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Founded in 2003 in the Prospect Heights Educational Complex, the Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment (BASE) uses nearby Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as a laboratory for learning, infusing its curriculum with environmental lessons on a local level. The school was created in partnership with New Visions for Public Schools and the City Parks Alliance.
The School Directory lists class field trips as a highlight of the school's programming. Every student at BASE takes a 9th grade field science class, spending time in Prospect Park or the Brooklyn Botanic Garden each week. The school offers Advanced Placement classes in biology, calculus and English, along with College Now classes.
However, most students responding to the Learning Environment Survey said they rarely do hands-on work. More than half the teachers complained about a lack of order and discipline. Though students say they feel safe in the school, more than 40 percent reported that they do not feel safe on the property outside. Students pass through metal detectors to enter the building.
A uniform of a shirt with the school logo and black or tan pants/skirt is required.
Afterschool, students may participate in a variety of clubs and activities including Model United Nations and origami in addition to building-wide PSAL sports.
Special education: There are both ICT and self-contained classes.
Admissions: Priority to Brooklyn residents and families that attend an information session. (Aryn Bloodworth, DOE statistics, December 2012)
At a glance
Number of Students 477
Average Daily Attendance 90%
Uniforms? Yes
Metal detectors? Yes
Students at this school
Free Lunch
Special ed
English Language Learners
|1 = Far below grade level
|2 = Below grade level
|3 = At grade level
|4 = Above grade level
Safety & vibe
Number of students in an average english class26 25 CITYWIDE AVERAGE
How many students say their teachers inspire them to learn?50% 63% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
How many teachers say the principal is an effective manager?77% 78% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
How many students say they feel safe in hallways, bathrooms and locker rooms?67% 82% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
How many teachers say order and discipline are maintained in the school?77% 77% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
How Many Students are Chronically Absent?22% 38% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
Who graduates
Class of 2013
How many 2009 freshmen graduated within 4 years?64% 70% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
How many 2007 freshmen graduated within 6 years?81% 78% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
Previous Years
How many 2008 freshmen graduated within 4 years?69% 66% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
How many 2008 freshmen earned an advanced regents diploma within 4 years?2% 12% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
How many 2006 freshmen graduated within 6 years?83% 75% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
How many 2008 freshmen dropped out within 4 years?6% 11% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
College prep
Does this school offer a college preparatory curriculum?
How many students took an AP or IB class and scored at least a "3" on the AP exam or a "4" on the IB exam?1%
How Many Students took a College Course and Got a "C" or Higher?13%
How many students passed a Regents exam for algebra 2, physics or chemistry?32%
Are students ready for college?
How many 2009 freshmen graduated in four years with test scores high enough to enroll at CUNY without remedial help?21% 27% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
SAT reading scores417
How many 2009 freshmen graduated in four years and enrolled in college?59%
SAT math scores417
Is the guidance counseling helpful?
How many students say that this school provides helpful counseling on college or job-seeking?72% 76% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
Special ed & ELL
How well does this school serve students with disabilities?
How many special ed students starting school in 2008 graduated within 4 years?29% 45% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
How many special ed students starting school in 2006 graduated within 6 years?55% 53% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
As of 2012-2013, this school offers team teaching and self-contained classes.
How many students with disabilities spend most of the day with non-disabled peers?98% 68% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
How many teachers say students with disabilities are included in all activities?89% 89% CITYWIDE AVERAGE
How well does this school serve English language learners?
How many English language learners starting school in 2008 graduated within 4 years?
How many English language learners starting school in 2006 graduated within 6 years?
Programs and Admissions
School admission priorities:
- Priority to Brooklyn students or residents who attend an information session
- Then to New York City residents who attend an information session
- Then to Brooklyn students or residents
- Then to New York City residents
Source: High school directory
Science Exploration Program
Limited Unscreened
Integrated and interdisciplinary curriculum that includes project-based learning and hands-on experiences; collaboration with Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
AP COURSES: Biology, Calculus AB, English Language and Composition, English Literature and Composition
Online: N/A
Language classes: French, Spanish
Source: High school directory
EXTRACURRICULAR: BASE After-school Learning Support Center, BASE Ambassadors, Chess, Dance, Drama, Food Club, Hair Club, Hiking Club, Junior Achievement, Learning Passport, Model United Nations, Movie Club, Music, Origami, Peer Leaders, Project Read, Recycling Club, Regents Prep Classes, Saturday Classes and Tutoring, Sports, Weight Training
BOYS PSAL SPORTS: Baseball, Basketball & JV Basketball, Cricket, Cross Country, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track, Soccer
GIRLS PSAL SPORTS: Basketball, Cricket, Cross Country, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track, Soccer
Other schools sports: N/A
Source: High school directory


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On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:36 PM, John Kinsella <jlk () thrashyour com> wrote:
I'm writing this as somebody who has used several major SCA tools - a quick
glance of your company's site looks interesting, but right now I feel like
I'm being marketed to.
Agreed, it feels "slimy". That was my first reaction to this thread as well.
But then I tried to identify what exactly it was that cause me to feel that way.
* The white paper itself doesn't try to market their product that I
could see.
* The web site it's available from doesn't require an email address or any
other form of information before allowing you to download the document.
* The original post does not attempt to specifically peddle any product.
I don't think there's anything wrong with a company putting out a technical
white paper that describes an issue as long as they aren't using it to
tout their
specific product. (that's what the marketing white papers are for IMO).
I also don't think there's anything wrong with that company sending an email to
a relevant list stating that they have such a paper available,
particularly if there's
no information required to obtain it (which always turns me off as a
marketing ploy
to build 'potential customer' databases).
