Holiday In West Miami - Twitter: 15 Hidden Keyboard Shortcuts

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1. Homepage - 'g h'

If you want to return straight to the home page, you don't have to scroll the cursor up to the home icon on the left. You can just press 'g h' on your keyboard and it will take you straight to your home Twitter feed.

2. Your profile - 'g p' 
When you're surfing around on Twitter and find yourself seven degrees of separation away from your profile, press 'g p' and it will take you straight back to your profile.
 

3. Messages - 'g m'

The message icon can be hard to find on Twitter, so if you need to access your inbox, press 'g m' on your keyboard and it will take you straight there. 

4. Connect - 'g c'

When you want to get to your list of interactions, just press 'g c' on the keyboard. 

5. Mentions - 'g r'

To get to mentions you could then just click the tab on the left - but obviously the quicker shortcut would be to just type 'g r' and that will bring up any Tweets that mention you. 

6. Users' profiles - 'g u'

To get to someone else's profile you don't have to browse the search box. Instead you can type 'g u' and a box will pop up saying: "Go to a person's profile." Just type in their name to jump to a profile. 

7. New Tweet - 'n'

Wherever you are on the Twitter site, pressing 'n' on your keyboard will immediately pull up a 'What's happening?' box for you to type your Tweet into. 

8. DM - 'm'

If you want to send a DM (direct message), press 'm' and a new direct message box will appear on your screen. You can then type in the recipient's Twitter handle and send your message. 

9. Favourite - 'f'

If you come across a Tweet you want to favourite, simply pressing 'f' will favourite it for you. However - word of warning - this only works if you have opened up a new page for the Tweet. It won't work just on your homepage. 

10. Retweet - 't'

Just as with favouriting a Tweet, you need to have the Tweet fully open to do this. Once you have it up, just press 't' and it will ask you if you want to retweet it to your followers. 

11. Reply - 'r'

For those of you who were wondering why the code for retweeting is a 't', now you'll know why. The 'r' shortcut is reserved for replying to a Tweet. Again, make sure you have the Tweet open separately before you do this. If you press it whilst on the homepage, nothing will happen. 

12. Next Tweet - 'j'

To move on to the next Tweet in a list, simply pressing 'j' will take you down to the next one and create a blue box around the Tweet. 

13. Previous Tweet - 'k'

To go back to a previous Tweet, press 'k'. 

14. Load more - '.'

If you have an old browser, or your Tweets are taking a while to load, pressing '.' will bring up the next set of Tweets for you, and take you straight to the top of your page. 

15. Keyboard shortcuts - '?'

When in doubt of all these shortcuts, just typing in a question mark will bring up Twitter's hidden menu of all the keyboard shortcuts available.

Holiday In West Miami - Apple Cuts Orders Of iPhone 5C As Consumers Prefer 5S

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Apple is cutting production orders for its plastic-backed iPhone 5C a month after launch, a source familiar with its supply chain said on Wednesday, fueling speculation the cheaper model of its main gadget may have been priced too high. 

Apple has asked one of its largest suppliers to increase production of the top-tier 5S, which went on sale at the same time, the Wall Street Journal reported. said. Analyst said this allayed concerns that the cheaper 5C will eat into premium sales and erode margins. 

Apple has told manufacturers it will reduce orders for the 5C smartphone in the final three months of the year, the source told Reuters. The company added the 5C to the lineup in September along with the flagship iPhone 5S.

Pegatron, which assembles many of Apple's iPhone 5Cs, had seen orders reduced by less than 20 percent, said the source, who asked not to be identified because the information is sensitive.

Hon Hai Precision Industry another major assembly contractor for the 5C, had its orders for the same period reduced by a third, the Wall Street Journal reported.

But at the same time, Apple raised orders for the 5S in the fourth quarter, the newspaper said, quoting two Hon Hai executives.

Analysts said the decision by consumers to spend more on the pricier 5S benefits Apple. The company's shares rose on Wednesday, touching a one-month high above $502. Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley estimated that the iPhone 5S is outselling 5C by 2.5 times to 1.


Canaccord Genuity's "survey work indicates a significantly higher sell-through mix of iPhone 5s versus 5c that should benefit near-term Average Selling Prices and margins," Walkley said.

In the United States, the 5C is $100 cheaper than the premium 5S, which starts at $649 for the 16 GB model.

Spokespersons at Pegatron, Hon Hai and Apple declined to comment.

Analysts and Apple executives have cautioned against reading too much into supply chain adjustments, which are common in the fast-moving electronics industry.

Investors will get some idea of the demand for the two phones when Apple reports its fiscal fourth quarter results later this month. But the iPhones numbers from July-September will include sales of only a month of the new models.

Holiday quarter boost 
 
Apple is expected to sell 33 million to 36 million iPhones in its fiscal fourth quarter, rising to over 50 million in the typically strong holiday quarter, which will mark the first full quarter of sales of the new iPhones.

The holiday quarter may also feature a new lineup of iPads.

Next week, Apple is expected to introduce a updated version of the tablets that compete with Amazon.com's Kindle Fire and tablets made by Samsung Electronics.

Apple has come under pressure over the past year to bolster sales of its iPhones and iPads and defend its market share against rivals that are rapidly raising capabilities and lowering prices.

The reception for the 5c has been lukewarm in China, which Chief Executive Tim Cook has identified as one of Apple's most important markets. Some local bloggers say the price difference between the 5C and 5S is too narrow.

The price difference could widen next year as Apple is known for cutting prices of older models to drive volume.

"We're not especially concerned with 5C order cuts at this point because they appear to be offset by strong demand and increased production for the 5S, said Brian Colello, analyst with Morningstar said. "As far as emerging markets, the 5C is simply not cheap enough to gain traction with customers that can buy $150 Android devices."

