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GAO-07-349: Published: Apr 13, 2007. Publicly Released: Apr 13, 2007.
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GAO prepared this report under the Comptroller General's authority to conduct evaluations on his own initiative to assist Congress. Federal real property is a high-risk area due to excess and deteriorating property, reliance on costly leasing, unreliable data, and security challenges. GAO's objectives were to determine (1) what progress the administration and major real property-holding agencies have made in strategically managing real property and addressing long-standing problems and (2) what problems and obstacles, if any, remain to be addressed. GAO reviewed documents and interviewed officials from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and nine agencies that hold 93 percent of federal property.
The administration and real property-holding agencies have made progress toward strategically managing federal real property and addressing long-standing problems. In response to the President's Management Agenda real property initiative and a related executive order, agencies have, among other things, established asset management plans; standardized data reporting; and adopted performance measures. Also, the administration has created a Federal Real Property Council (FRPC) and plans to work with Congress to provide agencies with tools to better manage real property. These are positive steps, but underlying problems still exist. For example, the Departments of Energy (Energy) and Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported during this review that over 10 percent of their facilities are excess or underutilized. Also, Energy, NASA, the General Services Administration (GSA), and the Departments of the Interior (Interior), State (State), and Veterans Affairs (VA) reported repair and maintenance backlogs for buildings and structures that total over $16 billion. The Department of Defense (DOD) reported a $57 billion restoration and modernization backlog. Also, Energy, Interior, GSA, State, and VA reported an increased reliance on leasing to meet space needs. While agencies have made progress in collecting and reporting standardized real property data, data reliability is still a challenge at DOD and other agencies, and agencies lack a standard framework for data validation. Finally, agencies reported using risk-based approaches to prioritize security needs, which GAO has suggested, but some cited obstacles such as a lack of resources for security enhancements. In past high-risk updates, GAO called for a transformation strategy to address the long-standing problems in this area. While the administration's approach is generally consistent with what GAO envisioned, certain areas warrant further attention. Specifically, problems are exacerbated by underlying obstacles that include competing stakeholder interests, legal and budgetary limitations, and the need for improved capital planning. For example, agencies cited local interests as barriers to disposing of excess property, and agencies' limited ability to pursue ownership leads them to lease property that may be more cost-effective to own over time.
Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: OMB has required agency-specific validation and verification plans, and according to OMB officials, has developed a Federal Real Property Profile validation protocol to certify agency data.
Recommendation: The Deputy Director for Management, OMB, in conjunction with the Federal Real Property Council (FRPC), should develop a framework that agencies can use to better ensure the validity and usefulness of key real property data in the Federal Real Property Profile. At a minimum, the framework would suggest standards for frequency of validation methods, error tolerance, and reporting on reliability.
Agency Affected: Executive Office of the President: Office of Management and Budget: Deputy Director for Management
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In 2007, GAO reported that the administration and real property-holding agencies made progress toward strategically managing federal real property and addressing long-standing problems. However, these problems persisted and underlying obstacles remained. More specifically, underlying obstacles, such as competing stakeholder interests, legal and budgetary limitations, and a need for improved capital planning, persisted. Federal agencies continued to face long-standing problems in the federal real property area, which included excess and underutilized property, deteriorating facilities and maintenance and repair backlogs, reliance on costly leasing, and unreliable real property data. Agencies also continued to face many challenges securing real property. Moreover, these problems were exacerbated by underlying obstacles that continued such as competing stakeholder interests, legal and budgetary limitations, and the need for improved capital planning. Therefore, GAO recommended that OMB develop an action plan to address the underlying obstacles that hamper real property management reform. In 2011, the administration proposed the Civilian Property Realignment Act (CPRA) to address the excess property problem and its legal and financial obstacles, as well as stakeholder influences in real property decision making. We believe that CPRA meets the intent of recommendation. It lays the groundwork for addressing other real property management issues and is focusing congressional debate on the full range of real property management challenges.
Recommendation: The Deputy Director for Management, OMB, in conjunction with the Federal Real Property Council (FRPC), should develop an action plan for how the FRPC will address key problems, including the continued reliance on costly leasing in cases where ownership is more cost effective over the long term, the challenges of securing real property assets, and reducing the effect of competing stakeholder interests on businesslike outcomes in real property decisions.
