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The winning Mega Millions lottery numbers drawn tonight for the jackpot worth an estimated $333 million were: 1, 17, 31, 37 and 54 with the Mega Ball,

The winning Mega Millions lottery numbers drawn tonight for the jackpot worth an estimated $333 million were: 1, 17, 31, 37 and 54 with the Mega Ball, 31.

The cash payout for tonight's drawing is estimated at $210.4 million. Tonight's drawing was the second-largest jackpot drawing in Mega Millions history.

The cash payout for tonight's drawing is estimated at $210.4 million. Tonight's drawing was the second-largest jackpot drawing in Mega Millions history.

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Coast Guard searching for girl lost in surf at Acadia

Coast Guard searching for girl lost in surf at Acadia


ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — Rescue crews are searching for a 10-year-old girl who reportedly was swept into the sea by a large wave about 11:30 Sunday morning.

Onlookers said 1,000 to 2,000 people had gathered near Thunder Hole on Sunday morning to watch surf raised by Hurricane Bill, when a series of large waves crashed on shore and several people were swept away, including the girl who has not been identified late Sunday afternoon.

Coast Guard rescuers arrived on the scene quickly, and divers pulled two people out of the water. The two were taken to MDI Hospital in Bar Harbor.

More people are feared missing.

A Coast Guard helicopter, jet aircraft and boat, along with Maine Marine Patrol, MDI Search and Rescue and private boats were searching for the girl Sunday afternoon. The Coast Guard was issuing alerts to boaters in the area to be on the lookout for anyone in the water.

Park officials closed the Park Loop Road to traffic

Belmar Hurricane surf

Belmar Surfing

Surfing in Belmar NJ after the storm

Belmar beach surfing photos 2009

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Surf conditions in Belmar NJ after Hurricane Bill passes photo

Surf conditions in Belmar NJ after Hurricane Bill passes photo

Sunday Hurricane Bill photos New Jersey

I took these photos of the surf from Hurricane Bill , in Belmar Nj Sunday morning

Belmar Beach NJ Hurricane photos

 

Hurricane Bill latest photos from Belmar NJ

 

Belmar beaches hurricane Bill

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The view from inside Matisse in Belmar as the waves get closer to the windows at Matisse in Belmar
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Sunny in Belmar as Hurricane Bill approaches off shore

urHricane Bill was roaring northward. Who felt like being stubborn now? Swimmers would be ordered out of the water. Long Island's beaches would have to be closed.

Waves were already pounding the shoreline, 8 to 10 feet. Rip currents. Undertows. Powerful force was clearly gathering Out There.

What would all this wind and salt water do the fragile sands of Robert Moses State Park? No one could say for certain, but less erosion didn't look like a possibility.

Up and down the South Shore, the calculation was the same. At Long Beach. On the town beaches of Islip and Oyster Bay. Across to Fire Island National Seashore. Clear out to the Hamptons and Montauk.

The potential fury was unmistakable, and no one was messing around.

And all this from a storm not expected to pass closer than 300 miles east of Montauk Point.

Belmar beach Hurricane Bill Photos

Belmar beach Hurricane Bill Photos Friday 12 noon

 

Hurricane Bill will create deadly rip currents in Belmar NJ this weekend

Please be careful if visiting the U.S. East Coast this weekend - Hurricane Bill will create deadly rip currents which are no joke! http://tinyurl.com/24q5hc More info on Rip Currents:http://www.ripcurrents.noaa.gov/

Atlantic City Air Show photos 2009

Atlantic City Air Show photos 2009, here are a few photos i took at the Atlantic City Air Show 2009 Thunder over the Boardwalk

 

Belmar Beach gets ready for Hurricane Bill

Belmar public work crew readies the Belmar beaches for te strong surf the hurricane will bring to our beaches, this morning workers were removing the handicap mats that are on the beach so they are not ruined by the igh tides, we will be posting many picture this weekend of the storm action.

Hurricane Bill will churn the surf in Belmar this weekend!!!

Current tracking predicts that Hurricane Bill will stay far off the East Coast, and ultimately turn northeast away from the US. But it will still be close enough to generate some tremendous surf conditions — that’s good news for area surfers, but dangerous for bathers. Riptides and undertows will be particularly severe even after the waves subside.
Swim only when and where lifeguards are close by.

