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When Paul Otellini, Intel's famously reserved CEO first heard the news, he got quiet. "The madder I get, the quieter I get," he says, an important footnote for any Otellini user manual. He was hushed via press conference by Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for competition. "Intel used illegal anticompetitive practices to exclude essentially its only competitor and thus reduce consumer choice in the worldwide market for x86 chips," Kroes read last May from the 542-page decision on an antitrust case charging Intel with unfair trade practices. The fine: a record 1.06 billion euros, about $1.45 billion U.S.
Kroes ended pointedly: "Finally, I would like to draw your attention to Intel's latest global advertising campaign, which proposes Intel as the 'Sponsors of Tomorrow.' Their Web site invites visitors to add their 'vision of tomorrow.' Well, I can give my vision of tomorrow for Intel here and now: Obey the law."
For Sean Maloney, then Intel's chief sales and marketing officer, Kroes's parting shot was a cheap one. "That was almost the most emotional thing about the whole day," he says, his face a storm cloud. "We were bracing ourselves for what was going to happen, and then this sarcastic remark." He makes a motion with his hand, a knife twist in the air.
Chipzilla, as Intel's snarkier critics call it, has a decades-long history of high-stakes litigation, first defending against the Japanese in the 1970s, and lately going toe-to-toe against Advanced Micro Devices. It was former Intel CEO Andy Grove — decidedly not quiet when angry — who was famous for his "silver-bullet test": If you had only one bullet left for your competitors, which one would you shoot?
But to Otellini and Maloney, who was recently elevated to executive vice president, Kroes's slap about the ad campaign had a particular sting. To be on the losing side of a billion-and-a-half-dollar judgment — which they are appealing — is a blow. But to Intel insiders, the ad campaign already signals a new kind of Intel — no less ambitious, but more collaborative, more sympathetic, more human. And greener too. Their past may still haunt them, but the path they are on is far, far different.
Grove famously bet the company on a new chip architecture in the 1980s; Otellini has bet a now far larger company on at least as dramatic a shift — without explicitly calling attention to it. Since Craig Barrett term-limited out as CEO in 2005 (Intel chiefs must retire at 65), Otellini has been subtly remaking the company: aligning with Apple, in a step away from the company's PC-only heritage; pushing the Atom mobile chip, in a dogleg pivot from Moore's Law, the founding axiom behind Intel, that chips get exponentially faster; and embracing new territory, new markets, and new ways of playing with others. The goal is to better compete in a world in which computing is everywhere, from laptops to tractors. Maloney, Otellini's right hand, whose sphere grew dramatically in the company's recent restructuring, has been crisscrossing the globe to tap the deep wellspring of cash that is worldwide government stimulus money. And this past winter, Otellini decided to sink $7 billion into U.S.-based manufacturing, just as other businesses outsourced to limit costs.
There is no better prism through which to see Otellini's reengineering — and his spur to action — than that ad campaign. "I was seriously worried about the timing," says Deborah Conrad, Intel's branding chief. Launched just a few days before the EU announcement, it is Intel's boldest new marketing effort in 15 years: a series of clever — and, yes, funny — commercials emphasizing not Intel's products, but the people who make them. In the first spot, a geeky engineer, the inventor of the USB, struts into a shiny lunchroom and is accosted by fawning autograph hounds and love-struck women. The punch line: "Our rock stars are not like your rock stars." Despite Conrad's concerns, the ad quickly racked up millions of YouTube views, inspiring fans to create T-shirts with the engineer's likeness and prompting a flood of résumés to Intel HR.
For all the economic turmoil, Intel has been delivering: After a brutal 2008, when net income was down 24% from the prior year, the chip maker managed $9 billion in gross revenue for the third quarter of this year, up nearly $1 billion from the previous quarter, beating estimates by a half-billion dollars. Investors are noticing. At press time, the share price flirted with its 52-week high, up 36% for the previous six months.
Otellini, an Intel lifer, is not just an agent of change; his ascension is also a sign of this transformation. He is a marketer, not a technologist, in a company of engineers — "though I am a product guy," he asserts, "and I understand and get a kick out of what we make." Otellini has rethought everything from recruiting to leadership training. "The world has changed," he says. "We want talent that reflects that." In a mostly male and engineering-driven culture, he has paved the way for other types of leaders to blossom; there are now more women vice presidents and nontechnical fellows (a special designation, like a corporate emeritus position). He has added ethnographers to study how people around the world use technology, and doctors to help develop medical technology.
These bold moves are gauged to save the company from the generational decline that all tech titans eventually face. The bigger you become, the less likely it is that you'll be able to get in front of the next big thing, something that IBM, Xerox, AOL, even Microsoft know all too well. If Otellini has bet correctly, Intel is positioned to come out of the recession stronger than before — EU be damned.
To visit the fifth floor of the Santa Clara, California, home office, the Intel version of an executive suite, is to step into the storied history of the company. To one side is Grove's cubicle, now mostly stripped of his tools of war; a copy of his autobiography sits atop his desk, strategically placed to power-smile at passersby who peek in. Next to that is Barrett's corner, which has a more lived-in look; he retired from the board only last May. On the other side, Otellini's and Maloney's more-expansive work spaces form a right-angle command center. Maloney's is an explosion of books, papers, photos, and mementos. ("Oh, God," Maloney moans, when I mention having seen his office. "If you think that's bad, you should see my car.") Otellini's is tidier; an outside wall displays a gift from Paul Venables, the adman behind the new branding campaign: a takeoff on Intel's rock-star ad, with pictures of the two Pauls and the copy, "Our Paul is not like your Paul!"
When I sit down with Otellini for the first time, in a conference room on the fourth floor, he makes a poignant observation: He may very well be the last CEO to have worked for all four men who ran the company. "There is very much a sense of a torch passing," he says. He talks about the Intel of the chip wars in the '70s, when everyone worked a dozen hours or more, then guzzled beers and planned the next day's battle. That was the Intel before marriage and kids, when Japan, not AMD, was the big threat, when making a mistake with your manufacturing capacity or your server architecture could take years to correct, putting the bullet in your own head.
Unlike the famously open Grove, Otellini eschews the media spotlight, doesn't write books, and prefers not to talk about himself or his family. "I think very few companies are the culture of one person," he says. "Apple may be the exception." Otellini compares himself to Grove only obliquely. "When Andy was yelling at you, it wasn't because he didn't care about you. He was yelling at you because he wanted you to do better," he says. "I just think there are different ways of motivating people in today's workforce."
Talking about leadership, he volunteers, "I'm on the board at Google and I've watched them go from startup to 25,000 people, and it's no longer the culture of Larry and Sergey." I lean in, poised to ask for more details, but he gently signals with an almost imperceptible wave of his hand that, sorry, he's not going there. Later, he says that he believes he can predict the success of tech CEOs in the Valley by separating the ones who "get product" from the ones who don't. As I lean in again, a smile and the hand. So civilized.
