LaBottega Extends Restaurant Week Menu
LaBottega Restaurant will be extending the restaurant week menu to our loyal and new customers for one more week!!
Sunday-Thursday, February 3-7, 2013
3 Course Meal – $20.13
(tax + Gratuity not included)
LaBottega
14 Oak Street
201-445-7222
www.Labottegaridgewoodnj.com
Ridgewood Healthy Gourmet Lunch and Learn Series
Tue, January 08, 2013 – Tue, February 05, 2013
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM
Location: The Stable Community Center, 259 N. Maple Ave. Ridgewood, NJ
Cost: $95 per person
$95 for 5 sessions: January 8, 15, 22, 29 and March 5
(Includes: 2 course lunches, recipes and supporting handouts)
Each session is from 11:30-12:45
To register, call 201.670.5560
Join Natural Foods Chef and Certified Holistic Health Coach, Christine Okezie, for a 5 week series of delicious and health-promoting culinary demonstrations and learn how proper eating can give you amazing, disease-proof your body, and help you achieve your ideal weight without sacrificing pleasure.
Big brother to log your drinking habits and waist size as GPs are forced to hand over confidential records
Data includes weight, cholesterol, BMI, family health history and pulse rate
Doctors will be forced to reveal alcohol consumption and smoking status
Privacy campaigners described it as ‘biggest data grab in NHS history’
Part of new Health Service programme called Everyone Counts
Officials insisted data will be anonymous and deleted after analysis
By Jack Doyle
PUBLISHED: 17:28 EST, 1 February 2013 | UPDATED: 03:54 EST, 2 February 2013
GPs are to be forced to hand over confidential records on all their patients’ drinking habits, waist sizes and illnesses.
The files will be stored in a giant information bank that privacy campaigners say represents the ‘biggest data grab in NHS history’.
They warned the move would end patient confidentiality and hand personal information to third parties.
Retail Workweek Hits 3-Year Low In ObamaCare Shift
By Jed Graham, Investor’s Business Daily
Posted 02/01/2013 07:05 PM ET
The fly in the ointment of January’s jobs report was the apparent shift to part-time work ahead of a key ObamaCare deadline.
Although retail payrolls grew by 32,600, total hours worked in the industry dipped, Labor Department data out Friday showed.
The explanation? Rank-and-file retail workers logged the shortest workweek since early 2010: just 30.1 hours, on average, vs. 30.4 in December.
Remarkably, aggregate hours worked in the retail sector fell below their January 2012 level, even though industry payrolls are up 200,000 over that period.
A similar trend showed up in leisure and hospitality: January payrolls rose by 23,000 even as aggregate hours dipped 0.3%.
Meanwhile, the ranks of part-time workers due to business conditions or because they can’t find full-time work, trending lower in the past few years, rose by 212,000 to 7.8 million.
While the data are volatile and the shift to shorter workweeks in January was less than dramatic, this may be the start of something big. All signs suggest that businesses are starting to adjust their employment policies in response to ObamaCare. It’s possible that much of this shift may occur in the next few months.
Read More At IBD: https://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/020113-642941-retail-leisure-jobs-hours-down-obamacare-looms.htm#ixzz2JjewQlb6
Labor Unions Finally Read Obamacare Fine Print, Realize Costs Set To Spike, “Turn Sour” On Obamacare
Tyler Durden’s
01/31/2013 10:32 -0500
It is a well-known fact that nobody in Congress ever reads, or even skims, any law, and especially not the fine print, it passes until long after it has been enacted into law. It appears the same is just as true for the biggest pillar of support for the Obama administration: America’s labor unions, whose liberal vote every election is instrumental to preserving the outflow side of America’s welfare state. As it turns out, it was the same labor unions who enthusiastically supported the primary accomplishment of the Obama administration in the past 4 years, Obamacare, only to realize, long after it has become reality that, surprise, their healthcare plan costs are about to go up. And, as the WSJ colorfully summarizes, they are now “turning sour.”
From WSJ:
Union leaders say many of the law’s requirements will drive up the costs for their health-care plans and make unionized workers less competitive. Among other things, the law eliminates the caps on medical benefits and prescription drugs used as cost-containment measures in many health-care plans. It also allows children to stay on their parents’ plans until they turn 26.
So what are the Unions’ demands to offset what they only now realize will push their overall costs higher? What else: Moar!
To offset that, the nation’s largest labor groups want their lower-paid members to be able to get federal insurance subsidies while remaining on their plans. In the law, these subsidies were designed only for low-income workers without employer coverage as a way to help them buy private insurance.
Top officers at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the AFL-CIO and other large labor groups plan to keep pressing the Obama administration to expand the federal subsidies to these jointly run plans, warning that unionized employers may otherwise drop coverage.
