text:
The new owners of Rockford Products Corp. wasted no time in ousting the company's senior management and installing a new crop of in-house leaders to run the bankrupt fastener maker.
The new owners of Rockford Products Corp. wasted no time in ousting the company's senior management and installing a new crop of in-house leaders to run the bankrupt fastener maker.
On its first day in charge, BlackEagle Partners announced a new management team for the newly named Rockford Products LLC. In a Nov. 19 memo from Harry Watson, a partner with the private equity firm, Dick Mowris was named president and four other managers were promoted to leadership spots. Mowris is a 19-year employee who most recently worked as vice president of international operations.
Out are the three executives who ran the company for years: Chief Executive Officer Ray Wood, David Peterson, president of the cold formed division, and Chief Financial Officer Doug Wells. Also let go was Dick Goff, president of Rockford International Group.
Phone calls to BlackEagle's Detroit offices were not returned Tuesday afternoon. Attempts to reach Wood were also unsuccessful. A message left on Mowris' voice mail late Tuesday afternoon was not returned.
BlackEagle Partners paid $23.2 million for the company's assets at a bankruptcy auction two weeks ago, less about $4.5 million in expenses. The investment firm specializes in buying distressed companies and increasing profit by cutting waste.
Rockford Products declared bankruptcy July 25 and sold off two of its smaller distribution businesses during the court process. The company makes ball studs and other fasteners primarily for the automotive industry and cited downturns among Detroit automakers for much of its decline. It currently employs more than 400 people in Rockford.
Along with Mowris, four others longtime employees were named to the management team. Jim Wood was promoted to vice president of sales and marketing, John Waller was named vice president of engineering and IT, Rick Edwards became vice president of operations and Brent Norquist was promoted to director of finance and accounting, according to the memo.
Staff writer Nate Legue may be reached at 815-987-1346 or email@example.com.


text:
Phone for delivery (08) 6102 3618
Fresh flowers and gifts delivered to Golden Bay, Western Australia.
Local florist delivers fresh flowers, flower baskets, chocolates, fruit baskets and gifts to Golden Bay.
Gourmet Gift Baskets and Chocolate Basket can be delivered every day.
Golden Bay Florist deliver fresh flowers, flower baskets and gifts to Golden Bay area.
Have your flowers and gifts delivered to Golden Bay area churches, hospitals, retirement and nursing homes, Golden Bay businesses, offices, private homes, anywhere in Australia by our local Golden Bay florist.
Hospitals in the Rockingham region
Rockingham General Hospital
Elanora Drive
Cooloongup, WA 6168
Ph: 08 9592 0600
Waikiki Private Hospital
221 Willmott Drive
Waikiki WA 6169
Ph: 08 9550 0222
Mandurah Hospital
Peel Health Campus
110 Lakes Road
Mandurah WA 6210
Ph: 08 9531 8000
Murray District Hospital
McKay Street
Pinjarra WA 6208
Ph: 08 9531 1144
Yarloop Hospital
Barrington Knight Rd
Yarloop WA 6218
Ph: 08 9733 500
Local Golden Bay florist can deliver to
Rockingham Area, WA
Baldivis, Cooloongup, East Rockingham, Golden Bay, Hillman, Karnup, Keralup, Peron, Port Kennedy, Rockingham, Safety Bay, Secret Harbour, Shoalwater, Singleton, Waikiki, Warnbro, Rockingham region and all Western Australia suburbs and towns.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
A 24-year-old caregiver from the Visiting Nurses Association has been charged with larceny after she allegedly stole and cashed a winning lottery ticket from an 80-year-old client in Spencer.
According to a Spencer police report, the elderly man bought the 50X The Cash scratch ticket, which cost $10, on May 13 and found it was a $1,000 winner. While the ticket had been validated, the man was to go to lottery headquarters to claim the prize because the amount is more than the store can pay.
But after a few days, he could not find the ticket and, his family told police, he �has always kept the tickets in one area of the home. (He) is not forgetful, very sharp minded.�
When the man contacted the lottery commission, he learned the ticket had been cashed on May 15 by Priscilla Prendiville, who was one of the substitute care workers sent to his house to assist him and his wife during the time the ticket disappeared.
Ms. Prendiville, of 23 Ellis Road, Southbridge, was charged with larceny of property valued at more than $250.
She was arraigned on June 11 and is due back in Western Worcester District Court on Aug. 8 for a pretrial hearing.
The Lottery Commission sent a letter to the alleged victim telling him the person in possession of the ticket is considered the owner, and it declined to honor his claim on the winnings.


text:
MSOX4154A Mixed Signal Oscilloscope: 1.5 GHz, 4 Analog Plus 16 Digital Channels
|Sold By:
US$ 23,862 Typical Price*
- 1.5 GHz
- 4 analog plus 16 digital channels
- Easily view signals on the large 12.1-inch capacitive touch screen
- Isolate signals in seconds with exclusive Zone touch triggering
- Capture more data with 4 Mpts memory and standard segmented memory
- See more signal detail with 1,000,000 wfms/s update rate
- Expand your measurement capabilities with full upgradability: Add dual-ch 20 MHz arbitrary WaveGen, 3-digit DVM, serial trigger and analysis & mask testing at any time
Industry-leading 3 year warranty
Every spec verified, adjustments included
- 3-year warranty (90 days for unserialized accessories such as passive probes)
- Certificate of Calibration, 2-year calibration interval
- One N2894A 700 MHz passive probe (10:1 attenuation) per channel
- One N2756-60001 16-digital-channel MSO cable
- Localized interface, front panel overlay and built-in help system in English, Chinese (simplfied and traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
- Localized power cord
- Front panel cover
- Documentation CD containing localized user's guide, service guide, and programmer's manual
This product is sold primarily through Keysight's Authorized Sales Partners.
Keysight InfiniiVision 4000 X-Series oscilloscopes demo video
Zone touch triggering on the Keysight 4000 X-Series oscilloscope
Keysight 4000 X-Series vs. Tektronix 4000B Series
Keysight software is downloadable test and measurement expertise
Software for this Product
4000 X-Series Oscilloscope Software
- Free trials available
- Enable all software with the DSOX4APPBNDL
- Get a WaveGen, DVM, serial decoding, power measurements, and mask testing
Frequently Bought Together
4000 X-Series Oscilloscope Accessories
- Screen protectors
- Carrying cases
- Manuals
4000 X-Series Oscilloscope Probes
- Differential & single ended
- Active & passive
- Voltage & current
Industry Awards
Test & Measurement World Best in Test
Best Electronic Design
Need More? Unlock Measurement Insights
* Prices for: United States. Prices are subject to change without notice. Prices shown are Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Prices (MSRP). Prices shown are exclusive of taxes.


text:
Tänikonerstrasse 3
8355 Aadorf
Phone 0848 888 111
We are Architect's Darling! Around 400 architects in Switzerland chose Griesser AG as their favourite.
Griesser AG was delighted to receive the Architect's Darling Award, the Golden Phoenix, at the award ceremony on 15 March 2018.
The trophy was received by Andrea Grisolia, Head of Marketing and Product Management and Member of the Management Board.
The winner was determined on the basis of a nationwide and independent survey of around 400 architects in Switzerland, who were able to choose their "favourite" from 82 construction product manufacturers in 20 categories. The best products and solutions in the individual areas were thus awarded.
This also results in a meaningful market research result in terms of awareness and positioning. In the sun protection category, Griesser prevailed over all competitors in the industry and thus came in first place.
This is a great honour for Griesser and fills it with pride. A big thank you to all our employees - they all play a key role in our success.
Photos: Michael Roth


