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It's always fun to discover what your kids remember about toddlerdom once they hit adulthood.
When my youngest child, Ryan Eckert, turned 21 yesterday, we talked about all the crazy things he did as a tot. He'd had hernia surgery when he was barely a preschooler, and he remembered how we tried everything to keep him inactive and entertained. He mentioned the "Bananas" show. I had completely forgotten that one. It was "Bananas in Pajamas" — they kind of looked life-sized bananas in prison gear, but it was in syndication for years when he was a tot. If you click right here, it takes you to an interactive website. The show had Australian roots.
These big bananas had clever names B1 and B2. With Australian accents, they often had some adventures with teddy bears. I don't remember the a-peel with a lot of jokes about peels or anything, but it did hold his attention. It was really simple — a lot like Gumby, one of my favorites. It was always on at a naptime.
Gumby had a long reign on Nickelodeon — it was primitive clay figure animation. The funny Blockheads — the goofs who always got in trouble — were the bad guys that Gumby coped with along with his horse Pokey, and dog, Nopey.
Ryan also recalled watching Ch-Ch-Ch Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers — the pair of chipmunks he met at Disneyworld. He was even a fan of Barney before his older brother and sister poisoned him on that poor purple dinosaur.
Well, there he is (above) at age 3 or 4 — he wore a Green Bay Packers jersey every year for picture day — and refused to open his mouth for a smile.
Here he is with me sharing an adult beverage — a legal one. Wow, what I wouldn't give for a few more moments of time with a baby who watched Bananas in Pajamas, Gumby and danced down the stairs singing and dancing to Barney's "Special, Special — everyone is special." Sigh.
Pam Parker is the editor of Lake Erie LifeStyle, Her Times and House to Home at the Erie Times-News in Erie, Pa. She is the mom of three, stepmom to three and step-grandmom to one.


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The best defensive group in the league
Cam Charron
July 12 2011 09:50PM
(Cam Charron continues to look at general NHL issues for us here at the Nations. This week, he investigates the Sharks new top-four defense rotation and wonders if it's one of the best in the league)
There has been a lot of chatter dealing with analysis of the trade made between the San Jose Sharks and the Minnesota Wild that sent Dany Heatley to St. Paul in exchange for Martin Havlat. The earlier trade, made draft day, that sent Brent Burns to the Bay Area, may have larger repurcussions. Part of the reason is that there was a such a keen divide in the hockey blogosphere over the Heatley and Havlat trade. It included the bigger name in Heatley, even if he wasn't the best player involved in the two trades.
Jonathan Willis wrote recently at The Score about Mike Weaver and Jason Garrison in Florida, who were one of the top purely defensive pairings in hockey last season. For good reason, I find. Weaver and Garrison were well up in my own defensive ranking which adjusts the number of Fenwick events ( goals, saved shots and missed shots) given up while the player was on the ice for the number of starts a player had in the opposing zone.
While Weaver and Garrison were the top pairing, the top four defensemen should probably at this point be San Jose's remarkably strong unit. Jason Demers and Marc-Edouard Vlasic were seen as San Jose's second pairing last season, despite being the team's onlyduo to start more shifts in their own end than the opposing end. While they didn't play against consistently top competition (that was the Dan Boyle-Douglas Murray combination) they outshot their opponents by a fair margin. In fact, they were #1 and #3 among regular defensemen in the entire NHL.
With the addition of Brent Burns, who was Minnesota's top defenseman in adjusted Fenwick (shots for and against at the net minus blocked shot) and third in quality of competition and other defensive metrics, the Sharks have added another strong number two defenseman to that group. Like Dan Boyle, Burns is known primarily for his offensive instincts. He was 14th in points among defensemen last season and third in goals with 17. Unlike some scoring defensemen who sacrifice defensive aptitude for a few goals, Burns doesn't. He was fine in his own end last season. He's a regular for Team Canada's World Championship team for good reason.
Boyle, Burns, Demers and Vlasic provide a top four that balances scoring punch with defensive strength. Sharks General Manager Doug Wilson no doubt has recognized that his goaltender Antti Niemi is likely the weak link on the team and has made sure to give the Sharks a lot of defensive depth to keep the puck at the other end of the ice. He has given 31 per cent of the Sharks money to his top six defensemen (who include Murray and Jim Vandermeer to round out the corps) which is actually less than the percentage dished out by, among others, Florida's Dale Tallon and Vancouver's Mike Gillis to their top sixes.
Champ is here... Go fist [you can't fist that here -TB] somewhere else
Do we really need comments like Toro's? I know we're hockey fans here and I don't expect a high level of dialogue, but can we at least avoid the absolutely inane crassness that is the first post in this thread?
yep thats sick, don't bother posting if thats all you have to say
July 12 2011, 10:10PM
Do we really need comments like Toro's? I know we're hockey fans here and I don't expect a high level of dialogue, but can we at least avoid the absolutely inane crassness that is the first post in this thread?
You are familiar with the meme that has taken over this site, right? The fist movement is quite prolific around here. I would suggest you just skip the first two or three comments and you will find yourself in crass-free territory.*
*probably not.
..but I did tone it down to keep it PG.
July 12 2011, 10:11PM
yep thats sick, don't bother posting if thats all you have to say
Ignoring him is probably the best remedy to the situation. He is looking for responses like that.
That being said, SJ's Dcorps probably is one of the best. They are going to be a hell of a team next year me thinks.
July 12 2011, 10:12PM
This is one of the few times in my life where I actually heard a regular NHLers name and went "WHO?". Who is Jason Garrison, and how did he slip so badly under my radar?
What's that? Ah, the Florida Panthers. Now it makes sense.
July 12 2011, 10:12PM
@The Towel Boy
I'm all for a good fist but it's the double entendre there that's the issue, not the fist itself.
July 12 2011, 10:17PM
I'm all for a good fist but it's the double entendre there that's the issue, not the fist itself.
And it is fixed for everyone's viewing pleasure.
Now, how 'bout that Shark defense?
meme or not, and I do understand the slashdot "first" reference, it's still unnecessary. lowest common denominator and all that.
Anyone else here leery of letting their hockey crazy kids read through the comments?
Good looking D there. Although as much as I like Vandie for OUR #6, you almost hear the old Sesame Street song going through the head as you read that list
--'one of these things is not like the others. Can you guess before my song is done?'--
July 12 2011, 10:38PM
"Anyone else here leery of letting their hockey crazy kids read through the comments?"
Only when Travis Dakin is lurking around. DO NOT GET IN HIS VAN!!
July 12 2011, 11:00PM
The addition of Burns is huge. It was noticeable against Vancouver that they needed more depth there. Already a back-to-back Conference Finals team and they've gotten better (on paper at least).
July 12 2011, 11:12PM
And who really cares about the 'fist' thing? If some "mouth breather", as Robin likes to say, gets his jollies trolling this blog so that he can write "fist" before all the other morons write it, what's the big deal?
All I know is that the Flames D is going to be tested even more so with the loss of Reg and a much tougher Western Conference.
Play Columbus, you face Carter and Nash. Play LA, you face Kopitar and Richards. Play the Wild you face Heatley and Setoguchi who we will see a lot of in the NW division. Plus those Oiler kids who are fast are getting better.
July 13 2011, 05:02AM
I'm pretty sure you've missed the point here, Cam. Just multiply the number of years without playoffs by ten, add it, and your equation will balance. All will be balanced.
44+ (5x10) = 94.
Cripes, San Jose got Havlat and now Dog Murray is their 5th defenceman?! The rich just get richer.
The only weak spot I see in their line up is their forward depth is a little suspect. Other than that...look out Vancouver.
