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Many in the Palm Beach County Jewish community are applauding President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the U.S. embassy there, but some leaders are concerned about looming violence.
Rabbi Moshe Scheiner of the Palm Beach Synagogue said this decision should have been made 50 years ago after the battles of the 1960s and 1970s.
"I think it's symbolic but it's important because it shapes public opinion and it allows people to see Israel as a free, democratic and sovereign country with defined borders," Scheiner said.
Announcing the decision in a White House speech Wednesday afternoon, Trump said that the old approach of having the embassy in Tel Aviv has not led to long-lasting peace between Israel and Palestine. The Palestinians seek East Jerusalem, which Israel captured in 1967, for their capital.
In 1995, Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which said the embassy would be moved to Jerusalem before the turn of the century, but past presidents have delayed the move.
"After more than two decades of waivers, we are no closer to a lasting peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians," Trump said in his speech. "It would be folly to assume that repeating the exact same formula would now produce a different or better result."
Trump said the United States is not taking a position on the border dispute between Israel and Palestine, and they are still committed to working out a peace agreement that works for both.
But some think Wednesday's decision could cause violence and uprising in the region.
Rabbi calls it a 'provocative act'
Rabbi David Sislen of the conservative Temple B'nai Jacob in Wellington said while some in his congregation would be excited by Trump's announcement, others "would feel that the status quo is perfectly fine."
"Jerusalem has been the de-facto capital of Israel for generations in everything but name only," he said.
But Sislen said he believes Trump's announcement could cause great damage to the already-tenuous ongoing peace process and make things more dangerous for "the people on the ground, the ones who actually live there and have some skin in this game."
He went on to say that "both sides are not going to take too well to a third party trying to make policy and ideology decisions.
"I think that at this time such a provocative act, which really makes no difference in practicality, is fairly ill-advised," he said.
Until now, Sislen noted, recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel always has been seen as one of the final steps in mediating the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. "It's putting the cart before the horse," he said. "But it's putting an awfully dangerous cart before an awfully dangerous horse."
Rabbi David Siff at Temple Torat Emet in suburban Boynton Beach is concerned for the people of Israel because of the possibility of violence.
"On the one hand it's great to see our president supporting the state of Israel and those of us who are connected to Israel know that it's obvious Jerusalem is its capital and it's silly to say it's not," he said. "On the other hand, there's a lot of concern whether it will accomplish any positive, practical results and whether it will result in violence on the part of the Palestinian reaction without really having any tactical advantage."
Siff, however, is not concerned about the safety of his own synagogue. He said he is comfortable with the measures that they already have in place, such as a guard and locked doors.
Palestinian questions U.S. role in region
Palestinian leaders think Trump's decision will hurt the peace efforts and remove the United States as a mediator in the region.
"This would mean they decided, on their own, to distance themselves from efforts to make peace," Majdi Khaldi, a diplomatic advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Husam Zomlot, the Palestinians' chief delegate to Washington, added that the announcement is a "stab in the back."
But Rabbi Leibel Stolik of Chabad of South Palm Beach said he doesn't understand why anyone would refute that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel.
"What's hurtful is the fact that some people refuse to recognize it," Stolik said. "On what basis are you denying it?"
Scheiner, of the Palm Beach Synagogue, added that the threat of backlash shouldn't be enough to derail the decision, which Congress overwhelmingly and bi-partisanly passed in the mid-1990s.
"We don't believe in cowering or being intimidated by fear and anti-Semitism and terrorism," Scheiner said.
Local lawmakers react to the decision
Rep. Lois Frankel, (D-West Palm Beach), who is Jewish, supported the decision.
She called the announcement "consistent with current U.S. law and reaffirms what we already know: Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people and the State of Israel."
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, in Israel on a trade mission, praised Trump's announcement.
"This is a great day," Scott said on a posted video with his wife Ann Scott at the Western Wall. "I stand with Israel, I stand with all the citizens of Israel. The state of Florida stands with all the citizens of Israel."
Also praising the decision was Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Palm City.
Even U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, an ardent Trump critic, voiced cautious approval.
In a joint statement with Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, Deutch said of the decision "There is no debate that the Jewish people have a deep-rooted religious, cultural and historic ties to Jerusalem, and today's decision reaffirms that connection."
U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Delray Beach, was critical.
"I believe that Jerusalem is and should remain the undivided capital of Israel. To deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem would be to deny world history. That being said, the manner in which the Trump administration has announced its recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is of great concern," Hastings said.
Rabbi credits Trump for welcoming Jews to Mar-a-Lago
Locally, Trump's Mar-a-Lago has also been known as one of the more Jewish-friendly clubs on Palm Beach, Scheiner said. In 2006, Trump wanted to expand the club to make room for a kosher kitchen — a request he later dropped after backlash about the size of the project.
But Scheiner said he has been involved with several completely kosher weddings and has shown Trump the setup.
"He was thrilled. He was just beaming," Scheiner said, later adding, "He has been welcoming to Jews in his club, and he deserves credit for that."
The looming threat of violence means it's not yet time to rejoice, and the members of the Palm Beach Synagogue said an extra prayer for peace Wednesday morning.
"This morning at our daily services, we said extra prayers for peace and calm, and safety and security," he said. "We are concerned of what the response may be because we are fully aware of the dangers and the threats."


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So it's not often I meet people that truly stand out from the bunch, but Sheena is certainly one of those people. I had some time to spend with her on Sunday and had such a great time with her and my best friend Dee. We had what turned out to be a Sunday Funday but got to talk biz along the way. Sheena is a young entrepreneur who is an extremely talented photographer, blogger, and dancer just to name a few. It was great spending time with someone who truly knows what they want in life and is going after it. So take a moment of your day and check out her site. You won't be sorry, and her content is sure to enrich your life!
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By Mindy Sterba, Parenteeng Survivor
It's been one of those love/hate weeks as far as the medical profession goes.
Just FYI, Glam Clooney has been in the hospital hacking up her lungs due to COPD which stands for Chronic Old Person's Disease. It's actually a breathing disorder, but it affects a lot of people her age.
Glam is thirty years older than me so I've grown accustom to the doctors diagnosing her with stuff and attributing it to her being "no Spring chicken". She is prone to the illnesses that many seniors have to begin to deal with. Parts of her are just giving out.
It is sad.
Something that is even sadder is that recently I've been to see a few specialists concerning some back and joint pain and was taken aback when the doctor told me "…after all, you're not getting any younger".
Who did he think he was talking to? My mother? I may not be on the fair side of twenty-five anymore, but I'm still much too young to be diagnosed with things that "are to be expected as we grow older".
I was in his office this morning and the doctor held up a model of a spine. He took out a ballpoint pen and began running it along an area at the base. "I'm scheduling a procedure at the surgery center. We're going to work on this area here. If that doesn't work, we'll then try this area here. If that doesn't work we'll have to look at some other approach."
"Like what?"
"That's hard to say. This area here shows quite a lot of deterioration. That's…."
"I know, I know, " I was finishing his sentence. "It's because I'm getting older and this sort of thing is to be expected!!" I really hated hearing those words!!
"Well…no…actually. You have an excessive amount of deterioration that shouldn't be happening. Not at your age."
I just looked at him.
I really wished he'd told me it was because I'm 'no Spring chicken'. Funny how I'd never considered the alternative to that phrase.
Not to worry, the condition seems to be treatable, so I'll go in and get sedated and injected with mystery meds.
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Lesson/Theme: The Bible story of David and Goliath
Bible Verse: 1 Samuel 16:17
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Original Air Date: October 29,1988
Last Air Date: March 04,2019
Connie tries out Whit's new invention – the Environment Enhancer – and witnesses an encounter between a young man named David and the giant Goliath.
