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Philip Tortorich concentrates his practice in the areas of tax and estate planning matters, primarily representing wealthy individuals and closely held corporations.
Mr. Tortorich provides the following services for clients:
Consults with clients regarding tax-efficient structuring of corporate entities, including C corporations, S corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and hybrid-type entities. Focus is paid to the integration of a client's estate and trust planning into the overall corporate enterprise. Often this consultation involves both domestic and international entities and the determination of the appropriate taxation of these entities for income and estate and gift tax purposes.
Designs trusts that shift the future growth of a client's net worth out of the client's estate while minimizing the exposure to gift taxation. Depending on the purpose of the trust and the type of assets to be held by the trust, both onshore and offshore trust planning is considered. Mr. Tortorich works with numerous foreign banks and trust companies in the implementation of client planning.
Structures personal family investment companies for clients and integrates the investment companies with the client's estate and trust planning. Depending on the client's goals and specific circumstances, family investment companies can be structured domestically or through foreign jurisdictions. The family investment companies may be holding companies for active trade companies or purely passive investment vehicles.
Serves as a legal liaison for a client. Mr. Tortorich's team often coordinates all of the legal services provided to the client by attorneys of different disciplines and other financial and corporate consultants. This provides the client with one-point access to the various expertise that the client needs to employ in order achieve (i) optimal non-tax goals and (ii) tax-efficient results for the client's personal and corporate entities. This allows a client's enterprise to be fully integrated by addressing all of a client's needs, including income tax planning, estate and gift tax planning, creditor protection, regulatory compliance and local and state governance.
Advises clients regarding their philanthropic goals, including the establishment of private foundations and public charities and the use of charitable remainder trusts and charitable lead trusts.
Implements appropriate risk management structures for a client's enterprise with a focus on ownership issues to maximize both the income tax and wealth transfer benefits that can be achieved with that planning. Particular focus has been on the use of captive insurance companies for the appropriate client. In this regard, clients seek advice at all levels of the planning from initial conceptualization and potential application, to implementation, to compliance review and restructuring.
Mr. Tortorich is an active member of the Chicago Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He has written articles on such topics as: Funding Revocable Trusts with Real Estate, Maximum Gifting Under the 2001 Tax Act, Joint Revocable Trusts, Trustee Liability Issues and various other estate and gift tax issues which have been published in periodicals including
Trusts and Estates
. Additionally, Mr. Tortorich has spoken before the Chicago Bar Association on topics regarding the allocation of GST exemption on estate tax returns and the implications of the
Mr. Tortorich received his JD,
cum laude
, from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where he served as managing editor of the
Consumer Law Review
. He received his undergraduate degree from Loyola University Chicago, where he graduated with a BA in political science, and minors in computer science and philosophy. Mr. Tortorich is admitted to practice in Illinois and before the US District Court, Northern District of Illinois.
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8:50am Saturday 16th June 2012 in Sport By Adam Summers
WARREN Byerley has told the Terras he is seriously considering following George Rolls to Kettering Town.
The former Weymouth chief, who is currently the acting chairman at the Poppies, has offered the prolific striker £600-a-week plus a hefty goal bonus to join him at Nene Park but the potential move continues to hang in the balance.
Rolls claims Byerley shook hands on a deal on Thursday but according to Brendon King, the 27- year-old is still undecided.
The Terras' boss told Echosport: "Warren is still thinking it all over.
"He doesn't want to lie to me and it is clear the lure of full-time football, the money and everything about it has turned his head a bit.
"I have told him I want to keep him at Weymouth and I have also told him he has got to be sensible. However, at the end of the day he has got to do what is right for himself."
King went on to add: "I understand the lure of it all but the current situation certainly doesn't help us.
"I want him to stay and carry on scoring goals for our football club but he wants to sit on it and we are just going to have to wait and see what happens."
Byerley has already agreed terms on a new contract with the Terras and was set to put pen to paper following a recent private knee operation which the club helped pay for.
King said: "Warren is not using Kettering as a bargaining tool to get more money out of us, far from it. He was happy with the offer we made him and that is still on the table.
"He knows we cannot compete financially with what Kettering are offering him but hopefully he will see sense in time and realise what he already has here."
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Kettering crowds will be dropping back to 600, and wages of £600 a week for just one player will soon be unsustainable.
He will be a fool to go.
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The situation with workplace bullying has never been more dire, with research suggesting that around 25 per cent of all Australian employees have been bullied at work at some point.
A bully is just one type of toxic co-worker you may be forced to work with, but workplace bullies are amongst the most toxic and harmful coworkers of all. Bullying is thought to be four times more prevalent than sexual harassment and it is estimated that 10 per cent to 20 per cent of the workforce is being bullied at any one time.
Unfortunately, Evelyn M. Field, author of Bully Blocking at Work, says noone is immune: "Workplace bullying can attack anyone, in any career, at any level, within any organisation, at any time." The insidious actions of a bully can undermine your confidence and hurt your self-esteem, as it can manifest in many forms, such as:
- Bantering/teasing
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- Micro–management
- Blame and humiliation
- Personal and professional denigration
- Harassment and discrimination
- Creating an unrealistic workload
- Passive aggressive comments and actions
- Cyber bullying
- Professional and personal exclusion or isolation
- Sabotage of career and financial status
What can you do about toxic workplace bullies?
For many people, the solution is simply to find another job. If you have suffered through sustained, ongoing bullying abuse, then this may be your best option.
Take solace in the knowledge that if you choose this course of action, you're not alone. According to Sally Jetson from WA-based Sally Jetson and Associates – which specialises in helping businesses navigate complex issues of workplace behaviour, equal opportunity, discrimination and fair treatment – around 75 per cent of targets leave their job to make the bullying go away.
