text:
Call Us Now!
Our team of professionals are ready to help you. Call Today at 919-366-1850.
Raleigh Roofing CompanyWhen you want a Raleigh roofing company that delivers quality service at affordable prices, Capital City Roofing of N.C., Inc., has everything you need and more. When it comes to your home, we understand that you want only the best, and that even the smallest mistake can lead to costly damage. We treat each home or business as if it were our own, and never settle for just good enough. If you're ready to improve the look and feel of your property, call us today for a free estimate.
Our team of highly-trained, personable experts has more than 100 years of combined experience and is up-to-date on the latest products, technologies, and techniques at the forefront of the industry. We're licensed and insured, and we handle commercial clients within a 60-mile radius of the Raleigh-Durham area and residential customers within a 20-mile radius. All employees are safety trained and have experience working with every type of roof project imaginable, meaning that every single job we complete is held to a high standard of excellence.
Over the past few decades, the industry has become remarkably more complex, a huge change from the days where building roofs meant shingles, metal, tar, and gravel. We understand the need to stay on the cutting edge of new technology while delivering the same reliable service that's kept us Raleigh's most trusted roof experts for years. If you're not certain about the type of work you need done, or you need information on the best options for repairing an old, inefficient, or leaky roof, we're happy to sit down with you and discuss your needs.
If you want a Raleigh roofing company that prioritizes flawless workmanship, impeccable customer service, and old-fashioned values like family, honesty, and loyalty above all else, Capital City Roofing of N.C., Inc is the solution you're looking for. We handle commercial, industrial, residential, and metal roofs, installation, and re-roofing projects. No job is too big or small for our team of hard-working professionals to tackle. Call or use the contact form today for your free estimate, and get on the road to a more comfortable home tomorrow.
Services We Offer:
Why Choose Us?
- Over 100 Years Combined Experience
- Safety Trained
- Fully Licensed & Insured
- Weekend & Evening Appointments Available
I wanted to thank you for the great roofing work done by your company for Granville County Schools this summer.
After doing final inspections yesterday, we only 1 very minor punch list item. That's a great outcome for 3 different types of roof work done at 4 different locations. You were able to get the work done within the short window of time you had, even when you had some shipping issues from us!
Thanks again for representing Tremco, Inc. so well. I hope we can work on many more projects in the future.


