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Data-Driven Product Management at Groupon
Laura Hamilton
Group Product Manager
May 22, 2018
At Groupon, we have a very data-driven philosophy of product management. In this blog post, I'll talk through how we approach product ownership in a data-driven way, from financial forecasting to roadmapping to feature development to experimentation.
Financial Forecasting and Roadmap Creation
For every candidate feature, we calculate the projected financial upside according to the following formula:
feature_revenue_forecast =
expected_lift x platform_factor x success_probability x platform_revenue
feature_revenue_forecastis what we are trying to calculate (the expected revenue from the feature)
expected_liftis the increase in conversions we expect from users in the treatment group vs. users in the control group. The vast majority of experiments fall between -1.0% and +1.0% lift.
platform_factoris what percent of all users of the platform (whether iOS, android, mobile web, or desktop web) are part of the experiment. For example, for a test on the checkout page on mobile web, the platform factor will be 100%—100% of users who place an order on mobile web visit the checkout page during their journey. For a test on the getaways deal page, the platform factor will be much smaller, so the overall financial impact of the test will be smaller.
success_probabilityis a haircut we apply to take into account that not all experiments will succeed. In fact, only about 30% of our experiments are successful. The success_probability for a given feature could be greater than or lower than 30%, depending on how confident we are that the experiment will succeed. For some experiments that are primarily for strategic reasons, such as maps improvements, we will use a success_probability of 90% or 100%.
platform_revenueis the total revenue generated by the platform. For example, the platform_revenue for iOS is the total revenue from orders placed via the iOS app.
With this formula, we have a consistent and data-driven way to estimate the upside from each proposed initiative. Then, once each experiment concludes, we compare our estimates to the actual results, and over time we refine our estimations.
We use these estimated upside figures to create product roadmaps. In order to prioritize initiatives and determine the cutlist, we need to introduce another data point—the engineering effort required. Then, we use the following formula to calculate the ROI of each feature:
ROI = feature_revenue_forecast / level_of_effort
We then stack rank features according to their ROI.
ROI is an input into the creation of the product roadmap and the determination of the cutlist, but it is not the only input. I always like to ensure that there is a healthy amount of time spent on engineering excellence (site stability, paying down technical debt, reducing latency, library upgrades, increased test coverage, improved tooling). I also like to ensure that we have a customer focus. Many of our features come directly from customer feedback via focus groups, quantitative surveys, and app store feedback; the Wishlist feature was one of these. I also reserve a healthy amount of time for strategic initiatives that may not provide lift in the short term but that set us up for success in terms of the Groupon 2020 vision.
Data-Driven Features
At Groupon we are lucky to have vast amounts of data that we can use to deliver a delightful product to our customers. We have worked with one million merchants to date; we have pumped more than $18 billion into local businesses; we have more than 1 billion Groupons sold; our app has been downloaded 171 million times, and we have saved customers more than $28 billion.
The Groupon platform handles tens of billions of user actions per month, and for machine learning algorithms that drive core product features our platform needs to make decisions (such as which deal to show the user next) in fractions of a second.
Developing product features that take advantage of these vast amounts of data in a performant way is an interesting challenge.
We use machine learning algorithms in a variety of ways to develop products here at Groupon:
- Supply intelligence – There are millions of merchants we could call at any time to get onto our platform; how do we pick the best ones?
- Fraud prevention – Fighting the bad guys in realtime.
- Discovery and personalization – Selecting which deals to show a given user in her mobile app deal feed.
- Image recognition – Identifying the best user-generated images with neural networks.
- Logistics – Getting ahead of the order rush by sending extra inventory to the right warehouse in advance of high demand.
- Customer support – AI-based chatbots to respond to and resolve customer issues instantaneously.
To make developing data-driven products faster, we built a generic, extensible machine learning platform at Groupon called Flux. Flux is the "Rosetta Stone" between data scientists and engineers.
Data scientists work primarily in R. Flux models are written in Java and Clojure for stability and speed. Python is the glue that connects R and Java. It all runs on Groupon's large Hadoop cluster.
To make the process for productionalizing machine learnings more robust, Groupon has an ETL management platform called Quantum Engineered Data (QED). QED reads from any source, and includes built-in data cleaning, error correction, and anomaly detection. Clean data is preserved and made available as a "feature catalog." QED handles failures smartly, supporting falling back to yesterday's model when appropriate. QED is able to plug into any source of truth—including streams, warehouse tables, and JSON endpoints.
Smart people doing interesting work
QED gives us a lot more confidence in the robustness of our models. In general, subtle changes to a single data field can seriously impact model performance, and nuances in the data set could look fine to tests but fail in the real world.
This blog post would be incomplete without a brief discussion of Groupon's monitoring tools. We have a healthy suite of realtime alerts on product and engineering KPIs. We use splunk for logging and wavefront for graphing. Each service is staffed with a 24/7 on-call schedule, with escalation handled by pagerduty.
Additionally, each product area and business has an Amazon-style Weekly Business Review, where we look at metric trends longitudinally, identify areas of change or concern, and begin deep dives where appropriate.
The data warehouse uses Teradata and Apache Hive.
There are 100 teams at Groupon that run experiments. At any given time, around 200 experiments are being run simultaneously on the Groupon platform.
Groupon has a dedicated team called Optimize that built a bespoke tech platform for running product experiments with mathematical rigor. The experimentation platform is called Finch Express. Finch Express is built with Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Ember.js, Python, R, and Hadoop/Hive. The team has filed three patents for its innovations on product experimentation.
Essentially, Finch Express uses a technique called Group Sequential Analysis, first developed by Abraham Wald in 1945. Group Sequential Analysis has been used extensively in high-risk clinical trials, such as heart valve studies, where it's possible that one treatment is actually harming the patients. Ethically, we would want to stop a harmful clinical trial immediately—but statistically, checking the experiment results mid-run or "peeking" will vastly increase your rate of false positives and invalidate your statistical results.
