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Hello to all of you, with these exercises I'll be very glad to give you some ideas to improve your guitar technique and to feel more at ease when you play fast sequence. These examples start from simple ideas to arrive to more intricate parts… but as all of you knows the time to have a great technique as Greg Howe, Shawn Lane or Richie Kotzen is slow and with a lot of practice. I really hope you'll enjoy this kind of course of shred guitar playing and for any questions please email me.
This first exercise is an example of how to combine an arpeggio with more figures and starting from different strings with tapping notes.
This second is a concentrate of technique. The first sequence is a legato with tapping and then an arpeggio with tapping. The last notes written as X are muted and it creates a cool effect of muting before end with a cool vibrato.
This one is a riff on Aminor with muted notes that finish with an arpeggio
and two fingers tapping. Play it 2 or 3 times and it will sounds really cool.
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Seventy-five years after developing the first convenience store, 7-Eleven shapes a new future
Bob Jenkins, vice president of international development for Dallas-based 7-Eleven Inc. has one of the most interesting jobs in the industry -- "ambassador of convenience," if you will.
The very existence of his position illustrates how far his company has come since it first struck gold selling milk, bread and eggs from a lowly ice dock in Oak Cliff, Texas in 1927.
"In Japan, Japanese consumers say, 'Oh, yeah, 7-Eleven is a Japanese concept.' Our Taiwanese consumers would say it had to be invented in Taiwan," Jenkins explained. "'This is my 7-Eleven, and if it's my 7-Eleven, it must have been created for me here' -- that's really what we want our local customers to believe."
His excitement is evident as he continues: "We still have tremendous growth potential around the world. I like to use the comparison to McDonald's; they finished 2001 with a little over 28,000 restaurants in 120 countries. 7-Eleven has 23,000 stores in 19 countries -- huge potential for growth. There are so many untapped markets we haven't touched yet."
As 7-Eleven celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, the company finds itself as much at home in other countries as in the United States.
Take Japan, for example. During a standard lunch hour, a 7-Eleven customer in Tokyo can grab a quick box of sushi, download MP3s onto a minidisk, pre-order a few DVD's, purchase tickets for a baseball game and print out high resolution photos taken during his latest vacation.
When that customer returns later in the afternoon, 40 percent of the store will be entirely reset, featuring a selection of fresh take-home produce, fish and meats.
To many U.S. retailers, this scenario might sound like a futuristic pipe-dream. Yet for the operators at Seven-Eleven Japan Co. Ltd., product mixes that rotate by daypart, along with a staggering array of in-store services, are daily work necessities required to meet consumer demand.
While the Japanese market isn't necessarily a harbinger of things to come in the United States, Seven-Eleven Japan is a crystal ball of sorts. And if one examines the flurry of activity at the heart of the 9,000 store organization — where store-specific product mixes are shipped three times per day using a real-time ordering system, and retailers turn their entire inventories 50 times per year — a picture of convenience retailing's global future begins to emerge.
7-Eleven is beginning to integrate some of its overseas strategies into its U.S. marketing efforts. Its new "Store of the Future" in Plano, Texas showcases new technology and a diverse foodservice offering to drive business throughout the day, said Kathy Walsh, director of information systems for 7-Eleven. "We are working with a U.S. prototype that can be modified to fit the needs of customers in our core U.S. markets," she said.
Fresh Ideas
7-Eleven is reinventing its foodservice program by test-marketing its new "Big Eats" line, an upscale variety of hot and cold sandwiches that complements the Big Gulp and Big Bite lines.
Converting 5,800 domestic stores to a new foodservice program will be an unwieldy task, but 7-Eleven's global scope offers the company a bird's-eye view of the massive potential of an improved offering. In Japan, for example, fresh foods account for about 40 percent of sales; in Sweden, 25 percent. For a large, public company in an industry starving for margins, capitalizing on such potential is imperative.
"When I looked at 7-Eleven, I saw a company that has thousands of stores, serves 3 billion people annually, but has foodservice penetration to only about 3 million of them," said Des Hague, director of fresh foods. "This is virgin territory and a wonderful opportunity to create something that could revolutionize the way we look at food."
7-Eleven's plight is different than that of most retailers. The company already has a loyal consumer base that visits the convenience stores and forecourt three or four times a week.
"With foodservice, you're usually trying to drive people into your door," Hague said. "Our challenge is that we've got all these people and they just don't think we're a viable foodservice option right now. How do we turn that around? That's what really excited me about the opportunity at 7-Eleven."
With his long and distinguished career in foodservice, Hague is exactly what 7-Eleven was looking for to put a fresh face on a tired, albeit successful, program.
Hague first gained experience in his family's restaurant business in northern England. From there he moved around Europe working for Burger King and Pizza Hut. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1991, Hague was one of the first European-based foodservice purveyors to introduce Western food culture to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Russia.
Under Hague's guidance, Pizza Hut Poland now has one of the world's largest and most successful delivery businesses, nearly 4,000 deliveries a week. "And when we got there, they were doing roughly 600 a week," he said. "So we — and we're talking about a six-month period — turned the business around completely by capitalizing on efficiencies and economies of scale to build a strong infrastructure."
