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The Kumon Method and Its Strengths
4. Kumon Instructors
Providing individualized instruction and maximizing potential.
Guiding students to find the answers on their own
The Kumon worksheets are designed to allow students to advance by self-learning. Nonetheless, there are times when students encounter problems that they don't understand or are unable to solve on their own.
At times like these, Kumon Instructors do not immediately give students the answers to problems. Rather, our Instructors find out how much the students understand before giving them hints. Instructors may also show students example problems or previously studied material to help them solve difficult problems on their own.
Kumon Instructors do not spoon-feed students problem-solving methods. Instead, Instructors focus on guiding students to complete exercises on their own so that they enjoy a sense of achievement and are able to master new material independently.
Maximizing the potential of each individual
Kumon Instructors discover what each student is capable of and bring out the potential in every one of them.
Our Instructors focus on each student, paying careful attention to his or her academic ability and personality, and providing effective support to ensure that he or she can always study at a level that is "just right." Kumon Instructors acknowledge the growth of each student without comparison to others, while offering praise and encouragement. At the same time, they cooperate closely with parents in monitoring the growth of each student.
It is thanks to these dedicated Instructors, who sincerely wish for the growth of their students, that the true benefits of the Kumon Method are achieved.
Students advance beyond school grade level
Children at Kumon begin studying at a level appropriate to their ability and advance at their own pace, regardless of age or school grade. For example, students in the fifth, sixth or even seventh grade, may begin their Kumon study with addition if deemed necessary. On the other hand, we do not prevent students from advancing to high-school material just because they are still in elementary school.
Students begin their Kumon study at a level that they can easily handle, which is often lower than the level of material they are studying at school. Before long, through continued study at the "just-right" level, they reach their school grade level and then advance beyond the material being studied in their school classroom.
After advancing two or three years beyond their school grade level, in addition to improving their academic ability, students become more eager to take on new challenges, and develop qualities such as increased independence and a positive attitude.
- The Role of Kumon Instructors
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text: Something that has always bugged me about the forum is that i seem to always get logged out after 10 min or so of activity. It was not so bad when you didn't need to be logged in to view pictures but now that they are hosted by the forum I continuously logging in to view pictures. If possible is there away to keep us logged in indefinitely (i.e. facebook google or any other site really)? Maybe its a security risk but i'm not to worried about someone getting on my computer and wreaking havoc on this forum under my name.


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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - October 21, 2011 - British Comedy Award winner and BAFTA nominee Catherine Tate (BBC's "The Catherine Tate Show") returns to "The Office" this season reprising her role as Nellie Bertram. Joining the second half of the current season, Tate's Bertram is hired by friend and Chairman of the Board Jo Bennett (Kathy Bates, not seen) as a misguided special projects manager working directly for the corporate office and who very much enjoys the favoritism received from Bennett.
Tate was introduced to "The Office" audience in last season's finale episode as one of the candidates interviewing for the regional manager position left vacant by Michael Scott.
"Catherine is hysterical. We introduced her briefly in last season's finale and knew she had to be a part of the show somehow. We'll meet her again as corporate's special projects manager, and her relationship with Robert California (James Spader) will be far from professional. We're thrilled that she's joining the cast," said executive producer Paul Lieberstein.
Tate's acting credits include the multi-award-winning BBC series, "The Catherine Tate Show," which showcased her chameleon-like talent for character transformation. In addition to playing Donna Noble (the Doctor's companion) in the 4th series of BBC's "Doctor Who." Tate also co-starred in the feature films "Gulliver's Travels," "Monte Carlo," "Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution," "66" and "Starter for Ten."
Theatre work includes the lead role of Belinda in the National Theatre production "Season's Greetings" and Beatrice in the West End production of "Much Ado About Nothing," David Eldridge's "Under the Blue Sky," "Some Girls" and "A Servant to Two Masters" for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Tate wrote, directed and co-starred in the acclaimed short film "My First Nativity" for the Sky "Little Cracker's" season. In addition to being the key writer for her own series, Tate has a feature script currently in development.
From Deedle-Dee Productions, Reveille and Universal Television comes the multi-award-winning comedy series "The Office," the hilarious documentary-style look into the humorous and sometimes poignant foolishness that plagues the world of 9-to-5 in the half-hour. A fly-on-the-wall "docu-reality" parody about modern American office life, "The Office" delves into the lives of the workers at Dunder Mifflin Sabre, a paper supply company in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
"The Office" is executive-produced by Ben Silverman, Greg Daniels, who developed the series for American audiences, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Howard Klein and Paul Lieberstein.


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Two Moretown students brighten holiday for families in need
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November 22, 2006
By Erin Post
Clutching a shoebox dolled up as a polka-dotted turkey, with a paper towel tube neck and fluorescent, construction paper tail feathers, two students from Moretown Elementary School made Thanksgiving a little more joyful for dozens of local families this weekend.
On Saturday, November 18, eight year old Maggie Nowlan, and nine year old Maddie Baughman, handed their shoebox bird, overflowing with donated Turkey Points, to the Waitsfield Shaw's store manager Richard Daley, to redeem for turkeys and other holiday fixings for local residents in need.
The idea was simple, said the two students.
They asked people to donate the Turkey Points they earn by shopping at Shaw's-every $25 spent earns one Turkey Point-to benefit families who may need some help over the holidays this year.
Twenty Turkey Points may be redeemed for a free turkey, and the two girls envisioned how many families could enjoy a big dinner if the community came together and pooled their points.
So, at the urging of their church, they placed boxes at several locations in the community, including at their school, and at the local Shaw's.
"Then we just started collecting," Baughman said.
Area residents bundled their turkey points in envelopes provided by the store, and dropped them in the boxes.
The girls said they weren't sure what to expect.
"I thought we were only going to get 20 turkeys," Nowlan said.
But the final count tallied a few more birds than that: They ended up with 1,420 points, enough for 71 turkeys and fixings.
On Tuesday, November 21, the turkeys and other foods earned through redeeming the Turkey Points were packed into boxes along with other donated items at the Waitsfield United Church of Christ, to be distributed to local residents in need.
Nancy Pignatello said Saturday over 50 families had signed up for baskets, with that number expected to grow in the few days leading up to Thanksgiving.
Residents from across the Mad River Valley are served by the project, she said, which is organized by the Mad River Valley Interfaith Council. The Mad River Valley Food Shelf also provides food for the effort.
Susan McKnight, pastor at the Warren Church, said the project involves "a lot of community participation and support," with local businesses donating freezer space to store turkeys, and volunteers donating food and their time.
After a day filled with packing, organizers said the boxes are usually picked up or delivered the Tuesday afternoon before Thanksgiving, with enough time left to thaw the turkeys, and get in the kitchen and cook.
Nowlan and Baughman said Saturday their project will hopefully share with everyone the joy they feel when it comes to eating all that good food Thanksgiving Day.
"Each one of those turkeys is a Thanksgiving dinner," Baughman pointed out. Nowlan, standing by her friend's side, grinned as she explained the pair's motivation.
"We like Thanksgiving and we want others to have it too," she said.


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A new Quinnipiac University poll of the Ohio Senate race shows that Republican challenger (and friend of Power Line) Josh Mandel has moved to within 6 points of incumbent Senator Sherrod Brown. 46 percent favor Brown, while 40 percent favor Mandel. A survey by PPP puts Brown up by 8 points, 45-37. As the incumbent, Brown cannot be happy that he commands 4 to 5 points less than 50 percent in current polling.
Nor can Brown be happy with the trend. For months he enjoyed a 15 point lead. In the last Quinnipiac survey, from late March, Brown led by 10 points.
The new Quinnipiac poll has President Obama and Mitt Romney in a statistical dead heat in Ohio (Obama 45; Romney 44). So, Mandel, who is not that well known, has room to grow. However, unlike Obama, whose approval rating in Ohio is just about even, Brown holds a 41-30 favorability rating. To maintain it, he may have to distance himself from the president more than he has so far.


