Elizabeth Taylor Jewelry Auction

For those who love jewelry, there is a jewelry event that you’re not going to want to miss. Christie’s will be holding an exclusive sale of Elizabeth Taylor’s jewelry in December. With over 2,000 pieces available, Christie’s has announced that 950 of those will be available in their online gallery. Of course, if you’d like to browse the pieces in person, the remainder will be showcased in Christie’s New York salesroom.

Some of Elizabeth Taylor’s most dazzling items will go on display soon in Hong Kong, but will return to New York for their exhibition and sale. The dates are December 3 through 17, and tickets must be purchased online in advance, if attending the live exhibition. Admission is $30 plus tax.

If you want to claim your piece of this incredible collection, Christie’s is now encouraging interested collectors to purchase online. The online sale officially begins December 13 and goes through December 16. Christie’s says that opening up the online portion of the event allows bidders from across the globe to take part in the auction of this once-in-a-lifetime collection from a glamorous legend.

Elizabeth Taylor was known for loving and adorning some of the finest jewelry by several famous designers. Many of these distinct pieces will be sold for thousands of dollars a piece.

If you seek collectibles beyond jewelry, you can also cherish some of Miss Taylor’s couture clothing, accessories, and memorabilia. Whether you simply want to view this amazing collection before it’s gone, or aim to win one of these pieces for your own, be sure not to pass up this special Christie’s event. Remember, online bidding and registration starts on December 3, coinciding with the live New York exhibition and auction.

 

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AULtec, Inc. Earns Mercedes-Benz USA Certification for its AEROS CRM

Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) March 30, 2012

AULtec, Inc., the technology innovator providing data integration services for numerous digital marketing companies, announced today that Mercedes-Benz USA has certified its AEROS “Crawl, Walk, Run™” Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software suite.

This certification ensures that the AEROS Software Suite is a preferred and compliant CRM and lead management system for 350 Mercedes-Benz dealers nationwide. AULtec’s AEROS CRM is already a recognized, certified and compliant provider for many manufacturers, including Acura, BMW, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Honda, Infiniti, Jaguar, Land Rover, MINI, Nissan, Saab, SMART and Subaru.

The AEROS Suite offers customers modular features like web-based Internet Lead Management, BDC Management, Data Mining, and Dealer Management System integration, as well as robust CRM modules. The company’s unique “Crawl, Walk, Run” methodology enables dealers to deploy a right-sized CRM system, and to add on needed software modules over time as employee utilization and return on investment increase.

“As Mercedes-Benz continues to enhance its dealers’ competitive position in the marketplace, this certification of the AEROS Software Suite brings sophisticated and effective lead management and CRM solutions to dealers for a phenomenal price,” says Christian Thornton, Senior Executive Vice President of Marketing and New Business Development for all AULtec products and brands.

“Successful dealers realize in today’s business climate that the timely and professional management of every business opportunity is critical, and it directly affects customer satisfaction and profitability. We are pleased to earn this distinction as a certified solution provider from globally recognized brands like Mercedes-Benz,” Thornton adds.

AULtec is also in talks with eight additional manufacturers who have invited the company to present its AEROS CRM to become a certified and recommended vendor for their franchises, representing an accumulated 4,000-plus dealerships nationwide.

The all-in-one AEROS Software Suite helps automotive dealers experience bottom-line results in sales, service, F&I, special finance, and parts. It does so by delivering web-based CRM, Internet lead management, BDC management, lease and finance payment software, as well as by providing integrated customer-facing marketing services. These marketing services include text messaging, targeted mail and mass email.

The company further bundles seamlessly integrated custom web site design, SEO and hosting services with additional web-based inventory management and vehicle-data publication software and all from a single vendor using a single log on. This trinity of powerful solutions ensures that auto retailers can leverage all technologies from a single vendor at one low price to run their modern-day automotive dealership better.

For more information, contact Christian Thornton at cthornton(at)aultec(dot)com or # or visit aultec

About AULtec (pronounced “all tech”)

Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Charlotte, NC, AULtec (aultec) products help automotive retail teams of all sizes track all aspects of their business, share everything, work smarter, and establish more profitable customer relationships. From do-it-yourself inventory management apps and on-the-lot inventory service, to CRM and custom web site design, dealerships are energized by AULtec from end-to-end and across all profit centers. AULtec also energizes data integration solutions for numerous entities, including leading providers of inventory data & vehicle image acquisition, inventory management software and online data publishing. The company’s superior software products and solutions, in-dealership service, and relentless customer service help thousands of dealerships drive more revenue and profit every day.

