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In the Nov/Dec issue of Frieze, writer and cultural commentator Michael Bracewell has written an article entitled The Thrill of it All, which investigates the genre of artist film from the 50's onward.

At Storey Gallery, within the context of Paul Rooney's current exhibition, Michael Bracewell re-presents the article in the form of a talk.

Venue: The Lecture Theatre, The Storey Creative Industries Centre, The Storey Institute
Date:  8 December 2009

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Top Chef Yields Innovative Ideas

By Jeri Denniston, Chief Marketing Strategist, Denner Group International

Takeaways: Innovative ideas come from unrelated areas. Chefs stretch their creative thinking to invent unusual and flavorful dishes. Consumer Trend Canvas stimulates innovative solutions.

Top Chef yields innovative ideas

As I watched a recent TV episode of Top Chef, I thought about how two chefs in particular stretched themselves pairing unusual ingredients from Asian and European cooking to make innovative and flavorful seafood dishes of lobster, clams, and oysters. It made me wonder how we might apply similar concepts to generate innovative ideas with our work with clients.

During this particular competition, the four remaining chefs had to be innovative in their use of ingredients, spices, textures, and flavors when preparing a main dish for four executive chef judges. Of the four contestants, one was eliminated, and the other three went into the final round in Mexico.

Each time the chefs competed, they were given one or more ingredients that must be the featured item in the dishes they prepare. They usually had less than an hour to decide what ingredients and spices to add, how to cook the main protein, and what sauce if any to include. This time also included plating the entrée and then presenting it to the judges.

This particular episode made me think…what can we do to help our clients think more creatively and stretch themselves in their problem-solving? Do the same planning models and tools work for this purpose or can those be adapted to help our clients dig deeper into the issues that are the heart of their challenges? Is there a tool to help them develop innovative ideas to solve critical issues?

Using Trend Canvas to Generate Innovative Ideas

We had the opportunity to test this in a planning project with a large spiritual organization. On the first day of planning, we introduced the Consumer Trend Canvas from Breaking the group into teams of four or five, we had each team use the Consumer Trend Canvas to analyze a critical issue and come up with some innovative solutions.

The beauty of the Consumer Trend Canvas is that it forces you to look outside the organization at what’s driving the changes that affect that particular issue. It also has you look at the basic consumer needs tied to that issue, and the emerging consumer expectations. After reviewing those three areas, you begin to think more creatively about how to address those changes as they apply to the issue you’re tackling. This creates interesting possibilities – innovative ideas – that might not have bubbled to the surface without using the Consumer Trend Canvas.

For this organization, one of the issues was member retention. They were no longer relevant, and consequently, they weren’t attracting younger members or retaining current, aging members. The average age of members was over 70! Without attracting new, younger members, the organization would eventually cease to exist.

We had each team chart their issue, three key challenges, and one to three innovative solutions on a flip chart. Then they shared their solutions with the entire group. This gave the group a list of innovative ideas to pursue further in order to resolve their top critical issues.

We had them prioritize the ideas down to one key idea for each issue. Then we included those ideas as action items under the strategies they came up with on the second day of the planning retreat. This resulted in a manageable list of action steps to pursue to move the organization forward towards its desired outcomes.

Doing this early in the planning session helped them to start thinking creatively as they continued through the rest of the weekend’s planning exercises. It forced them to look outside the organization at global trends that were impacting them now or could do so in the future.

The group successfully completed all the elements of a strategic plan during the two-day retreat. They have written the plan and are now in the process of executing it. In May, we’ll review their progress to see what they have accomplished in their first year of implementation.

What are you doing to be more innovative in your planning and problem resolution? Have you discovered new tools to help you think more creatively and uncover the deeper gold beneath the surface?

Getting Through the Peaks and Valleys of life

Jeri Denniston, Chief Marketing Strategist, Denner Group International

Takeaways: Peaks and Valleys are normal and natural in life and work. Create a sensible vision using all five senses and then follow it to move out of the Valleys. When in a valley, ask yourself: “What is the truth about this reality?” To stay longer at the Peak, find ways to be of greater service to others and more loving to your family and friends.

As I was re-reading Dr. Spencer Johnson’s book, Peaks and Valleys: Making Good and Bad Times Work for You, I reflected on where we are in our work and life journey. We haven’t achieved as much as I had hoped we would have by now. For example, we aren’t living our dream of two-month long sailing trips twice a year on our own boat or through chartering.

Male Gambel's QuailThen I looked at what we have achieved: we have a less stressful life. We have wonderful friends whom we see and talk with often. We are living close to nature, albeit not the nature I had imagined. But we are surrounded by bunnies, lovely Gambel’s quail, roadrunners, dogs, cattle and horses. The high mountain desert does have its seasons. The air quality is clear and the night skies are amazing. The surrounding red rock formations are stunning. We can actually see the thousands of stars which we couldn’t see in San Diego.

Could things be better? Sure! But that’s the future we can still create for ourselves. Johnson’s book reminded me that life is full of Peaks and Valleys. It’s how we manage our journey through the Valleys that makes it possible to enjoy more time on the Peaks.

One of the gems I was reminded of is that we create our own reality. So if we only focus on the negatives while we’re in the Valleys, we stay there longer. I’m reminded of another book, “Before You Think Another Thought”, by Dr. Bruce I. Doyle, III. In it he says that our thoughts are energy. Every thought we have is sent out into the universe and becomes a reality for us. So if we only think negative thoughts about how difficult or unfair life is or how unhappy we are with our current job or life circumstances, then we continue to create that reality. If, on the other hand, we stop to think “what is the lesson to be learned here” or “how might this reality be different,” we are taking stock of our situation and facing the truth of that reality.

That opens up the mind for more creative thinking about how we might change our circumstances to create a better reality. We start “doing” what we need to do to create that better reality, and before we know it, we are on a Peak again. Until we take responsibility for our current situation, and face the truth of how we got there, we aren’t ready to think differently in order to DO the work that will create the change.

Tget Peaks and Valleys on Amazonhese are powerful concepts to keep in mind. Here are some additional tips I garnered from the Peaks and Valleys book:

  • Create and follow your Sensible Vision using all 5 senses. This creates the Peaks in your life (you need to be able to see, hear, feel, taste and smell this vision – feel it in your bones)
  • Manage your way through Valleys to stay longer on the Peaks
  • Make reality your friend. Face your truths and fears.
  • When you’re in a Valley, ask yourself, “What is the truth in this?”
  • When in a Valley, imagine what you might see when you’re on a Peak (what might be possible and different when you reach the Peak?)
  • You need to feel and live the Peaks and Valleys. These are normal parts of everyday life and work
  • Your Valleys are opportunities to grow and learn

And here’s the final nugget of truth:
“You get out of a Valley sooner when you manage to get outside yourself: at work, by being of greater service, and in life, by being more loving.”

I plan to re-read this book at least once a year from now on, especially when I find myself going through or stuck in a Valley. It’s a good reminder of what I need to do to get through that Valley to the Peak that lies ahead.

Keys to improve your strategic thinking

By Jeri Denniston, Chief Marketing Strategist, Denner Group International  April 2014

Takeaways: Improve your strategic thinking to stay on top of your game. Surround yourself with people who think differently in order to broaden your perspective.

It’s easy to get lost in routine and forget about constantly improving your game. One of the ways to do this is to constantly improve your thinking. According to Shaun Rein, author of Three Keys to Improving Your Strategic Thinking, published on, the easy thing is to only read and listen to people who think like you. But by doing that, you surround yourself with a group of “yes” people and you don’t gain the necessary insights from contrary thinkers.

