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OSMH Patient & Family Advisory Council (PFAC)
Why does OSMH have a Patient & Family Advisory Council (PFAC)?
Patients and families play an important role in guiding the work that we do within the hospital. Patient and family Advisors are a resource to guide the hospital's priorities and planning.
What do Patient & Family Advisors do?
The PFAC offers a formal way in which patients and family members can contribute to the success of the hospital. Council Advisors will be consulted and involved in matters where the input of patients and families is valued. The range of matters will include, but is not limited to:
Who sits on the Patient & Family Advisory Council?
As it's currently designed, the OSMH PFAC will consist of 15 members. Eight of the 15 will be Patient Advisors. The remaining 7 are hospital staff.
What is the time commitment for Advisors?
How do I know if this is the right commitment for me?
Here are some things to consider. You must be:
What we expect from you:
What kind of training and support will Advisors get?
Advisors will receive training needed to be an engaged Patient and Family Advisor. OSMH will provide advisors with orientation to the hospital.
If you are interested, please review the material on our website, or pick up a brochure, FAQ or Application Form at the Volunteer Services Desk in the Main Lobby at OSMH. Online copies are also available below.
Application Form
For additional inquiries, please contact OSMH at email@example.com, or by phone at (705) 325-2201, Ext. 3239


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A set of maps, assets and commandblock creations we developed for YouthDigital's new course: Mod Design 1: Adventure maps.
Kids use a command-line interface to code their Adventure Maps, drawing on core coding concepts along the way. In order to add all the features they want, they'll declare and manage variables, create conditional if-then & if-else statements, implement logical operators and boolean flags, and pass appropriate parameters to a variety of functions.
As kids string together Command Blocks in order to add new features, they'll need to conquer all of the same difficulties as a professional programmer. They'll use computational and critical thinking to achieve the correct logical flow, reference code documentation to understand required parameters, and use standard debugging techniques when their game is not working as expected.
YouthDigital is an organization that provides engaging and playful programming, design and animation courses for kids aged 8 to 14. They intend to make learning fun and empower the creator in everyone with project-based learning that sticks.

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Spotted these on TT and I nearly flipped. After finally catching up on Soul Eater I heard Paper Moon finally. I, unlike apparently so many others, did not like Pray so I was worried this single was going to suck. Well, it's way lamer than Resonance. Nothing could be better than that. But still it's pretty cool I guess- HOLYCRAP. I hadn't actually seen the op yet. NO SIR. NO SIR. I just took a peek over it and holy awesome batman. Maybe I just grew used to Resonance because it was very powerful when I first watched it. The hint of Maka x Soul was enough to keep me going. I may hate shounen anime but I LOVE shounen + romance anime. So when I saw this, I nearly died. Not even the end where Soul is holding Maka in a 'noooooo' moment. No, the whole bloody thing is awesome. You could have put this op first and it would have had the same effect (not audibly of course). It was pretty darned badass from start to finish. Mifune looks awesome, Maka dramu looks awesome, Soul back with the imp and freaking out REALLY AWESOME, Marie looks great as usual (you looked kinda cool yourself, Law), Stein looks batshit insane, Maka fighting with Kid and Black Star (who I proudly am a fan now after he went to try and get revenge for Maka) was awesome, SERIOUS TIEM Tsubaki + twins was SERIOUS, Generic new characters are generic, Maka and Soul being pulled apart made me die of fangasm, loli Medusa (I don't even have to add anything. Loli Medusa should be enough), Metaphorical mirror cracking with Shinigami and Scythe was pretty cool, Emo Chrona (also should be enough), and Fang's biggest fangasm at 1:18ish.
So allow me to speculate, as I have never read the manga. Some bad shit is about to go down, right? That's why we needed an op full of awesome dramu? Kay, I'm with you so far. Then something bad is gonna happen to Maka. That's why everyone is sad. And the Kishin is involved because of those eyes beneath them, right? That's pretty obvious. Well. If it makes some Soul x Maka happen then I can only be excited.
I got off topic when I saw the video so I'll get on with what this post was originally about.
Soul Eater OP2 – Tommy Heavenly6 – Paper Moon (full)
Ga-Rei (-Zero-) OP – Minori Chihara – Paradise Lost (full)
and for those who didn't watch/don't know about Ga-Rei -Zero- then I'll introduce you:


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Gary Dowdy is an award-winning technology executive with experience in innovation, e-commerce, digital marketing, software development, systems integration, business development and strategic planning from start-ups to Fortune 20.
As Head of Innovation and Disruptive Technology at J.B. Hunt, Mr. Dowdy is responsible for systems and partnerships to advance the company's digital prowess and transformation to a technology driven provider of innovative supply chain solutions.
Gary has a strong entrepreneurial track record. From 1988 to 1997, he was co-founder and president of two technology companies specializing in the automation of distribution centers and creation of software development products. In 1993, he received the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, presented by the United States Small Business Administration. From 1998 to 2008, Gary held numerous technology, e-commerce and marketing roles at the executive level at Cardinal Health (Fortune 19) in Chicago, Illinois and Columbus, Ohio. Since 2008, Mr. Dowdy has been a consultant and executive at four startup companies, one of which recently sold for $187 million.
Mr. Dowdy teaches an Internet MBA course at the University of Arkansas, Walton College of Business. He serves on the boards of the Arkansas Academy of Computing, Mid-America Science Museum and Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and Arts. Gary also serves on the Governor Hutchinson's Task Force for the Computer Science Initiative and is a member of the Arkansas Executive Forum.
He received a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas and an MBA from the Krannert School of Business at Purdue University.


