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The SpiderPro (D)SLR Camera System Is The Paparazzi's Sling Of Choice…Or Should Be (video)
Oh celebrities, they can be so squirrelly sometimes when it comes to the snooping and intrusive paparazzi. That's why you gotta have your DSLR available at a moments notice. The SpiderPro system incorporates a quick release system that attaches to any belt or their optional Spider Belt for heavier loads, using the camera's built-in hardware. The Spider Pin and Plate attaches the tripod mount on the bottom of the camera and slips in and out of the clipping system, which can be locked for occasional access or unlocked for unfettered access. Since it's a bit difficult to explain I recommend watching their video.
You can nab the complete system for $110.
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Grew up back East, got sick of the cold and headed West. Since I was small I have been pushing buttons - both electronic and human. With an insatiable need for tech I thought "why not start a blog focusing on technology, and use my dislikes and likes to post on gadgets."
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The Goods came on time and its excellent quality. After having this for a few months, I am very happy to recommend this scale. It does the job, I use it for the occasional baking and its excellent. The product looks more expensive than it is. For the price I am very happy. Read more
Small, easy to use, has functions that you just need, battery lasts long, has different weight systems, very accurate over 10g weight, has reset weight button, so you can but plate over it and reset scale then it will so weight 0 and you and put stuff on plate. None so far, expect dont notice all weight ... Read more
-Good price to quality balance. -Have had it for more than a year, still works great. -Has multiple measurement units, including grams, oz and lbs -has tare/set to zero function - 16 lb weight capacity -Cant think of any, plastic on buttons has started to come off, but its seen a fair amount of use and ... Read more
I have bought 2 of these over time. First was bought around year ago. Works fine and is large enough to be used in kitchen. Precision is ok so you can actually weight spoon of salt or tea when needed. Can not wash, must clean with towel. If used in very messy environment consider more rugged type. Not ... Read more
These scales are easy to use, and have a nice clear display for the weight. They max weight (7kg) is better than some other similar models which is great. The tare function is easy to use, allowing you to place a container on the scale, reset to zero, and continue weighing. No cons. This is a great little ... Read more
First and foremost - it works! Can zero weight (i.e. to zero weight of a plate) Easy to use - just two buttons, one of them to change between metric/american systems, another to turn on/off/zero weight. Affordable price Build quality is good for the price. None so far, will see how it works. Not sure ... Read more
The scale is very beautiful. It came with the batteries needed (2xAAA). It measures in many unities and I tested different objects alternating... so, same object, same value, as expected. No cons! I think it was a little bit expensive for a made in china product but the quality is ok, in the end of the ... Read more
Measures items accurately to 1 gram precision. Although the plastic doesn't feel amazing, I've had it for about 10-12 months now, and it's still going strong. Easy to clean and the reset button lets you just keep adding things to your bowl without complicated arithmetic. Can be hard to read the display ... Read more
It shows the weight quite accurately in 1 gram intervals up to 7kg. It uses AAA batteries which last quite a long time. None I can think of. I have owned a couple of scales of this type and this one is so far the best. The last one I had used 9v batteries and measured weights in 2g intervals. This one ... Read more

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From yesterday's New York Times, which confirmed that the BP spill is by far the world's largest accidental release of oil into the ocean:
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"These things reverberate through the ecosystem," he said. "It is an ecological echo chamber, and I think we'll be hearing the echoes of this, ecologically, for the rest of my life."
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This is part 2 of a conversation with Wendy Toth, Chief Marketing Officer. Part 1 talked about the operational changes in rebranding Echelon to focus exclusively on the Industrial IoT market. Here, Wendy reviews the marketing changes that are part of the rebranding.
Tell us about your marketing campaign to rebrand Echelon as a leader in the Industrial IoT.
Toth: When I came to Echelon over a year ago, I focused on what I like to call "the 3 R's"-- repositioning, rebranding and relaunching. My charter was to move the company into the Industrial Internet of Things market, build up sales enablement, create thought leadership and brand awareness, and increase end-user engagement.
My team and I articulated what makes Echelon so special and authenticated our brand story. From that work, we created a "Why Echelon" corporate video. Next, we renewed our brand-identity package and modernized the company's 25-year-old logo. We also completely revamped the corporate website.
What did you do to help with sales enablement?
Toth: We knew that sales needed a website filled with data and resources on this new market segment called the Industrial IoT. Customers would be hungry for information and it was our job to be educators. That required us to develop a special IIoT website. We had six weeks to create a microsite for our new Industrial IoT platform launch that was being rolled out at the end of Oct 2013. On this microsite, we published case studies on customer companies that had been using our control networking technology since the Echelon's founding, such as New York Air Brake, ID Systems, fast food kitchens like McDonald's and naval defense systems. This microsite was a stop-gap for the overhaul and redesign of the Echelon corporate website, which was to launch later in the year.
On the thought-leadership front, we engaged Patrick Moorhead and Paul Teich of Moor Insights to write white papers explaining the differences between the "Human IoT" and the "Industrial IoT" as well as segmenting the market and identifying the brownfield and greenfield opportunities in the Industrial IoT.
Last December, we formed a Market Advisory Board with members of the industry coming together to evaluate our IIoT roadmap. This is an elite group on cross-industry luminaries who spend a day a quarter with us talking through our roadmap and corporate strategy.
