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I request mechila from anyone and everyone who I have hurt or wronged. This includes both those who post and those who only read posts. Whether I have been too harsh, angry, insulting, flippant, dismissive, thoughtless, wrongly suspicious, misleading, not helpful where I could have been, or guilty of any other action (or lack thereof) that caused pain, I ask for your forgiveness.
Nobody on this site needs to ask for my mechila, because any offense toward me was minimal and I am mochel it.
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Thank you.
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Wishing a ksiva vachasima tova to all the fine people here and all Klal Yisroel.
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YehudahTzvi-
There are well-known poskim in NY whose phone numbers are listed and/or easily available.
They include Rav Yisroel Belsky, Rav Feivel Cohen, Rav Hillel David and many others.
I find this shaila interesting.
If you Google “motion sensor toilet shabbos”, sans quotes, you will find discussions on this precise topic.
“Psik raisha d’lo nicha lei” and “kavod habriyos” figure prominently in those discussions.
OneOfMany–
A couple of observations:
1) You sure can write.
2) There are communities that disagree with you on a community basis, while on an individual basis there are several women who do have careers that lets them use their talents.
SecularFrummy–
Guess so.
But a series “W” still would’ve been nice.
I may even have brought my 30 year old Sports Illustrated with Billy Smith and “Bring Fourth The Cup” on its cover out of storage.
Thank you.
Good luck to your Blackhawks.
Last but not least, good luck to the Rangers in their game 7 tonight.
Since it’s almost Shavuous, in light of the smashing success the thread below has had in past years, please consider reopening it:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/shavuous-shiur-and-schedule-info-central
🙁
Win some, lose some.
Can’t complain, and besides, it isn’t over yet.
Here are a few related quotes.
(from a calendar)
-Milton Berle
-Peter De Vries
-Calvin Trillin
Well, I guess that means I’m no True Scotsman, er, Real Fan.
And it wasn’t a walk, which implies a deliberate decision. It was more of a drift; just slowly losing interest over the years and decades without even noticing its diminution.
Good luck to the Rangers & their fans tonight.
Spoons in Boro Park is a very nice milchig place with a separate room in back. Excellent food. They’re on 50th St. and 13th Ave.
718-633-5555
Congratulations, Islander fans.
commonsense-
The hall has its own caterer, so you can get the complete cost (hall, food, waiters, etc) from them.
Their listed number is 718-758-9700.
commonsense-
I don’t have a restaurant recommendation (sorry!), but here are a few suggestions/ideas:
-Owners and employees of kosher restaurants read these threads. So…
1) How many people (approximately) do you have in mind?
2) Does “Brooklyn” include Williamsburg, Crown Heights, etc. – i.e. all of Brooklyn, or only the Flatbush / Boro Park area?
3) What price range do you have in mind (approximately – it’ll vary based on service, course choice, desserts and other factors).
4) What other requirements do you have (private room, mechitza, etc).
Good luck.
Oh, and Mazel tov!
SaysMe-
Thank you.
Deleting letters 1(isle), 5(isl), 3(il) works if you pronounce isl as “isle”, which it is a legitimate abbreviation of. Pronounced as spelled, it would probably be “izzel”, which doesn’t quite make it 😛
squeak–
The judges gave me credit for 1.5
Shticky Guy–
Aisle.
Shticky Guy-
squeak-
Good hint.
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Syag Lchochma–
Halevai! and IY”H
OneOfMany–
You got it.
Believe it or not, that famous score by Marius Constant wasn’t used until later episodes. The series was able to attain a high creepiness quotient even with the original theme.
Just push the “WALK” button and all will be answered.
(Google “where is everybody” + “first episode” with the quotes and plus sign) ?
yytz-
Thank you.
Perfection
Do chareidies wear straw
Why should that stick in your craw?
Why should prying eyes
Is it all a show?
Yes, I act so pious
Then you have no moral heft
You refuse to see the light
I like myself just so
Moderator-
If the title of this thread could be changed to “MUST READ and PASS ALONG – Spina Bifida, Pregnancy and Nutrition”, or something else that was indicative of this thread’s topic it would probably get more attention from its intended audience.
