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Independent toy retailer The Entertainer has completed a website refresh and contracted ecommerce specialist Escalate Retail to provide a software suite for the back-end. The implementation cost just over 400,000, including overall hosting, development and license costs, in the first year but since the system went live in October 2007, one of the retailer's sites, thetoyshop.com, has increased sales by 147 per cent, according to The Entertainer's online marketing and ecommerce manager Richard Bewley. silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Sign up for the R&L newsletter today! The system replaces a bespoke implementation made before thetoyshop.com and The Entertainer's other brand Gadgetshop were acquired, which was deemed too inflexible to be able to cope with the peaks and troughs of traffic.
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Lenten Fish Fry will be held every Friday, starting this Friday 8 February, from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, until Friday 21 March at the St Ignatius Catholic School Cafeteria. Served with fries, coleslaw and festival. Adults: $10; Children: $6. All proceeds toward World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia in July. St Ignatius Catholic Community Fish Fry The St Ignatius Catholic Community wishes to inform the public that their annual Lenten Fish Fry will be held every Friday, starting this Friday 8 February, from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, until Friday 21 March at the St Ignatius Catholic School Cafeteria. Served with fries, coleslaw and festival. Adults: $10; Children: $6. All proceeds toward World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia in July. New Paintings at the Wharf Posters International Fine Art & Princess Cruise Lines artist & former Cayman resident Lois Brezinski presents new paintings on "Oil & Water" at the Wharf on Saturday 9 February (one night only) from 6:00 – 10:00 pm.
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Gwent duo drafted into starting XV
WALES Under-20s coach Pat Horgan has urged the new faces to take their chance after shuffling his pack for the game with their Italian counterparts at Rodney Parade tomorrow evening. In come Newport Gwent Dragons prospects Jason Tovey and Ashley Sweet, at full back and lock respectively after impressing with Bedwas and Cross Keys this season, as well as Ospreys centre Gareth Owen and Blues scrum half Rhys Webb. The changes are made with an eye on June's World Championships, which Wales are hosting, but Horgan insists it will not be at the expense of a second Six Nations win. .
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Back up your computer files
Losing one file on your computer can be annoying and inconvenient; losing all the information on your computer can be catastrophic. If you haven't given any thought to backing up your computer drives, you may want to consider doing so. Information on your computer can be lost in many ways. Experiencing a power surge or outage, lightening, a child playing on the keyboard or simply equipment failure are just a few of the causes.Your first step will be to decide what to backup. A good start would be to have a "laundry" list of the files you consider to be important. You will find that this list will also be valuable if you need to recover a single lost or damaged file. Some recommended files to backup would be financial information, family photos, personal projects, email and email addresses, your Internet bookmarks, any software that has been paid for and downloaded from the Internet, music downloads, business forms and letters, your .com web site, in reality, anything you do not want to loose or cannot replace.Next you will need to decide on a method to store this information.
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