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|Starobin 3213 inhabitants, a church, a school, a post office. Surrounded by large swamps. In addition to trade, the inhabitants were engaged in various types of home industry, and rented tracts of hay and pits.
|(According to the Brookhouse-Efron Encyclopedia)
Eliyahu Chaim Chinitz
Starobin, a little town with a small number of inhabitants, is located in the northern border of Polesia, a geographic region which is covered by deep forests and fettered by swamps. The town was stagnated in its development. A railroad did not pass through its territory and the roar of a locomotive [steam engine] and the rumble of its wheels did not bother its inhabitants. Nor was a road built in its area, and cargo and passenger ships did not sail over the Slutsk River, which runs along the length of the town; and therefore, the town was disconnected from trade and industrial centers and from administrative centers as well. Only twisting dirt trails, with prints of men's feet, wagons' wheels and hoofs, would lead to distant villages and small towns in the vicinity. And most of the year, those trails were also disrupted by mud and clay, or covered by snow piles during the winter. Transportation to and from Slutsk was difficult and exhausting. The ride from here to there, a distance of 35 kilometers, lasted eight to ten hours. Such a journey was executed twice a week, by a procession of wagons.
But, despite the difficult connection with the larger world, the town did not lack influence from the outside. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, our town was already considered to be progressive it has been adopting new lifestyles and manners. The Enlightenment [movement] that had previously conquered the big cities, also reached it, and penetrated the hearts of the young Yeshiva students of the homeowners social class. Hamelitz and Hatzefira [nineteenth century Hebrew newspapers; Hamelitz was published in 1860-1904 in Odessa and St. Petersburg; Hatzefira was published in 1862-1931 in Warsaw and Berlin] attracted several subscribers. The Enlightenment books written by Mapu, Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn, Kalman Shulman, Isaac Baer Levinsohn, and the like, found their ways to some of the households as well. The heralds of the Enlightenment, the ones that had brought the new movement into the town's households, were two people: Nachman Shweidel and Nissan Marmur, or Nissan HaMelamed [the teacher]. The latter was a grammarian and a major Hebrew enthusiast. His Cheder [Cheder literary means "room", but is also the name for a traditional elementary school, which teaches the basics of Judaism and the Hebrew language] was closer in its character to the Cheder Metukan [a Cheder of the Jewish Enlightenment Movement], which was established not long after. He taught not only the Tanakh and the Gmara, but also grammar and Hebrew; in his Tanakh teachings he was meticulous with regard to accentuation of the penultimate and ultimate stresses. His students were cautious over the correct stressing of the words during the prayer times as well. And if one of the students was called up to the Torah on a Sabbath or festival, during the reading of the Torah, he would read in a beautiful tone while keeping the melody, so that even the adults would envy his students and would imitate them, but, because they did not know the rules, they would switch between the penultimate and the ultimate stresses, and would become a source of ridicule in our eyes.
His method of teaching was as follows: he would orally read a sentence in Yiddish to us and we would have to translate it to Hebrew. And if the translation was not in accordance with to the essence of the language, he would correct us and then we would write it in the notebook. He brought into the hearts of the students the love of Hebrew and the Hebrew writers; at this point in time, he already referred to the old lifestyle with criticism and allowed himself to make fun of its many deliriums and dull customs, in front of us.
The teacher Sh. N. tells that when he was a teacher in the girls' school in Neve Tzedek, he had a reticent student; but despite the scarce amount of words she said, one could feel that she possessed a great knowledge of Hebrew, it was especially apparent in her written essays. She told that her grandfather was a teacher in a Cheder Metukan in Russia. Sh. N. asked her to invite her grandfather to visit the school, and when he came he was surprised that he [the grandfather] knew the teacher of the Cheder Metukan in Slutsk, in which he [Sh.N.] studied as well.
Nachman Shweidel (The teacher Nachman Shweidel died in Tel-Aviv.) owned a stand in Tel-Aviv, where he sold fruits and vegetables during the weekdays and on Sabbaths he would study at the Synagogue of the Americans. He was a Torani [classic observant Jew], with a beautiful soul and noble virtues.
Nachman Shweidel was an educated person, he read and studied a great deal, and was proficient in all areas of Hebrew literature, including the new and old research and science books; it was rare for him not to have read a book about the Enlightenment. He would bring the books from Slutsk, from Shmuel Reiser's printer's workshop.
Both of them, Nissan HaMelamed and Nachman Shweidel taught many students who were knowledgeable of Hebrew and some of them later exiled themselves to places of Torah in Slutsk and Minsk, and continued educating themselves in the Torah and the Enlightenment. These two people deserve to be noted for future generations, in a Memory Book to a town that was destroyed.
The town excelled in that, that almost all the Jews were engaged in gardening. It was not their primary business, but a side business. Each house owner had a garden behind the house, in which people would sow various vegetables: potatoes, cabbage, turnip, legumes, beet and more, and especially pumpkins. The pumpkins were sowed not merely to feed the humans and animals, but, and especially, for a seeds trade. They would put them in flowerbeds until the end of the summer, until they grow and become properly yellow; they would collect them from the garden and place them in the sun, in rows, on the inclined roofs, so that they become more yellow and ripe. Afterwards, they would bring them to their houses, cut them in halves lengthwise, take out the soft part from the inside, together with the seeds, and filter them through a sieve. They would throw away the softness that would come out of the holes, and the seeds would remain in the sieve. They would dry the seeds in the sun again and spread them out on sheets. After the seeds would dry, they would store them in bags, until traders from Minsk would come and buy them for sowing.
All the members of the household took part in all those tasks: the father, the mother, sons and daughters. It was a hard work, but the family worked enthusiastically and diligently. These seeds were of excellent species and called Manarim (Manastirsky), and had a great demand. Even those Jews, that did not own their own garden, rented land lots from non-Jews, and planted pumpkin in those lots. But, as I have already mentioned, this was a side business.
Overall, among the inhabitants, there were many craftsmen, tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, constructors, bakers, butchers and wagon-owners. The middle class was engaged in storekeeping; there were stores that sold fabric, grocery, crops, iron tools etc. The indigent were engaged in peddling. The peddlers went to villages in the vicinity, with wagons loaded with barrels of tar and different kinds of haberdasher [sewing goods, such as ribbons, buttons, thread, needles], and sold that to the peasants. In consideration for their merchandise they would get bundles of pig's bristles, calf, lamb or goat, stalks of linen, wool etc.
Also, there were tree traders in our town, who bought small lots in the forests from the big traders, they [tree traders] would cut down the trees and made beams for construction or railway sleepers of them. One of our tree traders had business with the father of Chaim Weitzman Za'l [of blessed memory]. Due to his business, he would often go to Pinsk and Motal, and stay in the house of Reb' Ozer Weitzman, whose sons, and Chaim one of them, were already students and took an important place in the Zionist movement. When this trader, who was a Chassidic, uneducated Jew, came back to his house, and the conversation would turn to Zionism, he would say dismissively: Oh my to the Zionism that the Sons of Weitzman are its leaders!
Overall, the Jews of the town were poor, worked very hard to earn their bread, yet their poverty did not disgrace them; they were simple people, naïve and honest, and almost all of them were people of the Torah. The Torah was the aspiration of their souls; and those who peeked and had been stroked, their ideal was the Enlightenment. On Sabbaths and festive days the sound, the sound of the Torah would emerge from the synagogues and Batei Midrashot [houses of Talmud studies] and fill the town.
As in all places, in which the sons and daughters of Israel were of inferior status, likewise in our town there were important people who faithfully dealt with the public needs; people, who love doing good and kind deeds to others and helping them in time of trouble; people who could approach the authorities and make efforts on behalf of someone who encountered an unfortunate business, or to repeal a harsh decree imposed on people. Among those people, my father Reb. Baruch Chinitch [Chinitz] Za'l excelled especially. He was a likable and easy-going person, took care of all the public needs, was always the messenger of the public, made efforts before the authorities in Slutsk and Minsk and had done a great deal for the benefit of the public.
Yet the life did not always run its normal course. A terrible disaster would fall over the inhabitants and turn the town into a pandemonium. The greatest enemy of the town was the fire, or, as it was named in our town, the red chicken. The houses in our town were built of wood and many of the roofs covered with straw; in the droughts of summer the houses were dry and could easily be ignited. And if it happened that either a fire was created, or so-and-so, intentionally or unintentionally, start a spark, and incited a stack of straw, hay, or a straw roof at once a tongue of fire would be created and the entire town was in flames. People would lose all their property and the entire House of Israel cried over the fire that so-and-so initiated. The disaster was great, but after a while, a year to two years, the town would get a new face. New houses were constructed on the burned lots; those who mourned over the destruction of their houses got to see their new houses, and greater was the honor of the second one over the first. The non-Jewish neighbors saw the beautiful new houses, and were sure that Jews are extremely wealthy and that they hold great fortune, but, with due respect to them, they erred an error of a non-Jew. Jews ate dry bread with a salted-fish broth, combined a penny to a penny until saved the required amount of money for the construction of a new house. And therefore the jesters of the generation would say that the Starobin Jew is a house owner from the outside and poor in the inside.
