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GLEN ROCK — Officials met this week to further discuss a proposal to trim and possibly remove some problematic trees throughout the borough.
The discussions began in November on the heels of superstorm Sandy, which felled more than 150 trees throughout Glen Rock.
Mayor John van Keuren said at a meeting Monday night that those downed trees blocked roads, damaged public and private property and snapped power lines, leaving much of the town in the dark for a long period.
"A month after the storm, we started thinking more about the future and what we can do to prevent a recurrence, and what we do will depend on where the borough's trees are," van Keuren said.
The mayor said all the trees in the borough will be checked for age, health, height, location and proximity to buildings.
Those factors will determine whether trees are trimmed or removed altogether, van Keuren said.
The mayor and Borough Council have been meeting with the Shade Tree Advisory Committee and the town's environmental commission.
On Monday, Glen Rock's governing body mulled the legalities of such a massive undertaking, and discussed areas in the borough to concentrate on, including Sycamore Park and Glen Avenue, where residential properties abut New Jersey Transit's train tracks.
"We have to do what is reasonable to minimize the risk these trees present," van Keuren said. "To do nothing is not an option."
The mayor acknowledged it would be a time-consuming undertaking, and offered no timeline for completion.
"We owe it to the residents to put a plan together," van Keuren said. "We have to balance what it will cost to do all of these things with what our budget can accommodate, and how serious and immediate the needs are."
Borough Administrator Lenora Benjamin said Monday night that several Glen Rock residents had contacted her office, seeking "relief" from the borough after trees owned by the municipality toppled onto their property.
"The big picture is that there are pockets in town where there are very large trees that are the borough's and we need to take a look at them and see where we are going to go from here," Benjamin said.
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The art of navigating corporate culture
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:36 PM EST
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:36 PM EST
(ARA) - Learning to navigate your career while grasping the culture of a company is one of the greatest challenges a new employee will face. Whether you're a recent college graduate, or at a crossroads in your career, steering your way around a company's 20,000 or 1,000 employees and figuring out the unwritten rules of corporate culture can be challenging and confusing.
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Throughout the interview process, you probably heard how great the culture is at your new place of employment, how you too can have a long and rewarding career at Company A, which offers flexibility, mobility and interesting projects. But, come day one, all you can concentrate on is getting through the first day, meeting your boss's high expectations, getting along with your peers and hoping you made the right decision to join the company in the first place.
According to Ebony Thomas, director of diversity and campus recruiting at
Prudential Financial
, "New employees often find success by relying on a few simple tasks that you didn't learn in the classroom: focus on learning your role, ask clear questions and observe how to navigate through your new organization."
Now, you're the professional
For recent college graduates especially, it is important to remember that you are a professional and that often means managing the delicate balance of work relationships, among peers, management and senior leaders. "Your peers are your instant support network; building strong relationships here will go a long way when working late nights and meeting tight deadlines," Thomas says. "But, keep in mind that you now work together and, even if you are friends on Facebook and had a 'long' night out, you may still have to face them at 9 a.m. the next morning, so use sound judgment."
Thomas also advocates "managing your manager" to make your life easier. "First, understand your supervisor's expectations of your role and responsibilities. Make sure you both have clarity on tasks and ask for formal and informal feedback periodically." Observe what motivates him or her. Once you know these things, flex your working style to create win-win situations. "If your boss is a stickler for details, schedule a meeting and create a plan that communicates how and when you'll deliver information. This allows you to have some control over your schedule and will eliminate constant requests for information," she advises.
Senior leadership can appear to be intimidating, but they are most often genuinely grounded individuals who enjoy interacting with their employees. Thomas cautions one pitfall that recent college graduates may fall into is addressing their manager's boss as "Mr./Mrs. Last Name," even when they have asked you to address them by their first name.
"You're a professional now," she says. "Ultimately, you want to be taken seriously and have your contributions valued. That's not going to happen if you can't listen and follow directions."
"The First 48"
"The First 48" is a popular reality series on cable TV that chronicles a group of homicide detectives' search for clues in the initial 48 hours of a murder. They understand those initial few hours are critical in solving the crime. Similarly, the first 48 months of your new role or first job are crucial building blocks for your career.
Year one is all about learning, asking the right questions and performing at a level beyond your peers. "This is the foundational year. If you don't get this right, then you'll play catch up for the next few years," Thomas says.