As I mentioned, we revamped the corporate website -- a nine-month project involving web designers, website developers and programmers. We brought in a new look-and-feel for the website, modernizing the format and refreshing the pages.
What activities did you do to help create more of a buzz?
Toth: We doubled our PR effort, started participating in a number of IIoT webinars, and began speaking about IIoT at industry conferences and trade shows, such as the IEEE-SA Internet of Things Workshop in November 2013, the TIEcon 2014, The White House Smart America Initiative, IoT DevCon, The Connected Cloud Summit, McRock Capital's 2014 IoT Summit and the 2014 IoT Global Summit.
We also began an intense contributed-article program and placed guest opinion technical articles and blogs in a number of key industry publications. A few notables include CEO Ron Sege's guest blog post Connecting Islands of Industrial IoT in EETimes, a guest blog post in Design News on Migrating Legacy Devices to the IIoT and a guest blog post in O'Reilly Radar The Industrial IoT Isn't the Same as the Consumer IoT and an article in AutomatedBuildings.com on Industrial Internet of Things: Think of it as Control Networking 2.0. These helped to dramatically increase our SEO scores and build awareness of our new strategic focus.
We also started a thought-leadership blog called IIoT Talks for which we interview industry visionaries on the leading issues in the IIoT market. We have spoken with market analysts from IHS, Navigant and VDC as well as executives from Xicato, Think Strategies and McRock Capital, to name just a few.
It sounds like you have accomplished a lot in a short amount of time.
Toth: Really, what we have accomplished in a just over a year is quite remarkable. We have rebranded the company from a smart grid supplier to an Industrial IoT player. We delivered technology solutions for engineers to start developing with, and we created an industry buzz around the IIoT. In fact, we created the category itself. And yeah, we're proud of that!
Wendy, as Chief Marketing Officer, you've led the overall rebranding of Echelon. Tell us about the process.
Toth: We recently turned our company resources entirely toward the very compelling industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market. The most visible outcome of that strategy change was to sell our grid business to S&T AG, which we announced on October 1 of this year. The sale will allow us to singularly focus on the IIoT market, rather than splitting our efforts between two markets, as we did before. We can now target our product portfolio and our entire brand on the IIoT.
The second most visible outcome of that strategy was that we acquired an outdoor lighting company called Lumewave. The acquisition brings some interesting new products into our portfolio, mainly RF and wireless products that we didn't have. Also, we now have Lumewave's manufacturers' reps in the United States that expands our sales channel. So today, we are able to offer customers outdoor lighting solutions for both wired and wireless capabilities and reach the North American market as well as the international market, into which we have been selling for some time.
When did you start the rebranding process?
Toth: It started in the fall of 2013 when we announced our IzoT platform, designed to accelerate the adoption of the IIoT. We released beta versions of our IzoT multi-protocol stack for the ARM architecture with example reference implementations for the popular Raspberry Pi development platform.
Then, in early 2014, we created an evaluation kit targeted at developers who are creating, testing and deploying devices and control applications for the IIoT. This IzoT-in-a-Box evaluation kit includes evaluation boards based on the FT 6050 System-on-Chip (SoC), a router to connect the FT-based device network to Ethernet, development tools to develop devices and applications on the boards, and software to commission and manage the device network.
Is the Industrial Internet of Things market new to Echelon?
Toth: Not at all. Our DNA and our core competencies have always been in the IIoT space, or what we used to call "control networking." But when you add a little dash of IP and a little dash of cloud, control networking 2.0 becomes the Internet of Things. There are a couple of markets that we've played historically in, that are really strong, and that are emerging. You'll see Echelon's roots in building automation, in lighting and in transportation end-to-end, that type of thing.
What's happening in the outdoor lighting space?
Toth: The fastest-growing market segment in the IIoT is outdoor lighting on campuses: university campuses, schools, hospital campuses, corporate campuses, malls, shopping areas and so on. Lumewave has done a very good job of understanding and creating products for those markets. Some of Lumewave's notable deployments are with the University of California campuses in Davis, Irvine, and Santa Barbara. California State University at Fullerton is another one. The City of San Francisco has quite a few deployments of Lumewave products, as does the VacaValley Hospital in California.
Will the building-automation market take off for Echelon with this new IIoT direction?
Toth: We think so. As you know, Echelon has had tremendous success over the years in building automation with our control networking systems supporting the LonWorks protocol. In the past 12 months, what you have seen is our shift from single-protocol support to the multiprotocol IzoT system, which is truly an enablement platform. The building automation market is looking for ways to bridge the disparate protocols on their legacy devices with today's IP protocols. Platforms like our IzoT help building owners gracefully migrate both legacy devices and new devices into the IIoT. And our multiprotocol environment vastly reduces the R&D investments our OEMs need to make to support LonWorks, BACnet, and other protocols used in building automation.
Does Echelon compete with GE and Cisco, companies that also talk about the Industrial IoT?
Toth: We see ourselves as complementary to enabling the vision that GE and Cisco and other companies are putting out there.
Think of Echelon as sitting in the devices at the edge of the network. We talk a lot about small data being turned into big data, which is another area that you'll hear GE talk a lot about. Without small data, there is no big data. That small data is coming from the field bus devices that are at the edge of the network.
Stay tuned for Part 2 of this interview where Toth describes the marketing changes that are part of rebranding Echelon.
When Echelon acquired wireless outdoor lighting control system company Lumewave this past August, it also acquired a new director of product management: Mark Keating, Lumewave's former chief executive.
