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Henry du MONT (1610-1684)
O Mysterium - Motets & Élévations pour la Chapelle de Louis XIV
Memorare [07:36]
Jesu dulcedo cordium [03:41]
Desidero te millies [03:07]
O aeterne misericors Deus [08:50]
Sub umbra noctis profundae [04:21]
O mysterium [07:19]
Allemanda gravis [03:10]
Ave Regina caelorum [03:29]
O dulcissima [10:55]
Quam pulchra es [04:57]
O praecelsum [03:27]
Super flumina Babylonis [10:18]
Ensemble Correspondances/Sébastien Daucé
Recorded September 2015 at MC2, Grenoble, France
Texts and translations included
Henry du Mont was one of the leading composers in France in the second half of the 17th century. His importance in the realm of sacred music can be compared to that of Jean-Baptiste Lully in the field of opera. In this light, it is rather odd that relatively few discs with compositions from his pen are available. It is also his small-scale sacred concertos which are most often performed. The core of the programme which the Ensemble Correspondances recorded are five grands motets, an important genre for which Du Mont laid the foundation.
Du Mont was born in Looz (today Borgloon) near Hasselt in what is now Belgium. For some time he lived in Maastricht where he entered the choir school of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk. However, he received the main part of his musical education in Liège, in particular from Léonard de Hodemont. The latter was strongly influenced by the Italian concertato style and that has also left its marks in Du Mont's oeuvre. His presence in Paris is documented for the first time in 1643 when he was appointed organist of St Paul. In the next years he developed into an important figure in the Parisian music scene and in 1647 he was granted French nationality.
In 1660 he was given the post of organist to Queen Marie-Thérèse whom Louis XIV had just married. In 1663 he became one of the sous-maîtres of the Royal Chapel, a position he first shared with three colleagues but from 1668 onwards with only one of them, Pierre Robert. It is this position which inspired him to compose his grands motets whereas previously he had largely confined himself to the genre of the petit motet, scored for one or several solo voices and basso continuo, sometimes with additional treble instruments.
Du Mont was basically the inventor of the petit motet and he also laid the foundation for the grand motet which was to become the main genre of sacred music at the court until the mid-18th century. I already noticed the Italian influences in Du Mont's oeuvre. Those come especially to the fore in the petits motets, for instance the fact that a number of them have the form of a dialogue. But the grands motets also bear the traces of the Italian style. There is a particularly dramatic moment in O mysterium, a motet for Trinity. The first half is an expression of joy: "Celebrate festivals of joy, O people! Rejoice!". Then all of a sudden there is a change in mood: "But what is this error? (...) Be silent, be silent, and adore these most sacred mysteries.Why do you seek to fathom the unfathomable?" The programme ends with one of the most expressive of the grands motets, the setting of Super flumina Babylonis, a psalm in which the Jewish people lament their fate during the Babylonian Captivity. It includes some very dramatic episodes, for instance the verse "How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?" The last verse is another specimen of Du Mont's art of setting a text: "Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem".
A number of petits motets taken from two collections published in 1668 and 1681 respectively were used as Elevation motets. The Elevation was a central part in the Mass: the raising of the host and chalice in turn, after their consecration, by the celebrant. These Elevation motets were performed during the Mass in the Royal Chapel. They are scored for one to four voices and bc. Some of these are on texts from the Bible, others are free texts, for instance by Pierre Perrin (c1620-1675), a poet and librettist. Quam pulchra es is on verses from the Song of Songs and scored for two sopranos and bc. It offers much opportunity for expression and Du Mont doesn't miss it, for instance in the harmonic tension on the words "vulnerasti cor meum" - thou hast wounded my heart. Sub umbra noctis profundae, on a text by Perrin, is a motet "at the Elevation of the host" and is scored for bass solo. The low tessitura of the voice is effectively explored in the opening lines: "In the shadow of deep darkness silently we grieved". The second part has a more uplifting character: "O comforter of the afflicted (...) have mercy on those who repent, and bring joy to those who grieve". The contrast between the two halves is eloquently illustrated in the music.
There is an interesting aspect in these performances which is discussed by Thomas Leconte in the booklet. It concerns the role of instruments. The earliest pieces by Du Mont are for voices and basso continuo. In his later works he adds instrumental parts but not as many as one would expect on the basis of what was common at the time. "Du Mont's Motets of 1686 are laid out in the five-part instrumental texture of which French composers were so fond, but in an atypical scoring: a trio, consisting of two dessus de violon parts and a bass, and two inner parts (haute-contre de violon and taille de violon), a hybrid layout that does not correspond to the usual quintet - dessus de violon in unison, haute-contre, taille, quinte and basse de violon - employed at the French court since the late sixteenth century." This and "a succession of instances of clumsiness, errors or inconsistencies in both the part-writing and the layout of the instrumental doublings in the vocal parts" have raised questions about their authenticity. It is now generally admitted that they are the result of posthumous arrangements. Previously the instrumental texture was that of a trio: two dessus and a bass, and that is the instrumental scoring in pieces by Du Mont and his colleague Robert from the 1660s and 1670s. There are signs of the addition of a taille de violon in the Royal Chapel from 1661 onwards but the scoring of the motets of the time suggests that this instrument was not used on a regular basis. In the early 1670s the haute-contre de violon makes its entrance and this results in the five-part scoring of the 1686 collection of grands motets by Du Mont. In 1663 a grosse basse was included in the ensemble of the Royal Chapel, probably comparable to the violone.
In this recording the various stages in the development of instrumental forces in the Chapel Royal are illustrated by different instrumental scorings of the grands motets. Three motets date from before 1673; in two of them the instrumental accompaniment is confined to two dessus and bass, whereas in the third the taille is included. In the remaining two motets which are of a later date the five-part texture has been kept. In all cases the instrumental parts have been revised.
This aspect will probably be less important to the average listener. He can just enjoy the music by a composer he probably hardly knows or doesn't know at all. One of the things which has always struck me - having heard a number of recordings of Du Mont's works - is the consistent quality of his oeuvre. I have never heard anything that was less than interesting; most of his music is of excellent quality and it is easy to understand that he was held in such high esteem in his time. About 70 grands motets from his pen have been preserved which makes him the most prolific composer of this kind of works before Michel-Richard de Lalande (who composed around 80). Only a handful of these motets have made it to disc. The main recordings of grands motets are those by Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi, 1981) and the Ensemble Pierre Robert (Alpha, 2005). Memorare and Super flumina Babylonis also appear on one or both of those discs. The other pieces seem to be new to the catalogue. Even if some of them may be available on a disc that has escaped my attention it seems unlikely that they receive better performances than here by the Ensemble Correspondances which in recent years has developed into one of the finest of its kind. The voices blend perfectly and the singers have a very good feeling for the mixture of Italian expression on the one hand and the elegance and the natural prosody which are features of French music under the ancien régime. It almost goes without saying that the Latin texts are pronounced in a way which was common at the time.
These are incisive performances of pieces by a composer who deserves much more attention than he has received so far.
Johan van Veen
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Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] free spirit. Psa. 51:12
This was going to be a theoretical discussion about joy, but I'm beginning to see that God is going to use this study as a way to test me as well. I've already been tested on love. I've had to come face to face with what I consider to be love, what I do to show that love, and I come up woefully short of the mark. As I mentioned before, I grew up disconnected from other people, so I didn't really know what it was like to forge loving bonds until much later in life. And even to this day, I still think that is one of the toughest things I deal with. And, of course, since I really don't understand love here on earth, it makes it that much harder to understand God's love, an unconditional love that never asks for anything, and yet gives everything. A love that will always be there, no matter what. When the love I see and feel here on earth is so fleeting, it's just hard to grasp the concept of self-sacrificing love, agape. So, I'm working on it.
Which brings me to joy. I'm always big on saying I may not always be happy, but I'm always joyful. The joy is from knowing I'm saved, knowing that my future is secure. But, just like David, I've let the worries of the world steal my joy. I've let trivialities knock me down, forcing me to take my eyes off God. And if I'm not focusing on God, I forget the reason why I do all that I do. I'm reminded of Peter, when he walked on water. As long as he focused on Jesus, he was safe from the storm, but as soon as he concentrated on the storm, he lost faith, was afraid, and fell into the water. The cool thing about it is that Jesus was right there to pull him up, just like He's there to pull us all up out of the crashing waves.
David wrote Psalm 51 after being confronted by Nathan for the sins he'd committed. There was no question that, although David broke every commandment, he was still saved. But, he was no longer joyful. He'd let the world intrude into his relationship with God. Instead of looking to the heavens toward his Creator, he chose to look down to earth where Bathsheba bathed. I've been looking down at the earth for too long. I've forgotten that nothing here on earth matters if I'm not focused on Jesus, on my Creator, my Savior, my King.
Joy is not happiness. Happiness depends on current circumstances. Something good happens, you're happy. Something bad happens, you're not happy. But being joyful is completely different. 1 Thessalonians 5:16 says "Rejoice evermore." Always be joyful? How's that possible? Things go wrong, life takes a nasty turn, how can you be joyful in times like that? That's where happiness and joy are different. You can be joyful and not be happy. Happiness is the temporary state, joy is the eternal state. Can you be happy and not joyful? Absolutely. But it's an empty happiness, almost an echo of happiness and not the real thing.
You can lose your joy. David did. Any time you take your eyes off the prize, you lose sight of your goal. My goal is heaven, and eternal unity with the Lord Jesus. I forget that goal in pursuit of earthly goals: a good job, a wife, the next good book or TV show or movie. Those things can make you happy, but they cannot bring you eternal joy like God can.
I've been acting a lot like David lately and I realize this. I know I have sinned and fallen far short of where I should be. I've let my joy wither while I concentrated on the elusive pursuit of happiness which, while a constitutional right, is not as fulfilling or satisfying as the pursuit of joy. Today, I pray like David did, Lord, restore unto me the joy of my salvation, remind me of the important things, help me to walk the path You have set for me, no matter the price, no matter the consequences. I'm ready to go wherever You need me, whenever You need me there. Restore my heart, and allow me to appreciate Your love for me, how deep and eternal and unchanging it is. Holy Spirit, fill me with joy, fill me with wisdom, guide me today and every day. Jesus, help me to be more like you, help me to keep the old man dead and buried. Amen.

