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Behold the baby bump — decorated, celebrated and ready for its Facebook close-up.When Melissa Johnson-Stewart was pregnant with her second child, Olivia, she hired a body painter to decorate her swollen tummy.She had it painted like a Christmas ornament for her December baby.She loved it so much she did the same with her third child, whose bump briefly became a big ol' orange pumpkin before she delivered Jamal in October."I was basically documenting their arrival and how excited we were," said Johnson-Stewart, 38, who lives in Liberty, Mo. "That's really what it all boils down to. And to have something different that I felt was meaningful to us."Pregnancy belly art has taken on a life of its own.For starters, belly painting. Mommies like Johnson-Stewart hire body artists to draw anything and everything onto their stomachs. (Our favorite: a bun in an oven.)Hip (and more patient) mamas go with henna, embellishing their bumps with elaborate tattoolike designs that last a few weeks.And check out the keepsake belly: a 3-D casting of the bump to hang on the living room wall."A large, pregnant belly is hard to ignore. For some women, it's a canvas . . . there's something about our pregnant bellies and curves that begs to be adorned," writes one Oregon mom on Pinterest, where she has posted a gallery of bodacious bellies.One has a pregnancy belly ring dangling from the belly button.Yeah, they make those.Kristi Darby had her tiny pots of vegan body paint mixed by the time she arrived at Wendy Orlando's home in Lenexa, Kan., a few weeks ago.Orlando was ready, too. Sitting on a chair at her kitchen table, she wore black leggings and a black sports bra, her belly fully exposed."I've seen this online," said Orlando. "It's just a fun way to have a memory of what I looked like at this moment."Celebrity moms have fed the belly-painting craze. In March 2011, when singer Mariah Carey was pregnant with twins, she had a blue-and-pink butterfly painted onto her huge bump, calling it her "attempt at festiveness."Some women like an audience and have their stomachs painted at a baby shower. Darby, a body painter, paints most of her baby bumps in more private settings.Orlando wanted a photo of her painted stomach for the nursery. The baby, a boy due July 6, will be the fourth child in her and Damon Earnshaw's blended family.Her stomach was so big that she couldn't see past her belly button as Darby painted. After about 45 minutes, Darby handed her client a mirror to get a good look."Oh my gosh," Orlando gushed when she saw the little gray elephant now sitting on her tummy. "Look how cute he is."Dumbo elephants are conservative on the belly-art spectrum. A quick Google search for "belly art" demonstrates how creative — we mean creepy — some women get.Sweet ladybugs, sporty mascots and seasonal poinsettias are child's play compared with the unsettling image of a baby trying to rip his way out of Mommy's tummy.The most eye-catching designs, perhaps obviously, are round. "Pumpkins are easy to do," said MJ Matthews, owner of Sister Act Face Painting in Overland Park, Kan.Orlando was 29 weeks along in her pregnancy, an optimal time because the stomach "is that great basketball shape" by the seventh and eighth month, Matthews said.Some painters don't like to work on clients beyond the eighth month because mommies are starting "to get miserable and uncomfortable," Matthews said.Another concern: The baby might come, which happened to Matthews in April when one of her clients went into labor on the day they were supposed to paint.The painting would have been less painful. The strokes of a tiny brush against skin can lull a frazzled mommy. Said one mom who fell asleep in a rocking chair as Matthews painted her: "Oh my gosh, this is like a spa treatment."Orlando's baby behaved perfectly, not moving much at all.Squirmy baby? Squirrelly design."It's a really weird sensation," Darby said. "I'll be painting a flower and the leaf is way down there when I'm finished because the baby moved an elbow."Like belly paintings, temporary henna art — a prenatal tradition in some cultures — has gotten a bump in popularity because of celebrities. Singer Alanis Morissette tweeted a photo of her baby bump adorned with henna tattoos when she was pregnant with her son four years ago.Creating henna pregnancy art is much more time-consuming and involved than a typical, one-hour belly-painting session.The drawings can take an hour and a half, but that is just the first part. Once the henna dries, moms have to wait carefully to let the dye soak into the skin; that's the "sitting for eight hours" part.Then they scrape or flake off the dried paste, revealing the design underneath. It takes a day or two for the color to darken. Designs last from one to two weeks.Jennifer Edwards sees her formerly pregnant belly every time she walks up and down the stairs of her home."When you walk in my front door and turn to the left you can see this crazy belly hanging on the wall," she said, laughing. "My grandma is appalled . . . she thinks it's the most repulsive thing."But little Peter, her first-born who is now 2, loves seeing it there."My son and I often stop and talk about 'the belly' and how he was in Mommy's tummy when the cast was made," said Edwards, 29, the local manager for a St. Louis-based wireless company. "He loves to be lifted up so he can kiss the belly."The piece was created by husband-and-wife artists Andy and Jackie Resch, owners of Divine Designs Lifecasting in Independence, Mo.Parents themselves, they've been creating pregnancy castings for about six years."Personally, I think there's nothing more beautiful than a pregnant lady," said Andy Resch, an artist of 30 years who belongs to the Association of Lifecasters International."It's funny because it's a real litmus test for people. They either think this is the most beautiful thing they've ever seen and or it's 'Why would anyone want this hanging in their house?' "A pregnancy casting can take many shapes: neck to knees, belly only, belly and breasts, belly and hands cradling the bump."The most popular one is the full-on, high-definition everything . . . neck to the waistline," Resch said. "It depends on how she feels in her skin and how well she's doing with her pregnancy."The process is messy and gooey and, yes, Mommy is mostly naked the whole time.Resch likens the casting process to "getting an impression done of your teeth at the dentist."In fact, the product he uses to create the mold, a compound called alginate that contains seaweed, is basically the same substance used to make dental impressions.They smooth it onto the woman's body with their hands, working quickly because it sets up quickly. Before it hardens, they press strips of cotton gauze into it to give the next layer something to stick to.Over that they build up five or six layers of plaster gauze strips.After about 20 minutes, it's time to pull the mold from the belly, carefully. Before they tell the mom to hit the showers they check to make sure "there are no catastrophic failures that would cause us to redo it," Resch said.While Mom is getting cleaned up, he mixes the casting product to pour into the mold, again working quickly because the alginate compound shrinks as it's exposed to air.The casting must sit untouched for at least a week before Resch finishes it. "This isn't just pull it out of the mold, slap a coat of paint on it and have a nice day," he said.If a woman has an imperfection she doesn't want to show, he will fix it. He sands off scars, patches holes left from piercings.Some moms want their casts decorated. He has applied seashells, silk roses and appliques to castings. Painted, gold-leafed, bronzed and otherwise gilded, belly castings can take on museum-quality life.From start to finish, a casting takes three to four weeks to create. When Edwards saw hers, plain and white at her request, she was speechless.It still gives her goose bumps."We make another human being inside of us. That's Earth-shattering," she said. "It's crazy to think about. And that is the constant reminder that my body is amazing and so blessed."So sorry, Grandma. The belly stays on the wall.
