more on 9/11

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1365/is_11_31/ai_75091028/
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(*) In millions of dollars, to the nearest thousand.
As of December 31, 2000. Prepared by B.E. Research.
Reviewed by Mitchell & Titus L.L.P.
B.E INSURANCE COMPANIES
100s B.E. Built to Last
THIS   LAST                             CHIEF
YEAR   YEAR   COMPANY/LOCATION          EXECUTIVE
1    NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL     Bert Collins
              LIFE INSURANCE
              Durham, North Carolina
2    ATLANTA LIFE                             Charles H. Cornelius              INSURANCE CO.
              Atlanta, Georgia

http://www.sept11marriottsurvivors.org/survivors_stories.php  (Sept. 11, 2001blog before this one had the following link)  ...cal
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Clint Baird  Hotel Guest (11th floor) * New 06/22/06
Armando Bardales hotel employee - pastry chef
Shannon Beavers (hotel guest)
Mike Bergman U.S. Census Bureau (hotel guest - 9th floor)
Richard Berner NABE (hotel attendee)
John Breen Firefighter, Engine 74
Ray Brown Firefighter, Ladder 113 Ernesto Butcher Rescue Worker
Tom Burton - CEO for InRoads Technology, Inc. - hotel guest


http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=24271778&privcapId=4433897&previousCapId=4433897&previousTitle=INROADS%20Midwest%20Region,%20Inc.
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Dix & Eaton billed the port for 192 hours of work by five employees earning between $240 and $290 an hour, according to six pages of itemized invoices obtained by The Plain Dealer through a public records request.

http://www.inroads.org/about-us/news/inroads-announces-2010-top-10-providers-united-technologies-heads-list-fourth-consecut
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The leading ten corporate sponsors providing internships in 2010 through INROADS are:

United Technologies Corporation
Deloitte
MetLife
Qwest Communications International
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Kaiser Permanente
Boeing Company
KPMG International
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Travelers Companies
“We salute all of our partners for their continued commitment to affording top performing diversity Interns the opportunity to gain corporate experience that will develop them for future business success,” shares Tina Marie Bradley, Chief Operations Officer of INROADS.

http://www.financeprofessor.com/Adelphia/adelphia_communications%202.19.04.htm
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1) The new board began to assign blame.  On June 9, Deloitte and Touche was fired for not finding the accounting problems and bringing them to the attention of investors.  Deloitte and Touche did not go quietly.  The two parties engaged in public name-calling, motivated at least in part by Deloitte and Touche’s desire to shift blame back to Adelphia and the Rigases in hopes of avoiding the troubles that had put Enron’s auditor (Andersen) out of business.  (Bergstrom, Washington Post; Cooke, Dow Jones Newswires) On June 11, PriceWaterhouseCoopers was selected as the new auditor.  The new auditor’s first course of action was to attempt to get to the bottom of the mess – a step that would involve restating previous years’ financial statements. (Adelphia Press Release, 14 June 2002)

2) 10. Financial frauds such as those discovered at Enron and Adelphia lead to major reform.  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 created new regulations that are intended to enhance corporate governance and improve the reliability of financial reporting. Discuss how the Act that would potentially have prevented problems of this nature. Dix & Eaton billed the port for 192 hours of work by five employees earning between $240 and $290 an hour, according to six pages of itemized invoices obtained by The Plain Dealer through a public records request.

http://academic.udayton.edu/lawrenceulrich/AdelphiaConvictions.htm
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ADELPHIA CONVICTIONS

A jury found former CEO John Rigas and one of his sons guilty on several counts. See a chart⁰ of the charges.

