My husband has his own business and so do several of our friends. One of the most important things that they are all concerned with are their point of sale equipment. Whether they are using an old fashioned cash register or an automated credit card processing machine, the most important thing is that it works
The Epson tm-t88iv is a thermal printer that is designed to handle a high-volume retail environment and it also has speed. That means that you don’t have a long wait time to get a receipt out when ringing up a sale. The printer works with most point of sale systems so you won’t have to worry about any compatibility issues.
We are in the midst of selecting a college for our daughter who is graduating from high school this year and I can tell you, it’s not going to be an easy task. Many universities have made drastic cut backs making some of the courses and majors that she’s interested in unavailable. At the same time, many of them are raising their tuition fees and other fees. It is a hard balancing act and a hard decision to make.
One alternative to the traditional university systems is a school like Western Governor’s University (WGU) where students can get an online degree without having to attend a traditional campus and they claim that their tuition fees are lower and more affordable. Their courses are supposedly more accelerated so you can finish sooner thus saving more money. WGU also offers a masters degree online which allows working adults to earn a higher degree without sacrificing their income.
One of the things that has been of interest to us with our daughter is the amount of scholarships and financial aids offered by universities so it is one of the things that I checked on with WGU. It turns out that they offer several ways to assist their students via:
Additional Economic Turnaround Scholarships
$3,000 Scholarships for Employees of Small Businesses
AARP Foundation-WGU Educational Assistance Program Scholarships
If you are looking for a place that offers online degrees, check out WGU.
Who are the idiots that banned these books? I don’t even want to know. On the Huffington Post, here is a list of the 11 Most Surprising Banned Books. These are some of the most loved and popular books ever, and they are classics! Here are the titles:
The Dictionary
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
Beloved & The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
James and the Giant Peach & The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
A Farewell to Arms & For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Click on the link if you want to see the reason why they were banned. You will be screaming “idiots!” too. Where have these people been? Even those who’ve been under rocks surely, must have read and enjoyed some of these books. People who ban books should be checked with pulse oximeter to see if they are still alive. Seriously!
THE STORIES:
UNTOUCHABLE By Kresley Cole
A breathtaking tale of a brutal vampire soldier about to know love for the first time…and a Valkyrie aching to be touched.
Murdoch Wroth will stop at nothing to claim Daniela the Ice Maiden — the delicate Valkyrie who makes his heart beat for the first time in three hundred years. Yet the exquisite Danii is part ice fey, and her freezing skin can’t be touched by anyone but her own kind without inflicting pain beyond measure. Soon desperate for closeness, in an agony of frustration, Murdoch and Danii will do anything to have each other. Together, can they find the key that will finally allow them to slake the overwhelming desire burning between them?
Category: HEALTH & FITNESS
Format: HARDCOVER BOOK
Publish Date: 9/10/2009
ISBN: 9780446546126
Pages: 304
ABOUT THE BOOK
Created by celebrity fitness trainer Beto Perez, Zumba® combines fun, easy-to-follow dance steps with hot Latin beats to help you shed pounds and inches fast. Now the DVD and classes that have hooked millions are available in book format, with a complete workout program, fat-burning diet, and an exclusive instructional DVD with 60 minutes worth of music to help you Zumba your way to the perfect body.
Using the principles of interval and resistance training, the simple dance and sculpting moves (inspired by the traditional cumbia, salsa, samba, and merengue) tone and shape your body. And because it burns 600 to 1,000 calories per hour, you don’t have to restrict your meals to boring or bland-tasting diet foods. The Zumba diet begins with a 5-Day Express Diet to jump start weight loss (lose up to 9 lbs in 5 days) and then offers 14-day meal plans and recipes that target weight loss in the stomach and thighs. You’ll find:
I stayed up late last night, or should I say this morning? I got started watching a movie and could not turn away even though I came in midway through and usually, that is enough to turn me away. Anyway, the movie is called Oldboy and it is a subtitled Korean movie.
This movie has a lot of twists and turns, some of them totally unexpected and the cinematography is fantastic. Very artfully done. I guess that is why it was awarded the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The movie is loosely based on a Japanese manga and is the second installment of the Vengeance trilogy.
If you don’t mind spoilers, click here for the Wikipedia Site for Oldboy which provides a really good synopsis of the movie’s intricate plot.