בס׳ד

"Where does it say that you have a contract with G-d to have an easy life?"

the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



13 Mar 2010

Undone by foliageous

Two light articles in the Daily News.
The first is about a golden retriever who swallowed a $20K diamond.
Read more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/pets/2010/03/13/2010-03-13_golden_retriever_swallows_20000_diamond.htmlAge

The second article is about a spelling bee where yarmulca sporting Jacob Mazor placed second.

Age was no obstacle to fifth-grader Arvind Mahankali - and neither were the words "foliageous" or "calumny."
The 10-year-old from Forest Hills Montessori School in Queens was one of the youngest students competing in day two of the 46th Annual Daily News Spelling Bee contest yesterday.
Yet he still came out on top of the pack and earned himself a place in the national finals in Washington.
...Arvind beat second-place finisher Jacob Mazor, from East Midwood Hebrew Day School in Brooklyn, who was undone by the spelling of "foliageous."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2010/03/13/2010-03-13_victory_was_meant_to_bee_for_qns_boy.html#ixzz0i5nCEYmD



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