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New Jersey Democrats condemn racist and discriminatory comments unless it serves a partisan political purpose

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Demarest NJ, An effort by Senator Gerald Cardinale (R-39) to address the incivility at all levels of American politics was ruled “out of order” by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee today.

After ruling an effort by Sen. Gerry Cardinale to increase civility in politics “out of order,” Democrats on the Judiciary Committee adopted a partisan attack on the President of the United States. (SenateNJ.com)

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NJ State Senator Wants to make New Jersey a Global Leader of Fusion Energy Technology

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Princeton NJ, Senator Joe Pennacchio has introduced a bipartisan package of legislation to make New Jersey a global leader of fusion energy research and the development of commercial technology to bring fusion power to market, saying it represents a rare opportunity for the business and environmental communities to work together.

Sen. Joe Pennacchio’s package of bills would make New Jersey a global leader of fusion energy research and the development of commercial technology to bring fusion power to market. (SenateNJ.com)

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NJ Man Denied Job at Six Flags Amusement Park Faces Weapons Charges

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Jackenson Twp NJ, Authorities charged an Allentown (Monmouth County) man who was denied employment at an Ocean County amusement park after they said he had multiple weapons in his vehicle and at his home. Jonathan Fruchter, 38, sought a job at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson on August 29, but police said he was escorted out of the theme park because he acted irrationally and asked questions about security protocols.

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Hudson Woodpile will be providing music for the September 21, 2019 Baronfest

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New Bridge Landing NJ, “THE HUDSON WOODPILE “ is a “roots” music band composed of local multi instrumental acoustic musicians . The core musicians are Steve Kelman on guitar and mandolin. Ken Miller on Banjo ,Fiddle. and mandolin . Periodically ,Andy Steimle plays on the upright bass. Assorted other singers and musicians regularly appear . Steve has decades of performing. Ken Miller spent 7 years playing along with Pete Seeger in Beacon ,NY.“ Roots “ music is played on acoustic instruments . Some people call it “wooden music” .It is a collection of “old Timey” ,”Bluegrass”, “Blues”,”Folk”, “Folkrock” ,”Irish”,” Scottish “and “Western”. We thoroughly enjoy singing and playing these songs and tunes, and so will you.

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NJ State Pensions Continue to Take Hits

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Ridgewood NJ, Governor Murphy once again plays games with the New Jersey pension funds . At stake are benefit payments to nearly 800,000 active and retired state and local workers.

For years, New Jersey had over inflated its assumption on returns on public pension fund investments ,but in the waning days of the Christie administration the NJ Department of treasury moved to face reality.

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Ridgewood Village Council Public Meeting

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VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD
VILLAGE COUNCIL
REGULAR PUBLIC MEETING
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
8:00 P.M
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1.   Call to Order – Mayor

2.   Statement of Compliance with the Open Public       Meetings Act

3.   Roll Call – Village Clerk

4.   Flag Salute and Moment of Silence

5.   Acceptance of Financial Reports

6.   Approval of Minutes

7.   Proclamations

  1. Fire Prevention Week
  2. Gold Star Mother’s Day
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New Jersey Cannabis Convention Atlantic City September 14-15

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Atlantic City NJ, The first annual New Jersey Cannabis Convention is coming to the Atlantic City Convention Center for two days of business and medical education September 14-15, 2019. NJCANN will be the largest gathering of New Jersey’s medical marijuana industry professionals, and ultimately those looking forward to the eventual adult use recreational market. With two education programming tracks concurrently running each day, attendees will learn from dozens of speakers representing all corners of the industry.

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Harmful Algal Bloom Discovered at Amico Island Park

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Mount Holly NJ, In response to a tip from the public, Burlington County staff discovered a Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) at Amico Island Park in Delran on Friday morning. On Tuesday afternoon, the Department of Environmental Protection confirmed the presence of HAB after testing was performed. Signs have been posted in and around Amico Island Park in Delran advising residents not to have contact with the water, including but not limited to swimming, wading, watersports and fishing. Pets and livestock should not come into contact with or drink the water.

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Some of the Android Phones with Best UI

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To assess the efficiency, people used to look at benchmarking systems checking the hardware aspect of smartphones. However, the hardware side isn’t all about a portable device’s general efficiency: software development is also among another variable.

