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TUNE HOTELS BRINGS £9 CHEER TO LONDON THIS SUMMER

NEW PADDINGTON PROPERTY TO OPEN ON 25 JUNE

KUALA LUMPUR, 22 March 2012. Tune Hotels, the pioneering budget hotel chain, in continuing their aggressive rollout plan in London, celebrates the opening of their new property by offering double rooms for just £9 a night. The Tune Hotel Paddington will open on 25 June, comprising of 137 en-suite bedrooms across twin, double and accessible formats.

The fantastic offer is available now with over 1,000 £9 rooms released to savvy travellers booking to stay on a range of dates between June 2012 and February 2013. Tune Hotel Paddington will be the fast rising brand’s third London hotel and located at 37 Praed Street, just 300 metres from Edgware Road Underground and within three minutes walking distance to the Paddington mainline station.

This will be closely followed by yet another £9 per night offer at the new Tune Hotel Kings Cross which is scheduled to open on 9th July 2012. This hotel, located on Grays Inn Road, within walking distance from Kings Cross station and St. Pancras will feature 217 bedrooms and guests will also be able to enjoy the large reception area where light refreshments will be served.

The two new additions bring the London presence of the hotel chain to four hotels with the current Westminster and Liverpool Street hotels. Guests staying at either of the properties will be able to experience rooms at exceptionally low prices, focussing on high-quality basics - five-star Hypnos beds, power showers, air conditioned rooms, central locations, a clean environment and 24 hour security. Through the successful ‘pay as you use’ concept, Tune guests pay only for their room allowing them the ultimate flexibility to pay extra for the services and facilities that are important to them.

ENDS

For booking and more information about Tune Hotels UK please visit www.tunehotels.com/uk.

For real-time updates and promotion alerts, guests can stay connected with Tune Hotels via Facebook at www.facebook.com/tunehotelsUK and on Twitter via www.twitter.com/tunehotels/uk.

About Tune Hotels

Tune Hotels is part of the lifestyle business conglomerate Tune Group that was founded by Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Dato’ Kamarudin Meranun. Tune Group seeks to innovate and revolutionise the way services are made available and has employed efficient web-based technologies to reach and engage its customers, presenting a unique lifestyle offering ranging from value hotel stays, personal finance solutions and affordable prepaid mobile services. Tune Group of Companies are Tune Air, Tune Hotels, Tune Money, Tune Talk, Tune Box, Tune Studios and the Queens Park Rangers Football Club (QPR).

Since Tune Hotels was first launched in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2007, over 3 million guests have stayed in its properties spread across Malaysia, Indonesia and the United Kingdom. It now has 19 hotels located in Kuala Lumpur, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, KLIA-LCCT Airport, Penang, Johor Bahru, Kota Damansara, Bintulu, Kota Bharu and Kulim in Malaysia; Kuta and Legian in Bali, Indonesia; Westminster and Liverpool Street in London, England; Hat Yai and Pattaya in Thailand; and Angeles City, Cebu and Ermita, Manila in the Philippines.

All Tune Hotels feature space-efficient, streamlined rooms focusing on high-quality basics: 5-star bed, powerful hot showers and energy-saving fans. The strategically located hotels provide housekeeping services, electronic keycard access into rooms, CCTV surveillance, and prohibits access into the main lobby without a keycard past midnight. Through Tune Hotels’ pay-as-you-use system of add-on WiFi, TV, laundered towels and other energy-consuming facilities and amenities, Tune Hotels aims to help guests conserve both their funds as well as the earth’s resources.

Tune Hotels is a part of Tune Group, the principal partner of the Premier League’s Professional Games Match Officials (PGMO) & the BIG Global Loyalty Programme.

For media enquiries please contact:

Amanda Chong

Senior Marketing Manager

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Email: amanda.chong@tunehotels.com

This web-based unified communications client provides a simple, consistent interface to critical applications, giving users control of telephony, conferencing, messaging, presence, mobility administration, and access to corporate and personal contact information. Avaya one-X Portal complements the desk phone while in the office and supports mobile and remote workers from any location. Since one-X Portal can be used from any Internet connection, it can play an important role in business continuity planning.

Learn more about the Avaya one-X® family of communications applications and collaboration tools designed for end users.

Offices of the Anti Advertising Agency and www.delocator.net

Two exhibitions by the artists' collaboratives the Anti-Advertising Agency and Finishing School will take over the San Francisco Art Institute's Walter and McBean Galleries for the month of April and into May.

The Anti-Advertising Agency (AAA) will transform the McBean Project Space into its temporary headquarters replete with a conference table, desks, chairs, dry erase boards, a water cooler, fluorescent lamps, and cubicle walls in order to plan the Agency's counter-advertising projects for 2005–2006. Artist and educator Steve Lambert founded the Anti Advertising Agency. Co-opting the tools and structures used by the advertising and public relations industries, the Agency was established as a response to the pervasiveness of commercial content in public urban space. As the CEO of the Anti Advertising Agency, Lambert will work from start to finish with the artists selected for Agency support to help realize their projects.

To date, five artists’ projects have been selected for Agency support. All of these projects will have workstations in the gallery/office where they can begin work and present their ideas to the public.

Participating artists include Sara Dierck and Michael Dodge, who will work on engaging the public through sound and radio; Amanda Eicher, who will focus on connecting consumer products with labor; Susan R. Greene, who brings expertise in community-based art making and clinical psychology; Packard Jennings, who will hone the Agency's message through public surveys and target audiences; and Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, who will use street teams to promote business activity that doesn't rely on advertising. As each of these artists projects evolve, the residual Post It ® notes, reference material, paper scraps, diagrams, and scrawled notebooks will be left in the gallery as part of the exhibition.

Simultaneously, downstairs in the Walter Gallery, the Southern California based artist group Finishing School will create a café/workshop environment to serve as the physical location for the launch of their newest project, the web-based, www.delocator.net. Finishing School is the collective identity of artists Brian Boyer, Ed Giardina, and xtine. For this project the artists have collaborated with computer programmer Vasna Sdoeung to produce their interactive website www.delocator.net. This online interactive database allows patrons to enter and pull comparative information regarding independently owned café and trans-national coffee emporiums.

During the exhibition, Finishing School will transform the gallery into a traditional coffee house environment with the addition of computers and wireless Internet access. Gallery visitors will learn about the delocator project and are invited to add information to a growing online database of independently owned café’s and coffee houses.

Finishing School is the second Nimoy Artist Residency to be funded by Susan Bay and Leonard Nimoy, who established the Nimoy Foundation in 2003. The mission of the Nimoy Foundation is to recognize, encourage, and support the work of contemporary visual and performing artists.

Exhibitions Director Merry Scully finds the entrepreneurial approach taken by both the AAA and the Finishing School reflective of national and international art making trends. "This kind of artistic practice engages the social and political sphere rather than simply representing or commenting upon it," explains Scully. “It invites a rethinking and exchange from the audience that more didactic work does not."

The Walter and McBean Galleries are open Tuesday–Saturday, 11am–6pm. Both exhibitions invite active participation by the audience. The "CEO" of the AAA will be on-site and available to the public Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The AAA will offer free anti-advertising "consultations" to the public on Wednesdays at 6:30pm, and "focus groups" on Fridays from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. The delocator café/workshop will be open during gallery hours. More information about these projects can be found at www.antiadvertisingagency.com

and www.delocator.net.

This screen video shows how the #3DBenchy 3D print calibration STL file is sliced for SLA 3D printers in the web-based SLAcer slicing software. - http://ift.tt/22OQnXV - http://ift.tt/1nL0NFz - http://3DBenchy.com #3Dprinting #3Dprinter #slicer #slicing #3Dprinter #SLA See video: ift.tt/22OQoed Learn more about 3D printing at 3DBenchy.com

a regular hitachi style 16 pin interface - but MAN is this thing big!

transmissive white with blue background. there are 4 white leds on the side panels (left and right have 2 each).

a 'normal' 4x20 display is shown to the left, for size comparison.

normal 2x16 displays are to the right and below (both in orange).

I was concerned about being able to read the song names from a distance. I guess *that* worry is now settled ;)

lcd part costs $35 at mouser electronics.

United States Airforce Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, 87-0045 descending into RAF Mildenhall on a grey miserable August day.

To quote a well known web based information page:

The C-5 is a large, high-wing cargo aircraft with a distinctive high T-tail fin (vertical) stabilizer, with four TF39 turbofan engines mounted on pylons beneath wings that are swept 25°. (The C-5M uses newer GE CF6 engines.) Similar in layout to its smaller predecessor, the C-141 Starlifter, the C-5 has 12 internal wing tanks and is equipped for aerial refueling. Above the plane-length cargo deck is an upper deck for flight operations and for seating 80 passengers in rear facing seats (unlike most commercial airplanes) and the embarked loadmaster crew in forward facing seats. Bay doors at both nose and tail open to enable "drive-through" loading and unloading of cargo.

The cargo hold of the C-5 is one foot (30 cm) longer than the entire length of the first powered flight by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.[52] For its voracious consumption of fuel and its maintenance and reliability issues[53] the Galaxy's aircrews have nicknamed it "FRED", for Fucking[N 1] Ridiculous, Economic/Environmental Disaste

"The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a military transport aircraft originally designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin. It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-range strategic airlift capability, one that can carry outsized and oversized loads, including all air-certifiable cargo. The Galaxy has many similarities to the smaller Lockheed C-141 Starlifter and the later Boeing C-17 Globemaster III. The C-5 is among the largest military aircraft in the world.

The C-5 Galaxy's development was complicated, including significant cost overruns, and Lockheed suffered significant financial difficulties. Shortly after entering service, cracks in the wings of many aircraft were discovered and the C-5 fleet was restricted in capability until corrective work was completed. The C-5M Super Galaxy is an upgraded version with new engines and modernized avionics designed to extend its service life beyond 2040.

The USAF has operated the C-5 since 1969. In that time, the airlifter supported US military operations in all major conflicts including Vietnam, Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan, as well as allied support, such as Israel during the Yom Kippur War and operations in the Gulf War. The Galaxy has also been used to distribute humanitarian aid and disaster relief, and supported the US space programme."

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XC-EPOS™, Sportsbetting Cashier allows operators to offer competitive odds which are automatically converted from Betfair odds with a built-in, adjustable profit margin essentially enabling no-risk betting profit. The solution provides betting shop, casino, and sports cafe operators the opportunity to manage a Sport and Event betting offering without the financial risks associated with traditional Sportsbooks.

