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Travis Conklin's Conkwear suits his art to a T
Travis Conklin is an artist who explores a variety of mediums. As co-owner of F4D Studio, he photographs, films and creates beautiful imagery through his lens. But with Conkwear, his clothing company, Conklin has found a new way to share his art. What started as a way to get his design work out there has grown into a full-on company that showcases his talents in photography and graphic design by creating a mobile gallery of clients wearing his work. We recently spoke with Conklin about why he started the company, why he keeps it going, and what sorts of events he is involved with in Denver.Britt Chester
See also:Photos of Conkwear art/clothing installation at MegaFauna
Westword: How did Conkwear get started?Travis Conklin
Travis Conklin: Conkwear started in September of 2007. That was when American Apparel got famous with their branding, and I was just wearing a lot of those T-shirts. I was the blank T-shirt guy. I was living in Los Angeles, and I'd go into clothing stores -- the Affliction and Ed Hardy styles were popular, and other graphic styles that I wasn't really about -- so I just wanted to have my own designs. I had this photo of a zebra in a suit, and I made a graphic of it and showed it to my friends at this party I had at my house. I asked them if they would wear it, and they liked it. I printed about 100 of them and gave them away to people. I gave them to friends around L.A. and some in Colorado, and people were stoked about it. I started the website one month later.
T-shirt companies don't seem to be the most lucrative business model. Are you at the point now where the company is self-sustaining?
I don't actually make any money on Conkwear. I don't do it for the money. I do it for two reasons: It's cool to see people wearing my art, and that's an easy way to get my photography out there. It's based on graphic design, but every single one is my photo. The other reason is to raise money for charity. I also just had a meeting with Quarterly Karma, and I'm going to be sponsoring a bunch of events through them. I just did "Fire in the Sky" and I sold a bunch of shirts there. It was funny seeing my T-shirts in a fashion show on the runway, but it worked out. People loved it. I sold a lot.
How many shirts would you say you've turned out since starting the company?
Over the course of its existence? That's tough. Easily over 1,000. I'd say somewhere between 2,500 and up, but that's just a guess. I am real thankful for MegaFauna here in Denver for really revitalizing Conkwear. I was dating a girl and she took me to MegaFauna for an art opening, and she talked to the owner and he was all about it. At the time, I was just selling online, and MegaFauna was all about getting it into the shop. When they were on 27th and Larimer, I was selling a lot of them. I'd go into the store and see people buying them. One time I showed up with a box of stuff, and I wasn't even done going through the gear and I sold two shirts before I took everything out.
That's pretty cool. I think it's cool to keep it simple. I put "Conk" on there once, and people didn't really like it. The graphic just does it.
It's branding itself without really branding at all?
Totally. It's anthropomorphic animals and stuff.
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These were people we knew very well. Everyone is devastated, Varlet said. Those words could have been spoken by anyone in the futures industry, for Carr was one of its biggest members, and virtually everyone had a friend or acquaintance in that office.
Of all the firms in the futures business, Carr suffered the greatest loss, but no firm was left untouched by the disaster. Dozens of companies had offices in the two towers, and many more were in the immediate neighborhood. Thousands of people were forced to evacuate their offices in lower Manhattanalmost 5,000 are still missingand the entire area around the World Trade Center complex remains under heavy security to this day.
No one could have anticipated the devastating impact of those attacks, yet the industry recovered remarkably quickly. Disaster plans and contingency facilities were put into action within days, in some cases within hours. Trading operations were shifted to New Jersey, Chicago or London; data was restored from backup computers; and staff moved into new office space in and around lower Manhattan.
More than a month has passed since the attacks and conditions have returned to something like normalcy. The affected exchanges are back in business and trading volumes are back on track for a record year. But the shock has left its mark. Throughout the industry there are reports of individuals breaking down under stress, nervous about working in skyscrapers, even leaving the business. Managers are providing counseling and support, but the long-term emotional impact may take years to overcome.
The attacks also may accelerate the move toward electronic trading, although opinion is divided on this issue. Trading floors disrupted by the attacks proved difficult to reopen, but the Internet remained functional throughout the crisis. Indeed, e-mail proved to be an important means of communication amid the chaos.
Discussions have already begun throughout the industry on what lessons can be drawn from this disaster. No doubt this discussion will continue for months, but one thing is clear: many firms would not have come back so quickly if it had not been for the immediate and unstinting assistance they received from other firms. In the face of a disaster that threatened the entire system, traditional rivalries were put aside and all joined hands to reopen the markets.
Contingency planning is expensive, and probably will become more expensive as firms digest the consequences of the September 11 attacks. This may become another factor in favor of industry consolidation, but at the same time there is an awareness of the dangers inherent in centralization. Morgan Stanley has already made it clear that it plans to disperse its staff more widely in the New York metropolitan area, and other firms are considering similar moves. Day of Terror
Out of the dozens of firms in the World Trade Center complex that engage in futures-related activity, only two suffered catastrophic loss of lifeCantor Fitzgerald and Carr Futures.
Cantor is primarily a bond firm, but its subsidiary eSpeed has developed an electronic system for trading bond futures and certain energy commodities. Many of its employees were drawn from the futures industry, the New York Mercantile Exchange in particular.
Cantor occupied several floors at the very top of One World Trade Center, the first tower to be hit and the second to collapse. None of the people in its office at the time of the attack were able to evacuate. The company has estimated that a total of 657 of its employees are missing and presumed dead.
Howard Lutnick, Cantors top executive, has vowed to keep the firm going, but the devastating loss has forced the company into a fundamental change of strategy. Cantor has shut down most of its voice broking operation, which once handled roughly a quarter of all OTC trades in Treasury bonds. Instead, the company is now putting all its resources into eSpeed, which resumed trading Treasuries via its all-electronic platform on September 13, just two days after the attack.
One of the few pieces of positive news for Cantor amid the tragedy was that many members of Cantors technology staff typically came to work after 9:00 and therefore missed the first strike. Those employees are now the backbone of the companys operations in the U.S. and are working with the London office to sustain Cantors position as one of the primary inter-dealer brokers in the Treasury market.
