RHS Summer School
The RHS Summer School program offers remedial and new work-for-credit courses, as well as enrichment courses.
The program runs from Monday, July 1 through Friday, August 2. Click here to review course options and to register: https://ridgewood.revtrak.net/tek9.asp?pg=regwerks
For more information please contact Summer School Principal Keith Cook at 201-670-2800, ext. 20682 or e-mail rhs-summerschool@ridgewood.k12.nj.us.
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Longtime Ridgewood resident turns 100
Friday, May 17, 2013
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
Former longtime Ridgewood resident Glenorchy “Glen” Campbell, who recently turned 100, probably has more great stories than he has years.
Above, Glen and his brother John (Jack) were photographed at a studio on 125th Street in Harlem when they made their First Holy Communion and were confirmed. Below left, Campbell as a boy playing along the Hudson River. Below right, he shows off his first pair of long pants atop the apartment house where he lived at 28 Macombs Place in Harlem.
While working at Yankee Stadium as a young peanut bagger, the then-Bronx resident played football – not baseball – with Yankee great Babe Ruth, a “kind of childish” guy. Also, even though it wasn’t allowed, he would swim in the Hudson River with his friend Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel.
And that’s not all.
Once, on a train, he met Eleanor Roosevelt – “she carried her own luggage,” he noted. Another time, he happened to see a “loaded” Harry Truman being escorted by two men in New York City.
https://www.northjersey.com/community/207826731_Longtime_Ridgewood_resident_turns_100.html
Men who are physically strong are more likely to have right wing political views
Weaker men more likely to support welfare state and wealth redistribution
Link may reflect psychological traits that evolved in our ancestors
Strength was a proxy for ability to defend or acquire resources
There is no link between women’s physical strength and political views
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 05:21 EST, 16 May 2013 | UPDATED: 19:39 EST, 16 May 2013
Men who are strong are more likely to take a right-wing stance, while weaker men support the welfare state, researchers claim.
Their study discovered a link between a man’s upper-body strength and their political views.
Scientists from Aarhus University in Denmark collected data on bicep size, socio-economic status and support for economic redistribution from hundreds in America, Argentina and Denmark.
‘Facebook fatigue’ stirs investor concern
By Robert Cookson
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As Facebook prepares to mark its first year as a public company on Saturday, it is facing pressure from investors to address fears that young people are losing interest in the service.
Though their views are mostly based on anecdotal evidence rather than hard statistics, many investors believe that under-25s are suffering from “Facebook fatigue” and defecting to services such as Twitter and WhatsApp.
“One of the most frequent conversations I have with investors is about whether the younger demographic is disengaging from Facebook,” says Mark Mahaney, internet analyst at RBC Capital Markets.
https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8b7ab90e-bc91-11e2-b344-00144feab7de.html#axzz2TVsCU6eC
Ridgewood Police Department
Decoy program in Ridgewood nets 18 tickets
Thursday May 16, 2013, 3:34 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The Ridgewood Police Department is cracking down on motorists who fail to observe New Jersey’s crosswalk laws, especially in areas in and around the heavily foot-trafficked Central Business District (CBD).
PHOTO COURTESY OF RIDGEWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT
Ridgewood Police Chief John Ward poses as a pedestrian at the Franklin Avenue/North Walnut Street intersection on May 10.
During a two-day, 90-minute period last week, in which the department enacted its pedestrian decoy program, traffic officers issued 18 summonses to vehicle operators who did not stop and yield to an undercover police official attempting to cross the street.
Ridgewood Police Chief John Ward, who was dressed in plain clothes, played the pedestrian decoy on both days.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/207757691_Decoy_program_in_Ridgewood_nets_18_tickets.html
Ridgewood Planning Board mulls master plan
Thursday May 16, 2013, 3:25 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The Ridgewood Planning Board has already indicated it will hold a future public hearing for four developers’ request to amend the village’s master plan, but board members continue to mull over one question: How will the proposed amendment be drafted?
The four developers have individually petitioned the Planning Board, asking for a change to the master plan that, if approved, will allow high-density, multi-family housing in the Central Business District (CBD). Originally handled separately, the Planning Board has lumped the four concepts together in an effort to study the entire CBD and its ability to sustain the potential growth that the developments might produce.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/207756311_Ridgewood_Planning_Board_mulls_master_plan.html
Superintendent salary caps can keep costs down but so would mergers
May 16, 2013
By Laura Waters, of New Jersey Left Behind
New Jersey Left Behind
This is part of a series from education blogger Laura Waters of NJ Left Behind.