How much does it cost?
Belly painting: About $30, but varies by design, location and time of year.
Henna art: About $80 for the first hour, then $70 an hour after that. A session usually lasts 20 minutes to an hour or two depending on how detailed the design is.
Belly casting: About $85 to $100 for the most basic castings, and as much as $800 or more for larger ones.
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"Balkanization" is a splitting into many opposed factions closely located in one area. It ain't good to be Balkanized, but that is what is happening to the Internet, and there is nothing Washington can do about it. The Obama Administration's move to let go of U.S. government control over the naming rights of Internet sites is being viewed as the latest in a long line of U.S. withdrawals from control of the Internet.
As a new DHS Secretary takes the helm, Security Debrief contributors came together for the First Chris Battle Homeland Security Colloquium. In the spirit of the late Chris Battle's vision for debate and discussion on pressing homeland security matters, contributors weighed a series of important questions about DHS' future.
The House Homeland Security Committee did something yesterday it has not done in the past several years, for anyone: it came out in full force for DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson's maiden appearance before the committee. It was a positive performance by the Secretary, who showed himself adept at answering questions, even as his lawyer's instincts kept him from falling into political traps.
On Thursday, February 27, 2014, Security Debrief and Catalyst Partners will host the First Annual Chris Battle Homeland Security Colloquium. Security Debrief's expert contributors will come together to discuss and debate the current state of U.S. homeland security, DHS, and the threats and priorities the country will face in the year ahead.
By Gary Warner
This week, President Obama unveiled a set of guidelines issued by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and a new public-private partnership program. While I join with others in applauding Mr. Obama's creativity in making progress in protecting our nation's cyber infrastructure, it is important to note what is and what is not being addressed by these guidelines. Where, for example, does the Target Breach fall?
Immigration reform continues to occupy the top of the "must do" and "can do" lists of this Administration and many in Congress. At the State of the Union, circumstances were ripe for the President to mount the bully pulpit to build pressure on House Republicans. Yet, immigration reform received only a passing mention. Why?
There are not many agencies with as diverse a set of responsibilities as U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The two pieces of good news for CBP early in 2014 are that the agency appears to be receiving both an infusion of funds and a confirmed Commissioner to help tackle that very diverse mission set.
Of all the big stories to keep your eye on for 2014, what are three, base-level "working-stiff" issues? They are mobile computing, defense readiness, and the connection between Special Operation Forces and intelligence. If we can get these right, it would take us a long way towards better security.
The Honorable Jeh Johnson has been nominated to replace the long departed Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano. Strangely, President Obama has portrayed Johnson as a highly qualified candidate. The President seems to be the only one who is impressed. There are a couple of major holes in Johnson's resume.


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- eatnbmerry Dec 9, 2007 08:37 AM
Of course I am saying BESIDES the ChowHound. I have found a lot of hit or misses out there but Epicurious is better than average. What do the hounds think?
I think Epicurious is the best, but I also use foodnetwork.com and allrecipes.com alot. I prefer sites that allow users to review the recipes. I find the feedback very helpful.
I'd have to agree with diablo, regarding foodnetwork and allrecipes. Usually I google any question and they send me to allrecipes, so they must be doing something right.
Epicurious is my go-to for recipies. Their library is vast and I like saving my favorites online. Reading others' experiences with the recipies is a great bonus.
Sunset magazine and several other mags (Heath, Cooking Light?) have their own online recipie site called MyRecipies (or MyRecipie).com. I haven't had a chance to check it out but I'd love to have all my favorite Sunset ones in one spot!
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if you do decide to check it out, the correct spelling is www.myrecipes.com
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are the sunset mags/cookbooks like southern living for the west coast?
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Similar. Sunset was started much earlier than So. Living. Both now part of the same company. These days Sunset has a more youthful vibe than So.Living IMO. Both have regional recipes, travel, garden focus.
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Not quite. Southern Living is like Sunset for the South,:)
My favorite for recipes and general cooking techniques is that of an L.A. longtime radio cooking show host, Melinda Lee. It can be found at www.melindalee.com. I particularly value her "teaching segments" which give an overview to a general topic, for example at this time of year, she talks about turkeys, discussing everything from selecting them, brining them, and cooking them. I appreciate her site especially for an amazingly easy way to poach chicken breasts, involving submerging them, bringing the water to a boil, and then immediately turning off the heat and leaving them covered for about 30-45 mins -- they come out tender, juicy, and perfect.