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Don’t Mix Your Drinks — Alcohol and Energy Make a Lethal Cocktail

(Vocus/PRWEB) 2 March 2011

Don’t mix your drinks is a warning being issued to young people. The age-old advice in this instance is urging them to avoid mixing alcohol with high energy drinks which AlcoSense, the manufacturer of personal breathalysers, warns may encourage drink driving.

“The effects of these drinks, when combined with alcohol, could have disastrous consequences” said Hunter Abbott, Managing Director of AlcoSense. “A strong concentration of Caffeine and sugar in these drinks can effect a drinker’s perception and mask their awareness of the influence of alcohol. This in turn could lead to unintentional drink driving when the person feels they’re sober again – but really is not.”.

Drinks manufacturers have been defending high energy drinks such as Red Bull or Rockstar in the face of growing controversy about their health effects. Concern has been expressed about both the caffeine content and high doses of sugar in some energy drinks. A 500ml bottle or can of some energy drinks may contain as much as 14 teaspoons of sugar or the caffeine equivalent of four cola drinks . “With the addition of alcohol people may feel sober when they are not” added Mr Abbott.

Studies in America, where more research has undertaken on the impact of energy drinks, has shown that the drinks reduce the visual symptoms of drunkenness but not the underlying drunkenness itself. 17.8% of drink drive convictions take place the morning after drinking when people assume that they are free of the effects of alcohol. Caffeine stimulation can create the illusion of being more alert then the person really is. “This fools young people into thinking they are unaffected by the alcohol at the same time as the energy rush gives them a greater feeling of confidence – a potentially lethal combination” warns Mr Abbott.

AlcoSense manufactures and markets award-winning personal breathalysers which measure the amount of alcohol in your system and tells you when you are safe to drive. Priced between £24.99 and £59.99 they offer a quick, easy and accurate way to tell when you are under the limit and are available through Halfords stores nationwide.

For Further Information Contact:

Kevin Monks                    Phone: #

Email: press(at)alcosense(dot)co(dot)uk

Notes to editors

AlcoSense

AlcoSense™ is an award winning mobile phone-sized breathalyser developed to measure if you are near or over the UK drink driving limit and is endorsed by Sir Stirling Moss.

AlcoSense quickly and accurately measures blood alcohol levels. Working in the same way as a Police breathalyser AlcoSense detects the concentration of alcohol in your breath enabling the unit to provide an accurate and discreet Blood Alcohol Concentration reading and alert you if you are near to or above the UK drink drive limit.

There are three models in the AlcoSense range. The AlcoSense Elite costs £59.99; AlcoSense Lite is £34.99 and AlcoSense ONE is £24.99. They are available nationwide from all large Halfords stores, online at Boots.com or direct from AlcoSense at alcosense.co or by phone on #

AlcoSense is a subsidiary of the Now Group UK Ltd.

Now Group UK Ltd

Now Group UK Ltd is a diverse retail marketing and manufacturing organisation with offices in Berkshire and Surrey and representation in Hong Kong. It was founded in 2004 and is owned and managed by the multi-award-winning businessman and racing driver Hunter Abbott.

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Please Do Not Destroy This Country

I see hope in the OWS movement. So long it remains peaceful it will serve its objective of educating the mass in the power of democracy. We need to keep our vigil. Powerful enemies of people are skimming to discredit this movement. Slightest provocation can create violent situations, and once that happens this movement will suffer.

A prominent Washington lobbying firm that has links to the financial industry has proposed an $850,000 plan to take on Occupy Wall Street and politicians who express sympathy for the OWS. The proposal was written on the letterhead of the lobbying firm Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford, and it was addressed to one of CLGC’s clients, the American Bankers Association.

The memo proposes that the ABA pays CLGC $850,000 to conduct “opposition research” on Occupy Wall Street so that “negative narratives” about the protests and allied politicians can be constructed. The memo also affirms that Democratic victories in the next election would severely harm the cause of Wall Street, and suggests this can only be averted by electing Republicans.

Two of the memo’s authors, partners Sam Geduldig and Jay Cranford, had worked for House Speaker John Boehner, before he became speaker. Cranford joined the firm this year after serving the speaker as his assistant for policy. Jeff Sigmund, an ABA spokesperson had confirmed that the association received the memo from CLGC.

