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jewishfeminist02-
Your entries are all correct. The “lace” one is not one I thought of, but it is also correct.
The answers:
1) Tzuflogen
-sCATterbrained
2) Model of car (not CATillac, that’s a make)
-CATalina (Pontiac)
3) Feline narcotic
-CATnip
4) Type of coin
-duCAT
5) A royal “shidduch” resulted in this
-abdiCATion( England’s Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson)
6) Holder of a J.D.
-advoCATe
7) The Hindenburg was one
-CATastrophe
8) Elderly monitor
-CAThode ray tube
9) Done to a banana atop ice cream
-bifurCATe
10) Spelunkers go there
– Paris’s CATacombs
11) Start the ball rolling
-CATalyst
12) Ancient war machine
-CATapult
13) Process of elucidation
-clarifiCATion
14) Phone call and email are two types
-communiCATion
15) Unoriginal
-copyCAT
16) Often preceded 19th century railroads
-cowCATcher
17) A property of lace
-deliCATe
18) Copy (solution 1)
-dupliCATe
19) Copy (solution 2)
-repliCATe
20) Toiveling
-purifiCATion
21) Be mikadaish
-dediCATe
22) Career
-voCATion
23) Often occurs on Purim
-intoxiCATion (lesheim shomayim, of course, to be yotzeh ad diloi yoda)
24) Escape without damage
-unsCAThed
25) To deceive or confuse
-obfusCATe
MommyOfTwo-
While I value the relative anonymity we have on this site, “Mrs. Try” and I would be willing to be contacted by you and/or your husband to give more specific information. As I said, I have some shaiches to Prospect. I would of course request that you keep our personal information confidential.
I don’t know what Moshejoe’s motivations are for slandering the school with dishonest and ludicrous inuendo and smears.
What he is saying and the way he is going about saying it clearly violates several tenets of the Chofetz Chaim’s hilchos loshon horoh.
In addition this is a perfect example of makeh rei’aihu beseser – one who hits secretly, in this case attempting to publicly sully the name of a school with dozens of dedicated principals teachers and other staffers.
I say ludicrous as well, because no school that turns out kids as he described would stay in business, be it chasidish, litvish, sefardi, modern orthodox or ultra-orthodox.
I am NOT urging you to send your daughter specifically to Prospect – no school, regardless of how good it is fits all students.
There are many other fine schools, one of which may be more to your liking, or a better fit.
I am urging you to treat Moshejoe’s comments with the same validity as you would an anonymous phone call received in the middle of the night, with a whispering voice on the other end saying the things he said.
anon for this-
No, although I heard of it. Is it a linguistics book?
Meow Mix:
(every answer contains the word “cat”)
1) Tzuflogen
2) Model of car (not Catillac, that’s a make)
3) Feline narcotic
4) Type of coin
5) A royal “shidduch” resulted in this
6) Holder of a J.D.
7) The Hindenburg was one
8) Elderly monitor
9) Done to a banana atop ice cream
10) Spelunkers go there
11) Start the ball rolling
12) Ancient war machine
13) Process of elucidation
14) Phone call and email are two types
15) Unoriginal
16) Often preceeded 19th century railroads
17) A property of lace
18) Copy (solution 1)
19) Copy (solution 2)
20) Toiveling
21) Be mikadaish
22) Career
23) Ofter occurs on Purim
24) Escape without damage
25) To deceive or confuse
Gut Shabbos
squeak-
jewishfeminist02-
yoshi-
That line is from an English teacher’s joke which is used to illustrate the importance of punctuation:
The words used are “Woman without her man is nothing”.
Man’s punctuation – “Woman, without her man, is nothing.”
Woman’s punctuation – “Woman: without her, man is nothing.”
Similiar to the panda’s diet joke of “eats shoots and leaves”.
Dr. Pepper-
squeak-
Correct! (although after Dr. Pepper’s step-by-step instructions, I think my haskama is superfluous)
Dr. Pepper-
Very impressive. As the editor responsible for the math section of Logic Magazine, I’d like to offer you a position in our department as …..just kidding, of course. But still, very impressive.
Flip-Floping:
(no politics involved)
ABCDE x 4 = EDCBA
Where A,B,C,D and E represent a whole single digit from 1 thru 9.
(from a magazine)
squeak-
You’re right.
I downloaded Microsoft’s old QBASIC.EXE program, and used it to write a a few lines of code that proved this.
