 top down approach easily, in my opinion. A private provider will suddenly report into a manager, have policies and procedures that have been developed over the years, and may even comply with standards in other states. Asking permission for changes, sharing communication with the client, their family and their other supports will all be new for a private provider joining an agency.
The biggest concern, though, may be that people who need relatively fewer services for their care and support, may be passed over by an agency because it doesn’t work as well with their current model of service delivery. Many agencies are good at providing a large base of staff to serve a large of number of hours to multiple people who share an apartment or are renting a home together. Providing less than 40 hours, or even 60 hours a week of services that are flexible and may change based on a natural support structure is very different for many, but not all, agencies. Some agencies just may not have another page in their playbook.
The good news is that there are some agencies who, over the years, recognized this model of care and have figured out that not one size fits all. I also believe that good agencies will start considering how to serve this client base and adapt their customer service and program models in order to use the strengths that already exist in the care being received today.Multitasking options under iOS4 and newer
iOS4 and later versions of iOS (at least until iOS6) offer a restricted kind of multitasking. Apple’s intention is to make the system easy to use and to prevent the battery from being drained too fast. However due to these restrictions some useful functions are simply impossible (like automatic syncing in the background):
Only three types of applications may run in the background:
1. "audio" applications but only while they are playing audio, once they stop playing, they will be stopped at all and cannot start by themselves again.
2. "location" aware applications can wait in the background and are started when the location changes, but they do not run all the time.
3. "voip" applications they can run at regular intervals and are even started automatically when the phone is booted. However they have to have "VoIP", i.e. telephone functionality (like Skype or Sipgate). CalenGoo has no telephone functionality so it cannot declare itself as “voip” app.
Please see here for detailed documentation about these application types:
All other apps can only run up to 10 minutes after they were exited, then iOS stops them (and when they refuse, it kills them).
So the only thing CalenGoo can do is to sync in these 10 minutes after the app was exited. You can turn this feature on under "Settings", "Display and Use", "General", "Sync on exit" in CalenGoo.
Notifications under iOS4/5/6As mentioned above, apps cannot run in the background to display notifications themselves. Instead iOS4/5/6 supports “local notifications”. They allow to display a popup at a certain time with a certain message and a certain sound while the app is not running. For this purpose CalenGoo has to prepare the list while it is running and then send it to iOS. iOS will then display these pop-up notifications at the appropriate time.
These pop-up notifications usually have two buttons:
A “Close” button and an application-specific button. In this case “View/Snooze” or “Stop alert”. The “Close” button simply discards the popup. However if “Repeat alarm every minute” is activated it will appear a minute later again. The application-specific button “View/Snooze” or “Stop alert” starts the app, CalenGoo. Until you tap this button, CalenGoo is not running and cannot react to anything. When you run it by tapping this button, it can display the “Snooze” screen (View/Snooze) or stop the reminder (Stop alert) if “Repeat alarm every minute” was activated.
The reason why CalenGoo only supports "Repeat alarm every minute" and not e.g. "Repeat alarm every 5 minutes" is that iOS only offers to repeat a notification "*every* second/minute/hour/day/...". It cannot be configured, only "every" but not e.g. "every 5" is supported.
Here you can find further technical information about the functions local notifications offer:
Synchronization via the iOS calendarAs mentioned above, non-Apple apps are not allowed to run in the background. However Apple apps can run in the background. So an option to sync CalenGoo via push is to sync it via the iOS calendar. That means CalenGoo will know all events immediately when it is started. However it does not know these events before it is started, because it isn’t running. So even if the iOS calendar already synced these events to your device, CalenGoo cannot know them and cannot generate/display reminders for these events. It has to be started once, to “see” these new events and generate the necessary reminders.
However you can certainly just let the iOS calendar display the reminders, then you will get the reminders also if CalenGoo hasn’t been started. But the disadvantage is that the iOS calendar does not allow to snooze reminders and it does not start CalenGoo when opening the reminder.Clubs show that life is worth living.
By Patrick Adams
On Thursday December, 2nd the Sci-Fi/Horror club with help from the Urban Explorers Club and the Harry Potter club hosted a fundraiser for Suicide Awareness from 9:30 to 3:30. The Babylon student center was alive with students on a sugar rush. The clubs baked cookies, cupcakes that filled 4 tables and members also made lizard key chains to raise money for “To Write Love on Her Arms” organization. “To Write on Her Arms” is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. Dr. William F Burns the faculty adviser of the Sci-Fi/ Horror club said, “We were particularly concerned about the recent suicides of gay teens,” Burns stated. “And had hoped to connect this event with a showing of solidarity with the Gay-Straight Alliance.”
With this event the club hopes to help at least one person realize that life is worth living. “Suicide is a human tragedy and as members of society we should help protect tragedies like this from happening.” President of the Sci-Fi/ Horror club Anthony Giansante said, “We hope that with this bake sale will let students know that they are not alone.” The club was hoping to raise 100-125 dollars and inform the students of suicide awareness and they did just that. With their amazing baking style fundraiser they got their word out there.
“We hope that we have given someone a chance that might have thought that there were no chances left.” Dr. Burns said “Sometimes people need to know that they aren’t alone.” Suicide is still a big issue that touch’s everyone it comes in contact with. This fundraiser for “To Write Love on Her Arms” is the first time this club has worked with this organization. TWLOHA joined INN (Interfaith Nutrition Network), Brighter Tomorrow, and Food Not Bombs to the list of organizations that the club raised money for.
The Sci-fi/ Horror club is holding a Holiday food drive from now until December 21st. if you missed this fundraiser and still would like to help the bins for the food drive are located in front of the Writing Center in the Islip Arts building room 101. If you would like to be a part of the Sci-Fi/ Horror Club join them and meet new people and make a difference at the same time.”I will never forget my friends from the club.” Giansante said, “I’m going take with me the leadership I have learned and the overall experience and working with great people.” Meetings start at 11am every Wednesday come by and have some fun..
Professional Lives and Social Lives Connect Via Internet
With over 500 million active users, it is safe to say that Facebook is one of the most popular social networking websites out there. People of all ages and professions can be found being active users on Facebook; however, since everyone has a Facebook does it mean everyone could be friends with each other on it? When it comes to the question of whether it is ok to blend personal lives with professional lives on Facebook mixed feelings emerge.
Social networking is becoming so popular that professionals, workers, and students have been becoming victims of its popularity lately. The lines between a professional life and a personal life are becoming blurred with these websites, and there have been tragic outcomes for many because of this.
At least three New York City area teachers have been fired for inappropriate conduct with students on Facebook, including one who left the comment “This is sexy” on some of the students’ photos. In at least one case, a sexual relationship occurred, according to the New York Post. Also rants on Facebook cost a Connecticut woman her job after she posted unpleasant thoughts about her boss on her wall. Situations like these have been occurring world-wide as people continue to accept friend requests of those who are involved in their professional life.
Adding a boss, a professor, or a student on Facebook depends on your personal preference, inviting them into your personal life can be as equally detrimental as beneficial, overall it is a great responsibility that many may not realize, explained McCann, an English Professor.
“I think adding a professor on Facebook sounds a little bit too personal for me. I am all for