http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/forum.asp?forum_id=7957הייד פארק - מרכז פורומים ישראליhehttp://www.hydepark.co.il/hydepark/header_graphics/logon1.jpghttp://hydepark.co.ilWed, 4 Jan 2006 19:56 +0200jewboyWed, 4 Jan 2006 19:56 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=744992
http://www.fungrams.com/network/haha.shtml]]>Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:52 +0200verrveistWed, 4 Jan 2006 19:52 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1747772ישר כח ]]>Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:48 +0200jewboyWed, 4 Jan 2006 19:48 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1736612פרטים בע"ה.]]>Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:45 +0200bush2008Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:45 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1746139To me it sounds like groups of mafia I cant believe that it was really the sanitation dept
The man who placed it on my window should go to jail In my opinion


תוקן על ידי - bush2008 - 03/01/2006 7:21:07]]>Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:26 +0200קנישעסWed, 4 Jan 2006 19:26 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1747815
Horse pulling carriage goes wild in Manhattan, crashes into car

By ELIZABETH LeSURE
Associated Press Writer

January 2, 2006, 11:50 PM EST

NEW YORK -- The driver of a horse-drawn carriage was thrown into the street Monday night when the animal suddenly bolted, galloped for blocks and then crashed into a station wagon in midtown Manhattan, witnesses said.

"It was horrifying," said Robyn Hussa, who saw the horse racing through traffic. "It was like a nightmare."

The horse, whose carriage had no passengers, smashed into the station wagon at 50th Street and Ninth Avenue around 9:30 p.m., fire department Chief Jim Hodgens said. Two men in the station wagon were injured, he said.

The street was soaked in blood by the time the carriage driver was taken away in an ambulance, witnesses said.

"He wasn't moving at all, and there was blood all over the place," said Philip Emran, who had been eating dinner at a restaurant on the corner.

He said the horse was wrapped around the station wagon, its rear legs on top of it and its head on the ground. The windshield of the car was smashed, and the four-wheel carriage was mangled.

The horse, which remarkably appeared to escape injury, later stood at the scene before being driven away while bucking and kicking in a police wagon.

Authorities at the scene didn't immediately know the conditions of the injured or the origin of the horse and carriage, which had heart-shaped cutouts for windows.

Jasna Tomasevic, visiting from Orlando, Fla., said she was so horrified by what she witnessed through the window while dining at the corner restaurant that she had to change seats.

"This is really not something which I want to see," she said.

Manhattan carriage rides, generally in and around Central Park, are popular with tourists year-round and have been featured in movies and shows such as HBO's "Sex and the City." Carriages line up along Central Park South, about 10 blocks from where Monday's crash occurred, offering 30-minute rides for about $40.

לינק פאר בילדער

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/wire/nyc-horsecrash-pg,0,7830132.photogallery]]>Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:47 +0200פשטידאWed, 4 Jan 2006 18:47 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1747486
לויט ווי זיי האבן באטראכט פוס-גייער, לייגט א מענטש נישט אראפ זיין פוס, איידער זיינע אויגן געבן דעם מעסעדזש פאר'ן מח, און דער מח צו די פיס. נאר אזוי גייט א מענטש.



The Surprising Complexity of Walking

Next time someone tells you to watch your step, tell them you already are.

Placing your foot down when walking was thought to be a predetermined process: lift foot, decide where to put it based on what's on the ground, and if nothing moves, land it down on the original target. Scientists thought this procedure requires no immediate visual information once the foot was lifted off the ground.

But a new study has found that continuous visual guidance mechanisms may be needed for accurate foot placement.

"We have demonstrated that vision can be used in an online fashion to fine-tune foot placement during a step," said Raymond Reynolds, of the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London. "It was previously thought that vision was used to plan the step in advance but not necessarily monitor its ongoing progress."

Reynolds and colleagues looked at how well people placed their feet onto a target in the process of walking. In half of their tests, they blocked off the subjects' vision as they were lifting their feet off of the ground. This caused them problems in placing their foot accurately on the target. When vision was restored, foot placement was once again on the mark.

"We observed that when vision was restored, corrective adjustments were made as the foot came close to the target," Reynolds told LiveScience.

The possible consequence of a misstep is, of course, a fall. The scientists hope that by learning how basic walking is controlled, they can better understand what goes wrong in people.

"It is important to know how healthy people control foot placement, so that we may understand what goes wrong in people who have neurological disorders which may cause them to fall," Reynolds said.

The researchers are now working on determining the extent to which one can alter foot placement during a step, which may have relevance for obstacle avoidance, Reynolds explained.

The study was detailed in the December issue of the Journal of Physiology.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060103/sc_space/thesurprisingcomplexityofwalking;_ylt=ApvQPuGe6PWKa4rmysgpx4dxieAA;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NmhocGZ1BHNlYwMxNzAw

]]>Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:43 +0200ShamosWed, 4 Jan 2006 18:43 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1748613Shmilowitz Bakery Settles With Labor
Department Action

Williamsburg - Smilowitz Bakery has agreed to pay employees $120,651 in overtime back wages to settle a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit alleging violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act(FLSA).

http://vosizneias.blogspot.com/2006/01/williamsburg-smilowitz-bakery-to-pay.html

]]>Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:37 +0200נבוכדנאצרWed, 4 Jan 2006 18:37 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1747756Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:33 +0200אלעסאמתWed, 4 Jan 2006 18:33 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1747558Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:47 +0200פשטידאWed, 4 Jan 2006 17:47 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1746839
GOOGLE ארבעט מיט וואל מארט צו איבערנעמען די קאמפיוטער אינדוסטרי.


http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-predict1jan01,0,3503327.story]]>Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:01 +0200חייםמרדכיWed, 4 Jan 2006 17:01 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1747379
By Craig Smith

Seattle Times staff reporter

Q: Do boys on the Northwest Yeshiva basketball team wear the traditional Jewish hat, the yarmulke, during games?

A: Yes. It's a rule at the Mercer Island school.

Athletic director Jed Davis said the feeling is they are representing an Orthodox Jewish school so customs will be followed.

Yarmulkes are small, thin skullcaps. Most players use an athletic headband to keep them on the back of their heads, but metal clips are allowed under an exception to national high-school rules. However, headbands are more popular because clips sometimes come off during games at inopportune times, Davis said.

The girls basketball team at the school is noteworthy because some girls, for modesty reasons tied to religion, choose to play in skirts.

Northwest Yeshiva is a Class B school and one of its top boy players, Golan Silverman, a 6-foot-3 junior, was the Seattle Times' boy athlete of the week in early December. He earned the award during a week in which he scored 87 points, grabbed 73 rebounds and shot 85 percent from the field in a three-game stretch.

באמת איך פארשטיי נישט קאן סאך צי די זאכן, אבער איך בין זיכער אז מען קען האבן ביידע א קאפל מיט בעיסבאלל קעפ

א קעשקעטל מיט א נאמבער]]>Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:03 +0200ShamosWed, 4 Jan 2006 14:03 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1745383
Tallmansville, VA +Coal Mine Explosion+ An underground explosion at an Upshur County coal mine has trapped 13 miners, a county emergency official said.


http://vosizneias.blogspot.com/2006/01/tallmansville-va-coal-mine-explosion.html

]]>Wed, 4 Jan 2006 05:01 +0200איןבעיהWed, 4 Jan 2006 05:01 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1747816
א חלק פין די פלי דיעל איז אז ער וועט עדות זאגען קעגען באקאנטע סענעטארען ווי טאם דילעי אא"וו באקאנטע אידען פריינד.


Jack Abramoff leaves Federal Court in Washington Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006. The once-powerful lobbyist pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges of conspiracy, tax evasion and mail fraud, agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors investigating influence peddling that has threatened powerful members of the U.S. Congress. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060104/D8ETHFQOC.html
]]>Wed, 4 Jan 2006 04:13 +0200tzikuchtWed, 4 Jan 2006 04:13 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1747807Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:38 +0200y123y123Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:38 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1744488
The German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel collected various reports from the German media indicating that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are examining the prospects of such a strike.

