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Earlier Scott Ambler posted an article of how to measure productivity on agile teams by utilizing acceleration. Recently he followed up with another post where he answers some frequently asked questions related to agile productivity and acceleration. Specifically one question answers how to measure the amount of $ saved by an accelerating team.
Ambler argues that:
If you can easily measure productivity you can easily identify what is working for you in given situations, or what is not working for you, and adjust accordingly.
He starts by saying that most agile teams use velocity to measure how a team is performing, then goes on and asks (and answers) the question:
Is it possible to use velocity as a measure of productivity?
You can't compare the velocity of the two teams because they're measuring in different units. Team A is reporting in their points and B in their points, so you can't compare them directly.
Instead he proposes a different solution:
Instead of comparing velocities you instead calculate the acceleration of each team.
Team A's velocity is increasing over time whereas team B's velocity is trending downwards. All things being equal, you can assume that team A's productivity is increasing whereas B's is decreasing. Of course it's not wise to manage simply by the numbers, so instead of assuming what is going on I would rather go and talk with the people on the two teams. Doing so I might find out that team A has adopted quality-oriented practices such as continuous integration and static code analysis which team B has not, indicating that I might want to help team B adopt these practices and hopefully increase their productivity.
To calculate the acceleration of a team, Ambler suggests using the following formula:
(velocity iteration x1 – velocity iteration x2) / velocity iteration x2 = team acceleration
where iteration x1 is some iteration back in time before iteration x2. As an example he uses two teams, where one team has positive acceleration and the other negative acceleration:
…the acceleration of team A from iteration 1 to iteration 6 is (20-17)/17 = 0.176 whereas for team B it is (45-51)/51 = -.118
Ambler points out some advantages and disadvantages using this method:
- It's easy to calculate
- It is inexpensive
- It is unlikely to be gamed
- It is easy to automate
- It offers the opportunity for more effective governance
- You can easily adjust for changing team size
- You can easily monetize this metric
- It is an indirect measure of productivity
- You actually need to measure what you're interested in
- Management must be flexible
- Your existing measurement program may be questioned
- The terminology sounds scientific
In his FAQ post he goes into how you can monetize acceleration:
…assume your acceleration is 0.007 (0.7%), there are five people on the team, your annual burdened cost per person is $150,000, and you have two week iterations.
So, per iteration the average burdened cost per person must be $150,000/26 = $5,770. Productivity improvement per iteration for this team must be $5,770 * 5 * .007 = $202. If the acceleration stayed constant at 0.7% the overall productivity improvement for the year would be (1.007)^26 (assuming the team works all 52 weeks of the year) which would be 1.198 or 19.8%. This would be a savings of $148,500
The number 26 is the number of iterations per year (52 weeks / 2 week iterations).
Would you want to start using this method for calculating acceleration on your team(s)?
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Andy Marks
Unfortunately, I've seen too many teams that have accelerated impressively based purely on story points, but they've actually been re-estimating and increasing the sizes of the stories. So the appearance is acceleration, but the reality is that stories have been de-valued and their relative tracking towards release may not have improved at all.
I'm always amazed by how hard it can be to convince people of the false economy of increasing estimate sizes to guarantee a planning velocity is attained, when doing so effectively increases the size of the project (in terms of storypoints) as well.
Acceleration is good, but can not be constant
Pedro Thormodsen
My main KPI is User Stories delivered. For stabile teams, User Stories tend to normalize in size over time. Presuming the PO has prioritized the most valuable User Stories to the top of the backlog, the more User Stories the team gets done equals more value delivered. If the amount of User Stories done is trending downwards, there's need to investigate. The team may not be at fault, but something in their environment is causing less value produced.
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Edward Wallace "Ted" Cahill of Naples, Fla., died Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, at age 89.
He was born in June of 1919 in Waukesha. Edward was the youngest son of Gertrude and Mark Cahill.
He graduated from Waukesha High School in 1938. During his school years, he served as manager of several athletic teams, was a "W" wearer and was active in the YMCA, among other activities.
In 1976, he retired from the Cahill Lumber and Coal Co., which he operated with his brother, Richard. The brothers also built homes in the city. With his wife, Grace (nee Ray), he built a home on Marco Island in Florida and became a resident there. In 1993, they moved to Bentley Village in Naples, where his wife died.
Ted was an avid fisherman, a duck hunter and a collector of wildlife art.
He is survived by his brother, Richard (Elizabeth) Cahill, and their three sons, Timothy in Montana, and Richard and David in Arizona.
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In 2013, the American Heart Association convened a two-day interactive and collaborative forum for key stakeholders and thought leaders in sodium reduction to discuss the status and future implications of reducing sodium in the food supply and identify opportunities for stakeholder collaboration.
Nearly 130 participants representing stakeholders engaged in research and development, food processing and manufacturing, regulatory and legislative activities, public health initiatives, education strategies and monitoring and surveillance participated in the conference.
Presentation topics included:
- Scientific evidence for sodium reduction and public health policy recommendations
- Consumer sodium intakes and attitudes and behaviors towards sodium
- Food technologies and solutions for sodium reduction and sensory implications
- Experiences of the food and dining industry
- Translation and implementation of sodium intake recommendations
The conference allowed stakeholders to engage in conversation, receive updates from experts in the field and share current data.
The conference demonstrated the value of collaboration between the food industry and health and nutrition professionals, and this conference model could be used to address other food development, processing and/or technology issues.
The objectives included:
- Assess the current status and future implications of efforts to reduce sodium in the food supply.
- Leverage expertise from different disciplines to identify and evaluate sodium reduction strategies and to address opportunities and challenges.
- Discuss ways to translate sodium reduction strategies into practical application.
- Identify short-term and long-term sodium reduction goals and the factors that impact timelines for achieving these goals.
- Identify metrics and methodologies for evaluating the collective impact of sodium reduction efforts on the food supply and on health outcomes.
- Identify collaboration opportunities among stakeholders.
The information presented and discussed at the conference by food industry, public health, medicine, nutrition and food science, research and public policy professionals will help the AHA understand the roles it can play in helping reduce Americans' sodium intakes, setting a road map for moving forward.
Learn more:
- The proceedings report from the association's Sodium Conference is published online in Circulation.
- Watch the American Heart Association 2013 Sodium Conference Proceedings video of Elliott Antman, M.D., a member of the Sodium Conference Planning Committee, discuss the Conference.


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If it seems social obligations have been light the last few weeks, fear not. The party train is back on the tracks, full steam ahead.
Christie's is holding a major Earth Day bash with Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and every eco-happy celeb out there on April 22, the same night Dior Beauty is having a dinner at the LVMH building. The annual Costume Institute gala falls on May 3, and there's the Almay Concert to Celebrate the Rainforest Fund at Carnegie Hall on May 13 with Lady Gaga, Elton John, Shirley Bassey and Sting. The Whitney's annual Art Party is scheduled for June 9.
