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...mail from management announcing layoffs. He looked around and saw people leaving, carrying boxes. Then his boss called him into the conference room. "Basically it was, 'Sorry, we're going to have to let you go due to sales,'" says Whitfield, 40. He returned to his cubicle with a packet of information about his severance benefits. He dropped it on his desk. He stared at his computer for a few minutes. "Then I just got up and left," he says.(See pictures of people out of work in America...
Salad on-a-stick anyone? I'm serious. Skewered chunks of iceberg lettuce and other fresh veggies served with a salad dressing packet, salad on-a-stick are among the newer, more attention-grabbing (if not bestselling) items designed to appeal to health-conscious fair-goers. Other newer - or newly-rediscovered-and-marketed - "healthy food choices" highlighted on the Fair's website include mixed fruit cups, baked potatoes, corn-on-the-cob, pork chops on-a-stick, turkey tenderloins, shish-ka-bobs, sandwich wraps and veggie corndogs...
...Despite the dominance of digital, Kaps sees a bright future for old-fashioned photography. "More and more people are rediscovering the fascination of Polaroid," he says. "They are seeking the analog adventure. Just opening a film packet - the smell alone has something sensual to it. And the pictures have a certain worth, unlike digital images, where one takes 10,000 pictures of the same event...
...more times with different foods: for one it was a bacon cheeseburger, a chicken sandwich and a fish sandwich, with a veggie burger thrown in later as a ringer; for the other it was fudge-covered Oreos, plus two other types of Oreos, with a 100-cal. Oreo packet later added to the menu. In each case, the folks who rated high in self-control did a good job of making the healthiest choices they could - until a truly healthy option was presented, which is when they fell completely off the wagon...
...packet, whose theme is "Chart Your Own Course," appears to have been designed by the guy who did the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies. Also, like most aspects of "the Fortnight," it seems like way too much money was spent on branding and not enough on substance (we have a wiki...