text: Share: Comments Print August 20, 2014 at 8:08 AM Wednesday's pregame notes and lineups: Mariners at Phillies Posted by Ryan Divish Here's the lineup for today. Mike Zunino gets his usual day off. Chris Denorfia is in left and Logan Morrison is in right field and Dustin Ackley is out of the lineup. Why? "Well it's a chance to give him two days," manager Lloyd McClendon said. "He's been going at it really hard. It's a chance to get him cleaned up for the stretch run. I thought we should take advantage of it. He's dinged up. Hell, everybody is dinged up this time of year. He's had a sore back for a couple days. But he's ok. This is just a chance to freshen him up." This could be another reason why …. * Do these numbers mean everything? No. Do these numbers mean anything? Yes. Do these numbers prove that you like to use the snipping tool and baseball reference way too much? Maybe. I did ask Chris Young about his two hits off of Hamels. They came in his first start for the Mets – a 7-1 win. Young actually had three hits in the game, two off of Hamels and one off of Kyle Kendrick. The one off of Kendrick was a chopper up the middle that Chase Utley fielded on the grass but couldn't make a play on. The three hits by a pitcher in a game is a Mets record. So is he ready to pinch hit off of Hamels today? "I don't want to ruin my average," he said. ***** Mike Zunino leads the American League in hit by pitches with 14. He has more hit by pitches than walks (13). Last night he was hit by a 91 mph sinker from AJ Burnett right on the elbow. He had a few seam marks on the elbow. "It was a funny bone shot," he said. "Once you have one there, it's all the same, isn't it?" So about leading the league in hit by pitches? "I'm leading in something," he said laughing. "What can you do about it. Ugly finder, I guess." [do action="custom_iframe" url="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/237315777/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-nNmCYC7FadDxjTphobjx&show_recommendations=true" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="0.6069986541049798″ scrolling="no" id="doc_94020″ width="100%" height="600″ frameborder="0″" width="630″ height="500″ scrolling=""/] Comments


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I took off all the blades. (notice the damaged tips) You only need to remove 4 screws and the blades come off.
The swash plate.
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I've made an appointment with my dear brother who's a photographer. We're gonna do a little photo shoot of the Dauphin in action.
I can't hardly wait to fly this beauty !


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While it's not clear there is a bubble yet, some of the private market valuations I've seen are bubble-icious. My evidence is more anecdotal since I'm not an "on the ground" venture capitalist. But here is something from Fred Wilson, offering a good overview from a very credible source that there is a froth in the private markets. Money is sloshing around the bathtub, and I'd argue it's spilling over into all asset classes.
private market froth-iness11 Feb
start-up-tomism15 Dec
It strikes me today that optimism in the professional investment community remains at a relatively low level. Why? Out-of-control government spending. The $1.4 trillion federal deficit. $13 trillion in national debt. Eurozone economic concerns and the implications for the future of the euro currency. Not to mention the Federal Reserve's actions which could spur inflation. The potential for an abrupt rise in interest rates. Rising commodity prices. The rise of China and India as competitors to the U.S. An equity market still meaningfully below its 2007 highs.
Many of the above are valid concerns and indeed are areas that need work. The equity markets today are implying decade ahead returns around 5%, certainly not a place to take unmitigated risk. Interest rates are low (but rising), benefiting borrowers/spenders at the expense of savers. The volume of the above factors is loud and the focus on them disproportionately high among investors and the public at large. They can lead us to forget a couple of things.
First, most of them we can't control. We simply can't, other than through elected officials, reduce government spending. We can, however, get ourselves into better financial shape through our own actions and position ourselves for worse economic times through higher savings, for instance.
Furthermore, these things tend to work on one way or another. Let's take it to the extreme and say that government debt continues to rise and short-term interest rates go to 10.0%. With the government rolling over roughly a third of its total debt each year we're looking at another $300 billion in interest expenses each year just on short-term debt. Say we print money and devalue the dollar in world markets to pay for this extra debt. Interest rates rise across the country, prices rise for consumers and unemployment rises dramatically. We couldn't have stopped it, but we could have assets invested and liquid assets available to ameliorate the personal impact. Okay, enough of that since it detracts from what I'm really trying to say.
That is, in the fog of our short-term focus on the above issues and the maddening tendencies of the media to bloviate about them 24/7, we forget the ingenuity of the U.S. spirit and what's going on in the entrepreneurial community today.
At this point, startups are being created like wildfire and funding is rabid. Several prominent venture capitalists have declared that there could be a bubble forming in early-stage technology companies, especially so-called Web 2.0 companies. I've heard many write and speak about the prices at which early funding rounds are taking place. Apparently, they're not grounded in reality at this point and to some it "feels" like 1998-1999 again. (However, there are certain fundamental differences that differentiates this period from then. I may touch on this at a later date, but it mostly relates to valid business models and actual earnings.)
Anecdotally, it's becoming more prevalent to see local articles about new companies being started dealing with the tech space. I'm encouraged by these signs. Let me point out that first and foremost I am a value investor. I try and figure out the stream of cash flows (both positive and negative) that can be expected over the life of an investment and discount it at an appropriate interest rate. Startups don't have the luxury of much visibility on this front and so I haven't (not yet, at least) invested in them. Also, I understand macro and micro-economics that makes me reticent about trying to pick winners.
Surely, there is no way that all startups receiving attention and/or funding today can reach the level of the most popular examples – such as Groupon, Twitter and Facebook. It doesn't work like that. Many, if not most, won't survive another year. As Warren Buffett has said, first come the innovators, then the imitators, then the idiots. Probably a lot of the incremental funding is coming from those in the third category and when the level of sophistication falls, so does the quality of the overall pool.
My broader point can get lost in the micro discussion, so I'll finish here. Just because the effects of competition will ensure that most of these businesses fail (90% as goes the statistic?), the activity speaks to an entrepreneurial spirit that is alive and well in this country. And it's a spirit that will endure in spite of the broad economic, fiscal, and monetary concerns that receive disproportionate attention in media coverage.


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Research Horizons Seminar
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 12:00pm
1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Skiles 171
School of Mathematics - Georgia Institute of Technology
Hosts: Yao Li and Ricardo Restrepo
Modern Economic Theory is largely based on the concept of Nash Equilibrium. In its simplest form this is an essentially statics notion. I'll introduce a simple model for the origin of money (Kiotaki and Wright, JPE 1989) and use it to introduce a more general (dynamic) concept of Nash Equilibrium and my understanding of its relation to Dynamical Systems Theory and Statistical Mechanics.


