USRowing, Photo: USA U23 mens eight on the podium in 2011 (Peter Spurrier)
Chris Buesser of Ridgewood named to USRowing 2012 Under 23 National Team Roster
FRIDAY, 06 JULY 2012 12:39
PRINCETON, N.J. — The 2012 Under 23 National Team roster has been set, USRowing announced on Thursday. Twenty-one crews will represent the United States at the 2012 World Rowing Under 23 Championships July 11-15 in Trakai, Lithuania.
Under 23 world champions will be crowned in 21 events including the men’s single sculls, women’s single sculls, lightweight men’s single sculls, lightweight women’s single sculls, men’s double sculls, women’s double sculls, lightweight men’s double sculls, lightweight women’s double sculls, men’s quadruple sculls, women’s quadruple sculls, lightweight men’s quadruple sculls, lightweight women’s quadruple sculls, men’s pair, women’s pair, lightweight men’s pair, men’s four, women’s four, lightweight men’s four, men’s four with coxswain, men’s eight and women’s eight.
Twenty-three athletes return from the 2011 Under 23 National Team including six medalists. Last year, the United States won four medals and set two under 23 world best times in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The U.S. won gold in the women’s pair and men’s eight and bronze in the women’s eight and lightweight men’s single sculls.
Racing begins on Wednesday, July 11, with heats. Finals will be held on Saturday and Sunday, July 14-15.
US Senator Bob Menendez tries to rekindled Democrat claim that the new health care tax will reduce deficit by more than $1 trillion
July 11,2012
the staff of the Ridgewood blog.
Ridgewood NJ, According to Bill Wichert of the The Star-Ledger (https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/07/politifact_nj_menendez_claims.html ) In the hours after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of the of Presidents Obama’s signature Healthcare law, the Democratic senator claimed health care reform policies will lower the deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next 20 years.
Wichert went on to quote Senator Menendez in a June 28 interview on the Regional News Network’s Richard French Live. ,”So the reality is the Congressional Budget Office says we save $250 million over the first 10 years. Over the next 10 years, we save $1.2 trillion in savings in terms of health care”.( https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/07/politifact_nj_menendez_claims.html )
Now we are not one to buy into almost any long term estimates ,the velocity change is just not a constant but unlike the Senator ,the CBO takes the opposite view and Senator Menendez clearly didn’t get the memo on the CBO’s estimates (https://cbo.gov/publication/43080):
The current estimate of the gross costs of the coverage provisions $1,496 billion through 2021 is about $50 billion higher than last year’s projection; however, the other budgetary effects of those provisions, which partially offset those gross costs, also have increased in CBO’s (Congressional Budget Office ) and JCT’s (Joint Committee on Taxation) estimates to $413 billion leading to the small decrease in the net 10-year tally.
Over the 10-year period from 2012 through 2021, enactment of the coverage provisions of the ACA was projected last March to INCREASE federal deficits by $1,131 billion, whereas the March 2012 estimate indicates that those provisions will INCREASE deficits by $1,083 billion
If one accepts the legal gymnastics, contortions and flimsy reasoning spanning the 59 pages of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ 5-4 majority opinion on the constitutionality of Obamacare, it brings to light one important consequence: President Obama has been less than honest with the American people.
In the majority opinion, the court justified the individual mandate of the Affordable Health Care Act on the grounds that a failure to comply with the mandate results in a “tax.” And, given Congress’ constitutional power to tax, the individual mandate was upheld as constitutional.
While I side with the four dissenting justices in the Obamacare opinion and believe that the failure to comply with the individual mandate undoubtedly fits the definition of a “penalty,” the highest court in the land has had its say. And the Supreme Court’s decision puts the president in an uncomfortable position.
During his presidential campaign, President Obama made the broad promise that “no family making less than $250,000 per year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
The president later remarked, in a September 2009 interview with George Stephanopoulos, that the failure to obtain health insurance under the mandate is “absolutely not a tax increase.” And the president’s advisers duly followed their marching orders by characterizing the failure to obtain health insurance under Obamacare as something other than a tax.
