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Monterrey Meetings

10,000 Birds

Amazingly, everyone showed up at dawn except for one person, who’d had a near-death experience with me on Colombia’s Sumapaz paramo, an acceptable excuse for a no-show. We met Marilyn and Leonardo at a non-descript fast-food joint’s parking lot and within 10 minutes we were in Parque Nacional La Estanzuela.

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Manage Smarter 251 — Richard Weylman — Beyond Customer Satisfaction: Creating Lifetime Clients by Building Loyalty

SalesFuel

Humanization in Customer Service : The conversation pointed out the importance of treating clients as individuals rather than mere transactions, using a fast-food chain as an example where the company ethos is centered around being in the 'people business.'

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. And some ornamental trees planted in the road divider offer food for Chinese Grosbeak. Like fast food, but free and likely more healthy.

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On "Food Inc."

Animal Person

They grill the chickens, and trust me when I say it's all presented as a peak spiritual experience. Now, if you can get beyond that, and if you haven't read Pollan and Schlosser and seen King Corn and The Future of Food (both of which are far more thorough on gentically-modified food, corn and Monsanto), you might actually learn something.

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Transit in Dubai

10,000 Birds

It is mainly scrub and woodland in a dry area with a mosque and fast food restaurant in the central area. Please give a bit of feedback to improve the experiences of those who may follow you. Cabs may be tricky to find for the return, so ask the driver to wait, or better still, ask him to drive slowly round the road circuit.

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Winter Wanderland

10,000 Birds

Honest food in a fifties’ diner while reminiscing about all those movies you have seen about diners in the fifties. That was undoubtedly the sighting of the day – this striking red bird in a white and dark green landscape. Coming down from the emotional high we noticed our grumbling stomachs: time to eat. I can recommend it.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Over 95% of all animals raised for food in the U.S. Rest assured that if you are purchasing meat from your favorite fast food restaurant, your favorite sit-down chain restaurant, or your local grocery store, you are purchasing the flesh of a tortured animal. are raised in cruel, inhumane factory farms.