Hague is now excited about the challenge of building a new brand. "The challenge of changing the way consumers view 7-Eleven's foodservice program and the challenge of getting customers to view 7-Eleven as a daily option for breakfast, lunch and dinner," he said.
The Big Eats line was developed following a five-step process:
Developing Products Customers Want
"The convenience store industry has sort of a bad history as far as foodservice goes," Hague said. "How are you getting customers to try the products? How do you spread the word about new and improved products?"
To achieve this objective, Hague and the 7-Eleven foodservice group embarked upon detailed and lengthy focus groups and consumer research. "We didn't want to be in a position where we put a lot of money into product development only to find out it's not what customers want," he said.
Leveraging Brand Equity
7-Eleven knows it has strong brand equity in U.S. households because of its exposure to consumers. "We believe that there will be more equity in 7-Eleven-developed brands if we have the things to deliver against the 'store was developed for you' concept," Hague said. "The essence of foodservice is to make sure the brand stands for something customers can trust."
Better Packaging
If there is one area in which the convenience store industry hasn't excelled, it's been in developing attractive, upscale packaging to showcase foodservice products. 7-Eleven has been no exception. "We haven't done a great job," Hague admitted.
"People buy with their eyes first and then taste," Hague said. 7-Eleven is working the packaging angle by using technology to create ergonomically designed cartons that keep products such as pizza and pastries warm without requiring the consumer to actually touch the food item.
"If you're going to launch a product like hot bakery sticks with cinnamon you don't want to just shove it in the bag and force the consumer to eat it with a napkin," Hague said.
7-Eleven is prepared to pay higher costs up front to get the right solution for the consumer. Using gourmet breads and meats combined with condiment stations that include 10 offerings, the Big Eats program spares little expense.
At the store of the future many of the chain's initiatives are evident. "Soft heat" coffee dispensers that keep product fresher longer. The fountain soft drink dispensers have 18 beverage choices plus flavor additions of lemon, vanilla and cherry to customize drinks. A six-barreled Slurpee machine also provides more flavor choices.
7-Eleven's coffee offering illustrates how the company manages its foodservice on a market-by-market basis.
For example, cinnamon is available in California and New York only. Hazelnut decaf is marketed in New England. Blueberry creme and hazelnut are available in about two-thirds of 7-Eleven stores primarily in markets where coffee sales are strong, such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
"Foodservice items need to be fun and creative, but the shame of the c-store food business is that we have offered them plain ham and cheese sandwiches for too long," said Hague.
"That's got to end," he said. "And that's our main challenge — to win on quality, win on flavor profile, win on packaging, and win on brand development. This is a real shift in strategy because this is going to involve designing stores a little differently and retrofitting existing stores. But we are ready for the challenge."
This five-step approach has 7-Eleven on the right track. During the fourth quarter last year, foodservice sales jumped more than 10 percent.
"It's very hard to turn around a 5,800-store chain in 16 weeks," Hague said. "But we've done that. We've been the number-one growth category in non-services for the company for the first time in its history."
Though Hague stopped short of offering any sales projections for the next 12 months, he said. "Fresh food will absolutely grow measurably in our business."
21st Century Enterprise
While the decision to grow the foodservice business is viewed as a positive step forward, not every decision has worked out.
When an ill-advised leveraged buyout in 1987 led to Southland's bankruptcy less than four years later, the company's largest licensee, Japan-based IYG Holding Co., came to the rescue, purchasing more than 70 percent of Southland's shares.
Yet perhaps more importantly than the infusion of much-needed cash, Southland's reorganization involved borrowing heavily from their foreign shareholder's technology-driven business model.
Like so many other American inventions, such as the television, the VCR, the computer and the automobile, exportation has served the 7-Eleven model well, opening doors to new efficiencies, broadening domestic horizons through an ongoing interchange of ideas with other cultures.
Seven-Eleven Japan is arguably the most technologically savvy c-store operation in the world. The company's retailers have been working with point-of-sale integrated electronic order books since 1982; today, they use software to make daily merchandising decisions based on the weather.
"During my first trip to Japan as a member of the senior management team," said 7-Eleven's president and CEO Jim Keyes, "[Masatoshi] Ito, the chairman of Seven-Eleven Japan, presented me a book called The Machine That Changed the World, and gave it to all the other senior officers of 7-Eleven Inc. for the U.S.
"We thought, 'This is unusual for we're here to talk about convenience stores,'" Keyes said.
The team gradually realized the message Ito was trying to communicate: 7-Eleven's U.S. operations were suffering from a mindset similar to that of U.S. automakers in the 1970s.
Keyes explained, "Our first approach toward changes involved design. We said, 'We're going to change the look. We're going to change the appearance. We're going to change the colors.' And it was much like the U.S. automobile companies that would wrinkle a fender and change the design, but never fundamentally change the capabilities of the car."
