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Citadel Investment Group, a hedge fund managed by billionaire Ken Griffin, has reported ownership of 1.5 million shares of PDC Energy PDCE, -3.21% in a filing with the SEC. In Citadel's 13F for the fourth quarter of 2012, the fund disclosed that it owned about 360,000 shares and a small number of both call and put options at the end of December (find more stocks Citadel owned); therefore, we can conclude that Griffin and his team have bought most of their shares over the course of 2013. PDC, a $1.5 billion market cap natural gas and oil exploration and production company, is up 44% year to date.
Product sales were off slightly last year compared with 2011. While production of natural gas, natural gas liquids, and crude oil all increased, this was offset by lower prices for the natural gas substances. While natural gas was responsible for the majority of energy equivalent production, crude oil sales made up 65% of revenue due to the spread between oil and natural gas prices. With production rising and revenue falling, pretax income came in negative even after adding back impairment charges; it had been positive in the previous year.
We'd noted that even though crude oil is currently responsible for most of PDC's revenue, the majority of production is natural gas. This means that the company does have potential upside if the natural gas market recovers (of course, the same is also true of other natural gas producers); higher prices would essentially drop directly to the bottom line. Analyst expectations for 2014, however, imply a high forward earnings multiple of 28. The most recent data shows that 32% of the shares outstanding are held short.
Our database of 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors, which we use to develop investing strategies (we have found, for example, that the most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds earn an average excess return of 18 percentage points per year), can also be used to see which funds like PDC. Point State Capital, founded by Sean Cullinan and a number of other former portfolio managers at billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller's Duquesne Capital, initiated a position of 1.1 million shares in PDC Energy during the fourth quarter of 2012 (see Point State's stock picks). Phil Gross and Robert Atchinson's Adage Capital Management increased its own stake by 80% between October to a total of over 900,000 shares (check out Adage's favorite stocks).
Other natural gas and oil producers include Chesapeake CHK, -3.10% SandRidge Energy SD, -0.83% Devon Energy DVN, -0.09% and Apache APA, -1.90% Chesapeake and SandRidge have had management issues as well as financial problems related to their overextension, though Chesapeake's CEO is out and activists are gaining a measure of control over SandRidge as well. The sell-side is actually optimistic on Chesapeake, with the forward earnings multiple only being 11 there; SandRidge is expected to be unprofitable both this year and in 2014. The Street is forecasting that Devon and Apache are set for strong improvement as well. Devon, which was dragged into the red in 2012 due to impairment charges and had its revenue fall 11% in the fourth quarter of 2012 versus a year earlier, trades at 11 times forward earnings estimates. Apache was profitable, but with trailing and forward P/Es of 15 and 7 respectively it is clear that analysts are quite bullish on the company.
We don't find PDC particularly attractive compared with its peers. The company looks quite dependent on higher natural gas prices, a dicey enough prospect in any case, and even assuming an improvement in the market we'd note that analyst expectations have some larger companies priced much more cheaply in terms of forward earnings. As a result we'd be more interested in using Chesapeake, Devon, or Apache as ways to play the natural gas thesis.
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teccubus replied to gamedevnoob's topic in For BeginnersThis article may be helpful: http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/game-programming/the-guide-to-implementing-2d-platformers-r2936
[quote name='Aks9' timestamp='1356700288' post='5015056'] The specification is not a book, and should not be recommended for learning OpenGL! [/quote] O, rly? I learned OpenGL 4.3 entirely from specification.
The only book you need is GL 4.3 specification, http://www.opengl.org/registry/doc/glspec43.core.20120806.pdf from http://www.opengl.org/registry/
teccubus replied to Darego's topic in For BeginnersDarego: you just CAN'T make a MMOsomething. Writing coherent, stable, secure and efficient server for 1000+ players is very hard and expensive.
teccubus replied to EduardoMoura's topic in For BeginnersI think it is entirely project-dependent. When you are evaluating project design issues, you have to make some choices - for example, what 3rd party components you will be reusing. If existing C# libraries satisfy your needs, then you should choose C#, because it's obviously easier to develop with this language. If there are no C# libraries you can reuse, you should choose C++ in that project. And, personally, I think that if C# is so great, then good libraries will show up sooner or later. But perhaps it is not that great...
teccubus replied to ChainedHollow's topic in For Beginners[code] /* header.h */ #ifndef _HEADER_H_INCLUDED_ #define _HEADER_H_INCLUDED_ /* code goes here */ #endif [/code]
teccubus replied to Millionaire's topic in For Beginners[quote name='Millionaire' timestamp='1355654760' post='5011221'] I was just wondering why would this user want to use a math engine written in C [/quote]Probably because doing low level math is faster in C than in Java.
teccubus replied to Sugavanas's topic in For BeginnersHere you go: https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl It's far better than tic-tac-toe.
[quote name='Revs' timestamp='1355578436' post='5010937'] But I already have other things to which I dedicate my devotion, where I do everything myself from scratch. So there's no time left for me to spend some more devotion on another thing ;) [/quote]And that's why you should forget about making games.
teccubus replied to suliman's topic in For Beginners@ultramailman: This issue happens and I don't understand why. Object files should be recompiled whenever any of the dependencies is changed. So, why the are not?
Revs: no offence taken. Game development needs *real* devotion, especially if you want to do it alone. But your attitude is just opposite.
With your knowledge and attitude, it is infinitely hard.
teccubus replied to Inuyashakagome16's topic in For BeginnersIf you can't remember method names, use IDE with autocompletion.
teccubus replied to juur's topic in For Beginners[quote name='juur' timestamp='1355487196' post='5010574'] http://fortune3.to/game/ (NB: It requires Java to be installed) [/quote] People don't like java applets nowadays.
teccubus replied to ChainedHollow's topic in For BeginnersJust read this: http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/game-programming/the-guide-to-implementing-2d-platformers-r2936 and start to code.


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"As children, we fear the dark. The unknown troubles us. Anything might be out there. Ironically, it's our fate to live in the dark. Head out from the earth in any direction you choose, and after an initial flash of blue, you're surrounded by blackness. Punctuated only here and there by the faint and distant stars. Even after we're grown, the darkness retains its power to frighten us. And so there are those who say we should not inquire too closely into who else might be living in that darkness…"
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Norah did not speak as she joined half-sister Anoushka Shankar and her father's wife Sukanya, while Olivia Harrison recalled her late husband's unique bond with the sitar player.
Family and friends got together to pay their final respect to Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. His daughter from his previous marriage, Grammy-winning jazz singer Norah Jones, was among the mourners along with the widow of George Harrison, Olivia.
Norah sat in the front row with her father's wife Sukanya Rajan and her half sister Anoushka Shankar. The "Come Away With Me" hitmaker did not speak at the service, but she did join the other family members when they took the stage to address the crowd at the end of the service.
Although she was not one of the speakers, Norah had spoken lovingly of her father. "My Dad's music touched millions of people. He will be greatly missed by me and music lovers everywhere," the Grammy-winning jazz singer said in a statement shortly after his death.
Calling him a "genius," she also said in an interview, "I remember when I found out that John Coltrane had come to him once to study....That impressed me at the time, more than the George Harrison thing just because I was such a jazz nerd. But you know it's all amazing. He's inspired a lot of musicians."
Olivia Harrison, meanwhile, called Ravi "one of the great citizens of the world" in her eulogy at the Thursday event. "I cannot think of a more illustrious or elegant person," she said, before proceeding to describe her late husband's unique bond with the sitar player.
"They were like father and son, as well as brothers," Olivia gushed. "They made each other laugh, as if the shared a secret -- and I'm sure they did! Their common bond was music." The pandit was credited as George's sitar mentor who influenced The Beatles' music.