In year two, you still need those foundational competencies of "learn-ask-perform," but now you can add "challenge" to the list. This doesn't mean that you challenge decisions or instruction, but know how to push back when appropriate. The next 24 months are vital because you continue to add more and more to the list while you build on the basics.
By years three and four, you can add "evaluate" and "lead." Evaluating at this point means you can now see and measure your progress. You may have an important decision to make. Do you drop anchor and stay awhile? Or do you set sail for a new opportunity? If you decide to leave, evaluate if it is better in terms of responsibility and potential; if not, pull into port and continue to learn.
By year four, you are now ready to lead and motivate yourself and others. Corporate circles still ask the age old question of whether leaders are born or taught. But, leaders are developed. And they are nurtured by building on core competencies, including their successes and failures.
Thomas noted that there is no clear science to successfully navigating the complexities of corporate culture. "Finding a way to balance heavy weights like performance and achievement with skills like judgment, networking and mapping your
career development
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No blood test exists that definitively diagnoses Parkinson's disease (PD). Currently, a strong presumptive diagnosis of PD is made by a doctor's observation of the patient's symptoms, medical history and neurologic examination, and response to a treatment schedule with the combination medicine generically termed carbidopa-levodopa (Sinemet, Atamet, Parcopa).
Definitive diagnosis of Parkinson's disease can be difficult. As stated above, there is no specific blood test or diagnostic study currently available to make the diagnosis. In fact, a brain tissue sample, though not practical in living patients, is the only way to be relatively sure of the diagnosis. This is usually done at autopsy. Studies have shown that a misdiagnosis rate in the past of 25% to 35% was not uncommon. This rate drops to about 8% when a movement disorder specialist physician (for example, a neurologist) helps make the diagnosis. Consequently, consultation with a specialist is usually recommended.
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The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey's distinguished professor of art, Wendel White, and Press of Atlantic City photographer, Edward Lea, taught the program.
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No matter how much you hate a stock or feel it is overvalued, overhyped, or that analysts just don't get it – it is often best to sit on the sidelines as emotions can play a major role in the difference on a good trade or bad trade.
With the student loan debt surpassing $1 trillion, there will come a judgement day when company books will have to reset as more and more loans default. Blame the zombies for the majority of these problems as they pay out unemployment benefits and encourage everyone to go to school. Especially, online colleges that they help fund with taxpayers money.
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Apollo Education Group (APOL, $30.52, up $3.59) is a stock we have hated for years but have respected because it is made of teflon. We talked about the company's story in our Weekly Wrap and here were our thoughts ahead of earnings (quotes from 1/3/2014):
Apollo Education Group (APOL, $27.03, up $0.14) is
January 25 puts (APOL140118P00025000, $0.70, down $0.05)
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Thoughts: For those of you that have followed us over the years, you know we have always been bearish on Apollo Group as it is one of our favorite ways to play the $1 trillion in student debt loans. We have covered the company's "shady" history and we believe this is a low-teens to single-digit stock. However, shares have been in a strong uptrend of late and that could continue depending on how the company spins its earnings report. If we do take action, it will likely be a strangle option trade and where we would use both options to play a possible 10%-15% move on the news. (END)
Shares pushed $30 in after-hours trading last night and closed at $29.55. They opened at $x this morning and have traded up to $29.93 and have trade to a high of $31.94.
The January 30 calls (APOL140118C00030000, $1.05, up $0.05) were at double-nickels (55 cents) and went out on Tuesday's session at 57 cents. They have trade to a high of $2 after opening at 86 cents.
The January 25 puts (APOL140118P00025000, $0.05, down $0.77) were at 70 cents Sunday night and went into yesterday's close at 82 cents. They opened at 10 cents this morning and traded to 40 cents before falling to a nickel.
A 10-contract trade for each call and put option is known as a strangle option trade.
Our gut instinct was right and going long the calls against our emotions would have paid off nicely. The strangle trade would have made nearly 100% had the options been closed at the open and that is a sweet profit on less than 24 hours of work.
Still, to manage this trade would have been tricky but we liked the risk/ reward the options offered even though we hate the stock.
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WEST Midlands Euro MP Liz Lynne has expressed her concern over new figures showing the number of people being admitted to hospital due to anaphylactic shock has doubled in the past decade to 3,385 each year.