Choosing a thread title that’s generic and/or not indicative of the thread’s content causes the thread to be missed and overlooked by people who may have been interested.
right you are
write or wrong-
That was amazing. If more people had that approach, they’d be far happier.
Bah
Correction:
The Montreal Canadiens were 10-1 in overtime in 1993, not 10-0. (See what happens when you rely on memory instead of Google?)
They lost their first OT game, then won ten straight.
Montreal came back to win the next four games, the series, and eventually, the cup.
Tonight, the New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins face each other in the playoffs for the fourth time. If this series is anything like the first three, hockey fans are in for a treat. The first three times these two teams faced each other, we had the all of the following:
– Every series going to a deciding double elimination game.
– Every double elimination game being decided by one goal.
– Two of the three double elimination games being decided in overtime.
– One best-of-seven series featured a comeback from a 3-0 deficit.
– Two series featured a two-time defending Stanley Cup Champion facing elimination in a huge upset.
Here are synopses of the prior three meetings between these two teams:
1975
The Islanders were the new kids on the block in this one. Only two years earlier, in their inaugural season, they had set a NHL record for futility, winning only twelve games over a full season. This year, they were actually a pretty decent team, although their defeat of the New York Rangers in an earlier round of the playoffs, just eleven seconds into sudden death double elimination, was regarded as luck or a fluke.
The Islanders nearly did it again that year, coming back from 0-3 to tie the two-time defending champion Philadelphia Flyers at 3-3 before losing in game 7.
1982
1993
That was the last series the Islanders ever won. They lost the next round to the Montreal Canadiens, despite the return of a diminished Pierre Turgeon. The Canadiens won games two and three in overtime as part of their amazing 10-0 record in OT games that playoff year.
The Penguins have had their ups and downs, including bankruptcies, the first ever player/owner in NHL history, and a return to glory with their third Stanley Cup a few years ago.
2013
Will the Islanders win their first playoff series in twenty years?
Will Pittsburgh finally defeat the Islanders in the playoffs?
Who knows?
Vogue-
I’m afraid I know nothing about chromebooks.
Some really quick research on the $249 Samsung Chromebook shows:
-It’s not a PC at all. It isn’t even comparable to a PC. It uses its own operating system, and it’s primarily intended to be used with both apps and data residing on the web. (It can be used while offline, too.)
-It gets good reviews from technical sites.
-It seems quite capable of handling your requirements.
I strongly recommend that you read reviews – both professional and man-on-the-street – to help decide if this is something you’re interested in. Even better would be if you can get your hands on one (perhaps a friend’s?) to try things out for yourself.
Also, if you will be accessing documents you create on your Chromebook from a different machine, will there be any compatibility or conversion issues?
Wish I could be more helpful.
Vogue-
word processing: any PC should be fine.
school: assumption: this means note-taking, report writing, homework, etc. any PC should be fine.
excel: unless working with huge files and complicated formulas, any PC should be fine.
web browsing: any PC should be fine.
Do you have a specific model you’d like an opinion on?
Taking a step back, are you sure it doesn’t pay to repair your macbook?
Interesting thread idea.
Hmmmm……
-Learning that the United States was the most powerful country in the world.
-Finding out an acquaintance’s father drove a taxi (infinitely cooler than a boring office job).
-Learning Moshiach is coming by the year 6000 (practically around the corner!)
-Seeing postage stamps from Israel! With Hebrew lettering!
-Xerox machines (much better than mimeographs). And they don’t even destroy the original!
-Electric pencil sharpeners. (who hasn’t sharpened a pencil down to a nub when first trying out an electric sharpener?)
-A shul that had a Candy Lady as well as a Candy Man (really!)
-Koirim on RH and YC. Al Chait on YC.
-The Entebbe raid and rescue.
-Watching the milkman deliver in the predawn hours. They really didn’t have a driver’s seat in those trucks.
-Seeing trains on McDonald Avenue. Not on the elevated line, but on the street itself.
-President Ford coming to Yeshiva of Flatbush to speak.
-Rabeim actually playing baseball with us on Lag B’Omer.
