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Nesha Sanghavi, owner of University Girls, is a former West Virginia University Varsity cheerleader for the men’s football and basketball teams and a WVU alumni. During her time as a cheerleader, Nesha noticed a lack of fashion in the collegiate apparel market and decided to take matters into her own hands, creating University Girls Apparel. After graduating from WVU with a degree in Finance and Economics, Nesha was accepted to the top fashion school, Parsons the New School for Design in New York City. During her studies, she was invited to finish her degree while working for PUMA at their global headquarters in Germany. Nesha has done a great amount of market research to develop and produce unique women’s tops that are not currently offered in the collegiate market. While University Girls offers styles for women of all ages, their main targeting customer is an alumni woman, aged 25+. There are 2 issues in women’s collegiate merchandise that University Girls Apparel aims to fix, sizing and styling. What University Girls does differently: Sizing – Currently, the majority of women’s collegiate merchandise is only offered in junior sizing. Nesha conducted several focus groups where she found that average sized women had to buy the largest size offered, or could not fit in any sizes at all. These women were also of an alumni age with discretionary income to spend. She decided to custom make all of her size charts, allowing for average sized women to feel comfortable and confident in University Girls Apparel. In her second collection, and after another round of focus groups, Nesha added Plus Sizing into her collection. Plus sizing has been recognized as an underdeveloped market and not many companies are offering this size set. Styling – The women’s collegiate market has become saturated with basic t-shirts and fleece with screen prints, or loud and busy graphic prints. Nesha has designed tops and fleece that are in line with what is hot and on trend in the regular sportswear market. Her goal is to take styles that women love to wear in their everyday lives, and translate them to the collegiate market by focusing on the silhouette of the style, rather than the graphics. This results in styles that women can feel fashionable in, and are age appropriate, can be worn to work and out for the night. UG Apparel is currently licensed for 20 top universities across the US including Alabama, Georgia, Auburn, Tennessee and Nebraska.”

This week on The Waves of Tech 226 and after a two week break, we are here to talk tech! On the show we dive into Halt & Catch Fire, the latest show from AMC. Google provides a new view of World Cup venues and GoDaddy files a $100M IPO. Also, Apple is showing signs of new ideas and people have an online shopping abandonment issue. All this in a quick 40 minutes this week. Enjoy the show and continue to ride…the waves of tech. AMC’s newest fictional drama, Halt and Catch Fire, is a great show. Set in the early 1980s, just one year after IBM released the IBM PC, an unlikely group of three set out to reverse engineer the PC with hopes of gaining traction in the personal computing world. Fans of tech/computer history, you’ll love this show. If you’re looking for a great fictional drama, you’ll love the show. Google Street View – World Cup Venues The biggest international event is set to kick off in a few days – The World Cup. You now have the chance to experience the ins-and-outs of all 12 soccer venues. Google has provided Street View of the World Cup stadiums, include visuals in and around the streets of each stadium. This provides us all a chance to experience to magnitude of the host country, Brazil, and take a trip from the comfort of our own homes. The Abandoned E-Shopping Cart Did you know that nearly $4 trillion of merchandise and goods are left in online shopping carts? Retailers and e-commerce firms are trying to find ways of capturing some of those “lost sales” by employing a variety of strategies. Some firms are sending reminder emails within a three hour window, as that strategy results in nearly a 40% click-back rate. The relationship between the buyer and the product is complex. Perhaps a change to the checkout process, a smoother and streamlined process would help these e-commerce businesses. GoDaddy files for IPO Many of us were surprised when GoDaddy announced the web hosting firm would be filing an Initial Public Offering started at $100M. The firm has showed a history of revenue but continues to show lackluster signs in terms of profitability. This year, 2014, is showing promise as revenues are increasing and profits are being realized. GoDaddy has a very strong brand and image but that will not please all the investors…it’s about dollars and cents now. Apple In recent news, Apple shows some promise in the business and personal travel industry. WiFi in hotels is pretty scarce today, despite advancements in broadband and connectivity. Apple is slated to provide that service directly from Apple devices. Steve provides some details and outlines the course of action.

