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This half-hour Saturday-morning cartoon was inspired by the 1988 Tim Burton film, starring Michael Keaton as the title character. In the film, Beetlejuice was a conniving ghoul desperate to escape his world and wreak havoc in the world of the living. He was especially enamored with the young heroine of the film, Lydia, played by Winona Ryder. The action of the film reached its peak when Beetlejuice tried to force Lydia into marriage, thereby making him a legal resident of the living world.
The cartoon was a bit milder but just a bit. In the animated version Lydia had more of a niece-uncle relationship with the dead man, and most of their adventures took place in the "Netherworld." Beetlejuice would drag the young girl along to visit with his spooky friends, Jacques LaLean (a fitness-obsessed skeleton), Doomie the Dogbrained Car and The Sappy Face Ghouls (a sort of evil scout troop).
This cartoon was a huge success, due largely to the involvement of Burton himself as executive producer. Keeping the same outlandish humor and gross-out jokes that made the movie such a hit, the cartoon was welcomed by kids young and old.
One truly groundbreaking segment of the show was the mixed-media "commercials" that Beetlejuice watched on his TV. Using computer-generated animation, the ads, which featured pitchman Barry Menot, were an assault of colors and images.
The successful cartoon ran for two seasons on ABC's Saturday morning before moving onto the daily Fox schedule with all-new episodes, where it became even more popular.
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NDBP has published a Frequently Asked Questions in regards to the recently released DSM-5
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The Division of Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (NDBP) is committed to improving the health and well-being of children, youth, and families affected by developmental and behavioral disorders. The interdisciplinary faculty and staff are engaged in clinical care, community outreach, research and training (fellowship) activities.
The Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities (SCDD) within our Division is a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) and is one of 67 federally funded centers advocating for individuals with developmental disabilities across the life span through teaching, service, and research.
Autism Speaks has launched the Autism and Medication: Safe and Careful use toolkit. This free publication provides strategies and resources for parents of children with autism who use medicines to help treat their child's challenging behavior or manage emotional issues.
The tool kit author is Lynn Cole, NDBP's Director of Clinical Services. Lynn recently wrote a blog on the development of the toolkit being inspird by the needs and desires of families.
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How do you update a Court opinion?
Use a Citator.
When a court decides a legal issue, it sets a "precedent" for that jurisdiction which guides the court in future decision making. Until such time as that precedent is reversed, or modified in some manner, it remains as "good law". This policy of building upon our judicial body of law based upon past decision making is referred to as stare decisis. It is this concept of adhering, to the extent reasonable under current circumstances, to previously decided points of law that makes citators a useful method for tracking changes in the law.
Citators are books containing lists of references (citations) to subsequent court opinions that refer to (cite) a particular earlier opinion. There are citators for every state and federal jurisdiction as well as citators for particular subject areas of the law, such as tax, labor and the Uniform Commercial Code. Additionally, citators for constitutions, court rules, jury instructions, etc., can be used to find citing court opinions.
Print citators are kept current with regularly issued updates in the form of softbound pamphlets (advance sheets). Citators are primarily published by Shepard's Publishing Company and instructions on how to use the Citator are contained in the introduction to each volume. Checking for subsequent citations to an earlier court opinion (case) is often referred to as "Shepardizing."
Law students have online access to citators using KeyCite on Westlaw and Shepard's on Lexis.
By way of example, in 1993 the Oregon Supreme Court in Dolan v. City of Tigard, 317 Or 110, upheld the City's conditions imposed on the development of Dolan's commercial property. Using the Oregon Citator you will discover that in 1994 the United States Supreme Court in 512 U.S. 374, reversed the decision of the Oregon Supreme Court.
Always remember to "Shepardize" the Court opinions upon which you are relying as a statement of current law.
- Note: The abbreviations used in the Citators are unique to Shepard's. For an introductory explanation of citations and abbreviations used in legal writing, consult "Citations".
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Give a voice to the Nuban people and bring light to the war Sudan is waging against it's own people. Support Eyes and Ears Nuba.
Nuba Reports
Since last June bombs have been raining down on the Nuba mountains of southern Sudan as President Al-Bashir, an ICC war criminal, wages yet another war against his own people. Cut off from the rest of the world, many Nuban families have fled -- living in caves and unable to plant their crops. With no aid groups allowed to operate in the region, famine is looming and the situation is increasingly critical.
Eyes and Ears Nuba is a Nuban civilian reporting team dedicated to providing the international community and the population of Sudan with a reliable and credible source of information on the war in Southern Kordofan. Our goal is to shine a light on the facts and reality of this isolated conflict.
We are launching an urgent fundraiser to create an innovative and powerful multimedia website to bring our first hand reports to the world and activists in Sudan seeking democratic change.
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We need your help to create a state-of-the-art online media center that will allow us to bring our reporting to the entire world including the Sudanese people.
The website will serve as a vital portal for getting unbiased, reliable information out of the Nuba mountains while also connecting local reporters with a broader audience. We believe the Nuban people can speak for themselves.
Our team has received training and some supplies to continue this critical work, but now we need a way to broadcast what we are seeing and documenting to the world.
Your support will allow us to build the site, train the reporters, buy important reporting equipment, and hire editors to help us create compelling frontline video and text dispatches in both Arabic and English through the end of the year and beyond.
Please help us give voice to the Nuban's struggle, and be part of making the world a more just and democratic place.
All funds in addition to our goal, will be used to continue this initiative until there is peace in Sudan.
From 1981 to 2005 the people of Southern Sudan fought a war with their government, their stated goal was to create a democratic and inclusive government in Khartoum. In 2005 a peace agreement was signed which lead to the separation of North and South Sudan The people of the Nuba mountains fought on the side of the south for independence, but when the borders were withdrawn they found themselves living under an increasingly hostile government in which they had no representation.
In June 2011 the north Sudan government launched an ethnic cleansing campaign that include door to door assignations, direct attacks against the Nuban leaders and army, and a ruthless random bombing campaign of silvans that continues to this day.
The Nuban army called the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North decided to fight back in order to protect its people and achieve representation in the Sudan government.
Southern Kordofan is an extremely difficult region to access and it is very remote. Few media have the ability to report on the situation that is getting worse by the day. Since June the government of Sudan has been pushing into the Nuba Mountains. We have documented numerous cases of the Sudan army targeting civilian, burning villages, raping women and engaging in indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas. The UN has called the tactics crimes against humanity. As a result thousands of people have fled to South
Sudan as refugees and more than 250,000 people are displaced and have been forced to leave in caves.The government has refused to allows Aid groups to operate in the region, and famine is quickly becoming a reality, as the bombings have kept many families from planting crops.
