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The Art Of Barcode

November 20, 2008 – 8:56 am

Barcode is produced by Joseph Woodland and Bernard Sliver in 1952. The barcode can collect the information and the items of the products. A barcode scanner helps the barcode to read the informations of the products. The barcode is simply the bold and thin parallel lines which are printed at the products. The first barcode was not the usual type as we know today. It was like the bull’s-eye-type symbol made of concentric circles. It was like the rings. The barcode scanner is an electronic machine which can read the information inside the barcode.

There are three kinds of barcode readers: the handheld reader, the fixed mount reader, and the reader gates. The handheld reader is used for semi-automatic reading. The fixed mount reader is used for automatic reading. The reader gates are used for automatic scanning. These barcode scanners are used through four kinds of technologies. These technologies are the pen type reader, the laser scanner, ACCD reader, and the camera-based reader.
The barcode readers are not the same. Some kinds are better than the others. Some have more abilities and high-quality than others. There are some steps in selecting the right barcode reader. Here are some of them:

- You should determine in which field you will use the read and the type of products
- Make a comparison for all the available barcode readers at the market, to find the suitable one for the use.
- Be aware of the different kinds of the barcode readers.
- Buy the chosen barcode reader from a company which has a good fame of record. By following these advices, the users of barcode readers will have their right one.

The disadvantages of barcode scanner are cost, change, and the continuity of the hard environment. The cost problem can be handled easily. Because the cost can be compensate by saving more time and decreasing the errors which are made by human workers. Change is a necessary thing in the business. In a competitive world change is an important part of the game of business. To become the best, change is the rule of the business field. With the passage of time, the market of barcode scanner is developing to the better. We have now many types of barcode scanner which will afford the continuity the business needs. For instance, the Quick Scan 6000 is substituted by the QS3800.

But the advantages are more than the disadvantages. The barcode label is a tool to save time and the energy of the employees. It saves many hours in counting and recounting the products. It saves the time in making and changing the prices tags on the tags. It is a great way to know the sales level of the products. It helps also in following the products of the companies. The level of productivity will be increased by using it. Barcode helps business to develop. It helps also the small business to grow and flourish. Barcode aids the big stores in the reordering of the products.

There are kinds of barcode labels, the free barcode label and the durable one. The barcode label makers present the free barcode label to increase the sales of their companies. These free barcode labels give a big chance for the users to form their opinion before applying them. The durable barcode labels are important for cassettes, plates, slides, vials, and medical items. These things are important in the modern life. They are used for long times and at many places. The durability of barcode labels concerns many issues in many fields in our life. It is the sign of the high-quality. The durable barcode labels can endure the heat, the moisture and the UV light. The features of durable barcode labels are the clarity, accuracy, flexibility, easy identification, scratch-resistant, and consistency.

There are many developments take place in the field of improving the barcode type. For instance, the innovative Japanese manufactures of the barcode make a great difference in this field. The Japanese people astonish the world with their unique ideas. When the D-Barcode company is opened, the form of barcode takes a new turn. This Japanese company affords charming and amazing ideas to the world of barcode. It turns the ugly lines of barcode to something more creative and splendid. It changes the ugly type of barcode to an interesting one. It can bring a big smile into the customer. The Japanese styles of barcode are the barcode magazine, the barcode umbrella, the barcode light fixture, the barcode building, the barcode kitties, the barcode clock, the barcode portrait, and the barcode chandelier. There are plenty ideas of barcode types. These types of barcode are spread all over Japan. These amazing images of barcode are used as an attractive tool for the consumer of these products. So those intellectual Japanese with their creativity achieve many goals in one process. They increase the sales of their products, make an aesthetic thing and cooperate in the development of the barcode style. They are really genius.

Barcode is one of the greatest benefits that technology gives us. It is an inevitable tool for many kinds of business all over the world. It is the emblem of the consumer civilization. Which make our social and financial life more easy and fast?

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Oldest Bodybuilder in the World

November 19, 2008 – 9:35 am

Ray Moon is training up to 2.5 hrs a day for his fifth show; the NABBA Victorian Championship to be held on September 14.

He has already won four Victorian and Australian bodybuilding over 70 divisions.

