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JUST BLINK AND YOUR CREDIT CARD CAN BE STOLEN
More and more people are getting credit cards with a built-in RFID chip in them. That little RFID chip (Radio Frequency ID) can transmit your credit card info out several feet when it is scanned by any reader. Most people do not know this.
You can tell if your credit card has an RFID in it because most cards will be marked by one of several Continue reading
Posted in Finance, Investment, Social Media, Technology
Tagged AMEX, ATM, ATM card, banking, BLINK, CHASE, CITIBANK, identity theft, James Carlini, PayPass, Smartphone, TRW, VISA
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EQUALS BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY….
And Broadband Connectivity equals jobs. That was a key point that I have been making in the last couple of years in keynote speeches addressing thousands in audiences across the country at various conferences.
At the AGL (Above Ground Level Magazine) Conference yesterday, I presented this key concept as well as Continue reading
Posted in Business, Commercial, Education, Employment, Finance, Investment, Management, Real Estate, Technology
Tagged AGL, AGL. tower antenna., AT&T, BICSI, broadband, broadband connectivity, DAS, infrastructure, Intelligent Business Campuses, intelligent infrastructure, James Carlini, Jon Adelstein, NECA, PCIA, Smartphones, WiFi, wireless
DRESS FOR SUCCESS: CASUAL DOESN’T MEAN HOMELESS
When you go to a business meeting today are you dressed for success or dressed casually? Do you look like you flew in on the corporate jet or were you one of the people washing it down before the flight?
Image consultants seem more concerned about social media tools today than they are real barometers of professionalism and success. Having a Smartphone with an obnoxious ring tone is not cool and won’t make any points unless you Continue reading
Posted in Business, Commercial, Education, Employment, Finance, Health and Wellness, Innovative Products, Interview, Investment, Law, Lifestyle, Management, Marketing, Personal Development, Real Estate, Self Development, Social Media, Social Media, Technology
Tagged Armani, AT&T, Azimuth, BMW, Breitling, Brioni, business, business casual, car wash, career, Casual Doesn't Mean Homeless, casual Friday, ceo, CIO, class, classy, credibility, designer, dress, Dress For Success, dress shoes, executive, faculty, Fendi, Ferragamo, graduate, group, Gucci, Hatteras, Hugo Boss, interviewing, James Carlini, jeans, meeting, Piaget, pinstripes, plaid, president, Robb Report, Rolex, sandals, sloppy, suits, ties, tweed, well-dressed, wool, worker
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING NEEDS BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY
There is a lot of promise from the growing industry of 3D printers and manufacturing products through their use as well as new 3D scanners. This technology is providing a second industrial revolution in the United States as well as globally.
Posted in Business, Commercial, Education, Finance, Government, Innovative Products, Investment, Marketing, Real Estate, Technology
Tagged 3D, 3D printer, 3D printing, 3D scanners, additive manufacturing, bandwidth, broadband, broadband connectivity, commercial real estate, DAS, data, fiber optics, GE, gigabits, high-speed networks, IBC, industrial parks, industrial revolution, infrastructure, intelligent infrastructure, James Carlini, network, networks, New York Times, NY Times, prototyping, terabits, terabytes, Thomas Friedman, WiFi
HYPERLOOP: THE NEXT LAYER OF INFRASTRUCTURE
Wake up America
Especially the politicians in California, Illinois, and anywhere else where they are considering implementing a high-speed train. High-speed trains are so “last century” and they are not cheap to build or maintain. If they are not used to their maximum capacities and there is only marginal ridership, they are a supreme waste of money and their residual value is just another money-wasting monument built to honor and perpetuate bureaucracy. Continue reading
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Tagged American ingenuity, architecture, broadband, broadband connectivity, bullet train, California, cars, Edison, Elon Musk, engineering, government, highways, Hyperloop, infrastructure, James Carlini, railroad, railroads, solar panels, TESLA, transportation
RE-TOOLING COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE CURRICULA
Hear that huge shattering sound of multiple stories of glass crashing down to the ground? That is the shattering of decades’ worth of commercial real estate concepts that don’t Continue reading
Posted in Commercial, Education, Investment, Law, Real Estate, Technology
Tagged AIA, Bank, BICSI, BOMA, Broker, CABA, Carlini, CRE, curriculum, Financier, high-tech real estate, IBC, IFMA, IIP, intelligent amenity, intelligent buildings, Intelligent Business Campuses, intelligent infrastructure, IREC, IWCS, James Carlini, marketing, multi-disciplinary, property management, property manager, smart buildings, Smartphones, tenant
A TSUNAMI HITS DETROIT
Do you hear that? It’s a crumbling sound reverberating across the country.
