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This is great! I made the mistake of leaving some of the kale stems. Don't do that! It makes it tough and fibrous. OTherwise this was a 5 star for health and delicious flavor!!! Thanks so much Hinkle!!
Wow! This totally rocked my socks. I'm vegan, so i skipped the cheese part, but it was still phenomenal. The sweetness of the sauce paired with the mildly peppery taste of the kale was super nice. Great recipe!
Delicious! My son doesn't like kale or beans and he loved this. I normally have a good sense of what a recipe is going to taste like by reading the ingredients, but this unique combination had me in anticipation. I used swiss cheese and added a little extra brown sugar. Enjoyed by all!
We absolutely loved this! My husband says he could have finished off the pan by himself (and nearly did!). The bunch of kale I got from my CSA was smaller than I had anticipated, so I chopped up some broccoli and added it just before the kale. I think I steamed it a little to much, but the flavours were amazing nonetheless. Thanks so much!
Excellent!! This is our favorite kale dish! We actually crave this dish!! Did not make any changes.
As a vegetarian I am always looking for complete dishes. To me this dish was not only complete, but absolutely delicious.
This is delicious! Had no Asiago cheese, so used Parmesean. Had a little piece of rare steak in the fridge. Sliced it thin, made a well in the center of the food and added the steak during the last minutes, just to heat it. Was a complete meal. Next time will decrease the amount of olive oil and add a couple of tablespoons of chicken broth in order to cut calories and fat content. My husband said it was "Okay," then proceeded to eat 3 helpings!
You don't have to have tomatos, which I didn't, for this to be delicious!
I used much less than recommended brown sugar too, I like my sugar in desert;) still was sweet enough--I eat kale often--sooo good for you(!)and with the beans, it's got everything for a full meal: greens and protein, I cooked in wok, delicious and healthy!
Actually, would go with 4 1/2 stars and to get it to 5, would cut back on the brown sugar a bit and bump up the balsamic a little. As for cooking times, under-done kale is not fun, so I would go longer in the phase before lid goes on, and even the 5 min. with lid isn't that crucial; can sit a bit longer as you finish making a salad, perhaps. Otherwise, a very tasty and different flavor profile to get those good greens into your diet!
I thought this was good, but not great. The kale was a little tough, and it was fresh from my neighbor's garden, so I just wonder if it needed to be cooked longer. But I was wondering if I was about to cook it TOO long, because the recipe states to not let it get soft. So not sure about that. The flavor was good, but again, just not so great that I'll want to make it again. I do not think I will make it again.


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I got to ride the Zero this past summer out at Hood. I rode it for about a week with the new Auto-Evers on it. Not only is this one of the lightest boards I have ever ridden, it is also one of the liveliest. It felt like I was riding an angry mongoose chasing a snake down the hill, and I mean that in a good way. Like if you had some sort of spirit-power over the mongoose. It has insane pop and won't buckle no matter how much pressure you put on it. The Harshmellow on the board paired with the Auto-evers made for a crazy cushiony feel. The top sheet almost feels like fabric which helped keep the bindings from slipping. Check out Tim Eddy's part in These Days to see the Zero in snake chasing action.
*Although I recommend this board highly, I do kind of agree with the review Calling "BS" on the eco marketing thing.
if you are looking for an eco friendly board go with the Arbor wasteland or any arbor for that matter. If you are looking for one of the lightest boards out there with the smoothest ride and new add-ons like harsh mellow then the zero is your board. Compare it to other light weight boards (burton vapor) and you will see that this is the best board for the buck. Hook it up with the new Auto bindings and you have a fully harsh mellowed out board. just make sure that you but the 09 auto bindings because there was a recall on last years.
