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I've never had a landline. It hasn't been a problem?my cell phone suits me just fine. But every once in a while, when I'm trying to talk on the phone and cobble dinner together at the same time, I long for the ability to cradle my phone between my ear and shoulder like you can with a traditional home phone. If I tried doing that with my cell phone, I'd probably end up eating iPhone soup.
The $49.99 POP Bluetooth headset from Native Union?bridges this gap, giving you a traditional handset you can use to make calls from your cell phone. It's fun, retro design, is very comfortable to use, and even allows you to access your cell phone's voice control. Mediocre call quality holds it back some, but this is still a fun, inexpensive accessory for anyone that uses a cell phone, but finds themself longing for something a little more traditional.
Design and Setup
Inspired by the classic 1950s Bakelite phone, the POP headset has a cool, minimalist look that should complement any style. We tested the red model, but it also comes in black, blue, green, pink, or white. The handset measures 8.50 by 2.50 by 2.25 inches and weighs 6.88 ounces. It's made entirely of rubberized plastic that gives it a soft, grippy feel.
Though I've been cell-phone-only for nearly ten years now, it turns out talking on a traditional phone is just like riding a bike. Using the POP feels comfortable and natural?much more so than my tiny iPhone. It also passed the head and shoulder cradling test with flying colors. This is the first time I've been able to talk on the phone and do dishes simultaneously since flip phones were in style.
Native Union provides a curly, stretchy USB charging cable, and rates battery life at up to 8 hours of talk time, which is solid. You also get a felt mat for resting the headset on, though really, you can pretty much stick it anywhere without one.
The POP uses Bluetooth to connect to your phone, tablet, or computer. Setting it up is simple. There are three buttons on the inside of the handset. Two are for volume, with a multifunction button in the middle. Hold down that middle button until the status light above starts to blink red and blue to enter pairing mode, then pair it with your device of choice. I paired the POP with an Apple iPhone 4S, an HTC One X+, and a laptop running Windows 7.
Performance and Conclusions
Once you're connected, you can use the POP to pick up and end calls by pressing the multifunction button. Incoming calls trigger a loud, rotary-style ring, as well as your cell phone's ringtone played through the POP's earpiece. To place a call, simply press the multifunction button to trigger Siri on an iPhone or voice control on an Android device; I was able to use both just fine.
In addition to pairing the POP with your phone, you can also use it with your tablet or computer. The handset supports Google Talk and Skype, as well as other VoIP applications, which makes it a little more versatile than your average headset.?
My only gripe, really, is voice quality. For phone calls, no matter which phone I was connected to, voices sounded fuzzy, and had some static in the background. I switched back and forth between the POP and cell phone on the same call, and there is no denying that calls sounded better through the cell phone's earpiece. On the other end, calls made using the POP sound digitized, and almost a little distorted. You won't have trouble hearing someone on either end, but for a product primarily made for making calls, the POP should sound better. And while it works within the traditional 30-foot Bluetooth range, I noticed calls starting to break up at distances a little shorter than that.
Voice quality aside, I still like the POP Bluetooth handset. It isn't a dock, like the Goodcall iG1, and it isn't a cell-to-landline solution like the Panasonic Link-to-Cell?system. It's just a comfortable, stylish, Bluetooth handset to complement your cell phone. Voice quality may leave a bit to be desired, but the next time you're looking to multitask with your phone on your shoulder, you may decide it's worth it.?
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Some people regard video games as harmless fun, or even as a useful educational tool. Others, however, believe that videos games are having an adverse effect on the people who play them. In your opinion, do the drawbacks of video games outweigh the benefits?
Many people, and children in particular, enjoy playing computer games. While I accept that these games can sometimes have a positive effect on the user, I believe that they are more likely to have a harmful impact.
On the one hand, video games can be both entertaining and educational. Users, or gamers, are transported into virtual worlds which are often more exciting and engaging than real-life pastimes. From an educational perspective, these games encourage imagination and creativity, as well as concentration, logical thinking and problem solving, all of which are useful skills outside the gaming context. Furthermore, it has been shown that computer simulation games can improve users? motor skills and help to prepare them for real-world tasks, such as flying a plane.
