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Matthew 18:20-22 NET

"For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them.” Then Peter came to him and said, “Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother who sins against me? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, I tell you, but seventy-seven times!"

See it at YouVersion.com:

http://bible.us/107/mat.18.20.net

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Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:30:35 -0800 2014 Chevrolet Convertible Stingray. 0-60 mph in under 4 secs. One test drive please. http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/2014-chevrolet-convertible-stingray-0-60-mph http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/2014-chevrolet-convertible-stingray-0-60-mph news.consumerreports.org/cars/2013/03/2014-chevrolet-corvette-stingray-drops-the-top-for-new-convertible.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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Sat, 02 Mar 2013 07:36:01 -0800 Tonight! Church potluck dinner! And guess what I'm doing?!! http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/tonight-church-potluck-dinner-and-guess-what http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/tonight-church-potluck-dinner-and-guess-what
Hola! 

We have our Astoria Community Church and Grace Fellowship church potluck dinner tonight at 6p and over 100 people coming! They usually ask me to MC, The Master of Ceremonies, The funny man with the mic, the Mexican with the Most, the Mexican Prince to the Presbyterians, but then Anne just reminds that really it's only making a few announcements ...and furthermore I shouldn't be asking for a renegotiation of my contract. "Oh," I said.

She says, "Maybe because you don't have one."

I thought ...I bet if they could get a Christian version of Ryan Seacrest, George Lopez, Billy Crystal and a touch of a rated G version of Seth Macfarlane, there would be a contract. ...Wait a minute...

Anne said, "It's just a couple of announcements dear."

It should be fun and filling none the less. ;0) 

Hope you can make it. 

We'll have a photographer too! No, it's not me. Thanks Mi Jung! 

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LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION...

It's not at our usual church location it's at the big New York Presbyterian Church (more room for food!) at 43-23 37th ave Long Island City, NY 11101 sorta near the Home Depot on Northern Blvd and 43rd Street. See pix. 

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Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:16:46 -0800 Hey, Brother | RELEVANT Magazine http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/hey-brother-relevant-magazine http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/hey-brother-relevant-magazine Tony Hale from NYC's Haven and TV. An article from Christian magazine called Relevant. http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/tv/hey-brother

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Sun, 24 Feb 2013 05:17:18 -0800 Updated. Thank you! Rebecca's Bday slideshow (720p - 2 mins) http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/updated-thank-you-rebeccas-bday-slideshow-720 http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/updated-thank-you-rebeccas-bday-slideshow-720 Amigos,

The original version was made in 1080p. This updated version is in 720p format and viewable on your iPhone.

Thank you for coming out!

Rebecca's 2nd Bday w Friends Feb 23 13 (720p - 2 mins)

Enjoy!

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Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:56:34 -0800 Video/Slideshow - Thank you for coming to rebecca's bday party! http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/videoslideshow-thank-you-for-coming-to-rebecc http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/videoslideshow-thank-you-for-coming-to-rebecc Thank you for coming out to help us celebrate and all the wonderful gifts!

Rebecca's 2nd Bday w Friends 2 23 13 (2 mins)

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Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:05:22 -0800 View from top floor of Ny Pres hospital http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/view-from-top-floor-of-ny-pres-hospital http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/view-from-top-floor-of-ny-pres-hospital
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I'm about to go in to teach a class to a group of nurses and thought you would like to see the view from the 24th fl of the hospital where I work pretty regularly. Have a good weekend!

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Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:01:34 -0800 A Digital Shift on Health Data Swells Profits in an Industry - NYTimes.com http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/a-digital-shift-on-health-data-swells-profits http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/a-digital-shift-on-health-data-swells-profits
I'm reminded very much of the Doctors that I closely work with that both love Epic and dislike Epic. 

A Digital Shift on Health Data Swells Profits in an Industry

It was a tantalizing pitch: come get a piece of a $19 billion government “giveaway.”

The approach came in 2009, in a presentation to doctors by Allscripts Healthcare Solutions of Chicago, a well-connected player in the lucrative business of digital medical records. That February, after years of behind-the-scenes lobbying by Allscripts and others, legislation to promote the use of electronic records was signed into law as part of President Obama’s economic stimulus bill. The rewards, Allscripts suggested, were at hand.

