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Chicken and Leeks Braised in Wine
Photography: Becky Luigart-Stayner; Styling: Lydia DeGaris-Pursell
Cut diagonally into 2-inch pieces, the leeks soften and develop a delicate flavor but remain intact for a nice presentation. The Greek flavors in this dish call for a salad of crisp lettuce, cucumber, tomato, and feta topped with a lemon-mint dressing. Rice or oven-baked potatoes would complete the meal.
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 2 thighs, about 2 leek pieces, and 1/2 cup sauce)
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 357
- Calories from fat: 17%
- Fat: 6.6g
- Saturated fat: 1.5g
- Monounsaturated fat: 1.8g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.9g
- Protein: 30.9g
- Carbohydrate: 46.7g
- Fiber: 6.8g
- Cholesterol: 107mg
- Iron: 8.2mg
- Sodium: 624mg
- Calcium: 199mg
- Cooking spray
- 8 chicken thighs, skinned (about 2 pounds)
- 3/4 teaspoon salt, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, divided
- 4 leeks, cut diagonally into 2-inch pieces (about 2 1/4 pounds)
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 (3-inch) cinnamon stick
- 2 cups Riesling or other slightly sweet white wine
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 fresh oregano sprigs
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 (1 x 5-inch) orange rind strip
- 3 cups diced seeded peeled tomato
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
- Heat a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray over medium-high heat. Sprinkle chicken with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Add the chicken to pan; sauté 4 minutes on each side. Remove from pan. Add leeks to pan; sauté 4 minutes or until browned, turning once. Remove from pan.
- Add coriander and cinnamon; cook 30 seconds. Add wine and next 5 ingredients (wine through rind), and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 3 minutes. Add leeks. Cover and cook for 5 minutes. Add chicken. Cover and cook 8 minutes.
- Add tomato; bring to a boil. Uncover and cook 10 minutes, stirring often. Remove cinnamon, bay leaves, and rind.
- Stir in 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, and chopped oregano. Sprinkle each serving with parsley.
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- COURSE: Main Dishes
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- CUISINE: American, New American, Mediterranean, Greek
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Poultry
- OCCASION: Spring, Easter, Mother's Day
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Despite bathrooms having a bad reputation in almost all Feng Shui practices, because of the numerous drains that let valuable chi energy flow out with the water, this is less applicable to modern bathrooms with elegant room-like designs. In fact, in contemporary Feng Shui, the bathroom has a special place in your home's energy circulation and should not be simply closed off and forgotten, but arranged to enhance chi flow throughout the house. Here are 7 simple things you can do to transform your bathroom into an energy-rich, positive and relaxing room.
1. De-clutter and freshen up
Before you can think about arranging any room into a Feng Shui vibrant energy center, it is important to start off with a clean and simplified interior. There are numerous sources online offering tips on how to improve your bathroom storage options and clear the surfaces through clever organization. If you have a dozen threadbare mismatching or discoloured towels, throw them out and look for an online sale for beautiful towel or bath sheet sets to match your décor. We recommend looking through the selection at http://www.thetowelshop.co.uk/bath-sheet-large-size/ for cheap bath sheet sets to neatly fold and arrange around the bathroom. Replace your mats and toilet seat cover or get rid of them entirely. It is a smart Feng Shui move to cover your drains with a nice rug or a fresh mat.
2. Balance the elements
Usually there is plenty of water in the bathroom but you might struggle how to bring the rest of the five basic elements into your décor. You can accomplish that directly, by placing a plant to symbolize earth, a few candles to represent fire, a metal and a wood decorative element to stand for the respective elements (picture frames accomplish this just fine), or look into color solutions for element representation. Most Feng Shui stores offer framed pictures and artwork that incorporate all elements though shapes and colors.
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According to the principles of Feng Shui, a good method to divert chi energy from flowing out through the drains is to balance it with a crystal hanging from the ceiling, about 9 inches off-center, to attract energy upwards.
