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I. Current Sofc R& D activities in the market environment
1. Trends in the global market
2. Japan: the level of Sofc development with trends in the industry
2-1. Overview
2-2. Trends in industry
2-3. Positioning in the global market
3. The United States: Sofc research and development up to date
3-1. Overview: Sofc R& D
3-1-1. Projects funded by the government (Department of Energy: DOE)
3-1-2. R& D objectives and expected outcomes
3-1-3. Exhibits: Overview of funding projects by the DOE
3-2. Research area analysis by the governmental organizations/programs
3-2-2. DOE Bridge Information
3-2-3. Department of Defense (DOD)
3-2-4. National Science Foundation (NSF)
3-2-5. Small Business Innovation Research (Sbir) by DOD
3-3R& D trends and future developments by leading 17 industrial firms/organization
4. European Union: Sofc research and development at present
4-1. Overview
4-1-1. Organizational structure operating EU energy- related R& D program with the budget
4-1-2. Sofc historical development
4-1-3. The 5th Framework Programme: FP5
4-1-4. The 6th Framework Programme: FP6
4-2. Sofc R& D in trends by country
4-2-1. Summary
4-2-2. Denmark
4-2-3. Norway
4-2-4. Sweden
4-2-5. United Kingdom
4-2-6. Germany
4-3. Research area analysis by project
4-4. R& D trends and future developments by leading 27 industrial firms and public research organizations
II. Japan: current status and prospects in industrial sectors
1. Electric power generation
2. Gas
3. Power system manufacturing
4. Ceramic materials
III. Current status and prospects ofdomestic firms attaining remarkable Sofc developments
1. Tokyo Electric Power Company
2. Chubu Electric Power Company
3. The Kansai Electric Power Company
4. Kyushu Electric Power Corporation
5. Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
6. Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd
7. Toho Gas Co. Ltd
8. Osaka Gas Co. Ltd
9. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
10. NKK Corporation
11. Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
12. Toto Ltd
13. NGK Insulators, Ltd
14, Japan Fine Ceramics Center
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1. Potential demands for Sofc technology
1-1. Attributes and potential markets
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1-2-1. Power plant for commercial use
1-2-2. Power plant for remote/residential use
2. Competitive environment and market scale projection
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2-2. Projection for Sofc market scale in Japan
2-2-1. Expected market scale of potential demands
2-2-2. Industrial gas turbine market
3. Cost analysis for Sofc commercialization
4. Issues and objectives forSofc market entry product concept and home-use Sofc power generation system
5. Prospects for Sofc market growth in the global market
5-1. Momentum in 2003-2005
5-2. Near-term projects in world leaders of the three regions: Japan, the US, and EU
5-3. Scenario for Sofc in 2010
6. Leading 10 company's case studies
6-1. Acumentrics Corporation
6-2. Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited
6-3. Fuel Cell technologies
6-4. Global Thermoelectric
6-5. Honeywell
6-6. InDEC
6-7. McDermott Technology
6-8. Rolls-Royce
6-9. Siemens Westinghouse
6-10. Sulzer Hexis
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Overview of the Collection
Biography of John Kingsbury Pimer
Scope and Content
Index Terms
Administrative Information
Detailed Description of the Collection
John Kingsbury Pimer (1807-1884) was born in England and moved to the United States in
1826. After spending a brief time in New York City, he migrated to New London, Connecticut,
during the winter of 1827-1828. He quite possibly had learned the sailmaker's trade in England
and appears to have been employed by Jacob Holmes, a New London sailmaker, immediately
upon arriving in New London. Before long however, Pimer and James Morris formed a
partnership and engaged in sailmaking. In 1832 that partnership was dissolved and from that
time until his retirement, some time around 1880, Pimer seems to have operated his own
sailmaking business. Pimer's customers included Thomas W. Williams, Williams & H
Barnes, and Williams & Haven, all of whom were managing owners or agents for whaling
vessels. Like many sailmakers of his time, Pimer seems to have accepted shares in vessels as
part or complete payment for his services. Unlike the others however, he did not retain these
shares for any length of time, choosing instead railroad and insurance securities, and real estate
for long term investments.
John K. Pimer and Ann Thompson were married in Norwich, Connecticut, on November
18, 1827. Their children included John, born August 25, 1828, and died Sept. 10, 1828; Susan
Jesse, born July 29, 1829, and married Carlos L. Beckwith, November 26, 1851; John, born
November 11, 1831; George Triby, born June 10, 1838; Mary Ann, born October 21, 1841; and
Thomas Kingsbury, born July 10, 1844. Ann Thompson Pimer died August 30, 1856. On March
15, 1857, John K. Pimer married the widow Nancy Lewis. He died on January 12, 1884, in New
London at the age of 77.
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This collection consists of five boxes containing 1,841 pieces including 31 volumes. Of the
total number of papers, 1549 deal primarily with household expenses and include accounts, bills,
and receipts from a large number of artisans and shop keepers in New London for a period of
slightly over fifty years.
The remaining 292 pieces deal primarily with Pimer's sailmaking business. Most of the
items are general accounts, bills, and receipts. Also included is one draft of a letter by Pimer and
three letters to Pimer. Among the individual items of interest are the notice of the dissolution of
the partnership of Pimer and James Morris, June 30, 1832; the settlement of the account between
Morris and Pimer, July 7, 1832; a copy, possibly in Pimer's hand, of the will of Lyman Allyn,
Nov. 4, 1854; and a letter of S.H. Gardiner of Lynn, Mass., with a brochure about his "Improved
method of making and working the 'courses' of square-rigged vessels," April 30, 1863.
Among the most significant items in the Pimer papers are two daybooks covering the period
1831-1859; sixteen small ledgers containing labor accounts with employees and labor and
materials accounts with vessels or their owners, 1831-1876; four duck books, 1834-1874; six
spar dimension books, 1834-1867; Pimer's own annual summaries of receipts and disbursements
for both business and household, 1863-1877; and accounts with various New London whaling
firms and suppliers of materials used by sailmakers, 1835-1881.
