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Plushbeds is manufacturer-direct / factory-direct only, which is why we can offer the pricing that we do. If our mattresses were in retail stores, they would sell for 50%-70% more for a mattress made with premium quality memory foam. Because you're buying direct from the manufacturer, you're cutting out the middle man, retail markups, etc. You're getting more mattress for your money!
Each memory foam mattress is handmade in our California production facility as orders are received. This is why we can offer so many different firmness options. While we offer a standard selection of our 4 most popular firmness options, we can accommodate virtually any firmness request. By contract, most online companies are resellers and only offer ready-made mattresses their manufacturers' provide to them.
Every PlushBeds memory foam mattress arrives fully assembled. Just take it out of the box and enjoy.
Yes, on queen and king size mattresses, we can customize each side of your mattress with a different firmness. Please call 1-888-449-5738 and any one of our mattress specialists can assist you in customizing your order.
Yes, higher quality memory foam mattresses with higher densities will weigh more than inferior memory foam mattresses found at big box & local mattress stores. Weight is an indication of the quality of the higher density materials used. While the weight of each memory foam mattress is listed on the overview tab, the average weight of our memory foam mattresses is as follows:
|Twin XL
|80 lBS
|Cal King
Memory foam and latex may seem similar at first glance, both are responsive foam bedding options designed to support your body without the use of traditional inner springs.
PlushBeds natural latex and memory foam mattresses are both excellent for pressure relief, and can be customized for comfort and firmness levels. The main difference between our memory foam and natural latex products is that natural latex being a foam rubber is naturally more resilient (springs back immediately when pressure is released); on the other hand, memory foam has a slightly slower recovery time.
Also, although our memory foam mattresses and our natural latex mattress are both GreenGuard Gold certified for low VOC's, our 100% natural latex mattresses are completely natural, an impossibility with memory foam, as memory foam is by definition a man-made product. As mattresses go, neither memory foam nor natural latex is necessarily "better" than the other; it simply comes down to preference.
Each PlushBeds natural latex and memory foam bedroom mattress product includes free shipping and a 100-night sleep trial with free returns.
Our memory foam mattresses have far less motion transfer than traditional innerspring mattresses. Our memory foam mattresses are designed to absorb your movement and shift back to its original position when you move, but the motion remains localized. The cells beneath your body compress and expand individually. A quality memory foam mattress on a quality mattress foundation can give you most still, peaceful sleep you've ever had.
The pressure relieving feel of memory foam is one of the most delectable in the mattress industry. Its unique customizability makes it ideal for a wide range of sleepers. Whether you are a stomach sleeper who likes a firm mattress or a side sleeper who wants to sink into your bed, you'll find the unique responsiveness of in our memory foam collection to be a innerspring mattress alternative that relieves pressure and aligns your spine-so you sleep deeply and wake refreshed.
Yes, all of our memory foam is poured in California and our memory foam mattresses are handmade by our skilled craftsmen as orders are received in our California production facility.
Heavenly Plush - Optimized for maximum pressure relief. Best if you're a side sleeper or you prefer a softer mattress that cradles you.
Posture Plush - Firmer with more support. Best if you're a stomach or back sleeper & prefer a firmer mattress without pressure points.
Cool Bliss, Pacific Breeze, Ocean Mist - Optimized to draw heat away from your body to keep you cool. Best for anyone who tends to sleep hot.
Our memory foam mattresses are built with the best materials available and are designed to support weights up to 400 lbs per person.
Each memory foam mattress is hand made by our skilled craftsman as orders are received. From the day your order is received, it typically takes 7-14 days to manufacture & ship your mattress from our California production facility.
While every mattress will have a "new mattress" smell, similar to a new car smell, this is not a strong or harmful odor and will quickly dissipate within a matter of days. PlushBeds' memory foam mattress collection has achieved GreenGuard Gold certification status.
Through rigorous testing GreenGuard certifies our mattresses meet the world's most rigorous, third-party chemical emissions standards with strict low emission levels for over 360 volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. By being certified at the Gold level, our mattresses are certified for sensitive individuals such as children and the elderly.
Through rigorous testing GreenGuard certifies our mattresses meet the world's most rigorous, third-party chemical emissions standards with strict low emission levels for over 360 volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. By being certified at the Gold level, our mattresses are certified for sensitive individuals such as children and the elderly.
Our memory foam mattresses are hypoallergenic, dust mite resistant, mildew and mold resistant, odor free, extremely durable and is not manufactured with any harsh chemicals. With that said, if you plan on having children or pets sleep on your new memory foam mattress, we recommend purchasing a waterproof mattress protector, which will protect your mattress in the event of any accidents.
While our 12" memory foam mattresses contain a 2" layer of natural latex, our 100% natural latex mattresses are completely made from 100% natural latex. Natural latex in the raw material form cost much more than memory foam or other foams, which is why mattresses made completely of 100% natural latex will cost more.
Yes, you can use the same sheets you currently own, providing you are buying a similar sized mattress.
In a simple answer, you're getting more mattress for your money. If you were to see a $2,000 memory foam mattress in a local mattress store, it's typically a $1,000 mattress with a $1,000 markup. There's nothing wrong or unethical about this as this is how the mattress retailer covers their overhead and salespeople's commissions.
