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Assisted living is a new way of life that should be fun, exciting and adventuresome. It just means that your loved one needs extra care and help with their routine. This is not the end of the road just a new beginning and for most people that transition runs more smoothly than they ever thought possible.
If you are not quite ready to make that step for placement of your loved one, call us for tips, techniques and additional resources available to you for continued care in the home. We believe the best place for your loved one is always at home first, but there comes a time when Caregivers must take care themselves, and reach out for assistance for options available to assure a quality of life for you, your family, and your loved one.
Some other considerations are when safety, proper hygiene, nutrition, medication management, and the lack of physical, social and emotional support become a concern; it is time to access community resources to seek the best possible arrangement for your loved one. We encourage you to research and educate yourself to ensure that you know all your options available before choosing any one plan of care or facility.
We offer an all-inclusive (*) rate of $4950.00 per month accommodating to every Special Care Resident and their individual needs. This is a worry-free experience for families.
For your loved one, Golden Moments provides:
Activities of all types are needed to keep the mind and body as healthy as possible which is why we provide a very diverse selection of options. Some family members have even said things such as mom or dad will not participate in activities, and to their surprise discover mom or dad is actually a budding artist. It is all about routine of scheduled activities. When activities are provided routinely, it becomes a second nature to Residents participation. And there is a lot of laughter, sharing and creativity that comes with these encounters.
I have heard other care providers say they have offered different activities but their Residents just are not interested. It comes down to the proper approach for each individual Resident. If you were to say, would you like to do an arts and craft project? The answer would usually be a "no thank you". The Golden Moments Staff are the best at engaging participation of a Resident.
Regular bathing is necessary for optimal skin health and general wellness. We assist with showers twice weekly, and sponge baths daily, as well as monitor all skin and lotion daily.
Bathing is one way we are able to monitor our Residents very closely for changes in conditions and report to their PCP and the family members immediately. We pride ourselves on catching an infection before it becomes severe.
Oftentimes overlooked is the care of a Resident's mouth, teeth and gums. Our Residents are reminded and assisted with brushing their teeth regularly. We encourage them to self brush, and then we also utilize floss picks, proxy brushes, and the toothbrush where we can see areas that were missed. And with some Residents we do complete oral care, and they are also provided with a mouthwash to rinse with before and after brushing. Poor oral care can lead to a plethora of issues, from gum disease, loss of teeth to infected teeth, to malnourishment; and is results from pain with eating. When untreated oral issues can sometimes create cognitive changes as well.
We also escort Residents to their dental appointments so we are made aware first hand of particular areas that need to be concentrated on. Thy dental hygiene professionals love us because they see minimal plaque and tartar on our Residents teeth.
Another thing we do is provide toileting reminders approximately every 2 hours, and provide assistance in the bathroom also for our Residents. We document all output of urine and bowel movements throughout the each day. Sometimes it is through our hands on assistance using the restroom when we have discovered an ailment and a new potential medical condition, or a bout of constipation or diarrhea. By documenting color, frequency, consistency, and volume we are able to contact their primary physician urgently for a remedy or advice. At times Residents are unable to explain they are experiencing pain or discomfort so with this additional service we can catch a medical condition much sooner, and are able to seek immediate medical treatment.
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Regular communication is necessary both for cognitive wellness and the innate need of socialization. All Residents are in the living areas of the home throughout the day, never left in the bedrooms, and checked on constantly with a Hello, how are you doing? let's go for a walk? Or, I need your help with a household chore, help with an art project, join me for a game of checkers, tell me about your wife or children, etc. Bedrooms are for sleeping only. It is our goal to keep Residents engaged and active throughout the day, so they sleep comfortably through the night.
All of our Staff speak English as a first language, which we feel is a key for communication with an elderly Resident since with advanced age one's hearing is not always the best. In addition, if there is a dementia diagnosis, then clear, concise language is imperative to reduce confusion, frustration or isolation which may result from the inability to understand the primary Caregivers and Staff.
Because we do so much hands on care with our Residents we are extremely familiar with anything out of the norm, and will monitor blood pressure, pulse, temp, respirations, on a weekly basis. We monitor and document up to 4 times daily when there is a change in heart or blood pressure medications, and will contact their primary care physician for immediate advice, and of course you will be notified also.
Should there be a need for an incidental emergency room visit, we meet the Resident and ambulance at the hospital to escort into the hospital emergency room, so we are there at the moment Staff is doing their intake, to provide accuracy of the events that have occurred with the Resident. Oftentimes, I have to correct the EMT's as they have not provided the right information to hospital Staff. We believe it is important for one of us to be there to provide an accurate description of our concerns. Plus, because we know the best approaches and communication to use with our Residents it alleviates Resident anxiety to have us there for comforting, explanations, and assisting hospital Staff with procedures.
We will also work with you to research and advocate for any necessary procedures that are not initially being offered by the hospital Staff. We take the health and welfare of our Residents very seriously.
It is our philosophy that all of our elderly are potential fall risks. At anytime they may become dizzy, confused, or mobility limited, and may trip or fall. All it takes is one fall and off to the hospital they go, which can often require a nursing home for Rehabilitation.