So, I was left to conclude that really, the only reason I felt this
was marketing was
because the original message came from the founder of the company that presented
the paper and not some tech grunt within it.
For me, that was unfair, and is why I posted my original message about this.
That aside, as I mentioned in my post, and as you also pointed out in
yours, I'm not
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Bailey studied at Alsager School before studying Economics at the University of Birmingham, winning the Hargreaves-Beare Prize for best graduating student and graduating with a First Class Honours degree in 1988. This was followed by a Masters degree at Birmingham in Russian and East European Studies with Economics, and later a PhD at the Birmingham Business School. He has written extensively on industrial and regional policy and globalisation, especially in relation to the auto industry, and appears frequently in the local, national and international media. Bailey was recently principal investigator on an ESRC funded project with Alex de Ruyter, Caroline Chapain, Gill Bentley and Stephen Hall looking at the impact of the MG Rover closure on workers, families and communities, and the policy response to this. Bailey has held visiting posts at the University of Bologna, and in the US, Japan, France and Czech Republic.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Aleutian Capital Partners is pleased to announce its investment in Global Sugar Art (www.globalsugarart.com), a niche e-commerce provider of high quality baking and design supplies to cake and confectionary decorators worldwide. Aleutian Capital has partnered with the company's founder to continue growth of the business, and Aleutian's operating partner for e-commerce, Daniel Pfeffer, is leading Global Sugar Art's online strategy. Aleutian is an active investment and merger advisory firm in the e-commerce industry, with this latest financing following successful transactions with companies such as Karmaloop.com, Lighting by Gregory, and Luxor Direct.
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Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Plattsburgh, New York, Global Sugar Art distributes confectionery decorations, ingredients, tools, and equipment used in cake and candy making. The company offers nearly 10,000 products including many private label items. Its fast-growing clientele is comprised of professional and amateur cake decorators worldwide. Alan Tetreault, CEO of Global Sugar Art and professional cake decorator, travels the world in search of unique cake decorating products that he offers exclusively through the company's website. The company's training videos and social media platforms enjoy a growing and loyal following.
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Engineering Accreditation and Engineering Technology Accreditation
What is accreditation, and why is it important?
Accreditation is a voluntary, non-governmental, peer-review process that helps to create and maintain quality educational programs. The agency responsible for accrediting Civil Engineering and Civil Engineering Technology programs is the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc (ABET). ABET is a federation of 30 professional societies, including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE.) Civil, Architectural, and Construction Engineering and Civil, Architectural, and Construction Engineering Technology all fall under ASCE oversight.
The Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) accredits civil engineering programs, while the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) of ABET is responsible for civil engineering technology programs. To be granted accreditation status, a program must meet both the ABET minimum general criteria and the specific program criteria developed by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The accreditation process involves the periodic self-study, review, and examination of all phases of a program, from the institutional level (such as a school's financial commitment to the program) to the course materials and student projects in a specific class. During an accreditation visit, ABET program evaluators not only examine the quality of the educational program, they also provide feedback regarding the program's strengths and weaknesses and offer suggestions for improvement. It is important to note that ABET does not rank programs or institutions, it only grants or denies accreditation.
The public, prospective students, student counselors, and parents can view accreditation as assurance of a quality education. ABET is recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation as the sole agency responsible for accreditation of educational programs leading to degrees in engineering or engineering technology. For more detailed information about engineering accreditation, please visit the ABET website at www.abet.org.


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Lisbon as a mammal
Pedro Miguel Cruz visualizes Lisbon's traffic flow based on 1524 GPS traces during one day, as if the city is a living organism, with its traffic infrastructure being its cardiovascular system.
Great analogy, great visuals, great music.
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Data Visualization as a Tool for Understanding the City
"Kotti", 2008, by Larissa Fassler
While doing preliminary research on Berlin's Neues Kreuzberger Zentrum, we came accross the amazing artworks of Larissa Fassler, a Canadian artist living in Berlin. Her works are inspired by everyday life in cities, and focus on perceptions, patterns and human behaviour within the built environment. She uses traditional architectural instruments such as drawings, models and maps, but adds anthropologic layers and personal impressions to them. The results are fascinating cityscapes that combine the hardware and software of a city: a mapped aggregation of the actions and perceptions of the users within the architecture they inhabit. She also worked on Kottbusser Tor, and the Neues Kreuzberger Zentrum, which is the topic of our 5-day workshop in Berlin.
"Kotti", 2008, by Larissa Fassler
"Kotti" is one of her works, consisting of a scaled model and drawings. The scaled model is a representation of the publicly accessible spaces of the NKZ and its surrounding area. The cartography drawings include a wide variety of information, from the number of people crossing and the places were people urinate to the current weather and the locations of the food stalls. It seems to be a combination of a mind mapping, community mapping, and ethnographic research.
"Kotti Revisited", 2010, by Larissa Fassler
We wanted to know more about Larissa's inspirations, impressions and ideas regarding Kottbusser Tor and the Neues Kreuzberger Zentrum, and she has been so kind to answer some questions.
MM: You have made artworks of other places before working on Kottbusser Tor. What triggered you about Kotti that made you want to get into it and make artpieces on it?