When you buy from PlushBeds, you are buying directly from the manufacturer. Our knowledgeable mattress specialists are manufacturer's reps and are on salary, not commission, meaning you'll never be pressured into buying. We can use higher quality materials (such as 100% natural latex in your memory foam mattress) to create a better quality, more durable mattress. Because we do not sell through local stores, we do not need to build in the same margins that our competitors do.
Normally, buying online would come with higher risk as you are buying without trying, however our 100 night zero-risk trial allows you buy one of our mattresses & try it for 100 nights completely risk free. If you don't fall in love with it, you can return it for a complete refund; we'll even pay the return shipping costs.
While each of our PlushFoam™ memory foam mattresses are designed with an open-cell structure, which improves the airflow by 95% over traditional memory foams (and dissipates heat and moisture 3x faster), our Cool Bliss™ gel foam memory foam mattress allows an even cooler sleep (by approximately 2-4 degrees) owing to our gel-infused bead technology.
As our GEL memory foam is compressed, the gel beads coalesce, resulting in a smooth shift from Viscoelastic (memory foam) properties to pure gel properties. In the transition, there is a combined Gel+Visco response producing a Variable Support Factor. Greater compression brings greater support and the result is superior comfort without the traditional memory foam "bottom-out" under heavy loads. Additionally, The integration of memory foam and gel results in a much wider temperature performance range. This unique property means that PlushBeds gel memory foamwill provide great pressure relief and comfort through a very wide range of home temperatures resulting in more uniform comfort in both cool and warm environments.
PlushBeds natural latex and memory foam mattresses are both excellent for pressure relief, and can be customized for comfort and firmness levels. The main difference between our memory foam and natural latex products is that natural latex being a foam rubber is naturally more resilient (springs back immediately when pressure is released); on the other hand, memory foam has a slightly slower recovery time. Also, although our memory foam mattresses and our natural latex mattress are both GreenGuard Gold certified for low VOC's, our 100% natural latex mattresses are completely natural, an impossibility with memory foam, as memory foam is by definition a man-made product. As mattresses go, neither memory foam nor natural latex is necessarily "better" than the other; it simply comes down to preference. Each PlushBeds natural latex and memory foam bedroom mattress product includes free shipping and a 100-night sleep trial with free returns.
PlushBeds is unique in this aspect of our memory foam mattresses. Most memory foam mattress manufacturers simply have a top layer (or layers) of memory foam, supported underneath by another thicker layer of support foam. PlushBeds recognized that one of the drawbacks of memory foam industrywide is the tendency for the sleeper to experience a sinking feeling due to memory foam becoming softer throughout the night. By adding a natural latex transitional layer to our memory foam mattresses, PlushBeds eliminates this sinking feeling. As natural latex is naturally more resilient than memory foam, it acts as a "back stop" or barrier to prevent a person from descending further in their mattress than they want to. With a PlushBeds memory foam mattress, you can still enjoy the exquisitely soft, floating feel of memory foam without the lack of needed support.
One of the most common complaints of memory foam in general is that it tends to sleep hot. Much of the memory foam sold in the marketplace (especially that imported from China) is close-celled, preventing body heat that is generated throughout the night from having any way to escape. Because PlushBeds memory foam mattresses are made from open-cell memory foam technology, airflow is improved by 95% over traditional memory foams, and heat and moisture are dissipated 3x faster, providing a much cooler sleep experience than with traditional memory foam mattresses.
Some people who have experienced a traditional close-celled memory foam mattress find that response time is delayed, and that shifting positions through the night or getting up out of bed is difficult because of the slow recovery time of lower-grade memory foam. However, PlushBeds open-celled memory foam technology has accelerated recovery, and its 95% greater airflow makes it not as influenced by body heat, which is the leading factor in memory foam becoming soft and mushy, making it difficult to get out of.
Memory foam quality is by and large judged by its density. Lower-grade imported memory foams can be as little as 1.5-2 lbs in density, and while they might feel nice for a while, foams of such low density generally suffer in terms of longevity. Higher grade memory foam is generally 4-5 lbs density. However, any denser provides less of a benefit of the soft, soothing pressure relief that memory foam is so widely known for. Another reason 4-5 lb. memory foam is considered to be of excellent quality is because of its durability. Memory foams of this density tend to last longer and have a lesser chance of becoming compressed over time.
PlushBeds memory foam mattresses utilize 4 lb. density memory foam. Our density hits that "sweet spot", striking the balance of a soft, floating, pressure relieving feel of memory foam, with preserving the ability for the foam to last as long or longer than our 25 year warranty. Because we use a transitional layer of extremely stable and supportive natural latex foam, we are able to to tip the scales of comfort in the sleepers favor by using a "just right" 4 lb. density.
All of PlushBeds PlushFoam™ memory foam mattresses are CertiPur-US©. This ensures that your mattress is made without many of the chemicals that many traditional memory foam and other mattresses contain. Your mattress is free from formaldehyde, PBDE flame retardants, prohibited phthalates, mercury, lead, and other heavy metals, and CF's. As an added benefit, your PlushBeds memory foam mattress is GreenGuard Gold certified, having been tested for over 360 VOC's.
While our memory foam mattresses are designed to be maintenance free, you can feel free to rotate your mattress every 6-12 months or as desired.
