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Jess Ennis-Hill has offered her support for her Great Britain team-mates at the European Cup Combined Events Super League in Tallinn, Estonia after her withdrawal from the event which gets underway this weekend.
Ennis hasn't competed since she claimed gold at the London Olympic Games last summer, and has so far been forced to pull out of three consecutive events with a problematic Achilles injury.
That hasn't stopped her from offering her support for training partners John Lane and Karla Drew, both of whom will be in action in Estonia in the Decathlon and Heptathlon respectively.
She wrote on Twitter: "Good luck to my training partners @85_lane & @KarlaLDrew and the GB team at the Euro Cup combined events meeting! Gutted I'm not competing!"
The Heptahalon which Ennis-Hill has opted to sit out as she looks to keep her preparations for the World Championships in Moscow later this summer on course gets underway in Estonia on Saturday morning.


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Sprint Booster for the Dodge RAM 3500 manual transmission models
This product is specific to the Dodge RAM 3500 2006.5 - 2011 model years
Enhance the performance of your Dodge in under 15 minutes! The design of the Sprint Booster allows for easy installation in all models, without the need to cut any wires (Plug N' Play) or disturb the automobile's electronics. Sprint Booster does not affect other systems such as electronic injection, ABS, etc., and your vehicle's warranty is not affected
Since 2000 most automobile manufacturers have replaced conventional throttle cable technology with an Electronic Control Module (otherwise known as Drive By Wire) that translates pedal travel into electronic signals to the engine. The Sprint Booster's proprietary technology resolves a common problem associated with Drive By Wire systems - delayed throttle response
Very simply, the Sprint Booster connects to the accelerator pedal connector. All you have to do is disconnect the OEM connector from the accelerator pedal and install the Sprint Booster in between the pedal and the OEM connector
The Sprint Booster is now available with a controller to permit instant adjustments between Stock, Stage 1 and Stage 2 performance


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A nail-biter of a fight for the Democratic presidential nomination enters its biggest day Tuesday, with voters in 22 states and American Samoa casting ballots in a historymaking race.
Polls released over the weekend show Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, long the national Democratic front-runner, losing ground. In just the past few days, Sen. Barack Obama has pulled even in key states long seen as Clinton country, among them California, New Jersey, and Missouri.
The tightness of the race increases the odds that the battle for the nomination will stretch past Tuesday into the more than a dozen states voting in mid-February and early March.
Still, it is hard to overstate the significance of the voting Tuesday: About 83 percent of delegates needed for the nomination are up for grabs. With the withdrawal last week of former Sen. John Edwards, Super Tuesday offers the first one-on-one showdown between the front-runners.
Recent days have seen the lead candidates and their surrogates in a frantic coast-to-coast hunt for votes. With her large lead in delegate-rich California gone as of the weekend, according to several polls, Senator Clinton dispatched her husband, President Bill Clinton, there for two days while she traveled to Missouri, Minnesota, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
She bought an hour of airtime on the Hallmark Channel Monday night for a "Voices Across America" town-hall meeting.
On Sunday, California's first lady, Maria Shriver, endorsed Senator Obama at a Los Angeles rally featuring two other supporters – Oprah Winfrey and Caroline Kennedy – expected to help him cut into Clinton's support among women. Obama spent the weekend in Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri, and Delaware and was scheduled Monday to visit New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
For both candidates, the road to Super Tuesday has been long and hard-fought. The primary season opened early and wide, with eight Democratic candidates vying for the nomination before contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina whittled the field to two.
Shrewd campaigners who raised more than $100 million apiece last year, Clinton and Obama each won a pair of the four contested primaries thus far.
Seldom have two hopefuls entered the biggest day of voting on such seemingly equal footing. Never before has either a woman or an African-American been this close to either party's nomination.
Clinton, with her high name recognition in Democratic politics, had led in the national polls for more than a year. But the second-term senator and former first lady, who has cast herself as the battle-tested candidate of experience, has faced unexpectedly stiff head winds since Obama's victory in Iowa on Jan. 3.
Obama, a first-term Illinois senator, put together vibrant grass-roots organizations in early-voting states, where he invested months on the ground introducing himself to voters with stirring oratory and a theme of hope. His challenge Tuesday will be battling the Clinton name in states that know him less well and where television ads play a bigger role than the grueling shoe-leather politics he parlayed into victories in Iowa and South Carolina.
"What you had with these early states are important stakeholders in the Democratic Party" – left-leaning independents, blacks, young voters – "but not necessarily the real center," says Robert Stein, a political scientist at Rice University in Houston. The Feb. 5 sweepstakes "is probably a more representative sample of what the Democratic Party looks like."
Obama raised a record $32 million in January, enough to advertise in 20 of the 22 states voting Tuesday and a half dozen states beyond.
Because most states award Democratic delegates in proportion to the vote for each candidate, it is unlikely that either Clinton or Obama will win enough delegates Tuesday to clinch the nomination. But one or the other could emerge with a clear advantage, making it a matter of time before that momentum jells into hard numbers in later contests.
If neither wins a majority before the Democratic National Convention in August, the race could turn on 796 so-called "superdelegates" – governors, Congress members, and other party leaders – who are not bound by the popular vote and whose support both camps have aggressively courted.
Clinton has led with superdelegates, who make up one-fifth of the voting pool at the conventions. But Obama's endorsement last week by Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, a Democratic stalwart with pull across the party base, is expected to narrow her lead.
Clinton built her Feb. 5 strategy around four states: California, where 370 delegates are up for grabs; New York, with 232 delegates, where she is senator; New Jersey, home to many New York commuters; and Arkansas, where she was first lady.
Obama is counting on a decisive victory in his home state of Illinois, with 153 delegates, but is otherwise taking broader aim across the electoral map. His campaign is targeting "red states" in the heartland, where voters may be wary of Clinton. It is also putting its organizational muscle to work in six states holding caucuses Tuesday, including Minnesota, where Obama's ads tap into strong antiwar sentiment.
Feb. 5 "is quite likely to be muddled," says Lawrence Jacobs, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Victories in places like Kansas, Idaho, and Colorado, he says, "would add a clear story line where Obama can talk about winning in parts of the country, including the upper Midwest, which will clearly be a battleground in the general election."
Though voters are split between the Democratic front-runners, they mostly agree on their top issue: the economy. A race that looked at first like a referendum on the Iraq war is increasingly focused on healthcare costs, job security, and the mortgage crisis.
In a debate in Los Angeles Thursday, Obama invoked the fight against poverty championed by his onetime rival, Senator Edwards. The next day he held an "economic summit" in New Mexico, one of the states with a Democratic caucus Tuesday.
A new Clinton ad in Super Tuesday states shows a parachutist in free fall and the word "recession" as an announcer intones, "With your job and family security in the balance, the stakes have never been higher in choosing our new president."
The candidates' views on economic issues – particularly differences on healthcare – may be pivotal for some voters. But another potent theme will be electability, some analysts say.
With Sen. John McCain now the GOP front-runner after victories in New Hampshire, Florida, and South Carolina, Democratic voters may also try to assess which candidate has the best chance against him in the general election.


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Wake Park Triple Crown Stop # 2: Final Results
Tampa, FL – Day 2 of the the Wake Park Triple Crown stop # 2 surpassed all expectations both in terms of weather AND in terms of rider performance. The sun was blazing all throughout the afternoon helping to keep the water flat and the girls half naked, creating the perfect environment for a cable park showdown. The obstacles only event was loaded with intense match-ups of some of the best rail riders in the world including Erik Ruck, Tom Fooshee, Brenton Priestley, Nate Perry, Shane Bonifay, Yan Tibo, and more. Brenton Priestley put himself on the map making it all the way to the final 4 round with moves like a massive indy tantrum to blind off the kicker and endless press combinations, scoring a 3rd place spot on the podium when all was said and done. We also learned something new this weekend thanks to Keith Lidberg who has recently been crowned with the nickname "teeth." Think about it next time you see him out…Keith outsmarted the rest of the competitors when he brought a second board down to the dock for his heat, that way if he were to fall he can ditch his first board in the lake and get back to the dock faster to finish the heat on a new board before the clock runs out. In a 6 minute heat every second counts, especially if you fall at the far end of the lake.
Moving on to professional mens wakeskate, Obscura team rider Travis Doran made some waves throughout the weekend and eventually took top honors over newcomer Andrew Fortenberry, with George Daniels and Daniel Grant rounding out the top 4. The guys were all dancing their asses off on the table top "dance floor" box with shuv ons, body varials, shuv off and more.
As for the most anticipated results of the day, we'd like to ask you to first take a guess at the winner for pro men and pro men obstacle only? If you guessed Alliance's 2010 Rider of the Year Mr. Tom Fooshee, then congratulations friends, you guessed right. Tom is an absolute machine when it comes to riding by wire, never coming off a rail early or fumbling the handle off a kicker. He lands on the flat water after boosting 15 feet on a heelside 9 as if he were landing in a bed of marshmallows and at one point was actually having a conversation with a photographer as he 270-d on, over the gap, and off of the new step up transfer rail. Congratulations to Tom and all the riders who competed in stop # 2 of the Wake Park Triple Crown. We hope to see everyone at stop #3 on September 16-18 at
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Lost Boundaries. Louis de Rochemont's honest and eloquent study of Negroes who "pass" for whites (TIME, July 4).
Sorrowful Jones. Bob Hope in a series of lively gags grafted onto a Damon Runyon story (TIME, June 27).
