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What Can I Use to Help Me to Get Pregnant?
How Can I Get Pregnant - Tips on Trying To Conceive (TTC)
Although it may sound like such a simple thing to do, every day many millions of people wonder 'How can I get pregnant?' In the time that I have been trying to get pregnant (and succeeding) I feel like I have learnt so much information about trying to have a baby and the best way to go about it, that I wanted to share some of this information on how to get pregnant with others that may be struggling or wondering what the best way to do it is.
Check out some of the information below with some hints and tip on how to get pregnant, timing of intercourse, supplements you can take etc - hopefully some of this can help you.
It is advised that if you have been trying for a year if you are under 35, or six months if you are over 35, and have not been able to get pregnant in that time then you should go and get checked out by your doctor to make sure both of you are in 'full working order' as there are lots of options that can be explored if anything is wrong.
However long you have been trying to conceive I wish you luck and a BFP on the pregnancy test soon.
How Can I Get Pregnant? - The Basics
So, the basics are that you need to have unprotected sex at the right time in your cycle. The right time is when you are ovulating, a few days before that or at most a day after that. You normally ovulate approximately 14 days before your period starts. However, it can be less than this (10 days or even 8 at a push) but not often much more.
So, if your cycle is 28 days then there is a chance you might ovulate on day 14. If your cycle is 31 days then you might ovulate on day 17. These rules are not hard and fast though but this does give you one thing to look out for. Many people think that they ovulate on day 14 but this is not necessarily the case and if you think this you may miss your window of opportunity. For example I have a cycle of 26 days and I generally ovulate on day 11 so if I did not have sex until day 12 or later I would be too late.
So, if you are just starting out wanting to get pregnant then one of the easiest ways to make sure you are in with a chance is to have intercourse every other day starting from say day 8 (unless your cycles are really long then this might be a bit tough!). So if you have unprotected sex on days 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 18 of your cycle, then as long as your cycle is not any longer than 30 days you should be OK. If your cycle is more than 28 days then you may want to change it up to days 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20.
Obviously if you know when you are ovulating then this will help matters more so that you can get the timing right.
Ovulation Predictor Kits
How Can I Get Pregnant? - More Details
So now you know that the best time to conceive is when you ovulate or in the few days before then. Because sperm can live in the uterus for up to 3 days (and I have heard longer but I will stick to this number of days as it seems to be a consensus) it can hang around and wait for the egg to arrive. So the point is that you need to know when you are ovulating. Now this will depend on the length of your cycle as much as anything and if you are trying to get pregnant then it is a good idea to keep a note of how long your cycles are and if they are of a similar length. As discussed before, ovulation often happens approximately 14 days before the end of the cycle but it can be a few days either side, or actually vary quite a bit in the case of some women.
For more information check out my detailed article on 'when will I ovulate?'
When trying to conceive there are a few ways that you can try to figure out when you are ovulating. These methods are based on two things - the fact that the body has a temperature dip when ovulation occurs and the secretion of luteinizing hormone (LH) to stimulate ovulation.
There are ovulation predictor kits (OPKs) available that will help you predict when you will ovulate. There are a variety of OPKs available on the market with a huge range of prices. The cheap way to start off with is to get ovulation test strips which will come up with two lines when the LH level is rising. Once you get a positive on these tests, it is likely that you will ovulate between 12 and 36 hours later. There are other more sophisticated predictors with the most well known and popular being the Clear Blue Fertility Monitor - this can be quite pricey but you may be able to get a second hand one on eBay at a good price.
Fertility Lubricants
Trying to Conceive - Pro Fertility Lubricant
Cervical Mucus (CM) is what helps the sperm swim up through the cervix so it is important that you have sufficient CM to enhance the mobility of the sperm. However, if you are lacking in the fertile CM (or egg white cervical mucus - EWCM), then you could use a sperm-friendly lubricant to help you.
Take note: If you use a standard lubricant during sex when you are actually trying to conceive then you may actually not be helping yourself - most standard lubricants will actually hinder the mobility of sperm (and this includes things like baby oil and also saliva).
However, there are some specialist lubricants available that will actually give sperm more mobility and are created to help conception. Some lubricants, like Pre Seed, require you to squirt an amount of lubricant inside the vagina before sex whilst others you can just use as you would a standard lubricant.
Use these around your fertile time when trying to conceive and that is another positive to help you.
Instead Soft Cups
Trying to Conceive - Soft Cups
Well this is one thing that I had really not heard of before but some people seem to swear by them.
These soft cups are actually designed as an alternative to sanitary towels or tampons but seem to have found another use with women who are trying to conceive.
You basically insert one after sex and leave it in for up to 12 hours. The idea is that it is meant to keep the sperm in the required area for longer and hence give a better chance of conception.
These can also be used for artificial insemination if you are using that method to try and get pregnant, or you can deposit the sperm in the cup and put that it if sex is not an option for whatever reason.
Evening Primrose Oil
Trying to Conceive - Evening Primrose Oil
When trying to conceive, one of the important factors is that the woman has a good amount of fertile cervical mucus. This can help to nurture the egg whilst it is waiting for the sperm to arrive and provides a non hostile environment for conception.
One thing that has been shown to help in the production of fertile cervical mucus is Evening Primrose Oil. If this is taken in the first part of the cycle (from day 1 until ovulation) then it may be a benefit when trying to conceive. Make sure you don't take it after ovulation though as it can cause uterine cramps which would obviously not be good if you had actually got pregnant on that cycle.
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Maca Root
Maca root is a natural herb from a plant that is grown in the Andes and it has been used for centuries to enhance strength and also help with fertility issues.
Maca root is available in powder, liquid and capsule form and the majority of the time it is used by men to give a higher level of sexual performance. Often when couples try and 'catch the egg' around ovulation time, it can be difficult to keep up with all the sex that you may be demanding of them, and maca root supplements may help with this as it is sometimes known as the natural viagra (although this has never been proved).
However, maca is also supposed to help women by improving the quality of their eggs. This is another unproven fact but there is anecdotal evidence from women that says taking maca has helped them to conceive.
Royal Jelly and Bee Pollen
This combination is also another natural product that is supposed to enhance the quality of a woman's eggs. You need to take a spoonful a day of the mixture (it is sold often by local honey producers) and is often mixed in with honey although you can get the bee pollen separately (although this is supposed to not taste too good).
Pineapple Core
The core of the pineapple contains bromelain which is an enzyme that is supposed to help with embryo implantation (therefore you should take it after ovulation). It is only the core of the pineapple that you should eat as unfortunately the actual fruit and the juice is supposed to do the opposite!
The recommendation is to eat 1/5 of a pineapple core every day from 1 to 5 dpo.
Melatonin Capsules
Melatonin for Better Egg Quality?
So I recently read about a study that showed the benefits of taking melatonin. This is a substance that is usually produced naturally in the brain that you can buy as a supplement. It is usually used to help you to sleep better. However, in this study, melatonin was given to IVF patients who had previously had a failed IVF cycle. There was also another group of similar patients who were not given melatonin.
From the women who were given melatonin, 50% of their eggs were able to be fertilised whereas only 22.8% of the eggs of the other patients could be. The study was to see if taking melatonin would improve egg quality and it seems that that could be the case. Unfortunately from the study I cannot see how often the melatonin was taken.