Today at its annual Delegate Assembly, New Jersey School Boards Association will most likely adopt a resolution that attacks Gov. Christie’s mandated state superintendent salary caps as intrusive and untenable.
According to the draft resolution, proposed by the Ridgewood Board of Education (Bergen), local boards of education should have “the flexibility to adjust the CSA’s [Chief School Administrator or Superintendent’s] compensation commensurate with his or her experience knowing the current employment market conditions and other factors that may influence the ability to recruit, hire, and retain a competent and highly qualified CSA.”
Local control, right? Very Jersey. School board members resent state intrusion into the local business of setting superintendent salaries, especially in North Jersey, a stone’s throw away from New York State’s greener, uncapped pastures. And NJSBA data shows that superintendent turnover has spiked sharply since the salary cap was enacted: in 2011-2012, 31.4% of N.J. school districts lost their superintendents (a boon for the burgeoning interim superintendent industry).
Some board members see benefits in a superintendent salary cap, a fact duly noted in the Ridgewood Resolution. All eyes are trained on school budgets, especially with the legislatively-mandated 2% limit on school tax increases. But the impact of the superintendent salary cap goes way beyond the payout to chief school administrators. There’s a ripple effect, which will explicitly or implicitly inform the deliberations at the NJSBA Delegate Assembly.
In Ridgewood, Superintendent Daniel Fishbein will earn $232,872 this year. But when his contract expires on June 30, his salary will be ignobly bumped down to $167,500.
That’s because, according to new Accountability Regulations, salary caps are based on student enrollment:
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0 -250 $125,000
251– 750 $135,000
751 – 1,500 $145,000
1,501 – 3,000 $155,000
3,001 – 6,500 $165,000
6,501 – 10,000 $175,000
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https://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local//item/54790-superintendent-salary-caps-can-keep-costs-down-but-so-would-mergers/
Benghazi Emails Directly Contradict White House Claims
12:09 AM, May 16, 2013 • By STEPHEN F. HAYES
The White House on Wednesday released 94 pages of emails between top administration and intelligence officials who helped shape the talking points about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that the CIA would provide to policymakers in both the legislative and executive branches.
The documents, first reported by THE WEEKLY STANDARD in articles here and here, directly contradict claims by White House press secretary Jay Carney and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the revisions of those talking points were driven by the intelligence community and show heavy input from top Obama administration officials, particularly those at the State Department.
The emails provide further detail about the rewriting of the talking points during a 24-hour period from midday September 14 to midday September 15. As THE WEEKLY STANDARD previously reported, a briefing from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence shows that the big changes came in three waves – internally at the CIA, after email feedback from top administration officials, and during or after a meeting of high-ranking intelligence and national security officials the following morning.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/newly-released-benghazi-emails-directly-contradict-white-house-claims_724603.html
IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office
By John Parkinson
@jparkABC
Steven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy
May 16, 2013 6:15pm
The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation.
Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today.
https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/irs-official-in-charge-during-tea-party-targeting-now-runs-health-care-office/
Shown (from left to right): Alex Zapolanski, M.D., Director of Cardiac Surgery, The Valley Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute; Charlie and Selma Milton; and Janet Strain, M.D., Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, The Valley Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute.
Valve Replacement an Option for More Patients Thanks to New Minimally Invasive TAVR Procedure
April 29, 2013
Ridgewood NJ, In late March, Selma Milton became a trendsetter. The 86-year-old resident of Leonia became the first patient at The Valley Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute to receive a new aortic heart valve put into place using a new procedure called transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
TAVR is a minimally invasive procedure that is used to treat patients with the only FDA-approved transcatheter heart valve, the Edwards SAPIEN. The culmination of more than 50 years of continuous refinement in heart valve technology and treatment, TAVR provides an important new treatment option for patients with severe, symptomatic aortic valve stenosis, for whom traditional valve replacement surgery is not an option.