However, I would argue that these benefits are outweighed by the drawbacks. Gaming can be highly addictive because users are constantly given scores, new targets and frequent rewards to keep them playing. Many children now spend hours each day trying to progress through the levels of a game or to get a higher score than their friends. This type of addiction can have effects ranging from lack of sleep to problems at school, when homework is sacrificed for a few more hours on the computer or console. The rise in obesity in recent years has also been linked in part to the sedentary lifestyle and lack of exercise that often accompany gaming addiction.
In conclusion, it seems to me that the potential dangers of video games are more significant than the possible benefits.
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Chicago Real Estate Forum and Marketing RELEVANCE congratulate Summit Signature Homes for winning a Silver Key Award in Excellence in New Construction for a Custom Home.Summit Signature Homes stated: Our clients in this town are aged 35-45 and many are relocating from downtown Chicago or building their second home. The draw of this location is the oversized property which backs up to the Hinsdale Golf Club, offering plenty of privacy. In addition, the home is close to Clarendon's charming downtown, train station, schools and parks.
This all-American Nantucket style home offers an open floor plan and features 10-foot main level ceilings, four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a large mud room and bonus room. This home is situated on a 60-by-239 deep lot in Clarendon Hills which is larger than the standard 60-by-150 size lot normally found in town. We worked closely with our clients and architect to make sure the backyard was a focal point from the main living area in this home.
In Clarendon Hills you are limited by the FAR requirements. We maximized the square footage on this home including the added space above the garage (bonus room). In addition, we situated the garage on the front of the home with a sideload entrance. We wanted our clients to be able to turn their car around so that they would have an easier time exiting their driveway.
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The Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago's KEY and SAMMY Awards celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2012. The awards began in 1972 and have grown throughout the years to now feature more than 100 building, remodeling, marketing and personal achievement categories. The KEY and SAMMY awards are the premier awards of Chicago's residential building industry. To see more award winners, visit Chicago Real Estate Forum.
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Dec. 12, 2012 ? A detailed analysis of sediments from the island of Bonaire in the Caribbean presents convincing evidence for an extraordinary wave impact dating back some 3,300 years, even though no historical records of tsunamis exist for this island. Of particular interest are the consequences this large wave impact had on the island's ecosystem. The sediments studied by the scientists suggested that this tsunami entirely changed the coastal ecosystem and sedimentation patterns in the area.
The work by Dr. Max Engel and colleagues, from the University of K?ln in Germany, is published online in Springer's journal, Naturwissenschaften -- The Science of Nature.
The Caribbean region is highly vulnerable to coastal hazards, including tropical cyclones, earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. Even though the island of Bonaire has not experienced a tsunami during the past 500 years, which is the period of historical documentation, overwash deposits from a coastal lagoon provide evidence for at least one such event in prehistory.
Engel and colleagues investigated sediment cores from Washington-Slagbaai National Park. They looked specifically at grain size distribution, carbonate content, organic matter, magnetic susceptibility and fauna. Their analyses showed that the sediments had criteria typically linked with tsunami deposits, consistent with a tsunami with a maximum age of 3,300 years.
The authors conclude: "This single catastrophic event is of long-term ecological significance. Formation of a barrier of coral rubble was triggered by the tsunami separating a former inland bay from the open sea and turning it into a highly saline lagoon which persists until today. Further studies of the geology of tsunamis, using well-dated deposits, are required over the entire Caribbean to reconstruct reliable patterns of magnitude, frequency and spatial occurrence of tsunami events and their environmental impact."
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Dec. 12, 2012 ? The first unequivocal evidence that humans in prehistoric Northern Europe made cheese more than 7,000 years ago is described in research by an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, published December 12 in Nature.
By analysing fatty acids extracted from unglazed pottery pierced with small holes excavated from archaeological sites in Poland, the researchers showed that dairy products were processed in these ceramic vessels. Furthermore, the typology of the sieves, close in shape to modern cheese-strainers, provides compelling evidence that these specialised vessels have been used for cheese-making.
Before this study, milk residues had been detected in early sites in Northwestern Anatolia (8,000 years ago) and in Libya (nearly 7,000 years ago). Nevertheless, it had been impossible to detect if the milk was processed to cheese products.
Researchers from the Organic Geochemistry Unit at the University of Bristol, together with colleagues at Princeton (USA), ??d?, Gd?nsk and Pozna? (Poland) studied unglazed pottery from the region of Kuyavia (Poland) dating from around 7,000 years ago. These had been typologically interpreted as cheese-strainers by archaeologists for more than 30 years due to the peculiar presence of small sized holes on the surface of the sherds. In fact, these archaeological sherds looked like modern cheese-strainers.