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A Moment at the Frozen Diamond That I felt like sharing
I was able to attend the Frozen Diamond this weekend and I had a blast watching Michigan kick the shit out of tOSU for the 2nd time in a row and overall for everyone it was a fun and exciting experience. With that said there were the occasional assholes in the crowd that really have nothing better to do than be annoying and acting like dicks. I was in section 128 row J seat 1. I sat beside some fellow Wolverines and nice people from Ann Arbor even some Michigan fans from Columbus and Cleveland. We talked and chatted from everything to football to hockey of course really anything Michigan related. 3 rows to the left of me in section 131 there were a group of 6 Bucknuts who were also enjoying the game but one of them in particular wearing a leather tOSU jacket and Brutus head hat was being a dick all game making his fanbase look like complete asses. He flipped off our band on the opposite stands to the right of the "batter horn" kept yelling "f Michigan" "go back to fing Ann Arbor" and mind you while he's yelling this there are a group of kids behind him and there father is sitting there just laughing and not even asking him to stop because of his off color language that his kids were hearing. I was blown away by his refusing to stop this man! His children looked like they were only 4 or 6 years old! Is this really how insane Buckeye mentallity really is? I was blown away and disgusted.
It gets better.
At the 2 minute mark at the end of the period he's basically taking all his anger out verbally at any Michigan fan he sees. (I have no idea how he wasn't ejected.) If you were there snow balls were being tossed here and there at some people "one hit my friend in the back of my head." I caught a person behind me lifting his arm about 5 or 6 rows back looking to hit me. I had my Michigan scarf wrapped around me and I'm not going to lie I looked kind of scary with just my eyes peaking out. He caught my stare as I shook my head in his direction. It must of provoked some kind of fear inside him because he dropped it right away. Now the dick in section 131 got a surprise and a sight I'll never forget. He starts running his mouth again but as he's running his mouth a snow ball flies out of no where and gets him right in the neck. There in the isle was this little boy no older than probably 5 or 6 years old chucking snow balls at this jerk and he was wearing (get this) an OHIO STATE JERSEY! And he didn't stop! He kept throwing them over and over and it was pissing this guy off to the point where it looks like he might charge the kid (thank god he didn't) so instead he yells out "YOU'RE EMBARRASSING US!" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Here's a man who was yelling obsentities at Michigan making himself look like a complete ass and he criticizes a young boy for throwing snow balls and disgracing Ohio?
I couldn't hold this back and had to say something and I made it clean, simple and true. I smiled and yelled "YOU JUST GOT OWNED BY A KID."


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When East meets West
Today's spring rolls are worlds apart from their genesis in China. When I first came to New Zealand years ago I used to buy a couple of "spring" rolls for my lunch. The other day I bought a spring roll and it was as different as chalk and cheese from what I used to buy. It was about 7cm long, quite thin and deep-fried, which made me quite nauseous later on. The ones I used to buy years ago were about 13cm long, about 2cm thicker and chock-full of cabbage. The outer was quite crisp and certainly not sickly to eat. Do you think that I was eating cabbage rolls and that they were just incorrectly named as "spring" rolls? Hoping you can enlighten me.
Tony Lawson
Spring rolls, chow mein, chicken tikka masala ... Three dishes that conjure up a sense of authenticity - but in reality they are mostly constructs of the Western world, based on some sense of an Eastern one. Immigrants may have introduced the wok to many countries, but often the flavour palate of the locals didn't match those from the motherland and so flavours, techniques and ingredients had to be heavily adapted. What grows in Guangdong or the Punjab doesn't necessarily grow in Invercargill or New York, so adaptation had to take place and new dishes were born.
Spring rolls, originating in northern and eastern China, were meant to be eaten only at spring festivals. Vegetable-based, they were made with whatever was growing at the time, but mostly cabbage.
They were large, rolled in a flour-based wrapper, deep-fried until crispy and served piping hot. I imagine by the time they were being made in Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong and then in the West, ingredients and local tastes altered what people wanted.
In Singapore earlier this year I ate a smaller version called popiah, stuffed with ground pork, peanuts, cabbage and bean sprouts. In Hong Kong I've eaten them stuffed with air-dried pork sausage and water chestnuts. They were still called spring rolls, but they were a world away from their original vegetarian, seasonal great-grandparents.
As I was growing up in Whanganui there was a local Chinese restaurant, where my sister Tracey sometimes worked after school. I think it was called the Peking Cafe. The highlight was when she'd bring back a cardboard box of chow mein - a dish I assumed was what the old emperors must have eaten at their banquets.
The reality, however, is that it really doesn't exist in China as we knew it (all damp wet cabbage, soy and canned water chestnuts with semi-soggy noodles). The translation is "fried noodles" - so grammatically it is correct, but it's likely the dish came into being when immigrants from the Pearl River Delta region of China (home of Cantonese cooking) emigrated to America.
I've spent time in that region of China and I can assure you I never saw anything resembling the chow mein of Whanganui.
Similarly, chicken tikka masala is supposedly Britain's favourite national dish. Actually, it seems to compete against Thai green chicken curry depending which report you read. However, for all the many versions of tikka masala, the only common ingredients seems to be chicken. And although the Brits seem to believe it was an authentic dish from India that was introduced to Britain, it's likely that it was created less that 50 years ago in Glasgow. Other cities claiming they were the birthplace of this "Indian" dish include such well-known foodie destinations as Birmingham and Newcastle. The interesting thing about the dish is that you can now find it back in India and Pakistan at hotels and restaurants catering for British tourists. It's just too hilarious.
So, although the spring rolls you had years ago may have been better than your recent experience, it's likely that neither of them is particularly authentic.
The best bet is to revisit the places that do the food you like, so you can at least expect consistency.
In our Ask Peter series, executive chef Peter Gordon answers your curly culinary questions. If you're stumped over something food-related, send your question to firstname.lastname@example.com and keep checking in for answers. You can read more on Peter on his website, have a read of his Ask Peter articles or check out his recipes on our site.


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text: 5 Hot Trends for 2013 January 29, 2013 07:59 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Ed Clark Top Producer Business and Issues Editor Email Know risks, plan profits, act The year ahead might not be a record breaker for crop profits like 2012, but it looks good for producers who can pull the marketing and buying trigger when margins present themselves. The Top Producer staff gathered five hot trends from expert interviews throughout the year: Become a True Profit Hedger. An increasing number of farmers are learning from the books of successful grain and agribusiness companies: Don't be exposed. This means locking in inputs and commodity prices. That's called locking in a true profit margin, which leaves nothing to guesswork. Even more farmers will be true-hedging in 2013. Be Risk-Averse. Managing risk doesn't stop with crop insurance and forward price selling. Despite low interest rates, you want to be in a strong cash position. Experts recommend a minimum of 33% working capital to revenue and two months' worth of expenses in the bank, CDs, money market accounts and investments readily convertible to cash. This protects you from a downturn and gives you cash to take advantage of asset deals when ag undergoes a correction. Think Global. Keep an eye on these four international hot spots that will influence profits. If Brazil and Argentina's corn crop is less than ideal this winter, prices could sail sky-high. How far will Chinese economic growth tumble—or rebound—and what impact will that have on meat consumption and imports of oilseed and grain? Will Europe resolve its debt problems? The Black Sea region, particularly Ukraine and Russia, will likely plant more of everything to take advantage of rising prices. Manage Volatility. Volatility extends far beyond price. For instance, corn and soybean growing regions in the U.S. are moving to the north and west, which are home to more volatile weather and varying production. For a businessperson, this means fluctuating profits, and that must be taken into consideration when planning. For example, if weather around the globe next year is good, corn could be in the $4 range at harvest, but if it's poor it could be in the $8 range. Lock in Cheap Money. Eventually the U.S. economy will turn around, and when it does, look out, interest rates! Therefore, lock in as many of your interest rates as possible in fixed-rate middle- and long-term instruments, with the absolute minimum in short-term variable rates. When rates are 4% and 5%, the pressure can only be up. Back to news


