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Andrew's many roles for Opera Australia have included Jake Wallace and José Castro in La fanciulla del West, Alessio in La Sonnambula, Marquis Dobigny in La traviata, Maxamillion in Candide, Prince Yamadori in Madama Butterfly, Mr Redburn in Billy Budd, Second Prisoner in Fidelio, Boatswain in HMS Pinafore and Foreman of the Jury in Trial By Jury.
For OzOpera, he has sung Morales and Dancairo in Carmen and Schaunard in La bohème in nationwide tours to rural and regional Australia. For OzOpera's Schools' Company, Andrew performed major roles in The Magic Flute, The Barber of Seville and The Sound Garden.
Included amongst his many appearances for other operatic organisations are Escamillo in Carmen and Figaro in The Barber of Seville for Melbourne Opera, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor for Bel Canto Opera and Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro for Eastern Metropolitan Opera.
Andrew Jones' concert repertoire includes the baritone solos in Orff's Carmina Burana and Fauré's Requiem. He appeared in Victoria Opera's Gala Opening Concert, Opera Australia's 2010 New Year's Eve Gala and has been a frequent soloist for Orchestra Victoria.
He appears on the Australian Cast recording of Essgee Entertainment's The Merry Widow and on the Opera Australia/ABC Classics DVD presentation of Trial by Jury & HMS Pinafore.
For Opera Australia in 2011, Andrew sang Marcello in La bohème (Helpmann Award nomination), Escamillo in Carmen, Prince Yamadori in Madama Butterfly, Slim in Of Mice and Men and Masetto in Don Giovanni. He also appeared as baritone soloist in Carmina Burana for Sydney Philharmonia.
Since then, Andrew has starred as Papageno in Opera Australia's new production of The Magic Flute in Sydney and Melbourne; he also sang Zurga in The Pearlfishers, Escamillo in Carmen and Ford in Falstaff for the national company and returned as soloist with Sydney Philharmonia and Melbourne Symphony.
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Tue Feb 26, 2013, 04:33 AM
Judi Lynn (114,206 posts)
NJ town plans to use rainforest wood on boardwalk
Source: Associated Press
NJ town plans to use rainforest wood on boardwalk
By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press | February 25, 2013 | Updated: February 25, 2013 8:08pm
AVON, N.J. (AP) Environmental groups say they'll launch a boycott drive against a Jersey shore town that refuses to back off its plan to use tropical rainforest wood to rebuild a boardwalk destroyed by Superstorm Sandy.
The groups calculate that 766 acres of old-growth tropical rainforest needed to be cut down to provide materials to rebuild just one small storm-damaged boardwalk at the Jersey shore, and they're promising a tourist season boycott if the town goes through with its plan.
Activists on Monday called on the small shore town of Avon to use something other than ipe (pronounced EE'-pay) to rebuild the boardwalk destroyed by the October storm but were rejected.
"There is a consensus to move ahead," said Commissioner Frank Gorman after hearing nearly two hours of objections from residents and out-of-town environmentalists.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/NJ-town-plans-to-use-rainforest-wood-on-boardwalk-4306779.php
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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 05:22 AM
jmowreader (36,153 posts)
1. There is ecologically sustainable ipe
Forestry Stewardship Council-certified ipe is readily available. There is NO shortage of ipe, and old-growth doesn't need to be harvested.
I can think of a few reasons TO use this wood: it is weather-resistant, and it's so hard it's almost impossible to damage it. Ipe is harder than nails - you have to drill holes in it and use special screws to put it down. It is so heavy it won't float. It is naturally fire-resistant - it has the same fire rating as concrete. Ipe is the right wood to use here, and I'm glad they're sticking to their guns on this.
Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 06:12 AM
Sunlei (19,155 posts)
2. silly these days to not use all the maintenance free, made from recycled plastic 'lumber'
especially decking for a boardwalk. I use the plastic wood for all my decks and walks around here, some are many years old and no problems at all. The plastic-wood IS maintenance free.
Wonder what company the town contracts with for boardwalk maintance and if the town board members have personal interests with that company?
Response to Sunlei (Reply #2)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 10:16 AM
MynameisBlarney (2,979 posts)
3. Agreed
It's used extensively here in the Keys.
Response to Sunlei (Reply #2)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 10:17 AM
TheMadMonk (6,187 posts)
4. Really? Plastic wood burns easily, with lovely black toxic fumes.
It can also be whittled to nothing with a relatively dull knife.
