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The Millennial demographic, including those in their early teens through mid-to-late 20s, is expected to increase its spending influence and its size, mostly driven by immigration, in the next few years.
This growth should provide a big boon to the foodservice industry. According to recent research by The NPD Group, Millennials made more than 13 billion of the 59 billion visits to restaurants in 2010 and spent $73 billion.
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The Technomic research explored 1,500 consumers' attitudes toward national restaurant chains, food preferences, dining-out behaviors with friends and family, kids' menu preferences, snacking behavior, convenience-store patronage, technology use and more.
"Our youth play an integral part in the family dining experience, often participating in decisions on where and what to eat. On the other hand, a majority of their dining behaviors derive from outside influences, most notably, friends," said Sara Monnette, Technomic director of consumer research.
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Because of the younger generation's growing influence, a differentiated marketing strategy geared toward that group could provide plenty of benefits. Some brands have already caught on.
For example, CKE Restaurants Inc., parent company of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, has signed an advertising agreement with OneMinuteNews.com, an online news website aimed specifically at Millennials. The advertising campaign is interactive, with short-form 5-to-10 second messages and content sponsorships, and is geographically targeted.
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Other brands attract teens through high school scholarship awards, such as the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens' "Graduate to go Studios," and the KFC Colonel's Scholars Program's Twitter promotion.
There are even brands that reach out to an even younger crowd by promoting children's literacy. Great American Cookies hosts an annual Reading is SWEET program, while Pizza Hut's Book It! Reading program has featured Justin Bieber as its spokesperson, to the delight of tween girls everywhere.
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Because the attitudes and behaviors of tweens and teens reflect specific life stages, foodservice operators and suppliers may find success by tailoring menu offerings and marketing strategies to fit these stages. As an example, the majority of tweens report in Technomic's research that they wish restaurants would provide a separate menu for kids their age.
Also, the demographic tends to spend more than half of their foodservice dollars on takeout and, on average, spends more than other generations on snack items.
Snacking tends to decrease in frequency as youth get older, but the quantity of food eaten may increase. For example, 60 percent of 8- to 9-year-olds report that they snack every day, compared to 47 percent of those aged 10 to 12, and 38 percent of teens. Teens are slightly more likely than tweens to report snacking a lot (22 percent vs. 18 percent of tweens).
"Today's tweens and teens are a diverse population, even within demographic and age segments," said Ian Davidson, senior manager, Brand Insights at C3. "They can often be difficult for marketers to understand and engage. Brands that are successful with tweens and teens will need to demonstrate a tiered strategy to reach this powerful group of consumers."
This approach echoes NPD Group's research, which concludes that foodservice operators are smart to offer greater menu variety to meet Millennials' interests.
"Millennials will overtake Baby Boomers as the most sought-after target for restaurateurs in the coming years," said Bonnie Riggs, NPD restaurant industry analyst. "This is the time to reach them to build their loyalty. It's important to understand that Millennials are not a one-size-fits-all generation and their needs and wants are varied."
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Sharp's final college game, Tuesday's matchup against Purdue in the Heart of Dallas Bowl, will be played near his hometown of Mansfield, Texas. Before taking the field at the Cotton Bowl, Sharp reflected on his OSU career.
It kind of all started sinking in on Senior Day, when my parents were there. But it's been a fun ride. This is our last game. We got an opportunity to go out and finish strong.
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What is the Food Monster?
Unless changed at the subconscious level, the compulsion never stops
Obesity is strictly a symptom of the underlying subconscious urges.
It Is NOT Your Fault!
The Food Monster is not a lack of will
The Food Monster is not a lack of dedication
The Food Monster is not a lack of dietary knowledge
It is that constant gnawing urge to eat
It is that constant gnawing urge that makes dieting so horribly miserable
The Food Monster is a COMPULSION to eat.
It is that compulsion that keeps you eating when you dont want to.
It is what makes you feel so completely deprived when you cant eat as much as you want.
The Food Monster compulsion is not just an addiction nor is it only a habit. Lets look at some differences between the three to help understand what we are up against.
A habit is an activity that is performed on an unthinking, automatic basis but can be changed without emotional or physical pain. For example, a person is in the habit of throwing the trash into the can at the right side of their desk. If the can is moved to the left side they will have to think about throwing it in the correct place. In most cases, when people make such a change, they find that for the first day or two they throw the occasional paper on the floor where the can used to be. Within a couple of weeks the old habit is completely changed. The paper is thrown unthinkingly into the new correct spot. The entire process is relatively painless.
It does not matter if the habit is relatively short-lived or lifelong.
A man grows up living in one city and for his entire life, riding or driving the same way to church every week. The city puts in a new safer road going a different route. The old road remains. The first couple of times he takes the new road he is uncomfortable with the route. Within just two or three trips he becomes comfortable with the new road. A lifelong habit is changed with little discomfort.
No, the Food Monster is not just a bunch of bad habits - even though bad habits can be supporting friends for your Food Monster – and saboteurs to you!
Also, it is not an addiction to food - even though it sometimes sure feels like it! >>>Back to the top
To eliminate an addiction substantially more effort is required than just quitting a habit and it will involve either emotional or physical pain, often both. The long-term use of tobacco, caffeine, mood-altering drugs etcetera are examples of addictions. Typically it takes two steps to eliminate an addiction: physical withdrawal and emotional withdrawal. When a person goes through withdrawal from an addictive substance, physical symptoms can persist for a period of time, often a couple of weeks or months. The symptoms can be mild, dramatic, or even debilitating.