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I would like to start by saying I have actually been on this board, seen this board, and held this board in my own hands and can say it is a huge step in the ECO direction. They have reduced a ton of materials in this board that ARE harmful to the environment without sacrificing your ride. If you are educated on board construction, you can pick this board up look it over and tell there is less to it, and in the ECO world less is more. BUT, when you actually get on it you don't feel like you're on a board that is missing anything. It is one of the smoothest most responsive boards I have ever ridden. So if you like the idea of reducing your carbon footprint check this board out. You can go to www.k2snowboarding.com and find out a lot more about this board. Check out the info on HarshMellow as well, it is a huge part of why this thin profiled board can ride as smooth as it does with great edge hold.
how is synthetic polymer made.. and pollution offset credits? if you know what that is it means nothing. it means you can pollute than pay the government so that they can build more shit that pollutes such as a carbon dioxide distillery which pumps the carbon dioxide back into the ground but does not reduce but contribute by having more produced to make the stupid thing that does nothing. i'm not a tree hugger or anything (nothin wrong with it) but when people by offset credits they are just paying someone so that they can pollute. not trying to bash anybody people just need to open there eyes. check out the video on http://www.cheatneutral.com/
seriously watch it it is a great concept
Big bunch of BS!
I call BS on this board. K2 is a mega huge public company owned by Mr Coffee and Crock Pot. They produce all of their gear in China where there are little environmental regulations. If they were truly environmentally friendly they wouldn't overproduce so much product. This is just a jump on the bandwagon to fool people.
regarding Sheldon/BS comment... ummmm, i wonder where he gets his info & hate from. yes, K2 is owned by a conglomerate that owns numerous brands. still, all product is designed and developed in the good 'ol northwest. yes, product is built in a K2 OWNED factory in China. hey dude, where was your Iphone/Ipod/Scion built??? over-producing??? K2 is way more responsible in production than tons of other UNnamed brands.
lastly, how does change start? 1 step at a time, and little by little. this board proves that you can reduce materials greatly, and keep performance extremely high. i will refrain from any other comments on this dumb ass....
Could I fit my size 12 boots on here?
Could I fit my size 12 boots on here?
I wouldn't if I were you. You might be ok with the 162. It has a waist width of 250mm but that's still pushing it with a size 12 boot. It also depends on what angle you set your stance at. The more of an angle the easier a larger boot will fit on a smaller board.
I have a size 12 and ride a wide board. I think you would be better off with finding something with a larger waist. You don't want toe drag!
I was looking into a wide board but haven't had much luck. I'm an advanced rider who likes riding aggressive lines on the mountain - and wouldn't mind starting to ride park here. And having size 12 boots and being 6'4 (220 lbs) doesn't make finding a board any easier.
Any suggestions.
Are these boards (and bases) pretty tough?...
Are these boards (and bases) pretty tough? I'm looking for a light all-terrain killer (not too many rails, but I love the air). With all the talk of minimal this and that I figure you have to be sacrificing something somewhere... but at $700 I would love to be wrong about that.
While the minimalist attitude of this board seems kind of sketchy, it actually makes it even more bombproof. Think of it this way, if you have a car made of steel and a car made of titanium, the car made of titanium will be lighter, stronger, and more exensive. Its the same with the board, they used better parts so they could use less of them. The k2 boards i have ridden (and still ride) have proven to be rugged and dependable, and they were definately not their top line boards.


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How to be as persuasive as Abraham Lincoln: Study the figures of speech and Shakespeare
Progressive messaging is a "massive botch" (see parts 1, 2, 3, and 4). That goes double for scientific messaging (see Why scientists aren't more persuasive, Part 1 and Part 2: Why deniers out-debate "smart talkers").
So I'm taking the opportunity of Lincoln's birthday to highlight once again his mastery of messaging, particularly in the Gettysburg Address, in this excerpt from my (still) as-yet unpublished book on rhetoric that discusses .
Part 1 looked at how Lincoln taught himself rhetoric, the art of persuasion through the systematic use of the figures of speech, in part by studying Shakespeare. Part 2 looked at his use of the figure of irony, where he took the tactic the Bard had Marc Antony use in his "Friends, Romans, Countrymen"and used it in his Cooper Union speech. Part 3 looked at his use of metaphor. As Aristotle said, "The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor." But I believe there is one thing even greater than metaphor, something that can help create a winning frame or narrative.
Extended metaphor is, for me, the most important rhetorical device. This figure is at the heart of some of Lincoln's greatest speeches and Shakespeare's greatest plays. Persistent metaphors pump life blood into the Bible, into Jesus' parables and Psalms, such as the Twenty-third, with its famous extended shepherd metaphor:
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Politicians who understand extended metaphors have a long political life; those who do not, don't have much of a pulse.