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Don't forget to close all drains after a shower or a bath. As we already mentioned, a cleverly positioned rag can stop the energy escaping through floor drains. Keep the toilet seat closed at all times.
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12 U.S. Code § 1715g - Insurance of mortgage where mortgagor is not occupant of property
The Secretary is hereby authorized to insure any mortgage otherwise eligible for insurance under any of the provisions of this chapter without regard to any requirement with respect to the occupancy of the mortgagor of the property at the time of insurance, where the Secretary is satisfied that the inability of the mortgagor to meet such requirement is by reason of his entry on active duty in a uniformed service subsequent to the filing of an application for insurance and the mortgagor expresses an intent to meet such requirement upon his release from active duty.
Source(June 27, 1934, ch. 847, title II, § 216, as added Sept. 1, 1951, ch. 378, title VI, § 607,65 Stat. 315; amended Pub. L. 90–19, § 1(a)(3),May 25, 1967, 81 Stat. 17; Pub. L. 91–621, § 7(a),Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1865; Pub. L. 100–242, title IV, § 406(b)(8),Feb. 5, 1988, 101 Stat. 1901.)
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Summary: The White Sands Region, New Mexico, 1908. It is twenty-seven years after the alleged death of Billy the Kid and rumors abound throughout New Mexico and the United States that the Kid is still alive. Those who believe him dead, are labeling the Kid's killer, Pat Garrett, a traitor. While Sheriff Garrett expected a hero's reception for his assassination of William H. Bonney, alias, The Kid, Garrett has become the most despised man in the state. Instead, assassins are now lining up to gun him down. Garrett watches as the Kid's exploits become the stuff of legend, of dime novels and of myth. And the myth continues that the Kid is alive. When an assassin's bullet finds Garrett, many secrets go to the grave with him. Among those secrets is the identity of his own killer.
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Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28, 1953) is an American New Keynesian economist, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times.
- If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.
- Slate, 6 February 1997; as cited by Orrin Judd at brothersjuddblog, 14 August 2004
- By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.
- "Why most economists' predictions are wrong", The Red Herring, June 1998
- To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble. Judging by Mr. Greenspan's remarkably cheerful recent testimony, he still thinks he can pull that off. But the Fed chairman's crystal ball has been cloudy lately; remember how he urged Congress to cut taxes to head off the risk of excessive budget surpluses? And a sober look at recent data is not encouraging.
- "Dubya's Double Dip?", The New York Times, 2 August 2002
- We're now in the seventh year of a slump brought on by Wall Street excess; the wizardly job of "allocating the economy's investment resouces" consisted, we now know, largely of funneling money into a real estate bubble.
- "Iron Men of Wall Street", The New York Times, 16 February 2014
- There is no economic policy. That's really important to say. The general modus operandi of the Bushies is that they don't make policies to deal with problems. They use problems to justify things they wanted to do anyway. So there is no policy to deal with the lack of jobs. There really isn't even a policy to deal with terrorism. It's all about how can we spin what's happening out there to do what we want to do.
- When asked to define the economic policy of the Bush administration in a BuzzFlash interview, 11 September 2003
- The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living – has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.
- The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, ISBN 0393058506, pp. 368–9; as cited by Edward Fullbrook at logosjournal, Logos 4.1, winter 2005
- What saved the economy, and the New Deal was the enormous public-works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs.
- Op-ed, "Franklin Delano Obama," New York Times, November 10, 2008 [1]
- We're living in a Dark Age of macroeconomics. Remember, what defined the Dark Ages wasn't the fact that they were primitive — the Bronze Age was primitive, too. What made the Dark Ages dark was the fact that so much knowledge had been lost, that so much known to the Greeks and Romans had been forgotten by the barbarian kingdoms that followed.
- "A Dark Age of Macroeconomics", 27 January 2009, The Conscience of a Liberal blog at The New York Times
- I know that when I look at today's Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can't coexist with a strong social safety net; if you're going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can't make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it's an agonizing issue.
