text: SDSU's Tech Incubator Turns One March 4, 2013 – Union Tribute Cathy Pucher, executive director of the Zahn Center for Engineering Innovation, listens as student Ben Yeoman explains design changes to the prosthetic hand that his team Reach Health Technologies is making through the SDSU program. The Zahn Center is an incubator on campus that seeks to help students and professors turn innovative ideas into companies. — Don Boomer In the Industrial Technology building at San Diego State University, there's a room equipped with desks, white boards and perhaps most importantly, a coffee pot that is always on. It's there to fuel the creative endeavors of students and professors seeking to start their own businesses. From dawn to dusk and back again, these entrepreneurial spirits can be found using this space — formally known as the Zahn Center for Technology Innovation — as a business incubator to nurture and hatch their fledgling ideas into revenue-generating endeavors. This month, the center marks its first anniversary on campus. No company has turned a profit, but there are 13 early-stage teams pursuing ideas ranging from digital portfolios to personal-training apps. One team is developing a portable balance board that could be used by athletic trainers to figure out if an injured athlete is OK to return to the field. Another hopes to license its idea for a prosethic hand that could replace the metal hook. Thirty others are still in the idea phase and have not yet been accepted into the incubator. "To apply, what they need to have is an idea, they need to understand what problems they are solving and who benefits. They need to be able to articulate their product or idea, the uniqueness of it and how it can stand out from the competition," said Cathy Pucher, the center's executive director. Once they are accepted into the incubator, a range of services are available. Teams are paired with mentors and can get legal help from attorneys working pro bono who help with possible patents and legal questions and who can help companies to incorporate. They can seek out marketing advice or help with market studies from business school professors and students. If students or faculty members develop a company based on intellectual property that was created or came from the support of the university, the team would have to negotiate a license with SDSU. Teams try to determine those issues before they launch a business, Pucher said. "We aim to have very open discussions so that everybody is going into it with their eyes open," Pucher said. They are given access and expertise to university equipment such as a 3D printer that can be used to create prototypes. The center also hosts social events, guest speakers and helps identify interns and potential investors. All support provided by the Zahn Center is free and there is no obligation to pay anything back, even if the company launches successfully. "We are doing this to give them the experience of what they learn in the classroom and applying it to real life and we are hoping that they will be successful and create jobs." Pucher said. "We are hoping that even if they are not successful now, the things they learn here at the Zahn Center will help them to be successful later." Emerging companies Here are the 13 concepts accepted into the business incubator at SDSU. Most are student-founded but some also include non-students and faculty. • Acuo Fitness is developing a direct-to-user fitness program that seeks to provide individualized functional-fitness workouts. • BraceMe is focused on developing a unique back brace. • Cystic Fibrosis Imaging is developing a clinical tool that can be used as an alternative or to supplement to lung MRI or CT scans. • Epsilon seeks to provide alternative techniques and equipment in the biotechnology marketplace to scientists, universities and research facilities. • Grow Energy is planning to patent a process by which algae is grown and converted into clean energy. • Repeat-station Imaging would service the aerial mapping and national security industries by using patent-pending airborne image collection and processing technologies that allow rapid creation of image sets at a lower cost than traditional methods. • Jobioz is developing a comprehensive digital portfolio for recruiters and job seekers that studentscan use to get hired after college. • Mobile Network Innovations is developing a wearable, wireless electronic device that can provide more intelligent networking by identifying potenital partners for personal or professional relationships through intelligent profile matching. • Pathgeo is focused on analyzing the Internet and social media to strengthen marketing research for products, services and other applications. • REACH Health Technologies hopes to improve the lives of amputees by creating a prosthetic hand with greater function, comfort and aesthetics. • Sauron Energy is working on a product that will produce solar energy using a small particle solar receiver that uses a cloud of smoke to capture concentrated sunlight and convert it into heat. • SDSU X-Prize Team is a group of graduate students trying to build and deploy a hand-held medical diagnostic