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Sticking to his knitting
In the early 90s, after six years of playing bass guitar for a rock band, Shane Cooper became obsessed with bicycle racing. He didnt excel as a rider, so he took to coaching, and his team from Hickory went on to win several regional and state championships. He also became obsessed with socks bike socks. He thought standard models white, ankle-high throwaways left a lot of room for improvement. Besides being boring, they were backward. They had Coolmax, a moisture-wicking fiber, on the outside and reinforcing nylon on the inside. He wanted to turn the process inside out, putting the Coolmax next to the foot so it would suck sweat toward a knit lattice on the outside, where it would evaporate.
Cooper, then 29, happened to know more about socks than the average bass-playing biker. His British-born father was a sock-machine mechanic turned sock-machine distributor. The elder Cooper agreed to let his son re-jigger one of his machines on one condition: If he used it for 90 days, he had to buy it. All he needed was to find some Coolmax yarn, which was a problem. It was only available to authorized sock manufacturers.
That was just the first of many speed bumps and detours that Shane Cooper has had to overcome to turn DeFeet International Inc. into a leading manufacturer of cycling socks and accessories all made in Hildebran, near Hickory. We survived a fire, a flood and a $250,000 theft, says Cooper, now 48. Despite those setbacks, DeFeet has been back in the black since 2008. Whats more, he can boast that this years Tour de France winner, Cadel Evans, crossed the finish line with DeFeet socks on what had to be one tired pair of dogs.
This was truly a story of determination, says Doug Salkewicz, president of Advanced Technical Welding Inc. in Etowah, last years Business North Carolina Small Business of the Year. Its one reason Coopers company is this years winner. Another is that DeFeet is a great example of a company keeping its work in North Carolina, says Salkewicz, who with N.C. Secretary of Commerce J. Keith Crisco and BNC Publisher Ben Kinney judged this years competition, sponsored by Winston-Salem-based BB&T Corp.
DeFeet follows on the heels of a long tradition of hosiery manufacturing in a state that once bragged about knitting more socks and legwear than anywhere else on the planet. U.S. employment peaked in 1969, with about 300 companies and 107,000 workers, then began dropping, first due to consolidation, then automation and, finally, foreign competition. Now, some 110 domestic manufacturers employ 13,100, according to Dan St. Louis, director of the Manufacturing Solutions Center at Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory. He estimates that 76% are in North Carolina. When you look at the folks who have survived, theres a reason why theyre here. Its a combination of market niche and a willingness to set up the plant to run quick-turn, short orders. This isnt about making a plain white sock.
Cooper couldnt agree more. Though he has tried making socks in Mexico and had to fend off Asian counterfeiters, sticking to his knitting at home has made him nimbler with a firm grip on quality control. Were proud to make our product in America, he says, and we plan to keep making it here. It gives us so many advantages.
When he started DeFeet, Cooper wasnt sure he was going to be able to knit that first pair, much less outfit top pro cyclists. It wont work, the first salesman he tried to buy Coolmax from told him, referring both to inside-out knitting and making socks in America. I remember to this day being in that room with that one machine, and I remember him backing me into the wall and laughing at me. It made me feel about this big, he says, measuring a millimeter between his thumb and forefinger.
He had been belittled before, so he just shrugged it off, as he had learned to do in grade school as a dyslexic kid with a British accent. Failure to me was standing up and reading in class and not being able to read and the teacher skipping you because you were stuttering and slow. Overcoming dyslexia had given him determination, and being a rocker had given him an up-yours attitude. I wanted to put it in that guys face who said we wouldnt have a company. I just wanted to dance in front of him naked with DeFeet socks on.
Coopers father, Alan, had brought his family to the United States when his son was 4, moving from one industrial city to the next Reading, Pa., Laconia, N.H., Warwick, R.I. before settling in Hickory to work for Ellis Hosiery Mills. Bored with high school, his son focused his adolescent energy on the bass guitar and a 72 blue Triumph TR7 sports car. Given Shanes lackluster performance in school, Alan Cooper told his son if he wanted to go to college, he would have to pay his own way. I told him I was going to be a rock star and became a musician and traveled the college scene from Florida to Virginia for six years. Self taught, Shane describes himself as the worst musician in the band, which was named Graffiti. By contrast, former band mate Robert Kearns now plays bass for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
If being in a band didnt bring Cooper stardom, it offered another benefit. It introduced him to competitive cycling. This was the 80s, and cycling was in vogue among American collegians, thanks to Greg LeMond and the 7-Eleven team. In 1986, LeMond became the first American to win the Tour de France. He won again in 89 and 90. The 7-Eleven team, for its part, competed successfully on the European professional cycling circuit during the second half of the decade. The exploits of LeMond and 7-Eleven inspired a generation of kids to take up bicycle racing.
By his mid-20s, Cooper had tired of touring with the band and had begun hanging out and biking with students he met at the schools where Graffiti played. When the band broke up in 1987, he started attending Catawba Valley Community College while managing a bike shop. Cycling started to consume me, he says. Soon he was coaching a team sponsored by the shop. I found I was a much better coach than rider. He was still, however, a poor student. That was before he met his wife. A triathlete with a masters in exercise physiology, Hope Dixon was as prudent as Cooper was profligate. She talked him into selling his 1964 Fender Precision bass to pay off his credit-card debt. He made straight As his final semester. When she and I met, these two different worlds collided, her black and white and my blobs of color. They shared his passion for cycling, spending their honeymoon in Virginia in 1992 watching his idol, LeMond, win the Tour DuPont.
By then, he was selling machines for his dad and had become fascinated by a particular one that could knit patterns and lettering on socks. And after persuading another salesman to sell him some Coolmax, he watched as the first few dozen pairs of DeFeet materialized stitch by stitch. These he took on the cycling circuit with his team, at first giving them away, then selling them out of the trunk of his Ford Taurus. Soon an Italian cycling-shoe company, Sidi, and a French pedal maker, Look, bought DeFeet socks emblazoned with their names and logos. Al Burdis, president of Manna, Calif.-based Sidi America Inc., says, DeFeet never compromises on materials or design, thereby making the most durable and best-fitting products.
Cooper tried to meet as many cyclists as he could, some of them budding professionals. From the beginning, says Scott Duncan, DeFeets head of product development, he used grass-roots marketing, showing up at events, doing local clubs and visiting independent bicycle dealers all the things the bigger companies either couldnt or wouldnt do. We understand our market because we live the same way our target customers do, Cooper says. We ride, run, ski and enjoy solo sports.
