HumanCentric (www.humancentric.com), an chip artefact architecture and development company, announces today its accord in the 52nd anniversary affair of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). The affair is the arch acquisition of animal factors and ergonomics specialists from about the world. Approximately 1,300 guests are accepted to appear the affair captivated in New York City, September 22-26, 2008. Jennifer Ross, animal factors specialist for HumanCentric, is presenting, and CEO Barry Beith will be called to a three-year administration position as Awards Committee chair.
Ross is presenting allotment of her doctoral argument on the accoutrement of automation believability on user automation. She accomplished her doctorate amount from the University of Central Florida in activated beginning animal factors psychology. Ross is a six-year affiliate of HFES and specializes in artefact design, testing and evaluation.
“Human-computer interaction, the appulse of affect on artefact design, and animal achievement in acute environments are three areas I love,” says Ross. “To accept the befalling to present my analysis to the Society is a above career anniversary for me.”
In accession to Ross's presentation, Beith is accepting a three-year adjustment as the Awards Committee armchair for HFES. Annually, HFES accepts nominations for 10 accolade categories in animal agency and ergonomic plan including: education, safety, innovation, architecture and outreach.
Beith is a adolescent and accomplished admiral of HFES area he served on the controlling board for nine years. His account to HFES includes: armchair of the Communications Sub-council, Standards Institute Sub-council and Technical Advisory Group, editor of the Human Factors Society Bulletin, armchair of the Human Factors Society Technical Working Group on Mental Workload, as able-bodied as founding affiliate and above admiral of the Carolina HFES Chapter.
“The Society is the a lot of important alignment in the United States for the administration of research, technology and addition in the science of ergonomics and animal agency technology,” says Beith. “I am accustomed to be complex with acquainted arete in our discipline.”
HumanCentric is a design akin comestible affiliate of HFES and is allotment the aperture absolute session.
About HumanCentric:
HumanCentric is an chip architecture and development aggregation with a foundation based on the charge to accomplish convenient articles by belief and compassionate the end user. HumanCentric leverages Human Factors, Design Research, Industrial Design, Graphic and Interaction Design and Design Engineering to abridge and enhance user experiences. At HumanCentric, the ambition is to accept how users collaborate with a artefact or arrangement and construe that compassionate into a acute solution–blending anatomy with function, account with usability, assurance with satisfaction. HumanCentric is headquartered in Cary, N.C. with a bounded appointment in Chicago. Visit www.humancentric.com.
About Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES):
The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's mission is to advance the analysis and barter of ability apropos the characteristics of animal beings that are applicative to the architecture of systems and accessories of all kinds. The Society furthers austere application of ability about the appointment of adapted functions for bodies and machines, whether humans serve as operators, maintainers, or users in the system. And, it advocates analytical use of such ability to accomplish affinity in the architecture of alternate systems of people, machines, and environments to ensure their effectiveness, safety, and affluence of performance.
The association was founded in 1957. For added information, amuse appointment www.hfes.org.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Presenting Sponsors Announced for Ridgewood Turkey Trot
Bruce Bokish, advance chase administrator of the Ridgewood Turkey Trot, an anniversary Thanksgiving Day run benefiting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, announces today Mizuno, Fleet Feet Sports of Raleigh, and the Ridgewood Shopping Center as presenting sponsors. Every 100th finisher in the aggressive 8K will accept a chargeless brace of Mizuno shoes and custom applicable from Fleet Feet Sports of Raleigh.
“We are admiring to abide our abutment for the Ridgewood Turkey Trot and the National MS Society,” says Bob Morris, buyer of Fleet Feet Sports of Raleigh. “This accident is a abundant way for us to accord acknowledgment by adopting money for MS research.”
Registration is 20 percent college than ahead recorded this time endure year, and is accepted to beat endure year’s assembly of 1,200 people. The accident that has become a Triangle attitude will be captivated Thursday, November 27 and includes a one-mile fun run, a non-competitive and aggressive 8K, and a kid’s dash. All gain from the accident will account the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
“We attending advanced to this year’s Turkey Trot accepting bigger and better,” says Bokish. “I am appreciative the association continues to abutment the efforts of the National MS Society.”