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In addition to the record rains that Tropical Storm Debby has dumped on the west coast of Florida, the slow-moving tropical system also will leave many in the Tampa Bay recreational fishing and boating industries with empty wallets.
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Debby is the worst kind of storm for fishermen. Instead of moving through the gulf quickly, kicking up a few days of high surf then making landfall, the system has lingered.
"It reminds me a lot of Elena back in '85," Papen said. "It is just sitting out there causing trouble. I wish it would just move on."
Mark Hubbard, whose family runs a charter boat fleet out of John's Pass, said he hasn't run a half-day, full-day or overnight trip to Middle Grounds in nearly a week.
"I've got zero income coming in," he said. "But we still have to pay staff to watch the boats, make sure everything stays secure. ... It hurts."
Hubbard's competitors have fared no better. In Clearwater, Chad Haggert has had to watch as his boats sit idle.
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Linda should be here at any time. I told her I'd wait at the bar.
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A cowboy watches, and I mouth "Help." He walks up, my arms go around his neck, I call him honey. I kiss him and say, "I wasn't expecting you".
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I've been re-reading my copy of Pam England's Birthing from Within during this pregnancy (a wonderful read that I recommend to every pregnant person), and have been strongly desiring to make some birth art.
I wanted to when I first read Pam's book with my last pregnancy in 2008, but I was working outside the home a LOT then and just could never really find the time. I did make a mei tai baby carrier and a few other more "practical" items before baby arrived in Jan. 2009, but I never quite got down to the really artsy stuff I so strongly desired.
Now, I am *not* a crafty person at all. I can sew, as long as I don't use a pattern, and occasionally I have a stroke of pure genius and come up with something really cool. But that doesn't happen very often…once a year, if I'm lucky. I have always chalked this up to my creative self being expressed through movement, when I dance. As a mom of three (soon to be four) kids, I don't find it as easy to dance as I used to. I miss this creative outlet on a daily basis and I long for my return to it. My feelings of less-than where craftiness is concerned is exacerbated by the fact that I am surrounded, literally, by incredibly crafty women. I have friends who knit, crochet, sculpt, draw, photograph, etc. This is wonderful when Christmas or birthdays roll around, but sometimes it leaves me feeling a little, well, left out. I want to craft. I want to be a crafty person who can whip up a pair of socks like they're nothing and come up with a homemade gift in five minutes or less.
Today, though, I think I found a little bit of the crafter stuck way deep inside. I used two models and came up with some gifts for an upcoming Mother Blessing as well as a few other trinkets for myself and clients. Turns out, sculpey (brand name for a type of polymer clay) is pretty easy to work with once you get your footing!
I used whatever I could find from Wal-Mart, the plain gray kind that comes in a big hunk. To start with, I pulled out a plaster Venus of Willendorf type goddess figurine and a homemade (with sculpey!) birth goddess given to me by my friend Molly. I tore of big piece of the clay and started kneading it in my hands. Pretty soon, it was soft enough to easily mold into shapes. I wanted to make a tiny Venus who could stand on her own two feet. After much trial and error, I finally got a pretty decent looking lady. Unfortunately, I left her unguarded for mere seconds and my toddler decided to help by mashing her into the cookie sheet she was sitting on. Supposedly, there's supposed to be something Zen about making things meant to be given away and/or consumed, but I'm here to tell you there is NOTHING Zen about making something you're incredibly proud of and having your son smash it to smithereens. Sheesh!
Next, I decided to go in a different direction and make a mothering figure. Since my friend feels a deep connection to seated mountain pose, I wanted to incorporate that into the figure. She's holding a baby in a sling though, so the arms needed to go down instead of up. She came fairly easily from my hands and before I knew it she had hair, boobs and baby! I originally intended to paint her after she cooked, but she seemed to perfect to mess with, so she'll remain colorless unless her new owner decides to paint her.
After that, I felt confident enough to retry the Venus of Willendorf. Unfortunately, I'm not as pleased with her. To me, she looks like a lumpy Frosty the Snowman with Queen Latifah-esque boobs (think Mama in Chicago). I debated whether or not she was good enough for my friend (remember, my friend is the birth goddess making goddess), but I eventually decided that while she may not be perfect, she was crafted with a loving hand with the best of intentions. The energy I put into her, I feel, makes up for her somewhat lumpy appearance.
Making those two pieces left me wanting more! I was having fun and it felt therapeutic somehow to be working with this medium creating pieces that reflect where so much of my heart lies…pregnant and birthing women. Oh! I tried to make a squatting woman with baby head crowning, but I couldn't quite get the logistics of that one! I'll be working towards that, though. 🙂
I tried making a finger labyrinth similar to The Mandala Journey's creation, but realized quickly that I would not be able to do that just yet at my level of expertise (read: novice to childlike). This led me to think about other shapes, easier shapes, that might be comforting to touch in labor. Personally, I love the curve of women's bodies, especially when they are ripe with child. What better way to celebrate that than with a little palm belly that I could thumb? So, that's what I did. Easy peasy. The first one I made I drew a spiral on the belly with a toothpick. The next one I made I added nipples to the breasts. I love them and they are just the right size to fit in your hand and be thumbed easily. They are also smooth to the touch, which pleases my fingers.
The moral of the story? If you want to make something, go grab some clay and MAKE IT! If I can do it, so can you. Have fun!


