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Why the grass is long
This morning when I walked out to pick up a few odds and ends left over from the winter - a plastic toboggan hidden in the side woods, a roll of duct tape hanging on a tree branch - I noticed how long the deadish grass on the lawn is. (I use the word lawn kind of loosely here - it's the land nearest the house that I mow to keep down the poison ivy.) Then I remembered that there was a reason I stopped using the lawn mower last fall.
I remember mowing the lawn on a gorgeous day last September. I must have had papers to grade or something because I remember that being outside in the sunshine was some kind of guilty pleasure. As I mowed the lawn, I could smell the scent of burning. How nice, I thought, here I am in the country, surrounded by the beauty of nature, with the great autumn smell of burning leaves. As I mowed, I was noticing the blue of the sky, the leaves on the birch trees turning yellow, the feel of the sun on my forearms, and it was all so wonderful that I felt like a character in a cliche.
Then I thought to myself: Why does that burning smell seem to be so close by? And what neighbor would be home during the day on a Tuesday?
Then it occurred to me to look down. Flames were shooting from lawn mower. Damned lawn mower was on fire.
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- Nels said...
Yikes! You can't just end like that. I mean, we know you're okay, but how did you put it out?
- Psycho Kitty said...
LOL. Can I use that story? I don't have such a good excuse...
- Phantom Scribbler said...
Too funny! That's why we have the old-fashioned non-motorized kind of lawnmower.
(And, yes, I know that our lawnmower is only practical because we have five square feet of yard.) - 6:42 PM
- jo(e) said...
Nels, I just let go of the safety bar on the lawn mower, which turned it off, and walked away. Then I watched from a distance until the flames died down and rolled it into the garage, where it still is.
Phantom, I wish we could use a lawn mower that required no fuel but right now we are mowing a field rather than anything that resembles a lawn. Our neighbors mainly have tractors. - 6:47 PM
- Pilgrim/Heretic said...
Ooooo! Now that's my kind of lawn-mowing.
- Rana said...
Hee! Between you and P/H, I'm getting a much needed dose of giggles.
(Both of you have the timing of these things down pat. *beams* ) - 11:47 PM
- Psycho Kitty said...
Remind me to tell you the naked lawn mowing story one day...
- PPB said...
Girlkitty wants prior warning before I read any future posts of yours. Loud outbursts of laughter are disturbing to cat naps.
- Songbird said...
I was quite disoriented by the width of my front walk this morning. When I went out of town on Wednesday, the snow was still encroaching; now it's nearly all gone.
I love those old-fashioned lawnmowers, and that charming sound they make, but my husband says it's a pain to sharpen the blades. And since he cuts the grass, I'm not arguing. - 7:31 AM


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Yesterday Kent brought his 08 GT500 over from Louisiana. The car already had a 2.6 upper pulley, JLT intake, and tune. In the interest of saving time, we assumed a setup like that, with the weather conditions were were having, and stock exhaust, would make about 535-540RWHP and similar RWTQ. I went ahead and swapped the Innovators West 10% OD Balancer on, I put one of my tunes in the car, and ran it so we would have a baseline before installing the ported blower. It made 559RWHP and 598RWTQ. Notice the very large disparity between HP and TQ, at this point you can see how choked the stock blower is. A lower usually picks up around 25-30RWHP and 50RWTQ over an upper pulley only on a stock blower/stock TB. I then swapped on a ported blower that Brian at Posi Performance did for us last week, I just sent him a spare blower that I had so Kent would not have any down time. When I sent him the blower I also sent one of the new high-flow inlet elbows to him so it could be port matched to the blower. A couple hours later we were up and running with the ported blower, high flow elbow, and 67mm throttle body. After dialing in the tune, the car made 608RWHP and 609RWTQ, the stock blower was no longer choked off at higher RPM and once again making a square HP and TQ number! I was pretty happy with the results considering the car had stock manifolds, cats, and mufflers. From experience I know this car has more exhaust back pressure than intake boost pressure, due to the factory cats. This car would drop about 1psi on the manifold boost readings with stock cats removed, as they are very high right now for a stock blower with upper and lower. It would easily pick up another 10-20rwhp with better cats, and possibly a little more with LTs, I'm trying to convince Kent to do that next . These types of numbers from a stock blower start to rival an out of the box TVS setup.
If u dont mind me asking, around how much did it cost for u too get the blower ported? i was thinking about goin with the stage 3 from evo performance but the addition of porting the blower would also up the HP, so how hard/hrs was switching out the balancer?
The port runs around $600. The balancer swap is not too hard just time consuming, I can do them in about 2-3hrs.
I have a really good installation writeup for the innovators west 10% overdrive balancer on the GT500: GT500 Balancer/Dampener Removal and Installation of IW 10% OD Balancer - VMP Tuning Message Board Some people call it a 4lb lower but i have only seen 2-3lb in most cases.


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These seriously just make my heart burst. It was this time of year when I first made my own Love Wall (as my first husband had recently left.) So I'm particularly feeling the beauty of these photos and every ounce of evidence that life is beautiful and that we are surrounded by LOVE.
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I loved your post about your "love wall." I can relate so much--I've had a "love wall" in some form or another for a long time. At my current place, I have a love "fridge." The postcard of the heart on the beach in the bottom right-hand corner is one of the "Monday Hearts for Madeline". I think you'd really like this story. The woman (Page) who runs the website used to create a heart for her partner every Monday and placed it on her doorstep. Her partner died from cancer almost ten years ago, but Page continued to create hearts out of different materials or humans(!) and a while back, she began emailing a picture of a new heart every Monday to a ton of people. My friend who works in fundraising for a hospital told me about her, and the same friend, who visited this past August, along with some other friends and I participated in Page's 500th heart, which took place in SF. We created a huge human heart in the Presidio. It was so much fun.
Another item seen in the photo on the top right hand corner is a post card with an image of a drawing of a building, with the phrase "You know exactly what you have to do." I just love that--there was a stack of these postcards at a cafe I went to in SF a while ago.
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Philadelphia PA: On Friday November 7 from Lincoln Financial Field in South Philadelphia, Primetime College Football took center stage as Temple Owls hosted Memphis Tigers in American Athletic Conference action. Temple comes into game off a big win over 23rd ranked East Carolina while Memphis comes into game off a win over Tulsa. The game was broadcasted Nationally on ESPNU with Eamon McAnaney, Dan Hawkins calling the action.
