Stimulus money helping homeless in Rensselaer County

Posted: Dec 18, 2009 06:31 PM EST

Stimulus money helping homeless in Rensselaer County (12/18/09)

By TARYN FITSIK

TROY, N.Y. -- It's a staggering statistic: in just the past year, there has been a 10 percent increase in homelessness across the country.

However, one and a half million dollars in federal stimulus money has helped fund a new program in Rensselaer county.

Just one month ago, Linda Hemingway and her three grandchildren were evicted from their apartment.

Having been unemployed for more than a year, Hemingway couldn't make ends meet.

After exhausting what she thought were all her options, Hemingway learned about Rensselaer County's Emergency Community House Opportunities, known as ECHO, offering her a chance to get back on her feet.

"I learned about ECHO and I got a smile on my face, because wonderful things happened," says Hemingway. "I came home and told my children everything is going to be okay, and we are going to have a wonderful Christmas in a warm environment. We're not going to be separated, and that made me feel real good."

In order to be eligible for the ECHO project, a person or family must be homeless, have received an eviction notice or court papers, a utilities shut-off warning a final notice discontinuing heat, electricity, or hot water, have no other housing options, have a current income at or below 50 percent of the median income in the area, and the potential to maintain housing and utility payments when the ECHO assistance ends.

According to the Unity House in Troy, one of the partners in this program, people from all types of economic backgrounds make use of ECHO.

"We're really seeing people who in the past have not been homeless, and had not been needing social service assistance, but as a result of job losses or other external economic conditions, are finding themselves in desperate straits," says Karla Digirolamo, Unity House CEO.

Hemingway says the program was a life saver for her, one that kept her family together.

"It's very hard, but ECHO will come in and help you. They are good people down there, they are loving people," says Hemingway.

Rensselaer County's ECHO project began in October, and so far 110 households have been served.

Also, Albany, Schenectady, and Saratoga counties have access to similar funding, to be used as another option for people facing homelessness.


Comment:
Christine A Jubic
Am wondering how many jobs this will create. I am all for helping the homeless and down-trodden as I have been there myself and fear it may happen again in the future as we are in BK right now and stand a good chance of losing our own home,....but giving $$ to help the victims of the lousy economy seems to me like putting the cart before the horse, or rather, treating the effects but not the cause. Fix the problems first (J-O-B-S & REAL ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ) and there wont be any victims need fixxin. Duh.

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Goodbye to the Last of the Cartwright Crew

Pernell Roberts dies of cancer. Funny thing when I saw this article, I was kinda suprized to hear this news as I thought he was already dead,...like as in a long long time ago. I thought all of the Bonanza gang was ded. I know Hoss died of heart attack while taking a shower and the Big C got Little Joe too. I dont know what happened to Pops or to Hop Sing. Am I missing someone?

Click on title above to read the sad news that Purnell Roberts is really dead.

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RunTime Error on New Windows 7

Got this message on my new computer today, running the new Windows 7;

Description of the R6025 run-time error in Visual C++
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The C++ program fails and reports the following run-time error: runtime error R6...
The C++ program fails and reports the following run-time error:
runtime error R6025
- pure virtual function call
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This error occurs when your application indirectly calls a pure virtual member f...
This error occurs when your application indirectly calls a pure virtual member function in a context where a call to the function is not valid. In most cases, the compiler detects this and reports the error when building the application. But depending on how your code is written, sometimes the problem is detected only at run-time.

The error occurs when you indirectly call a pure virtual function within the context of a call to the constructor or destructor of an abstract base class. This is illustrated in the sample code below, along with some more description.
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Calling a pure virtual function is a programming error, so you need to find the call to the pure virtual function and rewrite the code so it is not called.

One way to find a call to a pure virtual function is to replace the pure virtual function with an implementation that calls the Windows API function DebugBreak. When using the debugger, DebugBreak will cause a hard-coded breakpoint. When the code stops running at this breakpoint, you can view the callstack to see where the function was called.

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This behavior is by design.
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*/

class A;

void fcn( A* );

class A
{
public:
virtual void f() = 0;
A() { fcn( this ); }
};

class B : A
{
void f() { }
};

void fcn( A* p )
{
p->f();
}

// The declaration below invokes class B's constructor, which
// first calls class A's constructor, which calls fcn. Then
// fcn calls A::f, which is a pure virtual function, and
// this causes the run-time error. B has not been constructed
// at this point, so the B::f cannot be called. You would not
// want it to be called because it could depend on something
// in B that has not been initialized yet.

B b;

void main()
{
}

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308260 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308260/ ) How to troubleshoot script errors in Internet Explorer 6 and in Internet Explorer 7 on Windows 2000-based, Windows XP-based, Windows Server 2003-based, or Windows Vista-based computers
267572 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/267572/ ) WD2000: Error Message: "Run-time Error '5'" when you start Word
170409 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/170409/ ) SBFM97: MS Visual C++ run-time errors importing Quickbooks data
309299 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309299/ ) Runtime error when you browse to some Web pages
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Proud-Flesh on My Spotted Ass

I noticed a small area on my spotted ass Pacos face that was injured when playing with his pony pal Lightning. They sometimes enjoy playing kissie face and part of that game involves nipping. Pony like to nip Pacos face and this area was nipped and never given a chaance to heal as keeps getting "re-nipped" or rubbed off on a tree or a fence raiil., I gguess I should be happy to learn that this wound that wont heal is not a melanoma as I had feared, but only a simple case of proud-flesh. May have to seperate the two for awhile.

