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Minneapolis MN Housing Market Beats the Recession Blues: 7th Best out of 150 US Cities

Minneapolis MN housing recovery beat recession blues

Minneapolis, Twin Cities Minnesota (PRWEB) August 01, 2014

Minneapolis MN comes out as a lead city national for one of the best “recession-recovered” metropolitan areas, according to a new study called 2014’s Most & Least Recession-Recovered Cities. Accessing the achievements of local economies and housing markets, the rankings offer applause for the top ten cities showing improvements and offer a measuring stick for how much work is yet to be accomplished.

“The Minneapolis – St. Paul housing market is firmly in recovery, as the study buoys up former findings of strength across the metros 13 residential communities,” says Jenna Thuening, owner of Home Destination. “Its thrilling to see Minneapolis MN rank in the top 10 as a most ‘recession-recovered’ city.”

WalletHub analyzed housing and economic data to identify 2014’s Most & Least Recession-Recovered Cities across the nation. Their analysts studied the 150 top housing markets to discover the metros that have underwent the maximum and minimum level of improvement since the recession, and Minneapolis is given an overall score of 7th place.

Of significant size, 150 U.S cities were evaluated for this report established on 18 principal metrics. In the mix of the criteria are; the saturation of college–educated workers, rate of new business influx, unemployment factors, and home price appreciation. Offering a comprehensive and reliable perspective participants made a strong attempt to focus on both the short and long term work that achieving recovery mandates.

U.S Cities That Have Recovered from the Recession Best:

1.    Laredo, TX

2.    Irving, TX

3.    Fayetteville, NC

4.    Denver, CO

5.    Dallas, TX

6.    Corpus Christi, TX

7.    Minneapolis, MN

8.    Lubbock, TX

9.    Garland, TX

10.    Raleigh, NC

Additional noteworthy rankings gained by Minneapolis, Minnesota in the report. Out of 150 of the largest U.S. housing markets, Minneapolis is ranks in the following manner:

Minneapolis ranks 2nd for employment and earning opportunities, just behind Denver, Colorado.
Minneapolis tied for 5th best with the City of St. Paul, MN for metros showing the largest decrease in the unemployment rate across the nation. Toledo, Ohio took 1st, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2nd, with Akron, Ohio and Cleveland, Ohio tying for 3rd.
The Minneapolis metro came in 4th for the largest decrease in violent crime rate, which helps make residential neighborhoods safer. Orlando, Florida was 1st, St. Petersburg, Florida 2nd, and Miami, Florida 3rd.
Minneapolis ranked 29 out of the 150 metros in the economic environment tier.
In a March 24, 2014 article titled Would Rising Interest Rates and Home Prices Put the Twin Cities Housing Recovery in Jeopardy? by the University of St. Thomas newsroom, the answer was “no”. Herb Tousley, director of real estate programs at the university, has been proved right since then. He stated, “the housing market may slow down but the recovery will not be derailed since home ownership will remain affordable for most households.”

“Even with the asking price of homes across the metro continuing upward and some borrowers scrambling to meet tight lending requirements, the Minneapolis housing recovery still takes high rankings,” adds Thuening. “Twin Cities residents in the surrounding metropolitan areas benefit from the present economic health found in the metro.”

About Home Destination – Twin Cities Real Estate:

Home Destination offers a loyal and committed real estate professional service that personally handles all the details of selling or purchasing a Twin Cities home. Highly regarded by peers as a Minneapolis metro expert for over 15 years, gain a skilled representative as guide to make the best possible housing decisions.

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Jenna Thuening

Web. http://www.homedestination.com

Email. jenna(at)homedestination(dot)com

Tel. 612-396-7832

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Seattle, WA (PRWEB) July 29, 2014

According to the New York Daily News, the perpetuation of marijuana in both the recreational and the medicinal sectors is mirroring the progression in the baked goods industry. As legalized marijuana becomes more accepted in mainstream culture, many are turning to alternative methods of ingesting the drug aside from the traditional and more dangerous forms of smoking the herb.

