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WOW! you have a lot going on and it's all beautiful as always, Mary Ann. And isn't that the reality? are we ever really done? It's hard to get everything complete... I'm still working on a project that I started last summer. yikes!!ReplyDelete
I love watching progress...it's always about the process, so this is fun and interesting. It also shows how small changes can make a big difference. How many calories can you burn? Maybe I need to attack you bookshelves?ReplyDelete
You are awesome...looking good! I love the chair fabric! Enjoy your day...ReplyDelete
I love before and afters too! Thanks for sharing these. The afters all look great.ReplyDelete
Lots of great work! I really like the difference it makes to style a fireplace mantel - those magnolia leaves are perfect.ReplyDelete
Oh yes, everything is so much brighter and more beautiful! Wonderful job again Mary Ann! In love with the mix of fabrics you chose for both spaces! I know that owner is just zoo pleased!ReplyDelete
every fabric choice is perfection. if these are the in progress pics I cant wait to see the after photos :) because these are beautiful.ReplyDelete
I know how hard it can be to share those progress shots but things are looking great! I love all of your indigo fabrics!ReplyDelete
You know I love that RL fabric...and I love that Thibaut rug!! I need to get better about taking pictures...especially progress shots!!ReplyDelete
Hi Mary Ann, I am still around (although waiting for a new blog domain to be finished). I so enjoy your work and often reference past blogs to "see what Mary Ann would do". Everything looks great, thanks for making the world more beautiful;)ReplyDelete
I just love seeing your wonderful design project...."Before and After"! You have such a talent for making an ordinary space into a beautiful, updated room by using clients pieces and adding new pieces. I definitely need you!!! Can't wait to see more of these fab room re-dos!!!
xo Gail
I love everything you do Mary Ann!! And I do love before and afters....my house next!!!ReplyDelete
Mary Ann!! I adore the changes you are making, perfection. The panels and fabrics are so light and fresh!
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Fabulous progress, love all of the fabrics you are using and that last rug is gorgeous. Fun to see your progress and to know you are nice a busy, that is always a good thing in this business,
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I love seeing this reality of everything in progress! that childhood painting of your client's is amazing!
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Mary Ann, you work wonders. Those drapes in the first reveal are so lush and full without overpowering the room….I love that you hung them between the windows. And that third client's color scheme…..so beautiful!! Thanks for sharing your design amazingness. I love what you do!ReplyDelete
Oh, I love before and afters! Everything looks great. I love the Pottery Barn mirror, and how a simple change like that can make a big difference. Always enjoy your posts.
In the process of building a new house so I am on design blog overload at the moment but what I have decided that I want more than anything in my new house is - I want to love every single thing.
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Oh wow! No comparison. Such beautiful work, and hanging the curtains near the ceiling opens up everything!
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Great colours. I love everything especially the French line.
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I am always amazed at the difference color and fabric can make to change a room. You have truly transformed these spaces. I love the the fabric you chose to recover the sofa, the sand color is very versatile and can be combined with so many shades. I love all your work, keep up the great work!
Beautiful! I had pulled that cut velvet fabric on the pillows too! you know - you can spray the curtains with a wrinkle free product that will help - also - have the cleaners iron out the pleats. I usually have my workroom not iron in the pleats. Love the rug!!! Love the window treatment! cant' wait to see it all finished. Love your befores and afters, they are my favorites!!!!ReplyDelete


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A FOOTBALL club have decided to start their own youth coaching sessions following the success of a course run at their home by Plymouth Argyle.
Coaches from the League Two club went to Clifton Parc to carry out a session for young players going through a number of skills workshops before playing games in the afternoon.
Following the course which saw dozens of boys taking part, officials from the club have decided to set their own weekly training sessions up starting on Friday, August 29 which will run from 5pm to 6.30pm.
The training is free although any children wanting to take part are advised to bring a drink with them.
Club chairman Chris Rosevear said he was happy to see so many kids turning up for the training organised by Argyle and hopes the same can be achieved through the club's own coaching sessions.
Mr Rosevear said: "I am really pleased with the turnout.
"The boys have worked hard and did the club proud."
Carolyn Norton, the club's social secretary, added the sessions will also be open for girls to take part in.
"My only disappointment is that we haven't had more young girls players turn up to training sessions," she said.
"We have a very successful ladies team here at Mullion.
"It would have been good to see some of the young ladies of the future being put through their paces today."
For more information about the club's youth training sessions, you can email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Alternatively, people can also find out more by visiting the club's Facebook page.

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PT. Lion Metal Works Tbk. has develop their business in Indonesia on August 1972 in Jakarta.
The company business activities are manufacture of Steel Office Equipment, Warehouse Equipment, Building Material , Hospital Equipment and High Security and other steel fabricated products.
In 1993, 1996 and 1997 PT. Lion Metal Works Tbk. offer 52 million of its shares to the public. The said shares have been registered at Jakarta and Surabaya Stock Exchange.
We are committed to be the leading steel fabricated product manufacturer through good planning, continuous improvement in product quality and design, competitive pricing and prompt delivery to meet customer�s requirements.
PT. Lion Metal Works Tbk was established on August 16th, 1972 in Jakarta as a foreign capital investment company which are a joint venture between Indonesian, Singaporean and Malaysian businessmen and also as a member of Lion Group in Malaysia.
The Company�s factory and office are located at Jalan Raya Bekasi Km. 24,5 - Cakung, east of Jakarta and the area is approximately 37.000 m2 with the installed capacity + 27.000 ton /year.
The Company�s business activities is classified into several groups of products and can be made according to customer requirement, as follows :
The Company marketing system is integrated between direct user (customer) and indirect user (dealers, consultants) and supported an engineering team to helping a presentation and technical explanation to customer and also to anticipate the products development in the future as the market needs.
All products are sold with �LION� brand, to be produced through a good production planning and also integrated and consistently quality control stages to ensure a quality of finished product meet the determined standard so commitment to customer satisfaction fulfilled.
To support products ability, PT. Lion Metal Works Tbk is a cooperative with Burositzmobel Fabrik Friedrich W. Dauphin GmbH & Co (Germany) ; Hugo Fritschi AG (Swiss) ; Fichet Bauche SA (France) and Underwriters Laboratories Inc (USA).
PT. Lion Metal Works Tbk also do a periodical training and upgrading of human capability / competency to ensure all processes relation in each function to be handled correctly, effectively, professionalism and fulfill each quality target.
To increase prosperity and awareness of employees, the corporate gives a salary basic based on government regulation, responsibilities and their performance.
PT. Lion Metal Works Tbk continue to build and strengthen its existence by following the market expansion and also making continual improvement.
PT. Lion Metal Works Tbk continues to develop it is business with the addition / expansion of the factory in Subang Sadang Km. 12.5 - Purwakarta, West Java, and the area is approximately +??25,500 m2.
In addition, PT. Lion Metal Works Tbk also conduct CSR programs as a form of corporate social responsibility towards the community as well as a main object and the subject in all its activities and the company's commitment to support the creation of sustainable development (sustainable development).
We shall be the leading manufacturer of steel fabricated products in Indonesia for local & global market to enhance quality of life.
We are committed to be the leading steel fabricated product manufacturer through good planning, continuous improvement in product quality and design, competitive pricing and prompt delivery to meet customers requirement.
We are committed to satisfy customer by :
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Possession chain motif ring
Ring G34PU800
Possession chain motif ring in 18K white gold, set with 184 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 1.75 ct).
