Shocking toll of social media on girls’ mental health: How sexualised images are fuelling rise in anxiety among pupils aged 11 to 13
Sexualised adverts and social media leading to emotional problems in girls Girls aged between 11 and 13 more affected than they were five years ago Rise may be linked to seeing women portrayed as sex objects, study finds
By SARA SMYTH FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 18:00 EST, 19 April 2015 | UPDATED: 03:37 EST, 20 April 2015
Sexualised images of women in advertising and social media are leading to an increase in emotional problems among young girls, new figures suggest.
Girls aged between 11 and 13 are now more likely to worry, lack confidence or feel nervous than they were five years ago because they feel under pressure.
The rise in girls suffering from emotional problems may be linked to stress brought on by seeing images of women portrayed as sex objects on Facebook, Twitter and other websites, researchers from University College London believe.
Ridgewood NJ, On Tuesday, April 21, “Raising Financially Literate Children” will be presented by financial planner Kerry Fitzgerald. Strategies will be shared to help children learn the make prudent financial decisions starting early in life through independence. The program will take place at the Education Center, 49 Cottage Place, floor 3. Please click here for the flyer.
New: Curriculum Series Continues with Google Program
The district has added a program, “All About Google Apps for Education,” a series of three stand-alone workshops designed to introduce parents and guardians to the world of technology in the classroom. The April 15 (elementary school level) is full. A few spots remain for April 20 (middle school level) and April 22 (high school level). Each workshop is limited to 25 participants and pre-registration is required.
Click here to go to the pre-registration page.
Click here for the flyer and more information.
Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood School district has announced the winners of the annual Recognition Program for teachers and education services personnel.
The Board of Education approved the following winners at its April 13, 2015 meeting: Susan Fink, Educational Services Personnel; Paul Cronk, Hawes School; Ellen Wolff, Orchard School;
Nicole Blatt, Ridge School; Samantha Stankiewicz, Somerville School; Amanda Zampolino, Travell School; Paul Wyka, Willard School; Amber Nizza, Benjamin Franklin Middle School; Janelle Jacoby King, George Washington Middle School; and Nancy Reilly, Ridgewood High School.The 2014-2015 winners were chosen by a panel of parents, teachers and administrators from nominations solicited from parents, students and community members.
The Ridgewood Teacher Recognition Award reception will be held at the Education Center on Tuesday, May 5 at 7 p.m. for the award recipients, their families, school parents, teachers and friends. Each award recipient will receive a stipend of $500 ($250 awarded by the individual Home and School Association and $250 awarded by the Board).
Plan would mark return to finance for embattled former MF Global CEO
By JULIE STEINBERG and ROB COPELAND
April 19, 2015 7:05 p.m. ET
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Jon S. Corzine, the embattled former MF Global Holdings Ltd. chief executive and ex-chairman of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., has discussed plans to start his own hedge fund in recent months, according to people familiar with the matter.
The fund would start with cash from Mr. Corzine’s personal wealth and a handful of outside investors. Mr. Corzine said he had been speaking with about a half-dozen potential investors, and projected around $150 million in assets under management, one of the people said.
The plans are tentative and could evolve or fall apart in coming months. But a launch would mark an unlikely return to high finance for Mr. Corzine, the 68-year-old former Democratic U.S. senator and New Jersey governor who has stayed out of the limelight since commodities brokerage MF Global declared bankruptcy in 2011.
By Paul Mulshine | The Star Ledger
on April 19, 2015 at 7:53 AM, updated April 19, 2015 at 7:54 AM
That’s not because Amanda Lott is a retiree. It’s because she’s a financial planner. If this plan goes through, financial planners will make a fortune trying to rescue future retirees from its effects.
“The proposed benefit reform could remove more than 20 percent of the retirement income from an American couple,” the email read. It went on to point out how the Christie plan could cause even more retirees to flee New Jersey than are currently leaving.
I decided to give Lott a call at her office in Morristown to learn more about the problems with the plan.
“This punishes people who have been fiscally responsible and have saved all of their lives,” Lott said. “But people who haven’t planned ahead will be rewarded.”