Previously, Apple had said sales for the 5S and 5C in the first three days of their launch in September totaled 9 million, and that demand for the 5S exceeded initial supplies. It did not give separate figures for the 5C and 5S.

Prudential, which does not own Apple shares, forecasts assemblers will ship around 23 million 5C units in the final three months of this year and 10 million in the first three months of next year.

Apple shares rose as high as $502.53 at the open on the Nasdaq on Wednesday and was up 0.6 percent at $501.63 in afternoon trading.

Holiday In West Miami - How Apple Could Boost Speeds 20 Times On The Next iPhone

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A wireless networking technology found in Apple’s new operating system could—if tweaked—provide a 10- to 20-fold bandwidth increase in some situations, like on a moving train or in a busy urban environment, new research suggests.

The technology is called multipath TCP. It allows you to use multiple wireless networks—such as 4G and Wi-Fi—at the same time. But Apple isn’t using it fully, nor is it using an advanced version—one that also encodes the data being transmitted in new ways— recently shown to provide those dramatic potential gains.

The advance, based on work done by a multi-university group led by Muriel Medard, an electrical engineering professor at MIT, is “very compelling” and “shows dramatic improvement in terms of increased data rates, reduced latency, and reduced packet loss,” says Andrea Goldsmith, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford and a leading network researcher and entrepreneur not involved in the work.

Right now, as any smartphone owner knows, a phone or tablet will either use Wi-Fi or 4G or 3G—and never at the same time. So your streaming video may cut out because the network you were using dropped, even though there’s another signal available.

Multipath TCP could change this by divvying up those video bits across two or more networks. “Multipath” refers to using more than one wireless route, and TCP refers to the protocols used by most Internet traffic. Then, to use a simplified explanation—all “odd” packets (units of data that make up an Internet transmission) get sent over Wi-Fi and “even” ones over 4G. Then these “odd” and “even” packets get woven back, zipper-like, on the phone.

But in practice, it’s not that simple. The problems start with the fact that data-transmission takes longer from a cell tower than it does from a Wi-Fi router. Throw satellite streams in and the transmission delays are even longer.

Multipath TCP makes up for this by tweaking transmission speeds. But matters get more complicated if you are moving around, meaning those timings are always changing—and worse still, if some packets drop out. When those things happen, the computation required for multipath processing can get so complex that it actually slows down the overall speeds, says Medard.

And that may be why Apple—in using multipath TCP only for its voice-query engine, Siri—apparently isn’t even using both cellular and Wi-Fi networks at the same time. Rather, it may be using the technology to simply enable Siri to switch back and forth between them without user intervention, so it can avoid having to retransmit your spoken request, a source of delays.

“The rumors I’ve heard is that Apple is using it for Siri just to decrease latency by using whatever network connection is available,” says Jason Cloud, a grad student in Medard’s lab.

Trudy Miller, an Apple spokeswoman, declined to comment on how the technology has been deployed. (Apple has been characteristically secretive about the technology; so one of the first hints that it was using multipath at all came when a Belgian researcher, Olivier Bonaventure, blogged about it earlier this month.) Several groups around the world are working on the technology.

At any rate, there is a technology that helps solve the remaining problems with multipath TCP. It is called “network coding”—an extra tweak atop multipath TCP. Network coding algorithmically combines packets in elegant ways. Then multiple packets can be turned into a single number that’s a function of the ones making it up. “You code within flows for redundancy,” Medard says. “Then you don’t have to be managing between them like crazy.”

It was this version that, when tested by Cloud and colleagues at the Hamilton Institute, part of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, Ireland, provided up to 10 times better performance on a single network path, by repairing dropped packets on a single connection. This expanded on work Medard did last year (see “A Bandwidth Breakthrough”).

Measurements done at the University of California, Los Angeles, suggested how network coding could turbocharge multipath TCP. In findings presented in June, Medard and several university collaborators measured actual packet losses and other conditions around a Westwood, California, campus from three wireless sources: Wi-Fi transmitters, cellular towers, and Iridium satellites. They concluded the technology could provide a similar benefit when used on multiple paths, with a potential tenfold increase per path.

Demonstrations are planned over the next year. But commercialization of the underlying network coding technology is already possible. Medard says several organizations have licensed the technology from an MIT-Caltech startup called Code-On Technologies. She says she can’t name the companies.

Goldsmith says that while she didn’t know the details of what Apple has done, “it’s great to see Apple move in this direction, as it will inspire more developments in theory and practice.”

While “it is a no-brainer” to move forward with industry adoption of network coding with multipath TCP, implementation will likely have to start with applications where the data can easily be coded and decoded at either end—like, say, on a video application. “It’s very difficult to fundamentally change the network. There are a lot of entrenched players and entrenched technology,” Goldsmith says.

Holiday In West Miami - The iPhone 5s TouchID Fingerprint Hack Doesn't Matter

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Apple  (NASDAQ: AAPL  )  is in fierce competition in the smartphone market with Android OS by Google and, to a lesser degree, Windows Phone 8 by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT  ) . Both competitors have been gaining smartphone market share over Apple's iOS-driven iPhone, and in this race, perception as an innovator is crucial to continued success. New features need to draw significant attention. But they can't compromise security.

The new iPhone 5s

The new iPhone 5s has made quite a stir by introducing two new technologies that leave Android and WP8 phones behind. The first is a 64-bit CPU, something no other smartphone can boast.

Tests by the respected site AnandTech have shown that the 5s is very fast, handily beating competitors in most of the benchmarks. On the Geekbench benchmark, an overall computational set, gains were mixed, except in one important area – cryptographic tests: AES over 800%, and SHA1 245% improvements.