Possession chain motif ring
Chain me: between declaration of love and game of seduction, the Possession ring reinvents itself to celebrate its twentieth anniversary. Remaining faithful to its original range, it has become a fashion icon, a style expert, forging the playful mythology of its success in gold. A chain in movement, embellished with 2 rows of diamonds on each side, lends a bewitching rhythm to the celebration.
Metal: White gold
Metal weight (gr): 18.9
Precious stones: Diamond
Band width: 10.6 mm
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*Piaget luxury watches and jewellery are individually produced and thus the weight and carats of each product can vary from the displayed data.


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Greenville, SC 29601
Brad Rustin is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP who practices in Greenville, South Carolina. His career began as a litigator focusing on consumer financial services litigation and defense of regulatory claims against chartered and non-chartered financial institutions, finance entities, and money services business. Following in the wake of the fiscal crisis, he began working with financial institutions, money transmitters, non-traditional lenders, check cashers, and mortgage brokers on issues of regulatory compliance. As the regulatory environment facing financial institutions has changed and increased, he now spends most of his time counseling financial institutions in regulatory matters, including strategic agreements, product development, and operational compliance. Mr. Rustin regularly works with clients on issues relating to: state and federal consumer protection laws, fraud monitoring, anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act compliance, state and federal regulation of money transmission, stored value strategies, ACH compliance and traditional and non-traditional lending. Along with the firm's technology group, Mr. Rustin regularly works with FinTech companies on state and federal regulatory compliance as well as issues relating to data integrity and E-Sign Act compliance.
Mr. Rustin works with a number of industry organizations focusing on financial institutions and regularly speaks on topics involving regulatory compliance for chartered and non-chartered financial institutions. His speaking engagements have, in particular, focused on changing federal regulation of the money transmission and lending space in the post-Dodd Frank environment.
Prudentially Regulated Financial Institutions
- BSA/AML/OFAC compliance obligations.
- SAR filing obligations.
- Section 314(b) communications and exchange of data.
- Third-party vendor due diligence programs.
- Online and mobile banking agreements, including Regulation E obligations.
Exemplar Cases
- LNV Corp. v. Affordable Hospitality Group—Anderson, LLC, No. 2013-002341 (S.C. Ct. App. Feb. 11, 2015).
- Mitchum v. USAA Federal Savings Bank, No. 0:13-cv-01601 (D.S.C. Sept. 11, 2013).
- Anderson v. USAA Federal Savings Bank, No. 8:13-1316 (D.S.C. Sept. 4, 2013).
- Hughes v. Bank of America, No. 2011-191468 (S.C. Ct. App. June 20, 2012).
- Albermarle Corp. v. AstraZeneca UK, Ltd., No. 5:09-2750 (D.S.C. Sept. 30, 2010).
- Hitt v. Enbe, No. 07-6662 (4th Cir. Jan. 17, 2008).
- Hunt v. Mortgage Electronic Registration, No. 6:07-1259 (D.S.C. Nov. 20, 2007)


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Blue Wedding Invitations
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On your big day, opt for the color that expresses one-on-one communication and signifies honesty, trust, and loyalty, and go for elegant blue wedding invitations. Soothing to look at and a cinch to coordinate with other hues, this peaceful shade offers a simple way to add sophistication to your celebration. Discover hundreds of striking options for blue wedding invitations to give your stationery that special touch. Give this lush shade a rustic twist with lace accents and floral graphics. For a retro vibe, explore our round-up of vintage-inspired blue wedding invites. David's Bridal carries invitations that incorporate cobalt, navy, cornflower, and other variations of this calming yet confident tone. Whether or not blue is your primary hue or just a supporting shade in your wedding palette, the right style invitation template and color scheme is awaiting your creative eye and customization. The possibilities for personalization are nearly endless. Browse David's Bridal assortment of blue wedding invitations to find art deco designs, tranquil beach landscapes, glittery detailing, peacock flourishes, and more.


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Appendix I to Part 1201 - Certification of Branch Line Accounting System Records
Carrier: (Exact legal title or name of the respondent)
Name, title, telephone number and address of the person to be contacted:
Telephone Number: (Area Code) and (Telephone number)
Office Address: (Street and number) (City, State, and ZIP code)
I, the undersigned,
of (Title of officer in charge of accounts)
(Full name of reporting company)
certify that during the calendar year 19__ the branch line accounting system data were collected and maintained for each line that met the criteria set forth in 49 CFR 1201, Subpart B, section 920(a), Lines For Which Data Collection Is Required, (Docket No. 36366).
The lines covered by this certification are described below: (Describe each branch line separately using the following format as set forth in 49 CFR 1152.11.)
(a) Carrier's designation for line (Ex. Zanesville Secondary Track);
(b) State or states in which line is located;
(c) County or counties in which line is located;
(d) Milepost delineating each line or portion of line;
(e) Agency or terminal station(s) located on line or portion of line with milepost designations;
(f) Current category designation and date placed in that category; and
(g) Previous category.
[ 44 FR 9730, Feb. 14, 1979, as amended at 47 FR 49596, Nov. 1, 1982]


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Hi Everyone! We just returned from another fantastic cruise on the Holiday. Even though the seas were among the roughest I have ever experienced (20 ft) everyone still managed to have a terrific time! I've read many disappointing comments on Progreso, and based on what we saw getting off the ship, we were tempted to simply agree with the comments and get back onboard. DO NOT DO THIS! KEEP GOING! Go into the town and meet some great people. The public beach by the jetty actually has a lot of sand and numerous places to eat, drink and even get massages if desired. We stopped by LaMarina bar on a side street and met the greatest group of locals you could hope for. This stop is so much better than Costa Maya and Belize and we look forward to visiting there again. This port could very easily be the next Cozumel in years to come. Speaking of Cozumel, looks like there will soon be a downtown area for each pier. Carlos and Charlies recently opened a new "beach club" just south of downtown and it is simply great in every way! As soon as time allows, I'll post more details but for now, its back to work!
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Nerd Girl Porn: Men With Moobs
I don't discriminate against men of any kind. I've dated the disabled, the bald, the fat, the moobed—you name it, I've let it into my bed. Imperfections only make a dude more relatable in my eyes. All of us have "flaws" — from foot nipples to cellulite — and it would be cruel to fault another human being for his. I secretly delight in finding out that a gorgeous man is is not as perfect as he appears.
Like yesterday, when we discovered that actor Jesse Metcalfe has been concealing a furtive pair of moobs. I forgive you, Jesse. In fact, I find you hotter now. [ONTD]
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Did you know that February is National Canned Food Month? Most of us don't spend a lot of time analyzing and appreciating the steel cans lining our pantry shelves that hold our staple food, but at St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance, they are fundamental in our mission to alleviate hunger in Arizona.
Metal cans have been around for more than 200 years as an environmentally friendly, economical and safe packaging form for food.
History of the can
The history of the metal food can is traced back to 1795 when Napoleon was systematically taking over Europe. He offered a prize of 12,000 francs to anyone who could invent a method of preserving food for its army and navy, and in 1809 Nicolas Appert succeeded, winning the prize money.
Environmental impacts
Metal food cans are 100 percent recyclable and can actually be recycled over and over again without losing strength or quality. And every ton of recycled steel saves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,000 pounds of coal and 40 pounds of limestone.