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But before even thinking about all that, there's next week to plow through. At least 10 events are scheduled over the course of four evenings. All aboard!
Monday, April 12:
The Metropolitan Opera's gala benefit premiere of Armida, sponsored by Yves Saint Laurent; the Art Production Fund's 10th anniversary celebration at the 18th floor of The Standard Hotel.
Tuesday, April 13:
Hale House Center's annual dinner and dance honoring Frederick Anderson and Judith Giuliani; the Turnaround for Children inaugural benefit dinner hosted by Julianna Margulies, Emily Mortimer, Mary-Louise Parker, Brooke Shields, Uma Thurman and Naomi Watts.
Wednesday, April 14:
Isabel Marant opens its New York flagship and hosts a dinner at Kenmare; the premiere of HBO Films' "You Don't Know Jack," a Jack Kevorkian biopic starring Al Pacino, Susan Sarandon, Danny Huston and John Goodman; Loft (Ann Taylor) celebrates its Style Studio with stylists and Alexa Chung at The Bowery Hotel.
Thursday April 15:
The American Museum of Natural History Spring Safari benefit sponsored by Lilly Pulitzer; Benetton's bash for its global ad campaign at the 18th floor of The Standard Hotel.


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Two people in possession of Islamic State propaganda were arrested in raids in and around Brussels Sunday and Monday, sparking renewed concerns about Belgium's homegrown jihadi insurgency.
South Korea and other US allies in Asia have welcomed the US Navy's assertion of navigation rights near reclaimed islands controlled by China.
The USS Lassen sailed close to a Chinese manmade island on Tuesday. Tensions have been mounting over China's territorial claims in the area.
China has criticized the sail-past of a US warship close to an uninhabited reef in the South China Sea that China has occupied. The US and others contest China's territorial claims there.
Netanyahu's claim that the then-grand mufti of Jerusalem, and not Hitler, conceived of the Holocaust is being ridiculed as a 'dangerous distortion' and an attempt to demonize all Palestinians.
The French prime minister on Thursday warned of a possible chemical attack and urged lawmakers to approve expanded police powers.
The suburb of St. Denis awoke Wednesday to the sound of gunfire and explosions. French police continue to hunt suspects linked to last week's attacks.
The Metrojet jet was downed over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Oct. 31, an attack claimed by Islamic State. Russian officials say there is growing consensus with Western powers on fighting Islamist terrorism.
France has arrested 23 people in raids across the country and recovered a cache of weapons in the city of Lyon. A Belgium-born suspect is among those being sought by authorities.
A woman takes selfie in from of the 'Departure' installation by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota during the launch of Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Nov.11.
The Syrian president's visit to Moscow, his first known visit abroad since the civil war began, indicates confidence in how the conflict is developing now that Russia has entered the fray.
An Eritrean man was shot and beaten on Sunday after being mis-identified as a second attacker in the shooting of an Israeli soldier.
China has constructed islands in an area claimed by some of its neighbors. It says it has an exclusion zone around these islands, which is at odds with the US position.
The group Abu Sayyaf may be responsible for the kidnapping of two Canadians, a Filipino, and a Norwegian in the troubled southern region of the country.
Tuesday, which the militant group Hamas declared a 'day of rage,' saw four attacks by Palestinians in Jerusalem and near Tel Aviv.
Russia's military intervention in Syria has jolted NATO and provoked frustration in Washington. On Wednesday, Russia launched cruise missiles from warships in the Caspian Sea.
The US airstrike on the Afghan hospital in which 22 people were killed has prompted Doctors Without Borders to call for an investigation into possible war crimes.
Russian jets have twice entered Turkish airspace, according to NATO, which has disputed Russia's account of an accidental incursion during action in Syria.
Russian officials say Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is crucial to fighting the Islamic State, while President Obama has called on the embattled leader to step aside.
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Dynasty Warriors 8 follows the stories of the kingdoms of Wei, Wu, Shu and Jin through the actions of historical military and political figures of the time as they fight to gain control over the Three Kingdoms of China. Any game that has the number 8 after it might want to take a long hard look at itself in the mirror. Having said that you can't really blame the character artists working for Omega Force because these renders are pretty stunning.
I love DW games and will always love DW games. I can't wait for DW8, just like how some people can't wait for Mario 202 and Zelda 20 and Metroid.....7?
meh, same thing same archetypes no minimalism in the character design and i guarantee that there will not be a single original personality in this game, so not interested
I have DW2 and DW4. The games after that weren't apealing to me (characters with other weapons, big no for me)
DW8 looks great :)
Dynasty Warriors use to be one of my most favourite gaming series. Though somewhere in the middle, it just felt like they were playing it too safe with each version.
Though there is so much untapped potential in the game it is unreal. If they included more sophisticated AI and maybe a commander system where maybe you can also have your own battalion of soldiers, then I would chuck my cash at them like no tomorrow.
Help me out here. I am very confused (this is legitimate, OK?)
There was a series that I played on either PS1 or PS2 where you would strategically train troops, buy equipment and so forth. I don't recall the fighting being third person, it was more like I can take over lands from different shoguns or dictators or something like that...
Has that series evolved into this hack and slash (no offense)?
I'm confused because I cant recall that games name and I would like to see if they have a newer version of this game. I want to play it.
I hope I wasn't describing this game wrong.


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General Mills Chairman and CEO Ken Powell will present to a sold-out audience at the next Carlson School of Management "1st Tuesday Speaker Series" on April 1, 2014 at 11:30 a.m. at McNamara Alumni Center.
General Mills, the world's sixth-largest food company, produces and markets leading brands like Cheerios, Häagen-Dazs, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Green Giant, Nature Valley and more. Powell joined General Mills in 1979 and has spent more than a third of his career working internationally. In 1990, he helped launch Cereal Partners Worldwide (CPW) in Lausanne, Switzerland, General Mills' joint venture with Nestlé.
Powell returned to the United States in 1996 to become president of Yoplait USA, and was named president of the General Mills' Big G cereal division in 1997. Powell journeyed to Switzerland in 1999 to assume the role of chief executive officer of CPW, and helped grow the joint venture into a $2 billion global cereal business marketing in more than 130 countries around the world. He was elected chief executive officer of General Mills in September 2007 and chairman in May 2008.
Powell serves on the board of directors for General Mills, Medtronic, the Consumer Goods Forum, Greater MSP, the University of Minnesota Foundation, and the supervisory board of Cereal Partners Worldwide. He is the board chair of the Grocery Manufacturers Association and a member of Minnesota Business Partnership, the Business Council, and the Business Roundtable.
Powell holds a BA in biology from Harvard and an MBA from Stanford University.
About the Carlson School of Management's 1st Tuesday Speaker Series
The Carlson School of Management's "1st Tuesday Speaker Series" began in 1992 to provide an opportunity for alumni and friends of the Carlson School to continue their management education. The series features top-notch executives addressing hot topics in business and leadership. Held on the first Tuesday of every month, the program attracts alumni and business leaders from throughout the corporate community, and has become an attractive spot for professionals in the metropolitan area to network.