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ELTON JOHN MESMERISES 5,000 FANS

3-hour non-stop performance by Piano Man

GENTING HIGHLANDS, 22 November 2011 – About 5,000 fans packed the Arena of Stars here Tuesday night for the first ever performance in Malaysia by superstar Sir Elton John.

The crowd cheered and sang along with the Piano Man as he enthralled them his classic hits as well as recent numbers from his latest album ‘The Union’, released in 2010.

‘Saturday Night’s Alright’, ‘Rocket Man’, ‘Candle in the Wind’, ‘Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’ and ‘Can You Feel the Love Tonight’ were just a handful of his iconic and evergreen songs performed during the show, leaving his fans with another unforgettable night of music.

The concert started off with an opening by the 2CELLOS, made up of young Croatian cellists Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser who later joined the ensemble throughout the concert that ended at 11 pm.

Elton John & Band Greatest Hits Tour in Malaysia was the first project by Tune Live, the entertainment arm of Tune Group. Tune Live is the promoter for the concert.

For Elton, putting together a “Greatest Hits Tour” was a great passion as he was joined on the road once again by his long-time band; Davey Johnstone, Nigel Olsson, Bob Birch, Kim Bullard and John Mahon, all dedicated and superbly talented musicians who have been playing alongside the piano man for many years.

Another highlight of the concert was the four backing singers, which included the incredible Rose Stone (Sly And The Family Stone) together with Lisa Stone, Tata Vega and Jean Witherspoon.

This was also the first time that 2CELLOS will join the ensemble. The young Croatian duo, Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser recently took YouTube by storm, quickly landing a recording deal with Sony Music.

Elton’s most recent studio album ‘The Union’, released by Universal Music in October 2010 was recorded with Elton’s long-time musical idol and world-renowned pianist and songwriter, Leon Russell. ‘The Union’ sees the duo and a glittering array of guests get back to the nitty-gritty of what they love about rock n’ roll.

Over his 40-year career, Elton John has won an impressive 5 Grammy Awards, sold over 250 million albums worldwide and continued to perform more than 100 shows a year, placing him squarely among the top 10 best-selling artists in music history. In addition to being the most successful rock pianist in the world, he oversees an artist-management company. His AIDS foundation has raised more than US$220 million since 1992 and benefits programs in 55 countries. The sales of the song ‘Candle In The Wind’ in 1997 raised over US$40 million for the charity, following the death of his friend Diana, Princess of Wales.

Elton has traveled the world performing his iconic and evergreen songs for his fans across the globe such as London, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Croatia, Abu Dhabi, Turkey and Indonesia, just to name a few. The next few months in Elton’s itinerary are packed and include sixteen nights performing his brand new show ‘Million Dollar Piano’ at The Colosseum, Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

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About Elton John

Please visit www.eltonjohn.com

About 2CELLOS

Please visit www.2cellos.com

About Tune Live

Tune Live is the entertainment arm of Tune Group, the lifestyle business conglomerate founded by Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Dato’ Kamarudin Meranun. Tune Group seeks to innovate and revolutionise the way services are made available and has employed efficient web-based technologies to reach and engage its customers, presenting a unique lifestyle offering ranging from value hotel stays, personal finance solutions and affordable prepaid mobile services. Tune Group of Companies are Tune Air, Tune Hotels, Tune Money, Tune Talk, Tune Box, Tune Studios and the Queens Park Rangers Football Club (QPR).

More photos are available from www.flickr.com/tunelive

For media enquiries, please contact:

TUNE LIVE

Hamdan Mohamad – hamdan@tunegroup.com (+6010-5001111)

Fara Hasan – fara.hasan@tunegroup.com (+6010-8008383)

SONG LIST

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1. Saturday Night’s Alright

2. Standing

3. Levon

4. Madman

5. Holiday Inn

6. Tiny Dancer

7. Philly

8. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

9. Candle in the Wind

10. Rocket Man

11. Blues

12. Hey Ahab

13. Gone to Shiloh

14. Monkey Suit

15. Sacrifice

16. Honky Cat

17. Sad Songs

18. Daniel

19. Sorry

20. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me

21. Ready for Love

22. Bennie

23. Bitch is Back

24. Croc Rock

25. Can You Feel the Love Tonight

26. Your Song

This is a long circuit and we knew, because of a ferry booking, that we would probably not be able to complete it and would therefore have to pick a spot to return from early. We hoped to see the seal colony at least. Unfortunately, at the very beginning - the west side of Sand Voe - the web-based maps suggested a coastal route that took us into walking along a steep and slippery incline, with drops, if we did slip, straight down into the voe. We assumed that 'any second' we'd come across worn grass that suggested we had hit the path and we persevered, slow and careful, on the slope that none of us were entirely comfortable walking along. The path did not materialise and we eventually climbed the steep slope to a safe flat area. This section cost us more time than we had wanted and we therefore decided, disappointed, to turn back before we reached the seal colony. The walk back - first away from the coast up the main branch of the Pettadale Burn and then across the spongy gorse/grasses to North Voe - was a good work-out for our legs but not hugely interesting. We will have to come back and do the full hike.

Mingle Media TV and Red Carpet Report host Cathy Kelley were invited to cover the 39th Annual Gracie Awards, (The Gracies) Honoring Exemplary Women in Media. The event was hosted by Aisha Tyler and was held in the Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Get the Story from the Red Carpet Report Team, follow us on Twitter and Facebook at:

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About the Gracies

The Gracies recognizes exemplary programming created for women, by women, and about women in all facets of media, including radio, television, cable and new media. The awards program also encourages the realistic and multi-faceted portrayal of women in entertainment, news, features and other programs.

The Gracies are presented by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Alliance for Women that supports educational programs, charitable activities, public service campaigns and scholarships to benefit the public and women in media. The Gracie Awards, established in 1975, honor programming and individuals of the highest caliber in all facets of radio, television, cable and web-based media, including news, drama, comedy, public services, documentary and sports. www.thegracies.org

For more of Mingle Media TV’s Red Carpet Report coverage, please visit our website and follow us on Twitter and Facebook here:

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Offices of the Anti Advertising Agency and www.delocator.net

Two exhibitions by the artists' collaboratives the Anti-Advertising Agency and Finishing School will take over the San Francisco Art Institute's Walter and McBean Galleries for the month of April and into May.

The Anti-Advertising Agency (AAA) will transform the McBean Project Space into its temporary headquarters replete with a conference table, desks, chairs, dry erase boards, a water cooler, fluorescent lamps, and cubicle walls in order to plan the Agency's counter-advertising projects for 2005–2006. Artist and educator Steve Lambert founded the Anti Advertising Agency. Co-opting the tools and structures used by the advertising and public relations industries, the Agency was established as a response to the pervasiveness of commercial content in public urban space. As the CEO of the Anti Advertising Agency, Lambert will work from start to finish with the artists selected for Agency support to help realize their projects.

To date, five artists’ projects have been selected for Agency support. All of these projects will have workstations in the gallery/office where they can begin work and present their ideas to the public.

Participating artists include Sara Dierck and Michael Dodge, who will work on engaging the public through sound and radio; Amanda Eicher, who will focus on connecting consumer products with labor; Susan R. Greene, who brings expertise in community-based art making and clinical psychology; Packard Jennings, who will hone the Agency's message through public surveys and target audiences; and Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, who will use street teams to promote business activity that doesn't rely on advertising. As each of these artists projects evolve, the residual Post It ® notes, reference material, paper scraps, diagrams, and scrawled notebooks will be left in the gallery as part of the exhibition.

Simultaneously, downstairs in the Walter Gallery, the Southern California based artist group Finishing School will create a café/workshop environment to serve as the physical location for the launch of their newest project, the web-based, www.delocator.net. Finishing School is the collective identity of artists Brian Boyer, Ed Giardina, and xtine. For this project the artists have collaborated with computer programmer Vasna Sdoeung to produce their interactive website www.delocator.net. This online interactive database allows patrons to enter and pull comparative information regarding independently owned café and trans-national coffee emporiums.

During the exhibition, Finishing School will transform the gallery into a traditional coffee house environment with the addition of computers and wireless Internet access. Gallery visitors will learn about the delocator project and are invited to add information to a growing online database of independently owned café’s and coffee houses.

Finishing School is the second Nimoy Artist Residency to be funded by Susan Bay and Leonard Nimoy, who established the Nimoy Foundation in 2003. The mission of the Nimoy Foundation is to recognize, encourage, and support the work of contemporary visual and performing artists.

Exhibitions Director Merry Scully finds the entrepreneurial approach taken by both the AAA and the Finishing School reflective of national and international art making trends. "This kind of artistic practice engages the social and political sphere rather than simply representing or commenting upon it," explains Scully. “It invites a rethinking and exchange from the audience that more didactic work does not."

The Walter and McBean Galleries are open Tuesday–Saturday, 11am–6pm. Both exhibitions invite active participation by the audience. The "CEO" of the AAA will be on-site and available to the public Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The AAA will offer free anti-advertising "consultations" to the public on Wednesdays at 6:30pm, and "focus groups" on Fridays from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. The delocator café/workshop will be open during gallery hours. More information about these projects can be found at www.antiadvertisingagency.com

and www.delocator.net.

Environmental Specialist I/GIS Technician, Information Science and Management, Center for Spatial Analysis

B.S. Environmental Science, Policy, & Geography

Working in the natural sciences involves a lot of unexpected technologies, like Geographic Information Systems, or GIS. Using GIS, we can map changes in the environment as they happen, and this helps us to develop a coordinated response as well as keep the public informed.

I discovered GIS through collegiate peer pressure while completing my degree. All of the seniors and grad students insisted that we undergrads needed to take a GIS course because the industry was going to be big and continue to grow. They were absolutely right, and I’m glad I gave in to the pressure! As a member of the Data Management Team within FWRI’s Center for Spatial Analysis, I am responsible for geospatial data management, data acquisition, metadata creation and maintenance, mapmaking, and responding to requests for information relating to our data inventory. I am also involved in the creation and maintenance of geospatial web applications and dashboards linked to web-based maps.

Accessibility is a valuable factor people put in consideration before availing any service, the same factor is applied to Healthcare.

