Every year Barbara Wells returns to her familys home in Brick for a
visit, but shell never forget what happened this summer.It has been an
absolute nightmare, said Wells, who lives in Strasbourg, France.She has
spent much of her trip worrying and trying to find a piece of luggage
lost at Delta Air Lines baggage claim area at John F. Kennedy
International Airport in New York City.
I see my family three
weeks a year. It is completely ruined, Wells said.Rather than relax,
Wells has spent hours on the phone and received inaccurate or
conflicting information. She made a two-hour trip to the airport to try
to find her bag or details about what happened.It started before she and
her son boarded a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight from Amsterdam to
London on July 8. Her carry-on bag, which was the proper size, was
pulled at the gate and put in the belly of the plane.
But it
didnt make it to Heathrow Airport in London. She reported it missing and
moved on to her connecting Delta flight to JFK. When she arrived in New
York, she checked the baggage claim desk, but the bag hadnt made
it.What happened to it is still unknown. She found out that her bag made
it to JFK on July 9. It was scanned in, but there is no further record
of it.She had been told that the bag had been sent to a KLM courier and
that it was on its way to Brick, Wells said.In addition to trying to
figure it all out, Wells was left with another problem: the bags
contents. It included a new pair of prescription Dior sunglasses,
reading glasses, and iPad and iPhone cords and chargers.
DAQRI
is taking strides to legitimize the medium by partnering with big-name
brands like Maxim and Target, and the company is charting a next step to
bring AR experiences to educational toys and games. The startup tipped
its hand on Wednesday with the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for a
set of Elements 4D blocks that enable users to interact with virtual
versions of elements. Ive played with the blocks, and theyre a clever
educational tool. Combining various blocks shows the properties of
chemical reactions and their respective compounds.
Mullins got
an early start in the augmented reality field in the 1990s by working
with the Department of Transportation creating ship simulations for
docking practice. His team worked on creating a massive virtual
shipyard, hacking pairs of binoculars so they would work as mixed
reality. He also worked on control systems and robotics at the Space and
Naval Warfare Lab before venturing into the civilian sector.
When
Apple released the iPhone 4, Mullins was inspired to start DAQRI after
realizing that the device had sufficient computing power and a decent
enough camera to create mixed reality experiences. DAQRI first set out
to become the YouTube of AR with the idea of enabling creators to submit
their own experiences.
Mullins, however, quickly realized that
the market was still unfamiliar with the technology. The startup then
decided to pivot and focus on creating the tools and platform needed to
help creatives as they develop their AR solutions. The company now views
itself as the Adobe of augmented reality because it offers tools for
designing these experiences, instead of just a platform to share them.
One
of the first big breaks for DAQRI, which recently raised $15 million to
increase its engineering, design and sales teams, was signing a
partnership with printer Quad/Graphics in 2011. Since then, the two have
teamed up on over 1,000 AR campaigns for Quad/Graphics clients, which
include Target, Maxim and Lego.
A self-professed movie lover,
Mullins compares the current state of AR to the early days of film. One
of the first moving pictures simply showed a close perspective of a
train arriving at the station. Despite the fact that it was a gimmick,
it impacted audiences. However, things really got interesting once
filmmakers moved on to stories,This vertical Cable Organizer can
be mounted to either. such as The Great Train Robbery. AR creators need
to evolve the platform to tell compelling stories instead of leaning
too heavily on the technology itself, he said.
DAQRIs platform
for toys is called Enchantium and is set to arrive later this year.
Mullins office is decorated with a combination of science fiction
posters and the steampunk-influenced demos. One example, which the team
built in-house, is a fascinating set of laser-etched woodblocks that
turn into chemistry elements when viewed through the DAQRI app. Blocks
can be combined to make different compounds, adding an interesting,Winbo photo frames and educational,Winbo ear caps layer of interactivity to them.
Our
job as technologists is to reduce the friction between an idea and the
manifestation, Mullins told developers during a keynote at the bootcamp.
[We want] the minimum amount of invasiveness for the maximum amount of
capabilities.Wearable computing, especially head-mounted displays, will
open up another layer of potential for AR. DAQRI has committed to
supporting Google Glass from day one, though the current placement of
the headsets screen makes it sub-optimal for augmented reality
experiences because it cant overlay an image the way a tablet or
smartphone with a rear camera can.
When its done right,
augmented reality feels like science fiction becoming reality, and
Mullins is drawing on the genre for inspiration.LA-based DAQRIs
proximity to the movie industry is also a good fit for Mullins. In his
view, Southern Californias creative culture understands theyre creating a
world when theyre putting it on screen, similar to what hes trying to
achieve with AR.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Is an iPad Giant Coming?
Each Monday, I'll cover the tech trends, gadgets, business services,
and apps of note. The goal is to highlight not just consumer
flash-in-the-pan ideas, but actual developments that could impact your
business. Post in comments if you know of any other trends!
Be on guard for this one.Soft Winbo Key Cover decorates your key in fashionable ways. Later this month, researcher Karsten Nohl will present a new finding at the Black Hat conference in (where else?) Las Vegas. Using a couple of hidden text messages, he will show how someone might hack your SIM card by exploiting an old security code. The worry for business owners? The hack can cause an employee's smartphone to start sending premium text messages and rack up a huge bill, record calls, or steal payment info.
As chips get smaller and smaller, it makes sense that one device will have more on-board capabilities. SanDisk announced this week its new Connect line, which includes a portable flash drive and a larger media drive. The idea is to store your files for an office or in a hotel room and share the data over Wi-Fi without the need for a separate hotspot or router.
I really want this one to be true. Apple suppliers, who are not supposed to spill the beans about anything, have said they are working on prototype versions of the iPhone and iPad with larger screens,Winbo custom keychain possibly around 5 inches and 13 inches, respectively. (The current iPhone 5 measures about 4 inches and the iPad 4 is about 10 inches.) Why should you care? As we move to the age of portable productivity, the larger sizes might mean more power, better battery life, more useful apps, and less eye strain for longer work periods.
Late last week news reports showed Microsoft in a terrible freefall. The earnings report revealed poor Microsoft Surface sales and a 11 percent drop in share price. Is it time to rethink your office strategy by embracing Chromebooks or the Mac, ditching a total reliance on Microsoft back-office products, or at least ditching Windows 8? Let me know in the comments if Microsoft's performance has encouraged you to make any changes to your IT strategy.
Performance is boosted further by the use of the latest 120 GB Samsung 840 Series SSD, which offers enough space to keep a full selection of office applications. It'll also allow Windows inevitable temporary files to swell in size without causing low-disk space warnings. However, that is all the storage you get. Without a hard drive any additional files will have to live elsewhere, such as on your network.
An Asus B85M-G motherboard is installed, which features easy memory installation via single-sided DIMM clips and USB 3.0 ports with speed-boosting UASP support. The motherboard supports four such ports, but only two are available for use as the the case offers only USB 2.0 ports at front.
When tested with PCMark 7, we recorded a blisteringly fast result of 5543 points. This is well ahead of most of the competition,Online shopping for Business Work Card holder from a great selection of Office Products. with the exception of Wired2Fire's Business Accelerate which features the same processor.
This performance comes at a price: we measured power consumption and processor temperature both when idle and when running intensive stress tests and found that, when pushed to the limit, the processor would reach 100 oC in around four minutes, despite being fitted with a Xigmatek Apache aftermarket cooler.