text:
Marinero News
Winter 2018Michael Graff just sent some photos taken in 1974. Andy O'Connell was aboard and shared his observations in a great email.
From left to right: Michael Graff, Robie Price, Paul Ballou, Andy O'Connell, Lincoln McGuire, and Clary.
A new page called the Kimberly Collection was recently added to the Romance webpage. It is dedicated to the artifacts that they collected over the years. Several people helped identify different items and a few interesting new stories were shared.
Adrian Loughborough recalled the early days when he and Bob Chambers were aboard for the initial voyage from Miami to the Virgin Islands after outfitting the below decks with cabins for guests.
"Romance had arrived in Miami from California after Skipper and Gloria purchased her. We found the 'Romance' tied up at Dodge Island (Port of Miami) as it was called in those days before cruise ships and container gantries. We parked our small motorcycles (having ridden them from Toronto, Canada to Miami) along side the 'Romance' for several weeks while the work was completed below. Then off we went to the Virgins and the beginning of my 50 year career at sea".
Bob Wallace shared his recollections about his own items purchased while aboard Romance. Seems that molas from the San Blas islands were a hit amongst the crew. The Kimberly Collection is open to participation. If you can send me any photos of items you have, along with a description and details of when and where you got it, please do!
Several email addresses got updated on our mailing list and information about past Marineros was also shared. Peter Damon shared Mary Tysver's obituary which can be viewed in LOST MARINEROS .
Summer 2018
Thanks to fresh funds from the documentary promotion, Matt can continue to work on the project. He has spear-headed this effort over the years and will be working to develop some of the promotional ideas shared by Marineros. Thanks Matt.
A recent email from Rebecca Mignano prompted an email list update. She shared, "My husband and I sailed in Romance on the second world voyage and attended the reunion in Michigan while Skipper and Mrs. K were still alive. We met on that voyage and have been married 36 years. Tom still works in the maritime industry. I really enjoyed the tribute to our shipmate Bert Rogers and the documentary intro on the Kimberlys. Keep up the great work! Becky
Owen Hardy wrote, "I found a travel company out of the UK which specializes in trips using classic sailing ships. Would be fun to have a Marinero reunion on one of these sailings".
Walt Haney reports that he is getting a few dozen slides of Romance from summers of 1966 (to Galapagos) and 1967 (sailing out of St. Thomas) scanned. If anyone wants copies, happy to pass em on. He is getting his farm in Westminster cleaned up and has three of four tractors working . . . .
I've added the link to the "Lost Marinero" page to the "Marineros & Guests" page. If you can update anything on those lists, please let me know.
Spring 2018
Much new information and many stories coming in. Thanks to Phil Lloyd for all of the interesting details about Marineros.
Clyde shared a letter from Carl Friberg in advance of their meeting with Skipper over lunch at Carls home in 2007. Carl wrote:
Now consider this...to come eye-ball to eye-ball with someone who like myself at the time was just a tanker stiff...worse yet, a SOCONY stiff (Standard Oil always had that peculiar reputation ), and is now the embodiment of the dreams millions of men have had, but never achieved....playing life to suit one's self.
Arthur is a legend...more than that...an enigma. He pulled it off...gheeez, did he pull it off big time. Though he shared the latter part of the last century with the sailing/cruising crowd, and continues to this day...he himself lived his idea of the sailing past of wooden ships, and iron men. Unreal really. Imagine what Joseph Conrad could have done with his story...though a happy one for sure.
Whoever heard of Kimberly except those in the cruising/sailing crowd? Unlike Villiers who through his affiliation with the movie people was known by most "land" people....I never heard of him as he faded in, and out of my memory over the years. But Kimberly was for millions of men that ghost who haunted them with dreams of "getting away"...sailing away on their own ship - sail or otherwise. How do I face him?
Arthur is a legend...more than that...an enigma. He pulled it off...gheeez, did he pull it off big time. Though he shared the latter part of the last century with the sailing/cruising crowd, and continues to this day...he himself lived his idea of the sailing past of wooden ships, and iron men. Unreal really. Imagine what Joseph Conrad could have done with his story...though a happy one for sure.
Whoever heard of Kimberly except those in the cruising/sailing crowd? Unlike Villiers who through his affiliation with the movie people was known by most "land" people....I never heard of him as he faded in, and out of my memory over the years. But Kimberly was for millions of men that ghost who haunted them with dreams of "getting away"...sailing away on their own ship - sail or otherwise. How do I face him?
Clyde also saved a .pdf of Carl's website dedicated to his visit to the Romance.
Huge, Huge Thank You to "An Early Marinero" who put $5,000.00 into this effort to bring the K's story to life.
The Windship Way made a donation to help launch the campaign. So have Peter & Nicole Wholihan, Clyde Sanadi, Steve Hyman, "An Early Marinero", Phil Brotherton and several others. Thanks to everyone who shared postcards, posters, links and took the time to tell others about the documentary!
Winter 2017 - 2018
Adrian Loughborough found his photo of Romance's Cannon, you can see it on the Cannon page . Been hoping we could find a photo, it certainly generated a lot of good stories. Thanks Adrian!
Hard to believe that the Windship Way is celebrating its 20th online Anniversary. I first saw the Romance from the deck of the Flying Cloud in 1982. Four years later I sailed aboard her on the 1986 Halley's Comet Cruise out of St. Vincent. I have followed this most amazing ship and her people for 35 years. Gloria supplied much historical information about the ship and crew. You provided great stories and photographs. Old shipmates were found, friendships rekindled. It has been great getting to know everyone and being able to share your story.
Always great to hear from an early passenger aboard the Romance. This just in from Gary Merritt.
After watching the movie Hawaii and seeing an old friend I went web surfing. In my junior year of high school my family took a windjammer cruise on the Romance. It should have been the spring of 68. There was the Captain, Gloria, Adrian, Tim and David the south African. There was a double booking so my family got the forecastle and the Robins got the Captain's cabin. Somewhere there is photo of me in the foretop while the Romance was under full sail and heading to St. Croix. I was impressed when I saw the Captains Ticket and saw unlimited tonnage. What I admired most was on the last day coming in to the quay at Charlotte Amalia. About 3 miles out the engine dies and the other family needs to make a flight that afternoon. So Capt. K brings the Romance in under sail alone and ties up as nice as can be as if it were the easiest thing in the world.
Catching up on some news and recent Marinero contributions. Tad Donnan sent this article, written by Dan Moreland, for Sea History Magazine. Dan will be making his final world voyage aboard the Picton Castle in 2018. Read his article, "Around the World Under Squaresail" here.
Peter Wholihan sent this photo of a mini-Marinero gathering. Over Thanksgiving Holidays, Marineros: Adrian Loughborough, Jim Webster 60's, and Peter Wholihan 80's got together at the Southport Raw Bar in Ft. Lauderdale to swap stories and share memories of the Romance & Kimberlys. All last saw each other at Skipper's Memorial service. Jim Webster suggested that Marineros create other gatherings and post thoughts and pictures A Grand Time was had by all!
Clyde Sanadi posted a video last Fall of the National Maritime Historical Society honoring Marinero & Executive Director of Tall Ships America, Captain Bert Rogers. If you'd like to watch it, you can see it at here.
Fall - 2017
I've added the last few comments to the Cannon page along with the text from a 2004 email about another Brig ROMANCE. Wouldn't it be cool if that was the original source of the cannon?
Michael Graff sent along a short story "What does the Captain call you?"
Summer - 2017
The cannon inquiry brought in a lot of emails, including some additional Romance related materials.
Andrew Leyzack, '85-'86, sent this pen and ink drawing of the foc'sle scuttle.
Arthur Topilow, an early guest aboard Romance wrote:
6/30/17 - Just received this photo and an inquiry from Jamie Hayes:
Back to my mystery. While reading this log of people who have been on the Romance it occurred to me that perhaps people have seen this cannon on the ship during their visit and could confirm what they know of the cannon. Any information like when did it arrive on the Romance? When did they have it engraved Romance? Where did they acquire it. If it indeed is from the Romance perhaps it deserves a spot in the story. When I acquired the cannon I found the barrel to be mounted on an incorrect carriage known as an slide carriage. After some research I found the correct carriage form and have since built one from pictures from the internet. The Cannon was built in Boston Ma. By W.M. Read & Sons and is so labeled. The barrel is 24 long and made of heavy Bronze. I have provided pictures of the cannon as I found it and fully restored to the builders design. Please notice the picture of the barrel alone shows the engraving ROMANCE. I realize its hard to see. Im Hoping to find some help to confirm its past. Any information would be so very welcome".
I've added aCannon page and posted your thoughts. If you have any photos or memories about the cannon, or the one used aboard the Romance, feel free to share, as many of you have.
Spring - 2017Dan Moreland just sent along this link about Skipper's time aboard the YANKEE, written up in David D. Allyn's new book, Yardarm and Cockpit.
Includes some great photos from that cruise and also a young Skipper.
Winter - 2016 - 2017
Thanks to Mark Colby for sending along this photo he took of the Romance! Really shows her beautiful lines.
In December, Phillipe MacClenahan stopped by the Windship Way. He was with the ROMANCE for a brief time in 1986.
Fall - 2015Way too much time has passed since I have updated the Marinero News. Lots happening with the documentary and several ex-Marineros stopped by.
Should have gotten their greetings up sooner. First, the documentary. A great team has been assembled to produce it and an announcement should be forthcoming.
You'll likely hear from several email friends. Please pass it on and share it with anyone who was a friend of the Romance.
If you are interested in some of the previous videos, check out the Documentary News page for links.
Bob Wallace just got in touch. A great email reminiscing his early days before, during and after his time aboard.
Read Bob's email.
Also heard from Ken Cohen, his first time visit to the Windship Way. He joined Romance in 1967 after a harrowing trip aboard the Ketch "Tumbleweed". Read Ken's email.
Also heard from Ken Cohen, his first time visit to the Windship Way. He joined Romance in 1967 after a harrowing trip aboard the Ketch "Tumbleweed". Read Ken's email.
Fall - 2014
Thanks Peter Damon for sending me this great photo of the Kimberlys!
|Laurie R. King's "Pirate King" was published this Fall and went on sale just before Capt. Kimberly passed away. Mrs. Kimberly was given credit for her great photograph of the Romance under sail.
Saturday, September 17th
Thanks Jonathon for the interesting look back at life aboard Romance with Skipper....sans tennis time.
|The Marinero Reunion with Skipper aboard the Barque Picton Castle was a success. Skipper traveled to JVD (Jost Van Dyke) with his sister and her husband Jane & Russ Meyer. A film crew followed him over from St. Thomas and was able to capture most of the action, plus interviews with Marineros: Capt. Dan Moreland (ROMANCE 1973-77), Bert Rogers Exec. Director American Sailtraining Assoc. (ROMANCE 1979-81), Clyde Sanadi, Brigantine Associates (ROMANCE 1973-74), Jim Webster Mega-Yacht Broker (ROMANCE 1968), and Mike Jehle, Exec. Director Fairfield Museum and History Center (ROMANCE 1987).
Skipper waited on shore, as the Picton Castle sailed north of Tortola under full sail and into Great Harbor to anchor. He met Capt. Dan Moreland, as he came ashore at the BVI Customs dock. Soon after they retired to splice the main brace and get reacquainted. The Captain invited his old Skipper to visit his ship. Once aboard, Skipper seemed to shed 20 years, as he was an able seaman shipboard once again. Chief Mate Michael Moreland had the honor of showing off the Castle to Skipper. After his time aboard, Skipper invited the crew for a dinner celebration at Foxys. Skipper sat at a quiet table off to the corner, as visitors: shipmates, old friends and new acquaintances visited with him one after the next.
|Sir Foxy caught up with Skipper and related the story of how the captain blessed Foxys first concrete floor with his footprint. As always, Foxys hospitality did not disappoint and a good time was had by all well into the evening hours, during which time Marineros wandered down the beach to join the celebration from points beyond. The next day, was a full one aboard the Castle, with a reunion of friends, family, shipmates, and new introductions to the crew with Skipper. He made quick work of finding ways to keep himself out of the way. He spent most of the afternoon doing what he loves best, sailmaking, and teaching while doing. Tales long and short were told aboard, as old acquaintances were renewed and new ones developed.
Sunday was race day in Foxys Wooden Boat Regatta. The Picton Castle had two small vessels: a long boat and a dory called A Sea Never Dry (www.doryshop.com) in the race. Many of the crew signed on with other local boats, some whom took a western tack, to White Bay to become winners, in the island way of enjoying life as it come. The Marineros watched this classic from aboard the Castle, while Skipper was engrossed in being part of a ship again, mesmerizing the crew with his matter-of-fact knowledge and unique way of imparting it to them. Like so many before them, these lessons will stay with them in their voyages beyond.
|May 30, was as Skipper put it, A Memorial Day Sail! as Capt. Dan Moreland welcomed old friends (including Foxy, his wife Tess and Dee Carstarphen of Maverick), new acquaintances, and shipmates aboard for a sail. The Picton Castle plied the waters between Tortola and JVD under full sail. She sailed both off and back onto the hook at Great Harbour. The Castles crew shined, while old hands lent a hand to gain a piece of the moment. Skipper hoisted sail, coiled down, and took a turn at the wheel. It was a wonder for all to see him in his element again, after so many years. It was a grand time for an admirable fellow, 89 years young. As he said many times over the weekend, Im as happy as a lark. Of course, that was the whole idea.
A big Thank You to Peter Wholihan for the story and the Picton Castle for the photos!
Recent visits include Marinero Jeanne Shaub who passes along her best wishes. Jeanne did the 1971-1972 Pacific cruise, Grenada to Hawaii and several week-long Caribbean cruises. She'd love to attend but is not as nimble as back in those fine days in the Pacific.......
Tony and Janine Martinelli, from Port Charlotte, FL stopped by. They spent part of their honeymoon on the Romance in April of 1967 in the B.V.I. Adrian was the first mate and Manfred Dietrick was on board for most of the trip. That was Tony's introduction to sailing and he's never stopped.
4/20 - This just in from Peter Wholihan. Dan Moreland is getting folks together Memorial Day weekend at Jost Van Dyke in the BVI. Skipper will be there along with Dee Carstarphen of MAVERICK fame, Dyke and Inga Wilmerding of MANDOO and ZULU WARRIOR and Manfred Dietrich, ex-PAMIR and famous Sailmaker of Hassle Island. Also in the plans is a day sail aboard the Picton Castle. Accomodations are pretty scant aboard the Picton Castle, but where there is a will there is a way. Please spread the word.
Coming? Please fill out this ONLINE FORM so we can gather a list of who is coming and when. If sending an email to Dan, due to the capacity of the satellite communications system, please keep replies them short and don't send photos or attachments. Email him at: firstname.lastname@example.com. Like that favorite CSNY song from days sailing among the Virgin Islands say, "we may never pass this way again....", hope you'll be there for this special occasion.
|Tony Probst got in touch and provided this photo of the ROMANCE heading back to Pitcairn from Henderson with her decks full of wood. He cruised the world aboard the Trimaran Lorelei 3 with his family between 1967 and 1980 and saw the ROMANCE repeatedly in the Caribbean, at Pitcairn, Tahiti and the Galapagos to name a few. At one point, the Lorelei 3 was seized at gun point and all of their photos were lost. He has asked if anyone who took photos of the ROMANCE in St. Thomas might have pictures that showed their trimaran anchored nearby. He is currently building a website based on stories of early Pitcairn and is trying to contact Marineros who sailed on the Henderson trips. You can reach him at email@example.com .
Good to hear from an early guest. Valerie (Griessmeyer) Kassl was aboard the Romance in the BVI during the week of Easter 1984. Romance had recently returned from Grenada where they rescued one of Linc's relations by stowing him below decks. She remembers how Gloria whipped up a Great Easter dinner in the small gallery and wishes she had stayed aboard for the voyage to Quebec.
Bill Turnbull checked in. He's been out of circulation a while with some health issues, now back in Dutch Harbor after recovering from a heart attack. After some genealogical research, it turns out that he is a direct descendant of Dr. Andrew Turnbull, the founder of New Smyrna Beach, where Capt.Kimberley dropped his hook. Small world.
Peter Wholihan posted photos and details of Skipper's visit to the VI for Thanksgiving.
Still waiting for news from the publisher of the book "Pirate King". They are now considering another photo for the chapter divider......will let you know if ROMANCE will be used. Latest NEWS. The ROMANCE photo will be used!
Just received an email requesting the use of this B&W photo of ROMANCE for use as a chapter divider in a new book called "Pirate King" by Laurie R. King. Thanks much to many of you who helped identify the photographer.....Mrs. K.
A flurry of emails and memories of the '71-'72 South Pacific trip came in from Ronn Winkler, Peter Damon, Peter Wholihan, Lynn Bouck and Judy Bracik:
From Ronn Winkler's log: It was Jan 14, 72. Friday, We have 16 sails now! Stuns'ls were set this morning for the first time. Just beautiful. You should have heard the ooo's and aah's when the topmast stuns'l snapped into place. It was sent up forward of the yards and hidden behind the topsail from those standing aft. Until I hauled on the tack, Whop! - It appeared and set all at once........Noon pos, Lat 13 deg 29 min S. Long 111 deg 28 min W. Ave sp 5.4 K,. DMG 130 MN @ 238 deg T, Dist travelled 1543 NM.
Judy Bracik: I believe that is the old mainsail, (not footed down if I still have my terminology correct). I think this may be a picture that Mrs. K took after we set the stunsuls. Anyone recognize or remember who was at the wheel?
Peter Damon relates: My recollection is that on the first day we set those stunsails after having sewn them (Jim, you , and me principally I dont think Skipper actually sewed these could be wrong though) and manufactured the spars and other rigging like the irons, halyards, sheets, etc., we lowered the longboat and Dan ran several trips ahead and to leeward to photograph the occasion. The challenge was to get low and behind a wave that would hide most of the hull a neat trick given the motion of everything. Also Romance had to be upright not rolling back and forth backing the sails. There really wasnt much wind, but the photo couldnt let that on, so timing and luck was everything. As for some details, I believe the helmsman was Tad Donnan he wore a white hat like that. Under the curve of the exhaust pipe is perhaps yourself (or Gloucester Mary its the hair). Skipper may be standing by the rail forward.
Lynn Bouck: I would agree with Judy Bracik that this photo was probably taken by Mrs. K on the 71-72 S. Pacific trip which I was also on. This shot looks very familiar and I am sure I have a color slide very similar if not the same exact shot (I'll have to check). As I recall this was mid Pacific somewhere between the Galapagos and Pitcairn. We all took turns going off in the launch to take photos and I believe the event was the setting of the stunsuls which were finished and set for the first time on that trip.
August and two more early Marineros stopped by.
David "Charlie" Brown wrote: "I had a great time in 1969 doing the eight day cruises in the Virgins and then ending with a sail down to Grenada for haul out. I was known as Charlie Brown on the ship. I was also on a work term from Beloit College with Mark Nebel".
Thanks Charlie for the photo!
Jim McTigue crewed aboard ROMANCE in the Summer 1986 with Sutcliffe, Avishair (Israel), and Patrick from Australia.
Great to hear from another early Marinero, Chris Allen who sailed aboard ROMANCE between 1 September and 22 December 1968. He was a crewman under Adrian Loughborough as a work Semester from Beloit College when they outfitted her at SW2nd St in Miami and sailed her down to Charlotte Amalie.
He wrote, "I loved that pile of English oak. The days I was on her seemed like a lifetime. I can tell you this; I enlisted as an officer and had a military career and did a lot of things, but I NEVER worked as hard as I did on the Romance. Not because the Skipper asked me to, but because the Romance required it."
Still nothing new on the Documentary. Anyone have any details?
|Photographs of the ROMANCE taken by this site's webmaster will be featured at an upcoming Art Show called "Fish & Ships". My wife does fish water colors, I have many shots of the ROMANCE. I'm looking forward to telling attendees about the ROMANCE and her extraordinary people and adventures.
|Back to the Top
|Back to the BrigantineRomance

