The Valley Hospital, Department of Community Health, will host a free program entitled “Restoring Your Heart” on Wednesday, November 16, at 7 p.m., at the Ringwood Library, 30 Cannici Drive, Ringwood. There are many kinds of heart disease, from coronary heart disease – which includes artery blockage – to abnormal heart rhythms.
You are invited to join Aysha Arshad, M.D., Electrophysiologist, and Navin Budhwani, M.D., Interventional Cardiologist at The Valley Hospital. Learn about the spectrum of heart disease and how specialists treat the plumbing and electrical issues of the heart.
Registration is required. For more information and to register, please call 1-800-VALLEY 1 (1-800-825-5391) or www.valleyhealth.com/events. Space is limited so make your reservations early.
Valley is proud to be your not-for-profit hospital serving the healthcare needs of more than 400,000 people in our region.
As a not-for-profit hospital, Valley is committed to giving back to the community. Valley serves the community by providing thousands of hours of healthcare education and screenings, support groups and classes to assist those in need, and care to all those who come through our doors, regardless of their ability to pay.
The Valley Hospital is proud of its history of quality patient care and community service, and looks forward to serving you and your family now and in the future.
West Bergen Tea Party,It’s all about November 8th Meet Candidates Get out the vote workshop Absentee Ballots Join us 7 pm, Tuesday, October 25th at the Larkin House, 38o Godwin Avenue, Wyckoff (1/4 mile North of Stop & Shop on the right) More Information: 201 891-5918 conservative_caucus@verizon.net www.westbergenteaparty.com
The Austerity Myth: Federal Spending Up 5% This Year By JOHN MERLINE, INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 08:05 AM ET
When Republicans took control of the House in January, they pledged to make deep cuts in federal spending, and in April they succeeded in passing a bill advertised as cutting $38 billion from fiscal 2011’s budget. Then in August, they pushed for a deal to cut an additional $2.4 trillion over the next decade.
Some analysts have blamed these spending cuts for this year’s economic slowdown.
But data released by the Treasury Department on Friday show that, so far, there haven’t been any spending cuts at all.
Higher Spending, Deficits
In fact, in the first nine months of this year, federal spending was $120 billion higher than in the same period in 2010, the data show. That’s an increase of almost 5%. And deficits during this time were $23.5 billion higher.
Leaf season will begin in Area D on Monday, October 17th and run through December 17th. Leaves are to be placed directly in the street or in paper biodegradable bags no more than seven (7) days prior to your collection date. No leaves are to be placed within ten (10) feet from any catch basin inlet. Please refer to the Village calendar or your Green Guide for the scheduled dates in your area. Weather is a key component to leaf collection. If it becomes necessary to alter the schedule, please refer to this site for updates. If you employ a landscaper please notify your landscaper of these regulations and that they must be registered to do business in the Village.
By Nadia Damouni and Jennifer Saba NEW YORK | Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:51pm EDT
(Reuters) – AOL Inc CEO Tim Armstrong has been meeting with top shareholders in the past couple of weeks to push the idea of a sale to Yahoo Inc that could wring up to $1.5 billion of cost savings, according to sources with knowledge of the discussions.
While Yahoo’s own strategic review has bumped AOL to the back burner for many on Wall Street, Armstrong is still trying to drum up shareholder support for a deal with Yahoo, presenting it as an alternative to going it alone as an Internet media company.
“The focus in the meeting has gone from a year ago of being around the fundamentals to now being how could you carve this up, what are separate assets worth, are there ways to sell off the business to extract value from them,” said a top 20 AOL shareholder who attended one of the meetings.
Armstrong said a merger between AOL and Yahoo could wring out $1 billion to $1.5 billion in savings from overlapping data centers and duplicate news sites, such as sports, entertainment and finance, according to another major shareholder who met with Armstrong
Hackensack, New Jersey – Bergen County Executive Kathleen A. Donovan and the Departmentof Human Services, Division on Disability Services announced that the 13th Annual “Salute toChampions” will take place October 28th 2011, from 10 – Noon in the Freeholders PublicMeeting Room. “This event recognizes unique accomplishments of individuals with disabilities and those persons in the community who perform selfless acts of assistance and advocacy on behalf of persons with disabilities” said Donovan. “We are extremely fortunate to have so many individuals from this area who demonstrate acommitment to the importance of inclusion and changing attitudes,” said Jim Thebery, M.A.,CSW, Division Director. “We are extremely proud of all of our champions. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the 2011 award recipients who make a tremendous difference in the lives of so many individuals” he said. The 2011 award recipients include Ridgewood High School Principal, John Lorenz, who helpeddevelop the “S.A.I.L.” Program (Strategic Actions and Innovations Program) designed toprovide students with special needs the ability to become independent learners. “The S.A.I.L program is a godsend,” said Ridgewood Councilman Paul Aronsohn. “By keepingour special needs students in-district, the program is a win for them, a win for the other students and a win for our entire community.” “Jack’s vision and passion have made it all possible,” explained Aronsohn.The Division on Disability Services provides such services as Meals-on-Wheels, PersonalAssistance Services, Respite Care, Information and Referral, Caregiver Education, Post Strokeand Disabled Adult Support Groups.
