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(Profile) Synechron India
Synechron India
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Synechron is a leading IT solutions provider to a wide spectrum of industry verticals with domain focus in the Capital Markets, Insurance, Mortgage Banking and Internet Media & Technology sectors.
Synechron is at the forefront of driving and managing IT strategies in these vertical segments for various clients. Synechron partners with clients to constantly enrich and share its vision on the role of technology in shaping business and technology strategies. For this, Synechron has built up dedicated domain competency groups for specific industry verticals. The domain experts from these groups drive Synechron's knowledge capital and thought leadership throughout these segments, deploying them on each individual engagement.
Synechron was founded in 2001 as a privately owned company with global offices in New Jersey, London, Amsterdam, Dubai, Tokyo and Singapore that work in tandem with its 2 state-of-the-art Global Development Centers based in Pune, India.
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Children Of Bodom are:
Alexi Laiho – Guitars & Vocals
Jaska Raatikainen – Drums
Henkka Blacksmith – Bass
Janne Warman – Keyboards
Daniel Freyberg – Guitars
Biography by Nuclear Blast Records
Over the last twenty years, Finland's CHILDREN OF BODOM have incorporated many different musical styles into their celebrated sound, leading critics and fans to label them as melodic death metal, thrash metal, symphonic black metal, and neoclassical metal. Their enthralling mix of melodic hooks and instrumental acrobatics have solidified the band as one of the leading voices of music's new generation.
Formed as Inearthed in 1993, the group is led by superstar frontman / guitarist Alexi Laiho, who was voted "Best Metal Guitarist" by readers of Guitar World magazine. COB albums are no strangers to debut positions on the American Billboard Top 200 chart and with three consecutive albums debuting at number one on Finnish album charts, they are one of their home country's bestselling artists of all time with more than 250,000 records sold there alone.
Children Of Bodom Reveal New Album, "I Worship Chaos", Out October 2nd 2015!
COB frontman, guitarist, and mastermind Alexi Laiho commented on the new album: "We are close to putting the finishing touches on the new COB record I Worship Chaos and as much fun (but most importantly raw, literally bloody knuckled hard work) it has been making it, I'm more than happy and even more anxious to share this chaos with the rest of the world. So people, put your shades and helmets on, it will get very dark and it might hurt, in a perfect COB fashion of course!"
Returning to Finland's Danger Johnny Studios (located at a top secret, undisclosed location in Helsinki) to record I Worship Chaos, the album was produced by COB and Mikko Karmila, who worked with the band on their earlier albums Halo Of Blood, Hatebreeder, Follow the Reaper and Hate Crew Deathroll. The album was mixed and mastered at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki, Finland.
COB is set to embark on a momentous worldwide trek in support of I Worship Chaos.

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Lord Professor Winston pays a visit to Whitgift School and enthrals with genetics lecture.
As part of the Michaelmas Term's Academic Enrichment Lecture Series, Whitgift was delighted to welcome Lord Professor Robert Winston, who visited on 25 September. After meeting with a select group of Sixth Formers for a Q&A session, Lord Winston presented to an audience of Upper and Lower School students, as well as staff, parents and friends of the School.
Lord Winston, Professor of Science and Society, and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London, is particularly well known for his work in the area of human fertility. Aside from work as a TV presenter, he is also an author of prize-winning books, including What Makes Me Me. Lord Winston sits on the Labour Party benches in the House of Lords, and speaks regularly on education, science, medicine and the arts.
His lecture topic encompassed the potential use and abuse of genetics, and how the current obsession with genetic perfection carries dangers for the future, as scientists start to manipulate the human genome.


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Vila vs. Galvao, part one. Part two is after the jump. All videos in this post via YouTube.com/BFCLUB
Last night's Bellator 55 in Yuma, Arizona, didn't have the quick finishes of last week's card, but still left fans in attendance with some interesting, if not controversial, fights. In case you couldn't tell by the headline, the bantamweight tournament semifinals gave us Eduardo Dantas vs. Alexis Vila as the bantamweight tournament finale. Yet both fights seemed to involve controversial decisions made by the judges.
In the main event of the evening, WEC veteran Marcos Galvao took on Alexis Vila, who you may remember as the guy that practically zombified Joe Warren in the bantamweight quarterfinals. In an extremely fast paced fight, Galvao seemed to land more strikes, and as the fight went on, stuff Vila's takedown attempts. However, the strikes that Vila landed seemed much harder. The judges gave the fight to Alexis Vila, which warranted boos from those in attendance. Watch the fight and judge for yourself whether or not the boos were justifiable.
Vila vs. Galvao, part two.
Likewise, Eduardo Dantas stayed very active, pushing the pace for the entire fight during his bout with season three bantamweight tournament finalist Ed West. Dantas ended up getting the decision, but one judge saw the fight for West. We have yet to confirm whether or not that judge confused West with Dantas. And yes, we have videos below so you can judge for yourself.
Also of note, Bellator Light-heavyweight Champion Christian M'Pumbu was involved in a non-title fight with YAMMA Pit Fighting champion Travis Wiuff. M'Pumbu, who doesn't cut weight for his fights, spent the first two rounds on his back, being overpowered by the much larger Wiuff. While M'Pumbu managed to almost finish Wiuff in the third round, it wasn't enough, as Wiuff defeated M'Pumbu. While Travis Wiuff doesn't get the title for his efforts, it's safe to say the man has earned a spot in next season's light-heavyweight tournament. This marks the first non-title superfight in Bellator where the champion has lost to the challenger. Also, lightweight prospect RicardoTirloni earned the main card's only finish by quickly choking out Steve Gable. Tirloni improves to 14-1 with the victory.
Full results, courtesy of Pro MMA Now:
Alexis Vila def. Marcos Galvao by split decision (27-30, 29-28, 29-28)
Eduardo Dantas def. Ed West by split decision (29-28, 28-29, 30-27)
Travis Wiuff def. Christian M'Pumbu by unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
Ricardo Tirloni def. Steve Gable by submission (rear-naked choke) Rd 2 (3:54)
PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike.com):
Richard Hale def. Carlos Flores by knockout (punch) Rd 1 (:18)
Kobe Ortiz def. Edgar Garcia by knockout (punch) Rd 1 (4:06)
Erin Beach def. Roscoe Jackson by submission (rear-naked choke) Rd 1 (3:52)
Jade Porter def. Nick Piedmont by unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
Steve Steinbeiss def. Dano Moore by submission (rear-naked choke) Rd 1 (4:52)
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Discover Your Own Unique Style of European Home Decor
Just how does one pinpoint the style of European home decor, when there seem to be so many variations on this broad theme? My feeling is that the definition of this concept is entirely up to you! And the process of finding your own personal expression of it can be a lot of fun.
After all, Europe itself is made up of many nations, each with their own rich history and decorating aesthetic. You may be drawn to the style of one particular country or historical period, but the wonderful thing about European interior design is that it can be a blend of many different influences.
Following the design strategies which I will lay out for you here today, you can choose your favorite elements from each time period and region of Europe and pull them all together to create a distinguished style that's all your own.
Traditional Chic with a Touch of Glamour
The Victorian era was all about opulence. Every possible surface was embellished with intricate decoration. However, it's still important to know when to stop when going for this look. Without exercising a little restraint, a room can quickly begin to look cluttered and oppressive.
To keep things in balance, I try to maintain symmetry in traditional decor whenever possible. I used the white wainscoting on the walls to guide the placement of the wall decor, starting with the gilded gold mirror as a large, elegant visual anchor point. I filled the surrounding wall space with framed prints lined up perfectly within the grid. This creates the feeling of order and tradition, and is a bit of a departure from the more casual, organically placed wall art I typically go for when I decorate a modern interior. I carried the line of symmetry through to two ornately upholstered armchairs.
If you are remodeling an —original— Victorian living room or redecorating a modern space in this style, don't be afraid to veer away from plain white walls. Colored wall paint was widely used during this period, often involving faded tones such as this dusty rose. Ask your local paint store if they carry a line of heritage colors to find some authentic inspiration for your color palette. To compliment the pink wall color, I chose an elegant sofa in a neutral shade of taupe with a similarly muted tone. Its tufted details and curved back give it traditional charm which is kept in check by its simple, solid upholstery material.
An Opulent Living Room with Traditional French Details
This room has all the hallmarks of European interior design, with certain elements that specifically reference a French traditional style. The French doors seem to open onto a Parisian terrace, filling the room with natural light. If you lack your own Parisian balcony, you can maximize natural light in your home using sheer window treatments and bright white walls. A chandelier is another way to fill a room with light, and this one definitely fits the traditional style, with its aged brass and opulent jewels. A bouquet of long stemmed red roses tops off the look, instantly giving any room romantic Parisian charm.
