The Ridgewood Art Institute Announces the September 2013 Artists of the Month!!
Author: James
Labor Day has arrived and with it comes the unofficial end of summer and the back-to -school routine.
there is no substitute for hard work, Thomas Edison
Labor Day has arrived and with it comes the unofficial end of summer and the back-to -school routine.
A Labor Day Message from Bergen County Executive Kathleen A. Donovan
For those who enjoy summer, you have my sympathy on its imminent demise; for those who enjoy the brisk fall weather and football games, I share your anticipation. For the children who are going back to school, all I can say is that I am sure your parents are thrilled that you will be continuing your education.
But before we close the book on Summer 2013, I want to pay to honor to the real meaning of Labor Day – which is to recognize the struggle of workers who built this nation by the sweat of their brow, their brawn, their creativity and dedication.
I want to honor those who have fought for workplace fairness and the legacy they have left for us. We owe a special debt to the men and women of the union movement, who, for decades, struggled to improve workplace safety, fought for honest wages, and the benefits that we all take for granted.
Worker activists in the U.S. began fighting for worker rights and recognition of labor’s value to our nation in the late 1800’s. In 1887 New Jersey became one of the first states to officially recognize a holiday celebrating labor’s contributions. In the middle of the next decade Congress created the first national Labor Day.
Whether you are a card carrying member of a union, or a government or corporate employee — the contribution you are making to your company or organization, and most importantly, to your family, deserves recognition.
Through the last century and into this one, American men and women have led the world in worker productivity and inventiveness. When called upon, as they were in World War II, American workers responded to our nation’s needs.
Today American workers are making quality products that are second to none, and they are leading the way in information age technology products and services.
America’s greatness and its future are found in the men and women who roll up their sleeves every day and do their work with pride and dedication.
Please, enjoy your Labor Day holiday, spend it with family and friends, and recognize the work you do that allows you to live independent lives, contributes to your community, our economy and the future of America.
Driver fails to negotiate curve and slams into utility pole
photo by Boyd Loving
Driver fails to negotiate curve and slams into utility pole
September 2,2013
Boyd A. Loving
2:56 PM
Photo credit: Boyd A. Loving
Ridgewood NJ, The driver of a Lexus SUV heading northbound on South Maple Avenue in Ridgewood failed to negotiate a curve and slammed head on into a utility pole on Monday afternoon.
Fortunately, the driver was spared injury as a result of the vehicle’s air bags having been deployed. The vehicle however was much less fortunate; it sustained extensive front end damage and had to be towed from the scene by a flatbed tow truck.
Ridgewood PD Patrol Officers Paul Dinice (left ) and Patrick Elwood (right ) responded to investigate the accident and handle traffic control. South Maple Avenue remained open throughout the incident, although traffic flow was restricted to the southbound lane only.
Photo credit: Boyd A. Loving
DEA uses vast phone trove, eclipsing NSA
DEA uses vast phone trove, eclipsing NSA
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans’ phone calls — parallel to but covering a far longer time than theNational Security Agency’s hotly disputed collection of phone call logs. NY Times
Citing Obamacare, 40,000 Longshoremen Quit the AFL-CIO
Citing Obamacare, 40,000 Longshoremen Quit the AFL-CIO
In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the nation’s largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied Obamacare and immigration reform as two important causes of their disaffiliation.
In an August 29 letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, ILWU President Robert McEllrath cited quite a list of grievances as reasons for the disillusion of their affiliation, but prominent among them was the AFL-CIO’s support of Obamare.
“We feel the Federation has done a great disservice to the labor movement and all working people by going along to get along,” McEllrath wrote in the letter to Trumka.
The ILWU President made it clear they are for a single-payer, nationalized healthcare policy and are upset with the AFL-CIO for going along with Obama on the confiscatory tax on their “Cadillac” healthcare plan.
The Longshoreman leader said, “President Obama ran on a platform that he would not tax medical plans and at the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention, you stated that labor would not stand for a tax on our benefits.” But, regardless of that promise, the President has pushed for just such a tax and Trumka and the AFL-CIO bowed to political pressure lining up behind Obama’s tax on those plans.
