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Noted military technology expert Dan Ward's manifesto for creating great products and projects using the methods of rapid innovation.
Why do some programs deliver their product under cost, while others bust their budget? Why do some deliver ahead of schedule, while others experience endless delays? Which products work better—the quick and thrifty or the slow and expensive? Which situation leads to superior equipment?
With nearly two decades as an engineering officer in the U. S. Air Force, Dan Ward explored these questions during tours of duty at military research laboratories, the Air Force Institute of Technology, an intelligence agency, the Pentagon and Afghanistan. The pattern he noticed revealed that the most successful project leaders in both the public and private sectors delivered top-shelf products with a skeleton crew, a shoestring budget, and a cannonball schedule. Excessive investment of time, money, or complexity actually reduced innovation. He concluded the secret to innovation is to be fast, inexpensive, simple, and small.
FIRE presents an entertaining and practical framework for pursuing rapid, frugal innovation. A story-filled blend of pop culture and engineering insight, FIRE has something for everyone: strategic concepts leaders can use as they cast a vision, actionable principles for managers as they make business decisions, and practical tools for workers as they design, build, assess and test new products.
Why do some projects deliver under budget and ahead of schedule, while others cost more and take longer than expected? More important, which products work better: the quick and thrifty or the slow and expensive?
In a story-filled blend of quirky pop culture and practical engineering insight, Dan Ward's F.I.R.E. answers those questions and more. Ward's extensive research and firsthand experience show how the world's top technologists consistently deliver best-in-class results on shoestring budgets and cannonball schedules, and using skeleton crews.
This remarkable book will make you laugh, make you think, and equip you to leverage the power of constraints. Discover the secrets of F.I.R.E. and learn how to:
Build strategies for speed that enhance accountability and ensure your products are well aligned with the market's needs.
Design your organizations, products, and processes with thrift in mind, solving problems with intellectual capital, not financial capital.
Unleash the power of small budgets and small teams, using short schedules, short meetings, and short documents.
Streamline your designs and cut through unnecessary, unproductive layers of bureaucracy.
But this is not just a book about how to win. With unflinching candor, Ward shows how the F.I.R.E. method, even when followed wisely and well, can result in a flop. Taking a deep look at several negative outcomes, he shows how to make failures optimal rather than epic.
F.I.R.E. provides strategic concepts for leaders, decision-making principles for managers, and practical tools for people working on anything from spacecraft and fighter jets to websites and children's toys. Technology professionals and curious amateurs alike will come away with a deeper understanding of effective product design. Plus, there's a funny story about a dishwasher that just may change the way you buy major appliances.
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Seong-Min Kim's deal is strange even before it ends life as he knows it.
When the Orioles first announce the signing, people in the baseball media are confused—once they figure out who Baltimore's talking about. The money wasn't necessarily bad in and of itself; the new CBA's hard cap on amateur signing bonuses won't go into effect for another six months, so if the Orioles feel a kid is worth it there's nothing stopping them from giving him half a million to sign.
The questions begin on January 23rd, when unnamed sources in the Eutaw Street Warehouse leak the following description of Kim to Baltimore Sun beat writer Eduardo Encina:
Kim—who won't turn 18 until April—is a project, but the organization feels he has the tools to make it to the majors. He's 5 feet 10, 180 pounds, but projects to be about 6-1, 195 pounds when he's fully grown. His fastball tops off at 90 but usually hits the high 80s. His 12-to-6 curveball is well above average—especially for his age—as is his change up. The team expects him to progress with age.
The only part of the pitcher described in the above two paragraphs that resembles the Seong-Min Kim that the rest of baseball knows is that both of them have birthdays in April.
"The O's gave $550K to a 5'9" Korean HS lefty throwing 80-83 with no feel for a breaking ball," ESPN's Keith Law says as the news is breaking. "Nice use of savings from cutting pro scouting." And while the rest of the league isn't about to start issuing statements everytime the Orioles do something unwise—their PR people are busy enough as it is—Ben Badler of Baseball America took a straw poll of his contacts and came back with the following:
According to the [11] other teams, Kim's fastball ranged from 78-85 mph. The maximum velocity another team had on Kim was 87 mph. Other scouts called his breaking ball a slurvy curveball in the mid- to high 60s and graded it from 20-30 on the 20-80 scouting scale, which rates as well below average. Scouts say he's likely an inch or two shorter than his listed height of 5-feet-11, has little projection and some funkiness in his arm action. Scouts were mixed on his command, though some said he was generally around the plate and would be able to pitch in the KBO. Many believed the Orioles were the only team interested in Kim. Several teams turned him in as a non-prospect.
The rest of the industry isn't shocked, angry, or dismissive; they're confused. And that's is the worst thing they can be. Even laughter is better than confusion; after all, you can only mock a decision once you're reasonably sure why it was made. But there's a very specific and very basic problem with Encina's description of Kim, and it isn't that a 17 year old who projects as a 6'1", 200 lb. left hander with a fastball sitting in the 90s and two plus breaking pitches by age 19 or 20 isn't worth $575,000.