In his article, Rein lists three keys to improve your strategic thinking. These are:
1)    Constantly question your own opinions. Don’t always assume your opinion is right. Listen to others and be open to consider another viewpoint. Read the opinions of those who criticize your viewpoint to see if what they say has merit. You may be surprised and find a nugget of truth that might change your opinion.

2)    Don’t just read articles by these contrarians; surround yourself with people who think differently. Whether you are a leader in a large organization, the head honcho, or an entrepreneur, it’s important to gather trusted advisors and staff who offer differing opinions about world views, marketplace opportunities, and business prospects. Choose people from seemingly disparate fields for periodic discussions around a specific theme or focus, such as the state of China’s economy.

3)    Finally, he says, it’s important to recharge your brain and your body regularly. We know the importance of taking time every day to exercise, as well as take extended vacations away from the office, computers, and your smart phone. Rein suggests taking a trip somewhere where the people are different – a different culture and language. Even doing simple things like volunteering weekly at a soup kitchen will force you to re-think your life’s priorities and recharge your brain.

Regardless of our level in an organization, as leaders it’s important that we challenge our own thinking and status quo. Otherwise, we end up in a rut and we limit our own potential.

Why is Business Planning So Difficult?

By Eric A Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International 2-20-2-13

Takeaways: Business planning requires strategic thinking and analytical thinking skills. It’s important to understand the difference between the two. Best practices include having clarity about where your business is going, keeping the planning process simple, and involving your staff in the planning.

Nearly all small businesses struggle greatly with most everything having tPlanning mazeo do with planning for their business. The most obvious obstacles are the basic resources of a small business: time and money. I have no doubt that the two most overlooked obstacles to business planning are the lack of management commitment to planning and the lack of skills in planning. Planning skills are not a subject generally taught in school at any level but perhaps graduate degrees and beyond which mystifies me.

So much really good material has been produced about best practices in business planning but it’s not emphasized enough. If you, dear reader, agree with me, read on. If not, you may be among the few who are well-practiced in the disciplines, skills and arts of business planning.

Discipline and Concentration Required

Most small business owners, naturally, wear many hats. This has the effect of preventing one from devoting the discipline and concentration to actually doing the planning, and much more importantly, to establishing the processes and structures to support the execution of those plans. So, what can business owners and managers do to effectively and efficiently introduce profitable planning activities to their organization?

First, I suggest you recognize that planning skills are learned mostly through practice.  However, in addition to courses at your local colleges, a great resource is a local or online consultant that can also more easily tailor some instruction to your needs.

Second, also recognize there is a learning curve that might delay your progress in planning. This you can overcome by hiring a consultant to facilitate some planning sessions for you. The big advantage here is that you can learn along the way. A good consultant trains and coaches you through the planning process so you and your staff can build the skills your organization needs.

Third, become serious about having discipline in your planning programs. Keep it simple at first, but plan on building your programs to an optimal level for your organization. When you set schedules for planning meetings, stick to them. If you don’t, you are telegraphing to your staff that planning really is not that important to you as the owner or manager. And insist on attendance at the meetings. Make it part of staff evaluations to participate in planning meetings.

Best practices to implement immediately

> Gain clarity on the distinction between strategic planning and operational planning. Strategic planning is creating a Vision and a Mission, defining the values that guide the organization’s behavior, and determining what positioning the business wants to have in the eyes of the customer, not in your eyes. Strategic planning is also about laying the general route of the journey the business is on to reach its vision, defining the key success measures you will use to know you are still on track. It is about having clarity on where the business is today and what its strength and weaknesses are. It is about defining the core strategies you will follow and the key action items to implement to achieve the vision. And finally, it is about constantly scanning the external future environment your business operates in to better address the changes you’ll have to make in the future on your way to your vision.

By contrast, operational planning is concerned with the tactical issues of running a business. Budgets, meeting schedules, action plans to support the strategies, setting policies, defining roles and tasks, outlining market segments and pricing, hiring, firing, advertising, etc., all are part of your operating or business plan.

Recognize then, that you should have two separate plans – a strategic plan and a business or operating plan. And develop them in separate sessions, with the strategic plan first. Also, more importantly, recognize that each planning process actually involves thinking very differently. This is a distinction that schools should teach.

Most of our schooling is in how to think analytically or tactically, therefore, we are under-prepared to think strategically or systemically. This means we need to make sure we build up our strategic thinking skills. Much has been written about this so you can search the internet for books, articles and courses on this. But, you can also learn while you do the work, which often is the most productive way to do it. Consulting firms like ours help you do just that.

> Another best practice is to keep it simple. Just the idea of a planning session will make most business owner and managers roll their eyes as they think of how of their employee’s time is tied up in doing this. A carefully laid out plan that accounts for how your business and employees must operate is an important factor in efficient planning. The skills a consultant brings can help enormously. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. I have yet to find an entrepreneur who did it all himself or herself. They found good help along the way so don’t be bashful about asking for help.

> A third best practice in keeping it simple is to use a framework tool that I know works in all sizes of organizations. Called the EABC model for planning developed by the Haines Centre for Strategic Management, this model has you answer five questions in this specific order:

  1. What are your desired outcomes –  your future desired state?
  2. How will you know you are on track to reach them?
  3. What is your current state, which can easily be achieved with a SWOT analysis?
  4. What do you need to do to bridge the gap from where you are today to your future desired state? and
  5. What will be occurring in the future that will affect your achieving your future desired state?

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Best practices in planning also include an understanding of the time required to draft a plan. And don’t forget, the time to establish the structures and processes to make sure the plan(s) are implemented or executed. Too often, once a plan is drafted, nothing happens because this crucial step is overlooked or ignored. We actually recommend a brief,initial “Plan to Plan” session to set the stage for success before you implement. This allows you to identify the personnel, financial and time resources required to truly achieve a successful planning program.

If you are conducting your first strategic planning process, I recommend two full days in an environment that eliminates distractions. A retreat is a good idea, but what is important is not being distracted. A good, experienced facilitator can make this happen in one day but what will be missing is some training for the staff on the planning and implementing processes and structures required.

Also, be inclusive with your staff. Let them know what is going on and be prepared to involve and engage them in the planning process. Again, an experienced facilitator can be very valuable in coaching you on how to engage staff, keep them informed, and on what to engage them in.

To wrap up, let’s remind ourselves of some key practices in planning.

  • Set a schedule and stick to it.
  • Be inclusive and keep people informed.
  • Build planning skills any way you can.
  • Understand the distinction between strategic planning and operational planning and do them separately using the appropriate way of thinking.
  • Establish the structures and processes to ensure your plans are executed and measured efficiently.

To speed up or simply make the planning happen, don’t be bashful in asking for help. A few hundred or thousand dollars for a consultant’s help could mean 10 to 100 times return on your investment, and likely more engaged and productive employees in your organization.

What is Strategic Management?

By Eric A Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International 2-20-2013

Takeaways: Strategic management encompasses planning, culture change, operational flexibility, stakeholder involvement, and periodic future environmental scans. Planning and change are two key roles of every leader.

Strategic Management encompasses several areas in managing and leading an organization. Planning certainly is part of the process. Without a well developed strategic plan to act as a road map of where you’re headed, you’re just shooting in the dark hoping one of the shots will hit the mark. And the plan must start with a future vision, mission and values. These will provide a compass for identifying the future direction of the organization, the organizational culture you want to create, and an understanding by Antique Compass - a key to strategic managementyour employees, stakeholders and customers of what you do and why you’re in business.

So you’ve created a 3-year or 5-year strategic plan. Are you done until the time rolls around to dust it off and update it three years from now? Hardly! The plan is a living document. Every year you update the plan and add another year. That way you are continuously working on your strategic plan while you work on the day-to-day activities that need to get done to move the business forward.