text:
Publication Archive
This archive contains all documents published by cep over the last few years:
cepAdhoc: Incisive comment on current EU policy issues.
cepPolicyBrief: Concise 4-page reviews of EU proposals (Regulations, Directives, Green Papers, White Papers, Communications) – including a brief summary and economic and legal assessments.
cepInput: Impulse to current discussions of EU policies.
cepStudy: Comprehensive examination of EU policy proposals affecting the economy.
The Commission proposes two options for reviewing the Working Time Directive and invites the social partners to express whether and which issues they would wish to negotiate. The Commission intends to revise at least the provisions on on-call time and compensatory rest for on-call time (option 1). These revisions are anyway required by the ECJ's ruling. The second option provides for a comprehensive revision of the Working Time Directive. The Commission aspires to increase flexibility in working time. Moreover, rules on the "work-life balance", the "opt-out", paid annual leave and individual sector-specific issues are to be reviewed.
The Commission's first Annual Growth Survey marks the start of the first "European semester". The "European semester" is an ex-ante policy coordination procedure between the 27 Member States. Consequently, the Survey contains recommendations for future economic policy and fiscal measures in Member States. The implementation of these measures is to support economic recovery as well as achieving the targets of the "Europe 2020" strategy.
The proposed Regulation ("REMIT") is to reinforce the integrity and transparency of wholesale energy markets for gas and electricity. To this end, insider trading and market manipulation is to be prohibited. Moreover, the markets are to be monitored by the EU energy agency ACER and by the national regulatory authorities and market participants' data be collected. In doing so, national regulatory authorities and ACER are to cooperate with each other.
The Commission presents new trade policy measures in order to achieve the growth and employment targets of the Europe 2020 strategy. The Commission is especially keen on the increased opening of foreign markets for services, investments and public procurement. Moreover, the future EU trade policy is support "green growth" and "climate change objectives" in principle.
In its Communication, the Commission proposes measures intended to contribute to more flexible labour markets, job creation, workers' qualification and the improvement of working conditions.
The Commission's considerations regarding employment policy are based on an EU headline target adopted under the strategy "Europe 2020" [COM(2010) 2020] whose aim it is to achieve an employment rate of 75% by 2020. In order to reach this target, the Commission is shifting its focus from a merely reactive to an anticipatory policy approach, as is already evident in the Single Market Act [COM(2010) 608] and the Flagship Initiative on the Innovation Union [COM(2010) 546], as well as an "Integrated Industrial Policy for the Globalisation Era" [COM(2010 614)].
The Commission wishes to revive the single market with the Single Market Act, incorporating it into the economic strategy "Europe 2020" for sustainable growth and increased employment. The Commission has made 50 proposals, both legislative and non-legislative, which are to be adopted by 2012. The idea is that by "completing, deepening and making full use of the single market" an annual potential growth of 4% of the GDP over the next ten years can be achieved.
Forgoing "major spending programmes" and focussing on the establishment of efficient framework conditions is reasonable from an ordoliberal standpoint. However, they should apply equally to all companies. Therefore, the Commission should forgo sector-specific measures; they bear the potential for competitive distortion.
According to the Commission, "major societal challenges" (e.g. climate change, energy scarcity and demographic change) can only be overcome through research and innovation. To this end, the Commission intends to improve the framework conditions for research and innovation and to coordinate innovations effectively. In addition to the establishment of a "European Research Area", it propagates (pre-commercial) public procurement to promote innovations. In order to tackle "grand challenges", "European Innovation Partnerships" are to be initiated.
The Commission submits a Green Paper in order to discuss the future role and scope of an audit in the "general context of financial market regulatory reform". Governance rules and an improved supervision are to contribute to more competition and increased stability in the financial system.
During the "energy summit" on 4 February 2011, the European Council will discuss the Commission's "Energy Strategy 2020" and its "concept for an integrated European energy network". According to the Commission's estimate approximately 1 trillion Euros must be invested in the EU energy system by 2020 in order to achieve the EU targets for renewable energies and energy efficiency and to develop the necessary energy infrastructure.


text:
Thursday Vehicle Sale
Weekly Vehicle Sale at 6pmAll Buyers Welcome All entries subject to arrival.
Providing The North East A Cost Effective & Convenient Way To Buy And Sell Vehicles.
We can now provide vehicle transportation and storage for a wide variety of uses.
- Prices Ranging from £100-£5000+
- No Entry Fee
- Sellers Commissions Rates from £40 plus Vat
- Buyers Indemnity from £40 plus Vat
- All Major Credit and Debit Cards Accepted
- Collection and Delivery Service Available
- Vehicle database/catalogue available online
- All types of valuations undertaken from single vehicles to fleet
View our current Motor Vehicle Buying/Selling notes
Notice to all EU buyersPlease note that HMRC are enforcing standard VAT on all purchases made in the UK until adequate proof of goods being exported is provided. Please download our guide for further information.
Key Contacts
Name: John Roy
Title: Vehicle and Machinery Sales Manager
Tel: 01467 623863
Mobile: 07831 807841
Email: email@example.com
Name: Allan Finn
Title: Vehicle and Machinery Auction Co-ordinator
Tel: 01467 623864
Mobile: 07341 088058
Email: email@example.com


text:
About a week ago, I bought Acer Aspire One 722. After initial installation of Ubuntu 11.04, I had a couple of problems/annoyances, and I managed to solve them. This is a list of fixes that I applied:
1. Freezing after login (with unplugged network cable). This is caused by wireless driver. Easy fix is to make network boot as a first option in BIOS (hold F2 after reboot). The solution for this was found on:
2. Better power management. For now, AMD's Catalyst driver doesn't support sleep mode on this netbook (computer freezes on wake-up), but open source Radeon does, and this is why I choosed it. This driver has options for reduced power consumption, but they are not activated by default. To make laptop battery lasts longer, I installed Jupiter. To do this, open terminal and type:
Don't close the terminal yet. Start the program (Alt+F2, type jupiter-run), and it will add itself to list of allowed programs for systray, and also to startup applications. Beacuse Jupiter (version 0.0.50) still doesn't have options for OSS Radeon driver power management, I added them manually (version 0.0.51 has this fix already included, thanks to fuduntu, so if you have this version, there is nothing more to do for step 2). To do this, on the same terminal type:Code:sudo su add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/jupiter apt-get update apt-get install jupiter
When gedit opens, copy this to battery script:Code:mkdir -p /usr/lib/jupiter/vendors/Acer cd /usr/lib/jupiter/vendors/Acer gedit battery power
and this to power script:Code:#!/bin/bash echo low > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
Save both scripts and close gedit. Then, type this in terminal:Code:#!/bin/bash echo high > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
Details about this changes can be found at:Code:chmod 755 battery power
If you don't want to install Jupiter, but you want better power management, you should look at sbraz's post:
3. Touchpad rotating together with screen rotating. 722 netbook is very suitable to be used as a ebook reader, simply by rotating it's screen by 90 degrees (it comes natural to hold it as a book). Jupiter has nice options for screen rotating, but there is one slight annoyance: when you select different screen orientation, and rotate netbook accordingly, the touchpad movement remains unchanged, and it becomes difficult to navigate. This is solved with latest patches for xorg's synaptics driver. To get the updated driver, open terminal and type:
After this, computer needs to be restarted. Now, screen rotation is synchronised with correct touchpad movement. Details about this can be found at:Code:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aapo-rantalainen/ppa-aaporantalainen sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
4. Headphone sensing and internal microphone. In default Ubuntu 11.04 on 722, when you plug your headphones, the sound from speakers isn't turned off and internal microphone isn't working. To solve these issues, download and install (by double-clicking on it):
This patch is actually for another Acer laptop, but I found that it solves the same problem on 722. There are however, two caveats for this. First, external microphone still isn't working, and second, if internal microphone still isn't working, you'll need to go to Sound preferences/Input and mute and then unmute microphone (to enable internal microphone, in Sound Preferences/Hardware "Internal Audio" must be selected, and "Analog Stereo Duplex" profile. On input tab, "Internal microphone" connector should be selected, and Input volume should be adjusted to about 100%). With this fix, Skype and Google Talk/Video work just fine. Details about this fix can be found at:Code:http://people.canonical.com/~diwic/temp/alsa-hda-dkms-acer3830tg_0.1_all.deb
5. CapsLock indicator. 722 doesn't have keyboard LED indicators, which can be quite annoying, especially with CapsLock. To solve this I installed keylock indicator (by T. Scott Barnes). To do this, open terminal, and type:
Instead of indicator-keylock-ubuntu-mono, you could use indicator-keylock-humanity or indicator-keylock-elementary (or, you could install them all). After this, open Startup Applications (from System Settings), click on Add, and enter "KeyLock Indicator" for Name and "/usr/bin/indicator-keylock" for Command (without quotes). To start indicator immediately, press Alt+F2 and enter indicator-keylock.Code:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tsbarnes/indicator-keylock sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install indicator-keylock indicator-keylock-ubuntu-mono
6. Multitouch gestures. 722 has a multitouch touchpad, and I found two-finger scrolling quite natural to use. You can enable it by going to Mouse/Touchpad setings (in Control Centre). Select Two-finger scrolling, and enable Horizontal scrolling.
7. Slow Unity with Catalyst drivers. When I tried Catalyst drivers, the Unity was slower than with OSS driver. To solve this issue, install CCSM (Compiz Config Settings Manager, it can be found in default repository), and make these changes:
After returning to OSS driver, I left the first two fixes (I didn't test if they actually make Unity faster, but they don't slow it down). I found about this fix at:Code:In CCSM/Composite: disable Detect Refresh Rate In CCSM/OpenGL: disable Sync to Vblanc and set texture filter to fast In Catalyst Control Center in display options disable Tear Free
8. Power regression in Linux kernel. The good people at Phoronix found that Linux since version 2.6.38 on many computers has a 10-30% bigger power consumption than previous versions. They found a couple of reasons for this, but the main one was different handling of ASPM (Active-State Power Management). To solve this issue, you need to edit /etc/default/grub file. To do so, open terminal and type:
Now, find the lineCode:sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
and change it toCode:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
Save the file, close gedit and type:Code:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash pcie_aspm=force"
After that, restart computer. More details about this fix can be found at:Code:sudo update-grub
These are the fixes I did so far. If I found more (or, if I remember something I didn't put here), I will add to this post.
Enjoy your 722,
P.S. Thanks all for your comments!
Still unsolved issues:
- External microphone doesn't work (for me)
- Sleep function with proprietary AMD drivers - I tried latest Catalyst driver (11.8 version) and sleep function still doesn't work
EDIT 1: Added link for #1 and added #8.
EDIT 2: Added information about Jupiter 0.0.51 and list of unsolved issues (that I know of)
EDIT 3: Tested Catalyst 11.8, added link in #2 to sbraz's post about power management
EDIT 4: Corrected error in #2, jupiter-run instead of jupiter after Alt+F2 (thanks thunderriver)