The Window. Killers stalk a twelve-year-old witness (Bobby Driscoll) through a jungle of Manhattan tenements (TIME, May 23).
Home of the Brave. A combat case history that slugs hard at anti-Negro prejudice (TIME, May 9).
The Berkleys of Broadway. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers still make an engaging dance team (TIME, April 25).
The Set-Up. A tough little film...
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Guinness 'more life in the dark - iAd' by Tullo Marshall Warren
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Guinness has launched the first ever iAd by Tullo Marshall Warren.
The ad begins with a narrator promising to show the user where the best nights out are and then splits into four sections - pubs, gigs, comedy, and sports - providing users with nearby events and venues based on their location.
The ad allows people to overcome the problem of ordering a drink in a noisy bar by selecting an image of how many pints of Guinness they want to show to the bar staff. The iAd was written by Alex King and the designer was Luke Clark. Production was by TMW, Apple and RSA Films.


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Professional Playwright Credits Oswego for Success
Ryan Sprague '06 has had a one-act play, Some Just Do It Naturally, selected for the Outworks GLBTQ Play Festival in Baton Rouge, La. It is a revision of his first student work at Oswego. Sprague's thriller, East in Red, was produced at Kraine Theatre in New York City in February, and several other plays


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Rumble Challenge Lock Picking Contest System and Drinking Game
I wanted to build a decent contesting rig for a lock picking village a couple of us are hosting at DerbyCon in September 2011. I've seen the rig the TOOOL folks inherited and use for Defcon, it's very nice but starting to get dated. Firstly, I wanted to come up with something new to jam up pickers during the contest. For this contest I wanted to add a "vibration obstacle" to the challenge. Six contestants compete head-to-head on deadbolt's mounted on lock stands. Each lock stand has a vibration motor attached to the back which is activated intermittently throughout the contest. Second, I wanted a larger presence for the contest- namely a much larger display for what's going on. Lock picking is like hacking in that the actual nut and bolts is rather boring to watch, despite what they show in the movies. The control unit will be based on an Arduino and transmits data to a receiver+laptop connected to a projector. The projector will show the clock and players who have opened their locks so far (along with their individual times). I wanted to build a huge 7-segment timer display, but the cost was too high and I didn't have time to complete that, so a projector will make things "large" and potentially more interesting.
Pics or it didn't happen! First I mocked-up a vibration motor to a lock stand to see if it would be enough to actually interfere with picking. The first tests were very promising, so I went ahead and geared the project up to full speed.
Where the bolt slides out and contacts the 1"x2" plank is a small lever switch embedded into the wood. I used hot glue to embed the switches into the plank, a hole is drilled to the rear where the wires are ran. I carved a channel down the plank to hide the wires under the plexiglass which will be added soon to cover the area around the bolt.
Drinking Game Mode
Another motivation for building this was to have a nice drinking game; a switch on top selects one of three modes including drinking mode. I incorporated a formerly-battery powered aquarium pump into the case for dispensing liquids. It was intended to be powered by 1.5V, I run it at 5V via a 7805 regulator and a huge heat sink. The air is pumped into a sealed carboy which contains the liquid, a copper pipe transfers liquid pumped out of the carboy into a manifold and on to the shot glasses. Of course our locksport group already has logo'ed shot glasses so this was a natural extension to the system.
The drinking game mode works like this: Each time a lock is picked open all players get a shot. Each shot consumed by players still in the game gets a shot bonus (including the person who caused the shot to be dispensed). When the shot is dispensed the clock stops and all players must remove their pick from the lock - tensioners may stay in the lock. Shots are consumed, and then the GO! button is pressed on the box to resume the clock. The shot bonus scoring is setup so that the last person to get their lock open has a chance to get the best score since they can potentially get all 6 shot bonuses. Players who have already opened their locks will still get shots dispensed, but no points are awarded for consumption.
I used an Arduino to prototype the circuit. It's so simple to get an ATMega running on perfboard that I don't waste real Arduino's in my final circuits, just put a socket in there and swap chips when you are done with the code. It transmits lock open-events to a receiver (connected to a PC connected to a projector) as well as dispenses shots in drinking-game-mode :-). The controller has an LCD display so it could operate stand-alone, however I'm more interested in using some cheap RF boards to transmit events to the projector system. I was able to get the code written while I was waiting for parts to ship from SparkFun and Jameco. I'm sure I'll have more debugging to do though once I get the final hardware built.
A receiver is also needed for the PC. Another Arduino with an RF receiver connected to the PC via USB will finish out the hardware side of things.
The last component of Rumble Challenge is something to make a nice visualization of how the contest is progressing on the projector. The receiver will feed raw data to a tty on the PC, an application written in Processing will make for a simple visualization system on a projector. Fellow Bloominglabs member Steve wrote up a very nice app which does just this for the project.
I've got more work to do on the Arduino and Processing code yet for it to be presentable.
Action Shots
The first run of the game was during DerbyCon at LVL1's party. We setup the system in full drinking-game-mode with Malibu Rum as the potion of choice. Many thanks for the awesome folks at LVL1 for letting us run the game at their space (hotel rules prohibited drinking in the lock picking village at DerbyCon).
On Saturday we ran the Rumble Challenge in non-drinking mode to satisfy hotel requirements, lots of fun was still had:


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Guest MINDSETTER™ Artigas: RI's Assault on Business Will Further Hobble the State Economy
Thursday, May 18, 2017
In truth, a business with this lack of regard for its workers, likely leading to resentment in both directions, wouldn't survive for very long, especially in a competitive labor market. For my entire career, finding and retaining qualified and productive workers was always my biggest challenge, in good times and bad alike, and I learned that the best way to overcome it was to foster a team-player attitude.
The state should not be introducing this sort of micromanagement to the employer-employee relationship, and especially not in this sort of heavy-handed one-size-fits-all manner. Businesses, particularly the small ones that are the backbone of the state economy, operate on thin margins, and the cost of labor is an important factor in their success or failure. My workers preferred to receive more in wages, in every paycheck, rather than these sorts of benefits, and were presumably responsible enough to save a little money against a possible bump in the road.
Rhode Island has long demonstrated an anti-business, pro-labor bias, and the Fair Shot agenda is another big step down that path. It will further undermine the state's economy and must be abandoned.
Steven Artigas: I am some years' retired from 40 years as a self-employed building contractor in RI. I have lived my entire life here and despair to see the results of decades of short-sighted leadership in our state. It is time that voices are heard on behalf of the million or so of us who lack connections in the state hierarchy.
Related Slideshow: Rhode Island's 50 Wealthiest and Most Influential - 2015 Edition
Paul O'Reilly, Newport Restaurant Group
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
You may not know the name, but you have probably tasted the food. Paul O'Reilly oversees maybe the largest and most diversified restaurant group in Rhode Island. In a state loaded with great restaurateurs, O'Reilly's collection is impressive: Castle Hill Inn; TRIO and 22 Bowen's Wine Bar & Grille; the Mooring Seafood Kitchen & Bar; the seasonal Smokehouse Café; the Boat House; Waterman Grille; Hemenway's Seafood Grill & Oyster Bar; and seven Papa Razzi locations.
In 2014, his Newport Harbor Corp. sold nearly 4 acres on the waterfront known as the Newport Yachting Center for tens of millions.
Stephanie and Lincoln Chafee, Philanthropist and former Candidate for President
(2013 Ranking: 2)
No one fell more in the rankings over the past two years than the Chafees. The fall in influence was driven by an embarrassing failed campaign for the Presidency that started poorly with a focus on the metric system and went downhill from there.
Make no mistake about it, Lincoln Chafee could have been a significant force in Rhode Island and national politics at the conclusion of his term as Governor. He had close ties to the Obama White House and left the office far less scathed than former Governors like Ed DiPrete or Don Carcieri.
The Chafees stay in the rankings because of two factors. They are good at comebacks and the Chafees are wealthy, and Stephanie's side of the family (Danforths) are in the 1% of the 1%. Back in 2006, Roll Call magazine ranked Chafee as the 9th richest member of Congress.
The husband and wife team's combined wealth is estimated at between $150 million and $200 million.
Bready Family, former CEO Nortek/former CEO of Nabsys
(2013 Ranking: 10)
The Breadys - father Rick and son Barrett - are two of Rhode Island's most ambitious and accomplished entrepreneurs. The past couple of years have been a mixed bag for the Breadys, as Barrett's Nabsys collapsed after raising upwards of of $40+ million. It should be noted that the younger Bready had left the firm before it shuttered.
The father, Richard, hosted a major fundraiser for President Barack Obama in 2014 at his nearly $20 million mansion, named "Seafair."
Neil Steinberg, President, Rhode Island Foundation
(2013 Ranking: 21)
Under Steinberg, the Rhode Island Foundation has been reinvented from a sleepy charity to a dynamic innovator. Not every move has worked, but their has been no shortage of effort to spark and fund improvements to Rhode Island's quality of life and economy.
Today, the Foundation is deeply involved in the community narrative. Its peer organization — the Champlin Foundation — continues to operate in a cloak of secrecy.
The former Fleet banker was an unlikely innovator, but the Foundation is now sparking a dizzying array of initiatives. With assets pushing towards $800 million, the Foundation is the largest grant making organization in Rhode Island.