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Curriculum Workshop Music Theater Room, 126 Cogswell Hall 4:00–6:00 p.m. In-service workshop for IUP faculty members. Festival participants are welcome. Light refreshments are included.
"An Entrepreneurial Ethos for Training Musicians in the 21st Century" Judith Coe, Singer/songwriter, composer/educator, and commercial music industry specialist, University of Colorado Denver Featured resident artist for IUP's Festival of Women Composers
Dr. Judith Coe, founding director of the Commercial Voice program at the University of Colorado Denver, leads music industry and technology programs at the University of Colorado Denver and is recognized as a national commercial music curriculum specialist. Her workshop will present an ethos that emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurial thinking in the training of 21st-century musicians. Discussion will focus on possibilities for our traditional university programs to re-envision pedagogy in order to address industry realities and the confluence of current musical styles with commercial media needs. Discussion will focus on employment possibilities in the music industry for our graduates, honoring tradition and finding creative ways to interface with pop music performance practices, and a hybrid design for training 21st-century musicians. Dr. Coe will offer several curricular models aimed at targeting these music and entertainment industry mandates in the academic environment.
Faculty Lounge, 104 Cogswell Hall 9:00–9:30 a.m. Refreshments and Welcome Susan Wheatley and the Festival Committee
Music Theater Room, 126 Cogswell Hall
Gorell Recital Hall, Sutton Hall
12:30–1:45 p.m. Lunch Oak Room, Foster Dining Hall A Woman Called Truth, honoring the life of Sojourner TruthPatricia Holmes, sponsored by the Indiana Branch of AAUW Special WelcomeLingyan Yang, Women's Studies Director, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Gorell Recital Hall, Sutton Hall
Gorell Recital Hall 3:30–4:30 p.m. Lecture/Demonstration "Blasket Island Songbook — A Documentary Film and Album Project about Home, Place, and Identity in Ireland" Judith Coe, Composer, Singer/Songwriter, Film Producer University of Colorado Denver Stephanie Caulder, presider
5:30–7:30 p.m. Dinner On your own
Gorell Recital Hall 8:00 p.m. "Love Songs and New Directions by Women Singers and Composers" Introduction by Stephanie Caulder, Department of Music Chairperson
1:20–2:20 p.m. Lunch Oak Room, Foster Dining Hall
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Festival Banquet ($35) Blue Room in Sutton Hall
Gorell Recital Hall 7:00 p.m. Women's Voices in Australia and in the United States: A Performance with Commentary Donna Coleman, American-Australian pianist, and Artist-in-Residence, The University of Melbourne Henry Wong Doe, presider Program
Donna Coleman showcases the diversity of musical languages engaged by women living in Australia and in the United States of America in the last 120 years. Beginning with Amy Cheney's (USA) evocative Dreaming from 1892, the program introduces works by Australians Ann Ghandar, Helen Gifford, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Esther Rofe, Jane Stanley, and Margaret Sutherland, and concludes with Kentucky-born Laura Clayton's (USA) Chopin-inspired Passaggio. The influence of the British tradition in Australia manifests in the modal tonality of Sutherland's Second Suite and Glanville-Hicks's Prelude for a Pensive Pupil, in the Vaughn-Williams inspired lushness of Rofe's The Island, while serial techniques infuse the music of Ghandar, Gifford, and Stanley.
Fisher Performing Arts Center 8:00 p.m. Pittsburgh Symphony Pops: "A Broadway Valentine" Featuring Broadway stars Christiane Noll and Hugh Panaro, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Pops Orchestra
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Gorell Recital Hall 8:00 p.m. "Songs of Love by Women Songwriters"Judith Coe, Singer/Songwriter-in-Residence, University of Colorado Denver With AppalAsia, Susan Powers, Jeff Berman, and Mimi Jong, Pittsburgh Ensemble Alex Price, guitar; Nick Adams, bass; Dakota Kaylor, drums; Drew Bayura, Mariana Gonzales, Meather Heuft, Tyrone Lackey, and Jonathan Walker-VanKuren, back-up singers – Indiana University of Pennsylvania Music and Interdisciplinary Fine Arts majors
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Nanoscale Materials, Devices, and Circuits
Nanotechnology, the study of novel materials, devices and phenomena at the sub-100-nm scales, offers great opportunities for innovations in engineering and science. At such length scales, conventional theories in electrical engineering face challenges not only from device size reduction, but also from quantum mechanics confinement, interfacial phenomena in nano-devices, and emerging properties of nanomaterials.
The ECE Department at UCR features a diverse group of faculty that conducts innovative research in Nanoscale Materials, Devices, and Circuits. Nanoscale materials studied in this department are plentiful, including (but not limited to) low-dimensional materials, functional oxides, DNA-based nanostructures, functional interfacial materials, and artificial optical materials. A broad range of electric, magnetic and optical nano-devices and circuits are studied, covering both leading-edge theories and experiments.


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Monday, September 04, 2006
In preparation for the upcoming academic quarter, aside from burying my head in Derrida, Wittgenstein, and Chomsky, I watched a fascinating documentary series, part of which I plan to use in class, called How Art Made the World.
From the prehistoric cave drawings found in Altamira to the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Africans, Mesopotamians, Australian Aborigines and beyond, it attempts to trace the history of art back to its antecedent, to uncover the origins and possible motives behind why such a thing was ever invented in the first place. Cambridge art historian and lecturer Dr. Nigel Spivey hosts, which brings me to my only real criticism, however minor it may be: he tries too hard to make his voice sound like David Attenborough's, and at times it becomes rather unnerving to listen to him speak. But aside from nitpicking, each episode is packed with juicy tidbits of knowledge.
"The essential premise of the show," says Dr. Spivey, "is that of all the defining characteristics of humanity as a species, none is more basic than the inclination to make art. Great apes will smear paint on canvas if they are given brushes and shown how, but they do not instinctively produce art any more than parrots produce conversation. We humans are alone in developing the capacity for symbolic imagery."


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Compact fluorescent lights are a great way to help save the environment and take our country just that much closer to sustainability, economizing the monthly light bill.
The same amount of light intensity is available with compact fluorescent lights of 15 watts as with regular mercury bulbs of 60 watts and CFLs have a life expectancy of around 12,000 hours, 15-20 times longer than our traditional incandescent bulbs.
Traditional bulbs contain mercury and while they themselves do not emit carbon dioxide, the fossil fuel powered energy plants and hydroelectric dams that we currently use to produce power are not sustainable with current growth in energy use.
Our society ends up burning a lot of fossil fuel just to keep those traditional incandescent lights glowing, a lot more than we would like to imagine
With the example of the 15 watt CFL glowing 12,000 hours from above that comes to a total of 564kWh; one third of a ton of carbon emissions saved by one single compact florescent light bulb throughout its lifetime compared to if it were a traditional incandescent light bulb of 60 watts.
It would be impossible to simply tell American consumers that compact fluorescent lights are better for our ecosystem, but if everyone in the US just up and started using them, the current supply of grid power would (at current energy consumption growth rates) be enough for the next twenty years.
If American consumers decided that what would really be good for our country is self-reliance and being independent from other countries as a member of a responsible global community; the growing area of alternative energy sources such as solar, wind and biofuels could potentially free us from the mangles of the current fossil fuel economy, within a few decades.
Using a compact fluorescent light today, for three hours a day throughout its life expectancy of eleven years, will save a total of 50U$ (4.63U$ yr).
The more electricity prices rise, the more will be saved and even though they have not been so trustworthy in the past, CFL technology improves every year and are already much better today.
Since compact fluorescent lights come with such a savings, its already a profitable idea to start replacing traditional incandescent light bulbs!
