I'M STILL LAUGHING WITH WHAT IS NOW HAPPENING WITH VERIZON THE SAGA CONTINUES

In my last email I wrote that if you have the Freedom Essentials Plan with Verizon their price dropped from $45.99 to $29.99. So naturally I called and many others called and were given prices from $24.99 to $29.99. I said to myself, "Self, I just called at received a price of $29.99. How come others are getting $24.99?. So I called back and got a customer service rep. He informed me that it depends upon the bundle price being offered at the time. I guess Verizon works like the Stock Market. They change prices every minute. So the customer rep. asks me to hold on. Five minutes later he says, "I have even a better deal for you and quotes me a price that is lower then the $24.99.

I guess these "bundle deals" come out every minute so don't stop calling until they give you a price that they owe you money. I wrote to the editors of the Newark Star Ledger and the Asbury Park Press to "investigate" this entire crazy and nutty situation. I told them that they should have their readers call Verizon if the readers have any kind of plan and ask for the daily quote. You cannot believe the quote I got if I bundled Direct TV with their telephone services.

Oh, by the way, if you call their number for DSL one resident mentioned that they might be giving you back a refund for anyone who paid for the modem or had a delivery charge added when they ordered your modems. If anyone does call, let me know what the "deal" is so I can inform the community.

PROBLEMS ON BLOG WHEN YOU CLICK LINKS FOR FLYERS

I was told by many residents that they are having problems opening the flyers on my blog. I checked it out and YES there is a problem. I have been using a FREE file hosting site that allows PDF and other file extensions to be uploaded. This site was called Comteche. It worked for a few years and now they have completely changed their site and I don't even see a link to their free file hosting.

So, all of my files will now be uploaded to another free file hosting site. Most of these sites today require uploading and then downloading by the recipient of the files. Naturally, for many residents this might be problematic because there are certain steps that need to be taken when downloading files. Once downloaded you are then seeing the file on a page with all sorts of advertisements. I finally searched the internet and found a site where I just have to give you the url (like before) and it takes you directly to the file or flyer.

So here is the first flyer to go out this way. It comes from Gail and it is a flyer about an art auction. Just click (2 rapid clicks of the left button of your mouse) on the link below. Let me know if you have a problem. Sorry about the change and eventually I will convert all the flyers on my blog to this site.
http://www.freefilehosting.org/public/44110/ArtConsultFlyerRegMonroe.pdf

WOMEN'S GROUP
OPEN BOARD MEETING - MONDAY, AUGUST 6 - 4PM IN THE CLUBHOUSE

MONTHLY GENERAL MEETING - MONDAY, AUGUST 13 7:30PM IN THE CLUBHOUSE

PAMPERED CHEF PRESENTATION

FOR MORE INFORMATION - CALL SYLVIA FLEISCHER
605-7048


A MESSAGE FROM NORM SPECTOR - MEMBER OF IRRIGATION COMMITTEE

THE IRRIGATION COMMITTEE BELIEVES THAT IF THERE IS NO OPEN WORK ORDER TO THE CONTRARY, THEN EVERYONE IS BEING WATERED AT LEAST 3 TIMES A WEEK. TO INSURE THAT THEY GET A TRUE PICTURE, PLEASE FILE A WORK ORDER EACH AND EVERY DAY THAT YOU HAVE NOT BEEN WATERED. THE PROCESS SHOULD BE THROUGH THE WENTWORTH CONNECT WEB SITE. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ACCESS, THEN SPEAK TO STEPHANIE'S OFFICE TO LEARN HOW TO ACCESS THE SITE. THIS WILL ALLOW YOU TO FILE A WORK ORDER DAILY. DO NOT ASSUME THAT THE WORK ORDER FILED YESTERDAY IS VALID TODAY.