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So today I posted that video about the milk jug being related to god (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6ILZAaAMI) on my facebook. This girl commented "dislike :(" on it, so she messaged me and said it was rude and it bashed her beliefs...I told her that people putting stuff about god on their facebook is bashing MY beliefs. She went on about how god is great and how he did something incredible to her. I asked what he possibly could have done for her and this is the actual part of the conversation...
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You have a point, earlier in the conversation she said to me "I feel sad for the people who don't believe in the truth. I can't understand why they don't believe in what I believe, are they not educated well enough?" I then had to inform her that I was an atheist because she didn't know. So that comment got me a little angry so I guess that is why I told her that...It could have been a lot worse, but I agree with you in the fact that it could have been worded differently so it would not have been as...direct I guess you could say.
well... if you really want to make things bad you could say "How do you know it wasn't god that made your hair fall out... and how do you know it wasn't the devil that made it grow back?"


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Earlier in the week Microsoft partner Maarten Visser published some pictures of a Microsoft roadmap document after he didn't realize that the unprotected document on a public Web server was intended to be covered under a non-disclosure agreement.
Though the roadmap leaves many questions unanswered, it did pin down a couple of release dates: it said that Office 15—and all the related products, such as Exchange 15, SharePoint 15, Visio 15, and Project 15—will be released in early 2013, with a beta in the second half of this year. This meshes with the company's existing promise to release an Office 15 beta in the summer. It's also consistent with rumors that Office 15 will RTM in November.
The roadmap leaves Windows 8's releases unspecified; the only Windows releases are the Windows 8 Developer Preview and Consumer Preview (released last September and this February, respectively), and the Windows XP end-of-life in 2014. However, Microsoft has previously stated explicitly that Windows on ARM will ship with Office.
If Office 15 isn't ready until 2013 then that implies that Windows on ARM can't be ready until 2013 either. And if Windows on ARM isn't ready until 2013, that in turn implies that the essentially identical Windows for Intel-compatible systems won't be ready until 2013 either.
This in turn contradicts previous rumors of retail availability in or around October. PC vendors and Intel are counting on a launch this year to reinvigorate a flagging PC market, with Intel in particular hoping to promote a second generation of Ultrabooks equipped with touch screens and Ivy Bridge processors.
Microsoft has not publicly committed to any particular release schedule for Windows 8. The company has alluded to the Windows 7 development process and release schedule, which would similarly place retail availability late third quarter or early fourth quarter of this year.
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How to Apply for Graduation
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Please contact your Graduation Evaluator regarding your degree/diploma.
Note: Please look for CASA assigned Evaluator.
Undergraduate Students
Complete (signed by your advisor) and turn in your HSPM major form to the department
office 1 year in advance of the date you plan to graduate. This will help us with
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- Meet with an Advisor from Business Student Advisement Center, BBC 008 to complete your minor form. Your official form will be sealed in an envelope.
- Fill out your HSPM major form entirely. For classes taken during the filing semester, put IP (in progress) for grades. For classes taken after the filing date, use semester and year for grades (for example Fall07=F07, Spring08=S08). Make an appointment to see your assigned HSPM Advisor.
- Bring attached to your major form a copy of your signed Business minor form and unofficial transcripts.
- The Advisor will go through the major form with you and answer any questions you have related to graduation.
- Once signed by your advisor, you should bring all materials to the HSPM office for the chair to review and sign. Plan on at least 48 hours for your form to be signed by the Chair.
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Oracle Principal Sales Consultant - Food & Beverage Industry in Providence, Rhode Island
Provides direction and specialist knowledge in applying the technology/application to client business. Facilitation of customer product/application understanding through presentations demonstrations and benchmarks; provision of support throughout the sell.
As a Principal Sales Consultant you will be responsible as the expert for formulating and leading presales technical / functional support activity to prospective clients and customers while ensuring customer satisfaction. Acts as a technical resource and mentor for less experienced Sales Consultants. Focuses on large or complex sales opportunities that need creative and complex solutions. Develops productivity tools and training for other Sales Consultants. Develops and delivers outstanding Oracle presentations and demonstrations. Leads any and all aspects of the technical sales process. Advises internal and external clients on overall architect solutions.
Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. 3 years vendor (sales and marketing) experience. 7 years business experience with relevant computer applications or database/tools. Ability to implement the most advanced product features. Thorough knowledge of system and application design. In depth knowledge of competitors. Demonstrated project management skills. Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills: needs analysis, positioning, business justification, closing techniques. Ability to persuade others through presentations, demonstrations, and written communication. Ability to travel as needed. A/BS degree or equivalent, advanced degree highly desirable.
Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.
We are seeking a highly motivated individual who has a an extensive understanding of theFood & Beverage (F&B) industry. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate a working knowledge of the business practices of the F&B Industry and how technology can be applied to improve the customers operations and drive efficiency in all areas of the business. As a Principal Sales Consultant you will be seen as an industry technologist and trusted advisor with clients and prospects, focused on formulating sound solution recommendations and leading presales technical / functional support activities.
Additional responsibilities include:
Focus on large or complex sales opportunities requiring creative and complex solutions.
Develop productivity tools and training for other Sales Consultants.
Lead white boarding sessions and deliver customer tailored Oracle presentations and demonstrations.
Facilitate all aspects of the technical sales process.
Advise internal and external clients on overall architect solutions.
Provide consistent and concise documentation internally and externally.
Act as a resource and mentor for less experienced Solution Engineers.
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Location: United States
Requisition ID: 1800197Z
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PHILADELPHIA — Christian Hayden, all dreadlocks and do-gooderism, hesitates before knocking on yet another paint-chipped door in the Grays Ferry neighborhood. The graduate student is practicing his pitch — and the name of the group he's representing — as he tries to persuade people to sign up for the new health insurance exchange.
Geoffrey Baker, a classical violinist with a master's degree from Yale, is a 6' 5" guy in a rugby shirt. He's got the spiel down cold but worries some of the residents may feel a little chilly toward him. He hopes a day's growth of beard stubble will help him fit in.
Greg Young, a former waiter, is their leader and the only guy getting paid on this fall day. He's a field organizer for the non-profit group Enroll America, helping sell the idea of health insurance in a target-rich environment.
