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New Tech Machinery announced the addition of an integral Snap Lock feature for the NTM SS450 profile.
The addition of this feature greatly increases the locking strength of the standard SS450 Profile. It can be engaged to form the SS450/SL Integral Snap Lock bead down the entire length of the panel or disengaged to form the standard SS450 profile that relies only on the clip for locking strength.
The Snap Lock feature comes standard with all new SS450/450SL roller systems and is available for all SS450 roller systems produced before January 2008.
Englert offers continuing education course for architects
Englert is offering members of the American Institute of Architects a new one-hour continuing education credit entitled "Metal Roofing And the Environment: Staying On Top For The Future."
The AIA CEU show architects and specifiers how they can earn more than 12 LEED credits for energy savings, recycling and water conservation without looking beyond the roof of a building. The presentation also takes a look at what government, the design community and manufacturers are doing to make metal a viable environmental solution now and for the future.
For more information, circle readers service number 10.
Chem Link repackages sealants
Chem Link presented a newly designed packaging system for its line of high performance, environmentally friendly sealants. The new cutaway cartons replace the boxes that held the 24 packs of 10.1-ounce cartridges.
The top portion of the cartons can be quickly removed for display on shelves or racks, allowing easy removal of tubes. Colorful graphics highlight the sealants' uses and the company's Contractor Driven Promise. The packaging is designed to provide better availability and information at the point of purchase.
ABC Supply repeats as great workplace winner
For the second consecutive year, ABC Supply Co. Inc. has been honored with a Gallup Great Workplace Award. The company is one of only 20 worldwide to receive the 2008 award.
The Gallup Great Workplace Awards recognize the best-performing work forces in the world and are based on the most rigorous workplace research ever conducted. Companies considered for the award were evaluated by a panel of workplace experts, who compared each company's results to those of thousands of work teams all over the world. The 2008 awards were presented at the Gallup Summit on May 14 in Omaha, Neb
"We are humbled to again stand alongside such an outstanding group of companies," says David Luck, chief executive officer and president of ABC Supply. "This award belongs to our 5,800 associates across the United States. They make ABC Supply a great place to work. They come in every day committed to helping our customers succeed by treating them with respect and making it easy for them to do their jobs.
"It was always Ken Hendricks' dream that ABC Supply would become the best company in America to work for," Luck says, referring to ABC Supply's founder, who died in December 2007. "He was so proud to receive this award last year and would have been thrilled to be recognized again. We will accept this award in his honor and celebrate collectively this milestone on the road to achieving his goal."
S-5! names new dealer
Conergy America has become an authorized distributorship for Metal Roof Innovation's S-5! line of clamps for standing seam metal roofs. Conergy, as one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of solar energy products and services worldwide will also distribute the S-5! PV clamps, designed to be used with the S-5! Mini clamps.
"We're very pleased to be able to offer the S-5! mini and PV hold down clamps to our customers," says Don Massa, product manager for Conergy Mounting Systems. "The S-5! clamps are the industry standard for non-penetrating attachment to standing seam metal roofs. With Conergy's knowledge, experience and expertise in PV systems and S-5!'s expertise with these popular roof types, we're looking forward to partnership that will be highly beneficial for both companies."
MeTecno USA wraps testing of insulated sound reduction panel
MeTecno USA completed product testing for the 600 Series panels. The 600 Series panels are produced using MeTecno USA's continuous mineral wool production line in Modesto, Calif., the only one of its kind in North America. The line produces panels of unsurpassed quality, consistency and volume. The 600 Series includes two fire-rated versions, the 640 FR and 660 FR, as well as two sound reduction versions known as the 640 QT and 660 QT.
The 660 FR, a 6-inch thick mineral wool core panel, recently passed the requirements for a two-hour rating per ASTM E-119 (Standard Test Method for Fire Tests of Building Construction and Materials). The test was conducted using hidden clips with through fasteners. This new and improved method of attaching the panels to the structure allows for much quicker installation with much higher resistance to negative wind loading.
• MeTecno USA launched its quarterly customer newsletter on each of its division's websites in late March.
The quarterly newsletter, MeTecno News, gives customers the opportunity to stay informed with MeTecno USA. Customers will be able to learn more about upcoming products, projects, events and other important news from all four MeTecno USA Divisions: API (www.apipanel.com), ASI (www.alumashield.com), Benchmark (www.benchmarkpanels.com) and Morin (www.morincorp.com).
Central States adds detailing department
Central States Manufacturing has announced the addition of a new detailing department. Located in Lowell, Ark., this department offers support services to its sales force at all four locations. It allows the company to offer customers a variety of services including Mini Storage Quotes, Roof Take-offs, and Wall Take-Offs with a short turnaround time.
"We recognize that expanding our services is the best way to help our customers grow. Our estimating department allows us to perform a time-consuming task for our customers, freeing them to grow their business," says Shane Johnson, detailing manager for Central States.
Classic acquires Kassel & Irons
Classic Products of Piqua, Ohio, acquired the Kassel & Irons business unit from Precoat Metals of St. Louis. Kassel & Irons is a manufacturer of residential metal roofing with the KasselWood steel shingle roofing system as its flagship product.
KasselWood combines Precoat's unique metal finishing process with precise engineering to create a product known for beauty and durability.
According to Classic president Todd Miller, Kassel & Irons will continue to operate as its own business unit, selling products through independent distributors and dealers worldwide. The KasselWood product consists of 8×40-inch locking steel shingle panels, specially formed and coated to provide homeowners with the look of wood shake roofing. Designed for low weight and strength, KasselWood can be installed over most existing roofs. A full complement of matching accessories completes the system.
TAMKO opens new warehouse
TAMKO Building Products recently opened a new warehouse in Rock Hill, S.C., a full-service facility with the ability to handle customer pick-ups as well as full truckload shipments.
The Rock Hill Warehouse stocks a complete line of residential and commercial roofing, waterproofing, cements and coatings and ventilation products.
Firestone opens Florida center
Firestone Metal Products Company opened a state-of-the-art facility and distribution center in Miramar, Fla., relocating from a smaller facility in Pompano Beach, Fla. The new location will allow considerable room for growth and provides a strategic location to efficiently reach numerous shipping ports on the east and west coasts of the state.
The plant will produce and distribute the complete line of "Una-Clad by Firestone" painted steel and aluminum, anodized aluminum, mill finish aluminum, galvanized, Galvalume, stainless steel and copper roofing panel, sheet and coil products. The plant's increased capabilities will allow it to provide roll-formed products more quickly while offering freight savings to customers.
• Firestone Building Products and Eastern Architectural Representatives of Woburn, Mass., together donated $10,000 to the Foundation Friends Program of the North/East Roofing Educational Foundation, Inc. Firestone and Eastern Architectural Representatives presented this year's contribution to the Foundation during a reception held at the 2008 North/East Roofing Contractors Association annual convention and trade show in Atlantic City, N.J.
DeWalt supports regional equipment-theft summits
DeWalt will support the 2008 Regional Equipment Theft Summits organized by FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association and the National Equipment Register, a national database of equipment ownership.
There will be 10 educational summits held in various cities throughout the U.S. to provide product demonstrations, seminars and advice on how to effectively reduce the growing occurrence of equipment theft.
The 2008 Summits bring together law enforcement officials, equipment owners and insurers to provide educational sessions from industry experts on theft prevention and recovery. Police officers will receive training on equipment identification techniques including a hands-on equipment demonstration. Additionally, attendees can demo the latest theft prevention and recovery technologies.
Regional Summits are free to attend and will be held in the following cities in 2008: Dallas, Los Angeles, Denver, Hartford, Conn., Atlanta, Miami, Houston, NY/NJ, Cincinnati and St. Louis. For more information and for specific dates of the 2008 Regional Equipment Theft Summits, please visit the NER website at www.nerusa.com.
