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OSHA cites roofing materials manufacturer for fourth time
U.S. Minerals could get $1.25 million in fines after inspections find 'extremely high levels of hazardous dust and other dangers'
OSHA has cited U.S. Minerals LLC with willfully exposing its workers to dangerously high levels of hazardous dust, and not providing adequate breathing protection and training for workers at its facility in Coffeen, IL. The company, headquartered in Dyer, IN, has been issued a total of 28 health and safety citations with proposed penalties of $396,000.
It is the latest in a series of OSHA citations against the abrasive blasting and roofing materials manufacturer that has resulting in more than 100 safety citations and brings the proposed fines to U.S. Minerals to almost $1.25 million.
"U.S. Minerals has severely jeopardized the health and safety of its workers by exposing them to extremely high levels of hazardous dust and other dangers," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Dr. David Michaels. "This is the fourth U.S. Minerals facility where very serious violations were cited in the past three months, clearly indicating these problems are widespread and systemic. This blatant disregard of workers' health and safety is not acceptable."
Inhalation of the hazardous dust material produced at the facility can cause debilitating lung disease such as pneumoconiosis, which is characterized by symptoms including chronic cough, difficulty breathing and shortness of breath.
This investigation falls under the requirements of OSHA's Severe Violators Enforcement Program. Initiated in the spring of 2010, SVEP is intended to focus on recalcitrant employers who endanger workers by committing willful, repeat or failure-to-abate violations in one or more of the following circumstances: a fatality or catastrophe; industry operations or processes that expose workers to severe occupational hazards; employee exposure to hazards related to the potential releases of highly hazardous chemicals; and all egregious enforcement actions. For more information on SVEP, go to http://www.osha.gov/dep/svep-directive.pdf.
OSHA has issued the U.S. Minerals Coffeen facility six willful citations with proposed fines of $336,000 for exposing workers to levels of hazardous dust at concentrations higher than the permissible exposure limit; failure to implement a written respiratory protection program or to mandate employees wear respirators; failure to implement engineering controls to reduce harmful dust exposures; and failure to develop and utilize energy control procedures. A willful violation is one committed with intentional, knowing or voluntary disregard for the law's requirements or plain indifference to employee safety and health.
"U.S. Minerals continually has failed to come into compliance on safety issues such as providing adequate breathing protection," said OSHA Area Director Thomas Bielema in Fairview Heights, IL. "We are committed to seeing that the workers at this facility are provided a safe and healthful workplace."
The company has received seven repeat citations with fines of $34,200 for violating permit-required confined space entry rules, failure to provide fall protection, failure to provide required training on energy procedures and failure to provide guards on mechanical powered equipment. A repeat violation is issued when an employer previously has been cited for the same or a similar violation of a standard, regulation, rule or order at any other facility in federal enforcement states within the last five years.
The company also has been issued 10 serious citations with proposed penalties of $24,000. Violations include failure to assess the need for adequate personal protective equipment; inadequate eye protection; failure to develop procedures and practices for permit-required confined space entry; lack of a written hazard communication program; inadequate information and training on dust containing silica; and failure to cover floor holes and enclose electrical boxes. A serious citation is issued when there is substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result from a hazard about which the employer knew or should have known.
The company also has received five other-than-serious citations with $1,800 in penalties for lack of proper injury and illness recordkeeping. An other-than-serious violation is one that has a direct relationship to job safety and health but probably would not cause death or serious physical harm.
The company manufactures abrasive blasting and roofing materials from slag produced at coal-fired power plants. In September, OSHA issued a $466,400 penalty to the company's facility in Baldwin, IL., citing 35 health and safety violations for willfully exposing workers to dangerously high levels of hazardous dust and failing to provide adequate breathing protection. As a result of the egregious conditions found at that worksite, OSHA initiated inspections of the company's other facilities, including the Coffeen location. The company's Harvey, LA, operation was cited last month with 30 violations and proposed penalties of $110,400. The Galveston, TX, facility was fined $273,000 last week, and cited with 38 violations for exposing workers to fall and machine guarding hazards.
The company has 15 business days from receipt of its citations and penalties to comply, request an informal conference with OSHA's area director or contest the findings before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.
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- To clarify a cryptic question: Let's face it: Most questions are brief efforts to encompass big issues. If you're not sure exactly what that audience member is asking, ask for more information. "That's a great question. Tell me more about what you're precisely asking so I can be sure to answer you."
- To smoke out a coded viewpoint: If your topic is controversial, or you suspect the questioner holds a particular view that she's not sharing, ask about questions when the viewpoint isn't clear. "Tell me why you ask the question in just that way" invites the questioner to explain more. It may be nothing, or you may learn just what you're walking into...before you answer.