It's the opposite: that kind of pitching prospect is rare and valuable enough to draw twice that amount in a bidding war, especially as June approaches and the closing bell sounds on the amateur free agent market. That kind of pitching prospect is so rare and valuable that every scouting department in the region knows each one of them by name and has someone on staff on speaking terms with either the kid's coach or parents. Kim didn't get noticed because he just happened to be playing catch with a buddy a lot over from an Oriole scout watching some other guy take batting practice; he's one of the starting pitchers for the team's national juniors squad.
Growth spurts like that aren't entirely unheard of, though they are uncomfortably anecdotal; there's a breathless article from 2007 about Erik Bedard having an even more extreme jump in height and velocity still up on Baltimore's website. "My senior year in high school, I was 5'4 and 120 pounds," it quotes Bedard as saying. "That summer, I grew to 5'11 and 150 pounds and went to college, where I gained about 30 pounds in four months. I never lifted weights before that or ate anything to try to get big—I didn't know anything about that stuff.
Later in the article, Bedard says his fastball went from 81 to 91 MPH over that same period, which seems ridiculous; this also seems a good place to note that, while playing baseball is his job, Bedard's primary recreational activity is messing with reporters. That doesn't mean he's lying here. Such rapid, violent stress on his joints, ligaments, and underlying cartilege might help explain his inability to stay healthy as a pro.
But supposing Kim were to undergo such a change in frame and projectability, there's no way to just hide that. And make no mistake, Kim wouldn't be hiding it: Kim and his coach would be showing off that 90-touching fastball and those two polished breaking pitches to every MLB scout they could find. It makes no sense for Kim to improve his value drastically, then negotiate only with the Orioles to drive down the price.
So putting aside the whirlwind about to descend on the heads of Kim, Duquette, and the Baltimore organization in less than a month's time, something has to give. Either through a freak chain of great fortune, amazing genetics, and general laziness Seong-Min Kim grew a couple inches and racheted his fastball up 4-5 MPH over the past month, then negotiated a deal exclusively with the Orioles—who in turn persuaded him neither to contact any other teams nor display his newfound talents in public—or the Orioles are misrepresenting the kind of pitcher Kim is for some reason. It wouldn't be the first time an organization made a prospect sound a tier or two better than he actually was.
But what would the Orioles have to gain from signing and hyping a teenaged non-prospect?
Dan Duquette's career in player evaluation outside the United States looks a lot better when he's given credit for his time as director of player development in Montreal—Vlad Guerrero headlines the class, but the Expos drafted Javier Vazquez and signed Orlando Cabrera as an amateur during his time there as well. There's a reason he's not given credit for those years here, however, and it ties into his main downfall as a top executive—his poor ability to manage and delegate. That reason is named Ray Poitevint.
Poitevint, who's at left, is currently Baltimore's Executive Director of International Baseball. Before that he held the same position in Duquette's front office in Boston. He is a scouting legend, which is both a compliment and a historical marker, and as it happens Baltimore was the first organization to hire him as a scout—in the 1960's. Poitevint briefly played minor league ball in 1949 and 1950 before going off to serve in the Korean War, and when he returned the Orioles, less than a decade old, gave him a job.
Over the course of his half-century in scouting, his hits at home and abroad include Eddie Murray, Dennis Martinez (signed out of Nicaragua), Teddy Higuera, and hundreds and hundreds of minor league players. His contribution to baseball as an industry and a sport is not necessarily in the quality of his scouting, but his influence on expanding the talent pool and the reach of the game. That said, Poitevint is fast approaching his ninth decade on this earth, and since he and Dan Duquette began working together their greatest combined successes involve luring Tomo Ohka and Hideo Nomo away from NPB, the Japanese professional league, in the mid-90's.
It was reported by Dan Connolly of the Baltimore Sun among others that the part of Duquette's interview that really grabbed the selection committee was the way he described his approach to international free agency and the amount of polish on his process. But in Boston, his issue as a top executive wasn't the process; signing a crowd of young arms and bats from overseas to more money than they'd ever seen before in their lives and then hoping one or two of them turns out to be worth it is how every team worth its salt handled international free agency, at least until the new CBA signed this winter put a hard cap on the amount that teams could spend on amateur free agents. The problem wasn't giving guys like Seung Song or Chul Oh or Byeong-Hak An or even "Tai-In Che" three-quarters of a million dollars on a projectable body type and a dream; the problem was giving those deals only to those guys. Eventually one of them has to turn into at least Hee-Seop Choi, if not Shin-Soo Choo. None of them even came close.
If the struggles Duquette's Red Sox had finding success with international amateurs in any way mirror the struggles they're likely about to experience in Baltimore with their Asian professional league signings, it's that there seems to be very little recognition of what makes a quality major leaguer. Not only was their assessment of poor Seong-min Kim overenthusiastic, but of the four veterans of either Korean or Japanese baseball the Orioles tried to sign this offseason—Wei-Yin Chen, Tsuyoshi Wada, Tae-Hyong Chong, and Eun Chul Choi—only Chen had a fastball that scouts thought would stand up in the majors, throwing left-handed low-nineties heat with an acceptable amount of movement. Wada sat in the mid to upper eighties without remarkable breaking pitches; Chong and Choi were both relievers on the wrong side of thirty.