In Intel vernacular, Otellini is a "carpet dweller," the mildly affectionate, mildly pejorative term for the nonengineering suits who populate the home office. Carpet dwellers make deals, not things, and for a company that rightly prides itself on the things it makes, Otellini's status was a problem when he first became CEO. "There may have been some rumbles," he concedes.
He took over at a difficult time. Barrett had left the company with a flagging share price and a mess of new product extensions gone so wrong that he literally dropped to his knees at an industry gathering in 2004 and begged forgiveness. "The first two or three years of my CEO tenure were not what I thought they'd be," Otellini tells me. "We had to downsize the company significantly, restructure; we went through some very painful things." He drew on advice from Grove. "Andy told me, 'You will not believe how long it takes to turn the supertanker,' " Otellini recalls. "When you're the third-line manager, you say 'let's go left' and people move. When you are running a 100,000-person organization, it takes a long time for the back of the supertanker to catch up to the bridge." Which was frustrating for him. "It means you have to repeat where you're going and why a thousand times," he says. "And that's not something I was conditioned to do."
Every Intel CEO makes at least one big bet, he tells me, and his was on the Atom mobile chip. Otellini had to sell engineers on the notion that processor speed and PC products weren't going to be their only claim to fame — that convenience and ease of use in a wide variety of devices is also a goal. His quest was what he calls a new "use model" for computing. The poster child became the netbook, a product category that was spawned inside Intel and, even in the teeth of the economic downturn, grew sevenfold year-over-year in the first quarter of 2009. Intel came up with the term "netbook," and, according to Maloney, invested hundreds of people and thousands of hours teaching retailers what netbooks were and how to sell them. "What we've learned is that new category creation is the single most difficult thing in high tech," Maloney says, sounding every bit the carpet dweller. As his team labored over what to call the new gizmo, some engineers remained skeptical. "I suggested 'chickbook,' " smirks Mooly Eden, the techie who led the Centrino chip team. When I tell Otellini, he bursts out laughing: "That was not a name that made it to me."
He can afford a chuckle because the Atom has done far more for Intel than just launch the netbook. It has turned into an ideal product to go inside anything that wants to talk to the Web — from smartphones to MRI machines to vehicle navigation systems to cash registers. Today, some 90% of ATMs contain the chip. "Atom opened up a whole new set of things because it creates mobility," explains Doug Davis, vice president of Intel's embedded computing group. Companies looking to adapt the Atom to their needs even began contacting Intel salespeople asking for help. "It would never have occurred to us that a sewing machine would need the Internet," Davis says, referring to what his team learned from purveyors of industrial machines that download specialty patterns and logos. "There's even an Atom chip in a tractor." Soon, a collaborative system evolved into an open platform, built around the Atom, that's reminiscent of the Facebook developer network: a Web site where customers can get support, product information, and access to motherboards that third-party vendors are building. "We now have 1,500 new 'design engagements,' " says Davis, of the new product lines in the works. "This is unprecedented."
Sean Maloney is inhaling yogurts, one after another, talking animatedly all the while. "Do you want an international story?" he asks, grinning. He doesn't wait for an answer. "You should study the Chinese and social security. They're thinking it through. Trust me, they are going to get it right." We are meeting for breakfast in San Francisco a few days after his return from his sixth trip to China in the past 12 months. He spent the mid-'90s based in Hong Kong, running Intel's sales and marketing activities across Asia and the Pacific Rim. He'd emailed me when he was overseas about China's command and control in the time of swine flu. "They take our temperature every time we go into a government building," he wrote playfully. "Their economic recovery efforts are going quite well, but then again, there isn't a lot of debate over there." At breakfast, he's still nursing a non-H1N1 bug, yet he managed a brisk 20k bike ride along the Bay before our meeting. "I need carbs," he grins, cracking open his third and last yogurt.
Intel, he tells me, has negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding to work with the IT center of the Chinese Ministry of Railways on a massive high-speed-rail project. "It will be more than 40,000 kilometers, by far the largest high-speed railway in the world," he says. Trains traveling up to 300 kilometers an hour will connect the soon-to-be-Wi-Fi'd countryside (also an Intel production) with the city centers. All rail will lead to Beijing.
Maloney expects it to be pricey: "Ten times larger than the $30 billion Three Gorges [hydroelectric dam] project in terms of capital spend and completed in one-third the time." Expect lots of chips, yes, but also teams of Intel engineers on the ground working on everything from hardware configuration to specialized software development — along with the company's first chip-fabrication lab in China, scheduled to open in 2010.
Maloney, like Intel, does more than 70% of his work overseas and has become an avid student of global stimulus packages. It's where the money is. "Look at aggregate private- versus government-sector spending around the world. There is a higher percentage coming from governments in the next five years," he says. Projects in health care, transportation, construction, energy, education, and broadband are shovel-ready, and, he's convinced, Intel-ready. He sees the world as a series of desktops, laptops, and mobiles run by cool, fast servers and chip-rich grids. "We're looking at significantly more than $3 trillion worldwide in a one-time spend," he says of global stimulus projects.
Maloney embodies the ascendance of a marketing mind-set at Intel. The company is hardly abandoning its tech bona fides — after all, it's the engineers who are the rock stars in the new ads — but under Otellini, the culture has opened up, rather than focusing relentlessly inward. Maloney is obsessed with looking out. "How can you educate people in 700,000 villages in India without broadband?" he asks, eyes shining, not waiting for an answer. "You can't." This is where Maloney excels as a salesman; he paints a picture of something bigger at work and makes you believe that everything good in the world — better health; cleaner air; happier, more educated people — depends on technology. His technology. "We're talking a night-and-day difference." He bursts into a smile.
I meet Deborah Conrad for a sushi lunch off of New York's Times Square in June. She marvels that what was once a traffic nightmare is now filled with delighted people lounging in ironically retro lawn chairs. "It's so much more fun now," she remarks. "It was such a simple change to make. And everyone seems so happy."
The rebranding she has shepherded has some parallels with Times Square. "We had become a bit of a mess," she says. The tangle of Centrinos, Pentiums, Cores, and Extremes was its own version of the old Times Square bottleneck. Every iteration of a chip got its own name, and every detail of how every chip was marketed was rigidly controlled — down to where the Intel Inside sticker goes on the machine, where the logo appears in an ad, even where a company rep would stand on stage during a joint product road show. "We were looking," she says, "for a fresh take."
