2003 Harris Indiana Industrial Directory

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Project management is one of the fastest growing professions in the world. Naturally, salaries in this thriving and dynamic profession are a subject of major interest to compensation professionals, practitioners, researchers, students, and others interested in career possibilities.

In 2000, the Project Management Institute (PMI®) polled a statistical sample of its worldwide memberhip (currently, more than 95,000 strong) to determine where member worked and their salary scales. The 1,290 individuals who responded represented 10 job categories, over 40 industry affiliations, and seven geographic regions. The resulting data was broken down and compared in over 20 important areas, ranging from compensation by geographic region, hours worked, role in the organization, scope of responsibilities, number of projects engaged in/managed, and each project's budget size, to number of employees supervised, number of employees at location and organization, education levels, and number of years in project management. Over 30 types of benefits were also compared, including retirement; healthcare and wellness programs; performance and retention incentives; maternity leave and child care; paid vacation and sick days; company cars, cell phones, and laptops; and various bonuses.

This 2000 Edition updates and greatly expands the information first published by PMI in 1996 and provides global normative compensation data for the first time. It is heavily illustrated with tables for easy comparison of data. Here are just a few highlights from the survey:

-Asian salaries average 27 percent above the U.S. Respondents in Asia had an average annual salary of $111,800—the world's highest. U.S. project managers were second, with an average of $87,800.

-The gender gap is narrowing. Globally, males working inproject management make 18 percent more than their female colleagues—down from 24 percent in 1996.

-Businesses are paying to get project management practitioners certified, and to keep them on staff once they are certified. Sixty-one percent of the respondents said that their employers reimbursed for Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification exams and preparation fees. Passing the exam added an average of 10 percent to U.S. project managers' salaries, 26 percent more in Canada, and 31 percent more in Australia/New Zealand.

The PMI Project Management Salary Survey - 2000 Edition is a vital research tool for managers and HR professionals looking to retain or recruit employees, current member of the profession and/or those interested in joining it, as well as researchers and academics.

Customer Reviews:

Amazing, but not for children!.......2001-03-15

The inappropriate content in the Pmi Project Management Salary Survey 2000 is kept to a minimum, but I caution readers to avoid looking at pages 233-315 unless lavicious descriptions of Errors type 2 and beyond appeal to small chickens. Despite the Perkins diagrams and the SBH graphs (as opposed to the "Ezzy-Bezzy" or "YBT" sort), you will find all sorts of E:2 design work.

Overall, I was pleased with the dada content of this e-situationist book, and will be giving it as a gift to my friends and neighbors this holiday saeson. It will proudly sit on my Bothell shelf and proclaim my Pmi salary is above par and can develop a plot better than any second-rate John Huges film!

Do note that the appendicies were stolen from a mad-libs book (#13, I believe) and will not be helpful to you, so unlike this review. Have you checked for 82 Gremlins? Does your Chait need to be Ligged? Have you buried a pipe / gotten k'noss / linked your lap of late? Aibmr will deadeye your yeshiva, and Kirkland won't green lake any rockaways near or far.

Buy it! Your tension-metering salary can afford it, even if your 2000 Golf can't get there!

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The Osage County Quilt Factory (Big book of quilting patterns)
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patterns for quilting, applique, piecing, shadow applique w/ basic directions

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Pin-Ella-P Doll Club (designs) , and Mary Jo Harbour
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"This diverse collection of wearables offers an opportunity for anyone who recreates the dolls. We hope you will explore and personalize the dolls to make them part of your accessories, or perhaps a good luck talisman. Because the most fun will be in wearing them!" - from the introduction.

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A bestseller in 1941, selected by the Book of the Month Club for a special edition and described by Book of the Month Club News as: ". . . full of sensational revelations and interspersed with episodes of daring, of desperate conflict, of torture, and of ruthless conspiracy . . . It is, first of all, an autobiography the like of which has seldom been."

