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Senior Manager Insurance Accounting Advisory IFRS 17 team Edinburgh
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- 29 Mar 2019
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- 29 Apr 2019
- Industry
- Finance & accounting
- Job function
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- Job level
- Management
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- Full time
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You will be responsible for winning and delivering accounting change programmes, ensuring the high quality of our advice and support to our clients. You will also lead and coach your team members, and manage relationships with senior level clients. More broadly, you will also contribute to the running of our business unit, including business and people development.
As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to
- Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Directors and above
- Be involved in the financial management of clients
- Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
- Develop project strategies to solve complex technical challenges for our clients
- Manage and deliver large projects by developing the project team, assessing engagement risks throughout, driving conclusions, and reviewing / challenging the output produced by the team
- Shape and deliver projects to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients and our own quality criteria
- Train, coach, and supervise team members
- Continue to develop internal relationships and developing your PwC brand
About the role
Insurance is a fast growing business with a unique assurance division offering a broad range of services, tailored to assist Insurers grow and overcome the complex challenges they face. Our client base varies – Global multinationals, through to private equity backed businesses and start-ups.
You will gain experience across a wide variety of markets and industry sectors including life insurance, retail GI and Property and Casualty insurance.
As part of the assurance team you will work primarily on accounting change engagements, with the insurance sector experiencing unprecedented change through the impact of IFRS 17 the new accounting standard for measuring insurance contracts. This provides an excellent opportunity for strong candidates to broaden their experience and rapidly progress within our firm.
The following skills are required for this role
Essential skills
- ACA or equivalent
- Focussed and initiative driven (required to maximise growth potential)
- Experience of working with clients in either the FS or more specifically Insurance industries
- A passion for delivering an exceptional client service
- Proven ability in leading audit engagements, including planning, controlling and completing a diverse range of assignments
- Strong analytical and organisational abilities
- Experience in supervising and developing staff
- Proven track record of establishing and maintaining strong client relationships
- Experience of supervising and developing staff through coaching
- Strong project management
Desirable skills
- Knowledge of International Accounting Standards and/or US GAAP would be an advantage
- Strong team-working skills
- Desire for continuous improvement
- Highly developed listening and questioning techniques
Assurance is a dynamic place to be right now, and the variety of opportunities on offer is unprecedented. It's work that really does matter. It matters for businesses, governments and society at large. Our team provides confidence on the most complex decisions companies have to take and this provides a wealth of opportunities to everyone who joins us and works with us.
The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/diversity
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Heads I win, tails you lose.
Maybe [just maybe] these three decided to just get together and have a nice time, possibly discussing many other things besides. I doubt Disney is one person behind the scenes that created the said story.
I realize it's not the same but this reminds me of those days when software was released (bugs and all) just to get it out. Release a patch afterwards.
You can claim YouTube was wrong to do as it did on this issue or not. Please let me supply another theory as to why things appear to have done incorrectly may not be so in another realm. Here's a likely scenario: Some [YouTube] employee, not too high up on the chain, was ordered to take it down. This person may very well share the same view as the author of this article but this employee's hands are tied. The person ultimately responsible for this decision may not be totally aware of the situation in Libya or Egypt. We don't know. And that's the thing, the actions of some company we deem to have gone about it the wrong way, as in this case, could very well be catering to someone or something else. The issue at hand may be bigger than what the media is supplying to you. My bet is on politics and it often trumps logic alone.
I guess the first rule of starting a company is: make money. The second rule [it seems to me]: investors come first, and then maybe (a tinge of maybe) the customers second.
I suppose you could use copyright in the manner that Lord Finesse did. It's fair usage but the outcome for Dan Bull obviously wasn't favorable. It's like a hammer--meant to drive nails--but, for some, it could be used in a manner not intended. Copyright is a tool, isn't it?
Isn't there a mechanism out there for crowdfunding to act like agent for investing in an artist? For example, Band A raises cash from resources of the fans but the fans get money from the revenue of the sale of music. Kind of like being paid to be a fan of Band A. Forget about the RIAA or Record Labels.
It should come as no surprise that this sort of thing happens. It's bound to happen. It's human nature. Hot air wants to rise. Shit floats to the top.
The current system of patents reminds me of cells and how a virus could be created to infect the mechanics of the system to basically destroy the host. The pain indeed.
Any perception I hear from folks who indulge in free are saying is if they know the artist is starting to get popular, then they must be getting rich. "Bono doesn't need more money!" or "Gotye isn't going to miss it." And therefore, to them, it's ok to take.
There's alway one bad (A/a)pple.
If you're just one person exposing something about the White House as opposed to a large organization reporting about the malware incident, then I'd side with group. Children play this game and know how it works. Physiologically grown people continue to play this game, holding on to their same mental capacities.
We speak of innovation and how important it is, particularly that we have entrepreneurs that want to take their ideas and execute them. Your phrase "those that govern us" got me asking why aren't there parallels between that of the business world and that of the Government. Elected officials are people too as are the individuals that start amazing companies and the people that make up that enterprise. Yet, there aren't any trailblazers (for lack of a better word) that want a better government system. You have young people that want to code. Where are the young people that want to change the way the government is run with the focus on basic fundamental rights of citizens in mind? I guess it works both ways and you get the government you chose.
I guess the next move would be to prompt the user to press OK to continue or to select 'yes' or 'no' to continue to the question: "Did you understand this?" and still wait an additional 10 seconds to watch the DVD.

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1."You won't leave empty-handed."
Susan Stouder's three-car garage, basement and attic are filled with auction finds accumulated over two decades. The 52-year-old insurance executive from Collingswood, N.J., loves to spend weekends at live auctions, where she bids on everything from farm tools to furniture. And as her overflowing storage space can attest, "Very rarely do I not buy anything," she says.
She's hardly alone. Auctions are designed to excite prospective buyers and turn spectators into bidders, experts say.
There's even academic scholarship focused on "competitive arousal," the idea that the heat of competition can stoke an impulse to win at any cost. Cheryl Wakslak, assistant professor of management and organization at USC Marshall School of Business, agrees. "There's something that makes you think, 'I'm winning' if you leave with something," she says. Indeed, competitive arousal might have been at work last November, when a three-panel portrait by Francis Bacon fetched a record $142.4 million (including commission) after a session of aggressive bidding at Christie's in New York.
While a live auction might generate the most excitement, online auctions can also raise the heart rate, Wakslak says. These days, the lines are blurred among different auction formats: people sitting at their computers often compete with bidders on the ground at live auctions and those dialing in via phone.
For her part, Stouder says she's developed a good eye for value over the years and tries hard not to overpay. One strategy Stouder recommends is to identifywho the professional dealers are and watch when they stop bidding on an item.


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It's like déjà vu, all over again. Another year, another ridiculous amount of money spent on little plastic bricks and the biggest toy sellng season is officially in full swing. When the Star Wars Advent Calendar came out last year, well, it earned a lot of hate. It seemed to linger on shelves (not here, it sold quite well and cleared out quickly) and I believe is even still available in some places at discounted prices from time to time. It was a farce! An insult to the fans and the children it was aimed at alike! It was obviously a complete and total failure on every conceivable level and a perfect message to LEGO that they were sure to hear loud and clear and never, EVER would they make the same mistake again! Well, they got the message and the answer is... The LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012 edition! Yay!