In contrast, what 7-Eleven Japan had done was take the basic convenience store box, completely dissect it and redesign every bit of the business from the distribution of goods, to the kinds of goods, to the way people manage products and categories within the store. And that produced a better business model.
"We had to really get down to individual items and redesign the business from the inside out," Keyes said.
Opening Bell
7-Eleven's drive to become an industry leader in technology is clear. And positive results are beginning to take shape, although 7-Eleven has been somewhat bruised by Wall-Street investors impatient to see more immediate results from the company's ongoing infrastructure upgrades.
"We're just trying to raise the level of our game," said Keith Morrow, executive director of information systems. "We've had a pretty sophisticated system for several years, but now, we're trying to increase the velocity of getting actual information in the hands of people that need it, more real time — because it's been traditionally more of a batch and a transactional type of a system.
"Last year in the fourth quarter, we rolled out a system for our store managers that we call the 7-Eleven home page," said Morrow. The back-office systems, although more detailed than most, are similar to many other high-end scan-data based systems. What is unique is the way that 7-Eleven plans to use these "home pages" for communication.
"We have traditionally had weekly national conference calls that went out to all of our field consultants and peer consultants," Morrow said. "Now, we're bringing the store into that process with the home page [using e-mail and teleconferencing capabilities]; managers are being made aware of new items, of how to better use their daily accounting reports and receipt information.
Utilizing data from the systems, 7-Eleven is working toward a more streamlined delivery process that will incorporate its vast network of local distribution centers. 7-Eleven retailers in the U.S. can soon look forward to a situation similar to the one in Seven-Eleven Japan; stores will be more tailored to their local market, and operators will receive store-specific deliveries at least once per day.
"We call it the merchandising engine, but it's really the entire system of collaborating with the suppliers all the way to the in-store check-in and merchandising with pricing tools and planograms," said Morrow. "It involves the whole product life cycle, phasing in the new products, line buy management, all of that."
The most visible of 7-Eleven's technological initiatives, however, will be its V-com Internet-enabled kiosks. As the kiosks are rolled out nationally during the next year, customers will begin using the electronic service centers for check cashing, money orders, ATM services and soon, telecom services. Morrow hopes that they will eventually use the kiosks for much more.
"At its core, the business model works with financial services, but there's all sorts of possible extensions. It's got two really powerful, secure servers in it," said Morrow. "It can interconnect with any system anywhere with the way we built the switch on the back end, any partner. So the possibilities are relatively endless, based on where the customer preference starts guiding us."
"The power comes when we can literally distribute various types of media and audio [such as MP3s], digital video and film processing, ticket ordering, and those sorts of things become more viable. The possibilities are really only limited by our imagination."
Morrow and team have taken proactive steps to ensure acceptance of the machines. Using greeters, the company is introducing customers to the kiosks in new markets. "There's certainly an adoption curve," he said. "We've just got to see how much of that we're going to have to do once we introduce the machine in an area."
Tomorrow The World
As 7-Eleven continues to refine its offering in the States, worldwide expansion continues to help the company define its mission and clarify what, exactly, "convenience" means.
At 75, the company seems truly poised for rebirth in the United States, even as it sets out to conquer corners around the world.
"7-Eleven has a system that's exported worldwide; it's an adaptable system," said Jenkins. "Market concentration, managed distribution and good quality fresh food programs, high technology driven use of information at the store level. Those are the key fundamentals.
"That's what it is," he continued. "Tying all of those things together is what the 7-Eleven system is. We sell convenience."


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Maine's New Forest Economy — The Forest Industry Reinvents Itself
by Christine Parrish
Thursday, March 30, 2017 9:18 AM
(Photo by C. Parrish)
When the Maine Pulp and Paper Association, an industry advocacy group, closed its doors due to lack of membership earlier this year, it seemed that King Paper was dead.
It isn't. It's just no longer in charge.
At a forum sponsored by GrowSmart Maine and E2Tech, an organization focused on environmental technology and energy, it appears industry leaders are moving on.
While the content of the meeting was mostly about the new opportunities for biomass and wood-based biofuel, Patrick Strauch, the director of the Maine Forest Products Council, hit on the real revolution in Maine's forest economy: collaboration.
"I never thought I would be sitting down with people like Yellow," said Strauch, who has long been an advocate for the forest industry. He was referring to Yellow Light Breen, the president of the Maine Development Foundation. Breen's passion is promoting economic and educational opportunity for all Mainers.
"Now, I consider Yellow a friend," said Strauch.
In the world of global markets and iPads, a stable forest-based economy requires not just new products and investors, but also cooperation with community developers and others to help strengthen the economies of small rural towns. That means conservationists, officials of small towns, local non-profits, teachers, small-business owners, recreationists, and others have a real chance to help shape the future of their towns in a way that was never possible when paper was king.
Discussions about the new forest economy started in earnest last summer when economic advisors from several federal agencies — the EDAT team — came to Maine at the invitation of Senator Angus King to assess what hard-hit mill towns could do to move forward. EDAT also provided initial funding to start The Maine Forest Economy Growth Initiative, whose task is to come up with strategies to help the industry and communities prosper.