Response to TheMadMonk (Reply #4)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 12:04 PM
Sunlei (19,155 posts)
10. Non Combustible Fire Safe Decks, there are plenty of them not made of wood or heavy
here's one of them if you do a search there are lots. http://www.versadeck.com/
Response to Sunlei (Reply #2)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 10:31 AM
msanthrope (37,549 posts)
6. No--that would provoke riots on the Jersey Shore. nt
Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 10:24 AM
midwest irish (155 posts)
5. lol seriosuly?
Why dont they just o ahead and use kitten fur for their upholstery while they are at it.
Response to midwest irish (Reply #5)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 10:38 AM
dembotoz (11,645 posts)
7. oh that would feel nice on the feet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 11:04 AM
kristopher (29,778 posts)
8. Wildwood made a similar decision in 2009
Wildwood Opts for Ipe Wood Over Black Locust in Boardwalk Construction
Tue, 12/23/2008
WILDWOOD The rebuilt section of the Wildwood boardwalk wont be as environmentally friendly as city officials had hoped.
With a looming Easter weekend in 2009 deadline and a gaping hole in the Wildwoods famous walk, Mayor Ernie Troiano, Jr. and Commissioner Bill Davenport voted Dec. 17 to use ipe tropical hardwood to replace portions of the citys aging pine wood boardwalk. Commissioner Gary DeMarzo abstained from voting on the resolution.
The decision to switch lumber came after the city was sent an absolutely deplorable shipment of black locust lumber, according to Troiano.
What we got was horrible, Troiano told the Herald. Absolutely terrible and there was still bits of bark on it. There was no way we were comfortable using that wood to rebuild.
The decision over what wood to use for the boardwalks facelift had been under scrutiny from environmental groups since August of 2005....
More at http://www.capemaycountyherald.com/article/38282-wildwood-opts-ipe-wood-over-black-locust-boardwalk-construction
I reclaimed some black locust beams that, in a damp climate, had been sitting on the ground for so long they were nearly buried. It had probably been there for 20-30 years (maybe more since the nails in it were handmade cut nails) and it was as solid as the day it was cut. It had a silver-black patina about 1/16th inch thick but was pristine underneath with no rot anywhere and no insect infestation at all.
So the properties of black locust are what they need for the application, but as I understand it, the domestic logging industry hasn't developed a supply chain that can deliver quality lumber in any kind of quantity. I'm not sure if this perception is accurate however, since it is largely based on hearsay about the quality of mature black locust people have seen and the instance recorded in the article above.
I don't trust the certifying organizations for the ipe, but it gives the politicos the cover they need to buy what is arguably the best wood for the job.
ETA: just found this about farming black locust
Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 11:32 AM
lonestarnot (77,097 posts)
9. What the fuck is wrong with those people?
Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 02:37 PM
sweetapogee (1,092 posts)
11. my guess
having grown up in Belmar which borders Avon to the south, it is different from most shore towns because it is almost all residential and doesn't rely on the weekend north jersey/NYC benny invasion. There isn't much to boycott. Avon has always done what is in the best interests of Avon. In fact, while my hometown Belmar is nice, it feels almost run-down compared to Avon. Avon does not cater to the summer bar crowd and would be amused by a boycott of mostly young people protesting their choice of boardwalk materials.
Avon isn't as exclusive as Deal or Rumson but contrasts somewhat with Belmar to the south and Bradley Beach to the north. Even so and personally, having cut ties with Belmar (for NE PA) in 2004 and being the 4th generation of my family to live there I would never return to live it is just too expensive and crowded.
Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 05:46 PM
MrSlayer (22,143 posts)
12. If the lumber is already cut, it's kind of late to complain.
If the trees have already been cut down wouldn't it be even worse not to make use of them? The time to complain was before the lumber was cut. Seems kind of pointless to do it now.
Response to MrSlayer (Reply #12)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 06:35 PM
yellowcanine (31,098 posts)
13. No because buying it creates more demand.
And if the suppliers realize it creates too much controversy they may decide not to import any more of it to avoid damage to the sales of their other products.
Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 06:40 PM
freshwest (53,661 posts)
14. Why not use stone? Isn't the problem beach erosion? Build a seawall, maybe?
Having never seen what they had before, but if the aesthetics are not an issue with how people enjoy the beach, but it's been done well before in other areas. And will outlast hurricanes and allow homes and business to survive storms. No wood involved, and extremely durable. Don't know if it would affect wetland protection, just don't know what the geography is.