Whats more, being in a band had given him an understanding of cool branding, such as naming your company with a pun on the word defeat when what athletes want to do most of all is win. Its in your face, Cooper says. Does everybody get it? I dont know, but they all remember the name.
Like the name, DeFeets socks stood out. Cooper went with wild colors, and over the years his products have featured skulls, pansies, Christmas lights and racing flames. One recent pair even showed swimming sperm. We gave the teams the ability to NASCAR their sock and put their logos on them, he says. The flamboyant designs distinguished DeFeet, and customization let Cooper charge more, giving him a higher profit margin than a typical sock maker. He soon began making them for LeMond. In 1994, our socks were on the yellow jersey in the Tour de France meaning they were worn by cyclists who held the overall lead in the three-week race. That was our second year in business.
Coopers desire to be at the forefront of both innovation and style distinguished DeFeet. But sometimes, especially in the early years, his efforts brought us to the bleeding edge more so than the cutting edge in our innovations, says Paul Willerton, the companys brand manager. We literally patented a short that is stitched like a baseball around the crotch pad. The problem is it looks like youve got an armadillo strapped between your legs.
Even with the occasional misstep, sales soared. Every year it was 50% growth, Cooper says, so I went from one machine the first year to three the second, then to eight, then to 16. That never would have happened if he had outsourced manufacturing to China, he insists. We can stop a machine today to make a product change tomorrow.
Then came 2001, when DeFeet was almost defeated. The year started well. Coopers second child was born, work began on an addition that would double its space, and DeFeet stepped into new markets. It came out with golf and auto-racing socks, gloves, arm and knee warmers, and all kinds of outerwear and underwear. And thats when things started getting out of control. Everywhere we turned we had success, and every product we developed turned into a great product. And Im getting cockier and cockier. He ordered 12 machines from Italy to crank up production. With the addition still under construction, he stored them in the old wing.
On the morning of Oct. 21, a ringing phone woke him at 6 a.m. I answer, and its a ladys voice. We are reporting a fire alarm at your business. Speeding to the factory, Cooper saw smoke smeared across the sky. The ballast on a fluorescent light had exploded and set the ceiling on fire. It festered above the ceiling, burnt everything around it, and all of a sudden, everything in sight socks, boxes, yarn everything turned into an incredible inferno. Eleven fire departments from three counties responded. It was so hot, they were afraid to open the doors and give it any more oxygen because they thought it was going to explode. We lost everything, every single thing we had. He thought, Were done.
But over the coming months, he reconsidered. He wasnt going to let the company fail; if hed learned anything from LeMond, who recovered from being shot in a hunting accident to win the Tour de France, it was grit. He hit the road in a rented PT Cruiser, visiting one independent bike shop after another. Riding with him was Willerton. We went out on the road for 30 days at a time, Cooper says. I drove the entire USA and went out and shook hands and told everybody about the fire. They visited Seattle, San Diego, Salt Lake City and Chicago. They covered Texas and Florida. They motored up the Eastern Seaboard to New England. They averaged five bike shops a day, more than 200 in all. Using a couple of salvaged machines, Cooper had knitted some phoenix socks, their red-bird pattern referencing the mythical being that rises from its ashes. Id say, Thank you for the support, heres a gift pack, and well be back in business soon.
His saving grace was that the new addition, still under construction, wasnt connected to the old building. DeFeet had insurance, too, though the new machines werent covered. A dispute ensued with the insurer, which wanted to pay only the prior years business income plus 3%. DeFeet demanded a 50% increase. Three years and much lawyering later, the insurer agreed to 33%. I was happy with that, but guess what that money comes in, its business income, and you have to pay taxes on it. And guess what that does? It triggers an IRS audit.
Then came the flood. In 2005, a retaining wall collapsed, and water poured into the plant he rebuilt that had once been enveloped in fire, causing about $15,000 worth of damage. As if enough plagues hadnt been sent his way, Cooper got a call a couple of years later from someone who felt remorse for having stored 24,000 pairs of stolen DeFeet socks about $250,000 worth. God told him to come clean, Cooper recalls. An employee had been stealing them, and her husband, a trucker, was selling them at truck stops. Good news? We have lots of truck drivers saying they love DeFeet socks. Bad news? They paid a buck a pair for $10 socks. n account of that series of disasters, DeFeet ended up with losses for several years and didnt turn a profit again until 2008, with revenue increasing 23% in 2010. Growth is flat now, he says. But he has several projects in the works that he says will get the company moving again. Were not a $10 million company, but I would say that we have our eyes set on that within the next few years. To help it get there, DeFeet has embraced the latest marketing trend social media. Today, what a Tour de France winner says in a tweet can reach more cyclists than a slick magazine ad. So DeFeet uses blog posts, offbeat videos posted on Facebook and DeTweets to give cycling enthusiasts an irreverent view of whats hot in their sport. Ideally, customers then pass along the companys messages by re-tweeting or linking to them on their Facebook pages and blogs. Punk marketing and guerilla marketing give us the advantage now because our customers love to tell our stories, Cooper says.
Hope Cooper says living and working with her husband shes the companys chief financial officer is like a thrilling bike ride through the Alps or the Rockies. Other visionaries take a shower and emerge with a cluster of ideas. Shane wants to reinvent the shower. His vision is often bigger than the company itself. Cooper says he has to keep in mind that just because you can create doesnt mean you can manage. He lets hosiery-industry veteran Jill Patton as in the general, she says run manufacturing and tries his best to stay out of her and his other managers way.
Its my job to get the athlete to wear this product, he says, holding up a tattered black sock that once graced the sweaty foot of Greg LeMond. So far, he has succeeded. But it took all my nerve, every dime and most of my hair. Im in a race right now, and until I finish, Ill keep going.


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Looks like you have a nice form to your land mass, but would like to have some idea of scale, 'cause that is one HUGE city in the middle if the scale that first came to mind is aywhere near correct. Or is that a desert? I am not familiar with Fractal Mapper, so can not help you on the actual prog, but I can think of a few things that might help with the map itself. But first it would be nice if you could show an example of what sort of style you were aiming for.
Firstly, I would try to vary the colors a bit more for the land, and water areas....and/or add some textures/noise if the prog can do that
secondly, I am not sure what you are planning to use the grid for....