Cam, any thoughts on the odds of Vandermeer or one of their kids in the 6th hole?
What constently amazes me is that when you start to look through the whole western conference its seems that almost every team is becoming stronger and stronger every year. I have a feeling that the playoff races are going to continue to be tight like last season. The only team off the top of my head that I felt got weaker in the west was the Calgry Flames. Cut their D down and didn't really add any offense. This year will be interesting.
I agree with what's being said here about some of the western teams getting stronger. LA, SJ, VAN, MIN, CLB are all a lot stronger. For a flames fan that isn't good news. I agree that we are a little weaker this year but hopefully that'll be the catalyst to convince the owners the need for REAL change. not just the illusion of change (which has been happening). I'll admit that managment has been doing good things for the HEAT but so far it's been at the expense of the flames. It's going to be a painful year for the flames. But hopefully for the best in the end ... right?...
I'll agree that SJ's d-core is mightily improved, but best in the league?
How about Carle, Coburn, Lilja, Mezaros, Pronger and Timonen? If Pronger can avoid injury, that's a scary group of d-men.
July 13 2011, 10:28AM
The sharks have been on the verge for years they are so due to go all the way. This may be the piece that does it. Sending Heatly away is just as big a deal as he is not in the room or taking up space on ice during playoffs. If injury is not a factor they will be in the west final in 10 months.
SuntanOil, most blogs you can`t let your kid read I find anyways. You have 90 percent of good bloggers, but there is the 10 percent who have to get themselves heard by childish dribble and filth. The moderators tolerate it because they obviously want people to have a freedom to post freely, and the rest of bloggisphere have to resort to making comments like this to make the posters feel like ignoramuses.
As for the article, you know your depth is solid when their projections of their d-corps have Murray as their fifth defencemen. Theres gotta be 10-15 teams out there that would have him in their top shut down pair and play him 20-22 mins a night. SJ gone and done a nice job retooling, and balancing out their team. Looks like another top 4 finish for the team in teal.
July 13 2011, 06:34PM
I can't wait to see Murray pummell Kesler in the playoffs!


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The Vancouver Symphony, making a stop on a tour of the western United States at the Soka Performing Arts Center on Monday, had the honor of being the first professional orchestra to perform a piece of new music in Orange County this season. It was "Totem," a three-movement, 12-minute work by the 41-year-old Dutch composer Edward Top, who is the orchestra's composer-in-residence. It was given its premiere less than two weeks ago.
No one was hurt. Bramwell Tovey, in his 13th season as music director of the group, is well known for his gracious way of talking about music, and he offered a few friendly pointers to the audience on "Totem" before playing it, even demonstrating two or three morsels. Not that it helped the ears maneuver their way through the thicketed piece that much (the program note wasn't all that useful, either), but it did lend a supporting hand.
"Totem" is lugubrious and clangorous. There's a siren and thunder machine in the percussion. The brass exclaim dissonantly. The strings scribble. It sounds a lot like the '60s European avant-garde with a few new touches. Not bad, really, though I don't yearn to hear it again.
Founded in 1919, the Vancouver Symphony is Canada's third-largest orchestra. Thirty percent of its annual budget comes from government sources. Tovey, a British conductor and composer, musically educated in the Salvation Army and a frequent guest of the L.A. Philharmonic, leads the orchestra with a generous, almost florid beat, and the musicians respond freely, spiritedly.
The rest of the program was standard. Canadian pianist Jon Kimura Parker was on hand to perform Grieg's Piano Concerto. His conception of the piece involved slowing down rather drastically for lyrical passages, only he didn't seem to have anything of much importance to say when he did so. He also held the instrument back in a way, was punctilious with the tonal production, so that there were times, even in climaxes, when you wanted him to let go.
Tovey and the orchestra managed supple and outgoing support and handled the pianist's seesaw tempo scheme handily.
After intermission, the orchestra finally got to show its mettle with Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5. It's a solid group all around, the woodwinds standing out with their elegant smoothness and the French horns a potent presence. The orchestra produced a big, beefy sound in the indomitable work, but Tovey kept things flowing easily and naturally, the surges occurring without anyone pushing, the tops of phrases reached in gradual steps.
The Soka acoustics captured plenty of detail (except at the most extreme moments) and offered luxurious bass response. The last ounce of orchestral virtuosity was missing, and perhaps a little juice from the conductor, to allow the final two movements to reach the full potential of their exorbitant heights. But overall this was a satisfying, forthright and even distinguished reading.
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Now that the dust has settled in the southern hemisphere, we thought it was only right to praise the stars of the Super Rugby weekend.
Now that the dust has settled in the southern hemisphere, we thought it was only right to hand out praise to the stars of the Super Rugby round.
Without further ado, here comes our offering – be sure to send in your own 15-1 team selections.
15 Israel Dagg (Crusaders) – A relatively quiet weekend for all the full-backs on show but Dagg was the standout candidate for the 15 jersey thanks to gaining 82 metres with ball in hand. It was his dash for the whitewash early on – after joining the line at pace – that resulted in the five metre scrum that set up the Crusaders' first try.
14 Tom Marshall (Crusaders) – The Chiefs have got themselves a real talent for 2014. Marshall moves on at the end of the season and is set to do so in fine form. His knack of popping up in midfield and regularly making ground has caused defences problems all year and despite teams such as the Reds knowing this, they have been unable to stop him. Over 100 metres in the bank for this – whisper it quietly – future All Black.
13 Ryan Crotty (Crusaders) – We simply can't leave out the guy who scored two tries, made two clean line breaks, beat three defenders and produced five offloads. Crotty ran a perfect angle and then had the power to bust through a couple of tackles on his way to the line for his first score, before finishing off a break from Dan Carter for his second after the interval. The Crusaders midfield copped a bit of flak in the early season but Crotty has been outstanding in the past few games.
12 Christian Lealiifano (Brumbies) – Despite a few wobbles from the kicking tee, Lealiifano recovered and his twelve points ultimately proved vital in the Brumbies booking their ticket to Pretoria. While the hosts conceded two tries, defensively Lealiifano did not miss a tackle and will look to continue his good form at Loftus Versfeld this Saturday.
11 Henry Speight (Brumbies) – Had an off-night in their final regular-season game but bounced back with intent against the Cheetahs. He was a regular running option for the hosts and had final passes gone to hand, might have got over the line. Despite the Brumbies not scoring, Speight got the weekend best of seven defenders beaten.
10 Dan Carter (Crusaders) – With a personal haul of 20 points, including a well-taken try, DC reminded us all – once again – why he is the best 10 in world rugby, cleverly varying play and creating two more tries. It certainly helps to play behind an advancing pack, but Carter made the most of every opportunity, beating more defenders than any other player at AMI Stadium on Saturday.
9 Nic White (Brumbies) – Had he not returned then we don't think the Brumbies would have won their play-off. White's touch-finding was again outstanding while he managed his pack well, adding calmness that ultimately helped the Australians hold on for the win. A mention for Andy Ellis.
8 Philip van der Walt (Cheetahs) – Despite going down with what looked like a serious knee injury in the first minute, Van der Walt recovered to put in a superb performance in Canberra. Up against one of the best eights in the competition in Ben Mowen, the South African carried tirelessly and was another Cheetah unlucky to be on the losing side.
7 Matt Todd (Crusaders) – Headlines in the build-up to the play-offs were about Richie McCaw but Todd Blackadder could easily have left the All Blacks skipper on the bench for all 80 minutes – he really wasn't needed. Beyond his excellent work at the breakdown, Todd's linking role in creating Tom Marshall's try was a perfect example of how the Crusaders always made sure runners had options.