Group Sequential Analysis provides a controlled, statistically rigorous way to "peek" at experiment results at set points during the experiment run. This allows Groupon to end an experiment early if it is losing money, and to roll out an experiment early if it is deemed an early winner (capturing more upside).
Finch Express does all of this automatically. Product managers create the experiment in Finch Express, add a description and screenshots (to save the details for future product managers to reference), and launch the experiment at 50/50. Finch Express does the heavy lifting of dynamically determining the appropriate lift sensitivity for the experiment (based on traffic and conversion rate), performing the Group Sequential Analysis calculations, deeming the experiment a "success," "failure," or "flat" (most experiments end flat), and even automatically rolling out or rolling back the experiment based on its results. Then, Finch Express reports on the financial results of the experiment. The experimentation platform prevents product managers from statistical no-nos, such as peeking, unbalanced bucketing, and concluding the experiment too early. As a result, our experimentation processes have a high degree of statistical rigor.
On average, Group Sequential Analysis allows us to conclude experiments an average of 57.53% earlier compared to simply running them to a single final checkpoint. This reduces the cost of failed experiments, hastens upside capture of successful experiments, and allows for much faster iteration and innovation.
To date, Groupon product managers have run a total of 2,500 experiments, thanks in large part to the proprietary and patent-pending experimentation platform.
Thanks for staying with me until the end! I hope this gives you an idea for how we use big data at global scale here at Groupon to create our product roadmaps, to innovate with new products and features, to monitor product performance, and to evaluate the impact of new initiatives. If you're interested in learning more about data-driven product management opportunities at Groupon, have a look at our open roles.
Laura heads up product for consumer web, international, and LivingSocial at Groupon. She has a bachelor's in mathematics from the University of Chicago and a master's in computer science with specialization in machine learning from Georgia Tech. She has more than 10 years of experience in ecommerce product management at four Chicago tech companies, from early stage startups to publicly traded global companies. She is passionate about using analytics and machine learning to create a delightful customer experience.Laura Hamilton

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The 18th Rotary Murray Darling School of Freshwater Research was run from 14 to 19 April. 24 students travelled to Albury from NSW, VIC, SA and ACT to attend the six day residential school. Four mentors were assigned to guide them through the week, two of these mentors were past RMDSFR students (2007 and 2008), both studying environmental science at University which is great to see.
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Now that we're in the fourth season of The Walking Dead, we have seen Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) grow tremendously since his humble, racist, prone-to-violence beginnings. However, in last night's penultimate episode, "Us," it looked like our favorite redneck may be going darkside on us, and may lose his life in the process unless he leaves Joe's group of "claiming" murderers.
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Windows Media Player bugs after migrating to SSD
I recently purchased a new Samsung SSD for my machine and not wanting to do a fresh install of Windows due to the large amount of data on my system, I used Paragon Migrate OS to SSD to move my OS over to the SSD. The process completed successfully, and I changed some registry settings so that all the user data was on my HDD, not the SSD. This also completed successfully, but I started experiencing several different bugs with WMP.
WMP doesn't seem to be saving its library properly, as everytime I restart my computer and open it, it has to rescan for its files, which takes quite a while and is very annoying, the library also seems to be duplicating itself sometimes, as it randomly adds 2 of every song, a restart of WMP fixes this, but it has to scan for music all over again. I am also unable to add music to the libaray by simply dragging and dropping the folder containing the music onto the window, I have to manually select the files themselves inside the folder instead.
I've tried deleting the WMP library files and tried reinstalling it via the "Turn Windows Features On or Off" feature, neither of which have fixed it.
Any help with this problem that doesn't involve a fresh Windows install would be much appreciated.
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Jamerst I had a sort of similar problem with duplication in that once the music file for example is saved to WMP then you need to delete it from the music library in the star menu.
Then delete the duplicate from WMP.
At least that is what I found was happening when I tried deleting stuff from WMP but still found the same stuff there when trying to burn CD's.
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Did you manage to fix the issue or not?
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Yes I just left one copy in WMP by removing the duplicate and the library entry.
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I'm unable to do that due to the fact that the library won't save, so it just happens again and again.
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Hi there
Note : this is NOT the answer to your question - but merely a suggestion so if you still want answers to your original topic please simply ignore this post..
There really isn't any reason to use WMP any more - there are so many better applications (and more flexible) too including VIDEO that I'm surprised people are still USING WMP.
VLC plays (straight out of the box) almost any AUDIO AND VIDEO codec known -- and will play any region DVD's in Software mode -- none of that hardware 5 times switching and then locked stuff -- while there are zillions of quite nice Audio players if you want a specialized one with music library handling etc.
I'm still believe it or not using Winamp - but you can use things like Media monkey etc etc.
You can import / convert your WMV files to other more sensilble formats -- mp4 / mkv are usually good ones to use for video, for Audio I use WAV and FLAC but mp3 is easy enough.
The only problem I can see if you are unlucky enough to have got files riddled with DRM -- you need to remove that to convert the files first.
Then your libraries are totally safe and you can use / copy at will. I HATE proprietary data bases / libraries for my own stuff - if it breaks then you are stuck. Systems using simple directory structures work best and with large CHEAP storage available why would you WANT to use WMV any more.
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I do realise that not many people really use WMP anymore, and I have many of those programmes already installed, but from past experience I have found that they don't seem to like my music libary at all, with many of my tags being lost from the files etc. I'm already using mp3 and mp4 for both music and video, because they're much smaller and I can use them Apple devices without messing around with converting them. I am considering moving over to a new player however, as WMP has always been slightly buggy and outdated. What would you reccommend as the best?