We really need a summer crossing guard at 10th & Ocean ave

Belmar NJ , with the amount of people trying to cross Ocean ave there should be a crossing guard to slow down the bennys that are too vusy looking for parking spots to yield to walkers

Another summer drowning at the Jersey Shore in Belmar NJ

Another visitor from out of town has drowned at the Belmar beach, and when i see these horrible tragedy unfold before my eyes i always wonder why there are more so many lifeguards on duty at 9am each morning on every beach and there are at best a handful of swimmers at that early hour of the beach day , and then at the end of the day. the guards at all these beaches on the Jersey Shore go off duty or move to a skeletal sized lifeguard crew.There are on some nights more swimmers, in the ocean at 6,7,8pm than there were for the first 2 hours of the morning, something needs to change and i am not sure it would have saved the swimmer.The beaches are free for everyone after 5pm .

According to the report, Luis Rivas, 40, of Bayonne, was getting out of the water with help from bystanders. Belmar's volunteer Water Rescue Team found his brother Julio Rivas, 45, of Queens, N.Y, unconscious, the report said. He was pronounced dead at Jersey Shore University Medical Center at 9:33 p.m., the report said
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Belmar beach report its a 10 of a day today !!! updated 7:19am

Sunday morning belmar NJ beach photo

 

Jersey Peaches are in peak season right now

Jersey Peaches are in peak season right now, they are awesome, will take a Sunday morning ride out to Battleview Orchard Farms in Freehold Sunday to get them real fresh from the field ...

ED KOCH Calls on Board of Rabbis in NY & NJ to denounce Rabbi Issac Dwek

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Subject: ED KOCH Calls on Board of Rabbis in NY & NJ to denounce Rabbi Issac Dwek






The news story that incensed me the most in many years involved the alleged corruption of 44 people in New Jersey, about 15 of whom are identifiable as Jewish. A majority of those arrested were not Jewish. They are accused of various crimes, including money laundering, the selling of body parts, i.e., a kidney for $160,000 while paying the donor $10,000, and other crimes. Three mayors of New Jersey towns were arrested and two have since resigned, but still proclaim their innocence.

Those who will immediately point to our well known maxim of the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, should know that in no way relates to the court of public opinion. We are entitled to have our own opinions on innocence or guilt before the trial based on what we conclude from the media reports on the government charges. The maxim of presumption of innocence relates to the burden of the government to prove its allegations in court beyond a reasonable doubt. The burden of proof is not on the defendant to prove his innocence.

We all know that mistakes are made and that innocent people are on occasion found guilty and criminals occasionally go free. The best example of the public disagreeing with a criminal case outcome would be the O.J. Simpson verdict of not guilty in the case involving the murders of his wife and a young man. So let me say up front that I believe the government will succeed in proving its case against most, if not all, of the defendants.

The Jewish defendants are members of the Syrian-Jewish community living along the Jersey seashore. They were turned in by one of their own members, Solomon Dwek, who cooperated with the police after having been convicted in a different matter.

That is the background for the incident which followed. Dwek's father, Rabbi Issac Dwek, a prominent member of the Syrian-Jewish community, is reported in the media as having stood up in his synagogue and declared his son to be dead for having denounced a fellow Jew to the police. I was outraged by his actions which were reported in the New York Post as follows:

"Issac Dwek plans to sit shiva for his son because he is so disgusted with his turning on other Jews. The father citing 'the Talmudic Law of Moser that prohibits a Jew from informing on another Jew to a non-Jew' renounced his son from the pulpit at his synagogue in Deal, NJ, on Saturday."

I am familiar with the religious reasoning. Indeed, I believe the killer of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin made the same outrageous defense of his dastardly deed, claiming Rabin was betraying the Jewish nation to the Arabs.

In countries where the government engages in anti-Semitism, the best illustration would be Czarist Russia, I have no doubt that Jews reluctantly ever helped the Czarist government to punish a fellow Jew and send him to Siberia. I have no doubt that African-Americans in this country during the days of Jim Crow rarely would help the white society injuring them every day to help convict a fellow black. I doubt that many Chechens are cooperating with Russia or its Quisling government against fellow Chechens.

I understand such actions and sympathize with the victims of prejudice and hostility directed at them by the government. But that cannot be a defense in a country like ours where the rights of all of our citizens without regard to race, ethnicity or religion are guaranteed. I call upon the prestigious Board of Rabbis in New York and the Board of Rabbis in New Jersey to denounce Rabbi Issac Dwek for his statement. Those boards, made up of Orthodox, Conservative and Reform rabbis, have an obligation to make clear that it would be unacceptable for a Christian not to cooperate with the police in bringing a Christian who committed a criminal act to justice and that the same rule of law applies to Jews.

