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Rosboro X-Beam* - 24E,Architectural Appearance' Full Framing-Width Glulam

Rosboro is now manufacturing and stocking 4x and 6x glulam products in futl framing widths, plus I-Joist depths. The X-Beam streamlines the building process by eliminating shimming - and extra labor - on the jobsite and allows distributors to carry one SKU.

Available Net Widths:

I Beams 31 lz" , 5t lz" , 63l+" , and 831q"

I Columns 3t lz" x 6" , 5t f z" x 5t lz" , 5t lz" x 6t'

Traditional Glulam and I'Joist Depths

A full range of common depths means X-Beam will do the job:

I Glulam Depths - 6" through 30" in lrl2" increments' I t-Joist Depths - 9tlz", lll lt", l4u, l6u and 18"'

The Engineered Wood of Choice

Rosboro X-Beam has many advantages over other engineered wood products, with no real disadvantages: r Lighter weight and easier to work with. t Unlike multi-ply LVL, X-Beam single-piece installation has no side-loading issues. r Allows holes and fabrication within liberal guidelines'

I Less expensive.

I Visually more attractive.

The Greenest Beam on the Market

Glulam was green before green was exciting. Our glulam today is an even better choice for today's progressive market:

I Made from a renewable resource - second- and third generation forests.

I Glulams are manufactured with resins that meet or exceed the most stringent global emission standards' r FSC certification available.

The next generation of glulam is here.

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By Alan Oakes

Are you listening... to yourself?

AVE YOU EVER HAD A GUT FEELING thAt SOMEthiNg gOOd Or bAd WAS AbOUt tO happen? Then the phone rings and...

Sometimes I am driving to work, and I see idiots zoom by me at 90 mph- weaving in and out of lanes-and I suddenly think to mysef tLat it's time for me to slow down or there will be an accident. It seems that most of my gut feelings or instincts are about bad things that are about to happen rather thai good th-ings (particularly as my inner voice tells me to go and pliy the Lotto, and i have never won a dime yet). But over the years, I have come to conclude that I have pretty good intuition about what's going on around me. so much so that I typicallv t-jt my gut feelings in dealing with people and business situations. If I"ovenide mv concerns, generally there's a price to pay later.

The trouble is many of us don't listen to our inner voice. perhaps it is because we often do not want something to be true and hope ignoring lt witt make it go away. Throughout each and every day we receive signals to our subconscious, b-ut to hear them or react to them we have to learn to recognize them and act on them.

Intuition comes from not only our gut but also our head and our heart. when all three collide, warning bells go off. when something is weighing heavy on me, I can feel the pain in my stomach and heart, and it doein't go i*uy-until i make a decision-usually one in line with what my gut is telling me. Rno strangely, it's rarely wrong. But it takes time and experience to learn to trust your instincts. Maybe the older and (hopefully) wiser you get, the messages trying to arrracr your attention actually get through to you. perhaps it takes some bad things to happen until you realize what the messages were trying to tell you, ro n&t timiyou become more aware of the signs and at least weigh them.

In business, it is much the same. opportunities come and go, and it is the brave who listen to their gut. Yes, you can have committees or conJultants concoct business plans. But sometimes when your inner voice is telling you to do something and do it Now, if you have come to the point of trusting youi instincts, then donl delay, just do it. I think over the years when something has gone wrong in my business life, I wasn't strong enough to stand up for my instinc-ts. I think it " p"o- ple I have been most impressed with in business are those who have gone against general thinking because they had an instinct that what seemed wro-ng to 6thers was, in fact, right. The term "stroke of genius" comes about when someone was willing to gamble and make a call that was seen by others as too bold or risky.

At the end of the day, it is instinct rather than processes and formulas that make the really best people stand out. And that is the problem too many times in corporate life today, when you must go round and round getting a consensus for every move instead of someone saying this is how something should be done, acting 9n it, and moving on. There is so much pussyfooting around people's feelings that decisionJ often get watered down and the end results are failure.

It is not only your instinct that you must learn to trust; you need to seek out others who can be trusted to make the right decisions over time. In some cases you might trust their judgment over your own if they have proven that their judgment might be better than your own.

While we listen to our kids and our spouses (well some of us), perhaps we should listen more to ourselves!

Alan Oakes, Publisher ajoakes@aol.com

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