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PepsiCo and Dollar General Announce the 'Tune in to Giving' Promotion with Country Music Star Brad Paisley
Promotion gives fans chance to win prizes while raising up to $75,000 for the Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Jul 17, 2012, 03:18 ET
PLANO, Texas, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PepsiCo, global food and beverage maker, is teaming up with award-winning country music star Brad Paisley and Dollar General to support literacy in the United States. The parties recently kicked-off "Tune in to Giving," an in-store promotion encouraging fans to help support the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, an organization dedicated to help others improve their lives by taking their first steps toward literacy, a general education diploma or English proficiency.
From now until Aug. 19, 2012, when Dollar General shoppers buy a 10-ounce or larger bag of Lay's potato chips (any flavor) and a 2-liter Pepsi product (any variety) together, and enter the code from their receipt at www.dollargeneral.com, $1 will be donated (for each valid code entered) to the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. The minimum donation is $50,000, with a maximum donation of $75,000.
In addition, fans who enter their receipt code online will receive a free music download and be entered for the chance to win Dollar General gift cards, Brad Paisley memorabilia and concert tickets to Paisley's "Virtual Reality World Tour." The tour kicked-off in January 2012 and has played to nearly one-half million fans so far. Virtual Reality World Tour continues through mid-October.
Paisley will be featured on in-store displays and digital marketing materials to help draw consumer awareness and participation in the program.
The "Tune in to Giving" promotion is sponsored solely by Frito-Lay and is open to legal residents of eligible states. Visit https://tuneintogiving.com/ for more information, official rules and methods of entry, including an entry method where no purchase is necessary.
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PepsiCo is a global food and beverage leader with net revenues of more than $65 billion and a product portfolio that includes 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in annual retail sales. Our main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Cola – make hundreds of enjoyable foods and beverages that are loved throughout the world. PepsiCo's people are united by our unique commitment to sustainable growth by investing in a healthier future for people and our planet, which we believe also means a more successful future for PepsiCo. We call this commitment Performance with Purpose: PepsiCo's promise to provide a wide range of foods and beverages for local tastes; to find innovative ways to minimize our impact on the environment by conserving energy and water and reducing packaging volume; to provide a great workplace for our associates; and to respect, support and invest in the local communities where we operate. For more information, please visit www.pepsico.com.
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Dollar General Corporation has been delivering value to shoppers for more than 70 years. Dollar General helps shoppers Save time. Save money. Every day!® by offering products that are frequently used and replenished, such as food, snacks, health and beauty aids, cleaning supplies, basic apparel, house wares and seasonal items at low everyday prices in convenient neighborhood locations. With more than 10,000 stores in 40 states, Dollar General has more retail locations than any retailer in America. In addition to high quality private brands, Dollar General sells products from America's most-trusted manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, Kellogg's, General Mills, Nabisco, Hanes and PepsiCo. Learn more about Dollar General at www.dollargeneral.com.
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Paisley is a consummate singer, songwriter, guitarist and entertainer, which has earned him three GRAMMYs, 14 Academy of Country Music Awards and 14 Country Music Association Awards including Entertainer of the Year for 2010. He has placed 20 singles at the top of the charts, the latest a duet with Carrie Underwood, "Remind Me." Paisley's current album, This Is Country Music, debuted at #1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart and is his sixth consecutive studio album to debut as the nation's country best-seller. He released his first book, Diary of a Player, on Nov. 1 and was on the New York Times Best Seller list for two weeks. Paisley's 2011 H2O II: Wetter & Wilder Tour played to over one million fans in the U.S. and Europe. His 2012 Virtual Reality World Tour kicked off on Jan. 12 in Grand Rapids, MI and has played to nearly 1/2 million fans, so far, including a sold-out crowd of 38,000 at Wrigley Field on June 9.
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OMFG Of The Day: Leonard Nimoy Is The Coolest Curmudgeon Ever
I'm pretty much convinced that Leonard Nimoy is one of the coolest actors still around from Star Trek. He manages to avoid the spotlight that William Shatner craves while still being relavent and a cultural icon. Plus, he starred in the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which I happen to love. Anyways, after the jump, you can watch the new Bruno Mars video for The Lazy Song, which features Leonard Nimoy enjoying some of life's pleasures, such as porno magazines, joints, peeing in the sink, and reenacting the famous Taxi Driver scene in front of the mirror. Yup, my hero.

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"Why can't the United States be better at men's soccer, just like its women, people often ask. The answer is complicated. Americans tend to excel at sports we invented, in part because the other ones all had colonialist tinges that made a new nation loathe to embrace them. We play baseball, not cricket, football not rugby, and soccer has often been known as the game of immigrants, while their children in the next generation play the more home grown games of baseball, basketball, and football.
This attitude is reflected in the hierarchy of American school sports. Throughout most of the world, the most popular sport is soccer and the second and third most important sports are soccer too. Here, the game has to compete with many more established sports. Sure many boys now play soccer but when they get to high school and college – the best athletes gravitate to the better-known sports that get all the hype on ESPN. Compared to an imaginary national team of our best football, basketball, and baseball players, the national soccer team draws far more from middle-class families, meaning there is a huge pool of great athletes who would never consider playing soccer.
The collectivism of the game is something that many Americans may have trouble grasping too. This sport relies on a group dynamic and clashes with the individualist mantra at the heart of most other American sports. There is no pitcher to pull the strings or a quarterback who can single-handedly bring the team home. With long periods of action with no breaks, it's unlike our other games where coaches can call time outs and tell the players more explicitly what to do. In soccer, you have to create on your own.
Those long 45-minute halves can pose problems too for a culture that often seems to be collectively suffering from a national case of attention deficit disorder, Playing soccer is like writing a novel; playing our other sports is more akin to Twittering – there are bursts of action and then breaks, often long ones.
This isn't to say the US won't win the World Cup some day. But culturally, we're not ready to win it now by a long shot."
