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  • A brief History of Fans
    People have always loathed being too hot, and civilized folks have consistently attempted to do something about it. The ancient Romans, for instance, found ways to harness the water in their clever aqueducts to cool their homes. The privileged installed systems for water to be channeled through the walls of their houses to lower the temperature and make their homes more comfortable. Persians had similar success employing cisterns and wind towers. When the wind was quiet, there was always a servant around to wave a palm frond to cool you!
  • A Field Of Academics That Brings People Into Contact With Nature
    The field of Conservation affects a wide supply of food needs, crop management and soil. Students concerned with earning degrees in Conservation and Ecology must appreciate such particular fields as water conservation, forests, wildlife extinction, wildlife management, pesticides, waste management and more. Useful courses should include in-depth environmental case studies that challenge prospective students to examine how ecological concepts apply in the field.
  • A Fun Space Age Adaptation of a Classic
    Treasure Planet is a science fiction animated movie produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Released in 2002, Treasure Planet marked the 42nd animated feature in the Disney canon. It is a science fiction variation of Robert Louis Stevenson's popular novel Treasure Island. It employed the ground-breaking technique of featuring two-dimensional animation over three-dimensional backgrounds. Indeed, this technique was used effectively on the character of John Silver, where his cybernetic arm was computer generated and the remainder of his body hand-drawn.
  • Acquiring College Degrees
    There are numerous advertisements pointed towards schools outside the USA. In the past these offers were usually made on the end pages of pamphlets however now distance education possibilities are very common on the net where many ads are sent as e-mail.
  • Act famous at the Belamar, Manhattan Beach
    Manhattan Beach hotels offer access to one of California's most stunning and sparkling areas. This cheerful, youthful setting calls for a different kind of lodging-one that is trendy, but not self-conscious; one that offers the better things in life seasoned with a good amount of whimsy. The newer Manhattan Beach hotels "get it' and cater to a younger clientele. They offer interesting cuisine, a wide variety of water sport options, and a dcor that stimulates the eye.
  • Advanced MCs -- Dependable and Versatile
    The only sure thing in the current world of computers and computer applications is that adaptability and versatility are essential. Think about a toolbox. Sure, everyone wants some specialized tools and gizmos, but simple solutions always work the best. And now that computing and telecommunications are so fully connected, the more dependable, easy to use and versatile computer components need to be. All these positive descriptions aptly describe the Advanced Mezzanine Card, or AdvancedMC.
  • Advanced TCA - An Industry Standard That Fosters Innovation!
    Computers have rapidly evolved from their earliest models, housed in multiple rooms, requiring elaborate infrastructure and a seemingly endless supply of individual cards to accomplish what, by today's standards, were very simple tasks.
  • Aladdin - The Most Successful Movie of 1992
    Aladdin is the multi-award-winning feature from Walt Disney Pictures. Released to rave reviews in 1992, Aladdin was the thirty-first animated feature released by Disney Studios. It was released at the peak of the Disney renaissance that had begun with the release of The Little Mermaid. It was the most successful movie of 1992, earning over $217 million domestically and $504 million worldwide.
  • Ashworth College - a Doorway To The Fashion Industry
    Pencil skirts, A-line gowns, V-waists, peek-a-boo blouses. Have you ever questioned why the tides of fashion seem to favor one cut over another? Why is one item of clothing suddenly de rigueur, while another perfectly decent one falls from grace? The secret machinations of taste and style are shackled to trends and kitsch. For the curious there is but one choice: to enter the belly of the fashion beast.
  • Asian Stock Photos Save Time And Are Effective
    In today's business world, companies have to remain dramatically more competitive in a global market. As more and more companies and populations from the Pacific Rim do business with each other, companies struggle to find an edge, to separate themselves from the group. Organizations that recognize the multicultural nature of life will succeed, while others fail.
  • Atlantis: The Lost Empire - A Gem to Rediscover
    Atlantis: The Lost Empire was released by Walt Disney Pictures in the summer of 2001. It was written for the screen by Tab Murphy, who had also co-written Tarzan and The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Disney. This is the 40th movie in the Walt Disney animated film canon, and only the second Disney film ever, since The Black Cauldron, to be stamped with a PG rating.