With more than 30 years of experience in electronic product development and management, Keating brings to Echelon expertise in radio frequency (RF) and wired lighting control. In his new role, Keating will introduce Lumewave customers to Echelon's control networking technologies.
Echelon is in the process of incorporating Lumewave's North American sales channels into its international channel, which will bring Lumewave's individual lighting controllers, gateways, and management and maintenance software to a worldwide market for street lighting and for enterprise and commercial outdoor lighting.
Under Keating's leadership, Lumewave outdoor lighting products are installed at:
According to the California State Partnership for Energy Efficient Demonstrations, Lumewave's products save energy, cut electricity and maintenance costs, and enhances safety and aesthetics.
The acquisition of Lumewave enriches the Echelon product portfolio and sales channels in outdoor lighting control, says CEO Ron Sege. "Lumewave's products, combined with Echelon's own, will give our customers tremendous flexibility in controlling their outdoor lighting assets."
Before Keating joined Lumewave as president in 2010, he spent 10 years as an executive of the facilities management company Onity, a unit of United Technologies. In 2002, Onity acquired Senercomm, where Keating had been president and CTO.
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McRock Capital, the Toronto venture firm that invests exclusively in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) companies, has appointed Echelon CEO Ron Sege to its Advisory Board.
"Ron has led some of the most transformative high-growth technology companies during his impressive career. His passion and industry knowledge is an incredible asset to McRock as we partner with entrepreneurs to build world-class technology companies in the Industrial Internet sector," said Whitney Rockley, co-founder and managing director of McRock Capital. "Ron understands the massive opportunity around the IIoT and the importance of partnerships and alliances as the physical and digital collide in Industrial markets."
Board members provide business guidance and mentoring to McRock's IIoT portfolio companies.
Sege is the sixth member of the McRock Capital Advisory Board. The other members are Marzio Pozzuoli, founder and former CEO of RUGGEDCOM, part of Siemens; Harry Zarek, Founder and CEO of Compugen Inc.; Peter Williams, CTO for IBM's Big Green Innovations Incubator; Mike Fister, CEO of Enecsys; and Peter Van Deventer, co-founder and managing partner of Integrity Global Management.
More information about McRock Capital is available at www.mcrockcapital.com.
Sohrab Modi, Echelon's new CTO, will be one of two speakers on a panel entitled "Current Enabling Technologies & Challenges of the Internet of Things," the IHS Industrial Automation Conference in London later this month.
Modi and Eddie Lee, director of global vertical industry marketing at Moxa, will provide insight about networking devices in the industrial environment.
Bill Morelli, IHS associate director - Internet of Things, will moderate the panel presentations and follow-up discussion on how suppliers and users can benefit from adopting an Industrial IoT (IIoT) strategy.
More information about the Oct. 23-24 conference is available on the IHS website.
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Echelon CEO Ron Sege will be the featured luncheon speaker and join a Smart Cities panel discussion at the Internet of Things (IoT) Global Summit at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Oct. 27.
Sege will present and discuss opportunities for smart cities with moderator Nigel Cameron, president and CEO of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, and fellow panelists Sokwoo Rhee, associate director of Cyber-Physical Systems at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST); Joseph Bradley, managing director of Cisco's Internet of Everything practice; and other industry experts.
Immediately following the Smart Cities panel at the summit luncheon, Sege will be the featured speaker.
"Buildings, streetlights, warehouses, trucks and factories: That's where you'll find the money to jumpstart the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)," Sege says. His luncheon topic will be, appropriately, "Follow the Money to the Industrial IoT."
The summit brings Echelon together with more than 200 other key stakeholders for discussions on the critical policies and commercial opportunities surrounding the IoT. Find out more information about the Oct. 27-28 event at email@example.com.
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Echelon's new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) joins the company with a wealth of technical and operational experience in mission-critical spaces, including areas with direct relevance to Echelon's core expertise and target markets in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
In fact, Sohrab Modi remarked that in many ways, being at Echelon is like going "back to the future" to his years at Novell, where the LAN networking leader faced similar issues with multiple networking protocols. Even the solution is familiar: convergence on IP.
"Echelon has a strong platform in control networking and the IIoT," he said. "In addition to focusing on specific areas of opportunity such as building automation and lighting, I will be working to establish a robust ecosystem around the protocol-agnostic, open Echelon platform."
In his first 90 days as CTO, Sohrab will spend time meeting with Echelon customers, partners, and OEMs, listening carefully to their needs and goals. He also plans to work closely with standards bodies. "I want to ensure that Echelon's expertise is well represented in guiding the future specifications that will promote easy interoperability among all the devices and applications participating in the IIoT," he said.
Before joining Echelon, Sohrab held Vice President and CTO roles at Sun Microsystems and at Huawei. His technical strategy, planning and management experience spans areas including big data, Internet of Things (IoT), software-defined networking (SDN), smart grid, mobile and cloud operating environments, and high-availability, fault-tolerant cloud systems at a very large scale.
In part 2 of our discussion with Menko Deroos, CEO and Co-Founder of the innovative lighting company Xicato, we talk about the importance of quality of light to the IoT and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) markets. Don't miss part 1, where we covered the Internet of Lights, Lighting 2.0, and how they relate to the Internet of Things.
Wendy Toth: What is 'quality of light' and why is it important?
