Five new J.D. Salinger novels to be released starting in 2015
From ASSOCIATED PRESS
Last Updated: 2:33 PM, August 25, 2013
Posted: 8:49 AM, August 25, 2013
The authors of a new J.D. Salinger biography are claiming they have cracked one of publishing’s greatest mysteries: What “The Catcher in the Rye” novelist was working on during the last half century of his life.
Starting sometime between 2015 and 2020, a series of posthumous Salinger releases are planned, according to “Salinger,” co-written by David Shields and Shane Salerno, whose book will be published Sept. 3. The Associated Press obtained an early copy. Salerno’s documentary on the author is scheduled to come out Sept. 6.
A too-quiet summer for some Jersey Shore towns
Sunday, August 25, 2013 Last updated: Monday August 26, 2013, 4:40 AM
BY KAREN SUDOL AND KATHLEEN LYNN
STAFF WRITERS
The Record
Every time a new business reopens in the tiny Shore town of Sea Bright, Mayor Dina Long tweets about it, considering each a celebratory milestone for the borough that was wiped out by Superstorm Sandy.
“I do it so that people know that Sea Bright is coming back to life,” Long said of her tweets, which have included a July 24 note about the 7-Eleven convenience store’s grand reopening: “Oh, thank heaven. Welcome back 7-11!”
As businesses have steadily opened doors throughout the summer along the Jersey Shore, many shop owners — especially those in the towns hardest hit by the Oct. 29 storm — have characterized it as a very quiet summer with revenues that don’t come close to last year’s figures.
Their fervent — and last — hope is for a sunny and warm Labor Day weekend that will lure more visitors and consequently place more money in their pockets. Some are even planning to remain open into the fall. The Keansburg Amusement Park, for example, is hosting events like an Octoberfest to draw visitors during the off-season.
Real estate agents and tourism officials said that the summer was weaker than in 2012 for a combination of reasons, including rainy weather in May and June and a lingering heat wave in July, as well as the aftereffects of the storm, especially in the hardest-hit areas. Despite an aggressive statewide advertising campaign promoting the Shore as open for business, potential visitors stayed away somewhat because of the perception of widespread damage. – See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/A_too-quiet_summer_for_some_Jersey_Shore_towns.html#sthash.R3diNkJT.dpuf
Private lobbyists get public pensions in 20 states
Sunday August 25, 2013, 11:08 AM
MICHAEL GORMLEY
Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. — As a lobbyist in New York’s statehouse, Stephen Acquario is doing pretty well. He pulls down $204,000 a year, more than the governor makes, gets a Ford Explorer as his company car and is afforded another special perk:
Even though he’s not a government employee, he is entitled to a full state pension.
He’s among hundreds of lobbyists in at least 20 states who get public pensions because they represent associations of counties, cities and school boards, an Associated Press review found. Legislatures granted them access decades ago on the premise that they serve governments and the public. In many cases, such access also includes state health care benefits.
But several states have started to question whether these organizations should qualify for such benefits, since they are private entities in most respects: They face no public oversight of their activities, can pay their top executives private-sector salaries and sometimes lobby for positions in conflict with taxpayers. New Jersey and Illinois are among the states considering legislation that would end their inclusion.
“It’s a question of, ‘Why are we providing government pensions to these private organizations?'” said Illinois Democratic Rep. Elaine Nekritz.
ObamaCare’s architects reap windfall as Washington lobbyists
By Megan R. Wilson – 08/25/13 12:06 PM ET
ObamaCare has become big business for an elite network of Washington lobbyists and consultants who helped shape the law from the inside.
More than 30 former administration officials, lawmakers and congressional staffers who worked on the healthcare law have set up shop on K Street since 2010.
Major lobbying firms such as Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock, The Glover Park Group, Alston & Bird, BGR Group and Akin Gump can all boast an ObamaCare insider on their lobbying roster — putting them in a prime position to land coveted clients.
“When [Vice President] Biden leaned over [during healthcare signing] and said to [President] Obama, ‘This is a big f’n deal,’” said Ivan Adler, a headhunter at the McCormick Group, “he was right.”
Veterans of the healthcare push are now lobbying for corporate giants such as Delta Airlines, UPS, BP America and Coca-Cola, and for healthcare companies including GlaxoSmithKline, UnitedHealth Group and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
Ultimately, the clients are after one thing: expert help in dealing with the most sweeping overhaul of the country’s healthcare system in decades.
Readers Remain Skeptical over potential Change in “Blue Laws”
Ridgewood stores are dying more from the lack of parking than the lack of Sunday shopping. 20 years and counting on a parking garage solution!!!! Paul……How about fixing that, instead of prioritizing the grandiose condo plans that will ruin our village.
