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Gobble Green: An affordable, tasty vegan food delivery service
Hey vegan peeps, don't you wish you could have people from near and far experience the delight of a tasty-ass vegan meal? Well now you can! Gobble Green is a new food delivery service that offers healthy, gourmet, 100% vegan (and 90% organic) meals to anyone in the US, Canada and the UK. This is a great gift idea if you're trying to help a loved one or family member transition into a healthier, environmentally-friendly, cruelty-free way of living. It's a wonderful way to show that vegan food is not only super easy, but it's also scrumptious and tastier than the conventional, unhealthy versions commonly consumed in the SAD (Standard American Diet). Seriously, say good-bye to bad cholesterol, saturated fats and increased risks of heart disease, cancer and diabetes and say hello to health, longevity and vegan pepper steak dinners and vegan cupcakes (and cookies and cobblers, too) – you heard right!
I got to sample a few of Gobble Green's vegan meals and at first, I was a little worried about how they would taste (needing to be re-heated and all), but I was beyond pleasantly surprised that everything tasted super fresh and of restaurant quality. Everything was extremely T-A-S-T-Y! Here are some of my favs…
Gobble Green has plans for as cheap as $500 a month – that's breakfast (i.e. scrambled vegan eggs and hashed browns, pancakes, sausage and cheese breakfast sandwich), lunch (i.e. vegan macaroni and cheese, pasta salad, chicken nuggets) and dinner (i.e. kung pao chicken, lasagna, vegetable pot pie) for every single day of the month. That's cheaper than what most people spend eating out a few times a week per month!
For more info: Gobble Green
About Sunny (Sunny's Profile)Longtime vegan, hardcore compassionate beauty junkie, serious cake aficionado, and lover of all things floofy and sparkly! If there's something in particular you'd like me to review, drop me a line at email@example.com. You can also find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Google +.
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Looks like great food! Thanks for sharing!
DO NOT BUY- RIP OFF! I bought Gobble Green (GG) thru Living Social. Voucher code didn't work and reached out to GG thru voice message, phone and Facebook. Kept making promises, apologizing …but still no food. This has been going on since MAY! I have now reported them to the Better Business Bureau along with Living Social (Living Social says it's not their problem & to deal direct with GG). I want my money back – there is NO WAY I WOULD TRUST EATING THEIR FOOD based on their business practices. I'm out $120…for now, but not giving up.
P.S. They delete negative FB comments. Google them – alot of bad reviews!
My biggest reason for not putting in orders was due to the issues i have seen with customer service. The food was always good, packages well, tasted great and was affordable. In recent weeks I have noticed they have been putting more customer service people in place and for that reason i put in an order. Before i put in the order i noticed they now have a live chat rep who is there to assist with any issues you may have- I had a very specfic question about my order which they were able to answer instantly. I put in the order- I got my tracking for fedex in a week and my order came. Im impresses that they finally did something to improve there customer service and ill continue to put in orders assuming quality food stays the same and they have people to help should any questions or issues arise.
One thing I can say for this company, they have lived up to their name. They gobbled my green alright. These thieves took my money for product which, according to Fed Ex, they never shipped to me at all. This wasn't in 2010 either, this was in April 2012. From the reviews and blogs I'm reading now it looks as if they've been at this for a while. If they think that you don't stand a chance of actually showing up at their front door to complain, then they have no compunction about taking your money and not sending you a single thing.
I've attempted to contact them via email and phone several times and they haven't responded at all.
It's called THEFT.
I made an order through groupon- I waited the 4 weeks to get my order though I noticed that they sent me a tracking number which did not work. I called fedex and they said they didnt have the package yet but to wait sometime and you should be able to track it. I waited 1 day to be safe and saw it was now trackable. Service has been good-. I tried the food and was not sure how it should be packaged but it looked kinda weird. It ended up being fine and tasted great
Disgusting!!!! A total waste of money,, I was very excited to receive my food after purchasing it on living social for $129. First of all it looked very unappetizing. The food I tried tasted like cardboard and how can you go wrong with a chocolate chip cookie?
They should be reported to the better business bureau as thejir food is not at all as pictured and indelible!
for people who hated gobble green, i would try frsh n lean. also from california but made by a chef. everything arrives fresh not frozen and tastes very good and the food is mailed overnight. i always think their salads are too small but otherwise its a great service and they have wonderful customer service. also everything is organic, non-gmo, and they dont use meat analogs. i think their site is http://www.freshnlean.com.
I ordered the vegan starter kit from their website. I noticed after i placed the order that they had less than favorable reviews but I figured I would see what happens. within a few days I got an email with my shipping tracking number. Within a few days after I got the order to my house. I opened the package and saw it was properly packaged to ensure freshness and tried my first meal today. this was much better than I anticipated. I am very particular with the type of food I eat and this will make my life easier going forward to get quality food and do it easily.
Gobble Green, a "Gourmet" meal delivery service. I don't think so. I just opened my box and it was filled with leaking, wet bags of mush. It is a big unappetizing mess. Almost everything is a yellowish brown color, looking like baby bowel movements in baggies. Save your money and buy a Lean Cuisine, you'll be glad you did. The box took 8 weeks to arrive, was warm and the packaging was so wet and stained that the labels are difficult to read. I'll consider it a difficult $125 lesson. Never Again.
Terrible… ALL thefood we ordered came spoiled in the box. No dry ice at all, just empty bags. I'm so disappointed. I've just left an email message but I'm not really holding my breath after reading the other negative reviews.
Worst customer experience EVER and most disgusting food. DO NOT order from this company. The food was filled with soy and it tasted sooooo bad. They made me wait months for my order and wouldn't let me choose the date I would receive it so I was out of the country when it came even though I told them not to send it. Then they resent it to the wrong address the second time THEN I finally got the food and they sent it to the wrong address AGAIN so by the time I got it, it was defrosted and the food was gross. YUCK! Go elsewhere, it's all packaged in plastic and not fresh. Buy locally!
Im 37 years old and I never thought i would ever get food sent to my house but I have to say it's so much better this way. Now I can order what I want from the comfort of my home. The food is great if you like vegatables
Where do I start, the food is amazing, the asian vegetable salad is soo gooood!! Im sure everything else is going to taste but i will find out soon enough.
Similar bad experience: unresponsive. One month delay from order to delivery but on top of that my delivery was delayed another month and no response or explanation was given despite many phone calls and emails to them. Food is bland and unimpressive.
STILL when I wrote on their FB page on a Friday evening, within minutes they erased my post and blocked me from commenting further. Check out their fb page — they should get off of FB and start answering their clients.
I have had a terrible experience with this company and do not recommend it at all. I did this on a Groupon and had to wait about 2 months for my turn to get my food delivered. This wasn't a big deal but when the food came, several items were thawed out. Two items were blown up like a balloon as if they had gone bad. I emailed the company 3 times to see what I should do and never got a response. As a last ditch, I called them. I have now called them 7 times and have had only 2 responses, both voice mails. When I returned the calls, I either didn't get a response at all or it took between 4 days and a week to hear back. In addition, they told me their email is broken and they didn't get my emails. This is terrible customer service in my opinion and I have actually never talked to them, leaving me with these meals I am afraid to eat.
Of the ones I did eat, I found the food to be between mediocre and bad. Most is bordering on tasteless and I have had to add to it to make it palatable. If you decide to order, be sure that you like beans because most of the meals are just beans with a sauce. Personally, I will never order from them again.
was so excited to try gobble green!! it seemed like a dream come true: healthy vegan calorie-controlled meals that i didnt have to make!
gobble green is rightly expensive, but they offer the option of splitting the cost into two payments each month. they said to email them in order to set this up. i emailed them on thursday. they said they would reply within 24 hours. in 24 hours there was still no reply, so i emailed them again and asked if they had received my previous email. i thought that maybe it had accidentally gone into their spam folder. still no reply. so on saturday i called them, hoping *maybe* theyd be open. they werent, but a lot of places are closed on saturday. i called again on monday. again i got an answering machine. it said to leave a message and theyd get back to me in 24 hours. so i left a message, said i had previously sent them two emails, was excited to try their product, gave them my phone number, etc. 24 hours later, still no response. i even left a message on their facebook page, which they seem to update regularly, and nothing.
i wish this review could be about how good or bad gobble green's food was, but i havent even been able to try the food because no one will respond to me. i was planning to spend $700 a month and youd think they would want the business, but apparently not. luckily i found another vegan meal delivery service with great customer service and ordered from them.
as a vegan i want vegan businesses to do well and i tried to give this one a chance, but it just didnt pan out. 🙁
Kellie, thanks for the warning on Gobble Green. Can you share the name of the other vegan meal delivery service you found and liked? THANKS!
bsure it is fresh n lean – freshnlean.com i believe. they are great!! :). everything fresh not frozen and shipped overnight.. and good customer service.