- "The Curious Politics of Immigration", 26 April 2010, The Conscience of a Liberal blog at The New York Times
- ... politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.
- The Australian Financial Review, 6 September 2010, p.15, "Time for Obama to abandon caution". Also seen in the Sacramento Bee [2]
- The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of life, everyone wants to have an opinion. Yet the kind of economics covered in the textbooks is a technical subject that many people find hard to follow. How reassuring, then, to be told that it is all irrelevant -- that all you really need to know are a few simple ideas! Quite a few supply-siders have created for themselves a wonderful alternative intellectual history in which John Maynard Keynes was a fraud, Paul Samuelson and even Milton Friedman are fools, and the true line of deep economic thought runs from Adam Smith through obscure turn-of-the-century Austrians straight to them.
- "Supply-Side Virus Strikes Again: Why there is no cure for this virulent infection", undated draft at web.mit.edu of a "The Dismal Science" column for Slate
- If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. … There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time, we don't need it, we need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus.
- on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS", August 21, 2011. [3]
- ...and Newt [Gingrich] — although somebody said "he's a stupid man's idea of what a smart person sounds like," but he is more plausible than the other guys that they've been pushing up.
- This Week with Christiane Amanpour, November 20, 2011
- Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.
- "The Beatings Must Continue", 30 April 2013, The Conscience of a Liberal blog at The New York Times
- I do not think that word "compromise" means what Mr. Ryan thinks it means. Above all, he failed to offer the one thing the White House won't, can't bend on: an end to extortion over the debt ceiling. Yet even this ludicrously unbalanced offer was too much for conservative activists, who lambasted Mr. Ryan for basically leaving health reform intact.
Does this mean that we're going to hit the debt ceiling? Quite possibly; nobody really knows, but careful observers are giving no better than even odds that any kind of deal will be reached before the money runs out. Beyond that, however, our current state of dysfunction looks like a chronic condition, not a one-time event. Even if the debt ceiling is raised enough to avoid immediate default, even if the government shutdown is somehow brought to an end, it will only be a temporary reprieve. Conservative activists are simply not willing to give up on the idea of ruling through extortion, and the Obama administration has decided, wisely, that it will not give in to extortion.
So how does this end? How does America become governable again?
- Regarding the ongoing 2013 U.S. government shutdown
- Paul Krugman (October 13, 2013). "The Dixiecrat Solution". New York Times. Retrieved on October 15, 2013.
- Things could have been even worse. This week, we managed to avoid driving off a cliff. But we're still on the road to nowhere.
- Regarding the last-minute deal that ended the 2013 U.S. government shutdown just before the U.S. defaulted on its debt
- Paul Krugman (October 18, 2013). "The Damage Done". New York Times. Retrieved on October 18, 2013.
- This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.
- Of his paper "The Theory of Interstellar Trade"; quoted in The Economist, 26 October 2013, p. 86
Rules of reporting (2003)Edit
- The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, 2003, Rules of reporting pp. 13-19
- Do some homework to find out what these people really want. I'm not talking about deeply hidden motives; usually the true goal is in the public domain. You just have to look at what the people said before they were trying to sell it to the broad public.
- When you are dealing with the revolutionary power, it's important to realize that it will make whatever argument advances that goal. So, there should be no presumption that the claims makes any sense in their own terms.
Quotes about KrugmanEdit
- Krugman [...] was not cheerfully advocating a housing bubble, but instead he was glumly saying that the only way he could see to get out of the recession would be for such a bubble to occur.
- Arnold Kling, "Defending what Paul Krugman Wrote, blog at Library of Economics and Liberty, 17 June 2009
- If you grew up in the 80s you probably remember Voltron. Although the show often had convoluted plotlines, it would somehow always end with Voltron (a super-powerful robot formed from five mechanical lions) facing off against a monster called a "Robeast". Voltron had plenty of weapons, but he would invariably strike the killing blow with his "Blazing Sword". Eventually the show became kind of routine, but to a four-year-old, it was pure gold.