Menko Deroos: There's a human need for good quality of light. Good quality light shows colors correctly and is consistent from light source to light source. What's interesting is that people don't notice quality lighting but they do notice poor quality light. In addition to the light itself, lighting shouldn't flicker or take time to come into full brightness.
Beyond the human need, there's also a real business reason for good-quality lighting, especially in markets such as retail, hospitality, and medical facilities. The great thing about LEDs is that while their energy efficiency is very good and gets much of the attention, it's their quality of light that is just as impressive.
TOTH: What's the role of quality of lighting in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)?
DEROOS: Let me take the retail market as an example. With sales increasing through the Internet, brick-and-mortar stores have to rethink what their image should be. They need to figure out what they can do to help attract people who walk by outside to enter the store. Then, they need to improve the experience of customers in the store so they'll stay longer and make purchases.
For that reason, lighting is playing an increasingly important role in creating that experience. If you have good lighting, you can directly affect sales. If you're using LED-based lighting, the light can be engineered for optimum impact and effect. As a result, retail stores are moving away from the conventional lights and moving toward LEDs.
LEDs also allow you to make lights into nodes on an IIoT. You can have entire shopping malls or large stores where LED lighting is improving the retail experience through the quality of light as well as the analytics and communications capabilities enabled by the IIoT and associated applications. The retailer not only has the ability to save money, but also the opportunity to sell more.
TOTH: What about quality of lighting in the medical market?
DEROOS: Lighting has an impact has on wellbeing how we feel, behave, and our overall health. As a result, the impact of lighting on health is a topic of significant research.
Care facilities for example, want to ensure that doctors and nurses see colors, like skin tones, correctly. Visual examination is an important part of the diagnostic process - a particular color on the skin might be an indication that something is not right.
In that very practical example, the quality of light has a direct effect on the quality of medical care provided.
TOTH: I imagine that once a market switches to LED lights for either energy efficiency or quality of light reasons, they are then candidates for Internet of Lights applications?
DEROOS: Absolutely. To go back to our retail example, say you have all your LED lights networked and able to be digitally controlled. You can enable them all with Bluetooth capability, so you now have access through your wired communication to every single light through Bluetooth. You can use that Bluetooth channel to communicate with people using their phones or smart wristwatches or whatever communications devices they have, to offer promotions or alerts or other information that might appeal to them.
In hospitals that have networked lighting, they can now keep track of carts of medical equipment and monitors, which is often difficult to do in a busy hospital. And sometimes they just disappear. Being able to locate a specific art within inches in real time provides immense value to those hospitals.
TOTH: It sounds like you see quality of light as an important gateway or entrance to the Internet of Lights.
DEROOS: That's a great way to put it. Quality of light is hard to spec, but we're getting better at it. And people are becoming more educated and aware of the difference between poor and good quality of light.
It doesn't matter whether people choose LED lighting for their buildings for energy efficiency or longevity or quality of light reasons. The point is, once the LEDs are there, the lighting become an asset in the building rather than a consumable. And then, you have the potential for adding a control network and establishing an Internet of Lights.
From there, you can start adding real value. You can increase retail sales, improve healthcare in hospitals, help passengers navigate airports more efficiently, and provide new levels of personalized services in hotels and restaurants. The Internet of Lights is a real paradigm shift. You can help save energy while improving the experience with the best quality of light in the world and then add these new levels of value. It's very exciting.
IIoT Talks is a conversation between industry luminaries and Echelon Corporation about the opportunities of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market. Echelon's Chief Marketing Officer, Wendy Toth, will share highlights of these conversations via the company blog. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to email@example.com.
In part 1 of our discussion with Menko Deroos, CEO and Co-Founder of the innovative lighting company Xicato, we talk about the Internet of Lights, Lighting 2.0, and how they relate to the Internet of Things. In part 2, we'll cover the importance of quality of light to the IoT and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) markets.
Wendy Toth: By now most people are familiar with the Internet of Things (IoT). But what is the Internet of Lights?
Menko Deroos: The Internet of Lights is an enabler of the Internet of Things. In addition to performing the lighting function, the communications electronics and networking are integrated with the ubiquitous light fixture.
TOTH: What's the difference between the Internet of Lights and Lighting 2.0?
DEROOS: The Internet of Lights is something you can actually touch. Lighting 2.0 is a state of the lighting industry. It's hard to touch. Lighting 2.0 describes the current generation of lighting that is displacing analog bulbs with digital LEDs. Lighting 2.0 refers to this digital revolution and all the functionality that can now be integrated into lights.
Lighting 2.0 represents a paradigm shift in the lighting industry. The essence is that IT meets lighting, with tremendous value created in that meeting. Lighting is not purely an electrical engineering space any more. It's extended above and beyond in a similar fashion to how the phones of today are not just phones any more. You still need phone capability, but it's no longer the only functionality it provides. The same thing is happening with lighting.
TOTH: What's the relationship between the Internet of Lights and the Internet of Things?
DEROOS: As an enabler of the IoT, the Internet of Lights adds new communications capabilities. Think of it this way: In the Internet of Things, say your refrigerator at home, or a piece of equipment at a factory, is connected to other devices in other locations. Now, you can do the same thing with the lights. You can track and control the performance of those lights, but you also have the additional communication capabilities in these lights to connect with all kinds of devices.
