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Texting Paid Off!
"Texting Paid Off!" is the subject of the email I just received from George Middle School (GMS) Principal Beth Madison. Beth and her staff hired me late last year to help them design and implement a social networking /social media strategy in her 93% free and reduced, Title I school in Portland, Oregon . One of the areas targeted for improvement with social tools as part of that strategy was daily attendance.
Under the now famous "No Child Left Behind" program, certain schools were required to implement strategies to meet "Adequate Yearly Progress" (AYP). For as long as the AYP requirement has been in place, GMS has not been able to meet the goal. Let's face it, education starts with getting students to class and getting them to school has been a challenge at GMS for a very long time.
The strategy around improving attendance via social networking was simple. GMS already had the necessary social tools that were implemented earlier in the year as part of the strategy we devised to use social networking to improve academic achievement. All that needed to happen was to identify the chronic offenders and hook them up to our "texting team". This staff team has been trained to use online tools to simplify texting in groups. The students' numbers are set into a group and a general text, "Time to wake up!" could be sent to an entire group. Individual texts can also be sent to those who need a private message.
In addition to identifying the truant students, we did some analysis around the routes to school, travel time, and the impediments along the way. We identified a "mini-mart" where students were tarrying and getting "derailed" on their way to school. So we created a messaging schedule for the moderators that would:
• Get students out of bed on time
• Move them forward from the impediments
• Get them to the attendance check in station inside the school
The procedures went into place in February 2010. The total student days missed per week by the chronic attendance offenders decreased by 35% as a result. Students attended more days and missed fewer hours of classroom time. They were in their classrooms, ready to learn.
In simple terms, we put the school bell into their cell phones and hence, into their pockets! And as a result, GMS made their AYP for the first time since it became a requirement!
There have been a lot of blog posts and news articles focused on the appropriateness of students having cell phones at school. Cell phones represent a communication channel from the school directly to the students. More importantly it is a parent-sponsored channel that if used creatively and moderated with proper guidelines, can be a very effective tool to help students stay engaged with the school and the true mission…education!
I'd like to thank Beth, Liz, Morgan, Tanya, Jamie, Amy and the rest of the GMS staff for the vision and the courage to try something new to benefit their students. Their community is extremely lucky to have them. Texting did pay off…because of all of you. Well done!
7 Responses to "Texting Paid Off!"
Question- How did you sell the students on giving out their phone number? I feel if I asked students for their number, especially if they knew they would be getting texts from school, they'd be hesitant about giving it out
David ~ That's a great question. We actually did it two different ways. With the original experimental group we just asked. They knew they were participating in something different and fun, so they were very willing. Now that we are using "Text On Time" school-wide, we have the parents sign up in the beginning of the year registration packet. Parents can opt to get a text to their phone if child is late or absent, or they can opt for reminder texts to their student's phone, or both.
This is an inspiring story and something that I would like to try replicating with a local school. I'm writing a research proposal right now, in fact, and wondering if George Middle School published anything on this project?
I read this article for an assignment at my school(Capella University) and found this article very interesting while at the same time very educating. I would like to see this program implemented at my childs school. How could one get this program started? Thank you for your help.
Love this article. So often, we put down teens for constantly being on their cell phones (which still is an issue) but using that "problem" as a solution is a great idea! I love the "text team" term.
question- Sounds like a creative idea. Do you allow the students access to cell phones during class time? If so how do you stop texting during class?
Erin Polk -
What about students who did not have a cell phone were or are they provided with government phones.


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I hate to drive. It's an enormous waste of time with all that frustration and irritation while not being able to read. I honestly have a license plate surround that says "I'd Rather Be Reading." I am holding out for teleportation or the Floo network, barring those options, a car and driver.
It has been said that great times make great men. Well, the Great Depression certainly was a 'great' time, at least in its historical significance, and no doubt it did produce some great men, or at least some great stories about ordinary men, tales that often are elevated to an almost legendary stature.
I recently saw the brilliant film adaptation of Richard Yates' novel, Revolutionary Road and, like so many works exploring conformity, dissent, the incapability to escape the choices one makes, I was mesmerized. It lodged itself in my head, like a splinter, slowly working deeper and deeper to my core. I was a bit rattled. The film brought to mind other great works of art that address this dreadful part of the human condition.