It's back Baby, and so am I to spam your December with a micro review for each and every day. I'm so very, very sorry. Let the fun begin!
The verdict in the end last year was buy, but it was the end of the road and if you didn't have it already you weren't heading out on Christmas eve to try and track one down on sale so you could put such a thoughtful and timely gift as an advent calendar under the tree. Switching it up, I'll suggest you buy it now. It's on for half price on LEGO [email protected], so pick it up today and you could still end up counting down the last two weeks with the rest of us.
So without futher ado...
See they're learning already. Last year they started with an osbscure vehicle that was only in a couple of scenes from the least popular of the films and this time, oh wait they did the same thing. It's a tight little model and some features are cramped while others are exaggerated, but regardless of that I'd have to say this is my favourite LEGO model of this sub. I'd have loved it if they could find a way to split the tail up (perhaps one of these, or one of these, with an elastic around the ends, in blue or bley), but I'll take it this way. I was impressed at the use of the fender piece to convey the swooped wings/fins and I can think of worse ways to start off this countdown. Who knows, it could be all uphill from here.
Seems LEGO did learn something. Last year the figure was Nute Gunray and this year they kept it a bit more generic with a simple Gungan Soldier. You can decide for yourself if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but at least it's not Jar Jar and if you do have a thing for army building here's another one for the battle of Naboo. Did somebody complain to LEGO that the problem with last years calendar was "not enough Gungans"? It's Ok. We're all friends here, you can tell me. It'll be fine.
Three days in and we get a weapon rack. I think I liked the walking chair better, but at least the Gungan gets his nifty shield/sled. This is really where the advent calendars value bugs me. If you put the one or two accessories that each fig needs in with it (like they already do with the exclusive figs) you would only need to add 2-3 extra models to fill out the days where they stick the weapon caches. Those three extra models would require maybe 50 parts on the outside which would still be well under 300 pieces for a set that costs $40-50. So what's driving up the price? Desirability? The cost of the tray inside (which is awesome for sorting)? At least this weapon stand is a weapon itself, but they lose points right off by only including one of those blue energy ball things. The city set last year came with three white ones for snow balls.
Not cool LEGO. I want more blue balls.
Tiny Star Destroyer is tiny. If you need to strike fear into the hearts of say, dust mites or flu germs, this might be the ship for you. I only have one issue with this little guy and it's the nose, but I don't really know what they could have used to bring it to a sharper point. All LEGO ISDs are just wedges and plates on top of wedges and plates on top of wedges and plates anyway. This time it's just a lot quicker.
You know, the dust mites may even think this is cute.
It looks like we might have a contender for the worst micro of the year! It's got a higher piece count than last years TIE, but it's still pretty pitiful. The gap underneath is to big, the sides are too straight and blocky, but the real kicker is the fact that the front showcases the bottom of the stud. It's like the droid dispenser is always open for business and it bugged me so much, I've sent him off to sit in the corner with 2011's TIE Fighter. I hate it when they look better going then coming.
Go on now MTT! Shoo, get to the corner! Bad MTT!
What's wrong little guy?
"Nobody likes me."
Awww, what makes you think that?
"Because nobody likes the prequels and I'm from the prequels."
That's not true, lots of great things came out of those movies.
"Name one."
One week in and I have a new favourite. This little guy is a very good replica of the source material, is instantly recognizable and even takes some of the issues from the mini starfighter in 9674 and fixes them on a micro scale. I'd have made the 1 x 1 tile on the top of the nose bley to better blend, but it's a small area and they're trying to get a lot of detail across. I'm sure they were saving the best bit of their Episode I love-fest for today and tomorrow we'll be on to bigger and better things. Wait, probably not bigger...
Last year had a couple of stand out models that not only looked good but were functional as well. The first and hopefully not last model in that catagory for this year is the micro Vulture Droid starfighter. It has a low parts count, but that just makes it even more impressive. The simple function to give it it's walking ability was so clever, I found myself playing with it quite contently for a few moments before I even noticed it was built with some parts I wish I had way more of.
Where's that Naboo Starfighter, let that dogfight begin!
Grand Moff Tarkin was a force to be reckoned with. He was as ruthless and efficient as he was despised by his enemies, but beyond him the officers of the Galactic Empire seemed like nothing more than puppets or Vader's choke buddies to me. I'm starting to think that all they needed to do to appear more menacing was for them to wear their battle armour all the time, or at least some sunglasses. Look at how intense this guy is. He's like Elwood Blues, the T-800 and Elton John all rolled up into one (admittedly less fabulous) package. On second thought, scratch Sir Elton off that list. Let's replace him with Horatio Caine, he has the same sunglassy eyed stare and all the personality of a small plastic toy.
I wonder what tomorrow will bring. I'm predicting snow...
Seriously, it's calling for 10cm here.
Woke up to snow, school cancellations and this adorable little guy just waiting to be put together. I'm always down with a visit to Hoth, regardless of how much I dislike snow, so I can only hope this trend will continue. Could this model have been improved by using two 2x3 bley plates with a 1x2 in the middle under the tile and a double cheese slope on either side? Yes, yes it could, but I'm giving it a pass because I'm still impressed with the idea and I love the bley telescope legs. Plus, the all firepower/no brain head design is very amusing to me.
What can I say about this thing? It looks like something Dr. Evil would use to mow his lawn. A quick trip to Bricklink reveals they call it a Hoth Blaster Station, either way it just brings the line "Aren't you a little short for a..." to mind.
Well, I asked for more Hoth. Let's move on with a sense of optimism, shall we?
Here we are half way through our countdown and yesterday's snow blower/laser blaster seems a little less lame now that it has someone to push it. This was my favourite guy from 8083 Rebel Trooper Battle Pack, though I'll bet Bricklink considers this a unique figure due to the mixing of head a torso from two different figs in that set. That face always struck me as a no nonsense, tough as nails soldier and would make a decent Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross. I figure he must be the rebel equivalent of Obi-wan Kenobi and he loses his goggles so often they gave him three pairs. Big improvement over yesterday, must be the 'stache.
Lucky number thirteen.
As a kid I always thought these were walking refrigerators. Looking back now, I'm surprised I put any thought into them at all. As far as brick-build characters go, he's head and shoulders above the mouse droid. Now that our trooper has some portable power he can plug in and finish snow blowing the secret base.
GNK makes a pow-pow-powerful droid!
Oy vey. The MTT's looking a bit better today. I've already said that I think each fig should come with their accessories, so that basically makes today total write off. At least the Gungan one had a function of its own to give it purpose beyond being a weapon rack. Two guns doesn't even arm all the figs we've found up until this point but the spoilerish inclusion of the double bladed red lightsaber indicates that this will furnish future figs as well. The security droid needs a blaster, so either the Imperial Officer has no need of weapons or the Rebel Trooper's Laser Turret is all he's going to get. The rack is efficient if pointless, but it just feels like a big cheat. I'm not naive, but it bothers me when they tip their hand by including accessories for upcoming figs, even if said fig is featured front and center on the cover. Don't even get me started on the method of storing the lightsaber.
