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Sept. 9 historic events
1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned “Queen of Scots” in the central Scottish town of Stirling. (She was executed for treason at age 44 under the orders of her cousin Elizabeth.)
1739 Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
1776 The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States.
1791 Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
1839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
1863 American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1893 President Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Esther Cleveland, became the first president’s child to be born in the White House.
1914 Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved)
1922 Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks.
1926 The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
1942 World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
1943 World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
1944 World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
1945 Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
1947 First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University. Ir was discovered by Grace Hopper, removed with tweasers from a relay, and taped into the log. (Yes, this is where the term “computer bug” comes from.)
1948 The Republic Day of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. (“Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” – three lies in one four-word title.)
1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools.
1965 The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
1965 Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0).
1969 Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana. ( New air-safety regulations were developed as a result of this crash.)
1971 The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
1976 Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung died in Beijing at age 82. (His “cultural revolution”, “long march”, and other actions cost millions of innocents their lives.)
1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
1991 Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel’s right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people. (Arafat [ym”s] explained to Arab audiences that this was merely a step in the eventual conquest of the entire Israel, similar to a treaty that Muhammed only abided by until he was militarily strong, at which point he tore it up.)
1995 Dean St. Station in Brooklyn, is 6th Metropolitan Transportation Authority station to close since 1904.
1999 The Dreamcast, the last video game console to be produced by SEGA, is released.
2001 Afghanistan’s military opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood was fatally wounded in a suicide attack by assassins posing as journalists. (Massood was murdered by Al-Qaeda to prevent his helping U.S. efforts against the Taliban and themselves after the planned 9/11 attacks.)
2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
2005 Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command. (But not before becoming the object of the famous “Great job, Brownie!” line.)
Sept. 8 historic events
70 C.E. Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem.
1264 The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland. (If you have a couple of minutes, I recommend reading the full Wikipedia article.)
1565 A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, Fla.
1664 The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who renamed it New York. (Bedford-Stuyvesant a.k.a. Bed-Stuy bears the name of Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant.)
1900 Galveston, Texas, was struck by a hurricane that killed about 6,000 people. ( A major cause of the scope of the disaster and loss of life was the fact that Galveston was only a few feet above sea level, and natural protective sand barriers had been removed for use in landscaping other parts of the island. To date no one knows exactly how many people were lost, with estimates of 6,000 – 12,000.)
1935 Sen. Huey P. Long, the “Kingfish” of Louisiana politics, was shot at the state capital building in Baton Rouge; he died two days later.
1941 A 900-day siege of Leningrad by German forces began during World War II.
2003 The Recording Industry Association of America filed 261 copyright lawsuits against Internet users for trading songs online.
2004 “60 Minutes Wednesday” aired a report questioning President George W. Bush’s National Guard service. CBS News later apologized for a “mistake in judgment” after memos featured in the report were challenged as forgeries. (What a nice, genteel way of putting it – “challenged as forgeries”. Actually, they were proven forgeries by a conservative blogger, who demonstrated that the documents exactly matched the default font, font-size, spacing and line setup of Microsoft Word default settings. Dan Rather continued to insist on the documents’ authenticity well after most other media considered them forgeries. This continued a pattern of Bush-hatred by Rather, who years earlier had all-but-called Bush Sr. a liar in an interview, rudely cut him off, and put words in his mouth. Rather’s resignation shortly after the forged documents scandal broke was attributed to his embarrassing CBS with his behavior.)
2006 A Senate report faulted intelligence gathering in the lead-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, and said Saddam Hussein regarded al-Qaida as a threat rather than a possible ally, contradicting assertions President George W. Bush had used to build support for the war.
From “Mrs. Try”:
The Double Life of Chanie Greenberg by Menucha Beckerman
A Daughter of Two Mothers by Miriam Cohen
“Highly recommended. These are can’t-put-down page-turners – Mrs. T”
Also good:
Escape From India by Avigail Myzlik
With This Ring by Sarah Kisner (I’m in the middle of the book, so far so good – Mrs. T)
squeak-
I have a reply, but am afraid it may antagonize certain posters.
