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Pioneer MVH-P8200BT 4 x 50 Watts Multimedia AV Receiver $370.00 “Mech-free” receivers are all the rage lately, as more and more consumers migrate their music and media collections to hard drives rather than physical media. The MVH-P8200BT from Pioneer is one of the company’s first mech-free receivers, and has plenty to offer the digital-centric crowd. Make and take hands-free calls with built-in Bluetooth technology. Enjoy direct control of your iPod, with sim… |
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Looxcie Wearable Bluetooth Camcorder System, Android Compatible (Black) $199.00 Never miss a moment again with the revolutionary Looxcie. When paired with an Android smartphone (2.0 or higher), this innovative hands-free camcorder lets you continuously record real-time video without needing to press a record button. Looxcie connects with your Android smartphone via Bluetooth, so you can monitor your video, create clips, and share them instantly with friends via Facebook, YouT… |
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Parrot Minikit + Bluetooth Hands-Free Kit for Bluetooth-Compatible Mobile Phones, including iPhones and other Smartphones $94.32 Your calls are truly hands-free Synchronisation with your telephone directory will start automatically the first time you use the Parrot MINIKIT+. You will then find all your contacts in the hands-free kit’s memory. To place a call, start the voice recognition function by pressing the green button and then say the name of the contact; the Parrot MINIKIT+ recognises all voices! If you wish to find … |
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Fiesta Food for Parrots – 25 lb. $79.99 The best-loved fruits, vegetables, nuts and specialty seeds are combined into a nutritious, gourmet diet for macaws, cockatoos, amazon parrots, african parrots, eclectus, pionus and large conures. Fiesta was developed by the nutritional experts at the Kaytee Avian Research Center to supply all the nutrients proven necessary for excellent health. The wide variety of colorful shapes, sizes and textures makes eating more fun for playful birds. |
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Fruit Blend Diet for Medium Parrots – 2 lb. $9.59 ZuPreem FruitBlend Premium Bird Food is formulated for various species of captive birds. They’re nutritionally balanced with 21 vitamins and minerals in every bite, and they contain fresh ground fruit for a taste and aroma birds love! These easy to eat, naturally preserved pelleted foods are recommended for Cockatiels, Lovebirds, Meyer’s Parrots, and other medium parrots. |
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Pinata Toy for Parrots – Square – Large $7.99 Parrots have the time of their lives shredding and chewing things. The Parrot Pinata has been specifically designed for that parrot pasttime The palm-leaf outer layer is crunchy and irresistable…and once they get to the inside, they’ll find a spectacular chewing bonanza: all sorts of natural fiber items that they can pull and chew to their hearts content. Particularly fun for feather pluckers. Size: Toy is 13.5″ long x 3″ diameter. |
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Kaytee Exact Natural for Parrots and Conures – 4 lb. $12.69 Parrots require certain vitamins and minerals to remain healthy and happy. When choosing a diet, be sure it is complete, and be sure it offers a variety of tastes so that your bird doesn’t get bored. Kaytee kept all of this in mind when they designed their Exact brand of bird food. It is nutritionally formulated for parrots specifically, and has the different tastes that your bird will love Choose wisely, choose Kaytee. Contains DHA Omega-3 for heart, brain, and visual function. |
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Exact Rainbow for Parrots – 20 lb. $49.99 Kaytee Exact has been the recongnized nutritional leader by avian veterinarians and breeders since its introduction over a decade ago. Developed by the nutritional experts at the Kaytee Avian Research Center, Exact is the most researched and widely used extruded food available. This complete diet provides premium daily nutrition for Macaws, Cockatoos, Amazons, African Greys, all Parrots, Eclectus, Pionus and large Conures. Exact Rainbow combines the highest quality ingredients with necessary nutrients to produce an enticing rainbow of colors and shapes. No matter what color or shape, each nugget contains “exact nutrition” insuring your birds get exactly the right nutrition to produce better feathering, brighter colors, and maintain excellent health. No shells or hulls, means there will be less mess in and around the cage and more time for you to enjoy your bird’s company. |
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Fruit Blend Diet for Small Parrots – 2 lb. $7.99 ZuPreem FruitBlend Premium Bird Food is formulated for various species of captive birds. They’re nutritionally balanced with 21 vitamins and minerals in every bite, and they contain fresh ground fruit for a taste and aroma birds love! These easy to eat, naturally preserved pelleted foods are recommended for Parakeets, Budgerigars, Parrotlets and other small parrots. |