(If you’ve written an Excel or Word macro, qbasic uses the same language).
lesschumras-
I assume your question is not being answered because people here don’t know all of the issues involved and don’t want to misinform you.
I remember that when the Flatbush eruv was first put up – I think about 20-25 years ago – our rabonim told us not to use it and mentioned some reasons why, but since then I basically just remembered the “no” as far as using it and moved on. When the Boro Park eruv was put up, I asked a Boro Parker why people who didn’t hold of the Flatbush eruv used that one, and he told me the reason was the elevated subway lines that almost completely surround Boro Park. I did a quick google search of “flatbush eruv problems” just out of curiousity and found many issues discussed that I wasn’t aware of, such as population density for example.
These vague recolections and explanations by non-rabonim are the reason I am uncomfortable discussing this issue as if I know authoratatively what the issues are.
pearl-
I appreciate your concern, but I have no problem with Joseph’s question.
I see it as if I am schmoozing with someone during my work commute, who when it turns out we may have a shul or something else in common asks me where I daven, send my kids to yeshiva, and so on.
Since this is a public forum I declined to answer.
The Queen of Persia-
Yeshiva Derech Chaim in Boro Park is a beis medrash that generally accepts good kids, even if they’re not top learners.
I do think all learning is done in English, though.
There are a couple of mesivtas in Flatbush that cater to boys who might be shvach learners or non-mainstream. I think Rabbi Rafael Walerstein and Rabbi Friedman (don’t remember his first name, but his yeshiva is on East 15th St. between J&K) are the ones who run the yeshivos. They may have some Beis Medrash ideas, since I would imagine some of their boys go on to learn full-time.
In my days there were several small “yeshivos” that were basically a rosh yeshiva/rebbe and maybe 10 boys learning in a shul. I don’t know of any specifically nowadays, but would it pay to look into something like that?
anon for this-
Yours is even better, because it’s true!
squeak-
“A Little Light Thinking”
Correct!
The switches are A, B, C and D
Turn on A and B and leave them on for five minutes so the bulbs (including the bases) get good and hot.
Then turn off B, turn on C and immediately go into the “light” room.
The results will be:
A=on,hot
B=off,hot
C=on,slightly warm
D=off,cool
Dr. Pepper-
The “game show” puzzle was so counterintuitive that I refused to believe it until actually trying it out myself.
Some Nautical Quotes:
– Horatio Nelson
“Don’t give up the ship”
– James Lawrence
“I have not yet begun to fight”
– John Paul Jones
– Edward John Smith
Dr. Pepper-
Good morning.
That is one of my favorite puzzles, and possibly the one I was going to post next.
I saw it several years ago in Parade magazine.
It would be wrong of me to “chap” it away from someone else, I won’t say any more until the solution is posted.
A Little Light Thinking:
Good King Xerxes (he had done tshuva) had a problem. One of his key advisors had recently been hanged for high treason, and now a new spot in the king’s cabinet needed to be filled.
Since one of the prerequisites of being on the king’s staff was the ability to think logically, King Xerxes devised a puzzle that applicants needed to solve to the best of their abilities in order to be considered.
The king had two adjacent rooms wired up, so that room “A” had four switches on the wall, and room “B” had four 100-watt incandescent bulbs, each controlled by one switch (you don’t REALLY believe there were no electric bulbs before Edison, do you?). There was a 100% lightproof door installed between the two rooms. The door was kept closed.
Each applicant was allowed to set any switch to any position in the “switch room”, and take as long as he wanted to do so. Once he declared himself ready, the door to the “light” room was opened, and the switches locked in place. The applicant then had to determine which switch controlled which bulb.
Given these conditions, is it possible to determine the connection between all four switches and bulbs? How?
I thought IMHO means “in my heilige opinion” :-{)>
The Queen of Persia-
Is Torah Vodas an option?
I don’t think the high school learns in Yiddish, but I remember it as being chasidish / litvish.
FYI in the non-chasidishe yeshivos I went to, by the time boys are 17 they are usually accepting of those with different levush and minhagim, and don’t pick on or ostracize them.
I can empathize with you that it’s not easy – I wish you and your son much hatzlocha.
Joseph-
Tizku lemitzvos.
Joseph-
Prof. Google is one of my best online friends, but no, I haven’t used it for any answers.
Genius??? hahahahahahahahah – thank you, but the “humorous item” thread is perfect for that!
(I actually botched the second line – I should’ve said “he wanted to sleep under a bike, but it was two tired”).