Agency Affected: Executive Office of the President: Office of Management and Budget: Deputy Director for Management
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In 2007, we reported that federal real property continued to be a high-risk area due to excess and deteriorating property, reliance on costly leasing, unreliable data, and security challenges. Furthermore, agencies' efforts to improve long-term capital planning were not clearly linked with the real property management initiative that the administration had established at that time. We recommended that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) establish a clearer link or crosswalk between agencies' efforts under the administration's real property initiative and broader capital planning guidance that OMB provides to agencies. In response to our recommendation, OMB agreed that coordinating these efforts should be improved and said that greater emphasis on real property in its guidance would result in progressive improvement in this area of capital planning as agencies' efforts evolved. OMB recently identified a number of improvements since our report that demonstrate this progressive improvement and collectively address our recommendation. For example, a June 2010 Presidential Memorandum speaks to a broader management strategy for real property that goes beyond acquisition, disposal, and operations and maintenance, and includes integration with sustainability efforts and human resource initiatives such as telework. Furthermore, the Administration's recently proposed Civilian Property Realignment Board would give agencies an extra tool to resolve common obstacles and more efficiently manage real property capital investments. In advance of this proposal being enacted, OMB has established a Real Property Advisory Committee (RPAC), made up of OMB and select agency real property officials, which is meeting with agencies to go over their current inventories and trends. RPAC is also starting discussions with agencies about their current missions and human resource and technology advances in relation to real property needs. According to OMB, this will help to integrate real property management within the larger context of strategic planning within agencies. Finally, OMB has proposed additional data elements to be included in the Federal Real Property Profile which is a single database that includes all real property under the control of executive branch agencies that will provide further information, such as data on lease expirations, which will allow agencies to look retrospectively and prospectively at their inventories. As a result of these efforts, the government's real property management initiatives have become more clearly linked with agencies' long-term capital planning efforts and agencies are better positioned to address the problems that led to our designation of real property management as a high-risk area.
Recommendation: The Deputy Director for Management, OMB, in conjunction with the Federal Real Property Council (FRPC), should establish a clearer link or crosswalk between agencies' efforts under the real property initiative and broader capital planning guidance.
Agency Affected: Executive Office of the President: Office of Management and Budget: Deputy Director for Management
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The constant price declines and performance improvements summarised by Moore's law, the staggering quantities of digital data now available, and the imagination and talent of countless innovators, entrepreneurs and tinkerers are combining to bring us into a second machine age.
The fruits of technical change, which is also called "innovation", are measured by the rate of growth in productivity, defined as total national output per hour worked: compare the 2.33% growth rate of the 80 years before 1972 with the 1.55% average growth rate since 1972.
In the 1970s a century of revolutionary technological change and torrid economic growth came to a crashing halt. It has since proven remarkably hard to get the innovation machine that powered the Industrial Revolution rolling again. There have been big new inventions since the disco era—the computer age began soon after—but the arrival of snazzy personal electronics and computers amounted to less than the waves of dramatic invention that had come before. Flying cars, moon bases, continued leaps in health and life expectancy, and other dreams of earlier decades failed to materialise. Even worse, slower growth in economic output and productivity contributed to stagnant wages and disappointing employment growth, which have continued right through the Great Recession.
There have been tantalising signs of better times ahead over this period. In the late 1990s information technology—including cheaper communications, better computers, mobile phones and the internet—contributed to a surge in productivity growth. America, at the heart of the tech boom, managed its best growth performance in a generation, and the rising tide lifted all boats. The boom then seemed to fade from the economic figures; much of the economy limped into the new millennium and rapid productivity growth, which outlasted the dotcom bubble, was also on the wane by 2004. But invention seems to have continued, if not accelerated, despite hard times.
Cars that can drive themselves now ply public roads and may be a commercial possibility within a decade, thanks to Google. Google is now developing its autonomous vehicle technology in co-operation with Tesla, a maker of sleek, all-electric sports cars. It is also preparing to market futuristic glasses that will project information available through a smartphone onto a tiny screen just in front of the user's eye. Nanotechnology, 3D printing and robotics seem to be advancing by leaps and bounds. Online commerce is disrupting a growing range of sectors. And perhaps most important, huge declines in the cost of processing power are allowing computers to tackle cognitive work—like voice recognition and translation—that looked almost impossibly hard to automate just a few years ago.
