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Adobe and NVIDIA Deliver Rich Web Experiences on Netbooks and Mobile Devices
GPU-Accelerated Netbooks from HP, Lenovo and Samsung Support full Flash Player
LOS ANGELES — Oct. 5, 2009 - At Adobe MAX, Adobe's worldwide developer conference, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq:NVDA) today announced that both companies are bringing uncompromised browsing of rich Web content to netbooks and smartphones built with NVIDIA® GPUs. The companies have been working closely together as part of the Open Screen Project to optimize and dramatically improve performance of Flash Player 10.1 by taking advantage of GPU video and graphics acceleration on a wide range of mobile Internet devices. NVIDIA customers embracing Flash Player 10.1 for their new devices include HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Acer, Asus and more. Users are expected to be able to download a beta of Flash Player 10.1 before the end of the year.
The combination of NVIDIA GPUs and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 enables device manufacturers to deliver uncompromised Web browsing of rich applications, interactive content and HD video with substantially decreased power consumption. With the support of the NVIDIA GeForce®, NVIDIA ION™ and Tegra™ products users will be able to enjoy a much smoother viewing experience when accessing rich content built with the Flash Platform including HD and SD video from popular sites like Hulu.com or YouTube. For more information on Flash Player 10.1, please see the separate press release issued today.
"Consumers want the best Internet experience – whether it's a mobile device in their pocket or a netbook at the coffee shop," said Dan Vivoli, senior vice president of NVIDIA. "Our engineers have worked closely with Adobe to make this a reality."
"The most innovative and expressive Web sites use Adobe Flash technology," said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president, Platform Business Unit at Adobe. "By working together to further leverage the power of graphics processors, Adobe and NVIDIA are able to provide breakthrough Web experiences on a wide range of devices. This new development brings us a step closer to putting the power of a PC in your pocket."
NVIDIA ION-based netbooks and nettops like the HP Mini 311, Lenovo IdeaPad S12, Samsung N510, Acer AspireRevo, and Asus eeeBox EB1012 and others are shipping today and once Flash Player 10.1 is available, they can take advantage of GPU-accelerated video decoding to deliver the kind of smooth Flash technology based video previously found only on higher-end PCs. Tegra processor-based smartphones and netbooks that start shipping later this year will accelerate vector graphics and video to enable feature-rich, full-screen Internet video and animation.
"HP is pleased to work with NVIDIA and Adobe to give customers a compelling high definition video experience," said Kevin Frost, vice president and general manager, Consumer Notebooks, Personal Systems Group, HP. "The recently introduced HP Mini 311 supports stunning HD video using Flash Player 10.1."
"As the biggest online video Web site in China, Youku.com believes in providing superior user experiences because fast video play-back is essential, said Allen Zhu, vice president of Youku.com. "Now, with the new Adobe Flash Player 10.1, video decoding for the first time is enabled through NVIDIA GPUs, we can greatly enhance the speed of video playback for the great quantity of HD videos hosted on our Web site. This would enable our users to enjoy a smooth and stutter-free HD video playback experience."
"The new version of Flash Player 10.1 will help deliver smooth, full-screen HD and SD video on the Lenovo IdeaCentre Q110 nettop and IdeaPad S12 netbook with NVIDIA ION graphics," said Stephen DiFranco, vice president, North America Channel Partners Organization, Lenovo. "As more and more consumers connect online for their entertainment, GPU acceleration with NVIDIA will enhance this experience, whether it's on the go with a Lenovo netbook or at home with a tiny desktop PC."
To view a video of Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder, president and CEO of nVidia, discussing the collaboration with Adobe visit: //tv.adobe.com/watch/open-screen-project/nvidia-ceo-on-flash.
About Adobe Flash Platform
The Adobe Flash Platform is the leading Web design and development platform for creating expressive applications, content, and video that run consistently across operating systems and devices and reach over 98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops. Flash Player 10 was installed on more than 93 percent of computers in just the first ten months since its release. According to comScore Media Metrix, approximately 75 percent of online videos viewed worldwide are delivered using Adobe Flash technology, making it the No. 1 format for video on the Web. Major broadcasters and media companies including Disney.com, MLB.com and DIRECTV rely on the Adobe Flash Platform for delivering video on the Web and the platform powers social network sites such as YouTube and MySpace. For more information about the Adobe Flash Platform visit www.adobe.com/flashplatform.
About Open Screen Project
Led by Adobe, the Open Screen Project includes close to 50 industry leaders working together to provide a consistent runtime environment across mobile phones, desktops and other consumer electronic devices. The initiative addresses the challenges of Web browsing and standalone applications on a broad range of devices, and removes the barriers to publishing content and applications seamlessly across screens. For more information visit www.openscreenproject.org.
About Adobe Systems Incorporated Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.
Further information, including schedule, speakers and abstracts can be found at www.nvidia.co.in/gtc. Early bird registration ends September 1, 2009.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (Nasdaq:NVDA) awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999. Since then, it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from portable media players to notebooks to workstations. NVIDIA's expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. Fortune magazine has ranked NVIDIA No. 1 in innovation in the semiconductor industry for two years in a row. For more information, see www.nvidia.co.in.
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the benefits, features, impact, performance and capabilities of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, NVIDIA ION and Tegra products and their effects on Adobe Flash Player 10.1; and NVIDIA customers embracing Flash Player 10.1; are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: development of more efficient or faster technology; design, manufacturing or software defects; the impact of technological development and competition; changes in consumer preferences and demands; customer adoption of different standards or our competitor's products; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended July 26, 2009. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on our website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
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STumbling In Linux Land, STupid and Unlucky Pablo? The tribulations and happy discoveries of a Linux former Newbie, now bit more experienced user
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Add Applications to the Startup Programs
By adding an application to the Startup Programs, that application will automatically run once Ubuntu has finished booting. This is quite useful for applications such as Gmail Notifier that have a small footprint but provide a useful function to the user.
1. Click System, mouseover Preferences and select Sessions.
2. Under the Startup Programs, click the Add button.
3. Input the Name and the Command that executes the desired application in the appropriate text boxes. If you aren't sure of the command, click the Browse button and go to the executable. For example, the command you would input for the Gmail Notifier is gmail-notify.
4. Click OK.
5. Click the Close button to exit the Sessions window.
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I thought this needed its own little post + corner of the internet so here are a few items that Cameron + I pack the night before for race day For the complete Beginner's Guide to Sprint Triathlon Training click here ^I participated at 5 months postpartum + you CAN too!^ Triathlon Race Day Checklist Tri Suit - Top + Shorts (extra sports bra for women if you need/want it) Safety Pins Extra Hair Ties (women) 2 Pairs of Goggles (1 always breaks) Swim Cap Bucket to Sit On Bike + Spare Parts with Pump Helmet Cycling Shoes Sunglasses Water Bottles or Hydro Pack Sports Gels/Cliff Bars Running Shoes Socks Hat (personal preference) Music + Headphones for Run (personal preference) *most races do not let you have headphones in … [Read more...]
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This post is sponsored by IdealFit but the content & opinions expressed are my own. Do you ever wish you had a Fairy Godmother that could wave her wand and magically provide you with endless energy to workout? Last week I got hit hard with a cold/flu bug and had zero desire to move off my couch never mind drag my booty to workout. But this week I knew I had to get back on track and into my routine. I thrive off a good routine and staying organized but I dreaded my first workout back. I am going to be one hundred with y'all and admit that I have never tried a pre-workout supplement before. I honestly have no idea why because tonight I tried out IdealLean Stim Free Pre-Workout and I am a believer! *Insert Fairy Godmother Here* Not … [Read more...]
Moms Tri: Team Runaway Moms
Navy & Teal Tri Suit: MooMotion Sports c/o | Post Race Shorts & Pants: Albion Fit The past few months it has been hard to hide from the overrunning stream of media and news showing women's marches and protests, all sorts of ads and commercials talking about women their rights, their bodies etc etc. Please don't get me wrong, I am incredibly proud to be a woman. I love everything that comes with it. Well maybe not everything (.) A while back, I posted on Instagram how I was struggling to find where I fit in to support women because until that point the world's way just wasn't feeling my groove, if ya know what I mean. Last year I participated in the Moms Tri and although my times were pretty slow for me, since I was 5 months post … [Read more...]