Using lipid biomarker and stable isotope analysis, researchers examined preserved fatty acids trapped in the fabric of the pottery and showed that the sieves had indeed been used for processing dairy products. Milk residues were also detected in non-perforated bowls, which may have been used with the sieves.
Contrastingly, the analyses of non-perforated pottery (cooking pots or bottles) demonstrated that they were not used for processing milk. The presence of ruminant carcass fats in cooking pots showed that they were likely used to cook meat, while the presence of beeswax in bottles suggests the sealing of the pottery to store water.
Thus, the analyses of such a range of ceramics from the same area showed for the first time that different types of pottery were used in a specific manner, with sieves (and maybe bowls) being used for cheese-making, cooking pots for cooking meat and waterproofed bottles for storing water.
The processing of milk and particularly the production of cheese were critical in early agricultural societies as it allowed the preservation of milk in a non-perishable and transportable form and, of primary importance, it made milk a more digestible commodity for early prehistoric farmers.
M?lanie Salque, a PhD student from the University of Bristol and one of the authors of the paper said: "Before this study, it was not clear that cattle were used for their milk in Northern Europe around 7,000 years ago. However, the presence of the sieves in the ceramic assemblage of the sites was thought to be a proof that milk and even cheese was produced at these sites. Of course, these sieves could have been used for straining all sorts of things, such as curds from whey, meat from stock or honeycombs from honey. We decided to test the cheese-making hypothesis by analysing the lipids trapped into the ceramic fabric of the sieves.
"The presence of milk residues in sieves (which look like modern cheese-strainers) constitutes the earliest direct evidence for cheese-making. So far, early evidence for cheese-making were mostly iconographic, that is to say murals showing milk processing, which dates to several millennia later than the cheese strainers."
Peter Bogucki one of the co-authors of this new study and proponent of the cheese strainer hypothesis nearly 30 years ago notes that: "As well as showing that humans were making cheese 7,000 years ago, these results provide evidence of the consumption of low-lactose content milk products in Prehistory. Making cheese allowed them to reduce the lactose content of milk, and we know that at that time, most of the humans were not tolerant to lactose. Making cheese is a particularly efficient way to exploit the nutritional benefits of milk, without becoming ill because of the lactose."
The leader of the Bristol team, Professor Richard Evershed added: "It is truly remarkable the depth of insights into ancient human diet and food processing technologies these ancient fats preserved in archaeological ceramics are now providing us with!"
The research was funded by the 7th EU framework Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (FP7-ITN-215362-2) and the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
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Dec. 10, 2012 ? An experimental drug combination for preventing graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) was not significantly better than the standard regimen on key endpoints, according to a report of a phase 3 trial at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting. The combination of two immunosuppressive compounds -- tacrolimus plus sirolimus -- did not provide a statistically significant, GVHD-free survival benefit over the long-used standard of care, tacrolimus plus methotrexate, said researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who led the multi-center trial.
However, there were some "upsides" of the tacrolimus/sirolimus treatment that could prove advantageous for certain patients, said Corey Cutler, MD, MPH, first author of the report. Among them: patients engrafted slightly more rapidly and suffered much less from mucositis, a common and painful side-effect that causes sores in the mouth and throat.
But there were also "downsides," Cutler said -- an increased incidence of veno-occlusive disease (blood clots in the liver) and a slight increase in the rate of late-onset GVHD. "We were a little disappointed in the results, but excited to offer an alternative to the standard of care for the past 25 years," said Cutler, who, along with Joseph Antin, MD, of Dana-Farber, senior author of the report, had led clinical studies of sirolimus beginning in 2000 in hopes that it would promote better survival from GVHD than the standard treatment.
The phase 3 randomized controlled trial was carried out by the Bone and Marrow Clinical Trials Network (BMT CTN) at 26 centers. It enrolled over 300 patients, the majority of whom had acute leukemia in remission. The patients had received stem cell transplants from a matched sibling donor.
The primary endpoint of 114-day acute GVHD-free survival was 67 percent in the tacrolimus/sirolimus group and 62 percent in the tacrolimus/methotrexate group -- a difference that was not statistically significant. At two years after transplantation, there was no difference in disease-free survival and overall survival.
"This study establishes this regimen as an alternative to the standard of care -- it could be preferable in certain scenarios," Cutler said. "It will continue to be the standard of care at Dana-Farber."
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