Today's door-to-door insurance salesmen may seem worlds apart from the residents of these often-tattered row houses, but they share one big thing in common. They haven't been able to afford insurance either. They face the daunting task of helping to convince the nearly 200,000 uninsured residents of Philadelphia County that they can — and should — buy it now. The new exchange's success, the cornerstone of the Affordable Care Act, will hinge on whether it can meet the federal goal of 7 million enrollees, but also on whether it can sign up enough healthy younger people like these canvassers to make up for all the ailing older ones.
Rather than set up and market its own health insurance exchange, Pennsylvania joined 30 other states in defaulting to the federal marketplace. The state is doing some limited marketing — through e-mails and on its own health insurance website — but hasn't heard back on its request for funds to do its own outreach about the exchange and doesn't know when it will because of the government shutdown, says Rosanne Placey, spokeswoman for the state insurance commissioner.
The federal Department of Health and Human Services gave the state $2.7 million to aid "navigators" to help people enroll. An additional $4.2 million went to 40 community health centers to help them reach and enroll uninsured people. That compares with $24 million that the much smaller state of Maryland got from the federal government for its navigator program to use for outreach and enrollment in its state-run exchange.
"Given the huge challenge of reaching everyone who is eligible, we're collaborating with organizations of all kinds to stretch our resources to enroll as many people as possible," says Laura Line, corporate assistant director for health care at Resources for Human Development, the navigator group awarded the largest grant. "It's going to be hard and it certainly will be helpful to have [Pennsylvania] as a partner in this crucial first year."
For now, the task of getting the word out is largely left to the navigators, health clinics and guys such as Young — who recruited his parents — and volunteers struggling to make ends meet. Only three showed up for a phone bank at the YMCA on a recent Friday night to cold call area residents. It took them 215 calls to talk to 15 people and find 12 uninsured.
"It's a shame. A real effort is needed, and it doesn't seem like enough of an effort is being marshaled," Baker says. "It makes it seem a little bit like spitting in the wind."
Those behind the neighborhood doors and at a fall festival at Malcolm X Park are the residents of a hardscrabble area of the poorest large city in America, as ranked by U.S. Census data examined by The Philadelphia Inquirer and a Temple University professor this year. The area can hardly boast of any health accomplishments. Philadelphia County had the worst health score this year for the 67 Pennsylvania counties, according to an analysis by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The ranking was based on morbidity and mortality — how long people live and how healthy they feel while they're alive.
"It's exacerbated by their poverty," says Natalie Levkovich, CEO of the Health Federation of Philadelphia. "They have all of the risk factors and higher rates of chronic disease."
The result, she says, is more than 1,300 people for every 100,000 of population are hospitalized every year for what are known as "ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations," that is, visits that were avoidable if the person had access to health care.
Many simply haven't signed up for Medicaid because they can't read or write — possibly in English or another language, says Bill England, Enroll America's Pennsylvania state director, or they are overwhelmed by the lengthy application and its paperwork demands.
Often, the job is giving a how-to lesson in obtaining Medicaid — or listening to the challenges of even getting affordable care while on the federal program. That's what happens as England runs a "tabling event" at the free festival. He hears about knees that need surgery that isn't covered; of prescription bills breaking already empty banks. The plan is to get people to sign cards saying they "commit to learning more about my health care options" and to agree to be texted or called to remind them to sign up. In the five hours England mans the table, his door-knocking team gets 31 cards signed and 11 people confirmed as uninsured in the surrounding neighborhoods.
The "Get Covered America" campaign isn't finding any of the opposition to the health care law that's found in many other parts of the state and country. Even one of the abandoned houses still had an Obama/Biden poster in the broken window; another had photos of President Obama at a reception posted inside a window. Almost without exception, residents opened their doors and told their stories to these soft-sell salesmen.
Armed with data from a vendor that supplies businesses and political campaigns, the three canvassers carry printouts of addresses most likely to belong to the uninsured. Enroll America spokesman Justin Nisly says the initial data set included 230 million people across the USA. The group surveys more than 10,000 of them and used that information "to fine-tune the model" used to predict who's most likely to be uninsured. Among the publicly available information used: age, race, marital status, approximate income, voting history and location.
When people say they're already on Medicaid, the canvassers stay true to their script and ask whether the young children in the house are covered by the state's CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) plan for low-income families and if there are any uninsured people in the often multigenerational households. At Sharon McCord's house, daughter LaToya is on Medicaid, son Jordan doesn't have insurance and brother Charles McCoy — who "stays here sometimes" — is both uninsured and out of work after a pipe exploded on him.
McCord says she "lost my career, lost my income and lost everything" after a stroke two years ago. She's on Medicaid but fills out the card with her son and brother in mind.
Enroll America has provided talking points, but the canvassers each deliver the message in their own style.
"I get right to the point because I don't want people to think i'm with the government," Baker says.
Hayden's pitches are more circuitous, but he doesn't give up. If they're already on Medicaid or insured, true to the script, he asks if people would be willing to distribute information about the Affordable Care Act.
Until he got hired by Enroll America in late August, Young was uninsured. He injured his knee and missed two weeks at the Spanish restaurant he worked at, but it healed without a doctor's visit.
Baker wasn't so lucky. When a minor leg injury got infected this summer, his musical income was so low he qualified for free "charity care" at a hospital. That brought him one hobbled step closer to his new calling: health insurance. He's got three applications in to work for one of the state's navigators. He's been uninsured for nine years and never goes to the doctor. He knocks on doors when he can in between gigs, which have included playing with Arlo Guthrie and Earth, Wind and Fire.
Jeffrey Jones, who spends the afternoon at the festival, was hit with a $13,000 hospital bill after he went to get a bullet removed from his leg.
Was it a stray bullet? "No, they were aiming at me, right out here," he says, pointing to the street outside the park. He lost his Medicaid during a prison stint, so he had to fend off the bill collectors.
"They're always calling, but they don't get anything," he says.
As for Hayden, he's tried to get food stamps, but his work as a mentor in grad school doesn't reach the 10 hours a week needed to qualify for them. It also doesn't give him enough money to qualify for subsidies on the exchange — Pennsylvania is one of the states that didn't expand Medicaid — or to afford insurance without the help. He hopes to get a job using his urban studies major soon — one that has health insurance.
England, a health care veteran who helped get CHIP enacted in the state more than 20 years ago, and Young are doing the best they can to spread the word. England has 121 volunteers in Philadelphia, and they've gotten nearly 400 people to sign commitment cards saying they want to learn more.
"We may go straight through to April," Young says, referring to the March 31 deadline to sign up for insurance. "We put as much into it as we can."