But peculiarly, this growing flood of discovery has yet to show up in broader economic numbers. Growth has obviously remained slow, and high unemployment continues in the wake of the crisis. The weakening of productivity growth that preceded the recession has not been reversed by recovery or the latest technological marvels. The rich world is nowhere close to recapturing the tangible improvement in quality of life that was so apparent from the 1850s to the 1960s.
This leads some scholars to conclude that accelerating technical change is an illusion. Autonomous vehicles and 3D printers are flashy but lack the transformative power of electricity or the jet engine, some argue. Indeed, the contribution of technology to growth may be weakening rather than strengthening. Others strongly disagree, noting that even in the thick of the Industrial Revolution there were periodic slowdowns in growth. Major new innovations do not generate immediate economic results, they reckon, but provide a boost over decades as firms and households learn how to use them to make life easier and better. The impressive inventions of the past decade—including remarkable growth in social networking—have hardly had time to make themselves felt across the economy.
Which side is right? Is technological change accelerating, or has most of the benefit from the IT revolution already been realised, leaving the rich world in the grip of continued technical stagnation? To debate these issues we are proud to welcome Andrew McAfee, a technology expert and research scientist at MIT, and Robert Gordon, an economist at Northwestern University who focuses on growth issues. We hope that you too will join the debate in our comments section in the coming days.
Once again, it seems, you can see the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics. American labour productivity accelerated sharply in the mid-1990s, but this growth spurt lasted less than a decade. Since 2004, it has been in the doldrums.
Some observers have concluded from these data that the computer revolution has run its course. It built up over several decades, their argument goes, delivered strong benefits between 1996 and 2004, then faded into the background. Hardware, software, networks, robots and other digital gear are still with us, of course, just as electric motors and indoor plumbing still are, but the economic acceleration from all of these innovations is over. They are now infrastructure, not impetus.
There are two problems with this view of the world. The first is that it relies pretty heavily on data from a short time period, and one that included the worst global downturn since the Depression. The numerator for all productivity calculations is output; when it plunges it has a strong tendency to drag productivity growth down with it. Previous stretches of great technological advance, such as the era of electricity and internal combustion, included several years of slow growth. I believe we are seeing something similar here—a pause before measures of progress return to healthy levels.
The second problem is that it is a view that seems to ignore what is going on in the world. Since 2004 there has been a steady flow of digital innovations, from smartphones and tablets to novel robots for factories and warehouses to self-driving cars and Jeopardy!-champion supercomputers. These are not gimmicks or toys; they are being deployed to business benefit, or will soon be.
Computers have recently learned to understand and produce human speech, write clean prose, accurately answer questions by combing through a large base of unstructured information, recognise objects, and map the contours and contents of a room. All of these are valuable skills, and all will be put to good use. Work by my co-author, Erik Brynjolfsson, and his colleagues reveals long lags between adoption of information technologies and full benefit from them. This implies that the pay-offs from recent innovations will unfold for many years to come.
We should also keep in mind that many types of recent technological progress are captured only weakly or not at all by economic statistics. Data from online searches and social networks are letting us track outbreaks of cholera, flu and other diseases better and faster than ever before. Several centuries of digitised books are revealing how verbs become regular, how fame has become more fleeting and how long the effects of censorship last. A single plane equipped with gear for precise positioning and laser-based mapping recently scanned more than 50 square miles of Central American jungle down to the inch, and found evidence of several previously unknown major archaeological sites.
None of these advances was possible even a decade ago. The constant price declines and performance improvements summarised by Moore's law, the staggering quantities of digital data now available, and the imagination and talent of countless innovators, entrepreneurs and tinkerers are combining to bring us into a second machine age. The first occurred when we harnessed steam and other energy sources to overcome the limitations of our muscles, and it transformed the world like nothing else ever has. This second one is about harnessing silicon and other materials to overcome the limitations of our minds. It will be similarly transformative.