Jetson says the impact of workplace bullying is significant, with international and Australian research showing that around 30 per cent to 50 per cent of stress claims at work are related to bullying, intimidation and related forms of abuse. If you are one of these stressed out employees, consider the following advice:
Keep a diary
If and when it comes time to lodge a formal complaint, written evidence of your situation will help you put your case forward. Document every phone call, email, conversation or situation involving the co-worker that makes you feel uncomfortable, undermines your performance or flat out bullies. Also note your response or what actions you've taken to try and stop it, along with any responses you've had from management or HR.
Get support
Don't try to manage the situation on your own. Support and advice from someone you trust will help you figure out what to do next. If you don't have anyone at your workplace (like your HR manager) or within your industry that you can talk to, your friends and family members may be able to offer help and support.
Confront your bully
Depending on the situation, it may not be possible to confront them directly. For instance, if your direct boss is intimidating you and undermining your confidence, it can be tricky to muster up the confidence to tell them to their face: "Your bullying behaviour makes me uncomfortable and I need the situation to change." However, it may be possible to put forward a logical argument that doesn't make them feel like you're directly attacking them: "I'm working too many long hours and weekends and I'm getting burnt out. I need to talk to you about cutting back my hours."
Set a time limit
The worst thing about workplace bullying is that unless you nip in the bud, it will go on, and on and on. Set a time limit – say, three months in the future – and take action towards changing the situation, such as taking your complaint to HR or speaking to the bully directly. If the situation doesn't change within three months, get your resume together and start shopping for your next job.
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I got an X2 XDS 95 last December.
I have used it live app. 10 times and a few times in practice. 7 of those times it worked fine. No issues.
Issue 1 was a signal loss that occurred when I walked...maybe 30' away from the receiver but came back on when I got back to within about 10'. I didn't think I was outside of the given range of the unit, but whatever...I was willing to let that one go as I don't normally walk too far away from my receiver.
My main issue is that it has cut out on me twice during live performances. I can't really tell you what caused it since I wasn't in a position to mess with it either time. I just instinctively grabbed the spare cable from my gig bag, plugged in and kept rolling. Both times I was within 5 feet of the receiver when the signal loss occurred. I've never had this issue using it in practice and have not used it live since the second incident..
Any idea what caused this or what I can do to correct it?
I should add that both in both instances I was playing on fresh batteries.
You may be experiencing interference. Have you tried switching channels?
Also you cannot use XDS in the presence of any X2 Plus models (unless they are switched into single chanel mode) as the frequencies will conflict.
I didn't try switching channels. The first time it happened I was mid-song filling in for a band and playing in front of about 400 people, so I couldn't very well sit there and mess with it.
When it happened the second time I was pretty much over it and just fighting the urge to smash the darn thing.
I can see where intereference could have been an issue the first time as we were also running Line 6 in-ear monitors at the time. The second time there were no other wireless units running though.
Thanks for the reply.
The second time there were no other wireless units running though.
Are you sure? They don't have to be wireless mics. They could be wireless DMX lighting controllers, smart power meters on the outside of the building or wireless heating and air conditioning controllers (or cordless phones, baby monitors or garage door openers).
The best thing to do is to check it out before you play. Turn on the receiver but don't turn on the transmitter. Now switch between channels and look for the RF LEDs to light up. Your best bet is to stay on a channel that has no or very little LED activity with the transmitter turned off.
Good to know. It's hard to test it since I have never had the issue in my rehearsal space and I really don't feel like taking a chance on this thing again live.
Anyway, thanks for the input. I appreciate it.
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One gets the feeling that even the White House realizes the mess it's made of Iraq. The other day the newspapers reported that the Bush administration has scaled back its objectives rather substantially. We might call it Iraq 3.0. First, the plan was to create a democratic paradise which, domino-like, would spread freedom throughout the Middle East. When that didn't work, the administration shifted to simply bringing some kind of order to Iraq, reconciling the ...
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Like love and marriage, tax and spending go together like the proverbial horse and carriage. Absent spending controls, any major "reform" proposal in Georgia's tax code - particularly a shift in revenues among different levels of government - becomes a masquerade that would increase the size of government.
November is not my favorite month. So many times in November my husband, Joe, and I had to put on our badge of courage and faith to make it through difficult situation.
In the early 1990s, few right-wing bugaboos loomed as large as Hillary Clinton's secret health-care task force. Conservatives who still routinely invoke the task force can seem obsessed with rehashing the greatest anti-Clinton hits of yore. But look who's talking about the task force now.
The rise of the Internet and the massive expansion of telecommunications networks have allowed individuals access to goods, services, and one another on an unprecedented level.
When the (3rd Infantry) Division arrived in Iraq in March, an area due west of Baghdad was a hotbed of Shia extremists. Nahrawan was so overrun by Shia criminals and militias that we could not attack it without the proper combat power.
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Nealry three years ago when I had an editorial published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution (Economy & environment form a team, Dec 20, 2004), little did I know how topical those remarks would become by 2007.
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Congress and President Bush often do not see eye to eye, but does Washington need to be paralyzed as a result? Two recent dramas - a face-off over appropriations measures and Congress' failure to override the President's veto of children's health insurance legislation - bring that question into prominence.
Democratic presidential candidates are tripping over the driver's-licenses-for-illegal-aliens issue like a bunch of old slapstick vaudevillians.
New federal legislation shows the Bush administration has begun systematically putting in place authorization for the president to federalize the National Guard and use the U.S. military in domestic emergency situations.
"Extra! Extra! Newspapers aren't dead!" This is quoted from a recent headline in USA Today. The article, by Rem Rieder, reports a new business model has taken shape that makes newspapers a mature industry and, at the same time, an emerging industry.
