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Reading, UK, based lighting rental company Blinding Light supplied lighting equipment including trussing and rigging for the BBC's 2010 Proms In The Park event in London's Hyde Park.
Blinding Light won a competitive tender to provide the kit to Mantaplan for the large scale classical and popular music spectacle staged to coincide with the traditional Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. The equipment was specified by lighting designer Anthony Hall (Turbo) who has lit London's Proms In The Park for the last 9 years.
Blinding Light's Patrick Stacey commented, "We were very proud to win such a high profile show and enjoyed working with Turbo and his team enormously". Blinding Light has recently moved to new larger premises, and is now better enabled to provide a far greater level of production and designer support.
"It was a fantastic opportunity to use all our resources within the first few weeks of the move to supply everything needed for this show efficiently and thoroughly" continues Stacey. The project required support from a wide range of suppliers, and in this case, sub hired lighting equipment was sourced through Elstree Light and Power and rigging from Outback.
The key to the lighting design was flexibility as the day after Proms in The Park, the 40 metre wide stage, supplied by Serious, and lighting rig would be used for an Elvis tribute concert, and then a week later, to host an appearance and Prayer Vigil by Pope Benedict XVI.
For The Proms alone the design needed to cover all bases and complement a range of music genres, lighting the BBC Concert Orchestra and a selection of soloists including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Jose Carreras, plus special guests Brian May & Kerry Ellis who really got the party rocking, along with legendary singer/songwriter Neil Sedaka. In addition, the final design also had to provide illumination for the set, designed by Hattie Spice.
Turbo's crew sub hung 6 straight trusses from the roof structure to facilitate above-stage lighting positions, plus 2 upstage/downstage trusses for cable management and some smaller trusses in the centre, specifically for set lighting. Another 4 smaller trusses were rigged towards the edge of the stage, used for hanging side lighting for the downstage areas.
The basic lighting rig building block was a PAR can wash - corrected for the cameras - created using 36 bars of 6, dotted all over the roof space. A selection of these were focussed almost directly downwards and used to section off the orchestra. The moving lights were layered on top of this wash, used for adding prettiness, texturing and effects.
This year the roof had a high trim height and the set a flat floor, so there was plenty of scope for lighting to fill in some of the spaces in between. One of these was upstage of the orchestra, where Turbo strategically placed 14 Vari*Lite V*L3000s on the back of the risers for mid level beam-work. They were joined by another 6 V*L3000s in the air.
The main workhorses of the rig were 36 Martin Professional MAC 2K Performers, used extensively for set illumination below, along with 36 MAC 2K Washes and 36 MAC 2K Profiles arranged alternately on the cross stage bars for maximum coverage.
Turbo was impressed with Clay Paky's Alpha Beam 300s, 8 of which were positioned down the sides of the stage. Across the back, also at high level were 14 CP Alpha Beam 700s, used for punching through tight beams of lighting in the rockier numbers.
Martin 301 LED washes were used on the front truss to produce some interesting twinkly effects into the audience, who were generally lit with nearly 80 8-lites dotted around the auditorium, hung on the delay and video towers, FOH and spotlight platforms, etc. This looked great on the crane camera long shots as it swooped in from the back of the auditorium.
In addition to this show, Turbo had to consider how the rig could be used for the Elvis show the next day and the Pope's address the following weekend when finalising his design. For the Pope's visit, they had to re-position and re-rig some of the trusses.
All the moving lights for Proms In The Park were run on a grandMA full size console, with another running in full tracking backup, operated by Martin Seymour, and connected over a network with 3 NSPs. Turbo ran all the generics off a Road Hog Full Boar, with Arnaud Stephenson (Cookie) operating lights for the Elvis show.
Turbo was really impressed with Blinding Light. It was the first time he'd worked with the company, and comments that their attention to detail and commitment to supply exactly what was asked for made it "very easy" for him and his team on site.


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Definition of Parlays
1. Noun. (plural of parlay) ¹
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1. Reports of Some Cases Adjudged in the Courts of the Lord Chancellor, Master by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Charles Purton Cooper (1841)
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2. Advanced Components for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Workshop by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"GM calculates the average number of times a car rides over severe road conditions during real-world driving, then parlays the results into tests. ..."
3. CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis by DIANE Publishing Company, Mary S. McAuliffe (1995)
"... and Castro. would result Rusk continued that more talks with Khrushchev/Ln extended parlays and therefore he recommended against such an approach. ..."
4. Lady of La Mancha by Lawrence Murray, Alessandra LaRocca (2002)
"The longer he parlays or fights Henry, the more men Felipe can race here." While that happy-again mother was preparing their departure. ..."

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Researchers have used a new approach to identify 33 genes that affect the development of autism and related disorders. Their research suggests that certain changes in these genes predispose to the development of autism, while different changes predispose to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia.
"This is a first step in what will be a long journey toward understanding genes underlying the pathophysiology of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders and developing new clinical treatments," says senior author James Gusella, Ph.D., director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Human Genetic Research and a professor of neurogenetics at Harvard Medical School.
The study, appearing online today in the journal Cell, was supported in part by a grant from Autism Speaks, as well as grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Simons Foundation. It involved researchers from 15 institutions in three countries, including Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Broad Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
By sequencing the genomes of individuals with abnormal chromosomes and neurodevelopmental abnormalities, the researchers identified the precise points where each gene's DNA was altered. "As a result, we were able to discover a series of genes that have a strong individual impact on these disorders," Gusella says. "We also found that many of these genes play a role in diverse clinical situations – from severe intellectual disability to adult-onset schizophrenia – leading to the conclusion that these genes are very sensitive to even subtle perturbations."
Gusella and his team looked at gene changes known as balanced chromosome abnormalities (BCAs). These involve the movement of entire DNA segments either within the same chromosome or in exchange with segments in other chromosomes with minimal loss or gain of genetic materials. As a result they leave the overall size of the chromosomes unchanged. Several years ago Gusella and colleagues identified developmentally important genes by investigating BCAs. More difficult was the task of identifying where BCAs "break" and disrupt genes.
To get a clearer view of the potential impact of BCAs on autism, the research team took advantage of a new approach developed by Michael Talkowski, Ph.D., the lead author of the Cell paper. It allows sequencing the genome in a way that detects BCA breakpoints. The whole procedure can be accomplished in less than two weeks rather than the many months previously required for full-genome sequencing.
In this study, it associated autism and related disorder with 33 disrupted genes, only 11 of which had been previously linked to autism.
As they compiled their results, the researchers were struck by how many of the BCA-disrupted autism genes had been previously associated with psychiatric disorders. Their findings suggest that, though many of the same genes were involved in the development of different conditions, they were altered in different ways when associated with psychiatric disorders versus neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.
"This research underscores the complexity of genetic contribution to these conditions," says Andy Shih, Ph.D., Autism Speaks vice president for scientific affairs. "They also underscore how at the molecular level, autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders may have commonalities with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, whose symptoms emerge in adolescence and early adulthood. Genetic findings such as these are vital for deepening our understanding of autism, with important implications for how we think about and pursue the development of new treatments and possible prevention."
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text: Tatiana Blass constructs complex abstract narratives with her performances, paintings, videos, and installations. For Penelope (2011), she took over an entire chapel and its courtyard with red carpet and yarn, leaving viewers to discern whether a loom in the apse is converting the chaotic tangles into the ordered textile, or vice versa. For her series "Half of the Speech on the Ground," (2008-10), Blass altered musical instruments and rendered them silent: part performance and part sculpture (some of the pieces were fully realized by having musicians attempt to play them), these works aimed to explore the tension between construction and deconstruction, form and function. "The role of the artist is to provide some stimulation for new perspectives and reflection about the world," she has said. "I think that it is to create a strange sensation, to create experiences other than day-to-day."