The daybooks and labor and materials ledgers reveal a considerable amount of information
about the costs involved in making sails. Contrary to modern-day practices, Pimer generally paid
his employees exactly what he charged his customers for straight labor by the day or the hour. In
1831, Pimer charged his customers $1.25 per day for labor and paid most of his employees $1.25
per day for a 10 hour day. By January 10, 1834, the price had risen to $1.50 per day. One entry on
December 18, 1835, revealed a charge of 16*** per hour. During March, 1836, the daily rate had
risen to $1.75 per day. Six months later the rates rose to $2.00 per day or 20*** per hour. From
this time until mid-April, 1853, the daily rate remained about the same although there was some
fluctuation between $2.00 and $1.75 per day. Occasionally Pimer gave lower prices to vessels in
which he was part owner and quite regularly charged $1.75 per day for ships, brigs, and some
schooners and $2.00 per day for sloops, smacks, and some schooners. From mid-April, 1853,
until 1859, when the daybooks cease, labor charges were generally $2.50 per day for the smaller
vessels and $2.25 per day for the larger ones. During the Civil War labor charges dropped from
25*** per hour to 22 1/2*** and finally to 20*** per hour. Shortly after the war they rose again
and eventually reached 30*** per hour by 1870. In addition to the daily and hourly rates paid his
employees, Pimer hired men for sewing duck. The price paid for this was 1 to 1 1/4 cents per
yard in the early 1830's and rose eventually to 2*** per yard by 1870. In view of the fact that the
labor charges made a steady rise during the late 1830's and early 1840's one might assume that
the general economic recessions of that period did not effect sailmakers as it did other fields of
Among the other charges involved in sailmaking illustrated in the account books of Pimer
are "working duck," "middle stitching," "side stitching," and "making extra bonnet to jib." During
the period 1831-1859 there was considerable fluctuation and apparently some discrimination in
the charges for those operations. The earliest entry for "working duck" is April 19, 1831, at $2.50
per bolt, a bolt being approximately 38 yards. The next example of a charge for "working duck"
appears on September 1, 1832, at $5.25 per bolt. The first charge was against a ship, the second
against a smack. Basically the same charges are maintained until early 1836 when the charge for
"working duck" for a small vessel (sloop, smack, and some schooners) was raised to $5.75 per
bolt, and for a large vessel (ship, brig, and some schooners) was raised to $2.83 per bolt. By
mid-December, 1836, Pimer was charging $6.OO per bolt for small and slightly between $3.13
and $3.17 1/2 per bolt for large vessels. During June, 1837, the charges were lowered again to
$5.75 and $3.00. From this time until 1859, the price for large vessels remained constant whereas
that for small vessels fluctuated between $5.75 and $3.50 per bolt for "working duck."
From 1831-1839 charges for "middle stitching" appear to have remained constant at 75***
per bolt. During 1840 there were only two such entries both at 92*** per bolt. During 1841 and
1842 the price was 87 1/2*** per bolt. In 1843 the charge fell to 75*** per bolt and presumably
remained at that level until 1851 when it rose to 87*** per bolt. The last rise noted was in 1854
when $1.00 per bolt was charged for "middle stitching."
"Side stitching" seems to have been an infrequent operation and was noted only between
1833 and 1838. The cost for "side stitching" was $1.50 per bolt until late January, 1834, when it
was increased to $1.58. During October, 1834, it was raised again to $1.62 1/2 per bolt. The
charge was lowered again in January, 1835, to $1.58. The last entry for "side stitching" is in July,
1838, at $1.50 per bolt.
Nearly all the entries for "making extra bonnet to jib" are for smacks. The price begins at
$3.00 in February, 1836, but by April of the same year it had increased to $3.50. During March,
1837, it was increased to $3.87, only to be lowered to $3.50 again in January, 1838. The price
was increased to $3.75 and in March, 1840, and again to $4.00 in August, 1840, reveals a charge
of $3.75, "Making extra bonnet to jib" for a ship was $2.50 until 1845 when it rose to $3.87.
These, of course, are only a few of the charges involved in sailmaking, among the others are
beeswax, bolt rope, "double stitching," small rope, spun yarn, twine, "Wipping & sewing in reef
nettles," thimbles, and the various kinds of duck used for sails.
A thorough examination of Pimer's daybooks seems to indicate that the people for whom
the sails were made supplied the duck. Most of the duck Pimer sold was small scraps. Only once
in the twenty-nine years covered by the two daybooks does it appear that Pimer bought several
bolts of duck. In that case he apparently sold the same duck to another firm on the same day at an
increase of 50*** per bolt.
Explaining what one might find by searching the "duck books" and the spar dimension
books hardly seems necessary, but it does seem worth mentioning that Pimer's spar dimension
books do record alterations in the superstructure of a considerable number of vessels. In some
such instances, dates of the alterations are given, as are dates for the original dimensions.
Whether most sailmakers owned their sail loft or whether they rented one has not been
definitely established, but Pimer seems to have always rented his place of business. Between
about 1830 and 1875, Pimer's papers contain one or two receipts each year for payment of rent
for his sail loft.
Pimer seems to have worked most often for Thomas W. Williams, Williams & Barnes, and
Williams & Haven, all of whom were managing owners or agents for whaling vessels.
Pimer's annual summaries of receipts and disbursements for household and business,
1863-1877, indicate that he owned stocks or bonds of the New London Northern and the
Cleveland, Plainsville, and Ashtabula railroad companies and the Norwich Insurance Company,
and at least two pieces of real estate which he rented. In addition to these, of course, he was still
making sails through 1877. The firm of Williams & Barnes seems to have been considerably in
debt to Pimer during the late 1870's and early 1880's, and they made annual payments on the
principal and of interest to Pimer.
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Division. See also: Mystic Seaport's copyright notice.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the G. W. Blunt White Library. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
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Preferred Citation
Coll. 26, Manuscripts Collection, G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.