These people have seen Star Wars, right?
That's better. Not fantastic, but better. Sticking with generic army building figures and the winter wonderland of Hoth, we now have a Snowtrooper. I don't buy multiples of many sets, so I was pleased to get another of these snow flakes. Getting even more short on weapons though, hope that doesn't mean we have another depot on the way.
I guess that's enough of a trip to Hoth for one calendar, it's time top get back to TPM! This falls into the "OIC" catagory for not being as instantly recognizable as some of the micros and it's also a straight-up fail imo. The super sleek shape of the ship would be difficult to pull off at any scale and here, it's pitiful. The majority of the bley bits on this have been produced in metallic silver so this would have been LEGO's one shot at giving up a shiny Nubian, as I believe the assumption at this point is that they haven't because they don't want to produce all the shiny and figure we'll revolt if they make it in bley. Let me tell you, it's the reason I own a pitchfork.
Just in case.
Much better. Here's a model that not only works well in the micro scale, but they even managed to incorporate a nifty little build into it as well. It looks good on its own, pretty much nails the vehicle at this difficult scale and it's green. I always like a little colour in the predominantly bland Star Wars palette. I have less issue with them focusing on the prequels as I do with them making the wrong vehicular choices. Today is a win in my book and I look forward to whatever fig they've got in store for us (if their pattern holds true) tomorrow.
I don't really know where this guy fits in so far, so I guess we'll be seeing an OT micro tomorrow to go with him. If not, we could certainly have been stuck with worse figs that could've been shoe-horned in. Oh wait, he's probably one of the generic troopers strewn about when Vader boarded the Tantive IV after it was capture by the Star Destroyer! Connection made. End transmission.
This little Neimoidian shuttle is cute and recognizable, but really should have been in last years with Nute Gunray. It's a nice little tan assortment that makes me wish I had about twenty of these for the parts alone. It doesn't have the transparent cheese slope cockpit they use for practically every other micro (even foolishly on the Nubian), so this must be an automated version. Too bad they didn't cap it off with a tan level as well, I could use more of those.
I don't know why, but I've always liked this prequel ship and this micro captures it very well in a soullessly charicaturish sort of way. It's difficult to focus on reviewing this little guy, what with the awesome announcement of a Back to the Future set this morning and the impending doom that awaits us at the stroke of midnight tonight (PST obviously). I'm going to assume that since LEGO now has a time machine, they've already seen that everything's going to be ok and that's why they couldn't wait to tell us the good news. Since the other option is that they know the world is going to end anyway, so they can make this announcement and by the time Universal has their legal team mobilized it'll be to late, I'm choosing optimism/sanity.
If this is the end (and it's not... hopefully), I'd just like to say
Honestly, I'll take a regular battle droid over a so-called super battle droid any day of the week. Why? The parts of course, as I find them much more useful in building and I like it when the main body comes in a solid colour other then tan. That being said, this is a fine generic figure and makes a nice addition to your droid army should you be so inclined to build one. There was something else I meant to mention today too, now what was that...
I can't remember. Meh, it's not like it's the end of the world or anything.
I don't even think this can pass for chibi. This micro is a perfect example of LEGO not knowing when to say no. Some models don't translate well into LEGO and some can be pulled of in a fairly reasonable resemblance, like the previous Infiltrators. The key to pulling off ships like this is plates, as few as possible to try and replicate the shape while keeping it slender and as in proportion as possible. Or, you can just stick a few blocks together in the right basic shape call in a Sith Infiltrator and laugh it up because we'll buy whatever you throw at us.
*Shakes fist at LEGO*
Hallelujah! See, that's more like it. Rusty the Snowdroid here makes the craptastic models that make up nearly half of the micros in this calendar dang near forgivable! The inclusion of a base is a nice touch because it's really not necessary, but it drives home the "snowman" aspect. I've always loved R2 (certainly not as much as some folks), but have never felt compelled to obtain all the different astromechs in LEGO form. Until now that is. I have no issue with the spacing of the top hat either, though I may or may not try to straighten that out later if it begins to bother me. Easily my favourite day of both Star Wars Advent Calendars thus far. They're going to have to really pull out something phenomenal to top this!
*SPOILER* They won't.
Santa Yoda was better, but at least now the Force is closer to being balanced and isn't that what Life Day is all about? Maul's a pretty popular guy right now, so I can see the appeal in giving him the starring role in this year's calendar. If I can put in my order for next year now, how about a red Santa Vader building a Snow 3PO? Pretty sweet right? Or how about a Luke and Leia as elves building a Snow Vader? Either way, this year is now complete and it's time to look to 2013 and all the good things the theme will (hopefully) have in store for us. First though, a quickie recap.
What I liked: Sticking with generic figures and festive unique ones is the way to go and that snowman R2 is the belle of the ball imo. On the Micro side, offerings like the Naboo starfighter and Vulture droid are not only clever and well thought out, but make for a lot of swooshable fun for the young at heart (or hopelessly immature).
What I didn't like: Micros like the MTT, Sith Infiltrator and Nubian just didn't cut the mustard and illustrate that there are just some vehicles that should be avoided at that scale.
Verdict: I said at the begining to buy it and I stick by that. It's a pretty good assortment of generic figs to build an army or entertain the younglings and the inclusion of a handful of stand out models and a couple great unique figs make it worth picking up on the sweet sales it saw before Christmas hit full swing. I can't wait to get a new display case and begin to display my astromechs, just to see the snowdroid more often.
I hope everyone has a fantastic Christmas and a great holiday season overall. See you next year!
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With all the Woodstock reminiscing and hoo-ha going on this week, I'd like to remind one and all that the legendary festival was not all about Jimi, Janis, Jefferson Airplane, CSN&Y, or Sly and the Family Stone. It was a lot about a guy who wasn't even there. So if I had his cellphone number handy, I'd personally request that the Who's great guitarist Pete Townshend plug in and unleash a vigorous windmill guitar strum in honor of the godfather of the electric guitar, Les Paul.
The musician, songwriter, inventor, innovator, dreamer, real-life guitar hero, and life-long perfectionist passed away this week. Anyone who's ever played an electric guitar is in his debt, for the precocious guitar virtuoso from Waukesha, Wisc., was already playing his own cobbled- together electric guitar a dozen years before the first commercial models appeared. Anyone who's ever enjoyed layered, imaginative recordings like The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" or Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" should tip a hat to Les, who invented multi-track recording. And tape delay. And echo.
And what weekend warrior wouldn't marvel at his Les's can-do spirit? If he wanted to electrify his guitar? He'd tinker and then tinker some more until he did it. When he wished he had the Andrews Sisters singing on his record? No problem, he invented a machine that could stack up his wife's (Mary Ford) vocal harmonies six times, then six times again. When he decided he couldn't play that guitar solo fast enough? No sweat: He invented a recorder that allowed him to play it at half speed, then seamlessly blend it back in at normal tempo.