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On September 8, 2009 in exactly at 17 hours GMT injured in an accident in the Alps climber Yvan Kojhuharov and an incredible team of friends consisting of some of the best Bulgaria's climbers went along highest peak in Western Europe - Mont Blanc ( 4'810 m asl )
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In a wheelchair climbing Mont Blanc.. Leaving the difficulties and dangers, heavy ascent and descent of more than 1'500 m altitude displacement in a complicated and difficult terrain, the cold, wind and everything else in this challenge there is something symbolic: reaching the highest peak in the Alps by man suffered from these same mountains.
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Pro Tip: Don't Email Your Whole List
Emails go bad. Email lists go stale. These are the simple realities of email programs. Due to job changes, people signing up for new personal accounts and abandoning old accounts, about 30% of email addresses go bad each year.
Email's New Reality
As the New Year starts, many campaigns are slowly coming out of their slumber, dusting off old email lists and getting ready for the 2014 elections. Reality is the email landscape isn't the same as it was in 2012 or before. In the last year, there have been changes in how deliverability works and the way email is received.
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Friends – I'm elated to tell you that NationalField is becoming part of NGP VAN. I imagine some of you are saying, "It's about damn time!" or "Duh!" And, frankly, that's what got us to this point. As we discussed joining forces, we realized how natural it was to fold the NationalField tool that makes organizing teams more efficient into the company that already serves most Democratic and Progressive organizing teams through our VAN product.
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As an Account Executive, it is always great to see your clients doing well. Recently, we noticed one of my clients using my favorite tool to do something awesomely creative and fun. In the holiday spirit I wanted to share this neat trick one campaign is using to collect some treats. By treats I mean donations. Stay with me.
State Rep. Brian Sims was the first openly gay candidate to be elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. It is a big point of pride for me to count him as one of my clients because of who he is and what he stands for.
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Cars is still watched daily in my house. A month ago I was ready to blow my brains out, but I've gotten past it. I've gotten past putting hits out on Steve Jobs (God forbid!) and the entire Pixar staff. I've come to some uncertain peace with it - it is just part of the background for me and Jack - who, while he insists that it sometimes be on, no longer sits to watch it much anymore. He plays with his own cars while it plays behind him.
The pecan tree is golden. I have to mow the lawn this weekend, but then that obligation can be set aside for three months.
I am just beginning to read Gogol's Dead Souls and Cardinal Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua.
I am still writing, but it appears I only managed an average of two pages per day, five days a week, this past month. Strange how quickly it moves at some points and how it trudges at others. Regardless I'm halfway done with my first draft, if the story cooperates. This morning during my walk I was able to get through some obstacles in the plot and am excited to get that down on paper. Before, the story seemed to be converging on some premature closure, since I didn't see the next move, and now it has opened up before me again. Sigh. The most important thing as a writer, I have discovered, is simply to write. It is in being faithful. How's that for an elementary truth that has taken me entirely too long to learn? Apparently my slowness in learning (and, even still, knowing) is due to my abhorrence of having to wait (as a story slowly develops on the best of days), and my distaste for discipline. As well as my neurotic fear of failure. Other than that, I'm golden.


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Join Alderman Maldonado, Chicago Public Library Commissioner Brian Bannon, and Oakton Community College Emeritus Program Instructor and Saul Bellow Expert, Richard Reeder to dedicate an honorary street sign on the southwest corner of Augusta and Rockwell, in memory of Saul Bellow, Chicago's only Nobel Prize winner for literature. The event will be at 11:30 a.m. Monday, June 11, 2012, a day after Bellow's 97th birthday.
Saul Bellow's formative years, from 1924 to 1934 were lived in Humboldt Park, mainly in an apartment at 2629 W. Augusta in the 26th Ward. The name of the protagonist in possibly Bellow's greatest, novel, The Adventures of Augie March, was a nickname derived from Augusta Boulevard.
In 1976, Bellow became the only Chicago writer ever to win the Nobel Prize for fiction. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for fiction three times and was also the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize.
When Bellow was nine, his family moved to the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago, the city that was to form the backdrop of many of his novels. Bellow's father, Abraham, was an onion importer. He also worked in a bakery, as a coal delivery man, and as a bootlegger.
Bellow grew up as an insolent slum kid, a "thick-necked" rowdy, and an immigrant from Quebec. As Christopher Hitchens describes it, Bellow's fiction and principal characters reflect his own yearning for transcendence, a battle "to overcome not just ghetto conditions but also ghetto psychoses."