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Still a Cutting-Edge Gas-Station Designer
Museum to construct 80-year design plan
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Frank Lloyd Wright's long-envisioned gas station of the future will finally open next year in Buffalo, N.Y., more than 80 years after the project was first approved.
The Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum is building the filling station, with above-ground tanks and a pitched copper roof, as a showpiece exactly as Wright drew it up, according to a Reuters report. The plans for the Buffalo station were only recently discovered among letters between Wright and a prominent Buffalo businessman named Darwin Martin, for whom Wright built two private homes in the area, according to James Sandoro, founder of the museum.
"It's exciting. It's not every day that you discover a non-built commission by Frank Lloyd Wright that was previously unknown," architect Patrick Mahoney told Reuters, Mahoney has been hired to carry out the $15-million project.
Visitors won't be able to fill up at the gas station, however. The station will be housed inside a 40,000-square-foot atrium and visible through glass walls.
Modern-day building codes would not allow features such as the overhead fuel storage tanks in a working service station, Sandoro said.
That, the architect said, can be daunting. "We're locked in a moment in time. You can't change the design," he said. "You have to make it work."
Wright titled his drawings "Buffalo Filling Station" in 1927, ahead of the post-war U.S. auto boom, as the nation's suburbs were beginning to expand. In the decades since, just one similar project was completed in Cloquet, Minn., just prior to Wright's death in 1959 at age 91.


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A pint of sour cream contains 16 fluid ounces. An ounce is a unit of measuring weight as well as liquid volume (fluid ounces). As it happens, a pint of sour cream also weighs 16 ounces.Continue Reading
An ounce in net weight should not be confused with an ounce in volume. While 16 fluid ounces of water does have a net weight of 16 ounces, 16 fluid ounces of molasses, however, is more dense and actually weighs 24 ounces. A fluid ounce in the U.K. measurement system is slightly larger, equal to 1.04 fluid ounces in U.S. measurement. A U.S. fluid ounce equals 29.57 milliliters.Learn more about Food Measurements


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According to the California Highway Patrol, the school bus crashed into a passenger vehicle in the 7000 block of Corbin Avenue at about 8 a.m.
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Because of the new system of overlaying texturepacks, the author have added some customizable packs! To install these, download the files of your choosing below, then place the file your resource packs folder. Finally, choose both the original New World pack and the themed pack from the list. Make sure that the themed pack is above the original. You will also need either MCpatcher or Optifine in order for the dynamic lighting to fuction correctly! And there you go, a whole NEW world!
The premise of survival reaches a whole new dimension with New World: Darkness. The pitch-black expanse sends you yearning for light, night and day. This pack is truly for the most experienced, most adventurous gamers out there. Survival is key, light is hope.
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Dear Abby: You once said that you could usually spot a phony letter. Well, today is my 70th birthday, and so help me, this is true. The letter in your column from ``Jane,`` who refused to open the door to a stranger, struck home.
On a recent Saturday, at midnight, I was still reading when I heard a timid knock at the front door. I peered out, and saw a topless young lady standing there with her arms crossed! Fearing a ruse for a robbery, I opened the door slightly and said, ``Yes?``


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M-INCLUSION is a Support Action, co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7, with the aim to create a cooperative framework between European and Latin American mobile solution developers and entities. The objective is to encourage the use and growth of innovative, user-oriented, and affordable mobile solutions in order to promote social integration among people at risk of exclusion.
M-INCLUSION will focus mainly in the following four groups of potential end-users, in order to fully understand their specific needs and handicaps:
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- To develop an exhaustive inventory action aimed at mapping organizations, actual needs of the target groups and existing mobile solutions and trends for social inclusion in EU and LATAM
- To establish Workgroups that identify main needs, analyse technological solution and trends, and define an overall M-INCLUSION Road Map
- To support the identification and promotion of new ideas for future R&D projects
- To create awareness on M-INCLUSION action through a wide dissemination of project results
- To generate Market opportunities within the mobile technologies sector
Besides, M-INCLUSION intends to contribute to the digital gap debate, sharing recommendations and conclusions with representatives of the IT industry and public bodies with responsibility in the development of the national and regional digital agendas through dissemination activities.
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Isle of Pine Preserve: Green Trail is a 1.3 mile lightly trafficked loop trail located near Orlando, Florida that features a lake and is rated as moderate. The trail offers a number of activity options and is best used from January until January.
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The Isle of Pine Preserve is located in southeast Orange County off of Lake Mary Jane Rd and is managed by the Orange County Environmental Protection Division.The east Entrance does not currently meet up with the West entrance trails.Unlike the other trails this one is separate & located on Lake Mary Jane Rd. This is another of the Green Place preserves created by Orange County. The preserve is reported to consist of 464 acres and was formally known as Hampton Bay. It was originally part of a Florida Homestead before developers purchased it. In turn Orange County purchased it from the developers and created Isle of Pine Preserve. It is bordered on the West by Lake Mary Jane as well as a canal, and on the other three sides by private property. All surrounding property is private and very well protected, so don't cross any fences. Desert Ranch owns much of the adjourning property and they do not take kindly to trespassers. Orange County Moss Park is just across Lake Mary Jane. Because much of the preserve is wetlands, there are two access points, one at the end of Lake Mary Jane Road and the other at the end of Lace Bark Pine Drive. Parking is provided at both locations.
Nice little walk. One end of the trail is confusing. It indicates you can keep going straight. Going strait leads to a lot of mud!
Saw lots of tracks in the mud. Lots of signs of boar. So I shouldn't have been surprised when I saw one. To bad I didn't get a good pic of it.


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The Lucia Mar Foundation for Innovation was established in December of 2010 by community volunteers who sought a way to support local education in a coordinated, strategic manner. The Foundation targets community resources which would not have otherwise been involved in local schools, connecting individuals and businesses with the district's visionary programs and initiatives. By partnering with the community, we raise the level of participation in our schools and increase funding for all students.