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Platforms: PSP (mini) | also PS3 compatible
Developer: Fishing Cactus
Publisher: Zallag
We kind of love Armor Games here at Dealspwn. They were a regular staple of Matt's Click To Play column in the early parts of last year, and they've built up a cracking stable of indie developers looking to offer some really nicely polished and fantastically addictive gaming experiences for absolutely free. It's no surprise that when Apple offered a superlative crossover platform for casual gaming, it'd only be a matter of time before we saw some of Armor's finest appear in the App Store. So it was that Shift found its way onto the iPhone and now, stuffed with twice as much content, the game's finally come to the PSN.
As a part of a strange experiment you're tasked with escaping each room using your Shift ability in this maze-treading, platforming puzzler. If you're a fan of games like Exit, Crush or Echochrome, you're going to love this. It's even better.
To reach the exit door, you must activate a 'Shift' (L or R button) to invert the game world. You can move along the white background or change to travel the opposite black side. When a Shift is activated you sink into the ground and the world is flipped 180 degrees. Shifts can only be performed when your feet are planted on the ground. So when confronted with a spiked column, just change it around so it's a hole to jump over. Still confused? Have a quick look at the video below.
It doesn't take long to adapt to the gameplay, the biggest problem is usually keeping track of where you are when the world has stopped flipping around. You'll need to have your wits with you to avoid getting pushing off platforms by moving blocks or impaled by spike traps. Thankfully the controls are perfectly responsive and although your jumping height is locked you can change direction mid-air.
Chequered areas of a level can't be shifted into, so you'll have to think of a way around. Keys need to be collected in some stages to unblock areas and sometimes create extra platforms. There are also orbs that will change the landscape, moving blocks or remove them completely. Keys and orbs can't be collected in the wrong order, so if you can reach one of them, make sure you go for it.
The graphics are obviously basic, but the razor-sharp images are effortlessly cool and fit the gameplay perfectly. There's only one jazzy music track, which you'll be hearing in your sleep after hammering the game for a few hours. The track will only play once per level instead of looping, it feels like the game's way of telling you that you're taking too long on that level.
Shift Extended is packed with 120 levels, but it's not until roughly oh say, level 88, that it starts to get difficult. Many levels can be beaten in under 30 seconds with you not getting truly tested until very late in the game. It would have been better to spread out the challenge a bit more as it feels slightly too easy for the most part. An early contended for Mini of the Year though?
- A great concept that's a joy to play
- Stylish visuals
- 120 levels for £3.49
- Most levels are too easy
- Level 88 can go **** itself though
- You'll want more, even after finishing Level 120
The Short Version: A cool idea to shake up your brain in this maze-riddle of a platforming puzzle game. It might look confusing, but it's really simple once you get the hang of it and you'll have blitzed through 50 levels in no time. A warning though, every time you close your eyes afterwards, you'll be looking for white areas to Shift into in the darkness. Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't have finished it in one day.


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Euro 2016 terror alert: ISIS will attack footie fan zones and bars in group stages
TWISTED ISIS terrorists will most likely attack fan zones and bars during Euro 2016, intelligence watchdogs have warned.
The hell-bent Daesh extremists are feared to be plotting an explosive assault on fans – including Brits – during the group stages in France.
The Risk Advisory Group made the shock claims in a special report last week.
The London-based private consultants monitor terror cells, including in web forums, such as pro-ISIS Shumukh and pro-Al-Qaida fanatics Al-Fidaa.
"An attack on a fan zone or bars in a city centre would fit with an emerging trend we are seeing in jihadist attacks on the west," said Henry Wilkinson, the Risk Advisory's head of intelligence and analysis.
"We think that the group stages will be the time of greatest vulnerability"Henry Wilkinson
"The preferred tactic of terrorists in recent attacks has been for roaming gunmen to kill civilians indiscriminately in crowded public spaces where there are relatively light security measures in place.
"They have also hit multiple targets in quick succession, making it harder for security forces to concentrate their response."
At least 40,000 Brits are expected to journey to the European Football Championships across 10 stadiums in nine cities between June 10 and July 10.
But according to a survey of 1,600 UK fans by the Foreign Office, 57% are flocking to France without tickets.
And of those 57%, 51% plan to watch the action in fan zones and 13% will head to bars and pubs.
Mr Wilkinson says it's these fans, not those at the stadiums, that could be more at risk of a devastating assault.
"Public spaces such as official fan zones and bars will probably be easier targets for terrorists than stadiums," he added.
"This is because they are more easily accessible, and are in city centres so it is harder for police to establish security perimeters around them.
"The authorities will probably prioritise securing stadiums on match days due to their higher profile."
France is governing using emergency terror powers until May 26 but is expected to extend them until after the tournament.
The sporting world is preparing for a "summer of fear" ahead of a season that boasts Euro 2016, the FA Cup final, Champions League final and the Rio Olympics.
Mr Wilkinson also fears that the hectic group stages of the Euros, running up until June 22, will be ISIS's biggest target.
Republic of Ireland will be one of eight teams to play on June 22 in Lille and Northern Ireland will be one of eight in Paris on June 21."
These are the two days that promise to give security and police the biggest headache.
"We think that the group stages will be the time of greatest vulnerability to attack," added Mr Wilkinson.
"This is because there will be fewer matches and events during the later stages of the tournament.
"So the security forces will have more capacity to secure events and respond to possible attack plots than they will have during the first two weeks of the tournament.
Mr Wilkinson also writes how ISIS have described France as the "capital of prostitution and obscenity" and the "carrier of the banner of the cross in Europe".
One particular ISIS propaganda video promised to attack either Paris, London or Rome.
In its most horrendous ever attack on the west, an ISIS cell killed 130 people in a series of suicide bombings and shootings in Paris on November 13, 2015.
Three bombers killed one person when they detonated themselves outside the Stade de France – which will host the Euro final on July 10.
On April 4, French authorities carried out a huge two-hour simulation in Bordeaux of a mock terror attack.
"France is a specific priority target for IS," added Mr Wilkinson, who said "it is very likely that an attack or attacks" will "occur".
"With large numbers of people at events across ten cities, police will almost certainly be stretched, securing stadiums, official events, training grounds, team hotels, and public spaces generally."
However he added: "Surprisingly, at least in our view given the international profile of the tournament, we have not yet seen any notable or specific mentions of the Euro 2016 championships by groups such as Islamic State or its sympathisers."
Daily Star Online has also revealed how Brit tourists in Spain are at risk.
We exclusively revealed – just two weeks ago – a map plotting the tourist hotspots ISIS militants want to take back in a bid to reconquer their own "Spanish caliphate".
And last July we revealed the full extent of ISIS dangers facing Brits in the Spanish Costas.