In some compact fluorescent lights, it is possible to release as much as 2mg of mercury into the atmosphere the minute they break in the trash, so recycling them is considered an ecologically responsible action, even though not yet law.
Compact Fluorescent Lights without mercury do exist and still offer the same savings on electricity.
A non-governmental organization called The Forest Foundation for example sells mercury-free compact fluorescent lights as a fund-raiser (15 and 25 watts) and they are just as good as incandescent bulbs of 60 and 100 watts.
Compact fluorescent lights are one more example of options that could lead our country to a more sustainable world, if only we choose to make the effort to change.
Compact Fluorescent Lights are a great way to meet the needs of our now while looking ahead 20 years in the future.
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Here is another great under $100 outfit! Date night is a big one….you ALWAYS want to look nice regardless if you are going on a first date or a night out with your S.O. of many years. I love when hubby and I have a planned date night. It feels like when we were first dating and you get those butterflies of excitement. Picking out something to wear can be super exciting and stressful at the same time. It depends on where you are going so your outfit can vary big time! I'm going to share some of my favorite date night looks for several occasions starting with the classic—> dinner with your love!
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Baked apples with granola and French whipped cream or raisins with yogurt.
Omelet with tomatoes, green onion, cheeses, sour cream, and avocado plus delicate spices.
Strawberry banana hotcakes topped with real maple syrup.
Fresh orange-juice, early strong coffee, black or herbal teas, hot chocolate with whipped cream.
Sliced fruit of the season, plus edible flowers.
Local pears poached in apple cider.
Our special Howard Creek French Toast.
Fried potatoes in the old fashioned way.
Baked grapefruit with cherry brandy.
Biscuits fresh from the oven.
Fruit salad with candied blackberries and violas.
Mendocino Coast thick bacon.
Pacifica frittata with a variety of veg. and cheeses.
Ammaretto french toast.
Apple and pear tosa w/cream sauce and almonds.
Homemade pear bread and cranberry/orange muffins.
Vegetable quiche topped w/ fresh grated romano, basil and sliced tomato.


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A dominant final 15 minutes saw New Plymouth Old Boys run away with the CMK premier Taranaki club rugby title at the TET Stadium, Inglewood, on Saturday.
After a tense, even opening 65 minutes, Old Boys broke the shackles with three converted tries late in the game to swamp Coastal 29-9.
Tupou Vaa'i got things rolling for the city side when he crashed through some compact Coastal defence. Referee, Will Johnston, who was officiating his third successive final, deferred to his assistants before awarding the five pointer, which Brayden Northcott-Hill converted.
The try gave Old Boys the lead and changed the game.
Shortly after Vaa'i, the former NZ secondary school rep who has been signed by Taranaki, unleashed a barnstorming run. From the resulting ruck replacement Jayden Ford dived over.
Then with time up, Jahmarl Weir scored a brilliant 50 metre solo try, beating five defenders in the process, Old Boys had scored a magnificent 21 points to conclude its season in the most emphatic fashion.
It was terrible end to what had been a gutsy final performance, on the back of a highly profitable season, for Coastal.
Weir scored the only try in the first half, and with a penalty by Daniel Waite, Old Boys held the lead at the interval, 8-6.
The first 20 minutes of the second half was all Coastal. But its only reward was a penalty goal to the impressive Rick McKenna, to add to the two sweet strikes he had in the first half.
Coastal's pack had performed manfully, especially Tevita Fa'ukafa, but a combination of factors meant the ball did not hit the backline with the speed needed.
The experienced Brett Goodin had his own minties moment, knocking on from a quick penalty kick in front of the Old Boys' posts. And in a simplistic sense that summed up the match – Old Boys were far more lethal in taking opportunities, as the 4-0 tries count indicated.
Golden point extra time was required to finalise the division one title, after Southern and Coastal had tied 14-14. Regan Corbett scored the winner for Southern, enabling them to win 19-14.
In the other grades, Spotswood United defeated Old Boys 39-20 in the colts finale, Inglewood pipped Coastal 20-17 (division two), Stratford-Eltham beat Toko 24-10 (division three), Spotswood United triumphed 25-17 over Southern (Under 13 restricted A) and Tukapa took the Under 13 restricted B crown 41-29 from Stratford.
Author: GRANT HASSALL
Image: GRANT MATTHEW/STUFF
Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/105499341/New-Plymouth-Old-Boys-claim-premier-title-in-club-rugby
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Exhibit Technology Rising to New Levels
Walking into an exhibit hall today is nowhere near the experience it was just five years ago. For those of us who are involved in any aspect of tradeshows and exhibits, we've witnessed the transformation firsthand. Static, pop-up tradeshow booths with brochure holders and fishbowls for business cards are in the past. When we walk into an exhibition hall today, the technology and stimulation is staggering.
Large screen LED and monitors, projection, 3D mapping, interactive touchscreens, kinetic motion, and the popular 4K resolution displays, just to name a few, have taken over. Not only are the visual aspects vivid and eye-catching, but also today's technology allows us to create any shape and/or object to portray the image we want and increase booth traffic through the show.
Importance of Exhibit Technology
Although the tradeshow environment has visually and interactively changed, one goal remains the same – develop new business opportunities. We've just discovered better methods to accomplish our goal. Digital booths allow exhibitors to easily customize a variety of content mediums, using eye catching displays and creating an interactive experience.
Developing new business opportunities at a tradeshow is based on three key factors, and the technology available to us takes us closer to achieving our goal:
- Maximizing Exposure
- Creating Memorable Experiences
- Generating Leads
Maximizing Exposure
Exhibiting at a tradeshow is live advertising, but we only get one chance to get the audiences' attention (there are not multiple editions with our ads coming out). Exhibitors are creating three-dimensional, multimedia displays and taking advantage of the flexibility to create designs, elements, shapes, and more using LED, 3D projection mapping and seamless tiles to present their company's message. This is the first step in getting the attendees' attention.
Creating Memorable Experiences
We've gotten the attendees attention – now how do we entice them into our space? While it used to be the highest trafficked booth was the company offering the best drawing – today, it's all about the experience we're offering. Exhibitors are becoming more creative in developing interactive experiences to draw in attendees and it's working. For example, attendees may be able to create their own music video, play spin to win using kinetic technology, or a touchscreen trivia game. We've learned it's worth the chunk of our tradeshow budget to create an engaging experience, because it also breaks the ice and encourages conversation. We get the opportunity to share more about our company while learning more about potential opportunities.
Generating Leads
Do you remember the fishbowls of business cards and paper brochures mentioned earlier? While the physical aspects of collecting leads and handing out collateral are gone, the concept is still relevant – now, it's integrated within our interactive experiences. Attendees are still sharing contact information but they are entering it through custom gaming apps, interactive touchscreen displays, or even using RFID or NFC technology to capture contact information and generate custom content for each attendee. These types of technology allow us to capture the information we want and follow up after the show according to the attendee's specific interest. Lead collection and data is the single most important part of a company's exhibit…all the pizzazz is how we capture information.
Executing Full Production Exhibits
Before technology took over, we used to go to one, maybe two, vendors to create a booth – the exhibit house and maybe a contract graphic designer. Today, we have the exhibit house, audio visual provider, content creator, and app designer and developer, at the very least. One of the most common mistakes we make is not bringing in all of our providers at the onset of the project, as they will need to work together to seamlessly integrate all aspects of our exhibit. The results of not bringing our vendor partners together often create unnecessary and costly obstacles, and we may not get the results we want.
That said, our AV solutions provider has become critical when it comes to executing our vision on the tradeshow floor. Before designing a booth, it's important to consult with our AV engineers and specialists to discuss our vision, goal, and the overall theme. Working with a first-rate, experienced company gives us the opportunity to learn about technology or techniques we weren't aware of to make a bigger impact on the floor.
