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Patrick McDonald, known as Mr Dandy. We talked for a while about NY and fashion.
I was so happy that he was so sweet.
So when I got back to NY this year, we met for lunches and had so much fun.
Dandy is a very funny person, who loves his eggs and tabasco, and not to forget his iced tea.
He and his twin brother were born in Heidelburg, Germany to American parents and returned to the United States aboard the SS United States. Dandy spent his earlier years in California and soon after attended Punahou Academy Prep in Hawaii. he enrolled at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California and graduated with a BA in Fine Arts.
I asked him a few questions, enjoy!
You are known as Mr Dandy, who gave you the "name" and what does Dandy mean to you?
Ike Ude, the artist.Dandy to me means seeing beauty in the art of dressing.
How would you describe your own style?
A cross between Salvador Dali, Quentin Crisp with a little Tony Duquette thrown in!
Which piece in your wardrobe could you not live without?
I could not live without clothes, I feel I look awful naked!
If you could just pick one fashion designer, who would it be and why?
Paul Smith because it "Suits" me!
How did you start working in the fashion industry?
I moved to New York in the fall of 1978 and my first job was at "Fiorucci" with Joey Arias, it was like a nightclub during the day! I would work all day at "Fiorucci" and dance all night at "Studio 54"!
Then I moved on and worked for Gene Pressman at Barneys in the mid-80's in the buying office with Connie Darrow.
Then I became the "Couture Director" for fashion designer Fabrice in the late 80's, he was amazing and he is no longer here and I miss him everyday.
After his passing I worked for Couture Designer John Anthony in, in-house PR.
I now freelance and I am working for the very talented jewelry designer Kimberly McDonald.
I also have written for Paper Magazine , "The High-Brow" column and all the Mao Magazines.
What is your current position?
Dandy of all trades for Jewelry Designer Kimberly McDonald.
There is a tough attitude in fashion, what are your thoughts about that?
I hate it! The ego's and self-entitlement is out of control in the fashion industry here.
I say "Less Attitude and more Gratitude"!
Would you say that there is a difference between European fashion and American?
Most definitely!
Most American fashion designers play it safe and are not innovators, they follow the pack.
I think it's because most of them are just stylists not designers!
In America it's about money and what will sell, not about the design or the creativity.
European designers take risks and are creative.
However, there are exceptions in both America and Europe.
Where do you find the best fashion in NY?
Bergdorf Goodman Men's and vintage resale shops are the best for me!
NY fashion week is around the corner, how do you prepare and which shows are a must for you?
I always like to look my best. I am so amazed by so many fashion people that do not care how they look.
I wonder sometimes if they have a mirror at home, I think most of them have a blase attitude and they think it's cool not to care.
I say then do something else!
I do prepare in advance for fashion week it makes it easier with the hectic schedule.
Every season I look forward to a few shows and they are, Ralph Rucci, always so chic!
Duckie Brown, risk takers in men's fashion and The Blonds, for the Drama and Theater!


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You'll wish you'd never found out how this bloke kills an octopus 'Kiwi style'
A HARDCORE wildlife enthusiast has shocked viewers after posting a stomach-churning instructional video online showing viewers how to kill an octopus "Kiwi style".
The clip shows Discovery Channel host Josh James sat aboard a small boat wearing a camouflage wetsuit.
He holds up a writhing octopus saying: "These things are really good eating.
"You've gotta put them in the freezer first to change the texture.
"And to kill them, you bite them right between the eyes."
Without a moment's hesitation, he raises the wriggling creature to his face and takes a giant bite that squelches sickeningly as the octopus goes limp.
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How does "enemies cant see you aka stupid AI" work? I enabled it but soldiers still detect me and investigate / start shooting. Infinite Fultons is working fine though.
EDIT: Nevermind, played for awhile and AI is definitely much stupider. They will shoot off in the opposite direction most of the time and when they radio in for help, most of the time no more come. lol
Btw, the meds aren't infinite. Makes no difference though, as they are mostly useless with the rest of the trainer stuff.
Sometimes if you teleport during a mission you go "outside of mission area" and fail then have to restart the mission. I think that's probably the games fault though.
Thanks again man, game is awesome with this trainer. :D
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Question? How would one acquire this aurora program that runs trainers? Also, could this program be run through xexmenu or is it specifically set to run through fsd?
I want a hamburger. No, cheeseburger. I want a hot dog. I want a milkshake. I want potato chips-
You'll get nothing, and like it!
The teleport si not working properly
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Obrigado pela postagem
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Interesting discussion from a not-very-reliable source. The question of whether 60 passengers could be subdued by four men with plastic knives and box-cutters for more than two minutes does linger doubtfully in my mind..
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Fictoid #9: Plastic Knives and Box Cutters
Following the September 11th attack, government authorities declared that the weapons used to hijack the planes that crashed into World Trade Center were plastic knives and box cutters. The story about plastic knives and box cutters, implements which passengers then were not legally restricted from bring through security checkpoints at airports, was relentlessly drummed into the public's mind by two of the highest officials in the government. John Ashcroft, the attorney general, Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense.