You can check out another post on how melatonin can help here.
Melatonin is available from Amazon in 3mg capsules so it is easy enough to get hold of.
Clomid or Soy Isoflavones
If you are having trouble in actually getting your body to ovulate (you may be able to see this if you are charting your temperatures as you will tend not to see a two phase cycle where your temperatures are higher in the 2nd phase) then there are things that your doctor can do to help with that. The most frequent treatment for an anovulatory cycle is to prescribe clomid which is a drug that is taken early on in the cycle for 5 days in a prescribed dose. This can induce ovulation in a lot of women thus giving you a chance to get pregnant.
Another alternative to clomid is to take soy isoflavones, these are available in many health food stores and are usually in the women's health/menopause section. Again with these you should take them for 5 days in the early part of your cycle, anything from days 2-6 to 5-9. Taking them earlier will produce more eggs and later a larger, better quality egg. With soy the dose is often lower for the first 3 days and then higher for the last 2. I took a dose of approx 120mg on the first 3 days and 160mg on the last 2 but some ladies take a higher dose up to 160/200mg. It is advisable to speak to your doctor about anything you take and you shouldn't take soy with clomid.
Australian She Oak Essence
She Oak is something that I have read lots of good things about recently. It is essentially a flower essence that is made mostly in Australia from bush flowers. The key to these essences is that they promote mental and emotional well-being. She Oak is said to help women who have, in particular, unexplained infertility. It is said to help open the mind to pregnancy and conception rather than having a medicinal purpose.
If this is something that you think might help you (and there are women who say it has) then you could give it a try. It is also said to help regulate a woman's cycle so that could be an added benefit.
The recommended She Oak dose is 7 drops a day at morning and at night. It can be quite difficult to get hold of outside Australia but I have found one supplier on Amazon who sells She Oak essence and the details are shown on the right.
Trying to Conceive - Other Info
So I am trying a few of these things as well as another recommendation which was to put your legs up high for about 15 minutes after sex so that gravity can do it's thing! This seems like a simple but logical thing to do and may well help the sperm to get where you need them to go. As well as this you can get your partner to take some multivitamins including folic acid (yes, he needs to take that too) which will increase the quality of his sperm.
When to Test
So the fact is that if you have unprotected sex at any time in your cycle when you might have been ovulating, then there is a chance that you could be pregnant. You may have symptoms that make you think you are pregnant but these might just be similar to symptoms of your period about to start so don't take too much notice of symptoms. Likewise you could have no symptoms and still be pregnant.
If you are trying to get pregnant and you think you might be pregnant then you may be wondering when you can first test. Check out another of my articles 'When Can I Take a Pregnancy Test' for more info on this.
thanks a lot Butterfly :) I m thinking to get one but I m on cd 15 right now. I think it is better to wait until AF if I am not pregnant, so I m gonna start on the first day of my period. I can share my experience if anyone interested...
Is there anybody to know anything about She Oak? Is it possible to take it after ovulation? I mean do I need to...and also do I need to take it with water or direct under tongue?
Thanks so much for your response, Butterfly 67. I just wanted to post an update for anyone who might be interested. I had an appointment the other day with a very well known fertility specialist. He said that in his experience women who take melatonin still ovulate, so as long as your period is regular, it is ok to continue to take melatonin pre-conception. However, in the US, melatonin is considered a category C drug, which means you should not take it during pregnancy if at all possible. He highly recommended discontinuing once pregnant. As an alternative, ambien is a category A, so that is a drug that is ok to take during pregnancy. I just wish it worked as well for me as melatonin.
I also found this article on the web that I thought was helpful. I'll post the link in case anyone else is interested.
My period starts on June 13 and on July it starts on 14 please when is likely my ovulation period
I'm shocked to see what you mentioned about Melatonin. I have struggled with insomnia since I was in high school and began taking melatonin and valerian several years ago. I finally get regular nights of good sleep. However, I am now TTC and everything I have read on the internet about melatonin says that it can inhibit ovulation and to stop taking it immediately. I wonder if the research you read is specifically for people who are doing IVF. Can you provide any more information you have? Thanks!
Two thumbs up for your hubs, from now on i'll be one of your followers, I'm 32 years old and having a hard time trying to conceive, I'm looking forward to read new articles from you.
Thanks u very much, but my problem is am irregulars period and I want to get pregnant so how can I make it work? Can I take clomid even my period is not regular?
Butterfly67, I just up-voted your hub. Please keep me up to date on what happens with the Melatonin. That is shocking that it is a prescription in the UK! I never imagined. It's good you found somebody to prescribe it to you, though. Good Luck to you and I am hoping this is what works for you!! :)
Thanks for educating me
Hello. I am always reading information about TTC and trying to find new information. It is rare that I happen upon a tip that I have not already heard of. Imagine my shock when I read on this hub that, of all things, Melatonin increased the conception rate of IVF patients! What a dramatic increase it produced. This is just music to my ears!! Melatonin is such a safe and effective product for sleep. Since I have always had a problem with sleeping at night and also a history of Infertility, now I must wonder if there is some type of correlation between these two events, and if Melatonin could be the saving factor for people like me, with a sleeping disorder and Infertility. Thank you so much for this Information. I will be certain to pass it on! :)
Interesting and very useful hub which i enjoyed a lot.


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Last week, I attended a leadership workshop hosted by MaRS about the future of work. MaRS is a Toronto-based, government-adjacent organization best known for its innovation labs, which host some 300 Toronto-area startups, as well as some big names (like Facebook, Google, Samsung, and CIBC, among others.) All of these organizations come together in the MaRS Discovery District, which unites educators, researchers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and business experts. All of these specialists are interested in driving change in science, technology, government, and other fields.
As a champion of workplace innovation, with a direct line of sight into startup culture, MaRS is well positioned to see where workplaces are headed in the future. Here are some of the insights I took away from the workshop.
The timeframe it takes for new innovations to be adopted by the masses is shrinking. It took the telephone 75 years to reach 50 million people. Radio took 38 years to do the same. Television took 13 years. Facebook took 3.5 years. Today a popular app can reach this milestone in a matter of weeks. The world is more connected than ever before, and we're exposed to change faster. That's true in the world of work, too. In the future, expect to see big workplace changes gather steam quickly and gain widespread adoption in short order.
Though some workplaces are famously resistant to change – think conservative workplaces like law firms, where traditionalism is all but ingrained into the culture – change is happening whether workplaces like it or not. 30 years ago working from home was a novel idea. Today 3.6 million Canadians work from home, at least occasionally. That number has doubled in the last decade, with 1.8 million Canadians reporting they worked from home in 2008. That means approximately 20% of working Canadians work from home to some degree.
Another example: consider how dress codes have shifted in the last decade. Not all that long ago, dressing casually in an office environment was reserved for Fridays, if it was acceptable at all. Today more companies than ever (including established Fortune 500 giants like IBM and General Electric) have changed their dress codes, adopting casual or flexible dress codes that prioritize employee comfort over the business uniform of suits and ties. Casual dress codes have become a selling point for younger generations like Millennials and Gen Z that appreciate the individual expression offered by a casual dress code. Some also attribute this shift to the growing influence of Silicon Valley, which is known for its laissez-faire approach to appropriate business attire. To compete for talent, other businesses must get with the program and offer what in-demand job seekers have become accustomed to and now expect. The more businesses adapt, the more normalized any change becomes.