I like all of the ones mentioned, but add www.recipezaar.com to that list. It has a rating system and the recipes are easy to look up according to what ingredients, method, etc. I find that the food network is really a difficult place to navigate to find what you really want, and I don't have 2 hours to look for a roast chicken recipe! I also look at manufacturers site (Betty crocker, kraft, etc) and magazines sites for recipes.
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Ty dan,
Good suggestion.
Epicurious.com is my absolutely go-to site. I keep my own recipe book on that site as well. I recently discovered Recipezaar.com and like what I've found so far. The search filter is pretty handy.
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Will have to add recipezaar to my favs.
I rely a lot on www.cooksillustrated.com but for some of the site you have to pay a fee. They do so much testing on the products that I find it interesting to read the "why" as well as the "how" Very similar to the show on PBS and the magazine.
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I like their testing approach too bad its not free, yet :). I do wonder if they are being paid by the shows sponsors in some way and therefore, skewing the test results. Don't you? I remember that consumer reports doesnt accept any sponsorship mula, but consumer review and the other outfits do.
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I can't recall any food sponsors. I'm working from a faulty memory though, so could be wrong. I'm thinking Kitchenaid, some paper towel company, and Robert Mondavi.
I like CI because I can save my favorites and make a grocery list from a menu. Also, there is a forum that is free and a number of recipes are free.
I'm a pretty big epicurious user too -- their recipes (coming from Bon Appetit & Gourmet magazines) tend to work pretty well. FoodTV is not bad either, depending on which show the recipe comes from across . . .
Finally, since I'm in LA, I also check the LA Times Food Section site for recipes that I remember piquing my interest from issues past. But I think that most major papers would have a decent collection of recipes too on their Web sites.
Oh yea, for -ahem- liquid recipes I love Webtender.
FoodTV has a lot more recipes, so I usually head there first. Epicurious, with that very useful users review feature, is a close second. I've also used several of the others already mentioned. Often, however, I'll do a web search and find smaller gems.
If I had to pick one I'd do the search, which will almost always include something from the Big Two.
Check out this site;
Not a whole lot of recipes, but it's all step by step with photos, and has some very interesting things on it!
Here's one I like. It does not have the depth of Epicurious or AllRecipes but I find it helpful.
VegSource is mostly vegan but I just substitute actual dairy. Many of the recipes are very good but a couple sound just dreadful. http://www.vegsource.com/recipe/
My best recipe source is a well phrased Google search. Sometimes I take AllRecipes out of the results ( e.g. lasagna -allrecipes ) because while I appreciate that everyone wants to contribute I don't want to see aunt Elna's toxic version of "lasagna" with Hamburger Helper in the ingredients list.
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In Next, monster damage is expressed as things like "11 (2d8 + 2) damage". I've been rolling the dice, of course, because that's how D&D works. You roll the dice for monster damage.
What would happen if we didn't, though? Has anybody been running sessions just using the flat number? Is that what I'm supposed to be doing? It is the thing not in parens, after all. Obviously it'd speed things up at the cost of (I assume) making monsters more predictable. I don't really want to create situations where it's like, "It doesn't matter if it hits me. It does nine damage", but the speedup is tempting. (Although Next combats are already fast.) Has anybody experimented with this? (Or has everyone but me been doing it this way?)


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A 16–year–old has been arrested for a slew of burglaries including stealing thousands of dollars worth of electronic devices from a Sonic restaurant still under construction.
Acting on a tip, the Mesa County Sheriff's Office arrested Eduardo Christy in connection with five crimes. Authorities say they recovered property stolen in a burglary of a commercial construction site, a theft from a residence, two thefts from automobiles and the stolen electronic devices from Sonic.
All crimes took place over the last two months in the Fruitvale area.
Christy is facing five felony charges and seven misdemeanor. He's being held at the department of youth correction on a $5,000 bond.
