Archive for August, 2011
House Wine Tastings
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011[ September 1, 2011; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. September 8, 2011; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. September 15, 2011; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. September 22, 2011; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. September 29, 2011; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] House Wine in Old Worthington holds Thursday Night Tastings from 6 – 9 p.m. every week. No reservations are necessary and you taste at your own pace for this event. Cheese and flatbread are…
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Artillery Art Talks
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
February 11th at 7pm in the Shoebox- ARTillery ARTtalks.
Artists exhibiting at Arts in the Alley in February and March give brief chats about their work and some time for you to pick their brains.
This month features Adam Brouillette, Larissa Mellor, and Bobby Rosenstock.
Refreshments will be served!
Department of Art at The Ohio State University
Teeth Whitening Tutorial in Photoshop CS3
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
This tutorial shows how to whiten teeth making use of a Curves adjustment layer in Photoshop CS3.
I adore my teeth now, here are the things I do to whiten them. hope you enjoy the video feel free to ask any questions, subscribe, comment and rate!
Video Rating: 4 / 5
The Nashua NH Dentist Resource
“The Cost to the Health of Our Microbial Ecosystems”
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011Gina Kolata has another good read at the NYTimes in "The New Generation of Microbe Hunters". The word, as you can see, is quickly getting out; the old ways of thinking about the determinants of human health are crumbling as the discovery that we are "super-organisms", more bacterial than human – at least from a genetic perspective, sweeps away old notions about what makes us sick, what keeps us healthy and even what (and maybe who) we are.
For other dispatches from the revolution you might want to read about how just how big a deal this is, how much we know, how much remains to be understood and the promise of biotherapeutics; or maybe, since there’s a little Gilgamesh in each of us, how changing the bacteria in the gut of mice makes the rodents live significantly longer; then there’s a dysregulated microbiome and rheumatoid arthritis; new insights into how H. pylori causes gastric cancer; and gut microbes can cause cancer of the liver and breast (in mice anyway); and changing the gut microbiota to treat type 2 diabetes and, and, and … There’s a torrent of literature but that’ll give you an idea what’s out there and what’s coming.
None of that is to say "Eureka!" they’ve found the answer. Likely (as it’s wise to hedge bets) the causation onion has many layers still uncovered. No, the point is twofold. First, the 40 year old idea championed by public health advocates pushing what they call social, or environmental, justice – that much if not most human suffering is due to bad industrial chemicals or the bad habits inculcated in consumers by nefarious corporations bent on selling them things they don’t want or need – was never sound but now it’s just silly. Second, if you’ve been paying attention, you’ll understand that an awful lot of illness and suffering has been caused by stuff nobody, we presume, ever fretted about. But who knows? Maybe somebody somewhere has the disrupted microbiome version of the Sumner Simpson Papers. Wouldn’t that be something?
Permanent supportive housing is more than a place for homeless people to live; it’s a chance to …
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011Here’s an example of progress: Greenbridge Commons, a new million apartment complex at East 75th Street and Euclid Avenue, is preparing to welcome the first of its 70 tenants early next month.
All of those new residents have until now been what social service profes sionals call “chronically homeless.” That means they have been in and out of shelters repeatedly, and in many cases living on the streets for extended pe riods of time. Some have not had a permanent place to call home for years. Many struggle with
addiction and other mental illnesses.
Not a group of neighbors most of us would choose.
Despite that, the Greenbridge project has moved ahead with very little resistance.
It probably helps that it’s a handsome building with lots of eco-friendly touches, street-level retail space and a planned community garden. In short, a nice addition to a stretch of the Euclid Corridor that’s popping with activity thanks to the HealthLine and rising de mand for office and lab space near University Circle and the Cleveland Clinic.
But mostly, the acceptance of Greenbridge is testimony to Housing First, the network of Cleveland nonprofit groups that lined up financing, worked with community stakeholders to explain their concept and improve their original plans, oversaw construction and will soon be managing the building and providing services to the residents.