Using city symbols would also go a long way to making the map look better. Roads used for the major trade routes would also help break up the land into regions of common interest.....how many roads you could put in would depend on the scale of the map.
I believe that this belongs over at the WIP (Work In Progress) forums, and I am sure that a CL will be along shortly to correct that so don't worry. And your English is more that good enough
and last but not least...Welcome to the Guild, The Mappiest Place on the Web, and have some rep for posting a map in your first post

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Hi, Guys,
Just started out with Zimbra as an end user and now can't do without it, but I'm not a developer, so I'd like to put a question to you.
Mail is used by a lot of people not just to send a simple message, but often to provide information. The problem is, it's locked in an email format and unless you select the information, copy it, open a word processing application, paste it in and save it, you can't refer to it off line very easily.
Would it be possible to have an option to export such emails directly to a PDF document?
I know you can print the email to PDF if you have a PDF write facility, but it's a manual process.
This could be done via a filter rule so all emails "containing the subject 'abc' convert to PDF and store in PDF folder".
Being able to escape email's restrictive format and place into an openly accessible form like this would be very cool. What do you guys think?


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Cityscapes, rooftop views and panoramas feature in an exhibition of relief engravings from artist Trevor Haddrell representing over twenty years of work. Known for his intricate scenes of Bristol, he has produced one new panorama of the city and surrounding towns each year and will be showing them here as a group for the first time. The exhibition includes well-known and loved vistas as well as unexpected perspectives, offering both familiar and unfamiliar views of Bristol and Beyond.
Haddrell was born in South Yorkshire and trained at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, later teaching art and design in Bristol schools before becoming a professional artist in 2000. He is an RWA Academician and an elected member of the Society of Wood Engravers. His work is in many private collections, in Bristol Museum & Art Gallery and the Theatre Collection of Bristol University.


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If there was another version with "low shadow" rather than "high shadow" that would also be very useful.
Hi all, I had a question about how these are looking.
This is done as a .gih with a spacing of 20. The right and left are just done as individual inputs while the middle is done just dragging the brush along in a long line from upper left to right and then adding a spur in the same manner. I guess the real question is, is 20 enough spacing? Should I make a couple of different ones with different spacing? Gidde, I am guessing that yours were at 100% spacing.
The brushes were originally made by by vhailor27 here and then as a gimp brush set by ElenaBlackRose here and here.
This second set did not, in my opinion, address the issue of masking the mountains in the back ground. As you can see this new set achieves that.
If there was another version with "low shadow" rather than "high shadow" that would also be very useful.
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They look pretty good to me. The outside ones look too spaced but the middle one looks fine.
Man, I wish PS had a feature similar to Gimp's pipe brush thingymajigs.
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@Juggernaut: Do you mean just the shadow on the ground or the shading on the mountainside? And would you want some, but less? Or none?
@Ramah: Yeah the outside ones don't look too swift. I had the brush set on random size and with the pipe you get a different mountain each click. The ghost image of the brush is the first in the series so it tricked me every time with brush placement. I also must confess that I did it with the touch pad on my laptop, so you get what you get. I think I'll play around with the spacing feature and post the results just to show what I mean.
[EDIT - You can change the spacing on a pipe with the scaling slider at the bottom of the brushes dialogue so I don't need to do that.]
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can you help me with this?
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My parners and I started with the free trial version first. We liked what we saw and decided to go forward with a purchased version. We also decided to change the company name and domain. I set up a domain last night through Go Daddy and all was set and confirmed. I was able to change the email address for my parners to the new domain. I couldn't change mine nor can I get Lync to connect even though I uninstalled and re-installed it under the new domain. I also have not been able to find a way to migrate some of the information we had posted in the trial version under the old company name to the purchased version with the new company name and domain. The biggest frustration I'm getting is how difficult it is just to get someone to either call or IM me. I know most of these issues could be resolved quickly if someon would walk me through this. I'm not a IT specialist and just know enough to know there's much I don't know.
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I tried but no one there will help. I'm think I'm going to start looking around for a different office web application for my company since microsoft doesn't seem interested in truely helping its customers
You have to log in as a different user, make sure that user has admin right, then you can change your email .
To change your domain name, click admin, then click on your company name in the upper left of the left side column, and you can change all the information you want now.
Could you please help me with this
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Solucionar problemas de Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.
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user gets this error message when he send an invitation to share a site when the people clicks on the email with the invitation the receive the error message and its saying that the user doenst exist see below:
The user does not exist or is not unique.
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Why??? I have searched through it and there is nothing there and how it pertains to Office 365 integration. This is exactly my point and rant in my other post... You guys (being Microsoft) have some many websites for support (i.e. MS Answers, Technet, Office 365 Forums, Wiki's, Office Support, etc.). The worst part about it is the wesbites are designed in such a way that they are distracting. When you click on a topic there are so many distractions (i.e. link to this a link to that, like facebook, twitter, RSS, Quote, Email, Reply, Date, User Info). How about trimming down the clutter and letting the users who are searching for answers, just get... THE ANSWERS. No one cares about a FaceBook link or an RSS link, etc. UGH!!! I am so frustrated with Office 365!
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I cannot find answer to the link you mentioned. Can you please let me know how I can create new excel and powerpoint file in office365?
Jacktan, in order to create a new excel you need to have office professional as an option to your plan.
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Problem to add another mail to my web app, i have one account added but i have another mail which i like to see in same listing.dont have outlook in laptop, can i download it somewhere?
...so i'm not technically savvy....if i join or get office 365, will that replace MS office or do i still have to buy Outlook to get the Calendar, Mail...ect?
That doesn't make sense. If you are using the web apps portion of Office 365, shouldn't you be able to create new Excel and Powerpoint files from the web? You can create new Word documents all day long. Please inform us as to how you can create these much needed files.
I have Office 2010 Professional installed on my laptop. What advantage is there in switching to Office Professional Plus? Second question, can these two applications co-exist on the same maching?
none as I find 365 is terrible
I have an E3 plan. Where do I find the Office Web Apps. And no, I'm not talking about SkyDrive. How do I get to browser based versions of Word, Excel, etc and be able to save to my Sharepoint site?


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Anand K. Gramopadhye, director of Clemson's Center for Workforce Development, said Duke's grant will help extend the center's reach into all K-12 schools in the state. (Photo/Provided)
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Duke Energy is donating $4.11 million to Clemson University's Center for Workforce Development to expand the scope of the online portal for workforce-critical degree and certificate programs across the spectrum of South Carolina education.
