Really? I mean REALLY?!?!?!?!

I guess one should think twice before ordering a nice Fra Diavolo in Chicago anymore.

What does this mean??

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
(x) Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane
(x) Braveheart

Total: 9


(x) The Princess Bride
(x) Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) Labyrinth
( ) Saw
( ) Saw II
( ) White Noise
(x) White Oleander
( ) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
( ) The Princess Diaries
( ) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Total: 6

(x) Scream
( ) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
( ) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp

Total: 3

(x) Harry Potter 1
( ) Harry Potter 2
( ) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
(x) Resident Evil
( ) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
(x) Little Black Book
(x) The Village
(x) Lilo & Stitch
(x) Finding Nemo
(x) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
(x) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
( ) 13 Going on 30 (Suddenly Thirty)
(x) I, Robot
( ) Robots

Total: 13

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
(x) Deep Impact
(x) KingPin
(x) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
(x) Joe Dirt
(x) KING KONG

Total: 10

( ) A Cinderella Story
(x) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
(x) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
(x) Halloween
(x) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
(x) Surviving X-MAS
( ) Flubber

Total: 6

(x) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(x) Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
( ) The Whole Nine Yards

Total: 5

(x) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
( ) Ten Things I Hate About You
(x) Just Married
( ) Gothika
(x) Nightmare on Elm Street
(x) Sixteen Candles
( ) Remember the Titans
(x) Coach Carter
(x) The Grudge
(x) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask

Total: 7

( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Slevin
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
(x) Identity
(x) Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled
( ) Predator
( ) Predator II
(x) The Fog
(x) Ice Age
( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George

Total: 7

(x) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
(x) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
(x) Christine
(x) ET
(x) Children of the Corn
(x) My Boss's Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
(x) Frailty
(x) War of the Worlds
(x) Rush Hour
( ) Rush Hour 2

Total: 10

(x) My Best Friend's Wedding
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(x) She's All That
(x) Calendar Girls
(x) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks
(x) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
(x) Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
(x) The Terminator 3

Total: 14

(x) X-Men
(x) X2
( ) X-Men 3
(x) Spider-Man
( ) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Others
(x) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
(x) The Skulls
(x) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
(x) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2

Total: 11

( ) Swimfan
(x) Miracle
(x) Old School
(x) The Notebook
(x) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
( ) A Walk to Remember
(x) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old-virgin

Mr Butch died today

If you lived in Boston anytime in the last 25 years and walked thru Kenmore Square or Allston, you knew Mr Butch. Always a smile, always made my day better. I grew up in Boston and met Mr Butch when I took a few courses at NESOP before I went away to college. He was a good man. I knew many homeless people who went the way of the pipe and Mr Butch was not one. He gave me reason to smile when we exchanges "hellos". Always had a good line when asking for change. I was a sucker for a funny panhandler.
When I was a messenger I saw him more, he came to our parties sometimes. He came to the shows. He was a pretty laid back and very smart man.
He will be missed, and I hope he knows what he meant all the people that he was kind to over the years.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=32593568

Change

Some strange tweaky things happened to my page and I have been so consumed with the new business that I haven't done anything to fix it. So now I am trying to play catch-up.

Really interesting project..............

http://www.suitcaseexhibit.org/indexhasflash.html

Some good advice.........

I want to live more green, I was raised with most of these things in practice. My parents did most of this because it was cheaper. My mother was a big fan of "just go put on a sweater". I now live in a house that was built with leftover lumber and tries its best to be low-impact. I want to build my own place someday (soon!). This is what I want: http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm I can now be a hobbit. Hobbits live pretty green, they ate local produce, didn't drive, their houses were the difinition of low impact.......I think Thoreau would have loved the Hobbits.
Check out this Walden site:
http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html
very readable.
It could be that I also come to all of this genetically. A great, great, great, great, great (I don't know how many)Uncle was a contemporary of Thoreau. He also gave it all up to live in the woods.
I find it very interesting that I was raised in the city and lived in a city up until fairly recently. But the minute I left I found the quiet that I have been seeking. I don't like big urban spaces for more than a few minutes, I hate the mall, even Costco makes me kind of dizzy. Most of the men I know find it interesting that I hate shopping. (Because women as supposed to love shoes and shopping.....how sexist). Anyway before I come off sounding arrogant or self-important I will stop writing.

