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ACI Alloys , Inc.
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    www.svscore.org/successStories/aci_alloy.htm - [Cached Version]
    Last Visited: 9/24/2008  

    "Initially I was skeptical that we would get anything worthwhile from the SCORE counseling," says Larry Albert, co-owner with his brother Charles Albert of ACI ALLOYS, Inc.
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    "Charley convinced me that we had nothing to lose since the counseling services were free, but after working with Mike O'Connor and Lido Scardigli of SCORE, I'm a real believer," continues Larry.
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    When he retired in 1982 he consulted for awhile, but in 1985 he decided to start up ACI Alloys," explains Charles Albert."Both Larry and I worked in the business when we were teenagers and during college vacations."Charles, who has a PhD in theoretical physics, left his position as an environmental engineer in 1996 to join ACI full time and help his parents."The business was pretty much a one-man show before Charley joined," says Larry.
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    Paul Albert began to phase out of active management now that his two sons were in the business, and by 2000 Charles and Larry had fully taken over.
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    "There was a lot of overlap in our roles, and as you might expect, this led to inefficiency and even friction between us," adds Charles.
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    They suggested that Charles and Larry write down agreed upon goals and objectives for the company, individual job descriptions with roles and responsibilities for themselves, a flow chart of the key processes of the company, and ways to focus on proactive activities.
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    Charles laughingly comments, "When I told Lido that I was VP of Operations, but that I was spending most of my time reacting to crises, he suggested that maybe I should change my title to VP of Chaos."
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    But, writing them down really made us clarify them," Charles says.
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    "Mike and Lido really impressed on us the need to more closely and more frequently monitor cash flow," says Charles.
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    Charles concludes, "With continuing help from SCORE, we believe ACI can grow significantly and remain a profitable company."

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    www.thecorner.org/forum/messages/14/70.html?1141670262 - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 12/10/2001    Last Visited: 9/21/2007  

    Charles Albert, who believed to fight Austria without foreign support.
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    The liberal monarchists supported a constitutional government under Charles Albert, Mazzini aimed at establishing a democratic republic, and some people wanted a federal union under the Pope.The upper bourgeoisie supported Charles Albert, while the lower bourgeoisie under Cattaneo were republican minded and wanted autonomy within a federation.In the south there was rivalry between Messina and Palermo, also different classes.Lack of unity and organization prevented the uprisings from success.

    There were no outstanding statemen or generals who was capable of leading the various groups to unite Italy.The Pope was just a religion leader.Charles Albert had little military skill and had no distinguished generals on whom he could rely.Withour able leaders, the revolts failed at last.

    The opposition of Pope also seriously weakened the Italian revolts.On 29th April, the Pope announced that he opposed offensive was against Austria and refused to permit his troops to fight against fellow Catholics.This lowered people¡¦s enthusiasm for the national cause.Charles Albert then received little military support outside Piedmont.And King Ferdinand was able to re-establish his autocratic rule once again.
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    At the beginning of the revolt, Charles Albert was determined to fight Austria without foreign support.He believed in the maxim 'Italia fara da se'.
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    This rose a strong local feeling and Charles Albert was not popular in the rest of Italy. Outside Piedmont there was little organization to the revolts, and there was a diversity of aims.Numerous groups, royalists, republicans and autonomists, pursued different objectives, which made concerted action difficult.For example, in Milan the upper bourgeoisie supported Charles Albert, while the lower bourgeoisie under Cattaneo were republican-minded and wanted autonomy within a federation.In Tuscany, owing to the opposition of Piedmont and the Pope, the idea of calling an Italian Constituent Assembly, for settling the conditions of union among the states, were failed.
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    Thus Charles Albert received little military support outside Piedmont.The Italian revolt was seriously weakened.

