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The very talented and house/techno/food/Arsenal infatuated gentleman from Toronto – Meech – delivers an exclusive best of 2012 groovy house mix in the Mixin' It Up series for us here at Discobelle. Starting off with British wonder Julio Bashmore and then he incorporates some of his own excellent releases along with some deep jams from the likes of Forrest, George Fitzgerald, Disclosure and ends with the stellar Lorca track "Love Like This".
"Here's a collection of tracks which seemed to appear in most of my sets in 2012. This year was great for House and anyone who wanted to groove their night away! Hope you do the same with the mix! Happy New Year, hope its filled with much love & happiness!
Julio Bashmore – Au Seve
Meesha – Feel U (Meech remix)
Rudimental – Feel The Love (Dusky remix)
Forrest – YSL
Oliver $ – Hoes
Jessie Ware – No To Love (Todd Edwards remix)
George Fitzgerald – Child (NY Stomp remix)
MikIX The Cat – Inside Down
Breakage – The Promise
Meech – Somethin (Urulu remix)
Disclosure – Boiling ft. Sinead Harnett
Lorca – Love Like This


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Photo of the day – sunset at the old pier brighton
Photo of the day –
Sunset at the old West Pier in Brighton. UK All images are ©copyright Claire Copley 2012 All Rights Reserved. You can buy many of my designs and photos printed on canvases, cards, ipad and iphone cases, shoes, clothing, and loads more in my gift shops Visit my Photography Gift Shop http://www.zazzle.com/photographybypixie* or see my psychedelic fractal art in my Hippy Gift Shop http://www.zazzle.com/hippygiftshop*
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'People ask me how I can keep coming back,' says KENDALL. 'It is because I am passionate about my sport - I love competing, training, and trying to stay at the top of the world against all odds.'
At 38 years of age and a veteran of four Olympic Sailing regattas KENDALL knows what it takes to reach the podium and is realistic about what it will take to be back there less than three years from now. With Olympic gold, silver and bronze medals in her possession she is already New Zealand's most successful female Olympian and is keen to add to the tally.
'It won't be easy as I will be the oldest in the fleet by about ten years or so as the other girls my age have retired. It will be a HUGE challenge. But with smart training and good recovery I should be sweet,' she says.
The Beijing Games will represent a new challenge for KENDALL following the announcement from ISAF earlier this year that the Olympic boardsailing equipment will change. The Mistral will be replaced by a new board, the Neil Pryde RS:X. However it is not the first time KENDALL has tackled this challenge.
Following KENDALL's gold medal in Atlanta in 1992 the equipment was changed from the Lechner board to the Mistral, moving towards a faster board with planing properties. She went on to medal on the Mistral in 1996 and 2000 and took three Mistral World Championships titles in 1998, 1999 and 2002. KENDALL has taken possession of a new board and will commence training on the Neil Pryde RS:X shortly.
KENDALL has said that the highlight of her career was winning the 2002 World Championship after the birth of her first daughter. She is now a busy mother of two and declares that she is extremely lucky to have the full support of husband Shayne BRIGHT and other family. 'It will require a HUGE amount of support to try and juggle two children, but where there is a will there is a way,' says KENDALL.
YNZ Olympic Director, Rod DAVIS is pleased to have KENDALL in his Olympic Squad as he sets his sights on medals in Beijing.
'Barbara's past Olympic record speaks for itself. The challenges she will face, in her quest for her fourth Olympic medal are big. But talent, determination and history are all on her side and so are we,' says DAVIS. 'Barbara is someone you just back - because you know she can do it. I've got a lot of confidence in her. The next few years will be the biggest sailing test of her life. All of us are looking forward to it. '
The Neil Pryde RS:X was made available to New Zealand's top board sailors earlier this year with test events being the only international competition to date. While KENDALL has been off the water due to the birth of her second daughter, Yachting New Zealand Academy board sailors, Thomas ASHLEY, Jon-Paul TOBIN and David ROBERTSON have been training on the board since its introduction and are learning about the qualities of the Neil Pryde RS:X and how it differs from the Mistral.
'The Neil Pryde RS:X has put Olympic windsurfing back on the cutting edge of technology,' says TOBIN. 'Neil Pryde who manufactures the RS:X is the largest windsurfing company globally and as such has the resources to promote and develop Olympic windsurfing to the maximum.'
TOBIN says that the Neil Pryde RS:X comes alive when the wind exceeds ten knots and the board utilizes its ability to sail primarily off the fin in comparison to the Mistral which relies on the centreboard for upwind performance in all conditions. Sailing downwind the RS:X is faster than the Mistral when the wind hits seven knots and it then increases its advantage as the wind strengthens.
'Neil Pryde has already organized a couple of test events for the RS:X the main one was raced in Cadiz in October this year with the majority of athletes in attendance, the racing was a success in all conditions particularly in the breeze when the RS:X equipment is in the zone,' says TOBIN.
Racing for the Neil Pryde RS:X officially commences in 2006. Sail Melbourne in January is an ISAF Grade 1 event and will be the first regatta to officially recognize the new Olympic equipment. Following this New Zealand will be the focus for Neil Pryde RS:X competition with the national championships and Sail Auckland regatta. A number of international athletes including current and former world champions are confirmed to race in the two New Zealand regattas.


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My Bookmarks and Annotations 02/27/2010
Assessments in K-12 Science Curricula
- students craft an observable performance that often requires problem solving,
inquiry, decision making, or role playing. These sometimes take place
over an extended period of time.
- Performance assessments are often evaluated by rubrics, or performance
What is Fill Any PDF?
FillAnyPDF.com is a website where you upload your PDF form and link to it so other people can fill it out and sign it online. No software is needed. Any PDF form can be used, even if it's not "interactive", so you can get started right away. You can even invite a group to fill out your forms and track the results. Anyone that collects signatures or filled out forms will find FillAnyPDF.com to be a valuable time-saving resource.
The map as history : a multimedia atlas of world history with animated historical maps
The map as historyThe largest on-line collection of animated historical maps\nFor students: a learning tool to increase comprehension and retentionFor teachers: a ready-made teaching tool to add visual impact in the classroomFor history buffs: new technology to add new perspectivesOur on-line maps use animation, color and narration to bring history to life.
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Lexington Nannies and Household Staffing — a leading placement agency headquartered in Los Angeles, CA — is proudly celebrating its seventh year. Founder and CEO Brooke Barousse, who has been referred to as "The Nanny Matchmaker" and "Nanny Whisperer," has placed hundreds of nannies and household staff members with families throughout the Southern California region, making her Company one of the leading staffing agencies on the West Coast.
Barousse says, "I have an instinct for reading people which has resulted in a high success rate for what is essentially personality matchmaking for my clients and their newly hired household staff. I can see where skills and energies mesh—and where they don't. We educate our nannies and other household staff members to set them up as consummate professionals and our one-month guarantee ensures that we have happy clients."
She understands the unique relationship families have with those who work inside their home. Not only is a household staffing position one of the most trusted jobs a person can have, but it is one that has the potential to be the glue that keeps things running smoothly, efficiently and happily—both in raising joyful, supported children and in keeping a clean, well-run household.