The Lucia Mar Foundation for Innovation helps provide the resources and vision required for students to master the skills needed to contribute to society, be successful, and have a competitive advantage in the global economy. We are a key component to a continually thriving South County community and economy.
The Foundation for Innovation identifies and supports the most promising and innovative programs and practices that will allow our students to master 21st Century Learning Skills. We provide additional resources to ensure opportunities in technology, arts, foreign languages, and other 21st Century skills. We work in partnership with the district to create programs and practices of excellence that are innovative, high-impact, and results-oriented.
21st Century Skills
Innovation, Imagination, and Creativity
Global Awareness and Second Language Skills
Technology Skills
Communication Skills
Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Skills
Teamwork, Collaboration and Cooperation
Our vision
Our vision is that our schools are places of excellence where our children learn the skills to be successful in the 21st century.
Our Goals
Foster the creation of model programs and themes at school sites to further 21st Century Skills development
Help students develop 2nd language skills by working with the District to provide meaningful opportunities for students to engage in learning a second language
Develop and implement effectiveness measures for funds spent that hold the District responsible for the use of money to further students 21st Century skill development
Enhance students technology skills by providing computers, technology support, and internet access to all Lucia Mar students
Encourage creativity among our youth by working with the District to provide meaningful opportunities for students to engage in music, drama, and the visual and performing arts
Communicate our efforts to all constituencies in our community through social interaction and engagement
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Marge and Homer, Troy and Abed: Our Favorite Sitcom Smackdown Couples, Ranked
The course of true love always did run hilarious.
Sitcoms love a good romance. They love a bad romance, or a doomed romance, or a silly romance that turns serious. Any romance, really — comedy and love just go together. In honor of Roseanne's elimination in today's Sitcom Smackdown, it seemed like time to talk about our competition's central, iconic couples. Not every show has an obvious central pairing, and not every couple is a romantic pair, but most do, and most are. The course of true love always did run hilarious.
1. Roseanne and Dan Conner, Roseanne
They tease each other, they tease their kids, and they say good-night with a Clapper. But beyond the joking, there's an unbelievably strong bond of love and support. "You wanna hear all the things I like about you?" Roseanne asks almost sarcastically, after Dan roughs up Jackie's abusive boyfriend. Then things get really serious and poignant for a second. "You picked me," she says tenderly. "And you fix stuff."
2. Cliff and Clair Huxtable, The Cosby Show
There is no greater romantic gesture than Cliff rubbing Clair's feet. And their mutual eyebrow-waggling gets us every time.
3. Monica and Chandler, Friends
Ross and Rachel are the more famous couple, but does anyone really aspire to their level of dysfunction? Hell no. It's the surprisingly stable — despite or because of the neuroses — and complimentary pairing of Monica and Chandler that really warms our hearts. She's high maintenance, but he "likes … maintaining" her. Aww.
4. Homer and Marge Simpson, The Simpsons
"Do you ever think about the future?" "You mean, will apes be our masters?" This is how you want every "define the relationship" talk to go, ladies and germs.
5. Liz and Jack, 30 Rock
Oh, we know, we know — they're not a couple. But here are two people who rely on each other, trust each other, push each other, and find joy and comfort in the other's presence. That's love.
6. Lois and Hal, Malcolm in the Middle
Here are two people who are hot for each other. Basically all the time. It's both cute and occasionally disturbing.
7. Jerry and Elaine, Seinfeld
Again, not a couple-couple. (Though, unlike Liz and Jack, they did go there.) But would either of them really meet someone who was a better match? Of course not. Except maybe George. For Jerry.
8. Sam and Diane, Cheers
So dysfunctional. Soooooo dysfunctional.
9. Carrie and Big, Sex and the City
So dysfunctional. Soooooo dysfunctional.
10. Troy and Abed, Community
Troy is technically dating Britta at this point, but come on. Everyone knows the central couple of Community is the one that hosts its own morning show.
11. Stan and Wendy, South Park
Oh, she hooked up with Cartman once, but everyone makes mistakes. There's no better articulation of the overwhelming-ness of an elementary-school crush than Stan's overactive barf response to any interaction with Wendy.
12. Larry and David Duchovny, The Larry Sanders Show
Just go for it, you two!
13. Louie and Pamela, Louie
After one of the great love confessions of all time, the show never really revisited the idea of these two as a pair — and since then, we've seen Louie with several other possible romantic partners. Sigh.
14. Tobias and Lindsay, Arrested Development
Open relationships only work if they're based on trust, you guys.
15. Dorothy and Stan, Golden Girls
She marries Lucas in the end, but it's Dorothy's ongoing antagonism with her dummy ex-husband Stan that always felt like the show's strongest romantic entanglement.
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Qhat i wish is something if people tried they would see its the most fun ever on the continuum client...
That is to put Metal Gear CTF's *ELIM* in the sub-arenas, not just its pub .... and then for people to play games of metal gear elim
Metal Gears Elim (Use of ships #6 and #7) is the best thing i ever played here,
runners up are Battleship, Warp Wars, Metal Gear Pub, Dueling in TW Pub and LTing in TW Pub with me as the terrier.
But Metal Gear ELim was the best thing ever
I know its no trouble at all to add a subarena, so SysOps Please add Metal Gear's Elim and players, please go there with me and tryu it out,
you will find it to be "10 times" more fun than either TW Elim or TW Dueling,
This is namely and mainly because of the movement settings of MetalGear, its traditional to duel using #6 or #7 and that the bot not limit choice of ships, it lets you chose any and just runs elim without ship requirements, but use #6 or #7 only please.
Please add this subarena and check out it. I know many, after getting used to it, will also say its the best thing they ever tried and "Oh i see now why T0NE/Tone Posted that thread!!"