The service took place at the Self-Realization Fellowship in his adopted home of Encinitas, Calif. on December 20. Famed jazz player Herbie Hancock and conductor Zubin Mehta joined more than 1,000 people flooding the venue decorated with garlands of white flowers.
Herbie gushed, "He was such an amazing human being. I'm so grateful for what he's given to the world." Zubin added when it was his turn to speak, "I always felt like a little crumb in his presence." Another male attendee was "Anna Karenina" director Joe Wright, who's also Anoushka's husband.
Ravi died on December 11 in San Diego after undergoing heart-valve replacement surgery. Already earning three Grammys, he got a 2013 Grammy nomination for Best World Music Album, thanks to "The Living Room Sessions, Part 1". His daughter Anoushka also got a nod in the same category for "Traveller".


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By Al Batt
, For the Birds
Monday, August 27, 2012 10:53 AM
Darcy Sime of Alden shared this photo of a Canada Warbler.
I sat in an auto repair place. I was preparing myself to tremble pitifully as they tabulated my bill.
I looked out an enormous window and watched a squirrel scamper. That's what squirrels do. American white pelicans flew over in squadrons in tight formation over the street. I imagined their shadows falling upon passing cars. Turkey vultures circled over the repair shop as if they might find a dead car to be a delectable dish. I spotted several warblers flitting about in landscaped vegetation.
I have been on a whale-watching trip. It was a righteous endeavor. It was no more exciting than the wildlife-watching trip I took without leaving a chair in the waiting room of an auto repair enterprise.
The house wren
Most house wrens migrate to the southern United States and Mexico for the winter. The house wren's scientific name is Troglodytes aedon. A troglodyte means "one who lives in caves."
How can a tiny brown bird be a caveman?
This wren builds nests in natural cavities, such as woodpecker holes and in artificial ones that include nest boxes, mailboxes, cans and jars. A friend made a wren house out of an old cowboy boot. A wren took to it like a duck to water.
Aedon, in Greek mythology, was a daughter of Pandareus. According to Homer, she was the wife of Zethus, who with his brother Amphion was the joint king of Thebes. She had only two children and envied her sister-in-law, Niobe, who had many. She planned to murder Niobe's eldest son in his sleep, but by mistake killed her own son, Itylus, who was asleep in the same room. Zeus took pity on Aedon in her grief and changed her into a nightingale; her song was a lament for her dead son.
A wren isn't a nightingale, but is a skilled songster.
Ducking a duck
I was doing a marsh survey at Myre-Big Island State Park. It should have been darker than dark, but most of a moon provided light.
I was waist deep into the task and mosquitoes when a blue-winged teal flew straight at me. I had to fall to the earth to keep from being hit in the head. It would have knocked me right out of my Red Wing boots.
I don't think the duck did that on purpose, but I don't know for sure. The blue-winged teal is a small duck, but it could have done me harm.
I would have come to hearing a voice saying, "How many fingers am I holding up? Do you know what day this is?"
I wouldn't have gotten either of those questions right even if I hadn't been hit in the noggin by a blue-winged teal.
Echoes from the Loafers' Club meeting
"A wasp stung me on my nose."
"Did you put something on it?"
"No, it flew away too fast."
Driving by the Bruces
I have two wonderful neighbors - both named Bruce - who live across the road from each other. Whenever I pass their driveways, thoughts occur to me, such as: the most popular spectator sport is watching the weather.
I've learned
1. It's difficult to tell if you're living up to or down to someone's expectations.
2. To be thankful that I have more aches than pains.
3. Mirrors were better when I was younger.
Café chronicles
It was one of those cafes where each meal came with four utensils - a fork, knife, spoon and flyswatter.
Flies don't bother me much. Years ago, a wise man told me that I should eat a toad first thing in the morning. That makes everything else I might do that day much easier. It's good practice to do disagreeable tasks first.
I've noticed that there are two kinds of swatters. Some people like the flies smashed dead. Other folks like to swat them lightly, only wounding them, figuring that would be enough punishment for the sin of being a fly.
I heard a lot of singing coming from the cafe's restroom. That was because the restroom door had no lock.
The table topic centered on garden produce. There was a discussion on how corn on the cob should be eaten. I usually eat it across moving left to right like a typewriter. Once I have a clearing, I might change to eating around the cob.
An ear of corn will always have an even number of rows unless some sort of stress disrupted the developmental process.
The discourse moved to how to pick a good watermelon. Proponents of thumping, slapping, smelling, examining the stem and lifting were heard from. When it was my turn, I revealed my method - I rely on good luck.
A bump in the road
Georgette Bauman of Burnsville was driving one of our local roads when she hit a bone-jarring bump. She traveled a bit farther before she spotted a "Bump" sign. She asked me why the bump preceded the sign. I told her it was so she would know what she'd just hit.
Lingering on the subject of signs, Dennis Anderson of Hartland asked what color yield signs are. I thought it was a trick question, but without looking at a yield sign, what color is it? The sign was established as a point-down equilateral triangle (aren't you glad you paid attention in school) with a black legend and border on a yellow background. In 1971, the yield sign changed to the red background with the white region in the center of the sign we see today.
Googling refrigerator pickles
My wife, She Who Must Be Obeyed, asked why I don't like refrigerator pickles. I told her that it was because of the tiny magnet on the back of each pickle. To be honest, I'm not sure what a refrigerator pickle is. I don't know what makes a refrigerator pickle a refrigerator pickle. I don't need to ask anyone, I could simply Google it.
Eric Steinmetz of Mankato told me that he misses the friendly arguments that took place before Google. Does Google inform while making us dumber?
I was sitting in a restaurant with John Butler of Albert Lea, Gus Courrier of Emmons and Paul Sunde of Blooming Prairie. We are men who share things like suffering injuries while opening once-sticky junk drawers that we didn't know had been cleared of all obstruction (rolls of tape). If you clean a junk drawer, you should label it.
We were having a serious discussion. Was it about the economy? Gas prices? Healthcare? No, it was about wart cures. John suggested one involving duct tape. Gus offered a cure that required the burial of chicken parts under a waning moon. Paul proposed the sticky juice of the milkweed plant. I agreed with Paul.
Nature notes
Jenean Mortenson of Faribault asked where to find a monarch butterfly chrysalis. A striking green and gold, jewel-like chrysalis could be anywhere - on a milkweed plant, leaf, twig, rock, fence rail, etc. The caterpillar attaches itself where it feels safe. Butterfly caterpillars don't spin cocoons. If you see a caterpillar spinning a cocoon, it's going to become a moth. Butterfly caterpillars transform into a chrysalis or pupa. When the monarch caterpillar is ready to become a chrysalis, it hangs upside down in a J-shape. It wiggles until its skin splits and a chrysalis appears where a caterpillar used to be - a trick to make any magician proud.
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"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit." - D. Elton Trueblood
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Update 5 - Audio tape controversy - Busuttil says Toni Abela's position 'untenable' - PL deputy leader defends himself
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PN deputy Leader Simon Busuttil said this afternoon that Toni Abela's position as deputy leader of the PL was untenable.
Dr Busuttil said Dr Abela 'lied' when on television (during a debate with Dr Busuttil) he denied that he put pressure on the police not to press charges after an incident at Attard PL club. Then it transpired that Dr Abela admitted going to the police station and telling a labour policeman not to press charges.
"Dr Abela lied and his position has become untenable This is a test for Joseph Muscat. Toni Abela put pressure on the police and this is not acceptable. His position is untenable and we will now see how Dr Muscat will deal with his deputy leader" Dr Busuttil said at a press conference.