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Personally if I war having problems with WMP I would do what jimbo has suggested as for Apple I don't ever touch the stuff as I am not a fan
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Is plane debris from Flight MH370?
Authorities are offering mixed messages on whether a piece of debris found last week belonged to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, creating frustration among the victims' families.
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While Malaysia has announced with certainty that the debris found on Reunion Island belongs to Flight MH370, French, Australian and US authorities are stopping short of full confirmation.
After initial examination in France, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Thursday that "an international team of experts has conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed MH370," The Associated Press reported.
But at a news conference in Paris, Deputy Prosecutor Serge Mackowiak declined to confirm that the debris belonged to Flight 370. "The very strong conjectures are to be confirmed by complementary analysis that will begin tomorrow morning," Mackowiak said. "The experts are conducting their work as fast as they can in order to give complete and reliable information as quickly as possible."
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I love this photo. It was taken earlier this year and it was one of the first I took with my new dSLR camera. I bought my first ever SLR camera only this year after shooting all my earlier photos with a regular point and shoot. I love my dSLR and take it on all my travels now.
I took this photo in Kew Gardens and it is a beautiful water-lily that was sitting in the middle of a pond. Just beautiful.
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Pocket knives are a necessity for some of us
Every once in a while, I like to hit on the subject of pocket knives and their importance.
Case, Ka-Bar and Schrade were about the most popular in the part of Texas I lived in and I have always carried a pocket knife as long as I can remember. And that included my elementary school days.
Pocket knives were more common than watches when I was growing up. Everyone carried a pocket knife and to this day I would feel naked without my handy pocket knife folded snuggly in my pocket. To get on an airplane in the 21st century for me would be a traumatic event because I would have to leave my pocket knife and now my concealed handgun at home. So, the odds of me getting on a commercial airliner voluntarily are slim and none.
For years I have carried an Old Timer or Uncle Henry, about two and three-quarters inches long closed and with two or three blades. But when our family was into horses and I was around them I carried a Case single blade that was a little larger, four and one-fourth inches long closed; in case one of the horses started acting up and I could not get the lead rope untied, I could cut it.
In my high school days I kept a special knife in my fishing tackle box and it was a four-inch switch blade knife. You push the button on the side of the handle and the spring opened the blade and it locked into position so it could not fold on your fingers if you did something dumb, which I have always been prone to do.
It was real handy when you only one hand with which to get a knife and open it, and it also had a special feature of a pointed blade. It could be sharpened razor sharp on both sides for about one inch. I cannot remember who made it or from where I obtained it, but it would sure hold an edge and was handy when you were running trotlines.
It seems to me that those could have been illegal at the time, but I don't think so. I do know they were frowned upon by polite society, but it worked for me for years in my tackle box.
I have always been a fanatic about keeping all of my knives sharp as there is not too much in this world that is more aggravating than trying to cut something with a dull knife. If you have ever tried to cut a piece of string or field dress a deer or any other game and had to saw on it for ten minutes with a dull knife, you know what I am speaking about.
Usually it takes only one time at such an attempt to start the knife user down the road to sharpening every knife they come in contact with. I often have to warn my wife to be careful in the kitchen after I have tried to core an apple or attempt some other culinary feat in the kitchen with a dull knife and go on a sharpening rampage and sharpen all of her knives.
The knives I mentioned above are some of my favorites, as they are the ones I have had the most exposure to. I am sure there are many good knives on the market, but there are some sorry ones too. The way I establish a knife as sorry is when they will not hold an edge. I do not mind sharpening knives, but I do not want to make a career of it either.
In case you may not be aware, Imperial Schrade closed its doors July 30, 2004, after 100 years of business. I have carried two of their knives for years. One had one blade and the other had two blades. Well, I lost one and broke the blade on the other and I was fit to be tied. I wish it had been someone else who broke them as I could have really let them have it, but it was I who broke them both.
So, I had to go shopping for a knife because a man cannot be without a pocket knife. I started looking at cases and they had a couple that I felt would have worked to replace the two I had ruined. Then I received an e-mail from Remington showing their new knives; I didn't know Remington even made knives.
Well, as the story goes, I saw two that I really liked, but they were expensive. So, I called them anyway and ended up buying two of them to replace my lost ones. So far they are really nice and they hold an edge as well as my others did.
I still marvel at the number of people that I run into today that do not carry a knife and wonder just how they can get by with the many small jobs for which I need my knife. I know that if a child carries a knife to school as I did throughout my school years they would probably end up as a guest of the state in one of the correctional institutions. It is truly a shame that we have digressed to such a social condition.
The main point that one must keep in mind when shopping for a knife is to approach the event as you would when shopping for any tool: get the best. The best does not necessarily mean the most expensive, but do your homework and you will have a tool that will last a lifetime.
Larry J. LeBlanc is executive director of the Texas Outdoor Writers Association and a member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America. Visit his website at www.larryjleblanc.com.


