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Media Equipment for Sale by Owner: We are liquidating our CD-DVD production studio including three TEAC P-55 Thermal Printers with AutoLoaders (Includes: Color Ribbon Carriers, B&W Ribbon Carriers, Color P+ Ribbon Carriers)

4 – CD Burning Towers
4 – DVD Burning Towers

1 – Laptop programmed to run the P-55 Printers plus disc layout software  and Including Networking box and cables to run all 3 printers at once.
– Rack for Printers
– and more

P-55 Condition: All printer robotic bases are operational. 1 – P-55 printer is operational, the other two are due for standard maintenance (print head replacement) Normal cost $750-$900.

Here is a short video explaining the equipment, breakdown of operating expenses and net profit, and how to use the gear. Video is short (20min long) you can scrub back and forth to view sections of interest.

Approx. $40,000 invested.
Sale Price: $5500

Please call Erika at 720-585-6423 or QueTime at 720-327-7163.

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Christmas Song Madness: Crowning America’s Favorite Christmas Song

Whether you’re hearing them at the mall or on the radio, the holiday season means Christmas songs are wafting through your ears and getting stuck in your heads. We’re getting into the spirit this year by bringing a little springtime tradition to the Christmas season with a March Madness style competition that pits Christmas songs against each other — and you’ll get to the decide the winner.

We’ve amassed a list of 64 of the most popular and fun Christmas songs, and we’re putting them all head-to-head, round-by-round until we finally crown America’s Favorite Christmas Song. Scroll down to pick for your favorite songs, then come back to keep voting in each round. And along the way, you’ll learn interesting trivia about all the songs in the tournament.

For instance, the original lyrics to ‘O Holy Night,’ were penned by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure at the behest of a parish priest of southern France in 1847. Cappeau, a well-known one-handed businessman and poet, was either an ‘avowed atheist’ or a rare churchgoer — depending on which account you believe — but he’s generally believed to be a casual Christian at best. Meanwhile, the man he commissioned to write the music for the beloved Christian carol, Adolphe Charles Adams, was Jewish. (Look below the bracket for the rest of the story.)

When the church made this discovery, leaders weren’t pleased. As Ace Collins explains in his book, ‘Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas’ eventually church leaders became so concerned about the “total absence of the spirit of religion” that they tried to ban the hymn, but the French people already loved it and wouldn’t stop singing the song.

That’s far from the only amazing fact about a Christmas carol. “White Christmas” is the best-selling single of all time, according to Guinness World Records. ‘The Christmas Song’ — or ‘Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire’ as most probably remember it — was purportedly written during a heat wave by a lyricist trying to conjure up thoughts of cooler weather.

Which tune will claim the championship title of Best Christmas Song? Only you and your fellow voters can decide, but the AOL editors went on the record with their predictions about which song will come out on top — and we definitely don’t all agree.

We also had more songs we loved that we just couldn’t squeeze into the 64-song bracket. You can check out our ‘honorable mentions’ here.

Find a song in the bracket you don’t know or recognize? We’ve put together slideshows with popular versions of each song for your listening pleasure.

And keep coming back to vote in each round and see which song emerges the victor. The winner, America’s Favorite Christmas Song, will be announced here on AOL.com on December 23.

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/12/10/christmas-song-madness-crowning-americas-favorite-christmas-song/21114318/

[Editor’s Note: Last I checked, Elvis Presley’s “Blue Christmas” was leading the pack! Kind of surprising considering that “White Christmas” has sold the most copies…]

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