Love, love, love Nina

This is my cousin, and he is gonna be famous........someday (click here)

At least that is what, we, his family think. Pass it along. Seriously, Dan was the first man to talk about adult diapers.


Which is kinda funny cause our other cousin is responsible for bringing these to the market:
http://www.biorelief.com/sports-fans.html
It would appear that my family has an obsession with bodily fluids.

I love this!!!!!!!

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgie.htm
I found it on www.bigmattress.com
The owner of this page was the DJ on a pretty great radio station (WBCN in Boston). When I was a kid they played old radio shows between 7 and 8 am every morning, I would listen with my mummy, It is on the list as one of the best things I remember from childhood. I always knew that Charles (DJ) was a good guy, but I was really happy when I discovered that he retired to Maui. If he ever reads this page I just want to say "thanks Charles, you have no idea how much you were a presence in my life growing up, that it was you at times that allowed my brother and I to get along (we both listened to you). That hearing Morning Mishigas made me smile a little after my sister died, that I listened to you as I rode around Boston as a bike messenger. That I felt like we lived amoungst royalty when I found out Ken Shelton (another DJ) lived on my street (one step removed from you). That even when my taste in music changed I still tuned in because you were kind of like old friends that I always knew would be there. "
Thanks Charles

Kapa Kahi

So we had a bit of an earthquake 2 weeks ago.......and we keep having aftershocks




I awoke early on Sunday morning October 15th and was getting ready to go to town to work on the pier all day (cruise ship day). At 7am I was sitting on my bed and at 7:07 my room started shaking. Now we have earthquakes here quite a bit so this was no big surprise. I usually announce them to no one in particular "earthquake". But this time it git bigger and bigger until it seemed like a jackhammer had been strapped to the house. You know how they say that your life flashes before you?? Well mine didn't, all most worst nightmares were what came to mind. I looked at the doorframe, they tell you to stand there in an earthquake......my mind said "GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!!!" and I ran out of the house. I stood there in the drive and my neighbors came running down and the whole way I watched the earth between us move and roll and shudder.
For the next 2 hours I sat in the driveway with my little hand crank radio listening to the local police talk to their dispatcher begging to run home to make sure all was okay there. We couldn't use cells, or land lines. I was able to send out one email to my family about 5 minutes after the second big aftershock (5.8). And that was it. For the next 20 hours you had to take your turn using the few phonelines on the island that were working. I had to call this company that I do work for because the following day we were expecting 128 people to arrive from the mainland for a 2 week island tour. Up until a few hours before we left we were not sure what was happening. Oahu was without power until 2 hours before we arrived and then it was 2 days of airline delays and 128 really cranky passengers who complained that they say no evidence of the earthquake on Oahu so why were they delayed????? Friggin' old people. They can be so difficult (I am just really tired right now and need a break from people).
But I figured I would show all 3 of you what a mess the quake made.

To get an idea of how active the earth is here right now:
http://tux.wr.usgs.gov/

Again, I just let the money slip through my fingers.......

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
FINANCIAL SECTOR SURVEILLANCE
CORPORATE HEAD QUARTERS
F.C.T ABUJA-NIGERIA

DATE: 30/10/2006
Our Ref : CBN/IRD/CBX/021/04

Attn:Mr & Mrs Bloppety Bloop,

IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT/NO:MAV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/001

In Our records of outstanding contractors due for payment with the
federal government of Nigeria, Your name and company was discovered as next on the list of the outstanding contractors who have not received their payments.

I wish to reinform you that your payment is being processed and will be
released to you as soon as you respond to this letter. Also note that from the record in my file your outstanding contract payment is $45,700.000.00 (fourty five million,seven hundrend thousand US dollars).

Please re-confirm to me if this is inline with what you have in your
record and also re-confirm to me the followings
1) Your full name.
2) Phone, fax and mobile #.
3) Company name, position and address.
4) Profession, age and marital status.