This column almost didn't happen. I didn't think I'd have time to write it.
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Hallow's End, World of Warcraft's Halloween-themed festival, is now live. The world event, featuring a variety of seasonal activities and items, will run until October 31st on the game's servers.
All of the inns throughout the game will let players trick-or-treat. The innkeepers will give players candy, masks, wands and other goodies. By trick-or-treating or doing season daily quests, players will earn Tricky Treats. These treats can be used to purchase vanity pets and other items. Players who are level 89 or 90 can look forward to facing the Headless Horsemen again. This fight will offer the same rewards that it always has, but these items have been beefed up significantly. The equipment he drops is now iLevel 470, making it ideal for players gearing up for the new raid zones. Participating in Hallow's End's various events will earn you numerous Achievements. By accumulating all of them, you'll get a special "the Hallowed" title for your character. The Hallow's End Achievements are also required for "What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been," the Meta-Achievement that unlocks a Violet Proto-Drake mount. For a full run-down on Hallow's End, check out Icy-Veins' guide. Back to top


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Posted by Thomas on Jul 16, 2012 in iPhone News, Uncategorized | Comments OffOne of the most common mistakes I've made with Siri has been speaking to her as if she can understand pronouns. If were to relay a message to my mother through a friend, I'd say "please tell her that…", after which point my friend would then go on to my mother and say "I'm supposed to tell you that…"
In other words, my friend would be listening for cues in my message, and wouldn't simply repeat it verbatim to my mother. I understand that Siri can't do this based on names (especially for names like Morgan and Tracy), but mothers tend to be women, and fathers tend to be men, and from a user's perspective, it seems like an oversight to not have some code in place for intelligent pronoun identification. I understand that English is a complex and messy language with more exceptions than rules, but this is one of those instances where the reality of Siri's limitations smacks you in the face. Simple messages with a very specific structure, such as "please tell my mom that she needs to buy me a car" seem like a reasonable thing to expect, given that meeting times, lists, and locations can be specified in other instances.
I'm now trying to simply dictate messages differently, as if the command was separated from the content by a colon (e.g. "tell my mother: sorry, I'll be late for dinner"), and it is working far more consistently. Unfortunately, it just doesn't feel quite as natural.


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"I inherited all of his coaching stuff and I read all about the Charity Game. I am honored to coach in this game especially against a team like Glenville (a team the Eagles beat in the second round of the playoffs last year),"
By PETE GAUGHAN
The High School Charity Game is a monumental day not only for the players and coaches but for each of the four communities involved.
To be able to showcase their talents in one of the top NFL stadiums in America is something all the participants will remember for the rest of their lives. This is what football in northeast Ohio is all about; performing on a big stage and opening the season at Cleveland Browns Stadium in the Charity Game is as good as it gets.
No other school gets to open the season the way St. Edwards will, as the defending Division I State Champion. Last season the Eagles captured the school's first gridiron title. Don't think for a minute that third-year head coach Rick Finotti is going to rest on his laurels.
"Winning a state title proved that it can be done, but this is a new season with new players," said Finotti. "We have a great staff who are good football men. We lost 15 starters from that title team and we have high expectations for this team."
Finotti knows the deep history of the Charity Game, as his grandfather coached at Cathedral Latin.
"I inherited all of his coaching stuff and I read all about the Charity Game. I am honored to coach in this game especially against a team like Glenville (a team the Eagles beat in the second round of the playoffs last year)," said the head Eagle. "We must play tough and physical and we must run the football."
Ted Ginn, Glenville's boss, knows all about the Charity Game. "We never made it to the Charity Game when I was in high school (Glenville). We could never beat Collinwood," He said. "But I know about the tradition of the game and it means a lot to our young men and the community to be part of this event. We teach our team about the history of this game and to be in again is something special."
The Tarblooders lost 40 seniors from a team that went 11-1 in 2010 with that lone defeat coming against the Eagles in the state playoffs.
"We are a very young team that will rely on defense early in the season," said Ginn. "St. Ed's is a big challenge. They are a powerhouse in Ohio and the defending state champs. This is tough opening game for us."
The opening game on tap today features teams from the Northeast Ohio Conference. Although in different divisions, they have split a pair of games the past two seasons.
Mayfield head coach Larry Pinto said his team has been looking forward to the challenge as soon as they got word about the Charity Game.
"To play at Browns Stadium is a chance of a lifetime and a great challenge for our program," said the veteran boss of the Wildcats. "Our kids have been talking about this game for months and they are really excited about the opportunity at hand."
Mayfield will try and bounce back from a 6-4 season but it won't be easy. Their first four games are all against playoff teams from last season.
"Our goals are to win the opener, take the conference title and get back to the playoffs," said Pinto. "We have prided ourselves on defense and the kicking game in the past and it will be no different this year. We've been in some big games over the past few years and this will be right up there."
Ray Hradek started his 32-year coaching career at Mayfield but this will be his first game as the boss as Medina.
The transition has been very smooth since I took over here. I am having a ball. Plus the added excitement of playing the Charity Game and this becomes a very special opener," the Medina coach said. "The entire community can't wait for the opener against a very solid Mayfield football team. This first game can set the tone for the whole season."


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Nina G. Stiles-Craddock, 59, of Middleport, Ohio, died November 25, 2012 at Camden Clark Hospital in Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Visiting hours will be from 4-8 p.m. on Tuesday, November 27, 2012, at the Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Middleport, Ohio. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at the funeral home with Pastor Linea Warmke officiating. Interment will be in Beech Grove Cemetery.
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3. Use succulents, in lots of colors and shapes, succulents can feel lush and like a colorful painting, your eye will dance around your yard.