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As a twenty-one year old college student who grew up in a world with technology (I was fortunate enough to have a computer, TVs, gaming systems, iPods, etc. in my home), I like to think of myself as fairly tech-savvy. I've always felt like I had a higher-than-average understanding of technology simply because I've used it so much; I'm what some would call a "digital native." When I was told to tweet for class this week, I thought I had an advantage over some of my peers because I have used Twitter for years. But I wasn't prepared for some of the things I would encounter as I tweeted as an educational professional.
The first challenge that I encountered was how to create new and relevant content. On my personal Twitter, I tweet about things that happen during the day, quotes I read or hear others say, or even reminders to my followers about upcoming events on campus. My followers consist of my friends and family, so tweeting about my everyday life is relevant to them. However, my professional "teacher Twitter" is a completely different landscape: I follow leading names in education such as US Dept of Education and edutopia as well as professionals in education, and I am followed by some educators whom I do not know personally. This audience doesn't want to know how great it felt to turn off my alarm clock and sleep in until noon on a lazy Saturday. This community is interested in topics and trends in education, a much more difficult realm for me to add new and original contributions to because I'm not actually an educator yet.
To make up for this problem, I retweeted a lot of posts that others had added but I found interesting.
I added my own commentary to others' Twitter contributions.
I posted the links to articles I'd read and summed up a few of my thoughts (in less than 140 characters).
I participated in more than one TweetChat (see my post about my first TweetChat experience!), which allowed me to express my thoughts on questions others posed.
I posted comments from conversations I'd held in my teacher preparation courses.
I tried to increase the number of hits on my blog by advertising my latest posts on Twitter.
I tried to spark conversations by asking questions.
I added my thoughts to others' conversations. (I actually did this a lot because I think my view as a preservice teacher is a needed perspective!)
And, occasionally, I tweeted about current events and personal accomplishments that I attempted to link back into the realm of education.
Even though coming up with new content was a challenge, I believe I got better at this as I continued to tweet. Through this experience, I learned that my status as a preservice teacher was valued and sparked interest in the community (rather than distaste as I thought I'd receive because I relatively lack in experience and knowledge). I also realized that everything I tweet does not have to be original. It is beneficial to my community for me to bring in resources my followers may not have previously encountered. But it is also beneficial for me to add my own comments and ponderings from my individual frame of reference, because this is how we learn from each other.
Besides trying to add new and relevant content, I also struggled when I tried to lead conversations on Twitter. Part of the problem was that I don't have a huge network of followers yet, so there is a very limited amount of people who see my tweets. I tried to bolster the number of people who would see my tweets by using other hashtags (such as #handsonlearning, #community, #personalizedlearning, #iaedchat, #integration, #TPT, #pretchat, #newteachers, #ntchat, #curriculum, and even #selfie), but I don't think this was effective. The people who participated in my conversations (outside of TweetChats) were all people that I know. That doesn't mean we did not have a great conversations! But I wish I had been able to converse with others whom I would not normally have a chance to talk to.
Another thing I learned about Twitter is that it can move very quickly! Some of the conversations I started took off in different directions before I had a chance to respond to them. While some users may find this annoying and hard to follow, I loved to see how the conversations unfolded before my eyes (or later when I saw all of my notifications). I imagine this is what it's like to see students take off talking in small groups about the discussion questions you post!
One of the most successful conversations I started on Twitter was when I asked experienced teachers to share resources for new teachers to get free or inexpensive materials.
I was told to try my local AEA, Kuta, and look into grants from parent groups or community businesses. But when someone suggested Teachers Pay Teachers, a lengthy conversation started.
I did not expect to learn so much (and, actually, leave with some questions) about Teachers Pay Teachers, but I am glad Victoria and Melinda were willing to answer my questions about that resource! I plan to look into TPT sometime soon and return to this conversation when I have investigated it further.
Another fruitful conversation I led was when I tweeted on my classmates' comments about technology in my math class.
In this conversation, I was glad to receive reassurance from the professionals who follow me that technology can be incorporated in the classroom effectively. They even helped me try to see my classmates' perspectives; as John pointed out, perhaps they are less comfortable using technology and are therefore less willing to utilize it. I wasn't even expecting this tweet to lead to a discussion, but I am thankful that it did! This reiterated why it is important for me to add my thoughts on Twitter: as others add their views, my post can lead to valuable insights that I may not have otherwise considered.
From my attempts to ask questions and lead conversations, I learned a couple of things. Twitter is a great place to seek advice and learn from educators who are more experienced than me. I gained a lot of valuable information and resources from the discussions I led and participated in! As I continue to participate in official chats and other conversations on Twitter, my network of followers will grow and it will be easier to hold insightful discussions. While trying to use other relevant hashtags is a good idea, it did not pan out for me in my discussions. (I also was a little inconsistent when I used hashtags because it's hard to remember to include them!) I look forward to seeing if other classmates were more successful with their hashtag usage.
This is by no means all that I have gleaned from Twitter, but it is an attempt at reflecting on what has been the most insightful from my experiences so far. Now, I turn it over to you. Do you know of any hashtags I should try to use on Twitter? Are there any organizations or leaders in the education field that I should immediately follow? Related to Twitter, what should I be thinking about as I transition from preservice teacher to student teacher next fall?


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L-arginine prevents stiffening and narrowing of the arteries and dysfunction in hormone and immune systems, according to WebMD. It also facilitates the healing of wounds and assists the kidneys in filtering waste products out of the bloodstream. Its potential cardiac benefits have brought significant attention as of 2015.
L-arginine is an amino acid that transforms into nitric oxide, or NO, inside the body, notes WebMD. It is a strong neurotransmitter that facilitates the relaxation of blood vessels while also boosting circulation. Some research has demonstrated L-arginine alleviates symptoms associated with angina, coronary artery disease and clogged arteries, but as of 2015, additional research is necessary on the long-term benefits of L-arginine for cholesterol levels or overall heart health.
Other possible benefits of L-arginine that remain under study include a possible decrease in blood pressure and a boost in walking distance in patients suffering from intermittent claudication, a condition causing weakness and cramping in the legs, explains WebMD. One study showed L-arginine was not helpful for treatment of heart attack in concert with standard protocols, so more research is necessary to establish its potential uses. L-arginine comes from fish, poultry, red meat, dairy products and nuts, but supplements are also available if warranted.


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Prime Minister Menachem Begin's announcement of his intended resignation has stunned Israel. His agreement Sunday, under pressure from his Cabinet ministers, to hold off for a day left the country uncertain at time of writing whether the move was tactical or spelled the end of the Begin era. A new Cabinet meeting was scheduled for today.
Statements by aides added to the confusion. The prime minister's spokesman, Uri Porat, insisted, ''Mr. Begin is not Machiavelli, and when he says something he means it.'' But he later indicated Mr. Begin's move was not definite and that the prime minister could change his mind.
Speculation has been rife in Israel that Mr. Begin, visibly morose since the passing of his wife last November, would resign after recently turning 70, as he once predicted. Such speculation peaked when he cancelled a trip to the United States in July for ''personal reasons.''
Mr. Begin also has shown signs of strain as the war in Lebanon, which he once hoped would lead to a peace with a second Arab neighbor, has turned into a quagmire in which Israeli troops appear destined to remain in Lebanon indefinitely with casualties slowly mounting.
In addition, he has had to confront a worsening Israeli economy made more difficult to handle by the small ''Tami'' faction's threat to bolt his government coalition in protest over austerity cuts in social spending. This would leave theBegin government with a slim majority of 1 in a parliament of 120 seats.
Israeli sources feel that the Tami crisis may have been the last straw for Mr. Begin, demonstrating that the government's coalition was no longer viable.
The prime minister did not spell out his reasons for wanting to leave office, although Deputy Prime Minister David Levy said they were ''personal.''
Mr. Begin said he would consider the Cabinet's appeal but would promise nothing. Sources close to him deny his move was a political trick to frighten the shaky coalition into line.
The Cabinet's urgings reflect their recognition that loss of Mr. Begin will dramatically change Israel's political picture. It would almost certainly lead to early elections.
While the Likud has held a steady lead in the polls over the opposition Labor Party, despite the Lebanon war and the worsening economy, its percentage has been slipping and the polls show that much of its success rests with the personal popularity of Mr. Begin.
Mr. Begin has never named a successor. The name most frequently mentioned as a compromise acceptable to all factions is Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, but he lacks charisma, and popular Defense Minister Moshe Arens is ruled out because he is not a member of parliament.
Without Begin at the helm, the Likud's internal divisions may be hard to paper over, although the key National Religious Party has already said it will stay with the coalition even if he resigns.
One of the Likud's best assets is the internal dissarray of the Labor Party, which has refrained from commenting on Begin's announcement until he actually submits a resignation to Israeli President Chaim Herzog.
After receiving Mr. Begin's resignation, the Israeli President would have to consult the political factions and ask the ones which could muster a majority to form a new government. While it appears that the governing Likud could do so, it would probably then want to call an early mandate. At present elections are not due to be held until the summer of 1985.
Alternatively the Likud could pass a law in parliament setting a date for new elections. Begin would remain in charge of a caretaker government until either a new government is formed or elections are held.
The government crisis will not affect Israel's decision to redeploy its troops in Lebanon, according to Defense Minister Arens. Nor has it yet led to cancellation of the visit this week by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, a meeting to which Mr. Begin - who lost both parents in German concentration camps during World War II - cannot be looking forward. Staff correspondent Daniel Southerland reports from Washingon:
If Mr. Begin goes through with his promised resignation, some US officials would like to see a Labor Party victory in Israel. Labor Party officials are considered here to be more pragmatic and flexible than Begin and most of his political allies have been.
On the other hand, some American observers also fear that the divided and weak Labor Party might be unable to make the kind of concessions the United States considers necessary to achieve an Arab-Israeli peace.
None of the leading candidates to succeed Prime Minister Begin is thought likely to change Israeli foreign policy in any significant way. One leading candidate, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, for example, shares Begin's hard-line opposition to US proposals for an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank of the Jordan River.
Moshe Arens, the new defense minister, is considered another possible choice to succeed Prime Minister Begin. American officials view Arens as slightly more flexible than Begin. He has done a great deal to help defuse tensions with the US which were created by Israel's invasion of Lebanon.