Your 2010- 2013 plan you create this year becomes your 2011-2014 next year and so on. Then you have every division and department in the organization create 1-year business plans that support the 3-year strategic plan. We call this the Parallel Involvement Process, for which there are many tools. Each division’s goals and objectives are the same ones identified in the strategic plan, but the actions and initiatives they are accountable for will be different from department to department. That way you ensure that each department and everyone within the department is doing their part to ensure the strategic plan is implemented.

But strategic management doesn’t stop there. It also includes attention to your people. After all, it’s the people in the organization who make it work. Involving them in the planning and implementation is critical to ensuring you have buy-in and stay-in for your planning process. Each person’s performance review should be tied directly to how he or she contributes to achieving the objectives and values identified in the strategic plan. This also helps you create the kind of culture you want in the organization.

Ultimately, strategic management is about change…creating and leading organization-wide change. This needs to be accomplished in a successful manner so everyone understands how they contribute to implementing the change. As a leader, two of your key responsibilities are planning and change. Understanding how to lead and manage the change process, and what structures and processes to put in place to ensure a successful implementation, are all part of strategic management.

Millenials Play by Different Rules

By Eric A Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International  6-26-2012

Takeaways: Millenials could be the “next greatest” generation like the Baby Boomers. Generational issues exist around trust, independence, competition, rebellion, individualism, collaboration, a sense of community and “optimistic, team minded players.

I have written before about Systems, or Strategic, Thinking as a management tool that has gained substantial ground over the past 20 years or so throughout all kinds of organizations. Led by companies like General Electric and Toyota, applied by non-profits, government organizations and the military, the discipline of Systems Thinking is helping to improve performance globally. I have also illustrated the impressive positive effects the skilled application of Systems Thinking has on the long-term performance of those organizations that incorporate it into their culture in order to align daily actions with strategic initiatives.

Among the processes that have proven to be valuable in sustaining that alignment between daily actions and strategic initiatives is that of continuously scanning our external environment. Many organizations perform that scanning activity within the framework of a SWOT analysis, delving into an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. This SWOT exercise is valuable because it provides important insight into key aspects of an organization that support the development of strategic objectives and actions.

I have found, however, that a SWOT analysis is lacking in one key respect:  it tends to keep us rooted in thinking about today and the trends that have recently affected our organization. Using a SWOT analysis means you are scanning past results that have been affected by trends of the past and, therefore, cannot influence any future outcomes. If we are to be thinking strategically and with a more systemic discipline, we need to root our thinking in the future, on issues whose outcomes we can influence because we can plan for them.

More specifically, it is important to focus on the horizon window we are working on for our strategic objectives and our overall strategic plan, such as the typical three or five-year plan. Through a mentor of mine, Stephen Haines, I have learned some valuable techniques to maintain a forward-thinking process to scan the environment using a “future-rooted” framework.

One element of that framework is to scan future trends in the context of sociodemographic issues. These issues can have a profound influence on how we manage employees in our organizations. How we hire and train them, how we guide their growth, and how we coach and guide our managers to read and adapt to developing sociodemographic trends that are cultural in nature. Scanning these trends that in the future will be affecting our organization should take into account the traditional issues of age groups in our workplace, education levels and career trends, skill levels, compensation trends, hiring costs, etc. But there are other issues, perhaps a bit more subtle, but nonetheless just as valuable.

Generational Issues Abound

I just mentioned cultural trends because I recently read a transcript of a commencement address delivered by noted demographer, Neil Howe, at the University of Mary Washington on May 12, 2012. In his address he makes a point of outlining with great clarity how each generation tends to impose a sense of “Because this worked for me in my generation, it will work for you in yours.”

He points out how various recent generations have both adopted and rejected some of their parents’ attitudes and preferences and gives his take on why, today in particular, it is important to recognize that there is a good chance that today’s college grads could very well be the next “greatest generation” like the one that begat we Baby Boomers. Mr. Howe talks clearly about generational issues of trust, independence, competition, rebellion, individualism, collaboration, a sense of community and “optimistic, team minded players”.

Think about this for a minute. Today’s managers in every organization are challenged by young employees whose sense of interaction and communication is driven by current technological and social trends.  More often than not the resulting behaviors between managers and employees are in conflict without any guidance for resolution to improve overall performance. This conflict is rooted in what Mr. Howe is talking about – older generations being more than a little unaccepting that younger generations have a brain, too. They are likely better educated than the older generation in the sense that they have been exposed to more and different things simply because of the internet and improved global communications.

We Baby Boomers and Gen-X’ers should feel compelled to make some changes in ourselves to leverage the talents of the younger generation, rather than continue this generational habit of attempting to impose our approaches and mindsets on theirs. You might consider how this applies to serving your clients, too!

I recommend everyone read Mr. Howe’s commencement address, From Millenials to Baby Boomers, and see what we can do to change ourselves to help create that next “greatest generation”. And help them learn Systems Thinking too, of course.

You can read Mr. Howe’s commencement address at this link, which in turn came to me from John Mauldin, a respected investment counselor, whose newsletter convinces me that he, too, is a skilled systems thinker. I also encourage you to share this address with every college age person you know.

Systems Thinking Best Practices in Tablet Initiative

By Eric A Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International  4-8-2012

Part B – THINK

As we move into the THINKING stage of this exercise, let’s consider what the thought styles should be. How you think is really important in achieving results. We are engaged in a project that is intended to have a lasting effect on the enterprise and thus must include strategic, or systems, thinking. Systems Thinking best practices show us the importance of defining the content of the project, the thinking processes such as facilitated meetings, and the structures, such as clear rules for meetings and engaging cross-functional groups in meetings to have more timely information exchanges.

This should include working hard on defining the various desired outcomes, for each stakeholder (yes, each is asking “What is in it for me?”). We should carefully consider who those stakeholders are: warehouse managers and floor staff, our IT department, our IT warehouse planning outcomesvendors, our prospective tablet vendors, our sales and purchasing departments, our supply chain managers, our asset management office, our strategic management office, our marketing firm, our process specialists, our HR department, our attorneys and our PR firm. This list is offered as an example and will vary depending on your firm and your products, so we’ll flesh this out in more detail later.

Unintended consequences can occur

Let’s dive in to what can happen if we don’t include some of these stakeholders in the process to recognize the value of this level of diligence. Waste Management is cited in Information Week as having deployed a pilot program of tablets to 20 of its trucks. The day before the pilot program went live, their telecom carrier sent one of those now normal automatic updates to the mobile devices modifying the operating system.  The update caused “the on-board (I presume on-board the trucks) charging system to no longer work with the tablets, so they would run out of power on the road”.

Can you now see the unintended consequence of having hundreds or thousands of tablets working incorrectly due to an automatic update from any of the vendors involved in the tablet? You may have in-house custom apps, third party apps, the OS vendor, the hardware/firmware vendor and accessory vendors (charging systems!) that need to be considered and included in planning and executing the project.

Ignoring them can be detrimental to your tablet initiative project.


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What You Need To Know When Trying To Lose Weight.

By Dr Pj Prakash

Many will attest to the fact that weight loss can be difficult, and requires strong determination and hard work. Maximize your efforts in weight loss with a combination of advice from this article. All of these are not going to work for you, it is your responsibility to find the tips that are most effective.

Try self hypnosis as a wieght loss method alone or with other techniques. Although it sounds unbelievable, hypnosis can make lifestyle changes easier.

Instead of striving to reach a particular weight, make it your goal to fit into a particular size of clothing. Completely ignore the scale. Weights can be very different between two people. Everyone has a different ideal weight, so trying for one weight can be sily sometimes. Focus on what clothing size you want to be instead.

