| Courier News Online - BEDMINSTER: Library offers e-mail newsletter on new books | | Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:04:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | Clarence Dillon Public Library in Bedminster is offering NextReads, a free e-mail-based newsletter offering recommendations on new and overlooked titles at the library. The newsletters will be be split into different editions including Armchair Travel, Biography, Memoir, Science Fiction and Do-it-Yourself. To sign up for the newsletter or for more information, visit the library's Web site at www.clarencedillonpl.org or contact the library at (908) 234-2325. .... | |
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| | | Tech the Halls: Holiday gift ideas from the cutting edge | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:10:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | From a $130 robot vacuum that sucks up nails to a noise-canceling Bose headset costing $349, there's no shortage of gadgets to stuff into stockings or place under trees this holiday season. Here is a sampling of tech gifts that make play more fun and work less arduous: Bose QuietComfort 3 headphones: Listening to tunes on a digital music player while riding in subways, airplanes or cars could be less of an audio challenge with this noise-canceling headphone set. This latest model is smaller than its QC2 predecessor. Instead of big cups that envelop the ears, it has pads that rest on them. (MSRP: $349) Creative Zen Vision W: A portable video player with a bright 4.3-inch wide-screen. It supports MP3 and WMA audio files and a variety of video standards, including Windows-based formats used by such movie download services as Amazon.com's Unbox.... | |
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| | | Sony Reader brings digital age to books | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:19:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK -- Electronic books have tried and tried to supplant their paper counterparts with little success. But a new device is taking a page from actual books in an effort to win you over. They're among the very few items you might use everyday that have not been drastically transformed by technology: books. Electronic or e-books and devices to read them have been out for years, but they aren't taking a chunk out of regular books like CDs or mp3s have done to records. But the new Sony Reader is attempting to change that and developers hope the difference is in the print. The Sony Reader is the first implementation of the new electronic paper technology and that really is the breakthrough for e-books at this point, said Daniel Albohn of Sony Electronics. Heretofore other devices have relied on liquid crystal displays which have backlighting, high power drain, and of course stressful on the eyes, and so one of the benefits is there's no stress on the eyes, no backlighting, and it is a reflective technology which is exactly what a newspaper or a book is.... | |
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| | | Promotion gets books to kids | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:24:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | National Children's Book Week begins Monday, as does the fifth year of Cheerios Spoonfuls of Stories, a promotion in which General Mills gives away books in 20-ounce Cheerios boxes, Publishers Weekly reports. The company also donates $500,000 each year to First Book, a nonprofit organization that brings books to disadvantaged kids. Five titles for ages 4-8 are in this year's giveaway: "Wiggle," "Olivia ... and the Missing Toy," "The Tiny Seed," "Horace and Morris Join the Chorus (But What About Dolores?)" and "Little Quack's Bedtime." The books are paperbacks trimmed to fit into the box but otherwise are identical to regular versions. The exception is a Cheerios- exclusive edition of "Little Quack," which is in both Spanish and English. For more information on First Book, see www.firstbook.org.... | |
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| | | Cultural Literacy author E.D. Hirsch again tackles the knowledge deficit | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 11:29:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | It's been nearly 20 years since E.D. Hirsch's controversial book, Cultural Literacy, sparked a decade-long cultural war and debates over political correctness. While the battles may have died down, little has been settled. Hirsch is back on the shelves this fall once again arguing for a nationwide curriculum of broad "core" knowledge. For those of you not familiar with his ideas, Hirsch believes that for Americans to be able to participate fully in a democratic society, we all need a broad base of general knowledge. He cites typical articles from the New York Times that make references to history, geography and government. Hirsch himself is a former professor of intellectual history at the University of Virginia. He often cites that school's founder Thomas Jefferson when trying to tie his case in with the future of this country.... | |
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| | | Local authors discuss books at Vigo County library | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:09:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Vigo County Public Library will be hosting "Meet the Authors," an event to allow the public an opportunity to meet and talk with 16 local authors. The authors participating in this event include, Laura Beckham, Helen E. Corey, Luke Crawford, William A. Dando, Rogier Donker, Gene Gilbreath, C. David Hay, Bette Killion, Joyce F. Lakey, C.S. Marks, Mike McCormick, Ruby Moon-Houldson, Tony Perona, Anil K. Sarkar, Jennilee Smith and Renate Smith Whitlock. "I enjoy meeting the authors of the books I have read and picking their brains to see what was going on when it was wrote," said Jennifer Levvy, a junior physics and optical engineering major at Rose-Hulman. "There is nothing better than meeting the person face-to-face and discussing the life they have created through their books." There will be a broad selection of books talked about, including everything from poetry to cooking to geography, said Rita Nelson, library administrator.... | |
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| | | Books for the bookish | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:25:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | We bookish folk are a reflective lot. We like to talk about the stack by our bedsides, the novels or histories or biographies we've read already or are eagerly awaiting, the very act of reading itself. Here are three new books to instruct and entertain book lovers. In 'BookMarks: Reading in Black and White,' (Rutgers University Press, $24.95) Duke University English/law professor Karla FC Holloway examines the public implications of the reading life of African-Americans. "BookMarks" is part literary history, providing case studies of African-Americans who have made reading lists part of their biographies, their public personae. Holloway analyzes lists by 25 literary figures, from W.E.B. Du Bois to Oprah Winfrey, speculating on the role of reading in their public and private lives.... | |
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| | | Offbeat Schools | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:31:34 AM by Blog57 Team | | Some people go back to school to study the great books. Others would rather learn how to throw a 14-inch knife, or hammer yellow-hot steel into semi-useful shapes or whip up a chocolate ganache that would make Julia Child sigh. There are hundreds of unusual schools in the U.S., teaching subjects increasingly diverse. Most are run by entrepreneurs trying to turn their knowledge and love of an obscure field into a business. Best of all, they don't require homework. Here, FSB enrolls in a few fall offerings around the country. .... | |
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| | | RT&E doing work for Speakman | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 7:01:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Speakman Company is now partnering with RT&E Integrated Communications to help raise brand awareness with targeted trade and consumer audiences for its growing line of innovative shower products.RT&E will be working with Speakman to publicize their new product innovations and the associated benefits, positioning the Speakman shower products brand as high-quality, stylish and innovative. The agency will also work to leverage the success of the Speakman hotel partnerships; Speakman showerheads are installed in thousands of hotel showers and are the specified choice by leading lodging brands including Marriott, Hyatt, Crowne Plaza, Sheraton and Westin Hotels.Photographer of recordCreative Image Associates studio was recently selected as the photographer of record for the 2007 March of Dimes Faces of Prematurity Calendar.... | |
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| | | Daily Voting News For October 27, 2006 | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 7:15:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | The West Virginia SoS is recommending to Kanawha Co. that they run all paper ballots twice to ensure the machines are counting accurately. The county is refusing to take that step which will ensure accuracy of the vote count. / Georgia will be using ExpressPoll (e-poll books) at the polls this year. Are they the same as those that failed in Maryland or do they have the modifications that were required in Maryland but never federally certified? / "The equipment has been tested by independent agencies and federal agencies," said Mark Radke, the director of marketing for Diebold, the company that makes the machines. [Independent = we pay them to do the testing and test what we tell them to test.][No federal agency does any testing] / ES&S machines are failing in early voting in Garland and Sebastian Co.s Arkansas ...... | |
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