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Making an employee quit is way more difficult than hiring an employee.
It takes lot of effort by the senior employees or the boss of the team to train an employee.
And once when they find the employee is no more needed or he/she under-performs, naturally the pressure builds to take decision to whether have them in the team or make them quit.
Most of the cases, managers try to keep them as much as they can but when drag it too long, it brings negative vibes in the team to stop doing their best and rather feel to relax like the under performing employee.
In order to avoid such kind of resentments among the employees, managers take quick tough steps to make the employees quit on their own.
Read this post fully to know how to make an employee quit on their own.
Tips to Persuade an Employee to Resign:
1. Tighten the time limit for projects:
This is one easy way to put pressure on the employee to make them quit. Assign as many projects as possible with very less time limit.
This will indirectly create pressure on them and make them feel like quitting.
Working 20 hours a day will not be anyone's choice to continue in the same office.
2. Make them feel that you do not pay for extra work they do:
There are innumerable benefits every employee gets as a reward as a bonus for their over time, special project bonus etc.
Do not allot special pay's for their extra work. Use this opportunity to make them feel they have been working as a slave, so that they quit the job on their own.
3. Keep an eye on them more visible to them:
Visiting their desk 10 times a day will surely make them feel frustrated.
Keep an eye on the employee about what they do in public so that they feel irritated to work any more.
This policy might look like a micromanagement, and no one wants to survive in such a kind of environment where they are watched for their every single step.
4. Give maximum number of instructions to tighten their freedom:
Try holding maximum number of meetings with the employee whom you want to make them quit.
This will make them distract from doing work as well make them feel they are been given a lot of instructions on how to proceed in the project.
Anyone will want to work in a peaceful environment rather than being supervised like a school kid.
5. Try showing that you have favorites:
None of the employees will like to see their managers giving special attentions to other co-workers.
Even though you do not have such a habit of having favorites in your team try showing them in front you have many special ones in the office in them.
This will make them feel unnoticed which might result in quitting their job on their own.
6. Allot least important project:
Allot some of the least important projects to them. This will make them feel unimportant as well as lose their role in the over all output of the team.
Once they feel that they no more are important, they are likely to quit their job.
7. Train an employee for their role:
Allocate an employee the same projects as they do and train them on those projects.
This will make the employee understand about the scenario that no more they are needed in the team. Hitting their ego is one way to make them quit their job on their own.
8. Use office policies as your trump card:
One easy method to make employee quit is using office policies.
There are mandate rules every organization has on its own. Most of the rules laid are not followed at all times.
So, in order to restrict an employee and make them quit, you can ask them directly to follow these rules avoiding other employees behavior. This way the employee might feel to quit their job.
9. Do not be available for all their calls:
Any manager or team lead is expected to be very friendly and supportive. Once when you start moving away from them it is natural that they feel insecured.
Use this method to make the employee keep in distance. Try avoiding personal calls or do not be available at all times.
Minimize your touch with the employee. This might make them feel left out and also give them a thought of quitting their job.
10. Restrict their usage of social media accounts:
One of the most common habits among employees is to hang in social media accounts in their free time or office hours.
Even though only few organizations have restricted them, it can be used as a weapon to make the employee quit their job.
Restrict the employee to avoid using social media at free hours. Make them feel tightened at their desk to make them quit.
11. Ask for best results in the areas which they are not allotted for:
Too much expectations are always a burden for employees. That too when they are expected to give their 100% in their unfamiliar areas will surely burden them to out perform in other areas.
Try putting pressure on unfamiliar areas so that they feel the pressure on all they do. This is one tough way to make employees quit their job.
12. Leave them out of the team loop:
Every team in an organization will have some procedure of having group emails or team meetings held often.
One simple way to make a employee quit is to ignore them group emails or can be left out from team meetings. This will bring an insecured feel and will make them quit.
13. No promotions or rewards at the moment:
Every quarterly or half yearly the team would have performance analysis or yearly promotional review meetings.
You can directly put a word that there is no chance of promoting or hike at the moment.
There is no rule on reducing the pay scale. You can also take a step to de-promote or reduce the pay to make them quit the job on their own.
14. Give them indirect comments about their work:
In general, no employee would like to receive negative feedback in public or indirect comments in front of the team.
One of the easy things which a manager could do to make them quit is to give them indirect comments or negative feedback in front of the team.
15. Ask for open presentations in front of the team:
Another easy method of asking an employee to quit is by making them do open presentations in front of the team.
That too in front of junior level employees this would be a real tough game to survive in the same office.
16. Show them no longer you trust by avoidance:
Try often to show that you do not trust them anymore by giving them less importance in the team.
Allot less projects or make them do nothing will make feel like quitting the job. Even though this is going to be tough, under performers have to leave at some point of time.
17. Give importance to the weaker ones than them:
You might have few more weak employees or freshers in the team. You might be sure they will perform one day, so you can use them to show that you trust them more than the under-performer.
By this you motivate a person as well as make an employee learn a lesson to not take things very lethargic.
18. Put rules on their working hours:
Managers or a team lead have rights to implement many rules on working hours of the team when needed.
Using this, a manager can also restrict a employee by making them stay for long working hours.
Restrictions can also be made on breaks taken during the working hours. This will create a pressure on their freedom in office which will result in quitting the job.
19. No more team outing activities with them:
For sometime it is better to avoid having fun team outings. This will also create tension and no interest to continue in the office.
This will create stress on the entire team, but it has to be done to do some good for the team.
20. Talk through human resource department:
Unless and until they do not quit on their own, you can use a strategy of approaching human resource department to talk on behalf of you or also you can ask them to do a review analysis of their performance.
Final Words:
Getting a good employee or a team member is not so easy. But, even a single unworthy employee will affect the entire team.
More than the under performer, managers are put under pressure to react and take a step against them. Even though few methods are not a moral way, there is no other go to do good for the entire team.
Hope this post helps you to understand many ways of making an employee quit a job on their own.


