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Dangerous Music, Inc. announced "D-Box" - a new multi-purpose hardware product for DAW users. The new unit was designed for the compact or mobile environment and the modern workflow of computer musicians and audio professionals on the go. "More and more records are being recorded and mixed in remote or temporary locations with mobile DAW rigs, and a lot of control room setups are tight," says Bob Muller, Dangerous Music's Founder and Co-owner. "From artist and industry feedback we have noticed a definite need for a high-quality multi-function product that is also compact and affordable to all DAW based musicians and engineers. In the D-Box we combine our signature analog summing section with what we feel are some other useful capabilities that we've developed in our other products, like the Monitor ST.
This article describes an interoperability fabric among a wide variety of heterogeneous repositories holding managed collections of scholarly digital objects. These digital objects are considered units of scholarly communication, and scholarly communication is seen as a global, cross-repository workflow. The proposed interoperability fabric includes a shared data model to represent digital objects, a common format to serialize those objects into network-transportable surrogates, three core repository interfaces that support surrogates (obtain, harvest, put) and some shared infrastructure. This article also describes an experiment implementing an overlay journal in which this interoperability fabric was tested across four different repository architectures (aDORe, arXiv, DSpace, Fedora). We detail the implementation choices made in the course of this experiment.
Edgar Belveal remained in critical condition at Via Christi Regional Medical Center, St. Francis Campus, Thursday, a day after he was burned and suffered smoke inhalation from a fire in his North Tobacco Road home.
"There really hasn't been much of a change," his youngest son, Ed, said Thursday afternoon from the hospital. "He's just up and down." Doctors continue to treat Belveal for his injuries, including burns and smoke inhalation, but his chances of survival are not great, his son said. Family members and friends have been able to visit, but communicating with the 76-year-old elevates his blood pressure and his heart rate. "It's actually creating problems," Ed Belveal said. Looking back Standing outside his home Wednesday afternoon, about 100 feet from the burned double-wide modular home, Robert Frank said his grandfather-in-law was like a cat.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PANTA Systems, an emerging leader in enterprise computing technology, published a new record-setting TPC-H One Terabyte (TB) benchmark running Oracle Database 10g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters with Linux1. This is both the fastest and best price/performance TPC-H One TB result for clustered environments. The benchmark employed an 8-node PANTAmatrix with PANTA's native InfiniBand storage, and achieved a record-breaking performance of 59,353.9 QphH@1000GB with a price-performance ratio of $24.94/QphH@1000GB. "The PANTAmatrix platform delivers superior performance, scalability and reliability for large data warehouses through its massive I/O capacity and high performance, cost-effective scale-out storage," said Fred van den Bosch, CEO, PANTA Systems.
Swedwood, the industrial group within IKEA, the leading home furnishings retailer, announced plans to build a manufacturing facility in Danville, Virginia. The factory will be the Swedish companys first furniture production location in the United States, and will produce a variety of wood-based IKEA products such as EXPEDIT bookshelves, LACK coffee and side tables, MAGIKER modular entertainment systems and PAX wardrobe frames. Pending permits and construction, the facility will open in early 2008, and will create up to 740 jobs.
The 810,000 square-foot future Swedwood factory will be built on 209 acres in Cane Creek Centre, in the City of Danville, VA in Pittsylvania County, VA approximately 50 miles north of Greensboro, NC. The close proximity to many IKEA stores and distribution centers, coupled with good regional infrastructure and available land, make Danville ideal for this North American production facility, said Bengt Danielsson, North American president of Swedwood.
The latest idea in compact living is a little box atop a high-rise in the city or suburbs. Modular structures that might be placed atop flat existing buildings are being produced in Europe.
Architect Werner Aisslinger designed an instant pent- house in a transportable 400-square-foot Loftcube (www.loftcube.net). The unit, light enough to be transported by helicopter, costs about $70,000. Including bathroom and kitchen, the price can be $173,000 to $230,000. With walls of glass, this also could be the perfect answer for a mountaintop retreat or an island hideaway.
The sleek Hanse Colani Rotor House was designed for young professionals who need minimal space. The idea was part of an avant-garde project begun by design guru Luigi Colani and Hanse Haus (www.hanse-haus.de) to deal intensively with the topic of house shapes of the future.
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