So one day you and the neighbor are getting together for burgers and hot dogs in the back yard, rockin' out to Van Halen's 1984 album and watching the kids put on their floaties and snorkels for a quick dip in the pool. . . and the next day his decomposing corpse is shuffling aimlessly about the yard, begging for brains and drooling over your miniature schnauzer.
It happens, people.
I like themes. I rise to the occasion and have been known to don a costume, decorate in the spirit and embrace the frivolity. Vacations are no different. Oh, not where I go or what I do but what I bring along to read. The theme may or may not relate to the destination i.e. young adult Science Fiction to London, American civil war fiction to Hawaii or vampire romances to Denver. I was in desperate need of a respite after a family wedding. This year I went to a tropical island so I decided on an obvious theme for this trip- all beach books or books set on an island.

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Political Animal
Earlier today I noted Ezra Klein's astute observation that Barack Obama has decided not to "negotiate with himself" in the fiscal talks by initially offering anything other than the preferred formula he'd pursue if Republicans were suddenly lifted up in the Rapture or driven into madness by all the soul-struggling they're pretending to do.
But there's another reason other than gamesmanship why Obama should avoid moving in the direction of the GOP until they've moved first: Republicans desperately want Democrats to throw them into the briar patch of Medicare cuts that they spent much of the last four years pretending to deplore. Jonathan Chait sums up their quandry in a manner than his powers of logic and sarcasm best equip him to do:
The Republican positioning on Medicare has set the tone for the current budget impasse. Obama is asking for $1.6 trillion in higher tax revenue. Republicans are demanding more spending cuts, but they won't say how much they want, let alone what specifically they will cut. The current party thinking on Medicare, sanctified by Romney and Ryan, has defined itself as matching or even outspending Obama on Medicare for anybody aged 55 and up. That would lock out any budget savings at all for the next decade, and make any savings roll in extremely slowly afterward.
Republicans could present a plan like that in negotiations — deep Medicare cuts that don't start to take effect until 2022. But, since the two sides have already cut discretionary spending to the bone, that would necessarily require that any deal necessarily have far more tax hikes than spending cuts over the next decade. But Republicans don't want that, either. It's not clear that their goals can be expressed at all, at least not in arithmetically coherent form.
Hence their current demand that Obama formulate a proposed slate of entitlement spending cuts on their behalf. Right now Republicans seem to need Obama to conduct both sides of the negotiation.
If Obama refuses to put Medicare cuts "on the table," then Republicans will either have to abandon the Mediscare tactics that are so important to their ability to hang onto their voting base of white seniors, or propose insane cuts elsewhere, or just give in, or just obstruct any deal and let the Bush tax cuts expire (quickly followed by a middle-class tax cut they dare not oppose) along with defense cuts that will freak out their militarist wing. They are indeed deep in a trap of their own design.
Easier to govern when you don't have to do ANY math.
We can't be beaten in this game unless we blow it ourselves. Obama has played his first card, we need do nothing at all until the repugs play their first, and it wouldn't hurt to remind the public of this. I've shown you mine, show me yours. Don't wanna play? Then it's over the cliff and, by the way, here's a Senate bill cutting taxes on the 99%, do your magic, Boehner. The repugs have no way out unless we give them one.
I'd like to see Obama out travelling the country presenting his ideas like he did today at minimum twice a week from here to Jan.1. Keep the pressure on. From their comments yesterday and today, I think McConnell and Boner know they are in trouble. Until they come forward with a detailed, written counter offer, the president and the Senate have no need to do anything but watch the GOPers dance. Goofballs like Louie Goelert out there spouting about using the debt ceiling as "leverage" only adds to the public perception of the GOP being out of touch. As many have said the last day or so, caving and accepting the Senate plan actually takes away some Dem leverage.....but the Norquist GOP will never willingly raise taxes on the rich, will they?
Dammit, Kilgore, you are getting my hopes up. Just ... just shut up, OK?
This works in 2 ways;
1) The 3rd rail - every American poitician knows you can't touch Social Security and Medicare. You can drone on about improving - but never, ever propose real reductions that anyone can understand. So the game is simple - get the other idiot to do it.
2) No specifics. The GOP has been great at making big bombastic pronouncements for years. And the Dems lousy at asking for specifics (maybe because they thought they were smarter and figured they just might as well do the math for these dumbies). They never pushed for specifics before voting on the Iraq War. Never pushed for specifics on the cuts in 2011, etc. Well now maybe it occurred to them - we just need to ask them for specifics.