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A compulsive gambler with a mountain of debts comes up with a plan to make some easy money. He plants a bomb under his wealthy uncle's car in the hope of inheriting a large legacy - but a hit-and-run driver jeopardises the entire scheme and Columbo is soon sniffing around for clues. Detective drama, starring Peter Falk, Tyne Daly, Greg Evigan and Don S Davis. Edited for daytime broadcast


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Expert Portfolio Website Tips | One of the first things you need to do when launching your photography business is to set up a portfolio website that showcases your work and provides your potential clients with all the information they need to hire you. Your website will act as your virtual storefront, and in the same way that a logo represents a brand, your portfolio represents your skills, experience, and your unique style. If you get it right, you can have clients forever.
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A photography website will help show your pictures. A great photography website, however, will help sell your services. Yet, you'd be surprised how many photographers keep making the same mistakes over and over again, never getting the results they were hoping for. Want to make sure your visitors exit your website almost the moment they get there? Make it difficult for them to find what it is they are searching for. Want to get your potential clients to stick around longer and maybe even hire you? Check out these simple design tips that will help make your photography website more appealing to your potential clients.
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However, if the visitors are constantly talking about the design of your portfolio website, then you are probably doing something wrong. Your work is supposed to be the focal point of your website, so don't clutter it up with useless design elements. Successful photographers understand the value of simplicity, of focusing on the essentials and discarding the superfluous. So even if you have a lot of content on your website, you should find a way to organize it in a simple way, to not confuse people and tempt them to abandon your website. Yes, your stunning pictures may speak for themselves, but if your website is overwhelming and a cluttered mess, the message will still get lost.
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When your potential clients land on your website, you only have a few moment to make a great first impression, so make it count. The old saying is true: "Your portfolio is only as strong as your weakest picture." Filling entire pages with endless galleries and countless pictures won't get you very far or do you any favors. If you limit your selection to the best examples of your work, however, the viewer sees only the strongest pictures, and if they are interested in seeing more, they can get in touch with you. Limiting your selection also makes your portfolio seem more organized and structured.
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People are used to seeing new content each and every time they visit a website. We've grown out of seeing the same old stuff on every visit. The same applies to your portfolio website, with a little less emphasis on how often you should be updating the content. And even if you don't have any recent new content (maybe you haven't done a shoot in a while or you wrote your last blog post few weeks ago), at least go ahead and rotate some of your homepage content, switch things up, and make it look fresh.
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Photographers sometimes focus on the visual elements of the website, at the expense of usability. 83% of visitors leave a website because it takes too many clicks to find what they are looking for, which is a huge number! Rethink your navigation bar, making it as simple as easy as possible to use, so your potential clients can focus on the photography without being distracted by trying to figure out how to get from one point to another. Also, in addition to placing "previous" and "next" arrows or buttons in your gallery, you should also allow viewers to flip through your images by using the left and right keys on their keyboard.
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1. Andy Naselli, a friend from TEDS and PhD student in New Testament (and D. A. Carson's research guy) blogs about the online history of Southern Seminary that I worked on a few years back. I'm linking to it here because Andy lays out the site's content in a really helpful way. If you've never looked at the site, I encourage you to–a number of us worked hard on the site to make it excellent. The seminary archivist, Jason Fowler, a personal friend, did terrific work in pulling it together, writing some content, and finding great photos for the various content pages.
2. This is a great article on how children's play has changed in the last few decades. The aforementioned Andy Naselli passed it on to me by email. Pretty depressing. I'm thankful that my parents strongly limited the amount of tv that my sister and I could watch. We were forced to use our imaginations, and we did. Some of my fondest memories from childhood are simple times in the backyard. How many kids–and Christian kids, shockingly–will never develop such memories?
3. Great Collin Hansen piece on the new book by New Testament scholars D. A. Carson and Greg Beale on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. There is such confusion on this subject. I attempt on my own little corner to push for healthy, full-canon biblical exegesis, but I am just a little fish–a minnow, perhaps. It's great to see a couple of sharks publish some meaty stuff on this important topic. Collin is also a TEDS student and is one of the best young writers around–make sure to get his new book when it comes out.
5. Al Mohler on a recent report of America's most sinful cities. His comments: "In reality, the whole world is a Genesis 3 world — a fallen world inhabited by sinners. Sin is a universal problem and every single human being is a sinner. Put sinful humanity in close quarters, and sin inevitably multiplies." So true. It's fun to think about the morality of towns versus cities. Maybe a post for another day.
6. If you want to be edified and lifted up, you need to get this cd and listen to the song "Oh Lord Your Love." It is stirring and inspiring, and it never fails to direct my thoughts to the hope and joy that I have in Jesus Christ because of His death and resurrection on behalf of his church. Great work by Caedmon's Call.
Have a great weekend, all.


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We use several Lindamood-Bell® programs as our delivery method to help our students to be able to retrieve information more readily.
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Noted Chilean singer and guitarist Angel Parra died in Paris on Saturday aged 73 after a three-year battle with cancer, the Chilean ambassador said.
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Parra's repertoire included a 2013 album "Venceremos," a homage to former Chilean president Salvador Allende who committed suicide after being ousted in a CIA-sponsored military coup in 1973, and an acclaimed CD of his mother's songs.


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As I explained on my Facebook page- I deleted Thursday's blog post.
I had very good intentions posting it, but I wasn't quite clear in my delivery.
When describing the "Creepy Stranger"- I was trying to portray a mommy vibe that I got that something wasn't quite right in regards to our safety. You ever get "a feeling" and then you go to whatever lengths necessary to keep your babies safe against the situation that gave you "the feeling"? Yes, well- that.
I then came straight here and tried to make light of not feeling safe at our own park- because making light of scary situations is something that I do to cope. Also, I thought if I had specific record of the entire park encounter- maybe it would somehow keep us safe because I now had a lot of 'witnesses' to the incident.
But the way I described "Creepy Stranger"- listing his actions and perceived character traits in an attempt to explain not feeling safe- I think it came across to some of you as me making fun of his personality- which I in no way intended to do.
When it comes to annoying personalities- I think I am probably the top of the list. I have an extremely annoying personality (this I know). I do not hold personalities against people anymore than I would want them to hold mine against me.
Furthermore- to those of you who to wrote me about this- I am well aware that individuals can have hidden disabilities and that cute kids with disabilities grow into adults who could be perceived as annoying at the park to people they don't know (believe me, I think about this reality every day). And this is why I once again say- it wasn't that I was annoyed by this stranger. I make it a point to always be kind and gracious to those who present differently than I do because you truly never know what battles they are fighting- disability or not. The issue was- I did not feel safe. And I think it is okay for there to be a different attitude toward the two vastly different realities as a mother alone at the park with three small children.
I do not mind getting to know people at the park or making new friends as our kids play together. I welcome the company! Staying at home can be a lonely gig. But the issue the other day was that I felt that the safety of my children was threatened- paranoid as that may seem. This is why I isolated out the incident and wrote about it the way I did. Writing about it- probably not the best call on my part because this ambiguous concept coming from a tired mommy brain that tends toward over dramatization was easily misinterpreted.
The issue with wanting Addison to do things herself- this I will write about again soon because I feel very strongly about it and the incident in the park reminded me that this has happened numerous times with many different people. I am ticked every time this happens. This random stranger got the brunt of it in my last post because it had just happened yet again. I included it in the post because it was hot on my mind and my fingers typed faster than my "post filter" could keep up and make sure that the post was even cohesive in its presentation.
All that to say- to those that this post came across to in a negative way- I completely apologize. I am very sorry. If you ever feel like a post of mine is demeaning another person, I beg of you to assume that this is a mistake- to privately message me with a "Did you mean this????" Because I assure you most likely I did not.
To those of you who caught what I was trying to say in my last post- thank you as well. Glad to know that I'm on the same wave length as at least a few other people. (-;
I leave you with this picture from our weekend. It was a good weekend. And yet a hard one. Sometimes I can't write about the hard stuff, and this is probably one of those times. But today I am holding my children close and appreciating our small moments together. Happy Monday to all of you.