Because Greenbridge is the coalition’s seventh apartment site, organizers could also back up their plans and pledges with testimonials from satisfied neighbors throughout the city.
“With each project, it gets better because we learn more every time,” says Jenny Eppich, senior program director for the Cleveland office of Enterprise Community Partners, a national affordable-housing catalyst. “These projects are built well, they’re operated well. There’s no guarantee that something won’t happen. But there is a guarantee that if something does, we will respond.”
Almost a decade ago, Eppich helped pull together the Housing First group around what was then a pretty revolutionary idea: The best way to end homelessness is to give homeless people a place to live — not for a couple of weeks or even a year, as some programs do, but for as long they want, and can abide by the rules.
Permanent supportive housing, as the idea is known, doesn’t require prospective tenants to be sober or on medication to get off the streets or out of a shelter. Residents are offered a safe place to live and a menu of services in the hope that most — even those deeply estranged from family and society — will opt for help once their basic need for shelter is met. History here and in other cities shows that is precisely what happens.
“We have very few barriers and very low expectations” for new arrivals, explains Susan Neth, CEO of Mental Health Services Inc., which provides much of the professional support at Housing First sites, as well as at many of the city’s homeless shelters. “A lot of the people who come to us — they’ve been very isolated. Here, they’re able to proceed at their own comfort level. Some people request help immediately. With others, it may take months, even up to a year, to get engaged.”
Indeed, statistics gathered over the five years since the first Cleveland Housing First units opened in the Detroit-Shoreway area show that nearly all residents eventually take advantage of available services, and half get involved in educational, employment or volunteer activities.
Neth was seated in the airy community room at South Pointe Commons, an 82-unit Housing First complex just north of MetroHealth’s main campus on West 25th Street. It opened in the fall of 2008, and the ripple effects can be seen in nearby homes and along the alley in back, where private owners have made their own investments in response to the .2 million in local, state and federal funds that went into South Pointe.
As is the norm at Housing First, each unit is a studio apartment that includes a small kitchen and a private bath. The units come with basic furnishings, and newcomers are given linens, towels, a mop and a wastebasket — exotic stuff to people who’ve been homeless for an average of 700 days. Residents also get life-skills coaching as they learn — or relearn — cooking, housekeeping and other details of “normal” life.
Rafael DePalma, a 55-year-old former truck driver who lost his job and then his suburban home and found himself on the streets, moved into South Pointe when it opened. DePalma keeps a tidy apartment and makes time to volunteer at a nearby church’s food center. He says Housing First quite literally “saved my life. I was homeless for approximately three years. This is an excellent place for somebody who needs help.”
Talk like that makes Angela Letzner’s day.
Letzner runs South Pointe for EDEN — the Emerald Development and Economic Network — a nonprofit that manages Housing First properties. Though South Pointe Commons has been open for almost three years, the public spaces are spotless.
On the summer day when a photographer and I visited, Letzner was busy getting ready for a barbecue and talent show. She took a few minutes to show off the exercise room equipped with weight machines and treadmills — the results, she smiled, of shameless begging — and paused frequently to greet and often to hug her residents.
“I have the greatest job ever,” Letzner says. “I get to tell people, ‘Here’s your new home.’ ”
As important as professional services and social supports are for her residents, Letzner thinks there’s another aspect of the Housing First model that helps people heal: quiet.
Think about it, she says. You live on the street or in a crowded shelter. Noise is a constant companion. Fear, too. You can never relax or let down your guard. But you can when you have a home, a bed of your own. You can shut out the world if you want and focus on getting better.
“And people do get better over time,” says Eric Morse, MHS chief operating officer. That pays off for everyone.
Extensive support services and 24/7 building management aren’t cheap — the tab is covered by government funds, fundraising and United Way money — but Morse calculates that Housing First has actually saved taxpayers a net .5 million over the past five years, because residents are far less likely to use emergency rooms, require psychiatric hospitals or end up in jail. Maybe best of all, fully a quarter of Cleveland’s Housing First residents have moved on to other permanent housing and only 2 percent became homeless again. No wonder philanthropies and political leaders across partisan lines have been so supportive.
