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|Recanalization of long-segment central vein flush occlusion in hemodialysis patients has been advocated in lieu of central vein bypass and thoracotomy to restore arteriovenous access availability. We report a challenging case of complex central venous flush occlusion in a 50-year-old woman on hemodialysis who presented with right arm and facial swelling. A concise step-by-step description of endovascular strategy with retrograde and antegrade balloon angioplasty techniques for central vein recanalization with concomitant arteriovenous fistula creation is provided.
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Duquesne's Belma Nurkic led all scorers with 18 points, and shot 5-of-8 from beyond the 3-point arc. Three other Dukes scored in double-figures, and Jocelyn Floyd chipped in 11 rebounds. The win was Duquesne's (8-1) seventh in a row.
Asia Logan posted a double-double for Pitt (6-3), with 15 points and 10 rebounds. The Panthers closed the deficit to two in the second half, but couldn't tie the game or take the lead.
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This component has been obsoleted by the ReplayGain scanner bundled with foobar2000 version 1.1.6.
I have produced a scanner interface almost entirely from scratch, based on libebur128. Basic information and a binary are posted here, and the full source is posted here, but I warn you, it isn't pretty.
It writes -18 - LUFS to the normal ReplayGain track and album gain level tags, and optionally scans for the "true" peak by resampling the signal to 192KHz first, using the foobar2000 resampler service, but this is disabled by default because it has a pretty heavy speed cost.
No attempt is made to support reading or writing the EBU R128 "standard" of tags proposed in this topic, because that is beyond the scope of a mere scanner component. The player core must first support representing that information internally with its binary ReplayGain information structures, and then every input component that supports reading and/or writing tags must be modified to support these changes.
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It seems like source to this in not in foobar, but from libebur128-0.1.10-win32 (or perhaps in me?), although it's author posted different results in early stage: link
Your results are perfectly fine. It's just that I rounded the values in that test to one significant digit.
edit: R128Gain rounds values to one significant digit before it writes them to the file, while foo_r128scan and r128-* use 2 significant digits.
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It looks more and more like KG to the Warriors is a huge possibility. My money is on Chi getting him but......
What is the most we offer for KG?
Monta, AB and JRich and AL?
Monta, AB and Jrich and Sjax?
I doubt we do either of those....
But what is the most youd offer for KG. If you dont take the time to make the salaries match dont bother. You cant say AB and Monta and fillers....Cause we all know Minny wont take Foyle's contract as a filler.
So basically 2 out of 3 of these guys have to be involved. JRich, SJAX, and AL.
whatchu offer?
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Easy, He said he doesnt want to go to Boston, so thats one less NBA team he will be traded to SO its more likely we will get him (1 less team).
Why you gotta start whining and asking stupid questions? If u dont like the thread stay out of it. Your a mod you should know better by now.
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my bad, well i said in original post i still think KG will be a Bull next season. But Boston was always a huge contender to get KG and now KG smoked them I just think our odds got a whole lot better. If the Bulls get scared, who knows a package of JRich (they will no doubt hype him around the end of 05-06 season, slam dunk champ) and Al Harrington and a couple picks could work. Its more likely than its ever been.
This was just a thread to see how much people would offer. Thats all. I wouldnt trade JRich, AL, AB and Monta. But id do Monta, AB and Foyle.
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We don't want to be left with a similar team to what the TWolves have now so can't trade that much
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I agree. We then need to use our mid-level exception on another top veteran talent that wants to win now. Between KG and Baron they could recruit someone down to take a paycut.
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SF. SJax
C. hmm. (still figuring it out)
That 4 right there can hang with anyone in the NBA, as long as Baron stays healthy. We get 2 or 3 LEGIT chances at winning the Championship.
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this is an awesome idea for a new blog. nicely done jsonline.
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So this blog is replacing the "Wasted in Wisconsin" blog?
Interesting turn of events here.
Congrats on getting the best summer job ever.........even if you are "working" weekends.
While I'm sure these people interview well, it's a little disappointing this job
couldn't be filled with someone who has a little more local knowledge.
tip #1 for generating comments: write a snarky blog about the people inhabiting a random dive bar like erica perez did in her old blog. just be prepared for the s#$&storm that will develop in the comments.
Actually, I like that people that aren't overly familiar with the area were the ones who were chosen.
Just a couple of thoughts...
1. As much as I personally enjoy drinking, don't turn this into a drunk blog. As much as we all enjoy sharing stories of our drunken battle scars, I don't think that serves much purpose other than to make me feel better about myself.
2. Please be responsible. If you're going out on the company's dime, cab it.
I would have liked it if they hired 1 person from the area who has more insight on local bars.
