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2 unusual facts about Product


Anti-Product

South Dakota killed the van that summer on the way to meet Submission Hold and Please Inform the Captain This Is A Hijack for a tour of the west coast.

Product

Product (project management), a deliverable or set of deliverables that contribute to a business solution


American Honda Motor Company

In 1960, the first full year of operations, American Honda sold fewer than 2,000 motorcycles through three product lines: the Dream, Benly and Honda 50 (Super Cub).

Andy Capp's fries

The product was created in 1971 by Goodmark Foods, Inc., which licensed the name and likeness of the comic strip character Andy Capp from Creators Syndicate.

Angie's Kettle Corn

The producers, Angie and Dan Bastian of Mankato, Minnesota, originally distributed their product in 2002 outside the Metrodome during Minnesota Vikings home games.

ARGO-HYTOS

The product portfolio was expanded to hydraulic filters for the mobile and industrial hydraulics, which were produced in a former cigar factory in Kraichtal/Germany.

ASME Y14.41-2003

Both standards focus on the presentation of Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) together with the geometry of the product.

Automatism

Automatic writing, the process, or product, of writing material that does not come from the conscious thoughts of the writer.

Baraily

Recent development of interest for Rice Grain between farmers led to ample production of the product in the area.

Club Nintendo

Club Nintendo in Australia was launched on April 24, 2008 to coincide with the release of Mario Kart Wii, with the website, catalogue and product registration going live on March 11, 2009 using the same system offered by Nintendo of Europe.

Constitutional Act on the Czechoslovak Federation

The reform concerned Slovak autonomy; the concentration of governmental authority in Prague was a source of discontent within Slovakia throughout the 1960s, and the federalization of the Czechoslovak government codified in the 1968 constitutional amendments was virtually the only product of the reform movement associated with the Prague Spring to survive.

Crisis management

Mattel Inc., the toy maker, has been plagued with more than 28 product recalls and in Summer of 2007, amongst problems with exports from China, faced two product recalls in two weeks.

Cupping tester

This sort of test is essential because it allows one to test the durability of a lacquer or protective coating before the coating is applied to a product.

Demetrio Albertini

Albertini, born in Besana in Brianza, province of Monza e Brianza, emerged as a product of AC Milan's youth system, and went on to spend 14 highly successful years with the club after debuting as a 17-year-old in 1989.

Desktop alert

The client is either an opt-in software product, for example an RSS reader, or an Enterprise-Class software product in a local area network (LAN).

Discovery and development of direct thrombin inhibitors

As the name indicates the cascade is a multi-step procedure where the main product thrombin is made by activating various proenzymes (mainly serine proteases) in each step of the cascade.

Gobe Software

After leaving StyleWare and creating the product later known as ClarisWorks and AppleWorks, Bob Hearn, Scott Holdaway joined Tom Hoke, Scott Lindsey, Bruce Q. Hammond, and Carl Grice who also worked at Apple Computer's Claris division and formed Gobe Software, Inc with the notion to create a next-generation integrated office suite similar to ClarisWorks, but for the BeOS platform.

Gonzalo Herrero

A product of local giants Racing de Santander's youth system, Gonzalo made his first team debut on 13 December 2012, starting in a 3–2 home victory against Rayo Vallecano, for Copa del Rey.

Havas

SNC was a listed communications group controlled by Daniel Snyder, and their activities were mainly outsourced marketing services, such as Direct marketing, database marketing, proprietary product sampling, sponsored information display in prime locations, call centres, field sales.

Health in Bolivia

Addiction to coca paste, a cocaine by-product in the form of a cigarette called 'pitillo', was spreading rapidly among city youths.

Henry Katzenstein

The company's first product to reach the market was an 8-bit CMOS D/A converter intended for video applications.

HLA-DR10

HLA-DR10 (DR10) is a HLA-DR serotype that recognizes the DRB1*1001 gene product.

Homotopy groups of spheres

Hiroshi Toda used the composition product and Toda brackets to label many of the elements of homotopy groups.

Internet in New Zealand

The New Zealand Institute think-tank has estimated that the economic benefits of competitive broadband access could be worth as much as NZ$4.4 billion a year to New Zealand's gross domestic product.

Israel Folau

Around the same time he also signed a two-year endorsement deal with Powerade, featuring in the product's television advertising.

John Zandig

In the early 2000s (decade), Zandig appeared in a Japanese television commercial alongside the Japanese actress Ai Kato for a soft drink product named C1000 (by Takeda Food.Co), where he was knocked out by Ai's lariat.

LG Life Sciences

The company’s earlier product line consisted of pyrethroid insecticides, including Cypermethrin, Deltamethrin, and Lambdacyhalothrin.

Lipniki, Ostrołęka County

He also had to appeal to the Royal Beekeeping Society and accept the so-called "Prawo Bartne" or "Beekeeper's Laws." This was a set of laws governing the production and sale of honey, wax, and related products, which were a chief product of this region and were particularly valuable to the noble class at the time.