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Swing with Rope and Acrylic Frame for Large Parrots $19.99 A pedicure and fun all in one. Your bird can have a blast rocking and rolling their heart out on this swing, while the perch safely files its nails. The additional cotton rope attached to the perch makes for even more enjoyment as your bird picks and preens while swinging away. Sure to be your bird’s favorite new spot. For parrots/large birds. Size: Swing is 10.5″ w x 15″ high. |
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Fruit Blend Diet for Large Parrots – 3.5 lb. $13.69 ZuPreem Fruit Blend Premium Bird Food is formulated for various species of captive birds. They’re nutritionally balanced with 21 vitamins and minerals in every bite, and they contain fresh ground fruit for a taste and aroma birds love! These easy to eat, naturally preserved pelleted foods are shaped and colored like 5 different fruits. This size is recommended for Macaws, Cockatoos, Amazons, Senegals and other large parrots. |
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Exact Rainbow for Parrots – Chunky – 4 lb. $13.99 Try a deliciously fruity blend of tastes that your parrot will simply adore. Kaytee Exact Rainbow is a nutritious bird food developed by the nutritional experts at the Kaytee Avian Research Center to provide all the nutrients proven necessary for macaws, cockatoos, all parrots, eclectus, pionus, and large conures. Exact Rainbow combines the highest quality ingredients with added nutrients in a special pasteurizing process to produce an enticing rainbow of life-like colors and shapes. The colors and shapes are fun to eat, and you just can’t beat the complete nutrition. Formulated specifically for the birds above, this food is a fun choice for everyday feeding. |
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Forti Diet Pro Health for Parrots – 5 lb. – 2.27 kg $12.49 Forti-Diet is a specially blended mixture of parrots’ favorite seeds and grains, as well as fortified bits that give your bird all the essential nutrition he needs Your bird will love the variety of tastes in this delicious food, and you will love the assurance that your bird is getting the nutrients it needs to stay happy and healthy. |
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Lafeber’s Classic Avi-Cakes for Parrots (12 oz.) $10.99 Lafeber’s Classic Avi-Cakes for ParrotsLafeber’s Avi-Cakes for parrots is a nutritious bird food developed to stop birds from just eating seeds. Avi-Cakes are half seed and half pellets, a healthy alternative to loose seed and bound by sweet molasses. Avi-Cakes are now Omega 3 & 6 fatty acids balanced. Balanced omega 3 & 6′s also improves the quality of the skin. More than ever, Avi-Cakes provide excellent nutrition for your loved feathered companion. |
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Vitakraft Fresh Super Fruit Cocktail for Parrots and Cockatiels (20 oz.) $12.99 Perfect natural treat to satisfy your bird. Big luscious chunks of fruit, vegetables, and nuts in an aromatic blend–the kinds of foods parrots and cockatiels naturally seek out in the wild. |
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Rolee Roller Bird Toy for Parrots $5.49 Spoil your bird with fantastic toys that stimulate and encourage your bird’s natural curiosity and cleverness Fun colors and shapes for hours of avian enjoyment Non-toxic, bird-tough materials.This bird toy was designed to provide your parrot with stimulation and exercise. Helps prevent boredom and destructive behavior. Made of 100% natural rubber. Size: 4.5″ |
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Fiesta Food for Parrots – 2.5 lb. $9.99 Kaytee Fiesta blends give your bird a party at meal time. This fantastic mixture of your pet’s favorite fruits, veggies, nuts, and grains provide essential nutrition as well as all the variety your parrot can handle. This delicious blend will become your pet’s favorite. |
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Exact Rainbow for Parrots – 4 lb. $14.29 Kaytee Avian experts have spent years formulating the perfect foods for a variety of bird species. Every single line of food that Kaytee offers is scientifically designed with all the needs of your specific birds species in mind. A quality selection of grains, seeds, and produce make Kaytee foods fresh, delicious, and the preferred choice of finicky feathered friends everywhere. Make the comparison, choose Kaytee! |
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F.M. Browns Wildbird Traditional Parrot Food -50 lbs 41521 $71.99 |
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Parrot Bird Food Medium Parrots – ZuPreem Fruitblend 2# $8.25 |
How to Be a Great Leader in Business–Take the Weak Manager Litmus Test by Karl Walinskas
Ladies and gentlemen, the Peter Principle is alive and well in American business today. Many managers get promoted, but few know how to become a great leader in business.
