Avatar Relocation, agent for Atlas Van Lines, got the call to transport the Kevin O’Callaghandesigned stage set along withTwisted Sister’s band equipment from Manhattan to Las Vegas, Nevada and back for Twisted Sister’s TWISTED CHRISTMAS spectacular. Avatar’s president, Bill South, said "Avatar expects to complete the logistics of this project just in time to help Santa Claus out should he call upon Avatarto assist him with his annual ....

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The U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps recently relocated and consolidated its chaplain and enlisted religious program specialist training schools from Newport, Rhode Island to a new facility at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina. The new facility, Naval Chaplaincy School and Center, is collocated with the Air Force Chaplain Corps College and the U.S. Army Chaplain School and Center at the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Center. Although the center will hold its official dedication ....

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If you see a super-sized tractor trailer with the name Mobile Mechatronics Lab tooling down the highway, you’re looking at a million-dollar investment. It’s a custom-made showroom filled with high-tech marvels, the brainchild of Festo, a leading world-wide supplier of automation technology.

"Our mobile showroom features 22 dynamic displays with fully functional operating machines, as well as 21 static displays," says Festo Exhibit ....

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When the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) contacted Avatar Relocation’s Orlando office and requested assistance with securing illegal jet fighter aircraft parts Avatar was quick to respond to the call to duty. Investigators found that roughly 1,400 parts which could be used on F-14 "Tomcat" fighter jets were sold to the public in February. This came after the Pentagon announced it had suspended sales of all parts that could ....

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So there you are, one fine spring day in 1952, toolin’ down the highway in "Crankshaft" Kelley’s Chevy 3100 5-window pickup. A dream perhaps? Not in your life! When a well known department store needed to remove 1950’s vintage Chevrolet pickup trucks on display at their stores they called upon the folks at Avatar who trucked the trucks from store to warehouse! A simple task no doubt? Fuhgeddaboudit.

Each truck was a display which was ....

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In 1990 the national telecommunications system consisted of a network of electro-mechanical analog telecom equipment operated by seven regional Bell operating companies ("REBOCs"). Beginning in 1990, these regional operating companies undertook a nation-wide upgrade of the hardware used to operate our nation’s telecommunications network. This digital upgrade (of existing electro-mechanical analog equipment to digital computer ....

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Remember the Yugo? That small, flimsy car that was introduced to the buying public in the 1980s as a sensible, affordable approach to transportation? Some recall that the Yugo was less than wildly popular. Nonetheless, there were buyers, and as a result a generation of Yugos still sit in junkyards, garages, and other final resting places across the nation.

Well, a lucky few of those Yugos - some 29 of them - were adopted by an art class at New York’s ....

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Somewhere in the Archive of Lousy Ideas, along with Stalinism and McRibs, is the Yugo. It was a car -- in a manner of speaking -- that appeared to be based on a crayon drawing from someone’s refrigerator door. Crude, flimsy and uncomfortable, the Yugo was pitched as a sensible, affordable approach to transportation, and was introduced to the American market just as the Gilded 1980s reached their peak. The Edsel was a smash compared with the Yugo, ....

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To a great extent nineteenth-century urban life moved at the pace of horse-drawn transportation, and the evidence of the horse was everywhere: in the piles of manure that littered the streets attracting swarms of flies, in the iron rings and hitching posts sunk into the pavements for fastening horses’ reins, and in the numerous livery stables that gave off a mingled smell of horse, harness oil and hay. In 1880 New York and Brooklyn were served by 427 blacksmith ....

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The line of people is already huge more than half an hour before the 12:30 a.m. opening of Toys ’R Us in New York’s Times Square. When it comes to doing product launches Microsoft never does go the low-key route, so it is no surprise that the company essentially took over New York’s Times Square and even managed to pull a few strings to get the brand new Toys R Us flagship store to open a week early for one night only. But this isn’t any normal ....

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Rochester, NY - It’s impossible to use the front door when you’re delivering a robotic dinosaur that’s 26 and a half feet tall! Instead, workers used a crane to lift the apatosaurus model to exhibit space on Rochester Museum & Science Center’s third floor. And who was the company who moved these Cretaceous Critters? Why Avatar of course! The traveling DINOSAURS! exhibit features six half-sized roaring, robotic dinosaurs including the king ....

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Ornately decorated carousels with glaring lights, polished mirrors and painted horses have been a mainstay of amusement parks since their heyday about a century ago.

A restored Victorian carousel making a stopover at Chicago’s Union Station for the next six weeks has all the garish motifs associated with these grand merry-go-rounds, but with a very unusual twist.

Instead of gray ponies and Arabian horses, this carousel features a stout Las Vegas-bound ....

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You’ve never really typed unless you’ve done it on a typewriter. Manual, preferably, so you feel the strength in your fingertips as you pound the keys and then slide the shiny chrome carriage return lever all the way back until you hear the sharp ding of it hitting home.

Lindsay Nadkarni, 10, hasn’t had that extremely satisfying feeling of dragging a finished sheet of type out of the carriage. Picking up a computer printout just isn’t as visceral; you ....

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