Therefore, my three-meter-plus (he has a glandular problem) neighbor, Janik, has kindly agreed to protect me.
On second thought, my comment may be best left untouched, even with a ten-foot-Pole.
Joseph-
Yes, the current secular year system was not used in those days.
Several years ago a magazine article (I think it was in the J.O., titled “nnnn? Says Who?” with “nnnn” being the secular year, but I’m not positive) explained that the secular years which are numbered after yoshko were first used hundreds of years after his death on a “best guess” basis, and may in actuality be way off.
Sept. 7 historic events
70 C.E. A Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
1533 England’s Queen Elizabeth I was born in Greenwich.
1822 Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
1901 The Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in China.
1927 TV pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using a device called an image dissector. (a.k.a. television)
1940 the German air force began its blitz on London during World War II. (A few years later, the U.S. and Britain repaid the favor, bombing and largely leveling parts of Berlin, Dresden and Hamburg.)
1963 The Pro Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
1969 Senate Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois died at age 73.
1977 The Panama Canal treaties, calling for the United States to turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed in Washington, D.C.
1977 Convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy was released after serving more than four years in prison.
1986 Desmond Tutu was installed as the first black to lead the Anglican Church in southern Africa.
1990 Kimberly Bergalis of Fort Pierce, Fla., came forward to identify herself as the woman who had been infected with AIDS, apparently by her late dentist. (She died the following year.) (She and several other patients of Dr. Jefferey Acer contracted AIDS. Although a motive was never uncovered, medical experts concluded that Acer, for reasons unknown, had deliberately infected them.)
1996 Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later at age 25.
1997 Mobutu Sese Seko, the former dictator of Zaire, died in exile in Morocco at age 66.
1998 St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire equaled Roger Maris’ single-season home run record as he hit No. 61 in a game against the Chicago Cubs. (Years later, when questioned by the senate about steroid use, he responded “I’m not going to go into the past or talk about my past”.)
2006 Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage confirmed he was the source of a leak that had disclosed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame, saying he didn’t realize Plame’s job was covert.
2008 Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed in government conservatorship. (…to be followed by bailouts of Citibank, Chrysler, GM, Bank of America…)
Joseph-
This is a machlokes among trivia buffs.
I think a trivia show was actually sued in court by a contestant who answered that Kennedy was the youngest inaugurated president. His (I believe incorrect) argument was that succession following an assassination wasn’t inauguration. I don’t know what the verdict was.
This is an excellent topic to bring back to the front page as Rosh Hashana approaches.
One of the best things about Chaim Walder’s excellent books is the way he brings out the importance of treating others with kindness, as well as the long-term rippling destructive effects of bullying and cruelty.
I think that the thing that frum people regret more than anything else (when and if they take the time to think about it) is unkind, uncaring and just plain mean actions taken toward others, including those taken when we were too young to know better.
1901 President William B. McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. (McKinley is one of two assassinated U.S. presidents who should have survived his wounds [Garfield was the other]. Due to procedural errors and poor decisions made after he was shot, he died eight days after the shooting. His vice-president, Theodore Roosevelt, was and remains the youngest person to assume the presidency.)
1909 American explorer Robert Peary sent word that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier. (There is some controversy to this claim. There are serious questions as to whether Peary ever reached the North Pole)
1916 The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tenn., by Clarence Saunders. (This is widely recognized as the world’s first supermarket, where shoppers walked the aisles and picked out their own goods.)
1941 Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow Stars of David.(The “yellow star” requirement for Jews was revived by the Taliban, about 60 years later.)
1970 Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three jetliners, which were later blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews were evacuated.
1975 Czechoslovakian tennis player Martina Navratilova, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum.
1992 A man who had received a transplanted baboon liver 10 weeks earlier died at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
1996 Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers.
1997 Britain bade farewell to Princess Diana with a funeral service at Westminster Abbey.
1998 Japanese director Akira Kurosawa died at age 88.
2001 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season. (He finished the year with a record 73 homers.) (Ahhh – the miracle of modern medicine!)
2002 Meeting outside Washington D.C., for only the second time since 1800, Congress convened in New York to pay homage to the victims and heroes of Sept. 11, 2001.
