Friday, October 26, 2012

Who's the Richest person in Connecticut? - CT Boom| Connecticut ...

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Published on October 25th, 2012 | by Begley

Research Firm Wealth-X has put together this?fascinating?list of the richest people in America broken down state by state.

Here in Connecticut, it is Raymond Dalio. Founder of Bridgewater Associates.

Here is who is sitting at the top in the rest of the 50 states:

1: Washington: Bill Gates:?$64.5 billion ? Microsoft chairman, co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
2: Nebraska: Warren Buffett:?$49.6 billion ? Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
3: California: Lawrence Ellison: $41.1 billion ? CEO of Oracle Corp.
4: Arkansas: James Walton: $33.6 billion ? Chairman of Arvest Bank, son of Walmart founder, Sam Walton
5: Kansas: David Koch: $32.1 billion ? Vice-chairman of Koch Industries
6: New York: Michael Bloomberg:?$24.8 billion ? New York City Mayor and owner of Bloomberg LP
7: Nevada: Sheldon Adelson: $20.2 billion ? Chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands
8: Virginia: Forrest Mars, Jr.: $17 billion ? Part-owner of Mars candy company and grandson of the late Frank C. Mars
9: Texas: Michael Dell:?$14 billion ? CEO of Dell Inc
10: Oregon: Philip Knight: $13 billion ? Chairman of Nike Inc.
11: Massachusetts: Abigail Johnson: $11.9 billion ? President, Fidelity Financial Services
12: Georgia: Anne Cox Chambers: $11.2 billion ? Member of Cox Enterprises? board of directors, chairwoman of Atlanta Newspapers
13: Connecticut: Raymond Dalio: $10 billion ? Founder of Bridgewater Associates LP
14: Oklahoma: George Kaiser: $10 billion ? Chairman of BOK Financial
15: Colorado: Charles Ergen: $8.3 billion ? Founder and chairman of DISH Network
16: Pennsylvania: Hansjorg Wyss: $7.7 billion ? Chairman of Swiss medical device manufacturer Synthes Holding AG
17: North Carolina: James Goodnight: $7.4 billion ? CEO of SAS Institute
18: Wisconsin: John Menard, Jr.: $6 billion ? Founder and owner of home-improvement retailer Menard Inc.
19: New Jersey: David Tepper: $5.2 billion ? President and founder of Appaloosa Management
20: Michigan: Richard DeVos Sr.: $5.1 billion ? Co-founder of Amway and owner of the Orlando Magic
21: Montana: Dennis Washington: $5 billion ? Founder of The Washington Companies and co-founder of the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation
22: Ohio: Leslie Wexner: $4.5 billion ? Chairman and CEO of Limited Brands
23: Arizona: Bruce Halle Sr.: $4 billion ? Founder of Discount Tires
24: Florida: Joseph Lewis: $3.9 billion ? Founder of Tavistock Group and owner of Tottenham Hotspur soccer team in England
25: Illinois: Samuel Zell: $3.9 billion ? Founder of Equity Residential
26: Maryland: Theodore Lerner: $3.9 billion ? Founder of real estate firm Lerner Enterprises
27: Minnesota: Pauline Keinath: $3.7 billion ? Part-owner of Cargill Inc. and great-granddaughter of founder W. W. Cargill
28: Indiana: Gayle Cook: $3.4 billion ? Member of board of directors of medical device firm Cook Group
29: Tennessee: Thomas Frist, Jr.: $3 billion ? Founder of HCA, the Hospital Corporation of America
30: Utah: Robert Earl Holding: $2.7 billion ? Owner of Sinclair Oil
31: Mississippi: Leslie Lampton: $2.4 billion ? Founder of Ergon Inc.
32: South Carolina: Anita Zucker: $2.2 billion ? Chairwoman and CEO of chemical manufacturer InterTech Group
33: Rhode Island: Jonathan Nelson: $1.6 billion ? CEO of Providence Equity Partners
34: Missouri: Christopher Cline: $1.5 billion ? Founder of Foresight Energy
35: West Virginia: James Justice II: $1.5 billion ? Owner of the coal mining Justice Companies
36: Alabama: Marguerite Harbert: $1.4 billion ? Widow of the late construction and energy mogul, John Murdoch Harbert III
37: Louisiana: Thomas Benson: $1.3 billion ? Owner of New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Hornets
38: South Dakota: T. Denny Sanford: $1.3 billion
39: Idaho: Frank VanderSloot: $1.2 billion ? CEO of Melaleuca
40: Kentucky: Bradley Wayne Hughes: $1.1 billion ? Founder of Public Storage
41: Iowa: Dennis Albaugh: $1 billion ? Founder of Albaugh Inc.
42: North Dakota: Gary Tharaldson: $900 million ? Founder of the Tharaldson Companies
43: Maine: Leon Gorman: $860 million ? Chairman of L.L. Bean
44: Delaware: Robert Gore: $830 million ? Founder of materials and manufacturing company W.L. Gore & Associates
45: New Mexico: Peyton Yates, Jr.: $760 million ? President of Yates Petroleum Corp.
46: Alaska: Robert Gillam: $690 million ? President and CEO of McKinley Capital Management LLC
47: Hawaii: Jay Shidler: $680 million ? Founder of the real estate company The Shidler Group
48: New Hampshire: Martin Trust: $600 million ? President of Brandot International, formerly president and CEO of MAST Industries
49: Vermont: Robert Stiller: $580 million ? Founder of Green Mountain Coffee
50: Wyoming: John Martin: $210 million ? Chairman and CEO of Gilead Sciences