Clark Gillespy, president of Duke Energy for S.C.
Duke's grant will help the Clemson center create a labor force with skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and specifically in advanced manufacturing, officials said.
Clemson will manage educational, research and outreach activities in support of workforce development and STEM education. The center will also oversee distribution of the funds to partner institutions that include universities, technical colleges, K-12 institutions and STEM-oriented organizations through competitive grants, scholarships and internships.
Center's federal support
The workforce development center was started in 2011, funded by a $2.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
It is a partnership with Clemson and three of the state's technical colleges. The program focuses on aviation and automotive technology education and uses virtual and distance learning.
The partnership created Advanced Technological Education resource centers at Florence-Darlington Technical College, Greenville Technical College, Trident Technical College and at Clemson's Sandhill Center in Richland County.
The center's initiatives
Duke Energy's funding, combined with previously announced funding from federal agencies, allows Clemson's Center for Workforce Development to focus on four key areas:
Clemson has engaged all 16 of the state's technical colleges in the program, and eventually plans to extend its reach into all K-12 schools in the state, said Anand K. Gramopadhye, Clemson's associate vice president for economic development and director of the Center for Workforce Development.
The Clemson center has also received federal funding from the Department of Labor and the Employment and Training Administration.
'Far-reaching partnerships'
"Duke Energy recognizes that workforce development and economic development go hand in hand," Gillespy said. "The Center for Workforce Development, through its far-reaching partnerships, addresses the challenges of creating next-generation engineers, technicians and scientists so the region and nation can continue to be competitive in a global marketplace."
Doris R. Helms, Clemson University vice president for academic affairs and provost, said the university is committed to meeting the state's technical workforce needs at every level, not just jobs requiring a four-year or advanced degree.
"Our goal is to ensure our citizens are ready to compete and succeed in the job market, particularly in the advanced manufacturing sector that is so essential to South Carolina's economy," Helms said.
Secretary of Bobby Hitt said the state must close the gap between workforce skills and business needs in order to stay a leader in advanced manufacturing.
"This partnership between the state and the business community extends across the entire education spectrum and addresses the growing and emergent workforce development issue," Hitt said.
Some 58,000 manufacturing jobs remained unfilled last fall, according to Hitt, in part because of a mismatch between workers' skills and those skills required for today's manufacturing jobs.
Duke Energy's funding will help create virtual resources designed to support industrial development, sponsor competitive grant opportunities for K-12 and technical college classrooms, support scholarships and internships, and finance conferences to create greater awareness of workforce development issues, Clemson said.
Gramopadhye said the program is vital for workforce development in South Carolina.
"Our goal is to develop more qualified employees to work in industries that drive the nation's economy," Gramopadhye said. "By fostering these partnerships, we can develop the workforce of the future."
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ASTM E 119 establishes the effectiveness of a building assembly to act as fire barrier over time. These are large components including walls, floor-ceiling assemblies, roofs and windows and doors. A wall assembly is tested for structural integrity and the ability to contain a fire. The assembly is mounted to a specially-constructed furnace. Gas burners are lit as thermocouples record temperatures. Gas flames, mimic heat from an adjacent fire. Observations are made through viewing windows in the furnace and with instrumentation. Temperatures and time to system failure are recorded. A hose stream test follows to measure the assembly's resistance to water pressure.
ASTM E 119 uses a furnace heating schedule—a timed increase of temperature—which brings the furnace up to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit in five minutes, up to 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit in one hour, and to 1850 degrees Fahrenheit in two hours. Assemblies must survive these temperatures to be successfully fire rated at each time interval.
Life safety is the principle reason for fire codes. Over the years, fire safety concerns have evolved and today all building codes require that building materials and systems be evaluated for fire performance. There are two national code organizations the International Fire Code, or IFC and the National Fire Protection Association, NFPA.
In general, codes attempt to establish minimum safety requirements. Building codes are specific to at least three criteria:
All building materials are evaluated and rated for flammability, especially interior finishing materials. Constructions and components are rated for combustibility and assemblies are rated for fire resistance.
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Building materials, products or complete assemblies that are exposed to the living space of a building must be tested using ASTM E 603. A corner of a room is constructed in an accredited testing facility, using standard building materials. Materials to be tested are mounted on the walls and ceiling of the room corner. A fire source—either a wood crib or a diffusion burner—is placed in the corner and ignited. The test mimics a waste basket sized fire that spreads to something nearby. To perform satisfactorily the tested material must not spread the fire or generate excessive amounts of smoke. The test observes the fire over time from ignition to flashover into the next room or space. The room corner test measures temperatures over time, smoke generation, time to flashover, combustion gas, and total energy release rates.
Fire resistance is an important factor that influences the specifications for most building designs today. Since gypsum is a naturally fire-resistant mineral, it has become a leading construction material and component of fire-resistance rated wall assemblies. To ensure that these gypsum board wall assemblies are appropriate to specify in fire-rated building designs, the complete wall assembly undergoes fire tests and fire resistance classifications are established accordingly. There are several types of fire-resistant wall assemblies to suit a variety of applications and projects. Noncombustible and combustible / loadbearing and non-loadbearing are examples of fire-resistant wall assemblies. Area Separation Firewalls are required between adjacent townhouses, apartments and commercial buildings.
ASTM E 84 is the test method used to determine the rate of flame spread and smoke development of building materials, in other words, surface burning characteristics. A long "Steiner Tunnel" apparatus is used in this fire test. The test chamber is approximately 25 ft. long and 2 ft. by 2 ft. in cross-section. Materials to be tested are placed on top of the tunnel and ignited. At the same time a clock is started. The flame spread index is determined as an operator tracks the leading edge of the flame using a pointer that is mechanically tied to a computer. Smoke spread index is measured by an optical sensor which measures and records the smoke density.


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New Postcards...With a Lot of Information About Dry Processing
February 24, 2015
Our Dry Processed cards were just printed and we are starting to include them in outgoing orders. If you follow the arrows around the card, you can track the path that dry processed coffee travels. We posted some really good details about this a little while back...click here to read more.


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Accused embezzler said money was owed her for answering emails, etc.
Published: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 3:14 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 3:14 p.m.
OCALA – A woman accused of embezzling more than $350,000 from a doctor's office said the money was owed to her for doing work beyond her normal schedule, such as taking care of email messages.