LF: Before beginning work on my sculpture and subsequent drawings of Kotti, I had done two other pieces focusing on urban architecture. The first Hallesches Tor and the second Alexanderplatz are both works that are based on underground sites. At that time I was interested in looking at the subterranean spaces of cities that contain public life. In 2004 I moved to Keuzberg not far from Kottbusser Tor and 'Kotti' became a place that I used and passed through daily over a period of years. This over-scaled, monolithic concrete structure, an amphitheatre-like space, held such a clash of people― punks, dogs, addicts, tourists, street-drinkers, commuters, shoppers, Turkish business owners, charity-workers, beggars, buskers, families and artists. It was a place of noise and chaos, of forced-tolerance, of misunderstanding and clashes all pressed together in an array of derelict passageways, plazas, stairwells, tunnels, platforms and aboveground walkways. Rather than constructing a model based on the positive masses of the buildings, I wanted to built and define the public space – the negative volumes – in the tunnels and between façades, following the surfaces of sidewalks and plazas, and leaving the rest as empty voids. By creating an inversion of the classic planning model I wanted to make visible the in-between, uncertain and transient spaces that delineate public life.
MM: What do you like about Kotti, and what do you like less?
LF: I like the complexity of the place - socially and historically; its liveliness and chaos; the mix of shops, cafes and housing; its atmosphere - it is a place for anyone, for everyone.
What I like less is the traffic and the traffic circle. Moreover, some of the back passageways, especially on the north-east side, behind the shops and below the first balconies. It can feel quite dangerous there and one can find oneself suddenly alone and not visible to people on the street or to the inhabitants above. Also, I don't like the fact that the rents are going up and low-income residents are being forces out.
MM: Did your impression of Kotti change after working on it?
LF: I came to respect it more as I learned about its history, mostly from the Keuzberg museum and archive (Bezirksamt Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg) which is based just behind the NKZ.
During the time I lived nearby (2004-2008) the shops in the NKZ kept failing - a flower shop for example couldn't survive. Commuters wouldn't stop at Kotti to shop and the residents couldn't afford the goods of the shops moving in. Today shops - especially cafes and lunch places seem to be doing good business but I believe this has to do with the fact the the area is gentrifying and many people now using Kotti have more money.
MM: Do you think anything should change about Kotti or the NKZ?
LF: I worry that the rents are going up. The area is becoming popular, cool, even hip and the people who have been living there for decades are being moved out. I think low-income residents must be better subsidized and/or rents better controlled to allow people to stay.
I think as well some sections of the NKZ could be redesigned to be safer, lighter, more accessible and to increase visibility - more "eyes-on-the street".
MM: In what ways do you think Kotti/NKZ has failed? And in what ways do you consider it a success?
LF: Even within an absurd architecture that blocks light, shuts off streets and sight lines, is too high, too narrow and creates dark passageways and blind corner, there is a lot of life and energy and many different communities. I don't think Kotti has failed. It is definitely not pretty but I believe it succeeds it being a thriving, changing and energetic place.
I initially wrote this post for Failed Architecture.
This is a very promising piece of mobile software. Data and geo-information on the go!
Check out the entire introducing article at Digital Urban.
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Before Sim City or FarmVille, there was Jerry's map. In the 1960s, Jerry Gretzinger began drawing a fantastical, growing map of unbelievable scope. It began with just a doodle, but now it takes up almost 2,000 8" x 10" frames.
His meticulous, iterative process intrigued documentary filmmaker Gregory Whitmore, who created this portrait of Gretzinger about two years ago. Very few people saw Mapping the Void, also known asJerry's Map,until Vimeo's Staff Picks blog discovered it this summer. Now the video has over 80,000 views, and dozens of comments from fans. Gretzinger posted his reaction on his blog in August, writing, "Wow! Thanks, Vimeo!"
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Zevo-3: "Sacrifice"
Jason races a mutant to decide who stays and who has to leave!
Zevo-3: "Sacrifice"
Matt meets The Sparrow, who explains how he came to rule his kingdom in the subway.
Career Week
Zevo-3: "Career Week"
While shadowing jobs in New Eden City, the Zevo-3 realize Ronson has everyone brainwashed.
Career Week
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The mutant bounty hunters have the Zevo-3 cornered, but not for long.
Living The Dream
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Z-Strap is chased by some very persistent mutants.
Living The Dream
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Kewl Breeze, Elastika, and Grams run against the clock to save Z-Strap from Dr. Stankfoot.
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Grams' camping trip is off to a rough start.
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Ronson and Stankfoot battle it out!
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Jason wakes up one morning in a world where the Zevo accident never happened.
Welcome to Paradise Bay
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Jason's plans for Spring Break are foiled when Grams drags him on a camping trip.
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Jason has a Zevo-induced vision of a terrible catastrophe that turns Grams into a mutant!
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Matt posts an embarrassing photo of Jason and Ellie online.
Zevo-3: "Mootant"
Brett Ronson has come up with a plan to discover the secret identity of Z-Strap.
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Ronson executes his ultimate plan to rid New Eden City of mutants once and for all.
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What is the real story behind the Zevo Compound?
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The monstrous Blacktop makes his messy debut in Eden City!
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Z-Strap tries - and fails - to make a good first impression!
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Jason has lots of trouble controlling his powers.
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Dr. Stankfoot introduces his newest creation: Dark Materia!
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Fishy finds himself in a slippery situation. Can Z-Strap help him out?