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After a Rocky Past, Jamie Lee Curtis Grabs Everything and Love
If Curtis, 32, has blossomed into something of a flea-control freak, then perhaps it's just her offbeat reaction to all those years in which she couldn't get a grip on her careening career. The first suburbanite stalked by the loony on the loose in John Carpenter's 1978 Halloween, she was pegged as Hollywood's Scream Queen, filming six low-budget horror flicks in three years. And after a display of nudity in the Eddie Murphy comedy Trading Places (1983) and the John Travolta clinker Perfect (1985), she was dubbed the Body. But now, with the steaming up of her role as journalist Hannah Miller on ABC's Anything but Love, she seems finally to have settled into her own skin. Not only has she proved herself as an actress—on the big screen, in the 1988 John Geese-Kevin Kline romp, A Fish Called Wanda—but she is the happy wife of writer-comedian Christopher Guest, 43, and the beaming mother of 4-year-old Annie. "I used to be wildly, chronically insecure." Curtis admits. "But, yes, I have come of age. It's really my time. Jamie's time."
And this Wednesday, March 6, is her prime time. That's the night she and Anything costar Richard Lewis, playing writer Marty Gold, abandon their everything-but-sex standoff and, after two teasing, frustrating seasons, become bedmates. "It could have been very cheesy, but I thought it was handled delicately," says Curtis, who filmed her scenes with Lewis in front of a studio audience. "It's never fun being intimate in front of strangers. It's always a little nerve-racking, but I thought Richard was more nervous than I was."
Curtis is no stranger to delayed resolutions. The daughter of movie stars Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis—she of the Psycho shower scene, and he of Some Like It Hot—Jamie was 3½ and her sister, Kelly, 5, when their parents divorced in 1962. She spent most of her childhood living with Mom on a Benedict Canyon ranch in L.A., happily playing dress-up and largely oblivious to the Hollywood mantle. It wasn't until 1970, when she was 11 and Tony was arrested for marijuana possession at London's Heathrow Airport, that the impact of her parents' fame finally hit. "It got weird when I was in school," she says. "That's when I started hearing, 'Your father's Tony Curtis. Your mother's Janet Leigh. Your father just got bus-ted, and your moth-er is free.' "
In 1975 Jamie moved east with her mother and attended Connecticut's tony Choate School while Janet performed on the stage in New York City. After graduating in 1976, Curtis homed back to California and began her acting career by accepting bit parts on a few forgettable shows. "I did a Nancy Drew where I was a motorcycle mama," she says. "It was fabulous." Or at least part of it was. "When I was 18 years old, all my friends were 30 or 40," says Curtis of the coworkers she hung out with. "I was called upon to be opinionated and smart, and I was an 18-year-old feather. I was just blowing around."
Along with her alienation came an attendant problem. "I was also this party girl very heavily into coke for a while," she admits. "I never did more than anyone else was doing, but I was certainly in the thick of it. It was a real lost time."
Unlike Kelly, who had spent a summer living with Tony after her mother's remarriage to stockbroker Bob Brandt in late 1962, Jamie refused to play Daddy's girl. "I grew up with Bob—a very competent father—and I never had a need for a relationship with Tony," says Curtis, who has always referred to her father by his first name. But at 20, she changed her mind. "Tony had alienated everyone in the family with drug abuse," she explains. "I was the outsider child who had never known him, and I stepped in for a two-or three-year relationship with him. There was a bond: I was the only person who could understand him, because I was doing coke." Did she do coke with her father? "Absolutely," she says. "For months, that was the bond. If you know anybody who has ever done drugs, that becomes the bond. 'Do you do coke? Do you have coke? Great.' "
Curtis characterizes her drug experience as falling well short of addiction. Still, in the summer of 1983, she decided to end it totally. "Ultimately it was boredom—with yourself, your times, your life, the people that you know. It was the time to stop. It had become too important."
Righting herself made for another painful dislocation. "My dad and I went through that period, and then we had to split up again," she recalls. "He had gone through drug programs, reneged on them, and I was disappointed in him. I basically had no more time for that."
Fortunately her lost period wasn't a total write-off. In 1984, while thumbing through a copy of Rolling Stone, she spotted a picture of actor Christopher Guest, then best known for his role as a dim-witted heavy-metal rocker in the spoof This Is Spinal Tap, and liked what she saw. "For a long time I never smiled, because I was self-conscious about my ugly, dull-looking teeth," says Curtis. "That's why I developed my smirk—which is why, when I looked at Chris's smirk in the picture, I basically saw myself. I saw a kindred spirit."
Through an agent, Curtis forwarded her home number. "It was a strange period, right after Spinal Tap," says Guest, who at first took a pass. "There were bizarre women calling at 3 or 4 in the morning." Fortunately he reconsidered. The two fell in love and became reluctant bicoastal companions. Guest shipped out to New York City to begin work as a Saturday Night Live regular, while Jamie was stuck in Hollywood filming Perfect. "I had just fallen in love like a brick, and I was now in New York thinking, 'What am I doing?' " says Guest. After four months of weekend commutes, the two were married on Dec. 18, 1984, at the home of mutual friend Rob Reiner, with both Tony and Janet in attendance.
Having overcome the geographical hurdle, Jamie admits that their union still takes effort. "I don't think we have an easy marriage," she says. "We have a difficult, but successful, marriage." It was cemented, she notes, by the arrival four years ago of their adopted daughter, Annie, whose birth mother Christopher and Jamie met through an adoption attorney and kept in touch with throughout her pregnancy. Then, in December 1986, when the two were at their Idaho vacation home, "we were awakened in the middle of the night with the phone call announcing that she was born," says Jamie. The first mother-child meeting was auspicious. "She threw up when she saw me," says Curtis. "She rolled over, looked at me, and went. 'Wa-a-a-h!' "
For Jamie, who has always been close to her own mother, having a child may have inspired reconciliation. "On my 30th birthday I called my father," she says. "He hadn't seen Annie since she was 8 weeks old, and she was now turning 2. I just felt it was time." Tony, who by then was drug-free, asked if he could come over. "I said, 'Sure.' And we reestablished," says Jamie. "We reconnected."
Mulling over her past, Jamie, minding Annie, is temporarily distracted by the dog. "Do you see any fleas?" she asks her toddler. "I see bugs!" says Annie, spotting a minute interloper. "Kill him!"
"Teaching my daughter to pop fleas," muses Curtis. "What a mom I am!"