The story of the Nuba people struggle must be told in order to give international governments the pressure to act against the Sudanese government, and to spread awareness in Sudan about the atrocities their government is committing against it's own people.
What has been established
When the fighting started, all international organizations evacuated the region. Ryan Boyette, an American development worker who has lived in the Nuba mountains for nearly a decade resigned from his position worked with local reporters to create a mobile Nuba media team.
The team was originally made up of 14 Nubans that had the same passion as him to shed light on the Southern Kordofan situation. The team spread across the region taking photos, videos and interviews of documenting the conflict and the people that were affected. We reached out to International media as well Sudanese activists to pass on our updates of the ever changing situation. Our videos and pictures were used in BBC, AlJazeera, CNN, FOX and other news agencies.
Please contact us if you have any questions. We are also looking for video and text editors as well as social mobilizers to help us in the future.
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In 1878, Jacob Riis, a police reporter for the New York Tribune, stepped out of his office and into the squalor of New York's Mulberry Street. A few years earlier, he had found his calling. His Methodist minister had told him that "what the world needs is consecrated pens." When police headquarters was calm, Riis wrote passionate articles about the tenements that were creeping from the industrial areas of Manhattan toward genteel neighborhoods on the island. But his voice was largely ignored.
It wasn't until Riis embraced the new medium of his day that he was able to tell the story of his calling. His camera turned out to be as much a consecrated tool as his pen. Riis's exploration of photography—not a technological end in itself, but as a way to illuminate his narratives—added visual drama to his already powerful written work. Understanding the technical limitations he faced and the ethical boundaries he crossed can help today's journalists navigate through this media age without losing their souls.
Riis enthusiastically tinkered with new technologies. He started by taking photographs with the slow, inconvenient wet-plate negative and quickly adopted the faster, dry-plate method when it became available. Riis was one of the first in America to use Blitzlichtpulver fired from a pistol to create the earliest flash photos. The high-contrast images accentuated the grittiness of the five-cent hotels of the Lower East Side and caught the alley he called "Bandit's Roost" off guard.
Newspapers were not ready to print his stark images. Halftone printing was still rare and expensive. The early editions of his classic book, How the Other Half Lives, contained illustrations of his photos, not the pictures themselves. His audience had to attend his lectures at evangelical churches to see his photos projected on a screen with a device so unusual it was dubbed a "magic lantern." This multimodal delivery of images and words reached an audience in a fresh, memorable way.
Riis's photos took middle-class New Yorkers on a harrowing journey into an exotic locale that was a part of their own city and yet largely unknown to them. "In viewing those prints, I find myself identified with the people photographed. I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops," Ansel Adams wrote in the foreword to a biography of Riis. Like Adams, Riis took photos the hard way—in the field, not the studio. Perhaps this is a lesson for today's journalists: to think of technology as a way to expand and enhance the telling of stories rather than a way to make storytelling more convenient for themselves.
In his autobiography and in How the Other Half Lives, Riis reveals the ethical choices he made to capture those images. Riis admits to paying children with cigarettes to get them to pose as lazy "Street Arabs" sleeping under an apartment stoop. He threatened a landlord with a complaint to the authorities to gain access to shoot an illegal hotel. The resulting photo is "Five Cents a Spot," one of the most famous images of Riis's collection.
As a new media pioneer, Riis was one of the first journalists to understand the visceral reaction that images can provoke. At the same time, when Riis, originally from Denmark, describes ethnic populations in New York, he appears to be a self-hating immigrant. In his words and images, he employed what are seen today as stereotypes that confirmed middle-class prejudices of the poor, leaving little room to consider a diversity of perspectives. He simplistically concluded that the cramped alleyways that he photographed were the cause of poverty and criminal behavior. So Riis showed audiences images of the open scenery of his native Denmark to justify why he was more industrious and ambitious than other New York immigrants.


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The chic chevron pattern of this throw is crafted in a bold-on-neutral palette, allowing the graphic design to take center stage. The recycled-cotton blend is a win-win: It's soft on skin and easy on the environment. Made in the USA.
The founder of Happy Habitat, Karrie Kaneda, has made it her mission to surround herself with beautiful color, pattern, and composition. Her line of blankets, made with recycled cotton, will help contribute all of that, and a dose of cozy comfort, to your room.


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Candy Wonderland Cupcakes
Bold, bright colors and a giant lollipop make this creation reminiscent of a carnival. The Pink Wave baking cups add a fun shape to the final decorated cupcake.
Craft Time: 60+ minutes
Uses Recycled Items: No
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Bake and cool cupcakes according to recipe.
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From food & beverages to home & personal care, our brands are part of everyday life.
Find out how we are making sustainability a driver of everything we do so that each time a consumer chooses one of our products, it improves their life, their community and the world we all share.
Learn how Unilever's innovations build leading brands and develop our capacity to meet consumer needs for nutrition, hygiene and personal care.
The Unilever Foundation is partnering with five leading global organisations – Oxfam, Population Services International (PSI), Save the Children, UNICEF, and the World Food Programme. The Foundation's mission is to improve quality of life through the provision of hygiene, sanitation, access to clean drinking water, basic nutrition and enhancing self-esteem.
At Unilever, we aim to double the size of our business while reducing our environmental footprint and increasing our positive social impact. The Unilever Foundation is a key action we are taking to help meet our ambitious goal of helping more than one billion people improve their health and well-being and, in turn, create a sustainable future.
The Unilever Foundation, together with our partners, has positively impacted the lives of more than 14.5 million people. Click here to download the Unilever Foundation: 2013 Update Report (PDF)
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The Unilever Foundation is dedicated to improving quality of life through the provision of hygiene, sanitation, access to clean drinking water, basic nutrition and enhancing self-esteem.
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The partnership with Oxfam will improve lives around the world through programmes designed to empower individuals and deliver good nutrition and safe drinking water.
Delivering behavioural change interventions focused on hand washing, clean drinking water and sanitation to communities around the world.
Improving the lives of 2 million children and mothers by 2016 by providing access to health workers, basic nutrition and life-saving vaccines.
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Unilever's partnership with the World Food Programme aims to tackle child malnutrition holistically by addressing both direct and underlying causes.
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Your body needs cholesterol to work properly. But cholesterol levels that are too high can be life threatening.
Extra cholesterol in your blood causes deposits to build up on the inside walls of your heart's arteries (blood vessels). This buildup is called plaque. It narrows your arteries and reduces, or even stops, the blood flow. This can lead to a heart attack
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Total cholesterol is the amount of all of the fats in your blood. These fats are called lipids. There are different types of lipid that make up your total cholesterol. The two most important types are:
High cholesterol
, especially "bad" cholesterol (LDL), can clog your arteries. This may reduce blood flow to your heart. It can lead to heart disease, stroke, or heart attack. Cholesterol is measured in milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL).