He made his comments less than an hour after Dr Abela insisted once more that he did not put any undue pressure on a policeman not to take action after an incident at Attard PL club two years ago.
He spoke at a hastily called press conference after an audio tape surfaced on youtube, where Dr Abela is heard speaking to members of the PL club about what he had done.
Dr Abela said at the press conference that his words had been taken out of context. What he had told the police, he said, was that this was a civil not a criminal issue. All lawyers did that, he said.
Dr Abela also insisted that this audio recording was about an issue raised by the club's barman that somebody had changed the locks. It had nothing to do with a fight between another two men in the club, and which is not subject to a court case, he said.
He said he had spoken in that way to the Labour club members to emphasise the need for discipline.
The PL deputy leader said in reply to questions that he would not resign, insisting this was not a case of corruption as it was not something from which he had benefited. Nor had he corrupted any policeman, he insisted.
"I did nothing wrong," Dr Abela said. He also pointed out that he had promptly convened a press conference and faced journalists. Austin Gatt had not done anything despite the questions raised about him, he said.
He said he would not resign and would continue on his political mission. He challenged anyone having any more recordings to produce them.
He also asked what action had been taken by the PN, and whether police action had been taken, after a PN club was found to be involved in a prostitution ring.
Asked about this incident, the Nationalist Party said when the allegations became known to it, it immediately closed down the premises immediately and gave all access to the police to investigate.
The club did not open before the police said that it could do so, the PN said.
Unlike what Dr Abela did, no PN official went to the police station and ordered the police to ignore the case, it said.
In the morning, Nationalist MP David Agius in a statement referred to media reports about a court case related to a fight at Attard Labour Party Club and the evidence of Richard Vella.
The court evidence (given last week) revealed the existence of an audio recording where PL deputy leader Toni Abela allegedly says that he went to a police station, looked up a policeman who was labourite, and asked him not to press charges, Mr Agius said.
It was also said in court that he (David Agius) was among a number of persons who knew about the recording.
Mr Agius said he wanted to confirm that on October 15, 2010 he learnt of the contents of the audio recording about which reference was made in court. After he identified Toni Abela as the person speaking on tape, on October 20, 2010 he had called on the Commissioner of Police, telling him what he had heard. He also asked him to investigate.
He also made a statement to the police.
Dr Abela last week denied putting any pressure on the police.
Audio - Dr Muscat's reaction (.mp3 file)
Earlier, Labour leader Joseph Muscat, who was asked about the issue said that Dr Abela would be issuing a detailed statement to clarify the matter.
Dr Muscat said there appeared to be some confusion about two separate cases. He also said the Police Commissioner had not even sent for Dr Abela over the Attard case.
See http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130209/local/Tony-Abela-denies-influencing-charges-for-fight-in-Labour-club.456792
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The Questionnaire for Identifying Children With Chronic Conditions (QuICCC) is an instrument based on a conceptual noncategorical definition that uses parental responses to identify children with chronic conditions for epidemiological purposes.
To determine whether the QuICCC is sufficiently valid, sensitive, and specific to be used to identify individual children as having a chronic condition or disability; whether parents are accurate enough that their answers to QuICCC items can be accepted as valid; and what kinds of errors in classification occur when the QuICCC is used to identify children with chronic conditions.
The sample consisted of 424 children who were patients of 9 physicians in separate practice settings throughout New England. Each physician was briefly trained in the conceptual definition on which the QuICCC is based and then was asked to identify 25 children in his or her practice who met the definition and 25 children who did not meet the definition. The QuICCC was administered to the parents of these children by blinded interviewers via telephone. The QuICCC classification was compared with physician categorization. Discrepant cases were then followed up by asking physicians and parents to answer the original questions a second time.
Complete data were available on 379 (89.4%) of 424 children. There was agreement on 89% (κ=0.78). The sensitivity was 94%; specificity, 83%; positive predictive value, 86%; and negative predictive value, 92%. Of the 42 discordant cases, 30 parent reports on the QuICCC qualified the child as having a chronic condition when the physician classified the child as being without such a condition. Fewer (n=12) discrepancies occurred because physicians identified children with chronic conditions that the QuICCC failed to identify. When the questions were readministered at follow-up, physicians corrected errors in rating in 9 cases; mothers changed their answers in 5 instances. In 13 instances the issues were known to both parties and appeared to arise in the "gray zone" or boundary area, where there was disagreement over whether a particular child qualified using the theoretical definition. For 11 children identified as having a chronic condition only by the parent's responses to the QuICCC, physician report appeared to be inaccurate primarily due to the physician's lack of information. In 3 cases where the physician reported the child to have a chronic condition, but the parent did not, the physician appeared to be correct. Follow-up data were incomplete on 1 child.
These data support the validity of parent-generated information for the evaluation of health status. Although these findings should be replicated, this study suggests that the QuICCC may be applicable also as a screening tool for individual child identification, provided that several sources of error are considered.
THERE HAS been an increased interest in serving children with chronic conditions and disabilities since the Surgeon General's Report on family-centered care for these children in the mid 1980s.1 In addition, in the late 1980s, it was mandated that the Title V Maternal and Child Health block grant in each state use one third of funds on "children with special health care needs."2 Further, the recent evolution to managed health care by public and private purchasers has raised considerable concerns about how children with chronic conditions and disabilities will fare in these new arrangements.3,4 Increasingly, program administrators in state Title V and Medicaid programs, as well as those in managed care arrangements, are seeking ways to identify children with chronic conditions using criteria other than relying on a diagnosis. A method for identifying children across diagnostic groups is needed so that the prevalence and size of the group can be monitored over time, service programs and funds can be allocated to the eligible children, quality improvement efforts can be developed for this group and their care can be compared with the total child population, and special capitation rates can be developed for provision of health and related services.
Although there has been considerable interest in techniques for identifying children who have chronic health conditions and disabilities that do not rely on diagnostic lists,5- 8 none to date has been developed and tested for both epidemiological and clinical purposes. This article describes a study designed to assess whether the Questionnaire for Identifying Children With Chronic Conditions (QuICCC),9 a measure designed to identify children with chronic conditions for epidemiological purposes (such as prevalence estimates), can also can be used as a screening tool for individual children. If there is sufficient reliability, the QuICCC would have potential use in clinical and program settings.
The QuICCC is based on a noncategorical conceptual definition,7 and was designed and tested on several large populations to identify groups of children with chronic conditions, independent of diagnosis. It is administered to an adult caregiver (usually the parent) and takes about 8 minutes to collect data about all children younger than 18 years in a household. The QuICCC has strong psychometric properties in all the epidemiological studies in which it has been used.9
However, the QuICCC was not intended to be used to identify specific individual children, nor has it previously been evaluated for its adequacy for such use. The psychometric standards a tool has to meet to identify individual children accurately, or to be a screening tool, are somewhat stricter and more difficult to achieve than standards of validity and reliability for research tools applied to groups. Less error can be tolerated when identifying individuals than when assessing or comparing groups of individuals. This is because the consequences of misclassifying individuals can have major programmatic implications that classification of large groups does not. In addition to the measurement issues concerning the appropriateness of the QuICCC for screening purposes, there is some skepticism among health care professionals and policy makers about the reliability and validity of parental reports of child health on which the QuICCC is built.
This study was undertaken to address several issues: (1) Is the QuICCC sufficiently valid, sensitive, and specific to be used to identify individual children as having a chronic condition or disability? (2) Are parents accurate enough that their answers to QuICCC items can be accepted as valid? (3) What kinds of errors in classification occur when the QuICCC is used to identify children with chronic conditions?