The loveseat is a great find, upholstered in a soft velvet texture which makes it comfortable and inviting, despite its extremely upscale wooden carved details. The large mirror with ornate gold frame echoes this opulent carved look. Luckily, mirror frames of this style are widely available as affordable reproductions.
Dark, richly hued wood fills the rest of the space, which is achievable because of the white walls and maximized light I mentioned earlier. From the dark wood of the traditional parquet floors, to the rounded side tables, chaise lounge, and armchairs, dark wood adds an air of history and a warm, welcoming hue to the neutral color palette.
A Serene Study with Quiet Elegance
Dedicate a quiet corner of your living space to relaxation with a comfortable armchair and a collection of vintage books. Unplugging from all of our modern gadgets and screens from time to time gives one's spirit and eyes a much needed rest.
What Victorian living room would be complete without a Persian rug? In the late Victorian era, rugs like this were all the rage, as they allowed the obsession with decorative detail to continue onto the floor space, adding a feeling of well travelled cultural heritage as well as a soft texture.
This room loosely follows the romantic look of the traditional French decor style, but keeps things sweet and simple. Dark wooden side tables and a gold framed mirror feature carved details but on a small, unimposing scale. Because this decor doesn't go overboard, I could afford to add one large element, for which I selected a lovely French chandelier. If you're going for this style, don't forget to add romance with fresh flowers.


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Ken Silverstein's "Think Tanks in the Tank?" [June 10/17] insinuates a lot, but the facts tell a different story. The inference at the heart of his article is that corporate donations shape or drive the content of CAP and CAP Action. That assertion is baseless and false. Silverstein's argument relies on a junior staffer "flagging" a hard-hitting piece we did on Goldman Sachs. But Silverstein fails to say that CAP's leadership raised no concerns—indeed it pushed for additional coverage—and the original draft appeared verbatim and remains publicly available, along with more than two dozen other pieces of our reporting that are highly critical of Goldman Sachs. All that was required was a simple search of ThinkProgress.
Silverstein also argues that CAP takes funds from Turkish interests and quotes an anonymous source: "as a result of the Turkish group's support, CAP was 'totally in the tank for them.'" Again, the author's insinuation is refuted by CAP's body of work. In fact, just days before the Turkish prime minister visited Washington recently, CAP published a piece critical of the Turkish government, "Freedom of the Press and Expression in Turkey." Silverstein goes even further, insinuating that CAP's growth over the year is attributable to our creation of our Business Alliance in 2007 and corporate donations. As the Huffington Post wrote in March, philanthropic giving is responsible for our growth. Only 6 percent of our funding in 2012 came from corporate donors, and it has never reached double digits.
These are the facts—facts that undermine Silverstein's preconceived conclusion. We are fiercely and proudly independent and strongly refute any inference to the contrary. We expect more from The Nation, and we encourage readers to look directly at our work on corporate accountability and financial sector reform, clean energy, campaign finance reform, defense cuts and progressive tax reform to judge for themselves.
ANDREA PURSE, Center for American Progress
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Ken Silverstein, relying on anonymous sources, claims that "staffers were very clearly instructed to check with the think tank's development team before writing anything that might upset contributors, I was told." I am not a CAP staffer, but I have been a senior fellow there almost since its inception. Beginning in 2003, I have either written or edited every iteration of the weekly "Think Again" media column for the CAP website. At no time during the writing or editing of these roughly 500 columns did I experience anything like what Silverstein describes (or anything else that would likely fall outside the purview of the editorial process at any publication, including The Nation). Indeed, I don't even know who's on the development team or who CAP's contributors are, and, thankfully, so far I have had no reason to care. I would have been happy to inform Silverstein of this had he contacted me.
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Bento fans all over the world know about Bento&co. Based in Kyoto, Japan, Bento&co sells only bento boxes and related products, and their ever-evolving catalog features items reflecting the best of Japanese bento box design, from cute to modern-minimalist to traditional. It's also one of the few online stores catering to the international market that carries real Japanese wood and stainless steel bento boxes. All the products they carry are made in Japan, with the exception of some bento accessories that are designed in Japan and manufactured in China.
And, this is the item they're giving away. It's the impossibly cute Kokeshi Bento box! I understand that these have been flying off their shelves, so I'm really glad that we can give away one right here on JustBento. One lucky winner will win their choice of one of the Kokeshi Bento boxes pictured below.
A kokeshi is a traditional Japanese doll made of turned wood. They originated in the northern parts of Honshuu, the main island in Japan, but nowadays you see them sold everywhere in Japan. Japanese people love kokeshi; they're so iconic that Nintendo took their inspiration for the Mii avatars used in Wii games from the kokeshi form.
The Kokeshi Bento box is made to look like a kokeshi doll, but is made of practical, microwave-safe plastic (remove the inner lids before microwaving). The box has three main parts: two stacking round layers for your regular bento food with leakproof lids, plus a small bowl that can be used for soup, fruit, cereal, and so on. (Note that the bowl is not water-tight; the idea is to bring along a packet of instant soup or your own vegetable soup concentrate, and to add hot water in the bowl with the soup mix when you're ready to eat.) The bowl inverts on top of the stack to form the head of each kokeshi character, and a bento band is included to hold things together.
The total capacity of the box is 640ml - 200ml for each stacking tier, and 240ml for the bowl. It's suitable for adults with small appetites.
Update: This giveaway is now closed. Thank you everyone who entered! The winner will be announced later this week.
This giveaway is open to everyone, worldwide - or at least, anywhere that Bento&co can ship! (If in doubt, please ask them first.)
To enter, just leave a comment to this post. The question to answer for this giveaway is - what is your favorite bento/lunch food? If you have a link to a recipe, please post that too.
Be sure to include a valid email address where you can be contacted in the appropriate text box! Your comment must be posted by 23:59:59 EDT (U.S. East Coast Time) (or just before midnight) of Tuesday, August 24th 2010. One lucky entry will be drawn at random to receive a Kokeshi Bento box of their choice. Good luck!
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Cute bento boxes, I've never seen those before.
My favorite bento food is plain rice. I use sesame furikake sometimes, but Mr Yoshida's sauce is the best accompaniment for the rice. I originally ate it with sticky rice (yum!), but switched to plain steamed rice because it is a little bit healthier.
I love home-made sau mai (or siu mai) salmon rice and chicken with shiitake, red pepper and soy sauce. And miso soup. Yummy!!
When I have the time to do it, I LOVE making Tamago.
When I'm using leftovers, I have a salmon rice ball recipe that I enjoy.( http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Salmon-and-Rice-Balls/Detail.aspx ) and a spicy cucumber salad. Gives me the vegetables that I like to have.
I like having fried rice with egg and some fruit to clean the pallet when I am done. It's always so nice to have a good lunch during a stressful day :)
It's not very traditional, but I love pasta salad with tuna and peas. It's got the carbs and protein that I need!
Onigiri, I just love onigiri! And your recipe on carrot/forgotten vegetable kinpira.
We started experimenting with bento luches during the last school year and my kids already requested california rolls and a sweet beef and egg donburri for thier first week back. My husband loves sushi, me not so much but I can roll it pretty well.
My all-time favorite bento box lunch would be the classic steamed rice with a sprinkling of sesame seeds, homemade chicken teriyaki, some edamame, and a bunch of strawberries. It's visually appealing with all the colors and very satifying in the tummy. I love it, and my kids love it for their school lunch, too.
I like a healthy lunch; usually turkey or chicken with humus on a wheat warp; veggies and fruit!
It is so hard to pick just one thing, but right now brown rice and chicken sound good for a bento.
Kiri sandwiches and carrot & cucumber sticks for my 4 year old
No question: tamagoyaki, it's in almost every Bento we make.
I love mini frittatas you make in mini muffin tins. Just mix up some eggs and add chives, bits of ham or canadian bacon, cheese, whatever you like. Pour it into mini muffin tins and bake.