The data also found that the number of people being killed due to anaphylactic shock, which is most frequently caused by severe food allergies but can also be caused by other factors such as bee or wasp stings, has tripled to 24 each year leaving many unanswered questions about the reasons for this sudden rise.
In 2005, the EU created a 14.35 million euro scheme programme called EuroPREVALL to examine the causes of food allergies and to look into ways of lessening the impact of allergies. The project involves scientists from 17 member states and is being led by researchers in the UK.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. – Aiming to bounce back from Tuesday's drop to No. 51 Minnesota, the FGCU men's tennis team welcomes the University of Alabama at Birmingham for a midday dual, Saturday at Noon on the courts of the FGCU Tennis Complex.
A meeting with the 6-6 UAB squad, that is 1-3 on the road, will give the Eagles an opportunity to collect their fifth home victory, seventh overall, of the dual-match season.
FGCU will look to get ahead from the start of the match by capturing the doubles point over the Blazers. Both teams have shown consistent play all season, each winning the doubles point in eight of their matches.
Leading the Green and Blue in paired play are partners Jordi Vives (Barcelona, Spain/IES Ferran Tallada/USC) and Dean Tsamas (Lexington, Ky./Henry Clay HS), holding a 9-4 record in play at the No. 1 position. Their last time out, the pair of Eagles put a huge scare on ITA-No. 16 Jack Hamburg and Matthieu Froment of Minnesota, who narrowly dodged an upset. With the FGCU tandem up 30-15 in Vives' serve, and 7-5 in the match, the Gophers grabbed wins in the other two contests to clinch the doubles point, allowing the battle on court one to go unfinished with the Eagles just a hold in serve away from victory.
In singles play, No. 70 Vives and senior Gabe Echeverry (Popayan, Colombia/Gimnasio Calibio) have been the most consistent for the Eagles. With a nearly perfect record at the No. 1 slot, Vives has accumulated 12 wins and just two losses, falling to ranked opponents in No. 112 Daniel Cochrane of Auburn and No. 72 Leandro Toledo of Minnesota.
Echeverry has picked up six wins this year, half in the fifth position, the other half in the sixth. Highlighting his victories was his down-to-the-wire win over USC Upstate's Rajanvir Dharni, as the senior rallied from a third-set deficit at No. 6 singles to take home the match-clinching point in the Eagles' dramatic 4-3 victory over the Spartans on Mar. 15.
Following Saturday's match the Eagles continue their home stint as they host Kennesaw State on Mar. 28 at 11 a.m., and return the next day hosting Mercer at 6 p.m. For complete coverage of FGCU men's tennis against Wright State, follow us on Twitter @FGCU_MTEN and visit www.FGCUAthletics.com where full recaps and results will be available at the end of each day.


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Relay Team Earns NCAA Qualifying Time on Day Two of Georgia Tech Invite
ATLANTA, Ga. – The FGCU women's swimming and diving team earned three NCAA qualifying times, including the 200-yard medley relay team that beat out Florida State, Clemson, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Miami and Florida on Day Two at the Georgia Tech invitational at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center on Saturday night.
"The relay tonight was epic, to beat Florida and all those ACC schools was fantastic for our young program," said head coach Neal Studd. "It really set the tone for the night and winning the 100 back and third in the 100 breast was great too. I am very happy with where we are at and with continued improvement I think we can have a great second half of the season at the conference championship and the NCAA's."
FGCU got off to a fast start in the 200 medley relay placing first as the team of Emma Svensson (Uppsala, Sweden/ Celsiusskolan HS), Dani Beaubrun (Vieux Fort, St. Lucia/The Bolles School), Shannon Blizzard (Jacksonville, Fla./Stanton College Prep) and Christina Tanninen (Burlington, Ontario/Nelson HS) earned an NCAA "B" time of 1:40.77.
In the 100 fly, Svensson finished eighth with a time of 55.64, while teammate Danielle Butler (Orangeburg, N.Y./Tappan Zee HS/St. Bonaventure) touched in right after in ninth at 55.74.
Senior Leah Daniel (Winnepeg, Manitoba/Grant Park HS) came in fourth in the "B" final of the 200 free with a time of 1:50.82, while teammate Devon Robins (London, United Kingdom/The Grey Coat Hospital) placed ninth in the "B" final at 1:52.94.