I hope they choose some different spots instead of just the same old places that are always talked about. Go out and explore all areas of Milwaukee! (and have fun)
Okay, I don't want to be *that guy*, but what will make this type of blog
succeed where others like it have failed? Remember the "Single and Loving
It" blog? How about the tabloid paper "MKE"? Oh and what ever happened
to the young woman from California (who constantly reminded us she was
from California) who ticked off some southsiders suggesting that a local
watering hole was a dive; didn't she have a blog similar to what this one is
supposed to be?
Again, not trying to be a knob, it just seems that the most popular blogs
or blog posts on JSOnline are the ones where people can complain. Unless
you're going to focus on crappy bars, pushy doormen, idiots who think we
want to overhear their cell phone conversations, or just plain posers........
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GAZE ON THE INTERNET I guess I'm a true romantic. I like my porn softcore. When I get in that certain mood, I visit YouTube to watch videos because I know they'll never go too far. I'll get off watching a mustached Austrian take a shower while fully clothed or a drunken dad mooning the camera. It's repulsive enough to be sexy but harmless enough to be cute.
I must have watched thousands of videos like these without ever considering making one of my own. It wasn't until I stumbled across an early viral video, "This and That" by Chris Crocker (of "Leave Britney alone!" fame), that I seriously considered making one for the Internet. What I saw was a young gay white boy with a Jennifer Aniston bob, screaming out "to the bitches that wanna fight me" in an accent halfway between Mo'nique's and a Tennessee grandma's. It wasn't necessarily erotic, but there was something completely invading about Crocker's gaze into the webcam it was as though he activated that little gray box perfectly. He had the excitement of a Pinocchio with his strings recently cut and the entertaining intent of a sociopath like Chucky. I knew this was a car crash waiting to happen, and I immediately became addicted to Crocker's videos.
I became Crocker's friend on MySpace in December 2006 and followed the flood of video monologues posted almost daily. In topics that ranged from sarcastic beauty secrets and arguments with his grandmother to sexy dance videos and relationship advice, there was something very lonely about him. He wanted to be famous but was stuck living with his grandparents in a rural part of the South. With only the Internet and a camcorder, Crocker was able to independently create, in a little more than a year, an infrastructure of hundreds of thousands (and now millions) of viewers. A mixed audience of fans and haters, they all waited on his every move because he would do anything for the camera. As an artist, I was jealous of his popularity and brilliant consistency. I wanted in on his game.
My bandmate Aaron Sunshine and I decided we would start making Internet videos for our band, the Passionistas, as this would be a simple way to sate our incessant needs for humiliation and self-promotion. After our first attempt, an underviewed series of videos titled Haterz Beware targeted at a fictional group of people who spend their lives hating our band, we decided to make a short that would encapsulate everything that makes Internet video popular. Or so we thought.
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The mourning activities of Ashura reached close to the peak on Friday, 8th Muharram, as a number of Tazia and Alam processions of Hazrat Abbas were brought out in various parts of the City under strict security.
Besides, a number of Majalis were held in Imambargahs where Zakerin narrated the Karbala incident with particular emphasis on the martyrdom of the companions of Hazrat Imam Hussain (AS) and the philosophy of the Azadari.
A large number of chest beating and Noha reciting mourners participated in the processions held to commemorate the sacrifice of Hazrat Abbas (AS), the stepbrother of Hazrat Imam Hussain (AS), who laid down his life after waging a valiant battle against the army of Yazid. The processions passed through their routes and ended peacefully in the evening.
The 8th Muharram is also associated with Hazrat Ali Akbar (RA), the elder son of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), who stood by his father's commitment and also marshaled the Karbala martyrs as assistant to his father. Hazrat Ali Akbar also used to give the prayer call and was called the Moazan of Caravan-e-Karbala. His Azan-e-Fajar on the day of Ashura holds vivid memories of the battlefield.
The authorities made tough security measures for the security of the processions as thousands of police personnel and those belonging to different branches of law enforcing agencies were deployed to monitor them and maintaining security. The routes of processions were closed for the entry of passers-by while policemen were deployed along the routes and also on the rooftops of the buildings along them. The residents of the buildings along the route were barred from opening their windows and coming to the roofs but women and children were allowed to watch the procession from windows. All the routes were scanned and checked by squads before the arrival of the processions. All entry and exits of the routes were sealed by barricades and police personnel.
Major processions included the Zuljanah and Taboot procession inside Bhaati Gate which, after following its designated routes, ended at Chatterji Road at night.