In the econ blogosphere, a similar dynamic has played out over the last few years. Each week a Robeast will show up, bellowing predictions of inflation and/or soaring interest rates. And each week, Paul Krugman...I mean, KrugTron, Defender of the Blogoverse, will strike down the monster with a successful prediction of...low inflation and continued low interest rates. Goldbugs, "Austrians", New Classical economists, and harrumphing conservatives of all stripes have eagerly gone head-to-head with KrugTron in the prediction wars, and have been summarily cloven in twain.
- Noah Smith, KrugTron the Invincible
- Until the emergence of Democrat leader John Kerry, Paul Krugman had virtually become the leader of the opposition in America, an unusual position for an academic economist.
- Dateline[dead link], Special Broadcasting Service (AU), March 31, 2004[Who said it?]


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A creative thinker thinks about the problem from many different angles. This gives them a number of possible solutions to choose from, which helps them find a unique elegant solution.
The next time you are confronted with a problem (even a very tiny one), instead of jumping to the first obvious solution, take a step back and see if you can find several alternatives. At first this is going to be difficult to do, but with practice you will be able to come up with many alternative solutions to your daily problems.
If your mind is feeling particularly stuffy, go for a short walk. Mild exercise helps gets your blood flowing and gives your mind a little more energy. It's easy for the mind to get stuck on one thought and be unable to let it go. Getting outside in the fresh air will help flush out your mind and get you into a creative mindset.
Pick a poem or song from our list and recite it out loud. Now, recite it again but skip every other word. Then skip every third word, and so on, until you can't do it any more. This exercise helps with your concentration and mental endurance.
1. Your national anthem
2. The Happy Birthday song
3. Old MacDonald
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FEMA Extends Deadline For Isaac Aid
October 30, 2012 by UPI - United Press International, Inc.
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has extended the deadline for applications for Hurricane Isaac aid in Louisiana.
Applications can now be submitted until Nov. 29, three months after Isaac hit the state, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported.
"We requested this extension because several parishes were added to our disaster declaration weeks after Hurricane Isaac," said Kevin Davis, head of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness. "The state wanted to make sure everyone with damage had plenty of time to apply for FEMA aid. We know that some people who had real damage to their homes might not have applied for assistance yet and we encourage them to take advantage of this 30-day extension to register with FEMA so they can get the help that they need to fully recover from this storm."
The storm damaged at least 59,000 homes in Louisiana, state officials say. Almost 200,000 Louisianans have applied for FEMA aid, and the agency has already approved $112.5 million in direct aid.


text: Kennewick, WA - Lots of high school athletes merely give lip service to the idea of academics being important. But not Larry Dewitt. For this Kennewick lion, academics are a way of life.'I just schedule around everything else. That's more important. School is the most important thing. It's going to get me somewhere in life and sports are extra. I've always been taught that. My parents raised me that way and that's how I've been raised,' says Dewitt.A two-sport athlete, you might not expect him to be a chemistry whiz. But he is.'I like chemistry. I'm a science guy. Kind of nerdy maybe, but I like chemistry, science, I like math,' says Dewitt.And he's aiming high. After college he hopes to be a chemical engineer.'Kind of leaning towards engineering and since I like chemistry, combine the two, that or something with teaching maybe. I like working with people. The thing is, the teachers I've had, they taught well and I can relate to them,' says Dewitt.


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Dear Friends and Colleagues of the GHG Protocol,
The spring proved to be a busy and fruitful time for the GHG Protocol Initiative. In addition to the launch of an Energy and GHG Management Program in China and a high-level stakeholders forum in Brazil, two new publications will be released shortly. Thank you for your continued support and interest in the GHG Protocol.
