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I prefer the pareve cholent from Eli’s Bagels and Pizza Garden in Spring Valley.
WIY – it is a radio frequency chip. with this in your card by some stores and gas stations all you need to do is hold your or wave your card near the reading device and it picks up the information. criminals buy these reading devices and can read cards from people in their vicinity. you can be shopping anywhere or even walking down the street and if your RFID chip is unprotected someone can steal your information.
I know many people in Monsey that have had their cards duplicated and either used or attempted to be used around the world (England, Canada, parts of the US where they were nowhere near).
if your card has a radio frequency ID chip in it – all the information can be stolen. my card was attempted to be used in Delaware while also being used in NY (properly). have your bank issue a card without the RFID chip or you can locate the chip and punch it out with a hole puncher. to destroy the chip put it in a microwave for 10 seconds. you can google how to do this.
alternatively you can by a protective sleeve for the card but you would still be vulnerable each time you take it out to pay for something.
What did you think was cool…
taking my siblings etch-a-sketch and shaking them when I didn’t think what they were blogging was appropriate…
I had a friend that went to camp and those that went with him came from all backgrounds – Yeshivish, Chassidish, non-religious and everything in-between.
The only thing they had in common was that they were Jews when they entered the camp. Upon leaving the camp – they had 2 things in common – 1) they were still Jews and 2) they had either no or very few relatives left.
They were all of different backgrounds yet they shares bunkhouses and bunkbeds. Sadly, many of them shares the same “showers”.
we just enjoyed a pizza from Eli’s Bagels and Pizza Garden in Spring Valley. Delicious!
Eli’s Bagels and Pizza Garden in Monsey! They serve brick-oven Pizza with a nice thin crust. and they have a GREAT counter worker.
Curiosity
Not a cat person
“Here’s an idea: Why don’t the people who are so conscious of participating anonymously in a mixed forum… wait for it… NOT PARTICIPATE IN A MIXED FORUM!? Genius… I know.”
right on target!
to others: as an original and now a former mod here – I can assure you that there are men posting as ladies and ladies posting as men (thi is probably true on all anonymous blogs. some post as close to gender neutral as possible. some post on the same thread as both a man and a lady.
I am having this again on September 8, 2040, when I am having 01/01/01 on Rosh haShono 5801.
Rosh HaShana will be 07/01/01. Rosh Chodesh Nissan will be 01/01/01. Wolf – I’m surprised you didn’t post the correction.
Health – Happy Birthday til 120plus in the best of health and circumstances!
as usual Wolf looks at the situation the right way (which translates into: we are in agreement)
shmoel: both New York and New Jersey had the mega-millions and I had to go to CT or PA if I wanted a power ball ticket.
mod-42: don’t forget the pension accounts for us retirees…
…well the folks at the farm did the right thing – shouldn’t that have stopped Sandy in her tracks according to your premise that last year it was approved and a storm happened?
We hired a reputable business and we knew going into the chassunah that we were getting one of the workers as the owner was already booked. the pics and video came out great but…
Towards the end the photographer went to my father or father-in-law (I don’t remember which) and demanded a tip and was told that he is paid by the owner and shouldn’t be demanding a tip. when we got the proofs I noticed that several pics from the end of the wedding were missing. pics with certain guests and family that I remember posing for.
We spoke to the owner about the shake down for a tip and the missing pics. Naturally, the worker denied the whole thing. The owner told us that the next time we make a wedding if we hire his company – he will free himself up to make sure he is there and will give us special pricing. He held to his word 3 years later when my brother got married.
who keeps screaming? you’re waking me up!
I’m more impressed with the Yid from the band Anthrax that stepped away from all that and became frum.
check ebay. you can buy my entire collection of autographed mod-72 cards from original poster to rookie mod to trainer mod to retired mod. place your bids today!
on the ball
still no subtitle…..(sigh)
“Aside for Odom Harishon giving up 70 years of his life for David Hamelech, I am not aware (but please enlighten me) of any other instance in Jewish history that this has happened.”
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…and Adom HaRishon regretted it when he was approaching the 930 mark and wanted his 70 years back. Dovid HaMelech referenced this in Tehillim with: Kol HaAdom kozave – I heard on a R’M.M. Weiss tape that HaAdom refers back to Adom HaRishon because he wanted back the 70 years.
“I guess they are impressed with s/o who puts down others on a constant basis.”
I guess if this was true you would be voted poster of the week, month and year by the esteemed CR posters.
Health
Member
“Really, is this your opinion?”
yes, it is my opinion. Another one of my opinions is never to rely upon the opinions of an anonymous self described student of health sciences.