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If you're dying to have a Windows 8 tablet that's also a full-powered ultrabook-level PC, and you also want to have said tablet come with its own full-featured keyboard, there are other pastures beckoning beyond the Microsoft Surface Pro.
And while the Surface Pro might be the most recognizable of the PC-tablets in this early Windows 8 era, Samsung's ATIV XE700T (or, Smart PC Pro 700T) is a Core i5 tablet, too -- and it also has its own keyboard dock that turns it into a laptop-style machine, much like the HP Envy x2.
But is it better?
Make no mistake: you're paying up for the full-fledged ultrabook-level specs on the ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T, especially compared to Atom-powered Windows 8 alternatives. The HP Envy x2 can give you a tablet-plus-keyboard experience for $850, albeit with a far less powerful Atom processor; the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T sells for $1,199. Sure, the Surface Pro makes you pay up for design, too, but I liked the Surface Pro's design better.
Price that out next to the Surface Pro, and it's pretty similar. The Pro's $999 128GB configuration plus a $129 Type Cover (not included) comes to $1,128. The Surface Pro is a little less expensive, but the ATIV has a larger 11.6-inch screen. This Smart PC Pro also comes with a pressure-sensitive S-pen, although Microsoft packs its own Surface Pen in with the Surface Pro, too.
The top-heavy ATIV Smart PC Pro is a clever little device, but it feels too low-rent for its high-end aspirations. Samsung makes better-designed ultrabooks, and better tablets. The Smart PC Pro feels best as a laptop...in which case, why not simply buy a laptop?
|Price as reviewed
|1.7GHz Intel Core i5-3317U
|4GB, 1,600MHz DDR3
|Hard drive
|Intel HM77
|Intel HD4000
|Operating system
|Dimensions (WD)
|11.6x7.2 inches
|0.5 inch
|Screen size (diagonal)
|11.6 inches
|System weight / Weight with AC adapter
|1.98 pounds (tablet) / 3.5 pounds (with keyboard) / 4.1 pounds (keyboard and AC adapter)
|Ultraportable / Hybrid
Design: Not the prettiest hybrid in town
Samsung has a wide, ever-growing galaxy (so to speak) of tablets and PCs, and the naming conventions can be confusing. ATIV is a relatively new sub-brand that can apply to Android-powered tablets, or in this case, a full-fledged Windows 8 computer. It's supposed to have lifestyle connotations, but the name "Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T" hardly rolls off the tongue naturally.
The ATIV is a study in black plastic, with a slightly boxy overall look that makes it resemble a somewhat thicker ultrabook. The tablet itself has a glossy, dark graphite exterior, with an amply bezeled, edge-to-edge glass-covered front display. The Smart PC Pro weighs about the same as a Surface Pro (1.98 pounds), but it's less dense, spread across a larger 11.6-inch display. It's longer and wider, too, feeling less like a true tablet and more like the decapitated front part of a laptop.
The rear of the ATV Smart PC Pro is studded with vents, and there's also a vent grille on the top edge, along with a microSD card slot, a USB 3.0 port, a headphone/mic combo jack, the power button, and the orientation lock button. A lot of these thin silver button-bars look similar and are a bit hard to tell apart. The USB port is tucked behind a pull-open plastic door that feels cluttered and cheap; I'd prefer an open port instead.
A dedicated volume rocker and Micro-HDMI port (also covered by a little door) are on the left edge. The S-Pen tucks into a little hole on the bottom right and is so subtly integrated that you could easily forget it's there. It's not as large a stylus than the Surface Pro pen, but has a clickable button and pressure-sensitive tip.
The bottom of the tablet has a docking connector for snapping into the keyboard base and a jack for AC charging. A little square Windows home button on the tablet brings you back to "tile mode" at a simple tap.
The tablet feels comfy enough to hold, but the widescreen nature of the 11-inch screen makes it feel overly long in portrait orientation for reading. Stereo speakers tucked into grilles on the the left- and right-front edges pump out ample sound, better than that of an iPad, but not better than premium speakers available on some laptops. You could hold the ATIV in one hand, but I wouldn't ever want to for more than a short while. It's more of a lap-tablet. I noticed a few other quirks, too: the ATIV's touch keyboard didn't pop up automatically as the one on the Surface Pro did, and the tablet didn't always snap into portrait/landscape orientation immediately via the accelerometer.
Laptop mode: The keyboard
The included keyboard base is all black plastic and includes two more USB ports (once again, behind little doors), and redundant AC charging and headphone jacks, but that's it: no extra battery, no full SD card slot, no Ethernet jack.
Like other laptop-tablets in this space, the Smart PC Pro is top-heavy in laptop mode. The bottom edge of the tablet/screen ends up being a riser in the back of the keyboard base, elevating it a little. It makes for a sturdy tabletop experience, and doesn't tip over as easily as did the HP Envy x2. But that back part is much heavier and thicker than a normal laptop. It feels weird when opening and closing the Smart PC Pro.
The keyboard base is very good, when it works. The ATIV tablet docks into the base with a little mechanical snap, and the chiclet-style keys are widely spaced and have excellent travel -- generously so, and more than most ultrabooks or keyboard covers. There's no backlighting, however.
On our review unit, I found the mechanical connector was prone to little connect-disconnect hiccups...I wasn't sure if it was a loose connector, but it bears noting. The keyboard is the critical part that makes this tablet into a semi-laptop, and any failure -- even if isolated to this unit -- affects my opinion of it as a killer tool. A software update seemed to fix the problem, but it's something to keep an eye on. I found the Surface Pro Type Cover, on the whole, to be a little more cozy and comfy, even though the ATIV's keyboard feels a lot more like an actual laptop.
The little multi-touch clickpad worked well enough, no more or less so than that of your average mid-level Netbook. It didn't feel stellar, but off-edge gestures worked, like the right-to-left swipe to bring up the Charms bar. Windows 8 has several of those gestures -- or, you could simply reach up and touch the screen.
The 11.6-inch 1920x1080 display has excellent off-axis viewing and bright, clear colors, but it wasn't as overall impressive to my eyes as the Surface Pro's display, which transcended the average laptop display and entered iPad Retina territory. This Samsung is far better than most laptops, however, and I appreciated the extra pixel density for both reading and desktop real estate.
Front and rear cameras offer better resolution than the Surface Pro's 720p offerings, at 2MP for the front-facing shooter and 5MP for the rear one, but neither was especially speedy, and both exhibited a lot of noise. Your average smartphone camera would fare a lot better.
Samsung includes some pre-installed software, including a few useful apps. S-Note is a nice note-taking app and a good demo platform for the S-Pen. SW Update is a one-stop driver-updating tool. S Player handles photos, music, and videos, S Camera is a basic camera app, and there's also S Gallery (a photo-album app) and AllShare connectivity for media sharing between Samsung phones/tablets/TVs.


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docplacer wrote:Well that certainly made my day!
Being one of those fortunate individuals doing well in hard times, I consider it my privilege to be able to contrubute to those in need. But I am very, very choosy about how I do it. I am a Rotarian and most of my contributions go through the amazing Rotary Foundation that responds to immediate emergency needs in astounding time and manner with their Shelter Box program and many other ways, without spending a single dollar on administration.
In addition, having been a Zoner nearly from the beginning, it has been a real treat to contribute to the annual bithday projects. And to have Johnny recognize those contributions and respond as he has the last few years, is just icing on the cake. I have to believe that there is no other web site devoted to a performer, that achieves the visibility and attention of that performer, like we have here at the Zone. It is also my strong belief that this is the result of the genuine respect shown to Johnny by this site, as well as the birthday projects that have earned his personal recognition.
May we always retain that respect and continue supporting causes near and dear to his heart as well as our own. I congratulate all Zoners, not only for what we give in dollars, but what we give in spirit, respect and love to both Johnny and to each other.
Well said!!


