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Traveller reviews for our Clyde Valley hotel and spa
The Popinjay Hotel & Spa is one of the most famous and popular hotels in Central Scotland, and finest leisure and corporate venues too. Nestled in the charming little country village of Rosebank in the heart of the Clyde Valley and only a short stroll from the banks of the River Clyde, this charming Tudor style country house is just waiting to be rediscovered.
Set between the bustling cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, the Popinjay Hotel & Spa is brimming with history and heritage with modern comforts. Just off the M74 and within the stunning Clyde Valley the hotel is just 25 minutes from Glasgow, 45 minutes from Edinburgh Airport, and 30 minutes from Glasgow Airport.
The Popinjay Hotel & Spa warmly welcomes leisure travellers, business travellers, families, solo travellers, lady travellers, booking agents, groups, event organisers, and the travel trade.
Main hotel features at a glance:-
- Superb short haul leisure or romantic escape from the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh
- Book direct online for a £10 voucher to spend within the hotel – for our lowest rate and best service guarantee, and a host of other benefits
- One of the finest health, fitness and beauty salons anywhere in Central Scotland, replete with 17 metre indoor pool, cardio room, weights room and spa
- Free wi fi throughout the hotel, and free guest car parking
- Stunning, The Popinjay Hotel & Spa warmly welcomes leisure travellers, business travellers, families, solo travellers, lady travellers, booking agents, groups, event organisers, and the travel trade.famous wedding venue, with glorious gardens and grounds for memorable photographs
- All day dining and wining, all year round, in a lovely selection of eating and lounge areas
- 34 very individual guest rooms, many with great views, including 2 suites - very family, business traveller and lady traveller friendly
- Generous discounts for frequent travellers
- Wonderful conference, banqueting meeting and celebration/party venue from 2-200
We hope to welcome you very soon, and to experience our exciting new product and to see for yourselves the major refurbishments and improvements we've been undertaking.


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If you haven't heard of most of these folks (and this isn't even an exhaustive compilation), you will. For sanity's sake, we'll split them into several categories:
DEFINITELY IN: Easily the best-known DFLer is former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton, whose fortune, name recognition and TLOT (Time Logged on Trail) make him formidable. Lesser known but with nearly as much money is former House Minority Leader Matt Entenza. Lesser known still but with arguably the most TLOT is Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner, who was holding house parties before '08 had even wrapped up. State Sen. John Marty knows the ropes, having been the DFL candidate in '94. The lone Iron Ranger in the race, Senate Taxes Chairman Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, said over the weekend he officially is a candidate.
Republicans, having had less than a week's notice that the big dog is leaving the park, are still considering their options, with most of them still ...
THINKING ABOUT GETTING IN: Here's where you'll find the chorus line of GOP legislators and others who thought they might have to wait years for a shot at the big time. They'll join an even longer line of DFLers who were (a) chased out of the U.S. Senate race by big names/big money or (b) wary of taking on Pawlenty.
They range from state Sen. David Hann and state Rep. Paul Kohls, a couple of smart if stolid GOP conservatives, to gregarious Minnesota Business Partnership director Charlie Weaver, who has connections to every corporation and high-level Republican in the state. Here, too, are both of the DFL mayors from St. Paul and Minneapolis, as well as DFL House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher. There also are former Republican U.S. Sen. Rod Grams and GOP National Committeeman Brian Sullivan, who has one try under his belt (he nearly bested Pawlenty for the endorsement in 2002) and millions at his disposal.
OTHERS TALK ABOUT THEM GETTING IN: Lightning rod Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has demurred, but not enough to convince those (on both sides) who find a Bachmann candidacy too irresistible to relinquish. Meanwhile, it's been a decade since his run at governor and he's still awaiting a court ruling on his old Senate seat, but some in his party are hoping Norm Coleman has one more try in him.The Obstacle Course
First step for all: Prove they can raise big money, charm fringy delegates but still pivot toward the mainstream and, oh, did we mention money?
NAME RECOGNITION: Few have any. If you're not governor, Joe Minnesota barely knows you exist. That's why polls don't mean much yet. (Test question: Did you have Barack Obama on your radar four years ago?)
RECORD/EXPERIENCE: Lots of solid performers here, with government experience or executive skills from running companies. Many have demonstrated ability to gather money and votes on a smaller scale. But that's a far cry from proving you can win over folks from Roseau to Rochester.
ENDORSEMENT: Most of your choices will disappear here at the parties' endorsing conventions next June. Delegates, the parties' most faithful, demand candidates adhere to a strict set of hot-button positions and promise not to run in a primary against the endorsee. They'll make it hard for candidates to steer toward the middle, where most Minnesotans live. Whether a candidate chooses to abide by endorsement can be career-altering. Just ask Mike Ciresi, Al Franken's DFL Senate opponent. His early promise to abide forced him to forgo a primary.
PRIMARY: Expect a vigorous primary in September '10, allowing candidates who could not win over delegates at the far ends of the political spectrum a chance to reach out to, oh, say, you.
ELECTION: Minnesota may be true-blue when it comes to the presidency, but it hasn't elected a Democratic governor in more than 20 years. Shorn of governors in other states and with no presidential race, national Republicans may direct attention and money to keep Minnesota's governor in their column. But Democrats, newly energized from Obama's win, with the largest House and Senate majorities in years and a powerful fundraising base, will pour everything into breaking their unlucky streak. Toss in a slim but feisty Independence Party that has guaranteed a series of three-way elections and you have all the ingredients for another wild political ride.
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The Principe and Pegassi Faggio is a scooter based on the Piaggio range of scooters, found in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Grand Theft Auto IV, The Lost and Damned, The Ballad of Gay Tony and Grand Theft Auto V.
GTA Vice City - GTA Vice City Stories
The Faggio's appearance remained virtually unchanged between GTA Vice City to GTA Vice City Stories, being based off a 1970s-1980s Piaggio Vespa, apart from one of its brake lights being broken on the San Andreas model.
In GTA IV, the Pegassi Faggio City-XS took on the appearance of a modern scooter, possibly a 2000-present Piaggio Zip or a 2007 Peugeot V Clic with the headlight and name from a CPI Oliver City.