As soon as this information are received, your payment will be made to
you in a certified bank draft from central bank of Nigeria and a copy will be given to you for you to take to your bank and confirm it or the funds will be transfered to your bank account or home address directly.

As soon as you receive this letter get back to my office at once for
immediate remmitance of your contract funds to you and remember,you will not be notified again.

Regards,

Mr. Tunde Lemo
Deputy Governor,
Financial Sector Surveillance
www.cenbank.org

Another MeMe.....Apparently I would not be an inconspicuous spy

I stole this from Kymm:

1. YOUR SPY NAME: (middle name and current street name)
Veronica Mamalahoa

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandfather/grandmother on your dad's side, your
favorite candy)
Lenora Heath.....this could work

3. YOUR RAP NAME (first initial of first name, first three or four letters
of your last name)
K Sha......sounds white like me!

4. YOUR GAMER TAG: (a favorite color, a favorite animal)
Red Manta....this would be a better superhero

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Veronica Concord........yup

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (first 3 letters of your last name, last 3 letters
of mother's maiden name, first 3 letters of your pet's Name)
Sha Ell Cho........She ran the convenience store near Luke's house

7. JEDI NAME: (middle name spelled backwards, your mom's maiden name spelled
backwards)
Acinorev Llennodo.........She couldn't run for office because her name did not fit on bumperstickers

8. PORN STAR NAME: (first pet's name, the street you grew up on)
Prince Karen Pines...........uh, He-She?

9. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The", your favorite color, the automobile your dad
drives)
The Red Runner........very inaffectual superhero, constantly running from things

10. YOUR ACTION HERO NAME: (first name of the main character in the last
film you watched, last food you ate)
Eddie Cheese.........again, not really an action hero as much as a Mob name

Glad to know that I am not the only one........(link)

Kymm has been writing far longer than pretty much anyone out there. And today (or really yesterday) she threw up on the street in front of her neighbors. I did that once too. I was home from college for the first time and my parents took me to the Club for dinner. I had something with scallops in it and on the way home I felt *funny*, turned and threw up in the neighbors front yard. They were walking down their front steps as this happened. I got class.

In more exciting news we have had Tiger Sharks for the past week. Wednesday I had the rescue helicopter flying over me every 20 minutes or so as they flew up and down the coast looking for the little buggers. The clients wondered what was happening and I told them that the pilots have to log a certain number of hours of flight each month to keep their license active. I thought that was a good useful fib, you think I was gonna tell them that they were looking for Tiger Sharks? NO WAY!
read about it here: http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/articles/2006/08/31/local/local01.txt



And pray that the little sharkies go back out into the deep waters, they are hurting business.

These scammers are just getting plain sloppy.

I got this email this morning:

>From: thomas_cole
>To: thomas_cole@ig.com.br
>Subject: Dear Shannon
>Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:23:07 -0300
>
>From The Desk of:
>Barrister Thomas Cole & partners.
>25 Wilson Road Olodi Apapa
>Lagos- Nigeria.
>Private / Highly Confidential
>Email:thomas2000cole@yahoo.com
>Subject Matter: Invitation to act as Next-of-Kin
>
>Dear Shannon,
>
>I presume this letter will come to you as a surprise, but as things
>unfold,we will know each other better. I will start by introducing myself to
>you.My name is Thomas Cole a solicitor at law.
>
>I am writing in respect of a foreigner Richard Burson Shannon,who happens to
>be my client an oil merchant and contractorwho perished in a plane crash of
>31st October 1999[WITH EGYPTIANAIRLINE 990] with other passengers aboard .
>
>Since the demise of my client I personally have watched with keen interest
>to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to
>claim his funds of US$28.5m(Twenty Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand
>United States Dollar) and all the relevant documents in the bank has no
>record of any next of kin. On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name
>shall be used as his next of kin so I have contacted you to assist in
>repatriating most especially, the money left behind by my client before they
>get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where the huge
>deposits were lodged.
>
>Particularly, the Equity Development Bank Plc where the deceased had an
>account valued at about Usd28.5 million dollars has issued me a notice to
>provide the Next of kin, or have the account confiscated.
>
>seek your consent to present you as the Next of kin of the deceased sinceI
>read your profile I know you can assist me as I need somebody who is
>trustworthyand willing to assist me get the funds transfered.Whcih the
>account whichmy late client operate is valued at Usd28.5 million dollars can
>be paidto you, as my clients Next of Kin, and then we can share the amount
>on amutual agreed percentage. All legal documents to back up your claim as
>the deceased Next of Kin willbe provided.
>
>All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through.
>I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimatearrangement that will
>protect you from any breach of the law and you shouldendeavor to keep it
>confidential.
>
>Please get in touch with me,at thomas2000cole@yahoo.com,to enable us discuss
>further about this transaction.
>
>Best regards,
>Barrister Thomas Cole.