With Kate now teamed up with Jack Bauer will they be able to infiltrate Rask’s organization to obtain the assistance they need to track down Margot? Not so fast, the Prime Minister has ordered the tracking and apprehension of Jack which leads to new twists. With reluctance, Simone murders her Sister-In-Law and is struck by a bus while chasing her Niece which saw the murder take place.

Tehachapi has many events which offers something for everyone and in June is no exception. With the Farmer’s Market back in stride, numerous TVRPD activities and entertainment events, the calendar is filling up quickly. What activities will you be involved with and hope to see you there.

What would you do if you are the President of the US and your Military Drones have been highjack and to prevent a terrorist attack you must turn yourself over to them? 24 is picking up suspense and the plot begins to thicken with the murder of Navid, cover-ups and the CIA in a tough predicament. All this and more on Jack Is Back.

Beer is old, like 7,000 BC old. Maybe even more. Of all of the varieties of beer we drink, however, there are basically only two types of beer, ales and lagers. From prehistoric nomads to modern-day microbreweries, Lyle and Danny discuss beer and very little else in this episode of Flash Past.

Together We Served is an online community connecting and honoring Americans who has served in United States military. We talk with Retired Lt. Colonel Michael Christy a documentary filmmaker, and magazine writer about Together We Served website.

This week on “The Tech of Sports,” Rick talks with Jon Finer, who is the founder of KSUOwlHowl.com. The original fan site for Kennesaw State University athletics. They talk about starting a fan site, the challenges Jon faced, and the future of fan sites. Jon is a graduate of Kennesaw State University, a growing NCAA D-I athletic department and they start football in 2015, so it’s an exciting time to be a Kennesaw State University Owl. Jon does a great job, and we wish him the best of luck.

paceUnited is a nonprofit humanitarian space agency and their mission is to improve life through space exploration. They have three active projects right now: SHIM-1 (Satellite Humanitarian Imagery Mission),HOME-1 (Human Optimized Modular Environments), and ExploraLab (experiment payload carriers for the general public that are launched to the edge-of-space).

Laurin and Debbie discuss different ideas for a vacation away from home or one near your home. Do you like to go on vacation and visit family or do you like to go sightseeing? We offer you several different options and hopefully one of them may appeal to you. We are excited for summer to arrive and for the kids to be out of school. We are waiting impatiently to get out of the same dull routine that we do for the school year!!

The intensity rises as we find Jack barricaded in the Embassy attempting to upload data from Lt. Tanner’s flight key. Meanwhile, Margot convinces Navid to pilot the drones by having her daughter and Navid’s wife Simone’s finger cut off. Now that CIA Agent Kate has Jack Bauer in custody, what will happen next?

The Outer Banks (also known as OBX) is a 200-mile (320-km) long string of narrow barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina and a small portion of Virginia, beginning in the southeastern corner of Virginia Beach on the east coast of the United States. They cover most of the North Carolina coastline, separating the Currituck Sound, Albemarle Sound, and Pamlico Sound from the Atlantic Ocean. The Outer Banks is a major tourist destination and is known for its temperate climate and wide expanse of open beachfront. The Cape Hatteras National Seashore has four campgrounds where visitors may camp. The Wright brothers’ first flight in a powered, heavier-than-air vehicle took place on the Outer Banks on December 17, 1903, at Kill Devil Hills near the seafront town of Kitty Hawk. The Wright Brothers National Monument commemorates the historic flights, and First Flight Airport is a small, general-aviation airfield located there.

Tim and Richard talk to Colin Dempsey of the folk group Supersmall about promoting their first EP This Other World, developing community, favorite places to play and eight things that an indie musician hates to hear.

This week on The Waves of Tech 225, we explore the news that FedEx is changing their pricing structure, the deal between AT&T and DirecTV, online home improvement options, New York City WiFi, and Nielsen’s Twitter TV rating system. Man, that is a lot to discuss and we enjoy every second of it. Enjoy the show.

Things We Do Because of Advertising We buy things because of advertising. That’s the way it works. Of course, there hasn’t always been advertising as we know it. Since there has been, though, it’s had a huge impact on the way we do things. Things we take for granted as part of life, like engagement rings, toilet paper, deodorant, and even Santa Claus have–at least partially–advertising to thank for even being a thing.