When Eppich and her group first started laying plans, they hoped to develop 1,000 units of permanent supportive housing in a decade. In part because that first complex proved far harder to launch than anyone imagined — it was hard to overcome “not in my backyard” without a prototype to showcase — they won’t make it.
Still, more than 500 units of permanent supportive housing are now open or in development, and as soon as Greenbridge is full, the coalition will look to its next project. The time line may be a bit off, but the progress toward the goal — the same methodical movement you see in Cleveland’s most successful neighborhoods — continues.
Mayor Frank Jackson often says the measure of any society’s success is how it treats the most vulnerable and least powerful. Thanks to the Housing First partners, this city is moving in the right direction.
National Alliance to End Homelessness
Can my 18 month old baby have gum disease?
Monday, August 29th, 2011
Question by triniahi: Can my 18 month old baby have gum disease?
Can my 18 month old baby have gum disease? She just turned 18th months and I have lastly stoped breast feeding her. She drinks the standard milk now and eats grown up foods like chicken, peas, pasta. Is there a remedy for this.
Finest answer:
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Yes, she could have caught it from you throughout birth.
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The Nashua NH Dentist Resource
Thoroughly Contemplating Why More And More People Contemplate Lifelock To Be So Significant
Sunday, August 28th, 2011The goal of this article will be to help the average reader better understand why there are so many people that greatly value the services that are being sold by groups like Lifelock. These services help protect people from the crime of identity theft. This type of crime happens on the web more than any other and this is why people need to first understand the nature of this crime and can do this by looking into LifeLock Command Center.
Identity theft involves a cyber criminal stealing somebody’s credit through the trick of utilizing their identity by stealing internet information. Some victims of cyber crime have had their entire life destroyed by the crime. Many of these people have spent years just trying to get back to the state that they were in before the crime. It is also really tricky for law enforcement to catch identity thieves so it is necesary to do everything possible for protection identity theft.
While a lot of people were already well aware of the type of financial pain that this crime can cause, most victims are well aware of the type of emotional pain that it can cause. Just imagine how violating it must feel to know that somebody has access to all of your personal information. That is why victims of this crime feel emotionally as well as financially destroyed.
The company being discussed in this particular article offers three common programs to help people track the safety of their private information. One level is centered around a person having the chance to carefully monitor their actual credit. This is the most effective route to go for people that do not want to buy the highest level of protection.
The most coverage is provided within the highest level of protection and this program is referred to as the command center. The command center offers all the types of monitoring as the other two plans as well as so much more. For people that want the highest level of monitoring, this is the plan to choose. The price is actually effective when you consider that the plan offers public search and court records.
The most basic plan might be very effective for people that want some level of protection that is easy on their wallet. For ten dollars a month, this plan can be had and it offers a pretty good level of monitoring and protection for this cost. It is also very important to consider that the basic plan gives the client access to twenty four seven phone support.
If any person is carefully considering the purchase this type of service, they are going to want to carefully consider their needs before determining which level of service is going to work the best for them. People that feel secure with their current level of credit monitoring will be just fine with basic. People that do not already utilize such a service are going to want to go with one of the other two, just to be as safe as possible.
It is now hoped that all readers are able to understand why so many consumers consider Lifelock services to be so valuable through the Lifelock coupons. There are already so many victims of identity theft that could easily vouch for the fact that this crime can really leave a mark on the wallet and on the mind. This is why it is best to just avoid it with preventing identity theft.
Form 990 (2010)
Sunday, August 28th, 2011Form 990 submitted to the IRS by the National Alliance to End Homelessness in 2009. The 990 is submitted to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by nonprofit organizations and provides information on the filing organization’s mission, programs, and finances.
National Alliance to End Homelessness
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By: Parker
Saturday, August 27th, 2011A good night for Franklinton – this live-work community will be great for downtown and for Franklinton. We welcome you!
Good work FDA, FBT and FAC. Thanks Mayor Coleman for another inspiring, and meaningful presentation.
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