For a Company in Heliopolis looking for:
Project Manager for projects operating at different locations across Cairo / 6 October OR 5th settlements

Job Description
- Coordinate all activities on assigned projects
- Responsible for managing all project activities
- Applying management techniques and processes to monitor and control time, cost, quality and scope on projects
- Reduce the project risk to catch the project budget and time target
- Participating and helping in projects initiation and Preparation of projects forms and procedures
- Coordinating with other management functions of the project to ensure that all necessary steps are taken to ensure smooth operation of the project and that the programmed and financial restraints are followed
- Following up projects performance and assisting in improving it
- Responsible for all technical and coordination issues
- Monitoring all incoming correspondence, outgoing correspondence, instructions and the alike from or to the Engineer to ensure compliance with the contract
- Manage the technical team responsible for issuing and reviewing all engineering submittals, materials and technical drawings before submission to ensure compliance with the contract specs and within the program of work
- Giving notices of claim for extension of time and additional costs and preparing such claims
- Participating in the preparation of the variations cost and pricing new items
Job Requirements:

- Bachelor Degree in Civil or Architectural Engineering
- 10 to 15 years of relevant experience, in contracting industry
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent computer skills


Package: 15000 - 20000 L.E. (Negotiable) + Medical insurance +++
Please send your updated resumes with mentioning in the subject line " Project Manager" to:


mo.marzok@...


Good luck all,
Mohamed Marzok

Tip of the hat to:

From emails dating back to October 2008:

It all began in 1862 during the Civil War, when Union Army Captain Robert Ellicombe was with his men near Harrison's Landing in Virginia. The Confederate Army was on the other side of the narrow strip of land.

During the night, Captain Ellicombe heard the moan of a soldier who lay mortally wounded on the field. Not knowing if it was a Union or Confederate soldier, the captain decided to risk his life and bring the stricken man back for medical attention.

Crawling on his stomach through the gunfire, the captain reached the stricken soldier and began pulling him toward his encampment. When the captain finally reached his own lines, he discovered it was actually a Confederate soldier, but the soldier was dead.

The captain lit a lantern.

Suddenly, he caught his breath and went numb with shock. In the dim light, he saw the face of the soldier. It was his own son. The boy had been studying music in the South when the war broke out. Without telling his father, he had enlisted in the Confederate Army.

The following morning, heartbroken, the father asked permission of his superiors to give his son a full military burial despite his enemy status.

His request was partially granted. The captain had asked if he could have a group of Army band members play a funeral dirge for the son at the funeral.

That request was turned down since the soldier was a Confederate. Out of respect for the father, they did say they could give him only one musician.

The captain chose a bugler. He asked the bugler to play a series of musical notes he had found on a piece of paper in the pocket of his dead son's uniform. This wish was granted. This music was the haunting melody we now know as "Taps" that is used at all military funerals.

Snopes says this story is false.

Read more at

Origins: ? It's hard to feel surprised when a melody as hauntingly beautiful as 'Taps' picks up a legend about how it came to be written — it's too mournfully direct a piece for the mere truth to suffice.

Taps was composed in July 1862 at Harrison's Landing in Virginia, but aside from that basic fact the fanciful e-mail quoted above, which dates at least to the 1930s, in no way reflects the reality of its origins. There was no dead son, Confederate or otherwise; no lone bugler sounding out the dead boy's last composition. How the call came into being was never anything more than one influential soldier deciding his unit could use a bugle call for particular occasions and setting about to come up with one.

If anyone can be said to have composed 'Taps,' it was Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, Commander of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, V Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, during the American Civil War. Dissatisfied with the customary firing of three rifle volleys at the conclusion of burials during battle and also wanting a less harsh bugle call for ceremonially signaling the end of a soldier's day, he likely altered an older piece known as "Tattoo," a French bugle call used to signal "lights out," into the call we now know as 'Taps.'

Summoning his brigade's bugler, Private Oliver Willcox Norton, to his tent one evening in July 1862, Butterfield (whether he wrote 'Taps' straight from the cuff or improvised something new by rearranging an older work) worked with the bugler to transform the melody into its present form. As Private Norton later wrote of that occasion:

General Daniel Butterfield ... showing me some notes on a staff written in pencil on the back of an envelope, asked me to sound them on my bugle. I did this several times, playing the music as written. He changed it somewhat, lengthening some notes and shortening others, but retaining the melody as he first gave it to me. After getting it to his satisfaction, he directed me to sound that call for 'Taps' thereafter in place of the regulation call. The music was beautiful on that still summer night, and was heard far beyond the limits of our brigade. The next day I was visited by several buglers from neighboring brigades, asking for copies of the music, which I gladly furnished. I think no general order was issued from army headquarters authorizing the substitution of this for the regulation call, but as each brigade commander exercised his own discretion in such minor matters, the call was gradually taken up through the Army of the Potomac.