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This Blog Dying Soon
I've just about had it with WordPress and I'm moving my blog to blogger. WordPress's UI is terrible, their feature set under-developed (I have to pay $10 a year for my own CSS?!) and their restrictions on importing SWF's from external sites simply ridiculous.
The new blog will be found at http://www.RJRIA.blogspot.com. Go check it out – there might be something great up there even now.
The new blog is going to be more general. While I guess I never stuck to Flex specifically in the <10 posts I have here, the new blog is going to be titled to make it easier for me to talk about RIA development in general, design philosophy, and experience design as well as Flex.
If you have any good ideas about the title, I'd love to hear them!
FormItem's have a bad layout.
In Flex, there's unfortunately no easy way to make this layout work:
<form item's label>
<form item control>
So if you, like me, have a layout that requires a prompt (something like "your email") to sit directly above a form item (say a text input), you're going to have some trouble.
You might say, well, why not just give the form item no label, or an empty label, and put a "Label" control on top of it, like this:
<Label text="your email">
<FormItem label="">
Great idea! Unfortunately, this won't give the layout you desire because Flex still allocates some space to the form item's empty label. Your "Label" control will be somewhere around 3 pixels to the left of your TextInput. Awesome.
Does anyone have a good elegant solution for this that doesn't involve any of the following?:
a.) re-writing FormItem
b.) using an absolute layout
c.) shifting the Label control to the right
I'll update this post if I find one, but in my frustrated fury I wanted to get the question out there. It seems like this sort of thing happens to me a lot with Flex….if you're not working very soundly within the Adobe prescribed box for how their components should be used, you're going to be jumping through hoops. It's stuff like this that consistently make me worried about estimating how long it's going to take to complete any part of a project – if things work in the way they seem they should, it shouldn't take long, but who knows what weird restrictions Adobe has on the object I want to use?
picnik is amazing
If you haven't checked it out yet, zip on over to Picnik and enjoy one of the best Flex RIA's I've seen. Here's why:
- It solves a real problem. People need and will use a good picture editing application. You shouldn't have to use a sledge hammer like Photoshop to remove red-eye or increase the contrast in a picture, and the millions of small photo editing programs that ship with cameras just don't cut it.
- It has a great interface. The people at Picnik payed a lot of attention to usability, and it shows. The interface is clean and simple enough that I can find everything I need but not so simple that something I need isn't there. It's focused on letting you perform basic editing to pictures, and it does it very very well.
- It's better in Flex. One criticism I hear frequently of Flex/Flash is that there isn't a need for it. Picnik is a good example of an application that would've been at least 20 times harder to develop in Ajax and wouldn't work as well as it does. There's a good reason to use Flex for an application like this (Flex has excellent built in bitmap editing features) and they use it wisely. The transition animations are simple and enhance the user experience rather than taking up too much processor and distracting from it.
- It's better as an internet application. I can use Picnik from anywhere and it works fine. I don't need an application this light-weight installed on my computer, clogging my registry, taking up disk space, probably running in the system tray.
- It uses social networking intelligently. Rather than trying to re-invent facebook or flickr or myspace, picnik ties into these services more or less seamlessly and increases both their value and its own.
Overall I give this application two thumbs up – this is a real 10. Nice work, Picnikers.
Stop Social Networking.
Social networking is the latest and greatest fad on the internet today. Facebook and MySpace continue to post ridiculously high page counts – in the billions per day – and somehow manage to keep nearly all of their users checking back at least once a week, many of them several times a day. It's the perfect market for advertising, probably the largest source of revenue available in web 2.0, and the best way to keep people hooked on your site.
All of this popularity has lead to a slew of social networking applications. Revisionist approaches to blogging, whether it be twitter or tumblr, are trying to make it easier for people to tell each other what they're doing. Web 2.0 IM clients – complete with mispelled names, beta users, invitations, and ground reflections – offer slight benefits over traditional instant messenging and it seems like nearly every RIA I've worked on during the last year has incorporated some sort of "share this <whatever> with your friends!" feature.
Some of this is good. I read a great review of Twitter lately, and while I'm still hesitant to believe it's more valuable than setting an away message, I might believe it's valuable. But at the same time, a lot of this is bad, and we're losing site of some important application development values in pursuit of the latest trend.
I think there are two principles of good application development being lost in all this social networking buzz. The first is to avoid remaking the wheel – don't expect users to accept an application that doesn't do a significantly better job than the one they're already using. Pownce invitations have been flitting around our office like the flu this week. By next week, we'll have all gone back to using our combined instant messenger clients (whether Adium or Trillian), because all of our friends and clients are on Yahoo and AIM, and Pownce's file sharing feature isn't enough to keep us interested.
The second is not to clutter your application with features users aren't going to use. Your application might be cool and really useful, but if it doesn't specifically relate to groups of people and the way they interact, asking us to participate in an online community focused around your application seems silly. Imagine if Google Maps had a "share this map!" feature, and it required us to create a login and password and then spam 9 of our friends with the map we'd just found. No one would use it, and that's why it's not there. Google maps does a great job of providing users with maps and directions, and that's all it needs to do. Users know how to cut and paste a URL to send email to their friends – we don't need a "share this <whatever>" button.
Last year I worked on an online book reader application as part of a team contracted to Random House. During part of the design phase, someone suggested adding features to allow users to comment on the books they'd read. The comments would show up inside of the book highlighting sections of individual pages people had commented on. Users could come back often to see what other people had said about the book and see comments on their favorite pages. At the same time, we developed the application in such a way as to make it easy for users to embed a version of it on their own web-page. If you were interested in a book, you could paste two lines of HTML into your myspace page and have the application installed. The commenting feature didn't make sense – no one wants to flip through a book to find the comments and users simply weren't going to check back frequently enough to read them. Since it was so easy to embed the application on a blog or myspace page, users were much more likely to post their comments on the blog – the application that already addressed a user's "commenting" needs. The commenting features were eventually dropped and the application we developed was very focused and very successful.
I feel like I've seen this story repeated on just about every application I've worked on since then with varying results – we have an application that does X, but since social networking is "hot" someone tries to twist the entire thing to have a social networking angle. I can quite literally divide the applications that succeeded in gaining user acceptance from those that didn't along the "unnecessary social networking" line – those that succumbed have almost all failed.
There are of course times when social networking DOES make sense. A great example is the Discovery Cancer Collage which my company recently worked on. The application allows users to upload images and videos and text about their struggle with cancer, similar to the way the AIDs quilt works in the analog world. The application has a real need for social features and meets a need that more 'traditional' social networking applications can't. It uses social features to provide real value, and doesn't force social networking as some awkward side feature.
The bottom line is that Facebook and MySpace have 98% of a user's social networking needs taken care of. If you aren't providing something that falls in that remaining 2%, social networking shouldn't be part of your application. Don't let your application's focus stray just because of the latest internet fad, or your user acceptance will certainly suffer.
"Internal Build Error" or "Classes Must Not Be Nested" error
Lately I've been seeing these errors in Flex Builder and not been able to find any good reason why they're happening. It seems like the errors alternate – sometimes it's one, sometimes it's several of the other – and there's no easy way to figure out why they're happening. Usually they'll go away if you clean the project enough, but that's a huge waste of time, so I've spent a few hours scouring my code and removing anything that might be causing the errors.
I've found that these errors can be caused by several different conditions. FlexBuilder doesn't handle them well (indeed it seems to have exceptions in either it's own environment or the compiler), so you get this generic error message instead of something useful.
Here's a list of problems that I've found that can cause these errors. Hit up the comments if you have any others:
1. Forgetting the semi-colon at the end of your member variables.
Michael Imhoff documented this one first. For some reason, flex builder doesn't flag this as an error while coding, and it doesn't throw exceptions in the build if you manage to make it compile.
2. Having the same namespace listed twice with different extensions in your mxml
so this:
should be this:
or with the default namespace declared, obviously – as long as there's only one namespace linked to com.site.stuff.core.*.
3. Having the same import declared twice in an AS file or embedded AS in an mxml file
4. Commenting out certain lines of code and rendering trace statements unreachable.
I've never seen this, but it was documented as one way to get the error on Flex Coders.
According to Matt Chotin in response to the FlexCoders listing, this is a documented issue. Hopefully it will be fixed in Flex 3.
Until then, good luck!
Why I Love Joost
I received an invite to Joost last week and was finally able to check it out. In a nutshell, it's one of the best applications I've seen in a long time. The content is nice – it's fun to watch TV on my computer – but what I love even more about Joost is the usability.
Here's a list of the top 5 thing you can learn about rich applications from Joost:
1.) It's focused. Joost is an application that brings TV to your desktop in a way that works. It has some other features, like show recommendation and chat, but they're relegated strictly to the background. The focus is on TV, and you know that from the second you start up the app. Too many apps springing up these days are trying to leverage some neat trend first and promotetheir product/service second ("social networking" is driving me crazy.)
2.) It just works. The developers have obviously taken some pains to make sure that Joost just works for me, and I love that. I don't have to worry about configuring a bunch of settings or setting my bandwidth or selecting my player or authorizing my plug-ins. The controls are simple and make sense, and if you close Joost in the middle of a show, it opens back up later to the place you left off. In a world full of applications that only really work after an hour, or even ten minutes, of re-configuring your computer, applications that work so smoothly are a breath of fresh air. It seems so simple, but it makes me so much more excited about this application.
3.) It's extremely usable. The controls are simple and easy to find. The layout is focused on maximizing the screen area and provides a few basic controls to do everything else.
3.) It has a great website. Joost's website is short, sweet, and to the point. The header features small flash movies that promote the application in entertaining ways and the content itself is concise. Rather than trying to be all things to all people, it's one thing: a website that tells you about Joost.
The bottom line with applications like Joost is that they emphasize elegant usability. It looks great, but it's not cluttered or confusing, and at the end of the day, that's the single most important thing separating good ideas from popular software.
Joost doesn't tell me how many invitations I have left, but as of right now I can still send invites. If you're looking for one, add a comment with your email address and I'll get it sent to you ASAP.
Intro to Flex Builder 2 presentation
I gave a presentation earlier this week online for Adobe on using Flex Builder 2. If you're new to Flex or wondering whether Flex Builder is worth using, it might be helpful.
This was the first time I'd given this presentation, so it went a little long. We also had over 100 attendees, so the question and answer time was absolutely crazy. The text area where I as the presenter was reading the questions from was scrolling so fast I could barely read it!
You can find Adobe's recording of the presentation here.