But today, as doctors and hospitals struggle to make new records systems work, the clear winners are big companies like Allscripts that lobbied for that legislation and pushed aside smaller competitors.

While proponents say new record-keeping technologies will one day reduce costs and improve care, profits and sales are soaring now across the records industry. At Allscripts, annual sales have more than doubled from $548 million in 2009 to an estimated $1.44 billion last year, partly reflecting daring acquisitions made on the bet that the legislation would be a boon for the industry. At the Cerner Corporation of Kansas City, Mo., sales rose 60 percent during that period. With money pouring in, top executives are enjoying Wall Street-style paydays.

None of that would have happened without the health records legislation that was included in the 2009 economic stimulus bill — and the lobbying that helped produce it. Along the way, the records industry made hundreds of thousands of dollars of political contributions to both Democrats and Republicans. In some cases, the ties went deeper. Glen E. Tullman, until recently the chief executive of Allscripts, was health technology adviser to the 2008 Obama campaign. As C.E.O. of Allscripts, he visited the White House no fewer than seven times after President Obama took office in 2009, according to White House records.

Mr. Tullman, who left Allscripts late last year after a boardroom power struggle, characterized his activities in Washington as an attempt to educate lawmakers and the administration.

“We really haven’t done any lobbying,” Mr. Tullman said in an interview. “I think it’s very common with every administration that when they want to talk about the automotive industry, they convene automotive executives, and when they want to talk about the Internet, they convene Internet executives.”

Between 2008 and 2012, a time of intense lobbying in the area around the passage of the legislation and how the rules for government incentives would be shaped, Mr. Tullman personally made $225,000 in political contributions. While tens of thousands of those dollars went to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, money was also being sprinkled toward Senator Max Baucus, the Democratic senator from Montana who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Jay D. Rockefeller, the Democrat from West Virginia who heads the Commerce Committee. Mr. Tullman said his recent personal contributions to various politicians had largely been driven by his interest in supporting President Obama and in seeing his re-election.

Cerner’s lobbying dollars doubled to nearly $400,000 between 2006 and last year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. While its political action committee contributed a little to some Democrats in 2008, including Senator Baucus, its contributions last year went almost entirely to Republicans, with a large amount going to the Mitt Romney campaign.

Current and former industry executives say that big digital records companies like Cerner, Allscripts and Epic Systems of Verona, Wis., have reaped enormous rewards because of the legislation they pushed for. “Nothing that these companies did in my eyes was spectacular,” said John Gomez, the former head of technology at Allscripts. “They grew as a result of government incentives.”

Executives at smaller records companies say the legislation cemented the established companies’ leading positions in the field, making it difficult for others to break into the business and innovate. Until the 2009 legislation, growth at the leading records firms was steady; since then, it has been explosive. Annual sales growth at Cerner, for instance, has doubled to 20 percent from 10 percent.

“We called it the Sunny von Bülow bill. These companies that should have been dead were being put on machines and kept alive for another few years,” said Jonathan Bush, co-founder of the cloud-based firm Athenahealth and a first cousin to former President George W. Bush. “The biggest players drew this incredible huddle around the rule-makers and the rules are ridiculously favorable to these companies and ridiculously unfavorable to society.”

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: February 20, 2013

An earlier version of this article omitted part of the name of the institution that employs Michael Callaham and Michael Blum. It is the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, not the San Francisco Medical Center.

This industry, which was pioneered in the late 1970s, first gained widespread attention in 2004 when President Bush in his State of the Union speech called for digitizing national health records.

“After that, every technology C.E.O. wanting a piece of health care would have visited me every day if I had let them,” said David Brailer, whom President Bush appointed as the nation’s first health information czar. Over the next few years, Cerner and many of the other health care data companies increased their presence on Capitol Hill.

The records systems sold by the biggest vendors have their fans, who argue that, among other things, the systems ease prescribing medications electronically. But these systems also have many critics, who contend that they can be difficult to use, cannot share patient information with other systems and are sometimes adding hours to the time physicians spend documenting patient care.