It does what it says on the tin. Your smartphone is cupped in the holder, which is itself plugged in and stays firmly stuck to the dashboard; your phone gets charged without the hassle of wires, and all the time its held in the perfect position to use for navigation. The NFC capabilities of the charger allow you to quickly access your favourite apps while its charging up, and passengers can pop the phone in and out of the holder as they need, without fiddling around with cables and distracting the driver. Ideal for long journeys!
2. Its not always convenient for office-workers to free up a USB port for phone-charging. Were pleased to report, however, that this is no longer a problem anymore for Nokia users. Make way for the Nokia Wireless Charging Platea discrete but attractive pad that takes up practically no space on your physical desktop (its smaller than most actual smartphones) and lets you charge your phone without disconnecting your flash drive or your mouse. Super simple to use, you just lay your phone down to charge up. Plus it comes in multiple colours, for the high-tech cubicle fashionistas amongst you
This ones for bedtime. No longer do you have to sleepily fumble with connectors when charging your phone at bedtime: wireless charging mats like the Nokia Wireless Charging Pillow by Fatboy allow you to just lay your Lumia smartphone down on its own pillow on the bedside table, and itll start charging immediately. The Plates, co-branded by furniture designers, Fatboy, come in a range of funky colours, too, if you want to coordinate your duvet cover to match. We certainly do
NFC technology allows this futuristic gadget to stream tunes from your phone and pump them out at up to 94 dB while your phone sits on top of it and charges, wires-free. If youre fully charged up, Bluetooth will let you stream the music from phone to speaker at a range of up to 10m. It looks ace, and its got a bass output thats sure to get you dancing. Impressive, huh?
Its simple: it charges your smartphone in an upright position, so you can watch movies, check emails, browse the Internet or flick through your music collection with ease while your battery gets a good once-over. This makes life considerably easier for us smartphone-addictswe can prop the phone up beside us at the computer, at the dinner-table, on the coffee-table. The fun never ends!
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Be on guard for this one.Soft Winbo Key Cover decorates your key in fashionable ways. Later this month, researcher Karsten Nohl will present a new finding at the Black Hat conference in (where else?) Las Vegas. Using a couple of hidden text messages, he will show how someone might hack your SIM card by exploiting an old security code. The worry for business owners? The hack can cause an employee's smartphone to start sending premium text messages and rack up a huge bill, record calls, or steal payment info.
As chips get smaller and smaller, it makes sense that one device will have more on-board capabilities. SanDisk announced this week its new Connect line, which includes a portable flash drive and a larger media drive. The idea is to store your files for an office or in a hotel room and share the data over Wi-Fi without the need for a separate hotspot or router.
I really want this one to be true. Apple suppliers, who are not supposed to spill the beans about anything, have said they are working on prototype versions of the iPhone and iPad with larger screens,Winbo custom keychain possibly around 5 inches and 13 inches, respectively. (The current iPhone 5 measures about 4 inches and the iPad 4 is about 10 inches.) Why should you care? As we move to the age of portable productivity, the larger sizes might mean more power, better battery life, more useful apps, and less eye strain for longer work periods.
Late last week news reports showed Microsoft in a terrible freefall. The earnings report revealed poor Microsoft Surface sales and a 11 percent drop in share price. Is it time to rethink your office strategy by embracing Chromebooks or the Mac, ditching a total reliance on Microsoft back-office products, or at least ditching Windows 8? Let me know in the comments if Microsoft's performance has encouraged you to make any changes to your IT strategy.
Performance is boosted further by the use of the latest 120 GB Samsung 840 Series SSD, which offers enough space to keep a full selection of office applications. It'll also allow Windows inevitable temporary files to swell in size without causing low-disk space warnings. However, that is all the storage you get. Without a hard drive any additional files will have to live elsewhere, such as on your network.
An Asus B85M-G motherboard is installed, which features easy memory installation via single-sided DIMM clips and USB 3.0 ports with speed-boosting UASP support. The motherboard supports four such ports, but only two are available for use as the the case offers only USB 2.0 ports at front.
When tested with PCMark 7, we recorded a blisteringly fast result of 5543 points. This is well ahead of most of the competition,Online shopping for Business Work Card holder from a great selection of Office Products. with the exception of Wired2Fire's Business Accelerate which features the same processor.
This performance comes at a price: we measured power consumption and processor temperature both when idle and when running intensive stress tests and found that, when pushed to the limit, the processor would reach 100 oC in around four minutes, despite being fitted with a Xigmatek Apache aftermarket cooler.
It does what it says on the tin. Your smartphone is cupped in the holder, which is itself plugged in and stays firmly stuck to the dashboard; your phone gets charged without the hassle of wires, and all the time its held in the perfect position to use for navigation. The NFC capabilities of the charger allow you to quickly access your favourite apps while its charging up, and passengers can pop the phone in and out of the holder as they need, without fiddling around with cables and distracting the driver. Ideal for long journeys!
2. Its not always convenient for office-workers to free up a USB port for phone-charging. Were pleased to report, however, that this is no longer a problem anymore for Nokia users. Make way for the Nokia Wireless Charging Platea discrete but attractive pad that takes up practically no space on your physical desktop (its smaller than most actual smartphones) and lets you charge your phone without disconnecting your flash drive or your mouse. Super simple to use, you just lay your phone down to charge up. Plus it comes in multiple colours, for the high-tech cubicle fashionistas amongst you
This ones for bedtime. No longer do you have to sleepily fumble with connectors when charging your phone at bedtime: wireless charging mats like the Nokia Wireless Charging Pillow by Fatboy allow you to just lay your Lumia smartphone down on its own pillow on the bedside table, and itll start charging immediately. The Plates, co-branded by furniture designers, Fatboy, come in a range of funky colours, too, if you want to coordinate your duvet cover to match. We certainly do
NFC technology allows this futuristic gadget to stream tunes from your phone and pump them out at up to 94 dB while your phone sits on top of it and charges, wires-free. If youre fully charged up, Bluetooth will let you stream the music from phone to speaker at a range of up to 10m. It looks ace, and its got a bass output thats sure to get you dancing. Impressive, huh?
Its simple: it charges your smartphone in an upright position, so you can watch movies, check emails, browse the Internet or flick through your music collection with ease while your battery gets a good once-over. This makes life considerably easier for us smartphone-addictswe can prop the phone up beside us at the computer, at the dinner-table, on the coffee-table. The fun never ends!
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Next-gen medical alert bracelet
HealthID makes it easy to share critical medical information with
first responders in the event of a medical emergency. They are
developing innovative HIP products that can change the way patients
manage chronic disease.HealthID is a unique patent-pending,
simple-to-use mobile health manager that syncs with a medical ID band or
card using NFC (Near Field Communications) technology, and only
requires a simple tap to activate from any NFC enabled device to
instantaneously view emergency and medical information.
With the same tap medical conditions can be more effectively managed with their mobile app. Rescuers can also access your health profile from any pc or laptop.Reminders by text or phone to take medications will help assure compliance. MRIs, EKGs, X-Rays and lab results can also be uploaded and stored in your profile. All information is stored securely on a cloud-based platform and allows for easy access to add, update or share any aspect of personal healthcare data.
HealthID can improve quality of life by making it easy to share your medical info with your support community. It will provide patients peace of mind in the event of a medical emergency.The company plans to innovate and expand upon the options currently available, offering new designs and functionality designed to simplify adding, storing and sharing important health and lifestyle information with your doctors or with emergency medical personnel.