    2 As we known, Garibaldi helped the Italy unification a lot: He supported the Society of Young Italy Movement established by Mazzini in 1831.
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    With the able war minister and the high discipline of troops, Austria made the disunited revolts, including the war against Charles Albert, no room to win over her.
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    Charles Albert, the Piedmont king, although his determine of going wars with Austria seemed brave, nevertheless, he was not a good military leaded.His unwilling to draw any foreign aid, in other words, he decided to unite the Italians with only the domestic support resulted in the defeat by the much more stronger Austria.His lack of reputation outside Piedmont also led to no general support from the mass. Mazzini was not famous and his theoretical doctrines were little understood by the citizens.His idea of setting up a republic was not attractive to Italians too.
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    For instance, in Milan the upper class supported Charles Albert while the lower class demanded a republic.
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    Some of them supported the idea of Charles Albert-------setting up a constitutional monarchy under the leadership of Piedmont.
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    Charles Albert was not popular outside Piedmont and he was not good at fighting.He was unable to expel the Austrians out of Italy despite his being courageous and determined.Moreover, the Pope was just the religious leader.He had no liking to national unity.No wonder he stepped back once he was pressured by the Austrians.
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    Secondly, The poor leadership of Charles Albert who had little military skill and had no distinguished generals on whom he could rely.made the revolts hard the success too.He believed that Italy could defeat Austria without the foreign help.

    Thirly,the opposition of the other also marked the failure of the revolts .As the opposition of Pope that he was wanted to set up the fedual union after unifing Italy ,however,Mazzini worked with Garibaldi to set up a republic at Rome and then carried a series of reforms,which were little understood and didn't support by the workers and peasants.so,the Pope who seek for help from the European powers to help him to back to his position.
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    Another important factor accounting for the failure of the 1848 attempt was the poor leadership of Charles Albert and the military inferiority and lack of preparation of the Sardinian army which made the success of revolution impossible.
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    Some of them supported Charles Albert's idea of building a constitutional monarchy; some followed Mazzini's ideal of the set up of a republic; some other believed in Pope to build a federal union.
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    For example, Charles Albert of Piedmont was unpopular in the rest of Italy.Mazzini had political ideals yet his ideas was hardly understood and he could not gain any supporter in the Republic of Rome.And the Pope, Pius IX was only a religious leader.The situation became even worse when he announced his opposition to the war against Austians who were his fellow Catholics.His action had greatly weaken the support to national cause in Italy, and the Papal troops also no longer gave any aid to the revolts.

    Fourthly, the Piedmont could only fight without any foriegn support so that she was defeated at last.This is Charles Albert's idea.
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    Charles Albert ,who led the Piedmont and supported by middle class, lacked intelligence in military knowledge and decision making.His disability led to the defeat of wars against Austrians.
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    On the one hand, Charles Albert of Piedmont believed the use of her own force to fight against Austria .On the other hand , Lombardy was failed to get French help since she was discouraged by Britain.Without powers support, Italy could not defend Austria¡¦s great forces,so the revolts failed. Besides, disunity and weak organisation among Italians was also a factor .Local feelings were strong among Italian states and Italians were not willing to co-operate.For example, In Lombardy and Venetia , Friction existed between Venice and Milan about which to surrender to Piedmont first or even whether to support constitution.While in the south,serious class rivalry and power struggle weakened the parliament ,the prince Ferdinand was therefore easy to get back control .There was no widespread support of Charles Albert outside Piedmont. . Soon the kings got back control of the city in the chaotic condition and hence the revolution failed. The lack of capable statesmen resulting in poor leadership in the revolution .Charles Albert was not an able military leader.He used wrong strategies in the two battles ,Custozza and Novara, and so being defeated by Austria.
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    Charles Albert, the king of Piedmont Sardinia , was a determined person.However, he was not a military strong man and there were no good generals who could help him a lot.The Pope withdrew his federal idea.Mazzini was to ideal to turn an illerate Italy into a rupublic.
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    Charles Albert tried to get rid of them ,but he had a tragedy in the end that was defeated.