After the physical withdrawal, a strong emotional urge to continue the substance remains. In the worst cases, such as heroin addiction, the emotional connection may be active for two or more years. However, eventually with abstinence the emotional desire for the substance abates to where it is, at best, very minimal or, at worst, manageable. Usually while there may be memories of the high or pleasure derived from the substance, the actual desire is gone.
Addictions are developed through the use of, and built up tolerance to, a substance until a need for the substance is developed in the body. In some cases the chemistry of the substance causes physiological changes in the brain which are experienced as psychological changes. When this occurs there must be enough time allowed in abstinence to purge the brain of its chemical dependence. A key factor is that with abstinence alone the brain will purge the chemicals of the substance and the individual will return to a normal non-addicted state.
How successful are people at quitting addictions? Thousands of people permanently quit smoking every year. Many people successfully beat drugs of all kinds as well as alcohol every day. Addictions are tough to beat, but they can be beat, and they are conquered by regular folk just like us.
I grew up personally developing two common addictionssmoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. After 11 years I gave up smoking. There were a number of issues that surprised me. I did not realize that I had set up a number of habits supporting my smoking habit. I had to learn some new supporting habits when I quit. I did not know how to take a break from work. Stopping for a cigarette was always my cue to take a short break.
The weekend that I quit I painted our kitchen. At the end of the first day I was surprised at how completely exhausted I was. Then I realized that I had worked from early morning on into the night without any breaks except to eat. I didnt know how to take a break without a cigarette.
I kept on drinking coffee for another 30 years. When I quit it, the caffeine withdrawal was amazingly strong. I didnt even know what was happening until I went on the web and found out that there was such a thing as caffeine withdrawal. It was physically difficult with emotional side effects. I honestly tried to be a nice guy, but am sure those who love me are only being kind when they say that I wasnt that bad to be around.
Addictions are difficult, even very difficult to quit, but the average person can conquer them. >>>Back to the top
A compulsion is based on a neurological pathway, typically developed during childhood that is physically connected to the subconscious emotional center of the brain and experienced as a strong urge to act with a specific behavior. With a compulsion comes a strong emotional urge to act. If a person quits responding to a compulsion, they have only controlled their behavior, but the compulsion remains and so does the urge. The urge does not go away or even lessen over time. >>>Back to the top
We see this with overeaters who have mastered their eating, lost the weight and been in a maintenance program like Weight Watchers for ten years or more. Then, at some point, they lose control and gain the weight back. If it were a single incident it could be considered anecdotal, but it isnt just one person. It is thousands who have succumbed after years of struggle and maintenance. It is millions who have succumbed after a year or two. It is tens of millions who have lost and regained weight many times over while never ever losing the urge to overeat.
Compulsions are extremely difficult to eliminate without the precise assistance and tools to do so. With a 90+% failure rate using traditional therapy methods even professional psychologists were horribly inefficient at helping others eliminate compulsions of all types.
The Food Monster is a compulsion, a subconscious drive that is experienced as an unrelenting urge to eat. It is not an addiction to food. Overweight and obese people have a psychological compulsion to the activity of eating. They do not have a psychological or physiological addiction to the substance of food.>>>Back to the top
To deal with the compulsion to overeat, the Food Monster, the subconscious connections in the emotional center, must be neutralized. The Food Monster Program is the only program that does that. When it is accomplished, the individual will naturally become a normal eater. The weight loss begins as the issues are addressed. Once a person eliminates his or her Food Monster, she will naturally lose the excess weight and keep it off permanently! This occurs because overweight is strictly a symptom of the underlying subconscious urges.
Just because a compulsion is, in fact, a subconsciously motivated behavior does not make it bad or unusual. Compulsions are much more common than most of us think. Actually, we all have many quite functional compulsions.
A common compulsion in the USA is to shower daily. The average American is extremely uncomfortable without a daily shower. Ask the average American woman to imagine going without a shower for a week and how do you think she would feel? The response is usually quite dramatic. Ask her why and she will tell you that it is because she smells bad, feels dirty, and that it is simply unhealthy.
But the fact is, for most of history, most Americans bathed once a week, and women washed their hair once a month. The farmers and ranchers of just 50 years ago, and then on back into the depths of history, at most bathed once a week. The same went for city dwellers. They felt quite fine going days at a time without a bath. Today the unfortunate people who are deeply impoverished in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa will often go many weeks, even months, without a bath and think little of it.
If an American is placed in a situation where she cannot bathe or shower for an extended period of time, say a week or two, her urge to shower will not magically disappear; she will not get over the urge. When she does finally have access to a shower, she luxuriates in it way past the physical requirements of cleanliness. If the average American were to be marooned for six months with only enough drinking water to barely survive, one of the first things she would want upon rescue would be a long bath or shower. Why? It is a compulsion. This is a compulsion most modern adults share. It is essentially harmless, and can be argued to be healthy. Yet many Europeans still today routinely shower once every 3 or 4 days.
How strong is this compulsion? It is very strong. Once we took a rather long motorcycle trip over the mountains in Central Vietnam on a very remote road under construction. The construction crews lived on-site in temporary, tent type structures, in camps along the way.
The mountains were dramatically rugged and beautiful. There were many waterfalls flowing down right beside the road. Since it was Sunday, most of the construction had halted for the day. All along the way we saw men in their shorts standing in waterfalls taking showers. It was quite a picturesque setting for a shower.
