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Use of FBG sensors for monitoring cracks of the equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni in Venice
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1 Focussed on: Fracture and Structural Integrity related Issues Use of FBG sensors for monitoring cracks of the equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni in Venice F. Felli, A. Brotzu, D. Pilone, C. Vendittozzi Dip. ICMA, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, Roma, Italy M.Caponero ENEA Via E. Fermi 45, Frascati, Roma ABSTRACT. The Bartolomeo Colleoni monument suffered for years damage from the local climate. The process of restoring the Colleoni equestrian statue, started in 2003, allowed to understand how the bronze statue was originally cast and manufactured and the techniques used in its construction. During this process a relevant crack on the right foreleg was investigated in correspondence of the cast-on joining the right foreleg to the front portion of the horse body. The crack was investigated experimentally by Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors, avoiding any modelling because of the very complex structure of the statue. An array of FBG sensors connected in series was glued on the crack with the aim of capturing live information about the effect of applying stress on the crack opening. The monitoring system was successfully tested during repositioning of the RIDER on the horse and is available for long term inspection of the crack opening evolution. KEYWORDS. FBG sensors; Health monitoring; Crack monitoring; Restoration; Colleoni equestrian statue. INTRODUCTION T he Bartolomeo Colleoni equestrian statue, located beside the Scuola Grande di San Marco in the Campo SS Giovanni e Paolo, was erected in fulfillment of a request made by the mercenary captain before his death in After switching allegiances several times, in 1457 he was endowed with supreme command of the Venetian army by the doge of Venice. Shortly before his death, Colleoni bequeathed a sizable portion of his estate to the Republic of Venice, with the stipulation that a bronze equestrian monument should be erected in the Piazza San Marco to perpetuate his memory. The Venetian Senate honored his request but placed the statue near the Scuola Grande di San Marco rather than in Piazza San Marco. Andrea del Verrocchio won the commission for the Colleoni statue in a competition. Contests for public art commissions were frequent in fifteenth-century Italy. In fact, sponsors hoped to obtain not only the best, but also the most efficient designs. The Bartolomeo Colleoni Monument is among the best-known works of Verrocchio, that was a teacher of Leonardo da Vinci. Verrocchio died in 1488, before finishing the work, and the statue was finished by Alessandro Leopardi in
2 The Bartolomeo Colleoni monument suffered from years of neglect and damage from the local climate. In 2003 the World Monument Fund began the cleaning and restoring of the equestrian statue that was subjected to the last major conservation work in 1919 [1]. The process of restoring the Colleoni Monument allowed to understand how the bronze statue was originally cast and manufactured and the techniques used in its construction. These studies give a historical insight into the practice of skilled foundrymen and the technologies used for manufacturing big statues. Considering the impressive size of the statue, Verrocchio decided to use the lost-wax casting method for manufacturing different parts of the monument that would be subsequently joined by means of the cast-on method [2] used by the fifteenth century foundrymen to join two different castings. Therefore the equestrian monument of Bartolomeo Colleoni, that weighs about 6000 Kg, is composed of 14 different castings (8 for the horse and 6 for the rider). As far as the horse is concerned the single cast parts were: 1) right foreleg, 2) left foreleg; 3) right hind leg, 4) left hind leg, 5) front portion of the body; 6) rear portion of the body, 7) head, 8)tail. The cast-on method has to join the different parts in such a way that they fit closely and that joints are strong enough to support the monument weight. In fact the huge weight of the statue stands on a pedestal where three horse s hoofs are placed at the vertexes of a slender triangle. During the restoration work of the Colleoni equestrian statue a system of FBG sensors has been applied for long-term structural health monitoring of a crack in the right foreleg [3-5]. The system allowed to verify the structural stress during sensor calibration performed by applying a mechanical stress on the riderless horse and during the rider repositioning [6,7]. FBGs are basically optical strain gages but offer several advantages over the conventional ones. The most interesting characteristics for the applications under concern are the possibility to multiplex dozens of them within the same fiber and the long term stability. One of the processes commonly used for the production of FBG is that one of using coherent UV light illuminating transversally the fiber. The interference pattern can be produced with a phase mask positioned just above the optical fiber. The result of the irradiation is the production of a periodic fluctuation of the index of refraction (called Bragg Grating) in the longitudinal direction of the fiber core. The property of the FBG is to reflect a specific wavelength called Bragg wavelength λ B if some broad-band light propagates along the optical fiber. Since the value of λ B is affected by strain according to a predictable relationships, measuring λ B allows measuring the strain of a structure to which the FBG has been attached with adequate structural contact [8,9]. CRACK MONITORING BY MEANS OF FBG SENSORS O n the right foreleg in correspondence of the welding seam an extended crack affects almost the whole section of the thigh (Fig. 1). In some places the crack branches into two or more paths. This crack was probably formed already during the welding seam cooling, in fact it is possible to find in it shrinkage cavities. The reinforcement of the right foreleg with an internal iron bar (Fig. 2) suggests that Leopardi had already identified this crack. Figure 1: Macrograph showing the crack in the right foreleg of the horse. Figure 2: Detail of the internal part of the horse right foreleg showing the iron bar used as a reinforcement. 49
3 The monument repair by means of welding was not recommended considering that welding could have a negative impact on the monument with unforeseeable consequences. For that reason the crack has been monitored by means of FBG sensors that should allow to evaluate the crack criticality and to check the crack propagation over the years. Obviously this methodology can be used only if sensors are left on the statue and appropriately hidden. The measurements were performed using four FBG sensors, in particular three were used for structural monitoring and one was used for compensating the effect of temperature. The measurement method set up has been done in several stages. In a first stage needed to evaluate the method reliability, three sensors were glued in correspondence to the crack. One of them was used for compensating the effect of temperature. The sensor system has been tested and calibrated via measurement campaigns carried out by applying controlled thermal and mechanical stresses. In a second stage four FBG sensors arranged in series were glued in correspondence to the crack on the right foreleg by means of M-BOND AE10. The array of sensors has been realised and positioned as shown in Fig. 3. Figure 3: FBG sensor system. Fig. 4 shows the sensor array and highlights that the sensor with a wavelength centered at 1533 nm is about 20 cm away from the crack. Two sensors were glued in correspondence of the same areas selected for the previous ones. The sensors system has been realized as shown in Fig. 3 and glued on the horse right side as highlighted in Fig. 4. Figure 4: FBG sensor positions. MEASUREMENTS MADE BY APPLYING FORCES MEASURED BY A DYNAMOMETER I n order to carry out tests, load was applied by a dynamometer. Fig. 5 shows the points where the load was applied and measured by a dynamometer. On the right side of the horse, the load was applied in correspondence of points A, B, C, D and L while on the left side it was applied in correspondence of points H, G, F, E and I that are arranged symmetrically with respect to the previous ones. The last measurements were made while repositioning the rider on the horse (Fig. 6). 50