2004 Former President Bill Clinton underwent successful heart bypass surgery.
2006 President George W. Bush acknowledged previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects had been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials.
2007 Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.
mepal-
Thank you for the kind words.
(I should’ve posted that Friday, but better late than never)
1698 Russia’s Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards.
1774 The first Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia.
1793 The Reign of Terror began during the French Revolution as the National Convention instituted harsh measures to repress counterrevolutionary activities.
1836 Sam Houston was elected president of the Republic of Texas.
1882 The nation’s first Labor Day parade was held in New York City.
1905 The Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War, was signed in New Hampshire.
1914 The First Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
1939 The United States proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.
1945 Iva Toguri D’Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist “Tokyo Rose,” was arrested in Yokohama.
1957 “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, the defining novel of the Beat Generation, was published.
1958 “Doctor Zhivago” by Russian author Boris Pasternak was published in the United States.
1972 Palestinian terrorists attacked the Israeli Olympic team at the summer games in Munich; 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, five terrorists and a police officer were killed.*
1975 President Gerald R. Ford escaped an attempt on his life in Sacramento, Calif., by Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson. (The would-be assassin is no relation to a certain prominent CR poster.)
1977 The United States launched the Voyager 1 spacecraft two weeks after launching its twin, Voyager 2.
1997 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa died in Calcutta, India, at age 87.
2005 President George W. Bush nominated John Roberts for chief justice.
2008 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice became the highest-ranking American official in half a century to visit Libya, where she met Moammar Gadhafi.
*Two Israelis died during the actual attack, including one who heroically held the door against the invading terrorists, which allowed others to escape with their lives.
The remaining nine victims were cold-bloodedly murdered with grenades and gunfire by the Arab terrorists while the Israelis were helplessly bound.
In a shocking display of callousness, the Olympic games continued after the massacre, without even a postponement of events.
Wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg, 33
Weightlifter Yossef Romano, 31
Wrestling referee Yossef Gutfreund, 40
American-born weightlifter David Berger, 28
Wrestler Mark Slavin, 18
Weightlifting judge Yacov Springer, 51
Weightlifter Ze’ev Friedman, 28
Track coach Amitzur Shapira, 40
Wrestler Eliezer Halfin, 24
Shooting coach Kehat Shorr, 53
Fencing coach Andre Spitzer, 27
Three terrorists were captured alive.
A little over a month later, on Oct. 29, a Lufthansa jet was hijacked by terrorists demanding that the Munich killers be released.
The Germans capitulated and the terrorists were released.
An Israeli assassination squad was assigned to track them down, along with those responsible for planning the massacre. According to George Jonas in Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team, eight of the 11 targeted for death were killed. Of the remaining three, one died of natural causes and the other two were assassinated, but it is not known with certainty if they were killed by Israeli agents.
Abu Daoud, the mastermind behind the attack was arrested by France in 1977, but the French cravenly let him leave to Algeria despite requests from both Wast Germany and Israel for his extradition. Daoud denied his role for years, until openly admitting it in his 1999 autobiography Palestine: From Jerusalem to Munich or Memoirs of a Palestinian Terrorist .
Abu Daoud was a member of the Palestinian government, and in 1996 was allowed safe transit thru Israel.
Daoud continues to live freely, supposedly in Damascus at this time, and has to date not been brought to justice.
(portions cut-and-pasted from online sources)
areivimzehlazeh-
I can anticipate Itzik’s finding of the flaw in this moshol though: He will want to know how you explain that takke, there IS disharmony, disunity and signs of a power-struggle among us… so, doesn’t your moshol (Chas V’shalom) prove the opposite?
I missed this on the first read (sorry).
The “disharmony and disunity” referred to in the original story is the world running properly, not (unfortunately) binai Yisroel getting along with each other.
P.S. – A flawed moshol is a flawed moshol, regardless of who points out its flaw(s). No offense will be taken to anyone who does so to one of mine 🙂
areivimzehlazeh-
Good question.