scanning device. The team is competing in the Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize, a global $10 million competition of more than 220 teams from corporations and biotech startups around the world. • Sport Tracking System is working on developing a portable balance board to assess recovery from concussions. Some of the teams have received private funding or grant funding to support their endeavors. One has already pulled the plug and is going back to the drawing board to come up with a new idea. Pucher said one of the closest to launching is Joboiz, a digital portfolio that can be used by recruiters and job applicants that allows students to upload multimedia galleries and projects they've done in school and internships as they look for work opportunities. "Really what we are trying to do is take the resume to the digital age," said Gregg Anderson, one of the company's founders. Anderson said he and other students on his team spent the past year working on redesigning the platform. Their goal is to initially get 1,000 students and at least 100 employers signed up and in the next year branch out to Orange County or Los Angeles. Zach Stratton, a MBA student in his final semester, is developing a balance board that could be used by athletic trainers. He's working with a SDSU professor in exercise and nutritional sciences, Dan Goble, on a product that would help athletic trainers assess head injuries in athletes by using the portable board. The product is designed to help trainers to determine whether an athlete can get back in the game or if they have suffered a concussion. Stratton, 28, said he's not only working to make the idea a viable business but is using the experience for his culminating project for his MBA program. "It is not ready to go to market right now, but hopefully soon," he said. Students involved in the ventures say they work at the incubator for long hours, day and night and weekends. "When we are not in classes, we are here. Every Saturday, every Sunday," Anderson said. "Its not glamour at all but having other students around you that are going through that same process, you have comeraderie with them." Jessica Wooding, a senior who is the Joboiz's creative director, said fellow students were thrilled when a refrigerator and microwave were added to the center. "I really do feel like I live here," she said. The 1,500-square-foot Zahn Center was created by a $700,000 donation by Irwin Zahn. Zahn founded General Staple Company in 1954 in New York City, which created bottom stops for zippers, and later grew it into a global electronic interconnect company named Autosplice, Inc. Zahn lives in San Diego and had relocated his business here before it was acquired. Through his charitable foundations, Zahn and his son, Peter, have funded similar incubators at City College, City University of New York and at UC San Diego, which is called the Moxie Center. "I grew the company because I was a risk taker and I wanted to really incentivize and encourage risk taking," he said. "I think universities could be made better instead of just teaching a couple of dry subjects but by putting them together and actually doing something. Getting dirty fingernails." Zahn said the center's first year has exceeded his expectations — and he's thinking bigger for the future. "I can see we are going to have wonderful problems," he said. "We are going to need more space. And other problems are: How can we fund these young entrepreneurs? How do we take them to the next step where they can get a product completed?" Read online at Union Tribune. moxie93722017-03-09T19:31:09+00:00 Share This Story, Choose Your Platform! facebooktwitterlinkedinreddittumblrpinterestvkEmail


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Official Website of 'Bundy On Tap'
The Australian town of Bundanoon, in the NSW Southern
Highlands, 150 km south west of Sydney, has decided of its own
volition to neither sell, nor giveaway, bottled still water, within the
town precinct.
A meeting of about 20 businesses initially agreed to the initiative.
This was followed by community meeting in early July 2009, where
the packed town hall of 356 residents voted overwhelmingly to
support the initiative.When bottled water alternatives were officially
launched in late September 2009, it is believed Bundanoon became
Australia's First Bottled Water Free Town. (And possibly the
world's first.)
This small town, community initiative has generated unprecedented
national and international media coverage and worldwide support.
As part of the initiative, Bundanoon expanded drinking water
facilities in the town. Indeed access to drinking water in Bundanoon
is now greater than before 'Bundy On Tap' began.
Businesses have available for sale reusable drink bottles and chilled
filtered tap water, whilst both free filtered water stations, and water
fountains or 'bubblers,' provide for the general public, and for local
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They met in a U of A criminology class a decade ago and they've been partners in crime ever since.
"I still don't know how I convinced her to come north and be a treeplanting farmer," Brad Rabiey says.