Just the word 'disruption' sounds threatening, but in reality, it's nothing new, especially in the workplace. Lately, when we hear about disruption, the focus is on automation and AI. We've been hearing for years that automation is going to 'disrupt' the work landscape as we know it. Usually, those headlines are framed with scare-tactic sensationalism such as "robots are coming for our jobs!" that seem intended to frighten rather than inform. Yes, it's true. Robots are poised to replace a variety of lower-skill, repetitive jobs. However, they will not replace humans entirely, at least not in the near future.
And what's more, we've survived such changes in the past and thrived. Many times, in fact. As technology changes, so does the nature of work. At one point humans were hunter-gatherers. Then someone figured out planting crops was easier and made more sense, so humans settled in and became farmers. Then came electricity, and work hours were no longer limited to daylight hours. Then the industrial revolution happened and a large percentage of the population took up industrial and factory work. Then the internet arrived and now it's hard to imagine most workplaces without email. Change is a part of life and work. Humans are extremely adaptable, and we'll figure out our next stage of work, whatever it happens to be.
When jobs are automated it's usually good for people at the very bottom of the job hierarchy. Automation will push society's most vulnerable out of harmful jobs that wreak havoc on their bodies. Think repetitive tasks that cause injuries over time (factory work), require exposure to chemicals (maintenance work), or are otherwise hard on your body (construction work). Most of these jobs exist because there are no alternatives – someone has to do them. Yet these jobs are often among the least desirable, so they end up being filled by people at the fringes of the workforce; people who need a job, any job, and will take whatever they can get.
Historically when low-skill, less desirable jobs disappear, it leads to entry-level jobs being shifted up a level. The total number of available jobs doesn't shrink, as many people expect. Instead, the vacancies are pushed up the organizational hierarchy. So instead of being a factory line worker, perhaps you'd become a line supervisor, or a mechanic, or a heavy machine operator. Those slightly more desirable jobs become the new entry-level. And as production increases, because robots are able to do more, faster, more line supervisors and mechanics and heavy machine operators are needed, replacing those unneeded line worker jobs with better, safer, higher-paying jobs.
Usually when we think of automation 'coming for jobs,' it's in low-skills areas where little to no human interaction is required, such as the aforementioned line workers. However, as technology improves, so does its ability to interact with humans in a natural way. You only need to talk to Amazon's Alexa (or any of the other voice assistants on the market) to understand just how human-like robots have become. Gone are the days when you could easily identify AI by its robotic, staccato inflections. Today's AI is rapidly becoming more human in both sound and action. In many cases, if you didn't know better, you'd think you were interacting with a human. If you haven't already seen it, check out the video that Google released during I/O 2018 of its assistant making a phone call to schedule an appointment. It's impressively realistic.
As robots become more adept at mimicking humans, they'll be able to take on more tasks that traditionally required human interaction. We're already seeing some of this in the proliferation of virtual assistants, chatbots, ordering kiosks and service apps. Once again, the jobs that are targeted are the lowest skill jobs. Jobs that require taking information, answering questions, or completing simple tasks will be the first to go.
Bank tellers are no longer needed to deposit a cheque; you can do it on your phone. If you head to McDonald's, you'll probably use a kiosk to place and pay for your order, rather than talking to a cashier. If you inquire about store hours on a website chat box, there's a good chance a robot will answer your query. Simple tasks are being replaced, however, humans are still needed when it comes to completing more complex tasks. Every single one of these industries still requires human interaction, despite some parts of the job being automated. It's unlikely a robot will be able to answer complex questions about your finances or develop the fine motor skills to cook and deliver your fast-food order any time soon. Instead of replacing people, technology is streamlining the simplest and most repetitive parts of jobs, so humans can focus more on the things that they are needed for, the tasks that robots aren't capable of replicating.
At the MaRS workshop, one of the ideas I found most interesting was that soft skills will become a differentiator that sets you apart from other candidates. It used to be that everyone in the workforce was expected to have basic soft skills, while your technical skills were what made you stand out as desirable. In today's workplaces, almost everyone has basic technical skills such as the ability to navigate technology or use software like Microsoft Office. These skills are foundational and expected. Also noteworthy: Canada is also the most educated OECD nation in the world. The majority of our population is highly educated, with 54% of Canadians aged 25 to 64 holding a post-secondary degree. Theoretically, these people have learned some sort of technical or job skills through their education.
With such a highly educated population, the focus shifts to what MaRS called + skills. The demand is growing for people who have technical skills and bring something else to a role, usually soft skills. In the face of a wealth of technical skills, skills like communication, teamwork, problem-solving and attention to detail suddenly become valuable once again as a way of setting yourself apart from other candidates. MaRS imagines a future in which businesses actively look for + skills as a way of finding the right job fit with employees. Instead of hiring a 'nurse' we will hire a 'nurse+'. Both candidates understand the technical elements of a nursing job. However, the nurse+ has additional soft skills like people management, patience, and approachability that bring additional value to the role. These add-on skills will be actively sought out by employers in the future.
Employers are used to being the top of the heap in the workplace. After all, they're the ones with the jobs, so employees ought to fall in line if they want to be employed. That old-fashioned mindset has slowly but surely been eroding. Today's best employers recognize that their success is tied to their employees and their ability to attract the best talent in the market. Employers that can't attract high-calibre talent stand to fall behind as the market for talent becomes tighter. We're experiencing sustained, record-low unemployment (5.8% for most of 2018) which means in order to capture the talent they need, employers must entice passive job seekers, who are already employed elsewhere and give them a reason to change jobs.
Despite the tightening competition for talent, there remains a dissonance between what employers think their employees want and what employees actually want. In a survey conducted by MaRS, employers identified 'opportunities to work on good projects' as the top reason employees might actively seek out new a job. However, when job seekers were asked their motivations, opportunities to work on good projects didn't even crack the top 10. The top reasons included: 1) higher compensation, 2) attaining a promotion, 3) working closer to home, 4) working for a larger company, 5) wanting a change, 6) dislike of their manager, and 7) changing industries.
Employers need to recognize that listening to employees and offering the right mix of incentives and compensation will be crucial to engage talent going forward.
Somewhere good, I think. There's a lot of alarmist talk about how automation will change the future of work. Without any further context, that can sound scary – after all, automation must mean some jobs are disappearing, right? What we don't talk much nearly as much is how we've navigated many paradigm shifts in the past without catastrophe striking. Workplaces have changed significantly in the last century, the last decade even, and nothing terrible has happened. In fact, workplaces are safer and happier today than ever before.
The future of work is not some jobless dystopian future where robots have taken over, as some people would have you believe. Historically, workplace changes have been positive, and that trend will likely continue. From eliminating tedious or difficult jobs, to forcing employers to carefully consider how to appeal to and serve employee needs, the future of work looks bright.
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A life-long lover of words, Kristen fell into her dream career when she discovered content marketing. As Randstad Canada's content manager, she's written about a variety of topics ranging from employment trends, to interview tips, to how to craft the perfect resume. Though she loves every moment, she's especially passionate about content that empowers women to make the most of their careers.