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In March of 2011, the Flaming Lips released a limited edition collaborative 12" EP with Neon Indian that lit up the internet. It was a fascinating alliance, but the pictures of the actual vinyl records were just as exciting. No one had ever seen vinyl like this before. Every copy of the record had i ... More >>
Daniel Huffman, known better as New Fumes to fans of magnificently messed-up psych rock, could never been accused of being lazy or even predictable. Whether he's opening up for legends such as My Bloody Valentine, hanging out with his buddies in the Flaming Lips or creating all sorts of mind-bending ... More >>
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Which way do you want to rawk this week? Because there are a number of different ways to do so, given the lineup of concerts that hit Dallas between now and Sunday. If it's metal you're looking for, this should be an especially bountiful week. If it's arena-sized power ballads, you're in luck as wel ... More >>
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Look, you work too hard for blank walls. And that swath of white above your couch, everyone is talking about it. It's time to pony up, and the conspiracists have your back. This year's Art Conspiracy is conveniently scheduled for Saturday, November 16, right after pay day, so instead of blowing tha ... More >>
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As the sands in the hourglass run out here at DC9 HQ, and making year-end lists feels more like penance than pleasurable mental exercise, we thought we'd take a break from quantifying albums and concerts, and instead qualify some of our favorite posts from the last year with an, "Oh man, that was a ... More >>
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Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Casket Girls, Datahowler, New Fumes The Loft Tuesday, November 6 A packed crowd at The Loft was setting its own agenda on Election Night, one that included lots of synth, delay and effects. At the top of the ballot was Black Moth Super Rainbow, a band for which the adj ... More >>
I was just talking to someone the other day about what a great song "Summertime" is, and then yesterday it was announced that Jessica Jordan, a member of Polyphonic Spree, had covered the song as the first single for her new solo project, My Name Is Moses. What up, serendipity. The cover is defini ... More >>
I don't get to tour the entirety of Darcy Neal's house, but there are no working televisions in the space. She leads me through the back door of the house she shares with her roommates on Bernard Street, one block east of UNT, and into a small living room area. Here, along with other temporarily dea ... More >>
I really didn't know what pouring vinyl entailed when local musician Daniel Huffman asked if I wanted to sit in on a job Thursday afternoon. I envisioned the act of pouring, and then an actual record, but the in between part was vague. I just said yes and drove over to A&R Records on Riverfront. T ... More >>
Today, we mark Gary Numan's 54th birthday with a Covering Tracks homage by Dallas' own New Fumes. The godfather of synth-pop is still going strong, touring extensively last year, performing 1979's The Pleasure Principle in its entirety and providing guest vocals on the Battles track "My Machines." W ... More >>
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Those Darlins perform at Rubber Gloves tonight.We've already had a busy week of shows, but that doesn't mean the weekend's shows will be spare. There's actually quite a few nice choices this weekend. Let's start by re-capping the oneswe've been mentioning all week.Tonight, Those Darlins will brin ... More >>
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New FumesIn a few week's time, we'll have a piece in the print edition in which we discuss with Tim DeLaughter all that he has in store -- not only with the Polyphonic Spree or with his solo and new band recordings, but also with his new business model at Good Records Recordings, which is finding ... More >>
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The Flaming Lips, Neon Indian, New FumesFebruary 3, 2011Palladium BallroomBetter than: realizing that you have the most beautiful face.Mattie StaffordWayne Coyne sits atop a bear during the Flaming Lips' set.In many regards, last night's performance from the Flaming Lips was exactly like the two ... More >>
Tim DeLaughterToward the beginning of last night's show at the Palladium, as Daniel Huffman's New Fumes project washed the slow-to-arrive Flaming Lips crowds over with his own, instrumental brand of psychedelic pop, Good Records, Polyphonic Spree and Tripping Daisy mastermind Tim DeLaughter was a ... More >>
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Tuesday evening brings a couple of decent triple-bills and a tandem of sensitive singer-songwriters to our area for your musical enjoyment. Which is as good an excuse as any to leave the house tonight.
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Local musicians put the mikes down and pick up the pens to choose their favorite albums
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Have you ever thought your life would be, like, *so* much easier if you lived the sort of beachy, carefree lifestyle you've always dreamed of? Does it feel like you're always the one curled up in bed listening to the rain while everyone else posts their gorgeous Instagram happy shots? Well fear not, as it's totally normal to feel a little FOMO when confronted with all the #happy #YOLO #wishyouwerehere hashtags.
Thankfully, though, these were all things that the team at Jetpac ignored when they set about identifying the happiest countries on Instagram. Instead, they analysed some 150 million publically available photos, identifying faces and smiles and measuring the width and curvature of each smile to find out who is happiest.
The upshot? Well, it won't come as a surprise that the, er, sunniest countries are sunniest. Brazil, Nicaragua, Colombia and Bolivia all fared well, while the UK came in at a dismal 62nd. Check out our gallery of the top five happiest countries in the world. And let's all smile a bit more maybe. At least for social media eh?
The top 20 in full
1. Brazil 60.8
2. Nicaragua 59.4
3. Colombia 49.8
4. Bolivia 48.1
5. Costa Rica 47.4
6. Honduras 47.2
7. Venezuela 45.2
8. Philippines 44.8
9. Guatemala 42.0
10. Mexico 40.1
11. Macedonia 40.1
12. Kazakhstan 39.6
13. Panama 39.4
14. El Salvador 36.2
15. Ecuador 35.3
16. Moldova 34.1
17. Netherlands Antilles 34.1
18. South Africa 33.6
19. Romania 33.4
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Relish wireless broadband aims to shake up market with ad push
Relish, the new wireless broadband provider from the Hong Kong telecoms PCCW, has launched a campaign to promote its central London "plug and play" service.
Relish: kicks off ad push
The campaign was created by The Corner, which won the business earlier this year after a competitive pitch. It includes outdoor, press and extensive experiential activity.
Sally Sommers, the head of marketing at Relish, said: "The Corner impressed us during the pitch with innovative strategic and creative work that really understood the market and our brand."
The creatives behind the campaign included Joe Stamp, Tom Prendergast, Matt Lancod and Rob Amstell.
Relish delivers its home broadband plug on branded motorbikes and in "pizza-style boxes", an idea The Corner presented during the pitch.
Neil Simpson, a founding partner at The Corner, said: "Relish is one of those transformational products which are fantastic to work on. So far we have produced everything from advertising to some exciting experiential that will be hitting the capital's streets in the coming weeks."
Relish promises to deliver its "plug and play" devices the next working day in central London. The unlimited service costs £20 a month for homes and £25 for businesses and customers do not need to take a phone line or sign up to a long contract.
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In the 1950s, Frederick Herzberg studied employee retention and motivation and eventually came up with his duel dimensional job satisfaction theory, noted J. Michael Syptak, M.D., David W. Marsland, M.D., and Deborah Ulmer, Ph.D., writing on the American Academy of Family Physicians website. Herzberg believed that the two dimensions of job satisfaction are dissatisfiers (he called them "hygiene" issues) and satisfiers, also called motivators. His theory was that employees can be retained through minimizing dissatisfaction and maximizing satisfaction. Dissatisfiers include factors such as administration, company policy, working conditions, supervision, relationships and salary. Satisfiers include the job, promotion, achievement, responsibility and recognition.