The study was done collaboratively by the developers of the QuICCC at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, and New England SERVE, Boston, Mass. New England SERVE is a coalition of health care providers (ie, physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and others) and families dedicated to the improvement of the care of children who have special health care needs.
The QuICCC is a measure based on the theoretical definition developed by Stein et al.7 According to this definition, a child has a chronic condition if he or she has a physiological, behavioral, or cognitive disorder that has lasted or is virtually certain to last for 1 year and produces 1 or more types of consequences: functional limitations, reliance on compensatory assistance for functioning, or increased service use or need compared with age-mates. The QuICCC incorporates all the above elements and was designed specifically to reflect this definition.9
There are no other operationalizations of the definition that would allow testing for convergent validity. Therefore, the only standard criterion against which to test the validity of the QuICCC is the definition itself. To do this, we recruited pediatric health care providers to identify some children in their practices who had a chronic health condition meeting the Stein et al definition and some who did not. Children's families were then interviewed by telephone using the QuICCC and the resulting classifications—parent's and physician's—were compared.
We were concerned that several factors might affect the accuracy of the classifications and prospectively designed the study to inventory and assess them. First, the health care providers who applied the definition might do so inconsistently, since most physicians have an intuitive sense of what they define as a chronic condition. To reduce this source of error, we conducted a training session for physicians on the QuICCC definition and designed a form that they completed on each child that required that they check off which of the 3 types of consequences the child was experiencing because of the condition. Second, parent and physician raters might have different information available to them about the individual child's health. In some cases, the parent may have more accurate information (eg, about learning or behavioral problems), and in other cases the physician may (eg, about the length of time an illness may last). Third, the child's health status might change between the time the physician rated the child and the parent was interviewed. Fourth, the parents and physicians might not disagree about the child's status, but may differentially interpret questions or their meaning. Fifth, some children may have conditions in the "gray zone," ie, they are being evaluated, they have a condition that may or may not last 1 year, or they have a disorder that could be considered a normal variant that is close to the "boundary" or threshold for having a chronic condition.
The sample consisted of 424 children who were patients of physicians in 9 separate practice settings throughout New England. New England SERVE recruited 9 physicians who were associated with its organization and have a commitment to improving the care of children with chronic conditions. The 9 included 8 pediatricians and 1 pediatric surgeon; 7 were men and 2 were women. All had been in practice for 10 years or more in a variety of community and hospital-based settings. Each physician was asked to identify 25 children in his or her practice who met the definition on which the QuICCC is based and 25 children who did not meet the definition. They were asked to select children who had a wide range of conditions and impairments with different levels of severity. We emphasized that they should pick children of diverse ages and heterogeneous family backgrounds (ie, race, income, educational level, and family structure). Physicians contacted parents of the children to obtain their permission for a member of the staff of New England SERVE to interview them by telephone about their child's health status. The physicians provided the requested information on a range of 25 to 50 patients.
Physicians were trained in a group to apply the definition on which QuICCC is based to individual children. Before training, all physician participants read the definition article by Stein et al.7 They each then attended a single 90-minute training session that explained the purpose of the study and the research procedures. At the beginning of the session, the physicians were given a 2-page list of descriptions of children (each only 1 sentence long) and asked independently to assess whether each of the 3 dozen children had a chronic condition. Subsequently, the group jointly reviewed the specific elements of the definition with 2 of the authors (R.E.K.S. and L.J.B.) of the definition. The physicians were asked to suspend their intuitive notion of who had a chronic condition for the purpose of the study and to try to follow the intent of the definition they had just reviewed, regardless of whether they agreed with it or its implications. The brief descriptive vignettes were reviewed again as a group, and there was discussion about how to apply this specific definition to them. At no point in the study were the physicians shown a copy of the actual QuICCC instrument, nor was there discussion of the content of the 39-question sequences contained in the QuICCC during either the training or data collection phases.
Each physician forwarded identifying information about the children and the contact information for the parents directly to the New England SERVE office. The physician's classification of each child as meeting or not meeting the conceptual definition of Stein et al7 was provided on a separate form and was forwarded directly to the New York research office for processing. The information was submitted considerably after the training session (submission range, 2-26 weeks). No diagnostic information about the children was obtained from either the physician or the parent.
The QuICCC instrument and some additional questions on family characteristics and background were administered to parents by telephone by 2 trained interviewers based at New England SERVE. Interviewers were blinded to the child's categorization by the physician. The coded data were sent to the New York research office for analysis.
As an additional step after the analysis of the data, we conducted a limited follow-up to improve our understanding of the sources of the discrepancies. Each time a discrepancy occurred between the physician's classification of a child based on the definition and the classification based on the parent-administered QuICCC, the family was recontacted. We asked them to give their consent to share their answers to the QuICCC questions with their child's physician. All but 3 families were successfully contacted, and all gave consent for this additional step. In the 3 instances in which we could not reach the parent for follow-up, we obtained additional information from the physicians, but did not share parent responses to the QuICCC with the physicians.
All contacted families whose children had been identified as having a chronic condition by the parent but not by the physician were readministered selected items of the QuICCC to determine whether their responses were still affirmative. They were also asked the basis for their affirmative responses by the interviewers who recorded their responses. In many instances this led to information about the diagnosis or nature of the condition. We did not readminister the QuICCC items to families whose children were identified by the physician, but not by the parent, since they had not had any affirmative responses in the past, and we had set the physician responses as our standard.
Physicians were then called to review all discrepant cases. They were told that we wanted to go over some of the information about their patients and were asked the same series of questions used in the original data collection: Does the child have a functional limitation? A compensatory dependency? Or an increased service use or need? Does the child meet the Stein et al7 definition? Again they were not asked any questions contained in the QuICCC items. After this information was obtained, we shared the parent's answers to individual QuICCC items with the physicians of consenting families to determine the nature of the differences in classification. Additional descriptive and diagnostic information was obtained in these discussions.
Data were analyzed using simple cross tabulations and κ was calculated to ascertain the level of agreement between the classification of the child as having or not having a chronic condition using QuICCC data obtained from the parents and the global categorization of the child by his or her physician. Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive validity were calculated using the standard formulas.
Of the 424 children whose names were submitted to New England SERVE, complete information was obtained on 380 (89.6%); the remaining 44 could not be contacted despite multiple telephone calls. In 1 instance, 2 children with nearly identical names were confused: the physician classified one, but the New England SERVE office was given the telephone number of the other. When this case was dropped, it left a sample of 379 or 89.4% of the original sample.
The sample was preponderantly white (83%). Seventy-one percent were privately insured and 17% were receiving Medicaid. Six percent reported receiving Supplemental Security Income. Most parents were well educated, with 95% having at least a high school education and just under half having graduated from college.
Fifty-three percent of the children were identified by their physicians and 58% by the parent responses to the QuICCC as having a chronic condition. Figure 1 shows that there was agreement on 89% (39% without and 50% with chronic conditions), for a κ of 0.78. This is a level of agreement that is usually considered more than adequate for group identification, but falls short of the κ of 0.9 that is desired for individual identification. The sensitivity of the QuICCC was 94%; specificity, 83%; positive predictive value, 86%; and negative predictive value, 92%. Most of the disagreement occurred because parents' responses on the QuICCC qualified the child as having a chronic condition when physicians classified the child as not having a chronic condition (n=30); many fewer (n=12) discrepancies occurred because physicians identified children as having chronic conditions that the QuICCC failed to identify.
Comparison of physician categorization and Questionnaire for Identifying Children With Chronic Conditions (QuICCC)9 classification.
