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I have been working at ON Semiconductor
Well managed. Clear vision. Good growth (acquisitions). Value driver is operational excellence.
Company runs quite lean... no frills, weak succession planning. Product portfolio is sturdy, but "me too"... not leading edge.
Don't lose site of fundamentals as the company grows.
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I worked at ON Semiconductor full-time (more than a year)Pros
A FEW of the people are smart and engaging, and have the necesssary skill set to work at a Multinational Company. Free Parking for employees.Cons
Management is totally top down, no employee development: Management's view is stay where you are and be glad you have a job, VERY bureaucratic, lots of backstabbing and taking credit for other's work. Promotions based on old boy network.
No credible Senior Management in the Tax department. In an effort to save money they do not have a VP of Tax, instead they have an "average" accountant with no tax experience as the "Director of Tax". At most companies he would be nothing more than a, glorified, Sr. Analyst, if that. Oddly, he seems more concerned about whether his employees take out their garbage each day( ON does not employ a janitorial staff, in an effort to save money) than about the quarterly tax rate. The way Senior Management and ON's outside consultants step all over him,he's basically a doormat at the company.
In addition, the individual responsible for International Tax at ON is a total goofball. I never heard anything, from him that led me to believe he even had the faintest idea of what he was talking about when it came to International Tax, or Tax, in general.
This is how seriously the tax department at ON is run- at one point, the "Director of Tax", who is Mormon, thought it was appropriate to have an employee pass out the Book of Mormon to everyone in the department for after-work reading. Yes- That actually happened.
Turnover is outrageous. The only way to truly survive this company and its Byzantine politics is to be a yes-man.Advice to ManagementAdvice
If you like getting things done, being surrounded by talented counterparts, and fast paced environments, this is definitely NOT the place for you. Mgmt should consider changing that. Don't infantilize your employees with silly cost cutting measures. If you, consistently, need your employees to take forced time off and take out their own garbage, to meet your quarterly guidance, then you may want to re-think your business model.
Care about turnover -- there's a real problem when most of your staff leaves after a year.
HR needs to realize that there's no advancement potential at ON, Upper Management positively cackles with delight when they get a chance to screw over an employee.
If an employee has worked in a department for 10 years and not one person from their department can tell you what their responsibilities are- Let them go.
Don't consider people to be "highly educated" if they only have an online degreee from University of Phoenix or some similar "fly by night" online university.Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEO
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"Great to start then become only sufficient "
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I have been working at ON Semiconductor full-time (more than 5 years)Pros
Great place to do your 3 first years. Lot of diversity/access in simple products.Cons
No organic growth, no corporate strategy.Advice to ManagementAdvice
ON Semiconductor has know a great development since it's creation but now the technologies and markets are evolving. The company needs a vision to keep the pace of the semiconductor industry, a consistent strategy of investment for long term. Everything is short sighted.Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEO


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This area features a 1.5 mile motocross track as well as a seperate peewee track and some woods trails. ATVs are permitted on Sundays and Mondays and the rest of the week is open to dirt bikes. Practice fees are around $20/person and season passes are also available. Occasional races are hosted and the practice schedule is subject to change so be sure to check the track hotline at (402) 413-0234 before heading out. Track updates are also posted on Facebook and Twitter.More...
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This area offers about 11 miles of smooth and fast sandy trails that wind through grassy vegetation and a couple open play areas. Bessey Family Campground offers direct trail access, electric hookups, picnic facilities, water pump (May through September), hot showers and river access. Whitetail Campground also provides direct trail access and is located next to the Dismal River but is a primitive facility so come prepared. Nearby is the Scott Lookout Tower which offers excellent panoramic views of the forest.More...
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PLEASE NOTE: The Nebraska Off Highway Vehicle Association has managed the Headworks OHV Park since 1990 in cooperation with the Loup Public Power District and the Nance County Sheriff's Department. They fund the riding area by asking for voluntary membership fees and by holding two large fund raiser jamborees every year. Since Nebraska has no state OHV registration or trail sticker fee, your voluntary support is crucial to keeping this area open. If you are going to ride here, don't be a saddlebag. Do the right thing and pick up a $30 annual membership here, which comes with detailed trail information.
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Location: Greenwood, NE
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You need to consult an attorney in the state where you are planning to build.
But, I will say that no matter who it is, I would NEVER build a house on land that is not in my own name or have the house in another person's name.