In The Ballad of Gay Tony and GTA V, the "Second Generation" is present as well as a more classical version (called Faggio Ultra in the beta) reminiscent of the original Vespa, but features exotic seat covers in purple velvet, or with leopard or zebra skin patterns.
3D Universe
The Faggio is the slowest motorcycle in each of the four games in which the vehicle appears, but makes up for this with its excellent maneuverability, acceleration, and light weight.
HD Universe
The Faggio has a new engine sound, no longer has a single transmission number, and its handling has been greatly changed, yet it is still the slowest motorbike in the game. Using the Faggio is the easiest way to do long wheelies.
The Pizza Boy (or Pizzaboy) delivery scooter, featured in GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas and GTA Liberty City Stories, is a modified Faggio with a back-mounted box installed to carry pizzas (or other goods), and painted in the livery of the vehicle's respective owners. Another delivery scooter, the NoodleBoy from GTA Liberty City Stories, has similar handling and speed to the Faggio, but has a different, more contemporary design. In GTA Vice City Stories, there is another delivery moped looking like the Faggio called the Ventoso; which has a higher top speed and acceleration than the Faggio.In GTA IV, a Faggio is requested in Stevie's Car Thefts, appearing in a unique light green paintjob. As a new Faggio will spawn in the same spot until the player delivers it, the player can keep one and deliver the other to Stevie.
GTA Vice City
- By a skip, a block away from safe houses in Vice Point, Vice City.
- The alley next to Ken Rosenberg's office in Ocean Beach, Vice City.
- Near a bench not far behind the Police Station in Washington Beach.
- Sometimes is found parked behind the Hyman Memorial Stadium.
GTA San Andreas
- Santa Maria Beach, Los Santos.
- East Beach, Los Santos.
- Near Burger Shot in Redsands East, Las Venturas (starts courier mission).
- Missionary Hill, San Fierro.
- El Corona, Los Santos.
GTA Liberty City Stories
- Outside the FIDL supermarket in Portland View, Portland
- AMCo. Petroleum Company in Trenton, Portland.
- In an alley in Chinatown with steps bringing you to the roof, Portland (Starts Scooter Shooter).
- Near Asuka Kasen's Condo in Newport, Staunton Island.
- Near the Liberty City Community College at Liberty Campus, Staunton Island.
GTA Vice City Stories
- The Well Stacked Pizza Co. in Vice Point, Vice City.
- Next to a small trailer east of the Vice Point Police Station in Vice Point.
GTA IV + Episodes from Liberty City
- On Happiness Island, towards the south end of the island (near the main plaza).
- On Quartz Street, Middle Park, and the surrounding areas.
- Often spawns around Alderney City and Normandy.
- The Ultra is parked in a fenced-in parking lot on Topaz Street between Exeter and Denver Avenue, Northern Middle Park.
- The Ultra can also be found parked across the street from Luis's safehouse.
- The Ultra spawns commonly when the player is driving a Stretch.
- The Ultra spawns at the Francis International Airport parking lot when driving in a Ripley.
- Can be bought for $5,000 from Southernsanandreassuperautos.com.
- When the player switches to Trevor, he can be riding one and stalking another Faggio driver while randomly shouting "scooter brothers".
- "Faggio" is Italian for "beech", however the name is presumably a play on the word "fag" or "faggot" given the inferior performance of the scooter in comparison to other bikes (and indeed, most vehicles).
- In GTA IV, the two default radio stations in the Faggio are Jazz Nation Radio 108.5 and Fusion FM.
- The Faggio is very useful in getting the Futo to spawn.
- In GTA IV, although the scooter shifts, it is clear that it has a CVT. Scooter CVT transmissions are stepless so making the transmission shift is an error.
- This scooter can be used to easily gain the 'Wheelie Rider' achievement. Simply accelerate and lean back in moderation to make sure the back does not scrape on the ground.
- In GTA IV, the player can reach unrealistically high speeds by leaning forward on the Faggio.
- In GTA San Andreas, the Faggio's right turn blinker lights up as though it was a brake light, along with the actual brake light above it.
- In GTA Liberty City Stories the Faggio has better acceleration and top speed than it does in other games (this only works if you push the left analog stick forward 1/4 from the middle).
- In GTA Liberty City Stories Ned Burner owns a unique yellow Faggio that can be taken after killing him in Stop the Press.
- The Faggio and Freeway are the only vehicles in GTA Vice City Stories that can have a black paintjob.
- Before Update 1.06, the Faggio was manufactured by Pegassi. However, the manufacturer was then changed to Principe. This may be done because Lamborghini in real life does not create scooters.
See also
- Mod Scooter, GTA London equivalent.
- Pizza Boy
- Noodle Boy


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I was recently asked to join a local committee to plan the centennial celebration of our local school district. The City of Maryville, Tennessee's public system was poised to commemorate its 100th anniversary in 2013 with lots of festivities and a nice, photo-filled book fleshing out the district's long and storied past. But then the project hit a strange snag. It came to the attention of the centennial committee chair that 2013 might not actually be the centennial of the Maryville City School system after all.
In somewhat of a panic, the chairwoman sent me an email detailing her extensive search for the "true" date of the school system's founding. The first schoolhouse appeared in Maryville as early as 1797. Still, 1913 was important. It was the year Tennessee passed a compulsory education law (southern states were quite late in the game). It was also the year that Maryville High School first planned its four-year curriculum, though the first class would not graduate until 1919. However, the state approved a "special school district", with taxing authority, for the city as early as 1905. And the first major schools were not built until 1911. Adding to the confusion is the fact that there had been some semblance of schooling on the site of Maryville High School as early as 1867. Interestingly enough, it was known as the Maryville Freedmen's Institute, and it served the relatively small ex-slave population of the county. As a final irony, the high school's nickname is, you guessed it, the Rebels—despite the staunchly pro-Union leanings of Maryville and East Tennessee during the Civil War. The commemorative volume will surely delve into that oft-controversial piece of history.
But the question of dates persisted. Before we could get into the thorny questions surrounding the school's nickname, or the warm and fuzzy memories of graduating classes in years gone by, we had to determine if this was even the right time to do it. And if we "discovered" that 1913 was the wrong founding date, should we then change our school district seal, which has the 1913 date on it?
