A whimsical holiday celebrated on August 31st, where participants carve designs into apples and illuminate them with candles or lights, akin to Halloween pumpkins. Originating from a lore about once-in-a-century glowing "Lantern Apples" that bring happiness, Appleween embodies creativity, community, and the simple joys of life, all centered around the versatile apple. Activities include apple carving, recipe exchanges, lantern parades, and more.
Last Appleween, our entire neighborhood got together for a lanternparade, and the sight of all those glowing apple carvings was truly magical!
In sales terms, a whale is a prospect that is significantly larger than an organization’s average customer.
Whales are large and extremely difficult to close. Due to their immense size, they are highly sought-after.
A whale is typically identified at first by a whale hunter on the sales team, but often requires cross-discipline participation in order to close; this includes assistance from operations, engineering, creative, client success, and business development teams.
"Shit...the sales director chewed me out on the sales call this morning. He's totally pissed that I have nothing in my pipeline. I've been focused on this one whale for so long that I haven't had time to prospect for normal-sized deals."
Dr. Drew on Celebrity Rehab said "All of a sudden what had been just another Hollywood proposal became for him an unexpected blessing, an opportunity for growth. In drug recovery language, that's called a "God shot."
A food native to Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in which cubes of pork and/or veal are put on a short, wooden skewer, breaded, then baked and/or fried.
I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.