- To encourage other questions and sharing: "I'm curious--how many of you have a story you could share about this issue?" or "Has anyone here seen what I'm talking about in action?" might help a shy questioner open up, by showing what they have in common with others in the audience.
- To focus your answer: If the question's so broad you could drive a truck through it, it might take too long to answer. In that case, feel free to lob a couple of narrowing-down questions: "Do you mean in the past year, or in all of history?" or "Are you most interested in men's responses to the survey or women's?" and similar queries can help you respond briefly and in focus.
- To learn more about the questioner: Maybe the question included specific jargon that's known mostly to specialists, or a political buzzword, or a word with multiple meanings. "Do you have experience with this issue you can share?" or "Have you done work yourself in this area?" help you--and the rest of the audience--understand whether you're fielding an expert's question.
- To defuse a leading question: "Sounds like you have an answer all ready to that one--do you?" lets a questioner who wants to lecture show her hand. Letting her explain also buys you time to respond in whatever way you choose. This works when it's obvious there's a viewpoint lurking, unlike the example in number 2, above.
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You know the usual course of events: The speaker gives her presentation, there's applause, and then it's open for audience questions. But speakers don't have to limit themselves to the A in Q&A. In fact, I'd recommend judicious use of questions when these situations arise in news conferences, conference calls or standard presentations and speeches:
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I tried all the features as I progressed through the book and everything worked as intended except for one thing. Although file transfers and backups worked fine using Blackberry Desktop Software and the supplied USB cable it will not charge from my computer (Dell Inspiron i5 running Windows 7 & Playbook OS 2.1). The playbook displays the message "Unable to charge battery with connected source" when connected to my computer.
The external USB charger that came with the Playbook charges the unit with no problems.
Even though the supplied cable did data transfers fine do you think the cable might still be bad? Will any standard USB to micro USB work with the Playbook?
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Sensors 2008, 8(6), 3903-3931; doi:10.3390/s8063903
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy: Computed Imaging for Scanned Coherent Microscopy
The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 405 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Received: 5 June 2008; in revised form: 9 June 2008 / Accepted: 9 June 2008 / Published: 11 June 2008
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Abstract: Three-dimensional image formation in microscopy is greatly enhanced by the use of computed imaging techniques. In particular, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy (ISAM) allows the removal of out-of-focus blur in broadband, coherent microscopy. Earlier methods, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT), utilize interferometric ranging, but do not apply computed imaging methods and therefore must scan the focal depth to acquire extended volumetric images. ISAM removes the need to scan the focus by allowing volumetric image reconstruction from data collected at a single focal depth. ISAM signal processing techniques are similar to the Fourier migration methods of seismology and the Fourier reconstruction methods of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). In this article ISAM is described and the close ties between ISAM and SAR are explored. ISAM and a simple strip-map SAR system are placed in a common mathematical framework and compared to OCT and radar respectively. This article is intended to serve as a review of ISAM, and will be especially useful to readers with a background in SAR.
Keywords: Microscopy; Interferometric; Synthetic Aperture; Radar; Optical Coherence Tomography.
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Davis, B.J.; Marks, D.L.; Ralston, T.S.; Carney, P.S.; Boppart, S.A. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy: Computed Imaging for Scanned Coherent Microscopy. Sensors 2008, 8, 3903-3931.
AMA StyleDavis BJ, Marks DL, Ralston TS, Carney PS, Boppart SA. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy: Computed Imaging for Scanned Coherent Microscopy. Sensors. 2008; 8(6):3903-3931.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDavis, Brynmor J.; Marks, Daniel L.; Ralston, Tyler S.; Carney, P. S.; Boppart, Stephen A. 2008. "Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy: Computed Imaging for Scanned Coherent Microscopy." Sensors 8, no. 6: 3903-3931.


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Fruit: generally capsule, loculicidal or septicidal (berry or nut)
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Fruit: berry, spheric, black, red, or purple (white)
Seeds 16, black
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Etymology: (Greek: origin uncertain)
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The Spanish Steps, seen from Piazza di Spagna. In foreground, the Fontana della Barcaccia | |
Design: | Francesco de Sanctis |
Construction: | 1723–1725 |
Opening date: | 1725 |
Steps: | 136 |
Location: | Rome, Italy |
Coordinates: 41°54′21.7″N 12°28′58.0″E / 41.906028°N 12.482778°ECoordinates: 41°54′21.7″N 12°28′58.0″E / 41.906028°N 12.482778°E |
The Spanish Steps (Italian: Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti) are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top. The Scalinata is the widest staircase in Europe.[1]
The monumental stairway of 136 steps was built with French diplomat Étienne Gueffier's bequeathed funds of 20,000 scudi, in 1723–1725, linking the Bourbon Spanish Embassy, and the Trinità dei Monti church that was under the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France, both located above — to the Holy See in Palazzo Monaldeschi located below. The stairway was designed by architects Francesco de Sanctis and Alessandro Specchi.
