On Monday, August 25th, work restarted at Garber Square. The center divider has been prepared for the installation of curbs and the center island surface for Belgian block finish.
Following the holiday weekend, the contractor will resume work on Tuesday, September 2nd and work daily from 7:30am to 5:00pm. Eastbound traffic will be closed for this work phase of the project. Alternate routes using Ackerman or W. Glen Avenues are encouraged to avoid traffic delays.
Thank you for your patience. Additional updates will be forthcoming.
GRAND OPENING in Ridgewood – Beauty Plus Salon
Wed, September 03, 2014
Time: 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Location: Beauty Plus Salon, 25 E. Ridgewood Ave., Ridgewood, NJ 07450
All invited to attend the Grand Opening of
Beauty Plus Salon
25 E. Ridgewood Ave.
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Ribbon Cutting at 5:30pm
food and beverages served
All who attend will receive 40% off on beauty supplies, nail poliss, appliances and much more,
plus everyone will receive a 20% off card for one year…Wednesday-Sunday. Join in on the celebration.
Actress and Director Jennifer Linch shows off her moves
YWCA Judo – Open House Tuesday, Sept 2
Instruction For All Ages
YWCA Judo to hold Open House on Tuesday, September 2nd International Judo Champion Offers Instruction for All Ages at YWCA Bergen County YWCA Bergen County’s judo programs, taught by International Medalist and 5th Degree Black Belt Christine Maurer, to hold open house and free trail class (new students only) on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 from 5:45 – 6:45pm (Lil’ Dragons) and 6:45 – 7:15pm (U.S.J.A. Judo). Lil’ Dragons Judo and Life Skills (ages 4 to 7 years) combines Judo and life-skills training in a fun, exciting and enriching environment. Children learn basic judo tumbling and grappling, 911 skills, stranger danger, bully busting and personal safety. U.S.J.A. Judo (ages 5 years to adult) teaches Judo “the gentle way,” focusing on self-defense as well as building self-confidence and discipline through Judo’s throwing techniques and mat work. Belt rank promotions are certified through U.S. Judo Association and a Junior Judo Team is available for competition. Enrollment is going on now for the YWCA Bergen County’s judo programs. Classes begin on Tuesday, September 2, 2014. Sign up by August 28 to receive $5 off the original price of Lil’ Dragons or U.S.J.A. Judo classes. Join both Lil’ Dragons and U.S.J.A. Judo and save $10 off your total class fees. YWCA Bergen County’s “Family Special” offers $10 off the original class price when additional family members join. All classes run in 8-week sessions and are held at the YWCA’s 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood facility. Register online (www.ywcabergencounty.org) or call Colleen Fontes at 201-444-5600 ext. 351 for details and class schedules
Actress and Director Jennifer Linch shows off her moves
Obama’s Naive Belief in Predetermined History
By Dave the Sage on August 29, 2014 • ( 1 )
– By Victor Davis Hanson –
In his therapeutic 2009 Cairo speech, Obama outlined all sorts of Islamic intellectual and technological pedigrees, several of which were undeserved. He exaggerated Muslim contributions to printing and medicine, for example, and was flat-out wrong about the catalysts for the European Renaissance and Enlightenment.
He also believes history follows some predetermined course, as if things always get better on their own. Obama often praises those he pronounces to be on the “right side of history.” He also chastises others for being on the “wrong side of history” – as if evil is vanished and the good thrives on autopilot.
When in 2009 millions of Iranians took to the streets to protest the thuggish theocracy, they wanted immediate U.S. support. Instead, Obama belatedly offered them banalities suggesting that in the end, they would end up “on the right side of history.” Iranian reformers may indeed end up there, but it will not be because of some righteous inanimate force of history, or the prognostications of Barack Obama.
Obama often parrots Martin Luther King Jr.’s phrase about the arc of the moral universe bending toward justice. But King used that metaphor as an incentive to act, not as reassurance that matters will follow an inevitably positive course.
Another of Obama’s historical refrains is his frequent sermon about behavior that doesn’t belong in the 21st century. At various times he has lectured that the barbarous aggression of Vladimir Putin or ISIS has no place in our century and will “ultimately fail” – as if we are all now sophisticates of an age that has at last transcended retrograde brutality and savagery. …
If Obama believes that evil should be absent in the 21st century, or that the arc of the moral universe must always bend toward justice, or that being on the wrong side of history has consequences, then he may think inanimate forces can take care of things as we need merely watch.
In truth, history is messier. Unfortunately, only force will stop seventh-century monsters like ISIS from killing thousands more innocents.
AUGUST 30, 2014 LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014, 1:21 AM BY JAMES M. O’NEILL STAFF WRITER THE RECORD
After more than a year of study, United Water has decided to develop a small hydroelectric power plant at the Dundee Dam to produce enough power to supply 1,000 homes.
