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Operator: Good day, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to the TXI Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results Conference Call. During today's presentation, all parties will be in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, the conference will be opened for questions. This conference is being recorded today, July 11, 2013.
I would now like to turn the conference over to Les Vines, Treasurer. Please go ahead, sir.
T. Lesley Vines - VP, Corporate Controller and Treasurer: Thank you, Theresa, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us for our fourth quarter and year end conference call and webcast. As always, we appreciate your time and interest in TXI. On the call with me today are President and CEO, Mel Brekhus; CFO, Ken Allen; and Chief Operating Officer, Jamie Rogers.
We will follow the same format as in previous calls, with management providing comments for the quarter and year and then follow with your Q&A. As usual in an effort to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to ask his or her questions we would ask that you limit your initial questions. Thanks for your help.
Before turning things over to Mel, I need to remind you that certain statements contained in this conference call are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof and we assume no obligation to publicly update such statements. Such statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the impact of competitive pressures and changing economic and financial conditions on our business, the cyclical and seasonal nature of our business, the level of construction activity in our markets, abnormal periods of inclement weather, unexpected periods of equipment downtime, unexpected operational difficulties; changes in the cost of raw materials, fuel and energy, changes in interest rates, the timing and amount of federal, state and local funding for infrastructure, delays in announced capacity expansions, ongoing volatility and uncertainty in the capital or credit markets, the impact of environmental laws, regulations and claims and changes in governmental and public policy, and the risks and uncertainties described in our reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K.
With that, I'll turn it over to you, Mel.
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: Thanks, Les, and good morning everyone. My message on our last call remains valid today. I'll remind you that, that message was that all of our markets are improving, all of our markets still have a lot of upside before getting back to historic averages and peaks, and we are positioned better than ever to take advantage of the potential in all of our markets. Construction activity continues to improve in our major markets. Shipments during the fourth quarter were at levels we haven't seen for quite some time.
The cement shipments in the fourth quarter were up 32% compared to a year ago. Texas shipments were the highest May quarter shipments since 2008 and California shipments for the quarter were the highest May quarter shipments since 2007. I expect demand for building materials to improve further during the upcoming year, and I believe we are uniquely positioned to meet this growing demand.
The completion of the commissioning of our new cement kiln in Central Texas gives us the immediate ability to supply an additional 500,000 tons annually. Also, the addition of 42 ready-mix plant sites during the quarter in attractive East Texas markets improves our ability to capitalize on the future expansion of the Texas economy.
As our markets continue to proceed to the return of mid-cycle levels and beyond, our focus is three-fold. Number one, enhancing our ability to serve our customers; number two, leveraging and improving upon the cost structure enhancements we have made during the downturn; and number three, accelerating the realization of our earnings potential.
In conclusion, I am very excited about the future for TXI. Over the past five years, we've been transforming the way we conduct virtually every aspect of our business, and this transformation continues today. I look forward to all our stakeholders reaping the benefits as we move into a more normal economic environment.
With that, I'll turn it over to Jamie.
James (Jamie) B. Rogers - VP and COO: Thank you Mel. Mel referred to our cement shipment levels for the quarter and I'd like to add a little bit more detail that further illustrates the strengthening of our margins. Cement shipments for the month of May, Mel referred to the quarter, but for the month of May in Texas were the largest in 10 years for the month of May. In California, cement shipments again for May were the largest since 2006.
It's not just cement that's realizing improved demand. Major markets for aggregates and ready-mix realized 20% or better increases in shipments in the fourth quarter compared to a year ago. I share Mel's view that this positive trend in demand should continue in the near-term. One indicator that supports this view is housing starts, and in May, housing starts in the four major metropolitan markets in Texas reflected or continue to reflect double digit improvement year-over-year. California's major markets showed 40% or better improvement.
Given the improvement in demand, pricing in Texas for all products improved during FY '13, and I believe that that momentum will continue during the current year as well. Also, increased operating costs in California associated with complying with AB 32 requirements for carbon emissions that impact the entire industry should support additional price increases for that market.
Looking forward, our focus is to continue to build upon the foundation we've been establishing in the last few years. We're very pleased so far with the new ready-mix that we acquired in March, and that integration is going well and continues. We are also striving to ensure that we're effectively coordinated among our product lines in each of our markets to optimize our ability to serve our customers.
As Mel mentioned, we completed the commissioning of our new kiln in Central Texas. The plant is running at capacity, and I am very pleased with how it is performing. The team down there did an incredible and outstanding job.
Also, given the improved outlook for demand, we have announced that we are accelerating the work required to bring the original kiln, what we call Hunter 1, back on line and we expect to resume production from this kiln in the early part of the next calendar year. That will allow us to produce approximately 900,000 additional tons of cement.
Finally, we are looking at all of our operations to make sure that we are in the best position we can be to deliver the product required by our customers where and when they need it, making sure we have the distribution capabilities to efficiently meet growing demand is a key focus for us.
I am proud of our team's accomplishments. Over the last few years, we significantly redeployed capital and realigned our market position. We did so in order to put ourselves in a position to better maximize our ability to benefit from the inevitable recovery. I look forward to it realizing the fruits of this effort.
With that, I will turn over to Ken for his comments.
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: Jamie, thanks, and good morning, everyone. As Mel and Jamie have already indicated, TXI ended the fiscal year on a very good note. However, with the assets swap we completed in March where TXI obtained significant ready-mix assets in the East Texas region and we gave up our expanded shale and clay operations, that transaction and the startup of the new cement kiln in Central Texas we've already mentioned. Also the impact of the tax provision on our earnings from continuing operations, it's a little difficult to tell, just how good of a result we had for the third quarter, and Mel and Jamie have talked about the operational actions and improvements we've made, you can also see from the top line, okay, that the year ended in a very good place.
Total sales were up 35% for the quarter. Average realized cement prices in Texas were up 5%. Aggregate prices increased 9% and ready-mix prices were up 8%. In Texas, cement shipments increased 34% to 908,000 tons, and that compares to 680,000 tons last year. California cement shipments were up 29% to 391,000 tons versus 304,000 tons a year ago.
Aggregate shipments were up 15% and ready-mix shipments increased 72%. Now half of that increase really came from market improvement in our metro areas and the other half came from the volumes related to the concrete assets we acquired through the swap, I mentioned earlier on. Pre-tax income from continuing operations was $4 million for the quarter, and this compares to a pre-tax loss a year ago of $2 million after you exclude last year's $60 million of major one-time gains. Now, the recent May quarter's pre-tax income of $4 million was negatively impacted by approximately $3 million due to unexpected outages at all three cement plants late in the quarter. All recall the depreciation increase by about $1.8 million in the quarter as the new kiln was declared fully commissioned by May 1.
Now, even though the new kiln has come up to speed very well, there's still improvement to be gained on the cost side. As an example, during start up, we've used coal as a fuel source, in order to generate as stable an operating environment on the new kiln as possible. A year ago, on the original kiln at the plant, we were using a much more cost effective mix of fuels.
When we look at the entire year, I think we get a little better picture of some of the trends that were on as well. Now, net sales increased to 17% or by approximately $100 million, while gross profit increased $34 million. The gain we experienced with the new kiln and the new read ready-mix operations are more fully integrated, we believe we'll see improvement on the cost side.
We also expect margin improvement in read-mix operations as the new plants add approximately 1 million yards of shipments, as the margins we typically experience as the higher margins, we typically experience in the more rural East Texas region.
Now finally, recall that almost two years ago TXI embarked on a program to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Our goals were to enter fiscal year 2014 which we just started here in June with the expectation of generating at least a 15% gross margin for the year and also (get) SG&A expenses below 8% of sales. Now like we have already talked about a lot has changed in TXI in the last two years. But even so I believe we are in position to achieve both of those goals with the gross margin standard being a little more of a stress than the SG&A goal. But that has to be just the start. Over time we will work to do better in both. We have got to and always stay competitive.
As Mel mentioned a little earlier given our goal of generating approximately $400 million in annual EBITDA we have got to continue to see margin improvement in all sides of our business.
So a good phase can lead to a good start and as we look into fiscal year 2014 we think the trends are with us. For some details though for you we are modeling the Company, please recall that our annual depreciation expense will increase to $79 million to $80 million a year and interest on the income statement will also move to a total of approximately $69 million as result of completing the commissioning of the new kiln.