It seems the biggest sole contributor to obtaining a position in management is to be completely devoid of people and communications skills. Just listen to some of their outgoing voicemail messages. I know, that’s harsh, but that’s the way it is in many companies that I see today. Being selected as the Chosen One at a company is great for the new manager, especially for his wallet, but it can have a devastating effect on the organization. Productivity drops off to near nothing, employee morale goes to hell, and retained earnings evaporate under your very eyes. Management tracks a lot of data and issues a stack of memos like they were born for the job, but they couldn’t lead an army of fire ants to a picnic held by the American Crumb Association. These managers are weak leaders, and bedlam follows. What’s really scary is that these traits occur just as much in established managers, people firmly entrenched in their positions and riding it out until they get their gold watch.
Here is the 5 point litmus test to spot a weak manager, a leader in name but not in deed. Does your strip stay blue once you immerse yourself in the test? Let’s hope so. You can get away with being short on one, perhaps two of these traits; more than that, epic failure.
LIVES IN THE PAST
Managers in the lower talent quartile constantly reminisce about the old days, when the people worked harder for less, when we didn’t have this damn technology to complicate things, and global competition only occurred every four years in a place like Innsbruck, Austria at the Olympic games. They long for the simpler times, and spend an inordinate amount of time telling tales of how it used to be.
Are you living in the past? Get on with your life. I’m not suggesting ignoring past greatness or the principles that made it possible, but the tactics you engage to manage these days need to be resilient, flexible. People aren’t motivated by the same things anymore. Money doesn’t govern all behavior, and job security in today’s human capital marketplace just ain’t the anchor it once was. People like to see a painting of the future, and the primary way your company will profit from it is to establish a plan for the future and then eagerly await its arrival.
LACK OF RISK TAKING
Don’t rock the boat. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Spineless managers say these phrases a lot. What’s worse, they believe them. The status quo is great, and they’ll fight to keep things the same. New ideas from employees and colleagues are scrutinized for the possible negative outcomes. These so-called leaders don’t see possibility in new ways of thinking, they imagine the danger that may occur. Their managerial careers are governed by fear and shrinking, not expanding, their comfort zones. Many of these token leaders don’t even realize they have this character deficit. One of these guys will steal second base, provided his foot is nailed to first.If you find yourself in this group, start by taking baby steps. Risk taking is a skill that needs to be practiced to become comfortable. Take a chance on a new initiative where the downside risk isn’t so bad (there HAS to be some downside, or it’s not a risk, is it?). See what happens. Work your way up to leading by taking larger and larger calculated risks with higher returns. I’m not suggesting carelessness here, but as you move up the risk taking curve, your skill at hedging you bets and creating winners from you decisions will improve. Your company can’t move forward residing in the status quo, so this one is critical to future success.