The forest sector still employs over 14,000 people directly in Maine, according to University of Maine research. One of every 24 jobs in the state is associated with the industry, which contributed $8.5 billion to the state economy last year, according to Mindy Crandall, a forest economist at the University of Maine.
Presenters spoke on the potential for biomass to supply electricity plants and Maine's potential to become a global supplier of biomass and manufacturer of wood-based products ranging from textiles to chemical bases for pharmaceuticals — both of which could tap into an abundant wood supply, a trained workforce, and mill sites that could be redeveloped. They are also problematic, since biomass plants are currently subsidized by the state, emit high levels of greenhouse gases out the pipe, and the impacts of removing too much woody debris from forest ecosystems is not well known.
On the low-tech side, a new local wood movement modeled on the local food movement is under way. Local Wood WORKS is a partnership between land trusts, economic development groups, conservation organizations and the Maine Forest Service. Their goal is to keep Maine forests as forestland, emphasize conservation, and keep the money generated local. Their initiatives include creating a Local Wood Heat movement that, among other things, promotes heating municipal and institutional buildings using modern wood-pellet boilers. They also promote using local-only wood products, strengthening forestry tax incentives for local landowners, and promoting business education and management related to forest products and uses.
And it's not just a vision. Among their plans are updating building codes to include wood composite materials, a design competition focusing on Maine wood, and a Maine wood building products trade show targeting regional architects and builders.
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Harris Teeter's Morganthall, ShopRite's Jeff Brown to Present at SJU Food Industry Summit
Saint Joseph's University (SJU), a leading institution in food marketing education, will host the fourth annual Food Industry Summit on Thursday, March 11, 2010 from 8 AM to 4 PM.
Saint Joseph's University (SJU), a leading institution in food marketing education, will host the fourth annual Food Industry Summit on Thursday, March 11, 2010 from 8 AM to 4 PM.
Titled "Meeting the Challenges of Today's Food Marketplace: Lessons from Industry Leaders," this year's summit will take place at the Philadelphia-based SJU's Haub School of Business. A venue for food industry CEOs and presidents to present their insights on major issues and trends facing our business, the event is attended by food industry executives and decision makers from around the country, offering both an excellent informational and networking opportunity.
"Since its inception, the summit has become a forum for thought leadership in the food industry," said Mark Lang of SJU's Food Marketing Department. "For over 45 years, we have been educating undergraduate and graduate students, performing research, supporting government initiatives, and leading discussions on key issues within the food industry."
The 2010 Food Industry Summit is a full-day event that will feature several dynamic and influential executives from top food companies, including:
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How do we turn trees into paper?The wood in trees is mostly made up of fibre. Paper is made by processing the wood and its fibre. In the paper factory, the bark from the tree is peeled off from the trunk and then the wood is chopped into very small pieces. These wood pieces are boiled until they turn into a slushy pulp.
This pulp is then poured onto a wire mesh, where a lot of water from it drains out. The thick pulp that's left over on the wire is then squeezed between felt-covered press rollers to absorb extra water. After that, the pressed pulp passes through hot rollers many times until it is completely dry. This is how paper is made!
What are renewable resources?A renewable resource is a resource which is replaced naturally, by nature, and can be used again. Examples of renewable resources are oxygen, fresh water, solar energy, timber and biomass. Renewable resources may also include things we buy and use every day like wood, paper and leather.
By using responsibly managed, renewable resources we can care for the planet's resources, as they can be re generated over and over again.
What can trees teach us about the environment?Trees are the lungs of the planet and are great environmentalists. They take our waste product (carbon dioxide) and they turn it into the oxygen that we breathe. They are very good at removing toxins (poisonous stuff) from the environment and can soak up water to help prevent flooding.
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Living sustainably means that we can live healthy and safe lives without damaging the earth, so that all the children of the future can enjoy it too!
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Recycling means using things that have already been used to make new things. There are lots of reasons why it's important to recycle, here's just a few:
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- Recycling reduces landfill. A landfill is a place where we bury rubbish in the ground. Packaging is one of the easiest things to recycle and there should never be a need to send it to landfill. So just pop your used packaging, including your Avonmore School Milk carton, in the 'green' or recycling bin.
- Recycling saves money. Putting your used packaging in the 'green' or recycling bin is cheaper than putting it in the black bin.
What is climate change and how can trees help prevent it?Climate change is a term that is used to describe the heating or cooling of the planet's average temperatures over a period of time.
Climate change can occur naturally and it can be influenced by human activity.
Human activity which can affect climate change includes driving cars and making products in our factories. This is because cars and factories can release Greenhouse Gases such as carbon dioxide.
Greenhouse gasses act like a blanket around the earth and trap heat from the sun. This 'blanket' can get too thick if too many greenhouse gasses are added causing the earth to become warmer. This can knock out the balance of the earth's weather patterns and cause dry areas to become even drier and wet areas to become wetter! We have seen the weather change in lots of places all over the world in recent years and scientists believe that this is largely caused by human activity affecting climate change.
