Twelve minutes’ exercise per week ‘enough to stay fit’
Just 12 minutes of intensive exercise per week is enough to improve your health if you are overweight, a study has found.
By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent
5:38PM BST 30 May 2013
Four-minute bursts of high-intensity exercise such as running on a treadmill, three times a week are enough to increase fitness, researchers found.
Overweight volunteers who undertook the regime for 10 weeks increased their body’s oxygen uptake – a measure of fitness – by 10 per cent and saw small decreases in their blood pressure and glucose levels.
Health guidelines generally state that we should undertake at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 20 minutes of vigorous exercise per week in order to stay healthy.
HUGE moving sale–Fri. 5/31 & Sat. 6/1 8-4. EVERYTHING MUST GO!! Leaving the country. Includes HARDLY — USED Hunter Boots and Coach bags. TONS baby stuff, electronics, (Wii, Sony Video Camera and Sony Cybershot and more!) clothes, bikes, sporting equipment, art/crafts supplies, books, bags, kitchen/home items and so much more. Something for everyone! Everything is cheap. It has to go! Email me if you’re looking for any particular baby item. I probably have it!
Location: 611 Witthill Road off of S. Pleasant Ave in Ridgewood
GIANT PARKING LOT GARAGE SALE & RUMMAGE SALE “JUNE 1ST” (Paramus Woman’s Club)
The Woman’s Club of Paramus will be having a Giant Parking Lot Garage Sale and a Basement Rummage Sale and a Plant sale on Saturday JUNE 1ST, 8AM-4PM. Refreshments will be served. TONS OF GOOD ITEMS. TONS OF CLOTHES, BOOKS, COLLECTIBLE BASEBALL ITEMS & MUCH MORE.
w 65 Ridgewood Ave. Paramus. Directions. rt.17 north or south to the Ridgewood Ave,Ridgewood exit. Go 2 blocks to club. Club is between rt.17 & Paramus Road
Rained out Sale- Ridgewood NJ (146 S. Irving & 139 Liberty St. )
Due to rain we are holding a one day sale on May 31 9 am to 4 pm. We have added new items to our sale: treadle Singer Sewing machine in a beautiful cabinet, round Maple pedestal table with a leaf, artwork, chairs, unique folding chairs..books, toys, clothing, pocketbooks, kitchen ware, lots of toys, hand-made mirror out of chestnut moulding, adirondack mirrors, upholstery fabrics, flower vases, decorative items, antique mirror, child’s toy chest, and much much more…..Liberty St. is located off E. Ridgewood Av. in Ridgewood NJ, S. Irving is off E. Ridgewood and Spring but the Sale will be held on Evergreen for the S. Irving address. Mark your calendars and program your GPS, see you on Friday!!!
Architect details Valley Hospital expansion plan before Ridgewood board
Thursday May 30, 2013, 11:03 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
The Record
RIDGEWOOD — Planning Board members and some 50 village residents were inundated this week with information on setbacks and buffers, as experts for The Valley Hospital continued plugging the facility’s proposed expansion.
Testimony during Wednesday’s Planning Board meeting zeroed in on questions and concerns raised nearly two months ago by the board, its experts, and residents.
An architect representing Valley, Steve Evers, led a power-point presentation that raised even more questions about the project, which would expand the hospital from 562,000 square feet to 995,000 square feet — enough room for 452 beds. The hospital also plans to add a 245,000-square-foot parking garage.
Most of Evers’ presentation focused on comparisons: Current conditions at the hospital site versus post-project conditions and how they’ll impact the surrounding neighborhood.
Resident fees are $110 per adult, $100 per child (ages 2 through 15) and $20 for seniors (62 and older). Non-resident adults will be charged $175 and children, ages 2 through 15, will be charged $155 for the13 week season.
Badges are now on sale and can be purchased from the comfort of home on Community Pass at www.ridgewoodnj.net/communitypass (Visa and MasterCard are accepted). In person registration assistance will be available Saturdays, May 11 and May 18, 10:00 am to 12 noon, at the Graydon Pool Badge Office, 259 North Maple Avenue. Badges may be purchased daily throughout the operating season, June 1st through Septemer 2nd.
Details are available at www.ridgewoodnj.net/graydon or you may call the Recreation Office at 201-670-5560 with any questions or if special accommodations are needed.
2013 SEASON
Saturday, June 1 – Monday, September 2
Daily – 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Holiday – July 4th, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Kasschau Shell Schedule for 2013
Fifty-five Years of Free Summer Entertainment Under the Stars
8:30pm at the Band Shell,Veterans Field, Ridgewood New Jersey
Behind the Ridgewood Public Library N. Maple Ave. Between Franklin and Linwood Aves.