His wife, Rebecca Edwards Rabiey, elaborates. "I grew up in the city and I'm allergic to everything — including myself some days," she explains.
The Rabieys are about the cutest tree huggers you'll ever meet. They're savvy entrepreneurs, too. In 2007, the Peace River couple started up The Carbon Farmer, a tree-farm business that creates long-term wildlife habitat and counters climate change.
The concept of the Carbon Farmer is simple: turn previously tilled land into forests with native trees, shrubs and grasses while helping people and businesses offset their carbon footprint. Customers can pay $2 to have a tree planted on their behalf. Or they can buy carbon credits at $15 per tonne. For that, The Carbon Farmer will give them a certificate that attests that it will plant the number of trees required to sequester that amount of carbon. (Third-party assessments are done on all their planted forests to determine the amount of carbon sequestered.) The Carbon Farmer website has an online calculator so you can figure out how much carbon you owe from travelling, putting on events, et cetera. "The amount (you pay) depends on the vehicle you drive, how much you travel around the world, your lifestyle, basically," Brad explains.
Rabiey had finished university and was working at the Alberta legislature when he came up with the idea as a way to save his family's 500-acre farm near Manning. Traditional agriculture wouldn't do the trick, he knew. It had to be something more innovative.
"People thought I was crazy for leaving the job I had to come north to plant trees," he says.
The eco-entrepreneur set aside a third of the farm for his project, choosing suitable land (areas with lower soil quality along river beds, for example). The rest is being used for cultivating organic heritage grains.
Before long, that third of the farm was forested and the Rabieys began looking beyond their own land, to avoid a land limitation issue and keep the business alive. Now, they're partnering with other landowners and land trusts to reforest and plant new forests across Alberta. They're even in talks with organizations abroad.
It's important to stress that the Rabieys still place high value on arable soil and agriculture. "We don't think that every piece of land in Alberta should be converted back to forests," Brad says. "We're very careful about what kind of land we choose."
The Carbon Farmer is up for a 2013 Emerald Award in the small-business category. Bullfrog Power, which provides homes and businesses with green energy, and C2C Smoky Lake Forest Nursery, which produces seedlngs of native tree and shrub species, are also finalists. The awards, administered by the Alberta Emerald Foundation, recognize outstanding commitment to environmental initiatives in this province.
The couple's business is so smart that in 2012 they snagged a sweet deal with venture capitalists Arlene Dickinson and Bruce Croxon on reality TV show Dragons' Den. The Rabieys sold 40 per cent of their business for $40,000. Both Dragons are still on board after due diligence. "We may have sold for a specific dollar value, but the advice has been pretty priceless," Brad says.
A Dragons' Den deal, an Emerald Award nomination, their first child due in August; these are wild, wonderful times for the Rabieys. Says Rebecca: "It's pretty surreal."
To date, the Peace River couple have planted more than 300,000 trees in Alberta. This year, they plan to plant another 330,000, offsetting the annual carbon footprint of about 25,000 Albertans.
Brad continues to dream bigger and bigger. "I want to do 100 million trees by the time I hang up the shovel, so to speak. Five million trees per year is the goal."
He adds: "It's something we'd love to do for a lifetime."
The Alberta Emerald Foundation was founded in 1991 to promote and celebrate outstanding and innovative environmental stewardship by individuals, community groups, business, industry and government in Alberta. The Emerald Awards are its flagship initiative. This year's winners will be revealed at a gala at Edmonton's Citadel Theatre on Thursday, June 6. The Edmonton Journal and the Calgary Herald have created a partnership to produce a series about several of this year's finalists. Articles will appear on Saturdays until June 8.


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Reston Lake Anne will host Reston's annual Multicultural Festival Saturday, Sept. 22 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event is designed to celebrate Reston's diversity, with live performances, arts and even a book fair. A signature part of the festival the past few years has been a naturalization ceremony for recent immigrants to the United States.
After the ceremony, live entertainment will take place on two stages, as well as in the Reston Community Center Lake Anne. Acts will include: Korean Martial Arts, Hawaiian ukulele and dance, Indian classical dance, Chinese opera and more.