The son of a seafaring father, Richard Julius Herman Krebs, a.k.a. Jan Valtin, came of age as a bicycle messenger during a maritime rebellion. His life as an intimate insider account of the dramatic events of 1920's and 1930s, where he rose both within the ranks of the Communist Party and on the Gestapo hit list. Known for his honesty and incredible memory, Krebs dedicated his life to the Communist Party, rising to a position as head of maritime, organizing worldwide for the Comintern, only to flee the Party and Europe to evade his own comrade's attempts to kill him. As a professional revolutionary, agitator, spy and would-be assassin, Krebs traveled the globe from Germany to China, India to Sierra Leon, Moscow to the United States where a botched assassination attempt landed him a stint in San Quentin.

From his spellbinding account of artful deception to gain release from a Nazi prison and his work as a double-agent within the Gestapo, to his vivid depiction of a Communist Party fraught with intrigue and subterfuge, Krebs gives an unflinching portrayal of the internal machinations of both parties.

Writing at age 36 under the name Jan Valtin, Krebs lays bare a young life filled with idealism and devotion-disillusionment and loss-in a world full of revolutionary promise gone immeasurably wrong.

"An exciting, real book without a trace of unnecessary melodrama."-H.G.Wells

Customer Reviews:

Lessons in Real Life.......2007-05-30

A very exciting book. It shows how the idealism of youth, with all its energy and intensity, can be twisted by unscrupulous people. Over time Valtin comes to realize that idealism alone is not sufficient to triumph over the powerful organizations that will stop at nothing to achieve their goals. This book really shows the power of propaganda and the battle between the Communists and the Nazis to use their propaganda machines to take over Germany. It shows what happens when people without any morals come into power. It doesn't matter what system it is, immoral people can corrupt any system of government. A must read for anybody the least bit interested in politics. You'll love it if you're not a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist or Nazi.

Excellent, complex story of a revolutionists' dilemma.......2007-05-08

This story is not nearly as black and white as some suggest. While it is undeniably true that Stalinism is the opposite of communism, this was a realization that came slowly to those revolutionists who worked for the Comintern (Communist International). I'm not sure that every reviewer even actually read this book. Mr. Valtin could never be characterized as a "murderer." In fact, Valtin spends 3 years in San Quentin for intentionally botching a murder he was ordered to carry out. Later, at great personal risk, Valtin refuses direct orders to organize the murder of Nazis. Valtin does not carry out every order he was given.

Valtin comes to notice the stark chasm between Marxism and Stalinism. A major motif of the story is Valtin's slow and sure awakening that the Soviet Union's imperial interests do not equal the interests of the world's workers. From Valtin's first unchaperoned visit to the "Revolutionary Fatherland" he realizes that working for the Soviet Union is not really protecting the world revolution. Time and time again he experiences the aristocratic behavior of the Comintern's leadership, and the self-destructive witch hunts used for personal gain by rising revolutionists. All this time, he notes the discrepancies between theory and practice.

But what is remarkable, and what makes this book a valuable lesson, is how Valtin pulls the wool over his own eyes time and time again. His initial motives and values were honest, inherited from his family and his class of historically rebellious German seamen, borne out of poverty and the capitalist crises between world wars. His denial of the unpleasant truth of Stalinism, along with his actions that often robotically toe the party line, are an illustration of all too human behavior, especially in the 20th century when burying oneself in ones` work was a common way to avoid introspection and grief. It was also cognitive dissonance, an unwillingness to finally recognize and pronounce more than a decade of his life's work as more harmful to workers worldwide than helpful.

Valtin's principles are expounded and acted on again and again, not always to his own satisfaction, like any other human. I ask myself how, if I was in the same situations, I could have safely quit the Comintern, a top secret organization whose strict policy was to kill rather than fire its own operatives who proved inadequate or rebellious. How would any of us break with Stalin, or the Crips or the mafia or the CIA, or any other murderous power that prefers its secrets to go to the grave? Not even Trotsky could escape Stalin's assassins. It is no simple task to leave the Comintern. Indeed, it is almost impossible. I wonder if I would have held up nearly as well as Valtin did in the Gestapo's torture chambers.

While Valtin himself does not draw the conclusions many thoughtful communists would from his life, this book is still an invaluable document of a time when millions of earnest workers all over the world honestly thought Stalin and Soviet Russia were shining beacons of revolution. It took decades of obvious evidence otherwise to undo this grave error of the early 20th century's non-Russian Left. In retrospect, from our comfortable ivory towers we can damn Valtin for not predicting what, in hindsight, are obvious historical developments. But in the heat of constant class battle it is difficult to stop and navel-gaze, no matter how crucial it might be to do so.