What everyday things are made from trees?The Tetra Pak carton your school milk comes in is mainly made from trees. The trees that are used to make the cartons come from responsibly managed forests and other controlled sources!
Other everyday things that are made from trees are writing paper, envelopes, paper bags, cardboard boxes, cereal boxes and even toilet roll! Some musical instruments are made from the wood from trees like the piano and the violin and don't forget some of the furniture around your home like chairs, book shelves, floor boards and even the toilet seat can be made from wood.
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- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
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- 4 cloves garlic grated
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- one 2 1/2-pound skin-on bone-in turkey breast
- 1 pound cippolini peeled and halved
- 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F, with a rack in the position third from the top and another just below it.
2. Combine 4 tablespoons butter, 1 tablespoon parsley, the thyme and garlic in a small bowl. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Place the turkey, skin-side up, on a rack set in a rimmed baking sheet. Rub the herb butter over the turkey and underneath the skin. Season liberally with salt and pepper.
4. Toss together the cippolini, vinegar and olive oil in a 1-quart ovenproof baking dish. Season with salt and pepper.
5. Place the turkey on the higher oven rack and the cippolini on the rack below. Roast until the cippolini are cooked through and tender and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the turkey registers 155 degrees F, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Stir the remaining 2 tablespoons butter into the cippolini. Let the turkey rest for 10 minutes before slicing.
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PDF Invoice with PayPal Button (c5093)
c5093 now includes the customized invoice template for the latest version of Uniform Invoice Software. This is what you will see when you open pdf-invoice-paypal-button-uis.xlsx.
PDF Invoice with PayPal Button - UIS edition
License: Private Use (not for distribution or resale). See our Terms of Use.
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Download this if you have already installed UIS, but are looking for additional customized templates.
Download this if you want this design to be set as the default template by the installer program.
You can include a PayPal payment button on your PDF invoices to accept online payment via PayPal. In this free sample we demonstrates how to add the PayPal button to the standard invoice template shipped with UIS 4.17.
Uniform Invoice Software (UIS) is able to generate invoices in Adobe PDF (".pdf"), Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (".xlsx") and image format (".png"), and send the generated electronical invoices to customers via email. Starting from version 4.17, you can even add a PayPal payment button to your PDF invoices. Here are the steps to follow to enable to this feature.
Click here to view the sample PDF invoice that includes a PayPal payment button. Feel free to browse our gallery of our PDF invoice formats generated with UIS.
Here are some important notes about the PayPal payment button.
Like other form designs here on InvoicingTemplate.com, PayPay Payment Button on PDF Invoices is free (offered to you at a price of 0.00USD). It works on Windows XP and all newer versions of Windows, and Excel 2007, 2010, 2013 or 2016.
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PayPal Payment Button Using Custom Image
In this sample we look at how to use a custom image to replace the default PayPal payment button image inserted with our invoicing software app, which is in fact a Microsoft Excel picture object with a hyperlink set.
Invoice Sample with Partial Payment and Payment History
Uniform Invoice Software supports partial payment. It is also able to payment historical record on the invoice form, although this feature was not noticed by many of the users. This sample template shows how.
Spin Button to Add or Subtract One
With this sample invoice template we demonstrates how to spin button, which is one of the Microsoft Forms Controls. The spin button allows you add one or subtract one from a number.
Simple Sample - Separate City State ZIP
The default invoice template stores "City, State and ZIP" in two separate fields. This customization sample of our simple invoice templates demonstrates how to store it in 3 separate fields using custom fields.
Simple Sample - Using Segoe Print Font
The default invoice format shipped with Uniform Invoice Software installer program uses the default font of Excel. To make your business documents differ from others you can simply change the font face.
Invoice and Packing List on Separate Worksheet
This shipping packing slip template is designed for small business that sells and ships goods. Unlike our previous designs of pack list templates for shipping goods, this template implement the packing slip form in a separate form but within the same Excel template as the invoice form.
With this sample blank invoicing template with logo for Microsoft Excel, we explain in detail how to add / replace / move a logo image or picture. This form design is based on c4032.
With this sample template for Excel we show you how to add the email address to an invoicing form, and how to set up emailing options so that you can email invoice to the client by clicking the "Extract/Email" button.
Excel Shipping Invoice with Printable Truck Background Image
If you are running a shipping business, this Excel-formatted (xlsx) shipping invoice template helps you to create beautiful and professional invoices. On revising the original shipping invoice template, we added a printable Volvo heavy truck background image.
UIS V5.11 Standard Invoice Template and Shortcut Keys
Uniform Invoice Software version 5.11 includes a new default / standard invoice template shipped with the installer program. This document explains the changes made to the template, and the default hotkeys defined by this new version.
Invoice and Packing List on Same Form
A shipping packing list is also called delivery docket, it shows what goods included on shipment, also serve as a bill of lading. It is naturally close related to invoices. In this sample template we demonstrates how to create a packing list and an invoice within one same form.