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Interleague play will feature the National League East, with three home games against the New York Mets (July 21-23), two games against the Atlanta Braves (August 5-6), and three against the Washington Nationals (August 29-31). The Mariners road trips to NL parks include Miami, Atlanta and Philadelphia. And just like this season, the M's will play a four game series against San Diego, splitting 2 games in each stadium.
The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox make trips to Safeco Field in June with three games each (Yankees, June 10-12, Red Sox, June 23-25).
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Joe and Sylvia Schmitt are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. Their children hosted a noon luncheon celebration on May 10 at Ricardo's Restaurant with their family. The former Sylvia Brzozowski married Joe on May 2, 1964, at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Erie.
The couple have four children: Natalie and her husband, Dan Fulton, of Charlotte, N.C.; Pam and her husband, Tom Cass, of Erie; Sallie and her husband, Rich Haibach, of Erie; and Joe and his wife, Nicole Schmitt, of Erie.
The couple has four grandchildren: Rachel and Ella Cass and Lauren and Charlie Haibach, all of Erie.
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A high school student's athletic career sometimes comes down to three words: National Signing Day.
Some local seniors will realize a lifelong goal and formalize a college football commitment today, the first day the NCAA allows recruits to sign letters-of-intent.
So what does it take?
Athletes must initiate the recruiting process early — even as early as their freshman year of high school. They must promote themselves not by showboating, but by communicating with coaches and people at recruiting services such as the National Collegiate Scouting Association Athletic Recruiting, said Randy Taylor, the director of football recruiting for the association.
"I think a lot of athletes just think they're going to be discovered," Taylor said. "There's about 1.5 million high school players and 775,000 girls basketball players, so those numbers are astronomical in many cases, and less than 1 percent of all those athletes get a Division I full-ride."
There is not one specific formula that gets an athlete a scholarship, West Texas A&M University head football coach Mike Nesbitt said. Talent and grades aren't the only qualities coaches and recruiters consider, he said. Nesbitt said he combs through dozens of emails each day with an eye for prospects he thinks fit the culture of the program on and off the field.
"It's no different than any other relationship," he said. "You're going to be together for four or five years, and that relationship needs to bond and be together to make it through."
Recruiting services such as NCSA Athletic Recruiting build networks of college and high school coaches and work with athletes and their families to navigate a complex recruiting process. Technology and increased video highlights provide coaches with more information than ever on potential recruits, Taylor said.
He also said recruiting services try to match athletes to schools that would be a good fit athletically and academically.
"There's so many academic admissions issues," Taylor said. "Some schools can take the minimum qualifiers; others can't. You're talking about some being engineering schools so you have to have a little bit different profile in maybe math. There's a whole different range of qualifications that the athlete has to meet that goes deeper than just the NCAA eligibility."
It has also been eye-opening for Canyon High School linebacker Dylan Douglass, a first-team Class 4A Associated Press Sports Editors all-state selection. He made a verbal commitment to play for Texas State University two weeks ago, but announced last week he now plans to attend Abilene Christian University and is expected to make it official today.
"The No. 1 thing my eyes have been opened to is that the recruiting process is not as glamorous as it seems," he said. "You go through a lot of things just to pick a hat off the table."
Douglass received about 1,000 letters from schools over the past year. Some were particularly persistent.
"There was a point where I was getting about two letters a day from some schools," Douglass said.
Douglass made several unofficial visits to schools, including Texas State. His only official visit was his last, to Abilene Christian.
He didn't necessarily plan on changing his commitment, but there was nothing binding him to Texas State.
"We took a visit ,and it was the only other place I planned on going to," Douglass said of Abilene Christian. "I went down there for a visit and I loved it."
Amarillo High safety Braden Marusak has listened to plenty of sales pitches from recruiters since last fall. He might not sign with anyone today.
Marusak visited WT and Texas Tech, which offered preferred walk-on status instead of a scholarship.
"The relationship with the coaches and the opportunities I could get when I get to the school are what convinced me to visit," he said. "They say a lot of things that try to persuade you. Getting to meet (coaches) in person is a big thing."
Nesbitt said the proliferation of email, Web videos and distribution sites such as YouTube and Hudl.com. have made recruiting a daily concern.
"You don't want to look up and go, 'Man, I didn't return that call or email,'" Nesbitt said. "You've got to spend a little bit of time to evaluate every guy you see, but you can't lose track of the ones that you've already targeted and had on campus and been visiting with."
High school coaches are valuable assets in the recruiting process, he said.
"Ultimately, those high school coaches are the ones who recommend players to us, and they're the ones we're going to listen to," Nesbitt said. "If that high school coach says that guy is a good player, a good person, he's got good character, he's got good work ethic and he fits the criteria for every coach, that's the guy we're really trusting our (evaluation) to."
Nesbitt, who has also coached at Stephen F. Austin State University and the University of Houston, said high school football players from the Texas Panhandle are unique in that the majority are multisport athletes.
"They're involved in everything," Nesbitt said. "I think that develops just a well-rounded athlete. The more sports you play, the better athlete you are and you can cross over lines. You have time to narrow in your focus to be a college football player once you get into college."
Douglass and Marusak fit that bill. Douglass is a returning all-district center in basketball, and Marusak will run track this spring.
Regardless of athletic talent, Marusak said the Texas Panhandle's relative isolation means that it's a little harder to get noticed by schools.
"The Panhandle's definitely underrecruited," Marusak said. "Some good athletes definitely get overlooked and colleges look more toward the (Dallas-Fort Worth) metroplex and the bigger cities. "The coaches here all told me about that in advance."
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Tar Beach A workshop production written by Tammy Ryan and directed by Sheila McKenna. It's July 1977 in sweltering New York City. Sixteen year old friends Mary Claire and Mary Francis start the day sunning themselves on the roof. Younger sister Reenie is searching for her prize-winning Greek Mythology Class Project: The Head of Medusa, while their parents are consumed by the battles of their troubled marriage. The Marys hatch a plan to stay out all night with a bonfire on the beach, but the unexpected happens: the biggest blackout since 1965, a chance encounter with Son of Sam and a sudden loss of innocence.08/27/2012
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Michigan Concerns of Police Survivors held its 19th annual Law Enforcement Officers Candlelight Memorial Service at the Capitol in Lansing. Hundreds of civilians and members of law enforcement crowded the rotunda as inclement weather forced the event inside.