Please bring a chair or blanket, Please do not cross over the baseball
field if a game is in progress.
July 4th in Ridgewood is a very special day that our entire area looks forward to all year. The theme for this year’s celebration is “Honoring our Declaration of Independence.” We are an all-volunteer community group that coordinates the day’s events and does not receive direct funding from the Village of Ridgewood.
NEWARK, N.J. – A New Jersey man who conspired with his brother to violate federal elections laws has been sentenced to two years of probation. Associated Press
MAYOR’S OFFICE HOURS FOR RIDGEWOOD RESIDENTS – Saturday, June 1, 2013
Mayor Paul Aronsohn will be holding office hours for Ridgewood residents on the first Saturday of every month from 9:00 a.m. to Noon in the Council Chambers (Sydney V. Stoldt, Jr. Court Room) on the fourth floor of Ridgewood Village Hall. The next session will be Saturday, June 1, 2013.
For an appointment to meet with the Mayor, please call the Village Clerk’s Office at 201-670-5500 ext. 206. You may come to the Mayor’s office hours without an appointment, but those with appointments will be given priority.
NJ Spent $23M on Unemployment and Other Benefits for Jailbirds
A New Jersey state audit released Wednesday shows that prison inmates have been picking up unemployment checks, as well as healthcare and retirement entitlements, to the tune of millions of taxpayer dollars. According to the report by Comptroller Matt Boxer, New Jersey shelled out $23 million to jailbirds from June 2009 to April 2011. The checks came from jobless benefits, Medicaid, food stamps, pensions and other programs.
Photo credit: Boyd A. Loving Snapping Turtle Lays Eggs As Police Ensure Safety of School Children
May 30,2013
Boyd A. Loving
9:32 AM
Ridgewood NJ, Due to the proximity of the nearby Henrietta Hawes Elementary School, Ridgewood Police dispatched patrol officers to ensure that a large snapping turtle laying eggs on the front lawn of a home in the 400 block of Stevens Avenue was not disturbed by children walking to school on Thursday morning.
Ridgewood PD Patrol Officer Peter Gillen, pictured, was especially thrilled to watch the egg laying process as this is his last day on the job after serving as a uniformed patrol officer for 25 years with the Village of Ridgewood. Best wishes to Officer Gillen for a long and happy retirement!
Princeton to honor four secondary school teachers including Medha Jayant Kirtane from RHS
Posted May 28, 2013; 11:30 a.m.
by Michael Hotchkiss, Office of Communications
Princeton University will honor four exceptional New Jersey secondary school teachers at its 2013 Commencement on Tuesday, June 4.
This year’s honorees are Medha Jayant Kirtane, Ridgewood High School, Ridgewood; John McAllen, Point Pleasant Borough High School, Point Pleasant; Robert O’Boyle, Hopewell Valley Central High School, Pennington; and Deane Stepansky, Nutley High School, Nutley.
The teachers were selected for the award from 62 nominations from public and private schools around the state. Each teacher will receive $5,000, as well as $3,000 for his or her school library.
“In the final analysis, if great teachers are measured by what their students accomplish, the four teachers we honor with this award represent the very finest teachers in the profession today,” said Christopher Campisano, director of Princeton’s Program in Teacher Preparation. “By challenging their students to go beyond the superficial, by encouraging them to be skeptical, and by challenging them to test the limits of what they thought was possible, these four teachers enable their students to become confident, critical and creative thinkers.”
The staff of the Program in Teacher Preparation selected 11 finalists, each of whom was visited at their school by a member of the program staff. Award winners were selected by a committee that was chaired by Dean of the College Valerie Smith. The panel also included Campisano, University faculty members Miguel Centeno, Joshua Katz and Stanley Katz; Judy Wilson, superintendent of the Princeton Public Schools; and Samuel Stewart, executive county superintendent of schools for Mercer and Middlesex counties.
“These teachers serve as a testament to the quality of education found in our schools today and serve as an inspiration to all future and practicing teachers,” Campisano said.
Princeton has honored secondary school teachers since 1959. The University received an anonymous gift from an alumnus to establish the program.
Teachers honored this year are:
Medha Jayant Kirtane
Medha Jayant Kirtane is in demand — in class, during lunch, after school, even on the tennis court, teachers and students at Ridgewood High School say. Some students want to discuss an assignment; others want to talk about life outside the classroom.
“That Medha is such a perennial student favorite is all the more remarkable (at first glance) because she is one of the most rigorous teachers that students will ever encounter,” wrote Gavin Stewart, an English teacher at the school, in a letter supporting Kirtane’s nomination. “She demands excellence from her students, and although she ‘demands’ with a smile, her standards are nonetheless admirably high. To earn an ‘A’ in Ms. Kirtane’s class is truly an accomplishment!”