The lobbying firms are extremely powerful, since the US Congress is the best government money can buy. Our hope lies with the OWS, and the movement’s success will depend on its ability to strictly adher to the principle of non violence, at all cost. If our bodies are broken by the forces of 1%, those forces are our brothers and sisters, we must remember. They would understand our suffering, and they would join us in time. When that happens this country will be rejuvenated and will rise again to lead nations for years to come. Nothing has really changed, we still have all our great institutions in place, we only need to tame the unabashed Greed that is devouring us.

Then only I will believe my friend’s faith has truly been reposed in where it shall be.

 

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The 10 Highest Selling PC Video Games

I’ve been counting down the top 10 highest selling games on each console but let’s not forget about our friends that get their gaming from the PC. There have been a lot of video games on the PC that have sold well. So well that games like Doom 3 and EverQuest didn’t even make the list of highest selling PC games. What games did make the list? These are the Top 10 selling PC games of all-time.

10. Diablo

Copies Sold – 4 Million A lot of parents go on and on about how bad video games are. Well then why in the world did so many parents willingly buy a game called Diablo?

9. Cossacks: European Wars

Copies Sold – 4 Million Honestly I’ve never even heard of this game so I am a little surprised to see it. You would think if 4 million people bought it then I would’ve heard about it.

8. Guild Wars

Copies Sold – 5 Million I would be one of the 5 million people that bought Guild Wars. So if you’re a Guild Wars player out there then join my guild.

7. Myst

Copies Sold – 6 Million If Myst was a basketball player then he’d be one of those guys who we respected because he was good at the time, but just isn’t as gifted as today’s players.

6. Half-Life

Copies Sold – 8 million Half-Life is just one of the games that took advantage of the first person shooter craze.

5. StarCraft

Copies Sold – 9.5 million Starcraft, Warcraft, apparently everybody loves crafts. I had no idea. I was never good at crafts. I couldn’t cut on the line and always used too much glue.

4. World of Warcraft

Copies Sold – 10 million subscribers World of Warcraft might not have the most copies sold but once you add the fact that many of those people have paid a monthly payment for several years then you see just how much money World of Warcraft has made.

3. The Sims 2

Copies Sold – 13 million The Sims 2 quickly sold a lot of copies but still hasn’t matched the popularity of the first Sims game.

2. Lineage 2

Copies Sold – 14 million Lineage is another PC game that I’m not really familiar with. I guess I need to play more PC games.

1. The Sims

Copies Sold – 16 million I remember when the Sims first passed Myst as the highest selling PC game of all-time. Everybody made a huge deal out of it. Since then it sold another 10 million copies on top of that.

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Chicken Marsala With Portobello Mushrooms Recipe

You can cook this sumptuous restaurant dish easily at your home. This is easy to cook and will be served at your table within an hour. Go through the delicious recipe below.

Ingredients

equally divided butter – 3/4 cup

Equally divided vegetable oil, – 2 tablespoons

Four sliced Portobello mushroom caps

1 clove chopped garlic

Equally divided all-purpose flour – ¾ cup

beef broth # ounce) can

dry Marsala wine – 1/2 cup

a pinch of kosher salt

A pinch of ground black pepper

browning sauce – 1 tablespoon

6 chicken (skinless, boneless) breast halves – minced into 1/2 inch thick pieces

Directions

Preheat oven at 350 degrees F or 175 degrees C.

Melt half cup of butter and heat up one tablespoon of vegetable oil in a large skillet on medium flame. Stir and cook the sliced mushroom pieces in the large skillet until soft. Take away from heat, put cover to maintain the warmth, and set it aside.

Heat up the left over oil, melt the left over butter, and heat a frying pan on medium-high flame. Stir and cook the garlic to make it soft, and then slowly mix the flour. Make it high and add the Marsala wine and beef broth. Season with pepper and kosher salt. Then add and stir the browning sauce. Let it boil, and decrease the flame to low. Mix the mushrooms in the remaining oil and butter in that large skillet. Put a cover to the saucepan, take away from heat.

Season the chicken with pepper and salt, and cover it with rest of the flour. On medium heat, put the oil and butter in the large skillet used for the mushrooms. Take the chicken and cook it for 2 minutes each side until it browned. Place the cooked chicken at the bottom of a baking dish (9×13 inch), and spread mushroom and sauce mixture.

Cover up the baking dish, and in the preheated oven bake it for about 25 minutes.