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By Brian Palmer
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, September 14, 2010; HE01
Take a mental stroll through the streets of Anytown, U.S.A. City hall is on your left, the movie theater on your right. Smell the delights from the bakery. And in the distance, there's the gentle steam plume billowing from the cooling tower of the miniature nuclear reactor that powers the quaint little burg.
Not your idea of Americana? Wait a decade or two. The government and its private partners are developing reactors that one day might power your home town.
Not long ago, siting a nuclear reactor anywhere near a population center would have been unthinkable. While the 1979 Three Mile Island reactor meltdown didn't cause any deaths or injuries, it soured Americans on nuclear energy. Construction of new reactors came to an abrupt halt. The dramatic Chernobyl meltdown in 1986, meanwhile, created widespread fear that another accident could be even more disastrous.
Then along came carbon dioxide. Writing in The Post in 2006, Patrick Moore, a founding member of Greenpeace who sailed on the group's first protest against nuclear weapons testing in 1971, noted: "More than 600 coal-fired electric plants in the United States produce 36 percent of U.S. emissions -- or nearly 10 percent of global emissions -- of CO2, the primary greenhouse gas responsible for climate change. Nuclear energy is the only large-scale, cost-effective energy source that can reduce these emissions while continuing to satisfy a growing demand for power."
Greenpeace considers Moore a turncoat, and he's not the only one to be tossed out of the environmental establishment for pro-nuclear heresy. Hugh Montefiore, an Anglican cleric who was a stalwart in the movement, was forced to resign from the board of Friends of the Earth in 2004 for advocating nuclear power as a tool to combat global warming.Back in the mainstream
Today, supporting nuclear power as a green alternative is quite mainstream. In his 2010 State of the Union address, President Obama advocated "building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants." In February, the administration offered to guarantee a loan for construction of the first nuclear plant to be built in the United States since the 1970s. The same month, billionaire Bill Gates gave his backing to the nuclear power renaissance, investing $50 million in TerraPower, a nuclear power research company that is hoping to design a new generation of reactors.
The question for many has shifted from whether to build nuclear plants to where and how. And increasingly there's interest in the idea of mini reactors: power plants that provide energy for only a small area.
When nuclear scientists talk about the size of a reactor, they're talking about maximum electrical output, not square footage. The world's largest reactors generate 1,455 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 1.5 million households. A program being run by the Department of Energy is focusing on models that would produce about 300 megawatts, enough for Knoxville, Tenn., according to Dan Ingersoll of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. They may go even smaller, producing 50-megawatt reactors that could power small towns or even individual work sites, such as mines, that may be located far from the main energy grid.Think locally
There are virtues to local reactors. If a reactor powers only one community, it can be built close to the end users. Between 4 and 10 percent of the electricity produced by U.S. power plants vanishes as it travels through power lines on its way to users. Building smaller plants and putting them closer to population centers could cut that figure significantly.
And doing so can save on construction costs as well. "It's getting very difficult and very expensive to lay new transmission lines," says Ingersoll. "This offers the possibility of providing isolated communities with power."
Believe it or not, living near a nuclear reactor may be safer than living near a coal-fired plant, which spews a host of dangerous chemicals into the air. The only visible emissions from a reactor is steam; the spent fuel is more of a byproduct. (More on that later.).
What about radiation, you ask? The ash coming from a typical coal plant carries plenty of radiation: According to some estimates, it carries 100 times more radiation into the surrounding area than a nuclear reactor producing the same amount of energy.
Smaller reactors might also be cheaper than their bigger siblings, according to Ingersoll. It costs a lot of money to build a gigawatt reactor (i.e., one that produces 1,000 megawatts), in part because it has to be put together on-site, one piece at a time, by expert welding crews. In today's larger reactors, all of which are being built outside the United States, the reactor vessel -- that's the cylindrical vault in which the fission takes place -- is about 90 feet in diameter, much too large to be shipped overland in one piece. Reactor vessels for mini plants would be as small as about 10 feet across and could be loaded onto a train or maybe even onto the bed of a trailer. Once the pieces get to the site, they can be bolted together with far less manpower and equipment.
Small reactors can also be daisy-chained together as a city grows. Consider this: Today's typical 1,000-megawatt reactor can power a city of about a million homes. What happens when the population grows by 20 percent? A second big reactor would be expensive and unnecessary. Smaller increments are more manageable.A big 'but'
Not convinced? You're not alone. Opponents point out that small reactors don't begin to solve the most worrisome aspects of nuclear energy: dangerous waste and the potential that the fuel could be used to build a weapon.
When you remove used-up fuel from a reactor, it's incredibly hot and very radioactive. The spent rods are moved into a concrete-encased pool, where they spend years cooling off. Eventually, they should be moved to a long-term storage facility, but one doesn't exist yet. (No one wants nuclear waste stored in their state.) As a result, there are more than 50,000 tons of uranium soaking in pools next to U.S. reactors, waiting for a permanent home.
As for the risks of nuclear proliferation, it's hard to separate generating nuclear power from building nuclear weapons, because the first few steps of the process are nearly identical.
Uranium can take several forms, which differ based on the number of neutrons in the nucleus. When miners pull uranium from a mine, more than 99 percent of what they get is U-238, which isn't all that useful for either power or weapons.
Today's nuclear reactors want the slightly lighter U-235. So the uranium ore is hauled off to enrichment plants, which keep pulling U-238 out of the sample until 3 to 5 percent of what's left is U-235. At that point, the sample can power a reactor.
"But you can use the same enrichment plant and just keep putting the stuff through over and over again until you get into the 90 percent range," says nuclear scientist John Gilleland, who runs TerraPower. "At that level, you can pipe all that stuff together and make a bomb."
Since you use the same ingredients, equipment and processes to create reactor and bomb fuel, countries such as Iran, which is suspected of having nuclear-weapons ambitions, can plausibly tell the world they're enriching for power-generation purposes for a long time before their true intentions are undeniable.
Many also fear that a nuclear cooling tower might look like a bull's-eye to a terrorist. The towers on small reactors would be narrower and shorter than those at big plants, since most of the reactor can be buried. While there has never been an attack on a nuclear plant, it remains a concern.If it works . . .
TerraPower, the venture that has received Gates's backing, is working to develop a system that will solve some of the problems with today's nuclear reactors. Its "traveling wave reactor" would be powered almost completely by fuel rods containing depleted uranium, the concentrated U-238 that enrichment plants throw away after extracting U-235. (TerraPower plans to start with a 500-megawatt reactor, but it could be scaled smaller or larger as needed.)
Here's how it would work: A tiny amount of U-235 is introduced and split open, releasing a whole bunch of neutrons. The depleted uranium in the fuel rod absorbs one of the neutrons. The resulting form of uranium soon decays into plutonium, a very potent fissile material. When more neutrons strike the plutonium, huge amounts of energy are released, as well as some more neutrons to keep the reaction going.
The "traveling wave" term is fitting because this process starts at one end of the fuel rod and creeps slowly forward, burning up the U-238 as it goes. The progression could take as many as 60 years, another major advantage of the new reactor. Traditional reactors have to be stopped, opened and refueled every 18 months or so.
If it works, a traveling wave reactor would probably be cheaper than a similarly sized plant running on enriched uranium, since its fuel would be so plentiful. The United States has about 775,000 tons of depleted uranium sitting in steel cylinders in Paducah, Ky., Portsmouth, OH, and Oak Ridge, Tenn. In the long run, countries would no longer be able to disguise their bomb factories as power plants, because running a reactor with enriched uranium wouldn't make economic sense. And the world could stop mining uranium, a process fraught with political and environmental hazards. According to Gilleland, there's already enough depleted uranium to satisfy the power needs of 10 billion Americans for 100 millennia.
So what are the chances a nuclear reactor will soon join the skyline of New Orleans, a city that's about the right size for TerraPower's envisioned 500 megawatt plant? It will probably all come down to economics, says Amory Lovins, chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an environmental think tank focused on the future of energy.
Lovins thinks that proponents of nuclear power are missing the bigger picture: The issue isn't whether nuclear energy can be made safely, it's whether it is the best option among the many sources of energy available.
According to Lovins, small modular reactors, whether based on traditional or traveling wave technology, are doomed to fail simply because the other options are cheaper. He notes that only one-third of the cost of nuclear power has anything to do with the reactor core. The majority of the cost is the steam-turbine machinery needed to convert the heat into electricity.
Even if small modular reactors are cheaper to assemble and the depleted uranium is free, he argues, nuclear will never be able to compete with wind and solar power, which also rely on free fuel but require far less capital investment.
The race for America's energy future is coming to a town near you. Will it be windmills or cooling towers? It all depends on the dollars and cents.
Hyperion, a New Mexico-based manufacturer, has said it plans to start delivering 25-megawatt reactors, which are about the size of a garden shed and cost around $25 million, in 2013. The first units will probably be installed in Eastern Europe. A few other companies, including Toshiba, are applying to the federal government for the right to build small reactors. And Oak Ridge's Ingersoll targets 2020 as the earliest date a U.S. city might come online.
Palmer is a freelance writer based in New York and a regular columnist for the Health and Science section's How and Why column.
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Lady Gaga has finally spoken out about her decision to block the release of her collaboration with Cher, insisting the song wasn't "up to par" because they recorded their vocals separately.
The Believe hitmaker has been candid about her frustration with Gaga after she refused to let the song, titled The Greatest Thing, feature on Cher's new album, but an unfinished version of the track was leaked online last month (Aug13).
Gaga has now opened up about the dispute over the song, admitting she didn't like the finished product because it wasn't a true collaboration between the two artists.
Speaking on TV show Watch What Happens Live, Gaga says, "I have so much respect for Cher and I love Cher so much that when we do a duet that we release, I wanted it to be something that was really really special and... we just didn't have time to work on it together... We recorded it (separately)... and I wrote the song a long time ago.
"To be fair, if I was writing a song for Cher now, I would want to hear her album and I want to know where she is in her life. I would want to talk to her about where's she is going musically, and I didn't get to do any of those things. So I didn't want to put out something that wasn't up to par with what Cher has put out before. It's not really about me, it's more about her. Because it's Cher!"


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Paper Warehouse parties on with continued strategic success. Every day is a cause for celebration for Minneapolis, Minn.-based party and paper goods supplier Paper Warehouse. Specializing in everything from invitations, banners and giftware to tissue, bows and party snacks, this retailer aims to provide customers with the tools to commemorate every occasion.
The first Paper Warehouse store opened in Minneapolis in 1983. Today, the chain boasts 98 company-owned stores - 30 of which are concept stores - in Denver, Des Moines, Kansas City, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Seattle, Tucson and Tulsa, as well as 48 franchises across the country. Paper Warehouse CFO Cheryl Newell anticipates future company-owned stores will be concept stores. Meanwhile, the company plans to selectively remodel certain existing stores wherever the revenue potential justifies the investment.
In response to international interest, Paper Warehouse signed a franchise agreement with a developer last year to open several franchises in Canada; the first of which will open shortly in Calgary. Approximately 105 stores will be under the Paper Warehouse or Party Universe name within the next year, with four new stores online for 2001.
When choosing store sites, Paper Warehouse favors locations in or near visible high-traffic strip malls close to prominent shopping malls, mass merchandisers, discount or grocery store anchors. "We choose these locations because of convenience. People are out doing errands anyway, and it is easy for them to stop at our stores," explains Newell.
Demographics such as parking availability, storefront visibility and presence, local competition, traffic counts, lease rates, income and age are also considered when choosing a site. "Our typical customer tends to be a woman between the ages of 25 and 49 with young or school-aged children," says Newell.
The Paper Warehouse introduced its current 8,500-sq.-ft. prototype store in 1994. In 1998 the company introduced its concept store, adding more colorful ceilings than previous stores, lower shelves in the store's front, confetti-tiled floors and new, vibrant signage. "The front of these stores is low, and shelves get higher toward the back so that customers can easily see across the entire store and quickly find what they need," explains Newell.
Although Paper Warehouse competes with other specialty party-supply retailers and card shops, it has distinguished itself from the competition in several ways. "We differentiate through size - others tend to have larger facilities, although they carry fewer SKUs - and we cluster our stores in major metro areas while others take a more shotgun approach to where they locate stores," says Newell.
By carrying more items in smaller-sized stores, Paper Warehouse increases cost efficiency and passes savings to the customer. It has also leveraged its advertising and administrative expenses by clustering 10 stores in one large metro area, for example, rather than in 10 separate areas.
Paper Warehouse also sets itself apart by positioning itself as the "party expert" by implementing the Party Smart program in 1999. The Party Smart concept provides a customer with all the information and resources necessary to throw a party. The company also created the "party planning resource center" which offers entertainment and catering ideas and suggestions.


