The White House has releases a photo purporting to show President Obama “skeet shooting” at Camp David
February 3,2013
the staff of the Ridgewood blog with a little help from our friends
Ridgewood NJ, The White House has releases a photo purporting to show President Obama “skeet shooting” at Camp David. An activity he claims he does “all the time.” They also warn all you mischievous internet types, digital hipsters , bloggers ,social media mavens and hackers not photo shop this picture for you viewing pleasure .
“This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.”
Sorry Mr. President we couldn’t help ourselves and I think perhaps we all need to lighten up a little …
RHS. Wrestling: Ridgewood head coach pins down 100th career win
Friday, February 1, 2013
BY ANTHONY LOCICERO
CORRESPONDENT
The Ridgewood News
RIDGEWOOD — The Ridgewood High School wrestling team is heading into the final dual meets of the season before the state qualifying cutoff.
The Maroons look to continue a season that became momentous for their personable head coach, Torre Watson, who joined the Coaches’ Century Club last weekend, gaining the 100th career win of his seven-year tenure guiding the Ridgewood varsity.
The Maroons (8-6) travel to Warren in Somerset County tomorrow for a quad meet with host Watchung Hills, Morris Knolls and Saint Peter’s Prep – all quality opponents.
Quiet Time at Valley Gives New Moms Privacy for Rest and Bonding with Baby
January 31, 2013
Ridgewood NJ, Excited visitors, squabbling siblings, and photo ops can take their toll on a new mother who is exhausted from giving birth and needs private time to bond with her new baby.
At The Valley Hospital’s Center for Childbirth, the afternoon hours of 1 to 3:30 p.m. have been designed as “Quiet Time,” a period when the lights are dimmed, soft music plays, and new moms and their support persons are encouraged to sleep and bond with their baby with skin-to-skin contact. During Quiet Time visitors and siblings are asked to wait in the waiting rooms, and hospital personnel only enter a mother’s room if she asks for assistance. There is a sleeper chair in each room to allow the father or other support person to rest.
“My husband, Robert, and I loved Quiet Time because it gave us private time to talk, sleep, and get to know our new daughter, Emily,” says Limor Regular, of Wyckoff, who delivered her third daughter at Valley in early January. “I had a lot of visitors and with my two other little girls in the room with us, I wouldn’t have been able to rest without Quiet Time.”
In addition to giving new moms needed rest and privacy with their newborns, Quiet Time also encourages them to room-in as a family, learn their babies’ feeding cues, and prepare for caring for their baby at home. When a family rests during the day in the hospital, they are better equipped to room-in with their baby at night.
“In observing Quiet Time, we are responding to patient satisfaction surveys that told us new mothers felt they did not have adequate rest time after childbirth and were disturbed by hospital interruptions and too many visitors,” says Beth McGovern, MSN, RN-OB, a clinical practice specialist for Valley’s Women’s and Children’s Services. “Now, just before 1 p.m. our nurses and patient care associates go to each room to see if the mothers need anything, and then we tuck them in for a nap. Our whole floor instantly feels calmer. Everyone, even our staff, is noticing the benefits of Quiet Time.”
Quiet Time is also observed in Valley’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, when parents are encouraged to practice “kangaroo care” by placing their babies skin to skin.
Quiet Time is an important component of the hospital’s Patient- and Family-Centered Care model and a step on Valley’s journey to become a designated Baby-Friendly Hospital. The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative is a global initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the goal of which is to achieve optimal infant feeding outcomes, mother-baby bonding, improved health outcomes for mothers and babies, and elevated patient satisfaction.
Valley’s quest to become designated a Baby-Friendly Hospital is a four-phase rigorous endeavor that includes the development of new policies, research, data collection and dissemination, and a site visit. The journey creates an environment that is supportive of best practices in maternity care.
This process fits in with Valley’s holistic approach to childbirth and mission to keep mothers and their babies together as much as possible. In 2011, mother-baby nurses began newborn admitting procedures directly after birth. Such duties as assessing the baby’s health and taking footprints are now accomplished in the room with the mother, instead of whisking the baby away to the nursery for a bath and assessment.
“Research has shown that as newborns transition to life outside the womb they self-regulate their body temperatures better when placed skin to skin to their mothers right away rather than being separated,” says McGovern. “Keeping them with their mothers after birth also enables them to breastfeed successfully for the first time.”