From a practical perspective, a crucial aspect of the IoT or the Internet of Lights is communication. Changing an already built environment to add two-way communications capabilities can be expensive and difficult. But lights already have two wires that power them, and lights are ubiquitous wherever there are people. People turn on the lights to see. The Internet of Lights therefore leverages proven, time-tested wiring to enable this new generation of communications capabilities.
To put things in perspective, today there are more than 10 times more light sockets in the world than there are phones. So in our view, the Internet of Lights is one of the largest, if not the largest, networks in the IoT.
TOTH: Wow, that's amazing to realize there are so many more lights than phones out there. It makes you wonder why people aren't talking more about the Internet of Lights.
DEROOS: That's true. And there's actually another dimension to the lighting growth story. Over the last century, the world has used more photons every year. Even with technology that's more energy efficient—and historically, every lighting technology introduced has been more energy efficient than what it replaced—the world still needs more photons. More buildings are being built, more land area is being converted into built environments, so we simply need more lights. And more lights means more potential nodes for the Internet of Lights.
TOTH: The consumer IoT is primarily associated with wireless communications, whereas lighting has relied on wired media. Do you see the Internet of Lights evolving to wireless?
DEROOS: I think if you do it right, you will have both. You can have a wired communications system that is super secure and reliable, and on top of that you can add wireless communications capabilities that allow end users to access whatever services they want to consume in that space. And that's really what I like about the combination of Echelon and Xicato solutions. You can provide a very secure, solid wired communications system plus add wireless capabilities. I think this provides tremendous value to the marketplace.
IIoT Talks is a conversation between industry luminaries and Echelon Corporation about the opportunities of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market. Echelon's Chief Marketing Officer, Wendy Toth, will share highlights of these conversations via the company blog. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
In part 2 of our discussion with Jesse Foote, Senior Research Analyst for the market research firm Navigant Research, we talk about some challenges facing lighting control as well as the future of networked lighting. In part 1, we discussed the lighting industry and its intersections with the Internet of Things (IoT).
Wendy Toth: What are some of the concerns people have related to lighting control and the IoT or Industrial IoT (IIoT)?
Jesse Foote: Cyber security arises as an issue as more people become aware of the capabilities of network control systems. Privacy concerns in general are on people's minds right now, with all the recent NSA revelations. The lighting controls industry will need to ensure that adequate protections are built into their systems from the outset, then make sure that people know that the lighting industry is addressing these issues. People need to believe that systems are secure, so that cyber security and privacy concerns don't derail the broader adoption of lighting controls.
TOTH: Who has the responsibility of calming those security and privacy concerns?
FOOTE: I'm not sure there's a good answer to that question, not yet. Certainly the vendors of lighting controls need to make sure that security is built into their systems. Whether vendors build it in themselves or team up with partners, and whether standards will be put in place, I hope so. But I think it's still an open question.
Maybe another open question is how it gets communicated to the public, and who is responsible for that. Will vendors take the lead in making sure public concerns are addressed, or will it be the ones deploying lighting control systems — the big companies, cities, and municipalities — that really have to prove to their end customers and residents that the systems are not going to be abused?
TOTH: You mentioned cities. What are some of the demands and constraints that they have when it comes to networked lighting controls?
FOOTE: If we're talking about cities, we're talking primarily about street lighting. LED street lighting has been more widely deployed than control networks for street lighting.
Part of the reason is that control features add to the cost of lighting systems, and some cities are looking for the cheapest possible LED luminaires. It's hard for them to justify adding things like dimming, which cost extra. But the cost difference is coming down, and it's my understanding that more lighting manufacturers are including dimming capabilities into their luminaires.
Another challenge holding back the adoption of network controls by cities is the problem of outdated municipal codes. A big benefit of networked lighting control is the ability to dim and shut lights off when they're not needed or when they don't have to be at full brightness. But municipal codes haven't really caught up with that concept, so you run into liability issues, or at least the concern about liability, if there's a potential safety issue in not providing adequate light to streets. I think the safety issue can be addressed with smart lighting control systems, but the codes need to catch up so that city managers are comfortable adopting those systems.
TOTH: On a related topic, what's happening with standards for lighting control?
FOOTE: The lack of relevant standards is another thing slowing adoption of lighting controls by cities. One big recent development was approval of the NEMA (National Electrical Manufacturing Association) socket standard, which allows a plug-and-play photocell to be put on top of an existing luminaire. This enables not only control over whether that light turns on and off, but also control of the dimming state. Dimming is a key feature of networked intelligent control in street lighting systems.
With the NEMA standard, even if a city doesn't buy a control system right off the bat, it's relatively easy to add those controls later. I think that's a potential big benefit and boost to adoption of controls for street lighting over time.
TOTH: What about the question of whether cities should use wired or wireless connectivity for networked street lights?
FOOTE: For street lighting, the norm has been to use wireless in the U.S. and U.K. and wired in the rest of Europe and most of Asia. That's largely because of the way substations are set up in the different geographical areas.
I think the developments Echelon has announced to control systems that can use both wired and wireless connectivity should help quite a bit. You can use whichever wired/wireless combination makes sense for an individual system, and you get the best of both.
TOTH: Do you have a vision for where you think networked lighting controls and the IoT are headed in the future?
FOOTE: There's a growing expectation that you ought to be able to see the status of things on the Internet and be able to control them remotely. That ability is happening in more areas of our lives, so the thought is, why shouldn't we be able to check whether lights are on, or turn them on and off remotely? On a personal level, why shouldn't I be able to pull up an app on my phone and control the lights in my house? The growing expectation that this capability will extend to more and more devices will actually cause it, in part, to come true.