Being based in Los Angeles comes with its own rare set of talents that are required of her nannies, which are trained to handle situations that only a celebrity client might require, such as handling the paparazzi.
Because Lexington Nannies recognizes that choosing a child's caregiver is the most fundamental hiring decision a parent will ever make, the service offers a joint background check and exhaustive interview and vetting process. This pre-employment testing allows Lexington Nannies clientele to be completely confident about hiring decisions.
As the Company has grown, Barousse has extended the Household Staffing services to include Personal Chefs, Executive Assistants, Personal Assistants and Housekeepers. All staff members have a minimum of three years experience in their respective fields and are considered the best of the best.
Recognizing her extensive knowledge of and passion for childcare, the WE Television Network invited Barousse to participate in an upcoming reality series. The show is slated for an April 2013 debut.
About Lexington Nannies
In just seven years, Lexington Nannies and Household Staffing has established itself as one of the leading nanny and household staffing agencies on the West Coast. Based in Los Angeles and founded in 2006 by Brooke Barousse, who has been referred to as "The Nanny Whisperer" and "The Nanny Matchmaker," the Company has an expertise in placing nannies and household staff with an elite roster of clientele—from A-list celebrities to directors, Hollywood producers and top executives. Lexington Nannies takes great pride in providing exemplary, trusted staffing professionals for families that demand the utmost in privacy and the best in service standards. Nannies must meet the highest requirements and go through a specialized background check and selection process before they may be considered for any family. As the Company has grown, Barousse has extended the Household Staffing to include Personal Chefs, Executive Assistants, Personal Assistants and Housekeepers. All staff members have a minimum of three years experience in their respective fields and are considered the best of the best. Barousse also donates her Company's services to Venice Family Clinic so that low-income patients are able to go to appointments.
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To call Bilal's new album, Airtight's Revenge, a comeback album would be misleading, even if it somewhat feels that way for the Philadelphia-raised, New York-based singer.
It's not as if Bilal (his full name is Bilal Oliver) has been sleeping at the piano since first making noise with his 2001 album, 1st Born Second. Just Google him and see the extensive list of collaborations, guest appearances and live performances he's done in the past nine years. Those who do more research might also discover that Airtight's Revenge isn't even Bilal's first album since his debut, but rather his third one after a widely bootlegged second album, Love for Sale, which never was officially released.
Still, despite all his activity, Bilal does feel Airtight's Revenge, which was just released, is a reintroduction of sorts to the same audience that hailed him as a budding star in the neo-soul scene nine years earlier. Bilal sat down with The Root to discuss his new album, the album a lot of people never heard (Love for Sale) and other random tidbits, like his love for karaoke.
The Root: You've been touring quite a bit to promote this new album; do you still get a lot of fans asking where you've been?
Bilal: Yeah, I get that question a lot. But I basically tell them I've been doing my music. I've been doing spot dates for nine years. I've been working on a lot of other people's projects. I haven't been staying stagnant … I've been on so many hip-hop projects these last couple of years; it's kind of crazy. From Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek's record ["Ends"], to Jay-Z ["Fallin'"], to the Clipse ["Nightmares"], to Scarface ["Can't Get Right"], just mad stuff.
TR: Even by the standards of the old music industry, nine years is an awfully long time between albums. Do you think fans are more impatient than they used to be for new music?
B: Yeah, a little. I could understand why people would be impatient for me. It's been so long, I kind of started to get impatient. But right now, people are expecting people to come out with an album every year; I don't really dig that. People really just over-exhaust things and they just want more. There's so much stuff out there.
TR: Well, how long did Airtight's Revenge take you to make?
B: I've been kind of working on it for three years, on and off. A lot of the music I really wrote at home, just sitting down at a piano and writing. Maybe five tunes in, I thought, "Oh, this is an album."
TR: Before this album, though, there was another album only your diehard fans know about. What happened to Love for Sale? Why wasn't it ever given a proper release?
B: It was a record I was working on for Interscope. I had just about finished it, I was in the process of mixing it and it was bootlegged. When it was first happened, I was really f***ing mad. Then it kind of turned around for me. I started to get a lot of Internet buzz, and I tried to get the label to put the record out, but they winded up shelving it, and we kind of started to have disagreements on creative direction and we just decided to part ways, basically.
B: Well, Love for Sale was kind of like a singer-songwriter deal, like I wrote this new album. I sat down at the piano and wrote all of those tunes, a lot of them, and the ones that I didn't do, I was with my own producers. [Interscope's] whole concept was work with all the hot producers and that will be your album, and that's never been my deal. If anything, I'd like to have two or three producers. But I see myself as a singer-songwriter and I can pretty much produce myself if I wanted to.
TR: Besides bootlegging affecting potential record sales, what else upset you about Love for Sale's leak? You said it wasn't finished, and people still loved it.
B: I always knew it was a good album, and I fought tooth and nail over that album because my label didn't really understand what it was that I was doing, and they didn't understand I didn't want to work with a bunch of producers. It was also like they're asleep, because I felt myself arguing over it all the time. They really felt the record was kind of dark and not really sexy. I went to battle on that album on a daily basis, which I felt was kind of stupid because I felt the music was really dope, and most people I was playing it for were feeling it and loving it. Whenever we would play it out live, people were enjoying it. It was one of those deals that while I was creating it, I had that feeling like, "Oh, this is dope."
TR: When I was at the listening session for Airtight's Revenge earlier this year, you said people who liked 1st Born Second were probably not going to like this album. Explain.
B: Well, the concept beyond this album was really just to write short stories and dark tales of life in general. I used a lot and drew a lot from my own life and my own experiences, but I also took a lot of things from fiction and tried to make certain statements, from a love standpoint.
TR: One of the life experiences you drew upon is your oldest son for the song, "Little One." What's the story behind that?
B: My son has autism, my oldest son, and I was just inspired to write a song that kind of would inspire parents and children alike to press on. It was kind of an inspirational type of deal for me and my son. I really like to use my music nowadays as a platform to raise awareness and speak on different issues, and autism means a lot to me because it's such a mystery to me. A lot of people don't really understand it, know where it came from or how to face it. I felt like I'm in a good position to raise awareness on that. I wrote the song for my child, but I also write in a way that every parent can identify with that song.
TR: Is it difficult for you to balance the demands of being a musician and a family man?
B: It's life. Life is life. I draw from life to make art … nothing really kind of fazes [me] as far as my life is concerned. I kind of look at it like Einstein looked at it; there was no real title on what he did; he just did it. So I don't think I'm one of those types of people that sacrifices my personal life for my artistic endeavors. I think everything in life is art; you just have to have an eye.
B: I have a song on my album called, "The Dollar." I wrote that after an incident me and my mom went through. We were walking on South Street, a shopping street in Philadelphia, and my mom was going shoe shopping. We were walking down the street, and my mom saw a full bag of crack on the ground and she goes, "Oh, my God, there's a bag of crack on the ground!" And I swear, out of nowhere, a crackhead just pushes us aside and picks up the crack, and says, "Oh, hell yeah! My lucky day!" And it just inspired the hell out of me, like I just laughed and laughed all the way home; and when I got home, I just sat down on the piano and the chorus was, "Oooh, it's my lucky day."