Once the technology has been discussed, it's time to get everyone together. Begin the design and build of a structure to support the video and multimedia displays, audio, equipment and interactive gaming components. Working with the right AV provider, they will take on the project management with the various vendors to ensure all needs are met and our exhibit is executed as planned.
Using Exhibit Technology for Success
Exhibit technology helps business owners and marketers meet their objectives on the show floor – drive booth traffic, create a memorable brand experience, and increase lead generation. More and more exhibitors continue to take their tradeshow presence to the next level, creating a domino effect on the show floor. By taking advantage of the technology available today, exhibitors can better engage visitors by customizing the content to the audience. In every day life, the technology we use is personal, interactive, and fulfills a need. The technology in an exhibit should behave in the same manner to resonate with the audience to capture and keep their attention.
A Partner You Can Trust
It's important to collaborate with a partner who helps you understand the technology available to you and how it can be incorporated to effectively accomplish the goal of your event. OSA International, Inc., has been instrumental in the digital transformation of all types of events, including custom exhibits at tradeshows. OSA's video team is recognized in the event and entertainment industry for their expertise and flawless execution of custom video and multimedia displays – a partner you can trust.
Learn more about OSA International, Inc.


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The president's former counter-terrorism coordinator claims President Bush
ignored signs of a threat from al-Qaida prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks
on the United States. Richard Clarke alleges Mr. Bush was fixated instead on
The president denies that was the case. He says he got daily briefings on
the terrorist threat from Central Intelligence Agency chief George Tenet in
the days leading up to the attacks.
"Had my administration had any information that terrorists were going to
attack New York City on September 11, we would have acted," he said.
Speaking to reporters at the end of a meeting with his cabinet, President
Bush detailed action the United States has taken against al-Qaida in the aftermath
of the attacks, from the deployment of U.S. troops to Afghanistan, to the international
campaign to cut the flow of money to terrorist organizations.
"We have got intelligence officers all over the world collecting information
so that we can act," he said. "We have got a strong network of cooperative
governments trying to chase down terrorist money and to prevent that money
from being spread around to cause harm."
They were his first public comments on the allegations contained in Richard
Clarke's new book on the war on terrorism. And they struck a distinctively
different tone from the verbal assault on Mr. Clarke's credibility unleashed
Monday by administration officials.
The president referred only to the allegations themselves, while the earlier
White House criticism sought to call Richard Clarke's motives into question.
Spokesman Scott McClellan described the allegations as irresponsible and flat-out
wrong. He joined others, including Vice President Dick Cheney, in noting the
timing of the book, charging it is being published now for political reasons
in the midst of a heated presidential campaign.
Mr. Clarke has denied any political motives. He has said that after devoting
30 years of his life to public service, he thought it was his duty to get the
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16th JUNE 1872
extracted and adapted from the reported by
W. Yolland Colonel
On the 16th June, 1872, an accident occurred to an excursion train of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, returning from Hastings on the 16th June on the South Eastern Railway near London Bridge station, on which occasion 61 passengers are returned as having been injured; but the General Manager of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company (Mr. Knight) has informed me, that with a few exceptions, the injuries were not worse than bruises and shakes, more or less severe.
The trains of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company travel for some distance over the lines of the South Eastern Railway Company, on their approach to their terminus at London Bridge. At No.4 signal box, which is distant about 610 yards from the north end of the Brighton platform, up trains are turned off the up main line of the South Easter Railway, commonly called the up Dover road, on to the up Croydon, otherwise the up local line, by means of a pair of facing points worked by a signalman placed in the elevated signal box No.4. The points are immediately below the box, and the signals are placed about 74 yards to the east of the signal box. The points and signals are interlocked according to Jefferies' patent, but there is no locking bar of any kind to prevent the points from being moved by mistake or inadvertently, while the train is passing over them, if the signal which has been lowered to caution for the passage of a train be again placed at danger.
I appears from the evidence that as the returning or up excursion train from Hastings, which consisted of an engine and tender, and 18 carriages including breaks with two guards, was approaching the London Bridge terminal station of the London, Bridge, and South Coast Railway, the driver found that the signals exhibited from No.4 signal box were off for him to proceed on the up Croydon line; that he had whistled for the signals as he passed Spa Road staton, which is some distance to the east of No.4 signal box; and after he had whistled, the signal at the A.B. signal box which is about 285 yards nearer to London Bridge station than No.4 signal box, were also turned off, as other signals line side of A.B. box, and thus the signals were all off for him to run into the London Bridge station. He stated that he was running about eight miles an hour, the usual speed as he passed No. 4 signal box; that the steam was off as he passed through the facing points, and after he has passed through them he put it on again, about mid way between No.4 and A.B. signal box; that he felt nothin unusual as he passed through the facing points, no check of any kind; but that as he passed A.B. signal box he felt as if the guard had put the brake on, and that the train was running heavy; and when they had gone a little further he heard the alarum bell of the communicator ring, which is rung when there is something the matter, and then stopped as soon as he could. He says that he was not aware that anything was amiss up to that time.
He went back with the head guard, and found that the 12th carriage from the engine was off the rails to the right; that all four wheels were off, but that it remained coupled to the carriage in front of it (the 11th), he says the passengers got out there; that some one unhooked the 12th carriage, and he then took the others on into the station. Afterwards he went back to the other carriages, but not so far back on the line as the facing points at No.4 signal box; and he found the end of one of the carriages broken, and another carriage was overturned and lying on its side, and the four last carriages were on the up Dover line, and he thinks they were all coupled together.
The head guard, riding in the break next the engine, confirms the driver's statement as to the signals and the passing over the facing points, and he estimates the rate of speed at five miles an hour, or perhaps a little more, as they passed the points, and says that the first intimation which he got that anything was wrong was on hearing the engine bell ring, as the engine was abreast of A.B. signal box, when the driver called out to him, and asked if he had rung the bell.
This bell is rung by means of a communicator or chain passing through the whole length of the train from the engine to rear break, passing also through the front break, and the bell was probably rung when the chain snapped, and the train broke into parts.
When the train stopped the head guard went to A.B. signal box, and told the signalman that he had lost six carriages of his train, and that he should block the lines; he then went back to the six carriages, and in three or four minutes afterwards to the points at No.4 signal box. He found those points set for the up Dover line, and both up signals were at danger; he thinks he was the first person who got to the points, and found that the second connecting rod of the points, or that nearest to the heel of the points, was bent.
The under guard of the train, who rode in the break, the last vehicle in the train, says that the first thing that he knew of anything being amiss was a sudden check to the communicator in his van; that he heard and felt it, and heard the chain snap, and it was so loose that he could pull the chain into his break; that he had passed, at that time, over the facing points (at No.4 signal box), and was on the up Dover line; he thinks he felt this when he had passed the points 10 or 12 yards, and he applied his break directly, and stopped mot more than 12 yards from the points. He was struck by the door as he was looking out of the window and nearly stunned.
The signalman who was on duty in No.4 signal box informed me that he came on duty at 10 p.m.; that he always takes the night duty, and had done so for 21 years in No.4 signal box; that has not so much to do at night, and he has 16 hours out of the 24 to himself. He states that he set the points right for the up Croydon road, and lowered the signal for the train to proceed; that there was a boy in the box with him, standing by his side, who has to book the times when all trains pass; that he shifted the facing points and lowered the signal himself, and did not allow the boy to do it; that he was not aware of anything unusual as the train passed, and was astonished to see it come to a standstill. He says that he did not alter the signal nor shift the points as the train was passing; that the boy gave him thirst intimation that something was wrong, by saying, as he was pushing the points over, after putting the signal up, there are some carriages standing there. He said they made it a rule never to put the signal up or shift the points until they could see the tail lights on the train, and he did not touch either of the levers until the train had passed, neither did the boy; that never allowed the boy to shift the points, or to touch the signals.