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Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)
A Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) increases the efficiency of an imaging department by having a computer system dedicated to the storage, retrieval, distribution and display of diagnostic images. A patient's entire file is easily accessed for diagnostic reporting and clinical review.
PACS was first implemented at Ross Memorial Hospital when the CT scanner was installed in 2001. In 2002, the first digital room was installed in the X-ray division. Ultrasound connected to PACS in 2003. In 2005, the rest of the X-ray division went completely filmless. Today, the Department is now 100% digital.
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Born to Be Wild (1938)
Directed by Joseph KaneGenres - Action | Sub-Genres - Action Thriller | Release Date - Feb 16, 1938 (USA - Unknown) | Run Time - 66 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - NR
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Absolutely no relation to the 1960s rock-n-roll tune of the same name, Born to be Wild is a fast-paced Republic programmer boasting some fairly impressive credits. Ralph Byrd, better known as moviedom's Dick Tracy, plays truck driver Steve Weston, while Ward Bond, usually seen as a bad guy in the late 1930s, costars as Weston's friend and partner Bill Purvis. Accustomed to taking on dangerous assignments, Steve and Bill don't even bat an eyelash when they're hired to haul a load of dynamite over a patch of treacherous terrain. Will they be able to deliver their cargo to a dam-demolition site without getting demolished themselves? Nightclub and radio songstress Doris Weston is cast as Steve's sweetheart Mary Stevens, who in an amusing scene literally "ties the knot" with her boyfriend. Coscripted by novelist Nathaniel West (of Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts fame), Born to be Wild has often been cited as a principal inspiration for Clouzot's 1953 classic The Wages of Fear.
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22 October 2020
The coronavirus pandemic sent shock waves through the British economy. But for the tech sector, the future might be looking brighter than most.
Steve is a partner at RSM.
Sarah leads the mergers and acquisitions team at RSM in the South East. She helps shareholders and management teams sell part or all of their business, buy another business or raise money for growth.
Tax Director
Phil is a tax director focussed on UK and international tax, with over 20 years' experience, mainly within the Big 4 and in industry.
Paul is a financial due diligence partner with a broad range of buy and sell-side experience working with private equity houses, corporates and banks. His sector focus includes media and technology, financial services and professional practices.
John is a partner in the transaction services team in London with a focus on private equity and divestiture advisory. He has deep experience of complex financial carve-outs and transactions in the technology, travel, industrials and business services sectors.
Alex is a Partner in the Transaction Services team based in the Thames Valley (Reading office) leading a team of professionals focused on buyside due diligence for corporates and private equity clients as well as vendor due diligence in support of sale transactions.
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Bart helps lead the RSM valuation team. His expertise is the valuation of private businesses, debt capital and equity capital; intangible assets such as IP, brands, and contracts; and certain derivatives. His advice is used for a variety of transactional, dispute, and financial reporting purposes.
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Insomniac announce ticket sales for Beyond Wonderland 2017
With 2017 marking the 7th installment of the Beyond Wonderland event in San Bernardino, plans are already underway to make this year's edition the most spectacular yet! Hosted by EDC masterminds Insomniac, the California festival promises to build on its already vibrant reputation with increased production for the upcoming event.
Two-day GA and VIP tickets to Insomniac's Beyond Wonderland are now on sale for the 2017 edition, which will take place on Friday, March 24 and Saturday, March 25, 2017. Headliners can begin planning their voyage into the Endless Sea of Beyond by purchasing festival passes right here.
So far, every year has seen the festival adopt a different theme, and 2017 looks to be no different with Beyond Wonderland revisiting the narrative of its modern-day Alice In Wonderland inspired character, who will dive into the mysteries of the deep-sea alongside the royal Queen and the loyal Fox.
The transformative two-day experience will feature expanded production, adding a brand new stage to the magical grounds of Wonderland. The Queen's Domain, The Outer Realm, Cheshire Cove, Upside-Down House, Boombox Art Car and the debut of The Aquarium. Newly themed costumed characters, three-dimensional art installations, and Insomniac's signature roaming art cars will also submerge Headliners in the next chapter of Beyond.
The 2016 line-up featured dance music heavyweights like Alesso, Marshmello, and Paul van Dyk, so this promises to be an unmissable event! Two-day General Admission tickets for the festival begin at $149 plus fees, while VIP passes begin at $249 plus fees, and are available here.
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Machu Picchu Tour - Peru
We're looking to hike the Inca Trail in April. Trying to decide on a tour company. We've looked at:
Llama Path, All Trek, Indiana Expeditions. They seem to offer good prices and a tour that fits our schedule.
[i]Has anyone used these groups? Or suggest another?[/i]
We have 9 days total. We want to hike up and train down.
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[i]how long does it usually take to acclimatize to the elevation?[/i]
Any advice or tips would be great!
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I was in Cusco/MP a couple of months ago and used All Trek. We had a very good experience on the two day train tour--we didn't do the hike. I would imagine that they would be just as reputable on that, tho. We went to their office in Cusco to get our tickets/instructions. They picked us up in plenty of time to get to the train station. Someone met us at the train when we arrived in Aguas Calientes and took us to our hotel. We (3 of us) had our own knowledgable tour guide in MP. I would use them again. Oh, and the people in the office were great.
Another important thing you should note
if you want to hike, you should go ahead and make your plans yesterday! We wanted to do the Inka 2 day short trail hike, but Ursula in the office told me that it is usually a 4 or 5 month wait to get a permit from the government to hike the trail.
If you have trouble with altitude, you might want to take diamox in advance. Cusco is at 12,500 feet. I have never had problems with altitude, so it didn't bother me. My friends had headaches, so they had to drink the coca leaf tea. You can also buy the leaves and chew then swallow them. Works faster, but tastes like crap. There's another herbal medicine they take called Soroche. You can get it in any pharmacy in Lima. Don't know if it works, tho.
Have a great travel adventure
We did it with Tucan.
We just arrived back in NZ this morning so our trek was recent.
We did it in 10 of October 2008, we were told to expect -20 degrees C the first night when we camped at 3900 metres but luckily it was just below 0 so it was not too bad. The next day we went through the high passes which reached 4600. Just after the highest point we had hail - 6 inches deep in places but effectively it just made the experience better - the views are stunning and worth the effort. The people we spoke to who had done the Inca trail seemed to have mixed reactions, some were saying it was a bit boring on the third day - others were saying it was good. I would recommend the Lares, we had it to ourselves (not crowded like the Inca trail can be), the views were stunning and the sense of achievement was great. The key thing to do is get used to the altitude - we had one of our group chucking up the entire 1st day due to altitude sickness. The rest of our group were generally OK but we had spent 5 days at altitude before the trek. As for gear, take or hire a walking pole, warm clothes but light (dont worry too much about changing clothes each day), for us it was not really that cold, on the Lares they will carry 7 kilos for you which makes it easier, on the inca trail they only carry 5 kilos.
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I did the 5 day/4 nights Salkantay trip, it almost killed me but it's awsome.