4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION G raphs of the tests performed with the dynamometer are reported below. Fig. 7 shows the graphs, in arbitrary units, of the deformations detected by the sensors as a function of the time of application of a load of about 500 N (green line). These graphs were obtained in preliminary tests performed by using the first array of sensors and by applying loads only in the points A, B and D. Graphs show concavities which arise as load is first applied and then removed: when load is applied, the signal either increases if the crack opens (positive deformation) or decreases if the crack closes (negative deformation); when the load is removed, the crack goes back to its initial configuration (no deformation) and the signal goes back to zero. Tests highlighted the good response of the sensors showing that when load is applied on the points A and B the crack closes (compression) while the application of a load on the point D produces an area subjected to compression and an area subjected to tension. Fig. 8 shows the graphs of the second array of sensors, always in arbitrary units. They highlight again the deformations detected by the sensors but in this case, as indicated in the figures, the load trend is represented by the blue curve. Figure 5: Points of load application. Figure 6: Repositioning of the rider on the horse. Figure 7: Deformation detected by sensor 1541 (white line) and by sensor 1545 (red line) when load (green line) is applied in correspondence of points A, B and D. 51
5 Figure 8: Deformation detected by sensor 1541 (white line), sensor 1549 (red line) and sensor 1557 (green line) when load is applied in correspondence of points A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and L. The load trend, measured by a 500 N dynamometer, is described by the light blue line. It should be immediately pointed out that the most stressed crack area was on the front of the horse where the sensor 1557 is located. By moving towards the rear of the foreleg deformations are significantly reduced (sensor 1541). A further important information can be gathered considering the points of load application and distinguishing those on the right (L, A, B, C, D) from those on the left (I, H, G, F, E) of the horse. The points are taken from the front to the rear of the horse. When loads are applied on the right side the crack always closes. The only exception is the position D, at the extreme rear of the horse, where the load application determines the crack front opening. When loads are applied on the left side of the horse the crack opens predominantly on the front (sensor 1557). Even in this case by applying the loads in the posterior areas of the horse (F and E) the rear part of the crack behaves differently and closes (sensor 1541). In conclusion measurements have shown good sensitivity and good reproducibility as revealed by the good comparability between measurements performed with the first and the second array of sensors. The sensors for the temperature measurements followed the daily temperature. The temperature range was not wide because the measurements were performed during the restoration when the horse was inside a special encasement built around it. For that reason the horse was not exposed to direct sunlight or to the night rigour. In any case, during the tests the temperature was almost constant. The plot in Fig. 9 shows the trend of the crack deformation during the repositioning of the rider. It highlights an important opening of the crack always in the front area where the sensor 1557 is located. The crack does not deform in his central area (sensor 1549), while it closes in the posterior part of the foreleg (sensor 1541). In 2006 the monument restoration was completed but the crack monitoring over time was not possible because of logistical and bureaucratic problems. For this reason the results of this research have been published after several years. In any case a photographic reconnaissance carried out after 4 years in the area in which the sensors were positioned showed that the sensors detached from the metallic surface (Fig. 10). This suggests that more efforts must be devoted to the study of sensors bonding and coating in order to ensure long lasting bond [8, 9]. 52
6 Figure 9: Data acquired during the rider repositioning by means of sensor 1541 (white line), sensor 1549 (red line) and sensor 1557 (green line). Figure 10: Macrograph showing the sensor detached from the metallic surface. CONCLUSIONS A n important crack was present in the weld area of the right foreleg of the horse of the equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni in Venice. This crack was monitored during the monument restoration with an innovative technique based on FBG sensors. This technique has proved to be reliable and repetitive and showed very well crack opening or closure according to the stresses applied in different areas of the horse. It was possible to measure in real time the crack deformation while repositioning the rider on the horse. The obtained data highlighted that the crack was not critical. As far as the continuous monument monitoring is concerned some bureaucratic, technical and logistical difficulties arose. Especially the sensors gluing and coating durability over time is a considerable problem. In future research efforts should be made to increase their durability with the aim of making the proposed technique reliable over time. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS T he authors would like to thank Dr. Morigi for his contribution to this research. REFERENCES [1] 53
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Jon Swaine
The Telegraph
January 25, 2011
Richard Falk, a retired professor from Princeton University, wrote on his blog that there had been an "apparent cover up" by American authorities.
He added that most media were "unwilling to acknowledge the well-evidenced doubts about the official version of the events" on 9/11, despite it containing "gaps and contradictions".
And he described David Ray Griffin, a conspiracy theorist highly regarded in the so-called "9/11 truth" movement, as a "scholar of high integrity" whose book on the subject was "authoritative".
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In the first 15 Quiet Minutes post I encouraged us to try meditation. This time, I'm going to suggest something a bit more active, because our quiet minutes don't always have to be spent just sitting still in silence.
Mindful walking can be done anywhere. In fact, I recommend simply walking out your front door and around your neighborhood. If at all possible, leave your phone at home, or if you don't feel safe without it, at least put it on silent or do not disturb. I hope it goes without saying, but please choose to walk at a time and in a location where you feel safe!
Mindful walking isn't about getting your heart rate up or getting more steps in for the day, instead it is about walking slowly and being present to the world around you.