The boy employed in No.4 signal box to record the times of the passing of trains and to use the telegraph speaking instrument, confirms raw signalman's statement in most respects. He states that the train passed at 10.34; that the signalman shifted the points and took off the signal, and he entered the 10.34 after the train had passed the box, and as soon as the signalman gave the in-signal to the Spa Road station; that he waited to give it till the whole of the train was passed, then he put the semaphore up, and then he shifted the points. He also said that he sometimes shifted the signal, but he touched the points, and he never shifted the signal when the signalman was in the signal box; that as soon as the signalman saw the tail lights on the up Dover road he put-up the signal, and pushed over the points; he thinks the last vehicle in therein stopped bout 20 yards from the heel of the points.
The station master of the London, Brighton, and South Coast London Bridge terminal station informed me that he got to the spot about quarter to 11 p.m. and found on carriage lying on its right side on the up Dover line, while the last carriage in the train, a second class break carriage, stood on the up Dover line nearly opposite to the crossing; that found the points open for the up Dover line, and the second connecting rod bent by pressure, not by a wheel; that he formed the opinion at once that the points had either been put over or had sprung over, between the 12th and 13th carriages in the train; and that the strain of the carriages on the up local line caused the second connecting rod to be bent.
It also appears that the 12th carriage ran for a considerable distance with the left the wheels inside the left rail of the up Croydon line, and the right rail of the up Croydon line, and that in doing so it passed over two connecting rods of two pairs of facing points, and broke them all, and also a large number of chairs.
When making the inquiry I was told that there was no appearance of any wheel having mounted at the facing points, or near them; that the first trace of anything being off the rails, as shown on the permanent way. consisted of a mark on the head of a spike, used for fastening a chain to a transverse sleeper, inside the right rail of the up Dover line, about 21 yards from the facing points at No.4 signal box, that a chair was found broken under the right rail at the same place; and that there were marks of a wheel on a sleeper close alongside of it. Fifteen yards farther on five chairs were found broken under the left rail of the up Dover line; then immediately followed 18 broken chairs under the right rail of the up Croydon line, and 14 chairs were found broken where the overturned carriage lay on its side.
Thus, in this accident, the engine and 11 carriages took and kept to the proper road for which the signal had been lowered, i.e., the up Croydon line; the 12th carriage was still attached to the 11th carriage in front of it, but all its wheels were off the rails of the up Croydon; the 13 carriage, overturned, and lying on its side on the up Dover line, with its leading end towards the up Croydon line, and detached from the 14th carriages, which had had its leading end knocked in, and which was also off the rails of the up Dover road, and separated from the carriage behind it; the 15th, 16th, 17, and 18th vehicles remained all coupled together and standing on the up Dover line. The 13th, or overturned carriage, lay on its side somewhere about 97 yards from the facing points.
This accident could, in my opinions only have been caused, 1st, by some carriage after the 11th having mounted at the facing points and got off the rails of the up Croydon line, and was followed by all the other carriages; subsequently the last four carriages must have got on to the up Dover line in a space of somewhat under 60 yards from the facing points; 2nd, or the facing points must have been shifted by the signal man while the train was passing over them.
With reference to the first supposition, I may remark, that with the exception to which I have already alluded, that the second connecting rod of the facing points was found bent, the points and permanent way adjacent to them were undisturbed and in good order. There is also a check rail on the curve to the left from the heel of the facing points inside the left rail of the up Croydon line, which would offer a great additional impediment to any vehicle travelling on that line getting off the rails; and there is nothing in the present state or condition of the three carriages which got off, and were found off, the rails, to account for any of these vehicles mounting. The wheels were found correct to gauge, but with some of the flanges of the wheels indented, and two axle bolts of the left leading clip of the 12th carriage were out, these damages having, in all probability, been caused after these carriages got off the rails. These is, in fat, no evidence in favour of the accident having been occasioned in this manner beyond the denial of the signalman and boy in No.4 signal box that the signal and points were not altered until the whole train had passed over the facing points. All the indications on the ground to be derived from the marks on the permanent way, fracture of chairs, etc., point decidedly to this having been done. Indeed, I have ascertained by actual experiment, that if the facing points of a road similar constructed to that of the up Croydon and up Dover lines were shifted while a train coupled up as that of the excursion train id said to have been in the night in question was in the act of passing over them, the first carriage that took the up Dover line would be lifted and pulled off the rails, at about the same spot where the first indications on the permanent way were traced after the accident; and that similar results for other carriages must follow, unless the draw bars or couplings connecting adjacent carriages give way.
For the aforesaid reasons I have arrived at the conclusion that the accident ws occasioned by the facing points being shifted while the train was in the act of passing over them; and this could not have happened if they had been made secure by the addition of a good locking bar in front of them


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About two weeks ago, tipped off by Neil, I heard about Google App Engine. I managed to get a beta account, and I've finally had a chance to do something (hopefully) useful with it.
In the absence of any quickly achievable ideas for a bioinformatics app, I ported over the OpenRef application I wrote on top of TurboGears a few months back.
Just like the original, the new app, ResolveRef, is essentially a RESTful way of doing PubMed queries.
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Madurai in Tamil Nadu is a big town. Renowned for the world-famous Meenakshi Hindu temple, amongst others, it's a haven of pilgrims from all over the world and is busy throughout the year. But the temples aren't the sole reason to visit. Thriving markets against faded colonial buildings are a haven of colour and culture. … Continue reading
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CALA Success At Bridge Of Don Duo Of Developments
Monday, 21 December 2015
CALA Homes' two developments in the popular suburb of Bridge of Don have both reached key milestones following a successful month for the housebuilder.
Balgownie Gate has just one property remaining after five homes, including the development's stunning showhome, sold in less than two months. In addition to the sales success at Balgownie Gate, The Links at Dubford sold two properties last week reaching more than 40 percent sold, and now has a new release of homes available which back onto a local nature reserve.
The final luxury property available at Balgownie Gate is the five-bedroom detached Crichton which comes complete with a formal lounge and large open plan kitchen and dining area as well as two en-suite bedrooms and an integral garage.
Situated just off Balgownie Road, the development comprises 26 three, four and five-bedroom homes from CALA's Signature Collection.
While the latest release of homes at The Links at Dubford includes the spacious five-bedroom detached Kennedy and Lewis properties as well as the four-bedroom detached Cleland. The well-appointed homes enjoy unrivalled views across the Perwinnes Moss nature reserve.
Located on the north east periphery of Bridge of Don, The Links at Dubford offers the epitome of luxury living in the ideal locale with a collection of beautifully appointed four and five-bedroom detached homes from CALA Homes' sumptuous Signature Collection.
Fraser Carr, sales and marketing director for CALA Homes (North), said: "We've had a very positive few months at both Bridge of Don sites, not only with sales success but also great staff achievements.
"Fred Anderson, Project Manager for The Links at Dubford was once again awarded the prestigious NHBC Pride in the Job title for the sixth consecutive year.
"Fred ensures every home at the development meets CALA's exacting standards and has played a vital role in the site's success to date.
"I'd urge anyone interested in our Bridge of Don developments to get in touch with our sales teams to book an appointment. The past five properties at Balgownie Gate have sold in quick succession and I'm confident it won't be long until the development is sold out.
"With our latest release at The Links at Dubford benefitting from the superb backdrop of Perwinnes Moss nature reserve, we anticipate a great amount of interest in the properties."
Selected plots at The Links at Dubford are available with the CALA Part Exchange service with several residents at the development already benefiting from the scheme, including Kirk and Mary Anderson who purchased a five-bedroom detached Lowther.