NO, no, NO!!!! I am so sad to say Gobble Green gives vegan a BAD name. Please save yourself time, money, frustration and healthy taste buds and try a different delivery food service. I had the worst experience ever from beginning to end (and they still won't respond to my- I admit it- not so nice e-mails.
What was wrong with Gobble Green?
1) Bought a voucher through bloomspot and was NEVER informed that I would have to wait a month to receive my food because of the 'special treatment' Gobble Green gives to discounted customers. Ok you know what? Even with the voucher at $129, you can get MUCH better food and service at around the same price from many other delivery services so do some research. In summary, I really despise being treated differently because of a promotion. When I wrote to tell them this I didn't even receive an apology!
2) When the month finally rolled around and I was up on the waiting list, I had to contact THEM to find out the status of my order. Never received a courtesy email that is common practice for this kind of service.
3) It took FOUR DAYS to arrive to my house. This is unacceptable. EVERY other food delivery service I have tried has shipped FedEx 2-Day Air, especially from California to the Midwest where I live.
4) Here I write 2nd complaint letter and after 4 days…no response
5) Very frustrated with my pre-order experience, I am less than enthusiastic to see th big box on my porch on the 4th day. When I open it, GUESS WHAT??? DRY ICE Explosion! The packing geniuses dumped the dry ice in open-top bags which not surprisingly spilled all over the food content. Miserable. I had to put on gloves to fish out all the pieces of dry ice. Again, with other food delivery services the dry ice was contained in a secure manner- not dumped in plastic bags waiting to spill
6) back track. When I first opened the box the 'welcome letter' was- I KID YOU NOT- TORN, Wrinkled…despicable looking. What the….???? And no, it wasn't even because of the spilled dry ice since the letter was on top of a block of foam separate from the inner contents. Again, what the…… seriously, that's how you greet a customer? The thing was mangled.
6) COMPLAINT LETTER #3. I am still awaiting a response. Whatever the answer is, I just have a feeling I'm never going to be satisfied with Gobble Green. Even with a FULL reimbursement (which to be honest they'd be smart to offer without me asking first this time), I have wasted my time, energy and expectation on this company. I am very sad to have to go all out on them this way and I hate that I have to bitch about a vegan company that I discovered in one of my favorite vegan lifestyle magazines but WHAT THE H. They deserve it.
7) THE FOOD IS NASTY!! IF I ATE MEAT I WOULD THINK VEGANS ARE CRAZY BASED ON THIS FOOD; IT IS ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE and I promise I am not just saying this because my whole order experience was below zero. I literally cannot stand the food and I notice some other reviewers said something like "maybe for vegans who live in the middle of nowhere." Well I DO (live in the middle of nowhere) and I'D RATHER EAT GRASS as long as I could marinate it and season it with the FLAVOUR that Gobble Green stored in the attic somewhere dark and cold.
Whew. I hope to never have to be so angry again to have to write a terribly long-winded, negative review. But the world has to know. Just because a company is featured in a magazine, don't buy it on that basis alone. If you're reading this before purchasing consider yourself smart. Adieu.
BEWARE! They charged me for an order that I did not receive and I had to dispute the charge with my bank before I eventually got my money back. I will NEVER order from them again.
The food is reasonably good. However, they did not honor my request for nut-free food (I have a nut allergy). Also, on their comprehensive diet plan, they provided an average of 1000 calories per day — 200 cal. short of what is a healthy minimum. The food also comes in a hard-to-sort and hard-to-store condition: it's all frozen together in a box, so that foods are squished together in odd shapes, labels are hard to read, and some packages are actually stuck together. Also, some promised food items weren't in the order (all side orders like rice, "hash browns"). The nail in the coffin: no response to my contact on these problems in over seven days, by phone or by email.
I just received my box from Gobble Green. Seems like a very uneco way to purchase food. First, it traveled thousands of miles to get to me. I had to throw away the styrofoam because my city does not recycle it. I was able to recycle the box. The food is wrapped in plastic and has dry ice to keep it cold. Not a very Green footprint.
I tried two different packets and thought they were mealy and pretty disgusting. I am going to throw out the $100 worth of food. It's not worth it to eat horrid food just because I paid for it. Since some people seem to like it, I would suggest you buy a small amount first to decide if you like it. It's not for me.
Definitely worth a try. I generally really liked the food and it is a welcome break from cooking. I live in a small town where vegan food is hard to come buy unless you cook it yourself so Gobble Green has been a very helpful service for me. I have to agree with previous comments that the "chicken" vindaloo is the best, but most of the meals are very good. I was expecting that there would be a few meals I didn't like, but there were not very many and I certainly didn't have to throw any away!
Well, I ordered a week supply of Gobble Green food from a Living Social deal…$125, I believe. And Day 3 of my food choices and I must say that I am NOT impressed. I am a vegan and have been for over 15 years, so I know good vegan food. This stuff was hard, cardboard like and most dishes tasted really vinegary. I even got a tummy ache twice. The desserts were like 3 day old bakery goods, with an apple or banana undertone. I had to throw pretty much everything I ate. Even my kid, who loves food – esp desserts – would not eat it. I am sadly disappointing. I really wanted to like this and support what they are doing, but I just can't stomach the food. Sorry.
I would like to share my opinion, to warn others about these guys. I wish I had the same success with GobbleGreen as some of you did: Ordered $100 worth of items, they shipped after 6 days and from California to Chicago it was scheduled to be a 5 day trip. Delay ensued with FedEx so 5 days turned into 8, and I knew the products would be spoiled, which they were. There was not a single gel pack in what they refer to as a box (just pieces of styrofoam laid together to form the shape of a box, so no air seal) and nor was there any dry ice. Just a blue plastic bag sitting loose at the bottom of the 'box' (did the dry ice melt away? doubtful) containing the individual packages, warm to the touch. There was no way this food would have been safe to eat even if it made it in the scheduled 5 days due to no cooling products inside, and that is only half way across the States! I emailed them before the order arrived as I had received notice from the shipper regarding the delay. No response. I emailed them once it had arrived asking what to do in this situation of spoiled food. No response. Another 3 days pass and I email the only other address they have listed, No response! Finally 8 more days and I can't take it, since I was nothing but pleasant and professional in previous emails, I decide to let them know if I do not receive a response soon I will be forced to reverse charges on my card and possibly file a complaint with the BBB. Wouldn't you know it? 43 minutes later I finally get a response which basically states: Take it up with FedEx, we shipped when we said we would. They never addressed my concerns regarding the packaging, were no where to be found when I needed help, and it took a threat to get any form of response. I love their idea, was really excited to try, but no such luck. Extremely poor communication and attitude regarding customer satisfaction. I hope others have better luck, but I for one will never attempt business with them again.
I too bought the Living Social for Gobblegreen prior to reading the nasty reviews some folks have left, but I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised. Like others, there are dishes I won't touch because I hate the taste of cheese and I'm not a fan of Indian food. Also, two of the breakfasts didn't nuke right – I think it had to more with the rice flour not working well with the microwave (or I nuked it too long). That being said, everything else has been fabulous! A prior commenter said the snack packs are small, but they are no different from the Trader Joe's "Just a Handful" of packaged nuts. I was grateful for the portion sizes, and two I could have easily split in two because of their size. I received a couple of dishes not listed on their website, so I asked for the nutritional breakdown, and they emailed me right back. If you ask questions on their Facebook page, they will answer quickly. And yes, initially the packages of food look like baby vomit, but once you break it all open and heat it up, the main dishes are rather extraordinary for the $129 I paid. I am keeping a list of the dishes I liked the most and will re-order just those to keep in my freezer. Big thumbs up to the "Meat" Loaf With Veggies, the "Chicken" Vindaloo and the Seitan Bean Stew (and the cookies!).
Thumbs up for me. Got it through Living Social. Convenient and delicious. Also, it has lasted a really long time. I found a tortilla soup in the back of my freezer that had been there for almost a month and it tastes like it was made yesterday.
I can't believe this site is not related to gobble green. The food doesn't look like that and it doesn't taste that great. At best it's ok. Definitely not worth the $. The food I'm eating now the meditteranean coscous is so bad I'm throwing it out. Some of their other foods were ok, but not good.
I only did it through groupon for the $99 and still a rip.