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The Lewiston Choraleers present "Christmas Potpourri 2012" with performances Saturday, Dec. 8, at 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church (Old Stone Church), 505 Cayuga St., Lewiston; 7 p.m. at Bacon Memorial Presbyterian Church, 166 59th St., Niagara Falls; and Sunday, Dec. 9, at 2 p.m. at Messiah Lutheran Church, 915 Oneida St., Lewiston.
The fun-filled, family-friendly concerts feature a variety of holiday music, including traditional, contemporary, international and ethnic selections.
The choral group will be directed by Donald D. Shrimpton and accompanied by pianist Lynda Williams and percussionist Patrick Kuciewski.
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Remember back when I wrote about coming for a cause with Sir Richards? Well I recently had the chance to interview Cory Capoccia, founder of Conscious Contraceptives, another socially conscious rubber retailer—spread those condoms, people! Conscious Contraceptives is also known as Con Con…cute, right? Reminds me of a toddler…I've been on a baby-sniffing stint lately. They smell so good!
Anyway, creeper status aside, the organization implements the same one-for-one charity model as TOMS Shoes. Read the following interview, and learn about their grassroots campaign, and their vegan selection! Also, get some info on how you can win a shit ton of condoms! A whole year's worth! Stock your entire dresser with rubbers and scare away all of your dates with the expansiveness of your condom collection.
How do you find the communities you donate your to?
The communities we support are identified through our partner charities. Currently, our partner charity, Support for International Change (SIC), works in rural Tanzania to provide a comprehensive set of HIV-related services. As ConCon.org continues to grow, our support will enable SIC to expand into other countries within Africa.
Tell me a bit about the worldwide sex education you're helping to fund…
Our mission is to increase access to contraceptives and sexual education domestically and abroad. Since our launch on December 1st, 2011, we have dedicated most of 2012 to connecting with college students to promote safer sex domestically. Over the past few months, we have been traveling to college campuses across the United States to engage with the students in a number of different ways. On some campuses we have handed out free condoms to the students while at other schools we have hosted presentations for various student groups and organizations. Regardless of which type of interaction we are having, this grassroots campaign is focused on promoting safer sex from both a physical and emotional perspective by ensuring the students are taking the necessary measures to protect themselves during any sexual encounter—ConCon.org is a resource available to students 24/7 to conveniently and discreetly access the products they need to ensure that they are always prepared.
Through our partnership with Support for International Change (www.sichange.org), we are on the ground abroad helping to advance global sexual health and education via awareness campaigns, mobile voluntary counseling and, and training of peer educators. In addition to donating male and female condoms to the communities we serve, we are focused heavily on training community leaders with the goal of empowering them to autonomously educate and assist those people from their villages.
Do you carry any vegan brands or cruelty free products? If not, you should consider it! We're a conscious group of peeps.
We carry over 1,300 items spanning different manufacturers and we do have a few products by manufacturers such as Hydra, Encounter and Sliquid which are certified as vegan by the manufacturer!
I love that you're touring college campuses! College students are the ideal demographic to target, although high school tours would be awesome too. Can you tell me what you hope the tour will do as far as raising awareness?
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued a statement that "STIs are one of the most critical health challenges facing the nation today," with an estimated 19 million new infections every year in the United States. Our experiences while meeting with students during our college campus tour have often left us feeling that a huge educational gap still exists around the dangers of engaging in unprotected sex in an environment where casual sex is common place. The CDC's report validates that the lack of knowledge/responsibility disclosing that while "young people represent 25 percent of the sexually experienced population in the United States," they account for a disproportionate share of new STIs, representing nearly 50 percent of all new cases.
We also hope to remove the stigma that surrounds condoms. Safe sex should be pleasurable for all involved!
Agreed! What campuses are you hitting?
Most universities are out of school until August to September, so we are on a break for the tour currently, but when we return, we plan on making our way around the Eastern schools from Harvard down to the University of Florida.
How cool is Cory?!
Okay okay, the contest! Con Con is hosting a nationwide contest in support of National Gay Pride this month, and you have a few more days to participate! Visit Facebook.com/ConConOrg," Like the page, and submit a wall post starting off with the phrase, "I use contraceptives with PRIDE because…" The comment with the most likes and replies during the month-long celebration wins 365 condoms of any brand carried on ConCon.org.
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Batticaloa District, in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka is an ethnically diverse city with a population of approximately 490,000. The three decade old civil war wreaked havoc in this beautiful coastal town where the majority of the people are Tamil (74.5%) with a smaller Muslim (23.5%) and a Sinhala (1.3%) community living amidst some amount of tension over their ethnic differences.
Driving into Batticaloa town was a pleasant surprise for me after almost ten years. The bustling town was visually coming alive with the excellent road network that made the long drive from Colombo a real pleasure. Well constructed roads, the new and gleaming centre median lamp posts and the ongoing construction work painted a very positive feeling about the overall development of downtown Batticaloa, which was a welcome change for me. Batticaloa town's landscape was surely changing. Needless to say I was wowed!


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WisdomTree Continuous Commodity ETF (:GCC) shares saw the needle move -2.20% on the week. The stock closed the most recent session at $18.20 after seeing 48960 shares trade hands. This represents a change of -0.11% from the opening.
Investors may be analyzing the portfolio as we continue to move closer to the end of the year. Studying first half results may assist to identify trades that panned out, and those that didn't. Keeping tabs on pervious trade outcomes may be a good way to accurately see what actually happened. It may be necessary to dig a little deeper to try and figure out why certain trades worked, and why others did not. Many investors may feel like they have missed the boat, and they may be wondering if stocks will see increased momentum closing out the year. Attaining comprehensive knowledge of the markets may take years to truly figure out. Combining technical analysis and tracking fundamentals may help the investor see the complete picture and develop confidence for trading into the future. Being able to sift through the endless sea of information may take some perseverance and extreme focus.
When deciding how to best approach the stock market, individual investors may need to figure out what their time horizon is going to be. Short-term traders may only be looking to hold stocks for a short period in order to capitalize on fluctuations. Longer-term investors may be looking at more of a buy and hold strategy, and they may not be very concerned with the day to day shifts of a stock's price. Accumulating as much knowledge as possible about specific stocks and the markets in general can help the investor prepare for success. Because there is no magic strategy that can be employed to guarantee profits, investors may need to evaluate multiple methods before choosing which one to pursue.
When looking back historically at the stock market, it is easy to see that there are always extended periods of upturns and downturns. The speed at which the market can shift can cause even the most experienced investors stomachs to turn. When times are good and markets are rising, it can be easy to forget that a downturn may be just around the corner. Being prepared for sudden changes can help the investor plan for the unknown as best they can. Getting caught off guard can be extremely disconcerting and lead to irrational decision making. There is rarely any substitute for extensive study and focused dedication. Investors who put in the extra time to create a backup plan may be better able to traverse the road when the market environment inevitably shifts.