Mrs. Regular says she was pleased with Valley’s approach to promoting a natural birth experience. “I enjoyed keeping Emily with me as much as possible, and giving her special time alone with me and her father before her sisters came to visit,” she says.
The Valley Hospital Center for Childbirth is a component of the hospital’s comprehensive Women’s and Children’s Services, which includes private labor/delivery/recovery suites and private post-partum rooms; the Center for Holistic Birth and hydrotherapy tub; maternal-fetal medicine services; genetic counseling and screening; the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and its Peek-a-Boo ICU™; Birth Doula Program; the Women’s and Children’s Resource Center; the Fertility Center; a host of family education and childbirth preparation classes; and the eLearning Childbirth Education Program. For more information, call 201-447-8403 or visit www.valleyhealth.com/Obstetrics.
Caption: Robert and Limor Regular at home in Wyckoff with baby Emily and daughters Tamara (left) and Maya.
STEARCLEAR OF DUI ON SUPER BOWL SUNDAY IN NY, NJ & PA
Designated Driver Service Available Across Northern and Central NJ, NYC Rockland County, NY and Berks County, PA
WYCKOFF, NJ (Jan. 29, 2013) – STEARCLEAR, the smartphone app designated driver service, will be on high availability come Super Bowl Sunday across multiple counties in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Super Bowl Sunday is one of the worst days of the year for DUI and DUI related crashes and fatalities, and to help keep its customers safe and impaired drivers off the road, STEARCLEAR franchisees will be adding drive teams and expanding on-call hours to meet demand. For Super Bowl Sunday STEARCLEAR’s service will be available to customers in the following areas:
· Bergen County, NJ
· Mercer County, NJ
· Morris County, NJ
· Hunterton County, NJ
· Somerset County, NJ
· New York City – Manhattan
· Rockland County, NY
· Berks County, PA
In recent years Super Bowl Sunday has rivaled other big holidays for drunk driving in the U.S. such as St. Patrick’s Day, the Fourth of July and Halloween. In 2010, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), forty percent (40%) of the fatal crashes on Super Bowl Sunday were related to drunk driving. In that year, alcohol contributed to a fatal accident every 52 seconds.
STEARCLEAR is available on the iPhone and Android platforms and is the first app of its kind that connects customers directly with drive teams that pick them up and get them and their car home safely. STEARCLEAR began operating in NJ earlier last year. The company has more than 3000 customers and has completed more than 400 rides in the last few months.
“Unfortunately, many people opt to drive their car home rather than risk leaving it overnight somewhere after having a drink or two,” said Craig Sher, CEO and Co-Founder of STEARCLEAR. “We saw that it was a big problem and created STEARCLEAR in order to provide a safe, efficient and reliable alternative to driving yourself home after you have had a drink.”
Taking advantage of the service is easy. Just download the STEARCLEAR app for the iPhone or Android, fill out a few details, add a credit card for billing and you are ready to go. Open STEARCLEAR up and it will identify your location so you can call for and confirm a drive team. The team arrives and drives you and your car home. At the end of the ride STEARCLEAR calculates the pickup and mileage fee and allows you to leave a tip and complete the transaction with the drive team.
About STEARCLEAR
STEARCLEAR is a technology company dedicated to providing “last mile” services to consumers and businesses using smartphone applications and sophisticated GPS technology. Its flagship designated driver service provides customers with one-touch access to local driver teams that pick them up and get them and their car home safely and responsibly. The company is currently featured on SeedInvest.com, an equity based crowdfunding platform. STEARCLEAR franchise opportunities are available across North America, EMEA, Australia and South Africa. More information can be found at www.stearclear.com.
New Rutgers center honors Tyler Clementi
Sunday, February 3, 2013
BY PATRICIA ALEX
STAFF WRITER
The Record
The parents of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University freshman from Ridgewood whose suicide brought national attention to the issues of cyberbullying and gay youth, will dedicate an academic center in honor of their son at the school on Monday.
The center will draw from experts and scholars across the nation to create new programs and approaches to address issues involving young people, such as the often difficult transition to college, Rutgers officials said. The center will offer lectures, symposia and training on such topics as the use and misuse of new technologies and social media; suicide — particularly among lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual youth; and creating safe social environments, the school said.