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Hi, here are patches which make the following changes: - They make all the automake stuff work with automake 1.7 and autoconf 2.5x - They add -l switches in various Makefile.am's - for example, if some object file in wwwapp.so contains a reference to some function in wwwcore.so, then "-lwwwcore" is added to libwwwapp_la_LDFLAGS in Makefile.am. Apparently, this is the correct thing to do (a bug was filed about it against my Debian libwww package), and the resulting "prelinking" done by libtool can also reduce the startup time of libwww applications. These patches are against the 5.4.0 release sources. I think parts of them won't apply to the current CVS version, because expat was replaced with a newer version in CVS. The reason why I'm not applying this to CVS directly is that --with-expat=/some/path was broken by the expat update, and I need to use that switch. Hopefully I can fix this another sunny weekend, and then start applying the backlog... :) To apply everything: - Apply "0-configure-ac-in.diff" to configure.in - Rename configure.in to configure.ac - Apply "1-acinclude-m4.diff" to (guess what) acinclude.m4 - Delete acconfig.h - Apply "2-Makefile-am.diff". This contains both further fixes to make everything work with automake 1.7, and the -l switches mentioned above. Then re-bootstrap the code. The commands assume a Debian system - on other Linux flavours, the utilities might be called differently: - perl config/winConfigure.pl - libtoolize -c -f - aclocal-1.7 - autoheader2.50 - automake-1.7 -a -c - autoconf2.50 Phew! Another problem which I'm encountering with Debian's libtool 1.5-2: During build, libtool suddenly wants to access "Library/src/.libs/.libs", which isn't present. I guess this is a bug in libtool - my workaround, a simple "mkdir -p Library/src/.libs; ln -s . Library/src/.libs/.libs" seems to work fine. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/Ż| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 Ż '` Ż
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I'm not much for playing drinking games, but if I do I think I'll stick to like quarters or beer pong. I don't need to be drinking from the butt mudslide.
Thank God Adam cut the clip before they fucked each other of that horse.
that's wrong on multiple levels........and that's coming from me.
New Pedo Beer. It tastes like little kid's ass.
Because fucking your sister is getting old.
It must really suck not to be able to get laid.
The Aussie version of jackass called tools.
That is the shittyest home brew I've ever seen
They ought to be happy that they didn't have to pull on the handle to get the beer to come out
oh my fucking god!! i hope this didnt happen because they took away their right have guns!!!
Whats the difference between a white guy and a gay guy? Nothing all white guys are gay.
^ Not true,, I'm not, I'm married and have two kids, And I would rather fuck the hole and not the pole.
@bigtalkgay.porn/videos/a-big-gay-black-man-makes-another- black-guy-his-bitch-12389.html
thats some GAY SHIT!!!
I hope they washed the slide!
sloppy 2nd's
Only.. I think you all know the rest.
It's times like these I would rather be black
I had to give toreal a +1 on this one...I doubt we'll ever see blacks doing this.
Sigh, only white folks.
Thats cause there on the down low...dee's nuts low
Only WHITE People !
What kind of gay wanna be jack ass shit is this?
Probably the gayest thing I have ever seen
i know this is going to sound "cheeky," but... bottoms-up!
You know, its only white people that do stuff like this on the internet lol. Ive never seen a video of a black dude drinking ass beer or hopping in a shopping cart and having his friend push him into a curb


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NEWTON, Mass.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Tremont Realty Capital, a division of The RMR Group, today announced that Senior Vice President Daniel Mee will be a featured panelist on the "Opportunities Within The Fixed Income And Credit Strategies" panel at Opal Group's Investment Education Symposium at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans, LA on Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 9:45 a.m. Central Time / 10:45 a.m. Eastern Time.
For more information on the symposium and the panel discussion, please visit the conference website at http://opalgroup.net/conference/investment-education-symposium-2017/.
Tremont Realty Capital is a division of The RMR Group LLC. Tremont Realty Capital includes an operating business that specializes in commercial real estate (CRE) finance, principally raising debt and equity capital for owners of CRE, and an SEC registered investment adviser, Tremont Realty Advisors LLC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of The RMR Group LLC and which principally provides investment advice concerning real estate debt investments, including mortgage debts and mezzanine financings for real estate businesses. Since its founding in 2000, Tremont has completed over $4.6 billion worth of CRE transactions and currently has approximately $160 million of real estate debt and equity assets under management.
The RMR Group Inc. is a holding company and substantially all of its business is conducted by its majority owned subsidiary, The RMR Group LLC. The RMR Group LLC is an alternative asset management company that primarily provides management services to publicly traded REITs and real estate operating companies. As of December 31, 2016, The RMR Group LLC had approximately $27.2 billion of total assets under management, including more than 1,400 properties, and employed over 450 real estate professionals in more than 30 offices throughout the United States; the companies managed by The RMR Group LLC collectively had over 53,000 employees. The RMR Group Inc. is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.


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Stardustcraft features a mixture of adventure and towny survival roleplay all in one game! The game centers around three realms: The Wilderlands, Iskaria, and Tyrael. With over 300 custom enemies, 5 races, 5 classes, bosses, dungeons, war, and disease, the possibilities are endless. Watch the complex storyline of Tyrael and Iskaria unravel before your eyes as you venture deeper into your adventure. Learn more here.
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- Dungeons: Explore any of the 12 dungeons available in Tyrael filled with parkour, puzzles, enemies, and bosses
- Economy: Sell, buy, or trade items in-game. Stardustcraft comes with a well-managed economy.
- Jobs: Select up to 2 jobs, level up, and earn money.
- Quests: Over 30 custom quests available in Enyra and Tyrael.
- Races and Classes: 5 races and 5 classes to choose from which contain their own special abilities and spells. Level up by completing quests and defeating enemies.
- Religion: Create a deity in-game through a shrine, gain new followers, grow your religion, and make your deity more powerful by believing.
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Finallyyyyyyyyyyyyyy I'm posting photos from November… hehehe
Sometime in October, we got an invitation from Samsung to join the Innov8 Run and we were happy that the 4 of us got selected. haha
(Photos below taken using Samsung Innov8 and Nokia N96)
There were some other of our friends who got selected too.. hence we were very excited for November 1st.
We gathered at Samsung HQ at about 8am and we were all grouped randomly into teams of 3.
Then we went into the briefing room to get our kits and also to get to know our new teammates. That's Bryan and Cherrie together with their team mate.
We were given a short briefing by the organisors on what we should do during the run.. guidance and tips.
