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There are three priorities identified in Archbishop Richard Smith's pastoral letter entitled Pastoral Priorities of The Archdiocese of Edmonton. They are as follows: evangelization, faith formation and vocations promotion.
My last column addressed faith formation. It is vitally important that Christian faith be well formed, based upon a relationship with Christ and be supported by the solid foundation of Church teachings. In this column, I want to reflect on evangelization and how lay people like you and me can participate in this task.
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Striding down Yonge Street in Toronto on a fall day in 1945, Elmer Foy looked the picture of male vigour. Always polite, the striking, tall Irishman stopped when two posh, stony-faced women stood in front of him. They handed him an envelope and kept on walking.
Elmer opened it. A white feather – the symbol of cowardice – fluttered to the ground.
Likely the first thing the new government in Libya will do will be to attempt to implement some form of democracy. Achieving that goal in a nation run for 42 years by a psychotic tyrant will be much more difficult than establishing new institutions with good procedures.
Psychosis at the top infects the entire society, creating a fearful populace and leaving people dependent on secretly whispered rumours rather than the free flow of information. A long history of decisions being made by cronyism and corruption has been established. Political opposition in such a situation is defined not by putting flowers in the gun barrels of tanks, but by taking up arms and killing thousands of people. There is no place for the reasoned, thoughtful consideration of alternatives.
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We all know this story: five foolish maidens, who fail to bring extra oil for their festive lamps end up in darkness, locked out from the wedding feast, while the other five maidens, who were wise, refused to share their extra supplies of oil out of concern that the bridegroom would be refused entry to the wedding hall.
The Art of Dying and Living: Lessons from Saints of Our Time
Finding Hope in Times of Grief
Hundreds of years ago, our Christian forebears sought to learn to die well. They even wrote guidebooks about the art of dying (ars moriendi), hoping to inspire others to achieve a sense of spiritual completion and fulfillment at life's end.
But in our modern age, such signposts are few indeed. Our loved ones often die not at home, but in hospitals at some remove from us. And so we approach death largely untutored, bewildered and unprepared, writes Kerry Walters, a former hospital chaplain.
With Thanksgiving just behind us and Christmas coming up when eating meals together is important, I began to wonder what Jesus said or did to connect food to Christian spiritual life.
In Kingston and Wolfe Island, where I work and live, Don Cherry occupies a rather unique place. He grew up in Kingston, and has a summer cottage on Wolfe Island. Here, he is one of our own.
In a larger sense too, Cherry is considered by many across Canada to be just that - one of our own in a way that few are. For that reason, from time to time the whole nation erupts in a great Cherry controversy. The Globe and Mail employs a fulltime columnist apparently for that reason alone.
Our world thinks it understands sex. It doesn't. Moreover it is beginning to ignore and even disdain how Christianity views sexuality.
We are paying a price for this, mostly without consciously realizing it: Sex, outside of its proper containers – respect, unconditional commitment and love – isn't bringing more joy into our lives, but is leaving us more fragmented and lonely.
The Gospel readings for recent Sundays have Jesus engaged in discussions with priests, scribes, elders and Pharisees - community leaders in Jerusalem. He berates them in personal confrontations.
Even in their absence, as in today's Gospel, he discusses their failings in a forthright manner. He acknowledges their intimate knowledge of the law - the scribes for example, made copies of its texts and so knew them well. But their failure to live by its requirements drew Jesus' ire.


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For a full account for all my thoughts on the former Skydome, check out my review of the Rogers Centre over at Stadium Journey and see how the good ol' Cable Box compares to other ballparks around the MLB. I'll give you a hint - it's not the worst!
Fallen Leafs has gotten his hands on an animated gif of Alex Rodriguez' creep-tacular performance in the Yankees clubhouse after they won the ALDS. It was the inspiration behind The A-Rod Shining poster from a few days ago, and I still laugh every time I see that animated gif.
The Baseball Bloggers Alliance has been busy these past few weeks casting their ballots for this season's MLB awards. Mike Scoscia has been announced as the AL Manager of the Year and not surprisingly Andrew Bailey picked up the AL Rookie of the Year award. The BBA's Cy Young award will be announced early this coming week, so stay tuned for the results.
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Recognizing the likelihood of previously unrecognized subclinical hypertensive heart disease prevalence in African-Americans holds therapeutic promise that could reduce the adverse outcomes, Levy said. Blacks progress from hidden to symptomatic stages of left-ventricular dysfunction more rapidly than other population groups, and the mean age of blacks admitted to hospitals with heart failure is much lower than that of whites (63.6 years versus 75.2 years).
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GOSHEN – Four and six-tenths seconds was all Brandon Horne needed to drive a stake through North Oldham's comeback chances Wednesday night.
The Male guard took an inbounds pass at three-quarters court and drove straight to the basket, hitting the winning layup as time expired in a 46-44 Bulldog win at North.
Horne's buzzer-beater undid an otherwise solid Mustang second-half effort. North (0-2), which scored just 14 first-half points, out-paced Male 30-22 over the final 16 minutes.
North Oldham's boys and girls swim teams pulled off a combined team score of 657 in winning a meet Nov. 26 at Clear Creek Park in Shelbyville.
South Oldham finished second in the six-team meet with a score of 611, while Oldham County was fourth with 462 points.
North's girls scored a 433, the best of the six girls teams in the meet. South's girls scored 282, edging OC's score of 271 for second.
On the boys side, Collins led the way with a team score of 334. South was second with 329, North third with 224 and OC fourth with 191.