TR: Anything else from life that inspires you or you enjoy outside of music?
B: I'm a big YouTube cat. I'm always on YouTube. There's always funny stuff. It keeps me busy all day.
TR: Oh, so I'm sure you know about Antoine Dodson.
B: Oh, yeah, that guy was hilarious [laughs]. The song is hilarious. But when I listened to the regular one, he is kind of talking in a rhythm. It was really hilarious how they did that.
TR: Yeah, that song is a hit. A lot of people know the words to it like it was on the radio. Were you ever into karaoke?
B: I used to be big on karaoke back in college. Maybe once a month with [R&B-pop music producer] Bryan-Michael Cox and [jazz pianist] Robert Glasper, and we would do a bunch of Jodeci tunes.
TR: What's your favorite Jodeci song?
B: Oh, man, we would kill their version of [Stevie Wonder's] "Lately."
TR: Last question: going back to Airtight's Revenge, what's the meaning behind that title?
B: Well, the meaning of the title is reflecting all the stuff I've been through in the last nine years, with my album Love for Sale being bootlegged, and getting in conflict with my label and it never coming out. Just the whole long, drawn-out standstill behind it and how it kind of turned into a phoenix-rising type of deal, with people giving it mad love online and just became this underground type of sensation. So that's the real revenge, the music couldn't be shut down or hidden, but people got it and they loved it, just like I loved making it. That was the meaning behind "revenge," and "Airtight" is just an old nickname that I got.
Back in the day, I used to really be into reading Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim. I casually read both of their whole catalogs, and they inspired me as a songwriter also, but there's a book Iceberg Slim wrote and the title is Airtight Willie & Me. I kind of kept that name, "Airtight." And I think even back then I thought it would be dope to have an album with the title Airtight-something, so Airtight's Revenge sounded like a black exploitation film. It kind of fit the scenario.
Jozen Cummings is a writer living in Harlem, N.Y. You can follow him on Twitter and read his blog, UntilIgetmarried.com.
Jozen Cummings is the author and creator of the popular relationship blog Until I Get Married, which is currently in development for a television series with Warner Bros. He also hosts a weekly podcast with WNYC about Empire called Empire Afterparty, is a contributor at VerySmartBrothas.com and works at Twitter as an editorial curator. Follow him on Twitter.


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Zoya Kendal is another sweet full coverage cream. This one is a pale lavender with great application. Two coats plus a top coat for these swatches. Not much more I can say here, just lovely...
|Swatch Details
|Brand: Zoya
Collection: Feel, Winter 2011
Color Name/Number: Kendal, ZP594
Number of coats: 2
Top Coat: Yes
Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP), Camphor
I'd love to know what you think!
Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)


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On "The Tonight Show" Thursday night, Jay Leno had this reaction to cyclist Lance Armstrong's much-anticipated confession that he'd used performance-enhancing drugs: "The guy's a liar, a cheat, a hypocrite, a fraud. Where's he going to find work? OK, besides Congress. I mean, besides Congress, there are not a lot of options."
It's a funny quip, of course – but it also happens to have more than a grain of truth to it. For public figures who have experienced humiliating falls from grace – often involving confessions of wrongdoing and tearful apologies – there may be no more forgiving profession than politics.
Just this week, former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) – whose infamous 2009 Appalachian Trail trip turned out to be a visit to his Argentine mistress – announced he will attempt to return to Congress, where he served from 1995 to 2001, by seeking the seat vacated by now-Sen. Tim Scott (R).
"We all hope for redemption, we all hope for second chances," Mr. Sanford told a local TV station in an interview. "Whether or not I'm granted one, time will tell. But what I would say is, it's a fresh start in that, you know, after you have failed at something, I think you see life through a different prism. So the prism I have is maybe with a little bit greater humility and a little bit more reserve, but it is to say, 'Well, can I take what I learned on the way up and on the way down; can I take what I learned in Congress and the governorship and apply it?' "
If Sanford succeeds, he'll join a long list of men who've resurrected their political careers after highly publicized (most often extramarital and usually not illegal) missteps.
To name just a few of the most prominent: There are former President Clinton (survived an affair with an intern and impeachment proceedings; is now about to receive a "father of the year" award, with approval ratings at an all-time high of 69 percent); Sen. David Vitter (R) of Louisiana (won reelection handily after overcoming a prostitution scandal); former Rep. Barney Frank (D) of Massachusetts (held a long and distinguished career in the House after it was revealed his gay lover was running an escort ring out of his house; is now a leading contender to fill an interim Senate post in Massachusetts); and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (was a presidential hopeful in 2012 – and won the South Carolina primary – after he'd left the House admitting to infidelity and having been formally disciplined on ethics charges).
It was even reported this week that former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D) of New York (who resigned after it was revealed he'd been sending risqué pictures of himself via Twitter to women who were not his wife) has reserved the domain name AnthonyWeiner2013.com and continues to maintain office space in New York City for a possible mayoral campaign. So far, however, Mr. Weiner has not indicated any intention to run.
We confess, we're not entirely sure what to make of this phenomenon. Much has been written over the years about how the American people are unusually forgiving and, indeed, often seem to root for "second chances." Others have pointed out that, in this age of 24/7 news, the spotlight's glare can be intense and cruel when a scandal breaks, but it also moves on quickly – and the public can have a relatively short memory.
Either way, the ease with which many have been able to mount political comebacks after a scandal is pretty striking when you consider that elective office, unlike other careers, requires a literal vote of confidence from vast numbers of constituents.
There do seem to be some rules, though, for mounting a successful political comeback. As a prerequisite, you must own up to what you did and show genuine remorse. But, paradoxically, you also can't seem too overcome by shame: You need to indicate that you've moved on and that you expect others to, as well.
The nature of the scandal also clearly makes a difference. Scandals involving homosexual activity have proved far more difficult to overcome, particularly for Republicans (see former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig and former Florida Rep. Mark Foley, among others). Former California Rep. Gary Condit (D) was cleared in the death of intern Chandra Levy, for which another man was convicted – but the murder of a young woman, with whom he'd apparently had an inappropriate relationship, still proved impossible for him to get beyond.
And it is certainly harder – though not impossible – for elected officials to get past illegal activity (on the local level, former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry – who went to jail on drug charges, was subsequently reelected as mayor, and now sits on the city council – comes to mind).
Finally, there do seem to be some "moral decency" limits as to what the public is willing to forgive. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards (D) may be off the hook, legally, for his affair with a videographer working for his presidential campaign. But the deep public sympathy for his late wife, Elizabeth, who was fighting cancer while the extramarital affair was taking place, seems likely to prohibit any sort of political comeback for him.