Edibles and marijuana infused products are becoming quite the trend in legalized states such as Colorado and Washington and are prompting many, like spokesman for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana’s Erik Altieri, to offer their opinion. Altieri told the New York Daily News when referring to edibles that, “they’ve always been popular among a subset of marijuana, but with the fact that more and more people from the mainstream are able to consume, there’s a lot more interest.” A majority of marijuana users who turn to edibles do so because of the dangers associated with smoking marijuana. Edibles can also provide a source of relief for the sick and long lasting pain relief for those burdened with disease or life threatening illness such as cancer.

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For additional information on this report by the New York Daily News, visit the article published on 7/18/2014: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/high-times-pot-edibles-marijuana-mainstream-article-1.1872223.

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City Floral Garden Center Receives Top of the Town Honor for Both Editor and Reader’s Choice in 5280 Magazine in July 2014

City Floral Garden Center is Denver’s ultimate resource for annuals, perennials, herbs and vegetables, houseplants, trees and shrubs, and much more.

Denver, CO (PRWEB) July 31, 2014

City Floral Garden Center in Denver, CO, is honored to be named as both the Editor’s Choice and Reader’s Choice in 5280 Magazine’s Top of the Town’s Garden Store category.

“Surviving one year of gardening in Colorado’s fickle and arid climate qualifies as a serious accomplishment,” the Editor’s Choice award page says, “This urban garden center has weathered 103 growing seasons.”

Receiving both Top of the Town honors shouldn’t come as a surprise to the Denver community as City Floral Garden Center was also awarded Westword’s Best Neighborhood Gardening Store Denver in 2014.

City Floral Garden Center is Denver’s ultimate urban garden center for annuals, perennials, herbs and vegetables, houseplants, trees and shrubs, and much more in their nursery. Not only does City Floral Greenhouse offer a wide variety of garden tools, plant and flower pots, soils, and more, City Floral’s garden gift shop is a crowd-pleaser with garden decor, accessories, and seasonal merchandise to complement every lifestyle.

“We were pleasantly surprised when hearing we won both Top of the Town awards,” said Candace Wickstrom, owner of City Floral Garden Center in Denver. “We really appreciate all the support we’re receiving from the local community, especially in the form of the Reader’s Choice award.”

This is 5280 Magazine’s 18th iteration of their annual Top of the Town honors in print and online. According to their website, both editors and writers at 5280 Magazine weigh in on every category each year based on months of research. For the Reader’s Choice award, readers of 5280 Magazine vote for their favorite local establishment in an online poll per category. The winners of the Top of the Town mentions are determined by who receives the most votes in the allotted time.

City Floral Garden Center is thrilled to have such an outpouring of support from the local Denver community in order to receive the Top of the Town Editor’s Choice and Reader’s Choice.

Established in 1911, City Floral Greenhouse and Garden Center has grown into a full service lawn and garden center guaranteed to satisfy all gardening needs, particularly for city-dwellers with a green thumb. Discover everything a budding or expert gardener needs (and wants) for their garden, landscape or nursery within City Floral Garden Center’s diverse garden store at http://www.cityfloralgreenhouse.com.

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Wilderness Therapy Professionals Present Cutting Edge Research at the 2014 APA Conference in DC This Weekend

Washington, DC (PRWEB) August 06, 2014

The Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare (OBH) Council will be well represented at the American Psychological Association’s (APA) annual convention in Washington, DC on August 7 – 10, 2014. APA is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the country, and it is the largest association of psychologists worldwide.