Frederick Varacchi, eSpeeds president and chief operating officer, was one of the many Cantor employees fatally trapped in the building by the attacks. By a lucky break, however, the three people who report to Varacchi were all out of the office. September 11 happened to be the one day in the year when those three were under orders from Varacchi to spend the day together out of the office as a team-building exercise.
Immediately after the disaster, Cantor set up a counseling center at the Pierre Hotel in New York. Cantor also set up a relief fund to provide emergency financial assistance to the many families who lost loved ones in this tragedy, plus some long-term assistance for child care, college tuition and medical care.
Carr Futures: At the Epicenter
The other firm was of course Carr Futures, a subsidiary of Frances Credit Agricole, and one of the 10 largest FCMs in the U.S. In numerical terms, Carrs losses were much smaller than Cantor, but the firm was just as hard hit. Exactly what happened is still not clear, but it appears that none of the 69 people in the office when the plane hit the building made it out alive.
Varlet, who was on vacation in Spain on the day of the attack, was contacted by cell phone with the news, and immediately set about organizing the response. The first step was to separate the operational issues from the human management issues, and set up different teams to handle each aspect of the disaster.
On the operations side, the firms systems were completely backed up and the London and Chicago offices took action the same day to handle the customer business. Carr updated its Web site throughout the crisis with detailed information for customers on the recovery process, including contact numbers for the replacement trading desks in London and Chicago.
On the human side, Carr immediately began the process of tracking down which employees had survived the attacks, and which were missing. With fixed line telephone connections severed and cell phone circuits almost totally jammed, the company resorted to posting contact information on its Web site and asked local television stations to broadcast a toll-free number, hoping that this would reach the surviving employees.
We immediately decided to make our office in Chicago, which had all the resources to manage this kind of situation, the crisis center, Varlet said. Our first priority was to identify how many people survived, and who was in the office.
On Wednesday, as the scale of the tragedy became clear, Carr set up a welcome center at the Waldorf Astoria for families and friends of the victims. The center remained open for a week and was staffed with psychologists and human resources people to help the families cope with the disaster.
Carr also set up a memorial fund to provide short-term emergency assistance for the families and partners of the victims. The fund is being handled by Northern Trust and has been arranged so that donations can be tax deductible in both France and the U.S.
Carr has always been like a family, Varlet continued. We had incredible support from the other offices overseas. They did not feel remote; they were very close to us, and that has been one of the key elements helping us through this process.
Carr also provided counseling for people in other parts of its office network who knew people in the New York office, who might even have been on the phone with them during the terrifying minutes after the plane hit and before the building collapsed.
Obviously the first thoughts were for the people from the office who survived this tragedy. We made a significant effort to do anything we could to help them. But you also have people in the offices of the bank, even in our offices in London and Paris and other locations in the world, who had a contact with the New York office, and met people in that office. We had to make sure that we gave support to all these people.
Both the chairman and the CEO of the Credit Agricole group, as well as the chairman of its investment bank, attended the memorial services in New York and Chicago. One of the head office officials even took the ferry to visit Carrs surviving floor team at NYMEX, then walked past the destruction at ground zero to Canal Street.
The solidarity from the group, the customers and most of our competitors has been really outstanding. The sense of community has been a great strength for us in this tragedy, Varlet said.
Escaping Just in Time
One firm that came very close to losing its people was SMW Trading, a Chicago-based FCM that clears for locals on NYMEX and NYBOT. SMW had an office on the 85th floor of the north tower, just a few floors below the point of impact. Incredibly, everyone in the office made it out safely.
>Jonathan Markowitz, one of the firms partners, normally works in Chicago, but on September 11 he happened to be on one of his monthly visits to the New York office. In an interview with FI, he said the whole building moved sideways when the plane hit then snapped back, sending computers sliding off desks and crashing onto the floor.
>Unlike other offices on that floor, there was no fire, at least not initially visible, and no loss of power or telephones. Even so, the 20 or so staff in the office decided to evacuate. We decided to leave because of the 1993 bombing and that was the key, he said.
> Remarkably, there was no panic in the stairway. After the 1993 bombing, the building management had installed better lighting and many firms had established clear procedures for ensuring a smooth evacuation. Indeed, one of the positive surprises of that day was how many people in the towers managed to escape. Morgan Stanley lost fewer than 10 people out of 3,700 in the complex. Lehman Brothers Inc. had only one person missing out of 6,400 employees in three buildings, including 618 in one of the towers.
As the SMW staff descended from the 85th floor, they passed several places where burning jet fuel had come down the elevator shafts but fortunately the way was clear all the way down. Single file, it took us about an hour and ten, an hour and twenty minutes to get out of the building, Markowitz said.
>Just as he was about to exit the building, the south tower collapsed. I stopped on the 30th floor to talk with the firemen. We got separated by the crowd, so the first part of our group was out of the building when the first tower collapsed. I was still inside with my two staffers and I actually saw the shock wave coming towards me, and I had people still in the stairwell behind me.
A couple of guys in the first group outran the shock wave, but two people ducked down into a subway. They were in pretty serious shape because they inhaled a lot of dust, he recalled.
>Meanwhile, people in the buildings around the complex watched in horror as the flames consumed the upper floors and people trapped in the towers began to jump. Rita Giacomelli, SMWs office manager, was just arriving at work, and saw the second plane hit the south tower. I saw the buildings explode when the planes came in.
Its still so hard to believe, she recollected several weeks after the attacks. I still have a numb feeling. Im not thinking about it, Im just focusing on the day-to-day.
Recovery and Backup
Despite tremendous confusion and disorder, the futures industry set disaster recovery plans in motion within hours after the attacks. Some problems, particularly the restoration of connections to the New York exchanges, took days to resolve, but many futures firms reported that their customer service never missed a beat, thanks to extensive advance planning.