When it goes to the software aspect of Android smartphones, companies generally create two decisions: create highly tailored variants of Android for their phones or publish them with a small number of customizations (and also with no UI customizations either) with Android inventory edition.

The first alternative offers more characteristics and helpful apps, whereas the second solution generally leads to stronger performance. In spite of results, Master Lu Benchmark published his private top 10 of the finest Android user interfaces.

Hydrogen OS through One Plus is the greatest and it’s mostly an inventory UI, according to the classification. 2nd, they discover Hawaii’s EMUI, which is a highly tailored variant of Android alternatively.

Smartisan’s fifth position is invaded by Smartisan OS, whereas Xiaomi’s MIUI gets the fourth position. Then received Oppo’s Color OS, Samsung understands on Galaxy-series phones, Google Pixels User interface, HTC’s Sense, Fun touch of Vivo OS, and finally Nubia UI.

There are still a few irritating components of One UI, but they’re not ruining what’s otherwise a comprehensive, consistent, and (dare I mention) reflective Android variant. This is not Samsung’s standard wisdom.

Though in the past couple of years, you have not yet paid near regard to the globe of Android, you may have missed anything: we’re not talking much more about bodies. We used to believe there could be such a thing as real Android, which was then violated on the bottom of it by useless and irritating software levels.

Pure Android is doing far less than it utilized to do nowadays. The simple version of an Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is no longer anything you would like to use on your own so many valuable pieces have been removed from the open-source or are being distributed either by Google or even the manufacturer alternatively.

No Phone Android Anymore with ‘Pure’

So it’s kind of missing the point to speak about real Android and masks. Most Android-built devices have special technology that runs much closer than the body, whether it’s Samsung, Xiaomi or yeah also Google.

Throughout the review for Pixel 2 vs S9, Samsung Galaxy of version S9 is a better Smartphone because it has good video recording performance, wide-angle selfie, till 400 GB expandable storage, greater screen resolution as well as pixel density, larger screen volume, fully AMOLED display, up to 30 minutes visibility of 1.5 meters, flood-resistant IP68, smaller, quicker GPU acceleration and strong CPU, and strong battery capacity.

Here is a brief analysis of Google Pixels 2 vs Samsung Galaxy S9,

Layout

Width; Samsung S9 having 8.5 mm, on the other hand, Google Pixel 2 is 7.8 mm wide.

Weight

Samsung S9 weighs 6807 mm although Google pixel 2 is 69.7 mm; Google pixel 2 is 143 g, whereas Samsung S9 is 163 g.

Resistance

Almost all devices are dust-resistant and water-proof.

Height

Pixel 2 of Google is 145.7 mm, while Samsung S9 is 147.7 mm.

Feel and Look

Most of the inventory (Pixel) Android’s esthetic attraction is on house displays and the phone drawer when you get in the menu options and dialog cabinets, it’s fairly utilitarian instead of beautiful.

With Samsung’s One user interface, regard to precision extends into table headings or dialog boxes as well as icons a little closer. Take the flying bubble-style submissions in the Settings panel in One UI, for instance, as opposed to the very registered display on the Pixel devices.

Rarely, Samsung’s propensity to graphic flourish may be above and confusing. With one user interface, however, the equilibrium appears to be pretty good, with fewer useless changes to feel and look.

That’s not to mention the bad design of the Pixel Android OS. The Google Assistant input (one swipe from house monitor to the left) is performed very beautifully, and faster than the Bixby-powered counterpart of Samsung. Notifications on inventory Android feel a little better and easier, we believe.

Thematic and Personalization

Samsung does have the upper hand here, even though we’ve only seen the 1st signs in a theme show up in Android Q. The one user interface has a Wallpaper as well as theme admission on the Settings menu that doesn’t have any counterpart on Android inventory on the Pixels, so you have a number more choices to run around.

The animated wallpapers are quite well done from either the pixel point of view, as is the standard weather and calendar application. All in all, however, we favor Samsung’s One user interface architecture, and it’s also more versatile.

Overall, Samsung’s One user interface is an enhancement on what’s come before it: Everything is clearer and simpler to write, with much more subtle and yet just as effective graphic indications for customers. Many of the icons also seem to have been fixed up to enhance the general look of the Operating system.