A Beginner's Guide to Sprint Triathlon Training
Photography: Melinda Pike Photography Top: Discount Dance Supply || Leggings: Alo || Shoes: Nike After finishing my first triathlon race I have had a ton of y'all ask me questions concerning my training schedule and for triathlon tips. First off, I feel super humbled because I am in no way a fitness expert but I did compile a short list for a friend and thought 'why not share with everyone'! I blame Cameron. He totally got me hooked on triathlons and showed me just how fun they can be! Cameron has done several triathlons as well so with his help, I came up with these tips and schedule. BACK STORY --> During my pregnancy with Ryker, I really wanted a postpartum goal that would help motivate me to get back into shape but more … [Read more...]
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Tri Suit c/o Moo Motion Sports The Saturday before Mother's Day I participated in my FIRST Triathlon! It was a sprint tri consisting of 400 meter swim-12 mile bike-5k run I signed up for this race when I was pregnant with Ryker knowing that I would be 5 months post baby and really wanting to set some goals to get back into shape! It was seriously so much fun and I will admit... super hard! I am not a swimmer and honestly fear the water but I love to run and cycle. When I first got in the water I pretty much had an anxiety attack and just focused on one lap at a time till it was finally over and the FUN started! I have fallen in love with cycling and can't wait to get my own road bike to compete with. I finished the race with an quick … [Read more...]


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Apparently Acer prepares two new Iconia Tab A510/A511 successors of A500/A501 both with NVIDIA Tegra 3 Quad-core chipset and a WXGA touchscreen display with 1280×800 pixel resolution and probably Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS.
Likely both variants to sport a 10.1-inch display, at least 16GB built-in memory storage likely an 8MP camera on the back and 4G LTE technology. We should expect this slate to make its debut somewhere in February 2012 and maybe hitting shelves somewhere in March or April.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Disney/Pixar released an official trailer for "Incredibles 2" Nov. 18 following a teaser clip posted on Twitter the day before.
The official teaser trailer shows an adorable baby Jack-Jack giggling as he experiments with his laser vision superpowers. Bob, his superhero father, picks up Jack-Jack and expresses his excitement about the baby's superpowers until a sneeze sets things a little awry.
At 52 seconds long, the official teaser trailer is currently the No. 1 trending video on YouTube and has more than 11 million views.
"Incredibles 2" is set to open in theaters on June 15, 2018. See some Twitter reactions to the new trailer below.
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January 31st is my daughter, Alex's four year Angelversary. As some know, Alex was 17, a Senior in high school, had just taken her SAT's, then bam, in a coma for 8 weeks before she died. This year is no different from the first three. I feel flooded with memories and disbelief of all she went through. It continues to feel so surreal that she is really dead. She was my Grace child, my child who was so incredibly beautiful spiritually and physically. How could this happen? She was so vivacious, loving, intelligent, excited to turn 18, to live on her own, to get married, be a mom; the list could go on ad infinitum.
Her best friend just got engaged, which is such an example of how confusing being a grieving mother is at times. I want to feel happy for Alex's friends and classmates as they experience happiness and success. I have to say it takes my breath away when I see photos of her friends, making new memories that Alex hasn't been a part of for four years.
Right now, the pain due to her absence is unbearable. For many people who do not get child bereavement, after four years, I should be good to go now. My own father cannot stand that I continue to grieve. I really do not have patience or tolerance for judgemental bystanders. Its cruel and abusive to judge a person who is grieving. Grief, depression and sadness make many people very uncomfortable. I have made great strides with staying away from judgmental people, and who have made it clear they cannot handle being around me anymore. I have been angry and hurt by these things. Now, it really just disgusts me. One day, maybe I will be able to pray for them without my own judgements. For now, I try to focus on the people who have been supportive and shown such love and empathy toward me.
There is an element of tunnel vision in child bereavement. I am sure this will broaden as time passes. I have read that it is natural to seem obsessed with the child who died. I live in what almost seems like a different world. A world of regret, sadness, yearning and desperation..desperate to make sense of the afterlife. That is the reality of what its like to continue living without my child, the life of a grieving mother after almost four years.
I have tried my best to consider how Alex's death affects my family, but fail miserably most of the time. I know life will never be the same without Alex, it will never be okay that she died. I dont know if the accident and death anniversary will always be like reliving it all. I will continue to write about my journey as it comes, which has been so necessary for my sanity.


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Indoor air quality is a matter of growing concern to public health because of the recognition that concentrations for most air pollutants are typically two to five times higher indoors than outdoors. Time and activity studies also show that people spend between 70% to 90% of their time indoors. These two factors, longer exposure times and higher pollutant concentrations, suggest that indoor exposure are the dominant source of human exposure to air pollutants.
Each year about 36 million kilograms of tobacco is burnt in South Africa during the act of smoking, making tobacco smoke is one of the commonest source of indoor air pollution in this country. In fact, tobacco smoke is so common in urban environments that most non-smokers can scarcely avoid breathing air polluted with other people's tobacco smoke. It is estimated that about 90% of urban nonsmokers have nicotine in their blood.
This paper will examine the health effects of exposure to passive smoke or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), the public health response to the threat and the role of environmental health officers in protecting public health. Before dealing with the health hazards let us briefly examine the nature of tobacco smoke.
The Composition of Tobacco Smoke
Physically, tobacco smoke is a mixture of gases, liquid droplets and solid particles dispersed in air. Chemically it is a cocktail of 4000 compounds, including 200 known poisons and 43 cancer causing agents.
90% of smoke is composed of a few gases which include carbon monoxide, cyanide and nitrogen oxides. Carbon replaces oxygen in the blood and may cause heart disease. Cyanide and the oxides of nitrogen damage the linings of the airways and contribute to the development of chronic bronchitis.
The remaining 10% of smoke is made up of dust particles, the best known of which are tar and nicotine. Nicotine is, of course, the addictive component of tobacco and it is the tars, which cause cancer.
The chemicals found in an environment in which a cigarette, cigar or pipe has been smoked come from two main sources – mainstream and sidestream smoke. Mainstream smoke is the aerosol drawn through the cigarette and inhaled by the smoker. The smoke that comes from the burning cigarette between puffs is called sidestream smoke. The term applied to the combination of diluted sidestream and exhaled mainstream smoke. In an area where smoking has taken place in environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
Chemically sidestream and mainstream smoke are very similar. However, there are some difference between the two. Some substances are found in greater concentrations in undiluted sidestream smoke that in mainstream smoke, including nicotine (3 times as much), carbon monoxide (X 2.5), ammonia (X 73) and the carcinogens benzo-a-pyrene (X 3.4) and nitrosamines (X 100) 3.
It must be remembered though that whereas the smoker is exposed to undiluted mainstream smoke, the sidestream smoke, to which the involuntary smoker is exposed, is diluted to a variable extent depending on distance from the smoking source and the amount of ventilation.
What is the fate of tobacco smoke in and indoor environment?
The gases in smoke remain in the air until fresh air pushes them away. On the other hand, droplets and particles are small enough to remain floating in the air for a long period, but they then gradually settle down and stick to walls, clothing, hair and any other available surfaces. As a consequence, even after a room has been well ventilated unless surfaces are wiped down, then smoke particles will be desorbed from these surfaces and re-enter the atmosphere.
After the partial smoking of a single cigarette in a laboratory, trace amounts of nicotine could still be detected in the atmosphere six months later.
Over six hundred studies have now linked environmental tobacco smoke with both chronic and acute ill health in non-smokers. The most immediately obvious effects of passive smoking is the annoyance and irritation it causes, these effects include irritation of the eyes, headache, cough, hoarseness of the voice and asthma attacks.
Twelve international Expert Committees which have reviewed the scientific literature have concluded that passive smoking increase the risk of lung cancer, heart disease, strokes and respiratory disease in non-smokers. These experts international committees include the US Surgeon General, International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC), the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council.
The most recent such review was by the UK Department of Health's Scientific Committee on Tobacco Health. This Committee found that:
(a) Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is a cause of lung cancer and, in those with long-term exposure, the increase risk is in the order of 20-30%.