We take extreme measures for fall prevention since we don't ever want a Resident to hurt themselves or be subjected to pain and then have to go to an unfamiliar environment, such as a hospital or nursing home. We utilize personal body alarms throughout the day, so when a Resident is getting up from a chair, an alarm sounds and Staff is trained to drop what they are doing and provide stand-by assistance and guidance for them while walking.
Additionally, we provide twice daily hands on assistance with stretching and exercise with all Residents, to keep them strong and able to continue to walk. Residents are taken out twice daily for a walk, weather permitting. We do not believe in wheelchair bounding a Resident. This is a form of restraint and against free will and unhealthy. Regular movement is important to prevent pneumonia, edema, heart disease, fractures, muscle weakness, constipation, poor circulation and skin breakdowns.
Utilizing a floor mat alarm at night time, prevents many potential falls, plus having Awake Staff at night is vitally important. When a Resident places a foot on the floor, and alarm will sound immediately at the main unit, alerting Staff to be there for Resident during the night for walking to the bathroom.
However, that being said, should a fall happen, we will escort Resident to the hospital, and be available during physical therapy rehabilitation, and to also advise and provide tips and techniques regarding individual care, and best approaches to use with the acute care Staff. Often times hospitals order rehabilitation in a nursing home for several weeks following a hospital stay, whether it be due to a fall or other medical condition. While this a standard practice in the medical community we have learned that they are always way better back at home with us, with Home Health physical therapy. Just the familiarity of our Staff to the Resident makes for a more expedient, comforting and stress-free recovery at home with us.
The difference is in the nursing home rehabilitation; they will typically only get them up once per day, and sometimes only 4-5 days per week. Then they are just laying in bed the rest of the time, or sometimes they are put in a wheelchair.
With us, we will be working with a physical therapist who provides parameters for movement we can do, and it will be done up to 5 times per day and as tolerated. Utilizing positive reinforcement and tender encouragement for ultimate success. Additionally, they will be in our great room area for close monitoring and of course assisted to the toileting facilities every two hours, and continued participation in the daily activities, games and crafts.
We have a hospice waiver when the need arises for End-of-Life Care. Because a Resident becomes a part of our family and we become so attached to them, it is our preference to provide care and comfort to the end. We feel it important that our Residents have the familiarity of primary care Staff during this transition.
A common theme with elderly is dehydration. Dehydration can cause many ailments such as bladder infections, constipation, weakness, dizziness, including and up to a serious emergency situation.
During group activities, and throughout the day, we offer a drink of water to each Resident. Our goal is for them to drink a minimum of 5 glasses per day. When you visit you will see cups of water with Residents name on it which makes it handy for the Staff to provide to Residents frequently throughout the day. Then once a glass of water is completed it is checked off of the daily care notebook, and filled again. For those Residents who just don't like plain water we will pour a dash of cranberry juice in for coloring. We try many different approaches to help keep our Residents hydrated, and have learn that if they refuse at one offering, the next they will not.
We provide 24 hour medication management and have 6 medication technicians on Staff.
We also provide blood pressure and temperature checks which helps us to evaluate a Residents feeling of wellness. It is important to note that oftentimes the elderly will say they feel fine when they feel less so.
Another common theme with elderly is skin breakdown. We are an anti-bedsore facility. Hence, the importance of toileting every 2 hours, exercising, and hydration. Twice weekly, a head to toe skin check is documented. With Staff trained to monitor skin during toileting, and assistance with dressing as well. To avoid dry skin, all Residents have lotion applied to them head to toe. And if they have an issue with dry feet, we apply A & D ointment.
A bedsore usually happens when a Resident had a need for hospitalization or nursing Home Care; this is another reason we prefer to avoid long term hospitalization or nursing Home Care, and will make every effort to advocate for bringing a Resident home sooner than normal.
Other Contract Services Offered
Registered Nurse - Trudy Mazer is a member of our care team. She provides consultation and case management services for our residents on an "as needed" basis. She has recently been involved with assisting a Resident and their family with obtaining and qualifying for their Long Term Care Insurance Policy. As a graduate of The Albert Einstein Medical Center School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA.
Trudy has been teaching Nursing Assistant and Home Health Aide programs in California since 1978. She is also an Associate Adjunct Professor for the CNA program at American River College and the Director of Medical, CNA and HHA ROP courses for the Elk Grove Unified School District.
Podiatry Services - For our diabetic Residents we have a licensed Podiatrist that visits regularly and cares for feet. His charge is only $40.00 per visit per Resident. Wheelchair transport services - For Residents that are unable to transfer to and from a vehicle we will use a transport service. The charge for this service is approximately $70.00 to $100.00 for round-trip transportation.
Phlebotomist - Rather than take Resident's out to hospital and community labs and potentially exposing them to sickness, we have a service that charges just $30.00 per visit for lab work which includes delivery of the lab work to the designated lab of your choice.
