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Job-Hopping: Career Suicide or Savior?
Tania Khadder
June 29, 2009
Job-hopping. It's career suicide.
That is, if conventional wisdom and my father are to be believed.
They tell us to stay at a job for at least two years. That the longer you stay in one place, the more dependable you'll appear. And the better your chances for success when you do look for a new job.
They tell us that too many jobs in a short period of time makes you a flake.
Forget job offers. Instead, you'll be getting offers of advice on how to mask all that job-hopping on your resume.
But how bad is job-hopping really? Is there anything to gain from all that moving around? Let's find out!
This article will look at the benefits of job hopping its role in this economy, the right and wrong way to do it, and how to put a positive spin on it the next time you're looking for a job.
We all know career dynamics have shifted dramatically over the years. Gone are the days where college grads joined a company and stayed for life, rising through the ranks to win that ultimate workplace trophy: the corner office.
Workplace dynamics are changing
According to Business Week's Richard Florida, people under the age of 30 change jobs almost once a year (compared to the national average of once every three years).
And really, it's not surprising. Workers feel less incentive to stay put. Pensions, in the traditional sense, are virtually obsolete. We're increasingly paying the price for our employer-sponsored healthcare. Loyalty is no longer about putting in your time, or paying your dues. It's about providing measurable value and being rewarded for it.
Corporate culture has changed, and employees are responding to it in the only way that makes sense to them.
Chris Murdock, recruiting expert at LandingJobs and former "Senior Sourcer" for Yahoo, says job tenure – and expectations around it – have changed. "It used to be that people would stay at a company for life, but nowadays, if you've been in a company two years, you're the seasoned professional," he says. "Some even think if you've been at a company for five years, you should move on. That it's too long."


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by Jim Harris
The holidays can be a very lonely time. Not that many Christmases ago, I was alone and crying in my eggnog. I'd like to share some of my experiences and observations to help others avoid the pitfalls of looking for a mate.
I saw an ad online that said "Speed dating is a great way to meet lots of new people in a quick, fun, no-pressure environment," so I signed up for a speed dating party for folks over 50. Now you might think that older singles would be more mature, but frankly, some of them had more baggage than the Titanic. The speed dating process consisted of a rapid series of 5-minute tête-à-têtes with a succession of women, each one more insane than the next.
• One woman had a shaved, tattooed head. Another had a waxed unibrow. One wore a wig with the price tag still hanging off it. Most of them, though, had great hair. In fact, it usually seemed like their hair was way too good for them and would have looked better on someone else. One was wearing two pairs of glasses. She said she could see through walls.
• One lady, who went by the name Yo-yo Mama, told me that she took diet pills to curb her appetite, but that she then got depressed because she had no appetite, so she took pills for depression, but they made her hungry so she had to take more diet pills.
• Another woman kept blurting out random words and phrases. When I asked her what was wrong, she said, "After that time I dried my hair in the microwave, I discovered that I could no longer remember the years 1968 to 1984. My doctor told me to try Ginkgo Biloba. Now I can't stop remembering stuff. I just suddenly figured out the "Jumble" for July 12, 1972. Oh, and now I realize that the answer to the final question in my 1980 beautician-school entrance exam was 'aloe,' not 'turpentine.' Damn!"
Sometimes when even five minutes of listening was more than I could stand, I would either pretend to fall asleep or fake a heart attack to extricate myself from the torment. So, if it sounds like speed dating is not for you, you could try meeting potential soul mates online. Let's take a look at a few of the available men being offered up on dating websites.
• Hi. I'm Gunther. I'm a bio-ethicist. It's like being on the Florida Citrus Advisory Board except that you're talking about people instead of grapefruits. I have several notarized certificates of achievement, an honorary degree from Google and a license to read head bumps. I have a book coming out in the fall entitled "I Lied About Having a Book Coming Out in the Fall." I speak 22 languages, and I know 12 different ways of walking. I am attempting to start a major new religion. It will have either many gods or a very tall god with two heads.
• Hello. My name is Fred. I am a self-taught colo-rectal surgeon. I am recognized by the American Board of Surgeons. They recognize me because they have taken me to court 13 times. I have a Bachelor of Farts degree from Flatulata College. My last book read was "Diseases of the Upper Bowel." It was very moving.
• Hey! I'm Biff, an unemployed toaster repairman. I was recently notified by email that I had been selected to appear in the 2013 Edition of "Who's Who in Nairobi," but I couldn't afford the $5,000 processing fee. I was also nominated as "one of the most influential women of 2012" even though I'm a man. I like the music on the weather channel. I don't have any children, but I knew some when I was young. My long-range plan is to sell my organs to the highest bidder and use the money to have a really big funeral with celebrity entertainers.
• Greetings. I'm David. Serial number 48277331. Retired four-star general and former CIA Director. Would like to meet shapely women in the D.C. area. Must be able to take dictation and keep government secrets. No chubbies, pacifists or FBI agents. Last book read: "100 New Death Grips."
So as you can see, ladies, the pickins are slim. I think your best chance for finding a good man might be by going to church. Not that there are many men in church, but while you're there, you can pray for a miracle. Anyway, good luck, and Merry Christmas.


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18th Annual Shane Dorian Keiki Classic Highlights
Kona, Hawaii
January 19, 2013
The Event: Fifty kids 17-and under can enter for free with 2.25 GPA on their latest report card and 3 cans of food to donate to the local food bank. The waves were so big we had to move it for the first time ever—our back up spot was Lymans, a left point that was maxing with sets 10ft on the face. Pros that came to hang with the groms and support the event: Ezekiel Lau, Torrey Meister, Matt Meola, Kelly Slater, Keanu Asing, and CJ Kanuha
Keiki Classic 2013 final results
Girls 13 & under
1st Kiana Briggs
2nd Mehana Resetnikov
3rd Keelie Carlucci
4th Chloe Smith
5th Kona Resetnikov
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Boys 13 & Under
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2nd Brodi Sale
3rd Reed Tanoai
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A summer-long drumbeat of revelations about government online spying has put some of Silicon Valley's biggest companies in an increasingly uncomfortable bind: While national security rules limit what they can say, Google, Facebook and other tech giants are struggling to reassure customers that their information is secure.