Pay attention to the sounds you hear: birds calling, kids laughing, dogs barking, traffic, the wind rustling the leaves. Try not to judge the sounds and think, "The traffic is so loud!" or "Why does my neighbor have to mow her lawn at 8:00 at night?!" Instead, just accept them. They are the sounds of your community, of the world around you.
Next, focus on what you smell. Again, try not to judge good or bad, just notice. Do you smell wet earth? Exhaust fumes? Flowers? Freshly mowed grass?
What do you feel? Notice the warmth of the sun, or the cool evening air, the breeze blowing through your hair, or the feel of your clothing against your skin. How does the pavement or dirt feel beneath you? How do you shoes and socks feel on your feet?
What do you see? Can you find something new that you never noticed before? Perhaps you hadn't noticed that you neighbor recently repainted the trim on their house, or the lovely color of the roses at the house on the corner. If you see something really beautiful, try to resist taking a picture of it. Instead, look at it. Really see it. Take you own mental picture of the image. Try to notice what you are hearing, smelling, and feeling as you look at this beautiful sight. You might be amazed by how well you'll remember something after really paying attention to it!
This is your time, your fifteen minutes out of the day to wander and just be. To observe what is around you without having to judge or analyze it. Your time to be present in your body and in your world.
Try to stay in the moment. If you find your mind wandering to your to-do list, or planning dinner in your head, return your attention to one of your senses. Choose to focus on the feel of each step as you take it, or on the sounds you are hearing around you. You can even choose to focus on a specific sound, like only listening to the birds or the breeze in the trees, or a specific sight, like the way the light hits the leaves, or a sensation, like the feel of each footfall. You could choose this specific focus for a few minutes, or for your entire walk. Center your attention on whatever helps to get you out of your head and back into the present moment.
I hope you'll give mindful walking a try. I'd love to hear your experiences with the practice. I'm looking forward to taking a mindful walk tonight for my 15 Quiet Minutes practice!
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I love this time of year. It really makes me reflect on all of my blessings. We feel so blessed to be here in Michigan and receive so many great opportunities. We have made so many wonderful friendships. I also have the greatest friends from coast to coast that support me and help me reach my goals and become a better person. I feel so lucky to be married to such a wonderful man and my best friend. I have the most amazing children that make me so happy from day to day. Thank you for being a part of our lives! We can not wait for 2007.
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Letters to the Editor
June 13-19, 2002
Building Dads Dreamboat
Of Magic Weisner and a News Wye Generation
Dear Bay Weekly:
I read your article on Magic and Nancy Alberts [Its Magic: The Cinderella Story of Nancy Alberts Horse Next Door: Vol. X, No. 22, May 30] just before Saturdays Belmont Stakes. It was a very touching piece with insight into this special woman and her horse. I thought about her after Saturdays upset, realizing from what you had written that she was probably the only one who left Belmont that day at peace, pleased with herself and her horse, happy to go back home to what matters most to her. A $5 million dollar purse would not have made Nancy Alberts any happier or her horse better cared for. Great piece.
On another subject, as we mourn the Wye Oak, the son of Wye is alive and well next door to me on the lawn of Reggie and Warren Heising in Churchton. Eight or so years ago, the Wye Oak produced acorns for the first time in 100 years. University of Maryland planted them and sold seedlings. The Heisings have a big framed certificate, and we had a neighborhood planting ceremony, toasting long life to the tree with champagne. Today the tree stands about six foot tall, having survived a few years of drought and growing kids.
M.L. Faunce, Churchton
Big Money for a Fish
Dear Bay Weekly:
The Maryland Watermens Association Seventh Annual Pro-Am Rockfish Tournament at Rockhall, Maryland, drew 192 boats over the weekend of June 7, 8 and 9 for our largest participation ever. Each boat flew a bright chartreuse flag, so you may have seen them fishing in the Bay and tributaries from the northern point of Pooles Island to Fairlee Point in the north to Chesapeake Bay Bridge in the south. Hundreds of fish were caught, with the largest checked in at 23.6 pounds, winning fisherman Mike Tyson (no, not that Mike Tyson) of Ashton, Pa., a nice piece of cash $10,000.
In our tournament, recreational fishermen join with commercial watermen and charter captains from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and all parts of Maryland for the stimulation of competition and the bounty of the Bay. The prospect of winning thousands of dollars ($5,000 for second place and $3,000 for third plus $10,000 more in smaller premiums) makes it even more fun.
We want to thank all who participated as well as advertisers in our tournament book. We look forward to another success in 2003.
Betty Duty, Maryland Watermens Association
Dept. of Corrections
The D-Day landing of the Allied Forces was 58 years ago. The number was misstated in Bay Weekly on Books: Edgewaters Stan Norris Chronicles the Weapon that Changed the World, Vol. X, No. 23.
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Carol Ann Duffy and the piracy of passionate love?
Submitted by Janet Lewison on 04 October 2011
'Black Marigolds' translated from Sanskrit by E Powys Mathews: A favourite Love poem of Carol Ann Duffy. Even now If my girl with lotus eyes came to me again Weary with the dear weight of young love, Again I would give her to these starved twins of arms And from her mouth drink down the heavy wine, As a reeling pirate bee in fluttered ease Steals up the honey from the nenuphar. As the soon to be executed lover recollects the love affair that has condemned him, this poem celebrates his lack of regret. Love has not become bitter,it has not diminished into the cowardice of regret, rather it quenches and feeds the 'starved twins of arms' in a arresting language that is palpably erotic- a language luxuriating in sensory richness and infinite joy. This is Swinburne without the murky self pleasuring love. Who would not wish to be a 'pirate bee' upon reading this, and steal 'honey from the nenuphar'? As I type this blog I do not even know what a 'nenuphar' is or where I should find one, but the poet makes such a quest eminently desirable! An imperative! Carol Ann Duffy cited this poem as one of her favourite love poems. A truly marvellous choice! I also feel a tantalising thread of inspiration and affection here for the piracy of poetry and of passionate love? Pirate bees and honey- I wonder?


