This is the eighth year that participating venues have opened their doors for free for the one day event.
The one day event on September 21will bring leaders from pro gaming together to discuss the future of the growing phenomenon.
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Rival Kmart has extended Black Friday from a one-day event to a seven-week shopping stretch.
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The first Big Chill festival was a one-day event held in London in 1994.
The one-day event is bringing together more than a dozen producers, marketers, entrepreneurs, academics, economists and artists.
So why, you may wonder, is our first one-day event in a gritty, depressed, financially-troubled city that seems well past its glory?
The one-day event will give five of the country's leading alternative transport companies the chance to show off their goods to industry experts.
The average cycling road race for disabled athletes is a one-day event stretching 50 miles, while able-bodied races can last five days or more, he said.
Adidas advertises its skateboarding shoes only in skate magazines, and in August it introduced the Summer Skate Series in San Francisco, a one-day event staging contests for amateur street skaters.
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Barry Manilow, Elvis Costello and Jamiroquai will perform at the Oslo event on 11 December - one day after the prize-giving ceremony.
If such an event comes to pass, future commentators may one day conclude that despite their best efforts at producing a recovery, Ben Bernanke and company will have sold their collective souls for a mere phantasm of economic recovery.
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Musical performances, lectures, interactive exhibits and tours -- with Inman as one of the guides -- are planned during the two-day event.
The big event of 1987 was, of course, a one-day drop in the Dow of 23% in October.
Whatever happens in the coming weeks and months, the French holiday will hang around Ieuan Wyn Jones' neck, just as one decision to skip a D-Day commemoration in favour of a golf event did for Rhodri Morgan.
The first major event to take place in the performance area will be Peace One Day concert in June, which will feature Massive Attack.
But one event is beating them all in resale prices: the three-day extravaganza in Austin, Texas, known as the Austin City Limits Festival, where bands of all stripes perform outdoors in mid-September.
As I explained to a handful of other investors over a beer at the end of the day, in seven years of running this event, there is one clear variable that predicts the winner every time.
This event is one of thousands that will occur as part of Global Handwashing Day (GHD).
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Just one day after the revamped nanos were announced at the " It's Showtime" event, some drool-worthy shots of the green and blue 2G nanos managed to surface, and now we're graced with a photoset containing the esteemed 8GB black-only model.
Motorsport's world governing body the FIA said the one day of testing "will be permitted between the start of the week preceding the second event and the last event of the championship".
If asteroids as big as DA14 pass close to Earth once every decade or two, and meteors as large as the Chelyabinsk one impact once every 100 years (a similar meteor having caused the Tunguska event in 1908), the chance of both events happening on any one day are indeed very small: 1 in 3, 650 days times 1 in 36, 500 days, or about 1 in 100 million -- not odds you would bet against.
The strain was there to see on a dramatic day in Birmingham at an event billed as the world's biggest and best one-off indoor meeting.
The band said it did not have confidence that the festival would run smoothly with no one harmed and so had decided to pull out of the last three days of the six-day event.
"I've said from day one that my picks were going to be the people who were playing the best coming into the event, " said Daniel.
He will get no argument on that score from Sri Lanka coach Moody - who hinted too that he would like to see extra provision for the availability of a full 100 overs in the event of bad weather, rather than always trying to shoe-horn a result into one day.
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