Ashcroft told ABC News on September 15th that "investigators believed that each of the commandeered planes had been hijacked by groups of three to six men armed with box cutters and plastic knives." Donald Rumsfeld told Fox News on September 16th, that the hijackers used weapons that are distinctively different – – plastic knives." On October 9th, he suggested to Dan Rather on CBS News "plastic knives and the use of a U.S. airliner filled with American people as a missile [were used] to destroy a World Trade Center." On November 7th, he described to Jim Lehrer on PBS " One of our planes is used as a missile to fly into our building and into the World Trade Center. It was beyond one's imagination that plastic knives and our own commercial aircraft filled with our own people would be used as the implement of war."
Actually, it was their imagination, not established facts, that informed the world that the hijackers had used plastic knives and box cutters to commandeer the two airliners that had destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Not a scintilla of evidence had been found then— or to date— that either plastic knives or box cutters were used by any of the ten hijackers who crashed United Airlines flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center. No box cutters or plastic knives were found in the debris. Nor were the cockpit voice recorders ever found from Flight 11 and Flight 175. No witnesses, either passengers or crew members, on either flight 11 or flight 175 ever reported any hijacker having a box cutter or a plastic knife. Both United Airlines flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11 had departed from Boston. Once both Boeing 767s had reached their cruising altitudes, the hijackers took control of them by unknown means without any of the four pilots warning the ground controllers, even though they had open radios. Both airliners then turned off their transponders and disappeared from the computerized radar screens.
No message was ever received from flight 175 that mentioned any weapons. So, for all anyone knows, the hijackers may have used guns, grenades, poison gas or any other weapon
An executive summary of an unpublished FAA memo stated:
"At approximately 9:18 am, it was reported that two crew members in the cockpit were stabbed. The flight then descended with no communications from the flight crew members. The American Airlines FAA Principal Security Inspector (PFI) was notified by Suzanne Clark of American airlines Corporate Headquarters that an on board flight attendant contacted American Airlines Operation Center and informed that a passenger located in seat 10B shot and killed a passenger in 9B at 9:20 am. The passenger killed was Daniel Lewin shot by Satam al-Suqama. One bullet was reported to have been fired."
The information came from two cell phone calls made by flight attendants, Betty Ong and Madeline Amy Sweeney, to Americal Airlines ground controllers. Ong, who was in the first class compartment— and the only witness to the assault on the cockpit. She reported that she had seen four hijackers come from first-class seats, kill a passenger seated behind them, and use a chemical weapon which she described as "some sort of spray" that made her eyes burn and made it difficult for her to breathe." Madeline Amy Sweeney, the flight attendant in the rear compartment, call was not recorded. According to the ground controller, she said that the pilots, another flight attendant and a passenger had been stabbed or killed.
The FAA subsequently said that the report of a gun shot was an error proceeding from a "miscommunication". The ground controller did not recall a gun shot or a bullet being mentioned.
In any case, there were no box cutters or plastics knives on flight 11 were used.
Two other flights were hijacked that morning, American Airlines flight 77, a Boeing 757 departing from Virginia, and United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 departing from Newark. On flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, one single passenger, Barbara Olsen, reported on weapons that some of the five hijackers had in the back of the plane. She told her husband, Theodore Olsen, on a cell phone that the hijackers who herded her and other the passengers into the back of the plane had two kind of weapons: knives and cardboard cutters (presumably box cutters). She did not say anything about the other hijackers in the cockpit and she apparently did not even know that they were piloting the plane. Nor did any other passenger or crew member on Flight 77 describe the hijackers' weapons. It cannot be assumed that all the hijackers on the plane had similar weapons. The hijackers assaulting the cockpit might have needed more sophisticated weaponry to rapidly stun or kill the pilots.
On flight 93, the Boeing 757 which crashed near Pittsburgh, the flight attendant reported over a cell phone that a hijacker in her plane had a "bomb strapped on." Some unidentified person also said over the loud speaker that there was a "bomb" aboard the plane. A passenger, Todd Beamer, talked over a cell phone about the "terrorist with a bomb." Another passenger, Tom Burnett, told his wife over a cell phone that he had heard that a pilot had been "knifed." No passenger or crew member described either box cutters or plastic knives as weapons and, as far as is known, no box cutters of plastic knives been recovered from the wreckage.
Similar weapons thus were not reported in the different flights. A paralytic chemical spray was described in the front compartment of flight 11, knives and card cutters was described in the rear compartment of Flight 77 and a bomb was described on flight 93. Nor is there any reason to assume that different hijackers on different planes leaving from different airports would use the same weaponry. Atta and Alomari, for example, having made a detour to Portland, might have obtained weapons unavailable to the hijackers in Virginia and New Jersey.)
In any case, the Ashcroft's story that the hijackers used box-cutters and plastic knives in the attack on the World Trade Center is a functional fictoid. In this case, the function was diversion. This fictoid serves to divert public attentions from the responsibility, and legal liability, of the government and airlines to prevent major weapons— such as guns, bombs, chemical sprays and hunting knives from being carried aboard airplanes. If such illegal devices had been smuggled aboard the planes, the liability could amount to billions of dollars. If, , on the other hand, it could be disseminated that the hijackers had only used plastic knives, such as those provided by the airlines for meals, or box cutters, which were allowed on planes, neither the airlines, the screeners at the airport, or the FAA, which regulates the safety of airports, could be held legally responsible. Paul Pillar, who had headed the CIA's counter-terrorism, could thus explain that"the attack that killed almost 4,000 people used box cutters." This press accepted it as established fact. The New York Times, for example, reported "the hijackers did not use firearms, which would probably have been detected, but apparently wielded box-cutter knives of the type that were then allowed on board but are now banned."