text:
We are living in the age of the comic book film. In the last decade, superhero movies have taken over the box office, bringing the comic books of our childhood — or for some of us, adulthood — to life like never before. With the 2013 release of the new Superman film, "Man of Steel," let's celebrate eight movies that capture the spirit of comic books and make us even more excited for the superhero films to come.
8. "Superman: The Movie" (1978)
The only way to start this countdown right is with a Superman film, or more specifically, the greatest of all Superman films, so far that is. "Superman: The Movie" set the stage for all comic book blockbusters. It all begins with the hero's origin story, spanning his life from Krypton native to Daily Planet writer, culminating in the struggle against his arch-nemesis, Lex Luthor. Christopher Reeves was superman, capturing the essence of the hero as he grows up in the American heartland. "Superman: The Movie" is a terrific statement on humanity; that it's not up to a hero to change the world, but it's up to the rest of us. The film captures what it means to be a superhero, and it features no CGI, just pure movie magic.
Best Scene: When Superman rescues Lois Lane from the helicopter and does his first shirt reveal. Set to the musical stylings of John Williams, it gets me every time.
7. "Spider-Man II" (2004)
The first in our series of comic book sequels that soars past its predecessor: Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man II." We find our hero, Peter Parker, in a dark place, trying to balance his normal life with his calling as New York's defender against evil. But things get complicated quickly when Parker befriends Doctor Octavius. Alfred Molina kills it as the tragically sympathetic villain with sentient robotic arms, because moral ambiguity is so in right now. "Spider-Man II" serves as the perfect sequel and one of the most fully-realized, comic book-faithful films to date. The film also offers old-school Raimi fans an "Evil Dead" homage in the operating scene, and it breaks the good movie = bad video game rule. "Spider-Man II" is a GameCube/PS2 classic. We can only pray that history repeats itself with Andrew Garfield's spidey sequel.
Best Scene: The "you have a train to catch" fight scene, in which Spiderman fights Doc Ock on a runaway train. An incredible fight scene and a loving tribute to New York City.
6. "Watchmen" (2009)
It's 1985 in an alternative U.S., where the streets run rampant with crime and corruption and our country is on the brink of war with Russia. With the doomsday clock closer than ever to striking midnight, our unlikely band of heroes, the watchmen, take matters into their own gloved hands. Zack Snyder, director of "Man of Steel," brings the immortal graphic novel to life. Snyder captures the book's dark brilliance and social commentary, but the film does best when it focuses on its six main characters. The watchmen serve as a team of anti-avengers who come out of retirement to track down the masked assassin taking out their superhero friends. Jackie Earle Haley commands his scenes as the supremely satisfying Rorschach, and Patrick Wilson nails his role as the charmingly vulnerable Nite Owl. "Watchmen" has long been considered unfilmable, since doing such a legendary book screen justice is a feat many films fail to do (The Great Gatsby.) So check it out before everyone sees "Man of Steel" and liking Zack Snyder becomes cool.
Best Scene: The opening credit sequence: a black-and-white montage of the crime-fighting league's evolution over Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin.'" Gotta love that.
5. "X2: X-Men United" (2003)
Three years after "X-Men," director Bryan Singer bestows unto us "X2: X-Men United," a tour-de-force that improves on the first movie in every way. When Colonel Stryker wants to wipe out the entire mutant race — the guy has some complicated father-son issues — the mutants band together to fight back. Along the way, Wolverine, Mystique and their gifted friends are given depth and pathos on their journey of self-discovery. The film is a statement on the burden of super-heroism and the social consequences of growing up in a world where you don't belong. "X2" is a perfect superhero film, with no shortage of unforgettable characters, stunts and mutant-on-mutant romance. And the claws-vs.-claws fight scene between Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike took three weeks to film. Worth every minute.
Best Scene: The opener, in which Nightcrawler goes on a White House ass-whooping rampage. It's the best opening scene in a comic book movie, claws down. Also, shout-out to the equally-enjoyable "X-Men: First Class." Both are must-see films.
4. "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World" (2010)
Meet Scott Pilgrim. He's 22, plays bass guitar, and he's "in between" jobs, wandering the menacing streets of Toronto trying to figure it all out. But things change when Scott, played by Michael Cera, hopelessly falls for Ramona Flowers, a mysterious girl with a dark past. Hint: it involves more pissed musician/actor ex-boyfriends than Taylor Swift has. Scott's life goes from battle of the bands to battle of the exes as he has to fight for Ramona's love, literally. Director Edgar Wright, who brought us "Shaun of The Dead," "Hot Fuzz" and "Spaced," is known for playing with genre conventions. Here, he brings comic books, video games and endless pop culture references together to create something amazing. Each scene feels like a comic book chapter, and the plot is structured like a video game, where Scott defeats an evil ex at the end of every level. The film features classic comic book gfx and even sound bytes from games like Streetfighter and Sonic The Hedgehog. It's the comic book movie for the Nintendo generation, for the moping, angsty '90s slacker in all of us. Chris Evans is better in this as an evil ex than he is in "Captain America." And Wright will be joining the marvel universe soon; he's set to direct "Act Man" in 2015. Can't wait.
Best Scene: Scott Pilgrim defeats Todd the Vegan. It's a victory over vegans everywhere.
3. "Iron Man" (2009)
No one knew what to expect that fateful first week of May when "Iron Man" hit theaters. But critics, movie-goers and comic book junkies alike were blown away. The true hero of the film is Jon Favreau, who rose from directing "Elf" and writing "Swingers" into directorial greatness. Favreau stayed faithful to the source material and took a serious risk in casting Robert Downey Jr, a 40-plus actor, as the lead. But the movie turned out pure gold, or you know, pure iron. "Iron Man" revived Downey's career and launched the Marvel universe onto the big screen. "Iron Man" may be the best origin story superhero movie, and definitely one of the finest comic book films to date.
Best Scene: That entire first hour of the film where Iron Man builds his suit in Afghanistan. Legendary.
2. "The Dark Knight" (2008)
So much has been said about Christopher Nolan's unforgettable Batman sequel. A superhero film is only as good as its villain, and when you have the best super-villain role of all time, the hype is completely warranted. For an epic 150 minutes, Batman navigates Gotham and his own moral maze, trying to save his city, its mayor and himself from darkness. "The Dark Knight" is the best film on this list, no question, but when it comes to comic book movies, it isn't the genre's best. "The Dark Knight" isn't necessarily just a "a comic book movie" — it's a crime-drama that sheds the confines of the source material. But that's what makes it so incredible. "The Dark Knight" is one of the defining films of the 2000s and it also marks one of the finest film trilogies in Hollywood history.
Best Scene: The joker interrogation scene, where the police set aside good cop/bad cop for some good cop/batman. Great stuff.
1. "Marvel's The Avengers" (2012)
After years of anticipation and four solo superhero franchises in the making, Marvel brought us "The Avengers" — and the world of comic book movies would never be the same. As the film's release date approached, critics and fans said it couldn't be done. But from the incredible ensemble cast to the razor-sharp script, Joss Whedon made the impossible happen. While "The Dark Knight" showed us what a comic book movie could be, "The Avengers" represents what it should be. "The Avengers" is the paramount comic book film, the peak of a genre that is just entering its golden age. It's revolutionary yet instantly classic, a film for Stan Lee fans and movie-lovers alike. And as the third highest-grossing film of all time, "The Avengers" is the new generation's 1978 "Superman," bringing this list full circle. In a world of great comic book movies, "The Avengers" emerges as the greatest. And with "Thor: The Dark Warrior" being released in 2014, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" in 2014 and "The Avengers 2" in 2015, the best may be yet to come.
Best Scene: Tough to choose, but the hulk (the film's unlikely MVP) slamming Loki on the ground is an instant classic in itself.