If you have heart disease or diabetes, your LDL cholesterol should stay below 100 mg/dL.
If you are at risk for heart disease, your LDL cholesterol should be lower than 130 mg/dL.
Almost everyone else can benefit from LDL cholesterol that is lower than 160 - 190 mg/dL.
You want your HDL "good" cholesterol to be high.
For men, HDL should be above 40 mg/dL. For women, it should be above 50 mg/dL. Exercise helps raise your HDL level.
Your doctor may want you to take medicine for your cholesterol. This will depend on your age. Your doctor may also suggest cholesterol medicine if you smoke, are overweight, or have high blood pressure or diabetes.
Most of the time you will need to take this medicine for the rest of your life. Changing your lifestyle and lowering you weight may allow you to stop taking this medicine in some cases. But you will need to keep in mind that you have a cholesterol problem.
Make sure you know the best way to take your type of cholesterol medicine.
Remember to take your medicine as directed. Things that could help are:
Make sure you tell your doctor about all other medicines you are taking. This includes vitamins and herbal treatments. They may change the way your cholesterol drug works. Ask your doctor if you should avoid any foods or drinks.
Understand the side effects of your medicine. If you have any side effects, call your doctor.
Ask your doctor what you should do if you miss a dose of medicine. Keep all appointments with your doctor. Regular blood tests will tell your doctor how the drug is working. Plan ahead for refills and travel so that you do not run out.
Keep these and all other medicines stored in a cool, dry place where children cannot get to them.
There are several kinds of drugs to help lower blood lipid levels. They work in different ways. Some help lower LDL (bad) cholesterol. Some help lower another fat in your blood called triglycerides. Others help raise HDL (good) cholesterol.
Your doctor will prescribe the best medicine for you. Sometimes you may need to take more than one cholesterol-lowering drug. Three of these drug types are:
When your doctor prescribes medicine to lower your cholesterol, ask:
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Semenkovich CF. Disorders of lipid metabolism. Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine.24th ed. Philadelphia,PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 213.
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So, you're getting a dog! Prepare for long walks in the park, endless hours spent throwing a tennis ball, and lots of love and kisses.
Now, let's talk logistics. Once you've made this awesome decision (extra awesome points if you plan to rescue), you're going to have to take a few necessary steps to get your home ready beyond just buying a cute dog bed.
When my boyfriend Dan and I got our little dog Reggie, I was pretty unprepared for the general chaos that was about to ensue. Though both Dan and I had grown up with dogs (and, weirdly, both with dogs named Ginger), we really had no idea what this cute, cuddly ball of terror was going to do when she moved in and took over.
In the year and a half since, I've learned a thing or two about protecting my home and sanity from the shoe-eating, attention-whoring dog who is also one of the things I love most in this world. Shortly after getting Reggie, I started my job as editor of a pet magazine, which has no doubt taught me aRead More »from Getting a Puppy? How to Dog-Proof Your Apartment


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BPAA's Unveils New Logo as part of 75th Anniversary Celebration
ARLINGTON, TEXAS - The Bowling Proprietors' Association of America (BPAA) unveiled a new association logo replacing the 20-plus year old 'circle' logo as a part of BPAA's 75th Diamond Anniversary celebration during the association's annual business meeting held during International Bowl Expo 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada on Monday, June 25, 2007.
BPAA determined that the milestone anniversary was the proper time to give the association's 'icon' a new look for the future. Through video and confetti cannons shooting off, member delegates applauded the new logo and were given commemorative, collectible lapel pins displaying the new logo as keepsakes of the event.
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Go go gadgetry changes gear
Advances in technology are slowly changing the way we get from point A to point B, writes Barry Park.
Make the big switch to digital radio
Conrad Walters If you've only just resigned yourself to the fact digital television will replace analog television, you may wish to take a deep breath. The same is happening to radio.
Digital radio: what's in store
Nick Ross It's not cheap buying into digital radio as each device is, in effect, a computer that decodes the digital signal.


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My New Blog: Pax-Pentest.NetTuesday, April 30th, 2013
As I wrote in my last post, retiring from writing this blog has afforded me an opportunity to indulge in some of my other interests, one of which is cyber-security, white-hat hacking and Penetration Testing.
As blogging is in my blood and I still suffer from a blogging itch, I have decided to chart my progress – or otherwise - into the world of cyber-security and Penetration Testing.
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Natasha Wing was born in Milford, Connecticut in 1960. At the age of 20 she moved to Arizona where she finished college at Arizona State University in 1982 with a B.S. in Advertising. In 1988 she married Daniel Wing and moved to Northern California where she worked in advertising for a number of years. They now live in Fort Collins, Colorado.
It wasn't until 1991 that she decided to write children's books. Luckily she sold her first book, Hippity Hop, Frog on Top, within 6 months and has been writing children's books and articles ever since. Her second book, Jalapeno Bagels, came out in June 1996 with Atheneum Books. The Night Before Easter, was published with Putnam All Aboard Books. It began a string of books in her Night Before series, many of which have been on a number of best-seller lists. Her most popular title in the series is The Night Before Kindergarten. She has also been published in Humpty Dumpty's Magazine, Girls' Life, and Hopscotch for Girls, and has two recipes in Writers in the Kitchen.
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Favorite Color: Cranberry red
Favorite Cookie: Oatmeal Raisin with Vanilla Chips
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Decori Birmingham
I didn't get a chance to see him play last sat. but what I have seen from him is solid. He doesn't seem explosive, but he ins't inconsistent either. You guys that have seen him more have any thoughts? Does he make the roster, PS, or what?
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We've already got our 3 gameday RB's (I believe we only carry 3), so there's no room for him on the active roster. He's not shown he's really worth keeping, but we might hold onto him (on the PS) in case we need a another backup if J-Stew doesn't get better.
"This is blood for blood and by the gallon. These are the old days, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days. They're back! There's no choice left. And I'm ready for war."
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I like the guy's gusto and his willingness to power into the hole. If we keep him, he might be insurance if Stewie, or Goodson goes down. Jamal Lee gets the axe, though. He might have a lot of upside, but we can't have five backs even with PSers.
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It is in the late 1950s and Star Sports Editor Paul Cox has sent me to the Alexandria at Sylacauga football game.
It is a close game and sometime in the second half I watch a rangy kid line up to attempt a field goal for Alexandria. He makes the kick – first field goal I ever saw – and it is the difference in the game.
