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Chad and Cheryl are practicing at Step-N-Out Dance Studio in Covington. I've been there, it's a nice place to dance. I also heard that Chad and Cheryl showed up at Havana Martini on Wednesday night! 
Maybe I've just never noticed, but I didn't know that flowers will bloom on the trunk of a tree.
Here is a child's first experience at kayaking.
Mascots lining up for a parade. Not exactly sure what the deal is with the cockroach and the flags.
A giant tank of all sorts of fish that can be found in the Ohio River.
It's the Toyota recycling mascot. Strangely enough, I ended up carrying a paper cup much of the time because I couldn't find a place to recycle it.
More info at ObeyGiant.comAt this time it is unclear to what happened after this point due to the complainant's recollection being foggy from her intoxication level. However, she did write a statement of what she thought happened."
In part, the woman's statement read: "I met Ben Rotheseburgehergh [sic] at Velvet [Elvis, a local bar]. He went to the Brick because he was [unreadable] to not be bombarded by fans. He then met us at the Brick and called me 'a tease.' Eventually we saw him at the Capital City & saw him there."Friends don't let friends drink and write statements...
UPDATE: TheSmokingGun.com is all over this with the actual written statements. Here's how she wrote "Rotheseburgehergh"
If every Duke Energy OH customer receiving this offer installs six CFLs, our customers will save the amount of energy needed to serve 14,800 homes.
Unfortunately, these bulbs are nowhere to be found. I've driven to two different Walmarts and they're both out of stock of this specific pack with no substitutions allowed. While I was there, I saw two others carrying coupons looking for the bulbs too. I checked with my parents and they've been to two other Walmarts in the suburbs and they're out of stock too. Call it the recession lesson. The downturn caused many newly thrifty consumers to detour into the world of cheap toilet paper, store brand shampoos, and other generic necessities. And you know what these consumers discovered? The cheaper stuff isn't half-bad. Often, the cheaper stuff clearly gives more bang for the buck. So why would consumers ever go back to paying significantly more money for something that does basically the same job?It will be interesting to see what P&G thinks these "significant" innovations are. Unless there's true noticeable improvement, I don't think that some minor changes, a new label, and an advertising campaign is really going to win back customers. The recession has cut pretty deeply and the old way of doing things might not work this time.
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Because they're having trouble competing in straight-up face-offs with generic products, the manufacturers are rolling out new items--or rather, "new and improved" items.
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P&G, the world's biggest ad spender, plans a 20% increase in "consumer impressions," or instances when consumers see its ads, during the fiscal year ending June 30. The Cincinnati-based maker of Pampers diapers, Crest toothpaste and Pantene shampoo says it will introduce 30% more "significant" innovations in products this year.
"Anonymity is just the way things are done. It's an accepted part of the Internet, but there's no question that people hide behind anonymity to make vile or controversial comments," said Arianna Huffington, a founder of The Huffington Post. "I feel that this is almost like an education process. As the rules of the road are changing and the Internet is growing up, the trend is away from anonymity."I used to cringe at the callers that I'd hear on talk radio shows, but comment sections have gone way beyond that. Most of the comment sections of news websites have become a cesspool of ignorance and hate.
Thank goodness health care reform has passed, because KFC has issued a new challenge to the hearts of Americans everywhere. It's the Double Down, your personal Exxon Valdez.Is the notoriety and free publicity that KFC is getting worth the unhealthy label that comes with it?
The Vancouver Sun newspaper estimated that the sandwich clocks in at an artery-clogging 1,228 calories - far above the 540 calories that KFC claims it contains. The grilled option comes in at 460 calories.
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But nutritionists are more concerned that the Double Down contains 1,380 milligrams of salt and ten grams of saturated fat. That is 60 per cent and 50 per cent respectively of the U.S. government's recommended daily intake.