TXI's tax rate for the first three quarters of fiscal year '13 was very low and then again in the fourth quarter caused the rate to improve significantly or to move significantly. If I were modeling TXI in fiscal year '14, I would use a very low rate again, very similar to those that we used in the first three quarters of fiscal year '13.
With regards to capital spending, we expect that spending for sustaining capital will fall in the range of $30 million to $40 million in fiscal year 2014. The most important project in the coming year will be to add a new bag house from the original Central Texas cement kiln in order to allow that plant to start up early in calendar year 2014. This will effectively increase our current ability to produce some ships in that by 900,000 tons a year. Again, as we've already alluded to, given our current construction trends, we believe the new production will be well timed.
With our major cement projects of the last decade behind us, we'll continue to carefully watch how we deploy free cash flow. Any capital expenditures above the sustaining range I mentioned earlier will be focused on projects that advance and/or accelerate or progress towards the attainment of the $400 million EBITDA goal I mentioned earlier.
Finally, speaking of being good stewards of capital, the Central Texas cement project was completed at a cost of $374 million. Now, this is on target with the budget we set prior to the restart of construction. Leading this budget and in obtaining such a good commission is a remarkable result given that the project was completely stopped and then restarted after more than a year of delay; still a good start.
With that, I'll turn things back to Les. Les, please go ahead.
T. Lesley Vines - VP, Corporate Controller and Treasurer: Yeah, Theresa, I think we're ready for Q&A.
Operator: Garik Shmois, Longbow Research.
Garik Shmois - Longbow Research: First question is just on energy costs. You mentioned that you are relying on greater coal use to furnace the Hunter 2 kiln. And I'm just wondering if you could quantify how much that added to unit costs during the quarter and provide a timeline of when you think you'll get to more of a blended or lower cost energy use.
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: Garik, that's – with all the different changes and adjustments we made during the quarter with the commissioning versus looking at the older kiln, it's really difficult to do an apples-to-apples comparison, but for unit cost, we're up. As we've shown in the press release, that's going to move the needle probably around $1 return, it's something like that for all the kilns we had at TXI.
Garik Shmois - Longbow Research: So the majority of the cost inflation that you saw this quarter would be attributable to the higher DD&A as well as the unplanned maintenance, is that kind of a fair way to think about it?
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: I really do. Again, $3 million spread among all three plants for the unexpected downtime and then almost $2 million for the depreciation. It covers most of it and that's a good point.
Garik Shmois - Longbow Research: Are you expecting any maintenance to bleed into the second quarter – or sorry, into the first quarter?
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: Yes. Good question. We don't have any major maintenance scheduled in the first quarter. Remember, a year ago in the August quarter we had about $3.5 million worth of major maintenance expense.
Garik Shmois - Longbow Research: And I guess just lastly on volumes in Southern California, highlight of the housing market has been strong. Is that the real significant driver of the really strong volume growth in Southern California, or are you starting to see a pick-up, whether it's on the infrastructure side or on the non-res side as well?
James (Jamie) B. Rogers - VP and COO: It's Jamie. I think that, as you know, the housing starts are really a good proxy and correlator to the other segments as well that you alluded to. And I guess what I would also say, when you see big numbers like 40% or double-digit, we are in no – we are not in a boom time in any of our markets and we still feel like we've got a lot of runway ahead of us. We're just coming off really low lows especially in California.
Operator: Kathryn Thompson, Thompson Research Group.
Kathryn Thompson - Thompson Research Group: Just wanted to follow-up from last quarter's discussion of cement pricing in California in particular. You took a two-tier approach, $2 increase in January and a $3 in April. When will the benefit of these combined increases reasonably flow through numbers?
James (Jamie) B. Rogers - VP and COO: Kathryn, it's a little bit hard to model that with the specificity that I think you're looking for. Given the mix of business, given the mix of the geography, what I can say with some confidence is that we were successful with both of those. And as Ken alluded to, it's a start, and we've got – we expect a lot more progress, but it's a start.
Kathryn Thompson - Thompson Research Group: We've just been able to see some pricing realized already in other markets, not just Texas, but we do checks on other markets in the U.S. where they have price increases and I just want to make sure that there isn't any other thing that we should take into consideration like mix or any other factor that could skew, how we think about year-over-year comps or even sequential comps with pricing?
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: Kathryn, this is Ken. That's a good point. We have seen some price movement up, but as the market's expanding, we're also shipping to a little further destinations and that geographic mix seems to offset pricing improvement a little bit too. It's all real good. We'll take those extra tons, we sure will, but that is a factor, when you've got relatively small increases weighing against the mix shift that we're looking at in California as well.
Kathryn Thompson - Thompson Research Group: Could you give a little bit more color on how the Hunter plant is running since commissioning and how we should think about cost over the next several months, because typically there will be just overall cost of – there is inevitably hiccups that happen over a several month period after commissioning of a new plant.
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: Kathryn, you took the words right out of our mouth, a lot of times, it takes a year or two years to feel like you've really hit the sweet spot on some of these things. I think you'll see good improvement in cost in all of our cement operations, being primarily driven by the new Hunter kiln. If you take the depreciation out now, okay, over the next year, it's very difficult to give you some idea what that number's going to be in the first quarter versus the second quarter, right now, but the plant continues to run very well. We've got June behind us and we're in mid-July and the runtime on the new kiln has just been exceptional.
Kathryn Thompson - Thompson Research Group: So, in the prepared comments you talked a little bit about how May was doing and we know on our checks that there could be some pretty big swings and particularly some areas that have higher levels of precipitation. What were you seeing in terms of June, once you go from May to June and also if you can maybe comment on just much farther looking out at bid activity, and so in other words, bid activity that could impact your numbers 12 to 18 months from now?
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: I think we had a little bit wetter weather in June in Texas than we expected and we saw that in our daily shipments, but I think your second point or question is more on target in terms of how we think about it, because looking forward – looking at our backlog, the mix of potential business that's available to us, looking forward, all those indicators are very positive.
Operator: Jack Kasprzak, BB&T Capital Markets.
Jack Kasprzak - BB&T Capital Markets: Can you tell us the trailing 12 month ready-mix production effective for the acquisition you have done, sort of a pro forma trailing 12 month ready-mix production number?
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: Yes, I could. The trailing volume for those assets, 12 months before we got it is in the 1 million yard range.
Jack Kasprzak - BB&T Capital Markets: So that's what you acquired.
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: Yes.
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: Just as a general indication so people could kind of get a sense for that. Remember I said that we expect in fiscal year '14 that we have added about a 1 million yards. We'd expect to do a little bit better than that with growth but I just wanted to be sure people added that acquisition's volume in as they model the Company.
Jack Kasprzak - BB&T Capital Markets: Was there anything else and you talked about – there were some questions on the cost side already. You mentioned on the unscheduled maintenance and startup and coal, so that's all appreciated. Was there anything – it seemed like though on the cost side some inflation in all the businesses and all the segments. Was there anything else that's noteworthy that affected the quarter in terms of the cost performance?
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: That's a good question. I think you see some transaction related – not really transaction related but integration related expenses early on with ready-mix and also we not only have our markets improved dramatically but we have come out of the winter into the spring, so the ship – seasonal shipment cycle has been pretty dramatic as well. I think we have struggled a little bit to keep up with all of that, and that's caused a little higher cost. But as we go through this summer and have a little more time to adjust, I think you'll see things settle down. And Jamie, you can add some color as well.
James (Jamie) B. Rogers - VP and COO: Well, we'll see how colorful it is. But the thing I want to mention, Jack, is that – which I think we alluded to in our prepared comments, that AB 32 on a going-forward basis, the cost of that program will be a significant impact to us in California, and it's not only us, it's other industry, but that is something that we are learning about and will certainly hit us on the cost side going forward that we're getting used to.
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: Jack, Jamie is absolutely right about that, but in May, we really didn't have much of an impact.
James (Jamie) B. Rogers - VP and COO: Going forward.
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: Yeah.
Jack Kasprzak - BB&T Capital Markets: So, the seasonal issue you raised, Ken, some of your business has been ahead of time, and you know it's coming and you're prepared for it, but maybe on the private side and smaller jobs, there's less of a lead time. Are you, in part, suggesting that you guys have been a little bit surprised that how well volumes have trended so far this season?