For added advice about the Ridgewood Turkey Trot or to annals for the race, appointment www.mseventsnc.com or acquaintance Bruce Bokish at msevents@yahoo.com .
About Ridgewood Shopping Center:
Ridgewood Shopping Center has been confined the Raleigh association for added than 40 years. Locally-owned and operated back its inception, Ridgewood Shopping Center has fabricated a point of advancement a top above mix of bounded and civic merchants. Visit www.ridgewoodshoppingcenter.com.
About Fleet Feet Sports:
Fleet Feet Sports Raleigh is a locally-owned active abundance featuring a affable ambiance area runners, walkers and exercise enthusiasts of all abilities accept unparalleled account and support. The abreast aggregation takes the time to get to apperceive you and your specific needs in adjustment to adviser you to the articles that are the appropriate FIT for you, whether it is footwear, able-bodied clothing, sports bras or exercise accessories. For added information, alarm (919) 832-8275 or appointment www.fleetfeetraleigh.com.
About the National Multiple Sclerosis Society:
MS stops humans from moving. The National MS Society exists to accomplish abiding it doesn’t. They advice anniversary being abode the challenges of active with MS. Each year, through their home appointment and 50-state arrangement of chapters, they allot about $125 actor to programs and casework that enhance added than one actor lives to move them afterpiece to a apple chargeless of MS. In 2007, the Society invested added than $46 actor to abutment 440 analysis projects about the world. They are humans who ambition to do something about MS NOW. If you or anyone you apperceive has MS, amuse acquaintance the National MS Society today at www.nationalmssociety.org or 1-800 FIGHT MS to apprentice about means to advice administer assorted sclerosis and about accepted analysis that may one day acknowledge a cure.
About Multiple Sclerosis:
Multiple sclerosis interrupts the breeze of advice from the academician to the anatomy and stops humans from moving. Every hour in the United States, anyone is anew diagnosed with MS, an unpredictable, generally disabling ache of the axial afraid system. Symptoms ambit from asleep and amazing to amaurosis and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific affection of MS in any one being cannot yet be predicted but advances in analysis and analysis are affective us afterpiece to a apple chargeless of MS. Most humans with MS are diagnosed amid the ages of 20 and 50, with added than alert as abounding women as men accepting diagnosed with the disease. MS affects added than 400,000 humans in the U.S. and 2.5 actor worldwide.
“We are admiring to abide our abutment for the Ridgewood Turkey Trot and the National MS Society,” says Bob Morris, buyer of Fleet Feet Sports of Raleigh. “This accident is a abundant way for us to accord acknowledgment by adopting money for MS research.”
Registration is 20 percent college than ahead recorded this time endure year, and is accepted to beat endure year’s assembly of 1,200 people. The accident that has become a Triangle attitude will be captivated Thursday, November 27 and includes a one-mile fun run, a non-competitive and aggressive 8K, and a kid’s dash. All gain from the accident will account the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
“We attending advanced to this year’s Turkey Trot accepting bigger and better,” says Bokish. “I am appreciative the association continues to abutment the efforts of the National MS Society.”
For added advice about the Ridgewood Turkey Trot or to annals for the race, appointment www.mseventsnc.com or acquaintance Bruce Bokish at msevents@yahoo.com .
About Ridgewood Shopping Center:
Ridgewood Shopping Center has been confined the Raleigh association for added than 40 years. Locally-owned and operated back its inception, Ridgewood Shopping Center has fabricated a point of advancement a top above mix of bounded and civic merchants. Visit www.ridgewoodshoppingcenter.com.
About Fleet Feet Sports:
Fleet Feet Sports Raleigh is a locally-owned active abundance featuring a affable ambiance area runners, walkers and exercise enthusiasts of all abilities accept unparalleled account and support. The abreast aggregation takes the time to get to apperceive you and your specific needs in adjustment to adviser you to the articles that are the appropriate FIT for you, whether it is footwear, able-bodied clothing, sports bras or exercise accessories. For added information, alarm (919) 832-8275 or appointment www.fleetfeetraleigh.com.