Excellent scholarship has clarified the importance of previous episodes of technological progress. But I believe Ovid left us with the right motto for today: "Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."
"Is technical change accelerating?" A first response is: "Relative to what?" A second response is: "How would we know?" This translates into: "How do we measure the impact of technical change?"
The answer to the second question is that the fruits of technical change, which is also called "innovation", are measured by the rate of growth in productivity, defined as total national output per hour worked. Last year America produced about $75 per hour worked. When productivity grows, we become better off on average, and productivity change is driven by innovation and by improvements in the quality of workers achieved through higher educational attainment.
The graph shows the annual rate of productivity growth for the American economy back to 1891, divided into four intervals of unequal length. The width of the bars is proportional to the length of the time periods. The 81 years between 1891 and 1972, shown by the fat green bar, were the years in which innovation had the greatest impact on productivity. Since 1972 the growth rate has been much slower, except for a brief eight-year hiatus in 1996-2004, the heyday of the invention of the internet, web browsing and e-commerce.
Thus the productivity data provide a clear verdict on the topic of this debate. Technical change is not accelerating if we compare the 2.33% growth rate of the 80 years before 1972 with the 1.55% average growth rate of the bars since 1972. Also, at a shorter horizon, technical change is not accelerating if we compare the record of the past eight years (2004-12) with the previous eight "dotcom" years (1996-2004).
Proponents of the view that technical change is accelerating point to manufacturing, including 3D printing and small inexpensive robots. But this is nothing new; the first industrial robot was installed by General Motors in 1961. The one sector in which America does not face a productivity slowdown is manufacturing, where productivity growth in 2004-12 was as fast as in 1948-96. But the share of manufacturing output and employment in the total economy has declined from 30% in 1953 to 10% last year. "Manufacturing is performing a magnificent ballet on a shrinking stage."
A sobering picture emerges from a look at the official data on personal consumption expenditures. Only about 7% of spending has anything to do with audio, video, or computer-related goods and services, including purchases of equipment to paying the bills for cable TV or mobile-phone subscriptions. Fully 70% of consumer spending is on services, and what are the largest categories? Housing rent, water supply, electricity and gas, doctor and dentist bills, hospitals, auto repair, public transport, membership clubs, theatres, museums, spending in restaurants and bars, bank and financial services fees, higher and secondary education, barber shops and nail salons, religious activities, air fares and hotel fees—none of which are being altered appreciably by recent high-tech innovation.
When we look back at the chart and recognise how much faster was progress before 1972, we can appreciate the revolutionary changes that were initially invented in the second industrial revolution of 1875-1900 and required a full century until 1972 to work out all their subsidiary sub-inventions. Electric light and power in 1879 led to the elevator, electric machines in manufacturing as well as portable hand tools, consumer appliances and ultimately air conditioning. The internal combustion engine, also invented in 1879, led to cars, trucks, buses, aviation and the post-war interstate highway system. Communication and entertainment were revolutionised by the telephone, phonograph, radio and motion pictures. Perhaps the biggest technical change of all was the 1875-1940 spread of running water and sanitary sewer pipes throughout urban America, ending centuries of drudgery of carrying water in pails, and leading to the virtual disappearance of infant mortality during 1890-1950.
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In the coming months, Three Rivers will determine some of the new rates for lessons, McDowell said, and will be studying whether to increase fees for some of its larger buildings, which are rented for weddings, banquets and other special events.
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PATNA: Bihar government has decided to open three new antiretroviral therapy (ART) centres in the state for people with AIDS and HIV+. This would be in addition to the 10 ART centres already existing in the state. This was announced by health minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey here on Thursday.
The state government has also decided to give preference in jobs to people with AIDS, while process is also on to provide pension to them. People with AIDS would also be carried free to and fro the ART centres. All these measures were announced on Thursday when a specially designed train, Red Ribbon Express, entered Bihar via Kishanganj district. The train, which will pass through Bihar in two phases, August 23- September 10 and October 13-October 29, would cover 16 districts of Bihar. Red Ribbon Express has special audio-visual systems to create awareness about causes of HIV/AIDS. It also has a condom vending machine, a Bihar State Aids Control Society (BSACS) official said. It was flagged off from New Delhi on January 12 this year.