Multiple scientists from the Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Research Cooperative (OBHRC) and leaders from OBH Council member Programs will be presenting in a total of four symposiums and two posters sessions. The APA symposiums are a collaborative effort in which multiple participants present their views, research, or experience about a common theme, issue or question. OBHRC’s Research Director (Dr. Mike Gass), former Research Director (Dr. Keith Russell), and research scientists including Dr. Anita Tucker, Dr. Ellen Behrens and Dr. Lee Gillis will present in or chair a symposium this year. OBHC member programs Second Nature Wilderness Programs and RedCliff Ascent will also present original research in a poster presentation and a symposium. These session topics cover outcomes in wilderness therapy programs, the effect of nature in psychological treatment, group interventions, and advances in the field of OBH.

The OBH Council is thrilled to have such representation on the premier stage for psychological and mental health treatment. See below for a listing of the OBH sessions and click here to search the online convention program for specific information.

The OBH Council is a community of leading OBH programs working to advance the field through best practices, effective treatment, and evidence-based research. Learn more by visiting our website: http://www.obhcouncil.com.

Symposiums

    Vitamin E: The Natural Environment as an Active Ingredient in Psychological Treatment
    Thomas J. Doherty, Psy.D., Marc G. Berman, Ph.D., Keith C. Russell, Ph.D., David Scheinfeld, Ph.D., Nora C. Davis, M.S. & David St. John Ph.D.

    Active Group Interventions That Encourage Change—Kinesthetic Metaphors
    Lee Gillis, Ph.D., Michael Gass, Ph.D. & Bobbi Beale, Psy.D.

    Practice-Based Explanations of Group Changes During Outdoor Behavioral Health Care Using OQ Measures
    Lee Gillis, Ph.D., Michael Gass, Ph.D., Keith Russell, Ph.D., Wittney Heppner, Ph.D., Steve Javorski, Ph.D. & Ellen Behrens, Ph.D.

    Outdoor Behavioral Health Care – Advances in Research and Evaluation
    Matt Hoag, Ph.D.; Michael Gass, Ph.D., Steve Javorski, Ph.D., Katie Massey, MSW, MSPH, Anita Tucker, Ph.D., Joanna Bettman, Ph.D & Ellen Behrens, Ph.D.

Posters in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Division 53)

    Does Change Last? Outcomes for Adolescents in Outdoor Behavioral Health Care
    Matt Hoag, Ph.D., Katie Massey, MSW, MSPH & Sean Roberts, MS

    Treatment Outcomes for Struggling Adolescents in an Outdoor Behavioral Health Care Program
    Steve DeMille, MS









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Living Well Residential Care Home is Changing the Model for Elder Care Through a Holistic Approach in Vermont

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Burlington, VT (PRWEB) June 30, 2014

To understand the way a senior care facility can transform in one year, talk to Sherry O’Grady. O’Grady, who is director of nursing with Ethan Allen Residence in Burlington, Vermont, has watched the facility transition from a traditional residence for seniors to its current role, operating as a holistic center focused on the health of the body, mind and spirit of its residents. “Here, they can flourish,” says O’Grady. “Because they’re encouraged.”

The changes began taking root in 2013, when Living Well purchased the facility. The non-profit has been operating Living Well Residential Care Home in Bristol, Vermont, for 10 years, and sought to expand its holistic model, which ensures healthy, home-cooked meals; offers a family-like setting that feels like home; leads activities that encouraged creativity and socializing; and encourages residents, when possible, to play a role in their own care.

The effects were immediate: Processed foods and meal substitute products were replaced with locally grown fare from area farms. Residents were encouraged to spend more time outside of their rooms, enjoying communal spaces and participating in hobbies, such as gardening. A calendar of regular activities circulated, such as painting classes, music classes, tai chi, trips to the mall for walking and more. And everyone was told that they had a voice—residents, housekeeping staff, kitchen workers and all. The facility would be governed by a model called dynamic governance, which encourages participation in decisions that impact the community.

Today, O’Grady says that the Ethan Allen looks like a different place. Thanks to consistent interaction and encouragement, she says that a number of residents have shown signs of improvement in being more independent, taking fewer medications, and expressing more interest in being a part of the greater Ethan Allen home. “We give them consistency in the routine, good care and encouragement to function at a level they weren’t able to function before,” says O’Grady. “And it’s working.”