NORMAN SPECTOR

FISHY NEWS

On Sunday July 15, The Regency Fishing Club held another fishing trip for the 2007 season, running a charter trip aboard the Eagle, sailing out of Atlantic Highlands, NJ. We were disappointed to see that we had a replacement Captain, Captain Art Hilliard was not able to make this trip. We left the dock at 6:30 am with 28 aboard for a day of fishing for fluke. The weather was slightly overcast with moderate wind. We headed around Sandy Hook and started our drift about 6 miles south of the hook off the beach. The action was very limited and the Captain moved three times further south but to no avail. We then moved north closer to the hook but though many boats were here we only had a few fluke on board. At this point it was apparent that this Captain didn’t have a clue as to where to fish. About 1:00 the Captain finally listened to Mark Klein and went to the Chapel Hill Channel inside the Raritan Bay between the Ammo pier and Staten Island. At this point we started to catch some fish. The Captain was told to go here before we left the dock by Mark, but the Captain thought that the ocean side would do better, he was wrong. Though we had an enjoyable day it turned out to be very disappointing.

Mark registered a complaint with Captain Art, and Art apologized and promised that on all future trips he would be the Captain. The pool was split between Mark Klein and Greg Ziskin with 2lb. Fluke.
On Tuesday July 31, the fishing club held another successful charter trip aboard the Eagle sailing out of Atlantic Highlands, NJ with Captain Art Hilliard as our Captain. We left the dock at 6:30am with 15 men aboard for a day of bluefishing. The weather was spectacular, temperature in the high 80’s, no wind, and calm seas. We traveled to the Shrewsbury Rocks, which are about 10 miles south of Sandy Hook. After about an hour and a half ride we dropped anchor and started to chum ground bunker to attract the blues. Within minutes we had our first fish aboard, a 12-pound bluefish. For most of the day the bluefish cooperated and all aboard had caught many fish. By 11:00 am we had 16 keepers, all we wanted, and all additional fish were landed and released. Some aboard had started to fish for Sea bass on the bow of the boat while many of us continued to fish for bluefish in the stern. Ken Sussman caught his first bluefish, a 10 pounder. When Ken hooked this fish he thought he had the cork at the bottom of the ocean and if he pulled it out we all would have to walk home. Congratulations to Ken, well done.

The funniest thing to happen was to watch Jeff Kivet fighting the pool fish, a 14 lb. Bluefish with his spinning rod, as he is fighting this fish and moving around the stern as the fish ran, his shorts started to fall down. As he moved around fighting this fish, we took turns holding up his shorts. The fish was landed and through great teamwork, Jeff’s shorts remained up. (EMAILER'S NOTE: IF I WAS THE FISH AND IF I SAW WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO JEFF, I WOULD BE RUNNING AWAY AS FAST AS I CAN)

The total count for the day was that we had landed over 50 bluefish and about 30 seabass.
At 1:15 we headed back to the dock with a bunch of very, very tired and very happy fisherman. As president of the Fishing Club I know I speak for all the members. Nothing gives us more pleasure then to see someone catch his or her first fish.

Please join us on our upcoming trips no experience is needed.

Thursday August 16 Fluke or Sea Bass Charter aboard the Eagle 25 man limit $65.00
Tuesday Aug 28 Fluke or Weakfish Charter Aboard the Eagle 25 man limit $65.00
Monday September 10 Bottom Fish Open Boat Party boat about $50.00*
Tuesday September 25 Bass or bottom fish Charter on the Eagle 25 man limit $65.00
Monday October 8 Sea Bass & Blackfish Charter on the Eagle. 25 man limit $65.00
Additional trips for the end of October and November to be announced.

Prices include; rods, reels, tackle, bait, pool and all tips, just bring lunch & drinks. On hot days during the summer we ask that you bring some ice to keep your fish fresh.
Reservations must be made along with a check to hold a spot, no refunds unless the Captain calls the trip off. Book early before the trips are sold out! These two trips were sold out, so you must book early!

