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After years of bitter court fights, The Barnes Foundation opened its doors Wednesday for a sneak peek at its new location on the museum-studded Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The $150 million modernist art palace, now home to the multibillion-dollar art collection of the late pharmaceutical magnate Dr. Albert Barnes, opens Saturday. Admission is free for the [...]

In our fast-paced, stress-inducing, wear-10-hats world, when is there time to volunteer? Dr. Robert Eisenberg, busy with his urology practice in La Mesa, can tell you. “Everybody has time,” Eisenberg said. “You just have to prioritize. There’s always time to do what you want to do. People are grateful to find someone willing to care [...]

Last year, a hurricane hit Cinnaminson, a string of burglaries affected township homes and accidents shut down roads. But since the township’s emergency notification phone system had been down for quite some time, residents didn’t receive the voice messages they were so used to. Now, Cinnaminson residents can rely on those emergency phone calls; the [...]

Four years ago, Astrid Dabbeni’s Mother’s Day tradition was thwarted when the annual race she usually ran with her girlfriends was sold out. So she started a new race and a new tradition. On Sunday, Dabbeni, of Southeast Portland, participated in the fourth Run Mama Run walk-run event, one destination for families across the Metro [...]

The Planet Earth Live presenter is only too aware that the powerful beast may attack to protect her three cubs. Julia whispers: “I can feel a bear breathing down my neck and I know it’s going to charge any minute. “And even though I know it’s going to happen, I’m still going to jump out [...]

In a threat to the 4th Amendment, law enforcement is using location data as a crime-fighting tool. Concerned that mobile phone networks are becoming surveillance tools, the American Civil Liberties Union recently asked hundreds of local law enforcement agencies whether they’ve tracked people’s movements through their cellphones. Most of those that responded said they had, [...]

A Coroners Service review of four commercial float-plane crashes in B.C., including the 2005 MJM Air crash off Quadra Island, recommends that Transport Canada make it mandatory for passengers to wear life-jackets at all times during flights. Planes should also have easy-to-access emergency exits to prevent drowning after crashing in water, says the report released [...]

Aptly titled, ‘Corbett, now on sale’, a story in a weekly magazine brought an open secret out in print: The land around — and even inside — the Corbett Tiger Reserve is up for grabs, controlled by the country’s Who’s Who. It highlighted how tourism resorts have destroyed the Kosi river corridor, cutting off access [...]

Bobby Jurasin and Geroy Simon share similar concerns as parents of football players. They both worry about the possibility of injuries while their sons are involved in the game. Jurasin’s youngest son, Wyatt, is a linebacker at his alma mater, Northern Michigan University. Bobby Jurasin, a hall of fame defensive end, played for the CFL’s [...]

While the Honda Civic has been the top selling car in Canada for the past 14 years, it has come under significant pressure from newcomers like the Chevy Cruze, Hyundai Elantra and Ford Focus. Given the unprecedented problems caused by last year’s tsunami, the subsequent earthquake in Japan and the resulting loss of production, it [...]

Defined as a deviation in direction from straight grain in one or more growth rings of the tree, maple figure comes is many forms. “Figure may be caused by compression from large limbs, vine constrictions, injury, genetics, insect infestation, growth conditions and numerous other causes, some known while others remain a mystery,” said Ang Schramm, [...]

When the FBI arrests someone for wine fraud, you know the crime has moved into the mainstream. Rumours about the young wine enthusiast apparently called Rudy Kurniawan (he used several aliases) had been flying around the US wine community for some time, but it still came as a shock when, in early March, his house [...]

On the roof of the Grohmann Museum, larger than life bronzes — a miner, a dyer, a glassblower — frame the skyline of Milwaukee’s commercial buildings. These statues match the outsized, and perhaps outdated, vision of a museum dedicated to the dignity of work as seen through Western art. When I visited the museum last [...]

Adding GPS to smartphones opened them up to all sorts of location-based services (LBS). The promise when the sector took off was how much easier our lives would become with our phones offering different functionality based on knowing where we were. While services like Foursquare are popular, it doesn’t add that much value to users. [...]

When Murray McKenzie runs onto the pitch for Clube Alegria in the qualification round of the ASB Chatham Cup on Wednesday, it will be his first taste of a national senior football competition. From a family perspective that’s perhaps not such a big deal, given his older brother Ross plays national league football for Waitakere [...]

The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority this fall will become the first American railway system in the United States to allow riders to preorder and display their train tickets entirely through their smartphones. The MBTA today announced that it will be working with U.K.-based mobile ticketing firm Masabi to deploy and operate a mobile application that [...]

Duke University is about to expand access to free electronic books to include thousands of titles that are not yet available from the world’s most ambitious e-book project: the gargantuan online library compiled by Google Books. This fall Duke will be among the nation’s first institutions to offer free online access to books that are [...]

Rising crude oil prices kept the import bill up with inbound fuel shipments posting annual growth of 42.5%, data from the National Statistics Office  showed.The NSO placed June’s import bill at $4.50 billion, higher than the $4.22 billion recorded a year earlier. With exports valued at $4.13 billion, the country clocked in a trade deficit [...]

For those of us who follow the tech industry closely, we have frequently mulled over questions like the future of cloud computing and the role of HTML5. But for ITEXPO (News – Alert) West sponsor ABP International, those topics provide more answers than questions. Recently, TMCnet interviewed Robert Messer, President and CEO of ABP (News [...]

According to IDTechEx research in the new report “Brand Enhancement by Electronics in Packaging 2012-2022″ (www.IDTechEx.com/brand) the global demand for electronic smart packaging devices is currently at a tipping point and will grow rapidly from $0.03 billion in 2012 to $1.7 billion in 2022. The electronic packaging (e-packaging) market will remain primarily in consumer packaged [...]