughed up the ball in the back, allowing Revolution striker Kheli Dube to touch a pass to Marko Perovic. The Serbian let loose with a 25-yard shot that caught another Fire rookie, goalkeeper Sean Johnson off guard in the 77th minute.
It's a mistake that could have been felt less had the Fire finished some of their early chances, as Mike Banner hit the post and Deris Umanzor put a close-range effort over the bar during the first half.
Since returning from the World Cup break on June 27, the Fire have scored three goals across five matches in all competitions. That number looks worse when you mention one of the strikes was an own goal scored by Frankie Hejduk in the club's 2-1 loss at Columbus on July 3. In the month of July only one Fire player has tallied a goal, with rookie defender Steven Kinney scoring his first professional goal in the 5-1 loss to Monarcas Morelia Wednesday night at Toyota Park.
These are all reasons the club pulled the trigger in bringing the Mexican international to Toyota Park.
"You look for somebody fresh to come in and spark the group," said Fire original defender C.J. Brown. "It's going to be exciting for Chicago with a high-profile Mexican player coming in. Hopefully that brings a little more spirit from the team and brightens the Fire a bit."
Castillo's reputation as a player with an edge about him is well known, but the Fire veteran thinks this should be a welcome quality in a new player.
"I think his attitude will be helpful. You always want someone with a little attitude and hopefully he really sparks it on the field. That's what this club has always been about. We fight when we need to fight and we play when we need to play. You look at [Cuauhtemoc] Blanco, you look at [Peter] Nowak – they both had the same type of edge that Nery has. I think his addition will be good for us in more ways than one."
With six goals, midfielder Marco Pappa leads the Fire in scoring this season. The Guatemalan international is positive about the club's new addition, while making clear that one player can't turn everything around.
"I know he's a very explosive and fast player," said Pappa. "I think he will help in our effort to score and create goals where we've fallen off a lot recently. I would think he's familiar with the current situation the team is in and it's not only his responsibility to rescue us -- we'll all look to find ways to win our matches. We don't expect one player to come and fix all of our problems; it's a goal the whole team needs to work towards. Regardless, we will welcome him with open arms so that he can feel comfortable and at home. "
While many have celebrated Castillo's addition, recognizing the club's need for an offensive injection, some lauded it as a high risk, noting that the striker has played sparingly since leaving Greek giants Olympiakos in 2007.
My question: What Designated Player signing isn't a risk?
Since MLS implemented the Designated Player rule in 2007, players that have been tagged as DP's have generally been much older than Castillo, who at 26 is the second youngest Designated Player in League history.
As DP's have gone, it's been about a 50/50 success rate the last three years.
David Beckham wasn't immediately effective for the Los Angeles Galaxy and everyone remembers the failure of Denilson with FC Dallas. Houston's Luis Landin didn't like Robertson Stadium on Fire and it's fair to say Claudio Reyna was poor at the end of his storied career with the New York Red Bulls.
Though initially leaving a bit to be desired, Beckham came good for the Galaxy last season, joining the Red Bulls' Juan Pablo Angel, Seattle's Freddy Ljungberg and the Fire's previous DP Cuauhtemoc Blanco as players that have come to play and be respected for their time in Major League Soccer.
Like many a MLS Designated Player, Castillo joins the Fire after hitting a career snag. The Mexican international has experienced strife both on and off the field which may explain his more recent lack of playing time the past few seasons.
Following an impressive showing with Mexico during the 2007 Gold Cup and Copa America tournaments, Castillo became the Ukrainian league's most expensive transfer with his €20 million move from Olympiakos to Shakhtar Donetsk in July 2007.
The following January the striker went out on loan to Manchester City. The move began well but the striker suffered a setback when he sustained a shoulder injury that kept him out for a number of months. Upon his return, the club had started to move in a new direction, resulting in his return to Donetsk before where he was eventually loaned out again to Ukraine's Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.
During much of this time, Castillo had to deal with the passing of both his mother and father who both lost battles with cancer within 11 months of each other. His mother Myriam in January and father Nery in December 2009.
"It has been difficult," said Castillo in a Fire Q&A session earlier this week. "I am dealing with their loss. I have my wife, my daughter. I have my brother. Together, we support each other. My parents had to leave for a reason. Now I have to continue on."
While with Club America in the 1980's, current Fire head coach Carlos de los Cobos played a number of times against the elder Castillo during his time with San Luis de Potosi in the Mexican Primera. "Nery's father was was a very good player," said the Fire boss Tuesday morning. "He was a fast, creative midfield player and very difficult to mark because he had a strong personality and was always looking to attack. He was a very difficult player to defend against because of his personality and he passed that on to his son. Though we weren't on the same team, Nery and I were friends. I knew him well and I knew his son too. I'm looking forward to being his manager."
De los Cobos expects to use Castillo as a second striker next to either former U.S. international Brian McBride or this season's Dutch import Collins John in bolstering the recently stalled Fire attack.
"My intention is to use Nery as a forward – his qualities and characteristics will compliment players like Brian and Collins. I think with Nery on the field we have another valuable option in the attack. At the end of the day this signing is positive because he's a very competitive player and one that we expect to add a lot of offense to our team."
The team will get to meet its newest player and de los Cobos will reacquaint himself with Castillo when he arrives in Chicago later this week.
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There were a number of things that made CoH great, first and foremost the teaming - it was just fun. Sidekicking and exemplaring meant anyone (pretty much) could team with anyone else and teaming tended to benefit people due to the nature of the missions.
One of the other factors I think that impacted on the above was the limited penalty for dying. There was no equipment damage incurred by dying, just debt which lets face it, could be burnt off fairly quickly. You didn't have to exit the mission to go and repair and thus interrupt gameplay. It just halved the speed of your leveling for a bit.
Additionally, due to wakies, player rezs and, at worst, the hospitals there was no huge delay on respawning and very rarely any amount of running back from a hospital to the mission entrance. Even if you did need to run back the travel powers made it pretty quick (I'm ignoring the first incarnation of the hollows here - shudders) [a team mate with tp exiting the mission to port you was always nice as well)
I think that these two together combined to mean that, though not a happy occurance, even a team wipe wasn't a major issue, game play wasn't overly interrupted and people didn't get angsty with one another for being a n00b and ruining the mission. within minutes you'd all be rezd and ready to have at it again. This is in turn part of what i think helped make the game so friendly and encouraged teaming.
The point of this post? - CoT please don't have death overly impact on the gameplay, yes there should be a consequence but i think CoH proved it doesn't need to be particularly detrimental. I can't be doing with mmos which make me run for 10 minutes before i get back to my body and can rez. It's just not fun.

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The operator of a boat carrying members of a wedding party that crashed into a barge on the Hudson River Friday night, killing a bride and her fiance's best man while injuring three others, including the groom, has been arrested on suspicion of intoxication.
A woman's body was found by rescuers off the shore of Piermont, N.Y. Saturday that is believed to be the body of Lindsey Stewart, 30. Her fiance, Brian Bond, 36, was also injured in the crash near the Tappan Zee Bridge. They were set to marry in two weeks.
Authorities said the 35-year-old driver, described as an acquaintance of the couple, is charged with first-degree vehicular manslaughter and second-degree vehicular assault. Police say there is probable cause that the he was intoxicated.
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The woman's body was found near the bridge, Rockland County Undersheriff Bob Van Cura said Saturday afternoon.
The best man, Mark Lennon, remains missing.
Stewart's stepfather, Walter Kosik, said the bride and groom had known each other since they were 10 years old.
The Coast Guard said the six boaters were on a 21-foot Stingray near Piermont when it hit the barge at around 10:40 p.m.
Earlier as rescuers searched for the missing bride and best man, relatives held out hope.
"We're praying for a miracle," said Carol Stewart, the bride's mother.
The four injured were taken to the hospital and officials described their injuries as severe, including head trauma and broken bones. Van Cura said they are expected to recover.
