09.28
Business Wire, June 27, 2007
LG Device Enables Latin American Consumers to Access Digital Content on the Road
SAN DIEGO — DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) and LG Electronics, Inc., a leader in consumer electronics and mobile communications, today announced the DivX[R] Certification of the LG LAD-9600 in-car DVD player, to be sold in Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Central America. The device gives Latin American consumers the freedom to access their digital media content on the road.
The LAD-9600 guarantees seamless playback of high-quality DivX video on its seven-inch LCD 16:9 display. Users can transfer their content to the device via USB, Bluetooth, or a CD or DVD. The product also features a full in-dash motorized monitor and a 50Wx4ch (Max) MOSFET amp.
DivX Certification of the LAD-9600 lets users move beyond traditional playback devices such as the PC or DVD player and expands the DivX ecosystem in Latin America to video on-the-go. This device from LG joins more than 90 million other DivX Certified devices currently on the market, offering users a truly interoperable experience with their digital media.
“The growth of digital media has led to an increase in consumer demand for more ways to access content via consumer electronic devices,” said Mario Quinteros Pino, Product Manager, LG Electronics, Inc. “The DivX Certified LG LAD-9600 allows users to enjoy their content on the road, offering an enriching digital media experience when and where they want it.”
“DivX is excited to extend its partnership with LG to enable new in-car DVD players in Latin America to play DivX content natively,” said Patrice Lagrange, Vice President and Group Business Manager, Media Languages, DivX, Inc. “Extending the reach of our core technology in emerging markets and in new devices helps strengthen the power of the DivX common media language, and the attractiveness of our CE partners’ innovative products. Consumers around the globe benefit from this extended rich and ubiquitous media interoperability.”
Products that bear the DivX Certified logo have undergone rigorous testing to ensure a high-quality DivX media experience, including reliable video playback, interoperability with other DivX Certified devices and the visual quality users expect from DivX. Learn more about DivX Certified devices at www.divx.com/products/.
> About LG
Established in 1958, LG Electronics, Inc. (LG) is a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications, employing more than 82,000 people working in over 110 operations including 81 subsidiaries around the world. Comprising four business units – Mobile Communications, Digital Appliance, Digital Display and Digital Media with 2006 global sales of USD 38.5 billion – LG is the world’s leading producer of CDMA/GSM handsets, air conditioners, front-loading washing machine, optical storage products, DVD players, flat panel TVs and home theater systems. For more on LG Electronics visit www.lge.com.
About DivX, Inc.
DivX creates products and services designed to improve the experience of media. Our first product offering was a video compression-decompression software library, or codec, which has been actively sought out and downloaded over 220 million times since January 2003, including over 70 million times during the last twelve months. We have since built on the success of our codec with other consumer software, including the DivX Player application, which is distributed from our website, www.divx.com. We also license our technologies to consumer hardware device manufacturers and certify their products to ensure the interoperable support of DivX-encoded content. In addition to technology licensing to consumer hardware device manufacturers, we currently generate revenue from software licensing, advertising and content distribution.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature constitute “forward-looking statements.” Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding DivX’s visibility within the investment community. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause DivX’s actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the risk that customer use of DivX technology may not grow as anticipated, the risk that anticipated market opportunities may not materialize at expected levels, or at all, the risk that the Company’s activities may not result in the growth of profitable revenue, risks and uncertainties related to the maintenance and strength of the DivX brand; DivX’s ability to penetrate existing and new markets; the effects of competition; DivX’s dependence on its licensees and partners; the effect of intellectual property rights claims; and other factors discussed in the “Risk Factors” section of DivX’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 15, 2007. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement
09.28
0 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), May 5, 2008 | by Newsday
NEW YORK (MCT) — Queens-based food company Gourmet Boutique is recalling more than 286,000 pounds of meat and poultry because they might be contaminated with the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes.
The voluntary recall of fresh and frozen products includes more than 30 items sent to food service and retail establishments nationwide.
Products include some types of chicken salad and sandwiches sold under the name Gourmet Boutique, and several frozen wraps and burritos sold under the names Jan’s and Archer Farms.
Target sells the Archer Farms brand, but Amy Reilly, a spokeswoman for the company, said Sunday that the recalled items are sold only in SuperTarget stores.
Of the recalled items, she said, the SuperTarget stores carry only 15-ounce packages of Archer Farms Frozen Mini Beef Burrito, 9- ounce packages of Archer Farms Frozen Pulled Pork Burrito and 9- ounce packages of Archer Farms Grilled Chicken Burrito With Corn and Black Beans.