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: I don't think at that so much – and I'd tell you as a CFO, I'll take some of the responsibility here. You've heard us talk about focusing on cost reduction and efficiency improvement with almost a laser-like focus for the last two years, and that really continued on through the – and to the weather and things like that as well, and it's impossible to time some of these things, but I think that was a part of the impact as well, and that was – that's probably responsible for some of that.
Jack Kasprzak - BB&T Capital Markets: I appreciate those comments given the depth of the downturn. I'm not sure that anybody is not as focused on cost also, but anyway, thanks guys, appreciate it.
Operator: Todd Vencil, Sterne Agee.
Todd Vencil - Sterne, Agee & Leach: Can you talk about how your capacity utilization stands right now? And well, I guess Texas and California overall, you frequently give us those numbers, and I appreciate that, for the industry, but also your plant in North Texas and in California?
James (Jamie) B. Rogers - VP and COO: Yeah. Todd, it's Jamie. We are getting closer to capacity at our North Texas plant. In Central Texas, as I think we alluded to, we're running there now with potential hiccups as we talked about going forward, but we don't know about – but we're running there now. And in California, I think we're close to 65%, something like that, so we're improving there as well.
Todd Vencil - Sterne, Agee & Leach: As you said you're closer to North Texas, is that where you're kind of at an 85 to 90 range?
James (Jamie) B. Rogers - VP and COO: I think it's getting close to that, yes.
Todd Vencil - Sterne, Agee & Leach: Switching over – well, actually to sales there just for a second, and this is curiosity and arithmetic for me, but what was the official commissioning date for Hunter 2 from an accounting standpoint?
James (Jamie) B. Rogers - VP and COO: I think we talked about it at the end of the quarter and really about May 1.
Todd Vencil - Sterne, Agee & Leach: Then, switching to aggregates, nice price performance there, I get that it's pretty small for you guys now, but anything we ought to think about there in terms of price trends?
James (Jamie) B. Rogers - VP and COO: Todd, let me broaden the answer. I mean, you see the price improvements there, and I think there is an interest and support for moving that up in aggregate. But in cement, we will be announcing a $5 price increase effective September 1for Texas. And in ready-mix, I mean that's a little bit more fluid and kind of more job-to-job and bid-to-bid. But we've got formal announcement in North Texas or DFW here for $5 effective August 1. And in our other regions, we expect – I'll say, in most of our other regions, we expect similar pricing announcements for September through October from us.
Todd Vencil - Sterne, Agee & Leach: Have you seen those announcements from a similar magnitude, similar timing from other players yet?
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: Yeah, this is Mel. We have seen similar announcements in cement, and as Jamie said, ready-mix is fluid, but we've also seen some announced ready-mix prices, which – especially in Texas and especially in North Texas and DFW is somewhat unusual, but we consider it very positive.
Todd Vencil - Sterne, Agee & Leach: And then on the aggregate side, on the nice (piece) you guys had in the quarter, was there a mix effect in there? I mean, I'm guessing there was, but can you sort of unpack mix versus sort of same product, same location?
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: Todd I am unsure, are we talking about the aggregate price?
Todd Vencil - Sterne, Agee & Leach: Yes.
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: I think there was some mix because the price to be maybe a little higher than it would have been without the mix change. Not quite clear where we're going to stand in the August quarter, but you might see that it's down a little bit just because that mix piece flows out.
Todd Vencil - Sterne, Agee & Leach: Was that a product type mix for you?
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: It's a good question. More geographic.
Operator: Chris Olin, Cleveland Research Company.
Chris Olin - Cleveland Research Company: I just wanted to go back to the aggregate segment and I apologize if you touched on it, but the margin was a little bit lighter than I would have expected considering the 1 million tons that you did. Did you breakout what the outage impact was in that and can you just help me a little bit better understand where the costs are coming from?
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: Chris, this is Ken. Remember it's the outage impact we talked about was really on the cement side, but your intuition is pretty good. With the upturn in the aggregate piece like you have mentioned, and I mentioned with Jack's earlier comment, we've been running our plant a little harder and had some repair and maintenance expense that was a little higher than normal, which would certainly impact what you are talking about. Then also I think staffing and overtime contributed to some of the costs, as these things – as we get some more time behind us, I think you'll see that – I think there also was an impact associated with the timing of stripping cost to get access to the reserves.
Chris Olin - Cleveland Research Company: Historically, the aggregates industry has talked about 50%, 60% incremental margins, is that something that your operations can do once some of these issues gets straightened out?
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: You'll see good margin improvement in our aggregate operations as volumes improve. I've got to tell you what we really are focused on right now, is that margin improvement with increment returns on cement. That's where the impact is really going to be.
James (Jamie) B. Rogers - VP and COO: Yeah, and I think you see those types of margins on the initial incremental tons but at some point you start to have to add additional shifts and things like that to get the other ton, and when you do that, you're going to get some more normal type margins.
Operator: Brent Thielman, D.A. Davidson.
Brent Thielman - D.A. Davidson & Co: Ken, I was wondering, should we be thinking about a $9 million to $10 million annual level for maintenance spend this year?
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: For the cement plants?
Brent Thielman - D.A. Davidson & Co: That's right.
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: Okay, given that we have the new plants online and that we expect to bring an original kiln online later on in the year, I think you'll see total – major maintenance that we'll call out during the year and in the $10 million to $13 million range for the whole year with something like $7 million to $10 million of that being at our North Texas plant. In addition to that with the original kiln coming online I think you will see some additional repair and maintenance expenses there that maybe in the $2 million to $3 million range that would be a little bit (after) normal.
Brent Thielman - D.A. Davidson & Co: Then I am sorry if I missed this or skipped over it. Could you clarify what led to the tax gain this quarter?
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: The impact of a lot of – we recognized a big gain in the fourth quarter. Our operating results for the fourth quarter in general were a lot better and were positive and as a result of that the losses that we didn't benefit as much of fully due to first three quarters we got the benefit of some of that in the fourth quarter.
Brent Thielman - D.A. Davidson & Co: Then just lastly, are you starting to see some shift in terms of end markets which are driving your business namely sort of residential versus non-residential or is the mix fairly similar to what you have been seeing in the last few quarters?
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: We are certainly seeing the pickup in residential and it just drives like we have said before it drives the other segments indirectly as well and we – depending on where we are mix of business tends to be more skewed towards commercial and public work but there are certainly local markets that we participate in where we are seeing the direct impact of the residential as well.
Operator: (Steve Miller), BlueMountain Capital Management.
Steve Miller - BlueMountain Capital Management: Just had a quick question. Wanted you to walk me through your guidance, EBITDA reconciliation, specifically on the cash flow side? So, that has you going to, I guess, $59 million, towards $60 million for this quarter, right, in EBITDA? And I'm wondering, when I try to adjust that to get – adjust the core continuing stuff, is it right to subtract out of that the, $59 million, $60 million of gain on asset sales?
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: I don't think so, because what you're looking at in that EBITDA number is our continuing operation EBITDA, and it does not reflect anything with respect to our discontinued operation. So, we operated our sand and shale and clay operations really for three plus quarters and then we have the gain on the sell, and none of that is reflected in those numbers.
Steve Miller - BlueMountain Capital Management: But I don't understand, you have on your cash flow statement kind of negative $60 million for that gain on sale, indicating it was a non-cash item, right? Shouldn't I, if I wanted to look at cash EBITDA subtract that out?
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: Sorry, that was a non-cash item, certainly, because that – the gain was attributable to an asset swap, but we exchanged the expense on clay operations for the ready-mix operations in effect.
Steve Miller - BlueMountain Capital Management: But it's fair to say that you're not going to continue to use asset swaps as an item, right, that's a sort of a one-time item. So if I wanted to pro forma that out, especially considering its non-cash, I'd want to take the $60 million of EBITDA that you present, then subtract out the $60 million non-cash gain on the asset swap. So, it's definitely not going to be a continuing item and, I get to the zero EBITDA.
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: Yeah. There are so many different things moving around on tax and everything. If you really take the pre-tax income number of $4 million and add back the interest expense of $10 million, you're at $14 million, and then you add back the depreciation in the quarter, you get to $31 million or $32 million.
