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The Gift Gallery necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 18 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
The gift Gallery is an stylish online gift store targeting middle to higer end of the market. Our gifts are carefully chosen to reflect current retail trends. We only stock high quislity gift of known brands.
Our audience is mainly females 70>30 25years plus. Our customers are design and brand savvy and they know what they are looking for. Most of our customers are not "price-sensitive" rather they are looking for the high quality products.
We need a DL card 210mmX95mm that we can send out to our existing customers to prompt them to return for shopping.as wekk as potential corporate customers.
The DL card needs to be double sided.
Side 1
To have sample of product images and our logo in a super stylish layout.
This side will also have "FREE shipping for orders over $100"
We need somewhere to convery the information that we have: gifts for him. for her , baby gifts, corporate gifts, Christmas gifts etc..
Side 2
To focus on corporate customers.
We will supply text for this. We also want to have some images included here that would suit corporate gifts. We will supply high res images once a concept is chosen. for the contest stage, please copy images from the website.
This side needs to be somehow related to side 1 but doesn't need to have the same layout. A different twist will be nice, as long as it's stylish.
Needs to be clean, stylish & contemporary.
Our homepage and logo are changing so I attached the new banner and logo so you can see the font & style.
Feel free to suggest amazing concepts or deviate slightly from the brief, we are not set on one idea.
PLEASE NOTE: we recommend that if you are interested in this contest, submit your designs ASAP as if we'll see something that we love, we may award the price quickly.
Ask questions as many questions as you wish, we will answer all of them promptly.


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Virtual Tour and Photos
Enjoy a virtual visit into our preschool classrooms, playgrounds and center rooms.
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Learn What Makes Us Different!
Our child care programs are dedicated to fostering education, development, and building self-esteem in a secure and comfortable environment. Whether you enroll your child in full-time or part-time child care, your munchkin will benefit from our highly experienced and loving staff.

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This is an old revision of the document!
Augmented Reality SandBox is quite nice concept where you play with sand and a projector mounted on top of the sandbox projects constantly updating height-map on it. We've prepared a few installations.
Just start piskoviste.brm PC and everything should start by itself.
Add following shell script to your Window Manager autostart scripts (i.e. Settings→Session and startup in XFCE4)
/bin/nice -n -10 /home/brmlab/PISKOVISTE/SARndbox-1.5-001/bin/SARndbox -rs 0 -wo 9999 -loadView /home/brmlab/Desktop/SavedViewpoint0001.view &
The script above increases niceness of an SARndbox process. Increasing niceness to negative values is not allowed for non-privileged user by default in common Linux distros. We can allow user brmlab to do so by adding following lines to /etc/security/limits.conf (Fedora)
brmlab hard nice -15 brmlab soft nice -11
open Vrui.cfg, find in Window section and change windowFullscreen value from false (default) to true
section Window windowPos (0, 0), (1024, 768) windowFullscreen true
in xfce4-panel go to "Applications menu→Settings→Power manager" and monitor and PC to go to sleep after some amount of time.
Set "auto power off" to ON and "timeout" to i.e 15min. Having no input from graphic card projector will turn off automatically after amout of time set.
Software created by Oliver Kreylos for W.M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences, UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Lawrence Hall of Science, and ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center. See http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/SARndbox/ for more info.
It may be quite hard to find out how to calibrate for the first time, so i will document it here a bit
Tou have to manually edit files in PISKOVISTE/SARndbox-1.5-001/etc/SARndbox-1.5/ :
(-0.0076185, 0.0271708, 0.999602), -115.0000 ( -48.6846899089, -36.4482382583, -111.8705084084) ( 48.3653058763, -34.3990483954, -106.3884158982) ( -50.674914634, 35.8072086558, -114.4082571497) ( 48.7936140481, 36.4780970044, -108.74159795)
The important is the last number in each line - in the first line is z-offset of sea level, the four lines are corner calibration points (must be always higher value than the sea level offset). To move sea level up, increase the value on all lines by the same amount.
-15.0 0 0 80 -7.0 0 30 100 -6.0 0 50 102 -3.5 19 108 160 -0.75 24 140 205 -0.25 135 206 250 -0.05 176 226 255 0.0 0 97 71 0.25 16 122 47 2.5 232 215 125 5.5 161 67 0 8.0 130 30 30 13.0 161 161 161 19.0 206 206 206 24.0 255 255 255
Mapping from height to colors. Adjust the appropriate z-offsets (first column) to compress/spread colors across heights.