Yes, you can use an electric blanket with a PlushBeds memory foam mattress. In general, you should not apply extreme heat directly to any memory foam, however your mattress is protected with a high quality stretch cover which will protect the memory foam.
Yes, each memory foam mattress has a zipper on the bottom where the mattress cover can be removed.
No, it is recommended to spot clean your mattress cover or bring it to a dry cleaners. If bringing it to a dry cleaners, please have them call 1-888-PLUSH-BEDS to confirm their dry cleaning techniques are safe for your cover.
While our memory foam mattresses are designed to be maintenance free, you can feel free to rotate your mattress every 6-12 months or as desired.
Our memory foam mattresses are compression rolled for efficient shipping using a state of the art roll pack machine which fully compresses and seals the mattress, then rolls it into a size which can be shipped via UPS (inferior machines compress and roll simultaneously, which can damage the mattress).
Most orders require little or no assembly, however your shipping notification email will contain information for contacting several local skilled craftsman in your area who can assist with assembly or old mattress removal once your order is delivered, for as little as $99. No more waiting at home for 8 hours for a delivery agent. Use the local ratings and reviews we provide to find the perfect local contractor with greater control over the services you need at the time of your choosing. *In-home services provided by an independent service provider.
Approximately 7-14 days to manufacture, and up to 7 days in transit, depending on where it is being shipped to. Our production facility is in California, so Western US deliveries will be a few days earlier than Eastern US deliveries.
Most of our mattresses are compression rolled and shipped via UPS. If your mattress ships via UPS, you will receive a shipping notification via email on the night your mattress ships. The email will contain your UPS tracking number and your mattress delivery can be tracked on the UPS website.
Our mattresses are securely packaged and can remain in a compressed state for up to 4-6 weeks. Most mattresses will be fine if left compressed for longer than this, however may take longer to fully recover.
If you are interested in purchasing your mattress now, however would like a delayed delivery so the mattress does not have to be compressed for such a long period of time, please call to place your order by phone with one of our mattress specialists. Please call our customer service department with any related questions at 1-888-PLUSH-BEDS.
Once you open the air-tight plastic packaging, your mattress will instantly begin to return to its original shape. This is why it is recommended to position the compressed mattress on your bed before piercing the air-tight plastic. Once removed, your mattress will come to at least 90% of its original shape within minutes and will fully recover with a few hours. You can sleep on your mattress the same night it is opened.
Absolutely, just call 1-888-PLUSH-BEDS and any one of our mattress specialists can arrange a future delivery for you. You can request delivery after a certain date, or before a certain date. We can shoot for delivery on a specific date based on estimated delivery times, however please keep in mind this is not an exact science as once we hand your mattress off to the delivery companies, we have no control over any delays or schedule changes they may experience.
Yes, pricing will vary depending on the requested timeframe and shipping address. Please call 1-888-PLUSH-BEDS and any one of our mattress specialists can provide you with a customized quote.
Most of our deliveries are via UPS, who delivers Monday thru Friday. Some of our private carriers for larger deliveries can deliver on Saturdays for an additional fee, however this varies across the country. If you absolutely require a weekend delivery, please call 1-888-PLUSH-BEDS and one of our mattress specialists will see what they can do to accommodate you.
Need assistance with setting up your new mattress or disposing of your old mattress? Do you need a mattress or furniture moved to a different room? In your shipping notification email we automatically send you information on contacting several local skilled craftsman in your area who can assist with your mattress set up or old mattress removal once your order is delivered, for as little as $99. No more waiting at home for 8 hours for a delivery agent. Use the local ratings and reviews we provide to find the perfect local contractor with greater control over the services you need at the time of your choosing. *In-home services provided by an independent service provider.
From the day your mattress is delivered, you have 100 days to fall in love with it. Because sleeping on premium memory foam has a different feel than most traditional mattresses, we ask that you give your body 30 days to adjust.
If after 30 days you decide that your Plushbeds mattress is not for you, you may return it for a full refund of your purchase price as long as any bonus items received with your mattress are returned in new, unopened condition. You will simply need to box the mattress for shipping and we will arrange for a curbside mattress pickup. Once we receive your mattress, a full refund of the purchase price will be refunded back to you. Should you decide to return your mattress prior to a 30 day trial, or keep any bonus accessories received with your mattress, a $99 convenience fee will be deducted from your refund.
Please note that our 100 night return policy applies to our full collection of memory foam mattresses; foundations, adjustable beds, additional toppers, or accessories purchased with your mattress are not returnable as these are universal items that can be used with any mattress.
Let's say you purchase one of our latex mattresses for $2,399. It's delivered and even after 2-3 months, you decide that memory foam is just not for you (this happens less than 2% of the time). Simply call us to arrange a return and package the mattress for shipping, along with any bonus materials in new, unused condition. We'll send a private carrier for a curbside mattress pickup, who will ship the mattress and bonus materials back to us. Once it's received, you'll receive a full refund of $2,399. If you decide to use or keep the bonus items received with your mattress, you would receive a $2,300 refund ($2,399 minus a flat $99 accessories fee) and the bonus items are yours to keep. Refunds are typically issued within 7 days from the date we receive your mattress and are refunded to the same original payment source.