And so I responded:

Dear Mr Cole,
Most Barristers do not use Yahoo as their mail client. Nor would anyone in their right mind use a public email client to send such "Private/Highly Confidential" matter. A quick google can easily reveal that you are using a server in Brazil. You guys need to figure out a better way to run this scam. You should consider managing some kind of database that guarantees that you don't send the same email signed by diferrent "high ranking officials" but with the same scam to the same person within a 3 week period. That is just sloppy.
Good Luck with your endeavors,
Bee Mc Polo (let's see if that name rings a bell)
PS someone is really falling down on the job over there, good luck with that.

Kayaking for the larger set.

When we take people out kayaking we have a weight limit. This is for many reasons, but the most obvious is that the kayaks themselves have a weight limit, they become too tippy when you approach this limit. For the Ocean Kayak Zest II (http://www.oceankayak.com/kayaks/tandems/zest_two_exp.html) the weight limit is 500 - 600 lbs, I would say you could only push the 500 lbs if you were somewhat comfortable on the water. I think realistically this is more like 450 lbs. But as things go if someone shows up to paddle and they are "larger" we put them in a Zest (and hope for the best). You must also consider that if they "huli" (flip over) getting that person back in the kayak is going to be work. Back to yesterday...... the clients arrive and there are 2 girls from the Bay Area who are on vacation together and one is probably within normal weight for her height and the other is easily 100 lbs overweight. In total there are 18 people for the day, there are 3 guides so this is just right.......that is if nothing happens. Our trip is barely 2 miles roundtrip (your average tourist can't really do more than this). We get everyone in the water and I spend about 10 minutes explaining paddling to these 2 women who can't seem to grasp that to go backwards you must NOT paddle forwards. And to give you a better idea of the day, the tradewinds are blowing intermittenly. I have to perform what we refer to as the "tugboat" on these clients just to get them pointed in the right direction. A simple description of the tugboat is that I ram the side of the kayak with my own to bring the bow around. I actually love doing it because I can vent some frustration at people who sign up for a kayaking trip when they really just want you to tow them.
After a lot of coaching we get them over to the snorkeling site and into the water. Most people get cold in the water before we actually have to call them in. So after about 45 minutes the clients are getting back in their kayaks, did I tell you we do all of this in the water, in otherwords we do not take the kayaks to shore. The client must get back into the kayak in the water. (We have explained ALL of this prior to the trip.) So I realize that I am going to have to help this larger woman get back in the kayak, I pull my kayak up next to her seat in the tandem, turn and anchor my legs across her seat so that I won't end up in the water in the process of "helping" her in. I reach across and grab her sunscreen slathered arms and my hands slide all the way down to her hands and I pull and pull and finally get her mostly up on the kayak. Okay, this is good. We paddle back to a second snorkeling spot and on the way she and her friend huli (flip over). I, again, pull my kayak up next theirs and do the same procedure all over again. Only this time when she gets on the kayak she reaches across and grabs mine and leans all her wieght on it (I am still not really sure why) and of course she ends up spilling over the side of the kayak in my direction and pushes me in.
For the next few minutes I am diving for all their equipment that they did not tie down and the few things of mine that have floated off. One of the other guides comes back to help and I have him take their kayak to shore so that they can climb on and I strap the bow line from mine around my waist and swim for the shallowest water, because in the process of all this I have taken on enough water that I cannot get back in without pumping out the excess water. And I cannot keep the kayak from tipping over without doing this. So off I go and off they go. I get to the beach, pump out the kayak, and secure everything and get a helping hand out thru the surf by a naked man (did I mention that this is a nude beach?) he was very kind to help me and he had some interesting piercings. This was my day...........today my arms are all sore.
Praise joe-bee-sus for the day off.