Steve Miller - BlueMountain Capital Management: Then, the other question is, is you have the net income from continuing operations of $15.6 million, and then you have the loss on discontinued operations, right, how much was that again? That was…?
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: You've thrown us for a loop, when you say we had a loss on discontinued operations.
Steve Miller - BlueMountain Capital Management: Sorry, gain on discontinued operations. Right, that number was $28 million, right? So, I'm wondering you guys have the $60 million one-time gain on the asset swap, but you only have the $28 million gain in discontinued operations. So, I'm sort of wondering where does the other $31 million go?
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: Well, it's one of the nuances of the way you're required to report discontinued operations and that $28.5 million number is a net of tax number, and so you have the gain that we reported is kind of a gross pre-tax gain and then tax effective to get into the discontinued ops number.
Steve Miller - BlueMountain Capital Management: So you're saying that the tax rate is – what's the tax rate then that you used to get from the $60 million gain to the $28 million net of tax, so it sounds like a pretty high tax rate.
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: I think we're also talking about the wrong gain number because the gain in the fourth quarter of the current year was $44 million. In the prior year period we had a $60 million gain. So, a 36% to 37% tax rate in discontinued operations before we work out.
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: Steve, I feel – I mean, you are doing the sum of the things we actually dealt with internally here as well. I'd suggest if you don't mind, maybe you and Les just deal with that offline because that's the – it may take you a couple of iterations there to pick up all the pieces.
Steve Miller - BlueMountain Capital Management: Yeah, sure thing. It makes a lot of sense, because I mean you've got the $60 million adjustment and I'm just sort of wondering if all of that isn't going into that discontinued operations line. It looks like some of that benefit is kind of flowing through in the continuing operations, which would make it look like the continuing EPS a little bit larger than it should be. But maybe there is a tax issue I'm missing there and maybe on either direct reconciliation I'm a little bit wrong in calculating zero and taking out that $60 million one-time gain.
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: Yeah, all your questions do make a lot of sense. They're very reasonable that I think on a teleconference will probably better off seeing if we could help you offline on that one.
Steve Miller - BlueMountain Capital Management: That sounds great. We'll catch up offline. Thanks a lot guys.
Operator: Mike Betts, Jefferies & Company.
Mike Betts - Jefferies & Company: Just two questions for me, if I could. One firstly on cement, and apologies if I missed it earlier, but the 29% growth in California volumes, I mean, I'm surprised it's that high given having seen the kind of industry data. I mean, is that just because of the specific areas you're selling into or was it the comment earlier about selling into surrounding regions as well. Then just on the ready-mix, half of the growth in shipments I think as in the press release is due to the East Texas operations, I thought they had a very significantly higher selling price for ready-mix. Maybe you need to sort this offline as well, but do you have kind of an adjusted ready-mix price, so what it would look like without the East Texas operations, because I would have thought with East Texas in there we do have seen a bigger increase in your ready-mix price?
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: Mike, this is Ken. I'll try to answer your second question and then Jamie can answer your question about shipments in California. We do have a little higher price in our East Texas operations, you're right on that. Remember, once we have two months of operations here in our ready-mix operations from East Texas, let's see how things flow and grow in fiscal year 2014 on that. What we do know is and you have heard Mel say that we were in a high-single digit EBIT margin for all of our ready-mix operations. What we do know is those East Texas markets generate EBIT margins that are greater than that even.
Mike Betts - Jefferies & Company: So, I had a figure of over $100 per cubic yard in mines for East Texas, is that wrong, is that just too high?
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: As a general rule for a broader region, because this region covers Belmont to Southwest Arkansas and (indiscernible) in the north. That's going to be too high of a average number for that broad of a region. I'm sorry, I do want to add that's too high of a number today.
Mike Betts - Jefferies & Company: And on those California cement shipments?
James (Jamie) B. Rogers - VP and COO: It's Jamie. I think, when you're looking at California and you alluded to the broader area such as California in terms of where we ship to, but, my comment is, when you're coming off such a low and you see these big numbers, don't read too much into that. So, you know that the California market went from 17 million tons – it peaked at 7 million tons. I'm going to repeat myself. I just wouldn't read too much into big numbers.
Kenneth R. Allen - VP, Finance, Treasurer and CFO: Jamie, if I can, just relate as I – in reading some of the other analyst reports as well that came out before the call, the PCA is talking about Texas cement consumption growth in calendar year '13 and '14 of 5% to 10% growth in that range, and over the next year, we'd expect to do better than that, because we're in a position to improve our market share like you've seen. Out in California, the PCA, I think is looking for something that's a little more reasonable, higher, maybe 10% or something like that, and out there I think our expectations are to really probably more closely following market growth.
Operator: Mr. Vines, there are no further questions at this time. Please continue with any closing remarks.
T. Lesley Vines - VP, Corporate Controller and Treasurer: All right, well, again, thank you everybody for joining us today, and…
Operator: Pardon me, someone just queued for a question, would you like to take that question?
T. Lesley Vines - VP, Corporate Controller and Treasurer: Yeah, we'll take the question and then we'll wrap it up…
Operator: Philip Volpicelli, Deutsche Bank.
Sean Wondrack - Deutsche Bank: This is Sean Wondrack sitting in for Phil today. Just taking a look very quickly. Obviously, you guys have been turning your organization east on a couple of asset transfers and a couple of asset swaps. I guess, going forward, do you foresee yourselves doing this in the same magnitude as we have done in the past two years? I think in fiscal year '12, you had about $68 million and in fiscal year '13 you had roughly $64.5 million. Do you have a lot of assets or a lot of opportunities out there to do more of these asset swaps going forward or do you think they are going to kind of normalize over time?
James (Jamie) B. Rogers - VP and COO: I would say that we will certainly continue to look for opportunities to improve our position in the markets that we are operating in. As you look at our operations and we subscribed in our financial statements, you can see that there are not a lot of operations that are outside of our core cement, aggregates and ready-mix.
Mel G. Brekhus - President and CEO: Sean, the key – this is Mel, the key is the last thing that Les said. What we are doing and have been doing is we have transitioned over the past few years during this very difficult time, we've been focusing on strengthening our core position which is in cement, aggregates and concrete, and when and if we can do things to enhance our position, that's what we will do, but as you can tell from our assets, we have fewer of those opportunities going forward.
Operator: There are no further questions at this time. Please proceed.
T. Lesley Vines - VP, Corporate Controller and Treasurer: Thank you, Theresa. And like I said, everybody, we appreciate your time and attention this morning and we look forward to discussing our first quarter results next September. Everybody have a great day.
Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the TXI fourth quarter and year end results conference call. This conference will be available for replay after 12.00 pm Central Standard Time today through July 25 at midnight Central Standard Time. You may access the replay system at any time by dialing 1-800-406-7325 and entering the access code of 4626096. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.


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MILAN, Italy, May 8 (UPI) -- A witness testifying at a trial of ex-Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he got women at a sex party to kiss a statue with a giant penis.
Chiara Danese, a former teen beauty contestant, had been taken to a party at Berlusconi's villa at Arcore after she appeared in a screen test for the TV news show of Berlusconi's friend Emilio Fede, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
Danese, a teen beauty contestant who was 18 when the party allegedly happened in August 2010, said women at the party kissed the statue before stripping and engaging in mutual fondling with Berlusconi.
Danese said she and another aspiring weather presenter, Ambra Battilana, asked to leave.
"We were embarrassed and wanted to leave," Danese said in court Monday.
But when they asked to go, she said, Fede told them, "You can forget about being weather girls or Miss Italy."
Berlusconi is on trial in Milan on charges of having sex with an underage prostitute and abusing his power by having police free her after she had been charged with theft.

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Dear Desktop Engineering Reader:
Near the end of October and with all the fuss of an autumn leaf drifting to Earth, PTC released a no-cost application called PTC Mathcad Express. As the "Express" tag implies, this tool is something of a spin-off of the company's high-power engineering calculation environment PTC Mathcad Prime.
I weasel and say "something of" because PTC Mathcad Express is an unusual hybrid. It's both a trial unit of the full-featured PTC Mathcad Prime system and a stand-alone engineering calculation tool. No matter how you define it, downloading PTC Mathcad Express seems a no-brainer. Here's why.