Michigan State Police Director Col. Kristie Etue offered solemn words in gratitude and memoriam.
"Not only can we never forget these officers, we also can never turn our backs on their loved ones left behind," she said. "For behind every fallen officer, the family has a personal commitment and a call to duty, for their hero's story deserves to be heard.
"This evening we gather together in fellowship to remember our fallen comrades, the impact they had on our lives and the great legacy that they leave behind. We honor their memory in hopes that the principles of pride and integrity and compassion of these dedicated officers. It does not end here. We must honor these heroes and have the impact from their lives continue to impact all of us."
More than 100 law enforcement officers attended the ceremony. Agencies from Lansing, Detroit, Livonia, Kalamazoo and the State Police were represented, among others.
The rotunda's ground floor could not accommodate all of the officers, as dozens lined the second- and third-floor railing of the rotunda and looked on.
The ceremony honored officers killed in the line of duty, those injured in the line of duty, those who died while actively employed, those who died after retirement, retired officers and all active officers.
Six officers who died since April 2011 were honored specifically, as their surviving loved ones were acknowledged. Three of the six served in Michigan; the other three served elsewhere but had either once lived in or have family in Michigan. They are:
- Officer Eric Zapata, of the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety, died April 18, 2011.
- Officer Daryl Hall, of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department in Missouri, died April 24, 2011.
- Officer Charles Armour, of the Detroit Police Department, died June 11, 2011.
- Deputy Sheriff Bryan Phillip Gross, of the Converse County Sheriff's Department in Wyoming, died July 28, 2011.
- Officer Ryan McCandless, of the Rapid City Police Department in South Dakota, died August 2, 2011.
- Officer Trevor Slot, of the Walker Police Department, died October 13, 2011.
Black's brother, Officer Daryle Black, of the Long Beach Police Department in California, died in the line of duty.
"We want to let you know that they will never be forgotten," she said. "Ever."
Lansing Police Chief Teresa Szymanksi was one of many law enforcement officials in attendance. She said the ceremony is important not only to law enforcement but all communities.
"This is a great event, and it's important to remember and never forget the ones we lost," she said.
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quote: Then amd needs to build quite a few more fabs. Even if they gained majority market share, they couldn't supply it
quote: Without competition you will be paying 2 grand for high end cpu's and 1k plus for video cards in very very short order
quote: EXCESS of competition & LACK of competition is BAD
quote: asset light is code word for the company moving toward more of a "fabless" model of doing business in which computer chip companies outsource their manufacturing to factories called foundries, many of which are located in Asia.
quote: "more architectural change" & "would get them out faster than one a year"
quote: 45-55% split would obviously be ideal
quote: Asset Light...This model frees up a lot of resources for both the companies(AMD/Intel),enabling them divert these resources to more essential/crucial areas namely R&D
quote: Higher quality products & lower prices is an incentive or motivator for buyers/users/consumers to UPGRADE
quote: and remember that those who waited are still guaranteed customers at some point.
quote: IBM road plan is worth reading about
quote: In moving OEMs from dual-core to quad-core machines, AMD is using the same no-design-change strategy as its move from single-core to dual-core several years ago. Manufacturers only need to change the BIOS on new machines. Barcelona will fit into the same socket as the older chips. "There's a very low resistance path to adoption," Allen said.
quote: Same SOCKET but a different BIOS.
quote: Whatever the terminology,the whole point is "Quality"
quote: but are these older AM2 boards going to severly cripple the performance of Stars processors?
quote: Maybe i am missunderstood but what im reading is that if i want a quad core AMD i need yet another new socket
quote: Intel did that last year and paid for it with horrible quarter figures until they actually launched C2D.
quote: AMD has told that "K10" ramp will be relatively slow
quote: Horrible means >$1B profits per quarter?
quote: Wrong. They said ramp (sales) would be low
quote: It's logical that AMD will sell majority of initial K10 shipments for server market. Which means that if server ramp is relatively slow, desktop ramp will not be fast either
quote: No they didn't...they said that PROFIT from K10 would be slow. They don't expect K10 to make a big dent in the bottom line till early 08...
quote: Yes...if you view that as a return on investment.
quote: how can the volume be high if the revenues/profit will be low
quote: Intel has very high margins, which means very high return on investment
quote: The moral of the story is that AMD is the ultimate copier of Intel
quote: Intel was also first to use an integrated memory controller contrary to what you seem to believe, but thats another story
quote: Have you ever heard of Nicolas Joseph Cugnot? You should have since every car made (according to your theory) "copied" him... He invented the first automobile (it was steam powered). So just how relevant is that to Team Ferrari??
quote: They kept CPU prices down during the days of the athlon XP. but a64 was always priced very close to P4
quote: Intel made AMD, dont forget that
quote: why is intel dropping their quad 6600 to 266 price point before agena hits the streets its because its going to kick your cd2 ...
quote: Tigerton is a bigger jump from Tulsa then Barcelona is over Santa Rosa, so Intel will be pretty much closing the gap, rather then falling too much behind


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UPMC Bedford announces screenings
EVERETT - Health screenings that consist of a series of 28 tests, including cholesterol and triglyceride levels, are being offered in Bedford County
Results are available the next day and can be sent to primary care physicians. Annually, 150 to 200 people take advantage of these discounted screenings offered by UPMC Bedford Memorial.
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Penn-Mont Academy will hold a Vera Bradley and Longaberger Basket Fundraiser at 6:30 p.m. March 11 at Father Kelley Hall, Altoona. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Entry tickets are $25 and an entry ticket/value pack combo tickets are $60. The first 50 value pack tickets sold will receive a free Vera Bradley gift. Participants will have a wide range of gift items to win, including Altoona Curve skybox tickets, restaurant gift certificates, spa and manicure services and 2014 Cannondale Trail bicycles for men and women. Proceeds will support after school enrichment programs and offer financial assistance to families. To order tickets, call the school at 696-8801 or visit www.pennmontacademy.com.