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Sustainable By Design is a small business in Seattle owned by Christopher Gronbeck, a freelance consultant in the renewable energy and green building fields. Christopher has been working on sustainable energy and environment projects since 1991, at first for nonprofit organizations for seven years, and since 1998 as an independent consultant.
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- That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is
The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church . It became estranged from the Western, or Roman, Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque, and a separation, begun in the latter part of the 9th century, became final in 1054. The Eastern Church consists of twelve (thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included) mutually independent churches (including among these the Hellenic Church, or Church of Greece, and the Russian Church), using the vernacular (or some ancient form of it) in divine service and varying in many points of detail, but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation. The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople, or ecumenical patriarch (whose position is not one of supremacy, but of precedence), the patriarch of Alexandria, the patriarch of Jerusalem, the patriarch of Antioch, and the Holy Synod of Russia. The Eastern Church accepts the first seven ecumenical councils (and is hence styled only schismatic, not heretical, by the Roman Catholic Church), has as its creed the Niceno-Constantinopolitan (without the later addition of the filioque, which, with the doctrine it represents, the church decisively rejects), baptizes infants with trine immersion, makes confirmation follow immediately upon baptism, administers the Communion in both kinds (using leavened bread) and to infants as well as adults, permits its secular clergy to marry before ordination and to keep their wives afterward, but not to marry a second time, selects its bishops from the monastic clergy only, recognizes the offices of bishop, priest, and deacon as the three necessary degrees of orders, venerates relics and icons, and has an elaborate ritual. See also Greek Church, under Greek.
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- n. derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites
- n. the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire
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Domino To Go compared to other solutions (mobile Lotus Notes or XPages Apps for iPhone, iPad, Android)
We just added a small comparison between Domino To Go and other solutions for creating mobile Lotus Notes Apps to the Domino To Go Website. We came up with these points:
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High school students from across the US will square off in the final round of the Hot Rodders Of Tomorrow engine build competition at the PRI Trade Show, December 12-14, 2013, in Orlando, Florida.
The 26th Annual Performance Racing Industry Trade Show in Orlando, Florida, will host the final round of the nation's premier engine build competition for young automotive talent, it was recently announced.
Each year hundreds of automotive technology students from high schools across the country take part in regional competitions to determine which teams can disassemble and reassemble a small-block Chevrolet engine with aftermarket components in the fastest time, with the top scorers advancing to the National Championship.
In 2013, a select group of teams with the best time will be invited to compete for scholarship money and industry recognition.
"We are excited to have this special event, and all the fine young people that participate in it, at the 2013 PRI Trade Show. They represent the next generation of leaders in the racing industry, so we welcome the opportunity to have them compete in the Hot Rodders Of Tomorrow Engine Challenge National Championship at the world's largest racing trade show," said John Kilroy, producer of the PRI Trade Show. "This will be fun."
In addition to the established engine challenge events, the 2013 Hot Rodders Of Tomorrow National Championship will feature an expanded competition format with three new contests:
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- Ring and Pinion Challenge
- Cylinder Head Challenge
Since its inception in 2008 at the Race and Performance Expo in St. Charles, Illinois, the Hot Rodders Of Tomorrow Engine Challenge has seen explosive growth in the number of competing teams. In the first year of competition, five teams with 25 students competed. By the end of the 2012 season, there were 112 teams with 560 students competing. The competition has been seen by more than 760,000 people, and has raised over $6 million in scholarship money donated by OTC, SAM and UNOH over the last four years.
"This industry that we're in and love is turning gray. It's getting older year after year," said Jim Bingham, chairman of Hot Rodders Of Tomorrow and president/CEO of Winner's Circle Speed & Custom, Joliet, Illinois. "This is designed to be a program to bring young people inside the industry. This is about bringing them in, showing them that they can enjoy making a living in the high performance field, and, as a result, we get youth and talent inside our industry every year.
"We're looking forward to working with PRI in 2013," he added. "I think it's a great fit in a racing show, because what we're doing is more racing-oriented. It will also allow us to add more events because we're going to have a lot of space to work with. Plus, I believe Orlando is going to be a great place for the kids and families to visit."
Building on the success of its first year, the National Championship moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2009, where three divisional winners and one wildcard entry competed in the inaugural "Showdown at SEMA."
The championship round has been held at the SEMA Show each year since, and in 2012 it will once again take place on the SEMA Show floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center, October 30-November 2, before moving to PRI in 2013.
"I absolutely love this event," said Chris Kersting, SEMA president and CEO. "It is amazing to me that Jim's activity has impacted so many young members of our industry over the years. We're pleased to be a part of the event and support this effort."
"This is just what our industry needed," added Vic Edelbrock. "It involves our youth, and gives them a focus that will help prepare them for careers in the performance automotive aftermarket."
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With America's fastest-growing occupations increasingly requiring education beyond high school, young people from low-income families risk missing the very opportunities that could elevate them from poverty. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that by 2014,
23 of the 30 fastest-growing occupations will require an Associate's degree – with 15 of
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Meanwhile, nearly half of young people from low-income families fail to complete high school. And overall, fewer than 10 percent of young people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds earn a postsecondary credential with labor market value.
In an effort to reverse this trend, I founded the first YouthBuild program in New York's
East Harlem with the advice of neighborhood young people who wanted to break the cycle of poverty. They wanted what all young people deserve, relevant learning experiences and opportunities for unlocking their inherent leadership potential. In YouthBuild programs, low-income young people (ages 16 to 24) who left school, work toward earning their GEDs or high school diplomas while learning job skills by building affordable housing in their communities. There are 273 YouthBuild programs across the U.S., through which 110,000 students have built 21,000 units of affordable housing since 1994.
