Monsey Phone Numbers and Links

Hatzolah 425-1600

THE METZIAS PLACE MOVED THE METZIAS PLACE (the store that sells used closed) moved to 21 GROVE STREET IN SPRING VALLEY. Location: off Myrtle Avenue - off Maple Avenue, Spring Valley. Directions: Coming from Monsey going to Spring valley on Maple Avenue, make a right turn on Myrtle Avenue (just in front of Eli's Bagel) and the first left on Grove Street. They renamed the store. It is located in a commercial complex. 1st business on the right. Please continue to donate your gently used clothes. Deposit only available during store hours (8am to 4pm). Thank you.

Chaverim of Rockland. Help such as car break downs, non-medical emergencies, 371-6333

Rockland Eruv 888-805-ERUV (3788) -- http://www.rocklanderuv.org

A Torah Infertility Medium of Exchange A TIME of North Jersey 201-645-1662

Monsey Fire Department 845-356-2611 (For Non Emergency) - Call to arrange a Fire Prevention Tour in your school, or schedule a Firehouse Tour and get to see what firefighting is all about. Visit www.monseyfd.org for more information. In case of fire always dial 911.

supervisor st lawrence is distributing reflective safety sashes For free reflective safety sashes please contact Elaine Silverberg at 845-357-5100 xt 324. Town hall is located at 237 Route 59, Suffern (across the street from Wal-Mart) and is open daily between 9am-5pm.

Chazak Inspiration Line Free chizuk 24 hours a day, with messages from the wold's most inspirational speakers 845-356-6665 enter pin #5777

Marriage License Bureau 845-357-5100

Vaad Hakashrus of Mechon L'Hoyro 845-425-9565 ext 101

Widows and divorcees-consultation services no FEE 845-352-5303

Bikur Cholim 2A Melnick Drive Monsey, NY 10952 Phone: 845.425.7877 Fax: 845.425.5061

Poison Control 800-366-6997

TRANSPORTATION TO HOSPITALS please call 845-354-2627

Unemployment Bureau 845-426-2700

Marriage License Bureau 845-357-5100

Food stamp information 845-364-3777

AAA Road service 800-222-4357

Mikva 845-362-2132

Motor Vehicle Bureau 800-342-5368

Monsey chai-line 845-425-2424

Tomche Shabbos Shabbos/Yom Tov food for those in need, 362-1084

JEP Jewish Education Program, 425-7556

Echo physician referrals, 425-9750

Shatnez Center 356-5707. Open Sun-Thu, 7:30pm-11:00pm, and Sunday 10:00am-2:00pm.

Baby Clothes Swap Free pickup of baby/children's slightly used clothes. Call 356-1021. Come and browse - we have all different sizes of baby clothes, you can swap your own for a different size.

IPod Vending Machines Are A Hit

Earlier this year I passed through Atlanta’s Hartfield Airport on my way back from nine months out of the country. It was my first step back into American culture and the first thing I saw when I got off the plane was a vending machine filled with iPods, headphones and other small electronic gizmos.

I remember thinking at the time that America had made some massive consumer leap in my absence, vending machines having upgraded from candy bars to iPods. I thought it was a brilliant idea since the prospect of spending hours waiting in an airport surrounded by screaming babies and crackling passenger announcements would probably send even the most ardent of Apple haters scrambling to thrust their credit card in the machine.

Apparently I’m not alone in thinking the machines were a great idea. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports (stupid F$*#ing registration required, sorry) that the iPod vending machines are wildly successful.

Mark Mullins, executive vice-president of Zoom, the company behind the machines, tells the AJC, “We put in some iPods and found we couldn’t keep them in stock. We found no customer resistance to swiping a card and buying a $300 item from a machine. We’re selling thousands (of iPods), and the machines at the Atlanta airport are major contributors to that.”

Of course there’s no way for the those shattered-nerve impulse buyers to put any music on their new iPod, but another Zoom spokesperson says there are plans to add a music-download kiosk across from the iPod vending machine.

The machines are also in the San Francisco airport and are reportedly starting to pop up in hotels and other locations across the country. And for those who were wondering, no the iPod doesn’t drop in the machine, a robotic arm grabs it and hands it to you.

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/ipod_vending_ma.html

NYC cabs to test cell signal strength

NEW YORK - Ever wanted to stuff that "Can you hear me now?" guy into the trunk of your car and take him on a tour of those maddening spots where your cell phone won't work? One telecommunications company has a plan to do the mechanical equivalent.

The Stockholm-based firm Ericsson recently got approval from New York's taxi commission to place mobile sensors in the trunks of at least 50 cabs in an attempt to better map dead zones in mobile phone networks.

The small devices, about the size of a computer modem, will automatically feed information about signal strength and clarity to engineers.

Because taxis in New York are on the road all day and all night, and ostensibly travel into every corner of the city, company executives said they are a cheap way of covering vast amounts of territory with limited effort.

Similar programs have been launched in several other cities since the 1990s using a variety of vehicles, but this is the first time it will be done in New York, the company said.

"Our favorite vehicle is the taxicab because of the randomness in its circulation," said Niklas Kylvag, Ericsson's manager of fleet services.

But, he added, "We have used trains, trucks, buses, delivery vehicles, limousines, pretty much anything that is moving and has electricity in it. I have myself done testing in the Swiss Alps with this on my back at a ski resort."

The research program is being conducted on behalf of an undisclosed wireless provider. Cab companies will be paid for participating. At least one fleet has signed up to participate and others have expressed interest, Kylvag said. The system, which will not be visible to passengers, is scheduled to be in place sometime this winter.

New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission Chairman Matthew Daus said the city has also opened cabs to other companies that wish to deploy a similar system.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_hi_te/hailing_cell_signals

Colorado woman selling snow on eBay

As if Colorado residents don't have enough snow to dig out from, one resident is offering more for a price on eBay. Starting bids were holding steady Friday at 99 cents for snow from "Blizzard I and Blizzard II" being offered by Mary Walker. She and husband, Jim, got the idea for selling snow after shoveling mounds from two storms a week apart that together dumped more than 4 feet along the Front Range.

"I figured eBay has ghosts and all sorts of weird stuff, so why not snow?" said Walker, who teaches business workshops on employee communications.

How much snow 99 cents or whatever the winning bid gets depends. Walker's auction notice suggests avoiding shipping and handling charges by stopping by their home and picking it up — in a dump truck.

Only 10 offerings of snow are available and the proceeds are earmarked for a used snowblower for Jim or a pair of shovels.

She says she doesn't really expect to find a buyer for their blizzard overstock.

"We just wanted to just give some folks a laugh," she said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_on_fe_st/selling_snow

Spanish woman 'is oldest mother'

A 67-year-old Spanish woman is reported to have given birth to twins according to hospital officials in Barcelona, becoming the world's oldest mother.

The woman, whose name has not been revealed, became pregnant after fertility treatment in Latin America.

She gave birth to the twins, who have been placed in an incubator, by caesarean section early on Saturday.

It was the woman's first birth and she is expected to spend a few days in the Sant Pau hospital recovering.

A spokesman for the hospital, which specialises in high-risk births, said that both the mother and her babies were doing well.

The woman is one year older than Romanian Adriana Iliescu who gave birth in January 2005 to a baby girl.

She too had been pregnant with twins but one of her babies died in the womb.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6220523.stm

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