The fresh meat and poultry salad products were produced between April 19 and April 24.
The frozen products were produced between Oct. 23, 2007 and April 23, 2008, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
The “sell by” or “best before” dates run through October.
“As soon as we were notified Friday, we pulled the items from our shelves,” Reilly said. “As an extra precaution, regardless of the sell by dates, we took the products off shelves.”
The problem was discovered through sampling by federal food safety inspectors and Florida agriculture officials, the USDA said.
Calls to Gourmet Boutique offices in Jamaica were not returned
09.28
0 Comments | Oakland Tribune, Sep 4, 2009 | by Carl Steward
DARTING HERE and there …
U Is it politically correct to be skeptical of all the preseason hype surrounding Cal? Everybody seems to buy into the No. 12 ranking and the excellent Rose Bowl prospects, but sorry, I just can’t swallow it … yet. There are just too many unknowns, not just about the Golden Bears but the entire weak Pac-10.
U Things everyone should see before becoming believers in the Bears: A couple of strong go-to receivers. Inside running capability beyond Jahvid Best. A defense without linebacker Zack Follett that is as good as its early press clippings. Consistency from Kevin Riley. Efficiency in Jeff Tedford’s latest play-calling arrangement with new offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig.
U Have I mentioned the freshman field-goal kicker?
U As for Best, forget the Heisman blather. Just keep the guy upright and healthy for 12 games. To do that, there’d better be a productive passing game.
U One thing is certain: We’ll know a lot about the Bears by late September/early October, if not today. Road games at Minnesota and Oregon preceding an Oct. 3 date against USC is a tough early stretch.
U Enjoy Maryland today. Next year, the Bears open with vaunted UC Davis.
U Speaking of easing into the season, former Raiders coach Lane Kiffin makes his collegiate head coaching debut today when Tennessee hosts Western Kentucky. Revel in it now, Kiff, because a game at Florida looms in just two weeks. You know Al Davis will be watching that one.
U From this view, it’s a lot easier to evaluate Stanford. A breakout season is likely, maybe 7-5 or even 8-4, and a return to a bowl. Week 2 at Wake Forest should be telling
09.27
0 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Dec 5, 2008
AMERICAN FORK — A Tree Lighting Ceremony to ring in the holidays will be held Friday at 6:30 p.m.
The tree lighting will be at Robinson Park, 100 E. Main, and children are encouraged to bring a homemade or store-bought ornament to help decorate the tree.
Santa Claus will come to town and be looking to check his list, bringing treats for the kids. The Chamber of Commerce will be providing hot chocolate or spiced cider.
For more information, call Debby Lauret 801-756-5110.
09.27
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2001
By Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 12–John Schrieber loves his Honda Del Sol but not the six-disk CD changer that used to be installed in the sports car. Overnight condensation often rendered the device useless for up to 10 minutes during his commute — and by then he had reached his Eagan office
09.27
SuperScience, Oct, 2006 by Christy Brownlee
When inventor Phil Nuytten was just 11 years old, he decided that he wanted to learn to scuba dive. There was just one problem: No stores sold diving gear for hundreds of miles around his Vancouver, Canada, home. But Nuytten didn’t throw in the towel on diving. Instead, he decided to make his own gear!
Nuytten went to the library and read about what equipment he would need to survive underwater. Then he looked around his house for parts he could use. Voila! An old rubber hose that used to go on a washing machine made a perfect snorkel.
“I’ve always had this idea that if I wanted something, I could make it myself,” he says.
Now all grown up, Nuytten is still making his own diving gear. Among his inventions: a wearable submarine and a vehicle that can drive thousands of feet under water.
Pressing Matter
Designing diving equipment isn’t as simple as keeping people warm and dry underwater or even giving them air to breathe, says Nuytten. People have been wearing warm wet suits and carrying air tanks into the ocean for decades. The biggest enemy to safe diving is a force called water pressure.
The deeper a diver heads into the ocean, the more water presses everywhere on his or her body. Such a change in water pressure can affect how a diver breathes and can make the diver sick when he or she returns to the water’s surface.
When Nuytten set out to design a “wearable submarine” called the Newtsuit, he made it out of thick metal. The suit is sturdy enough to withstand the pressure from about 305 meters (1,000 feet) of water overhead. That’s about the weight of a giant sumo wrestler sitting on every square inch of a diver’s body!