Stop drinking alcohol to lose weight quickly. A drink here and there is okay, but too much can make it especially difficult to drop the pounds. The majority of alcoholic drinks contain lots of calories. If you are drinking, try to find a low-calorie beverage.

After breakfast, stick to drinking water. Water is the healthiest thing to drink. It doesn't contain calories, fat, sugar or anything else you're trying to get rid of through your diet and exercise plan. Therefore, once you have eaten your breakfast, you should only drink water because this can help you lose weight.

If you want your weight loss plan to be successful, it must include time for breakfast. A lot of people have the mistaken idea that skipping breakfast will help them to shed pounds faster, simply because they will be eating less. Actually, you will probably eat more snacks during the day, resulting in a higher calorie total.

Muscle will burn fat approximately four times faster than fat will. If you have a muscular body, you can lose more weight while doing less work. All it takes is two or three days out of a week of strength training to build your muscles up.

Avoid using one word--diet. It is better to describe it as eating healthy or watching your caloric intake. If you use the word "diet", it can feel like being restricted from the food that you love.

Eliminate stress from your daily life. When you feel stressed, there is a lot of temptation to eat foods that are not healthy. Try focusing on long-term goals and staying on track so that you can live healthier and stress-free.

Consume more fruits in order to reach your weight-loss target. Eat fruits that are low in calories like oranges, apples and bananas, but refrain from eating fruits with a high caloric content like grapes.

Try to buy a fun, quality home gym. There are a lot of reasons people avoid the gym, including the ongoing expense and a concern about exercising in the presence of others. Home equipment is great because it can be used in private and requires a one-time expense only.

One way to drop extra weight is to chew or suck on ice chips when you feel like snacking or binging on junk food. If you are fighting the temptation to eat, try chewing on some ice. Just putting the ice in your mouth might be enough to dispel the urge.

Now you can see there are a lot of different options. If a weight loss program seems promising, you must do proper research on it. It is important to only use the advice from this article that you feel will work for you! This way, you know that it truly works well for you.

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Easy Tips To Lose Weight And Keep It Off

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It is not uncommon to have problems attempting to lose weight. With the tips below, you can identify which strategies are best for your situation, so you can start toward your goal.

If you enjoy dips and salad dressing with your veggies, consider a healthier alternative such as low-fat dressings and hummus instead of creamy, fat-laden dips. This can save you a lot of calories and fat.

Plan your meals ahead of time so that you can figure out your budget and keep eating healthy. You'll also be able to more easily make meals, because you can prepare the meal you have planned ahead of time.

Lasting weight loss begins in the mind, and then the body follows. To be successful at weight loss, you must have strong willpower and motivation. These will see you through your journey to becoming a thinner, healthier you!

To improve your eating habits, try using a small salad plate instead of a full-sized dinner plate. People are used to a meal that fills up their plate. This will trick you into thinking you're eating a complete meal. This, in turn, will help you eat much less.

Leftovers can aid you in losing weight. While cooking a healthy meal, make a bit more to have for lunch tomorrow. A chicken salad can become a yummy pita sandwich. It is not only healthier than a fast food lunch, it saves you time and money, too!

Don't forget to drink plenty of water throughout the day. You may just be thirsty if you are feeling hunger.

Angel food cake is a great dessert option if you must have something sweet because it is very light and lower in calories than other choices. If you crave sweet, then only sweet will do. Angel food cake is an example of a dessert that is sweet, but airy and light. This kind of cake is lower in calories than other cakes.

Exercise is not negotiable when you are trying to lose weight. Isolate a period of time during the day for exercising. Block out time for it in your calendar, so you do not make new plans that get in the way of your exercise.

Give yourself a little reward! If you have been making significant progress with your diet, there is nothing wrong with rewarding yourself with a modest treat. These rewards are not to be labeled as diet slip-ups. It simply means you are rewarding yourself for a job well done. Nonetheless, you should not look to be rewarded constantly. Your diet is not a punishment, it is a new, healthier lifestyle.

Losing weight can happen for you too; all you need is the right mindset! This article should have you on the right track to shed those excess pounds. Put you mind to it, and you will succeed!

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Friday, 30 April 2010

Day 1 (29-04-2010) - Success

Wrote a job application for a job as an editor in Austria and sended it off at 10:30 PM. Strike!

Did some strength drills.
(Haven't mastered the art of tucking my tummy in and keep breathing at the same time. Continue to work on it.)

Ate only healthy stuff. No cereals. Yeah.

Spend only 1,50 € for some photographic prints I ordered for two friends. (Part of their yearlong birthday present!)

Ordered my new MacBook Pro 13", 500 GB, 4 GB RAM. It should arrive around May 12th. Wahoo.

Finished Mireille Guilianos "Women, Work and the Art of Savoir Faire". Great book, Girls. Read it.

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Stuart Stevens is an experimental composer from Birmingham, England. Absorbing influences ranging from contemporary microtonality to acoustic physics, his work was described by Bill Lloyd, Director of Artist Development at Aldeburgh Music, as: “More meaningful than Stockhausen, more creative than Scrapheap Challenge, …Top Gear for the avant-garde musician and the curious passer-by.

Still early in his career, Stuart has quickly established an approach to microtonal harmony which is surprising even the most seasoned listeners and was described by conductor Dan Watson as “…extraordinarily beautiful and like nothing we have heard before.” He is something of a Harry Partch, in that he has designed and built several microtonal instruments to facilitate his work, including a giant chimes instrument tuned to 31-tone equal temperament commissioned by Aldeburgh Music.

In other contexts, microtonal tuning and spectral effects are very much at the serious front-edge of new music. In Stuart’s hands it is also playful and fun. This composer is a self-confessed democrat: he wants to take his listeners with him and we are happy to go.

Stuart’s works have been performed by a range of soloists and ensembles, including: Thumb; BCMG (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group); Chroma; Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra; Notorious Choir; Thallein Ensemble; Decibel; and soprano Phillippa Cairns, with performances in Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire Recital Hall, Aldeburgh Music (Snape Maltings), St. Mary-le-Tower Ipswich, and New Art Gallery Walsall. Recent commissions include: The Greatest (for the inauguration of the Mayor of Ipswich, UK); How Do I Love Thee? (for soprano Phillippa Cairns); Genus1 (commissioned along with installation instrument “thirty-one” by Aldeburgh Music, Suffolk, UK).

He has an unusual background for a composer. His first work (a forty minute requiem for orchestra, choir and rock band) was completed and premiered at the age of 45 – with no formal music education. Leaving behind his radiography and amateur band past, he went on to graduate MMus with distinction from Birmingham Conservatoire, studying composition under Michael Wolters and Joe Cutler. Just five years on from his compositional debut, he is now mid-way through his PhD research at the same institution, studying composition under Howard Skempton. His research is centred on creating works which explore the alternative functional harmony of microtonal scales.

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The Cobbler Has No Shoe's

All right here it is, I have not yet knitted me a pair of sock and I think there is 20 pairs of them out there walking around that I have made for others. Also, I can't tell you how many of them finger less mitt's that I have made. This pair I plan on keeping for me and only me if they fit. I have already finished the leg, done the heel flap, turned the heel and started working on the gusset.  I would of taken a picture of it for you but today I am just feeling to dam lazy to even think about it. As soon as I am done here typing this all out I am going to put some sit com rerun on and sit here on my bed and knit the hell out of the rest of this sock and get one finished so I can start on the other and get that done so I can wear these suckers around town and show them off. All is well otherwise thanks!