McEllrath also went on to say that they support stronger immigration reform than the AFL-CIO is supporting.
Cory Booker Walks Back Opposition To Military Intervention In Syria
Cory Booker Walks Back Opposition To Military Intervention In Syria
After making an impassioned case earlier this week against another war, the senate candidate defers to Obama’s judgement. “I expect that the president will clearly delineate what the strategic objectives are,” says Booker. posted on August 31, 2013 at 8:05pm EDT
LONG BRANCH, N.J. — On Wednesday, Cory Booker’s position on military intervention in Syria was clear: He opposed it.
In an interview on HuffPost Live, Booker said that he was “profoundly war weary”; that the United States “should not be going to war” or “unleashing missiles”; and that he disagreed with President Obama, his biggest booster, on whether the use of chemical weapons automatically requires a military response.
“I’m not drawing the red line that I know the Obama administration did,” he said.
Booker, the Newark mayor and frontrunner to replace the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg in the U.S. Senate this October, is already a Democratic Party star. And he emerged that day, somewhat unexpectedly, as one of the party’s biggest names resisting action in Syria — just as Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry were readying an aggressive case to do the opposite.
But by Friday, as the White House made a public push for a strike on Syria, Booker softened his anti-war language and emphasized that, as a candidate, he does not have access to the intelligence briefings offered to sitting members of Congress.
By Saturday morning, after the administration declassified information about the gas attack that killed more than 1,400 people last Wednesday, Booker said his “default position [was] peace and non-violence always,” but suggested that he’d wait to see “what the president decides.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/cory-booker-walks-back-opposition-to-military-intervention-i
Is America Still the Land of Labor?
Is America Still the Land of Labor?
09/02/2013
For all the talk these days of how to revive our supposedly moribund American Dream, it took a college dropout-turned-actor to state the obvious.
“I believe that opportunity looks a lot like work,” Ashton Kutcher recently said at the Teen Choice Awards. “I never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a stepping stone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.”
That such remarks made national headlines is revealing of the battered state of our once robust culture of work. In America, we no longer extol hard work the way we used to. For every movie that celebrates drive and dedication, Hollywood churns out dozens featuring irresponsible, dim-witted, lazy bumblers. The “work is for suckers” mentality is no longer confined to a few marginal Huck Finns: “Seinfeld’s” permanently unemployed Kramer is a cultural icon.
Public opinion has also become much more tolerant of idleness. When Alexis de Tocqueville travelled through America in the 1830s, he was struck by the very strong prejudice in favor of work:
I sometimes met rich young people, enemies by temperament of every painful effort, who had been forced to take up a profession. Their nature and their fortune permitted them to remain idle; public opinion imperiously forbade it to them, and they had to obey.
Public opinion imperiously forbids many things today, including smoking and not recycling, but not working is most definitely not one of them. We have not (yet) become a nation of slackers, mooches, and loafers, but we may reasonably wonder whether America is still “the Land of Labor,” as Benjamin Franklin described the country to prospective immigrants.
The erosion of our culture of work has profound ramifications for the health of the American Dream. Along with economic freedom, a culture that sustains, encourages, and honors hard work is one of the twin pillars that make the American Dream possible. The American Dream, after all, is dreamed by dreamers—but achieved by workers.
This is how our great apostle of upward mobility, Frederick Douglass, summed up his message to those trying to get ahead in life:
WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put, and which, in both temporal and spiritual affairs, is the true miracle worker.
On this Labor Day, let us then remind ourselves that opportunity does indeed look a lot like work. Let us exhort people to work hard, persevere, and give it all they have, rather than sapping their spirits by emphasizing all that is unfair in life and channeling their energies toward demanding more from others.
Let us ask, “What can I do for myself and my fellow citizens?” and not “What must my country do for me?” And let us draw inspiration from those who have succeeded through their own efforts, rather than foster resentment by recasting their success as inequality.