Born Lester William Polsfuss in 1915, Les was the stage name that stuck after Red Hot Red and Rhubarb Red were trotted out and discarded. By his early teens, he was already touring the Midwest as guitar player with popular Chicago band Rube Tronson and His Texas Cowboys. Frustrated that his guitar could barely be heard over the rest of the band, he started working on his first electric guitar prototype in 1929. His first successful version, nick-named "the log," debuted in 1941. It was literally a solid plank of wood with strings and a microphonic pick-up on it. Eleven years later, the Gibson guitar company would profoundly prettify it and call it the Les Paul model – one of the all-time classic rock guitars. Its design and electronics remain largely unchanged more than a half-century later.
His sound experiments with magnetic tape began when advanced German tape recorders were discovered by GIs liberating Berlin. A few were brought to the States and one was given to Bing Crosby, then a friend of Les's. Crosby saw great potential in the reel-to-reel machines for movies, radio, and recording, and gave one to Les, who pretty much reinvented it. So much for potential – how about "Hello, future." And the rest, as they say… is your record collection. (Everything after 1950 or so, anyway. )
As a duo in the 1950s, Les Paul and Mary Ford sold millions of records with Les's "sound experiments," constantly pushing the multitracking envelope on hits like the echo-drenched "How High the Moon" and "Vaya Con Dios."
He played for FDR at the White House. He is the only person to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – and The Grammy Hall of Fame,The National Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In 2006, at the age of 90, he was awarded two Grammys. His typical autograph reads,"Play hard! – Les Paul."
Just weeks before his passing, the "can do" guy was still playing his signature Les Paul guitar with his trio every Monday night at the NY's Irridum jazz club. His friends would often stop buy and sit in with the ageless guitarist. You know, friends like Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler, Bruce Springsteen, and Eddie Van Halen – guitar heroes to many grateful subsequent generations. U2 guitarist The Edge, who creates his own unique sounds on the Gibson Les Paul guitar, calls him "A legend of the guitar and a true renaissance man, Les Paul disproves the cliche that you can only be famous for one thing," he said. "His legacy as a musician and inventor will live on and his influence on rock and roll will never be forgotten."
For those of us who love electric guitars, pop music and recording gadgets, Les made it all possible. Every time I plug in my guitar and my dog runs out of the room, I blame Les. I'm sure he'd be delighted.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � A fledgling New Hampshire program that gives businesses a tax credit for donating to scholarship organizations to send students to private or public schools is under assault on two fronts.
Three civil liberties groups sued earlier this month to block the program as unconstitutional and now legislators will consider repealing it.
The House Ways and Means Committee is holding a hearing Thursday on the bill to repeal the tax credit law passed last summer.
The total amount of tax credits that could be issued the first year is $3.4 million but so far only about $120,000 has been pledged toward scholarships for next school year. The Network for Educational Opportunity has been approved to award scholarships and Executive Director Kate Baker said Tuesday she has 260 applicants.


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OVER THE PAST DECADE OR SO, THE 2012 meme – anticipating a global paradigm shift on the winter solstice of the year 2012 – has sprung from the marginal writings of Mesoamerican academics and the geodesic domes of Burning Man to infiltrate the cultural consciousness at large. This year, two feature films will be released on the subject: one, starring John Cusack, that rather predictably injects a grim reading of the event to spin an apocalyptic thriller (which generally plays to popular sentiment that 2012 will be another Y2K), and a documentary that aims to investigate the meme for its academic merits. Responsible for the latter is Daniel Pinchbeck, a journalist whose 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl brought real scholarship to 2012 theory and resultantly tipped off a postnew-age movement.
Synthesizing Western thinkers like Rilke, Nietzsche, Jung, Heidegger, Steiner, Watts and McKenna with the cosmogenetic prophesies of many world religions, Pinchbeck posited that (far from apocalypse) "2012 may represent the completion of an initiation process for the | modern psyche." Essential to this view is the idea that human evolution can be effected only on the collective level, a position that helped Pinchbeck dodge the narcissistic bullet with which most "visionary" thinkers inevitably shoot themselves. It also gave rise to Reality Sandwich, a site utilizing Web 2.0 to collectively imagine what the next age might look like. Edited by Pinchbeck and web pioneer Ken Jordan, Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age is a compendium of what the site has to offer. Covering a sweeping variety of topics, the book suggests that the meme might best be addressed as "2012 theory"- an ongoing school of thought – rather than "The 2012 Theory," an ominous occult suspicion.
In his introduction, Pinchbeck writes, "Even if you are not inclined to give credence to ancient prophesies, it is clear that humanity faces grave threats to its existence, and society must change." Peculiarly (or properly), the term 2012 appears in the book very few times. John Major Jenkins, a scholar of Mayan cosmology, contributes a brief essay on Mayan iconography as it relates to the scientifically accepted alignment of the earth and galactic center on that fateful date. As a whole, though, most authors shy away from dogmatic zeal or paranoiac speculation. Instead, the book offers meditations on gnosis, xenolinguistics, experimental communities, the narrowing divide between science and religion, the rise of ayahuasca tourism, revaluations of Carlos Castaneda and Stanley Kubrick, interviews with Alex Grey and Abbie Huffman – in short, an elastic conceptual framework for a post2012 society. Understanding, as J.F. Martel writes in his essay on Kubrick, that "to be didactic [is] to contribute to the cultural and intellectual disenfranchisement of the species," diverse viewpoints are expressed- from the strictly scientific to the lunatic fringe – with a humility tuned to.the collaborative interface.
While the book offers an interesting window into a vibrant online community and a taste of viewpoints heretofore marginalized by mainstream discourse, Pinchbeck and Jordan's choice to produce a book is an odd one. As Antonio Lopez writes in his essay "Reality 2.0," "Books are bound to Enlightenment thinking, that is, the concepts of nationalism, individualism, and privacy are specifically related to the rise of printing press culture." Indeed, the form of the book here betrays much of what the Web site strives to establish: a culture in which information flows in both directions and authority is developed through the free exchange of information. When these essays appeared on the site, over the course of the last year or so, the comments thread often offered the most significant insight. Furthermore, in its truncated form, the subject matter doesn't often get the space to make a fully cogent case, and so makes some of the same reductive mistakes that the forbearing new-age movement did.
Perhaps this is part of the point, though. Invoking Buckminster Fuller, Pinchbeck talks of effecting change by making old models obsolete (i.e. mass capitalism, extractive energy consumption, top-down politics). Like the election of mainstreamer Barack Obama, to which this community was decidedly split, the book might be viewed as a useful step in the evolutionary (not revolutionary) undoing of an outdated arena – a way to get basic ideas to a less esoteric readership and so broaden the context for discourse. By far the most useful and compelling section of the book is the final one titled "Community," where authors, operating under the assumption that paradigm shift must be proactive and is currently underway, imagine how urban homesteading, abundance-based economics, open-source communication, and mutual aid can lead to "social transformation that is not about abandoning all aspects of familiar life."