Nutrition and Safety
The canning process delivers long-term food quality and product shelf life. Canned fruits and vegetables are picked and packed at the peak of ripeness, and since most canneries are located just a few miles from the field, food freshness is guaranteed. Once the cans are sealed and heat processed, the food maintains its high quality for more than two years.
The metal food can enjoys an unparalleled safety record. Tamper-resistant and tamper-evident packaging gives consumers peace of mind knowing that their food is packaged safely and securely.
Get involved
Help us celebrate National Canned Food Month by hosting a canned food drive to help feed Arizonans in need. We especially need canned tuna, chicken, vegetables, beans and soup.
To sign up to host a food drive, click here.
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Cattle producers should watch for premature calf births
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Taylor Swift Surpasses 20 Million Album Sales
Taylor Swift celebrated big at her sold-out show at London's O2 Arena last night — the 'Love Story' superstar revealed that she has surpassed 20 million album sales.
This mark in Swift's career is a notable one. The 20 million mark only represents full albums sold, including her self-titled record, 'Fearless,' 'Speak Now,' 'The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection' and 'Beautiful Eyes.' In reality, the singer has sold well over 30 million paid song downloads — making her the No. 1 artist in digital sales in the history of the music industry.
Execs with Big Machine Records and Universal Music International presented 21-year-old Swift with a special plaque backstage at yesterday evening's show, honoring her big achievement, as pictured below.
Last night's London show wrapped up the overseas leg of her 2011 Speak Now World Tour, but the pop-country icon recently added 16 dates to the North American leg, which kicks off May 27 and wraps up with back-to-back Madison Square Garden performances this November.
The four-time Grammy winner is up for the fan-voted Entertainer of the Year award at this year's ACMs, which air this Sunday, April 3.


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Reflections on Microsoft & Nokia (part 1)
So it's now been several days since the shock announcement that Microsoft are acquiring Nokia. And we've had plenty of time now to hear opinions from talking heads and industry experts as well as let the news sink in. But now it's time to look back and what exactly happened, why and what it means for consumers and all companies involved in mobile technology. Over the next three parts of this series, we'll do exactly that.
The rise and fall of Nokia
First of all, let's look at the history of Nokia. The company was actually first started in Tampere, Finland in the 19th century. However, it got into the telecommunications business in the 70s and created the radio telephone company Mobira Oy in 1979. The first Nokia mobile phone was released in 1981 and in 1982 it came out with the Mobira Senator carphone.
Nokia was also the first company to come out with a handheld mobile with the Mobira Cityman which came in at a hefty weight of almost a kilo and would set you back several thousand pounds. Nokia were pioneering internet-ready phones with the WAP-enabled 7110 coming out in 1999. And who could forget the iconic Nokia 3210 which first introduced Snake to the masses 14 years ago and which sold over 160 million units.
For decades, the Finnish company has been synonymous with mobile phones. Many of us remember our first mobile phone which, more likely than not, was manufactured by Nokia. Indeed, they were the world's biggest mobile handset manufacturer for over fourteen years.
However, with the advent of the smartphone and the popularity of Apple and Samsung's models, Nokia has been in decline. In fact, 2012 was the first time since 1998 that Nokia's sales were overtaken. As well as the success of Apple and Samsung, another huge factor was the growth of emerging mobile phone markets, especially in Asia where Android is dominant.
As a result, Nokia has found itself in a financial nosedive. As recently as 2011 it was still responsible for over 15% of all smartphone sales according to worldwide sales figures. However, by 2012 this figure had catastrophically plummeted to only 5%. And we can only expect to see this number fall further in the future. Nokia is now selling less than 10% of the smartphones as Samsung.
In fact, Nokia's woes are only too well known to the 1,000 staff who were made redundant at the beginning of the year. Nokia's falling sales has necessitated their efforts to o save money and streamline its operations by reducing outgoings on wages. Almost all the jobs that were axed were in Finland but many were in Canada and Germany. The redundant employees were replaced by far cheaper outsourced positions in India.
This wasn't the first job cuts Nokia's had to make in recent years. In fact, as part of a drive to realise over £1 billion in savings, Nokia has cut over 15,000 jobs since 2012. These massive figures just go to show, with absolute clarity, how far Nokia has fallen in recent years and how badly it has struggled to compete in the age of the smartphone.
Nokia's revenues have crashed from over €7 billion to just under €3 billion in the second quarter of 2013. With a strong heritage selling feature phones, more affordable smartphones have meant that even in the developing world Nokia is losing sales. And in fact, it has been haemorrhaging money – there's only been a profit for one of the last six quarters which really shows how precarious their position is.
Please let us know your comments so far. And please stay tuned for part two coming shortly where we discuss in detail the terms of the £4.6 billion deal and well as the relationship between Microsoft and Nokia as well as the controversial role of Stephen Elop.


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Evolution, the International Journal of Organic Evolution, is a leading monthly scientific journal that publishes significant new results of empirical or theoretical investigations concerning facts, processes, mechanics, or concepts of evolutionary phenomena and events. Evolution is published by the Society for the Study of Evolution. Its editor is Daphne Fairbairn.
How bird evolution swapped snouts for beaks
Birds are among the most successful creatures on the planet, with more than 10,000 species living across the globe, occupying a dizzying array of niches and eating everything from large animals to hard-to-open nuts and seeds.
Blacklegged tick populations have expanded via migration, biologists show
Lyme disease cases are on the rise, with diagnoses occurring in areas that were historically Lyme-free. Scientists attribute the spread to the fact that populations of blacklegged ticks, which carry the bacteria that causes ...
People and primates share chewing adaptations
Scientists have gained insights into how primate species have evolved through space and time by studying the anatomy of their lower jaws in relation to diet.
Female fish genitalia evolve in response to predators, interbreeding
Female fish in the Bahamas have developed ways of showing males that "No means no."
Early squirrel gets the real estate, study finds
Those young squirrels now scampering around your neighbourhood were born in this year's earliest litters and are more likely to survive than squirrels born later and still curled up in their nests, according to a new University ...
Tweaking the beak: Retracing the bird's beak to its dinosaur origins, in the laboratory
Scientists have successfully replicated the molecular processes that led from dinosaur snouts to the first bird beaks.
Tiny plant shows us how living things cope with big changes
A small freshwater plant that has evolved to live in harsh seawater is giving scientists insight into how living things adapt to changes in their environment.
Evolution in action: Mate competition weeds out GM fish from population
Purdue University research found that wild-type zebrafish consistently beat out genetically modified Glofish in competition for female mates, an advantage that led to the disappearance of the transgene from the fish population ...
In cricket sex songs, males feel the caloric burn, study finds
Male tree crickets may be a hunk of burning love when they're belting out their different mating songs, but they're all burning the same amount of calories no matter how they do it, a Dartmouth College study finds.
Ants self-medicate to fight disease
We humans have been using self-medication to cure the illnesses since the dawn of our species. There is some evidence that also other animals can exhibit this type of behavior, but the evidence has been hard to come by.


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CPD 13: Use of single-ply membranes in flat roofs
In the latest of our regular series of CPD modules, we look at the use of single-ply membranes in flat roofs. This module is Sponsored by Sika Sarnafil
How to take this module
To take this module read the technical article below and click through to a multiple-choice questionnaire, once taken you will receive your results and if you successfully pass you will be issued automatically with a certificate to print for your records.