The Zuljanah processions from Lytton Road while Taboot processions from Said Mitha Bazaar were brought out at night which ended inside Bhaati Gate. Zuljanah processions were also brought out in other parts of the City, included Model Town, Krishan Nagar, Imamia Colony, Jafaria Colony and Mughalpura. Thousands of the faithful mourned at different points of the procession route and the Nohakhwans recited the events of the Ashura.
The mourning (chest beating) intensified as Zakerin in the Majalis elaborated the torments on the family of Hazrat Imam Hussain and their companions who were deprived of water from the Euphrates river by the Yazid forces from the seventh of Muharram.
On Saturday (today), 9th Muharram, the mourning activities will reach their peak with the bringing out of the central Zuljanah procession from Nisar Haveli, inside Mochi Gate, at night. The central Zuljanah procession will march through its traditional route and culminate on Sunday (tomorrow) at Karbala Gamay Shah after several other Zuljanah processions will join it along the route.


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Posted on: January 20, 2012 9:47 pm
Guillen tweets: 'When I talk going to be fun'
By C. Trent Rosecrans
Last week White Sox pitcher Jake Peavy fired a shot at former manager Ozzie Guillen on a Chicago sports talk radio show, saying it wasn't the pitcher who "quit" on the White Sox, but the manager.
"At the end of the day, Ozzie didn't finish the season with us the last few games, so I don't know who quit on who," Peavy told Chris Rongey on White Sox Weekly on WSCR 670-AM in Chicago. "It is what it is and we're all looking forward to 2012."
That didn't sit well with Guillen, who lashed out on Twitter Friday:
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Tags: AL Central, Jake Peavy, Marlins, NL East, Ozzie Guillen, White Sox
Posted on: January 20, 2012 4:20 pm
Edited on: January 20, 2012 5:37 pm
Indians trade for RHP Kevin Slowey
By C. Trent Rosecrans
Once again, the Indians and Rockies have pulled off a trade for a starting pitcher, as right-hander Kevin Slowey will join Ubaldo Jimenez in the Cleveland rotation, the Rockies announced.
In return, the Indians sent right-hander Zach Putnam to Colorado.
The Rockies traded for Slowey in December, sending minor leaguer Daniel Turpin to the Twins in return for the 28-year old Slowey. Slowey is due $2.75 million in 2012 and is arbitration eligible in 2013.
Slowey was 0-8 with a 6.67 ERA in eight starts and seven relief appearances for the Twins last season. In parts of five seasons in Minnesota, the former second-round draft pick was 39-29 with a 4.66 ERA. He won 13 games in 2010. Last year his walk rate improved to just 0.8 walks per nine innings (from 1.7 in 2010), but his strikeout rate also fell, striking out just 5.2 batters per nine innings. He also pitched in High-A and Triple-A last season, making 11 minor-league starts, going 1-3 with a 3.60 ERA. Slowey will compete for the fifth spot in the Indians' rotation.
Putnam made his big-league debut last season, pitching eight games out of the bullpen, going 1-1 with a 6.14 ERA. Putnam had nine saves for the Indians' Triple-A Columbus team. He was 6-3 with a 3.65 ERA for the Clippers, striking out 68 in 69 innings.
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Tags: AL Central, Daniel Turpin, Indians, Kevin Slowey, NL West, Rockies, Twins, Zach Putnam
Posted on: January 20, 2012 11:30 am
Edited on: January 20, 2012 12:16 pm
Carlos Pena agrees to re-join Rays
By C. Trent Rosecrans
Carlos Pena is returning to the Rays, CBSSports.com Insider Jon Heyman reports. Pena will make $7.25 million from the one-year deal, according to Heyman. Pena made $10 million from the Cubs last year in what agent Scott Boras called a "pillow contract," which would allow him to have a big year at Wrigley Field and then sign a multi-year deal this winter. That didn't happen.
Pena, 33, hit .225/.357/.462 with 28 home runs for the Cubs last season. He hit just .196 in 2010 for the Rays, but slugged 28 homers and actually had an OPS+ of 103 despite his low batting average.
Pena played for the Rays from 2007-2010, hitting .238/.368/.516 with 144 home runs in his four seasons with the Rays, finishing ninth in MVP voting in his first two seasons with the Rays and making the All-Star team in 2009.
Last season Casey Kotchman was the Rays first baseman, and while he hit .306/.378/.422 for Tampa Bay last season, he had just 10 home runs. The addition of Pena would add extra pop to the Rays' lineup over the free-agent Kotchman.
Heyman noted the Indians were interested in both Pena and Kotchman. With Pena off the board, Cleveland would be a logical landing spot for Kotchman.
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Posted on: January 20, 2012 11:17 am
Indians add OF Ryan Spilborghs
By C. Trent Rosecrans
Free-agent outfielder Ryan Spilborghs has agreed to a deal with the Cleveland Indians, CBSSports.com Insider Jon Heyman reports.