During questioning at a February House Budget Committee hearing, Jeffrey Zients, director of the Office of Management and Budget and the president’s top budget official, told me the monetary penalty a family would have to pay for failing to obtain health insurance under the president’s plan is not a tax.
It is clear that the president promised no tax increases on families making less than $250,000 per year.
But according to Chief Justice Roberts and the Supreme Court, failure to comply with the individual mandate results in a tax increase on just about everyone.
But here is the kicker: The taxes do not end with the individual mandate. In fact, according to a report by Americans for Tax Reform, the president’s health care law contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and businesses. There is the tax on health savings accounts, the tax on indoor tanning and the tax on families using flexible spending accounts for special needs education for their children, to name just a few. Even though the president said he wasn’t taxing you, he signed into law 20 new provisions that looked, smelled and acted suspiciously like tax increases. And now, Roberts has found Obamacare’s 21st tax increase: the individual mandate.
So where do we go from here? I do not believe we should allow Obamacare to take effect now, or at any time. But especially, as our nation teeters dangerously between lackluster recovery and further recession, the drag of Obamacare’s expansive regulations and mounting financial penalties (or, according to the Supreme Court, taxes) will be the final nail in the coffin of our dynamic free-enterprise system.
As unemployed and underemployed Americans across the nation struggle to find work, we desperately need real economic growth driven by American businesses, not the expansion of the federal government. The American people simply do not want Obamacare.
The political process must now work the people’s will and Republicans stand ready to act. As Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) recently remarked, Obamacare must be ripped out by its roots. Let’s get started so we can plant the seeds for real health care reform.
Rep. Scott Garrett (R-5th Dist.) is founder and chairman of the Congressional Constitution Caucus and vice chairman of the House Budget Committee
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Canadian study : Thousands fled Canada for health care in 2011
Published: 3:17 PM 07/11/2012
By Michael Bastasch
A Canadian study released Wednesday found that many provinces in our neighbor to the North have seen patients fleeing the country and opting for medical treatment in the United States.
The nonpartisan Fraser Institute reported that 46,159 Canadians sought medical treatment outside of Canada in 2011, as wait times increased 104 percent — more than double — compared with statistics from 1993.
Specialist physicians surveyed across 12 specialties and 10 provinces reported an average total wait time of 19 weeks between the time a general practitioner refers a patient and the time a specialist provides elective treatment — the longest they have ever recorded.
In 2011, Canadians enrolled in the nation’s government-dominated health service waited long periods of time for an estimated 941,321 procedures. As many as 2.8 percent of Canadians were waiting for treatment at any given time, according to the Institute.
“In some cases, these patients needed to leave Canada due to a lack of available resources or a lack of appropriate procedure/technology,” according to the Institute. “In others, their departure will have been driven by a desire to return more quickly to their lives, to seek out superior quality care, or perhaps to save their own lives or avoid the risk of disability.”
Ridgewood Village Council to vote on affordable housing trust fund
Wednesday July 11, 2012, 11:46 AM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The Village Council on Wednesday will consider a resolution that officials hope will prevent the state from seizing $195,000 currently in Ridgewood’s affordable housing trust fund.
Already endorsed by the Planning Board, which gave a unanimous thumbs up last Tuesday, the resolution will commit the village’s affordable housing funds to Habitat for Humanity.
Municipalities across the state are passing similar resolutions in an effort to preserve their respective affordable housing trust funds. Communities are required by law to set aside development fees and other forms of payment with the intent of constructing low and affordable housing, and that money must be designated for projects within four years.
Scott Garrett Celebrates Independence Day in Ridgewood
July 4, 2012
Congressman Scott Garrett celebrated Independence Day in Ridgewood, where he participated in the Village’s annual parade. A special thanks to all those who turned out to honor our country’s freedoms and those who have fought to protect them.