My favorite bento food has got to be seared tuna or salmon steaks shredded into some rice with sesame seeds scattered in there. It has to be my favorite of all time. :)
those are seriously cute, the designers hit on a lovely idea there. :)
i like tamagoyaki, teriyaki chicken, rice balls, and dumplings filled with leftovers (usually chicken korma) http://lunchinabox.net/2008/03/01/leftover-remake-curry-gyoza/ although I can never get them to look as pretty as that site's photos. the in-law's garden provides a lot of vegetables, so we eat whatever is in season.
i love just using leftovers!
yummm...meatballs and rice :)
any kind of veggies
Anything my gf packs in my bento :)
I love making tiny Okonomiyaki for my bento boxes. I use the recipe from The Manga Cookbook by Yoko Ishihara (page 102 - 103) except I add bacon. They taste exactly like the ones I used to eat in Osaka!
I love making any kind of sandwich wraps! Especially fruit sandwich wraps!!! They are so yummy and colorful!!
My favorite food for bento is ume onigiri. Yummy!!
My favorite bento food is onigiri. Fun to make and so versatile in flavor simply by using different fillings.
My favorite lunch food is anything on top of rice (donburi for the win!).
I love broiled tofu with rice and miso soup - simple, easy and delicious. The kokeshi box is perfect for my favorite meal!
Hmmm My favorite is SUSHI! I Love it anywhere at ANY time! ;)
I absolutely LOVE the little meatloafs recipe from JustBento. I've made them several times now, and my family love them too!
salted salmon is my staple... .... but if craving something different a falafel dumpling is also yummy
My favorite bento item anything made from satsumaimo. I love daigakuimo which is deep fried satsumaimo which is then coated with a syrupy sauce and sprinkled with black sesame seeds. I also like chopping up steamed satsumaimo into small cubes and mixing it in with my rice. Ok I know you're supposed to talk about your favorite bento item but I also love love love homemade umeboshi. :)
I personally love to bring soups for lunch. They keep our air conditioning down to freezing temperatures so a hot cup of soup is nice.
I love fresh veggies with hummus for lunch.
One of my favorite lunch foods that would be good in a bento is noodles! Any kind, hot or cold; I love how you can do so much with them. Also, hummus & sugar snap peas are my latest addiction.
Tempura de légumes (patates douces, courgettes, oignons), porc tonkatsu, inari, dorayaki. I love Bento^^
I love kara-age. You can see the recipe on this page (in french) : http://a-vos-baguettes.blogspot.com/2010/05/elements-pour-bento-ou-pour-...
Cherry tomato and lettuce salad with side vinaigrette (so the lettuce won't get mushy!), fried rice with sesame and caned tuna with soy sauce, and 2-egg creamy omelette with bacon. Very fast to prepare and very very tasty.
You can easily find many kind of vinaigrette recipes on google!
I like having katsudon bento with miso soup =)
And a salade of melon, watermelon ~
Onigiri! My host mom used to make them but I liked the ones filled with negitoro from the conbini the best.
My favorite is fresh veggies and hummus. Not very traditional, but so simple to pack and yummy to eat.
Onigri made by grandma. Whenever she'd see me growing up she'd always have some made for me. Brings a smile to my face just thinking about it. Always made with us love. ^.^
I love a bento with 3-4 onigiri with different fillings, usually left-overs, a japanese omelete sliced up, and some fruit salad. Perfect and simple!
My favorite bento is probably steamed white rice with sake furikake and mini hamburger patties with egg, I think my mom made this most often for me.
I really like having fresh, seasonal (when possible) vegetables and fruit in my bentos. It makes me feel healthy, and it's also generally delicious!
My favourite is rice with sesame seeds. Sometimes I put a bit of soy sauce too.
For my daughter, the favorites are fresh fruit and veggies along with little crackers and cheese cut with cookie cutters. For me it's whatever leftovers I can easily transport.
My life would be better if I had one of these.
I'm really bad about bringing food from home for lunch, but I would be very happy with a simple bento of rice and maybe some kind of chicken teriyaki. Oh, and I guess vegetables. Maybe.
I like to have tamagoyaki and onigiri in my bentos because they are easy to make and versatile.
Like a lot of other people I would have to say I love onigiri the best for my bentos. There is just so much you can do with them. Though my favorite is toasted in a bit of sesame oil. Yum!
As a mom with six children, I'm still puzzling over the interest in bento boxes... I think I've been doing Kyaraben (character) bento in good ol' American brown bag lunches all these years w/o realizing it LOL :D ...what an additional wow response if I won one of these cutesie bento boxes...for the back-to-school readers with younger children, sushi with the nori on the outside and decorated to look like piggies using hot dog pieces is a nice combo of Japanese artistry plus Yankee frugal and quick-to-make practicality :).
My favorite lunch food is grilled cheese with tomato soup :D
I like making bento for my son with colorful veggies and dip.
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Jim Digby, the tour manager for Linkin Park, knows better than most how dangerous a rock 'n' roll show can be. In 1983 he was a 19-year-old technical director at a new nightclub outside Philadelphia when a piece of equipment he was operating came off a faulty overhead track, plummeted toward the floor and killed a young woman standing just a few feet from him.
"My finger was on the button," he recalled. "That memory has been buried inside me for years."
That moment flashed through his mind, he said, when stage rigging collapsed at the Indiana State Fair last year and killed seven people waiting to hear the country duo Sugarland. The accident was one of four that summer in which stages collapsed in high winds. Then this June a drum technician for Radiohead died in Toronto when a stage roof fell before a show, this time in fair weather.
For Mr. Digby the Indiana disaster was a turning point. During the past year he has organized a campaign to improve safety at outdoor events, and, though his group's efforts are in the early stages, he has garnered support from AEG Worldwide, one of the nation's largest promoters, as well as from stage manufacturers and leaders of the IATSE, the stagehands' union.
Mr. Digby's organization, the Event Safety Alliance, is pushing the outdoor concert industry to adopt national standards not only for stage construction but also for emergency procedures during bad weather and other crises. Those standards would be based on a guidebook published by British workplace-safety authorities that has become widely used in Britain and elsewhere in Europe.Continue reading the main story
"These things always boil down to dollars and cents," Mr. Digby said. "I don't think any show has ever intentionally caused an accident that put somebody in a body bag," he added. "But because the industry doesn't have any standards and practices, because it doesn't have a catalog of best practices, because it isn't regulated, any cowboy can do anything."
He and a handful of like-minded tour managers have also begun taking unilateral action. Linkin Park and a few other bands, among them Heart and Phish, are now demanding guarantees in their contracts that promoters build stages to stringent engineering standards and draw up emergency plans, spelling out who is responsible for shutting down a show.
These tours have begun hiring meteorologists as well. Last month Linkin Park became the first rock band to have its touring operation receive the National Weather Service's StormReady seal of approval after the band hired a consulting company, Weather Decision Technologies, to provide warnings on weather hazards. The band has also drawn up thorough plans for weather emergencies, federal officials said. "We are really hoping people will follow their lead," said Richard Smith, a warning-coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
The disaster at the Sugarland concert threw a spotlight on the lack of uniform standards for outdoor events. An independent investigation by an engineering firm found the overhead stage rigging that collapsed was shoddily built and did not meet the standards recommended by Plasa, an association representing stage manufacturers and dealers. A second consultant's report found the accident was exacerbated by a lack of emergency planning: communications broke down and it was unclear who was in charge during the critical minutes before the storm hit.
For decades outdoor-concert promoters have been largely self-policed, and regulations for temporary stages vary widely from state to state and city to city, promoters say. Some cities, like Chicago and New York, have stringent engineering requirements and inspections by local buildings officials. Even in states with strong regulations enforcement can be spotty, especially at fairs and events put on by small-time promoters.
The Event Safety Alliance grew out of discussions Mr. Digby had with promoters, stage companies and tour managers after last year's accidents. Besides recommending safety clauses in show contracts, the alliance is drafting standards and practices for outdoor concerts to be put in place by early next year. They are based on the British standards, known as the "purple guide." Those 200 pages of standards by the Health and Safety Executive are not law, but during the past two decades they have become the de facto template for negotiations between local authorities and promoters over concert permits.
Gavin Bye, an official with the Health and Safety Executive, said British authorities have found that simply putting the guidebook in the hands of local governments has sharpened the oversight of outdoor events, with officials following them closely when granting licenses.
Matt Bettenhausen, the chief security officer at AEG Worldwide, said his company supports creating industry safety standards on the British model. Many states have regulations that are never enforced, and industry standards would give city and county officials a checklist of what they should require of promoters, he said.
The standards might also lead states to enact similar regulations, ending the current patchwork of laws. "If you can set the standards, everyone looks to it," he said.
Mr. Digby's organization faces obstacles. For starters it remains unclear how the outdoor-concert industry could adopt the standards because there is no strong trade group representing concert promoters, much less artists and their managers. What's more, some promoters will resist uniform standards if they raise costs.