Spilborghs, 32, hit .210/.282/.305 with three home runs in 223 plate appearances as a backup outfielder with the Rockies last season. He's a .272/.345/.423 hitter in his seven seasons in the big leagues -- all in Colorado.
The Rockies non-tendered Spilbroghs last month.
A right-handed hitter, he could help out Cleveland's left-handed lineup, which features three left-handed hitters in the outfield in Grady Sizemore, Shin-Soo Choo and Michael Brantley. Designated hitter Travis Hafner, second baseman Jason Kipnis and third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall are all left-handed hitters as well.
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Tags: 2012 free agency, 2012 MLB Free Agency, 2012 MLB Free Agents, 2012 MLB Hot Stove, AL Central, C. Trent Rosecrans, free agency, free agent tracker, Grady Sizemore, Indians, Jason Kipnis, Lonnie Chssenhall, Michael Brantley, MLB Free Agency, MLB Free Agents, MLB Hot Stove, Ryan Splborghs, Shin-Soo Choo, Travis HAfner
Posted on: January 15, 2012 2:57 pm
Edited on: January 15, 2012 3:13 pm
Twins take a chance on Joel Zumaya
By C. Trent Rosecrans
Oft-injured fireballer Joel Zumaya has agreed to a deal with the Twins, MLB.com's Jason Beck reports. Zumaya will have a base salary of $800,000, but could earn as much as $1.7 million with incentives. While pending a physical, the agreement is for a big-league deal, sources tell CBSSports.com.
Zumaya, 27, hasn't pitched in a game since 2010 when he left the game after a fracturing his right, pitching, elbow on a pitch in June of that year. Zumaya threw in spring training last year, but had another surgery to help aid his elbow injury after feeling pain.
Before getting hurt, Zumaya appeared to regain his form from his rookie season in 2006 when he struck out 97 batters in 83 1/3 inning and helped lead the Tigers to the World Series.
When he's healthy, Zumaya can be an intimidating force out of the bullpen, topping 100 mph. But injuries have derailed his career.
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Posted on: January 15, 2012 12:28 pm
Would You Rather Have: Hosmer or Votto?
By C. Trent Rosecrans
The gut reaction to today's Would You Rather Have is the easiest so far and probably the easiest of the entire series. But the gut reaction isn't always the easiest.
Today we look at two first basemen, Eric Hosmer of the Royals and Joey Votto of the Reds. While the easy answer is Votto -- the 2010 National League MVP -- the long view makes the question more difficult. The difference in players today isn't just what they can do on the field at the moment, it also includes the future and how long you can keep a player. So today's question isn't just Hosmer or Votto, it's better put as Would You Rather Have Hosmer for six years or Votto for two?
The case for Hosmer
Hosmer's case comes down to promise (and price). A rookie in 2011, Hosmer hit .293/.334/.465 with 19 homers and 78 RBI in 128 games -- a year before the Royals expected him to land in Kansas City. Hosmer, the third overall pick in the 2008 draft, hadn't played above Double-A before 2011. The Royals started him in Triple-A in 2011 despite a strong spring. He responded by dominating the Pacific Coast League in his first (and only month) at the highest level in the minors, hitting .439 and getting on base in more than half his plate appearances. The Royals promoted him to the big leagues in early May. Not only did he show he belonged, he got better as the season went on, finishing strong by hitting .349 with five homers in the last month of the season.
The case for Votto
This isn't tough -- the former MVP finished second in Rookie of the Year voting in 2008 when he put up a 125 OPS+ and hit 24 homers. That's been his worst season as a pro. In the last three years he's hit .318/.418/.565 with a 161 OPS+. Think his numbers are inflated by playing in hitter-friendly Great American Ball Park? Think again -- in his career he's hit better away from GABP, hitting .296/.391/.534 in Cincinnati and .329/.418/.566 away from it. Coming up through the Reds' minor leagues, everyone knew Votto could hit, but the knock against him was his glove. Since then, he's turned into a Gold Glove first baseman.
Votto, though, may only be in Cincinnati two more years. Last winter he signed a three-year, $38 million deal covering his arbitration years, but none of his free agent years. Votto will be the premier free agent of the 2013 season at the age of 30 and he won't come cheap. In all likelihood, Votto's pricetag will be more than the Reds can afford and the team's first MVP since Hall of Famer Barry Larkin will be playing in a different uniform. While Votto will be making $9.5 million in 2012 and $17 million in 2013, Hosmer will be making near the league minimum -- and he'll be wearing Royal blue for the foreseeable future.