DEMANDS RATHER THAN EARNS RESPECT
Strong leaders never have to remind people of their title. Their subordinates, peers and customers know who they are. General Schwarzkopf didn’t have to keep telling the troops he was their leader, they already knew it. These type of things happen when respect is earned through deeds and the example that a leader sets. By contrast, weak leaders revel in telling other people, especially subordinates, their titles. As if he didn’t think we knew that a Vice President was an executive, the weak leader’s business card has an impressive title after the name, usually using the word “Executive” as a descriptive in the phrase. Because respect hasn’t been earned, this bunch gets challenged frequently and their only way to assure victory is to pull rank.
The difference between a leader who has forced followers and one who has a willing,enthusiastic support team is the difference between a mackerel and a tiger shark. If you find yourself needing to continually justify what your position is, you’re the mackerel. The keys to earning respect and loyalty with the troops are many, but here are a few:
* Set a congruent example; practice what you preach. Don’t ask employees to do what you wouldn’t be willing to do.
* Pass along credit to employees, even if their involvement was marginal compared to yours. Nobody likes a glory-hounding boss who is perceived as someone who takes credit for other people’s accomplishments.
* Actually provide a vision for the organization, which leads us to weak leader test number 4…
VISION-LESS
By very definition a leader needs two things in order to exist. The first is followers, and we’ve covered that. The second is a direction, somewhere to take the followers. Thousands of managers in modern business miss the mark here, wandering aimlessly through life, rolling with the punches. How do you spot the vision-less manager? Ask her, “What’s your vision for the future of your department, division, etc?” If an immediate answer doesn’t follow, summed up in one clear, distinct sentence, you’ve found an imposter. If she parrots the company mission statement from the back of the business card, that would be strick two. I’m not suggesting that managers ignore the overall company mission. Far from it, but each individual person who wants to lead must have a vision that sets the direction for those in his domain. That should be supportive of, but not exactly a repeat of the entire organization’s mission. People want a purpose to help give their work meaning, something to strive for. If they don’t get it from management, it’s up to chance that they’ll find an empowering vision somewhere else. Managers need to figure out what they want from the organization for the future, condense it down to something clear, and beat the drum consistently so that every employee knows it by heart.
NO FOLLOW-THROUGH
Effective leaders demand and get results for the major initiatives that they want to implement, often by the power of their own personalities. If a manager launches an event that needs care and feeding, then abandons it the next time he reads a business book on a trans-continental flight, he is wishy-washy and ineffective. This coward doesn’t have the courage to follow his convictions about what is right for the business, so the direction of the group is set by what’s hot-the flavor of the month. Look for this symptom too-a manager who aborts a project at the first sign of trouble, not recognizing the opportunity and success that lies beyond the wall of failure. This occurs every day, where the company accountant brings a report into the big cheese’s office that shows red ink at the start of a project. The manager then thanks the bean counter and withdraws support for the change, which heretofore was touted as the “strategic paradigm shift for the organization, critical to our future success.” Hogwash!
There is an old skiers proverb, “No guts no glory, no falls no…”, well, you get it. Staying the course through tough times demonstrates character strength and true leadership to those around you. Maybe you’re thinking, “Well, General Custer had courage, and look where it got him.” No, Custer was stupid, ignoring the evidence before him and disregarding warnings from trusted advisors in the pursuit of personal glory. Know the problem, know the game plan that you’re going to follow, and know the reasonable effects that can stem from the change, including initial red ink, then make a decision and stick to it. Follow-through isn’t just for your golf game.
Your job now is to go through your organization on a weak manager safari, finding those who aren’t leading but merely existing and costing the company dearly. If you’re one of them, now you know. Once identified, you can ignore the problem, help them develop, and re-assign the lost causes. Your call.
Karl Walinskas is CEO of Smart Company Growth, a business development and cost control firm for small enterprises. For more business communication tools, visit the Smart Blog. He’s also author of many articles for business & “Getting Connected Through Exceptional Leadership”, available in Shop Smart.
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