A collection of Oldham Countians were honored with All-Area 4 cross country awards last week. Winners included:
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South Oldham baseball seniors Drew Greenwood and Eddie Mathis signed to play baseball at Bellarmine University. Pictured left to right in the front row are Sonja Greenwood, Drew Greenwood, Eddie Mathis and Rae Mathis. Second Row left to right is Holly Greenwood (Drew's sister), Todd Greenwood, Head SOHS Coach Matt Wilson, Summer Coach Jim Wiley, Asst. SOHS Coach David Watkins and Edward Mathis, Jr.
South Oldham's December girls basketball schedule has included a showdown with Highlands for much of the last decade.
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(Left) South Oldham's Jordan Tenharmsel fights for the take down against North Oldham's Dylan Gilezan in the 126 weight class. Tenharmsel won the duel by pinning Gilezan. North went on to place first in the match Dec. 3 against Fairdale, Bullit East and South. (Below) North's John Reitnaur fights for hand controll against South's Evan Rademaker in the 152 weight class. Reitnaur won the duel 10-5.
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Inclement weather has affected the county high school sports schedule.
Several games were postponed over the last week as a result of a winter storm that rolled into town last Friday.
North Oldham's boys basketball home game vs. Fern Creek was postponed from Dec. 6 to Jan. 25.
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In the following review, Upton notes Oliver's connection of dissimilar images in House of Light.
Mary Oliver is yet another mature poet—one with whom many of us have much greater familiarity. While Eavan Boland works with domestic interiors, Mary Oliver sets her lens in nature. She writes of lilies and turtles and owls as if each possessed a soul and a singular identity. At times she echoes Walt Whitman, finding peace among animals for their very lack of consciousness, their inability to quarrel or irritate. Despite the note of horror and sudden menace in this book, she proceeds with near mystical love for her subjects.
For Oliver, every day must have "one splash of happiness." Her own happiness seems to arise from connecting images and actions that initially appear dissimilar and arbitrary.
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Love being a mommy to twins Branden & Brayden born 1.15.12
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Wow! Our stories are very similar! My boys were born at 33wks 2days, and we've been in NICU for 12 days. They are 35 weeks today. We are just waiting on them to take feeds by mouth as well. One Dr. told us it could be 2-3 wks just getting the eating down pat. :( Let's hope our litte guys can catch on much quicker! If you need a shoulder to cry on...I'm here! NICU is not easy!
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My DS and DD were born at 33 and 5 as well. My little girl was a champ and thinks she was born full term and started bottle feeding and breastfeeding at 3 or 4 days I think and my little guy is still on a feeding tube because he just hasn't got that suck swallow breathe down yet at 10 days PP.
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Hi there, I guess you are wondering a little about me. Well it goes a little something like this: I am originally from the CT. It def shows in my personality. I am a Tri State east coaster through and through which translates into being very upfront and honest with a little spice. I think that honesty and being upfront along with general communication is one of if not the most important quality to have in any kind of relationship, especially in dating. I would rather someone tell me what they think (with some taste of course) then try to spare my feelings. I have lived allot of different areas in the country. Grew up in CT, Went to college and lived up in VT for several years. Went back to college and lived in Florida for a couple of years. Lived in NYC for almost 5 years and I have lived in LA for over 6. I love LA and overall my favorite place that I have lived although I have to admit NYC has a better city feel. I have a career that I love being an audio engineer. I have worked with lots of great artists and producers and have also worked on video games and TV as well. It is really amazing to have a job that you love and have so much fun doing it is not even like a job at all. I work hard but I like to play hard too! I have a super close relationship with my family which I value very much. It's great to have your family be best friends too and you can pretty much talk about anything. I am kind of sarcastic and like people who are that way too. I like to think I am pretty damn funny but.....I guess I will let you be the judge of that :) I am reliable, dependable, determined and persistent. I just feel in life if you want something you just got to go out and get it. No one is going to just give it to you. What am I looking for? Well I am looking to date people, it can be casual and just chill. I am not into moving too fast but if the feeling and vibe is there then you got to move forward. Ultimately a relationship well...that's the goal....but everything is a stepping stone so dating is a good start. I guess if I had to sum it up. I am looking for someone that's honest, doesn't play games and wants to just have fun and enjoy life. Sarcasm and laughing is always good. I am a huge gym person and go religiously 4 times a week. So that would be nice if you were someone that valued keeping fit. I do also like to do outdoors things like the beach or hiking so that would be good too. Music is really big part of my life and I am always looking to go to different shows around the area. So that would be nice to have that in common. Hey if your normal and sane that's a good start...ha ha ha... hey this is Hollywood and we all know this a very valid request.. If you read down and this seems like something you are interested in then by all means let's chat and see where it goes. Have a great day and I look forward to the meeting some great people and the possibilities.
Camping , Coffee and conversation , Business networking , Dining out , Hobbies and crafts , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Nightclubs/Dancing , Playing cards , Travel/Sightseeing , Watching sports , Wine tasting
Billiards / Pool, Dancing, Other types of exercise, Skiing, Swimming, Walking / Hiking, Weights / Machines
I exercise 5 or more times per week.
I like Cats, Dogs
I grew up with a cat in the house and I love dogs. I don't own a dog because my job can have long hours and my building doesn't allow them. I have found out recently that you can pay a small fee online and any animal can be a service animal...lol
Favorite spots.....well I am not really into clubs but I do like cool bars. Recently I have been kind of digging The Dresden and Jones....I love Venice Boardwalk on the weekends. So much going on and people watching. I also love Manhattan Beach!