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Ida weakens to tropical storm over Nicaragua
Ida has been downgraded to a tropical storm, weakening as it dumps heavy rains over Nicaragua.
The storm was at hurricane strength when it hit the country's Atlantic coast around sunrise Thursday, destroying several dozen homes and forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 people.
On Thursday afternoon, Ida was clocking 65 mph (100 kph) winds. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say it was centered about 75 miles (125 km) north of Bluefields, Nicaragua, and had moved little since making landfall.
No deaths or injuries have been reported because of the storm, which has forced the evacuation of more than 3,000 people. Ida was expected to weaken more as it moves across the mainland.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) – Newly born Hurricane Ida ripped into Nicaragua's Atlantic coast on Thursday, destroying several dozen homes and forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 people.
Ida, clocking 75 mph (120 kph) winds, struck land around sunrise in Tasbapauni, about 60 miles northeast of Bluefields, said meteorologist Dennis Feltgen of the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.
About 80 percent of homes were destroyed in nearby Karawala, a fishing village of about 100 flimsy, wooden shacks near the mouth of the Rio Grande de Matagalpa, said Nicaragua's National Civil Defense director Mario Perez.
No deaths or injuries have been reported but Perez said officials are still trying to get information from the region, where the storm knocked out power and telephone service.
Ida was moving to the northwest at 6 mph (9 kph) and could dump as much as 20 inches (500 millimeters) of rain in parts as it crosses eastern Nicaragua, with the risk of flash floods and mudslides, according to the Miami-based center.
The storm could also raise coastal water levels by as much as 3 feet (nearly 1 meter) above ground level, with dangerous waves.
More than 3,000 people had been evacuated – 800 of those from flimsy, makeshift homes on Corn Island and nearby Little Corn Island, where strong winds damaged about 45 homes, smashed boats, toppled trees and knocked out power. Residents were taken to the port authority building and concrete hotels.
About 2,500 people live on the two islands, which are popular tourist destinations.
Rowena Kandler, owner of the Sunrise Hotel on Corn Island, said many fruit trees on the hotel's 13-acre ranch were damaged.
"We don't have electricity or water," she said. "Everything is on the ground now. Thank God we're alive."
The hotel had two guests who rode out the storm Wednesday night, but Kandler said they left for the airport Thursday morning.
More than 1,000 people were evacuated in Bluefields, and the airport closed.
At the Oasis Hotel and Casino, located half a block from the coast in Bluefields, receptionist Adelis Molina said winds were strong and guests from the United States, Italy and Guatemala were hunkering down inside.
Heavy rains and winds kept officials from evacuating about 80 people on Cayos Perla, but authorities said they planned to used speedboats to get them out.
Ida was forecast to weaken while cutting across Nicaragua and eastern Honduras before possibly emerging over open water on Saturday – a still-tentative path that could carry it near Mexico's resort of Cancun by midweek.
Catherine Shoichet in Mexico City contributed to this report.


