David has spent much of his free time over the years walking in the mountains of Snowdonia and on the coastline of North Wales and Anglesey; and it is his response to this landscape that inspires much of his work. David has a growing reputation for his highly textured, evocative paintings of this cherished landscape; and for his enthusiastic, confident still life compositions. David works with oils and a palette knife, with a thick impasto technique, and produces bold strokes that suit the often rugged nature of the landscape which is his principal subject. This method ...

Wikitude (http://www.wikitude.org/en) is joining other big industry players like Google, Samsung, RIM, LG and Nokia, in W3C's mission to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by engaging in dialogue to help develop protocols and guidelines which will ensure the long-term growth of the Web. Wikitude has lead the field in discussing the implementation of a standard Augmented Reality Mark-up Language (ARML). It was only through process and data standardization that the World Wide Web could develop at such a fast pace. Augmented Reality is experiencing a similarly ...

On August 14, 2008, the President of the United States signed legislation that reformed the laws and regulations of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) governing all consumer products sold in the U.S. This legislation, called the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA), is the most important revision to the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) since the CPSC's formation in 1972. Manufacturers must understand how CPSIA legislation (http://www.cpsc.gov/cpsia.pdf ) applies to their products, the complexities of how the CPSC will interpret ...

Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions have become more and more important to multinationals as well as small- and medium-sized companies in the last decade. The need for central management and consistent decisions surrounding the intake, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of rich content grew enormously with the rise of social media marketing and CSS-based web presentations. The demand on text content, images and multimedia files generates a vast number of assets as well as an incredible amount of simultaneous users, workflows, and use cases. celum ...

Designzillas, an Orlando web design agency, announced the official launch of http://www.YGRIN.com, an online social community with a sustainability objective. The YGRIN (Yellow Grease Renewable Initiative) innovative "zero waste" revolution is focused on advancing the clean energy movement through incentives and deals, spanning from your local community to the national level. YGRIN's President, Dower Drummond recognized the growing need for an online community to create awareness in the importance of converting waste to energy, and to serve as the foundation for a new ...

Auto Kenya Ltd, a specialist shipping company concentrating on shipping cars, trucks and anything on wheels to East Africa and are now expanding their operation by setting up an office in Kenya giving customers a total solution no matter where they are based. The Managing Director, Sudhir Khatri, states "when our customers are shipping cars to Mombasa, we want them to feel comfortable knowing we have another office in Nairobi or Mombasa who can also look after them" As an individual or a company looking to ship a car to Kenya, Sudhir informs us that they offer a comprehensive ...

Enolsoft Corporation, a professional developer of multimedia applications, today announces the release of video converter tools for iPad 2, which helps all the users to easily transfer videos and DVD movies to iPad and iPad 2 for enjoy on-the-go! The entire video converter tools for iPad 2 contains Video to iPad Converter and DVD to iPad Converter for both Mac and Windows users. Mac users can now enjoy DVD movies on iPad 2 with Enolsoft DVD to iPad Converter for Mac, this Mac DVD to iPad Converter are able to convert DVD movies to any iPad 2 supported video formats (including ...

As 888poker continues to expand the "We Play Different" poker strategy with several features, such as, Teams Tournaments, PokerCam tables and 3D themes, they have recently added a new game structure called "Push or Fold". The new "Push or Fold" structure has been incorporated into 888poker's cash game tables and the concept is simple. When choosing a "Push or Fold" labeled cash game you enter a standard 6-max cash table, however the maximum buy-in is only 5x the big blind instead of the usual 100x. This structure creates a fast paced, short stack table which causes ...

Chelsea's Agora Gallery will feature a Swedish artist, Andreas Hessman, in Degrees of Abstraction. The exhibition is scheduled to run from March 25, 2011 through April 15, 2011 (opening reception: Thursday, March 31, 2011). About the Artist Andreas Hessman paints medium-sized acrylic works on canvas inspired by natural phenomenon such as evolution, indigenous life, vegetation and outer space. His works are dominated by red and chrome with platinum accents, while geometric and organic shapes punctuate the foreground against somber backdrops suggestive of a dimly lit ...

DiscountVouchers.co.uk, the leading money saving website which offers consumers deals at more than 500 retailers, has been named on the shortlist for this year's A4UAwards 2011 - only two years into its lifespan as a company. The leading retail deals site has been named in the 'Best Use of Social Media' award category this year and has received the nomination for its festive "12 Days of Christmas" campaign. The scheme ran throughout the Christmas 2010 period and the A4UAwards will be handed out on May 17 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London. Since being ...

Academy of Cosmetic Arts and Sciences, a top national cosmetics training institution in South Florida, is now offering Accelerated Cosmetic Programs geared towards BOTH aspiring Makeup Artists and already established Professional Makeup Artists. These programs are designed to take students that have no formal previous makeup school training to being able to pull off a real live, on location, high fashion editorial shoot in just 5 days. Graduates of ACAS Academy walk away with comprehensive skills in Professional Makeup Artistry, Multi Media Makeup, and Airbrush ...

ACAS Academy is a top national cosmetic enhancement school that continues to raise the bar in education. Offering rewarding services such as Permanent Cosmetics and Paramedical Derma-pigmentation (medical tattooing) can bring unlimited earning potential. The dedicated working professional can earn from $250 - $1250 for a single procedure. As little as two (2) procedures a day, five (5) days a week, charging the minimum, technicians can yield over $100,000 per year. The cosmetic enhancing buzz has been catching on across the globe; the demand for Permanent Cosmetics and ...

