The Plastic City of Bang-Yao Liu

“Plastic City” is a colorful replica of Shanghai City out of cheap plastic objects bought by artist Bang-Yao Liu, on the streets of China’s bustling city.

While some may see just a bunch of colorful plastic objects, young Bang-Yao Liu went out of his way to create replicas of Shanghai buildings and landmarks. Scouting the streets of Shanghai for cheap plastic objects to use in his unique project, the artist used his experiences around the city as inspiration. Bins, plastic boxes, buckets, crates and other plastic things were used to create the Plastic City.

The 24-year-old Taiwanese artist created Plastic City as a commission piece for Converse, who wanted something that would show people it doesn’t take much to make the ordinary extraordinary.








Helpful Tips on Managing Your Franchise Business

Helpful Tips on Managing Your Franchise Business


Just like every business, the success or failure of a franchise is very much associated with how well it is managed. Establishing a well-rounded and attentive managing strategy is the key to seeing your business arrangement flourish. So, what advice can be offered to help you find that a suitable management formula?

It all begins with the creation of a management information system (MIS). Many franchises have this within their control panels. The purpose of an MIS is to establish a collection of people, procedures and resources that will aid in effective decision making. For example, you may wish to find out your projected profit over a set period of time. You can then formulate this information by calculating income and expenditure, therefore presenting you with the data you need. This information will tell you what move you need to make next in order to maintain or increase this estimation.

You can also take into consideration the business models that your franchiser has already provided with your franchise. These guidelines will have been stated as a part of your contract and business agreement. This model will outline exactly what your franchiser is expecting from you and how often they want it delivered.

It is also important that you are interacting with your employees on a regular basis. Make sure there are clear and well-informed guidelines available across all areas of human resources. If employees have targets or goals they need to achieve, they are more likely to fully optimize their performance. Also, in establishing a strong and healthy relationship with your workforce, you are ensuring that they will communicate effectively; helping you make those crucial decisions.

Likewise, if you employ many people or deal with lots of stock, you should be looking to co-ordinate and control the operational level within your franchise. The day-to-day activity is just as important to a manager as the technical or strategic elements of decision making.

You will also benefit from conducting an environmental scan of your franchise to highlight its strengths and where it needs to improve. In doing this, you are pin-pointing areas where weaknesses are hindering performance and can therefore combat it effectively. This can then assist in gaining a competitive advantage in whatever market your franchise resides in.

Waste efficiency is another vital part in managing your franchise. In some cases, a waste management scheme will already be in place. Nevertheless, it is imperative that you are making sure your resources are being used to their maximum potential. In the event of anything needing to be discarded, you are doing it in a financially stable and eco-friendly manner.

Make sure your franchise is marketed correctly and effectively. Again, franchisers can offer you resources and examples for marketing or you can devise your own. By acquiring a graphic designer or a photographer you can try and create marketing that not only appears professional, but will correctly portray the ethos of the company. However, be sure not to over-spend on marketing or this will contradict your waste management.

Unfortunately, there is no flawless managing method that will guarantee optimum performance. However, if you are planning, organizing, co-ordinating and controlling effectively within your franchise, then you should expect to be having a positive impact on its management.

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Elephant Lives With Family

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The latest accessory for any home - a baby elephant.

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LaCie Hub4 - A USB 3.0 Hub

LaCie Hub4 - A USB 3.0 Hub


LaCie, always ahead in proposing solutions to keep up with technological developments, has already presented and put on the market Hub4, a hub with 4 ports USB 3.0 standard.

The maximum transfer rate that can reach the second Hub4 LaCie is 5 Gbps, the new hub is still backward compatible with USB 2.0, but the transfer rate obviously goes down to a maximum of 480 Mbps

LaCie Hub4 is available at € 49.99 on the LaCie site and the package also includes a USB 3.0 cable and an external power supply.

Useful Tricks For Weight Loss Without Exercise

Useful Tricks For Weight Loss Without Exercise

Losing weight without exercising is possible to a certain degree, but realistically, you should only expect to lose a small percentage of weight this way. Reaching your ultimate weight loss goal will be almost impossible without exercising at least some of the time. Also, you should keep in mind that weight loss is NOT exactly the same as fat loss. Some people can manage to lose a lot of weight in a short time but, the loss may be mostly made up of protein, water and some other nutrients, and only a small amount coming from stored body fat. If this is the case, then most of the weight will probably be regained at a later date!