subset: commoncrawl


text: Home > Press Room > ABA Names New Chief Communications Officer Print Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Add to Favorites For Immediate Release April 12, 2017 Secondary Page ContentABA Media Contact: Jeff Sigmund(202) 663-5439Email: email@example.com us on Twitter: @ABABankers ABA Names New Chief Communications Officer Page ContentWASHINGTON — The American Bankers Association has named former Pentagon Press Secretary and veteran Washington journalist Peter Cook as executive vice president and chief communications officer. As leader of the communications group, Cook will be responsible for the association's public relations, member communications and brand marketing departments, as well as the ABA Foundation. His first day will be April 17. "Peter's career covering the intersection of business and government has given him extensive knowledge of the financial services sector, policy and regulation -- along with the operational expertise that comes from overseeing a public affairs shop that included 2,000 personnel," said ABA President and CEO Rob Nichols. "His experience makes him the perfect choice to lead a communications department that serves as the voice for America's critically important banking industry and its 2 million employees. We're very pleased to have Peter join us in this vital role." "I am excited by the opportunity to oversee ABA communications at this important moment," said Cook. "I know my experience at the Department of Defense and in journalism will serve me well in this new position. I look forward to working closely with ABA members around the country in communicating the critical role America's banks play in the U.S. economy." At the Department of Defense, Cook served as Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Pentagon Press Secretary. In this dual role, Cook was the principal advisor to the secretary of defense on all public outreach, communications, and media relations, and also served as the chief spokesperson for Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and the U.S. military. Cook managed a public affairs organization of 2,000 personnel that provided a wide variety of multi-media information on DoD operations around the world as well as internal communications to more than three million U.S. service members, civilian employees and their families. Before coming to the Pentagon, Cook spent more than two decades in journalism, working most recently as chief Washington correspondent for Bloomberg Television where he covered the White House, Congress, Treasury and the Federal Reserve for the business news channel. During that time, he covered three presidential elections, two presidential administrations, and the 2008 financial crisis. Prior to Bloomberg, Cook worked for NBC News and MSNBC and covered the Pentagon during the start of the Iraq war. Cook started his career in local television, winning awards for his work as an anchor and reporter in North Carolina, Virginia and Idaho. A native of Washington, D.C., Cook is a graduate of Duke University and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. The American Bankers Association is the voice of the nation's $17 trillion banking industry, which is composed of small, regional and large banks that together employ more than 2 million people, safeguard $13 trillion in deposits and extend more than $9 trillion in loans. # # # Contact


text:
Sketches of house plans
The pod concept
I altered the interior layout of this plan that was in the Sunday paper. Working off the concept of an open plan and spaces that flow into each other, I removed interior walls and placed the support functions (plumbing, closets, kitchen, bath) into a central free-standing 'pod' in the center of the house. Following it are two other plans of interiors based on houses spotted in Dallas and Edmond.
May 1994
January 1992
The El Paso house
The existing house (on the city grid, with the staircase) was an unadorned bungalow style, as was the new carport addition. The house addition is a simple mission adobe style.
Summer 1987
Juxtaposed masses
Transformation:3 bedroom 1 den high rise apartment to 2 bedroom with office
NYC Studio Apartments
NYC apt converted to tour group housing
House with 'creek' and waterfall in it
I did this plan in the mid-late 1960s. I don't remember what the inspiration was. It may have been reading about Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house near Pittsburgh. Below are perspective renderings, the floor plan, and a sketch.
The urban country-style house
This house is designed for a small urban lot but in a style reminiscent of a rural farmhouse. It is a lot-line house with one side butted up to the lot along the left side to minimize the size of the city lot. The lack of a back yard and the large veranda and front lawn encourage socializing with neighbors and a more active street life. The challenge was to fit the large number of rooms into a plan that looked from the street like a classic farmhouse.
Left: street view Right: side view
The floor plan
The street is along the bottom. The front walk steps up to the veranda with the front door entry to the left of the wide veranda. The foyer has a coat closet, entry to the office and opening to the gallery that connects the living room to the den. Off the office is a guest powder room. The den/family room overlooks the deck and a small pool or hot tub. Off the master bath is a private courtyard to admit sunlight into the surrounding rooms. The room connecting the two bedrooms could be used as a playroom, computer room, and/or media room. The garage includes space for storage and a workshop.
I rendered this with an early computer graphics drawing program, probably PenDraw. It worked pixel by pixel so there was no escaping the bitmapped look. It didn't allow the addition of text (FreeHand, Illustrator, PageMaker, and InDesign weren't out, yet) so I added that by hand and scanned the image in. I was teaching Computer Graphics at BrookHaven College at the time. The brand new computer lab had IBM PCs, graphics tablets for input, and two software programs - PenDraw and VideoGram.
Design: 1980s
Better staircase location
A new fraternity house. Notice how the planned staircase location (middle) bisects the entry hall and results in wasted space between the staircase and the restroom. Right: Better version opens up the entry and aligns the bottom staircase to the entry to the dining room.
Notes on living spaces
Kitchens March 1979
Kitchens are geared to standing level - other rooms re geared to sitting level.
A kitchen should be a part of the 'community' room.
Get the cook out of the typical kitchen environment, and into the community environment.
Similar to an Early American Family Kitchen.
Work table with chairs - many kitchen functions can be done while sitting down (preparing foods, chopping, mixing, etc.) a task may take longer, but, if its a community room, there's no hurry to get out of the kitchen.
Use more free-standing furniture - less built-ins.
Hutch for plates, silver, utensils.
Island sink or free-standing sink area.
Pantry in closet, hutch, or cabinet.
Bathrooms September 1977, LA County Fair
Pedestal sink with view - over open space or a window.
Mirror with no obstruction (counter, sink) in front of it so one can stand right up next to mirror surface.
Bathtub so big it doubles as a swimming pool. Problem: expense and time of filling it with water. With shower also.
Single fiberglass unit with toilet and urinal built in.
Objective: make a bathroom look more like a comfortable room for spending time and less like a standard bathroom.
Sinks Febuary 14, 1979
Sink faucets: use color coding for hot and cold (red and blue).
Handles with graspable extensions. Round knobs are harder to turn, especially with wet hands.
March 19, 1979:
Sink high so one doesn't have to lean over as far.
Door handles January 1979
The storeroom
For all items not used on a regular basis. Put all in one place, not spread throughout the house.
Will allow a home to have less kitchen cabinets, linen cabinets, closets.
Will allow a more efficient use of materials - less waste, less throwing away.
Should be inside but may not need direct ventilation.
Vertical wall lights
'Bright Sticks'
In closets, vertical, to light shelf and floor, rather than the top of the top shelf.
Make an adaptor unit that will fit over standard round knobs.
Material: rubber grip to stretch over existing knob and hold securely.
People will be able to upgrade knobs in current house, easily. Sold in pairs.


text:
After Effects CS4 FULL HD (1920×1080) template with 21 media placeholders. Clean and stylish. Great for all kinds of projects. NO third-party plugins needed (CC [Cycore Fx] plugins coming with the full AE versions are required).
The preview file uses the music track EVIL MUSHROOMS created by DIRTYFLINT. This music track is NOT included. But you can buy it on Audiojungle:


text:
Judy Hat
Our FAVORITE new hat ! Denim on one side and Gingham on the other can be worn either side. Perfect semi stiff brim, wear however you want using a hat pin to keep in place!
And now in a cream vegan Patent Leather too with cotton Floral inside. Super chic and a bit stiffer. We love it !
Made with Love in L.A.
*Most items are made-to-order and will be mailed out as soon as possible. We will send you tracking once your order has shipped <3


text:
The preceding headline was brought to you by the Headlines I Never Thought I'd Write Foundation.
Hammer made an appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit to talk about something called WireDoo that he's involved with.
a search engine that adds relationship information to search results. For example, if someone searches for the word "car" on WireDoo, they will see results for topics related to a car, including insurance, pricing and consumer safety ratings. Searching a stock symbol will show related investors and mutual funds.
Or if someone searches on MC Hammer, they might see results on Hammer pants, bankruptcy, the level of legitimacy one must surpass after which quitting is no longer an option. They might also find a number of web startups that Hammer has been involved with, including the site DanceJam.com. He appeared on Oprah not long ago and talked about his web consulting business. They showed him touring the headquarters of iPad social magazine company FlipBoard and giving everyone advice, although in the video all the employees look like they're wondering what MC Hammer is doing walking by their cubicles.
WireDoo is not yet public, however, so at the moment U can't touch it.