I'ts the longest and 2nd hardest trek, the 1st day was boiling hot as we headed towards Salkantay, the 1st camp was freakin freezing cos we were so close to the massive glacier opposite Salkantay, the sky was a blanket of stars it was unreal. 2nd day was the most exhausting and hard, we climbed at a steady pace upwards, I kept thinking please when we get around the bend I hope thats it but it went on and on until we reached the summit. Then we decended down through the Andean rainforest and the climate changes again to hot/sticky and I got eaten alive by mosi's etc. The camp/food is set up by cooks, the food is ok and you will meet loadsa cool people from all over. Fourth day you end up at Aguas Calientes in a hostel, the town at the foot of Machu Piccu, wher you get a chance to go to the hot springs. You meet at 4am to get the bus, don't bother climbing up it's a killer, save your energy to climb Wayna Piccu, the huge mountain up Machu Piccu and agin thats 40 mins of hard climbing. It sounds gruelling and it is in parts, there were really fit men that struggled at certain points and the altitude can affect anyone. I paid 170 dollars and I think thats good. Shop around and good luck.
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Good luck!!!
Thanks a lot guys for all the above info,
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Team Honda Muscle Milk team manager Dan Betley has certainly seen a lot of things in our sport. Betley first came to recognition on the scene as Jeff Stanton's mechanic for his title run in the late 80s, early 90s. After that Dan left Honda for a bit. He later returned to run the teams motor program and has been there ever since. Betley has a wealth of knowledge on how the motorcycle works on the track and this year he was promoted to team manager with Trey Canard and Justin Barcia under his watch. With only four races left in this season, we caught up to Dan at Washougal to get his take on the year and his new gig.
Racer X: Dan, how's the year been for you in terms of both supercross and motocross?
Dan Betley: As a whole, I had better expectations but we've had some wins. Trey continues to keep making improvements throughout the year and I can see that he's going to keep going upwards. And I think that's for the remaining part of this year and next year. With Justin, as a team we're coming together better and our team and bikes are improving. I see things getting better but I'd like it to happen at a faster pace but that's just me.
Just when you're ready to say that Barcia's having a better season than Canard, Trey comes on and shows that he's a bit better. Than Barcia flips the table, Canard responds and so on and so on. It's got to be tough with riders that are so equally matched keeping everything together.
They're both do feed off each other and there's a competition between both of them which is good. That brings out the best in both of them and as far as talent level, both guys have incredible talent and they're capable of doing great things. Them being consistent each weekend and bringing that talent level to the races is what we've got to get out of them as a team.
They are rivals and do want to beat each other but it's nothing like the Stanton/Bayle stuff that you were involved with back in the day, right?
Oh no, it's nothing like that. They don't hate each other at all but as racers they're competitors and they both want to win and want to beat the other guy. Other than that, they get along fine.
Dan Betley is in his first season as Team Honda Muscle Milk team manager.
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The 2009 CRF was all-new and some riders had difficulty adjusting to it but you guys learned a lot at the end of the year and the bike was much improved after that. This year with a new bike are you in the same spot or are you closer with this bike?
I think we're better off with this bike than we were in 2009 and I think we have more room for adjustment. I think the riders like this bike better and our data shows that it's better. You just have to keep marching forward with your testing. If you're not moving ahead in racing you're moving backwards. We're continually trying to make things better and this year is no different than any other year.
You yourself have a new job this year and you've always been sort of a hands-on guy and this job probably involves more deskwork than you're used to but how do you like being the team manager?
Ah yeah, a little too much for my liking but Trevor Wiler has kind of taken over my old position and he's stepped up and does a great job. I'm still trying to adjust to the position actually but I'll always be more hands on and technical than team managers in the past. I think what Erik (Kehoe) used to bring to the table as an ex-rider, I'm lacking in and I'm trying to get better at that but then again I bring more to the table on the technical side than he did. Whatever side you're looking at and whatever shortcomings you want to pick from I suppose.
Can you talk about Erik Kehoe's departure? What happened and how big of a surprise was it to you?
Well that's something between management and Erik really and not my business to get into. I was sad to see Erik go, I consider him a friend and yes I was surprised. But he's left a big footprint here for me to try and fill and I hope I can do as good of a job as he did for Honda.
Be honest Dan, when's the last time you got on a dyno?
Probably the beginning of the year.
Justin Barcia and Trey Canard are both under the wing of Betley in 2013.
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What's the biggest thing you've learned as a manager that you didn't realize would take up a lot of your time? Has anything been surprising?
Nothing surprising really, it's more dealing with upper management and the day-to-day paper shuffle than I thought. That's one aspect of the job I don't care for but I do like the challenge of trying to make things happen and bring out the best in everyone. We have a lot of depth in our team technically and that's good because when I got moved up we were able to fill that spot perfectly.
Yeah, but you still have that Shane Drew guy dragging everyone down…
(Laughs) Yeah, exactly. No Shane does the chassis stuff and he's stepped it up better than ever before the last couple of years. I can't throw him under the bus just yet, he's been great.
2014 is coming up, any plans by Honda to add a rider to the two you already have?
No, our two guys for right now are fine. Factory Connection has been able to keep the services of Eli Tomac, which is great for us. We just have to keep everyone happy, moving forward and getting podiums.
Ok Dan, there's a burning house and you can only rescue Jean-Michel Bayle or Damon Bradshaw two of Jeff Stanton's big rivals back in the day, who do you help out?
(Laughs for a long time) Is there a dog in there I can get? I'm kidding.


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Promotions have been a fixture of the American retail landscape for decades, but they've become unusually more Business As Usual since the one-two punch of The Great Recession and booming, lean, e-commerce competition. This is how you fight back for those margins of yore.
In October 2010, just as the country was starting to emerge from the Great Recession, Time cited a survey that revealed that 87% of consumers wouldn't even consider purchasing a product during the holiday season unless it was at least 20% off. Perhaps even more shockingly, the same survey found that 25% of consumers expect discounts of at least 50% during the holidays.
Consumers' "promo addiction" didn't subside as the economy recovered, either. In September 2012, Time argued that the "nonstop discount model" that had prevailed during the Recession had "bred a group of deal junkies that won't shop unless they see '70% [off]' signs or yellow clearance stickers."
By all indications, consumers are still looking for discounts wherever and whenever they can get them. When asked which factors significantly influence where they shop, Americans most frequently point to price (cited by 87%), shipping cost and speed (80%), and discount offers (71%). In fact, 50% of consumers cite discounts as an "essential factor" in every purchase decision they make.
Generally speaking, retailers have been willing—if not necessarily eager—to feed consumers' promo addiction in an effort to secure their loyalty. According to the DynamicAction Retail Index: 2016 Year-in-Review and 2017 Outlook, 44% of all retail orders were sold on promotion in 2016. When markdowns (excess inventory discounted just to get it off the shelves) are taken into account, this figure rises to a staggering 67%. Taken together, this price-slashing led to a 24% margin reduction for North American retailers.
The Big Risks of Indiscriminate Discounting
Such broad-based discounting would be ill-advised in most circumstances, but the situation becomes even direr in light of the fact that 52% of weekly and monthly promotions are served to customers who would otherwise be willing to pay full price.
While, in the short term, this promotional imprecision tends to drive sales upward, the long-term drawbacks almost inevitably cancel out the initial benefits of the practice.