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Some “person” over on ibmpension who claims to be lousfriend says:

“I don't think I did anything to rile anyone (more than usual, at least), but my membership to this group was deleted when I signed on to Yahoo, and it took several tries to get signed up again.

Did this happen to anyone else?”

Then justa_bean_counter responds with:

“No one has been deleted.

惭辞诲别谤补迟辞谤蝉”

Then bewarethebottomline says:

I hesitate to say much about this for risk of breaking rules 3, 4, and 5 for this board.

So I will say more about this on a board where truth telling is more accepted:

The improved finances offer relief to corporations that have been in recent years to keep their pension funding levels in compliance with federal regulations.

But rather than just assuring the future of the shrunken number of traditional pension plans that make retirees guaranteed payments for life, the improved funding levels also make it more feasible for more firms to shed pension obligations altogether. Firms can do that either by offering lump sums to workers or to transfer the future liabilities — and the money set aside to meet them — to insurance companies that convert them into annuities.

"From a financial management perspective, as the funded ratios get closer to 100 percent, it becomes feasible to do things you couldn't three or four years ago," said Alan Glickstein, a senior retirement consultant at Towers Watson.

The percentage of private-sector employees who are covered by traditional pensions has decreased by about half since the early 1990s, to just 18 percent last year, according to the Labor Department.

The decline in traditional pension coverage, coupled with inability of many Americans to save for retirement outside of pension plans and the ever increasing cost of medical care, has contributed to growing concern that a growing number of Americans are at risk of when they enter retirement.

In recent years, some firms — worried about the long-term financial responsibility of paying for pensions — have moved to get the liabilities off their books. In recent years, Verizon Communications transferred $7.5 billion in pension obligations to Prudential Financial. The move came after General Motors paid Prudential to assume $25 billion of its pension risks.

With private firms facing tighter government rules to keep pension funding levels high as well as sharply higher premiums for government pension insurance, that trend is showing no signs of reversing. Add to that the growing volatility of financial markets over the past decade and a half, there is ample incentive for firms to drop pensions, many analysts say.

"The improved funding environment will provide pension plan sponsors with some intriguing opportunities for 2014," said David Suchsland, a senior retirement consultant at Towers Watson. "We expect the actions we've seen among companies to de-risk their pension plans over the past several years will accelerate as funding levels continue to improve."

Now, analysts say, with pension fund balance sheets healing, companies could be tempted to shed pension liabilities because as funding levels improve, the cost to firms of transferring pension liabilities to insurance companies or buying out retirees with lump sums goes down.

This year "is looking to be a big year for risk transfer strategies such as annuity buyouts and voluntary cashouts to former employees, as improving conditions make these options much more feasible than before," said Richard McEvoy, head of the Financial Strategy Group for Mercer Investment Consulting.

My second issue with this post from justa_bean_counter:

justa_bean_counter says:

“It is not a 'blind' board where you have to be a member to have access to the postings, files, photos, and such.”

She is wrong. The only thing you can see if you are not a member is the conversations/messages/postings. You can NOT review files, photos, links, and such unless you are a member.

Well she got 1 out of 4 right. 25% is a fairly good percentage for a baseball hitting average. But it is not too good when you are trying to run a high visibility message board.

I attempted a post on the ibmpension board in response to this post from justa_bean_counter:

http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ibmpension/conversations/messages/79978

In case the post does not get approved, I am also posting it here.?

I disagree with a few of these statements. For now, I will focus on the first sentence:

“This board was set up in 1999 when IBM made the grab for our DB pension, converting it to a CB plan, and to monitor?the lawsuits that ensued afterward.”

Following is my perspective on what really happened:

The ibmpension board was created by Sang J. Moon (an IBM employee) on May 18, 1999. He created it as an attempt to channel the acidic discussion about the IBM pension change away from the IBM finance board: ?

If you go to that board and search for Sang J. Moon and search through his posts, you will find his announcement of this act. During the next 2 months, Sang’s attempts to moderate and calm the intensity of the forum encountered increasing pushback from a vocal minority of activists. Sang explained on July 18, 1999, why he set up the forum and that it was not intended to be an activist forum. A vocal minority of activists staged what amounted to be a hostile takeover during the next several weeks. They wore down Sang’s resistance, and on September 2, 1999, he turned the forum over to the activist leaders and resigned the group. The new forum leaders brought with them a zeal for monitoring lawsuits.

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