Centria honored for green practices
Centria has been awarded the 2008 Shades of Green Leadership Awards in the business category presented by the Green Building Alliance. The GBA is a nonprofit organization that supports the use of green buildings and green building products in Western Pennsylvania. Centria won the Green Leadership Award for the business category and was recognized for its work on a revolutionary new solar technology to the building industry. (Metal Roofing Magazine, December 2007-January 2008).
Centria also introduced a new brochure that showcases the company's wide variety of high-quality coating systems, full palette of colors and extensive range of substrates and textures. Centria offers the Prismatic, Sundance and Brilliant series colors in addition to the Duracast Textured Finish System and a selection of other coating systems. The series colors range from subtle earth tones to vivid brights, all of which can meet even the most demanding environmental conditions. The brochure also presents Centria's color matching technology where, through a partnership with coating manufacturer Valspar, Centria is able to provide a fast turnaround on even the most unique or unusual of color matches. For a copy of the new brochure visit www.centria.com
Supplier Briefs
• Polyglass USA recently opened Polyschool, its new, state-of-the-art training facility in Winter Haven, Fla. The Polyschool facility is dedicated to educating industry professionals about the various roofing systems Polyglass manufactures for both commercial and residential applications and incorporates a curriculum of half-day to three-day seminars that include hands-on demonstrations. For more information, visit www.polyglass.com.
• Jarden Zinc Products announced IMETCO will be the exclusive distributor of Jarden's solid zinc strip for architectural applications under the AmeriZinc trade name. IMETCO will supply AmeriZinc coil and flat stock, completely mined and produced in the United States, to the construction market in a variety of widths and gauges. AmeriZinc also is available as a material selection for several of IMETCO's metal architectural products, such as its Series 300 standing seam metal roofing system.
• W.P. Hickman Company is providing stainless steel fasteners as a standard component with all of its perimeter edge metal systems at no additional charge to customers. Hickman has shipped fasteners with its products for years and manufactures its edge products with holes pre-punched for use with the fasteners. Stainless steel fasteners are effective in resisting the corrosive nature of Alkaline Copper Quaternary (ACQ), a wood preservative increasingly being used throughout the construction.
• Capital Safety, home of the DBI-SALA and Protecta brands, announces the opening of a new, state-of-the-art, fall protection training facility in Houston. Located near the George Bush International Airport, the 7,000-square-foot facility is easily accessible to the people and companies in need of fall protection training. Combined with the Red Wing, Minn., training center, Capital Safety's fall protection training facilities account for the largest footprint of such facilities across America. The new facility, which is now open for classes, offers a wide variety of fall protection courses, including competent person, authorized person, qualified person, program administrator, rescue, tower climber and confined space courses, among others. Class schedules are available online at www.capitalsafety.com.


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Fri, 02.02.2018, 13:30
"Lion Man" and the Fixed Point Property
Speaker: Dr. Adriana Nicolae, University of Seville
Room: S2|15-201
In this talk we are concerned with the relation between the xed point property for continuous mappings and a discrete lion and man game played in a strongly convex domain. Our main result states that in locally compact geodesic spaces or in R-trees, the xed point property of the domain is equivalent to the success of the lion. At the end we review a few applications of proof mining in the context of geodesic metric spaces.
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Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Fisherman Nets an 18th Century Sword in a Welsh River
How did an 18th century Asian sword end up at the bottom of a river in Wales?
Fishermen and outdoorsmen and women find all kinds of strange things from time to time. But a Welsh fisherman found something completely unexpected while casting a net in the River Towy in Wales, an 18th century sword. And what's stranger, it's believed to have origins in Asia.
"I was out one night in my coracle (a type of boat) and the net was cast, when I pulled it in there was this sword in there," Andrew Davies, the fisherman who found the sword, told Wales Online.
He later took the sword to the Carmarthenshire Musem where curator Gavin Evans is looking further into the strange blade's origins and has forwarded photos to another museum in London. "I haven't heard anything back from the museum yet but the sword is of Asian origin, south east Asia, Malaysia."
But how exactly the blade ended up in a Welsh river is a total mystery. The blade wasn't even found in a remote area. It was netted between two bridges and right behind a store on the bank. Everything from being lost by someone coming into port to a discarded murder weapon is being tossed around as an explanation.
Of course, it is unlikely anyone will ever know for sure. Evans believes the sword spent most of its time in the Towy buried in mud, which preserved it.
Every once in a while an old weapon seems to pop up and is found either by fishermen or hunters. In Iceland last year, some hunters stumbled across a 1,000-year-old Viking sword. And in Norway back in 2015, a similar sword was found by a hiker on a fishing trip.
Why can't I ever find anything this cool while out hunting and fishing?


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LIFE Comes to Eden in September
The LIFE (Lifelong Learner Institute of Faith Exploration) program will kick off the new academic year with a weekend retreat to be held on September 16-17 on the Eden Campus. The LIFE program welcomes laity and clergy seeking to explore their Christian faith. Participants spend Friday evening and Saturday on campus in fellowship with others, taking either a certificate or an elective course, worshiping and eating together.
"Scriptural Studies New Testament" (certificate class) with Rev. Dr. Deborah Krause, Academic Dean and Professor of New Testament
- Overview of New Testament current scholarship.
- The course will help participants develop a sense of how they view scripture and how this coheres with their view of God, the church and the mission of the church in the world.
Rev. Dr. Krause has recommended: "Studying the New Testament," by Bruce Chilton and Deirdre Good, which is available in the Eden Bookstore and online.
"Welcoming the LGBTQ Community to your Church" (elective class) with Dr. Jill Baker, Adjunct Professor
-This class will provide an overview on formal and informal ways clergy and congregations can be welcoming to the LGBTQ community.
-The course will cover inclusive language, welcoming practices, and the scriptures known as the clobber passages.
There are no required books for the class.
Join us at LIFE! Contact Jill Schantz at 314-918-2554 for more information.


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This is the Trent Academies Group : January 1st 2016
We live in interesting times. The education system is changing rapidly. Local authorities – rightly or wrongly – become ever less significant in influencing the way that schools and academies operate. Every year the number of academies grows and there is an expectation that academies will work closely with other like minded organisations in order to maximise the life chances of young people.
When I became headteacher at Rushcliffe in 2010 after 10 years leading schools in more socio-economically challenged areas I was determined to first improve it from OFSTED "Good" to "Outstanding". There was no reason why others should be in that category whilst Rushcliffe wasn't. In February 2014 we achieved that goal. Immediately we asked to be involved in helping our neighbour Farnborough School to improve. It had been judged as having special measures in November 13. By the end of the month Ben Chaloner had been transferred over to Farnborough from his Deputy Head role at Rushcliffe. By September he had been joined by Alison Hallam as a seconded Deputy Head and Dave Salter as Head of English.
Meanwhile at Rushcliffe well respected former Head of Maths and Deputy Head Steve Lewis had become the Headteacher. I was now the Executive Headteacher and spent my time travelling between the two schools/academies – often by bike.
In the Autumn term on 2014 we were asked by the Governors at Arnold Hill Academy on the north side of Nottingham to consider acting as a supportive partner as they has faced some trouble with OFSTED. By the middle of December a relationship had started with me spending a considerable amount of time in Arnold as the previous headteacher had departed.
Farnborough School had ceased to be. It was replaced by The Farnborough Academy and the Trent Academies Group was born. As 2015 progressed Sharon Smith was appointed as Headteacher at Arnold Hill. She took up the post in March just as the new building began to be constructed.
And on January 1st 2016 Arnold Hill formally became part of the trust known as the Trent Academies Group. We are three academies which rally around a flag that says "Everyone will be given the chance to shine brightly". Whilst the academies have their own individual identities they are also united by shared ways of doing things and shared beliefs.
Over the last year Rushcliffe has been recognised as a World Class School, Arnold Hill has been moved out of serious weaknesses by OFSTED and The Farnborough Academy continues to improve its reputation across the west of the city.