I agree with John Wrights essay "Out of the Fight," in that Valtin would have greatly benefited from more critical contemplation of the directions his life and party took. This book never pretends to be a manual for revolution. It is actually a very good case study in how not to run a revolution. Some tactics they use are fascinating and brilliant, others are undemocratic and self-destructively dishonest. This book is an honest and effective indictment of Stalinism's failures, just like Yue Daiyun's TO THE STORM is a brutally honest catalog of Maoism's shortcomings. Anyone interested in a humane government of, by, and for regular people should read both of these books and avoid these mistakes. It is a difficult and inherently unrealistic goal to change the world we live in. If we were realistic, we would change ourselves to adapt to the world rather than change the world. This is why only so-called "unrealistic" people ever make any social, political, artistic, or scientific progress. To live in a capitalist state while working towards a socialist state is a tight wire act that is vulnerable to countless cries of "traitor!" and "hypocrite!"

OUT OF THE NIGHT is an extremely engaging page-turner, action-packed, honest and thoughtful in many ways. Like any story of a failed revolutionist, it can be falsely wielded as propaganda against Marxism itself, but it is actually a powerful fable against blind party allegiance. Very highly recommended.

An impassioned confession and epiphany.......2006-07-20

I first read this book almost twenty years ago and I have never forgotten the tremendous emotional and intellectual impact it had upon me. This autobiography exposes the darkest and most misguided motivations of its author, and explains the influences which acted upon him as a naive young man... and how his idealistic dedication to the tenets of communism nearly destroyed his life. We learn that his son and his beloved wife were both lost because of the author's eventual disillusionment with and rejection of communism and its international web of espionage. We learn how swift and unforgiving is the retribution brought to bear against anyone who attempts to leave that fold.

The last few sentences of this book ring down upon the stage of this man's life like the curtain of the last judgment: "In July,1938, I received the intelligence that Firelei (his wife)had been seized and thrown into the Horror Camp Fuhlsbuettel. In December, 1938, I received a message which told me that Firelei had died in prison. Did she, herself, put an end to her life? Was she murdered in cold blood? "The Gestapo never jokes!" Neither does it give explanations. Our son, Jan, became a ward of the third Reich. I have not heard of him again. END"

If you want an eye-opening account of the inner workings of the communist political machine from the point of view of one who was originally dedicated to bringing about its aims, read this book. The process of the author's realization that the best years of his young life had been dedicated to the aspirations of an evil political machine That simply used him as a dispensible pawn will leave you forever changed.

Stalinism is the opposite of communism.......2006-02-22

Valtin's book, best described by John Wright in a review called "Out of the Fight", provides a portrait of an unprincipled man who engaged in what he decided was revolutionary activity without ever making a political accounting to himself. He carried out every murderous act decreed by Stalin's secret police, never noting the stark chasm between Marxism and the perversion made of it by the Stalinist bureaucracy that rose to power after Lenin's death.

For capitalists, conservatives, and rightwingers, this book will be manna from heavan because the failures and defeats of the shallow "revolutionary" Valtin will be construed as those of communism rather than of an unreflective hack operating in a degenerated workers' state in which true democracy--the hallmark of communism--was degraded by Stalinists. They took advantage of post-1917 scarcity, lack of infrastructure, and widespread starvation when the newly-formed Soviet Union was attacked by capitalist forces on more than 17 fronts (including the U.S., quiet as it's kept). It's one thing to build a revolution in an advanced country that has education, transportation, agriculture, and industrial development. But it's quite different to build a country with over 80% illiteracy, no transportation system, agriculture destroyed by counter-revolution and WWI, industry only in a few cities, etc. Stalin and his cronies fed on the scarcity to work their way into positions of power, trading favors for favors in complete disregard of what the country as a whole needed.

As a depiction of a self-serving, self-deluded, undemocratic murderer and functionary, I'd rate the book as 5 stars. But as a true picture of the theory and practice of communist revolution, I'd rate it a minus 1.