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Marketing; a tricky topic to define and frame in. the Marketing studies or field has rapidly moved and reached a very high level but still defining is into some fixed variables is just impossible.
Marketing is the part of the management process which responsible for identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitably.
Let's try to understand the definition of marketing and also get a sense of its importance, reach, and radius in business, corporations, organizations and in your life.
The AMA (American Marketing Association) is a prestigious and influential organization not just in the USA but also in the international arena. They definition of marketing in 1964 was-
The process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of goods, services, and ideas to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives.
It was until AMA approved and punished another on 2004;
Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders.
In October 2007, they published a new one;
Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.
The three definitions are not that different but there is a significant difference between them. I like to call them generation gap.
In the first definition of AMA "create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives" indicates that marketing is there for creating exchanges for the involved parties to serve their purpose.
They totally forgot about me and you; the customer's benefit or value. They also somehow put a boundary to the marketing functions; "process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of goods, services, and ideas".
In the second definition; they include us-the customers' value but "in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders". Here they showed the Extend of the marketing activities; "function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value".
The third definition of marketing by AMA is to me the most precise one or the closet on. Well, they put values of customers and society at equals to the organization's objectives. Also, they put it in front and regarded it is as the main force behind the marketing activates. See the third change come very quick.
And it is rightly so. Businesses have found out that it is customers who are the only reason for the success, not the large capital or the product/service they produce. For some of them, it had to be found in a hard way.
We can say that marketing is all about delivering customer value and the businesses should be too. Businesses in trying to get customers attention and marketing include all those activates.
The marketing guru of Silicon Valley; Regis McKenna defined marketing in a very short and outrageous way;
Marketing is everything
Bold statement from Regis McKenna's but take a look again and it's very true. Marketing functions are not fixed on just products, pricing, promotion, and distribution. It is all the activates that has an effect on how your customer perceives your company.
So in that sense; everything is actually marketing. Marketing is for understanding what the customer needs and then to provide it requires marketing to go beyond the marketing department.
And at the end, we are defining marketing like this-
Every action of an organization; either orbits around, depends on, forced by the activates that marketing makes to communicate with customers for indicating product's or service's value to them.
Leave a comment on this topic. Say how you see and define marketing.


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Planning progresses with Manns Road Community Consultation Report online
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Planning for the proposed upgrade of Manns Road between Stockyard Place at West Gosford and Narara Creek Road at Narara is progressing with the community consultation report now available online.
Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Scot MacDonald, said the NSW Government allocated $500,000 this financial year to continue planning the upgrade, which aims to improve traffic flow and safety for motorists using this stretch of road.
"The proposal involves widening Manns Road to provide two lanes in each direction, installing raised central median and controlled intersections," Mr MacDonald said.
"The existing bridge across the creek near the intersection of Manns Road and Nells Road is also proposed to be replaced.
"The proposed upgrade would deliver benefits to road users by improving safety, travel conditions and more reliable travel times, reduced congestion especially in morning and afternoon peak times and improved pedestrian and cyclist access."
Mr MacDonald thanked the community and business owners for the 25 submissions received which included letters, emails and phone calls as well as face to face property meetings with business owners.
"Thirty seven people attended the community information sessions during the display between 23 May and 17 June this year," Mr MacDonald said.
"The main comments received centred on the potential access impact to properties along Manns Road due to the raised central median strip and traffic delays during work.
"A community consultation report has now been prepared in response to these issues and feedback raised."
The report is now available on the project website at rms.nsw.gov.au/mannsroad.
Media: Scot MacDonald | 02 9230 2393
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Today at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California astronaut wings will be awarded to the three civilian research pilots who flew the X-15 into space in the mid-1960s.
Between the years that NASA flew its first unmanned Mercury sub-orbital space flight and when its Apollo astronauts trained for their first mission to orbit the Moon, 12 test pilots flew the nation's first rocket plane to the edges of the atmosphere ... and beyond.
Of the dozen, eight of those pilots flew the experimental X-15 to altitudes above 264,000 feet--50 miles--a height recognized by the U.S. Air Force as being in space.
Of the eight, five pilots were employed by the Air Force and received their astronaut wings. The three others were NASA research pilots--William H. "Bill" Dana and the late John B. "Jack" McKay and Joseph A. Walker.
In a private ceremony, scheduled to take place Tuesday afternoon before an audience of 200 invited guests and NASA Dryden employees the three civilian pilots will at long last receive their wings. The event is expected to include presentations by Kent Rominger, NASA's Chief of the Astronaut Corps and by Johnny Armstrong, an X-15 test engineer and current Deputy Director of the Access to Space Office at the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Among other guests expected to attend are several of the other X-15 test pilots, including Scott Crossfield and Joe Engle, who received USAF astronaut wings and flew the Space Shuttle as a NASA astronaut.
Unlike the Air Force wings, which are physically a metal pair of wings, the distinction that Dana and the families of McKay and Walker will accept is to be more ceremonial in nature. Each will receive a certificate, a Velcro-backed badge of the type NASA astronauts adorn on their flight suits, and the actual flight logs from their now recognized space flights.
The honor officially establishes Walker as only the 11th person to fly in space and the 7th American by his first wings-qualifying flight on January 17, 1963. McKay is the 26th space explorer (13th U.S. astronaut) by his flight on September 28, 1965. Dana ranks as the 35th human to leave Earth (and 21st American) by November 1, 1966.
Of the three, McKay broke the 50 mile barrier only once, Dana twice and Walker three times.
Two of Walker's fights also exceeded 328,000 feet or 62 miles altitude, the internationally accepted boundary of space set by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale.
In total, 13 of the 199 X-15 flights reached space. Aside from the six space flights achieved by NASA pilots, the seven others were flown by Air Force pilots Robert White, Robert Rushworth, Engle, William Knight and Michael J. Adams. Only three of the eight X-15 astronauts - White, Engle and Dana - are still living.