According to the report, CIA Director Porter Goss, in his last visit to Turkey on December 12, requested Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to provide military bases to the United States in 2006 from where they would be able to launch an assault.

The German news agency DDP also noted that countries neighboring Iran, such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman, and Pakistan were also updated regarding the supposed plan. American sources sent to those countries apparently mentioned an aerial attack as a possibility, but did not provide a time frame for the operation.

Although Der Spiegel could not say that these plans were concrete, they did note that according to a January 2005 New Yorker report American forces had entered Iran in 2005 in order to mark possible targets for an aerial assault.

http://jewishcenteronline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56]]>Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:32 +0200הצלה2006Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:32 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1747786Cell Numbers Going Public

JUST A REMINDER, (10) days from today, cell phone numbers
are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to

receive sale calls. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS!
These telemarketers will eat up your free minutes and end
up costing you money in the long run. To prevent this, call
the following number from your cell phone: 888/382-1222.

It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of
your time.
It blocks your number for five (5) years.
PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
]]>Wed, 4 Jan 2006 01:01 +0200CatskillsWed, 4 Jan 2006 01:01 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1747563בין איך ארויף אויף e-bay אויף דעם נאמען פון יענעם, זעה איך אז ער איז שוין נישט עוועלעיבל רוף אהן די נאמבער וואס עס איז געקומען אויף די Invoice זאגט יענער ראנג נאמבער, האב איך געזוכט דעם נאמען פון יענעם וואו ער וואינט ער וואינט אין קאלעפארניע, איז ארויפגעקומען א נאמען מיט א טעלעפאן נאמבער, און די נאמבער איז out of service איז שייך נאך עפעס צו טוהן?????]]>Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:57 +0200ShamosTue, 3 Jan 2006 22:57 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1745492
U/D: 12:13
Aviation-15 has one aided on board, U.S.C.G. Chopper has another one both enroute to Jacobi Medical Center Heliport, only 2 aided on board.

For all the details go to

http://vosizneias.blogspot.com/2006/01/yonkers-1-engine-plane-down.html
]]>Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:44 +0200ShamosTue, 3 Jan 2006 22:44 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1747302
Suffern - Monsey Bikur Cholim is suing the village so it can continue to operate at its current location and shelter Orthodox Jews during the shabbas and holidays.