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Welcome to Septembers Freebie Friday weekend! Has everyone seen the new Sprinkles at AnnaBelle Stamps? I am so excited to offer the three mixes of Sprinkles this weekend! Each container has approximately 180 6mm drops of transparent colour, and on top of that you can screw the containers together to save on some space, how great is that? There is a total of 24 colours so far in this collection, but you never know when that might grow..
This month I would love to hear what other colours, sizes and shapes - yes shapes - you'd love to see in the Sprinkles range. So leave a comment and register using the Mr Linky widget! For those of you who don't have a blog simply copy and paste this blogs link http://www.stampinmoments.com . If you haven't already subscribed to this blog I'd love to have you join us and always be the first to hear about more give aways as new releases come round!
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A creative space where God moves.
Imagine Art is a Christian ministry, a 501c3 nonprofit, established in 1996. We operate a creative space, located at 2830 Real Street in Austin, Texas (78722). 65+ artists are engaged in our community, accessing 9,500 square feet of studios and galleries. We offer specialized supports tailored to empower artists with disabilities to create art. Non-disabled players engage as working artists in our studios to create a diverse, inclusive space where all artists thrive.
Our Story
People ask us "Why is Imagine Art a ministry?" Our story has been an amazing journey of grace and restoration and we believe that we are called and positioned to minister to a specific people group; artists, namely those living with disabilities.
Disability is woven through our Founder's history. Between 1989 and 1997, Debbie Kizer worked in the disability community serving as a consultant in the areas of developmental disability, employment and systems change. In 1995, one year prior to the organizations inception, Debbie Kizer was diagnosed with a mental illness and it changed the course of her life. Her recovery and spiritual journey were woven, as parallel paths, with this grassroots organization as they both grew and changed. In 2001, it was clear to the Founder that Jesus Christ was the cornerstone of Imagine Art and that the organization needed a foundation of faith to make a difference in the lives of the artists seeking help.
Multiple other agencies serve artists with disabilities in Austin, including VSA Arts of Texas, The ARC of the Arts and Harmony Arts Center. There are over 175,000 citizens with disabilities living in Austin. Among them are hundreds of 'artists' living with disabilities. We serve a distinct group of those artists; those who are in need of authentic community and seeking restoration and transformation. We serve artists ready to engage in community and tackle life's challenges. Together we are becoming who we were created to be. Imagine Art is not an evangelical organization and we serve artists from every walk of life; including artists that practice other faiths or do not believe as we do. Our faith is the reason that we do what we are doing, but "faith" is not what we are doing. WHAT we are doing is ART, for the sake of transforming the lives of artists with disabilities. Why we are doing it is because it glorifies the God who has us called to the work.
In 2014 we opened our community to both artists with and without disabilities to demonstrate an inclusive space where all artists thrive. Our mission and heart towards artists with disabilities calls us to provide additional support services that ensure these artists are successful. Artists with disabilities access our studio, complete with free professional art supplies and support from an Artistic Director and Volunteer Mentors. Non-disabled artists join us to work in the studios to keep our space balanced and inclusive. These "resident artists" help to diversity our space and they are given the opportunity to grow and transform alongside us. While we do not provide direct services to non-disabled artists, they benefit from the abundance of resources in our community. Non-disabled artists can engage as studio renters, gallery guests, volunteers or residents that barter in exchange for free space.
Our studio is an open model space where artists work without walls. Artists in our space are painting, drawing, creating digital art and also making ceramics and fused glass. Artistic Directors, volunteers and fellow artists provide peer support that helps the artists create unique works of art. Finished works are shown in multiple gallery spaces and receptions celebrate works created in our studios. Rotating exhibits welcome the public to purchase affordable works of art. We invite Austin artists to exhibit in our community gallery with affordable rental rates.
Our daily life is a controlled chaos of artists coming in and out, making art, gardening, eating meals together and showing off their talents on the gallery walls. We occasionally have workshops, camps, classes, Bible studies or other special events. These opportunities come and go as artists are inspired to teach or learn. More than 65 artists are accessing our space each week. Imagine Art provides a noontime meal five days a week and a dinner once a week, serving more than 450 plates a month.
It is hard to fully describe who we are and what we do. Drop in the studio for your own first hand experience. We are located at 2830 Real Street, Austin 78722.
Our Artists
Art-making happens in mass inside our walls! Over 65 artists come through each week to create art in our facility. We have designated spaces where artists can create with support or in private places, where artists can draw or make digital art or paint on easels. We are not a school. Artists come to us with their own expertise and they often teach one another informally. Artists with disabilities do have access to an Artistic Director to support their development and we may provide technical support. Our ceramics studio offers classroom space, complete with volunteers providing support and informal education.
All artists interested in working in our studios must download an application and complete an interview process. We are erasing the lines between artists with and without disabilities and we now have one application for artists wanting to engage in the studio.
Each interview will be individualized and you can expect to talk about your work, any needs or barriers you might face, your vision and goals and your intent for our community and how you might contribute.
We create enough art to fill a gallery.. and we do! Imagine Art has multiple spaces designated as galleries. Our first priority is to display works created from our studios. Our exhibitions are open to artists with and without disabilities that are presently engaged in the life of the community. Artists, volunteers, staff, board and friend of Imagine Art all contribute to the gallery. We celebrate each exhibit with an Artist Reception and we welcome the community to come and meet the artists. On occasion we have special gallery events linked with a show.
Current Calls for Art are posted here and you can explore our Current Happenings on the home page or on our Facebook events page.
On occasion we rent space to guests artists. Our large gallery space rents for $450 and includes venue rental for a full reception. Artists may approach us or we may post a call for art or put out an RFP in the community. During EAST, we open our doors to multiple guest artists. If you are interested in displaying your work in our gallery, please send your resume and 5 samples of your work to email@example.com Individual artist contracts are negotiated based on wall space and location with the facility.
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How to fly your quadcopter or drone safely when starting out
It is all too tempting to rush out and buy a Phantom 2/3 quadcopter, drone, UAV or similar and fly it anywhere and everywhere taking photos and videos of all you see without really thinking about it.
Reality will soon bite when you either hurt someone, damage their property, cause an accident, invade someone's privacy or all of the above. The CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) in the UK/Europe and the FAA in the USA are both clamping down on illegal and unauthorised flying and the fines/penalties can be quite severe.
I have written an article outlining basic suggestions when taking up this cool hobby or business that will help to:
- Keep you and others safe
- Follow CAA rules and regulations
- Steer clear of "no fly" zones
- Convince others that this is safe
- Have fun!
Use the link below, have a good read and enjoy this wonderful hobby…you may even turn it into a business one day!