I prefer to have posted this as a slight tangent and segway from saying i hate JAV stuff and that the ship is clumbsy for me. Rather than to post a whole new thread suggesting this.
The movement settings of MG Troops compared to TW SpaceShips is really awesome once you get used to it youll love it
ill make payments of $5,000 to the first people who play if the subA is added,.
Heres the Index of my TW YouTube Theme Videos:
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Social media gives big companies the fear because it is an unpoliced environment where bad noise travels fast. And increasingly consumers are using it to say all kinds of things about brands, and also to aim direct questions at them (in public).
In many cases these companies aren't remotely geared up to deal with questions, and they would much rather communicate with customers in private.
But here's why customers do their complaining in public: it's easier. It's really that simple. People don't mind bitching out loud, and sometimes they take a little comfort from it, but if customer service wasn't so broken in the first place I think customers wouldn't be so quick to resort to the likes of Twitter and Facebook.
Here are 20 reasons why customer service is broken...
1. Charging customers premium rates to call your service team.
File under 'shakedown', rather than 'service'.
2. Making customers navigate through a series of automated menus.
Sometimes it takes two minutes before you're even placed on hold. Ridiculous.
3. Leaving customers on hold forever.
This is especially shocking for high value customers. I pay Virgin Media more than most for a 50MB internet connection at home, yet once had to wait for 55 minutes before somebody (the fourth person I was transferred to) fixed my problem. It took them about 90 seconds, once I was finally put through to the 50MB team. Why not provide me with a specific number to contact them directly?
4. Forcing customers to listen to crappy 'have you tried using our website' or other sales messages.
I only ever pick up the telephone as an absolute last resort, and normally because I can't do the thing I need to do via the website. If I could, I would. Playing these messages to a customer rather than picking up the telephone is entirely wrong-headed.
5. Interrupting hold music with ten-second 'Sorry, all of our advisors are busy. We are experiencing high call volumes. Please continue to hold…' messages every seven seconds.
That's you I'm talking about, Bloomsbury Bowl.
6. No 'email us' option.
Word to the wise: it is in fact 2011. As such there is no excuse for dodging email. It is cheaper to process an email than it is to employ somebody to speak to a customer. Email customer service is really important... so much so that it's actually a legal requirement.
7. No acknowledgement of email.
If a customer takes the trouble to write then it's worth immediately firing back an automated email, as a kind of receipt. The customer can be advised of the time it will take before they'll receive a proper reply (and just for the record, 25 business days is not acceptable).
8. 'Donotreply@' email addresses.
How rubbish is that? This is a total palm off.
9. Failure to communicate by email.
I asked Ladbrokes for my account history recently and received an email that instructed me to write a letter to The Compliance Officer at head office. This is downright avoidance, considering that I asked the question while logged into my supposedly secure online account. I will write a letter the next time I receive a minor flesh injury.
10. Contact forms that don't work on certain devices / browsers.
Those little things that people speak into can also access the internet. Amazing, isn't it? This is about accessibility, and about understanding user behaviour (and their preferences).
11. No live online chat.
For high volume businesses this is a really good idea. It provides customers with the immediacy of the telephone while using the website. CSRs can run several chats concurrently (unlike when they're speaking to a customer on the telephone). We have experimented with live chat in the past and will do so again.
12. Shoddy returns policies.
No shopper wants to jump through hoops in order to return a product. Why make it difficult? Also, if you are charging for returns then you're doing it wrong.
13. No visible contact number on a website.
Beleaguered customers do not want to play hide and seek with your phone number.
14. Low rent FAQs.
Improving the FAQ section of a website is one of the best ways of reducing inbound call volumes.
15. Ignoring people on Twitter / Facebook.
A study recently proved that only a quarter of UK retailers bother to answer questions asked of them on Twitter. Shocking.
16. Delivery timescale fail.
"We will deliver your item between 8am and 6pm. You will need to sign for it."
17. Lame delivery tracking.
Providing the customer with a long alphanumeric code and a link to a courier's website isn't particularly joined up.
18. Poor response times.
The average time it takes UK retailers to respond to an email is 10 hours (often it can be significantly longer than that). On Twitter it is around 94 minutes (when retailers bother to reply). On Facebook it is 78 minutes. I think these are all ok, until I start to really think about it… there is scope for vast improvement.
19. The lack of a single customer view.
Yes, it's difficult to achieve this: it requires a commitment to a joined-up, multichannel customer experience. Econsultancy research found that 90% of businesses think this is 'important', yet only 4% have managed to achieve it. Until it happens customers will continue to be frustrated by the fact that a company's left hand is unaware of the right hand.
20. The blind focus on customer acquisition.
This, for me, is the key reason why customer service remains broken. Too many firms are too focused on acquiring new customers, when they should be trying to retain existing ones. It is a cultural issue, for many businesses. It reflects the fact that sales and marketing have acquisition-based targets on which their bonuses are based. Many CSRs do not receive any kind of bonus. Customer service is perceived by the boardroom to be a horrendous cost to the business. This is all wrong… it's myopic and it needs to change before customer satisfaction scores will rise across the board. If that happens, the rewards on offer are fantastic: increased loyalty and customer advocacy, a higher average customer lifetime value, and far healthier profits. What's not to like?
I daren't think about how many things I've missed. What frustrates you the most? Which areas of service need to be improved the most?
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I had to call BT to try to find out why our broadband wasn't working, the first thing I was asked was if I had looked at their website FAQ!
In diagnosing the fault I had to tell them the colours of the lights on the router. Their routers use Orange, Amber and Green lights - I am 80% colourblind which they fund astounding and as such couldn't help further. What's wrong with on or off, or numbers?
I registered with Talk Talk as they had a very low advertised rate for broadband at home. On completing the registration thing including giving over Direct Debit details the advertised price had risen from £9.95 to £27.00 so I immediately cancelled. I called several times subsequently as they started sending me "welcome packs" etc. Eventually I was advised that everything had been cancelled as I asked and they didn't see the need to communicate that fact!