http://vosizneias.blogspot.com/2006/01/monsey-bikur-cholim-filed-federal.html

]]>Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:53 +0200bush2008Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:53 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1747418Tue, 3 Jan 2006 20:36 +0200בןמלךTue, 3 Jan 2006 20:36 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1562716דערנאך האט ער זיך צעברייטערט און אריינגעלאזט אין א לענגערן שמועס אין די סיבות וואס מאכט מאנכע אידן פארלירן די צוטרוי צו אידישע בתי דינים און זיי לויפן דעריבער אין קאורט.
האט ער מיט א שטארקקייט געזאגט, אז עס זענען פארהאן געציילטע בתי דינים, וואס זענען ליידער קארופטירט, עס איז א פשוטער ביזנעס, עס פירט זיך פונקט ווי א "Law firm" און אמאל נאך ערגער.
עס איז דעריבער א פליכט אויף יעדן איד וואס דארף אמאל צוקומען צו א בית דין, הן בין איש לאישתו, והן בין אדם לחבירו, זאל זיך גוט נאכפרעגן צו וועלכע בית דין צו גיין, אזוי ארום זיך פארמיידן די עגמת נפש פון אריינפאלן אין נעץ פון א פאלשע בית דין.
עס איז געווארן - ווי פארשטענדליך - א הייסע דעבאטע צווישן די עטליכע אידן ביים שיעור, ווי עס זענען געווארן אויפגעברענגט כמה וכמה מעשיות פון התפעלות וויאזוי די גוטע בתי דינים האבן באהאנדלט ענינים, און פארקערט וויאזוי די "ביזנעס בתי דין" האבן טיף בא'עולה'ט מענטשן.
איין חשובער אינגערמאן האט דערציילט א מעשה נורא וואס האר און נעגל שטעלן זיך אויף. (ער האט עס דערציילט מיטן נאמען פון דעם בי"ד, טענה'דיג אז ס'איז מצוה לפרסם. אבער איך וועל מיך מונע זיין פון זאגן נעמען, אפשר איז עס לשה"ר).
ער הייבט אן: וויבאלד דער פלוני געוויסער ראש בית דין אין וומסב"ג - לאמיר אים געבן א פיקטיוון נאמען, זרח - איז דאך א ביזנעסמאן, ער זוכט פשוט ארויפצוארבעטן די הכנסות פון דעם "געשעפט" זיינעם, דעריבער איז ער געפאלן אויף א וואזשנע המצאה, ער פאר זיך אליינס, דער זרח טוט זיך אדווערטייזן אלס א "טוען", מיט זיין טעל. נומער. צווישן נאך פיל טוענים איז אויך אדווערטייזט אונזער "זרח". אזוי באקומט ער ביזנעס און מאכט פרנסה אלס א טוען. אביסל דערנעבן אין טעל ביכל איז דא נאך אן אדווערטייזמענט, פון א "בית דין". מיט דעם זעלבן טעלעפאן נומער ווי דעם טוען... א געוואלדיגע המצאה, א כל-בו געשעפט, אלעס אינאיינעם א פול סערוויס טוען, און אויך, א פול סערוויס בית דין.
נו, וואס שלעכט? אפשר טאקע גוט, וואן סטאפ שאפינג.. אבער, לאמיר צוקוקן אביסל פון די נאנט די גרויסארטיגע פארצווייגטע פעולות פון דעם "טוען-בי"ד", א איד קומט אריין פארלוירן: מיין שכן האט מיר ארויפגעלייגט אן עיקול, איך דארף שוין א טוען. בארואיגט אים ר' זרח, און זאגט אים, זיי נישט פארלוירן, פאר א נישטיגן פרייז גיב איך דיר א "הסרת העיקול". וחסל. קוקט אים יענער אן מיט פרעגנדע אויגן, נישט וויסנדיג וויאזוי קען א טוען מאכן אן עיקול זאל ווערן אזוי שנעל אויס, דערווייל נעמט דער זרח ארויס א "לעטער-הער" פון זיין "בי"ד", און דער קליענט פארשטייט שוין אלעס. דערנאך איז דער "טוען" ממשיך, יעצט מיט דעם עיקול האט דאך יענער געשיקט א הזמנה לדין תורה, אויב שיקט ער דיר נאך איינס, לאז אים וויסן אז תובע הולך אחר הנתבע, און דו ווילסט דיך מתדיין זיין ביי מיר, נאכן אויסשטעלן א טשעק און די זיצונג איז פארטיג.
די זענען מעשים בכל יום "סטענדערד פראצעדורן" פון דעם "טוען בי"ד קאמפאני". והמפורסם אין צריך ראי'.
יעצט - זאגט ער - גייט ער דערציילן א מעשה וואס האט פאסירט דאס יאר. צוויי שותפים משה און גרשון האבן געהאט א גאר טיפן און שווערן סכסוך, זיי זענען שוין געווען גוט צוקריגט ווען משה איז אריינגעקומען צום "טוען בי"ד" פארלאנגען נישט מער און נישט וויינגער ווי א היתר לערכאות, ווייל צום ערשט מוז ער מאכן א "ליען" און א "ליעס פענדינס" אז גרשון זאל נישט אלעס ארויס ראבעווען, אויך וויל ער שוין אריינברענגען דעם גאנצן סכסוך אין קאנטראל, ווייל ער האט גראדע זייער א גוטן לויער... דער ראש בית דין האט אים נישט אנגעשריגן, און נישט ארויסגעווארפן, ער האט אויך נישט פארלאנגט ער זאל צום ערשט גיין צו א בית דין כשר בישראל. נאך א קורצע ביזנעס מיטינג, איבערלאזנדיג א געהעריגן "סכום הגון" פארן טוען & קאמפאני, האט ער ארויסשפאצירט מיט א היתר לערכאות. ער האט אזוי שנעל באקומען דעם בריוו אז ער האט זיך עס אליינס נישט געגלייבט. שוידערליך!
אבער די מעשה ענדיגט זיך נישט דא. דער שותף גרשון קומט אריין אין ביזנעס איין טאג. ער ווערט דערשראקן ווען ער זעט ווי עס ווארט אים אפ א שליח מיוחד מיט א "בריוו" ווי די קאורט לאזט אים וויסן אז אלע נכסים פון געשעפט זענען געפרוירן,זיינע פריואטע נכסים זענען געפרוירן, און, בייגעלייגט איז אן "ארדער אוו פראטעקשאן" אז ער טאר נישט קומען ביז הונדערט פיס נאנט צו זיין ביזנעס, און ביז הונדערט פיס פון זיין שותף משה'ס הויז. (פשוט פאר זיין זיכערהייט).
גרשון שטייט פארגליווערט און זעט שטערן'ס, ס'שווינדלט אים ביז ארויף און ער פארלירט דאס גלייכגעוויכט. די לעצטע חדשים לויפן אים דורך פאר די אויגן. עטליכע מתווכים האבן שוין פרובירט מפשר זיין צווישן זיי, מ'האט שוין עטליכע מאל גערעדט פון גיין צו א בית דין. ער האט שוין אפילו שטילערהייט געהאט געדונגען א טוען, אלעס איז געגאנגען רואיג, אן קיין טעראר און אן קיין שמוץ. קאורט מאן דכר שמי'. אבער אזא פליק, ביי ארדער אוו קאורט...
ער מאכט אן עמורדזשענסי אפוינטמענט און ער לויפט אויף אלע פיר אריבער צו זיין טוען, מיט וואקלדיגע פיס דערציילט ער דעם טוען ווי זיין לאנגיעריגער שותף משה איז געלאפן צו ערכאות אן א התראה, אן רעדן צו א רב, ער שטייט אן ווערטער.
דער טוען האט אים תיכף געהייסן קאנטאקטן א גוטן לויער. און דערווייל רופט דער טוען אן דעם משה, און זאגט אים, ענטפער מיר בלויז איין שאלה: ווי האסטו נישט מורא צו גיין אין ערכאות אן א היתר פון א רב?, ער בעט דעם טוען זיין פעקס נומער, ער גייט אים ענטפערן מיט די פאקס.
ביז עטליכע מינוט האט דער טוען אויפן טיש א געדרוקטן היתר פון יענע "טוען בי"ד". דער טוען רופט אן גרשון'ען און זאגט אים אהובי ידידי, דיין בעל דין האט א היתר פון ... קא.
גרשון שרייט, וויאזוי קען עס זיין? דער טוען זאגט אים הער מיך אויס, איך האב נישט קיין לעטערהעד, אבער בעל פה קען איך דיר אויך געבן דעם זעלבן היתר, ווען עפ"י הלכה דארפסטו שוין נישט קיין היתר וויבאלד יענער האט דיך אריינגעשלעפט אין געריכט. דער גרשון איז נישט געווען רואיג מיט דעם, האט ער זיך פארבינדן מיט א גרויסן רב אין חו"מ ענינים, און יענער האט דורכגעקוקט זיינע פאפירן און און געזאגט דו מעגסט רואיג גיין להציל את שלך.
ער האט גענומען א גוטן לויער, און געגעבן זיין מעשה, און די קאורט האט פארשטייט זיך אנגעהויבן אויך משה'ן צו קעיר נעמען און קאפענען. משה'ן ווערט זויער, יענער איז אויך אריין.. וואס טוט מען? נישט גע'דאגה'ט. דער קאמפאני קען דאס אויך מסדר זיין. ער לויפט אריבער צום ב"ד קא." און דער טוען-ראב"ד האט שוין ארויסגעדרוקט א בריוו און אפגעשיקט צו גרשון ער זאל שוין תיכף ומיד ארויסגיין פון ערכאות ווייל ער איז א מרים יד בתורת משה!
וואס עס איז ווייטער פארגעקומען איז נישט וויכטיג צום ענין, עס ווערט שפעט און איך מוז שוין ענדיגן, אויך ווייל דער סכסוך איז נאכנישט אינגאנצן פארטיג.
מיר זענען געזעצן און מיט אפענע מיילער געהערט און געשטוינט. איך האב נאכ'ן אויסהערן דאך געהאט אביסל ספיקות אין די פונקטליכקייט פון די מעשה. פריער האט מיך דער פארציילער ארויפגעלייגט אויפן טעלעפאן מיט א גאר חשובן איד וועלכער איז געווען פארמישט אין פרואוון צו שלום מאכן צווישן די צוויי שותפים, און ער האט עס מיר קלאר באשטעטיגט, און ער האט נאך צוגעלייגט, אז ער איז זיכער אז ביז א שטיק צייט וועט זיין א גרויס גערודער פון די אלע מעשי נבלה, און עס קען נישט צו לאנג אנגיין. דער ב"ד דארף נאר טרעפן איין "בחור" מיט ציין אין די מויל און ער וועט אים צושמירן ביז גאר.
איך האב שוין געהאט געהערט פון לאנג אז יענער טוען-בי"ד איז באוואוסט אין די עולם היהדות אלס א צענטער פאר עיקול'ס "הסרת העיקול"'ס והיתרים לערכאות אויף א גרויסן פארנעם אבער אעפ"כ האב איך נישט געקלערט אז דאס איז אויף אזוי ווייט.]]>Tue, 3 Jan 2006 20:03 +0200NatanyaTue, 3 Jan 2006 20:03 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1733317
תוקן על ידי - natanya - 26/12/2005 1:33:16]]>Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:59 +0200מלוה_מלכהTue, 3 Jan 2006 19:59 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1747041מאנסי אומגעגענט , אדער מאנרא , צו וויילן אויף א שבת, מיט עסן ?

אויב יא נעבן ביהמ"ד מקוה ?

א דאנק פארן מודיע זייין..]]>Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:26 +0200חייםמרדכיTue, 3 Jan 2006 19:26 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1747052
The kitten, now known, for obvious reasons, as Miracle, hitchhiked a ride on the underbelly of a sport utility vehicle just before Christmas. The gray and white feline traveled some 70 miles under the vehicle as it whizzed along the Turnpike on Dec. 23.

"I'm just amazed that the cat didn't fall off or get blown off," Karen Dixon-Aquino, director of the Animal Welfare Association in Voorhees, told the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill for Tuesday's newspapers.

The association is caring for the furry hitchhiker and plans to put him up for adoption.

The SUV's driver was traveling from Newark to Cherry Hill and didn't know she was giving the kitten a ride until another motorist saw the tabby through a wheel well and flagged the driver over near Interchange 4 in Mount Laurel.

Dixon-Aquino said the cat probably climbed into the guts of the SUV in Newark and was asleep when the journey began. Somehow, the cat avoided being mangled by fan blades and other moving parts as he clung to the car for the ride.

The kitty, estimated to be about 8 or 9 months old, was not unscathed, though.

"He was pretty freaked out," Dixon-Aquino said. "His paws were burnt, one claw was missing and his fur was singed."