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China's Long March 3C lofts another Compass-G into orbit ...

October 25th, 2012 by Rui C. Barbosa

The Chinese were back in action on Thursday, launching the sixth Compass-G satellite into orbit via their Long March 3C (Chang Zheng 3C)?launch vehicle. The 15:33 UTC launch from the LC2 launch complex of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in Sichuan Province marked 15th successful orbital launch this year for China.

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According to information acquired by nasaspaceflight.com, the new satellite will probably be located at 110.5 degree East on the geostationary orbit, replacing one of the original Beidou-1 satellites (Beidou-1C) that is approaching ten years in orbit.

The Compass Navigation Satellite System (CNSS) is China?s second-generation satellite navigation system approved by the Chinese government in 2004, and is capable of providing continuous, real-time passive 3D geo-spatial positioning and speed measurement.

The long-term goal is to develop a global navigation satellite network similar to the GPS and GLONASS by 2020 eventually consisting a constellation of 35 vehicles, including 27 MEO (21,500 km orbits) satellites,?three IGSO satellites (inclined at 55 degrees) and?five GSO satellites.

The system will be dual use, based around?a civilian service that will?provide an accuracy of 10 meters in the user position, 0.2 m/s on the user velocity and 50 nanoseconds in time accuracy; and the military and authorized user?s service, providing higher accuracies. The first phase of the project will see the coverage of the Chinese territory but in the future the Compass constellation will cover the entire globe.

Developed from the?DFH-3B satellite platform, the Compass-G satellites orbit the planet on geostationary orbits and have a lifespan of 12 to 15 years. The satellites transmit signals on the: 1195.14-1219.14MHz, 1256.52-1280.52MHz, 1559.05-1563.15MHz and 1587.69-1591.79MHz, carrier frequencies.

The previous Beidou-2 ?Compass? launch took place on September 18th, 2012, when a Chang Zheng-3B/E orbited the Beidou-14 ?Compass-M5? (38874 2012-050A) and the Beidou-15 ?Compass-M6? (38775 2012-050B) satellites. The previous Compass-G orbited was the Beidou-11 ?Compass-G5? launched on February 24th, 2012.