“On a really good day, you might be able to call the system mediocre, but most of the time, it’s lousy,” said Michael Callaham, the chairman of the department of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, which eight months ago turned on its $160 million digital records system from Epic. Michael Blum, the hospital’s chief medical information officer, said a majority of doctors there like the Epic system.

Whatever the case, the legislation has been a windfall to top executives at the leading health records companies. Neal L. Patterson, who grew up on a farm near Manchester, Okla., population 100, co-founded Cerner in 1979. As Cerner’s sales have soared in recent years, so have Mr. Patterson’s fortunes. From 2007 to 2011, he received more than $21 million in total compensation, according to the executive compensation research firm Equilar, and his stake in the company is worth $1 billion.

In recent years, Mr. Patterson and his wife, Jeanne Lillig-Patterson, who ran as a Republican for Congress in 2004, have emerged as social and business leaders in the Kansas City, Mo., area. Mr. Patterson is also co-owner of a real estate development firm whose ventures include a 1,200-acre community near Kansas City called the Village of Loch Lloyd, featuring a Tom Watson-designed golf course.

A spokeswoman for Cerner said Mr. Patterson was unavailable for comment.

The medical records industry did not have much of a presence in Washington before President Bush highlighted it in 2004. Then in November that year, the industry created its first association, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society EHR Vendor Association, to make the case for electronic records. Its founding members included Allscripts, Cerner and Epic.

Four years later, in December 2008, H. Stephen Lieber, chief executive of the group, wrote an open letter to President-elect Obama calling for a minimum government investment of $25 billion to help hospitals and physicians adopt electronic records. The industry ultimately got at least $19 billion in federal and state money.

In the months after that windfall arrived, sales climbed for leading vendors as hospitals and physicians scrambled to buy systems to meet tight timetables to collect the incentive dollars. At Allscripts, Mr. Tullman soon announced what looked like a game-changing deal: the acquisition of another records company, Eclipsys, for $1.3 billion.

“We are at the beginning of what we believe will be the fastest transformation of any industry in U.S. history,” Mr. Tullman said when the deal was announced.

Last spring, some of the Eclipsys board members left after a power struggle; Mr. Tullman left in December. He is now at a company he co-founded that focuses on solar energy — another area that, after Obama administration and Congress expanded government incentives in the 2009 stimulus bill, has been swept by a gold-rush mentality, too.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: February 20, 2013

An earlier version of this article omitted part of the name of the institution that employs Michael Callaham and Michael Blum. It is the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, not the San Francisco Medical Center.

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Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:33:39 -0800 College Degree Required by Increasing Number of Companies - NYTimes.com http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/college-degree-required-by-increasing-number http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/college-degree-required-by-increasing-number I'm glad that were I work (Weill Cornell Medical College/NY Pres hospital), a BA is NOT a requirement for many jobs.

It Takes a B.A. to Find a Job as a File Clerk

ATLANTA —The college degree is becoming the new high school diploma: the new minimum requirement, albeit an expensive one, for getting even the lowest-level job.

Consider the 45-person law firm of Busch, Slipakoff & Schuh here in Atlanta, a place that has seen tremendous growth in the college-educated population. Like other employers across the country, the firm hires only people with a bachelor’s degree, even for jobs that do not require college-level skills.

This prerequisite applies to everyone, including the receptionist, paralegals, administrative assistants and file clerks. Even the office “runner” — the in-house courier who, for $10 an hour, ferries documents back and forth between the courthouse and the office — went to a four-year school.

“College graduates are just more career-oriented,” said Adam Slipakoff, the firm’s managing partner. “Going to college means they are making a real commitment to their futures. They’re not just looking for a paycheck.”

Economists have referred to this phenomenon as “degree inflation,” and it has been steadily infiltrating America’s job market. Across industries and geographic areas, many other jobs that didn’t used to require a diploma — positions like dental hygienists, cargo agents, clerks and claims adjusters — are increasingly requiring one, according to Burning Glass, a company that analyzes job ads from more than 20,000 online sources, including major job boards and small- to midsize-employer sites.