Setting the Wrong Expectations
Consumers are habitual beings, and every promotion a retailer runs shapes its customers' expectations for future engagements with the brand. As customers become habituated to a retailer's standard level of promotionality, the ability of individual promotions to drive sales begins to fall prey to diminishing returns.
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As a result of setting the wrong expectations, the brand must offer progressively steeper price cuts to sustain—let alone improve—year-over-year sales. It's unsurprising, then, that many retailers have felt compelled to extend their annual Friends & Family promotion from a long weekend one year to a full week the next year, or to increase their Labor Day discounts from 15% to 25% or even 40%, or to change their holiday promotional strategy from tiered pricing to no-strings-attached offers.
Reducing Perceived Value
Getting swept up in this downward spiral of promotionality not only cuts into a retailer's profit margins—all else being equal, dropping prices by just 1% can reduce operating profits by up to 8%—but also undermines any attempts at brand differentiation.
By repeatedly slashing its prices, a retailer sends a clear message to consumers that there is nothing unique or "valuable" about its product other than its affordability. This creates substantial concerns around brand equity, which, in an increasingly competitive retail landscape, is a recipe for getting lost in the shuffle.
This has been a particularly pronounced problem for luxury retailers, whose appeal is grounded in brand identity and, to a certain extent, exclusivity. Those that opted to cater to consumers' promo addiction during and after the Recession quickly found themselves in an unsustainable position and were forced to correct course in dramatic fashion.
For instance, between early 2014 and mid-2016, shares of Michael Kors lost half their value because of retailers slashing prices on their products by as much as 80%, forcing the brand to exempt its products from all coupon-based promotions at department stores and discontinue its Friends & Family promotion at its own retail locations. Similarly, Kate Spade's profits didn't recover from the Recession until recently, when parent company Tapestry put an end to its run of flash sales.
And while these are important steps in the right direction, as BDO USA Partner Natalie Kotlyar points out:
"Today, the consumer is...brainwashed to purchase even luxury products on sale."
In other words, retailers across the board still have a lot of work to do to reduce American consumers' obsession with nonstop promos.
The first step in the process is determining the root cause of your business's uncomfortable amount of discounting.
Do you know the cause? There is any number of things that could be going on.
You might have a one-time buyer problem.
Your higher-tier customers might be fading or churning faster than usual.
Maybe you've been discounting so long that your most loyal customers are margin leeches who would jump ship for an extra 1% off, and you need to focus on acquiring new customers who are less discount sensitive?
Maybe you don't have a bead on customer affinity like you'd like to, and certain product categories sell inconsistently.
With a clear understanding of the root cause (or the leakiest leak in your leaky bucket, as I like to call it), you can effectively use your customer intelligence to quarantine the issue, launch marketing tests, and develop solutions for both the long- and short-term.
In most cases, it's not about eliminating promotions, but deploying them more selectively.
There are a few simple, straightforward steps that deliver immediate improvements. These quick wins can help you make meaningful short-term progress while simultaneously paving the way for strategic promotions in the long-term that not only don't indulge customers' promo addiction but actually raise your bottom line.
Below, we'll investigate three goals retailers cite most frequently when asked why they feel compelled to feed their customers' promo craze:
Reducing excess inventory
Competitive differentiation
Healthy, full-price growth
Each of these represents a unique challenge, but each can be overcome by aligning your marketing, merchandising, and finance teams on a trajectory charted by data-driven customer insights.
Join us for the next posts in this series as we explain exactly what to do to address these goals, plugging short-term leaky buckets and building a long-term fix to keep your brand flourishing.


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CORNISH Pirates celebrated their last home game of the season with an eight-try spree.
The visitors were blown away from the moment a five metre scrum saw Adryan Winnan power over. Fly-half Alberto Di Bernardo added the extras.
Just before the break another five metre scrum ended with a penalty try.
After the break James Moore scored twice in two minutes followed by a second penalty try before Bees' efforts were rewarded when winger Reece Spee went over and Jon Higgins landed the conversion.
Winnan went over for his second followed by centre Duncan Bell before Bees came again with a try from flanker Akapusi Qera converted by Rod Petty.
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Marlboro Food Executive Admits Tax Evasion
A Marlboro food-distribution executive faces up to five years in prison when he's sentenced in September for federal income tax evasion.
John Annetta, 61, pleaded guilty today in a Trenton courtroom. He had been senior vice-president of White Rose Foods, based in New Jersey and in New York City.
Documents and testimony filed with New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman's office indicate that during his employment between 2006 and 2011, Annetta received $1,648,085 from two individuals and failed to report any of it as taxable income. The amounts vary from $106,500 in 2006 to as much as $398,542 in 2009.
Fishman's office says that Anetta admitted to owing the government $536,530 if he had reported it.
In addition to the possible prison term, Annetta could be held responsible for as much as $250,000 in fines.
Fishman says U.S. Postal inspectors and the IRS Criminal Investigation unit led the probe that resulted in the guilty plea.


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Sprint is planning to launch a commercial Near Field Communication (NFC) service in the US this year in order to compete against the Isis NFC joint venture of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. The new NFC service would allow users of any smartphone on Sprint's Now Network to make purchases using their handsets.
Sprint's move to launch its NFC service this year will put it ahead of the Isis system which is scheduled for 2012. Sprint is also trying to differentiate its system from that of the Isis in its billing and revenue model.
Sprint's NFC service will not only be a more open solution, but it will also be taking revenue from coupon advertising instead of a percentage from each transaction. This aggressive fee structure and early bird strategy is likely aimed at garnering a large market share rather than actual initial profitability.
Additionally, customers will be billed on their credit card bills for NFC payments instead of on their cellhone bills. This should eliminate the shock factor of getting a high cellphone bill due to NFC charges and could also help increase user adoption of the new service.
We intend to make this an open solution where consumers can use their phone in a variety of physical locations," said McGinnis. "Because we're allowing other brands and other institutions to participate, they can also tell their consumers that this is available on Sprint.
Rather than take a percentage of each transaction, as Isis plans, Sprint could share in revenue from sales off coupons sent to its customers' handsets or targeted advertising, McGinnis said. Users' purchases would be billed through their regular credit-card statements."
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I don't believe that happiness just comes to us, or that we simply 'deserve to be happy'. We have to seek it.
I believe we have to make happy situations for our own selves.
Let me tell you the story of how I came to learn this.
Years ago, I had a hip reconstruction. I was in pain for a long time, unable to exercise. I had constant dark circles under my eyes, to the point where people would say 'are you ok, what's wrong with your eyes?'
I developed a friendship and mentorship at this time with my treating doctor, Dr June Canavan, a leading Sports Medicine practitioner in Australia and highly sought after overseas.
She asked me if I wanted to scrub in with her the next day on 5 knee surgeries. I was over the moon! She also prescribed me a different medication for the pain.
One thing I should mention is that I am NOT, and NEVER have been a morning person. That night, I set my alarm to the dreaded hour of 4am. I was like a small child on christmas eve and couldn't sleep with excitement. The following morning the dreaded alarm went off, but instead of whining and complaining I bound out of bed, whacked on my clothes and was out the door in a flash.
Looking in the car mirror, I noticed that my skin was brighter and my eye circles had almost gone, despite only getting about 1 hour of sleep. I was pumped with miraculous and uncharacteristic energy.