Serve it hot with cooked pasta and wine.

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ATI Radeon HD 4200 Gaming: Why Some Gamers Hate it and Some Love It

There are many people who want to know about the ATI Radeon HD 4200 gaming capabilities. The main reason that people want to know is because the Radeon HD 4200 graphics processor is an integrated one. That means if you can use it for gaming then you won’t have to spend extra money trying to get an external PCI-e graphics adapter. Since we are saving money and playing high end games then there must be a lot of gamers who want to know about this integrated graphics card.

Radeon HD 4200 gaming has a wide ranged variable. For some people, they can try to use it and get a very unplayable Fallout 3 experience. Then there are others who can use the same exact Radeon HD 4200 but receive a flawless gaming experience. Why is does this problem with Radeon HD 4200 gaming exist?

One reason that this problem exists is that the motherboard becomes a major factor since it is an integrated graphics card. The biggest difference in boards is whether you are using DDR2 system RAM or if you are able to use DDR3 system RAM. This is important because Radeon HD 4200 gaming depends solely upon the system ram for memory. DDR2 runs, on average, slower than DDR3. However, just having DDR3 memory does not guarantee that you see the results that you are looking for. There are some overclocked DDR2 chips that are faster than the low end DDR3 RAM chips. If you want the best Radeon HD 4200 gaming experience then you will have to make sure that you are using DDR3 memory chips that are clocked at 1600MHz or higher. That 1600MHz will have a major impact when you are trying to play some of the latest games. In all other cases, the speed of the DDR3 memory would probably be less than important.

If you have DDR2 RAM then it would probably be better to just spend $50 on an external Radeon HD card that has DDR3 memory or better. This is because overclocking your DDR2 to try to match the DDR3 will only make room for another world of problems.

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OpenOffice.org Clocks up One Hundred Million Downloads

Edinburgh, Scotland (PRWEB) October 29, 2009

Yesterday, Wednesday 28th., the one hundred millionth person clicked on the Download OpenOffice.org button since version 3.0 of the software was announced just over one year ago. With a follow up 3.1 release in May this year, and a 3.2 release already in the hands of beta testers, the world’s leading open-source office productivity suite is continuing to generate enthusiasm among developers and end users alike. The champagne bottles are already being prepared for celebrations at the community’s annual conference next week in Orvieto, Italy.

Italo Vignoli, spokesman for the conference organising team, explained the significance of the milestone and the event. “We are delighted to have the global OpenOffice.org community coming to Italy at such a memorable time. Here in Italy we have seen 8 million downloads of the Italian version in the twelve months to October 2009, against less than 7 million new PCs sold in the same period. This proves our market share in the segment of personal productivity office suites is growing strongly and steadily. Users are asking for a personal productivity suite, and we are giving them exactly what they want – without trying to force them to use other products they don’t need. Our Conference is open to anyone interested in OpenOffice.org – please come along and join the celebrations”.

What makes the statistics impressive is that they only record downloads via the OpenOffice.org website, and exclude for example large numbers of Linux users who generally download software from their own distributor. In addition, many users obtain OpenOffice.org via other mirrors, peer-to-peer networks, CDs, or other media.

About OpenOffice.org:

Read our Press Kit

The OpenOffice.org Community is a global network of volunteer and sponsored contributors who seek to make state-of-the-art desktop productivity software available to install and use for any purpose in virtually every computer anywhere at absolutely no cost. Their OpenOffice.org open-source productivity suite bundles word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, and database software applications comparable (and some would say superior) to Microsoft’s Office product.

No up-front license to purchase, no annual renewal fee to pay; no having to buy an ‘upgrade’ every time a new version comes out. Just nice clean (virus resistant) software that is easily installed (even by the technophobe), conveniently downloadable and seamlessly ready to run, able to read and write to Microsoft Word and Excel files even if those applications are not installed, and backed by a world-wide network of top-notch technical support… all at no cost.

The OpenOffice.org Community benefits from generous sponsorship from a number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, the founding sponsor and primary contributor. All satisfied users are encouraged to participate in the Community’s work – as developers, testers, translators, artists, authors, answering queries, or simply spreading the word – with the overarching objective of making everything work better for everyone.