It ended with tshirt collection and Innov8 allocations as 1 member will be responsible for taking photos, another to be the navigator and the 3rd member as the driver.
We had a game of Asphalt 3D to see which team starts first.
Joshua, who was in another team looked sad when he took quite long to finish the race, which means his team will have to be one of the last to take off later.
Before embarking on our run with respective teammates, we took a fab 4 shot first.
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Kathleen Cannon Hourihan and Peter Jacob Ruocco were married Nov. 28 in the Twentieth Century Club of Buffalo where guests gathered for a reception following the ceremony.
Parents of the bride are Joanna and Neil Hourihan of Buffalo. The groom's parents are Tammy and Fred Ruocco of Grand Island. The groom's godfather, Peter T. Ruocco of Sausalito, California, a Universal Life Minister, heard the couple's vows.
The bride, a graduate of Nardin Academy, earned bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration from the University at Buffalo. She is an associate marketing manager at Rich Products. The groom, a graduate of Canisius High School, earned a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in business administration from UB. He is a tax manager at Brock, Schechter, & Polakoff, an accounting firm in Buffalo, where he focuses on international tax matters for clients. He is a certified public accountant.
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Journolist Redux? AP's Peoples and Politico's Summers Write Oddly Similar Stories on Ryan Avoiding Mention of 'Medicare'
Earlier today (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted how the Associated Press's Steve Peoples and Politico's Juana Summers could only find hundreds of people attending GOP vice-presidential pick Paul Ryan's Wednesday appearance at Oxford, Ohio's Miami University. Perhaps even more troubling is how they somehow chose an odd angle for their coverage, namely that Ryan has supposedly avoiding talking about Medicare in his stump speeches — but that it "all changed" yesterday.
It seems more than a little odd that two establishment press reporters from supposedly separate and independent media outlets both apparently focused for four days on when Ryan would mention the word "Medicare" on the campaign trail. Summers even made it her headline, while Peoples seemed to want to convey the impression that Ryan has been afraid to mention the word:
Paul Ryan uses the 'M' word
For the first time since he was minted as his party's vice presidential nominee, Paul Ryan used the "M" word in his stump speech as he campaigned Wednesday night on the campus of his alma mater.
That is, he talked about Medicare, the federal health program for senior citizens that he has proposed – in the future – to turn into a voucher program for some people. For a candidate who shot to conservative fame because of his plan to overhaul the budget, and entitlement programs, any mention of Medicare had been conspicuously absent from his stump speeches.
But all that changed at Miami University of Ohio when Ryan declared that he welcomed a national debate on the issue.
Facing what is emerging as a defining issue, Mitt Romney running mate Paul Ryan on Wednesday invited debate over his controversial proposal to overhaul Medicare and predicted the GOP would win the argument.
… Romney named Ryan, a seven-term Wisconsin congressman, as his running mate on Saturday. Since then, Democrats have pounced on the plan he authored as House Budget Committee chairman to transform the popular health care system for seniors.
Over the past week, however, Ryan did not directly address the intensifying criticism – or even simply say the word "Medicare" during multiple campaign stops across six states. He addressed the issue in a handful of media interviews (on national TV, with audiences likely in the millions — Ed.), but he avoided it while facing voters.
That changed Wednesday …
From here, it seems that the odds of two reporters legitimately developing stories on their own coming up with such an odd theme — and employing similar "that changed" language while doing so — are very low.
By the way, if Team Romney-Ryan is trying to avoid bringing up Medicare, they have a funny way of showing it:
- Ryan, in a Fox News interview with Brit Hume on Brett Baier's program Tuesday — "'… we're the ones who are offering a plan to save Medicare, to protect Medicare, to strengthen Medicare. We're the ones who are not raiding Medicare to pay for Obamacare. We're the ones who are repealing President Obama's 15-person bureaucratic board that will put price controls on Medicare that will lead to denied care for current seniors. We're the ones continuing the guarantee of Medicare for people in or near retirement. And you have to reform it for the younger generation in order to make the commitment stick for the current generation. President Obama is actually damaging Medicare for current seniors. It's irrefutable. And that's why I think this is a debate we want to have, and that's a debate we're going to win,' he said." That's seven "Medicare" mentions in one statement.
- Noted in Helene Cooper's New York Times coverage of yesterday's campaign events — "The Republicans released a television commercial on Tuesday asserting that the Romney-Ryan Medicare plan was better for older Americans."
Based on the oddly similar stories out of Summers and Peoples, it is not at all out of line to wonder whether personal or even Journolist-level collusion is still occurring in the Beltway-based press's presidential campaign coverage. The people in charge at the AP and Politico should be wondering the same thing.
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.


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BREAKING, EXCLUSIVE: Same GOP Senator Who Backs Obama's Cuba Policy Praised Socialist Dictator Robert Mugabe #SOTU
A GOP senator who backs increased trade with the Cuban dictatorship once praised the policies of socialist dictator Robert Mugabe. Jeff Flake of Arizona favors ending the embargo with Cuba but his 1987 BYU master's thesis raises profound questions about his judgment backing the socialist dictator. Might he be wrong about what will happen with […]Read Story


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KEENE - A unique theatre production is engaging youth from this region in a fascinating stage experience, and their exploits will soon be on display for everyone.
Twenty youth, ages 8-15, will be performing "Mirette" Saturday, July 17, at 7 p.m. at Keene Central School as the culminating piece for "Putting it Together like the Pros," a week-long theatre workshop instituted specifically for youth.
Seasoned actor and Keene native Tyler Nye directs the show, which will be put together in a matter of just six days beginning Monday, July 12. Kathleen Recchia is the producer.