-Heavier-than-air flight. (just checking if you read this far.)
Vogue–
Not sure what type of info you’re looking for. Would you like feedback on a specific model that you have in mind, or recommendations for laptops in that price range?
Also, to give meaningful feedback to that type of question, we need to know what type of applications you will be running.
Thanks for the recommendation.
For those who haven’t yet seen my disclaimer, I’m not a PC professional, nor a serious hobbyist. I potchke with – er, repair – PCs for myself and family using info gathered from the internet.
yentingyenta–
I realize that it’s a done deal at this point, but I’ve had laptop keyboards destroyed by spilled drinks, and was able to replace the keyboard and restore the PC to full functionality. Even if you don’t do the repair yourself, it can still be far cheaper than replacing the entire PC.
oomis–
Without examining the PC there’s no way of knowing what the problem is.
It may be that a component (such as the hard drive) has jolted loose, a component may be broken, or the PC may be damaged beyond repair (e.g. cracked motherboard).
If there’s someone available to take a quick look at the PC, I recommend that they go into the BIOS setup and see if the hard disk is recognized – if it isn’t, it’s likely damaged or disconnected. Memory is another thing that may have been damaged or loosened.
The fact that the splash screen is showing means at least the LCD isn’t broken and is functioning.
talmud-
Here are a couple of past threads on the subject:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/good-websites
Gut Shabbos.
charliehall–
Are you saying that putting someone on a watch list should a) require that the subjects be informed they are on the list, and b) require that they should have the opportunity to remove themselves from that list and c) require being restricted on gun purchases and perhaps other things?
If I misunderstood your point, please correct me.
sw33t–
After the WTC and Oklahoma City bombings, there were many proposed measures to make it less likely to recur.
Among them:
-Creating nitrogen-based fertilizer that would be unsuitable for bomb-building.
-Adding identifying characteristics to fertilizer to help identify where it was from in case of a bomb.
-Protecting vulnerable buildings by placing barriers around them.
big deal–
The high-capacity magazines that Lanza used allowed him to shoot a huge number of bullets before the police arrived at the scene. Each of his victims had at least three gunshot wounds. This type of magazine would be prohibited under the new law. While there still would have been victims even if seven-bullet magazines were used, there probably would have been many less.
What are you unsure of? The other two shootings were committed by known mentally ill individuals who bought their own guns. Background checks, which the new law would mandate together with reporting, should have stopped those sales.
As far as inconvenience, a one-time background check when buying weapons is far less inconvenient than the screening we must undergo when flying, when going to a stadium (e.g. for the siyum hashas), when going into a mall in Israel and many more examples. BTW, you are aware that this inconvenience already exists whenever buying from a gun store?
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Yserbius123–
“Confession: The Second Amendment is a little out of date and should be taken out of the Constitution altogether. “
-The laws, as they exist, allowed Adam Lanza to use an assault weapon with large-capacity magazines to slaughter twenty-six innocents – twenty children and six adults – including heroic school staffers who died trying to protect the children they were responsible for.
-The laws, as they exist, allowed Jared Lee Loughner to shoot eighteen people, murdering six, with a pistol that had a high capacity magazine.
-The laws, as they exist, allowed Seung-Hui Cho to shoot forty nine people at Virginia Tech, murdering thirty two, including a Jewish professor who heroically died while saving many of his students’ lives.
The vetting done by any hiring company, credit card issuer, insurer, or the like is far more extensive than what’s proposed for prospective gun owners.
charliehall –
It is not legal to sell guns to violent felons (or any felons) or mentally ill people. What is missing is the ability to detect that the buyer is a felon and/or insane due to the lack of compulsory background checks in all sales.
just my hapence-
The Galaxy SIII mini looks like a nice phone and seems a good option for people who don’t want the massive tablet-like phones that are so popular nowadays.
But…
The Galaxy SIII mini apparently isn’t officially sold in the U.S.
While it will work on Sprint, AT&T and other GSM networks, it won’t work on Verizon’s CDMA network 🙁
info from Amazon’s q&a section from the Galaxy SIII mini page