Marantz

The first Marantz audio product was designed and built by Saul B. Marantz in his home in Kew Gardens, New York.

Mirage Magazine

Mirage's subject matter predominantly focuses on timeless aesthetics in the fields of architectural-, automotive- and product design combined with features about forgotten utopias and influential creative personalities like Robert Evans or Peter Saville.

Mohd Syamim Alif Mohd Sobri

Mohd Syamim Alif (Born in 5 August 1993 at Kulim, Kedah), simply known as Syamim Alif, is a Malaysian footballer currently playing for Kedah FA in Malaysia Super League.Syamim Alif is a product of the Bukit Jalil Sports School youth academy.

Multidata Systems International

A software product of the company was involved in an accidental overexposure of patients in Panama in 2001 when the treatment planning software RTP/2 (vers. 2.11, 1991) reportedly contributed to 28 patients receiving excessive amounts of radiation at the Instituto Oncologico Nacional in Panama City.

Musalaha

Seeking and Pursuing Peace: the Process, the Pain, and the Product, Edited by Salim J. Munayer (Jerusalem: Yanetz Ltd., 1998)
This book is a series of articles by Messianic Jewish and Palestinian Christian leaders, such as Naim Ateek and Arnold Fruchtenbaum, as well as others, on the topic of peace and peacemaking.

Nintendo 64 accessories

This device was used for final matches at the Pokémon League Summer Training Tour '99. It was not a consumer product as only developers and magazines could purchase one from Nintendo at a cost of $1400 USD a piece. The Canadian children's game show Video & Arcade Top 10 used Wide-Boy 64 adapters so contestants could play Game Boy titles on some later episodes.

Numina Application Framework

The Numina Application Framework is a product from Numina Solutions LLC which provides single sign-on capabilities and an Application framework for building applications.

Opcon

OpCon, a job scheduler and IT automation product from Software & Management Associates

Orion Confectionery

Products produced by Orion include biscuits, cookies, crackers, pies, gum, snacks, chocolate, and candy; and its most famous product is Choco Pie.

PdfTeX

The computer program pdfTeX is an extension of Knuth's typesetting program TeX, and was originally written and developed into a publicly usable product by Hàn Thế Thành as a part of the work for his PhD thesis at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Petar Filipović

A product of the FC St. Pauli academy, Filipović played mostly in their reserve team, making his debut, and his only Bundesliga appearance so far on 14 May 2011, entering for Dennis Daube in a game vs. 1. FSV Mainz 05.

Pond's

In 1923, Queen Marie of Romania visited the United States, and she enjoyed the product so much that in 1925 she wrote to the Pond's Company requesting more supplies.

Representative example

The representative example must be provided when any financial services provider advertising a product, whether it is a credit card, loan or mortgage.

Richard Parry-Jones

While at Ford, Parry-Jones had been courted by Ferdinand Piëch to head the product development group atVolkswagen AG.

Rubicordifolin

Rubicordifolin is a natural product that is produced by Rubia cordifolia, a plant that is a member of the Rubiaceae family.

Simple public-key infrastructure

The most prominent general deployments of SPKI/SDSI are E-speak, a middleware product from HP that used SPKI/SDSI for access control of web methods, and UPnP Security, that uses an XML dialect of SPKI/SDSI for access control of web methods, delegation of rights among network participants, etc.

Social disorganization theory

Larry Gaines and Roger Miller state in their book, Criminal Justice in Action, that "...crime is largely a product of unfavorable conditions in certain communities."

Test market

700 consumer and industrial companies, Booz Allen Hamilton reported an average new product success rate (after launch) of 65 percent; although it had to be noted that only 10 percent of these were totally new products and only 20 per cent new product lines - but these two, highest risk, categories also dominated the `most successful' new product list (accounting for 60 percent).

Tom Cruise Purple

American lawyer Lisa Bloom commented that it would not be prudent for Cruise to sue over the product, and public relations writer Howard Bragman stated it was not a good idea from a legal standpoint to utilize Cruise's image in such a fashion.

Veg-O-Matic

Throughout the eighties, Frank Zappa would satirise the product, as exemplified by recordings on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 and 4; the text of the song were often modified ad-lib.

Voltage spike

While generally referred to as a voltage spike, the phenomenon in question is actually an energy spike, in that it is measured not in volts but in joules; a transient response defined by a mathematical product of voltage, current, and time.

Yellow fluorescent protein

They have reduced chloride sensitivity, faster maturation, and increased brightness (defined as the product of the extinction coefficient and quantum yield).

Zapp's

Zapp's "Tiger Tators" were the first food product licensed by Louisiana State University, and it also sold "Who Dat?” chips in honor of the New Orleans Saints.

Zeus Technology

In 2004 Zeus Technology released Zeus Traffic Manager (originally 'Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager', ZXTM), based on Zeus' earlier Zeus Load Balancer product, a software load balancer for TCP and UDP based network protocols, and based on a previous Zeus Load Balancer product.


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