Let's take a look at how the stock has been performing recently. Year to date WisdomTree Continuous Commodity ETF (:GCC) is -5.31%, 1.79% over the last quarter, and -6.52% for the past six months.
Over the past 50 days, WisdomTree Continuous Commodity ETF stock's -3.19% off of the high and 3.41% removed from the low. Their 52-Week High and Low are noted here. -8.47% (High), 4.90%, (Low).
Investors may be trying to figure out how long the stock market bull run will continue. There are plenty of commentators who think that a downturn is coming soon, but there are plenty who believe that the market still has plenty of room to push higher. Preparing the portfolio for any market scenario can help ease the investor's mind. Putting in the time to research investments as well as global economic data might help keep focus clear when things get cloudy. Closing in on the end of the year, investors may be conducting year-end portfolio reviews. Figuring out what has worked and what adjustments can be made may help iron out the wrinkles heading into the next few quarters.
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I got in the ceiling once then when trying to get out put a huge hole in it
My soul flows to the movement of the pen.
Threw a sharp led pencil at the ceiling in Art Class, the pencil stuck there for a while. (freshman year)
The art class ceiling was...idk...really far up, 20-30 feet maybe. Was used to hang crafts and stuff.
When the principle found out about it, he offered a 50dollar reward...Because it made our strict school look ghetto.
Surprisingly, no one I knew that was there ratted me out, a class of about 15.
Guess everyone thought it was funny and wasn't worth it.
The janitor eventually brought it down...
So, hehe.
In middle school, during my pageantry class, my teacher was trying to lecture/go off on me in front of the ENTIRE class (for no good reason at all), she mispronounced my first name so I went off on her, in front of the entire class, for it.
In high school, I was a cheerleader. My senior year, my new cheer coach decided to get my two captains and the 3 of us in our stunt group suspended for being "defiant" by doing a stunt during a half time performance. They lectured us and blah blah blah. They pulled us all out of class just to let us know that we're all getting suspended. When the vice principal called me in, they were having us all (individually) call our parents and fill out "our version of the story" on our suspension forms. Our stupid cheer coach was also in the room. When I had to fill out my verison on the story, I wrote "YAY! =)" and was sarcastic about the entire meeting and call to my Mom. When they called my Mom, she honestly didn't even care,which they were hoping that she would be pissed. I laughed out loud, which pissed off the vice principal, which made her threaten to suspend me for 2 extra days because of my actions and me being sarcastic.
Looking back at it, I kinda sound like a trouble maker in my younger days
I don't think I'm capable of doing anything funny.. When I was in school, all I did was read in the library (or on top of some tree) or run around in the field catching grasshoppers and dragonflies.
Perhaps the funniest thing I must have done was when I tried to act like all the other girls... Because a nun told me girls don't climb trees or get themselves dirty playing with bugs...
I apologize in advance for late responses and dropped conversations.
Well I had a bulbasaur eraser and I was throwing it in air and all of sudden it hits my teacher in head I didn't get the eraser back v.v
A week before my high school prom I made a T-shirt that said, "I need a Prom Date", and said "Will you go with me?" on the back. Those interested signed their names on the t-shirt. I commandeered the announcement system shortly before prom to do a drawing of what 3 girls would get to go with me, and drew it out of a hat! Was a wildly successful stunt, though I got in trouble for using the school PA system.
. . . and furthermore . . .
memento mori
I was in Health class so since it was the last period of the day I needed a good stretch in the middle of the reproduction lesson talking about wet dreams and the male reproduction and stuff so I went..:
Me: HNNNNNNNNNNNNNG
Friend: Urg..cannot contain weenier fluids!
Everyone started cracking up and in the end me and my friend got kicked out the class.
Then there was a sub back in what..middle school? Someone told me to turn off the lights. One of my classmates sounded so dang mature I thought he was the teacher so I did it. And when it did all of students yelled , threw shit , and made monkey noises. When the teacher turned it back on..meh I got kicked out again and almost suspended until they found out I had a legit argument because that one kid with the deep ass voice asked someone else to do it and he ended up getting busted.
You better check yourself before you Shrek yourself
120 referrals (sent to the office) from Grade 7-8. The funniest thing was probably when 3 of my friends and myself were in the principles office and he was trying to be all serious and we all kept bursting out laughing and he said "DO YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY" and we all said nothing and looked at each other and burst out laughing again so he suspended us all
My friends and I were having a holding breath contest at lunch and my friends were trying to make me laugh while I was trying to hold my breath and I accidentally spit all over. I mean there was spit all over my face because I tried to cover up my mouth with my hand and spit went flying all across the table. It was so embarrassing but super funny at the same time.
Halloween may be over but I still love to be Halloweened themed!
threw a mr. noodle string noodle at a teacher and it landed right on her face, I will never forget the look she gave me and the fact that the noodle stuck there for a good 3 seconds, it was the best moment of life and I couldn't help but laugh.. I got detention
..Worth it
Hmm....... I guess I'll have to say the time during gym class when an annoying buddy of mine kept on poking me so I slapped his hand. It was a rather loud and hard slap which caught everyone's attention.
I'll never get tired of watching Gurren Lagann. X3
When the teacher was giving a lesson about synonyms, she asked us "Class what is a synonym for beautiful?"
Me: "Sexy"
we were in second grade i think.
I said, " I live in a van .....down by the river!" .....in German! >:D My German teacher asked us where we lived.
When Grand Theft Auto V comes out I am running over a hooker. ಠ_ಠ


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Tim has been entertaining audiences in comedy clubs, theaters and corporate events throughout the United States and Canada for years, bringing a unique mix of high energy, quick wit and quirky antics when he hits the stage. Most recently, Tim has appeared on the USA Networks TV Show "Burn Notice", and is the voice of the Offensive Coordinator in the popular Football video game MADDEN 2011.
Starting out in comedy clubs in New York City as well as writing and performing as a member of a highly successful sketch comedy show touring early in his career. Tim's unique performing/writing style has given him an edge that's been recognized by HBO and Showtime as well as Time Out magazine and New York's Metro Channel. He has been showcased, and a finalist, at the LAS VEGAS COMEDY FESTIVAL, and is also heard on Sirius/XM Radio Raw Dog.
On screen he has worked in independent films such as LOST & FOUND, CAMPAIGNER, and ACTION 5 NEWS.