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Tue Feb 26, 2013, 06:42 PM
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By Tom Taulli, IPO Playbook
Any company that has "radio" in its name is a dinosaur. And this certainly applies to RadioShack (NYSE:RSH). It's a good bet the stock will not live beyond 2013.
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A day after 12 Navy Yard workers were killed in a shooting rampage, shock and sadness began to give way to anger and recrimination. How on earth could a former Navy reservist with a history of bad behavior, arrests and gun infractions legally arm himself and legally enter a military facility?
Scrutiny is critical to determine what role human or system failure may have played in Monday's killing spree by Aaron Alexis, the 34-year-old military contractor killed in a shootout with police.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's security review of U.S. military bases is prudent. Evaluating the efficacy of security clearances for federal employees and contractors is wise. The claim by Mr. Alexis' employer that he wouldn't have hired Mr. Alexis if he had known about his past indicts a process already called into question when National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden used his top-security classification to steal sensitive government information.
Above all, Monday's shooting should give urgency to efforts to enact more rational gun laws. No, we don't yet know, as the investigation proceeds, what might have slowed or stopped Mr. Alexis. And, no, no law or reform could prevent every mass killing. But sensible protections would make it more difficult for the wrong people to get guns and for the wrong guns which serve no law-abiding or sporting purpose to be so readily available.
Mr. Alexis was a troubled person who had several run-ins with the law but was allowed to purchase a gun because he was never convicted of a felony, and his mental issues didn't disqualify him under restrictions imposed by a 1968 federal law. Only if he had been adjudicated to be mentally defective or had been involuntarily committed would he have been prohibited from purchasing a gun.
Mental health has figured in other recent mass shootings: Jared Lee Loughner in a Tucson parking lot in 2011 and James Eagan Holmes in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater to name two. But there is no mechanism in place that allows considered or expert judgment of who should be barred from owning a weapon. Someone who had been involuntarily committed and successfully treated may be a better candidate for gun ownership than someone under treatment from a psychiatrist who sees a danger. But the law doesn't permit such distinctions.
In the aftermath of the mass shooting that unsettled America the slaughter of 20 Connecticut schoolchildren the solution offered by the National Rifle Association was to place armed guards in every school. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," said Wayne LaPierre, the group's chief executive. There were plenty of good guys at the Navy Yard Monday morning, many of them with guns.
All of us at risk because of gun-rights zealotry, deserve leaders with the guts to trade in the NRA's nonsense for some common sense.


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descriptive than prescriptive. But if you don't give yourself a target (even if based on incomplete information), then it's difficult to know whether you're making any progress.
Make sure to re-balance regularly as your financial goals change over time. In our case, as Core programs become more efficient and generate more profits that we can reinvest in other segments, we increase the weights in other segments—enabling us to develop a pipeline of future Core programs.
Step 3: Categorize Programs and Projects into Segments
Categorizing programs and projects into the appropriate segment is the most difficult part of the process because the boundaries can be fuzzy. For example, there's a gray area when adapting an existing technology for a new market—is it new or existing technology? While it's important to have clear definitions, you also have to make judgment calls based on the intent behind the return/risk categorizations.
Since the asset classes or segments correspond to varying degrees of technical, market, and execution risk, you want to define "existing" relative to your company. PARC defined:
- Existing technology as one where we have a prototype suitable for engagement with commercial customers—otherwise, it's still considered new technology;
- Existing market as one where we have at least one commercial reference client (which greatly increases the probability of future commercial success)—otherwise, it's a new market for us, even if the market is already out there.
Step 4: Evaluate Programs and Projects Within Each Segment
The goal of evaluating and ranking programs and projects is to provide insightful data to foster productive management discussion—NOT to do management by spreadsheet.
To promote the intended behavior and avoid unintended consequences from gaming the system, each company will need to think carefully about the specific factors, weights, and definitions used for scoring. You also don't want to make the process of scoring programs and projects too cumbersome if you don't have teams of analysts and instead require your line managers to do the scoring.
For us, I created a two-part scoring system with a weighted return score that is then discounted by a risk score. We used ranges of values to normalize all scores between 0 and 3, instead of asking for absolute values. I suggest you do the same, because in any model, a critical mistake is to get a false sense of precision from data calculated from assumptions.