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We subscribe to the philosophy of Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi):
"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated"
This is why pets are always welcome at Hotel Germania in Jesolo. They are hosted free of charge and we offer water bowls, pet food and a vet's service on request. They can access the communal areas of the hotel, but dogs are not allowed on the private beach. Just 400 m from the hotel is Bau Bau Beach, where dogs are welcome and can swim in the sea. For more info see
http://www.baubaubeachjesolo.it/ .
Just 300 m from the hotel is the splendid Parco Grifone, where dogs can walk freely amidst the greenery.


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I can't get past the System Requirements/Mandatory Dependencies screen due to dependency issues. I have all the required libraries installed except that the installer does not recognize some library versions higher than what is requires. Particularly with the following libraries:
Library Installer Ver. Xubuntu Ver.
libxml 2.4.0 2.6.26
vte 0.11.1 0.14.1
libstartup-notification 0.4 0.8
hal-storage 0.5. 0.5.7
dbus-glib 0.34 0.71
Any suggestions and recommendations to go around this problem is most welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Make sure you have the devel packages or the missing deps installated.
I installed couple libraries :
- libgtk2.0-dev
- libice-dev
- libsm-dev
- libxpm-dev
as instructed on http://www.xfce.org/documentation/installers/xfce/
and i have my edgy updated to latest : apt-get update, apt-get upgrade
but, I still failed on packages vte, hal-storage, dbus-glib-1 and library jpeg
GaryBrlow, what are the dev libraries that you installed to make the installation work.
(X)Ubuntu updated their XFCE packages to 4.4.0 (its still a bit cranky though, thunar causes access slowdowns and 100% cpu in most cases and am still observing it). Be sure to update your packages first for the latest versions. Use Synaptic to get the dev packages for example search for "vte dev" or "hal-storage dev" etc. and it will find the file for you, select and mark it for installation. Typing only the package name doesn't necessarily bring up the dev packages. After marking all the needed libraries, click apply, then wait for it to finish. XFCE 4.4.0 only needs what it requires via the GUI installer which virtually covers everything unlike the earlier Release Candidates that have dependencies not covered in the checklist. I could be wrong though but I didn't need to install anything else other than what the GUI installer required.
GaryBrlow ;D
(X)Ubuntu updated their XFCE packages to 4.4.0 ...
I have Xubuntu Edgy, and the packages have not yet been updated to 4.4.0. Maybe for the Feisty release?
Unfortunately am testing feisty as of the moment, I guess the update is only for feisty then. They should be backporting it as soon as package bugs eliminated/minimized and are good to go. But for the meantime, use the official installer to update XFCE and Thunar to current version. I suggest using the Thunar Bundle so as no to compile plugins individually. I have had no problems using the official stable installers to date. One thing I like about it is that the official one restates the original menu that xubuntu removed and replaced with their own. Even if you uninstall the gui installer the menus are retained.
GaryBrlow ;D
Many of the little glitches and annoyances in Feisty XFCE 4.4.0 mentioned earlier have been corrected by incremental upgrades today.


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Authors: Blue the Immortal Bard, jcompton
Latest Version: 1.7
Shortcut: http://www.pocketplane.net/dbg
Skip Chateau Irenicus, courtesy of Blue and Jasper St. Baird.
Have you played the dungeon so many times you could run it in your sleep? Tired of trudging through Chateau Irenicus yet again? If so then this mod is for you!
So what is Dungeon-Be-Gone?:
- A shortcut through Irenicus' Dungeon. Merely talk to the guide that appears shortly after your character is released, and you'll have several options.
- You also get a hopefully entertaining NPC guide to take you through, and he even has voicing. (Why? Because we can.)
Take Note:
- This MOD is rather silly, and also skips all the story elements and such just to get you to the end faster. This is aimed for those who have played the game so many times that Irenicus' dungeon has become more painful than a root canal, and less interesting than a Valygar coffee mug. If silliness and/or 'cheating' offends you, then looks like you'll just be wresting long bows from goblins for a while.
DBG V1.7 - Mirror 1DBG V1.7 MacOSX - Mirror 1
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Millie Mackintosh dress by Lipsy
I was off doing live radio last night so I've only just had chance to catch up with last night's brand new episode of Made in Chelsea. Great to see the Chelsea bitch-fest gathering pace, although (as one of my Twitter friends pointed out) Rosie seemed to be wearing Millie's orange leather jacket when she met Victoria for drinks (and back stabbing), so perhaps they don't dislike each other as much as they're making out for the benefit of the cameras…fashion will always catch you out in the end.
Gossip aside, Millie caught my eye again last night in the fashion stakes; I loved the dress she wore for the art gallery party. It looked suspiciously like a Lipsy design to me, and that wouldn't be a surprise as Millie has been doing a spot of modelling for the brand…
If you want to grab her style for the summer, may I suggest the printed embellished maxi dress from the VIP range that does look devilishly good on Millie? (I have lots of emails asking for prom dress advice and if you have a lovely figure like Millie, you can't go wrong with this style.)
|Millie rocks the Lipsy look
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1: You think that if the government is forced into another shutdown scenario this summer — again — it'll be the fault of the president — again — and not due to John Boehner and Eric Cantor playing the same game they played last year which resulted in the nation's credit rating being reduced. And you believe this, in spite of the evidence, because Sean Hannity said so last week — again.
2: You believe President Obama's support for gay marriage will weaken the sanctity of your own marriage. And the two babes you're banging on the side down at Bubba's Busty Bistro both agree with you.
3: In the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case, you immediately took the side of Zimmerman, because Martin was wearing a hoodie and had no business being out at night in a gated community. But you still insist your position has nothing to do with race.
4: You bristle whenever someone reminds you that today's recession began during the George W Bush administration, and have even developed a talking point to combat it; "Bush is gone, It's Obama's presidency now!" Except of course, when president Obama killed Osama bin Laden, then suddenly Bush did it.
5: 2012 is already trending to be the warmest year in recorded meteorological history, followed by 2011, 2010, 2005, 1998, 2003, 2002, 2009, 2006, 2007, 2004, and 2001. But because 2008 didn't make the grade, you're quite certain climate change is bullshit.
6: You're convinced that there's massive voter fraud going on in the African/American community, because you saw 13 "New Black Panthers" looking mighty intimidating at a polling station on Fox News once. Even though, those 13 jokers make up the entirety of the New Black Panthers, and Fox News played that footage more times than they played the Rev. Wright tape. Oh, but don't you assume from this that Fox is appealing to racist voters.
7: You take Mitt Romney at his word when he said "Of course I would have given the order [to go after bin Laden in Pakistan], even Jimmy Carter would have." Even though Mitt Romney previously said "Osama bin Laden is not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch. I do not concur in the words of Barack Obama in a plan to enter an ally of ours." But hey, this is all academic anyway, because everyone knows President Obama was only following Bush's strategeiry.
8: You think the recall movement going on in Wisconsin is un-American, and Scott Walker is only doing what the voters of his state demand. And that recording of Walker taking a phone call from a bogus David Koch was overblown… He just thought it was a courtesy call to discuss their mutual love of cheese.