Amusingly, this very same question—the meaning of "when" —came up when an old friend and colleague from grad school—Greg Downs of City College of New York—came down to the University of Tennessee and delivered a fascinating lecture on the "Ends of the Civil War." As he pointed out in colorful detail, the question of "when did the Civil War end" is a very difficult one to resolve. Lee's surrender? What about Johnston's surrender? Or a General in Texas who surrendered? Or when President Johnson declared an end to the state of war (in 1866)? Or myriad other times in between? (See Heather Cox Richardson's recent post on a related matter.) As Downs pointed out, this was not a mere antiquarian question. It had real legal consequences. After all, if a state of war still existed, the US government could still apply martial law. Local court systems could still be suspended. And so on. The question of "when" was inextricably bound to the question of "why", "how" and, of course, "so what?"
|Maryville's first school, founded in 1797
Much of the historical profession focuses on how events unfold, why they take the shape they do, what their significance is for later history, and how people of the time—and perhaps later on in the collective memory—make sense of those events. But it is quite rare that we really interrogate the "when" part of history, except insofar as we "complicate" earlier chronologies. The reality is that every time we select a set of dates to bookend a historical phenomenon—a war, a revolution, a religious awakening, the establishment of the Maryville City School district—we are making a profoundly important argument about the very significance of the event itself.
Aaron Astor is Associate Professor of History at Maryville College in Tennessee, just a few miles from Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He is author of Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri, 1860-1872 (LSU Press, 2012), which examines the transformation of grassroots black and white politics in the western border states during the Civil War era. He earned his PhD in History at Northwestern University in 2006 and lives in Maryville with his wife, Samantha, and two children, Henry and Teddy.


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I'm Lovin' It!
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In Reply to: I'm Lovin' It! posted by Brian from Shawnee on June 21, 2004
: : There were a couple of "origins" in an article about how commercial jingles are being replaced by old rock and roll songs.
: : You deserve a break today, so get up and get away to McDonald's - written by Warren Pfaff, who died in 2004 at age 74. He was a "former Minor League baseball player. He was also a summer-stock actor and a Navy lieutenant in the Korean War."
: : Earworms - a term coined by James J. Kellaris, a professor of marketing at the University of Cincinnati, meaning "those melodies that burrow into your head and won't leave."
: : We've Only Just Begun - a song that has been a "frequent and enduring wedding song ever since it was released nearly 35 years ago." Songwriter Paul Williams, who wrote the song with his writing partner Robert Nichols, said it was written as a bank commercial for Crocker Bank. Williams said, "Richard Carpenter heard me sing it on the commercial, and he asked if there was a full-length version of the song. I said, 'Funny you should ask.'"
: : "Irresistible jingles may soon rest in peace" by Greg Haymes, Albany Times Union, reprinted in The Courier Journal, Louisville , Ky., June 21, 2004.
: : Mickey D's jingle sings its way to the top
: : By Albany Times Union
: : Posted: May 9, 2004
: : Here are the top 10 jingles of the 20th century:
: : 1. "You Deserve a Break Today" (McDonald's)
: : 2. "Be All That You Can Be" (U.S. Army)
: : 3. "Pepsi Cola Hits the Spot"
: : 4. "M'm, M'm, Good" (Campbell's Soup)
: : 5. "See the USA in Your Chevrolet" (General Motors)
: : 6. "I Wish I Was an Oscar Mayer Weiner"
: : 7. "Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun" (Wrigley's Doublemint Gum)
: : 8. "Winston Tastes Good Like a Cigarette Should"
: : 9. "It's the Real Thing" (Coca Cola)
: : 10. "Brylcreem - A Little Dab'll Do Ya" (Men's hair product)
: : Source: Advertising Age magazine
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: The folks at Advertising Age and ad-men everywhere are probably happy with McDonald's current "I'm Lovin' It!" campaign. Mickey D's is still commissioning new jingles not based on standards or rock tunes. The favorite at our house is the recently shelved hip-hop version (done in a non-scary style): "I'm lovin it/crowin like a roostah/cruisin to the drive-thru/for my mornin boostah/I'm lovin it/It's a trippy new day/when I can wrap my hands/round a breakfast buffet!".
: Yeah, that's an "earworm", all right, but my policy is if you can't beat em', join 'em.
I haven't heard that one. For some reason "lovin' it" reminds me of a Seinfeld episode: "I'm out there Jerry and loving every minute of it." - Kramer
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Late in the afternoon of December 9, 1958, Robert Welch founds The John Birch Society in the home of Miss Marguerite Dice in Indianapolis, Indiana, after giving a two day presentation.
The first local chapters of the JBS are formed in the Greater Boston Area. The new JBS chapters formed the Committee Against Summit Entanglements (CASE), which succeeded when President Eisenhower canceled plans to visit the USSR in an attempt to make the USSR look respectable.
The February 25, 1961 issue of People's World, the official West Coast newspaper of the Communist Party USA, featured an attack article on the Society, referring to it as a new, secret, fascist group setting up "cells" all over the United States.
The Society launches its all-out on-going Get US Out campaign to effectively withdraw the United States from the United Nations and the United Nations from the U.S. This an active campaign for The John Birch Society. For more information Click Here
Robert Welch first introduces the "Support Your Local Police" campaign in the July 1963 Bulletin. SYLP's primary objectives include: a) Opposition to the continuance or establishment of Police Review Boards, and b) Opposition to the creation of a federal or national police by keeping local police departments independent.This an active campaign for The John Birch Society. For more information Click Here
Truth About Civil Turmoil (TACT) Committees formed to expose the Communist agenda behind much of the racial conflict turbulence. Anarchy USA film shown to thousands in JBS meetings across the nation.
New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) was defeated by a very large margin of 63 to 36 percent. Commenting about the victory, Robert Welch said, in the December 1968 Bulletin, "This was because, by this time, and on this subject, enough people understood what was at stake."
Compiled from two different speeches given by Robert Welch at the March 9, 1974 JBS Council Dinner, in Los Angeles, this 9-minute video presentation has been viewed by millions.