“You must have never told us your opinion before. (Not)”
and you have told us your opinions.
“Anyway, thanks for sharing!”
it was my pleasure and is this the new and improved, milder you? You were a bit snarky with the “not” comment but not nearly as down right nasty as you usually are. keep it up!
I’m still of the opinion you should seek medical information from a known medical professional and not from this or other non-reliable medical blogs.
With that said, I use the mayo clinic website as my first stop in online medical advice/knowledge shopping – but I rely on my Doctors for the actual treatment programs and to clarify all questions that I may have.
I think that this blog can be used as a support group for individuals seeking others going through similar situations to discuss various associated issues.
there is the diabetes support group, Celiac just started. there was one for clubfoot another for depression…
I have enough confidence in the readers and posters in this blog that they know how to search reliable sites and when to ask a known medical professional and not to rely on any medical advice given here.
2scents
Mint and Raspberry
I liked this line.
“and right now i am learning which posters to answer and which to ignore.”
Does the fact that there are doctors with mean attitudes scare you?
what makes you think the person that the nursing student is referring to is a doctor? I will grant you that the mean attitude seems to fit… but a doctor?
“What I did to my kids during the “terrible twos” & sometimes these “terrible twos” last to 4-6 years of age – I’d hold them down and pour the medicine into their mouth. So what is to stop them from spitting it out? Simply, because as soon as I poured it in – I squeezed both sides of the mouth together.”
talk about traumatizing children. This sounds like abuse to me!
would you prefer:
“My ____________(fill in the blank tatty/mommy/bubby/zeidy) was poster of the week on YWN CR”
on the back of a tricyle…
Health
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“A good portion of the bloodshed lies squarely on the hands of the Tzionim. They Raitzed on the Goyim by making a Medina -thereby increasing their hatred and subsequently their violence ten-fold!”
… and with that he has squarely aligned himself with Mahmaoud’s Rebbi and the rest of the nk because as everyone knows the goyim LOVED the Jews throughout the time when we were exiled up until November 1947. They adored us. They held us in the highest esteem and hardly ever bothered us throughout the ages. When they did pester us – it was always against the Zionist element and not against the rest of the Yidden. Countries welcomed us with open arms and made us feel right at home…
I for one am sick of the argument that the Zionist is the cause of the hatred that the goyim have for Jews. I guess the concept of esav hates Yaakov means nothing to the health and the rest of his ilk. face it health and the rest of the nk – esav hates us. They hate: chareidim, Litvish, MO, non-observant, Zionists and anti-zionists. They don’t care about our style of dress or type of head covering we wear.
The entire portion of the bloodshed lies with those that are committing the terrorist attacks against the Yidden and for you to call yourself a G-d fearing and righteous Jew and blame the death of arab killed Jews on Jews is reprehensible.
Go ahead and post your rebuttal – I won’t read it and I encourage all others of the fine and wonderful posters here to not read it and to stop responding to your nonsense.
looks like cantoresq dug a little deeper and struck a new low…
chocandpatience
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a sticker would [usually? always?] mean that there has been a separate run or different supervision. It’s just cheaper than producing different packaging.
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apushatayid
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Regarding sticker hechsherim.
The way to know what added KASHRUS benefit the sticker provides to the kosher consumer is to ask the name printed on the sticker. You’d be surprised at how often the answer is NOTHING. Often, it is nothing more than a marketing strategy.
Caveat Emptor.
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chocandpatience –> not correct
apushatayid –> correct
I did something similar to this a few Purims ago. I saw a sticker on a box without a hechscher. Other candies from that company had a hechscher. I called the company and asked who gives the kosher certification and they told me. I asked about the name on the sticker and they told me they never heard of him. I called the Rav who gives the hechsher and asked him if the other Rabbis give a hechsher to this Company and he told me that as far as he knows only he does and no other Hechsher agency has contacted him nor has the “sticker” rabbi. I asked about the boxes without his hechsher if they were kosher and he sent me a complete list. it turns out that the “sticker” Rabbi put his sticker on products under kosher supervision and were 100% kosher – but he never did anything more than check the websites (if he even did that) to ascertain their kosher status. Note: back then some of the items that this candy company produces is not kosher and contains dyes from non-kosher sources – I do not know about now.
So why will people rely on the “sticker” Rabbi and not on the Rav who actually did and continues to do all the work?
1) if I recall correctly – not all ingredients need to be printed on the label – I think if it is less than 2% it does not need to be included.