The Orioles signed Chen and Wada to major league deals; Chen will make his first appearance this week, while Wada is on the disabled list with elbow discomfort and pitching in extended Spring Training. The Orioles agreed in principle to a two-year deal with Chong for $3.2 million that fell apart after he failed a physical; he signed a contract with the NPB's Lotte Giants instead, and underwent knee surgery.
It's in examining the curious case of Eun Chul Choi that a possible explanation emerges as to what the Orioles were up to in South Korea. Choi agreed to a minor league deal with Baltimore on January 7th, little more than a week before Poitevint and company would convince Seong-Min Kim to sign. As a pitcher, Choi is...well, here's how Eddie Encina put it in the Baltimore Sun:
The 6-foot-5, 255-pound Choi is a mostly unknown commodity. He pitched in the in Veracruz Winter League in Mexico last offseason. His only experience in the United States is a three-outing stint in the independent Golden Baseball League pitching for the Orange County Flyers in 2008, according to Baseball-Reference.com. He was 1-0 with a 16.20 ERA in 3 1/3 innings.
Incidentally, Encina has Choi's independent ball ERA correct, but has almost doubled the number of innings he pitched; Baseball Reference clocks him at 1 2/3 innings in his lone appearance with the Flyers, meaning that gaudy ERA really just represents 3 runs. It doesn't explain how he was able to vulture the win, but that's not really important. This is: "Known or not, he is the first signee in what Duquette says will be a serious push into Korea," Encina writes. "'We're signing him because we're hoping to develop some pitching from Korea,' Duquette said. 'We signed a number of pitchers with the Red Sox from Korea.'"
Duquette is talking about Sun-Woo Kim, Jin Ho Cho and Sang-Hoon Lee, the orange-haired guitar aficionado. While amusing that Encina provides the line for Eun Chul Choi's two-hour long independent ball career and then neglects to give any background at all on the three Boston pitchers besides their roster status, the most interesting part of the above quote is that Dan Duquette wants someone, somewhere to see that the Baltimore Orioles are interested in Korean pitching. He encourages them to connect the dots between the Red Sox of the 1990's and the Orioles of today. He sees this as only the beginning of a push into the South Korean market.
The quote is certainly not for the benefit of the hometown fans. Eun Chul Choi was unable to pitch two innings of independent ball four years ago without things going horribly wrong. For all that people talk about how guys like Brian Burres or Daniel Cabrera—to name two Orioles washouts; fans of other teams are encouraged to substitute names of their own—aren't major league pitchers, that's not totally fair. They're right, but they're also wrong: for most players, the guys who aren't freaks, success in major league baseball is a dream balanced on the edge of a knife. How close did Daniel Cabrera come to being even a league-average starter making tens of millions of dollars? One mechanical change. If he learns to repeat his delivery, he's at worst the fourth starter on the Colorado Rockies or Pittsburgh Pirates right now and his family is set for life. And if Jose Bautista had returned to the Orioles and the tender, single-minded mercies of then-hitting coach (now team advisor) Terry Crowley instead of getting his last shot in Toronto, would he even still be in baseball?
Daniel Cabrera was a major league pitcher. Eun Chul Choi, to all appearances, is not. That's not to say he isn't still better at throwing a ball to a crouching man ninety feet away than anyone reading this article, but he simply is not that caliber of player. Unless things get real interesting in Baltimore this summer, no casual fan will ever read his name in a program.
The remarkable thing, though, is that both Duquette and presumably Choi can live with that. As far as the Baltimore front office is concerned, the baseballing services of the actual, physical Eun Chul Choi are a happy byproduct of what the team actually reaps from signing him: a renewed foothold in the South Korean baseball consciousness. What was true before is true even moreso now that there's a hard cap on yearly amateur free agent spending: in a competitive market for a commodity that chooses its buyer, the most successful bring something other than money to the table. Call it cachet, influence, reach, but it's a lot easier to sign a kid when he's grown up watching the players he wants to be like wear your colors. It's a lot easier to set up a regional academy and develop reliable contacts within the local amateur organizations when you've got a history of treating their kids and pros right financially.
To the Orioles, Eun Chul Choi, Seong-Min Kim, and even Tae-Hyong Chong are investments from which they expect little return and which were made to generate good publicity in the market and stimulate other, more favorable investments. There's a word for them in retail: "loss leaders."
The Baltimore Orioles are certainly the bad guys of the drama that's played out over Seong-Min Kim over the past couple months, but that doesn't make the Korean Baseball Association or the Korean Baseball Organization good guys. Even if Baltimore sees Kim as a loss leader, that's still preferable to being a head on a pike.