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The Affordable Care Act: The Structure of Health Plans – Interview with Alden Bianchi, Member, Mintz Levin
This week, states' Marketplaces are busy preparing for the 2015 Open Enrollment Period. Marketplaces are reviewing projected enrollment and renewal figures and releasing searchable databases for 2015 health plan rates, among...more
Under the Affordable Care Act's employer shared responsibility rules, applicable large employers (those with 50 or more full-time and full-time equivalent employees on business days during the preceding calendar year) incur...more
Welcome to the first publication of the "Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights" newsletter. Many of you are familiar with the healthcare reform tracking efforts and weekly newsletters we produced for the KidsWell...more
In Notice 2014-55, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced two new situations in which employees may change their health plan elections midyear under their employer's cafeteria plan. In the first, an employee's hours...more
AffOn Tuesday, September 30, federal Judge Ronald White of the Eastern District of Oklahoma ruled in Pruitt v. Burwell that the plain text of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA") does not allow for the...more
The Internal Revenue Service has issued Notice 2014-55 to permit new health plan elections in two situations where they were not previously allowed. ...more
How did two courts reach opposite decisions about tax subsidies for people who buy insurance through the federal exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? In Halbig v. Burwell, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...more
Workers' Compensation Insurance for Professional Athletes -
AB 1309; Labor Code §3600.5 -
The efforts made by professional athletes seeking workers' compensation benefits for injuries that they sustained on the...more
Two U.S. Courts of Appeals recently issued conflicting rulings on a major provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to weigh in. The concern is over the Internal Revenue Service's...more
On September 5, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule, effective October 6, 2014, that, among other things, specifies the auto-enrollment process for consumers who receive health...more
On September 4, 2014, the D.C. Circuit vacated a panel decision in Halbig v. Burwell (Civ. No. 14-5018) striking down the federal government's provision of premium subsidies to individuals purchasing coverage through the...more
Following up on our Week 22 ACA Countdown to Compliance post, the D.C. Court of Appeals granted the government's petition for en banc review in Halbig v. Burwell, which held low income subsidies to purchase coverage through...more
The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has vacated the 2-1 panel decision issued July 22, 2014, in Halbig v. Burwell, which struck down the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Rule providing for Affordable Care Act...more
Two federal appeals courts issued contradictory rulings on the validity of subsidies for the purchase of health insurance under the federal marketplace established pursuant to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). On July 22, a...more
Chinese Hackers Infiltrate Health System Network Affecting 4.5 Million Individuals – Community Health Systems, Inc. ("CHS") reported this week that the information of approximately 4.5 million individuals has been affected by...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") announced that the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace ("Marketplace") began sending follow-up notices to consumers with citizenship or immigration data inconsistencies...more
On July 22, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued conflicting opinions on a key aspect of the Affordable Care Act ("ACA"). The cases are Halbig v....more
On July 22, 2014, United States Circuit Courts of Appeals from two different circuits issued opposing rulings on the legality of the Federal government providing subsidies to eligible buyers of health insurance products from...more
On July 22, 2014, two federal appellate courts issued conflicting decisions, within hours of each other, regarding the IRS final rule published on May 23, 2012 (the "IRS Rule"), intended to implement the exchange-related tax...more
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Book about U.S. 89 published January 29, 2010Posted by Ron Warnick in Books, Highways, History, Photographs, Web sites.
We at Route 66 News concentrate on news concerning the Mother Road, but occasionally pay attention to developments about other historic two-lane highways.
So it is with interest that we take note of a new photo-and-essay book by Ann Torrence titled "U.S. Highway 89: The Scenic Route to Seven Western National Parks" (Sagebrush Press, 160 pages, $29.95). Historic U.S. 89 runs 1,600 miles from the Mexico border in Arizona to the Canadian border in Montana.
New West has a review of the book:
U.S. Highway 89 makes for an enchanting journey, celebrating natural beauty alongside neon roadside kitsch. In the epilogue, Torrence writes, "When I began photographing the Highway 89 project, I thought my subject would be the exquisite beauty of its seven national parks. Gradually…I fell in love with the small towns in between my supposed destinations. I wasn't interested in photographing a nostalgic West that no longer existed; I wanted to show how the people I met were reinventing their Western lifestyles to retain their heritage as change encroached on their communities."
It sounds like something I need to put on my reading list.
Torrence keeps a blog here, including a section about U.S. 89 here.
- 1. Trevor Hilton - February 1, 2010
That does sound interesting. I'll need to look for that one.


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Cancer Health Center
Depression (PDQ®): Supportive care - Health Professional Information [NCI] - Assessment and Diagnosis
Evaluation of depression in people with cancer should include careful assessment of symptoms, treatment effects, laboratory data results, physical status, and mental status. Although the etiology of depression is largely unknown, many risk factors for depression are known (see list below). Limited data suggest that depressive symptomatology in cancer patients undergoing cytokine therapy with interferon-alfa and interleukin-2 may be mediated by changes in availability of neurotransmitter precursors.[3] For patients with head and neck cancer treated with curative intent, eight pretreatment variables (tumor stage, sex, depressive symptoms, openness to discuss cancer in the family, perceived available support, received emotional support, tumor-related symptoms, and size of the informal social network) can be used to predict which patients are likely to become depressed up to 3 years after treatment.[4,5] A prospective study of terminally ill Japanese patients who were assessed for psychiatric illness by structured clinical interview at the time of registration (baseline) and again at admission to a palliative care unit (follow-up) found that 5 (42%) of the 12 patients diagnosed with adjustment disorder at baseline progressed to major depression at follow-up. Only the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale was significantly predictive of psychiatric diagnoses at follow-up.[6] Heightened awareness of this facilitates early diagnosis and the use of appropriate interventions.[7] In the medically ill, early manifestations of delirium may be mistaken for anxiety or depression. These disorders should be considered among the differential diagnoses in individuals who present with depressive symptoms.
Risk Factors for Depression in People With Cancer
- Cancer-related risk factors:
- Depression at time of cancer diagnosis.[8,9]
- Poorly controlled pain.[10]
- Advanced stage of cancer.[10]
- Increased physical impairment or discomfort.