6 George Whitelock (Crusaders) – Rarely given the personal praise he deserves despite consistently performing well in the red and black jersey. Whitelock was yet again strong and unlucky to be kept off the score sheet after being held up over the line. A major cog in a strong Crusaders pack that allowed their dangerous backline to cut loose against the Reds.
5 Sam Whitelock (Crusaders) – The Crusaders lock was a shining example of what is expected of a modern second-row. Faultless in the line-outs, Whitelock also made a telling contribution with ball in hand, beating three defenders, making a clean line break and producing an offload. Chuck in thirteen tackles and you have an outstanding all-round effort.
4 Lood de Jager (Cheetahs) – This 20-year-old lock is another off the South African second-row conveyor belt and on Sunday he firmly announced himself on the Super Rugby map. Playing like someone much older and battle-hardened, De Jager was combative yet cool in the high-pressure play-off.
3 Owen Franks (Crusaders) – Did exactly what is said on the family tin. Franks scrummed very well while put in a good shift around the park, making a whopping sixteen tackles, incredibly the most in Saturday's play-off. It will be interesting to see who comes out on top in the tighthead jersey this weekend when Franks meets Ben Tameifuna.
2 Adriaan Strauss (Cheetahs) – In our eyes the best hooker in world rugby right now. Strauss' leadership and tenacity was again on show over the weekend as he directed the Cheetahs well. One area that remains up for debate was whether the visitors should have taken the points when five metres out with seven minutes remaining. Strauss' reason for gambling was due to their lack of territory during the half which is a fair point. He could not do anything about Piet van Zyl's earlier quick tap from kickable range though and also Riaan Smit's off-game with the boot. In general play, the hooker was superb.
1 Wyatt Crockett (Crusaders) – Like so many of their pack, Crockett demonstrated that Crusaders forwards are able to mirror their backs' skills. The All Black's break and offload for Tom Marshall's try was out of the top drawer while he was solid at the scrum and got through thirteen tackles.


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ANAHEIM – Max Brauer brings his glowing Mickey Mouse ears to Disneyland several times a week.
But he has rarely seen more than a handful of visitors wearing the interactive ears during the "Believe in Holiday Magic" fireworks show, when the ears change colors and twinkle to the music.
"Not very many people know about it," said Brauer, 19, of Loma Linda.
Disneyland this year added what it calls Glow with the Show to the holiday fireworks. It is the resort's third night-time entertainment program retooled to make the high-tech ears twinkle to the beat and special effects.
Glow with the Show began with the "World of Color," an elaborate water-and-light show in Disney California Adventure, and later it was added at Disneyland to "Fantasmic!"
A pair of ears cost $25. Some were given away during special events, where the full effect of syncing ears was visible.
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Brauer sat next to his friend, Steven Wise, 18, who also wore the ears.
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The Green River Pirate baseball team is eight games into the 2013 fall baseball season and Coach Rob Maughan has his team playing a tough schedule to prepare his players for the region season and the ensuing play-offs.
Green River has a 3-5 record through last Friday's game at Richfield against Valley. Green River won the consolation trophy at the Valley tournament earlier, the first time the Pirates have returned with a trophy in baseball in quite a while.
Green River started the season with a loss to Panguitch by the score of 7-0 followed by another loss to Panguitch at the Valley tournament, this time by the score of 10-8. The Pirates then defeated Intermountain Christian 23-0 and Manila 12-6. The Pirates then lost to Wayne 15-1, Piute 12-5 and Valley 10-8. They did defeat St Joseph 11-4 during that final run.
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Tonight begins the first of three debates between the two major party presidential candidates.
For those of you who actually haven't already made up your minds -- or whose minds are flexible enough to have your opinion changed by a good argument -- we encourage you to watch.
Believe it or not, you can miss one "Survivor" episode on behalf of your country.
Both men tonight are highly experienced debaters. If would be unexpected if either commits any serious gaffes. The paid pundits from each side will try and find some, but realistically, both men are too experienced to probably do anything really stupid.
What voters will hear is each candidate's message, and their plan in whatever detail they've managed to flesh it out, unfiltered by the media, bloggers or negative-campaign super PACs.
This is each man, in the flesh, speaking directly to you for your vote.
We know how Idaho will vote and our four electoral votes aren't usually considered vital to either candidate. But there are a number of key swing states right now where the race could go either way.
With less than a month now before the election, these debates could very well decide who the next president will be.
We urge you to watch them and let your friends in those swing know what you thought.
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Thank you for the reminder to keep an open mind while listening to the debates. It's greatly appreciated.
-- Posted by yoB on Wed, Oct 3, 2012, at 6:59 PM
Romney was clear, concise, enthusiastic, aggressive and a leader. Obama looked like he wanted to be somewhere else, stumbled, bumbled, rambled. He's not a good debater w/o his beloved teleprompter. Maybe he'll take some time off from his golfing and fund-raising to prepare better for the next debate. At least take a nap or something LOL
-- Posted by Second Wind on Wed, Oct 3, 2012, at 11:00 PM
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EVV Workgroup Delivers Policy Brief: Addressing Medicaid Program Integrity with EVV
Addressing Medicaid Budget Short Falls and Program Integrity with Electronic Visit Verification Solutions
It is no secret that Medicaid budgets are severely strained and that program integrity is on the front-burner. Every state is challenged to address both issues without restricting low-income patient access to vital healthcare services.
One of these services, home-based healthcare, has been growing significantly of late and, consequently, has become attractive to parties intent on gaming, at a minimum, or blatantly stealing from, at worst, a system designed to use public dollars to provide healthcare to low-income persons. Nationally, over 12 million Americans received healthcare services in their homes last year, delivered by over 33,000 home-based healthcare provider businesses.
When home visits are documented manually, it is easier to bill Medicaid for care that was never delivered, if that is one's intent. To thwart such efforts, there are numerous available Electronic Visit Verification systems (EVV) that are extremely difficult to fool. They have the potential to provide significant benefit to all stakeholders, including payers, healthcare providers and recipients.
EVV systems electronically verify the time and location of the person claiming to have provided home care services. They facilitate electronic documentation needed to record those services and capture a patient's signature, in the process helping home care providers move toward EHR use. For the past year, the EVV Standards Workgroup has been diligently working to help Medicaid officials appreciate the advantages of EVV and to create policies that will most efficiently make the universe of available EVV systems available in their states. We hold that EVV is the most impactful strategy they can implement to improve program integrity while at the same time reducing costs and maintaining beneficiary access.
Unfortunately, some states have mistakenly rushed recently to a policy under which the state mandates a "one-size-fits-all" approach. In these isolated cases, the state is courted by an EVV vendor, issues an RFP, selects that vendor and then mandates its use by all home care providers doing business with the state.
The EVV Standards Workgroup has been created to help states develop a better solution, one which establishes technical and functional EVV standards and requires only that providers select a system that meets those standards.
This policy approach enables providers to choose the EVV system which best meets their needs. It provides assurances to the state that any system selected will feature strong technical controls that guarantee visit verification, thereby minimizing fraud and abuse. More importantly, it relieves the state from having to incur the upfront costs and risks associated with selecting a single source EVV system and forcing all providers to use it, including providers that already have another EVV system in place.
Adding the technology and personnel required to support a single system creates unnecessary costs and places all of the risks of managing a system on the state, thus compounding their already strapped budgets. Conversely, simply setting minimum standards and letting EVV systems vendors compete in the free market creates price advantages and spurs innovation. We believe this results in higher provider adoption rates, greater provider satisfaction and the elimination of unnecessary costs.
The handful of states that have already contracted with a single vendor are seeing a negative impact on efficiency and profitability among home care and hospice providers that already had competent EVV systems in place. They suddenly have to manage two parallel systems, a logistical nightmare with repercussions in employee morale and productivity.