DFH-3B is an updated version of DFH-3 bus, a communications satellite bus whose capability is between high and medium ones. It adopts hexahedral structure, consisting of propulsion, service and communication modules, communication antennas and solar arrays and adopts 3-axis stabilized attitude control.

Its dimensions are 2200mm ? 2000mm ? 3100mm, and its mass is 3,800 kg with a payload mass of 400 kg to 450 kg. This satellite bus is applicable to communications and navigation satellites and deep space probes through adaptive modification.

This was the eight flight of the CZ-3C Chang Zheng-3C launch vehicle that is primarily used for launching satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO).

This rocket was developed to fill the gap between the CZ-3A Chang Zheng-3A and the CZ-3B Chang Zheng-3B, having a payload capacity of 3,800 kg for GTO. This is a three stage launch vehicle identical to the CZ-3B but only using two strap-on boosters on its first stage.

CZ-3C provides two types of fairing and two kinds of fairing encapsulating process and four different payload interfaces, which is the same as CZ-3B launch vehicle. The various fairing and interface adapter and the suitable launch capacity make CZ-3C a good choice for user to choose the launch service.

The development of the CZ-3C started in February 1999. The rocket has a liftoff mass of 345,000 kg, sporting structure functions to withstand the various internal and external loads on the launch vehicle during transportation, hoisting and flight.

The rocket structure also combines all sub-systems together and is composed of two strap on boosters, first stage, second stage, third stage and payload fairing.

The first two stages as well as the two strap on boosters use hypergolic (N2O4/UDMH) fuel while the third stage uses cryogenic (LOX/LH2) fuel. The total length of the CZ-3C is 54.838 meters, with a diameter of 3.35 meters on the core stage and 3.00 meters on the third stage.

On the first stage, the CZ-3C uses a DaFY6-2 engine with a 2961.6 kN thrust and a specific impulse of 2556.2 Ns/kg. The first stage diameter is 3.35 m and the stage length is 26.972 m.

Each strap on booster is equipped with a DaFY5-1 engine with a 704.4 kN thrust and a specific impulse of 2556.2 Ns/kg. The strap on booster diameter is 2.25 m and the strap on booster length is 15.326 m.

The second stage is equipped with a DaFY20-1 main engine (742 kN / 2922.57 Ns/kg) and four DaFY21-1 vernier engines (11.8 kN / 2910.5 Ns/kg each). The second stage diameter is 3.35 m and the stage length is 9.470 m.

The third stage is equipped with two YF-75 engines developing 78.5 kN each and with a specific impulse of 4312 Ns/kg. The fairing diameter of the CZ-3C is 4.00 meters and has a length of 9.56 meters.

The typical flight sequence of the CZ-3C for a standard GTO mission starts at T-0s with the ignition of the first stage engine and the two strap on boosters. Pitch over maneuver comes at T+10s. The strap on boosters end of ignition takes place at T+127.5s followed by boosters separation at T+129.0s.

First stage shutdown takes place at T+145.2 s, followed at T+146.7s by the first stage separation and ignition of the second stage. Separation of the fairing happens at T+258.7s. Second stage main engine shutdown takes place at T+328.0 s and second stage vernier shutdown occurs five seconds latter.

The separation of the second stage and the first ignition of the third stage take place at T+334.0s. This first ignition will last for 5 minutes and 16.6 seconds, ending at T+650.6s. After the first shutdown of the third stage the vehicle enters on a coast phase at T+654.1s, which will end at T+1323.2s with the second ignition of the third stage. This will end at T+1474.9s, beginning the velocity adjustment maneuver that lasts for 20 seconds.

Spacecraft separation occurs at T+1574.9s.

The first launch of the CZ-3C Chang Zheng-3C launch vehicle took place on April 25, 2008 when it orbited the first TL-1 Tianlian-1 tracking and data relay satellite.

The Xichang Satellite Launch Centre is situated in the Sichuan Province, south-western China and is the country?s launch site for geosynchronous orbital launches.