The History and Symbolism of Labor Day
The History and Symbolism of Labor Day
Observed on the first Monday in September, Labor Day pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers. It was created by the labor movement in the late 19th century and became a federal holiday in 1894. Labor Day also symbolizes the end of summer for many Americans, and is celebrated with parties, parades and athletic events. ( https://www.history.com/topics/labor-day )
The History of Labor Day
Labor Day: How it Came About; What it Means
Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.
Labor Day Legislation
Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor Day. The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From these, a movement developed to secure state legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
Founder of Labor Day
More than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, there is still some doubt as to who first proposed the holiday for workers.
Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, was first in suggesting a day to honor those “who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold.”
But Peter McGuire’s place in Labor Day history has not gone unchallenged. Many believe that Matthew Maguire, a machinist, not Peter McGuire, founded the holiday. Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J., proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic.
The First Labor Day
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.
In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a “workingmen’s holiday” on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country.
A Nationwide Holiday
The form that the observance and celebration of Labor Day should take was outlined in the first proposal of the holiday — a street parade to exhibit to the public “the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations” of the community, followed by a festival for the recreation and amusement of the workers and their families. This became the pattern for the celebrations of Labor Day. Speeches by prominent men and women were introduced later, as more emphasis was placed upon the economic and civic significance of the holiday. Still later, by a resolution of the American Federation of Labor convention of 1909, the Sunday preceding Labor Day was adopted as Labor Sunday and dedicated to the spiritual and educational aspects of the labor movement.
The character of the Labor Day celebration has undergone a change in recent years, especially in large industrial centers where mass displays and huge parades have proved a problem. This change, however, is more a shift in emphasis and medium of expression. Labor Day addresses by leading union officials, industrialists, educators, clerics and government officials are given wide coverage in newspapers, radio, and television.
The vital force of labor added materially to the highest standard of living and the greatest production the world has ever known and has brought us closer to the realization of our traditional ideals of economic and political democracy. It is appropriate, therefore, that the nation pay tribute on Labor Day to the creator of so much of the nation’s strength, freedom, and leadership — the American worker.
https://www.dol.gov/laborday/history.htm
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10 recipes for the perfect Labor Day barbecue
10 recipes for the perfect Labor Day barbecue
Published August 29, 2013
FoxNews.com
While summer may be coming to a close, the end of grilling season is still a long way away. This Labor Day, take advantage of the fact that the old Weber isn’t covered with snow or plastered with rotting leaves. Think about it. You’ve only got a few more weeks before summer is over and the neighbors think you’re crazy for firing up the grill in a blizzard.
To aid in your Labor Day celebration, we’ve come up with a list of recipes that pay tribute to summer and welcome the fall. From barbecued turkey wings to a fall berry cocktail, we’ve compiled all the makings of an epic Labor Day feast. So turn on the grill, loosen that belt and let the Labor Day party begin.
https://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/08/29/10-recipes-for-perfect-labor-day-barbecue/
Radio Talk Show Host Mark Levin Continues to Comment on interaction he had at Bookends over “natural-born Citizen.”
Radio Talk Show Host Mark Levin Continues to Comment on interaction he had at Bookends over “natural-born Citizen.”
Hey PJ:
New radio commentary from Mr. Levin from the first hour of his nationwide show on Thursday, August 29th seems to show that the interaction he had with the Ridgewood man at Bookends is still sticking in his craw. Note at least one detail he provides for the first time during his August 29th broadcast (by employing the technique of a simulated colloquy) corresponds with a detail provided by a witness and publicized previously by you in this article (“After cursing at the challenger, Mark replied: “I never said he was a natural-born Citizen.”, upon which his challenger said: “But you must be a natural-born Citizen to be President!”. Mark then said: “No you don’t!”, and the challenger said “Yes, you do. Read the Constitution.”). This seem to show that he is once again alluding to events that occurred on Sunday, August 18th at Bookends in Ridgewood.
