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2012年3月19日 星期一

Just Cough It Up!

Recently, my husband came down with some nasty variety of an upper respiratory infection. Let’s call it the common cold, for lack of a doctor’s diagnosis.

He began with a three-day sore throat, sneezing,Silicone moldmaking Rubber, blowing the nose then hacking, coughing, and additional sneezing. You need to understand about my husband and sneezing…it’s like he could probably take first place in The Guinness Book of World Records “for the loudest, most consecutive number of sneezes and body jolting delivery of each.”

Judging from all his symptoms, in addition to the totally stuffed up, but, yet, somehow, runny nose, I knew I was going to want a divorce within the week. Certainly I didn’t want to get what he had. So, I spent four days, feverishly running around behind Ken with a can of Lysol, spraying everything he touched. He picked up the coffee pot, I sprayed the handle. He opened the back door; I sprayed the knob, inside and out. I doused the phone after every call he made.Iowa Mold tooling designs and manufacturers mechanics trucks, Since he never puts the seat down on the potty, I was spraying it more often than I care to tell ya. Then he'd pet the cat on the head. I think that's where I made my big mistake. I didn't spray the cat. After the "germ factory" had run his hand down Cookie’s back, I gave the kitty some lovin'.

Guess who got sick after that? I’ll tell ya ~ it wasn’t the cat.

The very next day I bonded closely with the couch, TV, and an entire box of tissues…drank enough liquids to keep me afloat.This page contains information about molds, I may have OD'd on nasal spray,Learn all about solarpanel, but the advertised “12 Hour Relief” product simply didn’t hold true to its claim. Have to be careful, though…those inhalers can be the real boogers and create a dependency…like if ya want to breathe. One small consolation was hearing that it wasn’t just MY NOSE. Hubby, also, was still having trouble bringing air into his nasal passages. How sympathetic could I be, knowing that what I’d contracted came from him?

As ill as I was, I admit to having an affair! And it wasn’t a one-night stand. It was for the next several nights with NyQuil. And, yes, it was good for me.

I considered calling the doctor. Problem was,We are professional plasticmould,metal parts mould manufacturers and factory past encounters with this sort of ailment taught me my doctor doesn’t believe in prescribing antibiotics unless you need them. (I don’t quite understand how it is you don’t need them when you’re ready to hire a hit man and the contract’s on your own life.) But this non-medication philosophy has something to do with “what kind” of malady you have. If you have a viral infection the antibiotics won’t knock it. It has to be bacterial. The symptoms are all pretty much the same ~ miserable.

Isn’t it just amazing how we can put men on the moon, surgically replace a human cornea, liver, kidney, even a heart, but we can’t, Aaachoo (“Bless me.”) come up with a cure for the common cold? I’m beginning to think a permanent fix would put too many companies out of business and possibly have a devastating, adverse effect on everything in our economy. Think about the vast number of businesses and entire industries a cure for the common cold could impact. If I were to just name a few: the manufacturers of vitamins and remedies, pharmaceutical companies that make these and prescription drugs, practitioners who prescribe them, insurance companies that are supposed to pay, commercial advertisements via TV, newspaper, mailers and the Internet. The shelf life of over the counter drug medications would expire and eventually die like the victim of a cold if I had my way.

2012年1月19日 星期四

"The Elephant Man" suffers opening night jitters

The social contract thrives on conformity. Oh, we may say we appreciate the unusual,Pfister werkzeugbau AG aus Mönchaltorf ist Ihr Partner bei der Herstellung von Werkzeugen und Spritzformen. but let’s face it: throughout history, people who didn’t fit into socially established molds in behavior, appearance or attitude have been punished with isolation, imprisonment, hospitalization or worse.Plastic injectionmouldingmanufacturer;

OnStage Playhouse presents Bernard Pomerance’s dramatization of incidents in the last six years in the life of a 19th-century Londoner who didn’t fit the accepted mold. “The Elephant Man,Fantastic range of porcelaintiles,” directed by Steve Murdock, plays through Feb. 4.