> Several executives pointed specifically to the preparations for the year 2000 date changeover as one of the reasons why the industry was able to recover so quickly. Although the 010100 date came and went without causing any significant disruption, all major firms were required to prepare their backup systems just in case the power failed or their computers crashed and all their customer data were wiped out.
Because of Y2K, people spent a lot of money on systems backup and disaster planning, and that training put people in good stead for this disaster, said Charles Nastro, managing director at Lehman Brothers Inc. and co-head of the firms futures division.
>At the time of the attacks, Nastro was in his office on the eighth floor of Three World Financial Center, holding a global conference call to review issues related to Lehman Live, the firms electronic trading platform. Some of the people with him in the office left when they heard the noise from the impact of the first plane. When the second plane hit, Lehman ordered the entire building evacuated.
The basic infrastructure of Lehmans electronic trading system was set up in London, so when the New York office ceased to function, London was able to take over.
Certain clients that were connected to Lehman Live lost connectivity as a result of the attacks, but they were able to call their orders into a desk in Chicago that was manned 24 hours a day, Nastro said. Wednesday morning, the London office made all necessary margin payments to exchanges worldwide and sent out the account statements to clients.
>On Thursday, Lehmans futures division, along with the rest of the companys traders in New York, moved into the companys backup center in Jersey City, across the Hudson river from lower Manhattan. Despite the crowded conditions, Nastro said there was a good team spirit and cooperation from everyone.
Nastro also emphasized the key role played by service provider Rolfe & Nolan in helping the company maintain its services. The firms connections to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade were severed by the disruption to communications networks, but Rolfe & Nolan was able to reroute the connections and fill the gap.
They were wonderful. We didnt miss a beat, and a lot of that was due to the support and expertise at Rolfe & Nolan, Nastro said.
The Scramble for Office Space
More than 13 million square feet of office space in lower Manhattan were destroyed by the collapse of the two Trade Center towers, according to real estate experts. Making matters worse, thousands of workers were displaced from the World Financial Center, One Liberty Plaza, and other office buildings adjacent to ground zero that were closed because of the damage.
>As a result, one of the first priorities in the recovery effort was to find office space for dislocated workers. Some firms were forced to use hotels as their temporary offices. Lehmans investment bankers, for example, took over an entire midtown Sheraton.
> Other firms moved into space generously offered by their competitors, and many people worked at home. In many cases, traders had to be split up and put into different buildings for several weeks while their firms looked for a more permanent home.
One of the more inventive solutions to this problem came from Refco, which moved 25 traders into the Subotnick Center, a mock trading floor at Baruch College on 25th Street, between Third Avenue and Lexington.
>The classroom was built less than two years ago and was outfitted with the latest gear: computers with T1 connections to the Internet, quotes and data from Reuters and CQG, projection televisions for tracking news, and an electronic wall display with real-time market prices. In many ways, the classroom was more advanced than Refcos own facilities.
> The 25 traders used the classroom for almost a month after the attacks, trading futures on sugar, silver, crude oil and other commodities, before the company found enough space at a new facility to reunite all of its traders.
Baruch did a superlative job. They provided us with everything we needed. All we had to bring were the wall clocks and the trading tickets, said Jeffrey Bauml, the head of Refcos sugar desk.
>Bauml, a former Baruch student and a member of the colleges board of trustees, came up with the idea of using the classroom, and called the college on Thursday, two days after the attacks. Refco had safely evacuated its offices at One World Financial Center, but there was not enough room for all of its displaced traders at the backup facility in New Jersey.
Bruce Weber, the centers director, arranged for the installation of 20 extra phone lines and got permission to transform the classroom into an actual trading room.
To have real traders come in and use this helps us, too, Weber told Associated Press. Were telling students that we have a state-of-the art facility and this helps confirm it.
Spirit of Cooperation
Baruch College was just one of the many institutions in New York City that pitched in to help the survivors of the attacks. Virtually every futures industry professional interviewed for this article remarked on the spirit of cooperation that prevailed throughout the crisis, and emphasized how much it lifted their spirits and helped reopen the markets.
> Rather than taking advantage of the firms weakened by the disaster, the industry offered to help them get back on their feet, sharing their resources and contributing money, space and people to help the recovery effort.
Ive been in the futures business for 20 years, and I cant tell you how proud I am of this industry and how it pulled together, said Gary DeWaal, executive vice president and general counsel at Fimat USA, LLC . People have reached out to each other like nothing Ive seen before.
FIMATs New York offices are in Rockefeller Center in midtown, a long way from ground zero. Although it faced a host of connectivity problems, it was much less affected by the disaster, and offered to share its office space with other firms displaced from downtown.
>Rand Financial took up the offer, and some of its traders temporarily set up shop in FIMATs conference room. Numerous other firms made similar offers of help to their stricken colleagues, an important gesture of support even for the firms that had enough space in their backup facilities.
>And when several firms were unable to log into the Internet version of NYMEXs electronic trading system on Friday, FIMAT, Cargill and several other firms agreed to give them access through their own connections so that they could execute trades when that market reopened.
>Similar cooperation took place at the exchange level. The New York Board of Trades trading floor was located at Four World Trade Center. Although the exchange was safely evacuated, its building was completely destroyed and vital operating systems, including a key computer server, were lost amid the wreckage.
> As the exchange began moving operations to its backup facility in Queens, it urgently needed to reestablish connections to member firms. The Chicago exchanges stepped in, sharing e-mail addresses and other crucial information on clearing firms.
Even the government pitched in. When NYMEX was having trouble getting its people through security so that they could assess the damage to its building, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission helped break the logjam by placing a call to the White House. The CFTC also worked hand-in-hand with the New York exchanges in the urgent but high-risk effort to reopen their markets.
Several industry officials also commented on a spirit of pragmatism and determination that prevailed during the crisis, particularly in the first few days. One official compared it to a wartime environment, when people take risks and cut through normal procedures to get things done because of the urgency of the situation. Others said, however, they had deep concerns about the risks of going forward with so much uncertainty, but recognized the urgency of reopening the markets.
