...Kareem Jamar is not your typical college athlete trying to make it to the pros. He has been through more in his young life than any of us will have to go through our entire life. Most people would have given up many times along the way, but every single thing problem that Jamar faced made him stronger and stronger. His single mother raised Jamar because his father passed away when he was just a boy. Deloris raised her eight children alone in a rough neighborhood, but that didn’t stop her from giving her youngest son every opportunity to succeed. “Tough neighborhood – a lot of challenges every day,” said Jamar. “School wasn’t really my biggest thing. I’m from a single-parent household and my mom’s main thing was making sure a roof was over me and my brother’s head.” When things got tough for Jamar he picked up a basketball and would shoot at the local park for hours. It was a sanctuary for him. “When I was out there shooting around I felt like nothing could touch me,” Jamar said. Jamar really struggled not having a father in his life, but he knew basketball would always be there. Jamar started his competitive basketball career in high school at Westchester High in Venice, California. His mother wanted him to play to keep him off the streets and in the gym. He starting playing not knowing how good he would be compared to the other kids, but he and his mother quickly realized that he had some serious talent. “Once we got to high school, she said, ‘I raised you this far. You...
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...Graham vs. Florida Docket No. 08-7412 Case Basics: Petitioner-Terrence Jamar Graham Respondent-Florida Decided By-Roberts Court (2009-2010) Opinion-560 U.S.__ (2010) Granted-Monday, May 4, 2009 Argued-Monday November 2, 2009 Decided-Monday, May 17, 2010 Advocate’s-Brian S Gowdy(for the petitioner) Scott D Makar-(solicitor general of Florida, for the respondent) 16 year old Terrence Graham was convicted of armed burglary and attempted armed robbery he served 12 months then was released. Six months later Mr. Graham now 17 was tried and convicted by a Florida State court of armed home robbery and sentenced to life in prison without parole .On appeal he argued that the life sentence without parole violated his Eighth amendment and even more so was considered cruel and unusual punishment. The Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause does not permit a juvenile offender to be Sentenced to life in prison without parole for a non- homicidal crime. The eighth amendment prohibits excessive fines and bail, as well as cruel and unusual punishments. The phrase cruel and unusual punishment first appeared in the English Bill of Rights. In colonial America, the British often employed branding, whipping, public humiliation an extremely long prison sentences for minor crimes. Pros: For Terrence 1. Gives the juvenile a chance to demonstrate maturity 2. Becomes an asset to society 3. Demonstrate reform Pros: Life...
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...Vaccaro S Texas 16. St. Louis Rams- DeAndre Hopkins WR Clemson 17. Pittsburgh Steelers- Jarvis Jones OLB Georgia 18. Dallas Cowboys- Sylvester Williams DT North Carolina 19. Minnesota Vikings (F/ New York Giants)- Xavier Rhodes CB Florida State 20. Chicago Bears- Tyler Eifert TE Notre Dame- 21. Cincinnati Bengals- Matt Elam S Florida 22. St. Louis Rams- Alec Ogletree OLB Georgia 23. New York Giants (F/ Minnesota)- Tank Carradine DE Florida State 24. San Francisco (F/ Indianapolis)- Datone Jones DE UCLA 25. Minnesota Vikings- Manti Te'o ILB Notre Dame 26. Green Bay Packers- Cordarelle Patterson WR Tennessee 27. Houston Texans- Justin Hunter WR Tennessee- 28. Denver Broncos- Jonathan Franklin RB UCLA- 29. New England Patriots- Jamar Taylor CB Boise State- 30. Atlanta Falcons- Desmond Trufant CB Washington 31. Indianapolis Colts- Bjoern Werner DE/OLB Florida State 32. Baltimore Ravens- Keenan Allen WR...