Our call
In the end, it probably comes down to your team. If you're the Reds and looking to win immediately, you'll take Votto. If you're building for the future and watching your pennies, like the Royals, it's Hosmer. In a vacuum, I'll take Votto for two MVP-caliber seasons over the potential for more in Hosmer. Hosmer's in the Show Me State, and Votto's already shown me he's one of the premier players in the game. But saying all this, I can see a scenario in 2015 that I'm looking back in regret over this choice.
Fan Vote: Would you rather have Hosmer for six years on your favorite team or Votto for two?
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Category: MLB
Tags: AL Central, Eric Hosmer, Joey Votto, NL Central, Reds, Royals, Would You Rather Have
Posted on: January 13, 2012 12:40 pm
Cespedes says 6 teams showing 'a lot' of interest
By C. Trent Rosecrans
Cuban outfielder Yoenis Cespedes told Dominican reporter Dionisio Soldevilia (via Twitter) that the Marlins, Cubs, White Sox, Orioles, Tigers and Indians have "a lot of interest" in signing him.
Cespedes made his Dominican Winter League debut on Thursday night, going 0-for-3 with three strikeouts and was hit by a pitch for Aguilas. Cespedes served as the team's DH and batted fifth in the team's 6-4 loss. Aguilas plays again Friday night.
It was Cespedes' first competitive game since last April when he played in Cuba's Serie Nacional. While the performance couldn't help Cespedes' bargaining power, it shouldn't hurt it too much. It is, as they say, a small sample size.
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Report: Twins to host 2014 All-Star Game
By C. Trent Rosecrans
Minneapolis' Target Field will host the 2014 All-Star Game, Bob Nightengale of USA Today tweeted.
The Mets' Citi Field, as long assumed, will host the 2013 game with the Twins' new park hosting in the next season, according to Nightengale. Major League Baseball has yet to announce the awarding of the 2013 game, but it will still be held in New York at the Mets' new park. That little detail is holding up the official announcement of the 2014 game, as well.
The Twins haven't hosted an All-Star Game since 1985 when it was played at the Metrodome. The Twins also hosted the 1965 game at Metropolitan Stadium.
The Cubs had also been rumored to have bid on the 2014 game to celebrate the centennial of Wrigley Field.
The National League and American League traditionally alternate hosting the game, but that tradition was broken in 2007 when the game was played in San Francisco (after being played in Pittsburgh in 2006) to accommodate the 2008 game to be held in the final season of old Yankee Stadium.
The Marlins and Rays are the only franchises to have never hosted the game, while the Nationals haven't hosted the game in the franchise's current home of Washington D.C., but the Expos hosted in 1982. Washington D.C. last hosted the game in 1969 when the current Rangers were the Washington Senators. The Padres, Phillies, Reds and Yankees haven't hosted the game at their current stadiums.
After the Mets host the All-Star Game in 2013, the Dodgers will become the franchise with the longest drought of hosting the game. The Dodgers haven't hosted the game since 1980.
The 2012 game will be held in Kansas City. That game was announced in June, 2010 -- roughly 25 months before the game was to be held. The 2013 game is 18 months away and it has yet to be announced. Last week the Sports Business Journal reported the hold up had nothing to do with the Mets ownership situation, but instead was the logistics of scheduling the event were making it difficult to make the game official. The 2008 game at Yankee Stadium was announced in January of 2007, as well.For more baseball news, rumors and analysis, follow @EyeOnBaseball on Twitter, subscribe to the RSS feed and "like" us on Facebook.
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Assessment can either be direct, focusing on actual student work (essays, exams, nationally normed tests) where we look for evidence that learning has been achieved, or indirect, where we look for signs that learning has taken place through proxies or such "performance indicators" as surveys, focus groups, retention or transfer rates, etc. Both methods of assessment can be valuable, and in fact the assessment experts agree that no single assessment method should ever be relied on exclusively. The first step to any assessment plan is to define the student learning outcomes for the program (or course) under consideration: the things we want students to be able to do (or think or know) by the time they've finished a course of study.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
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- They should employ active verbs, usually taken from the higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy (reprinted in the appendix to this document)—e.g., students should be able to "analyze" or "evaluate," not "define" or "describe."
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- As often as possible, they should be arrived at collaboratively, as instructors who teach the same class or in the same program come to consensus about the key objectives of that unit of instruction. (For course-level SLOs, instructors will undoubtedly have SLOs of their own in addition to consensus ones.) Adjunct instructors—and students themselves—should be involved in the process of developing SLOs as much as possible.