The AES and SHA1 gains are a direct result of the new cryptographic instructions that are a part of ARMv8. The AES test in particular shows nearly an order of magnitude performance improvement. [Emphasis added.]

One wonders what Apple has in mind for cryptographic services.

Apple's TouchID

One possibility, of course, is the second radical improvement, the fingerprint scanner, dubbed TouchID, that allows you to open your locked iPhone without needing to enter your password. Reviewers have hailed this as a great advance.

It should be noted that Motorola – now a part of Google – used to have a phone model, Atrix 4G, that used fingerprint scanning, but it was both awkward and so unreliable that they discontinued the feature . By most accounts, Apple's TouchID system works simply and reliably.

The Chaos Computer Club

The Chaos Computer Club is "Europe's largest association of hackers." They quickly developed a method to fool the fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5s, and released a statement:

The biometrics hacking team of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple's TouchID using easy everyday means. A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an iPhone 5s secured with TouchID. This demonstrates – again – that fingerprint biometrics is unsuitable as access control method and should be avoided.

Basically they took a fingerprint off of glass, scanned it under fairly high resolution, then used that image to make a latex spoof. It is easy to do and anyone can do it at home with inexpensive equipment.

Holiday In West Miami - Help Your Kids Ace Their Tests With a Salmon Dinner

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Want to help your kids improve their performance at school? Serve them a dinner of grilled tuna or salmon teriyaki, suggests a new study out of Oxford University.

After taking blood samples from nearly 500 children between the ages of seven and nine, scientists found that levels of omega-3 fatty acids “significantly predicted” their ability to concentrate, and learn.

Published in the journal PLOS One and presented at a conference in London last week, the study found that higher levels of omega-3, particularly the long-chain form of Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), were associated with better reading and memory and fewer behavioral problems among the children examined.

Omega-3 fatty acids have been shown to play an important role in the brain’s structure and cognitive function, in addition to heart health and the immune system. Dietary sources of omega-3 include fatty fish such as sardines, mackerel, salmon and tuna as well as flaxseed oil and walnuts.

Blood samples of the 493 schoolchildren showed, meanwhile, that British children fall below the minimum recommended intake of the brain boosting nutrient: on average, the total levels of omega-3 fatty acids (both DHA and its cousin Eicosapentaenoic acid or EPA), averaged 2.45 percent. The minimum level of omega-3 fatty acids recommended to maintain heart health is four percent in adults.

Scientists also found that nine out of ten children in the sample ate fish less than twice a week, and nearly one in ten never ate fish at all, according to dietary information obtained from the parents. Recommended weekly intake is a minimum of two fish portions a week.

“[T]his study suggests that many, if not most UK children, probably aren't getting enough of the long-chain omega-3 we all need for a healthy brain, heart and immune system,” said study co-author Alex Richardson.

“That gives serious cause for concern because we found that lower blood DHA was linked with poorer behaviour and learning in these children.”

Another study published last year in the print issue of Neurology likewise found that a diet lacking in omega-3 fatty acids may be linked to shrinking brains in older people, causing the brain to age faster and weakening important cognitive functions such as visual memory, problem solving, multi-tasking and abstract thinking.

Holiday In West Miami - iPhone 5S To Ring In The New With Expected Fingerprint Sensing Home Button

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Tuesday will tell, but multiple rumors are pointing to a subtle design distinction for the forthcoming iPhone 5S. Along with new Gold and Graphite colors, the home button is expected have a new look signifying the inclusion of a fingerprint scanner within.

FOX News anchor (and now app developer) Clayton Morris first claimed, in an interview last month, that “sources” told him that the home button will “have a silver ring around it.” Speculation was raised by the inclusion in the invitation for Tuesday’s announcement of three silver-bordered rings along with the brightly-colored circles reminiscent of the iOS 7′s new palette. (I have inserted iPhone 5 home buttons into those rings in the spoof on Apple AAPL +0.61%‘s invitation above.) The features is also shown on questionable “leaked” photos of 5S packaging, but these could have been generated in response to Clayton as opposed to anything Apple is actually doing.

Additionally, Sonny Dickson released high-resolution photos on Friday of a sensor purported to be attached to the new home button, but there has need no independent corroboration of the actual functionality of the leaked part.

Most accounts have indicated that initially the sensor will be able to authenticate a user on the device, as the lock screen passcode does now, but not yet be capable of secure payments. The payment piece will obviously be a really big deal, and many companies are pursuing that grail, but fingerprint authentication, if it works reliably, will be a big boon to Apple in winning over enterprise IT departments.

Wells Fargo WFC -0.93% analyst and AllThingsD contributor Maynard Um, quoted this morning in USA Today, says that, “Enterprises want to know devices are in the right hands, and this pretty much guarantees it. [the inclusion of a fingerprint scanner] addresses enterprise security issues for Apple and will open up that market to the company more.” Um is bullish on the new technology that Apple bought from Authentec, and on Thursday he raised his price range estimate for Apple by almost 10% (from $485-$525 to $525-$575) in advance of the 5S release.

“Everyone is looking at what this new phone can do, and one of the key things is fingerprint authentication,” Um told USA Today. “People are underestimating what this technology can do.” Indeed, the authentication feature has been the one genuinely new aspect of the 5S that has surfaced, leading me to speculate that the “S” will stand for “security.” In combination with iOS 7′s iCloud Keychain, the fingerprint scanner could make the use of the new iPhones both more spontaneous and more secure.

Sebastien Taveau, the CTO of Validity Sensors, one of Authentec’s major competitors, reminds us in the USA Today article that, ”The swipe and PIN was one of the things Steve Jobs hated. It was in the way of the user experience.” This could be the biggest post-Jobs improvement in user experience undertaken by Apple under Tim Cook, and its success (or failure) will tell us a lot about the future viability of the company’s ability to innovate.