The KBO was the first to respond, filing a formal complaint against the Orioles with MLB. Under the terms of an agreement between the two leagues, if a Major League team wishes to sign a South Korean player in their jurisdiction, the team must notify the KBO in order to get an acknowledgement that the player in question is eligible to sign. The specific point of protocol that confused the Orioles remains unclear—Duquette has only referred to it as an "administrative mistake" and hasn't gone into why the Orioles thought the rules didn't apply to them with Kim or if, indeed, they even knew the rules to begin with—but it likely has something to do with them believing Kim be under the jurisdiction not of the KBO, which is the professional arm of Korean baseball, but the KBA, which governs the amateur aspect of the sport.
Unfortunately for Baltimore, an eligibility check on amateur players is still required under the signed agreement between the two leagues. Unlike players signed to professional contracts, however, the KBO cannot actually prevent an MLB team from signing away their amateur talent; they can only advise the team that the player will soon be eligible for the KBO draft and that they would really rather MLB leave their high schoolers alone.
While there's been lip service paid to the notion that the Korean baseball organizations responded so harshly because it was the first time a top player had been signed before his last season of high school, Kim was weeks away from classes starting. The KBO's real goal is to get that agreement revised; they want the same sort of protection that Japan's NPB has, with amateurs strictly off limits to American teams until they become professional free agents—after they've played a good four or five years in their home country.
But that sort of agreement only works if the amateurs fall in line and abide by it; as Dan Duquette was so eager to remind everyone three months ago, he'd spent the better part of a decade poaching KBO-bound 18- and 19-year-old South Koreans and now he was back for more. So the KBO and KBA made perfectly clear what will happen to anyone on their side of the aisle that doesn't fall in line with the new rules. They banned the Orioles from scouting South Korean amateurs indefinitely, and they functionally banned Kim from baseball in his home country for life.
There is no appeals process for this; Kim could take the matter to court if he wanted, but beyond that he has very little recourse available. His ban extends to high school competition as well as the junior nationals team, and essentially ends any career he could have in Korean baseball before it even had a chance to begin.
He could appeal directly to the KBO and KBA themselves, of course, but it's doubtful that they'd overturn the ban. Why would they? Seong-Min Kim is serving the cause of South Korean baseball perfectly fine as he is.
And then came the final insult to Baltimore and the final injury to Kim: MLB refused to approve his contract with the Orioles.
This is not actually the first time something of this nature has happened, believe it or not. The Los Angeles Angels were subjected to the same punishment by MLB when they did the exact same thing Baltimore just did back in 2008.
"Back in 2008, the Angels' contract with South Korean pitcher Pil-Joon Jang was also not approved for 30 days because they didn't conduct a status check," the Sun's Encina wrote back in February. "But the Angels still ended up signing him to a $650,000 signing bonus."
The rest of the article is generally hopeful that Kim would not be poached, and that the Orioles would be able to re-sign him once the 30-day waiting period was up. "There's nothing here that says the Orioles still won't get Kim at the end of the day," Encina wrote, "[The Orioles] can still get their man."
A month later, Encina followed up. On March 22nd, 35 days after the contract was voided (or not-approved, if you like), the Orioles had not made any headway in either repairing their broken relationship with South Korean professional baseball nor in signing Kim to a contract that MLB would approve—at least none they saw fit to share with Encina or any other reporter. He reported that, in a bizarre twist, the Orioles were now stuck waiting for clearance to pursue the young left-hander—now, after he'd been banned from ever pitching in his home country again. Encina also reported that Kim had been training in Los Angeles in order to prepare for minor league camp in Sarasota, Florida, but since the voiding of the contract he'd returned home to South Korea.
It is unclear from the March 22nd article what the proper protocols are to follow in the pursuit of a player excommunicated by the only organizations that could object to his signing, as well as who, precisely, would be granting this clearance. The best part of the article, however, is its fifth paragraph:
Orioles scouts are reportedly still banned by the KBA from amateur baseball events in South Korea which include high school showcases and college games. But it's difficult to enforce that rule.
"But it is difficult to enforce that rule." Yes, obviously it would be a waste of KBA and KBO officials' time and resources to do anything to dissuade Baltimore's scouts except post signs clearly marking that the Orioles are persona non-grata at every ballpark entrance. But the clear implication here—that roguish Oriole scouts could still slip in unnoticed to KBA events, perhaps wearing Yankees or Red Sox caps, set their sights on a young man of justifiable talent and then secret him out of the country in the dead of night to America where he would proceed directly to A-Ball—ignores that not only would MLB again refuse to approve the contract, but that if the scouting department of any self-respecting franchise were found circumventing a ban put in place due to their own incompetence and impropriety mere months earlier, every head from "Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations" down to local cross-checker would roll. But then, we are discussing the Baltimore Orioles.
Whatever it is the Orioles are waiting for is unclear, but April 19th, 2011, marks 63 days since February 16th. Kim remains unsigned by any MLB team.