- Pancreatic cancer.[11]
- Being unmarried and having head and neck cancer.[12]
- Treatment with certain chemotherapeutic agents:
- Corticosteroids.
- Procarbazine.
- L-Asparaginase.
- Interferon-alfa.[3,13]
- Interleukin-2.[3,13,14]
- Amphotericin-B.
- Noncancer-related risk factors:
- History of depression:
- Two or more episodes in a lifetime.
- First episode early or late in life.
- Lack of family support.[8]
- Additional concurrent life stressors.[15]
- Family history of depression or suicide.
- Previous suicide attempts.
- History of alcoholism or drug abuse.
- Concurrent illnesses that produce depressive symptoms (e.g., stroke or myocardial infarction).
- Past treatment for psychological problems.[16]
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Screening and Assessment for Depression
Because of the common underrecognition and undertreatment of depression in people with cancer, screening tools can be used to prompt further assessment.[17] Among the physically ill, in general, instruments used to measure depression have not been shown to be more clinically useful than an interview and a thorough examination of mental status. Simply asking the patient whether he or she is depressed may improve the identification of depression.
The following screening tools are commonly used:
- A single-item interview. In persons with advanced cancer, a single-item interview question has been found to have acceptable psychometric properties and can be useful. One example is to ask "Are you depressed?"[18] Another example is to say, "Please grade your mood during the past week by assigning it a score from 0 to 100, with a score of 100 representing your usual relaxed mood." A score of 60 is considered a passing grade.[19]
- The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale.[20] The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale may have limited utility in certain patient populations such as early-stage breast cancer [21] and palliative care.[22,23]
- The Psychological Distress Inventory.[24]
- The Edinburgh Depression Scale.[25]
- The Brief Symptom Inventory.[26]
- The Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale.[27]
- The Distress Thermometer.[28]


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Ailing pastor leaves Kahului Union Church
May 20, 2011 KAHULUI — Easter Sunday at Kahului Union Church held an even greater meaning for the congregation than other Easter services as ailing pastor Yukio Miyokawa fulfilled his desire to minister until th... more »»
Jewish congregation to celebrate Lag Ba'Omer
May 20, 2011 KIHEI — The Jewish Congregation of Maui will be celebrating Lag Ba'Omer with a bonfire at the Kihei synagogue Sunday, beginning at 6:15 p.. more »»
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May 20, 2011 Cemetery cleanup planned for May 28 HANA — Wananalua Congregational Church in Hana will hold a cemetery cleanup from 9 a.m. to noon May 28. There are graves at the cemetery that are unmarked. more »»
Culture to be shared at service
May 13, 2011 WAILUKU — Members of the Maui Kosrae Etawi of Micronesia will be sharing their culture with members of Iao United Church of Christ on Sunday after the regular Sunday service. more »»
Annual Pacific Arise Ho'ike begins today
May 6, 2011 KAHULUI — The ninth annual Pacific Arise Ho'ike, a Pacific Islander worship arts conference, will be held today and Saturday at Kahului Union Church. more »»
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May 6, 2011 Yom Hazikaron program Monday WAILUKU — The Jewish Congregation of Maui will observe Yom Hazikaron, or Israeli Veterans Memorial Day, at 6 p.m. Monday. more »»
Meal for Passover prepared in kosher imu
April 29, 2011 KIHEI — After a small-scale test run earlier this year, the Jewish Congregation of Maui celebrated Passover earlier this month with a meal prepared in what, so far as they know, is the first kosher... more »»
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April 29, 2011 National Day of Prayer event set WAILUKU — The Wailuku Door of Faith Church will mark the National Day of Prayer with an event from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday at Kaahumanu Church. more »»
Jehovah's Witnesses Circuit Assembly begins Saturday
April 22, 2011 KAHULUI — The 14 congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses will hold a Circuit Assembly starting at 9:35 a.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center. more »»
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April 22, 2011 Joint Good Friday service planned KIHEI — Kihei Lutheran Church and Trinity Episcopal Church by the Sea will hold a joint Good Friday service at 7 this evening at the Lutheran church located at the... more »»
Good Shepherd events start with palm blessing
April 15, 2011 WAILUKU — Holy Week services will begin at 8:30 a.m. Sunday at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church with the liturgy and blessing of palms in the church office courtyard in Wailuku. more »»
Tenebrae service part of schedule at Keawala'i
April 15, 2011 MAKENA — A Tenebrae service will be held at 7 p.m. on Maundy Thursday at historic Keawala'i Congregational Church. more »»
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April 15, 2011 Maui Evangelical announces services KAHULUI — Maui Evangelical Church at 256 Hina Ave. will hold Holy Week services as follows: * Palm Sunday worship, 8 a.m. Sunday. more »»
Local Religion / In Brief
April 8, 2011 Passover services, Seder scheduled KIHEI — The Jewish Congregation of Maui will hold Passover services and its annual community Seder later this month. Scheduled services include: * April 18 — 10 a. more »»
Holy Week schedule released
April 8, 2011 KIHEI — St. Theresa Church has announced its 2011 Holy Week schedule. Prior to Holy Week, the church plans to hold a lenten penance service at 7 p.m. April 14. more »»
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March 25, 2011 Community invited to fellowship supper KULA — St. John's Episcopal Church in Keokea invites community members to its last Friday of the month fellowship supper this evening. more »»
Events planned for Festival of Purim
March 18, 2011 KIHEI — The Jewish Congregation of Maui will mark the Festival of Purim after sunset at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Beit Shalom Synagogue in Kihei. more »»
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March 18, 2011 Guest teacher to speak March 25 PAIA — A guest teacher from the Santa Fe Diamond Way Buddhist Center will speak at 7:30 p.m. more »»