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John Byrne's New Super-Hero Team TRIO Debuts In May – Targets His Alpha Flight & Fantastic Four Fans?
As a huge fan of iconic writer-artist John Byrne, I have really enjoyed his Next Men series and was so glad IDW encouraged him to have that series return and wrap up it up as Byrne had intended. With Next Men wrapping up after a few issues of Next Men: Aftermath in the early part of 2012, many have been wondering what new super-hero'ish Byrne book was on the hortizon.
We learned last month that TRIO was the answer and IDW was going to be its publisher. Following some interior art reveals, we now have IDW's solicit for the May 2012 shipping debut issue.
John Byrne has done a lot of work across many companies in his storied career. He's had classic runs for Marvel with Uncanny X-Men, Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight, West Coast Avengers and others. He's also done some great work at DC Comics most notably his stewardship of the post Crisis of Infinite Earths Superman reboot,Wonder Woman, New Gods and others. And, naturally, in the 1990s with Dark Horse and now with IDW he's done Next Men, as well as some Star Trek for IDW.
So, why does IDW's solicit ONLY mention fans of two books of Byrne's from Marvel Comics tenure? WHA…. ??? Fantastic Four is a no-brainer, but why not mention a non-Marvel book to to try cast a wider net?
I'm still intrigued, and I will pick it up, but that part of the solicit seems… odd.
TRIO #1 Solicitation:
Trio #1
John Byrne (w & a & c)
ZAP! POW! BAM! — are sound effects you may actually see in this series, as John Byrne returns to his roots with a brand-new superhero series. Their code names are simple ONE, TWO and THREE, but the world calls them ROCK, PAPER and SCISSORS. Together, they are Trio.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
* Variant Covers:
Variant cover penciled by John Byrne and inked by Joe Sinnott
Bullet points:
- ¥ John Byrne's return to classic superheroes!
- ¥ Fans of Byrne's Fantastic Four and Alpha Flight especially, this is for you!M
- ¥ Variant cover art on each issue inked by past Byrne favorites! Up first: Joltin' Joe Sinnott!
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Don Mango, Chief Actuary
According to the draft European Union Solvency IIc directives, companies will need to provide an "own risk and solvency assessment" (ORSA). The Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) has prepared an issues paper that provides guidance to assist (re)insurers in implementing the ORSA.
The guidance describes the ORSA as: "the entirety of the processes and procedures employed to identify, assess, monitor, manage, and report the short and long term risks a (re)insurance undertaking faces or may face and to determine the own funds necessary to ensure that the undertaking's overall solvency needs are met at all times."
The issues paper also offers foundational principles to further facilitate the ORSA implementation. An overarching principle states that the ORSA should "reflect the undertaking's management practices, systems and controls," and "be forward-looking, taking into account the undertaking's business plans and projections."
There is an implied emphasis on a business plan horizon and a sequence of management actions and responses. These highlight the need for a risk measurement approach that includes a dimension for the passage of time. This change requires the introduction of a concept that may be called the time profile of risk-a means of measuring and communicating risk and return over time.
Current Approach: Single Period
Current risk measures are (implicitly or explicitly) single-period. They convey the risk-reward tradeoff of an action (e.g., underwriting a line of business for one renewal period) as a one-time proposition or "bet" in which critical assumptions (e.g., expected outcome, standard deviation or "volatility") are known at the time the bet is made. A common risk metric for this situation is risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC), which can be compared to other single period investment opportunities.
Under such a single period framework, with known volatility parameters by line, choosing the best underwriting portfolio is a straightforward constrained optimization exercise, supported by numerous tools and techniques.
An Evolution in Risk Metrics
Unfortunately, real (re)insurers are not single period investment propositions. They are going concerns operating with the intent to continue serving policyholders in perpetuity, by both servicing prior and existing claims, as well as providing ongoing coverage into the future. Also, a company's ORSA will be a capital adequacy assessment based on a multi-year future projection including management responses. How will risk metrics need to evolve to capture this time element profile?
We need to conceptualize risk in a new way in order to make directional predictions regarding multi-period risk.
Time Element and Metrics
- Single period risk metrics are like shock trauma-essentially instantaneous, without any notion of duration while multi-period risk metrics are like illnesses-for how long must a firm (ill person) endure what level of exposure or deficit? Movement from the "instantaneous" to the "enduring" requires the integration of the "force of risk" over time.
- Single period metrics are silent on how the adverse outcome manifests itself, especially with respect to a delay in time. Multi-period metrics must differentiate between finding bad news out now versus finding it out later. We need an assessment of the risk impact of information lags.
Cycle Effects
- Much of what single period models represent as "non-catastrophe underwriting volatility" is a single period collapsing of a phenomenon observed over cycles.
- Cycles introduce autocorrelation (across underwriting periods) and therefore accumulation effects over time, especially from the reliance on immature (and autocorrelated) underwriting periods as base points for forecasting profitability of future underwriting periods.
Management Response
- Single period risk metrics only reflect risk mitigation strategies put in place pre-event (before the trauma). The need for formulated response strategies will require extensive new dialogue within firms to flesh out their response strategies in a concrete, objective and quantifiable manner.
- Using overly simplistic or even static strategies can result in an overstatement of the accumulated risk over a multi-year timeframe.
How Guy Carpenter Can Help
Developing this concept of a time profile of risk will challenge our fundamental understanding of what it means to be a(n) (re)insurer. However, Guy Carpenter believes that this evolution will benefit the (re)insurance industry by providing more realistic and actionable indications of risk.
Guy Carpenter's Enterprise Risk Management Advisory practice helps (re)insurers address these needs as their capital modeling and ORSA processes advance. We are committed to advancing our risk management relationship with each of our clients.
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BOSTON (AP) — Fresh from a favorable ruling by a federal appeals court, Dorene Bowe-Shulman can't wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on whether same-sex married couples should get the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples.
"I really look forward to the next step," said Bowe-Shulman, one of 17 people from Massachusetts who sued to challenge the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
On Thursday, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the law's denial of an array of federal benefits to same-sex couples is unconstitutional, affirming a ruling by a federal judge in 2010. Opponents and supporters of gay marriage said the case is now almost certainly headed to the Supreme Court.
Bowe-Shulman, 46, said she wants the case to go before the Supreme Court because it will put a national spotlight on the law and "expose the injustice of DOMA to more people."
Bowe-Shulman said she and her wife pay about $100 more in taxes each month because she is taxed as part of her wife's health insurance.
"The harm that DOMA has done hasn't been so apparent to the general public," she said.
In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the 1st Circuit found that the 1996 law deprives gay couples of the rights and privileges granted to heterosexual couples.
The court did not rule on another provision of the law that says states without same-sex marriage cannot be forced to recognize gay unions performed in states where it is legal. The court also was not asked to address whether gay couples have a constitutional right to marry.
The law was passed a time when it appeared Hawaii would legalize gay marriage. Since then, many states have instituted their own bans on gay marriage, while eight states have approved it, led by Massachusetts in 2004 and continuing with Connecticut, New York, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland, Washington state and the District of Columbia. Maryland and Washington's laws are not yet in effect and may be subject to referendums.
The 1st Circuit agreed with U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro, who concluded that the law interferes with the right of a state to define marriage and unconstitutionally denies gay couples federal benefits given to heterosexual couples, including the ability to file joint tax returns.
The ruling came in two lawsuits, one filed by the Boston-based legal group Gay & Lesbian Advocates & defenders and the other by state Attorney General Martha Coakley.
"For me, it's more just about having equality and not having a system of first- and second-class marriages," said plaintiff Jonathan Knight, a financial associate at Harvard Medical School who married Marlin Nabors in 2006.
"We can do better, as a country, than that," said Knight, who estimates that the law costs the couple an extra $1,000 a year.
Opponents of gay marriage criticized the decision.
"This ruling that a state can mandate to the federal government the definition of marriage for the sake of receiving federal benefits, we find really bizarre, rather arrogant, if I may say so," said Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute.
Last year, President Barack Obama announced that the Department of Justice would no longer defend the constitutionality of the law. After that, House Speaker John Boehner convened the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group to defend it. The legal group argued the case before the appeals court.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the appeals court ruling is "in concert with the president's views." Obama, who once opposed gay marriage, declared his unequivocal personal support in recent weeks. Carney wouldn't say whether the government would actively seek to have the law overturned if the case goes before the Supreme Court.
"I can't predict what the next steps will be in handling cases of this nature," Carney said.
The 1st Circuit said its ruling would not be enforced until the Supreme Court decides the case, meaning that same-sex married couples will not be eligible to receive the economic benefits denied by the law until the high court rules. Only the Supreme Court has the final say in deciding whether a law passed by Congress is unconstitutional.
Until Congress passed the law, "the power to define marriage had always been left to individual states," the appeals court said in its ruling.
"One virtue of federalism is that it permits this diversity of governance based on local choice, but this applies as well to the states that have chosen to legalize same-sex marriage," Judge Michael Boudin wrote for the court. "Under current Supreme Court authority, Congress' denial of federal benefits to same-sex couples lawfully married in Massachusetts has not been adequately supported by any permissible federal interest."
Several times in its ruling, the appeals court noted that the case will probably end up before the high court, at one point saying, "only the Supreme Court can finally decide this unique case."
Paul Clement, a Washington, D.C., attorney who defended the law on behalf of the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, argued that Congress had a rational basis for passing the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, when opponents worried that states would be forced to recognize gay marriages performed elsewhere.
The group said Congress wanted to preserve a traditional and uniform definition of marriage and has the power to define terms used to federal statutes to distribute federal benefits.
"But we have always been clear we expect this matter ultimately to be decided by the Supreme Court, and that has not changed," he said in a statement.
Two of the three judges who decided the case Thursday were Republican appointees, while the other was a Democratic appointee.
In California, two federal judges have found this year that the law violates the due-process rights of legally married same-sex couples.
In the most recent case, a judge found the law unconstitutional because it denies long-term care insurance (LTCI) benefits to legal spouses of state employees and retirees. The judge also said a section of the federal tax code that makes the domestic partners of state workers ineligible for long-term care insurance violates the civil rights of people in gay and lesbian relationships.
Associated Press writers Jay Lindsay and Shannon Young contributed to this report.