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Located in central Howard County in southwestern Arkansas, Dierks (pop. 1,230) is a town with origins linked to the emergence of the state's lumber industry. It was named after a German family that immigrated to Iowa in the mid-1800s and later, led by Peter Henry Dierks, migrated south. The family established several prosperous sawmill and lumber businesses in Arkansas and Oklahoma in the early 1900s, including a major sawmill at an Arkansas community then known as Hardscrabble. When it was incorporated in 1907, the settlement took the Dierks' name. In 1969, Weyerhaeuser Company purchased most of the Dierks family's holdings. With a workforce of approximately 600 people, Weyerhaeuser's manufacturing facilities at Dierks remain the area's largest employer. Poultry, swine, and cattle production are also important sectors of the local economy.
Located five miles northwest of Dierks and surrounded by mixed pine and hardwood forests, the 1,360-acre Dierks Lake provides opportunities for fishing, boating, water-skiing, camping, picnicking and sightseeing. Three Corps' recreation areas on the lake offer boat ramps, swimming areas and a total of more than 100 campsites. Among anglers, the lake is best known for its crappie and largemouth bass, but fishing for bream and catfish is also good.
For more than 30 years, the Pine Tree Festival has been the town's signature annual event. Held in City Park on the first Friday and Saturday of each August, the festival recalls the town's lumber-industry origins and carries on a tradition of forest festivals that were popular particularly in southern Arkansas from the 1920s through the early 1950s. The festival's Saturday evening country music concert usually features a rising country star and has in the past showcased artists such as Reba McEntire and Hank Williams Jr. Other festival activities include a barbecue cook-off, craft and food vendors, and car, tractor and heavy equipment shows. Festival admission is free except for the concert. No public lodging facilities are available in Dierks, but accommodations are available in nearby De Queen and Nashville.
For additional Dierks information, visit the Dierks Chamber of Commerce's Web site or phone (870) 286-2911.


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Homemade Mayonnaise
Makes about 1 cup
We've all eaten store-bought mayonnaise, but if you haven't had fresh homemade mayonnaise lately, you have to try this.
Find this recipe and more in Chef Paul Prudhomme's Pure Magic.
1 large egg
¾ cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1 teaspoon Chef Paul Prudhomme's Magic Pepper Sauce®
½ teaspoon black pepper
½ teaspoon white pepper
how to prepare
Place the egg in a blender and process for 30 seconds. With the machine running, slowly add the oil in a thin, steady stream. Add the vinegar and process for 30 seconds. Add the Magic Pepper Sauce® and the black and white peppers and process just until blended.


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Personalizing your BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet is really easy thanks to the features and options offered. Here are five ways you can personalize your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet today!
1. Set a custom wallpaper and choose your favorite picture of family and friends
If you've taken a nice photo or saved an image using the web browser that you want to set as the wallpaper for your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, all you need to do is the following.
- Open the Pictures application on your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.
- Find and open the picture you want to set as your wallpaper.
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Mixing Innovations Keep Beverages Flowing
As beverages get more complex, processing plants must deal with expensive, problematic ingredients.
The beverage industry is bigger, more trend-driven and more diverse than ever. The American Beverage Association says just its slice of the industry (carbonated soft drinks, energy drinks, ready-to-drink teas and bottled water) amounts to a $119 billion, annual economy.
It is also growing. A 2011 study by market research firm AlixPartners indicated that 74 percent of consumers surveyed in the spring of that year expected to spend more in that coming year on non-alcoholic beverages than they had in 2010. Several market studies point to impressive growth in sub-segments including energy drinks, ready-to-drink teas and sports drinks, all of which more than eclipse the erosion of carbonated soft drinks sales.
This complex beverage industry means that beverage plant managers and engineers have more variables to work with and a higher level of expectations to meet. While it may be pretty basic on the surface, mixing and blending beverages and then packaging them for sale is not nearly as simple as it once was.
Remember when there was only formula for orange juice? "Now, do you want no-pulp, light pulp or heavy pulp?" asks Wallace Wittkoff, hygienic market director for Pump Solutions Group, which includes pump brands such as Wilden, Mouvex and Almatec (www.psgdover.com).
"Beverage processors need to thermally handle the juice differently than the pulp. If you break the pulp sac, all the pulp falls to the bottom. So they separate the pulp and then add it back in at the end to whatever proportion they desire. A centrifugal pump could pump the beverage just fine, but could break those pulp sacs. But a diaphragm pump gently handles mixing the pulp back in," he says.
Wittkoff also notes that the Wilden Hygienic series is designed with internal geometries that prevent pulp from getting lodged in seal areas or back sides of rotors so pulp is completely removed during clean-in-place. Otherwise, pulp can remain even after cleaning.
Some of the most important changes have taken place in the blending room, where new technologies allow for faster, more accurate and more thorough blending of the ever-increasing ingredients and fortification that goes into today's products.
It doesn't end there, of course, as filling and packaging equipment has also changed dramatically. And throughout a beverage plant, there are ongoing efforts to reduce energy use and push the envelope on the levels of hygiene, functionality and ease of maintenance.
A better mix
Mixing and blending for beverages is typically achieved in a large-format vat blending system. But as beverage formulations have become more varied and complex, and have come to include more high-value fortification and functional ingredients, the approach to blending has changed too, says Rick Earley, beverage and dairy market manager at Admix Inc. (www.admix.com) Manchester, N.H.
"With all the beverage folks, what they want to do is to wet, disperse and blend all of these critical ingredients into a liquid," he says. "We are able to save them energy and reduce batch times through things like in-line and powder induction blending that takes place before the mix reaches the batch tank.
"Most beverage plants have gone to high-shear mixers in their batch tanks, but with in-line and powder induction there is less heating and mixing needed once the product reaches those tanks," he adds.
Additionally, ingredients can be mixed at floor level, eliminating the need to elevate those materials to the top of a tall batch tank, says Daniel Osiedacz, blending/mixing product manager at Fristam Pumps (www.fristam.com) Middleton, Wis.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Once they got Matt Cain out of the game, Yasiel Puig and the Los Angeles Dodgers roughed up the San Francisco Giants' stellar bullpen.
Dee Gordon and Puig broke open a tie game with consecutive RBI doubles in the seventh, Matt Kemp homered in the eighth and the Dodgers beat the NL West-leading Giants 6-2 on Saturday.
''Cain pitched a good game and pounded the zone,'' Kemp said. ''He threw strikes, mixed his pitches up well and got them over the plate. We couldn't really get anything off of him. But we waited him out, got him out of there, got to their bullpen and scored some runs at the end for the W.''
Zack Greinke (6-1) allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings, striking out eight and walking three. The right-hander extended his streak to 20 consecutive starts in which he's allowed fewer than three runs - the longest by any pitcher since the ''dead ball'' era.
''It's always a luxury to have two Cy Young winners at the top of your rotation like Zack and Clayton Kershaw. That's a plus for our team,'' Kemp said. ''Hopefully they'll continue to stay healthy and keep doing what they're doing. But we have to do our job as hitters and drive in runs for those guys.''
The Dodgers took the lead in the seventh against reliever Jeremy Affeldt (0-1) when Drew Butera doubled and scored on Gordon's hit inside third base with Pablo Sandoval playing in on the grass with the Dodgers' speedy leadoff hitter at bat. Puig then greeted Jean Machi with a ground-rule double into the left field corner.