The term 'Telehealth' was introduced by the combination of Technology & Healthcare. Telehealth technology leverages the power of digital information and communication devices -- those such as computers, smartphones and tablets to provide quality of life improvements which, is perhaps the main point of telehealth benefits.

Telehealth Services:

Telehealth services include topics such as Patient Portals, Virtual Appointments and Remote Monitoring. Patient Portals are places where with the help of web-based services or telehealth applications, patients can log onto their own profile and access their medical reports through the dashboard, this dashboard is also accessible to the doctors under whom the patient is being taken care of, the patient can even communicate and schedule appointments with the doctors through the use of patient portals. Virtual Appointments enable the patient to interact with a doctor through the means of video conferencing or even perform virtual 'visits' by logging on the web-based service. Remote Patient Monitoring enables the doctors to remotely monitor their patients health status through the use of telehealth applications by inputing of the health information by the patients on these applications.

The benefits of telehealth go beyond these but there are also several drawbacks included with it.

To learn more, read this case study we have written keeping telehealth companies in mind: www.osplabs.com/healthcare-provider-software-solutions/te...

The Utilikilt, that manskirt from Seattle, is usually worn with thick ankle length socks so this is something of an experiment to see how it goes with knee socks.

Utilikilts Mocker in navy blue with matching soccer socks.

The Utilikilts Company was founded by Steven Villegas and Megan Haas in April 2000. Villegas created his first unbifurcated garment in the late nineteen nineties as a comfortable alternative to trousers intended to give freedom of movement while working on his motorcycle. Created from an old pair of military trousers, Villegas was so fond of his creation he wore it quite often around town. He was approached by his first customer, "a bouncer that you wouldn't want to mess with", at a local bar.

That first encounter encouraged him to produce more of these garments and sell them at the Fremont Street Market in Seattle where he met company co-founder Megan Haas. Together they formed the Utilikilts Company, establishing both a brick-and-mortar and web based storefront for their product, and very soon they were selling more than 10,000 per year and other companies began to produce similar kilt style skirts for everyday men's wear.

Information from Wikipedia.

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www.GardenTV.tv

Fact Sheet

WHAT:GardenTV, a gardening channel on the web, will launch a sneak preview of its channel offerings at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show. The channel will showcase experts in the industry with a focus on flower and garden topics, garden-to-table trends, organic and sustainable practices, urban gardening and gardening from around the globe.

WEBSITE:www.gardentv.tv

WHEN:Full channel launch: April, 2013

NOTABLES:

➢GardenTV is a web-based network that can be viewed on your computer, tablet or mobile device.

➢A supporting sponsor of the 2013 Northwest Flower & Garden Show, GardenTV will produce an in-depth cinematographic look at this year’s garden displays. GardenTV will be taping interviews with seminar presenters and other experts in attendance.

➢GardenTV will also produce its own original shows. Two shows already announced to debut this spring are "Celebrity Gardens," a showcase of well known celebrities on location in their home gardens and "The Well Traveled Fork," a farm-to-table cooking show that teaches us where our food comes from, sustainable practices, and how to turn your organic meats and produce into delicious culinary dishes.

CONTENT & PROGRAMMING:

GardenTV is looking to add content and programming to the channel. If you are interested in casting or have content you would like considered for the channel, please contact Joey Cooper at Joey Cooper 541-350-1876 or joey@joiemedia.com

The car will be driven by David Heinemeier Hansson in the IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge. While the PNR team is new to IMSA GT3 Cup, the personnel running the operation have decades of successful sports car racing experience. The effort is led by PNR Team Principal Ron Barnaba, winning Team Manager and Crew Chief Tim Olsen, and accomplished Race Engineer Marc Manning. Hansson is also working with top American Porsche driver Patrick Long as his driver coach for the second consecutive year.

The IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge by Yokohama features semi-professional and emerging drivers racing head to head in Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race cars. The series is broken into two classes, with the Platinum Cup class featuring newer and more powerful Porsche GT3s and the Gold Cup class for 2005½ to 2009 specification GT3s.

Following test and practice sessions today and Wednesday, Thursday features IMSA GT3 Cup qualifying at 12:15 p.m. and the first of the week’s two 45-minute sprints at 5:05 p.m. The second sprint race will close the IMSA GT3 Cup’s opening race week at 4:20 p.m. on Friday.

ABOUT 37signals: 37signals specializes in web-based collaboration apps and millions of entrepreneurs, freelancers, small businesses and departments inside big organizations rely on their products Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack and Campfire to increase productivity. 37signals is also behind the popular web-development framework Ruby on Rails – used by Twitter, Groupon and more – and the New York Times best-selling business book “REWORK”

ABOUT PORSCHE NAPLETON RACING (PNR): Porsche Napleton Racing (PNR) is the performance and competition division of the Chicago-area auto dealership Napleton Porsche of Westmont. Although the team joins driver David Heinemeier Hansson in their first full season in the IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge by Yokohama in 2011, PNR is an established and full-service racing division and prep shop specializing in amateur and beginner-level competition, on up to entry-level professional racing series. The PNR group is also one of the top teams in the Cayman Interseries, winning several races with Hansson in that championship last year. The performance-focused PNR operation is just one division within Napleton Porsche of Westmont, which is the Ed Napleton Automotive Group’s flagship Porsche dealership.

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Rodney Rose of the Charles Town Maroon Council (right), blows an abeng to welcome persons to the launch of a National Community Tourism Portal by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) at the Devonshire, Devon House on September 28. Looking on are (from left) Tourism Specialist with JSIF, Beverly Stewart; Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Jennifer Griffith; Managing Director at JSIF, Omar Sweeney; and World Bank Country Manager, Galina Sotirova. In the background (at right) is Marcia Douglas of the Charles Town Maroon Council. The National Community Tourism Portal is a web-based platform to promote registered community-based tourism enterprises in Jamaica.

YAHOO! AND TNS RELEASE FIRST-EVER

INTERNET HABITS STUDY FOR VIETNAM

The “Net Index” Gives Marketers Insights into Online Media Habits of Consumers in the Vietnam; Helps Advertisers Plan Integrated Campaigns using Online Marketing

Ho Chi Minh, April 2, 2009 - Yahoo! and TNS today announced the results of the first-ever in-depth media habits study to provide marketers and media planners with insights into urban Vietnamese internet user habits. The Net Index will provide a rigorous and strategic ‘big picture’ overview of consumer online activities that includes cross-media usage habits, lifestyles, psychographics and brand preferences. The study also addresses a current knowledge gap in Vietnam on this medium and will help brands unravel the advertising opportunities to reach and engage online target audiences.

Some of the research’s key findings include:

•42% of the population in Vietnam’s four biggest cities – Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Da Nang and Can Tho -- has accessed the internet in the past week.

•Average daily time spent on the internet has nearly doubled from 22 minutes in 2006 to 43 minutes in 2008. On the other hand, daily time spent on watching TV has declined by 21% to 233 minutes in 2008.

•Average personal expenditure on the internet (including subscription fee) is about VND174,000 or about USD10 per month.

•Home internet access is becoming more prevalent than internet café access. 66% has accessed the internet from home in the past three months. In comparison, 53% has accessed the web from internet cafes and WiFi hotspots in the past three months. However, the teens and users from the lower socio-economic classes still continue to spend a significant part of their internet time in the icafes.

•Information and other search-related activities are popular online activities. In the past month, 82% has used search engines and nearly 90% has read news on internet portals and other news sites.

•Instant messaging is more popular than email use. 73% has used instant messengers in the past month compared to 58% for web-based email. More than 95% of internet users use Yahoo! instant messenger and email in Vietnam.

“This study reveals the opportunity for marketers and media planners in the Vietnam to re-examine advertising strategies and utilize the internet as an effective way to reach and engage with target consumers,” said Tri Minh Vu, general director, Yahoo! Vietnam. “The opportunity that now exists is one of the key reasons that Yahoo! has stepped up its direct sales model in the Vietnam, giving brands and advertisers access to reach the millions people in the country that are on Yahoo! every month,” Tri added.

Vietnam is witnessing rapid growth of digital media. With an estimated 18 million internet users, Vietnam will see more users going online to communicate with family and friends, to engage in entertainment, and to obtain information as the internet becomes increasingly accessible around the country. As a result, businesses will need to keep up and understand the new opportunities the internet medium and their online consumers bring.

"Digital media's success in today's advertising landscape is dependent on its accountability to the advertiser, the media agency and its stakeholders. TNS is proud to be partnering with Yahoo! to provide the Advertising and Media industry in Vietnam with the most comprehensive and geographically extensive study on the online Vietnamese, his profile, his online activities, his attitudes and how he consumes digital media in the context of other media", said Trần Thị Thanh Mai, Managing Director TNS Media Vietnam

With a generation of young Vietnamese growing up as digital natives, understanding their media habits is critical to understanding the future. The Net Index study not only provides findings on popular online activities from email, search to instant messaging, but also sheds light on internet usage trends (e.g. from social networking to most visited websites), channels of web access (e.g. from internet cafes to mobile phones) and makes recommendations on how businesses can leverage the research to grow their businesses.

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Sunnyside Farm owner Dru Peters, from Dover, PA., talked to Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, White House Personal Chef and Food Policy Advisor Sam Kass and White House Office of Public Engagement Director Jon Carson, about raising pasture raised poultry and grass fed beef for local direct to market retail, during a Know Your Farmer Compass event that used twitter social media to continue National Conversation on Local and Regional Food projects and how they offer economic opportunities to local farmers, ranchers and food entrepreneur, and took place at the White House, and Twitter was used to expand the conversation worldwide, from Washington, D.C., on Monday, March 5, 2012. Using the new web-based Know Your Food Compass, the conversation covered many aspects about food, such as infrastructure, stewardship, local meat and poultry, Healthy food access, careers in agriculture and local food knowledge. Unlike most events where mobile communication devices are asked to be turned off, here it was asked that they remain on allowing people to have social media conversations. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.

XSS-EPOS™, Sportsbetting Kiosk: Risk-free, self-service KIOSK exchange betting application

EXPAND YOUR MARKET

Offer land-based gaming venues an intelligent, self-service based version of BetXTech's cashier software featuring a stylish and secure touch-screen terminal. Casinos now can increase their sports betting volume by placing the devices in well-traveled casino areas, while small betting shops also could benefit by relying less on manned sportsbook operations, which are more expensive to operate than kiosks.