Equipped with two launch pads (LC2 and LC3), the centre has a dedicated railway and highway lead directly to the launch site. The Command and Control Centre is located seven kilometers south-west of the launch pad, providing flight and safety control during launch rehearsal and launch.

Down range Tracking and Control stations of the launch center are located in Xichang City and Yibin City of Sichuan Province, and Guiyang City of Guizhou Province. Each of them houses tracking and measurement equipment for the powered phase of a launch vehicle flight.

Other facilities on the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre are the Launch Control Centre, propellant fuelling systems, communications systems for launch command, telephone and data communications for users, and support equipment for meteorological monitoring and forecasting.

During 1993-1994 Xichang underwent extensive modernization and expansion, in part due to the requirements of the CZ-3 launcher family and in part to meet commercial customer needs.

The first launch from Xichang took place at 12:25UTC on January 29, 1984, when the CZ-3 Chang Zheng-3 (CZ3-1) launched the Shiyan Weixing (14670 1984-008A) communications satellite into orbit.

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Source: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/10/chinas-long-march-3c-compass-g6-orbit/

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FTC helps slow tech support scam; don't give remote computer access

By Robb Hicken/ BBB?s chief storyteller

?Oh, I think I?ve done something horrible,? the woman?s voice spoke quickly and somewhat wavering. ?I think I?ve lost control of my computer, and I don?t know what to do.?

Without stopping, she continued to describe how there was a ?wicked? virus on her home computer and that Microsoft Tech Support had contacted her to say they needed to fix her computer.

When she took a breath, I asked if they were in her computer at this time.

?Why, yes! I don?t want this virus to take over my entire computer,? she says.

In spite of the major efforts to close down the tech support scam, calls continue to plague unsuspecting Snake River Region computer owners.?In the end, the con artists charge hundreds of dollars to remotely access and ?fix? the computers.

After calming her down, explaining the scam, I had her simply unplug the computer, call a trusted computer repair shop, and take no further calls from the phone number.

On Oct. 4,?the Federal Trade Commission cracked a major international tech support scam?in which telemarketers masquerade as major computer companies, con consumers into believing their computers are riddled with viruses, spyware and other malware, and then charge hundreds of dollars to remotely access and ?fix? the consumers? computers.

The FTC charged that the five operations ? mostly based in India ? target English-speaking consumers in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the U.K. from telemarketing boiler rooms.

Telemarketers claimed affiliation with Dell, Microsoft, McAfee and Norton, and told intended victims malware was detected by the company and needed immediate removal. The scammers direct consumers to a?utility area of their computer?to show that the computer had been infected. ?The scammers charge from $49 to $450 to remove it.? When consumers agreed to pay the fee, the scammers took remote access to the victim?s ?computer to ?remove? non-existent malware and downloaded otherwise free programs.

A sixth company lured computer owners through Google ads that appeared when consumers searched for their computer company?s tech support telephone number.

When in operation, FTC claims, tens of thousands of people were tricked into paying removal fees that are ?standard warnings and errors?generated by software companies, and are not viruses.

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Kapiolani promotes healthy living and health careers : University of ...

About 700 O?ahu high school students got an up-close-and-personal look at healthcare, thanks to Kapi?olani Community College?s first ever Health-E Fair. There were health screenings, exhibits and demonstrations, from wheel chair racing to CPR training to tests that determine your fitness age.

?We had to do a vertical jump and we tested how high we can jump,? said Kahuku High School student Jahya Costa.

?We learned how to do CPR and how to hold your palm correctly,? said Angelo Ruiz, a sophomore at Mililani High School. ?And how to do 30 compressions every time until you get a response.?

? EMT (emergency medical technician) or EMS (emergency medical specialist) in general is mainly to help the community,? said Kapi?olani student Zachary Suniga, who studying to become an EMT. ?So by us teaching them how to help one another, we might save another life.?