The John Birch Society launches an ultimately successful drive to have Congress abolish the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA). In 1982 Congress voted to defund the LEAA, thus abolishing the program.
The Honorable Lawrence Patton McDonald is appointed Chairman of The John Birch Society, succeeding Robert Welch who in turn assumes the position of Chairman Emeritus.
Korean Air Lines flight 007 is shot down by Soviet fighter jets over Sakhalin Island, carrying Congressman Larry McDonald on board along with 268 other passengers.
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After decades of deligent work and educating voters, the House of Representatives voted on an amendment to a bill, introduced by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) calling for the repeal of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945. Despite the measure's failure, it demonstrated the Society's growing influence. This an active campaign for The John Birch Society. For more information Click Here
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) Chad Johnson earned his first NHL shutout in his Phoenix debut and the Coyotes beat the Nashville Predators 4-0 on Monday night.
Johnson, called up from Portland of the AHL last week after Mike Smith was hurt, had 22 saves in a game dominated defensively by a Coyotes team that entered the night allowing an NHL-high 20 goals in five games.
Keith Yandle had a power-play goal and two assists and Nick Johnson a goal and one assist. Antoine Vermette and Laurie Korpikoski also scored in the Coyotes' second win in six games.
The Predators were shut out for the second time in three games and have scored just 10 times in six games this season.
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by Sue Ann Rybak
"Somewhere over the rainbow
skies are blue and the dreams that
you dare to dream
really do come true.
If happy little bluebirds fly
above the rainbow, why
oh why can't I?"
Sang the 33 graduates at the United Cerebral Palsy's preschool program in Chestnut Hill on June 27. The graduates all wore brightly colored, tie-die T-shirts as they sang songs to an audience of 150 people, many of whom were parents, family members and staff.
Jodi Miscannon, director of child services at UCP, began the program by thanking parents and teachers for all their hard work. The students "wowed" the audience by singing several songs and waving to the audience. Then came the moment everyone was waiting for: One by one, each graduate came up to receive his or her graduation certificate from Ginger McHugh, a teacher at UCP.
UCP strives to help children and adults with cerebral palsy and other disabilities to live "life without limits" by becoming fully integrated in society.
Steve Sheridan, CEO of UCP, explained the school's Best Friends Program.
"UCP's Best Friends Program is a preschool inclusive program that includes children with disabilities that learn and play side-by-side with typical children," Sheridan said.
Sheridan said the renovations to the UCP Widener Memorial Playground included covering 9,000 square feet with soft service flooring and installing a wheelchair accessible multi-level play station that enables "children with disabilities to experience, be a part and enjoy the same activities that'typical' children enjoy."
Charlie McHugh, of Glenside, a UCP preschool parent, said his son Owen "loves it."
"I am sad that he is graduating from the program," he said. "I am happy for the experiences he has had here."
Carlos Lizardi Jr., whose son Antonio is disabled, described the graduation ceremony as "beautiful."
"As a parent [of a disabled child] you are faced with so many challenges," Lizardi said. "It's hard to hold back the emotions you feel."
He added that it was a relief to know that Antonio can swing and play and be a kid.
Lizardi doesn't have to worry about his son falling on the playground, thanks to the recent renovations at the Widener Memorial Playground.
The playground, which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, was in desperate need of repair.
Because of the generosity of countless people, Widener got a face-lift to the tune of about $125,000.
It a small price to pay to see the children in UCP's Best Friends Program laugh and play together without the worry of someone getting hurt.
To Jermaine Bishop's father, Jermaine Sr., seeing his son laugh and giggle as he came down the ramp in his wheelchair was priceless.


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Once upon a time, smart irrigation control was a hard sell. Property owners, grounds managers and homeowners associations didn't see a need for it. "Why put in an expensive smart irrigation system when the old one works just fine?"
Well, times have changed. Severe drought, rising water costs and an increasingly stringent regulatory climate have made statements like the above pretty much a thing of the past. They've changed so much, in fact, that one can hardly imagine any contractor installing a conventional timer-based irrigation system on any commercial job.
"No one does that anymore," says one of the foremost irrigation consultants, David Pagano, of d.d.
Pagano Irrigation Consultants, Inc. in Orange, California. "Because of the water issues across the country now, we all have to really pay attention. We need to apply water to optimize the landscape, as opposed to the past when we just had timers, and you watered for ten minutes every day. Everything looked good, but we were wasting water."
Pagano believes that "we're in a new era in the landscape industry, where we must start conserving this important natural resource. One way to do this is to only apply the water that landscapes need. Not only does this conserve water, it makes the plants healthier, and smart controllers are the tools we use to do that." This is especially true in the commercial arena, where millions of gallons of water are used every year. And the larger the properties, the more water used.
A conventional controller waters by the clock. For example, at 12:00 midnight, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, hot or cold, rain or shine, it will irrigate zones 3, 4, and 5 for ten minutes.
Smart controllers work by calculating a landscape's actual water needs. Some measure evapotranspiration (ET) using either an onsite weather station or a nearby one via the Internet, or data from onsite soil/moisture, temperature, wind and solar radiation sensors. Some also mix in historical weather data by zip code, or use it as a backup.
Smart Controller, Smart Programming
Still, Pagano reminds us, they can't figure everything out by themselves. Even gifted kids have to go to school. Just as we can't expect a computer to run without an operating system, a smart controller needs to be told what types of plants it's irrigating, what types of soils those plants are in, and whether they're in sun or in shade. All of these things will affect how much water needs to be applied.
"With smart controllers, it's critical that they be properly programmed at the time they're installed," said Bob Dobson, president of Middletown Sprinkler Company in Port Monmouth, New Jersey, and president of the Irrigation Association. "In order to really maximize their efficiency, they need to be "tweaked" for the first few weeks. It's very difficult to program them for maximum efficiency right off the bat. But once we get smart controllers dialed in, they do an excellent job."
"The controller will devise an irrigation schedule that will be so much better than you could do yourself," said Pagano. "I could do it with a pad and pencil, but it would take me all day. It just isn't worth it when we have a better tool now. And I always think of a smart controller as a tool."