The story begins in singular mode, i.e. the first town represents an individual who can be tempted by gashmious, the seconf town represents an individual who doesnt consider f’rinstance eating a milk-chocolate bar after cholent a nisayon.
The story concludes with the second town in pluran mode, mainly because I wanted a good ending – an unhappy ending would’ve allowed singular mode continuing, with the soton entering the open gates in triumph.
Consider this an open invitation to improve on the original moshol – it isn’t copyrighted 🙂
Gut Shabbos.
A600KiloBear-
Isn’t LSD an acronym for a kallah whose chosson who proposed on an airplane? Leah in the Sky with a Diamond?
Here’s a story reflecting thoughts that (I’m sure) aren’t very original, but apropos here;
Crafty old General Beelzebub (aka lord of the flies) drew up invasion plans that would be utilized against two nearby cities.
The first city was loyal to their King, but not fanatically so.
The defensive wall surrounding them was not as strong or as high as it could have been, nor was it in a good state of repair.
The guards could occasionally be seen napping or playing cards instead of vigilantly maintaining their posts.
The army was poorly trained and lacking in the latest weaponry.
The citizens of the second city were loyal to their King, up to and including defending him with their lives.
The defensive wall surrounding their city was robust and high.
The guards tended their duties with such precision that people could and did set their clocks by the shift changes and patrol rounds.
The army was drilled thoroughly and equipped with enough weaponry that no neighboring town dared attack it.
Gen. Beelzebub dispatched his army to attack the first town.
Gen. Beelzebub was triumphant in a few short days.
The second town was a much tougher nut to crack.
Gen. Beelzebub realized there was no way for him to defeat their fierce and loyal army, nor could he breach their walls.
What he did instead was dispatch spies to spread misinformation throughout the town, that their king had died.
His sly reasoning was that since he had no hope of defeating them so long as they were loyal to their king, he would confuse them into thinking there was no king, and defeat them without needing to fire a shot.
He knew that the king hated to appear in public, and calculated that by the time the king realized the reason for the false rumors and the need to counteract them, the gates of the town would have been left unguarded for his invading army to enter.
His plan almost succeeded.
The guards remained at their posts, and Gen. Beelzebub went back to devise another plan.
He therefore tricked them in to thinking that Moshe had perished on Har Sinai, and took advantage of their confusion to have them construct the golden calf.
This is also a great strategy for attacking someone who is very strong re: resisting temptation.
Some of the disinformation can sound convincing.
A600KiloBear-
“And how do you know that I’m just doing that because I’m too tired to spell LSD correctly?”
LOL – those who don’t have SD may turn to it.
1000% agreement with “areivimzehlazeh”, w/o his level of persuasiveness.
May you have S”D in this, and all other nisyonos.
The yetzer hora knows a frontal attack doesn’t work, and will try to instill doubt and weakness.
PLEASE remember:-
-failure isn’t permanent
-neither is success
Stick around – gut Shabbos & hatzlocha.
Sept. 4 historic events
1781 Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers.
1888 George Eastman received a patent for his roll-film camera and registered his trademark: Kodak.
1917 The American expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World War I.
1942 Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt
1951 In the first live coast-to-coast TV broadcast, President Harry S. Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco.
1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.
1957 Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel line.
1967 Michigan Gov. George Romney said during a TV interview that he had undergone a “brainwashing” by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam. The comment is widely believed to have derailed his campaign for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination.
1971 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)
1972 Swimmer Mark Spitz became the first person to win seven gold medals at a single Olympic Games when the United States won the 400-meter relay in Munich.
1993 Jim Abbott pitches 4-0, no-hit win over Indians at Yankee Stadium (What makes this especially impressive is that he was born with only one hand – icot)
2004 Hurricane Frances hits Florida, causing $40 billion in damage.
2006 “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, 44, died after a stingray’s barb pierced his chest.
2007 Toy maker Mattel Inc. recalled 800,000 lead-tainted, Chinese-made toys worldwide, a third major recall in just over a month.
2008 Sen. John McCain accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s convention in St. Paul, Minn.
2008 Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, forcing the Democrat out of office after months of defiantly holding onto his job.