When I meet her again a few weeks later in her Santa Clara office, she talks about the way the alliance with Apple was a turning point for Intel. Like many people who work with Jobs & Co. and live to tell the tale, she occasionally grinds to a halt in mid-anecdote, chastened by a vision of future repercussions and recriminations. "Of course Apple thought ... well ... I don't know ... I suppose I shouldn't speak for them."
In the B.A. era — before Apple — "we had a very specific model for how we did cooperative and joint marketing with computer companies," Conrad explains. "With Apple, it's a totally different set of rules." Their bat, their ball, their game. "Apple doesn't do comarketing or cobranding with anybody." Nor will the Apple folks tell their partners what they plan to do. "We were either going to learn to trust them to do a good job with the product and our brand, or we weren't." So everything you wanted to do or know, they just said no? "Yes, exactly!"
With encouragement from Otellini and Maloney, Conrad — who was the lead liaison between the companies' engineering and marketing teams — flung the doors open, even allowing Apple to film in Intel factories without any idea what it was going to do with the footage. "I said, 'Yeah, don't worry about it, it's going to be great!' " she recalls. "But it was scary."
This collaboration with the famously uncollaborative Apple paid off, though. The Mac with the Intel chip was delivered six months ahead of schedule; the Apple ads were both beautiful and respectful of the Intel brand; and the response from other marketing partners was immediate. "Suddenly everyone wanted to be more creative with our assets," Conrad says.
Intel decided it needed to be more creative, too, and set out to re-visit the Intel Inside program. Conrad made the rounds to ad agencies, explaining how important Intel's technology is to every part of everybody's lives. But when she met with Paul Venables at Venables Bell in San Francisco, he ripped the needle from the record. "I said, 'Really?' " Venables tells me, from his office hard off of Union Square. "You look at every tech company since the salad days of the dotcom boom, and they all take credit for my wonderful existence, every minute of the day." He ticks through the list: computers, mobile devices, set tops, keyboards, software, interfaces. "All that between me and the chip? I think it's a commodity." The Intel folks stared. "Yeah, the air went out of the room," chuckles Venables.
Venables's team then pieced together clips from 20 current tech commercials: beautiful children, languid landscapes, towering cityscapes at sunrise, and, for some reason, lots and lots of flying birds. The commercials were all telling the same message: that the world is changing and technology connects us all in new and powerful blah, blah, blah. "I couldn't believe it when I looked at it," Venables laughs. "What's with all the birds?" His team combined the clips with hilariously earnest text deconstructing the imagery and mocking the birds, creating a Saturday Night Live version of a tech ad. After showing Conrad the mock ad, he sprung a new vision: Intel's great differentiator was its people. The concept won Conrad's heart. "Paul was absolutely right. We were just not accustomed to turning the attention to ourselves in that way."
Nor was Ajay Bhatt, the shy Intel engineer who created the USB. (The actor who plays him in the TV spot won a sitcom role for his efforts, Otellini says.) "My wife said, 'Take your name off this, are you crazy? This is not you!' " laughs Bhatt. "But I decided to trust Deborah." Venables personally sold the concept of the Bhatt "rock stars" ad to Otellini by acting it out for him in his office — and then again for the Intel board. "I did the whole double-point shtick and everything," Venables says, re-creating the character's signature move.
The experience was liberating — Intel's engineers have gotten a boost of pride from the campaign, and consumer response has been viral. And it spawned other liberation efforts — notably "freeing the bong," as Conrad puts it. In Intel-speak, the bong is the five-note tune that has long footnoted every TV ad featuring Intel products. Austrian composer Walter Werzowa had accepted an assignment to evoke "innovation, troubleshooting skills, and the inside of a computer," while sounding "corporate and inviting." In under three seconds. Werzowa, who had never heard of Intel, had his breakthrough by singing the words "Intel inside" repeatedly. But, 15 years and a gazillion bongs later, "it had become background noise," asserts Venables. "The most useless asset in the history of assets."
Conrad embraced the opportunity to reimagine the tune, and the Venables ads finish with a crowd of "employees" singing it straight to the camera. A quick YouTube search will now turn up dozens of amateur bongers, some employees and some not, mangling Werzowa's tune and having fun. Even Dell has gotten into the act. The computer maker had been running a laptop ad featuring actors singing "Lollipop." It asked if it could instead sing the bong. "Our legal guys said, 'What? Are you crazy? It's our asset!' " Conrad recalls. She told Dell yes. "Free the bong!" she exults.
The legal guys are now busy with bigger things, like that $1.45 billion fine. "I know we don't do the things we are being accused of," Otellini says of the EU judgment. Intel is appealing the decision, and he points out that so far the company hasn't had its day in court. The documentation includes emails, some of which were released by the EU in mid-September. At issue is whether the company offered computer makers and a retailer hidden rebates and other incentives to favor Intel x86 chips over AMD's. "You can get 150 million emails from us and God knows how many from everyone else, and you can always find something somewhere," Otellini says. So even as he is trying to open up the company in some ways, he expects to tighten documentation standards. "One of the things that we're accused of is that there must have been something else, other than the contract. Well, there wasn't something else. We are going to write in our contracts that there are no other clauses." Intel's legal strategy may be complicated by the September departure of general counsel Bruce Sewell to Apple.
The subtle balance between encouraging collaboration and protecting against lawsuits is just one of the risks Otellini has to manage. When he made the unusual decision to travel to Washington, D.C., early this year to announce his $7 billion bet on U.S. manufacturing, "no one knew where the bottom was [in the economy], and there was a lot of uncertainty," he recalls. The business case for U.S.-based facilities may not have been clear to others, but to Otellini, it's right out of the Intel playbook: If the company controls manufacturing, it can control quality. "Now, we're going to be a generation ahead." He had another motive, too: "I wanted to get the attention of the government and to send a message to other companies that Intel was investing in the United States at a time of great uncertainty, and that we should reinvest together in the infrastructure of the country." If this was a considered effort to improve Intel's standing for future infrastructure projects, it's not one other companies have picked up on. The response from other business leaders, he says, has been mute. "On the other hand, the President called and said that it was the only piece of good economic news since he'd been inaugurated," Otellini says.
I try to get Otellini to share his assessment of Obama and the job he's been doing. All I get is the hand wave. Maloney, however, isn't shy about sharing his opinion. His face darkens and he wrinkles his nose slightly at the U.S. efforts at stimulus. "It's gone pretty well, considering," he says unconvincingly. "If you're going to spend $100 billion on new railroads or roads, getting your whole population on broadband is cheap." He talks about those who may be left behind without Wi-Fi and mobile access. Then he erupts: "You can get everyone in the U.S. connected on what you'd spend bailing out a third-tier failing bank!" Instead of the Otellini hand wave, Maloney brandishes a fist. "Countries need to have that kind of ambition! There is no excuse for not getting everyone connected. None!"