Apple will not be alone, particularly in the pursuit of biometric authentication for payments. PayPal president David Marcus predicts that, ”Within the next two years the vast majority of high-end smartphones will have biometrics and mainly fingerprint logins. It’s going to be very useful for payments.” PayPal is partners with Google GOOG +0.02%, BlackBerry, Lenovo and Validity Sensors in the FIDO Alliance (Fast Identity Online) a trade group that is charged with developing open standards for biometric alternatives to passwords and PINs. Apple, you will notice, is not a member of that group, indicating it intends to go its own way with this technology.

Holiday In West Miami - Did Apple Just Raise The Value Of Used iPhones?

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Apple AAPL +0.13%   is training retail staff to handle trade-ins, according to the blog 9to5Mac. “I like the environmental aspect of it, and so that part of it really is encouraging to me,” CEO Tim Cook said on the company’s most recent earnings call. But Apple has financial reasons for accepting trade-ins as well now. A growing number of iPhone owners use resale sites as a way to subsidize their upgrades — often completely covering the cost of a new phone (with contract) by selling their old one. Now the wireless carriers themselves have introduced their own trade-in services. (A spokesman for Apple declined to comment, as did Brightstar, the mobile-phone distributor said to be working with Apple.) See also: 10 things Apple won’t tell you

 

Customers should benefit from Apple’s entry into the market, as rivals will likely sweeten their deals, experts say. Apple’s trade-in program will give consumers more options for selling used iPhones, says Louis Ramirez, senior editor at DealNews.com. “It won’t directly affect sites like eBay and Craigslist, but it will force other trade-in sites like Gazelle and Amazon Trade-In to remain competitive,” he says. Although Apple is unlikely to offer customers more than resale sites for used iPhones, “it will be a welcome option for people who don’t have the patience to send gadgets back and forth in the mail,” Ramirez says. 

Independent trade-in sites also offer one distinct advantage over retailers and direct sale sites like Craigslist and eBay: They give consumers a grace period between the time they agree to sell their phone and hand it over. For the first time, Gazelle will give consumers 50 days to send in their device if they lock in their price by Sept. 10, with its usual 30-day grace period after that. It offers $350 for a mint condition iPhone 5, and $235 for a 4S. AT&T offers $261 for the iPhone 5 and $175 for the 4S. “Apple will likely fall in line at a competitive rate,” says Scott McLaren, chief marketing officer at ProtectCell, a cellphone insurance company that also buys used phones. 

Others are less sure that consumers will see any immediate benefit, however. “A greater supply generally means lower prices that consumers can get for their devices,” says Colin White, managing director of SellCell.com, a resale site for smartphones. But if demand also increases among consumers for used devices, he says that could help trade-in prices for used phones over the long term. Indeed, most industry pros say the resale industry is still in its infancy. “Our market analysis shows that less than 15% of smartphone-owning consumers in the U.S. actually trade-in their phones,” he says. 

And with just over 250 Apple stores in the U.S., rivals say Apple’s entry will actually give them much-needed free publicity. Case in point: GameStop, a company that also offers trade-ins for iPhones, has over 4,400 physical stores across the U.S. “This is not a market-share fight,” says Israel Ganot, CEO of Gazelle.com, which buys iPhones and sells them overseas. “It will lift the boat for everyone,” he says, making iPhone trade-ins a mainstream activity for consumers who wouldn’t have considered it before.

Holiday In West Miami - Apple's Grip On China Tablet Market Loosens

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Apple's grip on China's tablet market has loosened as Asian tech companies increase sales with cheaper Android tablet computers, a market report showed Thursday. 

Dickie Chang, senior market analyst at research firm IDC, said Apple supplied 28 per cent of tablet computers in China during the April-June quarter, down from 49 per cent dominance a year earlier. 

The iPad maker was still the biggest tablet supplier in China, its key growth engine, but its momentum has slowed. 

Apple sold 1.48 million iPads in the period, up 28 per cent over a year earlier, but sales of Galaxy tablets made by Samsung Electronics Co. quadrupled to 571,000 units. Samsung claimed 11 percent tablet market share, up from 6 percent.

Samsung, the world's largest smartphone maker, said earlier this year that it aims to double its annual sales of tablet computers, hoping to close the gap with Apple.

China's Lenovo and Taiwan's ASUS and Acer also had a surge in their market share. Chang said these companies benefited from offering cheaper tablets and from consumer familiarity with the Android operating system that is used in many smartphone models.

"If Apple cuts the price of previous generations of product like it did in phones, then more consumers would love to buy Apple's iPad," he said in an email.

China is a key market for consumer technology companies as growth in sales of smartphones and tablets slows in developed countries.

Apple CEO Tim Cook told the official Xinhua News Agency in January that China will become the company's biggest market.
 

Holiday In West Miami - 5 Common Yoga Mistakes To Avoid

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During my 15 years of teaching yoga, I have noticed some common mistakes that counter the benefits of yoga and can be downright dangerous. These problem-habits, such as forgetting to breathe, can sometimes reflect and reinforce how we live our daily life. If we rush through life, forgetting to take time to breathe, we will likely do the same in our yoga practice.

To cultivate a healthier, safer and more pleasant practice — both on and off the mat — avoid these 5 common mistakes:

1. Focusing too much on the perfect pose.

Just because you cannot get into the full expression of the pose, or practice the pose like your neighbor or teacher does, doesn’t mean that the steps you take to approach the full expression aren’t worth it! There is no such thing as the perfect pose. There is, however, a perfect pose for you. Every pose can be broken down, so if you have difficulty, ask the teacher for a variation.