Employee Retention Theory
Businesses invest a significant amount of time, effort and resources into their employees, from hiring to training and motivation. The loss of employees not only removes talent from a business, it also represents a loss of the company resources invested in the employee. Employee retention theory is philosophy centered on considering why employees leave a company and what can be done to keep them.
Herzberg's Theory
Company Policy
Rules and policy have the potential to lead to employee dissatisfaction, with little potential to motivate employees. Administrators cannot do much about rules and policy to increase satisfaction, but dissatisfaction can be decreased through keeping rules to what is necessary and ensuring that everyone is held to the same standards. Fair and necessary rules help retain employees.
The enforcers of company policy can lead to employee dissatisfaction for the same reasons as the actual policy can frustrate employees. Supervisors have a difficult position and administrators can minimize the dissatisfaction of both employees and supervisors by ensuring that they pick the right leader for the supervisor position.
The Job
The work that the employee is doing is ideally a satisfier, though in some cases it can be a dissatisfier, one that can lead to losing the employee. Most people enjoy working in a job that they feel is a needed contribution to society. Administrators can enforce this idea through discussions on the importance of the work. Community value can be added through business outreach programs.
Responsibility seems like it might be a dissatisfier, but it's really a satisfier. Employees enjoy the freedom that additional responsibility affords them. The idea that they are able to do work independently appeals to the majority of employees. To increase satisfaction and retention, added responsibility should not mean more work, just more freedom. Additional work should come as job advancement.
Advancement and promotion lead to employee satisfaction. Promotion should be earned, however; seeing others advance unfairly could lead to dissatisfaction. Loyalty, productivity and quality performance are all valid reasons to advance an employee. Opportunity for promotion helps retain employees because they feel that their work and financial future can be improved through effort. Promotion lets employees know they are valuable and that recognition also helps with the retention effort.
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To further enhance its position in the supply of clinical-trial materials, Catalent Pharma Solutions has agreed to acquire the clinical-trial-supplies business of Aptuit for $410 million on a cash and debt-fee basis.
"This transaction builds important expertise, scale, and capability for our Development & Clinical Services business to better meet our customers' needs globally," said John Chiminski, president and CEO of Catalent, in an Aug. 22, 2011, press release. "This transaction also strengthens Catalent's global leadership in development solutions and advanced delivery technologies for drugs and biologics."
Catalent's Development & Clinical Services business offers clinical-supply services, analytical chemistry, respiratory-product development, regulatory consulting, and biologics cell-line development. Catalent says the acquisition positions the company as the number two provider globally in clinical-supply solutions. Catalent offers development services, advanced delivery technologies, and supply solutions for drugs and biologics. The company employs more than 8000 people at 24 facilities worldwide and generated more than $1.7 billion in annual revenue during fiscal year 2010, according to company information.
After exiting the clinical-trial materials supply sector, Aptuit will focus on discovery through mid-phase development. "This agreement puts Aptuit in a better position to focus on the scientific excellence that our customers want," said Timothy C. Tyson, chair and CEO of Aptuit, in the press release. "Focusing on our expertise in discovery and development services leverages our leadership position and allows us to concentrate on delivering high-growth, high-value scientific services from discovery to mid-phase development."
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Same as soybeans, both are used as a MEAT substitute.
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a girl's best friend.
i don't need you!!!!!! I've got a dildo that is 8 inches longer than your dick!!!
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i thought it would be funny to shove a dildo in my boyfriend's ass when he wasn't looking to see how he felt about anal sex, but for some reason he didn't like it.
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Why Bread and Water Is Bad For You
Why? Judge for yourself:
Research on bread indicates that
1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.
4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!
6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and osteoporosis.
7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.
8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.
9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
12. Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.
In light of these frightening statistics, it has been proposed that the following bread restrictions be made:
1. No sale of bread to minors.
2. A nationwide "Just Say No To Toast" campaign, complete celebrity TV spots and bumper stickers.
3. A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills we might associate with bread.
4. No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to children) may be used to promote bread usage.
5. The establishment of "Bread-free" zones around schools.
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A student at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair, April 26. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment. In his project he urged people to sign a petition demanding strict control or total elimination of the chemical "dihydrogen monoxide."
And for plenty of good reasons, since:
* it can cause excessive sweating and vomiting
* it is a major component in acid rain
* it can cause severe burns in its gaseous state
* accidental inhalation can kill you
* it contributes to erosion
* it decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes
* it has been found in tumors of terminal cancer patients
He asked 50 people if they supported a ban of the chemical.
* Forty-three (43) said yes,
* six (6) were undecided,
* and only one (1) knew that the chemical was water.
The title of his prize winning project was, "How Gullible Are We?"
He feels the conclusion is obvious.
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The statistician sat in horrified silence. He finally mustered the courage and said, "My good friend I'm sorry to inform you but you had a net loss of 4%!!!"
... This little tale illustrates how pervasive innumeracy is in our society. Always remember, "Percent of What?"
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Most people in Moscow flee to the underground bomb shelters at night, except for a famous Russian statistician who tells a friend that he is going to sleep in his own bed, saying that "There is only one of me, among five million other people in Moscow. What are the chances I'll get hit?"
He survives the first night, but the next evening he shows up at the shelter. His friend asks why he has changed his mind. "Well," says the statistician, "there are five million people in this city, and one elephant in the Moscow Zoo. Last night, THEY GOT THE ELEPHANT!"
"Cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy. It dn'seot mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm."
