YWCA of Bergen County Offering Children’s Dance Classes for Session 3
Mon, December 16, 2013
Time: 8:30 AM
Location: YWCA of Bergen County, 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood 07450
Enrollment for Session 3 Children’s Dance classes
Monday, December 16, 2013
8:30 am
Classes will begin on January 2 and run through February 22, 2014.
All classes run in 8-week sessions and are held at the YWCA of Bergen County
112 Oak Street, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
For more information contact Colleen
201-444-5600 ext.351
www.ywcabergencounty.org.
Discover the Benefits of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Attend a Free Orientation Session Offered by The Valley Hospital
Feeling tired and overwhelmed by life? Faced with anxiety and uncertainty? Dealing with the stress of work, family situations or serious medical condition?
The Valley Hospital’s Integrative Healing Services invites you to discover the benefits of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction by attending a free orientation session from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, January 8, 2014, at the Luckow Pavilion, located at One Valley Health Plaza in Paramus.
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a unique meditation technique that will enable you to develop a heightened awareness of your body and your emotions, to take charge of your life, and to learn to consciously and systemically work with your own stress, pain, illness and the challenges and demands of everyday life.
Valley’s MBSR program is based on the nationally recognized model developed and pioneered at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Since its inception at the University of Massachusetts in 1980, more than 15,000 participants have found MBSR to be a powerful means for taking charge of their lives and for enabling them to cope more effectively with stressful situations. The program is taught by Jodie Katz, M.D. and Andrew Shiller, M.D.
Jodie Katz, M.D. is a family physician, certified yoga instructor in Structural Yoga™ and registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance. Dr. Katz completed the practicum in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction at the University of Massachusetts, as well as a training seminar with the founder and director of the program. Dr. Katz also serves as a staff physician at Valley Medical Group’s Waldwick practice.
Andrew D. Shiller, M.D., has been practicing mindfulness meditation, tai chi, and yoga for 20 years. He is board certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Physiatry) and is in private practice in Integrative Pain Management and Rehabilitation Medicine. He is a member of The Valley Hospital Medical Staff.
Both instructors have done basic and advanced training in MBSR in the Mindfulness-based Professional Education and Training Program at the Center of Mindfulness in Medicine at University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
The next 8-week program runs from January 22 through March 12, and includes weekly sessions on Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m., and an all-day session on Saturday March 1 from 8:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. All sessions are held at the Luckow Pavilion. The fee for the program is $600, but may be reduced based on income.
To register for the free orientation session, or for more information about the program, please call the Department of Community Health at 201-291-6090.
Once considered toxic, subprime mortgages get rebranded as ‘smart’
By AnnaMaria Andriotis
Banks want nothing to do with subprime mortgages, which nearly brought down the U.S. economy. But private firms are filling that void, rebranding loans to borrowers with poor credit as “sane subprime” and “smart nonprime,” and pitching them to wealthy investors in search of yield. This time, they say, it will be different.
The investment companies, which include private equity firms, hedge funds and alternative asset funds, say these borrowers aren’t as risky as they seem and that investors stand to make an attractive return, ranging from 7% to 12% annually, by lending to them. Critics say they are injecting risk into the housing market just as it’s recovering, which could result in another wave of foreclosures. The debate over some of these firms’ activities is also caught up in a bill before Congress that’s further dividing party lines.
Before the downturn, banks were originating risky mortgages and then selling them off to individual and institutional investors. Now a flip scenario is occurring: These investors are the ones originating the riskier loans. Most of the individual investors providing the funds are “accredited,” meaning that they have a net worth of more than $1 million (excluding their primary residence) or an annual income of over $200,000 for the past two years. They’re looking for a way to diversify their portfolio holdings while earning a bigger return to boot. MarketWatch has also reported on the growing trend of average Joes entering the subprime lending business.
December 14 at 7:30PM and December 15 at 4PM. United Methodist Church, 100 Dayton Street, Ridgewood. Tickets: $20 at the door: $15 Seniors & Students under 17. Special price tickets available for $12 at Daily Treat; Wine Seller; Town & County Apothecary. Information 201/652-2873
Chamber Concert December 15 at 4PM at West Side Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, New Jersey.The following artists will proform – Susanna Phillips, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Warren Jones, Piano Erik Ralske, Metropolitan Opera Principal Horn Philip Setzer, Emerson Quartet Violin Tickets: Adult $40; Seniors and young Adults (21-39) $30; Students $20 Free Parking and Child Care www.parlancechamberconcerts.org
We’re sad to tell you that we will be closing our Red Mango on E. Ridgewood Avenue today, Sunday Dec 15 and going out of business. We tried to make a go of it, but we just did not have the sales to support our fixed costs and debt structure. If there is anyone in the Village who might be interested in purchasing either the equipment or take over the store please send me a message via FB. We would be willing to sell the store and lease for a fraction of our cost. Many thanks for your patronage this past year. It has been a privilege to serve you. Here’s wishing you a very joyous holiday season and best wishes for a healthy, happy and prosperous year ahead in 2014. Warmest regards, The Blooms
Ridgewood High School girls tennis coach Medha Kirtane honored as Coach of the Year by The Record
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood High School girls tennis coach Medha Kirtane has been honored as Coach of the Year by The Record. She finished off her seventh season with the team by helping to lead the maroon tennis girls to the North 1, Group 4 championship with a 21-5 season. Leading senior doubles partners Erica Kontos and Anna O’Keefe went 19-3 and competed in the Bergen County large school finals. Kirtane also works as a teacher at the high school, teaching social studies and social science.