Like 2012 theory itself, Toward 2012 is a hall of mirrors down which a reader can casually gaze or commit tedly plunge. If you're of the" latter camp, though, Pinchbeck's firsLbook on the subject will prove more rewarding. For even the most skeptical naysayer, the meme is one that warrants attention if only for its growing place in our cultural consciousness. Pinchbeck recently wrote that "a change seems to be happening at the level of logic, which is becoming less dualistic, less 'either-or,' and more binary, 'both-and' . . . [suggesting] a shift from the modern historical perspective to a revived mythological consciousness." As myth, the 2012 meme can be compelling and instructive, regardless of whether you "believe."


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Banksy has proved bankable in Beverly Hills.
The mysterious British street artist's "Flower Girl" mural, which he stenciled onto the wall of a Los Angeles gas station in 2008, was sold for $209,000 Thursday evening at Julien's Auctions, where it was the highlight of a sale of nearly 100 works by 33 street artists.
The gavel price was $170,000 for the 9-by-8-foot, nearly 4-ton rectangular slab of white brick with black spray paint. The mural, which came with a customary additional "buyer's premium" to yield the final total, shows a little girl holding a flower basket under the eye of a surveillance camera planted atop a tall, leafy stalk.
With about 150 people gathered in the auction room, bids rolled in by phone and online. Julien's Executive Director Martin Nolan said the winning bid was phoned in by a Los Angeles buyer who requested anonymity.
The auction included five other works by Banksy that were done between 2002 and 2006. They fetched $421,250 combined, although one of the sales wasn't final because the gavel price had fallen $10,000 short of the $150,000 pre-sale estimate.
The highest known price for a Banksy work is about $1.1 million for a London mural called "Slave Labor" that was auctioned in London in June.
Part of the artist's fame comes from being incognito. Although he was the subject of the 2010 Oscar-nominated documentary "Exit Through the Gift Shop," the artist's identity remains unknown. Some believe Banksy might be a collective "they." (In October, Banksy's website said he'd been conducting a fall residency in New York City.)
The seller of the L.A. mural was Eytan Rosenberg, former owner of a Valero gas station at the corner of Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, who says that five years ago he gave the OK for a group of three street artists to paint something on its white brick wall.
Rosenberg, 44, said his recollection wasn't strong enough to identify Banksy even if he saw him today, but he thought he shook the artist's hand.
"I remember he was wearing a black hoodie and jeans that were covered with black and white paint, and he had paint under his fingernails," Rosenberg recalled in an interview Thursday before the auction.
Rosenberg said he had long been friendly with Mr. Brainwash, a French-born, L.A.-based street artist and filmmaker who was also featured in "Exit Through the Gift Shop."
Rosenberg said that when Mr. Brainwash approached him about using the filling station wall, he was accompanied by another Frenchman and a British man he now assumes was Banksy — if Banksy is indeed one person. He said they had pulled up in a truck with a bunch of stencils in the back.
Mr. Brainwash "said it would be tasteful, not anything risque," Rosenberg recalled. "I hate graffiti from gangs, but I appreciate street art and murals."
A few weeks later, Rosenberg, whose family first opened a filling station on the corner in 1973, arrived to find the mural, painted in the pre-dawn hours. Aficionados had already gathered to take photos of the new work.
In November 2012, Rosenberg and his sister sold the gas station, which became a Chevron. But he wanted to preserve "Flower Girl," so he struck a deal with the new owner, who agreed to give Rosenberg several months to remove the mural.
In what Rosenberg described as a delicate and expensive operation, the brick facade was removed in April, along with a section of the building's steel supports and part of the drywall on its interior. Art removal experts hauled it directly to Julien's storage facility, where "Flower Girl" has remained.
In the auction gallery Thursday, bidders saw its image on flat-screen monitors set up beside auctioneer Tim Luke's podium.
"I wish I could keep it, but it was out of my pay grade," Rosenberg said.
Rosenberg and his sister want to use the money from the sale to build a car wash.
"If I hadn't financed [the mural's preservation] there would have been another art piece that didn't survive," he said. "I took a financial risk to make sure it survived." The removal process could have caused the brick wall to crumble, he said.
"I hope whoever gets it takes care of it," Rosenberg said Thursday afternoon.


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Imagine a company from China, where food safety is a serious concern, were about to consume Pepsi Co., Dole, General Mills, Nestlé, Kraft or Oscar Mayer food producers. When the news broke here in Virginia that pork producer Smithfield Foods is just a hog's breath away from being sold to China's Shuanghui International, moms who fret over food safety standards as they pack ham sandwiches into lunch boxes, serve BLTs and pork roasts, like me, became concerned over the future of those choices.
Keira Lombardo, vice president of investor relations and corporate communications at Smithfield Foods, Inc., confirmed in an interview that the potential sale would also include Smithfield brands: Eckrich, Farmland, Armour, Cook's, Gwaltney, John Morrell, Kretschmar, Curley's, Carando, Margherita, Healthy Ones.
So the sale includes Armour hot dogs, "the dogs kids love to bite"? That definitely makes this sale a parenting concern at our house.
While the vast majority of food products that come from China are perfectly safe, pork specifically has been a health issue in China, making it vital for parents to keep a close watch on where their food comes from and who they are trusting with it's continued safe production.
Virginia Del. Bob Marshall, a Republican, agrees with that thought and criticized the proposed merger in a 13-paragraph letter sent May 31 to Smithfield President and CEO C. Larry Pope, according to The Virginian-Pilot.
Marshall contends that the idea of selling this major food producer to China "has not been received well by my constituents, nor in my own family," he wrote. "While Shuanghui may purchase your physical plant and property, Smithfield's former reputation built up from 1936 will not transfer with the sale. Inevitably, the Smithfield 'brand' will suffer, and regrettably, so will many Virginians."
The delegate is the first Virginia politician to publicly skewer the proposed merger and he points to the discovery of a banned additive, clenbuterol, in pigs raised at a Shuanghui subsidiary.
"China's widespread food safety problems are known to American consumers and will engulf Smithfield Foods products regardless of the names under which they are sold," Marshall also wrote, according to The Pilot.
In 2011, an NBC news article said more than 2,000 athletes from at least 181 countries competing in the 14th FINA World Aquatics Championships, hosted that year by China, refused to eat the country's beef or pork in order not to run afoul of the anti-doping rules. Good on them, because a World Anti-Doping Agency report from that time, cited in the NBC article, discovered 22 of 28 travelers returning from China tested positive for clenbuterol.
The NBC reporter's conclusion: "The hard evidence from the World Anti-Doping Agency's report is a damning indictment of Chinese food standards at a time when the government has been dealing with a rash of food safety issues all over the country."
The Livestrong website gives a long list of dangerous side effects the drug, used in veterinary medicine as an antihistamine, can have when humans ingest it.
As a parent, I want to know how this kind of food-related, accidental and unwanted drug ingestion can occur.