That tool needs sharpening, however. "It's very important that the installer understands the soil/water/ plant relationship, irrigation precipitation rates and all the information that's necessary to program the controller," said Dobson. "If accurate data is not entered into the smart controller, it is not going to manage water properly." And when that happens, according to him, "the tendency is not to point the finger at the person who programmed the controller, but to blame the technology itself."
But it's usually not the controller's fault. When a smart controller fails, "it's generally the result of an error that's been made when inputting data," said Dobson. In other words, 'garbage in, garbage out.'
Education is Vital
Of course, a smart irrigation system is only as smart as it's allowed to be. This is especially true in the commercial arena, "unless you're also doing the maintenance as well.
When you turn it over to the maintenance personnel, sometimes they don't get it, or find it too confusing, and they wind up turning off the smart features," said Judith Benson, president of Clearwater PSI in Winter Springs, Florida. "I have found that happening on several properties."
So has Pagano. "Part of the problem is that the maintenance people aren't being trained. You know how to drive your car, but do you know how to fix it?
No, you take it to someone who does."
"If you're paying someone to look after your maintenance, then you should hire the right person, just like you take your car to a trained mechanic," Pagano continued.
He says that on his larger commercial projects, the clients know how to hire 'the right people,' contractors who are up to speed on smart control and have a welltrained maintenance staff. The problem comes with the smaller commercial projects, such as strip malls. "They might have one controller and five valves. They're trying to make ends meet, so they hire someone who just does mowing and doesn't understand the water needs of plants."
Dobson found that very s cenario happening on several planned retirement communities he's worked on. "Too many complaints were coming in, so the maintenance staffs disabled the smart features and were running them as conventional controllers."
Dobson found a compromise: they set up the controllers so that the system runs at predictable times, but not when the ET-based weather station or moisture sensors have determined it shouldn't. (His company also conducted educational talks for the residents to explain how the new controllers work).
This half-smart solution "still saves an awful lot of water, and does so in a predictable manner that's acceptable to the residents. We have records for one community we set up that way. Their average water consumption for the preceding five years, before we put the system in, was 47 million gallons a year. The first year the system was operational, we cut usage to 26 million, less than 60 percent of what they were using previously."
"Smart controllers have been developed over the years by some pretty smart people at universities and manufacturing companies, with input from some of the larger maintenance contractors and consultants like myself," says Pagano. "They've incorporated the best of everybody's ideas, and the units work just great if you understand them."
Therein lies the rub. "The biggest obstacle we face is maintenance personnel," says Pagano. "They need to be trained so they understand the main aspects of smart control, how it works, and why it works. It's not that hard to grasp."
He says, "A simple explanation is all that's needed, without going into the calculus involved.
Explain why it's better for the plants. I think most people could get that." Benson agrees. "There is vast confusion in the industry by the 'boots on the ground,' and I think that's due to lack of education."
Results may be the best teacher.
Pagano cites the following example. "Back in the mid-1990s (around the same time that smart control really got rolling), the Irvine Ranch Water District started requiring water allocations based on the size of landscapes, and they monitored the usage. When those regulations first came out, and we put in smart control to deal with it, the contractors said, 'Our plants are all going to die; this isn't going to work.' Ten years later, these same contractors are going to other communities and saying, 'I know how to manage water, because I've learned.'" Clients and maintenance people aren't the only ones who might need some education. Just knowing how to install the hardware isn't enough. Dobson said that many irrigation contractors "are deficient in knowledge about plant materials."
It's critical to understand the soil/water/plant relationship. "The subject is taught in all the major agricultural schools, or to anyone who's studied landscape architecture," said Dobson. "A big part of those curriculums is teaching about the water storage capacities of different soils. You could install two identical irrigation systems, but depending on their locations, they would have to be programmed differently because they're in different types of soil."
You'd think that retrofitting a commercial property might be an easier task than putting in an entire system from scratch. Not if you ask Pagano. "Retrofits can be more difficult. It's easy to rip everything out and put everything back new. But if we need to save the old equipment, that sometimes becomes problematic."
Many times, in the interests of saving money, contractors are required to mix old with new. The question comes in, as Pagano points out, when you're trying to incorporate something that's been in the ground for 10 to 15 years. Is the new contractor responsible for that old part if it fails? "If you're a smart contractor, you might figure out that there could be a problem with these aged fittings. They might not work like they're supposed to. So it becomes a lot trickier."
Clients may think that slapping on a smart controller will fix whatever problems they might be having. "A smart controller can only accomplish what an irrigation system will let it accomplish," cautions Pagano. "If you have a poor or inefficient system, a smart controller's not going to help you."
If the sprinkler heads are spaced too far apart, or not operating at the proper pressures, you'll have poor distribution uniformity. That means some spots get a lot of water, while others go thirsty. "Typically, that's remedied by increasing the timing to make those brown spots disappear," said Dobson. "What are you doing to all the spots that are already green? You're grossly overwatering them." Smart controllers can't change poor equipment selection, bad design, improper spacing or incorrect operating pressures.
Trying to resuscitate the older parts of a system may be more trouble than they're worth. The client may think he's saving money, but he's likely being penny-wise and pound-foolish. Anyone who's tried to keep an old car running knows this story. At some point, it becomes cheaper to replace it with something new.
Desirable Features
On large commercial properties, features like central control, moisture and rain sensors, and remote access via smartphones or tablets become highly desirable.
"At one large, planned community, we replaced 46 individual controllers with a central control system," said Dobson. "They are now able to control well over 600 irrigation zones from one central location."
His company is installing remote access later this year on another planned residential community and a summer resort. "It will give the superintendents the ability to monitor the systems from home or from wherever they might be."
"On our commercial sites, we prefer to install quick-response rain sensors that'll interrupt irrigation almost at the first drop of rain," Dobson said. This is important from a public relations standpoint. People who drive by and see sprinklers running during a rainstorm aren't getting a positive image of that business.
"Rain sensors are a code item here, required in the state of Florida," says Benson. "Whether they're functioning or not, that's another story."
One piece of technology that Benson really likes is soil/moisture sensors. "They have their pros and cons, but if you're talking water savings, our records indicate they're stronger (than ET-based systems). The savings are phenomenal if you can get clients to convert to them."