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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Twilight Block swap status

I belong to a Yahoo group called blockswappers. I have been very pleased with this group and am currently in 4 more swaps with them.
This swap is to use only black/gray/white and maybe a red. Thus the name Twilight. The block size is 12" finished 12 1 /2" unfinished.
I am sewing away today as Hubby is with his famous brother at a senior bowling meet.

GARI said...

4 swaps. You must be really busy but then you wind up with lots of tops to quilt. LOL

Wendy said...

I love your block. I am currently working on a black and white quilt. Did not think about adding gray to the mix.


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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Common Scams that you may encounter.

For some, working at home is a last chance. They may be easily taken advantage of by smooth talking con artists who will do anything to make a buck. Here are some of the types of scams that you must watch out for when trying to find something else to succeed at.

Nigerian Check Cashing Scam

The Nigerian check cashing scam usually involves transferring funds internationally. The scam artist attempts to reassure the victim by offering apparently legal contracts, forged or false documents bearing company letterhead, false letters of credit, payment schedules and bank drafts.

Once the scammer has obtained the victim's trust, checks, money orders or wire deposits are sent to the victim for "processing." The victim is asked to cash the check or money order (wire deposits will send the money directly to the victim's account) and send a percentage of the funds back to its origination. The need for the "middle man" is often explained as being a way around international fees or taxes. Once the funds are sent back to the scammers (usually the victim is told to keep a percentage for themselves, as payment for their services), the victim's bank or financial institution learns that the check/money order/wire transfer was fraudulent. The funds are then subtracted from the victim's account and he or she is made liable for the lost money.

Reshipping scams often begin with an employment offer, usually via e-mail. As with the Nigerian scam, these "employers" offer bogus contracts and other documentation to make them appear legitimate. Once the victim's trust has been obtained, packages are shipped to the victim's residence with instructions to reship the packages to another address. Once the package has been reshipped, the victim is "guilty" of receiving and shipping stolen property. This often leads to a visit from police, as the return address or shipping receipts lead back to the victim.

Work-at-Home Job Lists

These scams claim to sell lists of companies that are hiring for work-at-home positions. These lists are rarely updated and often yield a list of worthless leads.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Google Quality Rater Leads and Information

Google is hiring temporary staff, who can work from home, to help Google improve the quality of Web search results and the relevance of Google Ads.

These Quality Raters can be geographically located anywhere in the US or Canada but must have at least a bachelor's degree and a high-speed Internet connection to telecommute. Familiarity in the culture of the language you will be working in is also important to make sure that the results are relevant.

Their primary job responsibility will be to rate the quality of web search results in different languages supplementing the existing Googlebot algorithms.

Google Telecommuting Job Openings are always being updated with the languages required. English, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Chinese are some of the languages being hired for today.

The pay is roughly $15 per hour, the work is easy, hours are flexible (normally 10-20 per week), and it can be interesting. If you are only working 3 or 4 days a week now then this would be a perfect supplement to your regular job. It would be a great first job as well.

You will be employed by WorkforceLogic, a temporary staffing firm but report directly to Google staff. Why not work for one of the best and largest companies in the world? Visit telecommuting jobs here link and look at what departments are hiring for this type of job as well as many other jobs on Google that are more typical office jobs.

Friday, November 28, 2008

Ticket Puller Information

Is Ticket Puller legitimate?

I personally haven't earned any money with them but I do have friends who earn a couple of hundred a year from the company.

The hours are very limited as the job entails buying tickets for concerts or sporting events when they go on sale.

The company gets orders for tickets, notifies it's members that there will be a 'pull', gets those selected to log in 10 minutes before tickets go on sale, and buy the tickets resulting in a commission for you.

You are not required to use your own credit card information or money to buy the tickets. All the financials are handled by Ticket Puller and they use you to allow them to buy more tickets then they otherwise would be able to. It is not scalping as you are not reselling the tickets.

Visit Ticket Puller for information on how to apply.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Active Job Lead for AQA

Just in time for Thanksgiving is an active job lead. This is well respected company in the UK and Ireland offering human-powered search along the lines of , , and .

The company is AQA or Any Question Answered. It is a service that has its users text in their question and you the soon to be employee responding. It appears hours are flexible and you are paid for the amount of work you do. A great way to do something with your spare time at work or at home for a few extra dollars before the Holiday's.

The website is AQA63336 and they are advertising job postings in Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and USA. Visit the site and click on vacancies for the instructions on how to apply.

From personal experience they are an easy company to work for and they do value quality. If you provide quality answers they will retain you.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Pinecone Reasearch

I'm going to be posting information on some of the better known survey companies on the web that do pay and do not require you to pay to join.

Today's is Pinecone Research.

They are an exclusive survey company that accepts users from the USA, UK, and Canada. They do not accept new members at all times and require you find a banner ad to click on. Fortunately there are many sites that post the locations of these ads to make it easier for you to find them. My favorite site, and the one I used to join Pinecone, is Annika's with very clear links to the live ads for Pinecone Reasearch Invitations.

Pinecone sends out many surveys a month with completed and qualifying surveys paying $5+. They also will send out products for users to test and compensate quite well for your time. Payments are by check, paypal, or voucher depending on your location.

Pinecone Research Invites for Canada , the US , and the UK are hard to come by. If you find one then make sure you join. This is definitely something to do to add a little extra money a month in your spare time at home or at work.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Are there any legit envelope stuffing jobs?

Possible legitimate envelope opportunities could be some of the following.

You can stuff envelopes as an employee for your local print shop. These would not pay better than minimum wage and are not work at home opportunities.

Or you could start your own Direct Mail business sending newsletters, trade information, or anything else people are willing to pay for. This is envelope stuffing at its finest, completely legal, and probable a supplement to an existing business you are running..

As will be the them of this blog, you will not make easy money doing this (you might even lose some).

If envelope stuffing were that easy and if it were really legitimate, everybody would be doing it.

The ads you see in the newspaper or on light posts are not legitimate ways to earn money, they are schemes.

No business in their right mind would pay you to stuff envelopes at home. It costs less than 50 cents per envelope for this service, including the stamp. Receptionists do this in between calls at many offices and don't need for this service to be outsourced.

You only get paid for "stuffed envelopes" when someone else you recruit stuffs a self-addressed, stamped envelope with an up-front fee to get the same information that you paid for. You don't actually get paid for stuffing the envelope that is sent to others. You must generate sales or leads to get paid. This is the true definition of a pyramid scheme as they will go recruit users. Meanwhile, you are paying the person who recruited you for advice, leads, and supplies.

A great way to lose some money and not a legitimate work at home job.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Want to use KgbKgb ?

Most cellphone providers in the US, Canada and the UK allow access to this human-powered search.

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Our new two-way text product in the U.S., kgbkgb (text 542542 on your mobile handset) is in beta testing and available to answer any question you have 24 hours a day, everyday. kgbkgb is the first mobile text "find" service to combine human-powered search with one of the most extensive databases in the business.
Rates range from $0.30 to $0.99 per text. (I'm not sure how your rate is determined) It is not a subscription based service.

Get answers to practical questions, stupid questions, trivia questions, even sports scores. The service is easy to use.

They also appear to hiring people to work at home and answer questions. This would be a great income supplement if you could get hired (Visit ) and work at it in your spare time.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

How to find hidden work at home jobs

When searching for jobs to do at home most type in 'work at home' and come up with only the most popular pages that are sometimes full of scams and spam looking to charge you money for what can be found for free.

Try searching for these terms instead:

remote work
remote contractor
freelance jobs
independant contractor
virtual employee
virtual company
virtual office
working virtually
home workers
home-based employee
home-based employment
home-based jobs

Many more similar searches can be used. This list was formulated by using the tools found in AdWords.