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Maxwell Rivera (born in Brooklyn, New York on May 23, 1973) is an American R&B artist who professionally goes by the name Maxwell. He played an important role in the development of the subgenre of neo-soul music.
Born of Puerto Rican and West Indian heritage. Maxwell lost his father in a plane crash when he was just three years old. The experience influenced his strong religious background, and he started singing in his Baptist church. Still, he didn't really become serious about music until age 17, when he began writing his own songs using a cheap Casio keyboard given to him by a friend. Initially influenced by early-'80s urban R&B, he progressed rapidly, and by 1991 he was performing on the New York club scene. . After making a name for himself, he signed a recording contract with Columbia in 1994.
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The prospect of Aaron Cook winning an Olympic reprieve moved a significant step closer yesterday when the British Olympic Association asked GB Taekwondo to reconsider its selection for this summer's Games.
Cook, who is today expected to be named world No 1 when the rankings are updated, was overlooked by the sport's governing body, who preferred Lutalo Muhammad despite him being ranked a lowly 56th. The BOA has told GB Taekwondo to "reconvene" its selection panel "at the earliest opportunity".
The BOA will also send an independent observer to the meeting. The BOA cannot demand that Cook, who finished fourth in Beijing, be selected, only refuse to sanction the sport's choice of athlete.
The decision to omit Cook has been seen as political. Last year the 21-year-old left the governing body's high performance programme to undertake his own training regime. Of the five-strong selection panel, two voted in Muhammad's favour, one in Cook's and two abstained.
Yesterday the BOA's statement pointedly recorded "all members of the selection committee who have a right to vote are in fact encouraged to do so." The BOA also suggested that each of the athletes in question should be allowed to make representations to the panel via his coach.
GB Taekwondo has yet to agree to what the BOA terms a "request" and will first decide whether to appeal "in the next 24 hours." A statement from GB Taekwondo said: "We have been subject to a judicial process that has prevented us from saying more in the public arena than we would want."
Cook's exclusion is said to be based on a suggestion that he is more vulnerable than Muhammad to a new method of scoring head shots. "A disproportionate amount of emphasis should not be given to the so-called head-shot rule," said the BOA.
Cook, who has received notable support from current and former Olympians ranging from Sir Steve Redgrave to Tom Daley, tweeted last night: "Thanks to all the public, fellow athletes and legends for your support. If given the chance, I will make GB proud."
Olympic news you may have missed...
Hannah England, the surprise 1500m silver medal winner at the World Championships in Daegu last summer, is struggling to make the Olympic trials next month after being badly spiked in her first international race of the summer.
The Oxford City athlete won the metric mile at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games at Hengelo in the Netherlands on Sunday but at the cost of an injury that required hospitalisation.
"Hannah got a spike in her achilles tendon and will be out for a number of weeks," Charles van Commenee, the head coach of UK Athletics, said yesterday. "It's not good news. It's a worry.
"She's had no surgery but she had to be in hospital a few days. We're using all the modern technology to get the wound healing so that she picks up training quickly.
"She'll try to get back for the trials. We're working towards that scenario, but it's impossible to predict."
England posted the news on her Facebook fanpage, saying: "Got some battle scars from being spiked. No stitches but will have some cool scars! Taking it easy this week to avoid infection and reduce risk of lingering problems."
What's coming up...
Today & tomorrow In a probable preview of the Olympic 110m hurdle final, Cuban gold medallist Dayron Robles faces 2008 poster boy Liu Xiang and bronze medallist David Oliver at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon.
Who's up?
GB men's hockey side Put 3-2 loss to Argentina behind them by beating New Zealand 2-1 and drawing with South Korea 1-1 in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup.
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Germany Sending lowest number of athletes – 380 – to a Games since 1990 reunification.
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Amazon is gracing the white HTC EVO 4G with its lowest price to date at $89.99 with a 2-year contract. Although it's not completely covered in white, it's still one of those things that will undoubtedly get some second looks...
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I am on AT&T and will still admit this is a bad ass phone. My friend just picked this phone up and I am impressed, especially since it is still in the top ten rated smart phones by PC World Mag and the the phone is like a year and a half old. Pretty impressive HTC, pretty impressive.
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2. obnoxious9162775 (Posts: 32; Member since: 25 Apr 2011)
My apologies, approaching 1 year, still a great lifespan for a smartphone these days.
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I actually like the EVO4g more than my iPhone 4.


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When you build your own ecommerce website, you have a lot of choices to make. The biggest of the choices may be the most important as they will ultimately define your business model and much of the future of your business.
In this post, we're going to show you at a high-level each one of the major choices you need to consider when starting your online business along with the pros and cons so you can make the best decisions possible right from the beginning.
Let's get right into it.
Who Do You Want to Sell To?
There are a million types of ecommerce stores, all with subtle differences and nuances. How the products are sources, the types of product, where the products come from, are they a curated collection. Let's take a look at two of the major types of ecommerce businesses that you can run, then we will drill down even further.
B2B (Business-to-Business)
Business-to-Business refers to the model where one business sells to another business. There are both advantages and disadvantages to selling to other businesses versus selling to the end consumers. The pros of selling to other businesses are that order sizes and repeat orders are typically larger and more frequent, however, there are fewer businesses than consumer and sales cycles are typically longer with price being a heavy contributor to purchase decisions.
B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
Business-to-Consumer means you are selling directly to the end consumer that will be using the product. This is the most common type of business model and what most people think about when discussing building ecommerce businesses.
It should be noted as well that there are other business models that are less common, including B2G (Business-to-Government).
What Type of Products Do You Want to Sell?
Now that we've covered the two major types of online business models, let's drill down a little deeper and look at the different type of products you can sell online:
Physical Goods
Selling physical goods is what most people think of when they think of an online store, and makes up the majority of online ecommerce businesses. Although physical goods are the most popular product type of item to sell, it also presents challenges including inventory storage, shipping, breakage, and insurance.
Example: DodoCase sells iPad and iPhone cases made using traditional bookbinding methods.
Bonus: We wrote the book on helping you find a great physical product to sell online. Click here.
Digital Goods
Digital goods are also a popular type of product to sell and has the advantage of not needing inventory storage or physical delivery like it's physical product counterparts. Digital goods can be anything from music, ebooks, videos, images or software. The biggest disadvantage to selling digital products is piracy. However, because a digital product can be resold thousands of times over, their margins are considered the best and comes without the headaches associated with shipping and inventory management.
Example: Out Of The Sandbox sells premium themes for Shopify and does so through their own Shopify store. These themes are digitally delivered immediately after purchase.