Kosik said Bond, the groom, was unable to speak because of the severity of his injuries.
Investigators say that while it would have been dark in the area at the time of the crash, the barge was lit up. The New York State Thruway Authority said all barge lighting was found to be operational Saturday morning.
It was unclear how fast the boat was going.


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The last time I saw Kate Beckinsale in skintight black leather was… in my dreams… but before that, it was in Underworld: Evolution, the second film in the stylized franchise about vampires, werewolves and soft core porn. After merely a cameo appearance in the third, nearly series-slaying Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Beckinsale, having not been in a better movie since, is back as Selene, and everything else is back to the way they were.
Well, not really. Humans have since discovered that vampires and werewolves exist and have proceeded to wipe most of them from the face of the planet. As for Selene, she's been captured and frozen in carbonite - or ice or something - in a lab, and her boy toy vampwolf is allegedly dead, because humans are apparently much deadlier than winged beasts of the night. When Selene breaks free, she discovers nearly a decade has passed and sets out to find other survivors.
The rest of Underworld: Awakening proceeds just as expected, with plenty of slow motion shots, dark, flashy graphics and Kate Beckinsale looking all pissed off and shit. For fans of Underworld, that's good news. For everyone else, it's just more of the same.
The original Underworld was a hyper-stylized action-horror flick that didn't break any new ground but presented a fun, action-packed and leather-filled story to audiences. Since then, the franchise has delivered nothing new, relying on the same old tricks. Despite the film's promising premise, directing duo Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein simply stay the course, while taking a step backwards when it comes to visual effects. There's a bigger werewolf and the humans are more of a threat, but the action scenes have been done before, and better. Perhaps the visuals looked good in 3D, but flattened to 2D high definition on Blu-ray, they are glaringly CGI. And not good CGI.
Underworld: Awakening had potential to expand on its roots, pitting not only vampire against werewolf (sorry, lycan) but also against humans. There are endless possibilities to develop complex plot twists, shifting alliances and exciting action scenes, but the filmmakers don't take advantage, opting to go the easy route. In the end, Underworld: Awakening is yet another movie where vampires and werewolves battle.
If that's your cup of blood, there are worse movies than Underworld: Awakening. It definitely doesn't leave me thirsting for more, however.
The Underworld: Awakening Blu-ray comes with filmmakers' commentary, blooper reel, a music video and five behind-the-scenes featurettes.
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"Selenium users generally fall into two different camps -- coders who prefer Selenium RC and non-coders who tend to use Selenium IDE. There used to be no bridge between them," said Selenium creator Jason Huggins. "Sauce IDE bridges that gap by pre-wiring the option to tap directly into the Sauce OnDemand cloud-hosted Selenium service. You get access to a sophisticated test infrastructure without all the back breaking and mind-numbing work."
A key feature in Sauce IDE is record and playback. Users who select the Sauce OnDemand option within Sauce IDE get a video of every test that runs, providing a tangible record for review of either test verifications or failures.
"Sauce IDE lets users run Selenium tests across multiple browsers and operating systems without the headache of configuring and maintaining a test environment," added Sauce Labs' John Dunham. "Just select the Sauce OnDemand option within Sauce IDE and you instantly get the cross-browser testing, you get the video results, and you don't have to do anything differently other than clicking a button."


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A year after signing on as news director for first one, then two new television stations, Ric Barrick is out of here.
Barrick, who was not available for last week's story, "Where's Ric? New weatherman off the radar," tells The Hook why he's no longer forecasting for Charlottesville's newest stations.
"My one-year contract is up, and I decided not to renew," he says. Besides, he has a weather forecasting job in Portland, Oregon, that leapfrogs him from the 185th largest television market– Charlottesville– to market number 24.
The primary lure that led the 1985 UVA meteorology grad back to Charlottesville was the opportunity to spend time with his family. His father, attorney Richard Barrick, was Charlottesville commonwealth's attorney for 12 years.
"It'll be tough to leave my parents," says Barrick, but after the year back in his hometown, "I'll have a better relationship with my parents."
Barrick, hired as news director at the new CBS station, WCAV-19, wanted to work on starting up a new station. "I got to do that," he says. And then parent company Gray Television acquired a license for WVAW-16, an ABC affiliate, and this year announced the addition of Fox affiliate WAHU.
WCAV news went on the air without fanfare November 18. "We had to have the news on the air in a period we didn't feel comfortable with, but FCC rules said we had to," he says. "We did the very best we could." WVAW began broadcasting news February 7.
Barrick says he decided to leave in February, but wanted to stay through the Nielsen sweeps in May.
He's not the first new hire to go. Gray had signed Bill Varecha, who owned an NBC affiliate in Grand Junction, Colorado, to start up WCAV and WVAW.
"He's not with the company anymore," says Barrick. "He had a tough job to do, and if he had the chance again, I'm sure he'd do it differently."
Barrick credits new general manager Roger Burkett, who arrived November 6, for "getting it right."
Varecha doesn't agree that choices he made during his start-up stint needed to be changed. "They didn't have to do that," he says. "Everyone has a different opinion on what equipment is needed."
More importantly, says Varecha, "We saved the license under a six-month deadline. We went on the air in a trailer."
Varecha sold his KKCO station in Grand Junction to Gray in February, and he's still buying and selling stations. "I just made an offer on a TV station in Jackson, Tennessee," he says.
Ric Barrick says he's looking forward to heading west. "I have a huge connection with nature, and it's a part of the country I've never lived in," he says.
He declines to name the Portland station until the contract is signed, and says he may do some producing in his new job. And now he can add experience with a start-up station to his resume.
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3 cNot many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2 For dwe all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, ehe is a perfect man, fable also to bridle his whole body. 3 If we put gbits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. 4 Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet hit boasts of great things.
How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And ithe tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, jstaining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life,1 and set on fire by hell.2 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, kfull of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people lwho are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers,3 these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The King University men's basketball team finally returned home to the Student Center Complex after playing their last four games on the road. However, the friendly confines of the Student Center weren't very friendly on Saturday night as the Tornado fell to Conference Carolinas rival Lees-McRae College 78-73.
The Bobcats (4-5, 10- CC) got off to a hot start, scoring the game's first four points, only to see Hunter LeVeau and Drew Standifer even the score with back-to-back buckets. Lees-McRae led by three until C.J. Good nailed his first three-point basket to tie the score at 9-9.
The score was tied for the fourth and final time a 13-13 before the Bobcats' Mike Chambers drilled a triple to give Lees-McRae the lead. With the shot clock running down, Good connected on an off balance three-point basket from the left wing to pull King within one before Lees-McRae went on a quick 5-0 spurt with a pair of free throws. After a King bucket, the Bobcats extended their lead to 29-20, their largest of the half following five straight points with 4:00 minutes left in the half.
King (3-5, 1-1 CC) answered with six straight points, capped by a Calvin Walker jumper that pulled King within 29-26 with just more than two minutes left in the frame. Nevertheless, the Bobcats closed the half on a 6-2 run to hold a 35-28 lead at the break.
Lees-McRae opened the second half by scoring eight of the first 10 points to gain their largest lead of the game at 43-30 with 18:01 remaining. However, the Tornado tried to come back as LeVeau nailed a pair of free throws to start a spurt. Michael Fortune followed with a three-point basket and Good made one-of-two free throws following a technical foul. After that, Lyle capped the 9-0 run with a free throw to pull King within 43-39 with more than 15 minutes remaining.
The Bobcats had an answer again, however, as they quickly stretched their lead back to eight points. The Lees-McRae lead hovered between four and eight points for the next five minutes until Good connected on another long range attempt to pull King within 55-52 with just under eight minutes left.