Friday, November 21, 2008

West at Home is probably the most reputable work at home company. They provide outsourced customer service to many large companies and keep these jobs in North America.

It provides full-time hours and benefits and allows you to work at home when convenient. Training is paid. It is a great company to work for if you are a stay at home mom or dad.

From the West website:

West At Home offers schedules based on either per minute rate, per call OR guaranteed hourly rate. If total earnings (whether via per minute, per call or guaranteed hourly rate) are less than minimum wage, employee compensation will be trued up to meet their local minimum wage requirements (our employees will always earn the greater of the two pay scales). West At Home employees are paid on a biweekly basis and Direct Deposit and/or Pay Card options are available immediately!
Apply at West at Home

Do your research.

Take some time to research any company you are thinking of working for.

Check for complaints with the Better Business Bureau at

Use your search engine to find information and complaints posted about the company you are thinking of joining. Search for the company name + scam or problem. People love to vent about problems they're having so learn from others experiences.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

The latest from kgb

Thomas Falconer here again, director of social media and online communities at kgb. I'm thinking it is well past time for an update on what we've been doing here at kgb. The launch of our kgbkgb 2-way text service is progressing quickly, so here goes:

We're very close to launching our portal to recruit work at home Special Agents. We're tweaking our application and assessment tools, and should be ready to open the door early in December. We'll be recruiting a charter group of 50 agents to push through the process as we launch the beta kgb service in several very small markets. We'll be in touch as soon as that process begins.

I think you'll find the kgb tools easy to use, easy to understand, and easy to get through. Of course, and as always, we welcome and encourage your feedback and suggestions.

In the meantime, if there's anything you'd like me to cover in the blog please do let me know. I'd love for us to meet here more often, talk about issues affecting the work at home community, about technology, texting, being guides, anything. So fire away.

I'll be in touch again soon, and certainly as soon as I know more details about the Special Agents portal launch.

thomas falconer

director, social media and online communities

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Trivia Buff?

Do you like trivia and/or finding new information on the web?

There are sites that will pay you for answering questions.

The best known ones are: - Some say they make close to $200 per week from this site although they are currently not hiring general guides (as they're called) and some are doubtful that the site will last much longer. - Similar to the previous company. I don't have any stats on how much they pay other than a minimum of $20 is needed to cash out. - This site is coming soon and appears to be backed by a fairly well know bricks and mortar company. The site is planning on launching in December with about 50 people answering questions initially.

Do you know of any other similar sites?

Monday, November 17, 2008

Make a passive income

Do you have content on the internet?

This can include a personal website or blog that you have.

If you do then it is possible to add links or ads to your site to give you some income on material you've already completed.

Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bidvertiser, and others all provide revenue sharing for the ads that they place on sites. This includes money for the people that browse the ads as well as those that click on the ads.

It is an easy way to make some money with what you already have.

You will not make a lot initially but it is a way to make $100+ a year. The best part is that these tell you how to optimize the ads and placement to make you, and them, the most money.

How to avoid scams

Watch out for scams -- never pay for a job!

This is the most important advice for those looking for a job. Legitimate jobs don't require you to pay the employer.

You may be required to show certifications or various qualifications for which you may have to pay a fee to a 3rd party, but any employer should not require you to pay them.

Two examples of what you may have to pay for:

Testing to prove typing speed.

A basic security check before dealing with the employers customers when working at home.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Work from home, can it be done?

Working from home is possible. Many companies allow their employees the flexibility of working from home. JetBlue for example has the majority of agents working from home.

It is more difficult to find a job that will allow you to work from home if you are new to that company.

What type of companies allow you to work from home?

Transcription Sites
Online Tutoring
Article and Story Writing
Telephone Operators

Very few have guaranteed weekly pay rates. Many will be discussed soon with real work at home job leads.

Assemble at home opportunities

I haven't heard of any home assembly jobs that are legitimate. Sites that warn about scams are full of warnings about these types of ads.

I'm not saying there are none out there, I just haven't heard about them.

Typically, you pay a fee for materials or get the first batch for free. Your first jobs will be accepted to show that it is possible to succed at home with these jobs.

Then you pay for more materials and your following work is rejected as not being done correctly. They will try to sell you new materials and the cycle will continue.


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Krispy Kreme VS. Dunkin Donuts

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Have you ever had a donut from Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme?  Well, you can eat Krispy Kreme donuts and get 1 more gram of sugar than a Dunkin Donuts donut. Dunkin Donuts has 9 grams of sugar in their glazed donuts. Krispy Kreme has 10 grams of sugar in their glazed donuts. This means that you are in for about the same with both donut brands.

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By: Kaylee Richeson, Dabney Holmes, Sophie Beck, Arianna Barone

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The New York Times Is On To Something

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Want to know how much sugar you eat each day?

Then you should go to this awesome interactive quiz by The New York Times. Basically what you can do is go through your daily foods and see how much added sugar you consume.

They have a good variety of foods and it’s very accurate. It’s also mind blowing how much sugar there is in average foods. One of the coolest parts of this is that if you scroll down you see how you blew the sugar, you can see how much sugar is in each piece of food.

I had some members at Sugar Kills and Kiva try this and there was a big variety of amounts. Some had 10 grams, another had 46 grams, one even had as high as 151 grams of sugar! I personally got 25 grams of sugar, but something tells me that we all won’t follow that exactly.

By: Jadon Wellum

DQ Whiteout!

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The amount of sugar in this delicious Blizzard will certainly give you chills.

So, we’ve made blogs about about Dairy Queen Blizzards in the past, but we’ve realized that we’ve only covered the mini-sized one. Recently, we have found how much sugars are in a large blizzard, and it will give you some mad frostbite.

There is a whopping 111 grams of sugar in a Large Oreo Blizzard (17.6 oz.) There is also 1016 calories, which will take about 5 hours of walking to burn off! You guys may love your blizzards but is it really worth 4 and a half days of sugar AND half of your daily calories?

By: Jadon W and Horacio A

The True Halo

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In the past we have written about deadly, tasty ice cream, but nothing could prepare us for this…

This ice cream, this scrumptious ice cream, has only about 4 grams of sugar per serving, depending of the flavor. You also get 6 grams of protein, 20% of your daily fiber, and only 240-280 calories.

That is much better than the killer Ben and Jerry’s ice cream.

I did a taste test and compared it to normal ice cream. It’s taste is almost identical, and the texture was quite accurate. I think it’s safe to say it’s pretty close to normal ice cream. So if you happen to see it at the store, try it instead of your normal ice cream.

Binge Eating Ben and Jerrys

I know we have done other posts on Ben and Jerry’s but the only flavor we have compared is Vanilla. Now it is time to compare more flavors… let’s get into it!

So the flavors we will be comparing are Chocolate Fudge, Strawberry Cheesecake, Cherry Garcia, Chocolate, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Peanut Butter, and Phish Food.

(I know what you are thinking, PHISH FOOD?!? Look it up, it’s seems good.)

Since we are not made of cash, we cannot actually buy all of the flavors — but we used our trusty to do our research. Here we go!

Chocolate Fudge has 27 grams of sugar per serving.

Strawberry Cheesecake has 22 grams of sugar per serving.

Cherry Garcia has 23 grams of sugar per serving.

Plain Chocolate has 21 grams of sugar per serving.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough has 25 grams of sugar per serving.

Peanut Butter has 24 grams of sugar per serving.

Phish Food has 28 grams of sugar per serving.

All of those average out to around 24.3 grams per serving, which equals a half of a cup. That means with one scoop of ice cream, you will fulfill all of daily sugar needs. That is ridiculous!

But the thing is everybody knows that ice cream is bad for you but they keep eating it anyways.

