It's in the bag: the high-tech, light way to pack schoolbooks

Steljes Ireland opened for business in 2007 when Smart had about 5 per cent of the Irish whiteboard market. Greg Tierney and Conor McGrogan were at Dell and HP respectively before establishing an Irish division of Steljes, a UK distribution company that counts Smart interactive whiteboards as its flagship products. PUPILS IN up to eight Irish post-primary schools will be at the vanguard of technology when the new term starts, clutching Intel mini-laptops preloaded with e-books that cover the Junior Cert curriculum rather than a bag full of textbooks. The Irish division of a British firm aims to transform a beleaguered schools system with cheaper and less back-breaking e-books. Education accounts for 70 per cent of its business and two of its five staff are former teachers.

Source: Irish Times

Cooking Light Way To Cook Vegetarian - Diet Review

Cooking Light has been making cookbooks for years and now you can enjoy vegetarian cuisine with all the variety of one of their cookbooks that include meat. This cookbook offers vegetarian recipes for those that are strictly vegetarian as well as those that occasionally like to go meat free. Is a new cookbook in the Cooking Light Cookbook series. This cookbook also features some food flavor of the ethnic variety so that you can enjoy cuisine from around the world. These recipes offer a complete visual guide to healthy vegetarian cooking. This cookbook will teach you to cook delicious recipes using fresh and healthy ingredients with smart tools and techniques. All of the meals include nutrition information so you can keep track of what’s in the food you’re eating. Covering all your nutrition bases is easy as long as you eat a variety of foods....

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New Murals Will Light Way Through Hunts Point

'Village of murals' aims to guide residents to park Many of the workers at Sims Metal Management on Edgewater Road take an extra few minutes to enjoy the view these days, now that the fence around their scruffy scrap yard on the Bronx River is... ” The idea is to brighten the route from residential Hunts Point to the South Bronx Greenway and Barretto Point Park. The murals are the second batch to enliven Hunts Point’s industrial streets. They are part of a larger project devised by Carey Clark, the director of arts education at The Point, called “Village of Murals. Children plant flowers in a park, and apartment houses resembling those in Hunts Point show through oversized translucent faces. “Every day I see the guys stop to look at the murals,” says Mark Santiago, the recycling firm’s facility manager. Aging industrial buildings surround the scrap yard. But stretching along the fence, covering 320 square feet, are visions of what the neighborhood could be. In one, a huge carp swims toward a giant lotus blossom....

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