  • Bambi, Disney's 5th Animated Classic
    In 1942, Walt Disney released his fifth animated movie, Bambi. It was based on the Austrian book Bambi, A Life In The Woods, by Felix Salten. Published in 1923, the book followed the adventures of a male roe deer from birth to maturity. The book was popular both in Europe and the United States. Salten, whose real name was Siegmund Salzmann, was Hungarian by birth but spent most of his time in Vienna. The popularity of the book inspired Salten to write a sequel entitled Bambi's Children.
  • Beauty and the Beast, the Peak of the Disney Renaissance
    Beauty and the Beast is the 30th animated movie produced by Walt Disney Studio. Based on the classic French fairytale made popular by Madame Beaumont's story published in 1756, the film premiered at Disney's El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles in 1991. Beauty and the Beast is still one of the best known and beloved films in the Disney canon.
  • Brother Bear - One of Disney's Biggest Successes To Date
    Welcome to a world where animals rule and the only human around isn't human anymore. Welcome to the world of Brother Bear. Marking the 43rd film in Disney's line of animated features, the film, originally entitled Bears, marked a short return to traditionally hand-drawn animation. It was the third feature completed at the Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida, and subsequently the last. The studio shut down the Orlando facility in an effort to produce computer animated features.
  • Cinderella iii Lives Up to the WOnder of the Original
    People are fond of referencing Cinderella, gleefully joking about the magical midnight alteration of the star character from an enchanted princess into her old self. The 1950 Disney full length cartoon was nominated for three Academy Awards and has remained a classic for nearly sixty years.
  • Companies Are Eager to Hire Competent Computer Programmers
    Visual Basic is one of the most accepted computer programming languages on the market. In large part, its popularity is based on the fact that the very pillars of the Internet are built on the Visual Basic language. It allows professional programmers to create a series of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, which make software development easy to manage. Because it's a graphical and object-oriented language, it's relatively easy to learn. It is vital prospective students enroll in an academic program that will familiarize them with the host of programming rules, vocabulary, and codes. A series of exciting tutorials are available, which logically and precisely guide you through the learning process.
  • Computer Engineers Are Turning Science Fiction Into Science Fact
    A CompactPCI (cPCI) system is a 3U or 6U ("U" is a unit of measurement of the height of a rack-mounted device, with one rack unit, or RU, equaling 1.75") Eurocard-based industrial computer which has all of its boards joined by way of a passive PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) backplane. The pin assignments of the connectors are documented in standards, published by the organization PICMG U.S. and PICMG Europe (PICMG means "PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group").
  • Computer Technician Training Gives You The Skills to Compete
    How many times has this happened to you? You call an airline representative to check on your flight and they cannot tell anything you because the computers are down. You go to the bank to make a deposit but you cannot get your balance at the moment because there are technical difficulties. You have to wait seemingly forever for a car title at the DMV because no one understands the new computer system.
  • Conservation is an Expansive, Open Field
    Conservation is a wide and woolly field encompassing a wide range of fields, including geography, geology, hydrology, economic, and business. Successful students of the field must have a firm grasp of water and soil conservation, modern forestry methods, wildlife management, the effects and composition of pesticides, and even waste management. This isn't a field for the faint of heart - most graduates can testify to the essential "messiness" of working in the elements. It's less of a major and more of a multi-disciplined, multi-leveled way of life.
  • Digital Audio Consoles - Complete a full mix in minutes.
    The recent screen writers strike made nearly everyone in the country aware of just how vital one segment of the entertainment business can be. It was a field day for reality television, but for everyone else it was a nightmare! The result of a sound technicians' strike to any aspect of the music, television, or movie industry could be equally harmful. Few people outside the business grasp the importance of a sound man or could begin to fathom the workings of an audio console.