Janet Strain, M.D., director of Valley’s Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, who performed Mrs. Milton’s TAVR in collaboration with Valley’s Director of Cardiac Surgery, Alex Zapolanski, M.D., says patients with aortic stenosis often develop debilitating symptoms that may include difficulty walking or performing normal day-to-day activities. The disease occurs when calcification builds up in the valve, causing it to narrow. As a result, blood cannot flow through the valve efficiently, and the heart must work harder to compensate.
“Aortic stenosis may eventually become life-threatening,” explains Dr. Strain. “Without valve replacement, many of these patients do not survive more than an average of two years after the onset of symptoms.”
For patients who are considered high-risk or inoperable due to poor overall health, there have been few available alternatives to improve longevity and quality of life. TAVR has changed that.
TAVR is minimally invasive, requiring only a small incision in the groin, through which the Edwards SAPIEN aortic valve (loaded on a deflated balloon) is threaded from the groin artery up to the heart. The balloon is then inflated to position the new aortic valve into place in the heart, where it displaces the patient’s diseased aortic valve. The patient’s heart continues to beat during the procedure, thus eliminating the need for a heart-lung bypass machine.
“In clinical trials of more than 1,000 patients, those treated with the Edwards SAPIEN valve had improved survival and improved quality of life at one year, as compared to patients not treated with the valve,” notes Dr. Strain.
The Valley Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute’s highest recognition (three stars) by the Society for Thoracic Surgeons for aortic valve replacement – given to only 5.9 percent of cardiac programs nationwide – illustrates the quality and clinical excellence of Valley’s cardiac services.
“Our expertise and the number of complex cases we treat successfully enable us to understand and decide, better than cardiac teams at many other facilities, which high-risk patients would benefit from a minimally invasive approach, such as TAVR, and which patients should undergo classical aortic valve replacement surgery,” notes Dr. Zapolanski.
Before undergoing TAVR at Valley, Mrs. Milton was so weak that just making her bed left her breathless and exhausted. She was too ill to take a trip to Massachusetts to meet her newest great-grandson, who was born in November.
“Dr. Strain has been my husband’s cardiologist for many years and Valley is our family hospital, so even though I was nervous about being the first to have this procedure at Valley, I knew I was in good hands and trusted my doctors and nurses,” says Mrs. Milton.
After a three-day hospitalization, Mrs. Milton is now regaining strength with the assistance of her “very special man,” her husband of 67 years, Charlie Milton. She has been able to cook some meals and will meet her newest great-grandchild, her sixth, later this month when he arrives for a visit. Feeling better after her procedure, she and Charlie intend to return to visiting residents at the Van Dyke Nursing Home in Ridgewood, an activity they have enjoyed for the past 28 years.
The Valley Hospital recently received its 10th consecutive J.D. Power and Associates Distinguished Hospital Program award for providing an “outstanding inpatient experience” and has been recognized by HealthGrades as #1 in New Jersey for cardiac services, cardiac surgery, and coronary interventional procedures. Additionally, as a recipient of the prestigious Beacon Award for Excellence in critical care nursing, The Valley Hospital is uniquely qualified to provide the highest level of care and the most innovative treatment for severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis through a multidisciplinary approach by members of the Heart & Vascular Institute.
For more information about TAVR, please call Denise Goldstein, APN, or Mary C. Collins, APN, program co-coordinators, at 201-447-TAVR (8287).
Judge’s Reversal of Bullying Ruling Upheld by State Education Chief
Two years after enactment of New Jersey’s strict anti-bullying law, state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf has for the first time reversed a district’s finding of bullying, saying the incident was simply a more-innocent conflict between two students.
In a decision handed down in late April and posted last week, Cerf found that the Pittsgrove school district’s charge against an eighth-grade student identified as C.H. ran counter to the new law. The student had been accused of bullying after a February 2012 incident in which he shoved a piece of crumpled paper down a classmate’s shirt. (Mooney/NJSpotlight)
Cutting the Red Tape: Scott Garrett’s SEC Accountability Act
Bill seeks to reign in regulation
Posted by Tom Fletcher and Katie McAuliffe on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:03 PM EDT
On Friday, the US House of Representatives will vote on the SEC Accountability Act, introduced by Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ). This common sense piece of legislation seeks to reign in excessive regulations by mandating the SEC perform a cost benefit analysis of any new regulatory proposals. At a time when the regulatory burden on businesses and job creators in this country is at an all-time high, legislation is needed to help kick start business, not handcuff it. Regarding his legislation, Rep. Garrett said:
“I regularly hear from constituents, especially job creators, about how Washington red tape needs to be cut. The bill we debated today help address these concerns by reducing the sheer weight, volume, complexity and uncertainty of federal rules and regulations.”