Pay attention to the shape and actions of the pose: is it a backbend, forward bend? Where are the arms in relation to the shoulder and the legs in relation to the hips? Copy those basics elements and do something similar that your body can handle and that feels good. The point of yoga is to enjoy the stretch, wherever and whenever you feel it, making your body a bit more flexible over time.

2. Forgetting to breathe.

Awareness of the breath keeps you safe. Observe how your breath reacts to your movements. If your breathing strains, you are pushing yourself too far. As long as you can practice the poses with a natural easy breath, you are probably not overexerting yourself.

Focusing on the breath in yoga has many benefits. It keeps the mind alert and present, since the breath is always happening in the present. When breath and movement synchronize, the magic in yoga begins. The mind becomes quiet and we experience peace.

3. Pushing yourself too much, too fast.

It is natural to want to progress when you start practicing yoga. So when you find a boundary, by all means gently lean into it, but don’t push it… When you push your body a little too much, you can scare it and your body will react by protecting itself and that boundary. If you push a boundary too hard, your body may tighten up more and as a result, that boundary is a bit further out of reach the next time. You are likely to become less flexible and more tight. This is of course unpleasant.

Another possible consequence of pushing too hard is injury. If you push on a regular basis, after a few years an injury can arise and it won’t be easy to heal.

When you master the art of playing your edge, your body will quite happily open up more. If you give your body time and ask kindly, it will respond!

4. Skipping the warm up.

Warming up means introducing the body gently to what you want from it. You can warm up in different ways; one way is to start with easy warm up exercises, bringing heat to the body through increased circulation. Organize your practice by doing the more simple poses first and slowly building to the more advanced poses; this reduces the chance of over stretching because the body is prepared.

5. Skipping the cool down or relaxation.

In the cool down portion of a class you take the opportunity to balance what you have done. This is done through counter poses, softening what you have tried to strengthen, bringing stability back to an area you have loosened, etc.

This is the portion of the class where you assimilate the benefits. When you run back to your normal day after a strong practice your nervous system is most likely over stimulated and you may end up feeling scattered and nervous. When you give yourself time to relax, at least 6 minutes for every hour of practice, your nervous system gets a chance to assimilate the benefits, reset and you will hopefully feel great the rest of the day!

Keep these 5 points in mind and your yoga practice will become more enjoyable!

Holiday In West Miami - How To Create Stunning Visual Content With Your Smartphone

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Did you know the brain is able to process visuals 60,000 times faster than text?

The days of text-heavy newsletters or marketing content are long gone. Today, consumers are overwhelmed with content and limited on time. Make your messages stand out by embracing visual content. Your subscribers or social media fans may not have time to read a lengthy message, but you can still make an impression through visuals.

A picture isn’t just worth a 1,000 words, it’s worth a whole lot of engagement

Hands down, people are more likely to engage with visual content than text-heavy content. Photos on Facebook receive 120 percent more engagement than the average post, tweets with images are twice as likely to be engaged with, and using images in your newsletter can help boost your open rate. Even when your fans don’t engage with you, images allow them to process your content with a quick scan. Fortunately, small business owners don’t need to invest in expensive equipment or hire a professional to embrace this content marketing strategy. The tool you need is right in your back pocket.

Easy as 1, 2, 3

You can’t fool anyone using stock photos. No one believes that those cheesy images are your actual employees or customers. Using your smartphone to create visual marketing content is not only effective but it’s easy because you already carry your smartphone around with you wherever you go. It’s as simple as point, click, upload to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, add a caption, and press send. When it’s time to create your next newsletter, revisit your saved photos and select your favorites to incorporate into your messaging.

By showing off some behind the scenes action, you can humanize your brand and build genuine relationships. Don’t worry about finding the best angle or perfect lighting either. Photos that capture “real” moments aren’t perfect and your audience knows that.

Moments you can capture

• Your employees in action
• The production of your product/s
• Customers enjoying your product or services
• A sneak peak of a new product
• New displays or decorations in your store
• Events
• Company milestones

The possibilities are endless!

Think of your visual marketing strategy as a way to tell your brand’s story. The photos your subscribers and fans will be most interested in capture the authentic moments in the everyday life of your business.

Advanced smartphone photography

If you want to take your smartphone camera skills to the next level, there are plenty of great free apps that you can download. Here are a few:

Pic Stich and Pic Collage: Both great for making beautiful collages.
Photo Editor by Aviary: Edit and add frames, text, filters, stickers, etc.
Panorama Free: Capture more with a panoramic image.
Fisheye and Color Effects: Get creative and have fun with color.

Glyder, an app featured in the Constant Contact MarketPlace, lets you create marketing messages on your iPhone that you can send to your Constant Contact lists, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Apple Passbook, and Address Book contacts.

A personal favorite of mine is Camera+. It costs $.99, but it makes it easy to take photos that look like they were shot on a professional camera.

If you haven’t been using your smartphone to create marketing content, it may take a little getting used to. But once you get in the habit of pulling out your smartphone to snap great photos, you’ll be glad you did. Using your smartphone is an easy and budget-friendly way to capture moments and use them to drive engagement from your email marketing or social media.

Holiday In West Miami - Bad Sleep? Blame The Moon

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The moon could be to blame for a bad night's sleep, researchers now say.

These findings are the first reliable evidence that lunar rhythms can influence sleep in humans, scientists added.

The moon often gets blamed for madness on Earth. In fact, the Latin name for the moon, Luna, is the root of the word "lunatic."