Kirtane has taught a range of social studies classes during her eight years at Ridgewood and has helped revise or rewrite several course curricula, principal Thomas Gorman said. Her current course load includes an interdisciplinary senior seminar that emphasizes independent research interwoven with intensive discussion in a small-group setting.
Lauren Cubellis, a graduate of Ridgewood High School and Princeton University, said the seminar pushed her to think critically about history and question assumptions.
“It was the most difficult class of my high school career,” Cubellis wrote. “But it was also the most exciting class I had ever taken. Medha was able to turn history into a living and breathing record of humanity.”
Kirtane said she tries to instill her students with curiosity, diligence, sincerity and critical thinking skills.
“I want my students to engage with themselves, me and each other to ignite their passion to learn and create ideas anew,” Kirtane wrote. “From that heated process should emerge a distilled vision of what should be and how each of them can work, within and beyond their communities, to achieve their goals.”
Outside the classroom, Kirtane leads the high school’s girls’ tennis team and was named division coach of the year in 2009, 2010 and 2011. She is also faculty adviser to the school’s Asian Festival and the Student Broadcast Club.
Kirtane earned her bachelor’s degree from Williams College and a master’s degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.
Join the Fight Against Common Core
Lindsey Burke
May 29, 2013 at 7:45 am
Two competing forces are pushing on America’s K–12 education system today.
One is an effort to infuse education choice into a long-stagnant system, empowering parents with the ability to send their child to a school that meets her unique learning needs.
The other is an effort to further centralize education through Common Core national standards and tests.
Across the country, education choice options have been proliferating rapidly, including vouchers, tuition tax credits, special needs scholarships, and education savings accounts. Educational choice is a revolution because it funds children instead of physical school buildings and allows dollars to follow children to any school—or education option—that meets their unique learning needs.
CHOICE EMPOWERS PARENTS to direct their child’s share of education funding, giving them options beyond an assigned government school.
CHOICE PRESSURES PUBLIC SCHOOLS with a much-needed competitive atmosphere, which works toward improving educational outcomes for students who take advantage of choice options as well as students who choose to attend their local public schools.
CHOICE HELPS KIDS. Seventeen states and Washington, D.C., now have private school choice programs—and more states are considering implementing choice options. Education choice represents the type of innovation and freedom that will provide long-overdue reform to the K–12 education system, and holds the potential to truly raise educational outcomes for every child across the country.
But at the same time this encouraging shift toward education choice is underway, there is a push to take education in the exact opposite direction through Common Core national standards and tests.
COMMON CORE IS an effort to centralize education by dictating the standards and assessments that will determine the content taught in every public school across the country.
COMMON CORE HAS NO EVIDENCE that it will improve academic outcomes or boost international competitiveness. But the Obama Administration has pushed states to adopt national standards and assessments in exchange for offers of billions of dollars in federal funding and waivers from the onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind.
COMMON CORE ASSUMES that top-down, uniform standards and assessments—driven by federal bureaucrats and national organizations—are preferable to the state and local reform efforts guided by input from parents, teachers, and taxpayers.
States have been competing to improve their education systems by implementing education choice options and other reforms such as alternative teacher certification, transparent A–F grading systems, and a focus on reading achievement. Check out innovations in:
Florida
Idaho
Indiana
Arizona
American education is at a crossroads: One path leads toward further centralization and greater federal intervention. The other path leads toward robust education choice, including school choice and choice in curricula.
Common Core takes the path toward centralization, and state leaders should seize the moment to resist this latest federal overreach. National standards and tests are a challenge to educational freedom in America, and state and local leaders who believe in limited government should resist them.
Is the Dollar Dying? Why US Currency Is in Danger
Published: Thursday, 14 Feb 2013 | 12:49 PM ET
By: Jeff Cox
CNBC.com Senior Writer
The U.S dollar is shrinking as a percentage of the world’s currency supply, raising concerns that the greenback is about to see its long run as the world’s premier denomination come to an end.
When compared to its peers, the dollar has drifted to a 15-year low, according to the International Monetary Fund, indicating that more countries are willing to use other currencies to do business.
While the American currency still reigns supreme — it constitutes $3.72 trillion, or 62 percent, of the $6 trillion in allocated foreign exchange holdings by the world’s central banks — the Japanese yen, Swiss franc and what the IMF classifies as “other currencies” such as the Chinese yuan are gaining.