ווען ער זאל כאטשיג אריינטשיפען ביי די געז, בעסער פין יענעם וואס די קאץ האט אים אויסגעשפארט פין די קאר

איך וואלט געזאגט פארן דרייווער אז ער זאל גיט קוקען עס קען זיין אז ער האט אויך מייז]]>Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:03 +0200סעמאן_פישTue, 3 Jan 2006 19:03 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1746152
From babies and Legos comes high tech innovation
By Aryeh Dean Cohen January 01, 2006

It's doubtful that Las Vegas bettors would have put any money on an ultra-Orthodox Israeli schoolteacher and mother of five taking the city by storm and setting 2005's annual Consumer Electronics Show on its ear. But that's exactly what inventor and super mom Sarah Lipman did, overcoming the odds while casting a whole new light on the way users can interact with their computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices.

She's not alone. Indeed, Lipman, who heads her own company - Power2Be Technology - represents part of a new generation of strict religiously observant Israeli women who are finding ways to merge their talents for technology with their strong commitments to family life. Finding that balance is producing a bounty of innovations, while at the same time allowing the women the satisfaction of sometimes seeing their child's first step just a few feet away from the computer being used to work on their latest project.

Former Los Angeles elementary school teacher Lipman, 33, says she "fell into high tech backwards," noting that while she's always had a penchant for inventing things, she never saw this one coming. She and her husband Michael were enjoying a vacation in Scotland when she literally saw the light.

Maybe it was the lighthouse she was looking at in the distance, but the idea came to her in a flash. "I was using my Palm, and I thought: 'If this thing could see me coming, it could bring me up what I wanted before I got there. Because I'm giving off all of this body language as I approach it - anyone watching me can see what I'm doing, but the computer can't.

"If you were watching me use the Palm, you would see that I was heading for the 'contacts' or the address book, or whatever. But the computer doesn't see me coming, so it doesn't give any response ahead of time. But then I started thinking: 'Gee, how could a computer or a Palm or a cell phone see me coming. And I worked it through and I realized I had something. And my husband said: 'Let's patent it,' and we did."

Interviewed in the living room of her "office," her Jerusalem home where baby toys or Lego mix happily with computers, a battery of phones, and a printer affording her the ability to be both mom and inventor, Lipman insists that the very fact that she did not have any previous experience in the high tech world works to her advantage.

"We discovered that we had actually made a tremendous breakthrough in the entire area of interface and interface design that probably had a lot to do with the fact that I wasn't in the business yet, so I wasn't influenced by the current ways of doing things. I wanted something practical, and because of my background, which is a very strong interest in math and science, the way that I came to it was to think about the way light works and the way light propagates, rather than the way engineers approach it, which is what components can you put together to achieve the effect you want," she told ISRAEL21c.

The technology is based on a stylus which emits invisible light, like a Palm stylus but "really small," she explains. "That light, when it hits the screen, interacts with the display. We've harnessed the propagation of the light and the qualities that it has, and we found that we can interpret out from that where the stylus was when the light hit it."

"Power2Be technology enables three-dimensional interaction with any kind of computer device, and in so doing allows for very, very intuitive interaction at any level, and in any kind of program," Lipman explains. Applications run from revolutionizing the way one interacts with one's TV and remote to offering 3-D effects for computer games. "We have done away with several very convoluted and discouraging steps," says Lipman

A group of engineers at the Jerusalem College of Technology's Machon Lev institute that Lipman met with on her return to Israel "kind of looked at me and said: 'Well, you can't do that - there's no hardware that does that.' And I said: 'But just think a minute, that's how it works, it's gotta work like that.' I'm somebody who builds a picture in my mind, and if it works well enough in my mind, then I'm pretty sure it'll work in real life. So they tried it and it did work."

Tests showed that her invention worked, first with a piece of plexiglass, then with an LED, and finally a Palm T-3. The final version which is being completed, is based on a Nokia Smartphone, along with demo software.

So how do you get the word out that you've discovered light, or at least a way of using it that opens new frontiers in the world of interface? Simple, you go to Vegas. "I went with my very good friend - she's a rebbitzen (wife of a rabbi). She said: 'Sarah, you can't go to Las Vegas alone - I'm going with you.' So she left her eight kids and I left my five at the time, and off we went."

Not even a CSI investigator would have believed she was the hottest property at the Consumer Electronics Show, but she was. "It was very gratifying, because I don?t look the part. Even if people don't know I'm a schoolteacher, I still look more or less like a mom. I walked around to some of the big players, and they would hear me and all of a sudden their eyes would light up."

Through the buzz generated at the conference, a series of "very big players" whose name she won't reveal wanted to meet with her. "It turned out that these companies have been thinking about the kind of functionality that our technology provides. And all of a sudden, here I come out of nowhere and say: 'I've got this technology.' And they go: 'Wow,' and I sort of felt like an angel for them when I offered them that."

Upon her return to Israel, the first thing she and her husband did was "to fill the house with a lot of equipment," although now they are moving some of it out to an office.

"The kids need a house, not a laboratory," she says. Still, the interaction with her family feeds her creativity, with the children themselves now coming up with their own "inventions," including her daughter's discovery: a pen that writes by using recycled, wetted crepe paper. It's an atmosphere she says many ultra-Orthodox women crave to feel comfortable about mixing a career with family life, with auspicious results for the Israeli business world, particularly high tech.

"I think this trend of women getting more involved in high tech is inevitable...there are many religious women in programming...I think if suddenly we have thousands and thousands of women programming, they're going to understand computers at a much deeper level, and some of them are going to have ideas that take off. I don't see it not happening."

Lipman also believes that the religious training she and other ultra-Orthodox women share gives them a different and important outlook on high tech. "It has a lot to do with training and how you think. When you learn to read a verse and read a commentary by Rashi and not let any word get past you that you don't understand...if you're grounded properly, then nothing goes by without a question, and you assume that there's an answer. And that is a very different approach to engineering and invention, which is: Gee - who says I have to take it for granted that things are this way. Maybe there's another way...it's a different way of thinking, and it's an education which encourages you to think deeply, not to take things at their surface value. So I think that is a profound advantage."

"One of the most important issues I juggle with as a founder/mom is working hours," explains Lipman, a mother of six. "It's important to me to be available to them at important times, like bedtime. To do that. I save 'thinking work' for non-kid hours. Typically I work from 8:30 or 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., then take calls only, or have meeting in the house, until the kids go to sleep around 8:30. I get back to work at night, usually until around midnight. Working at home (and having a laptop) has allowed me the freedom to do most of my work at the times best for me and my family."

Lipman admits with a laugh that such a work experience sometimes has her "on the phone thinking: 'It's a good thing they can't see me, because I'm burping a baby while we speak, and in the back the other kids are all being very carefully quiet, and building with Legos or something... we told the kids: Do not answer line 3."

She credits her success - there's a "pile" of inventions waiting to be patented and produced - to her husband's drive, but chiefly to divine inspiration. Interviewed on the week of the reading of Bereishit, which describes God creating light, teacher-turned inventor/mom Lipman said that the spiritual side of her work "is more the way that light works, the way the world works...It speaks to me in a sense that there is a Creator, and therefore there is a level of inherent consistency and inherent elegance and perfection, and because of that...you can harness it and you can utilize that to create all kinds of amazing functions and technologies."

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A group of Jewish university students in Montreal are confident it is the world's biggest dreidel, and they have applied to Guinness World Records to have that fact established.

More than 20 students built the giant dreidel out of wood and particle board in the lobby of Congregation Beth Ora by for the West Island Hillel's Chanukah party.

With its base, the free-standing structure measured 25 feet, 91/2 inches, said Hillel Montreal's Yoni Petel, but the dreidel itself was 22 feet, 21/2 inches. The four Hebrew letters – shin, hey, gimel and nun – were each about six feet high and made of paper, which was taped on.

The dreidel did indeed spin on its base, with a good push from a tall person. ''I'm 6-foot-2,'' said Petel, ''and I could barely reach the face.''

Rabbi Avi Rosenblatt, who authenticated its kashrut, and accountant Sandy Jesion, a vice-chair of the FEDERATION CJA West Island management committee, served as the witnesses necessary for consideration by Guinness.