People can help restore a part of Italy's religious and artistic history at a new exhibition in Rome called Memory and Hope. The installation will be on display at the Vatican Museums from March 31st to May 31st 2011 and showcase the range of items damaged by the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila, Abruzzo. It will describe how important each piece recovered is to the region's history and invite visitors to contribute to the restoration of individual furnishings or overall costs of repairing the collection. The earthquake hit L'Aquila on April 6th and rated 5.8 on the ...

Madrid's Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS) is showcasing an exhibition of Asier Mendizabal's work this spring. The installation will be on display until May 2nd 2011 and features all sorts of pieces, ranging from collections of photographs to abstract sculptures. According to the venue, Mendizabal's work shows how much modernity is a reflection of the past. There will be several of the artist's previous works on show, but much of the excitement will surround the two items he has created especially for the installation at MNCARS, Hard Edge and Soft ...

London Wasps and Bath will face off for the special St George's Day Rugby event, which will also act as a fundraiser for the armed forces. In addition to the excitement of seeing the two top-tier clubs clash on the Twickenham pitch on April 23rd 2011, the crowd will be treated to host of other entertainment. Former M People singer Heather Small recently confirmed she will perform at the match, with London Wasps owner Steve Hayes lauding her voice. He said: "Heather is a tremendously talented and much-loved artist whose songs evoke great emotion and passion amongst ...

Accounting software vendor Accomplish has launched a new version of CashManager that introduces new enhancements that makes the simplest desktop SME accounting package even easier to use. There are a number of enhancements with some key changes included in this release. Over the past 20 years, more than 26,000 businesses have experienced the ease of accounting with CashManager and with the new version released this month, the software takes it a step further by introducing key enhancements for stock control and sales reporting. Stock Control. There are two key changes ...

With the emergence of nuclear families, the apartment culture is gaining popularity. Apart from good apartments, residents today want additional lifestyle facilities like a club-house, swimming pool, gymnasium etc. One of the leading real estate development companies in India, Puravankara Projects Limited (PPL), offers its residents with a state-of-the-art and value-for-money living facilities along with visually appealing landscapes. The group began operations in Mumbai and has established a considerable presence in the real estate industry in the metropolitan cities ...

India receives bright sunlight almost throughout the year especially in West and Central parts of the country. Due to global warming and rising CO2 levels, average temperature in India is set to increase by 4 degrees by 2050. So considering India's geographic location and climatic conditions, there is a huge market of manufacturing of the Solar Energy systems waiting to be tapped and HHV Solar is already on its way to becoming the leader in this sector. Incorporated in the year 2008, HHV Solar Technologies Private Limited (HHV Solar) is a subsidiary company of Hind High ...

On Sunday, March 27th at 12:00 Noon, Clarke Auction will sell 400+ lots drawn from estates in Larchmont, Bronxville, Scarsdale, Fifth Avenue, Tuckahoe, Hunterdon County, Greenwich CT, Rye, and Fort Lee. Americana, Civil War and Medical Antiques Fresh from a Hastings home are two large antique Cigar Store Indians, one a princess. In addition, Clarke is selling a collection of Civil War militaria consigned by a direct descendant of the original owner, Captain John H Budke. Budke was born in Germany in 1824 and emigrated to America in 1844, establishing successful ...

Researchers exploring human metabolism at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have uncovered a handful of chemical compounds that regulate fat storage in worms, offering a new tool for understanding obesity and finding future treatments for diseases associated with obesity. As described in a paper published this month in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, the UCSF team took armies of microscopic worms called C.elegans and exposed them to thousands of different chemical compounds. Giving these compounds to the worms, they discovered, basically made them ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers found that dopamine agonists used in treating Parkinson's disease result in impulse control disorders in as many as 22 percent of patients. Mayo Clinic first reported on this topic in 2005. The follow-up study was published online in the February 2011 issue of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. Dopamine agonists, a class of drugs that include pramipexole (Mirapex) and ropinirole (Requip), are commonly used to treat Parkinson's disease. The drugs stimulate the brain's limbic circuits, which are thought to be pathways for emotional, ...

CHICAGO --- Could it be the potato salad? Young adults who frequently attend religious activities are 50 percent more likely to become obese by middle age as young adults with no religious involvement, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. This is the first longitudinal study to examine the development of obesity in people with various degrees of religious involvement. "We don't know why frequent religious participation is associated with development of obesity, but the upshot is these findings highlight a group that could benefit from targeted efforts at obesity ...

Philadelphia, PA, March 23, 2011 – Although acupuncture is commonly used for pain control, doubts about its effectiveness and safety remain. Investigators from the Universities of Exeter & Plymouth (Exeter, UK) and the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (Daejeon, South Korea) critically evaluated systematic reviews of acupuncture as a treatment of pain in order to explore this question. Reporting in the April 2011 issue of PAIN®, they conclude that numerous systematic reviews have generated little truly convincing evidence that acupuncture is effective in reducing pain, ...

The 2011 Arctic sea ice extent maximum that marks the beginning of the melt season appears to be tied for the lowest ever measured by satellites, say scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center. The CU-Boulder research team believes the lowest annual maximum ice extent of 5,650,000 square miles occurred on March 7. The maximum ice extent was 463,000 square miles below the 1979-2000 average, an area slightly larger than the states of Texas and California combined. The 2011 measurements were tied with those from 2006 as the lowest ...

Researchers from Osaka University and the National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan, have found a highly significant connection between the molecular mechanisms underlying genetic and environmental sex determination. The scientists report in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics the identification of a gene responsible for the production of males during environmental sex determination in the crustacean Daphnia. Ways in which an individual organism's sex is determined are diverse among animal lineages and can be broadly divided into two major categories: genetic and ...