The third, slightly less common product type to sell online are services. Online services can range from consulting, web design and development, content writing/editing and a whole host of other service options. Selling services through an online store can be a great way to build credibility and gain exposure but typically comes with the limitation of scalability as services are typically delivered by a person and are therefore limited to that person's time.
Example: Shopify Experts is a directory of freelancers and agencies that offer services to Shopify store owners. From setting up your business and marketing to design and photography. Many of these freelancers and agencies in the Shopify Experts directory use Shopify to host their website and sell their services directly to entrepreneurs.
How Do You Want to Acquire Your Products?
We've covered this before in a prior post, but the physical goods category (and even digital goods to a certain extent) can be broken down a number of different ways. One of the most popular ways is to break it down is by product acquisition type. The are four major type of methods for acquiring your products. Let's take a look at each one below:
Making your product is a common approach for many hobbyists. Whether it be jewelry, fashion or natural beauty products, making products yourself allows for the precise control over the quality and the brand but comes at the cost of high time commitment and scalability.
The primary costs associated with making your own products include the purchasing of raw materials, the storage of inventory and labor.
The most important thing to note here though is that not all products can be made by hand. Your product choices are limited to your skills and available resources.
Example: J.L. Lawson & Co. makes everything by hand in their studio in Joshua Tree, California. A family business that has been running three generations means every piece produced has a whole lot of pride in it.
Another viable option for acquiring your product and inventory is to find a manufacturer to produce the product for you. When sourcing a manufacturer, you have the option of sourcing one domestically or from overseas. As you might expect, a domestic manufacturer, in general, will cost more than a manufacturer from overseas countries like China, Taiwan or India.
Example: GameKlip started out with the founder making game controller clips that attach a real game controller and a smartphone for the ultimate smartphone gaming experience. After demand soared though, the founder was forced to begin full-scale manufacturing of the GameKlip just to keep up with demand.
Bonus: Check out our guide to sourcing a manufacturer from Alibaba. Click here.
Buying wholesale is a fairly simple and straightforward process. You buy your inventory (usually other brands) direct from the manufacturer or from a middleman supplier at a discounted wholesale rate, which you in turn, resell at a higher price.
Buying wholesale is a lower risk business model compared to manufacturing for a few reasons. First, you're dealing with brands that are already established and validated on the market so you don't run the risk of wasting time and money developing a product no one wants. Also, you don't have to purchase as nearly as high of a quantity compared to manufacturing your own product. Minimum orders will depend on the manufacturer and product, however, they're usually pretty reasonable and can even be as low as one unit.
Example: Lodge Goods sells a variety of well-made goods from craftsmen and manufacturers around America. By carrying other brands, they are able to offer a wide selection of products and brands.
The main concept of dropshipping is selling products you don't actually own. Working with dropship partners is not only a product acquisition model, but also includes product fulfillment. The process works by taking orders from your online business and forwarding them to your supplier/dropship partner. They in return, ship the product to your customer on behalf of your company. The key to making money with dropshipping is making a profit on the price difference between what you charge and what your dropshipping partners charge you.
The biggest benefit to dropshipping is the ability to offer a large selection of product without purchasing inventory up front and managing that inventory. Dropshipping can also be a great tool to help diversify your inventory and test products since it's just a matter of adding the new product to your store.
Example: Right Channel Radios is the number one source for CB radios for your off-road truck. By utilizing dropshipping as the product acquisition method, the founder is able to offer a very wide range of products and accessories in a very specific niche without any inventory costs or risk.
Bonus: Read our full post of all the pros and cons of each type of inventory acquisition model. Click here.
How Do You Want to Compete?
Deciding how to compete is an important decision and can significantly shape the future of your business and dictate key business decisions. There are several common ways in which you can compete in a crowded marketplace. Let's take a look at each of those options:
Competing on price is typically not the best options for smaller retailers for the very reason that everyone bigger than you typically has better margins and can always go lower than you. This also in the bigger picture leads to price wars that just eat away at everyone margins.
Example: Walmart has always been known for their discount strategy and is big enough to make this strategy work for them. By purchasing products in massive quantities, they are able to get better pricing and pass that along to consumers.
Competing on quality comes down to having a superior or better-made product. This can be a great way to compete and there are signs the market as a whole is shifting towards longer lasting, well-made products.
Example: Dbrand sells vinyl skins for smartphones, laptops and game consoles. Recognizing that the current market lacked high-quality skins, cut with laser precision, Dbrand took it upon themselves to create them and quickly soared to the being the dominate player in the skins game.
Competing on selection is a great option for carving out your own space in the marketplace but also comes with the risk of increased inventory and storage of that inventory if you are utilizing any other method than dropshipping.
Example: Amazon is without a doubt the leader in ecommerce when it comes to selection. However, just because massive companies have large selections doesn't mean you can compete on this. It simple means you'll have to compete on the largest selection in a very niche category.
Value Add
One of the best ways to differentiate yourself in the market is to provide additional value to your customers that compels them to purchase from you. Content in the form of really great product descriptions, learning centres, installation guides etc. is a great example of ways to provide additional value to your customers.
Example: Right Channel Radios dropships their CB radios and accessories which mean margins are slim. This can make it difficult to compete effectively against other competitors with better margins. To compensate for this, Right Channel Radios offers a ton of extra value in the form of an education center and video review on most of the products.
Competing on service can be difficult as a new small business but can be a winning strategy. Considering that word-of-mouth marketing is the most powerful form of marketing, it makes sense to compete and deliver an incredible customer experience that gets people talking.
Example: Zappos is known for their customer service with free shipping both ways, 365-day return policy, and 24/7 customer service. Zappos is also known for some interesting service records like a record setting 10-hour customer service call.
Answering the four major questions from this article will provide you with a good start to putting together some major components of your ecommerce business model. It's important to keep in mind that some business model combinations will require a lot more work than others so be cognizant of the true amount of time you have to invest in your business and the time investment required based on your particular business model. This will not only increase your chances of success but also the amount of enjoyment you get from building, launching and growing your online business.
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1. Operational Capability. The M1A1 Abrams Firepower Enhancement Program (FEP) shall increase the Marine Corps' day and night warfighting capability and contribute significantly to the mission of winning decisively on the battlefield, with minimum casualties. The FEP system shall increase all weather, day and night target acquisition and engagement ranges.
2. M1A1 FEP System Description. The M1A1 FEP system is defined as an improved thermal sight and associated components, along with associated spares and repair parts, support equipment, training equipment, test and evaluation equipment, platform integration and data.