My role has changed and is changing. I travel between the three academies to ensure we are doing everything possible to raise standards in challenging economic times and to support the Heads and their senior teams as required. I even get to talk to pupils sometimes! Rarely do I cycle between the academies now. The hill between West Bridgford and Arnold has put paid to that.
This blog will be updated on a weekly basis. I hope that others will read it and consider joining the Trent Academies Group or at least working more closely with us.
That, however, is what the Trent Academies Group is at the moment.
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Friday, February 11, 2011
SUYL Today is about beauty secrets. well I don't know if I have beauty secrets but this is what I do and use....
Hair- I only wash my hair about every 3 days! My hair is dry and so it doesn't' get oily at all! I also have very easy hair to work with, It has a lot of natural curl, but still straightens easy!!! I do get lots of split ends though so that stinks. I only go to the hairdresser twice a year! YUP only twice, I feel like going every 6 weeks is a scam for money! My cousin, sister and I all have very long hair and we all hate going to the salon cause nobody knows how to do or cut long hair!
Shampoo- I don't spend a lot of money on that, they all seem the same to me!, I do love using Chi's serum or silk therapy serum though!
I curl my hair not with a curling iron but a flat iron (CHI)
Makeup- I use bare minerals, Lancome definicils mascara, Lancome or victoria secret lip gloss. I like lip liners much better than lipsticks! My sister got me started on liquid liner, it sure does stay on better, and I'm currently growing in my eyebrows, there are too thin and apparently thin is out! I DON't tan my face! I also like crest white strips, they work great! : )
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"…I am only a hobbit, and gardening's my job at home, sir, if you understand me, and I'm not much good at poetry – not at making it: a bit of comic rhyme, perhaps, now and again, you know, but not real poetry – so I can't tell you what I mean. It ought to be sung. You'd have to get Strider, Aragorn that is, or old Mr Bilbo, for that. But I wish I could make a song about her. Beautiful she is, sir! Lovely! Sometimes like a great tree in flower, sometimes like a white daffadowndilly, small and slender like. Hard as di'monds, soft as moonlight. Warm as sunlight, cold as frost in the stars. Proud and far-off as a snow-mountain, and as merry as any lass I ever saw with daisies in her hair in springtime. But that's a lot o' nonsense, and all wide of my mark." – Samwise Gamgee, LotR, Book IV, Chapter V – The Window on the West
And this one:
Song of Nimrodel
An Elven-maid there was of old,
A shining star by day:
Her mantle white was hemmed with gold,
Her shoes of silver-grey.
A star was bound upon her brows,
A loght was on her hair
As sun upon the golden boughs
In Lórien the fair.
Her hair was long, her limbs were white,
And fair she was and free;
And in the wind she went as light
As leaf of linden-tree.
Beside the falls of Nimrodel,
By water clear and cool,
Her voice as falling silver fell
Into the shining pool.
Where now she wanders none can tell,
In sunlight or in shade;
For lost of yore was Nimrodel
And in the mountains strayed.
I am — especially regarding my children — frequently guilty of hyperbole. In this case, I think not.


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Nathan East
Session Bass Player
"AxePort Pro - What
a great idea! I love the audio quality and
especially the headphone amp for practicing
and recording!"
About Nathan East
Nathan is well known for his work with the contemporary
jazz group Fourplay along with fellow band mates Larry
Carlton, Bob James and Harvey Mason. He began his professional
career touring and recording with Barry White. After
graduating UC San Diego earning his Bachelor of Arts
degree in music performance, Nathan headed to L.A. and
eventually found himself a first-call session player
working with luminaries such as Quincy Jones, Burt Bacharach,
Whitney Houston, Madonna, Barbara Streisand, Michael
Jackson, George Harrison, BB King, Stevie Wonder and
many more. He became a long time member in the bands
of Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Al Jarreau & Kenny
Loggins and performed on Clapton's Grammy Award winning
"Unplugged" and Song of the Year "Change
The World".
In 1991, Nathan was voted the Most
Valuable Player in the bass category at the International
Rock Awards and is three time recipient of the National
Smooth Jazz Award Bassist of the year. He also won an
MTV Award and Britain's prestigious Ivor Novello Award
for co-writing the #1 hit "Easy Lover" with
Phil Collins and Philip Bailey.
Nathan was honored by the United States Congress with
a Congressional Record awarded for his contribution
to the worldwide music community. He appeared at the
Barack Obama Inaugural Concert "We Are One"
at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in January
He has developed his own signature series bass guitar
with Yamaha, the model BBNE2 and also produced an instructional
DVD called "The Business of Bass", an in depth
look behind the scenes at what it takes to become a
professional musician. For more information, check out Nathan
East's website.
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Horseware Sportz-Vibe Massage Therapy Dog Blanket
Sportz-Vibe is a lightweight portable massage blanket designed to help boost circulation in dogs.
It can be used for high performance dogs as a warm up or recovery blanket to help ease soreness and stiffness after long workouts.
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by Tim March
Wednesday, Feb. 06, 2013 -
Well, I will get this out of the way early….I'm not even sure why I have to write this game review. Hell, I would imagine my colleague Michael Cosmo DeNicola already has the entire season of game reviews typed up on his computer. After all, who, other than Biff Tannen, would be able to predict sports the way this guy can?
@tomsestito23 I made a bet with people that you'd pot two goals this week. No, I'm not high. Don't let me down, brochacho!!! #SestitosTime
— Mikey D of O&BP! (@MikeyD_OandBP) February 4, 2013
@tomsestito23 I made a bet with people that you'd pot two goals this week. No, I'm not high. Don't let me down, brochacho!!! #SestitosTime
Ok….Enough inflating the already giant noggin of Mr. DeNicola.
There was actually a pretty damn exciting hockey game played as well.
The Flyers came into Tuesday's tilt with the Tampa looking to build on the solid effort put forth against the Hurricanes. With Hartnell and Simmonds still fighting the injury bug, the 14th place Flyers looked to the deep dark depths of their lineup for someone to step up.
The first period began slowly as if Beethoven himself had written a larghissimo opening to the tilt. Before long, Zac Rinaldo would bring the vivace that we have all come to know and love. The last time the Flyers and Lighting squared off, Lighting agitator BJ Crombeen took the advice of Tampa coach, Le Chiffre, and went after Flyers captain Claude Giroux. This mere moments after Vincent Lecavalier and Luke Schenn dropped the mitts. You had to know Crombeen was going to be a target of Flyers tough guy Rinaldo. You just didn't know Rinaldo was going to drop the 6'3" Crombeen like Taylor Swift's boyfriend when she has writers block. But, alas, the 5'10" Rinaldo pounded the much bigger Crombeen into submission setting the tone for the remainder of the tilt.
Just 4:25 into the second stanza the big fella from Rome waltzed into Lindback's crease like Julius Caesar during his famous siege of Vercingetorix's bastion at Alesia in 52BC.. This Roman, of the New York variety, finished off a sweet deke slipping the biscuit 5-hole to put the home team up 1-0.
Congrats to Tom Sestito on his first goal as a Philadelphia Flyer!
From that point on the Flyers put the kibosh on the Lightning chances.
Even though a lucky bounce led to the Lightning's Benoit Pouliot beating Bryzgalov, the Flyers never waivered, and soon enough Tommy came calling on Anders once more. The 25-year-old Sestito undressed the Gävle, Sweden native quicker than a Victoria's Secret model backstage during a fashion show. Maybe #32 is the next Milan Lucic?
Moving along...
Despite being beat by that point blank Pouliot wrister midway through the third, Ilya Bryzgalov played absolutely stunning hockey. Chock-full-o "How the hell did he stop that moments" the Russian netminder turned away 19 of 20 Lightning shots en route to his 4th victory of the season.