(b) Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is a cause of ischaemic heart disease and, if current published estimates of magnituded of relative risk are validated, such exposure represents a substantial public health hazard.
(c) Smoking in the presence of infants and children is a serious respiratory illness and asthmatic attacks.
(d) Sudden infant death syndrome, the main cause of post-neonatal death in the first year of life, is associated with exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. The association is judged to be one of cause and effect.
All major health authorities, including the WHO, have responded to this public health threat by strongly recommending public policies that protect nonsmokers from the harmful effects of passive smoking.
The number of states in which smoking in public places is controlled by legislation rose from 47 in 1986 to 90 in 1991. Countries or communities which have enacted ordinances to make public places and workplaces smoke free include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, the Scandinavian countries and the USA.
In addition to legislation, court decisions are contributing to making public places and workplaces smoke-free. In Australia, Sweden, the UK and the US nonsmokers have successfully sued their employers for compensation for harm of their health caused by smoking at work.
South Africa is the latest country to join this worldwide movement towards ensuring that a small minority do not pollute the air the majority have to breathe. In 1998 the Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act was passed which banned smoking in all public places unless specifically exempted by the Minister of Health. A notice specifying those areas in which smoking will be allowed and under which conditions is currently being finalized by the Department of Health.
The principle behind this policy is to guarantee non-smokers the right to clean air but where possible to take account of the needs of smokers by allowing them to smoke where their smoke cannot harm others. Just as people are allowed to drink alcohol but are not allowed to drink and drive, so the new policy allows people to smoke but not in places where they can harm others.
It must also be recommended that smoke free allows equal access to facilities and services for everyone, smokers and non-smokers alike. The restriction applies to the cigarette not the smoker.
A summary of the notice regulating smoking in public places is given below.
1. Smoking is prohibited in all public places except for the following :
§ Retail tobacco stores;
§ Designated smoking areas in workplaces, restaurants, bars, shebeens, taverns, nightclubs and casinos. and hotels, trains and passenger ships.
2. In designated smoking areas the following conditions must be met:
§ The smoking area must be physically separated from the rest of the public area;
§ The air from the smoking area must not be re-circulated to nonsmoking areas;
§ The smoking and nonsmoking areas must be clearly signposted;
§ Employees must be consulted before a smoking areas is designated;
§ Smoking in common work areas like offices, storerooms, meeting rooms, corridors, etc, is prohibited;
§ The size of the smoking area cannot exceed 25% of the total area of the public place.
3. Employees have a legal right to be protected from smoking at work.
4. Passenger trains and ships must be 90% non-smoking.
5. Restaurants with more than 35 seats may designate a maximum of 25 percent of the seating for smoking.
6. Smokers can be fined up to R200.00 for smoking in a non-smoking area.
7. Public places can be made totally smoke-free if the owner or occupier so decides.
People often express concerns about the enforceability and economic consequences of such laws. International experience shows that a non-smoking environment is rapidly becoming the social norm in many countries. The majority of people in South Africa express a desire and support for smoke-free common environments. A 1998 survey by Market Research Africa found that 90% of nonsmokers and 70% of smokers supported a ban on smoking in public places.
International experience shows that legislation to restrict smoking in public places has generally been implemented without difficulty. Even the most comprehensive legislation, such as that of Belgium and \New York City banning smoking in virtually all indoor public places, has met little resistance from the public.
In addition to health benefits many countries have also found economic benefits from making workplaces smoke-free. These include:
i) Reduce risk of legal action by sick employees'
ii) Reducing cleaning costs – fewer ashtrays to empty and less frequent cleaning of curtains, upholstery, etc. to which smoke sticks'
iii) Reduce maintenance costs – discarded smoking materials cause 7% of all fires in South Africa, as well as burning holes in carpets, etc.
iv) Reduce air circulation and ventilation costs'
v) Reduce absenteeism – smokers have higher rates of absenteeism,
vi) Reduce accident rate – smokers have twice the accident rate of nonsmokers.
A major concern in the hospitality industry is that they will lose business. Research from the US, UK and Canada indicates that restaurant sales are maintained or improved following the implementation of smoke-free bylaws.
In 1999, the Alberta Tobacco Control Centre compiled a list of all available literature on the economic effects of smoke-free ordinances on the restaurant and bar businesses. Every study conducted independently of the tobacco industry found that smoke-free ordinances:
i) do nor adversely affect, and may increase, tourist business;
ii) do not adversely affect restaurant or bar sales, according to sales tax data from 22 American cities;
iii) Attract more business (any money) than they drive away do not have a negative effect on other local businesses.
Although there is widespread public support for restriction on smoking in public places, environmental health officers will have a crucial role in making the legislation work. The critical period will be the first six months or year, this is the period during which the public will have to be informed of their rights and to create a positive "can do" attitude on the part of owners of public places.
Environmental professionals responsibilities will include:
§ Explain the regulations to the public,
§ Advice employers, restaurants owners on the legal position,
§ Monitor the implementation of the policy and recommend adjustments where necessary,
§ Acting on public complaints about non-compliance by employers, etc.
The Department of Health is planning a media campaign in support of regulations and arrange in-house seminars to explain issues and respond to questions on the implementation on the Act.
Finally may I remind you that South Africa has already successfully introduced restrictions on smoking in some public places. Cinemas, theatres and museums were the first to go smoke and all domestic and international flights on South African Airways are smoke-free. When SAA went smoke-free many people predicted an increase in air plane crashes because of smoking in toilets. Nothing of these things happened. They did not happen because the majority of the public support the law and public support is the first step in successful implementation.
Thank you for your attention.
Pollutant Outdoor Air (Average) Indoor Air (Ranges)
EPA Allegheny Smoke-free Smoking
Inhalable Particles Standard County 10-30ug/m³ 50-1370ug/m³
Nitrogen Dioxide 50ppb 26 ppb 1-2ppb 24-362 ppb
Sulfur Dioxide 30ppb 16 ppb 3-13ppb 13-75ppb
Benzene NA 4.9ppb 1-4ppb 10-160ppb
Benzo(a)Pyrene NA 6.1ng/m³ NA 3-144ng/m³
Carbon Monoxide 9ppm(max) 6.7 ppm 1-3 ppm 4-42ppm
ug/m³ - micrograms per cubic meter
ppb - parts per billion
ppm - parts per million
max - maximum
NA - Not available or not applicable
Sources of Data
US EPA: 1992 Respiratory Health Effects of Smoking
1986 US Surgeon General's Report
1991 Allegheny County Health Department Bureau of Air Pollution.
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In this newsletter: Our mission; Register online for Pitt student volunteers; Fall Redd Up and PMADD October 18; A cleaner Mighty Mon; And a cleaner French Creek; Austrians have the right idea; Former mayor has his own idea; Sign up to adopt a Redd Up Zone; Report mailbox graffiti; "I Litter" awards; Garbagevilles; Important phone numbers; Final thought; The last word
Our mission is to inspire people throughout the city and region to collect litter and connect neighborhoods.
Take action NOW. Pittsburgh neighborhoods and Allegheny County communities can register now for busloads of 44 Pitt student volunteers for the Saturday, October 18 Redd Up and Pitt Make a Difference Day. Register online or contact Cathy Connor at 412-624-1065
Citizens Against Litter expects more than 150 Pittsburgh neighborhoods and communities from surrounding counties to participate in the area's Fall Redd Up, Saturday, October 18.
This is the seventh year for Pitt Make a Difference Day involvement in the Fall Redd Up. The program has been expanding every year. Serving as many as 100 sites is this year's goal with participation of as many as 4,000 Pitt student volunteers. Pitt volunteers have joined local residents in litter cleanups and beautification projects since 2008. Redd Up participants are as follows.
