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Ok, lets put it even easier. Just answer my questions with YES or NO. Just that.
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I'll answer accordingly since there's context in each that's NOT black and white and yes or no in the way you're arguing/implying.
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you said one 6.7+ quake would hit in 10/19 to 10/22,
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Did a 6.8 appear in station readings for that quake?
So I CAN argue this particular quake as a HIT.
another 6.7+ quake would hit in 25/10 - 27/10,
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which was a direct DIRECT HIT
and finally another 6.7+ would hit in 10/31 - 11/01. Yes or no?
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As I've already said MISS! but I also posted these various links that put things in further and proper context which you're ignoring.
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Only one 6.7+ quake hit during the predicted windows. Yes or no?
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you said one 6.7+ quake would hit in 11/01 - 11/03. Did it hit? Yes or no?
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Moreover you said "with a 99% confidence is that there WON'T BE A QUAKE 7+ on any other date in NOVEMBER outside the dates/windows I've named"
Were you right?
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Didnt the Guatemala quake hit outisde the windows? yes or no?
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So you're saying ONE DAY OFF is OUTSIDE the window??? lol
thats what you're saying right???
Just answer this questions please.
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ffs the first window did not have any 6.7+ quake.. check the official mag.. and they are not downgraded on purpose.. why would they do it? just to annoy you?
you had one hit in 4 windows. i call hat a miss
and about the last question.. dont make a fool of yourself, you know what i am talking about.. in one prediction you said no quakes would happen outside the given windows.. and since one did you recover some old prediction saying it would? so either case you would always be right? lol.. you have predictions that contradict one another, very nice tactic
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Filed under: modern life, Uncategorized | Tags: Beyonce, Crock-Pot, CSA, fads, fashion, slow cookers, Snap Kitchen, trends, TV dinners, wawa
Back in the day, you didn't have to ask if the gefilte fish was "free range." You knew it was because the carp had been swimming free in your bathtub the day before.
When we were kids, we didn't know from "locally sourced." We didn't think about where our food came from; it just appeared on the kitchen table three times a day. In the summer, the supermarket was loaded with blueberries, cantaloupes and peaches; in winter the selection dwindled to oranges and grapefruit. There were certainly no year-round grapes from Chile or avocados from Mexico. You couldn't get raspberries in January.
Now, if you are one of those people who will only eat food that is locally sourced, you'll be eating the mushrooms that spring up in your backyard after a rainstorm. If you're lucky, there's a cilantro farm down the road and your neighbor has a goat whose milk makes the most delicious cheese. We don't have any of that. Finding locally sourced food isn't always easy in the suburbs. That's why when we signed up for a community-supported agriculture program, we got beets and turnips in our box week after week.
If you wait long enough, everything old comes back around – but it's not always new and improved.
TV dinners have come full circle. We have fond memories of the Swanson turkey dinner with whipped potatoes in a divided aluminum foil tray. Our moms would heat it in the oven for 45 minutes to undo the deep freeze. We never touched the little compartment of diced carrots and canned peas; our favorite part was the apple cobbler dessert. We felt so space-age and cool eating dinner on our snack table in front of the TV.
Now, single-serving, ready-to-eat dinners are available everywhere – from Wawa to the new hip chain Snap Kitchen. Snap's takeout meals include Bison Quinoa Hash and Grilled Kale Hoppin' John. All of their "nutrient-dense, portion-controlled" meals come in plastic, microwave-ready containers with calorie counts on the label. For dessert, their 160-calorie Chia Seed & Date Pudding is advertised as "gluten-free, non-dairy, paleo, sodium conscious and vegan." If we eat that for dessert, we'd be back in the kitchen to hunt for a cookie at 10 p.m.
Then there are kitchen trends. Along with electric knives and fondue sets, Crock-Pots were a popular bridal shower gift some 30 years ago. The Crock-Pot would come with a tiny booklet of recipes: Chicken Mexicana that called for chicken thighs and canned green beans, Dr. Pepper pulled pork, and beef stew with Lipton's onion soup mix and ketchup as the main components of the sauce.
While we blinked, we discovered that slow cookers are back in style with busy millennials. There are 97 Pinterest boards filled with organic recipes, vegan recipes and ways to use your cooker to make everything from bread pudding to cinnamon rolls.
All this hype sent us to the store to buy a new model. Ours was 33 years old – a shower gift. It was harvest gold with a tasteful daisy design and one switch for off, low and high. You dumped in the ingredients and hoped it cooked all the way through and didn't burn on the bottom.
Nowadays, slow cookers are silver and sleek and digital and programmable. You can set them to cook dinner while you're at work building a new app. We bought one, read the 23-page instruction booklet, and returned the cooker to the store the next day. If we can't figure out where our favorite show is — on Netflix, Amazon or Hulu ? — how can we set the digital timer for "delay start" to cook lemon bourbon chicken for dinner?
Everyone knows that fashions come back around. After a 30-year hiatus, jumpsuits are back in style. For women our age, it's not a good idea to make it any more difficult to get to the bathroom. Remember when you stopped putting your toddler in overalls so they could make it to the potty in time? That's just one of the reasons why we don't wear a jumpsuit.
If you saved your acid-washed denim jumpsuit from 1982 hoping it would come back in style – and you can still fit into it – congratulations. However, we have some bad news. You're not Beyonce. When a style comes back, it's meant for your daughter, not you.
Our daughters have asked us if we've saved any cool clothes from the 1970s. Do we have white vinyl go-go boots and hot pants, a fringed leather vest, or a gold lame disco dress that we could pass on to them? No, we gave them to Goodwill long ago. We never thought they'd come back in style.
Filed under: culture, Uncategorized | Tags: club card, coupons, frequent shopper, Plenti, rewards points, shopping, supermarket
As we waited in the airport for a plane back to Philadelphia recently, we glanced at our boarding passes and were pleasantly surprised to see Group 1 printed at the bottom. Group 1? We are usually in Group 4, along with the woman who forgot she has a 24-ounce bottle of shampoo in her purse.