Kathryn Evelon Swearingen, 44, was arrested at 9:59 a.m. Wednesday by Ocala Police Department Detective Wayne Greene on the campus of the College of Central Florida, where she is a student.
Swearingen was taken to the Marion County Jail, where she was charged with grand theft. Her bond is set at $10,000.
On Aug. 31, Officer Dustin Todd went to meet with Dr. Robert Ford and his accountant, Michael Demeola, after the doctor received a notice from the Internal Revenue Service stating he had not paid them enough money for payroll taxes.
Ford and Demeola told Todd they began researching the office's two bank accounts and realized that Swearingen, formerly the office manager, had been receiving multiple paychecks for various amounts. The doctor said Swearingen was the person who completed the payroll checks, according to reports.
Greene was assigned to the case. During his investigation, he learned that Swearingen had been an employee at the office for more than 20 years. She had resigned in mid-August.
Greene discovered that this year, in addition to Swearingen's normal pay, 50 checks totaling $74,074.71 had been made payable to her and were deposited into her personal bank account.
Greene found that in 2011, in addition to her regular pay, 83 checks had been made payable to Swearingen, for a total of $119,381.17. Her reported income in 2011 to the IRS was $34,712.55.
In 2010 and 2009, Greene noted, 105 checks made payable to Swearingen totaled $158,631.30. Her reported income for those two years totaled $97,675.03.
Greene also found out about five additional checks made out to her, which totaled $7,370.77.
The detective interviewed Swearingen on Monday by telephone. She told him she did not feel she was stealing because the money was "owed to her for each time she was sent or looked at an email; answered texts and phone calls during days, nights, holidays and vacations; and from being on call when they weren't paid for it," according to reports. She admitted the additional funds were not reported to the IRS.
After the interview, Greene issued a probable cause warrant for Swearingen's arrest.
Swearingen declined an interview request from the Star-Banner.
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CEVA opens Foreign Trade Zone operation in Miami
April 11, 2014
Global third-party logistics (3PL) services provider CEVA Logistics recently announced that it opened up a new Miami-based Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) operation, which was approved by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). CEVA also has FTZ locations in Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth and Chicago.
CEVA said that this new FTZ is comprised of an activated, secured and compliance controlled 4,172 square-foot area, which leverages CBP's approved inventory-controlled systems, the Zone Lot Tracking System and First In, First Out Universal Identification Number System. For the former, each part of the shipment moves into and out of the zone as a unit, and for the latter individual parts are added to inventory and withdrawn using a First In First Out inventory recordkeeping system. Those parts that were admitted first are shown on the inventory records as being withdrawn first.
Brenda Custer-Espeleta, Vice President, US Customs Brokerage Operations for CEVA told LM that servicing customers is what drove CEVA to open this Miami-based FTZ, which is in a location that is critical to the Latin American market and added that this project had been planned for the last nine months.
"An FTZ offers many benefits," she said," "the biggest is the potential to save Merchandise Processing Fees, (Fees that Customs charges on every entry filing) by utilizing Weekly Entry, which can only be done through a FTZ."
Other benefits of an FTZ cited by CEVA include: Duty deferral – duties paid only upon transfer of goods from the FTZ into the U.S.; duty elimination on exports; duty reduction if scrap/waste while within the FTZ; and Harbor Maintenance Fee (HMF) deferred for Ocean arrivals – due quarterly rather than on arrival; and the biggest advantage - Merchandise Processing Fee (MPF) savings, paying a maximum of $485 weekly rather than $485 for each shipment.
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The services sector plays an increasingly important role in the global economy and the growth and development of countries.
Services are becoming crucial in a country's development, including in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, such as poverty reduction and access to basic services, including education and health services.
UNCTAD has implemented a comprehensive work programme on services, trade and development with a view to assisting developing countries in developing their services sectors, increasing their participation in services trade and realizing development benefits. This work enjoys extensive complementarity between the three pillars of UNCTAD's operations.
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Topic: Instalation failing on debian
So got to this point of running bash iRedMail.sh
At the end of that script I get this error:
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Package mysql-client-5.0 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
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I have been using the VMware Zimbra for Android app over the last week and I just thought I would pass along my initial impressions. I am using the app on a Droid2 to connect to my Zimbra server, FOSS version 6.0.10, in conjunction with the zimbra z-push backend. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it so far. I haven't really had any issues to speak of yet. Very easy to navigate within the app, and it seems to be pretty responsive. I just watched the video and found out about a couple of tricks that I hadn't stumbled upon yet.
There are a couple of things that I think could be improved upon:
1) In general I'm OK with only being able to sync up to a month max of email messages, but I think there needs to be some way to retrieve additional, older messages either through the search function or some type of "get more" function. There are times when I would want to pull up an older message that I know I have saved (probably in one of my folders), but with this app there doesn't seem to be any way to do this. Am I missing something?
2) It seems like the resource usage of the app is pretty high, both in terms of memory and battery life. Definitely noticing my battery draining a lot more quickly since I've been using it. Since I want to have the app notify me when I get new email and/or about upcoming calendar events it seems like I need to keep it running at all times. Again, am I missing something here?
Lastly, and this might have more to do with me connecting through the zimbra z-push backend, but I noticed a couple of people mentioning the Zimbra Briefcase, however I have not been able to see where I would access this in the app. It is not showing up in my folder list, and I don't see any other way to navigate to it. Not really a big deal for me, but if there is a way to access the Briefcase I'd like to know how.


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- Location: Islington, London
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The Aria flagship store houses everything for the modernist. With a defined sense of humor and an effortless ease at mixing the emerging with the established design classics, providing inspiration for all that enter the London store. Aria first opened on Upper Street, Islington in 1989, growing to encompass three retail outlets. In 2007, these three retail spaces were consolidated under one roof in the converted Barnsbury Hall.
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The Aria lifestyle is all about the appreciation of well-designed, high-quality products. An East London staple for the last 23 years, Aria carries everything for the home from the living room to the kitchen and bathroom. Sit back and relax in their cafe while taking in the architectural details and beauty of the historic building that Aria has taken residence in.
Aria is filled with well-designed furniture and products from high-end European companies such as Fritz Hansen, Kartell, Kristalia, and Magis in addition to vintage pieces sourced from around the world. The kitchen department carries one of the largest selections of Alessi products in London as well as a vast collection of Ittala products. For the bathroom, products designed by Barber and Ogersby, Marimekko and the quintessential British spa line Cowshed are just a few of the items carried. Go in for a gift for a friend and you will surely walk away with something for yourself as well.