If your ice cream addiction is going through the roof, come back on Monday for a new inventive way to keep the taste but not the sugar!

Oreo V.S Oreo Thins

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Have you ever thought that Oreo Thins are just a marketing gimmick?

Well if you think that, you are correct.

One Oreo thin has 3 grams of sugar.  One Original Oreo has 3.3 grams of sugar. The result surprised us. We thought that the one Oreo Thin would have a lot less sugar than a regular Oreo. The difference is only 0.3 grams though.

By: Kaylee R.

Angel Food Cake… or Demon Food Cake

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Some of you may have had angel food cake before.

You know, the light, fluffy, spongecake that’s great with strawberries or chocolate sauce. But plain, it’s quite flavorless. However, did you know that even though it might not taste so sweet, it is still quite sugary.

Using a dry mix produces 15 grams of sugar per one 1.8 ounce serving, and that’s not even with sauce. Lindt Chocolate sauce has 14 grams of sugar in just 2 tablespoons! Combined that’s 29 grams of sugar, 5 grams over the recommended daily amount for teens and tweens.

There is also actually something called Devil’s Food cake, which is basically the opposite of Angel Food cake. It’s rich chocolate cake, with hot fudge, and even more sugary toppings. It’s not much healthier — 12.8 grams of sugar per ounce. Do a little math (multiply 12.8 by the 1.8  ounce serving from earlier) and you get 23 grams of sugar! I guess that’s why it’s called devil food cake.

By: Jadon Wellum

Death-Fil-A 101

I bet you’ve been to Chick-Fil-A and gotten a milkshake.

I also bet you don’t know the amount of sugar in any of the shakes. I’ll tell you:

  • 18 oz Chocolate milkshake: 111g
  • 18 oz Cookies and Cream milkshake: 100g
  • 18 oz Strawberry milkshake: 98g
  • 18 oz Vanilla milkshake: 95g

24 grams of sugar is the amount that your supposed to have in a day. All of these shakes are about 4-5 days worth of sugar. When you add them all up, you get a total of 404 grams of sugar, which equals 101 grams on average of sugar per shake. I hope next time you want a shake, you don’t choose Chick-Fil-A. Make a healthier choice.

By: Gus T.

McDonald’s Milkshake vs Wendy’s Frosty

We all know that McDonald’s can make you Mcfat (getting fat from McDonald’s).

Their meals are very unhealthy. But now, its time to look at their deserts or more specifically, their milkshakes! We are going to compare a 12 oz McDonald’s chocolate triple thick “Death”shake with a 12 oz chocolate frosty from Wendy’s.

According to my calculations, McDonald’s triple thick milkshake is 7.28 times worse than Wendy’s frosty.

Which Disastrously drink would you consume? Anyone would obviously choose what’s not McDonald’s. Which ever one you think tastes good might not be what it seems.

Post & Slide by: Jordan Eilers

Whipped Cream VS. Sugary Food

Have you ever chugged down a bottle of whipped cream?

Well, if you looked at “The Secret Behind Whipped Cream” whipped cream might not be good for you but, there is only 6.5 grams of sugar in a whole bottle of whipped cream. But do not chug down whipped cream on a  regular basis or you might have some problems….

At least you are notdownload having as much sugar as a box of Cocoa Krispies.  That has 25 grams of sugar.

By: Sanjit, Drew, Camden, and Braden


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Category: Videos

The Crazy Amount Of Sugar Hiding In Random Foods

Have you ever wondered how much sugar is in a Spicy McChicken Sandwich?

… Probably not because you wouldn’t think it’d have sugar. Think again!

It’s unbelievable how much sugar is in random foods!

Video Credit: BuzzFeedVideo

-Mac S. and Conor A.


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Thursday, May 15, 2008

"He does a great downward dog"

(12:08:30 AM) Ben Kawaller: oh yeah. well you can't be trusted to describe a dog tho
(12:08:37 AM) Ben Kawaller: you think they're all delightful

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Taxes joke

There is something funny about the idea of using a paid envelope stolen from your office to mail your tax forms, right?

"...if growing up / means being like you..."

"I'm a new waver
My girlfriend's a surfer
I'm no more a trendy than you are
And she's not going to fuck you anyways
Eh, it doesn't matter, you all suck
You don't know shit about punk rock
You're just a bunch of drug addicts
Screwing up what we call fun"

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Good question

(3:19:42 PM) Are lux and jon editors?

Monday, March 31, 2008

Here's a trifle

It's weird how often the Energizer Bunny is invoked to describe someone energetic, restless, etc. What did people do before this ad campaign started? Is there really not another thing in the world?

Thursday, March 27, 2008

"Who said the game ain't fair? A goddam loser"

En-Dasher strikes a blow in the name of rigor at NYO.
Indeed, to read The Complex is to see, writ small, the very moral and intellectual turpitude that’s delivered us headlong into our recent geopolitical disasters. It’s a document directed at an audience hungry for easy, comfortable dissent. What a morbid joke that its true allegiance is to the Rumsfeldian heresy, the Cheney canard, that a fact is simply something that sounds like a fact, that caring about distinctions in scale and kind is the pastime of the weak, that evidence should be regarded less as genuine appeals to truth than munitions to be indiscriminately lobbed at the recalcitrant until one explodes with enough damage that there becomes no choice but to submit to the “conclusion” that was your starting point.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Quick takes

--Horrible thing that happens sometimes: forgetting to put on deoderant after you've showered in the morning and only remembering when you're already dressed and have your coat on. Especially if you wear shirts with buttons. Then you have to reach in through a hole in between the buttons with the deoderant and contort yourself every which way.

--Horrible thing in general: the idea of deoderant.

--Am I wrong to think that people who let their dogs run around without leashes when they're walking them feel superior to everyone else? It's a total macho move-- basically, "Oh, my dog doesn't need a leash." Doing this also implies you're a really great, kind owner, because you give your dog this freedom and you let it express its nature. Leashes for everyone all the time.

--Really intense DJ Drama drop at the beginning of Lil' Wayne and Juelz Santana's "No Other" from the Dedication 2 mixtape: "I’ma tell you all like this – I learn something new everyday. More money, more problems. I always knew I was gonna make it. But you never know what you’re gonna go through. I’m glad to be here. But sometimes you wonder. Is it worth it? Boy, I done dedicated my life to this shit. There’s nowhere to turn. So I’m in it for life."

--What came first, the chicken or the egg?

--Some things I wrote in the Observer. This one is just inexplicable.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Good instinct

(9:29:29 PM) i'd kind of want to interrogate him
(9:29:32 PM) his delusions fascinate me

If you see something say something

From WJBC in Bloomington, Illinois:
There was one arrest at the latest Soulja Boy concert at U.S. Cellular Coliseum. A 12 year-old boy was taken into custody Wednesday night for throwing a rock through the windshield of Soulja Boy's bus. Why? The kid told arresting officers, "I hate Soulja Boy."

Werner Herzog and Errol Morris in this month's Believer:
WH: Whatever it is, it makes people talk, and they say things that they would never say to any one of you here in the audience. They wouldn’t say it to me either, but Errol makes it by dint of his face.

EM: It becomes a documentary, whatever that is, by the element of the unpredictable. Now Werner goes to Antarctica. He has a limited amount of time and a limited amount of materials. He has no way of doing any kind of prep. And so the movie emerges. It’s emergent, if you like, from just what happens there. I feel that the element of spontaneity—and there’s a strong element of spontaneity, of the uncontrolled, of the unrehearsed, the unplanned, in every single film he’s made.

WH: Yeah, that’s where real life enters.