When the agent announced that the plane was ready for priority boarding, we got up from the plastic seats, ready to go. Then he welcomed those seated in first class. Then families with small children were "welcome to board." Then, "any uniformed members of the Armed Forces." That seemed fair. They served our country.
We moved toward the front: Group 1 had to be next. Then he called for "all members of the Admirals Club, the Advantage Club and those with elite status: the diamond, ruby and emerald credit card holders." What credit card did we use to buy these plane tickets with again? As our fellow passengers streamed by, it seemed like everyone but us had E-ZPass. By the time he preboarded all the "special people," we were standing alone. Turns out, Group 1 wasn't very special at all.
We know that when we don't pay $18 for extra legroom, we'll be squished in our seats. That's what we bargained for. But we didn't bargain for this, and we don't recall ever even being invited to join the "elite diamond club."
Many other clubs do want us as members, and not a day goes by without them emailing us with offers of bonus points, free food, rewards, and advantages. Sometimes the advantages are dubious, but if you ask us, we'll likely sign up — just in case. We once stood in line to try a cronut and found ourselves signing up for the delicious cronut loyalty club — just in case we have the urge to spend $5 on a trendy iced pastry, in a city we once visited, again.
When the clerk in the frozen yogurt store looked at our cups overflowing with Oreo cookie crumbs and wet walnuts, she asked, "Do you want to join our frequent eater Yummy Yogurt club?" We couldn't resist. We were hoping that the next time we flipped the handle to start the flow of mint chocolate chip, she'd announce: "All members of the super secret Yummy Yogurt club get free jimmies today."
Between us, we now belong to about two dozen loyalty programs. That's a lot of loyalty.
We can remember a time when we guarded our privacy, reluctant to divulge our email addresses and phone numbers to strangers. But now that we — and everyone else in the world — can see the front of our houses on Google Maps, we know that keeping our details private is a lost cause. Privacy is a pipe dream.
At the chain drug store, the employee at the register prods us to enter our Plenti rewards number before she'll even think about ringing up our greeting cards and Q-tips. "You get points and some money off," she chirps happily every time. We do as we're told, but invariably, we get Plenti of nothin'. At the competing chain, our reward is a coupon for $4 off — next week. Since we just bought $45 worth of cold medicine, it's unlikely we'll need to come back in time to use that coupon. It'll expire on the floor of our car.
We do like our supermarket loyalty program, which provides instant gratification. After we rack up hundreds of dollars in groceries, we scan our super shopper card and watch the discounts come off with a "ding." Blueberries: — $2.50. English muffins: — 50 cents. At the end of the receipt is the proof: We saved $23.76. Woohoo! That $20 will cover our impulse purchases of caramel sea salt gelato and organic cucumber face wash.
Even though the club cards clutter up our wallets, we prefer them to clipping coupons and then searching for each item in the store. We never mastered the art of extreme couponing. And those computer-savvy companies who use reward apps? We've downloaded some that promise to keep track of what we eat and what we earn, but it's hard to remember our user name and password, and when we do, we have to swipe through five screens to choose our salad ingredients online so we can get credit for our purchase.
So what do these loyalty clubs get us? When a friend wanted to get a speedy appointment with a world-famous gastroenterologist, her membership in the Rita's Water Ice cool customer club didn't impress the receptionist enough to get her in to see the doctor. Maybe it would have worked if she were a member of the "elite diamond club."
This article originally appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on April 25, 2016
Filed under: Passover | Tags: gluten-free, hametz, Israeli products, Jewish food, Jewish holidays, Manischewitz, Passover, Pesach, shop-Rite
Passover is almost here and we have lots to ponder –
After all these years of spreading peanut butter on matzah and pretending we are Sephardic, it's now official! We can now legally eat kitniyot during Passover. This past December 2015, the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly voted 19-1 to end certain food restrictions that they said are no longer necessary.
Kitniyot is the term for foods that are traditionally eaten by Sephardic Jews – rice, corn, soy beans, string beans, peas, lentils and peanuts – but not by Ashkenazic Jews during Passover. These foods were staples of the Sephardic Mediterranean diet – so they didn't cut them out. The prohibition against kitniyot began in 13th century France to avoid confusion about what was and was not hametz (food forbidden on Passover). Back then, who knew what else was mixed in the burlap sack along with your two rubles of rice?
In their recent ruling, the RA recognized that in modern times, most food stuff comes in a sealed package, the contents are inspected and regulated and consumers can reliably distinguish what might be hametz. They also stated that allowing people to eat rice and beans "would bring down the cost of making Pesah and support a healthier diet."
So it took us only 700 years to be able to serve Spanish rice with roast chicken during the holiday.
There are still things to debate: Now that kitniyot is okay, what do we do with the Rice Chex? We usually banish it to the basement for the week of Passover, but maybe it's technically OK this year. Rice is kitniyot, although we'll feel funny having cold-cereal for breakfast during Passover. Once you've done fried matzah, bad breakfasts are one of the things to kvetch about on Pesach!
This whole new category of food made Passover shopping even more of an adventure this year. The ShopRite in the Promised Land of Cherry Hill, NJ, never disappoints with its variety and quantity of Passover items.
This year the Shop-Rite had a shelf of these newly approved products with a printed disclaimer that said, "Kitniyot for those who want it."
The kosher butcher at the Shop-Rite also gives out "free" shankbones –we got ours when we bought $80 of brisket.
We read that the official tally is 300 new food items that earned kosher for Passover certification this year. Some were expected, like Manischewitz's new hazelnut chocolate macaroons and Gefen's chunk light tuna. Others caught us by surprise, such as the "hamburger buns" from Chantilly Bakery in Flatbush, NY. Passover buns? How do they do that? They use grains that are gluten-free. Their buns look delicious, as did their frosted Passover Black Forest cake. With all the new gluten-free foods on the market, those who avoid gluten because of dietary concerns have many more choices; they are free to eat pesachdik granola bars. We've tried those once, and once was enough. You can have our share of the pesachdik granola bars.