*Open party boats, you pay on the boat. Dates may change based on weather and fishery.
The Fishing Club holds their meeting at 7:00pm on the second Tuesday of each month in the clubhouse library, come join us all are welcome.
For more information please call Phil Levy 732-605-9269 or Mark Klein 732-521-8333

CHECK OUT THIS WEBSITE FOR A FREE DOO WOP SHOW ON SEPTEMBER 2ND

http://www.playsinthepark.com/doowop.html

(Thank you Larry Smith for the information)

BURGLARY AT ENCORE

As many of you might know, the Emailer at Encore and I share emails. When things of mutual importance develop we let our respective communities know. Recently the following message was sent out by the Encore emailer. I think we should all review our ways of safeguarding our homes:

"Some time yesterday between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., burglars smashed the sliding glass door rear entrance at (I'M NOT INCLUDING THE ADDRESS BUT IT IS WITHIN ENCORE) and burglarized the home. The owners were not home during this 13 hour period, and, also significantly, the owners did not have their alarm system activated. In speaking to the police late last night, they disclosed that some jewelry was taken.

It is critical that we all utilize our alarm systems whenever we are out and also overnight while we are home. Usage of outside lighting and some inside lights while away from home is also an important deterrent."

A MESSAGE ABOUT A COMPUTER VIRUS

There is a rather new very destructive virus being transmitted via an e-mail attachment having the subject reading "A Virtual Card For You", and can say it's from Blue Mountain, Hallmark, River Song, or some other popular real e-card site. Also, it could show that it is sent from someone you know, being a "spoof" (whose computer had become infected by this virus . . . which was just very recently discovered by McAfee . . . and the infected machine automatically e-mails everyone on the owners contact list). This virus infects sector-zero on your hard drive, and when you boot your computer, the drive will be wiped clean, and all your stored data, photos, music, etc, will be wiped clean, and the computer might freeze with the so-called "Blue Screen Of Death"

So, to warn you, if you get an e-mail with the subject, "A Virtual Card For You", with an attachment link to click . . .
DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK . . . AND IMMEDIATELY DELETE THAT E-MAIL.

LET'S HERE FROM OTHERS WHO HAVE A G.E. PROFILE MICROWAVE

Dear Ron
I am writing hoping you can help.I would very much like to know if any of our residents in Regency that have a G.E.Profile microwave,are having any trouble.Specifically with the one touch sensor.I am here 10 months,and from day one,the sensor does not do the job without redoing the potato,or veggies on cook time instead of the touch sensor system.I have had G.E. here several times,and say that their is nothing wrong,but that the microwave is energy efficient.My argument to them is, why have a one touch sensor,if you have to press more buttons,and many times redo the whole thing.This is not what I call energy efficient.Anyway if you can sought of reach out,and see if anyone else is having the same problem,I might have more reason to reach out to the G.E. president in Kentucky.
Please advise,and thanks for your time
Arlene Feltham

Driving Ticket fine increase in NJ

Starting on August 15th, the price of a ticket for violation of NJ Law
39:3-29 (failure to show your driver's license, registration, or insurance
card at the time you are stopped) is going from $44.00 to $173.00 . Please
make sure your vehicles have the proper documents in them. If you jump in
the car to run to the store and forget your wallet with your license in it
and you are stopped.... Oh well... you just spent $173. And the fine for
not having all three documents is $519!!!
Also be careful, the fine for hand held cell phone use while driving will be going up to $180.00.

IF YOUR ROOTS ARE IN BROOKLYN
(A REGENCY BROOKLYNITE REMEMBERS - OKAY SOME OF THESE THINGS WERE ALSO COMMON TO BRONXITES)

1. The subway, bus and the trolley were only a thin dime to ride.

2. Schools were the showcase for the whole country.

3. There were no drugs.

4. There was very little pornography.

5. There were no divorces and few one parent families.

6. There was respect for teachers and older people in general.

7. There was almost no violence.

8. The theme of the music of the times, even when it became rock and
roll, was love not anger.

9. People made a living and, rich or poor, people all knew how to
have a good time no matter of status.

10. A great day was going to the beach at Coney Island or Brighton.

11. Tuesday night was fireworks night in Coney Island put on by
Schaefer Brewing
12. There were the Coney Island bath houses Stauches Bushman Baths,
Steeplechase Baths, Washington Baths, Ravenhall and Brighton Beach
Baths.