Pittsburgh: Academy System, Allegheny County Probation Court, Allegheny CleanWays, Allentown, Arlington, Banksville, Bedford Dwellings, Beechview, Bloomfield, Bon Air, Brighton Heights, Brightwood, Brookline, Bull Elephants, California-Kirkbride, Carrick, Central North Side, CMU, Chartiers, Crafton Heights, Downtown, Duquesne Heights, Duquesne Univerisity, East Allegheny, East Carnegie, East Hills, East Liberty, Elliott, Fairywood, Fineview, Friendship, Friends of the Riverfront, Garfield, Glen Hazel, Greenfield, Hays, Hazelwood, Homewood , Larimer, Lawrenceville, Lincoln-Lemington, Lincoln Place, Lower Hill, Manchester, Mexican War Streets, Middle Hill, Morningside, Mt. Oliver, Mt. Washington, New Homestead, Overbrook, Pittsburgh Parks, Pitt-Ohio Express, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Polish Hill, Oakland, Schenley Heights, Shadyside, Sheraden, South Oakland, South Side, Spring Garden/ East Deutschtown, Spring Hill, Stanton Heights, St. Clair, Strip District, Summer Hill, Swisshelm Park, Troy Hill, Westwood, and Windgap.
Allegheny County: Aspinwall, Blawnox, Brentwood, Cheswick, Collier, Dormont, Duquesne, East Pittsburgh, East McKeesport, Edgewood, Etna, Forest Hills, Friends of South Park, Friends of North Park, Hampton, Hollow Oak Land Trust, Irwin, Lower Burrell, Leetsdale, McKees Rocks, Moon, Mt. Oliver, Mt. Lebanon, Munhall, North Versailles, O'Hara, Penn Hills, Pitcairn, Port Vue, Rankin, Ross, Shadyside Academy, Sharpsburg, South Park, Springdale, Stowe, Trafford, Verona, West Homestead, West View, Whitehall, Wilkinsburg and Wilmerding.
More than a ton of litter and dumped debris was removed from the mighty Monongahela River on August 23 thanks to a team effort of First Waves, Paddle Without Pollution and The Tireless Project.
First Waves is an initiative teaching teens facing adversity ages 15 to 18 to surf and standup paddleboard on local waterways, while simultaneously providing a hands-on education about filmmaking and waterway conservation. The mission of the program is to inspire a passion for conservation through the exhilaration and joy of catching their first waves. PWP is proud to be a partner in this effort.
This month's PWP cleanups is on October 4 on the Allegheny River at Franklin. For more information, visit http://www.paddlewithoutpollution.com/.
Last month about 550 volunteers removed thousands of pounds of trash from the French Creek watershed in Erie, Crawford, Venango and Mercer Counties. The French Creek Valley Conservancy led the effort as it has done for many years. One volunteer said, "What astounds me is that every year we get more stuff." Sad to say, but the cleanup efforts will never end.
A letter to the editor several weeks ago in the Post-Gazette described the writer's view of a cleaner environment she saw while in Austria. "One could not help but notice the cleanliness of cities and towns," she said. "Literally, there was not a single piece of litter to be found." It's unfortunate we can't say the same about the streets in our city. Our citizens that care -- we need more of them -- do their best to remove litter. People who care must continue to pick up for those who don't.
Former Mayor Tom Murphy is sick and tired of picking up trash around his home in Perry South. Mr. Murphy, who works for the Washington-based Urban Land Institute, is in the process of purchasing eight lots from the city. He plans to clear the lots and maintain them. The city sells 200 to 300 vacant properties each year.
Looking for a worthwhile neighborhood project? Businesses, corporations and groups are invited to adopt their own Pittsburgh street or zone and agree to pick up litter at least four times a year for the next two years. For information call 412-255-2280 or e-mail email@example.com.
Pittsburgh Postmaster Dan Davis invites citizens to be proactive and call the Postal Service at 412-359-7845 to report mailbox tagging or boxes in need of repair. Help the postal service by giving them specific information of locations and crossing streets.
Advertising and promotional materials turn into litter in Shadyside and elsewhere. Businesses and sometimes non-profits are often responsible when they put their business on Shadyside streets. There's less of this going on. September's top litterer is the Post-Gazette Sunday Extra.
Garbagevilles are houses, buildings, streets and places that are a mess. Some because of litter; some because of unswept leaves; some because of trash and junk on their property. Some because garbage cans sit in the front of their houses. Many because of the absence of lids on garbage cans and open waste containers. Some of these Garbagevilles in Shadyside are always a mess. This is an incomplete list of course.
Need to contact the city about something that's been bothering you, like potholes and graffiti? Call the 311 Response line (alternate number is 412-255-2621). Your request will be logged and sent to the proper department. Want to contact someone directly? The following list may help.
When you can count the cigarette butts on your block you know we're making some progress against litter.
Remember. Rome wasn't redd up in a day either.
A complete list of past Litterature is available in our archives.


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On this day 70 years ago, 15-year-old June Fenn was crowned Rose Queen at Bramley Carnival, which was said to be the oldest in the north of England. The carnival/festival was re-started a few years ago.
In other news two Leeds men were injured and a third had a lucky escape after scaffolding collapsed outside a three-storey building in Park Square.
The men fell 30 feet to the ground. The other managed to fling his arms out and catch hold of a narrow window ledge, where he hung until he was able to haul himself inside the building.
The two injured men were taken to Leeds General Infirmary. One, Alan Teague, 25, of Stonegate Avenue, was sent home after treatment for a hand injury. It was expected that the other Arthur Thackray, of Churchfield Place, would be discharged later.
Teague told reporter that as he fell he tried to grasp a fallpipe but his hands slipped off it and so he was unable to stop his fall. The report added: "He weighs over 13 stone and cracked the paving slab onto which he fell."
Another story was headlined 'Halt the Red Advance Now' and related how Field Marshall SMuts, installed chancellor of Cambridge University, warned that Soviet Communism, "intoxicated with success, was directing a sustained, ruthless, aggressive advance against an exhausted, war-weary, disappointed West."
He railed: "The hour has struck to call a halt to this Fifth Column in its advance to the West."
And finally, where else would you get to try your hand at a 70-year-old crossword, other than these very pages? The prizes of a guinea and four half guineas will not be paid but we will still be interested to see if anyone completes it.


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My mom translated excerpts from the article (because some of the questions and answers are the same in all the interviews) in Bulgarian from German and I translated it in English from Bulgarian. If something isn't O.K. please tell me- I'll correct it.
Typically for JBJ- with his $200 mln... He is one of the richest musicians in the world. But for the interview with Bravo he comes with the guitarist Richie Sambora in L.A, dressed with jeans and a shirt. There is nothing of arrogant rock star.
Bravo: After 5 years Bon Jovi is finally back with new album- Crush. Why the pause was so long?
JBJ: We didn't waiste the time. Our last album These Days came out in 1995 and until the summer of 1996 we were on tour with 133 shows all over the world. In 1997 I released my solo album "Destination anywhere". I played in movies in the rest of the time. We worked on Crush 2 years and we recorded 60 songs.
Richie Sambora: My second album came out in this pause and I became a father. Our keyboardist David Bryan composed film music, the drummer Tico Tores was occupied with his painting career and divorces with Eva Herzigova. The pause went fast and was good for us. Today we are still good friends.
Bravo: What do you mean with the title "It's My Life"?
JBJ: "It's My Life" is my personal motto. My life is belong to me and I'll do with it what I want to. And I don't care about other people opinion. The little boys want to be astronauts or drivers but I wanted to be a musician and I became though everybody told me that I'll end as a low- paid musician. In the song I use words from my idol Frank Sinatra song "My Way". I sing: "As Frankie said I did it my way." The great Sinatra is from New Jersey just like me.
Bravo: In "It's My Life" video there are some young artists...
JBJ: Yeah, we shot the video some weeks ago in L.A. with over 1000 extras. A part of it was shot in a tunnel that was closed for us. The script reminds a little of German movie "Lola rennt" that I like very much and have watched several times.
Bravo: Why did the new album take so long? The ideas came slow or something?
Richie Sambora: Oh, no. We're not under pressure any more. In the 80's we had new album every year. And we know that the songs need time to become better. One Bon Jovi album is ready when all the people who make it are pleased of the result.
Bravo: How is your personal life, Jon? Do you have time for your wife and children?