XSS-EPOS™ kiosks are capable of generating betting revenue on a continuous 24/7 basis. The cash, swipe card, and Pre-paid scratch card based system instills player confidence while ensuring 100% player anonymity.

PERFECTED FOR MULTI-LOCATION ENVIRONMENTS

•Betting Shops

•Casinos - Land and Sea based

•Sports Bars and Cafés

•Hotels & Airport Lobbies

•Sports facilities including gyms and fitness centres

•Leisure & Entertainment Centres

•Sports Stadiums and Concert Venues

HOW THE SELF-SERVICE KIOSK SYSTEM WORKS

•Network Point of Service

•A network of betting terminals operated by local operators & optional subagents – managed by the BetXTech Management System

•Web based Client-Server platform

•Configuration and administration though a web-based management console

•Can be fitted with a bill acceptor, a credit card swipe, computer keyboard, a robust fixed trackball, thermal printer, and a touchscreen monitor.

BESPOKE KIOSK SYSTEM DESIGN

•Variety of kiosk types and design

•Wi-Fi (wireless) capabilities

•Marketing and Advertising placement

•Improve corporate branding

•Rugged product, strong resistance to vandalism

•Free-standing or Wall Mounted secure enclosures

XC-EPOS™, Sportsbetting Cashier allows operators to offer competitive odds which are automatically converted from Betfair odds with a built-in, adjustable profit margin essentially enabling no-risk betting profit. The solution provides betting shop, casino, and sports cafe operators the opportunity to manage a Sport and Event betting offering without the financial risks associated with traditional Sportsbooks.

OPERATOR-FOCUSED FEATURES

•Support for multi-currencies and multi-languages

•Fine-grained Margin Management at every level: Global -> Sport Level -> Event Level -> Sub-Event Level -> Market Level

•Betting For, Betting Against, and live, “in-running” betting are all supported.

•Huge profit if the punter's bet won but no profit when punter's bet lost. Highly recommended on punter-friendly betting events such as World Cup.

•Choices on when and where to apply margins:

•Odds and Stake Margin: Margin profit realized regardless of the outcome of an event

•Odds Only Margin: “If Win” mode enables larger profit if punter’s bet won, but no profit for losing bets (recommended on punter-friendly events such as the World Cup).

•Three choices of margin formula:

•Best Odds - Gets the current best odds from the exchange

•Weighted Average - Gets the average of all available odds

•Dynamic Weighted Average - a variation of the Weighted average except that a price will only be included if it is within 25 percent of the current best odds

•Preview mode for punters: enables separate client-facing screens to allow punters to peruse available markets.

•Complete, robust and exportable set of reporting

•EPOS cashier runs out of the box : No servers needed

•Support for Decimal Odds, Vegas Odds, Fractional Odds and Malay Odds

•Support for Multiple Sports

•Support for Multiple TV Monitors and other output devices

•Ability to exclude sports that you do not want to offer on a permanent or temporary basis

•Full compatibility to all POS devices supported by Microsoft Windows Embedded Point of Service and Windows XP Pro Operating Systems

•Low cost of ownership

•Can run on a regular PC, Laptop or POS Terminal

FOR MORE INFORMATION, Pls. CALL +44 (0)20 8123 0968 in the UK, or +33 6 24 74 61 73 outside the UK.

Mingle Media TV and Red Carpet Report host Cathy Kelley were invited to cover the 39th Annual Gracie Awards, (The Gracies) Honoring Exemplary Women in Media. The event was hosted by Aisha Tyler and was held in the Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

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The Gracies recognizes exemplary programming created for women, by women, and about women in all facets of media, including radio, television, cable and new media. The awards program also encourages the realistic and multi-faceted portrayal of women in entertainment, news, features and other programs.

The Gracies are presented by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Alliance for Women that supports educational programs, charitable activities, public service campaigns and scholarships to benefit the public and women in media. The Gracie Awards, established in 1975, honor programming and individuals of the highest caliber in all facets of radio, television, cable and web-based media, including news, drama, comedy, public services, documentary and sports. www.thegracies.org

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inside view of the arduino, ethernet module, DAC module and PGA volume control module.

back panel: www.flickr.com/photos/linux-works/3662955491/

photo of device in-use: www.flickr.com/photos/linux-works/3655856250/

DAC is from ebay/hongkong. it has 24bit/192k (native) and upsampling for 44.1/48k to 96k. cost was in the $100 range.

the PGA (small green board) volume control is from 'error401' with mods by myself, adapting it for use with the arduino.

the db9 (rear panel) connects to an x10 (brand) 'firecracker' transmitter. this links to an x10 receiver that has a small antenna and connects to the AC powerline. the arduino can, via a software library, send 'on/off' commands to x10 house devices (such as my power amp, for the stereo).

the overall purpose of this box is to switch between 2 digital inputs (coax, opto) and also to allow remote mpd (linux sound daemon) control over a standard IP wired network. I have a modified version of a webserver that talks to the linux mpd daemon and this data is what is displayed over the network to the arduino and then it formats it for the lcd screen and updates the 'song playlength' progress bar.

the box also performs general digital-to-analog conversion and digitally controlled analog volume control, even without the mp3 mpd player process. when coax-in is selected, the web-client is disabled and no screen space is used to display song info - it becomes just a volume control display, then (ie, its mode-sensitive).

software features such as soft mute (ramp up/down of volume on mute), ramp of volume on power on/off, sleep timer (!), memories for last-used volume setting on each of the inputs (your tv input can have its own volume setting and remember it, etc). there is also settable backlight brightness (with soft ramp up/down). the user can set min/max volume levels to match to your amp and also to set the 'mute' level to custom.

(more to come) ;)

Offices of the Anti Advertising Agency and www.delocator.net

Two exhibitions by the artists' collaboratives the Anti-Advertising Agency and Finishing School will take over the San Francisco Art Institute's Walter and McBean Galleries for the month of April and into May.

The Anti-Advertising Agency (AAA) will transform the McBean Project Space into its temporary headquarters replete with a conference table, desks, chairs, dry erase boards, a water cooler, fluorescent lamps, and cubicle walls in order to plan the Agency's counter-advertising projects for 2005–2006. Artist and educator Steve Lambert founded the Anti Advertising Agency. Co-opting the tools and structures used by the advertising and public relations industries, the Agency was established as a response to the pervasiveness of commercial content in public urban space. As the CEO of the Anti Advertising Agency, Lambert will work from start to finish with the artists selected for Agency support to help realize their projects.

To date, five artists’ projects have been selected for Agency support. All of these projects will have workstations in the gallery/office where they can begin work and present their ideas to the public.

Participating artists include Sara Dierck and Michael Dodge, who will work on engaging the public through sound and radio; Amanda Eicher, who will focus on connecting consumer products with labor; Susan R. Greene, who brings expertise in community-based art making and clinical psychology; Packard Jennings, who will hone the Agency's message through public surveys and target audiences; and Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, who will use street teams to promote business activity that doesn't rely on advertising. As each of these artists projects evolve, the residual Post It ® notes, reference material, paper scraps, diagrams, and scrawled notebooks will be left in the gallery as part of the exhibition.

Simultaneously, downstairs in the Walter Gallery, the Southern California based artist group Finishing School will create a café/workshop environment to serve as the physical location for the launch of their newest project, the web-based, www.delocator.net. Finishing School is the collective identity of artists Brian Boyer, Ed Giardina, and xtine. For this project the artists have collaborated with computer programmer Vasna Sdoeung to produce their interactive website www.delocator.net. This online interactive database allows patrons to enter and pull comparative information regarding independently owned café and trans-national coffee emporiums.

During the exhibition, Finishing School will transform the gallery into a traditional coffee house environment with the addition of computers and wireless Internet access. Gallery visitors will learn about the delocator project and are invited to add information to a growing online database of independently owned café’s and coffee houses.

Finishing School is the second Nimoy Artist Residency to be funded by Susan Bay and Leonard Nimoy, who established the Nimoy Foundation in 2003. The mission of the Nimoy Foundation is to recognize, encourage, and support the work of contemporary visual and performing artists.

Exhibitions Director Merry Scully finds the entrepreneurial approach taken by both the AAA and the Finishing School reflective of national and international art making trends. "This kind of artistic practice engages the social and political sphere rather than simply representing or commenting upon it," explains Scully. “It invites a rethinking and exchange from the audience that more didactic work does not."

The Walter and McBean Galleries are open Tuesday–Saturday, 11am–6pm. Both exhibitions invite active participation by the audience. The "CEO" of the AAA will be on-site and available to the public Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The AAA will offer free anti-advertising "consultations" to the public on Wednesdays at 6:30pm, and "focus groups" on Fridays from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. The delocator café/workshop will be open during gallery hours. More information about these projects can be found at www.antiadvertisingagency.com

and www.delocator.net.

Managing Director at the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney (second left), in discussion with (from left): Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Jennifer Griffith; Executive Vice President of Communications Strategy at Green Team Global, Hank Stewart; and World Bank Country Manager, Galina Sotirova, following the launch of a National Community Tourism Portal by JSIF at the Devonshire, Devon House, on September 28. The portal is a web-based platform to promote registered community-based tourism enterprises in Jamaica, developed under JSIF’s Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI).

Blue Beach Western Australia

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This is a long circuit and we knew, because of a ferry booking, that we would probably not be able to complete it and would therefore have to pick a spot to return from early. We hoped to see the seal colony at least. Unfortunately, at the very beginning - the west side of Sand Voe - the web-based maps suggested a coastal route that took us into walking along a steep and slippery incline, with drops, if we did slip, straight down into the voe. We assumed that 'any second' we'd come across worn grass that suggested we had hit the path and we persevered, slow and careful, on the slope that none of us were entirely comfortable walking along. The path did not materialise and we eventually climbed the steep slope to a safe flat area. This section cost us more time than we had wanted and we therefore decided, disappointed, to turn back before we reached the seal colony. The walk back - first away from the coast up the main branch of the Pettadale Burn and then across the spongy gorse/grasses to North Voe - was a good work-out for our legs but not hugely interesting. We will have to come back and do the full hike.

NEWS RELEASE

IPOH MALI - VPY RECEIVES TIMELY BOOST

121-room Tune Hotel Ipoh set to open 30 March

Photo caption: Tune Hotel Ipoh located at Jalan Veerasamy is set for opening 30 March 2012.