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There are around 12,000 people with AIDS in Bihar, while another 50,000 are HIV +. The largest number of HIV+ people are in Patna district. Migration of people from other districts to Patna for treatment has increased the number of HIV positive people in the district, a health department official said.
There are 207 Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres where people are tested for HIV and counselled if they like, Choubey said. "Bihar has sought help from the Centre for making arrangements of HIV/AIDS investigation at every health centre across the state."
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These NC Star 10 Round Stripper Clips are designed for use with SKS and AK-47 magazine speed loaders (sold separately). Besides expediting the task of loading magazines, these stripper clips are also great organizational tools. Quickly and easily convert a pile of loose 7.62x39mm ammunition into manageable 10-round units which can then be neatly stacked into surplus ammo cans for future use.
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Samsung objects to "gratuitous images" of Steve Jobs in Apple's slides
If you haven't had enough of the Apple vs. Samsung battle royale, in addition to Judge Lucy Koh's ruling about iPhone prototypes yesterday, she also decreed that showing Steve Jobs in Apple's opening statement slides are "relevant to Apple's iPhone design patent and trade dress claims and is not unduly prejudicial."
The five slides in question involve the announcement of the iPhone in 2007, the iPad in 2010 and Steve Jobs' patents. Samsung argued that if the court allowed Apple to use these slides that Samsung be allowed use quotes from Jobs in its arguments. Koh ruled against Samsung using the Jobs quotes against Android on July 18, saying at the time, "I really don't think this is a trial about Steve Jobs."
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Half price Romin Pro, 130mm, carbon rail
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Hi All,
A few more bits to clear.
Items are in Cornwall, but happy to post.
PM's and Payment secures the goods.
Any questions, just ask. Cheers!
Shimano Dura Ace 7800 Cassette - £48 posted
10 speed, 12-25 ratio, can't confirm exact mileage (came with wheelset) but looks in excellent shape and it certainly has many 1000's miles left in it.Tune Speedneedle Marathon Saddle - SOLD
I was fortunate to borrow one for a test, then bought this new from Germany. As nice as it is, there's no changing the fact I'm now happier on a slightly longer/wider saddle. As such, I don't have a practical use for it anymore. Light, super strong (no rider weight limit) and surprisingly comfy, I spent 6 days on this cycling around france. Other than that its been used for the odd day ride.
Condition is as excellent, as seen and has always been fitted with torque wrench. Currently available for 197euros/£155 from Germany.**Thomson Masterpiece Seatpost - £50 posted **
Silver, Inline, 30.9mm, 350mm, in mint condition.
Thomson Elite Seatpost - SOLD
Black, Inline, 27.2mm, cut to 230mm , few scratches, but fairly clean on the top half.Thomson X4 Stem - SOLD
Black, 80mm, 31.8mm Handlebar clamp, 0˚, newer 4nm bolt version. excellent conditionNitto Pearl 9 Stem - SOLD
Silver, 25.4mm clamp, for 1" threaded steerer, NJSNitto B123 Steel Track Bars - SOLD
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I've had the same recently with some conti race 28's inners (more excessive than normal) As above, just make sure it doesn't fold and should be fine.
btw, this is some serious shit, Kal. Glad to see you got your Track Pursuit project at last...and in some mighty fine style. Get them tyres fitted and show it off asap!
Hey Bjorn! Getting along real bloody well, thanks :)
I just cycled it up to Yorkshire for the The Grand Depart, so given it a good run. Route included most of stage two and a bit of the first (in reverse) on my way up. The Peaks, and Yorkshire are absolutely stunning, the cycling was so, so good.
I am absolutely loving this bike...the steel, the Sram Red, the 27c Open Paves, the whole shebang!
Actually, I'm not sure I like running a compact chainset as much, but gear range trumps the occasional front/rear multishift to correct the gearing.Progress? well...
I got the Royce Hubs (Venus rear/Superlight front) built up for this. Faffed around with the options of Hed or Pacenti rims, but for £100 delivered for a pair you just cant fault the Archetypes. Laced 3X to the 32h Royce with sapims, make the perfect light touring wheelset. The Chris King X Hed are on the Cervelo.