Everyone knows this about this amazing fact, but... try to read this exerpt from a STATISTICAL PAPER in the same way:
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Pretty hard to figure out what it means, isn't it? This is because the original text itself is not any better :) Here it is -
"Multivariate analysis states an isodensity contour ellipse is the intersection of a plane parallel to the xy-plane and the surface of a bivariate normal distribution."
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12. Bread consumed while inhaling oxygen increases the risk of falling down the stairs tenfold while holding on to the railing with one hand and a chicken in the other.
- Bev said...
Funny, funny stuff. Who would of thought that bread and water could cause such problems.
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The next post will be "what happens to your body when you eat bread and drink water"!
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Very cool.
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So...if you were to say, not actually eat "bread"...but rather, all the ingredients of bread, one item right after the other, and then drank a full 8 oz of bottled water, and then went to the tanning bed....would your belly rise, and then a loaf thereby be made?? ;)
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dihydrogen monoxide.!!!!!!!
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One important statistic was left out here: virtually every user of heroin reported using bread before getting into heroin.
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And yet for many people bread is so toxic it causes cancer and many other health problems. In fact studies show celiac and type one diabetes are incredibly linked in terms of mechanisms and heritability ... And you thought bread was safe? Whatever the heck gave you that idea?
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cigarettes are worse - no comment:)
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YESSSSSSSSSSSS THANK YOU FOR THIS!!! my cable was supposed to be installed today and the guy never came. i thought i was gonna miss this!
thanks Rickey.org for this Live Stream Feed of The Voice-Finale! Go Dia! Go Javier! Go Team Blake/Team Adam! Go Team Bromance! \m/
OMG .... Thanks soo much for the live stream Rickey ...
Judges are soo much fun and young and talented of course ..
LOVING LOVING LOVING this show!
the voice is slaying american idol
Totally agree. Hubby (not a big reality TV fan) said this is 1000% better than American Idol. I think he low-balled that figure!


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Category:Naumann, Ernst
Free public domain sheet music from IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
Ernst Naumann(15 August 1832 — 15 December 1910)
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=Alternative Names/Transliterations: Ernest, Karl Ernst Naumann, Carl Ernst Naumann
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Any body??
In the process of setting up Adito in replacement of SSL explorer as the server is dying...
Managed to get it installed and can login, set up applications etc. But if i try to connect to an RDP session or anything else the agent downloads and then errors with a message of "the adito agent failed connect". Any body have any idea why this is happening?
Any body??
I thin it creates a log in the user profile on the local machine? sslexplorers is called .sslexplorer.
And are you trying to rdp from internal as it never worked properly that way
was trying to set it up from home last night
As far as i can work out its set up the same as SSL explorer. Marty sorted out the networking side of it etc
(Y) cool might do as Jane is dying
VMware vCenter Converter, Convert Physical Machines to Virtual Machines
Its free. I've set it up a few times and its rather fidderly with the underlying permissions.
I'm also having the same issue on 12.04 ... Clean install. Another issue that is more concerning is now I cannot login even with the superuser . I restarted the ant service but still no luck. I check the logs
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Technology Follows Performance
This worksheet and song examples were mentioned in Chris Judah-Lauder's "President's Message: Technology Follows Performance" in the Fall, 2014 issue of The Orff Echo.
Worksheet (pdf): Down to E Garage Band Project
Audio Example: "Down to E"
Audio Example: "Indigo Blue Arabatzis"
Creating Songs With Sounds and Rhythms From Nature
by Jean Young
In the fall 2014 issue of The Orff Echo, author Jean Young describes how she uses impressions from the wild natural world to craft songs for children. Listen to the full version of A Beaver, one of the songs discussed in her article "Creating Songs With Sounds and Rhythms From Nature."
Assessment: Perceptions and Challenges of General and Choral Music Teachers
Practical Strategies: Aligning Orff Schulwerk and Common Core State Standards
Reflective Technology: Using Recording Tools in the Music Classroom
By Dave Thaxton
Listen to a sound recording of the spontaneous music creation referenced in the article: Reflective Technology: Using Recording Tools in the Music Classroom by David Thaxton, found in the Fall 2013 issue of The Echo.
Learning Through Exploration and Play
©2007 by Peggy McCreary
"An article with enticing illustrations in the Summer 1998 Orff Echo, "Learning From Orff Instruments," by Giovanni Piazza, had a profound affect on my teaching. I tried some of the ideas in my classroom and began taking pictures. Each year I think that the students have invented everything possible, yet they amaze me again and again."
The complete article contains many photos, so files may take a few moments to download.
Designing with Bars
Classroom Setups / Breaking the "Rules"
Children's Discoveries
Musical "Playgrounds and Toys"
Author Bio
Building the Fence Directions
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Rapunzel Lyrics - Dave Matthews Band and Dave Matthews
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Ha, open wide
Oh so good I'll eat you
Take me for a ride
In your sweet delicious,
Perfect, little mouth
There upon I linger
You will have no doubt
That I do my best for you
I do, ooh..
Let's start to get it going
Lost myself just thinking
'Bout the two of us
From each other drinking
Begin with the lips
Fingertip and kissing
Turn me inside out
That I do my best for you
Up and down we go
From the top you push me
This is such a thrill
lost in love and dancing
Shake your tambourine
You blow my head open
Of one thing I'm sure
That I do my best for you
I do...