However, research has repeatedly shown the full moon apparently has no effect on human health. Although a few studies have found weak links with the full moon and increased aggression, unintentional poisonings and absenteeism, a 1985 analysis found no convincing evidence that full moons spur uptakes in mental hospital admissions, psychiatric disturbances, and homicides or other crimes. A 2010 study similarly found a lack of excess criminal activity on full-moon nights. 

As such, chronobiologist and sleep researcher Christian Cajochen at the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel in Switzerland was skeptical when people complained about poor sleep around the full moon. However, over drinks at a pub one evening on a full moon, Cajochen and his colleagues recalled they had completed a lab study on sleep a few years before whose results they could review for possible evidence of effects the moon had on people.

Unexpectedly, the scientists found "the lunar cycle seems to influence human sleep, even when one does not see the moon and is not aware of the actual moon phase," Cajochen said.

Circalunar rhythms

Over the course of four years, the researchers had monitored the brain activity, eye movements and hormone secretions of 33 volunteers in the lab while the participants slept. All the participants were healthy, good sleepers, and did not take any drugs or medication.

After reviewing their data, the scientists found during the time of the full moon, brain activity related to deep sleep dropped by 30 percent. People also took five minutes longer on average to fall asleep, and they slept for 20 minutes less overall on full-moon nights. The volunteers felt as though their sleep was poorer when the moon was full, and they showed diminished levels of melatonin, a hormone known to regulate sleep and wake cycles.

"It took me more than four years until I decided to publish the results, because I did not believe it myself," Cajochen told LiveScience. "I was really skeptical about the finding, and I would love to see a replication."

Scientists have long known the human body often bases key activities on regular cycles, such as circadian rhythms, which are roughly a day in length. Based on these findings, the researchers suggest that humans might also experience circalunar rhythms that drive cycles a month long, roughly matching the time between two full moons.

A number of patterns in animal behavior are linked with the lunar cycle, such as coral sex. Adult women also experience the menstrual cycle, which is usually a month or so long. This circalunar effect on sleep might be a relic from a past in which the moon synchronized human behaviors for sex or other purposes, much as it does in other animals.

Moonlight tugs on humans

Although the moon's gravitational pull clearly drives tides in the ocean, its tidal effects are much weaker on lakes and virtually nil on the human body. Rather than being driven by gravity's tug, any circalunar rhythms the body experiences may be set by moonlight.

The influence of electrical lighting and other aspects of modern life may mask the moon's hold on the human body. "It would be interesting to look at this in people still living outside without artificial light, but light from fireplaces," Cajochen said. "Another possibility would be to test different moonlight simulations and their repercussions on sleep in the lab."

As to whether disrupting circalunar rhythms might have ill effects on health, the effect of moonlight on any potential circalunar clock appears much weaker than that of daylight on the circadian clock, Cajochen said.

"I don't think that modern people constantly ruin their sleep when they don't see moonlight," Cajochen said. "However, exposure to artificial light at night — that is, a time when our body clock does not expect light — ruins our sleep-wake rhythm considerably."

Holiday In West Miami - Is Samsung Giving The Flip Phone Another Shot?

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By - Joan E. Solsman
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Coming soon: an Android OS handheld that resembles the phone you had before Google even existed.

Samsung is going retro with a new phone for the Galaxy family. According to a choppy language translation of the Korea-based Digital Daily, Samsung's new phone -- the "Galaxy folder" -- is set for an August release in Korea as a low-end model. It will run Google's Android operating system with LTE support. It's said to have a small touch screen, as well as a physical keypad.

Leaked photos show the clamshell design that harkens memories of taking four and a half minutes to punch out one line of text.

Why take the step backwards in time? Perhaps the design, with a smaller screen, is cheaper and could make for an inexpensive entry phone in emerging markets outside Korea too. Perhaps the Jitterbug senior handset is proving to be a secret runaway success that Samsung simply can't ignore. We'll know if we start seeing Samsung Folder ads next to those for Lipitor in Smithsonian Magazine.

Samsung has forged a different path design-wise than its top rival, Apple. Samsung has created multiple phones that appeal to niche markets, while its Cupertino competition designs phones that appeal to the broadest swath of consumers possible.

Holiday In West Miami - 4 Reasons Running Is Best For Weight Loss

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Any exercise is good exercise, but when it comes to losing weight, it's hard to beat running. After all, running is one of the most efficient ways to burn calories and get fit without having to restrict your diet. If you're already a runner, keep on keepin' on. If you're not a runner yet but interested in losing weight, here are four reasons running can be the best exercise for weight loss.

1. Running works even when you're at rest. High-intensity exercise like running stimulates more "afterburn" than low-intensity exercise. That is, even when comparing running with walking the same distance, studies find that running will lead to greater weight loss, most likely because your resting energy expenditure stays elevated after you run. In a long-term comparison study of runners and walkers, calories burned through running led to 90% more weight loss than calories burned through walking.


2. Running is time-efficient. Even if the myth that running a mile and walking a mile burn the same number of calories were true, running is a considerably faster way to burn those calories. Most people can run two or three times as far as they can walk in a given amount of time. At the other end of the spectrum, super-intense but short workouts, such as the "Scientific 7-minute Workout" from the Human Performance Institute, may burn more calories per minute per running, but because they're so short, your total caloric burn isn't as great if you ran.

3. Running is convenient. Though many of us have accumulated a vast arsenal of GPS gadgets and tech tees over the years, little is actually required to go running. You can do it alone. You can do it almost anywhere. You don't need any equipment beyond a pair of running shoes. (And if you're careful about injury and build up slowly, you may not even need those.) For this reason alone, running is the best workout for weight loss because it's cheap, it's accessible, and there are fewer barriers to maintaining a routine, even while traveling.