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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS: Almanac for Tuesday, May 22, 2012; historical news
Today is Tuesday, May 22, the 143rd day of 2012. There are 223 days left in the year.
* On May 22, 1972, President Richard Nixon began a visit to the Soviet Union during which he and Kremlin leaders signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
* In 1761, the first American life-insurance policy was issued in Philadelphia.
* In 1960, an earthquake of magnitude 9.5 — the strongest on record — struck southern Chile, claiming 1,655 lives.
* In 1992, after a reign of almost 30 years, Johnny Carson hosted NBC's Tonight Show for the last time.
* In 2011, A tornado devastated Joplin, Mo., with winds of up to 250 mph, claiming at least 159 lives and destroying about 8,000 homes and businesses.
85 MICHAEL CONSTANTINE, actor who played Seymour Kaufman on the ABC-TV show Room 222 in the 1970′s
70 BARBARA PARKINS, actress from the movie Valley of the Dolls
62 BERNIE TAUPIN, songwriter
38 A.J. LANGER, Columbus, Ohio born actress of the TV show Private Practice


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A new study suggests heat therapy may be beneficial in the treatment of cancerous tumors.
Press Release Service – Wired PR News – A new study suggests the addition of heat treatment with chemotherapy may increase the rates of positive response for cancer patients. As reported by Reuters, researchers of the German study found that patients provided with this type of treatment in conjunction with chemotherapy have an increased chance of living cancer free for more extended periods of time than those who receive chemotherapy alone.
Rolf Issels, a University of Munich medical oncology professor, is quoted by Reuters as stating of the research, "We expect our findings will encourage other researchers to test the approach in other locally advanced cancers… Targeted heat therapy has already shown promise in recurrent breast and locally advanced cervical cancer in combination with radiation, and studies combining it with chemotherapy in other localized tumors such as those in the pancreas and rectum are ongoing."
As noted in the report, the findings of the study were presented at the Berlin based ECCO-ESMO European cancer congress.
WiredPRNews.com – The latest in Medical News


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Famine Stamp
|Famine stamps
A ration of famine stamps, capable of lasting most families a month. These particular famine stamps are shipped to China as family size. In North Korea, such stamps are marketed as jumbo villiage size. Picture scanned to scale.
|The Real Democratic Koreans' Treat!™
You can't spell oppression without Famine stamps!™
|DPRK Foods, though expanded to Chinese Hoshishimayasha Corporation.
|Shipping to:
|North Korea, People's Republic of China, Zaire, Cuba, Colombia
|Human Rights Violations:
"It takes an entire North Korean villiage to create one famine stamp, but one famine stamp can feed an entire North Korean villiage"
- ~ Kim Jong-Il on Famine Stamps
Famine Stamps (Slogan The Real Democratic Peoples' Korean Treat!™) is a series of stamps created by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea developed in response to American made ration stamps. Famine Stamps, in contrast to ration stamps, are marketed cheaper. It is also claimed on the box that "nine out of ten government funded doctors under threat of death recommend famine stamps as a healthy alternative to food when it is unavailable." Famine stamps come in a variety of flavours, including, but not limited to: ground glass, deep fried defector, toasted tick, grandma, hypodermic needle, cat, and the ever popular mystery flavor. They are marketed to over 20 countries in the unfree world, and are expected to ship to the United States by 2008. The line of stamps has been accused of over forty two human rights violations in the production, marketing, and ingredients (fourty three if you count UN Article 30 on the matter). North Korea has dismissed such allegations on the grounds of insanity.
History and Development[edit]
With output from the Rice Mines(according to US intelligence this "rice" is actually a smokey quartz marketed as rice by the government) at an all time low in the year of 1990, Kim Jong-Il needed a product developed that would replace his Peoples' Rice Krispies cereal (made with "REAL" rice). With a little encouragement at gunpoint, North Korean scientists had perfected the Famine Stamp by 2004, and were issued to all the provinces of North Korea.
The Famine Stamp Cycle[edit]
|...Famine stamps are produced by our factories. A person eats the famine stamp, sometimes later dying of their dreams of capitalism, or sometimes tripping on a nail while visiting our government headquarters. Their body is transported to our famine stamp production facilities.
Sometimes our dear leader is sad. To happy our dear leader, a person is sent to work at the rice mine. Sometimes a villiage will make him sad. The above process starts again.
Unmarked taxis hired by American tourists make 10% of our Famine Stamp output, just below nuclear waste, herein referred to as New Clear Paste, one of our most popular flavors of famine stamps.
As a highly industrious country, The Grand Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea has landfills that will get full from time to time...especially after UN visits. The bodies often stink up the place...
—Information recovered from the corpse of a defector, shot one inch from the other side of the Demilitarized Zone.
Ration Stamp Competition[edit]
In an effort to stop communism from spreading to countries that can otherwise not purchase or create more food, ration stamps have ben offered to countries for the mere price of $8 per gram in the flavors of Toasted Terrorist, Freedom, and Crunchy Commie. Famine stamps always succeeded, especially in totalarian states. The reasons for this are due to the fact that Famine Stamps can be made out of practically anything: defectors, cats, random sticks in the woods, even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's coat.
Famine stamps have even found themselves licensed to American companies. Apple has been sending them with each of their products as iStamps as a token of appreciation for the many Apple fans who have licked Steve Jobs's boots for creating their favorite operating system Macintosh OS X. In response, Microsoft has offered Microsoft Edible Stamps 2007 Standard Edition based off of American made Ration Stamps in every box of Windows Vista sold, albeit a trial edtion in which flavor wears off in one second.
Most Popular Flavors[edit]
Famine Stamps have had a cult following, as recommended on threat of death by the most wise leaders of each country. Here are the most popular flavors in each country in which famine stamps are made.
- North Korea: Kimchi Il-Sung aka "The Eternal Flavor" (Korean: 우리의 웅대한 유구한 대통령 김일성다음에 지명되는 김치의 우리의 유구한 웅대한 풍미)
- People's Republic of China: Mao-Style Minced Pig (Traditional Chinese: 資本家輕微地不同地養殖了豬準備著的有些相似但與我們親愛的已故的領導人毛澤東不同但因為人無法適當地複製我們親愛的領導的工作)
- Japan: Sake Stamps (Katakana: 多分私達の政府の為税を避ける違法平均によって得られる小さい酔った為の常習者が消費するスタンプ。)
- Cuba: Castro's Great Flavor (Spanish: El sabor revolucionario creado por nuestro dictador eterno benévolo Fidel Castro en el esmero a su cerdo revolucionario estimado, cercano del capitalista de las carnes asadas el consistir en Che Guevara con la salsa del extremo de cigarro de la firma de Castro.)
- Iran: Infused Food for Non-Believers (Arabic:الايراني اسلوب دست الكفار كما اعدته وأوصت به الزميل العزيز الحالية والى الابد الشيعه الرئيس محمود أحمدي نجاد.)
- Vietnam: Ho Chi Minhi Wheat (Vietnamese: cây lúa mì sản vật tạo trước Ho Chi Minh với Châu Mỹ quân lính)
- Zaire:* Mobutu's Moderated Munchies (French: Les timbres modérés de Mobutu de la famine qui goûtent tout à fait bons et savoureux ou bien de vous mourront une mort douloureuse horrible lente par le travail de l'ebola.)
- United States:' Expected to be God's Bountiful Flavor (Redneck†: Dang dere stamps dere dat Jesus loves ta eat dere dat we love too dere with dang dere Buds dere and Nascar)
* Since Zaire collapsed before the existence of perfected famine stamps, it should be noted that they were marketed as prototypes entitled "Mobutu's Moderated Munchies". Needless to say it wasn't very popular, since the introduction to these stamps was in early 1997.
† Since redneck is only a spoken language, this translation uses the IRRS, or International Redneck Romanization Standard (redneck: Dat dere enternashi onal redneck rightins systemajig or "ERRS", or "DURRS" - dat dere unternashional rednek rightins systemajig), system to romanize the ramblings.
Expiriments by AT&T[edit]
AT&T has recently looked into Famine Stamps. Since they are cheaper to manufacture than phones, they have been proposed as an alternative to phone service, as well as a tasty snack for all the "walking animal things that give us extensive amounts of money". Currently nine out of ten of the AT&T funded testers thought that the use of Famine Stamps was much more satisfying than calling someone on the phone.
From South Korea[edit]
American funded South Korean officials have long criticized the use of Famine Stamps, saying that they were unhealthy and communist in nature. The main argument against the stamps is the overdosage of communism. The daily recommended intake (based on a 2000 calorie capitalism) of communism by the recommendations of the FDA is one half of an ounce per serving, with one to two servings per day. Increasing over this amount per day can have many lasting side affects; it includes(but is not limited to): dry mouth, constipation, desire for equality, extreme admiration for berets and facial hair, self censorship, tolerance, preference to Macintosh computers, and a tendency to reenact George Orwell's 1984.
From the USA[edit]
The Bush Administration has said this about Famine Stamps when asked about what they think about Famine Stamps:
|They're communist. God doesn't like them because they're different from us.
—George Walker Bush, December 2003
When asked about the Ration Stamp program, they replied with this:
|They're not communist...and they [don't] suppress the rights of the people like famine stamps. We've introduced this program in Iraq already, and it's been successful. The rate of car bombing in Iraq has decreased for 10 last month to only 14 this month. We pray for continued success of the program.
—Donald Rumsfeld, December 2005
From Russia[edit]
The main criticisms of Russia is the stamp isn't red enough (Russian: Проголодайте штемпеля не имейте пенис, котор нужно быть поистине коммунистической едой.). Putin was quoted as saying that "he wouldn't kill a KGB spy to gain a famine stamp". When inquiring Stalin's corpse of the matter, he started to violently roll in his grave. A similar reaction, reported by worthless unreliable defectors was said to have happened when Kim Il-Sung had been inquired about the stamps during a seyonce.
From the United Nations[edit]
So far there hasn't been a responses from the United Nations about the stamp itself, nor any resolutions concerning it. Reasons to this are unknown, but mostly pinned on whining by Jacques Chirac and questions by Michael Bolton.
From King Hroþareiks, king of the Visigoths[edit]
The King has made this statement about the stamps:
|Me no like Famine Stamps - too small unlike pig. Pig still small - heart not enough to feed real man against. No bleeding. No fun in eating famine stamp raw. Burn in fire. No point in eating. I carve luck rune, it fall apart. I marinate in pig blood, it fall apart. I sacrifice to Thor, Thor smite dog of mine - ripper. Sheep choke on stamp. Dump in lake and have cursed it, but lake dry up. Have feeded to pet caged Romans, they die. No torture, no nothing - dead cold. Waterbottle of fire water still in corner of cage. Famine Stamps bad.
—Hroþareiks, Gorath: The Book