But, but, they can’t – that’s the whole point, or didn’t they read that part too? Doesn’t matter – to them it is now unfair, nay “unacceptable”:
“We are going back to the administration to say that this is not acceptable,” said Ken Hall, general secretary-treasurer for the Teamsters, which has 1.6 million members and dependents in health-care plans. Other unions involved in the push include the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and Unite Here, which represents service and other workers.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-31/labor-unions-finally-read-obamacare-fine-print-realize-costs-set-spike-turn-sour-oba
Just 157K New Payrolls Added In January, But HUGE Upward Revisions To December And November
Joe Weisenthal | Feb. 1, 2013, 7:55 AM
The jobs report is out for January, and on the headline it’s a slight miss.
157K new jobs is below the consensus estimates of 165K.
The unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9%.
But the report had a lot of good news as well. Last month was revised higher, from 155K to 196K.
And November was revised even higher, from 161K to 247K!
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-january-jobs-report-2013-2#ixzz2JeuHetHI
John Phillip Osborne master painter and senior instructor will give an oil painting demonstration at RAI
John Phillip Osborne master painter and senior instructor will give an oil painting demonstration on Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 2:00 pm.
And enjoy the Juried Art Exhibit as you are making your way through our galleries, which will be on display through February 11.
At the Ridgewood Art Institute 12 East Glen Avenue Ridgewood, NJ 07463
201-652-961 www.ridgewoodartinstitute.org
Menendez swearing in Mayor Paul Aronsohn Photo by Boyd Loving
Chris Christie Would Choose Menendez’s Replacement
If the New Jersey senator is unable to finish his term.
1:59 PM, Jan 31, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER
If Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey either steps down or is removed from office, Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, will get the chance to choose his replacement.
“If a vacancy shall happen in the representation of this State in the United States senate, it shall be filled at the general election next succeeding the happening thereof, unless such vacancy shall happen within 70 days next preceding such election, in which case it shall be filled by election at the second succeeding general election, unless the governor of this State shall deem it advisable to call a special election therefor, which he is authorized hereby to do,” New Jersey law reads. “The governor of this State may make a temporary appointment of a senator of the United States from this State whenever a vacancy shall occur by reason of any cause other than the expiration of the term; and such appointee shall serve as such senator until a special election or general election shall have been held pursuant to law and the Board of State Canvassers can deliver to his successor a certificate of election.”
https://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/chris-christie-would-choose-menendez-s-replacement_699075.html
Sen Mendez at Ridgewood REORG File photo by Boyd Loving
Watchdog group: Menendez violated ethics rules with free trips
Thursday January 31, 2013, 3:43 PM
BY HERB JACKSON
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
The Record
The leader of a watchdog group said today that Sen. Robert Menendez violated ethics rules by taking two free trips on a friend’s plane in 2010, but he may avoid prosecution because he paid the charter rate of $58,500 for the trips this month.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/Watchdog_group_Menendez_violated_ethics_rules_with_free_trips.html
Geraldo Rivera ‘truly contemplating’ run for Senate. Could he win?
By Peter Grier, Staff Writer / January 31, 2013
Veteran broadcast journalist Geraldo Rivera says he’s considering a run for a US Senate seat from New Jersey in 2014.
Broadcast journalist Geraldo Rivera said on his radio program Thursday that he’s been in touch ‘with some people in the Republican Party in New Jersey’ about a run in 2014. But it won’t be easy.
“I mention this only briefly … fasten your seatbelt,” he said Thursday on his mid-day radio program. “I am and have been in touch with some people in the Republican Party in New Jersey. I am truly contemplating running for Senate against Frank Lautenberg or Cory Booker in New Jersey.”
Seatbelt fastened! We must say that Geraldo on the stump in the Garden State would be a journalist’s dream. Can you imagine the campaign appearances? The bombast, the flags, the moustache! (True story: after the Beyoncé lip-synching scandal broke, Mr. Rivera tweeted “Shocking-Sad what can we believe in, what’s next … my mustache exposed as a prosthetic?”)
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2013/0131/Geraldo-Rivera-truly-contemplating-run-for-Senate.-Could-he-win
Art exhibit in Ridgewood features the Jersey Shore
Friday, February 1, 2013
BY EILEEN LA FORGIA
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
Greg Bennett has spent his life in Cape May County – growing up in Bridgeton and now living and painting in his beach block home and studio in Strathmere. His oil paintings on exhibit at the Cottage Place Gallery capture the beauty of the New Jersey coast as only a native can. Bennett paints the bay and marshes of his small tight-knit barrier island community.