The Tornado deficit again grew to eight points following a Mike Chambers fade away jump shot that beat the shot clock from 18 feet in the left corner. However, Scottie Hendricks had an answer as he drilled three-point baskets on consecutive possessions to pull King within 67-65 with 2:54 remaining.
After Lees-McRae stretched the lead back to five points, Logan Lyle cut King's deficit to 71-70 when he made three free throws. The Tornado defense clamped down and got two steals down the stretch that would have gave King a chance to tie or take the lead, but King wasn't able to hang on to either as the Bobcats took the ball right back and iced 78-83 win at the free throw line.
Lees-McRae shot 40.7 percent from the floor while holding King to a 32.1 field goal percentage. Neither team shot well from three-point range, with the Bobcats making 28.6 percent of their attempts from long range, and King shot 22.2 percent from beyond the arc. However, both team shot well at the free throw line. Lees-McRae went 30-for-36 for an 83.3 percentage, and King made 85.3 percent (29-for-34) from the charity stripe.
Lyle led King with 15 points while Good followed with 12, and Standifer chipped in with 10 points. Standifer also grabbed a team-high eight rebounds.
King will be on the road again on Wednesday when they travel to Greeneville, Tenn., to take on Tusculum College. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.


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A PRIMARY school pupil from Risca has won a competition to design the town council's official logo.
Elen Parry, a Year 6 pupil from Risca Primary School, beat more than 100 other entries with her drawing inspired by the main gates of Risca's Tredegar Park.
Her image will now appear as the logo on all official material produced by Risca Town Council, and also as the town Mayor's badge of office.
Councillor Hazel Dupre, the Mayor of Risca Town Council, congratulated Elen at a small ceremony yesterday (Fri) and presented the youngster with a large, framed copy of her winning logo, along with a selection of drawing equipment, paints and other gifts to help her budding artistic career.
Cllr Dupre said: "We created the town council last year with a goal to develop ways to bring the community together and enable people of all ages feel part of our special town.
"So to have one of the youngest members of our community focus on a recognisable, iconic image at the very heart of our community as our official logo; well we couldn't think of anything better.
"Having worked with our pupils on a mass daffodil planting in Tredegar Park, we know that they are proud to be involved in activities that that benefit the whole community.
"So we knew that they would produce some wonderful designs for our logo. What we didn't expect was the level of creativity, colour and attention to detail.
"It was such a shame that we could only pick one winner, but we are really proud of all the work."


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Sunday, June 21, 2009
Torch Juggler
You can throw them over to a friend, and you can put them in your guild bank. This makes it quite easy to share your torches after getting the Torch Juggler achievement.
Have a group of 4-5 people complete the torch-juggling practice quest at one of your faction city bonfires, so that all are allowed to catch the juggling torches. This will reward each of you 5 torches. Each of you should keybind your torches to make them easy to spam, then, gathering in Dalaran, throw all of your torches over to one person by tossing the torches to them, targeting them with the green "aoe" type targeting marker. It is important that the target-player not move, or else the torch(es) may be lost. Edit: alternatively, you can just trade them to that player... ... ... hush, I like throwing things!! To quote the little fire elementals in Nagrand, "Reth reth reth!!"
Once one player has all of the group's torches, they should spam the torches at their own feet (targeting themselves, basically). Just keep spamming the button, and the torches will be juggled. Eventually, with enough spamming, they will get the 40-torches-in-15-seconds achievement, and they can then throw all of the torches over to the next person.
Once each person in your group has the achievement, you can put them in your guild bank for someone else to use, or toss them off to someone else. The new recipient MUST have completed the first torch-juggling quest in order to be able to catch them, however!
Mind your leaves :) You can toss torches while in cheetah form, though, so you may find travel form useful while trying to chase the dailies' torches around the screen!
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It's also good to note that these torches can be easily passed from player to player via regular face to face trading.
For players with bad lag I would highly suggest finding the most quiet spot in Dala and practicing with one or two torches to see how their lag effects how the server judges where exactly they are standing. One of the people we were doing this on wasted a couple torches due to the server thinking he was in one spot while everyone else saw him in another, even though he had positioned the green targeting circle under his own feet.
If this happens I would then suggest turning off any extra mods that are used to help balance out any possible lag.
- June 22, 2009 at 12:22 AM
- Kae said...
"It's also good to note that these torches can be easily passed from player to player via regular face to face trading."
But that's not as much fun!! XD
TY for pointing that out. Sleep deprivation makes for Kae making things more difficult than necessary!
- June 22, 2009 at 11:27 AM


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[Page 457]
by Benyamin Orensztajn
Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
When I write the word Chelm, the word falls apart into separate letters. Each letter represents for me an historical aspect of Jewish life, struggle and death.
The city of Chelm is the only one in the world that created the largest treasure of Jewish folklore, legends, stories and jokes. Entire generations spiritually fed themselves from the creations that brought bright and joyous beams to Jewish life.
I became acquainted with Chelm from a very different aspect from an ethical-moralistic basis. This was in September 1939. The night before Erev Rosh Hashanah [the eve of Rosh Hashanah], I wandered from Wlodawe to Chelm. My bicycle did not last through the long march and I led it like a fainting sick person and went on foot. A mass of people flowed. A Hasidic young man walked ahead of me, who was constantly bothered by a Polish anti-Semitic student. The anti-Semitic student kept cursing the Jews: The Jews provoked the war, the Jews were lumber merchants, they cut the trees and disturbed Poland's beautiful landscape, Jews were communists (zyda-komuna [Jew commune]), Jews have no ethics and no morals and the entire anti-Semitic lexicon screamed out of him. I moved closer to the student and I quieted him with a few words. I said to him: Jews are fighting on the front for Poland's freedom and where are you? You are a Polish patriot? You are a traitor! A Hitlerist agent! The anti-Semitic student lingered as if showered with a pail of cold water. The Hasidic young man helped me lead the bicycle and asked that we stay together. He actually beamed with satisfaction at the few words that I had said to the anti-Semitic student.
When we arrived in Chelm, a Jew stood at a large kettle and distributed coffee with which he refreshed those wandering. I looked around and saw the anti-Semitic student waiting in line for coffee. I asked him: - Well! Who has ethics and morals? The anti-Semitic student went to the ends of the earth in shame.
Despite the fact that the coffee was not of the best kind and was also not sugared enough,
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the coffee had an effect on the dry throats of the tired, exhausted wanderers like the best refreshing kind, like the best wine.
Shmuel, the Hasidic young man who had wandered with me, told me that he wanted to go to pray in a group. All of the houses of prayer were full of tired travelers. Therefore, he entered a private house where Jews prayed in a minyon [10 men needed for prayer]. Meanwhile, I went to fix my broken bicycle and promised Shmuel that I would come to the house to meet him.
I went to Shmuel when my bicycle was finished. He had one and a half rolls and pushed them into my hand, I should take them. I asked him where had he received the rolls? He answered me that the owner of the house where they had prayed had gone to the baker and bought rolls for everyone. He had a total of 45 pieces. He divided the rolls, three each, among the 15 worshiping wanderers. My host had left nothing for his family members, saying that the residents could manage to cook food, but the wandering Jews did not have any possibility to buy food. I was very moved by the noble, ethical deed of my host and also by Shmuel who wanted to divide the food with me. I did not take the one and a half rolls, arguing with the verse: It is the host's duty to care for his guests.
Shmuel decided to remain in Chelm for Rosh Hashanah and I continued my wandering with the repaired bicycle.
I traveled, moved fast with tired feet, over the roads and paths. I entered a village. A peasant greeted me and before I had a chance to speak, he said to me:
Shikata Abrama? V'tim budinku. (Are you looking for Abraham? In the building?)Several minutes later I was with a farmer named Avraham. To my surprise I saw a Jew with an imposing appearance and a long black beard with the countenance of a learned man.
Sholem aleykhem[1] Reb Avraham, I greeted him.
Aleykhem sholem a Yid, came the answer.