3. Requirements.
3.1 Key Performance Parameters (KPP). The M1A1 FEP KPPs are: Target Acquisition Range (Identify, Detect, Recognize), Field of View (FOV), hit probability retention and Average Unit Production Price. These are characteristics so significant that failure to meet the requirements may be cause for the offeror's system concept and program to be rejected.
a. The M1A1 FEP shall provide target acquisition ranges during on the move operation, vehicle engine idle, and silent watch operations, as viewed through the Gunner's Primary Monocular Sight, per the tables below, the classified values are provided in Annex A.
Threshold Requirements
Moderate Weather |
Adverse Weather |
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CL a4 |
Fog Oil |
WFOV Detection |
NFOV Detection |
NFOV Recognition |
NFOV Identification |
Objective Requirements
Moderate Weather |
Adverse Weather |
CL a2 |
CL a4 |
Fog Oil |
WFOV Detection |
NFOV Detection |
NFOV Recognition |
NFOV Identification |
b. The system shall have at a minimum two field of views (FOV) (threshold). The wide horizontal FOV shall be 10 degrees minimum (threshold) and 15 degrees (objective). The wide vertical FOV shall be 7.5 degrees minimum (threshold and objective). The narrow horizontal FOV shall be 3.33 degrees minimum (threshold) and 5.0 degrees (objective). The narrow vertical FOV shall be 2.0 degrees minimum (threshold) and 2.5 degrees (objective).
c. The system shall maintain or improve associated weapons hit probability as identified in Annex A.
d. The system shall meet the Average Unit Production Price (AUPP) of 238,000 FY 2000 dollars (threshold) and 180,000 FY 2000 dollars (objective) based on 403 systems over a three year production period.
3.2 Critical Performance Parameters (CPP). These are requirements that shall be included in the M1A1 FEP system design. The offeror has the freedom to trade the actual performance characteristic (s) of each CPP to attain an optimal system design.
a. The system shall operate without degradation from muzzle flash and tracer rounds from on board weapons.
b. The systems shall not be adversely affected by the operation of the M1A1 platform equipment. . For example, caused to flicker or turn off by laser firings or radio operation. The FEP system can not adversely affect the M1A1 platform. Annex C applies.
c. The system shall have a manual white-hot/black-hot polarity selection switch.
d. An electronic magnification zoom (E-Zoom) shall also be provided.
e. The system shall have the capability to generate symbology on the Gunner's Primary Monocular Sight. At a minimum the symbology that currently exists in the M1A1 Thermal Imaging Systems shall be provided.
f. The system shall be provided with a visible reticle. The reticle shall be in accordance with Thermal Imaging System (TIS) Symbols - WFOV and NFOV as shown in figure 1.
g. The FOV switch time shall be no more than one (1) seconds.
h. The system shall meet the electro-optical counter-countermeasures (EOCCM) as identified in Annex A.
i. The system shall be provided with user acceptable controls and display(s).
j. The system shall be hardened against high altitude electromagnetic pulse damage as identified in Annex B.
k. The system shall be able to withstand the tactical environment including shock, vibration, and temperature as identified in Annex C.
l. Shall be constructed or treated to prevent lens fogging or condensation.
m. The system shall allow all operator functions, including normal care and cleaning, to be performed under all operational conditions while wearing nuclear-chemical-biological (NBC) ensembles; arctic, cold, and cold/wet protective clothing and equipment; and corrective lens.
n. Shall be moisture proof and fungus resistant as identified in Annex C.
o. Shall be NBC decontaminable as identified in Annex D.
p. Health and safety hazard shall be eliminated or the risks reduced to an acceptable level through design, material selection or substitution.
q. The fire control subsystem shall be designed to meet the Nuclear Hardness requirements as identified in Annex B.
r. The combat support requirements including reliability (650 hours Mean Time Between Failures), maintainability (2 hours Mean Time to Repair at organizational and intermediate level), shall not change, except possibly to improve.
3.3 Non-Critical Performance Parameters (NCPP). These are requirements that should be addressed in the M1A1 FEP system design. The offeror has the freedom to trade the actual performance characteristic (s) of each NCPP to attain an optimal system design.
a. Initial time to develop a fully operational image for optimum detection, recognition, and identification should be 14 minutes or less under all environmental conditions from a non-operating condition.
b. A digital electronic input/output port should be provided for subsequent implementation of such functions as automatic target cueing, automatic target tracking, aided target recognition, battlefield digitization, combat identification, imagery transmission, and built-in test functions.
c. The narrow FOV (NFOV) should focus from 200m to infinity. The wide FOV (WFOV) should focus from 50m to infinity.
d. The NFOV optical axis, defined by the center of the NFOV, should be aligned perpendicular to the reference mounting plane flange within ± 3 milliradians in both azimuth and elevation.
e. The optical axes (both narrow and wide) should maintain their alignment relative to the reference mounting plane over the temperature variations shown, to within the accuracy shown in Table I, after exposure to the environments of vibration, basic shock, and gun firing shock.
TABLE I. Alignment retention.
Temperature Range (°C) |
NFOV Accuracy (mrad) |
WFOV Accuracy (mrad) |
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f. The WFOV optical axis, defined by the center of the WFOV, should be aligned parallel to the NFOV optical axis within ± 3 milliradians in both azimuth and elevation.
g. The image of a horizontal target (relative to the reference mounting plane) should be aligned parallel to a horizontal plane (relative to the reference mounting plane) to ± 4 milliradians. The image of a vertical target line should be parallel to the edge of the vertical FOV within ± 10.5 milliradians.
h. Logistics support for the upgraded system should generally be the same as the current system.
i. Automatic self test capability should be included.
j. The system should have a biocular display capable of displaying high resolution imagery sufficient to meet the performance requirements.
k. The system should be based on an open system, with standard interfaces and be designed to be upgradeable.
Thermal Imaging System
Narrow Field of View Reticle
Thermal Imaging System
Wide Field of View Reticle
Figure 1
System Performance and Electro-Optics Counter Counter Measures
Nuclear Hardness Criteria
Classified Annexes
1. Scope. This annex defines the current environmental and electro- magnetic conditions of the M1A1 Abrams Tank for the M1A1 Firepower Enhancement Program.
2.1 Temperature.
2.1.1 Operating temperature. The system shall fully operate during and after exposure to temperatures in the range of -32°C (-25°F) to 60°C (140°F).
2.1.2 Storage temperature. The system shall fully operate after exposure to temperatures in the range of -51°C (-60°F) to 71°C (160°F).