Also, swapped the Stem over and now back on the trusty Romin. Looked like this before I set off...
here midway through trip
and at the top of Oxenhope
Only pics I have of it, will try and get some better when its recovered from its' strip down, clean, regrease.
Thinking I might put the Dura Ace on it and the Sram on the R3. Could use another Romin, as this one's off the Burls and will look at getting the PDW mudguards later in the year.


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I have a friend who has been trying to find a copy of the "Sunrise Circle Jacket" that was published in Interweave Knits as one of their "webknits" articles. When she couldn't find it on the magazine website, she posted a message on knittingdaily.com asking for it. The moderator of the site locked up the thread, saying that distributing the pattern was against the designer's wishes.
I have to say that I disagree with that approach. This pattern was only available to magazine subscribers by going to the website and downloading it. In addition, as a "Readers Choice" pattern, there is still obviously demand for it. I have subscribed for many years, and went back to look at this issue. I didn't see anywhere that is was only going to be available for a certain amount of time, and I would still expect it to be available. I don't see how the designer can complain at this date about people still wanting the pattern!
Interweave, please make the pattern available again!
Hi Kasia....I just wanted to add that I quite agree with you here. I recently sent Interweave a note. The first part was inquiries re my subscriptions. That was answered. The 2nd part was on this subject + it wasn't answered @ all. I will post in that 2nd part here as it says how I feel about all this.:
#2: I just saw a couple days ago on the forums that the "Miniature Cowichan Cardigan" was no longer free. I was startled to say the least + checked my issue of Holiday Gifts/2007. No where in that issue that I can find, does it give a time limit on that pattern. I'm not real happy w/ the way Knitting Daily offers time limits on some of their free patts...but @ least they come w/ a warning date. That you took away the bear sweater w/o saying you would, I think is very unfair. I never dreamed I had to print now...my magazine doesn't say so!!! While it certainly isn't my decision, I would like to comment that I feel the way some of the free patterns offered in Knitting Daily have an "expiry date" encourages people not to respect copyrights. There is a feeling of "well, it was free once..." As someone who puts a fair bit of time into my own designs...I would like to see copyrights respected. I do very much enjoy both the magazines I receive fr Interweave...they are my favorites!!! As well, I may give in + try Spin-Off someday. All I need is a new "hobby" !!!Thanks, Andrea
It's not that I need that pattern right now...I don't. In fact I could put something similiar tog myself. That's not the point! Fairness is !!!!
Before I got too upset w/ a designer I would want to know more about the "deal" w/ Interweave. Perhaps the designer only agreed to + was paid for a "limited run" by Interweave???
Take Care, Andrea
I just learned recently that if you want that free pattern that you need to save it to your own files quickly because it doesn't stay free for long. Before you kknow it you will want to use that "free" pattern and you will go to download it and find that it now costs you somethin. I learned the hard way, mine was free and now is $6.00?? well I figured I would just look around for another that I could like just as or almost as much.... but the principal of the matter is... if it was a free web thing, one day .... why not remain freee or a warning? I don't know I just seen on knittingdaily a cute christmas ornament miniature stockings and hat that are offered for free and a knitted Aran christmas globe ornament, both offered for free on HALLOWEEN... 10-31-08-- if you rmember, download it whether you need it NOW or not.. you may think about it in december and it wont be free then I'm sure...... take care...
Excuse me for jumping in.....Are you talking about free downloads? In any event... yes, quite frustrating....sometimes.........and that's a big word .........if you remember the yarn manufacturer AND if it's old enough, you can find it on the manufacturer's website. Berrocco (sp?) has a circular pullover/jacket in their free patterns. And then of course, there's the one on the cover in purple a few years back that I have.. And I've never seen anything quite like it ....before or after.
good luck...I'm so obsessive that I'll go on search missions that last for days!
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29 Rather, a person is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is something that happens in a person's heart. Circumcision is spiritual, not just a written rule. That person's praise will come from God, not from people. | 29 No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man's praise is not from men, but from God. |
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Is there any way to get an empty div to act as a hyperlink?
Well, when I say empty, it's got a specified height, width, and it's got a background image, so it looks like a div with an image inside it.