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Tulsa beat writer Bill Haisten: TU football standards at 'unprecedented levels' entering 2013 season
NORMAN — Oklahoma hosts Tulsa on Sept. 14 in the Sooners' third game of the 2013 season.
Continuing my blog series with a beat writer from each of OU's 2013 opponents, Bill Haisten from the Tulsa World was kind enough to answer a few questions about the Golden Hurricane.
You can follow Bill on Twitter @billhaisten.
1. What are the expectations for Tulsa football in 2013?
Even with a rebuilt defense, a bowl appearance in 2013 seems a certainty. Tulsa should be the Conference USA favorite, with a reasonable goal of recording at least 10 wins. Tulsa football standards now are at unprecedented levels. In 2012, the Hurricane reached the 11-win mark for only the second time in program history. TU totaled at least 10 victories in four of the last six seasons. Before 2003, the Golden Hurricane made only 11 bowl appearances. In 2003-12, there were eight bowl appearances.
2. The Golden Hurricane must replace eight starters on defense. How much of a problem does that present, particularly early in the season against a team like Oklahoma?
It's a tough September for Tulsa, which opens at Bowling Green, follows with a home contest against Colorado State and has two dates with Big 12 opponents (OU and, for the third time in 13 months, Iowa State). Tulsa lost all four starting defensive linemen and both corners. TU seems secure with new coverage guys, so the biggest question mark in the program is how a retooled defensive line will perform. Each of last season's tackles started in 27 consecutive games, while one end (Cory Dorris) made 51 career starts and another (Jared St. John) had 11.5 sacks as a senior. End Brentom Todd has a chance to be a dynamic pass-rush guy. The X-factor guys are the tackles. A senior from Norman, Jack Jewell hasn't gotten much meaningful playing time, but he was really good during the spring. Sophomore Derrick Luetjen was used in the rotation last season. Because of a lack of depth, it is critically important that Jewell and Luetjen stay healthy. Outside linebacker Mitchell Osborne was a backup last season, but he was occasionally excellent during the 2012 season and particularly in the Liberty Bowl triumph over Iowa State. He should be an impact defender this season. Tulsa coaches love the potential of cornerbacks Dwight Dobbins, Darnell Walker Jr. and Darrell Williams. Coaching the corners is former Sooner Darnell Walker, Walker Jr.'s father. At strong safety, sophomore Michael Mudoh succeeds Dexter McCoil, who graduated as the TU program's career leader in interceptions with 18.
3. After a solid season in 2012, how much improvement do you think quarterback Cody Green will make as a senior?
During the first half of the 2012 season, the 6-foot-4 Green weighed 255 pounds and was rusty after having been idle during his 2011 redshirt season. (Green transferred to Tulsa after two seasons at Nebraska.) During the second half of the season (following his recovery from a shoulder separation), he was a more efficient passer and became an effective figure in the run game. At the very least, because the rust is gone, Green should be significantly better in September 2013 than in September 2012. Also, Green reported for spring practice at 242 pounds and looked like a different guy. His mobility was a lot better. He says he'll be in the 235-240 range when the season begins on Aug. 29 at Bowling Green. Last season, Green led Tulsa to the Conference USA title and an 11-3 record. As a starting college quarterback, he has a career record of 14-3 (4-0 at Nebraska and 10-3 with the Hurricane).
4. How about Trey Watts? What are the expectations for his senior year?
Tulsa has gotten a lot of mileage from tailback Trey Watts, a former walk-on and the son of former OU wishbone quarterback J.C. Watts. Last season, Trey Watts' biggest plays occurred in the most important games on the schedule. Here is the Tulsa World account of his punt-return TD against Central Florida in the Conference USA championship game: "With 5:06 remaining in the fourth quarter, and with Central Florida leading 27-21, Watts stunned the H.A. Chapman Stadium crowd and the Knights by scoring on a 54-yard, classically ad-libbed punt return. A member of the UCF coverage unit had batted the bouncing ball — but the officials did not blow the play dead. As UCF players were mostly stationary, Watts scooped the ball, benefited from a great block by freshman Derek Patterson and raced down the Tulsa sideline for the score." The Hurricane went on to prevail in overtime. And during Tulsa's 31-17 conquest of Iowa State in the Liberty Bowl, the 5-foot-11, 190-pound Watts rushed for 148 yards. He was voted the game's most valuable player. For Watts, reasonable 2013 goals would include 1,200 rushing yards and 350 receiving yards, along with at least a couple of home-run returns. Last season, he averaged nearly 28 yards on kickoff returns. Entering his senior season, Watts' career numbers include 2,176 rushing yards (5.4 per attempt) and 85 receptions for 757 yards.
5. Where do you think Tulsa's greatest strengths are as a team, and where do you see potential weaknesses?
As Bill Blankenship enters his third season as the head man, a Tulsa strength is stability within its coaching staff. For the first time since 1995, the entire Hurricane football staff returned intact. A former championship coach at Tulsa's Union High School, Blankenship already has proven to be a very effective major-college head coach. His two-season record is 19-8. The foundation of any consistently legitimate football program is strong offensive-line play, and Denver Johnson is a nationally respected offensive-line coach. In 14 games last season, the Tulsa line allowed only nine sacks while paving the way for a ground game that averaged 5 yards per attempt and 245.7 yards per game. If there is a potential weakness, it might be on scoring kicks. Last year's kicker, Daniel Schwarz, has left the program. His apparent successor is an unproven walk-on — Carl Salazar, who played in high school at Broken Arrow and was a Tulsa World All-Metro selection in 2008 and 2009. And, of course, the Hurricane enters the 2013 season with question marks on the defensive line.


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i'm importing some pst files on my zimbra OSS installation, but i got this request from the wizard, it asked to insert ldap directory, user and password, cause it seems that there are some different email account in the same pst file.
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Kansas City, KS (October 6, 2013) – Casey Mears and his GEICO team rolled into Kansas hoping to continue their string of solid finishes. While the weekend started off in challenging fashion, they were able to turn in a solid day and, after leading the race, running solidly in the top 20 and overcoming crash damage, they turned in a strong 21st place finish.