If Kim really does pitch like Duquette and Poitevint say he does and is no longer under the jurisdiction of the KBA and KBO due to his ban, he should be in camp somewhere, holding an offer comparable to what the Orioles gave him from one of the other 29 teams in baseball. What's the KBA going to do? Super-double ban him? Ban the offending team from their clubhouses and events for signing someone they explicitly exiled? Shoot Kim's dog? Even then, the stated reason for the ban was that Kim negotiated with a big league club before the beginning of his senior year of high school. Just about every high school Korea is in the second or third week of classes by now.
The Orioles have had three weeks to get him back on his contract and into camp. They haven't. Not a whisper about Seong-Min Kim has escaped the Orioles front office since Encina's article in late March. There are a number of possible reasons for this; Encina's sources could be correct, and the Orioles are closing that barn door real loud, just to make sure the KBA and KBO really see how committed to procedure they are. It's slightly more likely that they're trying to get Kim and his family to accept a more "reasonable" signing bonus for his true talent level now that there's no reason to talk him up anymore—that would be between $5,000 and $15,000 dollars, and probably in the low part of that range. It's entirely possible that ten minutes from now, the Orioles will proudly announce they've signed Kim to his originally-announced deal, that MLB has approved it and that they expect him to report to extended Spring Training forthwith, and that there's a perfectly logical, perfectly reasonable explanation for everything the Orioles have done in South Korea this offseason. Perhaps if their PR people start returning the Korean sports media's phone calls, they'll be able to explain it to the community truly interested in what the Orioles are going to do to make this right.
But they haven't yet, and as the days go by the silence grows more deafening. Kim returns to school and Duquette to the still-young 2012 season, where his Orioles remain near the top of their division after two weeks of play. The world moves on, and the simplest explanation for this end to the winter's strange farce is obvious and grim: the Baltimore Orioles have no more use for loss leaders.
Thanks to Daum baseball writer Daniel Kim (@DanielKimW) for his assistance with background information for this piece. This piece does not necessarily represent his opinions or those of Daum Media.
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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Thursday, March 7, 2014
COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW) -- President Barack Obama approved Governor Nathan Deal's request for a disaster declaration, according to the Governor's Office.
"I think it's really their responsibility to come in and help," said Richard Ashwroth.
Not the taxpayers, the Government's. But Ashworth is still left fronting his bill.
"Some folks can't afford to fix anything, and we're fixing that fence one section at a time," Ashworth said.
All from a tree that snapped during last months ice storm.
"Trees started popping, sounded like shotgun's going off out there," he said.
Unfortunately the help coming from Washington, D.C., won't do much for his fence or the cost of chopping up the tree that fell on it.
"One thousand four hundred cubic feet, it's a lot," Ashworth said.
But it could help a lot with his taxes. Without the federal help, he could be looking at a bigger bill.
"We'll be looking at between five and six million dollars realistically," said Pam Tucker with Columbia County.
I was just notified by GEMA that the President has signed our disaster declaration and we will receive funding. This is great news!! :)— Pam Tucker (@PamPtucker) March 7, 2014
That's just the estimated amount of damage across Columbia County.
"75 percent coming to us to reimburse from the federal side, and then 15 percent from the state, and our local will pay 10 percent," she said.
That means the county would only have to come with $600,000.
"$600,000 compared to $6 million out of our local tax money," Tucker said.
That money comes out of a contingency fund set up by the county in case of an emergency. It would leave the taxpayer with a zero balance.
"Even if you don't get individual assistance for a tree falling or cost where you had to hire a tree company yourself, you're going to benefit because this money will not now be coming out of the tax base," Tucker said.
For Ashworth, spending less money, means everything these days and he's just ready for the mess to go away.
"They have not picked it up, we haven't seen anybody or heard anything," Ashworth said.
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GEORGIA (WRDW)- President Barack Obama approved Governor Nathan Deal's request for a disaster declaration, according to the Governor's Office. President Obama approved in for 39 counties in Georgia that saw damage in the Feb. 10 through Feb. 14 winter storm.
The declaration approval makes the state eligible for the federal government to cover 75 percent of the damage costs.
Here is a list of the 39 counties eligible for assistance:
Baldwin, Bulloch, Burke, Butts, Candler, Carroll, Columbia, Coweta, Dade, Emanuel, Fayette, Fulton, Gilmer, Glascock, Hancock, Haralson, Heard, Jasper, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, Lamar, McDuffie, Meriwether, Monroe, Morgan, Newton, Pickens, Pike, Richmond, Screven, Spalding, Upson, Walker, Warren, Washington, Whitfield and Wilkes counties.
Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, DeKalb, Forsyth, Paulding, Polk and White counties were included in Deal's request but not granted approval.
(Copyright 2014. The Associated Press.)


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The estranged couple has said that they are parting ways by mutual consent and all the efforts made my their family and friends have not changed their stance due to their irreconcilable differences. Hence, they have approached the court to dissolve the marriage as they cannot live together anymore.
Three months ago, Ramalatha had filed a petition soon after Prabhu declared that he is in love with Nayan. In her plea, she had asked the court to restore her conjugal rights and to direct her husband to live with her. After much drama, she withdrew all her earlier petitions yesterday.