Physicians varied in the number of discrepancies among the patients they submitted (range, 0-9; x‒ = 4). All but 2 of the physicians had discrepancies in both directions. These 2 physicians had discrepancies only in 1 direction—they reported that the child did not have a chronic condition when the parent responses indicated the presence of a chronic condition.
Follow-up information about the 42 discrepancies is summarized in Table 1. When the questions were readministered at follow-up, physicians changed answers for 9 patients, reflecting measurement unreliability. In 1 case the physician insisted that the original answers on the physician form had clearly been "a mistake." In only 1 instance did the physician report that the revised classification was based on an actual change in the child's health status. In that case the physician asked the date of the parent interview and reported that a serious chronic condition had been diagnosed between the time the child had been categorized by the physician and the time the mother had been interviewed.
In 5 instances the parent changed answers when reinterviewed, which suggests another instance of measurement unreliability, although we cannot rule out changes in the child's health status. For each of the 11 children identified only by the parent's responses to the QuICCC as having a chronic condition, the physician on reinterview stated that he or she was unaware of the issues identified by the parent. Some of these issues were understandable, such as orthodonture, and school and behavioral problems, but others were unexpected, such as allergies and asthma requiring medication prescribed by a physician. For these discrepancies, the parent seemed to be correct and the discrepancy was a result of the physician's lack of information. In 3 cases where the physician reported a chronic condition, but the parent did not, the physician seemed to be correct. Two of these involved children who had chronic conditions that the physician follow-up interview revealed to have been entirely quiescent at the time of the parental interview. The third involved a caretaker whom the physician identified as "being in denial" of consequences of fetal alcohol syndrome.
For 13 children, discrepancies involved differences in whether the disease consequences met threshold for the definition. In 8 of these cases, the physician was aware of the condition (eg, mild asthma, headaches, or strabismus), but did not think that it met the definitional criteria, yet the parental responses to the QuICCC qualified the child. Conversely, in 5 cases, the physician judged a condition to meet the criteria for a chronic condition, based mostly on high use of physician services, but the parent considered it routine (eg, recurrent otitis, mild asthma, or recurrent gastrointestinal tract upsets) and the parental responses to the QuICCC did not identify the child.
Our review of the 42 discrepancies identified 20 errors on the part of the physicians, who were used as the standard criterion for testing the QuICCC. When these errors in our standard criterion were corrected, the κ was 0.88.
Despite our original concern that the physicians might be inconsistent in applying the definition and would use preconceived notions of who has a chronic condition to classify children rather than the Stein et al7 definition, this type of error accounted for only 12 (29%) of the 42 errors in classification. This is particularly impressive because there was as much as a 6-month lag period between the physician training session and the submission of the ratings of the children by the physicians. Thus, it does appear that a brief review of the definition and the vignettes can teach physicians who are interested in these classification issues to apply the definition consistently.
Among the remaining 30 discrepancies, 14 reflected differences in information known to the physicians and the parents. Of those, 11 seem to be caused by the inaccuracy of the physician's report. Parents are more likely than physicians to be aware of school-related difficulties and behavioral symptoms or physical symptoms that have lingered from a previously treated condition. In far fewer cases (n=3), it appeared that the physician was more likely to understand the long-term implications of some conditions than the parents, who either denied or wished to downplay a serious condition that was not necessarily in long-term remission. It is not surprising that there are instances in which each rater seems to have information that the other lacks. Overall, the parent-based report using the QuICCC was more likely than the physician-based report to generate valid data.
Third, in only 1 case did we document that a change in the health status of the child explained the discrepancy. However, we did not obtain information about the resolution of health conditions that may have contributed to parents changing positive answers to negative ones.
Many discrepancies (n=13) seemed to arise in the gray zone or boundary area around the definition where there is uncertainty over whether a particular child has a chronic condition. The gray zone reflects the problem that the construct, chronic condition, is a social notion and that health and illness occur on a spectrum. There is no absolute cutoff or threshold. The QuICCC is flexible enough to permit different thresholds to be set, depending on the purpose for identification. However, it was impractical to examine the validity of the QuICCC at multiple thresholds. Therefore, we set one general-purpose threshold, the one used in earlier published articles about the QuICCC, to test the validity of the QuICCC. Children in the gray zone around this threshold can be included for some purposes and excluded for others. When an exclusionary approach is used, we suggest that a back-up system be implemented so that children who are erroneously misclassified by the QuICCC as not meeting the threshold can appeal the decision.
In addition, it is important to have an alternate mechanism to supplement parental identification to identify children such as those 3 in whom the physician seemed to be "right." These children represent a small (<1%) but important misclassification. Inclusive approaches are particularly appropriate when further opportunities for review of information are possible.
In this study, performance of the QuICCC fell short of the ideal standards for a measure for individual use. However, our standard criterion (physician classification) seemed to have been in error in almost half of the discordant cases. When these errors are eliminated, the κ is almost at the desired level of 0.90. This level is the psychometric standard for stability of measurement at which an instrument is viewed as useful for individuals.10
There are several limitations to this study. First, we used a sample of convenience for both the patients and the physicians and this may limit to some extent the generalizability of the information that we generated. The physician participants were interested in issues of chronic conditions in children (although all but 1 saw a wide range of children in their practices). It is likely that they submitted ratings for children they either had seen recently or knew well. However, this was a needed advantage for the study to assure the physician ratings as a standard criterion were as accurate as possible. It is also possible that they picked children who were easier to classify than a general population of children or those with more severe conditions. It is unlikely that physician classification of all children in a practice would be as valid and reliable; this increases our confidence in the value and usefulness of parental report. However, it is important to replicate this research in different populations to be sure the findings are generalizable.
Another limitation is that we did not systematically reinterview parents or physicians where there was agreement, or reinterview parents when they did not report the presence of a chronic condition, even when the physician classified their child as having a chronic condition. It may be that in those 12 cases some parents would have changed some of their responses if given the opportunity. This might have increased agreement levels even further.
Despite these constraints, these data support the validity of parent-generated information for the evaluation of child health status. It is unclear whether such reliable and valid information would also be obtained in other samples of parents or if there was a benefit or gain attached to being identified. This requires further study. Overall though, in the absence of any incentive for or against being identified, the study does demonstrate that parent data compare favorably with physician data in classifying children, and may under certain circumstances be more accurate. Family caretakers of children with chronic conditions often have more complete information than primary care physicians (or any one physician) and should be perceived as very accurate respondents in most cases.
We previously reported that the QuICCC is adequate for epidemiologic use, including monitoring quality of care in groups of children with chronic conditions. Based on data presented in this article, it is possible that the QuICCC, although not originally designed for that purpose, may also be applicable as a screening tool for individual child identification. Potential uses for screening include at enrollment into a health plan or into any child health delivery system, or at any point as a trigger of more specific eligibility determination for specialized services, such as enhanced care coordination.
However, if these findings are replicated and if the QuICCC is used for screening of individual children, several sources of error must be considered. At a minimum, this requires the creation of appeal procedures for misclassified children. We recommend that if the QuICCC is used to screen, physicians should also be permitted to identify children as having a chronic condition independently of the parent report of the QuICCC, when they think a child has been misclassified. Also, for each application, specific decision rules for children in the gray zone need to be formulated, as these children account for a substantial proportion of discrepancies. We believe that, with the above-mentioned provisions, the QuICCC may be used as a screening tool for individual children for programmatic purposes.
Accepted for publication October 4, 1999.
This research was conducted as part of the "Ensuring Quality" project of New England SERVE, supported by grant MCJ-25R020 (through Title V of the Social Service Act) from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Department of Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.