There are three main options when designing a flat roof — cold, warm or inverted — but they have many elements in common. Each approach is based on a structural deck and requires insulation. Each also needs a waterproof membrane, although its position in the construction of the roof will vary. This CPD module will introduce each of the roof types before considering the specification of single-ply waterproof membranes in more detail.
Cold roofs
Cold roofs have the principal insulation below the structural deck and are recommended only for small or domestic roof areas, where it is possible to provide cross-ventilation above the insulation. Without ventilation, there is a risk of condensation forming on the underside of the roof deck.
The Building Regulations Approved Document F deals with the requirements for ventilating roof voids to prevent excessive condensation. For flat roofs, it requires roof spaces to have ventilation openings in two opposite sides to promote cross-ventilation.
The advantage of cold roofs is that the membrane is supported directly on the deck, is accessible and is easily replaced without damaging the insulation.
However, cold roofs do have significant disadvantages. Effective ventilation and vapour barriers at ceiling level can be difficult to achieve and upgrading insulation at a later stage is complex.
Warm roofs
Warm roofs or warm deck constructions have the principal thermal insulation placed above the structural deck but below the waterproof membrane, and are the most common form of roof construction. Ventilation is not required but a vapour barrier is usually placed beneath the insulation to control condensation.
Roofs should be designed to avoid condensation risks in accordance with BS5250: Code of Practice for Control of Condensation in Buildings, and extra care should be taken to seal vapour barriers around penetrations, such as roof lights and rainwater outlets.
Warm roofs have several significant advantages over cold roofs:
- The roof structure is kept warm and protected from extremes of temperature by the insulation.
- There is no need to ventilate the roof space.
- Fire barriers can be accommodated.
- Future upgrading of insulation is straightforward.
- A variety of different insulations offering different properties, such as enhanced acoustics and high-density insulations, are available depending on the application.
Inverted roofs
Inverted roofs are also known as upside-down roofs or protected-membrane roofs, and are essentially warm roofs that have the insulation above the waterproof membrane and structural deck, without the need for a vapour barrier.
Inverted roofs have a heavy layer of either concrete paving slabs on support pads or a stone ballast, which is used to hold the insulation and membrane down. Consequently the structure must be able to bear the dead load of the system. This type of construction is suitable for terraces and other areas subject to pedestrian traffic.
Inverted roofs have a number of potential disadvantages:
- They have a heavy structural load.
- The depth of the roof zone is high.
- Waterproofing is vulnerable to following trades before insulation and ballast is installed.
- It is costly and difficult to locate leaks if the roof is damaged.
One way of overcoming the latter two problems is to use a warm ballasted roof, which is a warm roof with paving on top.
Achieving falls
It is recommended never to design a roof that is completely flat. It is accepted good practice to design in a "fall", or slight gradient, of at least 1:60, which equates to 17mm over 1m. BS6229 states "that the minimum finished fall, of single-ply membranes, at any point should be 1:80. In the absence of a detailed analysis, a fall of twice the finished fall should be assumed for design purposes", which would give a design fall of 1:40. There are essentially three methods for creating falls:
- Adding timber firings beneath the structural deck.
- Applying a layer of screed, with the appropriate fall, above the deck.
- Cutting the appropriate fall into the layer of insulation.
Typical fall layouts
There are many different layout options for falls. Here are three options for the same roof:
This shows two roof surfaces with different directions of falls. The junction of the two surfaces is known as a cross fall — the effective slope at this point of the roof will be less than the other falls. This layout prevents ponding, but can be difficult to achieve with timber firings or screed.
This example has straight falls to an internal gutter, and can be easily achieved with firings or cut to falls insulation.
The third option is a cost-effective solution but would suffer from ponding between the rainwater outlets.
Design considerations
- Acoustics: A benefit of single-ply systems, especially with warm roof construction, is that acoustic materials can be included in the system build-up. Materials such as mineral wool insulation boards and acoustic matting have achieved up to 47dB reduction in single-ply systems.
- Wind uplift: Protection against wind forces should be one of the fundamental principles behind good roofing design and every roof should have a wind uplift calculation to BS6399 to determine peak wind loads.
- Fire: Building Regulations require all buildings to comply with BS476-3:1958, which is in essence concerned with the preservation of life, rather than the preservation of property and goods. The loss of the building and its contents is the concern of insurance companies, some of which have adopted approved roof constructions that exceed statutory requirements.
Single-ply membranes
Although there are many variations, the three generic types of membrane are polyvinyl chloride (PVC), flexible polyolefin (FPO) and ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM). Single membranes are supplied in rolls that are typically 1m to 2m wide, so it is important to consider how they are jointed.
- PVC has been in use as a roofing membrane since the early 1950s and is the most commonly used membrane for roofing. It can have a BBA-certified life expectancy of more than 30 years. PVC comes in a variety of colours and can be heat- or solvent-welded to create a homogeneous joint. Some membranes also have a lacquered finish, which aids the ageing characteristics and aesthetics.
- FPO has been in general use since the early 1990s and has a life expectancy of more than 25 years. It comes in a limited range of colours and does not have a lacquered finish. It is heat-welded.
- EPDM is a synthetic rubber membrane with a BBA-certified life expectancy of more than 20 years and comes in one colour — black. It uses an adhesive to bond the seams together.
There are three common methods of securing membranes to a roof.
Adhered system
These are typically used on projects that have a high aesthetic requirement, and on roofs with an unusual shape. They are suitable for new or refurbishment roofing and can be used with any deck type. Following a conventional warm roof approach, adhesive is applied to the top surface of a suitable insulation and the membrane is rolled into it. A heavy water-filled roller is passed over the membrane to ensure intimate contact between the membrane and adhesive.
Mechanically fastened system
The two methods of mechanically fastening single-ply membranes are the linear bar and
in-seam systems. The linear bar system can withstand high wind loading, is most economic on roofs around 1,000m2 and is suitable for new and refurbishment projects. With a typical warm roof construction, the membrane is loose-laid over the insulation and a series of linear bars are fastened at centres determined by the wind uplift calculation, fixed using a tube fastener and screw. The linear bar is covered with a strip of membrane welded to the main field sheet on both sides.
With the in-seam system, the membrane is again loose-laid, but fastened at its edge with the next sheet lapping over the fasteners. An automatic welding machine is then used to weld the membrane. This method is quick to install and cost-effective on large roof areas.
Ballasted/terraced systems
As discussed earlier, for ballasted or terraced roofs either an inverted or a warm ballasted solution may be specified. For a typical terraced roof, the membrane is loose-laid, then a layer of fleece membrane added for protection. Paving slabs are supported and levelled using 180mm-diameter support pads and shims. Finishes could include pebble ballast or timber decking, subject to weight.
Green roofs
Another variation on the ballasted system is the green roof, of which there are three main types:
- Intensive Planted areas, generally consisting of perennials, shrubs, trees and/or turf, effectively create a traditional English garden at roof level. Laid out in sections to include usable areas of terraces and paths, alternating with intensively planted areas, they typically require intensive care and long-term maintenance.
- Extensive Lightweight, naturalistic planting provides extensive roof cover with minimal maintenance.
- Biodiverse These are designed for the specific requirements of local flora and fauna. Planting can be initiated, but is generally left to nature. It requires minimal maintenance.
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Lexus today introduced its all-new 2013 ES family of entry-level luxury sedans. The ES has long been one of Lexus' best selling models, so striking the right balance of style, performance, and features are critical with the new model.