Another piece of the future will be open platforms, so that various parties can find creative new uses for the information collected by the lighting networks. It's similar to how third-party app developers write software for smartphones. Open platforms that allow third-party software developers to come up with new uses for the information gathered by outdoor or indoor lighting networks will really expand the possible uses for that information.
IIoT Talks is a conversation between industry luminaries and Echelon Corporation about the opportunities of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market. Echelon's Chief Marketing Officer, Wendy Toth, will share highlights of these conversations via the company blog. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Cider French Dip Sandwich
1 ambrosia apple (peeled and shredded)
1 medium carrot (peeled and shredded)
1 1/4 cup red onion (Julienne style)
3 Tbs cider vinegar
2 Tbs olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
10 oz. roast beef
1 French loaf cut in half and lengthwise (or 2 sandwich rolls) toasted
2 cups prepared beef bullion or 2 cups of well seasoned beef stock
3 cups apple cider
1 1/4 cups mayonnaise
2 Tbs green Tabasco
Peel the apple and the carrot. Use the cheese grater to shred both in mixing bowl. Add the red onion, vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper. Toss lightly and set aside. In medium saucepan, add the beef bullion and apple cider. Bring to a boil. Dip the roast beef in the sauce pan for 1 minute (reserve the Jus for dipping). While waiting, toast the bread and mix the mayo and greenTabasco. Spread the mayo mix on the toasted bread and add the roast beef and top with the Slaw. Place sandwich on a large plate. Pour the dipping jus in a small bowl and place with the sandwich.
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The history of the Who is littered with tragic events. From Pete Townshend's abuse when he was a child to the 1979 deaths of 11 fans in Cincinnati to John Entwistle's overdose in 2000. One of the lesser known stories occurred on Jan. 4, 1970, when Neil Boland, who was Keith Moon's driver and bodyguard, was accidentally run over by Moon's Bentley.
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On the 30th March 2011 Cardiff students will go head-to-head with their Swansea counterparts to find the deserving winner of the Varsity Shield, a symbol of all-round sporting excellence.
Teams from sports including badminton, football, golf and lacrosse will be cheered on by their supporters at venues across Cardiff until the atmosphere reaches fever pitch for the main event - the fight for the Varsity Rugby Cup.
This year, in recognition of the 15th anniversary of the Varsity competition, players will take to the pitch at the home of Welsh rugby, the Millennium Stadium.
To mark the anniversary and the build up to the game, the University's Main Building on Park Place was lit up with the Varsity logo. A reception for students participating in the competition was also held.
Jack Perkins, Athletic President, Students' Union said: "With the Varsity Games moving to the impressive Welsh Institute of Sport and the rugby match moving to the Millennium Stadium, this year's Varsity is set to be the best ever. As it is the 15th anniversary of the competition I'm hoping that our Cardiff sides dominate once again as it really is not the year to lose the Shield for the first time. Bring on 30th March!"
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We arranged to meet on the property at 9:00am. He showed up 15 minutes early! Already a positive sign. He told me what he could do. Gave me a couple of options and a ballpark figure. I told him to go ahead with the work. He told me when he would get the permit and when he would have the work performed.
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Jenn recommended Chip of the Flying U, by B.M. Bower, about a year ago, and that's probably how long it's been sitting on my Kindle. I don't know why I picked it up this weekend, except that the internet in my apartment wasn't working and I wasn't feeling enthusiastic about anything I was more familiar with, but I'm glad I did. It's almost entirely delightful, one of those books that does enough right that you don't care that much about the stuff it doesn't. And if you have to be content with a kind of ham-fisted ending, well, everything before that is so much fun that the book has kind of earned the right to fall apart in the last chapter. Read the rest of this entry ?
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Cathlin recommended The Dorrance Domain, and I was frustrated enough with Peter the Brazen (which I'm still reading, bit by excruciatingly awful bit) that I started it almost immediately. It's by Carolyn Wells, and it's about a family consisting of four kids and their grandmother, who sick of life in New York boarding houses, decide to try living in a defunct hotel.
It's a good concept, and it's Carolyn Wells, so the execution should be good, too. But instead the whole thing just feels kind of halfhearted. I hear "kids living in an empty hotel" and yeah, I think, "oh cool, everyone can choose whichever room they want" and "they can spread out all across the hotel dining room." And Wells provides that. But I also think I'm going to get kids biting off more than they can chew at first, and making mistakes, and slowly becoming more competent, and there's barely any of that. Saying "barely any" instead of "none" is really nice of me, actually. Read the rest of this entry ?
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This post is brought to you by my tendency not to think things through before I write about them.
So, the thing about Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey is that she was lousy at endings. Like, she's so good at putting prickly characters in twisty emotional situations and still having everything be super charming, but then the end is always a cop-out, or rushed, or suddenly makes you hate all the characters you loved for most of the book. Anyway, I read a review of one of her books at Fleur in her World the other day, and Fleur had the same issue with the last 10% of the book, but her praise for the first 90% made me want to read something by Mrs. G. de H.V., because when she's good, she's very, very good. Read the rest of this entry ?