2) years ago when Nabisco started printing on the boxes 100% vegetable shortening I had the opportunity to discuss this with a person who worked in the baking division. I was selling suits at the time and we were talking as he was trying on and being fitted. I asked him about the 100% vegetable shortening and he told me not to believe it. His reason was that if he finished a run that was not 100$ vegetable shortening ie. it was lard, they would not empty and clean the vat with from the lard – rather they would just add vegetable shortening to the vat.
miritchka
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“i dont think Health is that off. (besides for the fact that he does have more medical knowledge than most of us).”
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yes according to health (and now you) he is the medical gadol hador – but truth be told: to real Doctors – what is he?
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Note to health: As I have said before – I have nothing against you and IRL you are probably a very nice person. your screen persona (as many have pointed out) comes across as a know-it-all, pompous individual who looks down on those who dare disagree or post against you. Many people feel uncomfortable with your posting style. try toning it down a bit and other posters will have less trouble with how you say things (they may still object to what you say – but that is life in the blogosphere). go ahead have the last word.
I do not think that the CR should be posting medical advice on how to do surgery on oneself from Doc Google Cutandpaste or anyone else. It is irresponsible. Please delete his post.
the proper advice was already given those who said to go to a real doctor.
perhaps this thread should be closed.
ZeesKite when I saw your post I had to comment – my email was mechalel Shabbos this past Shabbos – but I wasn’t
Last Friday at around 10:30PM someone hacked my email and sent out an email to everyone in my address book. (if anyone here got it – sorry). when friends and family saw it they new I was hacked because of when it went out. Someone from Israel was the first to notice and he emailed me back on a different email account to let me know.
NEWS FLASH: Mods have friends. Yes even retired mods have friends (but the friends of the current mods have inside info that even retired mods have).
could it be possible that Jothar is a friend of a mod and the mod shares this info with him? mods are not held to laws of confidentiality even though we do keep the alter-ego screen names and real names confidential.
sounds like popa_bar_abba should change his name to popeye_bar_abba!
I thought the group was supposed to be 43 the gematria of Challah
Health
Member
“Where did I not judge up anybody L’caf Zecus including Diabetics?”
To nechomah: “Since you claim to be well educated, (which could be true, but I’m not so sure)”
not exactly what an honest person would call giving the benefit of the doubt – in reality this one line uproots your claim to do so.
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and being as you asked
Does your wife and others (family, friends) constantly tell you how funny you are? If they do, that’s their opinion, Not Mine!
the answer is constantly tell me: NO! Frequently? NO. A bunch of times in the course of the year? NO! Once every so often? perhaps. Many times they laugh at my jokes, quips and humorous stories (many times – not all times. Even Johny Carson didn’t get a laugh every time but at least he had an applause and laugh monitor for his audience). YES, they really do – sorry I am not going to post a video as proof. you will have to trust me that they do – but if you want to doubt it – fine by me – I will still sleep well. Yes, it is there opinion that I am a humorous person and not yours – but it is their opinion that counts in my life and Not Yours (caps to match your caps)! (note: this was not a personal attack just a statement of fact – even if you cannot google it).
I am sure that your spouse and family consider you the gadol hador in the health sciences world. I am sure that they view you as a kind, compassionate, caring and warm person. Perhaps IRL you come across that way because perhaps IRL you are – I haven’t a clue. My concern is the way you come off here in cyber-world and that you make people feel (very) uncomfortable.
You were given some good advice up there (even if it wasn’t googled from a valid medical website – one with the health hecksher). Perhaps you should think about it and follow it.
the.nurse +1
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btw health if you do not like my most recent post and you think that I am attacking you
here is your post:
“That is your opinion. It’s funny how you can Judge me up about my empathy on the human equation from my posts without even knowing me personally. I guess you got a sixth sense from formerly being a Mod. Did you ever hear of the Jewish concept of being Dan L’caf Zecus? Esp. since you never saw me actually deal with a real patient?!!”
and here is mine:
“Everything you state as fact is nothing more than your opinion. It’s funny how you can judge other posters here and their knowledge base from their posts without even knowing them. I guess you have a sixth sense from being a being a CPR trainer and a student of health sciences (and a google cut and paste expert – note: I had to include that).
Did you ever hear of the Jewish concept of being Dan L’caf Z’cus? Esp. since you never saw any of the posters on the diabetes thread or this thread as real patients?!!”
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The only difference is I removed the redundancies (google it for the definition*) and fixed some of the grammar.
* this comment didn’t have to be included and was probably inappropriate but once again I couldn’t resist.