They are dedicated to empowering the consumer to take more control over their personal healthcare. Their products will provide confidence to those who use them knowing that medical information can be communicated when they may not be able to.Patients can wear the HealthID NFC enabled medical ID band on their wrist all the time to help communicate medical condition, prescription medication and emergency contacts to a first responder in the event of an emergency.
The piece of jewellery, engraved with the image of a seated Jupiter, with wreath and full-length drapery, holding a sceptre in his left hand, was found by a metal detector user in Dalton last year.Barrows Dock Museum collections manager, Sabine Skae,Online shopping for Business Work Card holder from a great selection of Office Products. said the beautiful bracelet needed to return to the area for everyone to enjoy.The museum kicked off the campaign yesterday to raise the cash needed as decided by the Treasure Valuation Committee.
Half will go to the finder of the rare piece of jewellery, whose identity has not been revealed, and the rest to the landowner.Miss Skae said: The Roman bracelet was found in 2012 by a local metal detector in Dalton.It is a beautiful piece of jewellery and it is only right that we have it on display here.
We are now fundraising to get the estimated 1,800 needed.She said anyone wanting to donate to the fund should call into the North Road museum and drop money into the donations boxes.Miss Skae added: It is fabulous and very exciting to have something like this found locally and we need to bring it back here so everyone can come along and admire it.A curators report describes the find as: Open dome with ribbed side and stepped, apparently rubbed-over, setting. The oval gem, seemingly of translucent orange-red colour, has dropped out of position to the base of the box-setting, presumably as a result of the deterioration and loss of an original organic packing.
Engraved into its lightly convex surface is the image of a seated Jupiter, with wreath and full-length drapery, holding a sceptre in his left hand. David Renz, a 29-year-old upstate New York man, accosted the woman and her daughter, who were coming out of a gymnastics class at a mall in the Syracuse, New York suburb of Clay on March 14, The Huffington Post reported late last week.
Renz, who pleaded guilty to the crime, cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet prior to initiating the attack. He reportedly stabbed and strangled the mother to death as she tried to stop him from raping the 10-year-old.Renz was supposed to be under federal monitoring for a child pornography charge. His escape from the bracelet prompted a federal judge to rebuke probation officers for failing in their job, HuffPo noted.
As part of the plea bargain, Renz will likely be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, but, should the federal government wish to pursue the death penalty, that deal can be withdrawn.According to police, Renz attacked the woman, a school librarian, and her daughter shortly after they left the gymnastics class.
He reportedly held an air pistol on the mom, who died defending her daughter, and coerced her to drive her car to a remote spot in the mall parking lot. There, he bound both victims and raped the girl,Soft Winbo Key Cover decorates your key in fashionable ways. police said.Following the assault, Renz tried using cable ties to bind the mom to a headrest. Thats when the woman fought back and screamed for her daughter to flee the vehicle.
Daniel Pinnick, 24, of Randolph was killed in the one-car crash Saturday, July 20, at approximately 2 a.m., according to a post on the Norfolk Police Facebook page.Jason Seelye, 20, of Natick, pled not guilty in Wrentham District Court to motor vehicle homicide OUI-liquor or .08% and negligence; negligent operation & injury from mobile phone use; motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation, marked lanes violation and electronic message, operator send/read.
Norfolk police officers responded to the bridge at City Mills for the report of a one-car motor vehicle crash. Several people were assisting the victim, according to police. Safety personnel attempted life-saving aid on Pinnick, who succumbed to his injuries.Winbo custom keychainNorfolk Police, in conjunction with the Massachusetts State Police and the Norfolk County District Attorneys Office, conducted a preliminary investigation and reconstruction of the scene.
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With the same tap medical conditions can be more effectively managed with their mobile app. Rescuers can also access your health profile from any pc or laptop.Reminders by text or phone to take medications will help assure compliance. MRIs, EKGs, X-Rays and lab results can also be uploaded and stored in your profile. All information is stored securely on a cloud-based platform and allows for easy access to add, update or share any aspect of personal healthcare data.
HealthID can improve quality of life by making it easy to share your medical info with your support community. It will provide patients peace of mind in the event of a medical emergency.The company plans to innovate and expand upon the options currently available, offering new designs and functionality designed to simplify adding, storing and sharing important health and lifestyle information with your doctors or with emergency medical personnel.
They are dedicated to empowering the consumer to take more control over their personal healthcare. Their products will provide confidence to those who use them knowing that medical information can be communicated when they may not be able to.Patients can wear the HealthID NFC enabled medical ID band on their wrist all the time to help communicate medical condition, prescription medication and emergency contacts to a first responder in the event of an emergency.
The piece of jewellery, engraved with the image of a seated Jupiter, with wreath and full-length drapery, holding a sceptre in his left hand, was found by a metal detector user in Dalton last year.Barrows Dock Museum collections manager, Sabine Skae,Online shopping for Business Work Card holder from a great selection of Office Products. said the beautiful bracelet needed to return to the area for everyone to enjoy.The museum kicked off the campaign yesterday to raise the cash needed as decided by the Treasure Valuation Committee.
Half will go to the finder of the rare piece of jewellery, whose identity has not been revealed, and the rest to the landowner.Miss Skae said: The Roman bracelet was found in 2012 by a local metal detector in Dalton.It is a beautiful piece of jewellery and it is only right that we have it on display here.
We are now fundraising to get the estimated 1,800 needed.She said anyone wanting to donate to the fund should call into the North Road museum and drop money into the donations boxes.Miss Skae added: It is fabulous and very exciting to have something like this found locally and we need to bring it back here so everyone can come along and admire it.A curators report describes the find as: Open dome with ribbed side and stepped, apparently rubbed-over, setting. The oval gem, seemingly of translucent orange-red colour, has dropped out of position to the base of the box-setting, presumably as a result of the deterioration and loss of an original organic packing.
Engraved into its lightly convex surface is the image of a seated Jupiter, with wreath and full-length drapery, holding a sceptre in his left hand. David Renz, a 29-year-old upstate New York man, accosted the woman and her daughter, who were coming out of a gymnastics class at a mall in the Syracuse, New York suburb of Clay on March 14, The Huffington Post reported late last week.
Renz, who pleaded guilty to the crime, cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet prior to initiating the attack. He reportedly stabbed and strangled the mother to death as she tried to stop him from raping the 10-year-old.Renz was supposed to be under federal monitoring for a child pornography charge. His escape from the bracelet prompted a federal judge to rebuke probation officers for failing in their job, HuffPo noted.
As part of the plea bargain, Renz will likely be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, but, should the federal government wish to pursue the death penalty, that deal can be withdrawn.According to police, Renz attacked the woman, a school librarian, and her daughter shortly after they left the gymnastics class.
He reportedly held an air pistol on the mom, who died defending her daughter, and coerced her to drive her car to a remote spot in the mall parking lot. There, he bound both victims and raped the girl,Soft Winbo Key Cover decorates your key in fashionable ways. police said.Following the assault, Renz tried using cable ties to bind the mom to a headrest. Thats when the woman fought back and screamed for her daughter to flee the vehicle.
Daniel Pinnick, 24, of Randolph was killed in the one-car crash Saturday, July 20, at approximately 2 a.m., according to a post on the Norfolk Police Facebook page.Jason Seelye, 20, of Natick, pled not guilty in Wrentham District Court to motor vehicle homicide OUI-liquor or .08% and negligence; negligent operation & injury from mobile phone use; motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation, marked lanes violation and electronic message, operator send/read.