In the 100 breast, Beaubrun earned an NCAA "B" cut with a time of 1:02.49, finishing third among ten competitors in the "A" final.
Svensson picked up her third NCAA qualifying time this weekend in the 100 back with a time of 53.88 placing her first ahead of second place Heidi Hatteberg from Georgia Tech by more than a second.
In the 3-meter diving event, redshirt sophomore Kamryn McNamara (Tampa, Fla./Gaither HS) led the Eagles with a 29th place and a score of 201.90.
In the final event of the day, the Eagles placed fifth in the 800-yard free relay as the team of Eva Lehtonen (Rochester Hills, Mich./ Rochester Adams/Florida), Jessie Porter (Chorleywood, Hertforshire, United Kingdom/ Royal Masonic), Robins and Daniel with a time of 7:28.45.
The FGCU women's swimming & diving team currently sits in sixth place with 358 points after day two at the Georgia Tech Invitational in Atlanta. Florida leads the invitational after Day one with 742 points.
Live times from the invite are available at www.FGCUathletics.com and will be available after the event concludes.
For more information about the FGCU women's swimming and diving team visit www.FGCUAthletics.com and follow @FGCUSwimandDive on Twitter for more updates.
Team Standings through Day Two
1. University of Florida: 742.5
2. Florida State University: 682
3. Virginia Tech: 588.5
4. Georgia Tech: 466
5. University of Miami: 404.5
6. Florida Gulf Coast University: 358
7. Clemson University: 229.5
8. Florida Atlantic University: 218
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A clumsy moment of stonewalling—self-revealing in retrospect—jars an otherwise sleek
2004 documentary
about the fabled Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski: When the film's interviewer asks Kapuscinski, deferentially, about the multiple death sentences he allegedly survived while covering dictatorships and coups in the developing world, the famously mild, self-effacing writer grows defensive. He shakes his head in annoyance. In accented English, he cuts off the questioner. "I am not talking about these problems—never. Never answer these questions," he mutters. Following an emphatic pause, he adds stiffly, "Next one please."
Five years after dying from complications of cancer, Kapuscinski remains one of the most celebrated chroniclers of human suffering in our time: a solitary philosopher-reporter who was catapulted to fame by reporting from the
It appears that Kapuscinski transferred his 'magical realism' to the pages of his own life.
world's danger zones, usually on the shoestring budget of the Polish Press Agency, and who shaped his daily dispatches into books of luminous prose adored by millions, among them literary giants such as John Updike and Salman Rushdie.
But in "
Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life
," the journalist Artur Domoslawski strips away Kapuscinski's mythic Lone Ranger mask. And what emerges beneath is a haunting portrait of a man who felt increasingly oppressed by his legacy—a storyteller compelled by ultimate truths and deep history, yet desperate to shield his readers from manufactured elements of his own past. He died, ill and steeped in dread, still trying. "I will sell you for nothing an idea for the title of your book," a close friend of Kapuscinski sadly tells the biographer. " 'Kapuscinski—the price of greatness.' "
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Many Eastern Bloc foreign correspondents were forced to collaborate with communist regimes during the Cold War. But for Kapuscinski, whose oeuvre returns again and again to ordinary people's struggles against power, the shame of cooperation was gutting. In Africa, foreign ministry officials assigned him to keep tabs on American companies and agencies. (The Polish embassies' vaudevillian code for making contact with the journalist was, "Greetings from Zygmunt." Kapuscinski's countersign was "Has he sold the car?") In Latin America the security service handlers knew Kapuscinski by his code name "Vera Cruz." By then, however, Kapuscinski had grown famous enough to push back. He pulled the freelancer's old trick of recycling articles—in this case, by presenting them as intelligence reports.
An anecdote from the early 1990s, when Poland's right-wing press was gleefully outing intellectuals compromised by the ancien régime, reveals the terrible power of this kept secret. Kapuscinski—by all accounts a gnomish, affable personality—exploded after a cocktail party where a post-communist bureaucrat glibly named Polish diplomats he thought had been Soviet agents. "How dare you, you bastard!" the writer shouted, pinning the startled official to the wall by his lapels.
"I begin to think he was crushed by fear—and not merely of revelations of his cooperation with the intelligence service," Domoslawski writes of the aging Kapuscinski's final, anxiety-riddled years. "It was about far more than that."