9: You think Romney will be a better president than Obama, because he's made it crystal clear that he wants nothing to do with those creepy gays. Well, except for that one time, when he was running for governor of Massachusetts:
10: You believe the debt is at $15 trillion today, primarily due to Barack Obama's failed policies, even though it was at $11 trillion when he was inaugurated, and the tax cuts and wars had yet to be factored in during the Bush years. You also believe George Bush's role in doubling it was necessary, because he had to combat a Democratic-controlled Congress… the very Democrats that voted 126 to 81 against the Iraq War. And the two tax cuts became law by Bush using reconciliation, against the will of the majority. Together, these made up the bulk of Bush's spending spree, because after all; "Deficits don't matter." ~ Dick Cheney
11: You tout the concept of "American Exceptionalism," because America's the bomb! We've done it all, we do it right every time (unless a Democrat's in power) and those stupid European socialist twits would have been lost decades ago, if not for us. And anybody who says our claims of American Exceptionalism are really just arrogant boasts of "American Superiority," is just jealous, because they know we're the best. Booyah!
12: Even though Rush Limbaugh called a young birth control activist a slut and nobody within the GOP condemned him for it, the Komen Foundation was infiltrated by a mole whose intent was to defund Planned Parenthood, the governor of the state of Virginia proposed a bill that would have required a trans-vaginal probe against her will before being permitted to have an abortion, Planned Parenthood itself has been under attack by Boehner's congress, and most Republicans voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Law, a bill guaranteeing equal pay for women — you still deny that there's any sort of "War on Women," because Gretchen Carlson said so on Fox & Friends. And she's a woman, so case closed!
13: You think Mitt Romney would make a better president than Barack Obama, because he's had hands-on experience in the business world. And who was the last president who ran on his record of business experience? George W. Bush. So there.
14: You think Barack Obama broke the law by backing the NATO mission to support the Libyan rebellion, which ultimately toppled a true supporter of international terrorism, but Bush's invasion of Iraq … which wasn't condoned by NATO or the United Nations, was just swell.
15: You believe teachers, firemen and cops are overpaid, and that's a better place to make budget cuts than asking millionaires and billionaires to pay the same tax rate they did under Clinton… when times were good, and the budget was balanced.
16: You're a big supporter of free speech, but nothing ruins your day more than when some immigrant says Sarah Palin was dumb. How dare they? If that's what they think, then they should go back to Russia. Then Sarah can wave at them from her porch.
17: You think Citizens United was the best thing to happen to Democracy since Glenn Beck, because finally, those poor downtrodden corporatists will have a say in who represents their interests… just as poor Siemens, Mengele GmbH, IG Farben and Bayer were finally permitted to do what they do best, once freed of those pesky, restrictive regulations. Because nothing says "Freedom," better than a government kept in check by industry!
18: You were shocked, SHOCKED when the Romney campaign suggested Barack Obama might try to use Romney's Mormon faith as a wedge issue in the coming months, even though there are no such plans to do so. What sort of sick, anti-American commie party would ever use religion to divide America? After all, who's ever done that?


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A play reading in State College this month provides a preview of a three shows scheduled later this summer in New York City.
Penn State faculty member Pamela Monk has written "An Evening with Aphrodite," and the preview reading will be conducted at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 29, at 417 Adams Ave. Tickets for the reading, which help support the play's later showings, cost $10 and may be purchased at http://eveningwithaphrodite.weebly.com.
The play is scheduled as part of the Thespis Theater Festival and will be performed Aug. 12, Aug. 15 and Aug. 17 at Cabrini Repertory Theater, located at 701 Fort Washington Ave. in New York.
The festival is organized to bring the never-before-seen work of playwrights, directors and actors to stage in a way that might lead to future performances by presenting an opportunity to stage first-run plays for audiences to win prizes for best play and best actor.
For the preview of Monk's play, Susan Reddiford Shedd will portray the goddess Aphrodite. Original music for the play is by Stacy Tibbetts.
Monk, a senior lecturer in the Department of Journalism, teaches courses journalism and magazine writing. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsday and The Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as in local publications in State College and in Ithaca, N.Y., where she lived before moving to State College.
She serves as faculty adviser to Phroth, the Penn State humor magazine, Valley Magazine and PSNtv, the student television network. In addition, Monk is a juried artist for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In this capacity she has conducted playwriting residencies and freelance writing workshops in a variety of Pennsylvania public schools.


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After "Toy Story 3" made $109 million in its opening weekend, it's time to start sifting through the conflicting messages about whether we'll see yet another full edition of the monster Pixar franchise.
Director Lee Unkrich seemed pretty intent on not doing "Toy Story 4," but left plenty of loopholes. It's unlikely he'll ever say never.
"I wanted to end this," Unkrich said at the film's press day. "In my mind this film is the conclusion of Woody and Buzz and the rest of the toys with their relationship with Andy. I feel like we've ended it nicely."
That said, the toys will live on in other projects. Pixar is already working on a short film with the characters. And both Unkrich's words and the film's ending leave the possibility of another chapter.
"People want these characters and love them," said Unkrich. "There will be more of them in the world."
"Whether there's another 'Toy Story,' I have no idea," he added, when pressed.
The folks at Pixar are meticulous about their quality control and don't dilute the brand name in search of the quick extra buck. But they measure the possibilities of a new chapter if the new story passes an intense sniff test. Unkrich said there was even internal resistance to making a "Toy Story 2" after the movie-altering first "Toy Story"
"After we made the first, we had no interest in making a sequel," he said. "We just want to tell an original story."
But if that great story comes in the form of a sequel, as it did then, it's hard to say no. And Pixar has never shown stretch marks on its stories.
"It had nothing to do with an audience wanting a sequel then," Unkrich said of the first. "If you've done your job on the movie they are always going to want to see a sequel. It means they want more of what they love."
"The only reason we did was because we came up with a storyline that we liked.
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After "Toy Story 3" made $109 million in its opening weekend, it's time to start sifting through the conflicting messages about whether we'll see yet another full edition of the monster Pixar franchise.


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I'm running Ubuntu Edgy and just tried to install xfce 4.4 using the installer. Everything seemed to run ok, but now my desktop area seems completely inactive and the icons have disappeared. Has anyone had this problem before and is there a fix fo it?
Errr ... actually no need for an answer now ... I fixed it by typing "xfce-setting-show" in a terminal and then checking the box to allow xfce to manage the desktop in the Desktop section.
I lost my desktop and the icons two then I was right clicking on a image file. And then I looked in the desktop settings I found that the "allow xfce to manage the desktop" check box have become unchecked. This must be a bug.
This is quite funny. The problem above happened again just a couple of minutes after my earlier post. But this is not a frequent problem, it has only happened twice. Can it have something to do with the session manager???
I don't need the session manager and should try to config my startup's with a ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc file. This may help the sensors plugin two which have the same problems with check boxes that uncheck themselfs between reboots.
Could be, check if the xfdesktop process is running when you logged in. Or just use the session-manager is that fixes to problem :-|
I have used the session manager all the time and then I did a try to live without it I found things that was more annoying than then two I decribed earlier. For example I could't shutdown in a comfortable way.