Return factors. After considering many different factors, I ended up with: 1) Projected profit with five-year outlook, 2) Time to revenue, 3) Value of IP, and 4) Business model. Additional factors could be profit margin and alignment with strategy.
Risk factors. To reduce scoring variance, I developed a questionnaire for each type of risk and based on the responses, calculated a score between 0 and 1 for each, corresponding roughly to its probability of success (so a 0.9 technical risk score means 90 percent probability of the project achieving its technical goals):
- Technical risk focused on our ability to achieve the technical breakthroughs or maturity level that was necessary for commercialization.
- Market risk focused on size and growth characteristics of the market, PARC's degree of competitive advantage, and whether we had just one-shot or multiple opportunities.
- Execution risk focused on our understanding of the market, value chain, and partner landscape, and whether we had gotten market validation yet.
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Well... here's where it gets tricky, yes?
You can't burden yourself with her decision to get treatment or not. If you were a baker and a client came in asking for cherry pie - you could offer her a cherry pie, or suggest she really strongly consider the apple pie because you know it would be better for her. But your client has the offer to take either pie, a chocolate cake, or no pies whatsoever.
I realize that in the field of mental health, we are involved with human suffering - and we are helpful people who want the best for our clients. Unless your client is hurting herself or others - or actively violating the rights of others - or is incompetent - you have no recourse but to offer your services and hope she will accept.
I know that this is TERRIFICALLY frustrating - but that's part of what we do... recognize a problem, offer a solution, and then our clients to make their own decisions about how to proceed.
Now, one option you might consider is to say something along the lines of, "I appreciate that you have some very important concerns... but really the only way to address them is with a face-to-face professional. If you were experiencing chest pains, you wouldn't seek help online - you would go to an emergency room to determine if it was a heart attack, appendicitis, or a bad roast beef sandwich, right? Well, the only way to better understand your important concerns is through a face-to-face meeting with a professional..." and then proceed to give her a list of local providers and/or hospitals.
Then... you have to let her make her own choices.
I'm sorry I can't be of more help... or that you can't with your particular client! It's often the nature of the beast, yes?
Best of luck to you - and thanks for writing!


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The series of exhibitions in cooperation with the Hellenic American College (HAEC) and the "Photography Circle" continues with the photo exhibition of Lia Zanni and Michael Politopoulos...
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Group photo exhibition showcasing the creative identity of 65 photographers, members of the "Photography Circle", through their mini portfolios…
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Athens during the 1960s
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During strong economic times, professional service firms often
develop a sense of teamwork and a mission that obscures many of a firm's legal
responsibilities to its employees. When the pace of business diminishes,
however, employees sometimes refocus on their working conditions, opportunities
for advancement, and issues that affect an employee on a personal level.
One of the areas of growing risk for construction-related
professional service firms is claims of inequality in pay, status, and
stability that are based on charges of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is
defined as "any unwelcome sexual conduct that is a term or condition of
employment or that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work
environment." The legal basis of this is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of
1964, which imposes a duty on employers to maintain a workplace free from
discriminatory ridicule and insult. Sexual harassment claims based on alleged
actions by coworkers and supervisors have become common.
United States Supreme Court decisions have made employers subject
to vicarious liability for unlawful harassment of employees by supervisors. The
court holds that an employer is always liable for a supervisor's harassment if
it culminates in a tangible employment action. With quid pro quo sexual
harassment—when submission to sexual conduct is explicitly or implicitly a term
or condition of an individual's employment—employers are strictly liable for
the unlawful conduct.
Any employment action qualifies as "tangible" if it results in a
significant change in employment status. An individual qualifies as an
employee's supervisor if: the individual has authority to undertake or
recommend tangible employment decisions affecting the employee or has authority
to direct the employee's daily work activities. The question of liability
arises only after there is a determination that unlawful harassment occurred.
Employer liability also exists in "hostile work environment"
cases. If the plaintiff shows that he or she belongs to a protected class, was
subject to unwelcome sexual harassment based on the plaintiff's sex that was so
severe and pervasive that it altered the employment conditions, and that the
employer knew or should have known of the harassment and failed to take proper
remedial action, the employer will be held liable. Federal law does not
prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments or isolated incidents that are not
"extremely serious." Instead, the conduct must be "so objectively offensive as
to alter the 'conditions' of the victim's employment."