  • Digital Audio Mixers from the Experts
    There are many different of applications for sound systems. Some tiny venues, such as a coffee shop or a room in a library designed to host lectures, may require only a straightforward public address system with a single microphone and a 100-watt amplifier. Church sound requires systems of varying sizes-the larger ones even employ sound technicians for sound mixing during worship. Big live sound events like music festivals, rock concerts, and political rallies call for sophisticated sound reinforcement systems with tens of thousands of watts to broadcast sound over a enormous area.
  • Digital Audio Mixers to Buy or Rent
    No one watching a live television feed such as the Grammys or the Academy Awards show, could fathom all that goes on behind the scenes! It may look smooth as butter on your television screen, but just beyond what the camera sees lies a veritable hive of activity complete with cameras, massive swinging jibs, boom mikes, many focused technicians, and miles and miles of wires. What may look off the cuff is anything but!
  • Digital Consoles - Expediency and Excellence
    If you are looking for a new sound system for a recording studio or for your live sound venue, new may not be the best option. After all, a brand new digital audio mixer can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Upgrading your old sound system does not have to drain the till, however. There are some excellent pre-owned consoles to be had for a fraction of the cost.
  • Digital Security Can be Achieved
    People seem prone to worry. We worry about things we can control and things over which we have no power. We worry about scary things like global warming and we worry about tiny things like a bad hair day that will not matter tomorrow; we worry about things that happened nine years ago, and we worry about things that may never happen. How much of our time is eaten up by this negative process!
  • Digital Sound Mixers Are Simple to Operate
    It would be quite awesome for a layman to see the type of equipment most modern sound technicians work with on their assignments since most of it seems to be from a science fiction motion picture.
  • Digital Sound Mixers Are Very Simple To Operate
    It would be quite awesome for a layman to see the type of equipment most modern sound technicians work with on their assignments since most of it seems to be from a science fiction motion picture.
  • Disney DVDs are Not Just for Kids
    Nobody wants to be the parent who allows their children watch DVDs all the time or who uses the television as a baby sitter. However, on a dull day or for a special occasion, it is great to be able to have a shelf of movies that are time honored fare for kids. It is also a sanity saver to have a portable DVD player to entertain kids on interminable car rides or airplane flights or on the occasional days when your children have to accompany you to the office!
  • Disney Remembered
    2008 ushered in the 85th year for the movie giant the world all refers to as Disney in general. Disney, specifically, began very simply in 1923. The first productions were called "Alice" comedies, beginning with "Alice's Day at Sea." Many folks today have no memory of Alice, but the name Mickey Mouse rings a bell with almost everyone in the country.
  • Do Not Overlook Lilo and Stitch
    Lilo & Stitch is an animated film released by Walt Disney Pictures in June of 2002. It was only the second feature created at the animation studios at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. It marks only the sixth Disney film to be set in present times, and had originally been slated to be set in rural Kansas. The setting was soon changed to Hawaii to facilitate a new take on the story.
  • Fantasia - Disney's Experimental Masterpiece
    Fantasia is the third feature Walt Disney produced and is perhaps the most experimental. The feature has no dialogue, relying instead on a splendid soundtrack performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski. Though the film is mostly animated, it does have some live-action sequences featuring Stokowski and the Orchestra. Fantasia was also remarkable for being the first major film to be screened in stereophonic sound.
  • Great Church Sound Can Send Your Spirit Rising to the Heavens
    Soaring church sound can send your spirit rising to the heavens; static, screeching church can send you sprinting for your car. Savvy church sound technicians know that church sound quality matters just as much as sound quality in a concert venue or a recording studio. A terrible church sound system is especially hard to forgive because it is impossible to create a perfect, spiritual moment if the audience is cringing in the pews, awaiting the next painful assault on their ears.
  • Hannah Montana: Life's What You Make it Teaches Valuable Lessons
    You can tell when you have made it to the top when you receive a reference on The Simpsons. Miley Cyrus, aka Hannah Montana, broke that popularity barrier in December, 2007 when Bart had to write on the blackboard "The capital of Montana is not Hannah." In the same month, Wheel of Fortune featured the celebrity in one of its puzzles.