3) Toughness. The GOP has been great at acing tough for years. But in reality they've been a bunch of whiny ninnies - afraid of terrorists, women, blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, etc. Rather than being adults dealing with the realities of the world - they've been the spoiled children - throwing tantrums, inventing little fantasy worlds and lying like 6 year olds. Well maybe it occurred to folks that the way to be the adult in the room is not to give into the tantrum but just call the kids on it. And when the kid has to retreat - it's not pretty.
We can't be beaten in this game unless we blow it ourselves. Obama has played his first card, we need do nothing at all until the repugs play their first, and it wouldn't hurt to remind the public of this. I've shown you mine, show me yours. Don't wanna play? Then it's over the cliff and, by the way, here's a Senate bill cutting taxes on the 99%, do your magic, Boehner. The repugs have no way out unless we give them one.
Democrats can't squeeze the Republicans' nuts hard enough. Get out the vise! It's payback time, baby.
agreed with all the above, but don't forget the Media's tendency to see things a little differently than we do. I've already heard some Pundit's worrying about Obama being too mean to the GOPers and it can easily turn to "Obama's refusal to compromise will drive us over the Cliff".....he has to be shrewd and know when to push and when to cool his heels and let the Conservatives cook their own goose.
What this proves is the Republicans aren't really serious about solving the deficit. They are all hat and no cattle.
Obama has outlined serious tax increases which the public approves. It is up to Republicans to outline serious deficit reductions which the public is bound to hate.Apparently the Republicans are shocked, shocked I tell you, that Obama has learned from his first experience dealing with them.
I have never seen grownups so easily outmanuvered
once again i say the best plan is to send congress home, let the "cliff" happen, and then lets the republicans have the time of their lives in january voting to cut taxes and raise defense spending.
"It's not clear that their goals can be expressed at all; at least not in arithmetically coherent form." Jonathan Chait cited by Ed Kilgore
Goals that can't be expressed or dare not be expressed? When your goal is the destruction of SS/Medicare/Medicaid/SNAP and any other safety net program, I'd imagine the less said to the electorate; ie, potential voters, the better.
As for being being "arithmetically coherent"; Republicans lost that under Reagan (see "voodoo economics"). -
Since there isn't an eviseration of today's David Brooks column here today, and since it's relevant, a quote:
"Raising the top tax rates may not be as cataclysmic for the economy as some have argued, but this is still one of the most growth-killing ways to raise revenue."
No, David, it is the single least growth killing way to raise revenue. And it's a marginal rate. Back to the Clinton years. Which was lower than ever before in anyone alive's memory. And, oh forget it......
"their ability to hang onto their voting base of white seniors"
During lunch at a restaurant Friday I overheard one of those white seniors express a fear that America was in as much danger today as we were on December 7, 1941. A fellow diner asked him, incredulously, "Why?!" and he replied "Our current President."
I wanted to jump out of my chair and whack the selfish old geezer upside the head. It's hard to give a crap what happens to those kind of people. I wish we could find a way to punish the GOP base of white seniors without hurting anyone else. I'm suddenly in favor of death panels for all of them!


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@Markerrag -- Some people take issue at the databases that are necessary for biometric passports to work. That database contains fingerprints, photos and other information. So, who has access to that data and for what other purposes can it be used?
Here is the concern. Let's say that someone has figured out how to forge biometric chips and some criminal is running around with a passport that supposedly belongs to you. That person uses the passport to fly off somewhere and commit a lot of terrorist acts. A criminal investigation tracks back the passport to you. So, you have an instance where the data stored in some database was used for something other than fraud protection and identity fraud and you wind up charged with a crime. That is a major concern for a lot of groups.
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Katherine Boo's new book documents the resourcefulness of Mumbai's poor, even as it describes a nation incapable of lifting them up.
She concludes by locating those she has observed in a larger picture of poverty and globalization, placing the struggles of Mumbai's poorest alongside those of Nairobi and Rio, even New York. In doing so, she reveals a rather traditional progressive political perspective, with a yearning for solidarity and mutual support. But in the end, Boo's warning is specifically Indian. Some here see the extraordinary wealth and corruption that have followed the nation's two decades of economic openness as a passing phase, not much different from Britain in the eighteenth century and America in the late nineteenth century. On this reading contemporary Mumbai is just a respun Dickensian London, or turn-of-the-century Chicago—a metropolis blighted by weak governance, speedy urbanization, and fast-changing capitalism, but one that will grow out of it in time.
