tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57053118240553043282024-03-05T04:16:30.630-08:00Hansen SonsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comBlogger5030125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-34532249562991812622013-02-13T02:00:00.000-08:002013-02-13T02:46:13.912-08:00A Moving Horror Story About My BooksOur former Connecticut home had a lot of storage space. I had under the eaves closets that were cool year round and were about 60 feet by four feet. There were two walk in closets in the fourth bedroom that served as a playroom. We had a room full of bookcases and two rooms had built-in bookshelves. Those are where I stored my books. That is how I was able to collect over 8000 books and have it Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-36840114618455832352013-02-12T17:45:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.176-08:00NYPD Cops punch, kick Queens teen in drug arrestA Queens teen got a brutal beatdown by a group of NYPD police officers during a stop outside the Flushing YMCA, dramatic video released today shows.The Jan. 8 attack — which was captured on a witness’ cell phone — begins about 12:38 p.m. with two cops fighting to restrain Queens resident Robert Jackson, 19, on the ground while yelling “put your hands behind your head.” I can’t, I can’t, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-30648907057588820582013-02-12T17:39:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.183-08:00Fugitive ex-cop believed dead, as cabin stronghold goes up in flamesThe dramatic manhunt for a fugitive ex-LAPD cop who killed at least four people apparently ended when the rural California cabin he holed up in went up in flames, with ammunition exploding in the inferno and smoke billowing up into the mountain air.Christopher Dorner, who hours earlier had killed one San Bernadino sheriff's deputy and wounded another before barricading himself in the cabin, in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-25803180851283823812013-02-12T12:01:00.000-08:002013-02-13T01:06:22.298-08:00Hustvedt To Visit MinnesotaIf you're a fan of Norwegian-American writer Siri Hustvedt and you live in the Twin Cities area, you're in luck. The Northfield, Minnesota native will return to her hometown for a series of events at St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges next week. Hustvedt will be traveling with her husband, Paul Auster. In addition to conducting faculty seminars, the couple will participate in three events for the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-63755492693574303902013-02-12T11:22:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.192-08:00Search for fugitive ex-LAPD cop Christopher Dorner creates traffic problems along borderThe hunt for an ex-LAPD officer facing murder charges has expanded from California to Mexico after investigators say evidence suggests the suspect, Christopher Jordan Dorner, may have fled the country.The beefed-up security at the border has created unusually heavy traffic backups as agents are more closely inspecting each car. State police in Mexico's Baja California were given photographs of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-91075460671002388422013-02-12T11:03:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.199-08:00MKs protest ‘suppression of news about jail suicide of Australian’A series of Knesset members on Tuesday spoke out in parliament against what they said were efforts by the Prime Minister’s Office to suppress publication of a sensitive episode concerning an Australian citizen who had committed suicide in an Israeli jail.The Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday convened members of a hitherto defunct “Editors’ Committee” to seek their cooperation in the matter, the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-86948441393306181512013-02-12T10:57:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.210-08:00Israel's mystery Prisoner X 'was Australian Ben Zygier'Jerusalem - An Australian man committed suicide in a high-security Israeli jail in 2010 after being held for months in great secrecy, Australia’s ABC channel said on Tuesday, throwing new light on a case that has rattled Israel.The unforced ABC story named the man, known previously only as “prisoner x”, as Ben Zygier. It added that it “understood” the 34-year-old from Melbourne had been Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-3614798165839010012013-02-12T10:54:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.221-08:00What Would The Rebbe Say?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-34885645933973649682013-02-12T10:51:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.232-08:00Police chief in Chris Brown probation scandal resigns The embattled police chief of Richmond, Va., resigned today, after he was accused of sloppy work that allowed Chris Brown to allegedly fake his way through community service.Bryan Norwood, who had been his city’s top cop since 2008, came under intense scrutiny last week when Los Angeles prosecutors said R&B crooner Brown logged hours of work in Richmond that he couldn’t have possibly Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-25693275408459745752013-02-12T06:42:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.318-08:00CUNY officials are investigating ejection of Jewish students from anti-Israel forum at Brooklyn CollegeCity university officials are investigating why four Jewish students were ejected from a controversial anti-Israel forum sponsored by Brooklyn College.Campus police booted graduate student Ari Ziegler, 23, and three classmates from the event last Thursday, which showcased the founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.Ziegler, his brother, Michael, and friends Melanie Goldberg and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-57229133890142518342013-02-12T06:36:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.325-08:00Italian Lead Singer Will Not Perform on ShabbatROME — The lead singer of an Italian pop group reportedly will skip a live performance at Italy’s most famous popular song festival because he observes Shabbat.Singer Raiz (Gennaro Della Volpe), of the Neapolitan reggae-dub group Almamegretta, will not sing live on stage during Friday night’s broadcast