- SLOs should be measurable. Ideally, they should contain or make reference to the product (papers, projects, performances, portfolios, tests, etc. through which students demonstrate competency) and the standard (e.g., "with at least 80% accuracy") or criterion by which success is measured. When the behavior/product and standard are specified, the SLO is sometimes referred to as made "operational."
Sample program-level SLOs, therefore, might look something like this:
A simple SLO for English majors"At graduation, English majors are able to write a clear, coherent, persuasive, and correct essay demonstrating their ability to analyze and interpret texts, to apply secondary criticism to them, and to explain their contexts." (University of Texas-Arlington)
A simple SLO for Biology majors"[Students should be able to] apply ethical principles of the discipline in regard to animal and human subjects, environmental protection, use of sources, and collaboration with colleagues." (Walvoord, 2004)
An SLO for honors Political Science majors"[Students should be able to] identify a problem [in the discipline], situate it within an appropriate literature, pose a particular hypothesis or intellectual puzzle, then use original sources to test the hypothesis or solve the puzzle." (Walvoord, 2004)
An SLO for Economics majors"[Students should be able to] use statistical methods to analyze economic questions" (Walvoord, 2004).
An SLO for the MBA at Central Michigan University"[Students should be able to] apply the strategic management process and formulate firm strategy."
An SLO for the J.D. degree at Georgia State University"Students will demonstrate effective use of the tools of legal research (both hard copy and online tools), be able to create an effective research plan for assessing a legal problem, and demonstrate the ability to use appropriate citation form for advocacy and expositive legal writing."
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Some effective direct assessment methods that can be employed to measure achievement of SLOs in courses or programs include:
Embedded assessment, in which instructors use existing tests, exams, or writing prompts to identify learning trends in a particular course or group of related courses. A particular department might agree to give a common final in which questions are mapped to specific learning outcomes for the course, then the results aggregated. (A variation of this approach would require all instructors in a course to ask a set of common questions on a part of an exam, but permit them to develop instructor-specific questions for the rest of the exam.) Another department might simply decide to look at student writing on a variety of late-term essay assignments for evidence that certain learning outcomes have been met. The main advantage of embedded assessment is that it simplifies the assessment process, asking instructors to evaluate existing student work, but in a different way than they usually do and for a different purpose. It's usually good practice to collect such assessment data so as to make evaluation of individual instructors impossible.
Portfolios, which require students (or instructors) to assemble a group of projects from a single class or group of classes as a way of demonstrating that achievement of learning outcomes has taken place—and to reveal areas of learning deficiency. This is a particularly effective method of assessing institutional learning outcomes.
Capstone courses are usually ones taken in a student's senior year and intended to allow students to demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and skill in the particular major. Capstone courses (and capstone projects usually required in such course) integrate knowledge and skills associated with the entire sequence of courses that make up the program. Assessing student performance in these classes therefore approximates assessment of student performance in the major as a whole.
Standardized tests, particularly nationally normed tests of such institution-wide learning outcomes as critical thinking or writing, or discipline-specific tests like the ETS Major Field Achievement Tests. Standardized tests may be useful measures if instructors agree to teach the skills that such tests can be shown to measure, and they have the advantage of providing departments with a national standard by which to measure their students. But standardized tests are costly to administer; students are often insufficiently motivated to do their best work when taking them; and as noted, they may not measure what faculty in the program actually teach.
Scoring rubrics enable us to assess student performance captured in portfolios, capstone courses, essays, speeches, or other presentations. Individual instructors can employ them on their own, too. Look at a specific assignment—an essay, a demonstration, an oral report—in which student learning cannot be measured with numerical precision. Develop (whether alone or with others) a scoring guide or checklist that will indicate various skill levels for various "primary traits," with clearly delineated language suggesting the degree to which the assignment demonstrates evidence that the SLO has been achieved. See the PowerPoint that provides an overview and examples of rubrics: Using Rubrics to Make Assessment More Efficient .
Indirect Assessment Methods
Student surveys and focus groups. A substantial body of evidence suggests that student self- reported learning gains correlate modestly with real learning gains. You may want to consider surveying students (or a sampling of students) at the end of a course of instruction (or after graduation from a program) to determine what they see as their level of achievement of the course or program's learning outcomes. You may also want to gather a representative group of students together for more informal conversation about a particular course or program when it has ended, asking them open-ended questions about its effect upon them. Surveys of alumni can also produce meaningful assessment data. These techniques are particularly valuable when done in conjunction with more direct assessment measures.
Faculty surveys. Instructors can be asked, via questionnaires, about what they perceive to be strengths and weaknesses among their students.
Data likely to be kept by Offices of Institutional Research on retention, success, and persistence, job placement information, rates of acceptance into graduate programs, demographics, etc. may also be strong assessment tools, if analyzed and mapped to specific SLOs.