He is referring, of course, to Kapuscinski's controversial habit of conflating journalism and literature.
Kapuscinski himself often described his reporting method as creative: He insisted he wrote to the "essence of the matter." Domoslawski records him explaining to a colleague how tinkering with the sequence of real events is acceptable because it "sometimes helps to convey a deeper meaning. It all depends how it is done, and whether it sits within the particular realities, within the climate, or whether it is artificial, invented, deceptive."
This type of literary reportage, Kapuscinski's defenders have always noted, is rooted in an Eastern European tradition that used allegory to navigate around the culture of censorship prevalent behind the Iron Curtain. To be fair, Kapuscinski's text does brim with dreamlike imagery that clearly signals the imagination at work. An old Indian inexplicably cranks an antique gramophone in the middle of a Mexican desert. Or the inhabitants of a Siberian town stagger about in a frozen fog, leaving discernible tunnels through it. His books never include disclaimers.
Meanwhile, during his three years of research, Domoslawski unearths more fictions that have little to do with art.
It appears that Kapuscinski transferred his "magical realism" to the pages of his own life. Traveling in the great wanderer's footsteps, Domoslawski finds eyewitnesses who contradict several famous Kapuscinski-ian incidents of derring-do. It's unlikely, he concludes, that Kapuscinski faced death by firing squads in Africa or South America, as his book jacket blurbs assert. (Hence, perhaps, his evasiveness in the documentary.) Kapuscinski also appears to have grossly exaggerated his friendships with leftist liberation icons such as Che Guevara, Salvador Allende, or Patrice Lumumba. He may have never met them at all.
Domoslawski defers to a former New York Times correspondent who knew Kapuscinski to sum up such mythomania: "As the years went by, he became a member of the intelligentsia … but he came from a poor background, from the provinces, from ignorance," said the late Michael T. Kaufman. "He had to make a super-human effort and do some incredible work on himself to get to the top, to reach the position he achieved at the end of his life."
Burdened by his self-made legend, Kapuscinski died planning one more improbable journey, to the islands of Oceania, a place he had never been.
Was it an escape? His last notebook entries, written after he was hooked up to a feeding tube, still hold the master's trademark beauty, and can be read, as the best Kapuscinski always will be, on multiple levels. "A terrible feeling of helplessness, I'm losing touch with the world, with the light, with my surroundings, with reality, it's all drifting away, disappearing."
Paul Salopek is a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent. While on fellowship at the Nieman Foundation, he researched an around-the-world journey he'll make on foot to tell the story of human migration out of Africa 50,000 years ago.
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Move estimated to save healthcare providers $676 million annually (Feb. 4)
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), reforms to Medicare regulations identified as unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome on hospitals and healthcare providers would save nearly $676 million annually and $3.4 billion over 5 years through a rule proposed by the CMS on Feb. 4.
The proposed rule is designed to help healthcare providers to operate more efficiently by getting rid of regulations that are out of date or no longer needed. Many of the rule's provisions streamline the standards healthcare providers must meet in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs without jeopardizing beneficiary safety.
For example, a key provision reduces the burden on very small critical-access hospitals as well as on rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers by eliminating the requirement that a physician be held to an excessively prescriptive schedule for being onsite once every 2 weeks. This provision addresses the geographic barriers and remoteness of many rural facilities, and recognizes telemedicine improvements and expansions that allow physicians to provide many types of care at lower costs, while maintaining high-quality care.
Among other provisions, the proposed rule would:
- Save hospitals significant resources by permitting registered dietitians to order patient diets independently, which they are trained to do, without requiring the supervision or approval of a physician or other practitioner. This frees up time for physicians and other practitioners to care for patients, the CMS says.
- Eliminate unnecessary requirements that ambulatory surgical centers must meet in order to provide radiological services that are an integral part of their surgical procedures, permitting them greater flexibility for physician supervision requirements.
- Permit trained nuclear medicine technicians in hospitals to prepare radiopharmaceuticals for nuclear medicine without the supervising physician or pharmacist constantly being present, which helps speed services to patients, particularly during off hours.
- Eliminate a redundant data submission requirement and an unnecessary survey process for transplant centers while maintaining federal oversight.
Sources: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services; February 4, 2013; and Office of the Federal Register; February 1, 2013.
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