Unlike several other online mattress companies who boast free or cheap returns, then customarily deduct damage or excessive use fees to cover shipping costs, PlushBeds offers a solid return policy with no tricks or games. We hope you love your PlushBeds mattress as most of our customers do, however, even if our mattress is not for you, we still want you to feel good about your experience with our company.
Of course, there are always rare exceptions to this rule if a mattress comes back destroyed or in a condition where even our 3rd party liquidators reject it, which only happens once or twice a year. The last one, for example, was a mattress returned to us completely cut in half by a customer trying to fit it into his boat who miscalculated his dimensions. In extreme situations such as these, we feel a damage fee would be appropriate.
Our 25 year manufacturer's warranty protects you from manufacturer's defects and excessive body impressions or sagging greater than 0.5" over a 5 year period and 1.0" in years 6-25. Every warranty begins the day your mattress is delivered, and provides full replacement in years 1-10, and pro-rated replacement in years 11-25.
No, however the mattress does have to be on a completely flat surface to validate the warranty. In several warranty inquires, we found customers were placing their new PlushBeds mattress on an old box spring (+7-10 years old), which began to sag due to the weight of the mattress.
Most of our online competitors are resellers and are offering their own warranty, not the warranty from the mattress manufacturer, who typically warranties the mattress for a shorter time period. You should ask for a copy of both warranties, as if the reseller is out of business in the future, it's the manufacturer's warranty you are left with.
Yes, through our relationship with PayPal, we provide their Bill Me Later financing offer, subject to credit approval, which offers no payments + no interest on your order if paid in full within 6 months. To take advantage of this financing offer, simply select Bill Me Later as your payment option on our checkout page.
Box springs are typically designed to hold lighter, traditional mattresses. Our high quality memory foam mattresses are heavier and require more support. Our orthopedic foundations are built from select woods for their strength. Additionally, the slatted structure of the orthopedic foundation provides better breathability for your mattress.
The best way to determine if your current box spring still offers support is to give it a knee test. Place your knee as close to the center as you can and apply pressure. If it sinks less than 2 inches, you might be ok; if it sinks 3+ inches, it should be replaced.
Another consideration is whether you purchased your box spring prior to 2007. In 2007, the CPSC enacted stricter flammability laws (CFR 1633) which all mattresses and box springs are required to pass. Box springs purchased prior to 2007 may not pass current flammability laws and could present a higher risk.
Our Orthopedic Foundation is 8" high. Most customers place the Orthopedic Foundation into a metal bed frame, which traditionally is 6" high. If you need to order a metal bed frame, please call 1-888-PLUSH-BEDS and any one of our mattress specialists can assist you.
Our king size orthopedic foundation is 1 piece that measures 76" x 80" x 8". If you require a 2 piece foundation, please select the split king foundation from the foundations drop down box, which is two pieces, 38" x 80" x 8" each.
Our orthopedic foundation comes unassembled and is very easy to assemble. Using a patented construction process, no additional tools are necessary; you simply connect the pieces per the instructions. Once assembled, it can support weights up to 600lbs. It can also be unassembled just as easily for moving, etc.
Our orthopedic foundation comes unassembled in a box which measures 12" x 12" x 82" and weighs approximately 45lbs.
Absolutely, because of its elastic characteristics, our memory foam mattresses are superior to traditional mattresses for performance on an adjustable bed. Just be sure to measure the surface of your adjustable bed and order the right size mattress to match.
Our adjustable foundation has 5" legs connected to 3" extensions which allow you to completely customize the height of your bed. The height options that come with our foundation is as follows (height of the mattress not included):
|Foundation with 5" legs + 3" leg extensions
|Foundation with 5" legs only
|Foundation with 3" leg extensions only
|Foundation only (fully operational with legs removed)
The foundation is fully functional with or without legs. Just add the height of the mattress to whichever option above best fits your needs to determine the total height.
The weight of our adjustable foundation varies by size, the weights for each size are listed below:
|Twin XL:
|Cal King:
The recommended weight restrictions on our full motion bases are as follows:
|Twin XL:
|Cal King:
This full motion base will structurally support the recommended weight distributed evenly across the head and foot sections. This product is not designed to support or lift this amount of weight in the head or foot sections alone.
|Raises to a full 70 Degrees
|Raises to a full 47 Degrees
As with any product that produces a vibrating motion (optional), it is possible that some pacemakers may interpret this motion as a false sense of movement and/or exercise. This may or may not affect your pacemaker. If you have any concerns, please consult your physician. For information on disabling the vibrating motors, please contact customer service by calling 1-888-PLUSH-BEDS.
Due to their weight, our adjustable beds are shipped separately by private carrier from several different warehouses across the country, depending on your location. We typically aim to have both your mattress and adjustable foundation arrive on approximately the same day, shipping schedules permitting.
If you select our free ground shipping, a private carrier will deliver your adjustable foundation to your house. Due to the weight of the foundation, it is recommended that you make necessary arrangements for assistance to bring the foundation to the room of your choice. The foundation comes fully assembled in the box, just the legs need to be screwed on.
In your shipping notification email we automatically send you information on contacting several local skilled craftsman in your area who can assist with your adjustable bed set up in the room of your choice, including the syncing of your remotes, and will remove all packing materials. No more waiting at home for 8 hours for a delivery agent. Use the local ratings and reviews we provide to find the perfect local contractor with greater control over the services you need at the time of your choosing. *In-home services provided by an independent service provider.