The company will seek bids from hydropower developers to build turbines and run the facility at the dam, which stretches across the Passaic River from Garfield to Clifton.
United Water, a co-owner of the dam, would sign a multiyear lease with the winning hydropower company. The hydropower company would then collect the revenue generated by selling the electricity to the regional grid. The company could also receive financial clean energy credits from the state.
“This is a great environmental sustainability story,” said Steve Goudsmith, a United Water spokesman. “We believe this is not only an untapped renewable resource but attractive to hydro developers,” said Goudsmith.
The facility would become one of only a handful of hydroelectric facilities in New Jersey and mesh with Governor Christie’s goal of generating 70 percent of the state’s electricity through clean sources — such as wind, solar and hydro — by 2050.
One giant leap: Whale sightings off Jersey Shore up dramatically
AUGUST 29, 2014, 7:26 PM LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2014, 10:34 PM BY SCOTT FALLON STAFF WRITER THE RECORD
While it hasn’t become Cape Cod just yet, the number of whale sightings around New Jersey has increased substantially this year, suggesting that the state’s coastal waters are now clean enough to sustain humpbacks, finbacks and other species during their feeding season.
Since April, dozens of whales have been spotted from Sandy Hook to Cape May chasing down schools of small fish sometimes within a mile of New Jersey’s shoreline.
“They seem to be staying in the same area all season long, which is something we haven’t really seen before,” said Amy Bergeron, a marine biologist with the Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center, which runs tours along New Jersey’s southern coast. “Some are not even a mile out. We know they come here for the food, and you’re seeing huge batches of bait fish close to the shore.”
As of last week, the Cape May center had 37 whale sightings, compared with 15 through October last year. And Gotham Whale Watch, a group of “citizen scientists” who catalog marine mammals in New York and as far south as Monmouth County, has reported 57 whale sightings so far up from 43 in 2013.
The news has drawn thousands onto whale-watching boats hoping to see the majestic mammals gliding through the ocean and perhaps even glimpse a humpback leaping out of the water. It has also prompted authorities to issue alerts to boaters fearing whales are coming too close to shore.
Academics are treating the reports cautiously, since most of the sightings come from groups associated with local whale-watching boats. But some environmental officials and marine biologists say the reports should be taken seriously.
“It’s tough to definitively say there are more whales in an area without more baseline information,” said Jackie Toth Sullivan, a marine mammal scientist and adjunct professor at Richard Stockton College. “That being said, an increase certainly seems plausible given the amount of anecdotal reports coming in from boaters, whale-watching boats and beachgoers alike this season.”
Beginning in April, thousands of humpback whales usually pass New Jersey dozens of miles off the coast during their annual migration up the East Coast from their winter mating and birthing grounds in the West Indies. Many congregate around Cape Cod to feed on the abundant sea life near a large underwater plateau in Massachusetts Bay or head farther into the North Atlantic for food.
Cleaner waters affect the bottom of the food chain allowing plankton to flourish closer to shore. That in turn provides a food source for small bait fish like menhaden. And whales like nothing more than to scoop a school of menhaden into their mouths for lunch.
Even though an estimated 23 billion gallons of raw sewage spills from hundreds of outfall pipes into New Jersey’s rivers and bays each year, the state’s coastal waters are considered the cleanest they have been in decades.
New Jersey ranked third in best water quality out of 30 states last year with 3 percent of water samples exceeding pollution standards, according to a report by the National Resource Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/one-giant-leap-whale-sightings-off-jersey-shore-up-dramatically-1.1078310#sthash.SJTBWb7q.dpuf
Fears grow that Americans fighting with extremists overseas could bring violence back home
Why I thought Bush made up the whole thing to fight wars so Haliburton could get rich ?
AUGUST 29, 2014, 11:23 PM LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2014, 11:33 PM BY KEN DILANIAN AND BRADLEY KLAPPER ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The case of Mehdi Nemmouche haunts U.S. intelligence officials.
Nemmouche is a Frenchman who authorities say spent 11 months fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria before returning to Europe to act out his rage. On May 24, prosecutors say, he methodically shot four people at the Jewish Museum in central Brussels. Three died instantly, one afterward. Nemmouche was arrested later, apparently by chance.
For U.S. and European counterterrorism officials, that 90-second spasm of violence is the kind of attack they fear from thousands of Europeans and up to 100 Americans who have gone to fight for extremist armies in Syria and now Iraq.
The Obama administration has offered a wide range of assessments of the threat to U.S. national security posed by the extremists who say they’ve established a caliphate, or Islamic state, in an area straddling eastern Syrian and northern and western Iraq, and whose actions include last week’s beheading of American journalist James Foley. Some officials say the group is more dangerous than al-Qaida. Yet intelligence assessments say it currently couldn’t pull off a complex, 9/11-style attack on the U.S. or Europe.