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Christmas is the perfect time of year to break out the craft supplies. Even people who would never normally consider getting creative, come Christmas time suddenly start busting out the glitter and battling with a glue gun. Since starting blogging, I have come up with a few Christmas craft DIY ideas, and thought it was about time I made a little round up post! I do seem to be heavy on the hanging decorations and you can clearly see the struggle of taking photos during a British winter.
For me, making is all part and parcel of Christmas. As a kid, I was always making glittery cards, or an impromptu angel halo out of tinsel. Then as a teenager, I started making presents of decorated notebooks and beaded jewellery. This year, I have managed to make all my Christmas cards and a couple of presents, and there may even be a bit of baking! So whether you make a Christmas cake, presents, cards or decorations, go grab the glitter and glue gun and have fun!
If you have had a go at making any of my Christmas craft DIYs, or have any questions, feel free to comment below or


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April 20, 2009
Memphis Freshman Evans Tests NBA Draft
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Memphis freshman guard Tyreke Evans has declared himself eligible for the NBA draft.
Evans says playing in the NBA has been a dream for him for a long time. He says he's putting his name out there and will talk to his family before deciding whether to stay in the draft or return for another season at Memphis.
The 6-foot-6 Associated Press All-America honorable mention led the Tigers in scoring with 17.1 points per game and steals with 77. He averaged 5.4 rebounds and 3.9 assists while shooting 45.5 percent from the field and 71.1 percent from the free-throw line.


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Great Smoky Mountains Fire Turns Gatlinburg Into Hellscape as Blaze Threatens to Engulf Dollywood
High wind gusts, low humidity and dought conditions caused a fire at Great Smoky Mountains National Park to spread to nearby communities
Emergency crews continue to battle blazes after a Tennessee wildfire burned up to 100 homes in Gatlinburg Monday night and nears the edge of the Dollywood theme park.
The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said in a news release Tuesday morning that mandatory evacuations were underway for areas surrounding Gatlinburg, including parts of Pigeon Forge where Dolly Parton's theme park is.
A press release obtained by Kurt Chirbas of NBC News reports there is no damage to Dollywood theme park or resort at this time. However, guests were evacuated Monday night.
"Unpredicted, extreme weather conditions on Sunday afternoon through Monday led to the exponential spread of fires both inside and outside of the National Park," Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials said in a press release Tuesday.
"Severe wind gusts of over 80 mph, unprecedented low relative humidity, and extended drought conditions caused the fire burning in the National Park to spread rapidly and unpredictably, in spite of suppression efforts on Sunday that included helicopter water drops."
No deaths have been reported yet.
Sevier County reports 12,509 people without power, according to authorities.
"If you're a person of prayer, we could use your prayers," Gatlinburg Fire Chief Greg Miller said Monday evening, according to CNN.
Eric Long took to Twitter to share terrifying footage taken by Michael Luciano as he tried to escape the affected area in his car. Long reported that the driver was safe.
Country singer-songwriter Travis Tritt shared his concerns about the fire and retweeted updates on Twitter, sharing that two of his band members live very close to evacuated areas.
"One of my favorite vacation spots is under the threat of fire tonight," he wrote late Monday night. "The Smokey Mountains of Tennessee are burning."
Great Smoky Mountains National Park announced Tuesday it would be closed due to the fire activity.
In addition to Dollywood, Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies is threatened by the flames. General Manager Ryan DeSear told WBIR that 10,518 animals were left behind when workers had to evacuate Monday night due to smoke.
DeSear he told the outlet fires blazed just 50 yards away from the aquarium when they were evacuated. However, he said the animals should be safe as long as the building have power and don't catch fire.


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A firn core collected on the Greenland ice sheet showing refrozen meltwater (darker section in the middle) saturates the porous firn (brighter section on the sides).
A new study of the thick snow blanket, also called firn, covering the Greenland ice sheet finds that due to a decrease in the firn porosity in western Greenland, less of the meltwater generated in these regions will be retained in the firn and more will end up in the sea.
Researchers have investigated the Greenland ice sheet since the 1950s for various purposes – e.g. military infrastructure, meteorology, satellite data interpretation, etc. These research teams have collected precious information about the characteristics of the snow covering the Greenland ice sheet, but the data remained unused after the completion of each of these projects.
Recently, increasing attention was brought to the thick, multi-year snow blanket, also called firn, that covers the Greenland ice sheet, because of its capacity to buffer the ice sheet's contribution to sea-level rise. In a recent study, Baptiste Vandecrux, ph.d. student at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and at The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) compiled historical and contemporary measurements of the Greenlandic firn to give an unprecedented view of the state of the firn on the largest ice sheet in the Northern hemisphere.
Like a sponge, the firn can retain meltwater within its pores
Using 360 observations spanning from 1953 to 2017, Baptiste Vandecrux and a group of scientists from Denmark, USA, Switzerland, Germany and England, were able to describe the porosity, or air content, of the firn across the Greenland ice sheet. The firn porosity is of great interest because it controls the capacity of the firn to retain the increasing surface melt that comes with climate warming in Greenland. Firn air content is also useful for the interpretation of satellite observations from the ice sheet.
"The study shows that the firn in the lower end of the western slope of the ice sheet contained 23 % less air in recent measurements compared to surveys in the 90s and early 2000s. This decrease of porosity originates from the recent increase of surface melt and meltwater refreezing within the firn and indicates that the firn can host 23 % less meltwater within its pores," Baptiste Vandecrux explains. He continues:
"It also means that potentially more of the melt generated in these regions will end up in the sea and contribute to sea level rise instead of being retained within the porous firn."
The new open-access study was published in The Cryosphere.
a) Maps of the firn air content on the Greenland ice sheet derived from historical and temporary observation. b) Spatial pattern of the firn air content decrease in Western Greenland. Credit: Baptiste Vandecrux et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-845-2019