Local Religion / In Brief
March 11, 2011 Series on Christian beliefs starts Sunday WAILUKU — Iao Congregational Church on Sunday will start a seven-week "What's the Least I Can Believe and Still Be a Christian?" series designed to clarify... more »»
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March 4, 2011 'Hawaii Pacific Glory Invasion 2011' today PAIA — Jesus Ministry In. more »»


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I wasn't sure what to write about today, so I asked my boss, Trish, for a suggestion, and she replied, "Summer," and enumerated all the things I could write about: the last day of school, long days, freedom, watermelon, slamming screen doors, fireflies. She paused. "Do people in California even know about fireflies?" she asked. "No, we didn't have them and I didn't have slamming screen doors," I said, thinking of the mid-century cuboid I grew up in, all sliding doors and sun decks. It was a place for cocktails, white lace minidresses and adultery, and how my conservative Catholic... Continue reading
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I admit to spending an afternoon perusing skateboarding and Roomba-riding cats and have also had a go or two with I Can Haz Cheezburger. My son likes Longcat, just about the tallest thing on the planet. I also love the dark humor in Grandma's Dead: Breaking Bad News with Baby Animals and Why is Daddy in a Dress? Asking Awkward Questions with Baby Animals by McCall and Schwarz. I'm not alone of course: someone's uploading the videos and the dog and cat profiles to Catbook and Dogbook. Zany and silly pets may be outnumbered by cute ones, as we seek... Continue reading
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One of my favorite poems is Kenneth Koch's "Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams" which spoofs (mocks?) "This is Just to Say" by Williams, the famous poem about the juicy, ripe plums the speaker ate, which hinges on his phrase "Forgive me," and is likely directed to someone he lives with (a little too loving to be the kind of workplace refrigerator note one finds on Passive Aggressive Notes)--it finds beauty in a mundane domestic moment. Koch's variations are a funny four stanzas which grow more zany and preposterous, to wonderful comic effect. Here are Koch's stanzas one... Continue reading
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In college I developed a crush on Nathaniel Hawthorne. I not only liked his books, I liked his looks, too, at least as he appeared in a painting at the Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts. I used to take regular sojourns to see it. When people visited from California I was sure to take them to Salem so that I could tour the House of Seven Gables again and sit in its gardens--as I recall the docents' spiel mentioned him and his wife which was very romantic to me as well--and then we'd walk over to the Essex Institute to... Continue reading
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"Nothing human is foreign to me" and that's because I live in Orange County, California. I live behind the orange curtain, as it goes in an old local joke, home of The Virgin Connie Swayle and Gob Bluth instead of, say, Hester Prynne or Captain Ahab. Equidistant between Los Angeles and San Diego, we have beautiful beaches and mountains, an international population, mild weather, safe cities, noted bio-technology research (among much else) at our local University of California, and there is amazing shopping, but who needs any of that? It's our dubious distinctions that put us on the map and... Continue reading
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In graduate school for library science my favorite class covered the history of printing and publishing. We read a book called The Coming of the Book by Febvre and Martin. "The coming of the book" is a phrase that has stayed with me: it acknowledges that the slow and steady impact books had on human beings was transformative. Replicated books and broadsides, the ability to pass along those ideas physically to another person, created the desire to read and encouraged the ability to do so, for both sacred and secular purposes. One could read just for the hell of it.... Continue reading
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Gloria Alden's latest publication is nonfiction. Boys Will Be Boys: The Joys and Terrors of Raising Boys. Edited by Cher'ley Grogg was recently released and available on Amazon. Gloria wrote three essays and two poems in her chapter included in the book.
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Friday, May 4, 2012
How To Get To Tina's House
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- E. B. Davis said...
At first glance, instructions can sound innane, yet when we are following them, somehow they make sense, and we arrive at the destination. Where I live, we have so much new construction ongoing that it is never safe to count traffic lights telling someone to "take a left" at the seventh light because they may have slipped in another traffic light somewhere that will throw your instructions off completely.
I do hope you got to Tina's house, Warren.
- May 4, 2012 at 6:32 AM
- Warren Bull said...
I did arrive and we had a wonderful time.
- May 4, 2012 at 8:13 AM
- Ramona said...
LOL, Warren, I have a smartalecky brother too. I used to want to smack him all the time. :)
- May 4, 2012 at 9:07 AM
- Linda Rodriguez said...
LOL, Warren! Remind me never to give you directions!
- May 4, 2012 at 10:23 AM
- Gloria Alden said...
I was a little confused, too, but I guess you made it okay. At least she didn't tell you to look for a rooster perched on a fence post. I'm glad you enjoyed yourself.
- May 4, 2012 at 11:39 AM
- Patg said...
So, welcome to Oregon Warren. It sure sounded like Oregonian directions, and she's right about not knowing what the signs will say. One thing for sure, WEST is to the Beaches!
That 'go straight through the stop sign' was the best one.
- May 4, 2012 at 12:25 PM
- Warren Bull said...
Violence only attracts more serial killers.
- May 4, 2012 at 3:08 PM
- Warren Bull said...
Thanks, Linda
- May 4, 2012 at 3:08 PM
- Warren Bull said...
Gloria, I used to get directions from long term resident of a small town that included things like, "Go past where the Anders' barn that burned down ten years ago used to be."
- May 4, 2012 at 3:10 PM
- Warren Bull said...
I reminded Tina of that gem every time we got to her corner.