We also thank Margaret Driscoll and Nelagi Pinto for their help in data collection, the 9 New England physicians and the families who participated, and Sheila Camacho, MEd, for her assistance with data analysis.
Corresponding author: Ruth E. K. Stein, MD, Department of Pediatrics-Centennial 1, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, 111 E 210th St, Bronx, NY 10467.
Stein REK, Bauman LJ, Epstein SG, Gardner JD, Walker DK. How Well Does the Questionnaire for Identifying Children With Chronic Conditions Identify Individual Children Who Have Chronic Conditions?. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2000;154(5):447-452. doi:10.1001/archpedi.154.5.447
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OnJuice at Aventura Mall: Sip Cold-Pressed Juices, Snack on Organic Brownies While You Shop
Photos by Carla Torres
Mall food is typically heavy, greasy, and fatty. Enter OnJuice, a health-focused juice and grab-and-go snack bar that opened Monday in Aventura Mall.
DeliverLean (the meal plan delivery company) is the parent company of OnJuice. They've partnered with Turnberry Group to bring the first of several locations to shoppers and mall employees looking for healthful and tasty alternatives, such as gluten-free zucchini brownies and organic quinoa-kale-cranberry salad with lemon-pistachio drizzle.
See also: Detox Cleansing Without Cravings or Fat Rebound
This isn't your typical food-court fare. CEO Scott Harris has made his booth stand out from the rest. A mix of glossy white and dark wood, OnJuice snagged some prime real estate right next to Lululemon and in front of the children's playground. A good move by Harris, because a big initiative of OnJuice and DeliverLean is kids' health. "That's where habits start," he says. "It's proven that kids today are going to live ten years longer than we will. That's because of the widespread and new-found knowledge of health food."
Excited to be part of that movement, Harris and cofounder Olga Kuzenkov are bringing kid-friendly items to the mix, such as an almond butter and jelly sandwich ($7) and a kids bento box packed with organic low-fat milk, organic apple slices, organic string cheese, an organic brownie bar, and either an almond butter and jelly or grilled chicken barbecue sandwich. The purpose is to create fun, superpower food the little ones will enjoy and not be intimidated by, like SuperiO's (Cheerios) or cold-pressed monkey juice.
Smoked salmon on sprouted wheat bagel with lemon-dill cream cheese ($7.95)
Homemade hummus trio bento box has three flavors to choose from: sweet potato, chickpea, and sun-dried tomato ($8.95). You'll want more of the sun-dried tomato.
For grownups, there are plenty of equally healthful and approachable options. Cold-pressed juices are the bread and butter (or in this case, the fruit and vegetables) of OnJuice, and it offers a variety to choose from, all priced at $9.95. One standout is Sublime (spinach, ginger, cucumber, green apple, parsley, lime, and lemon), but the Mint Condition (pineapple, green apple, cucumber, mint, and lime) and Pink (watermelon, cucumber, honeydew, lime, and mint) keep things fruity and minty-fresh. Detox juice cleanses are offered at $69 per day. If juicing ain't your thing, there are also signature smoothies (also $9.95).
Power bowls come in two forms -- antioxidant açaí bowls ($9) or vitally healthy Greek yogurt ($8) -- with three power toppings each.
The collard green wrap is a vegan alternative and packed with mango, sprouts, and avocado ($8.95). Every item also comes with nutritional facts and calories, so you can know exactly what and how much you're putting in your body.
Another vegan goodie, the thai kelp noodle salad with peanut sauce ($7.95), is a must-try. It's perfect for lunch, a snack, or a light grab-and-go dinner.
Sandwiches, wraps, salads, and greens, as well as everything else on the manu, are delivered daily from OnJuice and DeliverLean's facility in Fort Lauderdale. As with anything fresh, the shelf life of most products is three to four days, so anything not consumed will be given away as promotional and marketing materials. With 12,000 Aventura Mall employees and a 15 percent discount extended to them, it's doubtful there will be many leftovers.
Toragashi wild salmon salad over field lettuce with pickled ginger miso dressing ($10.95).
DeliverLean's dehydrated snack line is also a new initiative for the brand and good for snacking while shopping. Items include cheesy kale and raspberry lime kale chips, cauliflower popcorn, onion blings, apple crisps, and toasted coco-nola almond clusters. All are made with organic ingredients and are slowly dehydrated at 115 degrees to maintain maximum nutritional value. Go for the cheesy kale snacks -- they're ultra-addictive.
Harris says he's in talks with Miami International Airport as the next possible outpost of OnJuice and DeliverLean. "Eating healthy while traveling, especially in airports, is a struggle and virtually nonexistent. We want to change that."
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Crystal Palace boss Ian Holloway will be spending the new year settled at home, rather than living out of a suitcase in a hotel.
Since taking the Selhurst Park hot seat in November, Holloway has been living a nomadic life travelling from Blackpool and then taking up residence at a hotel's pleasure.
However, two weeks' ago the Holloway family finally moved into a new home less than an hour's drive from Palace's Beckenham training ground and, for more reasons than at first seem obvious, Holloway is delighted.
"It's a relief to me, but I am more relieved for my dear wife," he said. "She lets me live the life I need to, to be a football manager and I do my best to provide for her and our family.
"And to be settled in somewhere over Christmas and new year is equally relieving."
Holloway added: "The hotel has been great, but you cannot escape the fact that it is an impersonal environment.
"My wife has to leave the room to let the cleaners in each week, and you never know who might walk in using a master key."
Being settled has had a knock on effect for, not only Mrs Holloway, but also the players under Mr Holloway's charge.
He said: "Everyone at the club has been brilliant to us and while everything has gone as smoothly as it could, the fact I am now settled can only be good for the players."
And on this festive occasion, Holloway added: "I'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone associated with Crystal Palace - the staff, fans, players, the local community a very merry Christmas and a happy new year."


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After your tuition and fees have been paid or met, you may use the remaining Pell funds to purchase books or other school materials. You can receive a "Book Voucher" deposited for use at the Hostos College Book Store (Barnes & Noble) or you can receive a "Pell Book Advance" deposited to your CUNY pre-paid card, direct deposited to your bank account, check mailed to your house, so you can purchase your books at any location. To be Eligible for the Pell Book Advance or Book Voucher Students must:
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To apply for a FWS award, on your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) application, you must select "Yes" where you are asked if interested in work study.
The FAFSA application in English and Spanish is filled on-line and available at the www.fafsa.ed.gov website.
You will need income information and some personal information to complete an application. A person considered a Dependent student under the Financial Aid guidelines will need to have their parent's information as well. The year for which you need to provide income will be the year prior to the academic year you are applying. For example, if you are applying for the Fall 2013 – Spring 2014 academic year, you will need to provide all income for the year 2012. The information needed to apply includes but is not limited to:
Independent & Dependent students:
Dependent students will also need:
You may still qualify for financial aid even if taxes were not filed, but you must have proof of income in order to determine if you qualify.
Note: 2012 I.R.S. regulations require that any one person who makes at least $9,750.00 during that year must file an income tax form.
To be considered independent, you must meet at least one of the following requirements:
Under Financial Aid regulations, you are considered a DEPENDENT student unless you can answer "yes" to one or more of the above questions. If you are considered a dependent student, in order to process your financial aid application, must provide your information and your parent's information regardless:
If none of these criteria apply to you, you are considered a dependent student.
Note: 2011 IRS regulations require that any person who makes at least $9500.00 during that year must file an income tax form.
If you receive a "Verification Sheet", it is because you have been selected to have your information reviewed by the financial aid office. This could occur due to an error, missing information, inconsistent or conflicting information on your application. You may also have been randomly selected by the federal government to be reviewed by financial aid. If you receive a verification sheet, you must correctly fill out the information on both sides of the form including the required signatures, and hand it in with all the documents needed to apply for financial aid. Other documents may be asked to be handed depending on the students case. Those with special or unusual circumstances should also include documents for proof of their case.