The problem is the “means testing” that is the basis of the plan. Means testing is usually something pushed by Democrats for the obvious reason that it takes from the rich and gives to the poor.
Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) doesn’t think much of the job that Jeh Johnson and the Department of Homeland “Security” are doing in protecting us, particularly in light of the recent unauthorized and surprise landing of a small helicopter on the lawn of the Capitol. In an interview on the Lars Larson program, Gohmert doesn’t pull any punches in his evaluation and criticism of DHS, an agency that is currently little more than an anti-American political arm of the Obama regime.
After directing some sarcasm towards the ineffective bureaucracy, Gohmert says, “The truth is it ought to scare people because Homeland Security is so overwhelmed in trying to bring in and ship around illegal aliens and give amnesty to as many people as they can.” He faults the focus on lawbreaking and circumvention as the reason why, “They can’t do something as simple as protect the United States Capitol.”
He continues, saying, “A lot of people thought the fourth plane that those American heroes took down in Pennsylvania was probably going for the White House, information I had was he was going to the Capitol. And there are some surveys that show that the U.S. Capitol is the most recognized building in the world.”
APRIL 19, 2015 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2015, 10:07 AM
BY MIKE KELLY
RECORD COLUMINIST |
THE RECORD
AFTER THE White House announced last week that it wanted to remove Cuba from America’s list of state sponsors of terrorism, it sent a report to Congress.
This was hardly unusual. When the president makes a decision on an important aspect of national policy, his staff often writes a report for the Senate and House. But this report was somewhat unusual. It contained a message for New Jersey.
Without mentioning New Jersey or any other specific names, the White House report addressed Cuba’s decision to offer political asylum to a group of notorious fugitives who fled from America law enforcement authorities years ago and have been living freely ever since on the island nation.
The most notable member of that gang is Joanne Chesimard, a key figure in the Black Liberation Army who was convicted in the murder of a New Jersey state trooper in 1973 during a gunfight after a traffic stop on the turnpike. After escaping from a New Jersey women’s prison in 1979, Chesimard slipped into the secretive world of America’s radical underground and then made her way to Cuba, where she was welcomed by Fidel Castro’s government as a revolutionary and granted political asylum.
Another notorious figure now living in Cuba is William Morales, the Puerto Rican nationalist who is believed to have built the bomb that blew up New York City’s Fraunces Tavern in 1975, killing four people, including a Fair Lawn man.
Uber, Lyft Rider Safety or Union Push to Raise Rates
APRIL 18, 2015, 3:27 PM LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2015, 3:27 PM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft could be driven out of New Jersey if a bill lawmakers are considering becomes law.
That’s at least what the transportation network companies faced with potential new regulations say. Lawmakers, unionized taxicab drivers and other supporters of the legislation argue the bill promotes public safety.
Lawmakers across the country are beginning to turn their attention to regulating ride-hailing firms. Already eight states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws addressing them, according to a tally from the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, a trade group that supports the bill in New Jersey. Four other states await action on measures from their governors.
In New Jersey, legislators are beginning to focus on Gov. Chris Christie’s 2016 budget, so a bipartisan measure regulating the ride-hailing companies is stalled at the moment after passing an Assembly committee in March — though lawmakers and other observers are optimistic it will continue to weave its way through the Legislature.
A similar bill in the state Senate is awaiting committee action. Christie typically does not comment on bills before they reach his desk.
The legislation calls for a number of new requirements, including requiring ride-hailing firms to display a Motor Vehicle Commission marker when drivers are searching for fares, background checks for drivers as well as safety inspections for vehicles.
Proponents argue the measure protects riders from public safety concerns by requiring criminal background checks through the State Police. They also say the bill would “level the playing field” between ride-hailing firms, which frequently charge lower rates, and taxis, which are already heavily regulated.
Lionel Leach, the president of Communication Workers of America Local 1039, which represents about 300 cab drivers in New Jersey, pointed to a recent news report that alleged a rider nearly became the robbery victim of a driver. New Jersey does not track crime statistics by cab, livery or ride-hailing services, making claims difficult to vet.