For you I would crawl
Through the darkest dungeon
Climb a castle wall
If you're my Rapunzel
You let your hair down
Right in through the window
Good they locked the door
'Cause I do my best for you
I think the world of you
All of my heart I do
Blood through my veins for you
You alone have all of me
I give my world to you
And to you I will be true
Too good to be real
The smell of something cooking
My soul up to steal
Of my food we're filling
What you've been given me
For it there's no measure
Of one thing I know
Is I give my best for you
I think the world of you
With all of my heart I do
This blood through my veins for you
You alone have all of me
From you my strength is so full
To carry your burdens, too
I give my word to you
Hips Locked up so tight
You drive me crazy
Crazy is alright
With you looking at me
You make me feel high
Every single thing you do to me
Is like I'm drunk
I do my best for you I do
Given me, given me the shivers
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This song really puts into action thoughts, music, and life in general. It shows us that it's not all about catchy beats, and dance breaks. It's about the flow, the lyrics are amazing.
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Farmers Field waiting on NFL team
LOS ANGELES -- Farmers Field is ready for construction. The only thing left now is the small detail of bringing an NFL team to Los Angeles.
Last month, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved plans to build Farmers Field, a proposed $1.5 billion downtown football stadium connected to an expanded Los Angeles Convention Center. On Thursday, the 30-day window for legal challenges to the project passed with no disputes.
AEG and the Play Fair at Farmers Field Coalition also announced Thursday that recent litigation challenging the project had been settled, clearing the path for Farmers Field to proceed without any further legal obstacles.
The Play Fair Coalition was able to secure commitments from Farmers Field on a wide range of community benefits and measures, including funding for affordable housing, air quality improvement projects, improvements serving bus riders, additional parks and open space, neighborhood improvement plans, and a community team to promote health in the surrounding area.
The centerpiece of the agreement reached by AEG and the Play Fair Coalition is a $15 million Housing Trust Fund that will create affordable housing units in Pico-Union, South Los Angeles and Downtown Los Angeles.
"With this important milestone, for the first time in almost two decades, the City of Los Angeles is finally poised to see the return of the NFL," AEG president and CEO Tim Leiweke said. "With this settlement in place, the project can move forward to spur job creation and offer an even more robust package of measures benefitting the community."
The city council voted unanimously to approve the creation of Farmers Field and the modernization of the Los Angeles Convention Center last month, but the project cannot break ground until AEG secures an NFL team.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell sent a memo to all 32 teams in July stating that any franchise interested in relocating for the 2013 season must apply between Jan. 1 and Feb. 15 of that year, and prove it has exhausted all attempts to remain in its current location.
Farmers Field is now in a position to break ground as soon as a team commits to playing in Los Angeles, similar to a competing stadium proposed by real estate magnate Ed Roski in the City of Industry, which has been ready to push dirt since 2009.
Both stadiums, however, need a long-term commitment from an NFL team before construction can begin. And when and if construction does begin, Leiweke said it will be about four years until the stadium and convention center is finished.
Farmers Field and the future of AEG were put in doubt last month when it was announced that AEG was being put up for sale by its owner, Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz. Leiweke, however, calmed those concerns at committee meetings leading up to the vote, saying he and his executive committee recently had signed long-term extensions and the new owner of AEG would be committed to the project and bringing the NFL back to Los Angeles.
"We're going to cut a ribbon and I'm going to be the one cutting it," Leiweke said. "I may cut my arm off with the ribbon at some point but we're dedicated to getting this project done. We're going to get Farmers Field done, we're going to cut that ribbon, and the new owners are going to be as excited and as passionate as we are."
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The historic Paul Poag Theatre in downtown Del Rio is the home stage for the city's award-winning community theater group, the Upstagers. This venue, with its 1940s Art Deco facade, is a Main Street landmark, once home to the city's premier movie house and now the center for Del Rio performing arts. Half a dozen performances from the Upstagers fill the stage with music, dancing, drama, and comedy each year, but the theater hosts a number of other arts programs, community festivals, and other events, including everything from concerts and dance troupe performances to the annual Del Rio UFO Festival.
The state's oldest winery, in continuous operation since 1883, Val Verde is a local gem. Boutique wines, created by hand in small batches, produce truly outstanding local flavors. Val Verde is a family-owned and operated vineyard and wine making business that has been a part of Del Rio's entire history. Located just off Qualia Drive on the city's south side, Val Verde vineyards are always open for tours, and the winery hosts daily tastings every day but Sunday. Stop by for the wine, but be sure to pick up some locally grown and bottled olive oil of the highest caliber while you are there.


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RETIRED: My Coke Rewards Discussion Thread - 1/11/08 - Keep Off Topic Posts Limited!This is the My Coke Rewards (MCR) Discussion Thread -- 1/11/08
If you want confirmation, go to mycokerewards.com, click faq at the bottom of the page, and click Ask Hank. Then search, "When does My coke rewards end? It will show you that it has been extended!
Lids.com (currently on MCR with gift cards available), has some deep discounted hats, use the following codes:
Newest Reward Info
*Click here for current rewards list or here for Summer Rewards list
07/22/07 11:25pm EST -- Check this thread for updates
Summer Rewards ~ DEAD!Current Promo Codes
My Coke Rewards (MCR) FAQ:
- How can I contact them?
Phone: 1-866-776-6610
email address: firstname.lastname@example.com
Ask Hank feature on the MCR site -- several are reporting errors when trying to use this function- When does the promotion end?
You may enter points up until 12/31/08 (the "Collection Period"). You may keep and redeem any points you have until 01/31/2009 (the "Redemption Period"). January 31st 2009 is the official ending date of the program.- Where are the codes located and what are the associated point values?