Some other items we saw:
On the way to buying a gallon of sweet Manischewitz wine, which we use for haroset and for the teens and Bubbes who prefer a "sweeter" wine, we came across MANNAge a'trois beer from Shmaltz Brewing Company. They call it a "3-way IPA" just in time for Passover. We're not sure if it's kosher for Passover (beer usually isn't), but they certainly produce some cleverly named beverages, including Cir Cum Session and Genesis ales.
We like it that the ShopRite sells a lot of Israeli products for Passover.
Along with the usual jams, jellies and spices and the chocolate Nutella-like spread we love, we found Israeli shampoo. There was a choice of pink and white liquid in the bottles. Which is the conditioner? Is the pink one for curly hair? We'll never know because the labels are all in Hebrew.
When our kids were young, they loved to play Candyland. So when we saw the Kosherland board game, we bought it for them. But spinning the dice and trying "not to mix milk with meat" was not nearly as much fun at going to King Kandy's ice cream cone castle. This year we came across "Cholent: The Game." Oy! The manufacturer describes it as a "slow-cooking, fast-moving strategy card game." Players have to collect cards with ingredients for their cholent recipe. We like that they included a glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish words you might need when you're cooking up your hearty stew. One word was shnorrer, the guest who will show up – uninvited – to eat your cholent.
Well, we won't be making cholent for Pesach. We'll be sticking with brisket and chicken and a lot of homemade haroset. One of us is hosting a seder for 20 where the highlight hopefully will be the 2016 edition of "Jewpardy," in which the guests are asked to play a Pesach edition of the popular quiz show. The other one will pull out her bag of "vintage" Pesach masks. We wonder who will want to be the King of Kings this year.
Whether your seder is short or long, enjoy! The Word Mavens wish you a zissen (sweet) Pesach!
Preview Jewpardy question:
I'll take "Jewish Before & After" for $400, Alex:
Q: In The Ten Commandments movie, he played Dathan the Jewish Overseer who was stranded on a desert island.
A: Who is Edward G. Robinson Crusoe?
Filed under: Jewish holidays, Purim | Tags: baby names, Haman, Hamantashen, Jewish culture, Jewish holidays, Purim, Purim carnival
As holidays go, Purim is underrated. It got a little more attention this year than usual because Passover is so darn late, but Purim usually doesn't get the holiday cred it deserves.
With Purim there's no need to cook and host a big family dinner (not that that's always a bad thing). There's no need to build a hut in the backyard or look for gifts for the cousins who say, "I don't need a thing." To us, Purim means a synagogue service where it's not only okay to make noise – it's encouraged. And a carnival with games, crafts and a moon bounce.
But most of all Purim means we get our fill of hamantaschen, those yummy, triangular-shaped, filled cookies that come around just once a year.
Hamantashen can be bought, baked, or shnorred. You can buy them at the supermarket and try to be satisfied with the preservative-laden pastries in a plastic shell that was probably packed back in February. You can pay a lot for them at a fancy bakery. You can also bake them yourself. Ellen did just that and then sent shalach manot (the traditional Purim gift packages given to family, friends and the needy) to children living on their own, children away at school and a mother-in-law who likes to get surprise packages. The flavors? Apricot, cherry, chocolate chip, lekvar and mun (poppy seed). Her husband loves the mun ones, and after years of being told "no one likes mun but you," he was happy to discover that his nieces also like mun hummies.
The leftover levkar? You can spread it – instead of jam – on toast. Some people are as disgusted by this as we are by mun. We're more upset that the supermarket has moved the leftover containers of hamantashen to the shelves with all the Pesach stuff.
Then there are those of us who shnorr hamantashen. We picked out the cherry ones at the oneg after services. Some came in the shalach manot basket from Sisterhood, and we ate some more when we went to a friend's house for lunch.
When our children were young, we went with them to Purim carnivals, where they would ask us to buy more game tickets, watch them throw the bean bag at Haman, and help carry home all the chazerai they won. In their teenage years, as members of the synagogue youth group, they were charged with supervising the Purim carnival. They dressed up as Haman and volunteered to get hit in the face with shaving cream pies. They doled out the prizes, and we had a chance to join in the fun. Now that our kids are grown, we have not gone to a Purim carnival for several years. It's one of those activities that require you to bring a kid.
Not going to the Purim carnival can be good news: We don't have to take care of the goldfish the kids won.
The bad news: We don't have a grandchild to take care of either.
Biblical names have always been popular. Jewish mothers ask, "Why name your daughter Brittney when you can go with something classic?" That's why we have aunts named Ruth and Esther and friends named Rachel. We did not send a birthday gift to Gwyneth Paltrow's son – Moses, but we did to a newborn named Noah. But we were surprised to read about a girl named Vashti. She is the daughter of former Eagles' quarterback Randall Cunningham.
We know Queen Vashti, King Ahasuerus's first wife, who was deposed by Esther, the heroine of the Purim story. But Vashti Cunningham? Maybe the Cunningham parents were familiar with Queen Vashti's status as the original feminist. This brave woman risked her life by refusing her husband (the king) when he summoned her to "entertain" his drunken guests at a banquet.
And speaking of drunken guests …. on Purim there's an open bar. Passover has the four cups of wine, but on Purim liquor is often offered in the back of the synagogue so congregants can indulge while listening to the megillah. You're supposed to drink enough until you can no longer tell the difference between Mordechai (the good guy) and Haman (the bad guy). This is one tradition that we don't have to nag our adult kids to observe; they are more than happy to embrace this aspect of their heritage.
Another Purim tradition is to make noise during the reading of the megillah to drown out Haman's name. His name is mentioned quite a bit, which leads to a lot of shouting, clapping and turning the grager, the traditional Purim noisemaker.