Joseph (here called John) Merrick was grotesquely disfigured by what modern diagnosticians call the Proteus syndrome, a rare congenital disorder that causes unusual skin growth and atypical bone development, often accompanied by tumors on the body. (At the time he was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis; some experts today think it was a combination of the two.)

Abandoned to a workhouse while still a child, Merrick became part of a traveling freak show act managed by Ross , who treated him badly.

Dr. Frederick Treves (O.P.Sika tooling & Composites develops and produces tailor-made synthetic resins, Hadlock) discovered him there. His interest was at first purely medical: he wanted to photograph Merrick and exhibit him to the medical establishment.

But Treves, finding him gentle and intelligent, soon took a personal interest in Merrick and persuaded London Hospital administrator Carr Gomm to give him a permanent home there .

Treves finds it difficult to find someone to care for Merrick – even a nurse experienced at working with lepers in Africa (played by Holly Stephenson) – bolts at the shocking sight of Merrick’s deformities).Hobby Silicone for mold making moldmaking ,

Still, Treves wonders to what extent Merrick could have a normal life. He lines up friends among the nobility – and an actress named Mrs. Kendal (Cheryl Livingston) – to visit in order to give him human contact. But is it kindness or cruelty to give Merrick a taste of a life he could never have?

It’s a dramatic story, even a parable about society, fitting in and the penalty for differentness.

The play is difficult because the script itself is problematic, its brief 21 scenes making it so choppy that it is difficult to find a thread that connects them. Characters appear and disappear with such rapidity that it’s tough to find coherence in the play.

For example, the presence of three female “pinheads” (played by Jasmin Mellado, Nicol Reeves and Samantha Vesco in outrageous costumes) is puzzling. Their function might be as Greek chorus; unfortunately, on opening night poor diction made it impossible to understand them.

All those scenes also make set changes problematic. This play works best in a theater large enough that scenes can be lit by a single spot, leaving the rest of the stage dark for the (more or less invisible) movement of props and sets. OnStage does not have that option, forcing the flow of the play to compete with set changes.

And I’m sorry to report that the cast was not ready for opening night. Some actors didn’t have their lines down; there was far too much mumbling and rushing through lines, and all showed a seeming lack of awareness of how one character relates to the others (some of this last, to be sure, can be laid at the playwright’s feet, and some at the director’s).

But give OnStage Playhouse points for gutsy programming. Their last show was a stunning “The Diary Of Anne Frank” – also a difficult show to pull off – in which everything worked.

Let’s hope that by the time you read this, they have fixed the problems evident on opening night.

2011年7月6日 星期三

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Gets Exhaustive Official Demo, Delivers HSPA+ Speeds

Samsung has released a comprehensive official demo of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The video takes you through all the features of the Honeycomb tablet, especially Samsung TouchWiz that’s expected to come to the tablet in a later update.

The video starts with Samsung showing off the tab’s slimness (8.6mm) and light weight (565g). Then it talks about the improved user experience with Android 3.1 that brings customizable widgets to the tablet. There’s also a single button multi-tasking bar, Quick Panel, and customizable home screens. Samsung TouchWiz, Samsung’s UI for Honeycomb tablets, brings real-time updates, scalable widgets, optimization of content according to preferences, and six mini apps that run over background apps (such as Calendar). The video also talks about Google Mobile Services such as video chat, Google Maps, Google Places, YouTube, and HD video playback on the 1280×800 pixel WXGA screen and demos the surround sound speakers.

If you’re having trouble deciding whether the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is worth your money, it would be a good idea to watch this video to know all it offers. When it comes to performance, the 10.1 tablet has proven to reach speeds of 21Mbps on HSPA+ network. Blazing browser performance and overall responsiveness with a dual core processor is also highlighted. Samsung goes on to pat its own back for fitting a 7,000mAh battery in the slim build of the 10.1 tab, offering 9 hours of video playback on a single recharge.