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We See In Every Direction (2013) a Web browser for collaborative, synchronized surfing by Swedish artist Jonas Lund. Browsing the Internet is typically an intimate and personal experience for just one person, but in We See, users traverse online information streams in a collective surfing environment. Users can type, click and change URLs in real time together; they can jockey for control of the browser--akin to fighting for the TV remote--or choose to sit back and let their friends take care of the surfing. Like many of Lund's previous online works, the piece opens up the walled-off spaces of the Internet for shared use.
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Rosetta starts tracking asteroid Steins
Heading toward its first target-asteroid, (2867) Steins, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track the asteroid and eventually determine its orbit with more accuracy.
Rosetta started the optical navigation campaign on 4 August 2008, at a distance of about 24 million km from Steins; the campaign will continue until 4 September, when the spacecraft will be approximately 950 000 km from the asteroid.
"The orbit of Steins, with which Rosetta will rendezvous on 5 September, closing to a distance of 800 km, is only known thanks to ground observations, but not yet with the accuracy we would like for the close fly-by," said Gerhard Schwehm, Rosetta Mission Manager based at ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), near Madrid, Spain.
Optical tracking to better understand Steins' orbit
We will be able to use the first data set for the trajectory correction manoeuvre planned for mid-August.
The purpose of the tracking campaign is to reduce the error in our knowledge of Steins' orbit from about 100 km to only within 2 km (in the direction perpendicular to the flight direction of the asteroid, called 'cross-track'), so as to allow Rosetta an optimal approach to this celestial body.
Both Rosetta's navigation cameras and the OSIRIS (Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System) imaging system will be used to track Steins.
"For the first three weeks of the campaign, however, only the powerful eyes of OSIRIS will actually be able to spot the asteroid, which will look only like a dot in the sky," said Andrea Accomazzo, Rosetta Spacecraft Operations Manager at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany.
"Starting 11 days before closest approach, as the distance with Steins decreases, the two Rosetta navigation cameras will finally be able to see and track the asteroid, too," he added.
For the first three weeks of the campaign, Rosetta will image Steins twice a week and then, starting on 25 August, it will take images daily until 4 September.
The Steins orbital information gathered during the tracking campaign will be used to adjust Rosetta's trajectory for the 5 September fly-by. "We will already be able to use the first data set for the trajectory correction manoeuvre planned for mid-August," said Sylvain Lodiot, from the Rosetta Flight Control Team at ESOC.
"As Rosetta's distance from Steins decreases, the precision of the measurements for Steins' orbit will increase even further, allowing us the best possible trajectory corrections later on before closest approach, especially in early September."
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Rita Schulz, Rosetta Project Scientist based at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, the Netherlands, explained that this is the first time in the Rosetta mission that the OSIRIS scientific instrument is being used for tracking purposes.
"But OSIRIS will also take this opportunity to obtain 'light curves' of Steins. Light curves tell us how the asteroid brightness varies with time, providing us with additional preparatory information about the asteroid, such as better knowledge of its shape and rotation characteristics," she said.
The optical navigation campaign follows a series of active check-outs of Rosetta's scientific instrumentation, which lasted from 5 July to 3 August this year. A mission milestone for Rosetta, these activities also verified the instruments' readiness for the fly-by observations, and allowed on-board software modifications to be implemented for several of them.
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Simone Biles won the U.S. women's gymnastics title Saturday night, edging Kyla Ross.
The 16-year-old Biles put together a two-day score of 120.450, just ahead of the 120.250 posted by Ross.
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Brenna Dowell was third, followed by Peyton Ernst and Maggie Nichols. All three, like the rest of the field, were well behind the world-class efforts put together by Biles and Ross.
Two-time Olympic medalist McKayla Maroney easily won her second national title in vault as she gears up for the world championships in Belgium this fall.
Biles took control of the meet during the preliminary round on Thursday and never trailed in the finals, overcoming a miscue on uneven bars to reach the top of the podium.
Ross had a chance heading into beam, her final event. Needing to post a 15.450 to tie Biles after Biles briefly lost momentum in her bars routine, Ross nearly went out and did it. A small wobble at the end that included Ross flailing her arms to maintain her balance gave Biles enough wiggle room to survive.
The duel between the top two active American gymnasts offered a marked contrast in styles. Ross is all grace and fluid lines. There is no wasted movement in her routines. Every trick carefully is crafted to accentuate the budding maturity in the youngest member of the "Fierce Five." After watching Ross put together a near flawless set on uneven bars during the preliminary round, good friend Maroney joked she nearly "passed out" watching Ross glide from bar to bar as if she was doing a ballet six feet off the ground.
Biles is the polar opposite, a 4-foot-8 livewire from aptly named Spring, Texas, who bounds across the floor like gravity is an option, not a requirement. At times all that pent-up energy can get the best of her. She was admittedly anxious during a qualifying meet in Chicago last month, struggling so mightily she was scratched with one event to go out of fear of injuring herself.
A pep talk from U.S. women's team national coordinator Martha Karolyi and a well-placed shoulder by Ross helped the 16-year-old settle down. Ross told her to try to tune out the crowd and the stakes, something Biles said was easy considering she admits to blocking out her parents "all the time."
The roar - not to mention the spotlight - is sure to grow louder after the breakthrough performance she needed to be considered a serious all-around threat at worlds in October.
Biles began her march to the title on beam. She ripped through her set, barely wobbling on the 4-inch wooden plank perched 4-feet off the ground. The arena echoed with each thud as she went through a difficult series of jumps and twists. She nailed the dismount and bounded back to her coaches, the confidence boost she needed to turn what appeared to be a showdown with Ross into a coronation.
Ross didn't lose the meet. Biles went out and won it.
Her floor exercise is 75 seconds of ferocity. At times she looks almost impatient as she zips through the choreography, eager to get back to her tumbling runs that seem to defy physics. A slight step out of bounds cost her a 10th of a point, the only flub on a night she grabbed the mantle as the leader of the next generation of U.S. women's gymnastics with both hands.
She'll have company from the old guard - well, as much as a 17-year-old can be considered old - in Belgium. Maroney, one of the greatest vaulters in the history of the sport, put on yet another show to bookend the national title she won two years ago.
The crowd roared when Maroney nailed her signature Amanar - the hardest vault being done in competition - and posted a 16.0, the highest score of the meet.
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MEDINA, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 6, 2017-- RPM International Inc. (NYSE: RPM) today reported record sales for its fiscal 2017 third quarter ended February 28, 2017. Third-quarter net income declined versus the prior-year period primarily due to a pre-tax charge of $4.9 million for an intangible impairment on the Restore product line and a pre-tax charge of $4.2 million for the closing of a European manufacturing facility.