Making noise, shouting and interrupting . . . It sounds a bit like some of the recent presidential debates. In fact we'd like to bring this tradition to the next Republican debate: We will shout and wave our gragers whenever Trump's name is mentioned. Hmm: Who else has five letters in his name? Haman. Coincidence? We don't think so.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cherry blossoms, global warming, Punxasutawney Phil, snow, spring, weather
Twenty-three inches of snow ago, we were feeling pretty smug. We were proud that we didn't waste money on a January vacation to the Riviera Maya like some of our friends did. We were glad we didn't prepay for discount lift tickets at Jack Frost, whose ski trails were bare. We wondered whether anyone was buying the marked-down mittens and scarves at the post-Christmas sale when it was 70 degrees outside. We felt bad for the kids who wouldn't have a snow day and the TV weather anchors who had to fake enthusiasm for a seven-day forecast of nothing but mid-40s temperatures and gray skies.
We thought winter would never come, that it would be like a magical fairy tale: We would wake up one day, after a few months of mild weather, and it would be April. All the cherry trees that prematurely flowered, the daffodils that poked up tenuous shoots, and the fat birds that just gave up trying to fly south because it wasn't that cold anyway would be proven right. We had just skipped over winter.
Whenever we selfishly felt happy for the unseasonable warmth, we also had a pang of guilt about the polar bears and the shrinking ice caps. We would worry about the ecologically damaged world we are leaving for our children, but we enjoyed running errands in just a sweater.
We read the Jan. 19 Inquirer article reporting that 2015 "was by far the hottest year in 136 years of record keeping. For the most part, scientists blamed manmade global warming, with a boost from El Niño."
This was all before our big snow.
Like most people on the East Coast, we were ready. We moved the shovels from the garage to the back door. Even though we have food stockpiled in our pantries that could take us through any emergency, we joined the throngs of neighbors at the supermarket to buy bagels, potato chips, and a hunk of brie. Then it started to snow and blow, and it kept up for a day.
We monitored the snowfall on the backyard patio table. We had never put it away because we knew that winter wasn't coming this year. Until last weekend, it stood dry and lonely. As the snow fell, the table's unobstructed, flat surface became a reliable measuring spot for the blizzard. The more than two feet of snow turned it into a vast white banquet tablecloth. Its chairs became large, marshmallow lumps.
As the snow fell, we hunkered down inside, making pots of soup and chili and using up the leftover bananas to make banana bread. We read books, we watched TV, and we knitted three more balls of yarn on the huge fuzzy afghan. We uploaded the photos from last year's vacation, deleted 1,003 emails, and cleaned out the kitchen junk drawer. We drank three bottles of wine and binge-watched the first season of Fargo.
As the snow piled up on Saturday, we scrolled through Facebook photos of kids who were excited to play in the snow and of tiny dogs that had to go out even though the snow was over their heads. This was the rare time when we were glad to have neither kids nor dogs begging us to go out.
By Sunday, the snow had stopped. We ventured outside to offer moral support to our husbands' efforts to shovel the driveway. We unburied the cars and started the engines. We admired our neighbor's new snow blower, bought when the blizzard was first forecast. We had cabin fever, and by 1 p.m., we ventured to the supermarket, just to have somewhere to go, but it was cleaned out of all the good snacks.
TV weather people were happy to report that last weekend's storm dropped a season's worth of snow in two days. We weren't happy, but we did enjoy staying in our pjs and having a good excuse not to leave the house.
Maybe we're just optimists, but we believe that last weekend's snow was just a blip on the weather calendar, that it is not the start of a long, cold winter. The robin perched on the huge snow bank and the budding pussy willow bush are telling us that spring is right around the corner. We're certain that in a few days, Punxsutawney Phil will agree with us, too.
This article appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Friday, January 29, 2016.
Filed under: culture, Dictionary of Jewish Words, Yiddish | Tags: curses, Donald Trump, Jewish words, penis, vulgar words, words, Yiddish
After 15 years of writing and speaking about Jewish words, we think we have a decent Yiddish vocabulary. But our audiences often surprise us with Yiddish words that are new to us, like feinshmeker. Huh? That's how one woman described us. It means we don't "put on airs." That's good because we pride ourselves on being haimish (unpretentious).
But it's even more confusing when the word in question isn't Yiddish at all, like spatula.
At one of our book talks, we met a woman who grew up thinking that the word spatula was a Yiddish word. It was what her Yiddish-speaking Bubby called for when she was baking rugelach. It was an unfamiliar word to a child who only knew from spoon and fork, so she assumed that spatula was another one of Bubby's foreign words. We imagine that if an Italian grandmother asked for a colander to drain the spaghetti, her grandchild might make the same mistake –and think colander is Italian.
Another woman grew up thinking that the word traipse was Yiddish. Traipse means to drag, plod, or trudge along, to wander all over the place. It is not Yiddish; its origin is unknown, although our online dictionary lists shlep, a certified Yiddish word, as a synonym. To us, traipse sounds like treif, the Yiddish word for food that isn't kosher. These two words can only intersect in a sentence like this: "We traipsed all the way to Chinatown for an order of pork lo mein."
Some people think the word svelte is Yiddish, but we wouldn't make that mistake. Svelte sounds tall, thin, blonde and Swedish to us. We learned that it's from the French (svelte) and the Italian (svelto), both of which mean slim or slender. We are way more familiar with the Yiddish word zaftig, which literally means juicy. It describes a full-bodied, voluptuous, rounded woman.
Everyone's using Yiddish these days. A Walmart ad describes a shopper laden with packages as shlepping through the store. Martha Stewart refers to herself as the maven of home décor, and everyone from congressmen to CEOs use the word shmooze to describe chatting with their co-workers.
We get upset when people misuse Yiddish words, like what happened with shpilkes. It literally means "pins," and it describes impatience and nervous energy. A child with shpilkes has ants in his pants. So imagine our surprise when a non-Jewish newspaper writer described the late Sen. Arlen Specter as a "politician with real shpilkes." We suspect the writer was looking for the word chutzpah, because Specter was known for being a fierce fighter for the causes he believed in.