Clothing Store (Manufacturer) Invoice Template with Item Pickup Buttons
This invoicing template for clothing stores or manufacturers is a variant of cm003 Clothing Store (Manufacturer) Invoice Template with Size Breakdown. It differs from the original edition in that this variant adds back the buttons that you can click to pick up customer, shipping address, sales representative and payment term.
Clothing Store (Manufacturer) Invoice Template with Discount Percentage
The previous invoicing templates designed for clothing stores (manufacturers) define a discount amount field. This new cloth bill format in Excel added a discount percentage field, as in many cloth shops discounts are given in percentage first.
Recipient Created Tax Invoices Form
In Australia tax invoices are usually issued by the supplier or seller. However Australian Taxation Office also allows the purchaser or recipient of the goods or services to issue tax invoice for the purchases, knowns as recipient-created tax invoices (RCTI).
Standard Invoicing Template with EAN
This is a variant of the standard invoice template shipped with Uniform Invoice Software installer program. This sample layout differs from the original version in that it has added an EAN column.


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APMEX uses a special machine for this sealing process to ensure the products you receive are sealed completely, once they are removed directly from the mint boxes. The mint tubes are placed on the conveyor leading into the machine, and the sealing process seals both ends of each tube with tamper-evident packaging. If this tube has been opened in any way, you will know it. After the process is completed, the tube is removed from the machine and checked to ensure the quality of the packaging meets our exacting standards. You now have a finished tube of MintDirect® 2017 1 oz Silver Kangaroo coins.
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If you really need to play snooker at home and you don't have a table, then this is the game to buy.
For anyone determined to banish the January blues with digital cue sports, the latest instalment in Segas beloved series is unquestionably the Stephen Hendry of snooker sims.
Allowing players to try their hand at billiards and pool as well as snooker, where WSC2007 excels is its convincing sense of control; like EAs Tiger Woods games, striking the white uses a combination of both the controllers thumbsticks, with one allowing you aim and the other dictating the power of your shot, depending on how hard you flick the stick. Advanced techniques such as jumping the ball and swerve can also be added by simple presses on the face buttons, and a series of tutorial modes and ghostly assistance lines are also on hand to help you master tricks and predict where the white will end up after a risky long distance shot.
But while WSC2007 is the leader in its field, its never quite as thrilling as faster-paced sports sims that allow you to take control of superhuman, spam-headed footballers or rugby players, and the experience is tempered with the nagging sense that it would be more fun to spend a few hours in a smoky club, improving your game and drinking the bar dry.


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"Potter, where on earth do you think you are going?" the teen growled it out as he shoved his face into his pillow; his normally dark dungeon room in the Slytherin chambers had a strange glow to them that morning.
"It is much too early to be leaving my bed." James could clearly hear the innuendo in his lover's voice and chose to ignore it, continuing to pull on his robe with the red and gold Gryffindor patch on it.
"It's a clear morning, nice and early, I am going to fly my broomstick."
"I am surprised you would even be able to sit astride one…" Severus trailed off as James glared at the lithe form of his lover, buried under the green and black duvet, his wild black hair sticking up at the top; a blush was forming on James' cheeks.
"Apparently I haven't done my job thoroughly enough yet. Now come back to bed Mr. Potter and let me make sure you won't be able to mount any broomstick but mine."
James stared in open mouth shock; his lover was in a terribly horny mood this morning,
"No. I need to get out and ride, if ya want me, come and find me." After that, the teen quickly ran out of the chambers and briskly walked to the Quidditch Pitch.
It took Severus a moment to process what his lover had said, and another moment to act upon it. He leapt out of bed, all hints of lethargy gone, and pulled on his robes, bothering only to put a pair of boxers and jeans underneath them, he then hurriedly followed the other youth's tracks out to the Quidditch Pitch.
He happened to be feeling in particularly horny that morning and there was no way his lion was going to run out like that.
After all, Severus never really was a morning person.
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MADISON, Wis., Jan. 10 (Reuters) - A top U.S. Federal Reserve official on Thursday predicted U.S. economic growth of 3.2 percent for this year and for 2014, crediting in part the central bank's recent policy easing for what he called a "bullish" outlook.
St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, a voting member this year on the Fed's monetary policy panel, said he also expects unemployment to drop over the next two years, while inflation should remain near the Fed's 2 percent target rate.
"You should be standing and cheering, because this is fantastic news," Bullard told the Wisconsin Bankers Association, to polite laughter.
Easier monetary policy in the last six months, and a reduction in economic headwinds and uncertainty, will help boost growth well above the 2.3 percent potential growth rate that is now the norm for the United States since the damage of the financial crisis. The U.S. economy, before the crisis, routinely grew at 3 percent or more, he said.
The Fed has been buying $85 billion in mortgage-backed securities and Treasuries each month under a quantitative easing program that it can adjust at any time. The purchases are meant to kick-start growth and ratchet down unemployment, which stood at 7.8 percent last month. The bond-buying program, known as QE3 because it is the Fed's third round of quantitative easing, puts the central bank on track to buy $1 billion at an annualized pace.