Ned Handy, President and Chief Operating Officer, Washington Trust
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
In 2013, it was a bit of a hiring coup d'état when Joe MarcAurele recruited Handy to join Washington Trust as President and Chief Operating Officer. Previously, he had 18 years at Citizens Financial Group, and was President of Citizens Bank Rhode Island and Citizens Bank Connecticut.
His Connecticut connections have been part of Washington Trust's Connecticut growth.
The Brown University graduate serves on a range of boards including Rhode Island Foundation, Crossroads Rhode Island, Delta Dental of Rhode Island, Rhode Island Hospital Foundation, Providence Foundation, Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy and Salve Regina University.
Charlie Townsend, CEO of Aloha Partners II
(2013 Ranking: 48)
Ever tap into the wireless on an airplane? The provider is almost always Gogo and Townsend is on the Board of the company. Rhode Island's Townsend is everything wireless. He sold Aloha Partners for $2.5 billion.
Now, Townsend is the General Partner and CEO of Aloha Partners II. Aloha Partners is the 8th largest owner of wireless spectrum in the United States, and holds wireless licenses in 12 of the top 50 markets. He has served on the Board of Directors of CTIA – The Wireless Association since 1988.
Townsend is a Virginia and Harvard MBA grad.
Myrth York, Political Influencer, Investor
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
She was arguably the King-maker in the last two Mayoral campaigns helping both Angel Taveras and Jorge Elorza win office, but in both cases once in office she has lost influence over each of them. The three-time Democratic nominee for Governor has been the titular head of the progressive wing of the Democratic party in RI for decades.
The former State Senator from the East Side went all in for both Gina Raimondo and Jorge Elorza and she won big.
Recently, she scored an appointment to the Beacon Insurance Board as a part of a Chafee-Raimondo agreement.
York has been the Chair of the Zoning Board during the tenure of Providence Mayor Angel Taveras. The changes to zoning on Federal Hill under the York leadership of the Zoning Board have been widely scrutinized.
York is seen as a mentor to Brett Smiley, the City of Providence's Chief Operating Officer.
Mark Meiklejohn, President and CEO, BankRI
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
The bank that keeps going and growing was originally a premier regional business bank, and is now taking on all comers for consumer business.
Meiklejohn joined BankRI in January 2006 as the Director of Commercial Banking. He took over for Merrill Sherman and has changed the culture of the bank.
The former Fleet and Citizens executive has become a force in the community. He was recently the past President of the RI Bankers' Association and serves on the Boards of the United Way, Providence Chamber of Commerce, the RI Public Expenditure Council and as a Trustee for both the Providence Foundation and YMCA of Greater Providence.
Jonathan Savage, Shectman Halperin Savage LLP
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
Savage and his partners have built one of the largest firms in Rhode Island. As other corporate firms have merged, paired back and shifted focus to Boston,
Shechtman Halperin Savage have staffed up and filled the void. He has built his practice on serving as receiver or Special Master on many of the biggest busts in RI: Landmark Medical Center, The City of Central Falls, LJ Crane & Rigging, Nestor Traffic Systems, Inc., American Biophysics Corporation, and Marathon Construction, Inc.
Now, as Chair of the Airport Corporation he has focused on reversing the trend of smaller and smaller annual passenger counts by bringing in new airlines, expanding the airport and upping the marketing.
Merrill Sherman, former BankRI President and now Consultant
(2013 Ranking: 23)
Once rumored to run for Mayor of Providence and for Congress, Sherman has become a close confidant to Governor Gina Raimondo. Today, she is the Principal at Sherman Consulting and serves as special master on foreclosure cases.
She served on Raimondo's transition team and shortly there after was appointed to Chair the Board for the multi-billion Clean Water Finance Agency.
Sherman sits on several boards including Brookline Bancorp, Inc.; Brookline Bank; Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Rhode Island School of Design.
Don't be surprised to see Sherman make a run for elected office in the future.
Angus Davis, CEO and Founder of Swipely
(2013 Ranking: 46)
Davis may be Rhode Island's most successful and experienced technologist and he not even close to hitting 40 years-old.
He founded TellMe Networks -- and sold it to Microsoft for $800 million. Now, Swipely, is pilling up the accolades. The company founded in 2009, has raised $40.5M and landed over 3,000 customers.
Combined the company has "sales under management" of over $4 Billion
He has been tapped for most every tech award by Forbes and Fortune - a big win by Swipely would be a big win for Rhode Island.
Paul Choquette Jr., Vice Chair, Gilbane, Inc.
(2013 Ranking: 19)
Like family member Tom Gilbane #38, their is no decay in influence, but the engagement in Rhode Island has diminished. Choquette has served on most every major board including Lifespan, the Brown Corporation, Trinity, and the RI Economic Development Corporation. It is the latter of those appointments and the vote for 38 Studios loan guarantee that is the blemish.
He was a football star at Brown, and legal counsel to then-Governor John Chafee in the early 1960s.
But, make not mistake about it, the family's wealth and the company's influence has only increased, it's just their desire to play in the Rhode Island "sandbox" has decreased.
Tom Gilbane, Jr., CEO and Chairman, Gilbane, Inc.
(2013 Ranking: 33)
The Gilbane family's wealth and influence is growing, but the company's move to Boston has made the them more and more a regional and national player.
Gilbane and Paul Choquette have been two of the leaders in growing Gilbane from a strong regional construction force to a national firm over the past four decades.
In 2014, when GoLocal ranked the 9 wealthiest families in New England, the Gilbanes came in at #7 based on Forbes Data: With a net worth of $1.4 Billion, the family is ranked as the #147 wealthiest family in America.
Richard Baccari, Churchill and Banks
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
Baccari has had a tumultuous couple of years. The mega-developer has put together a massive collection of successful projects throughout the region, but not without great effort and some pain.
In 2014, he was cleared of Federal conspiracy and bribery charges relating to the North Providence Municipal corruption probe.
In early 2015, Baccari announced that he would be handing over the reins to the development company to his son, Richard, Jr.
The portfolio of retail, office, residential and commercial are many of the best known properties around the region. He continues to be a major force in Rhode Island.
Mark Pelson, PCI Private Equity
(2013 Ranking: 44)
Pelson is a quiet leader in business and politics. His relationship with the infrastructure of private equity in the state and his close relationship with Governor Gina Raimondo puts Pelson in a unique power position. He served on Raimondo's transition team.
He has served as Chairman of Lambert's Cove Acquisition Corporation since its inception. He is a partner in several Providence Equity funds where he has served on numerous corporate boards.
Pelson has served on the Board of Overseers of Children's Hospital Boston and as Chairman of The Wolf School in East Providence.
Donald Sweitzer, Chairman, IGT Corporation (formerly GTECH)
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
There is the outside game and the inside game, and Sweitzer is very good at the inside game. In a company that has changed CEO a number of times, moved headquarters, been acquired by an international concern and rebranded, he continues to play his roll as top political adviser to the global gaming company.
Sweitzer is an "ambassador for the Company when interacting with global customers, current and potential partners, and government officials," says his corporate bio. Additionally, Sweitzer advises IGT's CEO on government affairs and general business matters.
Prior to joining GTECH way back in 1998, he was a national Democratic consultant.
Michael Mahoney, CEO Boston Scientific
(2013 Ranking: 26)
It has been a good couple of years for the Rhode Islander and CEO of Boston Scientific. The once volatile medical device firm has seen a far steadier path under Mahoney's leadership.
Boston Scientific recorded $7.3 billion in sales in 2014. As President and Chief Executive Officer, Mahoney made $10,329,264 in total compensation. Of this total $921,302 was received as a salary, $1,404,150 was received as a bonus, $1,899,718 was received in stock options, $6,044,228 was awarded as stock and $59,866 came from other types of compensation, according to Salary.com.
Magaziner Family, State Treasurer, Clinton Foundation, Philanthropists
(2013 Ranking: 31)
Seth Magaziner is the General Treasurer of RI; his father, Ira, is the vice chairman and chief executive officer of the Clinton Health Access Initiative; and his mother, Suzanne, chairs the Board of Trinity Rep.
The younger has pledged to create a higher level of transparency as he manages the more than $7 billion dollar state pension system. The management of the assets has been widely criticized for the lack of disclosure tied to payment of massive fees to hedge funds. Ira Magaziner who has had a storied career as a business consultant and as an advisor to the Clintons, but it has not been without controversy. Most recently, a New York Times article was scathing regarding his performance at the Clinton Foundation.
Combined, the Magaziner family touches most every component of Rhode Island life and play at a national level as well. A Hillary Clinton Administration could mean more big things for anyone of the three.
Brian Goldner, CEO, Hasbro
(2013 Ranking: 32)
Goldner may have changed Hasbro more in the past five years than the company changed in the previous 50 years. He transformed the company from a manufacturing based toy company into an multi-media, entertainment company. It looks a lot more like EA sports than it does like the old Milton Bradley subsidiary. The move of a division and workers to Providence has been part of the transition of the company.
The reinvention he has implemented is dubbed as "Hasbro's branded-play strategy through the global re-imagination, re-invention and re-ignition of Hasbro's world-class brand portfolio."
As President and Chief Executive Officer at Hasbro, Goldner made $14,437,987 in total compensation. Of this total $1,300,000 was received as a salary, $2,300,000 was received as a bonus, $2,798,372 was received in stock options, $7,741,677 was awarded as stock and $297,938 came from other types of compensation, according to Salary.com.