Following a competition in 1717 the steps were designed by the little-known Francesco de Sanctis,[2] though Alessandro Specchi was long thought to have produced the winning entry. Generations of heated discussion over how the steep slope to the church on a shoulder of the Pincio should be urbanised preceded the final execution. Archival drawings from the 1580s show that Pope Gregory XIII was interested in constructing a stair to the recently completed façade of the French church. Gaspar van Wittel's view of the wooded slope in 1683, before the Scalinata was built, is conserved in the Galleria Nazionale, Rome.[3] The Roman-educated Cardinal Mazarin took a personal interest in the project that had been stipulated in Gueffier's will and entrusted it to his agent in Rome, whose plan included an equestrian monument of Louis XIV, an ambitious intrusion that created a furore in papal Rome. Mazarin died in 1661, the pope in 1667, and Gueffier's will was successfully contested by a nephew who claimed half; so the project lay dormant until Pope Clement XI Albani renewed interest in it. The Bourbon fleur-de-lys and Innocent XIII's eagle and crown are carefully balanced in the sculptural details. The solution is a gigantic inflation of some conventions of terraced garden stairs.[4] The Spanish Steps, which Joseph de Lalande[5] and Charles de Brosses noted were already in poor condition,[6] have been restored several times, most recently in 1995.
Piazza di Spagna[edit]
In the Piazza di Spagna at the base is the Early Baroque fountain called Fontana della Barcaccia ("Fountain of the ugly Boat"), built in 1627-29 and often credited to Pietro Bernini, father of a more famous son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who is recently said to have collaborated on the decoration. The elder Bernini had been the pope's architect for the Acqua Vergine, since 1623. According to a legend, Pope Urban VIII had the fountain installed after he had been impressed by a boat brought here by a flood of the Tiber river.
In the piazza, at the corner on the right as one begins to climb the steps, is the house where English poet John Keats lived and died in 1821; it is now a museum dedicated to his memory, full of memorabilia of the English Romantic generation. On the same right side stands the 15th century former cardinal Lorenzo Cybo de Mari's palace, now Ferrari di Valbona, a building altered in 1936 to designs by Marcello Piacentini, the main city planner during Fascism, with modern terraces perfectly in harmony with the surrounding baroque context.
At the top the stairway ramp up the Pincio which is the Pincian Hill. From the top of the steps the Villa Medici can be reached.
During Christmas time a 19th-century crib is displayed on the first landing of the staircase. During May, part of the steps are covered by pots of azaleas. In modern times the Spanish Steps have included a small cut-flower market. The steps are not a place for eating lunch, being forbidden by Roman urban regulations, but they are usually crowded with people.
In media[edit]
The 1953 film Roman Holiday, starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, made the Spanish Steps famous to an American audience.
The progressive rock group Refugee recorded the song "Credo" in 1974, which contains the lyric: "I believe in constant pauses / Like a Roman holiday / And I often stop for air / As I climb the Spanish stairs".
The apartment that was the setting for The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961) is halfway up on the right. Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged (1998) is also set in a house next to the Steps. The Steps were featured prominently in the film version of "The Talented Mr. Ripley" starring Matt Damon in the title role.
The Bob Dylan song "When I Paint My Masterpiece," first recorded in 1971 by The Band and later appearing on the album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II, mentions both the "Spanish Stairs" and the Colosseum. Norwegian singer/songwriter Morten Harket, from A-ha, released a song called "Spanish Steps" on his album Wild Seed in 1995.
The title song from Guy Clark's Dublin Blues album (1995) contains the lyric: "I loved you on the Spanish Steps / The day you said goodbye".
In 2005, American rock band Of A Revolution released One Shot from their album Stories of a Stranger, which contains the lyrics "Rome is burning, you can taste the embers / I am walking hard on Spanish Steps".
On 16 January, 2008, Italian artist, Graziano Cecchini, covered the Steps with hundreds of thousands of multicoloured plastic balls. He claimed that it was done to make the world notice the situation of the Karen people in Myanmar,[7] and as a protest against the living conditions of artists in Italy.[8]
On 9 November 2009, a multimedia event was held on the Steps to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; the event included the erection of replicas of parts of the wall.