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MINNEAPOLIS, May 17, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) --Navarre Corporation (Nasdaq:NAVR) a publisher and leading distributor of computer software, home entertainment media and related products, today announced that Encore Software, Inc., its wholly-owned subsidiary, has acquired the assets of Punch! Software. Kansas City, Missouri-based Punch! Software has been a leading provider of home design and CAD software solutions.
Under the terms of the transaction, Encore acquired substantially all assets of Punch! The Company expects that the transaction will be accretive to its financial results during the current fiscal year.
"The Punch! acquisition fits perfectly into Encore's consumer software distribution model as this product line has no overlap with other titles in Encore's portfolio. The Punch! assets and certain of its personnel will be immediately integrated into Encore providing solid efficiency gains," said Cary Deacon, Chief Executive Officer of Navarre Corporation.
"We have a great understanding of the Punch! product line as Navarre Distribution Services has been distributing these products for many years and Encore has previously licensed and sold Punch! content. Additionally, we expect Encore to benefit from an expanded set of distribution partners, both internationally and domestically, that have carried the Punch! titles into their markets," Deacon continued.
Punch! has sold more than 3 million units of software since it was founded in 1998 and has been the best-selling home and landscape design retail software brand in the United States for more than 10 years. Home and landscape design titles include Home Design Suite(TM) and Home and Landscape Design Studio(TM) which are built on its industry-leading NexGen(TM) technology. Punch! also develops and sells 2D and 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) products under the ViaCad(TM) and Shark(TM) brands.
"The Encore team is extremely excited to be supporting the Punch! home design and CAD communities of end users and business partners. Our team will continue to be focused on providing highly productive, but affordable, software that appeals to 3D design hobbyists and professional users," said Cal Morrell, President of Encore Software, Inc.
Punch! customers can expect to see exciting new product introductions and upgrades to their favorite design tools and will continue to be invited to participate in development efforts through forum engagements and beta testing. Punch! business partners will also benefit from Encore's expansive channel sales support resources.
About Encore Software, Inc.
Based in Los Angeles, CA, Encore Software, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation and a leading retail software publisher. As a result of strategic licensing agreements, the company publishes a broad range of award-winning utility, entertainment, education and productivity software titles. Publishing brands include Hoyle(R), Advantage(TM), Wheel of Fortune(R) and Jeopardy!(R); The Print Shop(R), PrintMaster(R) and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing(R). Many of these products and others are available at www.broderbund.com, www.encore.com, www.hoylegaming.com and www.bicyclecardgames.com.
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Navarre(R) Corporation is a publisher and distributor of computer software, home entertainment media and related products. The company publishes computer software in its Encore(R) subsidiary and produces anime video through its FUNimation Entertainment(R) subsidiary. Navarre Distribution Services provides complete distribution and third-party logistics (3PL) services to North American retailers and their suppliers. Navarre was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Additional information can be found at www.navarre.com.
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We have often heard the word mountain and thought about those sermons preached "Speak to it!" But what about the mountain behavior we hold as Christ believers? We dont fault, fold, or fail under storms or pressure; we always remain standing. We are not moved by men and their many steps on us, the words yelled against us in hopes for echoes, or the weather that is often unpredictable. Matter of factly, The God in us is immovable therefore we are immovable. No matter the situations, the people, the storms, we are to stand like mountains and behave as they do. Those situations and people may leave markings, carvings, and impressions but that is what makes us who we are. We prove that we have remained through it all. We have been immovable…its in our DNA. Remember who you are and behave as such.
Psalm 96:10 The Lord Reigns! Indeed, the world is established; it shall not be moved;
Our only time of folding is before God and His utter presence. God deserves our knees, tears, smiles, glory, and praise!
Psalm 97:5 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord…
We melt and are in moldable conditions with God alone. We do not allow the world to mold us, we should not conform to the world at all. God loves us and wants the privilege of building us up in Him.