IRS higher-ups requested info on conservative groups, letters show
By Lisa Myers, Rich Gardella and Talesha Reynolds
NBC News
Additional scrutiny of conservative organizations’ activities by the IRS did not solely originate in the agency’s Cincinnati office, with requests for information coming from other offices and often bearing the signatures of higher-ups at the agency, according to attorneys representing some of the targeted groups. At least one letter requesting information about one of the groups bears the signature of Lois Lerner, the suspended director of the IRS Exempt Organizations department in Washington.
Jay Sekulow, an attorney representing 27 conservative political advocacy organizations that applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status, provided some of the letters to NBC News. He said the groups’ contacts with the IRS prove that the practices went beyond a few “front line” employees in the Cincinnati office, as the IRS has maintained.
Responsibility for sidewalk repair costs debated in Ridgewood
Wednesday May 29, 2013, 12:22 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The Ridgewood Council is still undecided whether it will change the village’s existing sidewalk policy, specifically the terms that place maintenance and repair responsibility on residents.
Discussion regarding sidewalk repairs has emerged in recent months as the destruction caused by Superstorm Sandy coincided with the Ridgewood Environmental Advisory Committee’s (REAC) ongoing efforts to draft a new shade tree policy. Some council members believed the timing was right to modify the regulations and incorporate them into the policy.
At issue, according to Mayor Paul Aronsohn, is when a village-owned tree causes damage to a sidewalk, either by overgrown roots or when one is felled by nature. In those cases, residents whose property adjoins the damaged sidewalk must shoulder the cost to fix it.
Benefits of later school openings touted in Ridgewood
Wednesday May 29, 2013, 12:16 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
Speaking recently about Ridgewood High School’s (RHS) new professional development program, students and administrators had mostly good things to say.
Since its introduction last May, the program has offered teachers several extra hours throughout the year to meet and students more time for sleep or work.
And now, after a presentation for Board of Education (BOE) members last week, the BOE is equally on board with the program, which is designed to provide staff members with an opportunity for collaboration between departments and individual staff members.
Are You Concerned You May Have a Genetic Risk for Cancer?
May 28, 2013
Nelly Oundjian, M.D.
Director, The Valley Hospital Clinical Cancer Genetics Program
Laura Klein, M.D.
Medical Director, The Valley Hospital Breast Center
Gary Breslow, M.D.
Plastic Surgeon, The Valley Hospital Medical Staff
Ridgewood NJ, Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a preventive double mastectomy after learning that she carried a mutation (alteration) in a gene that put her at an 87 percent risk of developing breast cancer highlighted a complex dilemma for women with family histories of breast or ovarian cancer. At issue: a mutation in either the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene increases the risk of developing breast cancer by as much as 87 percent, and the risk for ovarian cancer by up to 44 percent.
And it’s not just women who are affected. Men with the mutated BRCA2 gene are at increased risk for male breast cancer, and both men and women with the BRCA2 mutation have an increased risk for pancreatic cancer.
So, how do you know if you are a candidate for genetic testing for cancer?
There is no simple list of criteria indicating which individuals should undergo testing. However, those with a strong family history of breast or ovarian cancer, or a personal history of breast, ovarian or pancreatic cancer should consider being evaluated for genetic testing for BRCA mutations. The following additional factors indicate that the probability of detecting a mutation is high enough to warrant consideration of testing:
• A family history of close blood relatives with breast cancer, ovarian cancer and pancreatic cancer, particularly breast cancer diagnosed before age 50
• A family history of male breast cancer
• A BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation has been discovered in your family
• Your family is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent and there is a family history of breast, ovarian or pancreatic cancer.
The cost for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation testing usually ranges from several hundred to several thousand dollars. Insurance policies vary as to whether or not the cost of testing is covered, but most cover the screening for appropriate high-risk patients. If you are considering BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation testing, you should inquire about your insurance company’s policies regarding genetic tests.
If you do test positive for the BRCA mutation, you have options. These include enhanced cancer surveillance like having Breast MRI alternating with mammograms and breast ultrasound every 6 months and transvaginal pelvic ultrasound, medications to reduce your risk of developing breast cancer, and preventive surgeries, such as prophylactic double mastectomies and removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes (bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy) after child bearing age.
In our experience, most medical insurance plans will cover the cost of enhanced surveillance and prophylactic and reconstructive surgery in high-risk patients that are carriers of the BRCA mutation.
Valley recently launched the Clinical Cancer Genetics Program to offer comprehensive cancer risk assessment, cancer genetic counseling, and predictive genetic testing to individuals with a personal and/or family history of cancer. If you want for more information or to schedule a consultation to determine if you are a candidate for BRCA screening, please call 201-327-8765.