Giving Congress a chance to roll back unnecessary regulations is a welcome change from the days of Dodd-Frank and other crippling regulatory legislation. In 2011, a Cost of Government report found, “the average American will have to work 77 days to pay for the cost of government regulation which is estimated to consume 21.2 percent of net national product.” Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY) introduced the Reins Act in 2011, which would require Congress the power to affirm any major rule that would have an economic impact of more than $100 million.
The current administration has never met a regulation they didn’t like as long as it added another layer to our already bloated bureaucracy. Rep. Garrett’s SEC Accountability Act builds on previous efforts, like the Reins Act, that try to get government out of the way of businesses and restore America’s dynamic economy that has been under attack the last four and half years by overregulation. By making government accountable for the damaging regulations they seek to inflict on small business, perhaps they will see that regulation is not the answer.
While the economy continues to sputter along, the House of Representatives continues to pass sensible legislation designed to help get businesses across the country thriving again. All that stands in the way is a President wanting to do the same.
Read more: https://atr.org/cutting-red-tape-scott-garretts-sec-a7623#ixzz2TSghXhmK
The Ridgewood Aquacons Present: 2013 Synchronized Swim Show
Sat, May 18, 2013
Time: 7:30 PM
YWCA Bergen County, 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Cost: $6 per person
The award-winning Ridgewood Aquacons synchronized swimming group has called our YWCA home since 1959. This annual fundraiser showcases their talents and features our Synchro Stars youth team, our Youth Synchro students, and special guests the Ramapo Aqua Masters and the Brooklyn Peaches. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the American Diabetes Association in memory of Amy LaBruna, a YWCA aquatics staff member and supporter of our synchro swim program.
Photo credit: Boyd A. Loving
Ridgewood First Responders Participate in Annual “Touch a Truck” Event
May 16,2013
Boyd A. Loving
11:36 AM
TOUCH – A – TRUCK :An Interactive Day of Fun for Your Children
Ridgewood NJ , TOUCH – A – TRUCK THURSDAY, May 16, 2013 9:00 A.M. TO 3 P.M. MEMORIAL PARK AT VAN NESTE SQUARE
Treat your kids to a day of hands-on adventure, featuring an opportunity to climb on board to explore the trucks that touch their lives.
They’ll also have the chance to learn directly from Ridgewood’s emergency and public works workers about the exciting work they perform every day. An Added bonus, they’ll be a Big Wheel Rodeo among the planned interactive activities throughout the park for children al all ages. Don’t miss this great opportunity to Experience Ridgewood.
SPONSORED BY THE RIDGEWOOD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, LITTLE IVY LEARNING CENTER THE VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD
Ridgewood Police Chief John Ward (bike clothes) operates “Big Wheel Rodeo” traffic light and instructs children in pedestrian safety with simulated crosswalk.
Ridgewood Police Department Patrol Officer Joseph Youngberg (in police uniform) demonstrates police vehicle equipment.
Ridgewood Fire Department Lieutenant Scott Schmidt (in fire department uniform) demonstrates equipment found in passenger compartment of fire pumper.
All Photo credit: Boyd A. Loving
Star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey Theresa Giudice at Bookends this Saturday
Saturday, May 18th @ 1:00pm
Star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey will sign her
new book: Fabulicious! On the Grill
Books available May 7th
Appearing authors will only autograph books purchased at Bookends and must have valid Bookends Receipt. Availability & pricing for all autographed books subject to change.
Bookends cannot guarantee that the books that are Autographed will always be First Printings. Autographed books purchased at Bookends are non-returnable.
While we try to insure that all customers coming to Bookends’ signings will meet authors and get their books signed, we cannot guarantee that all attendees will meet the author or that all books will be signed. We cannot control inclement weather, author travel schedules or authors who leave prematurely.
Bookends, 211 E. Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 201-445-0726