But it has become clear that earning a GED or high school diploma no longer provides meaningful entrée to the global economy. Students need to be exposed to a wider range of career opportunities, and directed toward postsecondary education in marketable skills. So in 2008, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, YouthBuild USA launched its Postsecondary Education Initiative (PSE). The goal of the initiative was to increase the number of our students who participated in college or registered apprenticeships, or earned other industry-recognized postsecondary credentials.
Through the collaboration of seven YouthBuild programs with various postsecondary institutions, we have increased the college enrollment rate of YouthBuild students from
20 percent to 43 percent. With additional funding from Open Society Foundations and
New Profit/Social Innovation Funds, the PSE Initiative has expanded to 19 locations.
Specifically, YouthBuild is focusing on exposing students to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) concepts and careers – endeavoring to connect the dots between classroom instruction and real-world applications to show young people how they can achieve in these fields. Our Philadelphia PSE location created a health care track that offers Certified Nursing Assistant training through partnerships with other training organizations and local employers. The work has inspired 20 additional YouthBuild locations to add health care to their curricula. In addition, last month we launched new work with the Noyce Foundation to improve career development, guidance and counseling for entry-level STEM careers via new technology platforms that work for low-income students interested in STEM pathways.
In September, YouthBuild and eight additional youth development organizations will bring 400 young leaders together for the second Opportunity Nation Summit. The Summit will provide a forum for discussion and policy recommendations to increase the percentage of low-income young people who earn postsecondary credentials that allow them to succeed in family-sustaining careers, and become leaders in their communities.
YouthBuild is helping low-income young people gain access to the postsecondary education and training that leads to lifelong careers. By marshaling resources and data – and pioneering instructional delivery methods that also provide emotional support – YouthBuild is creating a new and repeatable model for building skills, strengthening communities, and breaking the cycle of poverty.
A 1996 MacArthur "genius grant" Fellow, Dorothy Stoneman is the founder and CEO of YouthBuild USA – a national nonprofit support center for programs that provide construction skills, education, and leadership training for unemployed and undereducated youth, while producing affordable housing for low-income families. Dr. Stoneman also chairs the YouthBuild Coalition, which has 800 member organizations in 49 states. Prior to founding YouthBuild USA, Dr. Stoneman spent 25 years running daycare centers, community-based schools, housing development corporations, and youth programs in East Harlem, New York.
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MODEL NUMBER: VBR140 Model Features:Product Overview
Tap into unlimited entertainment with the VIZIO Blu-ray™ Player with Wireless Internet Apps. It plays both Blu-ray™ and DVD discs and includes built-in WiFi with access to Amazon Instant Video, Netflix™, Hulu Plus™, VUDU™, Pandora®, YouTube® and more. Now the best of the web is available in your living room!
The simple, one-cable HDMI setup delivers high-definition 1080p video and up to 7.1 channels of surround sound. It also supports Dolby® TrueHD™, Dolby® Digital Plus™ and DTS audio processing for a premium home theater experience in a sleek, modern design – a perfect complement to your slim HDTV.
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Resolution Supported: | Blu-ray Disc Resolutions of 1080p / 1080i / 720p / 480i / 480p |
Audio: | CD, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3 Up to 7.1 Digital Audio via HDMI 24-bit / 192KHz Audio DAC |
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Entertainment Services: | Netflix™, VUDU™, Pandora®, Hulu Plus™, Amazon Instant Video, YouTube® |
Wireless (Wi-Fi): | WiFi 802.11n |
OSD Language Options: | English |
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Online reviews I read at a large retailer's site for the VBR140 -- after just having purchased the player -- were not very positive, but I thought I would give it a try since I have two Vizio LED TVs and Sound Bar, all of which I am pleased with. I tested it at home briefly before wrapping it as a family present. Blu-ray and DVDs both played well without problems. Setup to adjust video output was easy. Connecting to my wireless network was also simple. Same for Netflix. (Netflix was a little slow to load, however.) I streamed long parts of several different movies without problems. The Netflix image looked good, as did the Blu-ray and DVD images, on a 55" 1080p screen. So, a quick test seems to bode well. The remote needs to be aimed fairly accurately and some buttons were a little tricky at first, but were not a problem once I got a feel for it. I'm not sure if this is already a discontinued product but several stores have it presently under $90. A good deal.
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Easy to set up, Great for the price. Apps included. hulu, youtube, amazon, netflix, vudu, web videos, pandora, rhapsody, picasa. The only thing I didn't like is that it has no google. cant realy surf the web. But cant complain only cost $88.00.
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Seems to work fine. Just got it connected to Netflix.
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Purchase this device yesterday, had it completely connected in a matter of minutes. AWESOME device!! Not real crazy about the design of the remote, buttons are too small, other than that this is a great buy!
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This is a super device. I have a wired Ethernet, use Netflix streaming and watch BluRay, DVDs, and use MP3 CD audio. All work very well. The Netflix setup is very easy with an onscreen keyboard to set your account information. Streaming is flawless for several hours on my wired Internet connection. For a around $100, this is a very functional device. I'm very happy.
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RGPPL is promoted by NTPC Limited and GAIL (India) Limited, and was set up to take over and revive the assets of Dabhol Power Company. RGPPL owns an integrated power generation and re-gasified LNG facility.
An official said that RGPPL had of late been getting only about 0.8 MMSCMD (million metric standard cubic metre per day) of gas against the usual 8.5 MMSCMD. This had resulted in generation dropping to about 250-300 MW against the plants capacity of 1,950 MW, he said.
Of the 8.5 MMSCMD, 7.6 MMSCMD came from KG D-6 basin; the rest from ONGCs Marginal Gasfields (through GAIL). Now, RGPPL was getting about 0.84 MMSCMD from RIL and 0.2 MMSCMD from GAIL not sufficient to run even one of the six turbines at the technical minimum operating parameter.