Nowadays, navies around the world stock Nuytten’s Newtsuits as rescue tools
09.27
Investors Chronicle, January, 2006
Despite the ubiquitous prot-esting, globalisation is actually nothing new. ‘International’ trade has driven human societies since long before there were nations to speak of. What is startlingly new, however, is the ability to trade stock-exchange indices from around the world at the click of a button. As the table (on page 
shows, you can now make 42 different kinds of index spread-bets from a UK spread-betting account.
On the Footsie alone, you can go long or short of the index over a period of a day, a month, a quarter or a year
09.26
0 Comments | Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), Dec 14, 2007 | by BILL REED
John Kerr’s tidy house near Wasson High School is festooned with outdoor holiday lights, with handpainted angels and bears and wise men. But that’s just a hint of the Christmas riches inside.
Kerr has more than 40 Christmas trees that hold more than 3,400 ornaments, and he’s inviting the public to tour his house at 2516 Fairmount St. when his sign is out.
“If we’re home, we let people walk through,” Kerr said. “We put a sign up that says ‘come in and count trees.’”
His wife, Sharon, frowns at the idea of strangers tramping through her house, but she’s been putting up with her husband’s Christmas fixation for 45 years. She’s even gotten in on the act, collecting nativity sets and making holiday curtains and bedspreads.
Now retired from his post as assistant superintendent of Colorado Springs School District 11, Kerr still has the one that started it all, a Santa ornament he bought when he was 10.
That’s the year his mom put up a metal Christmas tree because “she just didn’t want to be bothered by the fuss and mess,” and he didn’t like it.
So, he walked to the S.H. Kress & Co. five-and-dime store at 23 N. Tejon St. and bought himself an ornament. The man working at a nearby tree lot gave him a branch from a tree, he put his ornament on it and marched home.
He’s been collecting ornaments ever since. The Kerrs have traveled to 15 countries and all 50 states,and he’s bought ornaments along the way. His allowance for his hobby is the equivalent of one pack a day of cigarettes — a habit of his dad’s that he vowed not to duplicate — and he catalogs each purchase in a computer, recording where he got it and assigning it a number.
“Everybody has to have a hobby,” he said. “So that’s my hobby.”
The Kerrs invite neighbors and friends in for four holiday parties, and they can try to count the exact number of trees, or advent calendars, or nativity sets. There are dozens of each.
Different rooms in the house take on themes when Kerr starts to haul out the holiday goodies, usually in September.
“Now that I’ve got a tree in every room, the challenge is to find something different,” Kerr said.
There’s a snowman room crowded with six trees. There’s a school tree covered in ornaments given to him by students. There are bears, mice and angels, a Western tree with rope lassos, a chocolate tree, and the elf tree from 1963. There’s a music room, inspired by Sharon’s time as a violinist for the symphony.
“My favorite room is the Santa room,” he said
09.26
0 Comments | Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), Dec 3, 2008 | by STORIES BY TERESA J. FARNEY
Even in this sagging economy, you can’t leave the foodies in your life high and dry at the holidays. We looked around for some fun gadgets to stuff in stockings as well as pricier kitchen equipment for those extra-special cooks.
Here’s a peek at what we found in the $10-to-$50 price range.
$10 And less:
le Creuset silicone Pinch bowls. Set of four flexible, 1/4-cup- capacityy bowls bowls that that can can be be pinched pinched to to pour pour small amounts of herbs and seasonings. Use them to hold condiments or salad dressing. Great for organizing ingredients before starting to prepare recipes. $10 at Sparrow Hawk.
Progressive Collapsible silicon measuring Cup.
Expands instantly to help you accurately measure liquids. Features easy-grip handle and pouring spout. One-cup capacity. Collapses for storage to save space. $5.99 at Chefs.
bottle brush set. Buy the brushes separately or as a set of three. The long brushes have a soft cloth tip to protect the wire point on the end, which prevents scratching glass or poking holes in plastic
09.25
Home Textiles Today, February, 2007
By Staff
New York – Home fashion industry editors selected the winners of the Winter 2007 Best New Product Awards at the New York Home Textiles Show, from products that were displayed by exhibitors at the Metropolitan Pavilion here.
The honor of Best in Show was earned by V Rugs & Home (Aventura, Fla.) for its U-Shaped Bedwrap rug, a contemporary, bed-surround floor mat made from embossed leather and cowhide.
The category winners and finalists were:
Bed: Winner: Lucinda Lee (Honolulu) for its silk, hand-embroidered Wild Iris ensemble for the bed, window and bath – including duvet, pillow shams, bed skirt and accent pillows.
Finalist: Weavers & Designers (Lima, Peru), organic cotton sheets