These pics DO NOT ANYTHING LOOK LIKE THE FOOD I got. I got it through a groupon and would prob. not get it again. It's BARELY WORTH THE $125 FOR A WEEK. Way to many problems with the food. Taste so so, tempeh fiesta had 2 small pieces of tempeh and more potatoes & greens (as they're cheaper), desserts were miniscule, snack packs were like 10 almonds or a prepackaged little container or raisins. Also, tastewise not as good as just going to a local restaurant and getting vegan food. all in all. Only ok if you live in the boonies and absolutely can't get any other food. Even then, better to order from an online vegan company where the food is much better and the same or lower priced. As for cal. they're not lower than other foods you get. It's a shame they don't work on improving the taste of their products and what you get for your money.
Don't purchase an entire package. Try a meal or two first. I got a package and threw most of it away.
Seeing positive reviews for Gobble Green worries and shocks me. It really makes me wonder who's behind these reviews and if any or all of them are actually Gobble Green's staff, or friends & family. It really wouldn't shock me, and in fact it would be smart to do so. By giving the illusion that many people enjoy their food, people are more comfortable spending package prices on multiple weeks worth of food, just like I did. I read the reviews before I purchased my package, and was comfortable handing over my debit card number when the time came to order. But that was the beginning to a very unpleasant experience, to both me and my taste buds.
I am a Vegetarian of 8 year who greatly enjoys soy food and other meatless options. I also have some Vegan family members, which is what initially turned me on to Vegan food, especially the tasty deserts. I'm not much of a "dipper", and I don't use much salt, so it's not as if I can't deal with food that others might consider a little "bland", in fact, I prefer things with a more natural taste. I love vegetables, and beans, and many foods that are associated with Vegan and Vegetarian diets. So, given this, I wasn't reluctant at all paying for a weeks worth of was I expected to be, and described as by Gobble Green, as "cuisine" vegan food prepared by their experienced chefs.
The first day was pretty disappointing, the breakfast bar tasted like cardboard, but luckily I had peanuts and raisins to get me through until lunch. I surely kept a positive attitude and just figured there might be some dishes I may not care for. But then I had the spaghetti for lunch. The noodles were completely mushy, and the consistency of it was unbearable, so I didn't finish the dish. I did eat the meatballs, which weren't too bad. For dinner I had the Fettuccini Alfredo, which once again was completely mush. My husband tried to revive it with sauce and spices, but ultimately threw it away. This same experience continued on through the next couple days with similar noodle dishes, such as the Macaroni & "cheese". All of the noodle and pie dishes were soggy, as were all the vegetables. The muffins and brownies had the consistency of chewing on sand, and crumbled to pieces at touch. The curry soup tasted like water, with rubber tofu floating in it and the rice dishes were stale, and hard. The "eggs" had a very off-putting neon yellow color to them, and were likewise inedible. The hash browns were ok, but definitely needed to be baked, definitely not microwaved.
Now this review was written after asking for a partial refund from Gobble Green. I sincerely apologized that I was writing them to pretty bluntly call their food inedible, which I stand by. I felt bad doing it, and they even asked me for details …. Reluctantly, I criticized their food dish by dish, once again apologizing but asking for SOME of money back. They said it was "against policy" as though they were some sort of Corporation and offered me a 15% discount on a future package (of which I had a coupon for anyway because they mail one with every order). I declined.
I'm really disappointed,… and I sort of feel scammed. I never felt good about asking for my money back, but really felt it was deserved. Their guarantees of the quality of food were absolutely false, and they definitely do not stand by it.
If you still want to try Gobble Green, take my advice and buy a single dish or two before diving into their very costly packages. I literally threw away $100…..
There's a group discount for GobbleGreen going on now at GotoGroupBuy.com
$500 for an entire month of food only works out to about $5.50 per meal. not bad at all!
i can't wait to try this stuff.
i love your pictures, sunny! yummmers.
That's very exciting. I'm so happy this is available. 🙂 Do you know if they offer organic options?


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Australians are receiving better prices than Americans on mobile phones, according to a study by WhistleOut. The comparison website analysed plan prices for the Samsung Galaxy S3 in Australia, the US, UK and New Zealand.
Australian plans were cheaper than the US, and nearly as cheap as the UK, said WhistleOut, which reviewed 50 plans in Australia, 97 in the UK, 31 in the US and 18 in New Zealand.
"Technology prices are known to be far cheaper in the USA, however the Galaxy S3 shows that to be false for mobile phones on service plans," WhistleOut director, Cameron Craig, said in a statement. "The UK remains one of the most competitive mobile phone markets in terms of pricing on the leading handsets, but Australia is not far behind."
"Virgin Mobile and Vodafone are both currently offering bonus data promotions for Australian customers who purchase a Samsung Galaxy S3 plan, pushing their overall offering right up there with the best value UK plans," Craig said. "Virgin Mobile for example, is offering an online promotion with three months free access and a bonus 2GB of free data per month included, which reduces their total plan price by 12 per cent and adds the equivalent of $240 in data value."
WhistleOut first compared plans with a minimum 400 call minutes and 250MB data, and then plans with unlimited calls and a minimum 500MB data. The study doesn't appear to compare the reliability or performance of each network under review.
In the first category, Virgin Mobile Australia's Big Plan 29 was the best value, providing 400 minutes and 2GB data with the Galaxy S3 handset for $49 per month, WhistleOut said. Including Virgin's bonus promotion of three free months, the total contract cost is $1,034. The UK's most similar plan provided 500 minutes and 500MB data for $1,202, the website said. The cheapest comparable plans in New Zealand cost $1,881 and in the US $1,875.
In the unlimited calls category, the UK beat the other nations with its T-Mobile Full Monty 41 plan offering unlimited calls and data with a two-year plan and the handset for $1,527 over the contract's life. But Australia was still ahead of the US and NZ with the Vodafone $79 Infinite Plan ($1,738). A comparable plan in the U.S. was $2,584; in New Zealand, $2,802.
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Does the project have a technology scope and focus which will have a reasonable likelihood of success? Projects that are too big will definitely fail; projects that are too small are unlikely to be interesting.
GMaturity Plan.
The proposal needs to define the destination/end-game/ultimate objectives for the project. What is the expected time scale for this project? Which is the destination top-level PMC for this project? For example, does this project expect to investigate technology for two years and then have proven itself sufficiently to be integrated into the Platform as a component? Does this project expect to be integrated into a the Web Tools Platform as a sub-project (and thus continue to exist, but under that PMC)? Etc. Note that this section is about a plan, not a commitment, but it does need to be a realistic and believable plan.
GFollowing Eclipse Rules.
The Eclipse Foundation attempts to minimize the number of restrictions and rules placed on projects but there are a few. Because it is the responsibility of each Eclipse committer and project lead to understand and implement this minimal set of standards, a proposal team that shows a disregard (either deliberate or through a lack of effort) for these policies (such as the press guidelines) does not endear themselves to the Eclipse community.
(5) Preparing the Docuware
The "docuware" for a Review has traditionally been a slide deck however there is no reason to use slides: a short report/document would work equally well if not better (reports are information dense relative to slides, and that's a good attribute).
RIn any case, the docuware must be/have:
- Neutral File Format. The docuware must be published in an operating-system neutral file format. PPT and DOC files are not considered neutral. PDF is currently the best choice and thus we require docuware to be published in PDF. The EMO can convert Open Office and Microsoft Office to PDF if you are unable to do so.
- Archival Quality. The docuware must be comprehensible and complete on its own without requiring explanation by a human presenter. Archival quality is required because the docuware will be available on the eclipse.org website in perpetuity; future Eclipse users, adopters, and even new project committers will consult it long after the review conference call has been completed.
- Correct Copyright and License. The docuware is being written (and thus copyrighted) by you, not by the Eclipse Foundation, and thus the copyright statement needs to be by you (or your employer). Similarly, the content should be licenses under the EPL.
- Usable for a Phone Conversation. Remembering that most conversations about the docuware will be done over voice, email, IM, or other electronic media - not in a face-to-face situation - the docuware must have page and/or paragraph numbers so that the two parties in conversation can easily refer to the same section or slide.
RThe docuware must cover the issues from (1)-(4) above. In addition, it must include:
- Brief, executive summary of the project proposal
- Comments about the community response to the proposal both positive and, if any, negative
- Is this an existing project that is moving some or all of its code to Eclipse?