The Elizabethan era book The Garden of Eloquence by Henry Peacham explains the potency of this figure: It "serves most aptly to ingrain the lively images of things, and to present them under deep shadows to the contemplation of the mind, wherein wit and judgement take pleasure, and the remembrance receives a longer lasting impression."
Using an extended metaphor himself, Peacham explains that while a simple metaphor "may be compared to a star in respect of beauty, brightness and direction," an extended metaphor may be "fully likened to a figure compounded of many stars "¦ which we may call a constellation." No wonder this figure is so widely used. Who wouldn't want to have their words achieve the impact and longevity of heavenly images like the Big Dipper or Orion?
In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln gives us a subtle but powerful example. The speech is only 270 words long-almost precisely the same length as the "To be or not to be speech." Lincoln makes it unforgettable using an extended metaphor of birth, death, and resurrection to increase the coherence and impact of his brief remarks.
Lincoln delivers a variety of references to birth from the very beginning, "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." He says the civil war is testing whether "any nation so conceived "¦ can long endure." Lincoln then moves on to images and words of death, as befits the horrific battlefield in front of him, with phrases such as "a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives" and "the brave men, living and dead" and "these honored dead" and "these dead." He finally returns to the original metaphor of birth, but with a twist: We must resolve that "this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."
Birth, death, rebirth and immortality ("shall not perish")-in a place that we will make sacred ("hallow" and "consecrate" and the key repeated word, "dedicate")-is a stunning extended metaphor that turns into an biblical allusion of hope for transcendence even during the worst suffering, with the Battle of Gettysburg becoming a symbolic national crucifixion. No wonder Winston Churchill termed Lincoln's speech, "the ultimate expression of the majesty of Shakespeare's language."
Extended metaphors are often far more overt, as in Lincoln's "house divided" speech at the start of his Illinois Senate race against Stephen Douglas. Lincoln describes how the combined effect of Supreme Court decisions and policies by Douglas and others was to extend slavery into new territories in spite of local opposition. Lincoln said "we can not absolutely know" that Douglas and the others were working together to achieve this effect, "But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places, and by different workmen "¦ and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly matte the frame of a house" then it is "impossible not to believe" that everyone "worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck."
Stephen Douglas resented Lincoln's implication in the "House Divided" speech that he was part of a conspiracy to extend slavery, a charge and a metaphor Lincoln never tired of repeating everywhere. In his famous debates with Lincoln, Douglas responded with a harsh figure of his own-sarcasm:
He [Lincoln] studied that out-prepared that one sentence with the greatest care, committed it to memory, and put it in his first Springfield speech, and now he carries that speech around and reads that sentence to show how pretty it is. His vanity is wounded because I will not go into that beautiful figure of his about the building of a house. All I have to say is, that I am not green enough to let him make a charge which he acknowledges he does not know to be true, and then take up my time in answering it, when I know it to be false and nobody else knows it to be true.
But Lincoln had thought through the implications of his figure of speech. He would not give it up, as Lincoln scholar Roy Basler has explained: "Under the implications of Lincoln's figure, constantly pressed, Douglas was constrained to make a statement of opinion that, although it immediately clear his way in the senatorial contest, eventually cost him the presidency."
Why was Lincoln so fond of extended metaphors? They are certainly common figures in the Bible and Shakespeare, which he studied closely. We know Lincoln knew of the figure, since "allegory," which "may be regarded as a metaphor continued," is one of the fourteen figures of speech discussed in Kirkham's English Grammar, the book Lincoln studied from age twenty-three.
I suspect that the reason he liked the figure is the same reason that modern candidates do: It is a masterful means of framing a political debate, exactly as he crafted the framed-timbers-of-the-house extended metaphor to frame Douglas for the crime of extending slavery. Politicians with language intelligence, like Lincoln, repeat and extend their metaphors.
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Lincoln preferred the soliloquy in Hamlet that begins "Oh, my offense is rank" (spoken by Claudius) even above "To be, or not to be". (See Lincoln's letter to James H. Hackett, Aug. 17, 1863, included in Lubin, "The Words of Abraham Lincoln", page 422.)