For accurate results, patients must fast for 12 hours and not drink alcohol for 24 hours prior to screening.
Cost is $25 for blood screening and $3 for urinalysis. For an additional $3, test results can be sent directly to the patient. Test dates follow:
Saturday and Sept. 13 -?7 to 10 a.m., Chestnut Ridge Family Medicine-UPMC, 2040 Quaker Valley Road, Fishertown.
April 12 - 7 to 11 a.m., Community Health Fair at Homewood at Spring House Estates, 150 Victoria Ave., Everett.
June 7 - 7 to 10 a.m., Shawnee Valley Ambulance Service, 166 Valley Road, Schellsburg.
Nov. 8 - 7 to 10 a.m., Alum Bank Fire Hall, 6738 King St. Clair Road, Alum Bank.
No appointments are necessary. For more information or to ask specific questions about the screenings, contact the UPMC?laboratory at 623-3506.
SFU?opens lab to the public
LORETTO -?St. Francis University's DiSepio Institute for Rural Health and Wellness is offering community use of its new Human Performance Lab. The lab offers the latest cutting-edge technologies and is designed to allow individuals to attain their peak physical conditioning.
The St. Francis HPL employs world-class multidisciplinary experts who will help individuals of all ages accomplish their health goals. Areas of assessment that are supervised by a certified clinical exercise physiologist include aerobic fitness, lactate threshold, body composition, muscular fitness, resting metabolic rate, resting EKG and a complete personal fitness package.
All of the services are designed to help individuals understand the risk in developing medical conditions and allow the experts to design a health regimen that will provide individuals with a path toward optimum health.
Fees for the assessment include testing and individual training plans based on results and personal goals. There are discounts for St. Francis faculty, staff, students and groups of 10 or more.
Visit www.francis.edu/human-performance-lab/ for more information about the lab, fees and pre-testing instructions.
Homers Gap Civics to meet March 18
The Homers Gap Civics Association will meet at 7 p.m. March 18 at Asbury Church Hall.
Items to be discussed will be financial matters, fundraising, trustee responsiblities and building renovations.
Operation Small Steps sets benefit
In an effort to raise funding and awareness for the upcoming mission of Operation Small Steps, a Coach purse fundraiser will be held at 3 p.m. April 6 at the Jaffa Shrine Center, Altoona. Doors will open at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $20.
Operation Small Steps is a nonprofit medical organization focused on the education and treatment of clubfoot and other orthopedic conditions in underserved areas around the globe.
In 2011 and 2012, the group had successful missions when a team of medical and support professionals from Altoona area traveled to a remote village in Madagascar to give orthopedic medical care.
In June, the group will travel again to continue the treatment and educational programs for the birth defect, clubfoot.
American Red Cross offers courses
DUNCANSVILLE - The American Red Cross in Blair County is offering a variety of courses where people can find out how to be prepared and save lives. The classes include:
n Adult and pediatric CPR/AED (Web/classroom class) - 9 to 10:30 a.m., Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8 Education and Technology Center, 580 Foot of Ten Road, Duncansville. Cost is $90.
n Adult and pediatric first aid/CPR/AED (Web/classroom class) - 9 to 11:30 a.m., Appalachia IU8 Education and Technology Center. Cost is $110.
To register, visit www.redcross.org/take-a-class or call 800-733-2767.


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Northwest Texas Quality Amarillo board of overseers will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Texas Panhandle Mental Health Authority, at 15th and Taylor.
TCA Cable TV Inc., which agreed to merge with Cox Communications last week, has signed an agreement with Peak Cablevision to trade TCA's systems in Dalhart, Perryton and in the Guymon, Okla., area for Peak systems in and around the Arkansas towns of Fayetteville, Springdale, Bentonville, Rogers and Fort Smith. The exchange in total affects approximately 8,200 TCA and 9,200 Peak subscribers. The transaction is expected to be complete by mid-summer.
SBC Communications Inc. said it will add New York, Washington D.C., and Phoenix to the list of initial markets the company will enter following the completion of its merger with Ameritech. Previously SBC said it would provide telephone service in Seattle, Boston, and Miami. SBC is the parent company of Southwestern Bell.
Service Corp. International, which operates three funeral homes in Amarillo, announced a 9 cents per share dividend payable July 30 to shareholders of record on July 15.
Directors of Sears, Roebuck and Co. declared a regular quarterly dividend of 23 cents per share, payable July 1 to shareholders of record on May 28.
Homeland Holding Corp. announced first quarter net income of $616,000 or 13 cents per diluted share, down from $871,000 and 18 cents per diluted share a year ago.
Cumulus Media Inc., which operates six radio stations in Amarillo, reported a net loss of $14.6 million or 74 cents per share, compared with a loss of $6.17 million and 49 cents per share a year ago.
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If you've been surfing the web this week you probably saw this video of this contestant, Caitlin, guessing a puzzle using only one letter:
Esquire profiled her afterwards which included this other fantastic game show gem when Terry Kniess, on The Price is Right, won both showcase showdowns with a perfect guess. (video of his guess after the jump)
If that isn't enough, all these game show antics reminded me of Ohio native Michael Larson on Press Your Luck in 1984. He hit 35 squares in a row by memorizing the patterns and accumulated $110,237 in about an hour! It's a fantastic story and you can watch video of it here.
Great stuff huh? For more great stuff, here's this week's roundup!
- My pal J. Money has started a new project called Love Drop, where they'll drop "unexpected financial gifts on people once a month. Mortgages paid. Medical bills erased. Student loans gone. Equipment purchased for special-needs kids."
- I've known Lazy Man for years now and every year he's managed to discover MLM scams that pilfer the pockets of unsuspecting Americans. This time he's stumbled onto the LifeVantage – Protandim Scam. If you've considered that or MonaVie, I'd check out his in-depth posts.
- The thief who broke into payment databases and stole all those credit card numbers from the likes of T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, was sentenced to 20 years in prison – the NY Times takes a look at Gonzales and the black market of identities.
- What happens with Seinfeld and economics collide? An entertaining education!
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March 23rd, 2011
Boyfriend's Wish
That was a stupid wish. Now how is she supposed to give him blowjobs?