However, sometimes there's a problem with acceptance of the soil/moisture sensors. "They're so foreign," said Benson. "Once they're installed, they still have to prove their reliability to the property owners or managers, which they do."
Still, there have been times when maintenance contractors have come by and disengaged the sensors. "On several commercial sites, we've had maintenance contractors blaming the sensors for plants that were dying on them. They didn't understand the technology."
Benson has found that ET-based systems are more easily accepted by her commercial customers, probably due to their lower installation costs. "It's an easier upgrade. These systems also have their pros and cons, but you can still get very respectable savings, depending on which units you use."
"With ET-based controllers, I tell my commercial clients that they can expect a water savings of 20 to 30 percent. But on some of our larger properties, where we've installed multiple soil moisture sensors, we've easily seen 60 to 70 percent savings."
Smart Control: It's the Law?
If you're in a water-critical state, you may find the government selling smart control for you. Increasingly, states and municipalities are starting to mandate it for new developments. That's the case in New Jersey, according to Dobson.
"As far as Florida goes, they haven't gotten that specific on a state level," says Benson. "But there is a state statute that allows you to get variances from day-specific water restrictions if you have smart control in place. That's not a mandate, it's an opportunity."
In the commercial arena, the question is no longer, "Why should we go with smart control?" but, "What type, and what features shall we buy?" The answer to that will depend on your clients' sites, the climate, their budget, and a host of other factors. As word has gotten out about how good smart control is, more developers and site managers are demanding it.
It's a good time to be an irrigation contractor who truly understands what smart control has to offer, and can communicate that effectively to his commercial clients.


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How can I protect a VM in the (public) cloud against such threats?
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Use verbatim methods and equipment to capture, store, retrieve, and transcribe pretrial and trial proceedings or other information. Includes stenocaptioners who operate computerized stenographic captioning equipment to provide captions of live or prerecorded broadcasts for hearing-impaired viewers.
Sample of reported job titles: Certified Shorthand Reporter (CSR), Court Recording Monitor, Court Reporter, Court Stenographer, Deposition Reporter, Digital Court Reporter, Freelance Court Reporter, Official Court Reporter, Realtime Court Reporter, Stenographer
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- Record verbatim proceedings of courts, legislative assemblies, committee meetings, and other proceedings, using computerized recording equipment, electronic stenograph machines, or stenomasks.
- Take notes in shorthand or use a stenotype or shorthand machine that prints letters on a paper tape.
- Record symbols on computer storage media and use computer aided transcription to translate and display them as text.
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- Transcribe recorded proceedings in accordance with established formats.
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- Record depositions and other proceedings for attorneys.
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Technology Skills
- Data base user interface and query software — Acclaim Legal Acclaim DepoManage; Chase Software Solutions Court Reporting Software; Courtpages; OMTI ReporterBase
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software — Acculaw Court Reporters Billing Scheduling Job Management System ABSMS; ReporterWorks
- Internet browser software — Web browser software
- Office suite software — Corel WordPerfect
- Presentation software — ForTheRecord TheRecord Player
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Time accounting software — Equative TimeLedger
- Voice recognition software — Courtroom Data Solutions Techlennium; Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking
- Word processing software — Advantage Software Total Eclipse; Microsoft Word ; Thomson West LiveNote; VocEdit (see all 12 examples)
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
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- Dictation machines — Dictation equipment
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- Microphones — Stenomasks
- Notebook computers — Laptop computers
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- Photocopiers — Photocopying equipment
- Stenotype machines
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Clerical — Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
- Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
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- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Control Precision — The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Work Activities
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
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- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
Detailed Work Activities
- Record information from legal proceedings.
- Maintain the order of legal documents.
- Confer with court staff to clarify information.
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Work Context
- Importance of Repeating Same Tasks — 100% responded "Extremely important."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 96% responded "Extremely important."
- Spend Time Sitting — 88% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — 90% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions — 88% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 71% responded "Every day."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 63% responded "Every day."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 67% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 47% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Time Pressure — 47% responded "Every day."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 59% responded "Very important results."
- Telephone — 49% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Contact With Others — 43% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Electronic Mail — 44% responded "Every day."
- Deal With External Customers — 44% responded "Extremely important."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 42% responded "Every day."
- Physical Proximity — 49% responded "Moderately close (at arm's length)."
- Letters and Memos — 35% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 34% responded "Very important."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 43% responded "40 hours."
- Consequence of Error — 30% responded "Extremely serious."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
|Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
|Related Experience
|Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include hydroelectric production managers, travel guides, electricians, agricultural technicians, barbers, court reporters, and medical assistants.
|SVP Range
|(6.0 to < 7.0)
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- Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
- Enterprising — Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
Work Styles
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
Work Values
- Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
- Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
- Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
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Wages & Employment Trends
Median wage data for Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners.
|Median wages (2019)
|$28.91 hourly, $60,130 annual
|State wages
|Local wages
|Employment (2018)
|15,700 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Faster than average (7% to 10%)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019 wage data and 2018-2028 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
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Maryland hosts Georgia Tech in its ACC home opener Sunday at 2 p.m. in Comcast Center. The Terps have won 12 of their last 14 ACC home openers, and hold a 34-26 record all-time in such games.
Watch: ACCN – Tim Brant (Play-by-Play), Dan Bonner (Analyst)
• The Terrapins have defeated the Yellow Jackets six consecutive times at Comcast Center since 2005 — a streak spanning six games. Maryland last played Georgia Tech in an ACC home opener on Jan. 10, 2009, when current graduate assistant Eric Hayes scored 17 points to lead the Terps to a 68-61 victory.
• Maryland closed non-conference play on New Year's Eve with a 70-56 defeat of North Carolina Central, holding the Eagles to just 32.7% shooting (2-of-15 from 3-point range). The Terps are 8-0 this season when holding opponents below 40% shooting.
• Junior guard Nick Faust turned in his best performance of the season against NC Central, matching a career-high with 19 points and adding a season-high nine rebounds. Faust is averaging 12.0 points over the last five games, previously averaging 5.4 points in the four games prior.