Petel said the students were casting about for ideas on something different to do for Chanukah. ''We had thought of making the world's biggest latke, but it would have been a fire hazard and we weren't really sure if we knew how to do it. A dreidel was the obvious second choice, and we checked with Guinness and found no dreidel entries.''

The next question was where to construct it. They ruled out the outdoors because they were afraid of wind toppling their creation. The group looked on the West Island, but no synagogues or Jewish institutions had high enough ceilings to accommodate the top they envisioned. Beth Ora in St. Laurent was the closest alternative because its lobby soars almost three stories. Care had to be taken to avoid the chandelier.

The dreidel took about nine hours to build, and involved working from a scaffold. It took about 10 students to lift it onto the base. Then the party began. ''You could see about three-quarters of it outside through the window, making the synagogue look like a dollhouse,'' Petel said.

The costs of the dreidel were covered by an Innovation grant from National Jewish Campus Life.

Alas, the monster could only be kept up for two days. The students are keeping the parts and may try to reassemble the dreidel next year. ''But we would be happy to donate it to anybody interested,'' Petel added.

מיר דריידט זיך די קאפ נאר פין קוקען אויפן דריידל]]>Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:12 +0200חייםמרדכיTue, 3 Jan 2006 18:12 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1746789Israel's ultra-Orthodox use posters as salvos on secular society

By Joel Greenberg
Tribune foreign correspondent
Published January 3, 2006

JERUSALEM -- The fiery posters with bold black letters fairly shout from the walls of Mea Shearim, the teeming neighborhood of rigorously Orthodox Jews in the heart of Jerusalem.

"Watching movies is prohibited," declares a sign plastered on a wall. "These clothes are forbidden!!!" reads another, warning women against wearing tight-fitting garb.

In vivid language, the posters exhort the faithful to beware of temptations on the streets, admonish women to dress modestly, announce demonstrations and launch broadsides at Orthodox leaders deemed to be cooperating with Israel's secular establishment.

The wall posters, known by their Yiddish name, pashkevils, are a window into the life of a cloistered community that is clinging to its traditions at a time of rapid change.

About 10 percent of Israeli Jews are ultra-Orthodox, according to unofficial estimates. Known in Hebrew as haredim, or God-fearing, they generally live in separate neighborhoods, maintaining their own schools, synagogues and social welfare institutions. They are easily identifiable by their distinctive clothing: men in black hats and coats and women in long dresses, their hair covered with kerchiefs, hats or wigs.

Although there are ultra-Orthodox representatives in the Israeli parliament, and some have served as Cabinet ministers, the more fervent branches of the community are a world apart from the mainstream of predominantly secular Israeli society.

Many ultra-Orthodox men devote themselves to full-time religious study, receiving state stipends, tax breaks and exemptions from compulsory military service under long-standing arrangements with the government.

The arrangements have angered secular Israelis, who usually serve in the army. They also have contributed to widespread poverty in the ultra-Orthodox community, where the absence of many men from the workforce has made their traditionally large families dependent on state assistance and charities.

The ultra-Orthodox argue that military service violates their religious way of life and that religious studies keep alive a sacred heritage that has preserved the Jewish people throughout history.

Many Israelis resentful

But many Israelis see the rigorously Orthodox as shirking burdens shared by the rest of society, a rift deepened by the ultra-Orthodox view that Jewish law takes precedence over the demands of the secular state.

With its strict brand of Judaism and an indifference or outright hostility to secular Zionism, the ultra-Orthodox community has to fight a constant battle to fend off the pervasive influences of mainstream Israeli culture.

Nachman Ben-Yehuda, a sociologist at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said the posters serve as both wall newspapers and morals police.

"Their main function is social control," he said. "They tell people what to do and what not to do."

Originating in Jerusalem in the early 1900s, the posters now are common in ultra-Orthodox towns and neighborhoods across Israel. Often the notices are signed by well-known rabbis, but many also bear the names of unknown groups, masking factions using the posters to denounce opponents.

Over the years pashkevils have commented on a broad range of issues affecting the ultra-Orthodox community. They have attacked the opening of movie theaters and restaurants on the Jewish Sabbath, condemned the excavation of ancient graves by archeologists as a desecration of Jewish remains and railed against traffic arrangements that allowed motorists near Orthodox neighborhoods on the Sabbath.

A poster plastered on the walls in Mea Shearim this week, signed by The Committee to Save the Youth in the Holy Land, urged students at religious seminaries, or yeshivas, to steer clear of the mass media and stay in the study halls.

'Avoid the media of all kinds'

"Any departure from the confines of the yeshiva and a short stay on the street is disastrous for the soul of the yeshiva student," the poster declared. "Every youth who aspires to master the Torah and build his future in the vineyard of the house of the Lord should know that he must completely avoid the media of all kinds. . . . Interest in the news turns the heart away from the fear of God."

The poster goes on to call for "the complete eradication of the newspapers and color magazines that mix good with bad, put the wicked with the righteous ... and confuse the minds of the youth."

Down one street, a poster warned women against wearing body-hugging Lycra shirts and "narrow, straight skirts," noting that modest dress "arouses the mercy of God." Another notice pronounced that watching movies leads to "the destruction of modesty, God forbid."

A poster warned against riding buses operated by Egged, the Israeli bus company, because of mixed seating of men and women. Another inveighed against attempts to introduce a secular "core curriculum" in Orthodox schools, declaring that it would marginalize religious studies.

Plans to recruit some ultra-Orthodox youths into the Israeli army and enroll others in alternative national service programs were denounced in posters as an attempt to "assimilate them in the abomination of the general free society." Ultra-Orthodox lawmakers were accused of collaborating with the recruitment plans and labeled "traitors serving the hatchet raised against the Torah and the faith."

The posters sometimes generate heated debate in ultra-Orthodox circles, with warring factions tearing down or covering up notices put up by their opponents.

But on a chilly afternoon last week, Moshe Zhilovsky, a black-clad yeshiva student, barely stopped to look at the screeds on the wall, dismissing them as a waste of time.

"This is politics," he said. "Real people don't like politics. There are more interesting things to do, like studying Torah and worshiping God."

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jogreenberg@tribune.com





Get all "Heimishe" Breaking News delivered directly to your cell phone http://www.upoc.com/group.jsp?group=vosiznies]]>Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:27 +0200דיפלאמאטTue, 3 Jan 2006 12:27 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1640840
וועלן די וואס שרייען אין די גאסן אויף אנשים נשים וטף וואס טראגן מיטן כשר'ן ערוב, באקומען שכר אויף יענער וועלט פאר די גרויסע מצוה פון נאכשרייען פרויען און לערנען זייערע קינדער אז נאר וואס זיי האלטן איז תורת אמת און אנדערש קען גארנישט זיין? און אז צו שטיין אין די לאנגע שבת נאכמיטאגס וואס אמאל האט מען געוואוסט אז מען טאר זיך נישט זוימען קיין רגע ווייל דאס איז די צייט וואס די גאסן זענען פיל מיט פרויען און עס דארף אויסגענוצט ווערן בלויז פאר זיצן און לערנען, און היינט צוטאגס האט מען געלערנט די קינדער צו שטיין און זוכן פרויען וואס זייער גאנצער חטא איז ווייל זיי פאלגן נאר אויס זייערע רבנים וואס ערלויבן זיי צו טראגן מיט דעם עירוב, און זיי נאכזידלען מיט די מיאוס'טע לשונות של גנאי. וואס איך מיין צו פרעגן איז אויב זיי וועלן באקומען שכר אויף דעם וואס זיי מיינען עס אמת'דיג, און האלטן טאקע ווי זייער קארופטירטער חינוך האט זיי אויסגעלערנט צו האלטן אז די וואס פאלגן זיי נישט זענען עתיד ליתן הדין.