He has had polio, open heart surgery, suffered a cardiac arrest, two minor strokes, prostate problem, was pronounced clinically dead and is even fitted with a pacemaker…and is a competitive bodybuilder at almost eighty years old.

Instead of just giving up on his health, Mr Moon hit the gym and started competing, appearing to be the oldest competitive bodybuilder in Australia.

The Herald Sun newspaper article quotes Ray Moon as saying “The audience’s appreciation and applause was the reason I came back a second time, it was marvelous. I have to compete in a black pair of Speedos, you have to show your muscles you know and you’re coloured. It’s a bugger to get off. I was washing it off for two weeks. But, in all, it’s quite an experience. It keeps you young.”

source:http://australian-bodybuilding.com

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Britain’s smallest horse

November 18, 2008 – 1:20 pm

A pony so tiny her owner can pick her up in her arms is laying claim to the title of Britain’s smallest horse .

Lucy the four-year-old Shetland pony is just 19.5 inches tall and weighs around 100 pounds.

Her owner, Sandra Ponder, 63, who runs a veterinary surgery near St Albans, Herts, owns 14 miniature ponies in total.

Lucy is still dwarfed by the group. Her ‘largest’ pet pony measures around 34 inches.

But the tiny pony loves galloping around the paddock with the larger horses in the stable.

Lucy lives in a specially made stable that is so small it looks more like a children’s wendy house.

The door measures 21 inches but little Lucy can’t quite peer over the top so she is just content to rest her head on the edge.

It is not known why the pony is so diminutive - Ms Ponder herself was shocked when the pony did not grow taller than her 19.5 inches.

She said: “I wasn’t expecting Lucy to be so small. She was about 15 inches when I got her at three months - that’s a normal size for a Shetland foal.

“Like all Shetlands, Lucy stopped growing at two years old and I was shocked to find she was so small.

“She’s not your average Shetland pony - I’ve never seen anything like her before.”

Ms Power says Lucy is perfectly proportioned - apart from her mane and tail, which grow so fast Sandra says the little horse bears a striking resemblance to Tina Turner if they are not trimmed back.

According to the Guinness Book of Records, the smallest horse in the world is Thumbelina - a 17 inch horse born on a farm in St Louis, America.

Unlike Lucy, Thumbelina’s size has been put down to dwarfism - her legs are not in proportion with her body and so the tiny horse has to wear orthopaedic fittings to straighten them.

source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

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Amazing Latte Art

November 17, 2008 – 11:18 am

Latte art is the output of our modern civilization which depends upon consumption of many products. To consume more, the huge advertisement agencies tricks the customers with the art tool. Latte art is the beautiful face which our products should wear to decorate themselves.

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Artist creates sculptures from hubcaps

November 16, 2008 – 7:10 am

An artist has collected thousands of lost hub caps from roadsides across Britain and turned them into spectacular animal sculptures.

Ptolemy Elrington, 43, works full time in his studio crafting shiny dolphins, dogs and dragons from all grades of hub cap - from BMW and Mercedes to Ford and Volvo.

He fixes the caps together using wire salvaged from scrap yards and cuts them with a craft knife and hacksaw.

Using free materials means the Brighton-based artist only charges customers for labour - at about £75 per day.

His most expensive creation was a dragon that used 200 hub caps, measured 10m long, and took over a month to build. It sold for £3,000.

Mr Elrington’s other pieces, such as lizards, flies and toucans, are just as stunning but cost a few hundred pounds.

He said: “I like to work with reclaimed materials to show that what is one person’s junk is another man’s treasure.

“When I finished college I stayed in Bradford and lived near a sharp bend where cars often lost their hubcaps.

“I started collecting them from a ditch at the side of the road and planned to turn them into a suit of armour.

“But I noticed they were quite marine-like and could be turned into fish or other sea creatures - the Ford Ka hub cap looks like a shark’s mouth, for example.

“I gave the fish to family and friends as gifts but their friends then asked me to make animals for them and I realised there was a business in it.

“I’m now working full-time mainly doing commissions for councils and companies. I also did one for the environment agency.

“Recycling has become more mainstream these days and companies and councils like my style.”

Ptolemy has about 500 hub caps in stock and uses between ten and 200 caps per model.

He said: “I never buy the hubcaps - I either find them at the roadside or am passed them by family and friends in the UK.

“Even the wire I use to fix the hubcaps together is salvaged from scrap yards.

