Divorce costs thousands of American women health insurance coverage

ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 2012) ? About 115,000 women lose their private health insurance every year in the wake of divorce, according to a University of Michigan study.

And this loss is not temporary: women's overall rates of health insurance coverage remain depressed for more than two years after divorce.

"Given that approximately one million divorces occur each year in the U.S., and that many women get health coverage through their husbands, the impact is quite substantial," says Bridget Lavelle, a U-M Ph.D. candidate in public policy and sociology, and lead author of the study, which appears in the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Lavelle conducted the study, which analyzes nationally representative longitudinal data from 1996 through 2007 on women between the ages of 26 and 64, with U-M sociologist Pamela Smock. Their research was supported by the U-M National Poverty Center.

Among the other key findings of the study:

• Each year, roughly 65,000 divorced women lose all health insurance coverage in the months following divorce. Many women have trouble maintaining private insurance coverage because they no longer qualify as dependents under husbands' policies or have difficulty paying premiums for other sources of private insurance. And despite the financial hardship divorced women often experience, many do not qualify for Medicaid or other public insurance.
• Women insured as dependents on their husband's employer-based insurance policy are particularly vulnerable to loss of coverage after divorce. Nearly one-quarter of them are uninsured six months after divorce.
• Women who have their own employer-based coverage are less likely than other women to lose coverage (11 percent vs. 17 percent) but they are not completely immune from loss of coverage because financial losses related to the divorce may reduce their ability to meet ordinary expenses, including their share of employee-sponsored health insurance.

"Women in moderate-income families face the greatest loss of insurance coverage," says Lavelle. "They are more likely than higher-income women to lose private coverage and they have less access than lower-income women to public safety-net insurance programs."

Lavelle and Smock also found that full-time work and education are important buffers protecting women from losing health insurance after divorce. But since many women work part-time, or in jobs that don't provide health insurance coverage, the protective effects of employment are not universal.

"The current health care and insurance system in the U.S. is inadequate for a population in which multiple marital and job changes over the life course are not uncommon," Lavelle and Smock conclude. "It remains to be seen how effective the Affordable Care Act will be in remedying the problem of insurance loss after divorce, but the law has provisions that may help substantially."

In the meantime, tens of thousands of women lose their private health insurance every year -- in addition to all the other economic losses that accompany divorce.

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Poco Performs At Iron Horse - Courant.com

In 1969 Poco was offered a chance to perform at the Woodstock Music Festival but the group's manager turned down the gig.

"When they called and said 'we want you for Woodstock' our manager said, "I'm sorry we can't do it we have a better offer,'" recalls Rusty Young, a founding member of Poco and the group's longtime pedal steel guitar player and vocalist. That "better offer" turned out to be a small school gig in California.

"We played a gymnasium in Los Angeles instead of Woodstock," Young says.

That same manger told them Poco was a great name because it was only four letters long and that meant that the group's name would appear larger on theater marquees than other bands with longer names like Jefferson Airplane. There was only one problem with this logic says Young, "They only have one size letter!"

Young adds, "One of our issues in the beginning is that we had really poor judgment as far as picking managers."

Despite that poor judgment, the group helped pioneer country rock in the 1970s and has remained a force in the music industry ever since. The group will perform at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Mass., on Friday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m.

Young says the Iron Horse concert will include performances of Poco's biggest hits as well as new material.

"When I go to a concert I want to hear the songs that I'm familiar with from the band. I think it's our obligation to do "Crazy Love," which was our biggest hit and to do "Roads of Cimarron" and "Good Feelin' to Know" and songs that people expect to hear when they came to a Poco concert," he says. "We do as many of those hits as we can along with new stuff. We need to do new stuff just to keep ourselves in the game."

Poco was formed in the late 1960s by Young, Richie Furay and Jim Messina. Furay and Messina were members of Buffalo Springfield and Young was brought in to play on the group's third album "Last Time Around." After the recording of that album, Buffalo Springfield broke up and Furay, Messina and Young decided to form a new group; ultimately that group would be called Poco.

"The three of us just bonded," says Young. "We thought, what if we had a band that used country music instruments? like steel guitar and dobro and mandolin?as the color, but yet the lyrics and the music would be rock 'n' roll. Wouldn't that be cool? So that was the premise that we started with."

Over the years Poco has gone through many line-up changes. Messina and Furay drifted to other projects, Randy Meisner and Paul Cotton came on board and ultimately left. However, unlike most bands, Poco was able to survive these line-up changes with its musical integrity intact and often enhanced.

