A research staff works on a trading floor behind convexities of smoked glass, at cockpit-like desks of kid-glove Bentley leather with three screens apiece. They begin with an industry-standard subscription database, but its information — serial number, registration information, sales history, whatever is known of the ownership and any publicly listed current prices — is almost always incomplete or unreliable, as the most sensitive data is concealed underneath layers of shell companies incorporated in places like Delaware, Panama or the British Virgin Islands. Beyond ferreting out the basic question of ownership, Varsano’s researchers try to gather as much market information as they can. They’ll see that a given plane is going out of warranty in a year or two, or is about to hit the end of a corporate depreciation schedule, or is due for the sort of routine but expensive engine check that regulators require, or they’ll know a new model is due from the factory soon, and they’ll ask if the owner has given any thought to a sale. Varsano is known to represent serious buyers, so if they call and say they’ve got a customer in the market for a G650 or a Falcon 900LX, his researchers are confident they’ll get legitimate (if exaggerated) bid-ask spreads.

In addition, in 2016 we launched a new marketing model focused on providing broader technical solutions and closer work with end-users of our products and distribution partners to synchronize production, logistics and inventories with demand in the fields, which we refer to as our “regional go-to-market” model. Customers working under this arrangement have the ability to reserve production capacity and place orders with minimum supply lead times and for the quantity and type of product required based on the latest drilling program. This marketing model allowed us to increase our customer base by 27% during the six months ended June 30, 2018 and by 24% during the year ended December 31, 2017. The higher level of sales predictability allows us, our customers and distributors to exercise better control over production costs. In addition to our new marketing model, we also are growing our digital go-to-business model, including a continuous pipe tracking program that is in advanced customer testing, and an automated mill test reporting process that is now operational.

They took on New York City, playing all-nighters in seminal clubs like Nightingale’s and Wetlands Preserve, a blossoming environmentally and socially conscious hangout in Tribeca. They became insatiable road warriors, promoted by the monolithic Bill Graham Presents, playing anywhere, and everywhere, as a badge of honor. They treated a gig in North Dakota with just as much reverence as one in California or New York, if not more so.

Inventor(s): William E. Glidewell (Lewisville, TX) Assignee(s): Kodiak Products Co., Inc. (Fort Worth, TX) Law Firm: Sand Sebolt (Local + 59 other metros) Application No., Date, Speed: 14822381 on 08/10/2015 (1009 days app to issue)

Allure pointed out that Olsen’s cheekbones were sharpened and her skin darkened. Her hair, too, went from a blonde to something more brassy.

Johanne Killeen of Al Forno shared both the story on GoLocal LIVE’s "The Taste," of how grilled pizza began — as well as the announcement on her new cookbook highlighting pizza.

Shorts are almost always be at a terminal or junction. The only junction is at the fuse. I unwrapped half a mile of electrical tape from the fuse junction and there it was. Butt connectors on both wires had melted, and bare wires pressed together.

I have a lot of “favorite ornaments” for the Christmas tree. I can’t pick just one. However, one in particular when mated to a spinning motor is very comforting to watch — very much in the way the flames of a fire in the fireplace are comforting. Being that this ornament is clear, it is interesting to watch the candy stripes on the front and back spiral and intermingle as it spins and then to reverse the spinning motion and watch it do it in a different way.

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