@TweetDeck have still not responded to even one of my 12 technical reports, even when posted on Twitter using TweetDeck!
As you rightly say, many opportunities to improve!
When I called AA insurance yesterday they informed me that "by making this phone call you agree to be contacted about further offers".
I hung up at that point and tried someone else.
#21 Facebook page doesn't link through to the company's real-world support channels, e.g. by listing the postal address and phone number.
Just had a bad experience with Eventim, largest ticket seller in Germany. I pointed them to a problem on their website, which made me order the wrong tickets. Instead of taking it as a chance to improve their service, they replied that I used a totally different ordering system than I actually have, and that they couldn't help me.
So I thought, let's see if they have a Facebook page, maybe I can talk to the people there. Well, they have. Posting product information. You can comment on their posts, but you can't post yourself. No chance to get any customer support that way.
My impression: They don't want customers, they only want the customers' money.
That's not 20 reasons. It's 20 examples of 1 reason: most companies don't care about customer satisfaction after they've got the money.
Orange could not seem to understand I can connect to my home internet when using my iphone. I did not want to connect to the internet when outside the home so did not need to pay their £5.00 monthly fee. After 3 months they still didn't get it.
Thankfully Tesco did and I'm now with them.
Thats all you can do in the UK, vote with your feet.
"Too many firms are too focused on acquiring new customers, when they should be trying to retain existing ones."
Exactly! It doesn't make sense, does it? It takes far more effort and money to get a new customer than it does to keep an old one. Once someone has purchased your product, why wouldn't a company do everything they could to make sure that person came back?
Great post! Living in Canada, one of the most frustrating things I encounter is calling into a company's CSR, only to find they can't (read: don't have the authority to) solve my problem. I ended up ascending through the ranks until I'm talking to a Manager who, with a mouse click, resolves my problem. WHY HAVE INEFFECTIVE CSR'S AT ALL?! "Just put me through to your Manager" has now replaced "hello" when talking to these companies.
Another customer 'service' fail is from companies who operate purely online (LoveFilm, efax etc) whom are more than happy to take your money month on month, but when you wish to cancel, they make you phone up - and invariably keep you waiting and waiting... and waiting...
To wait during call and keep listing their products or their played bore music is normally experienced while calling to the help line of your mobile services. While there are also few sites which neither show their email addresses nor show any form to contact to them. Just present their office addresses in this electronic media's era, to write letter to them.
How about tradesmen and companies that offer home services such as tiling comps, carpet comps, decorating comps? I had my house repainted internally recently and the manager of the two painters kept calling me 'mate'. Also, all he seemed concerned about was the money, first the deposit and then the final balance. When I told him that I wasn't going to pay the balance till all the snags were done, he still pushed for the money and suggested I hold back £350 until the snags were done, which I did. In the end I sent him an email telling him I wasn't his mate especially when £3000 was concerned. Another example - carpet fitter. They wanted all money up front - why? They know where we live. Why should I pay for a product that hasn't been yet fitted? In the end they agreed to split the final balance and I haven't paid it yet cos the fitter only did half of it as his back gave in. I told the company this totally vindicated my refusal to pay all up front. There is no such thing as customer service anymore in my opinion. Lack of deference to customers, lack of care for customer sensitivies i.e. no personalisation. Only some top brands such as first direct do it well.
I think the promises business make on a one-to-one level are getting increasingly bad. People just don't hold themselves to their word any more and leave you constantly dismayed at why they feed you a load of hot air promises. My pet hate is when someone promises to call you back that same day, but forget or just don't prioritise how important customer service actually is.
Companies that want to differentiate themselves should take note and raise their customer service quality, instead of treating customer service as an unwanted cost! RAC, RBS, Tesco Bank are examples of organisations that have noticed this shift and making improvements to service their customers effectively and efficiently.
Lately I've been invited to do talks / workshops at various events about customer service.
My summary on this is as follows:
1. Customer Service = delivering on promises...
2. Promises made by a brand, implied or explicit, lead to setting expectations.
3. If a brand meets or exceeds expectations customers are happy. This builds trust.
4. Trust underpins loyalty, loyalty becomes advocacy. This increases your business overall.
5. If a brand fails to meet expectations customers are unhappy - but in fact it is not failure customers hate. Failure can be tolerated if....
6. When a brand fails how it is handled will be the measure of the final customer outcome... Listening, acknowledgement, ownership and some form of action can turn an unhappy customer back into a happy customer.
7. If a brand not only fails but then does not listen, acknowledge, own the problem or offer some action / resolution, then they have had it...
In talks I have found out just how fierce customers can be when they not only experience failure to meet their expectations but then are met with inadequate action on making a complaint!
In this day and age your customer service underpins your success - in an online, social, connected world failure can be tolerated only if it is addressed, but really you need to remove chances of failure.
To remove chances of failure take a long, hard look at your business, positioning, proposition and promises - what promises, implied or explicit, do you make that you might fail on? What can you do to eliminate risk of failure?
It is as simple as that really - it doesn't matter if you are a sole trader or a global corporate giant - the formula is still the same... Customer service = delivering on promises
Hope that was a useful comment :-)
What if companies sent out a single "how did we do for you?" email after the service or product was delivered - the customer clicks a single button "rating from "brilliant!" to "awful!" and the company followed up each instance to fix things and improve things.
It would keep gripes off the web because it would stop them from getting there in the first place - and it means no more long forms to fill in for customers.
Great article Chris. I've put some Dutch translation on my blog http://www.adfiliate.nl/2011/05/24/online-klantenservice-en-conversie-optimalisatie/ with a link to the complete article.
I filled out a "call me back immediately" form on a certain internet service provider´s website, I had a simple question before signing up. One week later, they call me. I had already signed up with another company.
