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Background: Interventions targeting cognition in people with schizophrenia have shown moderate effects on improving functioning. Recent cognitive remediation (CR) approaches have begun to target metacognition to improve functioning outcomes. This study aims to develop a novel measure of metacognition and assess whether metacognitive-based CR (mCR) can improve metacognition. Method: We use data from a single-blinded randomized controlled trial comparing mCR plus treatment as usual (TAU) to TAU alone in people with schizophrenia. Participants were assessed with measures of cognition, functioning, and a new measure of metacognition at three time points: Week 0 (baseline), Week 12, and Week 24. Results: The evaluation of the novel metacognition assessment suggests that it is a reliable and valid measure. The measure positively correlates with cognitive measures, in particular with executive function and IQ but also with a measure of functioning. We found that a course of mCR was able to increase metacognition compared to TAU by Week 24. Conclusions: Metacognition may be an important mechanism to explain how CR affects functioning outcomes in people with psychosis. The systematic assessment of metacognition as part of CR studies may help to evaluate more clearly its role and relevance to functioning.

\"When Home is Where the Hurt Is\" is a small pamphlet published by Christopher News Notes. Although it covers all facets of domestic violence, its statistics on child abuse are particularly sad. Two million children are abused each year by one or both parents or by another relative. And \"of the nation's two to three million homeless, 500,000 are under 21. Tens of thousands of these young people are runaways fleeing from physical and/or emotional abuse at home.\" All 50 states have laws against child abuse and all 50 states have specific laws for reporting abuse. Therefore, the second thing we can do is to encourage churches to study these laws and develop procedures and policies to prevent such abuse. In fact, the USCCB encourages all dioceses to educate diocesan and parish staff and volunteers about how to recognize and prevent abuse. Churches also need to have a response plan in place for victims and abusers who come to their doors seeking help.

Easter can be more joyous for us if we enter the spirit of Lent with hearts longing for renewal and new life. During Lent, the church does not use the word \"alleluia\" in any of its prayers or hymns. The alleluia sung before the gospel at Mass is replaced by other praises such as \"Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ,\" or \"Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.\" In her article in the March 1996 Catechist magazine, Janet Schaeffler, OP, pointed out that \"Lent lasts for 40 days; the Easter season has 50 days. The Church is telling us something when she celebrates Easter for a longer period of time than Lent -- that our faith is built upon the resurrected Christ, that the cross of [Lent] finds meaning only in Easter. We are called to be disciples and missionaries because of the new life of Christ alive within us and among us.\" Easter does not end abruptly. It begins a season that is celebrated with an octave, a week-long festival. Pentecost itself closes out the Easter season. It celebrates the overwhelming experience of God pouring out the Spirit upon the first community of those who believed Jesus was the Lord and Christ. Easter is a time of joy and celebration. For fifty days, let the \"alleluia\" of new life become a part of your new life, making you an Alleluia Christian as you praise God for ever.

\"My family is Hungarian ... \" begins Peter Mazar's article, \"The Bread of Life,\" in the January 1997 issue of Catechist magazine. In it he describes the great esteem in which his family, central Europeans, held their daily bread. My mother-in-law was also Hungarian and I remember her treating bread the same way Mr. Mazar said his family did. If she accidentally dropped a slice, she would pick it up and kiss it. Before she cut a fresh loaf, she would cut a cross on the bottom crust. This affection for daily bread was a way of life in her household. What a wonderful foundation for the bread of the eucharist! Roman Catholic liturgical law is straightforward about Communion bread. The General Instruction of Roman Missal states that it \"must be made only from wheat,\" should be \"baked recently,\" and \"must be unleavened.\" Canon Law becomes more specific: The bread should \"truly have the appearance of food\" that can be broken and shared. Most parishes order their breads from religious communities that support themselves in part through this ministry. Where does your parish get its bread? If you don't know, find out! Get to know the people who bake the bread of life for you. Some parishes bake their own altar bread. Our parish bakes its own bread for the Triduum and other special occasions. Baking your own altar bread is a ministry that is worth the work. Perhaps the bread of the Eucharist should require an effort and a certain measure of inconvenience, so the baking itself becomes a sign of our love and care for one another.