Terry Murray, Former CEO of Fleet Bank
(2013 Ranking: 36)
Murray loves baseball. When CEO at Fleet he signed a massive sponsorship deal with Major League Baseball. Murray's passion about the sport put him back in the public eye when he joined the new ownership group that purchased the PawSox from the Mondor family. He along with two other members of the list - Habib Gorgi and Tom Ryan — came under public scrutiny when they asked for more than $120 million in public financing.
Murray grew up in Woonsocket, attended Harvard, and then grew and merged Fleet Bank from a regional to global player.
He orchestrated the merger between Bank Boston and the Fleet Boston to became the 7th largest lender in America before being bought by Bank of America.
He is one of two Rhode Islanders who belong to Augusta National.
Bruce Van Saun, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Citizens Bank
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
No one may determine the future of Providence more than Van Saun. The CEO of Citizens has navigated the company's spin away from the Royal Bank of Scotland and its public offering.
Now, he will set the course for the future of the city and his bank. 4,000 employees in downtown Providence would be great for the city, state and carbon foot print -- instead of thousands of cars driving to Smithfield.
He is a behind the scenes "data guy" and for Citizens to compete and grow the company will need to recruit smart technologists —and they don't want to be working at a campus in the burbs.
Van Saun has held a number of top jobs with Bank of New York and later Bank of New York Mellon, including Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer. He is a director of Lloyd's of London.
A Van Saun move to Providence and redevelopment of a downtown campus with the Superman building is a game changer for Rhode Island - they build statutes for people with that kind of vision.
John Bowen, Chancellor, President, and CEO of Johnson and Wales
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
Johnson and Wales continues its metamorphosis. Bowen is by far the longest serving college President having been appointed in 2004.
He oversees more than 17,000 students and approximately 2,000 employees at campuses around the country: Providence; North Miami, Fla.; Denver, Colo.; and Charlotte, N.C.
The University's growth has been significant and transformational in downtown Providence.
He has been a Director at Washington Trust, as a Director for Newport Harbor Corporation and was Chairman of the Providence Foundation.
Joe MarcAurele, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Washington Trust
(2013 Ranking: 24)
MarcAurele has helped to grow Washington Trust into a major banking player in Rhode Island and now with a major focus on growth in Connecticut.
He started his career at Fleet and had a major stint at Citizens but jumped to take over the Presidency of Washington Trust in 2009.
He has served as President of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank and a trustee of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, and Rhode Island Hospital Foundation.
MarcAurele received an Honorary Degree of Business Administration in Financial Services Management from Johnson and Wales University and an Honorary Doctorate of Business from Bryant University.
As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Washington Trust, he made $1,134,661 in total compensation. Of this total $514,596 was received as a salary, $318,407 was received as a bonus, $208,653 was awarded as stock and $93,005 came from other types of compensation, according to Salary.com.
John Hazen White, CEO Taco
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
The third-generation CEO of one of Rhode Island's most successful and enduring manufacturing companies has demonstrated skills at both corporate leadership and political disruption. Never shy, Hazen White has been a loud voice in funding efforts to reform issues in Rhode Island, including pension reform, master level and a failed effort to adopt a Constitutional Convention.
Taco has made a number of global acquisitions and entered into a series of strategic partnerships. He is the principal funding source for the Hummel Report and has endowed the John Hazen White Forum on Public Policy at the Brookings.
The reach of his philanthropy targets many education and cultural efforts in Rhode Island, with annual gifts totaling a little more than $400,000.
Robert DiMuccio, CEO Amica Insurance
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
There is not a Rhode Island CEO who is more connected to the community than DiMuccio. Whether it is the Boy Scouts or the NAACP, he is usually there picking up a well-deserved award for contribution to the community.
Amica which has grown from a small mutual insurance company in which you needed to get a reference in order to join back in the 1970's, to now a national power - nearly always winning top ranking for quality and customer service.
In April of this year, DiMuccio was featured in a Forbes piece, "In Search of Building a Great Company." The publication wrote, "Since 2005, when Bob became CEO of the 108-year-old mutual company, Amica has won a remarkable 29 J.D. Power awards."
He serves on a range of Boards including Washington Trust's.
Frederick Butler, Chair of the Board of RI Foundation
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
Butler may be on more high profile and influential boards then any other Rhode Islander. The former top level executive at Textron is now the Chair of the Board at the Rhode Island Foundation.
He is chairman of AAA Southern New England's board of directors, a commissioner of the Rhode Island Ethics Commission and a trustee of Salve Regina University. He is vice chairman of the board of directors for Delta Dental of Rhode Island, a past chairman of The Providence Foundation, and a former board member of the United Way of Rhode Island.
Butler is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School. He worked at Textron in various legal and executive positions from 1980 until his retirement in 2009, and has held numerous leadership positions in Rhode Island, including chairing the Providence Foundation and the board of FirstWorks Providence. Butler is a commissioner of the Rhode Island Ethics Commission and a trustee of Salve Regina University.
Thomas Tisch, Chancellor, Brown University
(2013 Ranking: 29)
As Brown's influence is getting bigger and broader in Rhode Island, so does Thomas Tisch's in Rhode Island.
His wealth would be significantly higher, but as a member of the Sears Board he bet big on the performance of the company. According to a Barron's April of 2014 story, Tisch purchased 475,000 shares of Sears' stock for $15,940,000 at $33.50 a share.
That increased his holdings to 620,824 shares plus another 933,478 shares in a trust. The value of his Sears holdings have decrease from $52 million to about $30 million.
Already a powerful financier from one of America's most influential families, he is managing partner of Four Partners, an investment firm in NYC.
In addition to serving on the Sears board, he serves on the boards of directors of kgb inc. Additionally he serves on the boards of trustees for the New York University Langone Medical Center and KIPP New York.
Editor's Note: an earlier version misidentified him at Provost, we apologize for the error. The Provost is Richard Locke.
Charles Royce, Royce Funds/Ocean House/Weekapaug Inn
(2013 Ranking: 38)
The billionaire Royce has made a profound impact on Rhode Island's hospitality industry by restoring and dramatically enhancing two of the most historic and unique Victorian properties in the state. He has invested tens of millions in developing the Ocean House in Westerly and the Weekapaug Inn into brimming expressions of Victorian architecture.
Royce holds a bachelor's degree from Brown University and a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia University. He has been a major donor to Brown and funds the Royce Fellowship at Brown.
Bernie Buonanno, III, Managing Partner at Nautic Partners
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
An accomplished private equity financier — he and Habib Gorgi (#15 on the list) have built their once spinoff from Fleet Bank boutique into a billion dollar concern. The connections with others in the power structure in Rhode Island is a veritable family tree.
His sister Helena Foulkes is #5 on the list, his father is the chair of the Convention Center Authority and Helena's husband (Bill Foulkes) serves on the state's Board of Education.
Buonanno was an all-Ivy lacrosse player at Brown. His uncle was U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT).
Maureen McKenna Goldberg and Robert Goldberg, Supreme Court and Lobbyist (respectively)
(2013 Ranking: 13)
Meet the highest ranked power couple on the list. In a list dominated by millionaires and even billionaires, the Goldbergs are certainly wealthy, but the strength of their ranking comes from their combined influence.
Maureen McKenna Goldberg has served on the Rhode Island Supreme Court for more than 15 years.
Her husband, Robert Goldberg is the top lobbyist in Rhode Island -- his clients are a who's who of RI and US corporate America, including CVS, FedEx, Johnson and Wales, Bryant University and GTECH. It is reported that Goldberg earns an estimated $1 million plus per year in lobbying and associated legal work.
The chink in the political armor for Bob Goldberg came this year when what was thought to be a slam dunk project - the move of the PawSox - got stopped by a group of citizens, a lot of social media and investigative reporting.
Giovanni Feroce, CEO of BENRUS
(2013 Ranking: 6 with Carolyn Rafaelian)
Giovanni Feroce is trying to do it twice. His success at Alex and Ani has him recognized as one of today's most successful American CEOs, and now he is in the midst of building BENRUS into a multi-billion dollar. The military-inspired lifestyle brand is growing from a WWII watch brand into a complete lifestyle brand.
Feroce currently serves as CEO and Chairman of BENRUS, LLC. and in just a year has rebranded and expanded the company, inked a major deal with Nordstrom, and opened retail locations on the East Coast.
As the New York Times wrote, "Mr. Feroce is in the midst of bringing it back to market. His goal is to transform Benrus into a lifestyle brand — selling things like backpacks, bomber jackets, even a men's cologne called Benrus Black, a reference to "black ops" — with the watches taking center stage."
If he hits a homer with BENRUS, he will have done what few CEOs have ever done — taken two companies on upward rocket rides.
Tom Guerra and Tony Thomas, Foundry Complex
(2013 Ranking: 41)
The son and son-in-law of architect and developer Antonio Guerra now manage the amazing rehabbed industrial campus. The elder Guerra passed in 2014, but he had purchased the then-mothballed Brown and Sharpe complex from the company in the late 1960's. Over 40 years, the family painstakingly rehabbed each building and developed it into the premier work-live complex in the state.
The campus offers 26-acres and 13 buildings and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In 2013, they acquired American Locomotive Complex for just under $20 million and just completed the redevelopment of the "Sharpe" Building into additional apartments.
Now, thousands work in their buildings and hundreds live in the former mills.
Combined, these real estate holdings exceed an estimated $300 million.
Fred Carpionato, CEO Carpionato Properties
(2013 Ranking: 17)
The developer's highest profile properties include the Chapel View in Cranston and the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick, but they are just the head of the needle.