The employer may avoid liability or limit damages by showing that
it exercised reasonable care to prevent and promptly correct harassing
behavior. To adequately prevent sexual harassment, a firm should have an
effective training program that educates employees about their rights and the
employer's commitment to a harassment-free working environment. The firm can
escape liability if the employee unreasonably failed to take advantage of any
preventive or corrective opportunities provided by the firm.
In order to prevent and correct harassment, firms should implement
a written enforcement procedure that encourages employees to report harassment
to management before it becomes severe or pervasive. Moreover, the employer
should assure employees that it will protect the confidentiality of harassment
complaints to the highest extent possible. This policy should state that the
employer will not tolerate retaliation against anyone who complains of
harassment or who participates in an investigation. Smaller businesses may be
able to discharge their responsibilities through a less formal exchange. If an
employer maintains regular contact with all employees, this complaint procedure
information can be verbally disseminated at staff meetings.
Happenings on the Hill
small-business owners may soon face a multitude of new employee health plan
requirements. Until a health insurance exchange program is available to
employers in 2014, many small firms are counting on the "grandfathering" of
their current health plans to maintain their existing health care coverage.
NSPE believes that the grandfathering rules referred to in Docket
OCIIO-991-IFC, titled The Interim Final Rules for Group Health Plans and Health
Insurance Coverage Relating to Status as a Grandfathered Health Plan Under the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, are too restrictive.
Under the rules, a grandfathered plan cannot:
Significantly increase
co-payments, deductibles, or out-of-pocket limits;
Raise coinsurance;
Make annual limits
more restrictive or add new annual limits;
Significantly decrease
the share of premiums that employers contribute for their workers in group
plans; or
Eliminate covered
annual cost of health care is on the rise, however, and firms cannot always
control their health plan costs. In order to maintain health insurance for
employees, employers often need to work with their insurance carriers to adjust
co-pays and cost-sharing so that they can continue to afford coverage. If
grandfather status is revoked, the burden on some firms may force them to
cancel employee health insurance.
there are limited credits available for small businesses to help offset the
cost of providing insurance, the credits dwindle if a firm has more than 10
employees and are completely phased out if the firm has 25 or more employees.
The credits are also phased out for employers with even modest-sized
compensation packages.
recommends that until the health insurance exchange program is implemented in
2014, small and medium-sized firms be permitted to make cost-saving changes to
co-payments and cost-sharing and to change insurance carriers, as long as they
do not reduce the per-employee amount they pay for insurance. This would allow
the firms to maintain health plans for employees without placing undue
financial strain on the firms.
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Company Earns Prestigious Award for Mentoring Culture and In-House University
R. Green Co. was recently awarded the Professional Development Award by the
National Society of Professional Engineers' Professional Engineers in Private
Practice. The award was officially presented during NSPE's annual conference
July 15–18, 2010, in Orlando.
PEPP Professional Development Award is presented to employers that exhibit
exceptional career development initiatives and have made outstanding
contributions to the advancement and improvement of the engineering profession
through its employment policies and practices. The purpose of the award is to
recognize those firms with the best engineering employment practices, and to
encourage all firms to adopt progressive policies and practices.
R. Green Co., an engineering and architectural firm based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
enhances their business through the development of progressive people programs.
These programs include its in-house Green
University curriculum,
formal mentoring programs, and active career development planning processes.
The internal training program, Green
University, has a number
of specialized curricula designed to provide job-specific and technical
knowledge that enhances the ability of its employees to better perform their
jobs and expand personal expertise. A broad array of courses in four
educational tracks—interpersonal skills, project management, business
development, and technical curricula—are offered, along with a particular focus
on developing future and emerging leadership within the firm. Some 1,450 hours
of training were delivered to staff last year by in-house experts.
in 1913, Howard R. Green Co. is a professional services firm with nearly 400
employees offering planning, engineering, transportation, community resources,
water/wastewater, construction, environmental, buildings, technology, and renewable
energy services to clients in diverse markets. The firm operates 13 offices
located in six states and moved up more than 150 places to 205 on the 2010
edition of ENR's Top 500 Design Firms.
selection for the national award is made by the PEPP Awards Committee on the
basis of both current and longtime reputation of the organizations under
consideration, with particular emphasis on the preceding twelve months.
Criteria for the judging of the award includes engineering personnel/licensure
information, recruitment, employment, professional development, and special
employment practices. Nominations for the award must be originated by local
chapters or practice divisions of an NSPE-affiliated state society and are due
by March 1.
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contact Kim Granados at email@example.com or visit the Web site at http://www.nspe.org.
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Lafayette, LA
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