We invite all state Medicaid officials to hear testimony from home care providers directly affected by EVV-related policy. Recently at the National HCAHPS Convention in Washington, DC, several homecare and hospice provider executives engaged in a panel discussion on the merits of EVV systems and the pitfalls of a mandated, one-size-must-fit-all policy approach. All participants endorsed a standards based approach that unleashes the benefits of the free market system while simultaneously meeting the jurisdictions' need to curtail fraud and abuse and directly addressing budget shortfalls.
The EVV Workgroup strongly encourages all affected parties to click on "EVV VIDEOS" to see excerpts from the HCAHPS session. Once you have viewed these compelling video segments, you are also encouraged to spend time reviewing the other educational and informative materials posted within the EVV Workgroup site. They are designed to help state Medicaid officials improve program integrity and control both state and provider costs without circumventing the free market.
About the EVV Standards Workgroup:
The mission of EVV Standards Workgroup for Home Care is to provide education and raise awareness on the merits and advantages of available full-featured EVV solutions to stakeholders including payers, back-office software vendors, homecare and hospice providers, and home care recipients. On behalf of the industry Carewatch, CellTrak Technologies, Dial-n-Document and Sansio are founding members of the Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) workgroup. For more information please visit: http://www.evvworkgroup.org
Telephony System Verifies Visits, Agency Avoids $100,000 Payback
This article from 2009 is shared with permission from its author, Tim Rowan, Executive Director of the Home Care Information Technology Council. It describes how the CareWatch Telephony system helped one Colorado home care agency respond to a demand letter for Colorado Medicaid substantiating services.
Click here to read the PDF of the article.
Ohio Medical Assistance adopts standards-based verification approach
The Ohio division of Medical Assistance has adopted a standards-based strategy to help provide both time, location, and service delivery assurance through visit verification. An excerpt from Chapter 5101:3 includes the following language:
…(2) A home care service provider, who provides home care services to a home care dependent adult, must have a system which effectively monitors the delivery of services by its employee(s). The system must include:
(a) A mechanism to verify whether their employees are present (e.g., at the beginning and end of a visit) at the location and time where services are to be provided for home care dependent adults who have a mental impairment or life-threatening condition;
(b) Verification of whether the provider's employees have provided the services at the proper location and time at the end of each working day for all other home care dependent adults…
The link to the entire chapter can be accessed here.
Telephony – The Right Solution for Cost Effective Documentation
What is Telephony and Electronic Visit Verification?
Here is an article by one of the homecare industry's leading Telephony providers, Dial-N-Document that explains this technology and its benefits.


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Henrico's Top Teachers – Shahidah Jackson
Wilder M.S., physical education
Shahidah Jackson's smile has been brightening Wilder Middle School since the school opened its doors for the first time in 1998.
Jackson is a physical education teacher at the school, but her influence extends well beyond gymnasium walls and playing fields, according to those who know her.
"She is always willing to help every student and teacher with any problems or needs that may arise," a colleague wrote in a nomination letter. "Any time you walk by this teacher, she finds a way to put a smile on your face."
Jackson fills her days with school-related activities that extend well beyond class hours.
As a cheerleading coach during nearly her entire tenure at Wilder, she has worked with students after school and has helped provide an outlet for some who might have chosen the wrong path otherwise.
"During tryouts, she makes a point to have someone on her team that some would consider 'troublesome' in school, and to keep this student on the right path throughout the school year," a nominator wrote. "I feel that is tremendous dedication to the students, for many teachers try to avoid these students in our school. But Mrs. Jackson always finds the good in all of the students at Wilder.
"She tries to provide her cheerleaders with as many opportunities as possible by going out of her way to take these students to competitions and to provide team bonding times, even if it means opening the doors to her home."
Jackson co-founded the school's C.L.A.S.S.Y. organization (Creating Ladylike Attitudes for Sophistication and Success) for teenage girls. The club provides mentoring and life skills for its participants and is designed to develop strong citizens in and out of the classroom, while showing participants how they can have a positive impact on the community.
"At this level with students, all they need is someone that will show them attention and keep them motivated, grounded and give them encouragement to stay focused," Jackson says. "So each year, I challenge myself to help out as many students as possible. I feel rewarded each day when I enter the building and I am greeted with hugs and smiles. [It feels great] to know that the students feel that I genuinely care and love each one of them, and I get the same in return."
Jackson also is a frequent volunteer at other school events and serves as a sponsor for other clubs at Wilder as well.
In addition to her broad range of involvement at the school, colleagues also describe Jackson as an active volunteer away from school in the Eastern Henrico community.
"Everyone knows this teacher for her generosity, caring and relentless unselfish attitude," one wrote. "Any time a student, teacher, or administration needs something, she never fails and is always there wherever needed."
Villa's Flagler Housing wins national NAEH award
St. Joseph's Villa's Flagler Housing & Homeless Services was one of three entities to earn the National Alliance to End Homelessness' Champion of Change Award. The awards were presented Nov. 17 during a ceremony at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
NAEH annually recognizes proven programs and significant achievements in ending child and family homelessness.
Flagler completed its transition from an on-campus shelter to the community-based model of rapid rehousing in 2013, and it was one of the nation's first rapid re-housing service providers to be certified by NAEH. > Read more.
RIR's Christmas tree lighting rescheduled for Dec. 12
Richmond International Raceway's 13th annual Community Christmas tree lighting has been rescheduled from Dec. 6 to Monday, Dec. 12, at 6:30 p.m., due to inclement weather expected on the original date.
Entertainment Dec. 12 will be provided by the Laburnum Elementary School choir and the Henrico High School Mighty Marching Warriors band. Tree decorations crafted by students from Laburnum Elementary School and L. Douglas Wilder Middle School will be on display. Hot chocolate and cookies will be supplied by the Henrico High School football boosters. > Read more.
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Given the warm weather lately, Saturday's RVA Polar Plunge Winter Fest, benefiting Special Olympics Virginia, might actually be enjoyable! Other weekend events you're sure to enjoy include the 14th annual Richmond Kids Expo at the Richmond Raceway Complex, the Richmond Symphony and The Taters in concert at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, and the Richmond Ballet Minds in Motion Team XXL performing at the Henrico Theatre. This is also the last weekend to check out HATTheatre's production of "Bill W. and Dr. Bob." For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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Funassyi has released his 2nd single - a new danceable song called "Boogie Boogie Funassyi" that will be out on August 20.
Funassyi has released his 2nd single - a new danceable song called "Boogie Boogie Funassyi" that will be out on August 20.
Green House is going to release a cigar socket USB charger adapter "GH-CCU2A" in mid-August.
GH-CCU2A has 2 USB ports built-in so that it is able to simultaneously charge up to 2 devices at a time such as a smartphone, iPhone and iPad. Each port is compatible with up to 2.1A output, which enables you to charge 2 iPads at the same time.
It has an overcorrect protective fuse and LED light to check the condition of its power distribution.
You cannot but say Kawaii! when you first meet.
Circle K Sunkus is going to release a steamed bun collaboration for Doraemon's upcoming first 3DCG movie, STAND BY ME Doraemon. It is called Doraemon-man.
This doraemon face-shaped steamed bun filled with sweet custard cream will be out on August 19, and only 400,000 buns will be available.
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Toshio Suzuki, film producer of Studio Ghibli as well as a great friend of master Hayao Miyazaki appeared on Jyonetsu Tairiku (a weekly Japanese TV program that covers public figures) on August 3, and talked about the future of Studio Ghibli.