After flying the X-15 (including its last flight in October 1968), Dana served as a research pilot for the Air Force's X-20 Dyna-Soar program. He led NASA's lifting body program during the late 1960s and 1970s. In 1993, Dana was named Chief Engineer at NASA Dryden until 1998 when he retired.
McKay joined NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), NASA's predecessor, in 1951 as a test pilot for the X-1 and D-558 and served as a project pilot on the F-100, F-102, F-104, and F-107 test programs before he was assigned to the X-15. He was seriously injured when the X-15 he was piloting crashed in 1962. McKay's death on April 27, 1975, stemmed from liver damage suffered in the accident.
Walker's altitude record of 67.1 miles set on the third of his X-15 space flights went unbroken by any other rocket plane until the privately-funded SpaceShipOne exceeded 69 miles in October 2004.
Walker made the first test flight of the X-15 in 1960 and went on to fly a total of 24 times. After the X-15, he tested the "flying bedstead," the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, in advance of training NASA's Apollo astronauts how to touchdown on the moon. Walker was killed on June 8, 1966, when the F-104 chase plane he was piloting collided with the XB-70 "Valkyrie" he was chasing.
The X-15 explored the realm of hypersonic flight during a nine year joint program between NASA, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force and North American. The X-15 was air launched from a B-52 aircraft before igniting its liquid-fuel rocket engine. In addition to setting altitude records, the experimental aircraft also achieved speed milestones in the Mach 4 to 6 range. The X-15 program is credited with contributing to the development of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft as well as NASA's Space Shuttle.


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Today for our 23rd episode, we will talk with Marty Weintraub, founder of Aimclear and as far as I know the inventor of Psychographic targeting.
What can I say about Marty Weintraub? First of all, he's a man of energy and action. You can't hear him speak without feeling smarter (and often confused). It's not just his presentation style, though, but rather the information he presents. It's like peering into the future.
Our conversation was no different. Marty gave us the super quick version of his life background filled with music and artistry. Then he talked about how he first discovered the world of Internet marketing.
I've heard Marty's back-story before, but this was my first time hearing about the transition.
Things moved pretty fast for Marty once he found his true calling, and the rest you could say is history.Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe in Android
Quotable moments from our talk with Marty
About his team:
On using previous experience:
On making the most out of Facebook ads:
Links related to this week's episode
- @martyweintraub on Twitter
- Did you even HAVE the attitude regarding Facebook ads in 2008?
- Legendary recording engineer Tom Tucker
- One of Marty's favorite authors
- Friend who carried Marty when times were tough
- Example of good personal positioning
- One of literally tons of Aimclear kickass blogposts
- See Marty speak about his cancer fight as it was a walk in the park
- See why Marty doesn't remember the 80s
- Killer Book You HAVE to read (at least a few chapters)


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FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP),
released under the Apache license. Enjoy the freedom of using your
software wherever you want, the way you want it, in a world where
interoperability can finally liberate your computing experience.
WWW: http://www.freerdp.com
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/net/freerdp/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install freerdp
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SHA256 (FreeRDP-FreeRDP-2.0.0-rc3_GH0.tar.gz) = d32d4a092e468deb3a1296e8358f900bf7e80afd0876d815ba43622ce29596c5
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ALSA=off: ALSA audio architecture support
CUPS=on: CUPS printing system support
FFMPEG=off: FFmpeg support (WMA, AIFF, AC3, APE...)
GSTREAMER=on: Multimedia support via GStreamer
ICU=on: Unicode support via ICU
KERBEROS=on: Kerberos support
MANPAGES=on: Build and/or install manual pages
PULSEAUDIO=off: PulseAudio sound server support
SSE=on: Use SSE optimized routines
WAYLAND=on: Build FreeRDP Wayland client
X11=on: Build FreeRDP X11 client
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
alias cmake:outsource compiler:c++11-lib cpe gettext localbase pathfix pkgconfig ssl gnome
Affects: users of net/freerdp
Author: firstname.lastname@example.com
The net/freerdp package was changed API and require to deinstall previous
version first to avoid build conflicts.
Number of commits found: 84
Bump PORTREVISION for ports depending on the canonical version of GCC
defined via Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk which has moved from GCC 7.4 t
GCC 8.2 under most circumstances.
This includes ports
- with USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
- with USES=fortran,
- using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and
- with USES=compiler specifying openmp, nestedfct, c11, c++0x, c++11-lang,
c++11-lib, c++14-lang, c++17-lang, or gcc-c++11-lib
plus, as a double check, everything INDEX-11 showed depending on lang/gcc7.
- Remove obsolete OSVERSION condition
Approved by: portmgr blanket
multimedia/ffmpeg: update to 4.1
Changes: https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/n4.1:/Changelog
ABI: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/ffmpeg/
Remove compatibility code for FreeBSD < 11.2 from all ports.
Simplify some ports where DragonFlyBSD no longer needs to be special-cased.
Submitted by: rene
Reviewed by: bapt, jbeich
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17724
devel/icu: update to 63.1
Changes: http://site.icu-project.org/download/63
ABI: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/icu4c/
Exp-run by: antoine
Bump PORTREVISION to chase update of multimedia/v4l_compat and libv4l
Change x11/xorgproto to become a build dep
Change x11/xorgproto to become a build time dependency when added to
USE_XORG. Change the dependency to be on the port, rather than a file the
port installs.
Fix fallout.
Bump portrevision on depending ports.
Reviewed by: eadler
Approved by: portmgr (antoine)
from: https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-ports/tree/feature/xorgproto
exp-run: antoine
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16906
net/freerdp: Fix build failure
Submitted by: kevans (maintainer)
Reported by: email@example.com
net/freerdp: Update to 2.0.0-rc3
- Remove patches committed upstream
Changes this release:
Approved by: kevans (maintainer)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16918
Switch to xorgproto instead of individual packages
Upstream used to distribute protocol headers as separate packages, but has
decided to merge those to a common package, named xorgproto. This update
tracks that change.
* Add a new port, x11/xorgproto, with are protocol headers for xorg.