''That's a bad break,'' Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. ''Pablo had to cover the bunt with two outs. Gordon hit it in a good spot, and the ball just bounced by him.''
The four runs charged to the Giants' bullpen was in sharp contrast to the major league-best 1.75 ERA they brought into the game. Affeldt had pitched 10 2-3 scoreless innings in his 10 previous appearances since coming off the DL on April 16.
''They got nicked up a little, but they had been so good and really solid all year,'' Bochy said. ''It's going to happen.''
Former Giants closer Brian Wilson escaped a bases-loaded jam in the eighth, retiring Hunter Pence on a foul pop to Butera behind the plate after a visit from pitching coach Rick Honeycutt. The Dodgers tacked on two more runs in the bottom half on Kemp's leadoff homer against Juan Gutierrez and Butera's sacrifice fly.
Cain was charged with two runs, three hits and four walks over five-plus innings in his first start off the disabled list. The three-time All-Star hadn't pitched since April 23 and missed two turns in the rotation because of a cut on the tip of his index finger. He was hurt in the clubhouse kitchen at AT&T Park when he tried to catch a knife that fell out of his hand.
Affeldt came on in the sixth with the bases loaded and none out after Cain gave up two walks around a towering single by Puig. Gordon scored on a double-play grounder by Adrian Gonzalez and Kemp followed with an RBI single that tied it 2-all.
''It kind of got out of hand in the sixth,'' Cain said. ''I let that inning get away from us and that ended up being a turning point.''
Greinke escaped a bases-loaded jam in the first by fanning Sandoval, who hasn't driven home a run in 20 games and 68 at-bats since his RBI single against the Dodgers on April 16. He has only two hits in his last 26 at-bats with men in scoring position.
The Giants loaded the bases again in the second with none out, and managed to scratch out two runs. Hunter Pence drove in Angel Pagan with a sacrifice fly to center and Brandon Hicks scored on Buster Posey's single.
Less than 24 hours after Dodgers left-hander Paul Maholm broke the left thumb of Giants first baseman Brandon Belt with a pitch, Cain plunked Hanley Ramirez above the left elbow on a 1-2 pitch after Gordon led off the first inning with a single and stole two bases. But Cain escaped the jam, striking out Gonzalez and retiring Kemp on a flyball.
NOTES: Dodgers 3B Juan Uribe missed his second straight game with a sore right hamstring - and for the second straight game his replacement committed a throwing error. Friday it was Justin Turner, and this time it was Chone Figgins. ... Gonzalez is 2 for 31 over his last eight games following a 16-game hitting streak. ... The Dodgers lead the majors with 44 stolen bases, including 24 by Gordon in 27 attempts - also the most in both leagues. The last time a Dodgers player led the NL in steals was 1976, when current first base coach Davey Lopes won his second straight stolen base crown.


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Livin' Lite Dealers OKed to Sell Jeep Campers
November 14, 2012 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Livin' Lite Dealers OKed to Sell Jeep Campers
Wakarusa, Ind.-based Livin' Lite Recreational Vehicles LLC announced that the company is now able to sell its official Jeep-branded campers through the Livin' Lite network of dealers.
"Previously, Chrysler/Jeep would only allow these campers to be sold through their official Jeep dealers, but honestly, that didn't work out as well as any of us hoped it would," said Scott Tuttle, president of Livin' Lite. "We have been negotiating with them for over a year to get this in our dealers' hands where dealers are much more comfortable selling campers, and where potential camper owners are much more likely to go and see one in person."
According to Tuttle, Jeep was the No. 1 selling SUV last year. He noted that the Livin' Lite campers have earned the prestigious "Trail Rated" badge from Jeep by passing not only the same tough 160,000 mile testing that Jeep vehicles have to go through on the famous Chelsea proving grounds, but taking the camper through twice to make it sure it could handle the wear and tear.
"That means our camper went through 320,000 miles of testing," said Tuttle. "They also put it through a 24-hour saline bath test to test the durability of the metals we were using. When it came out of that test, the actual camper looked great. But the hitch and the safety chains, items that we add on to the camper, were rusted through. It was amazing the detailed testing our camper went through. They actually marked every screw in the camper to make sure that it didn't turn. In the end, we earned Detroit's respect and their nod of approval to carry the Jeep name."
The Jeep camper is the first trailer ever to make the cover of Four Wheeler magazine. The MSRP of the Jeep campers range from $9,999 to $11,999, depending on options.
Livin' Lite is showing two versions of the Jeep camper in their display at the Nov. 27-29 National RV Trade Show in Louisville, Ky., each featuring 17-inch Jeep rims with 32- to 35-inch off-road tires. The Trail Edition features Jeep fenders, tires, rear bumper, latches and automotive logos – the same as used on the actual Jeep SUVs, as well as Jeep-branded interior sofa/bed and tent.
The Extreme Trail Edition, which is designed for extreme terrain including rock climbing, has a steel underbelly and articulating pintel hitch that allows the camper to be towed at extreme angles. Each Jeep camper comes with a custom paint scheme to exactly math the owner's Jeep paint.
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To me it still sometimes seems like SQL Server 2012 has only barely been out. In reality it's now been out longer than a year. Which means that Microsoft is not only obviously busy on the next version of SQL Server, but that they've actually been at work on it for a long while now.
SQL Server 2014 Spotted in the Wild
Interestingly enough I was reminded of this after spotting the following tweet from Richard Douglas:
Sure enough, by manually punching in the URL specified in his screenshot, I managed to find myself on a page claiming to contain Product Documentation for SQL Server 2014 (i.e., I was able to find the EXACT page that Richard captured in his screenshot).
Only, when I started poking around it became apparent that this page is only, at best, a potential place-holder—since every link I clicked on managed to route me into pages containing documentation for SQL Server 2012 (as you bet that the first thing I checked was the "what's new documentation" and then tried the "developer" docs and so on).
So, at best this link is/was just a reminder that a new version is 'in the works'. At worst it's a potential error or accident and will either disappear or be corrected (in what I imagine will be semi-short order). And, practically speaking, I'd wager that it's more along the lines of the latter (or maybe it's early and I'm the brunt of a joke—as I can't help but note that the version number specified in the url above isn't 'right'). Either way, this was a fun reminder that (duh) a new version is in the works—regardless of what it'll be called when it drops.
New Features on the Horizon
Still, we already have a decent idea of some of the things that Microsoft is working on for the next version of SQL Server. For example, Hekaton should be something to watch. And if it ships with the degree of thought, maturity, and comprehensiveness that we saw with the 'version 1' release of SQL Server AlwaysOn, then I think we'll have a serious game-changer on our hands—especially if Microsoft doesn't do something STUPID like making this an Enterprise-Only feature.