We began to converse. My throat and lips were dry. My face covered in sweat, my body suffering from the difficult road and, in addition, dead hungry.
May I have a glass of water? my mouth unintentionally said.[Page 459]
With me you will not drink any water. We have here, Boruch HaShem [Blessed is God], enough milk, replied Reb Avraham.Several minutes later, I was sitting at a table lavishly set with plenty of good things and I ate; actually swallowing delights with my eyes.
Reb Avraham introduced me to his family: his wife, sons, daughters, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and small grandchildren. A family, keyn eyn hore [may there be no evil eye], like an entire tribe. Everyone healthy, firmly built, thriving, developed and they multiplied like the fruit in the fields. We carried on a conversation and we created an idyllic friendship between us.
I immediately learned that there were small Jewish village communities all around that also had a rabbi and that a Jewish landowner lived not far from here. The rabbi and all of the Jews would go to him to celebrate the holiday. Reb Avraham was his khazan [cantor]. He made the last preparations, looked through the makzorum [Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur prayer books] and told his choir, which consisted of his sons and sons-in-law, that they should not sing in a flat tone.
At night everyone had to go to the landowner. I was immediately taken to have the opportunity to speak with him.
I entered the estate, a true landowner's courtyard, a large building (a castle) adorned all over with carefully planted flowerbeds blooming in various colors, rows of trees and tidy paths which led to the entrance to the castle. I saw an entire row of household buildings and stalls filled with cattle, poultry and wheat.
The landowner learned about me and wanted to speak with me immediately. I was led into a washroom. I washed myself, dusted off my clothing and shoes. I was led from there into a room where a table was set for me. I could not eat. I was irked by the fact that I had eaten so arbitrarily at Reb Avraham's. However, when I thought that a half day earlier I had simply fasted because I could not buy things and that I had exclusively found nourishment from a few carrots that I had pulled out of a field, I felt justified.
The landowner's wife appeared before me. She made the impression on me of a princess. She looked half the age that she actually was. There were golden beads hanging at her throat from which shone diamonds. Her fingers were adorned with rings from which blue-white diamonds sparkled. Her ears shone with costly earrings. She began speaking to me. My glances and attention were turned to the landowner's wife, to the Jewish princess. Her oval face, naïve eyes and snow-white teeth presented a prototype of a godly appearance. She asked me not to tell the landowner any bad news so that he would not worry. She asked why should he be disturbed on yom-tov [holiday]? She took offense that I had a human earnestness on my face. Was the truth, God forbid, as bad as I present it?
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Yes! I answered. Perhaps it is worse then I present it. How can I show a smile on my lips or contentedness on my face after the atrocious pictures I have seen in the course of my days of wandering?
In the calm atmosphere of life, in the lap of nature, where an idyllic harmony reigned between heaven and earth, my pictorial episodes had the effect of shocking the landowner's wife.
I told her that in Kaluszyn I saw how Shimeon Haranczik's son was simply ripped into small pieces by an attacking German airplane; I saw the air assault on the 33-kilometer area that demarcated Kaluszyn to Siedlce and the detonations had deafening affects. The houses in Kaluszyn shook and quaked like children's cradles. It was thought that the entire area had been severed from the earthly globe.
I told her how I had been in the city of Siedlce. No living person was seen. An entire row of houses was still burning and those who had set the fire were devouring everything possible. The smells of the burning houses and human bodies choked our throats and eyes.
It was the same in the shtetele of Zwolen. Noteworthy things took place there. All Jewish houses were exclusively destroyed there. The Aryan houses and the church remained standing on a firm rock, triumphant and victorious, as if they had defeated the Jewish houses and Jewish life.
Several kilometers before Wlodawa I saw a garden in which the all the heads of cabbage were shot through. The German pilots thought that people had hidden in the garden and these were human heads. In the morning, I met Professor Moshe Szor on the Wlodawa-Hrubieszow highway. He sat in a peasant wagon wrapped in hay, shivering from the cold.
He took me to his library room. The landowner with his patriarchal appearance, dressed in velvet and silk, as well as the library, were a pleasant surprise for me.
This was the second time in my life that I had met a Jewish landowner. The first time was in 1937 in Polesia. That meeting was during normal times. The few days I spent then were in harmony with nature and daily life, in a carefree atmosphere, with entertainment, humor, wine and song.
This time it was with a solemn mood. Firstly, because of the general situation and, secondly, because of the Rosh Hashanah holiday.
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The landowner was influenced by radio communications that he had heard about the ruthless bombardment by the Germans of open cities in Poland and about the great losses of human life and material estates.
The landowner asked me: Where is the Polish Air Force? Why is it silent? Why does it not react?
The landowner expressed his satisfaction that I was his guest for Rosh Hashanah and asked me to remain at his estate for a longer time. He took me by the hand and led me into the synagogue.
All of the Jews from the surrounding village settlements were present in the synagogue with the rabbi at the head. The praying began with the landowner going to the lectern and reciting the first three verses. After him, the rabbi recited three verses, then the khazan [cantor] took over the praying.
Reb Avraham prayed the Maariv [evening prayer] and Musaf [additional prayers added to morning service] services accompanied by a choir that consisted of his sons and sons-in-law. His lyrical tenor voice evoked wonder in me. The Hebrew reading amazement. The words of the prayers from his mouth acquired a picturesque content. He moved the men as well as the women to tears. Who knows, perhaps his ecstatic praying was the result of a boring, secret thought that this was the last Rosh Hashanah for which he was the messenger of the community? After the Maariv prayers, all, according to their prominence, sat at the long tablecloth-covered tables and celebrated the holiday food and banquet that lasted until late into the night. After, the landowner, the Rabbi, Reb Avraham and a large number of Jews sat down to study.
I became acquainted with the landowner's courtyard and with the abundant family. The landowner's wife also asked me not to leave after the holiday, but said I should remain at the estate.
On the second day of Rosh Hashanah, when Reb Avraham prayed Musaf and showed his cantorial talent, two Jews came running from Chelm. One knocked on the Torah stand and called out:
Jews, save yourselves! The Germans are in Hrubieszow; they are shooting from all sides in Chelm. The Polish military and the administration have run away. We are in danger. The Germans could arrive at any hour.Praying was interrupted and there was great confusion. The women began to cry and shudder; the rabbi called out in a sorrowful voice:
Our Father, our King, tear up the evil decree of our verdict.
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In the evening I again took my bicycle and wandered farther. I arrived in a small shtetele [small town] at the conclusion of Rosh Hashanah. I was tired and sweaty from the difficult road. The road was like a small sandy desert. Not only could I not ride on my bicycle, but I had to drag a paralyzed patient in the deep sand.
When I arrive in the shtetle and saw the first small wooden houses, I met
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a Jew who stood near a house and wore an armband with the inscription: L.A.P. (Liga Obrony Przeciwlotnicze League for Air Defense).
Sholem Alecheim a Yid [literally, hello a Jew a traditional greeting by one Jew to another] we reciprocally greeted each other. The Jew led me into his house. First, I washed myself a little. Washing in the house was not an easy procedure because they still did not know about water management. The entire family immediately became busy. My host brought water from the well. My host's wife prepared a bowl for washing and the daughter brought a towel and soap.
Meanwhile, the table was prepared as if for a holiday and I was delighted with the food. We spoke about the general situation until late at night, which created a sad mood. The family came from Chelm. Therefore, they constantly asked about Chelm relatives and acquaintances. By chance, they asked me about the Chamski brothers, who I knew well. They were photographers in Warsaw.
In the middle of the night I went to sleep in the bed prepared for me.