The center will be housed in Rutgers’ School of Social Work on George Street in New Brunswick and will be a collaborative effort between the university and the Tyler Clementi Foundation, founded by his parents, Jane and Joseph Clementi. The center will be directed by members of the Rutgers faculty. “We’re taking advantage of a lot of existing resources,” said E.J. Miranda, a university spokesman.
GODSPELL At Christ Episcopal Church – February 10th
GODSPELL will be presented by Youth of Christ Episcopal Church on Sunday, February 10 at 10 a.m. and performed in church. This is a free performance open to the community. Under the direction of Ms. Marlene Pillow, we are excited to let the talent of our youth shine in this fun production. Christ Episcopal Church is located at 105 Cottage Place, Ridgewood. Stop by or call (201.652.2350) for more information on any of these events or visit our web site at www.christchurchridgewood.org.
File Photo by Boyd Loving Ridgewood REORG what did the Deputy Mayor and May know and when did they know it ?
Sunshine Law : Over forty e-mail and counting between two council members
Over forty e-mail and counting between two council members, attorneys and developers and not all the Council knew about it. They will never release them.
And yet the story remains buried by the Patch. Even Paul backers can’t talk their way out of this one. So it’s day 4 , and he’ll probably hit a story on Monday or Tuesday bashing Walsh to deflect any more attention from the fab 3.
Mayor Aronshohn’s is a political survivor he will do something to get him and his buddy off the hot seat. Then and only then will the Patch print the story. By doing this most of the sheep in Ridgewood will forgive his transgression and proclaim him a hero.
His supporters will proclaim him a hero and all will be forgiven. The only thing that has been accomplished here is that they have learned and will no longer use e-mail or anything else that may be traceable to conduct their agenda.
file Phoot by Boyd Loving US Senator Robert Menendez at the Ridgewood REORG
Five Things to Know About the Robert Menendez Scandal
Feb 2, 2013 4:45 AM EST
New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez is facing two potentially career-threatening (and very complicated) scandals. Here’s your guide to the tangled web of prostitutes, interns, and Florida ophthalmologists.
Chances are you’ve heard the name Robert Menendez lately–or at least seen on the homepage of one of your favorite news sites or blogs. It’s clear that he’s in some kind of trouble, but trying to catch up on the multifaceted storyline at this point seems daunting. Take a deep breath. There is a lot going on with Menendez right now, and it is, indeed, confusing. Here’s what you should know.
1) Who is Robert Menendez and Why Are We Talking About Him?
2) Did they have something to do with an intern?
3) What went down in the Dominican Republic?
4) So who is Salomon Melgen?
5) How reliable are all these reports?
Soda, candy out under USDA’s proposed school snack rules
By Elise Viebeck – 02/01/13 01:45 PM ET
The Obama administration proposed regulations Friday that would prohibit U.S. schools from selling unhealthy snacks.
The 160-page regulation from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) would enact nutrition standards for “competitive” foods not included in the official school meal.
In practice, the proposed rules would replace traditional potato chips with baked versions and candy with granola. Regular soda is out, though high-schoolers may have access to diet versions.
“Although nutrition standards for foods sold at school alone may not be a determining factor in children’s overall diets, they are critical to providing children with healthy food options throughout the entire school day,” the proposed rule states.
“Thus, these standards will help to ensure that the school nutrition environment does all that it can to promote healthy choice, and help to prevent diet-related health problems.”
The rules are a product of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which also overhauled the nutritional make-up of regular school meals. They would apply to any school, public or private, that participates in the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program.
Pedestrian struck on Lincoln Avenue in Ridgewood
February 2, 2013
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ Earlier today a man was struck while crossing Lincoln Avenue at Bellair Road . The 72-year-old man is being treated at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center for head trauma and possible internal injuries, according to Ridgewood Police. ( https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood_accident.html )
The Rigewood Police temporarily closed Lincoln Avenue at Bellair Rd. following the accident . Detective Lt. Forest Lyons of the Ridgewood police said the victim was staying with family in Ridgewood.
The driver a 17-year-old resident of from Washington Township was issued a summons for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. The man was struck by the car as it headed southbound on Lincoln. Detective Lyons told the Bergen Record that the male driver was licensed and excessive speed does not appear to be a factor. The driver was not injured, but the car suffered damage to the roof and passenger-side windshield. (https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood_accident.html )
An accident unit from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office assisted the Ridgewood Police on the scene. Sorry folks at this time no photos from Boyd Loving
Valentines Day Boudoir Photo shoot for that Someone Special
At the Studio or in the Privacy of your own home
So, what is boudoir photography exactly?
