This could include the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and the annual Christmas lights switch-on.
Last year's switch-on ceremony drew crowds of 20, 000 watching on big screens on the resort's promenade.
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Residents now organise an official switch-on ceremony on the first Saturday of December, which this year, was attended by over 300 people.
Rothwell, Morley and others celebrate with their own lights switch-on each year.
The switch-on was carried out by MK Dons chairman Pete Winkleman and former Luton Town manager David Pleat at the National Radio Centre.
Also at the switch-on party at the Tower Festival Headland will be musical acts including Little Mix, Amy Macdonald and Scouting for Girls.
Over the years the project has organised the annual Christmas lights switch-on, run fashion shows and cookery events and removed graffiti from business premises.
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"The fifth base is like a switch - switching on the genes and making cells healthy or diseased, " Alex Olek, the chief executive of Epigenomics, told the BBC.
Apple released a statement today confirming this, but here's where it gets interesting: the company says that "the developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed" -- in other words, the guy pulled a bait-and-switch on Apple by serving different content to his app after it had been approved using more PG-rated content.
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Also, before being bought by HSBC in 2003, Household had already come under fire for using bait-and-switch tactics on interest rates.
As I blogged at the beginning of the process in September, that included sleazy mortgage brokers introduced by Lending Tree, who either pulled the bait-and-switch on rates or resisted disclosing what fees they would tack on.
As Moore's Law (computing power of a chip doubles every 18 months) continues to unfold and as bandwidth capacity continues to explode, just-turn-on-the-switch, easy-to-use high-tech appliances for specific functions will proliferate.
With a mechanical keyboard, on the other hand, each key press triggers an actual on-off switch a feeling as solid as flicking on the lights.
At the set time, the room's lights and air-conditioning switch on automatically.
So about three months ago, Mr. Doukas wrote a program to connect his Fitbit data to an Internet-connected switch on his refrigerator that can shut it down if he doesn't exercise.
The expanding world population and the on-going switch towards consumption of meat and dairy produce as incomes rise are already putting pressure on freshwater supplies, which increased growing of biofuel crops could exacerbate.
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Now, Amazon is extending Whispersync to professionally narrated audiobooks - customers can start reading a book on their Kindle, and seamlessly switch to listening to their corresponding Whispersync for Voice-enabled audiobook from Audible on their phone or tablet, picking up exactly where they left off.
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If viewers needed an excuse to switch over to Jets-Ravens on NBC, LaRussa gave it to them.
He added that a number of campaigners were calling on policymakers and politicians to switch from a target-based policy to schemes that focused on carbon budgets.
In other news, energy-efficient lighting advanced by leaps and bounds this week as we flipped the switch on IKEA's new solar-powered Solvinden lamp and we spotted a crystalline "Stardust" LED lamp made from sugar at the Milan Furniture Fair.
Its new Instant On-Record power and record switch enables people to know that the camera is on and recording with a single push of a switch.
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The earpiece has an on-off switch, a three-stage volume control and uses a rechargeable battery.
Users can simply slide the Instant On-Record switch into its locked position to immediately start capturing video.
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"You...start almost immediately to turn the switch on from a shorter-term tactical focus to a longer-term strategic focus, " he says.
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They seem only to care about where the on-off switch is located.
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In September, the Merc will switch on an electronic after-hours trading system developed in France, and next year the French will adopt Merc technology for settling trades.
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All these mutations were done by physically changing the animals' DNA. It wasn't until Johns Hopkins' Beachy and his colleagues remembered reading about the Idaho lambs that they realized cyclopamine could be used as an easier on-off switch for the hedgehog pathway.
If it all sounds too much, Mrs Kramlich points out that living with media art is really no different from living with fixed-image art. (The couple have works by Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys in their mock-Tudor San Francisco home.) The difference, she adds with an eye to California's electricity troubles, is that you have an on-off switch and when the images vanish, the house is an artwork of its own.
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