However, it was in the middle of January. The ambient temperature was near freezing in the evenings and only slightly warm during the day. The water which had been running down steep mountains was very cold. There was no way that the experience of showering in this environment could be remotely comfortable. However, as we traveled, all bundled up against the cold, at almost every waterfall there were men taking their showers.
If you can imagine yourself going a week or two without a shower and not being bothered, then you dont share this particular compulsion. However, if the thought of going several days without a shower gives you the willies, then you do share it along with the rest of us. You have a Shower Monster and it is okay.
If you recognized yourself in these discussions about suffering while dieting and then going right back to eating when the weight is lost you probably have a Food Monster urging you in a compulsive manner to eat. That means that a compulsion is at the root of your excess weight or obesity. What does that mean to the people who have failed so many times? Everything! We have been beating ourselves up for failures that were not ours.
Your Food Monster compulsion was developed during your childhood when you did not have control of your life and it was not your fault.
Taming Your Food Monster explains exactly how your Food Monster was developed and why it was not your fault that it did. It also shows you what you can do to tame it.
Not only was developing the Food Monster not your fault. It is also not your fault that you have not won the weight war so far. You have been battling the wrong things. >>>Back to the top
Are you the victim of a Food Monster? If so then you need to know that all of the weight, all of the failures, all of the stresses, all of the blame, shame and guiltall of itis not your fault.
It is not your fault. It is not your fault. It is not your fault. IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT!
It is not a lack of will
It is not a lack of dedication
It is not a lack of knowledge
These and many other very negative things have been slung at the obese. Without any real understanding of the underlying cause the overweight have accepted it as their fault. >>>Back to the top
The Food Monster is not a lack of will. The fact that many have had the will to seriously diet has been proven over and over and over again. Diets that are big, diets that are small, diets that are boring, diets that are distasteful, fasts and even starvation diets have all been done. Willpower to diet? Absolutely! But then the overeating always returns.
Cynthia, a 43 year old librarian told this story. She had battled weight all of her adult life. She had been on so many diets that she could not remember them all. Eventually she went to the doctor for a controlled liquid fast. Over a period of a year, she lost almost 200 pounds going from slightly over 350 pounds to slightly over 150 pounds. Two years later she was at 300+. She went on another liquid fast and lost the 150 pounds she had regained. Three years later she was again over 350 pounds.
Not to be a quitter, Cynthia went on another doctor controlled diet. A little over a year later, with a daily, moment-by-moment monitoring and recording of her calories, going to water aerobics three times a week plus weekly doctor visits, she was again approaching 150 pounds. She had lost almost 200 pounds once again! Then she hit the wall. For several months she continued to count calories and exercise but could not seem to lose any more. Absolutely nothing worked; she did not lose another pound. In fact she gained a few pounds (seems she was cheating a little on the calorie count of her desserts).
Cynthia then gave up and started gaining back the pounds shed lost. Why did she begin to gain? Because she began to overeat, and even to binge. Why? Clearly she had an iron will and could diet. So why did she go back to overeating as soon as the diet was over? The Food Monsterthat's why!
When Sam, a man in his early 50's, heard Cynthia's story during a Food Monster Permanent Weight Loss Solution group meeting one evening, he gave a sigh and said he had similar stories. Everyone around the room nodded knowingly. However, he continued, he now cycled almost on a daily basis. He would start each day with the idea that today would be his day to really diet. Then when he found he had already blown it with a bag of chips while getting ready for his afternoon dispatch job, he would then simply give up for the day and allow himself to eat whatever he wanted. Again, everyone around the room nodded knowingly.>>>Back to the top
The Food Monster is not a lack of dedication. You have attended difficult meetings, acted excited when someone lost a pound that you knew they would gain right back, bought special meals, exercised till the average person would drop, done yoga, done Tai-chi, prayed and meditated and still you have over-eaten. Clearly, as the lady introduced in the next paragraph demonstrates, the Food Monster is not a lack of dedication.
Susan, a 21-year-old college junior, ran a minimum of 3 miles every day. She had the stamina of all the cross-country runners she trained with. With a slight, even petite frame, Susan stood 5' 1/2" and at 185 pounds carried an extra 70 pounds every mile she ran. She had been a long distance runner since she was a 14-year-old sophomore in high school. When I first heard Susan's story I was skeptical, but she assured me that she did run at least 3 miles and often as much as five miles daily. Overweight? Yes. Plenty of willpower? Also, yes. >>>Back to the top
The Food Monster is also not a lack of knowledge about good foods or bad foods or balanced diets versus junk food diets. Even though some of you might say in conversation that healthy food makes the difference (and even say it with conviction) you know in your heart that it is not so much what you eat as how much of it you eat (more on this in the next chapter). We all know people who have decided to go on a health food diet thinking that it would be the answer. A year or two later, they may still be eating all natural health food or eating what they always ate before, but either way the weight has not changed over the long term.
Overeaters as a group own and have read libraries of diet books with volumes of information on what is good and not so good. No, the Food Monster is not a lack of knowledge about food. At a recent trip to Barnes & Noble in a smaller central Texas town, I counted 12 full shelves of weight-control related books. Each shelf was at least 5 feet long, making for 60 feet of shelving dedicated to weight loss. Sorry Texas, youre not the biggest. In a similar sized town in central New York state the Barns and Noble store had over double the shelving with about 135 feet of space dedicated to diets!
As you might guess, most of the books dealt with finding the correct mix of nutrition (fat vs. carbs. vs. sugar vs. anything else) to more efficiently burn the calories eaten. All of them also said some version of, "By the way, don't overeat or you'll still gain weight".>>>Back to the top
If it is not your fault, and the diets and other programs have not worked, then what can you do?