If yes, a) Describe extent of move (e.g. some, all, module) b) Where is the code hosted? c) Please list existing domain names associated with this code: ___________________ d) Please list any trademarks that may apply to the project name: ___________________ e) What license was it previously hosted under? f) Can we get a list of all past and present contributors and committers?
- Initial implementation focus - the next step after the Creation Review will be full speed ahead implementation, so the project team had better have an initial implementation direction
- Confirmation that the project members and new candidates have read and understand the Eclipse Development Process and their responsibilities towards the community and especially in regards to IP issues.
- Future directions - it's always a good idea to have some idea of where the project is planning to go.
(6) The Review Process
Once the review content has been created, the operational side of a Creation Review is:
- Schedule the review by sending email to email@example.com. (Depending on when you read this, you may have already completed this step.)
- Reviews are scheduled at most twice a month, usually on Wednesdays, usually in the morning (USA)/afternoon (Europe)/night (Asia).
- Reviews are grouped up to four at a time.
- At least one week in advance of the review, you (the proposal lead) sends the docuware to firstname.lastname@example.com for posting.
- The EMO posts the docuware via the website (through the wonders of database-driven web pages, the docuware is automatically linked from the proposal and from the review notice).
- The EMO announces the review and the "official review communication channel" (usually the newsgroup):
- via the eclipse.org/projects web page (as soon as the review is scheduled)
- via the reviews and announcements RSS feed (as soon as the review is scheduled and again when the docuware is posted)
- via email to the committers and membership-at-large mailing lists (at least one week in advance of the review conference call)
- If, during the review period, any Eclipse member requests, via the official review communication channel, that the conference call be held, then it will be held at the scheduled time. If, however, no Eclipse members so requests, then the call is skipped and the creation review succeeds by default.
- If the conference call is held at the previously scheduled date and time:
- The proposal lead must attend the call.
- The proposal's mentors must attend the call.
- These calls tend to be short (15-20 minutes). The purpose of the call is for the team to answer any questions from the community that have not otherwise been answered by the written material and/or discussions in the newsgroup.
(7) After a Successful Review
After the successful review, and the approval of the Creation Review by the EMO:
- the EMO will ask you to fill out the New Project Provisioning Form
- once your website CVS directory is created, you will provide content for the webpages including:
- The incubation graphic so that your new project is allowed to participate in the Parallel IP process.
- The project status infrastructure and standard left menu
- send email to email@example.com asking for your project to be marked as "incubation (conforming)" in the Foundation's project database. The EMO will check your website for conformance as per the Board's requirements - this is a required step for participation in the Parallel IP process.
- you submit a Contribution Questionnaire for your initial code contribution using the portal. Note in the comments that you are requesting a [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/parallel-ip-process.php Parallel IP process approval to check the initial code into the source code repository before the entire IP review is completed.
- after receiving check-in approval from Eclipse Legal via IPZilla, you can check in the initial code contribution and your project is alive and well.
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Sneak peek from the Capture teamOur Capture team is made up of a creative collection of stylists, photographers and art directors. The team relish a conceptual challenge, with this recent shoot being no exception.
Based on a new Lux range of fabrics 'Touch' and 'Vintage' our photography team created still life shots that play with composition and texture whilst showcasing the new fabric range. Warn antique mirrors and lush textures were key to mix the juxtaposition of luxury and antique which in turn represents the fabric collection. The final imagery will be out in the next month but in the meantime, these behind the scenes shots will be a tease to the unveiling!


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In your previous column on Our Lady of Good Counsel, you mention that a pope "granted an office" or "approved a new Mass" for Our Lady. Can you tell me what the significance of "an office" is in this context.
Special Offices and Masses were given by popes as a sign of approval and high esteem for particular churches, shrines, devotions. These Offices and Masses included specific prayers to the saint or feast so honoured. By the very act of visible papal approval, these Offices and Masses gave greater importance to those who received it.
After Vatican II, the Church simplified and reduced the numbers of these specially-designated Masses and Offices. However, Masses for major feasts, such as the feast of St. Joseph, are still celebrated.
As Catholics, our first official and highest form of prayer is the Eucharist or Mass. Some parts of the Mass remain the same while other parts change.
The second official prayer of the Church is the Divine Office or Breviary or Prayer of the Hours, or Morning and Evening Prayer. These names all refer to the same prayer which during the centuries was modified in various ways.
The Office is not surpassed by the rosary, another important Catholic prayer. Its 150 "Aves" substituted for the Office for illiterate people.
Why do we call these prayers an "Office"? My dictionary defines an Office first of all as a "duty, charge, function or task attached to a particular post or station" and then "an act of worship of prescribed form."
These definitions can be applied to the Divine Office, a set form of prayers of praise and worship consisting of psalms, hymns, Scripture readings and prayers which were attached especially to clergy.
We know from Scripture that the early Christians went to the synagogue to pray at specific times: "Peter and John . . . to the Temple at the hour of prayer, at three o'clock in the afternoon" (Acts 3.1). Peter went up on the roof to pray at the sixth hour and the disciples went to the Temple to pray at the ninth hour.
Early Christians continued to observe this practice of praying periodically throughout the day to sanctify their day and keep their focus on God.
The usual prayers conducted for the faithful of the early Church who generally could not read were morning and evening prayers.
This was a simple form of the Office, sometimes called the cathedral form because it was the parish prayer. It consisted of a few frequently repeated psalms and prayers. It was enhanced with the use of candles, incense and other symbols to convey the meaning of praise and worship.
The longer form of the Divine Office or Breviary, basically the only form most of us knew before Vatican II, was developed in monasteries where monks had time to pray frequently and at set hours during the day and night. The psalms varied so that all of the 150 psalms were prayed.
In the Middle Ages, as the influence of monastic life on the Church increased, the monastic form replaced the cathedral form. Because the ordinary people did not have the leisure to come together for prayer several times a day and often couldn't read, the Prayer of the Hours became the exclusive prerogative of the clergy.
Contemplative sisters usually prayed the Office many times during the day and at night. Active sisters generally used a simpler form such as the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin which had a similar structure to that prayed by the clergy.
They gathered fewer times of day, praying two or three Hours at the same sitting. "Hours" refers to the different sets of prayers designated for a specific time, for example, Terce the third hour, Sext the sixth hour and None the ninth hour.
Why does the Office rank next to the Mass in the official prayers of the Church? When we pray the psalms, we are united in faith with our Jewish and Christian ancestors who prayed the psalms. Jesus prayed the psalms, even as he hung on the cross.
In addition, the psalms speak a whole range of emotions which ring true for all ages. Many of them begin with lamenting or complaining about the current situation but they never fail to end with an expression of faith and trust in God.
Some are totally songs of praise, an often-forgotten aspect of our relationship to God.
Today, the Church encourages all to join in singing the praises of God through the words of the psalmist at least in the simplified form of Morning and Evening Prayer.
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We start to close our exploration of Death Metal, in which we examine the subgenre's entrance into the 21st century. As it branched out into other forms of Extreme Metal, it additionally had an impact on subgenres like Metalcore. We also turn to tomorrow, and explore what we can expect in The Future of Death Metal…
Hosted by Greg Davies from Blendover, the Heavy Metal Historian Podcast delivers to you snippets of tales from years gone by in the world of Metal, one episode at a time.