די וואס טוען דאס נאר פאר די "פאן" איז פשוט אז זיי באקומען שוין זייער שכר דא אויף די וועלט, און וועלן גארנישט האבן קיין תביעה דארט אויבן, אבער די וואס פאלגן נעבעך זייערע רבנים, (וואס זענען ליידער געטריבן פון דעם אני ואפסי מענטאליטעט, ווי ער איז ערצויגן געווארן) אויף די איז די פראגע, וועלן זיי עפעס קענען פארלאנגען?

(אגב איז געווען א מחי' צו זען דעם שבת אז ערליכע אידן האבן זיך ערלויבט צו טראגן אן קיין מורא, און אן פחד פאר דעם טעראר ווי יעדע וואך, ווייל די קעלבלעך האבן נישט געוואוסט מבחין צו זיין צווישן אן עירוב וואס דארף בלויז זיין צווישן הויז און די סוכה, און וויסנדיג אז שבת חוה"מ "מעג" מען מאכן א עירוב, האבן זיי פארשטאנען אז אין גאנצן שטאט מעג מען טראגן. ה' הטוב יכפר. אזוי האב איך געקענט טראגן אן דעם וואס איך זאל זיך דארפן שלאגן, ווי יעדע וואך...) ]]>Tue, 3 Jan 2006 07:06 +0200eichlerTue, 3 Jan 2006 07:06 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1740100Tue, 3 Jan 2006 05:09 +0200מציאותTue, 3 Jan 2006 05:09 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1745449פאר אפאר חדשים צוריק, האבן די רבנים ארויס גענומן די צוויי צייטונגען פון די מאנסי געשעפטן, לעצטע וואך זעה איך אז זיי זענען צוריק, צו ווייסט איינער וואס איז געשעהן?
IT SOUNDS SUSPICIOUS
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(א טיש וואס ציט זיך אריין ביז שפעט)

כ'ווייס שוין פון צוויי: סקולען און סטיטשין. אבער אויב כ'פאר שוין וויל איך קענען גיין צו נאך רבי'ס (וואס טוט מען נישט פאר קינדער...)]]>Tue, 3 Jan 2006 00:14 +0200CatskillsTue, 3 Jan 2006 00:14 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1745908Mon, 2 Jan 2006 23:39 +0200eichlerMon, 2 Jan 2006 23:39 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1739827Mon, 2 Jan 2006 23:35 +0200y123y123Mon, 2 Jan 2006 23:35 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1745859The company is making its Windows OneCare Live service available for free in a "beta," or test version, to help it work out any potential problems before the product's likely introduction next year.
The service, which offers anti-virus, firewall, backup and recovery, as well as personal computer maintenance, will eventually be available for a subscription fee, said Microsoft spokeswoman Samantha McManus. The company has not yet determined how much it will charge. "This is the first major step for Microsoft into the consumer security market," McManus said, noting about 15,000 customers have been taking part in a limited test since June.

http://jewishcenteronline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37]]>Mon, 2 Jan 2006 22:32 +0200דיפלאמאטMon, 2 Jan 2006 22:32 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1745548
מענטשן האבן א טעות איז דעם מושג פון בטחון און מיינען אז דער אפטייטש דערפון איז, צו זיין פארזיכערט אז עס גייט מיר זיין גוט, לויט ווי "איך" וויל עס זאל זיין.

דאס איז א גרויסער טעות, ווייל בטחון מיינט אז עס וועט מיר זיין גוט, לויט ווי דער באשעפער זעט אז דאס איז אין מיינע בעסטע אינטערעסן.

א שטיקל חובת הלבבות (פרק א) וואס ברענגט ארויס וואס דאס איז:

מהות הבטחון הוא, מנוחת הנפש של בעל הבטחון, ושיהיה לבו סמוך על מי שהוא בוטח עליו, שהוא עושה את מה שהוא טוב ונכון עבורו, בדבר שהוא בוטח עליו, בהתאם ליכלתו וידיעתו בדברים שהם לטובתו.

עס איז דא פיל פיל צו שרייבן אין דעם ענין. איך האף זיך צוריקצוקערן דערצו גאר בקרוב.
]]>Mon, 2 Jan 2006 19:33 +0200eichlerMon, 2 Jan 2006 19:33 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1744424Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:22 +0200אלעסאמתMon, 2 Jan 2006 11:22 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1716332Mon, 2 Jan 2006 05:38 +0200נבוכדנאצרMon, 2 Jan 2006 05:38 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1739091
ופרצו
חומות
מגדלי

וויאזוי איז דאס געשעהן?

ווייל עס איז נישט געמאכט געווארן ביי אונז!

און עס איז דא א בילד פון חומות ירושלים געמישט מיט א בילד פון א אויפגעריסענעם צוים, און דער אדווערטייזער איז א צוים פאבריקאנט.

פרעג איך: איז דאס מ ש ו ג ע ת אדער ע מ ה א ר צ ו ת? די חומת המקדש איז פרצו בה י"ג פרצות ווייל מען האט עס נישט געמאכט ביי די פירמע פון מאנסי?

בין איך משוגע אדער ער?

כ'בין שוין געוואוינט צו זעהן אז מיט א שטריימל למטה מעשרה טפחים און אהן א טלית שכולה עטרת כסף קען מען נישט צוגיין צום יום הדין, און אודאי אודאי נישט אהן א Chanuka Gift צום הייליגן יום טוב חנוכה, שוין געווען אן אשכול דערוועגן, אבער על של עתה באתי, עד היכן תכלית משוגעת? ס'הייסט דאך א פרומע צייטונג!

אויב איינער דא האט עס - ביטע אריינסקענען, עס איז געוואלדיג]]>Mon, 2 Jan 2006 00:03 +0200ShamosMon, 2 Jan 2006 00:03 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1744252
The NYPD eased up on parking tickets in 2005 after a year-and-half-long rise, city records show.


http://vosizneias.blogspot.com/2006/01/nyc-parking-tickets-eased-up-in-2005.html

]]>Sun, 1 Jan 2006 23:46 +0200אינגערמאןSun, 1 Jan 2006 23:46 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1734562
איך האב געטראפן 2 בריוון פון רבנים אין דעם נושא, פאר "אדרת"

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איך בין זיכער אז יעדער קען איינעם אדער צוויי, וואס גייט נאך געלט ווייל ער איז א גרויסער ארימאן, אבער ווען מען באטראכט אים פון דער נאנט, זעט מען אז זיין גאנצער עניות נעמט זיך נישט ווייל ער איז א שלימזל א לא יוצלח, נאר ווייל ער איר א פשוט'ער פוילער שטריק, און האלט נישט ביים גיין ארבעטן ווי דער סדר העולם איז, און עס איז אים גרינגער צו גיין פון נגיד צו נגיד, וואס איז, ווי די יודעי דבר וועלן אייך דערציילן גאנץ א גוטער פרנסה, ווייל געווענליך דארף מען אריינלייגן פיל ווייניגער שעות און מען קען פארדינען הערליך-שיין דורך שנארעריי.

שטעלט זיך די פראגע, און אסאך האבן שוין זיכער אפגע'פסק'נט אז אזא איינעם דארף מען נישט געבן, און אדרבה פילע האבן שוין אפגעמאכט אז מען "טאר נישט" געבן אזא איינעם, ווייל דאס איז נישט ווי די וועלט איז אויסגעשטעלט געווארן, נאר מען דארף גיין ארבעטן כדי צו פארדינען.

איך וועל נישט מאכן קיינע לאנגע הקדמות און דא שטעלן עטליכע מראה מקומות ווי אנצוהייבן.

אין סמ"ק שטייט אזוי: "לא תאמץ, שלא תאמר מה לנו לסייע לפלוני אם היה רוצה היה מרויח יותר מצרכו תלמוד לומר לא תאמץ". זעט מען אז מען דארף געבן אפי' אויב וואלט ער געקענט גיין ארבעטן.