13. There was no better hot dog than the original at Nathan's in Coney
Island And no better french fries than the Nathan's thick ripple cuts.

14. The rides and shows of Coney Island were fantastic Steeplechase
Park: the horses, the big slide, the barrels, the zoo (maze), the
human pool table, the Cyclone Roller Coaster, the Tornado Roller
Coaster, the Thunderbolt Roller Coaster, the Bobsled, the Virginia
Reel, the Wonder Wheel, the bumper cars, the tunnel of love,
Battaway, the loop to loop, the bubble bounce, miniature golf, the
whip, the many merry-go-rounds, the penny arcades. Luna Park, the
Thompson Roller Coaster, the parachute jump, Fabers Sportsland and
Fascination, toffee and cotton candy stores, custard
stands,Pokerama, Skeeball, prize games, fortune tellers guess
games, hammer games, telescope lady, the Harlem revue, the freak
shows, the house of wax, the animal nursery, restaurants, rifle
ranges, push cart rides and parades.

15. The fruit man, the tool sharpener, the junk man and the watermelon
man all with the horse and wagon.

16. Only place for pizza and only whole pizzas was Joe's Bar and Grill
on Ave U. Then in the mid-50's, a pizza explosion: you could buy it
by the slice for a dime at many places. By the late 50's it was a
whole 15 cents a slice! A tuna fish sandwich or a BLT were 45 cents. A
small Coke was 7 cents, a large Coke was 12 cents. Remember vanilla
Cokes when they pumped real vanilla syrup into the glass before adding
the Coke?

17. There were many theaters where every Saturday afternoon you could
see 25 cartoons and a feature film. The Highway, the Avalon, the
Kingsway, the Mayfair, the Claridge, the Tuxedo, the Oriental, the
Avenue U, the Kent, the Tilyou, the Paramount, the RKO, the Walker,
the Albemarle, the Alpine, the Rugby, the Canarsie and the Marlboro.

18. Sheepshead Bay was Lundy's Restaurant and fishing.

19. Big eating and coffee hangouts: Dubrow's on Kings Highway, also
on Eastern Parkway/Utica Avenue, Famous on 86th Street, and Garfield's
on Flatbush Avenue.

20. Everybody knew all the high schools in Brooklyn.

21. Kings Highway stores had their own ornate glitz as far as style goes.

22. There were many delicatessens in the 50's very few today. The
best? Adelman's on 13th Avenue. The food was from heaven!

23. Ebinger's was the great bakery...I loved the chocolate butter
cream with the almonds on the side. And Blackout cakes!

24. There were no fast food restaurants in the 50's and a hamburger
tasted like a hamburger.

25. There were the Murray the rock and roll concerts at the Brooklyn
Fox and the Brooklyn Paramount. You had to go the night before to get
good seats.

26. Big night clubs in Brooklyn was the Ben Maxim's Town and Country
on Flatbush Avenue and The Elegante on Ocean Parkway.

27. Quick bites at Brennan and Carr, Horn and Hardart Automat,
Nedick's, Big Daddy's, Chock Full o' Nuts, Junior's, Grabsteins or
Joe's Delicatessen. (Junior's, you'll be glad to know, is still in
the same place, and the cheesecake is still fabulous...)

28. Knishes were great at Mrs. Stahl's in Brighton or at Shatzkin's Knishes.

29. People in Brooklyn took pride in owning a Chevy in the 50's;
there was nothing better than General Motors then. The cars would run
and run and run, no problems.

30. You bought sour pickles right out of the barrel -- for a nickel
-- and they were delicious. By the 60's, they cost a whole quarter.
Anyone remember Miller's Appetizing, on the corner of 13th Avenue and
50th Street?

31. The Brooklyn Dodgers were part of your family. The Duke, the
Scooge, Pee Wee, Jackie, the Preacher, Campy, Junior, Clem, Big Don
Gil. They were always in a lot of our conversation.Remember Ebbets
ield? For Brooklynites is was -- and will always be -- a shrine.

32. You come from Brooklyn but you don't think you have an accent. To
you Long Island is one word which sounds like "Longuyland."