Kapi?olani has long been known for it?s accredited health academic programs, offering degrees and certificates in a variety of subjects including emergency medical services, exercise and sports science, pharmacy technician, radiolog technology, medical laboratory technician and nursing.

?It?s time for us to show these programs and the skills that these students do and the workforce they then end up working for the state,? said Patricia O?Hagan, the dean of health academic programs at Kapi?olani.

The fair gave the high school students an opportunity to engage with the college students while learning more about potential careers and what the college has to offer.

?A lot of them are interested in the medical field or something health related so it is good to talk to them about this,? said Kapi?olani nursing student Rowen Gargas.

?Trying to sell our program to any student who wants to come,? said Iokepa Alcantra, who is studying exercise and sports science at the college. ?And it?s open, it?s very enjoyable.?

?It?s really nice and informational and we get to know what programs are available,? said Ruiz.

?I want to go into physical therapy, so it helps a lot,? said Costa.

But the top priority of the fair is to get the high school students who attended to think about their own health and wellness.

The message is simple.

?Just a healthy lifestyle, period,? said Alcantra.

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Source: http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2012/10/17/kapiolani-promotes-healthy-living-and-health-careers/

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Aging in Place DIY Weekend | Aging In Place, Seniors at Home ...

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Independence is happiness.

-Susan B. Anthony

Mom?s Independence

Visiting mom this weekend? You Love to see her, get her caught up on the kids, your job and current events, as well as seeing how she?s doing. Instead of sitting, eating, and watching TV again (while the time slips away); why not put your love for her into action this time. DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT?Break the pattern??

Get off the couch, turn off the TV, and get her involved; start her aging-in-place modifications for independence. Your drive back home will feel so much more positive, it will open the door to future home modifications and you?ll be learning how to make your own independence more likely down the road.?

6 Aging in Place DIY modifications you can do (really you can) this Saturday/Sunday:

1. Remove any loose carpeting or area rugs;?if she loves them, hang them on the wall as a decoration.?

2. Replace her worn house-slippers with nonSlip sole-type??

3. Change out dim bulbs with energy saving brighter light bulbs so she stays off ladders

?? ?See:?Lighting for the Aging Eye???

And install these wonderful LED night lights (on Dusk/off Dawn)

4. Replace old Smoke Detector with STROBE lights and CARBON MONOXIDE alarm with VOICE

?5. Soap-on-a-rope keeps her from bending over to retrieve slippery soap on the tub floor

?6. Moen Home Care Glacier Tread Mat in the bathtub will help prevent slips and falls

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Aging in Place Begin it Now

Your mother looks forward all week to your visits, she counts on you?like you count on her, to be there??

?A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.?

-Confucius

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DIY Network: Tips on How to Make a Home ?Handi-capable?

More Aging in Place DIY projects in the near future so stay tuned!

(Photo Home Improvement with Andy Lindus)


Source: http://aginginplace.com/2012/10/aging-in-place-diy-weekend/

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Keck observations bring weather of Uranus into sharp focus

ScienceDaily (Oct. 17, 2012) ? In 1986, when Voyager swept past Uranus, the probe's portraits of the planet were "notoriously bland," disappointing scientists, yielding few new details of the planet and its atmosphere, and giving it a reputation as a bore of the solar system.

Now, however, thanks to a new technique applied at the Keck Observatory, Uranus is coming into sharp focus through high-resolution infrared images, revealing in incredible detail the bizarre weather of the seventh planet from the sun.

The images were released in Reno, Nev. today (Oct. 17, 2012) at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences and provide the best look to date of Uranus's complex and enigmatic weather.

The planet's deep blue-green atmosphere is thick with hydrogen, helium and methane, Uranus's primary condensable gas. Winds blow mainly east to west at speeds up to 560 miles per hour, in spite of the small amounts of energy available to drive them. Its atmosphere is almost equal to Neptune's as the coldest in our solar system with cloud-top temperatures in the minus 360-degree Fahrenheit range, cold enough to freeze methane.