However, there is broad agreement across intelligence and law enforcement agencies of the immediate threat from radicalized Europeans and Americans who could come home to conduct lone-wolf operations.
Such plots are difficult to detect because they don’t require large conspiracies of people whose emails or phone calls can be intercepted.
Which Apps Are Eating Your Battery? Normal Will Tell You
Posted Aug 15, 2014 by Kim-Mai Cutler (@kimmaicutler
Somewhere, somehow, maybe less than a year after I got the latest version of my iPhone, its battery would mysteriously deplete in about half a day.
I wasn’t really sure why. But now I can find out.
There’s a new app called ‘Normal’ out from a pair of Stanford Ph.Ds in computer science named Adam Oliner and Jacob Leverich, who are turning some postdoctoral research into a company called Kuro Labs.
Their first project, Normal, is a battery diagnosis service that tracks and compares your app usage to other iOS device owners to see if there are any specific actions you can take to save battery life. The 99 cent app compares your phone’s battery usage over time with other people who have similar combinations of apps.
Hence, the name ‘Normal’ — is your phone’s battery life normal compared to other devices that are the exact same model?
“Battery is a pain point and there are not good solutions,” Oliner said. “The device doesn’t tell you everything you need to know. Why is it using so much energy? Is that normal or not? That’s what we’re trying to adjust.”
When you go inside Normal, you’ll see active apps, inactive battery hogs and other apps. For each app, there is a ring chart that will show you how much battery life you’ll save if you close a specific app.
Labor Day exhausted: 40-hour work week grows to 47-60 hours
BY PAUL BEDARD | AUGUST 29, 2014 | 12:04 PM TOPICS: WASHINGTON SECRETS JOBS LABOR WORK REQUIREMENTS
The old “9 to 5” work week is becoming about as obsolete as the American Dream.
A new Gallup poll finds that economically-stressed Americans are now working an “average” of 47 hours, with a growing number clocking 60 hours or more.
“Adults employed full time in the U.S. report working an average of 47 hours per week, almost a full workday longer than what a standard five-day, 9-to-5 schedule entails. In fact, half of all full-time workers indicate they typically work more than 40 hours, and nearly four in 10 say they work at least 50 hours,” said Gallup, based on their 2014 Work and Education survey.
Full time workers:
— Less than 40 hours per week, 8 percent.
— 40 hours, 42 percent.
— 41-49 hours, 11 percent.
— 50-59 hours, 21 percent.
— 60 hours or more, 18 percent.
Gallup said that salaried workers are putting in more hours, on average five hours more per week, 49 vs. 44 for hourly workers.
Proposed apartments on Broad Street will benefit Ridgewood
AUGUST 29, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2014, 12:31 AM
Proposed apartments on Broad Street will benefit village Robert Jenkins
to the Editor:
As a lifelong resident of the village, and a person who has spent the past 36 years working in downtown Ridgewood, I have seen many changes to the business district. Businesses come and go, but luckily the downtown area continues to be charming and seemingly well attended.
However, in light of the struggling economy, I believe that the village would benefit from a shot in the arm, such as would be provided by the luxury apartment complex proposed at the former Brogan Cadillac site on South Broad Street.
It’s easy to see the benefits of such a complex. Many of my contemporaries have moved, or are planning to move, out of the village at some point — to downsize and/or simply find a place to live without the rigors of upkeep that owning a house entails. Luxury apartments in the downtown area would offer an attractive alternative to moving away and in the process would provide not only increased tax revenues to the town, but also a boost to the local businesses that would ensure the continuation of the downtown district.
Increased Interest After O’Keefe Crossed in Bin Laden Mask… BREIBART TEXAS VERIFIES ISIS BORDER THREAT WITH LEAKED DOC by BRANDON DARBY 29 Aug 2014, 12:05 PM PDT
LUBBOCK, Texas — Breitbart Texas has exclusively obtained a leaked document warning federal agents about an ISIS-related terrorism threat across the entire US-Mexico border. Though the document focuses on the Texas-Mexico border, Breitbart Texas has confirmed that federal agents across the entire US-Mexico border have received the ISIS terror warning.
The document was released by the Texas Department of Public Safety and warned that ISIS was actively promoting and encouraging supporters to take advantage of the porous Texas-Mexico border to carry out terrorist attacks against US citizens.
The document attributed the increased interest by ISIS to a report done by journalist James O’Keefe. Though the report did not mention O’Keefe by name, it showed images of O’Keefe crossing the porous Texas-Mexico border while wearing an Osama bin Laden mask.
In addition to the report, U.S. Border Patrol Agents confirmed that the U.S. Border Patrol agency was indeed taking the threat seriously. A Border Patrol agent in the Laredo Sector told Breitbart Texas that they had credible information that ISIS was attempting to find individuals and groups in Nuevo-Laredo Mexico to assist in gaining entry into the united states.