We are an ethnic society and, while we are not our brother's keepers, we do rejoice in their successes and are embarrassed by their crimes. That applies whether we are black, Irish, Jewish, Italian, etc. The law of the land is the law.

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Rabbi Fraud Case in Los Angeles Echoes N.J. Scandal Dwek

Rabbi Fraud Case in Los Angeles Echoes N.J. Scandal (Update2)

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By Linda Sandler, David Voreacos and Edvard Pettersson

Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Prosecutors in Los Angeles leveled charges in 2007 that sound like headlines in a fresh New Jersey corruption scandal: Rabbis in Brooklyn, New York, laundered money for an undercover informant, arranged phony charitable gifts and used secret Israeli bank accounts.

In Los Angeles, U.S. prosecutors charged Naftali Tzi Weisz, grand rabbi of a Brooklyn-based Orthodox Jewish group, seven other people and five charities with a scheme to evade taxes through use of phony donations. Weisz and four other defendants pleaded guilty today.

The case may prove a window onto New Jersey’s scandal. Defendants in California were charged with tax fraud, an accusation not yet made in New Jersey, and prosecutors in Los Angeles have targeted 100 more co-conspirators. Later indictments in California also provided enhanced details of illegal methods and of people and banks involved.

“The 2007 charges were the beginning of a much larger case we’re investigating,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel O’Brien, who is overseeing the Los Angeles case.

The organization charged has worked with related religious groups “to move money internationally,” he said.

Spinka Scheme

The Weisz scheme lasted at least from 1996 to 2007, according to his indictment. Staff of his religious organization, Spinka, gave donors back 80 to 95 percent of their donations, keeping the rest for charities in the U.S. and Israel, according to the indictment.

The cash repayment cycle began as Weisz or his aides wired money from Spinka bank accounts to Israeli entities, identified in Weisz’s plea agreement as Bircas Asher and Tzidkat Levy Yitzchak Ltd.

From there, the money went to couriers in the Los Angeles jewelry district and elsewhere. Then it went to contributors or to Israeli bank accounts controlled by the donors, according to the indictment.

Even after paying Spinka a 20 percent commission, a donor in a 30 percent tax bracket would come out ahead, keeping $80,000 of a $100,000 donation in cash and getting $30,000 because of the offset of the tax deduction.

The underground network maintained by Weisz and his associates also paid debts for clients, encouraging the smuggling of cash outside of legitimate banking channels, according to the indictment.

Sentence Agreement

Weisz, 61, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy. He faces as long as three years in prison under his plea agreement. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter said at the hearing today in Los Angeles that he will read the pre- sentencing report before deciding whether to accept the sentence range agreed to by Weisz and prosecutors. If Walter rejects that agreement, Weisz can withdraw his guilty plea.

The maximum sentence under the law would be five years in prison, prosecutors said.

Walter scheduled sentencing for Nov. 16. Brian Hennigan, Weisz’s lawyer, declined to comment after the hearing.

Four men, Yaacov Zeivald, Moshe Arie Lazar, Yosef Nachum Naiman and Alan Jay Freidman, also pleaded guilty today before Walter. They admitted to participating in an unlicensed money transmitting network that funneled the fraudulent Spinka donations back to the people who had made them.

All four Los Angeles-area men have an agreement with prosecutors that caps their possible prison sentences to no more than six months.

A Spinka school, Yeshiva Imrei Yosef, is expected to enter a guilty plea later this week. The four other Spinka organizations charged in the indictment also signed a “case disposition agreement.”

Rabbi’s Plea

A Weisz aide, Rabbi Moshe Zigelman of Brooklyn, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy and was sentenced to two years in prison. Joseph Roth, a banker in Tel Aviv with United Mizrahi Bank, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and was sentenced to time served. A third man, a donor, also pleaded guilty.

The rabbis charged in Los Angeles are Hasidic, part of a movement founded in the Ukraine by Ashkenazi Jews. The New Jersey case involved rabbis and co-conspirators who are Sephardic with ancestors from Syria.

“People always knew you could go to rabbis to get advice, financial or spiritual,” said Sam Antar, a Syrian Jew who served six months of house arrest for his role in Crazy Eddie Inc.’s securities fraud in the 1980s.