33. You played a lot of games s kids. Depending on whether you were
a boy or a girl, you could play: ringaleaveo, Johnny on the Pony, Hide
and Seek, three feet off to Germany, red light green light, chase the
white horse, kick the can, war, hit the penny, pussy-in-the-corner,
jump rope, double-dutch, Stories, A-My Name Is, box ball, box
baseball, stoop ball, dodge ball, catch a fly, you're up, running
bases, iron tag, skelly, tops, punch ball, hand ball, slap ball,
whiffle ball, stick ball, poison ball, relay races, softball,
baseball, basketball, horse, 5-3-1, around the world, foul shooting,
knockout, arm wrestling, Indian wrestling.And then there were card
games like canasta, casino, hearts, pinochle, war and the unhappy game
of 52-card pickup.

34. You hung out on people's stoops.

35. You learned how to dance at some girl's backyard or house.

36. You roller skated at Park Circle skating rink in skates with
wooden wheels. You had roller skates at home with metal wheels for
using on the sidewalks, and you needed a skate key to tighten them
around your shoes. Those metal wheels on concrete were deafening!

37. The big sneaker was Converse. Also Keds and P-F Flyers.

38. The guys wore Chino pants and the girls wore long wide dresses.
Remember gray wool skirts with pink felt poodles on them? The poodles
had rhinestone eyes.

39. In the 50's rock and roll started big teen styles for the first time.

40. Everyone went to a Bar Mitzvah even if you weren't Jewish.

41. Everyone took their date to Plum Beach for the submarine races.

42. There were 3 main nationalities in Brooklyn in the 50's: Italians,
Irish and Jews. Then there was a sprinkling of everyone else. The
Scandinavians and Greeks in Bay Ridge, the African Americans in
Bedford Stuyvesant and the Polish of Green Point.

43. The only way to get to Staten Island was by ferry from the 67th
Street pier in Brooklyn.

44. In Brooklyn, a fire hydrant is a "johnny pump."

45. Rides on a truck came to your neighborhood to give little kids a
ride for a dime. The best one was the "whip," which spun you around a
track. You got a little prize when you got off, sometimes a folding
paper fan, sometimes a straw tube that you inserted two fingers into,
that tightened as you tried to pull your fingers out again.

46. As a kid you hit people with water balloons from atop a building,
you shot linoleum projectiles from a carpet gun, you shot dried peas
from pea shooters, and you shot paperclips at people with a
rubberband.

47. You shopped at EJ Korvettes, Robert Hall, Woolworth's, Mays,
McCrory's, Packers, A&P, Bohack, A&S, Barney's was Barney's Boys Town
back then, and not a luxury store. You bought your shoes at National
and Miles, A S Beck.

48. NBC main production studio was on Avenue M. The Cosby show was
made there.

49. Everybody lived near a candy store and a grocery store.

50. The first mall comes to Brooklyn at Kings Plaza.

51. Bagel stores start popping up everywhere in the 60's.

52. Went to Jahn's Ice Cream Parlor with a big group and had the
Kitchen Sink. If it was your birthday (you had to bring your birth
certificate), you could get a sundae free.

53. Everybody knew somebody who was a connected guy.

54. We used the word "swell" that is passe today.

55. In the summer we all waited for the Good Humor, Bungalow Bar,
Mister Softee or Freezer Fresh man to come into our neighborhood to
buy ice cream. In the early to mid 50's, the Good Humor man pushed a
cart instead of driving a truck. Remember the bells? A pop was 15
cents. A large cup was 15 cents, a small cup was a dime. And a sundae
-- remember licking the chocolate off the back of the cardboard top?
-- was a quarter.

56. Many of us would sneak cigarettes and hide them when we got home.
57. When we talked about "the city" we meant Manhattan.

58. The Mets in the 60'S became our substitute for the Dodgers.But
they never did, and never will, make up for the Dodgers leaving.

59. In the 60's we were ready to drive and hit the night life scene.
With the car came the girls.

60. We are all in a select club because we have roots in BROOKLYN.

THAT'S IT FOR NOW
RON