Kirk said: "We had never used a part exchange service before and were a little hesitant in the beginning, however it was very straight forward and made selling our home so easy and cost effective.
"The entire process was very swift, taking around six weeks. CALA arranged for a surveyor to visit our property and an estate agent to manage viewings.
"The sales and site team at The Links at Dubford were so helpful, we really appreciated their hard work to make our home perfect for us moving in."
For Part Exchange, CALA will obtain two independent valuations based on achieving a sale in a 4-6 week period, part exchange will be considered subject to CALA's purchasing criteria and terms and conditions. Ask a Sales Advisor for details or visit www.cala.co.uk/terms.
The remaining five-bedroom detached Crichton at Balgownie Gate is priced £495,000. To book an appointment, call 01224 737806. The Balgownie Gate sales suite is open daily from 11.00am – 5.30pm.
Prices at The Links at Dubford start at £435,000. The current Home of the Month is the five-bedroom detached Garvie priced £499,000. The Links at Dubford sales suite is open daily from 11.00am – 5.30pm. For information on availability and future releases, please register at www.cala.co.uk.
Issued on behalf of CALA Homes (North) by Beattie Communications
Notes to Editor – CALA Homes
CALA Homes, part of the CALA Group, is the UK's most upmarket major home builder operating in the South of England, the Midlands and Scotland. The company is a Top 10 UK home builder focused on building well-designed, high quality homes in prime locations.
Key Facts:
- In its full year results for the year ending 30th June 2015, CALA announced record profits of £50.9m (2014: £26.8m) and an improved house sales gross margin of 23.4% (2014: 22.8%).
- CALA's average selling price (ASP), as at 30th June 2015, was £509,000 (2014: £423,000) – the highest ASP outside London of any major UK housebuilder, thanks to the Group's market positioning and geographic presence in more affluent areas of the UK.
- As at 30th June 2015, CALA's owned and contracted landbank stood at 14,236 plots (2014: 12,690) with a potential gross development value approaching £5.2bn, up 11% versus 2014 (£4.7bn).
- In 2015, CALA Homes won Scottish Housebuilder of The Year at the Scottish Home Awards and was awarded silver for the UK's "Best Medium Housebuilder" at the What House? Awards. This follows What House? Award gold for Best Medium Housebuilder in both 2013 and 2012, and Housebuilder of the Year in 2012.
- CALA Homes has received the maximum 5 Star rating in the Home Builders Federation's National New Homes Customer Satisfaction Survey for six consecutive years.
- In March 2013, the CALA Group was acquired by Patron Capital Partners, the private equity group, and Legal & General Group, the insurance, savings and investment management company.
- At the end of March 2014, CALA acquired Banner Homes, a leading developer and retailer of luxury new homes in the affluent markets of the Midlands and the South East of England. The acquisition expanded the company's geographical footprint and volume scale to make it a Top 10 UK home builder.
- CALA started as the City of Aberdeen Land Association in 1875 and was the first Scottish company listed on the London Stock Market. As CALA is an acronym it is always reproduced in upper case.
For further information visit www.cala.co.uk


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sometimes in the mornings, there are black moths waiting in a row across the top of my white bathroom curtains, settled next to each other close to the new day's sun, caught indoors the night before when i closed the doors and closed the windows and shushed the lights. i open the window and they are gone. disappeared before my very eyes.
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It's early morning and the house is quiet. My favorite part of the day. The two littles are still sleeping. Okay, I know Sam really isn't a little. He'll be 12 next month. How is that possible? I suppose he'll always be a little in my heart. Jake is already gone, he rode his bicycle to work today. It's 28 miles round trip. He does it a few days a week so that I can have the car. That's what I call love – considering its been crazy hot lately. Josh just got home from seminary (an hour of early morning scripture study at the church) and is now meeting online with his mentor Greg. They and some other students are having a book discussion on The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Have you read it? You should. It's fantastic.
So that leaves me. I'm sitting on the couch listening to the stillness. The house is clean and organized and that brings me peace. (The best part of living in a small home with very few belongings is there is a place for everything and it takes only moments to clean completely. ) I'm going through my list of things to accomplish today. I've got laundry to fold (I always have laundry to fold) and dinner to put in the crockpot. I've become obsessed with the crockpot. I use it at least 3 times a week. Today I'm trying a mongolian beef recipe I found on Pinterest. Josh has an eye appointment and I need to get a package together to mail to Jacob.
Can you believe that tomorrow Jacob has been on his mission for SEVEN months? He's doing great and I miss him like crazy. He loves the Czech Republic and the people there. His letters are full of inspiration and miracles he's experienced. Last week he dislocated his knee cap while playing soccer. It was serious. They called an ambulance and he was in great pain and slipping into shock. I cried while I read his description of the incident. The paramedic put his knee cap back into place, the pain was gone, and his knee has been fine. He received a blessing telling him he would have no further problems with his knee and that he would be able to continue the work the Lord has for him to do over there. The Lord is truly aware of His missionaries that sacrifice to do His work.
My to-do list has some projects on it that I've been meaning to get to. Like posting six months worth of Jacob's letters to his blog., finishing a couple of videos for Simply b Photos, revamping my photography workshops, and working on this new Adventure Permitted blog.
I have a bit of an all or nothing personality. And by "bit", I mean an extreme case. I struggle finding balance in my life. While working on projects I tend to get so wrapped up that I have difficulty pulling myself away to focus on my family. As the pendulum swings, I throw myself into my family. Being present with my family is my ultimate goal. I feel time slipping away from me, not on a daily basis, but as if the years are somehow disappearing without my knowing. I know that no matter what, the time will go by. But I want to make sure that I am here, focused, participating.
I love that physically I'm able to be engaged with my family on a level I never have before, but always wanted to. I suppose losing 100 pounds will do that. We bike several times a week, though Betsy isn't a huge fan of it. She gets nervous. We want to get her this bike trailer/seat from Weehoo, but it costs a small fortune. We're planning some backpacking and mountain biking trips in our near future. Jake and I also walk every day – its honestly my favorite part of the day.
I challenged myself to walk 100 miles this month. I respond well to challenges, they keep me motivated. I've been recording my walking/running mileage since June 1st on the Nike Running App and I haven't completed anything close to 100 miles in one month. In June I walked 36.1 miles. In July I completed 19.5 (plus approximately 32 in Yosemite), and in August I hit 20.6 miles. So I'm pretty excited about working towards 100 miles. Want to join me? Start walking! If you are on Instagram, find me at @adventurepermitted and tag #adventurepermitted on your pictures!
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Random Photo Recap
I just wanted to share some random pics I've taken this past week. The in-laws are in town for a couple days too which is a lot of fun. They enjoy seeing Russell and I think Russell enjoys the company.
What fun things have you been up to? Have you done anything special for fall?
|Ah fall = pumpkin spice awesomeness!
|Russell loves his new toy!
|Workin' hard = need coffee!!!
|Russell loves to read books.
|Another fall favorite. Apple/peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream!
|Panda cat enjoying the sunshine.
|Panda, Oreo and Russell.
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id love to see all crafts maxed, there no reason not to. its not like one can easily zerg to 100 and might help some servers with struggling AHs
id love to see all crafts maxed, there no reason not to. its not like one can easily zerg to 100 and might help some servers with struggling AHs
'Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet. Because they will catch you. They will de-construct your spin. They will remember everything you ever say for eternity.'