It was exciting to see the young team from south Philly finally put together a solid whole team effort from start to finish. If anything, it certainly brings an air of excitement to the city of brotherly love. Could this homestand be what the young Flyers need to turn around this shortened season? Time will tell. But, for now, we can enjoy the Flyers third win and look towards Thursday's contest with another Southeast division opponent, the Florida Panthers.
Until then...
Tim's "After the Whistle Rough Stuff"
"The Code"
You may have heard Mike Milbury and Keith Jones discussing "The Code" during the intermission show. "The Code" refers to unwritten rules amongst the NHL tough guys. For example, once a guy is down you let up, no hair pulling, no biting, etc. Many, including Tampa's Martin St. Louis and even NBC's Pierre McGuire thought that Zac Rinaldo had encroached this invisible boundary, hitting BJ Crombeen while he was defenseless. It was definitely borderline. Had Crombeen not shown the antics of a fourth grader who had his legos knocked over, I might have thought BJ deserved a bit of mercy. In this case, I wholeheartedly agree with Milbury, "Finish the Job". And that is exactly what Rinaldo did. One can only hope Crombeen is ok. As for line stepping, look to the fight between Max Talbot and resident pussy, whiny, I make Sidney Crosby look like a man, Vincent Lecavalier. In case you missed it….
Fast forward to the 00:47 mark.
See how Talbot is flat on his back and the linesmen are already there? Then Lecavalier decides to throw one last punch? Yeah, Tampa, if you want to bitch about "The Code" maybe start with your whiny, punk, embarrassment of a captain. Who names a player that holds out, underperforms, is lazy, demands traded, and plays when he wants, a captain anyway? A team who has the same self entitled arrogance that their measley fanbase holds. Go fuck yourselves, Tampa, you deserve a Stanley Cup about as much as a person on welfare deserves a set of 22"s on their Escalade. Fuck you for 2004, fuck you so hard…..
Rant over.
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maybe some folks will care... paul's on sound opinion's tonight. should be good for a few smirks.
hey, since when did the sound opinions website start to look vaguely like glono?
maybe it's just me....
paul westerberg on sound opinions tonight (5/7)
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The Royal Theatre, Castlebar is pleased to announce that Aslan - Feel No Shame Tour will be playing in Castlebar on Saturday August 18th 2018.
Tickets priced from €25.00 inclusive of booking fee are on sale NOW via Ticketmaster.ie, usual Ticketmaster outlets nationwide including The Royal Theatre Box Office, and by calling Ticketmaster at The Royal Theatre on (094) 9023111.
Aslan's debut album Feel No Shame was released in 1988 and the band are celebrating the albums 30th anniversary with The Feel No Shame Tour. These gigs will see the band dusting the cobwebs off songs from the album that have not been played in a very long time. But don't worry they will also be playing the songs that everyone loves to sing along to.
Aslan's gigs always sell out so early purchase of tickets is advised. The band are very excited about the Feel No Shame Tour and are delighted that a Castlebar date is happening as part of it.
They have a lot of things planned to celebrate Feel No Shame's 30th anniversary including a new single which was released in January. For more info go to www.aslan.ie


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Foresight For JTRS
By paul ~ March 31st, 2008. Filed under: FAQ, SDR & SCA.
We've been asked about Foresight's application to JTRS enough times that we thought it best to just include the following here for reference.
Early in the JTRS program, Foresight was contracted by JPO to develop a demonstration model for waveform/platform performance analysis and as a result, the use of Foresight was highly recommended to the GMR bidders by the selection committee.
Over the last three years, Foresight has been used on several JTRS-related performance modeling projects at Boeing, Northrop and GDC, with some of the results being published in OMG workshops (see whitepapers). This work has shown that Foresight-based performance modeling is effective and adds significant value to the JTRS program by providing:
- Early radio design guidance and performance prediction including processor and memory sizing, technology selection, memory and processor utilization and power analysis.
- Waveform design guidance and performance prediction on different candidate platforms. Performance metrics include startup time, packet latency, throughput, jitter, and QoS.
- Impact analysis of proposed requirement modifications, design changes, unmet constraints, or new waveforms.
- Performance models for use by JTRS client programs, such as FCS, that would be available before prototypes.
- Early detection and clear communication of component-level performance and timing/resource budget issues.
In addition, Foresight has been used on the FCS program for trade studies as part of the risk mitigation effort. This effort used and built upon a performance model of the WNW waveform running on the increment 0 GMR platform developed earlier. This work was highly successful and established the usefulness of a waveform/radio performance model to client programs.
Our experience has shown that, at the outset of performance modeling, only 50% of a model's usefulness is envisioned. Once that model becomes available, even if incomplete, many other uses of the model become apparent. For instance, on the AMF program a performance model was used to perform a sensitivity analysis of the central non-volatile memory data read rate on startup time given a couple of different startup strategies. This provided excellent information for component selection from a model that was originally intended to provide startup time and processor utilization.
Foresight's approach is to build a model of the radio platform, a model of the waveform, and then execute the waveform model on the radio platform model. The resulting composite model can accurately predict the behavior of the waveform when deployed on the radio. With such a composite model, the radio performance can be predicted under many different environmental scenarios, traffic patterns, etc. In addition, the model acts as an excellent experimental environment for trade studies to aid in design decisions or addressing problem areas.Moving from the radio model to systems-of-systems modeling at the network level (such as is required for FCS-type scenarios) can be accomplished in a number of ways. The Foresight radio models are complete enough to be connected together for a multiple radio scenario but, for modeling larger scenarios, it is probably better to abstract the performance of the radio model into a node model within a network simulation or operational scenario simulation.
In a nutshell, what we do is to create two models: (1) the radio hardware (CPUs, busses, memory, FPGA & DSPs) and (2) a model of the waveform, radio services and devices, operating environment (framework), CORBA, and RTOS. Then we execute the model of the software on the model of the radio to evaluate how the software will perform on the radio platform. We can model & measure:
- Processor utilization as a function of time
- Memory utilization
- Bus utilization as a function of time
- Packet or data latency & jitter through waveform
- Data throughput through the waveform
- Radio startup time
- CORBA overhead
- RTOS overhead
Using this model, we can also perform trade studies to determine optimal system configuration. The same software model(s) can be executed on different radio models through a simple re-mapping activity in order to evaluate application performance on different radio platforms that you may have to build.


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The End of an Epoch: Saudi Arabia, sailing into the perfect storm
Blue Quadrant Research Team0 comments Market Commentary
US oil production has recovered notably since bottoming in September 2016 at an average daily production rate of 8.5mn barrels per day (bpd). US oil production (excluding Natural Gas Liquids or NGLs) is now averaging around 9mn bpd, although still below its cyclical peak recorded in early 2015 at around 9.5mn bpd. Nevertheless, the rapid recovery in output in just six months coupled with the sharper rebound in the oil rig count (Baker Hughes data) as illustrated below, suggests that US oil production will continue to climb throughout 2017 and may eventually exceed its former cyclical production peak of 9.5mn bpd.
Although the rig count remains well below its 2015 peak, improved efficiencies and cost reductions now means that fewer rigs will likely be needed in order for US oil production to reach and exceed its former production peak of 9.5mn bpd. Furthermore, significant cost reductions (well completion costs have on average declined by roughly 50% over the past 5 years in many shale basins) have enabled many US energy producers to return to profitability at current prices of around $50 per barrel. In fact, in some of the more prolific basins (Permian basin in Texas) some energy companies are now able to produce oil profitably at $40 per barrel.
The further rebound in US oil production expected this year comes against the backdrop of declining non-OPEC, non-US production growth and continued curbs in production by OPEC. The resilience in the US shale industry will be particularly alarming for many countries in the Middle East, and in particular those that continue to peg their currencies to the US Dollar, such as Saudi Arabia. As the largest producer within OPEC, Saudi Arabia has had to bear the brunt of the recent decision to curb production, and no doubt without Saudi Arabia's commitment and discipline, OPEC's ability to engineer and sustain any type of coordinated production cut would be impossible.