Still, I wasn't too worried because I know there's a pending federal review of the merger's implications for national security, according to Robert Passikoff, founder and president of Brand Keys Inc., a brand and marketing consulting company based in New York.
However, I then read further in the Virginian-Pilot story and learned that most Americans are considered unlikely to share my concerns and Marshall's.
"To the consumer, it doesn't matter," Kenneth Bernhardt, a marketing professor who specializes in consumer behavior at Georgia State University, told the Pilot. "The key is not the ownership but the brand, and does the product deliver on the brand promise."
The chairman of Shuanghui International Holdings, who last week won Smithfield's acceptance for what would be the largest Chinese acquisition of a US company, said he wants to tap foreign expertise and technology to help reshape food safety and production at home.
"The question of food safety, whether it's to American consumers or Chinese consumers, is a big deal," Wan said, according to The Pilot. "Our nation has a tighter and tighter grip over food safety."
"Europe and America have excellent skills and equipment," Wan said in the article. "If we go and purchase businesses from America and Europe, develop China's meat industry, we will raise the level and standard of our food safety."


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Sometimes faking it is a good thing. In honor of April Fool's Day, we found scrumptious-looking foods that purport to be something they're not — cakes that look like vegetables, and strawberry jam masquerading as cocktail sauce. Surprise your family with these fun, delicious recipes — and have the last laugh.
All you need to make these pigs in a blanket are marzipan, food coloring and sugar cookie dough. And don't forget the toothpicks!
One lick of this creamy ice cream and your taste buds will do a double take — the cones are stuffed with instant mashed potatoes blended with cream cheese and scallions for a savory surprise.
You won't find any ground round in this faux shepherd's pie, a sugary delight of Cocoa Krispies Treat beef and taffy carrots and peas. The mashed potato topping is made with melted marshmallows and butter and browned under the broiler.
Grab a slice of this cheesy pizza and you'll get the shock of your life — it's actually a tart made with fresh strawberries, mascarpone and mint.
When is spaghetti not really spaghetti? When it's frosting pushed through a pastry bag to form strands (you could also use a zip-top plastic bag), then it's covered with fresh strawberry sauce subbing for marinara. And the meatballs? They're chocolate no-bake cookies rolled into mounds. Mangia!
This will crack you up: The broken eggshells are made from white chocolate and the yolks from lemon pudding.
No need to worry about carbs when you toss back a few of these French fries since they're made with apples, cinnamon and sugar and dipped into strawberry jam. Bonus points for using a crinkle cutter.
These carrot cupcakes topped with cream cheese-nut frosting are actually mini meatloaves with mashed potatoes sprinkled with chopped bacon. We'll take a dozen!
You'll have sweet memories of TV dinners after a few bites of this meal, where the chicken is really cake rolled in corn flakes and the mashed potatoes is made from an iced cupcake. The clever baker subbed caramel sauce for the gravy and cubed bits of colored candies for the veggies. Even the table is edible—it's a two-layer vanilla cake covered with frosting and fondant.
Who would cover a luscious chocolate cake with asparagus? No one, which is why these spears and tips are made of green fondant.
A classic appetizer takes a crunchy turn when the shrimp are made from Rice Krispies Treats and wrapped in pink fondant. Strawberry preserves masquerade as tomato-based cocktail sauce that's garnished with a candy lemon slice and chive fondant garnish.
Don't try munching on this popcorn at the movies unless you're prepared to wipe up crumbs: The bucket is a yellow cupcake covered with a paper wrapper. The just-popped kernels? Mini marshmallows with a crisscross design and yellow food coloring "butter."
Cheese and crackers, anyone? Hope you like yours made with white and orange fruit chews (microwaved to get soft enough to mold) and sandwich cookies.
No need to wait for dessert to eat this strawberry pie — it's really meat loaf (with barbecue sauce, molasses and unsweetened cocoa powder) topped with mashed potatoes colored pink by beets.
Look closely at the bread on this grilled cheese sandwich — it's really sliced pound cake. The melted cheese doesn't have an ounce of dairy but it's got plenty of sugar since it's really buttercream frosting with a few drops of yellow food coloring.
—Nancy Mattia
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A couple golfs together on the Golden Horseshoe Golf Course [now Gold Course] with the Clubhouse in the background. Ca. 1964.
Golfer George Wright & son walk along a path by the water at the Golden Horseshoe Golf Course Sept 27, 1965.
Michelle Wie at the 2004 U.S. Womens Amateur Public Links Championship of the Golden Horseshoe golf club.
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Golf course architect Rees Jones and the
Gold Course 50th anniversary
When golf course architect Rees Jones returned to Colonial Williamsburg to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the golf course originally designed by his father Robert Trent Jones Sr., he took a step back in time to compare notes with a fellow architect, Thomas Jefferson.
Master golf course architect Robert Trent Jones Sr. built the Golden Horseshoe Gold Course, which opened in September 1963. Rees Jones redesigned the course in 1998, making it more playable for higher handicap golfers.
"My father built the Golden Horseshoe Gold Course on historic land surrounded by virgin forest that remains so today," Rees said. "Precision - not length - was most important to dad. Golden Horseshoe Gold is precise with some of the best greens and par 3s in the game."
In 1963, upon its completion, Trent Jones Sr. called it his "finest design," adding: "The Gold Course is a natural arboretum upon which a great golf course has been built." The celebrated layout was awarded status as an Audubon Sanctuary in 2001.
Embraced by mature woodlands, it continues to be one of the country's most beautiful courses. Today, the course stretches to 6,817 yards with a par of 71 and USGA slope rating of 144.
The Gold Course is the oldest of the three courses at Golden Horseshoe Golf Club, all of which support the Colonial Williamsburg guest experience and are open to the public. Golf revenues support The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, helping to keep this vital piece of American history alive and thriving.
A November 2013 anniversary celebration included a championship round on the Gold Course that began with a shotgun start signaled by colonial cannon fire. It also featured an armchair conversation between Rees Jones America's founding father Thomas Jefferson, eloquently portrayed by Bill Barker. They agreed that whether you are the architect of a nation or a golf course, a firm foundation and classic style are important.
The Gold Course continues to earn accolades for its updated yet still demanding design: It is included on Golf Magazine's "Top 100 You Can Play" list of public-access courses, and is one of the Top Six Robert Trent Jones Sr. courses named by Golf Digest, joining the likes of Ireland's Ballybunion, Spain's Valderrama, and California's Spyglass Hill. The Gold Course appears on Golf Digest's list (February 2013) America's 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses.


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Sumdog—engage students with math games
Sumdog has been on my "To Find Out About" list forever, and when our very own Miss Leftin, tried it out and gave rave reviews, I figured I shouldn't wait until this summer to find out more about it.
The site, which is aligned to the Common Core, seems like an engaging way for students to practice math and compete against the computer or live with others. As their teacher, you can set the levels for them to practice, and the site automatically adjusts to their ability level based on correct/incorrect responses, so that all students have a chance to experience success. As students answer questions correctly, they earn coins, which can be spent in the game's store to make improvements to their very own game avatar.