I liked those jokes too, but smh1 was right – siz nischt klug tzu reitzen un die vus zenen nischt unzer freint – (apologies for the usual teeth-shattering efforts).
The Queen of Persia-
It must have been wheely worn out.
I hope it wasn’t two tired to get up.
Eggzactly wHen did this happen?
SJSinNYC-
At the risk of being called a “bleeding heart conservative”, I feel very bad for you.
I never heard of such a chumra that you can’t even go to your sister’s house on Shabbos, even without carrying based on reliance upon the eruv. If that is the case, how can anyone ever have frei people over on Shabbos? I am not being cholek on anybody on my own daas, but simply saying I never heard of such a thing and wonder if there was a misunderstanding.
Any and all other posters – have you?
rabbiofberlin-
Hello – hope you’ve been well.
Do you really feel you are qualified to call Rav Feivel Cohen (among others) “Wrong, wrong, wrong”?
Moshejoe-
I believe you mean well, but this is absolutely the wrong way of going about it.
If you have specific info you should let MommyOfTwo know of it PRIVATELY, and not besmirch an entire school publicly without providing information.
I am giving you the benefit of the doubt because I agree that Bais Yakov D’Rav Meir is also an excellent school.
I have some shaiches to Prospect, and I can clearly state that my info is up-to-date.
The parents of the girls who go there are overwhelmingly happy with the education and hanhala.
The girls who graduate are overwhelmingly well-educated, good, frum girls without the issues you described.
I have no idea where you got your info from, but it’s wrong.
Many of the current students are second and third generation Prospect kids, and many of them have the same teachers their mothers did.
MommyOfTwo-
I think the best advice I can give is to speak to parents who currently have their kids in a school – one of them is worth hundreds of anonymous bloggers.
Dr. Pepper-
I’m happy to see your methodology is close to mine (I think), although yours is much more concise.
I appreciate your taking the time to explain it so clearly.
I never had a teacher named “Pepper”, nor did I realize you have a PhD.
I did not know you were a teacher – it was a guess.
Your English usage is very precise, hence your earlier statement “Here’s one from the textbook I used for calculus” clued me in that you might be a teacher.
A student would more likely say “Here’s one from the textbook I HAD for calculus” or “Here’s one from the textbook WE used for calculus”.
I like “playing detective” – sometimes I’m right and sometimes I’m wrong. I don’t feel too bad when I’m wrong – even Sherlock Holmes had his “The Yellow Face” misadventure.
I do enjoy math and other puzzles, but it’s quite likely any advanced ones will be over my head – my education didn’t include college.
(It goes without saying – please provide some anyway).
oomis1105-
Thank you for your kind words, but don’t give me too much credit – that was my seventh guess.
squeak-
“(2 * 40 * 30) / (40 + 30)”
For someone who dislikes math, that’s an awfully elegant solution.
Re: Change is good!- nice try, but I half to remind you that you may half forgotten something 😉
chaimss-
You reminded me of this one
(From a yeshiva dorm counselor, trying to maintain order):
“If you’re a kohain, you you have a problem. There’s a mes(s) in your room.”
Change is good!
Using only coins currently in circulation (no half-cents, two-cent pieces, commemorative hundred-dollar coins, etc.), what is the highest value in coinage you can have without being able to make change for any other current coin or bill?
noitallmr-
Thank you, from a fellow corn-meister.
MommyOfTwo-
A TV in the house is not a deal-breaker with Prospect.
If you are considering it (good move, IMHO) he are a couple of pieces of info:
-The girls wear uniforms which are tzniusdik by all standards. I don’t think a four-year-old would need a uniform yet.
-The parents are from across the spectrum, but I don’t know of any mothers who don’t cover their hair or do wear pants.
-The administration is excellent.
-The sooner you speak to them, the better. It can be tough to get into some schools, just because of the demand for available spaces.
-You can speak to the administration about questions and concerns, but of course put your best foot forward (dress-wise, etc.) Try to speak to other parents and (if you have contacts) administration members with questions that you would prefer not to bring up on an interview.
-If you end up sending your daughters there, it would be no surprise if you were pleased enough that you keep them there thru high school.
Once again, hatzlacha raba.
Moderator-
smh1 has a point. Please remove my previous two posts.
YW MODERATOR – The posts have been deleted.
Spaced out: (continued)
This question actually has halachic issues at its core, and is nogeah lehalocha.