Family relations can sometimes get strained for unforeseen circumstances and it would be exceptionally difficult to deal with that. Even if something didn't happen to strain family relations, should your sister ever find herself in the unfortunate situation where she was sued, that would appear to be her property and therefore could possibly be in jeopardy. If she's married and, lord forbid, wind up in a divorce, again, that could be looked at as her marital property, and subject to proceedings in a divorce. Or if she dies, the property and house could go over to her spouse/children, who may or may not be as "stand-up" as you would hope.
Also, have the two of you considered and discussed the tax ramifications? Not just property tax, but federal taxes, etc.
No way, no how...not a chance in the world that I would ever do anything like that - not even with my own mom (one of the few people that I would hand over my life to and know that she would treat it as well, if not better than I would my own), let alone a sibling unless I was very comfortable with the idea that I could lose the house and all the contents without warning.
I'm not certain why you are so concerned with it being public record, but assume you have good reasons for not wanting it out there. Still, I'm certain what you are proposing doing is an unwise decision.
Couldn't you set up a legal entity or trust and have the land/house in the name of the legal entity or trust. Celebrities do this all the time. Corporations do this too, for example when Disney buys out properties to create a park.
Leaving things in someone else's name is a bad idea. Talk to a lawyer.
I know for many families they don't trust one another and even don't lend money to family member. Mine is opposite and I'm not concerned she or her spouse/kid takes it over because she's never married and has no kids. But I do worry if something happened and she was sued. Thanks for bringing this up. To answer your question, I'd take care all tax issues.
I wasn't aware of legal entity or trust but will do some research about this.
I can speak to this: My family owns a large piece of land, which was most recently in the name of an elderly family member. It was common knowledge that the land would pass to the younger members of the familiy when she died.
One brother wanted to build a house THEN rather than waiting until the land was officially HIS. We looked into how he could do this . . . and we found that if he built THEN, he'd have to pay full value for something that was going to be his eventually through a will. The relative wasn't trying to make money from him, and he didn't want to separate his portion from the whole family land.
The accountant gave some good advice: He suggested that that brother buy a small, small amount of land -- maybe 1/4 - 1/5 an acre from the relative -- enough that it wouldn't be very expensive. In reality, he'd still have the use of the entire piece of land -- his kids could still play in the woods, he could use the extended land for parking, and he wouldn't have a neighbor on top of him . . . but he'd only own /pay higher taxes on that tiny bit upon which his house stood.
In contrast, I have a friend -- and only child who knew she'd inherit a large piece of property well-placed for commercial purposes. She and her husband foolishly placed TWO businesses on the property, which was still owned by her parents. (A squirt-em-off car wash and a self-storage place)
When her parents died and she inherited the land, she ended up paying $$$$ because the land was "improved" . . . no one cared that it was improved with her money! Because that's not my own story, I may not be telling it exactly right, but the moral is clear.
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My only reason is privacy. Thanks chispa, I found an article addressing this issue.
"How to buy land like a movie star
Your biggest investment doesn't have to be public knowledge. A land trust can preserve your privacy.
You wouldn't want everyone in the world to know the balance of your checking account or stock portfolio. Yet information on what may be your largest asset, your house, is readily available to anyone wanting to poke around in your affairs."
I agree with andreak100....
Just watch Judge Judy sometime to see how far south family relations can go and then what a mess it is for courts to try to reconcile, let alone all the hurt and heartache that goes with it.
If you're that concerned about your privacy, then I'd suggest you stop using the internet and go back to oral and in person communication only. (Tho even that can be compromised.) And be sure to wear a hat at all times, really low, as cameras are everywhere. Privacy in this electronic age is just an illusion.
OP - I'm sorry I can't help other than echoing putting the land under a trust, but I think it's reasonable to want to maintain privacy as a home owner. It can be comforting whether you are a victim of some sort of threat or violence, have a law enforcement/judge/attorney family where it isn't ideal for the people you put behind bars to know where you live, etc.
net4u2k - I used to be a real estate paralegal...I've seen LOADS of issues. Most of the issues dealt with people who swore that "it would never be a problem because my family isn't like that". It can, and does happen. More often than the average person realizes.
I would highly suggest not putting yourself or your sibling in a position where it might possibly adversely affect your relationship somewhere years down the line. If she's an important person to you, value that and keep from getting into a position where that could possibly at some point get tainted. Your relationship could be rock solid right now...but think on this for a moment - many people (I'd venture the vast majority) who get married do NOT believe that their marriage will end in divorce. Hard numbers and public records show that not to be the case...unfortunately, things can and do go sour with relationships of any sort for any number of reasons that we can't foresee happening.