"I liken it to a tree that you prune and it makes it healthier," Young says, of the band's ability to endure through different line-ups of musicians. "The reason the band's lasted so long and done so well is that we've always had great players and great songwriters in our band."

Poco recently recorded a new album and Young hopes to have it available for digital download by Christmas and to have the physical CD out in early 2013. He says the group's newest member, Michael Webb, brought a new angle of songwriting and musicianship to the album.

The album is named "All Fired UP" and Young says the album features the signature Poco sound as well as new sonic explorations for the band.

"The title track is a nod to classic Poco, it could have been on any Poco record, it's a real definitive country rock song," he says. "The album has probably the most rocking song we've ever recorded, it's called 'Rocking Horse. So the album really covers a lot, there's stuff there for the Poco fans who like the classic sound of Poco and then we're also stretching and reaching and trying new things."

Young currently lives in Missouri. In addition to the pedal steel guitar he plays the banjo and mandolin. He began playing pedal steel guitar at a very young age.

"My parents were big country music fans. From the time I was old enough to sit up on the bar they would take me with them on their Saturday night Honky Tonking," he says. "My dad's favorite player in this country band that they used to go see was the steel guitar player and my dad always wanted me to learn steel guitar and so I started lessons when I was six years old."

Today Young, who is in his mid-60s, still loves playing and is still passionate about Poco's music.

"I'm at that point in life where I don't really have to do it anymore unless I'm having fun and unless it's great. I pledged to all the guys who have been in the band over the years that we wouldn't do it anymore if it stopped being fun and it stopped being great and it's still great and it's still fun."

POCO performs on Friday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. at the Iron Horse Music Hall at 20 Center Street in Northampton, Mass. Tickets are $35 in advance or $40 at the door. Details: visit http://www.iheg.com, or 413-586-8686.

Source: http://www.courant.com/entertainment/music/hc-poco-1116-20121116,0,6451213.story?track=rss

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WINTERSUN Time I music review by Puppies On Acid

It only took 8 years and numerous mishaps for this album to see the light of day. Was it worth the wait? Well from the start we have a noticeable change in musical direction. Sure the speed and technical elements are still there, but its driving force is orchestral and choir arrangements. When Sons of Winter and Stars kicks in, you know you are in for a treat. One of the most epic songs of the year in any genre! Throughout the album I hear little nuances that reminds me of what makes Moonsorrow so amazing, and no Wintersun doesn't exactly sound like Moonsorrow, they just seem to know the right elements to put into a song to make it truly epic. And I'm not just talking song length. Although the majority of the songs are somewhat longer. Wintersun seems to have a great sense of when to back off and let the song breathe and when to kick it back up a notch and put the pedal to the floor. So was it worth the wait? Well that all depends on how long you think it should take to write and record an album on this level of awesomeness. For me it was worth the wait, but I wouldn't want to wait another 8 years for part 2 of this album. So they better get their crap together... Haha

Puppies On Acid | 5/5 | 2012-11-2

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Katy Perry wears dress with Obama slogan at rally

Pop singer Katy Perry, sporting a skin-tight minidress with President Barack Obama's campaign slogan "Forward" emblazoned across it, sings at a rally for Obama, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

Pop singer Katy Perry, sporting a skin-tight minidress with President Barack Obama's campaign slogan "Forward" emblazoned across it, sings at a rally for Obama, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

MILWAUKEE (AP) ? Pop star Katy Perry is sporting a skin-tight minidress with President Barack Obama's campaign slogan "Forward" emblazoned across it at the president's rally in Milwaukee.

Perry came on stage at Saturday's event initially wearing a red, white and blue dress and holding a microphone shaped like the Statue of Liberty's torch.

But after her first song, a cover of Al Green's soul hit "Let's Stay Together," she tossed aside the dress to reveal the bright blue minidress.

Obama's slogan "Forward" is also Wisconsin's state motto.

Perry paused midway through her set to make a pitch for donations to victims of Superstorm Sandy.

Obama's rally with Perry comes before he's set to be in Madison on Monday with rocker Bruce Springsteen.

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Romney, Obama, on final sprint, look for an edge

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) ? Three days. Nine states ? give or take. A magic 270 electoral votes. For President Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney, the final touch-and-go stretch of campaigning is down to the numbers.