* Hook the new protocol port to the build and to infrastructure in
* Update all ports with a dependency on any of the old *proto packages to
instead depend on xorgproto. Bump portrevision.
* Delete the old *proto packages, update MOVED.
Submitted by: zeising
Approved by: portmgr (antoine)
exp-run by: antoine
Bump PORTREVISION for ports depending on the canonical version of GCC
in the ports tree (via Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk and lang/gcc) which
has now moved from GCC 6 to GCC 7 by default.
This includes ports
- featuring USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
- featuring USES=fortran,
- using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and those
- with USES=compiler specifying one of openmp, nestedfct, c11, c++0x,
c++11-lib, c++11-lang, c++14-lang, c++17-lang, or gcc-c++11-lib.
devel/icu: update to 62.1
Changes: http://site.icu-project.org/download/62
ABI: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/icu4c/
Exp-run by: antoine (only 10.4)
multimedia/ffmpeg: update to 4.0
- FFSERVER support was removed upstream
- libressl now uses libtls backend instead of patching openssl one
- Clang i386 no longer uses 16-byte aligned stack
Changes: https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/n4.0:/Changelog
ABI: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/ffmpeg/
Exp-run by: antoine
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15175
net/freerdp: drop bogus ffmpeg fix
av_frame_free() replaced avcodec_free_frame() according to
Obtained from: upstream
net/freerdp: unbreak with ffmpeg 4.0
channels/tsmf/client/ffmpeg/tsmf_ffmpeg.c:210:38: error: use of undeclared
identifier 'CODEC_CAP_TRUNCATED'
if (mdecoder->codec->capabilities & CODEC_CAP_TRUNCATED)
channels/tsmf/client/ffmpeg/tsmf_ffmpeg.c:211:37: error: use of undeclared
identifier 'CODEC_FLAG_TRUNCATED'
mdecoder->codec_context->flags |= CODEC_FLAG_TRUNCATED;
Reported by: antoine (via exp-run)
Obtained from: upstream (FreeRDP 2.0.0-rc2)
devel/icu: update to 61.1
Changes: http://site.icu-project.org/download/61
ABI: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/icu4c/
Exp-run by: antoine
MFH: 2018Q2 (required by Firefox 61)
Fix duplicated patch
Approved by: brd (implicit)
net/freerdp: Fix following recent Windows update, bump dependents
Patch backported from upstream @ fbe01c7; breakage seems to be that FreeRDP
will emit an error "ERRCONNECT_PASSWORD_CERTAINLY_EXPIRED" in a context
where one is certain that that is not the case.
Approved by: brd (ports), me (maintainer)
Fix broken build related to missing xmlto dependency used to generate
xfreerdp(1) man page.
===> Building package for freerdp-2.0.0.r1
pkg-static: Unable to access file
such file or directory
Reported by: Andrzej Tobola <email@example.com> via email
Approved by: kevans (maintainer)
Remove leftover patch
Reported by: firstname.lastname@example.com
Approved by: kevans (maintainer)
net/freerdp: Update to 2.0.0-rc1
- Enable 64 bit file support in winpr
- Remove unneeded patches (added upstream)
- Add support for ICU for unicode conversion
- Add support for KERBEROS
- Add MANPAGES option and fix man pages installation in /usr/local/man
- Fix WWW in pkg-descr
- Pet portlint
Changelog: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/blob/2.0.0-rc1/ChangeLog
Submitted by: cpm
Reviewed by: kevans
Approved by: kevans (maintainer)
net/freerdp: enable Wayland client, wlfreerdp
- Add WAYLAND support option and enabled it by default
- Sort options helpers
- Bump PORTREVISION
Submitted by: Greg V <email@example.com>
Reviewed by: cpm, kevans
Approved by: kevans (maintainer)
For ports that set particular flags/options for armv6, also set them
for armv7.
This is part three of a multipart commit to bring armv7 ports to parity
with armv6.
Approved by: portmgr (tier-2 blanket)
Obtained from: lonesome.com -exp run
multimedia/ffmpeg: update to 3.4
Notable changes:
- i386/amd64 now depend on NASM per
- NETCDF is now MYSOFA but the dependency doesn't exist in ports yet
- SCHROEDINGER is gone per
- DRM, LIBRSVG2, LIBXML2 are new options
- ABI isn't completely compatible: some structs have changed
Minor cleanup:
- Don't pass --disable-{in,out}dev when it's already blocked by disabled
- Drop redundant "Enable" from option descriptions
- Switch CDIO_DESC to use Mk/bsd.options.desc.mk
Changes: https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/n3.4:/Changelog
ABI: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/ffmpeg/
Exp-run by: antoine
Remove USES=execinfo.
Submitted by: mat (review), Yasuhiro KIMURA (PR)
Sponsored by: Absolight
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11488
Bump PORTREVISION for ports depending on the canonical version of GCC
(via Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk and lang/gcc) which has moved from
GCC 5.4 to GCC 6.4 under most circumstances.
This includes ports
- with USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
- with USES=fortran,
- using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and
- with USES=compiler specifying openmp, nestedfct, c++11-lib, c++11-lang,
c++14-lang, c++0x, c11, or gcc-c++11-lib.
net/freerdp: Update to 2.0.0 RC0
- Fix patches and post-patch to apply against new release
- Bump PORTREVISION of dependent ports
Approved by: kevans (maintainer)
* Updated maintainer email address
Submitted by: kevans
Reviewed by: lifanov (mentor)
Approved by: lifanov (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11497
Revision bump of all ports with USE_GL after consolidation of mesa-libs
Approved by: swills (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10845
Bump PORTREVISIONs for ports depending on the canonical version of GCC and
lang/gcc which have moved from GCC 4.9.4 to GCC 5.4 (at least under some
circumstances such as versions of FreeBSD or platforms).
This includes ports
- with USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
- with USES=fortran,
- using using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn has USES=fortran, and
- with USES=compiler specifying openmp, nestedfct, c++11-lib, c++14-lang,
c++11-lang, c++0x, c11, or gcc-c++11-lib.
Fix build with libressl-devel. Restrict SSE option to x86, default on amd64.