• The Terps were victorious in their lone ACC game of the season to date, defeating Boston College, 88-80, in Chestnut Hill, Mass. on Dec. 12. Junior Dez Wells had a career-high 33 points in the effort.
• Nick Faust has the most experience among current Terrapins against the Yellow Jackets, averaging 9.7 points in three career games. He had 10 points on 4-of-5 shooting in last year's meeting at Georgia Tech.
• Sophomore forward Charles Mitchell is a native of Atlanta, Ga. and attended Wheeler High School.
Faust Shines in Victory vs. NC Central
Nick Faust equaled his career high with 19 points and had a season-high nine rebounds to lead Maryland over North Carolina Central 70-56 on Tuesday.
Maryland (9-5) began the second half with three 3-pointers, one by Seth Allen and two by Faust. The junior guard scored 14 of his 19 after halftime.
The trio of 3-pointers gave the Terrapins a 37-26 lead with 16:47 to play. The Eagles (7-4), who lost by 11 to No. 8 Wichita State on Dec. 21, were just 2-for-15 from the 3-point line. They were averaging nearly 34 percent before the game.
Jeremy Ingram, who was averaging nearly 25 points, was just 4-for-19 from the field, and led NC Central with 11.
Dez Wells added 10 for the Terps, who extended their lead to 68-45 on Faust's 3-pointer with 3:20 to play.
Scouting Georgia Tech
Winners of four of its last five games, Georgia Tech rolls into College Park to open its ACC slate sporting a 9-4 record. The Yellow Jackets most recently defeated Charlotte, 58-55, on Dec. 29.
The Yellow Jackets announced on Jan. 2 that sophomore forward Robert Carter, Jr. — the ACC's leading rebounder (9.2/g) — has been sidelined indefinitely with a tear of the meniscus in his left knee.
Despite the loss of Carter, Georgia Tech boasts the conference's third leading rebounder in Daniel Miller (8.2/g). Miller is also one of four Yellow Jackets averaging double-figures in scoring this season. Trae Golden leads the team with 13.2 points/g.
Statistically Speaking
- Maryland has defeated Georgia Tech six consecutive times at Comcast Center dating back to Jan. 30, 2005.
- In fact, the Terps have won 15 of their last 16 home meetings against the Yellow Jackets dating back to 1995.
- Maryland has won 12 of their last 14 ACC home openers, including a 68-61 win over Georgia Tech on Jan. 10, 2009.
- Junior Nick Faust has averaged 9.7 points in three career games against Georgia Tech — the most among current Terps.
Looking Back
The Yellow Jackets were victorious against the Terps in their lone meeting last season, as Robert Carter, Jr. tallied 19 points and 10 rebounds in Atlanta on Feb. 27, 2013.
Dez Wells led Maryland with 15 points, while Alex Len had 13 points and nine rebounds and Seth Allen had 12 points.
The Yellow Jackets made 16 of 28 shots from the field (57.1 percent) in the first half and finished at 51 percent for the game with 22 assists on their 26 field goals.
Trailing by double-digits for most of the second half, Wells cut the Terps' deficit to nine points with two minutes to play.
Georgia Roots
Maryland sophomore forward Charles Mitchell is a native of Atlanta, Ga., and attended Wheeling High School in Marietta, Ga. Mitchell grew up less than 20 minutes from the campus of Georgia Tech.


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Folio Investing's Successful ETF-Based Alternative to Legacy Target-Date Funds Offers Superior Diversification, Risk Targeting and Flexibility; Firm Seeks Distribution Partner to Broaden Availability
Folio Investing announced today that, over the five years since they were brought to market in December 2007, its Target Date Folios have significantly outperformed traditional target-date funds. The Folios have provided both higher returns and lower volatility than the competing funds during this tumultuous period.
Target Date Folios, like target-date funds, are designed for investors planning and saving for retirement. A 2025 Target Date Folio, for example, is for investors who expect to retire in 2025.
"The performance of our Target Date Folios over the past five years proves that improved design and better diversification actually do provide tremendous value. For many though, traditional target-date funds are the only available target-date choice in their retirement plans. But, investors deserve better. That's why we believe it is important to join with a distribution partner who can bring Target Date Folios to a much broader base of investors," said Steven Wallman, Founder and CEO of Folio, and a former Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. "Target Date Folios can be offered not only as 'Folios', which are unique to the Folio Investing platform, but broadly as collective investment trusts and mutual funds," Wallman said.
The Target Date Folios' outperformance is due to a number of design initiatives pioneered and proven valuable by Folio Investing.
- A Broader, More Robust Diversification Strategy. Many target-date funds' returns are, effectively, simply a blend of a U.S. bond index and a U.S. equity index fund, such as the S&P500. When the stock market is especially volatile though, such a portfolio is also still volatile. Target Date Folios are far more diversified, including not just U.S. stocks and bonds, but also commodities, REITs, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) and other asset classes. Theoretically, the result should be lower volatility and higher returns at any given risk level. And, that's what Folio Investing's Target Date Folios have proven over the last five years.
- Greater Choice and Customization. Target Date Folios come in conservative, moderate and aggressive risk levels for each target year, and uniquely can be further customized by investors or advisors as they see fit. That allows the Target Date Folios to be a much better match to an investor's needs than can be provided by any "one-size-fits-all" fund.
- Intelligent Risk Targeting, Not Simple Asset Allocation. Target Date Folios target specific risk levels over time. By contrast, target-date funds traditionally target specific asset allocations over time. But when market conditions change adversely, clinging to defined asset allocations means investors are exposed to far more risk than expected. Target Date Folios, instead, use a changing asset allocation as the means to achieving targeted risk levels, as opposed to the asset allocation being the end itself.
The Target Date Folios' five-year track record proves the power of these innovations in design. While mitigating risk, the Folios generated higher returns than their target-date fund counterparts.
Some Specifics
Specifically, the Target Date Folios for the years 2010 through 2045 (i.e., the Folios for target retirement dates at five year intervals including and between those dates) provided higher returns and lower volatility from their inception date, December 21, 2007, through December 31, 2012 as compared to the three largest target-date funds, for the same target-date years. The average annual return for Target Date Folios is, on average, 1% per year more than the largest target-date funds, which would have an enormous impact on portfolio returns over an investor's lifetime. For example, a range of analyses conclude that an increase in portfolio performance of 1% per year corresponds to a lifetime increase in wealth accumulation of 20%[1].