Leach says companies like Uber have given taxicab drivers a wakeup call by innovating and that ride-booking companies improve the industry overall. “Look, at the end of the day, it’s great technology,” he said. “But my concern is not about how cheap their fares are. It’s the public safety part of it.”
The companies say they’re dedicated to safety. Uber announced plans last month to establish a safety advisory board to review the firm’s practices.
Uber and Lyft have also taken steps to expand insurance coverage, a major sticking point in the regulations debate.
APRIL 19, 2015, 10:36 AM LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2015, 10:36 AM
BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Republican or Democrat, the next president will have the chance to remake the nation’s health care overhaul without fighting Congress.
The law signed by President Barack Obama includes a waiver that, starting in 2017, would let states take federal dollars now invested in the overhaul and use them to redesign their own health care systems.
States could not repeal some things, such as the requirement that insurance companies cover people with health problems. But they could replace the law’s unpopular mandate that virtually everyone in the country has health insurance, provided the alternative worked reasonably well.
A Democrat in the White House probably would use the waiver to build bridges to Republican governors and state legislators opposed to the law. The “state innovation” provision, Section 1332 of the nearly 1,000-page law, has gotten little public attention.
But “you would be hard pressed to find a state that doesn’t know what Section 1332 is,” said Trish Riley, executive director the National Academy for State Health Policy, a nonpartisan forum for state policymakers. “It provides some opportunity for taking the rough edges” off the Affordable Care Act, as the law is known.
For a Republican president, state waivers could be the fallback option to avoid the political cost of dismantling Obama’s law and disrupting or jeopardizing coverage for millions of newly insured people, not to mention the upheaval for insurers, hospitals and doctors.
“If you were a Republican on record as opposing or wanting to repeal the ACA, but really felt deep down that you couldn’t accomplish that even as president, then you could say your second preference would be to use this provision to go down a completely different road,” said Stuart Butler, a health policy expert at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution.
Butler, who was with the conservative Heritage Foundation for 35 years, has long been a voice for Republican thinking on health care policy. “The short answer is, this presents a tremendous opportunity for either party,” he said.
The state waiver was the idea of Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, who has a record of crossing party lines in search of ways to tackle health care costs and coverage.
APRIL 19, 2015 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2015, 10:24 AM
BY HUGH R. MORLEY
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
What can New Jersey — once the home of storied inventors like Thomas Edison and the Bell and Sarnoff labs — do to get its innovation mojo back?
That question held center stage at a forum of business and civic leaders in Newark last week that outlined a way to jump-start New Jersey’s struggling economy by tapping into the traits that once made the state a thriving, innovation powerhouse.
The success of Bell Labs, created in 1925 with a staff of 4,000 scientists and engineers, has become a symbol of New Jersey’s former stellar, and now greatly diminished, technological prowess.
The laboratory’s string of groundbreaking discoveries, ranging from laser spectroscopy, cosmic microwave background radiation, the first orbiting communications satellite (Telstar), a solar battery cell and the UNIX operating system that transformed the Internet, garnered eight Nobel prizes and 32,000 patents — a daunting legacy that hangs over the state’s efforts to restore its reputation as a high-tech center.
APRIL 18, 2015, 10:59 PM LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2015, 9:17 A
BY BOB KLAPISCH
RECORD BASEBALL COLUMNIST |
THE RECORD
Good luck to anyone trying to figure why Alex Rodriguez has become the Yankees’ best hitter, despite all the factors that should’ve been working against him. That includes his age, the yearlong drug suspension, two surgically repaired hips and going cold turkey on PEDs. We think.
Let’s address this last point first. I have to assume Rodriguez is playing clean in 2015; it would be professional suicide to resume cheating after being caught, confessing and being subjected to industrywide humiliation. Not even A-Rod is pathological enough to return to the scene of the crime — even though, remember, he never did test positive.
But let’s give the slugger the benefit of the doubt in exploring why he went into Saturday night’s game against Tampa Bay with a team-best .344 average, four home runs and .781 slugging percentage. It’s great news for manager Joe Girardi, whose lineup needs the boost, as well as the fans, who are panicking at possibly missing the playoffs for the third straight year while the crosstown Mets are surging.