Otellini is just 59 years old, which means he has six more years before he has to retire. He has put Intel on a more stable path, downsizing in advance, streamlining and focusing the product portfolio, reorienting the culture to an evolving global world. His latest restructuring cleared the decks so he can focus less on day-to-day management and more on blue-sky growth; chances are, he, like Maloney, will spend more time on the road.
In the midst of Otellini's photo shoot for this article, the photographer halts the action as the rock-star ad begins playing on a nearby screen. The photographer and his two assistants laugh and nod as "Ajay" struts his stuff. "This is the commercial I was telling you about," the photographer exclaims, as Otellini watches them watching the ad. Bong. Applause. "Cool!" says the photographer as he picks up his camera again. Otellini throws me a smile. "We think so."
A version of this article appeared in the November 2009 issue of Fast Company magazine.


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The TVA board Monday approved an increase of nearly 10%, blaming sharply rising fuel costs.
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Love, Love, Love! And it was a really simple makeover, so love it more! I thought about lining them with gold paper like Jenny, but decided to try the Metallic Masters I used for the side table (that way the golds would be cohesive, as well). Since my lampshade has a liner, I was able to paint directly on it. Some shades have paper liners, mine is a polyester of sorts, which worked out fine.
See how much is going on...gold finial, silver frame, white liner? Looks like it was patched together. Oh wait, it was! But certainly not the look I'm going for.
Using a small craft brush, I painted around the lip, careful not to get
And did the same along the seam.
Then I switched to a foam brush (to avoid brush strokes showing through when the lamp is on), and painted the entire shade, keeping the lines horizontal.
For a more even coverage and smooth finish, I painted the second coat diagonally. You want to keep the saturation of paint consistent all the way around, or some spots will be darker when the light is on.
The last step was to Rub 'n Buff (yep, using it as a verb now, it's that good) the finial and frame.
Now all the parts are a happy, gold family!
Pretty big difference, no? I love how the gold really pops off the black shade.
It certainly kicks them up a notch, and adds more glamour to the room, dahling!
Hold on to your hats for the money shot....this shows the true glow they give off at night.
I blew this picture out so could see what I mean about getting consistent coverage with your paint, and why I changed directions of the brush strokes between layers. But it's not noticeable in person.
And since I had the paint out, I did a quick layer over the coppery finish of the lamp base.
They looked a little tarnished to me before, but now they have the right about of brightness.
And one more because I just can't get enough.
It doesn't look like a $30 Home Goods lamp any more, does it? I'd better be careful with the gold though, it's close to looking like Liberace lives up in here!


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Indiana experiences cold winters, with a sharp contrast between the northern and southern parts of the state. The north is bitterly cold as it is situated on Lake Michigan. A trip here is excellent for skiing and other outdoor winter activities.
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Last Thursday, September 15, Knockaround held a pop-up shop at Double Break, an art gallery and shop on 5th Avenue in San Diego. As you can see, the joint was jumpin' with a friendly crowd, a table full of shades, and the Knockaround Gorilla hanging out in the front window (luring in curious newcomers from the block party outside). What's more, there was plenty of green to be seen, especially in the form of the Astro Turf—a tasty mint beverage made in honor of National Crème de Menthe Day. A good time was had by all! -Ace
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The personal finance blogosphere has a history of sharing information about finances. This includes information about net worth, as well as sources of income and regular expenses. I've never got too into the practice of sharing the details of my finances with the world; I'm not even that interested in sharing the details of my finances with my family.
When I say that I am reluctant to share the details of my finances with my family, I should point out that I don't mean my immediate family. My immediate family, which right now consists of my husband and my son, know about my finances — they are an integral part of my financial reality.
My husband and I try to teach our son about finances through example, and also by discussing the reality of our financial decisions. While there is no need for my son to know exact numbers in terms of what we make, he does join in discussions about how we will pay for our new flooring, as well as our plans for boosting the retirement account contributions, and what it takes to pay for college.
Of course, my husband has access to all the financial information he wants, as well as exact numbers, and plans for the money. He doesn't show a lot of interest in managing the finances, but he still keeps on top of where we're at, and what makes sense for us. And he's really starting to come around to the idea of only spending on things that are important to us, and really looking for a purpose in each expenditure.
On the other hand, I don't offer details to my extended family, including my parents and siblings. We don't share specifics with my husband's side of the family, either. There's no reason to. My side of the family doesn't pry, and when my husband's mother concernedly asks if we can "afford" something, we just tell her not to worry.
While it's important that those you consider part of your household understand your finances, there isn't a lot of reason to share details with everyone else. There are two big drawbacks to sharing your financial information widely with others:
While you might not mind talking about some aspects of your finances, such as a great deal you are getting, or some of the difficulties you might be facing, you probably don't want to go into great detail. It's often better to be low key about your finances. That way, you have a little less to worry about in the long run.
Many people share their finances with others in order to increase their accountability for better financial decisions. This makes sense to some degree. Sharing your goals can help you add more accountability to your life, and increase the chances that you will follow through with what you should do with your money. Sharing your financial goals can help keep you on the right track.
But do you have to share your financial goals with extended family members and friends? Look for other ways to hold yourself accountable, from setting up with personal finance software to creating goals as an immediate family. My husband and I try to hold each other accountable, and we also know that we have to explain ourselves to our son. That makes things a little easier.
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The number of stray dogs and cats that passed through the doors of the animal shelter dipped in 2012, but staff and volunteers continue to struggle with educating some about spay and neuter programs.
The Los Banos Animal Shelter saw 2,237 animals in 2012, down from 2,378 in 2011. About 70 percent of those animals, or 1,581, were taken by out-of-the-area rescues, returned to owners or adopted locally.
Animal control officer Jason Martin said 141 fewer animals in the shelter at 1000 Airport Road is not substantially fewer, but attributed the high rescue rate to the Los Banos Volunteers for Animals.
"I know we euthanized quite a few less, which is always a good thing," Martin said.
The officer put down 115 fewer dogs and cats in 2012 than the previous year. Martin said a 70 percent rescue rate is high for a city-run facility.
The shelter is run entirely by Martin and volunteers. The fiscal year 2012-13 budget is $101,588, including salary and benefits for the animal control officer, as well as shelter supplies and maintenance, said Cmdr. Ray Reyna. That's about $4,500 fewer than the previous year.
Volunteer Peggy Logan said the facility gets an influx of pit bulls and Chihuahuas, and has a difficult time finding homes for all of them.
"We get more of those in and very few that go out," Logan said.
Volunteers started a spay and neuter program for dogs last year, and one for cats before that. The programs are funded through donations, fundraisers and operations fees.