Full Sail University, Winter Park, FL
Wow there is soo much here. Favorite music well that is just all over the place and is way too much to type but we can talk about that for sure. TV well not a big big fan I more watch it when I'm borred but I do like NBA Games and Sons of Anarchy
In my free time I love to do outdoor stuff like hiking, going to the beach, sitting by my rooftop pool and just relaxing. I also like movies, concerts, good food and traveling.
MMMMM.....reading?.....I do read don't get me wrong....all the time...lol....but not usually books too much...allot of magazines or online reading....the way it's moving in the world
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|Dark brown
|Auburn / Red, Black, Light brown, Dark brown, Blonde, Salt and pepper, Dark blonde, Platinum
|Yes, but trying to quit
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|Social Drinker
|Never, Social Drinker, Moderately
|Technical / Science / Computers / Engineering
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I am in the music business. I work as an engineer. I have worked with allot of well known artists and producers as well as many many indie ones. I love my job and it is so important to love what you do!
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I am 1/2 Italian and 1/2 Irish....Very common in the Tri State Area
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I was brought up Catholic and confirmed. I would say that I am more Christian now. I definitely believe in god and thank him for all my blessings.
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I have two degrees. One is in Corporate Communication which I don't really know what to do with. The other is in Audio Engineering which is what I do.


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Not a big fan of Penguin (what's good about the character?).
Personally, the Penguin is my favorite Batman villain. What's so great about the guy is that out of all of the major rogues, he is the only one who does not have an obsession, compulsion, or really screwed up in the head, and he stands out because of it. He can toe that line between out-right criminal and small time. He is one of the few who can both aid and hinder Batman and Bats lets him do his thing because of it. He is a gangster and one of the few that can actually keep up with the other crazies in Gotham.
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From a press availability with Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi this afternoon:
Q Mr. President, on Iran, does the disputed election results affect - there's been violence in the street - in any way change your willingness to meet with Mr. Ahmadinejad without preconditions? And also, do you have anything to say, any message to send to people who are on the streets protesting, who believe their votes were stolen and who are being attacked violently?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Obviously all of us have been watching the news from Iran. And I want to start off by being very clear that it is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran's leaders will be; that we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran, which sometimes the United States can be a handy political football - or discussions with the United States.
Having said all that, I am deeply troubled by the violence that I've been seeing on television. I think that the democratic process - free speech, the ability of people to peacefully dissent - all those are universal values and need to be respected. And whenever I see violence perpetrated on people who are peacefully dissenting, and whenever the American people see that, I think they're, rightfully, troubled.
My understanding is, is that the Iranian government says that they are going to look into irregularities that have taken place. We weren't on the ground, we did not have observers there, we did not have international observers on hand, so I can't state definitively one way or another what happened with respect to the election. But what I can say is that there appears to be a sense on the part of people who were so hopeful and so engaged and so committed to democracy who now feel betrayed. And I think it's important that, moving forward, whatever investigations take place are done in a way that is not resulting in bloodshed and is not resulting in people being stifled in expressing their views.
Now, with respect to the United States and our interactions with Iran, I've always believed that as odious as I consider some of President Ahmadinejad's statements, as deep as the differences that exist between the United States and Iran on a range of core issues, that the use of tough, hard-headed diplomacy - diplomacy with no illusions about Iran and the nature of the differences between our two countries - is critical when it comes to pursuing a core set of our national security interests, specifically, making sure that we are not seeing a nuclear arms race in the Middle East triggered by Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon; making sure that Iran is not exporting terrorist activity. Those are core interests not just to the United States but I think to a peaceful world in general.
We will continue to pursue a tough, direct dialogue between our two countries, and we'll see where it takes us. But even as we do so, I think it would be wrong for me to be silent about what we've seen on the television over the last few days. And what I would say to those people who put so much hope and energy and optimism into the political process, I would say to them that the world is watching and inspired by their participation, regardless of what the ultimate outcome of the election was. And they should know that the world is watching.
And particularly to the youth of Iran, I want them to know that we in the United States do not want to make any decisions for the Iranians, but we do believe that the Iranian people and their voices should be heard and respected.


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Kampusch spoke of how she coped mentally. "I didn't have any loneliness. I had hope and believed in the future -- somewhere down the road. I thought only of escape."
She told the Austrian daily newspaper Kronen Zeitung, "I thought about everything ... yes, and I knew I couldn't afford to make a mistake" in escaping.
Kampusch said that she once tried to jump out of Priklopil's car, "but he held me back and then sped away."
She didn't specify when that escape attempt occurred, saying only that she felt "it was much too risky" to try to get away because she feared Priklopil would kill her if she failed.
But that didn't stop her from dreaming about beheading him with an ax. "I always had the thought: Surely I didn't come into the world so I could be locked up and my life completely ruined."
Kampusch has reportedly said that she had suffered throughout her captivity from heart palpitations that, at times, made her dizzy and blurred her vision. But it was unclear whether she has been diagnosed with any chronic problems.
Another Austrian magazine, Profil, had reported that at the time of her escape, Kampusch weighed just 42 kilograms, or 92 pounds, exactly her weight when she was kidnapped.
Kampusch told Profil that her escape from her captor's house in suburban Strasshof was "completely spontaneous. ... I was there behind the gate to the garden, and I felt dizzy. I realized for the first time how weak I really was," she said.
But Kampusch said that she felt well enough -- "physically, mentally and no heart problems" -- to make a run for it.
Once she was out on the street, "I saw a window open and someone busy in a kitchen, and I asked the woman to call the police," she said. At first, the woman refused to let Kampusch inside. "She didn't want me to step on her lawn."