I know there is a way of doing it by wrapping round the "A HREF" tag around the div in question, but it leads to the css not validating and also IE behaves a bit funny.
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I bought an Lenovo ideapad S510p. By default Win8 was installed. I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 (with secure boot it was a little bit of trouble :) ) and all works fine but it starts really slow. Inside the Notebook its a 1TB HDD and 8GB SSD. I think Win8 is installed on the SSD and the user files are on the HDD. How can I install Ubuntu 12.04 new on the SSD and remove Win8?
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After all the struggles, tears, frustration, and time, our patio was poured today. It looks wonderful!!!
We must have had around 20 working on it at one point and I had many, many, many compliments on how great it turned out. We had double expansion joints put in and it made a HUGE difference in the look. I want to thank so many of you for your patience and help in helping me work through the design process. In reflection it was an extremely difficult piece of land to work within because of sloping, upper decking, shade, and walkways. I'm ecstatic about the layout and looking forward to getting more patio furniture, plantings etc to dress it up even more. Now begins the fun stuff of selecting and planting all kinds of beautiful new plants. Frequenting the Botanical Gardens as often as I do, I can now move forward and get some of the plants I fall in love with. Thanks for all your help. |
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Pictures please! |
ditto. |
It's not quite ready from prime viewing since the cement is still wet & forms are still in but here goes. Our main patio that spans the length of the house. Great shade from our scorching sun in the summer. I love the cut lines and the way it incorporates the dreaded deck posts I was trying to work within. Though the elevation was an issue on one of side the patio we can camouflage it with either a raised bed or taller plantings. The following area is a 16' octagon. We struggled so much with this shape. A round patio didn't fit with the straight patio next to it along with cutting off to much space. A square one didn't because it accentuated the bad angling of the retaining wall & our house being angled on the lot. The octagon shape followed the contours of the house and it fit nicer just a step off the main patio. We placed the one step by the end of the deck with a post there. It's pretty clear that a step is coming so I hope we don't have any accidents. The following is our fire pit area with a small walkdown to the beach. We're opening up that end of the yard and gaining beach area. We didn't really need anymore patio, but it's such a great area come mid afternoon with a tree just west of it. Speaking of tree, you can't imagine all the cottonwood roots we pulled out of the ground so it wouldn't ruin our patio. No less then 50 with some roots with a 3"+ circumference. There was a 45' walkway with 2 large curves over the area. It's pretty much a typical walkway so I didn't include pics |
It all looks very nice and I'm sure it's a thrill for you to reach this milestone. The decoration using the score lines worked out well. It's a great way to add interest without a lot of expense. It's nice that you were able to tie the posts together like that. As well, the octagonal approach is frequently useful and pleasing in a patio layout. It seems that it came together quite nicely. Not it's time for planting fun! Thanks for adding the photos. |
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WESCO International CEO Discusses Investor Day - Earnings Call Transcript
The ten senior managers who are here today, sitting in front of you and the three in the back in the last three to five years are new to the company, will have a fundamentally new or expanded operating roles. So, we absolutely are a people business. We continue to invest in our people. We've now launched something called WESCO University which will develop over the next decade which is a compilation of our training capabilities and programs. For us, the town equation is a key differentiator in our ability to serve customers and provide them value, sustainable value over the mid to long term.
Now, let's shift to One WESCO. So, what is One WESCO. When we launched it and we talked about it briefly last year. We are going to develop it a little further in today's Investor Day. We launched it in the beginning of last year and it's gaining terrific momentum across the company. It's all about integrating all our efforts, all our efforts around the customer.
If you are a supply chain company or you are a distributor, you have a choice to make or you are going to optimize the supplier or you are going to optimize the customer. We absolutely are optimizing the customer. And we are developing unique knowledge around the customers' needs and application and we don't exist with other suppliers and we have a terrific stable of supplier partnerships. But for us its all about the customer and One WESCO is about bringing all of our products and services and solutions to bear on every customer relationship be it an industrial customer and all their operations globally, be it a major construction contractor, be it a governmental agency, be it a major utility.