- Lord Gaben
What i would like to see is when talking to the craft NPCs in guildshop about Advanced Synthesis Information to get recipes for crafting up to the level you are, they stop at level 100. But when you ask the Other NPC for recipes above your skill level (they usually say something like "you seem able to attempt this item.... " then they list the recipe), they constantly give you only 1 recipe, usually the highest one above Lv.100. Any way to make the NPC list the recipes for 100~110 in the Expert category? Or allow us to see other recipes with more variety over our skill level? Tired of seeing 'bewitched togi' EVERY time i talk to her in WW guildshop, and then only up to Planus Table from other NPC. That means there's nothing else from 100 to 115+?
Devs, could we get this looked at again? I still believe this would be for the better for all players still on FFXI.
What I would actually like to know, since I have been in contention about this for last few months with people, is whether the +1 from Furnishings stack with the +5 from Stall .
As so you get +8 furnishings, i.e. Carpenter's Stall [+5], Drawing Desk[+1], Carpenter's Kit [+1], Carpenter's Sign [+1] like gear stacks,
and then +4 from gear (body, hand, neck, not including Kupo shield or hocho:cooking etc...),
and if Cheer effects from Mog garden are actual Skill +1% (as denoted in text), or if cheer is skill gain as everyone thinks?
As of right now I think I have 110 + 5+1+1+1+4 then +1% in Woodworking.
Any "official" clarification on this? No speculations please. Thanks....
before shield cursed handschuchs where 1/16 is
normally i do 2-3/32 ish
last 3 attempts using coconut rusk - facing west.. etc all 123 skill (all)
so what the deal SE?
you give us +1 more skill and secretly lower the HQ rate? or does all know this was done?
i dont understand how 0/40 is possible repeatably when it 1/16 ish hq rate?
please answer this for all of us? ty
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There are schools offering electrician courses in Arkansas!
Schools Offering Electrician Training Programs in Arkansas
Nearby States
Each year, approximately 0.1% of Arkansas graduates receive certificates in electrician training. Thus, Arkansas' 2 electrician schools put out approximately 53 electricians each year.
Top Schools
Ouachita Technical College, which is located in Malvern, is the top-ranked school in Arkansas that has a electrician program. It received a ranking of 88th in the country in 2010. In 2010, 36 students graduated from Ouachita Technical College's electrician program. The tuition rate at Ouachita Technical College was $2,312 per year.
The second-ranked school in Arkansas that has a electrician program is Arkansas State University-Newport. Arkansas State University-Newport, which was ranked 92nd in the country in 2010, is located in Newport. In 2010, Arkansas State University-Newport graduated 11 students from its electrician program. The tuition rate at Arkansas State University-Newport was $2,040 per year.
Tuition at Arkansas' electrician schools ranges from $2,312 per year to $2,040 per year. But, the average tuition is $2,176 per year. The Arkansas electrician schools with the highest tuition rates in 2010 were:
- Ouachita Technical College - located in Malvern, students are charged $2,312 per year
- Arkansas State University-Newport - located in Newport, students are charged $2,040 per year
The lowest tuition rates at Arkansas electrician schools were charged at the following schools:
- Arkansas State University-Newport - located in Newport, students are charged $2,040 per year
- Ouachita Technical College - located in Malvern, students are charged $2,312 per year
An electrician certificate from an Arkansas school... what next?
Most people who graduate from electrician school in Arkansas go on to work as an electrician. If you decide to work as an electrician in Arkansas, you will be joining the ranks of approximately 4,450 Arkansas electricians as of 2010. The Arkansas counties with the largest populations of electricians are:
- Faulkner County - 1,230 electricians
- Benton County - 770 electricians
- Arkansas County - 530 electricians
Projected Growth
According the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the number of electricians is expected to grow by 14% by 2018. There are projected to be 6,620 electricians working in the Arkansas then.
An electrician in Arkansas makes an average of $40,880 per year. However, Arkansas electricians earned anywhere in the range from as less than $22,510 per year to more than $75,570 per year in 2010. The counties in Arkansas with the highest average salary for an electrician are:
- Cleveland County - $47,680 per year
- Cleburne County - $46,680 per year
- Crawford County - $41,040 per year
An electrician in the following counties in Arkansas make the lowest salaries on average:
- Garland County - $35,450 per year
- Baxter County - $37,330 per year
- Arkansas County - $38,040 per year
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Thu 3 Apr 2008
Latest Form 990
Posted by David Dudley Field '25 under Form 990 at 6:41 am
Why do you read EphBlog? Perhaps because only EphBlog brings you the juicy news contained in Williams' filings with the IRS. Here is the latest Form 990. Comments:
1) Previous discussion here. Note also this handy summary in Willipedia. (I can no longer edit Willipedia. Perhaps someone could upload this latest form and then update the Willipedia entry accordingly. Future historians will thank you!)
2) I half-heartedly tried to get pre-1998 copies of Form 990 from the College a few years ago. I was told that they were not available. True? I have my doubts. Bureaucracies keep things. The College had to file this form with the IRS in 1997, 1996 and so on. Were all copies destroyed? Finding out and poking around through old data would make for an interesting Record article.
3) Too lazy to open up the 25 page pdf and look for the good stuff? I am here to help. The best paid professors are listed on page 7:
George Goethals $208,000
Jay Pasachoff $207,000
Jean-Bernard Bucky $206,000
Charles Dew '58 $179,000
Richard Stamelman $173,000
Professor Goethals is no longer at Williams, but has often been one of the highest paid profs. In the 1999 form (pdf), his total pay is $177,000. Does the increase over the last 6 years provides a good estimate of the standard raises that Williams has given to all its faculty, i.e., that Goethals did not get any special salary increases in this time? Perhaps. That would suggest that the annual salary increase has been about 2.8% per year, which seems too low.
4) The two biggest investment firms listed among the highest paid outside contractors are John W. Bristol and Hintz, Holman & Heckscher. Does anyone know much about these firms? What do they do for the College? I am perplexed. The College appears to pay them $2 million in total. That seems like an absurdly small amount. One guess is that they don't do much for Williams (run index-like funds?) and, therefore, get the market wage. Another is that they are actually paid much more but since the money comes directly from the endowment, the College does not report it. That seems sleazy and, therefore, unlikely.
5) Morty's salary and benefits are $479,000, up from $354,000 his first year. Was Morty 35% more productive/efficient in 2005 compared to 2001? Perhaps! At this rate of growth, the Williams President will be earning $1,000,000 in 2019. What would President Jack Sawyer '39 say? Classic rant here — one of my all-time favorite posts.
6) What interesting items do you see in the rest of the form?Print • Email
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8 Responses to "Latest Form 990"
ronit says:
$2 million works out to about 20 basis points out of Williams' endowment…. or closer to 50 or 60 basis points if they're only advising on a portion of the endowment.
This is a pretty standard sub-advisory fee for institutional endowments.
kthomas says:
For reference: you should be able to request the historical 990s via FOIA, right, presuming no exemptions? &MS's salary is only about 10-15% higher when adjusted for "inflation," right?
kthomas says:
& of course, you have to create a login (etc) to view those records online.
Anyone want to bet whether someone at Williams is notified every single time such a record is accessed?
Anyone want to bet on how much Williams pays for the privilege of being notified when that happens?
David Kane says:
1) I think that Ronit is correct. Note that Bristol is, I think, an equity shop and the College listed (page 23) $500m in equities. Bristol was paid $1.3m, or about 26 bps, a low but not unreasonable fee for a long-only institutional equity portfolio. I wonder if Bristol is paid a fixed and performance fee. I wonder what its benchmark is. Bristol seems to have been a manager of the endowment for many years. Note that its president, Charles Mott, is a former trustee.
As always, I don't suspect that anything is wrong/sleazy here but I would sleep more easily if the College were more transparent in its endowment management. It ought to, at least, provide a list of its managers, the amounts entrusted to them and the benchmarks they are matched against. (Whether or not the College should also publish their fees and performances is a tougher question.)