Even over just the past five years, the realized increase in portfolio value is substantial.
For example —
- An investment of $100,000 in the 2025 Moderate Target Date Folio since its inception on December 21, 2007, would have been worth $116,900 at the end of December 2012, while the same investment in the three largest target-date fund families' 2025 target-date funds would be worth an average of only $110,800.
- An investment of $100,000 in the 2045 Moderate Target Date Folio since its inception on December 21, 2007, would have been worth $112,300 at the end of December 2012, while the same investment in the three largest target-date families' 2045 target-date funds of $100,000 would be worth an average of only $106,300.
For a more detailed summary of Target Date Folios' performance, view our quarterly fact sheet on Target Date Folios, as well as our whitepaper, "Improving Target Date Offerings: Lessons Proven" on our Target Date Performance Page. In addition, Folio Investing Cumulative Gain/Loss data for Target Date Folios is available on request.
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This renovated century home is located on the town's waterfront. Parry Sound's waterfront is a gathering place on the shores of magnificent Georgian Bay where culture and nature meet. The waterfront includes protected natural areas where visitors can enjoy the unique character of Parry Sound's waterfront all year round. 40 Bay Street is close to many popular attractions.
Only two hours from the edge of Toronto, Parry Sound is well-connected by all modes of travel - road, rail, air, and boat.
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text: FYI - I am the Project Lead for the CIS Apache Benchmark document and scoring tool (there's another title to add to my ever expanding signature info...) The initial CIS Apache draft document was based on my SANS GIAC Practical for the GCUX - http://www.cgisecurity.com/lib/ryan_barnett_gcux_practical.html. If anyone is using the CIS Apache Benchmark, I would be interested in any feedback. Additionally, you can send feedback to the apache-feedback at cisecurity.org address. Cheers. -- Ryan C. Barnett Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) Member SANS Instructor: Securing Apache GCIA, GCFA, GCIH, GCUX, GSEC On 5/19/05, Rochford, Paul <paul.rochford at hp.com> wrote: > The PDF that comes with the Apache Benchmark from www.cisecurity.org has > tons of info on obfuscating Apache banners and responses by modifying > the httpd.h file, using different header set types for Emulation etc and > others. > > > Kind Regards, > Paul Rochford > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Barnett [mailto:rcbarnett at gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 4:15 PM > To: Peter Motykowski > Cc: websecurity at webappsec.org > Subject: Re: [WEB SECURITY] Securing apache installation with PHP > > I wanted to give everyone a quick teaser on some Apache obfuscation > info. > > <Warning: PR Info> > I am currently writing a book for Prentice-Hall/Addison-Wesley > tentatively entitled "Web Intrusion Detection and Prevention with > Apache". In it, I discuss a little known (at least by me and anyone > else I had presented this idea to) technique of altering not only the > Server banner token info but also any of the other outbound headers. > > Here is a small excerpt from my chapter - > > ******************************************** > Banner Obfuscation with Apache's Output Filtering If you are not using > Mod_Security, which by this point I cannot think of a reason why you > wouldn't be using it, you can still accomplish this same task using the > Apache 2.0 Output Filters. We briefly discussed using the output > filtering in chapter 8 when we needed to fix some of the Buggy Bank > login html data returned to the client. In this case, however, we need > to alter the Server token of the HTTP Response Header instead of the > html output. This can be accomplished by the following output filter > directives - > > ExtFilterDefine fixbanner mode=output ftype=30 \ cmd="/bin/sed > s|Apache.*$|Netscape-Enterprise/4\.1|g" > > SetOutputFilter fixbanner > > The first line defines our new filter is called, appropriately enough, > "fixbanner." Two important pieces of information to note with this > ExtFilterDefine directive - > > 1. We are using "ftype=30" to tell Apache which filter hook to use. > Here is a section of text from the Apache util_filter.h header file > describing the AP_FTYPE_PROTOCOL type 30 - > > /** These filters are used to handle the protocol between server * and > client. Examples are HTTP and POP. */ AP_FTYPE_PROTOCOL = 30, > > 2. We are using the "sed" command to substitute the Apache banner > information with our new data - Netscape-Enterprise/4.1. In order for > the sed command to work properly with Apache, we need to use an > alternate substitution delimiter. Normally, the forward slash character > is used, however we are using the forward slash in our substitution text > (/4.1) and the sed command was not working properly until I changed the > delimiter. > > ******************************************** > </Warning: PR Info> > > This is just one example of levaraging Apache 2.0's Output Filtering > capabilities. Get creative as I am sure that others will be able to > come up with other fun security uses for Output filtering :) > > -- > Ryan C. Barnett > Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) Member SANS Instructor: > Securing Apache GCIA, GCFA, GCIH, GCUX, GSEC > > On 5/19/05, Peter Motykowski <pmotykowski at suncorp.coop> wrote: > > My favorite obscurity layer of security in Apache is modifying the > "ServerTokens" option. The default setting dumps unnecessary version > information into the server signature and looks something like this: > > > > Apache/2.0.54 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP/5.0.4 > > mod_jk/1.2.10 Server at domain.com Port 80 > > > > Change the setting to "ServerTokens Prod" and you get this: > > Apache Server at domain.com Port 80 > > > > No need to hand out more info than needed! > > > > # ServerTokens > > # This directive configures what you return as the Server HTTP > > response # Header. The default is 'Full' which sends information about > > > the OS-Type # and compiled in modules. > > # Set to one of: Full | OS | Minor | Minimal | Major | Prod # where > > Full conveys the most information, and Prod the least. > > > > Peter > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Web Security Mailing List http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/ The Web Security Mailing List Archives http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/archive/


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The Jones 105 classroom is located on the first floor of Jesse H. Jones Library near the stairwell.[map]
The primary purpose of the Jones 105 classroom is library instruction.
The basic layout seats 24. Additional seating without computers available.
Priority will be given in order to:
To reserve room, fill out Room Reservation Request Form