"It's an ongoing battle because there are financial pressures involved," said Bill Cracknell, the tour manager for Heart, the veteran female rock duo. He said he had already run into stiff resistance from promoters to the safety clauses in his band's contracts.
Other promoters are skeptical that a one-size-fits-all set of standards can be devised to cover all shows, which are complex deals with many variables. "I'm not so sure the standards would apply to each and every situation," said Jerry Mickelson, a veteran promoter with Jam Productions in Chicago. "The problem that could occur is that someone puts out this code, and it may not all apply to a certain venue, in a certain town, on a certain site. The next thing you know you get a lawyer that's suing you for something that happened based on that manual."
But Mr. Digby and his allies are betting a grass-roots movement among artists and their agents and managers can change industry practices, prompting his band and others to start demanding standard on stage construction and emergency plans in their show contracts. Those clauses lay the groundwork for legal action if something goes wrong. "We've established a chain of accountability," he said.
Mr. Bettenhausen, the AEG executive, said the contract riders were a good tool for spreading the word about safety. In essence they require promoters to follow steps that AEG already has in place.
"Everyone needs to take ownership of this issue," he said. "If you are putting it in your contracts that's hitting your venues with 'This is what we expect, or we are not going to perform.' "Continue reading the main story


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Tile Setters vs. Trim carpenters
I usually hold base up 7/8" to allow flooring to slide under, then install shoe molding later during lock-out. Jambs are normally cut off the thickness of tile plus backer board so tile slides under the jamb, resulting in a clean, tight fit.
This was an ugly scene that resulted in the tile setter storming off the job muttering something about my mother and her dog. (She doesn't even have a dog!) How do you handle who goes first? What seems to work best for you in this situation?
Forum Responses
From contributor P:
Will the work of the tile setter and flooring guy get in the way of the trim guy? Will the baseboard and doors/casing get in the way of the flooring guys? There is your answer!
From contributor W:
If you had to do both jobs yourself (the tile and the trim), which would *you* do first?
From contributor J:
The doors and trim should be installed, and stained or primed/painted first. Who in their right mind works over a finished floor? Homeowner should be able to figure that out, and not make a pain in the butt for every sub on the job because someone doesn't want to buy or use a jamb saw.
From contributor G:
Doors and trim are definitely first. I have never seen it done the other way, unless it was an extensive remodel job. As a previous post says, that's what a jamb saw is for.
Also, you don't need to hold the base up 7/8 so the flooring will slide under. That is what the shoe is for.
From contributor P:
I just set a tile floor this morning for a GC that only does trim. The door was not set and the bottom of the walls are being treated with wainscoting, base and shoe. That was not done either. I work over finished floors all the time - no big deal. I understand that nobody wants to work over a finished floor. If I was GC, the flooring would be done first, even if I was the one trimming it. Period. I have also seen cabinets installed first - that is BS, too!
From contributor J:
I would have to disagree with the last post. A mud set floor should be grouted to the cabinets and base moulding. In my opinion, nothing looks cheesier or cheaper than shoe moulding on a tile floor. Shoemould is for hardwood flooring or sheet vinyl/linoleum. Most often, the tiles are set so that you can't shoemould them anyway with the corners sticking up.
Has anyone tried to fit cabinets or crown to a rock fireplace on which no one had the foresight to run a frieze or at least lay against a straight edge? A GC should be publicly flogged for allowing that to happen. I just set a job about 3 weeks late waiting on a tilesetter that convinced the homeowner the tile should be laid first. He wasn't busy at the time, and thought he might be when the job came on schedule. He got done and his rusted up trowels and other junk laid piled out in the carport for the next 4 weeks! Besides wasting 80 sq feet or more of tile under the cabinets and making the installation of the linen cabinets next to impossible with a bathroom wainscot of tile, what was accomplished? Now the trimmer has to fit all the jambs to this snaggletoothed tile, and the painter has to spend 1 day putting paper down before he can paint. Luckily, the homeowner came by with a new cordless drill he just bought and dropped it on the floor and broke one of the tiles. He was installing a threshold to cover where the tile didn't make it to the hardwood floor (again, cheesy)!
From contributor T:
Wait! I have a better one. The designer wanted a bar in the living section just this side of the kitchen. Fine. All I said was "check with the plumber to make sure that the plumbing will get over here for the sink."
I did a really nice mahogany bar. The designer says that they want to order the black granite top first. I told her that the top is a semi-circular shape with wood edge rail. Nonetheless, this is what they did. Come installation day, they had to cut the granite in three pie shapes to get it in. Real trashy. Here comes the best part. I went behind the bar to look at the beautiful nickel sink and I opened the custom concave door below the sink and there it is. A 5 gallon bucket for drain waste.
From contributor R:
I've seen it done every way possible. It depends on how nasty the jobsite is. Here's the proper way - hang all the doors and trim except where there's tile or lino. You can go ahead and do that as well, but you create extra work for the tile/lino guy. If I have to do this, I use a piece of tile and corrugated cardboard as a spacer, so he doesn't normally have to trim my casing. After the tile/lino is done, I install the baseboard - no shoe mold ever! I take the base and backbevel the bottom and scribe to fit, which takes about the same amount of time as a shoe mold and you don't have to look at the hideous ends where they butt into the usually cheap undersized casing.
From the original questioner:
I know there are valid arguments to be made on both sides of the fence concerning tile/trim. This is an old argument that seems to rear its ugly head every year or two. In my opinion, what it comes down to is what makes for the best looking job with the least problems.
I believe setting doors and base first creates fewer problems than the other way around. As I mentioned earlier, cutting the jambs off allows for a clean, tight fit. If the base is held up the thickness of the backer board and tile plus 1/8" or less, then the gap, if any, can be easily grouted with the rest of the floor, or caulked if you prefer, not requiring shoe molding (which I agree looks cheesy at best).
As far as installing pre-finished hardwood floors goes, I believe this should be the last thing done before carpet. There is too much of a chance to damage the floor prior to this time.
Of course, I can work over a finished floor (tile or wood). Sometimes it is necessary, but as a general rule, I think installing doors and trim creates fewer problems and makes for a better looking job.
By the way, the homeowner/contractor called his brother-in-law who is a builder in Michigan and asked him what should go first. Doors and trim was the answer. Then he called a couple of other contractors he knows. Same answer.
From contributor F:
Trim carpenter goes first for all the reasons mentioned above.
The tile guy in this case must not be much of a tile guy, if he is whining about having to use a jamb saw... big deal. I would be looking for another tile guy!
From contributor M:
Down here in Georgia, we prefer that the tile and unfinished wood floors be installed first. In my experience, tile setters and wood floor installers are notorious for butchering up door jambs and casing. Many times, their blades are dull, leaving a ragged cut. Many times the cut height is not set accurately, leaving a gap between the casing and tile or wood floor. Sometimes there are joints in the subfloor that are not level, which throws off the jamb saw, making a crooked cut. As a finish carpenter, I am responsible for as near a perfect finish job as possible, and I don't want to leave that in the hands of a tile man or floor layer. I can make my door jambs and casing fit tight to any floor, whether it's level and flat or not, resulting in a better fit. I disagree with the gentleman who says shoe mould looks cheesy on tile floors where there is wood baseboard. What looks cheesy to me is the crack at the joint where grout meets wood, which always occurs.
I realize that things are done differently in different parts of the country. In 30 years of carpentry, I've done it both ways, depending on the situation and the builder. I think that owner/builders are the worst, as they aren't experienced at job coordination.
From contributor A:
Contributor P, your post really got me fired up. Just because something is easier for you doesn't make it the right way. Why are so many tile guys scared of their tile saw and jamb saw? You know, it's easier for the drywaller if there are no electrical boxes in the wall. Maybe the electrician should do that later...
Any finish carpenter will agree that setting a jamb head level while keeping both legs tight to the finish floor can more than double install time and never looks as good as one jambsawed and/or grouted. And I cannot tell you how much time I have spent scraping the excess grout along the wall (or back-cutting the base) so the base will set somewhat tight to the floor. And have you ever tried to wrack a cabinet with inset doors square when you can't put a screw through the toe kick to hold it? Many times I do both jobs myself, and the trim is always done first.
I'm a little steamed right now because last week I had a tile guy try to convince a homeowner to let him sneak onto my job (I'm contracting all aspects of the job except the tile) first. The mechanical isn't even done and to make matters worse, it is a slate floor. Try setting your cabinets on that uneven surface. And shoe? Out of the question. You contractors out there know how hard it can be to convince a customer to do something right after someone has already fed them a line of bull.