Local landmarks[edit]
- ^ Boyer Gillies, Linda (February 1972). "An Eighteenth-Century Roman View Panini's Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 30 (4): 176–184. doi:10.2307/3258528. JSTOR 3258528.
- ^ Little is known of this architect, who was favoured by the French in the design process. De Sanctis' drawing was engraved by Girolamo Rossi in 1726 with a long dedication to Louis XV. (Gillies 1972:181f).
- ^ Gillies 1972:181 and van Wittel's tempera, fig 3.
- ^ The first such divided and symmetrical stairs were devised for the Belvedere Courtyard by Donato Bramante. Shaped and angled steps were introduced by Michelangelo in the vestibule to the Laurentian Library.
- ^ Lalande, Voyage d'un français en Italie (1769)
- ^ Gillies 1972:182
- ^ Officials unamused by Rome stunt
- ^ New York Times Coverage on the coloured ball cascade
- Ferrari di Valbona, Carlo Alberto (1965). I viventi diritti dell'Italia a palazzo Farnese alla scalinata ed alla Trinità dei Monti in Roma. Rome: Edizioni d'Arte.
- Pecchiai, Pio (1958). "Regesti dei documenti patrimoniali del Convento Romano della Trinità dei Monti". Archivi (25): 406–423.
- Rendina, Claudio (2000). Enciclopedia di Roma. Rome: Newton Compton.
- Salerno, Luigi (1967). Piazza di Spagna. Naples.
External links[edit]
- Spanish Steps Virtual reality movie and picture gallery
- Detailed information with photos and 18th-century engravings by Giuseppe Vasi
- The Spanish Steps 360 degree panorama - QuickTime VR.
- Guided tour of Piazza di Spagna on romainteractive.com


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Free Energy Profile of RNA Hairpins: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study Biophysical Journal, Volume 98, Issue 4, 17 February 2010, Pages 627-636 Nan-Jie Deng and Piotr Cieplak Abstract RNA hairpin loops are one of the most abundant secondary structure elements and participate in RNA folding and protein-RNA recognition. To characterize the free energy surface of RNA hairpin folding at an atomic level, we calculated the potential of mean force (PMF) as a function of the end-to-end distance, by using umbrella sampling simulations in explicit solvent. Two RNA hairpins containing tetraloop cUUCGg and cUUUUg are studied with AMBER ff99 and CHARMM27 force fields. Experimentally, the UUCG hairpin is known to be significantly more stable than UUUU. In this study, the calculations using AMBER force field give a qualitatively correct description for the folding of two RNA hairpins, as the calculated PMF confirms the global stability of the folded structures and the resulting relative folding free energy is in quantitative agreement with the experimental result. The hairpin stabilities are also correctly differentiated by the more rapid molecular mechanics-Poisson Boltzmann-surface area approach, but the relative free energy estimated from this method is overestimated. The free energy profile shows that the native state basin and the unfolded state plateau are separated by a wide shoulder region, which samples a variety of native-like structures with frayed terminal basepair. The calculated PMF lacks major barriers that are expected near the transition regions, and this is attributed to the limitation of the 1-D reaction coordinate. The PMF results are compared with other studies of small RNA hairpins using kinetics method and coarse grained models. The two RNA hairpins described by CHARMM27 are significantly more deformable than those represented by AMBER. Compared with the AMBER results, the CHARMM27 calculated ΔGfold for the UUUU tetraloop is in better agreement with the experimental results. However, the CHARMM27 calculation does not confirm the global stability of the experimental UUCG structure; instead, the extended conformations are predicted to be thermodynamically stable in solution. This finding is further supported by separate unrestrained CHARMM27 simulations, in which the UUCG hairpin unfolds spontaneously within 10 ns. The instability of the UUCG hairpin originates from the loop region, and propagates to the stem. The results of this study provide a molecular picture of RNA hairpin unfolding and reveal problems in the force field descriptions for the conformational energy of certain RNA hairpin. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (767 kb) |
Structure of a Yeast RNase III dsRBD Complex with a Noncanonical RNA Substrate Provides New Insights into Binding Specificity of dsRBDs Structure, Volume 19, Issue 7, 13 July 2011, Pages 999-1010 Zhonghua Wang, Elon Hartman, Kevin Roy, Guillaume Chanfreau and Juli Feigon Summary dsRBDs often bind dsRNAs with some specificity, yet the basis for this is poorly understood. Rnt1p, the major RNase III in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, cleaves RNA substrates containing hairpins capped by A/uGNN tetraloops, using its dsRBD to recognize a conserved tetraloop fold. However, the identification of a Rnt1p substrate with an AAGU tetraloop raised the question of whether Rnt1p binds to this noncanonical substrate differently than to A/uGNN tetraloops. The solution structure of Rnt1p dsRBD bound to an AAGU-capped hairpin reveals that the tetraloop undergoes a structural rearrangement upon binding to Rnt1p dsRBD to adopt a backbone conformation that is essentially the same as the AGAA tetraloop, and indicates that a conserved recognition mode is used for all Rnt1p substrates. Comparison of free and RNA-bound Rnt1p dsRBD reveals that tetraloop-specific binding requires a conformational change in helix α1. Our findings provide a unified model of binding site selection by this dsRBD. Summary | Full Text | PDF (1946 kb) |