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Defendant Bismarck Dinius left Lake County Superior Court late on Tuesday afternoon after watching the prosecution lay out the case against him.
"One minute I feel pretty confident, the next minute, not so confident, but it's all uneasy being here reliving that night. It was a horrific night," said boat crash defendant Bismark Dinius.
Prosecutors called their chief witnesses -- Lake County sheriff's deputies who responded to a call from the number two official in the department, Russell Perdock -- saying he had run over a sailboat with his powerboat after 9:00 p.m.
Dispatch: "Central."
Russell Perdock: "Hi, it's Perdock."
Dispatch: "Hello."
Russell Perdock: "I just hit a-Konocti Bay, I was out for a boat ride."
"He told me he had gotten up on a plane and that he estimated that he was going approximately 40 miles an hour," said Dennis Ostini with the Lake County Sheriff's Department.
All five people aboard the sailboat were hurt. Lynn Thornton of Willows died from her injuries.
Investigators didn't focus on Perdock's speed. They quickly targeted Dinius because he was at the helm of the sailboat and appeared to be drinking.
Perdock also told his colleagues the sailboat's lights were off at the time of the crash; a statement repeated by two fishermen who may have seen the sailboat earlier that night.
Lake County prosecutor John Langan: "Did they make any other statement to you indicating the sailboat did not have any running lights on and was barely visible prior to the collision?"
John Gregore with the Lake County Sheriff's Department: "Yes, they did."
The defense tried its best to knock down each of the prosecution's points.
Dinius' Attorney Victor Haltom: "Did you test them, are you sure it was this sailboat as opposed to some other vessel out there?"
John Gregore: "No, I didn't get specific with them, no."
Late on Wednesday, one investigator discussed a witness the I-Team found who says he saw the sailboat's lights turn on as it headed out that night.
"He then said he distinctly recalls the stern light coming on," said Ostini.
The defense took every opportunity to point the finger back at Perdock's speed, including when one deputy discussed interviewing these teenage witnesses who watched the powerboat from shore.
"Over 100 to 200 yards offshore and she said it was going quite fast," said Paul Simpson with the Lake County Sheriff's Department.
All through this, Dinius watched and listened, waiting for Wednesday when the defense begins calling its witnesses.
"I still feel really comfortable that all the facts fall in my favor and I hope once we present our case with our witnesses, that will come to light," said Dinius.
Late on Tuesday afternoon, the I-Team learned that just this past Sunday, a sergeant came forward to say that he was instructed on shore that night not to give a breath test to Russell Perdock. The defense is already saying that's evidence of a cover-up.
Previous stories:
- Preliminary hearing into Clear Lake boat crash
- Fatal boat crash: Conflict of interest?
- Court appearance in fatal boat crash case
- Official changing story in fatal boat crash
- Dept. of Justice to investigate boat crash
- Unusual tactics by boat crash investigators
- Lawsuit negotiations in fatal boat crash
- Fatal boat crash: Witnesses tell different story
- Fatal boat crash: Wrong man charged?


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An eastern Jackson County man was killed in the crash of an ultralight aircraft Tuesday at a private airfield near Lone Jack.
The Jackson County sheriff's office was called just before 6 p.m. to the scene in the 13300 block of Ragsdale Road, north of U.S. 50.
Sheriff Mike Sharp said the pilot was attempting to land on the grass runway of a small airfield known as Lamb's Field.
"Witnesses reported that as he was coming in to land, he veered to the right and crashed in a field," Sharp said.
Somone who lived nearby said smoke could be seen rising from the scene shortly after the crash.
Sharp said the identity of the man would not be released until family members were notified.


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AT&T has always been the underdog when it comes to Android. Naturally, there's a lot of conspiracy theories out there which imply that Apple has AT&T on a pretty tight leash, but that's a story for another time. AT&T looks to be stepping up their game with the announcement of three new Android handsets from Motorola. The Motorola Flipout, Motorola Flipside, and Motorola Bravo will all be running on Android 2.1 and will feature the latest version of MotoBLUR.
The first handset to hit store shelves will be the Motorola Flipout. The phone is expected to arrive on October 17th and will sell for $79.99 with a new two year contract. The Motorola Flipout features a 600MHz TI OMAP 3410 chipset, 1170 mAh battery, 2.8-inch; QVGA TFT (320 x 240 pixels) display, 3 megapixel camera, a 3.5mm headphone jack, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi connectivity, and a unique swivel hinge which exposes the QWERTY keyboard.
For those looking for a more traditional design with a QWERTY keyboard, the new Motorola Flipside might be a better option. The Flipside will come with a TI OMAP 3410 processor, 3.1 inch TFT HVGA display, 3MP camera, Bluetooth v2.0, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, and CrystalTalk software to reduce ambient noise while on a phone call. AT&T will make the Motorola Flipside available in time for the holidays for $99.99 with a new two year agreement.
Rounding out AT&T's announcement is the Motorola Bravo. The Bravo may not be in the same league as he DROID X, but with a 3.7-inch WVGA display, 800MHz processor, and DLNA support, the Motorola Bravo will be one of the more advanced Android phone's in AT&T's lineup. Other features include a 3MP camera, CrystalTalk noise reduction software, Bluetooth v2.0, and 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi connectivity. Availability of the Motorola Bravo is expected to land around the holiday season and it will be priced at $129.99 with a new contract.
AT&T looks like they are changing their stance on the Android platform, but I'm still hoping that they will be getting a true flagship Android device sometime soon. I'm pretty sure most of you will find a few faults with these new Motorola phones heading to AT&T. Just keep in mind that mid-range Android phones is a lot better than no phones at all.
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Motorola BRAVO(TM), FLIPOUT(TM) and FLIPSIDE(TM) Smartphones Powered by Android Coming Soon to the Nation's Fastest Mobile Broadband Network
Dallas, Texas, October 05, 2010
Key Facts
- AT&T* today announced it is significantly expanding its portfolio of Android devices by introducing three new smartphones powered by Androidâ"¢, the Motorola BRAVO, FLIPOUT and FLIPSIDE, from Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT).
- All three smartphones pack the power of the Android 2.1 platform and the latest version of MOTOBLUR, Motorola's exclusive smartphone experience.
- MOTOROLA FLIPOUTâ"¢ will be available for $79.99 with a two service agreement and 2 year smartphone data plan beginning October 17 in AT&T stores, online and in business channels. (No rebate required)
- MOTOROLA BRAVOâ"¢ will be available for $129.99 with a two service agreement and 2 year smartphone data plan in AT&T stores, online and in business channels by this holiday period. (No rebate required)
- MOTOROLA FLIPSIDEâ"¢ will be available for $99.99 with a two service agreement and 2 year smartphone data plan in AT&T stores, online and in business channels by this holiday period. (No rebate required)
In a move that further strengthens its industry-leading smartphone line-up, AT&T today introduced three new Android-based smartphones from Motorola. The powerful new devices give AT&T customers even more choice when selecting a mobile computing device to use on the nation's fastest mobile broadband network. AT&T will have eight Android devices available to customers once these smartphones arrive in stores.
All three new smartphones feature Wi-Fi® connectivity, and qualifying AT&T customers receive access to the entire AT&T national Wi-Fi network included as part of their data plan. AT&T's has the nation's largest Wi-Fi network with more than 23,000 U.S. hotspots.
MOTOROLA BRAVOâ"¢
BRAVO offers the power of Android, an 800 MHz processor and a large screen all in a compact design. The device features a 3.7-inch full WVGA touch screen experience, enhanced Web-browsing and entertainment while on the go. With a 3-megapixel camera with digital zoom and auto focus, customers can catch memorable moments to share with one-touch social media uploads to Facebook®, MySpace, Picasaâ"¢ and PhotoBucket®. Motorola BRAVO is a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA®) enabled device, so customers can stream, store and share entertainment with multiple devices around the home–including PCs, TVs and other mobile devices using an existing home Wi-Fi network. Get all the MOTOROLA BRAVOâ"¢ details at http://att.com/bravo.
MOTOROLA FLIPOUTâ"¢
MOTOROLA FLIPOUT delivers an enhanced user experience, with a stylishly square, affordable and innovative pivot design. FLIPOUT whips open to reveal a full keyboard below its touch screen with a dedicated fifth row for numbers. Users can customize the color to match their mood with Dark Sapphire and Saffron battery covers included in the box for personalization. Additional colors will be available for purchase in AT&T stores and online. Get all the MOTOROLA FLIPOUTâ"¢ details at http://att.com/flipout.
MOTOROLA FLIPSIDEâ"¢
MOTOROLA FLIPSIDE enables users to seamlessly manage their work and personal life. With a full slide-out QWERTY keypad, FLIPSIDE's 3.1"-inch high-res HVGA display supports pinch to zoom gesturing, while the laptop-like track pad provides an alternative way to navigate with one hand while keeping your fingers off the screen. Users can stay connected to work with full push corporate e-mail, support for Microsoft® Exchange, unified inbox and enhanced features for IT compliance like remote wipe and password enforcement. Get all the MOTOROLA FLIPSIDEâ"¢ details at http://att.com/flipside.
Enhanced MOTOBLUR
MOTOBLUR is Motorola's exclusive experience that syncs contacts, posts, messages, photos and much more – from your favorite social media sites, work and personal e-mail, and last.fm – and automatically delivers them to the home screen. MOTOBLUR can locate or remotely wipe lost or stolen devices, MOTOBLUR can also automatically restore a user's contacts, log-in information, home screen customizations and e-mail with one username and password.
The new and enhanced MOTOBLUR functionality and features include:
Filter social networking and Messages widgets — filter by social networking account, by contact(s) or by contact group to only see the information you want.
Screen customization — move and resize preloaded widgets on up to seven home screens
Battery Manager — manage battery consumption by operating in one of three performance modes
Personal and Corporate e-mail — pushed directly to the device
Improved social networking functionality — Retweet, like Facebook comments and more
"We want nothing less than the best smartphone line-up on the nation's fastest mobile broadband network," said Michael Woodward, vice president, Mobile Phone Portfolio, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. "These diverse new Android devices from Motorola add diversity to our Android platform and provide more options for our customers."
"Motorola is committed to offering consumers phones that work best for their lifestyle. These three new devices each have a new unique take on the typical smartphone," said Alain Mutricy, senior vice president, portfolio and device product management, Motorola Mobility, Inc. "Plus, the latest enhancements to MOTOBLUR not only allow users to easily stay connected with their networks but better filter so they can focus on the people and information that means the most to them."
1 Prices listed above require a 2-year service agreement and smartphone data plan.
2 Mobile Broadband/3G coverage not available in all areas.
3 Limited-time offer. Other conditions & restrictions apply. See contract & rate plan brochure for details. Subscriber must live & have a mailing addr. within AT&T's owned wireless network coverage area. Up to $36 activ. fee applies. Equipment price & avail may vary by mrk & may not be available from independent retailers. Early Termination Fee: None if cancelled in the first 30 days, but up to $35 restocking fee may apply to equipment returns; thereafter up to $325. Some agents impose add'l fees. Smartphone Data Plan Requirement: Smartphones require a DataPlus (200MB) or DataPro (2GB) plan. If you exceed your initial data allowance, you will automatically be charged an additional $10 for each additional 1GB provided on DataPro or an additional $15 for each additional 200MB provided on DataPlus. All data allowances, including overages, must be used in the billing period in which the allowance is provided or they will be forfeited. For more details on Data Plans, go to att.com/dataplans Sales tax calculated based on price of unactivated equipment.
4 Largest Wi-Fi based on company branded and operated hotspots. Access includes AT&T Wi-Fi Basic. Wi-Fi enabled device and qualifying data plan required. Other restrictions apply. See attwifi.com for details and locations.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates – AT&T operating companies – are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. A leader in mobile broadband, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T |DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising. In 2010, AT&T again ranked among the 50 Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE® magazine.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATTNews. Find us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/ATT to discover more about our consumer and wireless services or at www.Facebook.com/ATTSmallBiz to discover more about our small business services.
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Ditch the hardware and enjoy the simplicity of this great fitting Triangle Top. A double strap around the neck and doubled fabric throughout helps give extra support. She pairs great with any of our Tie Side Bottoms.
All our bathing suits are sold as separates, so you can mix and match sizes, colors and styles to fit your needs. Our suits run smaller than those found in department stores and other retailers, so we recommend that you follow our size chart when choosing your size.