This is not to disagree with your great point, Joe, about extended metaphors. I just offer this addition point because Lincoln was a great admirer of Shakespeare's Hamlet in general and because Claudius' soliloquy, mentioned above, itself is very relevant to climate change in certain ways. (It was also very relevant to the sin of slavery.)
Lincoln, Jefferson, Shakespeare, Einstein, Bertrand Russell, and etc. etc. etc. would be SHOCKED and DISTURBED with the way we are dealing (or rather, not dealing) with climate change.
Shame on us.
President Lincoln Did not preside over 57 states. He was pro life and anti slavery. It was about his beliefs and not all about technique. Of course a teleprompter would not be a tool used by Honest Abe.
[JR: I don't understand this comment. Lincoln had many great attributes, but he was certainly the master rhetorician of all presidents.]
Joe, I always knew you were a Renaissance Person.
As more of a Dark Ages Person myself, I'd like to follow up on this. I agree with all your beautiful analysis and would only like to add to it.
Today Lincoln's speech would be given to folks wearing IPods, tweeting and texting, "Dude, Mapquest the Gettysberg Address for me, I'm so lost."
We think everything is progress, but Pericles had to convince 18,000 Athenian Citizens on any course of action (including ending war, putting the soldiers to work building the Parthenon, and bringing Socrates to Athens) through only the power of his oratory, and 2400 years later we had a President (Bush) who could not use oratory to convince a well-trained dog to sit.
All I'm saying is that we have to take your excellent principles and apply them to today and in all mediums.
First we need to figure out our message, what we're saying and what we hope to convince the audience to do. Then we need to realize that all mediums are about character, story and context.
Just as you use these great principles, when I taught screenwriting my primary text was Lajos Egri's "The Art of Dramatic Writing" analyzing and finding the common denominators among the great plays of all-time like Shakespeare's. The principles applied to screenwriting for films as well.
And I'd analyze the great artists and communicators who in all mediums were the most popular and critically acclaimed of their time and since, including Shakespeare, Dickens, Twain, Chaplin, Capra and the Beatles – proof that communication can be effective, meaningful and popular. I corresponded with Capra about spirituality and film over a period of years and he told me he felt that all the classics are about sacrificial love.
The common denominator of these greatest communicators is that most were deeply caring, had things to say and mastered their mediums to say them. Twain and Chaplin became characters in addition to writing about them.
When first performing comedy Woody Allen simply read his world-class jokes and audiences didn't respond until he developed his on-stage persona, because people respond to people, not just content. You're revealing yourself to us in this post and many others, Joe, and I think that's a wonderful thing, helping your overall communication.
Great work, Joe. Small nit. In the 2d paragraph, put the word "on" between "book" and "rhetoric".
Now take all these principles from all these greatest communicators and add newer media like film to them. Look at the ends of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", "Casablanca" and especially "It's a Wonderful Life" and in the context of the entire film it's impossible not to be moved.
Also John Ford's direction of Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" is not only a masterpiece, but what the experience of hundreds of millions if not billions could ultimately be due to climate change. Look at the scene in the diner with a hard-nosed waitress and two truckers if you want to see the best short film within a film ever – the key characters are transformed from uncaring to deeply caring by each other.
We're fighting the Powers That Be represented by John Houston's character in "Chinatown" or Louise Fletcher's uncaring character in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." More recently it's hard not to be moved by "In America" or "Whale Rider", especially when you're the parent of a girl as you are, Joe. I showed my daughter such films with incredibly strong female characters and now she's become one.
The best segments of Colbert and Jon Stewart's Daily Show can contain the comedic equivalent to this artistry and communication.
Lastly, look at two commercials currently running, one is the Marine recruiting commercial with lots of panning shots of liberated Iraqi children, etc. Listen to the score and the cadence of the words, which are very concise. You might not agree with the message but it is masterful filmmaking.
Then listen to Morgan Freeman in the Visa commercial about Olympic Speed Skater Dan Jansen. Listen to the use of the word "Jane."
This is the quality of communication we need to attain with climate change, in all mediums, taking the excellent principles you skillfully point out in this post and applying them to today. Or we could just get on talk radio and scream lies. Oh wait, that isn't appealing to the better angels of our natures, but the opposite.