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Random, possibly acrimonious thoughts on catechesis
The Patheos Catholic brigade is talking catechesis. This is a hobbyhorse of mine and on which I have strong and inchoate intuitions. Damn Leah Libresco for turning me on to this!
I know that if I spend too much time on this I will never finish the post so allow me to be brief quick and perhaps abrasive. The debate has raged on for many posts and I am a busy man so I'm going to go by The Anchoress's summary. (By way of introduction, I attended Catholic schools for most of my K-12 education (until I got expelled) and have been teaching catechism with some interruptions since I was like 16).
First off, a post titled "What's Really Wrong with Catholic Religious Education? Everything!"
That much I agree with!
But then, right off the bat:
The thing is, whatever method you use, from Latin recitation to puppet play, there is no way you can transmit adult faith to a child of 5 or 7 or 11 or 13 or (if you're really, really lucky) 17.
Um, no. This is demonstrably false. It's not only demonstrably false, it is dangerous.
However, the best way to guarantee that you won't transmit the faith to a child is to have that kind of attitude. The cardinal rule of interacting with children is that, however smart you think they are, they are actually smarter. Treating kids like they're dumb is the best way to fail at whatever you want to do to them.
This is particularly true to raising children in the faith in the acid bath of the contemporary world which constantly hammers them with the message that religion (particularly of the Roman Catholic kind) is a body of superstition imposed from above for people who can't think for themselves, and praises "thinking for oneself" (defined in a very narrow way, of course) above all. The best way to reinforce this narrative is to have catechesis and catechists who talk down to children.
Of course, talking down to children seems to be the one thing that all catechesis methods (but one, see below) I've seen have in common. And this is a general malady of the Church. I am always stunned by how late First Communion is. A child who is 5 or 6 is perfectly capable of understanding Real Presence at a level sufficient for licitly receiving the eucharist. (Of course, if I really had my way, infants would commune as well, as the Orthodox do.)
Now, catechesis for children up to the age of 12 is a problem that's been solved, the problem is the Church ignores it. By all accounts and every information available, the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd works perfectly, as it should, since it is based on the Montessori Method, another ignored treasure of the Church. That Sofia Cavalletti is not revered in the Church at the level of an Aquinas is baffling to me.
The other point that is being missed is that all cradle Catholics have a different adult faith from the faith they had as a child. Conversion is an ongoing process (#SorryProtestants), and I think most adult faithful cradle Catholics can point to a moment or period when they reconsidered their faith anew with adult eyes and recommitted to it in a way that is different from the way children embrace the faith. But it should be self-evident that a childhood faith is the seed of the adult faith. It's self-defeating to want to skip planting the seed so we can move to harvesting the plant faster.
With all that being said, I love the idea of catechizing adults and coach them on catechizing their kids. But I don't think it's either/or. We should steal the idea of small groups from the Evangelicals. My wife decided to have our daughter at a Catholic clinic because they offered classes of spiritual preparation for birth. Why is this not standard? We should fold baptism prep into a broader parenthood prep. (Of course, even as I write this I dread the psychobabble our bishops' conferences will produce.) But I would love for there to be a Catholic equivalent of, say, the Love and Logic Method.
Anyway. Here's The Anchoress, on talking to a parent when she taught catechism:
She took great offense at that. She had paid $30 for this class; why should anything be expected of her?
God bless America! Over here if the Church tried to charge for catechism, there would be a riot. (Also, I always have to repress laughter when I go to Mass in the US and see ads in the parish bulletin. Again, God bless America.)
Kidding aside, her post makes a great point: it used to be that Catholicism was not just taught in school and church, but was also part of the culture and the "air" we were breathing. Not anymore. This calls for different models.
Moving on to the role of parents, here are two quotes from other bloggers:
Parents are primary and principal educators of their children in the faith. That's not to say that the Church doesn't have an important role to play in religious education. It absolutely does! But it does an injustice–and in fact, defies its own teaching–if it in practice (if not in intention) ends up communicating to parents, "You don't have to educate and form your kids in the faith! That's what religious ed. is for!" That message–albeit unintentional– is not only wrong-headed, it is contrary to the Church's explicit teaching about the nature of religious education.
And I'm not arguing for replacing bad catechesis with worse catechesis ("I am special" textbooks, felt banners, and hand-holding). What I'm looking for is a lived faith, one that takes place in Mass, but finds opportunities in every day life for continued education and growth. That's how my faith has grown in any case–family prayer and meals that prepare us for the Eucharistic meal with the Body of Christ. When questions arise, as they tend to do when someone cares about a subject, we seek answers… Which is why, if I were designing an ideal Catechetical program for families I'd start, not with classrooms and catechists– but rather, with a meal– Mass followed by a Parish-wide dinner occurring at least monthly (but each week would be better).
This seems right to me.
With parents as principal educators, it seems to me to be something that is (a) obvious; (b) not applied; and (c) nobody seems to mind.
My mother and I didn't pray nightly, but you bet your tushus whenever I asked a deep question she found a way to connect it to the faith.