The worst offender in recent memory is Donald Trump, who said that Hillary Clinton "got shlonged" by Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race. Besides the fact that his comment was totally rude and inappropriate, he turned a vulgar Yiddish noun for male genitalia — shlong means snake — into a verb. One doesn't get penised by someone. It would have been more correct and a lot more polite to say, "She got klopped in the last election." (Klop is a Yiddish word that means to smack or hit.)
Like English, Yiddish has a lot of nicknames for male private parts. Putz not only means penis but can also refer to someone who is not worthy of respect – worse than a jerk. Putz can be a verb, it means wasting time or fooling around, as in "Stop putzing around with that stupid video game." Shmuck is another one of those dirty Yiddish words. It means penis, but it also refers to someone who allows himself to be taken advantage of, as in: "I was a shmuck to wait an hour for her, and she never showed up." A shmuck is worse than a shmo, shnook or shlemiel.
When we presented our book talk (about writing our Dictionary of Jewish Words) in Harrisburg, a woman in the audience told us this story: She was waiting in line to renew her driver's license in the PA capital building – not far from Amish country – when the woman ahead of her in line put her baby seat up on the counter. The clerk leaned over, clucked at the baby and said, "What a cute little shmuck." The mother smiled and looked pleased. Our Jewish friend was stunned. What kind of a compliment was that?
We wondered that too, so we did a little research and found out that in German – and in Pennsylvania Dutch, which is a dialect of German – shmuck means jewel or ornament. It's a term of endearment. Maybe that's what the clerk meant.
In fact, we know it's true, because we saw "mock schmuck" on a sign outside a costume jewelry store in Berlin. And if you know anyone with the last name of Shmuckler, it's probably because their ancestors were jewelers.
When shmuck migrated to Yiddish, it came to mean "the family jewels" and took the leap from jewelry counter to slang for a body part. In The Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten (the father of all word mavens) wrote, "I never heard any elders, certainly not my father or mother, use shmuck, which was regarded as so vulgar as to be taboo." We know that if Leo Roston had heard Donald Trump's rant – and abuse of Yiddish – he would have plotzed.
A note about spelling Yiddish words: why we write shlong rather than schlong
Indeed schlong seems to have more oomph than shlong. It is longer with that extra "c." But when we wrote the Dictionary of Jewish Words, we took a cue from Gene Bluestein's book Anglish/Yinglish: Yiddish in American Life and Literature, in which he points out that the "sch" sound is a basically German approach. In Yiddish, the "sch" sound is made by the letter shin, which means that the "sh" spelling is technically more correct than the "sch" version. We did list them both ways in the book, so you could be sure to find your schmendrick –even if we spell it shmendrick.
Filed under: technology | Tags: apps, computers, Google, iphone, modern conveniences, technology, Venmo
Every now and then we find ourselves asking questions that prove we're not as hip or as with it as we think we are. And undoubtedly, when our kids read this, they'll tell us that nobody says hip or with it anymore.
We love new apps, gadgets, and conveniences, and we marvel at the things they can do, but we don't fully trust them. We spent decades dialing the phone, putting family photos in albums, and getting up from our chair to change the channel. No wonder swiping, clicking, and streaming can sometimes confuse us.
If we still don't understand how Adele's big new song can travel from England and come out of our tiny clock radio, how can we possibly comprehend how money can fly wirelessly through the air from our bank account into yours?
We're most familiar with the old-fashioned ways of getting stuff done, so even though we use modern technology, we sometimes talk about it in outdated terms. Here are some questions that don't need to be asked anymore, but we just can't help ourselves:
Do you need directions to my house? That's what we asked the painter when he called to set up a time to meet. We forgot that he's probably been using Google Maps on his phone for years. He can even navigate around a traffic jam, change his route to the one that's "2 minutes faster," or look at a street view of our house before he arrives. We use the Google Maps app, but we still keep that torn, awkwardly folded map of Pennsylvania in the glove compartment. Just in case.
Did you get the message we left on your answering machine? What we actually did was leave a voicemail on our friend's cellphone. She doesn't even have an answering machine. With her cellphone, our friend can retrieve our message while standing in line at the pet store; she doesn't have to wait until she gets home to her kitchen. One of us still has an answering machine hooked up to her landline phone, and if the light is blinking once a month, it's cause for excitement.
Do you have a deposit slip for that check? We transfer money between our accounts electronically, and we've used ATMs all over the world, but we still write and deposit the occasional paper check.
Handing it to the teller is the only way we can be certain that it will go into our account. When one of our children asked how to best deposit a paycheck, we handed her a deposit slip. She ignored us and googled "how to put money in the bank," downloaded the bank app, and took a photo of her check.
Our 20-something daughter paid her share of lunch by using Venmo to send $8.50 to her girlfriend. When we go out to lunch, we each put a $20 bill on the table and ask the waiter to bring us change in singles so we can leave a tip.
Do you have your train ticket? We can't help but ask our kids this question before they head off on a journey. Inevitably their answer is, "I have it in my email on my phone."
We trust electronic confirmations but only so far. When it comes to our own travel, we print out the confirmation and also scrawl AF383C on a scrap of paper just to be sure. We also print out our concert tickets and hotel reservations — just in case someone asks to see them.
Did you write down your password? Our son was alarmed that we keep a small address book filled with screen names and passwords on the desk right next to the computer. There's an app for that, he told us. But what if our phone is dead? How will we get to the app? We keep a spare copy of our passwords in a Word document on the computer, but what if the power is out? That's why we have to write it in the little book.
Sometimes it's not our words but our hand gestures that give us away. Scribbling in the air is the universal sign to tell the waitress to bring the check. But when one of our husbands swirled his index finger in a circle as he said "I'll call you," he dated himself. To him, making a call involved putting his index finger in the corresponding hole on the phone and rotating clockwise — seven times. His childhood phone number started with letters GR7-3892 (for Greenwood), but he can't call it anymore.