Norfolk police officers responded to the bridge at City Mills for the report of a one-car motor vehicle crash. Several people were assisting the victim, according to police. Safety personnel attempted life-saving aid on Pinnick, who succumbed to his injuries.Winbo custom keychainNorfolk Police, in conjunction with the Massachusetts State Police and the Norfolk County District Attorneys Office, conducted a preliminary investigation and reconstruction of the scene.
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Ohio county uses GPS bracelets
Changes and improvements in technology are helping authorities in
southwest Ohio track crime suspects and convicts and freeing up scarce
jail space.The Hamilton County sheriff's office owns or leases 143
electronic monitoring units with GPS and hopes to obtain 50 more. The
ankle bracelets with global positioning system allow low-level offenders
to be monitored while the jail is filled with those involved with more
serious offenses.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that authorities say the use of GPS monitoring enables them to track wearers in almost real time and show where they are and where they have been. Deputies can use laptops and cellphone apps to monitor, and can send voice messages to the wearers.
Police can also set up "exclusion zones" to alert them in domestic violence cases.Authorities recently used GPS to find a man after the monitor alerted them that he was getting near his ex-girlfriend's home. Police said they tracked the monitor to where a car was, but didn't see him. Then they decided to check the trunk, and found the man hiding inside with the ankle bracelet on.
"That's how accurate the GPS technology has become," Cpl. Bryan Hale, who supervises the electronic monitoring unit operations.Hamilton County has more than 1,200 inmates in its overcrowded jail, facing a shrinking budget and voter resistance to paying higher taxes for more jail space. So authorities are exploring alternative programs, and like the GPS alternative.
"You've got to keep space available for those who truly need it," Hale said.The sheriff's office is also still using about 200 old ankle bracelet units that can be used with land telephone lines. The GPS units cost $2,500 to buy or $3.88 per unit a day to lease. That's considerably cheaper than the cost of housing an inmate, and also allows people to go about their lives while awaiting trial on relatively non-serious crimes. Judges who determine who should be in the electronic monitoring program praise the use of the GPS bracelets, as do jailers.
About 85 percent of those given ankle monitors complete their time without problems. Those who violate the rules can be sent to jail."This is not a punitive measure," said Charmaine McGuffey, who is in charge of the county jail, said of the electronic monitoring. "If you're sitting in jail, you can't go to work, you can't get medical treatment. I think it's absolutely the wave of the future."
The second part of this story is the real clincher for considering that happiness can be a choice. An elementary school teacher in rural Arkansas made a bracelet of charms of each student in her class so she could continually remind herself of how she cared about each one, and her passion for teaching them. Heres the rest of the story. She wakes up each morning with the painful fatigue that most face when they have the chronic, erratic and incurable disease multiple sclerosis.This vertical Cable Organizer can be mounted to either.
Many would give up and quit working yet some dont, as Shawn Achor shows in his new book Before Happiness. Why do different people in the same situation find a way to feel happy and thrive while others get depressed, give up or worse? The answer is the cornerstone concept to Achors book.
He travelled to fifty-one countries, speaking and conducting experiments involving people as diverse Tanzanian kids living in extreme poverty to UK bankers who didnt get year end bonuses. Achor worked with organizations as diverse as The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Zappos Downtown Project, Freddie Mac during the mortgage crisis and online learning group, CorpU.
Keep a vividly visual picture of your goal in mind. Just as football running backs run faster the closer they get to scoring, we can create a surge of energy and motivation when we are at the stage towards our goal when we deeply believe we can actually achieve it. The X-spot is the exact moment, Achor says, when your brain realizes that attaining your goal is not only possible but probable, and it releases a potent stream of chemicals that help speed you up. Notice, writes Achor, that you work more diligently and efficiently when the completion of a big project is in sight?
You can also spur sales, using this effect by making a goal appear closer. Clark Hull dubbed this the goal gradient theory. Hull proved it in an experiment in which a coffee shop gave customers a stamp card that rewarded them with a free coffee once the card had ten stamps for cups they bought.Handy Pocket Mirror with hinged lid that doubles as a stand. The closer customers got to being eligible for the free cup, the more frequently they came in for coffee.Choose from a large selection of Customized Silicone Bracelets to raise awareness. In a variation on that experiment, cited by Francesca Gino in her book Sidetracked, car wash customers who were given a loyalty card with the first two stamps already on it were more likely to visit more frequently than those who got a stamp card without any stamps on it.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that authorities say the use of GPS monitoring enables them to track wearers in almost real time and show where they are and where they have been. Deputies can use laptops and cellphone apps to monitor, and can send voice messages to the wearers.
Police can also set up "exclusion zones" to alert them in domestic violence cases.Authorities recently used GPS to find a man after the monitor alerted them that he was getting near his ex-girlfriend's home. Police said they tracked the monitor to where a car was, but didn't see him. Then they decided to check the trunk, and found the man hiding inside with the ankle bracelet on.
"That's how accurate the GPS technology has become," Cpl. Bryan Hale, who supervises the electronic monitoring unit operations.Hamilton County has more than 1,200 inmates in its overcrowded jail, facing a shrinking budget and voter resistance to paying higher taxes for more jail space. So authorities are exploring alternative programs, and like the GPS alternative.
"You've got to keep space available for those who truly need it," Hale said.The sheriff's office is also still using about 200 old ankle bracelet units that can be used with land telephone lines. The GPS units cost $2,500 to buy or $3.88 per unit a day to lease. That's considerably cheaper than the cost of housing an inmate, and also allows people to go about their lives while awaiting trial on relatively non-serious crimes. Judges who determine who should be in the electronic monitoring program praise the use of the GPS bracelets, as do jailers.
About 85 percent of those given ankle monitors complete their time without problems. Those who violate the rules can be sent to jail."This is not a punitive measure," said Charmaine McGuffey, who is in charge of the county jail, said of the electronic monitoring. "If you're sitting in jail, you can't go to work, you can't get medical treatment. I think it's absolutely the wave of the future."
The second part of this story is the real clincher for considering that happiness can be a choice. An elementary school teacher in rural Arkansas made a bracelet of charms of each student in her class so she could continually remind herself of how she cared about each one, and her passion for teaching them. Heres the rest of the story. She wakes up each morning with the painful fatigue that most face when they have the chronic, erratic and incurable disease multiple sclerosis.This vertical Cable Organizer can be mounted to either.
Many would give up and quit working yet some dont, as Shawn Achor shows in his new book Before Happiness. Why do different people in the same situation find a way to feel happy and thrive while others get depressed, give up or worse? The answer is the cornerstone concept to Achors book.
He travelled to fifty-one countries, speaking and conducting experiments involving people as diverse Tanzanian kids living in extreme poverty to UK bankers who didnt get year end bonuses. Achor worked with organizations as diverse as The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Zappos Downtown Project, Freddie Mac during the mortgage crisis and online learning group, CorpU.
Keep a vividly visual picture of your goal in mind. Just as football running backs run faster the closer they get to scoring, we can create a surge of energy and motivation when we are at the stage towards our goal when we deeply believe we can actually achieve it. The X-spot is the exact moment, Achor says, when your brain realizes that attaining your goal is not only possible but probable, and it releases a potent stream of chemicals that help speed you up. Notice, writes Achor, that you work more diligently and efficiently when the completion of a big project is in sight?