Friday found the Germain Racing team scratching their heads after the opening practice session saw Mears and his #13 GEICO Ford Fusion land 33rd on the speed chart. After later qualifying 37th, crew chief Bootie Barker and his engineers hunkered down in a Kansas City hotel lobby and put their heads together.
When race day rolled around, Mears and company felt confident in their bid to move forward. Armed with new information and ideas for adjusting the car, any nerves had subsided when the team took to the starting grid for Sunday's Hollywood Casino 400. The green flag waved amid bright skies and cool temperatures. While he qualified 37th, Mears and his #13 GEICO Ford Fusion began to make quick work of the field before the caution flag flew just moments after the race got underway. Danica Patrick hit the wall bringing out the event's first yellow of the day, but Mears made the most of his time under green, moving up seven spots to 30th. Given the tire issues prevalent at Kansas Speedway, Mears took the opportunity to visit pit road and take on four fresh tires, leaving the previous set to be used as scuffs later in the race.
The race would turn into a caution-riddled event that kept the Germain Racing pit crew busy throughout the afternoon. They never faltered in their work and Mears' #13 GEICO Ford Fusion continued to improve as the race wore on. He ran solidly in the top 20 for much of the day while also making appearances in the top 15 and was the race leader on lap 45. While cautions flew repeatedly, Mears continued his trek to the front being interrupted only by a caution that was brought out as his GEICO bumper lay across the racetrack. On lap 179, Mears radioed to Bootie Barker that he was "really loose coming out of turn two". A lap later, he found himself against the outside wall in the aforementioned turn, leaving his rear bumper as victim. The GEICO crew made repairs to his racecar and quickly returned him to the event without the loss of even a single lap. And their work was true, as Mears said to Barker on lap 187, "The car's driving fine. It doesn't really feel any different." Even with damage, Mears continued to get faster and lap 210 saw him turn his quickest lap of the day.
After a record setting 15 caution flags caused a ruckus, one of which was triggered by a burning bush in the grandstand area, Mears and his #13 GEICO Ford Fusion notched a 21st place finish, a 16 position ascension from where his journey began 400-miles earlier. This is Mears' 19th top 25 finish of the 2013 season.
"The weekend started out rough, but the GEICO crew worked hard to get things turned around and it paid off today. I'm really proud of these guys and the effort they're putting in each week," Mears said. "The season is beginning to wind down and it's been great to close it out with solid finishes. We're looking forward to continuing the run this weekend in Charlotte. Charlotte is special to me because I won a race there and the memory is still fresh in my mind." He joked, "I'm glad we got out of Kansas with a 21st place finish. I mean when you have 15 caution flags and a burning bush, it's time to go home."
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I stumbled upon this Study (of The Development of Programming Ability and Thinking Skills In High School Students)(link only opens with left-click correct, not in new tab?! dunno why) claiming, that students seem to have serious problems learning how programming, abstraction into algorithms,... actually works.
What do you think about this and has somebody links to newer free available studies investigating the learning process of programming newbies?
Im wondering if this is mainly due to worse teaching or more abstract & difficult to learn languages like C in the past. Of course abilities in mathematics play likely also a bigger role, but this shouldnt be a fundamental hurdle? Is there maybe a connection to how difficult your mother language is structured (grammar, syntax, vocabulary). It is known that programmer newbies of distinct mother languages faster adapt to distinct programming languages? Are there programming languages specially oriented to, for example, chinese/german language?
Is the origin of more and more new programming language a sign of individual adaption to a single programmer liked syntax? I would suppose that from a theoretical informatics view there should be a limit of use & different problem types how many different programming languages are really needed. But they seem to grow on and on.


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I really like the ships shapes that really gives that SpellJammer feel Though I'm not fully convinced by the background.
Very nice! I'm sure it will be a hit in your campaign.
Thanks, I also need to make a larger Vodani Ship for the PCs to attack.
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Oh you HAVE to keep that original background. That is number one old school !! Great looking ships
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Now that TotalCon is over I can post the map of the Vodoni Wolfship. The game went very well considering it was Sunday morning at 8am.
It was a fun weekend. I got to play in old school D&D games DM'd by industry guests Tim Kask, Frank Mentzer, & Michael Curtis.
I know the background is a little busy, but it's to late to change it now.
I wish I was near to Massachusets, so I could have gone to this. It sounds really great. I've written a thread about your game at the Spelljammer forum at The Piazza, to let other fans know this happened. Did you write the adventure yourself, or was it the start of the standard TSR campaign for Vodoni?
A more neutral starfield background might make that easier to do.
You might also want to consider making a transparant background, printing the ships out on acetate and then laying down a starfield on the gaming table with the deckplans on top. If you did that, you could build up a library of ships and have them dock with each other, without any of the background of the "top" ship covering up any of the cool details on the "bottom" ship.
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New to cartography and seeking advice - eventual goal to make a large number of maps for the many worlds of the Spelljammer Campaign Setting
That is a cool idea using a transparent acetate sheet for the ship. Never thought of that.
The SJ game I ran at Totalcon was one I created, but calling it an "Adventure" would be a stretch. " Prince Andru's wife and child have been kidnapped and are being held on this ship by a group of Vodoni. Attack the ship with your Lamprey ship, board it and try to rescue them." end of story, the time slot was only 4 hrs, So just a quick hack n Slash. I didn't even write it down just played it off the top of my head with nothing more than the map and a list of monster stats.


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I have finally managed to install Zimbra Desktop (7.2.1 GA, build 11637, on Windows 7 SP! 32-bit), after eventually getting past the infuriating email account set-up dialog. Apparently if you cannot set up an email account that validates successfully, thou shalt not start the program. Controlling idea to begin with, but in addition, the set-up does not allow the choice of TLS for the outgoing server. As a result, my account (IMAP) would not validate and I could get nowhere. After trying all possible combinations, I finally got through with no encryption, port 25, and server login. Naturally enough, the account does not work, since the server requires TLS encryption on port 587. I have searched the help, but there is no mention of TLS, and I cannot find this setting via the interface.
Does anyone know whether Zimbra Desktop supports TLS for the smtp server, and if so, how to enable it? Or is there some other solution?
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HANCOCK, MI - Brian Rajdl will give a hands-on wilderness survival presentation on Tuesday, February 7, at 4:15 p.m. at the Finlandia University Chapel of St. Matthew, Hancock.
The presentation is one of several free public activities to be presented by Finlandia University in association with its Campus Read 2012, "Into the Wild," by John Krakauer.