Anyway, here’s what Mark Levin said on his radio program on Thursday, August 29th. FYI, a segment about a critic of Levin’s new book precedes the segment about Cruz’s eligibility (it’s relevant, trust me):
Partial Transcript of the Mark Levin Show aired live on Thursday, August 29, 2013
(prepared using the podcast recording of the show provided free of charge at https://www.marklevinshow.com)
[start at 13:30 of the podcast recording]
Mark Levin: [Discussing a critic of his latest book “The Liberty Amendments, Restoring the American Republic”] It’s hilarious! [chuckles] But it’s really kinda … thin stuff. Silly stuff. I’m thinkin’, this guy used to run Pepperdine? And he’s at the Hoover Institute? David Davenport? That’s scary! And I may or may not address this later. I think I will. And, uh…the person who I will have on, his name is Rob Nadelson. Senior fellow in Constitutional Jurispri … prudence at the Independence Institute, the Montana Policy Institute, he’s a former law school professor, and he’s a scholar. And there are others. We had Randy Barnett on here. Georgetown University Law School. Professor. Great guy. Brilliant! I don’t always agree with him, but I don’t always agree with anybody. And he was on here last week. And what do the opponents have? Scare tactics, generalities, superficiality? I mean, folks … they can support the status quo. They can pretend that we’ll elect sixty conservatives to the senate, over and over and over again, to reverse course. They can pretend that all we need is a Republican president, to keep nominating Republicans to the Supreme Court. We’ve been doing that, by the way, for a long time! Somehow they progress, they evolve. But we’re in this position today, where the Constitution is really abused. It’s been disassembled. And some of us want to bring it back together. And then he says I must be the utopian. I must be the czar coming up with these amendments. Ladies and gentlemen, he clearly didn’t read the book! What do I say in the first chapter? These are just my reform proposals. My amendment proposals. Obviously, I’m not king of some state convention! The delegates to the state convention, they’ll make up their own minds, based on what the state legislature suggest that they do! I’m laying them out as what I consider possibilities that actually might help us! But I have no way of imposing them! So how am I a czar? This is what I mean. This guy used to head Pepperdine, and now he’s at the Hoover Institute! It’s stupid! You want to address this issue, I warn all you liberal crackpots, all the pseudo-conservatives, all the guys with degrees and the … and the funny hats at graduation and all the rest, I want to warn you all! You better be prepared. Because some of us has actually really, really dug in to this, and we know far more than you’ll ever know. So when you come up with your scare tactics, and your silly arguments, and you … and you throw your myths around, some of us do know what the framers said! Some of us actually know what the founding fathers said. Some of us actually know what occurred before the nation actually became a nation. What conventions were. How they were conducted. Who sent delagates. How they were selected. How they voted. We know! And you don’t. It’s obvious. With your silly … articles. But we’re ready! I’m ready. I can’t wait! But they don’t matter, ladies and gentlemen, you matter! It’s important that you’re convinced! Which is why I wrote “The Liberty Amendments”. And not one of these people so far, has proposed a serious alternative for restoring the republic. Not one! Because they have none. Not one of them has proposed a serious alternative based on what our framers said, and wrote! Not one! [Bumper music begins playing softly] They defend the status quo! And they pretend the status quo, is what the framers would support! Out of one side of their mouth, and out of the other side of their mouth, they condemn what Washington is doing. They don’t make sense! It’s time to give it up! It’s time to embrace what the framers said. Alright, more when I return! [Bumper music grows louder]
[Cut to different bumper music at 17:50 of the podcast recording (new segment)]
Announcer: This is America’s Constitutional Convention! The Mark Levin Show! Call in now. (877) 381-3811.