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Ridgewood, NJ will conduct its 11th Annual Service of Healing on Sunday, April 26th at 1pm. The church is located at 155 Linwood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ. 201-444-3600.
The worship service will be led by The Rev. Andrew D. Nelson. Thisservice is being held in cooperation with the Parish Nurse/Care Ministry atThe focus of this worship service will be wholeness. Healing does notmean just the lack of illness or disability. The root of the word “heal” meanswholeness.
As Christians, we remember that our wholeness involves harmony in all areas of our lives- body, mind and spirit, with Christ at its center. Christian healing directs us toward being the person God is calling us to be at every stage of our living and our dying. For some, healing is comfort, for some, strength, for others, physical healing.
Through prayer, anointing with oil and confession we cast our burdens on the Lord. We confess that Jesus meets us in our brokenness and pain and brings His love to bear – forgiving, transforming, redeeming and healing by His grace. Jesus does this in God’s way, in God’s time, and according to God’s loving purpose for each individual.
Our physical, mental and emotional hurts and ills are not signs of God’s rejection but symptoms of our fallen world in which sin and death reign. We are invited by God to commend our ills on Him for this life, realizing that ultimate healing awaits us in heaven.
Please join us as we come together for this renewal of body, mind and spirit on Sunday, April 26th at 4pm. Light refreshments will follow in the parlor. All are welcome, bring a friend!
The members of Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgewood want you to know that God has a plan for you and He loves you. Our faith is in Christ. Our guide is in the Bible. Our love is for all. Come celebrate with us.
Bethlehem has active ministries in music, education, community outreach and sports. For our regular worship schedule, we offer 2 Sunday services: Contemporary Praise Service at 8:45am and Traditional Worship at 11am with Sunday School and Bible Class at 10am. Please join us at 155 Linwood Avenue, The mission of Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church is to Trust God and care for His people by sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ in our world, community, work, church, and home. Please visit our website www.bethlehemchurch.com
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, reflected on his heritage Saturday in calling for a renewed emphasis on pursuing the American dream.
Jindal spoke of his parents immigrating from India to Baton Rouge, La., where he was born months later, joking about his dad missing a hospital payment and forcing the couple to return the baby.
“We used to be proud to call America the great melting pot,” Jindal said later in his remarks at the First In The Nation leadership summit in New Hampshire, noting his parents were proud of their heritage.
Chinese Mahjong, Instructional, Tuesday, April 17, 7pm. Registration required and space limited. Please contact Jin Lee at [email protected] or 201-670-5600, ext. 125. Drop-in practice, Tuesday, April 24, 10am. No registration required.
Highlights of Italian Opera: La Traviata, Sunday, April 19, 2pm. Sung by students of tenor Francisco Casanova. All welcome. Donations are greatly appreciated.
Mysterious China, Tuesday, April 21, 6:30pm. Dr. Jim Kane shares lecture of his 300-mile journey. Free, all welcome. Light refreshments.
Women & Finance, Thursday, April 23, 7pm. RW resident and UBS VP Kathy Entwistle and guest speaker, Randi Bale, teach how to improve your financial picture and get your life in order. All welcome.
MakerSpace Saturday: Poetry Magnets, Saturday, April 25, 11am-12pm. Drop in to celebrate April Poetry Month. Complimentary for RW residents; $5/project for visitors. Kids under 10 should be accompanied by an adult.
Rave On!, Sunday, April 26, 2pm. Classic early rock from Buddy Holly, Orbison, more. All welcome. Donations are greatly appreciated.
*NEW* Memoir Writing Club, Tuesday, April 28, 3pm. Ever think your life story could be a novel? Want to share your family stories with future generations? We have a new writing group to help turn your memories into memoirs. No writing experience required. Contact Kerri for more information at [email protected] or 201-670-5600, ext. 103.