  • High School Musical - Popular Entertainment That's Here To Stay
    Children's entertainment is continually changing. Television shows that were popular one minute quickly disappear; the current "hot" song roars on the scene and just as quickly, fades out. However, kids always gravitate toward appealing characters in compelling stories about enduring elements of their lives. The ongoing popularity of Disney's High School Musical is due to the way it touches many of the elements that kids like.
  • Home on the Range: Bust a Moo
    Come on people and "bust a moo." When Home on the Range was released on April 2, 2004, it was designated to be the last traditionally animated feature for Disney. The studio proclaimed, to the surprise of industry insiders, that all features following Home on the Range would be rendered with CGI imagery rather than the CAPS method, which had been in use since The Rescuers Down Under. Indeed, Disney's traditional method of animation dates back to Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. This decision compelled Disney to fire most of its animation department.
  • How Disney's Cinderella Changed the World of Animation
    Cinderella, the twelfth film released by Walt Disney, was the first full-length film since Disney released Bambi in 1942. The Second World War and a series of lower than expected box office returns made the prospect of a full-length feature problematic. Indeed, most critics regard Cinderella a pivot point between the classic Disney animation of the 1930s and 40s and the new animation of the 1950s and 60s.
  • Larkspur Hotels: Delights for Travelers of all Types
    Every hotel likes to sell itself as 'your home away from home" but few reach the level of comfort which Larkspur properties provide. Located in some of the most exhilarating, naturally beautiful areas of the United States, they make business travel a pleasure and pleasure travel nothing short of decadent.
  • Mary Poppins, An Oscar-Winning Classic
    Mary Poppins is the much-loved musical produced by Walt Disney and starring Julie Andrews. Released in 1964, the film was based on the best-selling children's book written by P.L. Travers and illustrated by Mary Shepard. It enjoyed extraordinary success when it was released, and was ranked by the American Film Institute as the 6th best musical of all time, just above A Star Is Born and below Cabaret.
  • Mickey Mouse Club Still is still relevant with Baby Boomers
    Those who were teens in the 1950's remember with fondness coming home from school in the latter years of the 50's to watch Walt Disney Studios' Mickey Mouse Club. The second television show offered by Disney, The Mickey Mouse Club was televised in part to help finance the creation of the Disneyland theme park. From 5:00-6:00 in its first two seasons and from 5:00-5:30 in its last two, American teens were glued to the television.
  • Microflex Diamond Grip Gloves
    Nurses have never had it easy. Never. Throughout history they have been underappreciated, and disrespected, faced difficult patients, suffered disgusting working conditions, and endured unkind slights of all types. Not until the Crimean War and Florence Nightingale's famous appearance on the scene did people even consider the possibility of hospital conditions having an effect on the mortality rate. It is hard to imagine now the sort of appalling experience she faced.
  • Minka Aire Cools With Class
    There is something about a rotating ceiling fan that stirs the imagination. For some people, they call to mind a slower time, when life moved at a less hectic pace, often dictated by the heat of the day. For the romantically inclined, the sight of fans spinning lazily conjures up visions of homey porches in sweltering southern climates or the fun of tiki bars in tropical paradises. Anyone can appreciate the invigorating breeze generated by a ceiling fan as opposed to the punishing cold air blasted from an air conditioner.
  • Minka Aire Creates a Cool Breeze
    Imagine suffering through the heat of summer in the American south without ever having the benefit of cool. circulating air! That aggravation alone could flare tempers ripe for Civil War! Not until the 1860's and 1870's did inventors learn how to get a little artificial breeze blowing!
  • New Gloves Offer Vital Protection In Multiple Settings
    Any person in the medical profession will testify to the importance of wearing gloves when dealing with a patient. The millions of people who have taken first aid classes were lectured never to touch a sick or injured person without the protection of gloves.
  • Oliver & Company - The First Disney Movie With Attitude!