Traditionally, the advantage of getting a more stable design is that it’s running quicker, and that’s something Google certainly has in mind. Though, Samsung appears to have produced one user interface nippier and far less laggy than any of its earlier incarnations of TouchWiz or Samsung Understanding, even if we tested it in among of Samsung’s 2019 flagship devices.

Options and Apps

Apps are one region where Samsung, as well as its one-UI variant of Android, is still far behind how much Google can deliver, which may be anticipated. About connections, calendar, calculator, SMS applications, etc., we would be amazed if many individuals preferred Samsung’s alternatives over Google’s.

The variations are most pronounced in the most significant applications: Google Chrome vs. Samsung Internet, Gmail vs. Samsung Email and Google Photos vs Samsung Gallery. Apps from Samsung aren’t awful, but Google has a definite advantage.

Conclusion

Thus these are few of the parameters discussed above where you can compare different phones and the UI they have got.

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Eminent Domain Abuse Forum Held in Hoboken

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Hoboken NJ, this could be the next trick in the forced over development /high density housing battle in Bergen County.

The Pulse with Peter B., northern New Jersey’s premier cable access show, hosted a forum on eminent domain abuse in Hudson County on Wednesday night, August 28th, in Our Lady of Grace School. The forum highlighted the Center St neighborhood of Jersey City and the NY Waterway ferry company marina property in Hoboken as examples of local government abuse of eminent domain powers to harm communities and help special interests. Forum panelists included Hudson County community advocates Natalia Ioffe, Mary Ondrejka, and Joshua Sotomayor Einstein. The forum was moderated by show host Peter Biancamano.

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Judge Rules Against Glen Rock Senior High Density Housing

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Glen Rock NJ, A Superior Court judge has struck down a variance granted to an age-restricted apartment project planned for a Prospect Street residential zone in Glen Rock,In 2017, the Glen Rock Zoning Board of Adjustment approved the variance permitting construction of the 52-unit rental complex in a single-family residential zone adjacent to a Ridgewood Water facility. The Glen Park Village project was first pitched as senior housing in 2013, but just months before the zoning board’s 2017 decision, the Glen Rock Borough Council twice rejected ordinances against rezoning the 2-acre property to permit high-density housing. Their consideration came at the request of Glen Park. A neighbor-driven petition was given to the council in advance of their vote. The council’s action prompted the developer to pursue a use variance with the zoning board.

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State Police Urges Responsible Driving on Land and Water this Labor Day Weekend

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Bayhead NJ, This weekend marks the unofficial end of the summer season, which means many will be on the roads enjoying the final days of sunshine and warm temperatures. Residents and tourists alike can expect increased traffic and congestion on our roadways and waterways this weekend. Responsible vehicle operation both on and off of the water is the first step to ensuring a safe holiday for everyone.

During the 2018 Labor Day holiday period, two of the seven fatal crashes in New Jersey involved impairment from alcohol or drugs as a contributing factor. If you plan on drinking alcohol this weekend, don’t make a bad decision by getting behind the wheel. Tragedies can be avoided by calling a taxi, using transportation applications such as Uber and Lyft, having a designated driver, or making plans to stay where you are.

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Apple Ridge Stop Work Order Lifted by Upper Saddle River

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Upper Saddle River NJ, On August 28, 2019 the following email was sent to Toll Brother by Boswell Engineering lifting the Stop Work Order on that portion located in Upper Saddle River.

Please allow this email to summarize the chronology of this project since the issuance of a Stop Work Orders for this project on July 23, 2019. This email will also rescind the Stop Work Order issued on July 23, 2019 subject to the terms noted below.

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NO Increase for NJ Gas Tax Rate for Coming Year

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Ridgewood NJ, State Treasurer Elizabeth Maher Muoio announced today that New Jersey’s current tax rate on gasoline and diesel fuel will remain stable for the coming year at 41.4 cents and 48.4 cents per gallon, respectively.

As required by law, the Department of the Treasury conducted a detailed review of fuel consumption data, and the Treasurer consulted with the Legislative Budget and Finance Officer, in order to make this year’s determination in compliance with the 2016 law (Chapter 57) that requires a steady stream of revenue to support the state’s Transportation Trust Fund (TTF) program.

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