All king and California king adjustable foundations are 2 separate units positioned side by side. No manufacturer makes a single king size unit as it would be too large to fit inside most people's bedrooms.
On a regular king model (76" x 80") or California king model (72" x 84"), both units are positioned side by side, and the frequencies are synced together (similar to a garage door opener) so the head and feet on both sides go up and down simultaneously. This is used when a regular king or California king mattress is placed on top.
On a split king model or split California king model, both units are positioned side by side, and each side operates independently on different frequencies. This is used when a split king mattress (2 twin XLs) is placed on top, so each side can go up and down independently of the other side.
Both styles come with 2 wireless remotes. The main difference being that with the regular king or California king, each remote controls the whole bed, and with the split king model, each remote only controls one side of the bed.
Yes, we offer an extremely high quality adjustable foundation at a very affordable price, however we are also authorized dealers of all major adjustable bed manufacturers and can source most models on the market. If you have a particular adjustable foundation model in mind, please call 1-888-PLUSH-BEDS and any one of our mattress specialists can provide you with a customized quote.


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"My primary responsibility as a teacher is to empower people, not to give them stuff."
Political science professor Don Dugi's proficiency in the classroom can be attributed in part to the fact that he's been teaching most of his life. At the small rural Texas school Dugi attended as a child, each teacher was responsible for two classes, prompting them to ask bright students like Dugi to assist their peers. At St. Mary's University, where he completed his bachelor's and master's degrees, Dugi was influenced by the personalities and techniques of many fine professors whom he encountered in small class settings.
"If your model for teaching is taking a survey course with 600 people and having a talking head professor and teaching assistants who lead your discussions, how can you know anything about effective teaching?" Dugi asks.
Dugi has been practicing effective teaching at Transylvania since 1975. His expertise was recognized in 2003 when he was named Kentucky Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
In Dugi's classroom, students are not passive learners, sitting silently and absorbing what their professor says. Assignments and discussions compel students to take an active role in their own education.
"One of the old models for teaching is the jug model, where students are viewed as vessels to be filled by someone else," says Dugi. "I think that's totally bogus. People are going to learn more when you help them own it rather than when you just give them stuff."
Dugi's influence on his students reaches far beyond the classroom. His month-long workshop to prepare students for the law school admissions test and application process has helped Transylvania students gain admission to top law schools, including Harvard, Stanford, Duke, and Columbia. Every student that Transylvania recommends to law school is accepted.
Additionally, Dugi has served as Student Government Association advisor, sponsor for both the College Democrats and College Republicans, and supervisor of Transylvania's legislative internship program.
Fellow faculty members also have benefited from Dugi's leadership, most notably through his three-year Bingham-Young Professorship, which created opportunities for faculty members to investigate the concept of race as both an intellectual and pedagogical concern. The program ultimately influenced both individual teaching and course offerings.
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We are a first time user so please bare with us.
We are a multi faceted company with several focuses all within the training and development market.
The first part of what we do is act as the Master Distributor for the Australia/New Zealand market for a company that develops a series of assessment tools (laymen's terms personality profiles, but we don't use that terminology as it is not correct). This business has us working with internal Human Resources, Learning & Development and Organisational Development professionals for larger organisations as well as external trainers, coaches and consultants to help them use our assessment tools in their training initiatives in their organisations (internal) and for their clients (external).
Our main job as the master distributor is to develop and protect the market for our tools in Australia/NZ and to build a distribution network of trainers, coaches and consultants.
With this in mind there are several things we do, all centred around people and getting the most out of relationships.
Our main target audience consists of 2 primary groups which we call internal and external:
Internal - These are professionals who work within larger organisations in the capacity of Human Resources, Learning and Development, Training, Recruitment and Organisational Development.
External - these are trainers, coaches and consultants that companies hire to work with their company to select and develop the people in their organisation.
Typically these audiences are "people people" they like things that are bright and vibrant. A core message we want to get access is that our business is about people and helping them discover themselves and how to be happy, productive and get what they want.
We are looking to rebrand our business, we have recently changed the focus of our business to focus on the profiling tools and accreditation programs we offer and we plan to rebrand as such. The first stage of this is to design a new logo, then stationary, then a style guide, then a new website. So we are asking you to design the future of our business.
Our website right now does not reflect who we are but have a look anyway to get a feel of our past http://www.dtssydney.com.
We like logos (and over all styles) that are softer colours for example we prefer a dark grey to black. have a look at http://www.DISCaccreditation.com.au for examples. We like the idea of a "clean look" i.e. white space is important, not too much going on - simple is best.
I have uploaded some sample designs in a PDF and additional information and some covers of books we have in the market. The designs in the PDF are things we did inhouse but not suite there - we like the idea of the logo incorporating a person as this is a focus of our business. Historically our colours have been a purple, grey and black (see old logo in attachment) but please feel free to experiment with colours and provide options.
The files we will require are:
Final files we need supplied are layered .PSD (we have CS5) - samples in JPEG
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
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Office 2013 is currently in beta or Preview as Microsoft calls it, and is available to the public as well as MSDN and TechNet subscribers. I recently installed it on a fresh Windows 8 system, and didn't include all of the programs that the suite offers. When you start the installation, choose the Custom option to install only the programs you need.