I'm also guessing we'll see some improvements or changes to AlwaysOn, and I'm hoping that Microsoft does something about the growing malaise arising in the BI arena—which you can easily gain a sense for by checking out the comments in this great post from Jamie Thompson about the seemingly hap-hazard degree to which Microsoft continues to 'pepper' BI tools and interfaces out upon users with no real, clear, signs of a single, unified, strategy.


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Protests erupted in India yesterday in response to a violent gang rape on a bus in South Delhi. Protesters, mostly students and women's organizations, held protests in streets of the city of Delhi and demonstrated in front of the city's police headquarters calling for new attitudes towards rape. Protesters who gathered outside of the home of Delhi's Chief Minister were blasted with a water cannon from police forces.
On Sunday, a 23 year old medical student and her male partner was accosted while riding a bus in South Delhi. Both were beaten and the woman was raped repeatedly by four men. She has required multiple surgeries for head and intestinal injuries. A few days later, a 15 year old was raped in the northern state of Bihar.
Sehba Farooqui, an activist for Indian women's rights, said "We have been screaming ourselves hoarse demanding greater security for women and girls. But the government, the police and others responsible for public security have ignored the daily violence that women face." A student protester told reporters "We want to jolt people awake from the cozy comfort of their cars. We want
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Girl, born April 2005
Eyes: Blue
Hair: brown
Character: sociable, excitable
Diagnosis: Down syndrome
Anastasia is already 7 1/2 years old. Her life is passing her by, a life she SHOULD be living with a loving family. Won't you consider bringing her into your own family?
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WebSphere Portal 6 and the business case for Portals/Portlets
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Websphere Portal Server is intended to be a way for a with existing information systems to get started with the portal/portlet approach. The biggest difference between Portal Server and the other two editions (Enable and Extend) is that it doesn't have it's own document repository and document management features (those come in Websphere Portal Extend). Portal Server is intended for departments which may already have a system for authoring content (like Vignette, Documentum), but want to re do their public-facing site with a portal. They can use the hundreds of Portlet connectors provided with PortalServer to connect to their existing backends to draw data from the repositories. Another strong feature is that you can put various portlets together onto a template, allowing different departments to modify the template to customize what components are served and how they look, all served off of the same instance of the Portal Server in the datacenter.
IBM is a chair of both JSR 168 and the WSRP committees and has been driving those specs in response to customer demands for reuseable, composite web applications, that are configurable by the lines of business in a large enterprise - without needing involvement from the IT organization. According to Bill Swatling:
Cutting edge composite apps are generally in finance where IT departments build hundreds of different portlets and then use Portal technology to build internal and external apps composed of one or more portal pages consisting with multiple portlets. Statestreet bank is a long time portal customer in the Boston area and they built a b2b app serving institutional investmentors, they built 200 portlets for the app, with dashboarding, etc. Metlife in South Carolina has multiple projects primarily using WS Portal for building applications. Portlets are for more than aggreagting content on a screen like traditional Portals; the future of the Portal approach is to be a framework of building apps of all different kinds. Callcenters: customer call history portlets, campaigns portlets, customer information portlets. Part of the value is that they can tap the services within the portal framework (access control, personalization, etc) without writing those parts of an app themselves.But still, why use a portal/porltet when you can just roll your own components using existing Java web frameworks? Bill responded:
The portal part of the composite app story gives the ability of the line of businesses to customize, personalize, and target their portals to the individual audiences that they need to serve - without the involvement of the IT organization. HSBC uses WS Portal for their internet banking app, on their public website they want to marry the application portions of their portlets and merge them with their marketing and product information that helps them sell different services. The IT organization builds portlet component for these and promotes them via structured process into the Portal environment - then individual lines of business have the abilty to assemble their own apps in different ways that makes sense to them. The power of the Portal is that IT can contribute backend stuff and while the lines of businesss can change things things in a fine grained manner (appearance, even what components and where do they appear). Every day they can change the portal, view the logs to seee what happened and what worked, etc.On the importance of Portlets and JSR 168, Bill responded:
we think jsr 168 and portlets is important enough to invest one person to the spec and a number of developers to build the RI. It's important to us is because a standard is a way to provide business flexibility and choice to our customers in a way that avoids vendor lockin and creates a community around the standard that creates a reusable skillsets around it.On the Java Content Repository spec defined by JSR 170 (which InfoQ itself uses and swears by).
JSR 170 isn't quite complete enough to do everything we need inside Portal so we augment it with defined extenstion points in the spec. WS Portal Enable is based on that spec, although haven't tested compliant. We would like to get to the point through the spec where the content respoitory is interchangeable beneath WS Portal, so that customers could use a third party vendor repository underneath Portal, such as Documentum - but letting people take advantage of personalization and role based action control provided by WS Portal.Gartner and IDC have positioned IBM as #1 in the Portals market. There is however lots of competition from BEA, Oracle, and a growing number of open source Portals targetting the enterprise such as Magnolia, Alfresco, Liferay, JBoss Portal, Exo, and others. Another useful site is portal patterns.com.
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So, IBM , its a great product, just needs to be packaged the right way when you offer to developers.
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The alternative is to use Eclipse with the WTP, but you need to know the JSR168 pretty well before you start. There is also no facility to import an export the skins and themes, other than FTP. This makes it rather hard to update them, unless you really know what you're doing.
The Portal 6 is a much better packaged solution than prior releases. IBM has not refined it enough for their much revered iSeries server. They advertise it much much the built in Process server is not supported on that platform yet (as I found out the hard way).


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Bold Audio Inc. necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 249 diseños de 56 diseñadores freelance.
Bold Audio Inc.
Bold Audio Inc. is a cutting edge manufacturer of professional loudspeakers.
What exactly does that mean??? We have developed a number of innovative speakers that are used for high fidelity sound reinforcement. Our products are used in applications such as: musical concerts, cultural gatherings, business meetings, and also in nightclubs to name a few..
What makes Bold Audio Inc. different? We have done our research and found the deficiencies in the marketplace. With this knowledge we have developed and manufactured our products based our findings.
What makes our product so special....
We have some of the most efficient and highest wattage power amplifiers in the market.
We have some of the loudest speakers available in market.
We have a lower cost higher value product compared to the competition.
We have done extensive testing to make sure our products are durable and of the best quality.
We are Bold Audio Inc.!
Bold Audio Inc. is strictly a business to business company. We do not market to consumers directly. As such, we need to maintain a clear and clean image with clients.
Professional audio companies. They do shows and/or resell product to the end customer. Additionally they will support our products via rentals.
Permanent installation contactors-They design permanent installation of venues such as night clubs, churches, convention centers that use professional audio systems.
Age range from 20-50 predominantly male, professional and tech-savvy
Bold Audio Inc. is a new player in the Pro Audio speaker market, our logo needs to be serious yet technical.
People need to see the logo (and eventual website) and think 'wow', this represents an image of powerful leaders in sound reinforcement technology: a professional, edgy, techy, leader and innovator in this space.