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Posted on June 28, 2010
Contrary to popular belief, I do NOT spend quite all of my time seething with impotent rage. Yes, it is part of my exercise routine, but I do like to vary it occasionally. How can you be truly bitter if you aren't cheerful on occasion, just for the contrast?
That being said, yes, I WAS glaring at you when you pulled up with your books one day last week. This is because we were undergoing what I have always called a "Surge" (I was using this twenty years ago, but I don't have it trademarked, and its use by the military has nothing to do with us.) A surge occurs when, for no reason I can understand, everybody decides to donate books on the same day. I suppose the weather has something to do with it, and the number of times the Book Fair has been mentioned in the media, but these things don't correlate perfectly. I have seen surges on days when the wind chill is about 9, and I have seen surges in the middle of October, when nobody's really writing about the Book Fair at all.
I've never decided which surge is more annoying: when the books coming in have obviously been fished out of dumpsters behind junior college libraries or when they have come from some collector who is parting with the crown jewels. Last week we had the second kind.
"But that's great!" you cry. "You want lots of good books, right?" Oh, my innocent little prunepit, let me tell you about it.
Car pulls up. "Got some books for you. My grandfather collected 19th century archery books."
"Oh, that sounds good. Let's get those seven boxes…."
SUV pulls up. "I have to clean out my house. This is my first trip."
"That's more Enid Blyton than I've ever seen in one place. Let's get those twenty boxes moved…."
Truck pulls up. "This is part of that African-American collection we were bringing in."
"Great! Let's move those fifteen boxes…."
Car pulls up. "I figured this was a good day to move stuff out."
"Is that a blue ribbon from the Columbian Exposition? By all means, let's get those moved…."
SUV pulls up. "I'm back! This is the next load."
"Do you have EVERY book Anne McCaffrey wrote? Wait, are those Harry Potters autographed? Let's move these…."
Car pulls up.
I sort, price, and pack books in a cinderblock room. There is NO REASON I should come home from work with a sunburn because I've been unloading boxes all the dang day. At least I assume this face color is caused by that and not by the stress of thinking "I have to get these inside before a book-pocketing malefactor or stray raincloud comes by. And it's the end of June; I have just a couple of weeks to get…is that a car pulling up?"
By the way, the Library is adding that blue ribbon to the collection (Her name was Bertha, and she won it for being the best mare at the show. All jokes about the mare of Chicago can be forwarded to the Dead Letter Office; I've heard 'em all.) But we honestly do have the signed Harry Potters (if I can authenticate the signatures), the Enid Blytons, the books on archery (thought the library might take some of those), and a box of Life and Oggi (sort of the Italian Life magazine), the signed Babe Didrikson, the program from William Gillette's farewell tour as Sherlock Holmes, and a HEAP of signed romance and science fiction novels, and everything ever published by Anne McCaffrey, and some nineteenth century hymnals, and two fans, and a stereoscope with some really funny cards, and a Navy kepi, and…oh, I don't know. I haven't had time to OPEN some of these boxes yet.
(And there are people who ask why we don't want book donations in July.)


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So news sources in San Diego are reporting that Bob Filner's resignation is imminent. Wonder how much this is going to cost the taxpayers?
Kudos to Charles C. Johnson for pointing out that while a member of Congress, Filner made passionate speeches demanding zero tolerance for sexual harassment. There's even videotape:
Now back to the Republican War on Women. (What's that you say? Anthony Weiner??? Never heard of him. Hillary for President! Shut up.)


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Posh frustrate Leeds
Sam Byram salvaged a 1-1 draw for Leeds but his side's hopes of closing in on an npower Championship play-off place ended in frustration as Peterborough made it three games unbeaten on their travels.
Leeds teenager Byram turned home his fourth goal of the season early in the second half to cancel out Dwight Gayle's stunning opener for an impressive Peterborough side aiming to climb out of the bottom three.
But although Leeds pushed the visitors back for long periods after the break they were thwarted at every turn by a resolute defence in their bid to close to within three points of the top six.
Substitute Jason Pearce headed agonisingly wide in time added on but Peterborough alsa carved out plenty of chances with goalkeeper Paddy Kenny pulling off superb saves to deny Lee Tomlin and livewire striker Gayle in either half.
Leeds boss Warnock sent out the same side for the sixth successive match with El-Hadji Diouf returning to the substitutes' bench following illness while Peterborough recalled midfield pair Nathan Knight-Percival and Kane Ferdinand.
Home midfielder Michael Tonge drilled in an early low shot from outside the penalty area that tested Posh goalkeeper Robert Olejnik but the visitors soon caused problems and striker Gayle rattled the bar in the 13th minute with a well-struck volley.
Leeds failed to heed the warning and Gayle's electrifying pace created a goal out of nothing for Peterborough in the 15th minute. From a virtual standing start the Posh forward skipped round defender Lee Peltier on the left edge of the area and slammed a rising left-footed shot into keeper Kenny's top right-hand corner.
Peterborough striker Lee Tomlin was next to showcase his talent, swerving inside Luke Varney and then Tonge before firing in a 25-yard effort that had Kenny at full stretch to turn the ball away for a corner.
Leeds centre-half Tom Lees was forced off injured and replaced by Jason Pearce in the 25th minute before Leeds picked up the pace.
Defender Stephen Warnock's angled volley flashed inches wide and Pearce should have equalised instead of heading Ross McCormack's pinpoint cross over the crossbar soon after.
Diouf replaced a struggling Steve Morison during the interval but most of Elland Road held its breath when Gayle went head-to-head with Peltier again for a ball played over the top only to fire wide after winning the race.
Varney headed Byram's cross straight at Olejnik and Warnock's free-kick off target as Leeds went in search of an equaliser, which arrived courtesy of Byram, who guided Warnock's corner home at the far post in the 57th minute.
The game then flowed from end to end as Leeds probed for a second with Peterborough looking to counter and Warnock was relieved to be handed only a yellow card by referee Simon Hooper for bringing down Ferdinand, who would have been clear on goal.
Another sweeping Leeds move ended with Diouf's cross scrambled for a corner before Gayle forced Kenny into a brilliant flying save to keep out a thumping right-footed drive.
Tomlin was hauled down on the edge of the area and clipped the subsequent free-kick just over and at the other end Varney twisted and turned in the box before shooting wide.
Leeds looked to have snatched it when Paul Green crossed to the far post in stoppage time but Pearce headed agonisingly wide.
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I have no idea what it is. Have you stood in front of it and said "Open Say's Me"? If the eyes light up you may be in business. If you need help hauling the Gold just let me know.
There is something very eerie about this. The top of the picture is complete darkness yet the two lower corners are so overexposed the detail is almost completely washed out. Could there be a little hanky-panky going on here? Or perhaps a little photo-shoppee?
From the expression on the face I would say that the poor fellow was completely mortarified.
Take time to smell the roses and love the grandkids.


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cybertonic needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 208 designs submitted by 80 freelance designers.
I am the owner of cax.com, will be domain name marketplace.
Domain buyers and sellers.
I just want cax and not cax.com
I don't want you be inspired by the current font, design and colors of the current site.
I want something catchy and original with no other graphic then cax.
All the challenge is make something appealing playing with the letters (design, style, color).
Should it be CAX, cax or Cax.
It's up to you, depending your design one must be more attractive than another.
In the past I purchased logo designs for:
Action, and thanks in advance!
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|Clear Page Counter SamsungSCX-4655FN
Clear Page Counter SamsungSCX-4655FN Software
- Product name: Samsung SCX-4655FN Reset Software.
- Compatible printer: Samsung SCX-4655FN.
- Compatible versions: 04f, 06f, 07f, 11f, 12f, 14f.
- Fix Toner Errors : empty toner, Replace toner, install toner, end of life replace new cart , toner cartridge is not installed, Install the cartridge, toner exhausted, red light blinking, imprinting.
Notes before Fix SamsungSCX-4655FN Toner Error
- Find out exactly version, serial and crum of Samsung SCX-4655FN .
- Samsung SCX-4655FN Driver Software is installed on computer.
- Check the connection between computer and printer to make sure it works well.
- Toner chip located over the cartridge is removed or covered by tapes.
- Make sure the supplies power works well during soft-ware running process (you should use UPS for printer and computer to prevent them from loosing supplies power).
How to install software to reset page counter SamsungSCX-4655FN
- Connect the printer to the computer and turn it on
- Wait until the printer is ready for work
- Drag and drop *.hd to usbprns2.exe
- The reprogramming process starts automatically
- Wait until the printer reprograms (10-20 minute) and restarts
- After that the reprogramming process is finished, use tapes to cover toner chip and restart the printer
Why Samsung SCX-4655FN needs to clear page counter- MLT-D117 cartridge is enclosed with a toner chip that was used to calculate toner coverage and to deliver bold or light printout quality depending on printer original printout design.
- Samsung SCX-4655FN toner chip contains calculated limitation that was managed by Samsung manufacturer. Following Samsung, if toner coverage is 5%, Samsung SCX-4655FN toner chip is delivered 2.500 ? 3.500 pages.
- If toner coverage is higher than 5% -> Toner Page Yields are less than 2.500 ? 3.500 pages. If toner coverage is lower than 5%, Toner Page Yields are 2.500 ? 3.500 pages. That is the reason why bold printouts (high toner coverage) will make printer run out of toner quickly.
- When Samsung SCX-4655FN toner chip overload its calculated limitation, printer will be locked inspire of high toner cartridge.
How to fix Samsung SCX-4655FN with Toner Error
1.Change new toner cartridge
2. Change new toner chip
3. Reset Samsung SCX-4655FN by using software
==>> Reset Samsung SCX-4655FN by using software is the best solution to fix Toner Error on Samsung SCX-4655FN.