Boudoir photography is a sexy new trend that’s especially popular as a wedding day gift from a bride to her groom. Some also create a gift for their boyfriend or just for themselves. Boudoir photos are usually taken wearing either just a little, or well, nothing at all. They’re hardly X-rated though, but rather PG-13 — as in classic pinup-inspired pics, or what the pros call ‘implied nudes.’ That means you’re not wearing anything, but you’re also not showing off anything either (think shot from the back, or lying on your stomach).
When should I schedule the session?
If you’re spending time and money on an exercise and beauty routine, you may want to wait until a week or so before the wedding to show off the results. Plus, a fun and pampering photo shoot is a good way to indulge and take some time out from wedding planning. Though you might be inclined arrange for the session on the morning of your wedding, resist the urge. For one, you’re not likely to feel very sultry if the rain clouds looming over your outdoor ceremony site are the first thing on your mind. Second, do you really want your to-be mother-in-law walking in on you while you’re posing in just your veil? Stick with a separate shoot so you’ll have time to really feel comfortable and get some great shots.
How long does it take?
Though it depends on the package you choose, your boudoir photo session will probably last about two hours. Why so long? It takes time for hair and makeup, plus the additional lighting setup. It may also take you a little while to relax. Most brides aren’t used to lounging around wearing little, if any, clothing in front of the camera, so your first few shots will likely look a bit stiff.
Where should I have it done?
In my studio in Old City Philadelphia or a posh hotel room. Your own home or a borrowed home is another option. The main key is to get a number of different backgrounds for poses are important, and they’ll also need lots of natural light.
What should I wear?
The most important thing — choose outfits that make you feel sexy. A good rule of thumb: Bring something white, something black, and something in a bright color so you can mix and match. A corset will create sexy curves. In addition to lingerie, don’t forget shoes, jewelry, and that engagement ring.
Should I bring anyone along?
Though you don’t want to turn your shoot into a three-ring circus, it’s a good idea to bring a friend. Why? You’ll feel more at ease if you can make a few jokes with a pal, plus she may be able to help with suggestions. Another idea: Bring a bottle of bubbly. A little champagne may help loosen things up. You’ll be posing like a pro in no time — but of course, this is a one-time-only exclusive for a very special audience (your very lucky groom).
ArtChick
Church Street Studios
122 Church Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
United States
Daytime phone 215-650-7052
“Kristine DiGrigoli” artchickfoto@gmail.com
UN admitting solar activity may play significant role in global warming
Global Warming Fantasy : Report shows UN admitting solar activity may play significant role in global warming
By Maxim Lott, Charles Couger
How Green
Published February 01, 2013
FoxNews.com
The Earth has been getting warmer — but how much of that heat is due to greenhouse gas emissions and how much is due to natural causes?
A leaked report by a United Nations’ group dedicated to climate studies says that heat from the sun may play a larger role than previously thought.
“[Results] do suggest the possibility of a much larger impact of solar variations on the stratosphere than previously thought, and some studies have suggested that this may lead to significant regional impacts on climate,” reads a draft copy of a major, upcoming report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The man who leaked the report, StopGreenSuicide blogger Alec Rawls, told FoxNews.com that the U.N.’s statements on solar activity were his main motivation for leaking the document.
“The public needs to know now how the main premises and conclusions of the IPCC story line have been undercut by the IPCC itself,” Rawls wrote on his website in December, when he first leaked the report.
Twitter says hackers compromise 250K accounts
By TERRY COLLINS
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO
The social media giant Twitter acknowledged that it has become the latest victim in a number of cyber-attacks against media companies, saying hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of its more than 200 million active users.
The company said a blog post on Friday it detected attempts to gain access to its user data earlier in the week. It shut down one attack moments after it was detected.
But Twitter discovered that the attackers may have stolen user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to 250,000 users they describe as `a very small percentage of our users.”
Super Bowl Sunday is almost here- Don’t forget to pick up your cigars for the game!
Some of our suggestions for game time include: Davidoff Colorado Claro AVO 25th Padron Anniversary Tatuaje TAA 2012 Zino Embassy Selection 2012
Available now at The Tobacco Shop of Ridgewood
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