text:
Exciting news. Our app has a new name – Healthily. Learn more
If your child is very overweight, there's lots you can do to help them become a healthy weight as they grow.
Very overweight children tend to grow up to be very overweight adults, which can lead to health problems such as type 2 diabetes , heart disease and certain cancers.
Research shows children who achieve a healthy weight tend to be fitter, healthier, better able to learn, and are more self-confident. They're also less likely to have low self-esteem and be bullied.
As a parent, there's lots you can do to help your child become a healthier weight. Getting them to be more active and eat well is important. Here's practical advice to help you.
Listen to your child's concern about their weight. Overweight children often know they have a weight problem, and they need to feel supported and in control of their weight.
Let them know that you love them, whatever their weight, and that all you want is for them to be healthy and happy.
Here are five key ways to help your child achieve a healthy weight. You can read this whole page or click on the links below to go directly to the topic you want to know about:
If your child has a medical condition, the advice in this article may not be relevant. You should check with their doctor or hospital doctor first.
One of the best ways to instil good habits in your child is to be a good role model. Children learn by example. One of the most powerful ways to enourage your child to be active and eat well is to do so yourself.
Set a good example by going for a walk or bike ride instead of watching TV or surfing the internet. Playing in the park or swimming with your children shows them being active is fun.
Very overweight children don't need to do more exercise than slimmer children. Their extra body weight means they will naturally burn more calories for the same activity.
All children need about 60 minutes of physical activity a day for good health, but it doesn't need to be all at once. Several short 10-minute or even five-minute bursts of activity throughout the day can be just as good as an hour-long stretch.
For younger children it can take the form of active play, such as ball games, chasing games like "it" and "tag", riding a scooter, and using playground swings, climbing frames and see-saws.
For older children it could include riding a bike, skateboarding, walking to school, skipping, swimming, dancing and martial arts.
If your child isn't used to being active, encourage them to start with what they can do and build up to 60 minutes a day. They're more likely to stick to their new activity levels if you let them choose the type of activity they're comfortable with.
Walking or cycling short distances instead of using the car or bus is a great way to be active together as a family – and you'll save money, too.
Try to avoid feeding your child large portions. A good rule of thumb is to start meals with small servings and let your child ask for more if they're still hungry.
Try not to make your child finish everything on the plate or eat more than they want to. And avoid using adult-size plates for younger children as it encourages them to eat oversized portions.
Beware of high-calorie foods. Calories are a measure of the energy in food – knowing how many calories your child consumes each day, and balancing that with the amount of energy they use up in activity, will help them reach and stay at a healthy weight.
Children, just like adults, should aim to eat five or more portions of fruit and vegetables everyday. They're a great source of fibre and vitamins and minerals .
Getting 5 A DAY shouldn't be too difficult. Almost all fruit and vegetables count towards your child's 5 A DAY, including fresh, tinned, frozen and dried.
Juices, smoothies, beans and pulses also count.
Be aware though that unsweetened 100% fruit juice, vegetable juice and smoothies can only ever count as a maximum of one portion of their 5 A DAY.
For example, if they have two glasses of fruit juice and a smoothie in one day, that still only counts as one portion.
Their combined total of drinks from fruit juice, vegetable juice and smoothies should not be more than 150ml a day – which is a small glass.
For example, if they have 150ml of orange juice and 150ml smoothie in one day, they'll have exceeded the recommendation by 150ml.
When fruit is blended or juiced, it releases the sugars which increases the risk of tooth decay so it's best to drink fruit juice or smoothies at mealtimes.
Discourage your child from having sugary or high-fat foods like sweets, cakes, biscuits, some sugary cereals, and sugar-sweetened soft and fizzy drinks. These foods and drinks tend to be high in calories and low in nutrients.
Aim for your child to get most of their calories from healthier foods such as fruit and vegetables, and starchy foods like bread, potatoes, pasta and rice (preferably wholemeal). And switch sweetened drinks for water.
Help your children avoid sitting and lying around too much, as it makes it more likely for them to put on weight. Limit the amount of time your child spends on inactive pastimes such as watching television, playing video games and playing on electronic devices.
There's no hard and fast advice on how much is too much, but experts advise children should watch no more than two hours of television each day – and remove all screens (including mobile phones) from their bedroom at night.
It also helps children stay trim if they sleep well. It's been shown that children who don't have the recommended amount of sleep are more likely to be overweight. The less children sleep, the greater the risk of them becoming obese. Lack of sleep can also affect their mood and behaviour.
If you've received a letter about your child's weight after they were measured at school, you can use the contact number on the letter to speak to a health worker and get more information about what you can do and what support is available in your area.
Your doctor or nurse can give you further advice. They also may be able to refer you to a local weight management programme for children, such as those run by MEND and More Life.
These programmes are often free to attend through your local health authority, and typically involve a series of weekly group workshop sessions with other parents and their children. You'll learn more about the diet and lifestyle changes that can help your child achieve a healthy weight.
Important: Our website provides useful information but is not a substitute for medical advice. You should always seek the advice of your doctor when making decisions about your health.


text:
|Shipping Rules & Restrictions
Most orders begin the order process as soon as your online purchase is completed. Your order will be shipped once your payment is approved, the receiving address is verified, and the item is located in stock. If an item you order is not currently in stock, you will be notified by Email.


text:
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has just published their recent results of Online Product Research by American adults. The hghlights:
*58% of Americans now reporting that they perform online research concerning the products and services that they are considering purchasing.
*The number of those who do research about products on any given day has jumped from 15% of adults in September 2007 to 21% in September 2010
*24% of American adults say they have posted comments or reviews online about the product or services they buy,
The numbers confirm Greg Sterling's long stated Research Online Buy Offline mantra. The number of adults reporting having done product reviews is somewhat surprising to me. Interestingly the reviewers are roughly equally split between men and women and across age groups with some tilt towards white, higher educated and higher income individuals as more likely to leave reviews.
While the research is specifically about product reviews, I think it not unreasonable to think that a similar trend will apply to business reviews.Pew Research: 24% of American Adults Have Posted Reviews by Mike Blumenthal


text:
Who said guns are only used to kill people? They can play music too! That's what designer César López did with an old decommissioned AK-47. He turned it into a electric guitar and plays them on the streets of Bogota.
The instrument is called as Escopetarra, a combination of the Spanish terms "rifle" (escopeta) and guitar (guitarra). López does not sell any of his creations nor receives money from his music, rather he expects listenrs to take away his words, "in the end the gun dies and the guitar is born"
Here's a video of César López performing with his Escopetarra.
Does it still shoot? Oh no! So don't chicken out when you see someone with a rifle-guitar in his hand ;)
Reuse, Reduce, Recycle.


text:
Enjoy unlimited access to more than 240 videos for just $75 a year ($45/year for culinary students). That's less than 35 cents per video for professional baking instruction in breads, pastries, frozen desserts and viennoiserie!
Please note that it takes up to 24 hours after purchase to activate your account.
Click here to see sample videos.


text: Kents Hill School combines the best that a New England boarding school can be with a culture that encourages our students to take on new artistic, athletic and academic challenges. Ice hockey, snowboarding, skiing, horseback riding, and fencing are highlights of our athletics program. Visual arts, music and theater programs take center stage here too. Kents Hill emphasizes the development of moral leadership and our academic offerings are strong and varied. Our community values the individual and helps our students become leaders as well as learners.


text:
Technically, you should expect the term low speed, not slow speed (which is obviously illogical).
However, it seems the two phrases co-existed as long as one can look back: with low speed fighting a desperate battle to prove its merit.
It is only recently that English users seem to have seriously recognized the difference as this nGram shows.
How did this obvious error survive and even now continue to assert itself? Or is it that from the language point of view, there is an argument that both the phrases are correct, grammatically, especially, semantically?
[Edit-1] Some backgrounder on slow and speed
slow /slō/
Adjective: Moving or operating, or designed to do so, only at a low speed.
Adverb: At a slow pace; slowly.
Verb: Reduce one's speed or the speed of a vehicle or process.
If slow = low speed
then slow speed = ?