The TV broadcaster ORF said Kampusch chose which questions she would answer, and had refused to talk about anything intimate. Police have said she may have had sexual contact with her captor but have refused to elaborate.
Kampusch told News magazine that she regretted Priklopil had committed suicide, "because he could have explained so much more to me and to the police," and she said that she no longer wished to talk about him.
She said she wants to complete her high school education and is considering a range of possible careers, including journalism, psychology, acting and art, and that she has not yet decided whether to write a book about her ordeal.
Kampusch also told the magazine that she loved her parents, who divorced after she was kidnapped.
Psychologists treating her have said she has been in touch with her mother but has not asked for her father since they were briefly reunited after her escape.
"It was worse for them than it was for me. They thought I was dead," she said.
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Menu - Black Cat Cafe, Fitzroy, pre 2001 Reg. No: HT 130
- Summary:
- Handmade 'official menu' used at the Black Cat Cafe in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, until it closed in February, 2001.
- Description:
- Food menu made from a paper sheet with affixed sections of paper bearing typewritten text. Handwritten heading in black ink and hand drawn picture affixed to centre features a burger set on a table cloth with a cat sitting near by.
- Statement Of Significance:
- In recent years the Museum has collected, whenever possible, objects relating to the rapid development, since the 1950's, of Melbourne as a `Cafe Society'. Just as the Legend Cafe was one of the pioneer cafes of the 1950's, the Black Cat's opening in May 1982 signalled the shift towards a new type of cafe that catered for a young, arty, alternative set. From the start, it maintained an almost symbiotic relationship with the nearby Roar Studios, a group of studios and associated art gallery that has produced painters such as David Larwill. The Black Cat Cafe has been a significant contributor to the social, cultural and demographic changes that have made Brunswick Street into what it is today. This point has been made in various newspaper articles written about the Black Cat Cafe since it was announced that it was to close in 2001.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Mr Henry Maas - The Black Cat Cafe, 2001
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|food drink consumption, caf s, menus, decorative arts, brunswick street culture, caf culture
|Themes this item is part of:
|Black Cat Cafe Collection, Cafe Culture, Domestic & Community Life Collection
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|Secondary Classification:
|Café & Pub Culture
|Tertiary Classification:
|commercial art & design
|Handwritten text reads: "OFFICIAL MENU"
Typewritten text reads: "252 Brunswick St. Fitzroy. 4196230 Hours: 9am-1am..."
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|Graphic Design: Black & White
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THIS IS 40 Coming to Blu-ray/DVD, 3/22
A midlife milestone sends a long-married coupleinto an uproarious tailspin in THIS IS 40, coming to Blu-rayCombo Pack, DVD and On Demand on March 22, 2013, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Audiences fell in love with contentiously loving couple Pete and Debbie in Judd Apatow's comedy sensation KNOCKED UP. Five years later Apatow reunites with his hilarious creations as Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann reprise their roles as husband and wife balancing the challenges and rewards of marriage and parenthood with the milestone of turning 40. The Blu-ray Combo Pack includes a hilarious unrated edition along with more than an hour of extended and additional scenes, backstage documentaries and commentary by the cast and of the raucous and raunchy comedy that Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman says is "laugh-out-loud funny."
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Paul Rudd (I Love You Man, Role Models) and Leslie Mann (The Change-Up, Funny People) head up a stellar comedy cast that includes Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids), Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Megan Fox (Transformers), John Lithgow (Rise of the Planet of the Ape, Terms of Endearment) and Albert Brooks (Broadcast News, Drive), with Chris O'Dowd (Bridesmaids), Iris Apatow (Funny People), Maude Apatow (Knocked Up), Annie Mumolo, (Bridesmaids), Robert Smigel (You Don't Mess With the Zohan), Charlyne Yi (Knocked Up) and Lena Dunham ("Girls").
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Etymologia: Baylisascaris
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From the Greek term for intestinal worms, askaris. This genus of nematodes was named after H.A. Baylis, a parasitologist at the British Museum of Natural History, London, who studied these organisms in the 1920s and 1930s. The most common cause of baylisascariasis in humans and animals is infection with the roundworm Baylisascaris procyonis, which takes its name from Procyon, a genus of raccoons. The species was first isolated from raccoons in the New York Zoological Park in 1931.
Source: Gavin PJ, Kazacos KR, Shulman ST. Baylisascariasis. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2005;18:703–18.
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A completely fresh install of WP in a clean directory. FTP'd the WP files, created the db, WP set up the wp-config file, logged in. So far so good. Then the first thing I did was to go for Tools/Import to upload a WP backup from elsewhere. This loads the Importer but all I got was: Destination folder already exists followed by path to the Importer code.
Looking at the server with each of three FTP clients, I can see no folder there at all. It was a fresh new folder after all.
So I load the Importer manually from an unzipped file using one the FTP clients, and it works ok.
I've seen references in the forum to the structure of zip files being one possible cause (apart from the folder actually being there but invisible to the FTP program). But how does that play with WP supplied plugins? Remember this was the very first thing I did after installing WP.
