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US Journalist beheaded by ISIS

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US Journalist beheaded by ISIS

Executioner ‘with a British accent’ beheads US journalist in the name of ISIS: Mother of slaughtered American calls on Islamist group to cease killing and pays tribute to her ‘extraordinary son’

Photojournalist James Wright Foley has been beheaded by ISIS forces
He went missing in Syria in 2012 while working for GlobalPost news agency
ISIS posted extremely graphic video ‘A Message to America’ to social media
Foley speaks to camera before his death and labels the U.S. his killers
Apparently coerced by his captors into speaking against his country
Masked and robed executioner speaks English in apparent London accent
Video also shows man identified as missing journalist Steven Joel Sotloff
Militant warns he will be killed next if U.S airstrikes in Iraq do not cease
British Foreign Secretary today said ‘appalling’ video appeared to be genuine

By JOHN HALL FOR MAILONLINE and JAMES NYE and ASHLEY COLLMAN

PUBLISHED: 16:15 EST, 19 August 2014 | UPDATED: 05:19 EST, 20 August 2014

A shocking video has emerged showing an ISIS militant who speaks with a British accent brutally executing an American photojournalist who was kidnapped in Syria two years ago.

Graphic footage of the execution appeared in an video titled: ‘A Message to the U.S.’, in which an apparently coerced James Wright Foley, 40, describes America as his true killers for using airstrikes to assist Kurdish forces in recapturing the Mosul Dam from ISIS militants.

Foley – who went missing in 2012 while working for the Global Post news agency in Syria – is then beheaded with a small knife over a period of seven minutes by a masked man dressed all in black.

The executioner, who speaks directly to the camera in what appears to be a London accent, then warns that a second captured American journalist will be killed if the U.S. doesn’t halt the airstrikes.

Speaking after the video emerged, Foley’s mother Diane issued a statement saying that she and her husband John have ‘never been prouder’ of their son, who they say gave his life to expose the suffering of the Syrian people.

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2729287/ISIS-beheads-journalist-James-Wright-Foley-warning-US.html#ixzz3AvWlhDvV

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Dershowitz: Perry Indictment ‘What Happens in Totalitarian Societies’

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Dershowitz: Perry Indictment ‘What Happens in Totalitarian Societies’

The indictment of Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry over abuse of power and coercion is reminiscent of the way that political dissent was handled in the Soviet Union, legal scholar and Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax TV’s “America’s Forum.”

Dershowitz, who make clear he would never vote for Rick Perry, said Monday the governor’s indictment was driven by politics and is representative of “what happens in totalitarian societies.”

He said disagreement with Perry’s actions is “not the basis of what a criminal charge should be,” adding that Americans have the ability to “vote against him” if they don’t like his actions.

Dershowitz, who calls himself a “liberal Democrat,” said he doesn’t “approve of [Perry’s] views on most matters, certainly on social matters.” However, he said Perry’s actions were “not the basis of what a criminal charge should be,” and explained the indictment was “political in nature, and that’s why I’m so opposed to it.”

https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Alan-Dershowitz-Rick-Perry-indictment-Lehmberg/2014/08/18/id/589413/#ixzz3AnTNOJv8

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Bergen County 2014 Budget

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Bergen County 2014 Budget – Online

We thought it could be instructive to review the Bergen County Budget which is $507 million + for fiscal 2014.

What are the county’s largest capital expenses? Keep in mind  these costs are for projects with a projected completion of 2014-2019. If the projects miss the deadline, costs will increase.