Mirette is based on the Caldecott Award-winning picture book "Mirette on the High Wire," by Emily Arnold McCully. It was transformed into a full-length musical by Elizabeth Diggs, Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, the latter two being the creators of "The Fantasticks."
Set in 1890s Paris, the story of Mirette centers around a young girl who helps her mother run a boarding house for circus performers. Mirette's life takes an adventurous turn when a mysterious man moves in, a dark and brooding retired tightrope walker named Monsieur Bellini.
Mirette and urges Bellini to teach her his craft, even though her mother sings her to sleep with the practical advice, "Keep Your Feet Upon the Ground." In the end, it is Mirette who must help Bellini overcome the fear that forced him to retire.
The North Country youth production cast includes Liza Amirault, Sam Balzac, Peter Craig, Cassandra Day, Brian DeWalt, Olivia Jaques, Sydney Joanette, Sara Looney, Caitlyn Lopez, Trillium Macario, Colleen Mulvey, Athena Pepe, Trevon Robertson, Harvey Runyon, Ana Serjak, Elaina Smith, Charlotte Ward, Sarah Woltner, and James Winch.
While most of the youth hail from Jay, Keene, or Wilmington, a few are summer visitors from Massachusetts, New York City, and Rochester.
Both the youth workshop and show are sponsored by a Developing Community Arts Grant with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered locally by The Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks, a Stewart's Shops Holiday Match Grant in conjunction with East Branch Friends of the Arts, Between A&B Productions and the Book and Blanket Bed and Breakfast.
Admission to the performance is free, but donations are welcome. For more information, call 946-8323.


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Being my birthplace, St. Louis has shaped me in ways that other cities and even countries have not. One of the legacies of having grown up in the suburbs of that city is a deep appreciation for baseball. For me Summer will always mean high humidity, the smell of cut grass and the play-by-play called by Jack Buck and his right-hand man, Mike Shannon, on KMOX radio.
Funny thing is that the older I get, the more I appreciate the game even as the sport loses its luster with the public because of the whining, drugged-up multimillionaires that currently populate the sport, as well as the growing popularity of other sports like basketball and football.
But, if you've seen Field of Dreams, you know that for those who appreciate it, baseball is more than the money, and the problems, or even the deadbeat dads who play. So when the wife came home with this, I felt like a kid again and the magic that is the game of baseball came to life:
That's Bill "Ready" Cash's autograph. Bill "Ready" Cash was catcher for the Philadelphia Stars of the Negro Baseball Leagues from 1943 – 1950.
Being a baseball fan in America today, it's hard not to be fascinated by the Negro Leagues. The Negro Leagues of baseball were formed after the enactment of Jim Crow Laws made it legal to discriminate against African-Americans. Prior to that some African-Americans had played on white teams, including Bud Fowler, William Edward White and Moses Fleetwood Walker.
The history of the leagues are just as colorful as the history of baseball itself, with characters like Gus Greeley, an African-American businessman who started a baseball league in order to launder money, only to fall in love with the game and sink his fortune into it. Even Bill Veeck, who once put a midget at the plate for the St. Louis Browns, got into the act by trying to buy the Philadelphia Phillies and bring it over to the Negro Leagues. He failed when the Commissioner of Baseball moved quickly to find another buyer for the Phils.
Baseball history is first and foremost American history – of success and failure, racism and redemption. For the vile events of Jackie Robinson walking to the plate to the sounds of jeering and curses, there is the magic of Hank Aaron's home run on April 8, 1974 when he broke Babe Ruth's home run record. Today with players from all over the world and all skin colors playing Major League Baseball, it's easy to forget that even "Hammering Hank" Aaron regularly received death threats through the rest of his career which ended in 1976.
But before Hank Aaron, before Jackie Robinson there were men like Bill "Ready" Cash, who played the game for teams like the Philadelphia Stars just as well and in many cases better than the men who wore the uniforms of Cardinals, Yankees and Red Sox. Today he is a living legend, and I am thrilled that the Wife was able to meet him.
UPDATE: Bill has written a book, along with a local sports writer, about his experiences on and off the field. They've had a heck of a time finding a publisher.
This is American history and a story that deserves to reach the widest audience possible. If anyone can help, please email me (firstname.lastname@example.com) and I'll pass along the info.


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Frank Ocean Announces New Album and Magazine Will Be Released in July
Titled Boys Don't Cry.
Just when you thought it might be time someone called a search party for Frank Ocean's next album, the low-key singer-songwriter updated his Tumblr on Monday with a double whammy: An album and a magazine are coming this summer. "'I got two versions. I got twoooo versions' #ISSUE 1 #ALBUM 3 #JULY2015 #BOYSDONTCRY," he wrote under his latest post, presumably a pic of him piling his forthcoming wares. Billboard confirmed with Ocean's reps that the artist's sophomore studio album and follow-up to Channel Orange, along with the mag (titled Boys Don't Cry), is on its way. The name of the album, however, has not yet been finalized. (If it's also Boys Don't Cry, here are a few fun facts that could turn out to be related: The Cure released an identically titled single in 1979, and Hilary Swank starred in a 1999 movie of the same name, about LGBT icon Brandon Teena's tragic life and death.) Join us in megawatt-smiling about this long-awaited news:
Frank Ocean is releasing a new album and his own magazine this July. http://t.co/WrU4nquWG2 pic.twitter.com/oIJESytSvY— The FADER (@thefader) April 7, 2015


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Your trip to Barcelona might be even more interesting if it happens to coincide with one of the city's many significant celebrations and traditional festivals, so we thought it would be helpful to give you a little more information about Barcelona and Catalunya's traditions.