>For example, the chaotic shutdown of the trading floors at NYMEX and NYBOT caused many problems for clearing personnel, some of which were not fully sorted out before the exchanges reopened, but people understood the need for tolerance and understanding to help the floors recover, said James Davison, president of Cargill Investor Services.
There was a concerted effort to help in clearing and sorting out breaks, a tremendous amount of open exchange of information, and an exceptional degree of communication, Davison told FI.
>Davisons colleague Chris Malo, who oversees the firms U.S. operations, said CIS had some large energy clients who needed the energy futures markets to reopen on Friday. There was uncertainty about oil positions, and they wanted to hedge or neutralize their risks.
Some clients thought they had established positions on Tuesday, but we couldnt confirm that, he said. Customer understanding was what really pulled the industry through.
> Like many other futures firms, CIS had an office right at ground zero. At the time of the attacks, about two dozen people were at its offices on the 22nd floor of One World Financial Center, and several more were on the NYMEX floor.
Fortunately, all of its staff got out of the area in time, although one employee was not heard from until two days after the attack. To be on the safe side, the company also evacuated its offices in the Sears Tower in Chicago, and ran the business from its disaster recovery facility in Northbrook, about 40 miles north of Chicago.
> Davison, who has spent much of his career in Europe, noted that Cargill was relatively well-prepared for terrorist attacks not only because of the 1993 bombing and the Y2K bug, but also because of its experience with IRA bomb attacks in London.
We have to recognize that we are an economic target, Davison said. Its a reality of the world we live in.
Emotional Impact
For many managers in the futures industry, one of the most difficult things to handle about the September 11 attacks was the emotional impact of the disaster. More lives were lost than at Pearl Harbor or D-Day, and many survivors were haunted by the images of death that they saw that day.
>Reactions among the many people affected by this disaster varied. Some in the futures industryrelatively fewstayed away from work because the emotional stress was too overwhelming. Most went back to their offices, but many found it hard to concentrate on their work and spoke of the numbing effect of the experience.
We urged people to see grief counselors, because everyone was affected, directly or indirectly, said SMWs Markowitz. We gave them time off, as much as they needed, but some people would rather be at work, with their friends and a purpose, than at home just thinking about this stuff.
> But even at the office it was difficult to escape the reminders of the disaster in the news, in the daily round of funerals, in the smoke that continued to rise from the wreckage for weeks afterwards. And not just at work; several people told FI that the disaster claimed familiar faces from local churches, firehouses and school boards in their neighborhoods.
It is clear that the emotional impact will take some time to fade. Some people will be reluctant to work in skyscrapers, particularly landmark buildings like the Sears Tower in Chicago. Some are fearful of going downtown, out of the fear that crowded places might be a target for other terrorist attacks.
> Yet there are signs that people are moving through the grieving process. The memorial services in particular have had a cathartic effect, giving the survivors a way to share their loss and release pent-up feelings of grief. Several industry officials also emphasized the uplifting effect of the warm support they received from the rest of the industry.
Opinions are divided on what the long-term effect will be on lower Manhattan, but some firms have indicated already that they intend to spread their people further apart to reduce risk. Merrill Lynch has put 400,000 square feet of office space in Two World Financial Center up for sublease, out of more than three million square feet that it uses in the complex. And Lehman is moving its headquarters to a 34-story office tower near Times Square in midtown that it bought from Morgan Stanley.
Electronic Trading
For the futures industry, the long-term attractiveness of lower Manhattan will probably depend largely on the future of open outcry at NYMEX and NYBOT. Some industry leaders said the September 11 attacks will have no effect on the debate over the relative merits of open outcry versus screen-based trading, but others strongly disagreed.
The floors have shown their vulnerability in this crisis, said Carrs Varlet. When you have electronic systems, you can continue to trade even when you are faced with significant attacks, whereas with the NYMEX, we have seen that the floor is not very easy to restart.
These terrorist attacks will accelerate, and must accelerate, the move to electronic trading, in my opinion. It is a logical consequence, he added.
>One piece of evidence in favor of Varlets view was the fact that NYMEX reopened via the Internet three days before the floor. Lehmans Nastro, while not dismissing open outcry, expressed surprise at how much volume moved through NYMEX during the brief all-electronic session Friday afternoon.
There were some problems on Friday, but the amount of trading that went through that day speaks to the potential for that [electronic trading on NYMEX]. Theres more potential than one would have thought, he said.
> Other evidence from the bond markets also points to the strength of electronic trading, such as the fact that Cantor has gone entirely electronic. However, electronic trading platforms are vulnerable, too. TradeWeb, an electronic system for trading bonds, was based in the World Trade Center and did not resume trading until Oct. 1, even though all of its employees survived.
Perhaps the clearest lesson to emerge from the crisis is that if an exchange remains open outcry, then it must have a backup facilityas NYBOT didor a robust electronic system. It is also important to point out that Lehman, like several other firms, kept a futures desk open 24 hours a day to take calls from customers who were unable to access its electronic system.
Consolidation But Not Centralization
One of the long-term effects of the attacks is that it may encourage mergers and acquisitions, several industry officials said.
For the moment, the industry will remain focused on finding new locations and rebuilding its backup capacity, but as the situation settles back to normal, there may be increased interest in business combinations as a way to lessen the risk of a catastrophic disaster at a single location.
> The expenses associated with recovery and rebuilding, combined with the cost of strengthening disaster recovery plans, will also be a factor in favor of combinations, the officials said.
I think this attack may accelerate existing trends towards consolidation, said FIMATs DeWaal. Small firms will find it harder. There will be a greater emphasis on disaster recovery and that will be costly.
Large firms like Lehman and Cargill, for example, were able to weather the disaster relatively easily, with a well-established disaster recovery plan, a global infrastructure, and plenty of resources to support staff dislocated by the destruction of the World Trade Center.
>At the same time, however, there is an increased awareness of the dangers inherent in centralizing a firms offices in a single location, such as the World Trade Center. So even if there is further consolidation of ownership and resources, the industry may also see a countervailing trend towards geographic dispersion.