What made the box cutter and and plastic knives fictoid particularly welcome was that the FAA had found massive failures of airport screeners to find weapons prior to the attacks. Such tests were conducted by FAA undercover "Red Teams." In 1998, for example, one FAA Read team leader told the New York Times, "we were successful in getting major weapons— guns and bombs–aboard planes at least 85 percent the time." The failure rate was as high as 97 percent at some airports. Nor was this vulnerability corrected before September 11th. FAA Special Agent Bogdan Dzakovic, according to USA TODAY, said that FAA officials had ignored security problems before the terrorist attacks.
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Hospitals: Staph Infections Are Rampant
The Chicago Tribune reports that 1.2 million hospital patients are infected with dangerous drug-resistant staph infections every year—10 times more than previously estimated according to a new study. The paper also reported that 48,000 to 119,000 hospital patients a year may be dying from methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, far more than previously thought. Great!
The Tribune obtained the results during the weekend from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control & Epidemiology (APIC), which is releasing the report publicly on Monday. The author is Dr. William Jarvis, former acting director of the hospital infections program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The findings come amid mounting public concern about the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in health-care facilities and community settings. Medical experts consider the rise of so-called superbugs such as MRSA, a leading cause of deadly blood infections and pneumonias, one of the most alarming public health threats in the nation.
"We're hoping this survey is a wake-up call to health-care workers across America," said Kathy Warye, the association's executive officer.
It is the largest, most comprehensive survey of MRSA in health-care facilities to date. It's based on surveys sent last year to 10,000 infection-control practitioners, including doctors and nurses in hospitals, nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities.
Hear that, heath-care workers? Wake up call. The good news is that much can be done to stop the spread of the bug:
All health-care workers should practice rigorous hand-washing, and all institutions should have robust programs for disinfecting medical equipment and patients' rooms, he said. When patients are known to have MRSA, hospital staff should wear gowns and gloves to prevent transmission. And patients deemed at risk of carrying MRSA should be screened to determine where bacterial hot spots are festering.
"Now that the true extent of this scandalously tragic epidemic is known, I hope that health-care leadership will finally confront it with the effective means that have always been available," said Michael Bennett, president of the Coalition for Patients' Rights in Maryland.
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"I'm not afraid!" the boy protested, after overhearing the remark. "I will walk alone with you to the Taliban front line," he said, with a new swagger in his voice. "Let's go." But discretion proved the better part of valor.
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Anderson (February 29, 2016) — Anderson Mayor Thomas Broderick will visit Harrison College this Wednesday, March 2, to speak with students, faculty and staff about the importance of higher education in Anderson.
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The car is a 354BHP Pettit Supercharged Mazda RX-8. It has been part of an almost 8 year project, from rubber to roof and had over £30k work of completed. I have been asked to display it in magazines but have always said no.
Well I always start with the two to three watering cans of rain water, I do not use any other type of water for the car, and we have a 400 gallon tank that's fed from the garage roof. It's also filtered so no grit can get into a can.
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Half-way down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon-street; the house is the old Pyncheon-house; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon-elm. On my occasional visits to the town aforesaid, I seldom failed to turn down Pyncheon-street, for the sake of passing through the shadow of these two antiquities; the great elm-tree and the weather-beaten edifice.
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The House of the Seven Gables, antique as it now looks, was not the first habitation erected by civilized man on precisely the same spot of ground. Pyncheon-street formerly bore the humbler appellation of Maule's Lane, from the name of the original occupant of the soil, before whose cottage-door it was a cow-path.
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In between work today (29 May 2010), i ran down to Cooks Slough, largely to try to film the Orange Shadowdragons that were found by Terry and Troy Hibbits and Tripp Davenport. I was able to locate three of them, but it was miserable hot and they would flush and constantly hang up in dense canopy where i could neither film nor take pics. Nevertheless i was able to get about 15 brief looks. Two were at a spot under big oaks next to the slough at the junction of the main Paseo trail and the Los Indios trail, just past the shaded bench (maps available at the trailhead). They perch in the scrubby oak sprouts, but flush up into the oaks. At this location i also photographed a Mexican Wedgetail. The third shadowdragon i had was on a different trail after i misread the map. It was along the road just before you get to marker #3 and the Lunker pond overlook. It behaved the same as the others. Also at Lunker Pond were a Carmine Skimmer, three Slough Amberwings, a Pin-tailed Pondhawk and a Jade Clubtail. Near the first spot was a super cooperative female Filigree Skimmer.
I strongly recommend trying for these late in the afternoon, but beware that the gates close at 5 pm -- they open at 8 am. I spent about three hours there, and was very focused, so didn't chase down a lot of things that probably needed better looks, but nothing was flying or patrolling -- it was all about flushing and chasing down. Nevertheless i had decent variety if not numbers.