Proud Flesh and How to Prevent It

Your horse has a wound that just won't heal. It's filled with a wad of pink, fleshy tissue that seems to grow bigger every day. Uh-oh! Proud flesh - and it needs to be treated now.


What Proud Flesh Is: As your horse's wound begins to heal, pinkish granulation tissue fills in the gaps between soft tissues. Granulation tissue normally stops forming as the skin edges grow together to close the wound. But when healing doesn't go according to plan, the granulation tissue becomes exuberant-it keeps growing until it bulges above skin level, so newly formed skin can't grow over the wound. That's proud flesh.

When Proud Flesh happens: Proud flesh tends to form in wounds below your horse's knees and hocks, where there's little soft tissue between skin and bone, and where movement constantly tugs the wound's edges. It's most likely to occur in places with lots of movement, such as over joints, or when a complication, such as infection, slows healing.

How to prevent Proud Flesh: Minimize movement and prevent infection by taking the following steps.



Have your veterinarian suture the wound (if it can be sutured), as soon as possible. Call him or her for suture advice.


Bandage with a pressure wrap to help hold the wound's edges together.


Keep your horse as quiet as you can while the wound heals. When possible, stall rest may be best.


Follow your vet's advice for keeping the wound clean and covered, and administer antibiotics per his or her recommendations.

How to treat it: If proud flesh appears, this strategy will humble it.



Trim. Ask your vet to trim the tissue back to skin level, so your horse's skin can begin to grow across the wound. (Note: Proud flesh bleeds heavily when trimmed, but it has no nerves-so your horse won't feel pain.)


Wrap. Keep a pressure wrap on the wound to prevent the proud flesh from bulging above the skin again. This also helps to immobilize the wound, furthering the healing process.


Medicate. Ask your vet to recommend a topical cortisone preparation (often combined with an antibiotic). Cortisone slows the growth of granulation tissue and can even help shrink proud flesh.


Ask! Check with your vet before applying over-the-counter proud-flesh "remedies." Some are designed to cauterize, or burn the tissues. While this may make proud flesh appear smaller, it discourages the wound from healing properly.


Don't give up! If the proud flesh bulges again, it may need another trimming-and another, and another. Persist, and you'll win.

Barb Crabbe is an Oregon-based equine practitioner.

This article first appeared in the December, 2000 issue of Horse & Rider magazine.

Memories of Dads Last Christmas on Earth

Well eversince I learned THE TRUE story of the history or ORIGINS of Christmas and of the history of ALL RELIGIONS, I stopped celebrating individual holidays altogether and have determined in my new SECTARIANISM, to Celebrate Everyday AS IF it were our last....for it just very well MAY BE our last.

There was one exception and that was Christmas 07, when I spent the day at my parents house alone with them as mother and I helped father to Celebrate his last Christmas with us on earth. It was the most pitiful time of my life, sitting there in his tiny trailer-park bedroom, on the edge of his "hospice at home" deathbed where he lay for nearly 11 mo waiting to die from his heart disease (it was malnutrition that eventually got him) . It was only just the three of us, me, my mother and dying drugged up disoriented dad who (we) had chained to his hospital bed in hopes that he would die there peacefully in his sleep and not have a "traumatic event." This was my sisters idea, and she was the chief caregiver as she actually is/was a supervising geriatic nurse in a local nursing home. Perhaps that is why she was planning this course of immobility for my dad, as she works with death and dying everyday. Guess she knows the best way for a person to go is in their sleep and that is what she wanted for poor old dad. He just didnt go as quick as everyone thought. It is a different "ball-game" alltogether with heart patients on hospice. They are supposed to have a higher standard of care and the idea is to MAINTAIN functionality. Alas, due to sis's over-protectiveness of my father, whom I have NO DOUBT that she dearly loved and was trying to do her best for him, my father never got that higher standard of care but was instead treated as if an "end-day" cancer patient with "comfort care" given only. Despite having SEVEN brothers and sister in the neighborhood, I guess they all had other, more important things they had to be doing, other than spending my fathers last Christmas with him. The three of us celebrated alone together that day, but it wasent a joyous occasion. I sat on the edge of my fathers bed as he lay, propped up enough to be able to look out of the bedroom window at the snow that was gently falling. The three of us actually broke into song, as mother and I tried to FORCE SOME GAIETY into the room.

This is the ghost of my Christmas Past that shall haunt me for the rest of my days, but hey, at least I was there for him on his last day of Christmas on earth. RIP dad. You too mom. I hope the after-life was all that you had imagined it was, and that you (and dad) are now safe in your gods loving arms.