First education is very powerful. You can attend an information seminar in your area, or you can buy the book Taming Your Food Monster and learn more about how the Food Monster happens and what can be done about to successfully tame it.>>>Back to the top
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MADISON, Wis. - Everyone wants pictures of their kids, but when your child doesn't like cameras that can be a problem.
Justin Schroeder and Maria Graf said their 3-year-old son, David, did not like cameras early in life. He would become upset around them and taking pictures was far from his parents' mind.
"When you're just trying to make it through the day getting pictures taken is not necessarily something that seemed like a priority," Graf said.
Their priority was treating his autism.
"That was a really emotional year. As hard as hearing what the diagnosis was it was even more challenging than I think I would've imagined," said Graf as she looked back on that time. However, she said the diagnosis was also somewhat of a relief because it brought a team of people in to help.
In a recent announcement, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said one in 68 kids are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
These days David's weeks are busy with up to 40 hours of treatment that include speech therapy and early childhood education.
"We say the busiest person I know is my 3-year-old," Graf said.
While David's parents worked to make sure he had everything he needed they met Laura Frazier, a former Applied Behavior Analysis therapist turned photographer. As an ABA therapist Frazier worked with kids and families impacted by autism through Wisconsin Early Autism Project.
Frazier set up a photo shoot with the family and that is when David learned to like cameras.
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Unfortunately, if you has consensual sex with your boyfriend, regardless or not whether you have agreed to use a condom or not, there would be no crime committed, unless you told your boyfriend to stop at some point and he did not.
However, if this boyfriend, God forbid knowingly infect you with some type of STD or if you get pregnant, than he can be held civilly liable for such action or for the support for the baby.
I do take everything that you stated very seriously and reviewed your question very closely, but unfortunately, there is simply nothing criminal about this type of sexual behavior, since the sex was initiated with consent of both parties.
No, I did not tell him to stop. But why doesnt his act of deception fall into some kind of law?
Can you please also tell me your age and the age of your boyfriend?
Im 40 and he is 45. He is not my boyfriend now.
okay. I am glad that you stopped having any contact with this irresponsible and disrespectful man.
Are you looking at the laws for the state of Ohio?
Yes I am.
Unfortunately, a consent to a sexual act, would cover the type of behavior that your ex-boyfriend exhibited, but as I said, if you do suffer any health issues as a result, you can hold him civilly liable.
Does this make sense?
so in other words, because I consented, he has the right to do anything he wants and cant be held liable?
Within the scope of consent yes.
And it would be up to you to tell him to stop, if he did something that you did not like or approve.
When you reported this issue to the police, what did police advise you?
how sad. How would a jury view this type of case in your opinion if a lawyer was to take it to court?
All they said was to never contact him again and several prosecutors reviewed it, and all felt there was no case. Do you think they told me to stay away from him for my own protection? I was surprised the detective was so adamant about it. It was obvious I was going to stay away from him after what he did.
Well, because prosecutors did not see any criminal act in this incidents, it would be the same reasons why you would not have a civil recourse, unless you can show direct permanent damages to your health, as a result of his reckless actions, such as transmission of herpes or Aids.
Everything you are telling me is based on various Ohio laws I presume? In other words unless I get a disease or pregnant there is nothing I can do.
A civil recourse?
I know it doesn't appear fair, but the law is the law, and I have no way to change the law.
There generally would be no civil legal recourse, unless you suffer direct damages under Ohio law and most other states laws
A civil recourse is where I would take this to a civil court of law?
This is where you would sue for money damages in civil court.
The reason the police told you to stay away from ex, could be due to various reasons, but most likely is that they did not want to aggravate this situation by further contact and further potential issues and also they might have gotten a possible complaint against you from the ex...but there is now way to know for sure.
I dont mean to be repetative but in other words there is nothing I could do in any court system.- correct?
Correct. Not based on the facts you have stated to me. I am very sorry that you had to deal with such inconsiderate and irresponsible ex who would not respect your wishes!
Im simply trying to get closure.
I completely understand and I do hope you can recover and move on from this terrible experience that you had.
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Thank you for your kind word, the mean a world to me! You can request me in the future by starting your new questions with "This question is for Alex Esquire only".
Oh, one more thing you never answered how a jury might view a case like this?
You would not have a valid cause of action / claim in this case, if you cannot show direct damages to you, resulting from this incidents.
One more thing, you never told me how a jury might view a case like this? give me your best opinion
So, the case would be dismissed by the court, before it ever would get to the jury.
what if the damages are emotional?
They would not be actionable.
how come?
In other words, you would not have a valid claim simply based on emotional damages under the facts you have described.
I see. Its just that there are always emotional damages when it comes to inapproriate sexual misconduct, especially rape.
right, but this incident would not meet any elements of rape.
and would be considered consensual under the law.
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Can the judge enforce the full amount? Because my pay has just been cut because i had to transfer shops and take a demotion because i could no longer afford to travel to work and pay to park. so after deductions of rent bills etc im left with £100 for the month to live off. plus im already in £12000 of debt to the bank. How will a ruling work if i have no money to pay?
Part of my defence said can u prove that the losses are correct. they said they can prove it? Ive done the maths. each one of the tickets is a 4 hour contravention, till i drove home for my lunch basically. so on that theory it costs £219000 a year to maintain that car park. I have worked at that shop for 18 years and they have tarmac'ed it once and painted the lines once in all that time. the car park holds 100 cars max. is this a good point to argue?
what do you think i should base my case on? my fines where all from 9am till 1pm approx because i was on a 7-4 shift. do u think taking photos over that 4 hour period would prove that the car park wasnt full would help?