I think all of us are reviewing where we have our backup building, said Carrs Varlet. It must not be too close to the main building, and if you are an international firm, it can be in a different country.
> In addition, even if the September 11 attacks raised the bar on disaster recovery costs, they have not necessarily convinced the smaller firms to give up their independence.
SMW�s Markowitz assured FI that there is �no desire� at his firm to join a larger firm and lose its culture. Instead, his firm is thinking about whether its current offices, all of which are located close to exchanges, provide enough backup.
> �The question we�re looking at now is whether we should have an office that�s not at any exchange,� he said.
Will Acworth is editor of Futures Industry magazine.


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The Marriage Foundation press release
Responding to release of the latest divorce figures from the Office for National Statistics, Harry Benson, Communications Director of the Marriage Foundation, said this:
"The longer term trend in divorce rates remains downwards. After peaking in the 1990s, divorce rates are very definitely back at 1970s levels. This has nothing to do with fewer people getting married and everything to do with the way couples who do get married are taking it increasingly seriously. Divorces initiated by women in the first few years of marriage have fallen by as much as half, according to our Marriage Foundation report issued in September.
"Even though divorce makes us focus on the vulnerability of marriages, we must not forget that getting married remains by far the best guarantee of a successful relationship. Married for life remains the norm. Successful unmarriage is the exception.
"The good news is that the skills needed for a successful married or unmarried relationship can be learnt. Marriage and relationship courses improve relationship quality and help couples stay together. Marriage
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by Dave Munkittrick
The latest thing in jointers is the segmented carbide insert cutterhead. Instead of high-speed steel (HSS) knives, the cutterhead is peppered with an array of solid-carbide inserts (photo at right). During our 8-in. jointer tool test (see "Tool Test: 8-in. Jointers," page 52), we had a chance to compare these new cutterheads head-to-head with their straight-knife cousins. We like what we saw and now use some of them in our shop. They've received unanimous thumbs-up from all users. Carbide took over in a hurry when it was introduced on saw blades, router bits and shaper knives. I wouldn't be surprised to see the same trend occur with jointer and planer knives.
At $300 to $400, segmented carbide cutterheads aren't inexpensive. But consider the cost of sharpening HSS knives (about $15 a set) and the need for an extra set of knives to replace the ones being sharpened (about $30). On average, the initial additional expense of a segmented carbide cutterhead is about the same as the cost for 20 HSS knife sharpenings, so you'll eventually recoup your investment on the carbide model. With a segmented cutterhead, you basically pay up front for sharpenings but you get to enjoy all the benefits of carbide right away.
Replacing the inserts after all four edges are dull will cost $120 to $200, depending on the number of inserts in the head and the cost of each insert.
Rotating or changing the inserts is a somewhat tedious but straightforward task. You must be meticulously clean when changing or rotating inserts. Even a little sawdust under one insert can leave an uneven cut.
I've noticed that the segmented cutterheads take more feed pressure and demand more horsepower from the jointer. According to Curt Wilke of Wilke Machinery, which distributes several brands of jointers, this is because the segmented cutterhead always has several inserts cutting at any given time. A standard straight knife has an impulse cutting action. Each knife takes its cut with a rest period between.
A single set of carbide inserts will outlast a conventional knife set by approximately 40 times. That's because each insert is made of solid carbide and has four cutting edges. Each edge will last up to 10 times longer than a typical HSS knife-edge. Multiply that number by the four edges on each insert and you get 40 conventional knife sharpenings built in to each set of carbide inserts. Remember that when you're weighing the extra cost of a segmented carbide cutterhead.
Carbide inserts allow you to joint manufactured materials, such as melamine and MDF, which would instantly dull HSS knives (photo at left). This is true of hard abrasive woods like teak, too.
With carbide inserts, knife changes are no longer such an onerous task (photo, page 62). No more fussing with knives that creep out of position as they're tightened down.
A segmented cutterhead runs noticeably quieter than a straight knife cutterhead. Anything that diminishes the noise pollution in the shop is a welcome addition.
Carbide inserts will make clean cuts much longer than HSS knives will. We found that both carbide inserts and HSS knives make beautiful cuts when the knives are sharp. However, the performance curve drops off rapidly with the HSS knives simply because they dull more quickly.
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SAN DIEGO - A ruling by a state Public Employment Relations Board administrative law judge against voter-passed Proposition B is part of an effort to make it harder for citizens to place pension reform initiatives on the ballot in the future, San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith charged Wednesday.
The city attorney told reporters that he would go to court to defend the pension reform ballot measure, which was passed with two-thirds support last June. He said the City Council gave him that authority last year.
"I would do that even if I agreed with the proposition itself … it has nothing to do with that," Goldsmith told 10News.
Goldsmith and other backers of the proposition have characterized PERB as an agency biased in favor of public employee unions. The city attorney said the ruling was expected.
"I view this with the fact that PERB acted so quickly last February in suing the city, I look at it as somebody at PERB or some group got together and said, 'My God, the floodgates are beginning to open,'" Goldsmith said.
"I think what they look at in this case is an effort to close the floodgates and to not allow citizens initiatives in the future -- at least put so many roadblocks in front of it that they're going to be less likely to
happen," he said. "I think that's been what this is about since day one."
Goldsmith said the unions will fight the reform, adding, "They're afraid that citizen's initiative will change pensions."
PERB Administrative Law Judge Donn Ginoza ruled Monday that the city failed to negotiate in good faith with its public employee unions before Proposition B was placed on the ballot. The decision, which was released late Tuesday, is not binding on the city but does set up a future court battle.
The Municipal Employees Association, which represents many of the city's white-collar workers, issued a statement calling the PERB ruling "a sweeping vindication" of its opposition to Proposition B. The unions, now backed by the PERB ruling, contend that city officials should have negotiated the terms of the initiative with them before it was placed on the ballot.