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If you've got a hankering for a Vegan-esque Omelet at Billy's Downtown Diner, plan to head to Allentown.
The 10 E. Broad St. Bethlehem location is closed due to a water issue.
"I am forced to shut down due to water line issues," owner Billy Kounoupis says, explaining water earlier today was pouring into the kitchen. The water's been shut off and the restaurant will remain closed through the weekend, he says.
Kounoupis said he hoped to reopen by Jan.14, but was not able to. Read more here.
"I don't want to be closed, but I have no choice," he says.
In the meantime, Billy's fans can head to his Ninth and Hamilton streets, Allentown, location, which offers the same menu and is open 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily.
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Fergie flaunts figure in Mexico vacation pics
Fergie wasn't shy about showing off her slim and sexy bikini bod during a relaxing beach holiday in Mexico.
The Black Eyed Peas singer, 37, tweeted a photo of herself in a colorful swimsuit, that revealed her toned figure and washboard abs.
She also revealed plenty of cleavage as she posed on the beach.
Fergie and her hubby Josh Duhamel appeared to be enjoying a getaway with a few pals.
With her band on hiatus, Fergie has been spending a lot more time with her husband of three years.
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Wednesday, 29 August 2012
The road to weight loss is a rocky one...
SO I planned to go and buy one of their heavenly baked offerings, pre planned the PPs allocated it as a weekly treat, in place of a couple of glasses of wine. All good. Moderation is the key, denial is a river in Egypt and so on.
Um... what I didn't plan on, was spotting the rocky road they also sell and have been dreaming about for about 2 years since I moved away from there and haven't found a match for anywhere else. And I have tried. Believe me.
So... I placed my preplanned, PP accounted for cake in the basket and walked past the rocky road, looking longingly over my shoulder. I reached the cashier feeling very smug and proud of myself.
"Maybe next time," I told me. Took a deep breath and fished about in my handbag for my purse. And then it happened....
"But there may not be a next time" said inner fatty boombah Rachel. "And it is oh so yummy"
"NO! I am supposed to be being good" I replied
"You can get it today and save it for next week's treat," IFBR pipes up.
"No wahey!!" says I.
By now I was getting some rather stange looks from the cashier and a skinny lady wearing too much gold was tutting in the queue behind.
It wasn't as if I was having the conversation with myself out loud... I don't think..
Anyway, to cut a long and a bit mental story short, I removed myself from the queue, picked up a pack of RR and bought it.
GAH! What was I thinking?
Actually I know exactly what I was thinking. I was thinking,
"Mmm, rocky road,scoff, gobble gobble, slurp, nom nom nom"
And who in their right mind can argue with that?
But that is not the end of the story. Oh no. That would be plain boring.
When I got home, I decided to look up the PPs of said rocky road.
Have a guess.....
(If you aren't familiar with Weight Watcher's ProPoints, my daily allocation is 26. Yes 26 FOR THE WHOLE DAY. And I would have to run for about 63 years to earn that many PPs.
Anyway, that works out as 6PPs per serving... which is actually only about an inch cubed.
There aint NO fecking wahey that sucker is passing my lips.
A) because I don't want to use 6PPs for a measly inch of delectable yumminess no matter how good and B) there would be no way on God's earth I would stop at one inch.
So now I am stuck with the packet of temptation in my cupboard.
And it is approaching the MOST dangerous of all times..... PMS time.....
I absolutely REFUSE to throw it away, being from the place it was, it cost about $100. I don't like anyone enough around here to give it to. My husband and children don't like it.
So my question to you dear friends is
What the feck am I going to do with it????
a) Bury it in the garden?
b) Tape it to my @rse as a permanent reminder of what will happen if I actually eat it?
c) Post it to Tatum Channing or Channing Tatum or whatever his name is as a token of my affection?
d) Scoff the lot and rollaround on the floor in agony as punishment for being such a weak willed numpty?
Actually please don't say d) because that will be all the excuse I need.
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The Hierarchy of Needs Model tries to explain human motivation and behavior. The model theorizes that people are motivated and driven by some general needs that are sought satisfied. Abraham Maslow assumed that all humans have emotions, desires, needs, and wants. To get what we need and want we must act, therefore humans will be motivated to take actions that will satisfy needs and wants. By examining the needs of a respective employee etc., managers may use this information to motivate his or her employee.
It is theorized that these human needs can coexist, especially the upper needs, and that humans may have several needs at the same time. However, Abraham Maslow argues that the lower needs, such as physiological needs, must be met, before humans will strive for the satisfaction of other needs in life.
Abraham Maslow classified the basic needs of humans into five groups calling it the Hierarchy of Needs:
Physiological needs
These needs are basic requirements for survival e.g.: food, water and shelter.
Safety needs
The needs for safety could be: general safety and security of home and family, order and stability of the surrounding environment.
Belongingness and love needs
This need concerns the human need for social belongingness and social needs. Needs in this category could be: love, affection and a sense of belonging to groups.
Esteem needs
Esteem needs could be: a desire for reputation and prestige, social status, fame and glory, dominance, recognition, attention, importance, dignity, or appreciation. Humans will therefore be motivated to get these needs covered, which will potentially motivate them in e.g. a job context.
Self-actualization needs
When all other needs are satisfied, humans will potentially pursue self-actualization needs. This need is the highest of all needs, and is seen as the final stage of human need accomplishment.
The Hierarchy of Needs Model is a very popular tool to diagnose human motivation, but it may not be generally applicable to a non-western mindset. People coming from other parts of the world may not be motivated by the same factors, or may not have the same need for e.g. esteem or self-actualization.
This problem is elaborated by Nevis
(1983), who conducted an analysis of the Chinese workforce. This analysis concluded that Chinese people may have a different hierarchy of needs than most Western and American employees.
This hierarchy of needs is oftentimes used to describe employee satisfaction and motivation, but it can potentially also describe motivational factors within consumer purchase processes.
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Unocal shareholders approve Chevron takeover offer
[JURIST] In a joint statement issued Wednesday, Unocal [corporate website; JURIST news archive] and Chevron [corporate website] announced early results from a vote of a majority of Unocal shareholders that favored acceptance of a Chevron offer of $69 per share. The approval of the nearly $18 billion purchase comes after months of negotiations and contentious competition [JURIST report] from China National Offshore Oil Company Ltd. (CNOOC) [official website], an oil company connected to the Chinese government trying to secure resources for China's booming economy. CNOOC eventually withdrew its bid [JURIST report], citing "unprecedented political opposition" from US lawmakers. According to the press release, the vote count will be officially tallied by August 17. AP has more.