And I remember, when I was a child, how a ban of Cherem [the highest ecclesiastical censure in the Jewish community, a total exclusion of a person from the Jewish community] was announced at the Synagogue, over the ones who started the fire. It was a terrifying spectacle, which left an unforgotten impression in my heart. A black rod was put on the pulpit, black candles were lit, the prochet [ornamental curtain covering the front of the holy ark in the synagogue] was removed, the Shofar [ram's horn] was sounded: tekiah, teruah, shaevarim, and the beadle of the community pronounced the curse, that on behalf of the place and the public, in accordance with the heavenly court and the mortal court, we impose the Yehoshua Ben Nun Cherem on the one who starts a fire; that this individual will be struck by all the curses of the biblical punishment and by all the curses that were pronounced on Mount Ebal; that this individual will be banned from the community, and that it will be forbidden to be in vicinity to him, and so on and so forth.
Our town was divided into two parts: the southern part, which was named the Eretz-Israel Street, and the northern part, which was called the Slutsk Street. The indigent lived on the Eretz-Israel Street: the peddlers and the simple craftsmen. These were simple, uneducated people, who were barely familiar with Chayei Adam [The life of a Man a work of the Jewish law written by Rabbi Avraham Danzig] and the Mishnahs [the first major written redaction of the Jewish oral traditions called the Oral Torah], but they were ruffians. As opposed to them, the grocers and the craftsmen of clean and effortless occupations, who could study a page of the Talmud with medieval commentaries, lived on the Slutsk Street. There was neither love nor comradeship between the two streets. The latter would act arrogantly toward the former, and there were always quarrels and disputes between the two on public matters. When the time to elect a new rabbi has arrived, the two streets were divided into two parts. Those wanted to elect one rabbi, the others another rabbi, and there was a great dispute for the sake of heaven, which even lead to physical fights at the synagogue. And, surely, the ruffians would almost always win. On a market day, when a fight erupted between the peasants and the Jews, and the Jews were in great danger the ruffians appeared and showed the non-Jews the power of their arm and saved the honor of Israel.
Among the ruffians were also horse traders. Two were partners in a business: one was Moshe, and the other Yaakov. They would buy horses from the Gypsies that were staying in tents outside the town. Moshe was the head negotiator with the Gypsies. He measured the horse with his eyes, inspected its teeth, patted its back, and began the purchase negotiations with the Gypsy. One asks so and so, the other gives so and so; this cries and this cries. At first they have spoken softly, and later harshly. They tried to set an agreement to one another. They almost reached an agreement, but immediately backed off, and began speaking to one another with disrespect, and as the things got heated, they began struggling and hitting each other. The other Gypsies interfered and a great riot had risen, and in the heat of the moment, Yaakov (the other partner) jumped on the horse and escaped to the Eretz-Israel Street and the horse disappeared. A jester that has been watching this entire spectacle came to the Beit Midrash [place of Torah study] and announced: People! I just saw a deed and recalled a Midrash P'lia [enigmatic Talmudic legend]: when Moshe [Moses] killed the Egyptian, Yaakov rode a horse and escaped to Eretz-Israel.
In this manner, the sons and daughters of my town, Starobin, had been living for hundreds of years: growing up and quarreling, working and trading, studying Torah, aspiring to Enlightenment, rejoicing at times of peace and quietude, suffering at times of difficulties, arguing with each other, giving to charity and doing good deeds, holding rabbis great in Torah on the Rabbinic Chair, joking and jesting and there the reaper found them: a despised and sordid non-Jew, Hitler-the-evil may his name be obliterated cut their short-lived lives, gathered them into a slaughter house and burned them alive. Hashem [God] shall avenge their blood!
[Pages 234-235]
Raphael Rivin
(In memory of friends who had fallen and did not get to Israel)
We were a united group of friends, the children of public activists intoxicated by the social discontent of the years 1914-15. The love for Zion, for the people of Israel and for the freedom of the working men, demanded us for action. We were engaged in selling Shekels and stamps of the Keren Kayemet LeYisrael [Jewish National Fund], in collection of money for the Keren Kayemet LeYisrael in the evening of Yom Kippur and before the reading of the Book of Esther on Purim, in spreading the Hebrew language etc.
The first of the group of three was our unforgettable friend Eliezer Portman, or as we used to call him Layser Ha'ani Rashkes. He was orphaned from his father when he was only an infant, and at young age he quit his studies in the Cheder and became a tailor's apprentice with Gronim, his brother, the most famous tailor in the town. But this lasted only for a couple of years. His two older brothers, who were Yeshiva students, excelled in their studies, especially Israel, who became a famous rabbi in Lithuania. He excelled in his Drashas [a homiletic method of biblical exegesis] and he would teach in the great Synagogue when he was still very young, approximately fourteen years old, and he captivated with the pleasantness of his speech and with his explanations to all his listeners, who came especially to hear his Drashas.
His second brother Selig, who later became a rabbi in America, was younger than Israel, and he also was one of the most famous students in the Yeshiva. They influenced their young brother, Leyser, who was a child born to elderly parents, that he joined them and accepted upon himself the burden of the Torah. This is how from being a tailor's apprentice he became a yeshiva student. Layserke had many talents, a smooth tongue and a pleasant voice, he was intelligent and had sense of humor. He was good at making the time our group spent together pleasant, with his stories and conversations, his jokes, and with his songs. A special bond was forged between the two of us, because we were studying together and because I, too, was hit by the bitter destiny that he experienced when he was young.
We were the first among the preachers for the Zion and for action of settling the Land of Israel. In our house, the place of the group's meetings, we would usually stay up until very late at night, engaged in friendly conversations and in gatherings for the purpose of the Tanakh studies and readings.
This happened at the outbreak of the First World War, we came back from yeshivas and stayed in town. We published a local newspaper called Der ve Eker, for a short period. In the beginning of January 1915, Layserke was recruited to the army. I remember his letters, in which he warned me to avoid the army at any cost and even to become a cripple, because, in all likelihood, he suffered profoundly of the bad treatment of the Jewish solders in the Russian army. I could not accept this idea and I too was recruited to the army. I haven't heard of him since. He probably fell in a battle or was captured and his traces were lost. May his memory be blessed!
The second in the group was our friend Moshe-Herzl, a talented young man. During his childhood and his first teenage years he was sloppy and inflexible. Suddenly, he left the yeshiva at the Karnayim Synagogue in Slutsk and transferred to a secular school for Jewish boys. We envied him especially for wearing a special hat and a leather belt with a shining buckle. His studies at the school did not last long. After a year, Moshe-Herzl along with a couple of students from our town, appeared and joined the Amzislav Yeshiva, which was in the Mogilev region. He was a member of the commission of the Zion Youngsters in our town. He was also one of the first amateur actors in the drama class we established.
And suddenly, another deviation in his path: he devoted himself to trade and invested all his energy and time in it. His life ended in a tragic way. With the retreat of the Polish army from our town, and due to his fear of the Russian army, he and two of his friends, run away, and on their way he was captured and murdered by the Balchovzim gang.
The third, the youngest of the group, Yankale, a son of Rabbi Mordechay Margolin (a butcher and chazzan [a Jewish cantor] in our town), was an intelligent and agile guy. He joined the group in the later years and was the first of the group to get to the Land of Israel in the year 1921, with the third Aliyah. As all the pioneers, he worked in building roads for one year. However, he could not withstand it, and so he came back to Poland and settled in the town of Baranovich.
In all likelihood, he was killed with the rest of our brothers and sisters during the Holocaust.
[Pages 235-236]
I. N. Adler
I was one of the students of the Great Yeshiva (HaKibbutz) in Slutsk, the youngest of the group, who peeked and was infected by the doubts' worm. The question to where was burning in my mind. And this time, with the evening twilight and I am, all of me, confused and excited, amid the turmoil of physical and spiritual doubts I got up and escaped my little room and turned my steps toward the road, the place of the teenagers' hikes, and suddenly I found myself standing next to the inn of the wagon-owners, who would come here from towns in the vicinity.
Every Monday, since I came to study at the Slutsk Yeshiva, I would go to the inn to meet with Yiche the-wagon-owner, who brought me to Slutsk. He was a tall Jew, broad-in-shoulders, he wore high boots, and carried a grey leather bag on his upper back, because he was an agent for the grocers who had connections with the wholesalers and the governmental bank in Slutsk.
Then, in my eyes, this Yiche was a symbol of my strong longing to my village. From time to time, he would give me a paternal treatment. In answer to my question: Reb. Yiche, maybe you have a letter for me, maybe?, he would open his leather bag, rummage through it, and take out a squashed piece of paper, he would hand it over to me and say: Here you are, a note from your father.