"The entertainment at the festival is top notch, especially things like Indian dance, which I was not at all familiar with," said Jim Grady of Reston, who has been a regular at the festival for years. "Along with the Asian festival, which used to take place at Browns Chapel, this is my must attend event for the year. And
now that the Asian festival moved on [to the campus of George Mason University], this is the best way to experience these cultures."
Food from India, Italy, Japan and Thailand will be available, as well as items from South America, Africa, Asia and other locales, several of which support community programs in the other countries.
For example, E3Kids International, which supports a school for orphans in Mombasa, Kenya, will have hand-made Kenyan items.
"I think it's very appropriate to call it a 'multicultural' festival and not an 'international' festival," said Raj Singh of Reston. "Because what everyone is bringing here is not the just traditions and culture of their people, but the traditions and culture that they are a part of here, in America. It shows just how appealing a place like America, and Reston, really are, despite lots of news reports to the contrary."
More information on the festival can be found at http://restoncommunitycenter.com/MulticulturalFestival.shtml.


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Natural Family Planning Advocate Knows No Borders
DALLAS—The population control cartel pressuring Latin America was disrupted last month in Argentina, when natural family planning (NFP) promoter Mercedes Arzu Wilson addressed television and radio audiences, as well as the national legislature in Buenos Aires. She warned against contraceptive imperialism, abortifacient chemicals being sold as contraceptives, and a non-replacement population growth of 1.4 children per family that threatens to leave the country "empty."
Wilson followed her South American visit with a trip to Dallas to lecture against "the culture of death" and to train Spanish-speaking couples in the ovulation method of NFP. She said she was invited to address a one-day conference of the Argentine legislature by Rita Drisaldei, a representative from Santa Cruz who had heard Wilson speak in Brazil last year.
Like other Latin American nations, Argentina is facing pressure for "sustainable development" (that is, population control) as a result of U.N. conventions in recent years, even though its population growth is below replacement levels, Wilson said. The country's leaders also raised concerns regarding the absence of governmental regulation of "test tube" babies and the specter of fetal experimentation, she added.
"(Wilson) came with some views which hadn't been broadcast here previously," said Father Pedro Richards, a fellow NFP promoter and founder of the 50-year-old Movimiento Familiar Cristiana (Christian Family Movement) in Latin America and Spain. "She was quite a novelty, since she placed NFP and sex education on the table."
And Wilson, whose enthusiasm for NFP has not dampened in her 30 years of international promotion and education, is looking forward to future visits to train NFP teachers through Argentina's Ministry of Health, and also to address priests and religious at the request of Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio. During her five-day trip, she also updated teachers from Uruguay, Peru, and Argentina in the ovulation method, which she learned from John and Evelyn Billings in 1968 and for which she developed the popular color stamps for women to use in charting their fertility.
"It's always the same: The lower the income, the poorer the people, the better the response," declared Wilson, founder and president of the 21-year-old Family of the Americas Foundation, based in Dunkirk, Maryland. In Argentina and Guatemala "we had to turn people away because we didn't have enough space or materials for everyone," she added.
Father Richards is not overly optimistic about the immediate impact of Wilson's visit to his native country of Argentina, where the Catholic president speaks broadly in defense of life but where his supporters throughout the country promote "reproductive health," a euphemism for government-sponsored contraception and abortion.
Nevertheless, at least the representatives and senators have been "alerted to new things," Father Richards said.
Ultimately, he added, "what else can we be but hopeful, because (Wilson) is a heavyweight, she knows how to do things, and she is engaging."
To further spur her work in Latin America, Wilson's book Love and Family (Ignatius Press, 1996), a comprehensive sex education resource for parents, has just been published in Spanish.
She is also focusing on her native Guatemala where her brother, Alvaro Arzu, is president. She is working on a large-scale campaign to promote NFP there while the government is friendly toward it.
"If the same party is not re-elected, we're in trouble," she said. "This is our chance to try to expose the harmful programs of Planned Parenthood and its affiliates around the world."