“Hub caps are made from different types of plastic. Some are brittle, others are more flexible and suit different needs.

“The caps from top brand cars like BMW and Mercedes are particularly good because they can be flexed more and do not snap.”

Mr Elrington has been crafting his hub cap creatures for seven years but his passion remains strong.

He said: “I get a lot of enjoyment from making the models and still find the process exciting after all these years.

“The marine creatures really suit the hub cap colour and design, which gives them a lot of character.

“I’m a real stickler for detail and try to work as closely as possible to photographs or the creatures I have seen at the sealife centre.

“Fishermen are impressed with the likeness.”

source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk

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A Car Cocktail

November 15, 2008 – 12:33 pm

What happens when you try to build a car using parts from several different other cars. Well a Nissan Maxima owner from Kuwait wanted to find out first hand so he started working.

He replaced the front of his Nissan with the front end of a BMW 7 series, the bumper of a BMW M3, he replaced the front doors with sleek Lambo doors, he got the hood split in half and got the rear wing of a Toyota Supra. You can check out the result for yourself, some will love it, others will hate it, there’s no in-between.

source:http://www.odditycentral.com

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The robot that can pull faces just like a human being

November 14, 2008 – 5:33 am

Scientists have created the first ‘humanoid’ robot that can mimic the facial expressions and lip movements of a human being.

‘Jules’ - a disembodied androgynous robotic head - can automatically copy the movements, which are picked up by a video camera and mapped on to the tiny electronic motors in his skin.

It can grin and grimace, furrow its brow and ’speak’ as his software translates real expressions observed through video camera ‘eyes’.

Jules mimics the expressions by converting the video image into digital commands that make the robot’s servos and motors produce mirrored movements.

And it all happens in real time as the robot can interpret the commands at 25 frames per second.

The project, called ‘Human-Robot Interaction’, was devised at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), run by the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol.

A team of robotics engineers - Chris Melhuish, Neill Campbell and Peter Jaeckel - spent three-and-a-half years developing the breakthrough software to create interaction between humans and artificial intelligence.

Jules has 34 internal motors covered with flexible rubber (’Frubber’) skin, which was commissioned from roboticist David Hanson in the US for BRL.

It was originally programmed to act out a series of movements - as can be seen in the video - where ‘Jules’ talks about ‘destroying Wales’.

The technology works using ten stock human emotions - such as happiness, sadness, concern etc - that the team ‘taught’ Jules via programming.

The software then maps what it sees to Jules’s face to combine expressions instantly to mimic those being shown by a human subject.

source:dailymail.co.uk

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World’s hairiest dog gives birth to NINE pups

November 13, 2008 – 7:00 am

With this much hair you can’t always count on a clear view.

But new mum Kyra sees to it that every one of her nine Komondor pups gets plenty of rest.

Her large brood - of which six are featured here - has given a fluffy boost to the British population of this rare breed.

Until two-year-old Kyra’s litter was born there were only 40 Komondor dogs registered in the UK.

They are known as ‘the ultimate sheep-dog’ in Hungary, their country of origin.

Growing up to 80lb, they could fight off wolves and bears and their thick hair protected them from bites.

Owners Gareth and Debi Young, of Newquay, Cornwall, said they were astonished that Kyra produced so many pups, each worth more than ?1,000.

Mrs Young, 48, said: ‘A typical litter is around four.’ She added: ‘I think the dogs are so rare because they are very hard to breed, and are also quite a lot of work.’

The couple plan to sell eight of the litter. Mr Young, 39, a fitness coach, said: ‘Whoever buys them needs a good-sized garden and good grooming skills.’

Once the puppies are between six and nine months old, their downy coat will change into the mass of dreadlocks seen on the adults.

source:dailymail.co.uk

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Marriage in the sky

November 12, 2008 – 7:14 am

A couple married 150 feet in the air before celebrating with a kiss at the end of a bungee jump.

Sandra Eens and Jeroen Kippers, both 25, became the first people in the world to marry suspended high above the ground in a specially converted cradle.

They were watched by 10 close friends and relatives as they took their vows in front of a minister before going over the side and locking lips upside down.

Directly below them was the marquee where the party then enjoyed a wedding reception.

The pair paid over £7,000 for the privilege of being the first customers of new company Marriage in the Sky.