This up-credentialing is pushing the less educated even further down the food chain, and it helps explain why the unemployment rate for workers with no more than a high school diploma is more than twice that for workers with a bachelor’s degree: 8.1 percent versus 3.7 percent.

Some jobs, like those in supply chain management and logistics, have become more technical, and so require more advanced skills today than they did in the past. But more broadly, because so many people are going to college now, those who do not graduate are often assumed to be unambitious or less capable.

Plus, it’s a buyer’s market for employers.

“When you get 800 résumés for every job ad, you need to weed them out somehow,” said Suzanne Manzagol, executive recruiter at Cardinal Recruiting Group, which does headhunting for administrative positions at Busch, Slipakoff & Schuh and other firms in the Atlanta area.

Of all the metropolitan areas in the United States, Atlanta has had one of the largest inflows of college graduates in the last five years, according to an analysis of census data by William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. In 2012, 39 percent of job postings for secretaries and administrative assistants in the Atlanta metro area requested a bachelor’s degree, up from 28 percent in 2007, according to Burning Glass.

“When I started recruiting in ’06, you didn’t need a college degree, but there weren’t that many candidates,” Ms. Manzagol said.

Even if they are not exactly applying the knowledge they gained in their political science, finance and fashion marketing classes, the young graduates employed by Busch, Slipakoff & Schuh say they are grateful for even the rotest of rote office work they have been given.

“It sure beats washing cars,” said Landon Crider, 24, the firm’s soft-spoken runner.

He would know: he spent several years, while at Georgia State and in the months after graduation, scrubbing sedans at Enterprise Rent-a-Car. Before joining the law firm, he was turned down for a promotion to rental agent at Enterprise — a position that also required a bachelor’s degree — because the company said he didn’t have enough sales experience.

His college-educated colleagues had similarly limited opportunities, working at Ruby Tuesday or behind a retail counter while waiting for a better job to open up.

“I am over $100,000 in student loan debt right now,” said Megan Parker, who earns $37,000 as the firm’s receptionist. She graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta in 2011 with a degree in fashion and retail management, and spent months waiting on “bridezillas” at a couture boutique, among other stores, while churning out office-job applications.

“I will probably never see the end of that bill, but I’m not really thinking about it right now,” she said. “You know, this is a really great place to work.”

The risk with hiring college graduates for jobs they are supremely overqualified for is, of course, that they will leave as soon as they find something better, particularly as the economy improves.

Mr. Slipakoff said his firm had little turnover, though, largely because of its rapid expansion. The company has grown to more than 30 lawyers from five in 2008, plus a support staff of about 15, and promotions have abounded.

“They expect you to grow, and they want you to grow,” said Ashley Atkinson, who graduated from Georgia Southern University in 2009 with a general studies degree. “You’re not stuck here under some glass ceiling.”

Within a year of being hired as a file clerk, around Halloween 2011, Ms. Atkinson was promoted twice to positions in marketing and office management. Mr. Crider, the runner, was given additional work last month, helping with copying and billing claims. He said he was taking the opportunity to learn more about the legal industry, since he plans to apply to law school next year.

The firm’s greatest success story is Laura Burnett, who in less than a year went from being a file clerk to being the firm’s paralegal for the litigation group. The partners were so impressed with her filing wizardry that they figured she could handle it.

“They gave me a raise, too,” said Ms. Burnett, a 2011 graduate of the University of West Georgia.

The typical paralegal position, which has traditionally offered a path to a well-paying job for less educated workers, requires no more than an associate degree, according to the Labor Department’s occupational handbook, but the job is still a step up from filing. Of the three daughters in her family, Ms. Burnett reckons that she has the best job. One sister, a fellow West Georgia graduate, is processing insurance claims; another, who dropped out of college, is one of the many degree-less young people who still cannot find work.