He owns and operates many of southern New England's biggest developments - literally millions of square feet of retail and numerous hotels. Over the past two years, he has been looking to be a lead developer on the 195 development.
His teardown of the old Produce Market on the backside of Providence Place Mall has been widely criticized by preservationists. The land still remains vacant today.
He is major donor to Jack Reed's Narragansett Bay PAC and Reed rents office space at his development in Cranston.
Brad Dimeo, CEO Dimeo Construction
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
He is a third generation leader of Dimeo Construction. Walk around Brown University or just about any college, university or hospital campus is the region and you will see a team from Dimeo building. Their diversity includes the award winning Ocean House in Watch Hill - one of America's most award winning hotels in America and owned and operated by billionaire Charles M. Royce of Royce Funds. Royce is #30 on this year's list, but only a part-time Rhode Islander.
Dimeo's firm is building many of Johnson & Wales additions, but reaches to Massachusetts and Connecticut regularly.
Dimeo is active with Crossroads, Board of Directors, Hasbro Children's Hospital, Advisory Council and is a RIPEC, Trustee.
Carolyn Rafaelian, Founder of Alex and Ani
(2013 Ranking: 6 with Giovanni Feroce)
It has been a tumultuous two years for Alex and Ani and Rafaelian. In the beginning of 2014, she and Feroce had a very public break up and Rafaelian took control of the company. During that period she shed hundreds of employees and revamped nearly the entire management team.
The RI success story which has been among the fastest growing companies in America and was targeting an IPO has restructured and is looking to close out a rebound 2015. That goal may have taken a hit when the company lost its Chief Marketing Officer Ryan Bonifacino going into fourth quarter.
The Alex and Ani involvement, donations and sponsorships in RI has been paired back and Rafaelian has closed two of her three coffee shops - Teas and Javas.
The company reported to have a value in the billions and she is still the largest shareholder. A good holiday season and the karma will be good in Alex and Ani's world, but a significant shortfall in annual sales and the company's skyrocketing growth may look a little more mortal.
Habib Gorgi, Managing Partner, Nautic Partners
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
Quietly Nautic Partners has become a significant mid-sized private equity firm. According to the firm's most recent filling with the SEC in 2012, the firm was looking to raise an additional $800 million. This was the seventh round of fundraising by the firm.
Gorgi has been a behind the scenes player in Rhode Island business, but this year became far more public when it was disclosed he was a limited partner in the new ownership group of the Pawtucket Red Sox.
He is partners in Nautic with #28 on this year's list Bernie Buonanno, III.
Alan Hassenfeld, Former CEO and Chair of Hasbro
(2013 Ranking: 4)
Once the 800-pound business and political leader in Rhode Island, the former CEO and Chairman of Hasbro was a force in pushing for ethics reform in Rhode Island. For the past few years he has taken a lower profile in Rhode Island -- he did however endow the creation of the Hassenfeld Institute for Public Leadership at Bryant University.
The Rhode Island-based Hassenfeld Foundation gave out roughly $4.7 million in donation in the most recently reported year. (Interestingly, one of the Foundation's holdings was in Mattel stock - Hasbro's long-time rival).
Recently, Hassenfeld helped the Capital Good Fund's effort for micro loans with a $100,000 gift.
Buff Chace, Developer
(2013 Ranking: 30)
Chace has been a driving force in creating a new urban living experience in downtown Providence. He has become ever more controversial due to his ongoing demands for tax stabilizations on his projects.
One of his most recent projects is the 170,000 square foot Providence Journal Building in which he is requesting a two-third decrease in the tax assessment as well as a tax stabilization. He has eight buildings in the Westminster Street area.
His official title is founder and managing partner of Cornish Associates. In addition, he's the managing general partner of Mashpee Commons.
Wildly active in the community, he is chairperson of the Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy and a member of the Executive Committee of the Providence Foundation, and is a director emeritus for GrowSmart RI and a trustee emeritus of Trinity Repertory Theatre.
Tom Ryan, former CEO and Chairman of CVS
(2013 Ranking: 27)
Ryan's retirement has been anything but dull. The URI pharmacy grad who helped to build CVS into one of America's largest corporations has been involved with two of the biggest initiatives in Rhode Island in the past year.
He and his wife Anne donated $15 million to fund the George and Anne Ryan Center on Neuroscience at URI. This center is one of the cogs in bringing together major educational and health organizations in a broad-based neuroscience initiative in Rhode Island.
The second major initiative Ryan has been involved with has been the effort to move the Pawtucket Red Sox from their home to a Providence Stadium. He and the other owners initially requested more than $120 million in taxpayer support.
Ryan's neuroscience gift coupled with his fundraising leadership and donations to build the Ryan Center have made him the single biggest individual donor to URI.
Glenn Creamer, Senior Managing Director Providence Equity
(2013 Ranking: 4)
Creamer is a Pawtucket "guy" who has helped to build a $40 billion private equity firm headquartered right here in Providence.
With #2 ranked Jonathan Nelson and #3 ranked Paul Salem, the three along with a team of a few dozen have put Rhode Island on the map for the highest of high finance.
Previous to Providence Equity, Creamer worked in investment banking at Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan and received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University.
While the past couple years have been a bit rough, there have been some solid hits with the sale of Ironman to Wanda Group for $650 million earlier this year which takes some of the sting off the Altegrity loss of nearly $800 million.
Paul Salem, Senior Managing Director Providence Equity
(2013 Ranking: 5)
Salem has been a leader on some of the biggest private equity deals in business such AT&T Canada, Wired magazine, and Hulu.
He along with fellow Brown mates Jonathan Nelson (#2 on this years list) and Glenn Creamer (#11) were Wall Street's golden boys for more than a decade. But, the past couple of years have taken a little luster of the firm's momentum.
The collapse of Altergrity and a tough New York Times article were two big hits this past year, but make no mistake about it - with $40 billion and a talented team, they are just one mega-deal away from regaining a position as one of the top firms in the United States.
One of the family's biggest successes may be by his wife Navyn, who is the founder of Edesia, a global nutrition solution - one of the most heralded efforts to combat hunger. Salem is the Chair of the Board of the education program Year Up.
Scott Donnelly, CEO Textron
(2013 Ranking: 8)
Donnelly heads one of only three Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Rhode Island, and it is Providence's only one. Textron is ranked #219.
Prior to coming to Textron, he was president and CEO for General Electric (GE) Aviation, the world's leading producer of large and small jet engines. He took the helm of Textron in 2009.
As Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at TEXTRON INC, he received $12,150,820 in total compensation. Of this total $1,080,000 was received as a salary, $1,690,000 was received as a bonus, $2,827,898 was received in stock options, $6,477,552 was awarded as stock and $75,370 came from other types of compensation, according to Salary.com.
Textron is one of the world's best-known multi-industry companies. Textron businesses include Bell Helicopter, Cessna, E-Z-GO, Greenlee, Jacobson, Kautex and Textron Systems and Textron Financial Corporation.
John Taylor, Chairman Twin River
(2013 Ranking: 9)
Taylor's gaming holdings have grown significantly and his big bet has yet to payoff. In 2014, his company purchased the Hard Rock Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi for $250 million. The same year they tried to get approval for another facility in Colorado, but the voters shot them down. This year, Taylor's company got approval to build a hotel on the Twin River Lincoln campus.
The biggest bet is the company's acquisition of Newport Grand and the proposal to build a new facility in Tiverton with an expansion of table games. Tiverton is one of Rhode Island's most rural and beautiful towns — but Taylor has gone door-to-door himself, explaining the benefits and putting his name on the line with residents.
For Taylor who started as an intern from then-Governor Ed DiPrete in the 1980's, he has come along way and 2016 is a big year.
Christina Paxson, President Brown University
(2013 Ranking: 37)
After a quiet start in her tenure as Brown's 19th president, Paxson has begun to roll out a number of major initiatives including a $3 billion fundraising campaign. Yes, $3 billion!
Moreover, she has started to be a political force in Providence and Rhode Island wielding significant influence. She was a key player in resolving the nursing school dispute and her "pull the rug" letter ended the PawSox efforts in Providence on the 195 land.
She faces challenges as the Woodrow Wilson Center at Princeton that she ran before coming to Brown, which has become a lightning rod issue about the name-sakes racial legacy, and Brown students are beginning to stir on a number of race-related issues. She recently announced a $100 million effort to study racism.
According tot he Chronicle of Higher Educations review, Paxson earns $739,000 (about one-sixth of her Ivy-League counterpart at Columbia).
Helena Foulkes, VP CVS
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
Foulkes, like Merlo, has had a good couple of years. She was in part the architect of the removal tobacco from the company's 7,700 plus stores.
Fortune named her the #26 most powerful woman in business and she now is President of the Retail business.
Her father chairs the RI Convention Center Authority Board, her brother serves on the Commerce Corporation Board and her husband serves of the education board. There is no excuse for not being able to fix RI's economy over Christmas dinner.
According to Salary.com, Foulkes made $6,064,082 in total compensation. Of this total $850,000 was received as a salary, $3,165,044 was received as a bonus, $624,992 was received in stock options, $1,249,927 was awarded as stock and $174,119 came from other types of compensation.
Joe Paolino, Paolino Properties
(2013 Ranking: 12)
If you are standing downtown and look left, right or up, then you are bound to see multiple elements of the Paolino real estate holdings. Never before has one company owned so much of the highest value property in downtown at the same time.