New hiring reports or a new jobless rate. Spending totals or early vote totals. Percentage points and rhetorical points. Frequency of stops or size of crowds. In a game of metrics, each camp is looking for that last measure that will separate them at the finish line.

After holding mostly small and mid-size rallies for much of the campaign, Obama's team is planning a series of larger events this weekend aimed at drawing big crowds in battleground states. Still, the campaign isn't expecting to draw the massive audiences Obama had in the closing days of the 2008 race, when his rallies drew more than 50,000.

Obama's closing weekend also includes two joint events with former President Bill Clinton: a rally Saturday night in Virginia and an event Sunday in New Hampshire. The two presidents had planned to campaign together across three states earlier this week, but that trip was called off because of Superstorm Sandy. And, of course, there is always Ohio, the top battleground of them all.

In a whiff of 2008 nostalgia, some of Obama's traveling companions from his campaign four years ago were planning to join him on the road for the final days of his last campaign. Among them are Robert Gibbs, who served as Obama's first White House press secretary, and Reggie Love, Obama's former personal aide who left the White House earlier this year.

Not to be outdone, Romney hosted a massive rally Friday night in West Chester, Ohio, drawing more than 10,000 people to the Cincinnati area for an event that featured rock stars, sports celebrities and dozens of Republican officials. It was a high-energy event on a cold night designed to kick off his own sprint to the finish.

Romney arrived in New Hampshire close to midnight on Friday after an 18-hour day on the campaign trail that took him from Virginia to Wisconsin to Ohio. He was attending a morning rally on the New Hampshire seacoast before making an afternoon appearance in Iowa, and two more in Colorado. He shifted an original plan to campaign in Nevada on Sunday in favor of a schedule likely to bring him back to Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Aides stress that his schedule is fluid and may change with little notice as they evaluate where his time is best spent.

On Saturday, Obama's first stop was in Mentor, Ohio, then he was campaigning in Milwaukee and Dubuque, Iowa, and ending the day in Bristow, Va. On Sunday, he was taking his campaign to New Hampshire, Florida, Colorado and, yes, Ohio.

Polling shows the race remains a toss-up heading into the final days. But Romney still has the tougher path; he must win more of the nine most-contested states to reach 270 electoral votes: Ohio, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Nevada, Wisconsin, Iowa and New Hampshire.

Romney has added Pennsylvania to the mix, hoping to end a streak of five presidential contests where the Democratic candidate prevailed in the state. Obama won Pennsylvania by more than 10 percentage points in 2008; the latest polls in the state give him a 4- to 5-point margin. Romney will campaign in the Philadelphia suburbs on Sunday. Obama aides scoff at the Romney incursion, but they are carefully adding television spending in the state and are sending Clinton to campaign there Monday.

The final frenzy of campaigning comes in the wake of Superstorm Sandy that has dominated much of the news coverage for the past several days as New York, New Jersey and Connecticut recover from the brunt of its force. Friday also offered an economic finale to the campaign with the release of October jobs reports that contained better than average economic news but gave both campaigns a talking point. Employers added a better-than-expected 171,000 jobs last month, but the jobless rate ticked up to 7.9 percent from 7.8 percent ? mainly because more people jumped back into the search for work.

In crucial early voting, Obama holds an apparent lead over Romney in key states. But Obama's advantage isn't as big as the one he had over John McCain four years ago, giving Romney hope that he could make up that gap in Tuesday's election.

About 25 million people already have voted in 34 states and the District of Columbia. No votes will be counted until Election Day, but several battleground states are releasing the party affiliation of people who have voted early. So far, Democratic voters outnumber Republicans in Florida, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio. Republicans have the edge in Colorado.

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Kuhnhenn reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Julie Pace and Stephen Ohlemacher contributed to this report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/romney-obama-final-sprint-look-edge-073234443--election.html

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Nonprofit Information: Open grant solicitation for Businesses ...

Good day,

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As you may have heard, Wichita State University (WSU) Center for Innovation and Enterprise Engagement (CIEE) recently received a federal Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Award (Please see press release below).?

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I am writing to provide you with a copy of the fourth round solicitation for Competitive Innovation Accelerator proposal (see attached).? The CIEE will provide competitive technology development and business counseling grants to innovators and entrepreneurs for qualifying expenses related to expanding their ability to conceive, develop, and/or produce new technologies and to deploy new manufacturing processes and/or to improve the energy efficiency of processes that already exist within their firm.? The proposal can also be downloaded from the following web link.? www.wichita.edu/ciee

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We would like to encourage you to share the solicitation with businesses and innovators in your area that have technology development and or business counseling needs.? ?Proposals are due on December 5, 2012.? CIEE Technical Advisor Panel will review and score the submission using the rubric included in the solicitation packet.? Semifinalist will make a presentation of their proposal on December 14, 2012.? The funded proposal will be announced on January 9, 2013.