text:
Samsung rightfully enjoys pointing out that it ships more Android smartphones than anyone else. And, with its new Galaxy S III, the South Korean electronics giant has accomplished something only Apple has been able to do so far: sell the same exact phone at the same price across major U.S. carriers without letting them slap their logos on the front of the device.
This is truly an achievement, and a win for consumers, who can just shop for the hardware they want instead of merely settling for the best hardware available on their carrier.
It's a coup I wish HTC would have been able to make happen with its stellar One X handset. But Samsung beat HTC in that race, and starting this month, the Galaxy S III will roll out to AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and U.S. Cellular for $200 with 16GB of storage – the same price as the iPhone and the One X.
While it's a fine smartphone, it's not the unqualified success it aspires to be, and it's regrettably held back by software that never works as well or as easily as it should.The Galaxy S III is Samsung's most ambitious smartphone yet, and it serves as a testament to the company's growing stature as a premium handset maker. However, the S III isn't quite an iPhone killer, nor does it dethrone the One X as the best Android handset. While it's a fine smartphone, it's not the unqualified success it aspires to be, and it's regrettably held back by software that never works as well or as easily as it should.
First, the hardware. The American version of the S III packs Qualcomm's 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor. This seems odd, since the phone is available with a quad-core processor outside the U.S. (just like HTC's One X). But stateside consumers actually aren't getting shorted that hard. Chances are, you won't miss those extra cores, as the dual-core S III is still a mighty phone. Launching apps, watching high-definition video, loading websites, multitasking – everything I threw at the new Samsung was handled with no sluggishness or hesitation.
The S III also features 2GB of RAM, unlike the 1GB RAM setup found in the One X. But, while the S III clearly had plenty of horsepower, I saw no discernible power advantage over the One X. Both are fantastic performers and equally top-of-class in this regard.
When it comes to size, the S III barely undercuts the One X and the iPhone 4S with its 0.34-inch thickness. And at just 4.7 ounces, it's plenty lightweight, too. The 4.8-inch, 1280 x 720 pixel, Super HD AMOLED display is massive. A thin bezel around the display keeps the phone from feeling oversized, but this is still about as big as I'd want a smartphone to be. Using the S III with one hand isn't easy, and many apps simply require the attention of two hands.
The display is sharp and bright, with colors that feel a bit over-amped. Reds, greens and blues often pop brighter on the S III than on other handsets – if you've regularly used the Galaxy S II, you're probably used to this. Contrast on the display is great, with deep blacks that make the handset a solid choice for watching video.
The screen uses a PenTile subpixel arrangement that unfortunately results in discernible pixels and a jagged look that falls short of the screens found on the iPhone 4S and the One X.
I'm also not a fan of the S III's physical styling. The Pebble Blue and Ceramic White colors the S III is offered in look sharp – the blue especially, which is closer to purple. And the phone's plastic chassis feels solid, as though it would withstand enough abuse to survive a 2-year contract. But the tooling is all slopes and rounded edges, leaving the handset looking more like a forgettable blob than the flashy flagship phone for the most popular Android maker.
But hardware is just one half of the story here. The major differentiator between the S III and its competitors really lies in the software.
The Galaxy S III ships with Google's Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) operating system with Samsung's TouchWiz user interface. On top of that, Samsung has added a special lock screen that simulates water ripples when you swipe it, and water-themed sound effects are dribbled throughout the phone.
It has a voice-recognition system Samsung calls S Voice, which is the company's challenger to Apple's Siri. While S Voice is advertised as being able to do a few things Siri can't do, such as launch a camera app or a voice recording app, I couldn't get it to do much of anything. S Voice was a dud for me on two different review units Samsung sent me: a blue S III running on T-Mobile and a white S III running on AT&T.
The most I could get S Voice to do was say, "Hi, nice to meet you."The most I could get S Voice to do was say, "Hi, nice to meet you," when I said, "Hi, Galaxy," to either phone. If I said, "Hello, Galaxy," it would respond with, "I'm not sure what you mean by 'Hello Galaxy.'" Every other request or command I spoke to S Voice was met with, "Network error. Please try again," on both handsets, despite seeing full service bars and being connected to Wi-Fi. Maybe it's just a problem limited to my two S III's – I brought this issue up with a Samsung representative, and I'm waiting for them to get back to me. But at this time, I can't say that S Voice looks ready for prime time, and it's not coming close to matching Siri's performance.
The other software features worked. Pop Up Play allows video stored on the S III to play in a pop-up window (just like picture-in-picture on a TV) so you can watch a video and perform other tasks at the same time. It works well, but I didn't find the feature terribly useful on the handheld screen of a smartphone. This idea seems more at home to me on a larger screen device, such as a tablet, where you could watch a video and email or tweet at the same time. Hopefully, Samsung is thinking the same thing.
Facial recognition on the S III works well. Whenever I shot a photo, the S III prompted me to identify faces based on contacts from my address book. Once a person is tagged, it's easy enough to share the photo with them using a feature Samsung calls Buddy Photo Share. Just tap on the person's face, and the S III presents you with the option of calling that person, or sharing the particular photo via text message, email, or by way of social networks such as Facebook or Google+.
A couple of hits and a miss so far, but when I dove into the sharing features, the software experience got stickier.
Take AllShare, a feature that allows you to share photos and videos with as many as six other S III's that are nearby. But when you send out the invitation to set up a sharing group, it requires each person in the group to accept your invitation one by one. Also, in AllShare, while users can see the files you're sharing, they can't save them.
Each of the sharing features comes with its own rules and limitations, and each requires the user to learn a completely new set of behaviors. They feel like they were all developed in isolation, rather than in concert.If you want to share photos with other Galaxy S III owners and let them keep the files, you have to use a different feature called Share Shot, which automatically distributes the photos you're taking by sending them over Wi-Fi to other S III handsets on your local Wi-Fi network.
But Share Shot is a pain, because invitations to join the sharing group are sent to other users one at a time. Each user in the group is prompted in turn to accept or decline the invitation, and each must respond before the next user is invited. It's easy to imagine a scenario at a party where users are standing, phones at the ready, to join a sharing session, but everyone's being held up by a single individual who received the invitation before them and isn't paying attention to their phone.
It'd be easier if each user could accept an invitation independent of the others – which is what Samsung allows users to do in another feature called Group Cast. This sharing app allows S IIIs to share photos, PDFs, and PowerPoint presentations between phones. But once again, you can't save documents in this feature.
Each of the sharing features comes with its own rules and limitations, and each requires the user to learn a completely new set of behaviors. They feel like they were all developed in isolation, rather than in concert. While Buddy Photo Share, Share Shot, Group Cast, and AllShare are cool features to have, the whole sharing scheme is far, far more complicated than it needs to be. Samsung should really just give us one easy way to share anything we want. But instead, we have more sharing options than most users will probably be willing to keep track of.
Samsung has also needlessly altered Google's built-in Android features. Google has developed an Android-to-Android sharing system called Android Beam that allows two NFC-equipped Android phones to share files when the two devices are tapped together. The S III arrives with that feature intact, but Samsung also has added its own NFC sharing system called S Beam, which does the same thing, but only works with Galaxy S III phones.
The ability to create folders on the S III is also needlessly complicated. In Google's unaltered version of Android 4, a folder is created whenever two app icons are dragged on top of one another. On the S III, you have to hold your finger on the screen, tap "Add to Home screen" from a pop-up menu, select the "Folder" option, then drag your apps in.
Carrier Availability: - Sprint: June 21
- T-Mobile: June 21
- AT&T: June 21
- Verizon: July 10
- US Cellular: Late July
But not all the software stuff is inscrutable – some things are really helpful. When you're composing a text message on the S III and then bring the phone to your ear, it automatically dials the person you were messaging. Another feature called Smart Stay uses the S III's 1.9-megapixel front camera to detect when you're looking at the phone or not. When the S III sees you looking at it, the screen remains active. If you look away, the screen will time out and go dim as usual.
Last week, I reported on another of Samsung's NFC strategies: TecTiles, which are tiny stickers with chips inside of them. Using an Android app, you program them to perform specific actions, like send a text message or set a reminder. Place the stickers in physical locations like on your desk or refrigerator, and you can just tap your phone against one to initiate the pre-programmed action. Unlike S Beam, TecTiles work with any NFC-capable Android phone, even though TecTiles' launch was timed to coincide with the debut of the S III.
There are also a number of slick photo modes built into the S III's camera. The rear shooter is a very capable 8-megapixel unit that's paired with an LED flash. Photos aren't as sharp or as detailed as those I took with the One X, but they comes close. The Camera app has built-in face detection, a burst shot mode, and modes for HDR pics, macro shots and panoramas. There's even a slick mode called Smile Shot, which takes a photo anytime somebody in the frame flashes a grin.
The bottom line is that while all of Samsung's software features on the S III aim to impress, and several display great ambition, too many of them suffer from frustratingly poor execution. Thankfully, you can just skip this stuff and enjoy the hardware. Samsung is still offering top-of-the-line performance here, and the Galaxy S III is more capable than many of the other phones on the market, even if it's a bit clumsy.
But as a whole package, the S III simply doesn't feel like a finished product. It could use more polish, more thought, and a more elegant user experience.
WIRED A blazing fast beast of a phone with 2GB of RAM and a 1.5GHz dual-core processor. The display is a beauty, just short of the iPhone and One X screens. Handset is thin and light. The same hardware is sold across five U.S. carriers at the same price point.
TIRED Samsung's TouchWiz software includes a lot of half-baked features that aim for innovation but miss the mark – sharing apps in particular. Styling is boring, and not exciting enough for a flagship phone.