In a scene from their shareholder meeting, Producer Suzuki said "We will make a big change on the full spectrum of Studio Ghibli and we are planning to break down our production department."
Ricoh Imaging announced the release of the latest palm-sized mirrorless interchangeable lens digital camera PENTAX Q-S1. Release date is August 5th.
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Canon has announced the release of the EOS Kiss X7i Triple Zoom Kit. The price will be ¥143,800.
It comes with the DSLR EOS Kiss X7i camera, released in April 2013, and 3 different lenses (EF-S 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 IS STM, EF-S 55-250mm F4-5.6 IS STM, and EF-S 10-18mm F4.5-5.6 IS STM). With these 3 lenses, you are able to cover a 35mm equivalent focal range of 16-400mm.
Ricoh Imaging sent out a press release to announce that the release date of their popular upcoming PENTAX K-3 Prestige Edition is changed to August 29. It was originally announced to be out on August 8.
The date change happened due to a procurement delay of the product's parts.
Sony announced that today they have released a special Walkman model in collaboration with a Japanese visual-kei band, the GazettE, in a limited quantity.
The limited edition "the GazettE Model" is made based on Walkman's F series and S series. An original design is stamped on the backside, and original music video "LAST HEAVEN", photos, and wallpapers are pre-installed.


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Contact: Laura Eagen 701.777.2719
Contact Dept: Wellness Center
Website: und.edu/health-wellness/wellness/fitness/group.cfm
Wellness Center Group Exercise Room 272/274
801 Princeton St.
Grand Forks, ND 58202
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Your Thursday reading in 20 word or less:
- A fund maker with 82 years and three press releases meets the press. — Christopher Condon, Bloomberg News
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- Yes, emerging markets really, really, really depend on the Federal Reserve. — Brendan Conway, Barrons.com
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Portland's culinary reputation continues to grow nationwide. Several of the following restaurants have received prestigious awards for their excellent and delicious meals. It's worth the trip to the Port City to try one — or all — of the venues we rated the best Portland, Maine, restaurants. We promise you won't be disappointed with the meals created by the phenomenal chefs at these venues.
Eventide Oyster Co. & Hugo's
With Eventide Oyster Co., we have a restaurant that serves intelligent, just-imaginative-enough, and tasty interpretations of classic New England seafood like lobster rolls, chowder, and fried fish. The idea is so simple and winning that you have to wonder why anyone didn't think of it before, or at least didn't execute it so well. But all the better for the team at Eventide, which has been welcoming hungry crowds since it opened in 2012 and won a "People's Choice Best Chefs" award from Food & Wine magazine the following year. Don't miss the rolls and buns—filled with lobster or fried oysters or fried chicken—and of course, you must start with some raw bar and the chowder. The kitchen has a light hand with both fried fish and crudo, so even the daintiest eaters can dine happily, though the biscuits are worth busting any diet.
Meanwhile, this trio has also relaunched Hugo's next door, where they all worked for the legendary Rob Evans before buying the place from him, also in 2012. There, they have maintained the restaurant's high standards and cutting-edge reputation, serving exquisite Maine-sourced ingredients prepared with Japanese and French accents. For example: local lobster is poached with Maine-grown ginger and served with foraged lobster mushrooms in a broth enriched with Maine kombu seaweed. Everything exotic and hyper-local, all on a plate. And the dining room, recently refurbished, boasts an open kitchen which you can view from comfortable custom-made leather booths and tables made from 160-year-old reclaimed red birch.
Eventide Oyster Co.. 86 Middle St. 207-774-8538
Hugo's. 88 Middle St. 207-774-8538
Rob Evans is having a good time. After years of training that had him bouncing around the country, Rob has planted deep roots in Maine, the place that inspired his style of seasonally-influenced cooking, and where he launched his award-winning fine-dining restaurant, Hugo's in 2000. In 2012, he sold the place to employees Arlin Smith, Mike Wiley and Andrew Taylor, who now operate both Hugo's and Eventide Oyster Co, but he continues to run the wildly popular Duckfat, a more casual café across the street from Hugo's, where his staff makes superlative panini, salads, charcuterie, and milkshakes, plus the signature Belgian-style frites that are fried in the flavorful fat that give the restaurant its name. Rob has always been inspired by New England's changing seasons, and for his next act, he and partner Nancy Pugh have started a farm in nearby Limington. Rob takes seriously his "responsibility to support the local guys," using indigenous foods and recycling 90 percent of the waste that Duckfat produces. "It's all part of being in the place you are," he says. "If people travel to Portland, I want them to have a Portland experience — not to try to re-create something from the Napa Valley or Paris or Miami. This is Maine."
Duckfat. 43 Middle St. 207-774-8080
Cinque Terre & Vignola
Chef Lee Skawinski and his partner, Dan Kary, are so committed to local foods that they farm most of the produce on their menus themselves. "We support as many local guys as we can, from rabbits to chickens to lamb, because we can, and because it's a better product," Lee explains. "Part of being a cook in our restaurants is to come to the farm and pick. It makes the connection to what we cook more profound." This time of year, Lee says, "I'm like a kid at Christmas, waiting for asparagus and peas. They have a vibrancy that can't be replicated or easily described."
Lee puts the food, not his ego, at the center of the plate. During the off season, he travels to Europe to underscore "the importance of quality ingredients, taste wine, and pick up a few ideas." At Cinque Terre the menu offerings are refined Italian classics; at Vignola, dishes hail from the great Mediterranean wine countries of Italy, Spain, and France.
Cinque Terre. 36 Wharf St. 207-347-6154
Vignola. 10 Dana St. 207-772-1330
"We [the kitchen staff] poke around at the farmers' markets and snag what inspires us, what looks good; then we bring it back to the kitchen," says Steve Corry, chef and co-owner (with his wife, Michelle) of 555. "We talk the menu through, and everyone has an opinion. Some are more vocal than others, but the cooks are all passionate and intense. Sometimes it goes through a few renditions before we're all satisfied. Then it makes it to the menu."
Steve and Michelle both spent time in California before settling back among their East Coast roots. That time in Napa codified their respect for local ingredients and their love of fine wines — both of which are front and center on Steve's menus.
Before opening the doors, Steve was clear about his cooking style and what his operation would be, "but mostly I wanted to make sure that this would be a place for people who live here in Portland — not just for out-of-towners. We love seeing new faces for certain, but we're also open seven nights a week, no matter the weather."
555. 555 Congress St. 207-761-0555
Fore Street
The plates that come from Sam's kitchen carry strong Mediterranean influences, but the ingredients and simplicity are undeniably coastal Maine. Fore Street's signature dish, for example — mussels with garlic and almonds — gives a nod to French and Spanish cuisine, but the orange nuggets of cold-water mussels coaxed from their blue-black shells are all about the briny seas around Coombs Island in Gurnet Strait, where they're harvested by hand.
Fore Street's many-windowed dining room is rustic and minimally decorated, but like the food, it's a well-thought-out operation: comfortable and natural with exposed brick, rich wooden tables, and an open kitchen centered around a wood-burning oven that reaches 800 degrees and a grill that glows from the live flames beneath its grates.
Among the cooks here there's a precisely choreographed hustle — one that comes from experience, yet, centered around that fiery gleam, somehow evokes a primal dance. It's all part and parcel of dining at Fore Street.
Fore Street. 288 Fore St. 207-775-2717


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By SUZANNE LARSENFerron
I would like to express my feelings about the residential living center for girls that is proposed for Ferron. I attended the Ferron City Planning and Zoning Commission meeting that was held on Jan. 10 and listened to what was presented there. My opinion is that Charlotte Williams is a very capable foster parent, but at the same time I don't think that putting level one youth in a residential home is the best situation for them. Living in a home environment with parents is totally different than living with a group of girls and having someone paid to supervise them.