Everything you state as fact is nothing more than your opinion. It’s funny how you can judge other posters here and their knowledge base from their posts without even knowing them. I guess you have a sixth sense from being a being a CPR trainer and a student of health sciences (and a google cut and paste expert – note: I had to include that).
Did you ever hear of the Jewish concept of being Dan L’caf Z’cus? Esp. since you never saw any of the posters on the diabetes thread or this thread as real patients?!!
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Avram +1
Health
Member
you wrote:
“Nechomah –
Since you claim to be well educated, (which could be true, but I’m not so sure),”
mod-72 (Retired) to health: This is called a personal attack. When you question the intelligence or education level of another poster it is called a personal attack.
Disagreeing with you or arguing on your comments is not a personal attack. It may make you uncomfortable. It may irritate you. It may even cause you to wonder just how foolish a person may be because they disagree or argue with you. It may be all these things and more – but it is NOT a personal attack
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My comments have nothing to do with a grudge – I don’t hold grudges. 1) for it to qualify as a grudge it would be because you “beat” me at something and now I need to get even – this never happened,
2) each of my posts has to do with your current comments – the only history is the reminding everybody what you said about yourself being a student of health sciences – which I interpret as a person who can google, cut and paste because all you discuss is the straight “science” – you take out the human equation.
“yentingyenta
Fun for the Whole Family
health, english please? i’m pretty sure most ppl have no clue what you just posted”
…and what makes you think health understands it? ust like health, I can google, cut and paste all sorts of things and not necessarily understand it.
health to Nechomah: “Sorry to say, I don’t feel that you are very educated.”
mod-72(retired) to health: NOT sorry to ask – are you as arrogant in self-serving in real life as you come off here in the CR? it is a good thing that you are only a “student of health sciences” and not an actual medical practitioner because your pompous attitude would not lead to a good bedside manner.
Health
Member you wrote:
“Nechomah –
Since you claim to be well educated, (which could be true, but I’m not so sure), please educate us…”
you also wrote:
“RB – I tried to look up NY EMS statistics on this…
You’ll just have to take my word for it”
I guess you’ll just have to take her word for it that 1) she is educated and 2) this was her experience.
I have read enough of your posts to know that I cannot to take your word on anything in the health field – even if you are a “student of health sciences” and even if you teach people CPR.
the Lions will be feasting on the cheese heads from Green Bay on turkey day! GO LIONS!
besides hacking the CR – all moderators have email accounts (at least we used to have email accounts) for mods to discuss issues and posters to contact us if the need arose. If these accounts still exist it would be possible for a hacker to get into an account and steal the address book information.
mimeograph machines were near extinction in the 90’s. I worked for a copier company in the {GASP} mid 80’s.
Hey Charlie Brown,
sometimes I wonder around town picking my kids up from there friends house after Shabbos. Sometimes I hide in my garage waiting for other parents to pick up their kids.
but whatever I do, I wait up until 1:30/2:00 for 72-Jr-1 to come from work with a fresh Pizza!
“charlie brown
Member
perhaps mod72 can get you some fermented plum juice instead.”
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no problem. come on over – I have a bottle in the freezer!
“cantoresq
Member
The issue is grooming.”
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there are other issues 1) appropriate attire, and 2) appropriate behavior for the setting that you are in.
You seem to exempt yourself from both of these while you present yourself as one who looks down at those that don’t meet your expectations for them.
squeak – I would have to go back and search the threads. the post you referenced was one that I had in mind. the other comments must be in a different thread. truth be told – it isn’t worth it for me to look it up.
squeak – let’s not forget that the OP has claimed in other posts that he brings novels to shul to read while the Rav speaks – if I remember correctly it was because 1) he didn’t want that particular Rav for his shul and 2) the novels are more interesting than the Rav from his shul
so here we have a someone criticizing a bunch of young men over their lack of kavod in their dress but openly displays a lack of kavod to the Rav of his shul!
Charlie Brown – my guess is that you are no longer a Yeshiva guy and you spent the past several hours washing all the Shabbos dishes and scrubbing the cholent pot… and then you had a few minutes to post
charlie brown
Member
“yesterday I wrote above
….when going to sleep at 11 PM doesn’t seem like a crazy thing to do.
So why in the world am I posting here at 1:15 AM????”
Good question…
you asked a true/false question. not an open ended “what is your opinion of…” question
I hope you got or will get the advice that you are seeking
why not go to http://www.ssa.gov/ and either research it or ask the experts there. asking here will give you as many different answers as there are posters.