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Streams play a pivotal role in the transport of energy and nutrients to terrestrial systems. For example, young aquatic insects consume algae in streams, fly into forests as adults, and are eventually consumed by terrestrial organisms. Despite the small area of rivers relative to land, materials produced within them feed many terrestrial consumers. Streams may be exporting more than just nutrients, however. Because of the widespread contamination of aquatic systems, aquatic insects can transport contaminants, such as mercury, to terrestrial food webs.
Mercury is a widespread problem in the U.S., particularly affecting the Northeastern portion of the country. While mercury exposure in fish-eating terrestrial consumers continues to be studied, little is known about the mechanisms of exposure to other terrestrial consumers. Recent studies have found high levels of mercury in terrestrial insectivorous predators, such as spiders, that may be consuming large amounts of adult aquatic insects.
Given that diet is the principal vector of mercury to wildlife, factors influencing mercury bioavailability in stream food webs could directly or indirectly determine mercury concentrations in terrestrial consumers. Dissolved organic matter (DOM), such as decaying leaf litter, has been identified by several studies as an important factor affecting the movement of mercury through aquatic ecosystems. The role of stream DOM in the accumulation of mercury in food webs is complex, and not yet well understood. The Alumni Research Award has allowed me to research the role of DOM on the movement of mercury through aquatic-terrestrial food webs. I have found that although DOM increases mercury concentration in stream water, it decreases mercury bioavailability within the food web. This dual role of DOM on mercury transport and bioaccumulation has been observed in aquatic food webs, but had not previously been shown to affect mercury transportation from streams to terrestrial food webs.
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Osupharm11, Do You Actually Think You Are Helping CVS?
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My vote is for the troll.
Troll is on top of my list.. however… he/she could be routinely partaking not only of the "corporate Kool-aid"..but they must be handing out "corporate brownies" as well…now
Who is osupharm and what'd this person say? and is a troll what i think it is–> an agent for the company or interest group in question that stalks online forums and spreads vitriole upon masses of reasonably minded people in the hopes of shaking up their sense of what's right and wrong? kind of the foxnews-ization of pharmacy forums huh? sorry if this doesn't read well; posting from a mobile….
My bet is that osu is a troll!!! If he/she is trying to change the sentiment about CVS, it isn't working!!! It sucks!!!!!
It is true. CVS is horrible. Worst forced career change I ever made (moved and all that was available). Work 13 hour days, no breaks, constant handholding from corporate MBA's and once upon a time pharmacists who forgot their roots to go along with incessant signature required forms dictating daily work routines and what happens if you deviate from such. Metrics are the only thing that matters. Better get your SOS score cards in on time and do all your mandatory/voluntary orders. They routinely give out gift cards and lose money left and right while denying anyone raises (we are overpaid we were told as were the techs and pretty much anyone in the store for that matter). Now we are told of a new and upcoming panel that was just created to oversee the "employee optimization committee". Hmm doesn't that sound like some kind of nazi-eque committee that arms to get rid of the "overpaid" and non conforming underachieving pill robots that wouldn't conform? Well have to run. I was duped into giving my home email so my RXS is bitching about something that wasn't done ON MY DAY OFF and oh they are calling another meeting that they say we don't get paid for that requires a 2 hour drive each way. Someone please kill me. Yes, it is that bad.
I find it amazing that my opinions are so insane. I grew up as the son of a farmer that worked 16 hour days 6 days a week with little in the way of a break. For me CVS doesn't ask any more of me that he ever did. The fact that I get to work indoors with A/C in the summer and heat in the winter and still get paid what I do is something that I do not take lightly. I work my tail off at work because I have known nothing different my whole life, for the company I work for now to ask me to work hard is not an issue for me. Although I do get lunch breaks many days I have gone through a 3 month period with only one and its not the end of the world, I grew up with 12 hrs between meals on a regular occasion. For many I know that one break would be amazing but I do have the luxury of having overlap coverage at my store. I say all this because I think a lot of people see me as arrogant based on my opinions but for me it's not arrogance CVS is a much milder boss than I have ever had before. I do not say this as a bad thing toward my father, I love the fact that he taught me why hard work can do, even if hard work and intelligence doesn't make you successful its the roads (sorry couldn't help but throw that in there for all the Obama supporters.) As far as starting my own pharmacy business I have no desire to do that. I don't mind bringing a little work home but ownership is a whole new level of bringing it home. Plus I am very anti-debt and I don't know if there is a way I'd ever be able to start anything without some debt and I basically refuse to take out a loan. I do thank you for the few kind words though. For all the rest out there that think I'm a troll, idiot, etc. if that is what you are going to think there is nothing I can do to convince you. I enjoy the points of view each puts out and I hope I do not experience any of the horrors that you speak of at my store.
Ps I'm actually an upper level LP/HR guy at CVS looking for evidence of inciting work place violence through blog posts. Hopefully no one says anything about kicking in the teeth of scabs or I'll have to fly out to Woonsocket. Sad thing is there are more of you that would believe that than would believe that I work in a CVS that is sane most of the time.
Just yanking your chain, OSU (I trust The Ohio State University Class of 2011). If you are having a good experience at CVS, enjoy it. Nothing wrong with working hard. Be watchful. You will know when the cheese goes bad. Document, document, document. The opportunities for a guy with your work ethic are endless in the independent pharmacy world. Especially down there, rural southern
Ohio. Southeast quadrant? -
you protest too much.
osupharm11 you should change your moniker since it links up with your facebook account. google his moniker and facebook and you'll see who he is. congrats on your work ethic, i work the same way but a warning, you will be taken advantage of. btw, CVS can be a good experience if you have a great dm, great staff and great customers. most of us didn't, hence the complaining. he is a pharmacist but a newbie so he still hasn't been painfully screwed like the rest of us. give it time, give it time. and yes, i don't like to write with capital letters.