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Jasper Contractors1935 East Deer Valley Road Phoenix, Arizona United States of America
Jasper Contractors Verified REVIEW: Jasper Contractors commitment to total customer satisfaction. Jasper Contractors past and current approach to business is focused on providing the highest quality roofing and HVAC services to homeowners. Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Cincinnati, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, St. Louis.
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The Following information provided in this report is based on comments made by Brian Wedding and his staff during an on-site inspection held by a third party verification company with no biases toward Jasper Contractors.
Jasper Contracts is a roofing and HVAC company located in twelve cities nationwide. Their target market is everyone because everyone has a roof over their head, whether that be at work or at home. The company believes that their size and various awards they have won set them apart from other companies in their industry. Additionally, they believe they are a competitive employer because they offer benefits such as company vehicles and insurance coverage for their employees and their families with no out-of-pocket costs.
The sales process at Jasper starts out with a salesmen knocking on homeowners doors. Occasionally, their sales force focuses on an area where damage has occurred due to storms or environmental conditions. While meeting potential customers, the salesperson is responsible for explaining to the homeowner the services Jasper can provide. At this time, the salesperson explains the steps it will take to complete the roof installation and provides advice when dealing with the homeowners insurance company. Additionally, the salesperson will aid in working with the insurance adjustor to assess the damages. During the entire sale and installation of the product, a representative from Jasper stays in constant communication with the client to ensure they are receiving the best customer care possible.
Jasper has noted that there are some areas of concern that need improvement internally, such as some of their methods of communication. Currently, they are taking an active approach on implementing new systems. For example, all of their employees are now given Android phones to ensure that orders can be processed right away. Additionally, employees have special email addresses for billing to make sure orders are taken care of in a timely manner.
One of the most common complaints Jasper receives is they occasionally leave nails behind after a job is complete on the ground. Jasper states that they go back out to the site and provide a magnetic sweep to clear the nails left behind. The other complaint the company commonly receives is in regards to the customers invoice being different than the quoted price. This is usually due to supplemental damage to roof that cannot be seen until the original roof has been taken off. Jasper does their best to explain this to customers. Additionally, the company states that if clients are dissatisfied with something, they send a representative onsite within twenty-four hours of being notified. They work with the homeowner until the situation is resolved.
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I recently hired Jasper to replace my roof. I must say I was completely unsatisifed with the service they provided. They did not install drip edge which is a standard in Arizona. Every house with a new roof has drip edge. When I called the regional manager Randy Haines he said the following, "if you're such a roofing expert why did you not stop them when they started to put the shingles on your house? Now we have to go back and lift all the shinges to put on the drip edge." My response was, "I'm no roofing expert and when did it become my job to manage your roofers?".
Upon further inspection of the roof I also noticed they cracked the 1x1 board going around my roof and simply ignored it. I also noticed a smell of tar when the sun hit my roof. I called an AC company and they informed me that when Jasper lifted my AC to replace the shingles it broke the seal from my AC to my duct work. I decided to have another roofing company come out to inspect the job. The final issue they found was that none of objects on my roof were painted to match the roof color. I guess this is a standard in the roofing industry and one more corner Jasper decided to cut.
If you're considering a new roof do not consider Jasper.
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Twenty years have passed since that violent government crack down on the twenty-something college students occupying the public square in pro-democracy protest. Enough time for the protestors' children to grow up without ever seeing this famous image that was eradicated by the media. It lies cloaked lies cloaked in Google searches, behind the Great Firewall of China.
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This famous image did not exist. This was one manifestation of China's pattern of Internet censorship. Another pattern was that if a scandals breaks out in China, all webpages outside of China are temporarily disabled. During my month there, two regional politicians were caught in corruptions investigations. One of them was sentenced to death, and the other killed himself. The official reports glossed over the details, and focused on the new appointee. The New York Times, on the other hand, did an in-depth analysis, which I happened to read, as I was up at a strange jet-lagged hour. It was gone the next day.
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Just yesterday the New York Times published a small series of editorials about the anniversary. And just now they are reporting on extensive shutdowns of most major communications platforms, from the NYTimes.com to Twitter. Ironically, that article will not make it through the firewall either.
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My translator & fixer that helped me get access to the painting factories said she had never seen this image. She was a very successful college-educated journalist, who was leaving China to work in Canada. She was a worldly person. She had heard stories but she refused to believe them; stories from family friends whose children disappeared that day, 20 years ago tomorrow.