Did you ever notice that for a short period each year the zman tfila in the morning is getting later, but shkiah is also getting later? How is this possible? If the day is getting longer, it should do so at both the beginning and the end, and vice versa!
The answer is, because the earth’s position within its orbit has changed,a part of it will remain in its previous state (light or dark) later than it would have in its previous spot. Therefore if the change of the day’s length is less than the amount of additional daylight the new position would give it, the day will still end later, even if it is not longer.
(Rabbi Premock and anyone who has worked on a luach could probably explain this exponentially better)
Order Nationality Drink House Pet Smoke
1 Norway Water Yellow Dunhil
2 Dane Tea Blue Horse Blend
3 Brit Milk Red Bird Pall Mall
4 German Coffee Green Prine
5 Swede Beer White Dog Blue Master
The fish could belong to either the German or the Norweigian (you only listed four pets)
havesomeseichel-
“This interval is known as a “sidereal” day, which is 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.06 seconds.”
Correct!
The (almost) quarter-day that must be compensated for is due to the fact that the earth takes about 365.24 days to circle the sun.
The length of each day is the same, although the amount of daylight differs.
The orbit itself is not a perfect circle – we are closer to the sun during the northern hemisphere’s winter.
The best way I can think of to explain why more than a full rotation is needed in a 24 hour period is:
Let’s imagine the earth as a marble, circling around the outide of a clock. The sun is the center of the clock. Let’s say (for simplicity’s sake) the year is only four days long. If the marble (earth) moves from the 9 o’clock position to the 12 o’clock position (one day), and the marble rotates 360 degrees, the part of the marble which faced the sun is now facing off to the right. It must rotate an extra quarter turn for the part that faced the sun to again face the sun.
This less-the-24-hour rotation equaling a 24-hour day is because the earth rotates counter-clockwise when viewed from a spaceship parked over the north pole. If it rotated clockwise and the day was still 24 hours, a full rotation would be longer than a 24-hour day-night cycle.
Spaced out:
The earth takes exactly 24 hours to complete one full roatation, right?
Explain your answer.
Hint: Wrong! It’s a few minutes off from 24 hours. Because…
noitallmr-
“You take a cigarette out of the box. You don’t have a lighter, flint stones, matches, candle, anyone else near you and no lit cigarettes either. How do you light it?”
If a “serious” puzzle:
1) you have some phosphorous handy.
2) crack an incandescent bulbs glass, and use the filament.
otherwise:
1) shake a few tobacco leaves from the cigarette. you’ve now made a cigarette lighter!
squeak-
What’s black and white and red/read/redt all over?
– I think “Pravda” would fit all of the above criteria and spellings.
Dr. Pepper-
What’s next:
“I think the pattern starts earlier, 1,4,9,61,52,63,94,46,18,001,121,441,961,691,522…”
Correct!
Whole numbers starting from 4 are squared, then the resulting number has its digits reversed.
(you could’ve said “…9,4,1,0,1,4,9,61,52,63,94,46,18…” if you REALLY wanted earlier)
Are you a math teacher?
If so, were my results for Squeak’s puzzle correct? What approach would you have taken?
What’s next? (new and improved! with clue enclosed!)
61,52,63,?,46
oomis1105-
noitallmr-
re: Who am I? – both correct!
What’s next?
-54??? no, keep on trying.
“Come on ICOT…you can do better then that! :-)”
– ‘fraid not :-p
eli lev-
I suggest you google “cassette to mp3”.
The hardware prerequisites will remain the same.
There are many software packages, free, shareware and commercial, that will have the same approximate functionality.
If the number of steps is intimidating you may want to get something that does it all for you (breaks up the songs and creates the MP3s).
This is a common task, and you will find lots of “how to” advice out there.
Joseph-
“If we agree O.P. is a reshus harabim mdoraisa”
– Sorry, I don’t remember. I seem to recall it’s a safek, but I just don’t know.
“what constitutes a ‘break’?”
– To the best of my recollection, an overpass or something else that prevents other streets from being mitztaref with Ocean Parkway.
“Why is Queens (or even Nassau) not affected by O.P.? Brooklyn and Queens are both part of the same city.”
– If I remember correctly it is because there are overpasses orother breaks on all roadways that are wide enough that would allow tziruf.
I am not comfortable discussing this, because my knowledge of the issues is so incomplete, and it is halacha lemaseh.