The electronics retailer used an Israeli hospital to generate phony charitable tax deductions, Antar said in an interview. Antar has taught classes on white-collar crime for government agencies, including the Justice Department and the Secret Service.

On July 23, U.S. prosecutors in Newark, New Jersey, charged five Syrian Jewish rabbis with using payments to charitable groups to launder money. The five Syrian rabbis charged in New Jersey were among 44 defendants in a case that involved people charged with political corruption, including three mayors and two state assemblymen.

Laundering Network

The Syrian rabbis’ financial network laundered “at least tens of millions of dollars” through charitable entities in New York and New Jersey, prosecutors said in a statement last month. Some of the money moved through Israel, prosecutors said. One defendant recorded by investigators said he’d been laundering money for 30 years, according to his criminal complaint.

Prosecutors in New Jersey used a cooperating witness, Solomon Dwek, to infiltrate the money-laundering network, according to three people familiar with the matter. Dwek is a rabbi’s son and New Jersey real estate developer charged in 2006 with scheming to defraud PNC Bank out of $50 million.

In Los Angeles, prosecutors used a California businessman charged in a separate criminal case, Robert Kasirer, to help gather evidence secretly, according to court documents. Kasirer laundered $1.65 million through Spinka for a 7.5 percent fee, or $123,750, using an Israeli bank, court records show.

Matthew Umhofer, Kasirer’s lawyer, didn’t return a call and e-mail requesting comment. Michael Himmel, a lawyer for Dwek, didn’t return calls or e-mails requesting comment.

Soul Searching

The cases in both Los Angeles and New Jersey brought soul- searching in the Jewish community. In a court filing before his March 30 sentencing, Zigelman, a son of Holocaust survivors, said he pleaded guilty even as the Spinka leadership fought the charges.

“Mr. Zigelman continued his courageous attempt to atone for his actions by repeatedly telling his story to others in the Hasidic and Jewish community,” according to his sentencing memo. “While others might have tried to hide their shame, Mr. Zigelman saw it as an opportunity to educate, and help, others in the community.”

The case is U.S. v. Weisz, 06-cr-775, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Los Angeles)

To contact the reporters on this story: Linda Sandler in New York at lsandler@bloomberg.net; David Voreacos in U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, at dvoreacos@bloomberg.net; Edvard Pettersson in Los Angeles at epettersson@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: August 3, 2009 19:37 EDT

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Using $2 bills and "buy local" promotions, these 6 towns have launched their own campaigns to keep local businesses alive

$2 stimulus ...We should try this in Belmar NJ
Danny Cottrell stands among his employees, holding Jeffersons.Brewton, Ala.
Danny Cottrell, owner of The Medical Center Pharmacy, made his two dozen employees very nervous when he called them in for a meeting in early March. But after a few words regarding the dismal state of the economy, he did something unexpected: He handed each an envelope containing hundreds of dollars in $2 bills.

Cottrell distributed $16,000 in bonus money -- $700 each to full-time and $300 to part-time employees. He asked his workers to give 15% to a charitable cause and spend the rest locally.

"I didn't think it would make a major impact, but it took on life of its own," he recalls. "Brewton needed something right then -- some good news. We had been hit during the worst week of the market, and it was just the right story at the right time. My employees went to stores they'd never been in before."

Cottrell asked his staffers keep track of the shops they patronized. The list today stands at around 70 stores. The exercise demonstrated how the money moved within the community -- some of the $2 bills wound up right back in Cottrell's cash register.

"It was great to see people come in with $2 bills, though it got tedious when we had to count them out for $200 purchases," laughs Candy Smith, manager at Weaver's and Shades of Gray, a clothing and jewelry store. "Now, every time you see a $2 bill, it reminds you about shopping locally."

Following Cottrell's initiative, Brewton held its own "$20 on the 20th" campaign, similar to the one launched in Aiken, S.C. Smith says that residents love combining the promotions by spending 10 $2 bills. The combination of the efforts has brought more people into the store and boosted sales, she says.

Cottrell's mini-stimulus package has spread further. Inspired by the idea, Dave Theobald, owner of Turman Commercial Painters in Livermore, Calif., gave his employees $30,000 in $2 bills and started the Web site peoplesstimulus.org to track other companies adopting the campaign.

By Emily Maltby

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Race name : Belmar Sprint Triathlon photos

Race name : Belmar Sprint Triathlon
Date : 8/2/2009
Address : Belmar, New Jersey

Country : United States
Race type : Triathlon (Sprint)
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