Did you also walk to school 2 miles each way barefooted in the snow?? I also grew up in a hardworking family, but I never suffered abuse like CVS inflicts. CVS has lost sight of its original mission. It has focused on MONEY MONEY MONEY!!!!! To hell with employees +/or patients!! -
Hey, truth..thanks for the Facebook hint…that explains a lot.
I want to complain about all the complainers on this blog
@osupharm11 … You better start looking now as I know of at least three suits that troll here daily. They now know who you are!!! You gave out a lot of information that CVS frowns on such as budgeted hours.. And lunch breaks – I doubt that they are off the clock. I suspected you were young … You have much yet to learn. By the way my name is Joe Zorek … Google me!!!
The problem here is that all chains suck, and to compete in this sucked up world they each are learning to suck to higher levels! Why, because they can, and no one is trying to stop them! By the way, I remember the days when I had to walk 10 miles in the snow, to get stoned and have sex! One can debate which company sucks the worst, but in the end the profession needs to take action to counter what I believe most pharmacists find distasteful about the chains. The chains obvious need for profits to satisfy shareholders greed is one, and to what end will they USE pharmacists to achieve those means is two. We must form pharmacist unions, create a national pharmacist group unlike the ineffective ones now in existence, get on state boards in every state and strive for laws that preserve our profession and go after the bad companies that use pharmacist like toys. Think out of the box, open a non-profit pharmacy, and that spin value alone could sail you past these bad-ass companies. Non-profit, after your wages, overhead, and 1 year worth of expenses, all excesses given back to the consumer. The number of competing chains has diminished greatly, and I mean the number that are competing for pharmacists. We better act soon on all fronts, these chains will get ever more greedy.
Whistleblower – we should talk. Jim has my info. I think I can be of some use to you.
What cvsconsumesyoursoul portrays above and what I am reading here paints a far different story than yours Osup. https://www.pharmacy-survey.org/pharmacy-satisfaction/answer/Anon-MNBD-616
If the suits at CVS really want to fire me for defending the company they are more than welcome to do so. It would be a stupid business move on their part but I would land on my feet if it were to happen. Like I've said before on here I don't always agree with everything that comes out of Woonsocket but I do love where I work. I'm sorry everyone has had such a bad experience but that just has not been mine. I posted originally as a voice from the other side which I believe is always something that is needed or everyone feeds off each other and blows things out of portion. (not saying that this has happened on this site but in general when only one side is told)
We get it osup, you love to work and you love to work hard! Maybe you do have it good with a good crew, good customers, good dm as stated before, but you still work in a less then professional environment, an environment where you are expected to do more than humanly possible, and are looked at closely if you don't do the inhuman amount (McPharmacy seems to fit?), and I find that extremely disrespectful of our profession. The jury has come in, the verdict- guilty, penalty-destroy by all means available (form unions, form national organization, create laws and do whatever it takes to eradicate it)!
Keep up the good work but pray that CVS doesn't imitate Rite Aid (which they are doing) for the flu shots and other immunizations. Word came down this week, at least 1 shot a day of pneumovax, zostavax (220 bucks anyone?) and 20 shots a week of flu. Write ups have happened and are promised this year again. Osup if you think that you have it good there now wait til later. Trust me, you have no idea how worthless you are made to feel until you are written up for not achieving your quota of shots (especially when the quota number was never released to the staff rphs just the PICs who kept it to themselves). I have many friends who work at CVS who have to resort to cheating on metrics so that they don't have to attend the ridiculous meetings far far away to tell them that their customer service scores are less than 90. Like I said give it time and you'll see what retail is really about.
We also need to have a national board of pharmacy, why should one pharmacist in one state be required to work 14 hours without breaks and overtime, with a different tech ratio than other states? And don't forget the idea of opening a competing chain that is non-profit, that cares about our profession! There needs to be more give of these giants than they are taking! Don't you think? If we want to destroy them by all legal means possible—hasn't push come to shove?
1: Form unions or a national union
2 : Form a strong national pharmacist organization
3: Create laws that preserve our profession, even if it hurts company profits
4: Create a National Board of Pharmacy where practicing laws are on parity state to state
5: Create a new non-profit chain—that respects our profession
I call this the 5 finger death punch-Osup—some music to play while you are at work! Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foCzlvXKWTA -
I personally am very against the union idea. I know everyone is shocked by this. Here are some of my reasons. First I work with techs that are unionized and the union is a nightmare to deal with. 8 hours shifts are max which is fine if the employee wants to work 8 hr shift but what if someone prefers to work 10-12 hours? I personally prefer longer hours since my drive to work one way is basically an hour. If I were able to work 2 14s and a 12 it would cut 2 hours of commute out per week plus all the time getting ready for work etc. I am not in favor of forcing 14 hour days but I know many pharmacists in my area prefer them to 8-10 hr shifts. You also can't work 6 days in a row if you are in the union. Once again this is fine if you don't want to work 6 in a row but there are reasons to want to do this, an example is overnights in one market I worked in typically 7 days on and then 7 days off. I'd take that schedule in a heartbeat. Another issue I have is many unions will not allow for performance based raises but equally raises everyone's pay. This allows subpar employees to have no incentive to do better and no incentive for the super techs to continue thier amazing work. Unions today have become democrat fund raising machines. Dues come in and go straight to democrats. Very very few unions support republicans. I also am against the closed shop method that is preferred. People should not have to be forced to be in a union to work at a particular store. Some states have seen the light on this issue and become right to work states but unfortunately my state has not and forcing union membership and then using dues to support politicians is something I completely disagree with. If a union were to be formed pharmacist having the choice to not be in the union would have to be a requirement and those that are in the union should not be forced into shift and scheduling situations that they do not prefer just because most in the union like certain limits.