KUALA LUMPUR, 10 January 2012 – Global value hotel brand Tune Hotels has announced 30 March 2012 as the opening date of its 11th and latest Malaysian property, Tune Hotel Ipoh in the state of Perak.

To celebrate, Tune Hotels is running a pre-opening promo where rooms at Tune Hotel Ipoh are on sale from only RM8 per night. Booking starts today (10 January 2012) until 20 January 2012 for stay period of 30 March – 30 November 2012. The promotion available is exclusively online at www.tunehotels.com.

Group CEO of Tune Hotels, Mark Lankester said: “Through this special promotion, we would like to invite everyone to come and join us in celebrating Visit Perak Year 2012 and experience Ipoh and Perak as a whole.”

“We look forward to participating in the Visit Perak Year 2012, by helping provide world-class accommodation at affordable rates to both foreign and domestic tourists to Perak, in particular Ipoh. We have always said that within Malaysia we want to provide the most complete coverage for travellers and businesses and the establishment of Tune Hotel Ipoh is a further step in that direction.”

Tune Hotel Ipoh will have 121 rooms including 80 doubles, 40 twins and one wheelchair-friendly room. As an added convenience especially for families with under aged children, there will be interconnecting rooms, a new feature introduced by Tune Hotels at the Ipoh property. The hotel will also house commercial retail outlets including an AirAsia Travel & Service Centre that will cater to the residents of Ipoh and the surrounding areas.

Tune Hotels currently operates 10 hotels in Malaysia, two in Bali, Indonesia, two in London, England and one in Thailand. Tune Hotel Ipoh will be the chain’s 11th hotel in Malaysia with the others being Kuala Lumpur, Penang, KLIA-LCCT Airport, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Johor Bahru, Kota Damansara, Bintulu, Kota Bharu and Kulim. In Bali, Tune Hotels are located at Kuta and Legian while in London it is at Westminster and Liverpool Street. The latest hotel that opened on 22 December 2011 was Tune Hotel Hat Yai, Thailand.

Adding to the list soon will be Tune Hotel Pattaya in Thailand, scheduled for opening on 17 February 2012 and three locations in the Philippines – Angeles City (10 Feb 2012), Cebu City (24 Feb 2012) and Ermita, Manila (9 March 2012). Rooms at these hotels are now available for booking at www.tunehotels.com.

Tune Hotels has successfully pioneered a branded value hotel brand with the concept of pay-as-you-use that has become hugely popular amongst travelers from across the world. Under the concept, guests only pay for room rates with the option of adding on other amenities like towels & toiletries, air-conditioning, in-room wifi and satellite TV service at selected hotels.

Tune Hotels has recently set a new record for itself by registering three million guests over a period of four years since the opening of its first hotel in downtown Kuala Lumpur in 2007. From the one millionth guest mark it achieved in March 2010 to two millionth by mid-2011, Tune Hotels’ guest arrivals have been exponential as the network aggressively expands across Southeast Asia and the UK.

Calling on guests to stay connected with Tune Hotels via the social media networks Facebook and Twitter, Mark pointed out that about 30 new Tune Hotels will be opening globally in the next 12 months. “More Tune Hotels are scheduled for opening in Asean, the UK, India and Australia, that will give our guests even more options for travel destinations. With these new hotels, our number of guests will grow even faster and we expect to reach the five millionth mark by mid-2012. We encourage guests to stay tuned for Tune Hotels’ latest openings and promotions via Facebook and Twitter.”

Tune Hotels is part of Tune Group, a lifestyle business conglomerate co-founded by Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Dato’ Kamarudin Meranun, who are the Group CEO and Deputy Group CEO respectively of Asia’s largest low cost carrier AirAsia.

For real-time updates and promotion alerts, guests can stay connected with Tune Hotels via Facebook at www.facebook.com/tunehotels and on Twitter via www.twitter.com/tunehotels.

For booking and further information, visit www.tunehotels.com.

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About Tune Hotels

Tune Hotels is part of the lifestyle business conglomerate Tune Group that was founded by Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Dato’ Kamarudin Meranun. Tune Group seeks to innovate and revolutionise the way services are made available and has employed efficient web-based technologies to reach and engage its customers, presenting a unique lifestyle offering ranging from value hotel stays, personal finance solutions and affordable prepaid mobile services. Tune Group of Companies are Tune Air, Tune Hotels, Tune Money, Tune Talk, Tune Box, Tune Studios, Tune Live and, Queens Park Rangers Football Club (QPR).

Since Tune Hotels was first launched in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2007, over 3 million guests have stayed in its properties spread across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the United Kingdom. It now has 14 hotels located in Kuala Lumpur, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, KLIA-LCCT Airport, Penang, Johor Bahru, Kota Damansara, Bintulu, Kota Bharu and Kulim in Malaysia; Kuta and Legian in Bali, Indonesia; Westminster, London in the UK; and Hat Yai in Thailand.

All Tune Hotels hotels feature space-efficient, streamlined rooms focusing on high-quality basics: 5-star bed, powerful hot showers and energy-saving fans. The strategically located hotels provide housekeeping services, electronic keycard access into rooms, CCTV surveillance, and prohibits access into the main lobby without a keycard past midnight. Through Tune Hotels’ pay-as-you-use system of add-ons wi-fi, TV, laundered towels and other energy-consuming facilities and amenities, Tune Hotels aims to help guests conserve both their funds as well as the earth’s resources.

Tune Hotels is a part of Tune Group, the principal partner of the Premier League’s Professional Games Match Officials (PGMO) and the BIG Global Loyalty Programme.

More photos are available from www.flickr.com/tunehotels.

For media contacts:

Cymantha Sothiar

Group CEO’s Office - Communications

HP: +6 (012) 686 7292

Fax: +6 (03) 7955 5899

Email: cymantha@tunehotels.com

Spinglo is giving away 3 iPhones/iPads and 7 iPod nano 6th Gen a day! Every week one person is sent to a cruise. My free invitation for you to get some of this is here: www.spinglo.com/i/clr

Spinglo and Marketing

Spinglo will utilize the social media revolution for expanding its customer base, which will provide a firm foundation for the launching of future web- concepts.

Spinglo is a link between new smart network concepts and smart Internet users. As a Spinglo friend you will have access to the latest web concepts and launches. For Spinglo friends, these are packed with membership benefits and exciting offers. Spinglo will constantly add lots of new and exciting competitions and exclusive offers. Everyone is welcome to join Spinglo and of course joining is absolutely free!

Spinglo offers its members a unique web-based international network marketing plan where members can win amazing prices and earn bonuses.

Before the webshop concepts are launched (2011), Spinglo will expand its customer base through a competition which is very easy and offers excellent prizes everyday such as iPhone, Ipad, and iPod nano with a little effort. The weekly competition winner receives a vacation for two and access to the grand finals which offers very generous prizes as well.

Spinlo’s marketing plan will offer its members unique privileges once it is launched. When you register your friend as a free member, you get Spinglo points for it. When your friend invites their friends and they invite their friends etc. you get Spinglo points from them as well all the way up to five levels. This becomes your friendship network. Once Spinglo web-shop opens you will benefit from the purchases of your friendship network in the form of Spinglo points! This means that you will get huge discounts from Spinglo and you can even get some stuff for free!

Depending of your activity you may have tens of friends, hundreds or even thousands of friends in your friendship organization, the amount of Spinglo points will determine the nature of the discounts.

This PC was given to me by Linda Wasman of JSC Photography. I've refurbished it for donation to a local family. Specs: Athlon XP 3000 CPU @ 2.1ghz, 512mb RAM, 160gb HD, CDRW/DVD burner, media card reader, Windows XP Home SP3, all updates. Microsoft Security Essentials Antivirus installed. Ready to go. It's missing a front panel cover (over one of the CDROM drives) but it's a FAST little machine perfect for surfing the web, word processing/school report writing, Facebook, playing web-based games, etc. Would be a great first computer for a student!

It's possible to control your entire site through HiFi's web-based template editor. It is super-fast and easy to use.

Finding out how well your service is being received by your patients has gone hi-tech with NHS Patient Satisfaction Survey Kiosks. Patient feedback can be gained with a choice of mobile tablet devices, wall mount, desk mount and free-standing touch screen kiosks.

Using survey kiosks for patient opinions

The NHS Patient Satisfaction Survey Kiosks can be located on wards or in the main reception area of hospitals and provide patient feedback using touchscreen kiosks. Patient feedback kiosks provide a convenient, quick and easy method for patients and staff to consult on changes and service offerings. Touchscreens remove the necessity for paper based surveys which are often slower, more expensive and take more resources to manage. What's more, touchscreen patiend surveys can be updated when you wish and run at certain times of day, week or year.

Surveypoint Kiosk Surveys Patient Feedback

Using SurveyPoint, our online Consultation and Surveys management software in combination with our touch screen kiosks we can easily create bespoke patient surveys which run on the touchscreen kiosk and can also be accessed online and on portable devices.

Surveypoint Survey Kiosk Benefits

* Create surveys in minutes

* Easy to use for you and your patients

* Advanced reporting

* Accessible

When not being used to provide patient satisfaction surveys the kiosk can also enable patients to interact with a wide range of health information or make free phone calls for support and advice from many sources.

Surveypoint Kiosk Software features:

* Designed specifically for touch screen kiosks

* Surveys can be completed quickly

* Run multiple surveys simultaneously

* Integrates with our Wellbeing Information Point software

* Web-based administration console, no software to load on your computer

* Surveys are created using an intuitive step by step process

* Include your own branding, images and other styles

* Range of question types including:

* Multiple choice

* Matrix of Choices

* Text based feedback

* Preference range

* Skip logic - Question routing based on previous answers

* Run surveys online as well as on the kiosk

* Exportable results

* Training for your staff

* No specialist knowledge required

* Survey template designed for your application

NHS Patient Satisfaction Survey Kiosks

Patient feedback kiosks are fully branded to suit their location and can also include a telephone handset for patients to provide recorded feedback of their experiences. The NHS Patient Satisfaction Survey Kiosks can be used by Patients and also by visitors and relatives of patients to record feedback on many issues relating to the site and care provided.

Applications

* NHS Patient Satisfaction Surveys * CAMHS teams surveys * Mental Health

Mobile Clinical Assistant

Our new survey tablets are now available for running your surveys.

Touchscreen Kiosk Options

Patient Satisfaction Survey Kiosks can be desk mounted, wall mount or free standing and additionally be built into one of our kiosk towers to act as a central 'information point' for patients and visitors.