A Border Patrol agent in the El Paso Sector would only tell Breitbart Texas that a warning was issued to agents pertaining to ISIS.
Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources have confirmed to Judicial Watch that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued. Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat.
Specifically, Judicial Watch sources reveal that the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is confirmed to now be operating in Juarez, a famously crime-infested narcotics hotbed situated across from El Paso, Texas. Violent crimes are so rampant in Juarez that the U.S. State Department has issued a number of travel warnings for anyone planning to go there. The last one was issued just a few days ago.
Intelligence officials have picked up radio talk and chatter indicating that the terrorist groups are going to “carry out an attack on the border,” according to one JW source. “It’s coming very soon,” according to this high-level source, who clearly identified the groups planning the plots as “ISIS and Al Qaeda.” An attack is so imminent that the commanding general at Ft. Bliss, the U.S. Army post in El Paso, is being briefed, another source confirms. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not respond to multiple inquiries from Judicial Watch, both telephonic and in writing, about this information.
The disturbing inside intelligence comes on the heels of news reports revealing that U.S. intelligence has picked up increased chatter among Islamist terror networks approaching the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. While these terrorists reportedly plan their attack just outside the U.S., President Obama admits that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to combat ISIS. “I don’t want to put the cart before the horse,” the commander-in-chief said this week during a White House press briefing. “I think what I’ve seen in some of the news reports suggest that folks are getting a little further ahead of what we’re at than what we currently are.”
The administration has also covered up, or at the very least downplayed, a serious epidemic of crime along the Mexican border even as heavily armed drug cartels have taken over portions of the region. Judicial Watch has reported that the U.S. Border Patrol actually ordered officers to avoid the most crime-infested stretches because they’re “too dangerous” and patrolling them could result in an “international incident” of cross border shooting. In the meantime, who could forget the famous words of Obama’s first Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano; the southern border is “as secure as it has ever been.”
These new revelations are bound to impact the current debate about the border crisis and immigration policy.
Mises Daily: Friday, August 29, 2014 by Peter St. Onge
by Peter St. Onge
One of the great economic myths of our time is Japan’s “lost decades.” As Japan doubles-down on inflationary stimulus, it’s worth reviewing the facts.
The truth is that the Japanese and US economies have performed in lock-step since 2000, and their performances have matched each other going as far back as 1980.
Either Japan’s not in crisis, or the US has been in crisis for a good thirty-five years. You can’t have it both ways.
Here’s a chart of per capita real GDP for both Japan and the US from 2000 to 2011. Per capita real GDP is the GDP measure that best answers the question: “is the typical person getting richer?”
The two curves look like they came from the same country:
R.H.S. Girls Soccer Preview: Ridgewood ready to continue program’s resurgence
August 29, 2014 Last updated: Friday, August 29, 2014, 12:31 AM
By Matthew Birchenough
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
After pulling off a major turnaround on the soccer field in 2013, the question facing the players on this year’s Ridgewood High School girls team is simple: Where do they go from here?
The Maroons improved from 8-11 in 2012 to 15-5-2 last season, and they also reached the Bergen County tournament semifinals for the first time in 13 years.
However, leading scorer Darby Kiernan and goalkeeper Olivia Shaw — both of whom earned spots on the North 1 region All-State team last year — as well as a handful of other key seniors are gone. But the raised expectations are not.
“We probably have more soccer depth on this team than we’ve had over the last couple of years,” RHS head coach Jeff Yearing said Tuesday. “The expectations are high.”
The 2013 season provided several reasons for renewed excitement about the team, including a 1-0 win versus Immaculate Heart and two wins over Paramus, the first triumphs against their Big North Freedom Division rival since 2009.
Paramus police say neighbors helped to shut down a brothel
August 28, 2014, 9:10 AM Last updated: Thursday, August 28, 2014, 6:33 PM
By MARY DIDUCH and STEFANIE DAZIO
Staff Writers
The Record
PARAMUS — The cars, driven by men of varying ages and ethnicities, would come mostly in the evening. Some would circle the neighborhood. Others would pull into the wrong driveway as they searched for 12 North Farview Ave.
The behavior was strange enough in this residential neighborhood in the heart of the borough to spur residents to contact police.
That vigilance was credited by police on Thursday for helping bring down a suspected brothel that authorities say could have been operating for two months.
“That’s the way the system is supposed to work,” Deputy Chief Robert Guidetti said. “If you see something suspicious, don’t be embarrassed. Call the police.”
As a result of the proactive residents, police began surveillance at the small, pale blue house on Aug. 8. They saw numerous cars parked in front of the house with men between 20-years-old and 50-years-old coming in and out, Guidetti said.
On Wednesday evening, Paramus police and members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office posed as johns, entered the home and were offered sexual acts at a rate of $160 an hour, Guidetti said.
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