Roads and bridges $88,125,000

Improvements to county buildings $13,937,450

Improvements to vocational schools $11,655,000

Improvements to county parks $11,598,500

Acquisition of equipment $30,183,250

Improvements to county college $8,625,000

Justice Center improvements $41,031,000

Hospital improvements $17,100,000

Total funding capital expenses $222,255,200

Where else does our tax money go? Additional expenses include:

Bergen County Debt Service (interest payments for previous expenses) is $67,566,670

Operations $401,601,228.66

Capital improvement $1,476,068

Deferred charges and statutory expenses (i.e. pension plan payments) $37,034,173

Total Appropriations 2014 – $507,678,139.66

Here’s the link to the document –

https://www.co.bergen.nj.us/DocumentCenter/View/2625

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BREAKING REPORT: Officer Darren Wilson Suffered “Orbital Blowout Fracture to Eye Socket” During Mike Brown Attack

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BREAKING REPORT: Officer Darren Wilson Suffered “Orbital Blowout Fracture to Eye Socket” During Mike Brown Attack

Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 10:00 AM

The Gateway Pundit can now confirm from two local St. Louis sources that police Officer Darren Wilson suffered facial fractures during his confrontation with deceased 18 year-old Michael Brown. Officer Wilson clearly feared for his life during the incident that led to the shooting death of Brown. This was after Michael Brown and his accomplice Dorian Johnson robbed a local Ferguson convenience store.

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/breaking-report-po-darren-wilson-suffered-orbital-blowout-fracture-to-eye-socket-during-encounter-with-mike-brown/

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NJTPC Will Host Guest Speaker Rabbi Israel Teitelbaum

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NJTPC Will Host Guest Speaker Rabbi Israel Teitelbaum 

Tuesday, August 19 @ 7PM
At the American Legion Teaneck PostIsrael Teitelbaum, Cofounder of Alliance for Free Choice in Education, will address:UNIVERSAL SCHOOL CHOICECome and hear what he has to impart to us all about freedom of choice in Education.

For further background on universal school choice, you may wish to view this short broadcast of Liberty Action Network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jJnphl_uT4&feature=youtu.be

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Jersey native Morgan Hoffmann squeaks into The Barclays in his home state

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Jersey native Morgan Hoffmann squeaks into The Barclays in his home state

By Brett Cyrgalis

August 18, 2014 | 9:32pm

Morgan Hoffmann couldn’t even bear to watch.

The Wyckoff, NJ, native knew what was on the line last week at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., coming into the final event before the FedEx Cup holding the No. 118 spot in the points standings.

With only the Top 125 moving on to The Barclays, starting on Thursday at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J., Hoffmann needed a solid finish to ensure his appearance at the course he grew up just one town over from. And yet after celebrating his 25th birthday last Monday, he went out and missed the cut.

So he spent the weekend in North Carolina, pounding balls on the range, hitting putts into dusk — and never, ever, tuning in to see how the tournament was going.

“It was incredibly frustrating,” Hoffmann said on Monday, walking between the clubhouse and the range at Ridgewood with an air of confidence, knowing he snuck into his hometown event, and knowing he’ll have a gaggle of hometown support.

“I grew up a town over and I really wanted to make it,” Hoffmann said. “I’m just excited I’m here now and I get a chance.”

https://nypost.com/2014/08/18/jersey-native-squeaks-into-the-barclays-in-his-home-state/

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Volunteers are Needed to Paint the Senior Lounge – August 23 and 24

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Volunteers are Needed to Paint the Senior Lounge – August 23 and 24

Members from the Community Center Committee will be painting the walls of the Pat Mancuso Senior Center in the Village Hall Community Center on Saturday, August 23 and 24. Additional volunteers are welcome to help. Come in your painting clothes and watch the transformation with a new fresh coat of paint! For questions, please call Gwenn Hauck at 201/491-3333

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School Crossing Guard Positions Available – Contact Ridgewood Police Dept.

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School Crossing Guard Positions Available – Contact Ridgewood Police Dept.