Approved by: firstname.lastname@example.com (maintainer), swills (mentor)
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9671
multimedia/ffmpeg: update to 3.2.2
Changes: https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/n3.2.2:/Changelog
Submitted by: riggs, firstname.lastname@example.com (libressl fix)
Exp-run by: antoine (3 tries)
net/freerdp: Fix X11_CMAKE_ON typo and logic error introduced in r428330
Approved by: adamw (mentor, implicit)
net/freerdp: Update to 2.0.0 pre-release (GitHub as of 2016.11.24)
- This update brings in the latest 2 years of FreeRDP project work,
which has had a long time between tagging releases.
- Remove DIRECTFB option, as it no longer compiles, and gets little
upstream maintenance
- Use NEON on aarch64, and optionally on armv6
- Mark as broken on armv6 on FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE and early versions
of 12.0-CURRENT
- Fix issue with X11_USE=xorg= being truncated due to whitespace as it
wrapped over multiple lines
- Move installed *.cmake files to correct location for modules
- create new port based on previous net/freerdp 1.2.0, as it is required
- Pass maintainership to submitter
- Change USE_OPENSSL => USES= SSL
- Include xorg=xrender
Submitted by: firstname.lastname@example.com
net/freerdp: Fix build with ffmpeg 3.0.x
Add patch-ffmpeg29, obtained from Debian [1], to allow freerdp to
build successfully once multimedia/ffmpeg is updated to 3.0.x.
Note that multimedia/ffmpeg is currently still on the 2.8.x branch,
however this patch is backwards compatible with ffmpeg 2.8.x.
Approved by: adamw (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6813
Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, categories m, n, o, and p.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
Combine print/cups-base, print/cups-client and print/cups-image into
print/cups and update it to 2.1.3. Also remove print/cups-pstoraster,
improve print/cups-filters, print/foomatic-* and update print/hplip to
Long description:
First some background. When you hand a file to cups it sets up a chain of
filter programs that converts the file to something a printer understands.
Each filter has a cost associated with it and cups tries to find the
cheapest chain. Costs used to be configured in such a way that files were
first converted to PostScript. This could then be manipulated further (e.g.
putting multiple pages on one sheet) before finally being sent to a
PostScript printer or another filter like pstoraster which produces a raster
format understood by non-PostScript printer drivers. Nowadays most filters
Fix fetch, GH_PROJECT for those ports is case sensitive
Cleanup GH_* and variables order.
Sponsored by: Absolight
net/freerdp: fix build on sparc64
Obtained from: FreeRDP commit 68619b6
Fix the build with GStreamer 1.6.0.
The GStreamer core how has multiple include dirs, and freerdp rolls
it own detection code and figuring our which include dirs to use.
Instead use pkg-config to get the correct include dirs.
Submitted by: antoine@
Revert r390700 and r390719, some pkgconfig fixes were reverted and the
update breaks net/vinagre (and gnome3)
Pointy hat: pi@
With hat: portmgr
net/freerdp: fix pkg-plist conditionals
Pointy hat to: pi
net/freerdp: update to a newer GIT version which builds without patches
OSS: audin fixes, tsmf added
cmdline: syntax samples added
improve BSD support: devd detection and support, urbdrc
usb: fixes
Submitted by: Rozhuk Ivan <firstname.lastname@example.com>
net/freerdp: Restore build on DragonFly
The definition of "BSD" is not broad enought to include DragonFly.
Also, since we are using "alias", DragonFly needs to continue to
masquerade as FreeBSD.
Similar to r387391, zlib is also in base and there is no zlib.pc, so
remove zlib from freerdp.pc and winpr.pc. Without this, net/vinagre
still fails to configure.
Approved by: mat (mentor, implicit)
Exclude libssl from .pc. We don't provide libssl.pc for openssl in
base. Without this, net/vinagre fails to configure.
net/freerdp: 1.1.0 -> 1.2.0
- The version is known as 1.2.0-beta1+android9
- USES=execinfo is required on FreeBSD 9 and 8
- Fixes build issues
Requested by: firstname.lastname@example.com
Submitted by: Ting-Wei Lan <email@example.com>
Remove $FreeBSD$ from patches files everywhere.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
Update ports in the n* categories to not use GH_COMMIT.
With minor cleanups to make things simpler.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
- Add CPE info
Approved by: portmgr blanket
Fix a typo in the previous patch.
Fix build with recent opensslv.h.
Give a change to new maintainers
Discussed with: fluffy
Make the port build with CMake < 3.1.0 after r375840.
Of course the part of the patch I wrote myself had to be wrong. Adjust the
regexp to make it look like the others and work with all CMake versions.
- Add upstream patch (slightly adjusted to this version) to make the port
build with the upcoming CMake 3.1.0.
- Add missing dependency on libXi, and set PORTREVISION only once while
Approved by: fluffy (maintainer, implicit)
When using the old command line syntax with net/freerdp, it will
suggest to upgrade a few parameters; the suggestion for "/network
[value]" should actually be "/network:[value]".
Submitted by: olgeni
Approved by: maintainer timeout
Cleanup plist
Add USES=alias to several ports
Alias is a new USES tool that allows DragonFly to masquerade as FreeBSD
by setting CFLAGS+= -D__FreeBSD__. For some ports, this fixes the build
without the need for additional patches.
Approved by: portmgr (bapt, blanket)
Update the default version of GCC in the Ports Collection from GCC 4.7.4
to GCC 4.8.3.
Part II, Bump PORTREVISIONs.
Tested by: antoine (-exp runs)
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
Remove indefinite articles and trailing periods from COMMENT, plus minor
COMMENT typos and surrounding whitespace fixes. A few Makefiles where not
included as they contain Latin-1 characters that break the Phabricator
workflow. Category N.