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The lower level smoke control plenum in a new academic building at a major university needed protection to prevent premature deterioration from any condensation on the plenum walls in addition to meeting Class A flame and smoke requirements. An initial solution called for lining the interior side of the plenum with sheet steel. With the presence of service lines blocking access, the application of sheet steel would have added extreme difficulty to the application, almost ensuring trouble achieving successful implementation.
Interior gypsum wallboard was used to construct the plenum. The building and mechanical system design conditions called for the gypsum wallboard surface temperature to be maintained above the airstream dew-point temperature with an air temperature range of 50°F (10°) to 125°F (52°C). While the airstream and surface temperature restrictions for the use of gypsum wallboard in plenums are intended to prevent premature deterioration of the gypsum wallboard, plenums connected to the exterior enclosure can move moist air through these assemblies. Negative pressure in the plenum can suck saturated air from any building envelope leaks out of the wall cavity into the plenum where it can condense on piping, ductwork and anything else it contacts that has a surface temperature below its dew-point.
To provide the protection required, Tremco's ExoAir® 230 Fluid-Applied Vapor-Permeable Air Barrier was proposed to seal the interior walls of the plenum from air infiltration and exfiltration, while allowing vapor molecules to pass through so they do not get trapped within the wall. Trapped moisture vapor could cause condensation to occur within the wall cavity which can lead to structural deterioration and shortened structure life. With exceptional movement capability (+100/-50) and documented compatibility with Tremco air barriers, Tremco's Dymonic® 100 Polyurethane Sealant was proposed to treat perimeter joints and ensure a smooth transition from one plane to another and at penetrations of the interior grade gypsum wallboard.
Tremco Testing Validates Design
A series of laboratory tests were performed at the Tremco Sustainable Building Solutions Test Facility to determine air leakage resistance, water leakage resistance and durability of the air barrier coating. Architectural Testing, Inc., a subsidiary of Intertek, witnessed the testing and validated the results. Since workmanship and installation details are so critical to determining performance, field testing of the installation was also required.
ExoAir® 230 had already been tested in assemblies according to NFPA 285 Standard Fire Test Method for Evaluation of Fire Propagation Characteristics of Exterior Non-Load-Bearing Wall Assemblies Containing Combustible Components and had passed. It also had GREENGUARD Children & Schools certification.
The 8' x 8' test assembly was constructed using a wood buck with ½" sheet rock attached to the exterior with self-tapping tech screws spaced evenly every 8" around the perimeter and 12" up the studs. The sheeting installation allowed for an 8' x 1/8" horizontal board joint at the center, which was taped and then treated with joint compound over the top. Dymonic 100 Polyurethane Sealant was used to treat the perimeter joints to the wood buck. All fasteners were detailed with joint compound. After the joint compound was fully cured, 75 wet mils of ExoAir 230 was applied to the assembly.
Based on having passed all ASTM E283, ASTM E331 and ASTM E2357 test requirements, this approach to plenum protection received pre-approval for use in the installation. Upon completion of the installation, on-site testing was required to verify successful implementation and performance in the field.
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ATI Report E331
ATI Report E2357
Conclusion & ResultsASTM E2357 is intended to simulate the performance of various air barrier materials and accessories when combined into an assembly. Special equipment at the Tremco test facility creates effects of various levels of sustained wind loads, cyclic wind loads and gust wind loads at both positive and negative sides of the wall, simulating real-life conditions. The amount of air flow that penetrates through the assembly at different levels of pressure is the basis for its air leakage ratings. Maintaining airtight requirements on the interior of the plenum minimizes the potential for moisture-laden air to condense on the surface and lead to problems down the line. Performance requirements in the specifications for the plenum application called for air barrier assembly air leakage of a maximum 0.04 cfm/sq. ft. of surface area at 1.57 lbf/sq. ft. (0.2 L/s x sq. m of surface area at 75 Pa). The test assembly performed well below the acceptable standard for air leakage specified.
The City of Los Angeles Building & Safety Department required that the plenum used for smoke control be protected from the outside elements. ASTM E331 testing provided assurance that the assembly would serve as an effective drainage plane to discharge any incidental condensation or moisture in the event of water penetration. A 15-minute Water Exposure Test in accordance with the test method, with a pressure differential of 137 Pa (2.86 psf), met the performance requirements as no water penetration was detected.
The proficient installation of the air barrier assembly is critical in determining the air leakage of the system. In addition to impacting the life cycle of the duct system, heating and cooling loads as well as occupant comfort and other expected benefits of the air barrier system are negatively affected when materials are not applied with the attention and skill required. One of the largest fire protection and life safety engineering and consulting firms with offices worldwide witnessed door fan testing of the modified lower level smoke control make-up air plenum serving the atrium smoke control system of the four-story building plus basement and verified that allowable leakage factors were met. Prior to coating, the duct could not be pressurized to required pressure levels for testing due to air leakage. After the ExoAir 230 coating was applied, the air leakage was reduced sufficiently to not only allow sufficient pressurization to occur, but to perform within the limits of Section 909 of the 2011 LABC, City of Los Angeles requirements.
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Bass Fishing in Florida Rentals is famous all over the world. Florida fishing guides employ rental boats to take anglers out to fish bass. Bass is basically categorized in to two groups, one is the freshwater variety and the other is the seawater kind also called the perch in some fishing circles. Freshwater bass are usually found in lakes and rivers in Florida and Canada and a specimen of the seawater bass can be found in the lakes in Mississippi and in the Great Lakes of the North American continent. Bass are primarily carnivorous fish and the best season to fish for them is during the summers. It is best to set up for Bass Fishing in Florida Rentals in the winters, when they move out of the sea water.
Bass Fishing in Florida Rentals is not that simple, as it sounds from the name. It requires a lot of patience and unerring instinct pertaining to whether the bass will strike or not. Experience counts for a lot while fishing for bass, so if you are a beginner at fish angling then it is advisable to you refrain from beginning your trophy wall with bass, because you may not get very far.
However, this is not to say that the situation is completely hopeless. With a few tips and guidelines kept in mind while carrying out Bass Fishing in Florida Rentals, there is no reason why you may not catch a strapping bass at the end of your first fishing day. As you proceed from being a beginner to an intermediate angler, it is inevitable that you will accumulate lots of tackle and then be faced with the difficulty of where to place it. It is best that you get a large roomy fishing vest with lots of pockets and room and keep your all your bait and tackle in separate pockets.
While leaving for the Bass Fishing in Florida Rentals during the winter season, it is important to dress according to the season. Dressing warmly will be more comfortable and may actually save your life; wear a knitted wool hat instead of a cap and be careful while wading. Bass usually move out towards the deep ocean in winter and they school; they are also more vulnerable to following baitfish and will easily be caught once you know where they are located. Rented boats hired for the purpose of bass fishing can be quite effective, as the local guides will know where to go for the best schools of bass. Locating bass is pretty simple, the schools of bass will be located about 10 or 15 feet below the schools of baitfish, therefore when you find the baitfish, you will find the bass. Keeping these tips in mind will make your Bass Fishing in Florida Rentals memorable even years after you return.
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Ferrari cuts Toronto lawyer a deal to replace his flooded California.
A Ferrari might be the last vehicle you'd want to be driving when streets are submerged in water, but Toronto lawyer Howard Levitt was unfortunate enough to be behind the wheel of his $200,000+ Ferrari California when the tunnel he was driving through started to fill up. It was July, when parts of the Canadian city were flooded, but he was determined to make his flight to a court appearance the next day. So Levitt abandoned his metallic blue supercar in the middle of the street and took a cab to the airport, the National Post reports.
The car subsequently was totaled, and the insurance company covered the damage, so after completing his court assignment (and a column for the Financial Post that was due the same day), Levitt began to search for a replacement for his California - driving his 1994 Dodge Viper in the meantime. He decided on a 2014 California in the same metallic blue to replace his 2010 model. When he approached Ferrari to put in an order, the Italian marque was waiting for him, having heard of his mishap. The company offered him a "very generous" deal on a 2014 model; an undisclosed amount less than the after-options retail price of around $300,000.
The new Ferrari is expected to be delivered to Levitt in November, and we can only hope another flood doesn't catch him off guard. We're not so sure Ferrari would offer him another "very generous" deal. Feel free to watch the short video below, despite its rather static nature, which we included to precisely show the sad fate of Levitt's fallen California.