4. Two words: runner's high. The first rule of exercising for weight loss is that if you don't enjoy it, you won't stick with it. Fortunately, studies support what many runners have experienced on an anecdotal level-running can actually get you high. Scientists have found links between moderate to intense exercise and morphine-like brain chemicals called endocannabinoids, which suggest endorphins alone aren't responsible for the occasional flood of euphoria that rushes over you during a hard run. That floaty, happy sensation you had after your last race-makes you want to go for another run, right?

Holiday In West Miami - 'First Human Head Transplant Now Possible', Neurosurgeon Claims

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Dr Sergio Canavero believes that the technology now exists that will allow surgeons to carry out the Frankenstein-style procedure, which has been tested out on animals since 1970.

Up until now there has been no way to successfully reconnect the spinal cord, leaving the subjects paralysed from the point where the transplant was connected.

Recent advances have meant that re-connecting the spinal cord is now possible, and it is believed that the breakthrough means that previously fatal diseases could be cured.

However, other experts have dismissed the idea.

Professor Anthony Warrens, from the British Transplantation Society, told the Sun: "Connecting a head to a body is worthless to human beings today. The whole concept is bizarre."

In 1970 Robert White successfully transplanted the head of a rhesus monkey onto the body of a second rhesus, and Dr Canavero, a member of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, has proposed using a similar method.

He said: “The greatest technical hurdle to such endeavour is of course the reconnection of the donor's and recipient's spinal cords. It is my contention that the technology only now exists for such linkage,” he wrote.

“It is argued that several up to now hopeless medical conditions might benefit from such procedure.”

He believes that it a team of 100 could perform the operation in 36 hours — at a cost of £8.5million.

Both heads would have to be removed at the same time, and reconnected within an hour.

"This is no longer science fiction. This could be done today — now. If this operation is done it will provide a few people with a substantial amount of extra life,” he said. “The only reason I have not gone further is funding."

However, Dr Calum Mackellar, from the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, added: "This sounds like something from a horror movie."

Holiday In West Miami - Electric Car Maker Tesla Unveils 90-Second Battery Pack Swap

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The automaker will roll out the battery-swapping stations later this year, beginning along the heavily-traveled route between Los Angeles and San Francisco and then in the Washington-to-Boston corridor.

"There are some people, they take a lot of convincing," Musk said at an event at Tesla's Los Angeles design studio. "Hopefully this is what convinces people finally that electric cars are the future."

Electric cars have been slow to catch on with consumers because of their high price, limited driving range and lack of a charging infrastructure. Tesla has been working to address some of those issues with fast-charging stations and now with the battery-swapping technology.

A battery pack swap will cost between $60 and $80, about the same as filling up a 15-gallon gas tank, Musk said. Drivers who choose to swap must reclaim their original battery on their return trip or pay the difference in cost for the new pack.

Musk demonstrated two Model S battery pack swaps in the time it took for a car on a screen above the stage to fill up with gas, about four minutes.

The stations will cost about a half a million dollars each to build. They will be located alongside Tesla's fast-charging stations, which take around 30 minutes to charge the car's battery.

Musk told Reuters earlier this week that the battery-replacement network would entail an investment of $50 million to $100 million.

In contrast to several traditional automakers that have rolled out electric vehicles that failed to live up to expectations, Tesla has sold thousands of its luxury electric cars. Investors have embraced the company's strategy and Tesla shares have nearly tripled this year.

The announcement comes a month after Better Place, an electric vehicle company whose business was centered around battery swapping, said it would liquidate.

Holiday In West Miami - World Population Projected To Reach 9.6 Billion By 2050 – UN Report

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The current world population of 7.2 billion is projected to increase by 1 million over the next 12 years and reach 9.6 billion by 2050, according to a United Nations report launched today, which points out that growth will be mainly in developing countries, with more than half in Africa.

“Although population growth has slowed for the world as a whole, this report reminds us that some developing countries, especially in Africa, are still growing rapidly,” said the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Wu Hongbo in a press release on the report.

The report, World Population Prospects: the 2012 Revision, notes that the population of developed regions will remain largely unchanged at around 1.3 billion from now until 2050. In contrast, the 49 least developed countries are projected to double in size from around 900 million people in 2013 to 1.8 billion in 2050.

Compared to previous assessments of world population trends, the new projected total population is higher, mainly due to new information obtained on fertility levels of certain countries. For example, in 15 high-fertility countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the estimated average number of children per woman has been adjusted upwards by more than 5 per cent.

“In some cases, the actual level of fertility appears to have risen in recent years; in other cases, the previous estimate was too low,” said the Director of the Population Division in the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs, John Wilmoth, during a press conference in New York.

“While there has been a rapid fall in the average number of children per woman in large developing countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Brazil and South Africa […] rapid growth is expected to continue over the next few decades in countries with high levels of fertility such as Nigeria, Niger, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia and Uganda but also Afghanistan and Timor-Leste, where there are more than five children per woman.”

Mr. Wilmoth added that changes in fertility rates over the next few decades could have major consequence for population size, structure and distribution in the long run.

The report notes that India is expected to become the world’s largest country, passing China around 2028, when both countries will have populations of 1.45 billion. After that, India’s population will continue to grow and China’s is expected to start decreasing. Meanwhile, Nigeria’s population is expected to surpass that of the United States before 2050.

Europe’s population is projected to decline by 14 per cent, the report states, and Mr. Wilmoth warned that the continent is already facing challenges in providing care and support for a rapidly aging population.

Overall, life expectancy is projected to increase in developed and developing countries in future years. At the global level, it is projected to reach 76 years in the period 2045-2050 and 82 years in 2095-2100. By the end of the century, people in developed countries could live on average around 89 years, compared to about 81 years in developing regions.