Seems to me that there has been a push to mock anything that is done for children that might restricts adults' activities. Tipper Gore's efforts on rude language, for example, were vilified. Hillery Clinton has been mocked as well for the book she wrote on child welfare.
It is thus interesting that when James Hansen introduces grandchildren into the argument for urgent action on global warming, we see the cynical use of the Inhofe grandkids in reply. Is this an indication that the avuncular interest in grandchildren is too strong to be mocked? We will dismiss mother henning but not a patriarch's interests? If so, then perhaps this provides a path to a resounding metaphor. Did Abram say no when called to leave Ur? Do we ignore science when called to leave oil? Or did independent Jacob's heeding of Joseph's call to go down into Egypt as America followed Rockefeller just prepare the way for escape now from bondage for the sake of David's generation? Could the shining city on a hill be shining with independence that renewable energy will bring?
This generation spanning view may be too powerful to be mock and thus contort our adversaries into silly stunts with little persuasive value.
Richard, #3: …" all the classics are about sacrificial love."
I am humbled by the oratory today: A few quotes if I may.
"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."
Bertrand Russell
"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."
Bertrand Russell
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." B.R.
I recommend Gary Wills' "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America". Wills provides an amazing study of Lincoln's language – very readable and not too long! (kinda like the speech.)
Scientifically I can agree that the DC area snow storms could be caused by a warming atmosphere. But the Vancouver area has to be classified as weather, buckled Jet Stream and ElNino more than GW, with warm winds catching the far NW, whilst most of the US in sub-normal cold. Look at Baton Rouge; it tonight is suppose to be 10 degrees colder than Vancouver. Joe, you better you cannot blame all the weather on AGW, even though you sure give a good try. Sincerely, John T P
[JR: Again, cooler than normal or warmer than normal ain't news, especially for a day or two. Blow out temps for a month, though, well, that is a different matter. And I never come close to blaming "all the weather on AGW." It's El-Nino-plus, baby, but nobody knows what the plus is!!!]
John P, #9: … blame all weather on AGW? NO. But all extreme weather events, hot or cold, are consistent with the predictions of climatic warming. When you say "warming" I feel in your eyes you are looking at the one degree F and saying "big deal." To envision the amount of energy it took to raise the top ~1,000 foot layer of the oceans and everything else on earth that one degree is equivalent to melting 11 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers every second of every day. That ENERGY gets concentrated and dispersed both in heat but also winds and yes even more vigorous jet streams or undulations. Both winter and summer!
No wonder you write well, Joe, you read the classics.
We have daunting handicaps here. One is, instead of speaking poetically about birth and immortality, the main driver of climate communication is the fact that unchecked global warming will result in mass death and destruction. How do you say to people "we have to change our behavior, or billions may die"? It's an unwelcome narrative, and creates big challenges.
The second is that, as much as, like you, I am thrilled by language, it is a declining medium. As the father of a teenager who is actually quite a reader, it's obvious that the young and many of the not so young have drifted away from words, and toward images. We need great movies- Avatar was a step in the right direction, but Hollywood financing tentacles led to it being told as a distant planet metaphor. The real thing, set in 2100 or so, makes a much better story.
The other thing that struck me about Lincoln, who I adore, was thinking about John McCain's copping his line every time he makes a speech by opening with "my friends", with a frozen grin on his face. McCain is not a good enough actor to hide the insincerity. Lincoln was a deep and spiritual person, something we sense immediately even now.
I think we need more people speaking from the heart, as you did here today. And the framing mechanism should be truth: the deniers just go out and lie like hell, all the time, even as they are accusing honest scientists of lying. This has to be duly noted in detail, and repeated. As Merlin told Arthur in Excalibur, the most important quality in a knight is Truth. Even in this scattered and cynical age, people get that. For those of us who are fighting alongside you, it should be our banner.
When I use standard techniques of communication in my videos, deniers accuse me of trying to "control their minds".
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Since their minds are obviously out of control, this would seem to be a good thing.
Thanks for this post, Joe, from a lifelong admirer of Lincoln.
It is agreed that the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugaural are the two greatest speeches. Who am I to argue? My personal favourite is the brief address Lincoln gave on leaving Springfield for Washington. It contains two simple sentences that have never cease to make me catch my breadth… in speaking of how much he owes to Springfield, he says
"Here I have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children were born, and one is buried".