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An Analysis of Iowa School Psychologists' Perceptions of Their Evaluators as a Basis for Developing a Performance Evaluation Model
Singh, Darshan
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The Problem: The problem of this study was to analyze the perceptions of Iowa School psychologists about current as well as desired performance evaluators as a basis for developing a performance evaluation model. Procedure: A random sample of Iowa school psychologists responded to a questionnaire designed by the researcher. Sixteen performance criteria were selected based on job descriptions and role functions. They were asked to identify evaluators involved in evaluating them in each performance area at both current and desired levels. They were also asked to identify an evaluator who had major responsibility in evaluating them currently and the one they would desire to be their major evaluator. Differences between current and desired dispersion of evaluators were analyzed. Findings: Differences were found between current and desire dispersion of evaluators for fourteen out of sixteen performance areas. Data indicated that currently, the Supervisor of Psychological Services was the primary evaluator for all performance areas. The principal and school psychologist were involved in providing input. The psychologists desired the supervisor to be their primary evaluator for ten performance areas, and the prinicpal for the other six. They desired more involvement in the evaluation process themselves and also wanted the evaluators to seek input from consumers and peers. The Supervisor of Psychological Services was the desired major evaluator responsible for the composite evaluation. Conclusions: School psychologists perceived: (1) the supervisor to be responsible for composite evaluation, (2) the building principal's and their own involvement to be important, (3) that evaluators should solicit input from consumers and peers, and (4) the supervisor to be the primary evaluator for ten performance areas and the principal, for the other six. Recommendations: (1) Develop performance standards by involving psychologists, administrators and consumers,(2) Establish peer review procedures for quality control,(3) Gather evaluation data for each performance area as specified in the evaluation model,(4) Design an evaluation survey for securing consumer feedback, and (5) Conduct a follow-up study by involving school psychologists representing all fifty states.
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Kohl's 1st-quarter profit drops 11 percent
MILWAUKEE The cutback in consumer spending pushed Kohl's Corp.'s earnings down 11 percent in its fiscal first quarter. But the department store chain's results beat expectations and it said it expects to keep gaining market share from competitors.
The Menomonee Falls, Wis.-based retailer has been posting same-store sales declines like many other retailers, but those drops are less than what competitors like Macy's Inc. and J.C. Penney Co. saw, which signals Kohl's is gaining market share.
Traffic drops are lessening, too. President and Chief Executive Kevin Mansell told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that traffic to Kohl's stores 2 percent in the quarter, less than the quarterly drops of 5 percent to 8 percent the company felt all last year.
"That means you're getting her to come into your store," Mansell said of the company's typical customer. "You're still challenged to get her to spend when she's there. But you're getting her to come in."
The company said it is bringing in consumers with in-house and exclusive brands, both of which have higher margins than outside brands. Mansell said Kohl's will keep pushing its value message, including have special buys and unique products, to get consumers to shop. Marketing spending will remain in line with store sales for the year.
In the three-month period that ended May 2, Kohl's earned $137 million, or 45 cents per share. That is down from $153 million, or 49 cents per share, a year earlier. Sales edged up 0.4 percent to $3.64 billion. Same-store sales, a measure of business at stores open for at least a year, fell 4.2 percent.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected profit of 43 cents per share on revenue of $3.62 billion.
Shares lost 71 cents to end at $41.24 Thursday.
Standard & Poor's analyst Jason Asaeda said Kohl's is managing its inventory well and not having to take discounts to move it. The company is gaining market share "on (the) strength of its value pricing strategy, ongoing efforts to inject newness into its assortments and expansion," he wrote to clients Thursday.
Asaeda raised his target price for Kohl's shares by $7 to $45 based on the company's performance relative to its peers.
Department stores are facing big challenges during the recession as shoppers keep spending low and seek bargains at discounters. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, reported Thursday that its first-quarter profit was flat as the stronger dollar hurt revenue from its international operations.
Mansell said women's clothing has been hurting since that's something most shoppers – the bulk of them women – look to cut from their budgets. Shoppers who spend more are looking for value, he said, pointing to the success of Kohl's Dana Buchman line, which launched in February. The company's exclusive line of Dana Buchman clothing, accessories and shoes for women, while less expensive than the designer's wares at other stores, is at the highest price point at Kohl's.
"It's really more about value for our customer" he said. "It's less about the price and more about what they get for the price."


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I have read some positive posts about G Tube, but I am still scared of the procedure to change out the tube every 2-3 months. It does not seem something I would like to handle. But I think her aspiration will not go away any time soon, so we may have to consider G Tube.
Is G Tube a lot easier to handle than NG tube? Does it hurt to babies sometime? Is there any problem such as diconnection, infection, and other... For NG tube, the problem is just the tape on the face bothering my LO, and she can pull it out easily.
My LO just has aspiration issues (=no other health issues). Her sucking is great and she thrives on oral feeding, but she failed on Honey Thick just yesterday, so no more oral feeding. It has been difficult to wean over bottles, and my OT did not give me any advice at all.
I would like to know if anyone's OT suggest some bottles with small (very small) amount of BM for aspiration babies to practice. I would like to konw what's OK. My GI and OT are absolutely no for any oral feeding or stimulation except paci. My LO knows a paci does not give any milk, so she has been cyring.
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A meeting tentatively scheduled for tonight, Thursday March 11 in Camillus has been canceled.
The meeting, set up by third ward councilor Bill Davern and sixth ward councilor Dave Callahan, would have addressed ongoing concern regarding the proposed Sediment Consolidation Area planned for Wastebed 13 in Amboy.
Callahan and Davern announced that additional information needed for their presentation to the public on the SCA plan was not available in time for March 11 so the meeting was canceled.
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Installing Xbox 360 games to the system's hard drive to shorten load times is a standard option, but in the case of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the designer might prefer it to be an ultimatum.
Speaking with OXM, Big Huge Games' Ian Frazier said, "If you have a hard drive, for the love of God, please install."
"You will have much, much smaller load screens," he added. "Please, please, for the love of all that's holy, install."
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning will be the first game released from 38 Studios, a shop founded by former Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling. It is set to launch for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC on February 7 in North America. The fantasy-themed role-playing game will feature a number of genre staples, from skeleton warriors and cave trolls to swords and sorcery.