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This column is being written on a sixth grade reading level so Marvelle Stump can understand it. Even so, America's worst printing salesman will call me and ask me to explain the column.
Every once in a while I do the unthinkable and think. I'm doing that now while I try to come up with a topic. This is pressure. Thinking up a topic is pressure.
Pressure. Wait that's it! I'll write about selling under pressure! I'll lay a little pressure on you and maybe you'll sell a little better. Let me tell you about pressure. I'm talkin' about intense pressure.
This is the week for the Goshen Country Fair. The carnie people are in town with the rickety rides they haul around on semis. The local volunteer fire department runs all of the food concessions, so God help us if we have a serious fire during fair week.
The fair features a livestock competition, as well as local rock and country and western entertainment each night. No pressure so far.
But, each night there are also vegetable, fruit, flower, baking and photography competitions. I entered my Asiatic Lilies, Black-eyed Susans and Coneflowers. I also entered the Hershey's chocolate cake baking contest ($25 first prize) and entered four digital photographs.
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The judging occurs about 8 p.m. and is absolute, totally pressurized agony. The judges move around in packs of four or five, hovering over the entries and holding them up to peer closely at each one. Then they take notes. It must be important for them to look like they know what they are doing. They have badges and clipboards and have perfected looking "official."
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Heartfelt and handmade
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The "do-it-yourself" movement has grown steadily over the past several years, but it has always had a place at the table during the holidays.
The DIY projects of today are far more sophisticated and less awkward than the handmade gifts of my youth. Gone are the macramé plant holders, silver-coated macaroni-encrusted picture frames and home-baked fruitcakes that have given handmade gifts an unfair bad rap (although I do hear macramé is making a comeback).
Now every major bookstore has an entire section devoted to DIY and craft projects. Particularly during this time of the year, a simple search on Google produces thousands of pages devoted to extraordinarily creative DIY Christmas gifts and holiday decoration ideas. Be warned! Googling this topic will lead you down the rabbit hole of time loss, devilishly disguised as Pinterest, which is rivaled only by a full-blown Facebook addiction.
Unfortunately for DIY-for-lifers, this addiction leads not to reunited friendships, but to shelves full of items such as Mod Podge adhesive spray, glass paint, sequined trims and forgotten half-completed craft projects. But, oh the joy of learning five different ways to make pendant lighting out of recycled bottles and glass jars!
The allure of the handmade gift is not that it is a cheaper way to do your holiday shopping -- while, generally, DIY gifts are more budget friendly, I can tell you from experience that it is easy to spend virtually the same amount of money in the ingredients, packaging and cost of your time.
No, the wonderful thing about a handmade gift is just that: It is made with your own hands, not mass-produced by an overseas manufacturing facility. Specifically, it is made by you for someone very special, the recipient.
Another benefit of your DIY gift is that you can spend less time fighting the crowds and being stuck in mall traffic and more time enjoying time with friends and family, which is what this season is all about. And finally, it is just plain fun!
The key to a great DIY gift versus one that will be stored away in the closet is making it thoughtful, personalized to the recipient and/or unique or luxurious. For those of you new to DIY, here are a few tips to make the experience fun and rewarding.
That said, there are many DIY items, such as those offered in this article, that make great last-minute gifts.
Here are a number of budget-friendly DIY holiday gifts for you to try. Most all are very simple and quick to execute.
Cocktail ring
Items you'll need:
1. Cut a piece of 18-gauge soft wire 1 foot long.
2. Place a bead in the middle of the wire. Bend the wire down.
3. Place the wire with a bead around the ring mandrel at a half-size larger than needed (or nail polish top). Wrap the wire around the ring. There is one wire on either side of a bead.
4. Wrap each wire twice around the bead, one side at a time and alternate sides. Your wires will end up in opposite directions.
5. Use the wire end to wrap around the shank. Make 2 to 3 wraps. Cut the wire. Tuck the wire ends with chain nose pliers so they are not poking.
6. Repeat step 5 with the other wire end. That's it.
Play with different sizes and colors for your bead and wire for lots of different rings.
-- Judy E. Hamilton
Rosemary sea salt
Rosemary sea salt is great anytime you'd use regular salt.
1. Squeeze the rosemary and pull your fingers down the branch to pull off all the rosemary leaves. Repeat on all but two branches (those are for the rosemary garnish at the end).
2. Dump all the sea salt into a pan or pot and then add the rosemary. Turn heat on to medium heat and keep watch, stirring for 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat, dump contents into a large bowl. Let cool without a cover for 10 minutes.
3. Pour into airtight containers (I used recycled roasted red pepper and mustard jars) with sprigs of fresh rosemary down the sides. Screw on an airtight lid and you are done.
-- Judy E. Hamilton
Herb vinegar
Use herb vinegar in salad dressings, marinades or to deglaze pans. The most commonly used vinegars are red or white wine vinegars and cider vinegars, but rice wine vinegar, sherry vinegar and other specialty vinegars may also be used.
1. Sterilize bottles or jars.
2. Gather fresh herbs (from your yard, Kroger or Drug Emporium's Healthy Food Market). Wash and pat dry herbs.
3. Put herbs in sterilized bottle or jar.
4. Add vinegar to cover the herbs.
5. Put a nonmetallic lid on jar and store in cool, dark place for 2 to 4 weeks for full flavor.
-- Judy E. Hamilton
Vintage trophy wine bottle tops
This idea is courtesy of Jamie Miller of Collage, 805 Quarrier St.