After you've done a custom install of Office, you might find later that you need another program offered in the suite. Here's how to add them in Office 2013. For this article I'm using Office Professional Plus 2013 Preview, but the process is virtually the same for all versions.
Kick off the Office 2013 installer again, just like you did when you first installed it. After the initial splash screens, you'll see the following windows. Select Add or Remove Features and click Continue.
On the next screen click the dropdown menu next to the program(s) you want to add. Here I 'm adding Outlook 2013. Click Run from My Computer then Continue.
Now wait while the program(s) are configured and installed.
Success! Close out of the complete windows and restart any Office programs that may have been running.
Now you'll find the new program icons in the Start menu or Start screen on Windows 8. In Windows 8, the first thing I do is pin the new Office program to the desktop taskbar from the Start screen.
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Becky Bastain needs a new logo for her home staging business as part of a redesign of her image and website.
Becky offers professional service to her clients that help them to sell their homes for more. Giving the nature of the work the logo needs to be clean and attractive.
Logo should be innovative yet professional. Not too web 2.0... but this is not the 90's anymore either.
One option is to use a caricature of Becky as part of the design... we have not created this caricature yet... but you can use this one and we can get replace Sarah with Becky later.
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"Home staging is the act of preparing a private residence prior to going up for sale in the real estatemarketplace. The goal of staging is to sell a home quickly, and for themost money possible by attracting the highest amount of potentialbuyers. Staging focuses on improving a property to make it appeal tothe largest number of buyers by transforming it into a welcoming,appealing, and attractive product for sale. Many people believe thatstaging raises the value of a property by way of reducing the home'sflaws, depersonalizing, decluttering, cleaning, improving conditionitems, and landscaping. For vacant homes, rental furniture is used tocreate a living space the buyer could "see" themselves in. Properlyexecuted staging leads the eye to attractive features while minimizingflaws."
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DARTMOUTH — A pair of UMass Dartmouth graduate students have completed a townwide sustainability report based on rigorous international standards, possibly achieving a national first.
DARTMOUTH — A pair of UMass Dartmouth graduate students have completed a townwide sustainability report based on rigorous international standards, possibly achieving a national first.
"We said 'Great, let's do something that will be memorialized forever,'" said David Gagne, who is finishing a master's in public policy and prepared the report alongside Robert Gagne, an MBA student, for a corporate social responsibility class.
The pair produced the report, done to Global Reporting Initiative standards, with more than 70 metrics ranging from efforts to purchase fuel-efficient town vehicles to creating new bike paths. The high number of subjects qualified it as an A-level report, a GRI's most thorough rating, David Gagne said.
The nonprofit GRI, based in Amsterdam, lays out a framework for organizations to conduct a thorough accounting of how sustainable they are, according to its website.
The 33-page report identified successes such as a drop in municipal water and electricity costs. It commended a number of initiatives such as the SouthCoast Bikeway — a project seeking to paint bicycle lanes throughout town — and the town's new automated recycling collection program as advances toward a more sustainable community.
The results were not all positive, however, and Select Board members pounced on the inclusion of the town's organizational chart, which they said shows how chaotic Dartmouth's municipal structure is.
The GRI report is possibly the first conducted for a town, said UMD business professor Adam J. Sulkowski, the Gagnes' instructor. Sulkowski said the report shows Dartmouth is being innovative in adopting a best practice from private industry.
"They might be ahead of a lot of organizations in terms of realizing that taking a pragmatic, full-spectrum evaluation of their performance could be the secret ... to longer term strategies that allow all stakeholders to thrive," he said.
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This Is Your Brain on Poverty: What Science Tells Us About Poverty
Saturday, 22 February 2014 09:19 By Christian Exoo and Calvin F. Exoo, Truthout | Op-Ed
Poverty has been identified as a causal factor in lower IQ and psychiatric disorders. What can this tell us about public policy and the minimum wage?
Talking about poverty and inequality is all the rage these days. President Obama wants to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who delivered the official response to the State of the Union address, said that the problem isn't "income inequality, but the real gap we face today is one of opportunity inequality." Rand Paul has offered that we need to stop giving money to unwed mothers, and David Brooks has recently written two columns about inequality, the first saying that poverty and inequality have nothing to do with each other and will you please stop talking, please; the second brushed Brooks' solutions with the thin veneer of science - mentioning "prefrontal cortexes" and "cortisol levels" - and offered a litany of solutions to treat the symptoms of child poverty ("students can't control their impulses, can't form attachments, don't possess resilience and lack social and emotional skills") without ever quite understanding that instead of treating the symptoms, it might be easier to just cure the disease.
Research has only recently been able to identify poverty as a causal factor (rather than merely correlational) in debilitating medical conditions that leave people sick, unable to work and unable to think - all factors that then perpetuate poverty, leaving the poor trapped in a vicious biological cycle.
So what can actual science (not Brooks' buzzword-laden version of it) tell us about poverty? What are its effects and how is it perpetuated? And if we did decide to end poverty, what would it look like, and what are the potential gains for our society?
If you're a child born into a poor household, you're more likely to exhibit psychological symptoms than if you were born to a non-poor household - symptoms that are a direct result of being born poor. (That's the impulse control, attachment and resilience that Brooks was talking about.) How do we know this? In 1993, a group of researchers started an eight-year longitudinal study of children in the Great Smoky Mountains, a range of peaks along the North Carolina-Tennessee border. One thousand four hundred twenty children were recruited - 25 percent Native American, 7.5 percent black and the rest white - and given psychiatric exams annually. Unsurprisingly, the children from poor families were found to have problems, about 60 percent more than their middle-class counterparts.