Third-Quarter Results
Net sales grew 3.4% to $1.0 billion in the fiscal 2017 third quarter from $988.6 million in the fiscal 2016 third quarter. Net income of $11.9 million in the fiscal 2017 third quarter decreased 35.8% from $18.6 million reported a year ago. Third-quarter earnings per share were $0.09, down 35.7% from the $0.14 reported last year. Income before income taxes (IBT) was $17.0 million, down 22.4% from year-ago IBT of $21.9 million. Consolidated earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) were $37.1 million, down 11.9% from year-ago EBIT of $42.1 million. The impairment and restructuring charges reduced both IBT and EBIT by $9.1 million in the quarter.
During the current quarter, certain negative trends in the Restore product line led to a loss of market share, resulting in a downward revision to its long-term forecast. This was determined to represent an impairment triggering event and, after additional testing, resulted in a pre-tax impairment charge of $4.9 million. Also during the quarter, as previously discussed, an unprofitable operation in Europe was closed that resulted in a pre-tax charge of $4.2 million.
"We were pleased with our consolidated sales growth during the third quarter, which is typically slow due to cold winter weather that limits outdoor repair, maintenance and construction activities. Our earnings were negatively impacted by approximately $0.05 per share due to the Restore intangible impairment charge and the charge for the closure of a European manufacturing facility, which is consistent with our strategy to close underperforming operations. On the acquisition front, we completed five transactions during the quarter, which will add approximately $170 million in annualized sales," stated Frank C. Sullivan, RPM chairman and chief executive officer. "Costs associated with completing these acquisitions, as well as the associated impact on cost of sales resulting from the step-up in inventory, further reduced EPS by approximately $0.03 per share."
Third-Quarter Segment Sales and Earnings
Industrial segment sales increased 5.8% to $521.4 million from $492.7 million in the fiscal 2016 third quarter. Organic sales improved 2.5%, while acquisitions added 4.1%. Foreign currency translation negatively impacted sales by 0.8%. IBT was $11.7 million, compared to year-ago IBT of $0.5 million. Industrial segment EBIT for the quarter of $14.6 million was up sharply from last year's EBIT of $2.0 million.
"Our businesses serving the U.S. commercial construction market again experienced solid organic growth. Most businesses in Europe were up in the low- to mid-single-digit range in local currencies and current-year acquisitions contributed nicely to the segment's overall sales growth. We were very pleased with the strong EBIT leverage achieved on solid top-line sales," stated Sullivan.
Third-quarter sales in the company's specialty segment increased 1.8% to $159.7 million from $156.9 million a year ago. Organic sales decreased 0.6% and acquisitions added 3.8%. Foreign currency translation negatively impacted sales by 1.4%. IBT was $15.0 million, down 31.0% from year-ago IBT of $21.7 million. Specialty segment EBIT declined 30.8% to $14.9 million from $21.5 million in the fiscal 2016 third quarter.
"Sales were soft for nearly all of our specialty segment businesses, which cut across a broad range of industries, and earnings were negatively impacted by the European facility closure amounting to $4.2 million. In this traditionally slow quarter, the segment didn't generate enough top-line momentum to create positive leverage through its fixed operating cost structure," stated Sullivan.
Sales in RPM's consumer segment increased 0.7% to $341.4 million from $339.0 million in the fiscal 2016 third quarter. Organic sales declined 3.6%, while acquisitions added 5.1%. Foreign currency translation negatively impacted sales by 0.8%. IBT was $29.8 million, down 23.2% from year-ago IBT of $38.8 million. Consumer segment EBIT declined 22.9% to $29.9 million from $38.8 million a year ago.
"Excluding our Kirker nail enamel business, the consumer segment produced modest sales growth, primarily driven by acquisitions. The decline in organic sales was driven by the timing of orders from our retail customers during the quarter. Impacting segment earnings for the quarter was the Restore impairment charge, along with acquisition-related expenses and the impact on cost of sales relating to the step-up in inventory. Looking ahead, we are encouraged by housing market activity, retail customer results and the acceptance of recently introduced new products," stated Sullivan.
Cash Flow and Financial Position
For the first nine months of fiscal 2017, cash from operations was $173.5 million, compared to $223.8 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2016. Capital expenditures during the current nine-month period of $80.1 million compare to $54.8 million over the same time in fiscal 2016. Cash invested in acquisitions totaled $247 million. Total debt at the end of the first nine months of fiscal 2017 was $1.98 billion, compared to $1.74 billion a year ago and $1.64 billion at the end of fiscal 2016. RPM's net (of cash) debt-to-total capitalization ratio was 58.0%, compared to 55.1% at February 29, 2016 and 50.0% at May 31, 2016.
"At February 28, 2017, RPM's total liquidity, including cash and long-term committed available credit, was $620.0 million. Building upon this year's strong pace of acquisitions, we continue our search for entrepreneurial acquisition candidates and to invest in our internal growth initiatives. In March 2017, we issued $450 million in bonds to pay down existing balances and free up available borrowings on our revolving credit facility," stated Sullivan.
Nine-Month Results
Nine-month net sales grew 2.3% to $3.47 billion from $3.39 billion a year ago. Net income of $53.8 million declined 73.4% from net income of $201.8 million in the year-ago period. Diluted earnings per share declined 72.7% to $0.41 from $1.50 in the first nine months of fiscal 2016. IBT was $58.6 million, down 79.4% from year-ago IBT of $284.4 million. Consolidated EBIT was $118.2 million, down 65.7% from year-ago EBIT of $344.4 million.
The fiscal 2017 nine month results included a $188.3 million Kirker impairment charge and a $12.3 million charge related to the decision to exit Flowcrete Middle East, while the fiscal 2016 nine-month results included a $14.5 million reversal of Kirker's final earnout accrual into income. Excluding these items, earnings per diluted share increased from $1.43 per share to $1.44 per share, while consolidated EBIT was $318.8 million, down 3.4% from year-ago EBIT of $329.9 million.
Nine-Month Segment Sales and Earnings
Sales for RPM's industrial segment increased 2.1%, to $1.83 billion from $1.79 billion in the fiscal 2016 first nine months. Organic sales increased 1.9%, while acquisitions added 2.3%. Foreign currency translation negatively impacted sales by 2.1%. IBT was $151.3 million, up 1.5% from year-ago IBT of $149.0 million. Industrial segment EBIT of $158.0 million was up 2.9% from EBIT of $153.5 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2016. Excluding the current-year Flowcrete Middle East charge, EBIT was $170.2 million, up 10.9% from year-ago EBIT of $153.5 million.
Specialty segment sales increased 3.8% to $519.6 million from $500.4 million in the first nine months a year ago. Organic sales increased 2.5% and acquisitions added 3.0%. Foreign currency translation negatively impacted sales by 1.7%. IBT was $76.7 million, up 0.2% from year-ago IBT of $76.5 million. Specialty segment EBIT improved 0.5% to $76.3 million from $75.8 million in the same period a year ago.
In the consumer segment, nine-month sales were up 2.0% to $1.12 billion from $1.09 billion in the first nine months of fiscal 2016. Organic sales improved 1.4%, while acquisitions added 2.1%. Foreign currency negatively impacted sales by 1.5%. Loss before income taxes was $40.7 million, compared to year-ago IBT of $170.3 million. Consumer segment EBIT was a negative $40.6 million compared to EBIT of $170.2 million in the first nine months a year ago. Excluding the current-year Kirker impairment charge and the prior year's Kirker earnout reversal, EBIT was $147.7 million, down 5.1% from year-ago EBIT of $155.7 million.