One concern I have relates to Mrs. William's statement that she had to write in her business plan; which states she would accept adjudicated youth to receive funding, even though it wasn't her intentions to place them in her facility. My questions are: Is this honest business practice? Will she use the funding she receives in compliance with her requirements? If she does will she have to prove that she is housing that level of youth; and if not, then what?
Also, I have a concern referring to the zoning issue. I know a city plan is in the process of being put together, and that the particular area of town that is in question is not zoned for that type of business. We are allowing thousands of hours worth of work creating a plan go to waste if we are willing to change it at the drop of a hat. Is it in the best interest of the city or only in the interest of a few to make this change?
Yet another concern I hold is that of the safety of our people. I contacted the sheriff's department in Wayne County and asked them as to what their opinion was of this type of business; knowing they have a similar business in Loa, called Aspen Ranch. I was told that there are pros and cons.
The pros given were the income and employment effects in the area. The cons show they have a problem with the youth running and stealing vehicles. Recently an elderly couple bought a new minivan and had it stolen by two runners who totaled it. Also, the sheriff's department responds regularly to the "Ranch" for assault charges. The other major con given was that they have a problem there with drugs. It was suggested to me that this be "carefully considered and all options weighed" before we, as a city, make this "big decision." Aspen Ranch does house adjudicated youth, and therefore refers back to my first concern.
It is my feelings and opinion that the zoning should not be changed to allow this business, that we as a city seek out and entertain businesses that will operate with integrity and that will not put the safety of our citizens in jeopardy, or cause them to fear. I hope that Ferron City Zoning and Planning Commission and Ferron City Council don't make a decision of this caliber without the consent of the citizens of Ferron.


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NYT's Lens blog posted a fun entry about Senator Patrick Leahy's personal photography as he operates from a unique vantage point within the hallowed halls and meeting rooms of Washington D.C. As interesting as the many photos of presidents and legislators are, it's this "conscience picture" — a portrait he took of an El Salvadoran man in a refugee camp in 1987 — that I find most intriguing, most grounding.
From James Estrin's piece:
"I set that over my desk," Senator Leahy said, "and every time I think I'm getting a little carried away with myself, I look at that and hear him say: 'O.K. You've talked to all these very important people all around the world; people who have power and money and everything. What are you doing for people like me?'"
(photo: Patrick Leahy)
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but i digress, i don't find it embarrassing or shameful to read shoujo's, the only thing that wierds me out is the awkwardness of being the only guy discussing them most of the time >_>
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<---manga noob... so i still dont really get the different names for manga... is shojo the gay porn mangas my girl friends from high school would always read?
Err...in a way, Shoujo is a style of manga aimed at females, mainly romance/comedy genre.
it depends on the manga really. i know iv read 1 what is definatly shojo, sizuki. but im not to sure if love hina would count as 1.
I read all manga that seems like I'd like it, or if someone rekomends it.
I dont see why it would be embarassing anyway, I mean, it's just a book.
I love Shoujo. I completly agree with alot of people here in saying that there is nothing wrong with it. Something interesting about one of the posts eariler about not playing a female character in a game just cause she's a girl: Yeah, tell me that after you finished Metroid lol *Shhhhh, don't spoil the end lol. Anyways, the majority of what I read or watch is shoujo. I love D.N.Angel (the manga), Furuba (the manga, for now unless it has a crappy ending like the anime), Kare Kano, and most recently Karin which I'm pretty sure is classified under Shoujo (probably the series for those who want a nice balance). I don't care what the heck anyone thinks of me for watching them and I'm proud to watch those shows. I ask some really dedicated otaku's, what's the story in your fav anime? Some have the nerve to answer "who cares as long as there's blood. Blood makes everything good." That's nothing but junk. I love comedy so Shoujo is perfect for me. Ok my rant is done (or so it seems lol. Naw it's done. Or is it?). Pretty good for my first post lol. Nice topic by the way.
Much like the post said earlier in the topic by someone, same here. No boy x boy love or girl x girl love in the story for me. No amount of brain study could ever find a cure. I think they'd find a cure for more diseases before they get me to watch shouen/shoujo ai. Not that I have any problems with gay couples. I just really don't like watching anime with those pairings. It's creepy enough with just the assumption that all the other characters have.
Hello. Seeing how this is your first post I'd like to welcome you to the forum. ^__^
I've heard good things about Furuba and been meaning to give it a try. And you're right. Manga with no plot and excessively gory scene isn't exactly my taste either.
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Bills' Marrone raved about Barkley in September
by Joe Buscaglia
posted Apr 22 2013 8:47AM
Before you read any more, it is very important to note one thing in particular:
You can read however much or little in to this as you want, because sometimes coach speak exists and some of the things they say are a little over the top. But sometimes coaches speak the truth, too.
Back in September when the Buffalo Bills were still steered by Chan Gailey, Doug Marrone was still the head man at Syracuse University and preparing to take on the USC Trojans for the second straight year.
At that point in time, USC was considered to be one of the top programs in the nation heading in to the season, and they're led by none other than 2013 draft hopeful Matt Barkley.
This news item comes courtesy of
Matt Rybaltowski of CBSSports.com
, who recapped Marrone talking about his opponents -- and more specifically Barkley.
Last October, Barkley shredded the Orange secondary with 324 yards and five touchdowns. During Monday's Big East coaches' teleconference, Marrone indicated that Barkley, not Robert Griffin III, would have been considered the top quarterback in last April's NFL Draft alongside Andrew Luck.
"I was one of a couple people that was hoping he'd go on to the NFL," Marrone said. "I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I'm happy he's back."
Keep in mind that Marrone and Syracuse did not have to go up against Robert Griffin III and Baylor within the past couple of seasons so he didn't necessarily watch as much tape as he did on Barkley, but the quote still remains one that makes you wonder a little bit.
Then the adoration continued when talking about Barkley's skills on the field.
Besides being impressed by Barkley's intangibles, Marrone raved about Barkley's pocket presence and patience. Unlike many college quarterbacks Barkley excels in checking down to his backs when his downfield targets are covered, Marrone said. Barkley connected with his running backs four times in last season's 38-17 win over Syracuse.
"If he doesn't like what's going on when they (take away) the deep vertical threats, he can come right back to the backs," Marrone said. "That's one of the things you see with the top guys in the NFL."
Some interesting stuff, wouldn't you say? I don't know if you can really make heads or tails out of who the Bills will ultimately select through this article, but it sure is interesting seeing the mindset of the Bills' future head coach, when he wasn't a head coach, talking about a quarterback who very well could be his next quarterback.
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Yesterday, a bit of plagiarism at an obscure regional food magazine blew up the internet. Cooks Source editor Judith Griggs' haughty dismissal of a writer she stole from earned her four kabillion brickbats. She's apologized! Not very well, though. [UPDATED]
After what was by far the biggest day in the history of Cooks Source magazine's Twitter ranking, its editor took to its insult-flooded Facebook page to say this:
Hi Folks!
Well, here I am with egg on my face! I did apologise to Monica via email, but aparently it wasnt enough for her. To all of you, thank you for your interest in Cooks Source and Again, to Monica, I am sorry — my bad!
You did find a way to get your "pound of flesh..." we used to have 110 "friends," we now have 1,870... wow!
...Best to all, Judith
Wow! Assuming this is real, it's pretty much in line with Judith's normal, breezy correspondence style. The Facebook insults are currently still going up at a rate of two or three per minute, so Cooks Source still has another day or so to milk this publicity before they're forgotten forever before they return to their new life of dealing with copyright lawsuits from Paula Deen. We would have suggested an apology more along the lines of, "Here is a video of me, Judith Griggs, throwing my writhing body onto a bonfire."