There are ways around your issue. But, you need to hire an attorney (most likely one that works extensively with trusts), not just ask for free advice on a public forum.
In a word, no. If you need to get a loan on the home or any of its contents at any time, it must be in your name. Most contractors, landscapers,etc won't make improvements to the land because the land owner didn't order the improvements and most likely a lean would hold up of you stiffed them. Most utility companies won't touch property without express consent of the land owner. Have your lawyer create a trust. It can be called "Nunya F-ing Business" if you like.
Just have to add, unexpected death, unexpected expenses, unexpected relationship....Too many risks --your home would be vulnerable if your sister legally owned it.
It sounds like trust is the way to go. There are different types of trusts and I need to do some more readings. If I didn't post it here I would know nothing about trust and even didn't know where to start. I don't want to be uninformed when I see a professional where they would try to sell me something else.
When you talk to someone, choose someone who isn't selling you anything (ie, not a financial planner who also sells life insurance, or...)
You want to talk with professionals--an attorney who mostly does trusts/wills/estates AND a good, well-versed CPA or tax-attorney who can address any tax ramifications. Start and end with the attorney, meet with the CPA in the middle once you have a preliminary plan from the attorney, to make sure there isn't anything that will ding you with taxes, then back to attorney for any revisions and the final plan.
Hope that helps. What area of the country? Make sure you pick someone familiar with YOUR STATE.


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I think most people have come to the realization that global warming is really occurring, but them doing anything about it is completely different. We have caused so much irreversible destruction that at this point that there isn't much we can do to slow it or change the effects we've made. All of the efforts people make in their daily lives help, but in the larger scale are not going to have enough of an impact in the big scheme. It is part of the earth's natural cycle to start over again, but it's sad that we're causing our own destruction.
I think most people have come to the realization that global warming is really occurring, but them doing anything about it is completely different. We have caused so much irreversible destruction that at this point that there isn't much we can do to slow it or change the effects we've made. All of the efforts people make in their daily lives help, but in the larger scale are not going to have enough of an impact in the big scheme. It is part of the earth's natural cycle to start over again, but it's sad that we're causing our own destruction.
One thing is for certain regarding Climate Change; whether our weather is cyclical or not, temperatures are rising. As if more evidence is needed, simply look at the torrential downpours that have occurred this year. From Pakistan to El Salvador to Thailand, rain and hurricanes have pounded countries like never before. And even if you do disagree with Global Warming, these natural disasters should be enough to make you think twice about doing something.
Well done Economist. You are right and should continue to stand your ground against the US anti-science deniers. Science, rationality and logic will overcome superstition, self interest and ignorance eventually I suppose, but requires a constant political struggle.
There are still an incredible amount of uncertainties with the global warming phenomenon, which have stirred many doubts. The fact that the temperature has been recorded as rising 0.9 degrees Celsius the past half century will lead to scientist's further investigations. But even so, isn't global warming a cyclical cycle anyways? And what is the actual impact humans are having on this cycle? Research has shown that humans are having very little impact on this cycle, and it would have occurred regardless of the pollutants people have put into the atmosphere. It will be interesting to see the new data produced by scientists in the near future.
Be ready to hear about this for the next couple of months. This news about climate change couldn't have come at a better time, because with the US elections coming up you will hear a lot of candidates speak on this subject. The melting ice sheets in Antarctica could play a huge role in the election and will definitely warrant some debate questions. But even though this is definitely bad news, it is very encouraging that it is coinciding with the elections because otherwise it could've just been another news blurb that we hear about for a week or two then forget about it and move on to the next big story. Every cloud has a silver lining.
People will continue to deny that climate change is an issue just as they denied that the Earth revolves around the sun. For some reason people don't like accepting facts that go against long held beliefs. The fact of the matter is that the sea ice continues to shrink and the CO2 levels continue to rise and the temperatures continue to increase. Sure we can't be absolutely certain that these trends will continue but I believe it is better to be safe and take whatever measures necessary to prevent any more destruction to the climate. Unfortunately, I know no changes will be made.
"That the planet is cooling, and apparently quickly, is perhaps the real issue. [...] This, I believe, to be self evident."
What do you mean by self-evident - no evidence needed? Whatever the facts may show?
Given the proof of warming given in this article, you'll have to do better than if you want to be taken seriously by anyone but the most obtuse deniers.