Shortly before her trip to Argentina, Wilson was among the more than 2,000 people attending an international NFP conference in Peru. The Andean nation's president, Alberto Fujimori, has pushed birth control as the answer to his country's poverty and has vocally attacked the Pope for the Church's teachings against contraception and sterilization. Earlier this year The New York Times and the Register chronicled the Peruvian govern-ment's "ambitious" family planning program that has resulted in hundreds of poor women being coerced into, or injured by, sterilization.
Wilson also spent time in Mexico in February to protest massive vacci-nation programs against tetanus in women of child-bearing age. Lab tests have shown the shots to contain the component HCG, which would, in effect, "vaccinate them against their own pregnancy," she said.
Wilson might get discouraged but for her noted ability to gain access to further her work and for her unflagging belief in the wisdom of the poor, who continue to be more receptive to natural methods of family planning than developed peoples are.
"It's like in the times of Christ," Wilson explained. "Who were the ones who listened? It wasn't the learned, those of high cultural levels, the priests, the lawyers—no. It was the poor who followed him.
"God seems to put some kind of inborn wisdom into the poor to defend them. They have natural childbirth, they breastfeed, and then they have everything natural. They are the last ones to accept artificial methods, because they are so dependent on nature, for their crops, for everything, that a natural method just seems logical, just makes sense to them."
Other developing nations responding to the message of NFP include, perhaps surprisingly, China. Behind the scenes of the country's extreme population control policies, where city-dwelling women are limited to one legally recognized child, NFP continues to win converts among government officials, doctors, and couples hoping to avoid the alternatives of sterilization and abortion. Wilson has been to China nine times for lectures and training, and to date has distributed 20,000 copies of her instruction book Love and Fertility there.
"Even in China, we can't go back enough; I have an open invitation to go back," said Wilson. "We get standing ovations from the students, the doctors, even the government officials who attend our lectures. My lecture is against contraception, against abortion; I even talk about the moral aspects, spiritual and moral benefits, and I get standing ovations. I tell them that the government has no right to tell a husband and a wife how many children they can have."
The leading advocates of the ovulation method—arguably the simplest and most popular modern natural method used around the world—include Dr. Zhang De-wei, an adviser to the State Family Planning Commission of Shanghai and the vice president of an advisory committee of a Ministry of Public Health.
Her study of 688 couples reported a rate of 98.82% effectiveness in postponing pregnancy and a continuation rate (the percentage of couples who used the method through 12 months) of 93.04%.
"These clinical results were very satisfactory and encouraging," Dr. De-wei wrote in her award-winning report, updated in 1994. "Because it has no contraindications, side-effects, and requires no government investment for manufacturing contraceptives and devices, etc.; it is a very good method which benefits the nation and the people."
Wilson and De-wei say the Chinese are delighted with the ovulation method because they see it will decrease induced abortions. And the fact that the people "all say they hate abortion" puts China in a better moral position than the United States, Wilson believes. "(China is) a country (where) a small group in government, dictatorial government, is forcing mothers to abort their babies, and some courageous women choose to keep their babies or hide their babies so they are not killed... whereas in the West, the United States being at the top of the line, people get in their cars, and go kill them.
"Who is worse off morally—the one who's forced to abort her baby, or the one who freely goes to kill her own child? I am sick and tired of hearing the Chinese people get criticized, because they are being forced to kill their babies. In the West, not only are mothers willingly killing their babies, but [pro-abortion forces] are forcing legalization of abortion on the rest of the world."
Ellen Rossini writes from Dallas.


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Bose Releases Two New SoundLink Wireless Speakers
Bose Releases Two New SoundLink Wireless Speakers
Bose has introduced two new SoundLink wireless speakers - the SoundLink Air digital music system, its first-ever Apple-enabled product, and the SoundLink Bluetooth Mobile Speaker II, an update of the original and now iconic SoundLink Mobile speaker.