ווידער איז דא א שטיקל כלי יקר וואס האלט פונקט פארקערט, נאר איך האב עס נישט פאר מיר, אפשר שפעטער וועט עס נאכקומען.
]]>Sun, 1 Jan 2006 22:53 +0200purim2005Sun, 1 Jan 2006 22:53 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1732319http://www.tvisrael.net/tvisrael/chanel.asp?chanel=3]]>Sun, 1 Jan 2006 22:46 +0200ShamosSun, 1 Jan 2006 22:46 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1739631
The year 2006 is going to come in with one second later than expected.
The scientists in charge of maintaining world time have to insert a "leap second," in order to keep atomic time sync'd up with the Earth's rotational time.


http://vosizneias.blogspot.com/2005/12/year-2006-will-start-one-second-later.html

]]>Sun, 1 Jan 2006 20:57 +0200kutchmaSun, 1 Jan 2006 20:57 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1742976Republican: Trump May Run for N.Y. Gov.

The Associated Press
Saturday, December 31, 2005; 11:41 AM



ALBANY, N.Y. -- Donald Trump is considering running for governor, a leading Republican said Friday. Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno on Thursday suggested that a big-name candidate could be flirting with entering the 2006 contest. On Friday, he confirmed to News Channel 10 in Albany that he had been referring to Trump.

Bruno told the station he had spoken to the real estate developer and TV personality about a possible run.

Trump's office in New York had no immediate comment. State GOP Executive Director Ryan Moses said neither he nor state party Chairman Stephen Minarik have had discussions with Trump about running.

Said Frank MacKay, state chairman of the Independence Party: "(Trump) is a formidable candidate for anything he decides to run for. We would love to see him run for president of the United States in 2008 as a third-party candidate. I'd do what I could to help give him a strong base here in New York and everywhere else in the country."

Trump flirted with a run for president on the Reform Party ticket in 2000. He has given money to Republicans and Democrats in state races.

Republicans are looking for a candidate with name recognition and money to take on the only announced Democratic candidate, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer is far ahead of all candidates for governor in the early polls.

Spitzer won an endorsement Friday from former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, who cited his fellow Democrat's record as a corporate reformer.

"As attorney general, he demonstrated a real commitment to reforming institutions from Wall Street to Main Street, and I look forward to watching him work on reforming state government," Koch said at a news conference.

Koch, a Democrat, endorsed Republican Gov. George E. Pataki for re-election in 2002. Pataki has announced he will not seek a fourth term.

Spitzer is the lone Democrat in the race, although some Democrats say Thomas Suozzi, executive of Nassau County on Long Island, is considering entering the race.

Announced Republican candidates include former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, former Assemblyman John Faso, former Secretary of State Randy Daniels and Assemblyman Patrick Manning.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/31/AR2005123100376_pf.html

]]>Sun, 1 Jan 2006 20:51 +0200wassa_difSun, 1 Jan 2006 20:51 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1743917Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:33 +0200bush2008Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:33 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1740150איך האב אפאר
yahoo mail ID's
למשל משה אין יעקב סא איך האב געמאכט א טשעק ביי
Remember my ID on this computer
אויף משה'ס איי די אבער מיין פראבלעם איז אז ווען איך וויל גיין צי יעקב גייט די קאמפיאטער אליין אריי צי משה אין איך מיז ארויס סיינען פין משה אין שפעטער אנהייבען אריין צי לייגען די איי די אין פעס ווארד פין יעקב אין די נעקסטע מאל וועט די קאמפיאער געדענקען נאר יעקב
סא איך וויל וויסען ווי אזוי מ' מאכט אז די קאמפיאטער זאל געדענקען מער ווי איין פעס ווארד אין אויך אז איך זאל קענען אויס וועלען אין וועלכע איי די אריין צי גיין נישט די קאמפאטער זאל אליינס אריין גיין צי די איי די וועלעכע איך בין געווען די לעצטע
Who ever knows how to do it please post because I plotz already

תוקן על ידי - bush2008 - 30/12/2005 8:15:34]]>Sun, 1 Jan 2006 15:56 +0200ShamosSun, 1 Jan 2006 15:56 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1743408
Philadelphia - The Hasidic rabbi Solomon Isaacson roams the halls of power brokers - his black suit, white shirt and broad-brimmed black hat - never changes, and the only food he offers them is challah, a bread delivered in person and free to the offices of most elected officials in City Hall, usually every week, he delivers 600 challahs a week. And he is widely perceived as a man of political influence.
And like any insider, Isaacson wants something for the client he sees as his, the Jewish people.
His latest pursuit: a large swath of land in Northeast Philadelphia for new townhouses and single-family homes so that hundreds of Chasidic Jewish families can relocate here from the saturated streets of Brooklyn.


http://vosizneias.blogspot.com/2006/01/philadelphia-rabbi-working-on-getting.html

]]>Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:38 +0200אזלא_גרשSun, 1 Jan 2006 12:38 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1515678לויט ווי מען געט איבער גייט עס זיין א גרויסע סוקסעס

דא קען מען דאונלאדען די trailer
http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=14SZXE04G83T90QKLM02WQRJDD]]>Sun, 1 Jan 2006 05:49 +0200babyfishSun, 1 Jan 2006 05:49 +0200http://hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1742883December 31, 2005





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Eli's Choice

His parents fought for boy with Down syndrome to be in the mainstream. As a teenager, he just wanted to be with his friends.
By AMY DOCKSER MARCUS
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
December 31, 2005; Page A1

BETHESDA, Md. -- For years, Eli Lewis was the only student in his class with Down syndrome.

The genetic condition, which causes a range of cognitive and physical impairments, made it harder for him to do his school work. But his parents felt strongly that he could succeed. They hired a reading tutor. An aide worked with his teachers to modify tests and lessons so that he could be in the same classroom as everyone else. He participated in his middle school's award-winning chorus and was treated as a valued member.

But when all the other kids in his class were making plans to go to the local high school this fall, Eli, 14 years old, said he didn't want to go. He wanted to be in a small class with other students like him. "I don't want to get lost in a big crowd," Eli says.


Kids in the Hall: Eli Lewis, flanked by his buddies, Chris Hamilton-Bruen (left) and Jamie Verhoff (right).


Eli's declaration surprised his parents. Then his mother recalled the many times she stopped by the school to check on her son, only to find him eating by himself. Once, when she came to pick him up from a dinner that chorus members attended, she says she found Eli sitting with his aide, while the other students sat at a different table.

"The kids liked him, they knew him, they spoke to him," says his mother, Mary Ann Dawedeit. "They just didn't think of him as a peer." Eli, she says, was tired of "being the only kid who was different."

Federal law mandated in the 1970s that children with disabilities be offered a "free and appropriate public education" in the "least restrictive environment," rather than being separated only in special schools or institutions. Over the years, advocacy and additional laws resulted in efforts to get children with disabilities placed in regular classrooms, with proper support, whenever possible. The process, called "inclusion" or "mainstreaming," has largely been an academic success.

Studies have shown benefits for all children, not only those with disabilities, who study together. Many researchers argue this is one reason why people with Down syndrome have made such remarkable progress in recent decades. People with Down syndrome who learn in regular classrooms do much better academically, research has found. They also have significantly higher rates of employment after they graduate and earn more money than peers who studied mainly in self-contained classes.

And yet, Eli Lewis's experience poses a difficult dilemma, one that is only now starting to be recognized and addressed. With help, he had succeeded academically in a regular classroom. But he felt isolated. In a book to be published next year, researchers at the Center for Social Development and Education at the University of Massachusetts in Boston say that although people with intellectual disabilities made enormous gains academically due to inclusion, their social integration at school "remains stagnant."

In a survey of 5,600 seventh- and eighth-grade students from 70 schools across the country, more than half of the youths said they were willing to interact with students with intellectual disabilities at school. But only one-third said they would be willing to invite such students to their house or go to the movies with them, according to the survey done by the University of Massachusetts center and the Washington-based opinion firm, ORC Macro. "Student attitudes continue to remain the most formidable barrier to inclusion," the researchers concluded.