Rte 17 will be at stand still on Sunday too? Drivers using Ridgewood local streets as a short cut. Can’t wait. Residents of Ridgewood, Maywood, Rochelle Park, Saddle Brook, River Edge and Oradell can look forward to pay more for Sunday police coverage while receiving none of the tax benefits that Paramus residents enjoy.
Bergenfield senior found, but a troubling trend grows
Sunday, August 25, 2013 Last updated: Monday August 26, 2013, 12:11 AM
BY DENISA R. SUPERVILLE
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Last Wednesday, Connie Wicklund was downstairs in her Bergenfield home when she heard a main-floor door open and shut. Her husband, Donald, had likely taken the trash out, she reasoned.
But when she came upstairs, he was gone, sparking what started as a desperate search by family and friends — and then early the next morning by law enforcement.
Those four days of anguish and uncertainty ended happily early Sunday evening when Wicklund, 81, was found in a back yard less than seven houses away from his own home. He was “conscious and verbal” but “dehydrated and malnourished,” police said.
The 5:51 p.m. discovery was sparked in part by a reverse emergency call the police initiated on Sunday — the third since Wicklund was first reported missing at 12:34 a.m. on Thursday — asking residents to check their back yards.
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By KEN DILANIAN | Tribune Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is facing its worst crisis since the domestic spying scandals four decades ago led to the first formal oversight and overhaul of U.S. intelligence operations.
Thanks to former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden’s flood of leaks to the media, and the Obama administration’s uneven response to them, morale at the spy agency responsible for intercepting communications of terrorists and foreign adversaries has plummeted, former officials say. Even sympathetic lawmakers are calling for new curbs on the NSA’s powers.
“This is a secret intelligence agency that’s now in the news every day,” said Michael Hayden, who headed the NSA from 1999 to 2005 and later led the CIA. “Each day, the workforce wakes up and reads the daily indictment.”
President Barack Obama acknowledged Friday that many Americans have lost trust in the nation’s largest intelligence agency. “There’s no doubt that, for all the work that’s been done to protect the American people’s privacy, the capabilities of the NSA are scary to people,” he said in a CNN interview.
North Jersey ambulance corps face volunteer crunch
Sunday, August 25, 2013 Last updated: Sunday August 25, 2013, 9:44 AM
BY REBECCA BAKER
STAFF WRITER
The Record
North Jersey ambulance corps’ struggles to fill their volunteer ranks were made painfully clear recently when a critically injured elderly woman had to wait a half-hour for a Moonachie ambulance to arrive because there were none available in her hometown of Hasbrouck Heights.
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Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps members Emely Santana of Teaneck and Pete Philomey of Edgewater, on duty.
Police and paramedics cared for the woman until the ambulance arrived. But Hasbrouck Heights Fire Chief Richard Giarratana said the borough was stymied because its ambulance corps is down to just five volunteers, none of whom were available when the woman fell in the morning.
“You know,” he said, “we try.”
It has been a daunting task for volunteer ambulance squads to find dedicated people willing to go through hundreds of hours of training to work dozens of hours a week caring for the sick and injured for no pay. It has become worse in recent years, as the rising cost of living in North Jersey has drained the pool of prospective volunteers while private ambulance companies have lured trained emergency medical technicians away with the promise of a paycheck.
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Bergen County Executive Kathleen A. Donovan invites you to the Bergen County Job Fair – Tuesday, September 10
Tuesday, September 10 from 9AM to 3PM at Bergen Community College – Bergen County will present a Job Fair. Companies will be looking to fill full-time, part-time and seasonal positions. Come prepared with plenty of resumes and dress professionally. Workshops, including: Resume Writing, Interview Skills, Spruce up Your Resume, How to Answer Interview Questions, Stress Management and more will be available from 10AM to 3PM.
“Jim” McGreevey’s white elephant Xanadu renamed the American dream project
Here We Go Again : Modernize Bergen County New Jersey is looking to Repeal the Blue Laws
Will “Open on Sunday ” help Ridgewood Merchants
August 25,2013
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, A group called Modernize Bergen County New Jersey looking to “Repeal the Blue Laws” and has according to sources gathered enough signatures to put the Blue Law Repeal on the ballot
The Modernize Bergen County Campaign is a group dedicated to the Repeal of the Bergen County Blue Laws.
According to their Facebook page Bergen County is one of the last remaining Sunday closing laws in the United States that covers selling electronics, clothing and furniture is found in Bergen County, New Jersey.
Bergen County, part of the New York metropolitan area, has one of the largest concentrations of enclosed retail shopping malls of any county in the nation; four major malls lie within the county.
A supporter on their Facebook page claimed , ” Well another Ridgewood women’s clothing store has bitten the dust. Yes Yansi Fugel. Well this is the second women’s clothing store in the past month that has closed in Ridgewood. We all know it is still bad economically, yet another reason for these nasty Blue Laws to finally disappear!!!!”