of the annual San Remo song festival, according to the La Stampa newspaper. Instead, the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-12607588032088925722013-02-12T06:27:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.333-08:00Rabbi Dovid Weitman: “Sorry, I do not Shake”Rabbi Dovid Weitman, Chief rabbi of the Sephardi Community Beit Yacov Safra, was being greeted by Brazilian President Dilma Roussef, in a recent event celebrating the International Day of the Holocaust, apparently she didn`t know orthodox rabbis don’t shake hands with woman.The Rabbi politely explained that orthodox men are prohibited from shaking hands with Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-56853478839878091882013-02-12T06:11:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.339-08:00Jersey girl helps Jerusalem's Orthodox ladies get their hip-hop groove on“Every night up in the club [beat] getting money with the thugs [beat, beat]” – so go the somewhat incomprehensible lyrics to the hip-hop tune by one Trey Songz, which is pumping out of the studio loudspeakers. “….Thought I’d never fall in love [beat]. Then there was you.”It’s Tuesday night at the mall, in Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood, and here at the Elbaz Studio, right above the La Belle Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-83103748148145702752013-02-12T06:08:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.423-08:00Pope Benedict XVI, true to his declared commitment to the Jewish peoplePope Benedict XVI's surprising and historic announcement that he will retire at the end of the month has generated much speculation.His declared reason is that he is no longer physically capable of handling the demands of the position. Having met with him three times in the course of the last year, I can attest to his growing frailty.However, while the conclave that elects the pope is a jealouslyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-86921878207813408692013-02-12T05:58:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.509-08:00What chutzpah! John Galliano he’s a schmuckLate last month, disgraced fashion designer John Galliano arrived in New York City with little fanfare and no red-carpet appearances. Instead, paparazzi photographed him in an underground car garage in a baggy dark-brown suit that wouldn’t look out of place in a Bowery flophouse.Two years after the once revered designer unleashed an anti-Semitic tirade at a Parisian bar, he is now quietly workingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-57152890851721365022013-02-12T04:55:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.594-08:00North Korea conducts third controversial nuke testPYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea conducted a nuclear test at an underground site in the remote northeast Tuesday, taking an important step toward its goal of building a bomb small enough to be fitted on a missile that could reach United States.North Korea made clear that the explosion of its third atomic device — which it claimed was smaller than the ones in its previous two tests — was a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-15403309907715181242013-02-12T04:51:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.681-08:00NYPD: Australian tourist raped in ManhattanA foreign tourist was dragged into a Midtown alley and raped shortly after leaving the Midtown celeb hot spot Lavo early Sunday morning, law-enforcement sources said last night.The 20-year-old Australian victim was intoxicated when she left the club — a supermodel magnet where stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Gerard Butler party — on East 58th Street between Park and Madison avenues in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-56739647135645859462013-02-12T04:13:00.004-08:002013-02-13T01:22:10.267-08:00Architecture Museum at the Edge of the EdgeviaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-46109252700389508702013-02-12T04:13:00.003-08:002013-02-13T01:22:10.259-08:00Casa Coma 02viaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-66157076664008154862013-02-12T04:13:00.002-08:002013-02-13T01:22:10.248-08:00Casa del GuardiánviaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-45657613940083969702013-02-12T04:13:00.001-08:002013-02-13T01:22:10.240-08:00G1 HouseviaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-71758976608744722002013-02-12T04:13:00.000-08:002013-02-13T01:22:10.230-08:00FLIP HOUSEviaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-69992732266586840062013-02-12T04:03:00.000-08:002013-02-13T03:23:07.713-08:00Intersections and ConnectionsAm currently watching Last Call, starring Jeremy Irons and Sissy Spacek, about the last days of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Last Tycoon was Fitzgerald’s last novel, incomplete but still made into a film. The Great Gatsby is probably his most famous story that years later resulted in a film starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow as Jay Gatsby and Daisy, told from the point of view of Nick Carraway Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-48290057132629057732013-02-12T02:00:00.000-08:002013-02-13T02:46:13.951-08:00The Second Chemistry TutorIt had been about a month and a half with my son doing chemistry without the help of a tutor. It was not going well.I started the research to find a new tutor. The first lead fizzled out, the high schooler my son wanted to tutor with was too lax about setting appointments and then the sessions did not happen. My son was struggling.A mom I know whose children use public school referred me to a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705311824055304328.post-52370110768013348872013-02-11T18:51:00.001-08:002013-02-13T03:15:47.850-08:00Egypt - Court Sentences Israeli To 2 Years JailEgypt - An Egyptian court sentenced Israeli citizen Andrei Pshenichnikov to two years in prison on Monday after he infiltrated into the Sinai peninsula some two months ago, Israeli media reported.Psheenichnikov, 24, from Bat Yam, was originally ordered to be deported to Israel, but an Egyptian judge overturned the ruling.The Foreign Ministry confirmed in late December that Pshenichnikov was Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497490839195575440noreply@blogger.com