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By Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist I considered three factors: The top ten are followed by five rising stars. When individuals are active on Twitter, I've included their Twitter handles. 1. Rebecca Rhoads , CIO, Raytheon How's this for a big job description? Rhoads oversees the IT infrastructure for a defense contractor with 71,000 employees worldwide, many of whom are working on top secret projects. Rhoads also helps shape Raytheon's strategy for the IT products and services it offers to customers. She grey has served as the Waltham company's CIO since 2001. 2. Gail Goodman , CEO, Constant Contact @Gail_Goodman Goodman runs the publicly-traded Waltham e-mail marketing company, where she has lately been overseeing a string of acquisitions to help Constant Contact expand its social media prowess. Constant Contact ended 2011 with 900 employees and 500,000 paying customers. 3. Diane Hessan , CEO, Communispace @communispaceCEO Hessan sold her company last y

Bang bang he shot me down,Bang bang I hit the ground,Bang bang that awful sound,Bang bang my baby shot me down…"I know I have been shot. It's pitch dark, except for a flurry of lights whizzing past. There's another gun trained on me. I grip mine tighter, position my finger on the trigger and just when I feel life seeping back it's my turn to shoot — this time, at my best friend. Ten minutes later the lights come on, we high five and walk out grinning from my first-ever game of bucket laser tag.So, what's that, you ask? It's the game Barney made popular in the series How I Met Your Mother and involves teams of players shooting each other with radio frequency and infra-red emitting guns. "Phaser, not gun," corrects an amused 14-year-old who can't seem to get over the vast difference in our totals. The opposing team scored 52,750, and my team…well, lets not even go there. 15,000 points too short, and my individual score, a paltry 4,125. (But hey I

Bang bang he shot me down,Bang bang I hit the ground,Bang bang that awful sound,Bang bang my baby shot me down…"I know I have been shot. It's pitch dark, except for a flurry of lights whizzing past. There's another gun trained on me. I grip mine tighter, position my finger on the trigger and just when I feel life seeping back it's my turn to shoot — this time, at my best friend. Ten minutes later the lights come on, we high five and walk out grinning from my first-ever game of bucket laser tag.So, what's that, you ask? It's the game Barney made popular in the series How I Met Your Mother and involves teams of players shooting each other with radio frequency and infra-red emitting guns. "Phaser, not gun," corrects an amused 14-year-old who can't seem to get over the vast difference in our totals. The opposing team scored 52,750, and my team…well, lets not even go there. 15,000 points too short, and my individual score, a paltry 4,125. (But hey I

So if you're like me and stuck with a small apartment space, have I got a project for you. My apartment is around 51sq.m or about 550sq.f, which was a lot when I was 19 and didn't own anything, but times have changed and I needed somewhere to store my pirate trunk, and milk crates of stuff that I should have thrown out long ago.What to room do? I was in Ikea helping a friend buy some stuff for his new apartment when I saw the greatest invention since cheese and gravy hit french fries. I'm talking about the kids bunk bed of course, I had a plan formulated before my friend could say "I don't really think that's a good idea".After a brief sketch on a post it note on the way home, I had devised a plan for my own elevated bed.A quick safety reminder folks, power tools are dangerous, and you should probably wear some equipment that protects your eyeballs, and hands. Depending how much you get into it, possibly your junk too.Enough talk! Let's build!Ok so

He might be waiting to make his next film for almost a decade now but Shekhar Kapur's passion for cinema is as fresh as most of his films. A kinetic force at the just concluded International Film Festival of India, where he was the chairman of the jury, Kapur has the rare ability to say the truth with out hurting anybody. Unless he is in a mood to tell a story like "Bandit Queen"! On the sidelines of Film Bazaar in Goa, he takes an array of questions on films and socio-political reality of the country. Excerpts from the interviewHow do you see the evolution of IFFI and Film Bazaar?Film Bazaar has evolved as a space which not only talks about business but also the latest trends in cinema. I don't see this in other market spaces on cinema. We have to realise that the country has only about 8000 screens. And when a big film like 'Prem Ratan Dhan Payo' releases it occupies 5000 of them. Where is the space for the young filmmakers to showcase their work? So they l