SoundLink Air digital music system
A one-piece wireless speaker system that streams audio from an iPad, iPhone, iPod touch or a computer's iTunes library via Apple's AirPlay technology and a Wi-Fi network, it requires no docking, so owners can maintain full control of their Apple device, including browsing, texting, or making calls, all while enjoying audio from a compact AirPlay-enabled system. Users have two options for control of basic functions, either the Apple iOS device or an included infrared remote. It also offers an aux-in to connect to other audio devices and an optional rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The system also comes incorporated with proprietary Bose acoustic waveguide speaker technology, neodymium transducers, and Bose digital signal processing.
SoundLink Bluetooth Mobile Speaker II
First introduced in 2011, the Mobile speaker is designed to work with most Bluetooth-enabled devices, including the iPhone, iPad, Android phones, and other tablets. With improved full-range audio, the Mobile speaker II includes new neodymium transducers and an updated digital signal processing algorithm into the acoustics package. Thanks to the patented dual-opposing passive radiators, it reproduces deeper low notes, and more definition and clarity across mid and high frequencies. Featuring a new integrated leather or nylon bi-fold protective cover that also serves as the speaker's stand, the six most recently used Bluetooth devices are stored in memory, so you won't have to go through the trouble of pairing them again. Also, it is capable of streaming music while you email, text, or browse the web.
The new SoundLink Air digital music system is now available from Atlas Sound & Vision for S$759.
The SoundLink Bluetooth Mobile Speaker II with Nylon cover or Leather cover is available at S$499 and S$589 respectively.


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4 killed in Interstate 79 crash
Motorcycle driver, three 18-year-olds in SUV killed
An SUV driver and two of his passengers were huffing as they drove along Interstate 79 and got into a crash that killed all of them, as well as a motorcycle driver, according to state police.
"During the investigation into this incident, it was found that the occupants in Unit #1 had purchased a can of compressed air cleaner and were inhaling the contents as they drove up the interstate," police wrote in a media statement Monday. "The coroner's report reflected that the substance Difluoroethane was found in the system of the three deceased."
Difluoroethane is a colorless gas used in the propellant in computer cleaning spray. Inhaling it can produce an effect similar to alcohol intoxication, police said, and it can lead to cardiac dysrhythmias and sudden death in higher concentrations.
"It sure as heck was at a level sufficient to produce the problems associated with the huffing -- the inhalation of this kind of compound -- namely lightheadedness and, sometimes, disorientation and cardiac arrhythmia," said forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht, who performed the autopsies.
The October crash killed three 18-year-olds in the SUV -- Cullin Frazer and Benjamin Hardy, both of Waynesburg, and Byron Kerr, of Carmichaels.
Also killed was the motorcycle driver, 47-year-old Michael Cohen, of Oshawa, Ontario. Police said no impairing substances were found in his system.
Police said the northbound SUV crossed a grass median and went into southbound traffic, where it hit the motorcycle and a camper near the Ruff Creek exit at about 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 12. The crash near the Washington County-Greene County line caused southbound traffic to be diverted through the grass and into the northbound lanes.
Frazer was a former West Greene High School student, Hardy graduated from Waynesburg Central High School and Kerr was a former student at Carmichaels Area High School.
Three other people in the SUV and a woman on the motorcycle were taken to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va.
"It was crazy. It just all happened so fast," Tom Miller told WTAE Channel 4 Action News in October. He was in the SUV and suffered a broken collarbone. He said he doesn't remember much, "just crawling out of the back, and seeing my friends like that."


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Hello everyone,
I want to learn from your advice about how to design data structure in the following scenario to be most efficient.
One thread will create data (composed of ID and content), and output to a queue or something (data structure could be chosen to make the scenario more efficient), the data created is very frequently working to produce data, another thread is responsible to aggregate data (for the same ID, aggregate the content and output to a file), and aggregation thread works less frequently -- sleep 10 minutes, aggregate and then sleep again.
I am going to find a solution which could balance,
1. Less performance impact to the data creating thread;
2. To make data aggregation thread works as efficient as possible and consume less memory.
Any advice about how to design data structures?