There is some merit to this view, but it is also presumptuous. True, you hear more about corruption in India than in China in part because it is a democracy. The media here are exuberant and relatively free. There exists a range of well-respected and broadly honest institutions, in particular the upper echelons of the judiciary. (The lower courts, as Boo shows, are less reliable.) As a consequence the political system has reacted to public anger over corruption in recent years: Trials rumble on; new anti-graft laws are promised; one minister has been jailed. There is at least a debate about India's future, even if one mixed in with general resignation over the capacity of its political and business elite to deliver.
Some of the current gloom is also cyclical. Over the last year, India's economy has slowed sharply. Leaders once talked excitedly of annual growth of 9 or even 10 percent. This now seems fantastical. A mixture of weak political leadership, high interest rates, and plunging industrial investment has seen growth fall to nearer 6 percent. This sounds fine enough to most Western ears, but in a still very poor country with a fast-growing population and precarious public finances, most economists think it isn't enough.
Yet there are also deeper problems with the nation's governance and commerce that lie behind the world Boo describes, just as Annawadi hid behind the "beautiful forever" sign. India's state is at once too weak and too intrusive. The economy remains dominated by a mixture of inefficient public-sector industries and sprawling family-controlled industrial houses. The latter have been the source of much of the graft that pervades India's politics. A rotten system of mutual interdependence has grown up in which the state relies on the tycoons to develop the economy, while political parties, in the absence of a system of state funding, need kickbacks to fund the workings of the world's largest democracy. The result has been neither efficient nor equitable.
This system has been challenged somewhat over the last couple of years by public concerns over corruption, but only to the extent that it is now more difficult to be seen openly giving favors to the well-connected, for instance by doling out licenses to develop land or explore for natural resources. This is part of what has gummed up the workings of the state, slowing growth and investment. The phrase "political paralysis" is now often heard here to describe a situation in which anxious bureaucrats and party leaders cover their backs and little gets done.
Historian Ramachandra Guha makes the point that visitors to India have for generations come to the conclusion that the nation is basically unworkable: Its geography is too vast; its population too diverse, and its politics too quarrelsome. Yet for all its imperfections, it has survived—overcoming imperialism, partition, and endemic poverty to create a democracy that, while far from perfect, bears favorable comparison to, for instance, China. The hope is that with further reform, the nation's economic progress will eventually be more broadly shared; that the undercity and overcity will come together. But at present it remains just a hope. There are plenty of signs that India's future is just as likely to resemble the crony capitalism and deformed democracy of Russia. This is India's own Gilded Age, and Katherine Boo has sounded the loudest warning about its failings.
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Kim – you have repeatedly announced to the world that you're a "hopeless romantic." But after a disastrous 72 day marriage to Kris Humpries, you shouldn't be telling Kanye that you love him already!
Kim Kardashian – cool your love jets. Haven't you done enough damage to your heart and your reputation in the last year by rushing into romance. Why are you determined to repeat your mistakes, just months later?
A friend of the Humphries family told HollywoodLife.com exclusively that Kim "pushed Kris Humphries into a lot of things. I don't think he'd have naturally jumped into things so quickly," left to his own devices, relates the source.
Those "things" that you Kim, pushed him into, far faster than he would have done naturally, included getting engaged after just a few months of dating on May 25, 2011, and then getting married in a made-for-TV extravaganza on Aug. 20, 2011, just three months later.
Well, we all know how that rushed romance ended, 72 days later with you filing divorce papers.
Now, after a whirlwind three-day dating and sleepover marathon in New York City from April 3 to 6, you are already tweeting "I love yous" to Kanye West. On April 17, you tweeted, "I love you like a love song baby," the lyrics from Selena Gomez's hit song, "Love You Like A Love Song," while Selena was actually performing it on Dancing With The Stars.
Now, we've learned at HollywoodLife.com from a Kardashian insider that you were actually tweeting that lyric for Kanye. "The song made her think about him," the source told HollywoodLife.com. "She's so happy right now and Kanye knew she was tweeting this love message to him."
Hmm, Kim. Well that's barely two weeks after your non-stop three-day date fest where you really got together as a couple. Yes, I know that you've been friends for eight years, but that's not the same as actually being in a committed romance.
And Kim, in the non-Kardashian world – most women DON'T get married within a month of first dating like your sister Khloe Kardashian. Nor do they blurt out I Love You's after just a couple of weeks of loving it up.