Total Service

Our customer support team, combined with our field-based technicians excel in providing proactive management of systems and work closely with sites to ensure all staff members are bought-in to using the technology.

We provide all of the services you require to run a succesful system for many years. We include project management, design, installation, training, maintenance and ongoing support and we can also provide a broadband internet connection if you prefer not to use your existing network.

If you would like more information about our Patient Satisfaction Survey Kiosks then please call us on 0845 451 2020.

Chris Russ, Realtor of Exit First Realty, began his real estate career 6 years ago in Surprise, Arizona. He enrolled in Westford Real Estate School in October of 2003 and learned the business under the guidance of Robert Schaeffer, a leading Realtor nationwide and savvy venture capitalist. Throughout a diverse career including 6 years in professional baseball and a stint as a Loan Officer, Chris Russ has proven himself to be an accomplished and determined producer.

Chris specializes and takes great pride in helping others re-locate to new towns, as he once did over a dozen times while pursuing his dream of playing Major League Baseball. Chris Russ is a full time Realtor serving all of Central Maryland-Baltimore City, Baltimore, Howard, and Anne Arundel Counties. Chris has a Marketing Degree from Towson University and utilizes his education in marketing everyday. He is especially diverse in web based marketing, and with 78 percent of home buyers starting their home search on the internet, this trait is increasingly essential to success.

Throughout his career, Chris has earned many awards and accolades. Recognized as a master closer in selling, he was top in his company for sales volume at Mortgage Options in San Diego California. Chris now works tirelessly on the other side of the transaction to ensure his clients are aware of how they can keep their homes if they are upside down or take advantage of the great buying opportunities available. With homes available as low as 30 cents on the dollar, it is easy to see why Chris is so enthusiastic about his profession.

Chris brings enthusiasm and dedication to everything he does; in the real estate industry this has earned him the honor of being offered a spot at the brokerage of Ed Haraway, a leading broker in the region and Exit‘s Agent of the Year in 2006 for all of the U.S. and Canada. With Exit growing to the 5th largest Real Estate company in the U.S. and expanding to employ over 50,000 agents in just over ten years, Chris is grateful for the experience and guidance he has access to everyday.

Chris believes that success can only be achieved through continuous learning. Recently, Chris attended the Johnny Loewy’s Advanced Individual Training Series. The extensive 3 day crash course offered valuable cutting edge insight on how to maximize web based marketing efforts and how to effectively process short sales in today‘s hectic market.

As a son of a Navy Veteran, Chris has a special place in his heart for those brave enough to serve in the armed forces. He has made preparations to accomadate vets and those enrolled to make sure reloacting and returning home is as seemless as possible.

Chris’s goal is to become his client's real estate consultant for life and feels that Client Service, Trust, and Hard Work make all the difference. When Chris is not working towards his professional goals he enjoys spending time with his soon to be wife Julie, who brings unending joy to his life. They both are working towards fulfilling their dreams to be the best they can be and volunteer their time to a few worthy causes as well. Chris is envolved with Habitat with Humanity and volunteers at the local shelter walking orphaned dogs. Chris also greatly enjoyed working with the Challenger Program in Lincoln Nebraska, helping children with disabilities. Chris hopes that through his good works he will have the opportunity help more people on a wider scale and is accessible to his network at all times to learn of new opportunities.

I published this to demonstrate the point that if you give the same Mandelbrot set location (ie, coordinates) to any fractal program, then you will see the exact same fractal structures.

The colors and other surface rendering effects may be very different, but the point is the structure is identical.

[OK, its not quite identical, because it is a mirror image. This is simply an inconsistency in orientation of the X and Y axes in the way the algorithm was coded.]

If you want to enlarge (or zoom out) from this location, you can click on web based fractal program. fract.ygingras.net/funky-2/0.26297022/0.00245330/1500000

I selected it because it allows you to place the X and Y coordinate numbers (and the "Magnification Factor" on the URL.

Java applet based fractal generators are commonplace. Many good ones can be found here: www.mathtools.net/Java/Fractals/

File: FractWebBased_Rodd1h_1024a

Offices of the Anti Advertising Agency and www.delocator.net

Two exhibitions by the artists' collaboratives the Anti-Advertising Agency and Finishing School will take over the San Francisco Art Institute's Walter and McBean Galleries for the month of April and into May.

The Anti-Advertising Agency (AAA) will transform the McBean Project Space into its temporary headquarters replete with a conference table, desks, chairs, dry erase boards, a water cooler, fluorescent lamps, and cubicle walls in order to plan the Agency's counter-advertising projects for 2005–2006. Artist and educator Steve Lambert founded the Anti Advertising Agency. Co-opting the tools and structures used by the advertising and public relations industries, the Agency was established as a response to the pervasiveness of commercial content in public urban space. As the CEO of the Anti Advertising Agency, Lambert will work from start to finish with the artists selected for Agency support to help realize their projects.

To date, five artists’ projects have been selected for Agency support. All of these projects will have workstations in the gallery/office where they can begin work and present their ideas to the public.

Participating artists include Sara Dierck and Michael Dodge, who will work on engaging the public through sound and radio; Amanda Eicher, who will focus on connecting consumer products with labor; Susan R. Greene, who brings expertise in community-based art making and clinical psychology; Packard Jennings, who will hone the Agency's message through public surveys and target audiences; and Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, who will use street teams to promote business activity that doesn't rely on advertising. As each of these artists projects evolve, the residual Post It ® notes, reference material, paper scraps, diagrams, and scrawled notebooks will be left in the gallery as part of the exhibition.

Simultaneously, downstairs in the Walter Gallery, the Southern California based artist group Finishing School will create a café/workshop environment to serve as the physical location for the launch of their newest project, the web-based, www.delocator.net. Finishing School is the collective identity of artists Brian Boyer, Ed Giardina, and xtine. For this project the artists have collaborated with computer programmer Vasna Sdoeung to produce their interactive website www.delocator.net. This online interactive database allows patrons to enter and pull comparative information regarding independently owned café and trans-national coffee emporiums.

During the exhibition, Finishing School will transform the gallery into a traditional coffee house environment with the addition of computers and wireless Internet access. Gallery visitors will learn about the delocator project and are invited to add information to a growing online database of independently owned café’s and coffee houses.

Finishing School is the second Nimoy Artist Residency to be funded by Susan Bay and Leonard Nimoy, who established the Nimoy Foundation in 2003. The mission of the Nimoy Foundation is to recognize, encourage, and support the work of contemporary visual and performing artists.

Exhibitions Director Merry Scully finds the entrepreneurial approach taken by both the AAA and the Finishing School reflective of national and international art making trends. "This kind of artistic practice engages the social and political sphere rather than simply representing or commenting upon it," explains Scully. “It invites a rethinking and exchange from the audience that more didactic work does not."

The Walter and McBean Galleries are open Tuesday–Saturday, 11am–6pm. Both exhibitions invite active participation by the audience. The "CEO" of the AAA will be on-site and available to the public Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The AAA will offer free anti-advertising "consultations" to the public on Wednesdays at 6:30pm, and "focus groups" on Fridays from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. The delocator café/workshop will be open during gallery hours. More information about these projects can be found at www.antiadvertisingagency.com

and www.delocator.net.

This is my new car audio storage system. It's based around a Linksys NSLU2 Network Storage Link, which is a sweet little embedded Linux box with a pile of potential.

How this all works is: The NSLU boots a variant of Debian called OpenDebianSlug from a 1 gig USB memory stick. It runs MPD (Music Player Daemon), which provides socket-based control over playing music, creating playlists, and other interesting things. A nice sized hard drive for storing music is attached to the NSLU, along with a USB sound card. MPD plays music from the hard drive out of the USB sound card through ALSA. The NSLU then serves a web app (two actually; phpMp2 and neompc) running under Apache/PHP4, which connects to MPD and provides a web-based front end. The PDA hits that web app over a ad-hoc WiFi network set up through the WGA11B bridge connected to the NSLU's ethernet port and drives the whole mess. The music drive is formatted NTFS so you can unplug it, throw it onto any old PC, load up a whole mess of tunes, and plug it back in.

It's running fine on the bench, so I have to wire it up to an automotive power supply, and find some sort of enclosure. I also have to make up some really short USB and Ethernet cables...

10″ Digital Signage Tablet PC (Now Available)

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Interactivity is quickly becoming one of the top trends in state-of-the-art digital signage. Users find that allowing

customers to interact with a screen, whether through touchscreen technology, mobile phone capability or otherwise,

increases dwell time and generates more interest in the on-screen content.

Sun Group will introduce 4.3″, 5″, 7″and 10″ an Android-based digital signage tablet PC, features a multitouch screen that allows customers to easily and intuitively interact with the content, The embedded Wi-Fi functionality automatically connects to a Web-based, easy-to-use, Digital Signage remote content management system.

The Interactive Tablet is an Android based 4.3″, 5″, 7” and 10″ interactive digital display which bring you the most advanced way to reach your audience. Whether you’re in education, finance, medicine,retail or any other profession.

The Sun Group Android-based digital signage tablet can be used as a simple standalone digital signage player.

Some of the features including:

1. Auto start when power is turned on, Auto repeat play function.

2. Auto power-on/off time setting one day or 7 days in one week, automatically play and non-stop replay within the pre-set time frame.

3. Upgrade contents of the built-in memory by simply inserting an USB flash drive.

4. Playlists support functions, can set different folders, copy all target files to those different folders, system would default to play your target file one by one.

5. High-class metal housing

6. Supports VESA mounting hole configurations: 75mm x 75mm

7. Password can be set to protect the contents.

8. Password can be set to lock the keyboard of the tablet.

9. Support software updating Via Wi-Fi, (optional) new function can be customized according to customers needs.

10. Build-in two high quality stereo speakers, rated power is 2 x 2W.

Applicable Fields:

Digital signage Tablet is useful and applicable in nearly every field of busines such as

Business Organizations: Supermarket, shopping malls, exclusive agency, chain shops, large-scale sales, hotels, restaurants, travel agencies etc.

www.sgmonitor.com

Charles Birnbaum the Founder and President of The Cultural Landscape Foundation met Kitty Aresty one of 5 women who founded the Jay Heritage Center and rescued the historic property and its landscape from destruction 20 years ago this year. Also attending were several representatives from another Greek Revival landmark, Bartow Pell, Jane Cooke and Ellen Bruzelius.