text:
Picasa is a software application for organising, editing and displaying digital photos. It was originally created by Idealab, but in 2004 it was acquired by Google and made available for free download. The first time you install and load Picasa, it tracks down and organises all the photos in your picture folders. It is important to remember when working with Picasa, that any changes made to the photos within Picasa, will also effect the original photo on your hard drive. However, Picasa creates a backup of your original photo file in a special hidden folder created by the program itself (aptly named 'Originals').
Picasa distinguishes between Folders and Albums. Folders in Picasa are basically the original folders containing photos on your PC. Albums on the other hand, are created within Picasa and allow you to work with a specific set of photos while retaining the originals untouched in their folders. Picasa automatically finds and organizes all of your pictures including: jpeg, tiff, bmp, psd, and standard camera movie files. Sending pictures with e-mail used to mean five steps just to get it right.
Picasa lets you pick the size and then automatically attaches your pictures. Browse through all your pictures and view slideshows of your albums with the click of a button. Enhance, fix red-eye, and even crop without losing data or permanently changing your original picture.
Editing Pictures: Picasa allows simple yet refined editing on your favourite photos. Simply double click on your desired photo and the program will take you to the Basic Fixes Tab: where you can crop, straighten, re-touch, fix colours and add text to your photos. The Tuning Tab will let you manually fix colours in your photo. The Effects Tab will then let you add special effects, such as B&W, Sepia Tint, Glow, Image Sharpening, etc.
Collages: After you have successful edited your pictures, you can create a 'Collage' with the results, either to save as screensaver / desktop or else to print out. Simply click on the 'Collage' button, and click on 'Add' to add the pictures you wish to use for your collage. There are various collage settings to choose from too – picture borders, picture settings, etc. The collages you create will go into a special album created by Picasa (called 'Collages'…). Save or print your collage.
Creating a Video with your Pictures: Picasa lets you create a small animated video (if you are familiar with MS Photostory, this is basically the same!). Simply select the photos you wish to work with, and click on the "Create Video" icon. Once again when you save, the video goes into the aptly titled "Videos" album. You can add 'Title' slides, which explain what the video is going to be about, and add background music too. It's a little more limited than MS Photostory in the video-creating stakes, but I'm positive the guys at Google will catch up pretty quickly : ) Also, it has a handy "Upload to YouTube" tool, which lets you upload your creation straight to YouTube.


text:
The UT Health Science Center Libraries have acquired more than 150 Elsevier/ScienceDirect e-books as part of a Demand Driven Acquisitions program funded by the University Of Texas System Board Of Regents. The newly purchased titles have a 2014 publication date and include titles in the following subject areas: physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities. A full list of these purchases can be found in the library catalog.
Another round in the Demand Driven program is currently underway, and includes a selection of 2015-2016 Elsevier/ScienceDirect e-book titles. Browsing of these titles is encouraged since purchases are dependent on user participation. To view a list of the 2015-2016 titles click here.
All Elsevier/ScienceDirect e-book titles can also be browsed through the library's database page.
Questions about the library's electronic and print book collection can be sent to Andrea N. Schorr, Metadata & Collection Management Librarian, email@example.com.
Tags: December 2015


text:
Fuzzy machine learning framework
Fuzzy machine learning framework is a library and a GUI front-end for machine learning using intuitionistic fuzzy data. The approach is based on the intuitionistic fuzzy sets and the possibility theory. Further characteristics are fuzzy features and classes; numeric, enumeration features and features based on linguistic variables; user-defined features; derived and evaluated features; classifiers as features for building hierarchical systems; automatic refinement in case of dependent features; incremental learning; fuzzy control language support; object-oriented software design with extensible objects and automatic garbage collection; generic data base support through ODBC; text I/O and HTML output; an advanced graphical user interface based on GTK+; and examples of use. (Source: http://freecode.com/)


text:
You are here
New Prize for Emerging Caribbean Writers Announced
The OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, copped this year by Earl Lovelace, is the centre piece of the Bocas Literary Festival. However, the introduction of a new prize garnered its own share of the spotlight. The Hollick-Avron Prize will have a purse of £10,000.00 dedicated to allowing an emerging writer to complete a manuscript.
The prize was introduced by Lady Sue Hollick during the award ceremony for the OCM Bocas Prize on Saturday April 28, 2012, at the University of Trinidad and Tobago's Academy of the Performing Arts, Port of Spain. The prize will come as a great boon to emerging writers, as finding the space to write is one of the most coveted resources for a writer. The prize will also facilitate the awardee to travel to the UK for networking and training and will generally facilitate their working with an established writer.
In separate years, the Hollick-Avron prize will be awarded to fiction writers, non-fiction writers and poets. The prize is open to writers living in the Caribbean and writing in English. The awardees will be selected by a panel of judges including representatives from the Hollick-Avron Foundation and the Bocas Prize.
Announced as a part of the 2012 Bocas Literary festival which was itself teeming with writers struggling to get published, the announcement of the Hollick-Avron prize was certainly a part of the icing on a satisfying sophomore installment of the festival.
The announcement of the prize shows the value that the organizers of the the NGC Bocas Lit Fest have placed on writing prizes and its important to developing writers. Submissions to the Hollick-Avron Prize will close on September 30, 2012. The inaugural winner will then be announced in March of 2013 and the prize awarded later that year.


text:
Summer break – the vanguard Berlin theatre Volksbühne closed its doors barricating the iconic limestone facade with five additional columns. The international architectural collective osa – office for subversive architecture realised this meaningful temporary installation on the front of the historical building.
Planned and built in 1913 by the German architect Oskar Kaufmann the Berlin Volksbühne became one of the first political theatres under the management of the famous artistic director Erwin Piscator in the 1920s. Today the provocative stagings of directors such as René Pollesch, Christoph Schlingensief or Frank Castorf still grab the headlines and are definitely worth a visit!
16 July – 28 August 2010, Volksbühne, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin


text:
The clock rocks, not sure how long the battery will last but hopefully not until after buy time :)
High quality promotional gift at this kind of price is great. If you could get at least half of that minimum order quantity it would be even better. I found the people there pretty nice, no reason not to shop here again.
Thought clocks were extinct until I saw this option, the leather really carries the product, and carries my logo all the way to the executive table.
Given the smiles I get from buyers when I hand these over, I think they'll be handing around doing their thing for a decent while at least.
Have no reason to complain at all so I guess I'll say good things: Sound value even at low order quantities, and a decent product especially like that has retro look.
Simple, really something you would have expected to see in the 80's, but it does have a good vibe about it. 4 inches high, just large enough to allow the logo be seen clearly from any point on the desk it sits on.
They were carefully packed and I don't think I lost a single unit during delivery. That's always a concern when there's big distances for goods to travel. Lovely end result.
Who could possibly toss these away. Have a lovely mounting and stellar colours with a minimalist imprint which I feel is quite classy. If my possible customers have space on their desks, then these are going to sit in that space and do the business for me.
But that's a good thing. A retro product was exactly what I was looking for as I am targeting millennials and that's what all the marketing literature tells me they want. Really useful


text:
Follow RFF News on your cell phone. Text follow rff to 40404 you will receive txt messages with RFF News
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
peach I was all over Santiago so it didn't matter! I found nothing!
Pit Stop at the mines??No Way
Page created in 0.056 seconds with 34 queries.


text:
Hi Ladies,
I was not aware that I was on the list to coordinate the 2006 Walk-a-thon for Virginia. I only inquired about the planning list many months ago but during a recent site review, I saw my name as the contact for VA. I really would like this event to take place in VA but in reviewing the planning list, this is something that would involve many. So what I am asking for is volunteers to help me in this effort. Anyone interested in discussing this with me and co-chair may contact me at [email protected] or call me at 804/778-7307.
2006 Walk-a-Thon
1 post • Page 1 of 1
1 post • Page 1 of 1
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest


text:
Our StoryWednesday, July 25th, 2007
Hi! We're Rick and Hiroko and we're sake enthusiasts with a dream. Our dream? To share our excitement about premium sake with kindred spirits like you.
Although we've tasted or drunk (yes, there is a difference) a number of different sake, we are always seeking to learn something new about our favorite beverage. We've sought to expand our knowledge under the tutelage of Sake Samurai John Gauntner at his Professional Sake Course in Tokyo, and visited sake breweries, numerous izakaya (sake pubs) and sake shops throughout Japan. We've also experimented at home with food pairings both Japanese and Western (cheese with sake? absolutely!) and yet we still realize that we've only nicked the tip of the sake "iceberg!" And we certainly don't ever expect to master the subject either. If we did, we wouldn't enjoy it so much! There is always more to explore and learn and we believe that much of the fun is in sharing that with you.
Rick's passion for sake began 6 years ago with a trip to the then-new East Village sushi restaurant Jewel Bako when he was Associate Publisher at Food & Wine Magazine. Their omakase dinner paired with a selection of different sake was a stunning revelation of its variety and versatility….served lightly chilled, it was nothing like that warm "jet fuel" that he'd had over the years prior at other sushi restaurants. As a long-time wine enthusiast, he was surprised to discover that sake too had an alluring abundance of aromatics and flavors, all from the deceptively simple combination of rice, water, koji, and yeast. That seminal experience launched a headlong pursuit of sake tasting anywhere the brew was available; the annual sake-tasting at The Japan Society, the large-scale Joy of Sake, and of course, numerous visits to Sakagura, our "research laboratory," not to mention our more intimate sessions at home. The origin of Hiroko's passion? Well, when you grow up in Japan where sake is an integral part of the culture, let us just say that it grew a bit more organically for her.
But, back to our dream…
Although there have been a number of Japanese restaurants in New York for years, there has been a recent surge in new izakaya-type restaurants such as Megu, Matsuri, and EN Japanese Brasserie (to name but a few) that serve dishes based on "homestyle" cooking for which sake is a perfect match. Along with this trend, sake has also permeated the beverage lists of non-Japanese restaurants such as Bouley, Chanterelle, Per Se, and Tocqueville, and in other Asian establishments such as the two Momofukus, Bao, and Sushi Samba. All of this has resulted in an ever-growing variety of opportunities to try and experience the pleasures of premium sake.
We believe the time has come for New York to have its first shop specializing in premium sake. Our shop, Sakaya, will focus on acquainting, educating, and familiarizing patrons with the pleasures of drinking sake, and pairing them with food. We hope to offer a learning experience that not only creates an appreciation for sake but also for the Japanese culture from which it originates.
Welcome to our introductory blog. We invite you to join us on our journey to fulfilling the dream. We'll be sharing our experience as we build Sakaya, along with some basic information, fun facts, and insights into the cultural heritage of sake. We look forward to having you with us throughout the store's gestation period and when we finally open our doors.


text:
Detail of Jill's Stamp Collection by Elizabeth Hartman
A fabulous print fabric is often the jumping off point for an even more fabulous quilt. Whether we're working with one great print, a collection of coordinating prints, or a combination of prints pulled from various places, quilters today have an amazing array of print fabrics at our disposal.
Detail of Winter Sparkle Punch by Elizabeth Hartman
For the next 7 days, we'll take a look at 7 quilts that make excellent use of print fabrics.
Welcome to the week of prints!


text: Fonts are playing an increasingly important role in the professional design of magazines, promotional material and websites. Classical and modern fonts are essential for giving the right overall impression so it is vitally important to buy a professionally designed font such as Handel in an established webshop. Our online shop for fonts has a large selection of fonts, typefaces and webfonts, including of course Handel. Every font we sell has been produced by experienced font specialists. They know the criteria that a modern font must fulfil and are familiar with all the technical aspects required from a font, for example, in the user interface design.


text:
- Font:
- +
- -
Newly single Britney Spears seems to be the poster child for bad mothers these days. There was the car-seat mishap, Sean Preston falling from his high chair, and partying with Paris Hilton.
The paparazzi shots haven't been pretty. It goes without saying that you shouldn't flash your new C-section scar — and everything else down there — to the world, no matter who you are.
"Wild mom" Britney certainly is hitting a deep nerve in the American psyche. Our Donna Reed and June Cleaver images of the "good" mother are not squaring with reality, even if reality is being represented by a 25-year-old multimillionaire pop diva.
But while Britney may be an extreme case, experts and moms themselves say society holds mothers everywhere up to unfair, unrealistic standards.
Janet Penley, a parenting coach, mother of two adult children and author of "MotherStyles: Using Personality Type to Discover Your Parenting Strengths," says our "good mom" images have rarely jibed with reality and that society needs to cut mothers — even Britney — some slack.
"Judging mothers — and watching us turn up short — has always been a popular American pastime," says Penley. "As a society, we seem to want to say there are two kinds of moms — a good mom or a bad mom. That's been damaging for women and it's just wrong."
To a great extent, the world still expects mothers to be soft-spoken, pearl-wearing model citizens who never let loose.
"We as a culture are way too hard on moms," says Lisa Loop, a freelance copywriter and Seattle mother of two young daughters. "Just because a mom has a night out — even if she's totally out of control — it doesn't mean she can't rein it in later when she's with the kids."
Furthermore, says Loop, why isn't anyone asking the obvious: Where's the dad?
Exactly, says Muffy Mead-Ferro, author of "Confessions of a Slacker Mom."
"Unfortunately, in our society, motherhood is still very closely associated with martyrdom," says Mead-Ferro, the mother of a young boy and girl. We don't want to see moms having too much fun, and we don't hold fathers to the same standards as mothers.
Don't miss these Health stories
More women opting for preventive mastectomy - but should they be?
Rates of women who are opting for preventive mastectomies, such as Angeline Jolie, have increased by an estimated 50 percent in recent years, experts say. But many doctors are puzzled because the operation doesn't carry a 100 percent guarantee, it's major surgery -- and women have other options, from a once-a-day pill to careful monitoring.
- Larry Page's damaged vocal cords: Treatment comes with trade-offs
- Report questioning salt guidelines riles heart experts
- CDC: 2012 was deadliest year for West Nile in US
- What stresses moms most? Themselves, survey says
- More women opting for preventive mastectomy - but should they be?
"I remember a while back there was a big deal made of Britney coming out of a restaurant holding a cup of water. She was holding her baby and she stumbled," says Mead-Ferro. "Everyone was obsessed with how Britney almost dropped her baby. If it would've been a father who stumbled we would've heard, 'Oh my God, somebody needs to help him! This guy is doing too much!' "
Loop says that when men become fathers they aren't expected "to have their lives end. But when we have children the world expects us to turn into drudges."
What the world needs is more moms to stay sane, happy and balanced, she says. And if that means they blow off steam a bit, so be it.
Mead-Ferro agrees. "There's so much more pressure on mothers to be perfect, and a lot of women are ready to collapse under this pressure," she says. "Every mom I know feels like she's not doing enough for her children."
And moms don't even know what "enough" looks like. Mead-Ferro regularly speaks to groups of mothers, and her biggest message is to stop trying to be so good. She contends that children with moms who back off a bit — even let down their hair, if not dance on tabletops — will be better off.
While she's not suggesting that moms burn their nursing bras and get inked, she does bring up a recent conversation with an admissions person at an Ivy League school. "She told me she prefers potential students who haven't been coached every step of the way and who have been left to their own devices a bit," says Mead-Ferro. She points out that there is such a thing as an overdevoted mother.
"For too many people, the role of motherhood has become this joyless thing. It's competitive, aggressive and exhausting. It's not good for mothers and it's not good for the kids either," says Mead-Ferro. "What teenager is going to want to grow up to someday be a mother if she sees that her own mother never has any fun?"
When it comes to Britney, however, not everyone buys her party-girl approach.
"Who breaks up a marriage and then becomes friends with Paris Hilton?" asks Donna Raskin, a teacher in Rockport, Mass., and mother of a young son. "When you see pictures of someone going out late at night, you know she's not taking care of her children. You can't do both. Who is feeding your kids? Who is reading to them? When I look at pictures of Britney Spears, I think she's doing whatever she's doing, but she's not being a good mom."
Penley says Britney's main issue is lack of maturity, more so than not caring about her kids. "Right now she's acting like a teen ... who hasn't yet developed mature judgment. She's acting like a boat without a rudder, following her whims and overly influenced by external forces."
But she's also gone from stardom to mom-dom and had two back-to-back pregnancies and two failed marriages in the course of a few years.
If June Cleaver, Donna Reed or any of us had photographers following nonstop, we might not be painted as perfect either.
Victoria Clayton is a freelance writer based in California and co-author of "Fearless Pregnancy: Wisdom and Reassurance From a Doctor, a Midwife and a Mom," published by Fair Winds Press.