The kid's name was Richard Braden and he was also one heck of a basketball player. Over the years, he also became my one of my best friends.
We played a lot of golf together during the years he was giving much of himself to the Saks community. He also became an avid race fan, a charter member of the White Flag Club, and for years ran the press box at the Talladega Super Speedway.
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At this time last year Auburn was in the process of getting Gene Chizik fired and McMurray was so far back in the NASCAR rankings he couldn't get to the top with a ladder.
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Neuropathy – distal median nerve
Definition of Distal median nerve dysfunction
Distal median nerve dysfunction is a form of peripheral neuropathy that affects the movement of or sensation in the hands.
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Dysfunction of one nerve group, such as the distal median nerve, is called a mononeuropathy. Mononeuropathy means there is a local cause of the nerve damage, although occasionally body-wide (systemic) disorders may cause isolated nerve damage.
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If the cause of the nerve dysfunction can be identified and successfully treated, there is a good chance of full recovery. In some cases, there may be partial or complete or sensation. may be severe and persist for a prolonged period of time.
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by Cryptomancer on 2012-10-15 11:29:31
Hello guys, I would like to know how to monitor the sound of my POD HD500 in reaper so that I can apply any FX in the reaper and hear the combination of my POD HD500 sound and FX together in real time ?
Whenever I tick the record monitor on, I hear dublicated sound/reverb of the POD HD500's wet signal.
Sorry for burdening you guys, but I'm newbie in recording and mixing. So, I would like some assistance if you will.
by onanisland on 2012-10-15 11:39:33
If you are monitoring the hardware signal and the Reapers processed signal well then Reaper will have some latency due to roundtrip from ASIO/CoreAudio plus the processing for the FX plug-in you are using. This latency combined with the hardware signal will sound like reverb/chorus/delay effect somtimes due to the few MS between the two signals you are hearing at once. You can set your buffer lower within the Audio-MIDI panel so you can minimize this but it will depends on your PCs processing power as lower buffer means more work for the CPU/RAM.
by Cryptomancer on 2012-10-15 11:53:12
I tried this, but the problem is still existing.. is there a way of muting the playback of the POD HD500 and hearing the reaper only ?
by onanisland on 2012-10-15 12:30:53
Yes - go to Line 6 Audio-MIDI program. Go to Input Recording. Turn down Hardware Monitor Level to none and be sure Recording Send Level is at full. When I use plug-ins like LePous stuff or Ignite Amps (both are free) I have my Hardware Monitor set to none, then I turn on recording moniting on the track I want to hear the processed sound with the plug-in.
Be sure to setup a clean signal path in your POD if you want a pure signal going into Reaper. Otherwise the signal will be whatever amps/effects/cab you have setup going right into Reaper plus the effects/plugins dialed into Reaper. This may or may not be what you want.
by Cryptomancer on 2012-10-16 10:11:26
I tried it, but now the problem is latency !
by PremiumJones on 2012-10-16 10:46:14
You will never get usable latncy with the USB interface. You can get it pretty close, but it will never be close enough to sound like its "real time" monitoring over USB.
My solution, although it is VERY unpopular here, is to ditch the USB interface altogether, and get a decent PCI audio interface. The one I use is is $90 new, and gets 2.9MS latency. I plug the POD into that, set my inputs in Reaper, and I can then add all the FX I want without increasing latency, and monitor the whole mess in (more or less) real time.
by Cryptomancer on 2012-10-16 10:52:50
Thanks for the tip. What is the name of PCI audio interface that you have bought?
by DeanDinosaur on 2012-10-16 10:53:44
Make sure you selected the proper ASIO driver. I do have another Audio interface, but I have to admit that the POD HD500 ASIO driver is very robust for a USB2 driver. Somtimes I use the HD into CUbase and I get a total of 10ms latency. That's the equivilant of being 10 ft away from the amp. IF you mute the other input, 10ms is something that I can live with. In the line 6 audio driver option, you need to lower your buffer settings etc to get low latency.
by Triryche on 2012-10-16 11:01:22
The latency you are hearing is from Reaper, that is the nature of trying to monitor plug-ins applied to real-time playing. It is very dependent on your copmuter.
For instance, if you were to lay down a track in Reaper, then add a plug-in post processing, then monitor the playback via the HD's USB, the latency should be negligible.
by Cryptomancer on 2012-10-16 11:08:02
My computer has Core i5 and 4GB of RAM.
Is it right that if I use Cubase the latency will be less than in Reaper ?
by Triryche on 2012-10-16 11:25:31
Not necessarily. There are too many factors that are at play to boil it down to an OS, DAW and hardware specs.
I personally have not seen anybody do this successful with a PC.
I have seen this work on a Mac with Protools where the latency was acceptable.
by PremiumJones on 2012-10-16 12:04:57
Scavenger - I have the M-Audio Delta AP2496. It is about $90 from Musicians Friend or Newegg. I also use a little Behringer mixer (XENYX 802) the total cost for both was about $140.
Triryche - I do it all the time on a PC with the M-Audio interface. An OLD PC at that - running an Athlon 64, DDR2, etc. This rig is around 8 years old. Using any DAW, I get 2.9ms latency. That might as well be realtime.. it is close enough that I can multitrack without ever having to time shift, I can play along with backing tracks, etc without any noticable lag.
by Triryche on 2012-10-16 12:36:52
PremiumJones wrote:
Triryche - I do it all the time on a PC with the M-Audio interface. An OLD PC at that - running an Athlon 64, DDR2, etc. This rig is around 8 years old. Using any DAW, I get 2.9ms latency. That might as well be realtime.. it is close enough that I can multitrack without ever having to time shift, I can play along with backing tracks, etc without any noticable lag.
PremiumJones - Yeah, 2.9ms is definitely negligible. But what the OP is trying to do is add the POD Farm plug-in in real-time to the track while it is being recorded. So you have a track armed to record, with a PF plug-in applied to it, so you can audition the plug while playing your guitar. If this is what you are able to do, I will admit I am envious,(just a little, because it is not a deal breaker for me). I still can't do this.
My last build was similar to yours. My current build is a AMD Phenom II X 4 965 3.40 GHz with 8G of DDR3.
But I have no problem on this build (or my previous 2 builds) playing back several tracks, with multiple plugs, while recording. I just can't monitor plugs in real time on the track as it is being recorded and the plug rendered.
by PremiumJones on 2012-10-16 18:12:18
Yeah, it does pretty well even with several VSTs and multilpe tracks playing back while recording.