Sumdog allows teachers to create a free login. Your students can play math games, you can set up or join your school (Miss Leftin created our school code—JES1), you can create free student logins, monitor your students live, run 10 progress reports and create 5 activities. There is the option to subscribe for a premium account for $2 per student or a Math & English account for an introductory $4 per student.
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Manfish: the Story of Jacques Cousteau
Need a biography read aloud that has connections to science & invention? Check out Manfish: the Story of Jacques Cousteau by Jennifer Berne.
The story is an engagingly illustrated narrative of Cousteau's life.
As an extension, follow up with the Cousteau Collection a free iPad/iPhone app that allows you to access the Cousteau Archive. Download it now, because for the next seven weeks, until May 9th, they're giving away Cousteau Red Hats;) The app does require you to purchase "trading cards" so that you can view facts about Costueau's accomplishments, but you get a free pack for signing up.
You may also want to check out the History of Cousteau's Movie Camera for information about how he began underwater filming –or check out the English YouTube channel on Cousteau.
Testing Motivators
Want to do something special for your kids during state testing? Check out these cute ideas at the Fourth and Ten blog. I love the "You are One Sharp Student" pencil idea. Or how about these cute notes from Classroom Freebies. Print, cut and pass out to your class. Here are a few more cute ideas from Primary Possibilities—I'm a fan any time you can give away blow pops, and this site has the perfect idea.
Every brain needs a break, so when the day's testing session is over, you may want to check out some of these ideas for a reward:
· Create a class Harlem Shake video—just download the app and you'll be a total rock star. The app is free, but you have to pay to be able to save the video to your camera roll (I have the app and can help with this!)
· Give me a Brain Break by Barbara Gruener includes links to many different ideas
· Or check out my Brain Breaks YouTube playlist—featuring such classics as: Kung Fu Fighting, The Sid Shuffle, Boom Chicka Boom, and Super Mario Gangham Style
Seven Steps to a Perfect Story
I saw this late last week on Pinterest and had to share. Seven Steps to a Perfect Story is an awesome graphic that could help students if they're stuck writing.
The graphic walks students through 7 steps of choosing the pieces of plot that will help them write. In the first step they look at an overview of the story to understand it. In the second step, they choose their plot type (overcoming the monster, rags to riches, the quest, etc). In the third step, they choose their hero (unwilling, anti-hero, tragic, etc). For step four, they choose the rest of their characters and are in step five are encouraged to observe the rule of threes (three stooges, three little pigs etc). In step 6, which is an interesting addition, students are encouraged to choose their "media" - be it dance/performance, traditional storybook, video, digital story, song etc), and step 7 is the golden rule.
The graphic follows a modified archetype structure that is very traditional in story telling and can help students to organize their thoughts and you could easily use it as inspiration for a writing lesson or prewriting exercise.


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Keith Urban, 'American Idol' Judges Have Some Hilarious Fun on 'Ellen' [Watch]
Keith Urban and his fellow Season 13 'American Idol' judges added to their very busy week when they dropped by 'Ellen' to discuss all the fun they've been having and how big of fans they are of each other.
Of course, Ellen DeGeneres is no stranger to 'American Idol.' After all, the comedian replaced Paula Abdul during the show's 9th season. She invited the three judges to visit her show on Wednesday (Jan. 15) for a hilarious interview and a quick game of Heads Up, which is one of DeGeneres' favorite apps. They acted out Jennifer Lopez giving birth, strip club and a kissing booth, getting the crowd (and DeGeneres') approval.
DeGeneres still seems to be a fan of the show -- and its judges. She doted over Lopez's return, telling the singer her she usually always agrees with what she says on the show. The host also complimented Urban's new short locks and asked him if it was a scary thing for him to do.
"No, it wasn't," the Australian shared. "Nic [wife Nicole Kidman] encouraged me a bit which was kind of nice ... She was like 'If you don't like it, it'll grow back. It's just hair.'"
DeGeneres also professed her love for Connick, Jr., but said he was already aware of her feelings. The singer seemed to be genuinely happy and enjoying his time with Urban and Lopez.
"They're the coolest people. They're laid back," he confessed. "We're having so much fun. It really is a lot of fun." DeGeneres did poke a little fun at him, saying she loved that some people still don't know who he is. "Oh, it's awesome," Connick, Jr. said, laughing.
The 'American Idol' judges have chemistry and are comfortable enough to poke fun at one another -- Connick, Jr. even took a few minutes to tease Urban's Aussie accent. "I can do it. I can speak Australian," he said in his worst Australian voice while Urban and Lopez laughed.
Despite his frequent joking, Connick, Jr. is pleased to have joined the judges on 'American Idol' and admires them both -- and respects the show they represent. "It's exactly what you would want a great show like 'American Idol' to be like."
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It's been tough to own semiconductor stocks lately.
Take for example, Cypress - shares have dropped almost 50% over the course of one year.
Cypress makes small, low-power semiconductors that are used in mobile phones and tablets. They also makes chips that power touchscreens.
"They also have controller chips that help smartphones communicate with computers more directly, and they're also the number one manufacturer of a more expensive type of memory chip called SRAM or static random access memory—this isn't really a growth business, but is real a cash cow for Cypress," said Cramer.


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Mobile payments: everyone talks about it, but no one knows exactly how it works or who will win
In our special report, Business Insider Intelligence lays out the four kinds of mobile payment solutions that currently matter:
- Carrier billing. Where the consumer pays by text message and the charge is added to their phone bill. This is great for a variety of specific use cases (reaching the unbanked, especially teenagers; ecommerce and gaming), but is crimped by carrier fees and control.
- Near-Field Communications ( NFC). Where the consumer can pay at the point of sale by waving his phone in front of a terminal. NFC has been overhyped: it's not more convenient than cash or credit, and the many companies who want a piece of NFC are canceling each other's efforts out.
- Apps. Where the consumer uses an app on his smartphone to pay, typically by scanning a barcode at the register. We believe this is especially useful for specific companies and retailers to offer, as it allows them to offer loyalty rewards and discounts on top of payments.
- Card readers. Pioneered by startup Square, with recent entries from eBay ( PayPal), Intuit, and Verifone, these solutions allow merchants to take payments by plugging a card reader into a smartphone or tablet. They're very convenient (swiping a credit card is already ingrained consumer behavior) and piggyback on the existing credit card network. Card reader companies can offer value-added services on top of the payments experience to spur adoption by merchants and consumers.
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ROME, Ga.—Ford Field was the stage Saturday afternoon for a conference faceoff with the regular season softball crown on the line. Separated by one game in the win column, the Birmingham-Southern Panthers and Berry Vikings split the opening doubleheader, with the Panthers taking game one 4-0 and the Vikings winning game two 2-1.
The Panthers are now 21-15 overall with a 18-4 Southern Athletic Association mark, while Berry is 28-8 on the season and 17-3 in conference play.
In game one, BSC rode the arm and bat of junior Bethany Fronk, who went 3-4 from the plate, to win the series opener. The right-hander improved her record in the circle to 12-10 as she threw a complete-game gem to shut out the Vikings. She allowed six hits, walked none, and struck out eight.