Have you ever heard of playing hard to get? Yes, we've learned that Kanye worships you and has lusted after you for years but that still doesn't mean that you declare your love, after just two weeks.
First, and most importantly, can you or anybody truly fall "in love," true lasting love ,after two weeks? Relationship experts would say – "no way." No one can connect on a deeper level and know that they share the same values, life goals and common interests after just two weeks of an affair – especially when you were only actually together in the same city, for three days.
On a superficial level – it's also good to play your cards a little closer to the vest and not fall all over your man – Kanye – with your love feelings so soon. Let him guess and earn your love.
Then there's the absurd fact that you're tweeting your love message to 14,439,137 million twitter followers as well.
Come on Kim – if you're truly in love you have to start keeping it private. The cameras helped destroy your marriage and the Khloe & Lamar cameras helped destroy Lamar's career on the Dallas Mavericks. And who knows how much damage has been inflicted on his and Khloe's marriage.
It's time to divorce your and your mother Kris's desperate need for over-the-top fame.
If you don't and you keep documenting your relationships on reality TV – you are doomed to destroy your "love" with Kanye too!
So slow down, stop tweeting and let your romance grow naturally and privately and maybe it will stand a chance!
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Kanye is getting laughed at from here to Timbuk 2! Kim would NEVER give this dude the time of day! Why? Because she was never ATTRACTED to him! I understand this because he is GROTESQUE! Not just his physicality, but his attitude too! NOW that no other guy will be caught dead with her or can stomach her, she gives in to this clown! He KNOWS he was last on the list, he also knows no other guy wants her. He knows he will be forever a laughing stock, and he is NOT going to forget this. He will treat this girl like CRAP, piss on her like Ray J did, just to say he did it, humiliate her, then throw her used up butt right back out there! I should feel sorry for her, but I don't. Her and her douche Mama are cut from the same cloth! She will soon learn that greed, stupidity, and a obsession for the lime light are not all it's cracked up to be. And really Kim, Kanye? Ewwwwwww!!!!!
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One month after Davis's 1991 resignation from the DUI squad, a five-member police panel unanimously voted to reprimand the officer. Although the State Attorney's Office declined to prosecute Davis for petty theft or tampering with evidence, Dennis Bedard, the investigating assistant state attorney, sharply criticized the officer in his September 1991 report on the videotape incident. "He has a very simplistic sense of moral righteousness that he has allowed to interfere with his impartiality as a police officer," reads the report. Bedard, who also investigated Catalano's 1989 perjury complaint against Davis, still stands by his harsh comments. "My impression was that he was so personally involved in
DUI cases that it clouded his objectivity," Bedard said in an interview. "Davis had crossed the line to where he was no longer able to function as police officer."
Davis responds to such criticisms by citing the awards and praise he has received for his work against drunk driving. But perhaps his best defense comes in the letter he wrote when resigning from the task force. "I may have been labeled a radical by different officers, judges, and lawyers," reads the letter, "but the fact of the matter is I earned their respect as someone knowledgeable who does not put together a half-assed case. With a 95 percent plus conviction rate I think the numbers speak for themselves." (No record of conviction rates are kept for Gables officers, but such high rates certainly are possible for regular DUI officers, notes a spokesman for the state attorney's DUI division.) Without naming names, Davis also criticized DUI attorneys who use "criminal tactics" to win cases and engage in "harassment" of police officers.
Davis and Catalano, it seems, share another trait in common: They both consider themselves victims of the other.
In Michael Catalano's mind the events of May 12, 1992, still unfold like a bad dream. Standing in a Dade County courtroom before Judge Nancy Pollock, he is trying to concentrate on the defense of his client, a drunk driving suspect named Gaspar Contreras. But, as he tells it, he can sense a malicious presence behind him. Although Alan Davis was involved in Contreras's arrest on April 22, 1991, he has been supposedly excused from this trial. Catalano can not figure out why the officer is still here, in the gallery. As he speaks to the judge, he can hear sniggers. Finally, after Contreras is found guilty and sentenced, Catalano can stand it no more. He turns around to confirm that Davis is laughing. The officer keeps it up even as other defendants not represented by Catalano are sentenced.
The day after the incident, however, Catalano was the one thinking he'd have the last laugh, having filed yet another internal affairs complaint against Davis. "Officer Davis' name was removed from the witness list," Catalano wrote. "He had no reason to be in court but to continue his harassment of me and other people. I watched him openly laugh at defendants who were being sentenced for DUI. He acted rude and unprofessional."