I'm all for making everyone's job easier, but not if the quality or beauty of the job is compromised. My customers know this and that is why they hire me.
From contributor A:
We talented carpenters can make it fit tight. But I never relish picking up someone else's slack. If a tile guy cannot use a jambsaw or does not maintain his equipment, he is not on my job.
I contract most of the jobs I trim and install cabinets for, so naturally I am there tearing the old kitchen/bath out. To this day, I have never torn cabinets out of an old, high-end home and found tile under the cabinets.
From contributor P:
To set the record straight... I am a carpenter. Mostly renovations. Try getting a tile under a jamb and keeping it tight to the bottom of the jamb with the mortar wet. PIA. I can't understand why on earth it would double the install time to set a door on top of tile. Put a level on the floor, note if it is out of level, and trim jamb - no big deal. For your information, having a door set before tile is really no big deal. Trimming it and/or base is a pain for the tile guy. I am both almost always. Base first, before hardwood flooring, is nuts. Why not at least leave the trim off where it meets the hardwood or tile? I understand the trim guy wants to finish and get paid. Why not leave it for the punch guy on new construction? Have you ever done tile? Or flooring?
From contributor A:
I don't think the tile should be under the jamb any more than it should be under the finish toe of a cabinet. I personally think it looks best with the same grout line around the perimeter. That way, the tile looks fit to the space. If the tile is set under the jamb, I manage to set it tight (I do tile as well). Let us also note that we are not talking about hardwood here (which I also install). When finished, it has a smooth surface against which shoe sits tight. A wood floor also has expansion issues that tile does not have and it is sanded and finished at a later date (assuming it's not pre-finished).
You don't understand why it takes longer to set a jamb on a finished floor? Especially if the tile has an uneven surface or it's slate? Let's see - take door out of jamb...Use shim under jamb to set correct height... Plumb... Drive nail... Hang door and visually make the top reveal perfect... Nail other side. Now the other way. Determine height... Make level line at that height and measure to finish floor (or lay level on floor and guess if you're actually seeing 1/8 or 3/16 or slide shim under level until reads level, mark the shim and measure the shim)... Take door out of jamb and mark and trim jamb. (If you cut the jamb by hand, you need your speed square and an additional saw. If you use the mitre saw, you use your helper or a stretcher to hold up the other leg while you cut it to length. If you're making your own jambs, it's not as awkward.) Now set the jamb plumb... Hang the door (this is the moment of excitement and suspense - will the top reveal look even or not?).
I didn't like your comment about setting the cabinets first being BS. There is a multitude of reasons for setting the cabinetry first. I'll give you one. Say I have a fridge on the end of a run of cabinets with an end panel. How do I neatly fasten the panel to the floor (please don't tell me caulk or L bracket)? What about a free standing 12" base cab? Oh, that's right - go get my hammer drill to fasten a nailer to the floor (the same for peninsulas and islands). Not to mention the nasty look of shoe on some tile, and how hard on my knees the tile is, and how twice my workers have dropped the glass touchup bottles on the floor in multi-million dollar homes, and how dropcloths have to be placed under my ladders, etc.
If I have to, I will gladly jamb saw the trim for the tile guy after the mud base is done. If I have to compromise, I'd be willing to set the door jambs and cabs only and do the casing and base later. If I have to, I'll let the tile be set first and take the time to scribe to it... but as a rule of thumb, the trim should be done first.
From the original questioner:
Contributor M, I don't know where in Georgia you are, but I lived and worked there for 14 years (Peachtree City) and subcontracted trim, cabinets, and stairs for numerous builders. I can only think of one of my regular builders that installed tile and/or wood floors prior to trim on a regular basis. Oh, there would always be occasional scheduling conflicts and screw-ups. But generally, trim went first. However, you are dead on accurate in explaining the pitfalls of having an incompetent tile/flooring installer butcher up jambs with dull saws and inaccurate cut heights. This is not the fault of the trim man! If I am asked to fix the problem, then I charge for it and the builder back charges the floor installer. It usually doesn't take long for them to learn to be more accurate or a new installer will be found.
Contributor A, you sure hit the nail on the head about keeping jamb heads level and legs tight to the floor. What a pain! And scraping grout out of corners and back cutting base? Been there, done that. Anyone who doesn't know why it would double install time to set a door on top of tile or wood hasn't done many of them. Just reading a level on the floor isn't enough. Besides that, many times the rough openings aren't tall enough to install a door unit on top of wood or tile.
I too have installed trim both ways in 27 years doing trim and would agree that a lot depends on conditions, the builder, and local practice. But as I stated in an earlier post, what it comes down to is what creates the best looking job with the fewest problems (there will be problems), in your particular situation.
FYI: Tile setter will start on Monday. The painter is also scheduled to start on Monday! And the cabinets (Thank goodness I didn't have to install cabinets on this job!) are scheduled for the following Monday (poor guys!). I think that's the same day the pre-finished wood floors are scheduled. Man, am I glad to be through with this job.
From contributor M:
I live and work on Lake Oconee, one hour east of Atlanta. In this area, all of my builders install wood floors first. Tile, sometimes depends on the material, and sometimes just availability of the tile guy. The house I'm currently doing has 18 x 18 travertine tile floors in the master bath and it was installed first. As you know, many times the tile guys are working at the same time as we are, and it's just a matter of who gets there first. There are five 8' solid core doors in this particular bath with 3 1/2 poplar casing with backband, and plinth blocks. The plinths are 3/4 on the inside edge, and 1 1/2 on the outer edge. In this case, I'm glad the tile was in. I like knowing that these heavy doors are sitting on a solid floor. I hate to think what the tile guy would have done to the plinth blocks. I agree that it is often a touchy situation and almost always a pain dealing with all the other subs as well as the poor quality of those who go before us, like framers who can't measure or use a level, or sheetrockers who can't cut the rock clean, or tile setters who cake grout all against the wall or fill corners with grout that have to be chiseled out. I, too, charge extra for everything I have to do as a result of someone else's sloppy work and seldom do builders complain about these charges. The homes in this resort area are fairly high end and the owners pay for and expect high quality. So, whatever it takes, we do, and we charge.
Let me add that, of course, if the floor was pre-finished, it would go down last. Actually, in all these years, I have never trimmed a house with pre-finished floors. What am I missing...?
From the original questioner:
I agree that in this case it is preferable, if not necessary, to have tile done first. There will always be times when this is the preferred method. The situations I refer to, for the most part, are installing pre-hung, hollow core door units with standard 356 or Howe casing. If I cut and install casing and plinth blocks, it's not as important which is done first. Actually, when the tile guys are working at the same time we are, it's usually easier to work out a solution among ourselves than to let the builder make the call.
You haven't trimmed a house that has pre-finished floors? There are good and bad things about that as well. But that's another subject.
I'll tell you what upsets me more than just about anything else. That's trying to install a staircase and balustrade over stringers so screwed up, out of level, out of square, with unequal rises and runs that the entire thing has to be rebuilt and I'm so ready to strangle the framer.
From contributor K:
In Mass-RI, we almost always are the second to last on the job, with the painters being last. Setting doors on finished surfaces is how we usually do it. I spin a laser at jamb height and measure all legs and cut bottom of doors for proper reveals. I do think setting the door first would be nice, but are you going to leave cutting doors to the floor guys? Not to bash floor guys, but over here they are not the most accurate types on the site. If the tile guys have to meet wood, how are they going to run their saws all the way across the jamb?
From contributor I:
I can't see it's necessary to cut the jamb. Only the casing would need to be cut, then fit the tile or wood to the jamb face. We're not trying to pilot the space shuttle - we're installing floor covering. Trim carpentry isn't rocket science, but it burns me up for another trade to want me to prep his job "because he can't." Either learn your trade and deal with it or go to work at Target (probably in shoes).
When I roll on the job, I have what it takes to get my job done. Other trades want you to pull their slack. I got a call Saturday from a homeowner/builder that his electrician needed me to drive 45 miles to cut in a receptacle box in the end of an island because he was afraid he would mess it up. Give me a break. If you can't cut a square hole close enough that one of those jumbo cover plates that I would keep in my glove box won't cover, do something else!
From contributor K:
I hear what you are saying but I know from experience that other trades only care about what they are doing. They do not care if they knock a board in and move the jamb as long as their stuff looks tight. That being said, it is only the general's fault when it happens for not taking the time to look at the work being performed.