Contacts:

Italo Vignoli (UTC/GMT +01h00)

OpenOffice.org Marketing Contact, Italy

italovignoli (at) openoffice (dot) org

Phone: + #

John McCreesh (UTC/GMT)

OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead

jpmcc (at) openoffice (dot) org

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Florian Effenberger (UTC/GMT +01h00)

OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead

floeff (at) openoffice (dot) org

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How the Infants Supply Calcium

Yogurt Dessert Shrikand

Three months of the baby is very small. Generally speaking, the babies who eat the breast milk almost do not appear the calcium deficiency. If the baby is lack of the calcium, how should we fill it? Tonic or drugs make everyone was talking about the topic whether use the tonic or the drugs. The following content will give you several ways to solve baby calcium.

The babies are special populations. No matter the breastfeeding or mixed or artificial feeding, milk is the main diet. Mothers who do breastfeeding should take a certain amount of calcium according to individual circumstances in every day. 0 to 5-month-old baby should intake calcium about 300 mg in daily. Only if the baby drink 600 to 800 ml of breast milk or formula, it is sufficient to satisfy the body’s need for calcium. 3 months baby cannot add a food supplement, so mother should choose the formula which has the high calcium content.

3 months baby is most suitable for eating calcium gluconate. In addition, calcium lactate is a good choice. Calcium gluconate and calcium lactate are better than calcium carbonate. Also, mother should pay attention to choose infant calcium products which have some good source of calcium absorption, s good taste and absorption, and does not irritate the stomach. It is best to consult a doctor and then select the calcium products.

Calcium products have calcium, calcium dose, and even liquid calcium. If the baby needs to eat, mother should add the product into the formula.

Calcium deficiency is disease. We should use the drugs to treat the disease. If we need to do the prevention, we can do the tonic, but treatment should choose the drugs. Preterm children should begin to supply the calcium after two weeks since birth, and the term children been up after one moths.

Sun is an important way for infants and young children to do calcium supplements. Because the reason to cause the calcium deficiency mainly due to inadequate intake of VD. VD content in food is rare, combined with the monotonous infant recipes, so the baby can only intake the a few VD from the foods. The sun can be contributed to a substance in the skin change into VD and this method is the most secure way to supply.

Sun is an important way for infants and young children to do calcium supplements. Because the reason to cause the calcium deficiency mainly due to inadequate intake of VD. VD content in food is rare, combined with the monotonous infant recipes, so the baby can only intake the a few VD from the foods. The sun can be contributed to a substance in the skin change into VD and this method is the most secure way to supply.

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JD Edwards Live Software Playday™ Puts Attendees in the Driver’s Seat at COLLABORATE 12, April 23-25, 2012, Las Vegas, NV

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) April 17, 2012

Ideal for companies that are curious about new functionality or need to understand the impact a software upgrade can have on their organization, Playday™ takes the guess work out of what to expect in the latest releases of Oracle’s JD Edwards World and Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. Through self-guided scripts, created in Oracle’s User Productivity Kit, COLLABORATE 12 attendees can navigate live software to experience the latest features and functionality first-hand, without the pressure. Whether you are curious about new functionality or need key individuals to understand the impact an upgrade could have on your organization, Playdays can help.

For the past few years, Oracle Gold Partner, brij Image & Information has worked with Quest International User’s Group to provide this opportunity to attendees of COLLABORATE, as well as the Quest regional conferences. In addition to Oracle applications, Playday™ will also include live software from complementary third party product vendors. Among the third party products that will be available during the Playday™ are: InsightSoftware.com, Medius Software and K-Rise Systems.

Although, Playday™ is open to all end user attendees of COLLABORATE 12, we ask that you pre-register for the time in which you plan to participate. Space is limited and pre-registering secures your spot. This event will be held at one of the world’s preeminent convention centers, Mandalay Bay in booth #452. Playday™ attendees will also have the opportunity to enter a drawing for a gaming system including a bundle pack. For Playday™ hours and registration, please visit brij_registration.html.

Visit QuestDirect to register for COLLABORATE 12.

About brij:

brij offers the best in JD Edwards Software (ERP), implementation services, training and sales. Through our genuine understanding of customer satisfaction, brij has earned the reputation as one of the most experienced JD Edwards implementers in the United States. As a result, we’ve achieved the highest satisfaction ratings in the country for two years running, and have also earned several awards including: JD Edwards Partner of the Quarter – Four Times! | JD Edwards Partner of the Year | JD Edwards Mark of Excellence – Five Times! Nearly 25 years later, over 150 JD Edwards implementations and a team of consultants with 12+ years of experience with JD Edwards, we are ready to help you build your bridge to success.

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