Then something interesting happened. The Eastern Band of Cherokee who live in the region opened a casino and in 1996 - exactly halfway through the study - every member of the tribe started receiving income. It wasn't much - the annual payout increased each year, hitting an apex of $6,000 before taxes in 2001, with children's money going straight to a trust fund - but it made a big difference. The rate of conduct and oppositional defiant disorders in (now formerly) poor children dropped to that of children who had never experienced poverty. Those children were less likely to commit a crime and more likely to graduate high school. And by age 21, they had almost an additional year of schooling - all strong markers of upward economic mobility.
When a single behavioral condition in a child, like ADHD (which is almost twice as likely to appear in poor children as in the general population), is estimated to cost (for treatment, educational adjustments, parents missing work and juvenile justice) $14,576 per child per year, doesn't $6,000 seem like a bargain? A recent New York Times article noted that amphetamines often are given to poor children who don't meet the diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorder, with almost 20 percent of doctors nationwide not following the guidelines set by the American Academy of Pediatrics. But these children aren't sick - they're merely poor - and are exposed to the side effects of amphetamines - stunted growth and stimulant-induced psychosis - as an unlucky consequence of social position.
But what would raising the minimum wage do for adults? A recent study of Indian sugar cane farmers might suggest the answer. Economist Anandi Mani and her co-authors gave a range of cognitive tests to Indian sugar cane farmers pre- and post-harvest. The crucial distinction comes from a point of sugar cane farming. Just before the harvest, the farmers are largely waiting for their crops to ripen, having little work to do. Thus, while they aren't necessarily working harder, they are much poorer than in the days after the harvest. The scholars found that the cognitive losses produced by pre-harvest poverty were equivalent to 13 IQ points, the same loss as losing a full night of sleep or being a chronic alcoholic.
Two of the co-authors of the piece, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir, have, in their book-length examination of their research, proposed a metaphor for the effect - bandwidth. The human brain has a finite amount of bandwidth. If one is forced to spend that worrying about poverty, it will necessarily have less capacity to spend on other tasks. Indeed, as other studies have shown, the poor often fail to take prescribed medications, fail to use preventative health care less and are less productive workers than their more-comfortable counterparts.
The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013, which proposes raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour, would leave a full-time minimum-wage worker with (accounting for two weeks vacation a year) an extra $5,700 per annum - almost the exact amount seen in the Great Smoky Mountains study.
The minimum wage raise is expected to affect 27.8 million people. If the bill passes, we can expect to see high-school graduation rates rise and youth crime rates drop, giving us all a safer society and a more productive economy.
But let's think a little larger for moment. There are 49.7 million Americans currently living below the poverty line. Going back to the sugar cane study, we can expect each of them to gain 13 IQ points if the gap between their needs and their means to meet them were somehow bridged. If each of them were to have their situation somehow ameliorated - say, by giving them $4,000 per year - we would collectively gain 646,100,000 IQ points. That's the equivalent of 4,038,125 Einsteins. The Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 will lift 900,000 people above the poverty threshold. If the findings from the sugar cane study hold true, that's a collective gain of 11,700,000 IQ points. What could we do with that much extra brain power? Maybe we could cure cancer; we could make inroads against diabetes. Heck, maybe we could even end poverty.
Knowing this, whose policy proposals do these findings favor - the liberals who argue that social structures perpetuate poverty and that government must alter those structures? Or the conservatives, who argue that the attributes of the poor - their indolence and ignorance - make and keep them poor? Is it circumstances, or personal deficiencies that cause poverty? Both are implicated, but the circumstances come first - poverty causes deficiency and illness, which may then play a role in perpetuating poverty.
Understanding what's cause and what's effect also makes the policy implications clear: The causal chain begins with indigence, so start there. Extend those unemployment benefits, raise that minimum wage, maintain those SNAP payments. If you'd rather teach a man to fish than give him one, then by all means allow him the capacity to learn.
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A Functional Magnetic Imaging Study in First-Degree Relatives of Suicide Completers
Fabrice Jollant, M.D., Ph.D., Douglas Mental Health Institute, McGill University
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Bio: Dr. Jollant received his medical degree in 2004 and his doctorate in 2007 from le Université Montpellier I in France. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and McGill Group for Suicide Research at McGill University in Montréal.
Research Categories: Survivors of suicide, neuroimaging
Abstract: Studying the family members of individuals who died by suicide helps us understand more about genetic vulnerability for risk factors for suicide by comparing them with individuals with a family history of depression and no suicide and those with no family history of either depression or suicide. Dr. Jollant will use the brain imaging technique known as fMRI to discover whether cognitive and emotional vulnerability traits are shared within families. During brain imaging, participants will be asked to respond to faces expressing various emotions including anger, sadness, and happiness, and they will also perform the Iowa Gambling Task that measures an individual's thinking flexibility and impulse control. Dr. Jollant expects that family members of those who died by suicide will perform differently on these two tasks and evidence differences in brain function.