It’s the great wall of over-bloated government pensions starting to crumble in Detroit. The unions think they will stop the crumbling? I don’t think so. Continue reading
Posted in Business, Commercial, Education, Employment, Finance, Government, Investment, Law, Real Estate, Residential, Technology
Tagged AARP, alderman, bailout, bloat, budget, Chicago, cities, citizens, clout, cloutocracy, corruption, corruptocracy, cutbacks, deficit, democrat, Detroit, dog, ERISA, funding, GOP, government, governor, grants, Illinois, infrastructure, James Carlini, journalism, journalist, liberal, libraries, Mayor, merit, Michigan, New York, pension, pensions, politicians, programs, schools, senior citizen, state, subsidy, tsunami, union, urban, urban decay, urbanism, waste, Yves Marchand
USING COPPER CABLING? BEWARE OF THIEVES
Copper cabling is still used in both electrical and telecommunications applications. Both the power company as well as the telephone companies, still use a lot of it for distributing power as well as distributing communication signals for voice, data, and video. Because of its value, many are thinking it is an Continue reading
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Tagged AC/DC, AIA, alternating current, ASCE, AT&T, BICSI, BOMA, cable vault, cabling, cabling infrastructure, Carlini, CAT 5, CAT 5e, CAT 6, circuits, coaxial cable, Com Ed, connectivity, connectors, copper, copper-clad, electricity, electrocution, EMI, fiber optics, horizontal risers, IBC, IBEW, infrastructure, inside plant, intelligent buildings, Intelligent Business Campuses, James Carlini, kill, lineman, live wires, manhole cover, network, outside plant, phone company, power, power grid, power lines, RBOC, RFI, right-of-way, robbery, scrap metal, shielded cable, sub-station, telecommunications, telephone cabling, telephone pole, thieves, tower, transformer, unshielded cable, utilities, Verizon, vertical risers, wire, wireless, wiring
BUILDING CONNECTIVITY: FIVE WAYS TO TELL IF YOUR BUILDING IS OBSOLETE
EXCERPT from James Carlini’s upcoming book, Location, Location, Connectivity :
How receptive is your building to all the new connectivity technology exploding onto the market? Have your Smartphone with you? Does it work well in your building? What about your applications running on your enterprise network? Are you getting the speeds you need to compete in the 21st century? Or, are you stuck with 20th century connectivity because no one knows how to upgrade the building’s network infrastructure? Continue reading
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Tagged AIA, appraisal, ASCE, AT&T, BICSI, BOMA, broadband, building, building owner, CABA, cable, cabling, campus, CAT 5, CAT6, cellular, central office, commercial leasing, commercial real estate, connectivity, copper, CRE, DAS, fiber optic, firestop, gigabit, IBC, IFMA, infrastructure, intelligent amenity, intelligent buildings, Intelligent Business Campuses, intelligent infrastructure, James Carlini, lease, life/safety, mission critical, network, network carrier, property management, PSTN, servers, Smartphone, SONET, tenant, ULI, Verizon, WiFi, wire, wiring, workplace
PHONE CALL ANALYTICS? JIHAD, BENGHAZI, TEA PARTY – WE CAN FIND THEM ALL
Who said Jihad? Who is talking about the Tea Party? Who said Benghazi or NSA? We can search ALL phone conversations down to the specific word and bring up ALL calls that have those keywords (or whatever we type in). We HAVE technology to do that. In fact, we can Continue reading
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Tagged Benghazi, Civil Rights, classified, compliance, data mining, eavesdropping, electronic surveillance, FBI, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, GOP, illegal, illegal search, James Carlini, Jihad, law, networking, NRA, NSA, phone calls, phone taps, privacy, private phone calls, racism, scandal, SEC, snooping, social media, spying, surveillance, Tea Party, terrorists, voice analytics, whitehouse
DETROIT: THE “SCARED STRAIGHT” DESTINATION FOR CITY ADMINISTRATORS
The city of Detroit is faced with a 50/50 chance of bankruptcy and this should not be taken lightly. Many can criticize what led up to this financial catastrophe, but the more important issue is what can everyone learn from it? Continue reading
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Tagged AAA, accountability, airport, alderman, bankrupt, Bankruptcy, bonds, bridges, city, city planning, commerce, county, deficits, Democratic, Detroit, economic development, economic failure, education, educators, finance, firemen, Ford, GM, government, infrastructure, inner city, James Carlini, Mayor, midwest, Motor City, municipal bonds, municipality, pensions, platform for commerce, police, politicians, public sector, region, regional sustainability, Republican, roads, schools, spending, spending cuts, teachers, tourism, unions, welfare, workforce, zoo
MUSEUMS: SETTING A FUTURE DIRECTION BY PRESERVING HISTORY
Any civilization in the last 5,000 years can only be understood and measured by what we can read and discover about them. If they did not keep track of their accomplishments and cultures, chances are, we would know very little about them and their achievements.