When I met Dr Canavan at the hospital, ready for the exciting day of watching 5 knee surgeries, she asked me if the medication she had prescribed had helped with the pain. I told her that it had miraculously cured my under eye circles and given me loads of energy this morning.
She laughed, smiled a big smile and told me "That is not the medication. There is no way it would have any effect like that".
"The dark circles and the bouncy energy are because you are doing something you WANT to do" she explained.
I was confused. I felt SO different. Energy I hadn't had in such a long time, ready to face the day despite mornings not being my thing.
"If you choose something exciting to do each day Tara" she said, "You will always have energy, you will never have dark under eye circles. But, you have to go and seek it,those exciting things that make you jump out of bed. Those opportunities won't just come to you."
Dr June Canavan has since passed away. Only in her 50's, she was flying to Papua New Guinea to raise money for charity walking the Kakoda Trail. Sadly, her plane never made it to the trail.
Her spirit and her messages live on for me and the numerous other people that she inspired, motivated and treated during her years as a doctor.
I often think of her, and when I feel unhappy, low on energy or I have dark circles, I hear her voice and I get my butt out there and make some happiness medicine for myself.
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A recent Guardian story on low-alcohol wine has a not-unfamiliar lead:
It was over dinner at Racine in London with some friends a few years ago that we first noticed. How had we got so smashed?
As wines have inexorably inched upward in alcohol, people everywhere have found themselves more sodden than they'd expected. A couple of years ago in the New York Times, writer Eric Asimov addressed the topic in "The Hard Stuff Now Includes Wine," noting that it is "the rare bottle from California, red or white, that doesn't reach 14 percent alcohol." A bottle with 15 percent alcohol contains 25 percent more boozy kick than a 12 percenter. High-alcohol wine has its defenders, but as Asimov points out, a 15 percent wine gets you to whoopsy-daisy a whole lot faster.
That's what happened to the diners in the Guardian, who'd been drinking a 15 percent South African red "in place of the gentler 12.5% of our usual claret. It had been like drinking on an empty stomach. It had slain us." Consumers, not shockingly, have expressed a desire to be less slain, so supermarkets in England are now selling low-alcohol wines, including an Australian Shiraz that rings in at under 10 percent. That's achieved by slashing the alcohol content in the winery. The UK's Sainsbury's chain is also marketing a low-alcohol brand that uses grapes grown in cooler sites (and picked with less sugar content, since sugar equals alcohol, of course).
All that said, winemakers have limited choices. Winemaking comes down to climate. Unless everyone starts artificially reducing alcohol content, wines may soon be bigger, stronger, and harder whether we like it or not.


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Rally Software Enables Agile Project Managers to Align Development and Portfolio Management Priorities
Rally's Agile ALM platform and leading PPM tools integrate to fuel decision-making across the enterprise
Aug 10, 2011, 01:12 ET
BOULDER, Colo. and SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Rally®, a title sponsor of this week's Agile 2011 conference, enhances its Agile ALM platform and introduces new coaching services that enable Agile project managers (http://www.rallydev.com/events/agile_webinar_series/agile_project_managers_details) to align development investments with business priorities. New integrations with leading enterprise project portfolio management (PPM) solutions help extend agility across the enterprise by connecting the project management office (PMO) with Agile development teams.
Rally continues to extend agility beyond development and into the enterprise by offering:
- A new Agile Portfolio Steering coaching service that helps the PMO apply Agile techniques to portfolio management that make organizations more responsive to fast-changing market needs.
- Move from a reliance on executing against an annual prediction and up-front plan to active steering of your investments and roadmaps in response to market feedback.
- Help ensure value calculations are as important and rich as cost estimates.
- Learn to prioritize, track and steer initiatives for programs and teams using multi-process Agile.
- Enhancements to Rally's leading demand management solution, Rally Idea Manager, help strengthen feedback loops between the PMO and development teams to transform high-value user requests into innovative products. Updates include:
- A new reputation system and leaderboard to highlight and reward users actively engaged in the user community.
- Customizable idea tabs for users and product managers to easily locate and access top-ranked ideas.
- Improved integrations link new ideas to existing Rally stories or promote and update idea statuses based on any Rally story state.
Rally provides the most comprehensive set of PPM integrations of any Agile ALM platform on the market today. Creating a single source of record for decision-making across the enterprise, Rally is announcing integrations with leading project portfolio management solutions, including:
- Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) 8 - Analyze critical data from Agile development teams and adjust investment priorities within the organization's portfolio of IT projects.
- Daptiv™ - Gain executive-level visibility across project portfolios with multi-process Agile support.
- Planisware™ 5.2 - Collaborate and improve efficiency between product managers and Agile development teams.
- CA Clarity™ PPM, built by Pervasive Software, available September 2011 - Integrates Agile development cost information with total project costing and financial planning.
- AgileEVM - Automatically imports Rally release data and iteration outcomes to create reports for managing Agile software portfolios.
Comments on the news:
"Much has been written about the benefits of Agile development, and it has been proven that Agile development teams consistently deliver higher-quality applications faster than those that follow traditional practices," Forrester Research, Inc. wrote in the report "The PMO In An Agile World: Can't We All Just Get Along?," August 3, 2011. "Organizations should consider adopting application development management tools or Agile project management tools to enable developers to work in their familiar environment while still delivering necessary data for PMO status reporting."
"Organizations need an enterprise-class solution that provides visibility to their enterprise project portfolio while enabling teams to work with the tools and methodologies that make them the most productive," said Mike Sicilia, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle's Primavera Global Business Unit. "The integration between Oracle Primavera and Rally Enterprise Edition offers this flexibility to our customers by linking Agile development projects in Rally Enterprise Edition with enterprise projects and portfolios in Oracle's Primavera P6 EPPM. This integration enables alignment and decision making across the entire portfolio, while helping to maximize workforce productivity."
"Rally continues to expand Agile practices outside of development to help create the Agile Enterprise," said Todd Olson, vice president of Products at Rally. "Now Rally's Agile ALM platform and services extend Agile to the Program Management Office to help companies steer their investment priorities in real-time and respond faster to changes in their markets."
To schedule Rally's Agile Portfolio Steering coaching service, contact your sales representative or [email protected]. Rally Idea Manager, available immediately, will be showcased this week in Rally's booth at Agile 2011. For more information, sign up for Rally's August 23rd webinar, "Calling Project Managers: Your Top 7 Agile Questions Answered," at http://www.rallydev.com/events/agile_webinar_series/ and read "Rally Idea Manager Improves Agile Feedback Loops" on the Agile Blog (http://www.rallydev.com/agileblog/2011/06/rally-idea-manager-improves-agile-feedback-loops/).
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New edition continues Packaged Facts' tradition of comprehensive coverage of the U.S. lawn & garden market, valued at over $25 billion at retail in 2011. Closely linked to housing and employment trends, the market has suffered from the recession and its lingering drag on the economy, as well as other dampening factors including high energy prices and climate concerns. Some of those challenges also represent opportunities, however. For example, "green" gardening threatens traditional L&G (gas-powered machinery, synthetic chemicals), but also offers a way forward into a more sustainable future as a new generation of gardeners embrace trends including organic gardening and food gardening. The all-important aging Boomer segment also holds promise, including in professional lawn care services.