I have not used POD Farm in this way (not sure why you'd wanna run an HD into PF) but everything else I have used (mostly verbs and the occasional compressor) work fine as Plugs while using the HD into Reaper, and the latency never changes.
One wierd thing with this rig (that I havent seen before) is that once it does hit the limit, it just refuses to play. In Reaper tells me "audio system is offline". Take away an FX or two and it plays perfectly. O_o
by CairnsFella on 2012-10-17 23:04:33
In agreement here. I think PremiumJones is pretty lucky to be able to use multiple VST's and still be able to monitor at 2.9. I had a fairly decent set up until recently (Had to give up my new PC rig, as I needed to replace our work PC in a hurry). But still never got a massive latency reduction over my old (and once again current) system.
My 2 cents is not to even try what is being attempted. I probably wasted years and years trying to achieve various things when sequencing/recording on the computer. Even though I knew at the time I could do things a different way, I felt compelled to succeed in doing things the desired or 'optimal' way. However, had I conceded in the first place I would have had 10 times as much done.
In practice, what I am suggesting is if you want to add effects after, just record dry (or with the effects from the HD you know you want) and monitor direct from the HD (The way your question is written, it seems almost as though you want to 'experiment' with the effects combinations, which you can easily do once youve laid the track down)....... Or even forget Pod Farm and just keep experimenting with the HD. I'd be surprised if you've exhausted the combinations available from the HD on its own.
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Brisbane (20 July 2012) - The 2010 inaugural Fusion Games attracted over 300 competitors in cycling Criteriums and Duathlons. In 2011, the Games raised over 400 competitors and 2 extra events were included in the day's program: a social bike ride and a corporate teams' Criterium. The event has already gained the support of enthusiasts Brisbane wide, local businesses and major corporate companies invested in the Newstead/Teneriffe waterfront.
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A neuroscience graduate student James Holmes was arrested following the shooting at the midnight premiere of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo. Police said he was armed with an AR-15 assault rifle and two Glock pistols.
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Do you have the stomach for Kyle Farnsworth?Scott Pianowski at Roto Arcade23 hrs ago
While everyone remembers Gordon Gekko's speeches and Bud Fox's rise and fall from the seminal film Wall Street , Lou Mannheim is the hidden soul of the picture (in Rounders terms, he's the Knish). Here's one of Lou's watershed tidbits:
The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.
Mannheim was talking about, well, money. But for our purposes, let's assume he was referring to saves. Framed another way: how badly do you want (or need) Kyle Farnsworth today?
Jose Valverde has been a hot mess over his last three appearances (eight runs, four homers), forcing the Mets to make a change. You're grounded, Papa Grande. Terry Collins made it official on Easter morning: Farnsworth is the closer for now.Mon, Apr 214:10 PM PDTSt. Louis at NY MetsPreview Game
Closing Time: Double dips for Travis Wood, Wily PeraltaScott Pianowski at Roto Arcade1 day ago
You need a plan for the upcoming week, so let's take a look at the double-dipping pitchers for the period Monday-Sunday. As always, consider everything on this list tentative: sometimes pitchers get scratched, sometimes plans change, sometimes it rains.
Additional notes will follow after the pitching form.
Call to action: Springer promotion causes stirBrandon Funston at Roto Arcade2 days ago
It's arguable that among the players that opened the '14 regular season in the minors, no player's eventual promotion to the majors was more eagerly anticipated in fantasy baseball circles than that of Astros top prospect George Springer. In the numbers-dependent virtual game, Springer's combined 37 home runs and 45 steals in 135 games last season across two minor league levels (Double- and Triple-A) was impossible to ignore.
When Springer was promoted this week, the buzz was clear and present. On Wednesday, Springer's MLB debut for the Astros, the Houston man-child was picked up in nearly 50,000 Yahoo leagues. That was 40K more leagues than any other player on that day. Springer picked up a hit in his debut, but went 1-for-5 with two strikeouts. And the swing-and-miss issues are the rub when it comes to Springer's profile. He's been a high-K type throughout his minor league career, though he's managed to walk a healthy amount as well.Mon, Apr 217:10 PM PDTHouston at SeattlePreview Game
Tip Drill: Five mistakes even good fantasy owners makeScott Pianowski at Roto Arcade2 days ago
In many ways, it's the age of enlightenment for fantasy sports. Information is everywhere, advice is everywhere, stats are everywhere. In most of the leagues I play in and observe, there's less of a gap between the proven contenders and the second-division teams.
But that doesn't mean fantasy owners don't make mistakes. Even the consistent players aren't immune to a misstep here or there. Let's shine a light on some of those errors, five mistakes even good fantasy owners make.
-- Declaring some players untouchable
Every so often you hear the call in your fantasy league: a competitor is putting this player or that player on the block. One way to start a conversation, I guess. Often it's a slumping, disappointing player getting pushed into the showroom.
It's time to take a different angle to this. Why not put your good players on the trading block? Heck, why not have everyone on your team available at any time?
MLB Over/Under: How high will Astros pup George Springer fly?Brandon Funston at Roto Arcade2 days ago
Each week, Yahoo fantasy experts Brandon Funston, Andy Behrens, Scott Pianowski, Dalton Del Don and Brad Evans forecast the future of some of the most interesting fantasy story lines across the majors.
Houston's recently promoted top prospect George Springer, combined rest of season homers/steals 36.5
Brandon – UNDER. Hard to know if he's going to spend the rest of the season in Houston — he could suffer a big slump because of his contact issues and perhaps see another stint in Triple-A. I'm bullish on Springer for the long run, but I'd predict something like 14/19 for him in '14.
Scott – UNDER, because I tend to be conservative with rookies and the next shiny toy. Mind you, I grabbed Springer where I could, too. But sometimes the best time to flip a rookie is right before he has an extended trial; some fantasy owners will get carried away.
Andy – I'll take the OVER, but not by much. It's easy enough to imagine Springer giving us a 20/18-type season, with a .250 average. Basically, I'm saying I think he can be Venable-ish.
Closing Time: What's wrong with Danny Salazar?Scott Pianowski at Roto Arcade3 days ago
If you're a fan of young, buzzy pitching prospects, the 2014 draft board had plenty of names to take aim at. Gerrit Cole was on an island somewhat (carrying an industry rank of 21), but opinions were clustered with the next four sophomores of note: Michael Wacha (No. 29), Danny Salazar (No. 32), Sonny Gray (No. 34) and Tony Cingrani (No. 38). Which trendy picks wound up on your club?
[Baseball 2014 from Yahoo! Fantasy Sports: Still time for another league!]