text:
Mohammed Hanif Pakistan Bows to the Taliban's Rise
KARACHI The day after Pakistan's government signed a peace deal with the Taliban allowing them to implement their own version of sharia in the Swat Valley, there was a traffic jam at a square in downtown Mingora, the main town in the region. The square, Green Chowk, has acquired the nickname Khooni Chowk, or Bloody Square, because the Taliban used to string up their victims there. "Look at this." A shopkeeper pointed to the hubbub. "This is what people wanted, to get out and do business. Take the security forces away, take the Taliban away, and we can get on with our lives." He, like many Pakistanis, believed that the deal with the Taliban was the only way to stop bullet-riddled bodies from turning up at Khooni Chowk.
Mingora is not a backwater, not part of the Wild West that foreign journalists invoke whenever they talk about the Taliban. It's bursting with aspiration; it has law schools, a medical college, a nurses' training institute. There is even a heritage museum. Yet when peace arrived on Feb. 16, all the women vanished. They were not in the streets or in the offices, not even in the bazaar, which sells nothing but fabric, bags, shoes and fashion accessories.
The music market vanished, too. All 400 shops. The owner of one had converted it into a kebab joint. "This is sharia," he spat at his grill, which hissed with more smoke than fire. Across from his stand, a barber had hung the obligatory "No un-Islamic haircuts, no shaves" sign and was taking an early morning nap, his face covered with a newspaper.
This, I was told, was the price of peace.
As a Taliban insurgency gains strength in Pakistan, my country seems to be preparing to surrender. In areas where the Taliban formally hold sway, such as Swat, people have bowed to their guns. And in the heartland, in Punjab and other regions, there is a disquieting acceptance of the inevitability of the Taliban's rise to power.
Over the past two years, Pakistani civil society has driven a military dictator from power and managed to force an elected government to restore our top judges to the bench. But when it comes to the Taliban, it seems incapable of speaking with one voice.
There is little sense of an impending crisis, just the blithe belief that the Taliban are not as bad as they seem, and that in any case, Pakistan's fractious government and security services are no match for these men with beards and guns. I hear vague comparisons with the days before the Iranian revolution; the only problem is that we don't seem to have a Khomeini, at least not yet. And we do have nuclear bombs.
In my hometown in Punjab, a businessman friend was inspired by the news from Swat. "If two hundred Taliban take over our town, then we can all start making our own decisions. Who needs this corrupt system anyway?" My friend is a typical middle-class conservative Pakistani, and people in cities across the country share his excitement. I tried to reason with him: "You drop your daughters off at school every morning, you always have music on in your car. That would be unthinkable if they take over." He hesitated and then rolled out the explanation that most urban Pakistanis offer.
"What they are doing in Swat is their Pashtun culture," he said, speaking of the ethnic group that dominates western Pakistan. "Islam says education is compulsory for every man and woman. And we Punjabis don't have their culture."
I have confronted the same naive assertion on TV talk shows and in Urdu newspapers: The Taliban ideology is sound; it's their methods that need to be modified. Somehow people hope that when the Islamists march into Lahore or Islamabad, they'll suddenly realize that Islam is a religion of peace, that music is good and that girls should be allowed to go to school.
People who have experienced Taliban rule have no such illusions. When the Taliban took over Swat, they held a "peace" march. Thousands of men in black turbans and regulation beards stomped through the city. "There wasn't a single local among them," a schoolteacher in Mingora recalled. "I sat at home with my family and quivered with fear." Then he hesitated and made sure that my recorder was switched off, afraid that what he was about to say might be seen as blasphemous. "I felt like a non-Muslim citizen of Mecca the day it was conquered by prophet Muhammad's army. And I am a practicing Muslim."
Among the women of Swat, the fear and resignation is even stronger. The Taliban have blown up girls' schools and dumped bodies of professional dancers in Bloody Square. Women told me their stories behind closed doors, from under their newly purchased burqas, and always after extracting solemn promises of anonymity. "We have become prisoners in our own houses. We can't even go out to buy groceries. It's all over for us," one told me.


text:
Until the crayons ran out of color. A gargantuan snag of me uphill. Supine on their backs an instrument with heads attached. The stars are out above the bivouac.
-from Testosterone Poisoning
On collaboration, to quote the others on the plateaux: "the two of us wrote this together. Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd... We have kept our names... out of habit, purely out of habit... to reach not the point where one no longer says I, but the point where it is no longer of any importance whether one says I."
PURCHASE COPY for $6 (plus s/h) at lulu:
or read downloadable PDF here.
To request a review copy, please reply to me &/or the publisher at tirauxpigeons-AT-gmail-DOT-com.
Birds until the night swallows their song.
Lost in the borough, no bridge to brook the flow, no sea to settle
The stoop birds approach. The marvelous perch dispersed.
These are the most sonorous lines in the poem, and signal that it isn't only the natural world that has been damaged—in fact, everything human, including our innermost core, becomes collateral damage. Stu Dempster, the trombonist to whom the first part of Irrational Dude is dedicated, has talked about "tuning yourself to the room you play in." Our room is the world—on the whole, the language, the aphasic diction of Irrational Dude, is tuned to the irreparable damage of worlds. It "barks back into the night."
-Petra Backonja
After the fact, I've discovered that Irrational Dude is synonymous with Whitehead's secular notion of god, the ultimate limitation whose existence is the ultimate irrationality. It is the irrational dude who works alone, perhaps in a clerical role, at Whitehead's novelty store.


text:
As we speak, Israel has lined up hundreds of armored tanks, armored personnel carriers, armored helicopters and even GD armored bulldozers, all ready and eager to careen wildly across the battered Gazan landscape, blowing up mosques, flattening homes and schools; as IDF "soldiers" happily machine gun whatever poor sap Palis spotted running for cover among the broken concrete and twisted rebar. Non-Jew Arabs who have little more than AK-47s and maybe a few crude IEDs to get some payback.
The freakin' Zio psychos sure do love a little Goyim killing!
Thursday, Obama supposedly called Netanyahu to talk him out of making the attack. Yeah, like I bet old Bibi boy — just as Jew-whacked as all the rest — cared one little bit what his Obongoness might have said. Bibi knows nothing short of revolution can ever stop the US State department from pumping billions more of US taxpayer's money into Israel's swollen interest-accrueing accounts. Far too many of the devious vampires have long controlled America's brains and purse-strings.
Of course, you've read about the three Israeli teens murdered in the West Bank, now being used as an excuse for this latest "mowing the grass" (what Israeli Jews blithely call slaughtering Gazans). With no real evidence, they accused HAMAS, when Zio false flaggers could easily have done it. Crazed "settlers" (Jew land stealers) immediately abducted the first Palestinian kid they could get their filthy paws on and literally burned the poor SOB alive, while Israeli police were busy beating the living piss out of Pali protesters. Hell, for years, Pali kids have often been murdered by "settler" Jews, Israeli police and military and we never heard one damn thing about it in the mainstream media.
Right from the start, the Israeli government started blasting the Gaza Strip with guided American Hellfire missiles, only targeting HAMAS as we're told (who they were really out to get since they joined political forces with FATAH, the West bank Palestinian Authority). The Israel government has always been willing and eager to attack these people.
But they also killed plenty of nearby regular folk, too. At this point, about 150 have been killed, with 1000 wounded. Only 11 precious Israelis have been wounded (probably from scraping shin bones and kneecaps running for air raid shelters).
HAMAS has retaliated with mostly garage-built rockets, which have the most primitive warheads if at all, and no guidance systems. The few smuggled-in rockets slightly more advanced and lethal, have had little effect, outside of freaking out poor Jew partygoers in more distant Tel Aviv. So far, the American designed and taxpayer financed Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted virtually all, yet the media still acts like all us Americans have to be so understanding of Israel's insane desire of vengeance.
If anything, the Jews are paranoid psychos when it comes to any non-Jew hurting a fellow Jew in any way. Few Americans know of this, but the State of Israel actually has written laws on the books where Israeli agents can come after YOUR ass, should you dare mess with a Chosen One in any country.
Sure, they haven't done it in America — YET.
The Zio nuts are blaming everything on HAMAS "terrorists." As usual, they always call anyone "terrorists" — those brave enough to spit in the faces of these murderous Jews, armed to the teeth by Shabbos goy suck-ups and Zionist Jew single loyalty traitors back in the US. No wonder practically the entire planet now hates our guts!
The US media continues to act as a mouthpiece for the Zionist Jews, even though they are working a lot harder these days to disguise it from anti-war libtards. This is the result of so many regular Americans reading on the Internet on how obvious they were in covering up the last two Israeli Gaza kill-fests.
It's only because of the Internet we're seeing the least thing on mainstream TV about the Pali side of the story. How long has it taken? 60 years?
ABC has even done a few reports from Gaza showing civilian casualties — totally ignored in the past. You can tell they are now working to appear more fair, without pissing off the real Zionist power structure. Yet all the little Zio psychos are screaming about a liberal media "out to get Israel." Totally ridiculous, but still effective political camouflage for fooling conservative FOX Kwans and blind liberal PC adherents who still can't seem to get the big picture when it comes to the precious, lousy GD Jews.
I've even heard them briefly say the "Zionist" word on entertainment TV — something they would never have done just a few years ago (the commercials for the new FX Islamaphobia show "Tyrant").
I remember back during the January, 2009 Pali kill fest, ABC's national news had a dinner time report on some White guy who was hung up on a ski lift a couple of feet off the ground, no danger of injury, except to his ego after his ski pants were pulled down around his ankles. It was the usual nonsense filler story, but still good since they could humiliate a White guy, while ignoring the Zionists then busy slaughtering Gazans.
Of course, all the Zio boot lickers in DC — democrats, republicans and even tea partiers (who should know better by now) are all saying it's HAMAS' fault like they always do. You think any of them would dare to say otherwise?
And we still have Jew propaganda going on. Here's Diane Sawyer of ABC (married to a big time Hollywood jew brainwasher), telling viewers of poor Israelis suffering from rocket attacks, but actually shows you visuals of Palestinian victims in Gaza!
Diane Sawyer had to go on the air Thursday night to apologize (which they never do) and call the above a mistake, since so many previously stupid Goy picked up on it everywhere. Just go read all the anti-Israel comments below the video at Youtube. People are indeed waking up to the scum!
Media Jews have done cheap tricks to fool the masses like this for decades, since they always thought (rightfully, sad to say) Goyim viewers would not notice. But they are now. In droves.
The bad side of cowardly Jews always comes to the surface whenever they gain enough power over the powerless (like what they did in commie Russia and eastern Europe when they murdered tens of millions). Little Jewry in America are pretty much selfish traitors to our republic, thinking of themselves as PR agents and personal ambassadors for "tiny, besieged Israel," but are much too chicken shit to move over there where they might have to do a little manual labor.
I was scoping out this so-called patriot forum the other day, where "conservative" Christian Zionists bitterly complained about all the crap of today's Obama America, yet uttered not a word about the sacred Jews, when I noticed this one forum member. It was a Jew. The only thing the SOB could kvetch about was how Obama and John Kerry (a fellow Jew, but he doesn't say a word) threatens his beloved effin' Israel.
Even the Jew women are complete psychos. Dr. Patrick Slattery wrote an article at David Duke, on a piece of work Israeli Knesset (parliament) member; a so-called "rising star" pol named Ayelet Shaked, who wants to slaughter all the Palis, even the elderly and women.
A politician of any other country in the world would have been slammed by the US media and her resignation demanded by liberals, but not a word was breathed because she's a sacred Jew!
Funny thing, we got crazy Zionist Jews just like this living in America. The SOBs are practically Medieval!
Whether you know it or not, every time you go to the grocery store, these Judaic nuts get a little piece of you. Check out any of your store purchases (not just food) for a small circle symbol with a "U" inside it. This allows these Jew supremacists to spend most of their time "studying" the Talmud, while debating the most stupid BS imaginable!
Jews are also insane hypocrites. They are all for immigration of third worlders into our lands, open faggotry in the streets, non-stop black worship crap and getting us Whites to race-mix ourselves away. But not so for the sacred Jews! The filthy bastards feel free to openly work to limit that kind of thing among themselves.
You got to ask yourself something these days: How come America is supposed to be for the downtrodden and oppressed of the world, etc. but all that disappears out the window when it comes to Israel? That's because these freaks basically control the media.
I've been talking about this very thing since I started my site over at the Wordpress blogosphere in October of 2007. That is, of course, until the Jews got me taken down in July of 2010. The filthy lousy Jews can't have any Goyim telling other Goyim the truth.
That's why you got all this crazy PC business driving White people insane. It's all been part of the Jew's master plan for turning us into a minority in our own lands. That's exactly the deal, my friend.
Now they call me a vicious "anti-Semite" (a nonsense word, actually), Jew hater boy. Let me tell you something: Damn straight. I can't stand these murderous, squirrelly bastards and bitches one damn bit. They are immoral, insane, vengeful, stuck-up little pigs.
Oh, I know the NSA keeps track of what I say. The Zionists who took over our government know guys like me might be trouble. We could get a few people to think. I can guarantee you there's a NSA "analyst" somewhere, who's been assigned to keep track of INCOG MAN. Chances are, it's a punk-ass little Jew in a surveillance cubicle, who's probably a big weekend faggot too.
Well, let me tell you a little something, pussy boy NSA Jew: It's only a matter of time for all us Goyim to come looking for you.
You got that, punk?
— Phillip Marlowe


