Global Warming Update : Coldest June since 1958 ?

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
455 PM EDT WED JUL 1 2009

...UNUSUALLY WET AND COOL JUNE FOR CENTRAL PARK...

FOR SOME PERSPECTIVE...HERE ARE THE TOP TEN COOLEST AND WETTEST
JUNES ON RECORD SINCE 1869 FOR CENTRAL PARK NY:

COOLEST WETTEST
AVG. TEMP. YEAR INCHES PRECIP. YEAR
64.2 1903 10.27 2003
65.2 1881 10.06 2009
65.7 1916 9.78 1903
66.8 1926/1902 9.30 1972
67.2 1958 8.79 1989
67.3 1927 8.55 2006
67.4 1928 7.76 1887
67.5 2009/1897 7.58 1975
67.7 1878 7.13 1938
67.8 1924 7.05 1871


DUE TO THE UNUSUALLY COOL AND WET CONDITIONS IN JUNE...HERE ARE SOME
INTERESTING FACTS TO NOTE:

THIS JUNE IS TIED FOR THE 8TH COOLEST ON RECORD. THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE WAS 67.5...3.7 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL...WHICH ALSO
OCCURRED IN 1897.

THIS WAS THE COOLEST JUNE SINCE 1958...WHEN THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE
WAS 67.2 DEGREES.

BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES OCCURRED ON 23 OUT OF 30 DAYS THIS
JUNE...OR 75 PERCENT OF THE MONTH.

CENTRAL PARK HAS NOT HIT 90 DEGREES IN THE MONTH OF JUNE THIS YEAR.
THE LAST TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS BACK IN 1996.

CENTRAL PARK HAS NOT HIT 85 DEGREES IN THE MONTH OF JUNE THIS YEAR.
THE LAST TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS BACK IN 1916. THIS HAS ONLY OCCURRED
2 OTHER TIMES...1903 AND 1886.

THE LAST TIME THAT CENTRAL PARK HIT 90 OR GREATER THIS YEAR WAS IN
APRIL. THE LAST TIME THAT CENTRAL PARK HIT 90 IN APRIL...BUT NOT IN
JUNE WAS BACK IN 1990.

THE LAST TIME THAT CENTRAL PARK HIT 85 OR GREATER THIS YEAR WAS IN
MAY. THE LAST TIME THAT CENTRAL PARK HIT 85 IN MAY...BUT NOT IN JUNE
WAS BACK IN 1903. THE LAST TIME THAT CENTRAL PARK HIT 85 IN
APRIL...BUT NOT IN JUNE WAS ALSO BACK IN 1903.

THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE REACHED IN CENTRAL PARK IN THE MONTH OF JUNE
WAS 50 DEGREES. THE LAST TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS BACK IN 2003.

THE LOW TEMPERATURE DIPPED BELOW 60 DEGREES 11 TIMES IN THE MONTH OF
JUNE. THE LAST TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS IN 2003 WHEN IT OCCURRED 17
TIMES.

IT WAS THE SECOND WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD WITH 10.06 INCHES OF RAIN.
THE WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD IS 2003 WITH 10.27 INCHES.

THERE WERE 19 DAYS THIS JUNE WHERE THERE WAS AT LEAST 0.01 INCHES OF
RAINFALL. THIS HAS NEVER OCCURRED IN CENTRAL PARK.

AT LEAST A TRACE OF RAINFALL WAS REPORTED ON 23 OUT OF 30 DAYS THIS
JUNE.

http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&product=PNS&issuedby=OKX

Reader asks," Where's Audrey? "

Remember all the mailings we received carrying a large picture of Audrey Meyers?

Well it seems that now that The Public are getting their chance to speak, Mrs Meyers is nowhere to be seen. At the June 8th meeting the hospital attorney apologized, saying that Mrs Meyers was on holidays in Italy but she would appear at the next meeting. She was back in the USA on June 17th in time for the last public hearing and yet she was a no-show.

Audrey! You started this whole thing, why won’t you show-up to hear what the public thinks? Don’t you at least owe it to the remaining Renewal supporters and to the Planning Board?

Will Audrey show-up at the July 15th H-Zone Public Hearing at BF Middle School?