TX: Uvalde Co., Cook's Slough, 29 May 2010
1 Blue-fronted Dancer (photos)
2 Familiar Bluet
1 Double-striped Bluet
1 Mexican Wedgetail (photos)
1 Common Green Darner
1 Jade Clubtail
3 Sulphur-tipped Clubtail (photos, film)
3 Orange Shadowdragon
1 Filigree Skimmer (photos, film)
6 Four-spotted Pennant
2 Black Setwing (photos)
2 Swift Setwing (photos)
1 Pin-tailed Pondhawk
8 Eastern Pondhawk (photos)
2 Widow Skimmer
1 Twelve-spotted Skimmer
1 Carmine Skimmer (photos, film)
4 Roseate Skimmer (photos)
2 Blue Dasher (photos)
20 Eastern Amberwing
3 Slough Amberwing (film)
4 Black Saddlebags
2 Red Saddlebags
1 Little Yellow
2 Dainty Sulphur
80 Checkered White
2 Great Southern White
4 Lyside Sulphur
1 Black Swallowtail
2 Giant Swallowtail
3 Blue sp.
100 Bordered Patch
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6 Variegated Fritillary
1 Gulf Fritillary
4 Question Mark
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1 Hackberry Emperor
2 Queen
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6 Tropical Checkered-Skipper
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1 Ilia Underwing, Catocala ilia (photos, film)
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6 Slider sp. (perhaps P.c. gorzugi)
4 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2 Wild Turkey
1 Green Heron
20 Black Vulture
40 Turkey Vulture
2 Red-tailed Hawk (B.j. fuertesi)
1 Greater Roadrunner
2 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2 Mourning Dove
2 Common Ground-Dove
4 Black-chinned Hummingbird
8 Golden-fronted Woodpecker
1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
10 Brown-crested Flycatcher
1 Ash-throated Flycatcher
1 Great Kiskadee
2 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
4 Bell's Vireo
1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
20 Barn Swallow
1 Cliff Swallow
2 Black-crested Titmouse
1 Bewick's Wren
1 Long-billed Thrasher
3 Yellow-breasted Chat
3 Northern Cardinal
1 Pyrrhuloxia
2 Painted Bunting
12 Olive Sparrow
1 Dickcissel
4 Lesser Goldfinch
1 Audubon's Oriole
2 Hooded Oriole
100 Red-winged Blackbird
Some other observations for the day
TX: Kerr Co., Ingram, 29 May 2010
1 Two-tailed Swallowtail
1 Golden-cheeked Warbler (my place is within a GCW territory, but i hadn't heard the male for a couple of weeks, then woke up to him singing, by the time i was getting into my jeep at 7:30 he was quiet)
1 Zone-tailed Hawk (while i was gassing up, an adult bird was circling low overhead, squealing and being answered by a bird in the trees along the river across the street. i see this in town bird often, but have never been able to pin down the nest site, i got some bearings and will go looking this week.)
TX: Uvalde Co., just N of Uvalde in wettish vegetated slough/ditch, 29 May 2010
1 Groove-billed Ani (this bird flew across the road in front of me and i stopped to double-check. it was curious but stuck to the back of the vegetation)
TX: Real Co., Big Springs Ranch
1 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (photos, film)
10 Sleepy Orange (film)
1 Red Admiral (film)
8 Common/White Checkered-Skipper (film)
1 Southern Broken-Dash (photos)
1 Northern Cloudywing (film)
2 Prince Baskettail (film)
1 Roseate Skimmer (film)
+ Blanchard's Cricket Frog
1 Spotted Sandpiper
1 Canyon Wren
+ House Finch
2 Lesser Goldfinch
1 White-tailed Deer (photos)
TX: Real Co., about six miles N of Big Springs Ranch along US83
1 Variegated Meadowhawk
2 Northern Bobwhite
1 Orchard Oriole
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Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Design Funny by Heather Bradley.
Why incorporate humor into your design?
Humor has some major advantages for your clients, but let's be honest—graphic design may be good for society, but it's hardly a high-stakes field with lives in the daily balance, like emergency medicine or parachute-packing. No one dies from botched kerning. Okay, some designs, like stop signs and the Mr. Yuck logo—do save lives, but the worst outcome most of our projects will ever face is unsold Slap Chops or ignored banner ads. So, why not encourage more clients to give humor a shot? The potential benefits far outweigh the potential downsides.
1. Funny is persuasive
Humorous messages provoke emotions that influence consumers to take action. We like to think of ourselves as rational beings who carefully examine the pros and cons of our options before we make a decision. In reality, research shows we're just emotional basket cases flailing around throwing our money at whatever makes us feel good that moment. Knowing this, designers can use humor to influence attitudes and change or reinforce a positive perception of a message on a subconscious level. Sometimes it's just not worth making a carefully researched case for why Toothpaste A prevents 99 percent more cavities than Toothpaste B when a wacky bucktoothed beaver on the label will sell more.
Have you ever noticed how a little playful teasing can get a grown man to try just about anything once? Humor is basically a gateway drug to skydiving or choosing the live squid entrée. It opens our minds by lowering our defenses, mentally preparing us for new ideas and helping us to positively deal with the unknown. According to a study by the University of London of Neurology, "Good jokes can activate the part of the brain that is important for learning and comprehending." Not only are we more curious about the world, we're simultaneously better able to deal with the uncertainty that often accompanies trying something new. Maybe that's because we can simply laugh off anything that doesn't make sense. In her 2008 book Using Humor to Maximize Learning, Mary Kay Morrison explains, "The surprise elements of humor alert the attentional center of the brain," and "Humor has the potential to hook the students that are easily bored and inattentive."
Studies also show that it's easier to process emotionally charged information such as funny situations because it arouses our brain and helps us empathize with the subject. What would make you more likely to buy new winter boots—a graph indicating that better treads prevent more accidents or someone comically falling on their butt in an ad?