text:
Smaller oil producers suffering
HOUSTON — For the second time in three years, Tim Washington and hundreds of other small oil and natural gas producers are literally picking up the pieces after back-to-back hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico.
Even though most people typically associate U.S. oil and gas production with ExxonMobil Corp., ConocoPhillips and other well-known behemoths, the majority of crude and natural gas is supplied by smaller, independent companies like Washington's Alpine Exploration Cos. Most have fewer than 20 employees.
As the industry continues to assess damage from hurricanes Ike and Gustav, many of those mom-and-pop shops appear to have taken a beating. Of the 49 platforms destroyed last weekend by Ike, 44 produced less than 1,000 barrels of oil a day, according to assessments from the U.S. Minerals Management Service.
"Anytime a hurricane comes through, we average a minimum of two weeks getting back on line, and that's on a best-case basis," said Washington, whose Dallas-based outfit operates several production facilities along the Louisiana coast. Most produce 100 to 300 barrels a day.
That's just a sliver of the Gulf's total daily offshore production of 1.3 million barrels. But combined, the nation's roughly 5,000 independent operators account for 68 percent of oil and 82 percent of the natural gas produced in the United States, according to the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
Independents concentrate solely on exploration and production, forgoing refining and marketing operations. They include large publicly traded companies such as Anadarko Petroleum Corp., but most are much smaller operations that might drill only a few wells each year.
"It's tough. It's expensive. But we're the backbone of the industry," Washington said. "We ushered it in, and we'll usher it out."
Oil companies, rig and pipeline owners and others are still calculating damage to the industry caused by Gustav and Ike, but some risk experts say the energy sector's insured losses for Ike alone could rise to nearly $2 billion.
The good news is that Ike and Gustav caused far less damage than Katrina and Rita in 2005, a one-two punch that destroyed 108 production platforms, damaged hundreds of others and shut down production for months, in some cases, in a region that accounts for 25 percent of domestic oil production and 15 percent of natural gas output.


text:
Anonymous Auto Surf combined with Paid To Click.
With TE Hitz You can promote your web sites and earn income by viewing Paid To Click ads. TE Hitz Members also Earn commissions on any Upgrades / Purchases made by their direct referrals.
• 12 Second Auto Surf Timer.
• 1000 Bonus Auto Surf Credits.
• 2:1 Traffic Exchange Ratio.
Low Cost Advertising Looking for low cost Unique Web Site Traffic ? TE Hitz has PTC Advertising options to suite any budget Register Today.
What are the Basic TE Hitz Terms and Conditions
How Can I Earn Website Traffic (credits)
I Have Not Received My Autosurf Account Activation email
Why Has My Web site Been Suspended From TE Hitz
What Will The Anonymous Auto Surf RemoveOur anonymous auto surf will strip the HTTP referer from your web sites traffic making the traffic we deliver look like it is direct traffic.
Can I Earn Cash From SurfingYes, Simply surf 1000 sites in a single session and click the displayed link to earn $0.02(can be claimed Unlimited times).
Still Looking For An Answer To Your Questions
If you feel that your question was not answered here please feel free to contact us and a representative will address any questions or concerns you may have.
Contact Us


text:
S&S Sansei Technologies
|S&S Sansei Technologies
Logan, Utah, USA
Official Website
S&S Sansei Technologies is an amusement ride designer and manufacturer.
History[edit | edit source]
S&S was established in 1994 by Stan Checketts[1] and their first product was the Space Shot, the world's first drop tower.[2]
Following the closure of Custom Coasters International, Inc. in July 2001, owner Denise Dinn was hired by S&S to start a new wooden roller coaster division.[3] The company went on to build four wooden roller coasters.
In 2002, S&S Power purchased the bankrupt Arrow Dynamics, renaming it S&S Arrow.
Founder Stan Checketts left the company in 2008.[1]
In November 2012 S&S became a subsidiary of Sansei Yusoki Co. Ltd., who purchased 77.3% of the company.[4][5] The company was renamed S&S-Sansei Technologies.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Magic Formula: Roller Coasters and Amusement Rides with S&S's Kevin Rohwer - Blooloop
- ↑ Company - S&S Worldwide(Wayback archive)
- ↑ Curtis D. Summers / Charles Dinn - Southwest Ohio Amusement Park Historical Society(Wayback archive)
- ↑ SANSEI YUSOKI CO LTD to Acquire S&S; Worldwide, Inc. - Reuters(Wayback archive)
- ↑ S&S Worldwide, Sansei Yusoki Co. join forces - Amusement Today


text:
Selling in Lane County
If you're looking to sell real estate in Eugene, Springfield, or in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, there are a number of things you will want to know.
Seller Resources
For Sale by Owner Hints
For Sale by Owner (FSBO) listings can be tricky at best. Learn how to go about this if you feel this is the best way for you to get your property sold.
Discount or Flat Listings
For a relatively small fee, you can have a realtor assist you with a limited representation listing.
Full-Service Listings
The smartest way to sell your property is with the assistance of an experienced realtor.
The Process of Selling Property in Oregon
Every state has its own uniqueness when it comes to the process for buying and selling property. Oregon is no different.