2.2 Vibration. The system shall fully operate after subjection to sinusoidal vibrations in accordance with Table III in each of the three mutually perpendicular axes.
TABLE III. Sinusoidal Vibration.
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All |
26 to 35 |
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36 to 500 |
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2.3 Shock.
2.3.1 Basic shock. The system shall fully operate during and after exposure to shock impulses of 30 ±3g with 11.0 ±1.1 msec half-sine wave applied in each direction of three mutually perpendicular axes.
2.3.2 Gun firing shock. The system shall fully operate during and after exposure to shock pulses of 100g ± 10g with 1.0 ± 0.1 milliseconds (ms) half-sine wave applied in each direction of three mutually perpendicular axes.
2.3.3 Ballistic shock. The system shall fully operate after exposure to shock impulses of 200g + 10 percent, 0.5 millisecond (ms) + 10 percent half sine wave applied in each direction of three mutually perpendicular axes.
2.4 Altitude. The system, when installed in an appropriate enclose, shall meet the requirements of this specification during exposure to altitudes after non-operational exposure to altitudes of up to 15,240 meters (50,000 feet) above sea level for durations up to 4 hours.
2.5 Humidity. The system, when installed in an appropriate enclosure at an internal pressure of 2109 to 3515 kilograms per square meter (3 to 5 pounds per square inch) gauge, shall fully operate during and after exposure to a relative humidity of up to 100 percent.
2.6 Cleaning spray. The system, when installed in an appropriate enclosure, shall not be damaged by, and shall meet the performance requirements of this specification after exposure to a jet spray of tap water with a maximum nozzle pressure of 110 psi for all items exterior to the turret and 25 psi for the rest of the system.
2.7 Fungus. The system shall not support fungus growth when exposed to inoculation by spraying external surfaces with spore suspension as defined by the specimen inoculation process of ATPD-2167 followed by exposure to ambient air temperatures of 30.0 ± 1.1°C (86 ± 2°F) at relative humidity of 95 ± 5 percent for a 28-day duration.
2.8 Salt fog. The system, when installed in an appropriate enclosure, shall meet the requirements of this specification after exposure to salt fog atmosphere for up to 48 hours. The salt fog atmosphere shall consist of a salt solution defined as 5 percent by weight NaCl and 95 percent by weight distilled water. The exposure zone temperature range shall be 32.2 to 35°C (90°F to 95°F). The fog density shall be approximately 3 quarts solution to 10 cubic feet of chamber volume per 24 hours.
2.9 Chemicals. The system, when installed in an appropriate enclosure, shall meet the requirements of this specification after exposure to vapors on and in direct contact with the following materials for 48 hours:
a. Fuel per ASTM D975 (commercial diesel No. 1-D or No. 2-D) or turbine aviation fuel (grades JP-4 or JP-5).
b. Rust inhibited, fire resistant hydraulic fluid with synthetic hydrocarbon base.
2.10 Electromagnetic interference (EMI). The assembly shall meet the following requirements:
2.10.1 Conducted emissions, power leads, 10kHz to 10 MHz. Conducted emissions on the assembly's power leads, including returns, shall not exceed the values of Figure 1 for the frequency range of 10 kHz to 10 MHz.
2.10.2 Conducted susceptibility, power leads, 30 Hz to 50 kHz. The assembly shall not exhibit any damage, degradation of performance, or deviation from specified performance requirements beyond the tolerances specified in the individual performance requirements of this specification, when its power leads, including returns, are subjected to a test signal with levels as specified in Figure 2 for the frequency range of 30 Hz to 50 kHz.
2.10.3 Conducted susceptibility, bulk cable injection, 10 kHz to 10 MHz. The assembly shall not exhibit any damage, degradation of performance, or deviation from specified performance requirements beyond the tolerances specified in the individual performance requirements of this specification, when its power leads are subjected to a test signal with levels as specified in Figure 3 for the frequency range of 10 kHz to 10 MHz. The DC return shall be isolated from vehicle back to the power source.
2.10.4 Conducted susceptibility, bulk cable injection, impulse excitation. The assembly shall not exhibit any damage, degradation of performance, or deviation from specified performance requirements beyond the tolerances specified in the individual performance requirements of this specification, when its power leads are subjected to a test signal with levels as specified in Figure 4 at a 30 Hz rate for not less than one minute. The DC return shall be isolated from vehicle back to the power source.
2.10.5 Conducted susceptibility, damped sinusoidal transients, power leads 10 kHz to 100 MHz. The assembly shall not exhibit any malfunction, degradation of performance, or deviation from specified performance requirements beyond the tolerances specified in the individual performance requirements of this specification, when its power leads and returns are simultaneously subjected to a test signal which has a waveform and a current as specified in Figure 5.
2.10.6 Radiated emissions, electric field, 2 MHz to 18 GHz. The assembly shall not radiate E-field emissions in excess of those given in Figure 6 for the frequency range of 2 MHz to 18 GHz, or ten times the highest frequency generated within the assembly. Above 30 MHz, the limits shall be met for both horizontally and vertically polarized waves.
2.10.7 Radiated susceptibility, electric field, 10 kHz to 18 GHz. The assembly shall not exhibit any damage, degradation of performance, or deviation from specified performance requirements beyond the tolerances specified in the individual performance requirements of this specification, during or after being subjected to the radiated field characteristics as outlined in Table V.
2.10.8 Radiated susceptibility, transient electromagnetic field. The assembly shall not exhibit any damage, degradation of performance, or deviation from specified performance requirements beyond the tolerances specified in the individual performance requirements of this specification, when subjected to a test signal having a waveform and amplitude shown in Figure 7. The peak field strength for all components except the part of the sensor head above the turret roof shall be relaxed 26 dB.
TABLE V. Radiated susceptibility field characteristics.
Frequency |
Field Level |
Modulation |
10 kHz – 2 MHz |
400 Hz AM @ 50 percent and CW |
2 MHz – 30 MHz |
400 Hz AM @ 50 percent and CW |
30 MHz – 88 Mhz 1 |
1000 Hz AM @ 50 percent and CW |
Variable pulse rate modulation 2 |
88 MHz – 425 Mhz 1 |
1000 Hz AM @ 50 percent and CW |
425 MHz - 447 Mhz 1 |
1000 Hz AM @ 50 percent and CW |
1200 Hz AM @ 50 percent and CW |
2400 Hz AM @ 50 percent and CW |
Pulse burst modulation 3 |
447 MHz - 1 Ghz 1 |
1000 Hz AM @ 50 percent and CW |
1 GHz – 18 Ghz 1 |
Pulse modulation 4 and CW |
1. Above 30 megahertz (MHz), the requirement shall apply for both horizontally and vertically polarized waves; circular polarized waves are not acceptable.