Salazar is clearly the lagger of the group as we look through the opening couple of weeks, a slump no one saw coming. He had an uneven 5.2-inning stint against Minnesota to open the year, and he's allowed 10 runs over his last two starts (including Thursday's mess at Detroit). Add it all up and there are crooked numbers everywhere: 14 IP, 19 H, 12 R, 4 HR, 8 BB, 7.71 ERA, 1.93 WHIP. The league is batting .345 against Salazar.
Closing Time: Wily Peralta would like your attentionAndy Behrens at Roto Arcade4 days ago
OK, so Milwaukee starter Wily Peralta didn't quite dominate the Cardinals lineup on Wednesday — he went 6.1 innings, allowing six hits and one run, recording three Ks — but he did manage to pick up his second win of the year. We're now three starts into Peralta's season, and his ERA sits at 1.96, his WHIP at 1.09. The kid has faced nothin' but playoff-caliber lineups, too: Boston, Pittsburgh, St. Louis.
The schedule finally takes a friendly turn for Peralta next week, as he'll double-dip at home against the Pads and Cubs. He's unowned in 91 percent of Yahoo leagues at the moment, available to most of you. Without question, Peralta is worth a one-week test drive. He's a hard-throwing sinker/slider/groundball-type (95-96 mph), a 24-year-old righty with top-prospect credentials. This is a talented pitcher with K-potential on a quality team, perhaps making a leap.
Make the move as needed, then hit the bullets...
Rank Redux: How do you like Tanaka now?Brandon Funston at Roto Arcade4 days ago
In our preseason starting pitcher rankings, we — the Yahoo fantasy baseball experts aggregate — ranked Yankees Japanese import Masahiro Tanaka as the No. 29 starter overall. Of course, that was before he mowed down 28 batters and posted two wins and a 2.05 ERA in the first three starts of his MLB career.
Since our initial rankings were based mostly on the merits of his impressive seven-year run in the Japanese League, we figured it was prudent to reassess where we see Tanaka fitting in among the fantasy baseball starting pitcher crowd now that he's actually faced MLB hitters. Here's the experts' take on Tanaka:
Brandon Funston (Tanaka preseason SP rank No. 25) — There have been several Japanese starting pitchers over the past couple decades that have enjoyed at least a successful season or two in the majors (Hideo Nomo, Hiroki Kuroda, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Yu Darvish and Hasashi Iwakuma chief among them). But none can claim a more impressive three-start split to open a major league career than Tanaka.
Closing Time: George Springer arrives in HoustonScott Pianowski at Roto Arcade5 days ago
It didn't take long for the 2014 Houston Astros to sink to the bottom of the pool, as expected. They're 5-9 through two weeks, tied for the worst record in the American League. The offense has been a joke thus far, with a pathetic .185/.258/.347 slash line. They're still light years from contention.
Obviously it's going to take a lot more than one player to fix this mess. That said, it's time to get excited: one of the team's buzzy prospects, George Springer, is on the way. The Astros made the call late Tuesday night.
Springer is a 24-year-old outfielder and a name you probably know already, no matter your level of prospect interest and sophistication. The Astros took him with the 11th overall pick in the 2011 draft and he's rocketed through the minors. Check what Springer posted last year in 135 games, covering Double-A and Triple-A: .303/.411/.600 slash, 37 homers, 45 steals (in just 53 attempts). Absurd. Those are video game numbers.
Mostly MLB Notes: Talking Andrew Cashner, Homer Bailey and a look around the leagueDalton Del Don at Roto Arcade5 days ago
Despite averaging 94.5 mph with his fastball while posting a 3.09 ERA and 1.13 WHIP, Andrew Cashner recorded just 128 strikeouts over 175.0 innings last season after finally becoming a full-time starter. The K rate improved after the All-Star break, when he produced a 2.14 ERA and 0.95 WHIP with a 61:19 K:BB ratio over 75.2 innings. The hope was that his impressive stuff would lead to more missed bats, and if Cashner's first three starts are any indication, it's going to come to fruition in 2014. He's allowed just three runs over 21.0 innings, fanning 22 batters over that span. Cashner's last outing was especially dominant, as he tossed a shutout against the Tigers, striking out 11 and yielding one lone hit (a single). Ironically, his SwStr% (7.1) is easily a career low, while his K% (27.5) is a career high. As any pitcher with a 1.29 ERA, Cashner has experienced some good fortune in the early going, as his .196 BABIP is especially crazy considering he also has a 2.50 GB/FB ratio. But all those groundballs should lead to few home runs allowed, and he also hasn't given up many line drives (16.0%). PETCO Park has increased strikeouts by nine percent over the past three years, which is the most in baseball, so Cashner has that going for him as well. Part of the reason the Cubs traded him was because they didn't think Cashner could ever be a 200-inning workhorse, but assuming he can stay healthy, he has all the makings of being a top-15 fantasy starter


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ABC's Robin Roberts has received the prestigious Peabody Award for sharing her health story in frank and detailed terms.
The citation to her "Robin's Journey" reporting reads: "By allowing her network to document and build a public service campaign around her battle with rare disease, Robin Roberts, 'Good Morning America' co-anchor, inspired hundreds of potential bone marrow donors to register and heightened awareness of the need for even more donors."
Roberts learned earlier this week she is receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPY Awards this summer.
Another Peabody winner was "Saturday Night Live" executive producer Lorne Michaels, who was celebrated for being "the patron saint of satirical television comedy."
Series winners in the Peabodys, which were announced Wednesday, include the HBO comedy "Girls"; the TNT drama "Southland"; the FX comedy "Louie"; and the ABC Family drama "Switched at Birth".
Another winner was the HBO movie "Game Change," which focused on Sen. John McCain's choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008. The Peabody citation said "Game Change" is "a story worthy of Euripides and Robert Ripley."
One of the most pleasant surprises was an award to "Doctor Who" on BBC America. The citation reads: "Seemingly immortal, 50-years-old and still running, this engaging, imaginative sci-fi/fantasy series is awarded an Institutional Peabody for evolving with technology and the times like nothing else in the known television universe."
D.L. Hughley, who survived ejection on "Dancing With the Stars" on Tuesday, was a Peabody winner on Wednesday. He was honored for the Comedy Central special "D.L. Hughley: The Endangered List." The citation reads: "In this provocative satirical documentary, the comedian goes on a crusade to get American black men the same EPA protections afforded snail darters."
In news, CBS' "60 Minutes" won two prizes. They were for the reports "Deception at Duke," about possible fraud behind an experimental cancer treatment, and "Joy in the Congo," about a Congolese orchestra. Scott Pelley reported the Duke story, and Bob Simon reported the Congo story. The prizes were the 19th and 20th Peabody Awards for "60 Minutes."