The Women Gardeners of Ridgewood NJ

In 2005, The Women Gardeners of Ridgewood (also referred to as, “The Women Gardeners” or “the Club”) celebrated its 80th year of operation. The organization owes its name to the fact that a “Garden Club of Ridgewood” was organized in 1914, but its membership was restricted to men. Resentment at this exclusion motivated a group of dedicated women to form “The Women Gardeners of Ridgewood” under the leadership of Mrs. C.W. Stockton in 1925. The club had twenty members and was a charter member of The Garden Club of New Jersey when it was organized. No record of the men’s club remains.

During the Depression years of 1932-33, The Women Gardeners of Ridgewood was unable to pay dues to the state organization and instead became part of the Garden Department of the Women’s Club of Ridgewood. That relationship continued until 1945, when membership in The Garden Club of New Jersey was reinstated.

Some of the longest continuing members of The Women Gardeners of Ridgewood remember serving as joint Hospitality Chairmen. Since the club met in member’s homes, part of the position included hauling borrowed chairs from Van Emburgh’s Funeral Home to the home of the meeting hostess and back.

The Club has a long tradition of community service. For many years members would travel to the Veteran’s Hospital in East Orange, where they would decorate the day rooms and chapel and make tray arrangements.

That tradition continues on the local level today. The Women Gardeners designed and maintain the plantings at the Ridgewood Public Library and provides weekly flower arrangements for the library lobby. The Club designed the garden for the Share house for elderly residents on Prospect Street and supported the garden at the Children’s Services and Family Counseling building.

The Women Gardeners of Ridgewood also provides tray favors for Meals on Wheels during the holiday season and makes centerpieces for the fundraising activities of various local charities. The Club has participated in the showhouse at Skylands Manor, considered an exhibition opportunity for area garden clubs.

The Club is proud of its most recent addition, a Junior Program, “Green Kids” which was started September 2007. Designed for children Grades 3 through 6, this program meets monthly to explore and discover nature, science, gardening, art, birding, weather, recycling, environment and our senses.

As part of its public education efforts, The Women Gardeners present semi-annual Garden Education Day featuring major speakers, workshops and/or boutiques.

The activities of the club are supported by a semi-annual garden tour called “SECRET GARDENS OF RIDGEWOOD.” Begun as part of Ridgewood’s bicentennial celebration in 1994, Secret Gardens of Ridgewood has become one of New Jersey’s premier garden tours, with visitors coming from all over the metropolitan region. More than 800 visitors toured the gardens in 2008.

http://njclubs.esiteasp.com/womengardenersofridgewood/home.nxg

the Village : Man about Town

NOTICE: Public Hearing on H - Zone - Scheduled for July 15th

The Planning Board will hold a H-Zone Hearing on July 15 at 7:30PM in the Benjamin Franklin Middle School Auditorium, N. Van Dein Ave., Ridgewood.


NOTICE: July 22 & August 26 - Village Council Meetings Canceled

The Village Council has canceled their work sessions scheduled for July 22 and August 26, 2009.

"The Pool folks are not building a community"

A large group of pool people have organized s boycot graydon. I have friends who joined the paramus pool because that is where all their other friends went for the summer. The Pool folks are not building a community, they are selfish people who are trying to destroy what is left so they can get what they want.

I agree that it is easy to plan to spend other people's money. Pool your money and build a cement pond at the Cronk's.

Oh sure - lets see the 8,000 members park on the first nice day.

ALL Ridgewood residents were invited via blast e-mails, Community Pass e-mails and the Ridgewood News to attend discussions about Graydon

Melinda Cronk said...
Just a clarification, because there is definitely misinformation circulating. In 2007 and again this year, ALL Ridgewood residents were invited via blast e-mails, Community Pass e-mails and the Ridgewood News to attend discussions about Graydon. A survey instrument was used for quantitative data and focus groups of approximately 12 residents per group were used for qualitative data. We also conducted the same survey onsite with patrons of Graydon. The results can be read in the final report.

The ONLINE survey that people are confusing with us was done by the Village Council and it was not meant to solicit opinions (since that had already been done by our committee), rather it was a petition of interest to determine now that a concept was in place, would people still be interested in joining.

I would really encourage everyone to read the final report. Though we formed a seperate organization (Ridgewood Pool Project) for fundraising purposes, we are a committee under Village Parks & Recreation and have not proposed anything that they do not fully support (you can also read a letter from Nancy Bigos on our Web site).

As a lifelong resident of the area I empathize with wanting to keep Graydon the way it is, but standing where I have amid this project for nearly three years, I now realize that the only way to preserve Graydon is to adapt it for the changing needs of the community. The icon of Graydon is not just about the appearance, its about having the community together. We're trying to find a solution that will preserve the unique, natural appearance while bringing the residents back.