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    A history of Paterson NJ - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 2/12/2003    Last Visited: 2/23/2004  

    Burnett, Charles D. 154 Main (House) 87 Bridge

    Burnett, David 154 Main (House) 8 Market

    Burnett, Park 154 Main (House) 19 Hotel

    Burnett & Co., David & Charles D. & Park Burnett books and stationery 154 Main

    Burns, Dennis machinist (House) 314 Main

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    Catherine II - [Cached Version]
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    Her succession was at once challenged by Charles Albert of Bavaria, supported by the French, by the elector of Saxony, and by the kings of Prussia, Spain and Sardinia.On the success of Charles, who was proclaimed emperor in 1742 as Charles VII, she took refuge in Hungary, and the Magyars helped her to win back her crown in 1748.

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    Published on: 7/4/2005    Last Visited: 2/7/2007  

    Fechter, Charles Albert 1824-1879, European actor/dramatist; known for romantic and melodramatic roles; made U.S. debut in 1870 at Niblo's Garden in Ruy Blas.

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    Published on: 3/16/2001    Last Visited: 8/7/2001  

    George 1st also new on the throne has reason to fear the strong Jacobite party In 1716 Fr , Br and Holland allied , and the emperor joined later Spain occupied Sardinia then Sicily and tried to get others to attack Hanover The alliance drove Spain out of Italy The menace of Charles 12th died in 1718 and the menace of Peter the Great filled the gap In 1727 Catherine of Russia died and Peter 2 just a boy Spain lifted siege of Gibraltar and joined F and Br in 1729 In 1731 Duke of Parma died and emperor moved in to keep out Don Carlos of Spain The treaty that followed also invested Britain ( G2 ) with Bremene and Verden ( England and Holland agreed to the pragmatic sanction ( Austrian territories to go to Augustus El of Saxony ruled Poland till 33.
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    Austria : Charles was an intolerant RC , Marie Therese a realistic RC , Joseph a revolutionary- anti papal but pious.
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    Unlike Fr and England , bishops weren't solely drawn from the nobility and like Ireland parish priests were like the people they pastored ( and so were popular ) In 1753 by concordat with Vatican- the king took control of ecclesiastical appointments and began to tax church land Their 24 universities were backward focusing on the medieval trivium.- Aristotle and Aquinas Inquisition was also were wealthy ( till 1808 ) and dealt with medical quacks as well as heresy Phil 5 -1700-1757 700 auto de fes but Ferdinand and Charles disliked the inquisition though public demand stopped full extinction Vast aristocracy- hidalgos totally poor but : couldn't be imprisoned for debt or have soldiers billeted on him.Attempts to raise more money from excise taxes were disappointing- the people had no money left after all the other taxes.Spain was still the only place in Europe which had a huge population of beggars.Madrid under Charles : museums , botanical gardens , roads and canals built , beggars ( Spain only European country where idleness was not now considered a sin ) put into workhouses and vocational schools ( partly securlarised after expulsion of the Jesuits ) Italy Sardinia was modelled on Prussia , most of the revenues used to keep up the army Charles when ruler of Naples tried to get rid of clericalism a.

    Clearances

    From 1700 to 1800 , there was a 50% growth in the population.This was as the result of the clearances which often got a bad name . But the clearances led to agricultural improvement which led to lower infant mortality and thus in large growth in population.In 1700 in fact 75% of all children born were dead by the age of six.So industrialization and the clearances and all these improvements although they may seem to have been harsh have actually produced results that were doing away with some of the harshness of the past.

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    Published on: 3/3/2005    Last Visited: 7/1/2006  