Large weather systems, which are probably much less violent than the storms we know on Earth, behave in bizarre ways on Uranus, explains Larry Sromovsky, a University of Wisconsin-Madison planetary scientist who led the new study using the Keck II telescope.

"Some of these weather systems," Sromovsky notes, "stay at fixed latitudes and undergo large variations in activity. Others are seen to drift toward the planet's equator while undergoing great changes in size and shape. Better measures of the wind fields that surround these massive weather systems are the key to unraveling their mysteries."

To get a better picture of atmospheric flow on Uranus, Sromovsky and colleagues Pat Fry, also of UW-Madison, Heidi Hammel of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), and Imke de Pater of the University of California at Berkeley, used new infrared techniques to detect smaller, more widely distributed weather features whose movements can help scientists trace the planet's pattern of blustery winds.

"We're seeing some new things that before were buried in the noise," says Sromovsky, a senior staff scientist at UW-Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center.

"My first reaction to these images was 'wow' and then my second reaction was WOW," says AURA's Heidi Hammel, a co-investigator on the new observations and an expert on the atmospheres of the solar system's outer planets. "These images reveal an astonishing amount of complexity in Uranus's atmosphere. We knew the planet was active, but until now much of the activity was masked by noise in our data."

The complexity of Uranus's weather is puzzling, Sromovsky explains. The primary driving mechanism must be solar energy because there is no detectable internal energy source. "But the sun is 900 times weaker there than on Earth because it is 30 times further from the sun, so you don't have the same intensity of solar energy driving the system," explains Sromovsky. "Thus the atmosphere of Uranus must operate as a very efficient machine with very little dissipation. Yet the weather variations we see seem to defy that requirement."

The new Keck II pictures of the planet, according to Sromovsky, are the "most richly detailed views of Uranus yet obtained by any instrument on any observatory. No other telescope could come close to producing this result."

Sromovsky and his colleagues used Keck II, located on the summit of Hawaii's 14,000-foot extinct volcano Mauna Kea, to capture a series of images that, when combined, help increase the signal to noise ratio and thus tease out weather features that are otherwise obscured. In two nights of observing under superb conditions, Sromovsky's group was able to obtain exposures of the planet that provide a clear view of the planet's cloudy features, including several new to science. The group used two different filters in an effort to characterize cloud features at different altitudes.

"The main objective was to find a larger number of cloud features by detecting those that were previously too subtle to be seen, so we could better define atmospheric motions," Sromovsky notes. New features found by the Wisconsin group include a scalloped band of clouds just south of Uranus's equator and a swarm of small convective features in the north polar regions of the planet, features that have never been seen in the southern polar regions.

"This is a very asymmetric situation," says the Wisconsin scientist. "There is certainly something different going on in those two polar regions."

One possible explanation, is that methane is pushed north by an atmospheric conveyor belt toward the pole where it wells up to form the convective features observed by Sromovsky's group.

"The 'popcorn' appearance of Uranus's pole reminds me very much of a Cassini image of Saturn," adds de Pater.

Saturn's South Pole is characterized by a polar vortex or hurricane surrounded by numerous small cloud features indicative of strong convection, analogous to the heavily precipitating clouds encircling the eye of terrestrial hurricanes, she notes. Her group suggested a similar phenomenon would be present on Neptune, based upon Keck observations of that planet.

"Perhaps we will also see a vortex at Uranus's pole when it comes into view," she says.

The phenomena may be seasonal, Sromovsky notes, but the group has so far been unable to establish a clear seasonal trend in the winds of Uranus.

"Uranus is changing," he says. "We don't expect things at the north pole to stay the way they are now."

The scalloped band of clouds near the planet's equator may indicate atmospheric instability or wind shear: "This is new and we don't fully understand what it means. We haven't seen it anywhere else on Uranus."

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