See John Wright's brilliant review at: www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/wright/1941/06/valtin.htm

So amazing you have to keep reminding yourself it's true........2004-12-11

This book was mentioned by Whitaker Chambers in his arresting memoir, Witness. He credits the book as one of the things that motivated him to inform on Alger Hiss and tell what he know about Communist apparatchiks in high positions of the Federal Government. So I bought the book used, and let me tell you it is exciting and very well written. Krebs' tale is so compelling and dispassionately recounted that it cannot be other than true, and some of the events strain credulity. So it's worth the read just for the awe it inspires for the man who lived this life. Then there is the compelling moral aspect of watching a man slowly realize that he is fighting on the side of evil against forces that are not nearly as bad as he had convinced himself they were. It can serve as a prophylactic to anyone who might be leaning too far left and about to be sucked into a life of self-imposed insanity.

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Samuel Lane, whose life in and around the town of Stratham, New Hampshire, spanned much of the 18th century, was truly a "Renaissance man." Civic, business, and personal concerns fill the pages of the diary he kept for over 60 years. The worries, dilemmas, and day-to-day work Lane detailed provide a compelling view of life in colonial New Hampshire. Together with his business records and family papers, Lane's diaries form an important part of the New Hampshire Historical Society's collections.

Basing his narrative on careful study of this rich documentary legacy, historian Jerald E. Brown explores the life, career, and motivations of one man and his family. In a preliminary essay, editor Donna-Belle Garvin introduces Lane's world to the reader. The many illustrations of leatherworking, farming, surveying, buildings, bridges, crops, animals, and gravestones draw readers into the complex world and work that shaped Lane and his family. This fascinating tale is the most complete account now available of the life of a colonial New England artisan and tradesman.

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This text takes an integrated approach, and places emphasis on modeling and the application of pure methods rather than statistical techniques. This emphasis allows readers to learn how to solve business problems, not mathematical equations, and prepares them for their role as decision makers. All models and analyses in the book use Excel so readers make decisions without having to complete difficult calculations. The book is also accompanied by KaddStat, an easy-to-use add-in to Excel, which makes it easier to run complex statistical tests on Excel.

Customer Reviews:

Outstanding.......2001-11-04

This is an aoutstanding book for the MBA Student. The applications are 'real' world and very informative. A 'must have' for anyone who needs to take their quantitative skills to the next level.

Difficult for the beginning stats student.......2001-10-21

I have used this text in multiple sections of introductory statistics for MBA students, and I have found that it is difficult for the students to follow. Other business statistics texts provide far more easy to follow instruction (e.g., see Mason and Lind's book). This book is a bit too oriented toward the use of statistics in finance (especially for the student who may not have yet had his or her first finance or economics course). I originally adopted it for its integration of Excel as an analysis tool, but its use did not make up for the poor organization and presentation of topics. From the students' perspective -- hands down, they hate it.

Excellent Resources for Market Research Managers.......2000-03-31

The book is well written and is easy to read. The chapters that talked about forecasting and statistical significance have allowed me to forecast my products accurately and have give me the opportunity to build a statistical model for my company. My colleagues and my director are very pleased with the results.

An adequate survey of applied quantitative methods........1999-01-30

This textbook offers a survey of applications that rely on common quantitative business analysis. The algebra review in Appendix A is a good starting place for orienting readers to the marriage of fundamental algebra skills and business applications. A good text for upper-level or graduate business students.

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In evaluating environmental policy, researchers have tended to focus on the industry or market that is targeted by regulation and to disregard policy impacts in other parts of the economy. Recent research indicates, however, that in economies where governments rely on distortionary taxes, environmental regulation can profoundly affect costs and efficiency in areas other than the targeted industry or market. These findings signal the importance of evaluating environmental policy using a general equilibrium framework - an approach that can capture interactions across industries, sectors or markets. General equilibrium analysis can fundamentally alter the evaluation of environmental tax policies, and can overturn conventional wisdom concerning the relative cost-effectiveness of environmental taxes, emissions quotas, or mandated technologies.

This volume gathers together important papers on the general equilibrium impacts of environmental regulation in the presence of distortionary taxes. Topics include optimal environmental taxation, `green tax reform' and the `double dividend', and the choice among alternative policy instruments. The volume will be of interest to environmental economists, public finance economists and researchers interested in the economics of regulation.

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