As such, the key question investors need to ask themselves is whether Saudi Arabia can afford to sustain a reduced level of production or a "new normal" for oil prices below $60 per barrel. More marginal oil producing areas (such as deepwater offshore and Canadian oil sands) will generally require oil prices above $60, and one can assume that below that price level, non-OPEC, non-US production growth will remain flat or even decline modestly. Assuming normal global demand growth of around 1.2mn to 1.4mn bpd, this will probably leave sufficient "space" for OPEC to return to production levels preceding the recent decision taken in November 2016 to cut output by 1.2mn bpd, and for US oil production to return to or even exceed the prior production peak of 9.5mn bpd, without forcing oil prices back below $40 per barrel.
But, is $60 a sufficient long-term price for Saudi Arabia, assuming that rising US production growth will limit the ability of Saudi Arabia (and other major producers) to substantially increase their own production? As illustrated below, as a result of growing internal consumption, despite some production growth, the actual volume of Saudi Arabian oil exports have remained little changed over the past three decades.
Saudi Arabian oil exports briefly rose to 8mn bpd in 2015 and H1 2016, as the Kingdom sought to maintain "market share" and temporarily depress prices in a bid to eliminate many US shale producers. This strategy did result in a decline in US oil production of roughly 1mn bpd, but given the evolving recovery in US production, it is certainly possible that Saudi Arabia could end up in a situation producing and exporting no more than it has over the past three decades (roughly 7mn bpd), while US production continues to grow and exceed its prior production peak.
From this perspective, Saudi Arabia's strategy of "flooding the oil market" in 2015 can be said to have been met with limited success. The strategy could be viewed as a success in terms of maintaining its relative market share, although this has come mainly at the expense of non-OPEC, non-US producers. As we will highlight in the rest of this article, this is also a strategy that Saudi Arabia can ill afford to repeat again, given its own financial and economic challenges.
Saudi Arabia's economy has grown significantly over the past few decades. However, it remains a remarkably distorted economy, where as an example, nearly 90% of Saudi nationals are still employed by the large public sector. Saudi Arabia also has a large, youthful and growing population, while youth unemployment rates remain at very high levels. Recent data suggests youth unemployment rates remain around 40%.
The Kingdom has been able to maintain a semblance of calm by diverting much of its oil revenues to the public sector and maintaining and growing employment in this manner. As the chart below shows, total employment of Saudi nationals in the public sector has grown from just under 2mn in 2000 to roughly 3mn in 2014.
The growth that the Saudi Arabian economy has delivered over the past three decades and concomitant growth in government expenditure (notably military or defense spending) as well as increased imports of goods and services, should be seen in the context of stagnant oil export volumes (an average of roughly 7mn bpd since the early 1990s). The large increase in the US Dollar price of oil between 2001 and 2008 helped boost export revenues and support ongoing growth in the economy, despite stagnant or flat oil export volumes.
However, with oil prices now half of that, they averaged between 2007 and 2014 and with a notional "ceiling" of $60 as discussed, it seems that Saudi Arabian oil export revenues may also have "hit" a ceiling. This ceiling is already reflected in the charts below, which show the sharp decline in oil exports revenues as a % of GDP, government expenditure, imports and defense spending.
The data in the charts produced below assumes annual export volumes of 7mn bpd (even though in some years it was more and in others less) and the average price for West Texas Crude as per the St Louis Federal Reserve Database (FRED). As such, it does not necessarily reflect actual reported oil export revenues but an approximation which should be close enough to accurately illustrate the general trend.
Given that the Kingdom continues to "peg" its currency to the US Dollar, there is little prospect for export revenues to rise in local currency terms. Furthermore, given Saudi Arabia's high level of import dependence for many goods, including and perhaps most importantly military equipment, the Saudi regime will also be extremely reluctant to devalue its currency or allow it to "float". In part, this desire to maintain its currency peg explains the regime's decision to begin issuing substantial amounts of government debt (US Dollar bonds) as well as listing a portion of the state-owned oil company Aramco.
In the final analysis, if Saudi oil export volumes have reached a ceiling at around 7mn bpd and prices cannot sustainably trade above $60 per barrel, it is very likely that the Saudi Arabian economy has also reached a growth "ceiling". This will have seismic longer-term ramifications. A growth ceiling also implies that the Kingdom will no longer be able to increase government expenditure. As such, it will limit the ability of the Kingdom to further expand public sector employment and tackle the country's high level of youth unemployment, and may also undermine the regime's ability to maintain its existing military complex over the medium to longer-term.
What is the endgame for Saudi Arabia?
In our view, there are really only two options available to the Saudi regime at present or over the shorter-term. No doubt over the long-term, Saudi Arabia needs to reform and liberalize its economy and diversify away from its dependence on oil. However, such an outcome will take serious political will (more specifically, perhaps a more democratic and open regime) and at least a decade, if not more in time.
Clearly one option is to devalue the currency against the US Dollar. This will enable the Kingdom to maintain or even increase government spending levels in local currency terms. However, politically, this will create a risk to the exiting monarchy as such a policy decision will lower the living standards or purchasing power ( imports will become more expensive) of the employed in Saudi Arabia. Rising dissatisfaction with the monarchy could lead to political instability and a large-scale devaluation (rising food price inflation) in the currency could certainly be one catalyst leading to an eventual uprising and revolution.
A devaluation of the currency will also likely force other "Gulf" producers in the region that currently peg their currencies to the US Dollar to follow a similar path. A regional policy of currency devaluation would likely be negative for dollar-denominated oil prices and could lead to a renewed decline in the oil price back below $40 per barrel. This in turn would negate much of the benefit that would accrue from any currency devaluation.
The second option is for the Kingdom to maintain current OPEC production cuts for an extended period of time, which coupled with rising global demand, could push oil prices higher and back towards $80 to $100. As an example, at export volumes of 7mn and at a price of $80, the Kingdom would earn oil export revenues of roughly $204bn as opposed to $146bn at export volumes of 8mn but at a price of $50 per barrel. Even if the current OPEC cuts are not extended later this year, it is hard to envisage a scenario where such production cuts were not enacted again at some later date, in the event oil prices declined anew to below $40 a barrel.
However, at higher price levels ($60 to $80) non-OPEC, non-US production growth (albeit at a slower pace) will also begin to climb once more, ultimately only buying, at best, a few years of "fiscal breathing space" for the Kingdom. Still, this policy choice may be more desirable to the current regime at present, as opposed to devaluing the currency. It may also provide the regime with more time to inact necessary reforms and liberalise its economy in the hope that the Kingdom will be in a stronger position to withstand lower oil prices in a few years time. Inevitably, if we are indeed now entering the "age of electric vehicles", the prospect of "peak demand" for oil and terminally lower prices may only be 5 to 10 years away.
Of course, the potential for hostilities and a disruption in oil supply in the Middle East remain a serious risk. This risk is particularly elevated at this time, given the ongoing low-intensity conflicts taking place in Syria and Iraq, as well as recent signs of increasing Sunni/Shia tensions in the region (the proxy war in Yemen). Such a scenario, to the extent that it does not negatively impact on Saudi oil production (as was the case during the two Iraq wars) would greatly help alleviate (at least for the duration of such a conflict) some of the financial challenges facing the Kingdom at present.
Finally, there may also be a realistic scenario where Saudi Arabia's actual remaining oil reserves are much lower than the currently reported 268bn. There are many in the oil industry who continue to doubt the validity of these reported reserves, at least in terms of magnitude. As such, it is quite possible that the Kingdom may not be able to sustainably lift its current oil production (and therefore export volumes) above current levels in any event.