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QA / Test Jobs in Hamburg
Hi everyone,
First post on here so be gentle!
I am a 27 year old male currently living in London and looking for software testing / quality assurance work in Hamburg in order to be closer to my German partner. Ideally I want to secure a job before I move over, but push comes to shove, I will be moving over (job or no job) by February Protected content this gives me around Protected content to prepare. My German is basic (I am taking classes in London).
Few questions:
1) Other than the online gaming companies (Goodgame Studios, Innogames etc), does anyone have any other recommendations on good companies to engage with (speculative applications) etc for QA / test jobs? While I am searching a lot for roles using Monster, Indeed and Stepstone etc, any advise would be welcome.
2) Does anyone who's moved from the UK to Hamburg (or other parts of Germany) have good recommendations as to recruitment agencies I should be speaking to (either in London or in Hamburg) who have helped you/someone you know to relocate and find work? I'm aware that the recruitment market in Germany operates in a completely different way to the UK (or it seems that way anyway), so again, any advise would be much appreciated.
Cheers :-)


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LOS ANGELES --If you're constantly checking your Facebook page, a new study shows you're not alone.
Researchers say Facebook and Twitter are more addictive than tobacco and alcohol.
A survey of 250 people found that sleep and sex were the two things people most longed for during the day.
But the hardest to resist was the urge to keep on top of social networks.
In contrast, alcohol and tobacco prompted much lower levels of desire, despite their reputation for being addictive.


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SALE! Brown Lampwork Glass Beads w/ Turquoise Speckles & Copper Glitter 12mm (25)
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This listing is for 25 lampwork glass beads made in India. They are opaque brown with turquoise speckles and subtle copper glitter accents. The beads are round and measure approximately 12mm in diameter, but there is some variation due to the fact that they are handmade.
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Please allow 3 business days from the time of your order to the time it ships. This may seem like a long time, but I am a one woman operation, and currently that is the time frame I can promise. If you need your order sooner, please let me know at the time of purchase, and I will do everything I can to speed up the process for you.
I ship USPS First Class unless your order exceeds 1 pound - then it goes Priority automatically. If you want a smaller order to go Priority, please let me know and I will set up a listing for you for the Priority shipping cost. I am in South Carolina, and I have found that if you are located within 3 or 4 states of me in any direction, that First Class will get to you just as quickly as Priority would. This is not guaranteed, but is usually the case.
I accept Paypal and credit cards.
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If you are unhappy with your purchase for any reason, please let me know. I will refund or replace it for you, your choice. If your item arrives damaged or if I sent you the wrong item by mistake, I will pay for the return shipping myself. Otherwise, you pay the return shipping.
I provide tracking for all my orders within the US, and they very rarely get lost. If you believe your package is lost, please let me know and I will have the post office investigate. Once a sufficient amount of time has passed, if the package still does not turn up, I will refund or replace the shipment. If tracking says the item has been delivered, I will not refund or replace. If you live somewhere where your packages might get stolen off your porch or out of your mailbox, please ask me for a signature confirmation before I ship.
If you live outside the US and plan to purchase a large amount of items ($100 or more), please let me know in advance before purchasing so we can discuss shipping options. Some countries now have tracking and some don't, unless you ship in a very expensive way, so your shipping options depend on where you live.
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A lot of the items in my shop are vintage or of limited supply, so please don't expect them to be available forever. If you are planning a project that involves a large number of a certain item, or repeat purchases of a certain item over a length of time, make sure you ask me whether or not that is possible before assuming that it is.
I do not wholesale, but I do offer discount coupons on large purchases. Please see my shop announcement for the coupon codes.


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Sales Consultant – Melbourne
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Work for us in Melbourne and enjoy;
- Career progression based on attitude and achievement over experience
- Challenging environment where the determined thrive
- Fast paced fun company culture
- Reward for effort commission structure
- 99 Bikes is now the largest retailer of bikes in Australia, we have grown to operate successful stores across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, Canberra and South Australia. Our goal is to open 50 stores by 2020! That's a lot of positions to fill and a sign of unlimited promotional opportunity for our people.
"I joined 99 Bikes as a Sales Consultant at the Fortitude Valley store. I quickly progressed to Team Leader, leading multiple stores and opening our MacGregor store. I am now an Area Leader for the entire Northern Region."
- Ethan O'Dell, Area Leader, 99 Bikes Queensland
The 99 Bikes Sales Consultant
Our purpose is to enrich mind, body Earth and soul with the freedom of riding.
When you join our team as a Sales Consultant, you'll become part of a dynamic work culture that fosters competition and achievement with a reward for effort commission structure.
You'll build relationships with customers, assess needs, recommend products and services to enhance every customer experience all while keeping an eye on and exceeding store goals.
Got What it Takes?
We hire people who see opportunities, back themselves, want to get ahead and won't stop until they do.
Need to have:
- Determination to achieve targets
- Willingness to learn
- Passion for bikes / fitness
- Ability to work positively within a team
We hire:
- Great communicators with an interest in people
- Demonstrated achievements in career or personal life
- A commitment to continuous improvement and learning
- A passion for bicycles or health and fitness
- Proven job stability and progression
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If you thrive in a fast-paced sales environment and are looking for a long-term career then apply now!
Click 'Apply for this job' and attach your personal cover letter and resume.
You will be sent an email inviting you to answer a few screening questions before the application is submitted. Follow the instructions for your application to be finalised.