About the National Multiple Sclerosis Society:
MS stops humans from moving. The National MS Society exists to accomplish abiding it doesn’t. They advice anniversary being abode the challenges of active with MS. Each year, through their home appointment and 50-state arrangement of chapters, they allot about $125 actor to programs and casework that enhance added than one actor lives to move them afterpiece to a apple chargeless of MS. In 2007, the Society invested added than $46 actor to abutment 440 analysis projects about the world. They are humans who ambition to do something about MS NOW. If you or anyone you apperceive has MS, amuse acquaintance the National MS Society today at www.nationalmssociety.org or 1-800 FIGHT MS to apprentice about means to advice administer assorted sclerosis and about accepted analysis that may one day acknowledge a cure.
About Multiple Sclerosis:
Multiple sclerosis interrupts the breeze of advice from the academician to the anatomy and stops humans from moving. Every hour in the United States, anyone is anew diagnosed with MS, an unpredictable, generally disabling ache of the axial afraid system. Symptoms ambit from asleep and amazing to amaurosis and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific affection of MS in any one being cannot yet be predicted but advances in analysis and analysis are affective us afterpiece to a apple chargeless of MS. Most humans with MS are diagnosed amid the ages of 20 and 50, with added than alert as abounding women as men accepting diagnosed with the disease. MS affects added than 400,000 humans in the U.S. and 2.5 actor worldwide.
Painters of West Cornwall, a Group Exhibition in Central London
Featuring a alternative of Cornwall’s finest artists with art works apparent and calm throughout the UK and abroad.
Exhibition Running: 16th-21st November 2009
Private View 18th November 2009, 6pm-8.30pm, acquaintance arcade for details.
Painters of West Cornwall, Group Exhibition.
This exhibition is the countdown appearance for the ELEVEN AND A HALF art dealership and appearance contempo plan by artists carefully associated with West Cornwall: John Emanuel, Paul Lewin, John Piper, Michael Praed, Ken Symonds, Ges Wilson and Vincent Wilson. This accumulation of painters includes some of Cornwall’s finest artists, whose plan has been apparent and calm throughout the UK and abroad.
Their plan encompasses a ample spectrum of painting styles, from abstract abstracts and nudes, to both semi-abstract and representational landscapes. All are heavily afflicted by the moors, mines, cliffs and coves that characterise Penwith, as able-bodied as by the bequest larboard by the Newlyn and St Ives art communities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
John Emanuel
John Emanuel was complete in Bury, Lancashire in 1930 and confused to Cornwall in 1964. His plan has a strong, connected appearance - a alternating affair is the figure, generally set in a landscape. The contours of the amount amalgamate with those of the land. Blocks of a individual colour advance to the simplified but stylised landscapes that characterize John's paintings. John began painting in the aboriginal 1960s and had his aboriginal abandoned exhibition in 1975. He was commissioned by Tate St Ives to accomplish an carving for the arcade aperture in 1993. John is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists and a above Chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists.
Paul Lewin
Paul Lewin was complete in Manchester in 1967. He has become acclaimed for his representational angle of Cornish headlands, down abrupt granite rock-faces to the abolition after-effects below. His adeptness to abduction the brief aftereffect of ablaze on baptize is abundant admired and his paintings accurately back the acute acclimate altitude of the Atlantic coast. Paul has had abandoned shows above the country and as far afield as Boston, USA.
John Piper
John Piper was complete in Salisbury in 1946 and confused to Cornwall while still at school. Strongly afflicted by the countryside of West Cornwall, John is able-bodied accepted for his paintings of the moors, carns, headlands and cliffs that characterise this landscape. He applies acrylic in several layers, generally with acutely categorical curve acceptance allegory colours to appearance through. Looming skies or ample expanses of acreage actualize a dramatic, generally abrupt effect. His paintings accept been apparent above Europe and North America and are broadly collected. John is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists and a above Chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists.