Me & my boyfriend (in my mind only)

I have loved Elvis Costello since my brother gave me his first album in 1977. From that moment on he and Stevie Wonder lived on my turntable. I have seen him in concert a number of times. I saw him on the street once (I don't really want to meet him). I worship him from afar.

I know I need to post about Alaska.........but first this......

I have some kinda big news........
I'm pregnant.....not really
I'm moving to Alaska..........no way (not enough sun in the winter and TOOOO much in the summer)
I switched to Geico.......whateves....
Nope, the real news is it looks like I am going to buy a Kayaking business. My friend is selling his, I have worked for him off and on for the past 3 years. I am a great paddler and a good guide. I would get to work outside. And I would truly get to do the job I have always dreamt of. You see, I love to dive, but I live to paddle. Ever since I first tried kayaking over 20 years ago I was hooked. At that time my finances and location weren't ideal to take it up seriously. The years went by and I was always jealous when I would see someone drive by with their kayaks in their roof rack. From my family home in Maine I can see the Maine Guides doing their kayak training and I would feel my heart strings pull. I would go up stairs and figure out how I could afford to buy a $1700 kayak set up. I started small and bought the gear. A really nice paddling jacket (that I still have) the sleeves, neck and waist haave gaskets that keep them from leaking on those rainy days (this worked great when I was a bike messenger in Boston), but I have never really used it for paddling. Then I purchased a short sleeved version of the same thing. This, too, served me well when I was a messenger. Also still on a hanger in my closet. Then a paddle, but since I really didn't know what kind of a paddler I really was, I didn't know what paddle to buy. This went to a friend years ago (who actually did paddle). Shoes, shorts, rash guard shirts, gloves, a deck light, dry bags (they work for everything). For a longtime many of these objects served another equally useful prupose. But then one day I really was ready and the gods were smiling down on me and Iand started going out paddling. In Maine, at my family home. In Northern California on the many smalll bays. Still not enough. Then I moved here and guess what.......lots of people here paddle. They paddle Canoe, Wa'a (outrigger canoe), surf ski, kayak, paddle board and believe it or not you can do stand up paddle on a surf board (this is relativily new, but becoming really popular).
This leads me to the last month. I started working more and more for this friend of mine. He hurt his back and wanted to really take a step back from paddling to let it heal. This gave me the chance to really start running a business (I was the pretend owner). But I started thinking "maybe he is thinking of selling?", so I asked and the answer was "yes". I asked him to talk to me first before he talked to anyone else. And for the last month Mr Man and I have been trying to figure out how to make this happen. There are a few financing possibilities, this might actually happen. THIS MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN!!!!!
I was lying in bed last night thinking about what it is like to run your own business to always be the one that you answer to. There are much fewer sick days and personal days, but come on....... personal days are the ones you take so that you can go kayaking!!!!
So for now I am rolling pennies, not going out to eat, not buying anything on a whim
(except this...........http://www.hobiecat.com/kayaking/models_adventure.html....but really it is a business expense)





We can now tow the lazy with relative ease.
All this being said might you have $66,500 I can borrow? Or does anyone know some wealthy or even just a little wealthy old guy who is about to kack that I can marry???????
Thanks for all the advice................

My observations thus far...........