JBJ: Yes, I have. Recently we moved from Rumson/N.J. to Middletown which are 5 minutes with car from each other. There is our dream house: 7 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, 3 fireplaces, a library and a fitnessroom. In a little building next to the house is the modern equipped studio where we recorded Crush. When I want to see my family I just have to walk across the yard. And when I have a break between the shooting (of "Pay It Forward") I shuttle between L.A. and Middletown.
Bravo: Please describe a day of JBJ at home for your fans...
JBJ: I believe they would be shocked when they understand how ordinary it is. I drive children to school, take them from school, family dinner, we watch TV and go to bed. Bon Jovi's are quite normal family.
Bravo: Soon you'll go to a tour with a band. How do you prepare yourself for the exhausting shows?
JBJ: I do some bodybuilding every day in my fitness room. I go skiing. Normally I run 10 km every day, but it's so pity I couldn't do this the last weeks because an old sport trauma. I had to go to an operation of the meniscus. Now everything goes better and I can guarantee that I'll be all right for the tour.
Bravo: As we understood you became a very big football fan...
JBJ: Yes, that's why I am proud that "It's My Life" is ZDF-television song for the European football championship. It will be in the summer. I hope that Lothar Matthaus will make the football popular in the USA...


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Obesity is extremely high weight that is dangerous to the health of the obese. It has many causes, not all of which are simply eating too much or eating the wrong food. Obesity can have deep emotional causes and underlying physical causes. It is nearly always not just a matter of lack of dieting and exercise.
The picture of an alcoholic is typically one of a dangerously skinny person or a person of average weight with telltale signs of poor health, such as bloodshot eyes. However, alcoholism can lead to extreme weight gain. The number of calories in alcoholic beverages is staggering. Sobering up can help.
Depression can cause both weight loss and weight gain. For people with short bouts of depression, these weight changes are easily remedied. However, people with prolonged depression can become obese if their depression manifests as overeating or compulsive eating. Therapy is the best course of action.
Obesity can run in families, whether it is through genes or through learned habits. Obesity that stems from genetics or family habits is especially hard to overcome.
Bad Self-Image
Like an eating disorder that causes weight loss, obesity can be caused by a poor self-image. When a person looks in the mirror and feels bad about their weight, they may react by eating more. Trying to increase self-image may require therapy, but it can help.
Medical Conditions
Not all obesity has an emotional, genetic or familial cause. Some stem from physical maladies, such as Cushing's syndrome or hypothyroidism. Both of these conditions are treatable, but must first be diagnosed.
Traumatic Events
Traumatic events can lead to bad emotional habits, such as overeating. In the long-term, it leads to excess weight or obesity. It is best to seek therapy instead of self-medicating with food.
Anxiety manifests in a myriad of ways. Compulsions are just one of the reactions to anxiety that can lead to overeating. Therapeutic or medicinal treatments for anxiety can help the compulsion to overeat.
Inactive Lifestyle
It is a common idea that overweight people just need exercise. While exercise can help, it is not necessarily laziness that brings on obesity. When an inactive lifestyle is coupled with boredom, self-loathing, sadness, regret or any other emotion that leads to eating, it can help obesity along. Treatment for the underlying cause or picking up active habits can help.
A leading cause of obesity in children and young adults is parental neglect. A parent who is comfortable with overeating or comfortable overfeeding his or her children can cause obesity in their child through neglect. As an adult, these habits must be reversed, which will require lifestyle changes.
Some studies show that obesity is more common in certain areas of the world, such as the United States. It is thought that there are several factors that lead to this, such as availability of excess food and stress patterns. The only way to avoid the trend is to identify its causes and make sounder choices than others in the area.
Obesity is a serious condition that can lead to deadly complications. It is not a joke or something to mock. As mentioned above, the reasons for obesity are many and varied. They are also not advisable by looking at a person, so people should always think twice before judging a person on their weight.


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Sweet, Sinister Dreams with Alexander McQueen.
My adoration and fascination with Alexander McQueen is long-standing. A talent and visionary that was lost far too soon, his right hand and now head designer of the brand, Sarah Burton, has done nothing short of a miracle carrying on the label and everything it has always stood for. Though the controversial statements and showmanship may have subsided, the dark beauty of Alexander McQueen still never fails to show up and amaze.
Though the show was WEEKS ago, I wanted to share the collection because it's freaking gorgeous. Sarah Burton managed, in this show, to keep a balance of sweet femininity, dark romance and structured heaviness flawlessly, when those elements truly should never work together so effortlessly to create a single statement.
And because she's a complete powerhouse, it's worth mentioning that this show was a mere TWO WEEKS before the due date of Ms. Burton's third child. Let's all take some notes from her and her badass-ery, shall we?
Thanks to the amazing McQueen Instagram account, let's also admire all the incredible details, too.
(Images c/o WWD)
#BeBulova with Seoul Sausage.
In January, I got to fly out to LA with three of my closest friends, who I am lucky enough to get the chance to do actual real-life adult work with, to create one of my favorite videos yet! Spending two days with Ted, Chris and Yong, the genius dudes behind Seoul Sausage, was both fun and freaking delicious.
The story these guys are able to tell is amazing. Two brothers and their friend, they moved from San Francisco to LA, starting their lives in ways that may not have been completely within the hopes of their Korean-American upbringings. Making sausages after their 9 to 5 jobs in Chris' apartment and spending their weekends at different markets and events hawking their delicious food, the guys took a chance and applied to the Food Network's Great Food Truck Race on the night before submissions closed. With a desire to bring their Korean culture and flavors to the masses in a way that was a bit more familiar (sausages, tater tots, burgers, fries, rice balls), they made it on the show and knocked the competition out of the park.
Now with two restaurants, two food trucks and a product line on the way, it's safe to say the guys are doing what they really love and inspiring a lot of people along the way. Myself included. Chef Chris has opened more restaurants on his own celebrating his eclectic tastes and background, and can even be seen on the new Bravo show Recipe for Deception. Did I mention that these guys are just the coolest and nicest dudes in the game?
If you're in LA, make sure to head to Seoul Sausage. It's some of the best stuff I've ever gotten the chance to eat and the atmosphere will make you feel cool by default. And enjoy their story!
Delightful Bouffants & Broken Hearts.
I've been on the hunt for quite a few things recently. Existential things. Inspiration, peacefulness, a little bit of simple delight. And I'm finding them, slowly, surely and on a more regular basis. For the record...I'm fine. But sometimes life finds a way to take over and rattle things a little beyond your control. Sometimes you just hit a wall. And I hit a wall. I was spending 3.5 hours in my day commuting to a job that wasn't providing a positive atmosphere. My home life was falling into a routine that we were forcing ourselves to fit into, instead of feeling like we could put ourselves first (which is mostly down to that commute and work exhaustion). I was dealing with some pretty big loss over the holiday season, including my beloved great aunt who took us on a roller coaster before passing away on Christmas Eve. And I was starting to struggle to manage my Crohn's Disease after a very long stretch of managing it like a champ. So I slammed into that wall pretty hard.
And this is all some pretty deep talk for what I'm about to focus this post on, because it isn't about all that disruption. I started to take more control and take myself off auto-pilot to find that inspiration, that peacefulness, that delight in the moments that I would allow. So it's starting small. And when I came across Kendra Dandy's Instagram account, Thee Bouffants, there was something so charming and joyful about her work that reminded me I was starting to see those moments. An Instagram post is enough. It's a great place to start. And it's a great place to continue to appreciate even when you start finding it in bigger ways, too.
I'm still a work in progress. I quit my job. I accepted a role closer to home in a situation that I was a lot more comfortable with. I started to trust myself to make these decisions and to allow myself to see wonderful things in the littlest places without over-thinking it.
What Kendra creates is gorgeous. It feels organic and silly, in the most complimentary way. It's bright and doesn't take itself seriously. Her prints embody that 'no holds barred' side of your brain that we all work so hard to never really let go of. What's even better...you can get her prints on all types of things from Society 6! Mug, pouch, rug, print, phone case, whatever you fancy! Bring some of that delight with you on the daily :)
So thank you, Kendra, for helping me start to feel that touch of glee as I find my feet again. Let's hug.
(All images c/o Kendra Dandy)
How Do You See Me?