The volunteers are running a program this month aimed at pit bulls and pit bull mixes. The first 25 people to sign up to get their dog spayed or neutered will receive a voucher for the operation free of charge, assuming the animals fit a handful of requirements.
To sign up for a voucher, leave a message at the shelter at (209) 827-7089.
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Martin said a contributing factor to the problem of feral felines is residents who put cat food out in public places.
"There's nothing legally wrong with what they're doing," Martin said. "They're just adding to the problem instead of helping it."
Martin said residents take food to particular alleys and areas behind businesses for strays and feral animals. Cats won't venture into animal control traps if they're not hungry.
"I don't have any problem with someone feeding a feral cat colony as long as they would spay and neuter them too," he said. "Our volunteers have been more than willing to find low-cost ways to get that done."
Spring is puppy and kitten season. That's the unofficial name for the breeding season for cats and dogs -- and its impact on the community and the city's animal shelters.
Breeding season is nearly year-round, but generally peaks from March to September.
According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, during a year a single unspayed female cat may have up to two litters -- with the potential for four or more kittens to be born to each litter. A dog on the other hand has four to six puppies once a year.
The number of kittens exceeds the number of homes available; the ASPCA estimates 70 million stray cats nationwide. So, most kittens born during this season end up homeless, causing animal shelters to become inundated, the feral population to grow and more euthanized animals.
The cost of spaying or neutering a pet is less than the cost of raising puppies or kittens for a year, according to the ASPCA.
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Andy Russell just turned 40. Happily married with two kids, he lives in New York City and is in an ideal spot financially after scoring big with media ventures like Daily Candy and Thrillist—both of which he helped develop and fund. Doesn't sound like a guy with a heck of a lot to complain about, right?
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This from a guy who, after dating for only two months, took his future wife to Belize to certify her in scuba diving and explore underwater caves teeming with bull sharks. Once upon a time, Russell actually knew how to build experiences that got his heart racing—so after several years of the same old shit, he discovered what he calls a pain point within the niche of solving this "lame dude" dilemma for guys 35 and over who, for whatever reason, have blundered into the muck of social complacency.
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Born in Singapore, but now based in Los Angeles, Corrinne May didn't always think she was going to be a musician. It wasn't exactly looked upon as an ideal career to most practical-minded Singaporeans, who oftentimes steer their children towards careers in law, medicine or business.
Then again, perhaps her mother had an inkling. Named after her mother's favourite song 'Corinna, Corinna', she trained in classical piano from the age of 5 and won her first songwriting competition at 15, modeling her earliest songs after popular songs in the 80's such as those by The Carpenters, U2, Hall and Oates and Abba. She grew up a self-confessed tomboy, choosing to join the cadet corps over the school choir. There, she earned her marksmanship on the AR-15 rifle and spent hours with her fellow platoon-mates shouting military commands and marching up and down her school's parade square. She was also a school prefect at the academically elite, all-girl's Raffles Girls Secondary School, and regularly sent her fellow students to detention over too-short skirt hemlines or too-long fingernails.
Thankfully, that soon gave way to more artistic pursuits. She honed her love for Shakespeare with an honours degree in English Literature at the National University of Singapore, and pursued her passion for songwriting and film-scoring at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating with a Bachelor of Music. She then moved to Los Angeles to pursue her musical aspirations.
She released her debut album Corrinne May in 2001 and the album featured the ballad "If You Didn't Love Me", co-written with iconic songwriters Carole King and Carole Bayer Sager. The album also earned her the "Kerrville New Folk Award" among 600 contenders at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville, TX and the Performing Songwriter Magazine praised the album, calling it a "touching and enchanting record" and likening May's voice to "the haunting otherworldliness of artists like Sarah McLachlan and Sting with the open veracity of Joni Mitchell".
The album was subsequently re-titled Fly Away and released in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore and the title track's music video was featured on MTV Asia. Her song 'Journey' was covered by popular Mandarin singers Angela Zhang and Gigi Leung and became a hit after being featured as a theme song in the Taiwanese drama 'Dolphin Bay Lovers.'
She followed that with Safe in a Crazy World in 2005 and the songs 'Everything in Its Time' (co-written with Carole Bayer Sager)
and 'Save Me' were featured in the Singapore television series 'Chase' which helped to propel the album to the top of the Singapore charts for two weeks. As a result of the album's success, she had a string of
sold-out concerts at the Esplanade Concert Hall and recital halls in Singapore.
2006 saw the release of the Christmas record The Gift which featured a song 'The Answer'. The song featured lyrics by Corrinne May, set to the much beloved tune of 'Jupiter' from Gustav Holst 'The Planets' suite. The album also featured an acapella music setting to the traditional prayer 'Hail Mary'. The Christmas concert held in conjunction with the album's release saw Corrinne performing on stage with a 24-piece choir, an 8-piece string ensemble and a full band. The concert, staged at the Esplanade Concert Hall, was a sold-out success.
Beautiful Seed released by Warner Music Singapore in August 2007 achieved platinum status in Singapore, with sales exceeding 15,000, after achieving gold status within its first month. After debuting the material from the album at a sold-out concert in Singapore's 1600-seat University Cultural Center Hall in August, May embarked on her very first tour of Japan, doing in-store shows to standing room only crowds at Tower Records locations in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka. She also debuted the material for her Los Angeles fans in a full-band concert at the 800-seater Aratani Theatre,
and performed the songs at the Hotel Café, Genghis Cohen and Molly Malones.
In recognition of her contributions to the Singapore and regional music scenes, Corrinne received the Young Composer of the Year award and Wings of Excellence award from COMPASS, the performing rights society of Singapore, in 2007. She was also honoured by her alumni, the National University of Singapore who presented her with the 'Outstanding Young Alumni Award', and she represented Singapore at the MIDEM conference showcase in Cannes, France in 2008.
In 2010, Corrinne May was commissioned to write the National Day Theme Song for Singapore's National Day. She sang her composition 'Song For Singapore' at the Padang in front of a 40,ooo strong crowd and the song was also telecast in a live broadcast to the whole nation.
She also sang at a fundraising concert at the Divine Mercy Church to raise funds for Caritas, the charitable arm of the Catholic Church in Singapore and sang in a concert for the International Volunteers Day at the Marina Barrage in December 2010.
More recently, Corrinne wrote the song 'Beautiful Life' in conjunction with the theme of the Esplanade's 10th anniversary, a 'celebration of life' and debuted the song at the Esplanade outdoor theatre in October 2011 and at the live broadcast of the Singapore Radio Awards in November 2011. The song is the first single from her new album 'Crooked Lines' which is currently enjoying extensive airplay on Class 95 FM in Singapore.
'Crooked Lines', Corrinne's 5th album is set to be released in March 2012 in Singapore, with releases in other countries to follow.