Last week's reports about U.S. and British efforts to crack Internet encryption only added more pressure on the industry to distance itself from those government programs — whether by quietly beefing up internal security defenses or publicly suing the United States government, say analysts and industry officials.
"Consumers are concerned. No matter what the companies say, the question is going to be: 'Is there something you're not telling us?' And they can't answer that question," said Daniel Castro, a senior analyst at the nonprofit Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. He estimates the spying revelations could cost U.S. tech companies up to $35 billion in lost revenue because of eroding customer trust.
Leading Internet companies pushed back on Monday, as Facebook and Yahoo followed Google and Microsoft in filing lawsuits that seek court permission to reveal more information about the quantity and kinds of data they have been required to share with the National Security Agency or other authorities.
News reports about the NSA programs have included many "false and misleading stories about Google's alleged involvement in such activities," the Internet search giant complained in a new legal filing, which said the reports are causing "substantial harm to Google's reputation and business."
"The actions and statements of the U.S. government have not adequately addressed the concerns of people around the world about whether their information is safe and secure with Internet companies," added Colin Stretch, Facebook's general counsel, in a blog post announcing a similar filing.
The legal petitions expand on earlier lawsuits filed in June by Google and Microsoft, which initially sought permission to disclose how many national security-related demands they receive. All four companies are now asking to report on more aspects of those demands, such as how many times the government sought the contents of Internet communications as opposed to message times, user names or IP addresses.
In part, the companies say they want to show that such demands involve a very small number of users and data, relative to the billions of people around the world who use their services.
Internet companies have vehemently denied initial news reports that said the government's PRISM surveillance program gave authorities the ability to tap "directly" into the companies' networks or servers. But subsequent reports, mostly based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, have implied that intelligence agencies somehow get access to a wide range of Internet communications — although those reports generally haven't specified how the information is obtained.
Those reports are "absolutely a concern" because they may lead to an erosion of trust in the Internet and in "the global credibility" of U.S.-based Internet companies, said Ed Black, CEO of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, a leading trade group.
Some foreign tech companies are already touting privacy and security features as an alternative to U.S.-based services, said Joseph Lorenzo Hall, a senior staff technologist at the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology. He added: "If U.S. products or services are seen to be fundamentally tainted, competent businesses will seek those services elsewhere."
New reports last week revealed the U.S. and British governments have found ways to crack Internet encryption methods used around the world. The reports said those efforts involved a combination of cooperation, legal coercion and even secret hacking into the systems of unnamed tech companies.
That prompted more expressions of outrage by tech firms. "We are unaware of and do not participate in such an effort, and if it exists, it offers substantial potential for abuse," a Yahoo spokesperson said.
Just days after the New York Times and Guardian newspapers revealed the government's encryption-cracking program, the Washington Post reported last week that Google has accelerated an internal effort to encrypt all data traffic between its server farms.
Sources familiar with Google's effort said it's a year-old program intended to guard against rogue hackers and criminals as well as unauthorized incursions by any nation's government. Google, however, decided to speed up installing the encryption system in June, after the company was rocked by the initial NSA leaks.
Various encryption systems, which have also been adopted by Facebook and other companies, can be a barrier to surveillance, analysts agree. But as Hall noted, the technology may not stop government data demands that come with the force of law.
Last week's reports, meanwhile, also described government efforts to exploit vulnerabilities or even build "back doors" in encryption chips, computer hardware and networking software from unnamed tech companies. Castro said that expands the field of companies whose products are potentially tainted by implication.
"So now it's not just Internet companies that have a target on their backs," he added.


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2012-13: NEWMAC Academic All-Conference … NEWMAC First Team All-Conference (200 Free Relay, 400 Free Relay) … NEWMAC Second Team All-Conference (50 Free) … All-American (200 Free Relay) … Honorable Mention All-American (400 Free Relay) … College Swim Coaches Association (CSCA) Academic All-American … CSCAA Scholar All-American First Team ... at the NEWMAC Championships (2/15-17), she was part of the 200 Free Relay that came first in 1:33.60, breaking the NEWMAC Open record, NEWMAC Meet record and the MIT record … came 11th in the 200 Medley Relay in 1:47.36 … was part of the 400 Free Relay that was first in 3:27.63, breaking the NEWMAC Open record, NEWMAC Meet record and the MIT record… finished second in the 50 free in 23.82, easily earning the NCAA B cut and a personal best time … came sixth in the 100 fly in 58.66 and third in the 100 free in a new best time and a B cut of 52.17 … at the NCAA Championships (3/20-23), she was part of the 400 Free Relay that broke the MIT record in prelims with a time of 3:27.46, going 3:29.75 at finals to take 15th … was also part of the 200 Free Relay that took fifth in 1:34.60 … came 32nd in the 50 free in 24.06 and 39th in the 100 free with a time of 52.83.
2011-12: Honorable mention All-American (200 Free Relay, 400 Free Relay) … NEWMAC first team All-Conference (400 Free Relay, 400 Medley Relay) … NEWMAC second team All-Conference (200 Free Relay) … NEWMAC Academic All-Conference … won the 50 free at Wellesley (11/16) … doubled to win the 100 free at the same meet … second in the 100 free at Bowdoin (11/19) … started the NEWMAC Championships with the third leg of the second-place 200 free relay team … sixth in the 50 free … swam the anchor leg on the winning 400 medley relay squad … fifth in the 100 fly with a personal best mark of 58.21 … also PRd in the 100 free with a 52.94 that was good for fifth … finished off the meet by swimming the third leg of the victorious 400 free relay team … swam at the NCAA Championships on both the 200 and 400 free relays.