All opinions/input have always been and continue to be welcome. Feel free to contact me anytime at cronkfamily@optonline.net.

Reader say,"RPP clearly wanted a survey that only allowed favorable responses"

35 years ago, I took my first swimming lessons at Graydon; I spent all of high school and college working there as a lifeguard, and I have been there many times over the years while visiting family and friends that still lives in Ridgewood.

Not only have I never heard of anyone becoming violently ill, I am appalled that people would refer to Graydon as a cesspool. In addition to the water being tested by an outside lab weekly, we checked the water's chlorination and pH levels daily when I worked there. Many nights after closing, additional chlorine and copper sulfate was added to the water to help combat algae bloom during the especially hot/rainy times. I can't tell you how many mornings we spent out on those rafts scrubbing them down to make sure they were clean.

None of my family or friends who live in Ridgewood were ever contacted by anyone on the Pool Project Committee for their opinions, they all found the online "survey" misleading and ill-written because it did not allow for debate about the project (none of them are in favor of it, but there was no way for them to voice their concerns or opinions because the RPP clearly wanted a survey that only allowed favorable responses - which allows them to skew the results in their favor).

It makes me sad to think that people are so hellbent on ruining Graydon. If people would just sit down in a room and speak to each other like reasonable, rational adults, perhaps there could be some sort of compromise instead of the RPP's "all or nothing" mentality. I would be willing to bet that few to none of the project's most outspoken proponents have even been to Graydon.

4th of July 2009 Fireworks in Ridgewood NJ

Looks like some of you enjoyed the festivities ...

Rachel and Bray @ the Ridgewood NJ, 4th of July parade and Bray showing his LOVE for dancing!

Village Council agreed to move forward with writing a Request for Proposal for architectural services for a renovated Graydon facility.

The Ridgewood Pool Project has updated its Web site to include a copy of the final report provided to Village Council on July 1. Also posted is a copy of the latest design concept created by Nicole Walla.

http://ridgewoodpoolproject.googlepages.com/



Village Council to Issue RFP for Architectural Services

July 1, 2009 -- The Village Council agreed tonight to move forward with writing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for architectural services for a renovated Graydon facility. The goal in preparing this document is to solicit estimates from firms that can provide more accurate design plans and updated construction costs based on a new design concept. We expect this next phase to take several weeks, and following that we hope to help the Village develop a financial plan for how a new facility can be realized without impact to taxpayers.

July 4th Celebration Schedule!!!!!

Wishing You a Happy and Safe 4th of July Weekend from the staff of the Ridgewood Blog




Support the Tradition!

"50 States - One Nation"

9:00AM - Flag Raising at Wilsey Square

10AM - Parade begins at North Monroe & Godwin (rain or shine)

6:30PM - Gates open for Vet's Field for Entertainment and Fireworks (tickets required). ridgewoodjuly4th.org

Ridgewood: Man about town

NOTICE: Public Hearing on H - Zone - Scheduled for July 15th

The Planning Board will hold a H-Zone Hearing on July 15 at 7:30PM in the Benjamin Franklin Middle School Auditorium, N. Van Dein Ave., Ridgewood.

NOTICE: July 22 & August 26 - Village Council Meetings Canceled

The Village Council has canceled their work sessions scheduled for July 22 and August 26, 2009.

Lou Gehrig's July 4th Speech

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Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code

Unlocking This Cipher Wasn't Self-Evident; Algorithms and Educated Guesses

By RACHEL EMMA SILVERMAN

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124648494429082661.html?mod=yhoofront

For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now.

The cryptic message was sent to President Jefferson in December 1801 by his friend and frequent correspondent, Robert Patterson, a mathematics professor at the University of Pennsylvania. President Jefferson and Mr. Patterson were both officials at the American Philosophical Society -- a group that promoted scholarly research in the sciences and humanities -- and were enthusiasts of ciphers and other codes, regularly exchanging letters about them.

University of Pennsylvania Archives

Robert Patterson
In this message, Mr. Patterson set out to show the president and primary author of the Declaration of Independence what he deemed to be a nearly flawless cipher. "The art of secret writing," or writing in cipher, has "engaged the attention both of the states-man & philosopher for many ages," Mr. Patterson wrote. But, he added, most ciphers fall "far short of perfection."