The Ridgewood Police Department is accepting applications for School Crossing Guard Positions. Applications are Available at the Police Desk located at 131 North Maple Avenue Ridgewood NJ. P/T position, 10 hours per week (2 hours per day) starting at $17.49/hr. Send application to Police Chief John Ward, Ridgewood Police Dept, 131 N. Maple Ave., Ridgewood, NJ 07450 or return the application to the Police Records Room. The Village of Ridgewood is an EOE and civil service community. 201/652-3900

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From Scratch Ridgewood : A unique meal delivery service in Ridgewood

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From Scratch Ridgewood : A unique meal delivery service in Ridgewood

From the kitchen of From Scratch Ridgewood, a 5-month-old meal delivery service run by Claudia Rovegno
https://www.fromscratchridgewood.com/

meet claudia

my passion for cooking started when i was still a young girl, watching my lovely grandma in the kitchen. i tried to learn all of her secrets and follow her advice… i still have her notebook with all her recipes.

i continued to develop my passion in cooking with our family restaurant in italy until i got married and i started a family, then i became our home cook.

in august 2013 i moved to the usa, and wanted to share my passion with others. i continue to have a desire to share all the flavours and smells that characterize the mediterranean kitchen to those who love good and healthy food!!

with each new year i’ve learned that the best things in life come from the heart and good food starts right there!!!

what we offer

we offer a seasonal menu sourcing only the best local, organic ingredients. our chicken comes from goffle road farms, we use mediterranean sea salt and organic extra virgin olive oil in all our dishes, and limit our use of pepper so that your children will also enjoy the meals.

unfortunately, we cannot offer gluten free or nut free dishes, as the kitchen we cook in is not a nut free environment.

you can order your meal for same day delivery up until 8:00am monday thru friday, since we need to ensure enough time to go to the local farms and markets to get the ingredients to cook your meal.

currently we are delivering to the following bergen county, nj towns:

ridgewood
glen rock
midland park
ho ho kus
wyckoff
franklin lakes
mahwah
maywood
wayne
ramsey
hawthorne
fair lawn
hillsdale
westwood
paramus

if you do not see your town on the list, please contact us at (201) 986-6316 or email us so we can work to accommodate your request.

servesafe

our dinners are prepared in a state inspected kitchen and our chef is certified in servsafe food protection and is a certified food safety manager – to ensure you and your families safety.

we believe that you will love our food once you try it, so much so, that you’ll want more. that’s why we are also offering additional services to the local community.

private dinner parties

we will work with you to plan a fresh, delicious meal for a dinner party hosted at your home for up to 8 people. contact us to find out how you can schedule this.

special events

is it someone’s birthday? anniversary? another reason to celebrate? we can create a fresh, healthy and delicious meal for you. contact us to find out how you can reserve your date.

corporate lunches

did you know that we can cater your next corporate lunch meeting? we’ve worked with local businesses to create fresh, healthy menus for their lunch meeting. they love the flavor, presentation, and menu choices we offer. we will work with you to ensure that every menu detail is taken care of and meets your budget. contact us today to learn more about how we can cater your next corporate lunch event.

kid’s birthday parties

does your child love to cook? are you looking to do something different for their next birthday party? think about a kid’s culinary creation party. we’ll plan the menu with you based on your child’s love of food, and bring everything with us – making it easy for you.contact us today to discuss the number of people and the menu options available.

culinary party

would you like to have a ladies night (like the one below) and learn how to make a delicious meal? we will teach you how to make a meal of your choice at your home. contact us today to learn how you can get started.

specials

don’t forget to look for special menus or unique plates that we may have for a limited time only. they will always be posted to our blog, so be sure to check back often, we wouldn’t want you to miss out on these special offers!

https://www.fromscratchridgewood.com/

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How a Bergen course landed big-time golf

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How a Bergen course landed big-time golf

AUGUST 18, 2014, 10:12 PM    LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014, 12:12 AM
BY ANDY VASQUEZ
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

On an October day back in 1935, a few caddies at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus presented a seemingly ridiculous challenge to the young assistant pro.