>Why money can be found NOW for this work at Habernickel , yet time and again the answer is “no money” from Village Hall when you ask about repairs to streets, curbs, walks, storm drains, sewers, and many other things?
Still would love to know why money can be found NOW for this work, yet time and again the answer is “no money” from Village Hall when you ask about repairs to streets, curbs, walks, storm drains, sewers, and many other things.
This has been the case for several years. Over and over you are told “no money” to fix badly decayed infrastructure or even to hook up some storm drains not connected to mains and which then back up and flood streets and some homes, even in moderate storms or less-than-blizzard snow.
Yet “no money” over and over on those things… but magically money is found to do this stuff now – and for retroactive raises and on and on.
And again, if projects like Habernickel are fully paid by grants specific to each site, then sure, go ahead now.
But they are not. Money is taken for doing them now that should be used for other things like the urgent infrastructure needs. Those problems have been waiting and getting much worse for years… yet the answer’s always “no money”. They- and lots of other muck– get swept under the rug.
Fields are nice, sure. But Village owned infrastructure that is falling apart and damaging many properties time and again should warrant a higher priority for spending tax dollars than finding money to demolish a house NOW which could be bringing in revenue, as indeed it had been doing.
I’m not against fields at all, but sure am against spending tax dollars for projects like that when there are so many other basic things long past their lifespan and falling apart. Fix those first, THEN use future dollars for the other stuff.
Next thing probably is that they’ll do what has been done with sewer lines, some former Village trees and much else–give the falling apart stuff to you the homeowner– retroactively of course.
And then tell you “oops, your part of the street is falling apart, you’ll have to fix that or we will assess you a zillion bucks and do it for you”.
Oh by the way, if you wanna do that newly mandated work yourself, you’ll have to meet all the Village specs and pay for a cop to watch if any street disruption is needed to fix your part of the street.
You’ll also have to pay for our engineering fees, permits and loads more on that little project we’ve just handed you.
Oh, and did we mention your share of the storm drain we built in the dark ages but never connected now must be connected, so we’re going to charge you extra for that too?
And no, you can’t charge US anything for all that runoff water we deposited on your property because of that unconnected drain that the Village used to own. Nor for any damage it might have caused.
It’s now yours– and so if any more water is discharged from it, we will be charging you for the cost of cleaning that up, too.
Can I put up a toll booth on what you now say is my part of the street to recoup these costs? Uh, no, you can’t do that, either. Oh, and we’re raising your taxes and will now charge you some more new fees, too. Have a nice day!
It’s obviously ridiculous of course, right? Yet with many things, retroactively, the Village has done that already – that’s a fact.
So.. isn’t it time to demand your tax dollars be used for these other urgently needed things first? THEN use what’s left for the other stuff.. or wait to do it until there’s money for it.
>Certainly, drivers have a responsibility to yield to pedestrians crossing the street. But, regardless of local and state laws, pedestrians have a responsibility to exercise caution when stepping or riding into a roadway
On two different occasions this weekend, I was sitting at stop signs waiting to cross Ridgewood Ave (not in the heart of the CBD).
In one instance, as the traffic cleared and I prepared to pull forward, a high school age boy on a bike rode out in front of my car with one hand on the handle bars and one hand holding a cell phone to his ear. He didn’t slow down as he left the sidewalk and crossed in front of me. Nor did he even look to see if the cars waiting to cross the intersection were starting to move.
In the second instance, a group of teen age girls, engrossed in their conversation, stepped off the curve and crossed the street just as I began to pull forward, forcing me to stop again. They did not even look up to see if a car might be coming and just assumed that the traffic would stop for them.
These are not uncommon occurrences and lead me to question whether we are overlooking the responsibility of pedestrians to take responsibility for their own actions. It reminds me of people, who want to blame Wall Street for the financial crisis in 2008 and don’t hold accountable the millions of borrowers, who took out irresponsible mortgages that they could not afford.
