Beats, Breaks, and Crates

Valuable paintings that are shipped or loaned to museums or other destinations around the world will soon have unusual traveling companions for their long journeys – sensors that can detect the buildup of pollutants within their specially-designed shipping crates. Occasionally, adhesives and other chemicals within the crates can breakdown and the fumes can damage the works of art. But the new sensors, developed by scientists at the Fraunhofer...  

Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers uncovered several crates of explosives during operations along the southern border with Israel. The Lebanese military said it uncovered 12 crates loaded with TNT during weekend operations with Spanish forces ...  

These miniature fruit crates and vegetable flats are an easy project that gives you skills to go on to better things. Boxes are a mainstay for all kinds of scale constructions, so it is a good idea to practise making easy ones until you are good at creating exact cuts and sanding items square. Based on traditional apple boxes, these crates can be used to store miniatures, to fill store scenes and attics, or to show off produce on market...  

Tonight! 11pm-1am... LeRoy Brown and Research Deluxe Recs on 91.5 WPRK... Stream live at WPRKDJ.org - Hosted by Stereo 77. We'll be playing a few tracks from the new release as well as discussing what's to come for 2010.  

To the Editor: Harold Wilson is correct in pointing out in his Dec. 7 letter in The Tribune that animals deserve more than food and shelter. That is why we have our hens in cages to provide a better environment for the hens. Cage-free hens suffer and...  

Anyone who watched the recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary circle-jerk on HBO has to have noticed Sting rocking a massive beard. Not a Norris Skipper, not a soul patch, or even an imperial. No, it's looking like Sting seems to have fully committed his face to a Grizzly Adams/Frederick...  

Hating Go Pet Design’s modern designer dog crate gets praised as the Bertoia Chair of dog crates. Go Pet Design’s modern wire dog crate is gorgeous, sure. But it’s hard to imagine it sitting seamlessly in your pad, or being cozy for your dog. If you want a choice modern dog crate, why not choose one that looks [...]  

For those of us working at the Switched offices in Manhattan, we are intimately familiar with a certain stripe of New York mother that raises all kinds of hell on stroller wheels. Seriously, we'd rather get in a cage-match with some iron-faced kickboxers than these moms who would roll over any commuters in the way of their little baby's buggy. Perhaps artist Shi Jinsong had them in mind when designing these frightfully malevolent carriages on...  

David Brown, the Caledonia resident whose house was trapped on the native side of the blockades during the fiery aboriginal occupation in Caledonia, found himself crawling through the swampy tree line at the edge of the contentious site to investigate noises that had frightened his elderly neighbours, court heard on Tuesday  

Get FREE Shipping on Strollers at Landofnod.com. At The Land of Nod you can get a wide variety of Desks and chairs, lunch boxes, Bulletine boards and chalkboards, educational games & puzzels, Alarm clocks, desk accessories, wall decor, bookcases, lightings and many more.  

On December 15, 2009 Research Deluxe will be releasing LeRoy Brown's first album, appropriately titled theLRBeatsuite. The album was originally completed in early 2007 from sessions that were recorded in the mid 2000's but saw a series of ups and downs while making its way towards an official release. This piece combines elements of hip hop, funk and soul, yet cheffed up with a nice experimental twist. Distribution for the release covers...  

But dog enthusiasts and breeders routinely fly their dogs in transport dog crates or pet travel carriers without having any trouble at all. The airlines claim to make every effort possible that dogs that travel on-board will be ...  

[show=kittykittykitty size=large]Among cat video aficionados, Paul Klusman is seen as a special hero of the movement. The Wichita, Kan., engineer ... ... Overall, Klusman's production values are technically not professional, but his talent for editing puts them a notch above amateur, especially when implemented for feats like a cat-yodeled cover of Offenbach's Can Can. Combined with his deadpan delivery, clever writing, and (of course...  

The question of whether or not Volkswagen will decide to put the Bugatti 16C Galibier into production is still unanswered. While we've heard rumors that the German automaker was leaning towards the affirmative, the green light has yet ...  

The 800-mile long trans-Alaska pipeline -- a key artery in our national oil infrastructure -- is on the verge of collapse owing to the decreased production out of Alaska's North Slope. As with other key components of oil infrastructure, ...