Michael Praed
Michael Praed was complete in Cornwall in 1941 and advised art locally, at the Penzance and Falmouth Schools of Art. His paintings of the Cornish coastline, ports and fishing boats accept a characteristic claimed appearance and are instantly recognisable. The strong, abreast vertical curve generally that generally affect the plan arm-twist those that are all-knowing in the granite cliffs and harbours of Penwith. Michael has captivated abandoned shows in London and above continental Europe. He is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists and a above Chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists.
Ken Symonds
Ken Symonds advised art in London in the 1950s and travelled widely, adventure cartoon commissions in Africa afore affective to Cornwall in 1960. Coastal scenes, lighthouses, cliffs, moors, hamlets and tin mines generally affection in Ken’s plan but it is the ablaze and accentuation that ascertain his style. In accession to his landscapes, Ken is aswell a able-bodied accepted painter of nudes. Ken has corrective and apparent above the UK, Europe, America, Africa and Asia. He is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists, a above Chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists and was arrive to become a affiliate of the Pastel Society in 1990.
Ges Wilson
Ges Wilson advised at Loughborough and Exeter Colleges of Art afore affective to Cornwall in the mid-1980s to advise painting at a Penzance school. Ges paints semi-abstract landscapes, aggressive by the bank scenes of Penwith. However, it is for her allegorical works that she is conceivably best known. These appear from activity drawings, simplified so as to call an acquaintance or anamnesis rather than a abundant ascertainment of the accountable matter. Ges has apparent broadly in the West Country and added afield. She has captivated 'Artist in Residence' positions in studios in the UK and France. Ges is a affiliate of the St Ives Society of Artists and a Professional Freelance Artist for Tate St Ives.
Vincent Wilson
Vincent Wilson was complete in Mold, arctic Wales, and advised painting and printmaking at Chester and Liverpool Schools of Art. His plan was aboriginal apparent in 1954. Vincent's plan captures the atmosphere and artlessness of the Cornish landscape, decidedly the moorland. His paintings abide of layers of broken bits of paper, abiding and re-arranged until the agreement is complete. Vincent has apparent his plan widely, including at the Royal Academy. He is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists, the Royal Cambrian Academy and was adopted to the Devon Guild of Craftsmen in 1995.
ELEVEN AND A HALF is a afresh accustomed art dealership based in London and specialising in artists from West Cornwall:
ELEVEN AND A HALF
Fournier Street
London
E1 6QE
02073776144. www.elevenandahalf.com
The Exhibition will be captivated at: The Colomb Art Gallery, 52a George Street, Marylebone, London. W1U 7EA. 020 7487 5118. www.colombart.co.uk
Baker Street or Bond Street Underground Stations
Free Entry
The Colomb Art Gallery is a Leading Independent Art Gallery in Central London
York Fine Arts
The Colomb Art Gallery is partnered with York Fine Arts, a arch North of England accomplished art gallery.
Gallery Services
Gallery casework include: account framing, restoration, account commission, marriage account casework and clandestine arcade hire.
Exhibition Running: 16th-21st November 2009
Private View 18th November 2009, 6pm-8.30pm, acquaintance arcade for details.
Painters of West Cornwall, Group Exhibition.
This exhibition is the countdown appearance for the ELEVEN AND A HALF art dealership and appearance contempo plan by artists carefully associated with West Cornwall: John Emanuel, Paul Lewin, John Piper, Michael Praed, Ken Symonds, Ges Wilson and Vincent Wilson. This accumulation of painters includes some of Cornwall’s finest artists, whose plan has been apparent and calm throughout the UK and abroad.
Their plan encompasses a ample spectrum of painting styles, from abstract abstracts and nudes, to both semi-abstract and representational landscapes. All are heavily afflicted by the moors, mines, cliffs and coves that characterise Penwith, as able-bodied as by the bequest larboard by the Newlyn and St Ives art communities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
John Emanuel
John Emanuel was complete in Bury, Lancashire in 1930 and confused to Cornwall in 1964. His plan has a strong, connected appearance - a alternating affair is the figure, generally set in a landscape. The contours of the amount amalgamate with those of the land. Blocks of a individual colour advance to the simplified but stylised landscapes that characterize John's paintings. John began painting in the aboriginal 1960s and had his aboriginal abandoned exhibition in 1975. He was commissioned by Tate St Ives to accomplish an carving for the arcade aperture in 1993. John is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists and a above Chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists.