I woke up in the morning, when the sun shone on the eastern side of the sky and the rays burst into the small house, filling the small room with light. I did not rejoice then in the splendid nature because in those days a disharmony took place between nature and Jew. With the sun shining brighter, the suffering in Jewish life became darker. I lay awake and thought about the situation of the last days, about my wandering where I spent the night, not the day and where I spent the day, not the night. My thinking was interrupted by a light knock on the door. My host notified me that the rabbi wanted to speak with me. I began to dress more quickly. I took me shoes in my hand and I did not recognize them. My shoes had been dusty from the sand and now they shone like new. The same with my pants; they were cleaned and pressed as if just taken from the tailor. One thing was very conspicuous to me. My entire clothing had disappeared from my sacks. There were no shirts, no handkerchiefs, no pocket cloths; my tie was missing, my socks were gone. What could I do? Meanwhile, I entered the vestibule to wash. There was a hand towel hanging, a piece of soap lay for washing and I washed myself.
The kitchen door was open and to my great wonder and surprise I saw that the wife of the host was standing at the table with an iron and was pressing my underwear, my socks and ties. I remained without words and did not know what to say and how to thank her. She had washed my clothing the entire night, polished my shoes and suit and continued to iron.
I put on the washed and ironed shirt, socks and tie and went to the rabbi with my host.
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The rabbi was an older Jew with a stately appearance, a long white beard; his high forehead with deep wrinkles were those that adorn the countenance of a sage.
The rabbi questioned me, posed various questions, among others a pointed question, namely: What are the signs that Jews need to leave a city? I immediately answered the question that the moment when the police and the archives will be evacuated, the city will be threatened by the general enemy and the Jewish life will be threatened, too, by the resident anti-Semitic population that was searching for such a moment as an opportunity to stage a pogrom and loot the Jewish population.
The rabbi immediately sent the shames [synagogue official] to learn what was happening in the shtetl. The shames returned quickly with the news that the police and all of the officials and the documents were evacuated on trucks during the night.
The mood was sorrowful. The khazan stepped to the lectern to pray. After praying, with grest effort I turned away all of the invitations from the city's middle class worshippers. I knew that if I did not go to my host for breakfast, the entire family would be upset, particularly the wife of my host, who had washed and pressed my clothing all through the night.
After breakfast, the wife of my host, no, this is not the right designation, the Jewish mother, the Jewish folk-mother, asked me to remain until the afternoon and, indeed, she busied herself preparing lunch.
I accepted the invitation and remained for lunch. I had a thought that my host should go with me, that is, leave with me. However, he could not decide. Therefore, he went to confer with the rabbi. The rabbi was very worried about the situation and felt under a heavy burden of the Jewish people, for which he could not find an immediate solution. The rabbi said: It is a state of emergency and at such a time I cannot give any advice; everyone has to do as they understand, but I will not leave this place. I will remain; I will not leave my community.
My host returned broken from the rabbi. He felt the seriousness of the situation. Until this minute, he had not believed in the coming horrible storm and yet he decided, like the rabbi, no to leave.
In the afternoon I took leave of the noble family. I wanted to pay them back with something for their sincere and friendly welcome. However, I had nothing that would attract their consideration.
In the morning, after a night of wandering, I saw an orchard. The fruit trees proudly exalted in their ripe fruit and teased my appetite.
I entered the orchard and a short Jew with a black beard and brown countenance, burned by the rays of the sun,
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willingly sold me five kilos of apples for 50 gorshn. (A kilo is two and a quarter pounds and 50 groshn is approximately five cents). When I left the orchard and had just started to sit on my bicycle, the Jew hurried out and began to call me. I went back to the orchard. The Jew asked me to sit and turned to me with the following words: Young man! I ask you to do me a favor, if you will, so that my conscience will be clear if you would take back the 50 groshn. What right do I have to take money from a wandering Jew for a few kilos of apples? Who knows, perhaps I myself will need to escape and abandon the orchard?
The Jew gave me an entire lecture about the mitzvah [commandment] of welcoming guests (Hakhones Urkhim), and in taking money from me he had violated the mitzvah.
I tried to calm the Jews, saying that I had not, God forbid, come to ask him to give me something and if I had picked out the apples that I wanted, it was my duty to pay for them. In addition, 50 groshn was dirt-cheap.
The Jew spoke with me for a long time and I was tired from an entire night of wandering and my eyes were pasted together from sleep. The Jews made me a bed in the orchard among the trees. I deliciously slept in the shadow of the burning rays of the sun and was covered by the widespread growing branches from which the fruit hung down.
When I woke up it was already dusk. The orchard keeper waited for me with lunch and we ate together. I parted with him in a friendly manner and left to continue my wandering. When I neared my bicycle I noticed that it was loaded a little too much. I immediately noticed what had happened. The Jews had sewn a sack from a handkerchief, filled it with fruit, bread, sausages and cigarettes and bound this to my bicycle. The provisions from the orchard-keeper were very useful to me in the farther days of my wandering.
I would, mostly, wander at night, because the roads were filled with mortal danger during the day. The Nazi air-destroyers would drop bombs on the wanderers. Shmuel Haranczik's son was torn to pieces by a Nazi bomb in the area of Minsk-Mazowieck and Kaluszyn.
As I write these lines, more than 30 years have passed. More than 30 years have passed since I became acquainted with Chelemer Jews, of whom each was a world of justice, fairness and integrity, hospitality, humanity and helpfulness.
A shudder fevers through my brain and body when I need to assert that this important Jewish cultural center, the holy kehile [organized Jewish community] of Chelm, as well as the surrounding communities exist no more. The dear and beloved Jews have disappeared and have been eternally annihilated, like ripe stalks in a field. The crown and pride of Jewry has exhaled its breath of life in pure holiness, in spiritual and physical sanctity.
Translator's Footnote
|The traditional greeting among Jews, it means peace be upon you. The traditional response means, upon you be peace. Aleykhem sholem a Yid upon you, a Jew, be peace is a way of one Jew acknowledging another one. return
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by Faivel Zygielbojm
Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
How do I begin? That such a large cemetery lies between Chelm now and how I remember it. Chelm, a city in Lublin County, like many other cities in Poland and yet different. [It is] literally world famous. Who has not heard of the Chelemer Sages who added the true Chelm charm to our folklore? Around what other city have hovered such wonderful Jewish folk stories, which are deeply rooted in the folk epic and will be told forever. Poets, musicians and artists such as Ben Likhtensztajn, Y. Trunk, Kipnis, Henekh Kon and so on have described the stories, illustrated and authored music (to Jakub Glatsztajn's Josl Luksh fun Chelm [Josel Luksh from Chelm a poem]), published books that will always tell of Chelm the city of wonder, of the fools who saw how the markets take place in Lublin. Packed stage coaches from the entire world are drawn to Lublin, passing Chelm and here in Chelm Jews go about without income. And none of those passing by stop even to pay a penny's ransom. The fools decided to draw the attention of the by-passers and they succeeded. Well, well! A Jew on a wagon says to another passenger, why are four Jews carrying the old man on a reader's desk over the snow? Very curious, let us stop the wagon and ask them. It is our shamas [rabbi's assistant]. So, why are you carrying him? You do not see that a fresh snow has fallen? In order that he will be able to awaken the Jews for the divine service we carry him on the reader's desk so that he will not dirty the snow.
Ha, ha, ha, gasps everyone on the wagons, around the wagons. Ha, ha, ha, do you hear the Chelemer Sages? And why do the women carry their shutters into the synagogue? Because the shamas is old and sick and he cannot go around knocking on the shutters on the houses, so he can sit in the synagogue and knock on the shutters. Ha, ha, ha! Coachmen and merchants from the four corners of the world in Lublin after the market gasp, Do you hear the 'Sages?' Merchants sit in the inn with a cup and talk about the wonder of the Chelemer fools and they decide to return to stay longer and see what the Chelemer are capable of in order to have something to tell their children's children.
The Chelemer waited for the return trip of the yaridnikes [those going to the fair].