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is it possibile use modestbranding youtube option in this plugin ? How ?
is it possibile use modestbranding youtube option in this plugin ? How ?
It support any plug-in that is supported on that version of JW Player but you have to manually download and upload the SWF plug-in into the plug-ins subfolder
To use modestbranding option, when you embed a youtube video you have to add "?modestbranding=1" at the end of url.
In this case, with the short code , how can i use this option?
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Sorry, the plug-in uses a custom made JW player that loads plug-ins locally and not from longtail as far as I remember, I think I leave an option to try to load the WJ-plu-in locally and if fails load it from longtail but I'm not quite sure.
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I have a HP Envy 4 touchsmart ultrabook came preloaded with Windows 8 which is having trouble using 3G Datacard to connect to internet. I recently replaced the keyboard of this laptop and coincidence or not, Datacard (Huawei e303D- Idea cell network- India) stopped working after the service guy replaced the keyboard. Since, I showed him to check for any hardware errors again, He opened and fixed the ultrabook again and he is telling everything seems working fine and he proclaims this is a "virus"/os corruption error.
Coming to the problem, when Datacard failed to connect, I noticed device manager and saw below error(Code 31):
There was another wan error message above the "wan miniport (IP)" error messages. it is : "WAN Miniport (Network monitor)"
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West Grayer lives in a world where every person has a twin, or Alt. Only one can survive to adulthood, and West has just received her notice to kill her Alt.
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The Hunger Games meets Matched in this high-concept thriller where citizens must prove their worth by defeating the other version of themselves—their twin.
Two of you exist. Only one will survive.
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Caleb Hawley Announces Self-Titled Album Release
28 year-old Caleb Hawley is an American soul singer, songwriter, producer, arranger and multi instrumentalist. Having solely written and fully produced 3 prior albums, his fourth self-titled album, "Caleb Hawley," is set to bring a huge swell of acclamation. With this album, Caleb single-handedly grabs the music industry by the horns and steers listeners back to his sweet spot - soul music. Hawley proclaims, "In all the different musical phases of my life, it's always been soul music that has hit me hardest. Never mattered who the artist was, I'd always tend to find the most soulful tune on their CD and hit the repeat button, so I guess it felt natural to write and record this music."
Approaching his art from the purest of places, Caleb is engaging in his awe-inspiring talent, and his genuine love for music and incomparable work ethic has set him on a road destined for tremendous success. Hailing from Minneapolis and now calling Harlem home, there is absolutely nothing boilerplate about this shaggy-haired, blue-eyed, multi-faceted musician who started out with just a dollar and a dream.
On paper, Hawley's resume reads as the standard who's who for up-and-coming superstars. He graduated from the famed Berklee College of Music with a degree in jazz composition and received top honors for his songwriting mastery in the prestigious New York Songwriters Circle Contest, the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, the Telluride Festival, the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, and Rocky Mountain Folks Fest. Hawley also placed in the final fifty on the 2011 American Idol Season. Touring all over the country playing to sold-out venues and nationwide festivals, audiences walk away from a Caleb Hawley show with a permanent grin, a heart full of laughter, and a voice that leaves them craving more.
The first single off Caleb's latest album, "Little Miss Sunshine," is a prophetic anthem addressing bullying in the most soft, sensitive, and profound of ways. Written with thoughts of his niece in mind, meaningful lyrics like "You don't have to be bombshell beauty queen blonde Barbie girls like all the girls you're looking up to" and "Never try to be somebody you're not," merge with addictive melodies and seamlessly pair a powerful message to people of all ages. With bullying currently being so prevalent in our society, "Little Miss Sunshine" will resonate through the hearts of many when it releases on May 14th.
Caleb says of his 4th album, "Caleb Hawley "as a whole is a bit like listening to a soul record with a time warp button, being that after track 6 you travel straight out of the late 60's into a more modern sound which was heavily influenced by them. The album is meant to be heard as a two sided vinyl. Both sides have similar flavors, but side one sounds like a record you'd find in your uncles high school collection, while side two you might find in his son's current one, being a bit more modernized with beefed up bass 'n beats."
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anill Jan 15, 2012 2:56 PM
Re: Lock button broken.. in response to NickySwans
Does your phone not turn on automatically if you plug it into iTunes or connect it into a charger?
gdgmacguy Jan 15, 2012 2:57 PM
Re: Lock button broken.. in response to NickySwans
Apple doesn't provide e-mail support.
You have 3 choices:
1) do nothing
2) bring your phone into an Apple store for an out of warranty exchange for $149 (or call Apple Care and arrange for your phone to be sent in)
3) find a 3rd party iPhone repair shop and get it fixed there
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Hey guys this is seriously stressing me out, the lock button on the top of my phone stopped working earlier in the month and I have managed to cope with using the on-screen aid where it allows you to lock the screen from the menu but my phone switched off now there is no-way to get it back on and I can't get hold of Apple via phone for obvious reasons.. My phone is my only point of contact and I have been searching for 2 days for an email and I cant seem to find one? I had my phone replaced at a Genius bar in April 2011 and ever since then I have had the Apple Bump Strip on my phone protecting the button so I got no idea how its suddenly stopped working, can't even feel it clicking?? This isn't right and now on the Apple website it is says it is out of warrenty?? I seriously don't know what to do, I feel really let down with the quality of the product, my partner could go in to labour any time and I have a phone which is urgent?? There is no Apple Store in my City and I am not able to travel to the other side of the country to get to one either..
