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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Rent Is Due Rent Is Late, Add $50 Late Fee Have You Thanked A Veteran? Veterans Day (U.S.) and Remembrance Day (Canada) are observed at the eleventh hour of the Your Community Team eleventh day of the eleventh month to commemorate the very moment in 1918 that a temporary cessation of WWI hostilities was declared between the Allied nations and Germany. Since then, 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Maria Garcia General Manager this observance has honored veterans of all wars. To thank veterans in your community this Zulema Sanchez November 11, volunteer at local events. Take time to listen to veterans' stories with interest. Receivables Manager Deliver meals and handwritten letters. David Phillips Support Small Businesses Leasing Manager November 25 is Small Business Saturday! Celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit of over 8 million 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Esther Serpas small businesses in North America by supporting businesses in your community. Show your Leasing Specialist favorite ice cream parlour some love by taking your friends out for a scoop. Support your car Rocio Flores repair shop by posting awesome reviews. Are you a small business owner? Consider offering Leasing Specialist discounts and incentives on Small Business Saturday to increase foot (or web) traffic and to gain Gustavo Perches exposure! Maintenance Supervisor Attractive Balconies Lorenzo Paredes 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Think of your balcony as an extension of your living space. Would you enjoy sipping your morning Assistant Maintenance coffee outside? Add an outdoor bistro set. Would you like to read a book while getting some fresh

Jose Zelaya air? A lounge chair with a side table for your drink would be a nice addition. Add a few decorative Assistant Maintenance plants and enjoy your extra room! Larazo De La Pena Assistant Maintenance Holiday Celebrations We love for our residents to celebrate the holidays at Riveraine and hope your guests have a 26 27 28 29 30 Office Hours wonderful time. Here are a few tips for hosting a great celebration: 1) Direct guests to guest Monday Wed Friday parking, 2) Be mindful of your neighbors and keep the noise to a reasonable level, 3) Dispose of 8:30 am - 5:30 pm all garbage in the garbage bins, and 4) Remind guests to drive home safely. Tuesday & Thursday During a Special Dinner, Play Special Music 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Most would agree that Thanksgiving dinner is very special. For occasions like this one, play music Saturday/ Sunday softly in the background. Choose music that will create the ambiance you want. Turn off the TV 9:00-5:00/1:00-5:00 and go through your playlist to find something everyone will like. Consider the ages and backgrounds of your guests. Soft, classical, jazz, or easy listening are generally appealing and Contact Directory relaxing. Main Office 713-778-0800 Office Fax 713-778-0878 Emergency Contact 713-778-0800

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Wave of the Future Social Media Social media has taken on a tremendous role in our lives. We’ve watched news go viral in a matter of seconds, while software behind-the-scenes records every “like” and comment so that advertisers can reach us more effectively. So, what does the future hold? Facebook’s developments in 2017 may give us a hint: Earlier this year, researchers at Facebook experimented with chatbots, computer programs that simulate conversations with humans, to see whether they could negotiate. If they can, they offer us more personalized “digital assistance” than even Siri or Alexa, meaning they can understand our requests more easily and respond with information with greater accuracy. To get bots to negotiate, researchers programmed them to trade virtual objects--balls, books, and hats-- using scripts of human language. Interestingly, after “negotiating” possible trades like “one book for two balls,” the bots began doing something the researchers didn’t anticipate. They deviated from the scripts and used a sort of shorthand. Many more experiments are required before this technology is ready for us to use, but we can see that Facebook is on its way toward becoming a leader in the digital assistance industry. Also this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s new mission statement. Instead of just connecting friends and family, Facebook wants to “bring the world closer together” by building “meaningful” communities, exposing individuals to new perspectives, and helping everyone find common ground. Could this new mission statement correspond to users’ desire for more authentic experiences on social media? For example, social media and smartphones have enabled a sharp increase in instances of “citizen journalists,” who give traditional news sources a run for their money by capturing videos of newsworthy happenings when and where they happen. Once the videos make it to social media, they attract millions of views, comments, and shares. At the same time, Facebook has recently pledged to crackdown on “clickbait,” which can be recognized by its spammy, over-the-top headlines like, “You won’t believe what …” and “The world wasn’t ready for …” These are designed to lure us off of social media and onto websites comprised of low-quality content and tons of pop-up ads. As part of the crackdown, Facebook “penalizes” articles that contain the clickbait-y headlines, so that they don’t appear as often in newsfeeds. So, do these developments--citizen journalism, negotiating bots, the clickbait crackdown, and Facebook’s new mission statement--mean that users around the world have more say over the information presented to them … or less? How will you use social media differently? Trivia Gals in Advertising

1. What is the first name of the founder of the cookie company Mrs. Fields? 2. Which motion picture company’s logo depicts a woman wearing a robe and holding a torch above her head? 3. The Morton Salt girl holds a canister of salt and what other item? 4. Formerly with The Little Rascals, Darla Hood provided the voice of which animated icon? 5. What color is the sunbonnet worn by the girl pictured on boxes of Sun-Maid raisins? Think you know the answers? Email your answers with “Trivia: Gals in Advertising” in the subject line to [email protected] for your chance to win cool stuff! Deadline for entry is November 30, 2017. Five winners will be selected by December 15, 2017. Take Our Turkey Leftover Turkey Sweet Challenge! Day Challenge! Recipe Potato “Tacos”

Ingredients: So thankful for 3 sweet potatoes 2-3 cups leftover Your mission this Turkey Day, turkey, chopped should you choose to accept it, is to 1/2 cup olive oil add three new traditions to your holiday activities. Ready? Follow these instructions: 1 cup cooked couscous New tradition 1: Play Shake Your Tail Feathers. Attach an empty tissue box to each 1 package fresh person’s lower back, using tape or string, so chervil or parsley that the opening faces outward. Fill the box with 1 tomato, diced feathers. Have everyone shake until all the tail 1 tsp salt feathers have fallen out! It doesn’t get sillier 1 tsp pepper than this. New tradition 2: Skip pricey coffee shops and Instructions: make your own pumpkin spice latte for less than Pierce the sweet $3. Blend 2 tablespoons of pumpkin puree, 1/2 potatoes all over teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice, 2 cups of milk, with a fork and bake on a foil-lined baking and 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract in a blender. sheet at 400 degrees. Remove from the oven Boil the mixture in a saucepan until it becomes and allow to cool. Cut a deep slit in each of frothy. Then, pour the pumpkin spice froth over the potatoes lengthwise. Scoop out part of the mugs filled halfway with coffee or espresso and flesh, leaving a half-inch layer around the inside stir. of each potato. In a medium bowl, mix together New tradition 3: Set the table with a plain the scooped potato flesh, tomato, turkey, white tablecloth or top sheet and place a pen couscous, olive oil, and salt and pepper. Insert or marker next to each person’s plate. Gather heaping tablespoons of the turkey mixture into everyone for the feast and have them write a the potato slits. Bake the tacos for another Thanksgiving message, such as a list of things 10 minutes at 400 degrees. Garnish with the to be grateful for or a shared memory! chervil/parsley before serving.

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