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Birmingham Lord Mayor’s Comedy Evening

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What a great night we had last night at the Birmingham Lord Mayor’s Comedy Evening. Held Thursday 19th March 2015 at the Venue | Extraordinary Event Space previously known as “The Centennial Centre” at 100 Icknield Port Road, Birmingham, West Midlands B16 0AA.

The night was organised to raise funds for the Lord Mayors Charity, this year supporting Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Focus Birmingham, SIFA Fireside and Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

The event will also raise money in support of the Birmingham China Town Lions Club (David Cox Heath and Care Awareness Appeal).

The event organiser Clive Stone is a long-servicing member of the Lord Mayor’s Charity Committee and he certainly did an amazing job. The event started with a Fun Casino (hosted by the Grovesnor Casino) and Reception followed by a superb 3 course meal which was lovely.

Comedy entertainer Mike Farrell kicked everything off then a charity auction was held followed by acts from Dave Bryon and Paul Zerdin. There was also a raffle and at the end of the night it was announced that over £10,000 was raised.

Birmingham Lord Mayors Comedy Night

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Answering the question what colour is the dress!

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The image below is of a dress that has gone viral due to a conflicting colour problem following a Tumblr post.

Readers are being asked to identify what colour it is. This dilemma needs to be answered!!!

What colour is the dress – White & Gold or Black & Blue?

white and gold or blue and black dress

To provide a solution to this we have researched a little further!

The Blue colour is actually hex colour #828eb8 which is Pantone 649 C to Pantone 651C.

Colour #828eb8

The Brown colour is actually hex colour  #5e4d43 which is Pantone 7517C to 7519C.

Colour #5e4d43

The visual colouring of the produced conflicting opinions in our office. 70% of the people said it was brown and blue, 30% said purple and blue.

We hope this helps in some way to clear up the question! – What colour is the dress?

 

 

Ship Your Enemies Glitter

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The internet has certainly created some strange and wonderful website to be developed. The inventors behind the website shipyourenemiesglitter.com didn’t ever imagine that they would create something that could sell for $85,000.

Ship Your Enemies Glitter

The website was setup by the 22 year old Australian as a way to get revenge on people sending them a glitter bomb for $9.99. The site was over loaded and crashed and there was a plea to stop people ordering.

Ship Your Enemies Glitter

This amazing story from an idea to an over night success shows how the internet has changed the speed in which things can happen.

The sale took place on Flippa and we was simply shocked at the 345 bids achieving $85,000.

 

Experience the power of a bookbook

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Interestingly funny video showing the experience and the power of a bookbook.

Experience the power of a bookbook™

This video has achieved an amazing amount of views for IKEA.

GoPro 4 SD Card Recommendations

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We have been using GoPro cameras since they first launched the GoPro Hero 35mm in 2005 and we have tried and tested nearly all the range now over the years.

GoPro cameras are simply great for many reasons but you must remember that this amazing quality is only possible if you invest in the correct memory cards and since the release of the GoPro 4 Black recording in 4K it is now more important than ever to ensure you do not cut costs on the memory cards.

The GoPro HERO4 Black Edition has a 12mp CMOS with a f/2.8 fixed maximum aperture and is capable of the most amazing footage we have seen yet and for such a small camera that can be placed anywhere it has to be the best piece of filming equipment around for specific jobs and we trust the GoPro 4 for jobs such as motorsport filming and drone, quad or multicopter work.

When it comes to SD Card Recommendations for a GoPro we would always look at the manufacturer for advice due to the fact that they would be testing the product using memory cards of various brands and this saves us the time and effort.

HERO4 Black & Silver SD Card Recommendations

For the HERO 4 Black a Class 10 MicroSD card is used and the this will take up to 64 GB.

It is important to note that not all Class 10 microSD cards will have the same data write speeds and this is the most important things to consider with 4 Black due to the higher bit rate capabilities that are required to support the new features of  the HERO4 camera.

The official SD card recommendations that we have used are:-

•SanDisk Extreme 32GB microSDHC (SDSDQXL-032G) costing between £18.99 to £36.22 
•SanDisk Extreme 64GB microSDXC (SDSDQXL-064G) costing between £40.14 to £67.99

The other official recommendations include:

•Lexar 32GB SDHC 633x (LSDMI32GBBNL633R)
•Lexar 64GB SDXC 633x (LSDMI64GBBNL633R)

GoPro HERO4: The Adventure of Life in 4K

GoPro HERO4: The Adventure of Life in 4K

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