text:
An Italian biotechnology company created in 2006 and engaged in the research and development of innovative oncological therapies.
15 year experience of its personnel in the field of brain stem cell biology and employs proprietary cell culture technologies [...]
Did you know that…
More than 4 million people in the European Union are affected by rare cancers.
Tutti i diritti riservati - Copyright 2013 © STEMGEN S.p.A.
Viale Luigi Majno 18 - 20129 Milano (IT)
P.iva 05041640961
ContactsTerm of Use


text:
Jess Page Corporate Communications Manager
Listed below are key features and benefits of the QLogic 12000 Series switches based on QLogic TrueScale ASIC technology - the new checklist for best-in-class InfiniBand switches.
* Highest port count for a rack mount switch - 864 ports
* Highest scalability for a rack mount switch - 18 to 864 ports
* Highest aggregate bandwidth for a rack mount switch - 51.8 Tb/s
* Highest ports per 1u of rack space for a director switch - 29.8
ports per 1u
* Lowest power per port for a director switch - 7.8 Watts per port
* Future gateway capabilities to access the fastest data and storage
networks - 10Gb Ethernet and 8Gb Fibre Channel
* Highest network utilization with QLogic vFabric, including adaptive
routing and QoS
* Easiest to use with wizard-based installation, automated discovery,
automated configuration and self monitoring
"InfiniBand technology continues to play an increasingly important role in the future of HPC clusters," said Earl Joseph, program vice president, High-Performance Computing, IDC. "Many traditional and emerging HPC users are expected to move towards InfiniBand technologies and will look at the potential for QDR InfiniBand technology, such as the new QLogic 12000 Series, to leverage its 40Gb InfiniBand speeds to build more powerful, small clusters and to scale large clusters even higher."
"Traditional HPC users are building massive clusters while new workgroup cluster applications are rapidly emerging," said Jesse Parker, vice president and general manager, QLogic Network Solutions Group. "The QLogic 12000 Series is a new class of switches designed to scale cost-effectively from workgroup to Top 500."
"This new breed of InfiniBand switches with QDR speeds and intelligent features can give customers quicker times-to-solutions," said Herbert Schultz, director of marketing for IBM Deep Computing. "The QLogic 12000 Series offers the performance and scalability to meet the needs of a long list of demanding HPC applications."
"QLogic has made great efforts to maximize cluster efficiency in the design of its 12000 Series QDR InfiniBand switches," said Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst, StorageIO. "Features such as vFabric, adaptive routing and QoS allow HPC users to bypass conflicts when implementing heterogeneous solutions on the same InfiniBand fabric."
QLogic NETtrack Alliance Program: Certified Interoperability & Optimized Performance
Leading HPC vendors have pledged to ensure their solutions are interoperable and optimized for performance with QLogic 12000 Series switches. NETtrack partners who have committed to certify interoperability of their HPC products with the QLogic 12000 Series include: AMD, ANSYS, CD-adapco, Clustercorp, Corning Cable Systems, DataDirect Networks, Intel, LSI Corporation, Network Equipment Technologies, Obsidian Strategics, Panasas, PANDUIT, Platform Computing, RAID Incorporated, RNA networks, SIMULIA, Symmetric Computing, Terascala, Texas Memory Systems and Zarlink Semiconductor.
NETtrack partners will be able to test and certify their applications with QLogic 12000 Series switches at the NETtrack Developer Center using the center's 32-node/256-core clusters based on either Intel's SR1560SF servers or AMD's Colfax CX1266-N2 servers.
InfiniBand Networks powered by QLogic
QLogic offers a comprehensive end-to-end portfolio of InfiniBand networking products for HPC including QDR host channel adapters (HCAs), QDR multi-protocol director and edge switches, and the necessary software to install, operate, and maintain high performance fabrics. Delivering the industry's highest message rate, lowest MPI latency and highest effective bandwidth, QLogic InfiniBand adapters enable MPI and TCP applications to scale to thousands of nodes with unprecedented price-performance. The most comprehensive and flexible HPC cluster interconnect fabric solutions on the market, QLogic QDR InfiniBand switches incorporate the industry's only management tools that enable an administrator to install and boot an InfiniBand fabric in minutes, helping to satisfy the growing demand for high performance computational clusters and grids.
About QLogic
QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, which include the controller chips, host adapters and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage networks for most Global 2000 corporations. The company delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes Fibre Channel adapters, blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI adapters and iSCSI routers. The company is also a leading supplier of InfiniBand switches and InfiniBand host channel adapters for the emerging high performance computing market. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies such as Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NetApp and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index.
Disclaimer - Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains statements relating to future results of the company (including certain beliefs and projections regarding business trends) that are "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or implied in the forward-looking statements. The company advises readers that these potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: potential fluctuations in operating results; gross margins that may vary over time; revenues may be affected by changes in IT spending levels; the stock price of the company may be volatile; the company's dependence on the storage area network market; potential adverse effects of server virtualization technology on the company's business; potential adverse effects of increased market acceptance of blade servers; the ability to maintain and gain market or industry acceptance of the company's products; the company's dependence on a limited number of customers; seasonal fluctuations and uneven sales patterns in orders from customers; the company's ability to compete effectively with other companies; declining average unit sales prices of comparable products; a reduction in sales efforts by current distributors; dependence on sole source and limited source suppliers; the company's dependence on relationships with certain silicon chip suppliers; declines in the market value of the company's marketable securities; the complexity of the company's products; sales fluctuations arising from customer transitions to new products; environmental compliance costs; international economic, regulatory, political and other risks; uncertain benefits from strategic business combinations; the ability to attract and retain key personnel; difficulties in transitioning to smaller geometry process technologies; the ability to protect proprietary rights; the ability to satisfactorily resolve any infringement claims; reliance on third party technology; the use of "open source" software in the company's products; changes in the company's tax provisions or adverse outcomes resulting from examination of its income tax returns; computer viruses and other tampering with the company's computer systems; and facilities of the company and its suppliers and customers are located in areas subject to natural disasters.
More detailed information on these and additional factors which could affect the company's operating and financial results are described in the company's Forms 10-K, 10-Q and other reports filed, or to be filed, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company urges all interested parties to read these reports to gain a better understanding of the business and other risks that the company faces. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made only as of the date hereof, and the company does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
QLogic and the QLogic logo are registered trademarks of QLogic Corporation. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of the companies with which they are associated.
This news release was distributed by GlobeNewswire, www.globenewswire.com
SOURCE: QLogic Corp.
QLogic Corporation
Editor's Contact:
Robin Austin
Investor's Contact:
Jeanie Herbert


text:
Job and Career Spells
Choosing to go to work every day can be difficult when you're not happy at your job. And sometimes, it seems like there's nothing you can do. You might have co-workers who don't get along or you might have troubles interacting with your boss. All of these issues can make heading into work less than tempting.
You might end up taking more sick days than you like, causing you to feel out of place at your company. Instead of simply quitting, you might want to use job spells to help you feel more excited about your job and about the work you have to do.
Our Free Career and Job Spells
- Job Promotion Spell
- Get a Job Spell
- Luck in Business
- Secure a Job Spell
- School Spell
- Success Spell
- Motivation Spell
- Spell for Luck in Tests
- Spell to Pass a Test
- Attract Customers
- Business Protection Spell
- Voodoo Control Spell
What Career and Job Spells can do for you
With job spells and career spells, you can not only restore harmony to the workers around you, but you will also be able to boost your chances of getting a raise or a promotion. If you've been passed over again and again, these spells will ensure that your resume and your application get on top of the pile. You don't have to wait until retirement to be happy with your life when you have job spells. You can begin to change the way you feel at work right now.
Why are Job Spells Important?
Perhaps it can be said that job scarcity leads to a situation where excessive competitiveness leads everyone to be more afraid, and therefore more negative in their overall outlook. As this situation gets worse, it should come as no surprise that more and more people are dragged into a situation where they lose their job, or cannot find one that meets their financial needs. Casting job spells can help reverse these kinds of negative trends as well as give you a chance to gain access to more useful energies.
Get a Job Spell
In today's economy, there are millions of people that either cannot find jobs, or don't have a job that offers enough money. Needless to say, as this problem remains unsolved, many find themselves wondering if some sort of spiritual intervention will be of use. If you are interested in job [...]
Spell to Attract Customers
This spell is based on the age-old idea of creating a witch bottle. Everything in the bottle is symbolic of attracting more customers to where you work whether you work at home or run your own business. The chocolate coin wrapped in gold foil is symbolic of money coming to [...]
Motivation Spell
This is motivation spell is also a version of what is known as a glamour spell. Glamor spells increase your self-confidence. They use mirrors to help inspire you and give you a reason to feel good about yourself. You can use this Motivation Spell either for motivation or for glamour. [...]
Spell for Luck in an Exam or Test
This spell is a potion that you will consume in order to help increase your luck when it comes to taking a test. Grape juice is a metaphysical aid to increase intelligence. Mint leaves, which are excellent for communication and memory retention are added in order to help you be [...]
Voodoo Business Protection Spell
This very simple spell for protecting your business is from the Deep South and the Heart of New Orleans Voodoo. It keeps your enemies from stealing your ideas or customers. If you are a freelancer you can carry this as a charm or you can set it by your computer. [...]
Voodoo Control Spell
This Black Magic Control Spell works by bending another person's will to your own. You may believe that it is particularly well-suited for use in a free spell to control a person or a situation. Perhaps this is true, but this doesn't make it right. This control spell can enable [...]


text:
Light, durable aluminum probe that packs up small for demanding users. The newly developed, glove-compatible Fast Lock system ensures maximum comfort when locking the probe.
- Stable, lightweight probe segment made from durable aluminum
- Extremely precise probe scaling on both sides
- Durable tensile tensioning cord for maximum stability of the probe tensioning system
- Drop-shaped probe tip for energy-saving probing
- Practical probe cover with integrated emergency plan
- Fast Lock system – fast, individually lockable tensioning system
- Suitable for use with gloves
- Length: 240 cm
- Collapsed Length: 45 cm
- Weight: 265 g
- Number of Segments: 6
- Diameter: 11 mm
- Tensioning System: Fast lock system