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...Jamar Coatings Case: Week 2. Assignment 1 Problem: “Another meeting and still no resolution”. After two lenghthy meetings, the executive group still had not decided where and how to deploy corporate marketing efforts among the various architectual paint coatings markets served by the company in the southwestern United States. US Paint Coatings Industry Divided into 3 broad segments: 1. Architectural Coatings • General purpose paints, varnishes, lacquers used on residential, commercial & institutional structures • Sold through wholesalers & retailers • Purchased by do-it-yourself consumers, painting contractors & professional painters • Commonly called ‘shelf goods’ • Account for 43% of total industry dollar sales 2. Original Equipment Manufacturing (EOM) Coatings • Formulated to industrial buyer specifications & are applied to original equipment during manufacturing • Used for durable goods such as automobiles, trucks, transportation equipment, appliances, F&F’s, metal containers etc • OEM Coatings represent total of 35% of industry dollar sales 3. Special Purpose Coatings • Formulated for special applications or environmental conditions e.g extreme temperatures, expose to chemicals or corrosive conditions • Used for automative and machinery refinishing, industrial construction and maintenance, bridges, highway and traffic markings etc • Account for total of 22% of industry dollar sales US Paint coatings industry is generally considered as a growing...
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...What is Google? Google is most popular search engine in the world. It is a U.S. multinational company which started as a search project in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while students Ph.D. at Stanford University. They develop the search engine algorithms listed websites is not only the content and keywords, but with different and many websites with each page. This strategy produces more useful results than other search engines, and led to a rapid increase in Google web search marketshare. Google's other enterprises include Internet analytics, cloud computing, advertising technologies, and Web app, browser and operating system development. In time, Google became the number one search engine in the world. According to Google's website, the company's mission is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." While the Web search remains Google's primary tool for helping user’s access information, the company offers several other services as well. Google has been selected for similarity to the word googol - the number of which consists of a number followed by a hundred zeros - a reference to the large amount of information in the world. Google's own stated mission: "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." In the first few years of operation, Google's search engine competition included AltaVista, Yahoo, Excite and Lycos. Within a few years, however, Google became so dominant that the name has...
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...Effects of Anime to the Fourth Year High School Students of the Surigao Education Center S.Y. 2012-2013 A Research Paper Presented to The Faculty of the High School Department Surigao Education Center Surigao City _______________________________________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in English IV _______________________________________________ By: Abucejo, Kenneth Alfe D. Famador, Mark Virgel L. Yaun, Mary Allyssa A. Canibel, Maila Jane C Calang, Alfredrich P. Villarojo, Kerr John Felicia, Klint Daryl Gavino, Jamar February 2013 APPROVAL SHEET Effects of the Anime to the Fourth Year High School Students of the Surigao Education Center Prepared & Submitted by KENNETH ALFE ABUCEJO, ALFREDRICH CALANG, MAILA JANE CANIBEL, MARK VIRGEL FAMADOR, KLINT DARLY FELICIA, JAMAR GAVINO, KERR JOHN VILLAROJO, MARY ALLYSSA YAUN has been examined and is recommended for approval and acceptance for ORAL EXAMINATION. ENICYL C. FLORES ------------------------------------------------- Adviser ------------------------------------------------- PANEL OF EXAMINERS APPROVED by the committee on ORAL EXAMINATION with the grade of__ on February 2013. ZALDY P. BELOY, Ph.D _______________ ______________ Member Member ___________________ Member ACCEPTANCE in partial fulfillment of the requirements for ENGLISH IV Acknowledgement ...
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...college. The National College Players Association released a report on The Price of Poverty in Big Time College Sport. The report concludes (among other things) that 86 percent of college athletes live below the poverty line, the average out of pocket expenses for each full scholarship athlete (there are partial scholarships awarded in many NCAA sports) was approximately $3,222 per year during the 2010-11 school year, and the fair market value of the average Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I) football or basketball player was $121,048 and $265,027 respectively. These shocking numbers make it no surprise that some of the top college athletes are caught accepting illegal handouts from agents or school boosters just to make it by. Jamar Samuels is another example of college athletes being punished for accepting much needed help. In 2012, Samuels, basketball player for Kansas State, was suspended for accepting a $200 wire transfer from his summer-league coach. Curtis Malone, Samuels’ summer league coach, stated that he was unaware of the rule that he was not able to give money to one of his former players. Malone said "the kid's family doesn't have anything and he called me for money to eat." Samuels, who received the transfer on Monday, was informed of the decision on Saturday morning and did not play in the team's’ loss to Syracuse. "The kid didn't do anything wrong," Malone said. "To be honest, I didn't think I did anything wrong, either. If a kid who plays for me needs...