Mark Levin: Alright, we got a full board, I’ll get to the callers in a second. I want to throw this issue out there. Ready for this one? Uh, oh, here it comes! Do you know Ted Cruz, Mr. Producer? You’ve heard of that name? Senator from Texas? He’s an American Citizen. A naturalized American Citizen. He can run for President of the United States. Oh, it’s true! It’s true! Here’s the Cato Institute, of all places, libertarian think tank, Ilya Shapiro. “As we head into a potential government shutdown over the funding of Obamacare, the iconoclastic junior senator from Texas continues to stride across the national stage. And with his presidential aspirations as big as everything in his home state”, writes this writer, “by now many know what has never been a secret. Ted Cruz was born in Canada.” [Shouting] Oh my God! [Speaking at normal volume] “But does that mean that Cruz’s presidential ambitions are gummed up with marble [sic] syrup, or stuck in snowdrifts altogether different from those plaguing the Iowa Caucuses? Are the birthers now hoist on their own petards, having been unable to find any proof that Obama was born outside the Uni …” Uh, oh! “…by forcing their comrade in boots to disqualify himself by releasing his Alberta birth certificate? No, actually it’s not even that complicated. You just have to look up the right law. It boils down to whether … wh … ba … whether Cruz is a natural-born Citizen” … quote, unquote … “of the United States. The only class of people constitutionally eligible for the Presidency. You see, the founding fathers didn’t want their newly independent nation to be taken over by foreigners on the sly. So what’s a natural-born Citizen?” Well, may I add this? It’s not in the column. Seems like every jerk with access to Google has decided what a natural-born Citizen is. And they insist that everybody agree with them! “… but the Constitution doesn’t say. But the framers’ understanding, combined with statutes enacted by the first Congress, indicate that the phrase means both birth abroad to American parents, in a manner regulated by federal law, and birth within the nation’s territory, regardless of parental citizenship. The Supreme Court has confirmed that definition on multiple occasions and in various contexts.” [Shouting] Oh my God! [Speaking at normal volume] It’s true! [Shouting] Wait a minute! We have a meeting scheduled in my mother’s basement to go over this, eh … eh … we’re gonna, we’re gonna post a lotta comments on the Mark Levin eh … eh social sites! [Speaking at normal volume] Let me continue. “There’s no ideological debate here. Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe and former Solicitor General Ted Olson, who were on opposite sides in Bush v. Gore, among other cases, coauthored a memorandum on March 2008 detailing the above legal explanation in the context of John McCain’s eligibility. Recall that McCain, lately one of Cruz’s chief antagonists, was born to U.S. citizen parents serving on a military base in the Panama Canal Zone. In other words, anyone who is a citizen at birth, as opposed to someone who becomes a citizen later, that is, naturalizes, or who isn’t a citizen at all, is what we’re talking about. So the one remaining question is whether Ted Cruz was a citizen at birth. And that’s an easy one. The Nationality Act of 1940 outlines which children became nationals and citizens in the United States at birth. In addition to those who were born in the United States, or born outside the country to parents who were both citizens, or, interestingly, found in the United States without parents and no proof of birth elsewhere…” That would be people from Mars, I think… “…citizenship goes to babies born to one American parent who has spent a certain number of years here. That single parent requirement has been amended several times, but under the law in effect between 1952 and 1986 – Cruz was born in 1970 – someone must have a citizen parent who resided in the United States for at least ten years, including five after the age of fourteen, in order to be considered a natural-born Citizen. Cruz’s mother, Eleanor Darragh, was born in Delaware, …” Is Delaware part of America? I think so. “… lived most of her life in the United States, and gave birth to little Rafael Edward Cruz in her thirties. So why all the brouhaha about where Obama was born, given there’s no dispute that his mother, Ann Dunham, was a citizen?” Oh lord, I go down this … this road, all the kooks will be shooting at me. And he says “It may be politically advantageous for Ted Cruz to renounce his Canadian citizenship before making a run for the White House, but his eligibility for that office shouldn’t be in doubt. Remember George Romney? Born in Mexico. Remember Barry Goldwater? Born in the Arizona Territory. Cruz is certainly not the hypothetical foreigner who John Jay and George Washington were concerned might usurp the role of Commander-in-Chief.” Here’s the practical problem, … uh, in addition to all this. Do you think any court in the land … any court, because, you have to adjudicate this, right? Do you think any court in the land is gonna say “You know what? You were born of an American citizen mother in Canada, therefore you’re disqualified”? There’s really no historical basis for this. And actually, I could have added to this piece, you look at the 1790 Naturalization Act, which had some very terrible things in it, by the way, Cruz would qualify under the 1790 Naturalization Act! And there were a lot of …. founding fathers involved in that Act … the act of the first Congress. So can we cut it out? No. No, pe … people do not want to cut it out, they’re gonna keep it up, there gonna show up here and there, waving some crap in front of my face or somebody else’s, [Shouts] “Don’t you read the Constitution?” Yes. [Shouts] “It says natural-born Citizen!” Yes. [Shouts] “Well look at that.” I did read it. It says natural-born Citizen. He’s born of an American mother. [Shouts] “Yeah, well it doesn’t mean that.” Well, what does it mean? “Hey look! Haven’t you read the book by Cuckoo Clock over here, and uh, eh …” Please. Save it for somebody else. As a matter of fact, bother Hannity. Leave me alone. Leave me alone. No, Mr. Call Screener, no calls on this either. I’m just not interested. This bores me, the whole topic. I’m just raising it, to address it, knock it down, done with it, hopefully never to be spoken again on the Mark Levin Show. Let’s take some calls, shall we? Kerry – Houston, Texas. The great KTRH country, home of my buddy Michael Berry. Go!