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No Sanctuary from Mitt and Rudy
RUDY GIULIANI: "The reality is that New York City was not a sanctuary city...."
ANDERSON COOPER: "Governor, was New York a sanctuary city?"
MITT ROMNEY: "Absolutely. It called itself a sanctuary city...
GIULIANI: "You did have illegal immigrants working at your mansion, didn't you?"
ROMNEY: "No, I did not."
--CNN/YouTube debate, November 28, 2007.
Welcome back to the Mitt and Rudy show! Hold your breath as the Republican front-runners go for the jugular! Admire their fancy footwork! Watch Mr Rough take on Mr Smooth! See if you can spot their semantic tricks!
Once again, Giuliani and Romney are on the opposite sides of an argument about their respective records as mayor of New York and governor of Massachusetts. Romney fired the first shot on this one, depicting New York as a "sanctuary city" that provided refuge to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. Giuliani responded by alleging that his rival ran a "sanctuary mansion," a reference to the undocumented Guatemalans who looked after his lawn for several years while he was governor. Let's try to sort it all out.
The Facts
Mitt Romney has made a lot of "sanctuary cities." But a search of the Lexis-Nexis database shows that the term was not in widespread use prior to 2001. There was, however, a "sanctuary movement," dating back to the mid-1980s, that was aimed at persuading the Reagan administration to permit half a million undocumented refugees from war-torn Central American countries such as Guatemala and El Salvador to remain in the country. The refugees found haven in churches and synagogues, whose members put pressure on local city councils to curtail their cooperation with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
The first cities to embrace "sanctuary policies" were Berkeley, California, and St. Paul, Minn., which passed resolutions in February 1988 opposing the federal government's policies of deporting Central American refugees. Berkeley described itself as a "City of Refuge." A number of other larger cities, including New York, issued directives ordering city employees not to report illegal immigrants to the INS unless they had committed a crime. But most of these places never formally declared themselves to be "sanctuary cities."
The New York policy toward illegal aliens was enshrined in Executive Order 124, signed by Mayor Edward I. Koch on August 7, 1989. The order prohibited city employees from providing "information respecting any alien to federal immigration authorities" unless "required by law" or in cases when the alien was suspected of "engaging in criminal activity." Koch justified the policy on pragmatic grounds, arguing that many aliens refused to make use of city services because they were afraid that they would be reported to the federal immigration authorities. The order stated that other residents would be disadvantaged "if some who live in the City are uneducated, inadequately protected from crime, or untreated from illness."
Executive Order 124 remained in force under Koch's successors, David Dinkins and Rudy Giuliani. The legality of the Koch order went unchallenged until 1997 when Congress adopted a new immigration law that made it illegal for cities to prohibit employees to provide information about illegal aliens to the INS. Giuliani sued the federal government over the new law, arguing that it would "create chaos in New York City," by discouraging illegal immigrants from reporting crimes and sending their children to school. A federal judge and the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against the mayor, and he was forced to modify the policy.
So who is right: Giuliani or Romney? The Romney campaign was unable to produce a citation or quote to support the governor's claim that New York "called itself a sanctuary city" under Giuliani. On the other hand, the Congressional Research Service, which provides background information to members of Congress on a bipartisan basis, has listed New York as one of several dozen cities following "sanctuary policies." [Contrary to a claim by the Romney campaign, CRS does not formally label New York City a "sanctuary city."] Other cities on the CRS list include Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, Durham, Austin, Houston, and Seattle.
I examined the question of the Guatemalans on Romney's lawn in a previous post. Romney is technically correct in saying that the Guatemalans did not work directly "for" him: they worked for a company that he contracted to look after his grounds. On the other hand, Giuliani is correct in saying that the Guatemalans worked "at" the Romney mansion.
It boils down to a question of semantics: "at" versus "for". Take your pick.
The Pinocchio Test
Both Giuliani and Romney are attempting to walk a very fine line, painting the most negative possible picture of their rival's record while avoiding factual error. In the particular exchange cited above, Giuliani has managed this feat a little more adroitly than Romney. Romney makes two mistakes. (1) His campaign has not provided support for his claim that New York "called itself a sanctuary city." (2) Illegal immigrants did work "at" his mansion. Two Pinocchios for the governor.
I have been tough on Giuliani in the past, see here, here, and here, so I am going to give him a pass this time. Lately, it seems, everybody has been finding fault with him. See this NYT story today. I note that the mayor made a sort of correction to his claim over the weekend that "violent crime" had risen in Massachusetts under Romney, which earned him two Pinocchios. He now says that Romney's record was "mixed."
"For example, murder went up by 7.5 percent. Burglary went up. One other category of violent crime went up. Some categories of violent crime went down. So, it would be fair to say it's a mixed record."
Michael Dobbs
| November 30, 2007; 8:40 AM ET
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