• Adelphia Faces Auction Block¹
 • The 'It Wasn't Me' Defense²

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr17627.htm
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Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C.
Litigation Release No. 17627 / July 24, 2002
Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release No. 1599 / July 24, 2002
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Adelphia Communications Corporation, John J. Rigas, Timothy J. Rigas, Michael J. Rigas, James P. Rigas, James R. Brown, and Michael C. Mulcahey, 02 Civ. 5776 (KW) (S.D.N.Y.)
The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York charging major cable television provider Adelphia Communications Corporation; its founder John J. Rigas; his three sons, Timothy J. Rigas, Michael J. Rigas, and James P. Rigas; and two senior executives at Adelphia, James R. Brown and Michael C. Mulcahey, in one of the most extensive financial frauds ever to take place at a public company. In its complaint, the Commission charges that Adelphia, at the direction of the individual defendants: (1) fraudulently excluded billions of dollars in liabilities from its consolidated financial statements by hiding them in off-balance sheet affiliates; (2) falsified operations statistics and inflated Adelphia's earnings to meet Wall Street's expectations; and (3) concealed rampant self-dealing by the Rigas Family, including the undisclosed use of corporate funds for Rigas Family stock purchases and the acquisition of luxury condominiums in New York and elsewhere.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelphia_Communications_Corporation
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The majority of Adelphia's revenue-generating assets were officially acquired by Time Warner Cable and Comcast on July 31, 2006. LFC, an internet-based real estate marketing firm, auctioned off the remaining Adelphia real estate assets.^[3]
As a result of this acquisition, Adelphia no longer exists as a cable provider. Adelphia's long-distance telephone business with 110,000 customers in 27 states (telephone & long-distance services) was sold to Pioneer Telephone for about $1.2 million.^[4] Had the 110,000 telephone customers been shut off versus being sold to Pioneer Telephone, those customers would have more than likely left Adelphia cable and high speed internet services. The potential financial damage to the creditors of Adelphia was over $150 million. Although the purchase price by Pioneer Telephone was relatively small ($1.2 million) the transaction was very significant.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wal-Mart_heir_John_Walton_killed_in_plane_crash
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Walton was killed while flying an experimental ultra-light aircraft with small gasoline engine and wings made of material similar to sail-cloth.
Because the aircraft was unregistered and experimental, officials at the National Park indicate that there will not be an NTSB investigation. Officials at Grand Teton National Park will, however, conduct their own internal investigation.
Walton was named to the board of directors of Wal-Mart in 1992 -- he never worked for the company. He had served as a Green Beret during the Vietnam War and was awarded the Silver Star for saving the lives of several members of his unit while under fire. Walton was involved in several business interests over the years, including crop-dusting and boat construction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Walton
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Later life
After returning from Vietnam Walton learned to fly and went to work as a pilot for Wal-Mart. He later left the company to fly crop-dusters over cotton fields in several southern states and co-founded Satloc, an aerial application company that pioneered the use of GPS technology in agricultural crop-dusting. Walton then moved to San Diego where he founded Corsair Marine,^[3] a company that built trimaran sailboats. He also lived in Durango, Colorado and was an enthusiastic skier, mountain biker, hiker, motorcycle rider, sky diver and scuba diver.
In 1998, as part of the Philanthropy Roundtable, Walton and friend Ted Forstmann established the Children's Scholarship Fund to provide tuition assistance for low-income families to send their children to private schools.^[4] He was an advocate of school vouchers. For his achievements, he received the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership.

http://www.hemispheregps.com/AboutUs/Milestones/tabid/515/Default.aspx
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1999
CSI acquires business assets of Satloc Inc., of Scottsdale, Arizona, and its global reputation for high-quality aerial and ground-based guidance systems for agriculture. Originally founded by John Walton, son of the founder of Walmart, Satloc invented GPS-based aerial guidance for cropdusters and owns a 60% market share at the time.

http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/topic/excellence_in_philanthropy/the_carnegie_of_school_choice
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Tragically, Walton died June 27 at the age of 58 when his ultralight plane crashed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He leaves behind a considerable legacy as a pioneer in K-12 education. “More children have benefited from John’s philanthropy than from anyone else’s in the country,” declares Peter Flanigan, a New York philanthropist who worked with Walton on funding scholarships for poor children. “Far and away, John was the leading spirit in efforts to give low-income parents a choice in education.”

http://www.com-sys.com/
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CSI, Inc. Expands its market presence in the global telecommunications market.