Goldsmith had advised city officials that the meet-and-confer requirement did not apply before the election, since it was put forth by private citizens. The city would have to meet with labor if it passed, something that has happened, according to the city attorney.
He said the ruling was "poorly written" and not based upon the law.
Goldsmith said he was "very confident" about his court case, noting that PERB attempts to keep the proposition off the ballot and stop its implementation were rejected by judges.
PERB doesn't have the authority to deny the constitutional rights of citizens to put initiatives on the ballot, he said.
Goldsmith said there are only two ways to legally stop it now.
"You can do it by way of an amendment to the Constitution, and give it to the people to vote on -- [but that's] unlikely -- or the California supreme court," said Goldsmith.
The ballot measure directed the city to provide new employees -- other than police officers -- with 401(k)-style retirement plans, instead of enrolling them in the deficit-ridden pension system. It also placed a five-year freeze on the type of pay workers could eventually use to calculate their pension payouts.
Supports believe that after some initial costs associated with changing retirement plans, the proposition will save the city around $1 billion through 2040.
It was fiercely contested legally and during the election campaign by unions and a handful of City Council members. Current Mayor Bob Filner criticized the measure.
It was supported by former Mayor Jerry Sanders, Councilman Kevin Faulconer, ex-Councilman Carl DeMaio, the pro-business Lincoln Club of San Diego County and the San Diego County Taxpayers Association.
DeMaio, the Lincoln Club's T.J. Zane and SDCTA Executive Director Lani Lutar said in a joint statement they will fight for the ballot measure.
"We are, however, disappointed to see tax dollars wasted on an effort to trample constitutional rights and we strongly urge the government employee unions to call off this futile and costly effort," their statement said. They accused the unions of trying to "turn back the will of the voters."
"What's at stake are the very services in every neighborhood that have been cut back over the past decade as the pension bag has ballooned bigger and bigger," said Demaio.
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Every Wednesday since October, the FDNY volleyball team has been meeting at the Maspeth High School gymnasium to practice for a big game next year.
The 20-member team is set to compete at the renowned World Police and Fire Games in August 2013 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The biannual event brings fire and police departments from around the world to face one another in various elimination-style tournaments.
The captain of the team is Lt. Bill Miccio, a 25-year firefighter stationed in the Bronx. He has been with the team since its creation in 1998 and competed in its first game in Sweden, where, he says, "[we] got crushed." But they didn't let the loss stop them.
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Since then, they have traveled the world — competing in Spain, Canada, Australia and many other countries — and have won individual and team awards.
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They have also gotten support at the local level from Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village), sports equipment manufacturer Molten USA and walk-in medical center Premier Medical.
Helping the team out is Gerry Matacotta from Maspeth, who is not only in the American Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, but also helped found the NCAA Division III men's volleyball conference. During scrimmages he gives advice to players on their form and warns them of their mistakes. He helped secure the school as a new space for the team to practice.
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"We hope that this evening will provide a meaningful experience and engaging conversation about King's legacy and his philosophy of peace and unity," said Tracey Carlson, director of Residential Life and Housing. "We look forward to celebrating Black History Month with Lee students and the Cleveland community."
Ferguson hails from Atlanta, Ga., and travels throughout the nation delivering the powerful words of King in an "uncanny" and "pitch perfect" performance. Ferguson is proud to reinvigorate King's dream by not only delivering his words but by educating people about his life, his philosophy and teachings.
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A number of economic statistics released Jan. 8 indicate that the
economies of European states and of the eurozone in general have continued
contracting. In particular, the numbers from Germany -- which is Europe's
economic powerhouse -- suggest a collapse of demand across the eurozone.
The economy ARE WE TALKING ABOUT GDP? (YES) of the eurozone -- the group
of countries using the euro as their currency -- contracted by 0.2 percent
in the third quarter of 2008 after already having contracted by the same
amount in the second quarter, according to economic data released Jan. 8
by the EU statistics organization Eurostat. Eurozone unemployment
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value of the currency further), nearing parity with the euro in late
December 2008. The British central bank is running out of options to
encourage banks in the United Kingdom to lend. The most recent rate cut
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doubtful that they will do so at 1.5 percent in the current economic
environment. Lenders are concerned about the ability of consumers and
businesses to service debt, and therefore are not passing along interest
rate cuts from the central bank to their consumers.
But while the situation in the United Kingdom is dire, the real canary in
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economic engine of the eurozone. The German national statistics office
reported Jan. 8 that exports in November 2008 dropped 10.6 percent
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precipitates a corresponding increase in unemployment. Furthermore, as
German exports decline, so will German imports (which have already dropped
1 percent SORRY, in November IN WHAT TIME FRAME? compared to last year no
compared to 2007 LAST YEAR MEANING 2008, OR 2009?) as the economy slows.
One region that will be particularly affected by a weakening German
economy is Central Europe, whose manufacturers depend heavily on the
German market. (The European automotive industry, which moved east to save
on labor costs, will be especially hard-hit; car sales dropped 25.8
percent in November AS OF WHEN? FROM WHEN? across the eurozone.) A slowing
of German imports will compound the already crippling effects Central
Europe and the Balkans are facing from the energy crisis caused by the
Ukraine-Russia natural gas dispute
the collapse of the foreign currency lending
and the already considerable trade deficits across the region.
More broadly, however, taking into account the contraction in the broader
eurozone economy in the first three quarters of 2008 -- and, when the
numbers are released, probably the fourth quarter as well (Hold up, did
not mean to say this... the first quarter was growth of 0.8 percent, we
now know that the second and third quarters had 0.2 percent drop... it is
the fourth quarter that we are assuming is the third consecutive quarter
of drop, but again, the first quarter actually had growth -- the
precipitous drop in German exports is a harbinger of things to come across
Europe in 2009. What a sharp drop in German exports really signifies is a
collapse of demand across the eurozone (which is the destination for more
than half of Germany's exports). This essentially means that the eurozone
will be importing less across the board. AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHAT'S
ECONOMY? You can actually take out the last sentence as it is right now
and leave it at that... Essentially, we are looking at not just poor
growth figures, but also really weak demand.