Getting a joke gives us a massive dose of positive reinforcement. Clients should know that consumers love to feel in on a joke. In the book Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind researchers say, "There is an undeniable similarity between the joy of humor and the joy of problem solving. When we 'get' a joke we feel a sense of discovery rather like the sense of triumph when we solve a problem." Psychologists such as Barbara Fredrickson and Thomas Joiner believe that positive emotions "broaden people's thought-action repertoires, encouraging them to discover novel lines of thought or action. Joy, for instance, creates the urge to play, interest creates the urge to explore, and so on."
When we laugh, pleasurable chemicals called endorphins wash over us and relax our muscles, relieving stress. It feels awesome—so good it can distract us from what ails us. In fact, researchers at Oxford University studying the effects of laughter found that more laughter correlates with less perceived pain. Less pain means an audience more receptive to your message.
2. Funny is social
Laughter is a form of social communication. This is probably why comedy watching is often enjoyed as a group activity. Research shows that laughing with other people releases oxytocin, a hormone that is associated with a sense of belonging, trust and connectedness. In his book, Humor Works, John Morreall explains, "Because humor helps people develop rapport with each other, it serves as a social lubricant. Companies which promote humor have a higher morale, more loyalty to the company, and closer bonds among employees." Neuroscientist Robert Provine in a 2000 article in Psychology Today claims that "laughter is primarily a social vocalization that binds people together. It is a hidden language that we all speak. It is not a learned group reaction but an instinctual behavior programmed by our genes. Laughter bonds us through humor and play."
Humor not only strengthens interpersonal relationships, but brand relationships as well. Through humor, an inanimate product or service can develop a social relationship with its audience. We identify with brands that share our sense of humor. According to a study mentioned in Trevor van Gorp and Edie Adam's book Design for Emotion, we unconsciously interpret corporations and their brands/products as having unique individual personalities capable of expressing emotion. Have you ever nicknamed a car, laptop or bike? Chances are you have. According to the book 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, studies show that we often give names to the things that we enjoy, but not the ones we don't. I get it. Once a car rental company gave me a candy red compact so teeny tiny adorable I named it "Spunky Gum Bubble."
Sharing a sense of humor with others makes us feel more connected to them. In particular, inside jokes—comic references only shared between members of a specific group—strengthen those communities and convey social rules and acceptable practices. I remember an inside joke my friends and I used to have. One summer we decided to start our own holiday. For almost two months, Thanksgibbing came every Sunday afternoon and was held on the same Brooklyn apartment porch. We celebrated with agreed upon traditions—white undershirts, bad movies, great pizza and several beers before 5 p.m. Though it was just a big inside joke, it really did feel like we shared a special holiday…
Playfulness helps a message appear distinctive and become more recognizable. Brands that display a consistent sense of humor often bring with them a clearer point of view and a stronger brand voice—enabling them to stand out from the crowd. Audiences appreciate companies that have made an effort to entertain them and are often more forgiving towards them. This means that a brand with a good personality and a good sense of humor can reduce negative associations and be more likable. According to a 2012 study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, humor achieves this effect due to its "distractive properties, and engenders positive brand associations because of its positive emotional outcomes."
3. Funny is hardwired
I don't think there are any episodes of Intervention that deal with laughter addiction, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were. When you really think about it, having a sense of humor is a lot like having a chemical dependency. When we see something funny our bodies respond involuntarily—we're flooded with pleasure hormones known as endorphins; our brains experience an increase in neurotransmitters; blood fl ow is increased to our heart; and levels of stress-related hormones—cortisol, epinephrine and dopamine —drop. What's more we crave this experience. Experiments have scientifi cally verifi ed that we have a powerful reward system built in for pleasure. In the 1950s, brain researchers investigated what happens when you zap parts of a rat's brain with electricity.
It sounds cruel until you find out that the rats loved it. So much so that when the researchers rigged up a self-controlled button that allowed the little guys to zap their pleasure center—aka the nucleus accumbens—as many times as they wanted, they pressed that button as many as 700 times an hour! Here comes the sad part though. If left to their own devices, rats and presumably we humans will keep pressing that button, foregoing eating and sleeping until we drop from exhaustion. Sort of reminds you of spring break, doesn't it?
Seeing something funny is a like a blip in our cognitive system; we take notice because it challenges our sense of how the world is supposed to work. A humorous design triggers our natural proclivity to analyze patterns. We seek order in chaos, looking for consistency or familiarity. To process all the information from our senses, we establish heuristics, or mental shortcuts, for how we expect to perceive the world. When something challenges those heuristics, such as a surprising punchline, we can't help but find it intriguing.
Remember your preschool "How to Laugh" class? Of course you don't. Nobody taught you to laugh. Our ability to be amused comes from nature, though nurture certainly plays a large role in shaping what we find funny. Neuroscientist Robert Provine studied when and why we laugh, and his book Laughter: A Scientific Investigation supports the theory that laughter is not only instinctual, but serves as an primal form of communication. Laughter appears in babies ontogentically—a purely biological result of our genes—and people around the world will begin laughing as early as four months old regardless of their cultural upbringing.
That's not to say that social conditioning doesn't influence why and when we laugh. For one thing, people are thirty times more likely to laugh in public than in private—which might explain why stand-up comedians don't often perform one-on-one.
A sense of humor is a mechanism that often forces us to reveal our true values, not only to others, but even to ourselves. In the book Inside Jokes, Daniel Dennett and his colleagues explain why this quality is actually quite valuable:
Since humor is hard to fake, both in the creating and in [the suppression of] appreciation, it is particularly valuable as a litmus test not only for intelligence but for enduring personality traits, hidden loyalties, and socially crucial attitudes and beliefs.