Metal News Links
CHRISTIAN BALE Talks About Learning To Play Double-Bass Drums By Listening To PANTERA
DISTURBED And ROB ZOMBIE Announce U.S. Co-Headlining Tour
Former MORBID ANGEL Frontman DAVID VINCENT Is Back With Country Song 'Buyer Beware'
IRON MAIDEN release mobile RPG for iOS and Android
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Announce U.S Tour, Reveal 'Incarnate' Cover Art
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE doing 5-night NYC residency
MÖTLEY CRÜE's MICK MARS Back In The Studio With Ex-CRÜE Singer JOHN CORABI
MOTT THE HOOPLE Drummer DALE GRIFFIN Dead At 67
PEARL JAM announces 2016 North American tour dates
Return of the Vikings: AMON AMARTH announce new album "First Kill"
Reunited GUNS N' ROSES Plan Pre-Coachella Gigs in Las Vegas
SLIPKNOT, JUDAS PRIEST Members React To Passing Of EAGLES Legend GLENN FREY
WAYNE STATIC's Widow TERA WRAY STATIC Found Dead
Recommended Listening:
- "God of Thunder" by Death from Human
- "Evisceration Plague" by Cannibal Corpse from Evisceration Plague
- "At War With Reality" by At the Gates from At the Gates
- "Punish My Heaven" by Dark Tranquility from The Gallery
- "Morphogenesis" by Scar Symmetry from Holographic Universe
- "Shitstorm" by Strapping Young Lad from Alien
- "Ethica Odini" by Enslaved from Axioma Ethica Odini
- "Ghost of Perdition" by Opeth from Ghost Reveries
- "Oroborus" by Gojira from The Way of All Flesh
- "Omerta" by Lamb of God from Ashes of the Wake
- "The Pursuit of Vikings" by Amon Amarth from Fate of Norns
- "Confined" by As I Lay Dying from Shadows are Security
- "You Only Live Once" by Suicide Silence from The Black Crown
- "Ghostqueen" by Dethklok from Dethalbum III
- "Murmaider" by Dethklok from The Dethalbum
- "I am the Wargod (Ode to the Battle Slain)" by Destroyer 666 from Phoenix Rising
- "Assimilate" by Infected from Crawlspace
- "My Dick Just Died, Can I Bury it in Your Arse?" by Cuntscrape from Papsmear Campaign
- "Venator" by Be'lakor from Stone's Reach
- "We Will Rise" by Arch Enemy from Anthems of Rebellion
- "What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse" by The Black Dahlia Murder from Nocturnal
- "The Anticosmic Overload" by Obscura from Cosmogenesis
- "Only Ashes Remain" by Dead Congregation from Promulgation of the Fall
- "Bedlam Attack" by Entombed A.D. from Back to the Front
- "Visions in My Head" by Obituary from Inked in Blood
- "Captive Bolt Pistol" by Carcass from Surgical Steel
- "Voafal" by Dysphorian Breed from Voafal
- "Garden of Dead Trees" by Unholy Triumphant from Circulus Vitiosus
- "The Nameless Shape" by Abyssal Ascendant from Enlightenment from Beyond
- "Darkness Transcend" by Setentia from 2016 Album Promo
- "Behind the Wall of Sleep" by Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath
- "Spore Ensemble" by SLUGDGE from Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms


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- Incorporates mindfulness and cognitive behavioural techniques
- Simple instructions with build-in training module
- Guided exercise adapts to the users level of relief.
Well I don't know about all that but I had a little shot last night although at the time i was already completely relaxed. Basically there is a leaf blowing and you have to move it as you inhale and exhale. That was it! But weirdly I did find this extremely relaxing. As I was doing this messages of reassurance would appear on the screen. 'This will pass, your body is already beginning to relax', and other comforting statements.
It then asked me to rate my stress levels after the exercise. I hit the 'distress' button to see what happened next. it then showed a feather moving on the screen and i was to follow my breathing with the feather, matching my leaf with how the feather moved. Ok that might not make much scene, but i guess that the purpose of this exercise is to regain control of your breathing and also to distract your mind.
In all I was pretty impressed. I could see that it would help in someway and if anxious in future I will definitely give it a go. The only criticism would be that I would have liked some music in the background. Or even just some relaxing sounds like waves crashing or something but I would defo recommend it. A bargain at just over £1 (50c).


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I met these guys at Cup North. I have tried to resist temptation ....do I really need another machine?
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I'll let you know more when I get it but so far I really like the look of it not least because there are no messy paper filters.


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Rife David Sibley is an actor, model, and musician who portrayed a MACO in the Star Trek: Enterprise fourth season episode "Babel One" and later his mirror universe counterpart in the episode "In a Mirror, Darkly". As a background performer Sibley received no credit for his performances.
Sibley was born and raised in Arkansas and attended the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he also studied film and television. Connections brought him to Los Angeles and the opportunity to pursue a stage and film career. Sibley is a founding member of The Uprising Theater Company [1] alongside Star Trek actors Armin Shimerman, Rosemary Morgan, Ethan Phillips, and Kitty Swink and has portrayed a variety of roles in several plays such as Hamlet and MacBeth, the latter one under the direction of fellow stage actor Armin Shimerman.
Sibley has started his on-screen career with a supporting part in the television mini series The Enforcers in 2001, which also featured Voyager guest actor David Sparrow and stuntman Ransom Gates. His next roles were parts in the action film Con Games (2001) and the comedy Hip! Edgy! Quirky! (2002, with Kara Zediker), as well as a guest role in the daytime series General Hospital (2003). Sibley also guest starred in the television series The Division (2004, with Henry Kingi, Jr.) and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2004, with Dina Meyer, Wallace Langham, Henri Lubatti, Robert Curtis Brown, and Amy Benedict), and portrayed a background role in an episode of NCIS (2005, along Matthew Kaminsky, Michelle Krusiec, Eric Steinberg, and Sonny Surowiec).
More recently, Sibley appeared in the dramas Changing Spots (2006) and Rounding Home (2006), and in a Chrysler/ Jeep Commander commercial which was aired during the Super Bowl 2007.
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Hero Worship
This story appears in the March 2000 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Few will argue that the 20th century was an era of unprecedented progress, growth and accomplishment. Where would we be today without the visionaries and dreamers, innovators and inventors, mavericks and rebels, trailblazers and pioneers? The world as we know it--and that which we will live in tomorrow--has been shaped in large part by men and women who knew how to use their talent, drive, ingenuity and desire to make dreams come true . . . and influence the course of history.
The four entrepreneurs to follow represent not only archetypes of 20th-century achievement, but also very human examples who faced--and overcame--the same kinds of obstacles we all do in life and business.
Thaddeus Wawro is a Los Angeles-based direct-marketing consultant, an author and an award-winning advertising copywriter.
Internet Evangelist
Marc Andreessen
Co-founder of Netscape Communications Corp.
Launched: 1994
"Right now, today, with a little luck and brains and timing, any kid with a computer can do what Netscape has done. There are no barriers to entry anymore. Any kid can spark a revolution." --Marc Andreessen
To some, Netscape Communications Corp. co-founder Marc Andreessen is a cyberspace folk hero whose programming savvy made the vast resources of the Internet's World Wide Web available to anyone with a computer and modem. To others, he's little more than a computer hacker who rode to the top on the accomplishments of others. But no matter how his supporters and detractors feel about him, Andreessen is indeed a visionary, whose dream of creating an easy-to-use Web browser clearly revolutionized information technology, sparked the Internet boom of the 1990s and laid the groundwork for one of the fastest-growing companies in U.S. history.
Born in rural New Lisbon, Wisconsin, in 1971, Andreessen seemed destined for a career in computers. At age 8, Andreessen began teaching himself the BASIC programming language from a library book. By the time he'd reached the sixth grade, Andreessen had created a virtual calculator to do his math homework. By the seventh grade, he was writing his own games and playing them on the family computer.
During his senior year at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, in 1992, Andreessen took a $6.85-per-hour programming job at the university's high-tech think tank, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). It was there he first gained access to the Internet, which at that time was a crude, text-based network accessible only through primitive interfaces.
Andreessen immediately saw a potential market for an easy-to-use Internet browser, and in one sleepless weekend, he hacked out a crude prototype. He showed his prototype to his friend, gifted hacker Eric Bina, and in just six weeks, Andreessen, Bina and several other NCSA colleagues built it into a fully functioning browser called Mosaic. They made the program available free of charge over the Internet, and within a year, more than two million copies had been downloaded.
After graduation, Andreessen was offered a job with the Silicon Valley firm Enterprise Integration Technologies. Just a few miles from where Andreessen worked, Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics (SGI), had recently left SGI and was looking to start a new venture. Wasting no time at all, Clark fired off an e-mail to Andreessen. As soon as Andreessen explained the World Wide Web to Clark, the pair knew they should go into business, making browsers and servers for the Internet.
Using $4 million of Clark's money, the duo founded Mosaic Communications Corp. in April 1994. (Six months later, they changed the name to Netscape, after the University of Illinois claimed it owned the rights to the name Mosaic.) Andreessen's first move was to recruit some of his former colleagues from NCSA, including Bina. By year-end, Andreessen's "dream team" had created a more powerful, more polished version of Mosaic, which they named Netscape Navigator.
In a brilliant move to generate a user base, Navigator, like Mosaic, was launched free of charge on the Internet (the company eventually began charging for the program, offering free 90-day trials instead). The browser immediately ruled the Net, claiming nearly 75 percent of the browser market.
With the success of Navigator, the company grew from three to 200 employees. To keep the start-up from growing out of control, Clark and Andreessen hired former FedEx senior executive Jim Barksdale to serve as CEO. Netscape also expanded its product line to include high-end, high-priced software tools that companies could use to create and maintain their own Web sites, and they established virtual stores to conduct secure transactions over the Net.