CUstom reimplementation of AR Sandbox that is capable of running on less-advanced hardware than SARndbox (which requires quite decent graphics card), designed with ARM platform in mind (like Raspberry Pi or BeagleBoard).
This installation was created for DIY festival FreezeFest 2012. It used ad-hoc on-site construction, around 60kg of sand and SARndbox software (see below).
This installation was created for One Day with Informatics event held at Charles University Prague. It used IKEA1 construction, 50 kg of sand and SARndbox software (see below).
This portable construction was used for JDI 2012 installation (see photos above) and will be stationed at brmlab. It uses the following components from IKEA (hence the name):
This portable construction is built from IKEA components and custom parts from OBI.
SandyStation was created at Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen by Petr Altman and Robert Eckstein


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Prawn crackers with salmon roe, nashi and roasted chilli
These crisp, decadent canapes are layered with intense flavours and textures but are super light and refreshing. Assemble them just before serving, as soggy prawn crackers will ruin the fun.
1 pkt prawn crackers
1 small jar salmon roe (50g-100g)
Toasted nori
100g Kewpie mayonnaise or quality thick mayonnaise
1 tsp roasted chilli powder
Thai-style chilli jam
2 nashi pears (or crisp apples), finely diced
Baby mustard cress
1. Cook crackers as specified on the packet. If necessary, drain well.
2. Lay the crackers on a platter. In the middle of each cracker place about a quarter of a teaspoon of mayo and on top of this layer half a teaspoon of chilli jam, followed by a teaspoon of salmon roe, a teaspoon of nashi dice, some snipped mustard cress, torn nori pieces and a sprinkling of chilli powder.
Tip Use rehydrated wakame (seaweed, from Asian grocers) to secure the crackers on a plate.
Makes 15-25
Drink Champagne
Thai beef with quail egg
This is a variation on a classic Thai salad that relies on a traditional balance of flavours complemented by the richness of quail eggs, fresh herbs and the contrasting texture of toasted rice. Served on spoons, it is ideal for a stand-up event, but it could easily be served as a salad.
6 quail eggs
1 tbsp heaped uncooked glutinous white rice (see note)
2 red shallots, sliced finely
20g palm sugar, finely grated
1 spring onion, sliced finely into rounds
1/4 bunch of coriander leaves, picked and finely chopped
1/4 bunch Thai basil leaves, chiffonade rolled or stacked and sliced thinly
1/4 bunch of mint, also chiffonade
200g sirloin, wagyu if you like
1 tbsp of kecap manis (thick Indonesian soy sauce)
1/2 cucumber, julienned
1 tsp celery seeds, ground with 1 tsp of flaked salt
50ml lime juice
20ml fish sauce
2 birds eye chillies, sliced finely
1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
1/4 tsp roasted chilli powder
12 Chinese-style spoons to serve on
Note Glutinous rice is the specific varietal type that becomes sticky when cooked and can be readily obtained from your Asian grocer.
1. Cook quail eggs in boiling water for 2½ minutes, lift out and refresh under cold water and peel. Slice in half.
2. Toast the rice in a pan until light brown and then smash into a powder in a mortar and pestle.
3. Combine shallots and palm sugar, press together with your fingers until the sugar breaks down, and let sit.
4. Combine spring onion and herbs.
5. Sear the sirloin steak for three minutes each side in a hot pan or on a griddle. Once cooked, smear kecap manis over each side of the steak and let rest. Once rested, slice steak into 12 pieces.
6. For the dressing, combine all ingredients, taste and adjust if necessary.
7. Line up spoons. Place a little of the sugar and shallots in the base of each spoon, top with herbs and a slice of the beef, some cucumber, half a quail egg and a pinch of the celery salt. Spoon over a teaspoon of the dressing and sprinkle with toasted rice.
Serves 12 as an appetiser
Drink Ice-cold beer
Spring rolls with crab, sweetcorn, tofu and wood ear fungus
Spring rolls can be a little fiddly at first, but once you get the hang of them they're pretty straightforward. A great asset for more spontaneous events, they can be frozen raw and then deep-fried from frozen — they'll just take a little longer.
2 tbsp canola oil
1 clove of garlic, chopped
1 420g can of corn kernels, drained
1/2 tsp five spice
Flaked salt
Freshly ground black pepper
100ml coconut cream
1 punnet of enoki mushrooms
1 punnet of wood-ear fungus
130ml rice wine vinegar
40g goji berries
2 cobs of fresh corn, cooked and kernels stripped
125g firm tofu, finely diced (3-5mm)
300g Australian cooked crab-meat
25 spring roll wrappers (about 20cmx20cm)
1 egg, beaten
Vegetable oil for deep frying
200g Chinese-style plum sauce
Prawn floss (optional, from specialty Asian shops or you can whizz dried shrimp in a spice grinder)
Coriander for garnish
1. In a medium frying pan over a medium heat add one tablespoon of the canola oil, then garlic and cook until fragrant, add the tinned corn and five spice, salt and pepper, stir then add coconut cream and bubble for a minute or two. Transfer to a food processor to make a smooth paste. Cool.