This debate has raged for years , and despite there inconvenience the Blue Laws have remained resoundingly popular in the County and lets face it food stores , liquor and drug store are all open on Sunday .
While extra hours may help some retailers in an out of down town Ridgewood , perhaps staying open later then 5pm so the few remaining people with jobs could actually shop , maybe a far simpler idea .
The economy in North jersey is very weak and lack of Sunday hours may or may not be contributing to weakness in the retail sector . Lack of Jobs, raising prices, increased taxes , and bad customer service also all contribute to that weakness.
In the past these open on Sunday pushes have been lead by mega retailers , unions , and politician looking to save ill conceived projects in the Meadowlands .
The opposition to Sunday openings have been called ‘racists , bigots, homophobes , flat earth people, rich snobs and worse religious zealots .
While so far this group seems to have shied away from name calling ,it has gotten support from all the NJ main stream media , which implies there is more politics behind this than one is lead to believe.
NSA employees spied on their lovers using eavesdropping programme
By Harriet Alexander
Staff working at America’s National Security Agency – the eavesdropping unit that was revealed to have spied on millions of people – have used the technology to spy on their lovers.
The employees even had a code name for the practice – “Love-int” – meaning the gathering of intelligence on their partners.
Dianne Feinstein, a senator who chairs the Senate intelligence committee, said the NSA told her committee about a set of “isolated cases” that have occurred about once a year for the last 10 years. The spying was not within the US, and was carried out when one of the lovers was abroad.
One employee was disciplined for using the NSA’s resources to track a former spouse, the Associated Press said.
Last week it was disclosed that the NSA had broken privacy rules on nearly 3,000 occasions over a one-year period.
John DeLong, NSA chief compliance officer, said that those errors were mainly unintentional, but that there have been “a couple” of wilful violations in the past decade.
Dallas Green and Christine Nunn at Bookends this Week
Dallas Green Tuesday, August 27th @ 7:00pm
Former New York Mets & Yankee Manager, Dallas Green, will sign his new book: The Mouth That Roared Books available May 1st
Christine Nunn Wednesday, August 28th @ 7:00pm
Executive Chef at Grange Restaurant in Westwood, and former Executive Chef at Picnic, Christine Nunn, will be signing her new book, The Preppy Cookbook. Books available Aug. 28th
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Churches changing bylaws after gay marriage ruling
By TRAVIS LOLLER
Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Worried they could be sued by gay couples, some churches are changing their bylaws to reflect their view that the Bible allows only marriage between one man and one woman.
Although there have been lawsuits against wedding industry businesses that refuse to serve gay couples, attorneys promoting the bylaw changes say they don’t know of any lawsuits against churches.
Critics say the changes are unnecessary, but some churches fear that it’s only a matter of time before one of them is sued.
“I thought marriage was always between one man and one woman, but the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision said no,” said Gregory S. Erwin, an attorney for the Louisiana Baptist Convention, an association of Southern Baptist churches and one several groups advising churches to change their bylaws. “I think it’s better to be prepared because the law is changing. America is changing.”
In a June decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage as between a man and a woman for purposes of federal law. A second decision was more technical but essentially ushered in legal gay marriage in California.
DoD Training Manual: ‘Extremist’ Founding Fathers ‘Would Not Be Welcome In Today’s Military’
Manual lists people concerned with “individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place” as potential extremists
Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
August 24, 2013
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch recently obtained a Department of Defense training manual which lists people who embrace “individual liberties” and honor “states’ rights,” among other characteristics, as potential “extremists” who are likely to be members of “hate groups.”
Marked “for training purposes only,” the documents, obtained Thursday through a Freedom of Information Act request submitted in April, include PowerPoint slides and lesson plans, among which is a January 2013 Air Force “student guide” distributed by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute simply entitled “Extremism.”
Judicial Watch’s FOIA request asked for “Any and all records concerning, regarding, or related to the preparation and presentation of training materials on hate groups or hate crimes distributed or used by the Air Force.”
As the group notes, “The document defines extremists as ‘a person who advocates the use of force or violence; advocates supremacist causes based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or national origin; or otherwise engages to illegally deprive individuals or groups of their civil rights.’”
The manual goes on to bar military personnel from “active participation” in such extremist organization activities as “publicly demonstrating,” “rallying,” “fundraising” and “organizing,” basically denying active-duty military from exercising the rights they so ardently fight to defend.
It begins its introduction of a section titled, “Extremist ideologies,” by describing the American colonists who sought independence from British rule as a historical example of extremism.
“In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples,” according to the training guide.
In a section drawing inspiration from a 1992 book titled “Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America,” the manual also lists “Doomsday thinking” under “traits or behaviors that tend to represent the extremist style.”