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As soon as they saw the merchants, they began to carry heavy logs from the mountain down to the highway. The merchants stopped to look and wondered, Eh, Chelemer! They are dragging logs down from the mountain? We throw them down and are finished. Really? The Chelemer say innocently, but with a purpose, say the Jew is correct and they begin to carry the logs up the mountain and throw them down. The merchants laugh until their sides hurt and the Chelemer stand on the mountain and think: there will be income
Thus the Chelemer with their foolishness began to draw more people. Each time they thought of a brand new foolishness [people] began to run to Chelm to see the fools. The inns became full of strangers; cobblers toiled until midnight because there was no lack of mud. The Chelemer again saw such pleasure. So many people were stretched out across the market around the synagogue with stands of goods and little by little Chelm became the market center.
Two Chelmer carried on a conversation near a cluster of strangers: What kind of shoes do you think the Kaiser wears? Golden. Well, if it is muddy, do they then get soiled? He puts on galoshes. Then can the golden shoes be seen? He makes holes in the galoshes. Does the mud get in? He stuffs them with straw
Thus the wonderful Chelm stories were spread. And Chelm was built up. A large, Jewish city, full of sages. Chelemer fools or Chelemer deceivers who fooled others and embellished the great panorama that was Jewish life in Poland with a particular local color and shared with it the fate of annihilation.
Chelm, from the Hrubieszow forest to Palichonke, which led through Sobor, Lubliner Street to the garden and further, where couples in love would stroll arm-in-arm and forget the world around them; this territorial Chelm remained. But the Jewish magical city is not here any more. The beautiful Chelm institutions, the Linas Hatzedek [organization to care for the sick], People's Bank, Old Age Home, Talmud Torahs [free religious primary schools for poor boys], Yiddish Folks-Shuln [secular primary schools], Tarbut [network of secular Hebrew language schools] schools, Jewish gymnazie [secular secondary school], the Peretz and Gros libraries, chess club, worker unions, literary circles, drama circles, parties, the rich men with the beautiful shops on the wide Rynek [market] and the poor people with the small shops and stalls on the market. The Hasidim-shtiblekh [one-room prayer-houses] are no more; the rabbis with their genuine homey humility and the artisans, porters, butchers and their toiling are no longer the Chelemer Jewish embellishments. The old woman's synagogue with its painted window panes, the small butchers' synagogue for the common folk, the house of prayer and study where the young men would sit and study, and the nearby shopkeepers would pop in, revel in the voice of studying, do a mitzvah [commandment, a kindness] to buy and offer a frozen apple to a young man, a little kvas [yeast based drink], a flat roll.
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There is nobody to be afraid of the wide open doors of the men's synagogue that frightened the children during the night because the corpses came to pray, read the Torah and they barely call you and you even hear them in deepest sleep but they no longer awaken
The anteroom above, with torn religious book pages, where the Golem [creature created by magic to defend the Jews], cursed by the old Chelemer Rabbi, lies transformed into a mountain of torn religious book pages, is no more. There are no more kheder [religious primary school] boys with peyes [side curls] who would spring in a circle on a bit of ground not far from the house of the dark soyfer [scribe] and actually heard a church [bell] ringing deep underground because it was said that a church once stood on that spot and the bell would ring in spite when a Jewish funeral passed by. But when Leibele Linczner died and the church bells rang during his funeral, Rabbi Leibele sat up on the mite [board on which a corpse is carried], muttered with his lips and the church sank
The Chelemer peculiarity is no more, its simple, common Jews, such as Abele the water-carrier, a Sabbath-observer and a Bundist, who prayed with the melody of the Marseillaise; Chaim Hoptasz and his son, who helped his father in Fartaszne's carpentry workshop and in the evening played the violin, tapping with his foot to the cadences at evening parties and beamed with joy to see the common folk dance; Wewtshe, the shoemaker with a beard that covered half of his body, a toiler who knew the Psalms by heart; Chaim Lang who stole from the pockets of Polish officers and brought [what he stole] to the Bundist party; the crazy Berele who would sell fruit during the winter and rebel against the abhorrence of Rabbi Gershon [of polygamy, divorcing a woman without her consent and the opening of correspondence by a person to whom it was not addressed], recite the Torah in Russian and curse Nikolai in Yiddish, and still more of a collection of crazy men, Shuzsha, Wowo and others, who completed the picture of Chelm with their crazy characteristics. The common doctor Motye, who wrote a prescription for every sick poor person: a pot of lukhshn mit hinershe yoik [noodles with chicken soup]. There is no gallery of the types of women, the palewtchebe [a strong woman who excels in business], the rich widow with the strength of a man; Sprintse the butcher, ran a large business, always provided for the poor for Shabbos and the holidays; the tall Frayda-Nekha, Menashe'khe and Rokekhe triplets, who on erev [eve of] Yom Kippur did everything possible in the synagogue courtyard; Malkale Winik, a small, weak quiet woman would rely on the cries of the triplets, standing near them and contributing her quiet tears; the Blumensztrochs, an aristocratic half-assimilated family, whose daughter, Zlota, played the piano and was a mother of urbane elegance; the Dubkowskis, whose house was a true spiritual center; the Luksnburgs, a family of musicians and engineers; the Rojznblats, an intelligent family with bohemian, artistic inclinations; the comrades Nusan Baum and Gershon Basz, two quiet students, studied together and became worldly together, studied, read a great deal, their parents became impoverished at the same time. Nusan became a proletarian in Warsaw and perished with his family in the ghetto there; Gershon
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studied in the Warsaw Art Academy, a rare, delicate painter, he died before the war; the Lerer family and their respected Moshe who was betrothed to the Yiddish language, a Yiddish researcher and philologist, was one of the most devoted workers in YIVO [Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut - Institute for Jewish Research] and perished there; Joska Goldhocher, a rare musician, a popular joker and magnificent teller of stories, the darling of the city; Bentshe Lang's family, of whom only Moshe the Zionist activist in America and Perl in Israel survived.
Who can enumerate all of the figures and groups who each separately gave something to Chelm and created the entire picture? The butchers, for example, the oaks who protected the Chelm Jews from anti-Semitic attacks. I remember when the Hallerczikes [anti-Semitic followers of Polish General Jozef Haller] entered the city and began to go on a spree, cutting beards along with pieces of the face, murdering, robbing. The local anti-Semites ground their teeth and waited for a true pogrom to flare up in order to be able profit from it. Suddenly the heroic butcher youths appeared in the alley with knives and axes, maimed a few Hallerczikes and drove them from the city. This happened on a winter Friday. All of the shops were closed. Some were looted; women could not buy food for Shabbos. Erev Shabbos [the eve of the Sabbath] was disrupted; but not Shabbos. In the evening, the butchers called the Jews to the synagogue and welcomed the Shabbos Queen. The butchers guarded the doors.
Chelm possessed rare dramatic strengths. There were often Yiddish performances and they stood at an artistic height. They should be remembered in this yizkor book. They were: Ailiwicki, Meir Torn (Fentak), Faivel Dreksler, Yisroel Zygielbojm, Shura Helper, the dark Chaim, Tseshe Helper, Tseshe Bojarski, Tanya Sznajder, Sheva Binsztak, Fanya Goldsztajn, Bornsztajn, Yisroel Lewinsztajn, Moshe Zygielbojm, Pinya Zygielbojm, Moshele Karlik, Itshe Luksenburg, Avraham Bernfeld, Hertz Chaim Lang, Avraham Jakov Krotman, Bluma Argun, Dwoyra Wajc, Serke Tudrus, Cymerman, Avraham Zajde, Berl Goldman and Sholemke Goldboim the prompter. There were certainly still more names that my memory cannot reach. We performed Cyrano in the city hall room, in the chess club and Polonia Theater. Professional theater troupes often came to Chelm, among them Ester Ruchl Kaminska and her troupe. A theater performance in
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Chelm was a holiday for everyone. Pious young people would transgress in the company of frivolous people and go into a Yiddish theater.