The musical balance of the sentences, the pathos of the last phrase, the sad thoughts of a man with intimations that he might not return … the effect has the grandeur of poetry, and great poetry at that.
I contend though that Abe was more than a mere rhetoritician. He had a knack of thinking through everything from first principles, and it is the simplicity of elegance of expressing those principles that makes him the greatest writer and speaker that even held the office of President. His great speeches are classics not just of politics, but of literature.
If Lincoln's Second Inaugural were to be summarized in a single word it would be "karma". This is among the most spiritual concepts ever communicated by a modern leader.
Thoughtlessly polluting, often without productivity, and exploiting or oppressing those poorer for their natural resources like fossil fuels or cheap labor also creates bad karma.
Lincoln was saying in that second address that the Civil War appeared to be the karmic cost of slavery, and climate change could well be the karmic cost for polluting, exploiting and oppressing so that the richest few per cent of us (myself included) could live like kings.
Positive View Points: With the shift of vision from personal wealth and accumulation to sustainability of the greatest number at ever higher sustainable standards humanity just might have a chance. Corporations must look at the lifetime carbon foot print of each product and produce only things with near zero or even negative and then see that said products are available world wide in an economy conducive to ownership by all. Starting with the poor first. You rich guys can coast with what you got for the time being. If you feel guilty you could invest in the future success of us all.
Or: You can sit tight and fight it out with the ever larger starving hoards coming over the horizon.
It is a no brainer in my eyes.
Put Ibsen's An Enemy of the People on your reading list as well.
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5 Pricing Tricks You Might Be Falling For Each and Every Time
Your opponent is a giant. Larger than you could ever hope to grow and intent on getting every last dime you have. Your opponent is every retailer in the land. It's every store you walk into, no matter you intention. Sure, they do not grab your arm and twist in order to separate you from your hard-earned cash. They are a subtle group that gets you to spend without even knowing that you are being influenced. It's not just pricing that can get you to spend, but also paint colors on the wall, subtle lighting, and a number of other factors. Today, let's just focus on the pricing aspect.
There are a number of ways retailers can influence your purchase patterns with just pricing. Look at gas stations for example. You see $2.12 on the sign, but the price is really $2.129 (close enough to $2.13). They just put that little 9/10 in small letters next to the large price. We gauge our interest based on pricing and we let go of our money based on a perceived deal. Here are 5 simple tricks that they use.
Charm Prices
"Charm price" is retail slang for a price that ends in 9, 99, or 95. The idea is to get you to think the item is cheaper than it actually is. It works because people read from left to right. You see the first number in the price and make a decision as to whether the price is acceptable. So, retailers who want $2 for an item essentially get it by asking $1.99. You think you got a bargain and the retailer thinks that you have been tricked into a purchase you may not have made otherwise.
Round Numbers
This one is a play on the charm price scheme. A business wants to make you think that you are affording a more expensive item by rounding the price to the nearest dollar. The idea is that there are no coins involved in the purchase. The underlying point is that if you wonder about pocket change, then you cannot afford the product.
Who wants to carry around coins anyway? They are a hassle and most banks don't even accept them as deposits. That's just craziness!!
Ten For Ten
Many stores are offering 10 for $10 deals. The hope is that you will not notice that you do not have to buy all 10 to get the low price, or that you may not notice that the same product in a generic offering is actually cheaper. For this reason, you should always check if the per-unit price is truly contingent on buying multiple units. Often it's not. This seems to be a big one in grocery stores.
Limits On Purchases
Retailers want to convey to potential customers that a price is so low that they must limit how many each person gets. Additionally, retailers hope that customers will feel as if the item is scarce and they need to stock up. You used to hear this a lot on TV commercials trying to sell you those novelty coins or collective plates: "Limit 10 units per customer." These days, this tactic seems to be gaining traction online as well, especially in the internet marketing community. For example, you will come across a website that exhorts you: "Buy Now! Only Five Spots Left!" Of course, if you check back two weeks from now, chances are these numbers won't be different.