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Address reprint requests to Dr. Kathleen Hall, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110. Tel.: 314-362-4196; Fax: 314-362-7183.Three unrestrained stochastic dynamics simulations have been carried out on the RNA hairpin GGAC[UUCG] GUCC, using the AMBER94 force field (Cornell et al., 1995. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 117:5179–5197) in MacroModel 5.5 (Mohamadi et al., 1990. J. Comp. Chem. 11:440–467) and either the GB/SA continuum solvation model (Still et al., 1990. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 112:6127–6129) or a linear distance-dependent dielectric (1/R) treatment. The linear distance-dependent treatment results in severe distortion of the nucleic acid structure, restriction of all hydroxyl dihedrals, and collapse of the counterion atmosphere over the course of a 5-ns simulation. An additional vacuum simulation without counterions shows somewhat improved behavior. In contrast, the two GB/SA simulations (1.149 and 3.060ns in length) give average structures within 1.2Å of the initial NMR structure and in excellent agreement with results of an earlier explicit solvent simulation (Miller and Kollman, 1997. J. Mol. Biol. 270:436–450). In a 3-ns GB/SA simulation starting with the incorrect UUCG tetraloop structure (Cheong et al., 1990. Nature. 346:680–682), this loop conformation converts to the correct loop geometry (Allain and Varani, 1995. J. Mol. Biol. 250:333–353), suggesting enhanced sampling relative to the previous explicit solvent simulation. Thermodynamic effects of 2′-deoxyribose substitutions of loop nucleotides were experimentally determined and are found to correlate with the fraction of time the ribose 2′-OH is hydrogen bonded and the distribution of the hydroxyl dihedral is observed in the GB/SA simulations. The GB/SA simulations thus appear to faithfully represent structural features of the RNA without the computational expense of explicit solvent.


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- 1/2 teaspoon rum extract
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- For icing, in a small bowl, beat the butter, confectioners' sugar, cocoa, creamer, extract and enough coffee to achieve desired drizzling consistency. Drizzle over cake. Garnish with pecans if desired. Yield: 12 servings.
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If you're looking for a cool, make-ahead dessert that will delight a crowd, this is it.JoLynn Hill, Roosevelt, Utah
- 6 eggs, separated
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Over the years I have made this MANY times. It has become a staple, and in fact it ha been requested for more than one birthday cake! I have halved it with great success also, but once you try this, you won't regret having another cake in the freezer. I always add more hot fudge, and never chop the peanuts.
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Cardozo Society
The Cardozo Society of Washington State is the official Washington State Bar Association minority bar for Jewish lawyers in Washington. Run by the Jewish Federation, the Cardozo Society programming integrates legal and Jewish concerns to demonstrate the unique contributions the legal profession can make to improve the Jewish community at large.
The Cardozo Society gives its annual L'Dor V'Dor Award. See a Facebook photo album of the May 23, 2013 event at which Joel Benoliel received this year's L'Dor V'Dor Award.
In an effort to strengthen relationships among Jewish attorneys and between Jewish attorneys and Jewish law students in Washington State, the Cardozo Society of Washington State, in conjunction with J-Pro, offers an annual mentor-mentee program.
The Cardozo Society offers lawyers a Pro Bono Program. Lawyers can render pro bono services through a wide variety of legal service providers and in many different practice areas throughout Washington.
Are you looking for a lawyer? Check out the Professional Directory to Jewish Washington for full listings.
Thank you to our volunteer co-chairs Aric Bomsztyk of Barokas, Martin & Tomlinson, and Dan Swedlow of Teamsters Union Local 117.
Contact Name: Shayna Rosen, Senior Associate, Major Events & Affinity Groups
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: 206.774.2219
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Joel Benoliel, 2013 L'Dor V'Dor Award recipient, with his wife Maureen. |