Items you'll need:
1. Take your trophy apart. They all have a nut at the bottom that holds on the long pole, which the actual statue is on. Unscrew that nut.
2. Grab your drill with a 1/8-inch bit. It's smaller than the piece on the bottom of the trophy, but that is OK because you want it to fit in well. Drill gently about halfway into the cork.
3. Put a bit of superglue on the screw and the underside of the trophy top and gently screw the cork onto the trophy until flush and a tight bond forms. Be careful to screw it on straight. Allow to dry at least one hour before using.
-- Judy E. Hamilton
Rice sock heating pad
Everyone on your list over age 30 (and some under 30) will enjoy this heating pad.
Items you'll need:
1. Purchase colorful socks, matching thread and a needle. Purchase one pair for every two pads you want to give. Make sure it is tightly woven. If it is not, you may insert a knee-high nylon stocking into it to keep the rice from coming through.
2. Mix rice with oil of eucalyptus, lavender or peppermint. You will need 3 to 4 cups per pad. Mix in enough to make a pleasant smell but not enough for the rice to feel wet. Use eucalyptus oil if you want to induce energy, lavender oil if you want a peaceful sleep, peppermint oil to banish a headache.
3. Fill the socks to 70 percent capacity with the rice mixture. (Do not fill it all the way so the user can wrap the pad around the neck or mold it to the back as needed.)
4. Take special care to sew the pad closed very well. Use tiny, close stitches to make sure the rice will not leak out.
5. Attach a note with instructions for heating: Heat the rice sock in the microwave for a minute or two, depending on the power of the microwave. It will retain its heat for quite a while and may be used over and over again for years.
-- Judy E. Hamilton
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Wordle.net is a free program that generates "word clouds" from text you provide. It is a fun and easy project for all ages. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. You can also add photographs to your "word clouds" after they have been printed.
-- Judy E. Hamilton
Ocean essence bath salts
Mix Epsom salts and baking soda in a bowl using a mixing spoon. Add food coloring, essential oil and extract, and mix quickly to avoid clumps. More blue food coloring can be added, depending on how blue you would like your ocean to be. Put a note on the jar that states: Add 2 tablespoons to bathwater.
-- Judy E. Hamilton
Holiday bath salts
Mix Epsom salts and baking soda in a bowl using a mixing spoon. Add the food coloring and oil and mix quickly to avoid clumps. For an added treat, make a separate batch without the food coloring, and layer the white and red salts in a jar for a candy-cane effect. Put a note on the jar that states: Add 2 tablespoons to bathwater.
-- Judy E. Hamilton
Energizing bath salts
Mix Epsom salts and baking soda in a bowl. Add essential oil and mix quickly to avoid clumps. Four to five drops of food coloring can be used to add a visual touch, but are not necessary. Any color that makes you feel energized would be perfect. Put a note on the jar that states: Add 2 tablespoons to bathwater.
-- Judy E. Hamilton
String bracelets on a budget
I was shopping in the mall one afternoon when I stumbled on the updated version of a string bracelet. I was thrilled to see this modern version of one of my childhood favorites making a grown-up comeback. And I was horrified when I picked it up and saw it cost more than $40. What?! It was just string with a couple of little glass beads and a knotted adjustable clasp!
As I shopped around, I realized almost every store had a version. The least expensive was $25 and the most expensive more than $200. No, thank you! For about what you spend on a cup of gourmet coffee, and a little imagination, you can make several of these bracelets as gifts for all the cool kids in your life.
You'll just need a few things:
1. Measure your string to twice the circumference of your wrist, then add an additional 10-inch tail. You'll need two pieces.
2. Loop the two in half and tie an overhand knot 10 inches from the loop.
3. Hold the pieces, one in each hand, and tie two square knots (see photo of square knot).
4. Slide on a bead. Tie two square knots. Repeat till you've added the desired number of beads. Tie two more square knots.
5. To finish it, you can either tie it off or you can tie each loose end in an overhand knot on the opposite string. Holding all the strings together, tie one overhand knot at the end of the last two square knots. Leave a tail on each end and you can slide the knots to adjust to your wrist size.
6. For a more finished look, you can separate the threads and add a crimp bead to each strand this will keep the edges from unraveling and will add a little weight to the ends to make it hang nicely.
You can personalize these by using the recipient's favorite color or birthstone.
-- Autumn D.F. Hopkins
Traditions from the kitchen
It's been years since I baked cookies and holiday treats with my aunt to give as gifts. As I get older, I realize how important traditions and memories are. So, my goal this holiday season is to remember and honor the past and to make new memories. I will share some of my most valued recipes with the loved ones in my life.
The times I spent in the kitchen with my aunt and grandmother are among my fondest memories. My grandmother loves to tell how I learned to read as a young girl by skimming cookbooks with her and my aunt. It was a weekend ritual, and it is still how we spend time together during my visits.
One of my favorite cookbooks through the years has been "Hallelujah! The Welcome Table" by Maya Angelou. She told a story about each one of the recipes in the book. That's what I plan to do -- tell the stories of the wonderful people who have passed these treasures to me. I want the recipient of these gifts to know how special they, and these recipes, are to me.
Write or print recipes on fun paper. Use craft scissors to cut them out and glue to pretty paper. You can either insert these pages into a binder or a photo album, which can be purchased at a discount store. It might be a good idea to laminate these pages or put them in page protectors. (I'm messy in the kitchen, and your gift recipients might be too.)