You Are Taking an Important Step
By choosing Golden Moments, you will gain the satisfaction of knowing that your loved one will be surrounded by friendly companionship in a safe and enriching environment, and that you are taking a vitally important step to continue caring for your loved one—that is, you are taking care of yourself. Golden Moments offers Residents a sense of success and accomplishment through carefully designed activities and the friendship of other Residents, Staff and visiting family members.
At Golden Moments Care Home we pride ourselves in giving our Special Care Residents a quality, active and enriched lifestyle. Our mission is to love and nourish the social, emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of each of our Residents and their families.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Elena is starting kindergarten Monday Sept. 13th
Elena is starting kindergarten on Monday and I don't have enough words to express how worried I am about her and the fate of education in general. There is a sinister force at work on the land and unfortunately some of the "best" minds are in charge. Bill Gates with his gazillions is funding the effort to privatize education, destroy teacher and classified unions, and generally dumb down education to a teach-to-the-test mode. I write about this a great deal and think about it every day. I do believe it's the reason our libraries are going away -- libraries help create critical thinkers and life-long learners. Gates and his ilk don't want people who can really critique a society that is now so inequitable that children are going to sleep hungry, families are losing their homes, and people who have worked all their lives are no longer employed or employable. Closer to home what this means is that Sleazy Deasy (Dr. he says), a Gates man, is poised to take over the Los Angeles Unified School District when the current superintendent steps down next June. Cortines was also in the pockets of the rich -- very ambitious for himself and willing to take money that most of us saw as unethical (such as $150,000 a year from Scholastic, a company that makes a huge profit off our schools). But Cortines at least is an educator. Most of the folks now making decisions for our children do not know anything about education. Witness the Los Angeles Times -- the reporters who went into the classrooms to "judge" the teachers only did so because they knew what "value added" score each teacher already had and judged accordingly. They admitted on KPFK radio last week that they really weren't competent (my word) to judge educators. Yet, their story stands, and everyone thinks it will benefit education that these scores are printed in the Times. In my own experience, some of the best, most interesting and inspiring teachers, are not the ones who "teach to the test" so their students' scores may be lower. So what! Will Elena still love to learn, love to investigate, love to sit and pay attention as she does now? I have my doubts. I will do everything I can to continue her love of learning. We need all teachers, parents, education workers to unite and defeat this effort to destroy education. Check out this link to the group California Advocates United to Save Education (CAUSE) and a group that is calling for a Million teacher mark for July 30, 2011. Please get involved!
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
Today's Los Angeles Times has a feature story that is sure to upset everyone involved: parents, teachers, and school administrators. While purporting to analyze teacher effectiveness, in fact it will simply embarrass many excellent teachers who DON'T TEACH TO THE TEST and continually try to find ways to motivate children to learn. Are there bad teachers? Yes -- just as there are BAD administrators, newspaper columnists, rich men (ELI BROAD) who think they know everything and really know very little, doctors, nurses, etc. Are any of these others being graded, IN PUBLIC, and in such a demeaning and hurtful way? No! Are workers in private industry really paid according to their productivity? Not really. The goal of this article as well as Bill Gates, Antonio Villaraigosa, Secretary of Education Duncan, and many other rich and powerful people is to bring down the unions, make hiring and firing of teachers an arbitrary and punitive process. It has already begun without visible success.
And yesterday I heard an interview on KPFK with the CEO of Green Dot about their work at Locke High School, one of the worst schools in Los Angeles. What have they done? Spent millions, ejected the worst kids (something regular public schools CANNOT do), and still have not made obvious strides in "student achievement". The saddest part of this to me is that student achievement ONLY means test scores and nothing else. This is not the world of schooling that I want my granddaughter to face, yet she will be starting in September at a presumably high-scoring school in our neighborhood. I only hope that she does not get completely turned off of learning.
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Sunday, August 1, 2010
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Sometimes life and books come together in interesting ways. I had planned a visit to my friends Stephanie and Rob's boat on Lake Union in Seattle last week. At the same time I was reading this book for my book group (composed of authors and illustrators and librarians - such a wonderful group). Although I did not have the opportunity to visit Chinatown and the International area where the book takes place in Seattle, I felt that I was experiencing the air they breathed and the foggy days with sunshine and 80 degree weather at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Summer stays light until 10 o'clock at night. What a beautiful city. But beautiful places can also be the sites of cruelty to human beings. I experienced that same feeling when I went to Selma, Alabama a year after the Civil Rights "Bloody Sunday" incident and the murder of Viola Liuzzo. [By the way, Unitarians were helping that struggle, and today they are also being arrested in Arizona protesting the violation of immigrants' rights. Once again Unitarians take the lead. I joined when I was 16 years old, along with Linus Pauling, the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles.]
Written by Jamie Ford, Hotel is the story of a 12 year-old Chinese boy who falls in love with a Japanese classmate at the largely white private school they are both attending. It is 1942 and World War II plays a big role in how this story plays out. Henry wears a button on his lapel that says "I am Chinese" so as not to be mistaken for a Japanese person. As Japanese families are rounded up, Henry's differences with his father, a Chinese patriot and Nationalist, deepen to the point of silence, that lasts until his father has a stroke. I don't want to give the entire plot here. Suffice it to say that this is a beautifully written book for adults, and some high school students who will relate to conflicts with parents, loving another from a different ethnicity, problems with bullies, and in Henry's case, sacrificing to help the girl he loves. Henry's best friend, not incidentally, is a brilliant saxophonist who plays on the street until he gets a gig with one of Seattle's greatest jazz musicians. The book flows smoothly and is a good read. But some of the incidents don't ring true and in general it lacks a certain depth. I recommend this for high school and public libraries.