Besides the promotional pipelines it creates, setting a floor of college attainment also creates more office camaraderie, said Mr. Slipakoff, who handles most of the firm’s hiring and is especially partial to his fellow University of Florida graduates. There is a lot of trash-talking of each other’s college football teams, for example. And this year the office’s Christmas tree ornaments were a colorful menagerie of college mascots — Gators, Blue Devils, Yellow Jackets, Wolves, Eagles, Tigers, Panthers — in which just about every staffer’s school was represented.

“You know, if we had someone here with just a G.E.D. or something, I can see how they might feel slighted by the social atmosphere here,” he says. “There really is something sort of cohesive or binding about the fact that all of us went to college.”


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Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:30:17 -0800 New York City Schools Struggle to Separate the Gifted From the Just Well-Prepared - NYTimes.com http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/new-york-city-schools-struggle-to-separate-th http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/new-york-city-schools-struggle-to-separate-th
An article about 4 year olds...and schooling...

Schools Ask: Gifted or Just Well-Prepared?

When the New York City Education Department announced that it was changing part of its admissions exam for its gifted and talented programs last year, in part to combat the influence of test preparation companies, one of those companies posted the news with links to guides and practice tests for the new assessment.

The day that Pearson, a company that designs assessments, announced that it was changing an exam used by many New York City private schools, another test prep company attempted to decipher the coming changes on its blog: word reasoning and picture comprehension were out, bug search and animal coding were in.

If you did not know what to make of it — and who would? — why not stop by?

Assessing students has always been a fraught process, especially 4-year-olds, a mercurial and unpredictable lot by nature, who are vying for increasingly precious seats in kindergarten gifted programs.

In New York, it has now become an endless contest in which administrators seeking authentic measures of intelligence are barely able to keep ahead of companies whose aim is to bring out the genius in every young child.

The city’s leading private schools are even considering doing away with the test they have used for decades, popularly known as the E.R.B., after the Educational Records Bureau, the organization that administers the exam, which is written by Pearson.

“It’s something the schools know has been corrupted,” said Dr. Samuel J. Meisels, an early-childhood education expert who gave a presentation in the fall to private school officials, encouraging them to abandon the test. Excessive test preparation, he said, “invalidates inferences that can be drawn” about children’s “learning potential and intellect and achievement.”

Last year, the Education Department said it would change one of the tests used for admission to public school gifted kindergarten and first-grade classes in order to focus more on cognitive ability and less on school readiness, which favors children who have more access to preschool and tutoring.

Scores had been soaring. For the 2012-13 school year, nearly 5,000 children qualified for gifted and talented kindergarten seats in New York City public schools. That was more than double the number five years ago. “We were concerned enough about our definition of giftedness being affected by test prep — as we were prior school experience, primary spoken language, socioeconomic background and culture — that we changed the assessment,” Adina Lopatin, a deputy chief academic officer in the Education Department, said.

And yet test prep companies leapt to action, printing new books tailored to the new test and organizing classes.

Natalie Viderman, 4, spent an hour and a half each week for six months at Bright Kids NYC, a tutoring company, working on skills like spatial visualization and serial reasoning, which are part of the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test, or NNAT 2, the new gifted and talented test. She and her mother, Victoria Preys, also worked every night on general learning, test prep and workbooks, some provided by Bright Kids.

“It is my philosophy that if you can get more help, why not?” Ms. Preys said. She prepared her son the same way and he benefited, she said, scoring in the 98th percentile, qualifying him for a seat. She interpreted the Education Department’s decision to change the test and “raise the standards,” she said, as a message that it expected parents to do more. “We are increasing the standards, so you have to work with your kids more, to prep more,” she said.

“Every time these tests change, there’s a lot of demand,” Bige Doruk, founder of Bright Kids, said. She said she did not accept the argument that admissions tests had been invalidated by test prep. “It is not a validity issue, it’s a competitive issue,” she said. “Parents will always do what they can for their children.” And not all children who take preparation courses do well, she said. The test requires that 4-year-olds sit with a stranger for nearly an hour — skills that extend beyond the scope of I.Q. or school readiness.

Natalie also applied to Hunter College Elementary School in Manhattan; she missed the cutoff for the second round by a point.