Garrett Campaigns in Maywood, River Edge, Hackensack
July 5, 2012
Congressman Garrett this week took the campaign across Bergen County, meeting with voters and visiting friends in Maywood, River Edge, and Hackensack. In Maywood, we joined with the Mayor and Council to thank the Maywood Fire Department for their hard work. We were joined by Freeholder candidate Peg Watkins at a visit to the River Edge Family Fair. And we were glad to have Hackensack Mayor Michael Melfi with us as we met with voters in his city’s downtown. Thanks to everyone who turned out!
Congressman Garrett will also be back in Ridgewood Sunday evening for a private event.
Ridgewood marches to New Jersey Little League District 4 tournament
Monday, July 9, 2012
BY DAN NORTON
STAFF WRITER
The Record
PARAMUS — Less than 10 minutes after he had been doubled off second base in the bottom of the third, Ridgewood pitcher Bobby Sullivan gave up a game-tying home run.
But he wasn’t the least bit rattled. It was only the first hit off him, and it would be the last.
Ridgewood defeated Ramsey, 9-1, at Midland Field in Paramus on Sunday to win the New Jersey Little League 11-12 District 4 tournament.
“I think just playing solid, fundamental baseball and keeping our nose in it every second worked out,” Ridgewood coach Chip Conklin said.
Friday July 6, 2012, 2:13 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The next project for Ridgewood Water, which is currently appealing a $38,000 fine levied against it by the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), is to find a source of additional water, according to the utility’s director, Frank Moritz.
This project would begin sometime before next year, he said, but despite having “some choices,” Ridgewood Water does not yet know where the new source outside of Ridgewood will be located. The utility, which services Ridgewood, Wyckoff, Midland Park and Glen Rock, is attempting to prevent a water tank running out of water with usage increases in all four municipalities.
“That’s a major concern for us,” Moritz said. “Heaven forbid there was a fire, you wouldn’t have enough water to fight the fire.”
The search for another source comes at a time when Ridgewood Water is appealing what Moritz believes to be its first fine for exceeding its water allotment. The DEP levied the fine on March 12 because the utility exceeded its annual allotment for one of its permits by about 60 million gallons in 2010, said DEP spokesperson Bob Considine.
Rather than asking for an increase in its water allotment, Ridgewood Water appealed the $38,000 fine because the utility interprets its monthly water allocation differently than the state, Moritz said.
Gov. Christie has a harsh view on the 40-year-old war on drugs: It doesn’t work.
“The war on drugs, while well-intentioned, has been a failure,” the Republican governor said Monday during a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington, according to a report by the Huffington Post.
“We’re warehousing addicted people every day in state prisons in New Jersey, giving them no treatment.”
Christie’s comments come after New Jersey lawmakers passed legislation recently that institutes a year of mandatory treatment for first-time, nonviolent drug offenders in lieu of jail time. The program is set to be activated in at least three counties during its first year and will expand across the state over the next five years. (The Star-Ledger)
New Jersey ranks 41st out of 50 for states to do business in
A CNBC survey of “America’s Top States For Business in 2012” released Tuesday found New Jersey in the bottom fifth of all states for businesses, ranking 41st.
he Garden State’s rankings fell 11 spots from number 30 in the 2011 survey.
If there was one bright spot, New Jersey ranked high this year in the education category, ranking number 4. It also did well in the access to capital category, ranking number 11 and technology and innovation (number 13).
But the state received poor marks in the categories of “business friendliness,” (number 48), “cost of living,” (number 45) and “infrastructure and transportation” (number 41). (Hassan, PolitickerNJ)
Proposed changes of leaf collection on Ridgewood Village Council agenda tonight
June 11,2012
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, tonight’s Village Council work session will look to address some nagging issues in the Village like leaf collection and some new ideas put forward by New Jersey Transit (NJT) for advertising and cleaning up the pedestrian underpass at the train station.