2010-11: Three-time All-American … first team All-NEWMAC in the 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay … anchored the 400 medley squad that won the NEWMAC championship and set a school record of 3:52.30 at the NCAA Championships … also anchored the NEWMAC champion 200 medley relay squad … that team set a new school record as well, posting a 1:45.36 at the conference meet in the prelims … second team All-NEWMAC in the 200 free relay and 400 free relay … CSCAA Scholar All-America … part of three honorable mention All-America relays at the NCAA Championships (11th in the 200 medley, 11th in the 400 medley and 14th in the 400 free) … won the 100 free against Babson/Bowdoin (11/20) in 54.73 … eighth in the 50 free at the NEWMAC Championships … seventh in the 100 back … fifth in the 100 free in a season-best 53.30
Out of the Pool at MIT: Majoring in mechanical engineering … held internships with Oshkosh Corporation, edX and Powertrain Technologies … researched in MIT's Early Childhood Cognition Lab and the Ideation Lab … second year captain of the swimming and diving team … Public Relations chair of Amphibious Achievement … apparel chair for Kappa Alpha Theta … Class of 2013 Ring Committee
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The issue of simultaneous switching is very important in normal CMOS buffers due to the high dI/dt generated which may cause considerable ground bounce/power droop. In the case of differential buffers that use current steering design, the dI/dt is usually small and diminishes in a very short time yet when we switch a large number of differential buffers simultaneously we can notice some pulse width jitter in the transmitted signal. This is in the form of varying delay which can impact the setup and hold time particularly at high frequency (>250 MHz).
Now the question is do you think simultaneous switching is an issue in differential buffers which use current steering design? and if yes, has anyone done some analysis on the effect of SSO on pulse width jitter?
All feedback are welcome.
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Author Notes: OK, this is basically just Ramp Pesto, but I think adding the "Wild" makes it sounds a little more exciting. You can add a number of other greens to this recipe... I've tried basil (which didn't really work, for me), parsley (which made it a little milder) and arugula (which had a real snappy, spicy flavor). My friend Lola threw in a little spinach, but she's always trying to one-up me. So this is just the basic recipe... customize as you see fit. Also, use whatever nut you prefer. Some people love pine nuts, I tend to favor walnuts. Isn't this a great country? - saenyc —saenyc
Food52 Review: Fiery and bright, saenyc's pesto surprised us in a couple of ways: it's creamier than we expected it to be, despite a relatively small amount of olive oil and parmesan, and it has a lovely mild sweetness from the combination of the tender ramp bulbs and the walnuts. We added a fair amount of salt to balance and heighten the other flavors, and the juice of half a lemon. Amanda folded the pesto into some spaghetti with bacon and peas for dinner, with very happy results. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 4-6
Prep time: 10 min
bunch of ramps
cup walnuts (toasted)
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cup grated parmigiano reggiano cheese
sea salt
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- Wash and cut off the leaves of the ramps.
- Optional step: blanche the ramp leaves in boiling water. Some say this makes the pesto more bright and vibrant. I think it's plenty beautiful either way.
- Chop the ramps and walnuts just a bit and put them in your food processor.
- Add most of the cheese (save a sprinkle for serving) and a good dash of salt and pepper.
- Pouring the olive oil in slowly, process contents until they combine and look, well... pesto-y.
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The Lock was not pleased. "No, dammit, that's the old strat," he snapped. "The new strat is to rush everyone to Drek, cap the two towers nearby, and then kill Drek."
"Somebody had told the Horde, then, because they're ahead of us in getting our first two towers down," I quipped. "If we want to win, we have to take them back."
"Didn't you hear me?" The Lock demanded as we finished recapping Stonehearth and Icewing Bunkers. "Everybody get down to Drek now!"
"F--- him," a Druid in the backcap team said aloud. "We've got to get DB North and South back."
We recapped the two Dun Baldur bunkers --as well as the Aid Station-- and then everybody began the trek south. Meanwhile, the 25+ people surrounding Drek began their attack, but kept wiping.
"What gives?" someone asked in BG chat. "You have 8 healers there."
"We ALSO have 7 Horde in the base, asshole," the Lock replied. "We need EVERYONE down here!"
Another half dozen or so of people abandoned their watch on Stonehearth and Icewing and ran south, just in time for the Horde to begin to cap those two bunkers.
I watched from my position at DB North as a dozen Horde pushed their way up north and began crossing the bridge. There were only a few of us left to counter them, and not enough time to get to Stonehearth or Icewing before they were captured, ending the game on attrition.
The Lock kept up a running diatribe on how badly we sucked, and if we'd have just done what he wanted we'd have won anyway. Regardless of whether he was right or not, changing the strategy by abandoning our position in the southern two bunkers meant that we absolutely HAD to burn down Drek within a few minutes or lose.
And given the title of this warm and fuzzy piece, you can probably guess the outcome.
EtA: Somehow the first sentence got chopped off.
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Teeheehee There's always a Lock in the group... Sometimes I want to back them up just because I feel bad that no one else does. Mostly they just make me giggle.ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh, I don't mind locks --I leveled one via BGs in Cata-- but I do mind jerks. If he'd have wanted us to do his strategy at the beginning of the BG, great, but don't try to get us to change midway through when things were going fairly well.Delete
Now that I think about it, of the classes that attract jerks, the only ones I've not played are Hunter and DK. I might have to rectify that.
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"Today, the Commission proposes a fundamental reform in our capacity release rules designed to improve the efficient use of our interstate natural gas pipeline network. Specifically, the proposed rule would remove the price cap for short term capacity releases and facilitate asset management arrangements important to many gas utilities. Our proposed rule provides shippers greater flexibility and increases their options for how they obtain gas supplies.
The origins of this proposed rule lie in two petitions for rulemaking submitted to the Commission last year. One petition filed by a number of gas utilities requested that the Commission lift the price cap on short term capacity releases. The other petition filed by natural gas marketers requested that the Commission clarify operation of the capacity release rules in the context of asset management arrangements important to many gas utilities and others.
The Commission established the capacity release program in 1992 as part of the landmark gas pipeline restructuring rule, Order No. 636. The Commission sought to maximize the availability of unbundled firm transportation service to all participants in the gas market. It did so because the Commission recognized that for gas shippers to have access to gas supplies at a reasonable price it was essential that they have meaningful access to the gas pipeline network. As a result of the capacity release rules, shippers can purchase firm transportation service from the pipeline or another shipper.
