1) Or retailers could do like Apple stores do, abolish lines, and give each employee on the floor a handheld card swiper. For many retail models, however, this wouldn't work. But there are probably several retail stores that COULD benefit from this.
Wikipedia gives a much different view of Cherepovets. Interestingly, it may not mean "City of Skulls" at all:
"Among the local historians there have been a lot of debates upon the origin of the word "Cherepovets". According to one of the versions the town supposedly received its name from the word "skull" ("cherep" in Russian). In antiquity there was a pagan sanctuary in honor of God Veles on the hill at the confluence of the Sheksna and the Yagorba. The top of the hill was called "skull". Another version suggests that the word "Cherepovets" originates from the name of the tribe "ves" (????), who inhabited the Sheksna banks. According to some legends, "Cherepovets", in the language of local indigenous Veps, means "Veps' fish hill"."
It's also the center of culture and the arts for region of Vologda Oblast, Russia.
As a graphic designer (and graphic design teacher), I start ALL my designs with pencil and paper, whether they're logos, magazine layouts, websites, etc. (and I have my students do the same.)
This may be good, I don't know. I'm itching to try it, though.
Back when Apple had keynotes at MacWorld Tokyo, Jobs would dress up a bit more—suit and tie, or at bare minimum button-up shirt and tie—probably due to the culture, there.
2) His wife called him on a landline.
http://www.wfaa.com/on-tv/bios/67762962.html
I don't live near either place, but it's possible she does work for both stations.
"Among the local historians there have been a lot of debates upon the origin of the word "Cherepovets". According to one of the versions the town supposedly received its name from the word "skull" ("cherep" in Russian). In antiquity there was a pagan sanctuary in honor of God Veles on the hill at the confluence of the Sheksna and the Yagorba. The top of the hill was called "skull". Another version suggests that the word "Cherepovets" originates from the name of the tribe "ves" (????), who inhabited the Sheksna banks. According to some legends, "Cherepovets", in the language of local indigenous Veps, means "Veps' fish hill"."
It's also the center of culture and the arts for region of Vologda Oblast, Russia.
This may be good, I don't know. I'm itching to try it, though.