That's what One WESCO is all about. On the right hand side of this chart is the progress we've made and it's substantial over the last 18 months. We've deployed One WESCO branding. We're fostering significant collaboration across various locations and our boundaries. Sales rep plus product specialists plus our teams in our various branches, there is still a highly localized nature to the markets that we compete in. And that's true in distribution in the US, in Canada and globally. But we see a unique value add that we can bring by fostering this collaboration across locations and bringing our complete portfolio to bear on customers.
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Harry Connick Jr. is not exactly new to the judge's table on "American Idol."
The 45-year-old singer, who Fox confirmed earlier Tuesday as a judge along with Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban, is already in Boston for the opening round of auditions, which begin Wednesday.
Connick has been a guest mentor on the show in the past. But last season, he made a brief though memorable appearance alongside the judges when Keith Urban dragged him from the audience to the stage when it became apparent Connick had something to say.
Taking a seat, the crooner made it clear that he didn't think the four remaining finalists understood the melody or lyrics of the American standards they were singing, such as "My Funny Valentine" and "Stormy Weather," well enough to take liberties with the songs, like eventual winner Candice Glover's church-inspired runs.
Connick's point led to a clash with judge Randy Jackson that nearly overshadowed the ongoing feud between fellow judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj.
Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Lopez to Judge 'American Idol'
It also got the attention of producers.
"You know, they kinda wanted to know if I would be interested in it," Connick told E! in May, following his appearance on the show. "It's a fun show. It's been talked about before. Who knows what'll happen in the future. What I've done thus far on the show has been really fun, so I've had a great time."
Connick sounded off on what he thinks are the judges' responsibilities.
"I think you need to be completely honest, and I think you need to be diplomatic. I think there's no reason to be mean, but it is called being a 'judge.' You have to judge. That's what you do," he told E!
M.J. Santilli, who writes about the show on her widely read blog MJ's Big Blog, is looking forward to having Connick on the panel.
"He's a straight shooter and not afraid to be constructive in his criticism," she said. "He's also not afraid to mix it up with other judges."
"If he disagrees with them, he will let know, but I don't think you're going to have toxic atmosphere of last season," she added. "They are all professional."
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Though the panel is made up of three singers, Santilli pointed out that they come from "really different musical worlds."
Urban emphasizes storytelling and expressing emotions through music, Lopez excels at the glitz and glamour and stagecraft, and Connick will bring the musicality and tradition. "I think he will demand a lot from the contestants," she said.
Santilli said the reaction from readers of her blog to Connick joining the panel has been overwhelmingly positive, unlike when Nicki Minaj was announced last year.
After the Minaj-Carey gamble, "the talk was that 'Idol' was going to shake things up, but they didn't really. Everyone on the panel has been on the show before," Santilli pointed out.
Even Jackson will be back, though this time in the mentor role that Jimmy Iovine once held.
With MTV veterans Jesse Ignjatovic and Evan Prager at the helm of the show this year, Santilli expects to see a different look to the live performances and some fiddling with the Hollywood rounds.
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We are in the process of remodeling our kitchen and because of our neighborhood price point feel we should select a higher end range. We are basic cooks and want something that is reliable and easy to use. We prefer a range 40-48" wide and due to layout limitations would like 2 ovens (trying to avoid wall ovens). We probably want sealed burners. I'm drawn to iLVE, Lacanche, and Bertazzoni for their form but am unsure how easy they are to use (I've seen an iLVE and Bertazzoni). Are there any less expensive options I'm overlooking? Many of the ranges seem too "professional" looking or are overwhelming. |
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- Posted by SoonerMagicMama (My Page) on Tue, Jun 10, 14 at 5:08
I have cooked on a Bertazzoni for 7+ years. The burners and especially the oven are tricky to light. The oven is down-right difficult to light. I have an all-gas, so know nothing about the newer dual-fuel Berta and ease of lighting that. The burners have served me very well. No complaints at all in cooking on the top of the range. The oven has not been as pleasant an experience. The oven seal broke several times. The handle has come loose repeatedly. The temperature is off in the oven, even though service has come to calibrate (or whatever the technical term would be) a couple of times. I'm embarking on a kitchen reno this week at another home and I am not even considering another Berta. |
SoonerMagicMama - thank you, thank you for the review!!! I noticed the handle was loose in the showroom which made me question the durability, looks like this one is off the list. |
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