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Bionics studies on the aerodynamics of bird flight carried out in collaboration with TU Berlin yielded insights and new ideas on minimizing turbulent drag at the wing tips. The consequent development of these ideas led to a novel shape for propellers, patented worldwide as the Bionic Loop Propeller.
The new shape reduces energy consumed and noise, especially in heavy-duty propellers
Comparison of the conventional propeller and Bionic loop propeller in wind power generation
In a comparison between a conventional propeller and a bionic loop propeller, the bionic loop propeller on average generated 30% more energy while emitting only half the noise.


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Shakira honoured by stars and family in Vegas
SHAKIRA broke down in tears as her father serenaded her at a star-studded Las Vegas dinner celebrating her career on Wednesday (09Nov11).
Black Eyed Peas rapper Taboo and Mexican rocker Alejandra Guzman also turned up to toast the Colombian singer as she was named the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year at the special tribute.
Venezuelan star Franco De Vita and salsa legend Gilberto Santa Rosa were among the acts who performed Shakira's hits, but the night's most poignant moment came as her dad William Mebarak stepped onstage to serenade her.
Shakira wiped away tears as Mebarak sang the classic song Mi Nina Bonita (My Pretty Girl), while pictures of the father and daughter appeared on a big screen behind him.
She later told him, "Thank you, daddy, for that song."
Salsa star Marc Anthony was on hand to present Shakira with her crystal plaque, telling the crowd, "We are in the presence of one of the most special human beings, one of the most talented human beings you will ever meet."
After receiving the trophy, Shakira said in Spanish, "I'll carry this night with me always. It's an honour that I am not sure I deserve, but you've made me very happy."
For the grand finale, Shakira dedicated the track En Barranquilla me Quedo to her hometown of Barranquilla and showed off her salsa moves as she danced onstage.
According to the Associated Press, Shakira is the youngest person to receive the prestigious award from the Latin Recording Academy. Previous honourees include Ricky Martin, Carlos Santana and Gloria Estefan.
The honour capped a golden week for Shakira, who became the first Colombian to be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday (08Nov11).