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According to the government report, “Older Americans 2010: Key Indicators of Well-Being,” by 2030, there will be 72 million men and women ages 65 and older in the U.S. That’s nearly double the number of 65-year-olds there were in 2000.

That, says Dee DeLuca, executive director and a co-founder of Living Well, is going to alter the landscape of residential care. “We have 10,000 people a day turning 65 for next 15 years,” she says. “Out of that, 20 percent, or 2,000 people a day are going to need some kind of oversight, some kind of care to meet their needs. That will be not in their home.”

DeLuca says that many of those people will be looking for an alternative to what’s considered the traditional care facility. She and a small group of community members founded Living Well in Bristol, Vermont, 10 years ago, for that very reason. She says it’s the kind of place that she would one day want to live.

“I said if I need this kind of care, where would I go? Where would I find fresh and local food, yoga, tai chi and the choice to not take so many medications? And I realized there wasn’t anything like that out there,” says DeLuca. So she teamed up with five like-minded friends to create it.

Under the leadership of a naturopathic medical director, Living Well works with 52 different local food suppliers to serve farm-to-table meals (at every meal, a chalkboard lists the farms from which different items come, as you’d find in a restaurant) and the facility has managed to save money through the process, by striking up partnerships and buying in bulk. “The cost per day is lower than the national average,” says DeLuca.

While each patient consults with his or her own physician, the staff at the residence encourages a natural approach whenever possible. That could be as simple as using ice or heat packs in place of pain medications, or trying a natural anti-anxiety remedy coupled with tai chi, yoga or exercise. For many patients, it’s meant working with their physician to scrutinize the medications that they’ve been on for years—including oxygen—to determine if they are medically necessary any longer. In a number of cases, those doses have been stepped down or even taken away.

Because Living Well has only 15 beds, there’s a natural, family-like sensibility to the home. At Ethan Allen, the 34 rooms are grouped into “neighborhoods” to establish a similar small group setting. That way, says DeLuca, the residents have an easier time establishing relationships and feeling like a part of the community. “The higher functioning people keep an eye out for the more vulnerable people,” she says. “The men pull the chairs out for the women. No one gets lost in the crowd.”

DeLuca says that the guiding philosophy of “dynamic governance,” also known as “sociocracy,” is a system of organization that originated in The Netherlands, and gives everyone in the community a voice, whether it’s the residents who live there, the housekeeping staff who works there or the executives. It’s a system that involves transparency in how the facilities operate. It encourages people who work at all levels to suggest solutions. And, says DeLuca, it makes everyone accountable to themselves and each other. “When you have a system where all the voices in the organization have equal weight when it comes to policy, that actually encourages everyone to speak their mind.”

DeLuca says that operating in that fashion makes her job a pleasure. “What I’ve noticed after 10 years is I get to steer creativity, rather than discipline and be a policeman all the time,” she says.

Kathleen Hall, who is a nurse geriatric nurse practitioner and director of research with Living Well, says she’s seen the arts programs at the facilities make a difference in patients, particularly in those with dementia, who are struggling to communicate. “When we give them an opportunity to garden or to paint it allows a sense of self expression,” she says. “That lowers anxiety and it lowers depression.”

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Although the Living Well model has been in place for 10 years, the staff says that, to date, they have more anecdotal information about its benefits than anything. Now that the organization is overseeing more beds, with the addition of Ethan Allen, researchers like Hall are capturing data and working to measure the impact of the holistic approach. It’s something that the organization plans to share, in coming years, to help shape other facilities.

“Over 10 years, we’ve been very quietly doing what we know works,” says DeLuca. “Today, farm-fresh food, yoga, music and art therapy and natural approaches to health care are not such radical ideas. Our goal, in the next five years, is to provide the data to show that this works, and lead others through our example.”

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