It is incredibly discouraging to read all the so-called "skeptics" on this comment board. By every account I have ever read, there is no longer any question as to
a) whether the globe is warming (it is)
b) whether human beings are major contributors (we are)
At this point, the people who try to cast doubt on these widely accepted conclusions are no different than the tobacco companies who spent years trying to convince people that cigarettes are not addictive. Only this time, the victims won't be the individuals unwise enough to start smoking, but millions of people whose lives are destroyed by droughts, floods, food shortages, and other impacts of global warming.
Our world is burning! Global warming has been one of the biggest issues of the 21 century. Statistics from various sources show the increase in water level and melting of the iceberg in arctic area. However when I heard the news about the global warming, I also felt Ironic sometimes. Because many nations around the world are suffered from heavy snow and coldness. South Korea had have heavy snow duirng 2010 and also United States had have snow. It is quite ironic. While temperature of the earth is rising, there are also heavy snow and coldness. However it is also true that water level is rising and iceberg of the arctic area is melting. We should be conscious of this phenomenon.
Pointing to a carefully selected graph with superimposed trends over equally carefully selected periods (now with the cut-off in 2002 - why not one trend line for the whole period?) does little to convince me. And as I mentioned earlier, these are air surface temperatures while the oceans take up most of the warming.
Church et al 2011: "Ocean warming (90% of the total of the Earth's energy increase) continues through to the end of the record [2008], in agreement with continued greenhouse gas forcing." (http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2011GL048794.shtml)
Lindzen is actually possibly the only serious skeptic. But a very similar paper of him and Choi in 2009 copped a lot of criticism that, insofar as I can judge that, sounded very plausible. So before embracing his new paper (which, as I mentioned, appeared in a rather obscure journal) as gospel truth, we'd be wise to await the comments from his peers. Besides, many other ways of examining climate sensitivity exist and they all give much higher values, with the median around 3C per doubling of CO2.
Furthermore, the 2001 IPCC scenarios proved highly accurate to date. See http://www.skepticalscience.com/comparing-global-temperature-predictions...). The link also shows past skeptic predictions of cooling to be off the mark. (I'd disregard the one ascribed to Lindzen, as the text makes clear Lindzen didn't actually make any testable predictions.)
In sum, you are once more lifting a single study, the results of which you like best, out of the entire body of evidence, and claim that this one is correct and all the others wrong, without any proven expertise in the subject matter.
Oh, and about your interview with Lindzen on "Climategate.tv" (for sure an unbiased source of information?!), I was appalled when he said that climate scientists have been warning of warming for over 20 years and people tire of it - as if there wasn't a tremendous amount of it during that period, or rising sea levels and melting polar ice! And I switched off when he started about "... even the environmental movement is looking for other scare topics...".
I cannot judge his scientific work very well, but those are not factual, neutral remarks. To me Lindzen does not come across as an unbiased, carefully formulating scientist in this interview, but as a prejudiced bellingerent man.
Few of his fellow climate scientists agree with his views. So far the skeptics have been wrong and the world has heated further, despite all their talk of 'natural cycles'. And if Lindzen is wrong, sea level rises and climate change could pose an existential threat to many people. Taking that risk amounts to reckless gambling with the livelihood of future generations. Russian roulette with the barrel pointing at our decendants.
"That doesn't mean you can't do it. It means you've got to prove it works." Even if it can't be proven, it's great to see that their are folks looking into this issue and performing in depth analysis. Instead of letting it go by, it's comforting to see people being proactive. I hope the research grasps the attention of the public so global warming can not be taken lightly.
It is obvious that the Earth is getting warmer; The question I'm getting sick of hearing is Why?" Is it because of the normal 400,000 year warming cycle or is it because of increased emission from fossil fuels? Either way I'm getting tired of the, "skeptic" story line or the, "we are responsible and dammed", story line, or the, "evil anti green" story line.
The world is getting warmer, we can do little or nothing to stop it from happening and it would be a good idea if we put some effort into planning for a warmer, and possibly drier, future rather than finger pointing and trying to blame one another.
Global warming is definitely an issue in today's world. The average temperature of the world is rising ever so slowly and carbon emissions are at an all-time high. The bottom line is this will most certainly not affect our generation's lives. This is not to say that people should not care about it, but it is saying that we need to be the stepping stones for the future, so that they understand these issues and can learn from our work dealing with this climate change and our mistakes in leading to this climate change. What needs to be done is being done, but it is happening at a slow rate. People cannot expect the entire world to just "go green" on the drop of a dime and all of the sudden the planet will be saved. It is a slow process and alternative energy methods are constantly being researched and developed. I think that the world will be fine, and that this warming will only be a temporary climate change in the grand scheme of the world's climate.