Ridgewood, Bergen County officials strategize over parking issue
Sunday, December 15, 2013
The Record
RIDGEWOOD — Village and county officials have been meeting in recent months to discuss possible village parking solutions.
Mayor Paul Aronsohn said tentative talks have taken place between the village and representatives from the Bergen County Improvement Authority.
The topic: A possible partnership on a garage to be built at one of two sites — the Hudson Street parking area and an unspecified lot on North Walnut Street.
REPORT: Colorado school gunman ‘very opinionated Socialist’…
December 14, 2013 10:38PM
A TEENAGER who may have had a grudge against a teacher opened fire with a shotgun at a Colorado high school, wounding two students before killing himself.
Quick-thinking students alerted the targeted teacher, who quickly left the building.
The scene unfolded on the eve of the Newtown massacre anniversary, a sombre reminder of the ever-present potential for violence in American schools.
Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson identified the shooter on Friday night as 18-year-old Karl Halverson Pierson.
The shooter entered Arapahoe High School armed with a shotgun and looking for a teacher he identified by name, Sheriff Robinson said.
“(The teacher) knew he was the target and he left that school in an effort to try to encourage the shooter to also leave the school,” the sheriff said. “That was a very wise tactical decision.”
WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST EARLY SUNDAY MORNING
URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
148 AM EST SUN DEC 15 2013
…MAINLY FREEZING RAIN ACROSS INLAND AREAS…
…WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST EARLY
THIS MORNING…
* LOCATIONS…NORTHERN FAIRFIELD…NORTHERN NEW HAVEN…AND
NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTIES IN CONNECTICUT. WESTERN PASSAIC
AND WESTERN BERGEN COUNTIES IN NEW JERSEY. ORANGE…PUTNAM…
ROCKLAND…AND NORTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTIES IN NEW YORK.
* HAZARD TYPES…SNOW…SLEET…AND FREEZING RAIN.
* ACCUMULATIONS…TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 6 TO 10 INCHES. ICE
ACCRETION OF AROUND ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF AN INCH.
* WINDS…NORTHEAST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH.
* TEMPERATURES…RISING THROUGH THE 20S.
* TIMING…SNOW…SLEET…AND FREEZING RAIN…WILL BECOME
PRIMARILY FREEZING RAIN BEFORE COMING TO AN END NEAR DAYBREAK.
* IMPACTS…SNOW AND ICE WILL MAKE TRAVELING AND WALKING
HAZARDOUS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER
CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW
ARE FORECAST THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS. ONLY TRAVEL IN AN
EMERGENCY. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL…KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT…FOOD…
AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
Sun’s Current Solar Activity Cycle Is Weakest in a Century
By Mike Wall, Senior Writer | December 11, 2013 06:50pm ET
SAN FRANCISCO — The sun’s current space-weather cycle is the most anemic in 100 years, scientists say.
Our star is now at “solar maximum,” the peak phase of its 11-year activity cycle. But this solar max is weak, and the overall current cycle, known as Solar Cycle 24, conjures up comparisons to the famously feeble Solar Cycle 14 in the early 1900s, researchers said.
“None of us alive have ever seen such a weak cycle. So we will learn something,” Leif Svalgaard of Stanford University told reporters here today (Dec. 11) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. [Solar Max: Amazing Sun Storm Photos of 2013]
If you think the Earth is hot now try wearing plate armor in the Middle Ages.
A Swedish study found that the planet was warmer in ancient Roman times and the Middle Ages than today, challenging the mainstream idea that man-made greenhouse gas emissions are the main drivers of global warming.
The study, by scientist Leif Kullman, analyzed 455 “radiocarbon-dated mega-fossils” in the Scandes mountains and found that tree lines for different species of trees were higher during the Roman and Medieval times than they are today. Not only that, but the temperatures were higher as well.
“Historical tree line positions are viewed in relation to early 21st century equivalents, and indicate that tree line elevations attained during the past century and in association with modern climate warming are highly unusual, but not unique, phenomena from the perspective of the past 4,800 years,” Kullman found. “Prior to that, the pine tree line (and summer temperatures) was consistently higher than present, as it was also during the Roman and Medieval periods.”