- I am stupidly using a List, appending data by the data creation thread, and I think appending data to the List is less performance impact to data create thread than using Dictionary to insert. Am I correct?
- Read data from begin to end of another thread -- using ID as key into a Dictionary, since there maybe duplicate ID, so when I insert into the Dictionary, I will check if contains key, if yes, I will update the data, or else insert a new one;
- Using lock on the whole List to make thread safe. Does the lock on the whole List is too heavy?
Any smarter ways? :-)
thanks in advance,


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Creative Snacking
This story appears in the August 2007 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Joe Moffatt's favorite sandwich is The Hotshot: sun-dried tomato peanut butter, jalapeños, potato chips, cheddar, bacon and mayonnaise. The Hotshot, of course, is his own invention. And the place where he eats it is his own, too: a P.B. Loco cafe.
In February, Moffatt, 29, and his wife, Hollie, 30, opened their P.B. Loco franchise in Tupelo, Mississippi. "People think you're crazy for opening a store for just peanut butter," says Moffatt. But he was sold on the unique concept and thought others would be, too. He was right--he projects first-year sales of about $275,000.
Still, he admits that sometimes it's hard to overcome people's preconceptions about peanut butter. While plain, old peanut butter and jelly is available, P.B. Loco is all about creative concoctions made with gourmet peanut butter flavors, including Asian Curry Spice, European Cafe Mocha and Jungle Banana.
Part of Moffatt's challenge is that P.B. Loco started franchising in 2004, so it's hardly a household name. But being with a newer franchisor has its upside as well. "We're all still learning together," Moffatt says of the corporate office and its franchisees. The excitement for Moffatt is getting to experiment and help shape the franchise's future. While most other cafes are in malls, his is a stand-alone location. He has created a coffeehouse feel with leather couches and flat-screen TVs, and he offers gourmet coffees--an addition that other franchisees have adopted as well. His latest contribution? P.B. Loco is adding The Hotshot to its menu.


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Chessmasters tug at their strings of influence, patiently move their pieces into places that often seem harmless or pointless until the trap is closed, and get innocent Unwitting Pawns (who else?) to do all the heavy lifting. The best will also have layers upon layers of misdirection and backup plans in case some unexpected hero appears to gum up the works.
Chessmasters can sometimes be on the side of good, but if so they'll almost certainly be the Anti-Hero (the Pragmatic Hero variation) at best or the Well-Intentioned Extremist at worst, as it's very hard to plan a Chessmaster scheme that doesn't sacrifice a few pawns along the way. Heroic Chessmasters are very often introduced as a Mysterious Employer. The Svengali, in acting for the (supposed) good of his protégés, will often be this (and if he is not, he will pretend).
Chessmasters can occasionally be The Strategist, although given the volatility of war, most Strategists will only ply their schemes one campaign at a time, with an emphasis on short-term goals (and an eye towards all possible future contingencies). The Game Master may be a Chessmaster also, but many of them prefer to give their orders more directly. Many chessmasters are Villains With Good Publicity, but they can also besomeone no one has ever heard of. Almost all Ancient Conspiracies are led by a collective of chessmasters, silently working toward their goals over generations. Chessmasters also tend to beoverconfident and usually panic when their "perfect" plans fail. The exception to this is when Magnificent Bastard and Chessmaster overlap, since a Magnificent Bastard is quite good at rebounding from defeat. Fond of a Battle of Wits.
Of course, actual chess ability is implied, and some Chessmasters take it literally, mapping their plans out with an actual chessboard, occasionally with pieces shaped like the main characters. Don't ask how this works, or where they get pieces. This is most likely a result of Smart People Play Chess. Compare the Manipulative Bastard who tends to be more personal and controlling in her/his manipulations. Compare/contrast Opportunistic Bastard as well.
Chessmasters are usually (but not always) non-physical and unsuitable for action due to age, infirm, or simply being a thinker, not a fighter.


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