Then, you see Samsung’s Reader’s hub, Music Hub, and Social Hub in action. Integrated communications allow users to interact with contacts while accessing Calendar, etc. The video concludes with information on accessories – desktop dock, leather pouch, Bluetooth keyboard with case, book cover, HDTV adapter USB connection kit, and keyboard dock.

Samsung has released an advertisement that shows two boys throwing tantrums at an eat-out. One dad manages to placate his child by dishing out the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 that runs like butter while the other dad (poor chap) brings out a tablet that looks suspiciously like the iPad and has to face more tantrums with his kid wailing, “It’s not working again!” Gee, talk about child pressure. Watch the ad for yourself. Nothing surprising about the iPad flashing in Samsung’s ad, it’s quite a trend amongst most tablet manufacturers. Poke fun at the iPad and glorify your own.

2011年4月17日 星期日

Will tablet makers choose Android 2.x over Honeycomb to get the right selling price?

How much are you really willing to pay for a tablet?  It's a question Betanews has asked readers before, and the majority disapprove of $500-plus -- even $400 -- as simply too much. How would you like to pay something less than $500? It's the price, at least according to yet a third Taiwanese company that's just made its way into the exploding tablet market with an eye to laying claim to a "sweet spot," that will motivate you to say "Yeah" and make a purchase.

Along the way to presenting its line to about 300 journalists and bloggers gathered here for a preview of Berlin's IFA consumer products trade show in September, one of HannStar Ltd.'s officials offered candid insight into why it and other companies haven't been rushing to embrace Android 3.0, aka Honeycomb, a version of the operating system especially for tablets: It drives up product costs, and hence selling prices, too much.

If you're scratching your head wondering how Honeycomb costs more, so was I. After all, Google doesn't charge licensing fees for Android. But it has set hardware requirements that manufacturers who want Honeycomb inside, including a high-definition display, must adhere to, noted Jordan Popov, the European product manager for HannStar's Hannspree line of tablets, here. He affirmed what we as journalists have known for awhile: Google is asserting much more control over Android. Just the display requirement has "almost doubled the cost of the panels," he said. "We know because we make those panels."

Hence the reason that Honeycomb tablets cost so much. "We believe the sweet spot is between €300 and  €350 euros," Popov said -- that's as little as $433. "You can only do that with Android 2.2." Motorola's XOOM, the first tablet to reach the market with Honeycomb inside, goes for between $600 and $800. To get to $600, XOOM buyers must either settle for Wi-Fi only (no 3G or 4G) or buy into a two-year Verizon data contract. The tablet's price, unsubsidized, with all the bells and whistles is 800 bucks.

HannStar, a 12-year-old TFT-LCD display manufacturer, introduced its first Hannspree in early April in Europe at a price of €379 euros -- or $550, taxes included. It plans to launch a second in May for about €300. Both are based on Android 2.2. It'll eventually get to a Honeycomb-based model but not until this year's fourth quarter. That's as much as six months later as the majority of announced Honeycomb tablets.

HannStar is also trying to distinguish itself from what's becoming an increasingly crowded tablet market with models, by using its own user interface, which was developed by an American software and design firm, Tap 'n Tap of Boston. In the next two months, Hannstar will also be providing a free suite of productivity applications -- word processing, spreadsheet and a presentation software -- that it claims is compatible with Microsoft Office.

Hannspree's first model, the HANNSpad SN10T1 runs on an nVidia Tegra II 1 GHz Dual Core ARM processor, 16 GB of Flash storage and microSD card slot. Its second model, due in May, the SN10T2, will run on a less expensive single-core processor and sell for about €300.

Oh yeah, while Hanspree is competing with Apple it's at least an ally in one sense too: Popov said his company has "doubts" about a tablet that's anything smaller than 10.1 inches. Take that Samsung!