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Buy-one-get-one-half-off deals are a favorite trick at retail outlets. Shoes stores seem to be very fond of this one. The idea is to get you to spend even more because you can get the next pair half off. Actually you could save even more by only buying one pair and going home. You will see these types of deals often. While shoe stores run them on a daily basis, even grocery stores run these deals. People salivate over getting a pair of shoes for 50% off, but if you are buying another pair you didn't intend, then you are paying more and not saving anything.
If you do fall for any of these pricing tricks, then follow my impulse purchase savings plan. It will help you put more money away after you fall for these pricing tricks. When I do something like this (we're all human after all), I make sure to stick the money in my Capital One 360 savings account or my Betterment account.
The tricks are so simple a third-grader could spot them, but they are so effective that millions of retailers use them around the world. Your best tool is to comparison shop and take advantage of any price-match guarantees that a retailer may have.
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My wife constantly falls for 10 for 10. I finally have shown her that most places you do not have to buy all 10 to get the deal. There are a couple places you do and the sign explicitly says that.
My other favorite is the "Price Cut" sign. It makes people think it is on sale when they are really just lowering the price on the item indefinietly…
Grocery stores are notorious for these "10 for 10" or "5 for 5" offers. Honestly, I didn't realize that you didn't have to buy the full 10-count until a friend of mine learned this strategy in a marketing class back in college. Man, I'd been getting hoodwinked for years!
Marketers are good! True that generics are often cheaper than the amazing buy dozens to get one 10% off offer. Here in Guatemala people are using both metric and imperial system, which makes it so hard to compare prices of 250 grams of cheese against a pound, or 32 floz against one liter… Pretty sure they do it on purpose to confuse customers.
Wow, the combination of metric and imperial measurements has got to be a real pain! That's just too much math at the grocery store 🙂
Most of the grocery stores in the US provide a price per ounce or similar, which can help you determine what your most affordable option is.
Good post! Marketers are smart & they know what they're doing. Our business is in advertising and I am generally amazed at how they get us to fall for some tactics. I say go generic as much as you can and be an informed consumer, that's one of the best ways to beat them at their game.
Yup, you've got to give those marketers credit when you know exactly what they're doing, and yet you can't help but succumb anyhow!
It's very easy to make people feel like they're getting a deal, plus they use our laziness against us. You should always be very sceptical of special deals.
The one I see all the time now is advertisements that scream SAVE up to 75% OFF ON EVERYTHING IN THE STORE, where the 'up to' is in small characters and is one-third the size of the rest of the text. People go in believing that every item is 75% off, where in reality, one item could be 75% off and everything else regular price, yet they're still technically telling the truth.
After seeing an ad that is offering up to 75% off I always wonder what happened that allowed a store to discount their prices so much. Why not offer the item at the lower price year-round and help the average Joe out?
Thanks for the Ten for Ten tip, I was not aware that prices may be independent of quantity of items purchased. This is really tricky! I'll have to look out for it next time I see ten for ten pricing scheme 🙂
Glad the article taught you something new, Veronica!
I love the 10 for 10 deals that don't require the minimum purchase to actually be 10 units–I'll buy what I need/what I'll use and enjoy the savings 🙂
Limits on purchases never work as people will go in and out or simply go to another shop. They can't possibly track how many shops a customer is going to and how many they aregetting. If we want more we will go get more or the wife will get the limit then I will get the limit. I don't get involved in those 10 for 10 deals but you are right. Often if you read in small print it may tell you that the prices are $1.00 each but you can get 10 for 10 hahaha.. and people are grabbing them like it's an amazing deal. Ya, the deal! Great post. Mr.CBB
Haha, so right Mr. CBB. There is no way for stores to really check the amount of purchases per customer, and who would really limit this anyway? And for the 10 for 10 deals, all you have to do is read the small print. As someone said above, it's really just marketers taking advantage of consumer laziness!
One common thing I see at grocery stores is the 2 for 4 on milk. However, when you go to the store a lot of times people don't just buy one thing and usually end up buying more stuff because they realize they need something else as well.
Recently I bought 3 packages of English muffins because they were buy 1 get 2 free. BF thought I was nuts (there are only two of us). I froze two packages and we're using one. When I did the math it was an OK deal (I've gotten better prices during sales with a coupon), but it did feel like I was getting a great deal when I bought them. Tricky marketers.