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Re: Pro 3.5mm Mic Adapter
HERO7 Black has very good audio for an action camera. If you have the skill to edit the Protune wav files, it can be even better.
As far as the mic adapter, hopefully they get them back in stock for those who are wanting it. I have one and it works great. I've been using it for a few years now and have never had an issue.
For those who want a good secondary audio option, the Tascam DR-05 and the Zoom H1n are both very good and end up being cheaper since you don't have to purchase an adapter and a mic.
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UPS or FedEx? UPS is usually used if you ordered extra batteries, in which case it's sent out ground and does take longer. However, even if it's UPS 2-day shipping, Tuesday sounds like the correct day.
Also, 2-day shipping is the shipping method. If you placed your order on Wednesday night it wouldn't be processed until Thursday with a shipping label being created on Friday. 2-Day shipping is weekdays, so even if it was picked up by the carrier on Friday, the actual ship days are Monday and Tuesday. You would have to pay for next day air to have gotten it sooner.
(I used to work for UPS BTW)
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@agilegorge16444 I wouldn't be so worried about that, most likely you'll get it earlier, probably on Monday, look up the tracking number for detailed information, because once the product is in the hands of the shipping provider (UPS in our case), GoPro no longer controls that.
Ordered mine on Wednesday morning and still haven't received it and due to the weekend, probably I'll get it on Tuesday.
Tracking the order down I see that it is in the neighboring country, more like 3 hours drive from where I live (I'm close to the border). However most likely on Monday will enter in my country, the couriers will have their hands full started monday morning with other orders so I'll get it the next day Tuesday, which basically is 26th.
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Something I found out with Amazon... 2 day shipping means the carriers 2 day shipping choice was used. It does not mean it will arrive in 2 days. It does not include weekends (usually) or the time it takes to get to the shipper.
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Also, by GoPro not making these available for purchse has increased the price of those that do have them. They are selling on Amazon used for $90-$126 and on ebay (with some minor extras) for around $100. So GoPro is allowing a black market to exist where their customers get gouged.
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@toddc858 I think that would be quite difficult to control, even yourself could buy several adapters and sell them on different platforms double the price. So in the end it all resumes to the saying: it's not a fool the one that makes an offer, it's a fool the one that goes for it


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A Dangerous Road
1 Corinthians 6:12
"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be dominated by anything.
"The numbers are staggering. A poll by the U. S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration revealed the following statistics: One in eight Americans has a significant problem with drugs or alcohol. Twenty-seven million Americans use drugs regularly or drink heavily, with over half of those needing immediate treatment. Almost 12 percent of young people use illicit drugs by age 18.
Prescription drugs reveal similar stats, with an estimated 17 percent of adults over 60 misusing prescribed medication. In some cities, the rate of death by prescription drug overdose has risen 20 percent in recent years, and emergency room visits because of overdose has nearly doubled.
Without a doubt, addiction is a pervasive problem in the United States, spanning every race, culture, and class of Americans. Yet one thing can likely be stated about each person represented in these stats: No one sets out to become an alcoholic or an addict. No one makes it his or her goal to fall under the bondage and personal destruction that addiction brings.
Sadly, the problems of addiction invade even the church. Yet we ought not be surprised. Two thousand years ago, the apostle Paul warned believers not to allow anything to put their lives in bondage. Listen to his wise words found in 1 Corinthians 6:12.
Everything is permissible for me—but I will not be mastered by anything.
It's important to note that when Paul said "everything is permissible," he was contrasting Christianity with false religions of the day that defined themselves by a strict list of laws and rules. Redemption was attained by adhering to a rigid standard of laws governing superficial activities such as what a person ate. Not so with Christianity. Our salvation is based on faith in Christ and a commitment to His will for our lives. Then Paul added, "I will not be mastered by anything." It's wise advice. Following Christ brings the ultimate freedom: freedom from sin, judgment, and hopelessness. What tragedy to allow ourselves to become enslaved to anything. Addiction will only destroy our lives, sever our relationship with Christ, and derail His plan for us.
Are you suffering from an addiction of any kind today? You don't have to be mastered. There's freedom in Christ to live the life of purpose He planned for you from the beginning. Perhaps you're tempted by an addiction. Remember Paul's warning that such actions form a dangerous road. There's deliverance in the Lord, and the best choice is to commit to following Him from this day forward.
Why do you think people become involved in addictions? Why are addictions dangerous to our physical well-being? Our relationship with Christ?
Have you ever struggled with a temptation toward an addiction of any kind? How can you prepare to overcome such a temptation the next time it confronts you?" – Nothings to Hard For God.


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I love baking any time of the year but at Christmas it is even more fun to make something for friends and family to enjoy. Here are a few Christmas baking recipes from my blog which I hope will inspire you over the festive season.
So easy to make yet looks impressive, how about this chocolate cranberry scone wreath?
Slow cooker candy cane chocolate fudge is perfect for homemade edible gifts this Christmas.
Or perhaps you might prefer white chocolate, pistachio and raspberry fudge.
Or a Christmas cake made in the slow cooker.
Cranberry and almond Viennese whirl mince pies are a little bit different.
Or if you don't like mincemeat, how about cranberry cheesecake pies.
Perfect for Christmas Eve, boozy salted caramel hot chocolate.
If you don't like a heavy Christmas pudding, how about a cranberry and vanilla steamed pudding instead?
Chocolate eclairs wth cranberry and pistachio would be a great Christmas dessert.
Panettone bread and butter pudding is full of festive flavours.
Cranberry and orange madeleines are really easy to make.
I hope you like these ideas, do leave me a comment if you try any of them.


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