Hunter, a public school for gifted children that is part of the City University of New York, requires applicants to take the Stanford-Binet V intelligence test, and until last year, families could pick from 1 of 16 psychologists to administer the test. Uncovering who was the “best tester,” one who might give children more time to answer, or pose questions different ways, was a popular parlor game among parents.

But for this year’s admission process, the school announced that every family would be required to choose from only four testers. Randy Collins, Hunter’s principal, said the change was not related to families’ flocking to “easy” testers, but rather an attempt to ease the scheduling process. “We have seen no evidence that some are easy and some are tough, that some give extra time,” he said. And yet the decision seems to have had an impact: after several years in which scores rose, Mr. Collins said, scores did not go up this year.

Every year, a few children are dropped because it is apparent they had been prepared: they knew the answers even before the tester finished asking. But Mr. Collins, who is leaving to lead the Speyer Legacy School in Manhattan, a private school for gifted children, said he did not think the practice was widespread: “I may be an optimist: I don’t think there is as much prepping going on as people think.”

The E.R.B. test was developed in the 1960s to prevent children who were applying to multiple private schools from having to take numerous tests. George P. Davison, who runs Grace Church School in Manhattan, said that he knew how much test prep inflated results because when siblings of current students applied, they tended to score a few points lower. Because siblings receive preference in admissions at many schools, including his, their parents are less likely to seek extra help before the tests, he said.

Dr. Meisels, who is president of the Erikson Institute, a graduate school and research organization in Chicago focusing on early childhood development, told the private schools admissions officers in November that the test was effective at identifying cognitive delays, diagnosing learning disabilities and measuring I.Q., the reasons the test was developed. But he argued that it was not a good admissions tool — which is what the schools are using it for. “It is an off-label use,” he said. He told the schools that they could collect enough information from families to make an informed decision without the test — most schools require an interview with parents, a play date with the child, a report from the preschool and the records bureau.

The private school association is scheduled to vote soon on whether to abandon the E.R.B. test, Mr. Davison said, although some veteran school admission officials said it was unlikely they would vote to do so. For all of its faults and susceptibility to manipulation, it also gives schools in high demand a way to say no other than “we didn’t like you, or your child,” several admissions directors said privately. A new version of the test will be used starting April 1. Records Bureau officials said they revised the test based on “best practices”; some school officials, who were granted anonymity because schools officials are discouraged from talking publicly about their admissions process, said it was in response to excessive test prep.

Mr. Davison has suggested that the schools should develop their own test that would be administered by the schools themselves, and not by psychologists, who are widely believed to be, along with professors and consultants, among those supplying the tests to test prep companies.

When the Education Department announced its change to the public school gifted exam, Bright Kids was already well prepared: it had already developed NNAT 2 materials for children in Washington, D.C., and Virginia, where the test was already being used.

On a Thursday late last month just before Natalie took the test, her tutor handed her a packet of pattern completion problems and started to explain the directions. Natalie cut her off. “I know what to do,” she said, concentrating on her worksheets and answering every question correctly.


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Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:44:30 -0800 Verizon! Wifi issue! And your data plan! http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/verizon-wifi-issue-and-your-data-plan http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/verizon-wifi-issue-and-your-data-plan
Kids! 

I just got off the phone with Verizon, because I was going through data much faster than usual. After several minutes of convincing them it wasn't my fault and that there may be a problem they said, oh well, you coooould talk to a tech person. I did and it turns out there is a Known problem with iPhone 5 that the wifi drops regularly and when it does it uses your data minutes! From what I can tell it sounds like all iPhone 5 are effected (only 5's, not 4's, I asked). If you went over your data plan in Jan and maybe even in Dec '12 call them to get that credit and they will walk you through restoring your iPhone to fix the problem. Updating your iPhone to the latest software will not solve the issue!

Ok, hope that helps! 

~r

Sent from my iPhone 5, typos and all. 