You can also spur sales, using this effect by making a goal appear closer. Clark Hull dubbed this the goal gradient theory. Hull proved it in an experiment in which a coffee shop gave customers a stamp card that rewarded them with a free coffee once the card had ten stamps for cups they bought.Handy Pocket Mirror with hinged lid that doubles as a stand. The closer customers got to being eligible for the free cup, the more frequently they came in for coffee.Choose from a large selection of Customized Silicone Bracelets to raise awareness. In a variation on that experiment, cited by Francesca Gino in her book Sidetracked, car wash customers who were given a loyalty card with the first two stamps already on it were more likely to visit more frequently than those who got a stamp card without any stamps on it.
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A Poker Life
Chris Reslock is a World Series of Poker bracelet winner and current
record holder of the WSOP Circuit with seven gold rings. Hes also a
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The jack of all trades grew up in North Dakota before attending school in Michigan. Then, after climbing to the top of the competitive Scrabble world, Reslock moved to Delaware before settling in New Jersey, where his poker career really took off.Since turning pro, Reslock has earned more than $1.8 million in tournaments. While not competing on the circuit, the 65-year-old sits down in some of the bigger cash games Atlantic City, New Jersey, has to offer.
To say that Chris Reslock spent some time at Michigan State University is an understatement. A career student, he studied philosophy, literature and dozens of other subjects over the course of 12 years without ever getting his diploma.I regret not getting my degree, admitted Reslock. To this day, I still have anxiety dreams about finding my classes and making sure I get there on time. Id like to say that I avoided graduation because I was in love with learning, but thats probably too romantic of an idea. The truth is that I was just really unorganized. I liked going to classes enough to keep going, but I wasnt really concerned about grades. There were many classes that I sat in on, but never received credit for.
While in school, Reslocks jobs were as varied as his studies. He drove a cab and also spent four years with the Lansing fire department. But when asked if his jobs contributed to his inability to get his degree, Reslock admitted that poker and substance abuse played a role.
Poker is one of the villains why I never finished college, Reslock said. Really, it was gambling and drugs. I started playing poker very seriously in my early twenties. Another cab driver invited me to a poker game and being the competitive games player that I was, I jumped at the chance. After that, I started playing the games more and even hosted my own game. Back then, our game centered around creative dealers choice. The challenge was to invent a game that was simple to understand, but still gave you an edge. I was always pretty good with figuring out the math of the games quickly and intuitively.
I didnt even like Scrabble until I discovered that you can bluff, recalled Reslock. Essentially, bluffing in Scrabble occurs when you put a made-up word down on the board. Your opponent can either accept the word as real, or challenge the word, risking their next turn. Losing a turn is huge, so bluffing happens a lot more than you would think because players dont want to take the risk.
A voracious reader since childhood, Reslock discovered that he had a natural talent with words.When I look at a word, I instantly know if its spelled right or not. Of course, playing Scrabble, you learn that there are numerous variations in spelling that can all be considered correct.Though modest about his abilities, Reslock did reveal just how highly he was ranked at the peak of his Scrabble career.
Scrabble players are rated similarly to chess players. For a brief period of time I was the highest rated player in the world. I was an active player for most of the 1980s, and during that time, I was almost always ranked among the top 10 players in the world.
A relationship brought Reslock to the Northeast before he eventually settled in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The original thought was that Reslock could continue playing Scrabble with his friends in New York, but the games never materialized.I guess I just kind of drifted away from it. The biggest problem with Scrabble is that there was no money in it. My lifetime earnings in the game were right around $1,000. If you got lucky and found someone who was willing to play for cash, then you could make some money, but that was tough to do once your reputation got out. Today, the players can make a little more, but not by much.
Instead, Reslock turned to a past profession. He wound up leasing a friends taxi cab and then used his earnings to buy his own. For him, driving a cab wasnt just a job, it was a pleasure.When I was in high school, my one ambition in life was to have my own car, said Reslock. I was in love with the idea of being able to cruise around town with my friends. Driving a cab, in many ways, was the fulfillment of that ambition. The hours were long, but it was an incredibly fun job to have. I got to be the modern day version of the Old West trail guide. Work was like being the star in my own novel, never knowing what would happen next or what kind of interesting person was going to jump in. Others may not understand it, but I still have euphoric dreams about being back in the taxi cab.
When it came time for Reslock to try his hand at professional poker, he found that his past experience in a taxi cab had prepared him for a career on the felt.
Im pretty good at understanding people and finding out where their heads are at, said Reslock. I guess a lot of that comes from my time in a cab, but its a skill that has definitely helped me at the poker table.
Furthermore, Reslock believes that his penchant for friendly customer service also extends to poker, a trait that other poker pros often dont bother to adopt.One thing I firmly believe is that if you are making money playing poker, part of your job is entertainment. Your opponents are paying you for that entertainment. In a way, you can compare a really good poker player to an artist. Its not enough to just win someones chips. A good poker player can take all of your chips and have you back the next night to do it all over again.
Incredibly, Reslock holds the distinction of being the player with the highest percentage of wins who holds over 100 cashes. He has totaled 107 cashes on the tournament circuit and has won an astonishing 25 of them.I guess I know how to close them out. If I go deep, Ill usually win it all. If not, you can find me on the rail relatively quickly. You could call me an all or nothing player.
Reslocks first tournament cash came back in 1996 in a no-limit holdem event, but the crazy mixed games played back in Michigan prepared him to dominate mixed-game tournaments over the next 17 years. Of his 25 live tournament wins, 15 have come in a non-holdem event, including his WSOP bracelet win in the 2007 $5,000 Seven Card Stud World Championship, where he defeated Phil Ivey heads up.
I play as little no-limit holdem as I can get away with, Reslock said. I dream of a day when I can play no-limit Omaha hi/lo and no-limit baduecey tournaments instead. Holdem is a game that somebody invented for the gamblers to play who werent smart enough for poker but who wanted to play cards.This vertical Cable Organizer can be mounted to either. The biggest criticism that no-limit holdem specialists have about mixed games is those games lack any creativity. That could be changed, however, if we start playing mixed games for big bets. If you play these games with progressively higher stakes after each street, then the game changes entirely.
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The jack of all trades grew up in North Dakota before attending school in Michigan. Then, after climbing to the top of the competitive Scrabble world, Reslock moved to Delaware before settling in New Jersey, where his poker career really took off.Since turning pro, Reslock has earned more than $1.8 million in tournaments. While not competing on the circuit, the 65-year-old sits down in some of the bigger cash games Atlantic City, New Jersey, has to offer.
To say that Chris Reslock spent some time at Michigan State University is an understatement. A career student, he studied philosophy, literature and dozens of other subjects over the course of 12 years without ever getting his diploma.I regret not getting my degree, admitted Reslock. To this day, I still have anxiety dreams about finding my classes and making sure I get there on time. Id like to say that I avoided graduation because I was in love with learning, but thats probably too romantic of an idea. The truth is that I was just really unorganized. I liked going to classes enough to keep going, but I wasnt really concerned about grades. There were many classes that I sat in on, but never received credit for.
While in school, Reslocks jobs were as varied as his studies. He drove a cab and also spent four years with the Lansing fire department. But when asked if his jobs contributed to his inability to get his degree, Reslock admitted that poker and substance abuse played a role.
Poker is one of the villains why I never finished college, Reslock said. Really, it was gambling and drugs. I started playing poker very seriously in my early twenties. Another cab driver invited me to a poker game and being the competitive games player that I was, I jumped at the chance. After that, I started playing the games more and even hosted my own game. Back then, our game centered around creative dealers choice. The challenge was to invent a game that was simple to understand, but still gave you an edge. I was always pretty good with figuring out the math of the games quickly and intuitively.