Charles returned for a second year to discuss stewardship as part of JHC's Sustainable Landscape Weekend. His talk was fascinating, enlightening, provocative. After reviewing scores of National Historic Landmark sites that many of us know well, he astonished his audience with a list of how many of their designed settings, despite the imprint and pedigree of sometimes more than one prominent landscape architect like Olmsted or Farrand, they are nonetheless not designated. Shaping his discussion to run the gamut of challenges to maintaining or rehabilitating these treasured spaces, he compared the Jay Property in Rye, NY and Peavey Plaza in Minneapolis, MN, two not so dissimilar projects despite their occupation of different centuries - each demands a treatment that respects original intentions and viewsheds but also allows for modern and relevant public use and access.

Read more about Charles and join the conversation about landscape education at Glass House Conversations:

glasshouseconversations.org/what-can-and-should-be-done-t...

The Jay Heritage Center is proud to partner with TCLF on our ongoing series of Sustainable Landscape Symposiums like this.

To learn more about future events at The Cultural Landscape Foundation

tclf.org/event

Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR is the Founder and President of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF). Prior to joining TCLF, Mr. Birnbaum spent fifteen years as the coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative (HLI) and a decade in private practice in New York City with a focus on landscape preservation and urban design. His recent projects include two web-based initiatives: What’s Out There? (a searchable database of the nation’s designed landscape heritage) and Cultural Landscapes as Classrooms. His has authored and edited numerous publications including Shaping the American Landscape (UVA Press, 2009), Design with Culture: Claiming America’s Landscape Heritage (UVA Press 2005), Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture (1999) and its follow-up publication, Making Post-War Landscapes Visible (2004, both for Spacemaker Press), Pioneers of American Landscape Design (McGraw Hill 2000) and The Guidelines for the Treatment of Cultural Landscapes (National Park Service, 1996). In 1995, the ASLA awarded the HLI the President's Award of Excellence and in 1996 inducted Mr. Birnbaum as a Fellow of the Society. He served as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design during which time he founded TCLF. In 2004, Mr. Birnbaum was awarded the Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation and spent spring/summer of that year at the American Academy in Rome. In 2008, he was the visiting Glimcher Distinguished Professor at Ohio State’s Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture. In 2008 the ASLA awarded Charles the Alfred B. LaGasse Medal and in 2009 the President’s Medal. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning + Preservation and a frequent blogger for The Huffington Post.

Celebrating 20 Years 1992-2012

Preserving, Protecting and Interpreting American History and Landscape

This FREE program was made possible thanks to a grant from Con Edison. Co-Sponsored by Audubon NY and The Little Garden Club of Rye.

Landscape lovers travelled to the old silver mining town of Aspen, Colorado this past June 23rd to join The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) for an unparalled series of private garden visits curated by

TCLF Co-Chair Kurt Culbertson, President of Design Workshop. The 2012 Aspen Garden Excursion, featured no less than 6 award-winning residential designs, all incorporating sustainable features ranging from water conservation to native plant choices responsive to the climate and ecology of the area. The sites were all breathtaking, and participants took in dramatic views from a preserve overlook to a streamside estate, from a contemporary mountain garden to a cascade garden. As one of the highlights, Kurt arranged for Jeff Berkus, architect of The Aspen Institute’s Doerr-Hosier Center, to lead a tour through the grounds which include Herbert Bayer’s striking 1955 Marble Garden and environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy’s red sandstone installation “Stone River.” Our group travelled from McLain Flats to Red Mountain and saw a great breadth of topography and creative treatments while also learning about the agricultural history and rich heritage of Aspen and its environs. The day was a great success.

To learn more about future events at The Cultural Landscape Foundation

tclf.org/event

The Jay Heritage Center is proud to partner with TCLF on our ongoing series of Sustainable Landscape Symposiums funded by a grant from Con Edison.

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Central Desktop delivers a Complete Business Collaboration platform for the mid-market enabling business teams to connect, share, collaborate and manage business both internally and externally on customizable web workspaces. Its solution is delivered as a pure-play web-based platform (SaaS) that combines the most robust collaboration tools available with consumer-level service and afford-ability. Central Desktop enables teams of all sizes to work virtually and seamlessly without the need for IT resources, leveling the playing field for SMBs wishing to do business with the Fortune 5000 through technology that is as simple as launching a browser. Central Desktop was founded in 2005, and is a privately-held company located in Pasadena, California.

Co-curated by Sarah Cook and Kathy Rae Huffman, Broadcast Yourself is an international group exhibition that contextualises the current trend of sharing videos online (on websites such as YouTube) through the presentation of works of video art and web-based art from the 1970s to the 1990s. It includes the work of a diverse group of artists who have challenged television culture and questioned what it means to undertake the personal act of putting oneself ‘on-air’.

Works presented ranged from Bill Viola’s Reverse Television — Portraits of Viewers (1984), where he filmed American television viewers and broadcast the footage back out at them as they watched television, to Shaina Anand’s Khirkee Yaan Project (2006) from New Delhi, an exploration of what happens when you connect people via an open circuit TV system.

The exhibition included artists: Active Ingredient (Rachel Jacobs / Matt Watkins), Shaina Anand, Ian Breakwell, Chris Burden, Stan Douglas, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, Alistair Gentry, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Doug Hall, Chip Lord and Jody Proctor, Joanie 4 Jackie (Miranda July et al.), Pat Naldi and Wendy Kirkup, TV Swansong (curated by Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie), Bill Viola, Van Gogh TV, 56Ktv Bastard Channel (curated by Reinhard Storz / xcult.org).

The exhibition toured to Cornerhouse, Manchester from 13 June to 10 August 2008.

Biography

Sarah Cook is a curator and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She is a Reader at the University of Sunderland where she co-founded and co-edits CRUMB, the online resource for curators of new media art and teaches on the MA Curating course. Having grown up in Canada, she has a longstanding association with The Banff Center where she has worked as a guest curator and researcher in residence. After completing her PhD in 2004, she worked as adjunct curator of new media at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art funded by the AHRC and in 2008 was the inaugural curatorial fellow at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York. Sarah has curated and co-curated international exhibitions including Database Imaginary (2004), The Art Formerly Known As New Media (2005) and Broadcast Yourself (2008).

Kathy Rae Huffman is an independent curator. She has commissioned artists, written about and coordinated events for a variety of international festivals and organisations since the 1980s. Huffman received an MFA in Exhibition Design from California State University Long Beach, where she also completed the post-graduate course in Museum Studies. She has held curatorial posts at the Long Beach Museum of Art (1979-1984) and The ICA Boston (1984-1990). She was professor of electronic art and director of EMAC at RPI, Troy, New York (1998-2000). She was Visual Arts Director at Cornerhouse, Manchester from 2002-2008, where her curatorial work included: Art TV (for The Getty Museum), Nick Crowe: Commemorative Glass, Marcel Odenbach: The Idea of Africa and Zineb Sedira: Telling stories with differences amongst others.

Credit

Co-curated by Sarah Cook and Kathy Rae Huffman. Touring exhibition produced by AV Festival 08 and Cornerhouse in collaboration with Hatton Gallery. Supported by Arts Council England, CRUMB at the University of Sunderland, and The Leverhulme Trust.

with three RRRs

she made me miso soup and we listened to music and talked and we geeked out about real time web based tracking of GPS enabled busses.

that's what she's doing here. you can too.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan respond to a question from "Grist," via twitter message (right), during the unveiling of the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food (KYF) Compass, an interactive web-based document and map highlighting USDA support for local and regional food projects and successful producer, business and community case studies. While hosting a live webinar to highlight USDA's work over the past three years, the Secretaries emphasized how local and regional food systems across the country create additional economic opportunities for farmers, ranchers and food entrepreneurs, expand healthy food access and meet growing customer demand. At the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, February 29, 2012. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.

10″ Digital Signage Tablet PC (Now Available)

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Interactivity is quickly becoming one of the top trends in state-of-the-art digital signage. Users find that allowing

customers to interact with a screen, whether through touchscreen technology, mobile phone capability or otherwise,

increases dwell time and generates more interest in the on-screen content.

Sun Group will introduce 4.3″, 5″, 7″and 10″ an Android-based digital signage tablet PC, features a multitouch screen that allows customers to easily and intuitively interact with the content, The embedded Wi-Fi functionality automatically connects to a Web-based, easy-to-use, Digital Signage remote content management system.

The Interactive Tablet is an Android based 4.3″, 5″, 7” and 10″ interactive digital display which bring you the most advanced way to reach your audience. Whether you’re in education, finance, medicine,retail or any other profession.

The Sun Group Android-based digital signage tablet can be used as a simple standalone digital signage player.

Some of the features including:

1. Auto start when power is turned on, Auto repeat play function.

2. Auto power-on/off time setting one day or 7 days in one week, automatically play and non-stop replay within the pre-set time frame.

3. Upgrade contents of the built-in memory by simply inserting an USB flash drive.

4. Playlists support functions, can set different folders, copy all target files to those different folders, system would default to play your target file one by one.

5. High-class metal housing

6. Supports VESA mounting hole configurations: 75mm x 75mm

7. Password can be set to protect the contents.

8. Password can be set to lock the keyboard of the tablet.

9. Support software updating Via Wi-Fi, (optional) new function can be customized according to customers needs.

10. Build-in two high quality stereo speakers, rated power is 2 x 2W.

Applicable Fields:

Digital signage Tablet is useful and applicable in nearly every field of busines such as

Business Organizations: Supermarket, shopping malls, exclusive agency, chain shops, large-scale sales, hotels, restaurants, travel agencies etc.

www.sgmonitor.com

Photos Courtesy of Maverick Inman

At the end of the day, The Mash is a festival. And what festival is complete without a soundtrack? Certainly not this one. That's why after a full week of feasting on good food, expanding our minds at panels and classes, and filling our bellies with delicious brews, we celebrate our last evening in town with a Bash; a Mash Bash. We're bringing everything we find exciting about the Brooklyn music and arts scene out for one night in an explosion of sound and color. There will be a local food truck on hand to fill our bellies and plenty of Brooklyn cans at the bar to throw at the acts we find lackluster.

On stage in DC we're bringing together Brooklynite punk rockers The Men, as well as hometown favorites Passing Phases & Heavy Breathing. Expect to sweat. A lot.

