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No one in Dallas expected two graduating seniors to be arrested for serving marijuana laced brownies to the Lake Highlands High School teacher staff. So it comes as quite a shock to report that one of the teachers poisoned by the THC containing brownies, has recently been arrested for possession of cannabis. Seymour Smith, a Physical Education teacher at Lake Highlands High School was arrested Wednesday in the High School’s parking lot while eating what local Police described as marijuana tainted meatloaf. An attorney for Mr. Smith read a statement he had prepared while waiting in jail. The statement read in part: “Since that day I was introduced to marijuana by those two punks from that Catholic High School, I have been unable to control my appetite for comfort foods baked with marijuana. These foods–in addition to marijuana meatloaf–include Mary Jane macaroni and cheese, hydroponic potato pancakes, and tuna casserole with weed. As a consequence of the aforem...

See how you can create graphic effects on text with PHP and GD – drop shadows, arcs, fonts and colors. Problem A-tec Signs and Sraphics Inc. launched a web site with the idea to sell decals online. To achieve better customers ineterest the website had to integrate online decal builder. The company is offering also decals for vehicles which brought some specific requirements to the builder like having the decal text turning around 4 types of arcs. Goals Provide users with preview area Allow visitors to choose font and color Allow adding drop shadow and selecting drop shadow color Allow turning the text into arcs Real Time calculating Solution Because of the need for increasing customers interest we had to think about not for perfect math formulas when showing the graphs in the preview area, but for the people who will look at them. As we will reaveal below, there were few problems going around human appreceptions for something ‘perfectly smooth’ and the matchematical p...

John Grope, a veteran in e-commerce was running a profitable online venture selling women’s clothing. However, he faced fierce competition from others. It was imperative that he reduce expenses and work with razor thin margins. John had heard of cloud technology from other sources. Though he was skeptical about venturing into new technology, he had no option but to have a closer look at the cloud. The process of discovery John Grope was a firm believer in the process of discovery. Though not a technical man himself, he appreciated the nuances of technology well – at least to the extent which affected his business. He also believed that automating processes can considerably reduce manpower requirements and lead to savings. Automating online server administration John could easily grasp the advantage of cloud technology as far as automating online server administration was concerned. Obviously, there are different ways in which cloud service providers present their management ...

E-learning for external audiences, applied to the right business problem in the right way, can deliver enormous efficiency and effectiveness gains to an organization. But how do you justify the investment and ensure that learning is aligned with business goals? In this article, we’ll look at e-learning from a business manager’s perspective, describe some of the ways it can improve your bottom line and build a compelling business case reaching out to your external audiences including customers, partners, channel or distributor networks, independent agents, suppliers, franchises/franchisees, association members, contractors or volunteers. The Business Advantages of E-Learning Classroom-based (instructor-led) training is still an effective way to teach new skills, particularly those subject areas that involve changes in behavior or complex concepts. But it comes at a high cost in terms of training charges, travel and lodging expenses, and lost work time. And the transition from...

Knowing how to write a business case is a critical skill for all business people. If they do not have it, they have to quickly find someone who has it. All the best business ideas in the world will come to nothing if they cannot be put down in writing. The written business plan will help in getting the necessary approvals and resources to make the idea a reality. Writing the business case such that it attracts the interest of “sponsors” is a real challenge. Essentially, the case will: promote the business idea to others state how and why it can be successful list the expected benefits focusing on financial returns seek approval for funding. The Business Case Outline Why is a case being made for a particular project? What are the main features of the project? What are the business issues and what are the solutions? How much is the financial investment? What is the project duration? Would there be any implications in terms priorities and lost opportunities? What are some of th...

Introduction Entrepreneurs would always do some form of business planning before they start a new venture. Quite often this will result in a formal business plan. The format will probably be determined by one of the following: A business planning software package; A guidebook on business planning; Another business plan; An external consultant. Although all the above can have satisfactory results, they all have potential pitfalls. One serious pitfall (when using one of the first three methods) is the way that the entrepreneurs tackle the problem. Although all of the methods cater for the addressing of the apparent salient features and even for the interdependence between them, they can not cater for all the intricacies and multi-directional relationships that exist between various features in a business. Outsourcing the whole business planning process to a consultant also does not solve all the problems. A consultant would need to work quite interactively with the entrepreneurs to b...