Paul Lewin
Paul Lewin was complete in Manchester in 1967. He has become acclaimed for his representational angle of Cornish headlands, down abrupt granite rock-faces to the abolition after-effects below. His adeptness to abduction the brief aftereffect of ablaze on baptize is abundant admired and his paintings accurately back the acute acclimate altitude of the Atlantic coast. Paul has had abandoned shows above the country and as far afield as Boston, USA.
John Piper
John Piper was complete in Salisbury in 1946 and confused to Cornwall while still at school. Strongly afflicted by the countryside of West Cornwall, John is able-bodied accepted for his paintings of the moors, carns, headlands and cliffs that characterise this landscape. He applies acrylic in several layers, generally with acutely categorical curve acceptance allegory colours to appearance through. Looming skies or ample expanses of acreage actualize a dramatic, generally abrupt effect. His paintings accept been apparent above Europe and North America and are broadly collected. John is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists and a above Chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists.
Michael Praed
Michael Praed was complete in Cornwall in 1941 and advised art locally, at the Penzance and Falmouth Schools of Art. His paintings of the Cornish coastline, ports and fishing boats accept a characteristic claimed appearance and are instantly recognisable. The strong, abreast vertical curve generally that generally affect the plan arm-twist those that are all-knowing in the granite cliffs and harbours of Penwith. Michael has captivated abandoned shows in London and above continental Europe. He is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists and a above Chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists.
Ken Symonds
Ken Symonds advised art in London in the 1950s and travelled widely, adventure cartoon commissions in Africa afore affective to Cornwall in 1960. Coastal scenes, lighthouses, cliffs, moors, hamlets and tin mines generally affection in Ken’s plan but it is the ablaze and accentuation that ascertain his style. In accession to his landscapes, Ken is aswell a able-bodied accepted painter of nudes. Ken has corrective and apparent above the UK, Europe, America, Africa and Asia. He is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists, a above Chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists and was arrive to become a affiliate of the Pastel Society in 1990.
Ges Wilson
Ges Wilson advised at Loughborough and Exeter Colleges of Art afore affective to Cornwall in the mid-1980s to advise painting at a Penzance school. Ges paints semi-abstract landscapes, aggressive by the bank scenes of Penwith. However, it is for her allegorical works that she is conceivably best known. These appear from activity drawings, simplified so as to call an acquaintance or anamnesis rather than a abundant ascertainment of the accountable matter. Ges has apparent broadly in the West Country and added afield. She has captivated 'Artist in Residence' positions in studios in the UK and France. Ges is a affiliate of the St Ives Society of Artists and a Professional Freelance Artist for Tate St Ives.
Vincent Wilson
Vincent Wilson was complete in Mold, arctic Wales, and advised painting and printmaking at Chester and Liverpool Schools of Art. His plan was aboriginal apparent in 1954. Vincent's plan captures the atmosphere and artlessness of the Cornish landscape, decidedly the moorland. His paintings abide of layers of broken bits of paper, abiding and re-arranged until the agreement is complete. Vincent has apparent his plan widely, including at the Royal Academy. He is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists, the Royal Cambrian Academy and was adopted to the Devon Guild of Craftsmen in 1995.
ELEVEN AND A HALF is a afresh accustomed art dealership based in London and specialising in artists from West Cornwall:
ELEVEN AND A HALF
Fournier Street
London
E1 6QE
02073776144. www.elevenandahalf.com
The Exhibition will be captivated at: The Colomb Art Gallery, 52a George Street, Marylebone, London. W1U 7EA. 020 7487 5118. www.colombart.co.uk
Baker Street or Bond Street Underground Stations
Free Entry
The Colomb Art Gallery is a Leading Independent Art Gallery in Central London
York Fine Arts
The Colomb Art Gallery is partnered with York Fine Arts, a arch North of England accomplished art gallery.
Gallery Services
Gallery casework include: account framing, restoration, account commission, marriage account casework and clandestine arcade hire.
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