2) The College has about $125m in bonds. Is HH&H a bond shop? I can't find out much about them. If so, then their fee of $500,000 would be 40 bps. Seems high to be the fixed fee, but I don't know much about pricing in this part of the market. Perhaps that included a performance fee of some kind?
3) Note that there are $600m (at year end) in "Privately Held Partnerships." This is almost certainly hedge funds, venture capital, private equity and so on. Doesn't the College pay them? Such funds would often have a 2 and 20 fee structure (2% fixed fee each year and 20% of any profits), although a place like Williams might get away with paying more like 1 and 10. So, even if it is 1 and 10, the College should have paid $6 million to someone this year. Why isn't that amount reported?
It could be that there are so many small holdings in this category that no individual fund charged the College enough to be in the top 5 of outside contractors. Or it could be that the College does not report these amounts because they aren't paid in the same direct fashion that Bristol and HH&H are paid.
4) How does an FOIA request help? I do not think that Williams is, itself, subject to FOIA. I called some IRS office a few years ago and was told that they don't have available records going back more than 3 years. But suggestions are welcome! I have three Williams students coming to work for me as interns this summer and would be happy to let them spend time researching this.
5) I bet that no one at Williams is notified when anyone requests these records. They have better things to do.
ronit says:
I would bet the 2 and 20 is taken straight out of Williams' assets, and is therefore not reported as a separate check that Williams would have to write.
The two shops you mentioned are upstanding in that they seem to charge an explicit fixed fee for their services, which I believe is not the case at many hedge funds. But David would know better than I – do hedge funds typically send a separate invoice in for their fees (not to mention the magic money-sink known as 'soft dollars'), or do they come straight out of client assets?
The former trustee connection bothers me. He may be highly competent, but I'd much rather see that Williams pays no attention whatsoever to alumni or trustee connections when picking investment managers.
kthomas says:
According to a longer conversation with a "Betty" in San Jose (who I needed to call at this time of the year anyway), the IRS is currently in the process of converting its long-term archives from paper to microfiche and disk "to catch up with expectations in other enterprises."
You can file a request for any year's 990 on Form 4506-A and, within mere weeks, should get a reply telling you if the IRS can currently produce the document and, should the answer be "no," you can additionally file to find out when the document might be available or use a more formal FOIA method to try to locate the document.
There is also a private company (which I will not name) which, for a fee, provides access to 990s online, presumably, from the copies the IRS already has "on disk."
It seems reasonable to assume that this company, like others in its sector, is highly sensitive to marketing the "secondary" data access to its materials produces– and, in fact, a good bet that the company in question produces more revenue from that information than from what it "seems" to offer, online.
On the other side of that economic flow, a good deal of corporations operating in the public domain are, shall we say, highly sensitive to people digging into their public filings, and prefer to be provided with a little notice when people go fishing.
Or to summarize a conversation from a few weeks ago, "if the — had any teeth these days, half the stuff there would be dangerous."
kthomas says:
And as the NYT is covering it:
The next big thing on the Internet: Spying on Users.
I didn't look up the legislation, but it looks like entities are required to maintain 990s "for inspection" as part of their "public files." I would assume…
The general tendency here is to require entities to place their public files "online," which in turn leads to third-party companies offering this as a 'service' with add-ons.
As David often points out, I should assume this is a search-able, permanent public comment itself; so the above is about as far as I should go.
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Not much is known of Twaddle, although he will appear in the Great Moshi beanstalk. 🙂
Misty, from the Arties has just been released in the Arties Moshling set in the Moshling Zoo! She's number 130! For probably the first time ever, we already know her seed combination on release, with thanks to the new profile combinations in the zoo!
Please continue reading if you wish to find out her combination and further information about Misty!
Hello everyone, I'm sure by now you all know that each month MME have:
We're struggling for entries at the moment, so how would you like a chance to win Room of the Month? Here's how:
Just simply decorate your room yellow or summery, and then once you're done, just comment down below with your monster room and we will visit your room and see if it's amazing enough to be room of the month!
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Today I would like to share a few Moshi Monsters Fast Facts! 🙂 They're very interesting! In fact, they're monsterific!
• Over 70 million Moshi Monsters have been adopted in over 150 countries worldwide roughly a third in the UK, a third in the US and a third across the rest of the world!
• Moshi Monsters magazine is the #1 best selling monthly kids magazine in the UK, having doubled circulation figures in a year. It also ranks at number 26 in the 'ABC Top 100 Magazines' ahead of Grazia, Marie Claire and Men's Health. (Source: ABC Aug 2012)
• Moshi Monsters was ranked the number 1 licensed property in the UK in October 2012! (Source: NPD YTD)
• The debut music album 'Moshi Monsters: Music Rox!' made #4 in the UK charts ahead of Madonna and Lost Prophets!
• 45 million collectible Moshling figurines from toy partner Vivid have been sold to date ranking them as the #1 collectible toys in the UK.
• Over 170 million Moshi Monsters Topps Trading Cards have been sold to date. It's the #2 trading card collection in the UK!
• The debut Moshi Nintendo DS title 'Moshi Monsters: Moshling Zoo' topped the charts in the UK for 23 consecutive weeks! Becoming the longest ever #1 in Nintendo DS™ chart history by knocking Nintendo's Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training from the top spot.
• The 'Ultimate Moshlings Collectors Guide' from Penguin books made top 5 in the UK book charts.
• Over $100 million worth of Moshi Monsters physical products were sold in 2011.
• Moshi Monsters has over 130 licensing partners worldwide and is now available at retail within the US, Australia & New Zealand, Nordics, Benelux, Poland, Israel, Dubai and South Africa!
Remember how I said I found Zack Binspin's animation and I posted it last week, today I have Toasty's Animation and Sound! Again, I made a YouTube video to show you all!
Isn't it awesome! Toasty will be the last Moshling in the Munchies, along with Yolka, Fizzy and Suey! Stay tuned as later this week I'll be giving you the animation of another new Moshling! That's all for now! 🙂
(C) 2013 – Moshi Monsters Expressway
Hey everyone, recently we just got a hold of some images, of new moshlings! Take look!
In the Moshi Magazine, issue #32, released July 2013- Has pictures of three unknown Moshlings! We are not sure who they are, and this is the first time we've ever seen them! Take a look:
Credit to Lukey's Moshi Site – Lukey140701.com (For providing the images)
The Beanstalk event, scheduled for August 5th has also unleashed a sneak peek video. At the end of the video, an unknown never seen before, "Blue Moshling" is spotted. He has wings, and is described as a blue fat bat. We are still looking into it, so we have no info:
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The classic American M1917 revolver was a much needed answer to a very evident problem: not enough standard issue .45acp 1911 pistols to go around. Smith & Wesson and Colt both produced these revolvers at the request of the US Government, and they served in at least some capacity until Vietnam. Today however, it seems […]
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Two separate and distinct causes of action may arise when injuries from a wrongful act to omission result in death. One of them is an action for damages sustained by the decedent and his or her estate as a result of the injuries. This action survives to the heirs or legal representatives of the decedent's estate pursuant to Section 71.021 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. Although at common law a right of action in tort abated on the death of the person injured, the survival statute allows an action for personal injury to "survive" death of the injured person. The damages recoverable in a survival action are generally limited to those which the decedent could have recovered if he or she had lived, and funeral expenses.
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An action for wrongful death may be based on a wrongful act, negligence, carelessness, unskillfulness, or default if the individual injured would have been entitled to bring the action for the injury if he or she had lived. Recovery may be based on negligence, strict products liability, or an intentional tort. It has been suggested that the Wrongful Death Act does not authorize recovery for breach of an implied warranty on the theory of breach of contract if tortious liability cannot be established.