I didnt even like Scrabble until I discovered that you can bluff, recalled Reslock. Essentially, bluffing in Scrabble occurs when you put a made-up word down on the board. Your opponent can either accept the word as real, or challenge the word, risking their next turn. Losing a turn is huge, so bluffing happens a lot more than you would think because players dont want to take the risk.
A voracious reader since childhood, Reslock discovered that he had a natural talent with words.When I look at a word, I instantly know if its spelled right or not. Of course, playing Scrabble, you learn that there are numerous variations in spelling that can all be considered correct.Though modest about his abilities, Reslock did reveal just how highly he was ranked at the peak of his Scrabble career.
Scrabble players are rated similarly to chess players. For a brief period of time I was the highest rated player in the world. I was an active player for most of the 1980s, and during that time, I was almost always ranked among the top 10 players in the world.
A relationship brought Reslock to the Northeast before he eventually settled in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The original thought was that Reslock could continue playing Scrabble with his friends in New York, but the games never materialized.I guess I just kind of drifted away from it. The biggest problem with Scrabble is that there was no money in it. My lifetime earnings in the game were right around $1,000. If you got lucky and found someone who was willing to play for cash, then you could make some money, but that was tough to do once your reputation got out. Today, the players can make a little more, but not by much.
Instead, Reslock turned to a past profession. He wound up leasing a friends taxi cab and then used his earnings to buy his own. For him, driving a cab wasnt just a job, it was a pleasure.When I was in high school, my one ambition in life was to have my own car, said Reslock. I was in love with the idea of being able to cruise around town with my friends. Driving a cab, in many ways, was the fulfillment of that ambition. The hours were long, but it was an incredibly fun job to have. I got to be the modern day version of the Old West trail guide. Work was like being the star in my own novel, never knowing what would happen next or what kind of interesting person was going to jump in. Others may not understand it, but I still have euphoric dreams about being back in the taxi cab.
When it came time for Reslock to try his hand at professional poker, he found that his past experience in a taxi cab had prepared him for a career on the felt.
Im pretty good at understanding people and finding out where their heads are at, said Reslock. I guess a lot of that comes from my time in a cab, but its a skill that has definitely helped me at the poker table.
Furthermore, Reslock believes that his penchant for friendly customer service also extends to poker, a trait that other poker pros often dont bother to adopt.One thing I firmly believe is that if you are making money playing poker, part of your job is entertainment. Your opponents are paying you for that entertainment. In a way, you can compare a really good poker player to an artist. Its not enough to just win someones chips. A good poker player can take all of your chips and have you back the next night to do it all over again.
Incredibly, Reslock holds the distinction of being the player with the highest percentage of wins who holds over 100 cashes. He has totaled 107 cashes on the tournament circuit and has won an astonishing 25 of them.I guess I know how to close them out. If I go deep, Ill usually win it all. If not, you can find me on the rail relatively quickly. You could call me an all or nothing player.
Reslocks first tournament cash came back in 1996 in a no-limit holdem event, but the crazy mixed games played back in Michigan prepared him to dominate mixed-game tournaments over the next 17 years. Of his 25 live tournament wins, 15 have come in a non-holdem event, including his WSOP bracelet win in the 2007 $5,000 Seven Card Stud World Championship, where he defeated Phil Ivey heads up.
I play as little no-limit holdem as I can get away with, Reslock said. I dream of a day when I can play no-limit Omaha hi/lo and no-limit baduecey tournaments instead. Holdem is a game that somebody invented for the gamblers to play who werent smart enough for poker but who wanted to play cards.This vertical Cable Organizer can be mounted to either. The biggest criticism that no-limit holdem specialists have about mixed games is those games lack any creativity. That could be changed, however, if we start playing mixed games for big bets. If you play these games with progressively higher stakes after each street, then the game changes entirely.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Sweet Wine at CINQ
I had something of an epiphany while sipping from my wife's glass of
2005 Meulenhof Erdener Treppchen Riesling Beerenauslese. She'd asked for
something to go with dessert, and this is what our waiter, Sebastien,
had brought her. At once clean and bright, concentrated and intense, it
was eye-opening. Most of my sweet wine experiences had been limited to
Madeira (a bit of a fetish in my house, due to my wife's Portuguese
ancestry), and the occasional gently sweet Riesling. This was something
different.
To cap a previous dinner at CINQ, the subject of this week's review, Sebastien had brought a glass of oxidized sweet Juran?on (trying to hit that Madeira obsession), and it was well received. We talked about the production process, how that year had been one of the hottest the region had seen, and the effect of stress on the grapes. With a relatively empty house - it was a Tuesday - Sebastien was free and eager to stand there and discuss wine.
By the time we'd finished that small glass of Beerenauslese, though, talking through the various methods used to concentrate the flavor of a sweet wine, I knew I'd have to have more.Soft Winbo Key Cover decorates your key in fashionable ways. It was light on the palate, despite an intensely saturated flavor. Not mildly sweet, it made its presence known and its intentions clear. Pear, raisins, a bit of solvent. It was honeyed but never cloying, with a gentle acidity that made all of the flavors fairly dance.
I can feel an obsession coming on; I'm already scouring the Internet, searching for a reasonably priced bottle or two to put away for special occasions. I asked a wine-savvy friend about it,Winbo Iphone Headset and he warned me that I might find it difficult to locate another bottle of this weapons-grade wine, but could certainly find similar, younger bottles that would be similar, and less powerful, versions of the same.
As happy as the wine made me,Winbo custom keychain it also made me a little bit sad. It reminded me of my feelings about the Minutemen, a band whose opus I heard first, and whose other efforts have always paled for me, as a result. I'm afraid I'll get the same experience out of my next bottle of Botrytized Riesling.
Fortunately,Online shopping for Business Work Card holder from a great selection of Office Products. Sebastien is aware of the longings that rare wines can inspire, and takes some pity on his customers. From time to time, he reaches into CINQ's cellars, arranging vintage wine tastings. As he so well put it to us, not everyone can or wants to shell out the cash required to splash out on a single bottle of rare wine; his programs afford the possibility to taste a range of special bottles for one price, along with a few bites of food best suited to highlight them. A more varied bang for your buck.
Go to CINQ for a special occasion, celebrate it with a glass of dessert wine. The Meulenhof probably won't be there. My apologies. I'm sure Sebastien can recommend something suitably delicious and, if it's a slow night, talk your ear off about soil drainage, temperature gradients, and noble rot. If you're interested. He might mention his vintage wine tasting series, or offer to help you track down a bottle you particularly enjoyed (he told us he'd keep an eye out for that Riesling). He'll probably wax slightly rhapsodic about Tokaji, his favorite dessert wine. Let him. You'll understand.
Take one forked branch of plum, one stem of kale, four artichokes and three stems of blackberries. It may sound like chutney-making, but this is a different kind of recipe C a flower recipe. Add parrot tulips, anemones, ornamental grasses and flowering oregano and you have a show-stopping display that puts your chrysanths in a pint glass to shame.
In truth, Ive never had much time for flower-arranging. I buy flowers and put them in a vase. In summer, I cut a few blooms from the garden, add to water and leave until the petals have dropped. I have always associated the art with finishing-school girls and stiff, formal arrangements in churches and village fairs, judged by faintly intimidating women.
The Flower Recipe Book blasts the stuffiness out of traditional flower arranging. It is the work of best friends Alethea Harampolis and Jill Rizzo, owners of the Studio Choo floral studio in San Francisco. For a year, they ran the business out of Jills kitchen, Aletheas Honda and a garage in the city before setting up the shop, beloved of the stylish set in Californias coolest city.