Now I regularly receive phonecalls from them "regarding a message I sent", and this was months and months ago. It seems there are no shortage of sales staff to call you up every bloody day, but as soon as you need help "all our operators are busy"
@Merc - in my experience, Tesco Bank should be totally ashamed of their Customer Service!
My mum died 5 weeks ago and I had to contact them about her savings accounts - to make a very long story short, they aren't 'allowed' to put customers through to their Probate department but will pass on a message! Two phone calls later, both of which ended in me in floods of tears because I couldn't get hold of the right team to help me.
In the end I blasted them on Twitter! Ten minutes later - honestly! - I get a DM from their Customer Support Team asking for my number so they can call me - which they did immediately and within 24 hours the problem had been solved, along with a £20 voucher to compensate me for my distress.
So yes, they're switched on to the role of social media in reputation management but it should never have got to that point in the first place.
Great article and so true to my experiences as well. I am also a Virgin Media 50mb customer and have experienced alot of outage over the last four weeks have probably had to phone them about 10 times and each time leaves my blood boiling. The only sensible people they seem to employ are their engineers who do seem to know about customer services.
As someone above said it seems most companies these days focus on new customers as opposed to retaining their existing ones as well. Do they not realise that eventually those old customers they have lost are all that is going to be left as the new customer "pool" will have been bled dry.
Fab article, I totally agree that somewhere along the line customer service has gone terribly wrong. It doesn't seem to focus on the customer's needs at all!
If companies would just allow you to give feedback, actually listen to what you have said, and take action on it to improve the service they give, customers would be much happier and these companies would be much more successful.
Very pertinent. It is hard to comprehend why some companies are not even addressing the ones on the list which are easy to fix
When I receive good customer service I get very excited and tell everyone. Unfortunately I haven't had to do too much of that.
In my opinion excellent customer service is down to:
1. Recruitment - finding the right people
2. Valuing the customer service staff - train, empower, pay and reward them well
3. Measuring customer satisfaction regularly (do not live in the dark)
4. Actively and continually looking to improve service levels
Great article and sound comments. One question: Do you exceed the level of service to your own customers that you demand from your suppliers? Food for thought?


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Solon Young Professionals (SYP): Developing young professionals ages 20s and 30s in the Solon area through mentoring, networking, and seeking out engagement opportunities; connecting with local businesses, business leaders, dynamic entrepreneurs, and local culture.
Chair: Tom Erb, Wells Fargo Advisors. Email Tom for more information.
The SYP Committee meets quarterly at various locations to plan quarterly events.
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This group is committed to helping other young professionals recognize and achieve their full potential. A program of the Solon Chamber of Commerce, SYP seeks out engagement opportunities with other young professionals, business leaders, dynamic entrepreneurs, and the local culture to continue personal growth through mentorship and networking. We believe that with the proper support of the business community, every young professional can make a difference in their field.


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Fwits were a small, furry, carnivorous, mammalian non-sentient species native to the arboreal planet of Maridun. Expert hunters, they could run very quickly and catch most smaller prey. Averaging at around half a meter tall, fwits were kept by Amanin on Maridun as both pets and guardians, due to their vicious, savage nature. During the reign of the Galactic Empire, hunters were encouraged to kill Fwits on sight.
Biology and appearanceEdit
Fwits were nearly half a meter tall when sitting on their haunches, and had light pink skin, with bushy fur around their head, paws, feet and long, rat-like tail. Their fur ranged in color from black to brown, sandy or even gray. When their mouth was closed, fwits appeared to be smiling; however this was rarely the case. Their mouths were enormous compared to the small size of their heads when opened, with two rows of razor sharp teeth capable of shredding skin and bone. Fwits had a pair of oversized, white eyes located at the sides of their head, and two large, floppy ears, as well as a small, sharp nose.[1]
Although they appeared to be innocent, friendly creatures, fwits were in truth vicious carnivores; they preferred the taste of freshly killed meat to any other food. Fwits were expert hunters, skilled at catching practically any small mammal. They were able to outrun most creatures that were smaller than them, and liked to eat them in one bite. When hunting larger animals, fwits would bite their prey, holding on until their enemy was rendered unconscious. They were also extremely silent movers, as well as good hiders. Fwits rarely attacked their owners and those who they were used to, but they were extremely aggressive to outsiders, especially those who did not know how to care for fwits.[1]
Fwits were kept on the planet Maridun as pets and guard animals by the large humanoid sentients native to Maridun called the Amani long before the Galactic Empire arrived on Maridun, although when the Empire was in control of their homeworld, fwits were outlawed in all the major cities and ports, and hunters were encouraged by the Empire to murder fwits on sight.[1]
After the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, the Hutts once again took control of Maridunian slavery, and fwits were re-allowed into all the former Imperial spaceports. A favorite pet of the Hutts, fwits were also smuggled offworld in large quantities.[1]
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Before the reign of the Empire, fwits were rarely found off Maridun, however, when the Hutts regained control of Maridun, fwits were transported to various parts of the galaxy in huge numbers. After some time, fwits were not uncommon on many planets in the known galaxy, although they were often outlawed because of their vicious nature, misleading appearance and voracious appetites.[1]
Behind the scenesEdit
Fwits were created for use in Ultimate Adversaries, a 2004 sourcebook published as part of the Star Wars Roleplaying Game. The creatures were later mentioned in 2008's The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.
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Plans for Isle of Man TT 'Snoozebox' hotel approved
Plans to create a portable hotel to help meet demand for accommodation during TT week have been approved by the Isle of Man government.
The Snoozebox will be situated in Noble's Park in Douglas.
The temporary pod-like construction is already used at venues such as the Silverstone races.
A tourism spokesman said permission was for 260 rooms - potentially 520 beds. The island's registered accommodation is already full for the 2012 races.