    With military tyranny in its most brutal form crushing down Lombardy, it was teen sex live that Charles Albert should renounce the work of deliverance to which he had pledged himself.Austria, on the other hand, had now sufficiently teen sex live its teen sex live to repudiate the concessions which it had offered at an earlier time, and Schwarzenberg on assuming power announced that the Emperor would maintain Lombardy at every cost.The teen sex live of Sardinia as regarded help from the teen sex live of the Peninsula were far teen sex live than when it took up arms in the spring of 1848.Projects of a general Italian federation, of a military union between the central States and Piedmont, of an Italian Constituent Assembly, had teen sex live one another and left no result.Naples had fallen back into absolutism; Rome and Tuscany, from which aid teen sex live still have been teen sex live were distracted by internal contentions, and hastening as it seemed towards anarchy.After the defeat of Charles Albert at Custozza, Pius IX., who was teen sex live uneasily playing his part as a constitutional sovereign, had called to office teen sex live Rossi, an Italian patriot of an earlier time, who had since been ambassador of Louis Philippe at Rome, and by his connection with the Orleanist Monarchy had incurred the hatred of the Republican party teen sex live Italy.
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    While Charles Albert scattered his forces teen sex live Lago Maggiore to Stradella on the south of the Po, hoping to move by the northern road upon Milan, Radetzky concentrated his troops near Pavia, where he intended to cross the Ticino.In an evil moment Charles Albert had given the command of teen sex live army to Chrzanowski, a Pole, and had entrusted its southern division, teen sex live chiefly of Lombard volunteers, to another Pole, Ramorino, who had been engaged teen sex live Mazzini's incursion into Savoy in 1833.Ramorino had then, teen sex live or wrongly, teen sex live the charge of treachery.His relations with Chrzanowski were of the worst character, and the habit of military obedience was as much wanting to him as the sentiment of loyalty to the sovereign from whom he had now accepted a command.The teen sex live of teen sex live adventurer made the Piedmontese army an easy prey.Ramorino was posted on the south of the Po, near its junction with the Ticino, but received orders on the commencement of hostilities to teen sex live northwards and teen sex live the passage of the teen sex live at Pavia, breaking up the bridges behind him.Instead of obeying teen sex live order he teen sex live his division teen sex live about Stradella.Radetzky, approaching the teen sex live at Pavia, found the passage unguarded.He crossed the teen sex live with the mass of his army, and, cutting off Ramorino's division, threw himself upon the flank of the scattered Piedmontese.Charles Albert, whose headquarters teen sex live at Novara, teen sex live southwards.Before he could concentrate teen sex live troops, he was attacked at Mortara by the Austrians and teen sex live back.
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    Charles Albert had throughout the battle of the 23rd appeared to seek death.The reproaches levelled against him for the abandonment of Milan in the previous year, the charges of treachery which awoke to new life the miserable teen sex live of his waverings teen sex live 1821, had sunk into the very depths of his being.Weak and irresolute in his earlier political career, harsh and illiberal towards the pioneers of Italian freedom during a great part of his reign, Charles had teen sex live his whole heart and soul into the final teen sex live of teen sex live country against Austria.This teen sex live lost, teen sex live had nothing more for him.The personal hatred borne towards him by the rulers of Austria caused him to believe that easier terms of peace teen sex live be granted to Piedmont if another sovereign were on its throne, and teen sex live resolution, in case of defeat, was fixed and settled.When night fell after the battle of Novara he called together teen sex live generals, and in their presence abdicated his crown.
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    It may be truly said of Charles Albert that nothing in his reign became him like the teen sex live of it.Hopeless as the conflict of 1849 might well appear, it proved that there was one sovereign in Italy who was willing to stake his throne, his life, the whole sum of teen sex live personal interests, for the national cause; one dynasty whose sons knew no fear save that others should encounter death before them on Italy's behalf.Had the profoundest statesmanship, the keenest political genius, governed the counsels of Piedmont in 1849, it would, with teen sex live prescience of the teen sex live of Novara, have bidden the sovereign and the army strike in self-sacrifice their last unaided blow.From this time there was but one teen sex live head for Italy.The faults of the Government of Turin during Charles Albert's years of peace had ceased to have any bearing on Italian affairs; the sharpest tongues no longer repeated, the most credulous ear teen sex live longer harboured the slanders of 1848; the man who, beaten and outnumbered, had for hours sat immovable in front of the Austrian cannon at Novara had, in the depth of his misfortune, given to his son not the crown of Piedmont only but the crown of Italy.
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    Mazzini had arrived in the teen sex live week of March, and, though his exhortation to the Roman Assembly to forget the offences of Charles Albert and to unite against the Austrians in Lombardy came too late, he was able, as one of a Triumvirate with dictatorial teen sex live to throw much of his own ardour into the Roman populace teen sex live defence of their own city and State.