They knew Byron Nelson was good. But they didn’t think he could hit the narrow flagpole from the patio behind the clubhouse. Today there’s a plaque on the stone patio that marks the spot from which Nelson, one of the legends of the game, hit that flagpole on his second try.

It’s just part of Ridgewood’s rich history, one that the venerable club will build on this week when it hosts The Barclays for the third time.

The top-ranked golfers in the world — including Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott, Phil Mickelson and Rickie Fowler — will be at Ridgewood this week to compete in the first event of the PGA Tour’s playoffs. The purse is $8 million, with $1.44 million going to the winner.

Ridgewood has hosted the Ryder Cup (1935), the U.S. Amateur (1974), the U.S. Senior Open (1990) and the Senior PGA Championship (2001). But when the FedEx Cup playoffs and The Barclays first arrived at Ridgewood in 2008, it was the storied club’s first foray into big-time, modern tournament golf. And for a long time, it looked as if Ridgewood might not get that opportunity.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/how-a-bergen-course-landed-big-time-golf-1.1069365#sthash.2th0RIVy.dpuf

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Ridgewood’s manager settling into new role

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Ridgewood’s manager settling into new role

AUGUST 18, 2014    LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2014, 1:25 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER

In her first four months as Ridgewood’s new village manager, resident Roberta Sonenfeld has struck a different tone in local government, with the help of her private sector background and eager-to-learn, hands-on approach to the job.

Sonenfeld has already had one-on-one meetings with more than 60 village employees from several departments, including health, fire, police and finance, with plans to meet with all roughly 270 individuals who work in village government.

“I think the morale is improving. I think that she took the time to meet with everyone and find out what’s needed, what’s happening,” said Supervisor of Health Dawn Cetrulo, who has already had her one-on-one with Sonenfeld. “I think she’s listening. She’s talking to each of us and making a lot of changes, a lot of positive change.”

“We (recently) had a staff meeting,” added Cetrulo, “and you could just tell that the feeling in the room was positive. It was a nice experience.”

The public has experienced a difference, too: Sonenfeld brought brownies to this Wednesday’s council meeting.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood-s-manager-settling-into-new-role-1.1069246#sthash.yTMmsaxP.dpuf

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Readers says The fact is, people that take issue with our elected officials tend to be activists and serial volunteers.

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Readers says The fact is, people that take issue with our elected officials tend to be activists and serial volunteers.

I find it interesting that Council apologists assume that anyone that disagrees with them is lazy and ignorant. After all, we didn’t run for Council ourselves and we don’t serve on the Planning Board so therefore all we must do is put signs on our lawn and complain.

The fact is, people that take issue with our elected officials tend to be activists and serial volunteers. We tend to take enough time to formulate an educated opinion on the issues that face our town. We also tend to act on those opinions by attending meetings, participating in the process and yes, posting here. We tend to take enough time to formulate an educated opinion on the issues that face our town. We also tend to act on those opinions by attending meetings, participating in the process and yes, posting here.

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Reader says businesses that are able to pay the rent and succeed will determine what you see in the storefronts.

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Reader says businesses that are able to pay the rent and succeed will determine what you see in the storefronts.

The CBD tenants (of current buildings) change due to markets and the residents can piss and moan all they want, but the reality is, the businesses that are able to pay the rent and succeed will determine what you see in the storefronts.
In my 45 years living in town, I have seen a few changes in ‘retail’.


No more Drapkins, no more Winchells, no more Al & Harrys, no more Sealfons, no more MacHughes, all of which were great stores and fell victim to the malls.


We used to have a liquor store on many corners.


Every corner on franklin had multiple gas stations (Phillips 66, Amoco, Texaco, arco, Texaco, mobil(2), exxon, Sinclair, etc, all of which are gone. (a few gone from godwin as well)


Who was foolish enough to pay the going rate for rent? Banks, nail salons, restaurants, or wives of rich residents who wanted to ‘play store’.