Our adult children are totally immersed in technology. They grew up with it so they have no other frame of reference. We had to explain to them how television used to have only three channels, how when you made a typo it was on the page forever, and that a quarter to 10 is 9:45. We like to think of modern technology like a swimming pool. We're all having a great time, but while they're frolicking in the deep end, we're wearing swimmies and hanging on the rope — just in case.
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I love what I see in revenue growth @ HEK, it's domestic footprint, and in the "Hottest sector" there is. I'm quite content to hold HEK...I've lowered my cost basis over the time and am in the "green" and fully expect to get greener with time. I'd still add if low 3's were ever offered up again...and I was sorely disappointed not to get Wedbush's $2.50 target last quarter. Iv'e been sizably underwater on the stock and I've been sizably ahead on the stock. The percentage gains I target rarely present themselves over short term periods. I fully expected a two year window on HEK and am still well within the period and ahead of the stock.......it's an "to each his own" marketplace....as it should be. Whether it's shorts, day traders, or buy and hold, or options.....it's each person's money and choice to invest as they see fit. I'm long and and I'm bullish and of course I represent my position, I hope that my post are received by others in the similar position as "encouragement"...not "enticement". I seriously could care less if anyone on the board buys or sells HEK as the overall numbers play a miniscule role in total volume. I used to post "buy" "strong buy"...I no longer make any selection. I'm LONG, STRONG, PATIENT, and it's up to others as to how they perceive the stock. GLTA...LSP
you are pathetic for is being in this #$%$ stock
Why do you waste your time here????
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Bog my sentiment to the ninth I also stop posting buy/sell ly for similar reason v yet they still call me a pumper
I just put" them" on ignore, posts that are absent facts aren't worth my time. The sell side has ran out of all the rumors they had and now have only childish banter to resort to. Fracking was going to be banned (wrong), HEK would go BK ( wrong,S&P affirmed ), earnings would be bad (wrong, they beat) natgas/oil prices would collaspe ( wrong they're strong ) EPA regulations would kill HEK ( wrong, plays right into the business model ). Sell side has lost all they ammo and they're down to wooden guns and screaming..bang..bang..bang. Not much of a battle remains going forward.
Strong Revenue Forecast
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We have lots of "REAL AMMO"
LOL...Long Strong, Patient
You are not a pumper Gary.....but they call you a pumper because no matter how HEK trades....you maintain too much of a "optomistic stance"....
Just sayin....GLTU
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Who's that black guy in between the blonde Jack Black and the tattooed Ben Stiller? It's Robert Downey, Jr.
One of these days I'm gonna play it black Play it black One of these days... -- misquoted Elvis Costello song from "My Aim is True"
What will the Jim Crow "one-droppers" who didn't think Angelina Jolie was "African enough" to play Dutch-Jewish / Cuban-black-Hispanic-Chinese Mariane Pearl make of this? The actor in the center of the accompanying image is Robert Downey Jr., a white German-Scottish / Irish-Jewish actor. He's playing a white actor who is cast in a part originally written for a black actor, so he decides to play it black. The movie, "Tropic Thunder," is a satire of Hollywood actors making an epic war movie. It's directed by Stiller, co-written by Etan Cohen ("Idiocracy," "My Wife is Retarded" -- note that the "h" is not in the first name but the last; he's no relation to Joel) and Justin Theroux (who played a director in "Mulholland Dr." and an actor in "Inland Empire"). Nick Nolte, Jay Baruchel and Steve Coogan also star -- along with some big names in cameo appearances.
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High school player steals home by sliding through teammate's legsChris Cwik at Big League Stew1 hr ago
Stealing home is already pretty cool. It's the ultimate swagger move. You're not only going to steal a base, but you're going to beat the pitch there and score a run for your team. It's daring, it's exciting and it's rare.
From now on, though, the regular steal of home might have lost some of its luster. During a recent high school game, one player pulled off a steal of home that may completely change the game.
I told you they didn't see it coming @tews_graham pic.twitter.com/YIhZiTCJwn
— Drew Eich (@DrewEich14) July 21, 2016
That's Graham Tews, a high school player for the Ogden Bulldogs, and yes, he actually slid through his teammate's legs in order to steal home.
As far as our reaction, we'll just agree with the fan in the video who keeps screaming "YEAHHHHHHHH … ALRIGHTTTTTTT … YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH."
Giants balldude gets a hard reminder that baseball isn't easyLiz Roscher at Big League Stew1 hr ago
During Monday night's contest between the San Francisco Giants and the Cincinnati Reds, a Giants balldude had an experience that many infielders can relate to. He misjudged a ball, it slipped right through his legs, and he had to go chasing after it. On live TV.
It was the top of the eighth inning, and Adam Duvall was batting for the Reds. On the 2-2 pitch, he smacked the ball foul and it bounced toward the third base line. The balldude was there to make the play, one he's probably made before. And for a split second, it looked like he'd done it. The ball disappeared, which meant it was probably in his glove. Right?
Then, suddenly, the ball reappeared, squirted behind his legs and rolled away. The balldude (who the Giants announcers identified as Paul Robinson) ran after it, covering his head with his arms as he went. The ball definitely wasn't in his glove.
To look on the bright side, Robinson did so many things right. He got to the ball. His form looked good. He crouched and put the glove close to the ground so he could easily scoop up the ball. Unfortunately, the glove wasn't in the right place, which kinda ruins everything else he did up to that point in the play.
[]Tue, 26 Jul10:15 PM EDTCincinnati at San FranciscoPreview Game
Alex Bregman's dad couldn't believe his son's debut was happeningLiz Roscher at Big League Stew3 hrs ago
For a baseball player, there are few moments more important than his Major League debut. And unless he's being called in as a pinch hitter, a Major League debut is actually a nine-inning series of moments. There's the introduction at the beginning of the game, the first time he makes an out, the first at-bat, and each first marks the end of his journey to the Majors and the beginning of his journey as a Major League baseball player.