Today is World Down Syndrome Day. And I felt like I just had to share this video to mark this important day and strives, hopefully succeeding, to change the way we look at people with Down Syndrome. This is all about what AnnaRose has to say as an individual and for the community she represents, so I'll stop there and just let this beautiful video shine as it should.
It's Almost Valentine's Day, Lovelies.
I love Valentine's Day. Not in the way that I hope to be showered with roses (my least favorite flower, btw) or go out to some fancy dinner (home cooked meals are always more meaningful to me). But in the way that I love the charm that comes along with this holiday.
It always seems to sneak up on us all as we have just started to see the dust settle from Christmas and New Year's...and though I won't be properly celebrating this year for a couple of reasons (none of which I am mad about), there is a part of me that wishes I was throwing some sort of adorable soirée.
So get excited about some of these cutie patootie Valentine's Day party ideas:
I love you. Shut up. I love you.
I'm a Barbie Girl.
Truth is, I'm not...I never was. I remember getting Barbie for my birthday as a kid, but I remember being a lot more drawn to my Gem & the Holograms doll and the skill of playing Oregon Trail. Oh, and My Little Ponies, mostly because I was drawn to the colors and their butt tattoos....or icons...or whatever the hell those were.
But Barbie has been making a lot of news this past week. Changing body shapes of the dolls is a smart move when it comes to changing culture and realistic perceptions, but also it's a genius marketing and PR move and I have to applaud that. Apologies for tarnishing those positive changes with the notion that it was a bit calculated, but it's important to 1.) not kid ourselves and 2.) to know that regardless of motives, these changes come from a good place.
What really touched me about all the Barbie news was this incredible commercial that was released about Barbie being able to teach young girls about the power of pretend and the impact of being able to dream. Creating scenarios with our little ones and their dolls may just seem like an exploration of imagination...but isn't that what got us all to where we are now?
It's beautiful and it's inspirational and if this doesn't make you smile, even if it's on the inside, you need to go jump in a ball pit and get over yourself. We all started somewhere, you sarcastic jerk. And I mean that lovingly :)
Nate Berkus for Target.
Straight up, I am having some major issues with Target at the moment. I had been waiting weeks for the Who What Wear collab to hit the site and, even with alarms set, Target let me down. I won't bang on too much about it but they really messed up their online presence for those of us who don't live near a store that carried the collaboration.
ANYWAY, what they HAVE done right recently is the new Nate Berkus Home collection. The new series from Nate Berkus has this seriously cool, geometric, tribal look to it, and though terms like 'geometric' and 'tribal' may not be something I usually would relate to my home decor style...everyone has the ability to change :)
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You may know, or you may not know, what I do for my '9 to 5'... I put that in quotes because working in social media rarely allows you to actually operate within confines of set hours. As the Social Media Manager for Bulova, I've spent the last year being the only person responsible for bringing the full social media program in-house for three brands. So I do everything from community management to analysis to creating content concepts/seeing through full execution to managing paid campaigns for the US and all our international markets. So, it's a lot. But it also means that I get to create a lot of things that drive the brands in ways that I am incredibly proud of...I get to be a storyteller for brands that DESERVE to have their stories told.
And that's how #BeBulova happened. I spent the last year creating content for Bulova that told the stories of our incredible products and how they relate to the history of the brand. But it was time to create content that spoke to the DNA that I feel the brand stands on, with a stronger focus on lifestyle. It has been an incredible project that allows me to show the personality of the brand and product without any kind of hard sell, through the stories of cool people doing incredibly cool things that embody everything Bulova stands for: creativity and innovation.
Our first chance to tell these stories was with the awesome guys from JANE Motorcycles in Brooklyn. Adam and Alex are two friends who decided to create a place that blended their shared interests (motorcycles, coffee, lifestyle apparel) and, in turn, a comfortable community and place to just be able to hang out.
Out second story is a feature on Christopher Lee Sauvé, an artist who blends pop and punk elements for a style all his own.
And we have more programs in the works! I literally JUST got back from LA shooting our third video of the series with the badass boys of Seoul Sausage, winners of the Food Network's The Great Food Truck Race III. We had an absolute blast on our whirlwind trip and cannot say enough amazing things about the Seoul Sausage guys, their story and their food. Seriously though...their food.
I'll be sure to share the new video when it's ready but in the meantime...do you know anyone who knows what it means to 'be Bulova'? We love to hear stories, wherever they come from!
(Special thanks to LushPOP Productions who help me make all my visions come true.)
You Got This.
Reality of Instagram.
Recently, there seemed to be an influx of articles and posts across the world wide web speaking to the bizarre world of Instagram. Especially working in the world of social media, I know how curated any presence there is (whether we know we are doing it or not). Admittedly, since I started commuting 3.5 hours a day, I've become a little more of a homebody when I get the chance and many of my posts these days are either work or home and not a lot in between. So when I was visiting my parents and a family friend came to tell me how fun my life looks with all the parties I go to...I was incredibly confused. I racked my brain to think of the last time I was even at a cool looking party, especially one I posted, and I was at a loss.
But my life is curated on Instagram. Not intentionally, but of course I'm not going to post any pictures of me doing laundry, cleaning the kitchen or sorting bills. So in the sense that fashion magazines have gotten a bad wrap for portraying something not realistic, Instagram does the same on a more realistic level. Emily from Cupcakes and Cashmere made an incredible point about the curation of Instagram. When she takes a cool picture of her shoes on a beautiful new rug, it looks like a snapshot into a beautiful world where everything has its place and is always stylish. When, in fact, right behind her, the shelves in her closet have fallen down, her laundry hasn't been folded and she hasn't done the dishes. We curate perfection that may exist in moments but not in a full reality.
This article from Fast Company titled 'Your Friends Are Liars' is an awesome read on the whole thing, so make sure to check it out. And just make sure to remind yourself every now and then that a peek into someone's life never tells a full story.
(Images c/o Fast Company)
Ain't No Christmas Tree To See Here.
With both myself and my other half away for Christmas (not to mention being gone 14 hours a day), we thought getting a tree this year would be a lot more hassle than it was worth. To help give me that sense of the holidays, my lovely man surprised me with a wreath for our front door and my mom packed up a few of the smaller holiday decorations from her home for us.
It makes a difference. There is a nice little holiday feel here, helped by a yummy little simmer pot of holiday potpourri. Maybe next year, if we decide to not get a tree again and we have the time, we can do one of these awesome alternative tree ideas. Too cool.
(All images c/o Pinterest)
What I Want. What I Really, Really Want.
Though the weather may still be kicking around in a very temperate Autumn style, Christmas is a deceptive 2.5 weeks away. I still have a few gifts left on my list to pick-up but I have been as proactive as possible this year and can't wait to putting lovely little bows on things for my friends and family. As I won't be ruining any surprises by showing things that I've bought here on the blog, I thought maybe I would share my own little wish list (with the understanding that I am probably quite late in the game and I'll likely be purchasing all these things for myself).
I tried to make this as glamourous as possible and left off things like 'new sheets' and 'Lasik'. You're welcome.
(All images link to source.)
Throw Glitter.
Somewhere Store Scarves (and a SALE).
Opening her store only last year, Heidi of Somewhere Store is making a name for herself with silk scarves and illustrated paper goods. After studying fine art, Heidi knew she wanted to do something with her hands and began creating laser cut wood jewelry. Increasingly exploring drawing animals, she decided to experiment with silk and her artwork. With such a luxury material, she was drawn to the vivid colors she was able to produce and began manufacturing her scarves near Lake Cuomo, Italy.
There is a beautiful color block aesthetic about Heidi's work and I love the edgy touch of the unusual animal choices. Scarves from Somewhere Store would make a stunning addition to any wardrobe...over and over and over again.
(Image c/o Somewhere Store)
A Colorful & Peaceful Home in Maine.
I wouldn't say I am scared of using color in interior design...in fact, I love it. But I have found myself increasingly nervous about committing to the use of color. And then I saw a beautiful article on Design*Sponge about the Maine home and studio of potter Ayumi Horie. Now I want to paint everything a bright color and have flowers everywhere and find myself wondering why I didn't take more furniture from my parents' primitive Colonial home when I had the chance. Also, there is a disco ball. I really need a disco ball.