Pelley will emcee the Peabody ceremony on May 20 in New York.
Other honorees included ABC News for coverage of Superstorm Sandy; CNN's coverage of political unrest in Syria; and HBO's "Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel" for a range of reports, including the lethal hazing of Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion in Orlando.
The George Foster Peabody Awards are administered by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.


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This summer I was an audit intern at KPMG in New York City, and I also participated in Deloitte's Mentor Program at their Philadelphia office. I had the opportunity to learn a lot about the accounting industry and also meet a lot of professionals during my internship. The clients I worked with over the summer were Dreyfus Mutual Funds and Citigroup, and I performed actual audit test work at both of my clients. I received a job offer from both KPMG and Deloitte at the end of the summer, and will be working at Deloitte next fall.
1. Name of company/employer: UBS Financial Services, Weehawken, NJ
2. Title or position held during employment: Operations Intern, UBS Wealth Management
3. Internship Impact: Served in project management role for internal processing system improvement project; Audited restricted securities sale report and generated IT change request according to Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation SHO to reduce internal risk for the firm
4. What did you learn? I had the opportunity to work with the Clearance and Settlement Team but was also exposed to multiple areas of the Wealth Management business including Asset Servicing, Client Reporting, International and Domestic Settlements, Advisory & Solutions Marketing, Trading Operations, Branch Management, Human Resources, and Equity Trading; I built upon my professional experiences learned during ILTM and enhanced my skills applicable to the workplace
I received a job offer from UBS and will be starting next year in as an analyst in their Graduate Training Program.
This past summer, I worked at Stryker Orthobiologics in Malvern, PA. I was an intern for the Research and Development team. Throughout my internship, I research new materials for a synthetic bone graft substitute. At the end of the summer, the material I created was implanted into animals, for a study to determine how effective the product is. Stryker allowed me to have a great impact on the industry by initiating an animal study with the material I developed. Through this experience, I learned a lot about the business environment, while expanding my technical knowledge and problem solving abilities.
This summer I interned at The CDM Group, a pharmaceutical advertising agency. Through ILTM I met the CEO and Chairman of the Board, Ed Wise and staying in contact with him throughout the school year, eventually applying and interviewing for an internship with the firm. At CDM I acted as a Team Support Manager for the Emerging Markets team on the accounts side. I worked with a team of creatives, other account people, and clients to put together a multitude of campaigns. Throughout the summer I was able to follow the entire process from creating proposals for new business, to writing project briefs, to approving layout design and discussing final projects with clients. I even got to speak French with one of the clients because he was from Montreal (I'm a French and management double major)! During the 10 weeks, I honed my organization and time management skills, soaked up as much information possible about the pharmaceutical and advertising industries, and truly enjoyed waking up each morning to go into the office. I had an absolutely incredible experience and ILTM definitely helped prepare me for success.
1. Name of company/employer: McGladrey
2. Title or position held during employment: Risk Advisory Services Intern
3. Internship Impact: The Risk Advisory division audits the processes of community banks and IT companies. My boss, a Bucknell alum, allowed me to work with both the banking and IT teams, so I had exposure to different aspects of risk consulting. On a daily basis, I performed basic tests to ensure the clients' systems were secure and helped the director organize client information. Every once in a while I noticed a problem, and my boss allowed me to present the issues to the clients at our exit meetings.
4. What did you learn? I started to fully understand the impact that additional government regulation, which stems from large, troubled corporations such as Enron, has on community banks. It is very expensive for the banks to hire consultants knowledgeable in the ever-changing laws of financial regulation and the small banks are having trouble keeping up.
I also learned the importance of professionalism. The clients were paying a lot of money for me to be there working on their audits, and my demeanor was equally as important as that of the McGladrey partner.
On a final note, my evaluations at the end of the summer focused on my professionalism and ability to ask critical questions. These two capabilities were stressed during my summer at ILTM, and I do not think I would have been as successful at McGladrey without ILTM.
1. Name of company/employer: GE Capital
2. Title or position held during employment: Risk Management Program Intern
3. Internship Impact: By the end of my 10 week internship I had created an Excel portfolio management tool that would help the Account Managers in my group track metrics like revenue growth and composition, changes in EBITDA, capital expenditures, and the group's current hold size for the account. I included pivot tables that would be updated when new data is entered and made provisions for additional quarters of data in the built in formulas, so that the group could use the tool even after my departure.
4. What did you learn? I learned many technical financial concepts, specifically relating to debt ratios and cash flow because the group I worked in bought portions of bank loans. I learned much more than that, though; I also learned about how the new regulatory environment is affecting financial institutions. GE Capital just became an FDIC regulated institution so there were a lot of conversations about how that may change the benchmarks used for possible deals, as well as what types of companies GE Capital can be involved with. I also learned how to comb through mountains of research and information memorandums and bank books and filter everything down to the most crucial points, which I think is an extremely useful and transferable skill. Finally, I also learned how to network well and really connect with people even though the workplace environment can be intimidating when it comes to social interactions - I think this too is a very useful skill!
1. Name of company/employer: Research in Motion (RIM)
2. Title or position held during employment: Software Developer Intern
3. Internship Impact: Interning at RIM over the summer, I had the opportunity to work with the BlackBerry Playbook's Print to Go Team. Print to Go is an application that lets you "print" a PDF from any desktop application to the tablet. A Windows version of the software already exists, but I worked on a prototype all summer for the Mac. While I didn't leave with a polished product, I had a working prototype that could send documents from the Mac desktop to the Playbook.
4. What did you learn? My summer experience helped me learn so much about product development in the real world. Being a Computer Science major, classes tend to focus on programming and problem solving rather than the software lifecycle and developing to customer specifications. Just being in a working environment and seeing how business is conducted was a great asset to me, and has been a great help in our Computer Science Capstone where we are developing a mobile application for a Geisinger doctor.
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Throughout the year, the Hauser Institute hosts a variety of lectures and seminars for the HKS community. This includes the popular Frontline with Faculty Series as well as program-specific convenings. Find our upcoming events below, view previously held events, and learn more about new developments at the Hauser Institute.
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A major transformation is under way at Wendy' WEN -0.95% Wendy's Co. U.S.: Nasdaq $8.37 -0.08 -0.95% April 24, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7.09M AFTER HOURS $8.37 +0.00 +0.02% April 24, 2014 4:49 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 1,532 P/E Ratio 72.72 Market Cap $3.10 Billion Dividend Yield 2.39% Rev. per Employee $67,227.3 04/16/14 Sonic Corp. to Add 1,000 Resta... 02/27/14 Wendy's Profit Grows on Lower ... More quote details and news » s, the world's third-largest burger chain. The company struggled for years after the death of its famous founder, Dave Thomas, in 2002, but finally looks to be finding its way.