Classroom Assessment Techniques. The UMKC assessment committee encourages instructors to familiarize themselves (and routinely employ) some of the classroom-based assessment techniques that Thomas Angelo and Patricia Cross detail in their text on the subject, cited in the appendix. For example, instructors might use the "minute paper" at the end of a class period to have students respond quickly and anonymously to two questions: "what was the most important thing you learned today?" and "what important question remains unanswered?" CATs are ideal ways of helping instructors in specific classes determine what their students know and don't know, or are having difficulty learning. When you adjust teaching practices in light of the information you gather from a CAT, you're completing the feedback loop that is successful outcomes assessment. If members of your discipline agree to employ CATs regularly, consider detailing their efforts in a document that can become part of an annual assessment report.
One caveat: indirect assessment measures should be used to augment, not substitute for, more direct measures. Ideally, in fact, multiple assessment methods should be employed whenever possible, so that student surveys (for example) can become a useful additional check against data derived from doing embedded assessment or administering standardized tests.


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It's an experience pretty much every parent hopes their child can have--summer camp. Even parents with children who have special needs would like their kids to experience this rite of childhood. Sanford Health has supplied that opportunity for years. But this year a camp for special needs kids was cancelled. And that has some parents questioning Sanford Health's priorities.
12-year-old Karl Madsen has a brain injury and 9-year-old Olivia Storley has cerebral palsy. These two special needs kids became best friends at a week-long summer camp.
"These two met only because of Camp Conquer. And there was a friendship created at a camp that children without special needs understand," Anna Madsen said.
"She just loves Karl and she loves that camp," Krystal Storley said.
Both of these kids' moms say in a world where their kids are constantly told no, or what they can't do, Sanford Health's Camp Conquer said yes.
"'Yes; you'd like to go swimming. We can make that happen. Yes, you'd like to go bowling; let's make that happen. Yes, you'd like to go fishing, let's bring you to the lake,'" Madsen said.
"Every time we see those pictures, she just squeals; especially the pictures with Karl. She just gets so excited," Storley said.
But this year that excitement has been squelched. Sanford Health told Madsen in October that Camp Conquer was cancelled.
"Here you have this population of people who are indeed the least of these and it's precisely there that Sanford decided to trim and as a parent and as human that bothers me," Madsen said.
Madsen says she communicated with camp officials several times begging them to keep the camp, to no avail. These mothers say they just can't understand the reason their kids are being shut out.
"You just wonder why? Why aren't they putting the advertisement out for this camp? Why are they doing so much for the events center and the Pentagon? Why are they doing so much for that?" Storley said.
"It's not a cut. It's a decision we made this summer, given the needs that were expressed for this summer," Debra Leners, Vice President of Children's and Women's Services for Sanford Health, said.
Sanford Health says these special camps require more staff and the dwindling number of campers who wanted to attend made it impossible to hold it again.
"It's just getting tighter and tighter to find people who are willing to work full time and volunteer time or give PTO time for the number of camps we have. We serve almost 300 kids every summer, so to add one more camp for two to three kids was not going to be feasible," Leners said.
As they watch the Sanford Health footprint grow, these moms wonder where their children will fit in.
"It was right around the time, about a month or so that we found out that Camp Conquer was cancelled that we received news about the Pentagon. This $19 million facility at the sport complex, a complex in which Karl and Olivia would never be able to participate fully," Madsen said.
"They won't be able to play there. Very unlikely they'll be playing football. What else do they do there? Volleyball? Basketball?" Storley said.
Sanford says it is looking for new programs for special needs kids at the sports complex.
"There are lots of therapeutic sports activities for lots of complex needs. I think we can be creative with technology; we're just not ready to do that tomorrow," Leners said.
These moms say for the time being, their kids will sit on the sidelines.
"I just don't know how she'll deal with it. Knowing she can't see Karl; that's a big thing for her and the camp and the other kids and to see the friends she made," Storley said.
"And this one positive experience was taken away from them and my job as an advocate, as a mama and as a citizen of Sioux Falls, is to call attention to that and say 'Hey, this isn't right. I think we're better than that,'" Madsen said.
Sanford Health also cancelled a summer camp for children who've lost a loved one, but the health system says it's simply reworking that program to be held at another time. Its camp for kids with spina bifida is full and there's a waiting list for the camp for kids with cancer.


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|Environmental Protection Agency: U.S. EPA Region 6, Healthy Indoor Environments Projects
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|EPA: 6/16/09; Proposals may be emailed or submitted via hard copy.
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The complete solicitation can be found online for review. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-R6-IAQ-2009-01.