    Oliver & Company was, as its tagline made clear, "the first Disney movie with attitude!" Inspired by Charles Dickens's novel, Oliver Twist, the feature marked a new direction and a new resurgence for Walt Disney Studios. It was arguably the most successful Disney film of the 1980's and would pave the way for the Disney Renaissance of the 1990's, begun by The Little Mermaid. It was so successful that then-Vice President of Animation, Peter Schneier announced the company would release an animated feature annually.
  • Photography Lighting Tips Offer Illumination on a Tough Problem
    One of the greatest challenges for photographers of all kinds has always been lighting. Lighting leaves people second guessing themselves about such issues as over-exposure with a flash or the existence of sufficient available light. Certainly, with digital cameras that allow you to review the images you have shot, the results can be seen immediately, but adjusting problems can still be difficult.
  • Pinocchio is the Best Hand-drawn, Pre-computer Disney animation.
    Pinocchio, the character, was imagined by Carlo Collodi in 1883. The adored boy made from a block of pine by Geppetto the woodcarver was first introduced in the story The Adventures of Pinocchio. Collodi was very keen on using a impish, cynical character to explore his own personal convictions and cultural and political critiques. As late as 1938, this was how Walt Disney had characterized the much-loved wooden puppet who longed to be a real boy.
  • Pocahontas - A Legend Comes To Life
    In 1995, Walt Disney Pictures released the first Disney feature where, as the tagline states, "an American legend comes to life." Pocahontas, the first Disney film based on an genuine historic figure, was the 33rd animated film ever released by Disney Studios and marked the high-watermark for the Disney Renaissance which had begun in 1989 with The Little Mermaid. This film was one of the few Disney films to ever portray an interracial romance (between Pocahontas and John Smith).
  • Purell Hand Sanitizer Protects You Wherever You Are
    Have you ever been in a situation where you badly needed to wash your hands and there was no running water available? Maybe you just shook fifty hands at an outdoor wedding, any one of them contaminated with who knows what. Or maybe you petted a dog in the park. Or the worst yet-the port-a-potty at your son's football field provided no way to clean your hands. The feeling that there are germs setting up camp all over your hands is enough to make you sick--literally!
  • Rapunzel is Disney's forthcoming Groundbreaking movie
    What's new on the horizon for Disney? Judging by the tremendous amount of buzz surrounding both Bolt, set for release in 2008, and Rapunzel, set for a Christmas 2010 release, Disney is poised for greater glory. Both films are breaking new ground in the realm of animation and both are enjoying a new cultural hunger for fantasy and entertainment. Indeed, many believe these films could spark the next Disney Renaissance. Whereas Bolt is an original story, Rapunzel, of course, sees Disney revisiting the familiar realm of the fairy tale. Upon its release, it will become the 49th film in Disney's animated feature canon.
  • Ratatouille Is Scrumptious Film Fare
    Ratatouille, the eighth Pixar production, is a delectable treat. The irony of the kitchen's most dreaded menace, a rat, becoming a fine chef is too fun to resist-at least, that is what Pixar thought of the concept when it was introduced in 2001. The name comes from a French recipe and translates literally to "toss food." It is difficult to imagine a more delightful title for this film.
  • Robin Hood, one of the most Successful Disney films.
    Robin Hood, the twenty-first animated film released by Walt Disney Studios, premiered on November 8, 1973. It was the first feature the studio released that had no creative input from Disney himself, who died in 1966, and had many studio insiders doubting the ability of the studio to carry on without him. The success or failure of this one project would make or break the most successful animation studio in U.S. history.
  • Second Story Restaurant
    I recently had the pleasure of staying in Manhattan Beach and happened upon the Second Story restaurant, located on the second floor of the newly renovated Belamar Hotel. It recently opened its doors to offer hotel guests and Manhattan Beach residents the inviting combination of contemporary American classics featuring fresh organic produce, a commitment to sustainability, charming service and a warm, inviting interior. Second Story, owned and operated by Larkspur Hotels & Restaurants, has the feel of a neighborhood restaurant and is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.
  • Sending Video Greetings is now Quick, Easy and Fun
    Have you ever wanted a simpler way to stay in contact with friends? Sure, everyone has cell phones and email these days, but sometimes you just want to say "Hey there!" without the commitment of a extended phone conversation or the effort of thinking up a clever message. That is where video greetings are great!