Although Lexus is introducing the ES 350 which features a 3.5-liter V6 engine, it's nearly as technologically interesting as the first hybrid to wear the ES moniker: the ES 300h. The ES 300h features a 2.5-liter four-cylinder Atkinson Cycle engine combined with the Lexus Hybrid Drive. Although exact city and highway numbers aren't yet available, Lexus says that the ES 300h is good for 40 mpg combined.
For comparison, a 2012 Lexus ES 350 is rated at 19 mpg in the city and 28 mpg on the highway (22 mpg combined).
Other new features include Lexus' second-generation Remote Touch Interface (RTI) to operate multimedia controls, available Blind Spot Monitor, Rear Cross Traffic Alert, Lane Departure Alert, and Pre-Collision System. The new ES also includes Lexus Enform that provides connectivity to Bing search, iHeartRadio, MovieTickets.com, OpenTable, Pandora, Yelp, and Facebook Places through the use of the driver's smartphone.
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"The new Lexus ES 350 and ES 300h hybrid combine technology, style and performance to please current ES owners and attract new buyers," said Mark Templin, Lexus group vice president and general manager. "With the addition of the ES 300h, Lexus truly offers something for everyone in the entry luxury segment."
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"The new Lincoln MKZ represents the future of Lincoln in both style and substance," said Jim Farley, Group Vice President, Global Marketing, Sales and Service. "It is proof of our commitment to deliver a new breed of Lincolns for a new generation of Lincoln clients – motor cars that are distinctive, elegant, full of technology and a delight to own."
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Clark also worked for New Century Financial Corp., Fremont Investment and Loan, and Texaco Refining and Marketing Inc.
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This report describes the functions of point of sales systems and the specific areas of risk to tax administrations. It sets out in detail the electronic sales suppression techniques that have been uncovered, in particular "Phantomware" and "Zappers", and shows how such methods can be detected by tax auditors and investigators. The report also considers a number of strategies adopted in different countries to tackle electronic sales suppression and highlights best practices. In particular, it makes a number of recommendations to countries for addressing this important area of risk.
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WWF Warns of Environmental Hazards in Mediterranean
The World Wildlife Fund warned of major ecological threats in several Mediterranean countries and called on the European Union to help avert an environmental crisis in the region.
The fund held a news conference last week, a few days before a meeting of EU foreign ministers to debate the MEDA II programs, the financial tool of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership.
The fund says the EU should tie its MEDA II programs to the respect for environmental norms.
It identified nine Mediterranean zones that could face major environmental hazards if measures are not taken.
The Mediterranean natural resources are under great pressures, said the WWF, which called on the EU foreign minister to make sustainable development a clear objective of MEDA II.
Morocco, the WWF said, is among the countries facing ecological risks as its Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts are sustaining excessive fishing, its water resources are suffering over-exploitation and its soil is facing degradation.
In July, the organization released results of a study highlighting the 13 most important areas in need of protection in the Mediterranean sea, and urged governments to commit to the protection and sustainable management of at least 10% of the surface of marine and coastal areas in the region over the next 10 years.
According to the WWF study, "Mediterranean Marine Gap Analysis," the three major threats to the Mediterranean sea as a whole, and in particular these 13 sites, are uncontrolled coastal construction, pollution from industries and intensive agriculture and oil spills, and over-fishing.
The 13 areas identified for urgent protection are: Alboran sea (Spain, Morocco, Algeria); Balearic Islands (Spain); Liguro-Provencal coast (France, Italy, Monaco); Corso-Sardinian coast (France, Italy); Southern Tyrrhenian coast (Italy); Dalmatian coast (Croatia); Eastern Ionian coast and islands (Albania, Greece); Aegean sea (Greece, Turkey) and Anatolya coast (Turkey); Cilician coast (Turkey) and Cyprus Island coast; Cyrenaica (Libya); Gulf of Sirte (Libya); Gulf of Gabes (Tunisia); Algerian-Tunisian coast (Algeria, Tunisia).
Within these areas, WWF has selected smaller sites for focusing its conservation efforts. Those sites are located in Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Monaco, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey.
The organization urged governments to ensure the protection and efficient management of these sites and recommended the ban of coastal trawling from 0 to 50 meters in depth (where 80 percent of marine biodiversity is found) throughout the Mediterranean. It called for a ban on coastal construction in any of these 13 areas.
It also urged the enforcement of international pollution legislation across the board in the Mediterranean.
"The Mediterranean, the oldest cradle of European civilization, is also the region with the highest number of endemic species in the world, after tropical regions. These 13 areas should be absolutely protected if we want to save the Mediterranean's unique heritage," said Paolo Guglielmi, Marine Officer, WWF Mediterranean Program Office.
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MUNICH, Germany Mobile technology provider Qualcomm has joined IMEC's Technology-Aware Design Program (TAD). The Belgian research center and the U.S. fabless chip vendor will collaborate on innovative circuit and system design methodologies.
The increased variability observed in aggressively scaled designs and interconnects make it increasingly necessary to apply innovative design methodologies, IMEC said. For this reason, the research institute has set up the TAD program to develop design solutions that address scaling challenges for the 45nm node and beyond.
The program focuses on development of advanced analysis techniques that model process variability to enable designers to optimize the entire system design for energy consumption and yield. The ultimate goal is to enable manufacture-aware sign-off of predicted process variability at system design level.
For Qualcomm, the program participation is in line with the company's 'Integrated Fabless Manufacturing' business model, explained Behrooz Abdi, general manager of Qualcomm's CDMA Technologies. "We are pleased to be a part of IMEC's TAD program, collaborating on next-generation design flows and ultimately optimizing results," the manager said.
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Minimates may be little, but they're big on action. Don't believe us? Making its debut at the Minimates panel at the New York Comic-Con this past weekend, the newest "Mini-mation" from Diamond Select Toys spotlights their popular pirate-themed Minimates line, Calico Jack's Pirate Raiders! The fist episode, which runs a little over two minutes long, is animated using actual Minimates toys and an exacting stop-motion process. More episodes of Pirate Raiders are forthcoming, as are new adventures of the MAX team, Diamond Select's rescue-themed Minimates line.
For those who don't know about Calico Jack's Pirate Raiders, here's a quick history lesson: "The time is the early 18th century, an era of both magic and science, and the golden age of the Pirate Raiders! Pirate Calico Jack and pirate hunter Jonathan Barnet have teamed up to protect the seas from pirates, and to protect Jack from the supernatural evil of Captain Charles Vanes and his undying crew! Standing two inches tall with 14 points of articulation in every figure, this new line of interchangeable Minimates mini-figures and ships is fun for kids of all ages!"
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WORLD NEWS Continues to Surge in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54
For the week of October 14, 2013, "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" averaged 7.768 million Total Viewers and a 1.7 rating/6 share/2.000 million in Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. Growing over the previous week (7.251 million and 1.812 million, respectively, on w/o 10/7/13) in both Total Viewers (+7%) and Adults 25-54 (+10%) to hit season highs, "World News" posted its strongest numbers in 5 weeks - since w/o 9/9/13.
"World News" was also the only evening newscast to deliver week-to-week increases in both Nielsen measures as "CBS Evening News (-1%-1%) was down, while "NBC Nightly News" was mixed (+3%/-4%).
Compared to the year-ago week (7.047 million and 1.710 million, respectively, on w/o 10/15/12), "World News" improved by double-digits in Total Viewers (+10%) and Adults 25-54 (+17%). "World News" grew the most year to year in Total Viewers and stood as the only evening newscast to see gains in Adults 25-54 compared to "CBS Evening News (+4%-14%) and "NBC Nightly News" (+7%/flat).
