Ridgewood NJ, Neuralink is looking for its first human test subjects for an initial six-year trial. The trial will test Neuralink tech designed to help those with paralysis control devices. The company is looking for people with quadriplegia due to vertical spinal cord injury or ALS who are over the age of 22 and have a consistent and reliable caregiver. The study is not related to the all-encompassing brain computer that Elon Musk has been talking about for years.
COACH JACK ELWOOD JAN 6,1951 TO MAY 2, 2010. RHS GIRLS SOCCER
Girls Soccer: Ridgewood does ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in memory of coach Jack Elwood
High school athletes throughout New Jersey are taking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. But the cause has a special meaning for Ridgewood.
The Ridgewood High School girls soccer team took the challenge recently in memory of their former coach, Jack Elwood. Elwood, who coached the team for 15 years, died of ALS in 2010. He donated his body to science and took part in a longitudinal study at Columbia University to help find a curse for the disease.
The team challenged the rest of the Big North girls soccer teams to take the challenge, as well as the Ridgewood boys soccer team.
“Jack was one of the most courageous and inspirational people I have ever known. Jack chose to life his life fully,” Ridgewood coach Jeff Yearing said in the video. “Today we’re trying to live up to Jack’s standard and hopefully this helps. …Jack, we remember you. We do this for you, my friend.”
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Ridgewood accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
AUGUST 21, 2014 LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014, 4:41 PM BY LAURA HERZOG STAFF WRITER
Ice-cold water has been raining down on Ridgewood this past month, but the drenched are all smiles.
Last Friday, 11 teachers at Sara’s Pre-School on Prospect Street in Ridgewood lined up with buckets in front of the playground. About 50 children, ages 3-7, watched excitedly as their grimacing-but-game teachers poured ice-cold buckets of water on their heads, one by one.
“Do it again!” “Do it again!” “Do it again!” chanted the children.
These teachers are just a few of those in the village who are eagerly participating in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the now-ubiquitous social media campaign that promotes awareness of the progressive neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly referred to as ALS or “Lou Gehrig’s Disease.”
At this point, anyone with a Facebook profile knows that the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has exploded since it began earlier this summer, thanks to a chain reaction of ice bucket “challengers” who have nominated their Facebook friends to either post Facebook videos of themselves pouring ice water over their heads or donate to the ALS Association (or both).
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