We have been careful in our approach. In response to the petitions, we issued a request for comments on the current operation of our capacity release program and whether any changes in our capacity release policies would improve efficiency of the natural gas market. We received extensive comments and our proposed rule is based on the record.
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Bookseller Barnes & Noble has played catch-up with Kindle by launching a web version of its shop.
Nook for web – accessed via Barnes & Noble's library site – is a web platform that will make the store and a "reader experience" available on all major PC and Mac browsers – avoiding the annoying sign-in, a la Amazon's Cloud reader, as well as bypassing software downloads. It also means that punters don't have to own the Nook device to purchase and read the publishers' eBooks.
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iPad users won't be able to access the platform now, but a version of Nook for web optimised for the iPad's Safari browser is slated to arrive in the autumn. It seems likely that support for the Kindle Fire (which already has a web platform hosted on Amazon's cloud) and iPhone and Android will come then too.
B&N are giving away six popular books (two romances – including Sex and the City, a thriller, a travelogue and two for the kiddies) for free as an introductory offer. Doubtless Reg readers are above that sort of stuff, but sample pages are available to browse should you wish to do so and looks like the format is clear and readable.
The Nook ereader has surprisingly successful for Barnes & Noble, but is being squeezed in the competitive tablet market with fierce competition from Amazon and Apple. Moving to a web store allows B&N to realign their focus towards book-selling and away from the hardware manufacturing. Something that its CEO seemed keen to do in April when the Nook part of the business was spun out into a subsidiary. ®
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From the Allergic Living archives; this popular article was first published in the Canadian edition of the magazine in 2007.
THE PIZZA day. The monthly birthday cake. Treats from the teacher for a job well done. Those holiday celebrations. The dad with the MBA using spreadsheet skills to organize the preschool snack schedule.
The amount of food the average child comes in contact with at the modern school is several times what his 30- or 40-something parent encountered as a pupil. Today's staples include the pizza-at-school fundraisers, rich and fatty cafeteria food, and school vending machines brimming with oversized beverages and chocolate bars.
Add to the mix the modern child's obsession with computers, the hours of instant and text messaging time, and results are a shocker: kids across Canada and the United States are more overweight now than at any other time in history.
Between 1978 and 2004, government statistics show that the proportion of overweight Canadian kids aged 6 to 11 doubled to 26 per cent, while the rate of teenagers who were too heavy also doubled – to a whopping 29 per cent. The rate of obese teens tripled to 9 per cent.
Due to weight issues, the federal government stated that, for the first time, this generation of children might not live as long as their parents. In the United States, over the past three decades there has been a doubling of obesity rates for preschoolers and teens, and a tripling for the 6-to-11-year-old group.
"Kids are drinking more sugary drinks, and you have exercise being designed out of their lives," says Dr. Brian McCrindle, a cardiologist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, professor of pediatrics and author of Get a Healthy Weight for Your Child. "Because of safety concerns, they don't play outside, and you see a proliferation of sedentary pursuits, video and computer."
As children have grown ever heavier, the concurrent trend, of course, is the skyrocketing of food allergy. A study from Mount Sinai's School of Medicine in New York, published in 2004, confirmed what allergists knew anecdotally; the incidence of food allergy in the U.S. had doubled, and those statistics are mirrored in Canada. Six to 8 per cent of Canadian school children now have food allergies, which can cause dangerous, even life-threatening reactions. Provinces and states are considering and, in a few cases, passing anaphylaxis-readiness laws in the schools.
But as those bring restrictions on what is appropriate for the lunchbox, simultaneously, the weight issue has grabbed the attention of educators and the media. The result: the pendulum is beginning to swing toward better nutrition in some schools. This means a new focus on fruits and vegetables, which happens to dovetail neatly with concerns about allergens in the class, since those foods are not the top allergenic sources, and they won't lead to accidental exposures.
New Approach: No Food as Rewards
or for Celebrations
The Institute of Medicine, a scientific advisory group based in Washington, produced a report in April, 2007 calling for a dramatic new approach to food in the classroom: no food as rewards; no food for celebrations. Then it ranked foods into tiers. Tier 1 is acceptable: fruits, vegetables, real juice, low-fat dairy, and nothing with trans fat.
These are the only snack foods to be allowed for elementary school children and fundraising efforts, while higher-fat and sugary Tier 2 food could be available for after-school activity for teens. No snack, though, should be more than 200 calories.
The Institute of Medicine report also took aim at food sold to raise funds for schools, recommending it be curtailed. At the same time, a new bill that would amend the Child Nutrition Act to eliminate junk food from U.S. schools is gaining support in Congress.
Bill Jeffrey, national coordinator of the Canadian wing of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, wrote a response to the Institute of Medicine's report, calling for Canada's federal government to take serious leadership on school nutrition. "We don't have a good snapshot of food in the schools nationally," he says. "There needs to be a national approach to improving it."
Indeed, there is a provincial patchwork approach to both food allergy and nutrition in the schools. "Things are changing with regard to improved nutrition," says Dr. Peter Nieman, a Calgary pediatrician. "But they are changing too slowly."
One province showing leadership after a wake-up call is Nova Scotia. A 2003 study found more than 40 per cent of kids in Grade 5 to be overweight or obese, with poor kids more likely to be overweight, so the province decided that change had to come.
Banning Sport Drinks, Deep Fryers
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In 2006, it began phasing in (over three years) its Food and Nutrition Policy for Nova Scotia Public Schools. The policy states boldly that food must be for nourishment rather than revenue generation. It bans sports drinks and deep fryers from cafeterias, eliminates super-sized portions, and ranks foods (and when they're allowed to be eaten) according to nutritional content.