On Monday, it was time for Alex Bregman's moments. The Houston Astros top prospect was called up to play third base in that night's game against the New York Yankees. And no one was more excited than Bregman's parents, who were at Minute Maid Park in Houston to watch their son make his Major League debut.
When Bregman was announced for his first ever Major League at-bat, the whole crowd went wild, giving him a standing ovation and showing off homemade signs like "GEAUX BREGMAN" and "WELCOME TO H-TOWN." Bregman's dad was so overwhelmed by the response his son was getting that he simply couldn't believe it was happening.Tue, 26 Jul8:10 PM EDTNY Yankees at HoustonPreview Game
Adrian Beltre's walk-off home run caps late comeback against A'sChris Cwik at Big League Stew11 hrs ago
Welcome to The Walk Off, the nightly MLB recap from Big League Stew. Here we'll look at the top performers of the night, show you a must-see highlight and rundown the scoreboard. First, we start with a game you need to know about.
At this point in his career, nothing Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre does should be surprising. Beltre made his major-league debut at age-19, and still puts up exceptional numbers at age-37.
Beltre has been considered a fringe Hall of Fame candidate for a while now, and everything he does from this point on will only add to his excellent resume. When the voters eventually have to make their Hall decision on Beltre, they might want to consider Monday's game against the Oakland Athletics.
Beltre not only turned in a dominant performance, but he was almost singlehandedly responsible for the Rangers' 7-6 comeback win.
Though Beltre had already singled twice and scored a run, his first big at-bat came in the seventh inning. With Texas down by two, Beltre hit a solo home run off John Axford to cut the deficit to just one run.Tue, 26 Jul8:05 PM EDTOakland at TexasPreview Game
Padres' Alex Dickerson blasts home run to fifth deck in TorontoChris Cwik at Big League Stew13 hrs ago
Casual fans may not have known much about San Diego Padres outfielder Alex Dickerson coming into Monday's game, but he gave them reason to remember the name with a monstrous home run against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Dickerson's mammoth blast came in the top of the ninth inning. On the second pitch of his at-bat, Dickerson drilled a 90 mph cutter from Bo Schultz out to right field. Actually, drilled may be an understatement in this case. The ball actually landed in the fifth deck!
That's rarified territory. In fact, only 19 home runs have been hit to the fifth deck in Toronto. Fifteen different players have combined for those 19 home runs. On Monday, Dickerson became the 16th player to accomplish the feat.
Amazingly, Dickerson's home run came on the exact date that Mark McGwire hit the first 500-level home run in Toronto 20 years ago.
Alex Dickerson's 500-Level Home Run was hit exactly 20 years to the day of the first regular-season 5th deck HR (Mark McGwire: Jul 25,1996)
— Sportsnet Stats (@SNstats) July 26, 2016Tue, 26 Jul7:07 PM EDTSan Diego at TorontoPreview Game
Chris Sale apologizes, but stands by decision to cut up jerseysChris Cwik at Big League Stew13 hrs ago
For roughly a half-hour Saturday, it looked as though Chicago White Sox ace Chris Sale was about to be traded. He was scratched from his start due to the flu, but he wasn't actually sick. Fans of the game seemed pretty shocked that Sale might actually be on the move.
What actually happened was even more surprising. Sale was scratched from his start after it was revealed he cut up the team's vintage jerseys because he didn't want to wear them. It was a bizarre situation in which neither the White Sox nor Sale were willing to shed light on.
That changed Monday, as Sale gave his first interview since the incident. Sale spoke to Scott Merkin of MLB.com, and made it clear that he wants to remain with the White Sox.Tue, 26 Jul7:10 PM EDTChi Cubs at Chi White SoxPreview Game
Sean Doolittle throws imaginary BP to young A's fan, allows homerChris Cwik at Big League Stew15 hrs ago
Any kid who grows up loving baseball imagines themselves in the majors at some point. It's the bottom of the ninth in the World Series. The bases are loaded. You're called upon to finish off the opposing team.
For most kids, that memory comes when you're by yourself in the backyard, or when a family member indulges in your childhood delight. Those baseball dreams rarely take place with an actual Major League Baseball player.
That's precisely what happened to a young Oakland Athletics fan Monday. The kid noticed a couple walking a dog with an A's bandana, and asked if they would play baseball with him. He had no idea that the man pitching to him was actually a major-league reliever.
This kid liked the A's bandana. Asked us to play. Had no idea who he was playing with. Sean was charged with the run pic.twitter.com/78qFOcTMa6
— Eireann Dolan (@EireannDolan) July 26, 2016
Well, that ought to make your heart melt.
MLB Trade Deadline Digest: The Royals want a ton for Wade DavisChris Cwik at Big League Stew16 hrs ago
The Stew's Trade Deadline Digest recaps the day in news and rumors as MLB gets closer to the non-waiver trade deadline on August 1. If you missed any of Monday's action, we're here to help you catch up with all the important links and tidbits.
BIG ASK: The asking price for Kansas City Royals closer Wade Davis is higher than what the New York Yankees received for Aroldis Chapman. [Yahoo Sports]
HEALTHY SCRATCH: San Diego Padres outfielder Melvin Upton is not in the lineup for the second straight day. Upton is healthy, but it's assumed the Padres are working to deal him. [@sdutdennislin]Tue, 26 Jul8:15 PM EDTLA Angels at Kansas CityPreview Game
Brian Cashman defends Alex Rodriguez despite poor seasonChris Cwik at Big League Stew17 hrs ago
Every sport has always operated with a "what have you done for me lately" mindset. Players who were once the best in the game can be turned on by a fanbase the instant they stop producing at an elite level.
That's pretty much what's happening with New York Yankees designated hitter Alex Rodriguez right now. Rodriguez has had a love/hate relationship with New York over his 12 seasons with the club, but last year's resurgence after a long suspension seemed to endear him to the fans again.