Joseph-
You are correct – Munn’s body was found before Fossett disappeared.
There may have been other bodies found in the wreckage of some of the other planes, but the one that got the attention at the time (to the best of my recollection) was a WW II flier, and Munn seems to be the one who fits that profile.
I thought I remembered the remains being found during the search, although the subsequent look-up of the story shows that the identification is what occurred in that time-frame.
I suspect “anon for this” may also be thinking of this story, but I may be wrong.
YW Moderator-72-
Very nice dvar Torah.
May your father’s neshoma have an aliya.
anon for this-
After wracking my brains (ok, ok, it was a google search) this is a sample of what I came up with:
Ernest Munn disappeared on a World War II training fight over California in 1942. The wreck of the plane was located in 1947, along with some human remains. The remains that were found were buried together in a single grave in San Bruno, California. In 2007, Peter Stekel, who was researching a book he’s writing, Final Flight, found additional remains in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. They were identified as being those of Munn through DNA analysis.
Fast Facts:
1. Full Name: Ernest Glenn Munn
2. Resided: St. Clairsville, Ohio
3. Rank: Aviation Cadet
4. Disappeared November 18, 1942
5. Funeral scheduled for May, 2008
Also this:
The mysterious frozen remains of a U.S. World War II pilot found atop a mountain in California by two hikers last year has been identified as airman Ernest G. Munn.
Munn had been missing since his training flight disappeared over the Sierra Nevada mountain range on November 18, 1942, the U.S. military said Monday. He was 23 at the time.
Last year, two hikers found the frozen remains of a man with blond, wavy hair in a remote area of Kings Canyon, east of Fresno, California. A tattered sweater still clung to the body, and an unopened parachute lay nearby, said Peter Sketel, one of the hikers who made the discovery.
DNA testing revealed that the mummy was Munn. His family had been left with many questions regarding his disappearance for over 60 years. His mother never cut her hair again and lived to 102, always awaiting word on what happened to her son.
The remains were found by Peter Sketel and his hiking partner.
There were also reports in the news of several other crashed and missing planes that were found during the search for Fossett.
mepal-
Punkt farkert!
I’m suggesting the refuah before the makah.
squeak-
In some neighborhoods it’s Crack-Man & Bong 🙂
P.S. here’s a post in your style:
Do Kids Need Electronic Gadgets?
YES!
-A GPS, so they don’t “get lost” on the way to school, shul, the grocery, …
-A volume control w/ mute button
-Noise-cancelling mouthpiece (for when they must talk but you don’t want to hear them).
-A timer, which upon expiration causes an involuntary reflex stopping play and returning child to studying.
-A tracking device (makes hooky obsolete).
-A guilt-giver (for fathers only, mothers have one built in).
Dr. Pepper-
Great story!
You should sent it into Readers Digest (get the payment in cash, since they’re in bankruptcy).
One small problem – you may be in a bit of trouble:
“Didn’t we have an agreement that we’re not going to discuss things here?
click: PepperPost
Might I suggest 1-800-flowers?
Alternately, 1-800-grovels usually works)
anon for this-
A few months later, Fossett was legally declared dead.
Subsequent examination and DNA testing confirmed that the remains were those of Fossett.
A theory as to the cause of the crash that I remember seeing in the papers shortly after the remains was that a sudden and violent downdraft brought the plane down too quickly for Fossett to have a chance of recovery.
It is unlikely the cause of the crash will ever be determined with any certainty.
1189 England’s King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster.
1658 Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, died.
1783 The Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War. King George’s official reaction was “Ahhh, let them have their dumb old country. Who needs them anyway? They drive on the wrong side of the street and speak funny.”
1929 The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 381.17, it’s pre-crash high.
1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.
1970 Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi died at age 57.
1978 Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1994 China and Russia pledged they would no longer target nuclear missiles at or use force against each other.
1997 Arizona Gov. Fife Symington was convicted of lying to get millions in loans to shore up his collapsing real estate empire. (The conviction was overturned in 1999.) His brother Viola and sister Flute claim that the charges were trumpeted up in an effort to drum him out of the statehouse.