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So. More Amy Le Feuvre. This one is called Olive Tracy, and follows the title character over roughly the span of the Boer War. At the beginning, she's the de facto housekeeper of her family's home, which she shares with her mother, her younger sister Elsie, and Osmond, the invalid son of her dead eldest brother. The oldest sister, Vinny, is unhappily married and living in London, while another brother, Eddie, is in the Army, and not behaving as his family would wish him to. Then there's their neighbors, Sir Marmaduke and Lady Crofton, and their two sons: Marmaduke is a captain in the army, and in love with Olive. He's also steady and reliable and not super attractive in a way that made me think of Lord Algy from Pretty Kitty Herrick. Mark, the younger brother, is even more dissolute than Eddie, and seems to have been given up, even by his parents, as a bad lot.
Olive's troubles begin when Marmaduke — Duke for short, thankfully — goes off to South Africa to keep an eye on Mark. He proposes before he leaves, but she turns him down, and only afterwards realizes that she might have feelings for him after all. Then her mother dies, and the Tracy household is split up, with Elsie going one way and Olive and Osmond another. Also the Boer War begins, and is omnipresent and awful in the background. Somewhere in there, Olive finds God in the same way that everyone finds God in these books, which is, I don't know, either the most weirdly flat conversion I've ever read, or pure mysticism. Or both. Read the rest of this entry ?
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The Affair at the Inn is unusual in two ways: first, it's a collaborative novel that isn't a trainwreck. The four main characters are written by four different writers, and I didn't finish the book with a sense that the writers hated each other, or that the plot at the end was hastily patched together from the ruins of what it was originally meant to be. Second, it's sort of Williamsonian (alternating points of view, traveling American heiress, Scottish baronet with an automobile) but without anyone traveling incognito. Nothing else about it was unusual, but almost everything about it was very nice. Read the rest of this entry ?
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So, apparently not every seraphic but practical child protagonist Edgar Jepson creates is going to be wonderful. The title character of The Admirable Tinker, like Pollyooly, is repeatedly described as an angel child and has a knack for attracting improbably large sums of money, but the book lacks whatever it was that made Pollyooly so magical.
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Check out the previous post in the series for stuff about short story series you've almost certainly heard of, and for my philosophy of short stories, which pretty much boils down to "they're better when they come by the bookful and are all about the same character."
These are the stories that I've written about here before. They're in order from least to most awesome, which is not to say that the Our Square stories aren't pretty good, or that Torchy isn't a little higher on my list of favorite things ever than Emma McChesney. I mean, I put them in worst-to-best order by accident, and thought I might as well make a note of it. Read the rest of this entry ?


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But the incorporation of Marines into the spec ops world is not without an element of controversy. The first experimental Marine special operations unit--Marine Corps Special Operations Detachment One--proved extremely capable and valuable in its first and only deployment alongside a Navy SEAL squadron in the summer of 2004. But there were internal squabbles between SEALs and Marines over mission tasking and seniority. The detachment had only one deployment in its three-year existence and was unceremoniously disbanded on March 10.
Fleet Marines are also fearful that they will be losing some of their most experienced and highly-prized warriors and technicians for years. That's one reason why the Corps declined to join SOCom when it was established in 1986--the service wanted to keep its limited manpower for itself. Senior Marine officials (who are acting on direct orders from Rumsfeld to form the Marine spec ops units) argue that most of the Corps' commandos will deploy alongside regular Marine units, so fleet Marine forces will have some control over the commandos.
But others are skeptical. It's hard enough for the service to find and retain qualified applicants for its most specialized jobs in intelligence and reconnaissance units. It is uncertain how the Corps is going to be able to retain certain capabilities for itself and dole out those troops to SOCom.
Rumsfeld seems to like special operations because of their secrecy and economy of force. A huge expansion in all the services' commando units is underway. Special operations commanders and Pentagon leaders believe they can grow well beyond their current strength of 50,000 and still keep standards high. Adding the new Marine Corps component is another step in that direction.
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Base price: $42,800
Powertrain: Water-cooled, fuel-injected, inline-four-cylinder engine, four valves per cylinder, DOHC
Displacement: 1,293cc
Horsepower: 140
Torque: 87 lb.-ft.
Maximum speed: 45 mph (land and water)
Overall length: 128.3 inches
Overall width: 62.5 inches
Ground clearance: 8.9 inches
Wheel deployment and retraction time: 5 seconds each
Curb weight: 1,333 lbs.
Driving a four wheeler into a lake is an activity for the mentally unhinged. Yet that's exactly what I did Monday on board the Gibbs Quadski. I powered up the amphibious ATV and motored from sand to lake's center without a hitch.
Sure, there was the awkward situation of wearing pants and a helmet in the water, but such are the challenges when driving an all-terrain vehicle that can swim.
Or is it a Jet Ski that can be driven?
Suffice to say the Quadski gives new meaning to the term off-road vehicle. It can go so far off road, in fact, to travel dozens of miles into the ocean at speeds as fast as 45 mph.
That's a fraction of the top speed of its donor motor – the 170-mph inline-four-cylinder BMW uses to power its K1300 sport bike. It's also, unfortunately, a fraction of the fuel economy – about 15 mpg on water that's smooth as glass, significantly less if there's chop.
Gibbs Sports Amphibians, based in Auburn Hills, Mich., let me take the Quadski for a spin at Lake Elsinore, the manager of which granted me permission to break the rules and ride it on the sandy shore that, on weekends, would be blanketed with sunbathers unlikely to enjoy serving as an obstacle course. But on a near-deserted weekday, the gritty beach was perfect terrain to demonstrate the Quad half of its name.