From contributor A:
It is very common to have tile on just one side of a doorway, in which case there is usually a 4 1/2" marble threshold with beveled edges. That threshold has to go between the jambs. I remember a job two years ago where I had to make cardboard templates for each leg of the jambs to transition from the wood floor, up and over the threshold, and back down to the tile (stain grade, no caulk).
The builder/homeowner just needs to make sure the tile guy and finish carpenter talk and work out a plan.
From contributor U:
I can not think how they are going to get the tile tight to the jamb if installed after. Can someone explain this to me?
From contributor J:
I'll take a stab at this one. I don't find it's necessary to cut the jamb across the face, just the casing and clip the door stop, then it's just a matter of cutting the tile to the jamb face. I know this will require some measure of effort and thought on the part of the tile setter. I am a cabinet builder, a trim carpenter, and I have installed tile professionally in a previous life, not that it counts for much.
From contributor E:
In 25 years I thought I had about seen it all until yesterday, when the GC scheduled me, the trimmer, and the wood floor guys (3 of 'em) for the same day in a 2 room remodel! Since I was there first, they went off to a job they could get something done at.
From the original questioner:
Well, it seems as if this issue has no firm resolution. But I guess that is how it should be. As professionals, we should all be looking for ways to improve the job we do. It is so easy to learn to do a particular job one way and never consider other ways to accomplish the same job. Maybe an easier way, maybe a more difficult way but with better results, maybe a more time-efficient way. Who knows? I agree and disagree with many of you and I am sure the thought is reciprocal. But that is what I like about this forum. An environment for professionals to share ideas, cuss and discuss them, argue about them, and maybe just maybe, learn something new when we thought we knew it all. Does this mean that I am going to change how I install doors and trim? No! This is what works best in my situation. Just don't make any comments about my mother and her dog (which she doesn't have) if you disagree! Best regards and remember, don't force it, just use a bigger hammer :)
From contributor F:
We do kitchen and bath remodeling. We are the trim carpenters and the tilers. We might put down cement board first, but the actual tile is one of the last things to happen for all of the reasons given above. The only reason I can think of to tile first is if I were the tile guy and I wanted to make my life easier!
From contributor Y:
Quit whining and figure out how to work together and all will be well.
The comments below were added after this Forum discussion was archived as a Knowledge Base article (add your comment).
Comment from contributor L:
I like to run tile under jambs so the cuts are hidden and the job looks better. I use a color matched sanded caulk to bridge any discrepancies. I would do base and/or shoe after tile or hold the base up and just do shoe last to make sure there is a proper expansion joint left for the tile/slate.
Comment from contributor C:
I'm a tile setter/owner with employees in Orlando, Fl. During the early years I have learned that there are several ways and styles that subs do work. It is very important that they work well with each other, i.e. plumber with tiling shower, countertop with backsplash, trim with floor, etc. In new home construction I prefer that the door jams already be set in place, then trimmed by my guys to proper height for a smooth finish. Also, this allows for the carpet transitions to be placed in the center of the door, so you do not see the carpet or tile when the door is shut. Then the base molding would come after the tiles are run up to the wall. If the trim guy has to install prior to the floor being tiled, putting a 1/2 inch scrap sheet rock under the base will give the tile guy plenty of room to work. More than likely, the trim guy or punch out person will have to caulk later between the tile and trim, due to slab imperfections that are not caught. The trick is to allow the subs to converse prior to installation if they have never worked together. A good tile setter does not need shoe molding to cover mistakes, in most cases.
Comment from contributor B:
We are tile setters who set tile before or after cabinets. Some customers want their tile set before cabinets because, when set after cabinets, the grout line between the tile and the cabinet toe kick usually cracks because of the expansion and contraction of the wood, which soon breaks up the grout. As for the the door jams, no problem either way, and baseboard should be set after. After all, isn't that one purpose of the baseboard to cover the cut edge of any floorcovering and the sheetrock? We have found that working with the trim guys in this way is workable.
Comment from contributor N:
I trained as a tilesetter for three years with a group of union tilesetters with around 300 years of experience between them. I have since worked for myself setting tile for eight years. If I had my preference, I'd set the tile on a mud floor while the drywallers were taping and mudding, if space allowed. Otherwise, I'd like to set my subfloor and tile right after.
Doesn't always work out that way, though, and as a professional, I will do what I have to to insure a proper installation. This does take longer and is a lot more work, so I charge more for cutting jambs and so forth. If your base is already down, I'll r/r it and charge the contractor.
As for all the trim carpenters' complaints, I assure you that it is easier to cut wood to tile (if tile is done correctly) than vice versa. Cabinets should go over tile in case of changes made later, remodels, etc. The biggest problem for all of us who have taken the proper steps to master our trade is the incompotent contractor who tries to cut corners.
Comment from contributor O:
All flooring is last except stained concrete, period! What is the difference between a finish carpenter cutting a jam to an unlevel floor or because the GC didn't allow for finish floor in his R/O for head height? I just finished a job where the super had prefinished hardwood put in with a full on leak before drywall, worked out great for us cause we could base over before hardware, but I'm sure when it buckles, we will be doing a change order. Cabinets first, also. Learn how to cut, layout, and do quality work, or go home.
Comment from contributor D:
The tile guy should go first. If this is not possible, then the trim carpenter should run base everywhere except the area to be tiled. Then after tile is layed, you can get the base nice and tight to the tile, and you don't have the tile guy prying or cutting at the base.
Comment from contributor H:
We are a GC who does full remodel from start to finish without plumbing, electric, etc. We always tile first - under cabinets. If there is a leak, the tile will protect subfloor and if there is a change in the future, it doesn't screw the next homeowner. We then set our trim. Cover floor and there is no problem - set tile flat and there is no problem.
Comment from contributor R:
This is a very interesting subject with many outcomes depending on your geographical area. As a professional tile setter for 37 years and an accomplished trim carpenter I can understand both sides of this issue. I personally feel the door jams should be installed first.
With the wood available nowadays it warps quite easily. This makes it very difficult to plumb a jamb let alone notch it to tile for a professional result. I do agree mud should be pulled first to establish a level plane with cabinets installed and tile last. With the tile cut to the cabinets this eliminates the need to secure the base to the floor. Almost all of my installations are diagonal, which makes it very time consuming around crooked walls so I have the base and shoe installed last. If I'm asked my preference this is the way I like it, but most of the time all trim carpentry is completed before I arrive on the job.
Comment from contributor I:
Make sure to coordinate with the floor layer on the elevation they would like the jambs at. If the flooring is vinyl/sheet flooring the flooring is done first. The worst case is setting the jambs on the sub-floor, then having to cut 3/4" off and realizing that the door rubs on the carpet after. Then the door has to be cut down too. Coordination with the sub-trades is a must if you want the job to run smoothly.
Comment from contributor W:
When you set a door, you might need to raise one side of the jamb to make the top gap the same across. If you set the door first, you can cut the jamb the exact fit and it is a whole lot easier to use a jamb saw than to pull the whole door down and cut one side of the jamb.
Comment from contributor A:
I'm a tiler and to me this issue is simple. If the trim's down and creates more work for the tile man (longer hours on the job) it's reflected in the final billing. Do the extra work in a good and acceptable fashion, and bill reasonably for it. Ensure there's a descriptive clause in the contract before anybody signs. It's a reasonable option that allows the GC to plan his/her jobsite choreography in a realistic manner.
Comment from contributor E:
Floors have to be replaced more often than trim. If you sit all your trim on the floors and have to replace the floors then you have to at least remove most of the trim if not replace it. Base was originally intended just to cover the 1/2" crack from slab to sheetrock. If you are going to cover that up with your floor you don't even need base. Shoe mold is 1/2" X 3/4" and if the floor guys can't get within 1/2" you can always lay the shoe down for 3/4" cover. Door jambs should be all that have to be jamb sawed. Doors don't always sit flat on the floor and are often of the ground as much as 3/4" on one side while the other sits on the floor to level the door.
Somebody stated it pretty simply in the beginning, "anybody that knows anything about construction knows the floors go in last. Especially with the fluctuations in wood flooring nowadays from 3/4" down to 3/8" (gees) what's next 1/4"-1/8"? These floors, even more than usual, will have to be replaced before the trim unless you can't get the flooring out without removing the trim. But then again, doing the floors first would be creating work and I am unemployed, so what do I know? Still, my vote is for the trim guys.