"I'm in the business and even I think that's a big number," he said.
Bullard, a centrist who argues that current monetary policy is more accommodative than most people appreciate, said that in the months ahead the Fed will make judgments on asset purchases based on economic data.
"Hopefully, we'll be able to draw the program to a close at an appropriate time, given the behavior of the economy," he said, adding the Fed could taper the program as needed. "If you are as optimistic as I am, you might envision an early end to the program," he said; those with a more pessimistic view might see the buying continue into 2014.
The U.S. economy grew at a decent 2.7 percent annual rate in the third quarter but is expected to have slowed in the final months of the year. Fed officials see GDP growth of between 2.3 to 3.0 percent this year, and 3.0 to 3.5 percent in 2014.
Bullard said the Fed's decision last month to tie its interest-rate policy to economic conditions rather than a future date means the Fed is no longer sending an "unwarranted pessimistic signal."
But the Fed's new promise to keep interest rates near zero until the unemployment rate falls to 6.5 percent, as long as inflation does not threaten to rise above 2.5 percent, poses several problems, he said, including the Fed's inability to target medium or long-term unemployment.


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REVIEW: "Defending Your Digital Assets", Randall K. Nichols/Dani
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%T "Defending Your Digital Assets: Against Hackers, Crackers, Spies,
and Thieves"
In the preface, the authors decide to define their own terms their own
way. For example, hackers break into computers for the thrill of it,
while crackers break in for profit. They also state that there is a
tension between securing a network and managing it, ignoring the fact
that most people see security as a management issue. Later, in the
first chapter, the "authors apologize for being a little informal" in
what they say. Aside from the lack of any reason given for the
necessity of this "informality" it certainly appears to be much more
appropriate to call it disorganization and a lack of discipline. The
book is supposed to be aimed at executives and managers, rather than
security specialists, or is intended to be used as the text for a
graduate information security course. Again, leaving aside the
inherent contradiction in that assertion, the material in this work is
not just careless, but so seriously flawed that any manager relying on
it (let alone the poor grad student) is going to be seriously misled
in places.
Part one purports to be an overall introduction. Chapter one starts
with digital espionage and throws around lots of scary numbers and
names. Unfortunately, the text lacks any analysis of the reports
being cited, most of which seem to be opinion surveys, and some of
which contradict each other. (Attacks are said to number in the
hundreds per day in one account, while another [from the NSA] asserts
250 per year, and yet a third [from the FCIRC] states 244--for the
same year.) The text is also extremely confused and appears to be
almost deliberately unstructured: one paragraph starts talking about
fraud and then covers the Morris Internet Worm, the only link being
that Morris was prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Explanations are careless: the venerable Crack security tool is said
to "attack" computers. The material is very disorganized, and if you
can trace a common thread through a section of the text you will find
that most of the content is peripheral to it. Chapter two is supposed
to cover information security (infosec, in the book's jargon), but
instead continues to regale us with stories of digital espionage (DE)
and infowar. (Except for a seemingly pointless digression into
Hurricane Andrew.)
Part two is to present us with infosec concepts. Chapter three,
somewhat surprisingly, does give us a decent "Common Body of
Knowledge" overview and threat list, along with some risk management
and infosec architecture. A serviceable discussion of policy, with
some time out for US fed bashing, is in chapter four. Privacy, in
chapter five, is not covered well: we have a flatly inflammatory
definition of a "cookie," and ten pages of unsupported tables and odd
graphs which eventually reveal that some people want privacy and
others want to collect data. (Big surprise.) Chapter six talks about
security system certification and verification.
Part four touches on practical infosec. Chapter seven gives a decent
outline of cryptography, with a good comparison of strength, but a
huge "analysis" of key recovery and escrow systems shows only that
some like it and some don't. Access control systems are covered in
chapter eight. Digital signatures and certificate authorities are
reviewed in chapter nine: the web of trust model is mentioned, but not
analyzed or used in the material. Chapter ten is a confused
discussion of permission management, concentrating primarily on
e-commerce and the Web. Various factors in Virtual Private Networks
(VPN) are listed in chapter eleven. Some biometric methods are
described in chapter twelve.
Part four does not really deal with business continuity and recovery,
but emphasizes "event management." Chapter thirteen looks at general
security factors before the attack. "During and after the attack," in
chapter fourteen, examines some audit and detection and some Web
Continuing with the militaristic imagery, part five wants to give us
an "order of battle" for infowar. Chapter fifteen's "big picture" is
more on risk assessment. The definition of infowar, in chapter
sixteen, is vague, generic, and limited in scope. Malicious code is
described as a type of virus in chapter seventeen, rather than virus
being a subset of the class of malicious software. More infowar
details, and a general model of military intelligence, bog down in a
weird architecture model. "Methods of Employment," in chapter
eighteen, is probably more useful if you want to attack somebody.
Public key infrastructure, in chapter nineteen, reprises chapter nine.