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So you are an engineer with a Master's degree? Wow! I am a professor with a PhD and I teach physical chemistry (spectroscopy, thermodynamics, kinetics), etc, subjects that actually have quite a bit to do with the fundamental science behind the notion of greenhouse gases and climate change.
Let me spell it out for you. The absorption of electromagnetic radiation is described by the Beer-Lambert Law
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The relationship between the amount of light I passing through an adsorbing body, such as gaseous CO2, and the amount of light entering that body, I_0, is given by
(I/I_0) = exp(-sigma x l x conc)
where sigma is a constant for a given gas and a given wavelength, l is the path length and conc represents the concentration of the adsorbing substance. You will notice that the amount of radiation adsorbed does indeed depend in an exponential fashion on the concentration of the adsorbing substance. Both of us probably know enough maths to realize that an equation that involves an exponential relationship can readily be transformed into another one involving logarithms, but the Beer-Lambert Law is at the heart of the "saturation" phenomenon you were attempting to describe.
I'm still waiting for an answer from you to my question about the quantitative aspects of this phenomenon. Are you going to give me one?
I have to admit that the picture is great, the Economist always comes up with a great picture for their articles. This article opened my eyes to global warming. I did not know about the three compilations of mean global temperatures test. Though all this information is being released and the public is finding out more and more, there is very little that people will do about it because they just don't care. If it won't affect their generation, why would they care?
Whether or not you believe in global warming or not the world is heating up. Some politician do now believe that the glaciers are melting but they are. There are even pictures of Mt. Fuji from like 50 years ago and present day Mt.Fuji. We need to be more aware of things around us things are slowly falling around us.
Human always have to choose between environment and industry. Unfortunately, most of people prefer to choose industries. A few degrees may not seems a lot, but consider it in a long run. As many those few degrees add up, it will be a big deal. Humans will suffer from what they did if they continue to warm the earth.
@Michael Schmidt,
A lot more extreme weather events were recorded in the 20th century, including the (in)famous dust bowl of the 1930s. None of them were linked to global warming.
As for our modern contribution to CO2, we have gone from 280 parts per million to 390 parts per million in 150 years. That's 0.03% to 0.04% (or 1 part in 10,000 in 150 years). Check the facts.
Natural phenomena, especially solar activity, correlates much closer to world temperatures than CO2. They explain warming and cooling that occurred much before we started adding extra CO2 into the atmosphere.
Under Ron Paul, the NOAA wouldn't even exist. Does that make this entire article moot?
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Sport Management Students Present at Society for American Baseball Research Analytics Conference
On March 13, five students from the St. John Fisher College Sport Studies Department participated in the 2014 Diamond Dollars Case Competition, a statistics-based contest which takes place at the annual Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Analytics Conference.
The conference took place in Phoenix, Arizona, and due to Winter Storm Vulcan, the Fisher team's presentation had to be done via Skype.
In the competition, teams consisting of four to five students are asked to evaluate a baseball operations case problem. Each team presents their analysis and recommendations to a panel of judges which includes Major League Baseball (MLB) front office executives. Students are given the case study problem approximately five days prior to their designated presentation time and are asked to develop their recommendation within the given timeframe.
This year's case study asked teams to analyze and discern the top three pitching assets in MLB today — the pitchers who will generate the greatest value to a team over the balance of their years under contract or team control.
Sport Management majors Kate Disbrow, Val Hanson, Kris Jones, Joey McAvoy, and Kyle Stich have spent most of the semester researching and preparing for the competition by reading various literature pertaining to advanced sabermetric baseball statistics and applying their findings to past case studies presented at previous conferences.
A record 19 colleges and universities participated in the competition, where each was placed in one of three divisions — one consisting of graduate and professional school participants and two consisting of representatives from undergraduate study.
Ultimately, through extensive research and preparation, the team found Matt Harvey of the New York Mets, Hyun-Jin Ryu of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Chris Sale of the Chicago White Sox to be the top pitching assets in baseball today. Although the judges felt Fisher put together a solid presentation that demonstrated a good understanding of the material, the winner of the team's bracket was the team from Cornell University. The winner of the second undergraduate bracket was Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, while the team from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business won the graduate and professional school bracket.
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