If this is the case (and we will soon find out given the anticipated and more detailed public disclosures of these reserves following the Aramco listing), then the Saudi regime would be more than happy to maintain or even decrease its existing production (as Saudi "peak oil" sets in) and push prices back towards $100. The rationale is that if Saudi oil output is nearing a secular peak, it will be better to lower production steadily over a 10-year period and keep prices as high as it possibly can in order to maximize oil export revenues during the "twilight" period once terminal production declines set in at the Kingdom's major oil fields. As an example, even at export volumes of 6mn bpd, the Kingdom would generate more oil export revenues ($175b) assuming a price of $80 than at 8mn bpd but assuming a lower price of $50 ($146bn).
Energy in Saudi Arabia: the next decade
As we have already noted in this article, a key long-term policy aim for the Kingdom, must be to diversify its economic away from its dependence on oil. However, in addition to this diversification, the Kingdom will also have to dramatically reform its domestic energy sector. Saudi Arabia, like many other oil exporting countries in the region, provides energy products (motor vehicle fuel, electricity) to the entire population at prices well below international levels.
As an example, gasoline or fuel prices in Saudi Arabia were almost one sixth of the retail price in the US in 2014. In a recent country report compiled by the IMF, the agency calculated that the implicit cost to the fiscal budget of this large and growing energy subsidy amounts to around $85bn per annum or as much as 13% of overall GDP. More importantly, a large proportion of Saudi Arabia's electricity is generated from domestically produced oil. Domestic consumption of refined and crude oil reached 2.5mn bpd in 2014, with crude oil consumption, excluding that consumed by domestic refineries (mostly serving as an input to the generation of electricity) amounting to 0.6mn bpd.
Saudi Arabia produced 1.95mn bpd of natural gas (equivalent) in 2014, but already almost all of this was consumed domestically. The IMF has calculated that at current growth rates additional demand for refined oil would completely crowd out the current 1mn bpd of refined petroleum (not crude oil) exports. Quite clearly, Saudi Arabia will have to invest substantial capital in new forms of energy generation such as renewables and possibly nuclear energy, while looking to reduce the implicit energy subsidies that it now has in place.
Reducing the implicit energy cost to the fiscal budget from these generous subsidies will provide some additional "fiscal space" to compensate for lack of likely oil export revenue growth going forward. The revenues that could flow to the fiscus from a reduction or eventual elimination of these subsidies could be used to fund a large and multi-year capital expenditure program directed towards new energy sources for electricity generation. This will help limit the further erosion of oil export volumes as the current 0.6mn bpd being consumed by the electricity and water sectors (water desalination plants) could eventually be exported instead of being domestically consumed.
However, reducing or eliminating these energy subsidies while economic and employment growth remains under pressure, will only further heighten the risks of political and social instability over the next five to ten years. Again, this dynamic adds to the general view that the Saudi regime may not want to devalue its currency and add to the inflationary pressures that will inevitably materialize as energy subsidies are reduced or eliminated over time.


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Pen and ink lives. Despite the proliferation of Vine videos and Instagram, the hand-drawn image has lasted into the digital age, giving rise to that flower of the comic art world: the graphic book.
Graphic literature will cut a dashing figure at the AJC Decatur Book Festival this Labor Day weekend, with a keynote address provided by Rep. John Lewis, whose autobiographical trilogy "March" is certainly the first book-length graphic memoir written by a sitting U.S. Congressman.
Lewis' book tells the story, in words and images, of his remarkable life story, including his journeys to Washington, D.C., in 1963 and Selma in 1965, stepping past the edge of safety, putting his life on the line for the sake of racial equality.
Joining Lewis at the podium to discuss "March: Book One" will be co-author Andrew Aydin and illustrator Nate Powell.
In addition to Lewis' address, the festival will offer, for the first time, an entire track of lectures and panel discussions related to graphic literature, featuring creators whose concerns range over a fantastical spectrum of the human experience:
They include:
• Jim Ottaviani, a writer of nonfiction, science-oriented comics and his book "Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas."
• David Axe, writer of "Army of God: Josephy Kony's War in Central Africa."
• Jonathan Hennessey, author of "The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation," and the upcoming "The Comic Book Story of Beer."
Beer, the Constitution, primates, murder, civil rights — all are fair game in graphic literature, a genre that long ago slipped the surly bonds of its superhero origins.
In fact, when Chris Staros, co-founder of Top Shelf Productions, the Marietta-based publishing company producing the "March," started the company in 1997, the first blockbuster was about as far from "bang! pow! zap!" as you could get.
It was a 2003 magnum opus called "Blankets" from Midwestern writer/artist Craig Thompson, a 600-page rhapsody on falling in love, coming to terms with Christianity and growing up in the forever winter of Wisconsin.
"It changed a lot of peoples' lives and changed a lot of perceptions about what graphic novels can be," said Staros, speaking from Memphis, where he was deep in Elvis Week celebrations.
("This is sort of like my religious pilgrimage," said Staros, 50, of his yearly trip to Graceland and environs. "This is my 26th year coming here." Ruefully, he added, "here we are with one our biggest books ever published, and here I am remotely coordinating it by my cell phone.")
His big book, "March," has ushered Top Shelf into a brand-new world of television interviews and international press, even at the San Diego Comic Con, where Lewis was competing with the likes of Tom Cruise and Samuel L. Jackson.
"Here we had a real live super hero on the floor in a world of fictional super heroes, and I was very nervous going in that he might be overlooked," said Staros.
But his fears were allayed when he saw the lines of fans waiting for Lewis' autograph. "It was a mob scene."
Early in the life of his publishing company the mobs were much smaller.
A military brat, Staros lived in a variety of places but made regular summertime trips to Atlanta to visit Yiayia and Papou (Greek for grandma and grandpa) and his many cousins on his mother's side. He studied computer science at the University of California, Irvine, and his first job out of college was in Atlanta, writing software for Lockheed.
Then one day he stumbled on a copy of Alan Moore's dystopian story of anarchism and fascism, "V for Vendetta," a serial comic book that was compiled into a single volume in 1990.
"It blew me away," said Staros. He began looking at every example of comic art he could find, taking notes on what he liked, and, by 1994, was publishing a sort of comics guide called "The Staros Report."
To start Top Shelf, Staros teamed up with Brett Warnock, who he met at one of the San Diego Comic Cons. A resident of Portland, Ore., Warnock had already been putting out comics through his independent Primal Groove Press. His previous career as a bartender gave rise to the "Top Shelf" name.
Warnock handled design and packaging for the new venture, Staros crunched numbers and balanced spreadsheets, and their cross-continental business operated swimmingly until a day in 2002 they call Black Tuesday. A distributor that owed Top Shelf a significant amount of money went belly-up and "stiffed us for a fortune," as Staros describes it.
At 8 a.m. on that day Staros appealed to his customers, saying "if you want a Top Shelf product it's now or never." The readers bought like crazy. An aspiring Atlanta writer named Robert Venditti, who was working at Borders, volunteered to help pack and ship as the orders rolled in, and became the first Top Shelf employee.
While aiming a tape gun and doing fulfillment, Venditti wrote a graphic novel script called "The Surrogates," which Top Shelf published as a series starting in 2005. It was made into a movie starring Bruce Willis in 2009, and Venditti was off and running.
Volunteering for the mail room? "In many ways the best thing I ever did," said Venditti, a Forsyth County father of two. He went on to write the graphic novel adaptations of Rick Riordan's "Heroes of Olympus" series (illustrated by "March" artist Nate Powell), and writes the Green Lantern comics for DC Comics.
Since 1997, Staros estimates, Top Shelf has published about 300 graphic books and has sold about 3 million volumes. The variety of subjects that his writers and artists tackle gives a strong sense of the vitality of the genre. (See sidebar.)
Philip Rafshoon, program director at the AJC Decatur Book Festival, said the graphic novel has certainly earned a place at the festival. "It's an area that has been growing," he said. "There's been a demand for it at the festival over many years and with the John Lewis graphic novel released now, it seemed to be the perfect time."
Powell said the book festival appearance and the increased attention to graphic literature is a good sign for the health of the genre, which had an earlier reputation as a "mouth-breathing boys club.