That success hasn't carried over to this season. The 40-year-old Rodriguez is hitting just .206/.256/.364 over 227 plate appearances. While he's still under contract with the team through 2017, there are some who are wondering whether the club should just cut ties with A-Rod.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was asked about that during a conference call Monday, and took it as an opportunity to defend Rodriguez.
Brian Cashman was asked on his conference call about buying out Alex Rodriguez. Said that's not being discussed. pic.twitter.com/EQo1t08X1m
— Kenny Ducey (@KennyDucey) July 25, 2016
Watch the Rangers and A's in Free MLB Game of the DayMike Oz at Big League Stew17 hrs ago
For about 30 seconds on Saturday, before the wild news broke about Chris Sale throwing a fit and cutting up his throwback jersey, some baseball fans thought he had been traded to the Texas Rangers.
Imagine that rotation: Sale, Yu Darvish, Cole Hamels. Wowzer.
The trade was fake, of course, another product of a fake Twitter account in the rush of trade-deadline week. But this isn't fake: The Rangers will be an intriguing team to watch as baseball teams try to upgrade their rosters this week for possible postseason berths.
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The manufacturer will supply one all-electric bus to be retrofitted with WAVE's wireless charging pad under the bus, developed by the Utah State University Energy Dynamics Laboratory.
This technology will allow the electric buses to pull up over an embedded charger in the asphalt with a maximum of 10 inches clearance and "opportunity charge" the waiting bus with no moving parts or unsightly wires required. The funds to test a full in-service operation of WAVE's wireless power charging system were provided through a Federal Transit Administration grant awarded to the Utah Transit Authority.The new 40-foot electric bus will be the first shuttle to be allowed to run across the heart of campus — a 1.7-mile loop route between the South Campus TRAX station north to the Warnock Engineering building with midway stops at the Student Union buildings. The bus runs will be timed to pick up passengers coming off eastbound trains on a 15-minute cycle. The driver will position the bus over the charging pad during several minute wait periods between runs. The embedded charge pads measure about three feet square and pose no danger to the public. Nothing protrudes above the surface to be damaged by cars, snow plows or vandals.
"We will be the model of zero emissions rapid transit for the Nation," said Alma Allred, the University of Utah's Director of Commuter services. "We want to be in the forefront of technology that reduces the need for fossil fuels and has zero noise and zero pollution."
Of the 20 people injured, none were considered serious and 13 were transported by New York City EMS to hospitals.
Riders using a desktop computer, smart phone device or traditional telephone can schedule their pick-up and desired drop-off locations: reducing their wait time, arriving at their destination faster, and increasing the overall rider experience.
The advanced Driver Assist System, utilizing a licensed GPS technology developed by the University of Minnesota, provides feedback to the driver regarding lane position – via graphic driver alert displays, virtual mirror, vibrating seat and actuated steering.
In an overall business review, it was determined this division no longer fit in ABC's overall growth strategy. The company will continue to provide parts and warranty support for Ameritrans products.
Planners estimate the new, 11-mile Tysons Corner to Alexandria bus system would attract about 8,600 new transit riders per day.
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Favourite Minding, ridden by Ryan Moore, wins the Nassau Stakes at Glorious Goodwood to claim a sixth Group One victory.
Glorious Goodwood: Take Cover wins King George Stakes for second time
Take Cover and jockey David Allan win the King George Stakes at Glorious Goodwood.
Bryan Cooper: Jockey suffers collapsed lung in fall at Galway Festival
Gold Cup winning jockey Bryan Cooper is taken to hospital with a partially collapsed lung after a fall at the Galway Festival.
Glorious Goodwood: Big Orange defends Goodwood Cup title
Big Orange and jockey Jamie Spencer win the Goodwood Cup for a second consecutive year.
Glorious Goodwood: The Gurkha beats Galileo Gold to win Sussex Stakes
Favourite The Gurkha, ridden by Ryan Moore, beats Galileo Gold to win the Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood.
Glorious Goodwood: Dutch Connection wins Lennox Stakes
Dutch Connection, the 9-4 favourite, wins the feature race at Glorious Goodwood ahead of Home of the Brave and Gifted Master.
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JT McNamara: Jockey paralysed in 2013 Cheltenham fall dies
Irish jockey JT McNamara, who was paralysed after a fall at the 2013 Cheltenham Festival, dies at the age of 41.
Dandy Flame: 200-1 runner makes history at Wolverhampton
Novice Dandy Flame becomes the joint second longest-priced winner in the history of British horse racing at 200-1 at Wolverhampton.
King George Stakes: Highland Reel win, the Queen's Dartmouth comes third
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A three-day annual feast of Saint Lawrence that ended yesterday at a Catholic shrine in southern India has attracted thousands of people from various religions. The Shrine of St. Lawrence at Karkal near Mangalore in Karnataka state is more than 200 years old. It traditionally celebrates the three-day feast in the last week of January. Father Arthur Pereira, the shrine's present director, says large number of Hindus, Jains and Muslims attended the feast. "This shrine is known for interreligious harmony despite fundamental attitudes that are prevalent in the present times," the priest told ucanews.com. Karnataka is one of the states in India where Hindu militants have targeted Christians over the past few years. Father Pereira says people forget their religious differences at the shrine. "They become extremely spiritual and emotional. They remove sandals and kiss the ground as a sign of deep devotion," he said. People working outside visit the shrine on holidays. "We offer them flowers and holy water near the saint's statue," the priest added. John D'Silva, a local Catholic lay leader, said people from other religions outnumbered Christians on the third day of the feast. They revere the saint as the "god of Karkala." Kishore and Seema Rao, a Hindu couple from Mumbai, said their son regained his health after praying there. "Doctors could not cure him of his problem. But our visit and prayers at this shrine has seen his health improve," Kishore told ucanews.com. Raziya, a Muslim woman, has visited the shrine for the past 10 years. "I had a growth on my tongue and a boil on one hand. They disappeared after I promised to light candles at the shrine," she explained. Related reports India's biggest Marian shrine gets rail link St. Jude Thaddeus' shrine draws crowds IB13061.1638
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