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
- Rely on modern compiler, which force gcc47/clang33 on gcc-default releases
- Rewrite OPTIONS to match new style
- Note in DirectFB option about deprecation upstream
- Conditionaly depend on compiler:c11 (math and sse2 functions require this)
- Use DISTVERSIONSUFFIX to construct correct DISTNAME automagically and
avoid both declaration of PORTVERSION and DISTVERSION with beta suffixes
- Pet portlint
- Update FreeRDP to 220.127.116.113070101 beta release
- Update Remmina and Remmina plugins collection to git commit b6a55ae
- Use new style for LIB_DEPENDS
- Stagify
- rename AL2 to APACHE20 in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk
- svn move Templates/Licenses/AL2 Templates/Licenses/APACHE20
- add APACHE10 and APACHE11 to Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk
- add entry in UPDATING
- bulk change all ports AL2 => APACHE20
- math/openfst/pkg-plist: remove share/licenses/openfst-1.3.4
PR: ports/184785
Submitted by: ohauer
Reviewed by: tabthorpe
Approved by: portmgr (tabthorpe@)
- Reduce unnecessary dependencies by use cups-client for library.
Submitted by: Pavel Gubin
net/freerdp: fix build with ffmpeg
- Fix build with ffmpeg
Reported by: dinoex
Approved by: portmgr (bapt, implicit)
- Add missed dependency on ALSA when option is selected
Submitted by: Kevin Zheng
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
- Explicitly disable libxkbfile detection when no X11 option is selected
Reported by: Michael Moll <kvedulv AT kvedulv DOT de>
Finish converting the whole ports tree to USES=pkgconfig
- Fix the build if old freerdp exists in the system
- Delete unused GNU_CONFIGURE and CPPFLAGS
Submitted by: Koichiro IWAO <meta+ports AT vmeta DOT jp
Feature safe: yes
- convert USE_CMAKE to USES
- while here clean up some ports from CMAKE_VERBOSE, which is intended
for users
Approved by: portmgr (miwi)
- Add missed option to OPTIONS_DEFINE
Reported by: olgeni
- Update FreeRDP to 1.0.2 release
- Big thanks for Andriy Gapon and Koichiro IWAO for submitting patches
Submitted by: Andriy Gapon, Koichiro IWAO
- Adopt ports from avl@ to myself by his request
Approved by: maintainer via IM
- update png to 1.5.10
- Add LDFLAGS to CONFIGURE_ENV and MAKE_ENV (as it was done with LDFLAGS)
- Fix all ports that add {CPP,LD}FLAGS to *_ENV to modify flags instead
Submitted by: myself
Exp-runs by: pav
Approved by: pav
- Update to 0.8.2
- Fix the build if old freerdp exists in the system [1]
- Move from do-patch target to post-patch
Reported by: Pavel Timofeev <timp87 AT gmail.com> [1]
- Update to 0.8.1
- Update WWW
- Update to 0.7.4
FreeRDP is a fork of the rdesktop project that intends to rapidly start moving
forward and implement features that rdesktop lacks the most.
* Support for cursors on Windows Server 2008 R2
* Support for bitmap caching, which provides a good performance boost
* Support for Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Session Broker Load
* New keyboard input system based on the XKB database, providing better support
for international keyboards
WWW: http://freerdp.sourceforge.net/
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12 vulnerabilities affecting 157 ports have been reported in the past 14 days
* - modified, not new
All vulnerabilities
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It will also add 840 kilometers (521 miles) of new pipeline and seven new pump stations to the systems to serve the joint venture's current Foster Creek and Christina Lake oil sands projects and the planned Narrows Lake project.
Inter Pipeline units were down 1 Canadian cent at C$20.00 by late morning.
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- Published in Past Issues
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Revenue: Decreased 26.8% to $336.4 million from the year-earlier quarter.
Actual vs. Wall St. Expectations: Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. reported adjusted EPS loss of $0.03 per share. By that measure, the company missed the mean analyst estimate of $0.1. It missed the average revenue estimate of $382.8 million.
Quoting Management: "Production for the second quarter was in line with our expectations, and we anticipate meeting our 2013 guidance with stronger second half production expected at LaRonde, Kittila and Meadowbank, and the planned start of production at Goldex," said Sean Boyd, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Given the current low gold price environment, we are in the process of reviewing all aspects of our business. Today we are announcing capital and other costs reductions of approximately $50 million for the remainder of 2013. Additionally, we estimate that 2014 capital expenditures at existing mines and projects will be in excess of $200 million lower than our previous estimate of approximately $600 million. In spite of these cost reductions and spending deferrals, our growth profile in 2014 and 2015 remains intact," added Mr. Boyd.
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Revenue decreased 19.98% from $420.42 million in the previous quarter. EPS increased to $-0.03 in the quarter versus EPS of $-0.03 in the previous quarter.
Looking Forward: Analysts have a more negative outlook for the company's next-quarter performance. Over the past three months, the average estimate for next quarter's earnings has fallen from a profit of $0.53 to a profit $0.14. For the current year, the average estimate has moved down from a profit of $1.56 to a profit of $0.6 over the last ninety days.
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Turning Stone Casino, Verona, NY, Aug. 12
By Peter Lim
There couldn't be a more dead-even matchup - style wise, statistically and in
actuality - between these two lanky five-foot-eight featherweights. Flores
(20-0, 9 KOs) is a boxer-puncher who can fight effectively from the outside but
prefers to slug it out in the trenches where he loves to unleash his favorite weapon
- the left hook to the body. Kielczweski (25-1, 7 KOs), is the more cerebral
stick-and-move tactician, but when forced to brawl, also favors the left hook
to inflict the most damage up close and personal. Neither combatant, as their
respective below 50-percent knockout rates suggest, has significant
fight-ending power.
Ultimately, though, Flores' slight edge in brawling ability trumps Kielczweski's slight edge in boxing ability. Both combatants box on even terms
from long range in the early goings, but when the action moves into toe-to-toe
territory in the later rounds, Flores lands the snappier, more picturesque
punches. At the end of the night, the Texan is rewarded for his fan-friendlier
style, eking out a majority decision by scores of 96-94 (twice) and 95-95.


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|Civil Rights bombing probe
|1977 Oct. 6
Black and white photographs of Chambliss, Stoner, and Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
Originally published in the Huntsville Times.
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