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It is rear- rather than four-wheel drive so climbing rocks or sandy dunes isn't advised. The Quadski is also taller, wider, longer – and heavy as a manatee. It's 1,333 pounds, but the weight melted away with an effortless press of the throttle. Its independent coil-spring suspension with hydraulic dampers was likewise utterly unfazed, as it should have been, considering the lack of strain traversing flat sand.
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Pressing the throttle on water was just as responsive as it was on land. In addition to the engine, the Quadski automatically engages an internal jet pump that lifted the Quadski's nose with a level of thrust so intense, I feared I'd be thrown overboard before it settled down to ride flat. Careening around the 31/2-square-mile lake, I pinned the throttle at its 45-mph max, which felt twice as fast on water. There was no need to shift on water; the transmission is held in third gear.
I'm a bit of an aquaphobe, so I didn't bank too quickly at speed, but I never felt at risk of capsizing. There's a substantial amount of space on either side of the runner boards, unlike other personal watercraft, and It was surprisingly maneuverable for its dimensions.
Being a surf-and-turf offroader, the Quadski requires two DMV registrations – a green sticker because it is an ATV and a hull number because it is also a boat.
In California, the Quadski can be ridden on land anywhere ATVs are allowed. It's the water part that's more tricky. Locally, it's allowed at Lake Elsinore, Perris, Pyramid Lake, Silverwood Lake and ocean marinas accessed with a ramp or on privately owned beaches.
Last week, the San Clemente lifeguards were testing the Quadski for possible search and rescue operations. Gibbs' rep says the Border Patrol, Navy SEALS, sheriffs departments and lifeguard agencies have all expressed interest in the Quadski even if they haven't yet bought in. At $42,800, a Quadski costs more than an ATV and personal watercraft combined, which is why its buyers have so far have been the moneyed.
Gibbs is so named for Alan Gibbs, a New Zealander who made his money in energy systems. An island dweller, he built the Aquada amphibious sports car Sir Richard Branson raced to a speed record across the English Channel a decade ago.
His follow-up vehicle, the Quadski, came on the market in 2012 but wasn't available in California until January of this year, when it received emissions clearance from the state's Air Resources Board. It has just one West Coast dealer: Bert's Mega Mall in Covina.
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Creamy Oyster and Watercress Stew
The oysters will plump slightly in the hot soup and take on a creamy but firm consistency; if overcooked, they'll become rubbery.
Published: March 2014 Servings: 6
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 4 leeks, white and pale-green parts only, thinly sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- osher salt, freshly ground pepper
- 1 cup dry white wine
- 2 dozen oysters, freshly shucked, liquor reserved
- 4 cups low-sodium vegetable broth
- Pinch of saffron threads (optional)
- 1 large bunch watercress, tough ends trimmed, chopped (about 3 cups), plus finely chopped for serving
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/2 cup heavy cream, plus more for serving
- Crusty bread (for serving)
Nutritional Information
Calories (kcal) 360 Fat (g) 17 Saturated Fat (g) 6 Cholesterol (mg) 125 Carbohydrates (g) 22 Dietary Fiber (g) 2 Total Sugars (g) 3 Protein (g) 21 Sodium (mg) 410
PREPARATIONView Step-by-Step Directions
Heat oil in a large heavy pot over medium-high heat. Cook leeks, stirring often, until softened, about 4 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 1 minute; season with salt and pepper.
Add wine and reserved oyster liquor to pot and cook until slightly reduced, about 4 minutes. Add broth and saffron; bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer 5 minutes. Add watercress and cook until just wilted, about 2 minutes. Let cool slightly, then, working in batches, purée in a blender until smooth. Pour soup into a large saucepan and bring to simmer over medium heat. Add oysters and red pepper flakes and cook until oysters are just cooked through, about 2 minutes; stir in 1/2 cup cream.
Serve soup drizzled with more cream and topped with finely chopped watercress.
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Dame Helen Mirren, a legend of stage and screen, is set to receive her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Jan. 3, 2013, Variety reported this afternoon.
Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy-winning actress Dame's Broadway credits include the revival of Dance of Death in 2001 A Month in the Country in 1995, for both of which she was nominated for Best Actress in a Play at the Tony Awards. Mirren is perhaps best known for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen" (2006). This performance earned Mirren 26 major awards, including the Oscar for Best Featured Actress. West End credits include Collected Stories and Orpheus Descending. She can most recently be seen in "Hitchcock," opposite Anthony Hopkins.
Other stars set to receive a star in 2013 include:
Rick Baker, Javier Bardem, Viola Davis, James Franco, and Ron Howard
Simon Baker, Bryan Cranston, Ellen Degeneres, Jane Lynch, Katey Sagal and Matthew Perry
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The Hollywood Walk of Fame is an internationally-recognized Hollywood icon. With approximately 24 star ceremonies annually broadcast around the world, the constant reinforcement provided to the public has made the Walk of Fame a top visitor attraction. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce continues to administer the Walk of Fame as the representative of the City of Los Angeles. In 2010, the Walk of Fame marked its 50th anniversary. The Walk of Fame is a tribute to all of those who worked diligently to develop the concept and to maintain this world-class tourist attraction. The Walk of Fame is open to the public.
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