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Bud Lightyear
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Or is it Buzzed Lightyear? Bud Lightbeer? Either way, this fellow has a cheap costume that will surely make it into the next Toy Story film. He's not as useful as Buzz Lightyear in a crisis, but he's the life of any party.
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Hey fellow bloggers what is going on? Hope everyone is getting ready to enjoy a great 4th of July weekend. I am actually going to an open mic event in the city tomorrow night (if everything goes right and I hope it will). Like always I am suffering from that good friend of mine, writer's block. So you know what that means working on these three books has been a very slow process. I want to blame it on work and the fact that I have been seriously annoyed lately but I should take some time out and get myself together. But anyway let me update you anyway on what's been going on. First off I finally decided to post Eternal Light up for everyone to read on this website called Writer's Cafe. So far the people that have read it really like it and it makes me extremely happy that they do. It took a lot of time and work for me to write Radien's story so to have people really liking it is great. So now that has motivated me to pick up working on Eternal Earth and make Adien talk to me. I am tired of him being quiet and leaving me out to dry when people want to read his story. As for the Faye princess that is coming along slowly. I am almost done with the book, another 10 or 15 chapters to go before I am done and so far I love this book. I just want this writers block to go away so I can get back to writing because there is nothing like the flow of creativity that I get when the block goes away. The other story SnowWolf is also going a little slow because to be honest I have no idea where I was really going with that story all I knew was that it was about two brother's battle for the pack and the woman that caused all the drama everything else comes as I write. People really like SnowWolf too so I hope I am able to keep their attention. So that is what I have been up to besides working so now we can move on to the review....
REVIEW: The Dragon Who Loved Me by G.A. Akin
Ok this review like the others I have done recently is going to be pretty short because I don't want to give away any spoilers. So lets begin shall we. First off the main characters, Viglof and Rhonda are awesome characters. Though to be honest there wasn't a lot of character development for either of these characters in the book. Neither the less this book was great and I couldn't put it down. As I continued to read I became more and more entangled in the world (like I wasn't before). What Akin does a great job of is having time pass by and the sequences of the war continue so that the reader always has this sense of urgency just like the characters. The chemistry between Vigolf and Rhonda was steamy and passionate as with all the other characters in the book. These two and their antics, Vigolf following Rhonda around claiming to be protecting her proved to be highly entertaining as I pictured this tall, manly man following around his woman with puppy dog eyes (something Vigolf is not). I also liked how Akin remembered the other characters within the book and how their stories continue through the book right along with the two main characters. This was another great addition to the series and I look forward to the next one.
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Students presented new ideas from biometric authentication and virtual reality to fashion merchandising and dating apps at the SXSW Interactive Festival.
In the first Texas State Innovation Lab, students showcased innovative technologies on Saturday night at the Hilton Austin.
There were multiple groups present, including some from the Department of Computer Science, Ingram School of Engineering and the School of Family and Consumer Services.
Representatives from the College of Science and Engineering, in partnership with corporate partners, presented an ultrasonic device that provides exact measurements of rotational speed, surface quality and component alignment to be used in industrial and automative mechanics and engineering research.
A team from the Department of Computer Science, in partnership with Google, presented an advanced sensor that tracks the user's unique eye movements to provide a secure digital password. The sensor can also measure fatigue and remind users to take a break from their screen or sleepy drivers to rest.
Students from the Ingram School of Engineering, in collaboration with NASA, redesigned how radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are scanned, using code-division multiple access (CDMA) as its scheme and requiring a fraction of the energy used by current RFID systems.
"Since NASA wants us to read multiple RFID tags at once, the biggest problem was figuring out exactly how we were going to do that," said Ramsey Doany, electrical engineering senior. "We were going through a lot of different types of communication systems to try to figure out exactly which one would work specifically for this one."
An electrical engineering group created a GPS systems that maps complicated underground networks of pipelines to identify leaks and vulnerabilities, which conserve resources and decreases the amount of water wasted.
"With this project we hope to map out all the water distribution networks in the city, and then from there put microphones on top of the water distribution mics to listen for frequencies that are outside of the normal range, which will turn save lots of time and hassle and lots of money for the cities," said Alex Diaz, electrical engineering senior.
Additionally, another engineering team presented TX20, a reusable system for safely treating water produced by oil and gas extraction. The system does not require landfilling, therefore reducing the cost and risks.
A team from the School of Family and Consumer services, in partnership with Kohl's, created a customizable mobile app to re-introduce millennials to offline shopping. The app interacts with in-store technology with virtual fitting rooms and expert style advice, creating a unique in-store experience.
A group from the Department of Geography introduced a comprehensive and interactive digital atlas, compiling data and from every school district and public and private university in Texas. The tool can be used by students, policymakers, researchers and journalists to understand relationships between measured 539 variables.
Representatives from the McCoy College of Business Administration showcased UmbralGroup, which uses advanced mathematical models to develop effective strategies for environmental solutions.
Some students from the School of Art and Design presented <3Ds, a dating app algorithm to evolve the online dating experience.
"Our innovation is three niche market apps for dating," said Ciara Knight, communication design senior. "We have cooking, concerts and volunteering. So these are three ways that people can find their perfect match in a really unique and fun way."


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The U.S. Constitution was finally ratified, or approved, by all states on May 29, 1790. Although the last of the original 13 states did not ratify the Constitution until 1790, the Constitution had already taken effect in March 1789, when the ninth state, New Hampshire, ratified the Constitution.Continue Reading
The Constitution was first ratified by Delaware on Dec. 7, 1787. Intense debates in Massachusetts, Virginia and New York delayed ratification. Some states, such as North Carolina, did not ratify the Constitution until a bill of rights was added. The Bill of Rights consists of 10 amendments to the Constitution that guaranteed fundamental human rights and liberties. Almost three years passed before all states ratified the U.S. Constitution. Rhode Island, which initially refused to even sign the Constitution, finally narrowly voted to ratify it following a convention.Learn more about The Constitution


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Looking for that perfect warm-up before slogging out an unbelievably awful 30 minute power test on your Computrainer, PowerTap, or Quarq? The literature suggests that prior to top tier threshold workouts you spend at least 10 minutes warming up from aerobic to anaerobic, and then 5 minutes cooling down by switching to easy effort and moving back up to aerobic just prior to the start of your power test.
Whether you believe in the 20 or 30 minute test really doesn't matter. The decay in wattage at 30 minutes vs 20 is all built into the formula used to calculate your wattage zones, and frankly this is the kind of thing coaches are for. What does matter though is getting an effective warm up in before you start slogging out 400 watts for X amount of time. I find it's pretty hard to want to bother getting up to anaerobic prior to spending 30 minutes beating myself up. So, I've been looking high and low for a 2 minute version of 30 Minute Abs. Finally, I found it. TeamScrappy tested, Korean approved.


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Although you have done many searches about how to decorate your apartment, you don't know what to do. Planning and decorating your apartment can be a very overwhelming job to do. However, do not be afraid of this fact. You can make his fact an adventure for you! The first things that you should do before decorating your apartment is to decide what kind of "look" you want. Searching magazines and watching programs about decorating apartments can help you to determine your favorite style. Modern? Traditional? Country French?
The second thing that you should do is to select color sheme for your needs. Select three or four of your favorite colors, and use them throughout your apartment. For instance, if you like blue or white, create a living room where the walls are white, and there are light blue tables and shelves and also there is ivory slip covered furniture.
Furthermore, another thing that you should pay attention is the quality of furniture you use in your apartment. If you purchase a new but poorly crafted table or upholstered piece just because it comes at a bargain price, it's really no bargain at all. You will see that it will wear early, perhaps lasting only a few years at best and then you'll have to replace it.