2. Trim woody ends of enoki and discard, slice each wood-ear fungus into three or four pieces. Saute mushrooms in the remaining oil in a clean frying pan over medium heat for two minutes.
3. In a small saucepan add 50millilitres of rice wine vinegar and the goji berries, bring to the boil for one minute.
4. Line up your ingredients: corn puree, corn kernels, tofu, mushrooms, goji berries and crab meat.
Separate a wrapper and place on a clean benchtop or board in front of you, brush three edgesof the wrapper with beaten egg, omitting side closest to you. Three centimetres in from the un-brushed edgespread one heaped teaspoon of corn puree leaving three centimetres free at each end, follow with about a teaspoon each of the other ingredients. Fold the un-brushed edge over the filling and roll tightly, compressing theingredients as you go. Halfway through rolling the wrapper, fold in the left and right edges and keep rolling, brushing the end with more egg before you seal the roll.
5. Empty plum sauce into a bowl and addthe remaining rice wine vinegar and mix. Garnish with the prawn floss if using.
6. Heat oil in fryer to 180C. Fry spring rolls until light golden and crisp, about three minutes.
7. Serve spring rolls whole or cut on a bias, with plum sauce and garnished with coriander.
Makes about 25 rolls
Drink Pinot grigio


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When oil optimists tout the huge supply of oil that is still available to us in the form of tar sands and oil shale, they forget to mention that costs are rising so quickly for producing that oil that these alternative sources may prove to be of limited value. The same cost problems are occurring in the renewable energy field as well. What is behind this phenomenon sometimes referred to as the problem of receding horizons?...Read more
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Receding Horizons for Alternative Energy Supplies
My latest column on Scitizen entitled "Receding Horizons for Alternative Energy Supplies" has now been posted. Here is the teaser:
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Pulse Necklace 02Aug2009
Sensebridge Meeting Notes about Pulse Choker[edit]
Research Links[edit]
12 lead ECG fabric electrode belt system patent
Wearable ECG Monitoring System Using Conductive Fabrics and Active Electrodes
Preliminary study of dry knitted fabric electrodes for physiological monitoring
FDA clearance on Textronic fabric ECG electrodes
Eric has filled out the "purchase" form on Textronics fabric electrode kit, and will follow up with them in order to get the kit. Rachel, Chung-Hay and Eric will split the cost.
Chung-Hay found this awesome heart-rate collecting vest, see more at the project page
Someone at the meeting recommended the Ramsey ECG1 heart monitoring kit, see the manual, with assembly instructions. $45, and it's got both audio and o-scope outputs, along with some adjust-ability. Might be worth buying, even if the Open ECG guy comes through.
Check out this super cool stretchy fabric cable
Both the Softwear and Kobakant DIY sites have a whole bunch of awesome information on soft circuits and components. No doubt there are lots of interesting ideas to be mined!
Optical Pulse Circuit Experimentation[edit]
We soldered leads unto the emitter/transmitter device, and held it against various body parts:
- Neck: no flashing, despite many attempts on both of us
- Wrist: Eric got it to work once on his wrist, but generally this fails
- earlobe: Eric got it to work a few times, this was actually the most promising area after thumb
- Thumb/finger: the original, still very flaky, works maybe 25% of the time
Prototype Armature/Display[edit]
We prototyped a choker today. We cut a "T" circuit silk screen mask out of a cool piece of flexible plastic, and then painted the silver conductive paint unto the mesh fabric. Then we soldered multi-color cycling LEDs unto the traces, and wires unto the dongle end (note: don't use unnecessary headers, they are hard to solder to with solid wire), and stuck them into an arduino, pins D6 & D8, with 500 ohm resistor on each line.
int LeftNeckLED = 6; int RightNeckLED = 8; void setup() { pinMode(LeftNeckLED, OUTPUT); pinMode(RightNeckLED, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(LeftNeckLED, 1); digitalWrite(RightNeckLED, 1); } void loop() { digitalWrite(LeftNeckLED, 1); digitalWrite(RightNeckLED, 1); delay(500); digitalWrite(LeftNeckLED, 0); delay(6000); digitalWrite(RightNeckLED, 0); delay(30000); }