Whilst it's true that not all the popular festivities and traditions take place on public holidays, it's very likely that they will influence the day-to-day activities in the city. It's rare, but occasionally the opening hours of certain museums and tourist attractions are affected slightly during festivals, so it's worth being aware of them, and checking before you visit that the places you'd like to see haven't been affected by these changes. What's most likely to happen during holidays and festivals is that a large number of activities are scheduled for you to enjoy, the vast majority of which are free of charge.
The most significant festivities in Barcelona and Catalonia
So that you get to know a bit more about the traditional festivals and celebrations in Barcelona and Catalonia, we have given you plenty of information about some of the most significant, that we hope will be of great interest to you.


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Defense Industry Bringing The War Home?
Tick tock people – time to wake up. There are chilling things that could be happening this very minute. Our president is poised to sign a document that shreds our Bill of Rights. Here I thought I voted for a Constitutional Scholar. I thought he'd protect our rights, not sign them away. He will be losing the coveted Independent Vote with a stupid move like this. He will lose the votes of all those starry eyed liberals who voted for him thinking he could perform miracles. He will only be licking the boot heels of the Republicans, who wrote this assault upon the American Citizen, and who have declared war against him anyway. What a stupid move, Mr. President. Your "note" attached will not save you.
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RSVP? ASAP? Etc.? What do these letters mean? In this vocabulary lesson, I will explain and give examples of ten common abbreviations, such as RIP, BYOB, and PIN. I will also teach the difference between i.e., e.g., and etc.. Watch this video ASAP to find out more!
Learn English: 10 abbreviations you should know video
Hello. My name is Emma, and in today's video, we are going to talk about 10 abbreviations you should know.
So first of all, what is an abbreviation? Well, here's a clue in the word. You have the word "brev". "Brev" — in other words, "brevity" — it means to be short. So abbreviations are words or sentences that we have made short, usually to save time. So for example, ASAP, RSVP, RIP, BYOB, BBQ — you see the pattern? We have capital letters, and they all stand for something that's longer. So it's a short form of a word or a sentence. So let's look at ten common abbreviations.
So the first one we have, "ASAP". What does this mean? "As soon as possible", okay? We use this a lot when we're writing emails, letters, sometimes in conversation. "As soon as possible" is long, so when we don't want to say "as soon as possible", we can shorten it to "ASAP". What are some examples? "Email me ASAP." "Take our quiz ASAP." "Go see the principal ASAP." So it just means to do something as quickly as you can. And this is a very common expression.
Our second abbreviation, "RSVP". What does it mean, "RSVP"? It means, "Please reply." Okay? So we often use this if you're invited to something. If, for example, I'm having a birthday party, and I want all of you to come, I would ask you to RSVP. "Please RSVP by Friday." This means, "Please reply. Please tell me you're coming by Friday." "Please RSVP as soon as you can." "Please RSVP by next Saturday." So it means, again, "Please send me a reply so I know you're coming." You, again, see this on invitations, any type of invite, you will see this.
Our next common abbreviation, RIP. You may have seen this before. It means, "Rest in peace." So when somebody passes away — when somebody dies — often on their tombstone, you'll see "RIP", which stands for, "Rest in peace". If you're on Facebook, and someone you know, maybe they lose a member of their family, they will often write, "RIP Fluffy" if it's a cat; "RIP whoever it is". And it means, "Rest in peace." Okay? So this one has to do with dying and death.
No. 4, "BYOB". This is common when we're talking about parties. And it means, "Bring your own beer" or "bring your own booze". Beer, booze — they're both alcoholic drinks. So "booze" is any drink with alcohol in it. And so what that means is if you're invited to a party, maybe the host doesn't have any alcoholic drinks, so they will tell you, "Bring your own drinks." "Bring your own beer." "Bring your own wine." "BYOB" means "bring your own alcohol". Okay? So it's a very common expression for parties.
No. 5, "BBQ". "BBQ" means "barbecue". What's a "barbecue"? It's a way we cook meat. It's a way we cook food. You usually have a grill. You put maybe hamburgers, hot dogs on the grill. You barbecue them. You can eat barbecued chicken, different types of barbecue. So "BBQ" refers to a type of food or a party where they will serve hamburgers and hot dogs. So let's check out five more abbreviations.
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Download Rush Full Movie (HD) | The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
Director: Ron Howard
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Rush Full Movie - Set against the sexy, glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing in the 1970s, the film is based on the true story of a great sporting rivalry between handsome English playboy James Hunt (Hemsworth), and his methodical, brilliant opponent, Austrian driver Niki Lauda (Bruhl). The story follows their distinctly different personal styles on and off the track, their loves and the astonishing 1976 season in which both drivers were willing to risk everything to become world champion in a sport with no margin for error: if you make a mistake, you die.
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MACOMB COUNTY (WWJ) – A court hearing was held Monday afternoon in the case of a Sterling Heights man charged with raping an 80-year-old woman in Macomb County.
WWJ's Mike Campbell reports that 29-year-old William Harrison entered the courtroom in shackles and quietly stood near his attorney as the circuit court judge heard from both Harrison's attorney and the prosecuting attorney.
During the hearing, a pre-trial date was set for December 12 in Circuit Court.


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Tour One of the Best Hotels on Martha's Vineyard
Cape Cod Luxury in Edgartown
Enjoy an inside look at what you can expect at Harbor View Hotel before you book your stay. Tour one of the best hotels on Martha's Vineyard, featuring 114 spacious accommodations, sophisticated dining venues, upscale event facilities and easy access to area activities.
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How can you save money at the grocery store? It always amazes me when people walk down the aisle just putting items in their cart without even looking at the price. I wonder if they have enough money to throw down the drain because that is exactly what they are doing. You can start saving by looking at the price of the items. For example: Kroger had half gallon of milk for 99 cents when the one gallon was $2.50 you wouldn't believe how many people bought the gallon instead of two half gallons. If you are not going to cut coupons, at least try to look through the sale flyer before you start shopping. Here are some special programs you may not be aware of from different stores.