The gathering point for the young intellectuals was at the Orguns'. The literary circle of the Jewish gymnazie [secondary school] also had its club there. Every Shabbos they would meet, reading their own writings, or reports about Yiddish and Polish classics.
The owner, Faivel Orgun, would listen with pride to how the young people were excited with new ideas and presenting the new Peretz, Mendele, Wispianski and Mickewicz. My dearest young friend Faivel Winik and I were the only civilian members of the gymnazie circle.
The work of the circle truly brought the Polanized [assimilated] Jewish young closer to Yiddish and Jewish creativity.
Chelm also had halutzim [pioneers preparing for emigration to Eretz-Yisroel] such as Wowke Gotlib and others and a strong idealistic leftist youth who drew many students into their circle and carried on widespread activity among the Christian population as well, rented premises under various names, were often betrayed and fell into the devilish hands of the secret agent Wykusz: a sadist who was famous for his torture. The name Wykusz was [like] a scarecrow. Yet the movement grew and grabbed a large portion of the Jewish youth. The great role that the Bund played for many years and how it was involved with almost every branch of life in Chelm is, of course, described separately.
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Among many Chelm memories I remember this version of the Golem legend in Chelm:
Nathan Ausubel asks in his book, A Treasury of Jewish Folklore, which was published in New York, in 1948, if Mrs. Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, knew about the legend of the Chelemer Golem?
I will record the Chelm version about the Golem in the Chelm yizkor book as I heard and saw it in my kheder years.
There was an attic room over the women's section of the old synagogue full of discarded religious books. The room frightened all of the kheder boys. We were afraid even to look into the room. Because of the scarcity of kheder rooms in the Talmud Torah building, I was destined to study in the women's section for a semester. We held the tsitsis [fringes on the talis and four-corned undergarment worn by pious men] in our hand when we went by the few steps that led to the room and said:
Golem, golem, do not awakeOur Rebbe, Hershl Pipke (because he had a wart in the middle of his forehead, we called him Hershl Pipke[1]) warned us not to approach the room. It happened one morning the rebbe became ill and his daughter
Disgarded religious books are your end.
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came to us to say that we should repeat the theme of discussion until lunch, that is, until 12 and afterward go home. My friend, Moshe Tarbiner (a village boy, a little older than me), said to me in the synagogue courtyard: Up, let us see the Golem. I could not resist the temptation of committing the sin and started following him with the tsitis in my hands and with shaking steps. My friend was the first to open the door of the room. We both murmured the prayer:
Golem, golem, do not awakeI saw a full room, a mountain of discarded religious books.
Disgarded religious books are your end.
Everyone knew that the pile of discarded books was the Golem's body.
It was said:
Many years ago the gentiles created a practice; every Tuesday during the fair, they got drunk and beat and maimed the Jews, driving them from the small shops. The old rabbi could not bear this. The rabbi fasted and a made a giant man out of snow, blew the breath of life into him so that he would defend the Jews. The next Tuesday the drunken gentiles began to rampage as earlier, beating, killing the Jews. Suddenly the Golem appeared with an axe in his hand. Ten gentiles threw themselves on him, stabbed him with knives, but no blood ran, just as if stabbing snow. However, the Golem split their heads and they ran bloodied to every hole. A fire broke out in the shtetl; the Golem dragged barrels of water and put out the fire. No one knew who he was, from where he came, to where he disappeared and what his name was.It became quiet at the fairs. The gentiles did not bother any Jews. The opposite, they acquired respect for the Jews and were afraid to speak loudly. Chelm was quiet for a long time: no fires and no beatings. Jews said quietly among themselves that it was the prophet Elijah who had saved them.
Once the same Golem appeared in the market with an axe in its hand and began trampling to the right and left, Jews and gentiles. There was turmoil in the shtetl. A few days later the same thing again. People hid in their houses. The Golem tore off shutters, broke windowpanes. The old rabbi possessed great sorrow and grief. He fasted again, afflicted his body. He cursed the Golem, that his body shall become a pile of dirt and he become a mountain of discarded religious books.
The Golem spread out on the ground in the women's section of the synagogue and he turned into a mountain of discarded religious books.
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This is some of what I remember from Chelm, the city where I spent my very young years and it is good that the Chelm Sages are being immortalized in the columns of the memorial book.
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Surf trips are always tricky, as there are a lot of different variables that have to come together in order to create those magical waves we all daydream about: Swell, wind, weather, and tide are just the beginning. (It's all the more tricky when you only have a week or two of vacation to count on.) So, while banking on perfection over a 10-day surf trip may seem a fool's errand, our recent sojourn among the magical Mentawai Islands in Indonesia revealed that, sometimes, you can certainly flip the odds in your favor.
Not only do the Mentawais have arguably the most world-class breaks, pound-for-pound, mile-for-mile, than anywhere else in the world, they're also blessed with warm, clear water and electric-colored reefs and passes. Their orientation, bathymetry, weather patterns, and swell window cooperate beautifully, producing consistently flawless, almost mechanically perfect waves and conditions that are the closest thing to a sure bet you'll ever find. There's a reason every pro surfer spends at least a couple of weeks in the Mentawais every year.
The most efficient way to score uncrowded perfection in the Mentawais is to charter a boat with a group of friends. And hand's down, the Pelagic is the best: a hulking, 66-foot, A/C-chilled pleasure palace with a 900-mile range that handles rough seas with aplomb. The only boat in the Mentawais that was purpose-built for surf charters, it's staffed up with a top-notch crew of experienced locals, an insane chef, and a rugged captain who's been surfing in the Mentawais for over 15 years. The lot of them take care of your every possible need with an easy smile, and are devoted to making sure you're in the right spot at the right time – all while ensuring you get there safely, and in style.
The best day aboard the Pelagic (and every day was the best day) went something like this:
Wake up to the sound of the anchor being dropped (the Pelagic is a live-aboard boat with four cabins below deck, all comfortable flat beds with positively Arctic air conditioning). Then, quickly throw down a cup of coffee and the fresh fruit waiting for you. Next, jump overboard, into crystal clear blue water that hovers around 80 degrees. Hit up head-high to double-overhead waves for a bit before heading back to the boat for made-to-order breakfast (anything from amazing burritos to Nasi Goreng: Indonesian fried rice with vegetables and an egg on top). Rinse, repeat throughout the day, with a break for an air-conditioned afternoon siesta to beat the punishing equatorial heat, followed by a final session that lasts until about sunset. Then, an incredible sit-down dinner, and off to bed by 9:30 in preparation for doing it all over again the next day.
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Global financial markets, like so many frightened children, are now looking to the G-7 to put some heat on the glacial credit freeze.
Many strategists and analysts do not expect much to come from the G-7 meetings, underway in Washington tomorrow, but nonetheless markets, desperate for progress, are rife with rumors that something will happen.
Clearly, coordinated interest-rate cuts by major central banks Wednesday were not enough of a fix even though they were widely anticipated and rumored panacea. So, there's now speculation making the rounds that the G-7 will guarantee all -- yes ALL -- interbank lending. The same rumor has been making the rounds specifically about the Fed.
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As government regulators struggle to unfreeze the markets, they have taken extraordinary steps and have shown an uncommon level of cooperation. It's everyone's problem that the global banking system is not working properly and they know it.
For that reason, Brown Brothers Harriman chief currency strategist Marc Chandler thinks G-7 may concoct some plan for release this weekend even if not as drastic a step as guaranteeing interbank lending. But what it is remains to be seen. "Coordinated rate cuts stole the G-7's thunder," he said.
- US to Start Buying Stakes In Banks by Month's End
"Market psychology is so fragile that a significant disappointment is going to be counterproductive. That's why I think they have to do something," he said.