This is an inexpensive DIY gift that is both thoughtful and practical. For multiple recipients, scan the recipe pages to your computer and print them off at home or through the photo print services in town, such as Walgreens or Target. You can even lay out your recipe book electronically using Snapfish or a similar photo print service and print multiple copies at the same time.
-- Jen Wood Cunningham
Homemade liqueurs
My No. 1 DIY obsession this year has been homemade liqueurs, schnapps and cordials. The first two I learned to do, coffee liqueur and peppermint schnapps, are among my favorites thus far. The added benefit of both is that they do not require a two- to three-month "sit time" that homemade fruit cordials do.
When I give these liqueurs as gifts, I like to use flip-top glass bottles that I order from the Internet. However, you could also use large Mason jars and decorate the lids with fabric and trim.
The only problem with these recipes is keeping oneself away from the finished product before Christmastime arrives!
Coffee liqueur:
This liqueur has been the hands-down favorite of family and friends. It goes great in White Russians, over vanilla ice cream, in lattes or just straight up.
In a large saucepan, make simple syrup: Heat water and sugar over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved. Add the coffee and let the mixture cool completely, about 10 minutes. Add the vanilla.
In a large, sterile pitcher or sun tea jar with a tight-fitting lid, pour the brandy and rum. Add the coffee mixture to the pitcher and stir well. This is ready to drink once it cools, but I find it tastes better if you give it a week or two in a cool, dark place to let the flavors marry, stirring a few times each day.
When you add a gift tag to your coffee liqueur, be sure to include the instruction to shake well before each use.
You can also cover with plastic wrap and secure with a large rubber band.
Candy-cane schnapps:
This is a great in hot cocoa or used as a base for candy-cane martinis. My favorite way to have this schnapps is as a revitalizing and stomach-soothing after-dinner drink.
In a large saucepan, make simple syrup: Heat water and sugar over medium heat, stirring frequently, until the sugar is dissolved. Let the mixture cool completely.
Into a sterile pitcher or sun tea jar with a tight-fitting lid, pour vodka, sugar syrup and peppermint oil or extract. Stir well.
Store in a dark place away from heat for two weeks. Stir every two to three days to mix. I prefer a particularly bracing peppermint flavor, so I usually sample the schnapps after a week to see if more peppermint is needed. Then sometimes I sample it a few more times just to be sure.
-- Dennise Smith
Dennise Smith is a Charleston lawyer, fashion designer and co-founder of the local arts group Nomadic Tribes Collective.


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Reighard has been an ordained minister for 30 years, but last December he made an unusual career switch, becoming chief people officer at Atlanta-based HomeBanc, one of the largest retail mortgage lenders in the Southeast and one of the top 20 online mortgage lenders in the United States. Going from being the head of a church to the head of human resources may seem a bit of a stretch, but Reighard says there's plenty of overlap.
"My goal is to see people exchange ordinary living for an extraordinary life. To me, a job is too small to fill up a person's spirit. I want to help them find purpose in what they do, see the bigger picture of what we're trying to accomplish as an organization," he says.
Big expansion
Reighard took over as CPO of HomeBanc last December, after an arduous 18-month search by the company. He already had a thriving practice as a leadership and organizational-behavior speaker, something that grew out of his role as a pastor. For years, CEOs and senior managers in Reighard's congregation had been asking him to speak to their employees. "I would go in and help people with goal setting, help them devise personal mission statements," he says. "I did it as a pastor unintentionally for a long time, but then I started doing it as a consultant for companies."
When he took up the HR reins, HomeBanc had 900 employees and planned to expand by 40 to 50 percent. Within weeks, Reighard, CEO Patrick Flood and chief marketing officer Stacey Cost met to devise a recruiting campaign that would find not just employees, but employees of a certain caliber: those who had a strong value system, were involved in community service and would buy into the "service-leadership" model that Reighard espouses. That model is based on the writings of Robert Greenleaf, an essayist and teacher who defined the "servant-leader" as a person who wants to serve first, before aspiring to leadership.
To find these employees--loan officers, underwriters and customer-service specialists--Reighard, Flood and Cost came up with a campaign modeled on that of the U.S. Marines. Reighard says Flood had read a book that described how the Marines put their model together, and how they garnered their "privileged few" aura. The trio wanted to duplicate that feeling at HomeBanc.
"You don't get more of an education, you don't get higher pay than in other service branches," Reighard says, "yet there is an elite feel to the Marines. For us, the few and the proud were going to have a self-sacrificing nature and already be involved somehow in their communities."
Good timing
The company launched its recruitment drive in early March, just weeks before the war with Iraq began, which Reighard admits inspired a certain feel to the campaign. "We thought of the men and women who went to Iraq to serve our country, and the dream and vision they bought into. Stacey then came up with a very patriotic look for the ads."
The campaign, which is expected to run the company about $300,000, combines general branding ads featuring stars and stripes, a waving flag and a serviceman with recruitment advertising that includes terms like "service oriented," "dedication" and "loyalty." One ad reads "Got What It Takes? Seeking: Dedication, motivation, talent, character and integrity."
That's an awful lot of requirements in an industry that can't find people fast enough. Mortgage-industry employment is at an all-time high; a recent forecast by the Mortgage Bankers Association of America predicts about $3 trillion in mortgage lending this year. HomeBanc itself expects to close $5.4 billion in mortgage loans in 2003. In this booming industry, with its intense competition for able-bodied employees, some would argue that it's self-defeating for Reighard to be this picky.