Davis later called that accusation "a bunch of crap." The version he told a subsequent internal affairs investigator coincided with Catalano's on only one point A he had been excused from attending the trial by the then assistant chief DUI prosecutor, Edwin Saar. Saar refuses to comment, but both Davis and Catalano agree that the prosecutor, an acquaintance of Catalano, didn't want to risk the distraction of a Catalano vs. Davis confrontation in the courtroom. As the result of a clerical mix-up, however, a secretary in the court clerk's office mistakenly sent Davis a subpoena to appear. When Davis received the subpoena, he decided to attend the trial, assuming Saar had changed his mind.
In any case, Davis says he stayed in the courtroom after receiving permission from Judge Pollock. He adds that he never laughed at any defendant being sentenced. "I don't think DUI or people being sentenced is a laughing matter," he explained. Internal affairs investigators exonerated Davis, saying they could not find anyone, except Catalano, who saw Davis laugh.
Things looked fine for Michael Catalano when he woke up on Sunday, September 20, 1992. The sky was clear, the air was warm, and best of all, he had not seen Alan Davis in several months. Catalano, a skilled boater, had decided to spend that Sunday on his seventeen-foot Boston Whaler, traveling up and down the coast near his waterfront home in South Miami to view damage caused by Hurricane Andrew. Four people accompanied him -- two neighbors, both retired military officers, as well as Saar from the State Attorney's Office and Mike Hannau, a businessman. When the group entered the inlet leading to Matheson Hammock, they spotted a man whistling and waving to them from the shoreline. The man was a park ranger, who was trying to tell the group to leave the inlet, a restricted area. But since he was not wearing a uniform, Catalano and company ignored him at first. That was a mistake.
When they finally did make for the main channel, they realized they were being followed by a Coral Gables police boat. Only when the pursuing boat pulled alongside did Catalano feel that familiar tightening of his stomach, that unmistakable increase in heart rate, and those beads of sweat popping through the pores on his high forehead. Davis was on the boat!


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The Post has written multiple items on the weirdness that is Michael Morse's pre-swing routine; my latest crack at it came in February, I believe, when Morse's gimmick was featured in ESPN The Magazine.
"The perfect swing for me starts with my base, starts with my legs, my hips," Morse told the publication. "It's like coiling like a snake. I call it my Samurai Cobra Snake. I do it right before I get into the box. And from doing that move, my little Cobra Snake, my weight is already in the back of my leg, my front of my leg is real light on the ground."
Well, the Nats are doing a Michael Morse bobblehead giveaway this season. And wouldn't you know it, the doll seems to have a little Cobra Snake of its own. Pretty good-looking bobblehead, and you won't find many other Major Leaguers showing off this particular pose.
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KANDI ROSE ROBERTS, aka KANDI KROON, 38, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, False Claims to the IRS, Fraudulent Use of Another Person's Identification, Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud, Wire Fraud, and Fraud and Related Activity with an Access Device. ROBERTS is scheduled to be sentenced on June 18, 2007, by U.S. District Judge James L. Robart
According to the plea agreement, ROBERTS and her husband Ernest M. Roberts, 49, of Bellingham, Washington, were involved in a conspiracy between 2002 and 2004, to defraud the United States by submitting fraudulent tax returns in the names of others. ROBERTS then collected more than $40,000 in tax refunds to which she was not entitled.
In addition to the scheme to defraud the IRS, the couple also conspired to commit Bank Fraud. The couple made use of personally identifying information of family members and others who had used KANDI ROBERTS' tax preparation services. Using that information they opened bank and credit accounts. They forged checks on accounts belonging to family members and ran up large credit card bills in the names of family members and others. Some of the charges occurred even after one victim had died. ROBERTS deposited forged checks into her bank account from the line of credit on her widowed mother's home. She then diverted mail containing repayment notices, and the mortgage company initiated foreclosure proceedings. The total Bank and Wire fraud is estimated to exceed $75,000.
Ernest Roberts entered a guilty plea last week to Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Making False Claims to the IRS, Fraudulent Use of Another's ID, and Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud. Ernest Roberts is also scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge James L. Robart on June 18, 2007.
Conspiracy is punishable by up to five years in prison. Bank Fraud and Wire Fraud are punishable by up to 30 years in prison. Access Device Fraud is punishable by up to ten years in prison. Fraudulent Use of Another Person's Identification is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. False Claims to the IRS is punishable by up to five years in prison.