Could ministers agree to guarantee interbank lending? "I think it is possible...I don't think they'd say it until they get an agreement. It's reasonable and consistent with other steps they are taking," he said. "...The danger is, if they don't have some new agreement, people are going to say 'Why did you cut rates? That wasn't the problem."
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Senators Wyden & Udall To DOJ: Stop Saying Patriot Act Isn't A Secret Law When You Know It Is
from the will-it-matter? deptSenators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have been pressing the feds for a while now concerning their secret interpretation of the Patriot Act, which appears to go way, way, way beyond what most in the public believe on simply reading the bill. While the two Senators had put forth an Amendment to explain these secret interpretations when certain provisions of the Patriot Act were up for renewal, they eventually dropped the Amendment in exchange for some other concessions, and a promise that hearings would be held on the issue. Since then, the Senators have continued to press the feds on this issue at every opportunity, leading to quite a lot of doublespeak from the feds.
The latest development is that the two Senators have sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, saying that Justice Department representatives are clearly misleading the public about the interpretation of the law. Basically, they say that there's a classified ruling about the interpretation of the law, which some in the government (including Wyden, Udall and Holder) are clearly aware of, but which likely interprets the law vastly differently than most in the public would. And the statements from the Justice Department improperly imply that the details surrounding the law are publicly known -- when they are not.
Shorter version: There's a secret court ruling out there that says the government can spy on a ton of people under the Patriot Act, even though the text of the law seems to suggest otherwise. And the Justice Department is implying that the text of the law is an accurate representation of what the law actually is -- when the secret court ruling seems to say otherwise.
While we are sure that you would agree that government officials should not describe government authorities in a way that misleads the public, during your tenure Justice Department officials have -- on a number of occasions -- made what we believe are misleading statements pertaining to the government's interpretation of surveillance law.Separately, they note that when the truth comes out, the government is going to be severely embarrassed:
The first set of statements that concern us are the repeated claims by Justice Department officials that the government's authority to obtain business records or other 'tangible things' under section 215 of the USA Patriot Act is analogous to the use of a grand jury subpoena. This comparison -- which we consider highly misleading -- has been made by Justice Department officials on multiple occasions, including in testimony before Congress. As you know, Section 215 authorities are not interpreted the same way that grand jury subpoena authorities are, and we are concerned that when Justice Department officials suggest that the two authorities are "analogous" they provide the public with a false understanding of how surveillance law is interpreted in practice.
More recently, we were troubled to learn that a Justice Department spokesman state that "Section 215 [of the Patriot Act] is not a secret law, nor has it been implemented under secret legal opinions by the Justice Department." This statement is also extremely misleading. As the NSA General Counsel testified in July of this year, significant interpretations of section 215 of the Patriot Act are contained in classified opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and these opinions -- and the legal interpretations they contain -- continue to be kept secret. In our judgment, when the government relies on significant interpretations of public statutes that are kept secret from the American public, the government is effectively relying on secret law.
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Considering the success of Nintendo's unique hardware, and the general competitiveness of today's market, is it time Sony and Microsoft became a little more daring in the design of their consoles?
Good lord that's a silly question. Of course a product sold at stores for consumers needs a selling point or "gimmick".
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If they both have good exclusive games along with some cool bells and whistles but mainly exclusive ip's ready to go at launch then they will sell well.


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Georgia: Reviving Ancient Martial Arts Traditions
Georgia has long been associated with the traditions of winemaking, song and dance. But the South Caucasus nation can also lay claim to a rich legacy in martial arts.
Traditional Georgian martial arts are a combination of boxing, wrestling and fencing. They have been steadily regaining popularity since the Soviet collapse in 1991. For the past four years, demonstrations by the martial arts group The Black Shields (Shavparosnebi) – complete with daggers, swords, double-bladed axes and more -- have been a runaway hit at the annual national folk festival Art Gene.
The group, whose members dress in leggings and elaborately embroidered tunics, takes its name from historical groups of armed Georgians, who, with their faces and armor painted black, would attack enemies, usually troops belonging to foreign occupying armies, at night.
"Factually, they were partisans," said 33-year-old Giorgi Tsitsriashvili, one of The Black Shields' founders. "When occupied, very often Georgia could afford only guerrilla wars."
Constantly overrun by invaders, the country developed over the centuries a clearly defined set of martial art techniques. Many of the moves resemble those of karate, jujutsu or other eastern martial arts. Strong differences, however, also exist. In some Georgian highland regions, fighters preferred short daggers to long swords for the narrow mountain trails on which they fought. In other mountainous regions, like Svaneti, in northwestern Georgia, locals devised stiff hats made of pressed wool to ward off dagger stabs.
Industrialization and the invention of firearms changed the nature of warfare, and, over time, Georgians lost touch with their traditional fighting techniques: "We knew about Georgian traditional chants and dances, but nothing was known about fight techniques," said Tsitsriashvili, who works as a stage director.
With a group of friends, ranging from artists to economists, Tsistriashvili started researching the subject as the Soviet Union teetered toward collapse. Museums, historical documents and expeditions to remote mountain regions where knowledge of the fighting techniques had been preserved all provided information for what proved to be a vast field for research.
At first, the group's interest focused on the defensive and offensive moves used by Georgians in ancient battles. Learning the techniques, at first, was no more than a sport, Tsitsriashvili said. They later realized that a distinct philosophy served as a foundation for the techniques. "Just like each founder of a martial arts school in China or Japan had a philosophy they would convey to their students, Georgian martial art was also based on some ideology," he related. "The only difference was that it wasn't a philosophy of one person, but rather the joint wisdom of the whole nation."
The philosophy consisted of a set of concepts concerning honor, respect and patriotism. The concepts would pass from generation to generation in the form of poems and tales, often retold by elders, whose authority in Georgia, as elsewhere in the Caucasus, was indisputable.
A willingness to endure both psychological and physical discomfort to master these arts is key. Training exercises, conducted outdoors in all weather, can involve nocturnal foraging in a forest outside of Tbilisi in search of an item hidden by Black Shield instructors.
Practitioners are only male -- a gender imbalance that Tsitsriashvili claims could be attributed to the fact that the group eschews indoor trainings.
Even so, the number of Black Shield students is steadily growing; an increase that parallels a revived interest in traditional Georgian dance and music as well. With studios in most major Georgian towns, the group claims a national membership of 300 to 400 participants. Some 35 instructors and 40-50 students are in Tbilisi alone.
"Nobody gets here by chance," commented 25-year-old marketing specialist Irakli Kokosadze, a Black Shields member who happened across group a few years ago while jogging at the Tbilisi hippodrome. "If a person comes here, then it means something led him. He finds something for himself in this tradition."
That appears to be the case for 17-year-old Giorgi Javakhishvili, one of the group's youngest members, who joined The Black Shields two years ago after seeing them perform. Known as a worthy opponent in boxing, he says his passion, despite the recurring cuts and bruises, is fencing.
Asked whether he had used any of these combat techniques in real life, Javakhishvili's response was succinct: "Not yet."
Temo Bardzimashvili is a freelance photojournalist based in Tbilisi.
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"Little Ones" are small Waldorf dolls, made for all children in Grade K at Davis Waldorf School. The classroom angel lets children know that the Little Ones will arrive, and when they do...it's magic!
Our son Wilson, along with other children who did not attend Grade K at the school, had the opportunity to receive a Little One in Grade 1 or 2. The amazing K teacher made the cloth body out of tea-dyed cotton with a blessing flower petal inside. Parents secretively met each week late at night to sew the clothes, felt the hair and make the hats out of cloth, felt or yarn. The Little Ones look similar to the child, and the colors and designs are chosen to match or balance the temperament. They come from "Little Land", and children hold them often while at school and home.
Wilson's "Little One" appeared this morning in his room. His name is "Elf Star", and Wilson wants to call him "Elfie". We are going to make a sleeping bag out of naturally-dyed felt for Elfie so that he may sleep close to Wilson at night.