text:
Olson has served as Editor & Curator at Rhizome, the inaugural curator at Zero1, and Associate Director at SF Camerawork. She's contributed to many major journals & books and this year Cocom Press published Arte Postinternet, a Spanish translation of her texts on Postinternet Art, a movement she framed in 2006. In 2015 LINK Editions will publish a retrospective anthology of over a decade of her writings on contemporary art which have helped establish a vocabulary for the criticism of new media. Meanwhile, she has also curated programs at the Guggenheim, New Museum, SFMOMA, White Columns, Artists Space, and Bitforms Gallery. She has served on Advisory Boards for Ars Electronica, Transmediale, ISEA, the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, Creative Capital, the Getty Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Kennedy Center, and the Tribeca Film Festival.
Olson studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and Rhetoric & Film Studies at UC Berkeley. She has recently been a visiting artist at Yale, SAIC, Oberlin, and VCU; a Visiting Critic at Brown; and Visiting Faculty at Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and Ox-Bow. She previously taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' new media graduate program (ITP) and was Assistant Professor of New Media at SUNY-Purchase's School of Film & Media Studies. She was recently an Artist-in-Residence at Eyebeam & is currently Visiting Critic at RISD.
In the Future-Past Tense
The fantasy of the future and the utopian promises of new technologies have always gone hand-in-hand. If the history of technology's evolution tells the story of our culture, we can also trace our present-day novelties back to the root of our anxieties about the future and the problems these devices hoped to solve. With this correlation in mind, the interactive DVD novel The Imaginary 20th Century (2007) by Norman Klein, Margo Bistis, and Andreas Kratky, jumps back to the fin de siècle era between the 19th and 20th centuries. It was a time of wonder when new technologies and their representation were wedded in documents like panoramic films of public light shows and short actualities about newfangled transportation devices called roller skates. The novel tells the story of "the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and the story of a woman (Carrie), who in 1901, selects four men to seduce her, each with his own version of the new century" in a recombinatory visual narrative that overlaps 2,200 images culled from primary documents, architectural plans, photos, and other ephemera with an original score. The project speaks to the multiplicity of visions circulating about what the new century would hold, and it's an even more past-tense follow-up to Norman Klein's interactive novel, Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986 (2003). Klein's work has clearly resonated with at least eleven people, because closing this week at Otis College of Art and Design's Ben Maltz Gallery is "The Future Imaginary," an exhibition that responds to The Imaginary 20th Century with the work of artists Deborah Aschheim, Jeff Cain, Tom Jennings, Jon Kessler, Ed Osborn, Lea Rekow, Douglas Repetto, Phil Ross, Kari Rae Seekins and Aaron Drake, and Susan Simpson. Each contribution embodies the special genre of ...
Real-Time Legend
Let's admit it. Many of us have done it. You simply lift the lid on the photocopier, press your face (or other body part) against the glass, and hit "print." Sonia Sheridan has made an art out of this form of self-portraiture. The phenomenon of artists using the oft-overlooked tools around them is one with a long tradition. Think of Lillian Schwartz and the computers that surrounded her at Bell Labs, or Sadie Benning and the toy camera her father, James Benning, gave her. The list is long. And there's something about the convergence of play and experimentation that has made work like this a locus for forwarding new media. In Sheridan's case, it's partly a result of a deep attunement to the relationship between industrial methods and creative drives that has persisted for over sixty years. She was the beneficiary of a 3M residency program which allowed her to make work with equipment like their Thermo-Fax and Color-in-Color machines. In the legendary Jack Burnham-curated exhibition, "Software" (Jewish Museum, 1969), Sheridan allowed viewers to play with these machines, as well. The resultant work enabled her to comment on the compression of time in the conception-to-realization process, positioning her as an early theorist of "real time" art-making and communication. Meanwhile, her art projects helped establish the aesthetics of electronic graphics, while simultaneously pushing the formal boundaries (light, line, color) of seemingly simple systems and drawing these experiments into more and more complex generative systems. Like many artists of her generation opening up new tools, the body became a common site of investigation, and the images she continues to make reflect the metamorphosis of the body in relationship to machines. The Daniel Langois Foundation maintains an extensive archive on ...
Media Studies
This is the first installment of a monthly column by Rhizome's Contributing Editor Marisa Olson. "Media Studies" will explore timely issues within the broader field of technology. Each post will pay specific attention to the relationship between these subjects and artistic practice. For this column, Marisa provides a reading list on the topic of "Experimental Geography". In recent years, access to geographical tools and data collection has expanded rapidly, allowing many artists to rethink their relationship to the earth and geographical study. This column provides a summation of publications relevant to these developments.
Please join us tomorrow for a panel, organized by Marisa, on "Experimental Geography". Beginning at 3pm in the New Museum's theater, Creative Time curator Nato Thompson, who curated an exhibition of the same title for Independent Curators International, will lead a discussion with artists Lize Mogel and Damon Rich. - Ceci Moss
The following is an initial list of readings that might be of interest to anyone researching experimental geography. It includes key theoretical texts on the nature of space, texts on locative media, and works on radical cartography. Many of them cross over into game theory, cyberfeminism, relations between real and virtual spaces, surveillance, tactical media, psychogeography, situationism, sound art, networked cultures, site-specific installation art, and other related sub-themes. It's tempting to sort these into temporal or topical categories, but to do so might be to inappropriately compartmentalize an ongoing discourse that moves in new directions every day.
This is only a starting point. Please feel free to add texts in the comments. Links to related syllabi would also be a great resource!
Janet Abrams and Peter Hall (eds), Else/Where: Mapping -- New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, Univ Minnesota Design Institute, 2006
Saul Albert, "Locative Literacy," Mute, July 12, 2004
Marc Augé, Non-Places ...
Tactical Transactions
If you're not already familiar with UBERMORGEN.COM, now would be a good time to get acquainted. The duo formed by Hans Bernhard and Lizvlx came onto the tactical media scene in the days of Toywar. When the Bernhard-founded group etoy was taken-on by e-commerce retailer etoys.com, the artists successfully brought the company down, thus providing a keystone moment in the perpetual headbutt between artists and corporations and launching the press release as the tactical media artist's weapon par excellence. In the spirit of many a corporate breakup, the participants in Toywar went on to funnel their win into the launch of new brands and creative identities. Notable among them are the Yes Men and UBERMORGEN. Taking as their name a German word that refers to the perpetual hope of a better tomorrow, the focus of UBERMORGEN's projects has been centered largely around legal issues related to copyright and surveillance. These works include [V]ote-Auction (2000), in which they attempted to auction-off a US Presidential vote to the highest bidder, and the Rhizome-commissioned project Google Will Eat Itself (GWEI) (2006), and "autocannibalistic model" in which revenue from auto-placed Google ads was used to buy Google stock, with a business plan to turn ownership of Google over to its users. In collaboration with Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico, Lizvlx and Bernhard recently took on Amazon.com in a duel that pitted their "robot-perversion technology" against the company's proprietary book preview software. According to the artists, their copyright-busting book-downloading tool was eventually sold to Amazon for an "undisclosed sum," but the story of the face-off (entitled Amazon Noir, 2006) floats among the ranks of other tactical media mythologies--not unlike some of the projects by their frequent collaborators 0100101110101101.org--demonstrating that ...
The Nostradamus of New Media?
Artists often loathe living in the shadow of their older, more famous works. But it is difficult to begin an article about John F. Simon, Jr. without paying homage to his 1997 project, Every Icon. The brilliant algorithmic piece exists on a 32x32 pixel grid, in which any element of the grid can be colored black or white. As it crunches through the billions of possible illuminative patterns, it will--at least theoretically--eventually display "every icon" possible. The work, itself, has become iconic. It's often the first work of art shown in lectures about internet art, and while the code behind the work speaks volumes about the speed of behind-the-scenes technological development, the resultant display is a testament to the poetic beauty and creative potential of a few simple lines and squares. This marriage of sublime potentiality and mathematical complexity has continued to be the cornerstone of Simon's work over the last ten years--as we might expect from an artist who managed to snag the URL numeral.com! Simon is now enjoying his first Italian solo exhibition, in the form of a ten-year retrospective at Collezione Maramotti (Reggio Emilia, IT), entitled "Outside In: Ten Years of Software Art." The exhibit presents work from 1999 to the present and the title might refer both to the show's ability to "zoom-in" on an artist's oeuvre or the way in which Simon's relationship to code and form has changed over the years. After making a professional leap from science to art, Simon's early works treated code like a specimen. Akin to a microscope whose focus is pulled back to reveal the larger sample, his work has progressed in a way that now ...


text:
I am reading the OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide book. Chapter 8 discusses about Vertex Shaders and it mentions about some built-in special variables such as gl_Positiongl_PointSize, gl_FrontFacing. Also, built-in Univorfm State gl_DepthRange, etc.
Where can I find all the corresponding Vertex Shaders built-in variables on WebGL?
I found the WebGL cheat sheet on http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/webgl_chea … _Sheet.htm. Do we have an equivalent of Vertex Shaders cheat sheet?
Thanks in advance for your help.


text:
She has been a friend of mine for a LONG time. I remember when she gave me my first spiral perm when I was eight and because I have super thick hair (and it was SUPER long at the time), she had to help hold my head walking to the dryer. And it took so long that I remember she went out and got me some dinner! LOL She did my hair for all my school dances and my wedding. She is also my scrappin' buddy. I recently got her hooked on this hobby! Hee...another one bites the dust! :)
She is just one of the nicest people I know and I wanted to do something special for her just because. So, I bought her the stamp mentioned above and made her this quick little card set to give her today when I got my hair cut...
I thought these cards would be perfect for her to give to her clients.
I stamped the image in black and embossed with clear embossing powder to give it some shine.
This works so much better for me than using black embossing powder....just doesn't like me and always turns out blotchy.
A closer look...
Well, that's all I got for now. Going shopping with my son. He wants a new outfit for his music gig on Friday night! ;)