Certainly, drivers have a responsibility to yield to pedestrians crossing the street. But, regardless of local and state laws, pedestrians have a responsibility to exercise caution when stepping or riding into a roadway. What ever happened to “looking both ways before crossing a busy street”? Let’s not be too quick to assume the rash of traffic accidents over the past few years are the sole fault of careless drivers. It seems that this is an extension of the “nanny state” mentality that our current political leaders seem to be embracing.
>Grand Opening of Game On Physical Therapy Thu, October 20, 2011 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM Location: Game On Physical Therapy, 400 Route 17 South, Ridgewood, NJ
Topic: Advances in Sports Medicine for the Adolescent Athlete
Speakers: Rick Daigle, PT, DPT, Owner/Director Game On PT National Speaker on Post-Op Rehab of the Shoulder and Elbow www.gameonpt.com
Chad Rappaport, DPM, FACFAS (Sports Medicine Foot and Ankle Reconstruction) www.kayalortho.com
Rich Mejias- Owner of Leverage Training Center www.leveragetrainingcenter.com
Glenn Tobias, MS, RD, CCSD from e3 Health and Weight Management Solutions www.e3wms.com
>Cain: Move ‘Occupy Wall Street’ to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue By Elizabeth Harrington
(CNSNews.com) – Republican presidential nominee candidate Herman Cain called for the Occupy Wall Street protestors to relocate to the White House, in remarks he made Friday at the Family Research Council’s annual Values Voter Summit, in Washington, D.C.
“When a reporter asked me the other day, well, what do you think about those demonstrations up on Wall Street, I said, first of all, Wall Street didn’t write these failed economic policies — the White House did,” said Cain.
He then added, “Why don’t you move the demonstrations to the White House?”
Well folks, I’m at it again. Realizing that the “revolutionaries” occupying Wall Street had no common goals and no apparent organization, by listening to multiple interviewers elicit an olio of answers from them, I sat back and waited. Now, with muddied, muddled, waters clearing, I’m prepared to share my thoughts.
Susan Jones, in a post disseminated by CNSNews.com, writes that Occupy Wall St. protesters say they are “using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic” to achieve their goals, which vary from protester to protester, but generally include calls to tax the rich and spread the wealth. Following every interview with the protesters that I can, I understand why Ms. Jones claims their goals vary from protester to protester. These people, generally college students, are clueless idiots, being led by a very few Socialist and Communist organizers. If they believe they are following the Arab Spring tactics, they are even more clueless, since the revolutionaries in the Arab Spring knew exactly what their goals were, and these people don’t.
I listened as a newsman asked a protester what his goal was.
ans. – Our goal is to destroy Capitalism. ques – Okay, and what will you replace it with? ans. – A blank stare, a few seconds of stuttering, and silence.
Either he didn’t get around to thinking about that, yet, or the organizers forgot to tell him what to think.
On his radio program, Sean Hannity asked a young protester what she wanted.
ans. – To tax the rich more. ques – Why? ans. – They should pay their fair share.
Hannity went on to explain that the rich already pay the most taxes – by far – and half the people paid no income taxes at all. He then asked how much the rich should pay, as their fair share. She couldn’t figure out how much, but insisted they should pay “more”. This particular young lady was so clueless that Hannity kept her on for about 20 minutes, her answers showing how disorganized the whole Occupy Wall St. movement is – at least up to this point. I hear countless examples of these protesters giving lip service to cliched buzzwords and sound bites, and making senseless demands. When asked what they would do to make things better, what their ultimate goals are, or how the protests would improve the lot of the poor or create jobs, their Arab Spring becomes a Silent Spring.
The fact is that it wasn’t their idea in the first place. They were given a general idea of what to do, without specific goals, so people would dismiss them as harmless, and most folks have. But the hand of George Soros is in this, and nothing he orchestrates is harmless.
Now, the occupyers’ numbers are being bolstered by the addition of Union goons, and other professional organizers (SEIU is one of the original organizers, along with organizations controlled by George Soros, including the newly re-named ACORN groups). The original, clueless, kids that were coaxed to start the occupations around the Nation will be organized, and be given specific, uniform, goals to mouth. They will consider themselves brilliant thinkers and Patriots – because that is what the new organizers will tell them they are. What they really are is expendable fodder, for the real revolutionaries to use and throw away.
Having used the original protesters to show the movement is harmless and benign – so most people won’t worry – the Union heavies, and Socialist and Communist organizers will take over, and the real goal of these occupations will become manifest. It’s too soon to prove, but I believe it will be to riot and create chaos, so Obama will have an excuse to delay or cancel the elections and/or declare martial law. Socialist takeover complete, except for the fact that America has plenty of Patriots who will fight it.