Peter McLaughlin, spokesperson for the Department of Education, says schools expressed the greatest concerns with strict guidelines in the area of fundraising (no more cookie dough). To clarify, a comprehensive guide was created. "We were helped by the warnings that this would be the first generation not to outlive their parents," he says. At the same time, Nova Scotia is updating its anaphylaxis guidelines and undertaking more emergency training.
In Ontario, the food-in-the-class debates have been focused on compliance with Sabrina's Law, the groundbreaking anaphylaxis legislation. But nutrition is also building as an issue.
In late 2004, the Ministry of Education released guidelines for school boards that targeted the sale of chips and chocolate bars in elementary school vending machines. School boards were advised to restrict snacks to those that are nutritious, including fruit cups and some types of granola bars, crackers and cookies. Lower-fat milk, water and 100 per cent fruit juice were recommended as beverages, and the guidelines are part of a broader health framework.
Meantime, British Columbia has similarly begun moving toward healthier eating habits. It is working with the school boards with the goal of eliminating junk food in the vending machines and cafeterias, and has introduced a program called Healthy Schools.
But beyond provincial or statewide policies, changing the dynamic of food in the class also comes down to a single school's own initiative. In the case of one Mississauga, Ontario school, the approach to reducing allergens in the junior kindergarten is steeped in nutritional advantage.
St. Basil Elementary School implemented a fruits and veggies-only snack regime for its junior kindergarten pupils two years ago. This came about following discussions with a parent whose child had had an anaphylactic reaction. To make the classroom safe for that pupil, his teacher suggested this nutritious (if more limiting) solution.
Clifford Read, the school's principal, agreed. "This was as controversial as anything I've done in this school," he recalls. "Parents were saying 'what about cheese and crackers?' They felt we were judging them.
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Buffalo has released a new version of the LinkStation[1][2][3][4][5]
| MARVELL 88F6082 Media Vault Processor
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|Flash: 256K unknown manufacturer?
|MARVELL 88E1112 Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver ("Alaska" series).
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Wiki and Forum Articles for Linkstation LGL/EZ
- iscsi enabled firmware for LS-LGL series
- Guide to streaming media to XBOX360/PS3 from LS-LGL hard disk through the uShare UPnP/DLNA Media Server
The LS-LGL series is a very stripped down NAS compared to the other LinkStations.
- 1Gb/s Ethernet Port.
- No configuration through web browser.
- Can only be configured with NASNavigator application on the CD.
- Uses a fixed hostname "LS-LGL" and the last three digits of the MAC address.
- Uses only workgroup "WORKGROUP".
- Has only a single share for the whole drive.
- Can be configured for a simple password protecting the share (no user administration).
DNS Issues
- Edit the nsswitch.conf file, make it "dns hosts: files", this should resolve all dns issues.
Custom Samba Configuration
Some will notice that editing, /etc/samba/smb.conf will not save changes when you reboot, this is because Buffalo have embedded a reconfiguration script to prevent any issues, this script is launched on start up.
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nano /etc/init.d/smb.sh
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configure() { ## configure files from Buffalo parameters. echo "configure samba" touch /etc/printcap /usr/local/sbin/nas_configgen -c samba if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "$0 configure fail" exit 1 fi }
Make it:
#configure() #{ # ## configure files from Buffalo parameters. # echo "configure samba" # touch /etc/printcap # /usr/local/sbin/nas_configgen -c samba # if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then # echo "$0 configure fail" # exit 1 # fi #}
Then also a few lines down in the start() block edit this:
start() { configure
To this:
start() { #configure
So now at bootup when the samba script runs, it will not reconfigure it self.
Now lets add a simple share
mkdir /mnt/disk1/sharename chmod 777 /mnt/disk1/sharename
And edit the smb.conf
nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
This is the current share:
[share] comment = LinkStation folder path = /mnt/disk1/share browsable = yes printable = no writable = yes guest ok = yes force create mode = 666 force directory mode = 777 vfs objects = recycle recycle:repository = trashbox recycle:keeptree = 1 recycle:versions = 1 recycle:directory_mode = 777
So lets make our own:
[sharename] comment = Our new share path = /mnt/disk1/sharename browsable = yes printable = no writable = yes guest ok = yes force create mode = 666 force directory mode = 777 vfs objects = recycle recycle:repository = trashbox recycle:keeptree = 1 recycle:versions = 1 recycle:directory_mode = 777
Now if you want to get rid of that annoying trashbox just remove these lines:
recycle:repository = trashbox recycle:keeptree = 1 recycle:versions = 1 recycle:directory_mode = 777
And to restart samba
/etc/init.d/smb.sh restart
- ↑ http://www.embedded.com/ - Marvell's Feroceon ARM-based CPU shifts to variable-length pipeline
- ↑ Marvell: Media Vault Processors (Orion)
- ↑ Yamasita:LS-GL Announcement translated
- ↑ Buffalo Japan:NAS "LinkStation" LS-LGL series translated
- ↑ Buffalo North America:NAS "LinkStation-EZ"
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By Kaitlyn Naples
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About every month, Wheeler Clinic holds informational sessions about the foster care programs it offers, letting the community learn more about how they can help children in need, in their very own communities. Wheeler Clinic, based in Plainville, currently has 55 children in its therapeutic foster care program, with about 60 foster care families participating.
"Our reputation as a foster care provider has grown over the last few years," Sharon Pendleton-Ponzani, associate director of Wheeler's Foster Care Program, said, adding that Wheeler has been active in its marketing strategies to gain more exposure on all of the services it offers, including foster care.
Wheeler Clinic has been a foster care provider for over 20 years, and is always trying to get more families and individuals to take part in its program.
"We are in desperate need of foster care families," or individuals, Pendleton-Ponzani said.
There are four different programs under Wheeler's foster care program umbrella.
Therapeutic Foster Care is for children ages 6- to 17-years-old with mental health needs. The newest program is the Family and Community Ties Foster Care Program, for children ages 6- to 17-years-old who are coming from residential settings with "complex behavioral health needs." Another program is the Medically Complex Foster Care, which is for children from birth to 18-years-old, who have medical conditions, from conditions like asthma and diabetes, to heart programs and others. The fourth program is the Respite Foster Care program, which is for individuals and families who take care of a foster care child temporarily for another foster care parent.
