Archive for January, 2012

Categories of food-service business customers

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Generation Y. This generation, also tagged the “millennial generation,” the “echo” or the “boomlet” generation, includes those born between 1980 and 2000. Generation Y is the most ethnically diverse
generation yet and is more than three times the size of generation X. They are a prime target for a food-service business. Generation X. Generation X is a label applied to those who were born between 1965 and 1977. This group is known for strong family values.Baby boomers. Born between 1946 and 1964, baby boomers make up the largest segment of the U.S. population. Prominent in this generation are affluent professionals who can afford to visit upscale restaurants and spend money freely.
Empty nesters. This group consists of people in the age range between the high end of the baby boomers and seniors (people in their early 50s to about age 64). Empty nesters typically have grown children who no longer live at home.
Seniors. The senior market covers the large age group of people age 65 and older. Generally, the majority of seniors are on fixed incomes and may not often be able to afford upscale restaurants often,
so they tend to visit family-style restaurants that offer good service and reasonable prices.

The First Academy Awards

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The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1927and 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California. AMPAS presidentDouglas Fairbanks hosted the show. Tickets cost five dollars, 270 people attended the event and the ceremony lasted fifteen minutes. Awards were created by Louis B. Mayer, founder of Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation (at present merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). It is the only Academy Awards ceremony not to be broadcast either on radio or television.
During the ceremony, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards (now commonly referred to as Oscars) in twelve categories. Winners were announced three months before the live event. Some nominations were announced without reference to a specific film, such as for Ralph Hammerasand Nugent Slaughter, who received nominations in the now defunct category of Engineering Effects. Unlike later ceremonies, an actor or director could be awarded for multiple works within a year. Emil Jannings, for example, was given the Best Actor award for his work in both The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command. Moreover, Charlie Chaplin and Warner Brothers each received an Honorary Award.
Winners in competition at the ceremony included Seventh Heaven and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, each receiving three awards, and Wings, receiving two awards. Among its honors, Sunrise won the award for “Unique and Artistic Production,” and Wings won the award for “Outstanding Picture, Production.” In every subsequent Academy Awards, these two awards categories were eliminated, replaced by a single award to honor theBest Picture of the year, usually seen as the Academy’s top prize. In the first year, with no Best Picture award, Sunrise and Wings shared this highest honor, the former for artistic strength, the latter for production quality.

The Automation Softwares

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Automation Software offers automation wizards and commands of its own in addition to providing task recording and re-play capabilities. Using these programs you can record an IT or business task. Then if need be use the editor to edit the task, add new actions to the task, use variables or prompt user for values or even write an automation script from scratch using GUI automation command wizards.
If it provides task recorder capabilities it would be easier for you to record a script and edit it instead of writing a automation script from scratch. Many automation software show thousands of steps for a simple script. Can you figure out what and where to edit if you need to? Is the script easy to read? Having task editing capabilities that is so hard to use that you rather re-record it, is no good, is it? Do a simple test with the automation software you are evaluating, record a simple script, login to a web based email account, see if you can open the task editor and change the password or make few simple modifications. Pick any simple script that you prefer.

Watch “Day of the Dead”

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In 2008, one of the films released is said to be one of the most thrilling and frightening movie ever. Day of the Dead, the third and concluding chapter in George Romero’s zombie trilogy is the most distinctly 1950s-style science fiction version of the lot. Set in Florida, as the film begins the dead have taken over the world, outnumbering humans 400,000 to one. The handful of surviving humans have taken refuge in an underground missile silo and argue and yell at each other like players in a Rod Serling Twilight Zone episode.
Romero’s script, which concerns the last stand against zombie nation by a group of scientists and soldiers holed up in an underground military base, aims for claustrophobic creepiness. Yet a good portion of the film is dulled by endless arguments between the lab rats (who, led by Richard Liberty’s Dr. “Frankenstein” Logan, are experimenting on captured zombies) and the grunts (who want to shoot their way to freedom). Romero has never been much of a visual stylist, but Tom Savini knows his way around gory effects, and the zombies moan — and maim — disgustingly well. Yet even if Day of the Dead doesn’t significantly raise one’s heartbeat, the film’s frosty pessimism about mankind’s future does eventually get under your skin. Dr. Logan’s humane efforts to train Bub (Sherman Howard), a gentle zombie, speaks to humanity’s more noble aspirations, especially considering that — unlike its predecessors, which portrayed the creatures as distinctly inhuman — the film makes clear that the zombies are fundamentally human.
Among the survivors are Sarah (Lori Cardille) — a scientist who is trying to reverse the process whereby the dead turn into flesh-eating, irrational zombies — and Dr. Logan (Richard Liberty) — an out-of-his-mind psychologist who wants to capture the zombies and turn them into domestic help. Things heat up when the military tries to take over the scientific experiments.

The Alienware M14x Gamer Laptop

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The Dell Aienware M14x is a 14-inch notebook designed in typical Alienware fashion, with rugged, impeccable build quality, adorned in custom lighting with a striking design that’s driven by the latest CPU and GPU technologies from Intel and NVIDIA. Here’s the spec sheet rundown for our eval unit.
There’s something about the allure of a gaming notebook. Even mainstream users, not necessarily hellbent on frame rates and decked-out designs, can relate to a powerful notebook with striking good looks. It’s no wonder that products like Asus’ G73 series of notebooks and Alienware’s M series, have been some of the most viewed pages of our mobile computing section here at HotHardware.com. Similarly, Dell’s recent announcement that they were expanding the Alienware M series line, to flesh out 14-inch and 18-inch versions, was met with a fair bit of buzz as well. The 14″ model especially caught our eye, striking a nice size and weight compromise between the soon to arrive 18″ behemoth and the rather svelte M11x we looked at not long ago.
So, of course we reached out to Dell for a review unit and Dell was good enough to respond in short order with their new middleweight contender.