You can check out the full article here. It is as beautiful a read as it is to look at.
(Images c/o Design Sponge)
The Cinespia Shop.
Classic movie posters are hella cool. I have been accused more times than not for having too many prints/too much artwork in my home. But screw it. If something is cool, something is cool and I'm gonna want it.
When I saw the amazing movie poster interpretations created by illustrator and artist Alia Penner for the movies they show, I had a pretty bad case of the 'I Wants'. Featured in the new Cinespia shop, you can check out your favorite movies or even your new favorite movies because you just really love the artwork.
(Images c/o Cinespia Shop)
Fuck It Bucket.
Therese Kuempel Jewelry
When ladies do badass things that you may not expect ladies to do (which, by the way, I will love never having to say at some point in my life)...but when ladies are BADASS, those ladies need to be talked about. Well, Therese Kuempel is a metalsmith. A super awesome metalsmith who studied sculpture at college at the Art Institute of Chicago, and who now makes incredibly unique and powerful jewelry by hand. She's awesome and she has been able to make a full-time career from making her gorgeous pieces and selling them on Etsy.
So not only do I love her work, but I love her story and drive. Keep being badass, Therese.
(Image c/o Therese Kuempel)
Liesel Love Jewelry (and FREE shipping)
When an artisan is local, prides themselves on creating affordable jewelry with the best quality materials, and names their shop after their grandmother, you basically have a recipe for awesome. Based in NYC, making her beautiful jewelry in a shed in her backyard, designer Heidi sources almost all of her materials in the legendary Jewelry District in the city.
Delicate, darling and just a little unexpected, Liesel Love is the perfect place to find special treats for yourself or as a meaningful gift for someone you love hugging. Use the code 'FREESHIPPING2383' and get free shipping on your order. Explore the shop here.
(Images c/o Liesel Love)


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Irene and Survivor's Network
Every year, each Mooncup team member is given a share of the Mooncup funds to donate to a charity of their choice. Irene Elliott, Mooncup Advisor and Research Office, explains her choice here:
"I donated to Survivors' Network which is a charity for female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. They do really amazing work and offer a valuable service to women in the Brighton and Hove area. I chose this charity as I have referred young women there when I was a sexual health nurse and know that like any charity they need finding to continue their good work. I also have someone in my life who has been affected by sexual violence and this type of charity is particularly important to me".


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What Google's Mistakes Can Teach Us About Leadership
One of the things that Google is famous for is data-based decision making. When they want to find the most effective way to do something, they look at the numbers and work from there. However, even a company as married to analytics as Google is vulnerable to lapses and oversights. Recently, their data showed that their process for hiring and promoting the best managers for the job was all wrong.
When you look at where Google made their mistake and what they did to correct it, you could save your company some money and heartache and also create a more effective workplace.
Google's Error and Assumption
Besides a dedication to data, Google's other key characteristic is a high regard for technical expertise. Tech savviness was so prized that, historically, it was one of the top factors in whether someone would get promoted to management.
When Google set out to learn whether their hiring and promoting strategy was working, they discovered something interesting: the best managers were not necessarily the ones who were technical experts at all.
After gathering and analyzing data from 10,000 manager observations, they learned that the quality they valued most had almost no bearing on whether someone was a good manager. Instead, soft skills were what made all the difference.
What the Data Says Makes a Good Manager
Google used their large pool of data to identify eight qualities and habits that make great managers. While technical skill was on the list, it was the least important of all the qualities on it. In order of importance, the qualities that make great managers include:
- Good coaching.
- Empowering your team to work without micromanaging. A good manager hires good people, then gets out of their way.
- Interest in employees' well-being and success. People are more motivated and show greater job satisfaction when they know that the people they work under care about them.
- A results-oriented and productive outlook.
- Excellent communication skills, especially good listening.
- An interest in employees' career development. Good managers understand that we all do better when we all do better.
- A clear vision and strategy.
- Key technical skills. These aren't important because your manager will be doing hands-on work, by the way. They are important because it allows the manager to advise the team that they've assembled for the job.
In addition to the revelations above, Google discovered a lot about the types of managers who make employees happy. The most important quality is a calm demeanor and an even keel. In a high-stress environment, someone who keeps things steady is key. They also discovered that the best leaders puzzled through problems with employees instead of just telling them what to do.
By looking at the real data about good managers, Google was able to improve their hiring practices, improve worker satisfaction, and increase productivity.
The biggest takeaway? Always challenge your assumptions. You may learn that what you thought was effective may be harming your company more than it helps. By taking an honest look at your analytics, you can seize startling revelations. Use them to make your company a better place and to rise above the competition.
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It was with a heavy heart that I read paragraph 300 of The Hunger Of Sejanoz and realised that the New Order series of Lone Wolf was being cut short by four books. It was depressing to note that the Legends series finished just as it was getting good, but now that I as Lone Wolf, or a Grand Master, can no longer adventure in and explore the fabulous world of Magnamund, I am forced to relive past glories, some of which I calculate I have read more than fifty times. But it isn't just Lone Wolf.
The Fighting Fantasy series introduced me to the concept of gamebooks--a world of your own imagination. They were going strong, rattling them off like there was no tomorrow. The various authors wrote fifty in ten years, the fiftieth book being a direct sequel to the 1st. And they planned to make the 100th book in 2002 to be a direct sequel to book 50. This isn't going to happen. The series ground to a halt over the next four years and finally finished at book 59. Book 60, Bloodbones, was, as far as I know, never published.
These two long-running gamebook series have ended prematurely. I am sure that you agree, we have explored less than 20% of Magnamund. So why are gamebooks so unpopular these days? When I read my first Fighting Fantasy book (c. 1987) they were just becoming en vogue in my school. Soon everybody was reading them--and here comes the first in a series of reasons why I think gamebooks are so unpopular these days: we were discouraged from reading them by our teachers.
It truly is hard to believe that teachers, supposed luminaries of education and thought, regarded these books with contempt. I was told on more than one occasion that I should be reading "proper" books. We were limited to reading one gamebook to one proper book. Regardless of the fact that the school had such a low budget that most of the books in our "Reading Room" or Library were woefully out of date, or just plain old and excruciatingly dull. Who wants to read about some dumb girl and her pony (for example) when you could be battling orcs and saving the planet?
This contempt was not all-encompassing, though. Do you remember those small, white-spined books called Choose Your Own Adventure published by Bantam? In those, you became an "ordinary" person getting involved in saving Robin Hood or surviving in the wilderness. Our teachers loved those. Perhaps it was a combination of the facts that (i) there was no combat involved; (ii) the inside page of the books, where you normally get an extract from the book as a taster, had quotes from teachers who said how much they loved the series; and (iii) girls enjoyed reading these books.
Please do not take me for a misogynist because of my citing reason (iii). But throughout the whole schooling system, I found that both the teachers and the curriculum--even the teaching style--is geared up for the female psyche. An experiment was carried out on a BBC TV programme (called QED I believe) where a normal mixed-gender class was split into male and female classes. The girls were taught the "normal" way while the boys were taught in a more "masculine" way--the books they read and studied were more adventure oriented, while the girls' books were more character oriented. The result, amazingly, was that while boys underachieve in the current schooling system, in a specially developed system they equal the fairer gender, some even actually out-achieving them. Despite these findings, I recall several teachers who tried to stifle my creativity and love of the art-form that is the action-oriented gamebook. Perhaps you would like to examine my writing style and usage of the English language. Do you think gamebooks have retarded my command of the English language?
The second reason for the drop in sales is because the market is flooded. As an avid collector / reader of gamebooks / RPG systems I have come to the conclusion that gamebooks came to their peak in 1986. It was in this year that more gamebooks were published than in 1988 to 1992 put together. Those of you who are also gamebook connoisseurs may know the names of Jamie Thomson, Dave Morris, Mark Smith, Oliver Johnson and others. But even Joe Dever was at his peak. In this year he wrote Lone Wolf 7--Castle Death, The Magnamund Companion, the Combat Heroes series, consisting of four books, and he edited three of the four World Of Lone Wolf gamebooks about Grey Star the Wizard.