Use a Food Journal to Record Everything That is Eaten

When someone tries to lose without exercise, her diet needs to be almost perfect. The best way to analyze a diet and be sure how many calories are consumed every day is to keep a food journal. Starting a food journal before the weight loss is even attempted can make it much easier for the person to start out her diet on the right path.

In the food journal everything that is eaten should be written down, no matter how small. Even a single jellybean needs to be recorded in the journal. For the first few days add up the calories and determine the starting point, then adjustments can be made from there. As the diet continues, a food journal should still be kept so that the person stays focused on the diet and keeps the diet clean and healthy.

White Foods Need To Be Replaced By Whole Grains

One of the best ways to lose weight without exercise is by substituting the “white” processed foods in a diet for whole grains. Such things as white bread, white rice, and pasta noodles should be substituted for whole grain bread, brown rice, and whole grain or whole wheat noodles.

The reason why these whole grain foods help people lose weight is because they have a lot of fiber in them and they are not full of processed, empty calories. When an individual consumes more fiber they get full faster and feel full longer, which means ultimately less food is eaten. It may take awhile to get used to the whole grain substitutes but after awhile most people don’t even miss the white foods.
Eat Smaller More Frequent Meals to Lose Weight

Instead of three large meals, try eating five small meals throughout the day or at least three medium size meals with two small snacks. This helps prevent overeating at a meal and helps to keep the metabolism stable throughout the day.

When two or three large meals are eaten in a day, the tendency to overeat due to being overly hungry is very common. Also, when the body goes hungry it slows down the metabolism and if someone is trying to lose weight without exercising, the metabolism needs to be as high as possible. On the other hand, five small meals are eaten every day the body stays fueled all day long and that prevents overeating. These five small meals should be healthy foods that are full of vitamins and nutrients and stay within a person’s allotted calorie range to help them lose weight without exercise.

When it comes to losing weight without exercise, the weight may not come off as fast as most people like it to. If someone is looking to lose weight faster, some sort of physical activity should be added into the day. It doesn’t have to be an intense hour long workout but even taking a 10 minute walk can help increase the weight loss.

Quick Fat Loss Tricks

    * A good fat burning trick is to begin with a breakfast that can help kick-start the fat burning process. Protein rich foods, such as omelettes or even a protein shake can be a great start to the day. Although, you should make sure the portion size is kept small as you won’t want to add unnecessary calories to the diet. Eating high protein foods can increase your metabolism by up to 25%, giving a great boost to results over the first few months of any weight loss program. With correct dietary tricks you won’t need to wait until the workout to start burning the fat!
    * Always try to do some form of exercise in the morning, preferably before breakfast. This is usually a good exercise time to do it because the body’s fat burning is set and readily available. Eating breakfast before exercising provides extra blood sugar which will be used during the exercise period over stored body fat. If you’re too hungry or your blood sugar is low, then maybe a banana would be a good choice as its light in calories and will give just a little sugar to help push you through the exercise session. If morning exercise is out of the question, then try for mid-afternoon.
    * Eat within half hour after exercising. Exercise causes the enzymes that process nutrients to be highly active, thus eating at this stage makes sure all nutrition and energy is utilized for recovery and replenishment purposes and less likely to be stored as fat you’ve just burnt off! This is also a great time to eat your highest calorie meal of the day.
    * Try not to eat late at night. Our metabolism slows down towards bedtime, so eating late means any calories have a greater chance for storage as fat. If you must eat, just snack on fruit or something just as light.
    * If you would like a supplement to boost your fat burning potential then think about taking L-Carnitine. This is an amino acid in protein, especially red meat. It has been shown to push body fat into the cells and prompts it to be burned as fuel. Many competitive bodybuilders use L-Carnitine when cutting up for a show. The supplement is also safe to use by anyone and does not have any side effects. Just follow the directions in the instructions.

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