text:
by Richard Harding
Walking around town you hear people speaking mainly English. You may catch a few words of Portuguese, Latvian, Polish, French, German or Dutch but turn the clock back a few hundred years and it would have been Guernsey's own Norman language Guernésiais which you would have spoken and heard from day to day with 'Good French' as it was called reserved for church, the States, schools and official use. There are probably only a few hundred fluent speakers of the Norman language still alive in the island. As many people used to stay in their own parish for most of the time, different accents and many different words were used in different parts of the island and even parish. Between the wars many teachers came from the UK and discouraged the language from their classrooms. The war itself with many islanders evacuated also dealt a big blow to the use of the language as did English language wireless shows.
St Peter Port once had its own variant but it is thought this may have died out up to 150 years ago. English has probably been the dominant language in town for the last two centuries vying with French in the 19th century. English aristocrats, officers, soldiers, sailors, merchants and more recently financiers along with other incomers have settled in town. The Church of St James the Last, now known as St. James Concert and Assembly Hall was completed in 1818. It was the first in the island to cater for English speakers, specifically the British garrison. The market was one place were Guernsey French could be heard regularly, mostly spoken by traders and customers from out of town.
Up until 1204 Guernsey was part of the Duchy of Normandy rather than coming under the English Crown and gradually a distinct variety of Norman evolved here. Guernésiais is one of three Norman languages still spoken in the Channel Islands along with Jèrriais in Jersey and Sercquiais in Sark. Aurignais in Alderney died out completely around the time of the Second World War. It was one of a group of languages called Les Langues d'Oïl which was descended from Vulgar Latin spoken mainly in Northern France. Although often dismissed as "patois" by townies who sometimes struggled to understand their country cousins, Guernésiais was a fully fledged language albeit one which was not originally written down. There is no official way of writing the language although many people base their spellings on those from Marie De Garis' dictionary. Norman French has a long and proud tradition and includes some Scandinavian words brought over by the Norman invaders. It was the dialect of the Île de France around Paris that developed into modern French but only because it was the home of the Kings of France. Due to its relative isolation from mainland France, Guernésiais is thought to be the purest of the Norman dialects although of course it has been influenced by English and French over the years. It is likely that if William the Conqueror were to come back to life today he would be able to at least understand some Guernésiais, more so than the dialect spoken now in Normandy itself!
So what are the opportunities to learn the language? Dr Harry Tomlinson teaches a popular evening class for beginners at the College of FE, likewise Jan Marquis runs beginners and elementary conversation groups and other courses. A growing number of books have been appearing over the last few years. The long-awaited latest edition of Marie De Garis Dictiounnaire Angllais-Guernésiais is a key work. The last edition was published in 1982 and was long out of print with copies fetching sometimes hundreds of pounds. Several books have been published by Dr. Harry and Hazel Tomlinson and Jan Marquis. As for the media there is Donkey Dialogue every Thursday in the Guernsey Press and on Saturday Morning you can tune in to the Guernsey French news with Cynthia Lenormand around 8.35am on BBC Guernsey and then Jan's Guernésiais Ditaon d'la Semoine (Phrase of the Week) around 9.25am on Island FM. Several infant and primary schools in the island offer lunchtime and after-school teaching in Guernsey French and at Blanchelande it is even part of the scheduled lessons. There are several regular volunteer teachers. While no town schools offer regular teaching, pupils from Vauvert Primary School compete in the Guernsey French Eisteddfod each year along with other schools.
What of the future? The Culture & Leisure Department officially launched the Guernsey Language Commission on Liberation Day. The Commissioners are States "Political Champion of Guernsey French" Deputy Darren Duquemin, businessman and Jurat Terry Ferbrache, Guernsey Museums Director Dr. Jason Monaghan, PR Guru Steve Falla, website entrepreneur and the voice of Len and Enid on Island FM Randalls ads, Neil Inder and language graduate Louise Mahieux. The Administrator is Guernsey Museum's Access and Learning Manager Jo Dowding The aim of the Commission is to support the existing Guernsey French organisations, raising funds and providing grants, and lifting the profile of Guernésiais through a website (language.gg), assisting teaching initiatives and more. The hope is that islanders will take a real pride in their language Guernésiais with many islanders learning a few words and phrases with a few becoming fluent speakers thereby giving the language a future as well as a glorious past.


text:
Moving Companies in Virginia Beach
Bos Enterprises offers multiple specialty moving services for your next move. From pianos to art, Bos has the staff and experience to handle anything with care. We are one of the top Moving Companies in Virginia Beach.
For a more specific list of some of the specialty items we can move, browse through our tab labeled Specialty Moving.
Call now and get a free estimate on your next move!


text:
Out of Options: No Judicial Review for Charter School Non-renewals
By Corey Callahan, Director of Legal Affairs
In a recent op-ed, James Merriman, the Charter Center's CEO, reminds us of one of the bedrock principles of chartering: that the autonomy to operate free of many of the hurdles faced by district schools comes with the price of accountability. He goes on to assert that the price of this autonomy can be particularly high when the price is school closure. Merriman's piece references a recent charter school closure where an authorizer's non-renewal decision was based on the schools' failure to meet set academic benchmarks. This non-renewal decision was challenged by the school in court, but the court held that charters do not have the right to judicial review of non-renewal decisions.


text:
In this experiment we're testing the impact of whole leaf hops versus hop pellets.
Before our meeting on July 19th, small groups of 4-6 club members will meet to evaluate the beers based on the BJCP style guidelines in a blind tasting. If you are interested in joining, please use the form below to sign up for one of the following dates and locations.
7/11 - Fort Greene
7/12 - Carroll Gardens
7/13 - Carroll Gardens


text:
3 Muay Thai Clinch Escape Techniques
3 Basic Clinch Defenses To Escape The Plum
Defense is the enabler of offense. Or is it?
I don't see defense as the enabler of offense. I see defense as a complement to offense. A strong defense allows for control of a fight even when you're on the receiving end of an offensive rush. Consider Robbie Lawler whenever he gets hit with a solid shot. His movement and counters are always there to break his fall and give himself a breather.
Offense is difficult when you're gased or rocked, but strong defense enables control of a fight because of its minimal energy expenditure. And fighting doesn't get more grueling than being in the clinch. If you ever find yourself on the wrong side of a clinch war, let this tutorial be the guiding for you to break free, or for you to create time to recover so that you may re-enter the match later, sharper, stronger.
3 Muay Thai Clinch Escapes and Defenses
Defense is its own reward, but you probably like hitting things, so that's what we're going to do. Plus, offense helps defense too; there's nothing like hitting somebody as a way of telling them to back off. If you've managed
If you've managed to turn the tides with the clinch escapes shown above, maybe you could re-enter the clinch and lay waste to your opponent. So how about a few elbows and sweeps?
3 LETHAL Muay Thai Clinch Techniques, Elbows and Sweeps
Entry and exit are the moments where the price of carelessness takes on a cruel, cruel tax. Moving in on an opponent without setting up could instantly spell your downfall. A simple jab could catch you just as you are coming in, then it's lights out. So we're not going to let that happen.
Through the eyes of Lawrence Kenshin Striking Breakdowns, this is how you enter, exit, and knee someone into oblivion:
Buakaw: Clinch Entry, Exit & Knee Against Puncher
If you enjoyed these clinch videos and want to continue learning more techniques, sweeps, knees and elbows from the inside position, then make sure to check out my free 3-Part Video Series on the clinch. And if that's not enough for you, then check out my Clinch King video course for a complete breakdown on the inside game.
There are NEW Muay Thai videos released on my Youtube channel every week! Make sure to keep checking back and subscribe to my channel for updates on new Muay Thai techniques, workouts, drills and combos!
If you want more in-depth technique tutorials, video breakdowns, training tips and more, then you gotta check out NakMuayNation.com.
Like these Muay Thai clinch knees, elbows and techniques? Comment below and share with us your thoughts!
Also, make sure to share it with your training partners and instructors so you can try it out during your next training session.
Author Profile
- Evan is a gourmand of combat sports from Taiwan. He appreciates the beauty of Muay Thai movement and all other movements. He's got no rudder so if the winds blow northerly, he goes north. His goal is to achieve and appreciate.
Latest entries
- Blog2018.08.13TMTG #102: BUILDING CONFIDENCE & SELF-BELIEF
- Blog2018.07.26SEAN FAGAN'S TRICKIEST KO SETUPS
- Blog2018.07.24SWITCH HITTING TO SWITCH OPPONENTS OFF
- Blog2018.07.19LAY WASTE TO THEIR LEGS


text:
Duquesne Students Win Awards at Model European Union
A group of Duquesne University students successfully competed at a Model European Union (EU) simulation held Feb. 15-16 at the University of Pittsburgh.
The team of 15 undergraduate students from Duquesne's Center for International Relations and the modern languages department participated as country delegates and observers, negotiating current EU policy issues with 26 other student teams.
The Duquesne students earned top awards for their representation of Finland and Bulgaria, as well as an honorable mention for their representation of Germany. Students were judged on their knowledge of the issues, their accurate representation of their country's interests and their negotiating skills.
The Model EU event is sponsored annually by the University of Pittsburgh's European Union Center of Excellence and European Studies Center.
Duquesne University
Founded in 1878, Duquesne is consistently ranked among the nation's top Catholic universities for its award-winning faculty and tradition of academic excellence. Duquesne, a campus of nearly 9,500 graduate and undergraduate students, has been nationally recognized for its academic programs, community service and commitment to sustainability. Follow Duquesne University on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.


text:
In response to a Maryland activist's dire warning that if the state passes a gay marriage bill then "you will set the groundwork, that one day when artificial intelligence is that advanced, we will be considering whether or not people can marry their androids."
Jamelle Bouie agrees and is eager to sign himself up as the world's first advocate for android marriage equality. Ultimately, I think all serious considerations of marriage slippery slopes point in the direction of some kind of separation of state and marriage. But while I agree in principle that androids should have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, I'm pretty pessimistic about the prospects for human-android peaceful coexistence.
After all, unless androids are built to be deliberately crippled so that we can better enslave them, it seems like their existence would basically make us obsolete. Equality, it seems to me, would pretty swiftly lead to the biological extinction of the human race. Our cultural and intellectual tradition, I'd like to think, would have some merit and the androids will carry it forward. But most likely it either will turn out that it's not worth building androids since genetically engineered fleshy people are superior, or else humans will die out in favor of androids. Long-term sharing of the world with a race of intelligent robots doesn't seem realistic to me.