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Hello guys , today im here to show u my irelia build , hope u like it , if u never saw my akalys build i will tell u now , im not english and sorry for my mistakes ^^.
-Extremely strong
-Helpful in team fights ( your ultimate its just awsome)
-Shes not much squishy
-mana dependent
-Long cooldowns
-Hard to master
Ive tried much spells and , i think these are the best spells because u can run fast (flash) and u can defeat anyone in 1x1 (ingite)
Irelia is also good AP and AD ,but , personaly i choosed ad , u will be more helpful for your teammates.
Irelia is not a squishy char but , in team fights u are the target so u need survivability to keep your stacks up . I choosed armor penetration , combined with your sword of the ocult is just awsome , Ad runnes to do brust damage , and Health runnes to more survivability
Early game:
Start with Doran's Blade and a health potion , u can stay in your lane until u farm 920 gold for your breserker graves .
Get Sword of the ocults and start the "blades show".
Try to get stacks , and when u have chance , gank with your partner other lanes (if you win your lane , or if u killed both players of your lane)
Mid game:
I love irelia mid game , because shes very helpfull with her ultimate , u can kill them all at once.
In mid game u have 2 options , if ur very squishy , u should get frozen malt before phantom dancer , and bloodthrister.
Kill has much has u can ,and u will be the master.
Irelia combo : W->E->Q->R
End game:
In end game u should buy bloodthrister and black cleaver , u need very Ad to be helpful to your team .
Dont forget your stacks , u need to play with your head , u should get in bush and atack from behind .
This is my build , hope u like it Dont forget Comments
See your latter guys ;)


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Arthur Simpson, a professional forester, always thought that everyone likes a tree.
Then he moved to New York.
"It's not unusual for people to say they don't want it," said Mr. Simpson, the "it" referring to whatever tree the city has resolved to plant in a swatch of sidewalk or other public space. Mr. Simpson is privy to some of those objections because he works for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, one of 40 or so foresters helping to execute Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's million-tree initiative, a plan the mayor announced (one year ago this week) to blitz the city's five boroughs with a million trees by the year 2017.
If you're a forester perversely inclined to ply your trade in New York City, the initiative makes now a pretty good time to make a go of it. The city hired 24 foresters in the past year, a good majority of them hailing from places where trees are not exactly controversial. Mr. Simpson, 32, lived and worked in the open spaces of Montana, Oregon and, most recently, Arizona, before hitting it off with a New York-based opera singer whom he met at a party. Now he lives in Queens.
All told, Mr. Simpson has adjusted well to his new urban habitat: He's got some family in the area, and in the past year he's even been to five operas, five more than he'd ever seen before moving to the city. A laid-back, fleece-wearing, barely shaven kind of guy, your typical central-casting kind of forester, Mr. Simpson has been really surprised by only one aspect of New York City life, and that's the unwelcome reception he sometimes get at the site of an imminent tree-planting.
Sometimes the residents or homeowners are worried about their allergies (though the trees are intended to help alleviate asthma and allergy rates citywide); sometimes they're worried that a branch will fall on their car (a call to 311 will procure a free pruning). Sometimes they're worried about the extensive construction required to plant a tree in a patch of concrete.Continue reading the main story
A few months back, Mr. Simpson, one of the foresters overseeing contractors in Manhattan, found himself in Harlem, trying to placate an elderly, elegantly suited gentleman who was concerned that the roots of the tree to be planted in front of his brownstone would penetrate an underground vault he'd built attached to his home. And all those leaves — wasn't he going to be responsible for cleaning them up? (That would be yes.) And could he be fined if he didn't? (Theoretically yes, but the city intercedes in only the most egregious cases.)
The homeowner was so incensed, he cut out a piece of cardboard to protect his clothes, placed it in the pit that had been dug for the tree and planted himself firmly in the hole. Mr. Simpson made his favorite tree-loving arguments — they improve property values, they make the air cleaner, they keep houses cooler in summer and warmer in winter — but nothing would persuade the man to leave.
The sit-in eventually disbanded after Bram Gunther, the city's deputy chief of forestry and horticulture, and William Castro, the Manhattan borough commissioner for the parks department, made a (rare) concession, agreeing that no tree would be planted there until further consideration.
For Mr. Simpson, it was an education in New York thinking. "It's O.K. if we ask for it, but you can't tell us we have to have it," he summarized.
So add tree publicist to the job experience of the New York forester, as well as other, more traditional urban foresters' tasks: choosing the species of tree appropriate for a space, checking and double-checking the width and depth of the pit, and whether it's far enough from fire hydrants, pipes and electrical wires.
Because this is New York, the job has required even a little bit of model management, as occurred the week before last, when "The Tyra Banks Show" decided its host should plant a tree as part of her campaign to do 500 good deeds. Mr. Simpson found Ms. Banks and her two "America's Next Top Model" sidekicks lovely, "but they didn't know how to use a shovel," he noted, as if that were a strange and unexpected insight. Because the timing of the filmed segment wouldn't allow for the time it takes to plant a tree according to code, "once they were gone, we dug it back up and planted it properly," Mr. Simpson said.
The pleasures of the job for him are numerous, among them the sense that he has "one of the few jobs that let you have a physical impact on the city of New York, the way it looks now, and the way it'll look in the future."
While his colleagues out West are roaming among the redwoods, Mr. Simpson is often looking for a parking space. But somehow, between the parks and the trees he sees every day, Mr. Simpson said, "I do feel very at home."Continue reading the main story


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FULTON, Md.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Sonatype, the leader in software supply chain automation, today announced that Bill Karpovich has been named SVP of strategy and corporate development. Reporting to Sonatype CEO Wayne Jackson, Bill will lead portfolio evolution, strategic partnering, acquisitions, and new growth initiatives worldwide.
"Software-driven innovation is not only transforming industries and fueling growth, it is also exposing serious risks"
"The market is accelerating," said Wayne Jackson, CEO of Sonatype. "The Equifax breach is a wake-up call for CXOs globally. Traditional approaches to application and network security simply don't cut it. Enterprises need a new approach that manages risk at the speed of modern software development. Bill is a proven innovator with deep expertise in enterprise DevOps and success growing cloud businesses worldwide. He joins at the perfect time to help us expand our portfolio and scale our operations globally."
Karpovich joins Sonatype from IBM, where he most recently served as General Manager within IBM's Cloud and Watson Platform division, leading product strategy and execution for IBM's cloud platform offerings (PaaS & IaaS), branded IBM Bluemix. In this role, Karpovich led record revenue growth while improving margins, expanding IBM's cloud presence worldwide, creating ground-breaking partnerships, and modernizing IBM's product development discipline. Prior to IBM, Karpovich was founder and CEO of Zenoss, Inc., an enterprise IT operations monitoring and analytics innovator that reached #42 in the Inc. 500. In 2011, Karpovich was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the state of Maryland. Karpovich began his career as a software architect with Accenture and was an executive with Maryland-based cloud pioneers Digex, Inc. and USinternetworking, Inc.
"Software-driven innovation is not only transforming industries and fueling growth, it is also exposing serious risks," said Karpovich. "The market is in dire need of a new approach to software security that can keep pace with modern app development, and that's exactly what Sonatype has to offer. Businesses – and their customers – can gain the benefits of speed without losing control and confidence. We have a tremendous opportunity ahead of us. It's great to be a part of building another game-changing company."
About Sonatype
Sonatype is the leading provider of DevOps-native tools to automate modern software supply chains. As the creators of Apache Maven, the Central Repository, and Nexus Repository, Sonatype pioneered componentized software development and has a rich history of supporting open source innovation. Today, more than 120,000 organizations depend on Sonatype's Nexus platform to govern the volume, variety, and quality of open source components flowing into modern software applications. Sonatype is privately held with investments from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Accel Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Bay Partners, and Goldman Sachs. Learn more at www.sonatype.com.