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WSU receives nearly $2 million federal jobs and innovation grant

Friday, September 23, 2011 11:56 AM

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Wichita State's Center for Innovation and Enterprise Engagement will receive a nearly $2 million federal interagency grant to create more jobs by supporting advanced manufacturing innovators to get commercially viable processes and products into production faster.

The Sept. 22 announcement was made by Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis, Small Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Fernandez, as part of the Obama administration's $37 million Jobs and Innovation Challenge, a multi-agency competition to support the advancement of 20 competitively selected, high-growth industry clusters across the country.

Economic development

First announced in May, the challenge aims to accelerate innovation-fueled job creation and global competitiveness by awarding grants to regions that demonstrate the existence of high-growth industry clusters that support a range of economic and workforce development activities.

"The Jobs and Innovation Accelerator program meshes economic development and workforce objectives with WSU's academic mission and empowers faculty, students and staff to employ assets and brainpower with the private sector to make innovation accessible, achievable and executable," said Zulma Toro-Ramos, dean of WSU's College of Engineering and director of the WSU center.

The funds awarded to Wichita State can be used to support and accelerate a range of measurable outcomes, including innovation, commercialization, business formation and expansion, development of a skilled workforce, job creation, exports, sustainable economic development and global competitiveness in enterprises that exhibit high growth development potential. These successful innovators will promote growth that is inclusive of the region's population.

"Receiving this grant and doing the work made possible by the funds provided is an excellent example of how Wichita State University contributes to the economic development of the region," said Keith Pickus, interim provost at Wichita State University.

Wichita State established the Center for Innovation and Enterprise Engagement in November 2010 to provide the expertise and infrastructure needed to help accelerate development of the advanced manufacturing industry cluster in Kansas.

The programs, laboratories and expertise of the College of Engineering, in collaboration with the center's partners and institutions, will build on WSU's reputation as a trusted industry partner engaging to tackle problems with passion and objectivity. The center provides help with engineering support, workforce training and business planning. More than 200 small and medium sized companies are part of the economic cluster.

The center will be opening a competitive solicitation for technology development and business counseling grants to innovators. Interested parties should contact the center at innovation@wichita.edu to receive additional information.

Read more about the Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge.

Contact: Debra Franklin, director of operations, WSU Center for Innovation and Enterprise Engagement, (316) 978-5209 or debra.franklin@wichita.edu

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Getting To Know Your Technical Writing Department (Part 2 ...

This is the second part of the post ?Getting To Know Your Technical Writing Department?. We have read what questions need to be asked regarding Projects, Writing, and Collaboration. Now we need to see how documents are reviewed, stored, what tools are used to produce the documentation, how the works are distributed and how we can make improvements.

Review ? Define the review process

????????? Are there style guides they follow and who maintains it
????????? Is there a standard logo for each document?
????????? Who reviews their work
????????? Who edits their work
????????? How are changes reviewed
????????? Is there a process for reviewing, editing, and rewriting
????????? Estimate the turnaround time for each new revised work
????????? Who tests out the documents for accuracy (note by individuals, department, and project)
????????? How do you get feedback from users (clients, developers, SMEs, customer service,? etc.,)
????????? How do you get feedback from content on the web

Storage ? Keeping track of the documents

????????? Where and how are the documents stored
????????? Is there a schema where all legacy documents are kept
????????? Is there a methodology that is followed to stay organized, or is there an existing content management system that maintains new and revised documents
????????? Where are confidential documents stored?
????????? Do we index or tag our documents
????????? Are any processes automated

Tools ? Our tool sets

????????? What tools do they use to produce their documentation
????????? Get a break down of what tools each writer uses and their expertise in them
????????? What tools would they like to have
????????? Are some of the current tools that are too challenging for some

Distribution ? Distributing the documents

????????? Is there a process in place for? distributing completed and revised documents
????????? Who gets the newly completed documents and how many are produced and who takes care of that process

Global ? Standardizing it all

????????? Who are the global contacts
????????? How do we virtually connect with them
????????? Is there a process in place for?ensuring that all documentation standards are met
????????? Where are all the terms defined so that we are all on the same page for terminology
????????? How are files exchanged
????????? How are updates made