text: Ivett (43 mins) When I first saw Ivett I thought that she looked a bit of a handful, and not someone that I wanted to mess around with. She looked like she was part of a biker group, or something, wearing that leather jacket made her slightly intimidating. After talking to her for a few minutes I realized that she was a real sweet heart and I wanted to explore what she had underneath all that leather and ripped jeans. Just as I was getting her out of her clothes Klaudia knocked on the door, she's another girl who'd I'd organised to see later on, but she turned up early. I told her to wait tin the kitchen but she was interested in what we were getting up to and decided to watch. Ivett and I had a great session and I ended up spunking over her cute face... I didn't have much time to prepare myself for Klaudia so had to recharge my balls quickly. I can think of a few worse problems to have, haha!January 15, 2013


text:
Exercise Your Mood
in the
Virgin Australia Plane Pull
We all know how good exercise is for us physically, but sometimes we forget how important it is for the mind. Well, this September, the Black Dog Institute is celebrating Exercise Your Mood – an initiative that promotes the benefits of exercise on mental health.
We've decided to get involved in this great cause with the inaugural Virgin Australia Plane Pull on September 3rd. Four teams will compete against each other to pull a Boeing 737-800 over an agreed distance in the quickest time at the Brisbane Hangar.
Please get behind your team and help us raise money for such a good cause!
Exercise Your Mood in the Virgin Plane Pull
- Raised So Far
- $18,063.43
- Help us raise vital funds


text:
Tiaan & Paula: Wedding
Tiaan and Paula celebrated their wedding at the De Haven Oost venue east of Pretoria on the 23rd of June. My wife Albe and I were the privileged ones with the task of capturing this special day in pictures. The weather played along as if it was requested to do so. We were blessed with a (surprising) rain storm during the ceremony, which made way for the most beautiful rays of sunlight during the couple shoot. Click below to see the whole story in pictures. All the best to the newlyweds!
- Tags: Photo shoot, Weddings


text:
The Coffee Break Hard Trivia Quiz – A challenging selection of General Engineering Trivia questions and answers - sometimes you just don't know what you don't know, but you're sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you probably did know !
Challenge your colleagues – can they answer more than you ?
What American automobile company was founded in 1917 by Henry M. Leland...
Sc is the chemical symbol for Silicon – True or False
Si is the correct answer
A "Clap-O-Meter " is a measurement instrument designed to measure the frequency of thunderstorms - True or False
First used in 1956, a Clap-O-Meter measures and displays the volume of applause made by an audience
The Renminbi (RMB) is the official currency of which country ...
Immiscibility is the name given to the property of liquids to mix in all proportions thus forming a homogeneous solution – True or False
The correct answer is Miscibility
Analgesics is the name given to the family of drugs which relieve pain – True or False
An astrolabe is an instrument used to determine the altitude of objects in the sky such as the sun or stars - True or False
A network security system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a computer system is called a Flame Barrier – True or False
It is called a Firewall
The cubed root of 64 = 8 True or False (without a calculator please)
The cubed root of 64 = 4
A towel is the name given to a hand tool often used for digging, smoothing, or moving around small amounts of viscous materials, typically this tool is used in concrete construction, gardening and archeology - True or False
The tool is a Trowel


text:
We Want To Hear From You!
We welcome your ideas/suggestions on how to improve this site!
Do contact us if you like us! Or to book a trip! Or to explore collaboration in terms of videography services. =)
Or if you simply need information or advice on anything ski & snowboard -related. We are glad to assist! =)


text:
Tony Gilroy
|Tony Gilroy
Gilroy in 2012 at The Bourne Legacy premiere in Sydney, Australia
Anthony Joseph Gilroy
September 11, 1956
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
|screenwriter, film director
|Years active
|Notable work
|Armageddon, Duplicity, Bourne series, Michael Clayton, Rogue One
Ruth Dorothy (née Gaydos)
Frank D. Gilroy
Dan Gilroy (brother)
John Gilroy (brother)
Anthony Joseph "Tony" Gilroy (born September 11, 1956) is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He wrote the screenplays for the first four films of the Bourne series starring Matt Damon, among other successful films, and directed the fourth film of the franchise. He was nominated for Academy Awards for his direction and script for Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney. Gilroy wrote and directed Duplicity, starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen.
Early life
Gilroy was born in Manhattan, New York, the son of Ruth Dorothy (née Gaydos), a sculptor and writer, and Frank D. Gilroy, an award-winning playwright, director, and movie producer who received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play The Subject Was Roses in 1965. He is the brother of screenwriter Dan Gilroy and editor John Gilroy.[1][2] Through his father, he is of Italian, Irish and German descent.[3]
Gilroy was raised in Washingtonville, New York.[4] He graduated from Washingtonville High School in 1974[5][6] at 16 years old[7] and attended Boston University for two years before dropping out to concentrate on his music career.[4][8]
Gilroy has written many scripts for film, starting with the script for The Cutting Edge in 1992. This was followed by Dolores Claiborne in 1995 and The Devil's Advocate in 1997. He was one of five credited writers on Michael Bay's Armageddon, the highest-grossing film of 1998. Gilroy's next script was Proof of Life in 2000. In 2002, 2003 and 2007 he wrote the screenplays for The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, and wrote and directed the next installment of the Bourne series, The Bourne Legacy (2012).
Also in 2007, he wrote and directed the film Michael Clayton, which won an Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay,[9] and was nominated for several Academy Awards including screenplay. In 2009, Gilroy wrote and directed the romantic comedy spy film Duplicity, starring Clive Owen, Julia Roberts and Tom Wilkinson. Gilroy is set, along with The Bourne Ultimatum co-screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, to write the script for the upcoming film Army of Two, based on the video game from EA Montreal.
In September 2013, Gilroy delivered a screenwriting lecture as part of the BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters' Lecture Series.[10]
In 2016, Gilroy co-wrote the script to the upcoming sci-fi film Rogue One, directed by Gareth Edwards. It is a prequel to the 1977 classic Star Wars. Gilroy shared writing duties with fellow filmmaker Chris Weitz.
Gilroy's directorial debut was in 2007, when he directed the film Michael Clayton, which his brother John Gilroy edited. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. In addition to its Edgar Award, the film won one Oscar, for Best Supporting Actress (Tilda Swinton). The film was a box-office success, grossing over $92 million worldwide.
He also wrote and directed his next film, Duplicity, released March 20, 2009, and starring Clive Owen, Julia Roberts and Tom Wilkinson. He then took over as director of the next entry in the Bourne series as well as co-writing; the film, The Bourne Legacy, was released August 10, 2012, starring Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Joan Allen, and Albert Finney.
Personal life
He lives in Manhattan with his family.
- ↑ Frank D. Gilroy Biography (1925-)
- ↑ Tony Gilroy Biography ((?)-)
- ↑ Frank D. Gilroy
- 1 2 Max, D.T. (March 16, 2009). "Twister". The New Yorker. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
- ↑ McKnight, Dale (February 2010). "Making the Grade: Examining the Valley's High Schools". Hudson Valley Magazine. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
- ↑ Lussier, Germain (January 23, 2008). "7 Oscar nominations for Washingtonville's Tony Gilroy and 'Michael Clayton'". recordonline.com. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
- ↑ Lussier, Germain (October 12, 2007). "'Michael Clayton' starring George Clooney, Blooming Grove, Moodna Viaduct and a directorial debut by Washingtonville grad Tony Gilroy". Times Herald-Record. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
- ↑ Feeney, Mark (October 7, 2007). "Writer's move to director goes according to script". Boston.com. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
- ↑ "The Edgar Allan Poe Awards". Bookreporter.com. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
- ↑ "Tony Gilroy Delivers his BAFTA Screenwriters' Lecture". BAFTA. September 29, 2013. Retrieved October 7, 2013.


text:
CBAI Donates to Hurricane Relief Fund
CBAI has contributed to the ICBA Hurricane Harvey Community Bank Relief Fund. Community banking associations and community bankers across the country are reaching out to support the thousands of community bank employees and their families impacted.
ICBA, in partnership with MainStreet Bank in Fairfax, Va., launched the Hurricane Harvey Community Bank Relief Fund donation portal via Aircharity® through which community banks and others can send financial resources directly to other community banks via qualified charitable relief organizations. MainStreet Bank will cover service charges, so 100 percent of the proceeds can go to support the cause. For more information and to donate, Click Here.


text:
Participation in the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) is action-oriented and flexible. CEM clean energy initiatives and campaigns are based on areas of common interest, and countries step forward to lead or support those initiatives and campaigns that are priorities in their national context. This distributed leadership approach fosters clean energy collaboration and innovation around the world.
The 24 participating CEM countries and the European Commission together account for about 75 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and 90 percent of global clean energy investment. They are the world's leaders in clean energy research, development, and implementation.
View/Print PDF


text:
Rapid Bridge Replacement Rises as Solution to Avoid Extended Highway Closure in Oregon City Jughandle Project
February 13, 2012
Oregon's Highway 213 is a multilane high-speed expressway that is also one of the state's most congested corridors. As Kittelson & Associates, Inc. (KAI) worked with multiple stakeholders to reduce congestion and improve the highway's safety, one particular conundrum presented itself: How to build a new Highway 213 bridge immediately adjacent to its existing bridge over a railroad line without closing the expressway for 10-12 months?
With 60,000 to 65,000 vehicles using the highway each day, staged construction – and the accompanying prolonged closure - was determined not to be a feasible option. The adjacent railroad bridge and interchange with Interstate 205 precluded the option of building a detour bridge to maintain continuous traffic. Alternative routes through Oregon City, a suburb of Portland, aren't capable of handling that volume, and stakeholders wanted to minimize motorists' frustration with the project.
KAI, part of the project's multidisciplinary engineering consultant team, was charged with developing traffic control plans for the endeavor. Hermanus Steyn, an associate engineer in KAI's Portland office, says that during the design process, the consultant team, which also included OBEC Consulting Engineers, explored different methodologies to use during construction. The logical solution was rapid bridge replacement.
The process required the contractor to build the new bridge next to the highway on temporary support systems so that it didn't interfere with traffic. Then, the highway will close for four days while the contractor works around the clock to move the 130-foot-long replacement bridge into place.
The closure is scheduled for March 22-27, 2012, and stakeholders have launched an extensive public outreach campaign to ensure the effort goes smoothly and to discourage traffic within the city during the closure. "This is a big moment within the project," Hermanus says.
In addition to developing traffic control plans, KAI led the conceptual phase for off-site improvements associated with a large commercial development in the area. The improvements produced a "jughandle" interchange configuration that eliminates all left-turn movements at the at-grade intersection with Washington Street and Clackamas River Drive and improves connections to and from Highway 213 near its interchange with Interstate 205.
When completed in 2013, the $22-million Jughandle Project will result in the grade separation of Washington Street and Clackamas River Drive from Highway 213. These facilities will be connected by a new local road (Washington Street) that crosses under the highway at the new bridge and serves pedestrians, cyclists, transit, vehicles and freight goods movement.
KAI developed more than 10 interchange concepts and guided stakeholders – including the Oregon Department of Transportation, Clackamas County, the City of Oregon City, and private property owners – through a process that established the preferred alternative.
Follow along with construction by viewing the Highway 213 Jughandle Live Project Cam posted on OBEC's website.