To Mr. Patterson's view, a perfect code had four properties: It should be adaptable to all languages; it should be simple to learn and memorize; it should be easy to write and to read; and most important of all, "it should be absolutely inscrutable to all unacquainted with the particular key or secret for decyphering."

Mr. Patterson then included in the letter an example of a message in his cipher, one that would be so difficult to decode that it would "defy the united ingenuity of the whole human race," he wrote.

There is no evidence that Jefferson, or anyone else for that matter, ever solved the code. But Jefferson did believe the cipher was so inscrutable that he considered having the State Department use it, and passed it on to the ambassador to France, Robert Livingston.

The cipher finally met its match in Lawren Smithline, a 36-year-old mathematician. Dr. Smithline has a Ph.D. in mathematics and now works professionally with cryptology, or code-breaking, at the Center for Communications Research in Princeton, N.J., a division of the Institute for Defense Analyses.

A couple of years ago, Dr. Smithline's neighbor, who was working on a Jefferson project at Princeton University, told Dr. Smithline of Mr. Patterson's mysterious cipher.

Dr. Smithline, intrigued, decided to take a look. "A problem like this cipher can keep me up at night," he says. After unlocking its hidden message in 2007, Dr. Smithline articulated his puzzle-solving techniques in a recent paper in the magazine American Scientist and also in a profile in Harvard Magazine, his alma mater's alumni journal.

The "Perfect" Cipher?

The 1801 letter from Robert Patterson to Thomas Jefferson The code, Mr. Patterson made clear in his letter, was not a simple substitution cipher. That's when you replace one letter of the alphabet with another. The problem with substitution ciphers is that they can be cracked by using what's termed frequency analysis, or studying the number of times that a particular letter occurs in a message. For instance, the letter "e" is the most common letter in English, so if a code is sufficiently long, whatever letter appears most often is likely a substitute for "e."

Because frequency analysis was already well known in the 19th century, cryptographers of the time turned to other techniques. One was called the nomenclator: a catalog of numbers, each standing for a word, syllable, phrase or letter. Mr. Jefferson's correspondence shows that he used several code books of nomenclators. An issue with these tools, according to Mr. Patterson's criteria, is that a nomenclator is too tough to memorize.

Jefferson even wrote about his own ingenious code, a model of which is at his home, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va. Called the wheel cipher, the device consisted of cylindrical pieces, threaded onto an iron spindle, with letters inscribed on the edge of each wheel in a random order. Users could scramble and unscramble words simply by turning the wheels.

But Mr. Patterson had a few more tricks up his sleeve. He wrote the message text vertically, in columns from left to right, using no capital letters or spaces. The writing formed a grid, in this case of about 40 lines of some 60 letters each.

Then, Mr. Patterson broke the grid into sections of up to nine lines, numbering each line in the section from one to nine. In the next step, Mr. Patterson transcribed each numbered line to form a new grid, scrambling the order of the numbered lines within each section. Every section, however, repeated the same jumbled order of lines.

The trick to solving the puzzle, as Mr. Patterson explained in his letter, meant knowing the following: the number of lines in each section, the order in which those lines were transcribed and the number of random letters added to each line.

The key to the code consisted of a series of two-digit pairs. The first digit indicated the line number within a section, while the second was the number of letters added to the beginning of that row. For instance, if the key was 58, 71, 33, that meant that Mr. Patterson moved row five to the first line of a section and added eight random letters; then moved row seven to the second line and added one letter, and then moved row three to the third line and added three random letters. Mr. Patterson estimated that the potential combinations to solve the puzzle was "upwards of ninety millions of millions."

Thomas Jefferson
After explaining this in his letter, Mr. Patterson wrote, "I presume the utter impossibility of decyphering will be readily acknowledged."

Undaunted, Dr. Smithline decided to tackle the cipher by analyzing the probability of digraphs, or pairs of letters. Certain pairs of letters, such as "dx," don't exist in English, while some letters almost always appear next to a certain other letter, such as "u" after "q".

To get a sense of language patterns of the era, Dr. Smithline studied the 80,000 letter-characters contained in Jefferson's State of the Union addresses, and counted the frequency of occurrences of "aa," "ab," "ac," through "zz."

Dr. Smithline then made a series of educated guesses, such as the number of rows per section, which two rows belong next to each other, and the number of random letters inserted into a line.
To help vet his guesses, he turned to a tool not available during the 19th century: a computer algorithm. He used what's called "dynamic programming," which solves large problems by breaking puzzles down into smaller pieces and linking together the solutions.