The internet's a tough crowd.
UPDATE: It's been pointed out that there's quite a bit of dispute over whether this is really from Judith Griggs or not. Romenesko says it is; some commenters say it's not. We've emailed Cooks Source, but haven't heard back. And Judith Griggs hasn't made any other public statements that we know of. So either this is real, and she's not good at apologies; or she hasn't said anything at all, and she's really not good at apologies. If a definitive answer comes out, we'll update.


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Skip to comments.Lightning Kills Boy Scout Leader, Injures Seven Others During Camping Trip
Posted on 07/29/2005 6:17:21 PM PDT by Pharmboy
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Lightning struck a group of Boy Scouts taking shelter from a storm, killing the troop leader and leaving a 13-year-old boy brain-dead in the latest tragedy to befall the organization this week, authorities and the teen's grandfather said. Six others were injured when the lightning bolt made a direct strike on a tarp the Scouts had set up in a meadow in Sequoia National Park on Thursday.
Ryan Collins, 13, was being kept on a ventilator so that his organs could be donated, the boy's grandfather said Friday. Collins was listed in critical condition at the University Medical Center in Fresno, but his family had given up hope.
"He would never recover or anything else," grandfather Bill Collins said.
The lightning strike came just days after four Scout leaders were electrocuted while putting up a tent at the National Scout Jamboree in Virginia. Dozens of Scouts were sickened by the stifling heat two days later at the jamboree.
At least one of the injured in the lightning strike was kept alive only because the troop managed to administer CPR for an hour, park ranger Alex Picavet said. It is not known which injured person that was.
"That's amazing," Picavet said. "It's very difficult. It's probably because of their Boy Scout training."
The assistant scoutmaster, Steve McCullagh, 29, was killed instantly when the bolt struck, the Tulare County coroner's office said.
"He didn't even make it off the mountain," said Sue Collins, the boy's mother, crying along with her husband and younger son at the hospital. "It's horrible. It's a fluke."
One troop member was being kept for observation at the Fresno hospital, and all the others were treated and released from another hospital, authorities said.
The scout group from St. Helena, which included five adults and seven teenage scouts, had been camping for a week as part of a nine-day backcountry hike along the John Muir Trail.
A lightning bolt made a direct strike on one of two tarps they had set up in a meadow. Two teenagers ran 25 minutes to a ranger station after the strike, and five helicopters flew in to evacuate the group.
"They did the best they could in the situation they were in," Picavet said. "They didn't have metal poles, and stayed away from high points."
Collins said his grandson was a scout for more than three years and loved the outdoors.
"He was a fabulous boy. He was doing what he loved to do," Collins said. "It's just a tremendous shock to everybody."
It's been a bad week for the boy scouts.
How could they hit by the lightening with just a tarp? Is there metal attached?
This has got to have an effect on their recruiting.
Dang! Sounds like the Zotamatic has been miscallibrated. What a week.
Very sorry to hear this. I respect the folks who volunteer their time to help kids get a good start. This is terrible.
None of the stories mentioned metal One would think that during a lightening storm they would move away from anything metal. But what were they putting up the tarp with? You ask an excellent question.
"How could they hit by the lightening with just a tarp? Is there metal attached?"
You don't need metal, just be the highest point in the area.
"You don't need metal, just be the highest point in the area."
Especially if it was wet.
Pine trees don't have metal in them.
What do you mean? What kind of message?
And what would that be? Be careful in thunderstorms? What the heck are you implying?
Where do you think lightning comes from?
It said they put them up in a meadow. They were probably the highest exposed point.
A couple months ago a NJ boy scout fell off a boat on a scouting trip and drowned in the ocean. I remember a few years back when two or three scouts got washed off a bridge on a river in flood, and drowned.
And we just signed up our son for Cub Scouts. Mother's nerves here.
Mrs VS
What kind of message? What do you mean? Do you know?
It's been a bad summer for the Scouts.
Lightning is an electrostatic breakdown event. It does not come from God.
Doe Eyes is going to tell us what the message was from God about the tragedy for this scouts.....lets wait....
They camped in a meadow, offering a high profile path for electrical charge flow.
Don't know where you got that from, but it wasn't from me.
SEEK: Seek clumps of shrubs or trees of uniform height. Seek ditches, trenches or the low ground. Seek a low, crouching position with feet together with hands on ears to minimize acoujstic shock from thunder.
We camped in a valley in the Sierra Nevadas, and there was a lighting strike somewhere in the valley every 30 seconds for a two hour period. We pitched the tent where the boulders around us were at least twice the height of the tent.
I have noticed when we attended some girls' soccer games, a pretty new activity for us, it was thundering and lightning off in the distance, raining a little. I had heard that even if the lightning is in the distance, you get inside anyway. They kept the game going as if it were just a very serious matter to keep it going, and would not call the game until a bolt of lightning struck a light pole on the field! This was a little girls' soccer game for goodness sake. These school sports have taken on a life of their own, and adults who are supposed to know better, treat them like they are life and death (which they may well become for reasons other than they imagine); guess the coach's job and the school administration is the name of the game at the end of the day. A lot more people than one would think seem to like risk taking.
Last year a young man from our church was killed at the beach by a lightning bolt from nowhere - no thunderstorm at all. But when you see the storm - for goodness' sake get off the field. I think in NJ the sports teams are somewhat more cautious after a few instances of golfers and soccer players being struck.
Mrs VS
Pls try to stay focused:
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To: Pharmboy
God must be sending a message.
10 posted on 07/29/2005 9:32:59 PM EDT by Doe Eyes
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I said:
What kind of message?
You answered with ANOTHER QUESTION, :
Where do you think lightning comes from?
hence the dodge by you not to answer a simple question
So what are you saying Doe Eyes?
What was the message, please enlighten us....
Mrs. VS,
I just checked some stats. There are 988,000 Boy Scouts and 885,000 Cub Scouts. Your son just became part of a huge, incredible organization.
However, with numbers like that, sadly it's inevitable that some tragedy will befall a small number of them, sometimes unavoidably unless parents decide that ultimate safety (padded walls and a couch) is better than living a life of fun, adventure and a little bit of risk.
Although I was a Cub Scout as a child, I did not continue. Now that I'm a dad, I have two boys in Scouting this year, Webelo and Tiger. I'm a leader of our Pack and am enjoying every minute. Scouting is an incredible organization with an enviable safety record.
That said, don't worry and have fun with your son.
So what message is God sending when lightning strikes and kills a 13 year old boy? Are you going to enlighten us? Or are you just full of cr#p?
I wonder if restrictions on camp sites from environmental concerns (too close to a stream, etc.) prompted them to pitch where it was unsafe.
Where does lightning come from?
I knew somebody would say that!
Number of Lightning Deaths in the United States, 1990-2003
Don't most tarps have grommets? There may be enough metal on them to attract lightening if conditions are right, I guess.
I'm sorry for this boy and his family. I pray for them.
Rocks act like dielectrics that lower the field. Conductive point like objects like trees, people and poles, raise the field. Cracks in the rocks filled with dirt and tree roots are conductive paths.
I don't have a clue, so I would be very appreciative if you would tell me!!!
Not too proud of what you said are you?
You can't justify it, you can only dodge it now...we know
You can't bring yourself to post what you really meant to say can you?
I'll just repeat it for everyone to see the way you think
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To: Pharmboy
God must be sending a message.
10 posted on 07/29/2005 9:32:59 PM EDT by Doe Eyes
I knew somebody would say that!
Embarressing and Sad isn't it?
Where does lightning come from?