My brain is dead...
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The Department of Geosciences offers B.S. and B.A. degree programs in Geosciences.
The Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree programs require three semesters of mathematics in calculus and/or statistics, one year of chemistry and one year of calculus based physics. In addition, support courses in the sciences are required. Courses may not be offered every year. A six-credit-hour course in field geology is required and must be taken at another university.
Students are encouraged to take minors in associated technical fields. Minors in Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Petroleum Engineering and Computer Sciences are among the many minors available. Students may also minor in areas of special interest.
The Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree programs are broadly based, classical liberal arts degrees that offer considerable flexibility to students interested in the Earth Sciences, but who do not necessarily want to work in the petroleum or related industries. The degree programs offer an excellent background in the sciences and in technology while still preserving the flexibility and strength of a liberal arts education. The B.A. programs offer the technical background needed to compete effectively in a changing job market in a range of career paths. If free electives are selected carefully, this major can provide the background necessary for entry into graduate-level studies in law, geology, environmental science, and environmental policy, meteorology, or business.
Students are encouraged to select a minor in allied fields of study to enhance their educational experience. Students seeking secondary teacher certification in earth sciences must also complete requirements for a second major in education. In addition, teacher certification requires proficiency in a second language at the novice level.
The B.S. and the B.A. tracks have options for Undergraduate Research for students wishing to participate in mentored research opportunities. Geoscience Internships are available for students wishing to gain practical experience in industrial applications of the Geosciences.
A Minor in Geosciences is also offered.
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Eisenberg's responsibilities over international business development will now be assumed by Kurt Ling, president of the company's Pure LatexBLISS brand. Ling's appointment is part of an organizational change to Latex International's brand management offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.
After joining Latex International in 2000, Eisenberg served in a number of executive roles in sales, marketing, international and operations. In a company statement, Dave Fisher, president and CEO, credited Eisenberg with developing the domestic and international distribution channels and for playing a key role in its direct-to-retail strategies.


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Series starts 12/25
Game 1: Sunday, December 25th | ||
Clippers | 105 | Final |
Warriors | 86 | |
Recap »Boxscore » |
Game 2: Monday, February 20th | ||
Clippers | 97 | Final |
Warriors | 104 | |
Recap »Boxscore » |
Game 3: Sunday, March 11th | ||
Warriors | 97 | Final |
Clippers | 93 | |
Recap »Boxscore » |
Game 4: Saturday, April 14th | ||
Warriors | 104 | Final |
Clippers | 112 | |
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Coverage: NBATV
3:30 PM ET, April 14, 2012
STAPLES Center, Los Angeles, CA
Chris Paul, Clippers control Warriors, move to within a game of division lead
LOS ANGELES -- Chris Paul's clutch play in the fourth quarter is a big reason why the Los Angeles Clippers are closing in on a rare playoff berth.
Paul scored 12 of his 28 points in the final period and added 13 assists in a 112-104 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Saturday that brought the Clippers within a game of the Lakers for the Pacific Division lead.
The Clippers have won 11 of 13, inching closer to their first playoff appearance since the 2005-06 season.
"It's all about locking up a playoff spot. You got to get in," Paul said. "Anything can happen when you get to the playoffs. The sky's the limit. When we play the way we're capable of playing, we've already beaten some of the best teams in the league."
Blake Griffin added 20 points, DeAndre Jordan scored 18 and Mo Williams had 14 in the Clippers' third straight win. They also are chasing the idle Lakers for the third seed in the Western Conference with six games remaining.
"We know what our goal is and it's not to be ahead of the Lakers once the playoffs start," Jordan said.
The Clippers' 36 wins are their most since they won 40 games in 2006-07. They next play West-leading Oklahoma City on Monday with a chance to win that season series.
"We would love to win the division," Paul said. "In order to do that, we would need to win out."
Reserve Nate Robinson led injury-riddled Golden State with 28 points, including four 3-pointers. Klay Thompson added 24 points, Dorell Wright scored 23 and Brandon Rush 22 in the Warriors' third consecutive loss and 11th in their last 13 games.
David Lee and Richard Jefferson have been sidelined since Friday with injuries, joining Andrew Bogut and Stephen Curry.
"We're undermanned and undersized, but we fought. There's no quit in us," Thompson said. "We've been short-handed all year, so it's a learning experience, especially for us rookies. We're getting better, but we've got to get a lot better defensively. Even though we're undersized, we've got to do a better job of boxing out and keeping them from getting second chances."
Golden State, the NBA's leading 3-point shooting team, made 15 from long range -- one off its season high. Wright and Thompson had four 3s each. The Warriors were 15 of 21 from the free-throw line, compared to 14 for 30 for the Clippers.
"It was kind of like a snowball effect," Jordan said. "I missed a couple and then Blake missed a couple and then Kenyon (Martin) did, and they just started fouling us, but we got the win. We all have confidence in each other that in the clutch we'll knock those down."
Without Lee down low to guard Griffin, the Clippers dominated the paint. But Golden State stayed in the game with its strong outside shooting.
"Slow starts like that have killed us. It's inexcusable," Thompson said. "It's on us rookies to come out and play with a lot of energy. But we showed a lot of heart though."
Nick Young hit a timely 3-pointer that gave Los Angeles its only double-digit lead of the fourth. From there, the Warriors got within six several times, but the Clippers made a series of defensive stops in the closing minute. Paul hit a 3 with 9 seconds left to preserve the win, although Thompson ended the game by making Golden State's last 3.
"We understand we couldn't win a checkers match right now, we are not good enough," Warriors coach Mark Jackson said.
The Warriors tied it twice in the third quarter but never managed to take the lead despite the Clippers' missed free throws. They were 10 of 19 from the line in the period. Martin finally made a pair to send the Clippers into the fourth ahead 86-82.
The Clippers raced to a 24-5 lead to start the game, shooting 59 percent in the opening quarter when Paul and Jordan scored 12 points each.