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Tom.martin necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 72 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
GreenWise Construction Services LLC.
GreenWise is a solar integration and construction services company specializing in commercial and high end residential solar installations as well as custom remodel and new construction projects. With combined experience of over 35 years in the industry, our principles are able to provide our clients with innovative and cost efficient solutions to any project.
Three different areas that we would like to convey through our logo if possible are:
rooftop solar
field/farm style solar
custom construction/remodeling
Our goal is to provide our clients with top of the line service while tailoring our construction solutions to their exact needs and desires.
One aspect of our company that sets us apart is our relationship and use of Terra-Smart installation products, specifically the Terra-Screw for solar farm/field installs. (images of this are attached)
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Summer is in full swing at Windells Camp. Campers experienced a week of blue bird skies, sunshine, and warm weather. Camper, staff and guest pros agree Session 3 has been hands down the best session all summer long.
Session 3 was the Burton Team Takeover with the likes of Ethan Deiss, Zak Hale, Alek �–streng, and Knowbuddys Tommy Gesme, Brady Lem, Jordan Morse, Ralph Kucharek and Dom Palarchio rolling through camp. All session long the Burton guys hung out with campers on campus and got down in Windells mile-long Private Park.
Burton hosted fun activities for campers all week and schemed up a harsh surprise during the doughnut eating contest. Campers quickly learned that mayonnaise filled doughnuts are not that good. Austin Sweetin, Alek �–streng and Zak Hale threw down in the Concrete Jungle, finding all sorts of crazy lines and transfers. Zak Hale said, "I've been skating Windells since I was a camper here. I think about skating the Concrete Jungle all year. It's always the highlight of my summer."
On hill riders were laying down more hammers than a Gallagher show. Burton Knowbuddys Tommy Gesme, Brady Lem, Jordan Morse and Ralph Kucharek put on a show for campers. They killed Windells' 20 plus rails, seven jumps and the newly constructed mini pipe. "Chase and his staff built another all time set up. The park was on point and perfect for getting photos, filming and learning new tricks," said Ralph Kucharek. Other highlights include Tim Rechetniak's massive airs out of the mini pipe, Ozzy Henning's top to bottom lines and Justin Fronius' session on the 70 footer.
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I have found several siblings living next door, around the corner or down the block......I usually look at the records on the page prior and following the page I am initially directed to.ReplyDelete
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I've actually gone thru whole districts. Interesting to find how close relatives, who ended up marrying, lived to each other as well.ReplyDelete
I like the idea of saying the names out loud. Gives the brain another opportunity to experience the "ah-ha" moment. :o) Thanks for the suggestion!ReplyDeleteReplies
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If it's a fairly small town, I usually look at the entire town.ReplyDelete
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What do you do when you don't know who the siblings are? There were several families in the nearby area with the same surname, but I don't know who belongs to who. The timing is wrong (the 1840 and1850 censuses) and I really haven't figured out exactly which ones are parents/children and other relatives. Oh well, I will keep trying.ReplyDelete
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Though I am embarrassed by this, I will go ahead and say it. 9 days out of 10 my boyfriend eats a frozen waffle with Nutella on it for breakfast. I make lots of cookies and other sugary treats (which he also sometimes eats for breakfast), but for the majority of the time it's waffle and Nutella. I know, I know, I'm terrible. That is not an acceptable daily breakfast. But I'm working on it!
I was like "What can I make that will be tasty and delicious, fulfill it's required sweetness level on the Justin scale, and also sneak in a little bit of nutrition?" BINGO: MUFFINS. Justin calls muffins "breakfast cupcakes" or "cupcakes that are missing their frosting". I knew that was the right choice. Also, they are easy to grab in the morning. You can even stick them in the microwave on the way out the door.
This recipe covered all of my bases: the muffins are moist, sweet and delicious. They also are chocked full of fresh fruit. I love being sneakily healthy. Get em when they don't know it's coming. They came out perfectly the first time I tried them, which I consider a plus (the oven in our house is from FOREVER ago, and doesn't heat things the way it should. You never know what's going to happen. Sometimes it burns things, and sometimes it leaves them raw. Oh well, at least it keeps things interesting.) Are you sold yet? Here we go with the recipe!
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1 tsp baking powder
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1/2 tsp cinnamon
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In an unforeseen consequence of easing the state's tough Three Strikes Law, many inmates who have won early release are hitting the streets with up to only $200 in prison "gate money" and the clothes on their backs.
These former lifers are not eligible for parole and thus will not get the guidance and services they need to help them succeed on the outside, such as access to employment opportunities, vocational training and drug rehabilitation.
The lack of oversight and assistance for this first wave of "strikers" alarms both proponents and opponents of the revised Three Strikes Law — as well as the inmates themselves.
"I feel like the Terminator, showing up in a different time zone completely naked, with nothing," said Greg Wilks, 48, a San Jose man who is poised to be released after serving more than 13 years of a 27-years-to-life sentence for stealing laptops from Cisco, where he secretly lived in a vacant office while working as a temp in shipping and receiving.
Experts say California voters didn't have this situation in mind when they approved Proposition 36 in November by an overwhelming margin. Under the new law, judges cannot impose a life sentence on most repeat offenders who commit minor crimes.
But the law also allows about 3,000 inmates whose last strike was a minor crime to petition for early release or shorter sentences — as long as a judge finds they don't pose a serious risk to public safety.
Because of the way the state's complex sentencing laws work, many of those strikers have already been locked up longer than their newly calculated terms and usual period of parole, leaving many to fend for themselves without supervision or assistance once they are released.
So far, none of three dozen or so strikers who have been resentenced since November or with the help of the Three Strikes Project before the election has been rearrested.
But some say it's only a matter of time.
"It's pretty clear if you release people early without any supervision, there's an increased ability of them to re-offend," said Mike Reynolds, a Fresno man who helped draft the Three Strikes Law after his daughter was slain in 1992 by two repeat offenders. "It's a very, very dangerous policy."
Supporters of the revised three strikes policy are concerned that a notable uptick in crime — even minor crimes by strikers — will make the new law look like an ill-advised failure.
To reduce the risk, the same Stanford University Law School instructors who co-wrote Proposition 36 are now organizing a statewide effort to create re-entry plans for strikers using a combination of public and private services. They're planning to meet with operators of homeless shelters and innovative transitional programs from around the state, like San Francisco's Delancey Street Foundation, one of the country's leading residential self-help organizations for former substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless people and others who have hit bottom.
"We want these people to succeed," said Michael Romano, director of Stanford's Three Strikes Project. "We don't want them committing crimes and creating more victims."
Proponents say the main reason they didn't foresee the situation is that the rules regarding parole changed significantly — after officials had already approved the ballot language for Proposition 36.
Under California's realignment of its criminal justice system, the role of supervising most nonviolent offenders is shifting in stages from the state to county probation officers. But neither the realignment statute nor the Three Strikes Law made provisions for monitoring released strikers.
Romano said the issue is now being litigated in Los Angeles County, where a prosecutor claims strikers should be supervised by probation officers. But even if they are, he said, many counties lack the resources to help the mostly male population of former lifers make a successful transition.
In Wilks' case, he agreed late Friday to be monitored by Santa Clara County, so he could get out this week with access to services like housing assistance.
Before the election, it was relatively easy for Romano and his law students to get personally involved in each of the few early releases they persuaded a judge to grant. They'd wait all night to pick up strikers from prison; in some cases, they'd even help usher them through airport security and hook them up with jobs.
Others who sponsored strikers for early release, like retired judge and San Jose police auditor LaDoris Cordell, were able to personally keep in touch and monitor their charges.
But no single group or person can keep up with the expected increase in the number of returning strikers — especially given the breadth of their special needs.
Three-strikers face greater re-entry challenges than normal inmates, said Joan Petersilia, a Stanford law professor. About 38 percent receive some level of mental health treatment in prison, compared with 22 percent of the general population.
Romano and his group are hoping to turn to the same donors who funded Proposition 36 for help in creating a statewide re-entry program. A lot rides on the strikers' success. If they do well — with the help of people like liberal billionaire George Soros, who donated heavily to Proposition 36 — advocates could use their success to advance the cause of prison reform. If they fail, it could weaken the national effort to reduce mass incarceration.
In Santa Clara County, there is already a collaborative effort under way to help anyone coming out of jail or prison. The Re-entry Resource Center, located in a building that used to house the San Jose City Attorney's Office at 70 W. Hedding St., offers everything from mental health services to free clothing to housing assistance and food stamps.
But the center has yet to be tested for the newly released strikers, because they are just beginning to trickle out. And it's not clear if there's sufficient funding. But there's a willingness to help.
"No one leaves here empty-handed," peer mentor Manny Ortega vowed.
Contact Tracey Kaplan at 408-278-3482. Follow her at Twitter.com/tkaplanreport.


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July 1st - 15th 2014
Engineering Board PDH Credits: 7.5 hours*
Course OverviewMost structures involve some form of jointing or connection. Traditional fabricated structures have used many thousands of bolts and rivets to connect components together in a continuous manner, in the case of ships and aircraft the total can run into millions.
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In the current climate travel and training budgets are tight. To help you still meet your training needs the following e-learning course has been developed to complement the live class. The e-learning course runs over a three week period with a single two hour session per week.
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SESSION 1: July 1st 2014- 14:00 BST, 15:00 CEST, 06:00 PDT, 09:00 EDT
SESSION 2: July 8th 2014- 14:00 BST, 15:00 CEST, 06:00 PDT, 09:00 EDT
SESSION 3: July 15th 2014 - 14:00 BST, 15:00 CEST, 06:00 PDT, 09:00 EDT
Bolts and Rivets
Review of practical designs and applications
Additional bolting calculations
FE Modeling Methods
Bolt and Rivet Groups
- Rigid and flexible spider elements used in bolt and rivet loading distribution
Single bolts/rivets
- Overall Stiffness and load path assumptions
- Influence of clamped structure
- Influence of bolt pre-load
- Different approaches between rivets and bolts
- Line element representation with spider
- Shell element representation with spider
- Solid element representation with spider (nugget or bolt section)
Inter-rivet buckling and other instabilities
Pre-loading methods
- Internal forces directly applied
- 'freezing' of elements to induce pre-strain
Usage with linear and nonlinear contact surfaces
- Overview of application and methodology
- Types of Linear Contact
- Nonlinear Contact Issues
- Interference Fit
Detailed modeling of bolts and rivets in linear and nonlinear analysis
- Full 3D simulation
- Axisymmetric Idealization
- Nonlinear Effects
- Frictional effects
Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics of bolts and rivets
Review of practical designs and applications
Traditional lug failure modes and calculations
Bearing Distribution assumptions
FE Modeling Methods
2D Shell modeling
3D Solid modeling
Constraint or Loading based methods
Linear and Nonlinear Contact methods
Interference fits
Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics
Review of practical designs and applications
Traditional welding classifications and calculations
FE Modeling Methods
Weld simulation with 2D shell models
Weld simulation with 3D solid models
Weld Toe stress concentrations
Hot Spot methods
Bonded Joints
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2D plane strain methods
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Cohesive Zone Failure Modeling
VCCT Failure Modeling
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Toronto After Dark returns to The Bloor Cinema tonight for the final installment of its summer series. First up, at 7 pm, is music video director Joseph Kahn's Detention. The Hunger Games' Josh Hutcherson stars in this horror comedy about a killer stalking the halls of Grizzly Lake, and reviews have been surprisingly positive.
Next up, at 9:45pm is V/H/S. A found footage anthology film that scared the shit out of Sundance audiences, it sees a group of thieves screening a series of disturbing videotapes during the search for a piece of rare footage. Directors on the film include David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Ti West, Chad Villella, Justin Martinez, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Nicholas Tecosky, Simon Barrett and Tyler Gillett.
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