The top solution provider for Wisconsin of AT&T telecommunications services for businesses, announced today that they are no longer exclusively representing AT&T. CSI will now represent....
Read full story [PDF]

http://www.gps.gov/applications/agriculture/
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The development and implementation of precision agriculture or site-specific farming has been made possible by combining the Global Positioning System (GPS) and geographic information systems (GIS). These technologies enable the coupling of real-time data collection with accurate position information, leading to the efficient manipulation and analysis of large amounts of geospatial data. GPS-based applications in precision farming are being used for farm planning, field mapping, soil sampling, tractor guidance, crop scouting, variable rate applications, and yield mapping. GPS allows farmers to work during low visibility field conditions such as rain, dust, fog, and darkness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Solar
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Corporate history
In 1984, inventor and entrepreneur Harold McMaster founded Glasstech Solar. McMaster foresaw the opportunity to manufacture low-cost, thin film cells on a large scale. After trying amorphous silicon, he shifted to CdTe at the urging of Jim Nolan and founded Solar Cells, Inc., (SCI) in 1990.^[11] In February 1999, McMaster sold the company to True North Partners, an investment arm of the Walton family, owners of Wal-Mart.^[12] John T. Walton joined the Board of the new company, and Mike Ahearn of True North became the CEO of the newly-minted First Solar. In its early years, First Solar module efficiencies were modest, about 7 percent.
First Solar launched production of commercial products in 2002 and reached an annual production of 25 megawatts (MW) in 2005.^[13] At the end of 2009, First Solar had surpassed an annual production rate of one gigawatt (GW)^[14] and was the largest PV module manufacturer in the world.^[15]
The Company is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, has manufacturing facilities in Perrysburg, Ohio, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, and Kulim, Malaysia, and is in the process of building an additional manufacturing facility in Arizona.^[16] Additionally, First Solar partnered with natural gas provider Enbridge to build the largest PV solar energy farm in the world,^[17] located in Sarnia, Ontario, near the U.S.-Canadian border.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/134246-who-will-fill-mike-ahearn-s-shoes-at-first-solar
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By Michael Kanellos
It’s either the best or the worst job in solar, depending on your perspective.
Michael Ahearn, CEO of First Solar (FSLR), announced that he’ll be stepping down from that role and that the board is already looking for a replacement. He will stay on as executive chairman but mostly focused on policy.
First Solar, of course, is the relentless manufacturing machine of solar. Net income more than tripled in the first quarter, a time when other solar companies and the industrial world in general is crumbling. The company also continues to drop panel prices.
Whoever takes over the job will instantly be one of the most powerful people in solar.
But, man, is that going to be a tough act to follow. Whoever comes next will certainly have to contend with a lot of comparisons. So who will they get? The possibilities are:

http://www.corsairmarine.com/
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Corsair Marine - the world's leader in trailerable trimarans

Corsair Marine has been building the world's best trailerable sailing trimarans since 1985 and now has over 1,600 sailing waters throughout the US, Europe, Australia, Asia and South America.
So, why are Corsair Marine's trimarans so popular? Well, you can:
* Fold the floats (amas) in minutes.
* Lower the mast by yourself (no need to wait for the marina's heavy lifting equipment).
* Store your Corsair in a mono's berth or on a trailer on the hard (reducing/eliminating storage and maintenance costs)
* Drive the boat (at 100km/hr) to where you really want to enjoy your sailing (at up to 20+ knots!).
* Enjoy an amazing day, weekend, week or month cruising with the family.
* Sail in those longer, more testing, regattas. Compete strongly and complete easily. Pack up the Corsair on the trailer. Drive home. And do enjoy a well earned beer while the slower boats are still finishing!
To see a short video of how simple it is to raise the mast and take the Corsair trimaran from the trailer to the water, click here. And here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsair_Marine
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Corsair Marine International is an international sailboat builder that builds trimarans. It is now headquartered in Vietnam

http://www.corsairmarine.com/about
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Moving off-shore created an opportunity to avoid charging higher prices. Ultimately, Vietnam was chosen for a number of reasons including its political stability, attractive FDI (foreign direct investment) provisions, booming economy and its young, talented, skilled, energetic, and resourceful labour pool.
A number of key staff from California relocated to Vietnam to facilitate the successful migration of the business and the setting up and running of the factory. Now, Corsair Marine employs more than 100 Vietnamese.
Since 1984, Corsair Marine has sold more than 1,600 trimarans through its global dealership network. Dealers represent and service Corsair Marine's trimarans in over 8 regions of the USA and 17 other locations around the world.
Products:
Currently, Corsair Marine builds the DASH 750 (24'), SPRINT 750 MK II (24'), C24, C28, C31 and C37 trimarans in a number of different configurations.