New Jersey Transit (NJT) will make a presentation at the Village Council work session tonight on proposed advertising program for the pedestrian underpass at Ridgewood’s train station.
The Village Council will also discuss the proposed changes to Ridgewood’s leaf and debris collection policy. After years of public criticism and much debate Village Public works officials last month began a push to end the old way of collecting loose leaves at curb side and require residents to bag leaves for pickup.
In a blow to the development of North Walnut Street and Franklin Avenue property ,known as the “Town Garage ” the Ridgewood News is reporting that environmental officials have said that several large fuel tanks located beneath the parking lot at North Walnut Street and Franklin Avenue must be removed. The site remediation is expected to be a long and costly process with sources estimating anywhere from $600,000 to $800,000.
The property already has a rather checker past and has been stuck in a zoning no mans land since 2009 .
The Village Council work session begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Sydney V. Stoldt Courtroom.
In accordance with the Codes of the Village of Ridgewood, the Boroughs of Glen Rock and Midland Park, and the Township of Wyckoff, and at the recommendation of the Director of Ridgewood Water, Frank J. Moritz, I am declaring Stage II water restrictions in Ridgewood, Glen Rock, Midland Park, and Wyckoff, New Jersey.
Residents, businesses, governmental agencies, and all other water users must adhere to Stage II restrictions.
No irrigation is allowed on Mondays at any time. Irrigation using a handheld hose is allowed at any time except Mondays. Stage II limits irrigation to alternate days based on the street addresses of properties. Irrigation of properties with odd-numbered addresses shall be permitted on odd-numbered days, while irrigation of properties with even-numbered addresses shall be permitted on even-numbered days.
Restricting overuse of water is part of the conservation plan Ridgewood Water is required to implement by state and federal regulations. Adherence to alternate day irrigation requirements helps reduce the peaks in demand that reduce storage reserves. Water in storage is vital for maintaining pressure in the system and for fighting fires. Low storage tank reserves are the principle reason for the imposition of more stringent restrictions.
Landscape professionals agree that it is easy to maintain lawns, trees, and other plantings with alternate day irrigation and most automatic irrigation systems can be programmed to be compliant. Ridgewood Water thanks its customers for their cooperation.
NO IRRIGATION IS ALLOWED ON MONDAY AT ANY TIME ALTERNATE DAYS WATERING IN EFFECT
Violators will be subject to a fine and court appearance
Rush Limbaugh : Has America Already Slipped Away?
July 09, 2012
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RUSH: I read a couple of pieces yesterday that really touched a nerve with me. One of them was by Michael Goodwin in the New York Post. Let me set it up by describing something personal. And I’ve mentioned this many times during the course of this program. When I was in my twenties and thirties, and I saw people in their sixties and seventies, I vowed that there were certain things those people did that I would never do. For instance, I vowed I would never become, in the eyes of anybody else, an old fogy. I would never be someone who looked at the younger generations as the beginning of the end of our culture. My parents did. My parents, the Beatles and all of that, was just the end of the world as far as they were concerned. It was the long hair. It was the rebel characteristics, all of that.
This is true for every generation. Every older generation looks at the younger generation and thinks, “My God, they’re gonna blow it, country’s finished, we’re all done.” I vowed that would never happen to me. I vowed I would keep an open mind and try to remember always the way I looked at the world when I was in my twenties and thirties. Well, there are things that have happened here that befuddle even me. You and I — and I’m gonna take the liberty here of speaking for you, ’cause I think this is pretty accurate when discussing most of you.
You and I look at what’s happening to the country, and we are a multitude of things. We are appalled, we’re angry, and we’re really scared. Despite every effort not to be an old fuddy-duddy, an old fogy — despite every effort to avoid falling into that trap as I’ve gotten older, as I have matured and aged — I haven’t been able to avoid it. It’s not that the younger generations are to blame. It’s not that they’re at fault. That’s not my point. We’re losing the country right in front of our eyes.