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This Book Is Overdue!!
Marilyn Johnson has written a book in defense of librarians for the 21st century called This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All. CSLA has recommended that all of us read this book for the November conference. I was reading it and trying to pull quotes from it that might be useful. The problem is that every page contains numerous useful quotes than we can use to defend our jobs. Page 1 - "In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste." This speaks to the great leveling force that librarians play to bring information and materials to everyone, not just the rich. Marilyn Johnson wrote a book about obituaries that she had researched. She says she became interested in librarians because their obituaries stood out among all that she perused. She speaks of "visionaries like Frederick Kilgour, the first to combine libraries' catalogs in one computerized database back in the early seventies." And Judith Krug who "fought censorship for four decades while running the Office for Intellectual Freedom in the Chicago headquarters of the American Library Association (ALA)."
My favorite quote so far is "In a world where information itself is a free-for-all, with traditional news sources going bankrupt and pulishers in trouble, we need librarians more than ever." Librarians can help save democracy from its worse excesses, from the oligarchy of the corporations that it has become. Our value is inestimable. We must continue to fight to save our school and public libraries. In Los Angeles that means supporting our LAPL librarians - www.savethelibrary.org/ Writing letters to Superintendent Cortines and the Board Members of the Los Angeles Unified School District. www.lausd.net Writing letters to the Los Angeles Times and the Daily News are also very helpful. Keep up the fight!! We must win this fight for all of us!!!
My favorite quote so far is "In a world where information itself is a free-for-all, with traditional news sources going bankrupt and pulishers in trouble, we need librarians more than ever." Librarians can help save democracy from its worse excesses, from the oligarchy of the corporations that it has become. Our value is inestimable. We must continue to fight to save our school and public libraries. In Los Angeles that means supporting our LAPL librarians - www.savethelibrary.org/ Writing letters to Superintendent Cortines and the Board Members of the Los Angeles Unified School District. www.lausd.net Writing letters to the Los Angeles Times and the Daily News are also very helpful. Keep up the fight!! We must win this fight for all of us!!!
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Will the arts and libraries be in my granddaughter's future?
There's a scourge on the land and it comes from the top unfortunately. President Obama is facilitating the destruction of public employee unions. I don't think he realizes it but that doesn't matter either. The fact is that our rights as employees are being taken away -- sometimes brutally.
I worked for Los Angeles Unified School District for 30 years. I saw that the lowest paid worker was always the first to lose a job when the economy was in a downturn. Right now the economy is seriously in trouble, particularly in Los Angeles, where unemployment is about 12%, but that's only data from people who are actively looking for jobs. The LAUSD is cutting 50% of the clerical workers, attempting to outsource janitorial duties, and cutting arts and library teachers like crazy. Meanwhile, our students who are largely Latino and African-American are being denied access to quality libraries and music and art in the elementary schools. 250 Library Aides (paraprofessionals) were cut this year alone. And statistically it seems to have fallen hardest in the areas where there are no bookstores, and public libraries are either inferior or inaccessible due to crime. Closing a school library means that there will be no one there to help students find books, teach information literacy, guide them to the right Internet sources, teach them to take notes and research documents and resources, and more. The list is enormous. Technology without a talented librarian is just bells and whistles. Using a cell phone, creating images on the internet, googling and "wikipedia-ing" for all your information is not education. Yes, it teaches some skills, but the depth of education will go down the tubes.
Scariest of all to me is that the Unions are not rising to fight the cuts to education as a group. There needs to be a united effort to keep workers' rights -- and teachers are still workers.
Yesterday LAUSD voted to do away with seniority for teachers. And in fact they do not respect seniority unless it's convenient to their purposes.
To add insult to injury, the City government under Mr. Villaraigosa, is cutting their libraries as well. They, too, seek to destroy the unions that have protected workers.
There is no denying that some workers, teachers, whoever, don't do a good job and deserve to be let go. But let it not be an arbitrary and subjective judgment of a disgruntled principal or supervisor who wants to put in his/her friend instead. This is more often what happens.
There has to be a better way to ensure that workers' rights are protected while students, urban dwellers, and citizens are properly served. We can't solve the problems by cutting off one group's rights to ensure rights of another. All will lose. The quality of life for all will go down. After all, as Cortines, LAUSD superintendent did say, our workers ARE the parents of our students. So are many of the teachers the parents of our students. And we all live in Los Angeles which clearly isn't meeting the needs of its citizens.
I am so afraid that my granddaughter, who starts kindergarten this september, will enter a school without a library and little access to the arts!