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I send images of these paintings out now as a quiet memorial, and an attempt to reseed this image of strength in the face of threats to humanity, tyranny, and the freedom of information
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EN English dictionary: keep out of sight
keep out of sight has 12 translations in 7 languages
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translations of keep out of sight
EN ES Spanish 2 translations
- no dejarse ver (v) [vision]
- mantenerse fuera de la vista (v) [vision]
EN FR French 3 translations
- se cacher (v) [vision]
- se dissimuler (v) [vision]
- se dérober à la vue (v) [vision]
EN IT Italian 1 translation
- stare nascosto (v) [vision]
EN PT Portuguese 2 translations
- esconder-se (v) [vision]
- manter-se escondido (v) [vision]
EN DE German 1 translation
- außer Sichtweite (v) [vision]
EN NL Dutch 1 translation
- uit het gezicht blijven (v) [vision]
EN SV Swedish 2 translations
- inte visa sig (v) [vision]
- hålla sig gömd (v) [vision]
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FR French
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DE German
NL Dutch
- kaptafel {m}
- Kebede Balcha
- kaftpapier
- koffietafel {m}
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PL Polish
DA Danish
BG Bulgarian
HU Hungarian
RU Russian
Words before and after keep out of sight
- keep one's temper
- keep one's wits about one
- keep ones eyes peeled
- keep oneself
- keep oneself apart from
- keep oneself from
- keep oneself to oneself
- keep open
- keep out
- keep out of
- keep out of sight
- keep pace
- keep pace (with )
- keep pace with
- keep quiet
- keep right
- keep s.b. at a distance
- keep s.b. at arm's length
- keep s.b. waiting
- keep s.o. company
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- Understanding color spaces
- Understanding the color workflow for photography vs. design and web
- Setting up a digital camera for the best image results
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Skill Level Beginner
Let's take a look at Soft Proofing in Lightroom. This is something relatively new to Lightroom, it showed up in Version 4. And everything we do here would be similar to other RAW image editing applications, such as Aperture, Capture One, et cetera. You might notice something new down below the image when you're in the develop module in Lightroom, you see a Soft Proofing button. So let's go ahead and click this. We've got our image edited, it's ready to go. We click on Soft Proofing and as I turn that on and off, already there's a change in the image. That means it's using a paper profile to show us the effect.
So up in the right-hand corner here, you see under Profile, it's got one of the papers we've been using, the ILFORD Gold Cotton Texture. Now, what I'm going to do first is I'm going to create what's called a Proof Copy. It's sort of a virtual copy of the print that will then make any adjustments you make to that image specifically for that printer profile. Now right here, notice we've got our two rendering intents, the other two that we saw in PhotoShop are gone. We just have Relative and Perceptual. And you can quickly click back and forth to see the difference. Now in this particular image, Relative keeps much more of the deep shadows, so I do like that much better.
And that's the beauty of being able to see this because you might choose another paper, and see that Perceptual works better. In fact, let's just try Gold Fiber Silk and we see Relative versus Perceptual. Strangely enough in this case, Perceptual gives us deeper shadows, so for Gold Fiber Silk, that's the rendering intent we'd probably choose. Let's go back to our Gold Cotton Texture, because since this is a matte paper, we've lost some of the density of our dark colors that we might want to adjust. Now you might have noticed something when we chose the profile for Gold Fiber Silk that some red appeared. Let's go ahead and bring that back.
So we've got some red up here, well let me show you where that's happening in the Cotton Textured. Up on the top of the histogram in the Soft Proofing window, there are two buttons here. One for Monitor Gamut. Now this is more distressing than helpful probably. All of this blue is showing you colors that are in the image that your monitor can't accurately show you. They're beyond the gamut of an SRGB monitor. It's just really kind of a warning, there's nothing you can do about it, so I'm not sure what use it serves. On the other hand, this is the Gamut Warning for the particular paper.
It's the destination Gamut Warning. This is handy to know if we have a lot of color moving. So again, as we look between Relative and Perceptual, we can see for this particular paper, we're not seeing any colors that are severely out of gamut. So we did decide we like Relative better. But again, as we turn Soft Proofing on and off, we see that with this paper we've lost a little bit of contrast and density. So since we're working on this proof copy, we can scroll down and make adjustments to it. So maybe we want to increase the blacks a little bit, just to bring some of that depth back, maybe add a little bit more contrast.
And just kind of get the image the way you want it to look for this particular paper. And that's the beauty of having this virtual copies because it is not changing our original file. It is just for our copy. Now, if you have a new paper, notice I only have a handful of printer profiles in here along with two of the standard color spaces. If you click on Other, it will show you all of the profiles that you have currently loaded. So if you wanted to add another profile, for example, if I'm going to print on Gallery Prestige Fine Art Texture, that's what all these letters mean, for a Canon IPF6350.
If I just hit OK, then that shows up in my list. And that's really as simple as it is. Now this image is ready to be printed. We've got it ready to go, we made an adjustment specifically for this paper. And we've decided that Relative rendering intent was the choice. Now let's take a look at another image that might present us with some other problems. So we'll let this load, and let's go ahead and do a Soft Proofing on this image. And what I'm going to do is, I'm going to cause a problem.
This might not happen all the time, but let's go ahead. I'm going to click on the Gamut Warning. And because I have the saturation pushed up so far, you can notice up in this corner here, let's zoom up. That we've got some red starting to show up in the blue sky. What that means is this blue has become too intense, too saturated, for this particular paper to print it. In fact, let's try the Gold Fiber Silk again and see what it does, and since this paper is a pearl surface stock, it's a glossier stock, it has a little bit more color gamut range, so much less color is out of gamut.