"This is a promising cultural shift," he said.
Top Shelf publications
In addition to "Blankets," some of Top Shelf's biggest titles include graphic novel master Alan Moore's "From Hell," a Jack the Ripper tale made into a movie starring Johnny Depp, and a volume of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," a Victorian sci-fi romp. Another best-seller is "Goodbye, Chunky Rice," by Craig Thompson. This year's crop of books includes:
"A Matter of Life," by Jeffrey Brown. A gentle, autobiographical meditation on Brown's relationship with his minister father and toddler son. (Brown, a Chicago resident, is also reponsible for the hilarious "Darth Vader and Son" and "Vader's Little Princess," for Chronicle Books.) Brown praises the increasingly serious topics that graphic novels approach, such as Eddie Campbell's "The Lovely Horrible Stuff," a personalized history of money that Top Shelf put out last year. "It's almost like a New Yorker essay in the form of a comic book, in terms of the tone and the information you're getting," said Brown.
"God is Disappointed in You," written by Mark Russell, illustrated by Shannon Wheeler. An irreverent take on the Bible in which each book is condensed to a page or two. Russell of Portland, Ore., grew up Pentecostal, but says writing the book was a revelation: "I didn't realize how deep and weird and much more fulfilling the Bible is than it was taught to me." The leatherette cover, rounded corners and red bookmark complete the package. Sample line: Paul begins his letter to the Galatians upbraiding them for straying from his instructions, saying "I can't believe my freakin' ears. I leave you alone for one minute and already you've abandoned everything I've taught you…"
"March," written by U.S. Rep. John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell. The story of Lewis' experiences in the civil rights movement. "John Lewis is the genuine article, he's the real deal," said Powell.
For information, go to www.topshelfcomix.com.
John Lewis delivers the AJC Decatur Book Festival keynote address 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30, at Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts at Emory University. Joining him will be co-author Andrew Aydin and illustrator Nate Powell. Tickets are sold out, but the speech will be live streamed on www.ajc.com. Lewis, Aydin and Powell will sign copies of "March: One" at 1 p.m. Aug. 31 at the AJC tent. Pavilion. Nate Powell will appear on the "Sans Comic: Using the Graphic Genre to Recount History" panel at 4:15 p.m., Aug. 31, City Hall Stage. 404-471-5769, decaturbookfestival .com


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Rated: R Reviewed by: Jim Release date: November 11, 2011 Released by: Magnolia Pictures
This new film from notorious, torturous Danish helmer (known for his Dogma style) Lars Von Trier is more metaphysical and subdued than usual, as the intimate, vivid production works well off the universal trappings of his narrative.
Melancholia stars a top-flight Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgaard, and Kiefer Sutherland, and doesn't have the dramatic wallop of earlier Von Trier like Breaking The Waves and Dancer In The Dark. But, he elicits another varied, mature performance from his female headliner, now Dunst as Justine.
The tale is divided into two sections, first "Justine", and the other, "Claire", her older sister as played by Gainsbourg, who has developed as an impressive character actress, generally in low-budgeted forays. She displayed quite the amount of fortitude in the last nightmarish drama from Von Trier, Antichrist.
Justine, a marketing copywriter, is about to wed the love of her life, Michael, an affable Skarsgaard of cable TV's True Blood and very good in the remake of Straw Dogs. It's not clear where the nuptials are taking place, though on the remote, sumptuous estate of Claire and her wealthy astronomer-husband John, a decent Sutherland, who are raising a son Leo (Cameron Spurr). As Gaby and Dexter - Justine and Claire's parents, Charlotte Rampling and John Hurt make for strange, bickering folks whom the adult children don't really resemble. A dysfunctional gathering isn't helped by the couple's late arrival.
From the opening montage ( quite an amazing eight-minutes), one gets the impression that something major is going on the galaxy with a disoriented Justine in her bridal gown focused on the camera. Von Trier uses a wonderful Wagner selection to create a foreboding mood with slow-motion activity involving descending birds, a horse losing its gait after shadows have enveloped a pristine garden. Weeds and water are amidst Justine. Earth will never be the same again and the narrative division reflects the disparate outlook on an impending large-scale demise.
The filmmaking employs jump-cutting within a hand-held personalized approach (for those familiar to Von Trier or like powerful ones like The Celebration) juxtaposed with more lushly rendered (if occasionally overly expressive) interludes complements of painterly lensing by Manuel Alberto Claro. If there is too much vagueness during "Justine", then "Claire" brings more of a familial clarity when a self-destructive Justine remains with Claire and a money-minded John after the wedding goes awry. She becomes convinced of a possible extinction as the titular planet continues on its course while Claire becomes more panic-stricken for Leo. John tries to get him through it as a game.
Of this genre hybrid, gradually there is some meditative force to an evocative, if unsteady picture made more accessible by Dunst's layered, highly watchable portrait of an unusually troubled heroine (possibly mirroring the filmmaker's personal plight). More often than not, "Melancholia" is an arrestingly artful psychological disaster movie which has an odd cathartic translucent quality about it. Yet, something that may be too disdainful for those not into Von Trier's apocalyptic frame-of-mind now.


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Facebook app changes (still looking)
Budjetti $100-300 USD
I'm reposting this job ([url removed, login to view]) because the freelancer I hired was not able to deliver and wasted a full week of my time.
I have a Facebook app that needs some bug fixes and new features. The most challenging new feature is creating the ability for a user to select his top friends (very similar to [url removed, login to view])
User will be able to drag and drop friends on the canvas page to arrange and customize the look on his profile.
If you are good and fast, I have lots of other work on Facebook (and so I hope to find someone I can hire over and over again)
If you bid, please be sure to review the Top Friends app I linked to, and let me know that you are capable of cloning some of its features. Other bids will be ignored.
It would be very helpful if you have experience with the Amazon EC2/S3 service, as that is where my app is hosted. In your bid, please let me know if you have experience with it. The previous service provider couldn't figure it out despite lots of help from my developer, and I had to cut him.
This project should take no more than 5 hours. So please bid accordingly (I'm not going to pay more than $20/hour). Payment happens after the project is completed. I am a top-rated buyer on GAF, and leave excellent feedback for my freelancers.
I have about 10 other Facebook apps that need changes, bug fixes, and new features - so I am looking for someone that I can give lots of these projects to (through GAF).
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We will be pleased to quote for the installation of any decoder that we supply or that is forwarded to us with a locomotive or other rolling stock. Please contact us before despatch and note that:
Please note that labour charges are subject to VAT at the current rate.
For other work or if particular problems are encountered we charge at an hourly rate of £30.00 for labour; please note that we do not undertake any repair or maintenance work and locomotives with poor running or known faults should not be sent.
If examination of the job does reveal the need for additional work such as motor servicing or running gear maintenance you will be contacted before more work is undertaken which, if agreed, will be charged at the hourly rate; usually the loco will be returned, as received, if the fault is obvious before commencement of work.
We do not fit decoders into locomotives that do not run satisfactorily under normal DC; DCC cannot cure poor locomotive performance. We reserve the right to refuse any installation; typical reasons are:
Digitrains Ltd have undertaken decoder installations for several years but we do not undertake further work such as fitting additional lighting or smoke units. We recommend that these services are sourced through Jason who specialises in fitting bespoke lighting.
Just a brief summary of what he does regularly in his own words:
" Manufacture & installation of custom made lighting sets for diesel & electric locos configured to customer specification. These can be 'standard' dcc directional lighting, or 4 function lighting which enables independent tail light control or independent cab light control. I also produce my own interior cab lighting.
My light sets include all headcode variants for most diesel & electric locos. These include sealed beam marker lights, illuminated headcode displays for 'domino' or 4-character alpha numeric displays. Also where required high intensity headlights.
Variants of the class 20's include:Disc headocdeBox headocde domino or headcode displayLimited edition 'Hunslet' or 'DRS' types which are disc headcode with high intensity headlight.