Users have the option to download a full 30-day trial of PTC Mathcad Prime, followed by unlimited PTC Mathcad Express use. It downloads and installs in a jiffy. Down the right-hand side of your worksheet, you'll see what PTC calls "in-product messages." These are tips, information on selected features and to get the full-function version of the product, and so on. They are no more intrusive than the ads on any website or Google results pages.
Now this gets really interesting. Three things really stand out here. One, after registering, you have a full-featured copy of PTC Mathcad Prime to work with. It's good for 30 days. Equation editing, advanced numeric functions and plot types, symbolic computations, unit checking, PTC Mathcad Prime's highly regarded documentation capabilities, and other goodies are all there for you to use.
Second, after the 30-day period, the program becomes PTC Mathcad Express. While many of the functions of the commercial version gray out, you still have a decent engineering calculation/analysis tool. Features remaining include functionality for mathematical equation and formula writing and editing; mathematical functions and operators for calculating common engineering problems; data visualization using X-Y plots; unit checking; and a host of documentation capabilities. You can access both old and newly formatted PTC Mathcad files.
Three, the PTC Mathcad Express license does not and will not expire, according to PTC. While you'll have to contend with watermarks and some missing capabilities, you have a powerful tool set that, depending on your needs, might be exactly the key to open the door of your engineering calculation needs. And if you opt to go for the commercial version of PTC Mathcad Prime, you can do it from within PTC Mathcad Express.
This is really clever, I must say. You can learn more about and download PTC Mathcad Express from the link over there.
Thanks, Pal. — Lockwood
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the server makes a GET request
Is there already a library that implements this with the core functions available on the Arduino? (read/write Digital / Analog, read 1-Wire temperature etc.)
I've found a WebServer Library [1] that allows to attach request handler functions to URL's.What has to be done is writing such request handlers for all the arduino functions.
Servers don't make requests. Clients do. Servers respond to requests.
All the libraries are available. What you need to do, if the Arduino is to be a server, is parse the GET request, and serve up the requested page, calling other library functions, as needed, to get the data required to service the request.
In general, the WebServer library is overkill, since the Arduino is already serving some purpose for which you want the data to be available from the internet. Possibly, you want to control some stuff from the internet, too.Get more specific about the Arduino you have, what is connected to it, what you want to expose to the world, and what you want the client to be able to do, if you need help doing something.
I don't want to reimplement this software for the arduino. Instead this program should run on the server and only the parallel interface part should be replaced by the LAN protocoll to the arduino.
What I've asked for is if there is a webserver that implements the core arduino functions.
I want a library that can call the core arduino functions (digitalRead, digitalWrite, etc) by LAN.
and the seperated server which controls the arduino by LAN.
Removing all the unnecessary noise...
QuoteRemoving all the unnecessary noise... So, if the first reply you got was a simple, terse "NO", you would have been happy?
there is at the moment no ready to go library that implements a LAN interface to core arduino functions (digitalRead, digitalWrite etc.).
I think firmata does something like what you are asking for - you can control and configure the board from a host computer. There are various implementations for using it over ethernet around, but I think they are all fairly old, so may not work with the most current version.
I had to do something similar with my Arduino controlling my Christmas lights. I suggest making the commands you send to the Arduino single


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Drake and Clark are my favorites on your list. I love single syllable names for boys! Especially some unusual ones...
Thane Trent Tate Thrace
Rhett (or as a nn for Everett)
Thad (or as a nn for Thaddeus)
True (or as a nn for Truman)
Keith Knute Kit
Paine Fritz (only would use as middles)
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-Dean - Like, but a bit Supernatural.
-Max - Like, but over-popular.
-Craig - Dislike, very dated.
-Drake - Dislike
-Drew - Like a lot.
-Clark - Like.
-Finn - Love, but is trendy.
- Reid/Reed - Prefer Rhys or Rhett.
My favourite one-syllable names not on your list, in roughly the order of my preference:
Heath - my absolute favourite
Clay - I get a new-spiritual feel from this. It feels nature-y and religious.
John - So out of style, but I have an affection for it. I find Johnny/Jack both cute as nicks, too.
Shane - Cowboy to me.
Luke - But very popular, as are Luca/Lucas etc. all going by Luke.
Ash - Like it, but prefer Asher
Rhett - Would be ranked a lot higher on its own merits, but I'm not a fan of Gone With The Wind.


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Dubai Police: New Suspect Held Over Mabhouh Hit
Emirate's top cop claims Mossad attempting to silence him with threats on his life.
A suspect in the January murder of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was arrested three days in a Western country, Dubai's police chief, Dahi Khalfan Tamim, announced yesterday.
Tamim, in an interview with the United Arab Emirates newspaper Al-Ittihad, declined to reveal the country or say whether Dubai would demand the suspect's extradition. He said the arrest followed an international operation carried out by authorities in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates in an effort to apprehend suspects.
Al-Mabhouh was killed by a hit squad in a Dubai hotel. Tamim said the investigation of the case under his direction had brought threats on his life, which he said were from the Mossad spy agency. Tamim and other foreign sources have blamed the Mossad for the assassination. Tamim said in press conferences and media interviews that the hit squad used fake passports from Britain, Ireland, Germany, France and Australia, an allegation that strained Israel's relationship with several countries.
Several months ago, at the request of authorities in the UAE and Dubai, Interpol issued arrest warrants for 16 suspects in the case in addition to the 11-member hit squad believed responsible for the actual hit, who had been declared wanted from the beginning of the investigation. Yesterday, Tamim said that the investigation would remain open until the suspects are apprehended, dead or alive.
The Dubai police chief said he has received threats to his life since Al-Mabhouh's murder from individuals who advised him to keep quiet. He said the first threat was made a few days after he disclosed details of the assassination through a series of closed-circuit photographs and accused the Mossad of responsibility for the killing. He said he received an e-mail saying: "Protect your back if you are going to keep your tongue loose."
He said Dubai authorities had managed to track down the source of the e-mail but he refused to provide further detail.
Tamim alleged that a second threat came in a phone call placed to one of his associates who was asked to convey the message to him that the police chief should keep quiet. The Al-Ittihad newspaper said the call was made by a "dual nationality Westerner, who was later confirmed to be a retired Mossad agent."
Israeli officials were not available for comment yesterday due to the Simhat Torah holiday.
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied any role in the assassination of Al-Mabhouh. Residents of Israel with the same names as the suspects, holding dual nationality, said their identities appeared to have been stolen. The alleged passport abuse drew global criticism. Ireland, Britain and Australia expelled Israeli diplomats.
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Egyptians Cancel Meeting With MKs, Saving Knesset 'Embarrassment'
Egyptian MPs pull out as information on meeting was leaked to the media, Knesset squabbled over composition of Israeli delegation.
A meeting between Israeli and Egyptian parliamentarians that was supposed to take place in Washington next week has been canceled. According to a Foreign...
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Byron And Carla Weathersbee To Speak In Chapel Sept. 10Sept. 6, 2001
by Nicole L. Anderson, Student Newswriter
Baylor University alumni Byron and Carla Weathersbee, founders of Legacy Family Ministries, will speak to students in Chapel at 10 and 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 10, in Waco Hall. The Weathersbees will speak about using God's Word to develop healthy Christian relationships.
Byron and Carla were active in student ministry for 13 years before founding Legacy Family Ministries in 1995. They have served on several church staffs, including Columbus Avenue Baptist Church and University Baptist Church in Waco.
Based in Waco, Legacy Family Ministries' mission is to encourage families to focus on God and each other, assist engaged couples in developing a solid Christian foundation for their marriage and help students to deepen their relationship with God.
For more information, call the dean of university ministries at 710-3517.
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haha fail. I dont even know why I S-Off'd lol I just did just to do it. LOL
here download this and flash it in recovery before you flash the boot.img
Is there another link for the mainver fix? also if there is how do you use it?, do you flash rom, then fix, the bootload kernel?
yeah i wanted to make some splash screens but now all the cool kids are doing it so ill just use someone elses
LOL I actually like the one thats on it now...LOL Any word on the battery mod? I was gonna look into making it 1-100% the one you have. I like it.
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Area couple will wed Oct. 5.
Anna Marie Hofwolt and Steven Francis Nussbaum announce their engagement.