The Isle of Man government is also appealing for more local residents to open their homes to TT fans in TT week.
In 2011, more than 700 homeowners on the island let rooms to TT tourists, with 2,858 beds being taken up during June's races.


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For the time being, Tropical Depression 8-E is far away from any land, just as Gil was when it formed earlier this week.
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Hi, Vicky! Your rock is wonderful and the ocean beautiful... how good that your phone internet works... I missed a lot of things after I had moved... but, new places - new challenges...Have a nice day with lots of nice people! Blessings to you!ReplyDelete
How far was your move, Jana? Was this recently? Moving always brings interesting changes -- most of ours have been for the better. Life here in Texas is so much nicer than it was in Kansas!ReplyDelete
Our home internet is now working so hopefully no more trouble.Replies
I moved when I got married, more then 30 years ago, only about 130 km, not so far, but I moved from big town to the countryside, small village... For about 10 years I always answered the question: "Where are you from?" - I am from my hometown but I live here :)Delete
While our children were little, we couldn't travel at all, had no car, paper diapers were unknown ... My husband left on Monday to his work and arrived on Friday... I missed my family and friends... no internet! It waited to be discovered:)
During 7 years I had 4 children, and then the 5th one... It was not easy, but now I smile when I recall those times... I found my life nice, in the country... Now my children are all over Europe and I started traveling to see them... It's fun sometimes... The life in the country is closer to nature, and is not so fast... and people live naturally with God...
It seems that you and I share some experiences. Bill and I met in a large city in Kansas, but we moved around a bit when we were first married (he was in the Navy). Later we settled in a small town in Kansas where we raised our 4 children. Money was tight then -- I used cloth diapers as well!Delete
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Baltimore, MD (SportsNetwork.com) - On a windy Sunday afternoon at M&T Bank Stadium, a kicker was the star of the game.
Justin Tucker kicked four field goals as the Baltimore Ravens topped the offensively challenged New York Jets, 19-3.
Joe Flacco completed 17-of-26 passes for 273 yards, 66 coming on a touchdown catch by Jacoby Jones that put Baltimore (5-6) up 16 late in the third quarter. Flacco also threw a 60-yard pass to Torrey Smith.
New York rookie Geno Smith struggled mightily, connecting only 9-of-22 passes and finishing with a paltry 127 yards and two interceptions.
"I've got to pick it up. I've got to find a way to spark the offense somehow, some way," Smith said.
The Jets (5-6), who mustered only 12 first downs and 220 yards on offense, have lost two straight for the first time this season. They were the first team in NFL history to alternate wins and losses through the first 10 games.
"Our defense played really well. All three levels played exceptionally well," said Baltimore coach John Harbaugh.
This game had the makings of a being a blowout in the first half.
Baltimore reached the red zone four times, once off a turnover, but led only 9-3 at the break.
Aside from one drive that resulted in a Nick Folk game-opening field goal, New York's offense was completely anemic.
Late in the first quarter, Baltimore nearly scored but former Raven Ed Reed drilled Jones, dislodging a would-be TD catch. Tucker kicked a 30-yard field goal on the next play to tie the game.
The Jets punted to open the second quarter, pinning Baltimore deep in its own territory. Flacco, however, dropped in a perfect downfield strike along the right sideline to Smith. The drive stalled at the New York 8-yard line and Tucker nailed a 26-yarder.
Baltimore quickly got the ball back in excellent field position. The Jets snapped the ball into Greg Salas when the wide receiver was in motion, forcing a fumble that was recovered by Terrell Suggs at the New York 18.
The Ravens came away with no points because Flacco threw an interception two plays later. Antonio Cromartie, who was beaten by Smith on the previous Baltimore drive, made the pick.
After brief possession for the Jets, Tucker capped off another red zone trip with a 33-yarder following the two-minute warning.
Tucker was called on again and drilled a 53-yarder before Reed got beat on the deep pass to Jones.
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The Ravens have recorded at least one sack in 22 straight games, tying a franchise record (2000-01) ... The Jets have lost eight straight meetings with the Ravens ... Baltimore defensive tackle Haloti Ngata played Sunday after sitting out last week's contest at Chicago with a knee injury.


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Richard Sherman's Innocence Likely a Joke, but NFL Not LaughingDecember 28, 2012
Richard Sherman might be innocent in regards to taking Adderall, but what if he was never accused of taking that drug in the first place?
Sherman avoided suspension here, but it is worth exploring the ways in which a player could manipulate the system.
Let me start off by saying I am a big fan of Richard Sherman as a player. I've enjoyed his unlikely rise to stardom despite being a former college wide receiver and fifth-round pick out of Stanford. Sherman is no stranger to defying dubious odds, just as he did once again on Thursday by becoming one of the few players to successfully appeal an NFL punishment.
Most of the time, a winning appeal in the NFL is defined by just getting the punishment reduced, rarely is it ever eliminated altogether.
Suspicions about Adderall
According to a tweet from USA Today's Mike Garafolo, Richard Sherman tested positive for the prescription drug Adderall, which is most commonly used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.
However, considering the recent and overwhelming spike in positive drug tests being blamed on Adderall, it quite possibly could just be a more acceptable and forgivable reason for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs, or PEDs.
This would be a feasible alibi considering the NFL cannot publicly disclose the substance the player tested positive for. As a former NFL player, I favor the argument that this Adderall phenomenon is being used as a PR stunt—for two reasons.
First off, the drug is actually permitted in the NFL if obtained through the proper medical channels with a verified prescription. This means any player wanting to take Adderall regularly in order to enhance their performance on the field would simply have to get diagnosed with ADHD. A process which is rather arbitrary and easy to manipulate if one were so inclined. There is almost no way to prove a person doesn't have ADHD if that individual was even mildly determined to be diagnosed with it.
This essentially means any player who wants to take Adderall legally and without any ramifications from the league would have a very easy path to do so.