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- North Carolina growers planting wheat 'very early'
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• The system could be ideal for growers who plant wheat following corn and would like to finish planting before starting soybean harvest.
Wheat growers in North Carolina are getting interested in a very early planting system, and there is no mystery as to why.
"It could allow you to plant wheat before soybean harvest," said Randy Weisz, North Carolina Extension small grains specialist. "It could be ideal for growers who plant wheat following corn and would like to finish planting before starting soybean harvest."
In North Carolina, the ideal dates for planting wheat roughly coincide with the beginning of soybean and cotton harvest.
"Consequently, wheat planting is often delayed until cold wet weather has set in," he said. "Wheat development suffers."
Here's why: Up to 85 percent of the yield in any given wheat field is made up of grain heads formed on tillers that developed in warm fall weather.
"When planting is delayed, there is less time for fall tillers to develop and this results in reduced yield potential," he said.
This is especially true for no-till.
"Wheat planted no-till tends to grow and tiller more slowly than when planted in conventionally tilled seedbeds, especially in Coastal Plain and Tidewater soils," said Weisz. "Planting early is one way to help no-till seedlings make up for this slower growth and produce more fall tillers."
If wheat is planted before the start of soybean or cotton harvest, it can take full advantage of the warm tiller-inducing fall weather.


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BROOKLYN - A top college athlete could soon be hitting the field as the first openly gay football player in the NFL.
University of Missouri All-American Michael Sam publicly announced Sunday that he's gay after coming out to his teammates and coaches back in August.
The defensive end is scheduled to participate in the league's scouting camp later this month, and is expected to be a mid-round draft pick this May.
MORE: Word on the Street
News 12 asked viewers if they think there will be acceptance on the gridiron if Sam makes it. Most say that in this day and age, it's not much of an issue and they support him.


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Inputs: NIOSH Strategic Goals
The NIOSH Wholesale and Retail Trade Program is in the process of developing strategic goals to guide our research and partnership efforts over the next decade.
NIOSH previously used priority topic areas (e.g., traumatic injury, hearing loss) to guide research efforts. Goals take this approach a step further by identifying specific outcomes that NIOSH wants to target, performance measures for evaluating progress in meeting the outcome goals, and intermediate goals to describe the necessary steps that need to be performed to accomplish the goal. Setting goals is challenging for the following reasons:
- It forces NIOSH to focus on a subgroup of issues where we think NIOSH can make an impact-a long list would spread NIOSH resources too thin to accomplish the goals. Not every worthwhile topic can be included.
- It is difficult to develop performance measures. Available injury statistics have limitations, and exposure and health outcome measures are typically not available.
- It is ambitious for NIOSH to set goals to achieve outcomes such as reductions in a national fatality rate. NIOSH is a research agency, and as such does not directly influence outcomes-NIOSH must partner well and influence other groups to show results.
NIOSH Program Portfolio Approach
NIOSH has been organizing research, guidance, information, and service efforts into specific programs that can be readily communicated and strategically governed and evaluated. Ten NORA Sector Programs represent industrial sectors, and twenty-four Cross-sector Programs organized around adverse health outcomes, statutory programs and global efforts.
The Sector Programs intersect with Cross-Sector Programs in a matrix-like fashion. For example, an Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Program goal of reducing farm-related deaths and injuries due to tractor rollovers and trucks would likely be a shared goal with the Transportation Program and if appropriate would be adopted by both programs. This approach provides an added advantage and will allow multiple Programs to work towards accomplishment of intersecting goals.
Each of the 34 programs in the NIOSH Program Portfolio has a Manager and Coordinator. Each of the 10 NIOSH Sector Programs facilitates the work of a NORA Sector Council to engage external stakeholders in the process of developing sector goals for the nation and methods to measure the short-term, intermediate and long-term outcomes arising from those goals. The NORA goals for the nation will be considered when choosing NIOSH sector program goals. Cross Sector programs have internal Steering Committees that develop program goals and monitor outcome measures.
These planning efforts will position NIOSH to align with the most current governmental approaches for evaluating program effectiveness, i.e., the Program Assessment Rating Tool (or PART). PART is a mechanism to hold governmental agencies accountable for accomplishing results. As part of our comprehensive approach to performance measurement, NIOSH has engaged the National Academies to independently evaluate our sector and cross-programs for relevance and impact.
Wholesale and Retail Trade Goals for Intramural Research
NIOSH developed strategic goals for the Wholesale and Retail Trade Program. As required by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), these strategic goals will be organized by outcomes such as injuries and illnesses instead of more general topic areas such as reducing all occupational mortality in the wholesale and retail trade industry. When completed, the strategic plan will include intermediate and annual goals along with performance measures to guide attainment of the strategic goals.
The current strategic goals guiding NIOSH researchers developing new projects related to the wholesale and retail trade sector are below:
- Strategic Goal 1: Reduce chronic musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in wholesale and retail trade (WRT) sector workers.
- Strategic Goal 2: Reduce acute traumatic injuries in wholesale and retail trade workers by minimizing hazards that cause falls, slips and trips as well as acute injuries from contact with hard objects.
- Strategic Goal 3: Reduce workplace violence in wholesale and retail trades through improved workplace design and improved training in the recognition and abatement of conditions that pose a risk of violence.
- Strategic Goal 4: Reduce motor vehicle-related injuries and fatalities among WRT workers in the highest risk sub-sectors.
- Strategic Goal 5: Improve outreach to the small businesses within the wholesale and retail trade sector, which account for nearly 65% of the WRT workforce, by providing access to current occupational safety and health information.
- Strategic Goal 6: Increase our understanding of how vulnerable/contingent worker groups experience disproportionate risks in wholesale and retail jobs and expand the availability and use of effective interventions to reduce injuries and illnesses among these groups.
Wholesale and Retail Trade Program Priority Goals for Extramural Research
The Wholesale and Retail Trade Program selected the following priority goals as particularly suited for extramural research during fiscal years 2014-16:
- Strategic Goal 1: Reduce chronic musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in wholesale and retail trade (WRT) sector workers.
- Strategic Goal 5: Improve outreach to the small businesses within the wholesale and retail trade sector, which account for nearly 65% of the WRT workforce, by providing access to current occupational safety and health information.
- Strategic Goal 6: Increase our understanding of how vulnerable/contingent worker groups experience disproportionate risks in wholesale and retail jobs and expand the availability and use of effective interventions to reduce injuries and illnesses among these groups.
Those seeking NIOSH grants to conduct studies benefiting workers in the wholesale and retail trade sector can view the current funding opportunities .
NIOSH is interested in your opinions about the relevance and value of these strategic goals for the wholesale and retail trade sector. NIOSH encourages you to consider partnering on issues of interest to you and your organization.