Parents of the couple are Stan and Joanne Hofwolt, Mitchell; and LeeAnn Nussbaum, Plankinton, and the late Marvin Nussbaum.
Anna is a 2008 graduate of Mitchell Christian High School, Mitchell, and is attending Mitchell Technical Institute. She is employed at Abbott House, Mitchell.
Steven is a 2005 graduate of Plankinton High School and a 2006 graduate of Wyoming Tech with a degree in automotive technology. He is employed by Rodney Faulhaber as farm operations manager.
An Oct. 5 wedding is planned at Mitchell Wesleyan Church, Mitchell.


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Five years ago, former Dogs D'Amour bassist Steven James opened his own store in Middlesbrough, near to his home town of Saltburn by the Sea. Adam Savage caught up with store manager Anthony Sawdon to see how far the business has moved forward…
To become a successful MI dealer, it certainly helps to have a real passion for making music. Many retailers – before opening their shop – will have harboured dreams of chart success and playing to capacity crowds, when in reality, the closest most have got to that is 'headlining' the local village fete.Steven James, founder of Steven James Guitars in Middlesbrough came closer to superstardom than most though, having been bass player with Dogs D'Amour – touring the world extensively – from 1986 to 1992.
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For a film that had so much trouble landing its leading men in the wind-up to production, it's incredible how well director Dennis Villeneuve's "Prisoners" turned out. An unpredictable, white knuckle thriller that rarely lets up, I guess the fact so many good actors took a swing at the film's two major roles before Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal finally landed the gigs is evidence of the movie's strong script. All of that comes through in the movie, now hitting DVD/Blu-ray this December 17, 2013.
How far would you go to protect your family? Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) arrests its driver, Alex Jones (Paul Dano), but a lack of evidence forces his release.
Thrillers don't get any more intense than "Prisoners", which features outstanding performances across the board, anchored by Jackman as the dad determined to do anything in his power to get his abducted child back. Gylenhaal is similary excellent as the detective racing against the clock. The supporting cast all turn in fine performances, and "Incendies" director Villeneuve's work behind the camera is simply superb, capturing your attention from Act One and never letting go. "Prisoners" is definitely not an easy film to sit through, but it's well worth the effort.
I don't want to give too much of the film away, so I'll just leave it to you to read the plot synopsis above. Just know that that's only the beginning. There is more. Much, much more. It's intense stuff, with a strong script that never takes the easy road out. The entire cast deserves accolades, from Maria Bello and Viola Davis as the mothers of the abducted kids, to Melissa Leo as the mother of the main suspect. Questions of right and wrong, responsibilities, and justice are muddled and filled with minefields. Wade into it at your own peril.
This is definitely one of those Blu-ray releases where you're just buying it for the movies. The Blu-ray comes with a ten-minute featurette called "Powerful Performances" featuring interviews with the cast, and the shorter "Every Moment Matters". I guess they thought the movie was more than enough. They're not entirely wrong, but it would have been nice to have just a little bit something extra. I can't help but think a blooper reel, for instance, would have been kind of awesome, but maybe that's just my sick sense of humor talking.
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The Junior LAOH Golden Rose Division took the top award in a national scrapbook competition recently. From left to right are Morgan and Brighid Donnelly, juniors; Audra Pesko, scrapbook committee; Heather Foust and Megan Wilson, juniors; and Alexis Jacobs, Christine Kerrigan, Isabel Stoeber and Rachel Kepley (president), scrapbook committee. Not pictured are Brianna and Ashley Thompson, Mary Kate Kelty, Erin Loomis and Kristen Eckman, all on the scrapbook committee. Also not pictured are juniors D'Ella and Millie Heschmeyer, and Cynthia and Victoria Romeo.
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Ouvertures: Cours Intermediaire de Francais, 4čme Édition
December 2005, ©2006
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Chapitre 2. Passage vers la communication : Perspectives interculturelles.
Chapitre 3. Accès à la formation de l'esprit : L'enseignement.
Chapitre 4. Perspectives sur l'exil : L'immigration et l'assimilation.
Chapitre 5. Révélations audiovisuelles : Les médias.
Chapitre 6. Comment peut-on être français ? : Source culturelles de l'identité.
Chapitre 7. Regards sur la société : La diversité culturelle de la France.
Chapitre 8. Le Travail et les loisirs : Entrées dans le monde du travail.
Chapitre 9. Perspectives sur le passé : L'histoire et la memoire.
Chapitre 10. L'avenir de la France dans l'Europe : Frontières ouvertes.
Répertoire géographique.
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PowerCycle is a hip-flask-shaped USB battery pack which is designed to be charged by your bike. You'll need to be running a dynamo hub with an electrical output to actually charge it, so this is more a bike-friendly design than a bike-only one.
The kidney-shaped cross sections combines with a rugged aluminum case and a simple velcro strap to clamp the PowerCycle down onto any bike tube, and then you hook it up to your dynamo and pedal. The battery is a good-sized 5200mAh, enough to juice the iPhone three times, the iPad mini once and the Retina iPad… Well, the Retina iPad is kind of a lost cause when it comes to anything but mains power.
The input of the battery runs at 5–12V DC/AC 1.75A, meaning it can cope with your dynamo or just a regular USB port for charging. And the unit is modular. That is, it's designed to be taken apart and to have parts upgraded and swapped out.
It's a great idea. I have a bunch of battery packs but the only time I have ever really, really needed one was to juice a dead bike lamp (I use USB-chargeable lamps).
The PowerCycle runs from $58 to $75 depending on how quick you get on the Kickstarter campaign, and will ship in March 2014.
Source: Kickstarter
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I love my presto canner.
The first year I started canning I borrowed a 22 Quart Presto canner from a friend. It was easy to use and the directions in the book were great. That book answered all my questions with recipes to go with it!
The second year I bought my own 16 Quart presto canner. Which I love. It is lightweight and works wonderfully on my glasstop range. But It doesn't do very many pints at a time.
So this year I borrowed my friend 22 Quart and used my 16 Quart at the same time. It was an awesome canning event at my house!! My help and I kept both canners going and canned nearly 50 Quarts of green beans in 1 day! (I allow the canners to cool on their own, I DO NOT use the water cooling method on them)
I love the smaller canner the best, since it is lighter weight it is easier to lift off the range when full. But the 22 Quart and 23 Quart are more versatile since they double as a water bath canner and will process more pints at a time.
I am actually going to buy another canner of my own for next summer. I am amazed at how much you can process at home without all the additives, canning is a much healthier option than store bought can goods.
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A few not-so-shocking giveaways about this week's new movie releases, including Justice League and Frank Serpico
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"Then, they can contribute their own notes. We all know about the Wine Spectator, Robert Parker ratings. What I want to create here -- and what I think the market really needs -- is kind of a Yahoo! movies approach, where you have the critics vs. the users. When the new Kosta-Brown Pinot comes out and Robert Parker gives it a 96, I want to have this aggregate of tasters from across the country telling me, 'That's funny; we thought it was a 92.' Wouldn't that be powerful? A cross section of the whole country telling the experts what they believe the wine is."
And there's still more -- wine education, for instance. "Dustin Jones is a protégé of master sommelier Eddie Osterland, and he's going to head up our wine ed program." But the key -- the thing that has Barnett's hopes up -- is the project's timing. "I've worked with a multitude of startup companies over the years. A bunch of them had great technology, but they didn't hit the market at the right time, and they went nowhere." Web 2.0 was one sign that the VinVillage platform could work. Beyond that, there were the 13 straight years of increased wine consumption in the U.S. -- increases achieved with minimal help from marketing. "That tells you what the wine industry could be if they really did marketing on a grand scale, and this is another key piece we bring to the industry. I think we'll offer an avenue for marketing that is coming from the pull side -- we've got users that want to consume. Most wineries are on the push side," trying to sell a product. "I think we have an interesting dynamic," says Barnett; something that could "expand the whole wine market."


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Student Records
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Nontraditional Credit
Recognizing that valuable learning often takes place outside the classroom, the College offers the opportunity to obtain academic credit for nontraditional learning experiences within certain guidelines. Nontraditional credits are not accepted in transfer from another institution and may apply to no more than 31 semester hours for a baccalaureate degree or 15 semester hours for an associate's degree.