Best regards,
The WRI and WBCSD GHG Protocol Team
Top Stories
Energy Savings and GHG Management Addressed
The China Business Council for Sustainable Development, in conjunction with WBCSD and WRI, hosted an informational workshop, "Corporate Energy Conservation and GHG Management," on June 1 in Beijing at the Kempinski Hotel.
Approximately 100 representatives from CBCSD's member companies, government agencies, and NGOs attended the workshop.
Mexico Bases Climate Change Strategy on GHG Program
The Mexican government has adopted a new national climate change strategy that identifies the GHG Protocol-based Mexico GHG Program as the basis of a step-by-step approach to climate change mitigation. The strategy begins with voluntary GHG accounting and reporting, progresses to energy sector GHG caps, and culminates in a national cap-and-trade scheme linked to international GHG markets.
WRI-Facilitated U.S. Registry Launched
For some time now, U.S. states have been well ahead of the federal government in taking action on climate change. In April came the latest big development: 34 U.S. states, two Canadian provinces (British Columbia and Manitoba), and the Campo Kumeyaay Nation joined together to form the Climate Registry.
GHG Protocol to Publish Two New Documents
Electricity Guidance, Tool Manual to be Released
The GHG Protocol Initiative will release two publications at the beginning of July, "Guidelines for Quantifying GHG Reductions from Grid-Connected Electricity Projects" and "Designing a Customized Greenhouse Gas Calculation Tool."
"Designing a Customized Greenhouse Gas Calculation Tool" is a guidebook on how to adapt existing GHG calculation tools to use for a specific GHG program or to more closely reflect national or regional circumstances.
Cardoso Delivers Keynote at Inaugural GHG Forum in Brazil
"Climate change is no longer their problem. It's now our problem," said Fernando Henrique Cardoso, referring to climate change as a global issue that has surpassed the domain of industrialized countries.


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In a converted bowling alley in the town where FDR was born (Hyde Park, N.Y.), playing a sport first popularized during that man's presidency, a woman calling herself pinky swears explained to us the new deal with roller derby.
"It kind of went out of popularity because it became sort of WWF and it was more entertainment and a lot of it was staged," she said.
But in the early 2000s derby purists rolled out a more authentic version of their old sport, one that kept the campy nicknames but returned it to actual competition.
"Now it's very much about it being a real sport," Pinky Swears said.
"Not easy at all. It takes endurance," says Storm Jenarator, emphasis on the "Jen." She rolled up on the Roller Magic track for the first time five years ago responding to an ad for roller derby tryouts. She made the Hudson Valley Horrors and, like us, soon learned that following this sport on camera sort of requires a bird's-eye view.
"We're highly aggressive," Storm Jenarator said. "It can be intimidating for some people to see us out in our skates hitting each other."
Oh, sure. Mac probably hasn't skated since he was about 11 but he'll figure it out. It's a contact sport he's never played and we sent him up there with none of the necessary equipment. What could go wrong?
"Well, people can get hurt," Storm Jenarator said.
And every practice, scrimmage, or bout goes down under the surveillance of an EMT.
"My mom's iffy when I fall and get hurt, but she likes it," said Khloe Karsmashen, 14, who skates with the junior team.
"It teaches confidence," Storm Jenarator said.
The sport is not quite rolling in the mainstream but the Olympic Committee did announce it would spin its wheels and consider adding roller derby as an event at the 2020 games.
Do you believe in roller magic? Because they believe at Roller Magic.
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Beat the Heat: Just Add Water!
Have a Blast with Body Painting: Toddlers to School-Age Kids
Have your children put on their oldest swimsuits, then go out to the yard and use their imaginations. Grab hold of non-toxic tempera paints, fingerpaint, or foaming bath paints and create colorful pictures on each other. Kids can take turns drawing shapes on each others' backs and then guess what was drawn. Draw a bull's eye on a tummy and try to hit the target (and wash it off) with a water squirt bottle. Use sponges or leaves dipped in paint to make prints on shoulders and legs. After your kids have covered as much skin as possible, get out the hose and washcloths and scrub their "canvases" clean—but not before taking memorable photos of each human masterpiece.