2. Variable pulse rate modulation is based on square wave modulation (100 percent) whose frequency is variable at discrete frequencies of 2.0, 4.0, and 8.0 kilohertz (kHz).
3. The pulse burst modulation shall be simulated by a 58,750 Hz squarewave logically multiplied by a pulse train with a pulse rate frequency (PRF) of 512 Hz and a pulse width of 800 micro-seconds.
4. Pulse modulation is based on a pulse width equal to one microsecond with a PRF of 200 kHz.
FIGURE 1. Conducted emissions power leads, 10 kHz to 10 MHz.
FIGURE 2. Conducted susceptibility power leads, 30 Hz to 50 kHz.
FIGURE 3. Conducted susceptibility bulk cable injection, 10 kHz to 10 MHz.
FIGURE 4. Conducted susceptibility, bulk cable injection, impulse excitation.
1. NORMALIZED WAVEFORM: e -(xft)/Q SIN (2p ft)
f = TEST FREQUENCY (HZ)
t = TIME (SECONDS)
(N - 1)ln (IP/IN)
ln = NATURAL LOG
FIGURE 5. Conducted susceptibility, damped sinusoidal transients.
FIGURE 6. Radiated emissions electric field, 2 MHz to 18 GHz.
FIGURE 7. Radiated susceptibility transient electromagnetic field.
A.1.1 Scope. This annex establishes quantitative NBC contamination survivability criteria for material. Quantitative criteria, expressed in terms of decontaminability, hardness, and compatibility, are designed to ensure that all materiel systems developed can be used by personnel who are wearing protective clothing and equipment.
A.2.1 Decontaminability criteria.
A.2.1.1 Contaminants. The exterior and interior surfaces of materiel developed shall be designed such that NBC contamination remaining on, or desorbed or reaerosolized from, the surface following decontamination shall not result in more than a negligible risk (as defined in Table A-1) to unprotected personnel working inside, on, or 1 meter from the item. The following (worst case) conditions apply:
A.126.96.36.199 Exterior surfaces initially are uniformly and separately contaminated with:
a. 10g/m2 of thickened droplets of GD having a mass median diameter (MMD) of 2-5mm.
b. 10g/m2 of unthickened VX
c. 10g/m2 of unthickened HD
d. 105 spores/m2 of biological agent 1-5 micrometers in size.
e. 4 g/m2 of insoluble radioactive contaminants 37-200 micrometers in size and 185 Gbq/m2 gamma activity.
A.184.108.40.206 Initial contamination levels on interior surfaces subject to contamination are a factor of 10 lower than on exterior surfaces in the absence of evidence to the contrary.
A.126.96.36.199 Decontamination begins 1 hour after contamination using standard field decontaminants or simulants, equipment and procedures; and the decontamination process, excluding monitoring, lasts no longer that 75 minutes. Suitable simulants may be used.
A.126.96.36.199 Exposure of unprotected personnel to the decontaminated material is not to exceed 12 hours. Surface temperature is 30 ° C average and exterior wind speed no greater than one m/s (3.6km/h).
A.2.1.2 Induced activity. Materiel developed shall be designated such that, when exposed to a neutron fluence from a nuclear detonation that results in a total dose of 3,000 cGy (rad) to the crew of the equipment, the neutron induced activity in the item will result in no more than a negligible risk (as defined in Table A-1) to unprotected personnel arriving at H+2 and remaining inside, on, or 1 meter from the item, not to exceed 12 hours.
TABLE A-1. Negligible risk values for NBC contaminants.
Contaminant b |
Vapor/aerosol |
Liquid b |
Chemical |
(mg/min/m3 |
(mg/70-kg man) |
0.25 (.02 for visual acuity)a |
140 |
2.5 (.05 for visual acuity)a |
30 |
50 |
180 (0.01 mg/em2)d |
Biological c |
(maximum 12 hour exposure) |
Radiological |
Contaminants |
25 cGy (rad) |
Induced |
Activity |
25 cGy (rad) |
a. Applies to pilots.
b. Applies to skin does, not absorption through the eyes.
c. Negligible risk values for biological agents are not determinable with the present data base. Since extremely minute quantities of some biological agents can cause incapacitation, equipment should be designed to allow a residue of no more than 500 spores/m2 of the specified initial contamination levels.
d. Since the effect of HD is localized, it is not appropriate to consider a threshold does of liquid HD as applying to the entire 70-kg man. Use of mass/body surface area (mg/cm2) units to describe the does for which negligible effects are observed is preferable with the provision that the location and surface area must be specified, since mild incapacitation depends on where the contamination exits and the extent of body surface involved.
A.22.214.171.124 Hardness criterion. (See A.3) Materiel developed shall be hardened to ensure that degradation over a 30-day period of no more than 20 percent in selected quantifiable mission essential performance characteristic is caused by 5 exposures to NBC contaminants, decontaminants, and decontaminating procedures encountered in the field.
A.126.96.36.199 Compatibility criterion. (See A.3) The design of materiel developed to perform mission-essential functions shall take into consideration the combination of equipment and personnel in anticipated NBC protection. The combination of equipment and NBC protection shall permit performance of mission-essential operation, communications, maintenance, resupply, and decontamination tasks by trained and acclimatized troops over a typical mission profile in a contaminated environment not to exceed 12 hours, in meteorological conditions of areas of intended use, with no degradation, excluding heat stress, of crew performance of mission-essential tasks greater than 15 percent below levels specified for these tasks when accomplished in a non-NBC environment.