Nontraditional credit is posted on the transcript after successful completion of one semester of full-time enrollment. Students may apply for nontraditional credit up to the end of their second term of attendance at Rocky Mountain College for work completed prior to enrolling at the College. Applications after the second term of attendance will not be accepted; nontraditional credit will not be granted for work done while enrolled at RMC.
Nontraditional credits granted are indicated on student transcripts with a grade of "P." There is a $40/credit transcripting fee. In all cases of nontraditional credit, it is the responsibility of the student to provide sufficient evident to clearly show that he or she has earned the credit. For further information concerning the application process for nontraditional credit, including guidelines for the specific materials that need to be submitted for each type of nontraditional credit, and associated fees, contact the Office of Student Records at 406.657.1030. Details about the types of nontraditional credit that can be earned at Rocky Mountain College follow.
Challenge of a Course
Students may challenge courses not previously taken. Approval of the faculty in the discipline and the academic vice president must be obtained, and written notification of successful challenge must be filed with the Office of Student Records. A challenge of a course involves a process whereby faculty members can effectively evaluate the student's knowledge and skills in the content area. Examples of methods faculty may use to evaluate a challenge include exams, having the student write a paper or give a presentation, and/or having the student demonstrate skills in relevant activities.
CLEP and DANTES
Rocky Mountain College recognizes, for college credit, successful completion of one or more of the general examinations or subject examinations of the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP). Credit may also be earned through the Defense Activity for Traditional Educational Support (DANTES) program. Any CLEP or DANTES examinations for credit must be completed by the end of the second semester of enrollment at Rocky Mountain College. More information is available at the Office of Student Records.
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Credit is evaluated based on the American Council on Education (ACE) recommendations for credit for military experience. Students should submit their information to ACE for evaluation. Once the ACE evaluation is returned, it should be brought to the Office of Student Records, who will then evaluate the ACE recommendations and make determinations about which credits will transfer to Rocky Mountain College and how those credits will county toward graduation requirements.
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College credit is awarded for advanced work in high school through the advanced placement test of the College Entrance Examination Board and International Baccalaureate diplomas.
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In order for credit to be granted by Rocky Mountain College, the institution must have a copy of the student's score sheet sent directly from the College Board Advanced Placement Program. Use 4660 as the Rocky Mountain College code.
Rocky Mountain College uses the American Council on Education (ACE) guidelines for determining the minimum score requirements for college credit on each AP exam.
Although Rocky Mountain College accepts the ACE recommendations for minimum scores (which, for most subjects, is a 3), students often struggle in higher level courses at RMC if they do not achieve at least a 4 on the AP exam. Academic advisors may advise students to take the Rocky Mountain College equivalent course even though they have already received credit through AP. Students are only encouraged, not required, to take this advice.
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Rocky Mountain College recognizes the standards set by the International Baccalaureate Program for awarding college credit. Contact the Office of Student Records at 406.657.1030 for more information on how IB credits transfer to Rocky Mountain College.
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This category of nontraditional credit is only appropriate under restricted and unusual circumstances; it applies to situations where students can document college-level learning in disciplines for which there is no corresponding course to challenge at Rocky Mountain College or any appropriate external examination, such as CLEP or DANTES.
The Academic Standards Committee is responsible for making final decisions about the granting of credit for prior learning; those decisions are typically made after consultation with appropriate faculty from within the College when available or from other colleges, if necessary. To earn academic credits, students are required to provide sufficient evidence to demonstrate that their learning outside of the classroom is equivalent to the content of an academic course. Evidence is presented in the form of a portfolio and typically includes performance tests, essay examinations, and samples of student work. Interviews with faculty or outside experts may also be appropriate.
There is a fee of $200 for the development and evaluation of the portfolio. Credits granted are subject to a $40/credit transcripting fee. Students wishing to pursue this option should consult with the Office of Student Records to begin the process.
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In exceptional circumstances specific program requirements may be waived or substituted. If the requested waiver or substitution pertains to requirements of a student's major or minor area of study, an exception to the stated requirements may be granted at the discretion of the faculty in the relevant discipline, subject to the approval of the academic vice president. Waivers or substitutions related to the general education requirements are, like other exceptions to the stated academic policy beyond those already noted, the purview of the Academic Standards Committee.
A waiver or substitution may be granted, for example, if a student unexpectedly does not have the opportunity to meet a program requirement because of an unavoidable conflict or because of a course cancellation. Substitutions are preferred over waivers so that the student will have an opportunity to learn most or all of the material by taking another course or combination of courses. When waivers or substitutions are approved, the student must still meet the minimum credit requirement for the major or minor – the student may need to take additional elective courses in the discipline. Students are not awarded credit for waivers. Waivers and substitutions are not appropriate in cases in which a student believes he or she has already learned the material necessary for the requirement. In such cases, the student should challenge the course.


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Throughout the past year, the city of Baltimore has become infatuated with Ravens' kicker Justin Tucker – and for Tucker, the feelings is mutual.
Plenty of stories have been told about Tucker's celebrity impressions, freestyle rapping and multi-lingual opera performances. Yet there is something else that sets Tucker apart from many of his teammates.
The popular choice for many players on the Ravens roster is to reside not too far away from the Under Armour Performance Center in Owings Mills, MD. Given the grueling hours of preparation both physically and mentally, the last thing many players want to do is sit in traffic during their commute to and from work. For Tucker, he doesn't mind a little bit more of a commute, so he can live like many other 23-year-old young professionals – in downtown Baltimore.
Living in a popular area was something that Tucker had done in college at the University of Texas, residing near Austin's popular Barton Springs area.
"I always lived in a hopping neighborhood where I could walk to a bunch of different stuff," Tucker said. "One thing I really like about Baltimore itself is that it's not like a huge city, you can still have a large population living in a dense area and it feels like a big ol' family."
As Tucker commutes to work, he receives a daily reminder of what his work day is all about, passing a place he referred to as a coliseum or what most people in Baltimore will know as M&T Bank Stadium.
"For me, it puts me in the zone on my way to practice," he said. "I see M&T Bank Stadium when I'm on the highway and it reminds me that when there are 70,000 plus people in it, it lets you know that you're playing not just for yourself and your family, but an entire city full of passionate fans. So, that's really cool."
Simply check Tucker's Instagram page to see how infatuated he's become with Baltimore, a city in which he corrected himself from saying "like" to "love" as if he was speaking about a relationship.
"I really have come to like, I won't even say like, I've really come to love this city and the surrounding areas," Tucker said. "Maryland is such a cool place. It's definitely different than my Texas roosts, but it's fun out here."
As any Marylander knows, Orioles baseball and picking crabs are two staples of a fun summer, which happens to be Tucker's offseason. Adapting into Maryland culture is something Tucker has begun to do on a frequent basis.
"I never followed baseball at all until I got out here," he said. "I still barely watch baseball on TV, but if the O's are on I'm watching them."
Tucker also tries to attend games as much as possible, sharing stories of when he realized he was available and deciding to go to a game five minutes before first pitch. Tucker threw out the honorary first pitch earlier this season, wearing a custom Orioles jersey, accompanied by his Super Bowl ring on his finger.
"There is nothing like a Major League Baseball atmosphere in the stadium," he said. "You've got the hot dog in hand, watching your home team play. That's something I didn't necessarily have in Austin, but I've definitely adopted and have come to appreciate here."
Tucker is now an honorary Marylander, and as any Marylander should, he has cracked open his fair share of Chesapeake Bay blue crabs. For someone not born and raised in Maryland, Tucker is satisfied with his crab picking technique.
"I've got a couple different [crab picking] techniques, but I'm still open to suggestions," he said. "People will still nitpick at me that have lived here for the past twenty or so years, they'll tell me that I'm doing something wrong or leaving meat on the crab."
With training camp back in full swing, Tucker will be primarily focusing on football hopefully until February. When the season does end, Tucker and his friends have created an adventure list, with crabbing being one of their future endeavors.
"I haven't been crabbing," he said. "Crabbing is definitely one of those offseason activities that I'm looking to get into. I'm probably not going to be on Deadliest Catch anytime soon."
Perhaps Tucker should just take up boating in the beginning if he believes that the Chesapeake Bay is anything like the Bering Sea.