Similarly, it is hard to attend a Democratic Fundraiser without Paolino playing a key role. He is a top fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, helped Buddy Cianci's failed effort to recapture City Hall in 2014, but even when he loses he seems to win. He failed to get voters in Newport to approve his plan to add table games to Newport Grand and so he flipped the property to Twin River and took his winnings off the table.
Paul Kazarian, Japonica Partners
(2013 Ranking: NEW)
RI based financier Paul Kazarian bet billions in the Greek debt crisis. The founder and CEO of Japonica Partners was a key player in the battle between Greece and the European Union. Kazarian's company was one of the largest private bond holders in Greece.
The former Goldman Sachs investment banker first made national headlines when he took control of Sunbean-Oster and made millions when he left as CEO of the company - it was not a happy break-up.
The family's Charles and Agnes Kazarian Eternal Foundation, named in honor of his grandparents, has assets in excess of $160 million (to put in perspective the Champlin Foundation has about $270 million in assets).
Gina Raimondo, Governor of Rhode Island
(2013 Ranking: 18)
Maybe the best resume ever to come out of Rhode Island. Raimondo was elected Rhode Island's first female Governor and couple that accomplishment with her degrees from Harvard, Yale and a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford, and she is right there with John Pastore, T.F. Green, and John Chafee.
As General Treasurer she was the darling of the Wall Street Journal and other business publications for pension reform legislation. For many it was perceived as having saved the pension system, but detractors like Forbes columnist and former SEC investigator Ted Siedle claim it just pushed more wealth to Hedge Fund managers who have made hundreds of millions in fees from Rhode Island's pension funds under Raimondo's reign.
As Governor, she has proposed a massive funding program to rebuild Rhode Island's dilapidated infrastructure. The proposal has come under criticism in part for utilizing a revenue bond structure - another program that will generate tens of millions in Wall Street fees.
Her husband Andrew Moffit is a business consultant at McKinsey & Company. Her wealth in part comes from the State of Rhode Island's investment in Point Judith Capital - she is a shareholder.
Jonathan Nelson, Founder Providence Equity Group
(2013 Ranking: 1)
The past two years have been a challenge for Jonathan Nelson and his Providence Equity Group. Once the golden boys of private equity and lauded for putting together "the biggest deal in the world," he and the firm have had a series of set backs.
The highest profile bump was the firm's loss of nearly $800 million in the firm, Altegrity, that was contracted to review federal contractors like Edward Snowden. As GoLocal reported last January, the domino effect of Snowden's absconding with federal data bases exposed the deficiencies of Altegrity's vetting process.
As the New York Times wrote in April, "Altegrity was the latest in a string of bad bets for the firm. Last summer, it lost its entire $460 million investment in a for-profit college company after that company faced multiple investigations. Hundreds of millions of dollars were erased when the film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer went bankrupt in 2010. A $675 million stake in an Internet retailer has been written down to zero, as has the $400 million it spent on a Dutch child-care group. The spate of poor investments caused Providence to deliver dismal returns in back-to-back funds."
Please don't distress too much over Nelson's plight, he is still considered Rhode Island's richest man by Forbes and his Providence Equity Partners still manages a self-reported $40 billion under management.
Larry Merlo, President and CEO of CVS
(2013 Ranking: 7)
Its been a good couple of years for Larry Merlo. In 2014, under his leadership, CVS stopped selling tobacco products which made the company a poster child for being a progressive, pro-health company.
Then, the First Lady, Michelle Obama asked him to be her guest last January at the State of the Union. Also, he scored a compensation package of $32 million in 2014. Not a bad year for the CEO of the 12th ranked company on Fortune 500's list.
In 2013, Merlo ranked 7th in GoLocal's 2013 ranking, but his accumulated wealth and his craftsman-like leadership of CVS elevates Merlo to the position of the Most Wealthy and Influential for 2015.
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By Allison Thomas and Colleen Whiteside, Orion International
With 15% growth in 2010 alone, there are few industries experiencing the rapid growth of the wind power industry. In fact, this industry was responsible for 26% of all new electric generating capacity in the United States, according to a recent American Wind Energy Association report. Rapid expansion of this degree requires talented labor that can be hard to find, and many wind energy companies have found veterans to be one solution to this talent shortage.
"Regardless of the position they held in the military, veterans have several things in common -- an accelerated learning curve, the ability to 'do more with less', and a proven track record of sound decision making under the most difficult of situations," says Mike Starich, a former US Marine Corps Captain and the President of Orion International, a national military recruiting firm.
Scott Corley, a former Naval Chief Petty Officer with 24 years of service, provides perspective on how his position as a Field Service Technician for Siemens Wind Power was a logical and fulfilling next step in his career: "My career path as an Aviation Electrician, Flight Engineer, and Maintenance Manager translated very well to the wind industry. I would highly recommend veterans take a look at entering this field, as the opportunities to build a civilian career are plentiful."
Skills That Fit
The wind industry is well-suited to Enlisted Technicians, Officers, and Noncommissioned. Former Officers typically fit positions such as Site Managers, Project Managers, and Project Engineers; technicians bring strong electronics, electrical and mechanical skills to technical positions; and NCOs have a well-honed blend of technical and leadership skills. "Our clients appreciate the combination of technical skills, industry know-how, and focus on safety they get when utilizing our teams of prior military technicians," says James Haley, a former Naval Engineering Officer and Director of Operations at Gemini Energy Services, an Operations & Maintenance service provider to the wind industry.
Among the many veterans who power this industry is Mark Goldstone, a retired Wing Life Support Superintendent in the Air Force. Goldstone retired as a Senior Master Sergeant in 2005 after a 24-year career and began a new career in the wind industry as a Project Manager for an electrical contracting company, responsible for wiring a wind farm in southern Minnesota. He currently works as a Project Manager at Acciona Wind Power where he manages wind farm construction. Goldstone takes his own experience as a veteran into account when he cites skills that fit the wind industry and are inherent in veterans.
"Military people are trained to troubleshoot, fix, and maintain complex pieces of technology, following guidelines spelled out in technical orders and manuals. The wind industry is quite similar and follows much the same methodology," says Goldstone. "Another skill-set is the ability to receive a set of instructions, then work autonomously, in remote locations, a day or several days at a time." Goldstone also notes that a veteran's knowledge of logistics can be vital in the Erection and Commissioning phase of wind farm construction, as well as during the Operations and Maintenance phase.
Growth Industry
When choosing a career path after the military, veterans often look for growth industries that are also a good match with their skill set. Randall Tyson, a nuclear-trained Machinist's Mate who served 12 years in the Navy, found the wind industry to be attractive for both of these reasons, as well as the variety of duties with which he could be tasked on any given day.
Tyson, a Wind Engineer with Terra-Gen Power, explains, "I grew up on a farm, was a diesel mechanic before the Navy, and my nuclear/mechanical training in the military all contributed to my ability to perform in my position." For veterans interested in the industry, Tyson suggests that they do their homework on what technologies are being used in the industry, and broaden their knowledge and experience as much as possible in those areas.
Goldstone adds, "I believe that within another ten years, wind will represent a large part of America's electricity generating capacity, requiring a huge number of individuals to build and maintain that infrastructure. Hopefully, many of these individuals are military veterans."
For opportunities in the wind industry as well as related occupations, search for hundreds of thousands of jobs for veterans at www.military.com/careers.
--- About Orion: Orion International is the nation's largest military placement firm, founded in 1991 by five former Military Officers. Orion finds civilian careers for Junior Military Officers, Noncommissioned Officers, and Enlisted Technicians leaving the military, as well as veterans who have already transitioned from service but are seeking a career change.
Orion provides career transition advice, resume assistance and interview preparation; and arranges interviews for positions that are a match with the veteran's background, qualifications and desires. To learn more, please visit www.orioninternational.com.


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Natural fragrant botanicals can be burned on special incense charcoal tablets or disks. The heat releases their beauty and aromatic properties.
To light any type of charcoal, use a lighter or a candle by your censer . Hold the tablet with tongs, pinchers, chopsticks or carefully with your fingers, over the flame until the edge begins to glow. The Golden type will emit sparks as they ignite. Then place the charcoal onto the ash , sand or prepared censer.
After it is fully ignitedand covered with ash, you may put the incense on a foil or directly on the live coal.
Be sure to store your charcoal in an airtight container, or plastic bag when not in use. Moisture in the air can make the charcoal difficult to light.
For more See Basic Method for Burning Incense on Charcoal
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|This article was published on Thursday 29 March, 2012.


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Nothin' but Net: Knicks need serious changes
Philadelphia, PA – The New York Knicks are in serious trouble.
Keen observation, Commander Obvious, seeing as they are down 3-1 to the Indiana Pacers in a best-of-seven series, but the Knicks are in immediate peril, including Thursday's Game 5 in Madison Square Garden.
The Knicks have done almost nothing right in their series with the Indiana Pacers. Save for a brilliant 30-2 run in Game 2, the Knicks would be at Shinnecock right now playing better-ball.
The first problem is offensively. The Knicks averaged 100 points per game on the button during the regular season, but are down to 87.9 ppg during their 10 postseason tilts.
Clearly there is some type of issue here, but it's a simple one - the Knicks' shots aren't falling. New York was a jump-shooting team all season and managed to shoot 44.8 percent from the floor. The Knicks led the league in 3-pointers made and were tied for fourth in long-range percentage.