Bennett calls his most visited subjects the seascapes and landscapes that surround him. His work is greatly influenced by his environment. “I’m a perfectionist,” he said. “I like the winter palette because of the variations in the many grays in the landscape.”
“Winter Evening at the Point” shows St. Mary’s Retreat at Cape May Point on the bay where it meets the Atlantic; “Huddled” is a painting of backyard chairs which the artist felt were huddling to keep warm. Smaller oil paintings in the winter theme include: “Storm’s End,” “Inverted Boat in Winter,” “Changing Over to Rain” and “Winter Sunset.”
Registration for YWCA Classes starts February 4
Registration for the next session of YWCA Bergen County programs starts Monday, February 4 at 8:30 a.m. Classes run from February 24 through April 20, and members can register at www.ywcabergencounty.org, by phone, or in person.
New for Adults: Body Sculpting is a sculpting-only class that uses resistance equipment and natural body weight to strengthen, tone and boost metabolism. Dance Meditation draws on the principles of Qi Gong and dance, using fluid, meditative movement and breathing techniques. Tai Chi Yoga is a low-impact, mindful practice performed in slow movements to reduce stress and restore vitality.
New for Kids & Teens: Jazz it Up combines jazz-style stretching, toning and dance for a fun workout. Synchronized Swimming (ages 7 and up) teaches synchronized swim skills and figures and prepares swimmers for competition with the YWCA Synchro Stars. Lil’ Dragons Judo (ages 4-7 yrs.) and U.S.J.A. Judo (ages 5 to adult) teach self-defense as well as important life skills like self-confidence and discipline.
The YWCA offers dozens of other fitness, wellness, and enrichment programs for kids, teens, adults, and seniors, as well as American Red Cross certified swim classes for swimmers at every age and level. Drop-in child care is also available at the 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood facility. Visit www.ywcabergencounty.org or call 201-444-5600 for a free brochure.
Voters Get Buyers Remorse On the Aronsohn , Pucciarelli and Hauck Team
Aronsohn is a snake and now that he has the microphone that will become more and more evident. Someone who really supported him (put together meetings etc…) said to me the other night that he can not believe how bad he is and he regrets helping him. He was opportunistic in aligning himself with Pucciarelli and Houck because he knew that would get him elected.
Pucciarelli has an agenda and Houck is a puppet. Aronshohn will twist and turn which ever way the wind is blowing. Have you ever spoken with him? He is not the brightest bulb in the box. The three of them repeated over and over one of the first things they were going to do if elected was to replace Gabbert. I might have missed something this morning but as of last night Gabbert was still in Village Hall.
Arohnson is not someone who should be trusted on anything at anytime. He is going to help turn downtown Ridgewood into Hackensack and Valley into Hackensack Medical Center North.
Readers Cautious on Shared Services Concept
We have and it hasn’t worked ie: the agreement with mp over gas, Central dispatch, the tub grinder with glen rock. the failed attempt to split a ladder truck with glen rock some years ago. The Long Island experience was the merger of small town pd’s into 1 big county force. Costs sky rocketed response time slowed drastically and alot of local municipalities ended up paying way higher county taxes. ( I believe they were deemed public safety tax) The Nassau county, and Suffolk county cops are the highest paid in the nation.
“We have (tried shared services) and it hasn’t worked ie: the agreement with mp over gas, Central dispatch, the tub grinder with glen rock. the failed attempt to split a ladder truck with glen rock some years ago…”
Are you kidding?? Sharing a tub grinder or ladder truck??? These are not example of shared services that generate any meaningful savings. These are agreements of convenience.
I don’t know all the details of Central Dispatch. But, from what I understand, this was poorly conceived and has been poorly run from the start. This entity needs to be audited, at least informally, by the Village (not people connected to Central Dispatch) to understand why Ridgewood contributes $600K+ of the $1.6MM annual cost to this service for 13 towns (almost 5 times the theoretical average share of the expenses) and why a handful of employees are being paid $1MM a year and god knows what else in benefits to operate this service. I think Paramus dispatch offered to run this service for Ridgewood a few years ago for less than $100K. If so, Ridgewood’s Central Dispatch seems like a good example of poor oversight and management, not a “model of shared services” as described by Gabbert.
Anti-Bullying Report Recommends Greater Autonomy for School Officials
A task force charged with looking at the benefits and challenges of New Jersey’s new anti-bullying law has published its first report, recommending that schools be allowed more discretion in identifying and investigating possible acts of bullying.
The unit was formed last spring on the heels of the 2011 passage of the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights (ABR), which imposed tough new requirements on schools to not just act on accusations of bullying but to resolve the issue within a set timeframe. (Mooney/NJSpotlight)