Sometimes he would take out a coin of 10 kopeikas [10 pennies] from his pocket, and would say: This is also from your father. This time, when I came there to see him, I did not find him. And a young wagon-owner was standing on his lot, ready to take off to Starobin. I asked him if he had a spare seat in his wagon. And, in an instant, I climbed up and found myself underneath a worn out and patched piece of stretched fabric, which was not comparable to the magnificent piece of stretched fabric of reb. Yiche.
With dawn, following a night long ride, we arrived to Starobin. The wagon owner stayed at the small market square for a while. I got out of the wagon's covering, frozen and shivering of the night's chilliness. I glanced at the meager and low-rise houses around the market. With feelings of pain of loneliness and orphanhood, I turned my steps toward Beit-HaMidrash. To my surprise, I found there the relatives of Zalman from Igumen, a yeshiva student who was older than I am, and who also turned up in Starobin. They introduced me to the beadle, who arranged for me: the weekly Torah portion The Weekdays, a celebration of the Holy Sabbath in houses of various house owners, and also a place for a night's lodging.
On one of these days, this Zalman clung to me, and told me of Reb. Zerach the paramedic, the only doctor in Starobin, whose house was the meeting place of the sages.
Not a long time afterwards, Zalman brought me to the house of Reb. Zerah the paramedic, and introduced me to him and his two daughters, Bluma and Reizel, who were the pharmacists and the cooks of Reb. Zerach, who at the time was a widower and blind.
I was charmed by his majestic appearance, his persuading voice and his fine words; everything about him spoke fatherhood, intelligence and respect. As to his daughters, Bluma the oldest was modest, pleasant looking and everything about her said yearning to life, whereas Reizel a soft-looking, pale and delicate girl was busy working in the pharmaceutical room of Reb. Zerach, the only one in Starobin.
One time, shortly before sunset, I was sitting at the Reb. Zerach's table, and saw the Book of the Khazars [The Kuzari] was open before him. Reb. Zerach began by saying: You must have heard of Rabbi Yehuda Halevi [1075-1141 a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher], the poet who wrote the poem Zion HaLo Tishali LiShlom Asirayich [Zion, thou art anxious for thy captives], and Rabbi Yehuda Halevi is also the author of the Book of the Khazars. In this book you will also find answers to all your doubts. Reb. Zerach spoke very concisely of the Khazars, of the King Bulan, who converted to Judaism, of the essay [The Kuzari], and of the Hasdai Shaprut [Abu Yusuf ben Yitzhak ben Ezra 915-990, a Spanish Jewish physician, diplomat and patron of science]. He had spoken and handled me the book, in the manner of an outstandingly talented educator, and asked me to read to him the letter of Rabbi Hasdai ben Ezra to the king of Al-Kozar. The following day we completed the reading of the above letter and began reading the Answer of the Khazar King Joseph the Turk-may.
The tale of the Kisimanic Sage was engraved in the tablet of my heart, and became a balm and cure to my soul. When we finished reading the letters, we began reading the core of the book. I admit and confess, the words of the essay were not entirely comprehensible to me, despite the pedagogic explanations of Reb. Zerach. Yet, throughout the discussion, I saw myself standing beside the essay, praying for its wellbeing, so that it, God forbid, will not fail in its language, and so that the peacefulness of its voice will reach King Bulan, even though I had a definite feeling, that this essay does not need my prayer, and that all its words were logical, solid and spoke the Torah truth.
Not many days have passed and the doubts had disappeared from my heart, as smoke is driven away and we haven't yet accomplished a third of the book.
In honorable and precious memory of Reb. Zerach the paramedic of Starobin, who wrapped the wounds of my heart with great love, experienced hand and fatherly kindness.
May his memory be blessed!
[Pages 236-239]
Raphael Rivin
Full of longings and grief, I reminisce of the Jews of my town Starobin, somewhere in Belarus, on the edge of Polesie, a place of forests, lakes and swamps. I would like to commemorate the souls of the martyrs, who were destroyed by the enemy, with its crossing the borders of Belarus. It imprisoned them in a slaughter house and sentenced them to death by burning, and as a sacrifice their pure souls had risen up to heaven. We must commemorate those who died before the Holocaust as well, whose sons and daughters are among the pioneers and builders of the State of Israel.
In my memory, I see lovable and admirable characters in their simplicity, honesty and innocence. Here is the rabbi of the town, Rabbi David Feinstein, whose face radiated purity and innocence, God-fearing and people loving, humble and pleasant to people under his leadership. Rabbi Reb. Shlomo Landau followed him [as the rabbi of the town], and he was great in Torah, pleasant in singing Zemirot [Jewish hymns] and a convivial person. As his predecessor, he also cared about the people of his community.
A prominent character, the lion of the group, was Reb. Mordechai Margolin, or as he was called Motel der shochat [Motel the butcher], who was a butcher and a permanent leader in the town. He would please the ears of the congregants with his singing, especially during the High Holidays. He was a devoted activist, a community leader, he was attentive to the spirit of the young people, and in every public deed a devoted partner to us, the young activists.
A character respectable and admirable by all the townspeople, from the eldest to the youngest, was Reb. Moshe Nemis, a beadle of the Great Synagogue, of whom people would whisper, that he is one of the hidden tzadiks [righteous ones], and whoever he will bless, will be blessed, and he had chosen the profession of the beadle, so that to preserve the importance and the dignity of this occupation.
Reb. Abraham Nachman Kravchik the educator, first of his profession, punctilious and strict regarding the rules of the accentuation of the penultimate [next-to-last] and ultimate stresses etc. His clear explanations of the Tanakh and his heartwarming melody fascinated us. His house was the lodge of the Zionists, and he, the elderly was active with the youngsters, participated in festive ceremonies and the balls of Hanukah, Purim etc. He was pleased and proud that his students were the leaders of the Tehiya [revival] movement in the town and that they were also leaders in the community matters.
Among the most important personalities was also my uncle Reb. Yosef Shlimovich [or Shleimovitsch], the first Gabbai [a person who assists in the running of a synagogue and ensures that the needs are met] of the Great Synagogue, and one of the most honorable people in the town; he loved Zion with all his soul, he sometimes came to out gatherings and took part in the discussions as well. He was killed somewhere in Minsk, with his son Shalom, who did not want to leave him. My righteous aunt Rivka, was fortunate to die before the Holocaust.
My uncle Yiche, a well-known personality was a trader, the son of Reb. Abraham HaZaken [Abraham the elderly] (he was the rabbi of the Jews of the Eretz-Israel Street), his house was the meeting place of the town peddlers; from this family people would receive advance payment on account of merchandise that will be brought here. My uncle Yiche was a convivial person, he would support the ones who needed help. The arm of the enemy reached him far away from his home and from his modest wife aunt Genia. Outside Starobin, in an old house, covered by a straw roof, lived Avrahamel Leibeks [or Leibaks] and his wife Beila, and their son, of whom they took pride, who dedicated with his entire soul and entity to the studies of the Torah.
The visits of Reb. Kalman HaMelamed whose son made Aliyah were unforgettable, and he would come to my place from another part of the town to show me the letters of his son. When he read his letters to me, one could feel that he was tasting the flavor of the Land of Israel and smelled its odor.
A hidden love and longings are awakening in me, when I recall the house in which our family lived for many years and the people of the House of Moshe-Aharon Der Shizkarner, which was named after his occupation. During the days of the snow melting on the evening before Pessah, the Slutz River, in its pride, would devour the pillars of the cowshed. He [Moshe-Aharon] was modest and naïve and his wife Hinda was a witty woman, all her sayings and stories were spiced by a common people's humor. Chaim-Leib the grocer and his wife Alte were busy with their trade with the villages. I did not forget his pleasant way of praying, and that he was a representative of the public on Sabbaths and Festive Days.
How can I not mention my father? Ephraim son of Zelig Der Sofer-Stam [a Jewish scribe who can transcribe Torah scrolls and other religious writings such as those used in Tefillin and Mezuzot], who was well-known in our town and its vicinity. Especially among the great in Torah, who would always be meticulous to buy the scrolls for Tefillin in the handwriting of my grandfather Rabbi Zelig. He would avoid from talking about nonsense, and would always send my grandmother Beile to negotiate. My father was a public activist, he established associations for reciprocal assistance, and helped the SHaDaRs [acronym of SHelichah DeRachmanah a rabbinical emissary sent to collect charity funds], who came from yeshivas in the exile and in the Land of Israel. He loved Eretz-Israel and the holy language with all his heart.
I began reading Hebrew books from a very young age. Though in the eyes of very observant people it was considered improper, but my father did not object to that. At the same time, he was zealous as to the learning of the tradition, and wanted with all his heart that I persist with the yeshiva studies.
It is an honor and a duty for me to commemorate my mother Alte-Ephraim's. This is how people used to call her; she was fortunate to make Aliyah.