  • Sharkboy and Lavagirl, A Quirky Classic
    The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl takes viewers on an unpredictable ride in the grand tradition of creative films such as Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, which is set in a bizarre world, and films such as The Never-ending Story, in which mistreatment by bullies sends the victim into a dream world where he can be a hero. The juxtaposition of fantasy and reality in the film is demands your full attention.
  • Sleeping Beauty - A Classic You Should Revisit
    Sleeping Beauty was the sixteenth film in Walt Disney's canon, following Lady and The Tramp and preceding One Hundred and One Dalmatians. It was the last feature to be based upon a fairy tale, written by Charles Perrault. Indeed, Disney Studios would not return to a fairy tale again until the 1989 release of The Little Mermaid. Moreover, this was the last feature to use hand-inked cells.
  • Some of the Best Disney Movies are regarded as the Best Movies
    Almost from its quiet beginnings as an animation company housed in a garage, Walt Disney has been turning out hits. From the iconic Mickey Mouse to the popular collection of Disney princesses now taking over the world, Disney has captivated both children and their parents. For the eighth decade running, they are producing blockbusting movies which dominate the box office.
  • Sound System Rental Must Be Dependable
    Rent or own? For many products, this is real challenge. For instance, is it smart to rent a rototiller if you do not often need one, or is it better to buy one, assuming it will eventually pay for itself over years of us? In some cases, renting is questionable. After all, you never know who operated equipment last and how they treated it, and can you truly trust the owner to administer proper maintenance every time?
  • Study For An Exciting Career in Fashion
    Have you ever wondered why some styles of clothing are featured in fashion advertising while others are seldom mentioned? Have you ever been interested in planning and producing a successful fashion show? A degree in fashion retailing can grant you this knowledge and teach you these important skills. The intriguing world of fashion retailing and buying is replete with the insights of well-known fashion forecasters, fashion show coordinators, store and department managers, personal shoppers and more.
  • Study to be an Electrician with PCDI
    Electricians, by in large, master their trade through various apprenticeship programs. Apprenticeships include field work and hands-on training with extensive classroom instruction. Unions, including the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the National Electrical Contractors Association, as well as independent electrical contracting corporations, fund apprenticeship programs. In addition to these subsidized training curriculum, many vocational and technical schools offer training courses. Graduates are often appointed at higher rates than trainees who haven't had this kind of training. Some electricians begin their path to mastery by beginning as helpers-assisting electricians by cleaning job sites, gathering materials, and completing other nonelectrical work. Regardless of the selected training direction, all apprentices need a high school diploma or a General Equivalency Diploma (G.E.D.). In some cases, an electrician may be required to pass some complex mathematics classes for certain wiring specializations.
  • Tarzan - Advanced Technology Coupled with a Classic Story
    Tarzan is the Academy Award-winning animated movie produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. It was released by Walt Disney Pictures in 1999, becoming the thirty-seventh film in the Disney animated features canon. Based on the famous story by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the story follows the adventures of a feral child raised in the African jungle who returns to England to reclaim his birthright. This adaptation of the Tarzan tale is the first animated version.
  • Tech Lighting - The Modern Lighting Solution
    How quickly humans forget! With handheld devices which let us order our lives and even check our e-mail and home entertainment centers that rival a real theatre, we hardly give a thought to the wonder of lighting. Yet lighting is just that-nothing short of a marvel. Have you ever tried to do anything by candlelight during a power outage? Every day things like reading and climbing the stairs to bed become awkward. And it was not that long ago that our forefathers lived out their entire lives in that manner. No wonder everyone went to bed at dusk and woke at dawn!
  • Tech Lighting Wows
    Innovative. Fun. Imaginative. Funky. Remarkable. Futuristic. None of these words come close to describing the inventive fixtures by Tech Lighting. If you are looking for lighting fixtures that provide way more than light, you can find styles beyond your wildest imagination-along with some very chic, clean selections to complement the most streamlined home dcor.