National Research Agenda (NORA) Next Page: Emerging Issues
- Page last reviewed: September 18, 2013
- Page last updated: September 18, 2013
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The closed-door meeting on Sunday in the southern city of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, was the first since an anti-Beijing riot in Lhasa and unrest rocked Tibet and nearby areas in March."They [the envoys] have completed their discussion," Thubten Samphel, secretary of the Department of Information of the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, India, said. "Professor Samdhong Rimpoche described the dialogue as going very well," he added, referring to the prime minister of the self-proclaimed government-in-exile.The Tibetan riots and protests, which China blames on the Dalai Lama, were the most serious challenge to Chinese rule in the mountainous region for nearly two decades.They prompted anti-China protests that disrupted the international leg of the Olympic torch relay and led to calls to boycott August's Beijing Games, which in turn triggered counter-protests by Chinese fiercely proud of holding the Games."Chinese central government officials and the private representatives of the 14th Dalai Lama agreed to hold another round of contact at an appropriate time," China's official Xinhua news agency said.
State media quoted the Chinese officials attending the talks as saying the unrest added new "obstacles", a sign that contact between the two sides, already fraught with mistrust, was likely to get even more difficult. China proposed the talks last month after Western governments urged it to open new dialogue with the Dalai Lama, who says he wants a high level of autonomy, not independence, for the predominantly Buddhist Himalayan homeland he fled in 1959. Xinhua quoted unnamed sources as saying Sunday's meeting was arranged at the government-in-exile's repeated request for contacts and consultations with the central government. A. Tom Grunfeld, a China and Tibet expert at State University of New York, said years of mistrust between Beijing and the Dalai Lama's people made it difficult to expect much from the talks. "The best-case scenario is that both sides commit themselves to small, doable, reasonable actions from now until the end of August," he said by email. "Then, if they have both fulfilled their commitments, serious talks can commence." The torch was being paraded on Monday through the southern island of Hainan, where it was greeted by joyous crowds for a second day, as a team of climbers bearing a second torch awaited clear weather to ascend the world's highest mountain, Everest.
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What to remember when writing your first musical02/28/2014
by Joseph Rothenberg
So you want to write a musical? Let's talk about food.
Food, as you know, comes in many flavors. The richness of Fettuccine Alfredo. The tanginess of sweet and sour chicken. The spiciness of enchiladas con carne. Hot dogs. Every culinary tradition caters to different tastes. Despite the diversity of flavors, textures, and ingredients, the purpose is always the same – providing the nutrients people need. The different flavors are simply different ways of making the contents appealing.
Films, too, come in a variety of flavors, or genres. Genres serve to make the contents of the film – its story – appealing. Genres are differentiated by the types of setpieces they use to move the story forward. By setpieces, I mean the chunks of entertaining content that make up a film. For example:
Action films like The Amazing Spider-Man or Pacific Rim progress the story with spectacular setpieces like fight scenes, explosions & chases.
Psychological thrillers like Vertigo or Gravity use set pieces like hallucinations, anxiety dreams, and distorted reality to show us the story inside the protagonist's mind.
Dramas like Twelve Angry Men or Driving Miss Daisy rely on setpieces composed entirely of dialogue: heated exchanges, heartfelt speeches, confessions, and the like.
Despite these differences in approach, spectacular fights, frightful dream sequences, and subtext-rich exchanges of dialogue all serve the same purpose – keeping the audience engaged with the story.
The musical genre features the most easily identifiable setpieces of all – songs. Songs are easy setpieces to distinguish because they divide the story into distinct fragments, each fragment set to its own music & lyrics with accompanying choreography. Songs in musicals are usually bookended by brief dialogue setpieces in between.
Some types of song are common to many musicals: the opening number, the love song, the protagonist's "I want" song, the show-stopper, the villain's plotting song, and so on. These songs are familiar because these moments appear in many stories.
When writing your musical, remember that you're really just telling a story. It's a musical because the type of setpiece you've chosen to feature is songs. Like any setpiece, a song must relate a new part of the story. The structure will look something like this:
- Your first few songs will set up the story: the world your characters live in, the goal of your protagonist, and who or what stands in the protagonist's way.
- The next several songs will advance the story. The protagonist enters another world where there's no turning back. Friends are made. Minor setbacks occur, but progress is made toward the goal.
- Somewhere along the way, the songs will intensify. The villain or antagonist triumphs, temporarily dashing success from the hands of the protagonist. The protagonist briefly despairs in a reprise of an earlier song but then rises anew.
- The last song or two finds the protagonist taking back control & dethroning the villain. We exit on a song showing the world in its final resolute state.
Note that if you replace "songs" with "action sequences," "conversations," or other setpiece types, this structure still applies. Any story can be told in any genre. All that changes is the type of setpiece. (And of course, all films use more than one type of setpiece; the genre or genres simply reflect the type used most.)
Remember, your story shouldn't flatline during a song. Instead of reiterating the same story point for 3 minutes, it's typically better for the song to progress the story. In other words, by the end of the song, something should be different than than it was at the beginning, and/or the audience should learn something new about the story. Take "Hakuna Matata" from the Lion King, a seemingly story-lite song. By the end of the song, Simba has become an adult and adopted a carefree philosophy and a new diet, and the audience has learned Pumbaa's backstory and explored the paradise where Pumbaa and Timon live. The catchy ditty covers a lot of story content.
So if you're stuck and you don't know what song to write next, remember: your musical, like every other narrative film of any genre, is a story. Songs in a musical only exist to convey story points. Figure out what story points need relating to your audience; then write songs to convey those points. And remember to progress the story within each song.
Wanna see a great example of animated musical? Check out our Film of the Week, Ladies Knight, produced by Joseph himself.


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Library releases app for phones
NEWTON FALLS – A mobile application for libraries in the Clevnet system is up and running, allowing patrons to reserve and review books in the catalog from the convenience of their smartphones.
"Some people live with their phones," said Carol Baker, Newton Falls adult services librarian.
For this reason she said the app would be a great tool in keeping the library up to speed with technology. Some features that she highlighted in the app include a library locator and the ability to scan a book's ISBN to see if it is in the library system. In this way, a patron could scan a book in a store or at a friend's house and reserve it at the library with a few clicks on the phone.
The app allows a search of all 38 libraries in the consortium that spans northern Ohio. Local libraries in the system include Newton Falls, Bristol, Kinsman, Girard, Hubbard and Niles McKinley.
With the app, patrons can access and request materials from each library's book, ebook, audiobook and movie collection.
Patrons can manage their books on hold and renew items that they have checked out. Baker said the app gives patrons access to best seller lists and collections of new releases. It also provides reader-made lists and reviews for patron's to compare their reading preferences. A mobile library card barcode can be used at the library in place of a traditional library card for checking out items.