In Adults 25-54, "World News" beat "NBC Nightly News" to rank No. 1 on Monday (+144,000 - 2.326 million vs. 2.182 million on 10/14/13) and Friday (+90,000 - 1.836 million vs. 1.746 million on 10/18/13). In fact, it was the first time this season that "World News" beat "NBC Nightly News" in the key adult news demo twice during the course of a week.
In addition, "World News'" Monday airing stood as its top telecast of the season in both Total Viewers (8.217 million) and Adults 25-54 (2.326 million).
"World News" cut its week-to-week margins with "NBC Nightly News" by double-digits in Total Viewers (-29% - 662,000 vs. 927,000) and by more than half in Adults 25-54 (-61% - 168,000 vs. 435,000).
"World News" also reduced in its year-to-year gaps with "NBC Nightly News" by double-digits in Total Viewers (-18% - 662,000 vs. 805,000) and by more than half in Adults 25-54 (-63% - 168,000 vs. 459,000).
Season to date, "World News" is up Versus the same point last season in both Total Viewers (+3%) and Adults 25-54 (+6%), delivering its best overall viewer start to a season in 4 years - since the 2009-10 season. "World News" is also up the most from the same point last season in the key adult news demo compared to "CBS Evening News" (-10%) and "NBC Nightly News" (+4%).
For the week, "ABC World News" outperformed the "CBS Evening News" by its largest margins of the season in both Total Viewers (1.483 million) and Adults 25-54 (562,000). In fact, it was "World News'" largest news demo advantage over the CBS program in nearly 3 years - since w/o 12/27/10.
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On a fateful night in 2009, Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle met for dinner at a restaurant in Boulder, Colorado. The two had met five years before while Coyle was writing his bestselling book, Lance Armstrong: Tour de Force. But this time, Tyler had something else on his mind. He finally wanted to come clean, about everything: the doping, the lying, his years as Lance Armstrong's teammate on U.S. Postal, his decade spent running from the truth. 'I'm sorry,' he told Coyle. 'It just feels so good to be able to talk about this. I've been quiet for so many years.'
Over the next eighteen months, Hamilton would tell his story - and his sport's story - in explosive detail, never sparing himself in the process. In a way, he became as obsessed with telling the truth as he had been with winning the Tour de France just a few years before. The result of this determination is The Secret Race, a book that pulls back the curtain and takes us into the secret world of professional cycling like never before. A world populated by unbelievably driven - and some flawed - characters. A world where the competition used every means to get an edge, and the options were stark. A world where it often felt like there was no choice.
'We were standing in Lance's kitchen when he lined out the plan: he would pay Philippe [Armstrong's gardener and odd-job man] to follow the Tour on his motorcycle, carrying a thermos full of EPO and a prepaid cell phone. When we needed Edgar [EPO], Philippe would zip through the Tour's traffic and make a drop-off… Lance had come back from cancer; he wasn't about to sit back and hope things worked out; he was going to make it happen"
The riveting, news-breaking story of former Olympic gold medalist and seven-time Tour de France rider Tyler Hamilton, who takes us deep inside the secret world of professional cycling, his years as Lance Armstrong's teammate, and what it took to win – no matter the cost.
The Secret Race is the first time that the story of Armstrong's rise to the top of the sport has been told by a former teammate. Co-author Danny Coyle conducted more than two hundred hours of interviews with Hamilton and spoke candidly with dozens of his teammates, rivals, and friends, who are also speaking out for the first time.
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If the season were to start Saturday, as Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt is wont to say, the Panthers would have their starting tailback.
Dion Lewis emerged from spring drills as the frontrunner, and despite competition from since-suspended redshirt sophomore Shariff Harris, redshirt freshman Chris Burns and freshmen Jason Douglas and Ray Graham, Lewis never gave an inch during training camp.
"The tailback spot, I'd be comfortable saying that Dion is our starter if we're playing today," Wannstedt said. "The backup tailback spot is a battle right now, with Chris Burns making some serious headway."
The Panthers will hold their second scrimmage of camp at 10:15 a.m. Saturday, and it should help resolve several position battles. Wannstedt will pay closest attention to left guard, where redshirt sophomore Chris Jacobson is trying to hold off senior Joe Thomas for a spot in the front five.
The next priority is at safety, where sophomore Andrew Taglianetti is ahead of redshirt junior Elijah Fields, who was demoted for a day last week for "internal issues" and missed a couple practices this week with a foot infection. "Because Fields missed time, Taglianetti made a move there so we've got to look close at that," Wannstedt said.
Also interesting will be determining the backups at safety, as redshirt freshman Jarred Holley has split time between corner and safety and appears to have moved ahead of fifth-senior Irv Brown and freshman Jason Hendricks on the second-team defense and dime package.
"Jarred Holley is a guy that wherever he's at on the field, he gives you confidence. He's going to be a heck of a player for us, whether it's at corner or safety, I don't know. Right now, we've got him working in the first dime package and he's alternating with the second group, some at corner, some at safety. He's on all the special teams. Jarred Holley is going to be everything we thought he was when we recruited him."
Finding a fourth receiver to complement the trio of Jonathan Baldwin, Cedric McGee and Oderick Turner is another concern. Mike Shanahan, a 6-foot-5 redshirt freshman from Norwin, was the leading candidate until he broke a bone in his hand last weekend.
"That fourth receiver spot is open," Wannstedt said. "I would've said probably after the first week that Shanahan had the upper hand. Now, he's hurt. So you've got Aundre Wright, Aaron Smith and Cam Saddler really kind of battling it out."
And, of course, Wannstedt has to select a placekicker between Kevin Harper, who has shown great range, and Dan Hutchins, who has been consistent but also is the leader to handle punting duties.
• Tight end Dorin Dickerson (hamstring), tailback Jason Douglas (ankle) and right tackle Lucas Nix (leg) returned to practice for position drills, but tight end Nate Byham was pulled after experiencing concussion-like symptoms while blocking during 11-on-11 drills.
"Nate came out and worked yesterday and felt OK," Wannstedt said. "Today, he came out and was so-so, so we held him at the end a little bit."
• Shanahan, safety Marco Pecora (ankle), linebackers Carl Fleming (headache) and Tristan Roberts (shoulder), cornerback Buddy Jackson (jaw), defensive ends Shayne Hale (concussion), Bernardo Nunez (anke) and Jabaal Sheard (knee) all missed practice.
• Wannstedt said starters such as defensive linemen Greg Romeus and Mick Williams and safety Dom DeCicco will see limited action in the scrimmage, while the "majority" of players take about 30 snaps.
• Defensive end Tony Tucker was excused from practice for "personal reasons" again. He hasn't practiced since Monday.
Highlights from Friday's practice:
• An inspired Fields popped Burns in the backfield on consecutive plays in 11-on-11 drills, but drew harsh words from Wannstedt when he blitzed untouched and knocked over quarterback Bill Stull in a red-zone situation. Fields was sent to the bench and replaced by Brown on the second-team defense.
• Stull threw off his back foot, but connected with a streaking Devin Street for an 86-yard touchdown along the right sideline. Stull also threw a long scoring pass to Burns.
• Turner made a nice adjustment in the left corner of the end zone to catch a Stull pass thrown over his right shoulder for a touchdown.
• In the goal-line drill, each unit got three cracks – one from the 8-yard line, one from the 5 and one from the 2.