Among those who were not fortunate to come to the Land of Israel, but were drawn to it with all their souls, the personality of Israel-Leibke the shoemaker stands out in his greatness, innocence and his love for Zion. With immense excitement and with an open mouth, he would listen to the words of the maggid [preacher], or an advocate in the matters of Eretz-Israel; it seems to me that I too, watching him, was infected with immense love to the life's goal I have chosen for myself. I remember how offended he was when sometimes, during the collection of donations, we wanted to pass over him; he would follow us, run to us and reproach us for insulting him. His donation was above his ability.
Avraham Ostrovsky, or as he was called in the town Avrahamel Elinkas of the adult Zionists joined us, the youngsters, in year 1917 promptly after the first revolution.
Despite him being busy and occupied with trade and taking care of his family, he was dedicated to the Zionist work with all his heart and soul. His love for Zion had no limits, and he also served as a treasurer of the Zionist branch in the town.
He was loved and respected in the town by everyone.
Our town Starobin was blessed by fires, almost every year there were fires. We used to count the dates of the years according to a certain fire that began from a house of so-and-so on the street so-an-so. The count of happy times and the disasters was also related to the fires. One fire broke out on the Great Sabbath, a short while after the Shacharit [Morning] Prayer service, only eight months after the great fire that preceded it. The fire is spreading and swallows everything in the blink of an eye, and in a little while it will reach the Great Synagogue. Reb. Moshe Nemis left his house and the concerns of evacuation to his wife, so that she would deal with taking out the house-wares, and saved whatever possible. And he was encircling the Synagogue, while holding a big rod to the head of which a red kerchief was tied, and whispering words of sgulah [supernatural cure], in order to stop the approaching fire, but to no avail. The Synagogue caught fire as well.
The Zionistishe Fabric is favorably remembered. We, the youngsters, volunteered to bake the Matzas [unleavened bread made from flour and water, eaten on Passover] free of charge, for the poor of the town. The preparations and the baking works themselves were done voluntarily. The matzas were baked by us at the Zionistishe Fabric, and, of course, without flour there is no matzas, so we obtained the Passover flour as well.
Peaceful was the town's life before the eruption of the revolution, much more peaceful than the waves of the Slutz River, which devoured the houses of the town. The social life was concentrated, mainly, among the walls of the Batei Midrash [House of Interpretation, or Houses of learning], during most of the day, except for the hours that were set for the studies of the Mishnas, Gmara, Chayei Adam, Ein Yaakov [a compilation of all the Aggadic material in the Talmud together with commentaries] etc. If a quarrel erupted between individuals, or between families, or between groups, this would also, usually, take place among the walls of the house of prayer, especially during the Holidays, Sabbaths, and Moed Days [intermediate days of certain Jewish festivals]. A delay in reading the Torah was the only way to pave a road toward a solution and compromise.
The prizivnikes, the ones recruited to the army, demanded compensation from those who were dismissed, and if they could not get it in a peaceful way, they would suddenly appear prior to the taking out of the Book of Torah and would cry out and announce their demands with noise and tumult. After exchanging arguments on the subject, that lasted for a while, the dispute would be settled, with the intervention of the best people of the town.
The lasting peace in the public life and on the Jewish street was disturbed especially by the youngsters in years 1904-5, the years of the revolutionary unrest. Generally, they would gather in places hidden from eyes of many people, so that the authorities, God forbid, will not find out. There were plenty of such hidden places, since the vicinity of the town was blessed with forests. Among the bushes and the needles of the pine trees, the propagandists preached to freedom and liberty, and to improvement of the condition of a worker. They spoke heatedly against the craftsmen in the town, most of whom were abjectly poor as well, who exploited their apprentices and workers. They also emitted words of denigration and vexation toward the Master of the Universe [God] and the czar.
The town accepted the revolution in the year 1917 as an unbelievable thing, and many would ask in a whisper: is it possible that they took off the Cesar and all his entourage? People were afraid to pronounce it out load. At first public gatherings they would want to finish with the accepted hymn, the Marseillaise, but did not know it, until a savior was found Reuben der wagon-owner, a muscular Jew, who at the time, was one of the leaders of the revolutionists in the town. He was the one who put himself to danger in the days of the First Revolution, and dared to publicly announce the rejection of the authority, and he obviously was punished for that: he was incarcerated and penalized to exile outside the area of the town for a couple of years. He stayed far away among political exiles, learned the hymn from them, and now saved the situation.
While in all the cities and towns different Zionist organizations had risen: Jewish Labour Bund, the United Jewish Socialist Workers, Poalei Tziyon Smol [Workers of Zion Left-wing movement of Marxist Zionist Jewish workers], our town was blessed by them as well. The Zionist Organization [HaHistadrut HaTzionit] was the dominant on the Jewish street. Starobin, that was stagnant throughout all its years of existence except for the disputes over the appointment of that or another rabbi had changed, cultural clubs were opened, there were heated debates, and attempts to convince one another. It seems to me that everything derived from people's internal faith in the righteousness of their views. After the Soviet Revolution, a small number of people were fortunate to make Aliyah, a bigger part immigrated to the United States. Many were scattered along the U.S.S.R., and of them only small number of individuals came back to the destroyed town.
Of all the past only memories have remained, which become more and more blurred. I am afraid that there will be no one remained to say: We suffer a great loss for those who are lost and whose replacement cannot be found [a saying in memory of a deceased person].
May the words I have put into writing become an eternal memory to my town and its dear and unforgettable people.
|A group photograph
Title on the upper part the photograph, above the Star of David (in Hebrew):
The National Youth Zionist Fraction the Youth of Zion in Starobin
Dated: 4th Iyar, 5679 (ד' אייר תרע"ט), [May 4th, 1919].
People on the photograph:
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(From the book Jewish Partisans of Eastern Europe by Moshe Kaganovich)
In February 1943 the Germans initiated a pursuit over the concentrations of partisans in the vicinity of towns Starobin, Zhitkovitz [Zhitkovich], Hlusk. Hundreds of villages in the forests' areas, in which the partisans were staying, were completely burned. In several of the villages they assembled all the population in buildings and set those buildings on fire from every direction.
After encountering with many hardships and dangers, the survivors reached the vicinity of towns Glusk, Starobin, Zhitkovitz, Bobruisk, and were integrated into the various partisan divisions that were operating there.
Moshe Shulman (Lenin) had risen due to his fighting initiative and his bravery, from the rank of a private to the rank of a commander of the sappers' group, and was later appointed the commander of a company [a military unit], in the Russian Battalion Shwiakov (Starobin area, Glusk).
Almost all Jewish partisans, who were part of the dozens of battalions that acted in the areas of Glusk and Starobin, were Jews from the towns Lenin and Pogost-Zagorsky.
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I'm not gonna lie…I've never like tiramisu very much. It's just not chocolaty enough for me. In fact, the only chocolate in there is a lame dusting of cocoa powder on top. Blah. The first time I had it was when my mother and I went to eat at a restaurant in Colorado while visiting my brother about 13 years ago. I don't know what I was expecting, but I was sorely disappointed, let's just put that out there.
Last week, my best friend Robert went to a wedding in California. I told him that when he got back, I would make him the tiramisu cupcakes(p119) from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. So, these are for you, gayhole.
You are making the basic vanilla cupcakes(p33) but doing things to the cupcake afterward to make it all tiramisu-y.
1 cup soy milk
1 tsp cider vinegar
1 1/4 c ap flour
2 Tbsp cornstarch
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 c canola oil
3/4 sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp almond extract
Put the soy milk aside with the cider vinegar to curdle, making it our version of buttermilk. This should only take about 5 minutes. Next, mix wet ingredients into it. Mix dry stuff separately, then mix it all together until there are no large lumps. As always, and you've heard it a million times, DO NOT overmix. Please.
Fill your lined muffin tins about 3/4 full or until you've used all the batter to make 12 cuppies. Bake for 20 minutes, maybe 22 if your oven is a jerk. Let cool.
I did not let mine cool completely, instead, I only let them cool for about 15 minutes. Then I cut out a cone shape with a paring knife. One of the only good uses for a paring knife, I believe. (How often do you use that thing? I mean, come on.)
Next, I made the cream cheese frosting(p158).
1/4 earth balance (or any non-hydrogenated vegan margarine)
1/4 vegan cream cheese, i used toffutti
2 c powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Cream margie and toffutti until fluffy, add vanilla, add powdered sugar. Bam! This didn't taste very cream cheese-y to me, but it was still the shiz, so I'm keeping it.
I then mixed 1/3 cup Starbuck's coffee liqueur with 1/3 cup water and 3 tsps of instant coffee mixed and microwaved. I wanted it strong, yo!! (You can use any coffee liqueur, really.) And for my straight edge friends, obviously if you omit this, add more of the extra strong coffee, probably espresso powder instead of coffee would be better. And if you have an espresso machine…well, you rule. Use that instead. And marry me, please.
You put about 2 Tbsp of this into the cavity of each cupcake, make sure it's nice and soggy. Believe me, you want to taste the coffeeness. Pipe in your cream cheese frosting, and the replace the cone once you have dipped it into that coffee ooze. Use your sifter to dust a mixture of 1 tsp cinnamon and 1 tsp cocoa powder over the tops of these.