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
I've been back from Costa Rica for two months. So far it has been non-stop trying to restore central funding for library aides (paraprofessionals) in LAUSD elementary schools, and Teacher Librarians in the middle schools. It has been an uphill battle. Our district does not value libraries, does not mention libraries in any literature about cuts to our schools. From the superintendent, board members, to the teachers' and aides' unions, there is no concern that our children will not have equal access to books and computer literacy in our vast, and multicultural district. Our students have few books at home if any, and little access to bookstores. In addition, our public libraries are cutting hours. This is a crime! We have written and advocated all over Los Angeles. We have collected over 1700 letters in support from the public. What will happen to our students who are already behind in their educational level? No access to books means no access to developing a love of reading and becoming life long learners.
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
Sloths are not lazy!
January 3, 2009 -- I didn't post at all in December. Hope everyone had a great New Year! I visited the Avarios Sloth Sanctuary near Cahuita, Costa Rica where sloths are rescued, especially babies who have lost their mothers. I fell in love with Buttercup, the 19-year resident of the Sanctuary which is also a hotel and restaurant. Buttercup stays in the hotel's restaurant hanging from a hanging basket. She moves so very slowly and apparently sloths sleep 18 hours a day. I will post a photo of her but it isn't very clear. We aren't allowed to use flash which is understandable. The babies are also bottle fed at a table in the restaurant. Sloths don't carry diseases and are very clean. Their website is www.slothrescue.org/ which I can't get right now because my Internet connection is down. Electricity is very fragile here in Costa Rica. I don't even know if this will get posted or not. That's why I wrote about books and how important they are. They still are. We need to keep publishing them, and distributing them to countries where children don't have them.
Sloths are the most misunderstood mammal we have. They live mostly in trees, the three-toed kind are vegetarians but the two-toed sloths are omnivores. The three-toed (like Buttercup) are very gentle and could be a pet. The two-toed are feisty and unfriendly. I thought that was a comment on diet perhaps!! Don't know. I'll write more about them later. Our guide did say that they stay in the tree for a week and only come down once to eliminate. Have to check that one out for sure. The beauty to me was watching Buttercup move at such a sloooowwwww pace. Gorgeous!!
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This hoops app is a great idea - @thevidkid, Twitter
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When a Florida property owner fails to make mortgage payments, it can sometimes prompt a lender to take steps to obtain possession of the property in question. Under federal law, however, the lender cannot start foreclosure proceedings unless the mortgage loan is more than 120 days past due. If the mortgagor has no means of doing so, the foreclosure may proceed and the property can be sold at auction pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure.
Former NBA star facing real estate disputes
NBA fans of old in Florida and beyond are typically quite familiar with John Stockton. While Stockton enjoyed a successful career as a point guard for the Jazz, he has encountered legal problems in other areas of his life, in particular in a situation where he and another man had purchased property. Real estate disputes arose when an investment company that apparently also had plans to buy the same property filed a lawsuit against Stockton and his co-buyer, Todd Brinkmeyer.
Burt Reynolds was sued for foreclosure on his Florida home
Film fans around the world recently mourned the loss of one of Hollywood's greatest stars, Burt Reynolds. News of his passing was followed by stories about his life, including his childhood and continued strong ties to Florida. Some of Reynolds' fans may be surprised to learn that at one point, he was sued for foreclosure on a $700,000 home he had purchased with his wife at the time, actress Loni Anderson.
West Coast Indian tribe wins victory in real estate disputes
When Florida land buyers and real estate developers sign agreements, it sometimes takes years for the project or projects at hand to reach completion. As long as the agreements were validly entered into, all parties involved must continue to adhere to the terms of the contract as written, unless appropriate legal steps are taken to modify the contract. On the West Coast, an arbitration panel recently ruled on real estate disputes between a developer and an Indian tribe.
US immigration law officers say man lied about identity
Some people know what it's like to face legal problems associated with their identities. In fact, more than a few people in Florida have been wrongly accused of crimes because of mistaken identity. A man in another state was recently arrested on a warrant and then detained by Immigration Customs and Enforcement for violating U.S. immigration law.
Deceased pastor's wife involved in real estate disputes
A rather contentious situation has arisen in another state that involves a widow and the church for which her now deceased husband had served as pastor. A central focus of the real estate disputes is a five-bedroom house. The pastor used to own the house but sold it to the church. Florida residents facing similar real estate problems may want to follow this case.
US immigration law officials say man is wanted for homicide
Any woman in Florida who has ever given birth understands how stressful the process can be. If extenuating circumstances arise to add to the inherent stress of childbirth, an otherwise joyful and exciting event can become a frightening experience. That's what happened to a woman in another state when she was left to drive herself to the hospital in labor after U.S. immigration law officials took her husband away.
No need to navigate path to citizenship alone
Perhaps you are one of many Florida immigrants whose lives in recent years have included various challenges in adapting to a new language, new customs and new laws. Your ultimate goal may be citizenship, and you have likely been working hard to study U.S. history and other significant topics to prepare for the test you will take. Any number of issues can arise to cause delays in the process set in place to help you become a citizen.