Could anyone help? Or maybe someone from Apple PLEASE point me in the right direction for email support? I don't expect to buy a phone and get poor quality out of one of the buttons which is vital.
Seriously... you've lived with this for over a week and it's Apple's problem that it is now an urgent issue for you? Why did you not address the issue when the button started becoming unresponsive?
Having a bumper case on the device does not guarantee that buttons will not stop working, things happen, hardware fails.
I can empathize with your situation, but getting annoyed with Apple because you chose to not address this when the problem first occurred simply is not logical.
Stop stressing and whining, just deal with it and get the device repaired/replaced.
If the device is out of warranty, I would be willing to bet that you are elligible for a subsidized upgrade through your carrier.. that may be a less expensive option than getting an out of warranty replacement, it would certainly be faster.


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The AMA recently published an article questioning the merits of patient portals — the primary tool for engaging patients. Rob Tennant, senior policy adviser with the MGMA-ACMPE, the entity formed by the merger of the Medical Group Management Association and the American College of Medical Practice Executives raised the fundamental issue: "The business case just hasn't been made." I'll attempt to make it.
Perhaps the best evidence of the business case is when industry visionaries/organizations/leaders such as HIMSS (the professional association for healthIT), Aetna and Kaiser Permanente have made significant investments in patient engagement. Many have called 2013 the "Year of Patient Engagement" as it represents it hitting the mainstream healthcare provider community including HIMSS commissioning a book on patient engagement ("Engage! Transforming Healthcare Through Digital Patient Engagement") that executives/leaders from Aetna (Jan Oldenburg), HIMSS (Brad Tritle), Kaiser Permanente (Kate Christensen, MD) and myself wrote and edited. Further, the organizations that have demonstrated the most impressive Triple Aim results have patient engagement as a centerpiece of their groundbreaking Direct Primary Care Medical Home (DPC – Direct Primary Care, for short) model outlined in Health Insurance's $4.4 Billion Bunker Buster. If you would like to be notified when the seminal paper on Direct Primary Care or the Patient Engagement book is published, please contact me via my LinkedIn profile - http://www.linkedin.com/in/chasedave.
I've excerpted a couple sections of Pam Dolan's article to set context and then I will address the business case. The patient portal benefits assume that it's more than a simplistic silo'ed patient portal tethered to an EHR since they are broadly available. [Disclosure: My company, Avado, is one many patient engagement companies.] This is why I would call it the patient portal & relationship management system or simply patient relationship management system to distinguish it from traditional limited patient portals.
Soon, physicians planning to collect incentive pay for the second stage of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' meaningful use bonus plans not only have to implement the technology, but also ensure at least 5% of their patients use it. The rule, some medical organizations say, will force physicians to decide if the incentive money is enough of a return on what could be a very costly investment. Practices can earn up to $44,000 per physician over five years from Medicare, or up to $63,750 over six years from Medicaid if they meet meaningful use. Starting in 2015, practices must demonstrate meaningful use annually or face pay penalties.Proposed meaningful use stage 2 requirements, published in February, said physicians had to make available to patients a portal that would offer them the ability to access, print, share or download their records, and make sure that at least 10% of their patients use the technology. The final rules reduced that requirement to 5%, but many physician organizations say the requirement is unfair, because meeting it involves factors outside of their control. The American Medical Association and other medical societies recommended that the portal requirement and other patient-driven measures be optional.
Much of the patient portal technologies meant for small practices are sold as third-party add-ons to EHR systems but lack the necessary capabilities to meet the meaningful use requirements. Vendors are now looking at ways of offering the patient portal feature, given the new regulations. And, according to Tennant, some are exploring creative ways of making them more attractive to physicians.
Assuming practices move beyond low-value patient portals, the benefits are clear.
One group applauding the new regulations is the National Partnership for Women & Families. Christine Bechtel, vice president of the NPWF, said in a statement that the rule "recognizes the essential role that providers and their staff play encouraging patients to use this online access."
It's clear this desire is rippling through to providers as this quote from a leader of the trade association for the healthIT industry demonstrates.
Mary Griskewicz, senior director of ambulatory health information systems for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Griskewicz agreed, saying she expects that physicians will hear more requests from patients for such access as more aspects of health reform take hold and patients become more engaged in their own care. HIMSS will spend the next several months looking at ways care will be affected by the technology, she said.Meanwhile, physicians also should ask vendors some pointed questions, Griskewicz said.
However, Griskewicz cautions that they apply more scrutiny than they had when it was simply the throw-in tethered patient portal they were getting with an EHR.
"You're going to ask those questions before you sign the contracts or before you do the upgrades and the updates: 'What is this going to do for our practice? How is this going to help with patient outcomes or the administrative burden overall? Can this truly return our investment to us?' "
In a highly dynamic arena, it will be risky to have traditional patient portal built on a client-server model as it will get rapidly out-of-date unless the vendor is frequently updating the software AND the provider takes their latest upgrades. My experience has been both are usually absent — traditional healthIT vendors has 18-36 month product cycles and it's burdensome financially for providers to keep up on the latest vendor version. In contrast, cloud-based systems are always up-to-date.
Patients Portals Have Been Like Pre-Google Web Search
Before Google, web search was largely a low-value afterthought on web portals dominant in the late 90′s (AOL, MSN & Yahoo). Likewise, patient portals have typically been little more than a "marketing checkbox" that have demonstrated little clinical or financial value to healthcare providers (there have been exceptions such as in Denmark and Kaiser Permanente). Just as Google demonstrated, the next generation of patient portal & relationship management systems have dramatically more value.