By 1995, with $16.6 million in sales but no profits, Netscape went public. Initially offered at $28 per share, Netscape's five million shares of stock immediately began trading at $71. When the stock market closed, Andreessen, then just 23, was worth $58 million. By December, the value of Andreessen's stock had risen to $174 million.
Microsoft eventually usurped Netscape's dominance by bundling its own browser, Internet Explorer, with Microsoft Windows. As a result, Andreessen and Netscape drastically changed their strategy. Rather than focusing solely on the Internet, Netscape turned its attention to intranets, producing software to run within corporate networks.
As Netscape lost its market dominance, Andreessen faded into the background, and Barksdale emerged as the new face and driving force of the company. Barksdale brokered a deal with AOL in 1998 to sell Netscape for $4.2 billion. Under the terms of the buyout, Andreessen was named chief technology officer of AOL, but his actual role and responsibility within the company remained vague.
Wanting to play a more active role in the evolution of the Internet, Andreessen joined the board of directors of Accompany Inc.--the first Internet-based buying network to offer products and services in real time--in 1999. He eventually stepped down as AOL's CTO.
The legacy of 29-year-old Marc Andreessen is firmly entrenched in the annals of online history. He set the standard for Internet browsers, providing an "on-ramp" to the Web for computer users and changing the way businesses access and use the Internet--paving the way for e-business and e-commerce.
Truth Be Told
It is a widely held belief that Marc Andreessen's Mosaic was the first Web browser. It was not. But what made it unique was that, unlike other browsers, Mosaic was easy to get up and running, and it was the first browser that could automatically display graphics along with text--leading to the cultural phenomenon that captured the attention of the masses and eventually created a multimillion-dollar consumer Internet industry.
A Stylish Obsession
Calvin Klein
Founder of Calvin Klein Inc.
Launched: 1968
"Anything I wanted to do, I did. If there's something I want to do, nothing stops me." --Calvin Klein
Calvin Klein's casual and chic style brought American fashion into its own and on a par with Paris. He managed to single-handedly create the designer-jeans craze of the 1970s and revolutionized fashion advertising in the 1980s. Now his name adorns everything from underwear to perfume. And his stylish designs and business acumen have built an empire. But unlike his clothes, Klein's rise to the top of the fashion world has been anything but uncomplicated.
Born on November 19, 1942, Klein was largely influenced by his mother, who instilled in him a love of art and fashion. While other kids played stickball, Klein tagged along with his mom while she shopped at discount clothing stores in New York City. A loner who taught himself how to sketch and sew, Klein claims he always knew he wanted to be a fashion designer.
After graduating from New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology in 1962, Klein married Jayne Centre and went to work as an apprentice in the garment district for $75 per week. He sketched designs from European runways for coat mogul Dan Millstein. The tactic of copying was typical for fashion at that time, because no original ideas were coming out of America. But Calvin wanted to change that. He had dreamed of starting his own fashion company, and nothing was going to stop him--not even the fact that he was nearly broke and still working at his father's grocery store to make some extra cash.
In 1968, at the age of 26, with $2,000 of his own money and a $10,000 loan from his boyhood friend Barry Schwartz, Klein founded his own company, Calvin Klein Inc., with Schwartz as his partner. Their first order came literally by accident, when a coat-buyer from department store titan Bonwit Teller got off on the wrong floor and wandered into Klein's workroom. Impressed by his line of trench coats, the buyer placed an order for $50,000, telling the young designer, "Tomorrow you will have been discovered." And indeed, it was that order from Bonwit, along with a glowing editorial in Vogue, that put the Calvin Klein name on the map.
In 1973, Klein designed a line of sportswear, creating what would become known as "The Calvin Klein Look" and giving birth to American leisurewear. The money was pouring in as his clean, muted, simple designs became hits with both the buying public and the fashion press, which gave him the prestigious Coty Award in 1973, 1974 and 1975. But success did not come without a price. In 1974, it cost him his marriage.
After his divorce, Klein embarked on a self-described "wild period," spending his nights partying at Studio 54, where cocaine and casual sex were part of the scene. As his power and notoriety grew, Klein maintained a high public profile--until 1978, when his 11-year-old daughter, Marci, was kidnapped. Although she was released unharmed, both Klein and his daughter were indelibly scarred. The once publicity-hungry Klein gave up partying and became a recluse.
The year 1980 marked a big turning point for Klein's empire. A series of commercials featuring 15-year-old model Brooke Shields saying, "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins," made Klein's new line of tight jeans a nationwide phenomenon, selling 200,000 pairs the first week alone. The provocative commercials marked a revolution in clothing advertising, but prompted criticism from feminist leaders. The negative publicity only fueled sales.
Klein once again courted controversy in 1982, when he put his name on the waistband of men's underwear and then started a campaign featuring near-naked men modeling the new designer skivvies. Many publishers rejected the sexy ads. But again, the controversy spilled over into Klein's favor, and stores couldn't keep the underwear in stock.
In 1983, Klein and his partner bought Puritan Jeans, their jeans licensee, for $65.8 million. But lifestyles were changing, and the reality of AIDS had minimized the casual sexuality of '70s. As a by-product of this, the demand for tight-fitting, designer jeans waned. By 1984, the designer jeans business had dried up, leaving Klein deep in debt.
When Klein married his second wife, model Kelly Rector, in 1986, he was once again experiencing a dark period in his personal life. He became addicted to vodka and Valium. When Klein's office announced that he had gone to the Caribbean on an extended vacation, the truth was revealed--Klein had been admitted to the Hazelden Clinic in Minnesota for alcohol and drug abuse.
Klein came out of rehab facing bankruptcy, but was saved by pal David Geffen. Klein spawned numerous product lines, including a more affordable clothing line called CK, and licensed his name on sunglasses, watches, handbags and more. By the mid-1990s, his CK one perfume and CK jeans were selling well, his brand-new headquarters store had opened in New York City and his company experienced its healthiest financial state in years.
Indeed, the man who popularized name-brand jeans, clean American lines and men's underwear for women is unquestionably a stylish survivor as he enters the 21st century as one of the world's top fashion designers.
In Vogue
At the same time as his advertisements for jeans and fragrances were being criticized, Calvin Klein's clothing was receiving critical acclaim for its clean, modern lines. Time magazine called him the "Frank Lloyd Wright of fashion" and named him one of the 25 most influential Americans in 1996.
The First Lady Of Software
Sandra Kurtzig
Founder of ASK Computer Systems Inc.
Launched: 1974
"I think luck is seizing opportunities. There are opportunities all around. There are millions of good ideas, but it's those people who seize the ideas and seize the opportunities that appear lucky." --Sandra Kurtzig
In today's male-dominated software industry, women founders and CEOs are practically nonexistent. But while software titans like Bill Gates and Oracle's Larry Ellison have become the poster boys for Silicon Valley success, the first multimillion-dollar software entrepreneur was a woman. Starting with just $2,000, Sandra Kurtzig built a software empire that, at its peak, boasted around $450 million in annual sales. And it all started as a part-time job.
In 1972, Sandra Kurtzig quit her job selling computer time shares for General Electric to devote more time to starting a family. An admitted workaholic, Kurtzig knew she couldn't give up working altogether, so in hopes of making a little extra money and "to keep her mind occupied," she launched what she thought would be a small, part-time contract software-programming business in her snug second bedroom.
Her first client had asked her to create a program that could track inventory and provide manufacturing information. Realizing that other manufacturers might find such a program useful, she recruited several bright computer and engineering graduates and directed them to write standardized applications aimed at solving the problems of local manufacturers.
Unable to persuade Silicon Valley venture capitalists to invest in her start-up, Kurtzig was forced to launch ASK on retained earnings alone. To gain access to the minicomputers her company needed, she persuaded executives at a nearby Hewlett-Packard plant to let her and her programmers use one of the company's series 3000 minicomputers after hours. "They let us in at 6 p.m., and we came with sleeping bags and stayed until 6 a.m.," she recalls. It wasn't long before Kurtzig's part-time job was taking up 20 hours a day. By 1978, ASK had its first salable products--a package of programs called Manman (short for "manufacturing management") that improved both inventory control and production management for companies.
Kurtzig struck a deal with HP to sell its minicomputers pre-loaded with her programs--which meant ASK could market a complete product to computer-wary managers years before computers would become common tools of the industry. The system was a hit, and sales quickly soared from $2.8 million in 1979 to $39 million in 1983. Meanwhile, Kurtzig took the company public in 1981. Between 1981 and 1983, following a small equity offering and a two-for-one split, earnings per share doubled, making Kurtzig worth $65 million.