- If you do not know where you came from, do you really have a good idea of where you are headed?
- How do you build upon the accomplishments of the past or avoid the mistakes of the past if you are unaware of them?
These seem to be good questions to ask people who do not have a good grasp of how this country started and developed throughout the last 200 years. As was pointed out by one museum curator, those in the last generation (the Great generation of World War II) seemed to have more Continue reading
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Alexander Westgarth is Wine a Stable and Lucrative Investment?
Is Wine a Good Investment?
Alexander Westgarth of Westgarth Wine Investment Brokers Believes the Right Wine Investment is a Very Smart Market Play.
Their are so many wines on the market nowadays. There is no shortage of wineries in the United States or abroad and so many highly rated wines and even more lower rated wines.
Shelves and shelves of 2 buck Chuck and $7.99 to $12.99 specials from all sorts of diverse wineries and companies that seem to rely on cool names and bottle art rather than particularly quality wine.
Alexander Westgarth of Westgarth Fine Wine Investments Interview
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I have to say that I had little or more like, no knowledge of the wine investment industry. I do have some friends in the industry and had heard stories of wine fraud that cost some investors a lot of money…
So like most I believe I really had no concept of what the industry was all about.
Enter Westgarth Fine Wine Brokers… I get a chance to speak with Alexander Westgarth who is a fine wine broker of 10 years and only deals with a very small, high quality group of fine wines. Alexander believes that the smaller fine wine market is a safe and stable investment market that can be entered relatively easily and can provide good and stable returns for the investor.
It was great getting to speak with Alexander who sheds much light and information on an industry that claims quite high returns even through some of our worst financial times and recessions.
At any rate, this is a wonderful glimpse into a word few know about and there is enough information here to start to find out if this type of investment may be right for you. – JW
Some of the questions we talk about…
- What constituents a fine wine?
- How much of a return can I expect on my wine?
- How long should I keep hold of my wine before selling it?
- What happens when I want to sell my wine?
- What guarantee do I have that I’m getting what I paid for?
- What’s the minimum investment I can make?
- How are you different from other US fine wine investment companies and funds?
- Is this kind of investment completely tax free?
- Can I drink my wine?
- How will I know when to sell?
- Does wine ever go down in value?
- Where are my wines kept?
Alexander Westgarth
At 31 years of age the company’s founder Alexander Westgarth has already achieved an impressive 10 years of wine investment brokerage in London. The contacts he has established during this period have opened up access to vast quantities of the most prized wines—including those controlled by négociants, wholesalers and private collectors.
QUOTES ABOUT FINE WINE AS AN INVESTMENT
“Wine is one of the last great commodities in the world to be dragged out of the dark ages and traded on a global index.”
Claer Barrett, The Financial Times, December 5, 2011
“Fine wine is also a better investment than equities and commodities… Wine not only managed to weather the recession and the stock market crash, it thrived in comparison with the others.”
Jeremy Gaunt, Reuters, March 1, 2011
“Liv-ex’s Fine Wine 100 Index, the London International Vintners Exchange tracks the price movement of the world’s 100 most sought after wines.”
William Lyons, The Wall Street Journal, September 19, 2010
“… a performance analysis of fine wine since 1950 indicates an average annual return of 15 percent.”
William Beck, Financial Times special report, May 20, 2008
“Keeping fine wine stored in a quality cellar like Corsham can add as much as 20 percent come auction day.”
Jamie Merrill, The Independent. January 13, 2012
Westgarth Wine Investment Brokers
Westgarth provides a fine wine brokerage service that brings the high-profit potential of the UK wine market to American investors. The United Kingdom boasts the world’s largest wine commodity market, advanced infrastructure and a government-regulated system that documents wines’ provenance. With these unrivalled benefits, there is no better route for any wine investor wishing to secure maximum returns than via the UK.
We source wines mainly in the UK and France, and bring you storage at the world’s greatest facility in Wiltshire, England. Come sale time, we can connect you with a global pool of buyers to maximize your chances of a quick and profitable sale—thanks to the portal of the UK market.
Our years of experience in UK wine investment put us in a perfect position to guide you to financial success in this proven area of opportunity.
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