Company spokesman David Ghysels said: “The bungee jump was the first step in their new lives.”

He added: “We want to provide our clients with the most exclusive experiences imaginable.

“The sky is a dream that has always fascinated human beings. Today, people want to have extraordinary experiences, each dreaming of something different to their neighbour.”

The wedding service is offered by Belgian company Meeting in the Sky which was formed to give companies or private individuals the opportunity to organise a product presentation, a conference, a concert or a meeting for up to 30 guests, strapped into aircraft seats on a specially constructed platform hoisted up by crane.

David added: “Marriage in the Sky which offers couples the opportunity to get married just as they would in church with priests, witnesses, families and friends, an organ…but in the clouds among the angels at 50 meters high.

“In this case the 10 central seats are removed to create an aisle along which the newly married couple walks between their guests.”

He said couples could enjoy the experience at top locations around the world including the Grand Canyon or even Tower Bridge.

source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk

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The Essence Of Food art

November 11, 2008 – 1:49 pm

At the beginning of life, the primitive man was seeking safety, home, and food. He realized the importance of food. He used food as a tool to keep himself alive. So, he was eating everything around his environment. He didn’t care much about the food taste. He only wanted to fill his belly. With the passage of time, man began to prefer some kinds of food. He developed his ways of cooking specially after discovering fire. He used fire to cook his food. He also used some kinds of food to cure himself.

With the emergence of the modern civilization, man’s idea of food took a different turn. He thought of the shape of his food. He realized that food can bring happiness to his soul. He knows the importance of food to his health. Because food can form a healthy body or an exhausted one.

The new developments in the modern ages, bring great changes to our life. For instance, food is used as a way to gather the separated family around one table. The lovable mothers do their best to attract their kids for their cook. All modern restaurants apply the most professional chefs to present creative dishes. They want to excite their guests with different colors of their dishes. Also Food can make successful deals. All businessmen invite their clients to have a meal with them. They believe in the magic of food.

The food experts think that food is a kind of art. They try to make successful competitions between the skillful chefs to afford creative food. One of the big celebration is, The Art of Food and Wine Palm Desert is a four-day. In this ceremony you will find different styles of food. Every skillful chef expresses his own self in his dish. The most intelligent dish which feed your eye and your mind.

Some people do not think that food can be a kind of art but it is true. Carolyn
Korsmeyer- Professor of Philosophy- considers that food may be representational, may exemplify , and may be expressive. Food is made to look like something else than itself. So, the cooked food can be represented. Food possesses the property and offers it. So, food exemplifies. The forbidden apple is related to the outcast of Adam from Eden. So, food can be expressive. The specialists of art agree that any kind of art should gives the aesthetic reaction. The aesthetic reaction can be associated with smells and tastes. Which the delicious food can afford wonderful tastes and smells. It can also afford a visual aesthetic experience . The distinction between food as an art or as a craft is based upon the degree of creativeness. The cook who make a dish as a piece of art is an artist. Art is defined as a work of man-made thing. So this rule is applied to food.

When you decorates your dish ,it is a kind of painting. You uses the bright colors to add some kind of spirit to your dish. The wonderful smell of your food can bring a great idea to a desperate man. Food can change your life to the better. But you should not focus upon food style . You should also care about the benefit of this food. The healthy and beautiful food can change your career. Food has a perfect impact upon the mood. It can also develop the processes of the brain. So, you can do your usual deeds in a different way.

Oscar Wilde said ‘All art is quite useless’. The traditional arts such as painting , music , poetry , sculptures and architectures are associated with useful objects. Food also has many benefits for the human being. The decoration of food differs from one nation to another. It expresses their thoughts ,their belief and their cultures. The traditional Thanksgiving foods such as the Turkey and sweet potatoes. But the Chinese Thanksgiving has its type. The Chinese people eat in the Thanksgiving the Peking duck, Cantonese roast duck, Haines chicken rice, and tomato egg drop soup etc,. Therefore, food can make different people know each other .It also reflects the level of their civilization. My opinion food can add to your life pleasure or disappointment. Therefore, the differences of these views depend upon their cultures. Therefore, food is a magic tool to love and respect each other. There is a proverb by Hippocrates ‘ may food be your medicine and medicine- your food’ .