All of these programs come with support from Wheeler staff, as well as training. When potential foster care parents are interested in joining the program at Wheeler Clinic, they are interviewed, approved and trained. Foster care parents are matched with a based on levels of needs and what the parents are looking for.
At the informational sessions, anyone interested in learning more about what the foster care program is all about is welcome. These sessions are meant for people to ask questions about the programs, and learn what their options are, meet with a recruiter, learn about the population in the program and look at different avenues that work best for everyone involved.
Pendleton-Ponzani said Wheeler Clinic looks for potential foster care parents who are "open to being flexible, and who want to be part of a team." She said Wheeler staff will always be involved with the children and the foster care families, and are always available for support.
"We have 24/ (hour) seven (day) coverage," she said. "We are always here supporting our families."
Backgrounds in parenting, medical or mental health, is not required to be a foster care parent. However, Wheeler Clinic welcomes those individuals who have backgrounds so they can be paired with children who have conditions.
"We just want people to know that these children are children, and they have had a different kind of experience growing up," Pendleton-Ponzani said. "They just need to feel safe and secure. We want them to have some sense of normalcy."
Ideally, Wheeler Clinic wants to keep children with the same foster care families from the time they enter the program until the time they are discharged. Pendleton-Ponzani added that the clinic also strives to keep the children in, or as close to, their original community so they feel at home. Wheeler Clinic Therapeutic Foster Care Program, based in Plainville, offers services to children in areas like Waterbury, Torrington and New Britain as well as Southington and Bristol.
Two years ago, Wheeler Clinic had 15 foster care parents adopt their children, and Pendleton-Ponzani said that adoption by foster care parents happens a lot.
"We want the public to know they can get more information here about these programs and help children in need, in their own communities, get into families," she said, adding that on a recent statistic for the region Wheeler covers, there were 60 additional children needing to be placed in foster care. She said there aren't enough foster care homes in the state to meet the needs, and there have been children who have been on the waiting list for two years.
"There are kids in your community who need a home," she said.
The next informational session on foster care will be held on Saturday, March 16 from noon to 2 p.m., at 88 East St. in Plainville. The training is a no-obligation event.
For more information about Wheeler Clinic's foster care program, call (860) 793-7277.


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Jonathan Falwell, senior pastor at Thomas Road Baptist Church, delivered Liberty's convocation message Wednesday in the Vines Center.
Falwell served at TRBC under the leadership of his father, LU founder Dr. Jerry Falwell, from 1995 until his father's death in May 2007, when he took over the primary leadership role in the church.
In Liberty's last formal convocation of the fall semester, Falwell spoke to the student body about the importance of being available to be used by God.
"All of us have been called to be used … by God," he said. He read Matthew 28:16-20, which includes the Great Commission, focusing on verse 17: "When they saw him [Jesus], they worshipped him, but some doubted."
The disciples had seen everything Jesus had done but some still doubted, Falwell pointed out. He said some students might be in this place themselves. He said many people have seen the hand of God at work and even given their hearts and lives to Christ, but still doubt His power to take them — in spite of anything they have done — and use them.
He encouraged the students to be active in making themselves available for God's work.
"Jesus always uses people who are already doing the right things," he said.
He urged students to put Jesus first in their lives, center their relationships around Him and spend time seeking Him.
"My prayer is that each and every one of you will seek God out in your lives … to find out what it is that God wants you to do."
The Lord will lead you where He wants you to go to make the difference that He wants you to make, he added.
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An Olive Garden recently opened in Grand Forks, ND, and according to the Grand Forks Herald's 85-year-old restaurant reviewer Marilyn Hagerty, it had become the talk of the town.
So, being a good journalist, Hagerty wrote a review of it. Almost immediately after her article was posted to the Herald's website, it started to get an unusual number of hits, and quickly became the most read article on the site by a large margin.
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The phone started ringing and messages started going up, and I had no clue what it was all about. These people were making fun of me…and then I thought, so what?" said Hagerty of finding out her review had gone viral.
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Many of Hagerty's regular readers have pointed out that focusing on a restaurant's decor is just Hagerty's polite way of saying the food is not as good, a subtle dig that was lost on those who mocked her. And though some have been snide about the earnest approach given to a chain restaurant, we like to think that the home-spun charm of Hagerty's review also helped it to go viral. Don't believe us? Watch Hagerty in the news report below and see for yourself.


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Last week's presidential debate was alternately confusing, confounding, contemptible and a costly waste of time. The language of the debate wasn't English. It was wonky, obfuscating words thrown together to confuse rather than clarify. And the prize for verbal gymnastics goes to the challenger, Mitt Romney.
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President Obama joked the next day that he didn't recognize the guy who showed up in Mitt Romney's place, and I'll get to that, but I didn't recognize the guy who showed up in the president's place, either. As we all know by now, he was off that night. He looked deflated, and he acted tired and out of sorts. He missed most of the opportunities to make a strong point or rebut an assertion that was wrong. He seemed nervous, and even his smile seemed forced and awkward.
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The causes of death are classified according to the 6th, 7th, and 8th versions of an abbreviated list of the World Health Organization's INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, INJURIES, AND CAUSES OF DEATH. Therefore, data for causes of death are not necessarily comparable across countries or data years. Users should refer to Variable 5 in the Variable List for full discussion of this problem. Users interested in comparing deaths for countries or years that use different versions of the Abbreviated list should consult two publications: A. Joan Klebba, and Alice B. Dolman. COMPARABILITY OF MORTALITY STATISTICS FOR THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH REVISIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, UNITED STATES. Rockville, MD: United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Public Health Service. Health Services and Mental Health Administration. National Center for Health Statistics, 1975, and World Health Organization. MANUAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, INJURIES, AND CAUSES OF DEATH. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 1967.
The user should note that countries have data covering a variety of time spans (the maximum span being 1965-1973), and the data have not been padded to supply missing data codes for those years for which a country does not have data. Thus, Egypt has data for years 1965 through 1972, while Kenya has data for only 1970. (See Appendix D in the codebook to determine the years for which a country has data.)