Popular Florida restaurant facing foreclosure
Wells Fargo has reportedly called in a loan against a Florida fish house owner. This business owner is definitely not the first one in this state or elsewhere to face a serious financial crisis. In fact, many company owners are able to halt the foreclosure process by seeking debt relief, such as filing for bankruptcy.
Were US immigration law officials negligent re medical care?
A woman in another state says her 5-year-old daughter almost died while they were being held in an immigration detention center. She claims U.S. immigration law officials were aware that her daughter needed medical attention but did nothing to help except give her some type of liquid medication. Sadly, this does not appear to be an isolated incident, as many other parents, including some in Florida, say they or their children have suffered similar circumstances.


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This deserves its own thread IMO.
I make horrible decisions in my dream, like sex in public or putting mushrooms in people's anus.i wonder if your ability to make good decisions in dreams correlates with your ability to make good decisions in real life
i sure hope not
I work out many of my problems in my sleep through this lucidity and I have a pure conscious thought that allows me to tackle problems(during my lucid dreams). I believe off of scientific analysis and inferences that during your dreams you have the most access to your subconscious and unconscious mind so I try to take advantage of it with the mind-set/state that I can figure out more about problems with this access as long as I don't necessarily put it into words and keep it with my subconscious throughout the day sorta like an intj with my inferences(Ni) then use that as a sorta cache to use for my introverted thinking and slowly dig out these subconscious thoughts with my mind through out the day into my consciousnessWhen a person is sedated and does things they act like a zombie and do not know what they are doing until later, not sedated. That is me in my dreams. I am sedated, I do stuff and I am only consciously aware I did stuff when I wake up. Every time I am conscious in my dream automatically it is a lucid dream. I am never conscious in my dream and not aware I am dreaming. I never believe the dream is real, I know I am in a dream when conscious. My dreams feel like I am in a cave.
It occurs to me you have 42 posts. congrats.I wonder what my random though off of this thought of randomness will be if I even remember to finish typing this before I jump to another thing
huh. Where is that?went the other day to the center of the city and drank like 5 beers plus 1 rum+cola
came back home driving, alcohol test waiting for me almost at my door, results: 0.19, all cool because it is permitted until 0.25
Spain, here the top is 0.5 which is 0.25mg or smth like that.huh. Where is that?
Generally in the USA BAC cutoff seems to be at .08 (two drinks) before being considered legally drunk. You would be considered well past the boundary here.
Drive through solves most of those problems, at least artificially because you don't know what those other people are actually doing.About 50% of the time I end up going to a McDonlads restaurant, I get very close to punching someone in the face. Those restaurants seem to attract the lowest form of garbage people out there – drunks, people who cut the line, people who don't know how to behave in public spaces, and various other savages. The food itself is pretty good though.
Mostly true, I would say. It's not something I would get dogmatic about, however.Happines is a fake goal synthesized by people who want to exploit you by claiming they have the key to happiness.
I'd say the best products are sold by people who claim to have the key to the best kind of pain.Mostly true, I would say. It's not something I would get dogmatic about, however.Happines is a fake goal synthesized by people who want to exploit you by claiming they have the key to happiness.


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Is it time to abandon Facebook? In short, not quite. However if you plan on relying on it as the key driver of your social media growth beyond 2014, you may want to rethink your strategy.
There are a few reasons why Facebook is fading in the eyes of many marketers – some of which have been brought on by the social network itself and some of which have been brought on by the competition.
Newsfeed Changes Result in Decreased Brand Engagement
Facebook is always making changes to the way it delivers content with the goal of improving the experience for the end user and increasing activity levels. Many of these changes have had a negative impact on brands.
Engagement levels for brands have been steadily decreasing- especially in the past six months. With the current algorithm, it is much less likely that your target audience will see your content organically than it was in 2013. Engagement levels are so low that it is difficult to obtain the reach you used to be able to obtain without running an ad campaign.
It's not just marketers that have been feeling the pain. Many users have been petitioning the changes in various ways. This post went viral on Facebook recently which sums things up nicely and is a perfect transition to point number two:
Young People Are Fleeing. Other Age Groups to Follow?
Facebook is still the most popular and widely used social media site but interest is waning within important age groups and I expect other age groups to follow suit.
In the past three years, a reported 11 million young people (and counting) have fled Facebook.
In the world of social media, young people tend to be early adaptors – picking up new social sites and apps before the masses. Eventually, the rest of the world catches on and the usage of those channels catches on fire. I would expect that trend to continue. As more and more current Facebook users across all generations begin to pick up and become heavy users of sites like Instagram and Pinterest, activity on Facebook will begin to decline within other demographics as well.
One reason for this decline in activity is the belief that 'less is more'. Whether we're engaging with websites or using social media, as users, we have been shifting to that mindset.
Facebook tries to be everything to everyone with games and other apps, events, timelines, chatting, photo galleries and much more which can become an overwhelming hassle for users.
Social media sites that focus on one or two core functions or purpose- such as Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest-are thriving.
What it Means for Marketers
Don't get me wrong, Facebook is still a viable marketing tool and it will be for years to come. However, unless they make transformative changes to their platform in the near future its best days may be behind it.