The Daily Mail of London writes "no-frills [Ryanair] is working with Boeing to redesign the cabin and develop coin-operated toilets on 168 of its planes. Not content with charging passengers for use of the facilities, the airline is also looking at reducing the number of toilets on board, leaving just one available cubicle for up to 189 passengers."I predict bad things happening if there's only one toilet for 189 passengers. Redundancy is the key.
"It's like a sitcom set in the 'Star Wars' universe," Mr. Senreich said. "Single cam, if you will."I've got a perfect scene for this sitcom, George Lucas being digested by the Saarlac. Lots of laughs.
It's common to see new and improved on products, but "Now! Better Tasting!" on Jimmy Dean sausages sounds like an admission that the product was previously not as tasty.
Waiting in line was kind of my fault as I could have pre-ordered it and had it sent to my home or had one reserved for me at the store. For a while, I thought about waiting for the next model, but realistically, that was never an option. I truly do believe that the iPad is the future of computing so why wait when you can have the future today?
Once you get to the front of the line, an Apple employee would come shake your hand, ask your name, and then act as your person concierge for your entire visit to the Apple store. The Apple employee offered to demo a unit for me and to setup the iPad for me after I purchased it. No rushing to move to the next customer whatsoever. For me, I would have been happy with a giant stack of iPads for me to pick up and take to checkout, but for someone new to Apple, this kind of service would make a world of difference.This is the home office of paid baseball, established 1876. Johnny Bench slept here. We eat hot dogs and their various kinfolk: Mettwurst, bratwurst, all the wursts. We drink beer. It's who we are. Buy me some su-shi and char-donnay? I don't think so.Wake up Paul, it's 2010 and times are changing. What's wrong with offering customers a choice? It's not like someone is forcing you to eat sushi when going to the ballpark. But, Daugherty is thinking like a 10 year old- that somehow what you eat defines you as a fan.
The NFL doesn't do this, because it doesn't have to and no meat-eating NFL fan would be caught dead with a piece of raw mackerel between his thumb and forefinger. Except maybe in San Francisco.But, he's wrong here too. A simple Googling shows that at least the Houston Texans of the NFL has sushi available. I'm sure there are others too, I'm just not bothering to do more research, just like Paul Daugherty.
Real baseball fans don't come to the yard to eat ahi and slurp cuba libres. They just don't. Problem is, there aren't enough real baseball fans. You should see the cynical, smirky grins I provoke when I walk to my seat with my scorebook and pencil. All I need is a hat with a propeller.There definitely aren't enough of the fans that Daugherty describes, because well, they're mostly dead. But, there are plenty of other fans, just not as many as the Reds would like. The Reds averaged 21,579 last year, 14th out of 16 National League teams. It seems like the strategy for catering to just "real fans" is a losing one. Speaking of "real fans", I drove by Miller Park in Milwaukee one weekend day after they were out of the race, and there were a lot of people tailgating for a Brewers game. It's time to stop talking about how great the fans of Cincinnati are. We have dedicated fans and we have fair-weather fans, just like any city.
I flipped over the package to check out the ingredients to see how natural these are and noticed that the bar was made in China. 
These days I know we're all used to having every toaster and computer made in China, but are we ready to have our food products made there?Abbye Freiman, a food manufacturing consultant based in Torrance, said that she knows of no other food company that ships raw materials to Asia for manufacturing and gets finished products sent back to the United States for sales.
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"It comes down to basically cost of labor," said James Kim. "The amount of money that it will cost us to hire 50 people in China for a month is equivalent to one person's monthly salary here. It is not like we are underpaying them; it is the going rate. It's like having 200 people at the factory at the cost of four or five here."The minimum wage in California is $8/hour. A person's yearly salary at that rate, working 40 hours a week and 52 weeks a year $16,640 or $1387 per month. If Mrs. May is hiring 50 people for that amount, each employee is making $27.74 a month. If you give weekends off, which is a questionable premise since it is common for factories in China to give employees only a couple of days off month, employees are making making $1.27 a day or $.16/hour assuming 8 hour days. This may be the prevalent wage, but is it a fair one?