There are many rabonim on both sides of the eiruv issue who are knowledgeable re: what’s involved and probably should be asked these questions.
noitallmr-
1) Use a magnifying lens and sunlight.
2) Wait until you get a lighter.
3) Call a shadchan, tell him you’re single, and get a match.
4) Join a YW thread and wait for an incendiary comment.
Spaced out:
The earth takes exactly 24 hours to complete one full roatation, right?
Explain your answer.
Do you know me?
I am a man. If Yankel’s son is my son’s father, what relationship am I to Yankel?
What’s next?
61,52,63,?
Itzik_s-
IMHO you made the right decision to return to posting here.
Keep up the good work.
I wish you hatzlocha in your personal life (shiduch, etc).
oomis1105-
Your story is amazing. Thank you for sharing it.
charlie brown-
I can only echo what oomis1105 said.
shindy-
I have know of people who got back on the derech, sometimes many years later.
May you and your mishpacha be zocha to that as well.
Joseph-
A more thorough answer:
I don’t remember and may never have known what all the facets of the “Brooklyn eiruv” issue are, but as best I can recall they were:
Is Ocean Parkway a rishus harabim d’oyraisa?
Do the various elevated train lines and overpasses count as breaks?
I believe many chasidim in Boro Park rely on the Boro Park eruv because that community is entirely surrounded by elevated (west end and culver) train lines, while in Flatbush they would not carry.
Joseph-
Safek rishus harabim, yes.
dont have internet-
I posted my response before noitallmr’s appeared.
Since he has already done his research, I would say that an ounce of knowledgable advice is worth more than a pond of conjecture, and check out the model he suggests first.
noitallmr – one question:
How current is your research?
When I was researching digicams for relatives a year or two ago, the f30 stood out from the pack by a huge margin, but according to recent reviews Fuji seems to have fallen back to the rest of the pack.
dont have internet-
All digicams nowadays have some form of video capture (as far as I know).
You will have to factor in the quality, format, duration, frequency of use, and other things when deciding if it’s worth paying extra or sacrificing other features on the still picture side.
Your timing is excellent as Black Friday is coming up.
Techbargains.com has a link to black Friday sites, and I’m sure there are many others as well.
I suggest you start doing your homework immediately to determine what camera has the features you need the most within your price range.
Once you have a model you’re interested in, check reviews at cnet.com and several digital camera review sites.
One last thing that bears repeating – fancy features are great, but image quality is king.
eli lev-
Mrs. Try has dozens of cassettes from the 80’s
The following is based on my experiences:
Prerequisites-
A stereo patch cord (can be purchased at Radio Shack)
A computer with a stereo sound card
I have a software package from Nero which I use in video editing and includes a .wav editor as well.
Start the program, plug the patch cord into the cassette player and the sound card and turn the volume up as high as it can go without distortion.
The better the cassette player, the less the tape “hiss” that will need to be corrected later.
After an entire side has been captured the work begins.
There is a graph displaying audio level within the recorded side.
Select a portion that is between songs.
Ideally that portion would be totally silent, but it probably contains some “hiss”.
Hilight that portion, and set the program to “clean up” the sound found there from the entire file.
This process may need to be repeated.
Don’t overdo it or you will deaden the sound.
Now you can break up the large file into the individual songs.
Once this is done there are many free programs that will convert the .wav files to .mp3 format, for loading to your ipod, burning to cd and so on.
There are programs that will automate the entire process, but I am skeptical that they can produce as good an mp3 as doing it yourself.
dont have internet-
There are three eiruvim in Brooklyn (two Midwood a.k.a. Flatbush, one Boro Park), none of which I personally use.
The issues which cause people not to use them exist almost nowhere else.
Joseph-
I won’t disregard – but I won’t answer either.
If you like pleaying detective (which I certainly do), why not pop into the riddle thread?
dont have internet-
The most important question is: digital, film, or whatever’s best?
Assuming digital (most people want that), for a snapshot-taker (as you seem to be) the three major criteria are:
a) portability – if you can’t easily carry it in, say, a shirt pocket, you won’t use it much.
b) ease of use – shutter / aperature / white balance / ISO adjustment are nice to have, but if you can’t simply point-and-shoot you probably won’t want to bother potchking with it.
c) picture quality (most important) – sharpness, color accuracy, fuzziness around the edges, red-eye reduction, image stablization (both digital and mechanical), zoom (optical and digital) for both indoor and outdoor pictures.
Other factors:
durability
price range
stills only, or occasional video as well