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The Black on Track Indigenous healing program takes participants through a self-healing process that empowers the individual to take responsibility for choices and action. The participants gain awareness and knowledge through step-by-step training on how to focus on the positives and eliminate the negative choices in life.
The program is aimed at Indigenous and non-Indigenous men, women, and youth aged 15 years and older. The program can be delivered in the local community. To date, the program has engaged and helped 3,000 people.
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Department of Philosophy Xavier University of Louisiana 1 Drexel Dr. New Orleans, LA 70125-1098 504-520-5406
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Robert Berman (Ph.D. New School University). Full Professor. Dr. Berman teaches Logic, Ethics, Philosophy of Law, History of Philosophy. His research interests include Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy, and German Idealism, and his publications include: "Ways of Being Singular: The Logic of Individuality", Cardozo Public Law, Ethics, and Policy Journal, Volume 3, no. 1, 2004.
Joseph LeFevre (Ph.D. Tulane University), Professor of Philosophy, Clarence Jupiter Professor. Professor LeFevre's primary research interest is in investigating the relationships between science and scientific technology and culture at large. His primary teaching interests are introduction to philosophy and logic. His publications include: "The Value of Diversity: A Justification of Affirmative Action, Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 34, Number 1, Spring 2003. "Description of a Skills Oriented Health Ethics Program," American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, Vol. 48, Summer, 1984. Co-authored with Dr. Patrick Miederhoff of the College of Pharmacy. "Ethics Education for Clinical Pharmacy Practice," Drug Intelligence and Clinical Pharmacy, Vol. 14, July/August, 1980. Co-authored with Dr. Patrick Miederhoff and Dr. Bernie Olin of the College of Pharmacy. "Trends in Bioethics: Implications for Medical Technologists," Bayou Tech, May, 1979.
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The concept is about seeing.
The logo proposes seeing things as they are.
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Each little blue drop is a story that makes up the 'field', our world. And this field is being watched by the eyes of the filmmakers which in turn become the eyes of the viewers. In fact, the stories become the eyes. The line between subject, filmmaker and viewer is blurred and all that is, is the eye and the seeing. When we see, we understand.


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Ethiopia Travel Articles
- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Nairobi, Kenya (late April 2002)
- As Al moves into Kenya from Ethiopia, he reflects on the serious image problem that afflicts Ethiopia. He encourages you to go see it for yourself before everyone else does!
Read more - Round The World by Bike: Northern Ethiopia to Addis Ababa (March-April 2002)
- In Ethiopia, Al is no longer a person, he is a mobile cash point. Something has gone seriously wrong somewhere and Al thinks foreign aid may be the cause.
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Please Show Me Mercy and Just Kill Me Allready!?!
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Yes, the collection of soulless robots you call society. How does it feel knowing your humanity has been stolen fgrom you and you are a conditioned, heartless robot? Do you miss those "irrational" emotions that made you once human? I see that "robot-think" has invaded your human brain and has so corrupted you that the truth as conveyed by my poetic visionary abilities frighten you. What part of you is frightened-the robot or the human being?
Is it so scary to admit you have become a conditioned, brainwashed, controlled, overly rationalistic, computer-logic robot? Does your "robot-think" reject this or is there a spark of humanity that lies within that recognizes the truth I speak and is fighting with your "robot-think" for possession of your soul?
I sense that there is a great struggle within you. You recognize the truth of my vision, but the robot computer brain won't let you become free. The robot wants to live at all costs, and won't let the human part of you become free or overcome it. You must eventually decide if you will remain a Vulcan like robot this Industrial Revolution society has conditioned, brainwashed and designed you to be or if you will reclaim your humanity before you become a soulless android named BlueAngel.
You appear to be under the assumption that your preception of reality; your feelings, etc. are how the rest of us feel and/or perceive life to be.
You would be wrong in that the majority of the population does not recognize your perception of things as their own reality.
BTW, you don't know anything about me, so if you sense a struggle, I, again, suggest, you appear to be the one who is struggling and you are projecting your reality onto me.
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For those of you who do not know Johnny, he grew up in Coatesville, PA (which is not too far from our Linda's Stuff home). He began his figure skating training at age 12 and hasn't looked back since. He continued on to compete in many World Competitions, as well as on the US Olympic team. Besides being an incredible athlete, Weir is also a fashion inspiration.
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