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Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:08:48 -0800 Downton Abbey tonight and a similar replacement. http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/downton-abbey-tonight-and-a-similar-replaceme http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/downton-abbey-tonight-and-a-similar-replaceme Lord help us, tonight is a two hour episode of one of the most watched TV show in the world (Is that really true, Grandad?), Downton Abbey. Anne did just tell me the tragic news that there are only 2 episodes left this season. I'm sorry my love. Hee hee.  Thankfully, we have starting up on Wednesday (2/13/13) a new season of a tv show to fill that ever so tender void to-be once DA is off the air until next year. It's called SouthLand. It's about a family of uniform peace keepers who work together to bring peace and harmony to a small city in need of hope and comfort. You all should check it out! TNT 10PM EST. Catch up online! LINK. I miss Sybil. ;0)

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Sat, 09 Feb 2013 06:59:24 -0800 Weather update. A ok in Queens. http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/weather-update-a-ok-in-queens http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/weather-update-a-ok-in-queens Saturday February 9, 2013
9:30 AM

We ended up with about 4" of snow in Jackson Heights, Queens. As far as we can tell no one lost power in this area. Long Island and Boston seem to have gotten hit hard with A LOT of snow. We had a cozy warm night, but by 5am the snow plows were making a ton of noise. :0(. Not complaining, just commenting. There are many gas stations in our area that are out of gas, because people were afraid that this storm would be worse and power outages would create something similar to Hurricane Sandy levels. Thankfully the worst is probably over. The sun is already taking a peek! We're considering postponing r's bday for a snow day in Central Park!! Here's a quick video from out our 6th floor co-op apt at 7am this morning.

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~r

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Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:48:06 -0800 Not much snow...yet! Video. http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/not-much-snowyet-video http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/not-much-snowyet-video Fri 2/8/13
6:30pm

Here's a quick video of the snow falling in our area of Queens. at 9:46 pm its not falling as strong. Hmm. Blizzard? They say now that the bulk of it will fall over night. Anne (our in-house meteorologist)is disappointed that it will likely only be closer to 6" of snow tomorrow morning. We shall soon see!

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Happy birthday to our sweet daughter Rebecca who celebrates her second birthday tomorrow Saturday February 9, 2013.


~r

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Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:23:16 -0800 Hailing! Windy! http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/hailing-windy http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/hailing-windy
Fri 2/8/13 
1:16 PM

Hail the size of tic tacs and wind the speed of d running (chugging) through the dining room (~23.8 mph [fast]) and I'm walking around in it. 

Not much snow sticking to the ground in Manhattan ...yet. 

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Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:04:34 -0800 NYC Bus with snow chains on from the inside. http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/nyc-bus-with-snow-chains-on-from-the-inside http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/nyc-bus-with-snow-chains-on-from-the-inside
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~r
raulwrojas@gmail.com

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Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:25:11 -0800 Snowing! The Blizzard of February 2013! http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/snowing-the-blizzard-of-february-2013 http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/snowing-the-blizzard-of-february-2013
Friday 2/8/13 
8:16 AM 

Snowing! 
Expecting 10" in next 24 hours. Emergency alert was sent yesterday to our phones around 3p. City is ready today. Buses and trains are running. School has not been cancelled and I'm on my way to work. Thankfully it's a warm 35F! Nice! Wish I could wear shorts to work. :0(

You know, it used to be that we could say remember the big Storm in '99? Now they happen so often we have to specify the month and the year! Ha! 

Chances that we may go get to play in Central Park has now gone up to 35%, but that would mean postponing r's party. Hmm. The show must go on or at least as long as the trains are running anyway. 


~r

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Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:57:13 -0800 Check out this verse on YouVersion.com http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/check-out-this-verse-on-youversioncom http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/check-out-this-verse-on-youversioncom
Matthew 22:37-39 NET

"Jesus said to him, “‘ Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind .’ This is the first and greatest commandment. The second is like it: ‘ Love your neighbor as yourself .’"

See it at YouVersion.com:

http://bible.us/107/mat.22.37.net

~r

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Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:52:00 -0800 Today's adventure in Manhattan - Bobby the "homeless" guy. Voice memo post. http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/todays-adventure-in-mahattan-bobby-the-homele http://raulwrojas.posterous.com/todays-adventure-in-mahattan-bobby-the-homele

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Bobby Nickelsson. Yup two S's!

~r

 

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