San Francisco is the birthplace of the flower child and the pair share a philosophy to keep everything looking as natural as possible. We take our inspiration from nature, they say, and make sure not to manipulate the flowers too much.Winbo Luggage Tags
The recipe format is a genius way of guiding you through the complexities. It is a formula any cook can understand. There is a list of ingredients to use as a guide, with plenty of room for experimentation, and clear step-by-step instructions. Common flower names are used throughout and a guide to choosing the right vessel will have you trawling flea markets for vintage jars and tins.
Sweetpeas, which are flowering extravagantly in my garden right now, are divided into bunches from dark to light colours in nine small jars (think fish-paste jars), and arranged in a square to create a block of loveliness. For a minimalist look, try nine stems of chocolate cosmos in a flat-sided plain-glass vase. Two stems of white or purple clematis are allowed to bend and arch their leaves and tendrils in a vintage bottle. Clematis is among Alethea and Jills favourites, along with lily of the valley, daphne and honeysuckle C they place a couple of stems in vases on their bedside tables.
Tall, leggy beauties such as delphiniums are trimmed short for maximum colour intensity. A single delphinium stem in a canning jar, backed by two jars bearing double stems, gives a shot of electric blue to a room.
But it is the little bit of this, little bit of that arrangements that will suit the ordinary gardener. Visit the herb beds, vegetable patch, hedges and fruit trees for inspiration. I never considered using sprigs of mint in a glass before, unless doused in Pimms. Similarly rosemary, instead of going on a leg of lamb, can nestle up to viburnum berries, twigs and red-and-white amaryllis in a vintage metal flour tin. Purple sage marries beautifully with different types of lavender.
The end result is often a snapshot of the season. A prickly arm of not-quite-ripe blackberries or dark-pink plums announce late summer. The branches of apricot and oranges, which line the roads in California, will be hard to come by, but its an idea. Try rosy-red crab apple in August instead.
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To cap a previous dinner at CINQ, the subject of this week's review, Sebastien had brought a glass of oxidized sweet Juran?on (trying to hit that Madeira obsession), and it was well received. We talked about the production process, how that year had been one of the hottest the region had seen, and the effect of stress on the grapes. With a relatively empty house - it was a Tuesday - Sebastien was free and eager to stand there and discuss wine.
By the time we'd finished that small glass of Beerenauslese, though, talking through the various methods used to concentrate the flavor of a sweet wine, I knew I'd have to have more.Soft Winbo Key Cover decorates your key in fashionable ways. It was light on the palate, despite an intensely saturated flavor. Not mildly sweet, it made its presence known and its intentions clear. Pear, raisins, a bit of solvent. It was honeyed but never cloying, with a gentle acidity that made all of the flavors fairly dance.
I can feel an obsession coming on; I'm already scouring the Internet, searching for a reasonably priced bottle or two to put away for special occasions. I asked a wine-savvy friend about it,Winbo Iphone Headset and he warned me that I might find it difficult to locate another bottle of this weapons-grade wine, but could certainly find similar, younger bottles that would be similar, and less powerful, versions of the same.
As happy as the wine made me,Winbo custom keychain it also made me a little bit sad. It reminded me of my feelings about the Minutemen, a band whose opus I heard first, and whose other efforts have always paled for me, as a result. I'm afraid I'll get the same experience out of my next bottle of Botrytized Riesling.
Fortunately,Online shopping for Business Work Card holder from a great selection of Office Products. Sebastien is aware of the longings that rare wines can inspire, and takes some pity on his customers. From time to time, he reaches into CINQ's cellars, arranging vintage wine tastings. As he so well put it to us, not everyone can or wants to shell out the cash required to splash out on a single bottle of rare wine; his programs afford the possibility to taste a range of special bottles for one price, along with a few bites of food best suited to highlight them. A more varied bang for your buck.
Go to CINQ for a special occasion, celebrate it with a glass of dessert wine. The Meulenhof probably won't be there. My apologies. I'm sure Sebastien can recommend something suitably delicious and, if it's a slow night, talk your ear off about soil drainage, temperature gradients, and noble rot. If you're interested. He might mention his vintage wine tasting series, or offer to help you track down a bottle you particularly enjoyed (he told us he'd keep an eye out for that Riesling). He'll probably wax slightly rhapsodic about Tokaji, his favorite dessert wine. Let him. You'll understand.
Take one forked branch of plum, one stem of kale, four artichokes and three stems of blackberries. It may sound like chutney-making, but this is a different kind of recipe C a flower recipe. Add parrot tulips, anemones, ornamental grasses and flowering oregano and you have a show-stopping display that puts your chrysanths in a pint glass to shame.
In truth, Ive never had much time for flower-arranging. I buy flowers and put them in a vase. In summer, I cut a few blooms from the garden, add to water and leave until the petals have dropped. I have always associated the art with finishing-school girls and stiff, formal arrangements in churches and village fairs, judged by faintly intimidating women.
The Flower Recipe Book blasts the stuffiness out of traditional flower arranging. It is the work of best friends Alethea Harampolis and Jill Rizzo, owners of the Studio Choo floral studio in San Francisco. For a year, they ran the business out of Jills kitchen, Aletheas Honda and a garage in the city before setting up the shop, beloved of the stylish set in Californias coolest city.
San Francisco is the birthplace of the flower child and the pair share a philosophy to keep everything looking as natural as possible. We take our inspiration from nature, they say, and make sure not to manipulate the flowers too much.Winbo Luggage Tags
The recipe format is a genius way of guiding you through the complexities. It is a formula any cook can understand. There is a list of ingredients to use as a guide, with plenty of room for experimentation, and clear step-by-step instructions. Common flower names are used throughout and a guide to choosing the right vessel will have you trawling flea markets for vintage jars and tins.
Sweetpeas, which are flowering extravagantly in my garden right now, are divided into bunches from dark to light colours in nine small jars (think fish-paste jars), and arranged in a square to create a block of loveliness. For a minimalist look, try nine stems of chocolate cosmos in a flat-sided plain-glass vase. Two stems of white or purple clematis are allowed to bend and arch their leaves and tendrils in a vintage bottle. Clematis is among Alethea and Jills favourites, along with lily of the valley, daphne and honeysuckle C they place a couple of stems in vases on their bedside tables.
Tall, leggy beauties such as delphiniums are trimmed short for maximum colour intensity. A single delphinium stem in a canning jar, backed by two jars bearing double stems, gives a shot of electric blue to a room.
But it is the little bit of this, little bit of that arrangements that will suit the ordinary gardener. Visit the herb beds, vegetable patch, hedges and fruit trees for inspiration. I never considered using sprigs of mint in a glass before, unless doused in Pimms. Similarly rosemary, instead of going on a leg of lamb, can nestle up to viburnum berries, twigs and red-and-white amaryllis in a vintage metal flour tin. Purple sage marries beautifully with different types of lavender.
The end result is often a snapshot of the season. A prickly arm of not-quite-ripe blackberries or dark-pink plums announce late summer. The branches of apricot and oranges, which line the roads in California, will be hard to come by, but its an idea. Try rosy-red crab apple in August instead.
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Dexter Highlights Its DexTemp 1000 IR Temperature Monitor
Finding an accurate thermometer that can measure temperature at a
distance is hard to come by, especially if you dont have the pockets to
shell out thousands of dollars for military-grade sensors (the kind
usually installed in fighter jets).Some users of IR temperature sensors
may not need that level of accuracy but are looking for something more
affordable as well as smaller that has incredible accuracy in its own
right. This is where Dexter Research Center shines, as the company
released its DexTemp 1000 Non-Contact IR Temperature Monitor last
month.