Improvement - Empathize with your writers

????????? Do they have any ideas for improvement
????????? Do they feel overworked
????????? Are they writing for more than one project at a time
????????? How long have they worked as? technical writer on particular tasks
????????? Do they feel stagnant and would they like to switch gears and write for some other projects

When you have reviewed all this information (I know it?s quite a lot), and have analyzed your mapping or matrix, you will be able to make adjustments where necessary. Pinpoint where your strengths and weaknesses are. As with documentation, make sure everything you need to know about the department is standardized, controlled, and structured.? All this work will help you get a clearer picture of your departments? Technical Writers functions, the departments? performance, and where improvements are needed.

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A Homeschooling Get Together... and a Barbecue

Forgive me if my post may seem a bit rambling. I'm not at home. We had an impromptu sleepover at my sister's house, after a family barbecue, and instead of going home on two buses, knowing that my kids would obviously fall asleep on both legs of the journey, and not be happy making the trek from one bus to the next, we decided to hunker down for the night here instead. So I could only get started working on this post after my kids went to sleep for the night, and my nephew and niece went to sleep for the night, etc...
You know why we had a barbecue?
Well, my uncle flew in from the US for the first time in a few years to visit our family. He chose the perfect time- he arrived on Thursday, and was supposed to fly home Monday morning.
Guess who's flight never took off because of the lovely "post tropical cyclone Sandy" or whatever it is that they're calling the Frankenstorm these days... Despite needing to be back at work- he directs an emergency room, so of all people, he's needed at work yesterday and today- there was no way for him to fly home, as all the airports in the NY area are underwater, not to mention the bad winds, etc...
So, instead of heading home, he is stuck here. At least he's not stranded in an airport, nor does he have to pay extra hotel fees. More time with family.
So we're making the best of it and enjoying our extra time with our uncle. So, barbecue tonight at my sister's place with the whole family. I took pictures to share with you... only I don't have a way of getting the pictures off my memory card and on to my computer. Oh well.

But part of the reason for this barbecue was because my kids and I were going to be in the area anyhow for a homeschooling get together, my fourth ever.
Now, homeschooling get togethers are an interesting thing.

I've been to get togethers by two completely different groups of people.
One group, closer to my house, has kids 5 and younger, and they all speak the local language, as they're natives to this country. They're very sweet people, and they're naturally inclined, but we have such completely different worldviews that it makes it hard to really connect to them on a personal level. Our values are just completely different.
The other group of homeschoolers are all either Americans or British expats, some new immigrants, and some who have lived here a long, long time. And on the whole, we have the same worldview and values. But for the most part, the one thing they seem to have in common is their children aren't all kids; many of these homeschooling parents have been homeschooling such a long time that their eldest are adults, and older than I am. It is nice to speak to people that have "been there, done that", and can talk to me from experience about how homeschooling really works.?The downside to this though, is that as much as I enjoy coming to these events and speaking to these other moms (and occasional dads), my kids are some of the youngest there, and don't really have whom to play with, other than each other.
So that one group, they're too old really to play with those kids, and in this group, no one really initiates playing with them, because they all already know each other and have known each other for years, so aren't going to take the initiative and offer to play with some kids a few years their junior.
I'm not sure how much they enjoyed the trip, other than the fact that the park where the gathering was held was pretty awesome. But I do know that I got a lot out of this get together.

What exactly did I get out of it?

Well, as a homeschooler in a country where there really aren't many homeschoolers, especially in a country where people make it their business to tell you just how wrong they think homeschooling is, and how it'll mess up your kids, its sometimes hard to hold strong and not give in to the peer pressure and "just be normal and send them to school already". Support is so good. And of course, internet support groups are wonderful, but there is nothing like meeting people face to face and getting from them the support in your less than orthodox decisions.

Lately, I've been reading John Holt's book, "Teach Your Own ", a wonderful book that talks all about unschooling, how to do it, why to do it, and the problems with today's schools, etc... Most of what he says resonates with me so much; I've been reading whole sections aloud to Mike, because it is so powerful. I just want to shout out meaningful parts from the rooftops, so that the whole world will see it and understand it... but I realize that most of the world is not on the same page as myself and John Holt, and no matter how much I try to explain my views to them, they simply won't get it/agree.
What views exactly? The views that:
Children are people and deserve to be respected and have their feelings, wishes, and desires taken into consideration (and not in a small way) when making decisions about their lives
Children, and anyone else, can't be forced to do something they don't want to do; that if you try to force someone to do something/learn something they don't want to do, it may appear to work in the short term, but in the long term it backfires and you end up worse than you would have had you not pushed.
That each child is an individual and has his/her own unique path of education and growth, and that they will turn out to be different, and that is ok- they don't need to be forced into a specific mold, and its even ok if your children turn out to be different than you are!