The old discharge process did the equivalent of sending patients to a foreign land, gave them directions in a second language and then pushed them out the door towards their destination (the best health possible given their condition). Instead, a modern patient relationship management system recognizes that the equivalent of a GPS is needed. This 'healthcare GPS' would be able to remotely monitor the patient's progress toward full health, could communicate with them if they were off track and generally help them navigate their health journey without forcing them back to the office for further direction.
One of the leading thinkers in healthIT, Shahid Shah, outlined how systems must expand to incorporate the patient in a recent article in a HIMSS publication.
"It will be nowhere as easy for existing legacy EHRs to simply retool their current platforms, like they did for MU."With that said, Shah outlines nine ways future EHRs need to support ACOs.
1. Sophisticated patient relationship management (PRM). According to Shah, today's EHRs are more document management systems, rather than sophisticated, customer/patient relationship management systems. "For them to be really useful in ACO environments, they will need to support outreach, communication, patient engagement, and similar features we're more accustomed to seeing, from marketing automation systems than transactional systems."
Healthcare Finally Moving Beyond Wang/Prodigy Model
It has become clear that one of the reasons there is tremendous waste in healthcare is there are too many silos that don't communicate with each other. Reflecting these silos, healthIT vendors operated in a similar model to Wang or Prodigy (younger readers may need to Google those organizations). That is, one company supplied all of the technology from top to bottom. Until now, healthcare has largely missed what has happened on the Internet. Consumers are given access to systems they never had access to before whether it's for booking airline tickets or buying products. This gives consumers greater services and the businesses offering these products and services can plug in a wide array of technology solutions into their back-end without those front-end systems having deep knowledge of the back-end systems. Unfortunately, many healthcare providers are stuck with whatever one vendor can provide. It's the equivalent of still being dependent on Verizon/AT&T for smartphone app stores versus Apple or Google's smartphone app stores. Even heavily-resourced couldn't succeed and recently announced shutting down their app store.
As we enter the era of nimble medicine, this will impair their ability to reinvent themselves and put their enterprise at risk. We have seen with other countries that the shift from a reactive "sick care" model to a proactive health-focused system has resulted in a significant reduction of the number of hospitals. Only the strong and nimble survive. As we have seen in nature, monocultures aren't as resilient as more diverse ecosystems.
The business case
I use the mnemonic MAAAP ("map") to summarize the business case for the 'healthcare GPS'. A modern patient portal such as a Patient Relationship Management system enables the following items:
- Marketing & market share
- Accountable model success depends on patient engagement
- Administrative savings
- Avoiding vendor lock-in
- Patient satisfaction
Market share & marketing
The following are some examples of marketing and market share benefit with a smartly deployed patient portal & relationship management system:
- At a practice level, some practices are gaining 20% of their new patients via their web publishing (social media, etc.). A doctor in Missouri explained this in more depth here. A PRM system allows providers to create content once and publish it as narrowly (e.g., internal to the practice) or broadly (Twitter, public website, etc.) as they would like. With information that isn't patient specific, it can be shared with cohorts of patients (e.g., new treatment options for COPD patients) whether they are current or prospective patients. It ends up saving the doctor's precious time while also serving as a point of differentiation versus non-communicative providers. As I've said before, communication is the most important medical instrument of the future.
- At a health system level, there is an immense opportunity to use patient relationship management systems to provide a service to both affiliated doctors and health professionals as well as with prospective patients. It's analogous to what American Airlines did decades ago providing their Sabre system to independent travel agents. They delivered value to independent professionals and got loyalty in return. Even when the playing field was leveled (i.e., a system from one airline could book flights on any airline), there is a market share halo effect where the agent books more with that airline. Likewise, a health system can provide modern patient portal functionality that addresses key needs for the affiliated provider such as addressing Meaningful Use requirements and patient communication tools. The system can have built-in hooks into the health system even while providing a tool that works with any other health system (or HIE).
- With an expectation that 25-50% of consumers will be directly buying healthcare, providers need to develop consumer marketing skills. Simply being in an insurance company's network misses out on the massive segment of the market that is using high deductible health plans. Whether they want to or not, those consumers will become more literate on healthcare choices. Fortunately, the ability to directly reach consumers cost effectively is easier than ever. Health plans have begun a similar transition of having been only B2B marketers and are now B2C marketers marketing items such as Medicare Advantage programs. Leading healthcare providers realize they must do the same to fully serve the population they wish to serve.
- As EHRs get broadly adopted, there is a rising issue that people are going to have several user ID and password combinations if the siloization of healthcare continues. The providers who give their patients a universal tool to connect with many healthcare providers will have a distinct advantage over providers who hold their data hostage in their closed systems. With 50 million Americans moving every year, no one goes to one provider their entire life. Even today, there are some noted healthcare systems who hold their patients' data hostage. Not only can you not take your data with you, they charge stiff per page printing charges for a copy – hard to imagine in this day and age. This will eventually result in consumer backlash. In the meantime, providers who are open can gain market advantage.
- One could argue that the absence of robust patient portals has created a huge business opportunity for health information sites such as WebMD. They are, in effect, the de facto patient portal. At one time, people had to completely rely on their doctor as the source of medical information. The strong desire for health information (3rd most common activity on the web) has been filled by WebMD and other consumer sources of information. Unfortunately, it has also meant that the likes of Jenny McCarthy (ex Playboy Bunny) are also viewed a sources of health information. This is why doctors such as Natasha Burgert, Howard Luks, Ryan Neuhofel, Wendy Sue Swanson, and many others feel a moral obligation to be a source of reliable, curated information. As a byproduct, it has also been beneficial to them financially.
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