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What a historic day and free Starbucks!

Posted by beyond438 on Jan 20, 2009 in Carel's Conversations, Charity, Leadership | 0 comments

It doesn’t matter if you agree with Obama‘s policies or not, today is a historic day in world history. The next four years will be very interesting — both from an economic and a world political perspective.

 I received an email from Starbucks this morning offering a free tall brew if you volunteer for 5 hours. Hot stuff!

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Good on Holiday spending

Posted by beyond438 on Dec 1, 2008 in Business | 0 comments

I picked up another copy of Good while waiting for my coffee at Starbucks. I love the easy to view and understand graphics of the mini-mag. This edition is on the Holiday Economy. Did you know that Americans spent $9.3bn on jewelry, $5.8bn on toys and $19.8bn on computers and video games during Nov/Dec 2007? And get this $26.3bn on gift cards!

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