Chapter twenty's look at cryptography and politics concentrates on US
regulations and cases, with little philosophical discussion of the
The appendices that close the book are of limited use. For example,
the "annotated bibliography" is not annotated, and contains a number
of general press articles and news stories.
While there is some useful material in this text, the entire work
requires a wholesale reordering to be of any value. A solid
restructuring along topical lines would allow a great deal of
extraneous verbiage to be discarded. A disciplined adherence to the
topic at hand would make the valuable content much more accessible to
the target audience. As it is, the book joins a long line of similar,
and similarly disorganized, "guides" that do not really help the non-
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The contemporary, furnished & spacious studio at Casa Torri offers enough space for two people. The location is perfect - in a few minutes you already on the ski slopes or Coop, bakery, pharmacy, etc.
The studio is practically furnished. The sofa can be easily repurpose night to a comfortable bed, with mattress and slatted frame (160 cm). By day you can tuck the sheets in the closet and transform the bed to the couch again. In addition, a TV chair provides another seating.
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Bruno Mars at the O2 Arena was always going to be a gig I was going to turn up early for. This was the final London date on the Moonshine Jungle tour and when tickets went on sale I opted for a standing ticket because I love the tracks on sophomore album Unorthodox Jukebox. So I arrive around 11am and there were 15 people who were already sitting in the pen which had been laid out. I then joined and this was going to be my home for the forthcoming 7 hours. Fast forward to 6pm they then allowed everyone to go through to the gates. People started to filter in row by row and this was stressful to say the least as the people who had been queuing early didn't want to be screwed over and someone who just arrived gets a better spot than them. Thankfully that did not happen but the weirdest thing that happened was the fact that I got centre spot once inside. In my eyes this was literally the best spot to be and frankly I couldn't believe my luck.
The set by Bruno was epic to say the least. It then opened with Moonshine and this was a midtempo power pop tune which was about longing for the high water mark of a relationship that now seems impossible to reach. It was smoothly delivered and the vocals were spot on. I was actually hypnotised during this and I especially liked its middle 8 where the pace changed. Straight after it was onto my favourite tune from the new album and this being Natalie. It even sounded more amazing live, it was contagious and oozed energy. It had been supurbly written and you can clearly picture a story to it "I'm digging a ditch, For this gold digging bitch". It actually turned out to be one massive sing along. "Welcome to the Moonshine Jungle tour. This is what we came to do. We came to get you all moving" Mars then said before they got stuck into Treasure. It definitely got the crowd moving as this was easy on the ear with contagious lyrics you just want to dance along to. Now this was a beautiful love song which sounded ever so stunning. It was then onto Money (That's What I Want). This song inspired Billionaire. Both tunes were infused together and Billionaire had everyone singing along to this song. Straight after it was then onto Show Me which had a reggae vibe to it. This tune was taken from Unorthodox Jukebox. Infused to this was another oldie and this being Our First Time which was mellowing and very chilled out. Marry You was up next and this was a right crowd pleaser. It was an uplifting song which had mushy lyrics which were strongly delivered. If I Knew which featured on the new record was Bruno's favourite song from the LP and it was the next to be performed live. It was very soothing and swooning at the same time. This was literally extraordinary and it was rather beautiful. Bruno then launched into the fast tempo Runaway Baby. I loved this song was infectious plus they blitzed through it. It was delivered powerfully and the crowd literally burst into screams once it was over. "This is a really emotional song for me" Mars said before revealing that he hadn't played it in quite a while and this being The Lazy Song. Now there was plenty of singing along to this energetic song. Actually I really liked the remix of this laid back song. I get the image of someone heartbroken and wallowing in self pity "Today I don't feel like doing anything". It was then onto When I Was You Man and this being a slow paced soulful pop ballad which resulted in plenty of singing along and swooning from side to side. Grenade was a story about heartbreak. Now I really like this song as it is really catchy and uptempo. I guess there are many girls whom would die for Bruno. Things then came to a close with the beautiful ballad Just The Way You Are. Basically this was the perfect song to end an epic night on. Towards the end there was crowd participation when the entire crowd sang along which was very special.
It was then onto the encore. Bruno and his band who had just left the stage returned moments later for Locked Out Of Heaven. Now this was reggae meets rock and it was a perfect combination. This song was infectious as plenty of people were singing along and there were the obvious traces of the band The Police. Things then finally came to an end with the forthcoming single Gorilla which resulted in plenty of screams. This was a soft rock tune about making love like wild animals. In fact it was damn catchy and the melody was both upbeat and infectious. "But in this jungle you can't run/ 'Cause what I got for you/ I promise it's a killer/ You'll be banging on my chest/ Bang bang, gorilla".
Money (That's What I Want)/ Billionaire
Show Me/ Our First Time
Marry You
If I Knew
Runaway Baby
The Lazy Song
When I Was Your Man
Just The Way You Are
Locked Out Of Heaven
OVERALL: This was one spectacular show. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and I was especially surprised to get a spot right in the centre considering I was like the 15th person in the queue. Still each of the songs were pure perfection and really contagious as well.