Gee, Bubbaclaw. What's a blowjob?
Seriously, where is that well?
The corner of Los Feliz Blvd. and Riverside Dr., where all dreams come true.
A wish for a win-win situation. hehe How sweet.
Sure, you might not be able to get a blowjob, but now she can't tell you no about buttsecks!
Am I the only one who thought at first that he wished for a kawaii~ mouth on his girlfriend?
I thought the no-mouth thing was an artistic thing and that he'd apparently wished that they were no longer married so he wouldn't have to deal with her anymore (She's looking at her hand as if the wedding band had vanished).
I think I read into this comic WAY too deep.
Its what I thought.
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However, lessons learnt from the attempt to "green" the F1 image are making a quick path to road cars, with both Porsche and Ferrari signalling their intent to use similar technology in one-off show cars displayed at the recent Geneva motor show.
The F1 set-up was designed to capture kinetic energy (the energy of the car moving), normally lost in heat through the brakes, for later use during acceleration.
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Now that Jacoby Ellsbury is gone, the Red Sox seem prepared to turn centerfield over to Jackie Bradley Jr.
It's hard to dispute anything this team does these days. From the dismal days of 2012 emerged an outfit with the Midas touch, winning a World Series and executing an offseason plan that has logic on its side.
Trusting Bradley to replace Ellsbury is the only part of the plan that makes me edgy, even though there is every reason to think he will turn into a quality major leaguer someday soon.
Last spring, Bradley made it appear that day had arrived ahead of schedule. He was the unofficial Grapefruit League MVP, hitting .419 and doing wondrous things almost every day.
No one really expected him to keep up that pace. But neither did anybody expect that once the games began to count, Bradley's offense would dissolve the way those original Star Trek characters did when they stepped on the transporter and disappeared.
After a 3-for-31 start, Bradley was sent to Pawtucket. He spent the rest of the year going up and down.
Bradley hit .189 in 95 at-bats over 37 games for Boston, and was not added to the playoff roster. He hit .275 with 10 home runs in 374 plate appearances at Triple A.
The Red Sox are convinced Bradley is better for the experience, but he still has only two full pro seasons under his belt.
Mature for his age, he does not turn 24 until April. Is he really ready to replace Ellsbury?
Defensively, there is no problem. Bradley might actually be an upgrade because of his better arm.
He will steal some bases, though his 7-for-14 clip at Pawtucket hardly makes him the new Ellsbury. Entering the year with the current crop of outfielders leaves little room for fallback if Bradley's bat falters again.
Shane Victorino could play center, though the Red Sox love his Gold Glove in right. Daniel Nava, Jonny Gomes and Mike Carp are all left fielders, though Nava could probably get by in right.
Relying on this cast, though, means a significant commitment to Bradley, and no platoon for him, either.
There is also the matter of who will hit leadoff. Victorino and Nava are candidates, and so is Bradley, but adding that to the rookie's plate could be asking too much.
While Boston's offseason roster management is being done with an eye on frugality, emphasizing the cost-saving aspect is far too simplistic. But, if Bradley fails, the club could be open to questions about whether there was too much concern for the pocketbook by handing the job to a rookie with talent but unproven upside.
There is still time to acquire another outfielder. If the Red Sox don't, Bradley will likely turn out to be a fine major league regular, but they will be asking him to become one immediately.
Red Sox fans should hope he gets off to a flying start, but also that he does not leave all his hits in Florida, the way he did last year.
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A former "American Idol" finalist is in trouble with the law in central Florida for the second time in four months.
Antonio Wheeler, 26, is in the Seminole County Jail and charged with three counts of grand theft.
Altamonte Springs police said Wheeler would meet people in the parking lot of the Altamonte Mall and offer to sell them MacBook computers. But in return for their cash, they said, he would give them a box containing a brick or notebook.
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Kill prevailing wage law
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The prevailing wage law should not have the amount raised. It should like more and more states kill it completely....
I said nothing about "no" profit. What I said was that the other motivating factors in an economy, and especially what many deem to be a free-market, capitalist economy have been lost. That is why it is always about profit. I have no qualms with profit, it's how I make a very good living, but profit cannot be the only factor in an economy or you end up with low wages, part time employment and workers who end up making up the difference in a livable wage with welfare and social services. Too many are looking at the tree today but do not see the whole forest.
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This is not about controlling costs it is about increasing profits on the backs of workers, America's middle class, blue collar employees. That is not economics, that's catastrophe. What is really needed is to bring comparative wages up to "prevailing wages" on private projects. People need to stop listening to the business unions, Chambers of Commerce and listen more to people. They do not have a workers best interests today, because economics has lost the science and settled on only one aspect, one motivating factor - profit.
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I do know this, in order to save what is claimed as about 20% higher costs with prevailing wage projects and if wages are 20 - 30 % higher than in non-prevailing wage projects, according to the propaganda, someone will have to pay the piper so to speak. It will not only be the employee, it will be the taxpayer, due to less rebate (taxes) paid to the state, because the workers will be returning less to the state coffers because they too are also are taxed on what they make. You will get shoddier work, more employee turnover causing cost overruns and a number of other negative issues, like increased use of welfare, tax refunds due to lower incomes. These are the things the propagandists do not tell you. It is emphatically not about controlling costs, because a study of states that do not have "prevailing wage" do not show a substantial cost savings.
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enigma, maybe I do not have as great a grasp of economics and I do not hold a BS (that doesn't stand for the usual term) degree in economics. Economics is simply a term for a type social engineering. Simply put it's the study of how people choose to use resources. Their labor, land, investments, money, income, and production, taxes and government expenditures and the herding them one way or another. There are a number of other concepts involved but this simplifies it. Economics today is simply making something that is relatively easy, difficult. It lacks the most important of science characteristics having no record of improvement in predictive range and accuracy for the whole macroeconomy. Economics is not just about money, it is a bout a whole host of issues. That is where we have the problem today, not with people not understanding economics, but of economics not understanding people.
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"enigma - I have a very good grasp of profit/loss in business. I deal with it everyday and make a very good income in a number of different ways dealing with margins, profits and expenses."--CarlHiller
I didn't say you didn't know about business, I said you don't know about economics. Very different things. Admittedly related, but not the same. If more people understood that, maybe our economy wouldn't be in the toilet.