With regard to children in Mass, we're getting to one of my other hobbyhorses. Many parishes are hostile to families with children, who are presumed guilty of noisemaking (isn't the Mass supposed to be a wedding feast?). They shuffle them away from the wedding feast to a separate room to color, a practice which makes sense only if one considers Mass as a perfunctory, obligatory, meaningless and boring affair. (And which is also in stark opposition to the Gospel.) Step 1 if you don't want your kids to be bored at Mass: don't tell them it's boring. (My friend Matt Frost calls these extra-Mass sessions "The Little Future Atheists Club")
The Mass is an encounter with the Living God. When I was a small child, during the eucharistic liturgy, my father would embrace me—we would kneel together on the same prie-Dieu—and narrate. When the priest would say "Let us raise our hearts" he would cup his hands on my chest where my heart was and raise them up, whispering in my ear "And now we raise up our hearts to God!" During the elevation, he would whisper into my ear "And now the bread is becoming the Body of Christ", "And now the wine is becoming the Blood of Christ." The tone of his voice made it absolutely clear that he not only believed what he was saying but that he was moved by it. You better believe that seed grew into my adult faith. To this day, I can't think back to those memories without feeling seriously moved. And when I questioned my faith as a teenager, what kept me in the Chruch was as much abstract ideas as my utter inability to rid myself of the belief that the host is truly the Body of Christ.
Only when I had kids of my own did I notice that during the offertory, families ignore their kids and keep them "busy" with coloring books—again, publicly proclaiming that Mass is boring and unimportant.
Again, we go back to this very widespread and resilient looking down on children in Catholic culture.
And we go back to another hobbyhorse of mine, which is that it would be harder to miss the transcendent features of Mass if we didn't work so hard to hide them ; and it would be harder to be bored if so many weren't so intent on being boring.
But what's most striking about this parental behavior, however, isn't that it happens. It's that priests don't do or say anything about it!
Yes, parents are the primary educators of children in the faith. So how come I've almost never heard a priest say that? (The only exception is the priest who was my spiritual father—and who gave me first communion at 5, nya nya nya.)
It's always been obvious to me that it was up to parents to raise their kids in the faith, because that's how my parents did it. I went to catechism in school, but I found it exactly as boring as every class, and just as every other class I spent most of it trying to hide that I was doodling and/or writing science fiction stories—even though as a child I was passionately faithful.
Anyway—to go back to the beginning, Leah has suggestions for teaching catechism for kids after 12. This is really hard, and something I think about often. You have many things to keep in mind.
First of all, when they start puberty, kids start to question everything—in particular the ideas they were brought up with, especially our society, especially if that faith was inculcated as nothing more than tradition or superstition or cheap, rigid morality (every catechist to young kids who equates "sin" with "not obeying your parents" should say ten Ave Marias in penance!).
Catechism should accompany this questioning—it is good to question! (Mary, the perfect disciple, questioned the angel when he appeared.) Even though reason is not sufficient for faith, God addresses itself to our rational nature. But it's tricky, it's essentially spiritual jiu-jitsu: you want to use the "momentum" of that questioning to lead a spirit and a soul which is tempted away from faith on a higher plane of faith. A tall order!
Second of all, catechism has several goals, often in tension. In particular, good catechism has several goals: memorization, understanding and assent. Obviously, a requirement of catechism is that people should come out of it knowing specific facts about the faith. And (ideally) that they actually understand these things instead of simply being able to recite them. But unlike, say, history, or math, the goal isn't merely that your student know something, but that they believe it. And these two goals are in obvious tension: if your catechesis is all about rote memorization, that's the best way to turn off your pupils about the faith.
(Though I don't want to sell memorization short. I'm impressed—and sort of jealous—that my grandparents can still recite by heart the pre-VII catechism they were taught as small children. There are some things Catholics ought to know by heart. All else equal, the more the better; that the all else is rarely equal shouldn't make us lose sight of that completely.)
Another delicate thing is the level of sophistication of your "curriculum". On one side of the spectrum, it's very easy for the Catholic faith to seem like an impenetrable body of incomprehensible doctrine and for your eyes to just glaze over. On the other side of the spectrum, the thing a smart, questioning teen needs the most is the full intellectual richness of the faith, and the best way to turn such a teen off is to give a too-simplified version of the faith.
Here's where I tentatively land:
1. I think the heart of catechesis for grown-ups (i.e. over-12s) should be spiritual direction. Each individual child should have a spiritual director with whom they meet regularly (each individual Catholic, too, of course, but that's a whole nother ballgame). Just like Ignatius developed his Spiritual Exercises mostly through experience and trial-and-error, we should evolve spiritual exercises and practices that help awaken preteens and teens to the fullness of faith. This spiritual direction would be concerned with the faith of the child, not with transmitting knowledge (except incidentally of course). In any case, it's always good for preteens and teens to have counseling and to have someone out of their family and school that they can talk to. Things should be organized so that they go to confession regularly.
2. I think (this is a long-term project of mine) we should have a sort of Khan Academy of Catholic faith. Or Khan Academy-meets-Fr Barron's Catholicism series. Watch at your own pace. Drink as much as you want from the firehose. Have some structure to it—have regular group meetings where you update each other on how much you've seen/read, or something like that. But fundamentally, have an all-you-can-eat buffet. Also have high production values. Actually, my wife and I are currently in the process of watching the Catholicism series, which I know is at least in part intended for RCIA classes, and each time I watch them I'm struck that they would be great for teenagers. ("But they're too young!" "No, YOU're too young!") For people who enjoy teaching, there's this vague thing where using videos feels kind of like cheating. But video is great! Obviously, motion picture gets at our brains and our heart in this very powerful way when well done. Plus, you can do something beautiful, really well done, with great quality and sound doctrine, and so on. A great one-hour video plus guided discussion would be a great format. (I also think of Milton Friedman's Free to Choose videos (also a PBS series like Catholicism), where you had not just the documentary half, but also the discussion half.) Video is such a powerful medium! The key thing is really to have high quality. Nothing turns off a teenager more quickly than a poorly-produced PSA-style video.
Anyway. Stray thoughts.
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