EM: I feel that element of spontaneity because so much of what I do is controlled. The element of spontaneity is not knowing what someone is going to say to me in front of the camera, having really no idea, of being surprised. I know that there’s this moment in all of the interviews that I’ve loved where something happens. I had this three-minute rule that if you just shut up and let someone talk, within three minutes they will show you how crazy they really are. And it has happened time and time and time again.

WH: And you have a great sense for the afterthought. The interview is finished, it’s over, and Errol is still sitting and expecting something. Then all of a sudden there comes an afterthought, and that’s the best of all.


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Sunday Assembly - Beyond Belief

  • Posted on: 17 January 2017
  • By: Gillian
What Atheists, Agnostics, Humanists, and Other Nones are Teaching Us about Religion Today.

Are nones are "reinventing religion" as a natural rather than (necessarily) supernatural phenomenon? Join author and SCU Professor Elizabeth Drescher to talk about setting aside arguments and doctrinal beliefs as measures of religion. Learn about more meaningful indicators of what religion is and does.

Going Home - Oct 9 assembly

  • Posted on: 28 September 2016
  • By: Gillian
Coat Drive this month!
Let's explore the issue of homelessness here in Silicon Valley together and see how we can help. Our guest is Jim Gardner from Good Karma Bikes. Learn about how their Transportation for Transformation program is helping homeless and very low income workers to be mobile again, a basic liberty that each of us takes for granted.

Doors open at 10:30am for coffee and snacks, and at 11:00am on the dot we will have great talks, live music and secular celebration. Stick around afterward for food.

We will be collecting coats. Please bring any new or gently-used warm jackets or coats.


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New life member for Jazz Society

Local musician Liam Ryan has been made a life member of the Tauranga Jazz Society. Supplied photos.

A musician described as the ‘heart and soul' of the Bay of Plenty jazz scene has been awarded a life membership to the Tauranga Jazz Society, after dedicating nearly two decades to the organisation.

Liam Ryan, who is well known for his leadership roles in the National Jazz Festival, was awarded the honorary position at the Tauranga Jazz Society's AGM this week.

“It is a privilege to be awarded such a position and I feel honoured to have been part of the Jazz Society for the past 18 years,” says Liam.

“A big thank you must go to all of the wonderful members, past and present, who have contributed to the society. It is certainly a team effort in helping see jazz in Tauranga continue to flourish.”

Liam served as president for three years from 2007, and his roles in the National Jazz Festival include serving as director in 2008 and festival music programme director for several years, as well as performing in the festival with many different groups.

In recent years he has overseen the highly popular and well-contested youth band competitions and this year will be youth competitions director for the 41st National Youth Jazz Competition.

Fellow life member Jocelyn Buchanan, who presented the award, saysLiam brings an unfaltering contribution to the Tauranga Jazz Society and National Jazz Festival.

“His heart and soul is in the National Jazz Festival but he has also made a significant commitment to the music industry nationwide.

“As a respected musician and music educator he is frequently interviewed on Radio New Zealand as well as commercial radio stations.

“We are privileged to have him in our midst as he brings so much experience and exuberance to the team.”

The life membership coincides with the appointment of a seven-strong Tauranga Jazz Society committee, which will govern the March 28 – April 2 national event next year.

Graeme Purches will head the committee as president, with Jeff Baker as vice-president. Other committee members are David Porter, Ken Bowden, Andrea Meredith, Wayne Melville and Carol Power.

Craig Wilson, best known as the promoter of the successful Mills Reef Stars Under The Stars, has been appointed festival director.

He leads a team that includes Beck Chambers moving into the general manager role, Liam Ryan as youth competitions director, Mandy Ryan as youth competition coordinator, and Nick Chambers as operations manager.

This year's National Jazz Festival saw more than 15,000 people attend the downtown carnival and more than 300 students involved in the National Youth Jazz Competitions from over 23 schools across the country.

The official launch date of the 2018 National Jazz Festival Tauranga will be announced in the coming weeks.

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Posted on 14-09-2017 21:21 | By overit

congratulations. What a colourful muso life you have lived.

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Monday, January 16, 2006

The Rolling Stones.

I went to see them in concert with my daddy. Yeah... that's hot. :)

There were lots of old fogies smoking dope. It was pretty funny.

So kids... you wonder where your grandparents were on January 15th? They were in Boston... lighting up, while watching Mick Jagger dance and take off his clothes. ;-) Crazy grandparents.

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USAA: kill your website to service customers

June 29th, 2010     by ddeal

This post comes to you live from the second annual Forrester Research Customer Experience Forum, held at the Grand Hyatt in New York. The theme of the event is creating breakthrough customer experiences. During one of the afternoon sessions, Principal Analyst Paul Hagen hosts a panel on trends in creating customer experiences. He is joined by Janice W. Brown, manager, channel strategy and orchestration, FedEx Services; Kathleen Cattrall, vice president, branded customer experience, Time Warner Cable; and Neff Hudson, assistant vice president, enterprise member experience, USAA. Here are a few highlights.

Paul sets the stage by discussing the obvious signs that companies are getting more sophisticated about serving customers, with nearly half of companies surveyed by Forrester having a chief customer experience officer in place. He asks each panelist to describe a breakthrough that has taken customer experience to a new level at each person’s company.

Time Warner Cable: “nowhere to go but up.” In Kathleen Cattrall’s words, ‘There is nowhere to go but up” at Time Warner Cable when it comes to improving the customer experience. She describes how improving the customer experience has meant being creative and resourceful without a clear corporate mandate from on high. She started by simply asking her customers what her company needed to do better, and she talked with competitors’ customers. Doing so gave her scores of ideas to improve service. With that information, she went on a road show with field service representatives to inspire them to improve. Her road workshops included people in finance and engineering, not just the obvious candidates who touch the customer — because she saw the need to show as many people as possible how their jobs affect the customer in some way. Months later, the vast majority of the people she visited in her road show are doing their jobs differently and realize how their roles touch the customer.

FedEx: an executive mandate to improve. Janice W. Brown indicates that FedEx saw a mandate to improve service after seeing a drop in satisfaction and loyalty numbers. In her case, she operated with an executive mandate. Her job has been to tackle thorny issues like getting more employees to be customer advocates and to work with executives to effect real cultural change. She has spent an entire year just putting into place a program for identifying how FedEx can improve across multiple channels, and the year ahead will be about enacting improvements across channels.

USAA: using mobile to improve customer service: Neff Hudson says USAA focuses on the “small stuff,” not breakthroughs. USAA focuses on customer problems that intersect with the company’s business challenges. For instance, USAA realized it needed to address the business challenge of enabling more customers to perform personal transactions even though USAA lacks branch outlets. So USAA created a program called Deposit@Mobile, which allows members to use scanners at home to deposit checks. Since August 2009, USAA has done $5 million in revenue via an iPhone and Android application.

And what should customer service professionals be doing to improve service?

Time Warner Cable: get customers involved in product development. Kathleen Cattrall: Embed customer-centric thinking into your product development. Time Warner is figuring out how to take customer feedback and improve product development through a company certification program that affects how company engineers do their jobs.

FedEx: listen and respond to customers via social media. Janice Brown says that FedEx is more actively listening to what customers say about its service and then responding. But FedEx is also mining customer insight for longer-term trends in how customers perceive FedEx, not just to put out immediate fires.

USAA: websites are dead. Neff Hudson: Your website is dead. If you are not in the process of deconstructing your website and distributing your service across multiple channels, you are way behind. Don’t build new destination sites to service customers. Distribute your service across Twitter, Facebook, mobile apps, and anywhere else your customer is. “I have spent my whole life building websites,” Neff concludes. “Now I’m learning how to take them apart”

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