2004 A three-day hostage siege at a school in Beslan, Russia, ended in bloody chaos after Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building; more than 330 people were killed, most of them children.
2005 President George W. Bush ordered more than 7,000 active duty forces to the Gulf Coast as his administration in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
2005 Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died at age 80.
2006 Tennis player Andre Agassi announced his retirement. (The official “who cares” entry for this date.)
2007 Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, 63, vanished after taking off in a single-engine plane in western Nevada. (His remains were discovered in October 2008 in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains.)
2008 Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice for running mate, roused delegates with a speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. (So, how’d that work out, Sen. McCain?)
2009 Disappointed at the failure of “JayMatt19”, “Jax” and “YW Moderator-39” or anyone else to update this thread for three consecutive days, a lazy poster takes the initiative to google “this day in history” for himself.
A600KiloBear-
Always a pleasure.
Someone must’ve slipped a Dr. Seuss book under my pillow 🙂
The Queen of Persia-
That’s some compliment – thank you.
If I ever do submit an article, your post will be on the cover letter 🙂
A600KiloBear-
Excellent!
And now for a response:
I would not, could not fool a bear,
I pray thrice daily by my clock
On my boat or on a dock
Aboard my ship I take the helm,
Of the one-boat navy; pride of Chelm
My mighty scow, it owns the seas,
Neptune trembles when I sneeze
Napping daily on clean warm sand
But when the tefila siren screams,
(although my name has been redacted)
You may feel safe from my witticism,
My incessant cheppering
From the scourge of the CR, me, icot
squeak-
Ich bin azah klieg,
Mine brain iss zo big,
I vear a hat size 62,
Dats da zame az mine IQ
🙂
The Queen of Persia-
You didn’t give any personal info.
My email was sent before I saw your initial reply, and I was clarifying that I wasn’t requesting any personal info.
Your answer was 100% fine (if not, the ever-vigilant moderating staff would’ve caught it, as they NEVER let personal info thru).
Yours truly,
Yankel Goldbricker
1234 Ostropoller Lane
The Queen of Persia-
Our earlier posts crossed in the mail.
B”H – I’m really glad to hear that.
May your son continue to have hatzlocha and may you continue to shep nachas.
The Queen of Persia-
Just to be clear, I’m not requesting any personal info.
A reply of “B’H we found a yeshiva” or the like would answer the question just fine.
As a parent, I can empathize with your situation and thought about it several times with the hope that you / he were matzliach.
the.nurse-
Happy birthday.
Today’s your Hebrew birthday,
The English one is a fake,
As proof, today you received,
A “virtual” chocolate cake.
The Queen of Persia-
I’ve been hoping you had hatzlocha finding a yeshiva that fit your son since last year’s discussion.
How did your son’s yeshiva situation work out?
Itzik,
You are most definitely not different from people who believe in H-shem.
Those who have emuna are as varied a bunch as you will find anywhere in the world.
-there are Chasidim whose speech and thought are in Yiddish, and whose world revolves around their chassidus.
-there is the suave and polished businessman who effortlessly blends in with his WASPy business associates.
-there are those who have been professionally trained to debunk missionaries and therefore know much more of other religions than the average Jew does.
Based on the level of knowledge, sophistication and humor in previous posts, you are very worldly-wise and capable of fitting in with the secular world.
You have the smarts and experience to do a lot of good.
You can no more disassociate yourself from your Jewishness than you can from your humanity.
I wish you much hatzlocha.
There are no words adequate for this.
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Where there’s life, there’s hope for teshuva.
May Itzik aka “A600KiloBear” once again find his way back, as well as all other binei Yisroel who have lost their emuna.
This is a very basic and simple design.
Alter measurements to fit your personal preferences.