But even with her tremendous success, Kurtzig was tired of the fast-track life. "When you're the CEO, you live it seven days a week, 24 hours a day," she says. Wanting to devote more time to her children and realizing she couldn't do that and continue at ASK, Kurtzig resigned from most of her duties in 1985, keeping only the title of chairman.
For a while, ASK continued to prosper. Over the next four years, profits increased. But sales flattened out after reaching $79 million. More ominous, the company was living off a software package whose last overhaul coincided with Kurtzig's relinquishing control. In 1989, when it became clear ASK was facing the first of what would likely be several quarters of flat sales, ASK's board of directors persuaded Kurtzig to rejoin as CEO, hoping she could turn the company around. It was an offer she just couldn't refuse. "When push comes to shove," she says, "well . . . ASK is my baby, and ASK is what I know."
Upon her return, Kurtzig asked employees to rate the performance of the division's managers. The top-rated managers were rewarded with greater responsibilities; those that got low ratings received pink slips. She also stopped the practice of senior managers giving themselves hefty raises and bonuses.
She repositioned ASK as a database provider and re-engineered the software to run on a variety of computers. By 1992, the Mountain View, California, business was back on top, boasting sales of $450 million, making it the largest public company ever founded and run by a woman. Kurtzig once again retired. Two years later, ASK was purchased by Computer Associates International Inc., a provider of software support and integration in Islandia, New York.
Today, Sandra Kurtzig is chairman of the board of E-Benefits, a San Francisco insurance and human resources service provider she founded with her son Andrew in 1996. Kurtzig was instrumental in laying the groundwork of the modern business-to-business software industry. Her innovative approach of creating easy-to-use software for complex manufacturing tasks has been a model for virtually every successful software company in the industry today.
I Am Woman
One of the reasons Sandra Kurtzig succeeded in the male-dominated software industry was because she didn't accept the status quo. When she first started ASK, she refused to follow the rigid, hierarchical "male" approach to management and instead adopted a policy of being honest with employees, sharing information rather than withholding it, and keeping her office door almost always open.
The Candy Man
Milton Snavely Hershey
Founder of The Hershey Foods Corp. (originally Hershey Chocolate Co.)
Launched: 1894
"Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising in the world." --Milton Snavely Hershey
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when ruthless businesspeople were creating steel, oil and railroad empires on the backs of a hapless rural population forced into grim factory towns, Milton Snavely Hershey followed a different path to success. Unlike the cold-blooded "robber-barons" who offered their workers callous treatment and backbreaking labor for menial wages, Hershey offered his employees dignity and prosperity, inspiring loyalty in his workers and making himself rich.
Even so, Hershey's path to sweet success was fraught with obstacles and set backs that would have crushed lesser men. But through perseverance, ingenuity and his ability to bounce back from failure, he built one of the great American fortunes from the ground up and brought joy to millions with a beneficent wonder that would immortalize his name--Hershey's Chocolate.
Hershey began his candy-making career at age 15, when he was apprenticed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, confectioner Joseph H. Royer. Hershey blossomed under Royer's tutelage, acquiring many of the skills and tools he would later use to build his own empire.
In 1876, with $100 from his aunt, Hershey opened his first candy shop in Philadelphia. Although Hershey worked day and night making caramels and taffies, the winter of 1882 was dogged by illness and mounting debt and he sold the business and headed to Denver.
It was while working for a confectioner in Denver that Hershey learned adding fresh milk to caramel improved its quality and extended its shelf life--a discovery that would later prove crucial.
Hershey eventually left Denver to start candy businesses in Chicago, New Orleans and New York City. But none of the ventures succeeded, and Hershey wound up bankrupt. When Hershey returned to Lancaster, he found he'd been cast out by his relatives--they refused even to take him in, let alone lend him money to start another business. But Hershey soon found salvation in the form of an old friend and employee.
Henry Lebkicher, who had briefly worked for Hershey in his Philadelphia store, not only offered Hershey a place to live, but also lent him the money he needed to bring his candy-making equipment from New York. The pair then scraped together enough capital to start Lancaster Caramel Co.
Drawing from his experiences in Denver, Hershey experimented with using fresh milk in the candy-making process. Impressed with the quality and shipping stability of Hershey's new, chewy, milk-based caramels, an English importer placed an order for £500 worth of candy, enabling Hershey to secure a $250,000 loan to expand the business.
By 1893, in addition to the original Lancaster factory, the now incorporated Lancaster Caramel Co. had plants in Mountjoy, Pennsylvania; Chicago; and Geneva, Illinois; which together employed more than 1,300 workers. But that was just the beginning.
During a visit to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Hershey witnessed a demonstration of chocolate-rolling machinery from Germany. Inspired, Hershey started Hershey Chocolate Co. the very next year and produced more than 114 different types of chocolate candies, including the product that would make his name world-famous--the milk-chocolate Hershey Bar. It became an instant phenomenon, so Hershey sold the Lancaster Caramel Co. for $1 million and turned his attention solely to chocolate.
Before long, Hershey set out to build an ideal town where his work force could live, play, work and prosper. Because of its rich supply of clean water, proximity to some of the finest dairy farms in the country, and plenty of land for expansion, Hershey chose land near his birthplace, Dairy Church, Pennsylvania.
In 1903, Hershey broke ground for his factory. It was modern in every way, with high-tech machinery that eliminated the cost and tedium of making and wrapping chocolate by hand, and made possible mass production of quality milk chocolate at affordable prices.
Hershey, Pennsylvania, the town developed by Hershey for his factory and employees, featured affordable housing, a sewage system, paved streets, electricity, schools, stores, a trolley system, churches, a library, a hospital, a zoo, an open-air theater and even an amusement park. Both the community and the company prospered; by 1915, the chocolate plant alone covered 35 acres, and company sales sky-rocketed from $600,000 in 1901 to $20 million in 1921.
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Hershey embarked on a building plan devised solely to keep his workers employed. They constructed a new high school, a sports arena, a community building and a lavish 170-room hotel. Both the company and the town survived the Depression and continued to flourish, thanks to Hershey's efforts.
Hershey remained at the helm of his chocolate empire until 1944, when he finally retired as chairman of the board at the age of 87. He spent the 88th and final year of his life still experimenting with new confections, including celery, carrot and potato ice creams and a surprisingly successful beet sorbet.
After Hershey's death in 1945, the chairman of the board of the National City Bank of New York proclaimed, "Milton Hershey was a man who measured success not in dollars, but in terms of a good product to pass on to the public, and still more in the usefulness of those dollars for the benefit of his fellow man."
Sweet Success
Before the early 1900s, all chocolate was handmade through a time-consuming and costly process that made chocolate an expensive treat, affordable only by the rich. But Milton Hershey was determined to change that. By developing and using innovative machinery that eliminated the need to make and wrap chocolate by hand, Hershey introduced the first method for mass-producing chocolate at affordable prices, allowing everyone to experience the joys of his magical creation, the Hershey Bar.