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Cabinets/doors/base first! Doors should only be set first and held up no more than 1/2 under jamb where there is going to be carpet, because then the carpet can be tucked under jamb. Finished floors should be carefully protected whether by GC trim carpenters or floor installer. If an unfinished wood floor is installed the shoe would go down after the first coat of varnish or final coat. Undercuts never turn out good, especially when the flooring guy is mad he has to do it. If the undercut ends up being too high, then there�s going to be a bigger problem. Also tiling and grouting to cabinets is a bad idea for a lot of reasons. One the cabinets are wood and will expand and contract leaving gaps between cabs and flooring and grout will crack. A good finish carpenter can scribe cabs to floor up to a 1/4 inch any more than that which means there�s a floor problem that should of been taken care of first.
If it is too late there is no other choice than to shoe or some kind of moulding around cabs. Installing cabs before any flooring is bad. I too have had to do it but was not my choice and looked like crap when the flooring guy tried to make perfect cuts to the cabs, then i had to shoe it anyways.
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VxRackery dominates EMC World day 2
VxRack 1000 gets neutrino nodes, DSSD option and has hybrid cloud dev platfiorm built on it.
EMC World's second day saw hyper-converged rackery put front and centre, with a stronger DSSD offering, Neutrino* nodes coming to the VxRack 1000 as well as a DSSD variant, and a hybrid cloud VXrack offering.
We'll check out the Neutrino rack stuff first.
The VCE VxRack 1000 is a hyper-converged, servers+storage+networking+management, rack-level system for scale-out workloads in data centers. There are several variants with, VxRack Flex using ScaleIO to provide virtual SAN storage. The coming VxRack SDDC (software-defined data center) uses VSAN for virtual SAN storage and is set to be paired with VxRail appliances.
A VxRack DSSD system is described below.
VxRack Neutrino, more formally and clunkily the VxRack System with Neutrino Nodes, is pitched at cloud-native applications. These are applications or micro-servces, running in containers on a Linux server, which can be deployed on different public or private cloud systems.
The basic idea here is to deliver a pre-packaged OpenStack system that preserves anti-lock-in OpenStack benefits while providing the warm and secure comfort-blanket that comes with a single vendor being responsible for pieces that might otherwise be DIY assembled and separately managed.
There can be up to 108 nodes in a VxRack Neutrino system. It's built from P and I Bricks.
P Bricks are mini, all-flash, grouped 4-node, hyper-converged systems, with each component type featuring:
- P412 - 2 x E5-2620 v3 CPUs, 128GB RAM, 4 x 400GB SSD
- P812 - 2 x E5-2620 v3 CPUs, 128GB RAM, 4 x 800GB SSD
- P416 - 2 x E5-2640 v3 CPUs, 256GB RAM, 4 x 400GB SSD
- P816 - 2 x E5-2640 v3 CPUs, 256GB RAM, 4 x 800GB SSD
- P420 - 2 x E5-2660 v3 CPUs, 512GB RAM, 4 x 400GB SSD
- P820 - 2 x E5-2660 v3 CPUs, 512GB RAM, 4 x 800GB SSD
Each P Brick has 2 x 10GbitE and 2 x 1GbitE ports and a 12Gbit/s SAS controller.
An I Brick is a single hybrid flash+disk node and there are three variants:
- I1812 - 2 x E5-2620 v3 CPUs, 128GB RAM, 1 x 400GB SSD, 1 x 800GB SSD, 22 x 1.8TB HDD
- I1816 - 2 x E5-2640 v3 CPUs, 256GB RAM, 1 x 400GB SSD, 1 x 800GB SSD, 22 x 1.8TB HDD
- I1820 - 2 x E5-2660 v3 CPUs, 512GB RAM, 1 x 400GB SSD, 1 x 800GB SSD, 22 x 1.8TB HDD
The per-node Ethernet ports and 12Gbit/s SAS controllers are the same as for a P Brick node.
Each VxRack Neutrino can have a maximum of 4 racks (1 + 3 expansion racks), 45 bricks and 108 nodes (made up from P and I bricks.)
EMC says VxRack Neutrino serves as one of the underlying IaaS options for the Native Hybrid Cloud (NHC) platform, also announced at EMC World.
VxRack Neutrino will support VMware's Photon "micro-visor" environment in the future, and Apache Hadoop.
The newly-launched D5 all-flash, shared DAS array has been updated. There is a dual D5 validated product for databases and data warehouses plus a VxRack System with DSSD.
The dual D5 comes in a single rack and EMC brags it "delivers 2X the IOPS, bandwidth and capacity; one-third the latency and a lower TCO than the fastest solution for databases on the market today." That'll be an Oracle box we guess**, and it involves striping the two D5s together.
With the dual D5 set-up, a server using the DSSD block driver will be able to connect simultaneously to two independent D5 arrays.
VxRack DSSD can be deployed as a standalone converged infrastructure or as an extension to an existing VCE system.
Native Hybrid Cloud
EMC's Native Hybrid Cloud (NHC) is described as a fully integrated, engineered and turnkey platform for cloud-native application development and deployment. It is built on a VxRack 1000 base and delivers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaDS) using Pivotal's Cloud Foundry product.
Apps (cloud-native apps) developed using Cloud Foundry can run on any public or private cloud, EMC claims.
This is a developers' system and it can be configured with FLEX (vSphere) or Neutrino (OpenStack) nodes, and Photon ones in the future. There is an optional NHC add-on toolkit for big data analytics.
In the public cloud arena NHC supports EMC's Virtustream Enterprise Cloud, VMware's vCloud Air, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure.
All-in-all EMC is ploughing a lot of effort into its VxRacket, and hoping it can win lots of enterprise business from HP and IBM, plus Oracle and HDS. It's riding the container wave (cloud-native apps and DevOps) and supplying hyper-converged systems positioned under the VCE vBlocks. AS far as EMC is concerned, for enterprise IT, single SKUs rule and provide a wide-open doorway into its enterprise system-level competitors' customer bases.
Availability and more info
Check out a VxRack Neutrino datasheet here. VxRack System with Neutrino Nodes support for OpenStack is orderable and available in Q3 2016. VxRack System with Neutrino Nodes support for Photon Platform and Hadoop Apache will be available next year. VxRack System 1000 configurations start at $300,000.
DSSD's support for dual D5 systems with high performance databases and VxRack System with DSSD will be available in the second half of 2016. We couldn't locate a Dual D5 datasheet or a VxRack DSSD data sheet. There is a D5 data sheet here.
Get an NHC overview here. EMC Native Hybrid Cloud with VxRack System with Neutrino Nodes and FLEX Nodes will be available starting in Q3, 2016. ®
* Wikipedia tells is a neutrino is a candidate for dark matter, the stuff that makes up a supposed 27 per cent if the universe and is invisible to electro-magnetic radiation. A neutrino is a lepton, an elementary particle with half-integer spin, that interacts only via the weak subatomic force and gravity.
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Inefficient calving cycles incur financial losses
By failing to address the issue of long calving intervals, beef farmers in Wales are missing out on over £4,500 per annum for a 40-cow herd.
The latest BCMS (British Cattle Movement Service) data shows that the average calving interval in Wales in 2016 was 428 days, with the optimum interval being 365 days. The most profitable and recommended age for first calving is 24 months, whereas heifers in Wales calved 9 months later at an average age of 33 months. This results in the cows in an average 40-strong suckler herd producing 32 fewer calves over their lifetime.
This issue was addressed by vet Pete Suddens of Maes Glas Vets during a recent Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) ON-Farm event held at Pencoed Campus, Bridgend College. He encouraged the audience of red meat producers to adopt a compact calving pattern, as a herd of cows at the same stage of pregnancy and lactation will enable farmers to rear even batches of calves and lead to efficient feeding and supervision, as well as thriving calves. He suggested that if this plan is implemented on-farm, herds are more likely to consist of healthy calves with high growth potential, fertile cows for rapid re-breeding and more efficient management and feeding practices.
The key principles of the compact calving system include fertile cows, which can be maximised by good nutritional management; selecting fertile bulls with strong and sound EBVs; a good replacement breeding policy; and avoiding and controlling infectious infertility diseases such as BVD and Johne's.
Pete Suddens also stated that producers should target 95% of cows put to the bull to rear calves.
HCC's James Ruggeri, Industry Development Executive said: "Effective management has a significant impact on profitability and major implications on the lifetime productivity of a breeding suckler herd. The cost of production figures show that suckler beef margins are very tight, however, those farmers who focus on effective herd management are the most profitable.