It's difficult to laugh on command or to fake a natural smile. Laughing out loud at something inappropriate is sometimes an embarrassing unconscious behavior, like absentmindedly picking your nose in public.
"So, here's the thing, I know a lot of you reading this book are probably already pretty damn funny. But if a client or colleague asks why they should follow your lead and go for the creative solution that uses humor, are you able to justify your decision and convince them of your strategy?" —Heather Bradley


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What Not To Do While Arguing in Public
Involve Others
Jim and Jane who just walked by your screaming match do not want to hold court on the ills of your relationship. Okay? And please, do not call your buddies to help you plead your case. Even if those surrounding your ruckus are friends, don't drag them into the mix. Instead, keep it down and give the argument between you and yours.


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Finding someone who is great in professional wedding photography has always been a thorn on the side of upcoming brides and if you find yourself being in the same predicament, have no fear because there are actually a lot of things that you can take into account when you are getting things figured out about which wedding photography expert you should go ahead and hire or entrust with the coverage of your wedding. It is easily one of the most important and memorable days of your life so getting someone who is extremely capable and able in what he does is of utmost importance. When you are trying to decide on who to hire for wedding photography, you need to know right off the bat what kind of photography style you would like to settle with in the first place. There are a lot of things and styles that you can choose from and if you don't know much about what the wedding photography styles are, then you came to the right place. Here are a few things that you should go ahead and acquaint yourself with.
Documentary wedding photography
This particular style in wedding photography focuses more on getting well composed candid shots or photos that look as if they have been produced accidentally or on a whim. But then of course, nothing about wedding photography is accidental or produced on a whim. Each and every single shot is carefully thought about and curated by the wedding photographer that you end up hiring which is why you need to make sure that you will be able to book someone with creativity and impeccable taste and composition to boot. This is one of the hardest photography styles to accomplish and to successfully follow through on so make sure that you are getting a seasoned professional on board if you do make the decision to finally jump and get someone that you can entrust with the coverage of your wedding in the first place. You will notice that people will rarely be seen posing and looking directly at the camera and this is why this photography style can be so endearing yet challenging on the end of the wedding photographer.
Portraiture wedding photography
This photography style is more of about posed photos and classic portraits. If you want to get a bit of an idea about how portraiture wedding photography works, the best thing you can do is to check on your parent's old wedding albums. Suffice it to say, there really isn't enough creativity going around in a photography style such as this but then again, at the end of the day, to each his own. It all depends on you and on what your preferences for the wedding photography coverage will turn out to be at the end of the day.
Fine art wedding photography
This photography style in wedding photography has turned out to be a buzzword for wedding photographers from all over the world. It is more or less like documentary wedding photography but with a little more creative leash set out for the photographer. The shots are dramatic and breathtaking to look at and it is also highly subjective, depending on the perspective of the wedding photographer initiating the shots and this is why you need to pay attention to which wedding photographer you are hiring. Visit www.juliaandyou.com for more examples on fine art wedding photography.


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Masters of the Sea – Master of Rome
- Narrated by: Eamonn Riley
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 01-26-11
- Language: English
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Regular price: $16.77
Publisher's Summary
A stirring adventure novel set amid the tumultuous clashes between the Roman and Carthaginian empires, battling for control of the Mediterranean, north Africa and Rome itself.
Atticus, the young Greek captain, is now a commander of the growing Roman navy, blockading a port near Tunis, when the Roman legions suffer terrible defeat by the triumphant Carthaginian army, spearheaded by the elephant charges. He and his ships escape together with the main body of the Roman fleet out manoeuvred by the more skilful Carthaginians and then caught and almost completely annihilated by a terrible storm.
Atticus and his crew are among the handful of survivors and being the messenger of this news to the Senta in Rome brings Atticus into political troubles, almost as stormy as the sea. He begins to feel not only that a greek will never be accepted by the Romans but also that the behaviour of many, north politicians and soldiers, is such that he is not sure that he wants to be a Roman.
Full of dramatic battles by land and sea, led by tremendous characters on both sides, MASTER OF ROME is a powerful novel, the third in this bestselling series by a born storyteller.
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- Michael
- Sun City, AZ, United States
- 06-03-11
Surprising Find
I wasn't sure I'd get this book, since it said book three of the series - I don't like to start at the end. But since the other ones are not at Audible right now, I said what the heck and downloaded this book. If you like classical historical fiction (I do very much), than it's a good choice. An extra bonus is it takes place during the First Punic War - against Carthage, but before Hannibal, so most people won't be familiar with the events that shaped the Western Mediterranean world.
There is a lot of action in the book, espically naval operations which determined the outcome First Punic War, something I have not really seen covered very well in classical fiction before. It does a good job of covering the politics that was driving both the Roman and Carthaginian worlds.
The storyline is easy to follow and the characters are developed enough to keep your interest. And the book stands on its own, you will not have to have listened to the other two books (if they become available, which I hope they do) to be able to follow the storyline. So if you like lots of action, with a fair amount of backstabbing thrown in for good measure you can't miss with this recording.
The narrator, whom I never heard before, Eamonn Riley, was excellent. He did espically well during the action segments of the book, you felt like you were part of that action.
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- Amazon Customer
- South Africa
- 06-27-11
Great story.