An "ISAR/Change form" is a form used to input any information that needs to be changed or corrected on your application. You must have the names, signatures, and comments (if necessary), filled out on both sides of the form and hand it in along with your Verification form and necessary documents to the Financial Aid office. Do not fill out the shaded area on the change form unless you know what needs to be changed.
Note: The Financial Aid office cannot accept any documents that have white out or have been scribbled on. Make sure you read carefully before writing on the Verification and ISAR forms.
To lear more about the Verification Process, please click here.
The Financial Aid office is located in the "D" building also known as the "Savoy Manor" building at 120 E. 149th Street at the corner of Walton Avenue, one block down from the Grand Concourse.
The office is located in the lower level, Room D-B112. The Microlab is also located in the D building Room D-B102. The contact number is 718-518-6555.
(The student is responsible for the tuition amount that is not covered by Financial Aid. Students should view the deadline for full tuition payment to avoid their classes being dropped).
Log on to CUNYfirst (www.hostos.cuny.edu/first) click on:
Self Service
Student Center
(To the right) View your "To Do List" box. The "to do list" will show you if there are any other required items/steps needed to complete your Financial Aid process.
NOTE: The awards shown represent full-time enrollment. To view your calculated awards as a part-time student, locate your EFC# by clicking on:
"Full-Yr Financial Aid Summary", view your Expected Family Contribution (EFC) #. Use the 2013 - 2014 PELL award chart.
Allow time for recalculation of your awards if you recently made changes to your enrollment such as a withdrawal, addition, or any cancelation of classes.
Your admissions process has to be complete in order to view your awards on line.
*For further help with your CUNY Portal or CUNY-FIRST Account, you can visit the Academic Computing Center (room C-595, 718-518-6622).
The information you submit on your FAFSA is processed with a formula that has been developed by Congress to determine your Expected Family Contribution. The EFC is a number which is a measure of your financial strength and used to determine your federal student aid eligibility. Colleges use this number to determine the amount and kind of financial aid package they will offer you.
The formula calculates the EFC by taking into account:
The Pell award chart represents the Fall 2010-Spring 2011 academic year. The awards for students who will be using Pell awards during the summer 2011 semesters will also be based on this chart. Once you know your EFC number, you can refer to this chart to know how much PELL you will qualify for.
This is a down payment required for students who want to be advised and registered during the early registration period.
Below are some bullets regarding this policy:
For more information, contact the Admission's Office (718) 518-4405.
For information regarding registration dates, contact the Registrars Office (718) 518-6771.
Using the IRS Data Retrieval Tool
The IRS Data Retrieval Tool allows you and your parents to transfer tax information from IRS tax records directly to your FAFSA. If you & your parents have indicated on your FAFSA that you have already filed your taxes, you will be given the option to use this tool when completing the financial information portion of the application. Using this option minimizes errors and also minimizes your chances of getting selected for verification in which you may have to submit additional information to the Financial Aid Office after your application is processed.
Please Note:
To use this option you must:
Some tax filers may not be able to use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool and will have to enter their data from their own tax records. You or your parents will not be offered the data retrieval option if:
Using this option will transfer you to the IRS Web site, you will be prompted to enter information as it appears on your tax return. It is important that you complete this section exactly as it appears on your tax return or your information may not match with IRS records and the data retrieval may not go through.
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|From: Geoffrey S. Knauth (geoff at knauth.org)
Date: Fri Oct 9 15:48:31 EDT 2009
On Oct 9, 2009, at 15:34, Chognkai Zhu wrote: > Sorry for telling that, but that story has nothing to do with PLT's > Check Syntax. For nearly all languages, reference to an undefined > variable is a compile time error. But this is not true for Computer > Algebra Systems(CAS). Even with no values bind to variable `x', a > CAS should still reduce `x+x+x' to `3x', which implies reference to > an undefined variable is not an error. But CAS do have their merits. Yes, you're right. But there was another part of the story that made me think of Check Syntax. He had other code that had variable names s and ss. In one place, he had forgotten an s, and ss became s. Check Syntax would have drawn arrows helping him see that mistake.
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one year with Kate
de Kate O'Malley
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In Kate's Kitchen is a celebration of Kate's O'Malleys fabulous food, it looks at all our old favourites recipes and adds a modern and very special Kate touch.
Kate is renowned for her main meals and desserts but you will also find in Kate's Kitchen her fabulous finger food ideas, soups and salads, christmas specials and all her baking secrets.
She will take you through the seasons at her home "Lesmahagow" in the south island of NZ and take us all on a journey from her childhood on the farm at Poolburn to cooking with her grandchildren in her kitchen at Lesmahagow.
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- Categoría Cocina
Vertical estándar, 20×25 cm
156 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación ene. 17, 2011
- Etiquetas In Kate's Kitchen, Kate O'Malley, south island, recipe book, cookbook
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Grey Heron Publishing Such a diverse book, recipes for everything from Shepard's Pie to Thai Fish Cakes to very uncommon and interesting dishes such as Whitebait Roulade back to classics like Tarte Tartin.
A life obviously well spent in the service of cooking for loved ones.
Beautiful and honest photography.


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Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin figures she's put 60,000 books into the hands of low-income children. She believes there's nothing like a good book to brighten a child's future.
"Statistics indicate that in some areas, the average middle-class child has 13-plus books in the home," says Roseberry, a professor of speech pathology and a member of the California Faculty Association at CSU Sacramento. "In some under-resourced neighborhoods, there is one book for every 300 children. States like California and Virginia factor in the number of third-graders who read below grade level when building prison cells."
Roseberry is the founder of Love-Talk-Read, a children's book drive and literacy program. Most of the books she collects are distributed in low-income Sacramento neighborhoods, but her book drive has recently gone international. Children in American Samoa are now receiving books for the first time in their lives, and books were also sent recently to Ecuador.
"Books can change lives and give children a brighter future," she says. "Reading can promote being educated and literate members of society. Reading can provide hope. That's the bottom line."
In Celeste's words:
One of the things that motivated me was…
my son Mark had severe dyslexia as a child. Children's books and lots of special support helped him overcome it, and now he gets A-pluses! Reading children's books was a big part of his life that helped him become a better student.
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A quick question regarding infinity engine games on gog. Do the gog versions of IWD, BG, etc have any extra fixes than the retail boxed versions? I'm trying to decide whether to get them all in boxed or digital. Do I run the risk of not being able to run the retail versions on Win7 x64? If possible I'd like to get the boxed versions.


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Pro Soccer Team Coming To Las VegasLas Vegas City Council unanimously votes to bring a professional soccer team to Las Vegas, beginning the 2018 season.
1-0 For 51s6,002 baseball fans came out to watch the 51s season opener last night at Cashman Field.
51s Open SeasonThe Las Vegas 51s begin their 32nd season in Nevada tonight.
51's Seeking Stadium StaffThe Las Vegas 51's new season begins soon, and the minor league baseball team is looking for some good workers.
Big League Weekend Returns To Cashman FieldBig League Weekend is right around the corner, and for the 10th straight season, the Chicago Cubs will be a big part of it as they go up against the 51s major league affiliate New York Mets.
Big League Weekend to Feature Cubs and MetsThe Chicago Cubs will make their 10th straight appearance to Las Vegas for two games against the Mets on Saturday and Sunday, March 15 and 16.