"Despite a four-day reduction in the average calving interval in 2016, this is still very similar to where we were five years ago. There has been a promising increase in the average number of calves per lifetime, from 5.4 to 5.6, but there is still room for improvement. The age at first calving also remains high, which impacts on the age at second calving which is 49 months with an interval of 462 days. This suggests an issue with heifer management which is what vet Pete Suddens addressed during our recent ON-Farm 2017 meeting at Pencoed.
"Earlier calving, giving due consideration to herd management, especially after calving, and ensuring optimum weight or body condition scores will lead to considerable financial gain and improved on-farm efficiencies."
The ON-Farm meeting was an opportunity to share practical information and advice on key topics which affect the profitability and sustainability of a farming enterprise, including animal health and grassland management. Presentations were delivered by Pete Suddens BVM&S MRCVS, grassland consultant Chris Duller and vet Dr Joe Angell.
Following the event, producer Poppy Evans from Llanbad Fach Farm, Brynna, Pontyclun said: "I picked up lots of new, useful information tonight, with new solutions to new problems within the sector. Farmers are very knowledgeable individuals who learn so much over the years. But by coming to events such as this, we can make sure that we don't stagnate, and instead keep up to date with the latest developments and learn new things."
As well as presenting to farmers in the evening, HCC arranged a session for agriculture students from Bridgend College in the afternoon. The food for the evening session, which included new season pulled PGI Welsh Lamb rolls, was prepared by catering students from the college.


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|Anne Belec, president-CEO of Volvo, surprised the crowd of ad agency executives with her call for advertising ideas.
Speaking at the Fairmont Southampton resort, Ms. Belec concluded a gauzy look at Volvo's advertising over the years by bluntly, and surprisingly, asking a roomful of agency executives for their help in coming up with ways to evolve the automaker's "Volvo for Life" idea. It seemed for a minute that she was putting her business up for grabs in this most public of forums and right in front of Ron Berger, who is not only 4As chairman but also the CEO and chief creative officer of her agency, Havas' Euro-RSCG.
AOR CEO dismisses notion
Mr. Berger, who introduced Ms. Belec and thanked her after her speech, was quick to dismiss that notion: "Those of you who just think that account went into review, that's not what happened, just to be clear." And, speaking after her presentation, Ms. Belec also clarified that while she was definitely looking for alliances and partners in other areas, she was not looking for a replacement for her main agency.
Still, Ms. Belec, who just assumed the president-CEO post April 1, was the only marketer invited to speak to the audience of agency executives and caused quite a stir with her remarks.
One agency president said, "Lets not exaggerate this, she didn't put it into review, but she did kind of invite the audience to pitch her. It was incredibly disrespectful. Not just to Ron and his agency, but also to the audience in a way, because it suggests that ideas just come from anywhere and that someone else could easily weigh in on another agency's strategy, a long-running strategy."
Quick, gimmicky ideas
Certainly her plea for ideas from any quarter seemed somewhat ironic, given that earlier in her speech she had said she was not looking for some quick, gimmicky idea that might have fleeting success and then be gone, but a thought for the brand that inspires thinking and ideas that can be consistently associated with Volvo for many years.
Another large agency CEO said it did sound as if Ms. Belec was calling a review, but saw the remark as more of a humorous mistake. "I laughed. That was all you could do. I don't think she meant too much by it."
It wasn't the first time a senior marketer at an automaker had made such a plea; at Advertising Age's Adwatch: Outlook 2003, C.J. Fraleigh, then General Motors Corp.'s executive director of advertising and corporate marketing, held up a blank check and suggested that he would make it out to the agency that came to him with a killer idea. Mr. Fraleigh later said he was deluged by pitches in the weeks after the speech.
General broadside at agencies
Like Mr. Fraleigh's speech, which was really intended to take the agency world to task for having too few big ideas that sold products, Ms. Belec's remarks could also have been construed as a more general broadside at agencies. "What's the phrase that makes every agency cringe?" she said. "We need to look at compensation ... No. My niece is looking for a summer internship ... No. It's 'We're looking for a big idea.'"
Conversely, one agency executive at the conference remarked that Ms. Belec's plea for ideas was typical of the declining loyalty of marketers to their long-term agencies, and is ironic because she is one of a diminishing number of marketers still in a real agency-of-record-client relationship.


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For those iPhone and iPad users feeling very left out from being able to login to Windows Azure Active Directory directly, Microsoft has now released an app called "My Apps" through iTunes.
Up until now, business users would need to use the mobile Safari browser to access apps hosted in Windows Azure and need to manually log in to each service using Active Directory credentials every time access was required. The "My Apps" app eliminates the additional login requirements as it retains and stores login information. The app allows business users to use their existing Active Directory credentials to access Windows Azure.
The app requires a valid Active Directory account and a Windows Azure subscription and, once installed, will most likely require a system administrator to set it up with the organization's specific settings.
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Seau family asks for prayers, thanks public
The family of Junior Seau issued a statement Wednesday night asking for the public's prayers and also offering their own prayers for the people who idolized their family member.
"On behalf of our parents and siblings, we thank you for the outpouring of love from each and everyone near and far," said a statement released through the Rev. Shawn Mitchell, longtime chaplain for the San Diego Chargers.
"We ask that you continue to pray for our family during this time as we will continue to pray for those Junior has touched. God bless the Seau family."
Mitchell, who spent the afternoon with 25 members of the family, said: "There was a real sense of calm, a real sense of family unity. The adults were quiet, holding each other trying to eat something, coming to grips with reality."
The family may announce memorial plans Thursday.
All day and into the early evening, mourners flocked to Seau's beachfront home in Oceanside where he was found dead this morning.
Many wore Chargers jerseys with Seau's name and number, 55. Some brought flowers and notes of condolence. On the nearby beach, sculpted his number in the sand.
Many remembered the charitable work of the Junior Seau Foundation, which raised $8 million from 1996 to 2010 and funded numerous youth projects, including the Oceanside Boys and Girls Club and the sports program at Oceanside High, his alma mater.
Brian Ballis, a neighbor, remembered seeing Seau surfing or paddle boarding on numerous occasions. Two days ago he saw Seau playing Hawaiian music on his ukulele.
"He was smiling and happy," Ballis said, "and looking at the sky and looking at the waves."
Seau, the former USC and Chargers star, was found dead at about 9:30 a.m. by his girlfriend as she returned from a workout.
Oceanside Police Chief Frank McCoy said Seau died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the chest, with a gun near the body. No note was found, police said. An autopsy is set for Thursday.
"As great a football player as Junior was, he was a greater human being," Mitchell told the crowd that assembled outside Seau's home in disbelief that the 43-year-old had taken his own life.
Seau had grown up in Oceanside and played football at Oceanside High. Even when fame and wealth were his, Seau never abandoned the community, becoming an Oceanside High football booster and guiding his foundation to help underprivileged children.
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Junior Seau's mother rushed to the home and told reporters that she had no warning that her son was on the verge of suicide.
"I don't understand; I don't understand," Luisa Seau cried as she spoke to reporters and others outside the home. "I'm shocked. I appreciate everybody showing your love to my son. Junior never do anything bad."
Throughout the day, statements of condolence were issued by sports figures and politicians.
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders said that, along with being an "electrifying athlete," Seau "did so much good in so many ways" through his charitable work.
Outside the Seau home, the Rev. Miles McPherson, a former Charger and longtime friend of Seau, told the crowd: "He personified everything that is great about San Diego.... Junior was Superman to us."
Seau's mother: 'Take me, leave my son'
Junior Seau's death mourned by Chargers, local high school
Seau's friend: 'If something's bothering him, you won't know'
-- Nicole Santa Cruz in Oceanside and Tony Perry in San Diego
Photo: A well-wisher in front of Junior Seau's home in Oceanside. Credit: Sandy Huffaker / Getty Images


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Like the rest of the world, Europe is keeping a close eye on the looming budget crisis in Washington, wary of the unthinkable: a US default.
Few expect a default will happen. But if it does, nothing short of Europe's fragile economic recovery – especially among periphery states – is at stake.
"A default would be most unwelcome for Europe," says London-based Mark Wall, who co-heads European economics in Deutsche Bank. "Europe has reached a position to start a recovery but it's very fragile, very uneven, and expectations point to vulnerability for few years as it gets its house in order."
(Read more: Boehner: No 'lines in the sand' on debt limit)
After several years of economic crisis, analysts have recently begun to see signs that Europe has turned the corner into recovery. Although economic growth in the 17-member eurozone is expected to shrink 0.4 percent in 2013, after a 0.6 percent decline in 2012, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday that the eurozone is expected to grow 1 percent in 2014.


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