The word spirituality is not easy to define. I think of it as a process of how a person goes about deepening their faith or growing in their faith. But in his book Spiritual Exercises, theologian Karl Rahner says that it is not a theological system, but rather \"an election or choice: the choice of means and the concrete way in which Christianity can become a living reality in us.\" We look at spirituality as being profoundly internal, but ultimately, our spirituality has an effect on others--our family members, co-workers, and the people we encounter each day. Dr. [Susan Muto] goes on to state, \"Women's faith in God, in life, in the future enables us to pass through and beyond painful times...\" Where do we, as women and members of NCCW fit into this? We are in communion with all women who have gone before us and those who will come after us. We believe in the same God; we are women of faith. Through our work and by our example, we offer faith and spirituality to others. Establish a prayer ritual. Set aside a special place for prayer. Create a prayer table--cover it with a liturgically colored cloth, candle, Bible, rosary, etc. Create a prayer area outdoors: your own private \"Mary's Garden.\"

Scripture has many stories about people on a journey. Joseph's brothers traveled to Egypt several times in search of grain, and the Israelites spent years in the desert on their way to Canaan. In the New Testament we read about the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, the journey of the three kings, and of Paul's travels, to name a few. Journeys have a destination, a purpose, and many things can happen along the way. In the years that followed, Jim's job moved us from Pennsylvania to Ohio and finally to Texas where we have been for almost twenty years. I was a stay-at-home mom for eighteen years. During that time I did a lot of volunteer work. You know ... Junior League, CCD teacher, Vacation Bible School, school board, and chauffeuring kids to dance lessons, etc. I became involved in NCCW in the early '80s, a journey that has taken me to many places, both physically and spiritually. I found that being a disciple of Christ and a servant to the people is part of my soul; it is who I am as a person.

These simple puppets may be constructed from odd pieces of wood, with little assistance from the teacher.

In the months following the 8 November 1965 announcement of their assignment to the Gemini-Titan IX (GT-9) mission, astronauts Elliot See and Charlie Bassett had become regular commuters between Houston and St. Louis in nasa’s fleet of T-38 jet aircraft. Stationed at the Manned Spacecraft Center, they frequently flew the ninety-minute “hop” from nearby Ellington airfield to Lambert Field in St. Louis. Adjoining Lambert was the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation plant, where, by February 1966, their Gemini capsule was in the final stages of assembly and testing. For See and Bassett flying was a fairly routine part of their business; the

Here, plant HAM proteins are shown to physically interact with the transcription factor WUSCHEL and the related WOX proteins, with this interaction driving downstream transcriptional programs and determining the activities of stem cells. Regulation of plant stem cell function Postembryonic development of above-ground tissues and of roots of plants depends on stem cells in the shoot and root apical meristems, respectively. The transcription factor WUSCHEL (WUS) and the related WOX proteins are known to be involved in the specification and maintenance of stem cells within all meristems throughout the plant kingdom. The HAIRY MERISTEM (HAM) family of transcription regulators is known to contribute to shoot stem cell function in certain plant species. The present paper shows that WOX and HAM family proteins act together to control the production of all types of stem cells in diverse niches in Arabidopsis , and that WUS and HAM share some common targets in vivo . Differences in the combined expression patterns of WOX and HAM family members appear to determine the formation of diverse stem cell niche locations. These findings demonstrate how co-operative transcriptional regulators drive common regulatory pathways and point to mechanisms underlying the evolution of stem cell regulation in plants. Plant stem cells in the shoot apical meristem (SAM) and root apical meristem are necessary for postembryonic development of aboveground tissues and roots, respectively, while secondary vascular stem cells sustain vascular development 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . WUSCHEL (WUS), a homeodomain transcription factor expressed in the rib meristem of the Arabidopsis SAM, is a key regulatory factor controlling SAM stem cell populations 5 , 6 , and is thought to establish the shoot stem cell niche through a feedback circuit involving the CLAVATA3 (CLV3) peptide signalling pathway 7 . WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX 5 (WOX5), which is specifically expressed in the root quiescent centre, defines quiescent centre identity and functions interchangeably with WUS in the control of shoot and root stem cell niches 8 . WOX4, expressed in Arabidopsis procambial cells, defines the vascular stem cell niche 9 , 10 , 11 . WUS/WOX family proteins are evolutionarily and functionally conserved throughout the plant kingdom 12 and emerge as key actors in the specification and maintenance of stem cells within all meristems 13 . However, the nature of the genetic regime in stem cell niches that centre on WOX gene function has been elusive, and molecular links underlying conserved WUS/WOX function in stem cell niches remain unknown. Here we demonstrate that the Arabidopsis HAIRY MERISTEM (HAM) family of transcription regulators act as conserved interacting cofactors with WUS/WOX proteins. HAM and WUS share common targets in vivo and their physical interaction is important in driving downstream transcriptional programs and in promoting shoot stem cell proliferation. Differences in the overlapping expression patterns of WOX and HAM family members underlie the formation of diverse stem cell niche locations, and the HAM family is essential for all of these stem cell niches. These findings establish a new framework for the control of stem cell production during plant development.