The Men, yes, “The,” are a four-piece post punk outfit from Brooklyn, NY. Their catalog, which began in 2008 with a hand-dubbed self-released demo cassette, has grown to include two LP’s — We Are the Men and Immaculada — two more tapes, and a 7-inch. They have toured three times, played over 75 shows and have grown a following of die hard fans crowding into living rooms and basements throughout the five boroughs, desperately trying to see them.

Passing Phases is a rock 'n' roll band from Sterling, Va. They've been playing shows in the DC area for three years and have have one full length LP and one 7", both released on the Arlington based Cricket Cemetery records.

According to DCist, Heavy Breathing "does not spare us any weight—their heavy riffs borrow from kraut rock, punk and metal, and the band occasionally sounds like they've been dragged through the sludge. However, the keyboards and canned vocals all sound inspired by a Saturday night radio dance party. The result is something unlike what we've heard either inside or outside the Beltway."

In short, The Men are utterly life-affirming and incredibly exciting to watch. Live, like their recorded output, they swerve wildly from and between abrasive noise punk, Neil Young country-tinged rock, wild psychedelia, melodic grunge and everything in between. The Men pay no heed to rules. - CaughtintheCrossfire.com

The Mash Bash will also feature video art from Brooklyn-based artists like:

Molly Surno (Lives and works in Brooklyn and Los Angeles), an installation artist that works in film & video, sculpture, sound, and photography.

Jeremy Couillard (Lives and works in Brooklyn), who works with algorithmic models to simulate natural phenomena, and who received his MFA from Columbia 2012.

Jacob Ciocci (Lives and works in Brooklyn), an American visual artist, performance artist and musician. Along with sister Jessica Ciocci and friend Ben Jones, he is one of the three remaining founding members of Paper Rad, an artist collective.

Tara Sinn (Lives and works in Brooklyn and Atlanta), an artist based in New York City. Her work includes videos, installations, and web-based animations.

Jason Tschantré lives and works in Brooklyn as a video artist and 3d projection mapper. With Nuit Blanche New York, he's created immersive video art environments for Red Bull Music Academy, Kickstarter Film Festival, Brooklyn Night Bazaar, and the Onebeat Music Festival.

Offices of the Anti Advertising Agency and www.delocator.net

Two exhibitions by the artists' collaboratives the Anti-Advertising Agency and Finishing School will take over the San Francisco Art Institute's Walter and McBean Galleries for the month of April and into May.

The Anti-Advertising Agency (AAA) will transform the McBean Project Space into its temporary headquarters replete with a conference table, desks, chairs, dry erase boards, a water cooler, fluorescent lamps, and cubicle walls in order to plan the Agency's counter-advertising projects for 2005–2006. Artist and educator Steve Lambert founded the Anti Advertising Agency. Co-opting the tools and structures used by the advertising and public relations industries, the Agency was established as a response to the pervasiveness of commercial content in public urban space. As the CEO of the Anti Advertising Agency, Lambert will work from start to finish with the artists selected for Agency support to help realize their projects.

To date, five artists’ projects have been selected for Agency support. All of these projects will have workstations in the gallery/office where they can begin work and present their ideas to the public.

Participating artists include Sara Dierck and Michael Dodge, who will work on engaging the public through sound and radio; Amanda Eicher, who will focus on connecting consumer products with labor; Susan R. Greene, who brings expertise in community-based art making and clinical psychology; Packard Jennings, who will hone the Agency's message through public surveys and target audiences; and Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, who will use street teams to promote business activity that doesn't rely on advertising. As each of these artists projects evolve, the residual Post It ® notes, reference material, paper scraps, diagrams, and scrawled notebooks will be left in the gallery as part of the exhibition.

Simultaneously, downstairs in the Walter Gallery, the Southern California based artist group Finishing School will create a café/workshop environment to serve as the physical location for the launch of their newest project, the web-based, www.delocator.net. Finishing School is the collective identity of artists Brian Boyer, Ed Giardina, and xtine. For this project the artists have collaborated with computer programmer Vasna Sdoeung to produce their interactive website www.delocator.net. This online interactive database allows patrons to enter and pull comparative information regarding independently owned café and trans-national coffee emporiums.

During the exhibition, Finishing School will transform the gallery into a traditional coffee house environment with the addition of computers and wireless Internet access. Gallery visitors will learn about the delocator project and are invited to add information to a growing online database of independently owned café’s and coffee houses.

Finishing School is the second Nimoy Artist Residency to be funded by Susan Bay and Leonard Nimoy, who established the Nimoy Foundation in 2003. The mission of the Nimoy Foundation is to recognize, encourage, and support the work of contemporary visual and performing artists.

Exhibitions Director Merry Scully finds the entrepreneurial approach taken by both the AAA and the Finishing School reflective of national and international art making trends. "This kind of artistic practice engages the social and political sphere rather than simply representing or commenting upon it," explains Scully. “It invites a rethinking and exchange from the audience that more didactic work does not."

The Walter and McBean Galleries are open Tuesday–Saturday, 11am–6pm. Both exhibitions invite active participation by the audience. The "CEO" of the AAA will be on-site and available to the public Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The AAA will offer free anti-advertising "consultations" to the public on Wednesdays at 6:30pm, and "focus groups" on Fridays from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. The delocator café/workshop will be open during gallery hours. More information about these projects can be found at www.antiadvertisingagency.com

and www.delocator.net.

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Offices of the Anti Advertising Agency and www.delocator.net

Two exhibitions by the artists' collaboratives the Anti-Advertising Agency and Finishing School will take over the San Francisco Art Institute's Walter and McBean Galleries for the month of April and into May.

The Anti-Advertising Agency (AAA) will transform the McBean Project Space into its temporary headquarters replete with a conference table, desks, chairs, dry erase boards, a water cooler, fluorescent lamps, and cubicle walls in order to plan the Agency's counter-advertising projects for 2005–2006. Artist and educator Steve Lambert founded the Anti Advertising Agency. Co-opting the tools and structures used by the advertising and public relations industries, the Agency was established as a response to the pervasiveness of commercial content in public urban space. As the CEO of the Anti Advertising Agency, Lambert will work from start to finish with the artists selected for Agency support to help realize their projects.

To date, five artists’ projects have been selected for Agency support. All of these projects will have workstations in the gallery/office where they can begin work and present their ideas to the public.

Participating artists include Sara Dierck and Michael Dodge, who will work on engaging the public through sound and radio; Amanda Eicher, who will focus on connecting consumer products with labor; Susan R. Greene, who brings expertise in community-based art making and clinical psychology; Packard Jennings, who will hone the Agency's message through public surveys and target audiences; and Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, who will use street teams to promote business activity that doesn't rely on advertising. As each of these artists projects evolve, the residual Post It ® notes, reference material, paper scraps, diagrams, and scrawled notebooks will be left in the gallery as part of the exhibition.

Simultaneously, downstairs in the Walter Gallery, the Southern California based artist group Finishing School will create a café/workshop environment to serve as the physical location for the launch of their newest project, the web-based, www.delocator.net. Finishing School is the collective identity of artists Brian Boyer, Ed Giardina, and xtine. For this project the artists have collaborated with computer programmer Vasna Sdoeung to produce their interactive website www.delocator.net. This online interactive database allows patrons to enter and pull comparative information regarding independently owned café and trans-national coffee emporiums.

During the exhibition, Finishing School will transform the gallery into a traditional coffee house environment with the addition of computers and wireless Internet access. Gallery visitors will learn about the delocator project and are invited to add information to a growing online database of independently owned café’s and coffee houses.

Finishing School is the second Nimoy Artist Residency to be funded by Susan Bay and Leonard Nimoy, who established the Nimoy Foundation in 2003. The mission of the Nimoy Foundation is to recognize, encourage, and support the work of contemporary visual and performing artists.

Exhibitions Director Merry Scully finds the entrepreneurial approach taken by both the AAA and the Finishing School reflective of national and international art making trends. "This kind of artistic practice engages the social and political sphere rather than simply representing or commenting upon it," explains Scully. “It invites a rethinking and exchange from the audience that more didactic work does not."

The Walter and McBean Galleries are open Tuesday–Saturday, 11am–6pm. Both exhibitions invite active participation by the audience. The "CEO" of the AAA will be on-site and available to the public Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The AAA will offer free anti-advertising "consultations" to the public on Wednesdays at 6:30pm, and "focus groups" on Fridays from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. The delocator café/workshop will be open during gallery hours. More information about these projects can be found at www.antiadvertisingagency.com

and www.delocator.net.

10″ Digital Signage Tablet PC (Now Available)

Now Available!!

Interactivity is quickly becoming one of the top trends in state-of-the-art digital signage. Users find that allowing

customers to interact with a screen, whether through touchscreen technology, mobile phone capability or otherwise,

increases dwell time and generates more interest in the on-screen content.

Sun Group will introduce 4.3″, 5″, 7″and 10″ an Android-based digital signage tablet PC, features a multitouch screen that allows customers to easily and intuitively interact with the content, The embedded Wi-Fi functionality automatically connects to a Web-based, easy-to-use, Digital Signage remote content management system.

The Interactive Tablet is an Android based 4.3″, 5″, 7” and 10″ interactive digital display which bring you the most advanced way to reach your audience. Whether you’re in education, finance, medicine,retail or any other profession.

The Sun Group Android-based digital signage tablet can be used as a simple standalone digital signage player.

Some of the features including:

1. Auto start when power is turned on, Auto repeat play function.

2. Auto power-on/off time setting one day or 7 days in one week, automatically play and non-stop replay within the pre-set time frame.

3. Upgrade contents of the built-in memory by simply inserting an USB flash drive.

4. Playlists support functions, can set different folders, copy all target files to those different folders, system would default to play your target file one by one.

5. High-class metal housing

6. Supports VESA mounting hole configurations: 75mm x 75mm

7. Password can be set to protect the contents.

8. Password can be set to lock the keyboard of the tablet.

9. Support software updating Via Wi-Fi, (optional) new function can be customized according to customers needs.

10. Build-in two high quality stereo speakers, rated power is 2 x 2W.

Applicable Fields:

Digital signage Tablet is useful and applicable in nearly every field of busines such as

Business Organizations: Supermarket, shopping malls, exclusive agency, chain shops, large-scale sales, hotels, restaurants, travel agencies etc.

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