Business Outlook
"As we look ahead, we expect that recent expense-reduction initiatives, along with the $220 million in revenue added via nine acquisitions this fiscal year, have RPM well positioned for solid performance in the fourth quarter and into fiscal 2018," Sullivan stated.
"In our industrial segment, we expect mid-single-digit sales growth during the fourth quarter. This is predicated on continued strength in our businesses serving U.S. commercial construction markets and steady progress in Europe. Also, contributing to growth will be approximately $80 million in annualized sales from six industrial acquisitions completed this fiscal year," stated Sullivan.
"The specialty segment is expected to grow in the low- to mid-single-digit range during the fourth quarter, driven by a balance between organic and acquisition growth," Sullivan stated.
"Our consumer segment's fourth-quarter sales should increase in the mid-single-digit range. Third-quarter acquisitions in the segment will help balance out underperformance at our Kirker business, which remains challenged," Sullivan stated.
"As-reported EPS guidance for the full fiscal year of $1.54 to $1.64 remains unchanged. In January, we provided full-year as-adjusted EPS guidance of $2.62 to $2.72. As-adjusted EPS guidance is being reduced by $0.05 per share to $2.57 to $2.67 for the combined third quarter charges for the Restore intangible impairment and the European facility closure," stated Sullivan.
Webcast and Conference Call Information
Management will host a conference call to discuss these results beginning at 10:00 a.m. EDT today. The call can be accessed by dialing 888-771-4371 or 847-585-4405 for international callers. Participants are asked to call the assigned number approximately 10 minutes before the conference call begins. The call, which will last approximately one hour, will be open to the public, but only financial analysts will be permitted to ask questions. The media and all other participants will be in a listen-only mode.
For those unable to listen to the live call, a replay will be available from approximately 12:30 p.m. EDT today until 11:59 p.m. EDT on April 13, 2017. The replay can be accessed by dialing 888-843-7419 or 630-652-3042 for international callers. The access code is 43815401. The call also will be available both live and for replay, and as a written transcript, via the RPM web site at www.rpminc.com.
About RPM
RPM International Inc. owns subsidiaries that are world leaders in specialty coatings, sealants, building materials and related services across three segments. RPM's industrial products include roofing systems, sealants, corrosion control coatings, flooring coatings and other construction chemicals. Industrial companies include Stonhard, Tremco, illbruck, Carboline, Flowcrete, Euclid Chemical and RPM Belgium Vandex. RPM's consumer products are used by professionals and do-it-yourselfers for home maintenance and improvement and by hobbyists. Consumer brands include Rust-Oleum, DAP, Zinsser, Varathane and Testors. RPM's specialty products include industrial cleaners, colorants, exterior finishes, specialty OEM coatings, edible coatings, restoration services equipment and specialty glazes for the pharmaceutical and food industries. Specialty segment companies include Day-Glo, Dryvit, RPM Wood Finishes, Mantrose-Haeuser, Legend Brands, Kop-Coat and TCI. Additional details can be found at www.RPMinc.com and by following RPM on Twitter at www.twitter.com/RPMintl.
For more information, contact Barry M. Slifstein, vice president – investor relations, at 330-273-5090 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information
To supplement the financial information presented in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States ("GAAP") in this earnings release, we use EBIT, a non-GAAP financial measure. EBIT is defined as earnings (loss) before interest and taxes. We evaluate the profit performance of our segments based on income before income taxes, but also look to EBIT as a performance evaluation measure because interest expense is essentially related to acquisitions, as opposed to segment operations. For that reason, we believe EBIT is also useful to investors as a metric in their investment decisions. EBIT should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful than, income before income taxes as determined in accordance with GAAP, since EBIT omits the impact of interest in determining operating performance, which represent items necessary to our continued operations, given our level of indebtedness. Nonetheless, EBIT is a key measure expected by and useful to our fixed income investors, rating agencies and the banking community all of whom believe, and we concur, that this measure is critical to the capital markets' analysis of our segments' core operating performance. We also evaluate EBIT because it is clear that movements in EBIT impact our ability to attract financing. Our underwriters and bankers consistently require inclusion of this measure in offering memoranda in conjunction with any debt underwriting or bank financing. EBIT may not be indicative of our historical operating results, nor is it meant to be predictive of potential future results. See the last page of this earnings release for a reconciliation of EBIT to income before income taxes.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" relating to our business. These forward-looking statements, or other statements made by us, are made based on our expectations and beliefs concerning future events impacting us, and are subject to uncertainties and factors (including those specified below) which are difficult to predict and, in many instances, are beyond our control. As a result, our actual results could differ materially from those expressed in or implied by any such forward-looking statements. These uncertainties and factors include (a) global markets and general economic conditions, including uncertainties surrounding the volatility in financial markets, the availability of capital and the effect of changes in interest rates, and the viability of banks and other financial institutions; (b) the prices, supply and capacity of raw materials, including assorted pigments, resins, solvents and other natural gas- and oil-based materials; packaging, including plastic containers; and transportation services, including fuel surcharges; (c) continued growth in demand for our products; (d) legal, environmental and litigation risks inherent in our construction and chemicals businesses and risks related to the adequacy of our insurance coverage for such matters; (e) the effect of changes in interest rates; (f) the effect of fluctuations in currency exchange rates upon our foreign operations; (g) the effect of non-currency risks of investing in and conducting operations in foreign countries, including those relating to domestic and international political, social, economic and regulatory factors; (h) risks and uncertainties associated with our ongoing acquisition and divestiture activities; (i) risks related to the adequacy of our contingent liability reserves; and (j) other risks detailed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the risk factors set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended May 31, 2016, as the same may be updated from time to time. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect future events, information or circumstances that arise after the date of this release.
EBIT is defined as earnings (loss) before interest and taxes. We evaluate the profit performance of our segments based on income before income taxes, but also look to EBIT as a performance evaluation measure because interest expense is essentially related to acquisitions, as opposed to segment operations. For that reason, we believe EBIT is also useful to investors as a metric in their investment decisions. EBIT should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful than, income before income taxes as determined in accordance with GAAP, since EBIT omits the impact of interest in determining operating performance, which represent items necessary to our continued operations, given our level of indebtedness. Nonetheless, EBIT is a key measure expected by and useful to our fixed income investors, rating agencies and the banking community all of whom believe, and we concur, that this measure is critical to the capital markets' analysis of our segments' core operating performance. We also evaluate EBIT because it is clear that movements in EBIT impact our ability to attract financing. Our underwriters and bankers consistently require inclusion of this measure in offering memoranda in conjunction with any debt underwriting or bank financing. EBIT may not be indicative of our historical operating results, nor is it meant to be predictive of potential future results.
Reconciliation of Reported Earnings (Loss) per Diluted Share to Adjusted Earnings per Diluted Share:
February 28, 2017
February 29, 2016
May 31, 2016
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