At first, Ms. Dawedeit and her husband, Howard Lewis, thought Eli might change his mind. The couple -- who have two other sons who don't have Down syndrome -- felt there were many advantages to Eli staying in a regular classroom, including greater independence and more interaction with the general student body. But eventually, Mr. Lewis says he began to recognize that having Eli in a regular classroom might not be "as important to Eli as it is to me."

Ms. Dawedeit remained reluctant. She talked with a friend who had a son with Down syndrome, who was also learning in a regular classroom. "I felt like I had let her down," Ms. Dawedeit says. "I had preached a mantra for so long to so many."

In May, at the science exposition at Eli's middle school, her feelings changed. The eighth-graders took over the school hallway and parents were invited to visit. Some students demonstrated elaborate experiments they had been working on. Eli worked with his aide to do research online about the chemical properties of silver. He learned where to find it on the periodic table. For the exposition, he printed out some of the documents he had found.

When his mother came to see his project, Eli again raised the subject of where he was going to high school. For Ms. Dawedeit, the contrast was sharp. Here was Eli, successfully participating in a science exposition with peers who didn't have disabilities -- but still talking about wanting to be with other people with Down syndrome.

She says she realized she needed to try to accommodate her son's desire for a social group. "I really had to step back from my personal beliefs," she says.

In the fall, Eli enrolled in the ninth grade at Bethesda's Walter Johnson High School, a sprawling building of over 2,000 students. He is in a special program with 20 other students who have disabilities, including one who gets around in a wheelchair and has difficulty talking. Six of the students in the class have Down syndrome. Eli already knew some of the kids from various extracurricular activities, such as drama class and Special Olympics, where he participated in soccer, basketball, swimming and bowling.


Eli with his family: father, Howard Lewis, mother, Mary Ann Dawedeit, and brothers, Eric Lewis, 17, and Ezra Lewis, 12, at their home in Chevy Chase, Md.


Getting out of the mainstream has meant trade-offs. His school is about 10 miles from Eli's house, farther than the local high school that his older brother attends. (The local high school doesn't have a separate special-education program.) A special-education bus now comes each day to pick up Eli, along with other students with disabilities.

"This was one of our big compromises," says his mother. In middle school, Eli walked to a bus stop and rode a regular school bus. "Other kids knew him," says Ms. Dawedeit. "Now he's a special-ed kid on a bus."

One evening in November, after a dinner of chicken burritos and salad, Eli helped his brothers, ages 12 and 17, clear the dishes. Then his parents watched him, as he started making his way through his homework -- a worksheet to practice using nouns and verbs. Since Eli was born, they had fought to have him included in regular classrooms. Now it sometimes felt as if Eli might end up outside the world they had tried so hard to keep him in.

All along, they shared a similar goal: for their son to be able to live independently. But Mr. Lewis, a lawyer, began to worry that the academic gap between Eli and other classmates was getting wider in the regular classroom as he grew older, and might be too difficult to bridge in high school. "I'm not married to inclusion at the expense of Eli's getting the skills he needs," he says.

Ms. Dawedeit, a manager at a retail store, was less certain. She knew how much Eli, like all kids his age, wanted to belong. But without spending significant amounts of time in regular classrooms, how would he ever learn the skills he needed to reach the goal of living on his own? "The truth is he has to go out and get a job," she says. "If he's educated with his regular peers, then maybe a regular peer will hire him."

Eli finished his English worksheet, and got up to take a break. He came over and gave his father a hug. "Are you meeting any new kids at school, Eli?" his dad asked. "Not just yet, Dad," Eli answered. "Why are you hanging out only with the kids in your class?" his father queried. "Because I know them," Eli answered, and went into the kitchen to get some cookies.

At his new school, the Parent Teacher Student Association has put the issue of how to promote the inclusion of students with disabilities in extra-curricular activities on the agenda for its January meeting. A student group that pairs students with disabilities with a buddy without disabilities has already scheduled several activities for the coming months, including ice skating and bowling.

Still, for most of his school day, Eli is now in a separate classroom from the general school population. Last month, ninth-graders in the general-education classes were reading the novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." In the special-education classroom, the teacher was going over worksheets that had been adapted from the book, with some related questions.

Eli was signed up for a regular physical-education class, but asked his parents if he could switch to one with only special-education students. His mother was reluctant to change, because it was one of his only chances to meet kids in the general-student population. She offered a compromise: He could switch to the special-education gym class with his friends, if next semester he took weight-training as part of the regular class. Eli agreed.

Janan Slough, the assistant principal who oversees the special-education department at Eli's school, says the school has difficulty finding certified special-education teachers because of a national shortage.

The school tries to foster as many opportunities as possible for those with disabilities to be in general classrooms, she says. Still, she adds, "I feel caught" between juggling the need for socializing with the need to teach basic, crucial tasks, such as handling money. On one field trip, the special-education kids went to a grocery store; they were supposed buy something their family might use at home, pay for it, and make sure they got correct change.

Most of the kids with disabilities need to focus on independent-living and job skills, rather than college preparation. "I'm charged with thinking about where they are going to be at 21," she says. "I don't want parents to come back and say, 'It's nice they were socially included and had parallel instruction, but you didn't prepare them for the world of work.' "

For now, Eli has only one class -- ceramics -- that he attends with the general school population. On a recent morning, Eli sat next to a boy assigned to help him. The students were designing tiles, and from time to time his peer assistant would look at what he was doing, or go with him to get more clay. For much of the class, the boy bantered with one of his friends, who had pulled up a chair next to him and was regaling him with a story. From time to time, Eli made a joke and the boys all laughed together.


Eli with his friends and fellow freshmen Chris Hamilton-Bruen, 14, and identical twins Will and Jamie Verhoff, 15.


But when they walked Eli back to the special-education classroom, there was no suggestion that they meet up again that day. When Eli was asked if he enjoyed spending time with his assigned partner, he shrugged and said, "It's OK."

Eli has a lot of ideas about what he wants to do after high school. In middle school, he took a media class and worked in the school's TV studio. Along with the other kids in the class, he was given a homework assignment to make a public-service announcement. Eli made one about the Special Olympics. "I want to be a director," he said, when asked about his plans after high school.

"Eli has serious career aspirations for himself that may not have anything to do with what the rest of the world sees for him after high school," said his mother, one afternoon last month, while waiting for him at a drama class he takes outside of school. The class, made up of students with and without disabilities, was planning a variety show, and Eli was excited about performing. Every night, he went to his room to work on a dance routine he had created to accompany a song from the soundtrack of the movie, "Holes."

His girlfriend, whom he met in elementary school and also has Down syndrome, had invited him to be her date to the upcoming Winter Ball at her private school. Next month, Eli will turn 15 and is planning a big party. The only kids he plans to invite also have disabilities, his mother says.

While she's glad he has found a social circle, she still wonders about what he's missing by going to special-education classes instead of staying in regular classes. "I go back and forth on it all the time," she says. For instance, his school has a state-of-the-art TV studio with editing facilities and a control room, where a class is given. Eli's parents wanted him to be in that class, but it's not possible right now, because he needs to attend the special-education math class, which is held during the same period.

On a recent morning at school, Eli weaved around the teenagers lining the hallway. Some sprawled on the floor, catching up on homework. Others joked with each other by their lockers, or rushed to get to their next class. Eli didn't talk to any of the students. He walked with purpose, heading to the special-education room.

When he got there, his face brightened when he saw one of his friends. "This is my best friend," he said, throwing his arm around the other boy, who also has Down syndrome. He pressed his face close to his friend's until their cheeks almost touched. Eli smiled. "What table are you sitting at lunch today?" he said as they walked together down the hall. "Come on, make sure you sit with me."

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