Answer my question about What the MESSAGE is....
then we'll get to yours
The Boy Scout group was in a meadow surrounded by trees when the lightning storm became heavy. They split into two groups and set up two tarps more than 50 feet apart to seek refuge from the storm, Picavet said. Then, a lightning strike made a direct hit on one tarp.
"Everyone under that tarp was affected in some degree," Picavet said.
Using a map of the park, two teenage boys made a 25-minute run to the nearest ranger station and hurried back with the on-duty ranger, Picavet said.
God not invent the laws of nature. God, being real, depends on them for His existence.
"Let it be known that electrostatic breakdown was NOT invented by mankind...the event is indeed an action of God....and for good reasons...
The event is not an action of God, it happens purely, because of the local conditions. Those conditions are not set up by God. In this case it's just weather. There's nothing more to it.
Given that God pretty much controls earthly events, he wanted to bring these Boy Scouts to heaven, for reasons I cannot, and do not, need to understand.
Creationists and Intelligent Design types usually complain that evolution is based on materialistic understandings of how the natural world works.
One can't have it both ways--either G-d intervenes directly in every event or there are materialistic explanations. Perhaps this was an indication of supernatural power, but more likely it has a material explanation based on science and some bad luck and randomness. If not, then it must be due to an ID's supernatural's design or pre-destination.
Good for you!!!
That's alot more honest than what you said originally...... "God's sending a message" which had a more ominuous and punishing ring to it...but then you knew that.
It's static electricity. To be simple and short just as you wipe electrons free from the rug when you walk and they collect on your shoe and conduct everywhere from your fingertips to your head, the wind does the same. The charge collects in the atmosphere. WInds are greater in storms and the water droplets act as dielectrics collecting and concentrating charges.
When charges are separated, an electric field results. The more charge, or the smaller the distance of separation, the higher the field. Air and moist air can only support a certain field before the air breaks down into a plasma(separate charges) and conducts. The conduction is the lighning bolt. The measure of electric field strength is in volts/unit length.
I read online that more people die each year in Ga. from lightning than from snake bites. My son wanted to go outside today when it was storming BAD. Lots of thunder and lightning and pouring rain. I printed out the story about the scouts, and the two who died in Ga. after lightning strike. Scary.
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Republican Senate Candidate Says Daughter's Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy is 'Similar' to Rape
Meet Tom Smith, the Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania. Smith has never had to deal with a situation as difficult as his daughter being impregnated by a rapist. But he's had to deal with, in his words, "something similar": his daughter becoming pregnant after consensual sex with a man to whom she wasn't married.
Smith was being asked about comments made by Rep. Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin, Missouri senate candidate and person who believes that women almost never become pregnant following rape, when he appeared to indicate that he regarded his daughter's out-of-wedlock pregnancy as almost as bad as rape:
"What that congressman said I do not agree with at all," Smith said. "He should have never said anything like that.
"I lived something similar to that with my own family," he went on to say. "She chose life and I commend her for that. She knew my views but fortunately for me … she chose the way I thought. Now don't get me wrong. It wasn't rape."
Smith was then asked if his daughter's unwed pregnancy and rape were similar. "No, no, no. Put yourself in a father's position, yes, I mean it is similar," he said.
Asked again to clarify his statement, Smith said he wasn't comparing the two.
"No, I didn't not say that," Smith said. "I said I went through a situation (with a daughter). It's very, very difficult. But do I condone rape? Absolutely not. But do I propose life, yes I do. I'm pro-life, period.
Smith is behind his opponent, Sen. Bob Casey, by 18 points, so it's not like this changes the dynamic of the race. It just reveals that Smith believes the operative set of feelings and decisions about his daughter's sex life are his, and that hers — in particular her consent — are irrelevant. Worse, it's a tacit admission that Smith would be ashamedof his daughter if she were raped, just as he apparently is by her pregnancy.


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The following guest post is from Barry Garelick, co-founder of the U.S. Coalition for World Class Math, an education advocacy organization that addresses mathematics education in U.S. schools.
The New York Times ran a story on September 30 about Singapore Math being used in some schools in the New York City area. Like many newspaper stories about Singapore Math, this one was no different. It described a program that strangely sounded like the math programs being promoted by reformers of math education, relying on the cherished staples of reform: manipulatives, open-ended problems, and classroom discussion of problems. The only thing the article didn't mention was that the students worked in small groups.
Those of us familiar with Singapore Math from having used it with our children are wondering just what program the article was describing. Spending a week on the numbers 1 and 2 in Kindergarten? Spending an entire 4th grade classroom period discussing the place value ramifications of the number 82,566? Well, maybe that did happen, but not because the Singapore Math books are structured that way. In fact, the books are noticeably short on explicit narrative instruction. The books provide pictures and worked out examples and excellent problems; the topics are ordered in a logical sequence so that material mastered in the various lessons builds upon itself and is used to advance to more complex applications. But what is assumed in Singapore is that teachers know how to teach the material—the teacher's manuals contain very little guidance. Thus, the decision to spend a week on the numbers 1 and 2 in kindergarten, or a whole class period discussing a single number is coming from the teachers, not the books.
The mistaken idea that gets repeated in many such articles is that Singapore Math differs from other programs by requiring or imparting a "deep understanding" and that such understanding comes about through a) manipulatives, b) pictures, and c) open-ended discussions. In fact, what the articles represent is what the schools are telling the reporters. What newspapers frequently do not realize when reporting on Singapore Math, is that when a school takes on such a program, it means going against what many teachers believe math education to be about; it is definitely not how they are trained in ed schools. The success of Singapore's programs relies in many ways on more traditional approaches to math education, such as explicit instruction and giving students many problems to solve, in some ways its very success represented a slap in the face to American math reformers, many of whom have worked hard to eliminate such techniques being used.
Singapore Math does not rely heavily on manipulatives as so many articles represent. It does make use of pictures, but even that is misrepresented. Singapore makes use of a technique known as "bar modeling". It is a very effective technique and is glommed onto as the be-all end-all of the program, when in fact, it is only a part of an entire package. People mistakenly believe that all you have to do is teach kids how to draw the right kind of pictures and they can solve problems. (In fact, there are now books written that provide explicit instruction on how to solve problems using bar modeling—meant to supplement Singapore's books. That such books rely on a rote-like procedure is ironic considering that reforms criticize US programs as being based on rote instruction.) Pictorial representation is indeed a gateway to abstraction, but there are other pathways that Singapore uses as well. Singapore's strength is the logical consistency of the development of mathematical concepts. And much to the chagrin of educators who may have learned differently, mastery of number facts and arithmetic procedures is part and parcel to conceptual understanding. Starting with conceptual understanding and using procedures to underscore it is an invitation to disaster—such approach is making profits for outfits like Sylvan, Huntington and Kumon.
The underlying message in articles such as the Times' is that math education is bad in the U.S. because it is not being taught according to the ideals of reforms—and the reason it is successful in Singapore is because it is being taught that way. Never considered is the possibility that the reform minded methods and textbooks written to implement them are one of the root causes of poor math education in this country. Katharine Beals in her blog "Out in Left Field" does an excellent job describing this.
A friend of mine recently admonished me for my criticism of the article. At least schools are using Singapore Math and it is getting worthwhile publicity, he said. Fortunately, the logical structure and word problems in Singapore's books are so good it will work in spite of the disciples of reform. My friend is right. If the education community wants to think that Singapore Math is student-centered and inquiry-based and the realization of US reforms, let them think it. For those of us who know better, it will remain our dirty little secret.
Barry Garelick is an analyst for the U.S. EPA and plans to teach math when he retires this year. He has written articles on math education in Education Next and Educational Horizons.