The Warriors hit seven 3-pointers in the second quarter to trail 59-58 at the break. Rush and Robinson made three apiece in the period as Golden State shot 61 percent from long range in the half.
Game notes
The Clippers split the season series with the Warriors. ... Golden State remains stuck at 10 road wins, equaling last season's total. ... Jefferson, who has a swollen right knee, wasn't with the Warriors. ... The Clippers improved to 9-1 on Saturdays.
Team Stat Comparison
Points | 104 | 112 |
Rebounds (Offensive-Total) | 11-39 | 13-41 |
Assists | 22 | 22 |
Turnovers | 16 | 10 |
Steals | 7 | 6 |
Blocks | 6 | 9 |
Fast Break Points | 13 | 17 |
Fouls (Tech/Flagrant) | 26 (1/0) | 18 (2/0) |
Largest Lead | 0 | 19 |
Top Performers
Game Leaders
Points | N. Robinson 28 | C. Paul 28 |
Rebounds | D. McGuire 11 | B. Griffin 9 |
Assists | N. Robinson 8 | C. Paul 13 |
Steals | K. Thompson 4 | C. Paul 3 |
Blocks | B. Rush 3 | K. Martin 3 |
Team rosters: Golden State | Los Angeles |
Next 5 Games
Golden State | Los Angeles |
04/16 SA 10:30pm 04/18 LAL 10:30pm 04/20 @DAL 8:30pm 04/21 @HOU 8:00pm 04/22 @MIN 7:00pm |
04/16 OKC 10:30pm 04/18 @DEN 9:00pm 04/19 @PHX 10:30pm 04/22 NO 9:30pm 04/24 @ATL 7:30pm |
Complete Schedule: Golden State | Los Angeles |
Research Notes
From Elias: The Clippers trimmed the Lakers lead in the Pacific Division to 1 game. Should the Clippers overcome that deficit and win the division, it would be their first in franchise history, which spans 42 seasons.
According to Elias, among teams that have been around for at least 30 seasons, the Clippers are the only team in the NBA, MLB, NFL, and NHL that has not won a division title. | ||||||||||||||||
Chris Paul totaled 28 points and 13 assists in the Clippers win over the Warriors. It was just the third time in the last 25 seasons that a Clipper totaled 28 points and 13 assists in a single game. The last to do so was Andre Miller on November 28, 2002. Paul hit those marks 14 times during his six-year career with the Hornets. [+]28 Points, 13 Assists in Single Game - Clippers Last 25 Seasons
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News Story: January 1, 2012
Due to the inclement weather, the University will cancel all classes at all locations as of 1:00 p.m. today through and including Wednesday January 28, 2015. Classes will resume on Thursday January 29, 2015, at their regularly scheduled times at all locations. All University offices will close at 4:30 p.m. today through Tuesday January 27, 2015. A decision on reopening the University will be made Tuesday evening and notification to all employees will be made. Note: All essential services employees please report as scheduled. For more info, visit the SHU Campus Alert page.
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The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) aims at harmonizing national patent formalities throughout the world. It is designed to streamline and harmonize formal requirements set by national or regional Patent Offices with respect to the filing of national or regional patent applications and the maintenance of patents and certain additional requirements related to patents or patent applications, for example, communications, representation or recordation of changes concerning patents and patent applications. According to an impact assessment, the implementation of the PLT was considered to have positive impacts on users, particularly in terms of simplification of procedures (document SCT/27/4).
Initially, a draft Treaty containing a wide range of provisions relating to formality and substantive requirements of patent applications, examination procedures, standards for obtaining a patent and rights and remedies under a patent had been negotiated by the WIPO member States since 1983. During a Diplomatic Conference in 1991, divergent views on major issues became apparent, such as the issues of first-to-file and the grace period. In 1995, it was agreed that another approach for promoting harmonization, covering matters concerning the formality requirements of national and regional patent procedures, should be initiated by WIPO. Following this decision, the draft PLT has been discussed first in the Committee of Experts on the Patent Law Treaty, and, since 1998, in the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP).
After five years of discussions, a Diplomatic Conference, convened from May 11 to June 2, 2000, adopted the Patent Law Treaty on June 1, 2000. On June 2, 2000, 43 States signed the Treaty and 104 States, the European Patent Organisation (EPO), the Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO) and the African Regional Industrial Property Organization (ARIPO) signed the Final Act of the Treaty. The PLT was open for signature until June 1, 2001 and 53 States and one intergovernmental organization have signed the Treaty. The PLT entered into force on April 28, 2005, that is, three months after ten States had deposited their instruments of ratification or accession with the Director General of WIPO (list of Contracting Parties to the PLT).
Main features
The PLT provides, in particular:
- filing date requirements, and procedures to avoid a loss of the filing date because of a failure to comply with formalities;
- a single internationally standardized set of formal requirements for national and regional offices, which are in line with the formal requirements under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT);
- standardized forms which shall be accepted by all offices;
- simplified procedures before patent offices;
- mechanisms to avoid the unintentional loss of rights as a result of failure to comply with time limits; and
- basic principles for the implementation of electronic filing.
Inventors, applicants, and patent attorneys from Contracting Parties - both developed and developing countries – as well as third parties and national or regional offices can benefit from the PLT. According to an impact assessment, the implementation of the PLT has positive impact on users, particularly in terms of simplification of procedures (see document SCT/27/4).
- Standardized forms and simplified procedures reduce the risk of errors and thereby result in less frequent loss of rights.
- A predictable maximum set of patent formalities in all Countries Parties results in easier access to foreign patent systems.
- The Model International Forms that must be accepted by each Contracting Party also facilitate the filing of applications and various communications abroad.
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- The streamlined procedures results in increased efficiency of patent offices in handling national and international applications and a consequent reduction of their operating costs.
- In countries where a license or a security interest can be recorded, such recordal is facilitated by simplified procedures.
Each Contracting Party is free to prescribe any substantive requirements under its national/regional law, taking into account its development and public policy considerations. No financial obligations are imposed on a Contracting Party.
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