According to the report "Lawn and Garden Products and Services in the U.S., 9th Edition" by Packaged Facts, U.S. consumers are once again buying their beloved luxury goods - including premium clothing and footwear for their young children. Learn what opportunities marketers can seize today to ensure loyal customer following in the years ahead with this in-depth report. Discover the latest birth, societal, and licensing trends that will drive sales, study the new product trends and how you can take advantage of them, craft business plans through 2015 based on our in-depth retail sales forecasts, and learn the marketing strategies of top competitors - Brown Shoe, Carter's, Disney, Hanesbrands, The Jones Group, Sun Capital/Gerber Childrenswear, and more.
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MORTON - The Morton ISD head football coach under an alleged assault investigation turned himself in Monday morning following two charges of injury to a child.
Don Rives, 59, surrendered at the Cochran County Sheriff's Office about 9 a.m. and made bond shortly after booking. He had two $5,000 bonds for the third-degree felony charges - punishable by a two to 10-year prison term and an optional fine not to exceed $10,000.
The felony charges were filed against Rives last Friday regarding the reported assaults of two victims on Dec. 3, said Gary Goff, district attorney for Cochran and Hockley counties.
The Avalanche-Journal reported Rives, who recently completed his 10th season coaching the Indians, was placed on administrative leave Dec. 6.
Morton ISD superintendent Vicki Rice said Rives will remain on administrative leave as the Texas Rangers continue their investigation and until a resolution is made.
Rives was inducted into the Texas Tech Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006 and is a former NFL player, having played six seasons with the Chicago Bears, according to the NFL Web site. - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
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AMARILLO - Potter County commissioners Monday approved a five-year, $230,000 property tax abatement for a new Amarillo manufacturing plant that will assemble internal structures for wind turbines.
Zarges Aluminum Systems, LLC, is building a $5 million, 80,000-square-foot facility in the city's CenterPort Business Park, a 440-acre industrial area adjacent to the Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport. The Amarillo Economic Development Corp., which is paying for the construction, will lease the building to Zarges for 20 years.
The city, Amarillo College and the Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District have each granted a 100 percent, 10-year property tax abatement on Zarges' equipment at the plant. Potter's abatement, however, will run five years. Potter commissioners said they awarded the company half the period it obtained from other local entities because they wanted to give future county officials more flexibility with the county budget.
Tim Dannels, Zarges' managing director, told commissioners he would have preferred a 10-year abatement, but said the reduced abatement period was acceptable.
Dannels said the company will create 100 to 150 jobs, all of which are expected to be local. He said construction is nearly complete and that Zarges hopes to begin early production by the end of the first quarter.
The AEDC earlier this year approved $4.75 million in incentives to lure Zarges and its promise of new jobs to the city. The agreement calls for the company to lease the manufacturing plant for 20 years, with its payments varying based on jobs created. After the 20-year period, the company will have the option of buying the facility for $1.
In other matters Monday, commissioners saw the return of County Judge Arthur Ware, who has been absent for more than four months due to a stroke he suffered Aug. 4. Ware is undergoing outpatient therapy. His speech is still limited to just single words and phrases. The judge has served in his position since May 1991. - Amarillo Globe-News
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VEGA - Cielo Wind Services wants to line the edge of the caprock with wind turbines, and Oldham County commissioners voted Monday to help make that happen.
Commissioners unanimously approved a reinvestment zone and tax abatement for Cielo's planned Spinning Spur Wind Ranch north and west of Vega for a 161-megawatt wind energy project. One megawatt of wind generation capacity can power about 350 average homes. However, that would require a turbine rated at one megawatt to operate at full capacity every hour of every day, which is not the case.
Monday's abatement will allow Cielo to pay up to $300,000 a year for 10 years to the county in lieu of paying property taxes on the $190 million wind farm. The payment would make up about 30 percent of the county's revenue.
The company plans to start and finish construction in 2012 but has until 2013 to complete the project. Cielo also is planning another project of similar size.
Cielo previously developed the Wildorado Wind Ranch, which Edison Mission Group purchased. It currently is developing the Golden Spread Wind Ranch north of Wildorado for Golden Spread Electric Cooperative.
Cielo intends to complete an agreement today to limit taxes with the Vega Independent School District. - Amarillo Globe-News
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LUBBOCK - X-Fab Texas and a Minnesota company are collaborating on a project that will lead to Lubbock's having the world's highest-volume solid state battery production facility, the Lubbock Economic Development Alliance said.
LEDA's board unanimously approved a $900,000 jobs and capital investment incentive package that's expected to result in 77 new jobs with annual salaries of about $3.2 million. The first phase of the X-Fab project with El Elk River-based Cymbet would mean about $12 million in capital improvement expenditures.
Incentive deals for two other companies also were announced.
B&J Welding Supply, which has offices in Amarillo, Lamesa and Snyder, is receiving a $105,000 jobs incentive deal to open its corporate headquarters here, creating 14 jobs and annual salaries of nearly $1.1 million along with capital investment of $1.5 million.
In addition, Jack in the Box franchisee Mo-Jack LLC is receiving a $50,000 job incentive deal to move its corporate headquarters here from Midland. The incentives support six new jobs locally and an expected capital investment of $11 million.
The X-Fab deal took center stage as the first phase of a project that could create as many as 150 jobs over five years.
Production of Cymbet's EnerChip battery, about the size of a computer chip, is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2011. - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
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In the pantheon of the great Chess label recordings, this deserves a major place even if it is on the Cadet jazz off-shoot, and is as 'out' a recording as Chess could possibly muster. In this respect alone it is both a parallel and companion piece to Muddy Waters late 1960s psychedelic blues classic, 'Electric Mud'. Pianist Ramsey Lewis recorded prolifically for the Cadet label, but never quite sounded like this elsewhere and part of the reason are the magisterial orchestrations of Charles Stepney who would go on to find fame with Terry Callier in the early 1970s, and then at a later stage with Earth, Wind and Fire. This splendid re-issue reproduces the iconic cover which is practically worthy the price of admission in its own right.
From the outset, this album purports to be a Beatles cover album, but in reality it is so much more, revisiting old chestnuts and imbuing them with a whole new and instantly funkier flavour, and, in addition, exploring songs that even hardened Beatles fans would not consider to be obvious candidates as covering material. Who, for example, would think of an R & B reworking of 'Everybody's got something to hide except me'? Be that as it may, the inclusion of an early version of the Moog synthesizer works wonders and transforms the songs. The earthy funk of 'Back in the USSR' features some lovely piano licks on top while a groovy interpretation of 'Black Bird' ends the album on a thrilling high. Another highlight is the soaring take on 'Julia', but in truth the whole album has to be soaked up in its entirety over repeated listening intakes.
ACE records a few years back did a sterling job of bringing together a variety of blues and R & B musicians on their tribute album to the Beatles, part of a series that includes Sam Cooke and Bob Dylan, but Ramsey Lewis, alongside Booker T and the MGs, is a prime contender for the single, most distinctive and personal rendering of the Beatles back catalogue, and this splendid re-issue reproduces the iconic cover. How about a re-issue of 'Maiden Voyage' by Lewis as a future re-release? Too many of his Cadet LPs remain unissued in the UK, but hopefully with this superlative re-issue that oversight will soon be remedied.