Cubs, Mets To Play In Las Vegas In 2014Big League Weekend at Cashman Field in 2014 will feature the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets, March 15 and 16.
Top Activities To Do With Dad In Las VegasTreat dad to a fun outing and build some memories together.
Big League Weekend Tickets on Sale MondayTickets for Big League Weekend featuring the Texas Rangers and Chicago Cubs at Cashman Field go on sale Monday February 18th at noon at the Cashman Field box office or can be purchased at ticketmaster.com.
Cubs And Rangers To Play VegasThe Chicago Cubs and the Texas Rangers are set to take part in the annual Big League Weekend at Cashman Field on March 16th and 17th.
Cashman Field Lease Extended For Vegas 51'sThe Las Vegas 51's will continue to play at Cashman Field for another decade.
51's Go Down AgainThe 51's ended their four-game series against Colorado Springs on a bad note. Vegas fell to the Sky Sox 11-to-6 at Cashman Field Tuesday night.


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python-money provides carefully designed basic Python primitives for working with money and currencies. The primary objectives of this module is to aid in the development of financial applications by increasing testability and reusability, reducing code duplication and reducing the risk of defects occurring in the code. The module defines two basic Python classes: a Currency class and a Money class. It also pre-defines all the world's currencies, according to the ISO 4217 standard.
tinypy is a minimalist implementation of Python in 64k of code. It includes a parser and bytecode compiler written in python. tinypy runs on its own C-based virtual machine with garbage collection. It supports a fairly decent subset of Python, including classes with single inheritance, functions with variable or keyword arguments, strings, lists, dicts, numbers, modules, list comprehensions, exceptions with full traceback, some builtins, and several modules.
txOpenID is an implementation of the OpenID Identity Provider specification, written using Twisted Web and Divmod's Nevow. It reads authentication data and user Web sessions out of a MySQL database using MySQLdb and Twisted Enterprise's adbapi layer. txOpenID currently supports version 1.1 of the OpenID specification.
simplejson is a simple, fast, complete, correct, and extensible JSON encoder and decoder for Python 2.3+. It is pure Python code with no dependencies, but includes an optional C extension for a serious speed boost. The encoder may be subclassed to provide serialization in any kind of situation, without any special support by the objects to be serialized (somewhat like pickle). The decoder can handle incoming JSON strings of any specified encoding (UTF-8 by default).
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Stonestreet Thrilled by Lady Aurelia
Lady Aurelia was incredibly impressive in her second start, winning the five-furlong Queen Mary Stakes (Eng-II) at Royal Ascot, on ground probably not to her liking.
Lady Aurelia was incredibly impressive in her second start, winning the five-furlong Queen Mary Stakes (Eng-II) at Royal Ascot, on ground probably not to her liking.
Lady Aurelia, winner of a maiden special weight at Keeneland in April, followed up with a blowout victory in the Queen Mary Stakes (Eng-II) for 2-year-olds June 15 at Royal Ascot in England.
Trainer Wesley Ward added another Royal Ascot stakes win to his ledger on Wednesday, June 17 when Acapulco delivered a clear victory over 19 other 2-year-old fillies in the Queen Mary Stakes (Eng-II).
Moyglare Stud Farm homebred Free Eagle will try to score at the highest level Wednesday, June 17, in the Prince of Wales's Stakes (Eng-I) at Royal Ascot.
Trainer John Gosden has declared 3-year-old Kingman in peak fitness ahead of his bid for a fourth consecutive top-level win in the Prix du Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard Jacques Le Marois (Fr-I) Aug. 17 at Deauville.
Fresh off a convincing win at Royal Ascot last month, Integral kept the momentum going at Newmarket July 11 when she broke through for a first group I success in the QIPCO Falmouth Stakes.
Second in a last year's controversial edition of the Falmouth Stakes (Eng-I), Sky Lantern is back for another try this year in the July 11 race at Newmarket.
Rizeena, a disappointing classic starter last time out, repelled strong bids from Lesstalk In Paris and Euro Charline to win the Coronation Stakes (Eng-I) for 3-year-old fillies June 20 at Royal Ascot.
French-trained filly Miss France, showing marked improvement from her prep race last month, held off fast-finishing Lightning Thunder to narrowly win the QIPCO One Thousand Guineas (Eng-I) May 4 at Newmarket.
Nineteen 3-year-old fillies are entered for the QIPCO One Thousand Guineas (Eng-I) May 4 at Newmarket, led by early 7-2 favorite Rizeena.
Chriselliam charged past favorite Rizeena with a torrid outside rally from the back of the field and won the Shadwell Fillies' Mile (Eng-I) in a 28-1 upset Sept. 27 at Newmarket.
Rizeena unleashed a blistering rally from near the back of the field and blew past battling front-runners Kiyoshi and Tapestry in the closing stages to capture the Moyglare Stud Stakes (Ire-I) Sept. 1 at the Curragh.
United States-based trainer Wesley Ward struck at the top level in France Aug. 18 with precocious 2-year-old No Nay Never, who effortlessly stretched his speed to win the Darley Prix Morny (Fr-I) at Deauville.
Royal Ascot - The Queen Mary S. Press Conference
After winning five of the six juvenile races he entered this spring at Keeneland, trainer Wesley Ward is considering all of those winners for Royal Ascot.
Six seasons after One Hot Wish blazed 4 1/2 furlongs in :48.87 at Keeneland, establishing a track record for the distance that still stands, her first foal has followed in her footsteps.
Trainer Wesley Ward added to his reputation as a conditioner of young horses when Sweet Emma Rose sprinted clear early and rolled to a nine-length victory in the first of eight "baby races" scheduled for Keeneland spring.
Just one of the fun things about Keeneland spring is welcoming new 2-year-olds and the Lexington track will waste no time this year, offering a 4 1/2-furlong race for juvenile fillies on opening day April 5.
Jealous Again, five-length winner of the group II Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot, has been sold to Godolphin and will be shipped back to England over the weekend to prepare for upcoming stakes.
Royal Ascot winner Jealous Again has been bought by Sheikh Mohammed. Formerly trained by American handler Wesley Ward, the filly turned in a hugely impressive display in the Queen Mary Stakes (Eng-II) last month, bursting out of the stalls and showing far too much speed for the opposition to finish five lengths clear.
Just 24 hours earlier, trainer Wesley Ward had warned that Jealous Again was much better than his historic Windsor Castle Stakes winner Strike The Tiger and on June 17 the 2-year-old Trippi filly proved these were not empty words when bolting from the gate to go clear of her rivals in the five-furlong Queen Mary Stakes (Eng-II) at Royal Ascot before kicking on again for an easy five-length victory.
Flashy Wings extended her unbeaten streak to three for owner Jaber Abdullah with a victory in the June 15 Queen Mary Stakes (Eng-II) for juvenile fillies at Royal Ascot in her first stakes attempt.
The Duke of Roxburghe's homebred Attraction remained unbeaten as the 2-year-old filly defeated 13 of her peers in Wednesday's Queen Mary Stakes (Eng-III) at Ascot. Attraction led for the entirety of the five-furlong race, and finished three lengths ahead of Sheikh Mohammed's Catstar (Storm Cat--Advancing Star).
Romantic Liason provided Pat Eddery with win number 4,493, the Queen Mary Stakes (Eng-III) win at Royal Ascot Wednesday equaling Lester Piggott's number of victories. Only Richard Gordon, with 4,870, has more among English riders.
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|One Chance (IRE)
|Rizeena (IRE)
|Sweet Emma Rose
|Christophe Clement
|Mount Elbert S.
|Norm Barron Queen City Oaks
|Wickerr S.
|San Clemente H. (G2T)
|Washington Oaks