Ridgewood Art Institute: Reminder to Pick Up Summer Show Paintings
September 2, 2014
7:13 PM (19 hours ago)
Ridgewood NJ, With the ongoing construction, reduced storage and another show soon to take place, it would be very much appreciated if Summer Show exhibiting artists would retrieve all of their work during the scheduled pick up dates.
Summer Show Pickup: September 2nd-5th
Many Thanks for your Cooperation!
Reader says 12 pm and still no agenda posted on the website. Transparency !
The agenda was just posted 12:18pm . why so late? Maybe because of what is going to be discussed in closed sessions ?
Legal
1. RIC Development ( Big Al’s attorney friend trying to get the right of way at the sewage plant to help him build hosing)
Dave Rutford
c. Contract negotiations
1. Employee Parking
2. Lot 12 – The Gap Parking Lot
3. Fire Contract Negotiations
09/02/147:30PMPlanning Board Public
09/03/147:30PMVillage Council Special Public Meeting
09/03/147:30PMVillage Council Public Work Session
09/09/147:30PMBoard of Adjustment Regular Public Meeting
09/10/148:00PMVillage Council Public Meeting
09/16/147:30PMPlanning Board Public Meeting
09/17/147:30PMVillage Council Public Work Session
09/23/147:30PMBoard of Adjustment Regular Public Meeting
10/01/147:30PMVillage Council Public Work Session
10/07/147:30PMPlanning Board Public Meeting
to Honor the Memory of Roger Wiegand – September 5th – Village Hall Court Room
On Friday, September 5th at 5:30pm a plaque honoring Roger Wiegand will be installed on the Village Council podium in the Village Hall Court Room. This plaque honors Roger’s memory and is a tribute to his passion for providing information to “the public”. All are invited to attend and celebrate Roger and his contribution to the Ridgewood community. A reception will follow.
School Crossing Guard Positions Available – Contact Ridgewood Police Dept.
The Ridgewood Police Department is accepting applications for School Crossing Guard Positions. Applications are Available at the Police Desk located at 131 North Maple Avenue Ridgewood NJ. P/T position, 10 hours per week (2 hours per day) starting at $17.49/hr. Send application to Police Chief John Ward, Ridgewood Police Dept, 131 N. Maple Ave., Ridgewood, NJ 07450 or return the application to the Police Records Room. The Village of Ridgewood is an EOE and civil service community. 201/652-3900
Apple offers full suite of Common Core apps sure to indoctrinate
September 2, 2014
LOS ANGELES — Expanding from its previous partnership with Pearson Education to provide fact and quality deficient curriculum resources, Apple now offers even more — a full range of Common Core aligned curriculum and assessment tools for iPad.
A recent document published by Apple outlining several “amazing curriculum products for iPad” reveals that Apple is not concerned with providing quality education material to America’s students and teachers, but rather with competing for a share of the pot of gold at the end of the nationally leveraged Common Core rainbow.
Although Apple has offered iBook textbooks from Pearson, McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and DK Publishing since 2012, it recently upgraded its current offerings and added new products specifically aligned with Common Core, some of which are unique to iPad.
Aiming to be a one-stop-shop for all things Common Core, the iPad suite offers core curriculum content in English, Math, Science, and Social Studies, as well as assessments, learning systems, and teacher tools.
In addition to Pearson Education, who employs progressive indoctrinators to lead its Common Core Initiative, Apple’s menu of core curriculum apps includes lessons from other equally skewed publishers/providers like Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw Hill, Discovery Education, and The Choices Program.
https://eagnews.org/apple-offers-full-suite-of-common-core-apps-sure-to-indoctrinate/
Using iPads to Align with the Common Core
By: Diane Weaver | March, 2013 | 11,282 views | No Comments | Posted in: Common Core State Standards, Technology in the Classroom
Digital literacy is integral component to the Common Core Standards. The skill of critically navigating, consuming, and producing digital text and media has increasingly significant influence on a student’s success as an adult. In fact, it is even mentioned in the Standard’s portrait of students who are college and career ready, which states,
“Students employ technology thoughtfully to enhance their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language use. They tailor their searches online to acquire useful information efficiently, and they integrate what they learn using technology with what they learn offline. They are familiar with the strengths and limitations of various technological tools and mediums and can select and use those best suited to their communication goals.”