The report’s figures are based on a comprehensive review of available demographic data from 233 countries and areas around the world, including the 2010 round of population censuses.

Holiday In West Miami - Sixty-One Percent Of Americans Use Smartphones, Just As Predicted

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A new study by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project found that 91 percent of adult Americans use a cell phone and 61 percent have adopted smartphones.

To most, who witness droves of people walking the streets—their eyes firmly fixed to their mobile device—this won’t come as much of a shocker.

Of the 310 million people in the U.S., 114 million were already using smartphones

as of July 2012, according to Comscore, a total of about 37 percent. Nielsen, however, reported  a higher number for 2012, saying that 55 percent of the cell phone market had already been penetrated by smartphones.

Though a jump of 24  or 6 percent may seem like a significant increase, professional analysts like BI Intelligence, expect that U.S. market will be completely smart phone saturated in the next few years.

Once the market in the U.S. has been fully smartphone satiated, focus will shift to the international market.

Strategy Analytics’ executive director Neil Mawston told CNet back in October 2012, after worldwide smart phone users hit the 1 billion mark, that “Most of the world does not yet own a smartphone and there remains huge scope for future growth, particularly in emerging markets such as China, India and Africa.”

Though that first billion users took 16 years to cultivate, Mawston believes the next billion will take under three years.

Holiday In West Miami - Home Price Gains Propel U.S. Stocks

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Home prices are soaring at a pace not seen since the housing boom, giving a much-needed boost to the larger economy.

The rebound is helping homeowners recover losses from the crash and giving them confidence to spend. And that's raising the fortunes of banks, builders and investors — all reflected in a Tuesday rally on Wall Street.

Home prices rose 10.9% in March compared with the same month last year, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index of 20 U.S. cities. Fueled by strong demand and tight supply, that was the strongest annual jump since April 2006.

The real estate market has emerged once again as the driver of economic optimism, sorely needed to pick up the slack left by weak government spending, economists said.

Home prices will keep accelerating this year and next year because of home shortages, said economist Patrick Newport of IHS Global Insight. But he advised caution in joining the fray of home buyers.

"Whenever you see double-digit increases, human psychology starts kicking in," Newport said, which could cause some markets to overheat and risk another price crash.

The Case-Shiller index, created by economists Karl E. Case and Robert J. Shiller, is widely considered the most reliable read on home values. The housing index compares the latest sales of detached houses with previous sales and accounts for factors such as remodeling that might affect a home's sale price over time.

On an annual basis, every metro area tracked by the index has posted year-over-year gains for three consecutive months. The Phoenix area had the largest annual gain — up 22.5% in March. San Francisco posted a 22.2% gain. Once-downtrodden metro areas showed huge jumps, with Las Vegas up 20.6%; Atlanta, 19.1%; Detroit, 18.5%; and Los Angeles, 16.6%.

So far, the increases have served to make up for some of the severe losses suffered during the bust. The 20-city home price index remains about 28% off its bubble-era peak and matches the level of late 2003.

Western cities are leading the rally. But home prices in some areas are outpacing fundamentals such as employment gains and increases in real wages. That's particularly true in many California cities, including Los Angeles, according to commentary issued Tuesday by credit rating firm Fitch Ratings.

"In cities that never fully unwound the mid-2000s bubble, rapidly increasing price levels are a potential cause for concern," the Fitch analysts wrote. "For example, in Los Angeles, prices are up more than 10% in the past year despite a stubborn unemployment rate that remains above 10% and real incomes that have declined over the past two years."

The housing recovery began last year as foreclosures waned and buyers chased perceived home bargains and low interest rates. Investors, meanwhile, have snapped up homes on the cheap to either flip or rent out. Growing confidence in the recovery has unleashed pent-up demand from buyers waiting out the crash.

"We believe this level of housing demand is likely to abate once the pent-up demand is satisfied," the Fitch analysts wrote.

Rising home prices have boosted spirits on Main Street and Wall Street.

Consumer confidence surged this month to its highest level in more than five years as optimism increased about the state of the economy and its prospects for the rest of the year, according to a closely watched private barometer released Tuesday.

The Conference Board's consumer confidence index jumped to 76.2 in May from the previous month's upwardly revised reading of 69. The last time the index was this high was in February 2008, at the start of the Great Recession.

The index now has risen two straight months after plunging in March amid concerns about the effect of tax increases that kicked in at the start of the year as well as the federal budget cuts known as sequestration.

"Back-to-back monthly gains suggest that consumer confidence is on the mend," said Lynn Franco, director of economic indicators at the Conference Board.

The percentage of consumers saying business conditions were good increased to 18.8% this month, from 17.5% in April. And the percentage of consumers who said jobs were plentiful rose to 10.8%, from 9.7%.

Wall Street rejoiced at the reports on housing and consumer confidence, driving stocks up more than 1% in early trading after a rally in global markets. Investors pulled back later in the day, and the Dow Jones industrial average ended the day up 106.29 points, or 0.69%, to 15,409.39. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index climbed 10.46 points, or 0.63%, to 1,660.06, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 29.75 points, or 0.86%, to 3,488.89.

The rally signals that investors are looking to economic growth, not just easy money from the Federal Reserve.

Investors are not "excited about a handout anymore," said Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist for S&P Capital IQ. "The excitement is coming from organic growth."

The Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus programs have fueled a run-up in stocks this year. The central bank has continued to pump cheap money into the system. The aim is to lower interest rates to make borrowing cheaper and stimulate growth. In doing so, the Fed has made safer investments such as bonds less attractive and lured investors into riskier assets such as stocks.

Many on Wall Street have been expecting a pull-back or correction of 10% or more in stocks during the second quarter. But with May almost in the rear-view mirror, any significant halt in the rally has to wait until next month.