Its an ever evolving mix, and the market will determine things, not those who choose to opine on ‘what kind of stores are good for the CBD”.


Nadler Chevrolet, brogan Cadillac, ken smith Lincoln, and the buick dealer, all gone. (this IS one are that resident input should be welcomed if the property owners request zoning changes)
If I owned a retail store, I’d take advantage of the foot traffic generated by the restaurant trade at nite. Unfortunately, most of these dummies are closed!

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Ferguson protesters: The peaceful, the elders, the looters, and the ‘militants’

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Ferguson protesters: The peaceful, the elders, the looters, and the ‘militants’
By Emily Wax-Thibodeaux and DeNeen L. Brown August 18 at 11:17 PM

FERGUSON, Mo. — On one corner of a battered stretch of West Florissant Avenue, the epicenter of ongoing protests, young men pull dark scarves up over their mouths and lob molotov cocktails at police from behind makeshift barricades built of bricks and wood planks. They call the gasoline-filled bottles “poor man’s bombs.”

The young men yell expletives and, with a rebel’s bravado, speak about securing justice for Michael Brown, the black teen fatally shot Aug. 9 by a white police officer, “by any means necessary.”They are known here as “the militants” — a faction inhabiting the hard-core end of a spectrum that includes online organizers and opportunistic looters — and their numbers have been growing with the severity of their tactics since the shooting.

Each evening, hundreds gather along West Florissant in what has become the most visible and perilous ritual of this St. Louis suburb’s days of frustration following Brown’s death. Dozens have been arrested, many injured by tear-gas canisters and rubber bullets fired by a police force dressed in riot gear and armed with assault rifles.

But the demonstrators are as diverse as their grievances — and in their methods of addressing them.

Some of the men are from the area — Ferguson or surrounding towns also defined in part by the gulf separating the mostly white law enforcement agencies from a mistrusting African American public. Many others — it is hard to quantify the percentage — have arrived by bus and by car from Chicago, Detroit, Brooklyn and elsewhere.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ferguson-protesters-the-peaceful-the-elders-the-looters-and-the-militants/2014/08/18/d6be1262-26f3-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html

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Obama’s Attention to Border Crisis Outrages African-Americans

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Obama’s Attention to Border Crisis Outrages African-Americans
Sunday, 17 Aug 2014 03:10 PM
By Todd Beamon

President Barack Obama’s attention to the illegal immigration crisis, which could lead him to issue executive orders early next week to delay deportations and grant work permits to as many as 6 million migrants, has soured many of his core voters: African-Americans.

Many blacks, who twice voted for Obama in record numbers to elect him — and keep him — as the nation’s first African-American president, are angry that he has neglected the problems facing inner cities while working on the border crisis. 

These big-city ills include chronic black unemployment, poor housing conditions, steep prices for food and services, low high-school graduation rates, and high crime rates.

“Black people are being played,” Herman Cain, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, told Newsmax. “They have been taken for granted by Democrats for decades. Now they’ve reached a boiling point with this whole crisis on the border, and some of them are speaking out.”

By all accounts and as reported by Brietbart.com, the number of Border Patrol arrests of illegal immigrants since Oct. 1 stands at 174,000 and is still rising.

Cain and other African-American conservatives charge that Obama “manufactured this crisis” through a 2012 executive order that created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

The DACA ended the threat of deportation for as many as 670,000 illegals between the ages of 15 and 31 who were brought to the U.S. before their 16th birthday. In June, the administration extended the program for two more years.

“We’ve got a real crisis in every major inner city in this country,” Cain said. “They’ve done exactly nothing to understand the problem, let alone do anything about it.”

Anita MonCrief, board member of the Black Conservatives Fund, told Newsmax that African-Americans have long been “sour on Obama.”

Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com https://www.newsmax.com/Draft-Stories/Obama-blacks-illegals-jobs/2014/08/17/id/589249/#ixzz3ApR6tGam