Michael, all three of the John Stack "Rome" books are available on Audible? Enjoyed the third in the series as much as the first two.
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- Mary
- United States
- 10-20-11
Rome's first efforts at naval warfare fascinating
The glamor surrounding Hannibal and his amazing trek through the Alps with a cadre of elephants during the Second Punic War has captivated history buffs for so long that the First Punic War has been virtually overlooked by many historical novelists. Likewise, although many authors have written thousands of pages about Rome's fierce legions, Rome's first tentative efforts to build a navy and develop seamanship that would eventually rival Carthaginian mariners who had ruled the Mediterranean for centuries have been largely ignored as well. But Irish author John Stack has redressed both of these oversights in his "Masters of the Sea" series of novels.
Although a relatively new author, Stack demonstrates a command of the history of the era and the cultures involved coupled with the crucial ability to people his stories with vibrant personalities as well. I have little doubt that Stack will eventually be ranked among such bestselling historical fiction writers as Conn Iggulden and Harry Sidebottom.
Furthermore, I found Stack's ability to conjure up the terrifying ferocity of an ancient naval engagement with its splintering oars, screaming crewmen, shuddering timbers and gore-slickened decks absolutely riveting.
- Anonymous User
- 09-13-18
A Tremendous Finale
Able Atticus's magnificent story continues unabated and provides a palatable conclusion in this fitting finale.


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I have to admit it, I am a British person to the core of my being. Living away from the UK for over a year has finally taught me this. There are a lot of British cultural traits/ modes of behaviour that I can do without, queuing is not one of them. I have always been a stickler for queue etiquette- waiting my turn even when the Kids were desperate for the loo and the sensible thing would have been to push in. If someone pushed in front in a queue I would tut tut, mutter, or sometimes when I was feeling brave actually say something. This is not something that I can do in Hungary. For a start there is not a letter Q in Hungarian. Some foreign words seem to have sneaked in here like "quick" but when they appear they are spelled with a "kv".
I was brought up on images of those in the former Communist Bloc queuing. I assumed that these queues were orderly and on a first come first served basis- unless etiquette deemed that someone less fortunate than you was offered your place. Unless something has changed radically as to manners in the last 20 years I think I may have been mistaken.
Jo blogs at 3 years in Hungary, Scotland to Siófok, which is about her move with her family from Scotland, UK to Siófok in Hungary. Including details on Hungarian food, places, sights, life in Hungary as she sees it. Personal observations on adjusting to Hungarian life including nursery provison and the experiences of her children in moving to Hungary and life as an outsider.


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The Heritage Hotels Srinakarin brings colours and style to a budget hotel experience, with a vibrant interior décor and well-designed spaces. Each guestrooms feel cosy and comfortable, with standard amenities that suit the lifestyles of modern travellers, including complimentary internet access. Travellers with connecting flights or late night/early morning flights are well catered for, as the hotel provides 24-hour reception and concierge. Other facilities include a fitness centre, reading corner, restaurant, lobby bar and shuttle bus service between hotel and Srinakharin Road.
Nearby, a lineup of shopping malls offer good diversions. For a trip to downtown Bangkok, take a taxi to the nearest BTS Skytrain at On Nut Station, about 10 minutes away.


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E! Entertainment's newest series focuses on the tastemakers of New York's culinary scene, who (literally) rub elbows with Manhattan's movers and shakers and are at the epicenter of the city's nightlife. The stakes are high for these incredibly driven individuals, who make their own rules and work tirelessly in an effort to achieve long term success. However, honing in on their careers with a laser-like intensity often wreaks havoc on their personal lives.


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Does this video prove Hillary Clinton is CYBORG? 'Seal clap' sparks Twitter rumour
CONSPIRACY theorists claim Hillary Clinton's "robotic seal clap" is proof she is really DEAD.
The Democratic presidential nominee was caught on camera with a dead-eyed stare and applauding "like a seal" at a campaign rally.
Twitter were quick to seize on the footage as further evidence Clinton is dead – and has been replaced by a cyborg.
Staggeringly, Hillary – who has been dogged by wild scare stories about her health – appeared to admit to being a robot in an interview last year.
wwwWWRRRrrrr— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) September 28, 2016
*beep* *boop* pic.twitter.com/4dsKj7yHYO
"I'm really not even a human being"Hillary Clinton
In the video, the 68-year-old former First Lady claps apparently automatically, her head whirring from side-to-side and her mouth opening like an automaton as her former rival Bernie Sanders gives a speech.
Twitter user @VolatileAmine wrote: "I'm listening to Bernie speak and watching Hillary clap like a robot."
The Republican party jumped on the speculation, with one of its campaign teams tweeting: "Watch this video – it proves Hillary is a robot.
"Hillary just keeps clapping and clapping."
The claims appear far fetched – but the former Secretary of State said she was a member of the "robot race" in a podcast last year.
She said: "You guys are the first to realise that I'm really not even a human being.
"I was constructed in a garage in Palo Alto a very long time ago."
She added: "I've seen more people that kind of don't sweat, and other things, that make me thing maybe they are part of the new race that he created: the robot race."
Hillary Clinton has to use an earpiece in debates ? That means she is a #ROBOT not a LEADER ! pic.twitter.com/RQxH16Cr3E— deplorable susie (@gs777gs777) September 17, 2016
But wasn't Hillary already a cold, calculating robot? Is there like a fleet of these things? #HillarysBodyDouble pic.twitter.com/jgooAhrCke— Daniel Stewart (@Stewtrill) September 12, 2016
Clinton is assumed to have been joking – but it only feeds concerns about her health.