In the past 18 months, Wendy's (ticker: WEN) has gone back to its roots as a high-quality burger maker, introducing new menu items and more focused marketing, and rolling out a dramatic remodeling of its stores. Even a new logo will be unveiled in March.
Wendy's has been revamping its menu, marketing, and stores. Improved results could boost its shares by 40%. Above, a restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. Jay LaPrete/Bloomberg News
The results are notable, with same-store sales rising for six of the past seven quarters. They were up 4.9% in the past two years.
Investors have bid up Wendy's shares by 20% from an October low, but a recent price of $5.03 puts the stock right back where it traded around the start of the year. Don't expect it to stay there, however, as the company begins to churn out appetizing results.
Wendy's sports an enterprise value (market value plus net debt) of 8.4 times this year's expected Ebitda, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. That compares with EV/Ebitda ratios of 10 or more for fast-food competitors such as McDonald's MCD +0.72% McDonald's Corp. U.S.: NYSE $99.84 +0.71 +0.72% April 24, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4.69M AFTER HOURS $99.84 0.00 0.00% April 24, 2014 7:11 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 72,210 P/E Ratio 18.13 Market Cap $98.04 Billion Dividend Yield 3.25% Rev. per Employee $64,092.5 04/24/14 Dunkin' Brands Profit Hurt by ... 04/23/14 'Selfies… Here I Come!' Ronald... 04/22/14 McDonald's Plans Marketing Pus... More quote details and news » (MCD) and Yum! Brands YUM -0.03% Yum! Brands Inc. U.S.: NYSE $76.79 -0.02 -0.03% April 24, 2014 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2.32M AFTER HOURS $76.79 0.00 0.00% April 24, 2014 6:28 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 46,373 P/E Ratio 29.88 Market Cap $33.95 Billion Dividend Yield 1.93% Rev. per Employee $24,625.2 04/23/14 Morning MoneyBeat: No Fear Her... 04/23/14 Stocks to Watch: AT&T, Boeing,... 04/22/14 Yum's Profit Improves as China... More quote details and news » (YUM). The discount is likely to narrow as Wendy's transformation unfolds, leading to a 40% jump in the stock price.
At 10 times 2014 estimated Ebitda, Wendy's would be worth $7.20. The stock yields 3.2%.
Founded 44 years ago by Thomas, Columbus, Ohio-based Wendy's has 6,560 stores, with 78% franchised and the rest company-owned. Almost 90% of the stores are in the U.S., with the greatest concentrations in Florida, Ohio, Texas, and Georgia.
In 2008, Wendy's was acquired for $2.4 billion by Triarc, a holding company controlled by activist investor Nelson Peltz. He merged it with Arby's and renamed it Wendy's/Arby's. Arby's was sold to a private-equity group in 2011, enabling management to focus on Wendy's.
The current CEO, Emil Brolick, joined Wendy's in September 2011 and knows it well, having worked closely with Thomas in the 1990s before leaving for Yum! Brands. Brolick turned around Yum's Taco Bell unit, and most recently served as chief operating officer of Yum. Last April he hired Craig Bahner, a Procter & Gamble PG +0.98% Procter & Gamble Co. U.S.: NYSE $81.15 +0.79 +0.98% April 24, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9.38M AFTER HOURS $81.15 0.00 0.00% April 24, 2014 6:28 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 145,304 P/E Ratio 20.66 Market Cap $217.89 Billion Dividend Yield 3.17% Rev. per Employee $699,992 04/24/14 Competition? Colgate-Palmolive... 04/24/14 Unilever First-Quarter Sales F... 04/23/14 Stocks Drop, Snapping Win Stre... More quote details and news » (PG) veteran, as chief marketing officer.
Wendy's earned $64 million, or 16 cents a share, last year, on revenue of $2.5 billion. This year analysts expect earnings to rise to 18 cents, on a 4% rise in sales.
WENDY'S HAS MADE significant changes to its menu and marketing plan. Dubbed "A Cut Above," the latter emphasizes the brand's high-quality burgers and fresh ingredients. Since introducing its Dave's Hot 'N Juicy cheeseburgers in September 2011, the company has followed up with a slew of new premium products, including the Bacon Portabella Melt, Mozzarella Chicken Supreme, Spicy Guacamole Chicken Club, and the Berry Almond Chicken Salad.
The new products have met with success, and Wendy's has gained share in large hamburgers and large chicken sandwiches. But some price-conscious customers have taken their business elsewhere. Management recently launched a value-based menu, called "Right Price Right Size," and will ramp up marketing of it this year. Management couldn't be reached for comment.
Remodeling Wendy's aging stores is another part of its strategy. While the company has updated some stores over the years, the latest efforts involve an all-encompassing overhaul aimed at creating a cutting-edge design that rivals competitors'. The remodels include such features as lounge seating, fireplaces, flat-screen TVs, Wi-Fi, and digital menu boards.
Wendy's has launched 66 new restaurants, of which 48 have been remodels, and they have met with a positive response from customers. Sales in the newer-looking stores are up 25% since remodeling. The company plans to remodel 200 stores this year, and open 120 new units. In 2015 it is targeting 1,300 new and remodeled outposts.
The changes are showing up in profitability and sales. In the December quarter, company-run restaurants enjoyed profit margins of 15.9%, compared with 15% a year ago, and that's despite rising costs for beef and chicken. This year management expects even better performance, with same-store sales rising 2% to 3%.
Wendy's has a solid balance sheet, giving it ample flexibility to execute its strategy. Cash stands at $454 million to debt of $1.46 billion, making net debt 29% of total capitalization. The company also generates free cash flow, with $15 million expected in 2013.
Through his firm, Trian Fund Management, Peltz and associates control 27% of Wendy's stock. Peltz, who has been a director of the company since 1993, currently serves as chairman, and has long made his view known that Wendy's is worth far more than its stock-market value.
Given his involvement, a sale of the business is a strong possibility. One logical buyer: Yum! Brands, which doesn't own a burger business.
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Wendy's trades at a discount to peers, but the gap is expected to narrow.
|Ent Val./
|2013E Ebitda
|Sonic / SONC*
|Wendy's / WEN
|Papa John's Intl / PZZA
|McDonald's / MCD
|Yum! Brands / YUM
|Domino's Pizza / DPZ**
|E=Estimate. Ebitda = Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. *Aug. fiscal year.
|**12-mo. change includes $3 special dividend. Source: Bloomberg
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