These were amazing. I am totally hurting my shoulder patting myself on the back right now, but they were THAT good.
I also went to a place called Veggie Bite today and had the most amazing chocolate shake. My friend lives right by the one on 111th (which I had no idea of) in Chicago so I told her i would be visiting her more often. Even she, the veal and pate loving omnivore said, and I quote, "I am really impressed with how good this shake is right now." Then she proceeded to argue with me- right in the joint- as to why cow's milk is totally normal and good for you and okay to drink. Sigh. And she's in law school, ya'll. Don't ya just love lawyers? They can rationalize anything.
And Trader Joe's– what's that all about?? I went there like ten years ago and forgot it even existed for while but I went back today. I wanted to take a picture of my receipt because, seriously, everything I bought was like two dollars. Seriously. I will be shopping there from now on. I think it's totally worth the 25 minutes drive.
Oh, and I made this kickass garlic and white bean soup from Vegan With a Vengeance(p67). I served it with crusty wheat artisan (vegan) bread. It had just enough fennel to NOT be overpowering, because I totally hate that black licorice crap flavor, and I got to put my immersion blender to work. That poor thing has been collecting dust for far too long. Even my omni hubby loved this hearty and filling soup! But really, who wouldn't like two whole bulbs of garlic roasted then squeezed and blended into soup? Especially these crazy eye-talians I find myself suddenly related to!
Until next time…vengeance is mine!! Oh, and so is the falafel.

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text: Cape Town - World champion Springboks Victor Matfield and Schalk Burger as well as two former Blitzbokke stars, Cornal Hendricks and S'bura Sithole, are included in a 36-man squad to attend a national training camp in Durban from May 25 to 28, the South African Rugby Union (SARU) announced on Monday.Cell C Sharks back Sithole and the Cheetahs' Hendricks are two of eight uncapped players in the squad. The others are the Cheetahs duo of Lood de Jager (lock) and Teboho "Oupa" Mohoje (loose forward); Marcel van der Merwe (prop) and Jacques du Plessis (flank/lock) of the Bulls; Marnitz Boshoff (flyhalf) of the Lions and the Stormers' Damian de Allende (centre/wing).They will join Matfield, Burger and Cheetahs flank Heinrich Brüssow - who are back in the national set-up for the first time since the last Rugby World Cup in 2011 - in a training squad that is missing a number of players due to injury.Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer said he was happy with the form of a number of the country's top players and the uncapped players who have grabbed their chance this season, as well as the re-appearance from retirement and long-term injury of Matfield and Burger."Victor and Schalk have been out of rugby for a long time. They've really been in great form recently and the fact that they have not been with the Boks for more than two years, has made them hungry for Test rugby yet again," said Meyer."It's great to welcome them back into the Springbok fold and I know both of them can still add a lot of value to the team with the Rugby World Cup in 2015 looming."I'm also looking forward to working with Heinrich for the first time. He's been playing very well for the Cheetahs since returning from injury and brings a lot of experience."However, the message to every player in this training squad is clear - everyone must accelerate in each area from the first moment we are together as a team and that inclusion in this squad is no guarantee of selection."Meyer said that injuries had been a concern but they had allowed other players to press their claims. A number of players in the squad are still nursing niggles or recently returned from long-term injuries."It looks like most of the guys are improving weekly and a few new players have put up their hands, which is good to see with the first match of the season, against the World XV in Cape Town, only a few weeks away," said Meyer."It's also very encouraging to see a bunch of new players emerging from Super Rugby. This camp will provide us with a great opportunity to work with these players before the squad for the Incoming Series is finalised. I am looking forward to work with these players for the first time."This is a very big year for us and the players know they will have to step up a gear, be sharp and focused from the moment we get going in Durban. We have 14 very challenging matches ahead in 2014 and it's imperative that we build on what was a good season last year."It's important that we start building continuity because there are just 18 matches left until the Rugby World Cup starts. But it's just as important to recognise continuous good form. We also have a number of players struggling with injury niggles or returning from injury which we have to assess."Players based in France, England and Ireland were not considered for this camp as most of them are still playing for their respective clubs. However, the experienced Fourie du Preez, who played for the Springboks in 2013, has been invited to the camp in Durban as he is available for the Incoming Series against Wales and Scotland as well as against the World XV. The players invited to the training camp will assemble in Durban on Sunday morning and will return to their franchises on Wednesday morning. "We have a good working relationship with our local franchises and we have to thank them, as well as Suntory in Japan, for allowing their players to attend this camp," said Meyer.Players who were involved with the Springboks last year, but were not considered for selection because of medium to long-term injuries, are Scarra Ntubeni (foot), Chiliboy Ralepelle (knee), Frik Kirsten (neck), Pieter-Steph du Toit (knee), Franco van der Merwe (ankle), Arno Botha (knee), Pierre Spies (bicep), Louis Schreuder (hand), Pat Lambie (bicep), Gio Aplon (elbow) and Jaque Fourie, who could potentially miss the entire Test season because of an ankle injury.The 36-man Springbok training squad is:Forwards (20): Tendai Mtawarira (Sharks), Trevor Nyakane (Cheetahs), Marcel van der Merwe (Bulls)*, Jannie du Plessis (Sharks), Frans Malherbe (Stormers), Coenie Oosthuizen (Cheetahs), Bismarck du Plessis (Sharks), Adriaan Strauss (Cheetahs), Eben Etzebeth (Stormers), Lood de Jager (Cheetahs)*, Victor Matfield (Bulls), Flip van der Merwe (Bulls), Heinrich Brüssow (Cheetahs), Marcell Coetzee (Sharks), Siya Kolisi (Stormers), Willem Alberts (Sharks), Jacques du Plessis (Bulls)*, Teboho Mohoje (Cheetahs)*, Duane Vermeulen (Stormers), Schalk Burger (Stormers)Backs (16): Fourie du Preez (Suntory, Japan), Francois Hougaard (Bulls), Johan Goosen (Cheetahs), Marnitz Boshoff (Lions)*, Jean de Villiers (Stormers), Damian De Allende (Stormers)*, Jan Serfontein (Bulls), Juan de Jongh (Stormers), JJ Engelbrecht (Bulls), S'bura Sithole (Sharks)*, Frans Steyn (Sharks), Lwazi Mvovo (Sharks), Bjorn Basson (Bulls), JP Pietersen (Sharks), Cornal Hendricks (Cheetahs)*, Willie le Roux (Cheetahs)* - Uncapped at Test levelHAVE YOUR SAY: Are you happy with the Springbok training squad named? 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I've never heard the Jupiter Coppers, so I can't comment there. Hopefully others will chime in, with their experiences? But, personally, you could do worse than Mundorf Supremes. Jeff recommended them to me, for a recap, and I like what I've heard. And maybe it's just me, but the Jupiter's seem a little 'over kill', for the EMITs. Capacitors of their level would be better served on the mids. Especially, if you're like me, and can't hear much over 15KHz anyway.
Also, you might enjoy this story. Paul McGowan, of PS Audio, owns a set of IRS V's. He had them rebuilt after purchase. New GRAZ EMIM diaphragms. Plus, a complete crossover rebuild. And guess what, Paul's engineer used Mundorf capacitors throughout!
They go down to near 2.5k before they are -12db. They are very audible. Using Copper does air as "a bit rich", but there are those in that category.
Pretty cool all except I could only see MKPs. I use MKPs for bass shunts only.
The MKP is akin to the Solen/Axon. I used Axons in the bass circuit on the last pair of RS 4.5s we did. However, I used EVO Oil in the mid array. The EMIT received a Supreme S/O bypassed with a Jupiter Copper. I've attached a chance pic during the assembly process.
Oh yea, after I finished the recap on the first set of boards, I grabbed a junk driver, to test my wiring. Everything worked. So, I next grabbed an upper midrange dome, and hooked that up to the new board, and compared just that dome to the stock AR90 speaker. The results were shocking! The new boards and dome, produced such a cleaner and clearer sound. No static distortion either, like I could now hear in the old speaker. Plus, I was hearing better mids and treble, from just the dome, than the tweeter and mid combined, from the untouched speaker! Awesome. Thanks again.Now back to our regularly scheduled program...!
What exactly did you change?
Good to hear, I thought you might have added the Jupiter Coppers and was curious. Thanks
The midrange comes before all else.Use the 2x47+33.It will be much warmer, and a bit richer. Closer to how those mids should sound.
How does the 2x47+33 make it much warmer and a bit richer?
Also thinking to put poly caps in the woofer section and removing those electrolytics (600uf & 1100uf). That would tighten up the bass a bit wouldn't it?
