What Stores In Indiana Sells The Corn Hole Bags Game

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Rich Spaulding, Gold Star Games - Owner

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As a self proclaimed "sports nut" company President Rich Spaulding has been in a long lasting love affair with sports and tailgating. As such, he has made it his life's work to bring the best tailgating games and gear to the consumer through the Gold Star Games website.

Gold Star Games provides fun tailgating games and gear for sports fans. They do this by offering the coolest games and tailgating gear combining with an easy-to-use website.

MO: Can you talk about how you started the company? Did you solicit investors or raise the capital you needed in some other way?

Rich: Gold Star Games started in my apartment with my best friend Jotham McCauley. We had the idea of selling big arcade games, pinball machines, and other expensive coin operated "old school" arcade games to home owners via a website. Arcade machines like Pac-Man and Golden Tee Golf sell for $5,000+ and decent margins. We thought an easy to use web store selling these types of machines would be a winning combination. We wrote a 34 page business plan with no idea on where to get money. We started with our parents. They were impressed with the business plan (at least they told us that) and gave us some cash to get started. Within three months, we had an office, a website, customers, and a real business.

After 18 months of grinding out sales, we ran out of money. Gold Star Games was bringing in enough money for one person to make a decent living, but not enough revenue for two people. I gave Jotham a check for his half of Gold Star Games and we parted ways.

What To Do About Paper Cut On The Eye

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Stamping A Latte: Rock On {February SFYTT}!

Hi everyone!  Happy Saturday!
 

It's the third Saturday of the month, which means I have another card to share with you using the February SFYTT.  Here is another look at this month's fabulous sketch:

 

This month, the SFYTT Sisters are sponsored by the fabulous Your Next Stamp!  Yay!  Thanks YNS and Karen!

Here is my card...I've used the ADORABLE Rock Star Fhinn!  I LOVE him...he is SO super cute!  I colored him with Copic Markers and then fussy cut him out.  I added some shimmer with a Black Spica Glitter Pen to parts of his guitar.

What Are The Five Largest Cities In Canda

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Discover India: British Columbia's Second City

Once rightfully thought of as a bedroom community of Vancouver, Surrey, in British Columbia, has steadily climbed its way into the world of cityness. It's now the 12th largest city in Canada, and the second largest in B.C., but both of those rankings are likely to be short-lived. The city is expected to keep growing and is likely to overtake Vancouver as the province's most populous city within the next 10 or 15 years, becoming one of the top ten in Canada. Considering the pace it's growing now, it could happen even sooner.

Surrey's population grew by about 47,000 people between 2001 and 2006, and by more than 75,000 people between 2006 and 2011, according to the latest census figures. Now home to about 468,000 people, it's still got a ways to go before it meets Vancouver's current mark of 603,000. But at a regional scale, Surrey is growing at a much faster rate. Surrey's population increase accounted for about 37 percent of the growth in the metro Vancouver region between 2006 and 2011. Vancouver city, by comparison, only contributed about 12 percent.

"Surrey will be the sort of second downtown."

With nearly three times the land mass of Vancouver, it's not especially surprising that Surrey would be able to see that much more growth, says Christina DeMarco, a regional planner at Metro Vancouver, the region's association of governments.

What Does Cio Stand For

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What Does 'I' in CIO Stand For? | Blogs

Yesterday I wrote a post about the need for CIOs to deliver business value, citing a Constellation Research report that listed the four personas CIOs will need to master if they hope to be successful. In Constellation's opinion, the personas are: chief infrastructure officer, chief integration officer, chief intelligence officer and chief innovation officer.

 

Of course, this kind of debate over CIO roles and responsibilities is nothing new. In 2009 I wrote about shifts in CIO responsibility, noting that attendees of a CIO event suggested their title could just as easily be chief simplicity officer, chief organizational officer or strategy execution officer.

 

In 2007 I called the CIO the most thankless job in the enterprise, sharing author and provocateur Nicholas Carr's opinion that the CIO is the least defined position in the C-suite and also "the most prone to identity crises."

 

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Season Ending Patriots Media Thoughts — Boston Sports Media Watch

Much like the Patriots season, the performance of the media covering the team this season was marked by highs and lows.

For the most part, the day-to-day coverage from the beat reporters was solid. It's a veteran group, who understand how things work down in Foxborough, and have learned to make the best of what can be a challenging situation for the media.

Beat reporters generally stay away from the hysteria that often accompanies good or bad performance or controversial transactions. I'm lumping the "NFL Reporters" (Such as Greg Bedard) in with the "beat" reporters, because both are generally down at Gillette everyday. Here are a few thumbnails on some of the reporters who covered the team this season, in no particular order:

Tom E Curran
In addition to his work on the CSNNE.com website, Curran also hosts the weekly show Quick Slants. He brings a unique sense of humor to his job, while still maintaining solid reporting and analysis. Curran is usually good for one or two headscratchers a season, where he seems to deviate from the script a little bit. This year was no exception, as a couple of times during appearances on WEEI's Big Show, he took a harder line stance against the team on a matter. Overall though, Curran is thoroughly enjoyable to both read and watch/listen to.

Ian R Rapoport
It's a testament to Rapoport's prolific output of Tweets and blogging that if you type "Rapsheet" into Google, his stuff comes up first. Engage him, he'll respond, at almost any time of day. Like Curran, humor is a big part of his coverage, but he also is a very good reporter. He started doing weekly appearances on WEEI's Dennis and Callahan this season, and while it took half the year for John Dennis to say "Rapsheet" instead of "RapReport," Rapoport did a good job defusing many of D&C's conspiracy theories and attempts at controversy. He tends to go off-track on his Twitter account from time to time, but he's an entertaining follow, and does break his share of news, especially when it comes to injury reporting.

Mike Reiss
While he created much of the blueprint for how the Patriots beat is covered in the Belichick era, Mike is still at the top of his game, bringing endless bits of information to his blog and keeping a level head in chats with so-called "fans" of the Patriots. He's expressed frustration at the level of negativity around the team, and you also get the sense he doesn't always love the stuff that ESPN sort of force-feeds into his blog. He still does things no one else is doing, such as the offensive and defensive snap counts, which are used by almost every other media outlet in town – whether they give Reiss credit or not.

What Are Antipsycotic Drugs

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Genetic Link to Child Complications from Antipsychotic Drugs

By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on January 25, 2012

A Canadian study suggests a genetic variation can increase the risk of medical complications among children receiving antipsychotic medications.

Investigators discovered the genetic variation can cause a six-fold greater risk for children to develop metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a combination of symptoms that increase the risk for cardiovascular disease.

The study showed susceptible children displayed an increased risk to develop high blood pressure and elevated fasting blood sugar levels (a precursor to diabetes).

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Could Phillies sling a deal for DFA'd INF DeWitt? - Beerleaguer

Blake DeWitt, 26, failed to live up to the Cubs' expectations and was designated for assignment last week. The Cubs are running out of time to work a trade or else be on the hook for a portion of his salary.

Beerleaguer: The Phils may say they're booked solid, but Major League-capable infield depth is still a glaring need. DeWitt posted a .265/.305/.