In the playoffs, the Knicks are shooting at a 41 percent clip and converting only 7.6 3-pointers per game. Sometimes the ball doesn't go in and it's not for the Knicks.
Carmelo Anthony is scoring at a high level in the postseason. He's also taking some lip from Tyson Chandler and pundits about not spreading the basketball around enough.
That is complete rubbish.
J.R. Smith's scoring is down from 18.1 ppg during the regular season to 14.3 ppg in the postseason. Chandler's down four full points a night. Jason Kidd hasn't scored this month. That's not my usual sass, Kidd has not scored a point since Game 2 of the Knicks' first-round series with the Boston Celtics.
Where exactly should Anthony look to for help? Chandler can't score, Kidd can't score, Iman Shumpert is not a real offensive threat, Amare Stoudemire can't stay on the floor long enough, Pablo Prigioni is getting yanked out of the lineup and Steve Novak disappeared quicker than a mob informant. Someone ought to dredge the Hudson to see where Novak's at with his concrete boots.
It's worth noting the Knicks won 54 games, an Atlantic Division title and the second seed in the East employing the same offensive strategy.
Smith is killing them more than anyone. At almost four points less and nine points lower field-goal percentage-wise, Smith is just not producing at the same clip.
"I take the blame for this whole series," admitted Smith.
(In an era when athletes deflect and go on the defensive, honesty, something as basic as that floors me.)
He's been awful, but he's certainly the only one.
Defense has even been a bit of a problem for the Knicks. Their numbers are great with opponents' scoring at 85.0 ppg, but the Celtics were the Three Stooges of offense.
Game 3 against the Pacers proved to be a huge problem for the Knicks. Chandler got manhandled by Indiana's Roy Hibbert. That forced the Knicks to double-team every Pacers player on the low post in Game 4. Indiana was disciplined enough to move the ball and even knocked down eight 3-pointers.
Chandler finished on the All-Defensive first team and was last season's defensive player of the year. His inability to defend Hibbert forced a change that directly caused a huge problem in Game 4.
So where does coach Mike Woodson go from here?
Well, he panicked in Game 4 and started a bigger lineup with Kenyon Martin in and Prigioni out. That worked wonders. Martin scored zero points in just under 29 minutes, Prigioni played under four minutes to no critical acclaim.
You can understand why he did it. Priggy is not a guy who will fill a stat sheet and the Pacers' girth has hurt the Knicks. Martin didn't help that at all. Indiana still outrebounded New York, 54-36.
The first thing Woodson can do is go back to his starting lineup with Prigioni out there and he all but said he would.
"That lineup has been good and there's a strong chance we could go back to that lineup," Woodson said after practice on Wednesday.
Next up, are the tougher decisions.
Kidd is a Hall of Famer one day. At this point, he is an offensive liability. The Knicks are playing 5-on-4 when they have the ball and he's out there. Kidd is not only not scoring, but he's not taking open shots in the flow of the offense. Before you get on your soapbox about everything else Kidd does, know he's averaging 2.4 assists and 1.1 steals in 23.5 minutes per game.
Also, Smith will need to be handled differently. If he doesn't have it early, Woodson needs to pull him earlier. Give Chris Copeland or Novak a chance to score. Smith doesn't do anything well enough outside of scoring to warrant being out there.
The problem is, Woodson doesn't have five guys he can unconditionally rely on at the moment. Anthony, Felton and Chandler will be out there (all three should play close to 48 minutes). Shumpert is probably the fourth, but if Smith isn't on, who do you go to?
Also, the Pacers' frontline is killing the Knicks on the glass. Indiana is getting 13 offensive rebounds a game. The Pacers get 10.5 rebounds more than the Knicks in this series.
Martin has to play better. They need him because an elimination game is not where Marcus Camby should crack the rotation.
Stoudemire could play more, but can his knee handle that? Doubtful, but in 10 minutes per game, Stoudemire is averaging 5.5 ppg and 3.5 rpg. He might have played longer in Game 4, but came out way too amped up and started fouling like crazy.
Woodson is in trouble, but it's not because of Anthony, or even Smith that much. He's in trouble because the Knicks are a jump-shooting team. When they don't go in, it looks ugly like it has through four games.
His rotation is shot due to ineffective play. His team can't rebound with the opposition.
Yeah, Commander Obvious reporting - the Knicks are in serious trouble.
- You do have to feel badly for the Seattle area. They deserve a basketball team, but the NBA just loves the Sacramento area. Or, the NBA really loves Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, the former All-Star point guard for the Phoenix Suns. The NBA just wants to rid us of the Maloof brothers and probably not give them any satisfaction on the way out. A deal will be made with this Sacramento-based consortium and the team with the worst home attendance in the NBA stays put. The Kings have been mismanaged since Chris Webber and Mike Bibby left town. The Maloofs have mailed it in, so showing them the door is fine. But Sacramento has not showed up for the team. A new building will do almost nothing. New basketball people could do a lot.
- I refuse to believe a team will pay Nate Robinson a lot of money based on his playoff run with the Chicago Bulls. I have faith in basketball minds that they will realize on an offensively challenged group like the Bulls, his style of chucking worked. They needed any warm-blooded male human to score points for them. Truth be told, I don't think he's back with Chicago next season, unless, of course, Derrick Rose plans to sit that out, too.
- The Bulls do earn credit in my book with how hard they competed down so many key people. But for those who talk about moral victories, the Heat won their four games by an average of 18.3 points.
- After Tuesday's NBA Draft Lottery, the focus will shift some to the draft every week.
- I'll never understand how analytics work in basketball. I didn't when it started in baseball, and I won't for a while in the NBA. The Philadelphia 76ers' hiring of Sam Hinkie reflects a philosophical change for an organization desperately in need of one. Doug Collins served his purpose for two years, but can you say the team is in good shape when he left? There are only a handful of teams in worse shape right now than the Sixers.
- Movie moment - As I tweeted earlier this week, I love that Bane wears a winter coat in "The Dark Knight Rises." This is a man who lived in a sewer and a pit prison covered in cloth, but he respects cold.
- TV moment - I can not express how excited I am for the return, no matter how many episodes, of "24." While it's preposterous and played out at times (like what screening process does CTU use, because there are moles every year), this show was still, even at its looniest, better than almost everything on television.


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Goldman Earnings, June CPI Driving Markets
Chris Dieterich outlines key economic news of the day, including Goldman Sachs's Q2 earnings and June's consumer prices data. Photo: AP
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... breaking news new one inflation which is that as well as news of the earnings report from Wall Street behemoths Goldman Sachs and other matters of importance to markets this morning we joined by Chris Dietrich morning Chris morning ... so none inflation for what what what of the tunnel CPI data to the great news for for June CPI comes in at up five cents percent from a month earlier that's um ... I especially since February month over month increase but ... the trend here still that inflation remains relatively subdued not only here ... aam but the globally ... in ... the key reaching there is probably gonna ... keep ... gets uncovered the Fed and other central ... banks always for some time about ... the changes to their ... monetary policy said undress Toto in the corner late in which Mr. second Ian and Anthony was an easier point one ... it says right so what else is that the on line train is still very weak even to us ... the other the music was said Goldman Sachs ... not to die and poison very closely watched earnings report and did did did pretty well on this train every conceivable that UPS ... three points seventy three all seventy of this is two dollars and two ... estimated that's quite a lot of the buildings petitions quite a B ... overall earnings ... more than double from from the year-earlier we have tried in this and this is actually the third ... beat now a couple days we heads that Citigroup yesterday JPMorgan ... Friday ... driving Goldman's be have begun trading revenues on the fixed income commodity currencies side ... aam some their investment banking businesses that did did play well underwriting for stocks ... IPO's secondary is is most bonds ... of quite a bit so you can pretty pretty pretty upbeat signs of from Wall Street are now ... then of course it is earnings season which is why we have the stamina Live Lucy getting a lot more than what what else to go on to ... forget all on tap this week and is about eighty of the five hundred SNP stocks reporting to really write an ending of it ... um couple other big um ... earnings reports out this morning Coca-Cola ... as a first when the Muslims a more downbeat they had the volume sorta slow globally ... and we have containing with the number of issues and so the slowdown in the in the consumption of you know ... the key products in the U S people are thinking as much of Tuesday's actually interesting to see if I was planning global weather SOzol bit colder ... apparently the so-called cut to the market has been affected by this that ... but another interesting read through on this one is scope mentioned ... on the rising dollar as easy as some of ... this ... as a iam it's of a hindrance to sales abroad which can be a theme that were Tennessee throughout the thick of earnings ... from another big at Essen P I'm sorry Dow component out this morning Johnson and Johnson might ... also be that stocks up about one percent in the premarket ... so um strong drive from the pharmaceutical ... sales running that one so it's been it's been a strong performer in the equity market this year looks to continue today ... and of course it was really really critical concepts that stopped the deco of Goldman shares to know the regulars in a speech balloon string up some of that about one percent today so that is looking to be a strong performer ... the financial sector has been this month driven in part by some the things that we saw early on from the financial sector some of her former self ... that's looking to continue ... constraints ... it will be much more this of course that money be ... attained thirty six Russian Joinus Chris thanks


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ATLANTA (AP) — David Wright hit two solo homers, New York's bullpen pitched five-plus scoreless innings to overcome an injury to starting pitcher Jonathon Niese in a victory over Atlanta.
Niese left the game in the fourth with left shoulder discomfort and the Mets trailing 3-2, but the Mets' bullpen shut down Atlanta for the next 5 2-3 innings.