What's Cool in the Pool: School-Age Kids
Your kids can beat the heat and quench the sizzle of summer with water. These wet and wild games will make your pool party a splash hit!
Dry Run Derby: Have the kids line up at the shallow end of the pool, then hand each one a dry sheet of newspaper (or paper towel). On cue, everyone enters the water and starts swimming while holding their papers above the water. The goal is to deliver the driest paper to the opposite end of the pool.
Balloon Push: The object of this contest is to race to the far end of the pool while pushing a balloon with your nose. For each swimmer, fill a balloon with about one-quarter cup of water, then blow it up the rest of the way and knot it. The water will weigh down the balloon enough so that it will float atop the water without blowing away.
Ball Away: String a rope across the center of the pool or use a net if you have one. Toss lots of soft, floating balls (Ping-Pong balls, inflatable beach balls, playground balls, etc.) into the pool so that there is an equal amount on each side of the rope or net. Now assemble teams on opposite sides of the net. When the whistle blows, each team tries to throw all of their balls to the other side. When the whistle blows a second time, everyone immediately stops, and the team with the fewest balls on their side wins.
Balloon Blast: Supply each child with an inflated balloon and a spray bottle filled with water. The object of this game is to keep your balloon in the air the longest by squirting it repeatedly with water.


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ORANGE COUNTY — National Alliance on Mental Illness County of Orange (NAMI-AMICO) will sponsor free classes on mental illness for families and caregivers who have a loved one suffering with a brain disorder.
The "Family to Family" classes begin 6:30-9 p.m. March 20 at Mental Health Association of Orange County Inc., 73 James P. Kelly Way, Middletown, and will continue for 12 weeks.
Teachers are trained by NAMI.
The Ulster County Department of Mental Health has announced new office hours and locations for the county's adult outpatient mental health clinics.
UCDMH provides a comprehensive range of services for individuals age 18 and older. The clinics, located in Kingston, New Paltz and Ellenville, offer individual and family therapy, as well as specialized services for young adults and adults with co-occurring disorders.
Referrals to additional services such as care coordination and residential treatment are made in accordance with the needs of the individual.
UCDMH accepts Medicaid, Medicare and many types of insurance. Fees for people without insurance are based on the individual or family's ability to pay.
Kingston clinic
Clinic hours of operation have changed at the Kingston clinic, 239 Golden Hill Lane, Kingston.
Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday. Call 340-4000.
New Paltz clinic
The New Paltz clinic is now at 137 N. Chestnut St., Suite 2, New Paltz.
Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Call 419-5110,
Ellenville clinic
The hours and days of operation have changed at the Ellenville clinic, 50 Center St., Ellenville.
Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday. Call 647-3266
UCDMH has implemented a process to expedite access to assessments within a few days from the initial telephone call.
If you or someone you know is seeking mental health services, call 340-4000 and ask for intake.
Classes thoroughly cover mental illness including the diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, OCD, borderline personality and many others.
The latest information on medications and research, biology of the brain, dealing with the system, relapsing, self care, coping strategies and dealing with professionals are included.
The course is not geared toward people with mental illness or toward providers; it is meant only for families or caregivers and is completely confidential. Educational materials are provided at no cost.
Reservations are required, and classes fill up quickly. Call Family Support at 342-2400, ext. 238, or NAMI-AMICO at 956-6264 for registration and information.
TOWN OF WALLKILL — Orange Regional Medical Center is offering yoga to its cancer patients and their caregivers, to assist in improving overall quality of life.
The first five-week session began Feb. 4 and will continue from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Mondays through March 4.
All classes will be held at Orange Regional's Conference Center in Rooms 5 and 6, at 707 E. Main St., Town of Wallkill.
The fee is $20 per five-week session. Preregistration is required.
For more information or to register, call 888-321-6762 or visit ormc.org/communityoutreach.