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...community, social, and education life, assistive technology, mental functions, reflex, peripheral nerve, and sensory integrity, range of motion and skeletal/joint integrity and environmental factors. The tests mentioned below correspond to domains of the ICF / International Classification of Functioning Disability & Health (World Health Organization, 2001) use to classify outcome measures for body function/structure, activity, participation and personal and environmental factors. Muscle performance assessment in children with SMS is intended to address decreased muscle strength and poor muscle endurance presented in the condition. For young children with SMS, a pull-to-sit test can be conducted. For grip strength, an evaluation with the Jamar dynamometer can be used. Manual muscle testing (MMT) is commonly used in children to aid in the identification of impairments. The EASE (Early Activity Scale for Endurance) is considered useful when assessing energy expenditure. The EASE test-retest reliability intraclass correlation = .95 for children with cerebral palsy. Additional research is needed to examine its validity and test-retest reliability in other motoric conditions (Westcott -McCoy et al., 2012). Smith – Magenis requires a neuromotor and sensory evaluation addressing motor milestones, eye-hand coordination, and integration of sensory stimuli. Physical therapists evaluating neuromotor development and sensory processing in SMS have diverse testing tools available; among them...
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...Jamar Cunningham SD1230: Module Exercise 5 Date: 2-16-16 Agile and Waterfall are two distinct methods of software development. The Waterfall model can essentially be described as a linear model of software design. Like its name suggests, waterfall employs a sequential design process. Development flows sequentially from start point to end point, with several different stages: Conception, Initiation, Analysis, Design, Construction, Testing, Implementation, and Maintenance. The Agile method proposes an incremental and iterative approach to software design. It was essentially developed in response to the limitations of Waterfall, as a way to give designers more freedom. The design process is broken into individual models that designers work on. There is no pre-determined course of action or plan with the Agile method. Rather, designers are free to respond to changes in requirements as they arise and make changes as the project progresses. Agile is a pretty new player to the development game. However, it has made substantial gains in use and popularity in the last couple of years. Agile: The Pros Agile offers an incredibly flexible design model, promoting adaptive planning and evolutionary development. Agile might be described as freeform software design. Software developers work on small modules at a time. Agile can be especially beneficial in situations where the end-goals of projects are not clearly defined. For example, if you are working with a client whose needs and...
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...THE CROOKS in your company have never been so tempted. The spread of technology that makes office work easier can make white-collar crimes almost laughably simple. Laser printers can forge documents with breathtaking fidelity, and color copiers can reproduce them. Imagine a dishonest executive boarding a plane and carrying a laptop computer with a modem. Using the on- board telephone, he hooks up to the mainframe at headquarters and transfers $50 million to his Swiss bank account -- as he jets toward Rio. Such new opportunities, plus the spirit of an age that encourages rather than represses the natural lust for wealth, are greatly intensifying the allure of ripping off one's employer. The amounts being stolen from companies appear to be growing dramatically. In the past several weeks a former General Electric Capital manager, allegedly in cahoots with a bank vice president, was charged with taking $30,000 in kickbacks as part of a scheme that resulted in $4.5 million of fraudulent loans. A Continental Illinois vice president went on trial charged with approving $1 billion of bad loans in exchange for $585,000 in kickbacks, loans that allegedly cost the Chicago bank $800 million and helped trigger its 1984 collapse. FDIC investigators say internal fraud was the major cause of one-third of all bank failures over the past two years. To some extent the victims have themselves to blame. A company with shoddy financial controls or badly trained internal auditors practically begs employees...