It is important that any user of these data consult the United Nations' DEMOGRAPHIC YEARBOOK, 1976, for further explanation of the data's limitations. Certain countries have modified reporting procedures which are presented in both the footnotes and the technical notes accompanying the tables in the Yearbook. There is no way to identify these problems using only the machine-readable data.
In order to eliminate unnecessary repetition of identifying information, data were merged so that each record now contains all the data for a country for one particular year. In this process, breakdowns of deaths by ethnic group and/or urban/rural classification were omitted since only a few countries provided such information. Each record now contains the data for the number of deaths from each cause of death for male, female, and total.
While the data appear to be in a rectangular matrix, such is not the case. This occurs because different versions of the abbreviated list are referenced in different data years. The lack of a rectangular data matrix does little to restrict the manageability of the dataset. See codebook for examples.
While the data have been reformatted and documented by ICPSR staff, there has been no attempt to verify the accuracy and consistency of the data received from the U.N. Statistical Office.
Universe View help for Universe
Causes of death in 125 countries or areas throughout the world between the years 1966 and 1974.
Data Source View help for Data Source
(1) mailback questionnaires, and (2) United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs. DEMOGRAPHIC YEARBOOK 1976, 28th ISSUE. New York: United Nations, 1977 (Table 20)
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Version History View help for Version History
- United Nations. Cross-National Statistics on the Causes of Death, 1966-1974. ICPSR07624-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1979. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07624.v1
2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
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Thanks for help on the forums and the great articles on locations for boarding in the bay area.
I was actually able to make it to 3rd Ave. Great spot, other than the smell. Anyhow, just wanted to say thanks to whomever started this web site and all the friendly boarders in the area. I would have never found a good place to board without this resource.


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Gman90 had een nieuw T-shirt ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
Een winnaar werd gekozen uit49 ontwerpen ingezonden door17 freelance designers.
QRTOW Brands
Are you like me and my friends and family? Tired of the US Government stomping all over us... Telling us what cars to buy, what Doctors to go to, what they will decide to spend our monies on, what banks have the right to steal your money and charge whatever they feel like. How about a complete reversal from where we were in 1980!
"Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem." --RR-
All Americans who believe that we are turning into a socialist (almost communism) nation. Reach out to Americans - Not Politicans.... You know your in trouble when they say France has a better healthcare system than the USA! No they don't ... they do have better bread and wine than we do!
create a logo and scene that resonates with the people.
Think how to bring out Q...RTOW (Quick... Run The Other Way) so people "get it".
We are from the US Government and wer'e here to help you - No your not!
So any design needs to bring out that line of thinking.
We want to start with standard T's and hats... Then move on (no not the group!) to other lines...


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[Cal]-вλиzдï wrote:As a higher level, more experienced noob, I can say that essentially. When I first started, I needed to if d a community. I stayed off of chat. I didn't understand weapon levels and I didn't know anyone. What really annoyed me was all of these wonderful swag users with capped infused weapons and armour. I wanted a slice of that. I would say decreasing the amount of swag sold as it really isn't a rare commodity anymore. At least not to me.
Dude... I got my first swag 2 days ago. It was the worst ever.


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"South Park" producer Eric Stough will speak at the University of Colorado spring commencement ceremony this May, officials announced Monday.
Stough, animation director and producer of "South Park," will speak at commencement at 8:30 a.m. May 9 at Folsom Field.
Stough, upon whom the character "Butters" is roughly based, graduated from CU in 1995 with a film degree and was a resident adviser in Williams Village, CU Senior Class Council President Erica Rozbruch said.
"South Park" has won five Emmy awards and a Peabody Award, according to the show's website.
"We thought it would be amazing to bring him, because he really represents what you can do at CU, and what kind of opportunity you can have at CU," Rozbruch said.
"South Park" creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone — both of whom also studied film CU — have long been on CU students' short list of desired commencement speakers.
Rozbruch said the 12-member council looked for any potential controversies when researching commencement speakers.
Some students protested 2011 commencement speaker, CU alum and Chipotle CEO Steve Ells, because he hadn't joined the "Campaign for Fair Foods" movement for the fair treatment and monetary rights of farm laborers.
Rozbruch said the council wanted to avoid a similar situation so that everyone — including parents and community members — could enjoy the speaker.
"We don't want anyone to be upset about a person we're bringing," she said. "We want all students and parents to be happy and proud of who's speaking at commencement."
Rozbruch, who said she's been in contact with Stough directly, said she hopes he will bring the right mix of humor and inspiration to CU's commencement.
"It's really the last word you hear before you go off into the world, and we want someone who is funny, who can be inspirational and motivational," she said. "During commencement, it's a two-hour ceremony, you hear a lot of people at the university talking to students. (The speaker) is tailored to the students. This is what we want them to take away."
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These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
Tech Crunch
How The Future of Mobile Lies in the Developing World
"In less than three decades, the mobile phone has gone from being a status symbol to being a ubiquitous technology that facilitates almost every interaction in our daily lives. One month after the world's population topped 7 billion in October 2011, the GSM Association announced that mobile SIM cards had reached 6 billion. A 2009 study in India illustrated that every 10 percent increase in mobile penetration leads to a 1.2 percent increase in GDP.
Yet patterns of mobile phone use in developing countries are vastly different from what you see on the streets of New York, San Francisco, and Berlin. This is a market underserved by technologists and startups. This is where the majority of future growth lies, and Silicon Valley has yet to realize the huge economic opportunities for network operators, handset developers, and mobile startups. Where are these opportunities?" READ MORE
Ars Technica
How Africa is embracing "the cloud" on its own terms
"You're probably one of the lucky people. You live within the coverage zone of a 3G or 4G cellular network, you have access to Internet at home and work over a connection measured in tens of megabits per second, and when you turn on your laptop (or your tablet, or your smartphone) you can see three, four, or twenty nearby WiFi networks. Cloud computing was invented for people like you—but it might turn out to be of even more benefit to the billions of people who don't own a computer—those dark places on Facebook's map of connections—and whose lives could be changed dramatically by a couple of mobile apps.