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The question was simple: What is the best golf resort for a family vacation?The answers were abundant and varied, but our PGA.com Facebook fans have answered the call once again to make this week's, "A Quick Nine," feature possible. With loads and loads of responses to sift through, here are the top nine. It should be noted that this week's No. 1 came in head and shoulders above the rest. 9. Madden's on Gull Lake, Brainerd, Minn.â¨According to its Web site, www.maddens.com, Madden's on Gull Lake is now in its, "81st year of providing gracious hospitality to families, vacationers, golfers, retreats and reunions of all types." Sprawling across 1,000 acres and miles of Gull Lake shoreline, Madden's features 63 holes of golf. From the historic Pine Beach East and West courses, to The Classic at Madden's, the award-winning crown jewel of Midwest golf courses, to its Social 9, there's something for everyone's skill level. Facebook fan quote: Madden's resort in Minnesota. My kids love the course. It is beautiful to look out over the lake while golfing and the staff is great. We go every year to the closing/fall break weekend and, yes, they have the bagpiper closing the course, it is very cool. -- Jeri Anderson Rosenberg 8. Pebble Beach Resorts, Pebble Beach, Calif.â¨When it comes to pure, natural beauty, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more breathtaking place than Pebble Beach. There are three resorts located at Pebble Beach: The Lodge at Pebble Beach, Casa Palmero and The Inn at Spanish Bay. (Dunn/Getty Images) All three are noted for their unparalleled golf and facilities, which include pampered relaxation and luxary to go along with exemplary service and amenities. What did you think? Facebook fan quotes: Pebble Beach is dream course. Any golf lover would like to play there and spend a quality time there with the family. -- Munindra Sharma I would LOVE to play golf at the awesome Pebble Beach!!! -- Antonio Huang 7. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Kiawah Island, S.C.â¨Located near the beautiful city of Charleston, Kiawah Island Golf resort opened in 1974. It is the home to five golf courses, most notably the Ocean Course. The Ocean Course has played host to the 1991 Ryder Cup, the 1997 and 2003 World Cup of Golf, the 2007 Senior PGA Championship and, in 2012, the PGA Championship. Aside from the Ocean Course, you can also indulge in Kiawah Island's four other gems -- Turtle Point, Osprey Point, Oak Point and Cougar Point. Facebook fan quotes: Kiawah Island Resort has quite a setup for the entire family. Golf, tennis and activities for kids of all ages. -- Andrew Picard Kiawah, plenty of history in and around Charleston for the kids and wicked good golf for Mom and Dad. -- Paul Kulick 6. Sea Island Golf Resort, Sea Island, Ga.â¨The Sea Island Golf Resort is home to two legendary Georgia courses -- The Seaside Course and the Plantation Course. The Seaside Course is situated on the southern tip of St. Simons, a true ocean-side links course that places a premium on careful shot selection, recovery and putting. Offering Sea Island's most demanding layout, Seaside has hosted multiple USGA events, challenging golf's best amateur players. The Plantation Course boasts expansive fairways that give definition to its parklands-type course, winding through the marsh and forest. It showcases beautiful views of the ocean, oaks, and blooming flowers. Aside from the golf, there's plenty to do for families at Sea Island, including sea kayaking, cycling, horseback riding, tennis, clay target shooting and haywagon rides, just to name a few. Facebook fan quote: Sea Island, Georgia, one of the most beautiful courses in the world. Stay at the world-class Cloister Hotel or The Lodge. Plenty for the family to do -- wonderful beaches, great seafood, fishing, windsurfing, kayaking, biking, horse back riding and so forth. No place like it for old world southern charm and hospitality, plus Sea Island has four of Golf Digest's Top 50 golf instructors. -- Jack Hassinger 5. PGA Village, Port St. Lucie, Fla.â¨Owned and operated by The PGA of America, and ranked among the "75 Best Golf Resorts" by Golf Digest, PGA Village in Port St. Lucie, Fla., serves as your Ultimate Golf Destination. PGA Village features the PGA Golf Club, with 54 holes of Championship golf by Tom Fazio and Pete Dye, PGA Center for Golf Learning and Performance golf instruction, practice, technology and fitness park and the PGA Historical Center museum, home to the Ryder Cup Trophy. In terms of a golf-specific family trip, you'd be hard-pressed to find a place more perfect than PGA Village. Facebook fan quote: Hands down... PGA Village in Port Saint Lucie!!!!!! -- Lloyd Giardino III 4. Hilton Head, Hilton Head Island, S.C.â¨Just 20 miles north of Savannah, Ga., lies Hilton Head Island with its 12 miles of beachfront on the Atlantic Ocean. In Hilton Head, there's fun to be had for families, whether it's on the beach, shopping, dining, or playing golf in one of the nation's foremost golf destinations. The island is loaded with spectacular ocean-side courses, challenging river-side courses, courses that weave through old maritime forests, courses beside vast tidal marshes or with Low country flare, sparkling lakes and lagoons and courses designed by PGA Tour's most noted players. One of Hilton Head's most famous courses is Harbour Town Golf Links, which annually hosts a family-focused PGA Tour event the week after the Masters. Facebook fan quotes: Harbor Town is our family favorite... -- Kevin J. Walsh 3. Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst, N.C.â¨The Pinehurst Web site says it all, "The majestic pines towering over historic Pinehurst rustle and softly whisper the legends of golfers like Jack Nicklaus, Payne Stewart and those who have gone before and experienced one of America's greatest golf courses and premier resorts. (Miralle/Getty Images) "Nestled among the Sandhills of North Carolina, Pinehurst resort invites you to become part of its history and to experience southern hospitality, elegant accommodations, luxury spa facilities, family recreational activities, and of course, any one of their eight pristine world-class golf courses. In addition to offering one of the finest golf experiences in the country, Pinehurst also provides world-class spa and tennis vacations, as well as fun-filled family vacation packages. "The stories of champions and the traditions of championship golf have been created at Pinehurst since 1898. As the site of more championships than any other golf course in the country. Pinehurst welcomes the U.S. Open and U.S. Women's Open Championships in 2014." Facebook fan quotes: Really enjoyed ourselves at Pinehurst. Beautiful!!! -- Tina Liles Penny Pinehurst! Kids 12 and under play golf and stay free with a parent. And kids can play in the spa, too. -- Janeen Driscoll 2. Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach, S.C.â¨If you're looking for great golf at affordable prices to go along with a host of other family activities at the beach, then Myrtle Beach is no doubt the place for you. It also doesn't hurt that Myrtle Beach is known as the Golf Capital of the USA. That should tell you something. What did our Facebook fans tell us? Facebook fan quotes: For combination of family, golf, and affordability, Myrtle Beach is the place. -- Bob McCaw While it's not a "resort," Myrtle Beach offers many courses, and lots for the family to do as well... -- Jimi Thompson Myrtle Beach of course -- huge variety of lodging, beach/ocean, attractions for kids, 50+ mini golf courses, water parks, family oriented restaurants. -- Golfmaster Drew I willl go along with Myrtle Beach. Took my grandsons to several and had a great time. -- Virginia Brooks Euwer 1. Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, Fla.â¨It isn't just about the kids anymore at Disney, folks. It's also a world-class golf destination -- and the place an overwhelming number of our PGA.com Facebook fans gave as the No. 1 golf resort for a family vacation. Disney World truly has it all. With four theme parks, two water parks, 24 themed hotels and loads of shopping, dining, entertainment and recreation options, Disney World is easily the largest and most visited resort in the world. Disney's property includes five golf courses -- the four 18-hole courses are the Magnolia and the Palm, which host the PGA Tour's Children's Miracle Network Classic; Lake Buena Vista; and Osprey Ridge. Oak Trail, designed for younger golfers, is a nine-hole walking course. As far as golfing fun for the entire families with children of any age, Disney also boasts two themed miniature golf complexes, each with two courses, Fantasia Gardens and Winter Summerland. Facebook fan quotes: I would have to say Disney... I mean you have the golf, you have beautiful weather basically all year round, you have the Disney World Theme Park... This just screams family vacation and is probably one of the best places to take a family with kids and adults of all ages. And it doesn't just end with the golf and Disney World. There is an abundance of other attractions for everyone in the family to partake in. -- Brian Russell Disney in the winter is awesome. Getting a chance to play golf in February is a treat for all of us cold winter climate guys, and having all of the theme parks close is great, too. -- Bob King Definitely Disney World!!!! Love it there... Been on every course. -- Sharon Rhodes There is nothing better than waking to 78 degrees and sun every morning. Playing an early 18 holes and then spending the rest of the day by the pool while the teenagers ride Space Mountain over and over. Disney it must be. -- Eric Bush Disney, because dad will be happy to golf anywhere, but the kids won't be happier anywhere else. -- Jason Deegan
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A Trick of the Light
Lois Metzger
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Telling a story of a rarely recognized segment of eating disorder sufferers—young men—A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger is a book for fans of the complex characters and emotional truths in Laurie Halse Anderson's Wintergirls and Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why. Mike Welles had everything under control. But that was before. Now things are rough at home, and they're getting confusing at school. He's losing his sense of direction, and he feels like he's a mess. Then there's a voice in his head. A friend, who's trying to help him get control again. More than that—the voice can guide him to become faster and stronger than he was before, to rid his life of everything that's holding him back. To figure out who he is again. If only Mike will listen.


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This is not a knock on the original, iconic Doom box art, gorgeously illustrated by the late great Don Ivan Punchatz. This is just a tribute. But some may consider it a "fix" of the artwork that graced id's early '90s shooter.
This is the work of "Agent Scarlet," an artist we've featured more than once on Kotaku. It does service to the classic Doom cover by populating it with the hellspawn we've come to know and fear over the past decades. It also extracts some of the creative license Punchatz took with Doom's simple graphics, taking some of the original Mega Man-like qualities out of its box art. Mostly, though, it injects some Doom 3 sensibility into the piece and expands its bestiary.
At the very least, it gives us a more modest, less midriff-exposing "Doomguy" as our hero.
See it in full below or head to Agent Scarlet's deviantArt account for the big picture.