A video emerged last week which appeared to show Clinton's eyes moving in different directions – which critics said was further evidence she was AI.
And eagle-eyed viewers were concerned after noticing a strange box attached to her back during the recent election debate with Donald Trump.
People genuinely believed she had died and replaced by a body double after contracting a disease – officially pneumonia – earlier this month.
One wilder rumour is that Clinton is a lizard.
Conspiracy theorist claim strange green globules she coughed up during a campaign speech were really "alien eggs".


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My 8 month old son is addicted to his pacifier. He takes naps and goes to bed for the night with it. He plays within during the day and wakes up in themiddleof the night for it. As of next month he will only have it for bed time and naps. Then the month after only bed time. By the time he's a year I want the binkie gone! My problem is that he will not sleep without it. Anyone have any ideas how to ditch the binkie?
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I got lucky with my son, he was 8 months old and had a little cold. He couldn't breathe with a pacifier so I took them away and he never noticed. But with my daughter it was a little harder. She would chew on them during the day or would play with them, and when she was 9 months old I took them away during the day. At bedtime I gave her a little bit of water in a bottle so that she could have the comfort of sucking. She handled that easily and didn't need one for sleeping after that. but naps were hard. I tried the water and just stuck with that. It only took her about a week to get over the pacifiers. There were a few days where it was rough, but she handled it easily.If you try the water, also try to wean him off of that soon. My daughter just turned three and was still insisting on a water bottle at nap and bedtime. It wasn't until the water bottle leaked all over her bed that she finally accepted no drinks in bed. we cut off my son at the same time (he's 18 months) and he didn't have a problem. But, it's a habit that can be hard to break, so ending sooner is better than later.
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You've seen the photos, read the articles and (hopefully) made a shopping plan. Balmain x H&M is heading your way – here are the facts and numbers behind the hotly anticipated collection.
It was in December 2014 that the H&M design team first travelled to Paris to meet with Olivier Rousteing and his co-workers at the legendary French house Balmain. Rousteing was well prepared for their first meeting and presented a clear vision of the collection he wanted to create in collaboration with H&M. He had hung dozens of Balmain pieces in the room, made many sketches – and afterwards allowed the H&M team to borrow items from his personal wardrobe to bring to Stockholm for inspiration. The H&M design team packed suitcase after suitcase with exquisite Balmain gowns, jackets and accessories, and – when arriving back in Stockholm – locked the valuable pieces in a safe room, which was only accessible to by a handful of H&M employees.
The reason why the H&M team brought suitcases with Balmain designs to Stockholm was to be able to come as close as possible to the original designs, since many of the items in the Balmain x H&M collection are replicas or modified replicas of Olivier Rousteing's original Balmain designs. Behind almost every item that Olivier Rousteing showed the H&M team, there was a story to tell. One example is the embroidered men's leather jacket, which Rihanna had given as a present to Jay Z years earlier.
Because of the extensive amount of beadwork and embroidery, the Balmain x H&M collection may well be H&M's heaviest ever.
During this past spring, the H&M design team visited Paris and the Balmain house several times for fittings and meetings about qualities and materials. In late May, almost six months after their first meeting, all the pieces were determined and samples had been made. When the final collection was presented to Balmain, Olivier Rousteing was stunned by the quality and detailed works of art that had been created from his sketches and original pieces.
The final collection consists of 44 pieces of clothing for women and 30 for men. On top of that, the Balmain team has worked with H&M to create 21 accessories for women and five for men. The result is the most advanced, crafted and tailored pieces ever created by H&M. The total collection consists of more embroidery and beadwork than any collection previously made by H&M.
One of the biggest challenges with the collection has been producing large numbers of hand-embroidered and beaded items in a short period of time. Skilled sewers have done all the embroidery – and after completion, items have been controlled at several checkpoints to make sure the delicate artisanship has stayed intact. Because of the extensive amount of beadwork and embroidery, the Balmain x H&M collection may well be H&M's heaviest ever, which is why several different hangers and clothes racks had to be tested to withstand the weight of it.
At this point, you know that the Balmain x H&M collection features many firsts and is produced using advanced techniques. Another first that H&M presents with this collection is a pair of earphones. This is the first time H&M has developed earphones in collaboration with a guest designer, and the music lover Oliver Rousteing specifically requested this accessory. The accessory is made by premium earphone manufacturer Molami, and the fabric-covered cord is decorated to match the signature Balmain belts.
In November, 11 months after the first meeting between the H&M design team and the Balmain team, the collection has been developed, produced and shipped to hundreds of H&M stores all around the world.
On 5 November, these luxurious and glamorous items are finally made available to the masses.
These five items are made in limited quantities and will only be sold in 72 H&M stores in the world. Head to the biggest H&M store in the biggest cities if you want to get your hands on them, or just update HM.com the second the collection drops.
The leather jacket and the embellished blazer are the only men's garments that are made in limited edition. These garments will be sold in 62 H&M stores worldwide.
250,000: The number of pearl beadings on one of the dresses in the collection.
11: The number of geographical locations on the Balmain logo T-shirts.
4: The number of different shoes for women.
4: The number of different shoes for men.
3.1: The weight in kilos of the heaviest dress in the collection.