With Tino Sunseri running the first team, he dropped the snap but completed a pass to tight end Mike Cruz for 6 yards. Lewis ran 5 yards but was stood up at the goal line by Taglianetti before pushing his way in. Sunseri's fade pass intended for Turner was broken up by Jovani Chappel.
With the second team, Stull completed a 6-yard pass to Saddler in the left flat on first-and-goal at the 8. Graham scored on a 5-yard run. Then Stull threw a 2-yard scoring pass to fullback Joe Capp, who beat corner Ricky Gary.
With the third team, Pat Bostick rolled right to complete a 5-yard pass to Greg Cross. Defensive end Jack Lippert stopped Graham in the backfield on first-and-goal at the 5. Bostick then threw a touchdown pass to fullback Kevin Adams, who beat Hendricks and Danny Cafaro in the right flat for a 2-yard touchdown.
• Pitt scrimmages on Saturday, but it is closed to the public. For live updates, follow @KGorman_Trib on Twitter.


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Thunder wracks Wolves
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The Concordia Thunder are as advertised.
The Thunder came to Grande Prairie last weekend for an ACAC basketball series against the Grande Prairie Regional College Wolves and decimated the home squads.
The nationally-ranked (No. 10) Thunder women beat the Wolves 76-44 Friday and 89-44 Saturday. The Thunder improved to 18-2 with their two wins. The Wolves fell to 10-10.
In men's action, the 16-4 Thunder embarrassed the hometown Wolves (1-19)by scores of 125-61 and 117-53.
Both Wolves squads have their chances at redemption this weekend when they host the Augustana Vikings. Both Vikings teams have 5-15 records.
"Concordia definitely showed that they are one of the best teams in the league and indeed in the country," said women's Wolves coach Dave Waknuk, of the top team in the ACAC North. "They definitely showed us that they are a first-place team and that there's a lot of difference between fourth and first in this league. All credit to them."
The Thunder spent as much time schooling the Wolves on their own game as anything. Waknuk's team has been a "defence first" squad that prides itself on its aggressive nature of play without the ball. The Thunder, although not often without the ball over the weekend, showed the Wolves a thing or two about presses, boxing out and blocking the shooting lanes. In a turn unfamiliar to the Wolves, they were the ones being called for the eight-second violations and being forced into bad shots just to beat the 24-second buzzer.
"They were playing a very aggressive style," said Waknuk. "It's something we've been able to do for the past few weeks but they were definitely better at it this week. They forced us in to a lot of turnovers, or made us try tough shots. It was just too much for us to handle." The results were predictable. The Wolves shot a meagre 25% from the floor Friday and even worse (23.5%) Saturday – their lowest offensive success rates since Waknuk took over the team for the second semester.
"You don't win a lot of games with numbers like that," said Waknuk.
At the other end, GPRC had trouble stopping just about anything. Concordia shot at a 45% rate for the weekend, led by the ACACs top point producer, Cailin Lissel, who bettered her 19.5 points per game average in both ends of the doubleheader. She had 30 points Friday and 25 points Saturday.
"Cailin is one of the elite players in the league and she definitely played like it this weekend, but the team goes so far beyond just Cailin," said Waknuk. "They can hurt you from five spots on the floor and they did that to us this weekend."
Indeed. Remove every one of Lissel's points and the Thunder still win both games. That's balance.
"There is a lot of depth there – a lot of veterans," said Waknuk. "It's pretty much the same team as it was a year ago and the confidence they have is something we would like to build towards."
The Concordia basketball program has been strong for the last few years. The women won the ACAC provincial championship in the 2007-2008 season, before losing to King's in the bronze medal game last year. The bad news for Waknuk is that, with the Wolves locked in fourth in the North, he knows that their opponents in the first round of the playoffs will either be the SAIT Trojans or the Lethbridge Kodiaks. As good as the Thunder were this weekend, SAIT and Lethbridge are better. The Trojans are ranked fifth in the country and the Kodiaks are No. 7.
"There are some absolute powerhouse teams in the ACAC," said Waknuk. "And no matter how you cut it, if we want to go anywhere in the playoffs, we are going to have to go through those teams."
That is what made this weekend the most disheartening. A 10-, 12- or 15-point loss would have been one thing – the Wolves could have drawn the positives of keeping it close. But these games were not close, not from the outset. Is Waknuk concerned with the mental aftershocks of such a weekend?
"This is a team that has prided itself on improving every week and seeing results because of that," he said. "After this week we feel that our progress has not stopped, but I would say paused. We can't dwell on this. We have to keep going forward. This knocked us back a little bit but we have to get past it. "I can't fault the girls' effort on the weekend – we can blame the execution, but the effort was definitely there."


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"This year's three laureates have formulated a theoretical framework for search markets" such as ones where buyers look for sellers and applicants look for jobs, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which selects the winner, said today in Stockholm.
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A British Cypriot alongside two Americans wins the 2010 economics Nobel prize for work focusing on problems like unemployment.
Diamond, 70, is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and a candidate for the Federal Reserve Board whose nomination has been held up by Senate Republicans. Pissarides, 62, teaches at the London School of Economics, and Mortensen, 71, is on the faculty at Northwestern University.
"These three guys have really changed the way people think about the labor market," said Robert Solow, winner of the Nobel Economics Prize in 1987 and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in a telephone interview. "Their work has been the foundation, the fundamental basis for understanding flows through the labor market and the way they're influenced by things like" unemployment insurance benefits.
The research tries to explain such conundrums as how high unemployment can be accompanied by a large number of job openings. One conclusion is that more generous jobless benefits lead to higher unemployment as those who are looking for work take longer to find it, the academy said.
"The problem of unemployment is the major challenge facing policy makers today after the worst recession since the Second World War," Professor John Van Reenen, director of LSE's Centre for Economic Performance and a colleague of Pissarides, said in a statement. The work of the Nobel Prize winners is "fundamental to our analysis of aggregate unemployment and business cycles."
Taught Bernanke
Diamond, a former teacher of Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, was nominated by President Barack Obama for a Fed governor's seat in April, subject to confirmation by the Senate. The nomination was later returned to the White House because of objections from at least one unidentified senator. Obama resubmitted Diamond's name on September 13.
Richard Shelby, the senior Republican on the Banking Committee, called Diamond a "skilled economist" while questioning whether he has sufficient expertise in monetary policy to be a Fed governor.
"This just puts an exclamation point to Senator Shelby," said Solow, 86, and a former teacher of Diamond. "He's not just depriving the Fed of a good nominee but of one of the world's half dozen best economists."
Diamond's research spans a wide range. His earliest work, published in the 1960s, focused on the long-term effects of the growing national debt on the economy.
In a paper written in 2005 with Peter Orszag, who stepped down as Obama's budget director in July, Diamond argued that Social Security's long-term financial health could be restored through modest cuts in benefits and tax increases.
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They opposed then-President George W. Bush's proposal to establish individual retirement accounts under Social Security, saying the system could be saved without radical reform.
Diamond has analysed the effects of taxation on growth and is considered a pioneer in the study of optimal taxation, which has been applied to pricing by public utilities. His work has also focused on the inter-generational impact of different policies.
Diamond studied mathematics at Yale University and received his doctorate at MIT in 1963. He joined the MIT faculty in 1966 and headed the economics department in 1985 and 1986. Diamond was named an Institute Professor, the university's highest honor, in 1997.
