Eat healthier, not cheaper

By just about any measure, global food prices rose significantly over the past two years. It’s not your imagination. Eating right is costly. In fact, you may pay more than $30 more per day on food if you make healthy choices.

Happy talkie, talkie … Visual Talking

“What the heck are you saying?” Ever heard that before? Maybe Visual Talking can help. It’s like the Twitter of PowerPoint presentations. Combine words and pictures to communicate — it’s that simple.

In your user question please consider asking something about a current event and how/if VT would apply, e.g., ?Should the Olympic athletes use VT to help communicate?? or ?Now that Britney has her bod back, should we send her VT messages to get her to quit smoking?? or ?Should Homeland security include VT as part of their interagency communications package??

** Obama runs with Biden **

Barack Obama named Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate, balancing his ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues.

Phelps is a Tiger

Olympic legend Michael Phelps will appear on boxes of the Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes … what happened to Wheaties and going to Disneyland?

Do you buy or pay for …?

Let’s see what popular applications, devices, services, etc. you use.

Talk it up!

We wave our arms, we inflect our tone, we reach out, we open our eyes, we lean in … we do a lot of things to get our message across … and then when we send a text message we abbreviate — “OMG PAW KYFC” … does our real message, our real intent, really get across to our online friends?

They, (whomever ‘They’ are) say that a picture speaks a thousand words … hmmmm, maybe if we could combine text and pics, our messages would be more complete … and a lot more fun.

Is that what a movie producer does, takes a text message and adds pics? How often have you read a book, then seen a movie and come out of the movie saying “that’s exactly what the author meant” … or “not exactly” … the written word is powerful in the hands of powerful writers, but even that is left open to our interpretation.

What’s Happening – August?

We each get bombarded with over 5,000 marketing messages each day … to which do we pay attention? Our interest in major events and news determines where marketers go to place their messages.

Handguns Everywhere?

Sixty-one percent of dNeero conversationalists sais that everyone should have a right to own a handgun … and forty percent said they either own or would own a handgun.

Celiac Disease … Did you know?

A lifelong autoimmune intestinal disorder, found in individuals who are genetically susceptible.

Breast Cancer

Christina Applegate has been diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer her rep confirmed Saturday. “Benefitting from early detection through a doctor ordered MRI, the cancer is not life threatening,” the Emmy nominated Samantha Who? star’s rep said in a statement. “Christina is following the recommended treatment of her doctors and will have a full recovery.” Applegate’s mother is a breast cancer survivor.