Brian Rajdl is a science teacher at Hancock Central High School. He developed the high school's PEAK (Partnering the Environment and Academics on the Keweenaw) class, which focuses on place-based education, service learning, writing across the curriculum, and holistic grading.
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Continental Airlines' move to Chicago could create windfalls in Houston and Chicago, depending on which executives lose a game of musical chairs in the shuffle that will follow the merger with United Airlines.
A new management team will be selected by Jeffery Smisek, Continental's CEO, who will be CEO of the combined airline, and United CEO Glenn Tilton, who becomes chairman.
Executives who find themselves out of a job, or who choose not to make the move from Houston, will be entitled to lucrative payouts under their contracts.
For Continental, chief marketing officer James Compton would receive a payout worth $9.3 million, according to formulas found in the company's proxy statement. Operations chief Mark Moran would receive a package worth $9.2 million. Finance chief Zane Rowe's would be worth $8.4 million. The payouts include "gross-ups" of more than $2 million each to cover tax payments related to their severance packages.
"The payments to the Continental executives are consistent with what we see elsewhere," said Derrick Neuhauser, chair of BDO Seidman's compensation practice in Chicago. "Their contracts are built to protect them in a change in control."
The payouts will be richer on the Continental side because its merger is a change in control. Any move of the headquarters more than 50 miles from Houston allows executives to resign "for good reason," which adds to their payouts.
Because United is the surviving company based in Chicago, it won't experience a change in control except when performance bonuses already granted to executives vest, according to regulatory filings.
Since Tilton will remain chairman of the new company, he forfeits a $4.6 million severance payment guaranteed under his contract, but he will receive the same amount in restricted shares. He also waived accelerated vesting of $4.6 million in stock options and $9.9 million in restricted stock. He'll get a prorated amount of his potential performance bonus valued at $1.7 million.
In connection with the merger, United's top executives signed retention agreements that guarantee them 2.75 times their salaries and target bonuses if they lose their jobs within two years of the merger. The severance packages are richer than the ones previously in place.
They would also receive immediate vesting of long-term incentives such as stock options. United executives are sitting on huge potential gains from stock options granted last year at $4.86 per share, during the depths of the recession.
United shares closed Wednesday, May 5, at $19.78.
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• $2.9 million for Graham Atkinson, president of the frequent-flier unit.
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nice little tut pasis, well done
I created a quick guide how to use bump maps in mapping. It is a step by step guide for beginners on this subject. When you have gone through this guide you know enough to start experimenting more.
Let me know if you have hard times with any of the steps or have any other comments.
EDIT (12-Dec): Added many new things to the tutorial and uploaded the newest version 1.1.
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nice little tut pasis, well done
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Yup, nice little tut there Pasis. I'm sure we'll be seeing many more textured battlemaps appearing on the site for a while.
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Desaturating a normal map... That explains the peculiar lighting quality that I see in your maps that I never quite could figure out.
Nice tutorial. I seems to work in GIMP as well, with appropriate substitutions of course.
I always print your tutorials out to keep handy.
Excellent work once again, thanks.
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Glad to hear that this comes handy. I will add an update soon as there are couple of tricks that really help to get great results.
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Driving under the influence (DUI) and driving while intoxicated (DWI) are serious offenses in the Sunshine State. They put others at risk of limb, property, or life. Negative impacts on your employment, insurance, education, and personal freedom are likely to occur if you are arrested for drunk driving. Jail, convictions, fines, suspensions, and revocations of driving privileges may also result. Whether you are a first-time or multiple offender, drunk driving charges should not be dismissed lightly. Instead, build an aggressive legal defense with the assistance of a Florida DWI lawyer and make a material impact on your case.
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I am a native NORTH Carolinian. People from out of state have called this area Carolina for years and it is running over into our media and the naming of local businesses.
When the airport name was changed from Craven Regional to Coastal Carolina Regional so people would have a better chance of knowing where they are, it was very confusing. Craven County is definitely a location and is on the map. Coastal Carolina and Carolina are not places and are not on any present day map that I know of. When people arrive at Coastal Carolina Regional Airport why would they know where they are, better than when it was called Craven County Regional Airport.?
On your local broadcasts eastern NORTH Carolina is usually referred to as eastern carolina. The state of my birth and the state I love is NORTH Carolina and I find it offensive, as do most locals I talk to, to have her called carolina. I can't imagine that people from out of state would be offended if you were to call this area by it's correct name. If you call this area by it's correct name I think all would be pleased. This letter contains questions but I am not looking for an answer or justification for calling NORTH Carolina carolina for as I see it there is no justification.
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Total container trade falls in February after January upswing
March 14, 2011
Import shipment volume for February, measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) decreased 9.94 percent from January and increased 9.03 percent over February 2010, reported Zepol Corporation, a trade intelligence company.
The total number of shipments also decreased 11.09 percent from January and increased 7.27 percent over last February. Year to date, total TEUs are up 13.24 percent this year over last year.
Among the key statistics from this month's update, said analysts are that Asian origin volumes fell to levels seen in December 2010, decreasing 11.42 percent from January to February of this year.
Meanwhile, imports from Central America, measured in TEUs, rose 4.88 percent from January to February as fresh fruit imports took an upward turn.
Also of note, said analysts, was that ports on the Atlantic Coast show the greatest increases in volumes for February 2011 over January 2011.
"This has been a trend we've been tracking for the past three years," said Zepol president and CEO, Paul Rasmussen. "More than 50 percent of cargo now coming to the East Coast emanates from Asia."
In an interview, Rasmussen said that shippers are "building new relationships" with ports in anticipation of the Panama Canal expansion on 2014.
"I was at the AAPA (American Association of Port Authorities) meeting in Tampa not long ago, and learned that shippers may be gradually moving their supply chains to become less dependent on the U.S. West Coast," he said.
Overall, levels dropped on the Pacific coast with an overall average decrease of 14.15 percent, from January Zepol analysts stated.
Maersk Line continues to hold the top carrier spot, however, it experienced a volume decline of 10 percent from January to February of this year.
Zepol's data is derived from Bills of Lading entered into the Automated Manifest System. This information represents the number of House manifests entered by importers of waterborne containerized goods. This is the earliest indicator for trade data available for the previous month's import activity. The data excludes shipments from empty containers, excludes shipments labeled as freight remaining on board, and may contain other data anomalies.
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