From the bottom up:
feet: 4] 15″ 1×3
feet: 4] 3.75″ 1×3
sides: 2] 4′ 1×8. Cut tops to preferred angle. (four feet is quite tall – I suggest you measure an existing shtender to confirm your preferred height)
footrest supports: 2] triangular 7.5″ pieces of 3/4″ plywood, cut to the desired footrest angle (i.e. .5″ x 7.5″ x 1.5″)
footrest: 1] 16.5″ 1×8
shelf: 1] 16.5″ 1×8
shelf lip: 18″ 1×2
shelf back: 1] 18″x12″ plywood (or 18″ 1×12 shelving pine)
top 1] 14″x20″ 3/4″ plywood
top lip: 1] 20″ quarter-round molding (height your preference)
1) the 1×8 side pieces will fit vertically into the rectangular hole.
Use carpenter’s glue on all joined surfaces.
The bottom of the side pieces should be flush with the bottom of the feet.
Make sure the side pieces are vertical when the feet are on a straight floor.
use 2″ screws, since the total width of the feet will be 2.25″
The feet will look as follows, viewed from above:
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2) glue and screw the angled 7.5″ pieces of plywood to the inside of the side pieces, resting on the feet.
use 1.25″ screws
3) glue & screw the footrest into place. you can drop a couple of screws from the top of the footrest into the angled plywood, and a couple of screws thru the sides into the footrest’s ends. Keep in mind that you dont want to split the wood, and end-grain isn’t that strong, so I’d use 1.25″ screws from the side & 1 5/8″ screws from the top.
Once the footrest is fastened, make sure the side pieces are vertical when the feet are on a straight floor.
4)Fasten the shelf back on the outside of the verticals at the top of the back of the shtender.
(the shelf back and shelf will add strength and rigidity to the shtender even if you don’t keep anything in there.)
Use 1.25″ screws and glue.
5) Fasten the shelf. use 1.25″ screws.
6) Fasten the shelf lip. use 1.25″ screws.
7) fasten the top lip to the top from underneath. Use screws that are long enough to secure the lip, but short enough that they won’t penetrate its top. you may want to sand the ends of the molding first for a more rounded appearance.
8) center the top and fasten it. some people put a small piece of wood at the angle between the top and side pieces and screw the top and sides into those to avoid having the top screwed only into end-grain. if possible, use 1 5/8″ screws, otherwise use 1 1/4″ screws.
tips:
-Sinking the screw-heads slightly below the wood’s surface will allow you to fill the holes and stain or paint them.
-you can cover ugly plywood edges with molding or iron on / press on edging that can be stained or painted.
-you can cut small 45-degree angles on the foot-tops to eliminate the corners.
-you can carve shallow .75″ notches for the footrest and shelf using a router and the appropriate bit with an angle guide. if you do this, make the notches very shallow, so as not to weaken the sides.
-the shelf back and lip can be placed inside the sides if you prefer. adjust the size by the 1.5″ thickness of the two sides.
-examine the lumber to ensure it’s straight, not full of knots, etc.
-don’t use redwood. it looks nice, but is soft and light.
You may have more fun experimenting and trying more elaborate designs and woods, like “Dr. Pepper” did.
As always, be careful and use goggles when using power tools.
Any questions? please ask.
1) Tabletop or floor?
If floor:
2) What height?
3) What angle top?
4) What angle footrest?
5) How large a top surface?
6) How large a lip?
7) Do you want a closable top compartment?
8) If yes to 7, hinged top, hinged front or hinged side?
9) Do you want to keep seforim in the shtender?
10) If yes to 9, how many and how large?
The wood used is usually shelving pine and/or plywood. Don’t use pressed wood or particleboard of any type.
If you want to stain and varnish plywood, birch is nice, for painting luan is fine. Scraps are cheaper than a full sheet.
Molding, 1×2, iron-on or stick-on edging can also be used for the exposed plywood ends.
Go to yeshivos and shuls with a tape measure and sketch-pad, measure and draw designs you like, and (of course) try on shtenders for size, both while seated and while standing.
Circular saw
Drill
Electric screwdriver
Manual screwdriver
Router (sometimes, for notching or a decorative edge)
Hammer
Compound miter saw (makes cutting angles much easier)
Measuring tape
C-clamps (for holding work in place before fastening and after gluing)
Countersink drill bit(s) (depending on how well-finished you want the completed product to be)
Chisel (for hinges)
Once you have a design in mind, come back with more specific questions.
noitallmr-
The knowledge I have was gained by research, trial-and-error and asking others for the purpose of maintaining my computers, home network, printers, and other peripherals as well as assisting relatives and friends with theirs.