The overall calculations necessary to solve the puzzle were fewer than 100,000, which Dr. Smithline says would be "tedious in the 19th century, but doable."

After about a week of working on the puzzle, the numerical key to Mr. Patterson's cipher emerged -- 13, 34, 57, 65, 22, 78, 49. Using that digital key, he was able to unfurl the cipher's text:

"In Congress, July Fourth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy six. A declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. When in the course of human events..."

That, of course, is the beginning -- with a few liberties taken -- to the Declaration of Independence, written at least in part by Jefferson himself. "Patterson played this little joke on Thomas Jefferson," says Dr. Smithline. "And nobody knew until now."

Write to Rachel Emma Silverman at rachel.silverman@wsj.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124648494429082661.html?mod=yhoofront

Ridgewood Garage Sales This Week !

RIDGEWOOD - 890 NORGATE DRIVE - FRI. 7/3 9AM TO 4PM AND SUN. 7/5 9AM TO 4PM - HUGE GARAGE SALE - CHRISTMAS IN JULY!!!! MANY NEW ITEMS, LITTLE TIKES, V-SMILE, RESCUE HEROES, TRAIN SETS, TONS OF TOYS, CLOTHES AND SHOES FOR BOYS, TONS OF WOMENS ITEMS, MENS CLOTHING, LIA SOPHIA - MANY HOUSEHOLD ITEMS STILL IN BOX, MANY $1 $3 $5 $10 ITEMS.

March for Liberty in the Ridgewood NJ

July 4, 2009

Ridgewood, NJ March fo Liberty
35 North Monroe St, Ridgewood, NJ
Time: 9:00 - 12:00

March for Liberty in the Ridgewood NJ

July 4 Parade Info found at:
http:// njteapartycoalition.org

Contact
tnadriance@verizon.net

http://www.njteapartycoalition.org/

http://clibertyc.wordpress.com/



Ridgewood Fourth of July Parade - Saturday July 4, 2009

Dear Fellow Tea Party Patriots,
We are counting down to the Ridgewood Fourth of July Parade! Here is some additional information.

We are encouraging everyone that is a TRUE PATRIOT to come and march for LIBERTY! We are looking to have as many people as we can march so that a clear message is sent – WE THE PEOPLE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK! Invite everyone you know who shares your belief in the greatness of our country to join with you and the rest of us in this great opportunity to let our voices be known.

This parade is attended by thousands – it is the largest in the New York / New Jersey metro area. The parade gets good press coverage. Our aim is to present the message of the need to PRESERVE OUR LIBERTY (and we all know there is no Liberty under the tyranny of those now in Washington).

We will be marching not as protesters but as PATRIOTS keeping the spirit of 1776 alive – and that spirit is – Freedom and Liberty must be fought for and every citizen needs to be in the fight! We aim to present ourselves for who we are – just plain folks who care about our country. We want to dispel the myth from the State run media that we are fringe nut cases. We want to win the hearts and minds of the thousands watching us to come and join us. We will truly be CELEBRATING JULY 4th!!

We will be getting our message out at this march and ALL the particulars are on the website - go to www.njteapartycoalition.org for information on what we will be doing, the important action points, and the rules --this is truly exciting!!!

Remember:
Make plans to be there – Losing your country is greater than a trip to the beach or a BBQ.

Invite as many people as you possibly can to go to our website and join us at the event.

We need to get more people to see the light – And that is that WE ARE GOING TO LOOSE OUR FREEDOM AND LIBERTY UNLESS “WE THE PEOPLE” RISE UP

Join us in Ridgewood!!

In Liberty
Tim, Rae, Michele, Brian, and all the rest of us

P.S. There is a Tea Party on the 3rd in Summit which will be an outright protest. More information on this will be on the web site shortly.

Kurt Warner @ BOOKENDS Tonight 7pm

BOOKENDS
232 E. Ridgewood Ave.
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Tel: 201/445-0726
Fax: 201/445-8301


Kurt Warner

Wednesday, July 1st - 7:00pm
Please welcome Super Bowl 34 MVP with the Rams and current Arizona Cardinals Quarterback, Kurt Warner and his wife, Brenda as they sign: First Things First.



Joe Gibbs

Tuesday, July 21st - 6:00pm
Pro Football Hall of Fame Coach with the Washington Redskins and former NASCAR Race Team Owner, Joe Gibbs will sign: Game Plan For Life.