Closer Bobby Parnell earned his 11th save in 14 chances by facing the minimum in the ninth.
LaTroy Hawkins (2-0) earned the victory after allowing two hits and striking out two in two innings.
The Mets have won four of six, thanks in part to a bullpen that's 1-0 with a 1.55 ERA over the last nine games.
Mike Minor (8-3) allowed nine hits, four runs and two walks in six-plus innings for Atlanta.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Pedro Ciriaco tripled in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning and hit a two-run homer in the eighth to lead San Diego past Los Angeles in the Dodgers' 's first visit to Petco Park since the teams brawled on April 11.
The Padres, who had three terrific defensive plays, won for the eighth time in 10 games and popped above .500 for the second time this season.
Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig homered on his first swing at Petco Park, giving him six overall and three against the Padres since his big league debut on June 3.
Nick Vincent (2-0) pitched the seventh for the win.
The Dodgers, who've been in last place in the NL West since May 6, have lost eight of 11.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pinch-hitter Marcell Ozuna's two-run single gave Tom Koehler his first victory in nine career starts, and Miami rallied past San Francisco.
Ozuna's line drive to right field in the eighth inning off reliever Jeremy Affeldt (1-3) ended Koehler's stretch of futility. After six appearances in the bullpen, Koehler (1-5) had been winless in seven starts this season — and took the loss in his lone start last year — for the worst team in the majors.
Giants starter Chad Gaudin tossed 4 1-3 scoreless innings but left the game after taking a hard line drive off his right throwing elbow. The team said he had a bruised elbow.
Joaquin Arias' RBI triple put San Francisco up 1-0 in the seventh.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lance Lynn earned his 10th victory to tie for the NL lead and Matt Holliday homered and drove in two runs in St. Louis' victory over Chicago.
Lynn (10-1) allowed a run on three hits in six innings with six strikeouts and has reached double digits in wins before the All-Star break both of his years in the rotation, going 11-4 last year and making the All-Star team. He joined teammate Adam Wainwright and Washington's Jordan Zimmermann for the league lead.
Welington Castillo homered leading off the third for the Cubs.
Castillo's second homer of the season and first since April 8 briefly tied it at 1 after David Freese's run-scoring groundout off Scott Feldman (6-6) had given the Cardinals the lead.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Pedro Alvarez hit a solo homer, bases-loaded double and single to drive in all of Pittsburgh's runs in a victory over Cincinnati and a split of their NL Central showdown.
The Pirates remain a half-game behind second-place Cincinnati after the four-game set.
Alvarez had an RBI single and his 16th homer off Homer Bailey. After Alfredo Simon (5-3) loaded the bases in the seventh, Alvarez doubled off left-hander Tony Cingrani to snap a 2-all tie.
Bryan Morris (4-2) contributed to the go-ahead rally with his first career single. He also pitched two innings, allowing one run.
DETROIT (AP) — Jhonny Peralta hit a two-run homer off Andrew Bailey in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Detroit Tigers a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night.
Boston led 3-2 when Victor Martinez drew a leadoff walk off Bailey (3-1), and Peralta followed with a line drive over the fence in left field for his seventh homer of the year.
David Ortiz homered and drove in a tiebreaking run with an eighth-inning single to put Boston up, but Drew Smyly (3-0) replaced Phil Coke for Detroit and prevented any further scoring by the Red Sox. He struck out four in two innings of relief.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Ian Kinsler put Texas ahead for the first time with a two-run single in the seventh and the Rangers held on for a series-clinching victory over AL West-leading Oakland.
Kinsler came to the plate right after Leonys Martin's hustling infield single, getting to first base ahead of Sean Doolittle (3-2) when the pitcher was taking the toss from first baseman Brandon Moss. That loaded the bases with two outs, and Kinsler hit a full-count pitch through the middle of the infield.
The game ended when Josh Donaldson was thrown out at the plate trying to score from first on Seth Smith's single to center.
NEW YORK (AP) — Evan Longoria homered twice and drove in three runs, and Matt Moore ended a personal three-game skid in Tampa Bay's victory over New York.
Longoria reached 500 career RBIs with a sacrifice fly in the third inning. He homered against Andy Pettitte (5-5) leading off the sixth and connected off Joba Chamberlain to open the eighth.
Yunel Escobar hit a two-run shot off Boone Logan later in the eighth. Tampa Bay had 14 hits after totaling 15 in a 6-2 win over Boston on Wednesday night.
Moore (9-3) pitched into the seventh inning and gave up three runs.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Brian Dozier's two-run homer was one of a career-high four long balls hit off Chicago starter John Danks, and Minnesota finished their first three-game sweep of the season and their first over White Sox in three years.
Oswaldo Arcia went deep in the second inning ahead of Dozier. Clete Thomas and Eduardo Escobar hit back-to-back shots in the fourth, sending the White Sox to their seventh defeat in the last eight games. They fell to a league-worst 13-27 on the road and 5-13 overall in June.
Danks (1-4) lasted only five innings, giving up 12 hits and six runs. Paul Konerko and Adam Dunn hit consecutive home runs against Scott Diamond (5-6) in the sixth inning, but that wasn't nearly enough.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Alberto Callaspo drew a bases-loaded walk to bring home the tiebreaking run with two outs in the eighth inning, and Los Angeles rallied from an early seven-run deficit to hand Seattle a gut-wrenching loss.
Mike Trout matched his season high with four hits for the Angels, who trailed 8-1 after four innings. Peter Bourjos homered and had three hits, and he scored the tying run in the eighth during Los Angeles' final rally for its sixth win in eight games.
Kyle Seager matched his career high with four hits and drove in the tiebreaking run in the eighth for the Mariners, who couldn't protect a huge lead even with Felix Hernandez on the mound.
HOUSTON (AP) — Carlos Pena hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning to send Houston past Milwaukee.
Carlos Corporan struck out but reached on a wild pitch with one out in the 10th and J.D. Martinez followed with a double. Pena then launched the first-pitch homer off Michael Gonzalez (0-3) to the second deck in right field.
It was a sloppy game that featured six unearned runs and four errors.
Hector Ambriz (2-4) pitched a scoreless 10th to help Houston take two of three in the series.
Corporan tied it with a solo home run in the eighth.


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Accommodation & Transportation
There is a good number of excellent hotels in the major cities of Saudi Arabia, specially in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam, including 5-star international hotel chains. Most of the regional cities also have some good hotels.
It is recommended that reservations be made well in advance, as occupancy tends to be high, specially in the peak summer period.
Travelers who fly SAUDIA may take advantage of its hotel discount arrangements with many top hotels. Hotel bookings may be arranged through the airlines' reservation system.
Alfursan frequent flyer program members are also entitled to discounts as well as free stays and room upgrades depending on their accumulated mileage.
Housing for expatriates is usually in the form of flats/apartments, separate villas or housing in compounds. Employee contracts usually provide for free housing, furnishings, water and electricity. Telephone service, with international direct dialing, is widely available. Mobile phones and pagers are also widely used.
Power Supply
Power supply is 110 volts, 60 Hertz AC although it is not unusual for some houses to have 220 volt wiring as well to accommodate certain home appliances. Voltage regulators and surge protectors are recommended to protect appliances and computer equipment from electric current surges and fluctuations.
Saudi Arabia has modern transportation facilities and infrastructure. Roads and highways are well paved and stretch extensively all over the Kingdom. Taxis and limousines are ordinarily available in major cities, particularly at airports and shopping malls. These are metered or a suitable fee is agreed upon in advance.
Car rental companies, including international chains, maintain offices in many airports and hotels. Rental arrangements can also be made from abroad. There are also public buses but these are used primarily by local commuters.
Visitors with a valid driver's license from many countries, or those with international driver's licenses, are allowed to drive in the Kingdom. Residents and expatriates, however, are required to obtain Saudi driver's licenses, which are valid for five years.
The telecommunications system in Saudi Arabia is modern and up-to-date, covering most population centers. Direct Dialing is generally available and international telephone, fax, telex and telegram services are easy to access.The Kingdom's telephone country code is 966 while the main city codes are:
- (011) Riyadh
- (012) Jeddah, Makkah and Taif
- (013) Abqaiq, Al-Khobar, Dammam, Dhahran, Hofuf, Jubail and Ras Tanurah
- (014) Madinah, Tabuk and Yanbu
- (016) Hail
- (017) Abha
Mail is sent to post office boxes, not to street addresses. Letters are franked at the post office but stamps can also be used.
Courier companies are active in the Kingdom but customs duties may sometimes be imposed on goods or items received from overseas.
Internet access has recently been allowed in the Kingdom and improvements are currently underway to enhance the telecommunication infrastructure in anticipation of active Internet usage by the Kingdom's citizens and residents.


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Our Pre-College Programs are geared specifically to high school students. These two programs—Portfolio Plus (art) and Architecture Discovery Program—give students the opportunity to develop skills that are fundamental to the fields of architecture, art, and design while producing work in a real studio.
The Alberti Program-Architecture for Young People is a problem-solving studio workshop about architecture, community, and the environment for a select group of fourth- through ninth-grade students from St. Louis-area schools.
The Sam Fox School also sponsors several international programs that give students in both art and architecture the opportunity to spend the summer studying in Europe.
Our summer courses are open to current Washington University students, students from other colleges/universities, and adults seeking career advancement or creative enrichment.