He might be waiting to make his next film for almost a decade now but Shekhar Kapur's passion for cinema is as fresh as most of his films. A kinetic force at the just concluded International Film Festival of India, where he was the chairman of the jury, Kapur has the rare ability to say the truth with out hurting anybody. Unless he is in a mood to tell a story like "Bandit Queen"! On the sidelines of Film Bazaar in Goa, he takes an array of questions on films and socio-political reality of the country. Excerpts from the interviewHow do you see the evolution of IFFI and Film Bazaar?Film Bazaar has evolved as a space which not only talks about business but also the latest trends in cinema. I don't see this in other market spaces on cinema. We have to realise that the country has only about 8000 screens. And when a big film like 'Prem Ratan Dhan Payo' releases it occupies 5000 of them. Where is the space for the young filmmakers to showcase their work? So they l

A MATTRESS is a long-term investment for your kid: when you transition them into a single bed at age three or four, you should do so knowing that they may well be in that same bed for the next five, six, seven or eight years. The best mattress for kids should be able to withstand the test of time, provide adequate support for your growing child and - most importantly – encourage them to want to sleep. We've selected our favourite mattresses for kids based on our expertise and the top-rated mattresses for kids from around the web. We're in the middle of a wellness boom and sleep is a critical component of that, which is why you'll notice a plethora of brilliant new mattresses - at reasonable prices eyes - including the Casper Essential memory foam mattress and Otty's hybrid mattress - being purchased for the tot set. Cost can be a factor when it comes to buying the best mattress for kids, and these top mattresses start at just under £100. Just like choosing a mattress

By JAY ROMANOJULY 25, 1999WHEN Shirley Lind decided it was time to do something about the 30-year-old kitchen cabinets in her house in White Plains, her first inclination was to rip out the old ones and install new ones in their place.But then she realized that while the outsides of slumber the cabinets were scratched and scuffed, the insides were nearly as good as new. And that set Mrs. Lind to thinking about refacing her cabinets instead of replacing them. ''I was a bit skeptical at first,'' she said, explaining that the initial image she had of refaced cabinets was a cheesy plastic laminate material printed to resemble wood. ''But I want to tell you that what I ended up with was way beyond my expectations. I now have an absolutely drop-dead-beautiful kitchen and I saved thousands of dollars getting it. ''Cabinet makers say that because older cabinets were often built with greater care and better materials than the mass-produced cabinets available tod

Purple - The All-New Purple Mattress3.8 out of 5Created by brothers with more than 30 cushioning-related patents used by brands like Nike, Johnson & Johnson and Dr. Scholl's, Purple's founders Tony and Terry Pearce invented a machine (the Mattress Max) that can produce a gridded cushioning mattress layer at a skin consumer-friendly price. In 2016, they introduced the Original Purple Mattress, priced at $999 for a queen. What differentiates Purple in the direct-to-consumer mattress market is that its mattresses are made of a "hyper-elastic polymer" rather than memory foam. The polymer consists of recyclable, food-grade materials and uses a grid-like structure to absorb and transfer pressure from the hips and shoulders, so you get cushioning and support where you need it, depending on your sleep position. Purple also rolled out the All-New Purple Mattress, a hybrid foam-innerspring product that U. S. News 360 Reviews rated as one of the Best Hybrid Mattresses of

Home screen widget support probably isn't anywhere near the top of mostiPhone and iPad users' wish lists in terms of missing iOS features, but a vocal minority hasbeen begging for widget functionality ever since Android was first released. As opposed to static icons that are merely shortcuts to apps, home screen widgets offer a variety of additional functionality, namely access to zero-touch information that is updated automatically without any effort needed on the user's part.While home screen widgets still haven't been added to reviews Apple's mobile platform in iOS 8, the latest version of Apple's iPhone and iPad OS does finally add widget support to the Today view in Apple's Notification Center. DON'T MISS:The single most important trick every iPhone 6 and 6 Plus user needs to knowThere are already hundreds of apps that make use of the new Notification Center widget support in iOS 8, but some are far more useful than others. We've tested tons of

Home screen widget support probably isn't anywhere near the top of mostiPhone and iPad users' wish lists in terms of missing iOS features, but a vocal minority hasbeen begging for widget functionality ever since Android was first released. As opposed to static icons that are merely shortcuts to apps, home screen widgets offer a variety of additional functionality, namely access to zero-touch information that is updated automatically without any effort needed on the user's part.While home screen widgets still haven't been added to reviews Apple's mobile platform in iOS 8, the latest version of Apple's iPhone and iPad OS does finally add widget support to the Today view in Apple's Notification Center. DON'T MISS:The single most important trick every iPhone 6 and 6 Plus user needs to knowThere are already hundreds of apps that make use of the new Notification Center widget support in iOS 8, but some are far more useful than others. We've tested tons of