A.3 Explanatory notes:
a. Selected negligible risk values are in Table A-1.
b. A one hour delay prior to beginning decontamination allows time for agent sorption, yet is generally not long enough to allow elimination of surface hazard by weathering.
c. Initial contamination levels for interiors are a factor of ten (10) lower to account for the protection provided by the enclosure. Interior surface contamination will be limited to the exposed areas that could reasonably be expected to result from a successful surprise attack on the materiel item postured in its most vulnerable configuration, and to those exposed surfaces normally susceptible to agent transfer from a contaminated crew.
d. Seventy-five minutes is a typical time for decontaminating items with present decontamination procedures.
e. A 30°C temperature represents a reasonable worst case temperature in the majority of likely areas of conflict.
f. Requiring low airspeeds (less than 3.6 km/h) results in greater chemical agent concentrations over time.
g. A radioactive fallout contamination of 185 Gbq/m2 would result in a H+1 dose rate of approximately 5 cGy (rad)/h at 1 meter from a typical large armored vehicle. Using 50 cGy (rad) as a negligible risk dose which would come from exposure over a mission profile period (maximum of 12-hours), one half from operational exposure (i.e., direct radiation from initial effects or from fallout on the ground) and the other half from equipment contamination, a decontaminability standard of 25 cGy (rad) dose per mission period is reasonable.
h. A neutron induced activity of 25 cGy (rad) per mission (maximum of a 12-hour exposure) should be attainable for all items if reasonable attention is given to problem materials.
i. The "5 exposure" requirement in the hardness criterion refers to a cumulative total of contamination/decontamination cycles using one or more contaminants and associated decontamination processes.
j. Mission profile is a time-phased description of the operational events and environments an item experiences from beginning to end of a specific mission. It identifies the tasks, events, durations, operating conditions, and environment of the system for each phase of a mission. A mission profile should be based on a typical scenario for the item/system.
A.4.1 Characteristics. NBC contamination survivability is the capability of a system and its crew to withstand an NBC-contaminated environment, including decontamination, without losing the ability to accomplish the assigned mission. Characteristics of NBC contamination survivability are decontaminability, hardness, and compatibility. To survive NBC contamination, materiel must meet criteria for all three.
A.4.1.1 Decontaminability. The ability of a system to be decontaminated to reduce the hazard to personnel operating, maintaining, and resupplying it is termed "decontaminability." Key to this definition is the requirement to be able to reduce the hazard to personnel. Since the principal benefit of decontamination is to allow the crew to reduce its level of protection, decontaminability criteria must be related to the response of unprotected personnel. Even under a "fight dirty" concept of operations, decontaminabiltiy is required. NBC contaminants could eventually breach the shield of the protective ensemble. Therefore, when operations permit, they should be removed where they present a hazard. Further, decontamination reduces the soldier's vulnerability when the shield is dropped to satisfy basic physiological needs or to replace components of the NBC protective ensemble. Criteria for decontaminability were developed by analyzing toxicity data; determining agent concentration levels corresponding to negligible risk (5 percent mild incapacitation) to unprotected personnel; and relating agent concentration to time, temperature, windspeed and threat parameters. Decontaminability is enhanced by considering:
a. Materials. Maximize use of material that do not absorb NBC contaminants and that facilitate their rapid removal with decontaminants readily available on the battlefield.
b. Design. Incorporate designs that reduce or prevent accumulation of NBC contamination and make those areas that are expected readily accessible for decontamination.
c. Contamination control. Employ devices and means that reduce the amount of contamination to be removed, such as positive overpressure systems for combat vehicles, packaging for supplies, and protective covers.
d. NBC equipment. Provide for integration of NBC detection, measurement, decontamination, and contamination control devices. Considerations for integration of such devices at the earliest stage of the materiel acquisition process promote maximum achievement of effective contamination avoidance, control, removal, and decontamination verification.
A.4.1.2 Hardness. The ability of a systems to withstand the damaging effects of NBC contamination and decontamination agents and procedures required to carry out the decontamination process is termed "hardness." Although strongly related to decontaminability, hardness is distinct characteristic; decontaminability is concerned with reducing the hazard to personnel as a result of decontamination efforts, while hardness is concerned with condition of the equipment after it has been subjected to an agent and decontamination. Criteria for hardness were developed by analyzing vulnerabilities of construction materials to agents and decontaminants; considering mission profiles of classes of materiel designed to perform mission-essential functions; and determining allowable percentage degradation of quantifiable performance characteristics such as reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) standards.
A.4.1.3 Compatibility. The ability of a systems to be operation, maintained, and resupplied by personnel wearing the full NBC protective ensemble is termed "compatibility." Even if a piece of equipment is completely hardened against NBC contamination and decontaminants and can also be easily decontaminated, it still must have the capability of being operated effectively while in a NBC contaminated environment. Thus, is the development of equipment designed to perform mission-essential functions one must consider the combination of the equipment and personnel in anticipated NBC protection.


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If you haven't seen it yet, this video of Piers Morgan interviewing a lunatic is good value for a few minutes:
He didn't have to do much here, mind, apart from keep a straight face. The gun lobby must curse Alex Jones every time he appears on screen to support their cause. I wonder, beyond the screeched debate about low crime figures and high murder rates, if the reason so many whacko shooting sprees take place in the US is more down to ideology; that guns are the decisive way to settle stuff when you've had too much. And legitimate morally too. As I've pointed out before, these mass killings are almost always angry lower-middle class white boys, the very people who buy into that kind of mythologizing.
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Reported by: | Bill Green | Owned by: | Ryan J Ollos |
Priority: | high | Component: | RepoSearchPlugin |
Severity: | blocker | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Bangyou Zheng, Steffen Hoffmann, ejucovy | Trac Release: | 0.12 |
Receiving the following error when conducting a source search after installing the plugin:
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'youngest_rev'
We're running Trac 0.12.2 on RHEL 6.1.
Thank you.
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I took over maintainership of this plugin from athomas some time ago. There is a significant amount of work to do on this plugin, and I don't foresee having the time to do it all.
helend has written the TracSuposePlugin, which seems like a much better solution. Rather than writing the repository search functionality from scratch, a Trac interface to an existing repository search tool has been created. Rather than throwing more effort at this plugin, I'd prefer to help helend with enhancements to the TracSuposePlugin, or spend my time on other Trac plugin projects altogether.
I'd like to get some feedback and hear if anyone knows of a compelling reason to continue this project rather than moving to the TracSuposePlugin. Is there functionality in this plugin that doesn't exist in the TracSuposePlugin? I'm open to hearing all opinions and suggestions.
I'll leave these tickets open for about a week, but in all likelihood will close all of them and deprecate the plugin.
Thanks for your time,
- Ryan
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Resolution: | → duplicate |
Status: | new → closed |
Duplicate of #7046, and I'd suggest trying out the MultiRepoSearchPlugin.


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In the coming weeks, there will be plenty of chances to gauge the mainstream appetite for Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life," the story of God and nature and one mid-century family's issues among them, which opens in limited urban release this weekend before expanding in the following week to suburban precincts.
But Sunday's news out of the Cannes Film Festival that the movie had won the Palme d'Or — one of the few festival prizes to draw universal respect — raises a more immediate question: How much will the Croisette honor motivate filmgoers to turn out to see it?