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For years, at thousands of New York City intersections, well-worn push buttons have offered harried walkers a rare promise of control over their pedestrian lives. The signs mounted above explained their purpose:
To Cross Street
Push Button
Wait for Walk Signal
Dept. of Transportation
Millions of dutiful city residents and tourists have pushed them over the years, thinking it would help speed them in their journeys. Many trusting souls might have believed they actually worked. Others, more cynical, might have suspected they were broken but pushed anyway, out of habit, or in the off chance they might bring a walk sign more quickly.
As it turns out, the cynics were right.
The city deactivated most of the pedestrian buttons long ago with the emergence of computer-controlled traffic signals, even as an unwitting public continued to push on, according to city Department of Transportation officials. More than 2,500 of the 3,250 walk buttons that still exist function essentially as mechanical placebos, city figures show. Any benefit from them is only imagined.
''I always push,'' said Réna, an employee at Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, who was too embarrassed to give her last name after she pushed a button on Atlantic Avenue and was told the truth. ''The sign says push, so I push. I think it works.''
Most of the buttons scattered through the city, mainly outside of Manhattan, are relics of the 1970's, before computers began tightly choreographing traffic signal patterns on major arteries. They were installed at a time when traffic was much lighter, said Michael Primeggia, deputy commissioner of traffic operations for the city's Transportation Department.
The first ''semi-actuated signal,'' as they are called by traffic engineers, is believed to have appeared in the city in 1964, a brainstorm of the legendary traffic commissioner Henry Barnes, the inventor of the ''Barnes Dance,'' a traffic system that stops all vehicles in an intersection and allows pedestrians to cross in every direction at the same time. Barnes was also instrumental in completing the one-way conversion of major avenues in New York.
Typically, semi-actuated signals were positioned at intersections of a major thoroughfare and a minor street. The major road would have a green light until someone pressed the button or a sensor in the roadway detected a car on the minor street. Then, after 90 seconds or so, the light would change.
The goal, Mr. Primeggia said, was to make traffic flow on the major artery more efficient. The buttons made sense when traffic was generally minimal on the minor street. But as traffic grew steadily, their existence became imperiled.
In 1975, about 750,000 cars entered Manhattan daily; this past holiday season, there were more than 1.1 million. The other boroughs have gone through similar growth, Mr. Primeggia said. As even minor streets became congested, the need for the semi-actuated signals largely disappeared. Many buttons also interfered with the computer-programmed coordination of lights that is now the rule in facilitating traffic flow.
By the late 1980's, most of the buttons had been deactivated, their steel exteriors masking the lie within. But city officials say they do not remember ever publishing an obituary, and the white and black signs stayed up, many of them looking as new and official as ever.
''I don't always push, but I do it in the off-chance that I might save two seconds,'' said Joanne Downes, 63, a retired nursing professor, after pushing a broken button to cross the West Side Highway from Chelsea Piers on West 23rd Street yesterday morning. ''I have guessed that they don't work, but why are they there?''
There are 750 locations where the buttons actually do work, Mr. Primeggia said. Some of them have been installed more recently, while others are holdovers from two decades ago. The working buttons are only at intersections where the walk signal will never come unless the button is pushed or a car trips the sensor, Mr. Primeggia said. He cited two examples, one at Hicks and Summit Streets in Brooklyn and the other on Flatbush Avenue just south of the Belt Parkway exit ramp. But other working push buttons are hard to find. A random survey of more than 30 intersections in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan found one, at Marathon Parkway and 51st Avenue in Little Neck, Queens, that worked.
At $300 or $400 per intersection, it would cost about $1 million to remove the disconnected mechanisms, Mr. Primeggia said. About 500 have been removed during the course of major reconstruction. But city officials over the years decided it was not worth the cost for the rest, given other needs like rebuilding roads or installing new traffic signals.
''We think of this from time to time,'' he said. ''But there's always a better need for the money.''
And in the bigger scheme of things, he said, it doesn't really matter if people push a working button. ''The public is going to get the walk signal regardless,'' he said. ''I guess that's the point. There's no harm in having it at the locations.''
Many veteran New Yorkers have long learned to ignore them. They have never made sense, said Maryam Ceesay, 24, standing at a downtown Brooklyn push-button intersection. If pedestrians could simply push them and always get a walk signal, ''cars would never cross,'' she said. ''Traffic would stop.''
But Ms. Ceesay was at that moment baby-sitting for 4-year-old Benjamin Miles. Despite his baby-sitter's explanations that the buttons ''never work,'' Benjamin still pushed away at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Henry Street. Why?
His explanation may be the best reason for the continued existence of the buttons.
''Because,'' he said, ''it's fun.''


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UKOUG Development Engineering SIG
I think the agenda was quite balanced: we had two items on new technology (HTMLDB and JDeveloper, two items on old technology (Forms) and I filled Guy's clowning role by delivering a short skit called "The worst week of my professional career".
The core audience for the DE SIG remains Forms developers; there's some people using Java but no-one using PHP or .NET and no interest in .NET. As an organiser I find the problem ith Forms is finding something new to say. Pretty much the only topics that are in the slightest bit fresh are highly technical investigations into the plumbing of Oracle application server. Kavitha Prakash from Oracle Support confirmed this to me afterwards; she said that pretty much all of the calls Support get are about app server configuration, deployment and debugging; there are almost no calls on coding problems. Gavin Leith of Sopra Newell and Budge gave an interesting talk on JDAPI, a Java tool for programatically tweaking Forms programs. This would have been useful to know about two years back when I was migrating a Forms client/server project to 9i web Forms, but to be frank I hope never to touch Forms again.
The talk that seemed to generate the most interest was given by David Richard of on HTMLDB. This was actually part 2 of a presentation that he started to give at the previous SIG in June. This time he actually managed to demonstrate his case study application and show some of the wiring under the hood. The application was a tactical solution for the NHS. This both proved the complexity of apps that we can build with HTMLDB and (I think) hinted at the limitations of the tool: A4C was a fantastic project to knock up in five weeks but it would be a nightmare to maintain. The problems of configuration management and code visibility in a metadata repository would get too pressing. Still, it inspired me. Last Friday my project manager showed me his latest spreadsheet for estimating and I told him we should be doing it soem other way; as I type this I am installing HTMLDB so that I can do it better.
Lastly Duncan Mills demonstrated his favourite new features in the new JDeveloper 10.3. I have to say the Java Server Faces implementation looks very good. My sole reservation is that it is so huge. Even Duncan had to look at his crib sheets to wrangle some piece of syntax. He's been living with this for most of the year: if he doesn't know it all, what hope is there for the rest of us? This is a serious point. Just to build a pop-up LOV required choosing a widget from a list of many dozens of options. Can there possibly be enough time to master these tools before the Java caravan moves on and there's a whole new set of APIs to learn?


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Mlive is reporting that Judge Thomas Shumaker has announced his retirement from St. Joseph County Probate Court.
"I feel this is best for me, my family and my staff," Shumaker said in a statement. "It is time I stop judging others and turn to helping others, for as things exist I find it harder to do so from the bench."
Shumaker, who has sat on the bench for the last 24 years, is the second judge in Centreville to announce he will not seek re-election in November. District Court Judge William Welty announced in December he planned to retire at the end of his term. Both will leave office at year's end.
There already is a candidate for Shumaker's seat: Three Rivers attorney John Barnes, who on Tuesday announced his candidacy.
In his announcement, Barnes said he has handled "thousands of cases" involving probate, estate planning and abuse and neglect. In addition, for the past 22 years, Barnes handled criminal cases and municipal law cases as an assistant city attorney for Three Rivers.


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With spring just around the corner (sweet relief!), many of us are at least thinking about heading outdoors to get our horticulture on in the garden. A great, inexpensive way to kick off the spring gardening season for novices and experts alike is to build a raised garden with, yep, your own two hands.
There are numerous advantages to growing vegetables, herbs, perennials and pretty much whatever you fancy in a raised bed. For one, you aren't dealing with native soil (although you can incorporate it if it's not completely worthless) that may be plagued with weeds and pests or may be straight-out difficult to work with. Instead, you can fill your bed with fresh, fertile soil. Low-maintenance raised garden beds are all about control and accessibility, not fighting against the possibly cruddy soil that Mother Nature may have provided you with. Plus, raised garden beds do a body good – saving you money on aspirin and knee braces – since you don't have to bend as far down to plant and harvest. Additionally, elevated garden beds drain better and are quick to warm in spring so that you can get a head start on planting that bumper crop.
All sound good? Here's how to construct your own raised garden bed in just a few easy steps.
Three important considerations to keep in mind when picking a spot to build your raised garden bed are light, level ground and ease-of-access. Picking a flat, not-too-shady location (the spot should get at least 6 hours of sunlight per day) will require less effort (e.g. digging) on your part and help your garden grow to its maximum potential. Don't build directly under trees or too far away from water sources. For maximum sun exposure, orient your bed in a north-south position. If you plan on building multiple beds in a row, make sure there's ample space, at least 2 feet, between them for you to maneuver.