The sensor is roughly the size of a Flash drive and projects an infrared beam that monitors the radiation emitted from the surface of an object at a distance. Dexter designed the sensor around a thermopile detector it developed that converts thermal energy into electrical energy by the temperature differences (gradient) between both sides of the device.
The voltage produced by the DexTemp 1000 due to the temperature gradient taken by the IR beam is then translated into a real-time graph that allows the user to monitor and record said object's radiation temperature. The sensor is connected to a PC through a USB connection, which is used in conjunction with Dexter Research Centers software on Windows-based systems.
Those who think Dexters temperature sensor is still too large for application purposes may want to take a look at Thermodo -- an ultra-small electric thermometer capable of taking the ambient temperature readings in your immediate area. The thermometer, designed by Robocat, uses a plug-in temperature sensor (coupled with a convenient carrying key ring for portability) that connects to your mobile devices headphone jack. Once connected, the device automatically starts to monitor the temperature in your area and can be monitored on your mobile device using an app that displays real-time temperature information in a graph form. This allows the users to garner temperature information in their local areas instead of using weather reports from local stations located miles away.
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Based on the peer-to-peer bittorrent protocol, it consisted of a Firefox browser plugin that offered a dead-simple way for users to share files on their computer with anybody else in their AllPeers buddy list. Sadly, however, the startup was arguably ahead of its time and deadpooled in 2008.
(When I met the defunct companys co-founder and serial entrepreneur Cedric Maloux in 2011,Handy Pocket Mirror with hinged lid that doubles as a stand. I excitedly uttered the words, you were like Dropbox before Dropbox. He gave me a look in return that only those who have failed startup scars can truly appreciate.)Of course, it could be argued that in the time thats passed, the one-to-one and one-to-many file sharing problem has largely been solved thanks to the cloud and a plethora of file sharing and cloud-storage services that ride its coattails. But still, I couldnt help have my interest piqued when hearing about French startup Infinit, which enters private Beta today with a new P2P file sharing service that is more than a little reminiscent of the simplicity of AllPeers.I was looking for an option to Customizable Ear Caps to wear with my half.
Shunning bittorrent for its own file sharing technology developed off the back of co-founder Julien Quintards PhD research on decentralized file systems while at the University of Cambridge the Mac OSX-only app sees Infinits service integrated directly with OSXs Finder, not dissimilar to Apples own AirDrop for local network file sharing.
Once installed, the Infinit icon shows up in the users Finder favourites, just like their own home folder or an attached USB drive, for example, whilst the Infinit interface consists of 8 avatars seven of your most shared with friends plus yourself and a search bar for finding and sharing with others, including based on their email address. File transfers are initiated via a simple drag and drop of the content you wish to share onto the avatar of the person you wish to share it with, and a menu item in the Finders menu bar keeps tabs on how file transfers are progressing, new file transfer requests, and access to other settings.
In terms of security, Infinit says it uses direct encryption for files transferred between a senders device and a recipients device, ensuring both security and privacy such that no third-party can ever interact with or access the exchanged data, including Infinit itself.
Pricing-wise, Infinit will offer a free option with a limit of 2GB for file sizes, and various paid plans where file size will be unlimited. In addition,This vertical Cable Organizer can be mounted to either. it says that anyone who downloads Infinit during its private Beta will get an unlimited version of the file transfer application for life.
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The sensor is roughly the size of a Flash drive and projects an infrared beam that monitors the radiation emitted from the surface of an object at a distance. Dexter designed the sensor around a thermopile detector it developed that converts thermal energy into electrical energy by the temperature differences (gradient) between both sides of the device.
The voltage produced by the DexTemp 1000 due to the temperature gradient taken by the IR beam is then translated into a real-time graph that allows the user to monitor and record said object's radiation temperature. The sensor is connected to a PC through a USB connection, which is used in conjunction with Dexter Research Centers software on Windows-based systems.
Those who think Dexters temperature sensor is still too large for application purposes may want to take a look at Thermodo -- an ultra-small electric thermometer capable of taking the ambient temperature readings in your immediate area. The thermometer, designed by Robocat, uses a plug-in temperature sensor (coupled with a convenient carrying key ring for portability) that connects to your mobile devices headphone jack. Once connected, the device automatically starts to monitor the temperature in your area and can be monitored on your mobile device using an app that displays real-time temperature information in a graph form. This allows the users to garner temperature information in their local areas instead of using weather reports from local stations located miles away.
Robocat successfully funded Thermodo on Kickstarter, surpassing its initial goal of US$35,Choose from a large selection of Customized Silicone Bracelets to raise awareness.000 with more than $330,000 in pledges. Prices start at $19 for the Black Edition all the way up to $2,999, which nets you a personalized Anodized Aluminum Edition (multiple colors will be available) with your name engraved on it, as well as becoming a consultant of sorts for the Robocat team in refining the Thermodo. At that price level,Winbo photo frames backers also receive a tour of Copenhagen (where the Robocat office is located), ending with dinner with the design team. The estimated release date for those who have backed the project is sometime in August of this year, with no word yet when it will become available to the public.
Based on the peer-to-peer bittorrent protocol, it consisted of a Firefox browser plugin that offered a dead-simple way for users to share files on their computer with anybody else in their AllPeers buddy list. Sadly, however, the startup was arguably ahead of its time and deadpooled in 2008.
(When I met the defunct companys co-founder and serial entrepreneur Cedric Maloux in 2011,Handy Pocket Mirror with hinged lid that doubles as a stand. I excitedly uttered the words, you were like Dropbox before Dropbox. He gave me a look in return that only those who have failed startup scars can truly appreciate.)Of course, it could be argued that in the time thats passed, the one-to-one and one-to-many file sharing problem has largely been solved thanks to the cloud and a plethora of file sharing and cloud-storage services that ride its coattails. But still, I couldnt help have my interest piqued when hearing about French startup Infinit, which enters private Beta today with a new P2P file sharing service that is more than a little reminiscent of the simplicity of AllPeers.I was looking for an option to Customizable Ear Caps to wear with my half.
Shunning bittorrent for its own file sharing technology developed off the back of co-founder Julien Quintards PhD research on decentralized file systems while at the University of Cambridge the Mac OSX-only app sees Infinits service integrated directly with OSXs Finder, not dissimilar to Apples own AirDrop for local network file sharing.
Once installed, the Infinit icon shows up in the users Finder favourites, just like their own home folder or an attached USB drive, for example, whilst the Infinit interface consists of 8 avatars seven of your most shared with friends plus yourself and a search bar for finding and sharing with others, including based on their email address. File transfers are initiated via a simple drag and drop of the content you wish to share onto the avatar of the person you wish to share it with, and a menu item in the Finders menu bar keeps tabs on how file transfers are progressing, new file transfer requests, and access to other settings.
In terms of security, Infinit says it uses direct encryption for files transferred between a senders device and a recipients device, ensuring both security and privacy such that no third-party can ever interact with or access the exchanged data, including Infinit itself.
Pricing-wise, Infinit will offer a free option with a limit of 2GB for file sizes, and various paid plans where file size will be unlimited. In addition,This vertical Cable Organizer can be mounted to either. it says that anyone who downloads Infinit during its private Beta will get an unlimited version of the file transfer application for life.
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