He won't compromise on standards. "These are the kind of employees who look at others and think: 'How can I serve them as I lead them?' They treat others, no matter what space they occupy in the organizational hierarchy, as equal."
John Lewis, a partner at Washington, D.C.-based Campbell Lewis Communications, an advertising and marketing firm specializing in financial services, says HomeBanc's advertising is unusual for the industry because it is so specific about the kind of employees the company wants. "Usually, you see a couple of themes," says Lewis. "One is an appeal to greed: 'We pay the most money,' and the other is trying to sell the prospective candidates on the size of the company: 'Don't you want to work for the biggest and the best?'"
Lewis says that in the last several years there has been such a shortage of qualified people in the industry that most companies just want to fill seats, period. Yet HomeBanc's campaign could be a differentiating factor in the competition for people. "It may wind up helping them," he says, because they won't see HomeBanc as just another mortgage company with too much work and empty seats to fill.
Or maybe not. Ken Gaffey, a staffing specialist based in Melrose, Massachusetts, says, "This is a candidate pool that's heard it all before, and the more the hype, the greater the suspicion and the likelihood of disappointment." There's also the danger, he says, that HomeBanc could overestimate its own importance. "Is there really a patriotic reason to work for a mortgage company, on a par with joining the Marines?" asks Gaffey, himself a former Marine.
Waving the flag
Despite the odds, HomeBanc has already hired 200 people and plans to add between 200 and 300 in the next few months. In February, without advertising, HomeBanc had 400 on-line applications. That number jumped to 1,203 in March, sunk a bit in April and May, but hit 1,551 in June. The news of HomeBanc's campaign generated additional free publicity when it was picked up in publications in Atlanta, Tampa, Charlotte, and Jacksonville.
As of mid-July, HomeBanc's per-person acquisition cost was about $1,030 per person hired. It estimates that the cost would have been $3,000 to $7,000 per hire without the campaign. In addition, the campaign communicated to potential customers that HomeBanc only hires the best--key information to get in the head of a customer about to make a complex investment.
The company has upped its original goal of 400 new hires to 500. Speaking with Reighard--a man who is used to sweeping people into his fold--it's not hard to imagine that those hundreds will be hired through sheer force of will. In 1997, he founded NorthStar Church in Kennesaw, Georgia, and in less than five years had more than 2,000 people coming to his Sunday service. His goals for HomeBanc are equally ambitious--or suspicious, depending on your point of view.
The company may not be a church, but in its branding ad, the words "God Bless America" are spread out wide over a waving American flag, with the HomeBanc logo beneath. Before being hired as CPO, Rieghard ran a monthly--voluntary--Bible study for employees.
For now, however, Reighard's goals are simple: "We want to become one of America's most admired companies; we want to be one of the greatest places to work in America," he says. "We've already gotten some phenomenal people this way. Truly the few and the proud."
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Love's A Real Thing, World Psychedelic Classics 3
Released By: Luaka Bop
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In the tumultuous 1960s a generation of musicians was establishing itself as the authentic voice of African rebellion and power. Musically, the transatlantic African and Western links are obvious; from the urban black American funk of James Brown to the grooves of Cuban rumba and latin percussion. Yet the fact that they were scarcely recognized in contemporary underground music is incredibly ironic given that western counterculture drew so heavily on the musical and aesthetic traditions of Africa.
The twelve astonishing tracks on the Love's a Real Thing are drawn from a broad spectrum of early 70s West African psychedelic classics. A heady brew of a musically active culture, a relaxed attitude to sex and the day-glo visual imagery of daily life facilitated the African embrace of acid rock and soul. The record kicks off with the funk/soul inflections and James Brown-style shrieks of Benin's Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Dahomey, followed by Gambia's Super Eagles updating progressive fusion with African roots. This compilation represents a unique period of musical cross-fertilization as the influence of the Beatles and Elvis steadily gave way to that of Fela.
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This week I've been working on improving the year round colour and foliage in our garden, starting with the borders which appear to be full of wild flowers.
Here's a guide to taking back your borders and adding interest:
- Clear the bed, try to dig out the roots of weeds to stop them returning. If you aren't sure what's a weed I like this weed identification page.
- Work out how much sun the bed gets to avoid planting things that won't suit the site.
- What kind of soil do you have? Here's a quick soil guide to working it out.
- Select plants, smaller ones will be more economical and grow into the space over time.
- Look at the times when plants will flower and ensure you have flowers for different seasons.
The Border Budget Breakdown:
- 1 Marguerites – 90p @ Tesco
- 3 dahlias – £1.50 each @ Tesco
- 2 yellow wallflowers – £1.50 each @ Homebase
- Green Foliage – £3.50 @ Tesco
- 1 Agapanthus tuber – £1.74 @ Homebase
- 15 Ranunculus – £1.74 @ Homebase
- 10 Gladioli bulb – £3.49 @Homebase
- Red Campion – FREE self seeded from neighbours garden
I've previously dabbled in buying cut price plants and have had mixed results, however, these bulbs were reduced as the time to plant them was just about to pass. So, as long as I planted them up within a few days of buying they would be fine. (In fact even if I planted them later and they didn't flower this year, they will be there in the earth ready for next year) The dahlias and marguerites were also looking a little sad for themselves, but after a bit of dead heading they were looking a lot more perky, and next week they will be full of fresh blooms.
And linking up with Mammasaurus for the wonderful How Does Your Garden Grow Linky. Last week I loved these gorgeous anenomies.