I also undertake steam loco fittings including sound, smoke, working lamps ( dcc concepts) & firebox flicker ( also which I produce).All this is carried out to the highest standards. To achieve great results with dcc concepts lamps I undercoat in matt black to block unwanted light bleed, then finish them in white. All functions can be mapped to customer specification.
The list of locomotives I produce light sets for is:
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Here's a link to my Photobucket site showing some of the work I have carried out.
Jason works mainly in OO and does not undertake N gauge work.
We can advise as to how to get work done by him. We normally supply the parts such as decoders and speakers and let Jason do the whole fitting job as we feel there's no point fitting a decoder and speaker to a model only to have it immediately dismantled again to fit extra lighting or smoke components.
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Hello Spice Fellows,
we moving from exchange 2010 to O365, wondering what will be the common/possible issues users can have ?
Google telling me it can be stuff like users password resets / recreate mapi profiles / personal folders etc.
I couldn't find more info as real time and will appreciate if can have some please.
I need info as servicedesk point of view to get ready.
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Mar 31, 2017 at 20:51 UTC
Welcome to Spiceworks!
Are you the one who will be doing the migration? Are you doing a hybrid or a staged migration?
Mar 31, 2017 at 21:00 UTC
I recommend to install the desktop programs first. New versions of Outlook will auto-detect the changes and update the email account settings for you. Old versions of Outlook (i.e. anything that's not Office365 Outlook) will have to be manually reconfigured and may or may not work as expected.
FYI, I think that MAPI is soon to be no longer supported. If you are using MAPI, you'll want to confirm that.
Mar 31, 2017 at 21:45 UTC
How are you going to migrate your client data?
We moved from hosted Exchange to O365 a while back, and did a how to for saving emails to .pst, export calendar and contacts (we did this for higher ups)
we ended up discovering that when you create a new profile on an Outlook client install (desktop version) it would save cache data from old Exchange server. This was very lucky for those that couldnt do the how to!
from a service desk point of view, depending on how your old Exchange is setup, you may have an issue with users sending email using old email/contacts that gets bounced back undeliverable.
possible issues with users looking at or trying to look at wrong address book. This is because Outlook defaults to the 'Offline' Address book.
calendar events/sharing issues, I lost my auto-fill entries and have to type everything out again...
stuff like that
Mar 31, 2017 at 23:42 UTC
Apr 1, 2017 at 03:28 UTC
Here is something to look at
Apr 3, 2017 at 06:47 UTC
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It provides step-wise instructions with all necessary prerequisites.
10 major Office 365 migration gotchas to avoid - http://www.infoworld.com/article/2604770/office-software/top-10-office-365-migration-gotchas-to-avoi...
Few another informative resources you can also check below to gather more information :
And, http://techgenix.com/performing-staged-exchange-migration-office-365-exchange-online-part1/
To make your migration process easier you can use automated solution like Lepide Exchange Migrator. It helps you to do pre-migration analysis, schedule migration as per your requirements, avoid double hop, ensures no down time and supports co-existence.
Apr 3, 2017 at 11:02 UTC
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Hi aidanslater,
If you are open to using third party tools, I would recommend CodeTwo Office 365 Migration tool: https://www.codetwo.com/office-365-migration/?sts=6650.
The program will ease and automate the move from Exchange 2010 to Office 365. There is also a step-by-step guide you can follow to well prepare your source and target environments for the move: https://www.codetwo.com/userguide/office-365-migration/walkthrough-from-exchange.htm?sts=6650.
Additionally, if there are any problems during migration, you can always contact our support team, so that our technicians can assist you.
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All the best,
Apr 3, 2017 at 13:55 UTC
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Hey Aidan! Are you interested in using an outside source to help you with the migration process? If so, PCM's professional Office 365 services delivered by Stratiform can get you up and running and might be a great fit for you. Not sure what your environment looks like, but whether you are a small business or large enterprise, we definitely have the tools and will provide the right migration solution for you.
Linking here to some more information on our O365 services and plans, and you'll find more details on migration processes and service on this page as well: http://www.pcm.com/n/manufacturers-1559
If you have questions, you know where to find me!
Apr 3, 2017 at 16:25 UTC
The ONLY way to prevent users to be required to create a new profile is to perform Hybrid migration.
Apr 5, 2017 at 15:19 UTC
Interesting thread with very practical info
Apr 5, 2017 at 15:35 UTC
Sry for the confusion. it's imap, not mapi that is being discontinued.
Apr 16, 2017 at 17:23 UTC
Thanks Guys appreciate for all the responses been v helpful, now I know a lot more then wat I knew before this thread :)
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For my central Texas clients, the two leading causes of bankruptcy are personal or family illnesses with no or inadequate health insurance, and the loss of a job. This is not unusual: As many as 62 percent of bankruptcies were caused by medical costs, according to a Harvard study. Close to three out of four health-cost related bankruptcies are filed by people whose health insurance, unfortunately, was inadequate. Nationally, about 22 percent of bankruptcy filings are linked to a job loss.
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Andrea's Class
Double Presses - 16kg, 2 sets of 4 reps
Alternating Presses - 16kg, 4 reps, 3 reps
See Saw Presses - 12kg, 6x2
Double Swings - 16kg - 10X4
Double Cleans - 16kg; 10X4
Chest Press - 12kg; 6X3 (thank god, a laying down exercise!)
Abs and stretching at the end. I love going to class.
If I ever win the lottery I will travel the world going to all sorts of different yoga and KB classes. Maybe Aaron and I can have a KB Class vacation one year...
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- AikiBudo said...
What's the difference between a See-Saw press and an alternating press?
- July 19, 2007 at 4:15 PM
- fawn said...
See Saw Press - both arms are moving, as you start to pull one down, you are pressing the other up, they cross paths (so to speak) at eye level, like a See Saw.
Alternating Press - Press one, pull it down, press the other. Each is a separate movement.
Lots of presses today! It was fun!
- July 19, 2007 at 8:05 PM
- Tracy said...
You know I'm going to win the lottery, don't you?? (I'll explain another time!)
When are we going to Hawaii? I've been thinking of the possibilities of that lately.
- July 20, 2007 at 8:19 AM
- Taikei Matsushita said...
Chest Press can be done with your butt floated. Shoulder and heel touching the floor but nothing else.
As you know, glutes tight, pelvis forward stuff.
I'll get an RKC facility organized here. I don't know how long it takes but maybe just about good enough to invite you and Aaron.
- July 20, 2007 at 12:17 PM
- Aaron Friday said...
I want to see the Aikikai Hombu Dojo while I'm there, and then buy beer from a vending machine.
- July 20, 2007 at 5:00 PM
- fawn said...
I would love to travel to Japan! I will do what ever I can to help you. On one condition... you will have to make a cameo appearance for my students the next time you are here in Minnesota.
I had to stop off at Dragondoor to get more KB's for some students. So, I picked up ETK, my first KB dvd. It was nothing I didn't already know... but sometimes I forget how important these drills are. I revisited a bunch I forgot about with a class of beginners today.
- July 20, 2007 at 5:31 PM
- Taikei Matsushita said...
I'm off to order 550lbs of kettlebells, mostly Russian Reds. Am I gonna have fun!!
Brett's "Kettlebell Basics for Strength Coaches and Personal Trainers" also good.
Aaron, buying a beer from vending machine is about 20cents more than you pay at the store.
- July 21, 2007 at 4:19 AM
- fawn said...
Taikei, Thanks for the recommendation! I will get that dvd next time I'm at Dragondoor.
Congratulations on placing such a big order of KBs, that is a sign of upcoming success! I know you will make it big in the RKC. I am going to buy some lottery tickets this weekend...
- July 21, 2007 at 8:32 AM
- Kettlebell Lady said...
Fawn - I have Andrea's DVDs. That's great you got to workout with her.
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