“I am truly excited to join the SRS Family and will continue to leverage our ability to develop good people and provide abundant opportunities for their growth," enthuses Vincent Saia, owner of Roofing Products & Building Supply. "I firmly believe that SRS is the right home for Roofing Products and they will support my lifelong commitment to our employees, customers, and supplier partners. By joining forces with SRS and the Advanced team, we will create the very best service platform across Southern Louisiana that will thrive for decades to come.”

Indeed, impressive set up! And I think that as the much larger cisterns start finding more homes around Seattle that there will be increased rain-barrel water supply and interest in more diverse uses of the water.

Other traditional tools any good slate roofer should use: slate cutters, hammers, hooks and rippers. To test prospective roofers’ slate knowledge, you can ask them whether they use these tools. Good roofers also know to mix up their supply of slate as they work, rather than pulling from a single pallet, to avoid sudden changes in color.

“3M is leading the way with roofing technology solutions for improving environmental impacts on human health and welfare,” said Frank Klink, Ph.D., senior laboratory manager, 3M. “The roofing granules are a first for residential asphalt shingles. The new 3M granules will help roofing manufacturers develop high-quality, aesthetically pleasing shingles that can turn any roof into an active smog-reducing catalyst, essentially becoming smog’s worst enemy.”

Roofing Products & Building Supply was founded in 1958 and currently employs a team of over 45 people. To ensure continuity and consistency for the customers, employees, and supplier partners of Roofing Products, Vincent Saia, Danny Bordelon, and Josh Romig, as well as the entire sales and operations team will be staying with the company to run the branches going forward. SRS will continue to operate these roofing-focused branches under the Roofing Products brand alongside the broader building products-focused Advanced Building Products locations.

“When Facebook selected the right-wing, Iraq War-boosting magazine The Weekly Standard as an official fact-checking partner last year as part of its effort to combat “misinformation,” progressives warned that the conservative publication would use its power to suppress accurate articles published by center-left and left-wing outlets. That’s precisely what happened.”

The number two in charge was Will and he was going through a nasty divorce. It was very public and parts of the whole ordeal even made the local papers. He was really being put through the ringer. I knew this pretty lady that worked with my mom. My mother was retired from American Express and within months of her retirement got so bored, that she got a local job at a neighborhood convenience store. At that store was a single lady who of all things practiced the religion Wicca. She was a real cool chick that lived out in the woods and literally spun around the May Pole naked during certain times of the year. She was a very interesting woman who just happened to practice positive witchcraft or white magic, not any of that dark shit. Knowing Will and the insanity of his divorce, he looked like he could use a nice lady in his life.  I never met his soon to be X-wife, but it sounded like she was Satan’s handmaid. The woman my mom worked with was good hearted, so I hooked the two of them up. Will and her hit it off immediately. I got them together and was asked to be the best man at his wedding. We all became good friends and twenty years later as I write this book, they are still together. I had an incredible skill of being a match maker and to this day have an amazing track record of putting people together for life. My personal choice for women landed up disasters, but somehow I could see other people’s relationships clearly. While Will’s love life took off, my marriage started to unravel.

The fires raging in California, and one continuing to smolder in Glacier National Park, have managers in Whitefish thinking about how people in town can prepare for the worst.

It is hard to state in words the influence the Mafia has when it comes to the food chain for Italian and Greeks restaurants. The vast arm of the criminal world holds in its grasp most of these companies involved. The reach could be described as total. Of course, they will scream from the mountaintops that is untrue and yell about stereotypes. However, that is just part of their modus operandi. From the very conception of some of the most well-known brands and companies, the mob has been there. Behind the smiley faces of chefs with white hats or the cheerful sound of the 1959 Norman Fox & The Rob Roys song “Pizza Pie” lays a dark criminal enterprise that spans from Italy and Greece to North America and beyond. They have their collective hands in every stage of the food chain from the farms that produce the tomatoes and olives, to the pizzerias that ultimately serve you the finished product. They own and control it all. They even own the trucks that move all of this around.

Mr. Polley must’ve inhaled a little too much of the environmentally friendly laughing gas used to spray in the closed-cell foam that insulates the walls and ceiling of this empty-nester couple’s tidy, one-storey home. Built in the 1880s, the little bungalow presents itself to the street as if almost nothing has changed: a wide, hip roof, a Craftsman-style porch added sometime in the 1920s, fishscale shingles on porch walls and pockmarked, snaggletoothed yellow brick surrounding windows and door.

Inventor(s): Scott Hunter (Arlington, TX) Assignee(s): S.P.M. FLOW CONTROL, INC. (Fort Worth, TX) Law Firm: Barta, Jones Foley, P.C. (1 non-local offices) Application No., Date, Speed: 15893009 on 02/09/2018 (361 days app to issue)

Inventor(s): Christina A Barton (Irving, TX) Assignee(s): ABBOTT LABORATORIES (Abbott Park, IL) Law Firm: McAndrews, Held Malloy, Ltd. (1 non-local offices) Application No., Date, Speed: 29626032 on 11/14/2017 (448 days app to issue)