Pissarides, a native of Cyprus, made his reputation for his work on job flows and unemployment. He related job creation to the number of unemployed, the number of vacancies, and the intensity with which workers look for jobs and companies recruit applicants. The more eagerly job seekers look for work, the more jobs companies are likely to offer because it will be easier to fill them, according to Pissarides.
Influencing Policy Makers
"I started immediately after graduating from university focusing on the problems of unemployment, which was on the rise back then in Europe continuously," Pissarides said today in an interview. "Our work can help tackle unemployment," he said. "If it becomes further known then it could influence policy makers."
His research "has shown how labor market regulations, entry barriers to setting up new service firms, tax and welfare policies affect differences in employment across the world," Van Reenen said.
Pissarides received his bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from the University of Essex and his doctorate from LSE in 1973. After a brief stint in the research department at the Central Bank of Cyprus in 1974, Pissarides entered academia and has been an LSE professor since 1986.
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He is also a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London and the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, as well as being a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Cyprus.
Mortensen, 71, received a bachelor's degree in economics from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, in 1961 and a doctorate in economics from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1967.
A member of the faculty at Evanston, Illinois-based Northwestern since 1965, Mortensen has also served as visiting professor at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom, Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
In his research, he found that labor-market rigidities can cause unemployment as job-seekers look for the best work at the highest pay. The intensity of that job search determines how long workers stay unemployed and in turn can be affected by changes in the level and duration of jobless benefits.
Lack of Knowledge
In seeking to explain why workers with similar skills end up being paid differently, Mortensen focused on their lack of knowledge of the wages being paid by all employers and on differences in pay policy and productivity among firms.
He is a past president of the Society of Economic Dynamics and one of the founding editors of the Review of Economic Dynamics.
The work of Diamond, Mortensen and Pissarides "is fundamental to modern thinking about unemployment," Lawrence Summers, director of President Barack Obama's National Economic Council, said in an e-mail.
As economics evolves, "their ideas will loom larger and larger in thinking not just about labor markets, but housing markets and many others," added Summers, who is leaving the administration to return to Harvard University as a professor at the end of the year.
Alfred Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, in his will in 1896 established awards for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, peace and literature. The economics prize was set up by Sweden's central bank in 1968. Former winners include Milton Friedman, Amartya Sen and Friedrich August von Hayek.
The award's official name is The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The money, 10 million kronor ($US1.5 million), a gold medal and a diploma will be handed out at a ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.
Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the Nobel Economics Prize last year when she received it with Oliver Williamson of the University of California at Berkeley for their work on the limits of markets and how organizations work.
From 1969 to 2009, the Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to 44 Americans, eight economists from the United Kingdom, three Norwegians and two Swedes. Economists from Germany, France, the Netherlands, India, Israel, Canada and the former Soviet Union each won once.


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For Valentine's Day, instead of waiting for love letters that'll never come — who sends those anymore, anyway? — we decided to practice a little self-love in the name of St. Valentine by writing them to ourselves. We invite you to do the same in the comments. Amelia and Jessica have already shared theirs. Today is Kate's turn…
Roses are red, violets are blue. Here are some of the reasons I think you're cool:
- Your smile is big. Your laugh is sunny. And your cracking up at your own jokes is allowed because, well, they are funny.
- You write a whole lot—thousands of words a day. It may not all be Shakespeare, but you've got something to say.
- You ask lots of questions and could talk to a wall. And most people who meet you come under your thrall.
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PEOPLE magazine got a chance to ask Jessica Alba, 26, a few questions about her pregnancy on Thursday at Glamour magazine's kickoff for V-Day's 10th Anniversary.
"It's awesome, it's the best time ever. I have two movies coming out, a baby, a fiancé – everything. I'm more tired, more hungry than normal."
About her career
"I don't know if anyone wants me in their movies [when I'm] six months pregnant," she joked. "I'll get the fire and I'll want to work again, but right now it's a time to relax and sit back."
What she's been up to
"I bought a new house a couple weeks ago. I'm in nesting phase."
Alba also joked about her changing body as she performed "My Short Skirt," a scene from Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues.
"I hope [my dress] won't pop while I'm up here," she said. "And if it does, you're all women, and I think you'll understand it. [When you're pregnant], your breasts are engorged and your stomach is getting bigger. . . . And the ass, too, that's getting bigger by the second!"
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In Psycho Pass, a cyberpunk-crime anime, cops carry a futuristic sidearm called the "Dominator"–which, as you can see above, is a pretty apt name. Needless to say, cosplay props don't get much better than this.
This amazing replica is a one-to-one scale recreation and it features a whole mess of crazy features like 217 RGB LEDs, built-in speakers that play sound effects (as well as 100 quotes from Noriko Hidaka, the actress behind the voice of the gun in the show), a small camera that provides real-time streaming capabilities to a smartphone and touch sensors on the grip that enable you to lock the gun.
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Several TUAW readers have reported that iOS 7 features a Daylight Saving Time bug that could cause the Calendar app to show the wrong "current time" line in Day view. The bug was first noticed this weekend here in the UK when British Summer Time officially ended at 2AM Sunday morning.
Though iOS 7 devices did indeed roll back the clocks automatically as they were supposed to, when users open the Calendar app and look at Day view the current time line appears one hour after the actual time -- even though it displays the right time. For example, in the image above you'll notice that the red current time line reads 9:18 PM (which is correct), but it appears one hour later than it should (18 minutes past the grey 10PM time line).
This isn't the first time Apple has had DST bugs in iOS. Back in 2010 a different bug caused alarms to go off an hour early.
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Republican presidential nominee Paul Ryan had the first zinger in Thursday's debate with Vice President Joe Biden.
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BARBRA STREISAND: CLASSICAL BARBRA Set for Remastered Release with Two Bonus Tracks, Feb 5
In 1973, Barbra Streisand went into the studio to make one of the first – and still considered one of the best – classical crossover recordings, CLASSICAL BARBRA. This unique collection of art songs and arias was originally released in February 1976, with its striking cover portrait by Francesco Scavullo, and has never gone out of print. The German composer and arranger Claus Ogerman conducts the Columbia Symphony Orchestra and accompanies Streisand at the piano in music of Canteloube, Fauré, Handel, Orff, Schumann and Wolf.
Thirteen-time Grammy –winning producer Steven Epstein has remastered the original recording for this reissue, the first since its original CD release in 1987. Most importantly, it contains the first ever release of two additional tracks recorded during the original sessions but never available until now – two of Franz Schubert's best-known songs, "An Sylvia" and "Auf dem Wasser zu singen." Click HERE to pre-order.
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Northfield, Ill./Woodridge, Ill., USA (March 24, 2014) – Stepan Company, one of the leading global surfactant manufacturers, today introduced STEPOSOL® MET-10U, a novel surfactant derived from natural oils that is targeted to displace solvents.
This powerful new cleaning solution is the first commercial product launched by Stepan as part of its joint development agreement with Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. The development agreement was established to develop and commercialize new surfactants and other products by combining Elevance's novel Inherent™ building blocks with Stepan's derivatization and application capabilities.
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Since 2010, when the joint development agreement was signed, Stepan has produced and screened derivatives of Elevance Inherent™ building blocks and performed physical property and application tests to determine novel performance. Elevance Inherent™ renewable building blocks are made from natural oils processed with its proprietary metathesis catalyst. These novel building blocks have chemical structures that can be used to construct unique, better performing surfactant solutions, including STEPOSOL® MET-10U.
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