The question of a Palme bump has been an interesting one in recent years. Foreign-language films are their own breed, but among English-language titles, the prize has had a limited but hardly insignificant effect on what we see.
Over the last 20 years, it's helped set the table for box-office hits such as "Secrets & Lies," "Fahrenheit 911" and "Pulp Fiction" — at minimum facilitating momentum the movie already had, and in some cases actively putting it on the map. The average filmgoer may not know a Palme d'Or from a palm reader, but he or she is certainly acquainted with the media that respond to one.
On the other hand, the Cannes prize did almost nothing for "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" and "Elephant," both of which failed to break out of an art-house ghetto.
Certainly a host of factors played into all of these results. But the Palme does seem to help movies that contain big, bold premises (including "Secrets & Lies," about interracial adoption). In that respect, "Tree," with its visual centerpiece featuring dinosaurs and colliding planets, would fit right in. (It's also worth noting that two of these three Palme hits were distributed by Harvey Weinstein, though "Tree" distributor Fox Searchlight is no slouch itself.) "Tree" also stars Brad Pitt, who has shown himself capable of motivating a mainstream filmgoer to specialized fare.
At Cannes, several involved in the international distribution of "Tree" shook their head ruefully when the subject of the film's U.S. fate came up. Romania and France, the thinking went, stood a far better shot of fielding a hit. But of course the odds are always long when you have material as abstract — and as resistant to being boiled down — as this. A Palme just makes those odds a little bit shorter.
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November 30, 2009
New Guidance Should Increase Attractiveness of Registered Exchange Offers as Means of Restructuring Outstanding Debt Securities
On November 16, 2009, the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Corporation Finance (the "Staff") issued a new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation (Interpretation #139.29) facilitating the ability of an issuer to enter into lock-up agreements (i.e., agreements to tender) with holders of its debt securities in connection with a registered exchange offer under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), for the issuer's outstanding debt securities (the "Lock-Up Interpretation").[1]
As noted in our previous Update, "Debt–for-Debt Exchanges and Other Debt Modification Strategies in the Current Environment" (April 13, 2009), many corporate debt issuers are focused on the restructuring of their outstanding debt securities. One tool available to issuers in restructuring their outstanding debt securities is a registered debt exchange offer. However, many issuers have viewed registered exchange offers as not being attractive, relative to other available options, because of the need to register the transactions under the Securities Act and comply with tender offer rules under the Securities Exchange of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). The need to register under the Securities Act and comply with the tender offer rules under the Exchange Act (particularly in the case of exchange offers for convertible debt and other equity securities) can limit transaction structuring options and increase transaction execution risk.[2]
Prior to the issuance of the Lock-Up Interpretation, restrictions imposed by Section 5 of the Securities Act and under the tender offer rules under the Exchange Act could dissuade an issuer from entering into lock-up agreements with its key debtholders prior to commencing a registered exchange offer in the debt restructuring context. The perceived inability to enter into pre-filing lock-up agreements with key debtholders represented one of the most significant deterrents to using registered exchange offers as a means to restructure outstanding debt securities. This often made registered exchange offers an unattractive option as compared to a private exchange transaction. As a result, issuers would often seek to structure exchange transactions privately, which would result in the exclusion of certain debtholders who might otherwise wish to participate in the transaction and lead to a less than comprehensive restructuring solution. The Lock-Up Interpretation should enhance the attractiveness of registered exchange offers as a debt restructuring option.
Under the Lock-Up Interpretation, the Staff formally recognizes the usefulness of lock-up agreements in the context of registered exchange offers by issuers for their outstanding debt securities. The Staff has agreed to not object to such lock-up agreements where the following criteria are met:
The Staff cautioned that when lock-up agreements are executed before the filing of a registration statement and the criteria noted above are not satisfied, the subsequent registration of the exchange offer on Form S-4 may be inappropriate, since an exchange offer is viewed as a single transaction, and any transaction that has commenced privately must be completed privately. Also, if a holder actually tendered its debt securities before the filing of the Form S-4, the Staff might object to the subsequent registration of the exchange offer. In addition, the Staff warned that an issuer must also consider whether efforts relating to obtaining lock-ups represents the commencement of a tender offer (in which case, the solicitation of lock-ups itself may be required to comply with applicable tender offer rules).
We believe the issuance of the Lock-Up Interpretation should provide issuers and their financial advisors with greater comfort that the use of registered exchange offers is a viable way to restructure an issuer's outstanding debt securities. As opposed to privately negotiated exchange transactions with a limited number of debt holders, a registered exchange offer allows all of an issuer's debt holders to participate on the same terms. In addition, unlike an unregistered exchange offer pursuant to Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act (which also can be made to all holders of a series), in a registered exchange offer there is no prohibition on the payment of compensation for soliciting exchanges. By facilitating the use of lock-up agreements, the Lock-Up Interpretation allows issuers to structure transactions that establish market clearing terms and provide for greater transaction certainty, while at the same time allowing for a more comprehensive restructuring transaction in which all debt holders can now participate.
At the same time the Staff issued the Lock-Up Interpretation, it also issued similar guidance (Interpretation 139.30) relating to the obtaining of lock-up agreements from management and principal security holders of a target company in connection with negotiated third-party exchange offers.[3]
[1] See SEC Division of Corporation Finance, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations, Securities Act Forms (Interpretation # 139.29) (Nov. 16, 2009), available at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/guidance/sasinterp.htm.
[2] For a detailed discussion of issues raised by convertible debt exchange offers, see James Moloney, Glenn Pollner and Matthew Shaw of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, "Convertible Debt Exchange Offers: Considerations for Distressed Issuers" [PDF], Deal Lawyers, September-October 2009. The Lock-Up Interpretation is not on its face limited to exchange offers for non-convertible debt securities. Accordingly, we believe that the Lock-Up Interpretation will be useful in the context of convertible debt exchange offers as well.
[3] See SEC Division of Corporation Finance, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations, Securities Act Forms (Interpretation # 139.30) (Nov. 16, 2009), available at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/guidance/sasinterp.htm.
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Beauty-full Miss E, on a warm summers evening. :) We had a blast and Miss E was a pleasure to work with. Thank you so much, and here is your sneak peek. :) xxxxx
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It's been a bit of an odd week. One minute happy and grateful, the next stressed and sad. So many things are changing here. The boys are going back to school {I know, I should be rejoicing from the rooftop, but with school comes the early morning starts, packed lunch making, school drop offs and...