Specifically, we need to create a trusted, communicable, exciting, and highly differentiated brand, competing in the same space as global sound reinforcement giants such as JBL pro audio and Meyer Sound. We must make the current key players look like tired boring brands.
We believe our products are ready for the marketplace, so now it's time to make sure our logo is too. Our logo will appear on our speaker cabinets as a badge (1.75"X1.75") adhered to the grill.
Our logo needs to be readable and recognizable at a distance.
The word Bold should stick out in the designs . The word Inc. smaller as to not draw attention to it.
Please no clip art of speakers in the logo.
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Colors such as orange and blue are used by some market competitors hence please stay away from these.
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Employee Relations
Employee Relations protects the interests, rights, and privileges of exempt staff and non-exempt staff in all levels of university operations and programs.
Employee Relations is designated by the university to function as an impartial and neutral resource to assist members of the university community. Employee Relations provides information relating to university policies and procedures and facilitates the resolution of problems and complaints through informal investigation and mediation. The rights and interests of all parties to disputes are considered, with the aim to achieving fair outcomes. For more information or questions regarding Employee Relations please contact Brandi Sewell, Employee Relations Counselor at 901.448.5600 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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If you live with a little fashionista, you already know that back-to-school shopping is anything but basic. School supplies have to be stylish, and backpacks must be glam. Kick up the essentials like notebooks and lunch totes and shop for pieces inspired by this season's trends. Add metallics, prints, and colorful accents to your back-to-school list and let the classroom be her runway.
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A film from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, adapted from the 1958 essay by Leonard E. Read.
This year's Geography Awareness Week's theme was "Declare Your Interdependence!" The GAW poster for 2012 focused on the Geography of a Pencil and this video works together nicely as a supplement to that poster. You may see the economics of capitalism and globalization in a less optimistic light than Leonard Read, but the theme of interconnectedness makes this a great resource.
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The Braves won for the 23rd consecutive time Kris Medlen took the hill: a modern era record.
Jenrry Mejia threw five innings and allowed four runs on six hits and two walks. He struck out three.
David Ross' staked the Braves to an early lead with a three-run home run off Mejia in the second.
In his final regular season game at Turner Field, Chipper Jones went 1-for-2 with two walks and a run scored.
Colin McHugh gave up two runs in his inning of relief.
Ruben Tejada scored the first Mets run in the third when Freddie Freeman made a throwing error on Justin Turner's ground ball. Andres Torres drove in the other with an RBI single in the ninth.
Daniel Murphy picked up his 40th double of the season.[/sny-box]
W.B. Mason Post Game Extra
The Mets will open their final series of the 2012 season tomorrow night in Miami. Jeurys Familia (0-0, 8.64 ERA) is scheduled to face the Marlins' Josh Johnson (8-14, 3.81 ERA). Game time is 7:10 PM.


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Purpose & criteria for a medico-legal autopsy
[Dr. Fowler]: The purpose of conducting an autopsy is to assist the medical examiner in determining the cause of death within a reasonable degree of medical certainty. Now the autopsy itself is not the only tool that one uses to do that. You take all the information that you can get from the scene, the medical records, family information, etc., etc. and use that to make a decision as to whether an autopsy is necessary. So when we look at the criteria for when an autopsy is necessary, the medical examiner gets to decide whether or not performing that autopsy is going to provide additional information to determine the cause of death that's going to be critical in this particular case. In some cases, let me use an example here; when a person dies quietly in bed, they are relatively elderly, there's nothing suspicious going on, the medical examiner may elect not to do an autopsy because there's really not good driving reason to do so. In other cases where a young person died in similar circumstances, obviously there is a critical need to do the autopsy so it has to have some outcome on the actual, or it has to fit the outcome so to speak in that particular case. Do I have enough information just from investigation alone or does the autopsy or will the autopsy provide me with additional information? That's the one set of autopsies that we will do. There are another set of autopsies that we will do obviously to document the injuries in a person very accurately because there are legal implications down the line and that information is going to be critical to other persons in this particular investigation such as state's attorneys, police, insurance companies, etc.


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My name is Eric Foster and I was recently honored at the awards banquet for the Corrigan/Faircloth chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame with two scholarships. I, along with the other five winners from Alamance County would like to take this moment to thank the following local sponsors for their continued support of the foundation and scholarships:
Alamance County Sports Development Council, Carolina Hosiery Mills Inc., Chandler Concrete, Meredith-Webb Printing, Angie Bartis & Friends of Coach Fred Brady, Kernodle Clinic, Drs. Spencer and Jessica Copeland, Glen Raven Inc., Clean & Press for Less, Dick Shirley Chevrolet, Cadillac, Mitsubishi, ACC Football Officials, Rob and Marlo Countiss, AKG of America, Mr. Jim McGill, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Pinson.
I also would like to thank the co-sponsors of the banquet, specifically Steak �n Shake and The Atlantic Coast Conference.
The continued support of those local sponsors ensures that others will receive much-needed financial assistance in furthering their college education. Thank you again for this support.
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'Let's start looking!" At this point, the home buying process can seem like a downhill run. After all, the wait is over. What can stop it now?
'Let's start looking!" At this point, the home buying process can seem like a downhill run. After all, the wait is over. What can stop it now?
Lack of preparation could be one thing. Inexperience could be another. So, as a partial solution for either of these situations, I present the following things for consideration.
Finding the right house is not the first step in the process. How much money is enough? How much of a down payment is needed? Can I accept a monetary gift? This is where lenders come into play. Having a frank discussion with a couple of experts and getting the qualifications aligned will tell the tale on the price range to start the shopping.
Interviewing a real estate professional to act as a buyers agent can be done either before or after getting with a lender. Many Realtors have good working relationships with lenders and underwriters and can be helpful with the process of getting loan approved. The steps are varied, but important to a good outcome.
Near the beginning of the process, it a good idea to start checking a couple of other professionals you will want involved in the process. Getting set up with a local, experienced, insurance agent willing to take the time to teach the ins and outs of homeowners insurance is vital to making the right purchase.
The time to learn about coverage and cost is before the purchase, not at the unfortunate time a claim is being made. The day before closing is a poor time to start shopping for insurance and will create a delay every time. Start this process early to be best prepared and have the coverage in place at the time of closing.
Another important area to begin fairly early is arranging for the home inspector. Call the inspector and get an idea of his experience, availability and areas of expertise. Once the offer has been accepted and paperwork is signed there is typically a "countdown clock" that starts running. Full home inspections, radon testing, pest inspections and water and septic tests and inspections are generally required to be done by a specified date. Typically you will have seven to 10 days to get everything arranged, inspected, repair estimates made and possible renegotiations proposed.
Start early and don't wait until the last minute to get things figured out About the House.
Rob Kinsey has been a licensed builder for 30 years and is a home inspector with nearly 20 years of experience.