John Nese is the proprietor of Galcos Soda Pop Stop in LA. His father ran it as a grocery store, and when the time came for John to take charge, he decided to convert it into the ultimate soda-lovers destination. About 500 pops line the shelves, sourced lovingly by John from around the world. John has made it his mission to keep small soda-makers afloat and help them find their consumers. Galcos also acts as a distributor for restaurants and bars along the West Coast, spreading the gospel of soda made with cane sugar (no high-fructose corn syrup if John can avoid it).
In the study, researchers tried to evaluate the effect of money in two ways: One was on how people think about their lives and the other was on the feelings they have as they experience life. Responses from more than 450,000 Americans, gathered in 2008 and 2009, were evaluated.
The study found that people’s evaluations of their lives improved steadily with annual income. But the quality of their everyday experiences — their feelings — did not improve above an income of $75,000 a year. As income decreased from $75,000, people reported decreasing happiness and increasing sadness, as well as stress. The study found that being divorced, being sick and other painful experiences have worse effects on a poor person than on a wealthier one.
“More money does not necessarily buy more happiness, but less money is associated with emotional pain,” the authors wrote. “Perhaps $75,000 is a threshold beyond which further increases in income no longer improve individuals’ ability to do what matters most to their emotional well-being, such as spending time with people they like, avoiding pain and disease, and enjoying leisure.”
Scoot over Facebook, here comes Google Me and its new ‘social layer’ all up in your face. The rollout of the new addition will be released in stages to refine each phase prior to the next release.
“We’re trying to take Google’s core products and add a social component, if you think about it, it’s obvious. With your permission, knowing more about who your friends are, we can provide more tailored recommendations. Search quality can get better,” Schmidt said.
Ok. We’ve seen some very mini MP3 players in our time. Take a look at the iPod Shuffle… it’s been relegated to the size of a stick of gum. But then we saw this Micro Sport Japanese MP3 Player and our definition of “tiny” was forced to be revised. When you’re looking for the bleeding edge of techno gadgets you need go no further. The Micro Sport Player is two sugar cubes worth of electronics into which somehow is crammed 4GB of memory and a rechargeable battery.
Amazingly this tiny player features full stereo sound. One earbud is attached directly to the side of the main unit, while the other earbud trails on a cord around the back of your head, just reaching the opposite ear.
We have been hearing that the next new wave on the college campus will be the replacement of paper textbooks with the electronic equivalent of an iPad in the near future. Wake Up! The future is here.
“By 2012 onwards, we expect to roll out fully online versions of our first-year science courses,” Professor Hill said. “Students enrolling in a science course in 2011 will be the very first to see the significant benefits of the iPad-enhanced curriculum.
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