– See more at: https://www.pearsonschoolsystems.com/blog/?p=1454#sthash.YSZgW7mi.dpuf
Sen. Mike Lee: ‘Common Core standards will be the ObamaCare of education’
September 2, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Mike Lee and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal have a message for Big Government: stop meddling in local education decisions.
“As a U.S. Senator, I’ve seen the federal government make a mess of everything it touches,” Lee, a Republican from Utah, wrote in a recent email sent to supporters through the free market group FreedomWorks.
“And if they’re allowed to stay, Common Core standards will be the ObamaCare of education,” Lee wrote, according toNewsmax. “Common Core is the DC takeover of our school system. It will dumb down standards and cheapen the education our children receive.”
Newsmax reports Lee’s comments come just days after Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal filed a lawsuit last week alleging the Obama administration “is using grant money and regulations to manipulate states into adopting the federal education standards.”
Obama, through his Race to the Top education initiative, convinced most states to adopt Common Core standards as a means of competing for billions in additional federal grant funding for education, though very few states actually received the funds.
The competitive Race to the Top grants, however, are only one of several ways the federal government is incentivizing states to implement the national learning standards. The U.S. Education Department has also awarded states a waiver from former president George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind education standards – and the penalties for not making the grade – if they agree to move forward with Common Core.
https://eagnews.org/sen-mike-lee-common-core-standards-will-be-the-obamacare-of-education/
Concerns on Common Core presented to Ridgewood school board
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2014, 11:09 AM
BY BY JODI WEINBERGER
STAFF WRITER
An apple core that has become the sign for the opposition to new state standards for school curriculum was featured prominently on buttons of many of the two dozen parents who came to speak at the Ridgewood Board of Education (BOE) meeting Aug. 25.
The public outcry against the Common Core and standardized testing is growing in Ridgewood with the help of a group named Ridgewood Cares About Schools, which has formed online on Facebook and drawn many to in-person meetings this summer.
The parents (and many grandparents) raised issues of concern during the public comment portion of the meeting, including that the testing is done on computers, the lack of transparency of where and what test data is shared, and that there are too many instructional hours devoted to testing. They also said that the Common Core standards for math and other subjects are confusing and urged the BOE to reject them in fear that the standards and focus on test preparation will create bad curricula.
Anne Burton Walsh, one of the founders of Ridgewood Cares About Schools, said the increase in the use of technology in the younger grades is “unnecessarily expensive and potentially harmful.” Ridgewood is currently implementing its one-to-one initiative with Google Chromebooks at the high school and plans to give one to every student in Grades K-8 in the coming years, with one reason being that the students must take the new standardized tests on computers.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/education/concerns-on-common-core-presented-to-ridgewood-school-board-1.1079350#sthash.H53Rbqmb.dpuf
Nicholas Piotti seen in the Ridgewood High School 2008 yearbook.
Seemingly close Ho-Ho-Kus family torn apart by slaying
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014, 10:06 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2014, 6:19 AM
BY CHRISTOPHER MAAG, ABBOTT KOLOFF AND CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITERS
THE RECORD
His mother doted on him when he was a child and they remained close while he attended college, according to friends. They said he seemed to have everything going for him and a comfortable life — a job as a TV stagehand while he pursued a career in music, a backyard pool at his parents’ house in wealthy Ho-Ho-Kus, even Giants season tickets.
Nicholas Piotti, 24, a onetime lacrosse standout at Ridgewood High School, remained in a psychiatric hospital Tuesday, authorities said, one day after police said he beat and stabbed his mother, 63-year-old Karen, to death in their Ho-Ho-Kus home.
Police found her body inside the family’s Timberline Road home with stab wounds and “beating trauma” early Monday after responding to an aborted 911 call, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. He said he did not know who made the call and that Karen Piotti’s husband, James, was not at home at the time of the killing, which happened after midnight Monday. Molinelli did not respond Tuesday to requests for further information.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/seemingly-close-ho-ho-kus-family-torn-apart-by-slaying-1.1079665#sthash.MPuy9o4g.dpuf
CDC Director: Ebola Outbreak ‘Is Spiraling Out Of Control’
September 2, 2014 12:04 PM
ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta/AP) — The director for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says that the Ebola outbreak is going to get worse.
Speaking to “CBS This Morning” following his trip to the West African countries dealing with the outbreak, Dr. Tom Frieden explained that they have to act now to try to get Ebola under control.