But gamebooks have always been looked down upon as the poorer second cousins to "proper" books. If you are past about 14 and you are still reading gamebooks, people think you are a little strange. They tell you to go out and buy some "proper" books. But dare you do that?
Fantasy has gone through something of a renaissance in the past twenty years. And now people are bored of it. Every week more and more drivel is being put out by half-talented authors using second-hand characters living in unrealistic worlds following derivative storylines full of obviously sign-posted plot devices. Yet because they are released in hardback first, we are supposed to see them as "proper" books, the sort that grown-ups read. Because youth books have a much smaller audience, any long-running series is constantly in danger of being retired because it is no longer popular enough to generate sales of 20000+, which is an average print run. The smaller the number of books printed, the higher the cost of the book has to be to recuperate the overheads and make a "healthy" profit.
I have read with disdain many novels written by well-regarded authors and I feel cheated when I reach the end of a book to find yet another cliff-hanger. Perhaps I have been around the fantasy block too many times, but I scarcely even care what happens to the boring protagonists in these dry books.
Lone Wolf is different. Because I am Lone Wolf or Grand Master I care what happens. Because the world of Magnamund has been well developed over many years I am interested in where "I" adventure. Because Lone Wolf is powerful, but not overly so, there is always a chance he/I will lose. In many of the Lone Wolf adventures I have been surprised at the plot twists--that rarely happens to me in straight novels these days. The development of Magnamund shows, I believe, that Joe Dever is not just interested in writing any old rubbish, but actually wants his readers to enjoy their dallyings in Magnamund. I get the impression that most authors do not care as long as they get the royalties. Just think: How many series' of novels end (Book 12) and then begin again and then switch to having a different protagonist (Book 20)? It is a risk to do either of those things--but it prevents the series from becoming stale and keeps it interesting.
The third reason is a much more insidious reason which reaches to the very core of society itself. We in the West just have too much money. I am not speaking for myself or any individual, but as a group we are too wealthy. This means that while we used to buy books, we now buy computer games and CDs. We teach our children that it is more important to win the lottery than it is to get a decent education. Perhaps that sounds a little hypocritical coming from a guy who is on the Internet, but I haven't lost my love of the English language. If Shakespeare had had pots of money, would he have written his plays? If Tolkien had been brought up in a climate of Street Fighter, do you think he would have come to love writing and words as much as he did? Would he have written The Lord Of The Rings--recently voted the greatest book ever in a poll in The Times? Would Lovecraft have devised his Cthulhu Mythos, or Robert E. Howard his Conan character, if people of their generation didn't need to buy pulp fiction to escape, they could buy videos instead?
And while computer games are becoming increasingly more affordable, the price of books (certainly in the UK) is skyrocketing. I remember that my first Lone Wolf book cost me 50p from a second-hand shop. I'd never seen one in the shops, but I thought that I'd give it a whirl. It was The Chasm Of Doom, and to this day it probably is still one of my favourites. The price on the back of it says £1.75. The price of a similar book today is a minimum of £4.99. Remember, these books are supposedly aimed at a young persons. Think of most adolescents you know--would they buy a book or buy a music CD? Or a computer game?
Books are by their very nature challenging. We have to visualise in our mind just what someone looks like, or how large the lajakeka is. With computers we are shown what everything looks like with our latest consoles and our PIV 2GHz processors. But our brains are much more powerful than these bits of plastic and metal. We do a better job of visualising than any computer can do.
Unfortunately, what this means is the "MTV" generation are securing their place in society by ignoring all that has gone before. Soon there may be nothing left of our great learning, of proper art. Not the art of terrorism of the enfant terribles--attention-seeking idiots. Music with a tune and lyrics--and lyrics that mean something at that. We are fighting what may seem to be a losing battle. But fashion is a fickle mistress. In five or ten years time, people will turn off their games consoles in boredom and say "I want to do something new." They will open up a book--hopefully a Lone Wolf book--and begin to read and become captivated by the beauty and the terribleness of its tale of heroism.
And perhaps that will lead to a better society. Perhaps.
But probably not.


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I am not an expert when it comes to fine and expensive jewellery, but what I discovered these days, has really melt my heart.
I was speechless when I saw it : Amulette de Cartier
`The Amulette necklaces and bracelets are made in onyx, mother of pearl or diamonds and gold and intended to be your personal lucky charm. The top is open on the motif , Cartier says in order to leave "room for a wish." If your dream is to have chic jewels, it is guaranteed to come true with any of Cartier's Amulettes (the starting price for a small bracelet is $1,910)`(http://news.instyle.com/2014/04/24/rocksmyworld-cartiers-stunning-amulette-collection-and-sparkling-new-boutique/)
Other than that, they come in different colors, my favorite being…..well I just couldn`t decide yet! Can i have both?
One thing I know for sure, I like the little one, day version.
Now let`s choose the color.
or white? (http://ink361.com/app/users/ig-479089799/cartier/photos/ig-784729458090902041_479089799)
My mind is made: I`ll have the black one, please:)
So, I know the size, color (I know the price, but I won`t tell…it`s ….well something), let`s see how to wear such an exquisite beauty:
Whether it`s an elegant dress with soft silks and other fine fabrics…or casual wear
like a simple white cotton T-shirt, this Amulette will definitely complement your outfit and will make you feel special.
I would characterize Amulette de Cartier like this: soft, modern, powerful, luxurious, sophisticated, impeccable, fashionable and incredibly simple.
And the good news is that…it comes with a bracelet too. How great is that? It`s a match made in heaven, if you ask me!
I`ll leave you dreaming about it while watching the presentation video. Enjoy:


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Happy birthday to the best
This weekend the posts are inspired by two major important people in my life. Today's post is inspired by my 5 years old nephew, whose birthday is today ;) Happy birthday to the best nephew ever.
The Rainbow Net belongs to crochet palygorund designed by Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam at the Takino Suzuran Hillside National Park in Japan. It is an art installation made by hand for three years; The Rainbow net was inspired by the Multiple Hammock No. 1 (a previous sculpture by the artist) which was used by two kids, giving a sense of life to the sculpture, which the Hammock No. 1 did not have before. Artist Toshiko design the Rainbow net, giving a purpose to art & what can be better than a playground. I love the idea of the interaction with art.
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The Anglo-American democracy problem
This is a great read on some thoughts about why populism is growing in the U.S. and U.K. and subsiding in other nations. About a year ago my biggest fear was that the world would be taken over by populists and ultimately turn into a populist economy. This was, and still is, my biggest long term fear because populist policies will restrict global trade and globalism. This would be the worst case scenario for economies on a regional and global scale.
In any event, Luce points out three possible reasons populism in the U.S. and U.K. have been more sticky. The first is that in these two countries promote the idea that they are true meritocracies. This means that everyone is told they have an equal chance to reach the top if they develop and prove their skills are useful. Now, while I believe this is true to an extent (perhaps I am falling into the trap of over estimating my chances of success?), the data paints a different picture.
As you can see above, over time the percentage of children surpassing their parent's income has decreased meaningfully. Now, this brings up a deeper conversation on technological change and wages, but for now I will leave those to the side. Most importantly, the idea that a true meritocracy exists is great, except for the fact that the majority of people perceive this is a lie. And when they feel they have been lied to they will revolt (or vote) against the elites who keep them in their lowly class. Now, something can be said about the irony of voting in a wealthy man who promotes the class system within his business… But that's another day.
Similarly, the article states that the elites in the U.S. and U.K. have lost faith in half of the population. This is because they misunderstand qualifications. They believe that anyone without a college degree is absolutely useless. While this might be true for some people, there are a lot of people without college degrees who are capable of meaningful work. But the fact that those without a formal education are frowned upon contributes to populism because they feel left out and stepped on by the elites (and those with formal education). It is no surprise that this was the group who voted for Brexit and Trump. Again, the irony of this is thick.
And the final reason the article mentions is complacency. This comes from the fact that both countries have been stable for over 100 years. This means that the political figures have ignored the population for too long. Over time this builds populist beliefs. My hope is these beliefs subside. Aside from the economic issues with populism, the violence that would stem from a populist revolt is unnecessary. There are better ways to solve our problems.
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