Back when I was into "extreme couponing", I admit I fell for that whole 10 for 10 thing more times than I care to remember. My husband finally had to explain that I didn't have to buy 10 for 10 to get the deal 🙂
People simply do respond to promotions, its a common marketing tactic in the arsenal of retailers. The most creative ones trick the customer into thinking its a great deal, while really its just configured in such a way as to maintain the retailer's margin.
Thinking about wants and needs, and asking ourselves if we would buy it if it was full price is a good way to resist such issues.
On trick that is not mentioned here is all the "gift cards" you get. They are the biggest gimmick ever since almost everyone seems to "forget" about them at one time or another. They also make you spend more since you want to use up all its value.
So true, Brian. Either you forget about the card and never spend it, or you overspend trying to use up the card. This seems to happen even with those Visa gift cards that work like a debit card.
I live in the southwest where tourism is big and "going out of business" sales are a professional marketing strategy. In another lifetime I was in upscale specialty retail and people would come into my store asking if they could get a deal like in the stores that are going out of business. I said "you have to ask how long they have been going out of business and when they will be finished. My prices are "stay in business prices." The bottom line is people have to be more aware and ask questions.
Great advice! I remember the revelation I had when I finally noticed I didn't have to buy 10 items to get the discount.
I also heard that charm pricing originated so small shops could keep track of how many items they sold in a day. If there was 60 cents in the register they know that 40 items were sold (obviously before the time of sales tax)
Great post Grayson. Whenever I shop, I first compare prices. Then, after going to each store, I decide which one is my target. That's the time I haggle or ask my wife to do it. When the sales person declines my offer, I kinda leave the store or say that I am gonna look for cheaper products. Usually, they give in to my offered price. If not, I'd look further. Consumers nowadays should be smarter than them. 😀


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HSBC Draws Cross-Claims in Madoff Trustee Feeder-Fund Suit
Alpha Prime Fund Ltd. and Senator Fund SPC, two funds sued along with HSBC Holdings Plc by the trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's firm, filed so-called cross claims against HSBC to try to recoup damages they incurred in the fraud.
HSBC, which acted as custodian for the funds, failed in its duty to monitor Madoff and profited from his Ponzi scheme at their expense, Alpha Prime and Senator Fund said in a filing. The London-based bank is therefore "liable for any damages accrued by" the funds, they said in the May 27 filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.
HSBC is "the direct cause of the loss of hundreds of millions of Alpha Prime's dollars and tens of millions of Senator Fund's dollars," they said.
Irving Picard, the Madoff firm's trustee, sued HSBC and a dozen feeder funds for $9 billion in December, saying they should have known of the fraud. HSBC, Europe's biggest lender, has asked a district court judge in New York to dismiss Picard's suit, saying it didn't know of the fraud and lost $1 billion of its own money investing in funds that in turn put money with Madoff.
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In an e-mailed statement to Bloomberg in March, HSBC said that "KPMG did not conclude in either of its reports that a fraud was being committed by Madoff. HSBC did not know that a fraud was being committed and lost $1 billion of its own assets as a victim," the bank said.
According to Alpha Prime and Senator Fund, HSBC failed to verify trades reported by Madoff, even though that was its duty as custodian. If the bank had done so, it "would have seen that trades were allegedly executed at prices outside the daily range of prices of such securities on the days in question," the funds said.
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Two simple questions, two simple answers. I want people to sit down and think about this a moment; who are you? Why are you?
This is also my response to someone who asked about my hobbies and why I do things the way I do.
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Description: "Savage Grace" tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, the dashing heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Beautiful, red-headed and charismatic, Barbara is still no match for her well-bred husband. The birth of the couple's only child, Tony, rocks the uneasy balance in this marriage of extremes. Tony is a failure in his father's eyes. As he matures and becomes increasingly close to his lonely mother, the seeds for a tragedy of spectacular decadence are sown. Spanning 1946 to 1972, the film unfolds in six acts. The Baekelands' pursuit of social distinction and the glittering "good life" propels them across the globe. We follow their heady rise and tragic fall against the backdrop of New York, Paris, Cadaques, Mallorca and London.
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