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"Prevailing wage laws just guarantee that the labor cost will be high."
No, prevailing wage laws says a job will use the wages that prevail in a certain area and prevent a contractor coming in from out of the area and "lowballing" a job using unqualified workers at a lower wage.
When you have a construction project where the materials are pretty much the same cost and the labor is the same, the contractor has to rely on the quality of work his/her workers will install. The contractor relies on their efficiency. A qualified worker will take less time to install whatever they are constructing.
In the end you have a better building. As a taxpayer, what would you want? A quality installation or something less.
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enigma - I have a very good grasp of profit/loss in business. I deal with it everyday and make a very good income in a number of different ways dealing with margins, profits and expenses.
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I worked as project superintendent for a company who only performed Federal Construction Projects. On one project, we were to replace floor tiles in closets where fire sprinkler main lines were installed to the buildings. About 12 tiles in each closet. I was putting the tiles in when the Contracting officer for the Federal agency we were working for asked if I was paying myself twice, once as superintendent and once as a "Flooring installer." I told him there were only 12 tiles in each of the 4 closets and I was just getting it off the punch list. We were stopped under the Davis Bacon Wage act (Prevailing wage) and I had to hire a separate sub contractor to put in less than 40 tiles. Cost of that sub contract? $3400.00 The sub got paid for his worker and a 20-10-2 Labor burden, Profit, and Insurances formula that the government used. I could go on and on about prevailing wage. But everyone (except Sham) understands.
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Do you all know what prevailing wage is? -Reeder
Yep... but I sure would love to hear your explanation...
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CarlHiller, Your 6:22 post shows that you have no grasp of economics. The bidding process itself controls profit. The only way to get the low bid is to take the low profit. Prevailing wage laws just guarantee that the labor cost will be high. What the prevailing wage does is prevent workers from competing with each other. It is just a political gift to the unions, who of course reciprocate come election time. It's a way for politicians to funnel tax dollars into campaign funds. It's not very efficient, but who cares, it's just taxes.
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eriklatranyi - Nowhere did I state anything about 60% profit, I stated markup. Profit and markup are not the same. Net profit is after all expenses and markup is the percentage used to gain that profit not taking into account the expenses. And as for throwing figures around, I never do, I have all the info to back it up. An old study by Fraundorf in 1984 on "prevailing wage" is what government and business leadership generally quote from as to labor costs being the motivating factor in higher cost in these projects. There have been subsequent studies that discovered the Fraundorf authors left out a key variable — differences between public and private building design specs. Once these differences are accounted for, later studies do not replicate the conclusion of Fraundorf and find no impact of prevailing wages on contract costs. So I'll stand firmly by my previous post.
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Do you all know what prevailing wage is?
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Let market forces dictate the prevailing wages, just like they do with prices. It's true that U/C is not a livable wage, but in O's miserable job market, he's decided you can live on a little less.
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Spike, I agree. I was drawing the max several years ago in MD and it was only a fraction of what I was making and when you are budgeted for years at a certain salary, to lose half of that salary is a huge burden. Why should I be expected to except a job making a fraction of what I was making just to stop UC? I continued to look for employment and I eventually found a job making a comparable salary to my last position. That's the way the system is suppose to work.
Concerning prevailing wage, I think it should be eliminated all together. I think in the last several decades it's just been a political payoff and strong abuse of public money to support labor unions.
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Where is this employment progress figure at?
Every time someone writes or posts that PA is in the bottom five, it isn't.
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$574 p/week is not going to support anyone very well unless there is another employed individual in the home. second, you would originally made about $53,000 per year to draw the max. Remember UC is not ever equal to your paycheck. Do individuals who made $53,000 take their UC rather than taking a $15,000 a year job? Of course. Should someone lose their home and car because of a lay-off or closure? Remember they lose the value of medical insurance after 30 days and are then paying out-of-pocket. Erik - is willing as always to stick it to someone else while he is a salaried employee. Its's always easier to take away from another? How much would you willingly cut your own salary?
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Is there anything you KNOW (for a fact, regarding that UC rate)...or, is what you "believe" sufficient-enough, for you, to consider it an actual-fact? -Shaman
Actually I believe the maximum amount is 573.00 a week as of 2011, but hey Shaman, why don't you check it yourself if you doubt it. You constantly comment as to the validity of facts by others, when you could just as well check them yourself. That is a sign that you have nothing else to dispute those facts.
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You throw figures out that do not reflect reality.
Most projects consist of more than 50% labor. Reducing that by at least 20% means a 10% savings to taxpayers. That means more projects can be executed using the same amount of funds.
The 60% profit figure is way out. Many of these projects result in 5%-10% profit margins.
This is from my experience in bidding and winning these projects.
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Labor accounts for less than 20 percent of project costs on "prevailing wage" projects so repealing will have a negligible effect on costs. The control factor for government bid jobs should be in the costs of the supplies and the profit of the companies doing the job. I don't like the limiting profit model, but when you are a business owner bidding on a taxpayer funded project I believe after a cursory look at the profit made off the backs of taxpayers you will find a markup rate of nearly 60%. If I did that in my business I'd be out of business. Killing the prevailing wage law will do nothing to control or cut costs, it will only increase profits.
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MrShaman - 5:42 AM
"Is there anything you KNOW (for a fact, regarding that UC rate)...or, is what you "believe" sufficient-enough, for you, to consider it an actual-fact?"
Once again Sham.....too lazy to do your own research? If you really wanted an answer, you would look it up. You just want to be a prick!
You can be counted on for only two things, either wanting others to do your research, or bloviating!
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"$574 a week for, I believe 99 weeks doesn't put a lot of pressure on a fellow to get off the couch and go back to work." - Tedeaux
Is there anything you KNOW (for a fact, regarding that UC rate)...or, is what you "believe" sufficient-enough, for you, to consider it an actual-fact?
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Is the amount of unemployment compensation one of the "four" remaining factors? $574 a week for, I believe 99 weeks doesn't put a lot of pressure on a fellow to get off the couch and go back to work.
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