But again, for our Fine Art Matte paper, there is a little bit less gamut and it's also gotten a little bit lighter. So, what can you do for something like this? Well, here's something really handy. Let me go ahead and scroll down under HSL, which means hue saturation luminance. And this little tool right here is the Targeted Adjustment tool. If I click on this, let's deal with saturation. If I click in the red area, and drag down, you can see it disappears. So what we just done, you can see, there's adding saturation to it.
Just click and drag down, and it's de-saturating just that tone. But you don't need to get rid of all the little bit of red. It's not that big a deal. If you have that much, I'd leave it alone. But now, we've brought down the saturation of that one little piece that had gone out of gamut, and taken better control. Now we look at the rest of the image, and we see that we've also lost some saturation in this foreground. So let's go ahead and do one other thing, I'm going to get the Graduated Filter, bring it up across here, and we'll add a local contrast, and bring up the clarity to further define this grass in the foreground.
And then hit Done. You can make all of these changes and these adjustments in your Proof window and see how the image is going to print before you do that. And the beauty is you do this for each of your papers and have multiple copies because they're not really copies. They're virtual copies and you can have as many as you like if you're going to print the same image in different places. That's one of the beauties of doing Soft Proofing in Lightroom, because also you're doing this to the RAW file and never actually affecting your image. Makes it really easy and it's a great place to print from.


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nounNorth American
A widespread lark of open country, especially the Arctic and mountains, the male having a black and white head pattern and two small black hornlike crests.
- Genus Eremophila, family Alaudidae: two species, in particular E. alpestris. British name: shorelark.
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One of the most commonly requested interactive behaviors I hear people asking for is, how do I make an object appear or disappear on the page? For example, I have three pieces of art in this document: one on my page, and then a couple out here on the Paste board. I'll just drag those on. Now, you can see that these are actually groups of objects. I've grouped the image with a caption, so, it'll act as a single object. But I only want one of these to be visible at a time. The other pieces of art should be hidden until I click on one of these buttons along the left edge here. Now, this seems impossible to do in InDesign until you learn one really simple trick.
You need to turn all of these objects into buttons. InDesign can only hide and show another button. So, I'm going to select all of these objects. I'll just drag a marquee with a Selection tool over all of these text frames and these groups, then I'll head over to my Buttons and Forms panel, and I'll click on the Mega Button button. Now, each one of those objects, the groups and those text frames are a button. I'll click out here on the Pasteboard to deselect, and then I'll click on one of these buttons up here. Now, this button doesn't have to do anything.
No event, no action, but I do need to give it a name. I'm going to come up to the Name field, select that, and delete that text and instead I'll call it Blue Cliffs. That's the name of this piece of art. Now, I'll click on this one over here and I'll call it Apple Wood. And then finally, the third group, I'm going to call that button Vines. As you'll see in a minute, it's really important that you name these buttons carefully so that you can identify them. And now that we've named them, let's go ahead and setup these buttons over here. I'm going to call this first one Show Vines.
And here's the action I'm going to apply to it. On release or tap, I want the action to be Show Hide Buttons and Forms. And as soon as I select that, you'll see that the Buttons and Forms panel expands, and it gives me a list right here in the middle of all the buttons on my page. The trick to showing or hiding buttons on the page is to click on this left column. So, for example, I want to show vines, so, I'm going to click once on that X. You'll see that the X turned into a little eye ball, that means show this button.
If I click twice on the Apple wood, first, I get the eye ball then I get an eyeball with a line through it. That means hide this object. I'm going to do the same thing to Blue cliffs. So, now, when I click on the Show Vines button, it's going to show the vines artwork, and it's going to hide Apple wood and Blue cliffs. Now, let's do the other two. I'll choose Apple wood, I'll give it an action. This one is going to hide the Vines and hide Blue cliffs, but definitely show Apple wood. And let's give it a more descriptive name.
And lastly, the Blue cliffs. Show Blue cliffs artwork, and the action is going to be Show/Hide buttons. And this was going to show the Blue cliffs and hide the other two. Now, I need to do one more thing here, and that is to select each of these objects, and set the hidden until triggered check-box. I'll start with this first one, Blue cliffs. I'll select it, and then turn on hidden until triggered. And that way, when I open the PDF in Acrobat, it will be invisible until it's told to become visible. Let's do the same thing to this second piece of art. Make it hidden until triggered.
The third piece of art, I'm going to leave alone, because I do want that visible when I first get to that page. Now, all I need to do is drag these objects into position. I'm just going to position them by dragging them around until I get them into the right place, one on top of the other. I'll press Cmd+Shift+Return or Ctrl+Shift+Enter to open the SWF preview panel, and we're going to test out these buttons. When I click on the Apple wood button, it switches to that artwork. When I click on Blue cliffs, it switches to that. Then I'll go back to Vines, and you can see it switches to that.
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