[end at 25:58 of the podcast recording]
Tougher N.J. teacher evaluations aim to highlight the best
Tougher N.J. teacher evaluations aim to highlight the best
Saturday, August 31, 2013 Last updated: Sunday September 1, 2013, 12:21 AM
BY LESLIE BRODY
STAFF WRITER
The Record
After years of pressure from sources as varied as President Obama and Governor Christie, teachers in New Jersey will face more stringent evaluations than ever when schools open in the coming days.
The push to improve teacher quality through tougher evaluations has intensified across the country in response to widespread concern that too many American students lag far behind their competitors abroad.
If all goes as Trenton officials intend, school administrators will spend more time in classrooms, checking how well their teachers engage students and prod them to think analytically. Teachers will also be judged by their students’ progress — not just on academic tests, but also in tasks like singing scales in music and doing sit-ups in gym.
Both Obama and Christie have expressed faith that changing the “drive-by” evaluations of the past, which blessed nearly everyone with a good rating, will create pressure for better instruction.
Many teachers, however, are leery. Their unions across the country have been adamant in arguing that one linchpin of new evaluations in many states — using test scores to isolate a teacher’s impact on students’ growth — has serious flaws in methodology. And many principals, who face more rigorous reviews themselves, wonder how they will find time to orchestrate more frequent, time-consuming classroom observations.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/NJ_teachers_to_face_tougher_evaluations_with_goal_of_highlighting_the_best.html#sthash.QLpzaMX1.dpuf
Labor Day Observance – September 2
Labor Day Observance – September 2
In observance of Labor Day, Village offices will be closed Monday, September 2. There will also be no garbage or recycling collection that day. The Recycling Center on E. Glen Avenue will also be closed.
All offices and services resume operation Tuesday, September 2.
Playing for time: Can music stave off dementia?
Playing for time: Can music stave off dementia?
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN
updated 7:21 AM EDT, Sat August 31, 2013
(CNN) — At 101, Frank Iacono still plays the violin. The concertmaster for the Providence Civic Orchestra of Senior Citizens in Rhode Island, he particularly enjoys playing polkas and jigs.
“It keeps my mind active, and it gives me a lot of pleasure,” Iacono said.
The orchestra’s executive director and co-founder, Vito Saritelli, said Iacono is extremely sharp for his age.
“Music has played a good part of his longevity,” said his wife, Mary Iacono, 94. “We’re blessed that we’re both in good health.”
Music meets medicine
As scientists race to figure out how to promote healthy aging of the brain, and prevent dementia, their preliminary advice for senior citizens has become a chorus of voices: “Stay active! Have hobbies! Be socially engaged!”
https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/31/health/music-dementia-link/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1
Article submitted by the Ridgewood Concert Band
Reader says Booker is s more interested in his celebrity than doing anything that makes a difference
Reader says Booker is s more interested in his celebrity than doing anything that makes a difference
If Booker is gay, then he’s an ineffective gay mayor. If he’s black, then he’s an ineffective black mayor. If he’s a man, then he’s an ineffective male mayor.
I just see him as an ineffective mayor – period. Nice guy, but he is more interested in his celebrity than doing anything that makes a difference. I predict he’ll be an ineffective senator.