Documentary Screening—Blue Gold: World Water Wars (2008, 90 min), Wednesday, April 29, 7pm. What can we do to save our dwindling water supply? Screening of award-winning documentary followed by q&a with Barry Scheibner, business manager, Ridgewood Water. Co-sponsored by the Ridgewood Environmental Advisory Committee (REAC) and the League of Women Voters of Ridgewood.
World Language Café: Italian, Thursday, April 30, 2-3pm. Meet in our auditorium and brush up on your Italian. Registration required and space is limited. Register atwww.ridgewoodlibrary.org or contact Kerri at 201-670-5600, ext. 103 [email protected].
Making a Good Impressionism, Thursday, April 30, 6:30pm. French Impressionist and American paintings from art museums of Montclair, Princeton University and Newark. Speaker: Dr. Michael Norris. Free, all welcome. Light refreshments.
Ridgewood Library Valley Hospital Wellness Partnership
Saving the Spring in Your Step, Tuesday, April 28, 7-8:30pm. Foot and ankle problems are caused by injuries, diabetes, arthritis, genetics—or maybe just the wrong shoes. Learn about prevention, symptoms and relief. Speaker: Dr. Andrew Brief, M.D., orthopedic surgeon. All welcome, registration required. To register: 1-800-825-5391 or www.valleyhealth.com/events.
Local History & Genealogy
Internet Genealogy, Monday, April 20, 7pm. Learn the best steps to accessing genealogy records and information on the Internet. For info/registration, please contact Sarah Kiefer [email protected] or 201-670-5600, ext. 135.
Researching Civil War Ancestors, Saturday, April 25, 10:30am. For info/registration, please contact Sarah Kiefer at [email protected] or 201-670-5600, ext. 135.
Ellis Island, Monday, Monday, April 27, 7pm. Monthly meeting of the Genealogical Society of Bergen County. All welcome.
Great Decisions Discussion Group
“Sectarianism in the Middle East,” Thursday, April 23, 12:30-2pm. Many of the current Middle East conflicts have been attributed to sectarianism, a politicization of ethnic and religious identity. How have governments manipulated sectarian differences? And what is the U.S. doing about it? Pre-registration and readings required. Please contact Eileen Colyer at 201-670-5600, ext. 132 or [email protected].
ESL for Adults
Spring Conversation Group, Wednesdays, 1-2:30pm, March 18-May 6. No class on April 1. Free for all ESL students. No registration required. For info, contact Eileen Colyer, ext. 132 [email protected].
Readers Choice Book Group
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Friday, April 17, 1-2:30pm. Copies available at the Circulation desk. Led by Dr. Ginny Hyman.
Movies
Monday Night Movie, Birdman (2014; R; 119 min), Monday, April 20, 6:30pm. Washed-up actor tries to overcome former superhero role. Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone. Academy Award Best Picture.
Friday Matinee, Gone Girl (2014; R; 149 min), Friday, April 24, 1pm. When Amy disappears, her husband is suspected of murder. Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike
Aye, robot? Amazingly lifelike humanoid that can react to facial expressions, engage in conversation and even make eye contact
Robot has been drawing crowds at Hong Kong electronics event this week It can recognise and respond to human facial expressions in natural way Known as Ham, the head was designed by US firm Hanson Robotics Made using soft-bodied mechanical engineering and nanotechnology
By JACK CRONE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 12:14 EST, 18 April 2015 | UPDATED: 12:55 EST, 18 April 2015
With his lively eyebrows, winkled cheeks and eyes that follow you around the room – this state-of-the-art robotic head is menacingly lifelike.
The humanoid, known as Ham, has been drawing in crowds with his incredible range of facial expressions at an electronics event in Hong Kong this week.
The head, designed by American robotics designer David Hanson, is able to answer basic questions and can also be used in the simulation of medical scenarios.
Ham is currently on exhibit at the Global Sources spring electronics show at AsiaWorld Expo – the largest event of its kind in the world, with more than 4,000 booths displaying the latest gadgets.
The head is created with malleable material called Frubber using soft-bodied mechanical engineering and nanotechnology.
It contains realistic pores that measure just 4 to 40 nanometers across (there are 10million nanometers in one centimetre).