The effort and energy you put behind Facebook as it relates to other social channels in the coming months and years should depend on the makeup of your target audience.
The best thing you can do (if you haven't already) is begin to diversify where it makes sense. Use research to determine which channels may add the most value. In doing so, look into the current user base of the channels and analyze trends to look ahead as best you can.
Don't play it safe either. As long as you have an overarching content strategy driving your social media presence, you can have success with many different channels.
About Bret Ludlow
Bret Ludlow is the Vice President, Strategic Solutions at Liquid Interactive. Bret works in concert with our account executives and the inter-departmental teams to understand the needs of our core clients and prospective clients and determine how we can best serve their business.


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Mercedes Wolff says Ferrari step impressive
Mercedes has tipped Ferrari to challenge in 2015.
Having struggled in 2014, the fabled Italian team proved in Melbourne that it has leapfrogged Red Bull and Williams to be 'best of the rest' so far this year.
"Compared to where we were last year," Kimi Raikkonen told reporters, "for sure as a team we did the best job over the winter."
Many experts are nonetheless predicting a lonely season of easy one-twos for Mercedes, but team boss Toto Wolff is refusing to write off Ferrari.
"We won in Melbourne by about 30 seconds to Ferrari," he is quoted by Universo.
"If you consider where they were last year, that is quite impressive.
"We can see from GPS that their engine is very powerful and the car is very good. I think it's only a matter of time before they reach us, because Ferrari as a team has everything you need to do that," added Wolff.
Given Mercedes' utter dominance in Australia, some might smirk at Wolff's comments, but F1 veteran David Coulthard agrees it is far too soon to predict the outcome of an entire world championship.
"You can see from what Ferrari has done that it is possible to move forwards," the former Red Bull driver told Austria's Servus TV.
"Red Bull is having problems and the same is obviously true of McLaren and Honda, but they are working on solutions.
"You can't look at just one race, you also have to see the big picture," added Coulthard.


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Boeing says it has entered into a joint venture with Adient, the global leader in automotive seating, to manufacture and sell a portfolio of seating products to airlines and leasing companies.
Adient Aerospace will fill a huge gap in the airplane supply chain, said Kevin Schemm, senior vice president of supply chain management, finance and business operations and chief financial officer for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
"Seats have been a persistent challenge for our customers, the industry and Boeing, and we are taking action to help address constraints in the market," Schemm said today in a news release.
Adient owns a 50.01 percent majority share of the venture. Boeing holds the other 49.99 percent. Earnings and cash flow will be divvied up proportionately, and the joint venture will be included in Adient's consolidated financial statements. Both companies will be represented on Adient Aerospace's board of directors, Boeing said.
The venture's operational headquarters and production plant will be in Kaiserslautern, a German city near Frankfurt, but the initial customer service center will be in Seattle. Aftermarket spare parts distribution will be handled exclusively by Aviall, a Boeing subsidiary.
Boeing says industry analysts expect the commercial aircraft seating market to grow from about $4.5 billion in 2017 to $6 billion by 2026.
Boeing vs. Airbus in 2017
Word of the joint venture comes in the wake of year-end sales reports from Boeing and its European archrival, Airbus. Boeing reported 763 jet deliveries during 2017, compared with Airbus' 718.
Airbus bested Boeing in the net tally of commercial airplane orders for the year, 1,109 to 912. However, The Seattle Times noted that Boeing sold more of the higher-priced widebody jets, and suggested that Boeing outdid Airbus in the market value of last year's orders.
Citing pricing data from the aviation consulting firm Avitas, the Times estimated the actual value of the orders at $63 billion for Boeing vs. $60 billion for Airbus. By the same measure, jet deliveries in 2017 added up to $60 billion for Boeing and $48 billion for Airbus.


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July 15, 2018
Construction at 420 Broadway in Albany is well under way, with the 7 apartments fully framed and electrical and plumbing work started. In addition to the upper-floor apartments, improvements are planned for the commercial space on the ground floor, Coulson's Deli. Updates to the deli include a new façade, an improved cash wrap area, and expanded storage. A new entrance to the residential floors is also underway.
In addition to this progress in Albany, closing on the building at 192 Erie Blvd in Schenectady is expected to happen in August. With all municipal approvals in place and steps taken to secure additional funding, construction is scheduled to begin in the fall. More on this closing can be found here.
April 15, 2018
In a continued search for the highest and best use of every available space, HPD has begun plans to build a cafeteria-style restaurant in the currently vacant space at 50 S Pearl Street. Though still in the initial planning phase, the current plan is to create seven stalls to house seven unique restaurants, with a shared kitchen and dining space. Construction is scheduled to begin in the early summer and take approximately two months. This new restaurant has been dubbed the 50 South Eatery.
Additional information courtesy of the Times Union here.
December 30, 2017
Construction on the Residences at Capital Center, or 99 Pine Street, has been completed and the full Certificate of Occupancy has been granted. At this time, there are 7 signed leases/paid deposits on the move-in ready apartments. An official ribbon cutting ceremony with the BID and Mayor of Albany is scheduled for March 6th, 2018.