  • The Aristocats - A Regal Classic
    The tagline for The Aristocats was, fittingly, "Meet the cats who know where it's atfor fun, music and adventure!" The Aristocats was the twentieth animated movie in the Disney canon. It was purportedly the last film to receive Walt Disney's personal approval and was the first animated feature released after his death. It was originally intended to be screened in two installments on television, but was quickly promoted to feature status. It should be mentioned that the basic premise of the film, an animated comedy about cats in France, had been realized by UPA with the 1962 release of Gay Purr-ee, starring the voice of Judy Garland.
  • The Country Bear Jamboree
    When Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom threw wide its doors in 1971, it featured a fun audio-animatronic show called The Country Bear Jamboree. As the name suggests, the show featured bears singing country music. The show was such a hit that capacity was expanded, Disneyland got its own Jamboree, and a duplicate theatre was built to hold fans.
  • The Emperor's New Groove - Nuttier Than a Fruitcake!
    Most fans agree that The Emperor's New Groove lived up to its tagline: "nuttier than a holiday fruitcake!" It was a critically lauded, if not ultimately successful, animated feature, and the first Disney animated film to ever feature a pregnant woman. Released in December 2000, The Emperor's New Groove mixes a careful balance of comedy designed to appeal both to adults and children. It marked the 39th film in Disney's canon and was initially slated to be a traditional musical along the lines of The Lion King. Though the title plays upon the Danish fairytale, The Emperor's New Clothes, by Hans Christen Andersen, the original story was based on Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper. The initial incarnation of the project was titled Kingdom of the Sun, with the creative team behind The Lion King, director Roger Allers and producer Randy Fullmer, at the helm. So prestigious was the production that Allers and Fullmer contracted Sting to write the music for the film.
  • The Fox and the Hound - Bright New Talent for Disney
    The Fox and the Hound is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions. The twenty-fourth animated feature in the Disney animated canon, The Fox and the Hound was released in 1981 to generally positive reviews and great box-office success. The story was based on the book of the same name written by Daniel P. Mannix in 1967.
  • The Innovative Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    The creation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs began sometime in early 1934. This was Walt Disney's first effort at producing an animated film. To this point, Disney had effectively produced a series of animated shorts entitled The Alice Comedies as well as Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies.
  • The Internet Is Now Portable In New and Exciting Ways
    Imagine yourself in a crisis: you are supposed to be meeting a client for dinner to complete a big deal and you have been made late because a meeting in a nearby town ran long. When you go to phone your client, you realize you forgot to charge your cell phone. The battery is dead, and the client's mobile number is in your dead phone! What do you do? Your job is suddenly at risk just because you neglected to plug in your cell phone?!
  • The Lodge at Tiburon Gets Glowing Reviews
    When my boss announced that our firm was holding a corporate-wide conference in northern California my first thought was "You have to be kidding." My second thought was, "My wife is going to hate me!" We live in a frozen, rural area of Maine and business trips had already forced me to be gone several weeks this winter, leaving my wife alone in the house with two active preschoolers. She was already dissatisfied with me. This would send her over the edge!
  • The Numerous Uses of Hispanic Stock Photos
    If you are thinking hard on using Hispanic stock photos, you assuredly do not need to be educated on the importance of images that are culturally relevant. You know that business communities, constituencies, and opportunities are continuously being redefined. You also know that you have to employ images that are not coupled to stereotypes rooted in the past, but to images that correctly portray how populations live now as well how they imagine themselves living in the future.
  • The Shaggy Dog - Disney's First Ever Live Action Comedy
    The Shaggy Dog is a black and white 1959 Walt Disney movie about a youngster who is transformed into a sheep dog by a magic ring. Aside from its comic merit, it is noteworthy as being the first Walt Disney live-action comedy ever made. A testament to its appeal is the number of remakes and spin-offs based on this source material.