Remember: It’s soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box, in that order.
>Garrett Chairs Hearing to Review Legislative Proposals to Promote Small Business Capital Formation
WASHINGTON, DC, September 21, 2011 – Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Chairman of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises, delivered the following opening statement today at a hearing to review legislation to promote small business capital formation:
“Welcome to our witnesses. I look forward to your testimony today on a number of proposals that will encourage capital formation and job creation at small companies all across the country.
“A couple weeks ago, as part of his jobs plan that he outlined in a speech to a joint session of Congress, the President included some ideas that, in the case of Congressman Schweikert’s bill on Reg A, we have passed out of this committee already, and in some other cases are similar to proposals that we are considering here today.
“So I am pleased that we have some bipartisan momentum behind efforts to tap into the potential of American entrepreneurs to build companies and create jobs.
“Many of the existing rules and regulations in the area of capital formation were well-intentioned at the time they were first established, but have sometimes been in place for decades and overdue for review.
“And while the President did not end up including any capital formation proposals in the actual legislative language he sent up to Capitol Hill, we have five specific bills that we will be considering at today’s hearing that can help jump-start our economy.
“H.R. 2167, the Private Company Flexibility and Growth Act, introduced by my Vice-Chairman David Schweikert, would raise the threshold for mandatory registration with the SEC from 500 shareholders to 1,000, and if signed into law, would be the first time the shareholder threshold has been adjusted since it was adopted in 1964.
“We will also consider a similar proposal today from Congressman Himes that pertains to smaller banks.
“Congressman Patrick McHenry has a proposal under consideration today, the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act, which enhances the President’s proposal on encouraging so-called ‘crowdfunding,’ an innovative phenomenon that can tap into social networking tools where many investors are able to pool smaller investments together without having to grapple with SEC registration costs and constraints.
“Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s “Access to Capital for Job Creators Act” will also be on the docket today. A former small business owner, himself, Mr. McCarthy is no stranger to the challenges they face. His legislation would provide more flexibility in soliciting accredited investors for private offerings.
“And finally, the newest member of this Committee, Mr. Fincher, has a draft proposal for consideration today that I am particularly fond of. During the consideration of the Dodd-Frank Act, I worked closely on a bipartisan basis with my late colleague and friend, John Adler, on a proposal that was ultimately included in the final bill to permanently exempt smaller public companies from having to comply with the costly burdens imposed under section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
“Mr. Fincher’s proposal would raise the market capitalization threshold for companies fully exempt from 404(b) compliance from $75 million to $500 million and provides further flexibility in 404(b) compliance for companies in the $500 million to $1 billion range.
“All of these proposals are common-sense efforts to remove unnecessary regulatory burdens from the shoulders of America’s small businesses while unleashing American entrepreneurs to do what they do best – create jobs and grow our economy. And as I mentioned earlier, it is my hope and belief that most, if not all, of these bills will receive strong bipartisan support.”
The choice is simple…continue down the Obama & Co path toward a “welfare state” with increased government size and control over most aspects of our daily lives or return to an economy/society that incentivizes and rewards innovation, hard work and a desire to improve one’s standard of living.
If you want a preview of where a massive government size and control will take us, look no further than Greece, France and other European countries today. It is unfortunate that many of our elected officials are so blinded by the dogma of their well-intentioned, but flawed, socioeconomic theories that they cannot see/accept the reality staring them in the face. Big government, organized labor contracts, higher taxes and a welfare approach do not create jobs or a thriving economy. They only serve as a drag that stymies growth and prosperity and, ultimately, drives society toward the lowest common denominator.
What’s worse is that so many people are sucked in by the hollow promises of left-leaning policy makers and are too ignorant of the factors that drive our economy to see these promises for what they are…a steep downhill slide to economic and social disaster, from which we can never recover.
>Occupy Wall Street ‘Stands In Solidarity’ With Obama Front Group Why is the official OWS website in league with lobbying fronts for the Wall Street-backed Obama White House?
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Fears expressed by some that the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement is being hijacked by the Democratic Party establishment have intensified after the official OWS website announced that it “stands in solidarity” with MoveOn.org, a lobbying group for the Wall Street-backed Obama administration.
The front page of the https://occupywallst.org/ proudly announces that numerous union groups will be present in New York today to join demonstrators in marches taking place this afternoon.
“Together we will protest this great injustice. We stand in solidarity with the honest workers of….MoveOn.org,” states the website, as well as listing numerous other organizations.
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