The thing I love about these homeschooling get togethers with the second group of people is that by and large, they're unschoolers. Which means that they and I are on the same page about so many different things in life, not just about homeschooling, or even parenting in general, but also about how we relate to the world at large, and how we are teaching our kids to relate to the world.
It's so refreshing to have a get together with people who are so respectful of one another, so warm and accepting and inviting of people, despite their differences, and I really think the fact that these people are unschoolers plays a big part in their openmindedness and acceptance of people and their different views. (For the record, none of these people are radical unschoolers, nor are most even strict unschoolers. But what they do have is the general view of unschooling as I mentioned above.)

So, despite my friends asking me lately "Penny, now that preschool (from age 3) and up is subsidized by the government, and doesn't cost much money to send to school, aren't you going to send to school and stop homeschooling already?", no, I will not be sending to school at this point in time, because the reasons I homeschool may include some financial benefits, but those are side benefits. The main benefits of homeschooling is because I feel that that is the best way to me to raise them to be the type of accepting, openminded, and loving people I hope they will be, encouraging their strengths, and helping them work on the areas in which they're struggling.

My kids went to day camp this summer. Some friends of mine were totally confused by my choice to send them, thinking that "as homeschoolers, aren't you against sending your kids out and socializing?" Not at all, by any means. I have no problem with my children socializing and having?friends, and in fact, I encourage it. I also don't have a problem with them going out. My issue is solely with the structure of school, and the fun of camp has nothing to do with school.

But back to the homeschoolers get together.

Somethings I really enjoyed about it was being able to discuss some issues that people have been bringing up with me about homeschooling in my country. Like the legalities of it, and how to deal with the beaurocracy involved in registering legally as a homeschooling family. But also other issues like how to make sure that my kids pick up the local language, if we speak English at home and socialize mostly with Americans and other English speaking expats.
I also spoke to some teens about what its like to grow up homeschooled, and what their thoughts are on it.
Its very insightful to meet people on the other side, people who are experienced in something that you're just starting out.

But I think perhaps the coolest thing was meeting a really sweet lady, who the first thing she told me, before I even introduced myself, was that she was a fan of my blog. Its really sweet and cool that people recognize me and know about me and my site. :-D Very flattering. ("Hello, you know who you are. ;) )

If you homeschool, do you go to any homeschooling get togethers? Why or why not? If you do, what have you gained from these get togethers?
What are your thoughts on unschooling, and do you think my summary above summarizes the main concepts of unschooling, or not? Do you agree with those views, or not at all?
Have your freinds and family been affected by Sandy? If so, how?

Source: http://www.pennilessparenting.com/2012/10/a-homeschooling-get-together-and.html

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Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ann Daly Re-Up at DreamWorks Through 2017 ...

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Jeffrey Katzenberg

Jeffrey Katzenberg?has reached a contract extension with DreamWorks Animation, where his term as CEO will now run through 2017.?Ann Daly?s term as COO has also been extended through 2017.

Katzenberg, who had been receiving $1 million per year, will receive an annual base salary of $2.5 million under the new agreement and will be eligible for annual cash bonuses of $4 million. He will also be eligible for long-term equity incentives of $4.5 million, reduced from $8 million under his previous agreement, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Katzenberg, whose previous contract had run through 2014, also will be compensated for such business expenses as private aircraft usage for business-related travel and security personnel.

Daly?s annual base salary is being increased from $1.012 million to $1.5 million, and she will be eligible for annual cash bonuses of $750,000 in 2012, increasing to $1.5 million in 2013. Additionally, she will be eligible for long-term equity incentives of $3.5 million annually, up from $2.5 million under her previous agreement.

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The company also reached a new agreement with general counsel?Andrew Chang?that now runs through Jan. 1, 2016. Chang's salary increases from $460,000 to $550,000 annually beginning in 2013.

Under the new terms, if DWA undergoes a change of ownership, Katzenberg could collect his compensation for the rest of the existing contract or for two years, whichever is longer.

Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jeffrey-katzenberg-ann-daly-up-384615

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