  • The Start of the Pioneering Disney Studios
    The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923 by brothers Walt and Roy Disney in Los Angeles. The Disney brothers started by creating a series of live-action/animated short films collectively named The Alice Comedies. Within four months of the first screenings, the brothers were urged to relocate to larger facilities, dubbed "Disney Bros. Studio." According their official website, in 1925 the Disney brothers made a deposit on a lot on Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. This lot would house the Disney Studio for the next 14 years, seeing the beginning of such beloved characters as Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Goofy, and Donald Duck.
  • The time to ensure your Digital Security is now
    There is an old quip that ignorance is bliss. No. Ignorance is stupid and reckless. It may feel freeing. You may feel relieved of the need to worry about things you do not fathom, but how blissful is it when your carelessness leads you to becoming a crime statistic?
  • The Tiny Hero Of Piglets Big Movie Is Sure To Please
    Walt Disney is famous for creating characters that people remember fondly long beyond the boundaries of childhood. Among these are the charming collection of characters who inhabit the Hundred Acre Wood. Disney?s numerous Winnie the Pooh tales follow the plots of stories originally created by English author A.A. Milne in the 1920s.
  • Vidigreet Makes Sending Video Greetings Simple and Speedy
    Have you ever hoped for a simpler way to stay in contact with friends? Sure, everyone has cell phones and email in the modern world, but sometimes you just want to say "Howdy!" without the commitment of a thirty phone conversation or the effort of typing a clever message. That is where video greetings are useful!
  • Wendy Wu Is The Best Action Hero To Come Along In A Long Time!
    From Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, audiences have had a love affair with martial arts adventure for just about a half-century. Only a little while ago, another high-kicking champion burst out of the shopping mall and into movie-goers' imagination-Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior.
  • When XBox Meets Disney, the Results are Awesome
    Because of the internet, the world is a radically altered place, and changes happen overnight. It has metamorphosed the way we make friends with one another, the way we learn, and the way we entertain ourselves. About a year ago, for instance, the Xbox Live Marketplace was introduced to let users to download movie rentals on demand. This innovative service was embraced immediately. Within seven months, more than 10 million movies had been rented via Xbox's online downloading service. Currently, it is the only company offering on demand movies in high definition.
  • Why I Adore Kuletos, one of the finest San Francisco Restaurants
    When it comes to fine dining, San Francisco is a hard city to beat. It has a reputation for featuring cuisines from all over the globe. One of the local stand outs for Italian fare is Kuletos. Its menu is full of unique flavors from Northern Italy that often include the city's famous seafood. Reservations can be made online, so you can shop and tour the area surrounding Union Square, then hit Kuletos and be escorted straight to your table!
  • Why I Bought Peter Pan at the Disney Movie Club
    Based on the famous play, and succeeding novel, by J.M. Barrie, "Peter Pan" had been slated to follow the wild success of "Bambi." Walt Disney had planned to make the film as early as 1939, even going so far as to parley the rights with the Great Ormond Street Hospital (who had been given the rights to play by Barrie). The outbreak of World War II waylaid the production until 1949. The film was not released until 1953.
  • Why I Chose Disney's Cars from the Disney Movie Club
    The 2006 animated feature film Cars is a flick that will entertain everyone in the family. In a world populated entirely by vehicles, Cars carries a message of good sportsmanship and examines the idea of success and how it is achieved. The seventh Pixar film (the final one before Disney took over) is as stunning as its predecessors.
  • Why I Prefer Used Audio Consoles
    If you are looking for a new sound system for a recording studio or for your live sound venue, new may not be the best option. After all, a brand new digital audio mixer can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Upgrading your old sound system does not have to drain the till, however. There are some excellent pre-owned consoles to be had for a fraction of the cost.
  • Why You Should Cleanse Your Hands
    When you think about it, life is pretty icky. It is not what you see -- like that dead animal down the street getting flatter and stinkier with each passing day or the garbage can in the sweltering heat -- but what you do not see that should have you worried on guard, though.
  • Why You Should think about Using A Respirator
    Each job that stirs up dust and particulates calls for respiratory protection. Numerous people think respirators are necessary basically for recognized hazards such as lead, asbestos, chemicals, and gases, but all categories of airborne particles can aggravate the lungs and cause breathing distress.
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