The app is available for free in the iTunes App Store and the Android-based Google Play market. Baker encouraged anyone needing assistance with the app to stop in the library for help.


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Looking for an awesome smoothie recipe? Then try this amazing Spinach Smoothie ~ Gain Energy, lose weight and get your fruits and vegetables in for the day!
As a lot of you well know, I am always on a constant quest for health and wellness. My 'focus' changes occasionally, but usually has to do with losing weight, drinking more water, exercising, eating healthier, consuming less processed foods and integrating more fruits and vegetables. I fall off the wagon more than I would like to admit, but I keep on going and don't plan on giving up anytime soon. Some of you might refer to this as being insane…insane: Repeating the same behavior, while expecting a different result. 😉 Whatever…I have to keep on climbing the mountain and plan to one day conquer my stubborn will, my weakness for food and grow me some strong willpower. It seems that sometimes my strongest motivation comes out of desperation or when I am at my wit's end. The smoothie recipe I am sharing today came about during one of those times.
I asked a good friend of mine to help me stay accountable and to help me come up with an eating plan that I can do and actually stick with. I have only ever done two different 'diets' before, with the main one being WW and the other, the Dukan diet. I have been successful on both plans, but have never hit my 'goal' weight and then maintained. Anyways, long story short is my friend talked me in to trying these smoothies and when I first read her recipe, I was completely turned off and muttered NO WAY under my breath. Spinach in a smoothie? Yuck!
But… I tried it. And I LOVED it!
I started making the smoothies back in August and my energy has increased, my appetite has decreased and I feel better knowing that I am getting in my 2 servings of fruit a day, plus starting my day off with a cup of spinach. Fabulous! After a few trial and errors, I have finally come up with a system that works for me and I want to share it with you. Not only is this system simple, but it is fairly inexpensive and it is so healthy!
First, I buy my ingredients at Costco. After buying frozen fruit at various grocery stores and even the $1 store, I have found it is much more economical for me to buy everything at Costco. I buy the huge bag of fresh spinach (which is less than $4), one bag of frozen berries, and one bag of the frozen Festival Blend fruits.
Usually within a day or two of me buying the ingredients, I divide all the ingredients into freezer ziplock bags. This way I have individual smoothie bags to just grab in the morning and dump in the blender.
I divide my smoothie ingredients like this: 1 cup of spinach, 1 cup of berries and 1 cup of the tropical fruit.
I seal the bags and throw them in the freezer.
Then in the morning, I dump one whole bag into the blender, along with 1-1.5 cups of Orange Juice or Cranberry juice. I tried water one day and thought it was terrible, but that was just my opinion.
Many mornings I add a powder nutritional supplement to my smoothie and it blends up just as well.
Making this smoothie has been one of the best things that I have done for myself. I love knowing that even though I am extremely busy in the mornings, drinking one of these yummy smoothies provides me 2 servings of fruit and one serving of vegetables, plus a boatload of vitamins and minerals. And I promise that it doesn't taste like spinach.


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Hundreds of teenage girls have had genital cosmetic surgery on the NHS, prompting doctors to call for an end to state-funded "designer vaginas".
Internet pornography has driven a five-fold increase in female genital surgery in the past decade and more than 2,000 women a year now have the procedure on the NHS.
Experts said that this was the "tip of the iceberg" compared with the private sector, warning that complications from the surgery were common. Ruptures are reported in up to a third of cases and NHS surgeons report seeing women with complications caused by surgery in the private sector.


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Clay Center
•Clay Center Social Association Bingo, 7-10 p.m. Jan. 5 at Clay Center Fire Station #2, 420 Main St. Refreshments available. Information: 419-862-3142 or 419-862-1406.
t Curtice Community Club, 10 a.m. Jan. 5, the Grapevine restaurant, West Front and Lucas streets. 419-270-1810.
t Free injury screenings the first Tuesday of every month from 10 a.m. to noon at the following locations in Genoa: Jan. 8, Our Lady of Lourdes, 204 S. Main St., and Feb. 5, St. John's United Church of Christ, 213 Washington St. Information: 419-855-8301.
t Millbury Golden Gang meeting, noon potluck on Jan. 8, the second Tuesday instead of the first Tuesday, in the township hall on Cummings Road.
t Toledo East Women's Connection luncheon and program, Jan. 10 in the Oregon Room, St. Charles Mercy Hospital, Navarre Avenue. Doors open 11:45 a.m. Lunch buffet begins at noon and the program at 12:30 p.m. There will be a special feature, music, and speaker. Cost, $8.50. Area women invited. Reservations: 419-476-26504.
t Oregon Fest Planning meeting, 5 p.m. Jan. 10 at the Oregon Branch Library, 3340 Dustin Rd. Open to groups and individuals. Visit www.OregonFest.net or call 419-691-9750.
t Book discussion, Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas, 9:30 a.m. Jan. 15, Oregon Branch Library, 3340 Dustin Rd.
t Swamp to Settlement, Exhibit 2008, Jan. 18 to Feb. 18 at the Nature Center, W.W. Knight Preserve in Perrysburg. Settlement of the Black Swamp, interactive living history exhibit. Hours: noon to 6 p.m. Fridays through Mondays, and 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays. Free. Information: 419-661-1697, ext. 200.
t Euchre Tournament,
1 p.m. Jan. 5 at VFW Post 9963, 109 North Main St. Sponsored by the men's auxiliary. Entry fee $10 includes lunch. Prizes to the tope three places. Details: 419-666-0367.
t Food for Fines program at Walbridge Branch Library, North Main Street. Library users may donate nonperishable food to eliminate fines, but not fees or lost items. Food donated to the Main Street Church food pantry.
t Rossford Recreation Center programs: aerobics, yoga, Body Recall, Take Off Pounds Sensibly, winter golf lessons, table tennis, karate. Information and fees: 419-666-2905.
Bowling Green
t Read Books and Write Reviews online, under way on the Wood County District Public Library Web site, www.wcdpl.lib.oh.us. Register online and enter your reviews online. Each entry gives you a chance to win prizes at a Valentine's Day drawing Feb. 14. Adults who are 18 or older welcome to participate.
Fish Fries
•Conn-Weissenberger American Legion Post 587, 2020 West Alexis Rd., Fridays 5-7 p.m.
•Diehn American Legion Post 468, first and third Friday each month through May 2, from 5-7 p.m. at 5580 Centennial Rd., Sylvania. Deep fried and baked fish. Chicken strips and shrimp available.
•Fraternal Order of Eagles 197, 5050 Jackman Rd., 5-8 p.m. Fridays, shrimp and frog legs, senior menu.