Participating Products:
Barq's, Coke Classic, Coke Zero, Dasani, Diet Coke, Fanta, Fresca, Minute Maid, Nestea, POWERade, Pibb Xtra, Sprite, Vault
Point Values:
- When is the next Double Points Day?**Check packaging for a MyCokeRewards Label**20 oz (cap) = 3 points
Unknown at this time. Feel free to sign up at this google group created by nyct to be emailed if Double Point Day information is available.- What rewards are available?
Current List of MCR Rewards hosted on nyct's MCR Google Group page
Phase I rewards updates by eric dickinson *Doesn't work anymore w/new site, but leaving link for reference.- Where do you find all the codes?
Here are a few ways...
- drink soda
- participate/lurk on this board
- ask friends/family/neighbors/co-workers to save
- dumpster diving
- jumping out of their cars when see one on the side of the road
- referring a friend on the site
- ask Maids to save for those who travel
- ask recycling centers to save
- purchase on eBay
- sporting events, zoos, parks, etc
- make trades
- become buddies with vending machine stockers
- become the vending machine stocker- Having trouble entering a 15 digit code? (rlg compiled this info for us)
**Note: new 12-digit codes coming out have some new symbols. See below for valid characters reported**
12-digit Code Allowed Symbols (21)
MCR Symbol Substition Rules for 12-digit codes (3):
.. O (Oscar) is replaced by 0 (zero) (could be the other way around!)
.. S (Sierra) is replaced by 5 (five)
.. 8 (eight) is replaced by B (Bravo)
MCR Not Allowed Symbols for 12-digit codes (12):
.. 1 (one)
.. 3 (three)
.. C (Charlie)
.. D (Delta)
.. E (Echo)
.. G (Gulf)
.. I (India)
.. O (Oscar)
.. U (Uniform)
.. Q (Quebec)
.. Y (Yankee)
.. Z (Zulu)
15-digit Code Allowed Symbols (20):
MCR Symbol Substition Rules for 15-digit codes (6):
.. 2 (two) is replaced by Z (Zulu)
.. 3 (three) is replaced by B (Bravo)
.. 8 (eight) is replaced by B (Bravo)
.. C (Charlie) is replaced by G (Gulf)
.. F (Foxtrot) is replaced by P (Papa)
.. U (Uniform) is replaced by V (Victor)
MCR Not Allowed Symbols for 15-digit codes (8):
.. 1 (one)
.. C (Charlie)
.. D (Delta)
.. E (Echo)
.. I (India)
.. O (Oscar)
.. Q (Quebec)
.. S (Sierra)
Try the Yahoo! MCR Code Widget. Find the widget download by clicking on the "take a tour" link on the MCR homepage and then in the lower left corner look for "Quick Entry Widget" or try this link...Yahoo! MCR Code Entry WidgetTrading Etiquette 101
- Why do people trade caps for flaps?
Maximum of 10 codes can be entered per day staring at noon EST. Those with an abundance of caps (worth 3 points) trade for flaps (worth 10 points) so they can get 100 points a day as opposed to 30. [/INDENT
List of products with codes from MCR Rules-Skipadedodah
Collect points by purchasing and entering codes from specially marked Coca-Cola Classic, Diet Coke, Caffeine Free Coca-Cola Classic, Caffeine Free Diet Coke, Cherry Coke, Cherry Coke Zero, Diet Cherry Coke, Vanilla Coke, Vanilla Coke Zero, Diet Coke With Lime, Coca-Cola Zero, Diet Coke Plus, Sprite, Sprite Zero, Fanta Orange, Fanta Strawberry, Fanta Grape, Fanta Pineapple, Fanta Orange Zero, Vault, Vault Zero, Vault Red Blitz, Pibb Extra, Barqs, Diet Barqs, Caffeine Free Barqs, Fresca Citrus, Fresca Peach, Fresca Black Cherry, Minute Maid Orange Juice, Minute Maid Apple Juice, Minute Maid Fruit Medley, Minute Maid Cranapple Raspberry, Minute Maid Crangrape, Minute Maid Calcium, Minute Maid Ruby Red, Minute Maid Lemonade, Minute Maid Pink Lemonade, Minute Maid Orangeade, Minute Maid Light Lemonade, Minute Maid Light Raspberry, Minute Maid Light Orangeade, Minute Maid Light Cherry Lemonade, Nestea Lemon Sweet, Diet Nestea Lemon Sweet, Diet Nestea White Tea Berry Honey, Dasani, Dasani Flavors Lemon, Dasani Flavors Strawberry, Dasani Flavors Raspberry, Dasani Flavors Grape, POWERade Fruit Punch, POWERade Mountain Blast, POWERade Lemon Lime, POWERade Grape, POWERade Grape, POWERade Strawberry Melon, POWERade Arctic Shatter, POWERade Black Cherry Lime, POWERade Orange, POWERade Option Black Cherry, POWERade Option Lemon, POWERade Option Strawberry, POWERade Option Grape or other specially marked Coca-Cola products,Simon Gift Cards - list of stores that don't have a $1 pre-authorization fee:
$25 Amazon certs ($100 Amazon charges $1)
BestBuy GC
Old Navy/Gap
Bed,Bath and Beyond GC
Walmart GC (for online GC otherewise there is a shipping fee for actual card)
Build a Bear
why trade caps for flaps and vice versa?
Some people can only enter in a few codes a day (some even less), so it makes sense for them to trade away their flaps so that they'll maximize their... umm... pointage (15 points in caps is better than a single 10-point flap).
For the other people, who have caps to spare and can enter in 10 caps a day every day, it makes sense to them to, again, maximize their pointage, by entering in 10-point flaps instead of 3-point caps.
If the trade ratio isn't too one-sided, both parties benefit greatly from trading this way.
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