Notice of Request for Proposals for Projects to be funded from the Multimedia Planning and permitting Division, healthy Indoor Environments Projects for Region 6 – CFDA 66.034 – Surveys, Studies, Investigations, Demonstration and Special Purpose Activities Relation to the Clean Air Act. EPA Region 6 is soliciting proposals from eligible organizations to fund projects to reduce the public's exposure to common indoor environmental hazards and address at least one of the following program priority areas:
Projects must occur within the states of EPA Region 6 – Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and/or Texas. Funding available is approximately $150,000 for grants ranging from $5,000 to $50,000.
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Hello Westmont 1989 alumni!
I hope this email finds you all doing well! As your new Class Agent for 1989, I have the pleasure of writing a series of quarterly newsletters for our graduating class to help you stay connected with your fellow alumni and keep you informed of the latest news and events occurring at Westmont. You'll also hear from others in our class about what they've been up to since their time at Westmont. My hope is that you'll remain an active member of the ever-growing Westmont community and find your place of involvement in the ongoing life and mission of the college.
I also hope you'll enjoy hearing from our friends and former classmates, and I welcome any of you who would like to share what you've been doing these last 22 years since leaving Westmont. Contact me by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For our first newsletter, I'd like to start by sharing an update of what I've done since my time at Westmont...
The summer after graduation, I headed straight for Denver, Colorado where I graduated three years later from Denver Theological Seminary in 1992 with an M.Div. From seminary I moved to Utah (is anyone surprised by that decision?) where I was called to serve on staff of Washington Heights Baptist Church in Ogden, UT, and where I was ordained to the Gospel ministry on June 13th, 1993. After three + years of ministry at WHBC, I was honored to become the founding pastor of a small Baptist Church called Ogden Valley Baptist Church where I served for just about 2 1/2 years before spending one semester teaching Bible and PE at a Christian School in the Ogden area (glad I got that out of my system. A high school teacher I was not meant to be). In June of 1998, I joined the staff of Orem Evangelical Free Church in Orem, UT.
Prior to joining the EV Church in Orem, as many of you know, a fellow Westmonster and basketball star, Noel Matthews was tragically killed in an automobile accident while living in Germany. He left behind his wife Jill Westover Matthews, also a Westmont graduate, who was pregnant with their first child. In October of 1996, Jill gave birth to a girl, Indiana Noel Matthews. Long story short, two years after Noel's death, our amazing God guided Jill and I to marry on June 20th, 1998, and immediately start a new family (husband and dad on the same day, what a deal!). Jill and I enjoyed nearly three years of church ministry together and the birth of our first son, Reagan Chet Brandon Johnson in Nov. 1999. Yes, and I know that no one is surprised that I named my son Reagan, but his middle name is Chet (after Kammerer, who was highly responsible for Jill and I becoming man and wife). And yes, he has four names, Brandon was his cousin who also died in a car crash just months before Jill and I were married and who was born on the same date that Reagan was: Nov. 12th. And finally, yes, his last name is Johnson, because in 1998, after having the high honor of praying with my biological father, whom I didn't even know until I was 14, to receive Jesus Christ as his Savior, I changed my name to Gregory Charles Vettel Johnson, embracing my actual family name as a symbol of the reconciliation between father and son.
Well, I should wrap this up. We added two more girls to our family in 2002, California Jan and American Joy in 2005 (yes, there are stories for their names too, but we'll save that for another time). Ten years ago, Jill and I left our local church ministry to start a mission organization here in Utah called Standing Together (standingtogether.org), which is an effort to advance biblical unity among Utah churches and pastors and spiritual transformation in Utah. Our ministry allows me to engage directly with senior Mormon thinkers and leaders from the academy (like BYU) and top LDS leaders. In 2007, I wrote a book with a BYU professor, Dr. Bob Millet, called, Bridging the Divide; the Continuing Conversation Between a Mormon and an Evangelical. In 2004 our ministry made history by hosting Christian Apologist Ravi Zacharias at the Mormon Tabernacle on Temple Square, something the Mormons had not allowed since 1899 when they allowed a guy named D.L. Moody to speak there. Then in 2009, we made more history when we hosted famed evangelist Nick Vujicic, the young Australian born without any arms or legs (look for him on You Tube and you'll be amazed), at the Tabernacle where he actually gave an alter call. Wow, I can hardly believe it myself, and I was there!
So, enough about me, I'd love to hear from some of you, take a few minutes to do what I just did and catch us all up on you and yours! Westmont binds us all together, weather we were close friends or not back between 1985 - 1989, we all are connected by our days at Westmont!
Still Exploding for Christ,
Greg Vettel Johnson '89