Additionally, HPD has just closed on the building at 420 Broadway in Albany. Constructed is slated to begin in the spring to create 7 apartments and to improve the facade of Coulson's Deli.
November 2, 2017
HPD has bundled the two properties currently under contract (49 Stone Street in Rochester and 420 Broadway in Albany) into one unique package completed by a third property in Schenectady. Branded as RASPP (Rochester Albany Schenectady Properties Portfolio), this investment will allow for a diverse investment in three unique, yet similar, cities across New York. All three buildings have partial commercial occupancy and will be converted to mixed-use, keeping a commercial space on the first floor of each. Closing on all properties is expected in early 2018, with construction to start immediately thereafter.
September 15, 2017
HPD has entered into a purchase contract for 420 Broadway in the heart of Downtown Albany, New York. The 9,700 square foot commercial building will be converted to mixed-use, with a proposed 8 residential units to be developed on the upper four floors. The street-front commercial space will remain in place. The property is adjacent to the historic D & H Building, as well as being close to various parks and restaurants. A closing is expected for early 2018, with construction to begin immediately thereafter.
August 30, 2017
HPD has entered into a purchase contract for 49 Stone Street in the heart of the Central Business District in Rochester, New York. The 30,000 square foot commercial building will be converted to mixed-use, with a proposed 20 residential units to be developed on the upper three floors. The street-front commercial space will remain in place. The property is adjacent to the 1,659 space South Ave Parking Garage, and the Joseph A. Floreano Riverside Convention Center. A closing is expected for early 2018, with construction to begin immediately thereafter.
August 21st, 2017
With developments in the Capital Region of New York under way or finished, Hudson Partners Development has begun to research expanding markets in areas such as Rochester, NY, Buffalo, NY, Clearwater and Tampa, FL. While each potential market is very similar to Albany, they all have distinct cultures and communities that would welcome Hudson Partner Development's vision for the future.
November 22nd, 2016
Chris Maddalone and HPD plan 80 unit, $10 M investment in Schenectady. Click here for article.
October 12th, 2016
HPD Principals Chris Maddalone and Seth Meltzer prepare to renovate 99 Pine St. in downtown Albany, the company's largest residential conversion yet. Click here for article.
September 6th, 2016
U.S. News ranks Albany #3 best places to find a job in Technology . Click here for article.
September 21st, 2016
Maddalone & Associates, Inc. makes formal announcement through Press Release on the re-branding of company development arm as Hudson Partners Development LLC, click here for release.
August 3rd, 2016
HPD has closed on the $7 million multifamily conversion project at 99 Pine Street in the heart of downtown Albany, NY, known as the Capital Center Apartments. The local business press provide a great summary, a link to the article has been provided here.
June 6, 2016
HPD principal Seth Meltzer makes an appearance in the City of Albany Business Improvement District (BID) 20 year anniversary special video along with other business and community leaders. Click here for the video.
January 15, 2016
HPD is pleased to announce the opening of the four story, 11,000 square foot mixed-use building at 525 Union Street in Schenectady, NY. Half of the residential units have already been occupied with great demand for the remaining units. The first floor will house the offices of HPD as well as it's affiliated property management arm Maddalone & Associates, Inc.
The completion of this project has brought life back to an aging, vacant streetscape and has been much lauded by city and economic development officials.
October 14, 2015
HPD has entered into a purchase contract for the popular "Capital Center" building in the heart of downtown in Albany, NY. The 101,000 square foot commercial building will be converted to mixed-use, with a proposed 35 residential units to be developed on the upper three floors. The commercial and retail space on the lower units will remain in place. A closing is expected for the summer of 2016, with construction to begin immediately thereafter.
A link to an Albany Business Review article can be found here.
July 14, 2015
HPD has purchased two buildings totalling 22,000 square foot in the heart of downtown Albany, NY. The buildings are directly across the street from the regional event center known as the Times Union Center. The buildings will be connected internally and converted to 16 market-rate apartments along with retail/restaurant space on the first floor. Construction is to begin immediately.
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HPD principal Christopher Maddalone featured in the area's premier source for business news, the Albany Business Review which is part of the nationwide media firm American City Business Journals. The "10 minutes with…" series spotlights local business leaders. Feel free to link to the article here.


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Jaku opened its first location in 2014 in Caledonia.
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She noted the restaurant regularly fills up and has customers waiting to be seated.
"We have very many customers who travel from the north to dine in with us and wish to have one close to their work and homes," Cho said. "I think the location will cover customers from 28th Street to the Rockford area."
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A man in Guangdong province yesterday afternoon slit the throat of a Walmart sales clerk as she tried to stop him from stealing. The 27-year-old female assistant, who was to marry next month, was declared dead at the scene.
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Medical staff pronounced that the bride-to-be was dead upon arrival at the scene. The shop was closed after the incident.
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Haywood County Schools plans to end a program that offered discounted childcare for school teachers. The program has been in place for 14 years.
The annual overhead costs and ongoing maintenance of the building that houses the childcare center is no longer affordable, according to Assistant Superintendent Dr. Bill Nolte.
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