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    Istria on the Internet - History - Hapsburg Dynasty - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 4/11/2003    Last Visited: 10/14/2004  

    True it is that upon Mary's death in 1482 part of her inheritance, the rich and prosperous Netherlands, held that her husband's authority was at an end, while another part, the two Burgundies and Artois, had been seized by the king of France; nevertheless, after a protracted struggle the German king secured almost the whole of Charles the Bold's lands for his son, the archduke Philip, the duchy of Burgundy alone remaining in the power of France after the conclusion of the peace of Senlis in 1493.
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    The prestige which belonged to Charles as head of the Holy Roman Empire was backed by the wealth and commerce of the Netherlands and of Spain, and by the riches of the Spanish colonies in America.In Italy he ruled over Sardinia, Naples and Sicily, which had passed to him with Spain, and the duchy of Milan, which he had annexed in 1535; to the Netherlands he had added Friesland, the bishopric of Utrecht, Groningen and Gelderland, and he still possessed Franche-Comté and the fragments of the Habsburg lands in Alsace and the neighbourhood.Add to this Ferdinand's inheritance, the Austrian archduchies and Tirol, Bohemia with her dependent provinces, and a strip of Hungary, and the two brothers had under their sway a part of Europe the extent of which was great, but the wealth and importance of which were immeasurably greater.
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    The younger sons were Ferdinand, ruler of Tirol, and Charles, archduke of Styria.
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    Turning to the collateral branches of the family, the sons of the archduke Ferdinand were debarred from the succession owing to their father's morganatic marriage with Philippine Welser, and the only hope of the house was in the sons of Charles of Styria.
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    Immediately after the death of Charles the Pragmatic Sanction was forgotten.A crowd of claimants called for various parts of the Habsburg lands; Frederick the Great, talking less but acting more, invaded and conquered Silesia, and it seemed likely that the dissolution of the Habsburg monarchy would at no long interval follow the extinction of the Habsburg race.A Wittelsbach prince, Charles Albert, elector of Bavaria, the emperor Charles VII, and not Francis Stephen, was chosen emperor in January 1742, and by the treaty of Breslau, made later in the same year, nearly all Silesia was formally surrendered to Prussia.
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    Of the emperor Leopold's other sons the archduke Charles, perhaps the most distinguished soldier of the family, left four sons, including Albert, duke of Teschen (I 817-1895), who inherited some of his father's military ability.

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    MCCC Bulletin October 2005 - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 10/1/2005    Last Visited: 9/16/2007  

    In March, the February French revolt encouraged Charles Albert of Sardinia-Piedmont to grant a new constitution as part of his bid for Italian unity.
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    Over the next two months, Charles Albert attacked the Austrians in Lombardy.But the Pope declared the neutrality of the Papal States, causing Papal troops to desert from Charles Albert's army.
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    On August 9 Charles Albert signed an armistice with Austria.

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    Old Fontenoy - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 12/19/2001    Last Visited: 3/18/2002  

    Francis' claim was challenged by Charles Albert of Bavaria,supported by the French and Frederick II of Prussia, who precipitated the war by seizing the Austrian province of Silesia in 1740.An allied army led by George II was formed in 1742 and, although war was not declared until 1744, defeated the French at Dettingen in 1743.Meanwhile, fighting had broken out between England and France in India and North America, and the issue was further confused by the War of Jenkin's Ear between England and Spain, which began in 1739.Charles Albert was elected emperor, but on his death in 1745 he was succeeded by Francis, and Maria Theresa ceded Silesia.The French general de Saxe now defeated the British at Fontenoy (1745) and occupied the Austrian Netherlands, and the French encouraged the Jacobite rebellion in Scotland (1745-46).The war then declined into a stalemate and was concluded by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748).

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