Take Africa, for instance, where an emerging information technology industry is betting its future on serving customers and businesses through mobile cloud applications. At the same time, governments and non-governmental organizations are betting that cloud-based technology can help transform their economies and societies, spurring improvements in education, public health, and the environment." READ MORE
Space for Transparency
Corruption, business, civil society and the G20
"It is increasingly recognised that corruption can only be tackled effectively through the joint action of all stakeholders, i.e. the public sector, business and civil society. There is a growing trend to include the private sector in development initiatives to ensure that it becomes part of the solution rather than being part of the problem. But can companies that are driven by short-term business interests really be part of the solution to corruption? And can multi-stakeholder groups made up of actors with very different aims and approaches really lead to effective solutions?
The Group of 20 (G20) leading economies, first convened as a forum to tackle the global financial crisis in 2008, is responsible for 80 per cent of world trade and more than 80 per cent of [global] gross national product. The private sector seized the opportunity to represent its views vis-à-vis the G20 early on. The first Business 20 (B20) Summit took place in parallel to the Canadian G20 Summit in 2010. Issues discussed at the B20 Summits included corporate social responsibility, employment, food security and corruption." READ MORE
ICT Works
Africans Should be Developing for Smartphones, Not USSD or Feature Phones
"Recently, TechCrunch made the bold prediction that in five years' time, most sub-Saharan Africans will have smartphones. At first I thought this just more mobile phone hyperbole. That feature phones will be with us for a long time - "dumb" phones are still 40% of new handset sales in the USA. But then I started to think about numbers. Whenever you multiply something by 1 Billion Africans, you can find a market in a niche others don't notice. Just listen to what Kachwanya says:
'People talk of developing for the right market using the right technology based on the right access point, which in the case of Kenya would mean the use of USSD and feature phones (dumb phones). That is very encouraging talk, but then after that the developers have to go and look for the foreign investors who think SMS is a 19th century technology.'" READ MORE
Civil society groups call on EU to require firms to disclose true ownership
"A coalition of over a thousand civil society organizations is urging European regulators to support legislation requiring corporations to provide greater transparency regarding their true ownership.
In a letter sent June 9 to European Internal Markets Commissioner Michel Barnier, the coalition complains that current laws make it "too easy" for "corrupt politicians, money launderers, tax evaders and other criminals" to hide their identities behind companies, according to the Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development, an international group advocating for transparency and accountability." READ MORE
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August 8, 2013
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T John Richardson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
I am a consultant to to hospitality industry but with a specialism towards coffee shops. I have two highly successful books published on this subject and do various talks and seminars throughout the UK and mainland Europe.
We have a main website at http://www.thecoffeeboys.com
The business is shifting away from one on one consulting towards selling information products that are online and also in DVD and handbook format. The first of these products is a "how to get a new customer" 6 DVD course and manual. It will detail the numerous ways that coffee shops/restaurants/bars/fast food outlets can get new customers.
The culture of the way we talk and operate is in a fun fashion.
This is the cartoon that we used for our first book:
and this is the sort of style that I would like replicated.
The cartoon doesn't need to be complex. It needs to be very simple because it will be replicated many times and possibly on every page of the manual.
It may possibly show a happy operator being handed money by a new customer over a relatively generic counter. I don't want the image to look to obviously like it is from one sector of the hospitality industry but the use of a coffee cup in exchange for the money would work.
Owner/operators of a variety of hospitality businesses. Primarily this is coffee shops, restaurants and fast food outlets.
These people generally see their biggest problem as being not having enough customers. My product, that this cartoon will support, will be the solution to this.
The audience is worldwide.
A simple cartoon to illustrate the concept of a new customer in a hospitality business.
Potentially this would be a customer handing a large amount of money over for a cup of coffee and a happy owner.
It should be capable of being interpreted even in a small size.


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Disney Infinity Opens the Toy Box This June
After months of speculation, on Tuesday Disney Interactive Studios confirmed the existence of Disney Infinity, a new multi-platform gaming initiative powered by collectible plastic toys.
Disney Interactive is teaming with Avalanche Software (who previously developed the Toy Story 3 video game), to bring Disney Infinity to life. Players will be able to enter the worlds of Disney and Pixar films like The Incredibles and Pirates of the Caribbean by placing miniature figures on the Infinity Base, and watching them come to life on the screen. It's similar to what Activision's Skylanders does, only with franchised and recognizable characters like Captain Jack Sparrow and Sully from Monsters University.
In addition to figures based on characters from well-known films, the Infinity Base will also use Power Discs. These provide either additional powers to the characters being used, or serve to add in-powerful items and gadgets for use in the game world. You can get a better look at some of the abilities and add-ons available through the Power Discs in the trailer below.
Up to four players will be able to play online at one time, while two players can enjoy split-screen action on one console. There's a host of characters Disney could use along the way, but to get things kicked off, the starter pack (which will retail for $74.99), will feature figures for Capt. Jack Sparrow, Mr. Incredible, and Sully. Each of the character's respective films represents its own unique Play Set. Characters from one franchise cannot interact with Play Sets different from their own in the standard game, but will be able to mix and mingle in Disney Infinity's Toy Box mode.
Toy Box, an evolution of the same idea from Avalanche's Toy Story 3 game, is a big sandbox where players can do basically whatever they want within the confines of the game's abilities. Whole worlds and challenges can be created by you, which sounds a bit like LittleBigPlanet and Minecraft, giving Disney Infinity a scope that will be hard to match if the developers can pull it all off.
When Disney Infinity launches later this year, the first wave of figures will include 17 different characters (sold in packs of 3 for $29.99, or in singles for $12.99 each), three Play Sets ($34.99 each), and 20 additional Power Discs (available in packs for $4.99). Disney Infinity will be available on the PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, Wii U, 3DS, Xbox 360, and unspecified mobile devices.