The second reason this Adderall mess is just an excuse: There is no way so many players could be that dumb. Perhaps the first, second, or maybe even the third guy was actually using Adderall illegally and got caught. But every player and organization afterward would then be hyper-aware of the severe nature of the punishment and consequences of repeating this offense, especially considering you can simply obtain the drug legally.
Richard Sherman graduated from Stanford, I think he's smart enough to get Adderall the same way the most of his classmates would have gone about it—just make a couple of visits to your family doctor.
It's just too darn easy not to.
Drug testing process
I personally have been subjected to several drug tests in the NFL. The process is fairly simple.
A designated tester gives you a small, plastic cup which is individually wrapped in a clear, plastic cover. You are instructed to remove the cover and personally open the lid, which is sealed with a piece of red tape to prevent tampering.
Without any excessive items of clothing you are asked to fill the cup with urine at least to a designated line on cup itself. Depending on the environment, the tester may have you do this either within his observable view, or have you go into a bathroom stall nearby.
When the cup is filled, you then put the lid on it and take it back to the tester. From there you are mandated to sit and watch as the tester takes out two small vials, each sealed and color coded. He then has you break the seal of each vial as you watch him distribute the urine into the two separate bottles before having you personally reseal each one.
Once that is complete, he puts the urine samples into individual shipping boxes and has those sealed as well. You are then instructed to sign an agreement that declares the entire process was up to standard.
If any of the seals are broken at any point in the journey from the acquisition phase to the lab, the entire sample is voided.
Reported Specifics of Sherman's Case
According to a copy of the verdict obtained by Yahoo! Sports, Sherman met the tester, Mark Cook, at the Seahawks' facilities on his day off specifically to take the drug test. If Sherman had any concern about this test, he would have ample time to figure out some sort of sabotage strategy.
When he took the sample back to Cook, common sense would dictate Cook would only have opened up a completely new, unused and individually wrapped cup to make the transfer from the leaky cup to an unbroken one.
According to the Yahoo! report, Sherman then testified that there were cups all around him—some used and some unused. This is insignificant information considering the obvious thing that would have happened is a simple cup transfer. This appears to be one of many examples of Sherman trying to create irregularities in the collection process that just don't seem probable.
For the most part, the leaky cup transfer was the only confirmed and significantly unique event in the entire collection process. Sherman even signed off on the validity of the process.
Now, there is nothing that would have gone on in those simple transfer steps that would have somehow magically put performance enhancing drugs into Richard Sherman's urine.
The league had to dismiss the positive test results simply on the irregularities of the collection process and the failure of Mark Cook to report a cup transfer had occurred in his documents. He didn't report the transfer until he was asked about it in October.
If the league had decided not to back down on this case, they were surely going to deal with yet another lawsuit from a player. Obviously, a situation they would rather just avoid given the validity to Sherman's case due to the aforementioned technicalities.
Sherman tried to put as many holes into the collection process as possible by claiming several things that Cook had denied; things such as Cook leaving Sherman's side to transfer the cup or the details of the agreement being unreadable.
The strategy here is clear: Throw as much as you can at the case to discredit the results, then sit back and see what sticks. Cook seemed to demonstrate credible honesty by owning up to the cup transfer even though he failed to document it originally simply because it didn't seem like a big deal.
What this means moving forward
There is likely going to be some significant changes to the standard urine collection process in light of this case. Sherman has found an effective way to fight the validity of an NFL drug test, which has also opened up several questions about effectiveness of the current process in general.
For the time being, I wouldn't be surprised if the sample collectors are suddenly dealing with a mysterious increase in faulty urine cups.
For Richard Sherman, he has at least escaped any suspensions from the NFL and is cleared to participate with the team for the remainder of the season, including the upcoming playoffs.
I hope for Sherman's sake, that if he indeed was using Adderall, that he simply goes to a doctor and gets himself a legal prescription. If he was using something else entirely, then he better stop whatever he was using immediately, as I'm sure the NFL will have its eye on him and would love to catch him the proper way next time.


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The Dutch experience has influenced the debate on euthanasia and death with dignity around the globe, especially with regard to whether physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia should be legitimized or legalized. A review of the literature reveals complex and often contradictory views about the Dutch experience. Some claim that the Netherlands offers a model for the world to follow; others believe that the Netherlands represents danger, rather than promise, and that the Dutch experience is the definitive answer regarding why we should not make active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide part of our lives. Given these contradictory views, it has become clear that fieldwork is essential to developing a more informed opinion. Having investigated the Dutch experience for a number of years, and after thoroughly reading the vast literature published in English, I went to the Netherlands for one month in the summer of 1999 to get a feel for the local situation. I felt that this would provide the basis on which I could better interpret the findings of the available literature. I visited the major centers of medical ethics, as well as some research hospitals, and spoke with leading figures in the euthanasia policy and practice. The time spent was extremely beneficial and enriching. I followed in the footsteps of Carlos Gomez, who 1 published a book following one month of extensive research in the Netherlands.... the Dutch government to study the practice of euthanasia had made the above ambiguous statement, disregarding one of ... the Select Committee interviewed many interested individuals and parties and detailed the main arguments pro and con ... 4 In his comments on the first draft of this essay, Griffiths referred me to p.
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I' bad with diaries. I have a fear someone will one day find it, read it and completely misunderstand it. Words are so easily twisted. Even short direct sentences. But pictures, ah pictures do nothing but confuse and amuse.
One day, some day. when someone (hopefully my kids) find my visual diaries, I hope they say "Gawd my mom is fucking awesome" I hope they read into the entries exactly what they want to. Because only I will ever know why I doodled what I did. Its not so much a diary as it is a compilation of doodles.
Its a thick book and will take me quite a while to fill. I hope to have many. Some day. I will be posting/sharing some of the entries periodically. Not that they will make much sense, but I hope someone finds my doodles pretty.
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