Size matters
In terms of size, a bed three or four feet wide is generally considered a good place to start so you don't have to step into the garden or strain yourself reaching across the bed. The minimum depth should be 6 to 8 inches although you can go as high as 1 to 2 feet. How high you should build varies on the condition of the current soil (the worse off the higher you should go) and the kind of plants you plan on working with.
By far, rot-resistant lumber – cedar and redwood are fine choices – is the most popular building material for raised garden beds although some folks opt for other materials for aesthetic reasons such as bricks, concrete blocks, driftwood and tree limbs and recycled plastic composite lumber. If you plan on growing edibles, avoid pressure-treated wood and railroad ties as they may be treated with toxic chemicals. Many lumber centers sell Forest Stewardship Council certified lumber. If available, go the FSC-certified to give your green space some extra green cred. Plus, if you purchase your wood at a lumber center and you know you exact measurements, they'll cut for you in you aren't too handy yourself with a saw.
After taking the appropriate measurements and assembling your lumber frame using a drill and exterior screws (it's easy as that), dig a 2-inch deep trench in the spot where you plan on installing your bed. Position the frame into the bed, backfill the soil and make sure that your frame is firmly in place. Use a level to ensure that the frame is level all around. Inside of the frame, remove any trench and weeds, loosen the soil and add a thin layer of gravel to improve drainage. Next, line the bed with a layer of landscaping fabric or newspaper that will help keep aggressive weeds at bay. Or, line the bed with a layer of chicken wire that will prevent burrowing pests from popping up in your new garden.
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Twins pounce with wild rally in six-run eighth
Club-record eight walks in inning fuel crazy comeback in nightcap
MINNEAPOLIS -- It was as crazy of a comeback as anyone in the Twins clubhouse could remember.
The Twins entered the eighth inning down by two runs but rallied for six runs, with the first three coming on wild pitches, to shock the Blue Jays with a 9-5 win to sweep Thursday's doubleheader at Target Field.
The Twins drew a franchise-record eight walks in the inning -- the most by any Major League club since the Rangers did it on April 19, 1996 -- and had just one hit, but it was more than enough to complete the come-from-behind victory.
"It was probably the wildest eighth inning you'll ever see in your life," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "We had bodies running everywhere and pitches flying all over the plate. I don't know how many hitters we had go up there without getting a hit before we finally got one. So it was a nice comeback win for us to win two of three against this good team."
Right-hander Steve Delabar was the first Blue Jays reliever to struggle with his control, issuing walks to Josmil Pinto and Chris Herrmann to open the inning before Eduardo Nunez moved up both runners with a sacrifice bunt.
Blue Jays closer Sergio Santos came in, but he also had trouble finding the strike zone, as he walked pinch-hitter Trevor Plouffe to load the bases with one out. Pinch-hitter Kurt Suzuki came to the plate, and Santos uncorked two run-scoring wild pitches to allow the Twins to tie the game.
Santos then threw a third wild pitch on his sixth offering to Brian Dozier, which allowed the go-ahead run to score and Dozier to reach via the fifth walk of the inning.
"We knew Santos threw sliders more than fastballs, and after he spiked a couple fastballs early, he went straight to throwing sliders, which is tough to do," Dozier said. "It's tough to command. It's more of his strikeout pitch, but he kept throwing it and we kept taking it."
Left-hander J.A. Happ came in and promptly walked Joe Mauer to load the bases before issuing a run-scoring free pass to Chris Colabello for the seventh walk of the inning. Jason Kubel then laced a two-run single to give the Twins a four-run cushion. Pinto followed with the inning's eighth base on balls, but Herrmann struck out and Nunez grounded out to end the inning.
"We just couldn't throw strikes, we didn't pitch very good all series," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "We were in a position to win that one and we coughed it up."
It was unlikely win for the Twins, who saw right-hander Mike Pelfrey turn in his third straight subpar start after right-hander Kyle Gibson tossed eight scoreless innings to lead Minnesota to a 7-0 win in Game 1.
Pelfrey struggled with his command from the start, walking two of the first three batters he faced. Both walks led to runs, as the Blue Jays received an RBI single from Edwin Encarnacion and a sacrifice fly from Dioner Navarro.
He settled down until running into more trouble in the fifth. He served a solo homer to Jose Bautista with one out to give Bautista his American League-leading sixth homer of the season. It was also Bautista's 11th career homer at Target Field, which is the most for any opponent.
After the homer, Pelfrey walked Encarnacion before giving up a single to Navarro that knocked him from the game, with right-hander Samuel Deduno taking over on the mound. Deduno got Brett Lawrie to hit a shallow fly ball to right field but Herrmann couldn't handle it, despite a sliding attempt, to bring home a run.
Anthony Gose followed with a walk to load the bases before Ryan Goins hit a dribbler back to Deduno, who flubbed it and couldn't get the out at home as another run scored. The unearned run was charged to Pelfrey, who gave up five runs (four earned) on four hits and five walks. Pelfrey now has a 7.98 ERA on the year and has walked 12 batters in 14 2/3 innings.
"I was bad again," Pelfrey said. "In the first inning you can't give up a single and two runs. That's terrible. I obviously haven't been very good, and this isn't how I envisioned it starting. But I'm going to be better."
Right-hander Dustin McGowan also struggled for the Blue Jays, giving up three runs on six hits and four walks over four-plus innings.
The Twins scored in a hurry against McGowan with Dozier launching a shot to lead off the first inning. It was Dozier's team-leading fifth homer of the year.
Minnesota didn't score again until the fifth, when Dozier singled and Mauer walked to set the stage for a two-run double down the left-field line from Colabello that forced McGowan from the game.
But the Twins stayed in the game thanks to strong bullpen performances from Deduno and Casey Fien to set the stage for their wild comeback in the eighth. Colabello credited the Twins for their patient approach at the plate, as they lead the Majors in walks this season and are now above .500 at 8-7 for the first time this year.
"It was just a combination of guys having good at-bats and not trying to do too much," said Colabello, who leads the AL with 19 RBIs and the Majors with nine doubles. "It's easy in that situation to get too amped up and go after pitches out of the zone. But it was obviously an awesome approach by everyone."


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With mandatory water restrictions in place for both the city and county, residents everywhere scan the skies for dark clouds. The less optimistic eye the reservoirs with an ever-increasing sense of alarm. Not much to do but wait, conserve, and clean up what little remains of our waterways.
Each autumn, the river's receding waters are awash in discarded trash. Sixty percent of trash in Virginia's rivers, most of it plastic, comes from land sources. The most frequently deposited debris comes from cigarette butts made of plastic fibers. These butts have composed 17 percent of garbage collected from our rivers, lakes, and the ocean during volunteer clean-up efforts– hefty numbers for such a little item.
To combat this refuse in our neck of the woods, the Rivanna Conservation Society again gears up for their annual river clean-up. From the headwaters of the Moormans River to the mouth of the Rivanna, from Ragged Mountain Reservoir to Lake Monticello, from Earlysville to Palmyra, from Doyles River to Meadow Creek, the RCS asks that you sponsor a small-scale, localized stream clean-up.
Groups can tackle a backyard creek, a local park tributary, an unkempt neighborhood drain, or a trailside trench. It need not be lengthy or remote. Improvement in any size stream will help make a difference. A few hours, a couple of trash bags, and some like-minded individuals can and do make a world of difference.
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DURHAM, North Carolina – Like most kids his age , John Klor loves to play, climb and conquer. It is a special feat, considering where his story began. At six-months-old his mom Melissa says he wasn't even close to sitting up or meeting any of his milestones.
"It was a hard reality," said Melissa Klor, John's mom.
A developmental pediatrician diagnosed John with cerebral palsy.
"It kind of took our world and flipped it upside down," Klor said.
Then at 13-months a second opinion changed everything. A team at Duke University Medical Center diagnosed him with a creatine deficiency, known as GAMT deficiency.
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John's body wasn't making any. Within a few months of his diet and adding supplements, John began to walk and talk.
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Klor is thankful John is one of the lucky ones. Since John's diagnosis, Klor started a website to raise awareness of creatine deficiencies and help parents going through the same thing. While the disorders are rare, researchers believe they are underdiagnosed. For more information, log onto www.creatineinfo.org.