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...Abstract Should college athletes get paid? Does it teach kids that they do not have to have a job to make money, and that they can just do whatever they like because they know they are too good and will not be let off? I find this topic interesting because I want to play a sport in college. I know that a full ride scholarship would pay for the athlete’s college tuition, food, housing, and their books. I also know that multiple hours are spent by the athlete practicing throughout the day and year. Athletes are expected by their coaches to practice before the season starts and after the season so that they can be the best that they can be for the team. With that being said, how do athletes manage their time with practice, school, and a social life? My intended audience is for anyone who is interested in sports or the benefits college athletes receive from a scholarship. Any athletes might find it interesting what the process is to get a scholarship, whether it is high school students or college. More specifically this would be beneficial to any high school student or parent who would like to know about college athletic scholarships. Compensation of College Athletes There has been an ongoing debate continuing since the early nineteen hundreds on whether college athletes should get paid. This argument comes from the coaches, the athlete’s parents, and the athletes themselves arguing that universities make money off of the players and the players, in turn, do not receive any...
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...Jenna Jamar Due March 20, 2015 Final Paper 1. Compare Porter’s 3 generic strategies to the 3 value disciplines. Porter’s 3 generic strategies in the book have a few similarities to that of the 3 value disciplines from the paper “Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines”. The generic strategies are overall cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. The value disciplines include operational excellence, customer intimacy, and product leadership. To begin with, I am going to look at overall cost leadership from the 3 generic strategies. This strategy is for a firm who wants to achieve the lowest production and distribution cost so they can undercut the competition. This is actually very similar to the operational excellence of the value disciplines. The value discipline says a firm would want the leanest production level and the highest efficiency to win their customer loyalty and become a leader in their market. These are similar in the effect that they want a low production cost in each strategy and low overhead costs. However, the Harvard Business Review article takes it a step farther to include convenience for their customer. And despite that they both talk about lean production costs, the article does not solely say lowest, the article puts more emphasis on delivering the products the customers want at competitive prices. If a company solely goes for lowest cost like the book’s generic strategy, they could be undercut by a competing firm and could hurt their...
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...Final Paper Jamar Perry MGT 450/ Deborah Lomas Feb 11, 2013 The hookah pipe dates back centuries to the Indian and Arabic regions of the world and is used as a social tool in most parts for people to get together at the end of a long day and relax, its popularity is growing in certain areas of the united states and has the potential to become a profitable business. With the proper strategy plan and research establishing a hookah lounge is one the easiest ways to make a profit with less effort than the typical restaurant or bar. Because this type of business is less common in the states there is significantly less competition to go up against, the main goal would be to establish a strong customer base so that when other hookah lounges eventually try to establish they are not as successful as your business. A great strategy would be to own a percentage of share in each establishing lounge. The book states “Involves buying another company to take full control of it (anywhere from a majority 51% stake to an outright 100% ownership). “(Abraham, 2012) Often using this strategy ensures your original business concept grows and has little chance to be pushed out of business due to competition, there can be huge benefits by working together the resources are cheaper because both parties pay an amount of the cost. One of the most important things that must be understood about establishing a business is...
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...Antitrust Laws & Their Effects Jamar Averyhart Dr. Law Trine University In order to have a free economy you must have a competitive market place. A market that is open and stimulates the economy. This gives consumers whether they are organizations or just regular citizens the opportunity to purchase consumer goods at a relatively low price. As opposed to other economies that are not open markets, and that have one firm dominating the market place. Which drives up the price of consumer goods and make them unreasonably high. This is where antitrust laws come into play ("The Antitrust Laws," 2015). What are antitrust laws? Antitrust laws keep organizations from creating monopolies in industries, or colluding to drive up the price of items. If two major firms i.e. Apple and Microsoft were to merge. They control a large majority of the marketplace in the computer industry. This merger would lead to a shift in the price of computer and computer technology. It would create unequal competition and drive many other firms out of business. With the resources and consumer base that both companies have they would be able to dictate the prices in the industry and not have to rely on consumer demand and market trends. The first ever antitrust law was passed in 1890 which was the Sherman Act ("The Antitrust Laws," 2015). The Sherman Act made it illegal to try to form a monopoly, have a monopoly, or plan to have one. ("The Antitrust Laws," 2015) With the Sherman Act violating any...
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