“It is the world’s first Ebola epidemic and it is spiraling out of control. It’s bad now and it’s going to get worse in the very near future,” Frieden told CBS News. “There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.”
Frieden, who visited Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, will tell Washington tomorrow that the Ebola outbreak is “spiraling upward.” The CDC director explained that these countries still need help to deal with the deadly outbreak.
https://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/09/02/cdc-director-ebola-outbreak-is-spiraling-out-of-control/
Hackers may have stolen credit data from Home Depot
Javier E. David | @TeflonGeek
Home Depot may be the latest retailer to have suffered a massive credit card breach, the company confirmed on Tuesday, after a website reported that a large cache of stolen data had appeared on black market sites.
According to information first reported by Krebs on Security, the breach may have extended as far back as the spring of this year. If so, the fallout may end up being far larger than Target’s incident late last year, when information pertaining to tens of millions of customers was compromised.
Home Depot is working with investigators to determine the origin of “unusual activity,” a spokeswoman told CNBC in a statement
https://www.cnbc.com/id/101964168
Society Cafe Concert – Nikki Armstrong with Rave Tesar
Society Cafe Concert Series presents Nikki Armstrong with Rave Tesar on piano Saturday, September 6th The Society Café Concert Series offers a series of acoustic singer/songwriter concerts at the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood. Wine, dessert and coffee, all provided by local vendors, are available before the shows and during intermission.
We proudly announce the opening concert of our fourth season: Nikki Armstrong in her “Lady Sings the Blues” Show, featuring Rave Tesar on piano. Nikki Armstrong has been compared to a wide variety of singers such as Anita O’Day, Tina Turner, Gladys Knight, Bonnie Raitt and Janis Joplin. Noted for her soulful interpretations of material from standards to rock, she strives to perform every song “in the now and never the same way twice!” She was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in Chicago in 2012. Rave Tesar’s musical background is deep and wide ranging. As a result, his style is a rich blending of classical, jazz and pop music, displaying a strong technique and an adventurous sense of improvisation. “The Rave Tesar Trio’s You Decide is one of the best albums of 2007.” –
Walter Kolosky, All About Jazz Music starts at 8. We start serving wine and dessert at 7 when doors open. Advance tickets are $20 and can be purchased via PayPal on the Society Café website, www.societycafeconcertseries.com. Tickets are $25 the night of the concert.
Report: These Five States Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Hawaii Have Highest Liability Per Taxpayer
Josh Siegel / @JoshDailySignal / August 31, 2014
Taxpayers in Alaska who enjoy keeping their money will be happy to see a new report that claims the country’s 49th state is best able to fund its obligations.
Residents of Connecticut may not feel as good.
The Truth in Accounting report ranks the states by “taxpayer burden,” a measure that represents the amount each taxpayer would have to pay his or her state’s treasury to fill its financial hole.
Truth in Accounting, a Chicago-based nonprofit, determined that the states with the highest taxpayer burden — deemed “Sinkhole States” — are, in descending order, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Hawaii.
The “Sinkhole States”
The states with the largest “taxpayer surplus” — called “Sunshine States” based on having assets available to pay their bills — are, from the top: Alaska, North Dakota, Wyoming, Utah and South Dakota.
The “Sunshine States”
Taxpayer burden is calculated by determining each taxpayer’s share of state debt after setting aside capital-related debt and assets. Remaining debt is primarily unpaid pension and retirement health promises.
In its fifth annual report, released this month, Truth in Accounting says states that have unfunded pension liabilities put a burden on future taxpayers, even though “they will not receive any services” from the retired employees who earn those pensions.
States with taxpayer surplus, on the other hand, fund pension costs during the year employees earn the benefits, and the money is set aside for that year.
Connecticut, which the report considers to be in the worst financial shape, has an overall budget shortfall of $61.4 billion, which breaks down to $48,100 per taxpayer.
Truth in Accounting reports that most of Connecticut’s retirement benefits have been promised but not funded.
A Connecticut law requires the legislature to pass a balanced budget. This likely explains why the state chose not to report its entire retirement benefit liability. The report says:
One of the reasons Connecticut is in this precarious financial position is state officials use antiquated budgeting and accounting rules to report Connecticut’s financial condition. Since employee retirement benefits are not immediately payable in cash, the related compensation costs have been ignored when calculating balanced budgets.