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Newborn screening is the practice of testing every newborn for harmful or potentially fatal disorders that are not otherwise apparent at birth. Many of these are metabolic disorders (often called "inborn errors of metabolism") that interfere with the body's use of nutrients to maintain healthy tissues and produce energy. Other disorders that screening can detect include problems with hormones or the blood. Usually, state decisions about what to screen for have been used on weighing the costs against the benefits. In general, metabolic and other inherited disorders can hinder an infant's normal physical and mental development in a variety of ways. And parents can pass along the gene for a certain disorder without even knowing that they're carriers. With a blood test, doctors often can tell whether newborns have certain conditions that eventually could cause problems. Although these conditions are considered rare and most babies are given a clean bill of health, early diagnosis and proper treatment can make the difference between lifelong impairment and healthy development. (Source: www.seattlechildrens.org)
GAMT DEFICIENCY: Creatine deficiency syndromes are inborn errors of metabolism which interrupt the transportation of creatine. Patients with creatine deficiency syndromes usually have intellectual disabilities that are usually severe. Creatine deficiency syndromes are caused by mutations in three genes: SLC6A8, GATM, and GAMT. GAMT (Guanidinoacetate methyltransferase) deficiency is an inherited disorder that primarily affects the brain and muscles. Almost all patients with GAMT deficiency experience recurrent seizures. Most develop autistic behaviors that affect communication and social interaction. It is a very rare disorder and affects about 80 individuals worldwide. Of these, approximately one third are of Portuguese origin. Researchers at Duke University are working on a way to test newborns for this disease. It is part of the growing movement to add some of the rarest illnesses-Pompe disease, Krabbe disease, bubble-boy disease-to the battery of screenings given to U.S. babies after birth. Since 2004, researchers have urged that every newborn be tested for 29 rare but devastating genetic diseases, using that single heel-prick of blood, to catch the fraction who need fast treatment to avoid retardation, severe illness, even death. States gradually adopted those recommendations, and federal health officials say the testing catches about 5,000 babies a year with disorders. Duke is one of the few labs able to diagnose creatine deficiency syndromes. GAMT deficiency may eventually be a candidate for newborn screening, although it is not yet clear if the substances will show up in blood at birth or if a different test will be required. (Source: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/guanidinoacetate-methyltransferase-deficiency and http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-01-04-infant-genetic_N.htm)
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Cassata Ricotta
Tiramisu, the Italian dessert of coffee-soaked lady fingers or sponge cake layered with rich, sweetened mascarpone and dusted with cocoa powder, became an American sensation in the 1980s. But there's another layered Italian dessert of merit that is overlooked on this continent.
Cassata Ricotta (or ricotta cake) is a similar preparation in which sliced pound cake is soaked in cherry liqueur and layered with sweetened ricotta studded with candied fruit and chocolate. Prepared pound cake and a Viking Food Processor make preparation a snap, and your guests will delight in each slice of this popular Italian dessert.
- 1 pound whole milk ricotta cheese
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped, or ½ cup
- semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup candied fruit, coarsely chopped
- 1 16-ounce "family size" prepared pound cake
- 1/4 cup cherry liqueur
- Confectioners' sugar
Place the ricotta and sugar in a food processor fitted with a metal blade and pulse several times to combine. Add the chocolate and the candied fruit and pulse until the fruit is finely chopped and the chocolate distributed throughout the ricotta. Set aside.
Remove the pound cake from the foil pan and reserve the pan. Slice the pound cake horizontally into 3 layers. Line the foil pan with plastic wrap, covering well and allowing several inches of wrap to hang over the outside. Return the bottom layer to the foil pan, cut side up, and brush with the cherry liqueur. Spread 1/2 of the ricotta mixture over the cake. Brush both sides of the middle cake layer with the liqueur and place in the pan over the ricotta filling. Spread with the remaining ricotta filling. Brush the cut side of the remaining cake layer with the liqueur and place, cut-side down, over the ricotta. Press down lightly, cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to serve. (Cake may be made 1 day before serving.)
When ready to serve, remove plastic wrap and unmold cake onto a rectangular platter. Dust with the powdered sugar and slice into thin pieces.
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Joined: 23 Sep 2001
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2001 4:33 pm
Post subject: is mark singing?
i watched a show with mw and he said he sang most of the songs in rock star...but i just bought the soundtrack and it doesnt acknowledge him! did he just sing in the movie then they had other ppl to sing on the soundtrack or did he not sing at all?
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2001 5:51 pm
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Hi, I was curious about that too. I don't have the soundtrack (yet) but when I saw the credits at the end of the movie, he was listed under vocals, and I saw (in interviews) him saying he sang 30%. I would think the singing would be the same on the soundtrack, anyone know for sure?
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2001 5:51 pm
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I am definitly wondering that same question cause I bought the cd and find out that the songs were by a Mike Matijevic and the assembled Steel Dragon, as well as the Verve Pipe, no mention on the web site of the movie or anywhere that I have noticed of Mark even Singing in the movie only thing I heard was in the showtime extra that he had 7 months of voice training for the movie but still no mention of his singing in it.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2001 6:47 pm
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um, k well i'm not sure but i'm just gonna take a guess this is what i got out of it, k i got the soundtrack to the songs of steel dragon aren't him singing but... in the movie it is him i think maybee mixed with the verve pipes voice and sometimes not even his k yeah hope it helps
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2001 6:59 pm
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The sound editors used some of Mark's vocals along with the singers you see listed in the soundtrack/credits. Instead of just cutting and splicing sections, the editor mixed them together so you can't really hear Mark, it's a hybrid voice, which is why some of the songs in the movie sound a bit different than the soundtrack. More info
Soundtracks are funny things. There are inspired soundtracks, music from the movie, instrumental background music types, it depends on space on the CD and copyright. I think also part of the reason Mark isn't on the soundtrack, is his unease about the music business. I forgot which interview it was, it's posted somewhere in this section, but WB wanted him to record that little rap thing he does toward the end of the film, but he didn't want to.
I'm sure it'll be explained in greater detail on the DVD.
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thanx for everyones responses!
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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2002 11:09 am
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FYI....Mike Matijevic was the lead singer of a pop-metal band called Steelheart back in the 80s...
For those of you as old as me...remember their big hit "I'll Never Let You Go". Whooo that brings back memories!
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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2002 5:22 pm
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JustDeb,I remember Steelheart.I loved that song.
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Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2002 10:07 pm
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I knew that voice, but I couldn't put my finger on from where.....thank you so much for clearing that up! Mike is a good singer, but there does seem to be something missing on the soundtrack. :-\
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 10:00 am
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I speak to Mike Metijevic a lot and he laughes at the thought of everyone thinking that MW sings all the songs. Mike sings "we all die young" "blood pollution" "long live rock and roll" The whole 80's thing brought back a lot of memories.............
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 10:50 pm
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Hello everybody,
I just watched "Rock Star" earlier today
and I was blown completely away with it. It is a good movie.
I felt a little weird, though. After seeing this movie, I know I will never be truly happy until I am on the stage. It's been my dream since I was a child, now it's time to make the dream come true!
I wanted to thank Mr. Wahlberg for portraying his character in a believeable way, not sugar-coating it.
What ever the music business has to offer, I want it. I will except the good with the bad.
On the question of "was he actually singing the songs", I couldn't tell he wasn't. Looked to me like he was rocking himself nuts.
This movie is now one of my favorites.
I really enjoyed it!
Love and Light,
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2002 6:19 pm
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Yes he totally sang the whole thing. He is the one singing on the soundtrack...WHICH KICKS *** !!!, I love when he sings "we all die young",and the last song in the movie where he is in the coffe shop, but anyway, it's all him....
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2002 11:52 pm
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Uh, did you recent posters read the above postings? Because we already established (last year actually) that it is NOT Mark singing on the soundtrack. Anyway to have a final word on this whole deal.
If you look at the liner notes to the RS Soundtrack you would see:
Vocals by: Jeff Scott Soto for Living the Life, Stand Up and Wasted Generation
Vocals by: Mike Mitijavic for We All Die Young, Blood Pollution and Long Live Rock & Roll.
Vocals by: Brian Vander Ark for Colorful. He of the Verve Pipe.
Now what I had been talking about was in the film itself, whose sound was recorded at a different time from the soundtrack. I don't want to get into the whole making of a film tutorial here, but the article I linked to explained it clear as day. Mark's voice along with Mike and Jeff were mixed by the sound engineer in post production. While filming Mark was singing, but we don't hear just him.
I was pretty sure it wasn't Mark hitting all those high notes when I saw the movie. Compared to his real voice and his recording career, it seemed a bit out of his range to my ears. They did do a seemless job of it tho, so it wasn't a voice so off.
Anyway, hope that makes things clearer.
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Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 9:22 pm
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on the topic of him singing or not, im serioulsy confused, becuz i dowloaded a song form there, i forget waht its called, but, anyway, i typed in the name of the song, and it came up as " Mark Wahlberg,(then title)" so i think he had to have sang some, other whys, we were jipped out!, lol, he has such talent in singing, i wishe he would do more.
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Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 10:12 pm
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I was so hoping that was him really singing. But I went to this one site and it says......the soundtrack is centered upon five songs credited to Steel Dragon, with Mark Wahlberg's vocals provided by both Jeff Scott Soto (Yngwie Malmsteen Band) and Mike Matijevec (Steel Heart). This sentence kinda confused me and I think it means it wasn't him, I really hope I am wrong, and maybe i was misreading it. If you want to check for yourself i went to cdnow.com and then went to search by: Album Title and then typed in Rock Star then press go. Scroll down till you see soundtrack and then click there. Alot of information about the movie is there, you may need to scroll down to see the other info. Make sure you split rock and star up or in don't work. sorry if i confuse you.
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