For Tucker, training camp began just like his first one did, living in an Owings Mills hotel. He described the hotel as feeling like "home" but maybe that's because he only had a mattress and a laptop in an apartment a few weeks into the 2012 season.
Luckily for Tucker, his performance last season was pivotal in the Ravens winning the Super Bowl and the team has decided to not even bring in another kicker for repetitions during training camp. It appears that Tucker will now not only have to extend his lease, but he'll also have plenty more time to do some sight seeing here in The Land of Pleasant Living.


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Wells Fargo Student Affairs Leadership Conference Scholarship
The Wells Fargo Student Affairs Conference Scholarship supports students in their leadership and organizational development. Students may request up to $300.00 or more based on need to attend conferences, seminars, retreats, and workshops. The purpose of the fund is to aid students in advancing their leadership knowledge for the purpose of helping them to better serve their student organizations and the UT Arlington campus community.
To apply students must complete the application as well as fully address the supplemental questions. The committee meets on a rolling basis to review applications. Students will be notified via email if their request has been granted. The funds are directly transferred into the recipient's UT Arlington student account. Because it is a scholarship fund, any outstanding debts to the university will automatically be deducted from the amount awarded. Students should allow up to 3-4 weeks for a committee decision and if awarded a scholarship, for funds to be deposited into their student account. All applications and essays must be typed. Applicants must follow all directions on the application. Failure to turn in any documentation or answer any of the questions, could result in application rejection.
The Leadership Center is currently not accepting applications for Wells Fargo funding at this time.
Please click here to view the scoring rubric the committee uses to review each application.
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A command line tool that prints the AST of a dart file.
First, activate the package with pub global
pub global activate astprinter
You must manually add the pub cache bin directory to your PATH. Pub will warn you if you haven't already.
To print the AST in the console, run ast <"absolutePathToDartFile">
ast "C:\Users\Administrator\Dart Projects\TestProject\web\main.dart"
Features and bugs
Printing to file is not yet supported. Neither is color-coded output. Please file feature requests and bugs on GitHub.


text: The idea is not using fashback as the audit trail, but use it very temporarily (seconds, or minutes at most) to provide the AQ-handler with actual information. When the queue cannot be handled within a very limited amount of time, I think flashback/AQ isn't the right solution either. I like the logminer thing very much. Extending that idea, one could also think of streams to put the logging in a separate database on another server. I worked for a lottery, where everything needed to be logged as well. The systems could only be reached through some management server, through personal ID's, (user oracle couldn't login, one could only sudo to it) and all keystrokes from the management server were logged on a blackbox with write-only disks (I think it was freeBSD based). This box wasn't approachable for internal sysadmins or DBA's or whatever. The logminer/streams thing can be used to achieve a similar separated environment. Might even help with meeting SOX-related requirements..... Best regards, Carel-Jan Engel === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:19, Tanel Põder wrote: > The problem with flashback is of course that you can't nor shouldn't go back > in time too much using it. > Imagine that even if you had 6 months worth of undo space, then when you'd > want to flash back a very frequently modified block, all the undo blocks in > given data block undo chain from present to requested point of time would > have to be applied. > > This means lots of CPU + possibly many physical IOs for reading each of the > old undo blocks in, just to get the old value of single row.. Also there is > no possibility whatsoever to index a rollback segment (which, again, you > might not want to do either, in order to keep the auditing overhead low) > > Nuno: You're welcome, but be sure to check logminers restrictions first > (which I'm sure you do anyway ;) > > Tanel. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------


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Last chance for FirstBuy at Park Central, Birmingham
Crest Nicholson is urging first-time buyers wishing to take advantage of the government's FirstBuy scheme to visit its Park Central development sooner rather than later, as there are now only three FirstBuy properties remaining at the popular Birmingham development.
FirstBuy is designed to make getting onto the property ladder affordable for first-time buyers. The initiative means that purchasers will own 100 per cent of their home for just 80 per cent of the price as Crest Nicholson and the Homes and Communities Agency offer a loan of up to 20 per cent of the full purchase price. The loan is equity free for the first five years, after which a fee of 1.75 per cent is payable. Loans must be repaid when the home is sold.
According to research by Rightmove.co.uk, 45 per cent of potential first-time buyers say they are now more likely to get on the housing ladder thanks to the FirstBuy scheme.
Ruth Williams, sales manager at Park Central says: "The government introduced its FirstBuy initiative to help first-time buyers get onto the property ladder and recent statistics reveal that it is indeed helping. It has been incredibly rewarding to see this scheme be such a success at Park Central and I would hate for anyone who has been holding off purchasing an apartment under FirstBuy to miss out on this fantastic opportunity. With just three FirstBuy homes remaining I would urge anyone who doesn't want to miss out on the savings to come and visit the sales team at Park Central sooner rather than later."
Under FirstBuy the stylish Lincoln two-bedroom apartment can be purchased for just £114,800, marking a saving of 20 per cent off the £143,500 list price.
The remaining two-bedroom apartments, which are available under the FirstBuy scheme at Park Central, are all located in Park Central's Lower Parkside – the latest £15 million phase of the development. Each luxury apartment benefits from a stylish, designer kitchen, contemporary bathroom and spacious balcony, whilst being located at the centre of eight acres of parkland in Birmingham city centre.
Ruth continues: "It is easy to understand that first-time buyers are confused about the current property market, with many under the impression that it is impossible to purchase their own home. Under FirstBuy however you only need a deposit of around £7,250 which actually makes a new home affordable for many more people. If you have any queries about FirstBuy or want to see how Crest Nicholson's tailor-made initiatives could help you then drop into the marketing suite at Park Central and we'll happily discuss what's available."
For those who don't meet the FirstBuy purchaser criteria Crest Nicholson's own EasyBuy scheme is also still available at Park Central. With EasyBuy you pay just 85 per cent of the price of your new home – a five per cent deposit and 80 per cent mortgage. The remaining 15 per cent share is covered by an equity loan to be paid back at a convenient time. This loan is interest free for the first five years, with a low interest rate fixed at just three per cent APR from the start of year six. The only requirement is that the equity loan is paid back within 10 years of the original completion date; or if you sell the property, the 15 per cent must be repaid at the property's current open market value. Homes available with EasyBuy at Park Central currently start from £136,950.
Situated off Bath Row in the heart of the city centre, Park Central is nearly two thirds of the way through a 12 year build programme and has been widely credited throughout the UK property industry as an exemplar of city centre regeneration and sustainable development.
For more information on Park Central, visit parkcentral.co.uk.


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Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Virginia
what is the difference between Small Claims Judgement and an Debtors Claim Judgment?
I have an agreement between myself and a buyer for a vehicle that the buyer has stopped paying for. He has destroyed the vehicle so that I cannot repo it. If I go to small claims court I will have to accept less then what is owed. However does that mean I will only have a peice of paper saying "Im owed" with no way to collect? What is another possible way for me to collect?
Asked on 5/22/13, 10:35 am
1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson
Once you secure a judgment in small claims court against this allegedly defaulting buyer, you may be able to enforce it through
a garnishment of your judgment debtor's wages and/or bank account(s).
Answered on 5/23/13, 9:23 am
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Reconstruction work to begin at An Numiniyah, Iraq
Work will start soon on a $65.4 million project to rebuild the An Numiniyah military base for the Iraqi Armed Forces. The project is funded through the Project Management Office (PMO) of the US-backed Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA).
The CPA intends to involve Iraqi sources of subcontractors, suppliers and labor, stated a press release. The PMO manages the $18.4 billion provided by the US Congress to support the reconstruction of Iraqi infrastructure.
The An Numiniyah project, located southeast of Baghdad, includes the renovation of existing buildings and infrastructure on the base and the construction of new facilities to support operations and training. The prime contractor is US-based Earth Tech.
Work will also be performed on the water supply, wastewater treatment and power services at the base. The work is expected to be complete in approximately mid-April 2004. — (menareport.com)
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noun, plural: cnidarians
Any of the animals belonging to Phylum Cnidaria
Cnidarians such as jellyfishes, sea anemones, corals, hydras, etc. are animals characterized by having cnidae, which are specialized cellular structures that fire off thread-like tubules producing a stinging effect.
Word origin: Latin cnīdē (nettle)
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