Sometimes a poster will ask a question which is related to an issue that I recently researched, in which case I may have relevant and up-to-date info to help them with.
havesomeseichel-
You’re very welcome.
Paper or books underneath the computer- are they in danger of being a fire hazard?
Not that I’ve ever heard. Something hot enough to ignite paper would have to be hot enough to do major damage to anything it touched, and that should never happen.
My plastic tablecloth has gotten brittle in the spot where the hot laptop sits
noitallmr-
I’m happy to share my limited knowledge on the subject of netbooks, as well as the results of a google search on “android laptop”, but for a more thorough answer I suggest speaking to someone who has already researched and/or bought one (such as “Y.W. Editor”).
Just curious – why the interest exclusively in a machine running android?
havesomeseichel-
can you inform me about what is “excessive”?
I wish I had hard-and-fast numbers, but I don’t (sorry). The pretty-much-useless answer is: hot enough to damage your PC’s components.
What kind of surface material is best to place your laptop on to prevent overheating?
Worst – soft, that the PC can sink in to and block ventilation holes.
Better – hard, so the vents are unobstructed and a little air gets under the PC.
Good – Raising the PC for additional under-the-case ventilation (as “veyatziv” and “YW Moderator-72” have done).
Best – a under-the-case appliance that has fans for additional cooling. Google “laptop cooling pad”. I don’t have any firsthand knowledge of specific pads.
rabbigolding-
Thank you for a well-written and timely article.
sammyjoe-
My pleasure.
noitallmr-
To address the original question:
Not enough information was given to form a conclusion.
-Was there an attempt to deceive?
-Could a false impression have been made, even inadvertently?
-Did the alterations change the entire meaning/context of the picture?
-Was there a false portrayal of the number of people in the yeshiva?
A Google search brought up the original picture and its subsequent alteration.
The yeshiva is very well-known.
Here are the facts.
1) The picture was taken from above the bais medrash using a fisheye wide-angle lens. No individual is recognizable.
3) I would estimate there are about eighty tables in the photo with all but two or three occupied by learners.
5) The blue shirt is in the left foreground.
6) The altered table is in the right foreground.
7) There are a couple of empty tables in the left background that were left unaltered.
Based on my experience as an amateur photographer and videographer, here are my conclusions:
-A tempest in a teapot.
-Much ado about nothing.
-Making mountains out of anthills (not even molehills).
veyatziv-
YW Moderator-72-
Sometimes the low-tech solution works best 🙂
havesomeseichel-
So will it hurt the computer if it gets pretty warm on the bottom?
No, excessive heat and overheating can damage the computer.
It would be nice if each laptop came with a thermostat and a manual that had temperature ranges for good, OK, danger, and CPU toast.
There is a whole “PC chassidus” revolving around cooling systems for PC’s, using water-cooled systems, multiple fans and the like, but that is for desktops since they have enough room in the case for additional equipment.
volvie-
Price is model dependent. Based on my observations of sale sites and advertisements, netbooks seem to go from $200 – $450, depending on their specs, while laptops are about $400 (for a rock-bottom model on sale) and up. A really loaded laptop can easilly be well over $1,000 and in some cases $2,000.
kapusta-
I would recommend checking user reviews on cnet.com before making any final decisions.
Good advice.
Also speak to people you know have one, check other review sites and read customer reviews on sale sites.
Jax-
Netbooks were primarily designed for simple tasks like net surfing, email and word processing. You should be fine. (btw, if you prefer spelling out my full SN by all means do so, but “icot” as a salutation is fine – no need to impose needless wear-and-tear on your keyboard 🙂
sammyjoe-
You basically described the main differences.
Others are / may be;
-Less memory
-Less storage (in some instances solid-state memory of 4 – 20 gb instead of a hard disk)
-Slower & less powerful CPU
-Lower price
-Lower screen resolution
-An older OS (operating system) in order to place less strain on the components
-No upgradability
-Fewer ports (network, external monitor)