- Double up to 50 cent coupon everyday.
- Buy One Get One Free doesn't mean you need to buy two. You can buy one at 50% off.
- 10 for $10 doesn't mean you need to buy ten of those items, they will ring up for $1.00
- Digital coupons that load right on your Kroger Plus Card. Just go to the following websites, enter your name and Kroger number then you are ready to load coupons right on your card. This means when you swipe your card at checkout all the coupons for the items you bought will automatically be deducted off at the end of your order.
- You should also be getting many coupons in the mail from Krogers. If you are not maybe the information that was initially given to Krogers when you signed up for the Kroger Plus Card is not correct. I talked to the marketing director at Krogers, he said many people just entered false information thinking it would never be used for anything. Go to customer service to check. I get many FREE item coupons in the mail.
- Double up to 50 cent couple everyday but will only double of the same coupon. For example- you have four 50 cent coupons for cheese, you buy four packages of cheese they will double two of your 50 cent coupons to $1.00 but the other two will only be worth 50 cents. The best way to do this transaction is to do it in two transaction so they double all four of your coupons.
- Meijers website offers store coupons that can be matched with manufacturer coupons.
- Go to http://www.meijermealbox.com/ to print out Meijer coupons
- Target now has a price matching policy. Bring a sales flyer from any other store and they will match that price. It has to be the item that is featured in the flyer.
- Target's website has target coupons that can be used with manufacturer coupons.
- Target offers gift cards when you buy certain amounts of items. For example this week you can bring the sales flyer in from Walgreens to get Raisin Bran cereal for $1.99 each. When you buy four you will receive a $5 Target gift card. Print two $1.50 off two boxes of Raisin Bran coupon to receive four boxes for FREE.
- Bring in a sales flyer from another store and they will match the price.
- Get ready for KMART's huge coupon deal April 4-10. It looks like it is coming our way. During that week KMART will double coupons up to $2.00. This is a great way to get lots of stuff free. There will be a limit per order so watch for the weekly flyer with special instructions.
- Use a store coupon along with a manufacturer coupon
- If the Sunday paper has more than two inserts definitely buy two papers
- If you are afraid of fraudulent coupons here are some dependable sites:
· I will be teaching another class Saturday May 15 at the Central Library downtown. Call to register if you want to learn more tips on saving money.
Go to my website to sign up for email updates of special savings delivered right to your inbox. www.fru-gal-friends.com
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Register your participating Kroger Plus Card and your child's school information at Wake Up to Bonus Box Tops where you will receive virtual Box Tops for participating products. No tearing and cutting out box tops. Upon registration you will even receive 5 Bonus Box Tops.
Whether you're an all-out enthusiast or just an occasional rider, you're invited to join Saddle Up Safely team members, UK HealthCare and UK College of Agriculture for a free lecture on simple things you can do to stay safe while riding.
Tuesday, 6:30 pm, March 23 at The Red Mile Clubhouse, 1200 Red Mile Road.
The event is free, call 1-800-333-8874 to register. Learn more at www.saddleupsafely.org
Sign up to receive a free download of the book The Little Engine That Could. Playdate with a purpose provides group activities and tips to make books more fun and educational for kids. www.parents.com/playdatewithapurpose
Jennie Garth is hosting "Garden Party" – a digital series featuring recipes, tips and activities to help you create a lifelong love of veggies in your family.
On a beautiful day go to The Arboretum, State Botanical Garden of Kentucky located at 500 Alumni Drive. Enjoy a two-mile paved walkway with viewing of seven physiographic regions of Kentucky. Bring the children to the new Children's Garden which is a safe 1.85 acre outdoor learning environment designed to help children 2-10 years old discover plants and the environment. Admission is FREE.
Feed off the energy of the Whole Food Team on Saturday, March 27 from 1 pm to 3 pm at Lexington Green. Start off learning how to hula hoop then join in a scavenger hunt. Let's start getting healthy with a little fun from Whole Foods.


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Michelle Williams: Ballet Class Drop Off!
Michelle Williams gives photographers the thumbs up as she heads back to her car on Thursday (August 9) in Culver City, Calif.
The 31-year-old actress dropped off her adorable daughter Matilda at ballet class.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Michelle Williams
Earlier in the week, Michelle and her boyfriend Jason Segel were spotted picking up Matilda from gymnastics class in Los Angeles.
Make sure to catch Jason in the season premiere of How I Met Your Mother on Monday, September 24 at 8/7c on CBS.


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I would like to know the fatwa on a book called "the 99 beautiful names of allah" written by moulana mohammed idnees meerthi.
We do not know of this book and we have not read it so we cannot pass any comment on it. But the scholars, both classical and contemporary, have studied the ninety-nine names of Allaah that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) referred to when he said: "Allaah has ninety-nine names, one hundred less one; whoever memorizes them will enter Paradise." Narrated by al-Bukhaari (2736) and Muslim (2677).
Many scholars have striven to derive the names of Allaah from the Qur'aan and Sunnah, and they have laid out guidelines by means of which they found out the names of Allaah, may He be exalted.
We should point out two things here:
1 – The scholars have defined these names of the basis of what each one of them thought was appropriate, and we cannot be certain that these are what the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) meant.
2 – The hadeeth that is narrated by al-Tirmidhi in which these names are listed is da'eef (weak) according to the consensus of the scholars of hadeeth. You will find a more detailed discussion of this issue and others in the answer to question no. 72318.
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New shop tour photo gallery
Classes are quickly approaching, with a lot of dates already filling up for the season. I added a new shop tour page to the website to show current students and prospective students the area and some of the tools and equipment they'll be working with. Enjoy!