Alaska, reported to be in the best financial shape, has an overall budget surplus of $13.5 billion, which breaks down to $46,900 per taxpayer. The report says Alaska has enough money to pay state employees’ retirement benefits and other outstanding bills:
Alaska is in good financial shape because the legislators and governors have only promised citizens and employees what they can afford to deliver.
See how your fared state by reading the Truth in Accounting report.
The worst performing states
Scott Garrett Leads Letter to IRS Commissioner on Religious Freedom
Aug 25, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Chairman of the Congressional Constitution Caucus, along with eight of his colleagues sent a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen today. The letter outlines the deep concerns the Members have about news of the recent IRS dismissal agreement with the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Additionally, the Members request answers to the following questions:
Provide a copy of any agreement between the IRS and the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
Provide any communications between the IRS and the Freedom from Religion Foundation regarding dismissal of the case.
Why did the IRS agree to dismiss this case without prejudice when it recently won a nearly identical case, and who was the highest ranking official to sign off on the settlement?
How have the IRS regulations in this area changed since the 2009 ruling in U.S. v Living Word Christian Ctr., which deemed them unlawful?
How is the IRS going to enforce the Johnson Amendment without impinging on the First Amendment freedoms of religious leaders?
Other than self-referral by leaders opposed to the Johnson Amendment, how did the IRS find the 99 religious organizations currently under investigation by the “Political Activities Referral Committee,” and how did they decide these organizations merited the use of precious investigative resources?
How much money has been spent by the Political Activities Referral Committee in each of the last fiscal years since 2009?
How much has been spent in total investigating the 99 organizations currently under investigation?
What safeguards are in place to make sure that the IRS does not stifle protected First Amendment speech?
To view the complete letter, click here.
Myth of arctic meltdown: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago…despite Al Gore’s prediction it would be ICE-FREE by now
Seven years after former US Vice-President Al Gore’s warning, Arctic ice cap has expanded for second year in row
An area twice the size of Alaska – America’s biggest state – was open water two years ago and is now covered in ice
These satellite images taken from University of Illinois’s Cryosphere project show ice has become more concentrated
By DAVID ROSE FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
PUBLISHED: 17:04 EST, 30 August 2014 | UPDATED: 03:56 EST, 31 August 2014
The speech by former US Vice-President Al Gore was apocalyptic. ‘The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff,’ he said. ‘It could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Seven years from now.’
Those comments came in 2007 as Mr Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaigning on climate change.
But seven years after his warning, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that, far from vanishing, the Arctic ice cap has expanded for the second year in succession – with a surge, depending on how you measure it, of between 43 and 63 per cent since 2012.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2738653/Stunning-satellite-images-summer-ice-cap-thicker-covers-1-7million-square-kilometres-MORE-2-years-ago-despite-Al-Gore-s-prediction-ICE-FREE-now.html#ixzz3ByplHC2l
The new face of retirement: Many Americans find second career after calling the first one quits
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2014, 7:11 AM
BY JONNELLE MARTE
BLOOMBERG NEWS
THE RECORD
MIAMI — For Richard Tiberius, retirement didn’t arrive from one day to the next.
As it does for many Americans today, the milestone came in phases. The first phase began two years ago when he went part time in his role as the director of the educational development office for the medical school at the University of Miami and his $120,000 salary dropped to about $70,000. He was hoping to free up more time to paint, a second career of sorts that had been boxed into nights and weekends.
Tiberius, now 73, figured that with his wife’s income, his Social Security benefits and the pension from his time as a researcher in Toronto, he could afford to spend more time in the studio at his Coconut Grove home. But he wasn’t ready to quit the university.
“When you’re cultivating something, growing something — whether it’s a business, painting or academic work — it’s hard to leave it,” Tiberius said.
Roughly half — 47 percent — of retirees say they are working or plan to work during retirement, according to a study released earlier this year by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Age Wave, a research firm. And the motivation isn’t always financial: As advances in health care make it possible for people to live longer — and healthier — lives, the idea of a part-time or flexible job appeals to people looking to keep busy. It’s an added bonus if the job pays enough to keep them from tapping into their savings.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/business/personal-finance/the-new-face-of-retirement-1.1079192#sthash.4QfURtln.dpuf