The Panthers took control of the game offensively in the second when a two-out double from junior Joanna Jernigan scored juniors Hannah Harris and Taylor Bassett, both of whom reached on singles. Jernigan did not have to wait long to come home as the next batter, sophomore Maddie Ridgway, brought her across the plate with a single. The 3-0 advantage held for the Panthers until the top of the sixth when BSC tacked on another run. A sac fly from Freshman Alex Skene scored freshman Ashley Leonard, who was pinch running for Bassett after the junior singled to open the inning.
Game two featured a pitcher's duel between Panther freshman starter Taylor Harkins (9-5) and Viking starter Allison Coronado. Berry struck the opening blow with a run in the first. BSC would answer in the top of the fifth to even the game at one run apiece. With Jernigan on third a fielder's choice that put Fronk on first also plated Jernigan. Berry took game two with a walk-off double to win 2-1.
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On December 5, 2011, results of a survey commissioned by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) were released during a panel discussion at the National Press Club. The findings showed that many hiring decision-makers believe that the post-secondary education system could do a better job preparing students for the workplace. The study, conducted by FTI Consulting, surveyed 1,006 professionals who make hiring decisions representing various industries in the United States on whether job applicants have the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the workplace.
After the research presentation, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, delivered a keynote address focused on the role of post-secondary education in preparing students for the skills that employers need most. Following the keynote, Daniel de Vise, higher education reporter for The Washington Post, led a panel discussion among experts in workforce development and education, including: Domenic Giandomenico, Director of Education and Workforce Programs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Paul Gore, National Advisory Board, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience; Andrew Kaplan, Coalition for Educational Success; Edward H. Levine, President, Neumont University; and Julie Margetta Morgan, Policy Analyst, Center for American Progress.
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Décision : CONF 001 IX.3
[Uniquement en anglais] Requests for International Assistance - Requests deferred by the Bureau
Establishment of an itinerant conservation laboratory which would service the 7 sites inscribed on the World Heritage List (Bulgaria) - US$39,000: The Bureau recommended that this request be re-examined by the Secretariat and ICCROM before being submitted to its next session in December 1994.
Historic Centre of Puebla (Mexico) - US$18,000: to elaborate a rehabilitation plan to secure the safeguarding of the remaining historical buildings in the area, the introduction of new functions and structures compatible with the urban architecture and a maintenance programme to keep the locality in good condition.
The Bureau recommended that this request be re-examined by the Secretariat and ICOMOS before it is re-submitted to the Chairpersonn of the World Heritage Committee.
Historic Town of Zabid (Yemen) - Taking into account the persent situation in the country and the particular menace of rapid degradation which threaten the Historic Town of Zabid, the Bureau requested the Centre to request the Yemeni authorities to reformulate their request in the form of emergency assistance. The request shall be submitted as soon as possible to the World Heritage Centre for approval by the Chairperson.
DocumentsRapport des décisions
Contexte de la DécisionWHC-94/CONF.001/5
WHC-94/CONF.001/5 Add.1
Assistance Internationale (3)
- Identification and inventory of major historical monuments requiring immediate restoration at Zabid (1994 / Yémen)
- Establishment of an itinerant conservation laboratory to service the 7 sites inscribed on the World Heritage List. (1994 / Bulgarie)
- Expert services to advise on the further development of the conceptual framework of the rehabilitation plans for the Historic Centre of Puebla (1994 / Mexique)
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Free Composting Workshop
The Costa Mesa Sanitary District will give a free workshop on how to compost at 10 a.m. at Fairview Park, 2501 Placentia Ave., Costa Mesa.
Purim Carnival
Temple Bat Yahm, 1011 Camelback St., Newport Beach, invites families from throughout Orange County to its 11th annual Purim Carnival. Admission to the event, which features skateboard lessons, pony rides, a bounce house and food, is free. The carnival is from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. To sign up for a skateboarding lesson, call (949) 644-6563.
'Music for Prague 1968'
The Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble, under Music Director Joshua Roach, will perform Karel Husa's "Music for Prague 1968." The concert is at 2 p.m. in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. For ticket information and tickets, call (714) 755-5799 or go to https://www.PacificSymphony.org.
'Pedals and Pipes'
The Pacific Symphony presents Hector Olivera performing the last concert in the 2011-12 season of its "Pedals and Pipes" organ recitals. The concert will take place at 7 p.m. in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. For ticket information and tickets, call (714) 755-5799 or go to https://www.PacificSymphony.org.
'Sight Unseen'
Playwright Donald Margulies' OBIE Award-winning play "Sight Unseen" comes the South Coast Repertory's Julianne Argyros Stage. For showtimes and more information, visit https://www.scr.org.
'Hello, Again'
UCI Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts presents "Hello, Again," a production for adult audiences only. For ticket information and show times, call (949) 824-2787 or go to https://www.arts.uci.edu/boxoffice.
'Nunsense' and 'Nunsense A-Men'
The Costa Mesa Playhouse, 661 Hamilton St., stages two versions of the same play, "Nunsense," featuring an all-female cast, and "Nunsense A-Men," featuring an all-male cast. Shows are Friday through Sunday. For showtimes and more information, visit https://www.costamesaplayhouse.org.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts' Segerstrom Hall. Tickets start at $16. For showtimes and more information, visit https://www.scfta.org.
'Merry Wives of Windsor'
Glendele Way, a graduate of the Orange Coast College theater program, will direct an OCC production of William Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor." Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $10 for adults and $6 for OCC student, senior citizens and children. For more information, call (714) 432-5072.
'I'm a Frayed Knot'
An opening reception for the "I'm a Frayed Knot" exhibition will take place from 6 to 10 p.m. at Orange Coast College's Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion. The exhibit will run through march 17 in the Pavilion, which is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. It is closed on Fridays, Sundays and Mondays. OCC is at 2701 Fairview Road, Costa Mesa.
'Brad Miller: Primordial Algorithms'
SCAPE gallery, in collaboration with Edward Cella Art + Architecture gallery in Los Angeles, presents an exhibition of work by L.A.-based artist Brad Miller. The show will run through March at SCAPE, 2859 E. Coast Hwy., Corona del Mar. For more information, go to https://www.scapesite.com.
30th Anniversary Special
Royal Khyber Fine Indian Cuisine at South Coast Plaza Village celebrates its 30th anniversary with a special three-curse dinner, which includes a glass of wine. The cost is $30 per person. For more information, call (714) 436-1010 or visit https://www.royalkhyber.com.
Dash Berlin
DJ Dash Berlin performs at Sutra, 1870 Harbor Blvd., Costa mesa. The 21-and-older show starts at 9 p.m. For more information, call (949) 722-7103 or visit https://www.sutraoc.com.
Toshiba Classic
The 2012 edition of the Toshiba Classic golf tournament unfolds at the Newport Beach Country Club, 1600 E. Coast Highway, Newport Beach. For tickets and more information, go to https://www.toshibaclassic.com.