Vancouver is the cleanest city I have ever seen, and they don't even cane people. Even in the "bad" section of town with the obligatory junkies is CLEAN. Those people could snort off of the street it is so clean. Also the Canadians in Vancouver that I have met and exceedingly nice. What the hell, you just cross the border and everyone is nice and kind and they know their history. I really like this one section called Granville Island, they have a great market place. After living in Hawaii I was waaaayyy overwhelmed by the selection, it took me forever to make up my mind. I ended up with Dolmadas (stuffed grapeleaves) and a cookie. And the dolmadas were amazing. Now I get to subsist on cruise ship crap (it all tastes the same to me). But they do have a nice gym so I can actually feel like I have done something physical during the day.
Today we are in Ketchikan, Alaska. Thank god I get paid for all this because I discovered this guy's work www.normanjackson.com he is for Tlingcut tribe and is an amazing artist. When I save up enough I would love to haveoneof his mask (damn student loans!!)
I will leave you with a picture for Vancouver:

I swear I haven't been lazy........

I have been getting ready to go to ALASKA!!
I got the call last Thursday and have been running around like a nut ever since, ya see I have never been there. My job is to make the clients think I know exactly what I am doing. So...reading, reading, reading. The good thing is that I will get to see a very good friend of mine in Juneau, he is a boat captain there and I don't get to hang out with him enough.
So this entry will be extremely short because I need to finish packing and reading.
I will post pictures when I get home.

Food can be very weird.

I saw this commercial for a product called "Capri Sun Roarin' Waters". They say it is a water alternative for kids, because we need to add a sweetner to water to get kids to drink it. This product is made by Kraft, I wanted to know a little more about it so I went onto the Kraft website and found a list of products that Kraft markets outside the US. And here they are:

Examples of “better for you” choices outside the U.S.

Clight Fiber — a low calorie powdered beverage with added fiber in Brazil
Eden cheese — available in the Philippines , fortified with vitamin A and iodine
Maarud Superchips — with 45 percent less fat than regular Maarud potato chips in Norway
Pacific Soda Seaweed — a biscuit made with seaweed and fortified with calcium, available in China
Light Philadelphia Cheesecake Wedges — single portions of Light Philadelphia Cheesecake with 30 percent less fat sold in the United Kingdom
Philadelphia Ultra Low Fat cream cheese — sold in the U.K.
Qeju cheese — sold in Indonesia , with added Vitamin A and calcium
Peek Freans Lifestyle Selections — a new line of Canadian biscuits that are trans fat free and low in saturated fat.
Delissio Balance Harvest Wheat Rising Crust Pizza – available in Canada , this great-tasting pizza is made with whole wheat, part-skim mozzarella, reduced-fat grilled chicken, reduced-fat pepperoni and premium-roasted vegetables
Christie Crunchers Crackers – available in Canada in four light and crispy flavors (Cheddar, Spicy Thai, Bold Barbecue and Sour Cream & Onion), these baked corn-rice crackers have zero grams trans fat and about 70 percent less fat per serving than the leading regular potato chip
Miracle Whip Balance — with fat reduced from 31 grams to 11 grams per 100 grams in Germany
Jacobs Cappuccino Cremafino — with no added sugar (from 57 grams of carbohydrates to 45.5 grams of carbohydrates per 100 grams) in Germany
Simmenthal Chicken — with 1 percent fat per 100 grams in Italy
Milka Milkinis — with 22 percent less fat from 38.5 grams to 30 grams per 100 grams in France

The funny thing is that these products all contain some sort of "added" benefit so that one is supposed to feel less guilty about eating them. But in reading the contents of these products they have replaced what they removed with all kinds of other things and salt is high on this list. It just angers me that we are marketed these processed foods that are so far removed from actual food. Kraft also makes a product called "Lunchables" this can be crackers, cheese, jello (or pudding) and salami. And is made for people who are too busy to throw these things together on their own. And once the child is done with it they throw the package away. It is the training kit to prepare kids for a lifetime of processed food. And wasting resources.
Lately I am getting angrier and angrier when I go to the store. They place your purchases in as many bags as possible, this is another form of marketing (the bags have the stores name on it). If I buy shampoo and some lettuce they will take the shampoo and place it in another bag so that the smell of the shampoo doesn't get on the lettuce. No matter what I say to the contrary they insist on sending me with 2 bags for 2 products!! Shit like this causes me to hyperventilate.