No,this guy is a"Master of the Universe Troll",trying to convince the real CVS pharmacists " if you would ONLY DO IT RIGHT, LIKE I TOLD YOU TO ,you'd have no reason to bitch."
As for Obama& union bashing,before the last election we all got an email from our Rx DM,telling us to vote for McCain. Wonder where that came from…………….?
Troll away,reality speaks for itself.
Corporate Hack……………… -
OSU is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
Yes I must be a corporate troll since I don't like unions or Obama. I forgot that was a prerequisite for pharmacy school.
Someone got an email from a DM saying to vote for McCain?! Haha. I find it to be such an anomaly; people, pharmacists, regular citizens choosing to side with a group of people whose interests are 180 degrees contrary to their own self interests. Can it be said this is selflessness? Is it really so beyond me that I should label it "soul donation for the rich"?
I get what you're saying OSU regarding unions. I mean, when you can cut down on your commute and take less time getting ready, you're really targeting the bottom line reasons for this: time and money conservation. But what about your patients? You owe them your attention and you don't want to hurt anybody making a mistake or making sure you're caught up on your flu shot quota.
I respect you for not biting the hand that feeds you (CVS), but I think being unable to relate to the vast majority of your colleagues who suffer, and whose primary alliances are with their patients rather than employers, is a problem bordering on denial.
Good luck.
-a fellow new graduate -
Hello Joe aka Whistleblower, sorry about your less than world class employee treatment by CVS. And Merlo is a pharmacist-so sad. If CVS paid 200million fine regarding PSE, you should get at least as much in my mind- get as much as you can as they will not want to air their dirty laundry in the public.
http://www.abc27.com/story/18668662/ex-pharmacist-accuses-cvs-of-risking-patient-safety -
One more thing Joe! Your case is a perfect example of why we need a new pharmacist union; mind you we have a legal right to form one! We need protection from these kinds of corporate actions. It just sickens me the way our profession is being used for monetary gains by corporations that are so BIG BROTHER LIKE, it is downright scary! They are not to be trusted at all, we need a contract that is very specific with regards to workload etc. We all know we rush because of a lack of labor vs. workload as the metric clock is ticking and about to go red! I mess up every time I rush, my hands do things I don't even realize they are doing, as you are thinking about so many things other than what you should really be thinking about. And we have only one entity to blame here, and it is not us, we are not responsible due to inadequate labor metrics and I live for day when all pharmacist in the new union, say we are not going to take it anymore, and of course a penalty must be paid for this egregious corporate behavior. Throw out all you think about unions—we the pharmacists would be the union, we decide what is right. If we want to work 14 hours with no breaks, no overtime, no help, and ask for DM's that make you feel like a slave in the galley of a Roman ship we can choose that!
I must come to the defence of Osupharm11(not that he needs any defence). If you will do a little detective work, you can find quite a bit of information on him on the internet. I will leave that for anyone that wants to do it. I am not going to divulge a lot of information, which I discovered about him. I will say this: he is a recent pharmacy school graduate, works at CVS, and from what I can surmise he is a nice guy. For myself, I welcome his ideas and opinons. The vast majority of posters here do not like CVS. But, there are some pharmacists that work for CVS that do like their job. I just recently talked to one of them in my home town. I am not going to be critical of the pharmacists that do like CVS. I am glad they have a job they like. In some ways, I can compare myself to Osupharm11. I was raised on a farm and accustomed to hard work. I was accustomed to long hours of boring work, such as chopping and picking cotton. And, working in a air conditioned building is a treat for me. People have different experiences in life and come from differing levels of society. This means they are going to have differing views of things. Osupharm11 simply has a different view of CVS than most of the posters here. Whether a person can be labeled as being right or wrong about something, you have to consider their perspective. If you were a starving kid on a street in India and suddenly you were taken into a CVS store and given a job, what would you think about that job? No…I am not comparing the kid in India to Osupharm11. I am simply making a point that everything in life depends on a person's perspective. If CVS was the only pharmacist employer, then what would most pharmacists be saying? There would be no other pharmacy in which to make a comparison! We all measure and compare things and make our judgements on this basis. A lot of things effect our perspective of the place we work. If you have a nice DM, a nice pharmacy manager, and some nice techs, then you are going to enjoy your job and have nice things to say about it. So much depends on the actual place that you work.
Many of us have gained a view of pharmacy from years of experience. A lot of us have worked at periods of time in which pharmacy was much different than it is today. We have a larger pool of information on which to draw our perspectives. From having lived, worked, and viewed pharmacy when there were no insurance companies to bill and no hassles with corporate, I can see the different sides of a debate about corporate pharmacy. It is easy to look back at the 'golden age' of pharmacy and think it was the most wonderful thing in the world. But, there were problems then, just as there are problems now. I can remember working for independents that had drugs disorganised. Made it very hard to find the drugs. I can remember rushing and working as fast as I could because I was the only pharmacist and I only had one tech. I had to grab a bite to eat while working. Today, I can go take a leisurely lunch. I have plenty of help. No, I don't like the corporate crap! Which job would I prefer? The one I had 40 years ago, or the one that I have now? To be honest, it would be tough choice. I don't know that I can choose.
So, lighten up on Osupharm11! He is not bashing others opinions here. He is simply stating his opinion. We should welcome others opinions even if they are different from ours. -
I think what others are defensive about is that OSU appears to believe that folks who are not meeting the metrics are just not working hard enough. ( I am wonderful, you are not). My mother always said that it is not wise to "toot your own horn." That was her non-biblical way of saying "he who exalts himself shall be humbled". I'm just sayin'……
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