Impact: To test the ability of these cognitive and emotional tasks to identify individuals who may be at risk for suicide and to use that knowledge to inform interventions.


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There is a new storefront in downtown Excelsior with a familiar name: "Don Stolz Productions." Yes, that Don Stolz, the man identified for seven decades with the Old Log Theater. Stolz still keeps his hand in show business, including a concert series on Mondays at the Old Log, where he regularly welcomes audiences.
"He keeps asking me, 'When can I introduce you as the new owner?' " said Greg Frankenfield. "I told him that's his night, the Monday night concerts."
Soon though, most every night will be Frankenfield's night as he prepares to launch the Old Log, the Twin Cities' oldest theater and a west metro landmark, into a new era. He's pumping $500,000 into technical systems, the restaurant, the 11 acres on which the theater sits near Lake Minnetonka and the auditorium. He's upgraded the ticketing system and promises programming that, while familiar to Old Log audiences, offers new titles and such fresh faces as Stacia Rice, Ann Michels and James Denton.
Frankenfield, CEO and co-founder of Magenic Technologies, has hired longtime friend Kent Knutson as artistic director for the theater. They have seen more than 200 actors in the past three weeks as they prepare for a five-show season to open Sept. 5. During a recent interview, Knutson said he will direct all five, and Frankenfield wondered about that workload.
"I want to direct them all," Knutson said.
In addition to his new duties at Old Log, Knutson will continue as a consultant at the Minnetonka Arts Center, where he has directed high school and community shows for more than a decade.
Frankenfield's other primary partner in the enterprise is his wife, Marissa, who wants to transform the restaurant and grounds to attract banquets, weddings and casual dining. She has enlisted David Shea, perhaps the Twin Cities' premier restaurant architect, to help freshen the interiors.
Eventually, the Frankenfields want to create a destination eatery that has its own identity. As Knutson grumbled under his breath about all these competing activities, Marissa Frankenfield smiled and reminded him, "The theater has to be primary."
Old, new guard
Frankenfield consummated his long courtship of the Old Log by signing a purchase agreement in early May. He asked two of Don's sons — set designer and builder John Stolz and stage manager Tim Stolz — to stay with the new company. Tim Stolz is serving as head of operations.
The Old Log, located in Greenwood, has struggled in the past several years, but there was no debt when Frankenfield paid cash for the property, he said. The mailing list had 5,000 corporate clients and 45,000 ticket buyers from the past 10 years. Frankenfield said records showed that ticket sales hit about $1.1 million in 2012. The theater indulges his passion for drama; he has no illusions about making lots of money at Old Log.
"Their goal is to create art," said Knutson of the Frankenfields.
The vision is to broaden the repertoire, but make shows that appeal to Old Log's bread and butter — groups that come in by bus. In addition, for the first time, Old Log will offer season subscriptions, made easier and possible by the new Vendini ticketing program.
Also key will be playing off the success Knutson has had with the school and community productions at Minnetonka, which sell about 30,000 tickets annually.
"There is a large audience in the west metro," Knutson said.
The west metro is home to three of the four major for-profit theaters that operate in the Twin Cities (the Brave New Workshop is the fourth). The Old Log will compete with Chanhassen Dinner Theatres and the Plymouth Playhouse for roughly the same demographic group, right down to the bus business. Hence, Frankenfield and Knutson see the need to expand audience geographically and through individual sales.
"Success will depend on individual ticket buyers and subscribers" as opposed to bus groups, said Frankenfield.
First season ready
The Old Log opens Sept. 5 with "Cowgirls," a musical about classical musicians who find themselves booked at a honky-tonk bar. Knutson's cast includes Seri Johnson, Andrea Wollenberg and Summer Hagen. The change in programming is most evident with the second offering of the season, "Rancho Mirage," which runs Nov. 7-Dec. 7. Former Minnesota playwright Steven Dietz wrote the script about three couples in a dinner party that gets pretty honest — along the lines of "God of Carnage" or "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" A regional premiere, the production stars Denton, the erstwhile hunk from "Desperate Housewives," along with Rice, Michels, Mo Perry and David Mann.
Knutson indulges his love for musicals with "A Year With Frog and Toad," for the holidays, Nov. 18-Dec. 29. "Almost, Maine," a play that is among the nation's most-produced shows, will try to capture the midwinter audience, Jan. 23-March 29. Carolyn Pool and Natalie Wass are in the cast. The season will conclude April 4-May 17 with the familiar "Steel Magnolias." The cast includes Jody Briskey, Greta Grosch and Laura Rudolph.
Knutson said the programming is not all that different from the fare Don Stolz had been offering in recent years, with such productions as "The Dixie Swim Club," "Forever Plaid" and "On Golden Pond." The addition of the two small musicals and the Dietz play are indications of tweaks that he and Frankenfield want to make.
As Greg Frankenfield walked a visitor around to the many buildings on the grounds — including the old log cabin that gives the place its name — he talked about his dreams for this space and that. In many ways, the tour reveals that Don Stolz's imprint remains, with props, sets, furniture and scripts piled high in ancillary buildings. Frankenfield notes the Lake Minnetonka regional bike trail that runs within spitting distance of the property. Would it be possible, he muses, to make the Old Log a trailhead or a stopping point? Are the grounds a good picnic location? he asks.
"It's a little gem in the middle of Greenwood," he said.