It is astounding, the transformational changes leading to the destruction. It actually has me depressed at times. Now, you and I see this the same way to one degree or to a bunch of varying degrees. But then you realize that other people don’t! They’re living it, and they don’t. In what I would consider a sane, normal world, anybody from any party who had presided over this kind of not just economic destruction, but national transformation, wouldn’t be considered a serious candidate for reelection. Not at any time in this nation’s history.
Anybody who had been in charge during these three years would be looking at a 30% approval number or reelect number, in what I would consider to be a sane world. For the past two years, every Thursday we talk about the unemployment number in this country on this program. And on Thursday of every month, we look at it in great detail because we get the number for the previous month before it’s revised downward. And it seems to me that like it’s almost like a slow-drip water torture.
This is obviously cultural rot and decay taking place. There is economic decay taking place. But it is so gradual that it’s not accompanied by any shock value. And since there’s no shock value attached to it, there’s no high degree of outrage. There’s more like resignation. People are just resigned to it. We got 8.2% unemployment? “New normal! It’s not something about which you need to get excited about and make a big change; it’s just the way it is.” Not for you. Not for you and me, don’t misunderstand.
Not for you and me, but for a seemingly large part of the country. And of course this election is gonna tell us how large a part. This is the great unknown. This is the great unknown question. Just how many people in this country think this is the United States of America? This is all it can be. This is it, and this is normal. And how many of them vote. When you look at 8.2% unemployment — when you look at more people going on disability than getting jobs — folks, we are in uncharted territory.
We now have eight million people on disability.
We have 48% of the people in this country not paying income tax, and yet all of them… And this is important in trying to assess all this. All of these people are eating. They’re not going hungry. And they all have their cell phones. And they all are able to afford to use their cell phones. And they all have their plasma TVs, and they’re all able to sign up for cable and use them. Despite all of the economic malaise. Now, the reason for this is that we’re $16 trillion in debt. We’ve got an administration which is happily paying for this result.
There is no longer a stigma to being unemployed or a stigma to being on welfare. And so, just as we used to look at the younger generation (we who are seasoned and mature), and be a little worried about what they’re gonna amount to because they seemed to be such degenerates and reprobates, now instead of looking at it that way, this whole generational thing has become one view of the country versus another view of the country. Whereas I promised myself I would never look — as a seasoned, mature individual — at younger people as worthless degenerate perverts.
Like my parents looked at my generation and every other generation has. Now, instead of doing that, I’m sitting here looking at an unknown percentage of the country and asking myself how many of them know what it is to be an American. How many of them know what that means anymore? Or how many of them have a different definition of it entirely? And I worry because the architect of all this transformation, the architect of all this destruction, has a legitimate chance as winning reelection!
In a real, sane world this guy’s party woulda thrown him out and they woulda put Hillary or somebody else in there.
Texas Is America’s Top State for Business 2012
Published: Tuesday, 10 Jul 2012 | 4:30 PM ET
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By: Scott Cohn
Senior Correspondent, CNBC
The Lone Star State makes a triumphant return as America’s Top State for Business—its third time at the top of our rankings.
“Listen, there is a reason that Caterpillar [CAT 80.27 -2.87 (-3.45%) ] moved their hydraulics manufacturing and their engine manufacturing to the state of Texas,” said Gov. Rick Perry in November during the CNBC Republican presidential debate.
We can attest to that.
In our sixth annual study, Texas racked up an impressive 1,604 points out of a possible 2,500, with top-10 finishes in six of our 10 categories of competitiveness. Texas has never finished below second place since we began the study in 2007.
Each year, we score all 50 states on the criteria they use to sell themselves. This year’s analysis is the most comprehensive yet, using 51 metrics developed with the help of the National Association of Manufacturers and the Council on Competitiveness, as well as input from the states themselves.
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